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THURSDAY, MAY 21 Pi
Helo , Charlie!
Charlie Henris, of Butler Jawjah
(a la Hoke Smith), we understand
that you stuck your bridesmaid’s
face into our office last Friday even
jug, with Senator Joe Davidson, when
v/e were gone. You didn’t oughter do
thataway, ’specially when you’re just
out after a Noo Yawk cold. Reckon
we’ll have to appoint ourself official
guardian of such-like as John Howell
and yourself. You evidently can’t
take keer of yourselves.
A “Hoar Cat" Editor
The* new editorial writer of The
Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, W. P. Arnold
is some “bear cat baby,” if we are
to believe half of what he says of
himself in the following: “A true
Southerner, horn in Georgia, raised
on the milk of a grizzly bear, always
taught to fear the face of no man or
the rule of no woman.” To which he
adds that he “once climbed up a thorn
tree backwards with a Wild cat under
each arm and never got a scratch.”
Tifton Gazette.
Hurrah for the Central
General Manager II. D. Pollard, of
the Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany, ’ was in Fort Valley yesterday 1
and informed the editor of The
er-Tril>unc that he had given instruc
tions for placing a watchman at
temporary crossing near the new ice
plant, where extensive work is under
way for changes in tracks, to which
we made reference last week. This
prompt attention to such , matter .. is
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the kind of public service that merits
high public appreciation.
Southern Hell
If Kvelyn Harris, with all of his
innate talent and the expansive ge¬
nius of his immortal father, Joel
Chandler Harris, joins Fort Valley in
making an art subject of Miss Audrey
Fagan, it certainly must be unani¬
mous.
The current monthly issue of the
Southern Telephone Magazine car¬
ries an elaborate cover design show¬
ing a great peach tree full of blos¬
soms, principal among which is a
lovely girl. That girl is Miss Audrey
Fagan.
Evelyn Harris is editor of the
Southern Telephone Magazine. That
such interest in Fort Valley is being
shown now through the Southern
Bell’s art medium is encouraging, It
indicates that proper interest Will
continue to be shown in telephone
service here.
Exemption of Industries
From Taxation
If the people of Fort Valley and
Peach county were to vote tax ex
emption for certain new industrial
plants during a period of five vears '
as other ,. sections ,. of the state have
done, it is sure that our town and
county would get much valuable ad
vertising throughout the country, » »
and it possible . it . ,
is not probable* that
several new industrial plant s would
be induced to locate here. This would
mean substantial benefits in the taxes
to be collected after the fiv i* years
of exemption, to say nothing of the
richest measure of profit and bene¬
fit through the payrolls and opera¬
tions of such plants from the day the
dirt was broken for their construe
tion.
Senator J. E. Davidson suggests
such action on the part of Fort Valley
and Peach county. After arguing one
OI tWO ItlinOI* points with him we are
inclined to think that his suggestion,
as is characteristic of him, is one of
high practical worth and should re
ceive the careful consideration of
every thinking citizen.
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Senator Harris
» Senator Win. J. Harris, always
alert to the every interest of his con¬
stituents, was good enough to have
Fort \ alley designated as one of the
fifty post offices in the United States ‘
from which experimental rural routes
THE LEADER TRIBUN fc, Kuki vallm, uh, i n\j ftJun i , w*i» *
for handling farm produce would be
'operated. For local reasons it was
found impracticable for the Fort Val¬
ley office to take advantage of the
opportunity, hut Senator Harris’ un¬
failing interest in Georgia, and in
: Peach county, is greatly appreciated
by all of our citizens,
j It happens service that, when flashed the first
news of this was over
lthe country, we had a man always on
I the job VV. H. Harris. He immedi¬
ately communicated with Senator
Harris and secured for Fort Valley
1 and I’each county out of the fifty
one
designated routes in all of America,
jit. the is fifty a significant designated fact routes that seven of I
were nam¬
ed for Georgia by Senator Harris.
That we cannot avail ourselves of
the benefits of such routing for farm
produce is not the question. We know
that the woods are full of republican
I henchmen who can take a good idea
,
and puncture it to the sinking point
j with this or that—in this particular
lease, with absurd rates of remunera
tion for those who would bring the
produce to town and thereby seek to
discredit the authors of a good, sound
idea for the South’s economic ad
But Senator Harris has I
vancement. I
the deep-dyed plan of Georgia’s real
economic progress in his heart. He is
“on the job. ’>
Mayor Halo s Article
On Fort Valley
Fremont, Wisconsin, April HI, 1025.
| | Fort Fort Valley, Valley Knitting Ga. Mills,
. Gentlemen:
Guef it will be the proper thine for me
to explain how we are addressing you. We
have just received a copy of the "Concrete i
Highway Magazine” for April and it's with
■ n lot of interest that I read an article on
Fort Valley by your mayor. It. D. Hale.
| This article was so well written that it
rather interested me to go a little farther
■
J and nml riirht check hm up 1 on wiM some of th the statements
»* they total
led up correctly and when doing it [ no
I ticed the Fort Valley Knitting Mills had a
branch Bt Macon anil that »h.y made Under- 1
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wen r.
But to get back to that article for a mo
ment. It’s one of the best written articles
it’s been my privilege to read for some time. 1
It gives a very clear idea of your town and
when you have grasped that your thoughts
tell ! you to compare that city with come
,lf practically the same size that you are fa
miliar with up in thia country. i
, , I am free to confess „ that city has
your
th , of th( . C0m| , ari80 „ )hat , made
We think we are in some shipping region up
hrre but your pcach hiudman eclipse us.
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You know we are in a fishing locality and
that barbecue with its Brunswick stew just
makes us laugh. This county has had a po
t,ito bakp . h<| * 1 hnvp never heard of but one
two barbecues in this country and “ then
the quantities .... of , provisions were nothing like
w hnt that article mentions. l
Guess 1 shall have to close by saying that
I imagine we have more miles of concrete
roads up here. This State is honeycombed
with that type of construction anil I feel that
it will prove equally a» attractive to your
city a. it has to this state.
Anticipating your kind reply. we arc.
Very truly yours.
FREMONT PKAKI, BUTTON WORKS, I
Goo. H. Dobbins.
Literary Eye Tarns T o
Peach Festiral
N- 25 Grovor St root.
Auburn. N. Y.. May II 1925,
Mr. John H. JonoH,
Gonoral Manager. i
Till: LEADER-TRIBUNE,
Fort Valley. Ga.
My dour Mr. Jones: i
i i Hill just ill receipt •f vour good letter
, »f May 7th. and I am taking immediate
opportunity to acknowledge it and to thank
you.
The spirit of that letter is typically the
Roirit of tin* southern gentleman courteous
and generous 88 1 have always found him.
and 1 think that is why I had no hesitation
in riting you as I did. My faith, you see.
was justified.
rile 1'eaeh blossom Festival Magazine Sup
piement has come in. in the same mail, and
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I can hardly wait to get « spare moment to
-go through it fngn cover to cover. As I leaf
It through, 1 see many things which take
■ back
me to the hours 1 have spent in Geor
K ia.
! For example, that barbecue, 1 attended
oni ' in A,lHn, ‘ l once t the ‘Cue grounds.
and l>, “°* us< ’ 1 w “ s the first wom » n wh ° h»<i
spoken before the ’Cue Club, the presi
dent or the club presented me with the pri- '
VMt< * formula of the famous Brunswick stew
thcr< - Naturally l am very proud of
"f l „h„ii shall icrtainly , • , take . immediate oppor
tunity to write t» the Rembrandt Studio of
Fort Valley, ami will take the liberty of
mentioning your name as •ho has l
one re
ferret! me to them.
The l'each Blossom Festival Pageant must
have ' been very wonderful. I am particularly
interested as I took a course in Dramatics
am! Pageantry last summer at the School of
Religious Education conducted in Auburn in
connection with the Theological Seminary i
h, ' ri '
' " x,)l " in ,h '" 1 spend most f my 1
time in literary work and so the beauty and
romance of such an affair as your city stag
J *l»peals to me very strongly. Then as a
lmsi " < ' s, ‘ promotion thought f„r your part of |
!!"' T'"‘ " " as , wonderful - Kur «
tentious. is enough to challenge the interest
,<nd attention of Other communities every
wh " r "' 1 ,h *' » f 1 ’'°r' 1
V alley.
Again thanking you for your kindness and
courtesy, and hoping that if you ever come
to Auburn, or I can serve you in any way that
you will let me know, I am.
Very sincerely yours.
( MRS.» KMMA GARY W AI.LACK.
A Lost Tail
Dolly (having seen a lilaeksnake) —
fq,, mamma'. I jusl saw a tail that
Kas wassii'S a; me. but there wasn’t
arty dog on it.
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None Are So Blind
As Those Who Will
Not See
There were those who thou r lit that pearlies could he grown
uithout spraying.
7 here were those who thought that Irish fxttatoes cotdd lw
grown without fighting the jettato hug.
There were those who thought that grape, fruit and oranges
could he grown without controlling the citrus cancer.
And once these were prosperous.
Hut now they are “has-beens, — with nothing hut a lift of tin
I hi id debts.
Ijet us hope that there will not he those who persist in belie v
ing that cotton can he raised without jtoisonin^ nr the boll weevil.
Let us hope that none of the farmers in this section of Geor
gin will be blind to the facts, will refuse to see that the only sure
and safe way to produce cotton jtrol itahly under boll weevil con¬
ditions is to poison regularly and thoroughly with calcium arse¬
nate.
None are so blind as those whit will not see. * j
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FORT VALLEY
Capital and Surplus $150,000.00
Resources A Million Dollars
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