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R E ARE building a ary HERE Volume No. XXXVII, Number 18. PRELIMINARY CONTESTS 01 HIGH The preliminaries in athletic, liter ary and domestic science events were held last Friday afternoon and night at the high school. Fifteen high school girls and boys were selected to represent Fort Val ley at the 12th district meet, which is to be held in Vidalia on next Thurs day and Friday, April 23 and 2-1. Coach Smith has some wonderful material for athletic events and ex pects to bring back the honors on their return from the meet. All the participants are given work outs daily, and Coach Smith will put them through strenuous practice dur ing the next few days. Wesley Green, Fort Valley’s fastest man in the recent Middle Georgia Basketball Tournament, will lead the way in high and broad jump. Three girls and one boy will sent the local school at the meet in literary events. These contestants expect to follow 1 up the general opinion of the. other schools throughout the 12th district that places the “Green and Gold’’ on the top, that they are proud to hail from the “Peach City,” The home the Peach Blossom Festival. Fort Valley representatives are. 100 yard dash, Quentin Gassett; 220 yard dash, Quentin Gassett; 440 yard dash,, Wiley Green; shot put, Jack Vining; high jump, Wesley Greer: broad jump, W’esley Green; hurdles, Royce Bartlett; pole vaulting, Royce Bartlett. Literary Representatives The winners in music, recitation, declamation and domestic science are: Recitation, first Miriam Edwards’ stcond, Evelyn Duke; third, Jeannette Nichols; declamation first, Samuel Jones; second, Floyd Oarithers; third, Harris Hafer; music, first Marjorie Brown; second Millard Mosley; third, Helen Dasherjdomestic science, f irst, Charlie Matthews; second Sadie Stem bridge; third, Adelaide Tornlirxo.i and Mary Vinson tied. EXERCISES CARNEGIE LIBRARY DEDICATION' _ The handsome Carnegie Library ik at the Fort Valley High and Industrial School has been completed and is be ine admired very much. The follow ing invitation i. . being . sent out: , <r The is trustees and principal of the Fort Val ►icy High and Industrial School in¬ vite you and your friends to attend the dedication exercises of the negie library, Fort Valley, Georgia April nineteenth and twentieth, Nine¬ teen Hundred Twenty-five.” H. & I. EXERCISES i Special exercises will be held by the Fort Valley High and Industrial School at the C. M. E. church Sunday j afternoon at three o’clock. Siifre the J burning of the chapel it is necessary I to use the church, which offers ample j comfortable accommodations. ; Much Truth in Few Words The rest of ’-our days depend upon J|*i rest of your nights.—Good Hard¬ ware. Peach Orchards Now Harboring Many Curculios On account of the mild winter of 1924-25. the morality of adult curc.u lios in hibernation has been very low. Hibernation tests show that the sprip.g emergence of the beetles this year has been heavier than any spring since 1921. Sixty five per cent of the beetles placed in Bermuda grass hi bernating quarters last fall have a! ready emerged this spring. Growers are "reporting heavy infestations, as indicated by the large number of a dult curculios caught by commercial jarring. Curculio < I stings” are nui iV ermis in many orchards. These facts s:. «feld prompt growers to act accord ingly in an effort to handle in time the heavy curculio infestation’ now occurs in most orchards. There has been some letting up with the spraying program this year. In some cases the first application has gea&er-®ribunej Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest. ! <'« 3 rcromhie Speaks On Heallh Program For Summer Months I The Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley had as guests at its luncheon last Fri [ day Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, head of the State Health Department, and Dr. IC. L. Ridley, health officer of the city of Macon. These experts in health regulations and the control of disease made their hearers sit up with keen j attention by their pictures of dead j aloose ly disease by the germs millions which may the be l< t upon com munity if prompt war is not made up jon the fly and the mosquito. They pointed out the numerous breeding places for these .death-dealing insects which exist around homes and busi- j ness places and which may be des troyed by a little effort. Their remarks followed a conference with Mayor R. D. Hale, the chairman of the city j sanitary department and other offi Friday morning. It 1 on was urg ed as of vital importance that gar- | bage be handled with greatest care, i every home, restaurant and place’ handling garbage being required by I city ordinance to have a metal, cover-1 ed garbage can, and it was sir'd to, be that regulated for sanitation, along with [ilaces where live stock is kept. i It was delared that food supplies should he inspected thoroughly and condemned when unwholesome. These things, the health officers said, would \ save many lives and give children a j better chance to into healthy, able .uen and women with goon minds. Dr. Abercrombie offered to nave a careful survey made of the co.-.nnuni [ ty with recommendations tor health work if the community would prom- 1 ise to exert itself in co-operative ef forts. The offer was accepted and the survey will be made at once. Ralph Newton’s motion that a pledge of ut most co-operation be given to Dr. Ab ercrombie was carried y . To Promote Boy Scouts ; President Murray called the club’s I attention to the approaching Boys , i Week, April 20-May 3, to be observ ed throughout the country. The Boy Scout movement was praised Cin this connection and it was decided to get behind the movement and help the Boy Scouts of Fort Valley to become more fully organized and active. A comm i ttee composed of Wru. Wright, E jM whitjng an() Geo> w Mal.hews, Jf wag appointed to wcrk out Rn appropriate . . , observn , program rar • ‘ ^ ovs > On motion of W. G. Bnsondine ■> collection „ .. was taken , , for , victims ... f t . a fire on Thursday night. $41 was giv en and C. Hall offered free use of a house on the golf links for the peo pie who were without a home. The high school quartet added much pleasure to the occasion with some splendid songs. Honor . at university For Quentin Davidson Quentin Wavidson, of Fort Valley, * honored again the Uni- ’ has been at versify of Georgia with election to the Senior Round Table. He is a son of Senator J. E. Davidson, and was elected to the Junior Cabinet last year. been omitted, while in other* the Cec¬ ommended schedule has been altered, ( A word of warning is therefore sounded on 6t-ount of those u»*w ise procedures in view of the m< sent cur¬ culio infestation as reveal ed .iv the above facts. Hileys and . .her laV-r varieties will be ready for c>>e third application by the middle of next week, A sulphur fungicide should be ,used in that application, and in eases where the first application has been !omitted arsenate of lead should be 'used in the third spray. Peach growers in Middle Georgia are urged to give their spraying program and supple ! mentary curculio control measures more serious and careful considc-ra i tion. | Government and State Laboratory, I Fort Valley, Georgia. Issued April 10, 1925. FORT YAI.1.KY. PEACH COUNTY. GEORGIA. THCRSD^Y, APRIL 18. 1*125. 250,000 Memorial Half Dollars c J' • L 4* L t m vi K * k V >3 yiiin I! c hi * I ~ 4 >x I !> i l m s V |i I X- : 1 mi i : V. - *0 : : & (•' . pi m ■ || ' '~ : -4 ..... g} ' §g 1 s '; .■ >-* fl f| V ' " " * ■ ~v/ ■<* * ' <*k. i t / * • ' m * M V i r V A a V « $ - mi w ! §§ jL ' ^ "ere are Hie officers and committee and board members of the Stone Mountain .Memorial association, with Federal bank officials grouped about 250,000 memorial half dollars which were especially coined by authorization of the gov i rum on t and bear a likeness of Generals Lee uml Jackson on horseback tin’ first equestrian figures ever placed on American coins. > p.,..-,! (All lit S /ilt. A .YOU A r , ! Ready for Third Spray Treatment Hi ley peaches in Middle 1 are now ready for the third ttion of spray or dust, and are advised to start treating that riety immediately. This application is applied about two weeks hefore the fruit enters the stone hardening aand is primarily for the control and is primarily for the control of Georgia Belles, and Hales are also rea<ly f ° r th ° thir<1 appiicati ° n ’ an<1 thos e variet.es should be treated im , mediately the completion of the upon H,ley acreage. The early var.et.es Should he g.ven the third treatment the laUor '‘art of next week. , Self-boiled lime-sulphur, 32-32-200, K ou < )e use(1 alone tor this spray >ng, unless the first application for the rcuIl « was in which case ! foar of powdered arsenate of Teadsboobl be usedwith theseH-boil cl ^ lime-sulphur. If the first two I«Prays have been applied at the rec time no arsenate of lead is necessary in the third application. If dust is used instead of the liquid the 80-5-15 formula is recommended for this ,. . application, In view of the fact that the late varieties will not be treated again un¬ til four weeks before the fruit ripens a special effort should be made to do a thorough job in putting on the third spray or dust. Government and State Laboratory, Fort Valley, Ga. Issued April 15, 1925. : DEATH OF MRS. CARTER BRINGS SADNESS HERE Mrs. W. C. Carter of Powersville, i nearly 80 years old died at her home Friday night at 7 o’clock. Mrs. Carter was a woman of rare grace and culture, was much much beloved by all who knew her. She had been in declining health for the past year and death was not nexepect ed. The funeral service was held in Fort Valley Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock, interment at Oak Lawn cemetery. D. A. Howard, pastor of the First Baptist church conducted the service. Besides her husband, W. C. Carter, she is Survived by two sons and three daughters, Henry Carter of Powers- 1 ville Cecil Carter of Shilo, Mrs. H. G. Brunson, Cocoa, Fla., Mrs. Willis Bowen, Srnithville and Mrs. W. 11 . Jones^J’ort Valley. - HOWARD A. . BOND • I TAKES HIS LIFE! Roberta, Ga., April 10.—Howard A. Bond, 47, well known business man, shot himself in the right tern rile at 7 o’clock this morning while aior.e in his room. He died at 11:30 o’clock. BANKERSTO SEE SCENES OF FESTIVAL Macon, April 12._Scenes from the Peach Blossom Festival recently held at Fort Valley will be re-enacted be fore the Georgia Bankers’ Association j n connection with the annual dinner to be held at the Hotel Dempsey the opening night of the convention, Thursday, April 23, it Wcaine known yesterday. The convention wi]] contin- | 1H . here through April 25. Charles E. Martin, vice president ()f U)e citizens Bank of Fort Va , leVi an( , ( . hairman of the executive C om mittee> of lhe association, who is to pregide Kt lht , annua , dinner , arrang this f eature . ge]ect Greek and P6rsian sceneg in connec y on vvn h the history of the devclopment of Uu . peaf h es , togeth fer with the dances given in tho8(! gcenes ajJ stagw , „„ the pageant ficld at Port Valley, will be repeated. ______ NEW MERCHANT HERE B. Goldman, of Macon, has leased W. It. Brown store room on Main street and will open a new mercantile here on May first. Rig New Mergenthaler Linotype, Model Fourteen 1 A tf i fjr / tar m Vi t I m - >— III ipi - J ■ © € di’j h il i [\r :«ri I This, the largest and most modern Linotype of the times, was placed in operation in The Leader-Tribune plant this week. It sets a large variety of the latest and most tatractive type faces and plac¬ es The Leader-Tribune at the very front in the printing business. It also places us heavily in debt for a number of years. But “Your Home Paper” is very serious about giving you service of which you may be proud. Pay up ye subscription TODAY and help us to win the bat¬ tle of progress. , Making Fort Valley Tnll J --- The telephone offices in Fort Val ley are undergoing a great enlarge men in equipment, so that they look like a storm had struck them. The Southern Bell, which recently aequir station into a toll center. Four station into a toll center. Four new boards are being installed. This toll center will go into oper a tion. on May 15th, when telephone patrons here will be relieved of the “checking” of long distance calls through MaCon ‘ LonK distanC ° Calls will be placed from here directly to Atlanta and other opitns, while this city will be a toll center through ry, Marshallville and other nearby towns will be cnecned. In the mean time, patrons are asked to be pati¬ with any delays or irregularities may result from the confusion incident to the extensive changes be¬ ing made in the local plant. Ask postmaster about changes in postal rales, especially on post cards, which went into effect Wed¬ nesday, 15th. Amerieus ami Fort Valley are members of the newly organized sociation. Other clubs may be later. Weekly match games teams representing each of the have been arranged for 1 he the first .match being scheduled May 7 when Amerieus meets gerald at Fitzgerald, and Fort meets Hawkinsville at Hawkmsvi'le. The season Will be divided into two halves, the winners playing for a fro phy at the end of the season. Officers of the association are W. A. Mason, Hawkinsville, president.; L. L. Griner, Fitzgerald, vice nresi »itl. I. C. Thier. ..f Amerieus »n,l Emory Wilcox of Fitzgerald, consti¬ tute the board of directors. OFFICIAL SCHEDULE—FIRST HALF May 7—Amerieus vs. Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald. Fort Valley vs. Hawkinsville at Hawkinsville. May 14- Hawkinsville vs. Ameri¬ eus at Amerieus. May 21- Hawkinsville vs. Fitz¬ gerald. Amerieus vs. Fort Valley at Fort Valley. I MAY 28— Fitzgerald vs. Amerieus at Amerieus. ; Hawkinsville vs. Fort Valley at Fort Valley. JUNE 4—Amerieus vs. Hawkins¬ ville at Hawkinsville. Fort Valley vs. Fitzgerald at Filz Igerald. . JUNE 11—Fitzgerald vs. Hawkins¬ ville at Hawkinsville. Fort Valley vs. Amerieus at Ameri cus. I (Continued on Society Page) (Eight Pages) Interest Is Growing n hi Revival Services At Methodist The evangelistic services which gan at the Methodist church last day will continue, it is through the coming week. The ing is growing in interest, tions are good and the outlook for realervival is encouraging. Rev. W. Smith, presiding elder of the district, filled the pulpit Sunday ening. Since then the pastor, Rev. H. Thomson, has preached daily, morning and evening. The sermons of the pastor have been plain gospel messages, carrying conviction and finding their way to responsive hearts. An interesting ami helpful feature of the service is the congregational singing directed by Mr. M. L. Lifsey of Macon. Mr. Lifsey, who is regu¬ larly in the work as singer and young people’s evangelist, has made a fine impression and those who attend the worship have thoroghly enjoyed his contribution to the campaign and have responded to his leadership, lie is or ganizing the young people too and the singing of the junior choir is an in spiration. But Mr. Lifsey is not only ja | recognized musical director, ability and he is each a soloist night of the meetin ^ has delighted the gation with his messages in song. j rea] It is planned to make next Sunday a letter day in the local church. The pastor will preach morning and evening and in the afternoon at an hour to he announced Mr. Lifsey will conduct a special service for children young people. Other feature services will be announced from time to time. | The members of the other churches j n the city are attending the meetings and giving the Methodists the en couragement of their presence, pray ers a,ui co-operation. The public is cordially invited to the services at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. I For Sunday the morning worship will me at 11, the regular hour. Reach Hell Coif iss'n Organized ; Start Play Soon Representatives of four Middle Georgia towns met at the Hawkins ville Country Club, Hawkinsville, Ga., last week and perfected the organ¬ ization of a golf league known as the Peach Belt Golf Association. The golf clubs of Hawkinsville, Fitzgerald, Gray Is Re-elected , Judge L. P .Gray was re elected I Justice of the Peace of Fort Valley j election. Militia District received No. 1813 in Tuesday’s He 20f, votes. M. J,. Sheats was given 174 votes. .J. W. | Joyner and B. R. Barfield were elected constables. HAIIOlil) HOUSER REPORTED IMPROVING The many fiends of Mr. Raiford •Houser will he pleased to know that he is improving at the Middle Geor¬ gia Sanitarium, where he went sever¬ al weeks ago for an operation. ■ Mr. Houser’s friends have been constantly by his bedside, and are de¬ lighted to know that he will soon re¬ turn home. i NURSERYMAN VISITOR j Orlando Harrison, of the Harrison Nurseries at Berlin, Md., has been among old friends in Fort Valley this week. Mr. Harrison had not visited the eity in about five years and was warm in his admiration of the many improvements and splendid progress shown here. Mrs. T. V. Fagan of Macon spent Thursday in Fort Valley with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Fagan made their home here for a number of years and their numerous friends are always glad to welcome them back. Penchland Journal 37 years old—only newspa per in the heart of one of* America’s richest diversified ; agricultural sections. $1.30 Per Year in Advance. SEW ER RONDS ARE CARRIED |J y JJ f ^ VOTE Only one of the 398 votes cast iii last I" iday’s election for the issuance of $30,000 sanitary sewer bonds was against the bond issue. The bonds will be sold to extend the sewer system into Oakland Heights, a new residential section on the east side of the city, and parts of West End. Thus is registered the solid, pro gressive spirit of Fort Valley in ear eying forward the new Peach County ^Program, MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES AT men school Memorial Day Exercises will be held at the high school auditorium Monday afternoon, April ‘.'7th, at 1:30 o’clock, Mrs. John A. Houser, president of the Memori: associa tion, presiding over the ft ' ’Wing pro gram: j Invocation, Rev. I). A Howard, Song, Daughters of Confederacy Quartet. Introduction of Speaker, Col. C. L, . Shepard. r Address, Dr. Walter Anthony. >S° n g. High School, Benediction, Rev. T. H. Thomson. MRS. C. L. SHEPARD, *^ cc Y Memorial Association, Dinner for Veterans Mrs. T. R. Ousley, president of the Chas. D. Anderson Chapter, U. D. C.’s will be hostess at a dinner which will he given by the chapter to the Con¬ federate veterans of Peach county at the Kiwanis Hall on Monday, April twenty-seventh, at Twelve o’clock. I The following committees have been appointed: General Chairman, Mrs. Pierce Greene; assistant chairman, Mrs. I. L, BY own. Invitation: Mrs. C. II. Sammons, Mrs. J. E. Broadrick. Reception: Miss Culpepper, Mrs, Orr. Soldiers’ Graves: Mrs. Will Tharpe, Mrs. Henry Branham. Decorating Auditorium: Mrs. J. F. Troutman, Mrs. Mattie Carpenter, Mrs. Ed Eubanks. Lemonade: Mrs. Ben Anderson, Mrs. W. C. Fagan, Mrs. S. W. Hick¬ son, Jr. Coffee: Mrs. C. H. Matthews, Mrs, M. S. Bazemore. Decorating Hall: Miss Wilma Orr, Mrs. Laurence Houston, Miss Susie Green. Table Cloths: Mrs. E. G. Thomas, Mrs. J. W. Woolf oik.