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Volume No. XXXVI, Number 12.
FORT VALLEY HOSPITALITY THROWS
ITS ARMS AROUND FESTIVAL VISITORS
U The Trail of Pink Petals” Surges Into Song
It remains now only for some sweet singer of the Southland
to interpret into clear song the music which swells the souls of
the tens of thousands of people who, by motor and excursion
trains from all parts of the country, are catching the glot 01 s
vision of the panoply of pink in which Mother Nature is deco¬
rating the Peach Country for new conquest in art as well •:? in¬
dustry.
With the dawn of Thursday, the first of the two Festival
days, music and poetry electrified the air. All of the masterful
genius in the guiding hands of General Chairman C- Leighton
Shepard, all of the marvelous talent of Miss Pauline Oak, di¬
rector of the pageant, and all of the great outpouring of glad
toil and exultant enterprise of the thousands of Peach countians
who have helped, from principal chairmen to tiny tots, joined
the matchless myriad of peach blossoms in the happiness of a
dream come true.
It is the first full breath of Springtime in her perfect glory;
it is blossom time! It is the time when Fort Valley’s hospitality
is in full bloom and she yields her all, the pure depths of her
desire to charm and to make happy, to the multitudes whose
good words of approval are the richest rewards to be desired.
Wednesday night brought brightness in Fort Valley. Everything was
complete. No human hands, blessed with humble, yearning desire, and in
turn given something more than mere human inspiration and ability to
work, could have wished for a more perfect approach to pleasing readiness
for the Festival.
Final dress rehearsals had brought an astounding revelation of the
wonderful possibilities for the pageant, Cavalry drills, band concerts and
other features of the program for each day, Committees on every phase
of the Festival program, from coronation of King Samuel and Queen Ruth
,n the morning through the galaxy of elaborate entertainment, including
a barbecue feast for from forty to eighty thousand people, into the sham
battles of pyrotechnic displays of the night, had made finest possible prepa¬
ration. The city was in glad attire to march forth in all its splendor on i
Thursday morning.
The Fourth Annual Peach Blossom Festival has come, the feast is
here. It is the prayer of Fort Valley that its wholesome joy, its inspira¬
tion, its significance for good may endure long after the curtain has fallen.
An Inspired Message Unfolds
With the Peach Blossom 1
Using the orchard of pink for a
temple, with the blue sky for a dome
and the singing of the birds of
springtime as a choir, the Reverend
David Albert Howard, pastor of the
Baptist church, imaginatively car¬
ried his congregation Sunday to the
blossom of the peach for the spirit¬
ual truths he would impart.
The message was most timely and
a beautiful symbol of the truths un¬
folded as the minister let the peach
blossom be the preacher with the in¬
spired message.
The five pink petals were used to
to symbolize the life and its four
sides— mental, physical, social, and
spiritual—and the point emphasized
was that the child of God is intended
to be a “symetrical being,” develop¬
ing in all these ways to a perfected
it The “naturalness” of the blos
in its beauty was emphasized
as the minister pointed out the beau
ty of sincerity, frankness and loveli¬
ness free from cosmetic and pre¬
tense. Then the peach blossom was
spoken of as "distinctive” and “indi¬
vidual,” some blossoms unfolding at
one time and some at another, to set
forth the individual task that is in¬
cluded in the Great Eternal Plan for
each man and woman, each boy and
girl. Stressing these qualities the
pointed out the fact that
the peach blossom did not grow into
its perfection and beauty overnight,
as it were, but through hours of
darkness and days of sunshine and
of shadow, so the Christian is to
grow in grace and the beauty and
sweetness of life step by step—a
gradual growth. The pink blossom
was cy” ^jjsed of fruitfulness to symbolize and the the “prophe¬ “possi¬
bility of service.” The minister stated
®he Jeafrer-Sxibune
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY,GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1921.
The Government and State
atory of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. Dr. Oliver I
Snapp director, at Fort Valley, has
issued a 1925 spraying and dusting
,schedule for Georgia peaches, as fol
lows:
j First Application
When 75 per cent of the petals
(pink part of flower) have fallen—
one pound powdered arsenate of
lead, plus lime water from three
pounds of stone lime, to each 50 gal
Ions of water,
Second Application
When calyces or “shucks '> are
shedding, or when small peaches arc
exposed—one pound powdered arse
nate of lead, plus lime water from
three pounds of stone lime, to each
50 gallons of water,
Third Application
Two weeks aftdr the second appli
’ cation, about four weeks after the
or
petals have been shed—self-boiled
lime-sulphur, 8-8-50, alone. (No ar
senate of lead in this application).
Fourth Application
Four weeks before each variety is
due to ripen—One pound powdered i
arenate of lead to each 50 gallons of ;
8-8-50 self-boiled lime-sulphur.
Early Varieties—These should be
sprayed three times. Use the materi
als recommended for the 1st, 2nd,
and 4th applications above, applying
them at the time as noted above. For j
added protection against brown rot, !
self-boiled lime-sulphur should also
be used in the second application on
the early varieties. i
Direction* for Preparing the Spray
Material*
The 8-8-50 self-boiled lime-sulphur
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'that not every blossom becomes at
last a luscious peach but the possibili
ty of becoming such lies within the
heart of the blossom as it lies within
the existence of every earthly life.
Closing the beautiful message of
the morning the idea was advanced
that unless the blossom of the peach
had yielded itself to the Divine
fluences about it there would never
have been the perfected beauty of
the flower and to illustrate this point
Mr. Howard cited the lives of Moses,
David Livingston, Christ, and the
mothers of men and the soldiers of
a nation, in the yielding of them
selves to those things which tended
to the accomplishment of their life
given tasks.
Beautifully he spoke of the mois
ture of meditation,” the “warmth of
prayer,” the “whispering of the Spir¬
it” as of the winds of which has been
said, .. No man knows from whence
they come nor whither they go.
Listening to this great spiritual les¬
son taught by the lovely peach blos¬
som at the time when the peach blos¬
som is claiming the attention of a
nation made its truth most timely
and effective and one was reminded
of the poem of “The Lilly” which
might be applied to the blossom of
the peach as:
“Oh, Peach Blossom, row on row, ■
Will you tell me how you grow?
Did the fairies spin your dress?
Did the sun your leaves caress?
Did the raindrops fall on you
Gently as the falling dew?
And your rosy tintedness
From some sunset came, I guess?
I’ll lay my ear close to your heart
If you the secret will impart.
What is it, you say, you grow?
But how, you do not know.
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COLONEL WILLIAM J. KEN
DRICK, a native of Fort Valley,
finance officer of the Fourth
Corps area, U. S. Army, who was
instrumental in aiding his broth¬
er, J. Dawson Kendrick, and Dr.
H. M. Copeland, of the Festival
Entertainment committee, in se¬
curing the Sixth Cavalry Drill De¬
tachment and Mounted Band as
spectacular features of the Fourth
Annual Peach Blossom Festival
program.
SCHEDULE FOB DUSTING
J|||[) SPRAYING PEACH
KIINIS CLUB OF
AT LAST FRIDAY’S MEET
With an attendance of seventy-one
live wires, including an imposing ar¬
ray of high Kiwanis officials from
various parts of the country, the Ki¬
wanis Club of Fort Valley broke all
records in enthusiasm and genuine
I interest at last Friday’s luncheon.
Among the distinguisned guests
were: W. A. Dozier, of Jackson, Lieu¬
tenant Governor of the Central Di¬
vision of Georgia; O. A. Pound, Pres¬
ident of the Kiwanis Club of Jack
son; Mr. Griest, special representa¬
tive from Kiwanis International at
Chicago; Wilbur Collins, President
of the Macon Club; F. J. Frederick,
President of the new Kiwanis Club 1
of Marshallville; also S. A. Nunn,!
President of the Civitan Club of Per-1
ry. With President E. T. Murray, of
the local club, this made present four
active presidents and the lieutenant
governor, two past presidents, Mr.
Dozier of Jackson and Ralph
.toft of Fort Valley, three;
one past district secretary, Alan
jDonnell of Macon, and a
president, to say nothing of
distinguished men, one of whom,
Hon. Charlie Garrett, solicitor of the
Macon Circuit Superior Court, was
introduced by the week’s program
committee, A. M. Solomon, F. W.
Withoft and A. L. Norris, and de¬
livered one of the finest addresses
the Kiwanians had heard in a long,
long time.
Other speeches were made by Lieu¬
tenant Governor Dozier, President O.
A. Pound of Jackson, District Or¬
ganizer Griest, President Frederick
of Marshallville, President Collins of
Macon and President Nunn of the
Perry Civitans.
Ralph o,i U Newton 1 . told , ,, of , the trip
Which T. F. Flournoy, Mayor R.
Hale, Geo. W. Mathews, Jr., J.
Woolfolk and himself had made to
Marshallville on the night before for
the organization of the new club at
that place. He brought a glowing re
port of prospects for one of Geor
gia’s best clubs in Marshallville. The
Officers and directors of the new j
i (. ui wue onoi guests at h inlays
meeting and were introduced as fol
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I President, F. J. Frederick; Vice
President C. J. Goodwin; Secretary,
S. B. Goodwin; Treasurer, T. S. Tay
| lor; District Trustee, L. B. Rumph;
| [ Directors, B. B. Murpli, E. C. Bryan,
VV. H. Lee, I). C. Rumph, Dr. D. B.
I Frederick, F. B. Murph \nd II. A.
- Murph. This club’s organization was
sponsore d by the clubs of Montezuma
| aJ]( j Oglethorpe
The meeting for this week was
eliminated on account of the Peach
Blossom Festival, but another ro us
ing meeting is anticipated for Fri¬
day, March 27th—next week. At this
time delegates to the international
convention will be chosen.
Ladies’ night will occur on Fri¬
day, April 3rd.
F. O. Miller, who had been absent
from several meetings on account of
illness, was given a hearty reception
as his smiling face again made its
appearance.
On motion of Judge A. C. Riley,
a rising vote of thanks was extended
to John H. Jones, editor of The Lead
er-Tribune, for the excellent repre
sentation ofthe Georgia peach and five
Peach Blossom Festival made by the
Festival Edition of his publication,
on peach color paper. President Mur¬
ray called attention to the fact that
this marked the introduction of the
idea of peach color paper with its
attractive significance for the peach
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MAYOR R. D. HALE, of Fort
Valley, who voices for the munici¬
pal government a warm welcome
to the thousands of visitors to the
Capitol of Peach County, on “The
Trail of Pink Petals.
ion no
| Hileys are now ready for the
application of spray or dust, and
I peach growers in Middle Georgia are
|advised -o star, spraying this variety
immediately with four pounds of
powdered arsenate of leao to 200 gal
ions of water plus the milk of lime
'from 12 pounds of unslaked lime or
: 10 pounds of hydrated lime. If dust
is used instead of the liquid the 0-5
05 formula is recommended, howev
er, the 80-5-15 may be used if the
grower desires.
Elbertas wnI be read V for the
by next Monday, ’ March
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Lpon the completion . of the Elbertas
ie other varieties should receive the
‘ ^ eatraent >" the Ene following Y aS or
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(vY. "Y'-Y- 1 YYo al Y i' °!’ lAe e ’ , Jn '’ r ’ l " ( ‘ ° n , C>1 0 . eal ^
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order that the fjrst spray or dust can
be a p p ii e( j w hen about three-fourths
°* , tbe peta , , or P ,n . h , Part , of „ the ,
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flower have fallen.
Ihe warm weather of last week
eaused many adult curculio.: to leave
th e*r hibernation quarters. Our hiber
j J ,at,on experiment, sbo that by the
1 :‘ tte r of last week nian >’ curcu -
lios , had left Bermuda grass and pine
needle hibernating quarters, and
they had started to leave from dried
forest foliage, etc. If arsenate of
lead is used when the petals are fall-1
ing it will be possible to kill many ;
of these beetles as they feed on the I
peach calyces immdiately upon ap¬
pearing from hibernation, and before l
they deposit any eggs. Cron pros¬
pects are good, and a special effort
should be made to finish a high qua¬
lity crop this year by spraying oi
dusting thoroughly with the recom
mended materials at the right time.
Government and State Laboratory,
Fort Valley, Georgia.
Issued March 18, 1925.
NOTICE
The Pilgrims Road to Heaven a j
Vision Book on the i * ible of 14 J pag¬
es written from the Closet forty days
behind closed doors. Will be mailed
to any address for 50 cents. Please
send money order and book will be
mailed to you at once. Rev. T. L.
^ ornett, 623, Chestnut St.. Atlanta,
Ga. 3-19-1 t,;J.
PEACHLAND
JOURNAL
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of one of America's
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In Command of Captain Renn Law*
rence.
Morning Drills
11:15 Cossack riding around)
at gallop taking four, 2-foot jumps,
Butler and McQuiston.
ll:18 Roman riding around tha
grounds taking 4, 2-foot jumps. Ste¬
phens and Thorne.
11:20 Pyramids riding around the
grounds at gallop tali.r.g 4, 2-fooB
jumps. Stephens, S lied, Porter¬
field, Ratliffe, Clark. Smith.
11:22 Place jumps in arena.
11:25 Jump table, men, piano, au¬
to, horse, fire: Lawrence, Clark, Will
mms, Ratliff Scheidner, Clanton,
Holland, Napier, Saltees, Brown,
Bonds, Webb.
11:50 Remove jumps, extinguish!
fire.
11:50 Exhibition drill.
Night Drills
7:30 Cossack squad at drill.
7:35 Roman squad at drill.
i. 7:40 Pyramids at gallop and over
jumps same as A. M.
7:45 Pistol and saber exhibitions
bursting baloons, sticking dummies.
7:55 Place jumps.
7:57 Jumping same as A. M.
8:20 Remove jumps, etc.
8:25 Exhibition drill.
8:35 Night Attack.
By bugle signal utilizing all ealla
in C. D. R. of 1916, band playing be.
tween eacb movement in time cor
res Ponding to review walk, trot, anc|
£ a “°P
The Central of Gerogia railway
makes goal again in producing one
of the most effective advertising
features in connection with the new
peach season - A beautiful eight-page
peach in colors, full of "meat” int
representing the celebrated Gorgial
pt ‘ ach ' handsomely lithographed br
Brandau-Craig-Dickerson Co., makes
its appearance. ........ We thank both Val
McKay, of the lithographers, and C.
H. Sammons, local agent of the Cen
c0 p; cs ,
Mr. McKay states that he will hava
on display during the week a beau
tiful lot of lithographing of especial
interest to peach growers and ship¬
pers. This display will be in a show
window of the press headquarters
which T. F. Flournoy has established
" Nain street.
GREAT iCE PI ANT
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OPEN TO VISITORS j
In cordial acceptance of a sug¬
gestion from The Leader-Tribune
a few days ago, the great ice plant :
—the largest single-unit re-icing ;
plant in the South—of the Atlan¬
tic Ice and Coal Company, which
has just been completed as a mast¬
erful construction accomplishment
of the Foundation Company, will j
be open for inspection on the part j
of visitors at the Peach Blossom !
Festival on Thursday and Friday, 1
It will prove very inviting, form¬
ing as it does an imposing back¬
ground for the pagaent grounds.