Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-21
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS

Closing of v1daua Tobacco Market
After a most successful season,
the Vidalia tobacco warehouse has
closed for the year 1920. Between
one and two million pounds of to-
bacco were sold through the ware
house here this season and Vidalia
will hold to her record as leading
the state in prices paid, as she did
last year. On the whole, the to-
this year and it is confidently pre-
dicted that more tobacco will be
grown in this section next year than
ever before.-Vidalia Advance.
Some OF the finest yellow leaf to-
bacco ever produced in the world
was marketed in Vidalia this season.
Lesson of the Boil weevil
With the partial loss of another
cotton crop. we wonder if the farm
ers We not yet learned the boil
weevil lesson. We wonder if the
farmers, have not yet learned that
there is no money. in growing a
fourth Of a cotton crop on land that
will produce, when properly titled
SO to 100 bushels of sweet potatoes,
1000 pounds of tobacco, and so on.
We wonder how many more big cot
ton crops they will try before they
will learn the boil weevil lesson as
IilCy nave 1cdIISu II Ill AldDaIld,
Mississippi and Louisiana.-Lyons
Progress.
1t is a wise idea to swat the boil
weev1l with corn and other produce
immune to his attacks. Diversified
farming will aid in the fight.
Mad Bull Takes Charge
"A mad bull barricaded himself in
produce store on Flat Shoals ave-
nue., and after smashing everything
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register, defied rybody or anything
to drive him out. The bull was first
angered by the sight of a very red
barrel of very red apples in front of
the store, and after demolishing the
barrel, scattering apples in every di-
complete the devastation. The clerks
jumped through the windows and the
proprietor ran upstairs. A half hour
later, just as it had been decided to
send for q rifle, and shoot the bull,
out of the store, and calmly proceeded
on the road to the slaughter pen."-
Weekly Bostonian.
What Of the Mosquitoes7
The average woman is not afraid
Of backbiters, If we may judge by
the kind of evening frock she
wears.-Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
NOON ALL SO1uG&S
Down in Cordele the administra-
ton is prepared to pay the entire
Indebtedness of the town. There is
talk of lowering taxes. This sounds
pretty good for Cordele.-Savannah
Press.
Wealth in the Soil
The Advertise Georgia" movement
means a great deal. It's success is
sure to profit the state. There is
room here for many a home-seeker
We have many an acre of untitled
soil which could be made to yield
wealth.-Augusta Chronicle.
Presidential Material
New York baby fell out Of a
four-story window and landed in a
ask us, is the stuff presidents are
made of.-Dublin Courier-Herald.
Home Folks DON'T Count
The sweet, demure, shy, modesc
little thing while out with the
sweeties can be as grouchy and mean
and tart as an old hen when there
amt anybody around but home folks
mes-Enterprise.
What. do you know about Geor-
gia?' asks the Grady County Prog
ress. The Progress was not talking
politics-but business and agricul-
ture and education and progress.
What do Georgians know about Geor
gia? The advertise Georgia move
ment is to begin on the home folks
and tell them about their own state
Advertising Georgia is like charity
work at home. When the Georgians
know Georgia they'll tell the world,
one way or another, probably both
ways, about Georgia.-Savannah
Morning News.