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AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
Published every Thursday
JOHN H. JONES
Editor and Owner
"At a Man Thinketh in Hi* Heart,
So I* He. ■*
Official Organ of Peach County, City
of Fort Valley and Weitern Divi
*ion of the Southern DUtrict of
Georgia Federal Court.
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the post office at Fort Valley,
Ga., under the act of March
3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925.
Columbu* Enquirer-Sun: ‘■The
first superior court of Peach county
has been held, says the Waycross
Journal-Herald. And so far we have
heard Editor John Jones, of the Fort
.Valley Leader-Tribune, escaped.
Ced.rtown Standard: Sorry we » c ‘
cept the mv!ta ion of Johnny Jones
of the Fort Valley Leader, to attend
Tu’ ' <, a <,n he V 11 '
20th. om, They say Its going to be ,. a
peach all right, and we low we d like
to spend those two days with
Conyer* Time*: Johnny Jones
Fort Valley Leader-Tribune is arous¬
ing wide interest in the Peach Fes¬
tival scheduled for his (town this
month. We hope John’s merchant pa¬
trons sustain their interest in the
advertising columns of the newspn
per and not permit the publisher to
foot the bill for a good local journal.
LaGrange Graphic: Our old friend
and former neighbor, Johnny
has invited nil Georgia editors down
to attend the Peach Blossom
at Fort Valley, March 20th. This
the fourth of these festivals,
have become a national event.
will have forty thousand pounds
the fatted calf and all other
sary accessories with which to
the appetites of the expected
thousand visitors.
Rockmart News: It IS mighty
of the good people of Fort
of the county of Peach, and our
friend, John II. Jones, editor of
Leader-Tribune, the peachiest
that comes to our table, to invite
to attend the Peach Blossom
vat March 19-20; hut come to
about it, we wonder how John
lend us into such temptation in
such manner when he knows
good Look says Lead us not
temptation. Ilow<wi, it posoibk,
1)111 11 " l i ." s •' Vl '" ■' u '
11 ‘ 1 'I 111,1 >■
«i TRADE AT HOME” WITH THE
GEORGIA PEACHES
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: 11. G.
Hostings, of Atlanta, writes to the
Fort Valley Loader-Tribune to call
Attention to what ho terms as “the
rather ridiculous combination that
appears in your issue of February
2<».” Mr. Hastings says:
“This issue is naturally very large¬
ly given over lo news about the forth¬
coming peach icstival, but m
happeii to catch m the ad of the A.
A P. Tea Co., an advertisment of
Del Monte Canned Peaches, which is
a distinctive California product.
Your good people at Fort Valley
dumped Georgia peaches bv .’o car
load last sumt it'- and V*' t :'ey are
evidently eating Califore'a peaches
this spring, as we do not believe the
A. & P. Tea Co., would stock them
and advertise them in the absence
of a Fort Valley demand for Cali¬
fornia peaches.”
Mr. Hastings then asks: “Would it
not be wisdom to work out some plan
by which Fort Valley peach money
would stay at home in Peach county,
instead of being sent to California
to encourage and support the peach
industry of that state?" It seems that
this is something that Fort Valley
should ponder. If Fort Valley
pie send all the way to California for
peaches they consume themselves
what have they to say in recommen¬
dation of the peaches they grow?
Doubtless baseball looks like
easy game to some of the spectators,
and the better the players, the easi¬
er tile game looks.
rHE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VA LLEY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 12. 1925.
The Peach Blossom Festival
By ELIZA HILL MARTIN
The Peach Blossom Festival,
an artistic standpoint, is the
achievement in the history of
gia. Fort Valley, in staging this
tival, has heralded Georgia’s
far and wide until the attention
people from every corner of the
tion is turned upon this bustling
tie city, situated in the heart of
Peach Paradise.
Some journalist said, in writing
the Festival that it took the
Empire of Japan to produce the
ry Blossom Festival, and they
been having it for generations,
Fort Valley alone put it over in
year.
Already considered an annual
fair with the world at large
people begin in January to
reservations to see the
pageant always shown on these
occasions. Some one said last
that if the Festival grew much
or in proportion as it has in the
three years (from ten thousand
fifty thousand) some body
have to cut down one of their
ous peach orchards to make room
the peopJe. It has already
famous throughout our country
even in some far away lands as
most unique and splendid
of its kind in the world.
In March, when spring gives a
i derfu] sta(fe setting, and all nature
^ the openinR peach blo8
presentinf , u ] andgcape „f
lood green bedecked in the airy, fairy
b]oggoms> a) , eyes are turned
Valleyward The Crcator) it Be ems,
'
m a)) jj. g niaster t oucbes 0 f nature,
never given to the world a
[lure 'than of greater beauty and of
the miles and miles
blooms in peach blossom time.’
“How do they do it,’ ■ some North
cm man asked last year at the
val. “The magnitude of the task fot
a small town is almost beyond
prehension. Who puts on the
eant? Who prepares the
Some one answered, “Read the
rectory of Fort Valley and
see.”
To a man, woman and child
work together. It takes “the
ing team work of every
soul, » I as Kipling says, to put ovei
the Peach Blossom Festival in
creditable manner.
And the wonderful spirit uf
(■ration of the ■ Foi l \ allev
to put over an.v,, .. festival
cessfully is a marvel to all who
of it. Not a person murmurs
I called upon to do hi- rr her part,
( the -jc ■ r« of i ■ nv>? t
al, the Festival of .be Peach.
Some prominent club woman,
| Atlanta, W ent home after the
1 \al last year and in an address
(foreabodv if young Valley,” wou.en told on
j Spirit of Fort them
J substance that no undertaking
^ 00 RTea t and almost anything pos
s j bb , 0 f accomplishment with a
tb , lt 0 f the Fort Valley people,
The idea of the Blossom
was conceived by Miss Etta (
;l Fort Valley girl, who was
in community service work at
time and the thought occurred to hoi
that Japan with its drt-rry
could not be lovelier, that
with her roses could not surpass in
splendor and beauty- the peach
sums, so she undertook to
us an annual occasion, the
tion of the blossoming time of the
peach.
She knew that many people
throughout the confines of our coun
try who had never seen such a beau-
■r
i PEACH BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
I By W. C CARTER
i
!
1.
He clothed today in the array
Or Peachtree Blossoms sweet,
And with thorn sing unto your King
In rhythmic measure meet.
2 .
Before Him fit 11, ye nations all;
With holy songs adore
Your Lord above Whose matchless love
Enduros forevermore.
3.
j Through all the years of toil and tears
In Jesus Christ confide;
So shall you gain life’s highest plane
And with your Lord abide.
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Towns are judged by their hotels j THOROUGHBRED Jersey l’leck ' '
and the hotels are judged by grouch i • Giant Eggs. $2 per setting. ... Bred
1 from of the best Northern
1 " some
j stock. J. H. Wright, 224 E. Main St.,
j nte iii^ encei properly acquired, is j City, o.og.itnd • ‘
never harmful, regardless of the sub
•ject discussed. Boost Fort Valley!
tiful sight as the thousands of
of budding blossoms which reach
far as the eye can see, and she
too, that people would come
and miles to see this nature
aside from the pageant
shown. It was indeed a
thought of Miss Carithers,
Laurence Houston) for now, in
(springtime, all Georgians look
P r 'de and interest to the little
cit y of four thousand who so
and daringly invites the world
fcat at her table, and who so
OUH b' fed at the last festival
thousand people at an old
Georgia barbecue.
An the barbecue! It beggars
.cription to try to tell of the
tudc °f t be task of
enough barbecue for fifty
People. Imagine a mile of
and several miles of tables
which to serve it! Big army
were used to make the coffee
Brunswick stew and the ease
ra P idit V with which the edibles
prepared and served was almost
J’ ond comprehension. System!
System, some man
last y ear - How four thousand
l de cou * d 80 systematically feed
thousand with such ease and
|P atch was more than he could
u t he was told the same story
the splendid cooperation and
on the part of Fort
,to put over the festival successfully
at a "V cost. But it is the artistic
*>* the festival that our people
care f °G 8nd they are striving
*' ee P f ree f rom any
ov anything that smacks of a
nival, for it is a Festival
«" d the intention is to keep it as
All the world loves the beautiful a
souls are lifted high in the
of such loveliness as one beholds
the budding and blossoming
around Fort Valley at this
Where else in all nature is there
bl « om softer in hue, more glorious
new born color than the
peach! Mother Nature was
at her best when she fashioned
pinkish petals of the peach
i,nd called them into bloom at a
when the earth had been stripped
its foliage and beauty. But
her wand, she unfolds one of
most charming of earth’s
and upon the panorama of
the human eye beholds such a
scape of color that one stands
and aghast in its presence. ’
come before the swallows dare,
take the winds of March with
ty; the softly falling petals
| the earth with a pinkness that
a glow about and holds one as if
chanted and spell bound,
As the people in Chaucer’s
made their annual pilgrimage
Canterbury, so Americans will
their way in March to Fort
to worship at the shrine
and revel in the beauty and
of the sofetly unfolding blossom
the peach.
j 'p bl > Peach Blossom Festival
j925 will far exceed in
and beauty any hitherto held.
ready plans are going forward
niabu it the most beautiful eve)
staged. “The Trail of Pink
as ^ be jpoj pageant is called,
sui -p ass j n artistic staging
R i a ’ s Crowning Glory” of 1923,
« T j ie p eacb 0 f the World” of
On to Fort Valley for ye
pilgrimage! With the Queen of
bi> < host will exclaim, . ■ the
has never been told.”
i hanks
editors
President C. D. Rountree, of the
Georgia Press Association, has called
twenty-minute conference of Geor¬
gia editors on mails of importance
at Fort Valley on Friday, March
20th, when they will be guests of the
Peach Blossom Festival. Acceptances
of invjt ., ion . for th ;, occa.ion mu.t
^ received from editor , by Satur
rfay night ’ March 14th, if adequate
■ r , tio nl , re to be ,„ U red. Edi¬
.^ wj „ pIe „ e c ,n immediately up
on their arrivlkl . nd refUUr „ The
Leader-Tribune office.
Wfi never have witnessed more
generous interest on the partofGeor
gia editors in a similar public event
than they have shown, in fine news
space and editorial praise, for the
Fourth Annual Peach Blossom Festi
val.
It is good, for the Peach Blossom
festival is fai mori t lan a latrt
eitrhborhood show or state celebra
tion. It is an event which ... creates , na
tion-wide interest in, and apprecia
non for the great resources of Geor
gia and her opportunities. It quic e
the pulse of our own Georgia peo
pie, gives them a finer vision of t
determination to give to Georgia, in
JuItrTar'^evelopmlnt “and otZ
her" spheres of n< life shL'I andwhich B The''Peach Trc
righH ui Bios,
som Festival is a priceless contrihu
tion to the buliding of a GREATER
GEORGIA. Thus it is not strange that
Georgia editors, in their conspicuous
desire to serve their State, are lift¬
ing their voices in praise of this great
institution of the South and of
America.
Now, Georgia editors, God bless
j you! Fort Valley and Peach county
(are yours. Enjoy them with us.
i
GEORGIA’S OPPORTUNITY
IN THE FESTIVAL
Augusta Chronicle: The Georgia
“Peach Blossom Ftstival” at Fort
Valley ought to be captialized to
start attention toward Georgia
sibilities and perhaps we could catch
j the forward spirit that is doing so
much in other localities,
j
A deluge of Peach Blossom Festi¬
val matter prevents a detailed news
story of superior court this week, but
the court is proceeding on the crimi¬
nal docket. The trial of J. W. Mc¬
Kenzie, indicted for shooting Walter
Anderson in Fort Valley on Nov. 9,
1924, was under way Wednesday aft
er noon and Thursday morning. For
a second time since the first trial in
1922, Judge Mathews declared i m:.?
trial in the case of J. M. f.iseuhy,
I charged with embezzling $13 of
: Houston county money while in the
constable’s office, after the jury had
deliberated from six o’clock p. m.
Tuesday until eleven o’clock ,'i. m.
Wednc' yiy—seventeen hours- and
returned no verdict. It was belie ved
j that the case of Cleveland Jacobs,
colored, charged with the murder of
Johnny Hinton in Fort Valley last
July, would go to trial Thursday- or
Friday,
A man of good judgment is one
whose mind thinks clearly and is not
influenced by prejudice, sympathy oi
personal wishes.
COMB SAGE TEA I :
INTO GRAY HAIR I
Darkens Beautifully and Restores
Its Natural Color arid
Lustre At Once
j
I
Common garden sage brewed into a
i heavy tea, with sulphur and alcohol
added, will turn gray, streaked and
l faded hair Mixing beautifully dark and lux¬
uriant. the Sage Tea and Sul¬
phur recipe at home, though, is trouble¬
some. An easier way is to get the
ready-to-use preparation improved by
the addition of other ingredients a
large bottle, at little cost, at drug stores,
known as “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur
Compound,” thus avoiding a lot of
muss.
While gray, faded hair is not sinful,
we all desire to retain our youthful ap¬
pearance and attractiveness. By dark
ening Sulphur your hair with Wyeth’s Sage and
i ! Compound, no one can tell, be
cause 'I does it so naturally, so evenly
| You just dampen a sponge or soft
brush with it ”
and draw ti is through
your hair, taking one small strand at a
i ‘ ime ; b v morning all gray hairs have
-
disappeared. After another application
or two your hair becomes beautifully
dark, glossy, soft and luxuriant and you
appear years younger.
Tf'V \ * ! T XV- “VTt W" V P /C-
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Lifes \ a i
fi
v i Alive
kissr «■’’ X. Again!
V Vjg. SPRING s brings the annual ,. Miracle.
Nature revives. A new hops comes to
each one of us—and a new determi¬
*• nation. 3P3
Spring means action, to keep step
with Life. <•( Yr
You’re swinging in line, of course! j-
1 C Nothing start this Spring can f) ■£
\ you can tm
a* V' be made more beneficial than a Citi¬
■v zens Bank account, if you haven't j
K ; one now. (IS $ >1
c t K For as Nature develops her fruits—
r- a bank account grows and bears
m fruits of comfort, security, financial
independence.
) Citizens Dank
& OF FORT VALLF.Y
Capital and Surplus $150,000.00
TfC
A VJ fee
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A PRESENTATION
The object of this week's unique magazine supplement of The Leader
Tribune is to benefit the Peach Blossom Festival as well as to advertise
Fort Valley and Peach County and gain some measure of public approval
for ourselves. Therefore it is published in ample time preceding the Festi¬
val to accomplish the main purpose. It is not held until the dates of the
Festival merely to capture attention for The Leader-Tribune.
No attempt has been made to court anybody’s personal friendship by
indulging in the customary empty flattery, in pictures and otherwise, of
the common field variety of “special editions.” We have gone to the other
extreme m an effort to do something really of value in this kind of serv
ice. When we get ready to indulge in the old, worn-out style of mass pro¬
duction in special editions, we shall select an occasion which we do not feel
requires a finer motive and calls for a higher purpose.
No expense has been spared in making this magazine supplement the
most attractive, interesting, valuable publication of its kind ever to have
been published in the interest of our section of Georgia. We could have
made it several times as large and it would have been ignored by thinking
people over the country who have grown tired of, and haven t time for,
that sort of thing. It is packed full of pure, worthy literary and art work
Every line has been weighed over and over again before it got into the
gupplenient The art work, too, was given long days and nights of intense
.
attention SO as to reduce it to the minimum of quantity and raise it to the
of value , charm , and , significance. •
maximum in „
January 31st we decided to abandon our original plan to secure
a(Jvertisj from merchants of other cities, and, outside of the advertise
^ Pea ch County people,. confine the edition to feature adver
M we] ] as feature articles, such as now appear. Therefore the bene
^ ^ ^ ^ County business men is far greater.
Qur present loss on the edition is heavy, but we are happy, for we are
-«*- *■*-Y :tt ,am rmM t, ‘ ro " sh puM '°
I-k aatiom^Suc ^ ^ bfcinK llistributed throughout the country
free of charge. Those who desire copies may buy them at 25 cents each.
'' a ^arge^number of Copies' will' be held for two or three days for this pur
P ose Tho *' remaining in our hand, will be added next week to the free fo.
-
reign di.tribut.on for the benefit of our city and county and their institu¬
tions. Either method of disposal will give us equal pleasure.
m
Our CONTINUED Efforts
i Thank the Lord
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JACK WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher
Waycross, Ga., March 4, 1925
Hon. John H. Jones, Editor,
\ Fort Valley Leader-Tribune,
: Fort Valley, Georgia.
My dear Johnny:
With the work you are doing personally and through The Leader-Trib
one combined with the splendid support you are receiving from your far
•i ighted and broad-visioned business men of your progressive community it is
not surprising that it will require two days for the wonderful Peach Btoi
*om Fe*tival.
May your continued effort* in hehalf of thi* happy and auspicious oc
casmn be crowned with the big success which they so richly deserve is the
earnest wish of,
Very sincerely, your friend,
JACK WILLIAMS.