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JU£ ARE BUILDING A CITY HERE 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. - 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 . I OR LOCAL GIRL - 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. ■' 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, _ Girl 14,Killed W hen c'li *1 alls if Oi rw' I men i V l 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. ,. /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? ' 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 - 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.