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Volume XXXVII. Number 19.
KIWI MASS
AS
MEETING
IMPORTANCE OF HI Y
AMONG HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
EMPHASIZED BY MR
H. E. MONTAGUE
Cornelius Hall Pulls Original
Contest in Which Whole Club
« Participated.
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Following up the program of
week ago in which the importance
the Boy Scout movement was
forcefully presented to the Club
Rabbi Marcusson, a talk at last
day’s meeting by Mr. H. E.
of Atlanta, who is in charge of
Boys Work in Y. M. C, A., was
favorably received.
Mr. Montague outlined the
that are being made to hold a
ference in June at Juniper
near Columbus, and stressed the
portance of Fort Valley High
being represented.
The Hi-Y at Fort Valley which
was organized some years ago
been of very great value in
the characters of the older boys,
through their examples that of of
i ounger boys also.
The inspiration received at
conferences aids very materially i
keeping: up the interest in local work,
The meeting to be held in June will
be at Juniper Springs through the
* courtesy of the Columbus Y. M. C. A
who have a permanent camp there,
The mornings will be spent in se
rious study y and class work and the
after„oons devoted to sports and rec
reation, there is a beautiful lake at
the camp and boating and swimming
L?oftherembcrswoul7Ls^ at FrMa y rmeeting Realizing that
handicapped in an open
distance he overcame this obstacle
by providing a whole book of jokes,
The book was passed around and
each member requested to open the
... book at random . and ....... read the first
joke he saw, the prize was to be given
to the man who read the best joke
in the best manner. On making the
roun( i Gie room several members
were <i ec ' arei i > n tke running and
they were requested to take another
chance. The second round resulted m
Steve Bassett and Bob Hale being
declared high men.
j) Everybody in the room held their
breath while these two picked their
jokes and rendered them in cham
pionship manner. Bob Hale was giv
en the decision and presented by the
committee with a fontain pen. As
a result of the jokes read several
new names were added to the Joke
Censors.
Uneedas Now Ready
For Final Treatment
• Uneedas are ready for the final
treatment of spray or dust and grow¬
ers in the Middle Georgia peach belt
are advised to treat that variety be¬
fore the dose of this week. For this
final treatment either self-boiled
lime-sulphur 32-32-200 with four
pounds of arsenate of lead or 80-5-15
dust should be used.
Early Rose should receive the last
spray or dust sometime next week
and Carmen will be ready for the fi¬
nal treatment during the week of
May 18-23. Dates for making the
last application to Hileys, Georgia
Belles, and Elbertas will be announc¬
ed later.
Government and State Laboratory,
May 4, 1925. Fort Valley, Ga.
The children of the Fort
Sunday schools are looking forward
to a great time on Friday—no
a ride to the country, fishing
an!$as one little boy expressed it,
chance to just walk up and down
table and pick out all the cake
want.”
I Mrs. F. W. Withoft and Mrs.
I A. Williams went over to Byron
Inesday 3 afternoon with Miss
| Bowie, _ . of . „ Rome, to . assist . . . .
ling m
‘■hat a L^gue of Women Voters
section.
®he tribune
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
Wilsons Admirers’
Meeting In
Atlanta, Ga., May
Georgians from throughout the
public officials and educators
all parts of the South and
and admirers of Wilson from
! states attended a conference at
I Capitol City Club here on
day, May Gth, to hear of the
for establishing the Woodrow
College in Georgia.
Pleasant A. Stovall of
boyhood friend of Wilson who
chairman of the national
to establish the college as a
to, the great war president,
sided, at the gathering. The
lasted all day ami the
gathered at luncheon in the club
12:30 p. m.
j Under the direction of Mr. Stovall
and members of the state
committee of the campaign, the meet
mg was arranged for the pur
P*>se of placing before the forward
looking citizens of the South, fhe
plan to establish a fitting memorial
to Woodrow Wilson. VV oil-known
speakers including personal friends of
Wilson were present and present
«d various aspects of the plans that
have been worked out for the college,
, 110 .! the pare that the institution wni
P la Y Jn elevating the educational
standard of the state. No funds were
solicited . | at this meeting which
was called solely to enlist t h e
interest of the people of the state.
Fhe appeal for $1,000,000 as Geor
gia’s “pledge of faith,” will be held
uunng the latter part of May, fol
lowing which a nation-wide campaign !
wO, he held for the amount necessar
to complete the college.
I Members of the campaign organ!
cd to make the trip here m m
surrounding commumties
Governor H. L. Whitfield of Miss
and is particularly interested iri edu
cation through the South, wrote
Woodrow Wilson College U,at
he intended to .c present at the
conference. Public officials from
Georgia who attended include:
Senator William J. Harris, who has
p ropogec | that special provision be
ma( j e bo train young men for the dip
j orna tic service at Woodrow Wilson
College; Senator Walter F. George,
Congressman W. G. Wright, Con
greKsman Charles G. Edwards; Gov
ernor Clifford Walker and Mayor
Walter A. Simms, of Atlanta.
A reception committee including
the following members of the state
executive committee from Atlanta,
welcomed the visitors: Asa W.
Candler, John S. Cohen Clark How
el, Jr., Dr. M. Ashby Jones, Bolling
H. Jones, Jeromo Jones and Eugene
K. Hlack.
Roll Weevil Meeting
I
The logical time to begin the fight
on the Boil Weevil is now at hand.
Owing to the mild winter there is
bound to be a heavy infestation early
this season so it behooves every
farmer to prepare for the fight.
There will be a rally at the Macon
Chamber of Commerce at 12 o’clock
Saturday, May 9th of the farmers of
Bibb and adjoining counties. Mr. W.'
F. Turner, Entomologist of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway and Mr. C.
O. Carpenter, Agricultural Agent of
the Fourth National Bank, will be
the principal speakers. These gentle
men have had years of experience in
fighting the boll weevil and it will be
worth your while to travel many
miles to hear them discuss this sub
ject.
The farmers of Peach County are
especially invited to attend this meet¬
ing.
W. G. MIDDLEBROOKS,
Bibb County Agricultural Agent
FLORIDA HONORS MOTHERS
j Tallahassee, Fla, May 6.—Tributes
to motherhood will be prepared and
spread on the journals of the house
and senate) in recognition of Mothers’
_ Day, which , . , occurs next .Sunday, un
der the Provision of a resolution
which passed both houses today.
FORT VAI LEY. PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, May 7, 1925.
I Im portan t Meet iag
l, ensue of Women
J oters Snturda
| Mrs. A. A. Williams, president,
nounces a meeting of the League
Women Voters to be held
afternoon at three thirty o’clock
the Peach County Court House.
is the second meeting of the
to be held since its organization,
all members are urgently
to be present; and all others,
men and wohien, who are
in the work which the League
striving to do are cordially invited
to attend.
Miss Eleonore Raoul, or Atlanta,
chairman of the committee on organ¬
ization in the Georgia League will be
iv guest at the meeting and will speak.
Miss Raoul, more than anyone else
is responsible for the building up of
the League of Women Voters in
Georgia. Sir.' is untiring in her ef
f or [ to make this organization of real
service to the women of the state.
she brings to Fort Valley, therefore,
a broad experience in League work,
and an unfailing interest in the aims
lor wh ich it is striving. Miss Adelene
Bowie, ’ field secretary, several’ who has
ir) the Hty ' for days, ’afternoon will also
be presen t at the Saturday
ri,,. t " ,,<• nr nmm TZ
Voters is ■ ci nonpartisan „ , organization,
' „ ' fftr L thp n
rriegislaDon Besides thL the S
l 1 aulm onerllLn r .. vprn
T PrcZnt t d Interr WalA1th mgh^ 1 Co
t g there are
™ZTnZ , , T17Z2TZZ .
'”cul«^ 1 work of tht^e Wo
men Voters> that is , takes the woman
f nng f b ° U ‘. ,mi,r 0Vt ' rnen t “ many
‘'T.i ''ul.bcendeavor. ) r In this pres
WESLEYAN HONORS I
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I OR LOCAL GIRL
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Miss Eunice Thomson, Fort Valley,
senior student at Wesleyan College,
was elected recently to Phi Delta
Phi, honorary society of the institu
tion. Announcement of her election
was made Saturday, April 25, at the
chapel exercises by Dr. W. F. Quil
iian, president.
As editor-in-chief of the Veter
r0 pt, college annual, as member of
all publication staffs and of the
Scribes and Pharisees, honorary wri
ters’ club, as winner in a swimming
tournament and holder of several
basketball letters and stars, Miss
Thomson is an active and prominent
member of the student body She has
written every stunt presented by her
class for the last two years. Hector,
the Hired Man, stunt presented by
the seniors last fall, won first place
on college night.
Miss Thomson was > at various
times in her Cf)Iki £ e career, managing
editor of the Jester, associate editor
of the Watchtower junior representa
tive on the Wesleyan, junior repre
sentative and editor-in-chief of the
Veterropt. A poem which she wrote,
.. Was Ever,” received honorable men¬
tion in College Anthology, t
P* 1 ' D <;, t a phi was founded from
the members of the senior class of
L<24, the five charter members being
Miss Bernice Hurst, Miss Margaret
Gutter, Miss Helen Kilpatrick, Miss
Guida Johnson, and Miss Sarah
Branch. At Thanksgiving two more
members from the class of 1925 were
elected: Miss Vo Hammie Pharr,
Washington, and Miss Elizabeth
Winn, Macon. The election of Miss
Thomson completes the number of
students from the class of 1925.
It is a signal honor to be elected to
this society. Membershp is based on
recommendation by the faculty for
high scholarship attainments and
contribution to college life through
participation in student activities,
From the list selected by the faculty
the members of the society elect new
members.
When it comes to predicting earth
quakes, that Italian seismologist,
Prof. Bendandi, is a jimdandy.
i BOOSTING THE COUNTRY
I Some writers make quite a job of ridiculing Chambers of Com¬
merce, Kiwatiis clubs and other like organizations because they
boost home communities.
But after all, aren’t some of these self-appointed guardians of
culture a bit superficial? The editor is of the opinion that a broad
view of this American characteristic-pride in the home town, will
convince one that it has a very definite and valuable place in the up¬
building of a better country.
Before we can have improvement, we must have pride. The old
well-known saying might be changed to read, “Pride goeth before
improvements.” And “boosting” is merely an expression of pride.
I
Think what it means to have thousands of small cities scattered
throughout the width and breadth of the land all “boosting” to build
themselves up industrially, commercially and intellectually, We can
include the world intellectually, because before we have culture we
must have prosperity—before a nation can set about the task of
improving itself mentally, its citizens must first be prosperous and I
comfortable.
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i j' 1 miWUH I.I • SUtOSeVeU j > i,
! fndnrKOK SC9 Wntiflrnin rr UUUrUll
j ! II ilson Institution
Warm Springs, Ga„ May 5~Frank
i«r. !l i) * Rho^pvpIi K ,’ of tun 1 fnlfttmiivt ^ most
Dem ° Crats ,n thc C0Untry and former
* eCre4ary of «« Ni ‘ vy -
p f esscd lnt<!re8t and confidence in the
,? t0 ‘ the Woodrow Wilson
o JV
w Wednesday with representatives of
^
^Jh n”’ , ,,
VaMosta raise
»» Je o° S t of
will easily secure $1,000,000 and that
win be a , i(fn al for the friends of
I am only sorry that circumstances
will prevent me from attending the
State-wide conference of workers
wbo are t0 come t0 Atlanta shortly j
to j alincb this slpendid J project thru
„ ut the staU o he add |
j,j r Roosevelt was one of the first
people outside of Georgia who was
consulted last year at the inception
„f the plan to establish a memorial
college in memory of Woodrow Wil
son. He took a very active part in so
curing the interest of President Wil
son’s friends in other parts of the
country in establishing the memorial
college in Georgia. It was largely
through his co-operation that the
plan to establish the Woodrow Wilson
college was endorsed at the last
Democratic Convention in New York.
J present he is resting at Warm
Spri 8 under ordcr8 of bis physici an
who hag instructed birn t0 r( . fuBe a R
invitations which would interfere
his complete rest. Therefore he
^ had t0 decline tho invitation of
Pleasant A. Stovall, State Chairman
the Executive Committee to be
preS ent and the meeting of thc Re
g i„ na i an d County Chairman in At
] an t a next week,
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Girl 14,Killed W hen
c'li *1 alls if Oi rw' I men i
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Montezuma, Ga., May. 5.—Miss
R()bjnson> 14 . year . old s(;hoo ,
d j ed bere ear | y tonight from in
y j n j ur j es sustained during the
£ 4ernoon w hen she was thrown from
trutb j n w hieh she was riding with I
group of o4ber „j r ] s
The ., nwer recovered
from the shock which she received in
the fall.
Three other girls were also thrown
from the truck and suffered minor I
injuries. They were Estelle Walker,
Minnie Fokes and Maria Forehand.
The girls were standing up in the
truc R and i ost their balance when it
rounded a curve . Others in the truck
thrown to the floor of the ve
hide but were unhurt.
The dead girl was a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Robinson, Jr. She
was in the ninth grade at school.
They used to sympathize with the
p 00r b j rds on women’s hats; now it’s
the poor birds that have to buy the
hats.
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/if* 01(111111 Ar a SClUtt C
Peddler Car To Re
Here May ILL 5
The State Board of Entomology
win Ulli operafce nnnnoin cars over the Central of
Goor ^ ia Railway during May and
f Arsenate, ne for selling distribution it to cotton of planters Calcium
at cost > so that the V ma y be prepared
t0 {i * ht J he b<dl weeviI - There is
every indication that weevils will be
thiS
gr °^” ^ ^ t0 ^ War 5?
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cah wffl Mute
schedules with circulars. The
Arsenate Peddler car wi U be at
\o\ p m May Tfi
PJfcUJ’J 1 p \PIJ 4I\PE
TO SELL DIRECT
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The Georgia Peach Growers’ Ex¬
change will do its own marketing this
year ’ Jt Was laerned yesterday, open
U,> ra * atlons Wltk tke principal
0 'd-line fruit, receivers, or commission
merckants * n various parts of the
The shipments will be made
°‘ ,J to tl0se companies. It is hop
“d < h <'iehy to obtain greater distribu
*' lon ‘
Growers were dissatisfied with the
ear - jt was learned •yesterday, open
arrangements made last year, in which
Association attempted to market the
fruit.
Persons connected with the Ex¬
change, however, stated that it was 3
the over-production pnore than the *
aySt ® m ° f ........ distribution picked out for
tle as ^ seas °n that caused losses to
mal) y of the growers.
Under the system that has been ar
ranged for this year it is believed
that there w,jll be greater distribution
this year than in other years, not
withstanding the fact that the crop
will be smaller than that of last sea
~
Many of the growers are to market
their fruit direct to commission mer
chants. Some have sold their crop on
the trees.
v
The Georgia Peach Growers’ Ex
change will aid all in establishing
market and to prevent glutting of
markets as much as possible.
First shipments will be by express
and probably will not leave the mid
die Georgia belt until next Tuesday
or Wednesday. Car lot shipments can
hardly be expected- to move before
the week of May 18.
The machinery is all ready for the
fruit to move. It will be a high quali
ty crop, it is indicated, for the grow
ers are taking every precaution to
destroy pests, in an effort to make a
little money out of this year’s peach
crop, if possible. No estimate of the
volume of the crop will be made be
fore May 15.
TROTZKY BUYS CASTLE
Genoa, May 5.—Newspapers here
report that Leon Totzky, the Russian
leader, has bought the historic castle
at San Reno, where the^ interallied
conference was held in 1920.
(Eight Pages.)
Fort Valley Hoys
Win Mali
Two Port Valley boys, R. L.
and Joe Graham, carried away
honors in the recent student
elections at Emory university.
Fagan was elected
of the Emory Campus, the
and Graham was elected
chief of the Emory Phoenix,
monthly literary publication.
men were also given places on
respective class councils.
Fagan, who will be a senior next
year in the College of Liberal
has been active in student publica
tions and athletics during his three
years at x Emory. „ He . member of
is a
the Sigma Nu fraternity ami of sev
oral honorary organizations. It. is
said to be due largely to his genius ’
that the “Democratic Party,
which he was a founder, won the
cent student elections.
Graham is now rounding owl, his
fourth year at Emory and will be a
sophomore next year in the School
| Law. He has been a brilliant con .
tributor to the Phoenix for several
I years. He is a member of the Pi Kap
jpa Phi fraternity, the Phi Delta Phi
legal fraternity and the Sigma
loa honorary literary fraternity.
j The editors of the two publications
[are elected by vote of the entire stu
dent body, and it is considered an
usual distinction for both of these
places to go to me nfrom the same
home town.
SPECIAL TERM
I i PEACH COURT
I Jud « e Malcolm D. Jones will hold
Amon * th e c,vl1 cases he hear
,S 0ne mvolv , ‘ n f th e W. C. Wright
f InZTyZTfZ
^ >UrChasG ten acres
port valley, ga.
SOME LIVE CITY: :
POPULATION 3.200
Thus writes the Waupaca County
Post in far-away Wisconsin, the eom
plete article being as follows:
“Through the courtesy of George
H. Dobbins, supervisor of Fremont,
we are able to publish some facts re
garding a small city of Georgia. Mr.
Dobbins has taken
found in some literature re
garding Fort Valley, that came to
b j s notice:
U t This is the story of live,
a en
thusiastic Southern community which
was so busy starting new business
enterprises and developing those al
ready in existence it scarcely realiz
pd was shabby and unkempt, and
0 f wave of civic pride which fol
lowed tho first street improvement.
«< < Fort Valley is a city of 3,200
population, divided about equally be
tween white people and negroes. In
spite of its comparatively small size
it is a thriving business center num
«
canneries which annually sell
cases of canned peaches, a cotton
a knitting mill, a large flour grist
mill, and cotton seed oil mill, two
peach crate factories, two large ma
shops and two planing mills
Besides that it is the largest peach
shipping point in the world, sending
3,000 carloads of peaches to northern
markets each season, is the center of
a rapidly expanding asparagus busi
ness with 3,000 acres of plants al
ready set out, as well as being a
great cotton market. In addition, it is
only 8 miles from the greatest water
melon shipping point in the world—
Powersville, Ga.’
‘‘Among other things noted were:
“That they had held a Peach Festi¬
val March 19-20 just past.
“That 50,000 people came to eat
439 bazrbecued hogs, 25 beeves and
20 goats.
! “4,000 gallons of Brunswick stew
was served.
«< 3,000 gallons of coffee was served
by the cupful.
“3 1-2 miles of tables were erected
ito sere from.”
Peachland Journal
37 yean old—only newtpa
per in the heart of ope of
America’s richest diversified
agricultural sections.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance,
Picnic of Sunday
Schools Will Hold
City W ide Interest
The people of Fort. Valley veil
I demonstrate the high place held ir.
tf ieir hearts hy their Sunday sch'oo
work whpn they make a picnic of al
Sunday schools at Houser’s Mill to
morrow (Friday) one of the events
of the year,
j The joint committee on arrange
j itients from the four churches named
the following special committees;
j Finance Committee
C. B. Alraon, Chairman; J. A. L,
Wilson, J. G. Hillyer, W. D. Tharpe,
d q Strother
Transportation Committee
Glenmore Green, Chirman; J. D,
Duke; A. L. Luce; G. V. Braddock.
Table Committee.
j J - w - Woolfolk, Chairman; A. J,
Houser : Tom Anthoine; E. T. MeMii
lian.
Basket Committee.
r L. M. Byrd, Chairman; O. 1. Snapp ;
Wm. Wood; Chas. H. Alden: J. S. Mc
Milian; W. L, Nance,
j Lemonade and Ice C; . -littee.
R. 1. Marchman, Sr Chairman;
Gus Wouvis; W. B. N Ion; Claude
Houser; Sim Brown, J. W. Robinson;
Bob Berry,
Entertainment Committee
R. D. Hale, Chairman; Mrs. J, W.
Woolfolk; C. L. Shepard; Frank Har
Mrs. F. W. Withoft; Mrs. L.
E. Houston; Mrs. E. J. Saywell; Mrs.
W. L. Nance, W. G. Brisendine; Mrs,
Geo. B. Culpepper, Jr., Louis Brown,
Jr., Mrs. H. C. Neil, John H. Jones;
Mrs. C. H. Sammons; Mrs. Ruth
Smith; Rev. E. J. Saywell; Rev. J. W.
Smith; Rev. T. H. Thomson; Rev. D.
A - H™ard; J - ^“ert; T. H.
stamper, Jessie Mae Davis, Mary J.
Yoemans, Evelyn Smith, Annie B.
bridge, Claire Hugs, Morion Home,
Ruby Harris Sammie RJtyle, Myrtice
Fields, Bessie Anderson, Sammie Da¬
vis, Elma Tripp, Marguerite O’Shields,
Cora Hogan, Irene Cawthorn, Flor¬
ence Smith, Ruby MeConnal, Louise
English, Carrie Cravey.
Iliff To Aid In
Correct Way Of
Shipping Peaches
Mr. F. C. Iliff, an engineer of the
Freight Container Bureau of the
American Railway Association, 30
^® sey street P ‘‘ » snipping York season City, is to here aid
in the crating and loading of Geor¬
gia peaches.
Mr. Iliff will confer with shippers
and address civic clubs at various
times, outlining the experiences of
the Freight Container Bureau in what
b .,„ f annf i hv a two vear« f studw .[
to be the bpst method () crat( . in
struetion and assembly and stowing,
loading and bracing crates in the car,
to the end that this valuable crop
may be transported and laid down at
the distant markets in the best of
condition,
Fieife Pllpf flllp'V *
The Ilealthmobile belonging to the
Georgia State Board of Health was in
Fort Valley Monday and Tuesday,
May 4th and 5th at the request of
the Woman’s Club and the Public
schools.
The truck was in charge of Dr,
Alice Moses whose headquarters are
in Atlanta. Dr. Moses was assisted by
a trained nurse, Miss Beulah Fort.
Monday beginning at 1:30 Dr,
Moses examined children of Fort Val
ley who are under school age in the
domestic science department of the
school. Between 40 and 50 children
were examined at that time with fa¬
vorable reports on their physical con¬
dition.
On Tuesday the children of the
Mn , sectjon were examined at the
chapel on Fairground street. Special
caro and instruction was given the
mil! mothers, as the children of that
section were in need of this oppor
tun'ty for health instruction.
'ides were shown in connection
\ '.he work.