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Volume XXXVII. Number 29.
FIRST CARLOAD
MELONS MOVED
ON W
2.746 Carlots Peaches Shipped
Fort Valley Territory Up to
Wednesday Night
For Valley’s first carload of
melons moved on Wednesday,
by R. L. Marchman to
Ohio. Melon shipments will be
well by next week.
V 2,746 carlots of peaches had
from the Fort Valley territory up
Wednesday night, according to C.
Sammons, local freight agent,
means that 774 carlots had
during the previous week—a
breaking week for the 1925
138 cars had been placed Wednesday
night and were being placed
day morning around Fort Valley.
127 cars were shipped Monday,
Tuesday and 136 Wednesday.
the close of the season with
and Hale shipments, next week will
see peaches making way for
, melon shipments. The Elberta crop
will be about finished this week.
Hale crop, which is quite limited,
wdl be covered in final shipments the
first of next week.
* SHIPS PEACHES
ACROSS
Four crates of Hale peaches
were shipped by W. D. Murray
Tuesday night, by express, to
London.
The peaches were most
from the select of Mr. Murray’s
600 Hale trees. The shipment
* made at the instance of L. A.
president of the Central railroad.
» was arranged by Special Agent
Gahee, of Fort Valley, and
careful attention from J. W.
ford, American Railway
agent here. The peaches will
New York on a vessel sailing
urday, the 18th.
Clopine Clippings
Friends of Miss Hexie
were sorry to learn Tuesday that
was not doing so well at the
Hospital where she was operated
recently for appendicitis.
Messrs. Denzil and Morgan
and Thomas Cheek expect to
Sunday for a short visit in North
Carolina.
Miss Carolyn Stevens is the
tractive visitor of Miss Ruby Davis.
Mr. Morgan Wilson reported
first ripe watermelon for this
munity. He states that he has a
good crop and expects to begin
‘ shipping the latter part of July.
Mr. M. C. Mosley has been very
busy throughout this community
having the county roads worked and
scraped. They are now in fine con¬
dition and with the aid of the State
Highway we would have the
roads in the County.
Mrs. S. N. Peek of Birmingham,
Ala. who was a recent visitor of Mrs.
A. *1. Tuggle, has returned to her
home in Birmingham.
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: Mr - and Mrs -' T ’ D> Castleberry i
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j had a number of relatives visit them
* from Indian Springs last Sunday af
ternoon. •
MisseS Clifford and Marth
who have been at the Dhytohia
i 1 - tel for the last three weeks are
t rk Newman, Ga.
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FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925. (Twelve Pages)
Progress T o i v a rd
Repeal of State
Inheritance Tax
Atlanta, July 16.—Georgia would
repeal all inheritance tax laws on her
; statutes if recommendations of the
j i senate finance committee ordered
Wednesday are followed,
Two bills, each directing repeal of
the inheritance tax laws, were before
the committee, and both were report
! ed favorably, so strong was the feel
ing of the majority of the committee
for the repeal. Only three members
of the committee voted to adverse
the bills—Senators Bell, Harrell and
Moye.
; CITY COURT FOR
i TlJCCT'C
J PEACH j wr PASSES
J OW'ER II OUSE
| Atlanta, July 15.—Among the
| local legislation passed in the
House today is a bill to create
the City Court of I’each County.
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Prohi Officials
Eight Politics
In Appointments
Washington, July 14.—Two major
campaigns are holding the attention
of prohibition enforcement officials
who are taking the offensive in one
and a defensive stand in the other.
While treasury and department of
justice branches concerned with pro -1
hibition are planning to dry up “high
power beer” sources under a permit
Under Secretary Winston, of
j the of political treasury, is fighting for an avalanche
pressure
in the new enforcement machine.
The various field marshals are confi-
1 dent, however, that their battle lines
will hold.
Assistant Secretary Andrews, of
(h e treasury, and Mrs. Mabel Wille
I i brandt, assistant attorney general,
has devised a new brewery permit
system, and have arranged for clos
I er co-operation between their depart
i ments for more rigid prosecution of
I prohibition law violators.
“Every potential brewery” begin¬
ning operation without first obtain
,n K a federal permit will be construed
as outside the law, and these plants
will be watched to determine wheth
er beer of more than the legal alco¬
' holic content—one-half of 1 per cent
by volume—is removed from them.
Elimination of delay in prosecution
of cases is to be sought by employ¬
ing periodic reports from prohibition
agents, indicating the progress of
various actions in court.
Under the reorganization, the state
prohibition directors are to be sup¬
planted by regional directors, and
these few positions, paying up to $7,-
500, have brought forth several con¬
tests. They also have developed sug¬
gestions that the enforcement areas
be changed to group states differ¬
ently than as planned, but Assistant
Secretary Andrews is unwilling to
revise his program, which has the
full approval of President Coolidge
and Secretary Mellon.
ENGLISH BRIDE FOR PRINCE
Christiania. It is reported here
that shortly after Prince Olaf of
1 Norway completes his course at Ox
| ford his betrothal to announced. an English peer’s
| daughter will be
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STRAY COW TRGGEDY
Richmond, Ind.— An automobile
driven by Mrs. Harriet Mills struck
a cow that had strayed into the road
and overturned killing Mrs. Mills’
two children.
GINGER ALE IS PET TOPIC
OF BRYAN AS HE RESTS
BETWEEN ROUNDS IN COURT
Dayton, Tenn., July 14.—It is not
of evolution, or religion, or text books
that William Jennings Bryan talks
as he relaxes between the rounds of
the evolution battle in the soothing
shade of a giant magnolia tree.
He talks about his pet brand of
giner ale, of cold water, the value of
a piece of ice to an orator and the
munificience of nature in creating
palm leaves for fans—these and oth
er topics such as ru nthrough the
mind on blistering days.
“Do you know,” he observes, “that
when I am addressing an audience
in a particularly warm hall, I take a
small piece of ice about the size of a
pullet’s egg. I put it in the palm of
my right hand and hold it tightly.
Then I shift it to my left hand, hold¬
ing it in either hand for about five
minutes.
“Then I pass my cold hands over
my forehead. I have always found
this very effective.”
His “Trick Shirt”
And then there is his “trick shirt.”
It is an invention in which he and
Mrs. Bryan combined forces.
That portion of the shirt that usu¬
ally contains a collar band is cut
away and a neat white band is bast¬
ed in a low V-shape. The sleeves are
cut at the elbow, after the fashion
of a tennis shirt.
Bryan is one of the few men of
Dayton who depends upon his belt to
keep his trousers up. The others fa
vor galluses,
And, although he still speaks
cold water as his favorite
drink, he has his own recipe for gm
ger ale and tries to keep a supply of
his favorite product on hand.
Viaduct Measure
W ins 13 to 1 Vote
Of Senate Body
Senate W. & A. Committee’s Over¬
whelming Vote Follows Passage
In House by Vote of 155-42
Atlanta, July 16.—Close upon the
heels of the passage of the Atlanta
viaducts measure Wednesday by the
house of representatives, the W. & A.
committee of the senate Wednesday
night voted favorably to recommend
the viaducts resolution for passage
in the senate. The vote was 13 to 1,
the only dissenting vote being that
of Senator T. L. Knight, of the 6th
district, who said he is not opposed
to the viaducts being constructed but
is opposed to the resolution in its
present form.
BABE DESERTED ON TRAIN
‘Chicago. — A baby boy three
months old was found deserted on a
train arriving here from Indiana.
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ALBERT M. TRAVIS CO.
(Incorporated) ]
FRUITS AND PRODUCE
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
207-209 TWENTY-FIRST STREET
Pittsburgh , Pa.
July 7th, 1925. /
John H. Jones, Editor,
Leader-Tribune, •p i
Fort Valley, Ga.
My dear Mr. Jones:
I have been receiving an advertiser’s copy of The Leader- -
Tribune, and inasmuch as we have so many good friends at Fort
Valley, we naturally have been looking the paper over each week.
I think it is only due you to, take this occasion to write and tell you
that Fort Valley ought to be proud of your paper. As an ex-news
paper man I have been very much impressed with the make-up,
editorials, and the plentifulness of news in your paper.
With kindest personal regards, I am
Yours very truly,
ALBERT M. TRAVIS COMPANY,
GEO. H. LAFBURY.
President. i .
My particular brand is made
without sugar, confides the com
mandmant in chief of the forces of
antievolution, It has a tang, an in
vigorating, refreshing flip which fills
me with new life.
With this he mops a perspiration
beaded brow with a handkerchief of
ample proportions and waves a large
palm leaf fan. He looks upon the
palm leaf as another proof of “the
great eternal plan of adapting all na
ture to man’s use.
“It is only further proof of the
great goodness of God, he concludes,
, with more fan flourishes,
| Bryan finds methods of : 1
many re
laxation, of which the easy chair be
j neath a giant magnolia is but one.
Visits Drug Store.
He is frequently seen sauntering
along the many shaded country roads,
uncoated and with his now famous
“sun hat.” He passes the time of day
with everyone and is a daily visitor
at the drug store where it happen
ed.” Invariably his order is either gin¬
ger ale or water.
He has learned to eat “hot dogs on
the half shell,” a dish native to this
section.
The general atmosphere in and
around Dayton is extremely relaxing
to one engaged in so arduous a strug¬
gle, he says.
At the end of almost any day you
may find him beneath his favorite
magnolia—and, here, it is not of the
evolution arguments that he is likely
to talk, but of cool drinks, cool
j starts smake and such hot weather conversation topics .
^ up any average
on Main street.
Mercha ti r g
E'rC( > Trip ' to New
I ork Next October
Seven business concerns of this
city have organized to give a free
trip to New York and other points
of interest in the Northeast. A “Miss
Fort Valley” will be chosen by popu
lar vote for a place in the Elliott
Tour, according to the announcement
appearing in today’s paper. Tue busi
ness firms who are giving the trip
are the Georgia Agricultural Works ’
Fort Valley Motor Co., Copeland’s
Pharmacy, Mrs. M. T. Wise, Georgia
Grocery and Singletary’s Cash Mar¬
ket, Franklin Theatre and Adams
Tire, Battery and Filling Station.
Adjourn Houston Court
Houston county superior court con
vened Monday only to adjourn until
the fourth Monday in August. No
jurors had been summoned to be at
court on last Monday, account said of the Judge heavy H. j
A. Mathews, on j
peach shipping period.
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Quarantine Planned
To Stop Spread o i
Pink Boll Worms
Washington, July 14.—Fearing the
spread of the pink boll worm, the de
partment of agriculture plans to re
vise quarantine regulations to pro
Dibit the interstate shipment of cot
ton seed from infested territory, and '
a > s o fumigation. lint, unless it has received vacu- j I
um
The depatment hopes to obtain the ,
co-operation of authorities to '
state
enforce the restrictions on shipments ;
within the states. Unless such pre- \
cautions are taken, the department
declared, there is danger that the in- ;
sect may get out of control and the
eradication work which has cost the
government $5,000,000, would be nul
ified.
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FRUIT BUYER IS
SERIOUSLY HURT
IN AUTO WRECK
c ar> Driven by Cincinnati Man Over
turns Near Fort Valley—Por¬
tion of Skull Crushed
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Frank Palmisano, 54, of the fruit
firm of the Sanzonne-Palmisano 1
Company, of Cincinnati, O., was bad
ly hurt last Thursday afternoon when
an automobile which he was driving
turned over nine miles from Fort
Valley. Mr. Palmisano was en route
from Macon to Fort Valley at the
time of the accident. He had been
stopping at Hotel Dempsey in Macon
for 30 days, engaged in buying
peaches.
According to persons who accom
panied the injured man to the Ogle
thorpe Private Infirmary at Macon,
he was travelling fast when he struck
a section of road which was being
worked. His car skidded, went into a
ditch and turned over. Dr. M. S.
Brown, of Fort Valley, was called to
, administer first aid and he with oth
! ers accompanied him to Macon.
j An X-ray examination at the hos
pital showed that Palmisano’s most
serious injury was • over the right
eye. The outer wall of the skull was
crushed and it was necessary to re
move several small pieces of bone.
He is reported to be recovering in a
very satisfactory manner,
Shepard Speaks to |
Tifton Khvanians
C. L. Shepard, a member of the
state executive committee for the
at proposed Valdosta, Woodrow responded Wilson to an College invita- j I
tion to speak to the Kiwanis Club and
the Board of Trade of Tifton last
Friday. He has received a similar in¬
vitation to speak in Louisville and at
other places and, with intense inter
es t j n the campaign, he is planning
to give more time to the cause after
the peach season. He was accompani
ed on his motor trip to Tifton by
Mrs. Shepard, Miss Annette Shepard,
Leighton Shepard and Miss Margaret
Branham. They drove on down to
Valdosta to visit Rev. and Mrs. Loy
Warwick Friday night.
Stripling Recovers receiving
G. L. Stripling has been
the congratulations of his many Fort
Valley friends during the past week
upon his release from a Macon hos¬
pital where he suffered an operation
for appendicitis.
TENNESSEE LAW IS TOO
WEAK FOR COLE BLEASE
Greenville, S. C., July 14.—Teach¬
ers in South Carolina will in the fu¬
ture be required to profess their be¬
lief in the deity of Jesus Christ if j
Senator Cole Blease has his way ,
about it. The senator here today said
he favored something more stringent
than the proposed law against evolu¬
tion which Representative Thomas II.
Peeples of Richland county has an¬
nounced his intention of sponsoring,
“I intend writing Tom Peeples and .
telling him I would like to see a law
in this state requiring all teachers 1
in the public schools to take an obli- i
gation admitting their belief in the
deity of Jesus Christ.”
PEACHLAND
JOURNAL
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newspaper in heart
of one of America’s
richest diversified
agricultural sections.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
DEATH FOLLOWS
COLLISION W ITH
FREIGHT TRAIN
Eugene Walden, Fort Valley Negro*
Dies Monday Following
Wreck Saturday >
Eugene Walden, a Fort Valley ne
gro, died Monday morning in a Ma
con hospital, following the wrecking
of a Dodge automobile which he wa 3
driving Saturday afternoon when bat
ran into a moving Southern freight
train at the crossing on Macon street!
near the Festival grounds.
It is said that Walden evidently
drove into the train in a spell of ab*
sen t mind. A freight car crushed the
auto. Dr. W. S. White was called and
Walden was rushed to Macon with
very bad head wounds.
Fish In Water
Tank of Engine
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Hawkinsville, Ga., July 14.—H. L.
Nelson, local agent of the Southern
railway at this place, comes forward
with the master fish story of tha
season and the best part of it, it isf
true and has been verified by many
here, and the incident was witnessed
by several who h :>ened to be on
hand at the time,
Mr. Nelson says that it recently be-*
came necessary to clean out the wat
or tender attached to a Wrightsvillo
& Tennille locomotive that has been
making this run for several years
an tl the drain pipe at the bottom of!
the water tank on the engine was
opened to let the water out. Tha
water ran out freely for some time*
when suddenly the flow seemed clog
' ged and finally opened up again at
' full tilt, when a fish 10 inches long;
came through the drain, and upon
investigation proved to be a carp
such as are plentiful in the river
' here.
This tender had not been cieanedi
out in several years and it is thought!
the carp might have been around two
years old, and the only way that id
is thought the fish could have gotten
in the tank was it might have been
drawn up through the pumps into
the water supply tank here out ofl
the river and then emptied into the<
engine tank while it was small, a3
the railroad engines use water pump¬
ed from the river at this point.
The crowd standing around wa3
greatly surprised when the carp fell
X lit
in-the-wool truthful fish tale of it3
kj nd on re cord.
The fish is supposed to have lived
on trash and sediments that accu
mu l a ted in the tender. i
Buying of Ansley Home [
For Executive Mansion
Favored by Senate Body
Atlanta, July 14.—-Recommending
the purchase of the old Ed Ansley
home in Ansley Park for use as a
governor’s mansion, the public prop¬
erty .committee of the senate Tuesday
morning approved the report of tha
special legislative commission which
has proposed that the state of Geor¬
gia purchase the Ansley property afc
a price of $86,000.
The senate committee was unan¬
imous in its approval of the legisla¬
tive commission report and the chair¬
man, Senator W. M. Sapp, informed
various delegations of real estate
men who appeared before the com¬
mittee that the merit or demerit of
the Ansley property would be. dis¬
cussed when a bill providing for'the
purchase of the property comes up
for action in the general assembly.
The Ansley home is now being used
by Governor Walker under a lease.
for the purchase of the"
property has been conducted through
the Ansley Park Civic league after a
series of conferences with the legis
lative commission appointed last year.
The commission includes former
Senators George Lankford and C. W,
Redwine and Representatives Bessie!
Kempton, Ben J. Fowler and- Ed