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$ I ' * • l ■ • 4 | : t s > > ■ > 1 5NOTEO • • | | ,. •7 1 1 ;; • , Conducted by * ALICE D. SHEPARD 200 Everett Square ; 1 ******** ++**+***+++**+*+++++******+****+**-i"i-*+-:"i-**** Miss Marion Canthon visited points in Flor’da last week. * * * 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. 4 4 4 ’.Mrs. W. E. Hunter, of Atlanta, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. M. A. Brown. ♦ ♦ t Miss Stella Hogan, of Bessie Tift, •visited her sister, Miss Cora Hogan last week. * * * 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. ♦ * * Mr. C. B. Almon was elected an elder of the Presbyterian church last Sunday. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Brown Wilson of Lenoir, N. C., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Carithers, last week. * * ❖ Friends of Mr. R. M. Houser, who has been very ill, will be glad to learn that he is much better. * * * Miss Carolyn Thomas, of Atlanta, was an enthusiastic visitor of ihe fes¬ tival!. * * * Mrs. Chas. J. Baker, of Atlanta, was the charming guest of Mrs. John A. Houser for the festival and week 4 end. ♦ * * Mrs. R. A. Jones, of Montgomery, Ala., was the guest of Mrs. W. A. Shepard during the Peach Blossom Festival and week end, + + 4 > 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. * * * Mrs. B. Cowden, of Rockmart, Oa., has been the guest of her laughter, Mrs. John H. Jones, dur • ng the last week. * * ♦ Mrs. U. R. McTier of Plains, Ga., md Mrs. J. F. McTier of New York, we guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Ca * ithers. ♦ * * Among the college girls home for The festival were Misses Louise Campbell, Maxwell Taylor, Pauline Carter and Greta Smith. <• Misses Carolyn .talks and Eliza beth Wade of Shorter College were guests of friends during the festival aid week end. * * •> 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. * * * 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. 4 4 4 The latest report from Mrs. A. C. Riley, who is critically ill at her, home on College street, is very fa vorable. .;. .;. * ' 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. * * * 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 ■ * Connell, during the Peaeh Blossom Festival. * * * 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. + 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. + * * Mr. and Mrs. John Vance spent several days in Americus this week. * * * 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. * * * Dr. L. P. Langston and Dr. J. F. Beck, of Atlanta, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Steed during the fes¬ tival. .j. *;. Mrs. and Mrs. C. G. Gray, Jr., will be guests at the DuPree-Jones wed¬ ding which will occur Thursday ev¬ ening in Macon. 4 4 4 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones will attend the wedding of Miss Lois Du¬ Pree and Mr. William Jones Thurs¬ day evening in Macon. •J* * ❖ 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. * THE DEPARTMENT ♦ 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 ■ 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 B •!* ■y By RUTH MONCRIEF , I * 1*44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ' ' •'*’0 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. * * % t * I a y U y J / V 4> * Dainty / / \ 1 / Miss » j Spring t $ ?/ O 11 Has 3H4j « Peeped ( Into the * fl Hat :.V2 % ■§» i Boxes M b V ■ -MT SSI# * -> TT t at I ; -r - ' ? ' * K •> 4 ' ♦ V * Mrs. Wise Shop - * s / -j. * // % y y TV pm \ '/ /i <■ (. •> ‘ v ■’ ' and is completely enchanted by the '■ ■ x t ■ - # lovely hats. . * small * There are large hats, hats, ! * * gorgeously trimmed or dependent on Jl .0 * their perfect lines for chic. At mod¬ f ■ ❖ est prices that are within the range IJ b v. (( it * ••• of every purse. * * * s 44444444*1 44 ■4\ 14444444444444 1 •;* 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. ,, , , . , . ,, 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. * 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. (3-26-3t-p) i 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