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FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
In the Midst of the World’s Peach Paradise
By C. L. SHEPARI)
Under the above heading a
interesting article appeared in
September issue of “The Postal
graph an attractive magazine
•ued by the Postal Telegraph
pany. In connection with the
were several splendid pictures
photographs made by the
Studio of Fort Valley, among
were secenes from the Fourth
nual Peach Blossom Festival;
of C. L. Shepard; one of the
Winona; a group of local
of the Postal. One page was
to an especially charming
peach orchard scene from a
brandt photo and a poem,
Peach,” from the prologue of
pageant, “The Trail of Pink
by Mabel Swartz Withoft. The
by Mr. Shepard is reproduced below.
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The hustling little Georgia
whose name captions this article
unique in at least two respects.
In the first place there is only
Fort Valley in all the world.
In the second place Fort Valley
the point from which more
arc shipped annually than any
point on earth.
Fort Valley is the county site
Peach County, Georgia’s
county. Peach County has the
est uncultivated area of ^ny
in the state.
The city is located at the peak
an elevated ridge extending from
gusta to Cuthbert, clear across
State. The lands generally in
Peach Section, of which Fort
Is the hub, ar level or slightly
with just enough break in them
drain w ( ell. The soil is red clay
dation with loam and clay
The climate is ideal for peach
The combination of soil and
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OUR MOTTO
Quality Service
Georgia Agricultural Works
Foi Valley Georgia
produce sthe finest quality peach, as
to flavor, color and size in the wide
world.
However, the agricultural interest
of the section is not confined to the
growth of peaches. It can be safely
asserted that there is no place in
Americn where more numerous crops
of fruits, berries, vegetables and gen¬
eral farm products can be success¬
fully and profitably produced. It is
perfectly possible to have a profitable
crop of some sort maturing every
month in the year in the Fort Valley,
Peach County section.
Asparagus, spinach, turnips, rhu¬
barb, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, cab¬
bage and other vegetables grow to
perfection and are being marketed on
a profitable scale, many of these
vegetables being shipped in car lots.
Dewberries, blackberries, strawber¬
ries, raspberries, figs, cantaloupes,
watermelons, and peaches constitute
the berry and fruit crops. Hundreds
of carloads of peaches and wntermel
ons are shipped from Fort Valley
every year.
Corn, cotton, wheat, oats, rye, peas
and the like constitute the general
crops*of the section,
Above everything else this little
city boasts of her fine citizenship, a
citizenship of such character, energy,
pluck and industry as to make Fort
Valley famous throughout the nation
—a people with such civic and moral
purpose and ideal that the very Coun
ty in which they live is known as the
“County with a Soul.” Nowhere can
be found such unity of purpose, such
concert of action, such sympathy, un¬
derstanding and co-operation of all
the people of the community as char¬
acterizes the spirit of Fort Valley's
citizenship.
For four years an event of increas-
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1025.
A dollar spent with THE LEADER-TRIBUNE is a dollar invested
in building a better Fort Valley and Peach County. It is a dol
lar directed towards enhancing your own property values and im
proving your own business, for The Leader-Tribune is working
for YOU all the time. Look around—check up in your office
call THE LEADER-TRIBUNE—YOUR HOME PAPER —for
w K significance and influence
been annually celebrated ^ in tort . v ,
! in ey ioo?°Tb 1J22 the p a P?a7h Peac Blos«L
naVe and faml of Jort
y U q _j ; n the
thoug ht of the Whole nation. The
^
Trail of Pink Petals. wnoThe finest
most’ spectacular, most aesthetic,’
most educational and inspiring out
door event of its type ever rendered
iLfTtwn
lation staged this Potion recpii.
inK about 1,400 characters, something
Of the , genius . and , «Pm>t -u of thn the TiWf Fort
Valley people can be realized
Miss Pauline Eaton Oak has di
rected the pageants for the past four
years qml it is hoped that she will
be in charge of the 1926 celebration.
In connection with the Annual
som Festival, a mammoth Georgia
Barbecue is Berved the guests. in
1924 and again in 1925 approximate
ly 60,000 visitors to the peach capital
of the world were thus served. Some
thing of the magnitude of the under
taking can be understood when one
considers the requirements of the
spread, which, in part, were as fol
lows:
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skill is employed in their construction.
It costs you less to use the best, See the
samples on our display floor.
i T. M. ANTHOINE
n Fort Valley, Georgia
& Jf Gasoline, Built Kerosene, in «iicm 1 Distillate H, 2 X, Engines 3. 5, 7, 9 and 12 H. P.
EASY TO START
Forty thousand pounds of pork
wpre barbecued over pits which oc
lf an acre of i and . There
were ten pits, each 200 feet long. It
took 400 pounds of salt to season
the food. '
qivtv rooks sixtv fire tenders, and
thirty laborers were employed in the
t thou 8 ^r an loave8 of
b '“ d 1 ? ere 7 Zw
I '* phased" of sour pickles
™ "d’s while, on the other
of sugar were used,
xhe fcstival crowd drank from 45,000
8nd ate fr ° m 62,000 Pa *
, took Four 4 00 hundre ds d of pigs pine were and roasted barbecue It
cor
k t0 roast them ,
j Two hundred and nine Fort Valley
men and women did the managerial
work It was est.mated that 80 per
.
cent of the white population of Fort
Valley was actively engaged in pre
paring for the festival or performing
in the pageant.
About forty acres of land were re¬
1 served for parking space.
.
I The pageant grounds occupied for
ty acres. The pageant committee had
printed 28,900 tickets. The amphi
theatre covered about four acres. Two
acres of small pine saplings were
cut down to provide a background
for the stage.
The queen’s coach was drawn by
six horses, each wearing a set of
harness valued at $125.
The Iate Albert M . Seifert was the
genera i chairman of the First An
nual Peach Blossom Festival.
Glenmore Green headed the organi
ThaS
joyed the unqualified support and
co-operation of the people; otherwise
it would have been impossible to have
earned out the festival programs sue
Ce y
”* n ° * re a,ready Under Way f0r
’ ^
Every person in America A . who can
* possibly do so ought f to J’ pay a visit
^ p ach t at peach
iime wfth minions of peacH
^ jn fu] , b , 00m th(?re jg nothing ,
^ earth ^ , h sc for sh( , er
charm ^ At ^ tjme a ,
community invites the world
to come and participate in a festival
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the ORANGE FRONT
More Savings
For
Friday and Saturday
BIG REDUCTIONS IN FLOUR
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24 LB. JAM UP §1-19 24 SK. LB. TABLE QUEEN $ *- 34
SK.
9 1 ">■ HIGHEST GRADE ‘GEORGIA’ FLOUR Plain Flour §1.49
LB SNOWDRIFT 8 LB.
4 PAIL - §1.49 PAIL
81C A REAL
SAVING
OUR USUAL EXCELLENT LINE OF PRODUCE
ICEBERG HARD HEAD LETTUCE 13c COLORADO LARGE FANCY CELERY 15c
ALSO TURNIPS, BEETS, CARROTS, SNAP¬
TOKAY GRAPES,, 15 c BEANS. TOMATOES, SPINACH, CRANBER¬
RIES AND FRUITS.
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE , LB. 47c
SCOTT TISSUE-2 ROLLS FOR 25c
GOLD MEDAL ROLLED OATS 3 PKGS. 25c
FOR
RED DEVIL LYE LARGE REGULAR 10c
SIZE 15c SELLER _______
PINEAPPLE No. 1. Can _Sliced 16c No. 1 Can Crushed 16C
HONOLULU LADY LIBBY’S_____________
A,
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KATHRENA BRAND AUNT JEMIMA
NO. 1 H 15C NO. 2 Vi 29c 15c
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SINGLETARY CASH MARKET
AT GEORGIA GROCERY
Choice W estern and Native Meats Bee/, Pork , Veal ,
Lamb , and all dainty Meat Products to please the most fasA 4
tidious buyer.
nrgia Grocery.
*
GOOD JOB
PRINTING:
v
0 f thanksgiving and gratitude to a
kind Providence for His bounties and j
mercies. The event in no wise par
takes of the nature and spirit of the
ordinary carnival with its bizarre and
tawdry appeal but is in every sense
a festival.
a faint idea of the character One and j
magnitude of the undertaking.
must visit Fort V ; 1 ey and e Hie
annual pageant to really appreci
]
Aside fr 7 agricultural intOT
the
thought , , and , , labor -w ot fllir our npnr) people, i G . an aim d
the whole situation conspires to give
us here a citizcnship contented, pro
ive and happy.
As might be expected, The Postal
is in and for Fort Valley strong and 1
jg doing its part t0 carry forward in
the local program of development and
achievement.
JH eWS ler Is Named
P-F r isll , , nr W UrdeTt J „
(l III
Peter S. Twitty, state game and
fish commissioner, has appointed W.
M. Blewster as game and fish warden
for Peach county. Mr. Blewster frill
changes have been made , and those
desirirlg ]icenses should apply to him.
Small House Bums g
A ^ hous ^hurch street be
longing to Paul - of Columbus
and occupied by Ed George was prac
tically a 7 total loss as ai remitof f; f rP
discovered Sunday morning at 6.20
oc, Another ° c \ fire Saturday afternoon afte^oon on on
Knoxville street did aome damage t
the roof o the house occupied by A
D. Allen, belonging to Mrs. Bull, o
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