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Volume XXXVII. Number 22. FORT VALLEY, 1’EACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, May 28, 1925. (Twelve Pages) $1.50 Per Year in Advance.
Largest Graduating Class in History of Fort Valley Schools
A. P. PERSONS
* SPEAKER FOR
THE EVENING
Class of Thirty-One Mem¬
bers Will Receive Diplo¬
mas on Friday Evening at
High School.
With Hon. A. P. Persons, of Tal
botton, a distinguished citizen of
state-wide prominence, to deliver the
literary address at 7:30 o’clock to¬
morrow (Friday) evening, the 1924
’26 record of the Fort Valley public
schools will be crowned with a very
significant event, the delivery of di¬
plomas to the largest class ever yet
to have graduated from the high
school—a class of thirty-one mem¬
bers, the unusual feature of which is
the fact that it embraces seventeen
boys and fourteen girls.
Graduation exercises for the seventh
grade will occur at nine o’clock
Friday morning.
Superintendent J. F. Lambert,
Principal T. H. Smith of the high
school, ail teachers of the schools, the
board of education, pupils and par¬
ents may well be proud of the show¬
ing made by the public schools un¬
der fee disadvantage of crowded and
inadequate buildings. It is believed
that these conditions will be remedied
very soon by the erection of a large
new high school building.
Events of the past week have been
the operetta, “The Gypsy Rover,”
presented to the delight of a large
audience by the High School Dra¬
matic Club, under the gifted direction
of Miss Louise English and Miss
Florence Smith last Friday evening:
the charming recital of Miss Marjo¬
rie Brown, of Miss Smith's music
class, and Mjss Miriam Edwards, of
Miss English’s expression class, on
Tuesday evening; and the splendid ex
hibit of sewing and other household
work by the domestic science depart
ment under the direction of Miss
Carrie Cravey on Wednesday.
Graduating Class
The following boys and girls will
receive diplomas on Friday evening
after the graduation exercises: Will
iam Allen, Marvin Avera, Marvis
Baldwin, Russell Braddock, Wyman
Braddock, Floyd Carithers, president,
Robert Chisolm, Quentin Gasset, Wes
ley Green, treasurer, Sam Jones,
Frank Kiigo, Millard Mosely, Ed
wards Norton, Veltrie Pearson, sec
retary, J. W. Sandefur, Edward Vinson
A. B. Young, Gertrude Brown, Mar
jorie Brown, Susie Culpepper, Helen
Dasher, Elia Eberhardt, Miriam Ed
wards, vice-president, Susie Mae Hol
comb, Fannie Little, Delma Mathews,
Myrtie Patterson, Uima Queen, Eliza¬
beth Rundell, Ethel Smiseon and Net¬
tie Fae Wood.
THREE GERMANS
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Ggjher Information for Fruit Growers
of Fatherland—Will Go to
Cub3
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All the way from Berlin to Fort
Valley three prominent Germans in¬
terested in agriculture and horticul¬
ture have come to study conditions
that obtain in this field in the Sunny
South and in the heart of Georgia.
Sent out by the Agricultural De¬
partment of the German government,
Dr. Gustav Oldenburg, Geheimer
r* Ober Regierungsrat, im. Preuss. Min
isterium fur Landwirtsebaft,
nen u. Forsten, Berlin; Fraur Rudolf
Schule and Hans Foachim Neumann
have been in Fort Valley this week
looking over the prettiest ' lands of
■ which the Empire . State , . can boast,
that they may get ideas of the culture
of fruit and production of other crops
to clrry back to the fatherland.
Visit Dukes Farm
They are an interesting group and
Monday they were carried out to the
Diamond Fruit Farm by J. D. Duke, ’
where they witnessed the spraying
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A PROPHET WHO lA/IU
BE HONORED IIM HIS
OWN COUNTRY
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| THE MAN FROM GEORGIA
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j If ever a man stood at the peak of
I sweetened with the
! success—success
I applause of mankind—that man was
! Woodrow Wilson who left his cheer
COQntrymen bchind him and sa iled
^ E e jn 19l9> there t0 be re _
the yery gavior o£ the
tbousandg who thronged to see him.
he stood smiling from his win
^ jn the H()tel Crjllon upon the
heerjn \i _ thousands who came to
wateh m TOake his way to the
(jv ,, .table at Versailles, ’ who of
them ftll could bave j mag j n e j that 37
^ beforg hfi had gtood lookinK out
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the window at an empty little
, . gtreet ^ Wg ‘ hands in his emp
ke£i . fa a bitter failure
The scene of that failure is an old
building at Broad and Marietta
streets in the heart of the downtown
district of Atlanta. It is an old land
mark, surrounded by large, new steel
and concrete buildings and making a
last stand against the modernity of
elevators, repressed architecture and
fire-proof construction. Now the win
dows overlook paved streets filled
w ; tb mo tors and trolleys and swarms
of pedestrians guided by shrill traf
fj c thistles. Even in the days when
young Wilson looked out upon it, it
was a business street—but a sedate,
unhurried business thoroughfare of
- b(Jg when dust still rose'from the
streets in the wake of the trotting
teams.
State Meet of Men’s
Evangelistic Club
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A. L. Luce, president, and others
0 f the Men’s Evangelistic Club
Fort Valley are planning to attend
the state meeting of this flourishing
movement in Forsyth m Friday,
Saturday , ar.d .... Sunday of . t . -week, .
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at which Morgan Biake, Dr. Plato
Durham and other brilliant speakers
| will be heard.
Georgia farmers and gardeners and
orchardjsts and dairymen can work
out of doors three hundred days of
every yea”.
Few today, even in Atlanta,
that up and down its broad and
ly sagging stairease trod the feet
reached the highest rung of the
der of fame; that in and out of its
high, broad-framed doorways whisk
cd the coat -taiis of the man who led
the world to a new vision of peace;
that in one of the dusty, run-down
rooms he grappled first with the
problem of making bis own living—
and failed.
Nearly two years before he had re
turned to Georgia from college—
Princeton, followed by a year at the
University of Virginia, and was ad
milted to the bar in Atlanta. He had
passed his entrance examination with
exceptional brilliancy, according to
Judge H. Hillyer of Atlanta, who ad
mitted him to the practice of law.
With the compliments of his exarm
hers ringing in his ears he set up a
law partnership with Edward I. Ron
-ick, another young man from the Urn
versity of Virginia, and confidently
hung out his shingle.
From across the hall in the
building, Edgar H. Orr, later Justice
o£ £be Peacej sen£ encouraging coun
sel of patience to the younger men,
and doubtless wondered to himself
why a chap who could make such a
record in his examination for admit
tance to the bar could not find <li
ents.
TOWER
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MIDDLE WEEK
- f p # ^ Valley’s ' big new
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1! ; middle <j{ next
week if everything . moves along as
anticipated, according to a statement
Wednesday afternoon from J. H. Car
mical, superintendent of construction
for the R. D. Cole Mfg. Co., of New
man, Ga. This company has made a
splendid record in the erection of the
water tower, and Mr. Carmical and
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Few and far between were those
| who sought his services in the set
tlement of crises in their affairs.
Who could have imagined that this
studious, dignified young man, his
head in the clouds, his nose in a
book, would some day have the af
fairs of the nation in his hands at a
time where his slightest decision
would vitally affect their welfare?
J tice "No one night,” can build he must up a have law prac
over rea
soned, so he set to work to write a
study of Congressional government,
Even buried in this work he could
not ignore the fact that he owed his
very bread to the allowance that his
father sent him. He stuck it out for
nearly two years. Then one twilight
he must have rtood in his window a
.fruitless day behind him, facing the
realization that he was a failure as
a lawyer ... that enough was
enough . - . - - that he would give it
up. One has only to remember that
long, hard pw of his to realize what
jthat surrender must have cost him.
So, at the outset of his career—in
his first attempt to make a place for
himself in the world of men, Wood
row Wilson, future president of the
United States, Chief Executive dur
ing the World War, and precurcor of
a new order in international affairs,
chalked up a failure and went back to
college.
PEACH W SHIPMENT
Twenty-five cars of peaches had
* on shipped from the immediate
Fort Valley territory up to Wednes
day night > according to C - 1L Sam '
mons, elude the local total freight agent. of Mayflowers These in- J
crop ;
and a number of cars of Uneedas this
er all ek, of which with a seem sprinkling to be bringing of Red Birds, j
very
satisfactory prices.
Twenty-one additional cars arc in
the neighborhood orchards being
loaded. The loading of the Early Rose i
crop w ;u beg j n next Monday if the 1
cool weather does not retard ripening
too much.
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Superintendent Fort Valley
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FOR KIWANIANS
LADIES’
Marshallville and Montezuma
Rejoice in Love Feast of Peach
and Macon
Prominent Kiwanians of
ma and Marshallvilie struck a
ing keynote which swept the
night event of the Krwarns Chi
Fort Valley last Thursday night
a mighty high tide of happy
asm , when W. H. McKenzie,
dent, and John B. Guerry of the 1 on
tezuma club, and J. W. Frederick
the Marshallvilie club expressei
rich, penetrating friendship now
isting between the old ‘new county
warriors, Macon and Poach
voiced hearty admiration for
courageous manner and splendid
it with which the people of this
tion had perservered in the
towards their goal, and declared
actual words that this occasion
love feast” of precious
m . the forward march of this
section of Georgia. “Red Meat”
ams, of Montezuma, ami
among the visiting Kiwanians from
the cities ,
two were warm m expres
sions of the same sentiment, to which
President E. T. Murray, Ralph New¬
ton and others of the Fort Valley club
responded with assurances of deep
appreciation and complete loyalty to
the plan of co-operation . , by which ... the ,,
full possibilities of these neighboring
counties might be realized Those
Montezuma and Marshallvilie lead¬
ing lights certainly put sunshine and
gladness into the hearts of their hosts
last Thursday night.
T. Banders Harris was chairman of
the committee which staged the spe¬
cial laides’ night program and he
proved yet to be full of the sand and
snap for which he has become a star,
not to say a comet, m the stunt firma
ment. He led off with one right in
the solar plexus—a soulful vocal solo
by Montezuma’s own Lawrence Mc
Kenzie—and maintained the solar
constant throughout the evening. ^ It
was a warm affair. .
Mrs. Ruth Whiting Smith gave a
reading of much charming appeal and
Mrs. W.. S. White sang to a flood of
applause. Numerous prizes were
given away, one of which, a five-dol
lar gold piece, contributed by A. L.
Norris, A. J, Evans, George W. Ma
thews, Jr., E. M. Whiting and San¬
ders Harris, was won by J. D. Fagan
for guessing the number of pieces of
candy, 640, in all of the envelopes
which were distributed among the
guests, carrying out a clever idea of
A. M. Solomon. In a “speaking” con¬
test between F. O. Miller, A. M. Solo
mon, “Red Meat” Adams, Ashby Mc
Cord, Geo. W. Mathews, Jr., and L.
L. Brown, Jr., divided into two teams
©f three each, John H. Jones consum¬
ec ] a n 0 f the speaking time in an at
tempt, to introduce the headliners and
the contest blew up in the form of
balloons which were given to the
contestants for a test of their hot air.
The Montezuma quartet, composed
of Messrs. Lewis, Marshall, Hurst
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PEACHLAND
JOURNAL
36 years old—only
newspaper in heart
of one of America’s
richest diversified
agricultural sections.
I CITY MAY GET
POWER LINE
FROM MACON
Midtile Georgia Power Co.
Surveys Transmission
Cine Through Fort Val¬
iev to Perrv and Clinch
Field.
j Without arousing any false hop©
Concrete and with the thought that nothing of
nature in the matter has yet
developed, the statement that full
electric service from the Central
Georgia Power Company of Macon is
now a possibility, if not a probability,
for Fort Valley and Peach county will
“electrify” the minds of the people of
this city and county.
It was known two weeks ago that.
engineers of the Central Georgia
Power Company were in this county
£
postponed awaiting fu: her develop
j merits. bilities Something of the projcF of t great indicated possi¬ int
: e
the following eoi ■ nt from the
Houston Home Jon- 1:
“According to ri >rt current here,
Perry and this section will be sup¬
plied with electric power in the near
ure> Engineers from the Central
ift Power Company of Macon
ba ^ e been busy for the past f cw days
- transmia
mapping out a route for a
^ ^ frQm Macon via Fort Valley
^ Perry and ciinchfield. The sur
V eying party reached Perry Wedne3
^ mornin{f laying out a line through
tbe c j ty and collecting data concern
probab , 0 congomers 0 f electrical
wer here. p rom here, the survey
^ been made to ciinchfield which ii;
. ? undergtood will be the terminus of
the proposed transmission line.
| “Detailed plans of the Power Com¬
pany could not be given out at this
time but it is understood that electri
cal energy would be supplied the
towns and manufacturing plants along,*
the line s well as the farms in this
section.
“The proposed power line would
traverse a splendid section of Peach
Houston County into Perry and
Ciinchfield where development by
the Ciinchfield Portland Cement Cor¬
poration on a large scale is now in
progress . The coming of dependable
P power in large quantities into Perry
Bection wou ld undoubtedly bo
renumerativc t0 the Power Company
would stimulate industry and en~
eourage the development of the na
tural resources of this favored region
as no other agency could do.”
MATHEWS MADE
MEMORIAL COIN
CHAIRMAN HERE
Samuel M. Mathews has been nam¬
ed Peach county chairman for the
Stone Mountain Confederate Memo
r ’ a ^ Coin distribution by Leon S.
| Dure ,of Macon, district chairman.
Mr. Mathews has warm interest in
this movement and plans a vigorous
campaign for distribution of the Me¬
morial Coin.
The Citizens Bank of Fort Valley
has placed on sale certificates for
these coins which will be released for
distribution on July 3. In buying
these certificates now our people may
be sure of securing one or more of
the coins.
Clark Howell On Memorial
Atlanta, Ga., May 27.—Hon Clark
Howell, editor of the Atlanta Consti¬
tution, the son of a Confederate gen¬
eral and one of the best known pub¬
lic men of the South, declares that:
the Confederate Memorial Coin cam¬
paign is for the greatest cause ever
considered by any people.
Mr. Howell, in attending one of
the recent Confederate Memorial
Coin mass meetings, said that he had
come to the meeting with the idea
of attending a small gathering, but
44 this big gathering of hundreds of
representative people assures success,
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