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l d m w. This Vicioity Is Attractin The Notice Of The Nation’s Homeseekers We have desirable building sites in West End, < Sunset Park and Oakland Heights We can furnish a home, on terms, to fill any re¬ quirement or suit any pocketbook Our farms range in size from 45 to 1,000 acres. Farms for any kind of agriculture Fort Valley Realty Company Safe and Investments Conservative Main Floor Wooflfoflk Bunldiini a a Peach County Superior Court Sept. 1925 We, the Grand Jury, chosen and •worn for the Sept. Court, Peach County. submit these, our present ments for the term. It has been our practice at the be ginning of each day’s session to ask Divine Guidance and we commend the practice to succeeding Grand Juries. We have attended to matters pre gented to us in a careful and consei entious manner. All members of the Grand Jury have ungrudgingly given of their time and have been present at each session unless previously ex cused and there has been but one tar diness. Conforming to the suggestion made by the preceding Grand Jury, the Jury service per diem was fixed at $1.00 and Bailiff service at $2.00. We approved the action of the preceding Grand Jury and recommend that the compensation for Mr. M. C. Mosley, be $2,500.00 per annum. We authorize the County Treasurer to settle with Mr * Maslov for hi, * 1 • r *' S „ Un X ana £ cr on * 1 * s basis ’ e recommend that the Ordinary have his books audited by a Certified Public Accountant and also the Treasurer’s books prior to the meet ing of the Spring , Grand _ Jury and that annual audits of each of these books be made thereafter. | We approve of holding a special election to vote on issuing of bonds for paving Peach County roads, the | amount of bonds not to exceed $200, 000.00. We find the jail facilities far from adequate. The Sanitary conditions are not satisfactory and the P nsoners *re crowded. We recommend that the jail be put in the best sanitary con dition, that the windows be screened, that new and sanitary mattresses be provided, in order that the prisoners may be as comfortable as possible, Where prisoners are to be kept for any extended period of time, that arrangements be made with neigh bonng counties to care for them. We recommend that the term the advisory committee to the prdi- nary appointed by the preceding Grand Jury be concurrent with the term of the Ordinary; that this Ad visory Committee be required to j meet quarterly, as follows: First Tuesday in February, May, August, an< ' November; that the service per <liem for attending members of the 1 Advisory Committee be $3.00. ' We find the following bridges approaches thereto in need of par ticular attention and repair; bridge Big Indian Creek near Norwood Springs; bridge at Gray’s Mill; bridge near Powersvijle, bridge near Barrow’s Mill, bridge at Houser’s Mill Pond. We find the Ordinary’s and Tax Collector’s records kept in an excel lent manner ano we commend them | for their diligence in looking after the business of their offices. The books of the J. P. and N. P. ox-officio have been examined and we find them well kept and correct,y made as to civil documents. On criminal docket, we find Justice Gray has not beei j entering his dial cases and we urge that he enter all such cases and show disposition. On the books of Mr. Early Cheek, we find only one case docketed and this was subsequently withdrawn by prosecutor. We are advised that the Justice of Peace has no authority to allow this. Books of C. F. Havs, J. T. Lisenby and S. W. Hardison are properly kept, The following report was made to this body by Mr. M. C. Mosley: “We owed on Sept. 1st, 1925, in outstanding Warrants, $11,457.88, Ac¬ Payable $1,409.18 and Notes Payable to Citizens Bank of Fort $7,000.00, which makes n to of $19,867.06 indebtedness. Add to our Gas tax of $2853.77 and License taken in $25.00 and amounting to $103.60 to get “total expenditure to Sept. 1st, which amounts to $22,849.43. If expenditures do not exceed our to Dec. 31st, 1925, 1 we ' not owe over $30,000.00 on this for’ j A tax levy of 10 mills purposes would about pay ( THK LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1925. our ind< btedneSs, but since the tax will not all be paid by Dec. 31st, and to have a part of next year's ex¬ penses available in the spring, we (the Ordinary (ind Advisory Commit¬ tee) think best to levy a county tax of 15 mills as maximum. If we are able to clear our jail and this court is not too expensive, it may be a lit¬ tle under 15 mills. All chain gang prisoners are being disposed of to Macon County at $10.00 per month.” We respectfully recommend to the Judge of the Superior Court that j Chain Gang sentences only be impos e ‘* in cases of flagrant violations of j I thc prohibition law. A committee of three representing the depositors of the defunct Ex , change Bank appeared before the ram * Ju r.V and requested that the i ! affairs of the Exchange Bank which , 1 fulll ’ d m July, 1924, be investigated, We understand that this committee has employed council to co-operate with the Solicitor General to handle the matter to a conclusion. We find that the Clerk’s books and records are properly and neatly kept, Eighty-five cases have been pre¬ sented to this body during this ■ses sion, sixty-two true bills and three no bills were found. We recommend that these present ] ments be publishhed in The Leader j Tribune of Fort Valley to be peid for at the legal rate, cost not to ex j feed $15.00 and this bill to be paid j - by Ordinary M. C. Mosley out of the County funds. In conclusion we wish to thank Judge Malcolm D. Jones and Judge II. A. Mathews and Solicitor Charles H. Garrett for courtesies and ance given our body in its delivera tions. Respectfully submitted, A. J. EVANS, Foreman A. L. LUCE, Clerk H. J. AVERA C. T. EBERHARDT M. S. VINSON L. CARTER W. G. BRISENDINE II is* 2 / 0.174 'W YELLOW PENCIL j tu'A the RED BAND muaon mca Kianr HAGLFPENCIL CO. NEWYORK.USA. ULT1C WORLD /. W. J. CHEEK J. M. GREEN 11. J. PEAVY E. L. DUKE J. W. WOOLFOLK J. M. JONES GEO. H. SLAPPEY F. F. FAGAN W. E. BUTLER J. F. AULTMAN R. FLOURNOY T. M. ANTHOINE. . The foregoing General Present¬ ments of the Grand Jury of Peach County for the September Term 1925, considered. Ordered that these pre¬ sentments be spread upon the min¬ utes of this court and be published as therein recommended. This Sept. 15, 1925. H. A. MATHEWS, Ju<) S c Superior Court Macon Circuit. CHAS. H. GARRETT. Solicitor-General. Hairs CatarrSa Medicine Treatment,both is a Combined local and internal, and has been success* ful in the treatment of Catarrh for ovet forty years. Sold by all druggist". F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio ’ — _ _ _ . RcnCW YOlir Health: by Purification Any physician will tell you tha* < < Perfect Purification of the Sys tem is Nature’s foundation of Perfect Health.” Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermining • your vitalityf Purify your entire system by tak¬ ing a thorough course of Calotabs, —once or twice a week for several weeks—and see how Nature re¬ wards vou with health. Calotabs are the greatest of all system purifiers. Get a family package, containing full direc¬ tions, price 35 ets.; trial package, 10 cts. At any drug store. (Adv.) The sad thing about being your¬ is you look it. Weeds have about won their annual against the vegetables. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA URGES PUBLIC TO OBSERVE GRADE CROSSING REGULATIONS. Last year 2,149 people were killed in grade crossing accidents. A much larger number were in¬ jured and there was great damage to property. The railroads everywhere are endeavoring to save lives at the grade crossings. The 1925 session of the Georgia Legislature enacted a law requiring drivers of automobiles to come to a full stop at certain crossings, which will be designated by the county commissioners as dangerous and which will Be so marked by warning boards. At all other $ crossings automobilists must reduce speed to six miles per hour. The Central of Georgia urges that those operating automobiles familiarize themselves with the provisions of this law, and observe it. The states of North Carolina and Tennessee have “Stop Laws.” Grand juries in Alabama have recommended that the legislature of that state enact a similar measure. There is increasing recognition that this is a subje :t for regulation. Employes of the Central of Georgia are supposed to do their part. At the 1925 Efficiency Meeting of employes, resolutions were passed pledging observance of stop laws by those in the em¬ ploy of the railroad. The Central of Georgia earnestly appeals for the co-operation of the public in this matter. *$s The management is doing its part in reducing the perils of grade crossing. Reconstruction of the line between Birmingham and Columbus, Georgia, now nearing completion, eliminates forty grade crossings within a distance of one hundred and fifty-six miles. Elsewhere grades are being separated by the construction of viaducts and underpasses. State highway departments and federal authorities are working with the railways to avoid grade crossings where new highways are built or where old highways are relocated. » The regulations of Georgia and of other states are reasonable and should be obeyed. The Cen¬ tral of Georgia believes that right thinking people will recognize the desirability and the necessity of such measures, intended for the protection of the public, and that they will cheerfully comply with them as they do with municipal regulations of “Boulevard Stops”, “One-Way Streets”, “Limited Parking Time”, “Non-Parking Areas” and the like. Such regulations expedite traffic. Stop Laws at grade cross¬ ings are much more important in that they are intended to preserve human life. The railways are constantly being made safer for those who work for them and for those who ride on their trains. In the last thirty-six years, although the number of railway employes has trebled, there has been a decrease of twenty-six percent in employes fatalities. In a like period, passenger traffic has also trebled, but there has been a decrease of fifty-three percent in passenger fatalities. Grade crossing fatalities, however, in 1924 showed an increase of four hundred and thirty-five percent over 1890. Engineers, trainmen and all other employes are required to exercise the greatest possible cau tion. Crossings are ali plainly marked. Many of them are guarded or otherwise protected. But the railroads alone cannot prevent crossing accidents. Those who cross railway tracks must be cautious * for their own sake. It is within their power to protect themselves at all crossings. Public support, through observance of the new Georgia law, of the laws of other states, and com mon sense precautions is the co-operation that the railways seek. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. L. A. DOWNS, Savannah, Georgia, September 15, 1925. President, Central of Georgia Railway Company. 1* Too late now to order your Christ¬ mas gifts from mail order places. Hot weather wouldn’t be so bad if you could blame it on your wife. — All work and no play indicates Jack is a farmer boy. What could be worse than being ire love and your auto in the shop?