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“We Are Building a City Here' ARE YOU 4 HELPINGTOBUILD r A CITY HERE? Volume XXXVII. Number 40. Peach Will Vote On Bend Issue for People Are Gelled To Thursday, Nov. 5, On $200,000 Paving > 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 ■ • 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. y f for W, Mi) / v SB HI? / m i i mm-' s' SgRv A mm im h -n , & i in 'L T7 » 9 3 V ” - /KIR % HIM* ' / it 'Ll A I I ^ 1! \ o 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. ®he geafrer4Etibmte 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 (Continued on Last Page) FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1925. Welsh From All Over World Attend National Eisteddfod ,Mu A' W I L * /~ Y rr\£f\ m \ * /sa 4 W- a < fail v m 4 'V E v r : . r a V v & > a w f W9+ , * •' '*) 'j "2 l / % •••' ’ i I If ■** .* I Mi Je; ■i s / f m 1 ' 1 4 " >’ S > Wi &•:£; ■/' ! I/V ••V, N: / f p j V t % m i-flj Xv-x-x mrnmk ■ - 4 > 33 j m tsi mm mm. v j ......... Nine thousand Welshmen from all parts of the world attended t lie Royal Welsh National Eisteddfod, historical 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 (Continued on Editorial Page) . Fort Valley , Beautiful «/ ^ 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 (Continued on Editorial Page) 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 _ 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. (Eight Pages) 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 1 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. ' | 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 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.