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W E ARE ' BUILDING A *- arr here 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. f5 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 I 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 4 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, - 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. (Continued on Last Page) i Quality Printing Good every time or we make it good. And. “by the sweat of the brow,” we are boosting for you all the time. The Leader-Tribune Telephone 119. Establishing Signal Post in Attack on Hawaii This, one of the tirst pictures of the war game in Hawaii to arrive, shows r'jK* a landing party front the l»lue fleet establishing a signal post on the shore. X I I & j I I ••'j'..' I yVe? 6 ^ m ■••j >• A>V ■* ’ i A & \ < > 4 •>; J tot y I MM ' I 1 f.V ..... ; J) W"; < i't • , i' | P •• 7 ip mm m a \? •• t ■ ■ ■> V AV fF» : xv>'C3r } ‘ j mmA w i v/X ,yK> •Xy IHifcp :W 'SK-fy*'-'' ' v <• * - . 1 m 3 .V.'. ■•/■Ixv. - -. .y 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. i 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 j 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 j 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. (Twelve Pages) _ 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 (Continued on Last Page)