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WE ARE BUILDING A CITY t/ HERE Volume No. XXXXVI, Number 6. Miss Oak Arrives; Work On Festival Hits Full Stride ♦> Sale Directed by » As chairman of the committee tale of tickets to the Pageant vented during the Fourth Peach Blossom Festival, we o announce that we are now reservations, and suggest to all wish seats that same be paid for reserved a» promptly as possible. All citizens of Fort Valley especial ly are urged to lecure their (eats for a two-fold purpose, viz., to ob lain choice seats for their personal friends and guests who wi ill attend he Festival, and also to provide the tommittee with immediate funds for doing necessary work in preparation ‘or the Festival. A considerable iwm ber of seats have already been taken and indications point to the sale of every seat on both days. Assignments of sections is made in the order in which the seats are pur chased. Prices $1.00 for adults and 50 cents for children under twelve. There will also be a limited number of box seats for sale at $2.50 per •eat. J. E. LEE and JNO. B. VANCE Joint Chairmen Ticket Committee Miss Pauline Oak arrived Tuesday r.ight from Maine to again direct the 'outstanding feature, the pageant, of the Peach Blossom Festival. She is meeting with a cordial reception among the many friends made during previous associations with the Festi¬ val here, and rehearsals for the pag¬ eant will begin quickly. It is said that the pageant of the Fourth Annual Peach Blossom Festi¬ val will surpass by far, in artistic charm and the romantic interest of the glorious peach, even last year's pageant, which reflected such nation- PEACH COUNTY’S FIRST COURT RELB III FORT ' VALLEY LAST MONDAY The first court held in Peach coun ty was that on Monday morning when the Court of Ordinary was call ed to order by Sheriff Geo. D. derson, with Ordinary M. C. ley presiding. The court was opened by prayer led by Rev. David Albert Howard, pastor of the First Baptist church of Fort Valiev The first case called was a peti¬ tion of I. N. Royal, to probate the will of his sister, Miss Dora Royal, deceased. This will was duly proven in common form and an order passed, admitting the will to record, in com nAli form and letters testamentary to issue. The second case called on the dock¬ et was the case of the will of W. R. Brown, deceased. This will was of fered for probate in common form and a prayer was contained in the petition for letters testamentary. The will was admitted to record in com mon form, but letters testamentary refused. A caveat was interposed to the probate of the will by Messrs. Houser and Mathews, attorneys of Fort Valley, as representing Law rence Brown, an heir at law of W. R. Brown, the only son of Nathaniel Brown, brother of W. R. Brown. C. L. Shepard represents the* ers of the will. The case will be tried at a later term of court. Most washings, these days, are all w^'l and a back yard wide. The radio has brought many things out of a clear sky. Have you paid your i ®he £eafrer-®rtbune Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest. Pouring In Seats and wide admiration for* the genius Miss Oak and the heroic talents the people of Fort Valley and County. It is a significant fact, the way, that all of Peach county responding with enthusiasm, to pour itself, every bit of its and energy, into making this Festival all that is being under the indications of much elaborate ambitions and plans. At last Friday’s '-meeting of Executive Committee was made of the personnel of OUS committees, the heads ot made reports ami covering all; requirements for great project, from practical ments for feeding the thousands visitors all the way through to a discriminating and refined of entertainment in every respect. W. T. Anderson, editor of the Ma con Daily Telegraph, was present the meeting, with Malcolm D. worth, managing editor of the graph. Mr. Anderson, always a paper man of big caliber in his tion to public service for Georgia her various sections, is placing Telegraph and its every resource ly and freely at the command of Peach Blossom Festival The Foundation Committee ing Finance,—of which D. C. er is able chairman, is devoting completely to making the Festival armor-clad venture from which i result a permanent plant and that will make the Festival an ing institution, but every step is en with emphasis upon the fact the Festival must bear no mark commercialism or an enterprise pecuniary gain to Fort Valley. iMINISTERIAL ASS’N IS ORGANIZED, REV. T. H, The preachers of Fort Valley perfected the organization of a 1 isterial association, with Rev. T. H. Thomson president and Rev. D. A. Howard, secretary. The four churches of the city are i represented in this organization. Meetings will be held each month on Mondays after the first Sunday. I Monday The ‘n^' 8 * meeting was held at the residence of Rev. D. A. Howard. I Bishop Candler, of Atlanta, will fill the pulnit at the Methodist church cn Feb. 22. / The friends and acquaintances of Mr. F. 0. Miller will be gratified knew that he is convalescing from his recent illness. They will be glad to see him at his place of business and on the again soon, as he has been sadly missed while a “shut-in 1 ' at home. MARSHALLVILLE SCHOOL I ISSUES “GOLD AND ^ “The Gold and Black” is the at the masthead of an attractive, Marshallville , ,, ... high ... school, , , it . ... is a ly creditable paper, reflecting did ability on the part of the dents and generous interest and operation among the people of shallville and neighboring ties. FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1925. t i, ■ m > s if & m 3k w ROCLAMATION HI pSPEF V’Qffr I® ID $ 1 Clean Up and Paint Up! W 9 qJ H Hear This, Ye People—Think! Act!! r Come on, let’s put things in order. Our whole city can and should be <*4 made as clean and orderly as its cleanest home. Then we will have a . safer, happier, healthier city. Ambition in its highest conception is to dream big dreams and make [ them come true. The splendid ambition to have a city clean and beauti¬ ful is to become reality by the co-operation of all the people. Cl soon a I Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor, and with the hearty approval of many far-seeing and zealous citizens, we hereby proclaim the week of - FEBRUARY fet, 1925 M the Opening Week of a Continuous CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP CAMPAIGN I Away with the rubbish piles! Banish the plague a spots! Clean up streets and alleys! Cut the weeds, mow the lawns and trim the hedges! Repair and paint every building that needs it. We need this thorough cleaning and renovation. m Cleanliness, Thrift and It is the sensible thing to do—for the health, safe¬ Civic Pride the Essen¬ ty, thrift, pride and happiness of all our people. tials for Homes and It is everybody’s job. Every man, woman and a Towns Beautiful. slackers. child will be expected to help. Let there be no i— V • ; * R. D. HALE, Mayor me Endorsed by Civic Committee, Woman’s Club, Mrs. A. M. Solomon, Chairman mm l or* t: r>- r Vyi ■■ Hjy Wg 5^ Ik t / ym ‘(h /a DEPOT! CITY LAST OF A deputy collector will be in Fort Valley, at the court house, Friday and Saturday of this week to assist tax payers, without cost, in their income tax returns for 1924, a; cording to information receive^ The Leader-Tribune from J. T. Rose, collector of internal revenue. DEATH OF MR. SEMMES Friends in Fort Valley of Mrs. W. B. Semmes of Mobile, Ala., will be sorry to learn of the death of her husband, in Mobile, on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Mr. Semmes was general passen¬ ger traffic agent of the S. and L. Railway, where he was quite popular. Mrs. Semmas is well known here, j having been a frequent visitor to her ^^r, the late Mrs. George H. Slap i pev. ’ and her cousin, Mrs. Ed Fagan. ' j Miss lone DuPree has been confin j e( j t 0 her home for ten days with se cold. We hope to see her out again very soon, Have you paid your subscription ? MARTIN AT BANK MEET C. E. Martin, of the Citizens Bank of Fort Valley, attended a meeting of the executive committee of the Country Bankers’ Association, of which he is vice president, in Atlanta on Tuesday, when it was decided that the 1925 convention of this assoeia j tion would be held in Savannah on 10, 11 and 12. WRIGHT & SOLOMON RECEIVE CALIFORNIA MATERIAL HERE I Wright & Solomon have shipped in from far away California a car¬ load of sawn crate material for as¬ paragus. they hought this material from a San Francisco broker after having sent many letters throughout the country and having failed to get a satisfactory competitive price on the particular materia! desried from anybody east of the Mississippi riv er. Too many people pass a good thing up, instead of passing it alondg. I The more questions a fellow takes ; the trouble to ask, the more he is able to answer. Even after you’re out of school it ^ is important that you make the grade, I MILLER IS TRUSTEE ) Macon, Feb. 5.—Frank O. Miller, of Fort Valley, past grand master the Grand Lodges of Free arid cepted Masons of Georgia, has sue ceeded Thomas J. Carling as a ber of the board of trustees of Masonic Orphans’ Home. Mr. ing tendered his resignation to the board two months ago, but it was not accepted until yesterday. Mr. Miller’s election followed. Mr. Carling told the board that the press of business affairs made his resignation imperative. He has serv¬ ed for eighteen years. He pledged his co-operation to the board whenever possible. Mr. Miller is one of the most prom¬ inent Masons in the state of Georgia. He has extensive business connec¬ tions. The wise man knows the type of his personality and directs his con¬ duct in conformity with it. There is no fool like an old fool except a young fool, - a rule, only people who get pleasure out of their work accomplish much. (Eight Pages) $1.50 Per Year in Advance. fSPlENUlfl gflflMEPEUPLEFUH AHTIULES PEABHHLUSSUM WRITTEN BY QFESTIVM [[IITIUN IN BflMPETlNl} iFflH THIP Tfl NEW YUHK IN APHIL j Enough extraordinarily good ma terial to fill a number of big special editions has been contributed by gifted people of Peach and adjoin i ing counties for tfie approaching Peach Blossom Festival Edition ot The Leader-Tribune. Articles, pho tographs, drawings, etc., have pour¬ ed in upon us. Notwithstanding- iur rule limiting the origin of such mat¬ ter to Peach, Crawford, Houston and Macon counties, some folks in dis i tant cities have plunged into the contest, but the prizes, including the free trip to New York in April, must go to the home people to whom the field was confined. As we stated in the rules publish¬ ed with announcement of prizes in our issue of January 22, announce¬ ment of prize winners will be made simultaneously with publication of the articles in the special edition ear¬ ly in March. In the meantime, judges will be selected soon—the naming of the judges having been left open of course in order that no person might be deprived of the privileges of com¬ peting—and the work of judging con¬ tributions will begin. It follows nat¬ urally that no contributor will be a judge, lust as no nerson should have j been deprived of the privilege of competing bv selection as a judge. Articles will be accented bv the the entire list of prizes offered. The trip to New York will go to the con¬ tributor of the heot of nil article*?. Those promises will he fulfilled to the | letter, along with all other promises ' in connection with the nualitv and 1 W. T. Anderson Offers Full and Free Support of Daily Telegraph In Undertakings of Fort Valley W. T. Anderson, president and ed itor of the Macon Daily Telegraph, member of the State Highway mission, and one ot the leaders in the affairs of Georgia, fered fully and freely all agencies of the Telegraph in any and all civic undertakings originating in Fort ley, with special reference to the nu trition kitchen project for the local public school system fostered by the Woman’s Club of Fort Valley, Ki wanis Club civic objectives and the Peach Blossom Festival, when he and I Malcolm D. Ainsworth, managing ed itor, appeared before the Kiwanis Club last Friday. An educational program was carried out and the nu¬ trition kitchen project vas presented and adopted by the'members Mr. Anderson, speaking as the resentacr.e nf the Telegraph, iffered the co-opeiation of the Macon morn ing newspaper in the campaign for proper eating and declared that the Telegraph will offer loving cups to the various teachers and students contributing the most valuable as¬ sistance to undernourished and un¬ derprivileged children. The Teleg''>ph is fostering the same kind of von, in the schools of Macon and Mr. A ri derson asserted that the paper will extend its scope to embrace the edu rational institutions of Fort Valley. After the saner eating undertaking was urged by Mrs. Edwin Martin, chairman of the child felfare com¬ mittee of the Fort Valley Woman’s Hub. and Miss Carolyn Cravey, of the domestic science department of the local school system, Mr. Anderson voiced his approval of it. He declared that true education really begins with PEACHLAND JOURNAL 36 years old—only newspa¬ per in heart of one of America’s richest diversified agricultural sections. scope of the edition, regardless of cost or loss on the part of The Lead or-Tribune. BUSINESS MEN RESPONDING LIBERALLY IN ADVERTISING Many business men of Fort Valley are co-operating in a splendid, loyal manner with orders for advertising in the Festival Edition, which offers one of the best advertising oppor¬ tunities ever presented here. Follow¬ ing is a list of those wh<- had placed orders up to today at noon: 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. the stomach and that physical devel opment is one of the most important} factors in mental training, Special emphasis was laid by the| Macon editor on the fact that Geor* jrj a products are not to be found in Georgia. He urged that Georgia peo p] e should consume products of theii* own state and merchants should handle Georgia grown merchandise, such as fruits, vegetables and canned goods, preserves, etc., and stress the sale of these rather than commodities* coming from California, Florida and other producing states. When it was announced that cori siderable advertising space is to be devoted to the Peach Blossom Festi val, Mr. Anderson offered to co-op crate in any way. He announced that all possible efforts will be made to give wide advertising to the event and that any assistance that can be given by the Telegraph will be furn Lhed freely. The services of Mr. Ainsworth also were offered to the festival commit¬ tee. He asserted his readiness to serve in an advisory or active ca¬ pacity subject to the desires of the festival organization. The Telegraph’s organiaztion was also placed at the ^ disposal of the committee by the | managing editor. The educational program was put | on at noon at Kiwanis Hall and about ■ | sixty-five guests were present. Mrs. j Martin made an appeal to the mem i hers for support of the nutrition kitchen. She called attention to the kitchen that is being operated ih Americus and declared that it is one of the best in the state. Aft^r her (Continued on back page)'