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Volume XXXVII. Number 33.
WYATT TO SPEAK FRIDAY;
MURRAY URGES FORMATION
OF CHAMBER OF
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Brilliant LaGrange
Attorney To Speak
On Wilson College S'
Harris Made Illuminating Report and
President Murray Called “His”
To Arms Last Friday
Lee B. Wyatt, a leading lawyer of
LaGrange, former prominent mem
ber of the legislature and recognized
widely as one of Georgia’s most elo¬
quent speakers in both church and
political fields, will address the Ki
wanis Club of Fort Valley on Friday
of this week, at its twelve o’clock
luncheon meeting, on the proposed
Woodrow Wilson College at Valdosta.
Mr. Wyatt comes as the special
guest of C. L. Shepard, a member of
the state executive committee in the
Woodrow Wilson College campaign.
Both Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Shepard
have been giving themselves earnest¬
ly and with powerful force to the
campaign in a series of addresses in
various parts of Georgia, Kiwanians
are dffered one of the best in their
frequent good features i n Mr.
Wyatt’s address at this week’s meet
mg.
W. D. McKinstry, comptroller of
the Central of Georgia railroad, will
also be a popular guest.
J. E. Lee, W. R. Edwards and F.
W. Withoft form the committee on
entertainment for this week.
Sanders Harris Reports
T. Sanders Harris, who represent¬
ed the Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley
at the Kiwanis International con¬
vention in Saint Paul, made a capti¬
vating report of his trip last Friday.
He told the Kiwanians of the most
striking - principles of Kiwanis which
were emphasized at the convention
and the higher vision which had
been brought to the delegates as
they pledged their thousands of clubs
to a more expansive program of hu¬
man service. Mr. Harris’ report con¬
vinced the club that he had given
himself very seriously to the business
of the convention.
President Murray Calls for More
Action, Fewer Words
Congratulating the club its .
upon
splendid attendance at the first meet
ing following the peach season re
cess, President E. T. Murray appealed
for the prompt launching of a pro¬
gram of development with the de¬
termination to really stick to the job
until , something .it__• is accomplished.
■ • This was one of the best come
back meetings since the club’s or
ganization,” said Mr. Murray to The
Leader-Tribune. “The attendance was
considerably larger than that of the
meeting following the 1924 peach
season recess.
“What we need in the Kiwanis
Club now, as well as in Fort Valley
as a whole, is a spirit of determina
tion to do things to completion, not
merely talk. We need to stop mere¬
ly appointing “committees,” and or
ganize for concerted action, and fol
low up our projects with all our
might until they are accomplished,
We have started too many things to
have finished so few. When we get
one good movement fairly well
started somebody offers another good
idea and the first is abandoned for
the second, and on and on and on in
that way to the end of nothing real¬
ly done. We’ve got to broaden our
vision and our system of action so
that we can get away from our
weakness of being able to do only one
thing at a time. In order to do that,
more of us must get into harness,
We must stop depending on just a
few persons to do it all while the
balance of us stand around and crit
icise and talk about what “ought to
be done.
II Our first and greatest need right
now is a real chamber of commerce
with a real secretary and money
enough to carry out broad plans
with force and to completion. We
must adopt a definite,
plan, or program of development, and
stay with it not merely until the
^ next Peach Blossom Festival or the
1926 peach season calls on us to drop
everything else, but month in and
month out, year after year until we
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
THE MAN FROM
GEORGIA
| Woodrow Wilson belonged to all mankind
for he was the first statesman to hold aloft
an ideal that was not only for the security
and peace of his own nation, but for all
humanity. Only in America—strong, young,
rich and without bitterness—could such
ideals have thriven so vigorously that they
| would become a factor in world affairs. And
of all America, only the post-war south, only
Georgia. cherishing her standards in the face
■ of humiliation, poverty and defeat, could
I have implanted idealism so firmly that it
would become the very fibre of the man.
He belonged to Georgia: a thousand ties, the
| dear events of his life, held him to the
state of his boyhood.
Now that he is dead, Georgia is acknow¬
ledging those ties and has taken the lead
in raising a national monument to him. Her
Irihutr i« to he Ihe memorial that he would
have desired most, a college for young men.
It will bear his name and perpetuate his
memory as would any bronze statue or
shaft of stone. But above it all will keep
alive his aims and ideals so that they will
not shrink to dusty history, but continue
to be a vital. living force t4at will he
poured into the world of affairs through
the stream of young men who will go out
from the college.
The movement for the college Originated
at Valdosta shortly after Woodrow Wilson’s
death. Citizens there raised « half million
dollars and purchased a hundred acre site
f<»r it. But they found that a memorial to
Woodrow WiUon. (iTorgia. and America's
war president, could not be merely a local
________ concern. Men ». and . throughout 4 Geor- r ,
women
gia. from all parts of the United states and
even from other countries heard of the plan
°n d interested.
Colonel Edward M. House. Wilson’s close
friend and political advisor, has not only en
thusiasticaiiy approved of the plan but prom
isod hi. co-operation when the time come,
for placing the plan before the entire coun¬
try. William Gibbs MrAdoo, Newton D. Ba¬
ker, Joseph Daniels. Franklin I). Roosevelt
are among the nationally known men who
are keenly interested in the project. Pleas-
8n ' A - sloval1 of S 8 '”""® 1 ". boyhood friend
of Woodrow Wilson, who served as envoy to
Switzerland during the Wilson administra¬
tion, is actively heading the movement.
A further indication of the general eager¬
ness of the nation to honor the memory of
Woodrow Wilson and to keep his ideals a
flame is indicated in the endorsement given
by the national Democratic Party, the
American Federation of Labor which has
pledged to provide a building, and the Na¬
tional headquarters of the American Legion
iich has pledged funds to the college.
Plans for) the Woodrow Wilson College in
Georgia have been thoughtfully worked out
by a group of nationally known educators
who were intimately associated with Woodrow
d ur}nK hi!4 i ife- T h ey include i>r.
Sidney E. Mezes, president of the College of
the City of New York. and Dr. David F.
Houston, former president of the Universi¬
ty of Texas and member of the Cabinet dur¬
ing the Wilson administration.
Working with a group of Valdosta citizens
» - h« m serving a» » temporary hoard of
trustees for the college, these men have de
cWed that !n thrw par(irular9 the c „ IlcKe will
differ from most of the institutions of
higher learning in the United states, it
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get somewhere. Otherwise it will be
the same thing of chasing butterflies
over and over, here and there, until
disappointment will have turned our
most progressive citizens into grey
haired pessimists.
After a careful survey of our city
and her people during the last six
years I have reached the full conclu- j
sion that we never can realize our
rich opportunities and the best bene- |
fits of the glorious assets of which
we boast, including the Peach Blos
som Festival and our superiority as i
a peach center, without a chamber ;
of commerce in well conceived opera-.
tion, with annual funds of ten thous
and dollars or more. Another thing
our people must work for results,
not glory,
II Thousands of tourists are passing
through Fort Valley to Florida. The
time is not distant when some of
these tourists will know that their
best opportunities lie in Georgia, and
the best of these in this section of
the state. Even now some of them
are turning their eyes towards in- j
vestments in Georgia. We are about
to miss a wonderful chance to gain
many good citizens with power to
produce and capital to help our corn
munity flourish as it should.
“Why, even a few days ago, Mrs.
W. S. White went to show some
ists where the Avera camp grounds
were. She found there a little city
of tourists who were very apprecia
; tive of attention, but the deplorable
j fact was that not one of those tour
, ists knew the name of the town in
j which they were stopping!”
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 13, 1923.
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NOTICE PEACH
COUNTY
It will not be necessary for citizens
,,f |» eac h county to register for the
special - , election , .. on ur Wednesday, , , c Sep- ,
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tember 15, on the creation of a City .
Court of Peach County, according to
the consensus of legal opinion. The
old .1 registration . . .. ... list will ... , oe used. ,
However, it is very necessary t hat
the citizen* of Beach county all reg
ister on the permanent Peach county
registration book so that there will
be no trouble in future elections.
8-13- It M. C. MOSLEY, Ordinary.
YOUNG PEOPLE’S
COUNCIL B. W. M.
U. ON THURSDAY
All the young people of Rehoboth
Association, Georgia B. W. M. U.,
have been looking forward to the
young People’s Council which is be
ing held at the Tatnall Square Bap
list church, Macon, Thursday, Aug
ust the thirteenth, beginning at 10:30
Eastern time,
Mrs. F. W. Withoft, of Fort Val¬
ley, associational young peoples’ lead
er, has arranged a most interesting
program. She has urged the attend
ance at tb j 8 mee tj ng 0 f all leaders of
young people’s . , organizations .. and , the .,
presidents of all missionary societies.
Mrs. Withoft has asked that, in the
absence of the leader, a representa
tive be appointed.
The program follows:
10:30 a. m.
Song—If Jesus Goes with Me, I’ll
go.
Prayer.
Devotipnal—Y. W. A. First Church
Macon.
Welcome address.
Response.
Our Purpose in Meeting—Mrs. F.
W. Withoft.
Reports of Organizations.
Recognition of Full Graded Union
Song—Send the Light.
Dialogue— Tithing— Arranged by
Mrs. Mark O’Daniel. ,
Special Music—Cherokee Heights
Young People’s Leader.
Girls’ Auxiliary.
Address—Miss Julia Allen—State
Song.
Address—Miss Frances Fulghum.
Missionary to Japan.
Announcements.
Lunch.
2 p. m.
Song—More Like the Master.
Devotional—Sscripture by repre¬
sentatives of each organization.
Sentence Prayers.
Round Table Discussion of
ods.
Recognition of College Girls.
Report of Bessie Tift House Party.
Presentation of Ridgecrest Y. W. A.
Camp.
j The Georgia Baptist Assembly—
Miss Carmen Hyman.
Reading—Miss Maxwell Taylor.
Young People in the West—Mrs.
F. W. Withoft.
Closing Devotional.
Joseph Ray Dies
In Youth’s Bloom
!
The funeral of Joseph Ray, who
died at two o’clock Tuesday morning,
was held from his late residence
Tuesday afternoon at fou- o’clock.
Joseph was a handsome youth, 17
years of age, with a score of friends
w j 10 were saddened by his untimely 1
after an illness of fever for
: about four weeks> I l I
Rev. T. H. Thomson conducted the
i funeral service at the home after i
which the body was carried to Union i
| church, cast of lort Valley, where
interment was made. -His young class
mates acted as pall bearers, who
: w e r e Royce Bartlett, Doddridge
Houser, Will Tharpe, Bob and Ralph
Connal and Harris Hafer. .
! Joseph was the only son of Mr. i
and Mrs. Eugene Ray and is survived
by his parents and four sister, Misses
Ocie, Elsie, Imogene and Mamie Ray. !
1 Slappey Is
George
On Watson Memorial
Announcement of the state execu
tive committee of the Tom Watson
Memorial Association has been made
J by the state chairman.
j County chairmen have been ap
po i nte d, who will m turn name one
or more in each militia district.
George H. Slappey has been named as
a committeeman from Peach county.
I
Parker New Man at
Bank of Ft. Valley
|
H. H. Parker, a young man of
three years’ banking experience, has
1 come from the Citizens Bank at
I Wrens, Ga., to fill the responsible
position formerly held by L. R. :
Hartley, who has gone to Miami, Fia.
i He will be joined here by Mrs. Parker
■ the latter part of this week and they Ca-1 j
! will be at home with Mrs. W. H.
rithers. Mr. Parker is receiving a
, cordial welcome here. i
j Roto Peach Picture
The rotogravure section of Sun
| | day’s Atlanta Journal carried a
I charming picture of the Georgia
I peach” scene in the pageant at the
| | teachers, Asheville, for N. which C., summer crate school of W. for D.
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Murray’s fine peaches was furnished
by John Vance and Mayor R. D.
| Hale upon request of Miss Mary
Hale, a former Fort Valley teacher,!
a story about which was carried in I
The Leader-Tribune on July 23.
J. E. Lee Is Rack \
J. E. Lee, popular manager of
Lee’s Department Store, returned
Monday for a vacation trip to his old
home in North Carolina. During his
absence, Henry Schwartz, of Colum¬
bus, made many friends here as tem¬
porary manager.
BRINGING MANY
TOURISTS HERE
Manager Coppedge of Hotel Winona
Advertising Fort Valley Widely
“On His Own
Manager Emory Coppedge is one
of those who doesn’t hold back be
cause everybody fails to make a thing
unanimous. He is advertising Fort
Valley in far fields on his own initia
* s <i iial boostei.
-oppu gc took a tup to Chat
tanqoga wtt k, distributing
tiousamso roa< maps a a * ,n F tu
wa .V showing the Dixie Highway
Short Route through Fort Valley. He
a h s0 erected a large number of road
si K ns - “ 0n Saturday alone, says Mr.
Coppedge, “a careful check showed
that six out of eight tourists coming
through Fort Valley had the road
maps which I had distributed.”
He has placed an order with The
Leader-Tribune for 20,000 more of
these attractive maps, which will
bring his distribution of them to
about 100,000.
J. A. BOWMAN IS
LAW TO REST
The burial of Mr. James A. Bow¬
man, of Macon, formerly of Fort Val¬
ley, was made Tuesday immediately
following the arrival of the noon
train bringing the body, family and
friends.
Interment was made in Oaklawn
cemetery. Rev. J. R. Webb, of Ma¬
con, assisted by Rev. T. II. Thomson,
conducted the funeral service.
Mr. Bowman was 54 years old,
died at the Macon Hospital from self
inilicted wounds, having shot himself
Monday morning while his wife was
preparing breakfast at their home on
First street in Macon. Despondency
over financial affairs is given as
cause for the act.
Surviving him are his wife, five
daughters and one son. His wife- is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Davis of Fort Valley.
A. J. Evans Returns
A. J. Evans, with his family, re¬
turned last week from Cornelia, Ga.,
where about 500 cars of peaches
were shipped this season. Mr. Evans
has been confined at home with an
injured foot since his return. The
Cornelia paper reproduced The Lea¬
der-Tribune’s story in its issue of
July 23 about Mr. Evans going to
that point,
Quality Printin r-' n
Good every time or we make it good.
And, “by the sweat of the brow,”
we are boosting for you all the time.
The Leader-Tribune
Telephone 119.
(Twelve Pages)
GINS GOING
Fort Valley gins are now hum
ming and warehouses are receiv¬
ing cotton. Three first bales
ran a close race on Wednesday.
Mrs. J. H. Hughes, from
four miles northeast of town,
Judge H. A. Mathews brought bales
to W. L. Houser’s gin. The former
bale weighed 462 pounds and the lat¬
ter weighed 512 pounds. E. W. Bow
i of Route 5, also brought
man a bale.
24c per pound was paid.
Mr. Bowman had three bales at the
gin Thursday morning.
MELONS
167 cars of watermelons had
moved from the Fort Valley ter¬
ritory for this season, up to
Thursday, according to C. II.
Sammons, railroad agent here.
Melons are now moving at the
rate of about 25 cars daily.
The bulk of the season's move
ment is expected to come next
week.
Fine Load Melons
Shipped by Fagan
J. D. Fagan shipped a prize car of
watermelons Saturday. The car con¬
tained 850 melons. Each was weighed
separately and the average was 35H
pounds.
J. M. Allen With
Gallaher-Hale Co.
J. M. Allen, a well known ctiizen of
Fort Valley who for a number of
years has been connected with the
James D. Vaughan Music concern of
L a urenceburg, Tenn., as general
field man, has accepted a position as
for the Gallaher-Hale
Wholesale Grocery Company.
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BAD BUSINESS!
We’rt* getting results too quickly. It’s
awful. Several times lately The Leader
Tribune has had to refund money on
advertisements paid for two or three is¬
sues in advance because the first ad
got results. . ,The latest Indian adver¬
tiser is Carl Hamlin. Paid for a want
nd three times, found the house he de¬
sired to rent almost before the first edi¬
tion got cool enough to handle and—
pssst! away went fifty cents back to Mr.
Hamlin. With a want ad in The Leader
Tribune you can want for nothing. But,
beloved, be hard to please; we need tha
money.
THE DISCOVERY OF TIIE SOUTH
The South is being discovered—not only by the world, but by
its own people.
A region so rich with resources that it stagger^ the imap- : na
t'on. a section so abundantly blessed that it seems almost unbeli ev
able, is coiring inlo its own.
The coal, the iron, the limestone, the kaolin, the slate the mar¬
ble, the granite, the nhosphate. the oil. the cooper has been here
all along. For cnunlless ages the Southern rivers have run down
to the sea. untold millions of unused horse-power riding carefree
and* with fovous abandon on the wb’te crests of t,h“ rushing floods.
We have alwavs had the climate. We have always had the soil. The
possib'Pties of aericultural diversification are no greater than they
were fifty, a hundred, years ago. The field of manufacturing, wb'ch
the South has entered with such enthusiasm and such success, has
always been open to our people. The South is no nearer the great
markets of America and Eurone than it was fifty years ago. al¬
though in truth the Orient has been brought much closer to us since
the great canal was dug. That marvelous coastline of ours, the
protest s *r«tch of waterfront in the United States, is the same,
mile for mile, that it always was.
Only—we have discovered thes» things! We now see what we
realized only imperfectly before. To Southerners themselves comes
the vision—thev realize, as never before, that we have in our won¬
derfully favored section a storehouse of raw materials and native
resources, a mightv energy in the form of nature’s own power—
falling water—a climate permitting vear-round outdoor work, and
w : th these climatic conditions a soil that permits marvelous diversi¬
fication and rotation of crops. And along with this, we have trans¬
portation. and oroximifv to the great markets of the world. Not
onlv that, wo have a homogenous people, sneaking one language.
And we have the asset, and the prestige, of demonstrated success
in innumerable lines of manufacturing.
In the Sooth, wo soo a country with a growing, constantly en¬
larging manufacturing interest, not a section where industry is
marking time or perhaps losing its grip.
The mills are not moving North, THEY ARE COMING SOUTH!
The rest of the country has also discovered the South, and
Northern capital and manufacturing interests are ioioing
with our own people in utilizing the wonderful opportunities in this
section of the country.
The comforting thing is. that the South’s development, now pro¬
ceeding on such an impressive scale, is fully justified by the bedrock
facts: also, that this development, in a sense, is just in its beginning
and will not only continue, but in an ever-increasing way.
The South will no retrograde, it will not mark time—the only
thing it CAN do under present conditions is to grow! And con¬
tinued growth means continued and still greater prosperity.
The South will be the theatre of the great industrial develop¬
ment of the United States in the next 25 years.—Industrial Index. '
Peachland Journal
37 years old—only newspa¬
per in the heart of one of
America’s richest diversified
agricultural sections.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
HOLD MEMORIAL
S ERV ICE S FOR
BELOVED DIVINE
Memorial Services at Indian Springs
Wednesday for Late Rev. George
W. Mathews.
A great assembly of people at the
! Indian Springs camp meeting on
| Wednesday morning poured out their
hearts in affectionate tribute to the
memory of the late Rev. George W.
Mathews, for many years one of the
most beloved preachers in Georgia
Methodism.
The memorial services occurred
during the hour of nine to eleven o’¬
clock, and were attended by many of
the countless devoted freinds of the
late Rev. Mr. Mathews from various
parts of the state. A large number
of Fort Valleyans were present with
close relatives: Judge H. A. Mathews,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Mathews, Jr.,
and little daughter, Mary Ann, Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Luce, Alex Mathews
and S. M. Mathews.
The memorial was read by Rev. J.
M. Glenn and glowing tributes were
paid in address by Dr Morrison, a
noted divine, and R. F 'i.irden, pres¬
I ident of the Indian , irings Camp
Ground Association.
WILSON TO OPEN
STORESATURDAY
The Wilson Company, a new mer¬
cantile establishment, will throw
open its doors in the building former¬
ly occupied by R. S. Braswell & Son,
on South Macon street, Saturday
morning. The new store will deal in
dry goods, notions, shoes and ready
to-wear. The announcement of its
opening appears elsewhere in today’s
paper. L. Wilson, well known enter
I prising mercantile man, is being con
gratulated upon launching the new
concern.
New Wholesale Fish
CompanyO pensHere
The Fort, Valley Fish and Oyster
Co., wholesale shippers of sea food,
is opening in the city this week, ac¬
cording to an advertisement appear¬
ing elsewhere in this paper. The new
concern, located in the Anthoine
building formerly used as an ice
storage house, is being launched by
G. R. Hunt and J. A. Hunt, who be¬
lieve that this field offers opportuni¬
ty for a considerable business. They
begin with “Service Our Motto. ”