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Volume XXXVII. Number 25.
SOUTHER'S REEL
IMPROVING FORT
VALLEY SYSTEM
Wide Improvements Being Made In
f Telephone System, Local and
Long Distance
tV. W. Anderson, with the Georgia
manager's office of the Southern
Bell Telephone Company in Atlanta,
was in Fort Valley Tuesday confer
^ ring with the local manager, W. D.
Weeks, on the extensive improve
ments being made in the system
here.
They stated to The Leader-Tribune
that a large amount of money is be¬
ing spent on the telephone system
of Fort Valley, improving both the
local and long distance services.
The improvements embrace four
new positions of toll board; seven
new long distance circuits—one to
Atlanta, three to Macon, one to
Montezuma and two to Reynolds,
thus eliminating the relaying of mes¬
sages; 1,500 feet of new fifty-pair
¥ cable for the western part of the
city; and a number of new creosoted
poles.
Mr. Weeks, the new local manager,
is becoming rapidly acquainted with
the city and its telephone needs.
John Cook, former manager with
the Fruit Belt Telephone Company, is
now holding a fine position in the
general commercial manager’s office
in Atlanta.
BAR1 V IS BERN El)
A barn on the place of heston ha
gan caught fire and was partly
burned. A traveling man saw the
smoke after lightning had set fire
to the barn and turned in an alarm.
Cotton in the barn was saved.
FRUIT CROPS WILL BE
SMALLER THAN LAST YEAR
Washington, D. C. June 12.—Only
fair crops of apples peaches and
pears are now expected in the United
States this year, Department of Ag
riculture crop officials declared to
day. Frosts in late May reduced pros
peets in many scattered sections,
particularly in some of the central
States, Virginia, Michigan, and por
tions of New York.
The condition of apples on June 1
was nearly 10 per cent below the usu
al average on that date. The north¬
western States expect more apples
than were picked last year, but for
the country as a whole the crop
sterns likely to be lighter, although
much depends on the rainfall during
the next few months.
Peach production shows a large in
crease in California where most of
the crop is canned or dried, but in
practically all other important States
the crop is expected to be substantial
ly smaller than last year. Even in
* Georgia, where many young trees
are coming into bearing, the crop
is expected to be less than 7,000,000
bushels compared with 8,333,000
bushels last year.
The pear crop also is reported
only fair this year, California alone
among the important producing
states expecting materially larger
crop than in the preceding season.
French Proverb
What orators want in depth they
make up for in length.
ISAIAH 58:13, U
(Published by Request of Rev. J. W. Smith)
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,
from tloing thy pleasure on mv holy (lay; and rail
the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honour¬
able: and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own i
ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of
the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob
thv father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken
it.
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i and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1925.
Kimmians Lively
Even as Recessed:
join Civitans for
Picnic at Houston
You can’t hold any good civic or¬
ganization of Fort Valley down!
Peach Blossom Festival, various
women’s organizations—and the Ki
wanis Club—all of them, even while
asleep, have one eye open.
The Kiwanis Club even keeps one
f 00 t kicking,
Take today, even as the blushing
peach vamps everybody into a fren¬
zy of eager toil to send joy to the
hearts—and stomachs—of countless
thousands of people out in the great
open spaces where a man's a hungry
man.
The Kiwanians, even now in recess
to speed this toil and spread the
peach’s alluring charm over the
world, must needs respond to the call
of good fellowship, and that the fel¬
lowship of their Perry friends, a Civ
itan Club.
They go to an open air meeting,
a grand jubilee, at Houston Factory,
on Ihursday evening at six o’clock
Eastern time. That is the way of a
man with a spirit.
T. Sanders Harris, by the way, is
leaving on Friday for Sailt Paul,
Minnesota, for the annual convention
of Kiwanis International on June 22-
25. He is loaded to the gills with the
song of Fort Valley’s beauty and
grandeur, several captivating notes
of which are advertising literature
setting forth the many advantages
an( j opportunities of this city ami her
. • county with a Soul. »»
Merchants Closing
Thursday Afternoon
(CONTRIBUTED)
! Great interest is being manifested
in the Thursday afternoon half holi
day that the merchants and their em
ployees are now enjoying in Fort
Valley.
Practically all of the stoves are
closing, with the exceptance of two
or three which are expected to join
the other stores for the next Thurs¬
day half holiday, which is always
characteristic of the spirit of the
Fort Valley merchants,
The different retail clerks and em
ployees of the respective dry goods,
men’s furnishings and grocery stores
are expressing great commendation
and praises of their employers in
extending them this half holiday in
closing their stores at 12 o’clock
each Thursday during June, July and
August.
The members of the Retail Clerks
Association, which is composed of the
clerks that have co-operated with
their respective managers and owners
G f the stores, were busy Wednesday
afternoon in placing large attractive
window posters in the different mer
chants ’windows who are willing to
close each Thursday afternoon dur
j ng . the months mentioned,
These posters carry a very ef
fective wording stating the fact that
bis place’of business will be closed
Thursday afternoon and to “Do'Your
Trading Thursday Morning” and
“Trade at Home.
Association is .
The Retail Clerks
requesting the assistance of tLe dif-
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Vice President and Sirs. Charles Gates Dawes have leased , this , house ,
1020 Belmont road, Washington, from Mrs. Guy T. Scott, widow of Captain
■ Scott, U. S. A. It was occupied for years by the captains father, Senator
NdtUan T». Scott of West Virginia. The grounds adjoin the property of Mrs.
John B. Henderson.
TO HOLD UN ION
PRAYER
A T ST.
The United Prayer Meeting on
Wednesday evening, the 24th, at 8:00
o’clock will be held in St. Andrews
church when the Presbyterian Pas
tor, Rev. J. W, Smith, will officiate,
assisted by the laymen of St. An
drew’s congregation.
A MEDITATION
Thy tender mercies, Lord, appear
In growing blade and ripened ear.
The waving fields of golden grain
Swayed by the wind that sweeps
plain
Attest Thy love and constant care.
When ev’ry brook is hard congealed,
And beauteous snow enrobes the
field,
Or raging winds their force combine,
And snap like reeds the stately pine,
Thy wondrous power, Lord’s revealed.
Estranged by sin, and deaf and mute,
And barren too of goodly fruit,
How few the cheerful songs we
rr.if ?!
While nature plays through all the
days
Her perfect and harmonic flute.
By doubts and fears and tempests
tossed,
And driven oft on rocky coast
Where merciless and maddened wave
Engulfs our ship and none can save,
Thy mercy beams on seamen lost.
With superficial eyes we scan
The wonders of our Father’s plan,
Nor strive for mind that’s quick to
learn
That He the dial back can turn,
Or at His will abridge life’s span.
Dark is the way man lain would keep,
His wisdom knoweth not the deep
And hidden things above the sod.
The tender mercies of our God
Forefend us all from fatal sleep.
1 upward look,
And if from self we
And read aright the Sacred Book,
Lo! mirrored there we plainly see
How marred we are, and wonder we
Kind Heaven ever undertook.
Our darkened spirits to illume,
And said, “For mercy there is room”.
From galaxy that brightly gleams
Loev throws afar her radiant beams,
And living Light invests the tomb.
—W. C. CARTER.
ferent civic clubs to get . those stores .
that now fail to close to sign the
tition and make this matter unani
mous.
Different ways of enjoying the
half holiday are experienced by the
clerks of Fort Valley, and also their
“boss men. • t
Fishing and golfing seem to head
the way while picnics ar.d moonlight
parties at Houser’s Mill and
ton Factory attract others.
A game of baseball is scheduled
for next Thursday afternoon as stat¬
ed by Manager John B. Vance.
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Florida Citizens
Roost Woodrow
W ilson College
_
Tampa, Fla., June 16._The unex
ampled period of development and
prosperity in Florida is beginning to
be reflected in Georgia, in the opin
ion of two of Tampa’s foremost
business leaders. J. M. Harvey, for
many years one of Florida’s uot
standing bankers, and Walter C.
Thomas, vice-president and manager
of the Tampa Hardware
the largest wholesale hardware con
in this state, have registred a
prediction that Georgia, especially
southern section oi the state, is
on the eve of a period of progress
and prosperity not unlike that which
Florida has already begun to enjoy,
in an interview with a newspaper re
pesentative here today.
“Unless 1 am greatly mistaken this
whole southeastern section of the na
tion is in for a period of unprece
( )e n ted development and prosperity,’ ,
sa j ( | ]yj r . Harvey. Florida’s con
stantly increasing business progress
is beginning to be reflected outside
her own boundaries. I recently visit
ed South Georgia. The people there
are beginning to look up. Property
values arc increasing and a general
f ee ]j ng . 0 f optimism is growing,
“The people of Georgia are awak¬
ening to the full importance of this
business development and seem to be
laying wise plans to keep pace with
it in education and cultural progress.
The vision they are showing is be
ginning a movement to erect Wood
row Wilson College is a case in
point. A section of Georgia, which
never before has had a college for
men, is now launching a movement
to build a national institution which
is bound to focus nation-wide atten¬
tion upon that section.
“It is a good sign when the citi¬
zens of a state organize themselves
to raise funds to perpetuate the
lofty ideals of a man like Woodrow
Wilson. It is a sign of progress in
cultural things and progress which I
believe will make itself felt in busi
ness affairs as well. Such a proposi
tion will create broad confidence in
that section and certainly draw to it
a* high type of people. To my mind
that project is significant as one of
many developments which are des
tined to come to this southeastern
section largely as a result of Flori¬
da’s amazing progress, >> concluded
Mr. Harvey.
Mr. Thomas also commended Geor-
1 gia’s vision in starting the Wilson
, mQrial undertak i„g and predicted
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lend the proposition every support.
i I congratulate the people of
Georgia upon their vision in launch
ing the movement to erect a great
.
i national memorial to President Wil
son in the form of a distinctive col
i®S e ’ saa! ^ r - Thomas, t is a grea
"edit to Georgia to have started such
I memorial college will pay the people
a movement. I believe too, that this
of that state big dividends, not only
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(Twelve Pages)
Mrs. F. W.Wit ho ft
Traveling in W est
M ~w. witiioft wm j
be interested in knowing that she has
been for the last three weeks in Ok
lahoma, in company with the State
Corresponding Secretary, W. M. U.,
where they are conducting Mission
Study classes and making addresses !
in the interest of missions. Mrs. ,
Withoft writes home that she has
traversed the State of Oklahoma
three times from North to South,
finishing up in the Panhandle, which
touches Colorado, Texas and Kansas.
After spending a week in Louisi
ana, she expects to reach home by the
middle of this week. She writes that
she has been impressed with the in- 1
tense loyalty the folk in Oklahoma
feel for their adopted State. No one j
seems to have been born there ex
cept the Indians and the very young.
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PEACH GROWERS ■
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Mr. F. C. Iliff, Engineer, Freight!
'Container Bureau, has been continu
ing his work among the peach grow- j
ers and shippers on the crate assem- j
bly, and loading crates in cars. Mr.
Iliff lias covered the territory from
Cuthbert to Madison, and Butler to
Perry, and will re-visit all points at
least two times more during the sea
s0 "
Peach men have been very favor
ably impressed with this work and j
are co-operating very closely with
Mr. Iliff in the making up of crate
shocks and in using the loading and
bracing methods he has demonstrat
,
ed.
The forms for making up crates
are generally out of line and it is
difficult for the crate maker to make
crates with parts flush with end
frames, without losing a great deal
of time. Check your crate forms to
see that the distance between side
boads is exactly 24 inches, If the
distance is more or less than 24 in
ches it is not possible to obtain a
good crate and when poorly assem
bled crates are loaded into the cars
difficulty is encountered in making a
tight load, which is necessary to pro
tect the crates from being broken in
transit. I
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3. Check crate forms for alinement.
2. Use 8 rmi 1 each side —4 each ^
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end—2 in middle slat.
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3. Use 12 nails in bottom—6 each
en( | > bottom slats close together.
4. Use 8 nails in top—4 each end.
5. Keep all nails away from mor¬
tice and tenon joint.
6. See that ali parts of crate are
flush with end frames.
Come to Georgia and Prosper
THERE are fewer mortgaged
farms in the South than in any
other section of the United
States.
THERE are more hogs in Geor¬
gia than in all of the New Eng¬
land States, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware, combined.
CATTLE graze in open pasture
the year around—in Georgia.
ALFALFA yields an average
of five cuttings a year—in Geor¬
gia.
THE finest peaches in the
world are produced—in Georgia.
THREE hundred growing days,
four crops a year—in Georgia.
AVERAGE winter temperature
47 degrees, average summer
temperature 80 degrees — in
Georgia.
MILLIONS of acres of fertile
lands awaiting development—in
Georgia.
PEACHLAND
JOURNAL
36 years old—only
newspaper in heart
of one of America’s
richest diversified
agricultural sections.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
Ill CARS FRUIT
HAD LEFT LOCAL
POINT
Market Fairly Steady — Tuesday
Movements Largest Then Re
corded for 1925 Crop
The Fort Valley territory had mov
ed 411 cars of peaches up to Wed
nesday night through the local
freight yards, according to C. H
Sammons, agent.
94 cars were moved Monday, 42 cars
Tuesday and 34 cars Wednesday.
The largest day in the movement
^is season of Georgia peaches was
recorded for Tuesday when 1,37 cars
were shipped, according ton an in¬
complete report, while up to 11 o’
dock yesterday, 171 cars had been
placed on all lines for loading, with
82 cars held over on all lines. Mon
day’s movement of 116 car runs sec
ond for the largest number of cars
shipped one day during the present.
season. Nine hundred and seventy
, , f,-nm renvoi*
' ’ 1
. June T 1.
«nce
The government bureau in Macon
reported yesterday for this section of
Georgia; “Hot, partly cloudy. Haul
ings increasing, dem .1 fairly good,
market about stc- y at lower
prices.’’ However, i s said by some
growers that the demand is really
very good, with bu. ers on the ground!
calling for every car as quicqly aa
it is loaded,
Carmens and Hiley Belles are mov
j n g f r0 m here in excellent condition
and the reports from northern and
eas t ern cities is to the effect thatt
f ru ;t j s being received and going
through the markets in a very satis
factory manner. i
CONFEDERATE VETS T(>
GET MEMORIAL PIECES
Americus, Ga., June 17.—Every
Confederate veteran in Sumter Coun
ty will receive a Stone Mountain Me
morial half dollar through the gen
erosity of W. T. McMath, a Spanish
War veteran and himself a son of a
va ii ant Confederate. There are ap
proximately 50 veterans here, and the
ot each _ of . these , , has just ... been
name
secured by McMath from the rolls on
fi!e in the office of Capt J ‘ B ‘ Nich,+
olson, of Camp Sumter.
Edelweiss Not Uncommon
The error that edelweiss grows only
in the haunts of the chamois among
the Alps is a common one, says the
London Times, but it grows in bidden,
nooks in Brompton churchyard, and
other places.
DEPENDABLE, profitable mar¬
kets for every staple farm pro¬
duct—in Georgia.
THE finest fruit and truck
growing section in the United
States—in Georgia.
THE largest available clay de¬
posits, bauxite, kaolin, fuller’s
earth—in Georgia.
HYDRO-ELECTRIC power
available and fully developed—
in Georgia.
THERE are mountains, rolling
hills, Piedmont section, and
Coastal plains, seashore—all in
Georgia.
PROBABLY the most symmet¬
rically developed State in the
Union—is Georgia.
SIXTH to eighth in Agricul¬
ture, tenth to twelfth in Manu¬
facturing— rich in Fishing,
Forestry and Mining.
A CORDIAL welcome for YOU
—in Georgia.
FROM A FOLDER.