Vidalia Team Keeps Winning Despite Injuries and Sickness
The Vidalia baseball team, hampered by sickness and injuries, still produces solid play and draws big crowds. They lost to Statesboro 8-0 and 12-4, beat Brunswick 4-0 at Darien, and defeated Dublin 12-1 locally before a large crowd. They rebounded with a 6-2 win after a Statesboro morning defeat. Brown left with a hand injury, Tapley finished. next up Metter and Claxton games are scheduled. Bracken and Burke pitched for Vidalia.
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Vidalia
Statesboro
Dublin
Darien
Brunswick
Brown
Tapley
Thaxton
Paul Thaxton
Bean
Metter
Bracken
Burke
Officers seize twenty gallon keg of shine
Officers Mallard and Fields captured a twenty gallon keg of shine north of the city two miles away after a tip. They waited at a thicket near the public road until Frank and Foster Williamson arrived and were arrested, now held in Toombs county jail at Lyons.
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Mallard and Fields
Frank
Foster Williamson
Toombs
Lyons
City Council Seals Open Wells and Plans Dump Ground
At a regular meeting the city council passed an ordinance to seal all open wells. The light and water superintendent will place a street light at the ice plant for pool visitors at night. A new city dumping ground was discussed with no decision. Sanitary inspector Leveritt was told to monitor conditions and act on unsanitary premises. Citizens were urged to place garbage in cans for collection and to dispose melon rinds and decayed fruit properly.
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G. W. Leveritt
Darien Bridge Opening Attended by Local Notables
Messrs. C. V. Alcorn Tim Cock field Loyd Pierce Mark Mathews Geo N Mathews Jr J Q Cobb and J A Gay attended the Darien Bridge opening Saturday.
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Messrs. C. V. Alcorn
Tim Cockfield
Loyd Pierce
Mark Mathews
Geo. N. Mathews, Jr
J. Q. Cobb
J. A. Gay
Darien Bridge
Vidalia Fourth of July Draws Crowds for Barbecue and Ball Game
Vidalia celebrated Independence Day with a noon barbecue for several thousand amid rain delays and trees on Jackson street. The First and Twelfth District Singing Convention continued at Vidalia City Hall, a mammoth pool drew crowds at the Vidalia Ice & Coal Co., and Vidalia beat Statesboro 6 to 2 after a 12 to 4 loss in Statesboro, drawing the season’s largest crowd for the game.
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Vidalia
Jackson Street
Vidalia Ice & Coal Co
Witt
Baxley
Statesboro
Miss Thelma Elmore Arrives For Local Vacation Visit
Miss Thelma Elmore, a student at Georgia Normal at Athens, arrived Friday to spend vacation days in town.
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Thelma Elmore
Georgia Normal
Athens
Wreck on M D S Ties Up Traffic
A freight wreck at Orland twenty two miles above Vidalia stalled traffic on the M D S railway Tuesday. The Macon passenger due at 10:30 arrived Vidalia around 10 p.m. and the night Macon train was delayed past that hour.
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Orland
Vidalia
Macon
Blackburn Shoe Shop Damaged by Fire on Railroad Avenue
Fire Tuesday morning damaged Blackburn's Shoe Shop on Railroad Avenue. Loss about 1000 dollars with 800 dollars insured. Fire likely started in a scrap pile but was quickly put out by the fire department. Machinery and interior of the building suffered major damage.
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Blackburn
Railroad Avenue
Fair to Open in Treutlen County This Fall
A mass meeting at the court house secured stock for a fair with a cow barn and show stock pens, plus a women’s department. Pig club members, nearly a hundred strong, will display pigs marking a key feature of the event.
Our Orangeade Delights at Page's Drug Store
Fresh orange juice drink advertised as delightful and convincing in a classic drug store note. Page's Drug Store promotes tasting the beverage.
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Page’s Drug Store
Convention at New Branch to convene Toombs Sunday Schools
The Toombs County Sunday School Association will hold its annual meet ing at New Branch school house on Tuesday July 12 inviting all county Sunday schools to send delegates. Georgia officials R D Webb and Rosa May King will attend. An attendance banner will be awarded based on delegates per distance. The program includes prayers, talks, business, and a dinner basket.
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Soperton News
Treutlen
Court House
Caiuwal
Pig Club
Minnie Ricks
Vidalia
Citizens Bank
Swainsboro Forest Blade
Emanuel Sunday School Association
Graymont Methodist Church
Montgomery Monitor
F. M. Baldwin
North Carolina
Savannah
Statesville
N. C
D. S. Conway
Toombs County
Perman
General Examination for Teachers Scheduled July 29 30
T. B. Youmans, C. & S. announces a general examination for teachers on July 29 and 30. Reading course offerings include Manual of Methods for Georgia Teachers, Dresslaer's School Hygiene, and Whoster's Teaching in Rural Schools. Three certificates will be issued: High School, Elementary, and Primary.
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Georgia
Dresslaer
Woster
T. B. Youmans
Honor Roll and Mite Box Gifts in Baptist Sunday School
The Junior department class No. 4 of the Baptist Sunday school lists June honor roll members Hazel Shuman Dorthy McGlohan Dorothy Huie Maurine Darby Juanita Thompson and Gussie Lee Coleman with perfect attendance. Each girl contributed to mite boxes for furnishing Sunday school rooms with amounts from 50 cents to 7.81 dollars, led by Hazel Shuman and Maurine Darby.
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The
Baptist Sunday School
Hazel Shuman
Drothy McGlohan
Dorothy Huie
Maurine Darby
Juachita Thompson
Gussie Lee Coleman
Olive Horton
Juanita Thompson
Dorothy Ee
Dorothy McGlohan
Ollie Belle McDaniel
Georgia Mae Whitaker
Eudel Faulk
Esther Hackel
Jessie Mae Hall
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W. E. Walker, Jr
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Detroit
Strickland Motor CO
Vidalia, GA
Treutlen County
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New Branch
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Rosa May King
R. D. Webb
S. J. Rockett
Agaa Ee
Young Men’s Bible Class
OF the Baptist Sunday School
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