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ARE YOU
HELPING TO BUILD
A CITY HERE?
Volume XXXVII. Number 38.
LANDSLIDE AGAINST CITY COURT
-About Three
.One Opposition
An overwhelming vote of opposition registered
will ot I each county Citizens against till proposed Ulty
Court in Wednesday’s special election. The returns
about three to one against the Citv Court.
The vote was to have been consolidated m the ol
fice of the ordinarv, Judge M. C. Mosley, at noon T hill’s
dav. Although that time had not arrived when The Lea
der-lnbune . _ went to press, reliable , , reports oi ... the returns
showed that in the Fort Valiev box 286 ballots were cast
f against and 131 ballots for the Citv Court. The
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reported 45 . and only . ci the
vote was as against one tor new
court. Reports from Powersville were that the vote of
was solid in opposition, while at Claude it was a solid op-
4 position of 35. Citizens of Myrtle precinct voted in the
Fort Valley box.
rr,, ill IS . would indicate a total . . i county . ballot i .I „ of e 132 r
and 412 against the City Court, the hill for which was
passed during the 1925 session of the Georgia legislature
with a referendum to the people of Peach county for de¬
cision by vote.
Fort Valley Has Three
Splendid Teachers
(Dublin Messenger)
The Dublin . i- friends e • j of r nit- Miss Mae ii* „
Allen . ,, King, ... Miss ... T Louise „..it Powell and „ .
Mrs. Nell XT „ ~ Dover will be interested . j to
, learn that ,. , they ,, teaching . „ i • _ m •
are now
the public ... schools , . of j- r? Fort 4 . v Valley. Mrs. ,
Dover and Miss . Powell », „ were here u ^ last 4 .
year and . made . many friends /» • , as well ,,
as splendid reputations as teachers
of ability. Miss King was connected
with the Dublin high school for sev
eral years some time ago. She, too >
is popular with pupils and patrons
and is a teacher of great success.
Fort Valley is to be congratulated on
securing the services of these splendid
-omen.
Death of Mrs. Adams
Mrs. Nancy Adams, 201 Simmons
lAreet, Macon, Ga., died at her home
Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock after
a long illness. Mrs. Adams was the
mother of Miss Pearl Adams, of Ma¬
con and Mrs. J. E. Pentecost, of Tam¬
pa, Fla. Besides the daughters four
brothers survive: O. M. Robinson,
Macon and C. T., A. L., and J. of
Fort Valley. She was a member of
the Baptist church, and was 78 years
old. For the past fourteen years she
has made her home in Macon. residence Funeral j J
services were held from the
Tuesday morning at ten o’clock. Rev. !
A. C. Baker, bfficiating. of the Tabernacle Interment Bap-J
tist church, was
in Evergreen cemetery, Macon.
4 Listening In On Marshallville
By RUTH MONCRIEF
Mrs. Hannah Neil returned last
week from Chatauqua in New York,
where she has been studying for two
months. Everybody loves “aunt Han
nah” and we are all so glad to have
her at home again.
Miss Frances Hargrove left Wed
nesday morning for Jacksonville, Fla.,
where she will visit friends for a few
ays before going on to Fort Meade,
where she teaches for another year,
Misses Adella Ware and Louise
Jones left Tuesday to enter school at
G. S. C. W., in Milledgeville.
Mrs. Davis Baldwin entertained the
U. D. C.’s on Tuesday afternoon.
The Woman’s Civic Club will meet
Weflv.esday afternoon at the school
auditorium.
The Good-Will Tourists from Ma
con stopped over in our town for a
half hour Tuesday morning.
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
LIBRARY NOTES
The ... librarian, ... Miss ... Gena Riley, is
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again at J , ner post after a vacation .
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spent . North Carolina. During her
1 in * .
absence her work was in charge of
Mr. Marvis . Baldwin,
In spite of the rush _ of peach , sea
the extreme , heat and / the ,
son, num
^ registered borrowers out of
Wn , C ' . rCU , ? aS , ep aj0% . ®
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,, Tb ^week' ^
™t i Woman's'club a r (T jfts
j ^ be an the Cov
Treutlen Cha 'hook's ter about two
iaa< le an 1 y °°.' S have fut been ’° C
^veTtf .
"been pTaced" and f“led
Also a splendid selection of new fic¬
tion has been bought for the pp.y
shelf.
The hours djring September will
continue to be Yrom two till six, hut
beginning with the first of October
they will be changed to one to five.
Sprains Back In Fall
While at work Saturday morning
T. A. Jones came in contact with a
high voltage wire, falling and sprain
ing his back, which confines him at
bome piis friends are glad to know
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that 1 e injury . . wag was no( no . sorious ' ° "’
though he will be in bed for several
were given a welcome address by
Prof. Wight, and a very cordial wel
come by the citizens, and were served
iced lemonade and sandwiches by the
high school girls.
j visiting Mr. Willie his mother, Ware, Mrs. of J. Atlanta, M. Ware. is
1 A party of congenial friends pic
niced at Houston Factory last Tues
day.
j Albany, Dr. J. spent E. Haslam last Sunday and family, with home of
folks. j
| Mrs. R. H. Richard has joined Mr. ,
Richard in Florida, for a few weeks,
Miss Furlow Taylor has gone to
Seabring, Florida, where she will
teach violin. j
j Mr. Sol Vining and wife, of Lake
land, Florida, were in town Tuesday
to attend the funeral of Mr. Vining’s
mother. j
FORT VALLEY, PEAC1I COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBSR 17, 1925.
GOOD WILL TOUR
With the Central of Georgia rail¬
way band making the sunshine dance
on Tuesday’s bright morning follow¬
ing a blessed rain Monday night, Ma¬
con’s good-will tourists were given a
cordial reception at “five points,” the
center of Fort Valley, promptly on
schedule time, 8:30 o’clock. Mayor R.
D - Hale fleeted the prominent Macon
words of warm sentiment which were
matched in short talks from R. l.
McKenney and Tom Haliburton, of
The following interestinK article
from Mrs. Cleone Duke Braswell ap
peared m ruesday niorniri ff s f,ne
i “good-will tour edition of the Macon
Daily Telegraph:
j Fort Valley, Ga., Sept. 14.—The
ra p id s ‘ rides in th ? t
which 1 . l have marked , Fort valley and
p each County during the past
months are beyond what was expect
y
jZeng The million . dollar building pro .
j gram of'1924 is being followed up by
the erection of many other buildings
i in this city and throughout this sec
tion and by the close of 1925 Fort
Valleys’population will not only have
I been doubled but the marks of a real
! city will characterize it on every
hand.
The biggest projects for the imme
I diate future are the building of a
large hotel, centrally located, to take
care of the thousands of tourists
passing through. Fort Valley is on
two big highways, one direct from
Atlanta through Barnesville and the
other, the route through Macon has
a steady stream of tourists flowing
through who always stop to look over
the little town that puts on the peach
blossom festival and ships the most
P eachef ? of an ^ P lace in the world—
the name of peach and Georgia and
p ort Valley being always synony
mous -
These roads will be paved at once
s0 Peac h County and this section can
°ff er to these tourists not only the
nr ivile<re of seeing the finest farming
country in the world, with the richest
«* aad enjoyment of ten of the
twelve climates in the country but
as well the pleasure of paved roads
i with their many benefits.
| Caters to Tourists
The great boom in this section fol¬
lows so closely upon the months of
depression that it is almost unbe
lievable but the facts are here. Fort
Valley, especially, is catering to the
tourists. An information bureau with
rest rooms and other conveniences,
has been established by the Fort
Valley Realty Company which is com¬
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posed of seven of Fort Valley’s pro- 1
gresB i ve citizens. This bureau and the
rest rooms are on the intersection
°( the highways in the heart of the
Peacl; City and is visited by tourists
practically every hour of the day.
Mucb rpal es tate has been listed to
make attractive offers to the thou-1
sands, \yho are coming South to es- [
cape the cold of WJnter and who have
not found in Florida that which is
compatible with their purse and
needs and that which is backed up by
real value that will substantiate in
vestment. |
Mrs. W. A. Wooddall is reconstruct
i n g her home on the corner of Miller .
street and Central avenue into a
modern four-apartment house whiely
; s going to he most attractive and
There are many new
homes, cottages and bungalows going
up on Oakland Heights, a compara
tively new residential section in the
East of Fort Valley which is boom
ing. Real estate values in that sec
tion have become tip-top in the past
f ew months, following an extensive
paving program.
Not only Fort Valley’s wonderful
peach industry which has made her
famous the wide world over is back
j n g up the boom in this section but
Fort Valley offers many industries
such as a cotton mill, a knitting mill,
an oil mill, a crate and basket fac
tory, several canneries, a flour mill,
good stores, good schools, five
Fort Valley , Beautiful
The civic committee of the Governor Treutlen Chapter of the Daugh
tors of the American Revolution has caught a vision of a more beautiful
Fort Valley.
A Fort Valley with not a single unsightly vacant lot and not one
ugly, unsanitary garbage can.
A Fort Valley with clean swept streets, neatly kept curbs and parks
that number not three but a dozen or more.
A Fort Valley with its every home, whether it be modest or preten
tious, surrounded by beautiful lawns, foundation plantings of shrubbery, rose
gardens with borders of blooming perennials and cutting beds of annuals^
each a delight to the passerby and a joy and an inspiration to the possessor.
That Fort Valley is not already such a beautiful Fort Valley has been
the expressed amazement of more than one visitor. To them a conception
of a town -that can conceive and put into execution such a panorama of gor- i
geous beauty as the annual Peach Blossom Festival, not being more beau- i
tiful, is impossible. '
That Fort Valley, with the artistic sense and the indomitable energy !
of her citizens, could have allowed herself to present an appearance so
„ unkempt and ungarnished” and to evoke any unfavorable comment is to i
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| be deplored. That it should be an incentive to greater civic pride and civic
' endeavor on the part of each and every citizen is convincing. That it 1
should stimulate the civic committees of the various organized bodies of
mqn and women to a more concerted effort to greater achievement is im¬
perative.
1 With the spirit of unity and co-operation for which Fort Valley
citizens are justly famed applied, Fort Valley could soon boast of being
not only “The Peach Paradise of the World” and the home of “The Annual
Peach Blossom Festival,” but the home of the most beautifully kept streets, I
parks, gardens and homes. I
j Aiding in an effort that such a vision may become a reality, the civic [
committee of the Governor Treutlen chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri- j
can Revolution will in this column, “Fort Valley Beautiful,” make practical
suggestions that are applicable and timely. Will you read them, follow I
them and help Fort Valley become “Fort Valley Beautiful?”
CIVIC COMMITTEE,
Governor Treutlin Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution ' j
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MARCHMANS TO
OPEN NEW
SUPPLY STATION
R. L. Marchman & Son will open
a new gasoline filling station, battery
charging plant and general auto ac
cessory store on the corner of
church street and Anderson avenue
at an early date. The ground floor of
the * ,uPd ' n £ formerly occupied by W.
C. Lankford, underneath the Kiwanis
club rooms, is being remodeled for
the battery and accessory business
and extensive work is under way on
the adjoining vacant lot for the gaso
line filling station.
Wins Honor Trip
George W. Mathews, Jr.,
ied by Mrs. Mathews, left Tuesday
for a trip to Colorado Springs. Mr.
Mathews won this trip as one of
tbose bav ing sold over a quarter of
m j]]j on dollars of paid business for
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany during the club year.
The crowd swamps you in town
and the swamps crowd you in the
country.
churches and a progressive
s hip that is alert to see and follow
up a vision for her future with sub
stantia) improvement and
Many Homes Built 1
Many new homes are being built in
Sunset Park, Fort Valley’s new West
residential section and on all sides of
the hustling little city new houses are
going up in the suburban areas. One
of these attractive homes is being
built by Cornelius Hall near the golf
course and the extension of the city |
limits and the springing up of many
suburban homes are an unfailing in
d j C ation that Fort Valley “is spread- !
ing abroad on the right hand and on
left, is lengthening stakes,” her cords and andj the
strengthening her j
here have every reason for the :
of good times and life and
in the best section of the best
of the best country in the
Court in Fort Valley as the county
of Peach County has attracted
hundreds here the past two
and on Friday at the Kiwanis
the committee from the Woman’s
of which Mrs. C. H. Matthews
chairman there, served dinner to
prominent lawyers and distin
guests present as guests of
Kiwanian organization headed by
T. Murray as president.
IKIWANIANS ,
AUTOCALL HAVE
TIME ON FRIDAY
The Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley
had a delightful luncheon and a well
balanced, enoyable program last
Friday, especially interesting fea
tures of which were talks by Judge
. Malcolm Jones, presiding over Peach
Superior Court, General Walter A.
Harris, visting attorney from Macon,
j Rev. Loy Warwick, former Metho
dist pastor here who is now living
in Valdosta, and the reading of
warns Objects and Objectives for
1925-2G by Ralph Newton.
President E. T. Murray took occa
sion to thank the Woman’s Club for
its interest in serving the charming
luncheons during September. “If you
want io anything done in Fort
Valley,” said Mr. Murray amid ap
plause, “get a hold of the women
folks.”
In the absence of C. L. Shepard,
chairman of the committee on a new
hotel, President Murray stated that
due to the press of superior court
week no definite report had been
prepared, but that such a report
might be expected at this week’s
meeting.
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All visiting attorneys at superior !
court were given a cordial invitation
to l attend the luncheon, along with
Judge Jones. Quite a number ac¬
cepted ( the invitation and the meeting
was full of “pep.
General Harris, in his address, em
phasized the need for paved" roads,
Mr. Warwick paid high tribute to
his old home town and especially to
^ speakerg| c L shepard
^ ^ Newton
1 he Kiwanis . Clup tor
s program
tomorrow—Friday—will be conducted
p armer, B. H. h incher and ;
A - Norri s - 1< rlday ot the next j
week wil1 brin . £ (i ‘ladies , night, . „ with !
a Program committee composed of
fdenmore Gren > c - Strother and
C< Hal1,
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WILL OBSERVE I
JtEW 7VI' , W vi'AP YEAR SA CATLPIIAV 1 UKiJAY
Jewish stores in Fort Valley will
be closed Saturday, Sept. 19th, in ob¬
servance of the Hebrew New Year.
When a couple of cynics meet a
miserable time is enjoyed by both. 1
The money saved by not enjoying
life is wasted.
(Eight Pages)
BROWN WILL IS UPHELD BY
JURY VERDICT MONDAY BUT
j NEW TRIAL APPEAL IS SEEN
i
After a long, strenuous battle
tween some of Georgia’s most
lawyers, the case of Lawrence Brown
vs. Mrs. Tulah P. Kendrick and W. B.
Reeves, Extrx. estate of W. R. Brown,
generally called the “Brown will case”,
which began in superior court on
Tuesday afternoon of last week, re
suited in a jury verdict on the fol
lowing Tuesday morning of this week
upholding the will. The verdict meant
that the jury considered the late W.
R. Brown of sound mental testamen
tary capacity and that his will was
the expression of his own desires
without undue influence.
Trial of the case attracted deep in
terest. Many women joined the crowd
which packed the court room during
the course of the trial and especially
on Monday, the whole of which was
consumed with brilliant arguments by
the attorneys. Judge Malcolm Jones,
preS1< .„ lag aver the case charged , , ,
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jury late Monday , afternoon and the
verdict was returned with Judge H.
A. Mathews presiding on Tuesday
morning. It is understood that the
caveators are appealing for a new
trial.
Attorneys for the caveators, those
seeking to set aside the will, were
General Walter A. Harris and John
R. L. Smith of Macon, Claude Houser
and Samuel M. Mathews of Fort Val
'- T — GOOD 4 Tr “ l —
ta; for the propounders, those seeking
to uphold the will, C. L. Shepard,
Brown & Brown and Judge A. C. Ri¬
ley of Fort Valley, Ellsworth Hall,
Building Shows
Fort Valley Is
Growing Rapidly
Fort Valley steadily grew*, Sev
j eral new residences have been com
i pleted on Sunset Park subdivision,
j Mr. C. Hall’s residence in West End
i is nearing completion, the foundation
j has been laid for a new dwelling on
East Main, one on College street,
and other improvements are under
wa y
j Mr. Titus states that he has the
| contract for several more new dwell
ings and will begin work as early as
he can get to them. The Fort Valley
Realty Company have sold several
residence lots the past week to peo
pie who are expecting to build homes
here.
; DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. SISTRUNK
The Leader-Tribune learned just
before going to press of the death of
Mrs. J. T. Sistrunk late Wednesday
afternoon, after an extended illness.
Mrs. Sistrunk’s husband passed
away two or — three years ago. A bro¬
ther, J. C. Wilson, lives in Fort Valley.
The funeral services will be con¬
ducted by Rev. T. H. Thomson this
(Thursday) afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
at the Methodist church, of which
j m rs .Sistrunk was a devoted cemetery,' member,
w j t h interment in Oaklavvn
1
R. G. WATSON DIES u :
The funeral of R. G. Watson, aged
80 years, who died at his home in
Bonaire, Ga., Wednesday night, was
held Friday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock
from the Methodist church at Bon
ily lot there. Mr. Watson was bom
aire. Interment took place in the fam
and reared in Houston County, near
Bonaire, and was one of the best
known planters in that section. His
health failed several years ago. He
; is survived by his wife, and
seven
children, P. C. and P. D. Watson, of
Columbus, Ga.; M. C. and O. D. Wat¬
son, of Bonaire, and Misses Susie and
Willa Watson, of Bonaire; Mrs. C. W.
Andrews, of Bonaire.
CLUB NOTES
Billboards and Beauty
The Federation of Women’s Clubs
throughout the country are indorsing
the policy of restricting commercial
advertising to commercial districts
and are working to bring this idea
before the public. People every
where are recognizing the unfitness
of the rural billboard and are resent
ing the commercialization of the
country.
it is noted that the Georgia
ciation of Secretaries are advocating
placarding the highways of Georgia
w ith signboards, while many states
are preserving the beauty of its high
ways and Georgia Club women are
interesting themselves in the subject
of outdoor advertising; recognizing
the value of such advertising from a
commercial standpoint but also re¬
cognizing the fact that, unrestricted,
it often destroys both civic and scenic
beauty. l
Executive Board Meeting
The Executive Board of the Wo
man ’ g Club will hold an important
meeting early next week. The first
general meeting of the club members
will be held on the 6th of October,
when the club’s activities will begin
and a number of important affairs
of the club are to be brought before
the board.
New applications for membership
are before the board, to whom is
de ] e g a t e d the authority / to confer
membership, discuss all matters of
importance and make recommenda
tions to the club in general session,
Mrs. J. M. Green has offered her
r(!S jg na tion to the board and Mrs. W.
j Braswell, vice-president, will call
the board meeting and preside until
Mrs. Green’s successor has been for¬
mally elected,
BUSINESS WOMEN’S GROUP
TO MEET
The Business Women’s group of the
Methodist W. M. S. will have its
meeting on next Tuesday
at 8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. |
B. Norton, with Miss Larinne Ed
hostess.
Too much money will make a man
unhappy because he can’t get it.
Peachland Journal
37 years old—only newspa¬
per in the heart of one of
America’s richest diversified
agricultural sections.
Per Year in Advance.
Warren Grice and C. J. Bloch of Ma¬
con.
The case involved an estate said to
be valued at about $400,000.00. The
will left one-ninth of the estate to
each of two surviving sister, Mrs. M.
Everett now of Cornelia and Mrs.
Susie Williamson of Williamson, with
the balance of the estate to be di¬
vided among ten nieces and nephews
whose parents now are dead.
Mr. Brown died in Atlanta at
Blackmon’s sanitarium in January,
1925, having made the will in July
of 1924. He was one of this section’s
most prominent financiers and prop¬
erty owners. He was 73 years old at
the time of his death, his wife hav¬
ing passed away about two years be¬
fore.
I Criminal Docket
The grand jury adjourned Tuesday
j after over a week’s grind, a report of
wh «ch with recommendations appears
, I elsewhere
in The Leader-Tribune to
day.
| The civil calendar was closed Mon¬
day afternoon following Judge Jones’
charge to the jury in the Brown will
case. His court had been conducted
Monday on the third floor of the Cit¬
izens Bank building in order to make
room for the opening of the criminal
court with Judge H. A. Mathews pre¬
siding in the regular court room.
Numerous minor cases have been
handled but none of large public in¬
terest have been, or, it is said, will
come up during the present term.