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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) NUMBER 1