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Let’s greet the many thousands of visitors at our FOURTH ANNUAL
PEACH BLOSSOM FESTIVAL on March 19th and 2.0th with bright, clean,
9 well dressed houses and grounds. ‘*W« are building a city here”-- the
South’s ideal-- I
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WE ARE
BUILDING A CITY
HERE
Volume No. XXXVI, Number 7.
Preparing’ for
*
Barbecue for Minimum of Forty
Thousand; Great Reserve Supply
To Provide for Thousands More
Every man, woman and child
who can take part in the Peach
Blotsom Festival pageant is re¬
quested to register at once, at
headquarters on the second floor
of the Woolfolk building. Every
person is needed. The Pageant
Committee does not wish to
leave out a single available per¬
son. Help them by registering at
once. Dance rehearsals for the
pageant will begin the latter
part of this week. The time is
short. Throw yourself into the
happy spirit of the Festival ac¬
tivities. If you can’t go to Festi¬
val headquarters right this min¬
ute, telephone. Through the
courtesy of the Fruit Belt Tele¬
phone Company a free tele¬
phone has been installed. Its
^number is 360.
With Jno. A. Houser and W. B.
Norton, chairmen, and their barbecue
committee making thorough prepara¬
tions to feed from forty to sixty
thousand people on March 19th and
20th—the two days of the Fourth
Annual Peach Blossom Festival; Miss
> Pauline Oak, director, whipping her
pageant cast into ideal form and re
bearsals beginning this week; the
< onstruction committee, of which J.
V. Woolfolk is chairman, making
mighty music with carpenters’ tools
in building a great stadium, stages,
ftc., and getting the new 40-acre
Festival grounds into attractive
shape; H. M. Copeland and J. D.
Kendrick, with their committee on
program and entertainment, cement
ing many unique, spectacular fea
tures into proportions which promise
to hold the thousands of visitors
spelbound; with these and other
.
committees working night and day
under pressure of a n even greater
desire than they ever have experi¬
enced before to make the Peach Blos
som Festival an event of surpassing
charm and benefit, it now appears
* that the two incomparable Johns of
the ticket committee—John Lee and
John Vance—are going to have their
superior abilities taxed in making
even thirty or forty thousand seats
care for the multitudes of folks who
will pour into Fort Valley from all
parts of America. Those who desire
seats for their friends or any mem¬
bers of their families would better
see Mr. Lee or Mr. Vance quickly
and buy reservations for seats, the
tickets for which will be delivered
later, when the diagram is complete.
Elect King and Queen
The King and Queen of the h esti
val will be elected Thursday night
at t :30 o clock at a mass meeting in
ihe high school auditorium. Immedi
ately afterwards the Royal Court,
jj-fty in number, will be chosen from
me community at large, and the King
and Queen will assign parts for the
pageant.
Loud Speaker for Pageant
John M. Cook, Jr., has been au
thorized by lb - Festival Association
to arrange for installation of a “loud
speaker,” such as is used in national
conventions, presidential inaugura
tions, etc., for the pageant. Mr. C<mk
is communicating with th.i Western
Electric Company for the rental of
the loud speaker, which will amplify
the notes and tones of the produc
tion to the satisfaction of the great
audience, even to the most remote
seats.
Miss Oak Forming Pageant
The prologue of the Trail of Pink
Petals, that romantic and allegorical
story of the peach which will be told
jfcvividness of color and action as
:h'6 main celebration of the festival
days, was discussed with the publici
ty committee by Miss Pauline Oak
and her corps of workers Tuesday
tmne
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
morning at pageant headquarters.
The idea of making the pageant,
that one feature of the blossom festi¬
val around which everything' else
shall cluster, more fanciful and col
omul rather than literal as it tells
the story of The Trail of Pink Petals
from the time of its Mount Olympic
existence through the 4,000 years of
its blossoming, carries an appeal to
every nature in which there is a dash
ot the aesthetic and the sentimental
—and in the land of the Sunny South
these are legion.
Mrs. Laurence Houston, who as
Miss Etta Carithers, originated the
idea of the Peach Blossom Festival,
has been chosen to take the part of
Pomona, Goddess of Fruit, in the
pageant. This is the second of the
outstanding roles that have been
filled, Miss Charlie Matthews .daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Matthews,
a Junior in the Fort Valley High
School, having been selected for the
part of Peach, the main one in the
pageant.
j feature A big float procession will be a
of the program this year,
p] a ns for which have already taken
form. Two floats are now in process
of preparation in New York state,
The Rochester Rex Company, Roch
ester, a grading machine concern.
will enter a decorated machine in the
parade. This company grades fruit
and a carload of apples will be
brought here for demonstration pur¬
poses. They will later be distributed
among local people and visitors. The
Niagara Sprayer Company, of Mid¬
dleport, is the other company that I
is preparing a float for entrance,
i The Blossom Dancers for Porno-;
na’s Court have been secured, and
they are eighteen in number, who .| 1
win be dressed in , aven(k . r , scattcr
ing brightly colored blossoms in their I I
Mount Olympic setting. With the.
Goddess Pomona, who is the Goddess
of the fruit8( will be six trumpeteers
dressed j n russet t shade and she will
have the ten attendants and eight
train bearers as she arrives at the'
harvest of the fruits. :
Following the Blossom Dancers ,
will be the Garland Dancers who will
be dressed in many shades of green,)
carrying garlands of flowers, and
these will be eighteen in number. The
twenty fruit bearers will be featured
next in the prologue, and will carry
golden platters of choicest fruit,
Their costumes will be of garnet,
stenciled in gold, as they offer
Pomona the nutri ment and the
ciousness of their respective gifts of I
tbe orc hards. Before Pomona
dance the Apple, the Orange, the 1
Grape, the Pear and the Peach in all
their concentrated attractiveness and I
diffusion of essence and fragrance
and Pomona shal j se l ec t the Peach
ber f aV0 rite fruit,
At this interval Veiled Destiny will
appear upon the scene, likely clothed
in lavender and grey, and from the
Scroll of Fate will read the destiny of
the Peach as from its Mount Oympic
state it must give itself to a waiting
world,
Immediately follows the dances of
the sunbeams, twenty-six in number,
a nd the raindrops of the same nu
merical status and the dance of the ,
Four Winds which will serve to waft;
away the Peach to her first habitat!
0 n the banks of the Chinese rivers
an d to -Chinese soil.
Thus the story of The Trail of the)
Pink Petals in its prologue will begin
and from the , moment the , Mount, ,,
Olympic scene is revealed lo that
moment of the grand finale when the ;
Pink Petals story has been told will j
the thousands of spectators be
charmed by the color and beauty and I
art and romance which will mark its i ,
presentation.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1925.
People or More at
£
Come On—Georgians!!
Adolph Ochs, citizen of Now York, has pledged himself to raise
$1,000,000 for The Berry Schools.
He asks Georgia first to raise one-tenth of this sum, $100,000.
Asa Candler, Jr., of Atlanta, has promised to give $50,000—
one-half—if Georgia at large will subscribe $50,000—the other half.
Generous citizens have already given $18,000 of the $50,000
needed.
The money is for a Georgia institution—located near Rome— j
built, inspired by and operated for Georgians. It gives to otherwise
hopelessly ignorant boys and girls of the wildest mountain regions
of the state, the opportunity for practical, thorough education. It j
opens and daughters. the gateway of opportunity to Georgia’s most neglected sons j
Should there be any delay, when Georgians are asked, by a New j
Yorker, to give a comparatively small portion of a vitally-needed I
endowment for such a school?
Counting Mr. Candler’s magnificent gift, every dollar subscrib- I
i ed brings $20 to the school. It is an unprecedented opportunity to do
something real for humanity, in Georgia.
Subscriptions may be paid in semi-dnnual installments, covering j
four payments, the first due on July 1, next. Send checks either to
The Atlanta Constitution or to Robert C. Alston, chairman of the
board of trustees of Berry schools, Citizens and Southern bank
building, Atlanta. They will be promptly acknowledged.
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JOE DAVIDSON IN FLORIDA
Senator and Mrs. J. E. Davidson
left last Friday for a ten day motor
trip through Florida. Senator Davidson
has remembered The Leader-Trib
une with several postal cards, all
which natrrally indicate that he and
Mrs. Davidson are having a delight¬
ful vacation but “there’s no place
like home,” especially when it is
“Uncle” Joe’s own Peach cotpity.
A. J. Evans is moving his offices
from the Citizens Bank building into
commodious rooms ad-joining Ev
ans ' Clark Company, in the new ad¬
dition to the Marshall Grocery Com¬
pany building.
Tie King and queen, and the court
to be selected by them, which will be
mposed of fifty people, will like
be dressed in the Louis Fifteenth
They will be seated beneath
gorgeous canopy and will with the
dancers and actors trail the Pink
over land and ■ea in the ro
story,
Publicity Committee On Fire
No house ever burned with more
no fire department ever
with more lightning-like speed
a congregation, than the publicity
of which the ever-iov
Tom Flournoy is chairman evi
in its far-reaching work to
the world sit up and take no¬
of the ^Fourth Annual Peach
Festival. This commit/ee is
after all kinds of wholesome
with remarkable energy
efficiency, so that the highest
of all other members of, the
organization will be taxed
meet the nation-wide interest
is being created through news
magazine, radio, motion pic
and other avenues of publicity,
J. A. L. Wilson, has been (faced
thf . head of the commit tee to com
the new Festival grounds. It
without saying that, undr Mr.
direction, the finest possi
of the grounds will be real
Mrs. Alice Crandall, Otis F.
and Jimmie Fagan form a
on f] oats and decorations,
their work undoubtedly w j[] |
a beautiful revelation in that j
base H f t he festival,
In every respect General Chairman
L. Shepard is being given all as
to say in the splendid ad
- he
is making before civic
in various cities that the Fourth
Peach B!ossom Festiva! win
a ,. ecord -breaker and will at once
this wonderful Blossom Fes
scheme as a permanent national
■i *.,» w.
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RAILROAD OFFICIALS HERE
C. T. Airey, vice president and
traffic manager, and F. J. Robinson,
general passenger agent of the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad, spent Wed
nesday in Fort Valley. They were
! enthusiastic in predictions of bril¬
liant success for the Fourth Annual
Peach Blosom FestTval’and ail other
enterprises in Peach county. F. T.
Murray, president of the Kiwanis
Club, John Allen and others enter¬
tained Mr. Airey and Mr. Robinson
in a pleasant manner.
NEW ROAD SIGNS
The Hotel Winona, of .which the
enterprising Emory Coppedge is
manager, is placing 200 attractive
new road signs along the Dixie high¬
way in Southern Georgia and Flori¬
da. Mr. Coppedge will leave tomor¬
row for a Florida trip, to erect these
signs and to distribute artistic adver¬
tising matter from The I.eader-Trib
une Press for the Fourth Aeimal
Peach Blossom Festival, The signs
are in red and black, size 12x36
inches, painted by Lubetkin. »
REV. J. W. SMITH IS ILL
His many friends will regret to
learn that Rev. J. W. Smith is sick
with the “flu” and that because of
his illness and the fact that he is
booked to deliver a series of lectures
on the Presbyterian Progressive Pro
gram in Cuthbert, Fort Gaines,
Pleasant Hill and Dawson sometime
soon, he will discontinue his Bible
notes in The Leader-Tribune for
several weeks. However, the Bible
Class Notes for this week had been
prepared before Mr. Smith became
ill, and they will appear in next
week’s issue.
NEW WRIGLEY PRESIDENT
P. K. Wrigley has been elected
president of the Wm. Wrigley, Jr.,
Co., the $90,000,000 Chewing Gum
Corporation.
P. K. is just past thirty and one
of the youngest presidents of a large
manufacturing concern in the United
States.
He started his business career by
putting Wrigley’s on the map in Aus
ra ^' a an ^ bas been vice-president of
the American Company since 1915,
except for two years in the United
States Naval Aviation Service during
the war.
His father, Wm. Wrigley, Sr., now
becomes chairman of the board of
directors.
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Our appetite for real winter
weather is not as keen as it was last
August
It cost the government $1,674.-
500,000 to operate the railroads
during the war.
FIRST MEETING OF
TEAR, INTEREST
The board of trustees of
Thomas public library held its
meeting Tuesday morning in
reading room of the library,
Ralph Newton chairman of the
presiding.
The librarian s report for the
half of the past year was
gratifying, showing an increase
books loaned of nearly one
per cent, a substantial increase
the number of registered
a wider use of the library as a
of reference for the public
of the county, and a rapidly
popularity of the reading room.
The meeting included
to four-year terms of
on the board, Mr. D. C.
and Mrs. Jno. A. Houser and
election of of the following
for the year: Mr. Ralph
chairman, Mr. D. C. Strother, vice
chairman, Mr. C. E. Martin
er and Miss Gena Riley, secretary
and librarian.
Mrs. A. J. Evans, as the newsly
elected president of the Woman’s
Library Auxiliary was welcomed as
a new member. She pledging the con
tinued support of her organization
and the board in turn expressing
their appreciation of the fine assis¬
tance rendered in the past.
The entire meeting was character¬
ized by unusual interest and enthus¬
iasm which nromises much for the
progress of the libary in the new
year.
The following report for the
Thomas Public Library for the year
1924 was made by the librarian, Miss
Gena Rilev, to the board of trustees
at their regular meeting Tuesday.
Number of volumes in library
3150.
Number of volumes added, 237.
Number of registered borrowers,
1 136.
Number circulated, 9600.
Number of magazine subscriptions,
14.
Number of newspaper subscrip
tions, 2.
Total income, $830.00.
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FORT VALLEY OBSERVES
GEORGIA DAY THURSDAY
Fort Valley observed Georgia Day,
commemorating the founding of our
state by Janies Oglethorpe, on Thurs¬
day.
Under the direction of Mrs. Ben
Fincher, regent of the Fort Valley
chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, a Georgia Day
program was given at the school
auditorium at 8:30 o'clock. Mrs. J.
D. Kendrick spoke on the- advantages
to be found in Georgia, and Mrs.
Fincher presented to the school on
behalf of the D. A. R., a new United
States flag.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W.
Mathev Sr., formerly of Fort Val¬
ley, now of Ashburn, will regret to
learn of the death of Mrs. Mathews'
mother, Mrs. G. G. N. McDonald,
which occurred on last Tueday, after
a long illness.
Wise old hens are looking forward
to the beginning of many spring gar¬
dens.
Statistics prove-—well, wh t do
want them to prove?
The army and the navy are up in
air over the value of aircraft.
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Advertise in The Learer-Tribune
watch the results.
i
(Eight Page.) $1.50 Per Year in Advance.
WASHOUT AT HOUSER’S
MILL; LESTER
Mr. E. L. Lester was seriously
jured and three negroes hurt
day morning when a building,
dermined by the heavy rains,
in at Houser’s mill.
The washout was discovered
Saturday night hut nothing could
done until morning, when Mr.
with,scvernl men went d >w i to
things over. They were standing
the platform of the building when
collapsed and Mr. Lester and
negroes went down; for ornately
waterway was dry or they
have drowned. Mr. Lester had
right wirst borken, his left
crushed and severe bruises on
body. He as carried to
Sanitarium Tuesday for a
of his wrist. Mrs. Lester
him to Macon and will be with
until he is able to return home.
PEACH EDITION ADVERTISERS
A number of new names are add¬
ed to the following list of people and
business firms who are co-operating
in a splendid way with the Peach
Blossom Festival Edition of The
Leader-Tribune by ordering advertis¬
ing space. Others have indicated that
they would sign contracts and furn¬
ish copy right away. Those desiring
space will have to hurry, as the edi¬
tion will be closed very quickly.
Fort Valley Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
J. W. Woolfolk & Co.
Fort Valley Lumber Co.
Valley Milling Co.
Gallaher-Hale Grocery Co.
Crandall-Campbell Co.
Georgia Basket & Lumber Co.
Anthoine Machine Shop.
H. V. Kell Co.
Hotel Winona.
Mrs. M. T. Wise.
Fort Valley Cafe. \
R'. S. Braswell & Son.
Anderson Drug Co.
Emmett Houser.
Judge M. C. Mosley.
City Bakery.
Copeland’s Pharmacy.
John Vance.
Eberhardt Machine Works.
Bank of Fort Valley.
Citizens Bank of Fort Valley.
Almon Implement Co.
Franklin Theatre.
Fort Valley Motor Co.
Lee’s Department Store.
Wheelers Pharmacy.
L. W. Rogers Co.
Fort Valley Crate & Lumber Co.
C. L. Shepard.
W. L. Houser Canning Co.
Kendrick Ins. Co.
Southern Brokerage Co.
Evans-Clark Co.
Houser & Mathews.
Jno. T. Slaton.
A. C. Riley.
Strickland Barber Shop. -
N. Hauser. I
Rev. W. F. Smith, presiding elder
of the Macon district, will make his
first official visit of Ihe current year
Sunday next. He will fill the .pulpit
at the Methodist church at the ev
ening hour and will hold the Quar
terly . - Conference ,, , Monday , evening. . -
This is Mr. Smiths o third . year , on
-
the district , . - , and , his , . friends ... , in . the ,
city always , , , look , forward c . with ,i pleas- ,
ure to his coming. He is an able . ,
preacher , and , will ... no doubt , ,, , be , heard ,
by , a large . congregation.
Mr. G. T. Coppedge, joint proprie¬
tor of .The Winona Hotel with his
son, Emory Coppedge came over
from Barnesville for a week-end vis
it.
PEACHLAND JOURNAL
36 years old—only newspa¬
per in heart of one of
America’s richest diversified
agricultural sections.
19-20th
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
A gracious reception for Miss Pau¬
line Oak, director of the Peach Blos¬
som Festival pageant, discussion of
the proposed Peach County Chamber
of Commerce, a report from District
Trustee T, F. Flournoy on the recent.
trustees’ meeting in Macon, and ad¬
dresses A. L. Luce and Ralph
Newton in a program directed by
Mayor R. D. Hale, with other inter¬
esting features, filled last Friday’s
luncheon with inspiration and de¬
light.
One of the outstanding fea
tures of the meeti', was a.
,
discussion of the propose, i'or a bond
issue for permanent highway con
struction in Georgia. Ly a narrow
margin, the club voted to contribute,
one dollar per member towards a.
publicity fund in the roads bonds
campaign. L. L. Brown, Jr., opposed
o action,'and challenged any mem
her to a debate on the question of
State bonds for roads. T. F. Flour¬
noy, chairman of the program com
mittee, probably will arrange for this
debate in the near future,
Mr. Flournoy's report on the trus¬
tees’ conference in Macon on Janu¬
ary 29th lifted up several objectives
for the Kiwanis Club’s endeavors,
during the present year. In addition
to recommendations favoring a State
bond issue for roads, the trustees
urge that Kiwanis sponsor a memo
ria hall for the celebrated Martha
Berry School near Rome, and also,
that the Ellis Health Law be put into
operation in all Georgia counties. In
this connection Judge A. C. Riley
explained the Ellis Health Law and
its system of operation, and his mo¬
tion that the Peach County Grand
Jury be requested to elect a health
officer and Ordinary M. C. Mosley"
and County School Superintendent
Ralph Newton put the system into
effect here was carried unanimously
Active interest in agricultural de¬
velopment, attention to the under¬
privileged children of Georgia, and
the work of reclaiming delinquent
juveniles of the State were other
features of the trustees’ meeting on
which Trustee Flournoy made an en¬
lightening report. It is significant of'
his characteristic alert civic spirit
that he invited, through the trustees...
all Kiwanians to attend the Fourth.
Annual P. m b Blossom i l.val i.
Fort Valley on March 19th and 20th
Among the guests at the luncheon
were F. J. Frederick, of Marshall
ville, and Judge M. C. Mosley.
The Clean-Up, Paint-Up campaign
and the movement for a nutrition
kitchen and saner eating in the pub¬
lic schools, being conducted by the
Woman’s Club of Fort Valley, were
subjects of enthusiastic discussion,
and warm pledges of support.
It was announced that an inquiry
had come from Cuba for a number
of cars of dried peaches. Sanders
Harris was named to look after plans
for the erection of another handsome
tourist sign at Echeconnee, similar to
the one already attracting so much
attention at Barnesville.
Mayor R. D. Hale introduced a
r.ew Kiwanis quartet, composed of
,j , M , Cook> Jr T A McCord , c L
Farmer and him-elf. This quartet
promises to become another fine fea
ture of the Kiwanis artistry.
Ihe address ,, of - A. , L. , Luce , on Law
r Observance ,, and . that of Ralph New-
1
ton . the Kiwanis ... . Ideals , , burn
on were
• . of „ the , .
mg expressions principles . and
spirit ... which , . , „ the wholesome , ,
upon in¬
Huence ... ot . Kiwanis ... . , builds , itself.,
1 hose addresses , , should . , . , be carried . , to
- and . child , , within ,
man, woman
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Men's Fibre Silk Socks, regular
50c quality, to go at 29c pair on
and Monday at R. S. Bras¬
& Son. 12-12, It >