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Volume XXXVII. Number 26.
FOR VALLEY’S
SHIPMENTS 971
CARS TO DATE
66# Carlots Peaches Shipped from
Fort Valley Territory Since
* Wednesday Last Week
971 cars of the glorious Georgia
peach had been shipped this season
from the Fort Valley territory up
to Wednesday night, according to C.
H. Sammons, freight agent.
219 cars had been placed Wednes¬
day and were being placed Thursday
for loading in this territory.
560 carlots have been shipped dur¬
ing the past week, from Wednesday
night to Wednesday night, 411 cars
having been shipped during the sea¬
son from this territory up to Wed¬
nesday night of last week.
This week’s shipments were as fol¬
low's: Monday, 84 cars, Tuesday, 125
cars; Wednesday 133 cars.
This is the peak of the Hiley Belle
movement. The market has been de¬
pressed with the heavy shipments
V”- is expected to recover quickly
with the early reduction in shipments
from smaller crops of Georgia Belles
and Elbertas.
For the state at largo, Tuesday's
shipment of 335 cars was the largest
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sef the season. A total of 2,712 ear
lots had left Georgia up to and in
eluding Tuesday.
Georgia Kiicanians
Lead at St. Paul:
Moss Is President
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St. Paul, Minn., June 24.—John H.
Moss, of Milwaukee, Wis., will be the
next president of Kiwanis Interna
tional. He was the unanimous choice
the nominating committee here
today. The election will be held
Thursday as part of the organiza¬
tion’s annual convention.
A mid-Summer ice carnival was
held tonight at the Minneapolic are
na.
A hockey game between the teams
representing the St. Paul and Min
neapolic Kiwanis Clubs was the fea¬
ture of the carnival at which chain
pions of speed and fancy skating and
hundreds of skaters in carnival cos
tume performed, despite the mercu¬
ry’s behavior.
Georgians Take Spotlight With
Peaches and Other Products
St. Paul, Minn., June 24.—Georgia
held her lead in many things today
at fae Kiwanis international.
feature of the Afternoon business
session was the far more than half
million-dollar report of International
Treasurer Henry Heinz, of Atlanta.
The fraterniay handling that sum
last year, including $30,000 for the
monument erected by Kiwanis to
Warren Harding, charter member of
^Marion club, the only service club
m embership he accepted. The monu- ;
ment is at Vancouver, the last place
he publicly spoke, to be unveiled in
September, Kiwanis is a United
States and Canada organization.
Georgia featured this morning in
consideration of the report of the ag¬
ricultural committee, leading all the
states in the movement to beer re¬
lations between farmer and city man.
Thtk Georgia delegation today in¬
formally talked over plans for a min¬
iature Georgia products exposition at
next year’s convention. It was sug¬
gested that the 7 clubs in Georgia in
1925 take one suitcase full of com¬
pact samples of products from their
respective counties, planning to core¬
late them comprehensively to show
Georgia to the United States and
Canada. New Jersey has scores of
samples of he manufactured products
in the show windows of St. Paul.
?>n St. Paul’s market today are
Georgia peaches, melons, peanuts and
peanut products, cotton seed oil prod
*cts, white and oil shortening, even
Georgia cabbage and Chatham county
new Irish potatoes, but with no sign
to tell they are from Georgia . Even
Georgians did not recognize them.
The sts^gestion is to label “57” Geor
| gia products at the next international
I convention.
I Georgia district meetings were first
,Jin [j the newspaper reports, and alto
gather Georgia is topping the list of
®he geafcer-Ofctbune
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1925.
C. E. Martin Is
Made President
Country
C. E. Martin, vice-president of
Citizens Bank of Fort Valley and
ready holding the high honor of
presidency of the Georgia
Association, was honored again
Friday at the convention of
Country Bankers Association o
Georgia in Savannah. He was
ed vice-president of that
tion. R. B. Dixon, of West
was made president.
Mr. Martin, due to the rush of
peach season, could not attend
one day’s session of the
On Friday he delivered a
address on "Mistakes of the Past
How To Avoid Them.”
W. G. BRISENDINE
BUYS
WRIGHT
One of the most important
, estate dpa j s of recent months
I that of last week in which W.
| Brisendine bought the handsome
i idence formerly owned by
VG-ight on Miller street. Mr.
is being congratulated upon
quiring this property for a
jj e [, ac j been improving
grounds on the Perry road for
erection of a lovely country
but succeeded instead in buying
Wright house at a satisfactory
Macon Man Preaches
At Presbyterian
F. R. Martin, a prominent
of Macon, and a member of the
Evangelistic Club of Macon,
the phTpit at the Precbyterian
of Fort Valley last Sunday. He was
greeted by an unusually large con
gregation for this season.
MELONS BRING GOOD PRICE
Tifton, Ga., June 24. Walter Mal
com, of Ty Ty, sold two carloads of
melons yesterday for the high price
of $900.00 for the two ears. The mel
ons ' were of the Dixie Bell variety,
new, large, round melon. Melon
loadings are expected to reach the
peak this week and continue heavy
through next week.
Mrs. Lula Anderson is ill at her
home on Anderson Avenue. Friends
wish for her a speedy recovery.
Kiwanis state delegations. Several
Georgians participated tonight in the .
unique mid-winter ice carnival at
South Minneapolic arena.
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heroes who carried out the
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DAVIDSON LEFT
TUESDAY; WILL
PRESENT BILLS
Peach County Representative Will
Offer Bill to Abolish In¬
heritance Tax
J. E. Davidson, former state sen
a ^ or and now representative in the
legislature from Peach county, left
Tuesday morning for the opening of
the general assembly in Atlanta on
Wednesday.
Mr. Davidson stated to The Leader
Tribune before leaving that he would
introduce a hill to abolish the state
inheritance tax. Abolishment of this
tax, it is believed, will be accom
pushed at the 1925 session of the
legislature. Mr. Davidson is receiving
a ] al .g e measure of credit throughout
j (-be state for his positive, intelligent
stand upon this question.
! He will introduce also two local
bills, one for the Fort Valley con¬
solidated school district and one to
create a city court for Peach county.
‘ Mr. Davidson has had wide expe
rience in state affairs and has culti¬
vated a very large circle of friends
in the legislative field who hold for
j his judgment the highest respect. He
is recognized as one of the most
,
: practical, influential men in the gen¬
eral assembly of Georgia.
Farmers Growing
More Wheat Here
The farmers of Peach county
are building upon solid rock. One of
the marks of this constructive pro
gress along sound lines of diversifi
cation and "living at home” is the
fact that much more wheat, of a
j j ter Mr. quality, Hunter, is being of the grown. Valley Milling
Company, tells The Leader-Tribune
: that last Saturday was a banner day
in the bringing of wheat to the mills
by farmers of this scetion. Last Fall
Mr. Hunter got 400 bushels of m
usually good wheat from near Grif
fin. This wheat was so good and so
uniform in quality that he decided to
distribute it among our farmers for
seed. The results are remarkably
fine, as shown in the eagerness with
which farmers are bringing their
j harvests of May and June to the
■ mills and insisting on quick delivery
1 splendid flour with which to
of the
delight their palates.
I Messrs. T. J. Blewster, I. J. Blew
ster, Jr., and W. C. Blewster of Mag¬
nolia, Ark., will arrive Saturday to
visit their brothers and uncles, R. G.
Blewster and W. M. Blewster.
Georgia was $1.82, of North Carolina
$1311,
CHEATED CHILDREN
Just because a child happens to live
in Towns county, hasn’t he as much
right to opportunity in life as the
one who lives in Fulton county?
Let us see if he has it. Towns
county lies in the‘mountain country,
Its people represent the finest stock
existing in America today—pure An
glo-Saxon, highly intelligent, capable
of great development—stalwart pio
neers out of whom anything can be
made. They learn easily and quickly
and have the mother wit to use what
they learn.
Yet because the railroad has not as
yet reached Towns county; because
her wonderful resources are unde
veloped; because she is out ot the
march of progress and property val
ues are low there, she is unable to
spend much money on schools, Be
cause she has been in this condition
for some years, a wonderful county
hidden away from man in the moun
tains, many of her children have
grown up without education. Not hav¬
ing had the advantages of an educa
tion they naturally have not appreci
ated its value, Therefore Towns is
spending even less in proportion to
her slender resources than more fa
vored sections. She spends $4.01 a
year on each child that goes to school.
She spends a total of $299.94
each teacher during the year. These
sums will hardly provide much edu
cation for these folk who could be
made into such splendid citizens.
Now let us take the county of Ful
ton. Fulton is a highly developed
county; in it lies the great city of
Atlanta with all of its wealth. Its
people are progressive, well educat
e{J 0nd {ully alive t0 t he need of an
edu ,. ation It is t h e wealthiest county
jn tf)e >state _ Fulton spends $83.30
on each chjld and $3,509.89 back of
each tcacher during the year.
Between Fulton and Towns lie the
other ig8 counties 0 f Georgia. Ten of
them spend over $25 a year on each
ehild> ’ twer) t y . e jght of them spend
^ han | K) An(J betwcen those fig
ures range the other 120.
Are not those 1,300 school children
up in Towns county entitled to
much opporunity in life as the 65,
000 in Fulton?
Yet Towns county cannot do much
better than she is doing. To raise
her income from her meagre taxes to
the point where she could give her
children a proper education, she would
have to impose a tax of over 50
mills 5c on the dollar—upon her
property holders. And there are 39
other Georgia counties that are in the
same predicament—one-fourth of all
of our counties.
means that under the present
system the children in one-fourth of
the counties in Georgia cannot get
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Fort Valley
Carry Happiness
Kiwanis
T. Sanders Harris, representing
Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley at
convention of Kiwanis
n Saint Paul, Minn., this week,
bearing fruit.
What we mean is that Sanders
actually bearing fruit—the
which makes millions hope to live
other season.
Fruit—the famous Georgia
When Mr. Harris left last
for Saint Paul he had the delight
knowing that J. E. Davidson
other peach growers were
by express to him in Saint Paul
number of crates of these
peaches for presentation to those Ki
wanians gathered from all corners
the globe.
lr Knowing Mr. 1T Harris as they ,
the ,, people , of , Fort ,, . , Valley r ,. are confi
dent that he bearing . . other ,, , kinds • .
is
of fruit while at , the ,, convention—the
fruit of good . work . well ,, done , in .__,, mak
mg folks better acquainted with ,v„ the
wonderful advantages and , opportum
ties ,. of - ,, this . city ., and , section of c n Geor
gia.
Rev. J. W. Smith Now
In Revival at Macon
Rev. J. W. Smith, evangelist of
the Macon Presbytery, is conducting
a series of revival services at the
Log Cabin Heights Presbyterian
church in Macon. The meetings be
g-an last Sunday and are expected to
close next Sunday.
sufficient education to take proper
advantage of life’s opportunities— to
develop their state. Think what this
means to Georgia!
j One-half of the wealth of our
stat0 )s concentrated in ten counties.
These ten counties, despite better
mc thods, have only one-fifth of the
teachers. Therefore, they do not have
to spend as much on education as
these poorer counties we have been
considering.
Yet they are dependent upon those
| 0 tp er counties for food and citizens;
they sell them goods. Cannot they af
f or( j to help these poorer counties
produce more food, better citizens
an( j a better market for goods ?
Education will do It 1 .
The Georgia Education Association
recommends that the state itself pro¬
vide an equalization fund which will
distribute some of this surplus wealth
of the richer counties among the
schoolfi 0 f the poorer ones,
In view of what we have seen
here, it looks like a good idea.
Why not do it?
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leans society girl, at her airplane. She
Is piloting It to make social calls,
see nothing unusual in a woman driv¬
ing an airplane,” said Miss McCarthy.
“it Is Just as easy to operate us an
uutoinohile and Is certulnly more
pleasant and speedier. While In
France I learned to fly from Charles
Nungesser, Hie French ace. This sum
m er I intend to fly to several Ameri
can resorts and will later tour Europe
in machine.
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS
MEN’S C LASSES
MEET TOGETHER
Bible Classes of All Denominations
B ill Hear Hon. George S. Jones
Sunday Morning
Hon. George S. Jones, a brilliant
lawyer and Bible student of Macon,
address a joint meeting of the
rnen s Bible classes of all Fort Val
| ! ley churches next Sunday morning
11 0 clock in the court house.
! This will mark the launching of
.i°' nt meetings of the men's Bible
classes of all denominations in the
city to continue through the summer
months in order to give adequate re¬
ception to the numerous visitors hero
during the peach season. The ar
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j rar >gcments tor such a consolidation
of classes have been made in a splen
! did manner by ? Mayor ' R. D. Hale, ‘
president of the Baptist 1 and . w W. B.
i Hardeman, president of the , M tho
dist . , Bible classes. It urged
1 men s is s
I that every member of all such classes
! of all „ denominations , . . loin . , heartily m
the movement, which ... promises to add
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largely to the interest of each , Sun- _
day Bible . study.
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The speaker for ne>: unday morn
ing, Mr. Jones, will ) introduced by
Judge A. C. Riley. \ special choir
made up from the various classes
| will furnish music. A mong these sing
( ers will be Frank Smisson, F. W. i
, Withoft, Ashby McCord, R. D. Hale,
Miller Mathews, Henry Branham and
others.
j All men who are in Fort Valley
on Sunday are cordially invited to
I share in the pleasure and interest of
this meeting.
! CjA-L IT YT th UN l 1 ij l Y C'J'TY 1
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! PHONE SERVICE
| NOn COMPEL I LD
Manager Weeks of the Southern
Bell Telephone Company announces
the completion of the work which has
been in progress to care for the
growing volume of long distance
business in Fort Valley and the peach
belt.
^ Four additional sections of toll
ewitchboard have been installed, the
toll testing facilities enlarged, ad
ditional storage battery and other
I equipment provided at a cost of
more than $9,000.
Six new long distance circuits
have also been added, one between
: Fort Valley and Atlanta, one between
Fort Valley and Marshallville, one
between Macon and Marshallville,
and one between Fort Valley and
Montezuma.
These increased toll facilities are
designed to care for the peak load
in this section during the peach sea
son and telephone officials state that
all business offered can now be
handled in a satisfactory manner.
The new circuits required the con¬
struction of 77 miles of copper cir¬
cuit between Macon and Montezuma,
the creation of 27 miles of phantom
circuit between the same points and
the 13 miles of new circuit from Fort
Valley to Reynolds. The cost was ap¬
proximately $10,000.
Through business is now routed by
Atlanta, instead of Macon and this
is expected to improve the transmis¬
sion and speed up the service by eli¬
minating the switching at Macon.
SHERIFF GETS
THREE STILLS
Sheriff Geo. D. Anderson has cap¬
tured three stills during the last two
Valley. Notwithstanding the fact that
weeks, about six miles east of Fort
he took several private citizens along
with him at night as witnesses to the
difficulty in catching operators, and
exercised great care, not even using
a flashlight, nobody was found at
either of the stills. Seven barrels of
beer was destroyed.
The only other ripple in the placid
waters of peace was a negro gambl¬
ing party which was raided Sunday
night by Deputy Barfield and Police¬
man Joyner.
One-fourth of Georgia’s children
are not in school.