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Volume No. XXXVI, Number 8.
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Receiving rich measures of
♦ ration from every source in
with which they have made
(bus far, General Chairman C
Shepard and all members of
Peach Blossom Festival
are confident that every hope
he realized in the
beauty and popularity of the
annual event to be staged in
Yaliey on Thursday and
March 19th and 20th.
Railroads Pledge Every
Service Desired
Officials of various railroads
in Fort Valley Monday
and were hearty in assur..nces of
ery service desired by the
Association. Those present were J.
Beam, assistant general
agent, and C. B. Rhodes, division
•senger agent of the Southern
way System; F. J. Robinson,
al passenger agent, W. W.
division passenger agent, and W.
Stewart, assistant general
agent of the Central of
Railway.
They offer everything the
val Association wants in the way
excursion trains and special rates
both days of the Festival.
trains will be run on both
and Friday from Atlanta, Macon,
lumbus and Albany. The
fares will be: Atlanta, $2.50,
$1.50; Columbus, $2.00;
$2.00; proportionate rates from
termediate points; one and
fares for round trip from other
gia points not covered above.
Elaborate Entries Float*
A number of entries already have
been made for more tdaborate floats
than even those which made last
year’s Festival so conspicuous in
this way. The Central of Georgia
Railway has entered a float of spec¬
tacular interest. The Coca-Cola Bot¬
tling Company will have a float each
day bearing sixteen lovely young la¬
dies. The Atlanta Chamber of Com¬
merce plans a^beautiful float again
\ this year. Among other floats al¬
ready entered are two from New
York state, one each for the Roch¬
ester Rex Company, of Rochester,
and the Niagara Sprayer Co., of
Middleport, for which the Campbell
Fruit & Supply Company, of Fort
Valley, are dealers.
The Floats Committee is anxious
for other entries as quickly as pos¬
sible, and urge those who plan en¬
tries to notify some member at once.
One of the fine features of co-op¬
eration which is being given from
gfar will be a special show window
of M. Rich & Bros. Company to be
devoted soon to advertising the
Fourth Annual Peach Blossom Fes¬
tival.
Senator Harris Helps
A striking feather in the Publicity
'Committee’s cap is the announcement
that Senator Wm. J. Harris has in¬
terested the National Geographic
PJagazine in sending one of its spe
tial correspondents to cover the Fes¬
tival during both days and write an
article and secure photographs for
publication in that famous magazine.
There are broad expressions of ap¬
preciation for the interest of both
Senator Harris and Mr. Grosvenor,
, f the National Geographic, i*i this
matter.
King and Queen and Royal Court
Plans.
Miss Ruth Evans, the beautiful
Fort Valley girl who was chosen by
a majority of votes over all the oth
er contestants in the election for
Blossom queenship^of P estival the fourth at a mass arfnual meeting Peach
of Peach county citizens Thursday
p^flt, spent Friday in Macon She (
■ as accompanied to the Central City
by her mother, Mrs. Albert J. Evans,
ihe selection of Miss Evans as, ,
queen of the Blossom Festival and
Samuel Mathews as king of the great
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®he Jeafrer-Sribune
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
event is meeting with heartiest
proval and pleasure by p>*,'p!' of
this section, where they ».'!> so
lightfully known,
The queen has many friends
the State, having graduated
three years ago from Agnes Scott
College, where she made a splendid
j record, later attending Columbia Un¬
iversity, where she mastered in Eng
lish, and traveling abroad in Euro¬
pean lands last year. She is the e
f -t f . Ab ... , ~ . J T ’ Ev f ns P rom ‘
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nen for years in Georg,a s peach in
IZ Va e yS ™ tstand -
ng Mtizen citizen. Th The queens . father f was
° rn i” 01 a ls * >a " 11 *
mg . leading . merchants of the little
Peach City in his childhood days.
Her mother was the beautiful Miss
Willie Belle Baisden, of Americus,
and is a sister of Mrs. Sam Hayes, of
that city, and related to others there.
Win* Many Honor*
There could not have been a finer
choice for the royalty ofthe Bios
som Festival, the families of the two
honored ones being citizens of this
place for years, giving of their best
to the upbuilding of this thriving
community.
„ $jss Evans in her high school
won many honors, among which was
the winning of first place in ex
pression in the Twelfth District and
representing this district in the State
high school meet in Athens.
The king and queen will chose the
royal court, fifty in number, and an
nouncement of their choice will be
made in a few days. They received
the honors conferred upon them with
gracious appreciation, taking no part
whatever in the contest for their
election.
Fort Valley feels a distinct pride
in her representative king and queen
and feels that the little peach city
and Peach county are represented by ,
its choicest young people.
It is a matter of much interest to
Fort Valleyans and those interested!
in’ the fourth Blossom Festival and
the staging of the beautiful pageant,
The Trail of Pink Petals, that Miss
Charlie Matthews, the popular high
school dancer who was chosen for |
the leading part in the pageant Miss
Peach, was the only one of her class |
past in the month Foyt who Valley high school highest! the J
made to the
mark to be made in every study and
in deportment. She is one of the
brighest girls ever reared in the city
and has a grace and charm that is
rare and attractive.
Author Unable to Attend
Fort Valley friends of Mrs. Helen
Topping Miller, of Macon, Georgia’s
famous author whose fame as a short |
story writer is nation-wide, regret 1
that an engagement in New York
City at the time of the Peach Blos¬
som Festival will prevent her atten¬
dance upon the festival affair. Mrs.
Miller writes that she thinks there
could could be no more fascinating j
material for a story than that of
Georgia peach blossoms and Georgia
girls.
There will be a number of disting
u ’ s hed personages present at the
,urt h festival and reservations for
^h e entertainment of guests are be¬
ing made. Many tourists en route
North and Eeast from Florida are |
Hanning to reach Fort Valley in time |
for the festival. I
Coronation to Be Event.
Auspicious among the happenings
of the two Peach Blossom Festival
days, March 19th and 20th, will be i
the coronation of the king and queen. '
These coronation exercises will
place at Fincher Memorial Park,!
the heart of the city, sometimes
spoken of as Fort Valley’s five
The coach in which the king
queen will ride will be gorgeous
(Continued on back page)
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY,GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925.
BLOW GIVEN
iBiTi0NS 0F GITlf
IN CONGRESS THREAT
Congressman W. W. Larsen, whose
comment on House Bill 11,791, deal¬
ing with the construction of public
building;, f(.r post office purpvses,
was published in The Laedet-Tribune
recently, writes the following disap¬
pointing news in a letter received
.this week:
I “My dear Mr. Jones:
' “With further reference to House
Bill 11,791, relating to appropriation
foi construction of public buildings
to be used for post offices, etc., I
regret to advise that the measure
recently passed the Houser under a
suspension of rules. This means that
the bin was not °P™ for a »y amend
ment, and for its passage it required
the vote of two-thirds of the mem
bers present.
, “ T h e bill is now before the Sen
ate an d if it receives the favorable
consideration of that body , and the
j approval of the President, it will be
come a law. i
“Should this bill become a law, I
fear it will be a long time before ,
your city, or any other in the
Twelfth District, obtains a federal
building. It is freely predicted that
no building will be authorized in a'
city of less than 25,000—especially
in the South—except perhaps in a
( few instances where sites have al
ready been purchased. I voted
[against the bill and exceedingly re-i
tha iikiti ww d- i y f
law.
“With kind regards, I am I
“Very truly vours,
•W. W LARSEN.”
SERIES OF USES I
OF BIBLE CHIUS
The series of messages on Bible
characters given by Rev. D. A. How
ard at the Baptist Church each Sun-’
day evening contain lessons of prac
tical help for young people. Taking
a Biblical character for the basis of
study Mr. Howard points out char
to be emulated or faults
10 be avoided. Joseph—“A Young
Man Who Couid Not Be Held Down”
the subject last Sunday night.
These special messages will continue i
f °r several weeks.
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MACON STORES TO GIVE
HOLIDAY TO CLERKS
A member of the pageant commit
was informed Wednesday by the
of Dannenberg Co., Macon.
they were planning to enter a!
in the festival parade and also
issue instructions to the man- *
of each department to allow
force the privilege of attend
the festival by giving half of -he
a vacaUo i each day.
The committee was also informed
Mrs. Dannenberg of New Y or k
of Macon, had written theb
make reservations for several la
who were coming with her trt
the festival.
The management of the Union
Goods Co., Burden-Smith Co.,
J. P. Allen Co., all of MaCon,
also expressed their intentions
fallowing their employes the privi
of attending the festival.
This fine spirit of co-operation
being manifested on all sides and
are that the festival will
the largest attendance ever had.
I
Wonderful values in three best
of Pajama Checks, 17 l-2c,
and 25c yd. Special Saturday
Monday at Braswell’s. [
If you want to ease the conscience
ye editor keep your subscription
in advance. Then when you
off, Xve can print the high
obituary without qualms, j
When it comes to getting the anti
to Nome the airplane was sec- to
choice to the dog teams.
KI1NIS HEAR
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CHARMING ‘25
Rev. Charles Love, celebrated
Southern humorist, will come down
from Macon to entertain Fort Valley
Kiwanians at their luncheon with
of his side-splitting addresses.
Miss Pauline Oak, director of the
pageant for the Fourth Annual Peach
Blossom Festival to occur March 19th
and 20th, gave the Kiwanis Club of
Valley a fascinating description
of the pageant being planned
this year, at its luncheon meeting
last Friday. Miss Oak impressed the
Kiwanians yith her word pictures
what promises to excel by far
achievements of local talent,
festival pageants. She made it
clear that the 1925 pageant will be
a beautiful historical romance,
making a golden thread of the won
derful life of Miss Peach, from her
four ehousand years ogo fro
ve „ture four thousand years ago
from China through many nations
of the globe until at last she found
her throne in the garden spot of
Georgia. The King and Queen of
the Festival, Sam’l M. Mathews and
Miss Ruth Evans, will be crowned
in the morning of the first day, P 1 L "
c<J dmg the pageant, and will i •eign
over the entire event. They, with
court, will make their entrance
to the throne in the stadium, and this
mark the beginning of the pag
ean t, which will embrace remarkable |
features.little"secret
camel—will indicate the inno-|
to be introduced and the ,
grandeur to be reached in
production.
Kiwanians unanimously pledge
hcartv tany sunnort suppoi to io miss Miss Oak uat{ and sml
Pageant committee, of which W.
Brisendine i„ able
Cb l Shepard i.,reduced Kltot
and Queen Ruth amid an out
of applause which came near
the roof. 1 he King and Queen
shorl - addresses to the
A lot of fun was had by ail.
M„ Shepard also introduced H. M.
nlit h, division superintendent of the
Railway Express Co., with
words of warm appreciation for j
co ;°Peration given by Mr. Smith I
his company to the Festival in
years \ Mr - Snlith gave assur
tba t it would be a distinct
u > co-operate fully again
year - His company again will
magnificent horses for the
President E. T. Murray introduced
new members Sam Mathews,
M. C. Mosley, George B. Cul
e PPer. Jr., Luther Byrd and Emory
Sanders Harris made a report for
attendance committee, present
K plans for participation in the Ki
anis National Attendance contest,
w hk’h gold Kiwanis pins will be
to winners, tot be paid for by
President Murray called attention
the fund for advertising Georgia
has been started by W. T. An
president and editor o f the
Telegraph, to which A. J. Ev¬ I ;
has subscribed $500.00.
Rev. D. A. Howard conducted the j
program for the day, the
feature of which was Miss
outline of pageant plans. C. I
Shepard made the program a com
source address of Festival inspiration |
an in which expressed
appreciation for the response [
the people, here and in other sec-;
especially in Macon, to the ,
of the association. He stated . 9
everything in the 1925
be on a higher, finer, bigger
than ever before.
The program was crowned
when the new Kiwanis!
composed of Mayor R. D.
C. L. Farmer, John M. Cook,
and T. A'. McCord, was intro
bv Mr. Howard and sang \\ *ith >
harmony “Roll Dem j ■
and “I’ve Been Working on j j
Railroad.” This quartet promises
add a rich store of pleasure antll
to the club. In fact, they threat
i.
FIRST SUPERIOR
T0 0N
WEDNESDAY IN MARCH
The first superior court of Peach
county which meets on the first
Wednesday in March is creating un¬
usual interest not because there are
any special cases on, but because it
jthe 1 ' rst superior court to be held
j * n the new county of Peach. The first
week will be devoted to civil cases
I an d the second week to criminal cas
es -
The jury commissioners of Peach
county: namely, Messrs. E. M. Fa
gan, W. 1). Tharpe, A1 W. Tabor, W.
E. Greene, O. C. Bateman, and B.
Fincher met in the office of Em
met Houser, clerk of the superior
court of Peach County, and made out
the jury list as follows:
Grand Jury
J. K. King, D. C. Strother, G. A.
Fagan, J. D. Duke, J. D. Beeland, W.
S. Gassett, J. D. Fagan, St., R. D.
Hale, W. D. Murray, J. A. L. Wilson,
A. M Solomon, R. E. Jones, R. G.
Blewster, G. G. Adams, J. L. Brown,
W. E. Vinson, W. L. Houser, H. T.
Hancock, G. D. Hartley, G. H. Finch
er, C. H. Matthews, Z. Hays, G. W.
Mathews, Jr., E. G. Fagan, W. T.
Pearson J. If. Edwards, Jasper Har
dis'on, E. M. Sammons, G. V. Brad
dock, J. D. Kendrick.
Traverse Jury Fir*t Week.
J°i ner » F. E. Titus, O. G. Ro
^ aild ’ Norton, Smith Howard,
c * Sledge, S; u. BasStfeft,''A 1 .
Euce ’ J° e Sullivan, E. M. Whiting, i ,
Withoft, II. V. Duke, Clifton 1
Keys O. E. Pearson, B. F. Smisson
M. B. Hays, J. E. Bledsoe, Lee D
Wiio™ V' lson J r F Lowe i John t i A a Houser, tt 'i
’ ’ - > -
F * d * Mujiay, John H. Lowe, B. C. ( I
’ J 7 ’ M M ’ Jones > J - „ H. Allen, ...
H.11, W. S. Conn.ll, J, L.
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Jr., J. D. Hinton.
Traverse Jurors Second Week
E. L. Lester, Eugene Braddock, W.
Milhurn, Clarence Adkins, C. N.
S. W. Hardison. L. P.
W. R. Berry, C. H. Avera,
M. Wright, E. L. Duke, S. S.
Pete Wouvis, A. Russel
F. A. Vance, B. F. Smisson, |
C. Holt, H. J. Peavy, R. A. Hi
B. D. English, I.. M Byrd, Char
Walker, E. H. Coppedge, E. B.
W. F. Culpepper, T. S. Har- i
T. H. T. Brown, P. Greene, N. A. A. Bush, R. Jones, H. D. |
W. Robinson, W. L. Snow, S. Y. j
W. J. Cheek, J. O. Scarbo- j
E. L. Avera, W. O. Hartley, j
H. Vinson, J. T. Duffel], J. W.
J. C. Avera, H. C. Wallace, R.
Taylor, H. T. Wilder, C. H. Pra
B. F. Jones, E. Bruce Walton,
R. Edwards W. Felton Taylor,
A. Vinson, F. E. Cosey, W. J.
R. S. Braswell, Sr., Willis
Campbell, T. A. Jones, Hugh A.
J. C. Melvin, B. T. Marsh
Paul Young.
MATER1AL FOR PAGEANT
COSTUMES
1 he .
material for the costumes for
festival of the is expected to arrive Wilson the j
week. Mrs. Chester j
hjive charge of it at festival
over the Green-Miller
Mrs. Wilson will be on duty from
to 12 in the mornings and from 3
5 in the afternoons of next week.
Monday she will probably be
all day. The chairman of each
0U P is asked to get in touch with
in order that arrangements can;
made for appointments for each
*-h e monopoly in music held so far
Leighton Shepard, Mose Solomon,
Strother and Bill Brisendine in
celebrated endurance champion- 0 r
P of “ ‘Round Her Neck She
a Yeller Ribbon.”
(Ten Pages)
R. STRIPLING SUGGESTS
SECTION OF HOUSTON
COUNTY GANG FOR PEACH
To the Editors of Leader-Tribune
and Houston Home Journal:
Since the beginning of civilization
there has been a strife of emulation
between individuals and all political
subdivision of the earth, more espe¬
cially is this true where both parties
sides are of equal strength; this
been very noticeable in cases of
cities of about equal size in
(he same state and towns in the
same county. This rule applies, as
we all know, very forcibly to Hous¬
ton county, as we have had one of
the most heated and continued polit¬
ical strifes lor and against the estab¬
lishment of Peach county ever re¬
corded upon the pages of civilized
history. The writer, being one of the
opponents to the creation of Peach
county, being born and reared in
the central part of Houston county
had learned to love the people as a
whole of the county; knew the boun
dary lines, and knowing Houston
county contained some of the very
best people of the world, naturally
wanted them to continue as one and
an inseparable family. However,
how great my desire and others to
continue to live in the same Houston
family, we have been separated by
county lines only in the creation of
Peach county, ajjd the good and lov¬
ing people who lived on each side
we were before, ancl our love
, s , ou e y a means
01 eac ° er
su /' t as eVtl WI * l n ?, n a
to anyone regardless of the
stand toe took, or where he
The writer . understands , , ,, there was
. V“ch on the cart of the ad
« tori™
of three sections; also to
her (Peach county’s) pro rata
rt of Houston county’s indebted
This agreement has been lived
to on the part of Peach county
^ a -ice
M
VISITS FORT VALLEY
The congregation of St. Andrew’s
wishes to announce the com
of Mr. Leon C. Palmer, B. D.,
secretary of the Brotherhood
St. Andrews, Province of Se
who will on the afternoon of
2Gth, Thursday, at 3:30 I. M.
the United ) oung I copies
of Fort Valley cl'.uivh
. At night at 7:30 P. M. Mr Palmer
>1' Ki ve another address to the
of all the churches at which
1110 be will stress the need of a
of tne relig’ous life among
especially young men. The pas¬
0 * the city an.! all Bible classes,
men’s Even distic club are es¬
invited to be present.
Mr. Palmer is a acluate of the j
of ! '1 » T Sewatteo,
and oi Theological Dc- j
of the University. He wat
eight years general secretary of
,, , c , , c , , .
. and , five ,. years general , super
of the South Carolina Sun
School Association, and has giv
special lectures at the Uni
of Alabama,, the Alabama I
Institute and the Se
Summer Training School. ,
TO OBSERVE MONDAY
WSHINoWS BIRTHDAY I
George Washington s birthday
on Sunday, Feb. 22 yie
of Fort Valley will observe
Feb. 23, as a holiday in hon- i
of the event,
Have You Paid Your Subscription
PEACHLAND JOURNAL
36 year* old—only newspa¬
per in heart of one of
America’* richeit divenified
agricultural section*.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
so far as the writer knows and this
is right; but in fairness and justice
1 ask if it would not be doing unto
your brother as you would have him
do unto you for we people of Hous¬
ton county to tender to our good
friends and neighbors of Peach coun¬
ty one section of our chain gang?
They have at least paid for it and
I for one am ready and more than
willing to do this because I leel it t < »
be just, honest, honorable and right,
and honesty never hurts anyone. Wo
do not need but two sections of the
gang and we cannot sell the other*
to any great advantagie, and if we
could, is it not right to give it to
Peach county? 1 for one (intend it
is.
One of Peach county’ most pub¬
lic highways has been impassable
for some time on account of the
heavy rains and no gang to repair
same, causing a great inconvenience
to both Peach and Houston county;
citizens. The Peach County section
has had but little work from the
Houston county chaingang for some
Naturally the roads are not in
condition and I, for one, who
Peach county, move that we
one section of our chaingang
Peach county with the very best
brotherly love and feeling, and
all, each and everyone, stand
tdy to do all in our power to help
other in every way possible.
The above is written after due and
consideration, without the:
solicitation upon the part
anyone, and in the face of any
from either side I hold
above to be based upon the solid
of honesty and justice;
conscientiously believing in the
outcome we will be proud
have acted thus.
Sincerely,
J. R. STRIPLING,
Kathleen, Ga,
Feb. 13th, 1925.
BISHOP W. A CANDLER
Bishop Warren A. Candler ,of At¬
lanta, senior bishop hf the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, will fill the.
pulpit at the Methodist church, this
city, Sunday morning and evening.
The distinguished churchman needs
no introduction to any Georgia con¬
He is one of the outstand¬
ing figures of his denomination and
many is considered the greatest
living product of American Method¬
ism. For many years he Was promi¬
nently identified with the education¬
interests of the church, going from
presidency of Emory college to
episcopacy and, later, being chan¬
of Emory university. He has
close personal friends here
will extend him a cordial wel
In the morning he will discuss
pending plan for the unification
the two great branches of the
church iir America, and in
evening will preach a gospel mes
Ihe public is cordially invited
attend the services.
STRIPLING VISITS CITY
G. L. Stripling, who moved from
Valley to Miami. Fla., a few
ago, has been delighting his
friends here with a visit dur¬
the past week. Mr. Stripling says
is alive, ail right, but his de¬
of conditions there, like
description of all others, shows
that the net results in
and sound prosperity are
in this section of Georgia. His
hope Mr. Stripling will move’
among his own folks very soon..
See counter of 36-in. Percales also
Gingham* 19c vd. Saturday
Monday at Braswell’s.