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WE ARE BUILDING A CITY HERE y Volume XXXVII. Number 30. Dawn of New GROWERS’ CO-OPERATION INTELLIGENT MARKETING SOLUTION IT IS Twin Oaks Fruit Farm was the scene again Wednesday of John H. yAllen’s the officials annual barbecue in honor of of the Central of Geor gia Railroad, the Southern railway, the Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, the American Fruit Growers Express and other agencies through which the ‘■largest peach shipping station in the world” moves its fascinating fruit to the doors of America. President L. A. Downs, of the Cen tral railroad, and other high officials and large peach growers from both distant and nearby points came on special trains and by motor to en joy this, the annual good-fellowship party for which Mr. Allen has won tj) lieitations and fame. The conspicuous feature of this year’s post-peach-crop party at Twin Oaks was the overflowing sentiment of faith in the present dawning of a new day in agricultural develop¬ ment for the peach belt through a new and better understanding and method of co-operation among all interests, from bankers through transportation systems and the sys- j terns of growers and marketing agencies—and the outstanding fact that the planters have awakened to the truth that “the Lord helps those who help themselves, 1 and, while standing by the main strategic point of their peach orchards, are expand¬ er ing and enlarging upon diversified ■farming interests. ! It was accepted by all who spoke 'as a most gratifying fact that the million-dollar expressions of faith on the parts of the Central of Georgia railroad and the Atlantic Ice & Coal Company—the building of the largest re-icing plant in Georgia and the doubling of track facilities between Fort Valley and Macon during the : last year—have been followed by a successful and profitable handling of the 1925 peach crop. Then, as if a magic hand were leading their minds, the represents tives of all interests in the peach (felt agreed that such tremendous ex pressions of faith followed by such happily logical results should give us courage to turn our eyes with even more unanimity to the front and solv'i those problems which yet re main in establishing the peach coun try as a permanently successful fruit producing industry. Yet realizing the j difficult problems in the way of prac-j tical canning and marketing of peach ; by-products in competition with the ji FORT VALLEY IS WINNER OF GOLF TOURNAMENT Fort Valley started off the second half of the schedule in the Peach Belt Golf Association by winning from the Hawkinsville team bn the local course last Thursday by a score of 10 to 5. Two new lady players, Miss Ruth Evans and Mrs. Lipford, were yin the team for the locals and both turned in excellent scores. W. R. Edwards broke the course record in this match when he played the first nine holes, including the dog leg, in 35. He beat John Blunt, Hawkins ville’s best player, several up on each nine holes. Oliver Snapp easily won from J. F. Coney while Abe Moskovitz won from S. A. Way on the first nine, and squared the sec¬ ond. Dr. W. L. Nance squared J. A. Frazier on the second nine and Iosif; the first nine. The Fort Valley team is now rounding into form £ind should put up a strong bid for the cup in the second half. Fitzgerald won the cup in the first half. Fort Valley goes to Fitzgerald next Thursday for the second match of the second half, and a very close score is anticipated. On July 3§, Fort Valley will be enter¬ taining the Fitzgerald team on the I Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest. massive agencies of California, it was recognized as of vital importance we exert ourselves to find some of thus protecting the peach crop from waste, The speeches were shot through an( | through with the courageous spirit of A. J. Evans in his utterances, “ a rny 0 f hope,” if we will “stand by 0 ur guns.” J. H. Baird acted as toastmaster at the barbecue. He first introduced j udg0 A , C Riley who in his charac teristic philosophical style pumped happiness and smiles into the hearts 0 f the guests, H. D. Pollard, general manager of the Central railroad, followed Judge Riley with congratulations to the people of this section of Georgia upon their niarks of progress during the i as j- year. W. T. Anderson, president and edi¬ tor of the Macon Daily Telegraph, after remarking that Macon con sumes more peaches per capita than any other city in the United States,” expressed the belief that the prob (Continued on Editorial Page) Visiting Pastor at Open Air Services L. S. Ashley, pastor of the First Christian church at McPherson, Kan¬ sas, is visiting in Fort Valley and conducted the open air service at the k ‘ rst Baptist church here Sunday Mr. Ashley married Miss Mary i a popular Fort Valley young and with, his wife, little and sister, Miss Minnie of Marshall, Missouri, are relatives here, Mr. Ashley is loud in his praises Georgia and this section, where most delicious of all fruits—the grown. Mr. Ashley brought splendid message to a large and congregation assembled the church lawn where an impro altar, choir loft and seats had provided for service during the evenings. The theme that held attention of the audience center around the words from Matthew’s “What have ye done more others.” A male quartett, with choir and orchestra music, un the direction of F. W. Withoft, of music added to the inter¬ of the service. I — local course. Come out and give . the 7~ | team your support. They will need it. | While Fort Valley was beating Hawkinsville, TT , . ... the ,, Montezuma , club , , was taking Fitzgerald into camp by a 10 to 7 score in Montezuma. Monte-1 zuma is a new club in the Associa-1 tion, they having taken the place left j vacant by the resignation of Ameri- half.! cus at the close of the first i Montezuma made a good showing against the strong Fitzgerald Valley-I team. The results of the Fort Hawkinsville match were Hawkinsville as follows: j j Fort Valley W. R. Edwards 3 John Blunt b Oliver Snapp 3 J. F. Coney 0 Abe Moskovitz 2 S A Way 0 Dr. W. L. Nance 0 J. A. Frazier 2 Ruth Evans 2 Mrs. Mason 0 Mrs Lipford 0 Nancy Blunt 3 — 10 5 The standing of the teams as of July Fort 16 Valley is as follows: 10 j i Montezuma 10 | Fitzgerald .. 7 Hawkinsville 5 : OLIVER SNAPP, Sec’y-Treas. Peach Belt Golf Association, FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1023. for Pea n Blowing Up Historic Passaic River Bridge *, * j \ ■ y to: M ' - >V *1 $ *' s 'm 54 w ? di -iv . . : H ■ V; : '- m | * V J & *'Jy I m X /-■ 1 I i lijlil v • V >x.v M ' Sc - ujt W fa Elirri. .miMi 111 Here Is pictured the historic old bridge oyer the Passaic river, near Little Falls, N. J., as it was blown up to make room for modern improvements. The bridge was ninety-nine years old and the scene of many a lovers’ tryst. -- Fort Valley Peach Takes N. C. Honor Cup At Asheville Miss Mary Hale, a former school teacher in Fort Valley and now a teacher in the Atlanta schools, wired Mayor R. D. Hale and John Vance last week for a program of the Peach Blossom Festival and a crate of peaches for staging a Georgia (Continued on Back Page) OIJR MELONS ABF WANTED IN , FA R A A Tf7 W AY 4\r MON MMslUTrr 1 AN A A „ The Southern Brokerage Com¬ pany received this telegram Mon¬ day, showing that the watermel¬ ons of this section are highly de¬ sirable: Butte, Mont., July 20, 1925 Southern Brokerage Co., Fort Valley, Ga. Quote watermelons under refrige¬ | ration. Round variety preferred. Hurry answer. C. H. Robinson Co. Comrnercial School For City Planned Alton H. Perry, president, 0. Mc Lane, vice-president, and H. D. Wall,! general representative, of the Geor- j gia-Carolina School of Commerce, of | Brunswick, Ga., and Goldsboro, N. C.,, in Fort Valley during the last few days to arrange for the opening of a college of commerce in this city, i were given a cordial reception their launching of a campaign to 1 the people of this sect ion in onpn : n „ ,.c su „u „ va i ua M e insti Flsewhere r-isewnere in in this tnis paper paper will win found thejr announceme nt of i_ _ nAA - New T _ Road , -, Maps For the Winona Hotel i __ The Leader-Tribune presses have' completed a run of 50,000 new ' maps showing the “shortest a nd\ route to Florida via Fort Val-1 over the Dixie highway, “16 shorter than any other route,! on the Dixie or National I 150 new road signs also are being by Manager Emory H. Cop Mr. Coppedge, with his fath G. T. Coppedge, recently bought Hotel Barnesville and are making improvements in both that hos-1 and the Hotel Winona here. first two floors of the Winona been remodeled early in the the third floor is now being with new paint and wall | and the installation of addition baths. | 3034 CARLOTS IS 1923 SHIPMENT THIS TERRITORY Watermelon Movement Is Getting Under Way—Seventeen Cars Have Gone from Fort Valley 3,034 cars of peaches had been shipped from the Fort Valley terri tory up to Wednesday night, accord ing to C. H. Sammons, local freight agent. 2,746 carloads had been moved U P t0 the Wednesday night preceding, making the movement for the last week 288 cars ’ The peach movement here is about completed. Only one car had been (Continued on Back Page) YEAR BOOK OF WOMAN’S CLUB The program committee of the Wo s Club has just issued to the attractive club year books,' outlines for the programs from through May. Mrs. F. O. Miller is chairman of committee and associated with in the arrangement of the club are Mrs. E. L. Duke and Wilma Orr. | The programs for the next club j will not be a continuous study, I each will cover a topic within Chairmen for each program been provided, who are privi to add to the topic. The first club meeting of the new ear he held with Mrs. Neltie on October sixth and Mrs. Allen will have charge of program, the subject being “Our Aims and Ambitions. Among some of the interesting top for stu dy as arranged by the are “Georgia—the place! occupies and the place, she , should , , , Citizenship, Our Town, Mus Art, The Home and The Clothes Wear.” - Appropriation t nnrttnriff SUtil Coilllt \ Fui-VS Is i “ . _ . .. l „ VGSlddll , - SKCU _ j The Weekly Press of Georgia is heartily to the pleas for and better county fairs in the Gordon S. Chapman, President the Georgia Association of Fairs, have introduced in the Georgia this week a Bill appro $50,000.00 through the State of Agriculture for County Only about thirty counties in will hold fairs this fall and Chapman states that five years the number was nearly double amount. A number of County fairs have abandoned in the State due to (Continued on Editorial Page) (Ten Pages) Supply Sunday for Baptist Pastor on Month’s Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Howard children left Tuesday morning Augusta. Mrs. Howard’s was not satisfactory and she has turned to the hospital for treatment. j i t j s t he custom for the church to extend to their pastor i 1 vacation during the month of ust, so when it was found f or Mrs. Howard to return to the hospital the church in conference Sunday morning, granted Mr. How ard his vacation to begin immedi ately> which wou)d not make it nec _ essary for h im to return to Fort Valley for the service next Sunday, The regular Sunday services will be held. Supply will be made for Mr Howard. COL. DARRAH ISDISTINGUISHED VI SI FOB TO CITY Colonel Thomas W. Darrah, chief of staff of the 4th Corps Area U. S . Army and Mrs. Darrah motored down from Atlanta and spent Friday w jt k Mr. and Mrs. J. Dawson Ken dr ick. Colonel and Mrs. Darrah were very appreciative of the hospitality (Continued on Back Page) LEADER-TRIBUNE HONOR ROLL OF SUBSCRIBERS Have 8 you paid vour subscription Leader-Tribune since Julv 1 ■’ * S ”’ y ° Ur namG S , ° a ,, f a PP ear ln following honor roll of those who P PP . lE . ' P nk ' n<>V ' w tn wc ^ y0U rGCel \ ed a stat <f ent or your . has expired, and have you t0 Pay ’T¥i e neglect !t IV rf day. DO IT iT wnw NOW and help ° ' Mm "' K ‘ UJ 0 'Rations, weP as sav i n K us the expense of another statement within a days. THANKS! you friends in list: W. G. Kemper. T. S. Harris. S. W. Hunter. H. V. Williams. Edwards Brothers. L. L. Brown. Hal Vaughn. John T. Slaton. Winona Hotel. E. L. Butler. Mrs. T. P. Greene. R. L. Duke, Byron. L. E. Haddock. E. M. Fagan. B. C. Hamlin. W. L. Thames. PEACHLAND JOURNAL 36 years old—only newspaper in heart of one of America’s richest diversified agricultural sections. $1.50 Per Year in Advance. A. J. EVANS GOES TO HANDLE CROP AT CORNELIA, GA. J Before Leaving Expresses Gratifies* I tion in Co-operative Spirit of Handling Crop Here. A. J. Evans, the peach king,” is j leaving this week with some of his expert organization for Cornelia, Ga., to take care of his extensive opera tions in the North Georgia peach ; crop. Before leaving, in an address at the annual barbecue given by John , ■ H. Allen at Twin Oaks, Mr. Evans expressed warm satisfaction over the fact that “there has been this year I the best handling of the Georgia peach crop I ever have seen.” i ‘Yet, 1 said Mr. Evans, “we have a. long, rugged road before us. The« consuming markets will take only so ; many peaches. The whole question is j one of marketing. We must organize,. I or co-operate, in such a way as to | guarantee that our p' aches will ar rive at the consumin : points when, and as, those point will consume them. The main ] ^position is for us to stand by our guns. I don’t be¬ lieve God has any use for a quitter. M Mr. Evans paid high tribute to the (Continued on Editorial Page) WRECKED CAR IN OTHER COUNTY This morning’s Macon Telepgrapbi carried a story of the wrecking of a tourists ’ car which leaves the lm pression that the Peach county offi clals had been in their at tent,on to safet v s, £ nals in road - constructlon ’ Thk * ls an error - The ac ‘ cldpnt occurred in Houston county, Ev,dently the erroneous report came lrom the fact that sher 'ff Geo. D. Anderson went to the scene of the ™ rock ’ which the news re P ort in th ® j Telegraph describes as follows: “Travelling with his three children, the oldest being seven years, V. A. Neport, of Detroit, struck a pile of r Jck near the end of the pavement in | Peach county, last night and practi i tally wrecked his automobile. I “The tourist was on his way home I from Florida where his wife had just die± In tke car were tkree children, j I the “The youngest oldest an boy 18-months-old bruised baby- wherk was he was thrown out of the car by the, impact with the stone pile, E. W.. Stapleton, of Asheville, North Caro ii na> wko was dr i v ing a short dis¬ tance behind the wrecked car stated that there were no lights on the rock pile. The rocks were to be used in the construction of a Miss Joe Royal. Mrs. A. L. Luce. Dr. R. C. Smisson. C. C. Richardson, Byron. W. J. Cheek. J. G. Avera. Miss Nettie Marshall. Mrs. S. C. Floyd. Mrs. Geo. W. Mathews, Sr. J. J. Glass. A. E. Arrowsmith. W. R. FuHer, Hazard, Ky. J. D. Fagan. L. P. Singleton. F. T. Houser, Tampa, Fla. G. V. Braddock. Mrs. J. H. Edwards. E. L. Luneeford. T. J. Mathews. Mrs. W. Peddicord. A. M. Luneeford. J. H. Baird. F. S. Murray, West Palm Beach,, j I. F. Murph, Marshallville. J. A. Jones. J. H. Webster, Homestead, Fla. I ; R. II. Vinson. B. T. Marshall. J. O. Scarborough. Frank Harrison. C. Hall.