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Volume XXXVII. Number 36.
ENLARGEMENT OF WATER AND LIGHT SYSTEM
EMPHASIZES GREAT GROWTH IN FORT VALLEY
CONTRACT MADE
TO TEAR
OLD TANK SOON
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Enlargement of Plant Shows Antici
pated Growth of Ten Years
Realized In Six
The Water and Light Board of
Fort Valley has let a contract to T.
M. Anthoine for tearing down the old
water tower in the center of town
within sixty days—as soon as possi¬
ble. This action was taken at a meet
ing Tuesday afternoon.
At the same time the Board of
Commissioners took action to buy at
once a new engine, boiler and gene
mtor for the water and light
phis will necessitate an enlargement
of the plant building.
Other marks of the great growth
of Fort Valley are the placing of
water pipe in Oakland Heights for
installation as soon as the city j g
Tp ady with machinery for ditching to
liy sewer pipes according to recent
action in voting bonds for this pur¬
pose. The same plans apply to West
End.
Eight-inch water mains will also be
laid at once from the railroad cross¬
ing on South Macon street, where a
the water mains now end, to the
Fort H. & I. School, a thickly popu¬
lated section now embraced in the
city proper according to a bill re¬
cently parsed extending the city lim
its.
Shows Enormous Growth
Six years ago a new engine, boiler
and generator were installed in the
local plant with the purpose of car -
ing for the city’s requirements for
the next ten years. Thus Fort Valley,
now compelled to make considerable
enlargements in the pfant and sys
tern, has realized within six years
more than the growth which had been
anticipated for ten years.
Dr. H. M. Copeland, chairman of
the water arid light commissioners,
Stated Tuesday afternoon that all of
these enlargements and extensions
are safely financed, the bills will
be paid promptly as they fall due and
work on every feature of the pro
from tearing down the old
water tower to extending service into
new sections, will be pushed to com
plention as quickly as possible.
Other members of the Water and
Light Board are- J. M. Gr^gne, C. L.
Shepard and Mayor R. D. Hale.
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MRS. HAMILTON
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• I New Hamilton Hotel” Be Name in
Future—Place Being Attrac¬
tively Arranged
“The New Hamilton Hotel” is now
the name of what Jias been known as
the ^Central Hotel, and is under the
direction of a new proprietor, Mrs. L.
B. Hamilton, assisted by her daugh
ter, Miss Annie Kate Hamilton. They
come from Montezuma, where they
have operated the Hotel Hamilton for
some time. They will continue the
operation of the Montezuma hotel.
Mrs. Hamilton and Miss Hamilton
came to Fort Valley Monday and
opened the New Hamilton Hotel on
Tuesday. They are remodeling and
re-arranging the place in attractive
s+ile esqUrience and, with the advantage of long
and marked success in the
hotel business, should do a splendid
business here.
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
Public Schools Will Open On Monday
READING WRITIY
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j Book Room Now Open for Rentals—
Supt. Lambert Issues Rules
and Regulations
‘‘Headin' and writin’ and Arithmetic,
| Taught to the tune of a hiek’ry stick !”
Autumn is formally ushered into
^ our midst with the opening of
Valley public schools .iext Mem¬
day morning, Sept. 7th. The book
room is now open Thursday', Friday
! and Saturday—for the rental of
books.
Parents are requested to see that
j the pupils secure their certificates
j and supplies before Monday.
Rules and Regulations
Superintendent J. F. Lambert has
issued rules and regulations for en¬
trance into the public schools.
There is a compulsory law which
I requires that every normal child be
I tween the ages of eight and fifteen
I shall attend school. In this connec¬
i tion, vaccination is required.
Every citizen should interest him
j self in seeing that all who need edu
, i
cational advantages are enrolled as
the public schools belong to the peo¬
ple, the advantages of which by right
are theirs.
Superintendent Lambert wants all
to co-operate in seeing that the boys
1 and girls in this section are given
the advantages offered by Fort Val
ley’s excellent school system—co-op
eration with the teachers to the end
that the system may attain its great
est possible usefulness. Merely send
ing children to school does not com¬
plete the parental obligation.
Some changes have been made in
the faculty during the summer
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Three moonshine stills have taken
the count in Peach county within the
last few days and one alleged opera
tor, Dolphus Prestem, colored, lan
guishes in durance as a guest of
Sheriff Anderson.
Chief of Police Vaughn and Depu
ty Sheriff Tuggle destroyed one
still near the cemetery on Tuesday
' aSt wee ^’ P our ' n £ out 250
gallons of beer and arresting Pres
ton.
Sheriff Anderson and Deputy Tug¬
gle destroyed two stills near Houser's
Mill on Hickory Nut branch, Satur¬
day morning, pouring out about 350
gallons of beer.
BAPTIST _ PASTOR -____ „
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Rev. David Albert Howard, pastor
0 f t ), e Baptist church of Fort Valley,
w jn re turn from his vacation at Clay
• ton, Ga., in time to resume regular
church services next Sunday, accord
ing to information received by The
Leader-Tribune. He will fill the pul
pil Sunday morning and evening, the
evening services to begin at 7:30 o’
clock.
, Mrs. Howard, who is convalescing
from an extended illness, will remain
at Clayton for awhile longer.
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FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1925.
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The Woodrow Wilson home at 2340 S street, Washington, where the
War President died, may become a national shrine. Mrs. Wilson, who Is in
Europe. Is understood to have made plans to present the home to the
Woodrow Wilson foundation as a memorial to her illustrious husband. '
COMMITTEE WILE REPORT ON
NEW HOTEL PROJECT
C. L. Shepard, chairman of the
' committee that is negotiating with S.
E. Odom, Macon real estate operator,
for the erection of a new hotel in
Fort Valley, reported progress at
last Friday’s Kiwanis Club luncheon
and stated that a final report with
the committee’s recommendations
i would be submitted at. the Kiwanis
| luncheon on Friday of this week. Ac
cording to the proposition placed be
fore the Kiwanis Club by President
E. T. Murray two weeks ago, Mr.
Odom propopses to furnish all capital
for the building of a handsome fifty
or sixty-room hotel here if Fort Val
) e y will donate a suitable lot. Much
interest has developed in the project
and a number of leading citizens have
expressed the determination to carry
through to success—to build the
new hotel even if the deal with Mr.
Odom should fail of consummation,
, Harris Elected Secretary
rp g an( j ers Harris, one of the most
act j ve mern bers, was elected secre
tary-treasurer of the Kiwanis Club
las Friday to succeed E. G. Clark,
who recently moved to Florida.
| President Murray announced the
organization of the Fort Valley Real
ty Company as a new enterprise
worthy of every Kiwanian s hearty
support.
T. F. Flournoy paid tribute to J.
E. Davidson, Peach county repre
sentative who was author of the bill
recently passed by the Georgia leg
islature to abolish the state inherit
ance tax. Mr. Flournoy called atten
tion to the fact that Georgia could
be advertised to great advantage by
spreading the information throughout
the country that this state has neither
inheritance tax nor an income tax.
Judge A. C. Riley was the
liner on the entertainment program
conducted by E. L. Duke. Judge Ri
ley told in his inimitable style of
the interesting and beneficial vaca
tion spent by D. C. Strother and him
self at Battle Creek, Mich. J. D.
Duke aso was called upon to tell of
his recent trip, accompanied by C.
B. Almon, to New York and other
eastern cities,
President Murray complimented
Manager Emory Coppedge, of the
Hotel Winona, upon the large, beau
tiful sign which he had erected at
Echeconnee for advertising Fort Val
] e y and Peach county.
Planning Other Signs
Glenmore Green brought before the
club a plan which was accepted with
enthusiasm as one of the best meth¬
ods for promoting the substantial in
teregt 0 f visitors in Fort Valley that
^as {j e<!n advanced in the program of
progress. He stated the faot that
j^any tourists pass through the city
w jthout ever knowing its name.
Numerous tourists have been known
to ask lately: “What town is this?”
Some have even been found who
thought they were in Macon until
told otherwise,
Mr. Green proposed the erection of
f our attractive signs on permanent
supports, one across each of the
y our niain highways, near town, one
s j f je welcoming visitors, the other to
express some appropriate sentiment
of good wishes and an invitation to
come again. He stated that this idea
was a valuable enlargement upon the
original idea and was advanced by
Mayor R. D. Hale. F. O.Miller and oth
ers spoke in warm favor of the plan and
»t was accepted with enthusiasm by
the club. The publicity committee
was directed to act with Mr. Green
jn reaching a definite, feasible prop
osition for erecting the signs and rc
port back at this week’s meeting.
J. W. Woolfolk, J. H. Allen
J. H. Baird form the committee on
a “speakers’ ” program for Friday of
this week.
REALTY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY WILL
STRENGTHEN OUR PULSE OF PROGRESS
GRAND AND TRAVERSE JURORS
FOR PEACH SUPERIOR
Drawn for September Term, 1925,
by his Honor Malcolm D. Jones, Judge
of said Court, on the 18th day of
May, 1925.
Grand Jurors
Walter G. Allen
C. H. Sammons
H. J. Avera
J. E. Bledsoe
E. T. Murray
E. M. Whiting
H. J. Peavy
J. W. Woolfolk
J. M. Jones
W. E. Butler
E. D. Avera
W. J. Check
R. Flournoy
A. J. Evans
W. J. Evans
A. L. Luce
E. G. Clark
L. Carter
G. H. Slappey
J. F. Aultman
J. M. Green
M. S. Vinson
J. I. English
Glenmore Green
H. M. Copeland.
0. I. Snapp
G. M. Johnson
E. L. Duke
W. H. Boeden
W. G. Brisendine.
Traverse Jurors—First Week
C. W. Hardison
J. W. Vinson
0. F. Jones
L. E. Joyner
I). H. Anderson
T. A. McCord
L. C. Hartley i
1 Davis
H. W. Carter
G. C. Poole
C. M. Mixon
| V. H. Tomlinson
L. G. Giles
N. H. Baldwin
D. W. Wheeler
W. T. Pearson
J. E. Broadrick
W. C. Fagan
Jno. V. Vance
H. M. Branham
J. T. Berry
F. P. Shepard
J. L. Everett
W. W. Davidson
O. C. Robinette
J. B. Bartlett
J. E. Davidson
W. H. Hopkins
E. Bass Vinson
R. C. Joyner
Chas. S. Vance
C. B. Anderson.
S. A. Hortman
G. A. Fagan
J. E. Murray
J. D. Allman
W. A. Holcomb, Jr.
POOLE’S LUNCH ROOM
IS ALL DRESSED UP
Poole’s Barbecue Lunch Room is at
tracting much favorable attention,
having received a coat of new paint
and now boasting of a handsome elec
trie sign. Poole’s is a popular place.
(Twelve Pages)
Chas. H. Alden
J. M. McLean
H. V. Williams
John Giles
S. J. Crawford
L. G. Collins
B. B. Bryant
J. P. Padgett
A. L. Norris
L. B. Moody
E. B. Slaton
Traverse Jurors—Second Week
H. W. Carter
H. E. Giles
Clyde Greer
A. A. Williams
J. Leonard Wilson
E. L. Duke
J. H. Edwards
Randolph Walker
J. A. Beddingfield
W. A. Wood
I. E. Hardison
J. T. Harper
Claude Wilson
C. C. Lowe
J. M. Allen
J. F. Irby
Nick Strickland
R. A. Allen
C. H. Pender
W. II. Carithers
R. C. Aultman
M. J. Wilson
S. J. Steed
J. A. L. Wilson
S. N. Brown
Lester Walton
Louis T. Rigdon
L. R. Prator t
G. B. Barfield
E T. McMillan
D. E. Williams
J, W. Bowers
J. J. Griggs
W. Houser Davidson
J. W. McCoy
Lucius Haddock
W A. Peavy
N. W. Jordan
E. F. Wilson
C. B. Aulman
L. C. Snow
Jno. C. Dunnegan
R. D. Hale
W. J. Collier
T. J. Hallman
John E. Grace
J. J. Glass
W. S. Howard
L. E. Smisson
W. L. Windham
J. H. Baird
O. Goss
B. B. Smisson
R. A. Wood
C. C. White
J. P. Newell
R. G. Blewster
T. M. Anthoine i
II. P. Sanchez
R. M. Hargrove.
BANKS OBSERVE
LABOR
The banks of Fort Valley will
observe Monday, September 7th,
Labor Day, as a holiday and will
be closed. Remember this and
make preparations Saturday.
Peachland Journal
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America's richest diversified
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SEVEN HUSTLING
CITIZENS FORM
IMPORTANTBODY
Fort Valley Realty Company Form¬
ing Corporation on Main Floor
Woolfolk Building
Every property owr and citizen.
of Fort Valley and T :ich county—
and of the whole of middle Georgia,
as for that matter—now has an op¬
portunity to co-operate with a busi¬
ness organization that is being
launched, not as a “boom” enterprise,
but as a good, sound, practical insti¬
tution for public service and develop¬
ment, according to the full-page an¬
nouncement of the Fort Valley Real¬
ty Company appearing in today’s
Leader-Tribune.
It is the consensus of opinion here
that this new business project, pur¬
sued along the lines of the dignified
policies that, are being set forth, will
prove one of the most important and
valuable factors in the affairs of this
section of Georgia.
The company’s petition for charter
is being published elsewhere in this
paper, naming W. J. Braswell, F. R.
Crandall, Emory Ooppedge, J. M.
Green, Cornelius Hall, W. J. Liipfert
and Dr. R. C. Smisson as petitioners.
These men, all recognized as of
high ability for such a business, have
opened offices on the main floor of
the Woolfolk building. The offices
have been arranged and furnished in
most inviting style. An information
bureau and a rest room for tourists
have been opened.
While every effort will be made to
extend pleasant courtesies to tour¬
ists and inform them of the distinct
advantages of this section of Geor¬
gia, the company members state that
they will do a general real estate
business among and for the people of
Peach county arn^ adjoining territory
and will extend their operations to
any part of the country where op¬
portunity offers.
High class advertising will be done
to attract the attention of tourists,
to give impetus to the progressive
spirit of this section and to promote
the interests of Fort Valley and
Peach county. These men, seeing no*
only an opportunity, but a real need
for such a dynamo of development in
the community, are launching forth
upon their own sole responsibility.
They invite, and certainly merit, the
most serious and complete co-opera¬
tion and support of every citizen.
1523 Bales Received
To Wednesday Night
Fort Valley had received 1,523
hales of cotton for the 1925 sea
son up to Wednesday night. 812
bales had been received during r
the past week.
500 cars of watermelons had
been shipped up to Wednesday
night.
Rev. and Mrs. E. J. Saywell and
family, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Alden and
family, motored to St. Simons, where
they are spending two weeks.