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WE ARE BUILDING A CITY HERE 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. @Ihe 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- Where Danes Lives in Capital tl K X 9 KM I * 1 v ■ vii 8 ||i X " A fW %% I •' g ■ f m 8 V > I K If MR qiaa IS M S** .® i ■:A;a . 1 llfp ilM a B M. If ■; m . i' 1 ■■ 1 :v y- ift >■. m: A' i-kvW. (Xww- S: i i 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. j 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 mL , ! 1 that Florida, her neighbor state, will 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 (Continued on Last Page) (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. ! PEACH GROWERS ■ /{/(, |j\ urmT'iircitrrii J URLS 1 El) j I 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 i 3. Check crate forms for alinement. 2. Use 8 rmi 1 each side —4 each ^ '’ m end—2 in middle slat. # 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.