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Miss Marion Canthon visited points
in Flor’da last week.
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Miss Margaret Anderson, of Mont¬
ezuma., is the charming guest of Miss
Juliette Anderson.
Mrs. J, A. Webb, of Atlanta, was
the guest of Mrs. J. R. iKnney last
week.
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’.Mrs. W. E. Hunter, of Atlanta, is
the guest of her mother, Mrs. M. A.
Brown.
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Miss Stella Hogan, of Bessie Tift,
•visited her sister, Miss Cora Hogan
last week.
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Charles Baldwin, of Atlanta, was
the guest of relatives for the festi¬
val and week end.
Col. C. L. Shepard, who has been
seriously ill with flu since the festi
. -val, is now able to be out again.
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Mr. C. B. Almon was elected an
elder of the Presbyterian church last
Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Brown Wilson of
Lenoir, N. C., were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Carithers, last week.
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Friends of Mr. R. M. Houser, who
has been very ill, will be glad to learn
that he is much better.
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Miss Carolyn Thomas, of Atlanta,
was an enthusiastic visitor of ihe fes¬
tival!.
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Mrs. Chas. J. Baker, of Atlanta,
was the charming guest of Mrs. John
A. Houser for the festival and week
4 end.
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Mrs. R. A. Jones, of Montgomery,
Ala., was the guest of Mrs. W. A.
Shepard during the Peach Blossom
Festival and week end,
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Mrs. J. Id. Whigham, of Montgom¬
ery, Ala., was the guest of her par¬
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Adams, dur¬
ing the festival.
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Mrs. B. Cowden, of Rockmart,
Oa., has been the guest of her
laughter, Mrs. John H. Jones, dur
• ng the last week.
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Mrs. U. R. McTier of Plains, Ga.,
md Mrs. J. F. McTier of New York,
we guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Ca
* ithers.
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Among the college girls home for
The festival were Misses Louise
Campbell, Maxwell Taylor, Pauline
Carter and Greta Smith.
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Misses Carolyn .talks and Eliza
beth Wade of Shorter College were
guests of friends during the festival
aid week end.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wood and Fred,
Jr., of Cedartown, and Mrs. Mary
Wester, of Chattanooga, were the
quests of Mrs. Harriet Wood daring
the Peach Blossom Festival.
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Mrs. E. C. Benton, Miss Anna Lucy
and William Benton and Mrs. W. H.
Durden and son, Henry, of Atlanta,
A|*fe guests of Mrs. J. M. Green for
lhe Peach Blossom Festival.
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The latest report from Mrs. A. C.
Riley, who is critically ill at her,
home on College street, is very fa
vorable.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Arnold and
little daughter, Martha, were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Martin on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
4 last week for the Peach Blosom Fes
lival.
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Friends of Rev. and Mrs. Loy War¬
wick, of Valdosta, were delighted to
see fhem in Fort Valiev during the
festival. While here Mr. and Mrs.
Warwick were the guests of Col. and
Mrs. C. L. Shepard.
Mrs. ^ R. L. Duke * * and * children have
returned to their home in Byron aft¬
er visiting their aunt, Miss Mamie j
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* Connell, during the Peaeh Blossom
Festival.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert and son,
William, Caughey Culpepper and
Caughey, .Tr., and Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Adams of Atlanta were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Culpepper dur¬
ing festival week.
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Mrs. Louise Cochran and daughter,
Frances, of Atlanta, en route to Mi
i ami, stopped over for a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. B. Culpepper and the
blossom festival.
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Forming a party motoring to the
Peach B'o-m r. Festival a-t 'L'nir.-,
day were Mrs. Sidney Wiley, of Ma¬
con, and her guests. Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. McWhitry of New York City en
route from Florida to their home;
Mrs. Newton Craig and her nephew.
Mr. Charles Boynton, both Atlanta.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Evans,
owner of the Cherry Heights Farm,
at Sturgeon Bay, Door Co., Wiscon¬
sin, were stopover visitors from Mi¬
ami last Friday. Sturgeon Bay is
famous for its cherries and had some¬
thing like a million and half dollar
crop last year. In May of last year
they celebrated the cherry blossom,
which was a crowning success and
Mr. and Mrs. Evans were happy to
be passing just at this time so they
could attend the Beach Blossom Fes¬
tival.
DUPREE-JONES WEDDING
EVENT OF WEEK
An event of this week which is of
interest to a wide circle of friends
in Fort Valley is the wedding of Miss
Lois DuPree, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Welton D. DuPree, of Macon,
and Mr. William H. Jones, of Atlan¬
ta, formerly of Fort Valley. ,
The wedding will be solemnized
Thursday evening at 9 o’clock at the
home of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. j
Stewart Cole, on Culver street in
Vineville, Macon. Miss DuPree will
have as her maid of honor her sister,
Miss Dorothy DuPree.
Mrs. J. D. Harris, of Perry, will
act as matron of honor. Miss Ruby
Duke will be bridesmaid and Miss
Marjorie DuPree junior bridesmaid.
Little Misses Corinne Cole and Doris
Miller, of Macon, -will act as flower
girls,
Mr. Jones will have as his best
man Mr. Willis Campbell.
The ceremony will be performed
by Rev. Martin A. Wood, pastor of
the Vineville Baptist church.
Miss DuPree is a charming young
woman and has a large number of
friends here. Mr. Jones, who is also
an old Fort Valleyan, is now making
his home in Atlanta where he is as
sociated in business with the Lippin- (
cott Pure Food Company. I
After a wedding trip to interesting I
points in Florida the young couple |
will go to Atlanta to make their
home. I
A number of lovely parties have
•> en given for f bis lOv'ly briae-elc- 1
in Macon and Fort Vaiiey.
Mrs. J. M. Pound is the guest of
her daughter, Mrs. Russel Edwards.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Vance spent
several days in Americus this week.
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Miss Marguerite Roberts, of Bal
timore, Md., is the guest of Mrs.
Frank Morse,
Mr. Alton P. Shepard of Jackson
ville, Fla., is spending several days
here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Shepard.
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Dr. L. P. Langston and Dr. J. F.
Beck, of Atlanta, were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. Steed during the fes¬
tival.
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Mrs. and Mrs. C. G. Gray, Jr., will
be guests at the DuPree-Jones wed¬
ding which will occur Thursday ev¬
ening in Macon.
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones will
attend the wedding of Miss Lois Du¬
Pree and Mr. William Jones Thurs¬
day evening in Macon.
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Mrs. Albert Adams, Mrs. Clayton
Buchanan and Mrs. Frank Carmi¬
chael, of Jackson, were among the
visitors of the Peach Blossom Festi¬
val last week.
j j The Tech TECH High HIGH School BAND Band
com
posed entirely of high school
were interesting visitors of the
som Festival. This band won
place in a southern prep school con
test held in Atlanta last spring.
The hoys furnished their own
transportation in order to take part
in the occasion.
The boys with their teacher, P. S.
Woodward, were very enthusiastic
about their entertainment and wish
to thank the management for the
royal way they were taken care of
while they were guests of the peach
capital.
WARM WEATHER DISEASES
They Are Preventable
Typhoid.
Very soon we will see an increase
of typhoid fever in our community
Fly time is typhoid fever time, as well
as the time for bowel troubles in chil¬
dren and adults as well. Flies are
carriers of many of the diseases, and
the time to begin our war is now,
lasting throughout our lives. The fly
eggs are alwayB laid in filth, gener¬
ally in the excrement of animals, in¬
cluding the human. Clean premises
should be free from flies, See, there¬
fore, that no hatching place Is pro¬
vided for the filthy fly on your yard.
We are fortunate in having a rem¬
edy that is very effective against ty¬
phoid fever, hut like all other things.
It is not 100 per cent perfect; in oth¬
er words, sometimes we find an indi¬
vidual who is not made immune by
typhoid vaccination, owing to that in¬
dividual not having had a suffficicntly
large dose of the vaccine or his in
ability to build up anti-bodies against
the infection or the overwhelming in¬
fection that he receives.
The season for typhoid vaccination
Is here. This remedy is furnished free
by our State Board of Health, Mid is
administered by your family physician.
Every one should take this vaccine at
least eivery three years. Suppose you
start on yours right away. It requires
three weeks to eomplet the treatment.
There is no question that this is the
right thing to do.
We would not have typhpid fever if
we had sanitary closets in every home.
The germ comes only from a human
being who is a carrier of these ge.rms
The germ is thrown off in human ex¬
crement only, and you must ‘‘catch’'
typhoid by either eating or drinking
the germ.
I*roper sanitation will absolutely
control typhoid, as well as other dis¬
eases of this character, diarrhea and
dysentery especially.
It pays and pays well to have a
sanltary closet and to keep your prern
lses clean - Especially should you take
tare of the barn and stable raanur< ' 10
prevent the hatching of flies.
Screening helps and helps wonder
fully; make it effective; do it now.
For doctors like such folks as these ’
Who hibernate and court disease.
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1925.
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4 f EDITOR’S WINDOW +
FROM RADIO NEWS
Jim: “There’s one head-set that is
particularly handy in radio work. ’ 1
Jam: “What kind is it?’’
Jim: “A set of brains.”
"Pa, which is worse—an automo
bile maniac or a radio nut?”
“A radio nut is the worst thing on
my boy. An automobile maniac
you quickly with his gas buggy
it’s soon all over, but a nut with
a loud talker drives you crazy and
keeps you that way the balance of
your life.”
ST. PATRICK FORGOTTEN
Good St. Patrick was forgotten
last week in the celebration of the
Peach Blossoms, but perhaps we can
pacify the shade of Ireland’s patron
saint and those who boast of their
Irish strain by calling attention to
the fact that the festival was held
during his oirth week and quite a
lot of the decorations were green;
and if one must judge from the ga¬
iety in which the “natives” deported
themselves and the smiles of the hap¬
py people, shure, and it’s Irish folks
who vcc living in Fort Valley last
week.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. G. D. An¬
derson entertained with a miscellan¬
eous shower in compliment to Miss
DuPree at her home on College
street.
ATTEND DUPREE-JONES
WEDDING
Among the Fort Valleyans going
U]) to Macon to attend the DuPree
Jones wedding Thursday evening are
Mrs. Geo. Anderson, Mrs. C. H. Mat¬
thews, Miss lone DuPree, Mrs. C. J.
DuPree, Mr. and Mrs. Roe Green.
Mrs. J. A. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Rich¬
ard Jones, Mrs. C. F. DuPree, Miss
Mazie DuPree and Dr. and Mrs. R.
O. Smisson and Miss Charlie Mat¬
thews.
THE PEACH LEGEND
(Continued from front page)
Hors ironi states other than
who'saw the pageant, could be
tioned as authority for the
—it has not been excelled by
other performance of its kind
side of the Atlantic. As a study
the art of pageantry, it is worth
attention of any student or
while viewed from the maternal
it has inestimable value in
vertising the genius of Georgia
ple muI the rich resources of a
underrated state.
In times ancient and modern
gan poets and singers spent
time eulogizing the beauty and
potent qualities of the grape,
the best in literature and art
posed from time immemorial
vine leaves in its hair. Down in
little town of Fort Valleythey say,
j simply: “Let us dance in the
time with peach bloom in our
and garlands of the delicate pink
! blossoms in our hands; for is not
j this the luscious olive belonged fruit our to very the own, Arcadian
as
farmers of old, and the purple grape
which sparkled for Lucullus, to
1 n.v slopes of the Appenines?”
| Fort Valley is merely trying to do
for the peach what Omar did for the
grape, and what California fruit
growers are attempting, with less
success, to do for the orange. And
the annual pageant is the medium
Fort Valley has well chosen for her
message.
Space forbids a detailed descrip¬
tion episode by episode of the gor¬
geous epic in color that ravished the
senses of the Fort Valley audiences.
The Persian scene which was a
chromatic study in the harsher hues
of purple and greens with black as
a background, broken by the pierc¬
ing peacock shades and orange in the
three groups of flower dancers, was
one of the most arresting. With the
bolero costumes in jet and scarlet)'
Miss Oak achieved a bizarre effect
in the Spanish numbers, which was
also true of heterodox patterns in the
Chinese (scene worked out in gaudy
oriental coloring. The soft and more
poetic pastel shades in the Grecian
episode were also happily used.
No scene excelled in richness vari¬
ety of costumes than that which por¬
trayed the folk dress of the Euro¬
pean Lowlands and France, which
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most of all demonstrated ingenious
ness and attention to detail on the
part of Miss Oak and the Costume
Committee. The designing through¬
out indicated a punctillious adher
nece to historic detail that would
have been an accomplishment for
professional designers.
The orchestra provided by the
Twenty-Ninth Infantry Band and or¬
chestra of Fort Benning, under the
the competent direction of Warrant
Officer Robert O. Dixon was of a
high order.
The lucid simplicity of plot and
theme and the dramatic rapidity of
action as tfie long program moved
forward to a climax in the wedding
scene in the finale is no doubt one
of the most admirable fatures of the
whole production. Not a moment of
ennui was permitted the audience,
and there was not a moment of doubt
as to what was taking plaee on the
stage and why. In keeping ith Miss
Oak’s evident aim of simplicity, tin
music was arranged from a selection
of only the most familiar classics and
semi-popular compositions.
For example the movements in
the Spanish episodes were accom¬
panied with such well known pieces
as The Habanera from Carmen, La
Poloma, and the Spanish and Mexi¬
can natioiai airs, while oriental pas
sages, with Song of India, the Egyp
tian Ballett and Hungarian Dance
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The M. H. S. basket ball
will leave for Chicago the last of tin
week. It will be a great trip for our
boys and of course we are expecting
great things of them.
Prof. A. J. Hargrove, Mrs. Har¬
grove and little daughter, Eugenia,
came down from Zebulon Saturday to
spend the week end with Prof. Har¬
grove’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Hargrove.
Mrs. Ellison from Hendersonville,
N. C., and Mrs. Jackson from Thom
aston, Ga., are visiting their nieces,
Mrs. Ware and Mrs. Hargrove.
Mr. Edwin Martin who is in school
at Emory University, spent the week '
end with home folks.
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Quite a lot of asparagus is ship¬
ped from Marshallville and as the
season is just coming in the growers
are busy bunching and getting it
ready for market.
Mrs. E. C. Bryan entertained at
dinner Tuesday, Mrs. Ellison, Mrs.
Jackson, Mrs. G. A. Ware and Miss
Clyde Ware.
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W. H. Rice who has been in the hos
pital for several weeks will soon be
able to come home.
Mr. Joe Timberlake, who is at
business college in Macon, spent the
week end with home folks.
No. 5 were blended with the Persian
scene. Sousa’s best known march
came in when the States appeared.
Miss Oak did not commit the usual
crime of pageant makers in trying
to shoot above the heads of her au¬
dience either in music or allegorical
presentment.
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The cast of 1,000 characters was
exclusively amateur, but performed
with a facility and readiness that le
pudiated any suggestion of amateur¬
ishness. There was not a professional
in the lot!—and the exclamation
point is used for benefit of those
who saw them.
Miss Charlie Matthews, who in the
•title role of “The Peach,” charmed
her audience in four solos and two
duet dances, declared she knew noth¬
ing about dancing.
“I never took t a dancing lesson in
my life,” she laughed, “and I made
most of the six up myself *»
The dancing of Carolyn Winston
Vance in the Grape numoer to the
eccentric and brilliant La Czarine
stood out, as did also the ballet per¬
formance of the Raindrops in the
prologue.
Altogether The Trail of Pink Pet
a ] g j s a remarkable achievement in
pageantry. It is not only remarkable
t h a t so small a town as Fort Valley
should create such a thing, but it is
equally remarkable that a thing so
fine should he created at all. It is
great, not only as a provincial effort,
It is great in its own right. No com-
The Festival
In Retrospect
Editorial by Mark Etheridge
In The Macon Telegraph
With that moment when we jump
ed to our feet, with twelve or fifteen
thousand others as the Greek cavalry
of Alexander the Great galloped into
the arena and abducted the Peach |
from the Persian monarch whose eyes I
had charmed her—with that moment
twenty-four hours behind us, we still
feel the thrill of the Trail of Pink
Petals, the pageant-masque that Fort
Valley presented in connection with
her Fourth Annual Peach Blossom
festival. Our excitement has some
what died down, and we are able to
talk normally and naturally again,
And our brain has returned so far
toward—if not to—normalcy,
that is again tricky about the colors
and the music, in s. me of the epi
sodes, but it still clings tenaciously
to a dozen or so ideas about the Fes¬
tival. It is a warming memory we
have of that, day and of the people
of Fort Valley.
From our viewpoint, there can
have never been a better demonstra
tion of a number of the finer and
more admirable qualities that Fort
Valley has exemplified. It is a city
where the peorle pull together;
great and small, rich and poor, black
and white, they worked to make this
festival a success. There is a story
that when the spoiled son of a rich
family was assigned a menial role in
one of the episodes, he went home
complaining to his mother. For once
she had no sympathy for him and told
him that he must go through with it.
Everybody in Fort Valley went
through with it.
Tere’s a fine spirit of cooperation
between the Many of the I
races. ne¬
groes participated in the festival and
entered into it with a spirit that was
nothing less than admirable. The
father of the queen and the father
of the king of the festival are trus¬
tees of the pegro industrial school
located at Fort Valley.
Because there was such a unity
between her own people—such a one¬
ness and a determination—Fort Val
ley was able to draw unto herself
for the occasion neighbors who had
felt that they had cause for resent
ment because of the Peach County
fight. Montezuma’s float won first
prize at the hands of a jury of North
history of the art which has
neglected in this country here¬
can be writteen without a
or at least a page on the
Valley pageant. '
ern men and women. Houston Coun*
ty from which Peach was largely
carved, generously attested her
friendship with a splendid float. Fort
Valley’s spirit, her disposition toward
her neighbors, was only a reflection
of other splendid qualities that have
carried her name over the world in
this past week.
She is a city with a soul. Others of
us have found the peach luscious to
eat and sometimes profitable to sell,
Fort Valley lias endowed it with
legendary and' artistic and P'ritual
onniities. She found that the peach
can be expressed in dance, in music,
in colors, in galloping horses, lazy
in„ camels, and slow mules. Any city
under the face of the Heavens would
have been proud to acknowledge the
pageant as its own. There was noth
ing local about it; nothing amateur
>sh. It had the wide sweep and the
broad gauge that commands the
globe to attention. We doubt that
even the people of Fort Valley real
ize how big a thing their brains
l ave created.
We like to think of the Trail of
Pink Petals as the story of the peach,
as its authentic history. Miss Oak,
who conceived it, and Mrs. Withoft
who wrote the lines, and all those
who participated, either actively in
the pageant or on committees, have
given us a something that will not
soon be blotted from the mind, or
from the heart.
CAUTION TO ALL DRUG AND
HARDWARE STORES
Terry’s Waterprof^ Cement only
costs $2.00 per dozen. You get it
of J. B. Riley of Macon, Ga. You
sell it at 25 cents per bottle. It mends
anything in the home and when any
article is properly mended with Ter¬
ry’s Waterproof you can’t bake, soak
or boil it aloose. This makes, it far
better than any glue. Call on the
drug and hardware stores of Fort
Valley for it. When you try a bottle
if not satisfied after using bring it
back to the store that sold it and get
your money back, as every bottle is
guaranteed by the Factory and J. J.
Webb of Norcross, Ga., agent.
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METHODIST CHURCH
Thos. H. Thomson, Pastor
Sunday school, 9:30 A. M., Judge
II. A. Mathews, superintendent.
Preaching by the pastor at 11 A.
M. and 7:30 P. M.
Epworth League at 6:30 P. M.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday at
7:30 P. M.
To all services the public is cor¬
invited.
Some folks have vacuum cleaners,
have pneumonia. J