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Welcome
to the
Festival
New Merchandise
Arriving Daily
John Vance
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Every
Day —
You’ll find the same service
at The Fort Valley Cafe.
The very same home cook¬
ing, the same usual intelli¬
gent service.
The patron who sits at our
table for any meal will find
that it is our desire that he
be properly served.
The Fort
Valley Cafe
The Peach Center »»
Welcome to
The Festival
While Here Visit
THE
FRANKLIN
THEATRE
always
Good, Clean,
Wholesome Pictures
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Attention
Fruit Growers
Do not fail to see our new
PEACH
PACKING
DEVICE
It improves your pack of peaches
at least 50 per cent and is a
great Labor Saver.
Fruit is formed packed instead
of hand packed.
Fruit carries better and sells bet¬
ter which means More Money
to the Grower.
Almon Implement Co.
FORT VALLEY, GA.
STATE DISTRIBUTORS
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
Marshallville W. A. By Horne
Marshallville, which is located on State
Route No. 49, just a few miles inside of
Macon County, has a population of about
two thousand and doserves- wide mention
as a peach, watermelon and asparagus
growing center.
Over eight hundred cars of peaches
were shipped from there during 1924 and
over a thousand cars were destroyed, ow¬
ing to bad market conditions, If all
these peaches had been shipped, this
would have brought Marshallville to rank
as Beeond to the largest peach shipping
center in the world. During this season
growers and shippers thore hope to be
able to ship much over a thousand cars.
Two new community packing sheds
were completed during 1924, both fully
equipped with Skinner machinery, which
has made them among the best equipped
of their kind in the entire peach belt.
It will also be remembered that the
famous Elberta peach originated here, tho
late Samuel II. Rumph growing and ship¬
ping the first of this variety ever known
and which has since turned out to bo
about the finest variety in existence.
Marshallville’s asparagus industry is to
be spoken of, too, over twenty thousand
crates having been shipped from there
during last year, with twenty-five to
thirty thousand crates in view for this
year. Community packing 'houses have
been built, and in the future all asparagus
will be shipped under one brand and one
label, which, it is hoped, will enable
growers and shippers to realize from
twenty-five cents to one dollar more per
crate for their productions.
There are also from seventy-five to one
hundred cars of melons shipped annually
from here.
Marshallville’s annual output of cotton
has been around two thousand bales here¬
tofore, and close to four thousand bales
are hoped to be ginned and shipped dur¬
ing 1925.
Mayor W. E. Lester has seen several
terms in office, as has Chief of Police W.
J. Lavender.
Crawford County Dozier K. By Walker
Lying, as it does, just where the foot¬
hills of Middle Georgia meet the great pine
belt of our state, is a county whose tradi¬
tion is of marked importance in the his¬
tory of Georgia. Its soil offers to the
agriculturist a rare opportunity for the
cultivation of a variety of crops. On the
same farm will thrive wheat and sugar
cane, while peaches and apples attain to
splendid size and flavor. The long leaf pine
and chestnut may be found on the same
plantation and almost the whole of tho
county is fine land. It may be truthfully
said that no part of the State can excel
this as a farming country. Our county
was slow to grasp the modern system of
farming on account of not being able to
market its produce. But when the rail¬
roads came, then came prosperity. Cotton
can be brought to Roberta and marketed
at warehouses there. The railroad makes
it possible for the other farm products to
be shipped with practical case, and for
farm supplies to come to the merchants in
this town.
Now Crawford prides herself as being a
sister of the new and majestic County of
Peach. We, too, have beautiful peach
orchards on the lower side of our coun¬
ty and more, modern farms can not be
found in Georgia. A branch line of the
Southern railroad from Fort Valley to
Atlanta makes possible the transportation
of our peaches to distant markets, also
the development of a new industry, the
selling of sand on a large scale. Armour
and the Atlanta Sand Supply Company
have large pits located near Gaillard.
This railroad is one of the most profitable
branches of the Southern. Heavy rails
are being laid out of Atlanta. When
these are completed, they will mean bet¬
ter service to Crawford and surrounding
communities.
manufacturing Unfortunately we can not but boast if growth of any
industry,
The councilman are A. N. Johnson, C.
C. Hnslam, E. R. Frederick, II. A. Lee,
Jr., and D. C. Rumph. A. N. Johnson is
clerk. Tire water and light commission¬
ers are F. J. Frederick, R. II. Richard, J.
C. Lee, 8. C. Rumph, M. G. Bell and W.
A. McKenzie.
Tho school is an accredited institution,
and, with Professor E. W. Dwight as
superintendent, boasts one of tho most up
to-date gymnasiums in this part of tho
State. The Peach Bolt basket-ball tourna¬
ments are held here each year, where dur¬
ing 1924 Marshallville won both tho Mid¬
dle Georgia and Peach Belt tournaments.
The Lamison Richardson School was
completed here during 1924 for the color¬
ed, which accommodates several hundred
students from all over the United States.
There are two churches, tho Baptist and
Methodist, each with their own standard
Sunday Schools and societies.
Thcro are also two banks, the Citizens
Bank and the Georgia Banking Company.
Marshallville’s Telephone Company is
privately owned and operated by Mrs.
J. C. Persons, and has given efficient serv¬
ice for a number of years.
Tho Marshallville Manufacturing Com¬
pany, which owns a forty thousand dollar
by-product plant here, also owns and
operates an ice plant that furnishes tho
entire amount of ico used for refrigerat¬
ing peaches, besides furnishing the com¬
munity with the ico it consumes, with
several cars shipped each year to nearby
towns in cases of emergency.
During the past two years a magnificent
dwelling has been built by Mr. C. J.
Goodwin, on Main Street, at a cost of
$75,000.00. This homo is said to bo one
of the most beautiful of its kind in this
part of Georgia.
As a whole, with its modern electric
light plant, its up-to-date sowerago and
water system, its beautiful homes, schools
and churches, managed by its capable
government, Marshallville is truly ono of
the most interesting and progressive towns
of its size in Georgia.
comes in the next few years as it has in
the past we can compete with any county
in tho State in any way. The Contral of
Georgia Power Company has recently pur¬
chased a largo tract of land located on
tho Flint River where it is probable that
sometime in the near future a power plant
will bo erected, thus making it possiblo
for Roberta to develop and cause the
whole county to do the same. With an
industry of this nature capital would
readily invest in mills, manufacturing of
various sorts could be introduced, popula¬
tion would incroase, money would appear
in tho county treasury, land would go
up, in fact the whole county could be
revolutionized from tho present status of
affairs in only a short while.
Crawford boasts of being one of the
few counties without debt. This has been
accomplished under the able administra¬
tion of our commissioners who believe in
thorough economy, good roads and a bet¬
ter community in which to live.
When in the course of human events
it became popular for the womanhood of
our land to push forward into the political
offices, Crawford was not last for, from
a point of service, it boasts of having
the oldest lady county school superin¬
tendent in tho State, Mrs. Zada D. Wal¬
ker, under whose administration the
schools must advance during the next
four years.
The superintendent of tho public
schools of Roberta is Prof. J. F. Dickey.
The Roberta school is a consolidated ac¬
credited high school carrying eleven
grades, with a faculty of thirteen. It also
has expression, and music departments.
The enrollment is over 400 pupils.
Other Crawford county officers are:
Ordinary, Carl Culverhouse; clerk of
superior court, Hay Dent; sheriff, T. R.
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Campbell Fruit and
Supply Co.
State Agents for
Burke
Grading
Machines
Niagara
Dusting
Machines
Niagara
1 Peach
Dust
Fertilizers
Peaches
Pecans
Orchard
Supplies
WELCOME
to the
PEACH
BLOSSOM
FESTIVAL
March 19 and 20
Fort Valley, Ga.