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“We Are Building a City Here'
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Volume XXXVII. Number 40.
Peach Will Vote On Bend Issue for
People Are Gelled To
Thursday, Nov. 5, On
$200,000 Paving
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It is predicted broadly that Peach county will
her first reallv *»;reat constructive achievement in the
mal adoption of a thorough program for paving roads
an election being called by Judge M. C. Mosley,
of Peach county, pursuant to recommendations of
grand jury a few weeks ago. The call for this election
pears elsewhere in today's paper.
The election Thursday, November 5. will he on an
sue of $200,000 bonds for paving roads. The
and details of the proposed issue have been worked
f carefully and are submitted clearly in the call for the
election.
It appears that Peach countians are unanimous in
their desire for the adoption of a good, practical
program. It is believed that they are offered that very
^tiling in the proposed plan.
\ Under this plan it is shown that the bonds may he re¬
tired easily in thirty years by the gasoline tax with an ad¬
ditional direct tax of about 2 1 / 4 mills. Thus she will he
enabled, with small effort, to get her share of state and
federal funds—three dollars from the state and federal
governments for each dollar Peach county raises, and by
a simple, easy process soon will have paved her highways,
will have created conditions under which the whole coun
tv mav fulfilled enjoy richer development and comfort, and will
have her promise to build good highways, a
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promise .. by which <•111 she largely 11 brought i about i that . support
with which she was created last year.
Georgia undoubtedly will be mighty proud o f lid’
ic baby county” when the news goes forth that her crea
tion is being justified by such a whole-souled, harmonious
spirit of progress.
NEW PASTOR AT
PRESBYTERIAN
* SUNDAY MORNING
Rev. Jas. M. McGirt has accepted
a call from the Presbyterian church
of Fort Valley and will take charge
,# the pulpit at next Sunday morn
ing’s services.
Mr. McGirt comes from Macon,
where he has been assistant pastor
of the First Presbyterian church. He
preached at the local church several
Sundays ago and during the day’s
visit made a splendid impression
with his charming personality' and
4 'gracious Christian hearing, as well
as in the excellent talk he made be¬
fore the Bible class and in his
sermon.
He will arrive this—Thursday—aft
ernoon, and hort Valley Presbyte
rians, with their friends of other de
nominations, are planning to give
him a cordial reception.
The people of Fort Valley are in
vited to attend Sunday s services and
m3p;t Mr. McGirt.
Messrs. J. W. McCoy, B. T. Mar
shall and B. R. Marshall left Wednes
day for a visit to New York.
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f jpIRE sons—it Prevention Week visit is the an largest occasion which each the and smallest every member home in of this this community—who community should observe tell? But with there the keenest number interest. of Fire is which no respecter working of per¬
may next structure or ran are a ways in we, as
a community, can prevent many possible fires. Bv cleaning up unnecessary and unsightly rubbish, by painting our buildings, by repairing and keeping in good
order stoves and furnaces—andin many other ways can we reduce the fire hazard to a point where a fire will he a more infrequent happening in this community.
So let us all work together during this week to keep our town and the surrounding territory as free from fire hazards as possible.
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
HIGHWAY NO. 7
IS NOW GOOD
It is understood that several fill
ing station and garage, owners and
managers have been routing tourists
coming into Fort Valley from the
, North _ j, over country and farm roads,
instead of directing them to follow
the state highways. Highway number
j seven leading into Perry has been re
I cently re-worked, and several tourist
have been routed by the way of Bar
rows Mill and through several other
i cross roads in that section, which
leads into the National Highway
Toomer’s Mill, several miles south of
Perry,
Others have been routed by Miami
Valley Friut Farm, which doubled the
distance to Perry.
The work on the Perry road has
been finished several weeks and the
road bed is in fine condition, with the
exception of only two small hills
i near Myrtle in Peach county.
| Hawkinsville and Perry are co-op
erating with Fort Valley splehdidly
I I in directing the North bound tourists
through here to Barnesville and At
lanta. And it should be only through
a matter of courtesy and mutual co
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FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1925.
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ancient ceremony, at Pwllheli, Wales. The photograph shows the pedaog, the deputy arch druid, holding the
sword of peace.
SENATORGEORGE
URGES SUPPORT i
WILSON COLLEGE
Albany, Sept. 30.—“Georgia’s in¬ i
dustrial and commercial development,
r her moral an«i-*ipirituai life would be
seriously damaged in the eyes of the
world, should failure accompany the 1
responsibility that she has voiuntari
| ly shouldered ^ ko build in college launching the national move
ynen a as a
Memorial to Woodrow Wilson,” ac¬
cording to Senator Walter F. George
the s P eakor at the conference held
here yesterday by men and women
from throughout South Georgia, who
are interested in the Woodrow Wilson
College.
Though the gathering was primari¬
ly a business meeting, presided over
by Mayor A. F. Kalmon, Senator
George’s talk was the outstanding
feature of the day. He pointed out
that while the establishment of the
college in Georgia would be of in¬
estimable benefit to the state, the suc¬
cess of the project depended upon
the willing'service of a group of de¬
voted men and women who would
carry on the brunt of the campaign
work. “Georgia has relatively few
men of great wealth who can give
lavishly to a movement of this kind,”
said Senator George. “To secure the
sum necessary to go before the rest
of the country and ask for help in
completing this memorial will mean
that every part of the state has done
its share.’ 1
After paying tribute to Wilson,
Senator George added, “For a time
Wilson became the spokesman for
men everywhere, his voice never j
changed, there was never a let down
in his high spirit; it was the spirit
of mankind that faltered. j
“Woodrow Wilson College
an ideal which approaches the living
ideal of all high purposes and thought,
The attention of fine thinking men
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. Fort Valley , Beautiful
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Far and wide across the countryside, as these autumn evenings grow
longer and the shade trees drop their myriad foliage, one catches the pun
gent, tangy scent of burning leaves. Lawn, village street and driveway blink
glowing ^ eyes through the dusk. It is the time of the earth’s great sacr i
fice, the Moon of Fire, as the Indians in their oddly poetic way might term
it.
To the knowing gardener this annual public fire-worshiping brings
up visions of the many benefits his plants might have enjoyed were the
mighty chemical laboratory which is the dead leaf crop diverted to the in¬
terests of horticulture. He thinks of the fallen Maple and Elm leaves which
would have made such a fine protective winter blanket for his perennial
border, of the great-fingered foliage of the Oaks that, slowly disintegrating,
- maintained acidity vital his Rhododendrons
would have the soil so to and
hardy Azaleas. And he thinks of the rich, black, friable potting loam—
unadulterated humus in its truest sense—with which all these piles of dis
earded tree clothing would have provided him had they been added to his
compost heap out behind the garage instead of beind dedicated to the God
Flame.
In literal truth, no fallen leaves on the garden lover’s grounds should
be burned. Rake them up, by all means, but s tfLu them for later use. They
are, potentially, one of the best soil improvers in the world—and they cost
nothing. Even those which eddy down into out-of-the-way corners where
one cares nothing about cleaning up serve real purposes, for fallen leaves
are Nature’s method of restoring to the soil those chemical necessities of
life which her own creations so prodigally withdraw during the sea
of active growth.—House and Garden.
CIVIC COMMITTEE,
Governor Treutlen Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution,
OF STATE MEET
The synod of Georgi ’ of the Pres¬
church U. S. will convene
Columbus on October 13th at 11
m. The retiring moderator will
the opening sermon. Dr. A L.
of Savannah is the stated
of the synod. Immediately fol
the opening sermon on Tuos
a y morning, a new moderator will
elected and the synod properly
Many important matters
clalm the attentlon of thls ™ eet '
the synod, among the more im- j
being reports of the chairman
the committees on foreign mis
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Paving Roads
PEACH BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
MASS MEETING ON FRIDAY
There will he a mass meeting held at the Peach county Court
House on Friday night, beginning at 7:30, when the committee named
by C. L. Shepard to select a general chairman for the Fifth Annual
Peach Blossom Festival will make a report.
The meeting is called in order that a Chairman might be elected
and work incident to the Festival might he begun at once, looking
to making the fifth Festival a splendid success.
KIWANIANS PLAN
ROUSING PARTY
FOR CONVENTION
The Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley,
as will be noted in a statement from
President E. T. Murray, appearing on
the Kiwanis page elsewhere in this
paper, is planning to go almost a
hundred per cent strong to the
gia district Kiwanis convention in
Albany on November 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
I These plans, with other matters of
j importance, will be discussed at this
week’s luncheon Friday at twelve o’
clock.
Sanders Harris, local Kiwanis sec
retary, has received the following
letter which indicates a “good time
to be had by all” at the convention
in Albany. It comes from the Albany
j committee on arrangements and
rea ds:
“You have doubtless read in the
state press that the dates of the
-Georgia Kiwanis Convention at Al
bany have definitely been set for
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
November 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
“Monday night will be “Stunt
Night,” while Tuesday and Wednes
day will be given over to work of
the convention and the varied enter¬
tainment features.
'We are earnestly hoping that
every Georgia Kiwanian who can pos
sibly attend the convention will ar
range to be here Monday night, No¬
vember 2nd, for' the program of
stunts and other interesting features
in connection with the convention
opening,
‘Albany is the center of probably
the most prosperous section of
gi a just now—in fact, one of the most
favored localities in the Southeast,
Albany Kiwanians and others in this
well favored section are prepared to
make the convention a great jubilee
and to add much to the happiness
and merriment of every Kiwanian
and every Kiwanis lady who attends.
Practically every South Georgia Ki
wanis club has pledged its assistance
to make the approaching convention
the greatest Georgia Kiwanians ever
enjoyed.
Many details of entertainment pro
gram have already been decided upon,
and others will be worked out in a
few days. We will keep your club
posted as developments occur. The
main convention entertainment fea
ture will be a “Pecan Pageant” Tues
day afternoon, November 3rd, at the
Municipal Fair Grounds. This will be
an event of beauty and educational
appeal, featuring the tremendous de
velopment of the papershell pecan in
dustry in the Albany territory. Tues
day night the Albany Rotary Club
$20,000,000 JEWELS
BURIED WITH DEAD
OF. U. S. EACH YEAR
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Chicago, Sept. 30.—Jewelry worth
$20,000,000 is buried with the dead in
this countr y ever y y car - Frederick W.
-Patterson, of Atlanta, told the conven
ta)n t ^ le National Selected Morti
chins here. j
Patterson estimated that since the
beginning of American history $2,
000,000,060 in gold and jewels had
been placed beneath the sod in the
cemeteries of the United States.
In spite of the ancient tradition,
prairie dogs and rattlesnakes do not
peaceably share the same burrow.
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FIRST MEETING
WOMAN’S CLUB
YEAR 1925-1926
On next Tuesday afternoon, Oct,
| 6th, at three o’clock, the members of
the Fort Valley Woman’s Club will
assemble at the home of Mrs. W. J.
! Braswell for the first neral meet
of the new club year 1925-26.
| The program will !.:> in charge of
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Mrs. W. G. Allen, which will include
a reading by Miss Evelyn Duke and
music by Miss Frances Brown. In
iresponse to roU call the mem bers will
give some fact of club interest, and
aims and ambitions of the club will
be discussed. The president’s address,
a feature of the first meeting will
be omitted, the club being without a
president until after this meeting at
which time it will hold a business
session and a president will be for
mally elected, p
j Mrs. W. J. Braswell, vice president,
will preside over the first meeting
and the election of the new president.
At a recent board meeting, affairs
of importance to the club was discuss
e( l iln< l recommendations from the
board will be presented to the body.
New names that have been recently
added to the club’s membership in
clude Mrs. W. A. Wooddall, Mrs. A,
J. Titus, Mrs. W. B. Austin and Mrs.
A. L. Luce. Honorary membership
has been conferred on Mrs F. W.
Withoft.
The key note of the first cub meet¬
ing will be “Service. *’
“Here shall we stand in the way,
and ask where is the way that wa
may walk therein.”
BENEFIT KOOK PARTY
] The Library Auxiliary will have a
benefit rook party at the home of
Mrs. A. J. Evans on next Wednesday
afternoon, October 7, at 3 o’clock.
For reservations phone Mrs. J. D,
Kendrick or Mrs. R. D. Hale.
Miss Mary E. McElmurray was a
recent visitor to Miss Lucille Cham¬
pion in Macon.
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| Mr. D. R. Mathews, of Atlanta, is
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W,
E. Mathews, this week.
will entertain the convention with a
circus and a dance. Wednesday after
noon there will be a golf exhibition
by Bobby Jones and possibly Watts
Gunn, champion and runner up, re¬
spectively, at the National Ameteur
tournament this year. Scores of other
details will be announced from time
to time.
We hope every member of youl'
club can attend and meet Interna
tional President Moss. ft
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