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Volume No. XXXVI, Number 10.
OUTLINE OF PROGRAM FOURTH ANNUAL PEACH
BLOSSOM FESTIVAL, MARCH 19th AND 20th, 1925
Each Day’s Program
In Itself; The Program On
day, March 20th, Will
Identical With That
On Thursday March, 19
9:45 A. M. Coronation Ceremonies, crowning of King and
Queen at Fincher Memorial Park.
0:15 A. M. Float Parade led by Mounted 6th Cavalry Hand,
from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Parade forms on Ev¬
erett Square and goes through all principal
streets to Pageant Grounds.
11:15 A. M. Free Exhibition Drills, by Special Drill Detach¬
ment of C- Troop, 6th U. S. Cavalry.
Old Fashioned Georgia Barbecue Dinner. The
Barbecue will be ready to serve by 9:30 A. M.
and continuous service can be had at all times.
This will prevent confusion and will give every¬
body an opportunity to be served without crowd¬
ing.
2:00 P. M. PAGEANT—“The Trail of Pink Petals. M
8:00 P. M. Special Exhibition Drills, simulating actual war¬
fare, night attacks, fancy riding. Roman riding,
Cossack riding, high and broad .jumping. Special
pyrotechnic signals will be used, star shells, etc.
]NFORMATION POINTERS F*>R VISITORS
(a) Music will be furnished by Ihe Sixth Cavalry Band Mounted, by
the 29th Infantry Band of Fort Benning, Ga., by the Fort Benning* orches
ira known as the “Nine Twenty-Miners,” and by the Central of Georgia
Railway Company’s Shopmen’s Band and other musical organizations. .
(b) The King and Queen will ride in a carriage of Louis XVI period
drawn by six horses furnished by the American Railway Express Company,
beautifully caparisoned with silver mounted harness.
(c) The Float Parade is expected to far surpass anything of its kind
e v er attempted.
(d) Fancy Riding and Drills.
(C) Genuine old fashioned Georgia barbecue served hot from ti e pits.
Ready to serve at 9:30 A. M. and continuous service, to prevent rush and
confusion.
(f) The Pageant .most colorful and inspiring event of its kind ever
staged in the world; 1,500 characters in costume, representing nearly ev¬
ery country in the world.
(g) Special trains from Atlanta, Columbus, Albany and Macon both
days, with excursion rates from .these points, also special rates from all
other points in Georgia. Stop-over privileges on all tourist tickets, for all |
trains passing through Fort Valley. On account of limited, hotel accommo
dations it is advisable for visitors from a distance to plan to stop in Macon ,
pr Atlanta and take special train to see the Pageant.
All entertainment at Fort Valley is free, except Barbecue which is
served al 50c per plate, Pageant Tickets, which are $1.00 for adults an el
50c for children under 12 years, and ni ight exhibition Drill of Cavalry for
which a charge of 50c will be made. A limited number of box seats are
available for the Pageant at $2.50 each and $1.00 each for the night en
tertainment.
ONLY IHE WORLD
*010« PM BLOSSOM KML
By B. A. HIBROW
>
In a conspicuous place at the busy
bustling depot in Fort Valley, Ga.,
mammoth sign has been erected.
letters resplendent in red and
announce to the tourists on all trains
as well as to those who travel by
tomobiie, “Fourth Annual Peach
Blossom Festival, Fort Valley
the world.” That particular sign is
the handiwork, or rather the brain
work,, of E. T. Murray, president
the Kiwanis Club, which organization
sponsors the Festival.
At the Kiwanis meeting,
the erection of the sign. Mr. Ralph
Newton, prominent educator,
ed to said sign in no.uncertain terms,
. . Mr. President,” he said in
sion, “that sign does- not
the spirit of Fort Valley. It is
narrow, and selfish and
cial and it should be removed,
fellow Kiwanians, I submit the
tion to”you. How do you suppose
inhabitants of Mars, Saturn and
piter feel when they see that
world is invited and they are
ed. >»
The president requested the
® he
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
1
president, Glenmore Green, to. take
the chair while he explained his P”-
sition.
j Back and forth the argument was
tossed until it seemed that the club
was as hopelessly deadlocked as were
the Smith-McAdoo forces at the re
Democratic Convention,
At this juncture Tom Flournoy,
1 chairman of the publicity ior the fes
tival, clarified the situation. Mr.
Flournoy stated that in his opinion
lthe discussion was entirely unneces
jsary, jealous,” “Our heavenly he said, neighbors “for, accord- are
not
ing to the best astronomers the Great
Wall in China is the only object vis
ible on the Earth from Mars and the
other planets. Another year we will
surely keep this in mind when erect¬
ing our sign. But inasmuch as this
is true.” Mr. Flournoy continued >
“I move that for 1925 the sign re
main as it is.”
The vote was taken, bang crashed
the gavel. “The ayes have it for this
year.” the president announced, “on
ly the world will be invited tothe
Blossom Festival.”
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FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5. 1925.
SpleniSid Musical Pf °g ram
Quite a number of music lovers
joyed the splendid program
ed by the choir of St. Paul’s
Macon, Ga., on Tuesday evening
the Methodist church.
The service started at 7:30 with
number of old hymns and with
invitation for the congregation
join in the singing. After the
i musical numbers were given by
choir which thrilled the hearers.
music of the organ was delightful.
Everyone is indeed grateful to
Saywell of St. Andrew’s church
also Mr. Williams, the director,
Davis, organist and the entire hand
singers. We hope they will come
again.
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(From the Montezuma Georgian)
The citizens of Montezuma and
this community are looking forward
to -and making plans to attend the
fourth Peach Blossom Festival to be
held in Fort Valley on March 19-20.
The Peach Blossom Festival has
been each year a very beautiful and
interesting affair and according to
j Mr. Shepard, president of the Peach
I ! Blossom Festival, promises to be the
b es t an d most beautiful ever given.
The people of this section should
appreciate to the fullest the effort,
thought and finances which make the
festival a success as the Peach Blos¬
som Festivals have played a great
part in putting this section of the
state “on the map,” attracting more
people from every state in the Union
other than any other one thing.
The pageants are as beautiful as
the blossoms themselves an d Miss "
Pauline Oak, of Maine, who has di¬
rected each one is planning for this
fourth festival a more beautifui pag¬
eant than ever before with one thou
sand people participating in same. |
Floats will enter the parade eon
test from cities all over the state,
The sponsoring of a float to enter
the contest was decided at the Kiwan-1
is luncheon I hursday It will be re¬
membered that the Kiwanis Club
sponsored the float sent from Monte¬
zuma to the festival last year, which
won first prize. The ladies of our city
have the originality and our city
claims a bevy of pretty girls, which
combination premises that Montezu- j
ma’s float will be one of the attrac¬
tive features of the festival this year.
A state-wide meeting - of Baptist
ministers and laymen in Atlanta on
March 18 and 19 is attracting Bap
lists from ail over the state. Among
0 f sta te speakers will be Dr. John
White, pastor of the First Baptist
hurch of Anderson, S. C., and presi
en t 0 f Anderson College for Wom
en. Dr. M. E. Dodd, pastor of the
rs t Baptist church, Shreveport, Lr.,
| chairman of the 1925 program
Southern Baptist Convention and
leader of the Baptists of the South.
Dr. Charles E. Burts, of Nashville.
director of the 1925 mission
y work of the Southern Baptist |
and Dr. J. T. Henderson, I
f Knoxville, work Tenn., of'the who is Southern head of j
laymen’s ■
convention,
Among the Georgia men on the ;
are Judge E. C. Collins, Ma- !
Judge Roscoc Luke, of the court |
appeals; Dr. J. F. Sammons, Rome, j
P. Nichols, of Griffin, F. S. Eth-1 i
of Atlanta, Dr. A. C. Cree.
Dr. W. R. Owen of Macon,
Dr. T. B. Rise of Greensboro.
Ben M. Thomson, of Madison,!
of Georgia laymen, will
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FIRST PEACH COUNiY
.............
Interest of the week centered
! the opening of the first term of
rior court on Monday. Judge II.
Mathews called the first session
order at 10 o’clock. The session
ened with prayer by Rev. 1). A.
ard. The grand jury was
■ by electing John L. Brown
i Judge Mathews charged the
I jury, emphasizing particularly the
sponsibility that rests on the
jury in getting the new county
ganized.
Resolutions were presented
pressing to Mr. George Slappey
appreciation of his patriotic act
furnishing offices and the
theater-building for a court house
the new county free of charge
one year.
A few minor matter': were
by verdicts.
Court then adjourned until
day when someuninor cases will
up.
I The grand jury is still in
! and the criminal business will be
posed of during the w«ek
: March
9.
The adoption of the Ellis
Law and employment of a
health officer for Peach county
endorsed by a vote of the
Club of Fort Valley last Friday.
action on the part of the county
been asked several weeks
when Judge A. C, Riley had
ed the operation of .the law and
f unct j ons 0 f such a health officer,
Geo. B. Culpepper, Jr., delivered
short, inspiring address on
Is My Attitude Towards Kiwanis and
What Does Kiwanis Mean to
He gave a clear, impressive
tation of the spirit of Kiwanis
its ideals in the improvement of in
dividual members and the service
these members, working shoulder to
shoulder with unselfish motives
the good of the community.
Another speaker was Mr. Woofter,
of the State College of Agriculture,
on poultry raising. “If there were
fifty to one hundred hens on every
farm in Peach county, you could ship
a ear load of poultry every two
weeks, with splendid profit to the
farmers of this section,’ he said.
T. F. Flournoy, chairman of the
program committee, announced that
an ext''an miliary feature would be
presented, at the meeting for this
wee’:. Friday at. noon Every member
is urged to be present and learn of
this feature, which of firs a great op
for constructive work.
WEEK OF PRAYER BEING
HELD AT BAPTIST CHURCH
The Woman’s Missionary Society
the Baptist Church are observing
week for their Annual Week of
for Missions. The program
f, 'om 2 to 3 o’clock and being
by the circles of the W. M. S.
—For Peach Blosspm Fes
tival, 500 hogs for barbecue pur
0Kes - Will pay market price. Glen¬
Green, purchasing agent.
52t.
at the sessions. A local com¬
of laymen will arrange for
The sessions will be
at the Baptist 1 abernacle.
Gallaher Hale Ships
Gallaher- Hale Grocery
is shipping cream for the people
this territory without any charge
the service. Shipments can be
twice each week, although once
week is all that is necessary now.
Columbus Creamery Company,
whom shipments are made, pays
premium. The Gallaher-Hale
pany is rendering a valuable
in this way.
Two shipments already have
i made for Mrs. Alice Crandall.
j company is also the Columbus C
er .V Company s agent for
| and eggs,
PEACH BEL! TOURNEY
Marshallville, Ga., March 3. pj n
al plans for the Peach Belt
Ball Tournament which is to
here Thursday afternoon and
through Saturday night are
made, and preparations for
taining the visiting teams are
under way.
Under the direction of E. A.
superintendent of the schools
and coach of the Cotton States
pion five, ,. the T Peach , , r» Belt i-i tourney -n
officially . ,, get . under , way early , ™,
day afternoon, with twelve teams
vieing for honors.
Although many teams entering the
tournament here are conceded to be
of the fastest variety, Marshallville
and Montezuma, having already won
crowns, are expected to render most
of the opposition in the fight for sur¬
vival. The other ten teams in the
meet, however, present a formidable
array of* basketball talent, and it
looks now as if some of the most
thrilling cage games of the season
will probably take place! on the Mar¬
shallville court during the Peach Belt
tourney.
Other outfits, eliminated in
ous tournaments, will no doubt en
deavor to stage a comeback in the
meet here. Fort Valley, runner-up
in the Middle Georgia tournament, is
expected to put a strenuous fight
for the crown, while Moleha, boast
j ing a season have been in which lost, only will three
games
prove a formidable foe, not to men¬
tion the strong Vienna, LaGrange
an< ! Perry quintets.
Visiting teams are expected to get
here early tomorrow, where they will
find the entire city at their disposal.
Citizens of Marshallville are spar
ing no time nor effort to make the
Peach Belfc meet one of the most
successful and interesting from every
standpoint that has been held this
y eal -
j
DR. T. W, AYERS TO BE AT
I Mr. W. Ayers, a medical mis
sionary to Hwang-Hfien, China, and
one of the most interesting speakers
in the Baptist Missionary Work will
speak at the Baptist Church at the
prayer meting hour on next Wed¬
nesday. March 11. It will be a rare
treat, to have Dr. Ayers with us and
everyone is cordially invited to hear
him speak on this occasion.
j TWO FIRES RECENTLY
• I
! The fire department upheld its
fine record when it was called to
extinguish a small blaze at the resi¬
dence of G. L. Thames on Knoxville
street last Thursday. The roof was
slightly damaged. Also on last Mon¬
day when it quenched a sma" fir: •> J
the residence of Geo. W. John'-On on
Persons s'-eet.
(Eight Pages). $1.50 Per Year in Advance.
' Cavalry Drill And Band
j I Brilliant Feature Of The
1 Peach Blossom Festival
j
1 Captain Rann Lawrence, com¬
manding Troop C. Sixth U. S. Cav¬
alry, stationed at Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga., was in town Monday, confer¬
ring with J. D. Kendrick and Dr. H.
M. Copeland, making final arrange
ments for a camp site for the detach
men of cavalry and the Sixth Cav¬
alry Band which will participate in
the Peach Blossom Festival. This
special drill detachment and the sixth
cavalry band will arrive Wednesday
morning, March 18th, in a special
train from Fort Oglethorpe, and will
go into camp near the Pageant
grounds.
The band will head the parade and
the detachment will also take part in
the parade.Immediately after the pa
rade they will give an exhibition
drill, simulating actual practices in
mounted warfare with pistols and
sabers. Also fancy drill, Cossack and
P° man riding, and unusual jumping,
such as a horse over a table with men
| SPatt l a t the table, hor?i over an
automobile, a horse over a piano, and
over a human harrier of men kneel
ing with drawn rifle: h ever their
j heads.
Each night these , drills will be
'
lurther elaborated, ’ and night attack
s > nlu l a ted, with star shells and pyro
,
j technic signals such as are used
war, and an effort will be made
capture the King and Queen,
j In all these exhibitions 3 commands J
| will be given with bugles s. This is a
I most unusual feature.
It will be a wonderful opportunity I
Death of Wm. 1. Andersen
Wednesday afternoon at two o’
clock, the body of Sergeant William
J ; Anderson was interred by Masonic
rites in Oaklawn Cemetery. Sergeant
Anderson was forty-two years old
arid had spent the major portion of
* n the United States army,
having retired from active service
a h°ut eighteen months ago. Fo
months past he had been in
health and was receiving treat
mont at the government hospital in
Augusta where he died on the after¬
noon of March 3.
(Continued on page four)
The Festival Association is getting so many requests for rooms
from visitors who expect to be here for the Pageant, that .1 will be
impossible to accommodate the crowd at the hotels.
If you can possibly ti o’- care of one or more v to Wed nos¬
day, Thrusday or Friday night, telephone M-. Coppedge at the Wi¬
nona Hotel phone 84—and list vour rooms with him.
These visitors do not expect free entertainment, but are com¬
ing prepared to pay for what they get. Let’s make them go a way
from the Festival with a good impression of Fort Valley and her
hospitality. Get your spare room ready and 'phone Mr. Coppedge
without delay so that when applications are made he cun send some
one to you.
When you ’phone in, tell Mr. Coppedge how many you can care
for, how many rooms you have for this purpose, and whether or
not you will furni h breakfast, and how much per person or per
room you will charge.
UOMATIM Vi .iWMObf.lKnCC'CL J
PEACHLAND JOURNAL
36 year* old—only newspa¬
per in heart of one of
America’s richest diversified
agricultural sections.
for those unaccustomed to our cav¬
alry to see the men in action. Moss
of the men in this detachment are
from middle and eastern Tennessee
and central and north Georgia. Ver ;■
few of them could ride when they
entered the service, and the results of
their training is manifest.
Each man has his own horse, as¬
signed to him when he enters the
service, and this horse is 1 as long
as the horse and man stay \i service.
he horses are purchase i all over
the U. S. by the remov section of
the quartermaster’s cor , but come
mostly from Port Ro a], Va., and
Fort Reno, Nev. A great revival in
the breeding of fine horses has re¬
cently taken place through the ef¬
forts of the army in getting tho¬
roughbred sires in the different sec¬
tions of the country devoted to horse
raising and most of the horses are
high grade stock. The jumping hors¬
es are mostly thoroughbreds. John,
the most noted of the detachment,
is about seventeen years old and has
set the records for spectacular jump¬
ing.
This particular feature “ of the
Pageant was obtained at consider¬
able cost to the management, hut the
item was not considered in their ef
to make this the greatest festi
ever presented. It will be a won
opportunity for those who lira
at a distance from our regular army
postsj to see this special drill detach
and to learn something of the
work they do.
24 HUGE LICENSES
Marriage licenses issued during
January and February in the new
county of Peach numbered seven
white and seventeen colored.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the many friends
who so lovingly ministered to our
dear husband and frit be’' during his
last illness and death. And for the
beautiful floral offerings.
Mrs. W. A. Wooddall.
Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Marshall.