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VOLUME XXV
Tobacco Market Closed Successful Season Wed.
VI DALI A PUBLIC SCHOOL TO OPEN SEPT. 12th.
SALES DIRECTOR
OF GOLD LEAF CO.,
HERE THIS WEEK
here in interest of new
CIGARETTE FACTORY NOW
NEARING COMPLEION AT
HAHIRA, GA.
Mr. W. Mcßae Webster, Sales Di
rector of the Gold Leaf Cigarette
factory, was a visitor in this city this
week in the interest of his company
and advises us he has inquiries form
jobbers and bookers throughout the
■ United States for more cigarettes
Than his company can manufacture in
a year.
Mr. Webster advises that the good
people of South Georgia are taking
a great interest in the development
of his company and that the demand
for the stock of this new enterprise is
very strong and the people from all
over Georgia are buying the stock as
they are now just beginning to real
ize the big opportunity which is be
ing offered to them. The company
is thinking of establishing a re-dry
ing plant in Vidalia by next season
so as to get supplies of tobacco from
this section for the cigarette factory.
This is an opporunity for Vidalia to
form a link in this great chain, says
Mr. Ws'oster.
NEW GOLD LEAF
FACTORY NOW
NEARLY COMPLETE
FIRST FACTORY IS BEING BUILT
NNEAR HAHIRA, GA.
“The Gold Leaf Cigarette and To
bacco Company,” a Georgia corpora
tion is now' building its first factory
just south of Hahira Ga., located on
the main line of the Southern Rail
road and is nearing completion.
This is one of the most modern
cigarette factories in the United
States and will manufacture the to
bacco grown in Georgia which will
greatly increase the price of tobacco
in the Georgia tobacco belt, which is
the finest cigarette tobacco grown
anywhere in the world. It is the
duty of every tobacco grower, mer
► chant and banker to get with the
Gold Leaf Company which will make
the tobacco district in this state more
prosperous as it is a known fact that
w’herever cigarette factories are lo
coted in North Carolina and Virginia
has increased the price of farm lands
and made these sections the wealthi
est district in the world.
The Georgia people have an oppor
tunity to come into this great enter
prise which will make the 23 tobacco
counies in South Georgia the rich
est section of the world as it will
keep at home the millions of dollars
which is being carried out of the
state on every train. The Gold Leaf
company is fortunate in getting the
SPECIALS FOR
Saturday and Monday
No. 2 Tomatoes 10c
35c Best Tripe 29c
20c Tender Beets isc
50c Flax Floor Mops 40c
60c Daisy Brooms 50c
6 lbs., 71/oC Good Rice 40c
We have numbers of other
bargains on sale. Come see
them for yourself.
Phone 29
WARTHEN’S GROCERY
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
HERE TO SELL AND
DEVELOP FARMS
AND REAL ESTATE
W. H. MYERS, OF MELBORNE,
FLORIDA, HERE LOOKING
OVER THIS SECTION.
Mr. W. H. Myers, of Melborne,
Fla., has been in th ecity several
days looking over the real estate and
farm land sin this scetion ,as well as
all over the state. Mr. Myers is
well experienced in this line, having
been dealing in farm lands and city
property all over the United States
for forty years, with twenty years of
this time in Florida. He states that
he is workng in connection with the
Seaboard Airline Rairoad in this
colonization work also the German
Council and the Savannah Board of
Trade. Mr. Myers main work is that
of selling your lands to desirable peo
ple. Plans are to advertise in all
leading nothern newspapers and farm
magazines, it is also the plan to pub
lish a booklet containing information
and photographs of farms in this sec
tion which will be mailed to the in
terested ones throughout the country,
i His plan of colonization work will
bring farmer from many countries
who are scientific and educated farm
ers, some of them being required to
study this vocation a number of years
before starting out ,they also have to
study plant and animal life .making
them practical farmers.
Mr. Myers is a practical and scien
tific farmer himself, being a student
in animal and plant life, having lec
tured throughout the state of Florida
on thi# subject. During his real es
tate experience he reports many
large land transactions in many
tate through his plan of colonization
work. Realizing the fact that through
out this section there is much farm
land to be developed and be made
profitable to both seller and pur
eshaser, is the reason for the visit
here, said Mr. Myers. He also
stated that he had developed much
property in Florida on a large scale
for himself and others among the
developments for himself is the
Myers Park, one of the most attrac
tive places on the east coast of that
state, the beauty spot of Melborne,
Fla. Mr. Meyer states that he will
have headquarters here where he
will be glad to have you call and talk
farm and city real estate with him,
he will have office at the store of
John Lee Meadows.
best men in the section in the tobacco
business associated with them, among
them is Mr. H. H. Sisson Superin
tendent, who was formerly superin
tendent of the large plant of the
American Tobacco Company, at Dur
ham, N. C. Mr. Sisson is now in the
Eastern markets buying machinery
for the first big factory and expects
to have this factory i noperaion by
I Ocober first turning out cigarettes
I by the millions from Georgia tobacco
j manufactured into cigarettes which
i would bring back into the state more
i than a million dollars. Under the
| present system the growers of Geor
gia are only getting around ten mil
lion dollars for their tobacco. This
is an opportunity for the good people
! of this state to come into this great
! enterprise and make Georgia what
( Norh Carolina and Virginia are in the
eyes of the tobacco world. It would
j pay everyone i nthe tobacco belt in
] this state to go down and see for
I themselves what the new company is
doing to develop the tobacco interest
o fGeorgia,” says Mr. Webster.
R. E. Ledford.
VIDALIA REBEKAH LODGE
Vidalia Robekah Lodge 78, I. O. O.!
F., meets every second ard fourth
Tuesday nights at the Odd Fellow
' Hall. Visiting Rebekaii’s always
! welcome.
MISS ROSINA MOSLEY, N. G. ,
MISS MARY CAUSEY, R. S.
DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE B EST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
COTTON CROP
IN THIS SECTION
MOVING RAPIDLY
THIS YEAR’S COTTON CROP IS
PROBABLY THE SMALLEST IN
MANY YEARS—BUYERS HERE
PAYING GOOD PRICE.
Gins in this section of the country
have been busy for the past two
weeks on the new crop. About eight
hundred bales having been ginned at
Vidalia, while the county gins have
all ginned considerably more than
ginned to the same period last season.
Cotton men here state that the
Toombs county crop will be very
short this sason in fact the largest
estimate at this time does not exceed
eight thousand bales for the year,
which compares with a total ginning
last season of over thirteen thousand
bales. The crop this season opened
earlier than last year, it being said
that this season crop is ten days early.
The cotton this season samples well,
as the bolls opened before the weed
sered, which makes a sample clear of
small trash. The grades show some
weevil stain.
The local market has been good this
season, the buyers paying well up to
Savannah quotations f. o. b. Vidalia,
which fact is bringing quick sales at
home.
Practically all the Toombs county
cotton is open and will be picked as
quickly as the hands can take it out
of the fields.
NEAL NAMED
POET LAUREATE
OF GEORGIA
GEORGIA EDUCATOR SUCCEEDS
LATE FRANK L. STANTON
WHO DIED IN JANUARY.
The house of representative re
cently passed the senate resolution
naming Ernest Neal, of Calhoun,
pionerr Georgia educator, as poet
laureate of the Ssate to tuceeed
Frank L. Stanton, of Atlanta, who
died last January.
Born in Sparta, Ga., 8 years
ago, Mr. Neal has devoted a large
portion of his life to teaching and
has become prominently identified
with the State’s educational socie
ties. A student of Captain David
Neal, soldier of the revolution and
early settler of Warren county, Mr
Neal returned to the ancestral es
tate at Warrenton in his early
years and received his elementary
education at the Warrenton acad
emy.
He was a student at the North
Georgia Agricultural college at
Dahlonega from 1876 to 1880 and
began his career as a teacher soon
after leaving college as principal
of Warrenton Academy.
He has also been head of the
Calhoun schools, president of Mar
tin Institute and superintendent of
the Wallacoochee schools.
During his vacation periods he
devoted himself to writing poetry
and was a frequent contributor to
magazines and newspapers. His
firt volume, “Yonah and Other
Poems, has. been published and a
second, “Cohutta and Other Poems,”
is being compiled. Having spent j
most of his life in Georgia, he makes j
the State the theme of many of his j
poems.
He is still active in educational
work and enjoy a large acquaintance
over the State.—Georgia Weekly
Review.”
TO OPEN NEW BARBER SHOP
HERE SOON
Mr. Sidney Giaxcon, of Jackin-'
ville, Florida, announces that he will
open a first-class barber shop in the
city, same will occupy building next
door to Miss Annie Stone’s Millinery
store, ard when completed will be
modern in every respect.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1927.
PLANS MADE FOR
FALL OPENING OF *
BREWTON-PARKER
PROSPECTS BRIGHT FOR LARGE
ENROLLMENT FOR THE NEW
TERM.
The fall term of Brewton-Parker
Institute, Mt. Vernon-Ailey, opens
Wednesday, September 7. The dor
mitories will be opened Tuesday,
September 6, for the reception of
boarding pupils.
President A. M. Gates is optimistic
over the prospects for a large enroll
ment, and there will doubtless be
present a number of pupils from
neighboring counties. He has done
extensive field work during the sum
mer, and the attendances should be
commensurate with the efforts of
this official, and other factors at in-
1 1 crest.
The Institute is mintained under
the auspices of fourteen Baptist as
sociations in South Georgia with a
board of trustees drawn from the
several associations. Dr. J. C. Brew
ton, of Vidalia, one of the founders
of the institute, bears the relation
of associate trustee. He has been a
vital factor in the foundation and
life of the school.
f'..v public school department,
which has been maintained with the
school since its opening in the fall
of 1905, is under the direction of
four local trustees, two from Ailey
and two from Mt. Vernon. Both the
school and public school de
partments have a nine month term.
The high school faculty is as fol
lows :
John Carter Brewton, D. D., Presi
' dent Emeritus.
Albert Martin Gates, B. S., Presi
dent. Latin.
Linton Stephens Barrett, A. 8.,
Bible.
John Vernon Wallace, A. 8., Vice-
President. Spanish and Education.
Albert Sidney Johnson, A. 8., L.
L. 8., Director of Athletics. History.
W. H. Rittenouse, A. 8., English
and French.
J. H. Reddick, A. 8., Mathematics
j and Science.
I Chappel Adams Collins, A. 8.,
j Science and Mathematics.
Miss Louise Wells, A. 8., Expres
; sion ar d English.
Miss Alice Cummings, Einglish and
i History.
Miss Elizabeth Lee, M. M., Direc
tor of music. Piano .
Mrs. Albert Sidney Johnson, Vio
jlin and W’ind Instruments.
Miss Lula Hays, B. M., Voice and
Piar.o.
Mrs. Ava Weather, Dietitian.
Sidney M. Jones, Superintendent
of Buildings and Farm.
! This is a very strong faculty, and
I in its selection the trustees have an
j ticipated the needs of the institu
| tion and made provision for its suc
cess.
The institution is perhaps on a
j better basis, from every standpoint,
than it has ever enjoyed.—Montgom
ery Monitor.
!
To Attend First
i
’ District Masonic
i
i Convention Ludiwici
! Messrs. J. W. Gunter, A. C. Jen
kins and I. D. Stewart of the local *
Masonic lodge, will attend the annual
convention of the First District Ma
jsons which convenes at Ludiciwi,
j Wednesday, September 7th.
Messrs. Joe Hackel and Fred Huie
j will go from this lodge as officers of '
i the convention.
The Vidalia lodge holds the distinc- j
tion of having four members as offi- '
cers in th- First District convention.!
The del gates attending from this ■
city have b«en instructed to invite
the convention to Vidalia next year.
The Ludiciwi Masonic lodge has
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
CORN GROWERS AT
GA STATE FAIR
THIS RAILROAD HAS LMC3EN
THIS METHOD TO ENCOURAGE
MORE AND BETTER CORN
SAVANNAH, Ga., August 31.
The Georgia State Fair has been
named by the Southern Railway as
one of the eightee nfairs in the South
from which corn exhibitors ,vill en
ter a corn-growing contet promoted
by this system. These fairs are lead
ing expositions orlgtahecion h m m
ling expositions along the Atlantic
seaboard.
The Southern Railway has chosen
this method to ecourage the growing
of more and better corn. It offers
a silver cup to the winner to be
competed for annually. It will be
awarded for the best ten ears of any
variety of field corn grown and ex
hibited by a farmer in any of the
following states: Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and
Kentucky.
Competitiors in each state may en
ter their exhibits at any of the fairs
designated in that state where they
may firs compete for local or state
prizes. Besides the Georgia State
Fair other fairs in this section at
which competitors may qualify for
the cup contest are South arolina
State Fair, olumbia; Chattahoocnee
Valley Exposition, Columbus; South
eastern Fair, Atlanta; and Georgia
State Exposition, Macon.
Officials of each fair will forward
the ten-ear exhibit adjudged the best
entering the competition at that fair
in a sealed package to the General
Agricultural Agent, Southern Railway
System, Atlanta, together with a let
ter certifying the name and post
office address of the grower and ex
hibitors of the corn and the county
in which it was grown. In case in
which the corn pudging rules of the
fair shall require the helling of one
or more ears of an exhibit, the
shelled corn and the cobs from which
it was shelled shall be forwarded
with the unshelled ears. All ex
pense of packng and forwarding ex
hibits from each fair will be borne
by the Southern Railway System.
As soon as the exhibits have been
received from all of the fairs desig
nated, the awarding of the cup for
1 that year will be made by three im
! partial judges. Names of the judges
together with date of the judging,
will be announced later.
Any competitor whose corn shall be
forwarded to Atlanta from his Fair
jean have his corn returned to him
I after the final judging by notifying
■the General Agricultural Agent,
I Southern Railway System, Atlanta,
jat least five days before the final
judging.
The name of the winner of the cup,
with his county, state and year of
winning will be engraved on a silver
plate to be attached to the base of!
the cup. Title to the Southern '
Railway Corn Cup will remain per
manently with the Southern Railway
Company. Possession of the cup will
remain with the prize winner peun-;
|ing it award to the prize winner in j
! the next year’s contract, this crop is
a very handsome trophy and the
Southern Railway carries insurance!
on it for $1,500.00.
i i
MANY HUNTING
ROOM AND BOARD
Mr. J. L. Sutton states that he
turned off 20 people applying for
board and rooms on Tuesduy, Au
gust 2.3 rd. Mr. Sutton said on the
next day there were 12 more people
applied.
made big preparations to entertain
the usual large crowd which attend
this convention each year.
THE OFFICE AND
SUPPLY ROOM TO
OPEN 9th AND 10*
SUPERINTENDENT, W. L. DOWNS
ANNOUNCES THAT THE NEW
FALL TERM OF LOCAL SCHOOL
WILL OPEN MONDAY, SEP
TEMBER 12th.
School will open Monday morning,.
September 12th at 8:45 o’clock. Pub
lished below is list of book and fees.
The office and supplies room will
be open Friday and Saturday, Sep
tember 9th and 10th for the purpose
of selling- books and issuing en
trance cards. It will certainly be
appreciated if all this can. be at
tended to on these two days so as to
avoid the rush and confusion on-
Monday, opening day.
All pupils who reside in the city
limits will pay an incidental fee of
$2.00. Those pupils outside the city
limits in addition to the $2.00 wHf.
pay as follows: First through, sev
enth grade $3.00 per month for three
months and in the High SchooL $5jGK*
per month for three months.
Each child in the first second amdi
[third grades will pay 25c whittfe, will
[buy their drawing and writing papw
for the fall term.
The laboratory fee for GenearaJ
Science, Biology and Physics wifi foe
'soc per pupil and Home EcomimieEs
1 pupils will pay $2.00 each for faS
term.
It will be quite a convenience UJ
the school and will save much em
barrassment on the part of the pc—
I pils to have all this attended to wbeß!
| they get their entrance cards.
The list of books is as follows-
First Grade
Winston Pre-primer— Crayon *
Winston Primer— Sch ois
Second Grade-
Winston Reader Book- OYie—Sctsscww
Mastery of Words Book One-
Crayons. A .
Third Grade
l Winston Reader Book Two—Scis
j sors.
i Mastery of Words Book One—
I Crayons.
[Good English Book Ohe:
Carpenter’s Around the World wiiL
the Children.
Wentworth-Smith; Primary Arithme
j tic - J
■ Music Text Book.
Fourth Grade
[Jones Keep Well Stories.
I Mastery of Words Book One.
Frye’s New Geography Book One.
! Good English Book Tww.
| Elson Reader Book Four,
j Wentworth-Smith Primary Arithme-
I tic.
[Music Text Book.
Writing Book.
•
Fifth Grade
Good English Book Two.
, Iverton’s Hygiene.
1 Frye’s New Geography Book One.
Evan’s First Lessons in Americaa
i
History.
Mastery of Words Book One.
Mastery of Words Book One.
Elson’s Reader Book V.
Wentworth-Smith Intermediate Arith
metic.
Music Text Book
Writing Book V.
Sixth Grade
Good English Book 11.
Frye-Atwood Geography Book IT..
Ritehie-Caldwell Hygiene.
Old Europe and Young America..
Mastery of Words Book IT.
Story Hour Reading, ki/oft VI.
Wentworth - Smith Intermediate
Arithmetic.
Music Text Book an • Writing Book:
VI.
Seventh Grade
Good English Book Three.
Frye-Atwood Geography Book IL
Winslow’s I - ’ y Living 11.
Thompon’s His ry of the People o '
U. S.
(Continued C li ck Pa^e)
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