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BUILDING A CITY
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Volume No. XXXVI, Number 9.
BRIGHT WEATHER, CHEERFUL SPIRITS AND HARD
WORK FOR FESTIVAL BRING NATION-WIDE PRAISE
America’s Eves Turnine
Bright skies, light hearts
in the song of happy work day
night, and a great tide of
sweeping down upon Fort
from all parts of America!
Fourth Annual Peach Blossom
val on March 19th and 20th is
ing proportions of
grandeur and beauty. Indications
that every prediction so far as to
attendance will be exceeded by
thousands.
The Festival will not be
a two-day affair, according to
wrong impression gathered by
people. It will be a great event
two days, each day presenting
complete Festival program. The
day, March 19th, will present
Festival in its entirety. The
day, March 20th, will be a
of the first day’s program,
ing every feature of the first
program, embracing every
pageant, military drills, parade
floats, barbecue and all.
Every visitor to the Peach
som Festival on either day will
ness all features of the Festival.
is desired that this fact should
emphasized all over the country,
order that nobody may be
into thinking that he must spend
days here to avoid missing any
the great event. Visitors may come
the morning of either day and
turn home in the evening with
whole wonderful experience. A barbe
cue dinner will be served on
days. With the growth by tens
thousands in the number of F no,;
val visitors to be fed. a
charge will be made for the
This action has been urged
Fort Valley from all parts of
ountry by people who realized
for a -mall city to feel sixtv to
hundred thousand folks, in
to carrying the great burden of
ing the pageant and — entertain
ment, would be impossible
endangering the permanent
of the Festival as a priceless
tution of the South and
* Round-trip railroad
rates on both days from all parts
Georgia will be the lowest ever
i ffered by the railroads foi a
uav event, according to C. H.
mons, agent
Murray V* ires Andy Gump
E. T. Murray, president of the
wanis Club of Fo’t Valley, has
Sydney Smith, Andy Gamp and
■ at T-alm Beach, Fla., inviting
to attend the Festival. W. T.
son , editor of the Macon
a business associate of Andy
has written a letter also inviting
to be a guest on March 19-20th.
Murray’s invitation asks Andy to
the principal speaker of the
sjon.
Tickets On Sale
*John Lee and John Vance,
men on sales of tickets, have
now on sale at their stores. They
going fast, and those who desire
will do well to hurry.
Peacock Feather* Wanted
Mrs. Pierce Greene makes the
gent request that all persons
have peacock feathers notify her
once. They are needed very much
the pageant and will im giver,
care.
P Invitations Available ,
John Baird, chairman, whrio
P'ittee is being congratulated
the artistic: loveliness if the 1925
vitations. states that they irniv he <
tained by the ry iblic at Mrs. M.
Wise's stor'. C ^eland’s
Anderson Drug Co., ar.< V hacler
Pharmacy.
Pvblic’ty A.cbievements
^Hhairman T. F. Flournov and
. publicity committee are getting
velous publicity for the
They have developed several
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
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MOTION PICTURE Of
FESTIVAL IN
Through the courtesy of C. H
Sammons, agent of the Central
Georgia railway, motion pictures
the 1923 Peach Blossom
were shown at the Grand
House-in Macon to a packed
cn Monday night.
About one thousand employes
officers of the Centra! of
were in attendance at their
efficiency meeting.
Mr. S. L. Chandler, asst, gen mgr
of Savannah, made a talk before
picture was shown telling all
the Festival and inviting the
to be present.
The picture brought forth some
very favorable comments.
MOTOR COMPANY'S MOVIES
The Fort Valley Motor Company
motion picture advertising wagon has
been visiting a number of school
houses lately and putting on
entertainments. On last Tuesday
about one hundred and fifty people
gathered at Zenith. The following
Friday pietim a were shown at the
( enterv he sen-'cl louse.
On one or two occasions the pro¬
gram has been given under the aus¬
pices of the Parent-Teacher’s Associ
ation. Early in the winter this asso
ciation secured the services of the
Fort Valley Motor Company’s picture
entertainment and charged a small
admission. Between $15.00
. ,. . , p „
WaS a 6t ° 1 ' '
itdsur>.
Mr. Luce says that the entertain
ment can be secured for other places
in the county upon request. About
one week’s notice should be given.
BURGLAR IN CLPELANO’S
Dr. H. M. Copeland reports that
when his drug store was closed Mon
day night a “sneak thief’’ evidently
had hid himself in the stock room,,
and the next morning disclosed the
fact that the burglar had robbed the
cash register and had made an ama
teur s attempt to get into the safe.
Only a few dollars loss was sustained.
No damage was done to the store.
The intruder let himself out through
the back door.
LECTURER VISITS CITY
The lecture at St. Andrew’s church
Thursday evening at 7:30 will be of
interest to all.
Mr Pa , mer wiu bring new ideas
and methods of Sunday school, Bible
^^ evange]istic and ] avmen ’ 8 work
. in generab aK hc made a study of th<
| congregations viewpoint ...
j religious endeavor.
All young people’s societies are
{asked to assemble at St. Andrew’s a t
3.go p -.y Thursday and share with
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j league the good things that Mr.
er will say.
ideas which have got powerful
?-cults. TS , far-reaching effect
j “ then' a Ivertiaing r after i
I licit}', including extermely generous
i space in the weekly newspapers of
Georgia, is being given in abundance.
No woman was ever known to com¬
mit suicide on her way to buy a new
hat.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY.GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1925.
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Steve A. Bassett, who world have
been 65 years of age on March 7,
died at his home here late Sunday
night after an illness of several
weeks.
Mr. Bassett was the owner of many
acres of Houston county land and
; much real estate in Fort Valley,
He was a member of the Congrega
tional Church, founded and built by
h ’ s fat!ler many years age. His wife
died a few years ago. She was before
her marriage Miss Maud Brown.
Four children survive. They are
Miss Lucy Bassett, Ralph, Noble and
Steve Bassett, of this city. There is
I one sister, Miss Frances Bassett and
i three brothers, Gus, and Sid Bassett,
of Fort Valley and Charlie Bassett,
of Minneapolis.
The funeral service was arranged
by Mr. Henry Henry Harris and Mr ’
A. J. Evans. Rev. J. W. Smith, of
the ,, Presbyterian ,, . . church, , , officiated.
The pallbearers included 0. M.
.. Houser, If. T , r\ D. Bartlett, t> >. , i J. — T— F. t Low
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It. S. ,, ,, Braswell, „ „ Sr., John , , Pearson ,,
and John Vance. Many beautiful
floral offerings were received. In¬
terment was in Oaklawn cemetery.
I SUPERIOR COURT HERE
WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK
Peach county will experience her
fir.-t term of Superior Court next
week. The court will convene on
Wednesday, March 4th. The first
week will be devoted to civil cases
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and tbe second week to criminal cas
! eR - 1 he jury list was published ir.
L wee h » Leader-Tribune, Much
terest naturally centers in t us, the
new county’s first term of Superior
Court. The court room is on the
second floor of what was known
formerly as the Austin theater
ing, on Main street.
VALLEY MIS CLUB
Rev. Charles Lane, of nation-wide
reputation as a genius in the art of
story tern..* .... - science of mak
ing hundreds laugh where only a few
laughed before, captured the Kiwan
is Club of Fort Valley ' - snappy
address last Friday. His address,
while overflowing with refined wit,
brought a glowing message of in
spiration in the Kiwanis ideals.
The Kiwanis program at its lunch- j
eon tomorrow (Friday) at noon wil!
be devoted to educational affairs. It
is being arranged by J. D. Kendrick,
jC- E. Martin and Max L. James,
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DEMONSTRATION
| The Fort Valley of the Motor newly Company’s
j demonstration
p - & disc harrow on Tuesday
!something which has set
, peach growers to talking. They say
this harrow is just the thing that has
been needed for a long time. The j
demonstration was on J. A. L.
son’s farm, and that cordial gentle
j man added gracious hospitality to
the always pleasing attentions of A.
! lj Luce, of the Fort Valley Motor 1
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| r >mpany, and his organization.
Ladies of the Woman’s Club serve ! '
a delightful plate lunch at noon. Dr :
Oliver I. Snapp and others cf the
government laboratories were pres
ent and made talks on the qusetions
of progress in peach culture.
8ISH0P MUR
UNIFICATION SUNDAY
To congregations that taxed the
capacity of the large auditorium of
^ 1U Methodist church. Bishop
ren A - Candler, of Atlanta, spoke
here Sunday, tor mpny years the
Tiishop ^ ias been a conspicuous figure
in the activities of Southern Meth
odism alld is now > > n years of serv
hie, the oldest effective nan in the
episcopacy of either jiranch of the
church. i
In the forenoon he, spoke on the
plan of unification adopted by the
general conferences if the North
cm and Southern churches and now
handed down to the Annual Confer
enees of the respective churches for
ratification. As « knjwn, the bish
op is opposed to the plan and in the
morning discourse set, forth his rea
sons for „ thisattitude ... .... , in . a , logical . , and ,
convincing manner, j
i ,, Selecting , ,. text , . that ... portion
I as a *
r the Lords intercessory . j prayer re
corded , , in ■ John , , 17-21, ., |<- showed that
it . not physical ufti but unity
was -e
I of the spirit for whiih the Master
prayed, and the thougit was stressed
that the bringing tog#Umr of great
numbers in an ecclesiastical organi¬
zation would avail nothing i, the ab¬
sence of this essentia| spiritual uni
tv. gji 1^*- • -
The ti.rae thing- up« -l which, he
dwelt particularly were legalized ov¬
erlapping, the status of the negro
and the matter of property rights
under the proposed plan. There
nothing in the plan, he showed, to
prevent in the futur(! the bi U l d ingr
of altar against aItal .. New
ences may not be organized without
the consent of the General Confer
ence hut the Northern church now
has conferences in practically all
southern states and may continue its
WO rk in these at will. Speaking of
property, the bishop said that, if the
|dan ; a adopted, the M. E. Churcli,
South, will cease to exist and its
holdings will automatically pass into
the new organiaztion. True, proper
ty will he held, as now, by local trus
jtees , but . these .. trustees t will find „ that
: the Genera] Conference fixes the
law’s and limitations under which
they act.
; The discussion of the question was
entirely free from personalities and
| those who differed with the speaker
could find nothing objectionable in
his utterances.
At the evening service the message
was evangelistic. “Knowing God ’ was
the theme, which was handled in
Bishop Candler’s masterful manner.
Neither science nor philosophy can
bring us to the Father, he stated,
We come to know him through Jesus
Christ. The sermon closed with an ap
peal to seek and konw God.
WANTED—For Peach Blossom Fes
tival, 500 hogs for barbecue pur¬
poses. WW1 pay market price. Glen
more Green, purchasing agent.
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<« Every City Owes Every Child J
A SAFE PLACE TO 4> *
PLAY | .
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Clilidren not in a playgroc nd may be chasing balls in the path of a ^,
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heavy truck. If you cannot give them play grounds, you can give t!
. • them closed streets in which play. *
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•i- Twenty thousand children were killed in all kinds of accidents in T '
tie United States during 1923.
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Mriny of these died,while playing, t
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Public PL-'. ^rouruls help Yo leep children off ihe streets, malttry
4* automobile driving easier and safer. ^
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TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO BE CAREFUL
1 W. A. Wooddall, one of Fort Val
citizens, died at the home of his
i daughter, Mrs. Ben Roe Marshall, if.
( b is city Wednesday night at ten
minutes to twelve o’clock.
Wooddall had been sick a long
time, being in a hospital in Atlanta
^veral months for treatment, but
b j s condition improved somewhat and
Lo came to Fort Valley where ha
■ l<i be his old friends. Soon
wou among
„fter reaching here be gradually
1 grew worse and his ijf e bad bee .
despaired of for several weeks.
j L Mr. Wooddall was often ... referred . ,
1 as Captnin W ooddall and for manv
>cars ^ was conductor on the pa ...
S6nger tra , , from Fort Valley to Ai
, anta m , had friends bv tbe hun _
dped , and was known for his kindl
i a)uj he , ful irjt doing dail favors
for his many friends and acquain .
tances.
He was a member of the Fort Val
ley Baptist church and was promi¬
nently identified with many organi¬
sations, being a director in the Citi¬
zens , Bank here.
During recent months he has had
real estate offices in Atlanta, be¬
ing the owner of much real estate in
that city and in other places.
He is survived hy his wife, Mrs.
W. A. Wooddall, of this city, hi
daughter. Mrs, jtmi Roe Marshall and
i tie grandson, William Marshal). Hit
i mother, Mrs. M. H. Wooddall, of
Fairburn, also survives and there are
| two brothers and three sisters liv¬
ing, namely: Messrs. F. M. and J. M.
I Wooddall, ol Atlanta; Mrs. H. 11.
McClure, of Fairburn; Mrs. E. L. Col
lins ’ of Acworth; Mrs. S. E. Marsten,
of. Augusta.
Mr. Wooddah was fifty-eight years
»*f ’-ge at th.* June of his death and
Fort Valley claimed him as a citizen
for the larger part of his life, he hav
*ng spent the noonday and the latter
years of his earthly life here.
I The funeral service will take piace
at the Baptist church at 1 :30 o'clock
Friday afternoon and the interment
will he in Oaklawn Cemetery. The
funeral serv,cc wil1 bc conducted by I
his pastor, the Reverend David
} ert Howard,
Fort Valley and community feel a
distinct loss in the passing of this
good man and loyal and patriotic
citizen, and The Leader-Tribune joins
with a host of friends in extending
sympathy to the bereaved loved ones
toward whom he was always so ten¬
der and dutiful in his relations.
GOODRICH INJURED
Mr. Fred -M. Goodrich was pain¬
fully, though not seriously, hurt
when he fell from a twenty-foot scaf¬
fold on last Monday afternoon.
Many a good cause is hurt by the
excess of its nominal friends.
It is the only warlike power of i
civilized people that can give peace
to the world.
(Eight Page.). $1.50 Per Year in Advance.
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FESTI1 EOT
Tllt ‘ choir of St. Paul’s church, Ma
c «n, Ga., Mr. Howard V. Williams,
j he director, here Mrs. Tuesday Davis, evening, organist, March
on
3,d - and wil1 render a service ol
sacred songs at the Methodist church.
I he service will start at t :30
promptly and all interested in listei
ing to the harmonies as offered by
this trained volunteer band of
are extended a cordial invitation to
be present.
The congregation of St. Andrew’s
church t*ake this means of than king
all who have helped them in any way
to bring this choir to Fort Y’alley and
they are especially grateful to Rev.
Mr. Thomson and his devoted con¬
gregation for their generosity and
love shown by giving the use of their
organ and temple of worship for this
occasion.
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FOOT VALLEY DEFEATS VIDALIA
In a fast game on Monday night
the Fort Valley quintet was victor,
ous over the Vidalia five. At the ena
of the game the score stood 39 to 15.
Nichols headed the scoring lists
for the victors with 16 points with
Braddock second with 9 points.
The ilne up was as follows:
Fort Valley Vidalia
Nichols 18 R F McBride 3
Pearson 6 L F Coleman 4
Braddock 9 C Coursan 6
Green 6 R G Rabun 2
Murray LG Morris
Vidalia has been beaten only twice
this year and the lot has fallen to
Fort Valley both times.
Fort Valley has put out one of the
most promising teams of this sei ’ ion.
The record for this year stands with
2 2 victories and only five defeats
one of this being on the local
court. The local five have piled up
the enormous score of 744 to oppon¬
ents 527. The team has been entered
in two tournaments this year and
Lids to be a strong contender for the
cup in both,
SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY BYRON
A large gathering of Sunday
school workers assembled at the
Byron Baptist church Sunday after
noon in answer to call of Vice Presi
den A. G. Rape, of the Third Reho
both Sunday School District Dele ga
tions from Hattie, Bonaire, Huynos
ville, Benevolence and Hardison
attended and took part in the
making reports of special
work they had been doing the past
stressing especially the need
teacher training courses.
C. V. Hr of Byron, and J. L.
of Benevolence, reported
teaching force and attendance
doubled since recent courses had
taught in their * ch,,oUs *>y
„ Gainer h. Bryan. Other
' VM ' e WiUiam T ’ Bridges,
Garvin, Garner E -Bryan, Mrs.
Garvin, and Rev. W. H.
addi-U feature to the
the j--rcsc tat:on by Rev. C. (:
e i i' i Bifnti: ’
eh, cf I 1 ruui-se diplo
Mr. and Mrs. r-f.,.
la ion. "U i
F. E. Co zey, Mr.--. w W. Peavy ’
Mrs. TT. M. C}?i.-;hoJm, Mr. am
E. H. Holland, Miss Fi-a
R. L. Duke and A. J. Seals,
course taught by Field dec.-,
Bryan the last week in .Janu- I
PEACHLAND JOURNAL
36 years old—only newspa¬
per in heart of one of
America’s richest diversified
agricultural sections.
The famous exhibition drill de¬
tachment of the Sixth United States
Cavalry anu the Sixtt Cavalry mount¬
ed band v ill he magnificent features
on each day’s program of the Fourth
Annual Peach Blossom Festival,
March 19th and 20th.
J. D. Kendrick '-- J Tf. M. Cope¬
land, with the entire entertainment
committee, are being congratulated
upon their success i.i securing this
outstanding feature of the Festival
through Mr. Kendrick’s bre or, Co\
Wm. J. Kendrick, finance officer of
the Fourth corps area, T\ S. army,
from his Atlanta header iters. Col¬
onel Kendrick was born a Fort Val
His interest and Cat of other
army officers in co-operating with
the Festival Association arouses high
appreciation in this section.
The drill detachment with its cel¬
ebrated trained horses will give ex¬
hibitions in fancy riding and drills
with saddles and bare back. Some of
their very fine jumping horses wi'l
do various sensationa. stunts, jump¬
ing over an automobile, herse over
hjrse, through hoops of fire, etc.
The Sixth Cavalry mounted band
will head the float parade each day
and will play during the exhibitions
of the drill attachment. Both the
band and the drill detachment, with
their horses will go into camp near
the pageant grounds.
The Sixth Cavalry is one of the
most famous cavalry regiments in
the United States army. It has seen
si rvice all over the world through
many years, and has w’on battling
honors in the Indian wars of wester »
states, the Spanish-Ameriean war.
the China P>oxer war, Philippine
wars, the World war and various
I ether great military campaigns of
Uncle Sam. It is now\ stationed at,
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
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CURED MEAT SHOW
All plans for the ninth annual
home cured meat show and demon¬
stration mass meeting to he held at
the Fort Valley H. & I. school Mar.
5 and 6, are being pushed and the
prospects are that this show and
meeting will far surpass all previous
ones.
The 500 hickory smoked hams and
100 pure bred chickens, put on by
the eighteen community clubs of the
county, will make one of the great¬
est, most attractive and inspiring
shows of its kind ever witnessed.
Features of the rneteing will be
reports, addresses and demonstra¬
tions by presidents of community
clubs, representative farmers, gov
eminent experts, (ducato.-s- and
bankers on how I made money the
past year, home, fm-.n, school, and
community improve ment, insects,
live stock, poultry, gardening and
other important topics ami subjects.
This will make the meeting one of
the most profitable and inspiring ev
held. Dr. Geo. W. Carver, scien
tist and specialist on the peanut po~
tato, and pecan, of Tuskegee Inst..
Mr. W. T. Anderson, of th, Ma
ctm Telegraph, will address the farm
e .j and citizens.
r The " free barbecue —16 hops and
40 hens furnished bv community
clubs- will feed the 500 farmers and
visitors in attendance.
NEW JEWELRY STORE
J. G. Webb is a new jewc ler in
Fort Valley. He opened an attractive
store on Thursday in the Braswell
building.
On the whole, we shall ail go up
down together.