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(Ehr trahrr - Hritiunr AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Established 1888 Published every Thursday JOHN H. JONES Editor and Owner « i A* a Man Thinkcth in Hia Heart, So I* He. Official Organ o f I'l-aeh County, City of Fort Valley and Western Divi¬ sion of the Southern District of Georgia Federal Court. N. E. A. Feature Service Advertisers’ Cut Service Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Fort Valley, Ga., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price* (Payable in Advance) 1 Year ... $1.59 6 Months $0.75 3 Months $0.40 Advertising Rates: 30c per Column Inch lc per ‘Word Legal Advertisement* Strictly Cash in Advance THURSDAY, APRIL, 2, 1925, WE GIVE IT UP Overwhelmed! Hopeleaa! The Leader-Tribune started nut to re¬ produce editorial comment from variou* newspaper* on tbe Fourth Annual Peach Blossom Festival Before we got well started the flood wai too great for us It can’t be done. The deluge is unprece¬ dented, as indicated on various pages of today's paper and recent issues. To those many papers whose kind editorial praiae of the Festival it beyond our capacity to put into type and get into our columns we express the everlast ing appreciation of Fort Valley and Peach county. •WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS”— Is the title over a group of para¬ graphs with punch being distributed by the Tilton Board of Trade. Dr. H. M. Copeland, chairman of our Water and Light Board—one of the best in the world!—hands these para¬ graphs to The Leader-Tribune and agrees that Fort Valley ought to have a chamber of commerce or board of trade on the job every min¬ ute in the year, generating and prop, agating the doctrine of practical progress. Everybody in Fort Valley probably is agreed on this matter but merely a casual agreement doesn’t get us anywhere. It is folly for u community to do great things and rest content with the flowers of praise. We noeu a lot more of organ¬ ized, dynamic action in following up our outbursts of brilliance with reg¬ ular, every-day RESULTS. We don’t mean following up for just a day or a season; we mean following up un¬ til the COWS COME HOME! MRS. A. C. RILEY The Leader-Tribune joins in the universal sorrow of the community over the death of Mrs. A. C. Riley. Likewise our sympathy for that de¬ voted husband and priceless Chris lian citizen, Judge Riley, and the ily is deep and sincere. Judge and Mrs. Riley were among the first to extend the warm hands of greeting to this editor when he came to Valley. They were the first to give us a positive, cordial welcome in church. By the complete, abiding esteem of the whole community of which we have been witness we know that this was only significant of the rich harmony and devotion to serv¬ ice of two lives that as one “went about doing good.” Georgia Publisher: The Peach Fes lival edition of the Fort Valley Lead¬ er-Tribune was a splendid ouhliea tion. Editor Jones is certainly keep ing the Leader-Tribune up to a high ' standard, would this. but then He we knew Johnn- j do is one of the besi editors in the State. | _ Cairo Messenger: The Fort Valley : Leader-Tribune’s Peach Blossom Fes tival supplement was in keeping with j the occasion itself—unique and inter-j eS Tlfton Gazette: One of the Tifton ites taking in the peach festival at ‘ Fort Valley last week that he says as saw the fine floats from other towns passing in the parade, he just felt like Tifton should have been there with a float, too. Maybe we will, next j time. iMIl 0 CHALLENGING DEFEAT "A man may be down but he’s nev¬ er out!” That is the motto of the Salvation Army. When that conviction burns in a mun ’s soul, by the grace of God, ,ie can know no defeat. The future forever his open road. Collapse mjalth, financial disaster, domestic grief, the oily tongues of scandal mongers and the ferocious onslaughts of community dictators can frame for him no Waterloo. He may be come crippled, darkness may fall around him, but his heart yet re¬ sponds to the Stiil Small Voiee and his eyes are yet lifted with a broad vision for the certain dawn. To him shall come real friend t and ultimate triumph. You can’t kill his indomi¬ table soul with all of the accumulat¬ ed stones of the ages and the scribes a nd pharisees shall quail before the good that grows in him, sometimes late but never too late. That kind o f man never becomes too bad for the gentle hand of Christian succor which is always ready to deal kindly with his bruises and lead him, not knock him, into the light and the l ight. That is the doctrine of the Salvation Ar my. * * * As with the man, so with the com¬ munity; it may be down but it's NEVER OUT1 With piat conviction its spirit can know no defeat—it CHALLENGES DEFEAT with a faith in God and an irrepressible en¬ ergy of citizenship before which no obstacle can stand. Misfortune of any kind, whether moral relaxation or depression in commerce, agriculture or industry, is but a spur to greater effort. THE FUTURE IS ITS OPEN ROAD! Its lamp burns bright with the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It does not hesitate to place eggs under the hen for fear they will not hatch. The soul of such a community movei ONWARD to quicken its escape from whatever darkness may fall. It does not lie supinely upon its back and resign itself to LUCK. Neither does it wait with cold, haughty confi¬ dence for some miracle from the skies, it knows that “the Lord helps hose who help themselves. »» FIGHTS! And a little success is not its goal, but rather each degree of success excites a higher desire for further conquest and each blessing makes more intense its consciousness of responsibility to God to build more stately mansions upon that blessing. You can’t “get the gout • • of that kind of community and all of the tynockers shall drop their ham¬ mers and take to the tall timber be¬ fore the prosperity that grows there¬ in, sometimes late but,never too late. And its neighboring communities shall arise and call it blessed. Its glo¬ ry shall not flare for a day and die but shall burn through the years “as brightly in a gypsy camp as in a palace hall.” That is community Calhoun Time*: Fort Valley’s Peach Festival was a jr-r-rand and K-a-l-orious success. Weather fine, attendance up to expectations, and the “gate’ $5,000 more than last vear. Walton Tribune: The annual Reach Festival at Fort Valley was a grati Lv>»g success and attracted thousands of people from the state and every section of the country. We cougratu having a hand in the promo t ’ on Ug eVent. Early County News: Approximate kv 50,000 people, attended the fourth annual Peach Festival at Fort Valley 0,1 Thursday and Friday of the past week. It was a gorgeous spectacle, particularly the pageant, “The Trail of Pink Petals." Fort Valley, in the center of the peach belt, has made a name for herself as well as for the State of Georgia. The last Peach Blossom Festival was pronounced to be the most brilliant and beautiful of any thus far. Plans ere already being made for the one next year. Butler Herald: Johnny Jones and his charming wife added laurels to tlleir (-row n on Friday last when they leaped abundant attention upon newspaper folk attending the Peach Festival at Fort Valiev, the South’s most wonderfully brilliant out-door ex hibition ‘ Courtesies were also extend by Col. C. L. Shepard, chairman < f the Festival Committee, and f nrm er state Senator, Hon. Joe Davidson. The day was one of the most delight¬ fully spent by representatives of the press present in the history of theii coming together on any occasion. These and many others proved in no unmistakable terms theirOlearty ap preciation for tbe publictiy that has been given the Festival by the nows , papers of the State. fHE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, CA., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1925. wealth—the mission of the commu¬ nity soul. * * * We sometimes sympathize with the man who hasn’t any sins to confess. He misses the real joy of being a Christian, of getting into the thick of the fight against all hell, of falling upon his face before the Mercy Seat and feeling the kindly touch of God. lie remains always a pillar, never be comes an evangel, a tongue of fire. We aspect we sympathize with him more than he sympathizes with us, That is his trouble. He loses the sweet consciousness of human un¬ derstanding and the throb of love uid charity. * ♦ Some communities never suffer calamity. They can’t say with Lanier, <> As the marsh hen secretly builds on the watery sod, so will I build me a nest on the greatness of God.’ They, like the eagle or vulture, look down upon the world from mountain peaks, merely “seeking whom they may devour.” It is not theirs to sing in the valleys, among the vineyards, and look with feai not love upon the cursed beasts and birds of prey, They are awe-inspiring, not beauti ful. Misfortune never galvanizes them into superhuman effort. The world is simply theirs to look down upon from cold isolation. They lose the refined exaltation of CHAL LENGING DEFEAT and feasting upon two blades of grass where fam ine went before. + + + Now, gentle reader, if we have been so fortunate as to suggest to you, as a red-blooded citizen, your only way in which to help GLORIFY YOUR COMMUNITY, we will con fess that we have been rambling in our thoughts around the term, “chal lenged defeat,” from the following editorial appearing under the head ing “ADVERTISING GEORGIA,” in the Atlanta Journal: “The announcement that prizes amounting to twenty thousand dol¬ lars have been offered for suggestions of the product best suited to manu facture in Florida brings to mind that this is precisely the sum which enterprising Georgians are trying raise for a similar service to their own state. It is the desire to place on exhibition in New York, at the Southern Exposition, the resources and products of Georgia, and to publish to the world its advantages and attractions to homeseekers. The money has been slow in coming, hut it is coming. “Capital was induced to go to I' londa by the couiage and enter¬ prise of Floridians . It was drawn there by the genius of the people who set their sights high and chal¬ lenged defeat. Now the flow of im¬ migration and capital increases, arm is taken care of by the momentum that has been set up. Florida not possess a natural attraction to day that it did not have long years ago, when its fortunes were at their lowest ebb; and, what is more im¬ portant to Georgians, is that it has I today not one-half the natural wealth am! resources of their own state, “Do we, too, need to offer a prize to set the world talking and think ing about Georgia? If so, let us not do things on a small scale. And, first of all, let us see to it that Georgia is well represented at the Southern exposition in New York." *J* *£> MORAL: The motto of Fort Val ley and Peach county must be that of the rnbbit, .* Not to sit up and sit, but to git up and git!” Without a Chamber of Commerce we are hid¬ ing our light under a bushel. intaas RATE: 1 cent per word. No ad rertisement taken for less than 25c for first insertion. Each additional consecutive tion ordered at time of placing insertion, if less than 25 words, 1c » word; if 25 or more words, 20 per •ent discount. Black-face or capital letters, dou¬ ble rate. Cash must accompany orders from hose who do n.t have regular nonthly accounts with us. Answer advertisements just as ad -ortisers request. We cannot furnish -lames of advertisers or other infer nation not contained in the adver When replies are to be receivfed care this paper, double rate. While we do not accept adv^rtise nents which we have reason to be ieve are of a questionable nature, ve have no means of ascertaining the responsibility of all advertisers. _ FOR SALE —We have a nice supply of selected Whatley and Hastings corn. R. Flournoy. 2-26-tf. ************************************ * * *4 * ♦ ** ***** » TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF MRS. A. C. RILEY j j By The Woman’s Club .. \ TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1925 All must come to know sooner or later that life is a great complex of sunshine arid shadow, rest arid toil, peace and turmoil, pleasure and pain, and joy and sorrow, and so, in the midst of the pleasures and activities of the Fort Valley Woman’s Club, there has come th n shadow of sorrow in toe death cf our beloved ex-presi dent and co-worker and friend, Mrs. A. C. Riley, Mrs. Riley was made president of this club in 1907, the second presi Jent in its history, and her sweet and unassuming manner and splendid leadership and co-operation, have marked its activities during the years that have followed, Mankind loves to dwell upon the thought that is conveyed in the poem » Let Me Livv , m the House by the sitlt , of the R()a(1 and B( , a Friend to Marl( .> but> as on( , thinks of the | Hweet j ife ot this departed friend, it js easy ^ think that abe , as it were, .. lived in a fi ower garden beside the ,. oa( j and was friend to every passer by> » and tbe fi owe rs that she con tributed to the joy and blessing of others were not only the fragrant red rose, the smiling daffodil, the mo dest violet and the ever-green and f r8( , ran t tea-olive, but, it was her j oy> a ) so< to contribute the flowers 0 f kindliness, sympathy, loyalty, en couragement and love, and the frag rance „f these shall live as long as ]jf e sba ll last, Now, in the beautiful spring-time when everything is taking on new life, when leaf is fresh and green and bv ,ds are blossoming, we shall think of our dear friend, Mrs. Riley, as en¬ tering into that “abundant life’ j T FOR SALE —Petty’s Improved Toole Cotton seed. $1.00 per bushel. C. Z. McArthur, City, 3-19-3tp. I FOR SALE — Whatley's Improved seed corn from Field’s selected seed. $3.00 per bu. C. Z. McArthur, City. 3-19-3tp. _____ j pQ R SALE_WE HAVE A NICE g UP pLY OF SELECTED LEY AND HASTINGS SEED CORN K. FLOURNOY. 2-26-tf. FOR SALE—6 room house on East Main street. Reasonable payment and terms. J. W. Woolfolk, City. 4-2-2t. ■ p 0 R RENT-—3 rooms and kitchen j ette, couple desired. 207 Persons street. j FOR SALE—National Cash Register, . good as new. Apply Leader-Trib j une. 4-2-1t FOR RENT— 3 rooms with modern j improvements. Also tomato plants for sale. G. VV. Thames, Phone 142. 3-26-2tpd. - FOR RENT •3 unfurnished rooms. Mrs. Mollie Jones, 209 College St., City. 4-2-2t. FOR RENT— Pasture for COWS. One 1 dollar per month. R. S. Jones, city. 3-26-2tpd. FOR RENT—Housekeeping and garage. Mrs. Fred Hall, An derson Avenue, City. 4-2-tf LOST—A Cameo brooch 19th, on pageant grounds or down town. Advise care Leader-Tribune. 4-2-ltpd LOST A Cameo brooch Thursday, 1 19th, on pageant grounds or down town. Advise care Leader-Tribune. WANTED— Several good, fresh milch COWS . W. J. Braswell. Phone 131, or 3302. City. 3-5-tf \V ANTED—Two salesladies and one salesman— somebody that is will ing to work and learn the business. R. S. Braswell, Jr., 4-2-i NEW BUNGALOW FOR Am beginning the building of a six-room bungalow in Oakland Heights. Will be something quite at tractive, good materia! and workman ship. Will sell at a reasonable price on easy terms. Roland A. Hiley. 4-2-2tpd CAUTION TO ALL DRUG AND HARDWARE STORES Terry’s WateTproff Cement only costs $2.00 per dozen. You get it of J. B. Riley of Macrn, Ga. You sell it at 25 cents per bottle. It mends which is promised in the Book she read and loved as a blessing in the great, eternal home. s* She resteth now. No more breast Heaves with its weary breath; Pain sits no longer on the brow Where lies the calm of death. Sunk to her rest like tired child, She lies in slumber deep, Soft folded in the arms of Him Who “giveth His beloved sleep. • • "Nay, doth she rest? No, day nor night She resteth not from praise; Her spirit, wing’d with rapture, knows No more earth’s weary ways; But ever toward the Infinite Her flight on, upward, does she keep, For He gives active tirelessness Who ‘giveth His beloved sleep. * Jl 1 “I cannot say, and I will not say That she is dead. She is just away! With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand She has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since she lingers there, And you, oh you, who the wildest yearn | For the old-time step and the glad return j Think of her faring on, as dear 1 In the love of There, as the love of Here. Think of her still as the same, 1 say, She is not dead, she is just away." 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. Cal! on the drug and hardware stores of Fort Valley for it. When you try a bottle if not satisfied after using bring it hack to the store that sold it and your money hark, as every bottle is guaranteed by the Factory and J. J. Webb of Norcross, Ga., agent. (3-26-3t-p) A picture of health requires a happy frame of mind. vVvVT TT s'T VT v .» . 1 » - ! !! ] \ ; i ' j . —-f A t •• • i . > / * \ ’ Dainty J / Miss f/ i/ \ \ 11 o I I // fi % «■ :; / Wi ■ 1 Spring / l J gig ; I L / | < * !! Has ) J 1 ’ Peeped , ’ ■ Into the 1 | Hat ■*>h-T- B * . • • Boxes T 33 L J -V, * • * - ■ * !! * at * * A " U Mrs. Wise’s Shop k is !! <■ I" \ J and is completely enchanted by the 1 • lovely hats. I There are large hats, small hats, < gorgeously trimmed or dependent on - • their perfect lines for chic. At mod¬ est prices that are within the range o' \ of every purse. 1 I ’ I h Mil - -M-++4 WHAT MY NEIGHBOR SAYS la of Interest to Fort Valley Folks. When one has had the misfortune suffer from backache, headaches, urinary disorders and other kidney ills—and has found relief from ail this sickness and suffering, person's advice is of untold val¬ ue to friends and neighbors. The fol¬ case is only one of many thou¬ but it is that of a Fort Valley resident. Who could ask for a better example? J. C. Hartley, retired cotton mer chant. 111 Knoxville St., says: kidneys acted irregularly and the se- **************** < I ****** I * * 11 ' * ’ ♦♦♦ * • > f April 1st Interest Day ; For Citizens Bank Savings Depositors ;j ; Did we credit your Savings Account with interest ; • earned for the last quarter, ending April 1st? ■ ■ J | Why not place your Savings on 1 ■ interest where you may be sure your , , funds are absolutely safe? J | 1 1 No red tape in opening a Savings < ! • ! Account. Funds may be deposited J | or withdrawn at any time without ' “ formality. < ■ « > 4% interest compounded four . > times a year paid on Savings Depos¬ <■ its. 4 » < • :: GET IN WITH THOSE WHO WILL DRAW INTEREST ! < <> ON THEIR SAVINGS NEXT JULY BY - ■ OPENING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT TODAY , \ \ > - , . J [ • ’ » . > Capital & Surplus $150,000 ... \ * 1! ^7o Quarterly Paid 5% Paid on Time \ ’ \ on Savings Deposits <« *' ■ r ■ « I Our Savings Depositors requested to bring their pass- | . [ books in for the April 1st interest entry. ■ ■ cretions were unnatural. My back was weak, lame and sore and there as a throbbing ache across my kid neys. When I stooped I got such a cramp in my back I could hardly straighten. Friends highly recom¬ mended Doan's Pills so I procured some at Wright’s Drug Store. Doan’s relieved me. •> Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t s j mp i y nR ’ K for a kidney remedy— get Doan’s Pills—the some that Mr. Hartley had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv.