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Volume XXXVII. Number 23.
CONFERENCE ON
BRIDGE TO
*• tecutive Committees of Taylor
Peach County Ass'ns Make Defi¬
nite Plans Here.
The executive committees of
two co-operative bodies, the
County and Peach County Flint
©ridge Associations, met in the
house at Fort Valley last Friday 7
ernoon and, with Senator
Steed of Butler as chairman of
joint session, fixed upon
plans for bringing about the
struction of a bridge across
Flint river between Reynolds and
city and the creation of a state
way through the two counties
that route.
The result of the meeting is
in the motion made by C. L.
seconded by J. M. Weaver and
ed unanimously just before the
ing closed, that—
'“The survey committee of the
lor County Flint River Bridge
ciation and the survey committee
the Peach County Flint River
Association jointly call on the
county authorities of Taylor
Sti-h counties to urge the
Highway Department to make
necessary surveys, maps,
•f costs and ail other data in
neetion with the construction of
bridge over the Flint river
Reynolds and Fort Valley at or
Nakomis, that the joint survey
mittees be authorized to press
request to such extent as deemed
visable by them, that such
as may not be borne by the
Highway Department or the
authorities of the two counties, be
b^rne equally by the two associa
t-kns.”
In the beginning of the meeting
President D. C. Strother, of the
Peach county association, asked C. E.
Martin, who had launched the move
ment here at a previous meeting of
the Kiwanis club to preside as tern
porary chairman and state the pur
pose of this joint session. After Mr.
Martin had properly launched the
meeting, Senator Steed was elected
ehairman with C. E. Martin as sec
retary.
Judge M. C. Mosley, ordinary of
Pfc.^ch county, Senatoi Walter Steed,
C. E. Benns and E. W. Hurt of But¬
ler, R. A. Hinton of Reynolds, Sena
tor J. E. Davidson, C. L. Shepard .
E. Lee, W. G. Brisendine and others
spoke ^vith intense interest in the
movement, declaring that the con
struction of such a state highway
and bridge would wonderfully im¬
prove the happy relations of the peo¬
ple of adjoining sections, would bring
about a rich development of large
areas of farm lands and would stim
date and enlarge the trade of Tay- j
.
or and Peach county towns.
Asks $10,000 Damages
Macon, June 3.—Averring that he ;
lad fctent suffered personal injuries to the
of $10,000, and that a claim
gent of the Central of Georgia Rail
ray Company had induced him to |
;gn a release in consideration of $5
Ihile he was in a semi-unconscious
r uneortscious condition without
powledge as to the character or con- j
nts of the paper, G. E. Ray, of Fort
alley, Ga., filed suit Tuesday with
« clerk of the Bibb Superior Court !
rainst the Central of Georgia.
[Ray injured while riding the !
was
[uthland, kins one of the crack Central
in the yards of the Macon Ter
Inal on the morning of Aug. 6, 1924. j
■cording to the papers filed, he was
Ivelling from Detroit to his home
■ Fort Valley. As the train neared
■con he started for a drink of wa
and finding none in his car start
for the adjoining car. As he passed
ough the vestibule the train gave
udden jerk and he was thrown
sugh an open door to the ground
>w.
a semi-uneonscious condition
was fold’d by a member of the
i ion police force and taken to the
sthorpe Infirmary.
was while at the infirmary that
aim agent is said to have secured
’s signature to a paper releasing
railroad of damages in considera
I of $5.
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNK 4, 1925.
I Fort 1 alley II ins
In Golf
Last
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1 The fourth matches of the
; Holt Golf Association were
I Thursday at Fort Valley and
cus. Fort Valley won her first
of the season by beating
ville by a score of 12 to 4. At
cus Fitzgerald and Americas
an 8 to 8 tie. John Blunt, Jr.,
Hawkinsville continues to play
most excellent game, handing
Thursday a 78 for the Fort
par 66 course. Mrs. Wheeler
‘ Amerieus has won each match
which she has been entered. She
leading the ladies of the league
the highest number of points
for her team. Wilcox of
j and Shiffield of Amerieus played a
most interesting match Thursday
Amerieus, each winning a point,
Fort Valley players continue to show
improvement. Mrs. Miller and Miss
Fagan both played stellar games.
' Several holes
par were made by Mrs.
Miller. W. R. Edwards and Win, Ca
cithers played an excellent game,
Thursday's score earns showed
these results in Fort Valley:
Fort Valley
W . R. Edwards 3
Ben Fincher 0
Wra. Carithers 3
Abe Moscovitz j
Mrs. Neltie Miller 3
_
Miss Audrey Fagan *>
12
1 Hawkinsville
J. F. Coney 0
John Blunt, Jr. 2
H. H. Boyer 0
Robt. Wade 1
' Mrs. W.
A. Mason 0
Mrs. II. P. South I
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Standing of the clubs in the Asso
ciation as of May 29 follows:
j Club Points
Fitzgerald 42
Amerieus 40
Fort Valley 25
Hawkinsville 23
j About twenty visitors from Haw¬
kinsville to Fort Valley last Thurs
! day, in addition to the players, were
J entertained delightfully with the as
sistance of our city's ladies who
served a dutch supper on the golf
course.
President W. G. Brisendine and
others of the Fort Valley club are
very happy over the splendid pro- I
gress being made by local players. ’
Interest here in golf is expanding
largely,
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Peach Sh ipments
Show Big Increase
Over June 7, 1924
A total of 257 carloads of Georgia
peaches had been shipped from points
’ n Georgia up to June 1, 1925, as
compared with twelve carloads ship
ped up to this date > ly24 < according
to Central of Georgia Railway offi¬
cials.
The increase in shipment this year
is probably the largest at this date |
in several years, and is due to the :
ear ^Y ripening of the peaches and in¬
creased railroad facilities for handl
ing them, it was said at the peach
Of the total numoer of cars ship
this season from Georgia points
largest was on Saturday, May J
when ninety-one cars were mewed. 1
On this date North Carolina ship
two cars and Oklahoma one. On
May 29, fifty-eight cars were
from Georgia; one from North
and two from Oklahoma,
to a report from govern
officials here.
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we are boosting for you all the time.
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UNION PRAYER
MEETINGS EOR
i SUMMER START
1 Union prayer meetings will begin
j with this week, the first week in
'June. Mr. Thomson of the Methodist
church led the evening service at the
Baptist church Wednesday night.
On next Wednesday night the ser
vice will be held at the Methodist
church.
Woman’s Club Holds
Year’s Last Meeting
Tuesday A fternoon
The last meeting of the Fort Val¬
ley Woman’s Club for the year 1924
’25 was held on Tuesday afternoon
with the president, Mrs. J. M. Green.
The past year has been one of un¬
usual activity, attended by a most
gratifying spirit of co-operation upon
the part of Mr. Jones, editor of The
Fort Valley Leader-Tribune, This
paper gives freely of its space both
for club news and announcements
and has furnished strongly written edi
torials in advocacy of various pro
gressive movements fostered by the
club. Too much cannot be said in
praise of this cheerful heipfub'i-ss,
when it is remembered that this
spirit of co-operation is extend
to all organizations engaged in
undertaking, one readily may
why Fort Valley pro¬
The co-operation extended by ho
is typical also of the spirit the
department has found in the
itself. All departments have
a splendid spirit of help
showing a marked apprecia- J
of the vaiue of putting before
public the full facts about all I j
activities.
It is scarcely necessary to observe
publicity is fundamental to
that people must know be
they act, and a general realiza¬
of this fact, no doubt has had
to do with the development and I
success of the club work.
MRS. C. N. ROUNTREE,
Chairman Press Committee
Fort Valley Woman’s Club.
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First Early Rose i \
1
The first carload of Early Rose
from the Fort Valley terri
was loaded Saturday by Pearson
packers of the B.g Six
Thus car was sold to the J. W.,
oik Company, marketing agents
$3 package and went to '
per a j
7 York connection of this firm,
Early Rose peaches were moving |
quantity by the middle of the '
and they are of exceptional j j
and color. i
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Georgia was the state in which Dr.
Long discovered and used
as an anaesthetic—long before
claiming the distinction had
with this method of sur
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139 CARS OK
139 cars of peaches had moved
from Fort Valley up to last night,
as compared with 19 cars ship¬
ped up to the same date last
year, reports C. 11. Sammons,
local freight agent. The Early
Rose is moving in fine condition,
with some of the Queen of Dix¬
ie variety. It is said that good
fruit properly packed is bringing
quite satisfactory prices while
bad fruit dumped on the market
is bringing nothing. The Carmen
crop is expected to arrive the lat¬
ter part of next week.
SOMETHING NEW IN
THRILLS NEXT WEEK
The marvel of the movies, Ives
Leventhal Stereoscopiks, the screen
novelty of the age, not alone the best
but the most amazing film achieve
went of recent years, is coming
the Franklin Theatre next week—on
Wednesday and Thursday, June 10th
and 11th.
Imagine a motion picture that is
unlike any motion picture you have
ever seen! A motion picture where
the characters take on body and ac¬
tually step out of the screen! You
think that’s impossible? Wait ’till
you see the Stereoscopiks!
Greater than any thrill
ever experienced in a motion picture
theatre, is the thrill of these re¬
markable films. You sit at your ease
in a comfortable chair and a pretty
swings out of the screen towards
you, kicking impudently at your
Another girl swims out until
0U c . an almost touch her, then she
dodges out of your grasp! These are f
of the highlights in this un- I
usual series!
1
Sec them for yourself and enjoy,
greatest thrill!
No development in the motion pic- j
field in recent years has attract
so much attention as thelves-Le
Stereoscopiks. No forward
has been made that equals it in
or interest.
Ives-Leventhal Stereoscopiks mean
the third dimension has been
and perfected in motion
Think what that means. It means
at last the screen has been given
Instead of the usual flat sur
these pictues make the charac
stan(J out , ike 1)ve people on the
a theatre ,
you cannQt see thjg picture with _
Ut , , K]aSSe& , ’ but these win be
you gratis at the theatre.
Georgia has the oldest military or
—continuous service— in
Union, Liberty Independent
and the second oledst, Chat
Artillery—to whom Gen. Wash
presented cannon which are on
occasions yet fired.
Georgia has the biggest cotton mill
the United States.
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QUEEN CHICKEN
RULES KIWANIS
Entrancing Dinner Causes Chicken
Admirers to Burst Forth in
Poetic Ecstasy.
The chicken ruled the roost at last
| Friday’s Kiwanis luncheon. When the
j Kiwanians approached the festive
board they found that the ladies had
prepared for them such a good chick¬
en dinner that their spirits immedi
ately overflowed. Chickens were the
burden of a great outburst of poetry,
praise and—jokes! Judge A. C. Riley,
C. E. Martin, Ralph Newton and two
visitors, E. W. Hurt of Butler and
Mayor J. M. Weaver of Reynolds,
made the feathers fly. It was reveal
ed that the club embraces many en¬
thusiastic chicken fanciers, as well as
abundance of peach devotees. I
'I hus Fort Valley and Peach county
swell into greater glory through di¬
versified interests.
At Friday’s luncheon, which mark
ed the last Kiwanis meeting before
the recess during the June and July
peach season, T. F. Flournoy, dis
tric-t trustee, reported on the va
rious interesting features of the re- .,
; cent confeence of Georgia trustees i m
Macon.
President E. T. Murray made an
ur ^ ent , a P pieal , for . pubhc ... ,nterest . , , and ,
support in carrying out recommen
dations made a few days before by
the State Board of Health for im
proving sanitary conditions in Fort
Valley.
C. L. Shepard added to Mr. Mur
ray’s appeal in a graphic statement
that an ordinance had been drawn up
for consideration by city council,
which ordinance, if put into effect,
would satisfy all requirements in the
report from the State Board of
Health following its survey of the
city.
Members of the executive commit
the Taylor County Flint River (
tee of
Bridge Association were special
guests of the club. Among them were
Mr. Seely, R. A. Hinton and Mayor
J. M. Weaver of Reynolds; Senator
Walter Steed, Editor C. E. Benns, A.
H. Riley and E. W. Hurt of Butler,
The next meeting of the Kiwanis
Club of Fort Valley, following the
peach season recess, will occur on
Friday, August 7.
Coin Committee Is
Named hy Mathews
Samuel M. Mathews, Peach county
for the distribution of
Mountain Confederate Memo
coins, has named his committee ■
this work here. It is composed of
E. Martin, Ralph Newton, Glen
Green, E. M. Whiting and W. R.
Georgia lands make from one to
bales of cotton to the acre; her
Irish potato yield is 78
average sweet potato yield
bushels an acre; and one acre has
two crops, nearly 1,009
in one year.
PEACH LAND
JOURNAL
36 years old—only
newspaper in heart
of one of America’s
richest diversified
agricultural sections.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
REV. GEORGE
MATHEWS GOES
TO FINAL REST
Generous Soul of Distinguished Min
ister Passes Into Great Beyond
About Noon Tuesday
Rev. George W. Mathews, D. D„
one of the best known and most be¬
loved members of the South Georgia
Methodist conference, died in Macon
Tuesday and was buried in this city,
his childhood home, Wednesday.
I he passing of the distinguished
minister comes as a distinct shock
to his many friends throughout the
state and brings sorrow to many
hearts. Following an automobile ac¬
cident last month, he was carried to
Macon for treatment. Ilis injuries,
while painful, were not at first con¬
sidered serious and there was every
hope that in time he would be able
to resume his duties as pastor of the
Methodist church at Asiiburn. Com
| plications, however, developed and,
surrounded by members of his fami
Iy, the end came peacefully about
noon Tuesday.
Mr. Mathews was bo ;i in this city
sixty-eight years ago . month and
spent the years of h ■ hildhood and
young manhood her His parents,
Dr. and Mrs. Wil! i A. Mathews,
were honored citizc of Fort Valley,
whose memory is a ointment poured
forth, lie was grariu -.ted from Emory
college in the class of 1875 and, after
teaching school two or three years.
joined the South Georgia Conference
; in 1878. To the work of the active-
1 ministry he gave forty-six years of
his life, filling some of the most im~
portant charges of the conference at;
pastor, presiding elder or secretary.
He served the church as Centenary
secretary, Missionary secretary and,
at the time of his death, was both
pastor of the Ashburn church and
Conference secretary of stewardship.
A more faithful servant the
church has never had nor a man of
higher ideals and saintlier life. Ke
believed implicitly in holiness of life,
preached it and lived it and, however,
his brethren of the ministry or those,
to whom he preached, the word of
God may have differed with him iu
his interpretation of the scriptures,
one of them ever questioned the
of his motives nor the in¬
of his character. He was in
missionary in spirit and irs
wmistry. Indeed the evangeliza
of the world together with tho
of the stewardship of life
property was a pa 1 ion of his
These great themes were the
of his preaching. Unselfish
generous to a fault, he literally
forth his life to brh'.g men to
and to make God r co men..
ot i>is preacher friends said, “I
never with Bro. Mathews that I
not want to be a better man,” and
who kne whim felt the same
There was in his goodness ju3t
element that drew out the best
human nature.
The funeral service was held at
Methodist church Wednesday aft
conducted by Bishop William
Ainsworth, Rev. Robert S. Stew
of Wilmore, Ky., Rev. I. I*. Tuson,
elder of the Cordele ais
Dr. J. M. Glenn of Dublin and
local pastor, Rev. T H. Thomson,
Bishop Ainsworth and Dr. Stew¬
paid beautiful and fitting tribute
the memory of the deceased. At
cemetery the commital service
read by Mr. Tyson. The active
were Messrs Ralph New¬
A. J. Evans, Geo. P. Greene,
Flournoy, John Lee and C.
Shepard. Acting as an honorary
were many of Mr. Mathews’
laborers in the ministry.
Surviving Dr. Mathews are his
who was Miss Annie MacDon
> daughter of the late Rev. G. G. N.
two sons, George W.,Jr.,
Alec. M.; two daughters, Mrs.
L. Luce and Miss Lucy Saussy
one brother, Judge II. A,
and a sister, Mrs. W. C.
Mrs. Mathew with her unmarried
Alec M., and daughter, Miss
who have lived in Ashburn the
few months, will return to Fort
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