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Volume XXXVII. Number 43. I-ORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925. (Eight Pages) $1.50 Per Y’car in Advance.
SERIES REVIVAL
BEGIN AT BAPTIST
HERE ON SUNDAY
The protracted meetings at the
Baptist church will begin Sunday
mo^jing, October twenty-fifth, The
i first two services will be conducted
by the pastor of the church, Rev. Da
J vid Albert Howard, and on Monday
Dr. A. J. Moncrief will arrive to do
the preaching throughout the meet
“ ing.
»Dr. Moncrief comes from the First
Church, Decatur, and is one of the
outstanding ministers of the Southern
Baptist Convention, having held a
number of the leading pastorates of
the South.
His first pastorate was in this city
many years ago and he is noted for
his pulpit oratory and a warm-heart¬
edness of character that draw men
to him and influence them to
thinking and right living.
When a student at Mercer Universi
ty, Dr. Moncrief won for that
tution the championship in oratory
Presidin^ ft Elder At
Methodist Church;
Conference Nov.
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*Vfhe pulpit at the Methodist
was filled last Sunday morning
the presiding elder, Rev. W. F
Smith, of Macon. Mr. Smith
as his text the words words, “Occnnv Occupy till till
come, Luke 19-13, and preached
able and eloquent sermon,
ing the fact that life is an
which God makes in each of us
for the use of which we are
ble to him. The fourth quarterly
ference of the charge, at which
ference officials for the ensuing
will be elected, will be held
evening, Nov. 2, the presiding
announced.
Child Welfare Work
The Child Welfare department
the Woman’s Club, with Mrs. Edwin
Martin chairman, are making it
sible for several children to
school by arranging for their
books and clothes, who but for
interest of these women would remain
JlEt of school for an indefinite period,
Mr. W. L. Skelton, of Elberton, was
a week-end guest of his daughter,
Mrs./ Fred Crandall.
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Fort Volley , Beautiful
HARDY ANNUALS
In the early spring there are a number of gardens in Fort Valley
that are “veritable riots of bloom” with phlox, larkspur and poppies.
“Those gorgeous poppies—The Wonderful coloring of those larkspur.—When
i Aments do you plant them? If I could only grow them”—are often repeated com-j
made to their possessors. You can grow them—nothing could be j
K more easily done. i
Purchase a packet or two each of Phlox Drummondi Larkspur, Esch- !
■ scholtzia (California poppy) and Mixed Shirley Poppies and plant them
B now, and early in the spring you will know the joy of possessing a wealth
I of beautiful flowers.
The seed of each may be sown in bed or border—but show to the |
k best advantage when massed. The Shirley poppies may be sown among ;
I your roses, the eschscholtia and larkspur as a carpet for your bulb bed,!
I but where ever planted be sure that your seed bed is well prepared and a j
f generous amount of top soil or bone meal has been worked in thoroughly. |
I TKdt'seed of each being small, it is advisable for even sowing that you j
mix sand with them. Cover lightly and press down firmly. They germinate
quickly and well. So it may be necessary to thin to a stand three or four
1 inches apart.
HARDY PERENNIALS
Now too, is the time for setting out hardy perennial plants and '
g! I nothing the garden could and be more cut flowers dependable for indoor for furnishing decoration a from succession early spring of colors j
in to ;
Hi late frost. The “Lazy Gardener’s Flowers” they are called and aptly so,
for they do away with the yearly sowing of seed and setting of plants and
with just ordinary care increase in foliage and bloom each year.
Among the varieties which seem to grow best here are armeris
| pWx, (thteif: ft) physostegia, coreopsis fever-few, shasta daisy, golden-glow, verbena galliardia, and violets. holly-hock, Each of iris, those hardy do
W. well in any garden soil and by planting them now will become well set and
11 make a vigorous root growth during the winter which will insure rapid
:!■ growth of plant and bloom in the spring. Many of these your neighbor al¬
ii ready has in abundance and will be happy to divide with you.
September, October and November are the gardeners happiest and
busj®; months. He who fails to dig and plant now—no matter how in
• « 'ustr; us lie may become when spring comes, can but hope for an indifferent
success for another year.
CIVIC COMMITTEE,
Governor Treutlen Chapter, D. A. R.
®he ber-©rt Imne
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
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in all Southern colleges. He is
scion of pioneer Baptists of
his father being the late
I A. I.. Moncrief who was for
than half a century a religious
in the state.
The people of Fort Valley and all
this section have a rare privilege in
the coming of Dr. Moncrief and it is ’
expected that he will be greeted by
j large congregations at every service,
| The music of the meeting will be
I directed by F. W. Withoft and spec
j ial numbers will be furnished hy the
Baptist quartette composed of R. D.
I Hale, \J. M. Allen, Dr. Ford and F.
W. Withoft.
The Baptist church and congrega
tion extend a cordial invitation to all
the people of the community to at
tend these services, which will be at
! ten o’clock each morning and seven
o'clock each evening, excepting Sat
urday.
HIGHWAY CH AIRMAN
IS VISITOR IN PEACH
Hon. John N. Holder, chairman of
j the State Highway Board, aecom
Panied by Mrs. Holder and Attorney
Smith of the board - visited Peach
| county tb > s week. They were guests
! S ‘‘ nator and Mr *’ J -/ E ;R avid8on
Tuesday night and left Wednesday ^
^ ^ ^
| to attend a conference on the
provement of the National highway
.between Cordele and Macon.
Children’s Week
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I i This week is being observed as
Children’s Week in the Methodist
i Sunday schools. An effort is being
put forth to have every Sunday
school teacher visit the homes of each
pupil thus bringing into closer con
tact the parents, pupils and teachers.
On Sunday night, next, Oct. 25th,
will be Parents Night. At this time
a most beautiful pageant will be f
presented by the Sunday school, and [
the public is inviteil. The parents are j
especially urged to come, as at this i
meeting some forward step needed in !
the Sunday school will be proposed j
next and adopted. Sunday night Don’t is forget, Parents Oct. Night. 25th, | I
Remember “the race moves forward j
on the feet of little children.
hatchery and
FEED STORE TO
SERVE
Following a conference of C.
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Howe and son of Amerieus and
j lanta, with the Kiwanis Club of
j Valley several weeks ago, these men
are launching an extensive commer¬
cial hatchery and feed store here.
They are installing a hatchery of 12,
000 capacity on tNa place near town
formerly occupied by Frank Vance
j and will open a dairy and poultry
| feed business soon at 210 Church
street, one of the store rooms in the
Georgia Agricultural Works building.
E\ I RA SESSION
CALL IS DENIED
Atlanta, Oct. 21.—“Just another
mess, that’s all, was Governor Wal
ker’s comment when asked about the
newspaper story printed here this
morning indicating that he has con¬
cluded to call an extra session of the
General Assembly and announcing
what he is going to put in the call.
“I have not told them anything I
had not already told all of you here
tofore, that I am giving the matter
serious consideration,' said the Gov
ernor.
According to the news story print¬
ed here, there are to be three things
and these only, included in the procla¬
j mation, which the Governor himself
says t° day has not yet decided to
. issue—and they are:
^ . (VaIidation „ of the « certificates ..
pay up the back pensions.'
2. “To take such steps as will fi
nance the State in enabling it to put
its educational system abreast of that
of other Southern States similarly
situated.
“3. To prov.de means for complet
ing the highway system of the State j
in the next few years.” I
Outcome Doubtful j
Several days ago in a conversation !
on the subject, the Governor said he
wou]d no t hesitate to call an extra
se8S j on , if he knew the Legislature
wou ] d do anything constructive, but
it is an open matter that there is no
de finite conviction the Legislature I
w j]j do w hat the administration de
s j res jf a seas j on j s called. Indeed it I
is mC)re than an j nd i ca tion that his de
s ; re j g [ earn something directly |
f rom j_he members themselves about
whether or not their sentiments have j
changed since adjournment of the reg
u j ar session before there is a definite
conclusion to call an extra session ’ 1
and if the file of correspondence in
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possession of Representative Milner
is an index, there is plenty of room
for that doubt. i
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There have been some recent ex
pressions from tbe Governor, accord
mg to discussions by those who have
talked with him, other than newspa
permen, that in a general way, he has
it in his mind to issue his call, if he
does at all, for a session some time
in January, and it is known from the
executive department that some of
the largest business interests in the
State have urged him to make the
call. That the session, however, will
be confined to the three items out
lined in the morning paper here, is
not today indicated by the Governor
himself, nor is it borne out by ex
pressions he has used, soma, of them
very recently, along the line of no
State ever accomplishing anything by
adoption of sitting down and waiting,
or through a stand-still policy; but
that those states which have attain
ed accomplishments have done so by
constantly hammering away at a poli
cy of progressiveness. |
The idea of bringing into the extra
session a continuation of educational
finances is not at all new, and is a
long the line of a bond issue, of three
or four millions, for the University
of Georgia. The same thing is true
of the highway item, that of includ
ing a proposal for a State bond issue
for roads, both of which were reject
ed by the regular session, and upon
both of which, if the information is
correct, a majority of the members of
the lower house have expressed them
selves adversely since the extra ses
sion, when they were polled a short
time ago.
Favors Income
Representative Bob Hamby, of Ra-
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WOMAN’S CLUB
MET TUESDAY
The Woman’s Club met at the home
of Mrs Wa]ter AHen on Tuesday af .
. for . u,ar ...
a re ^
Th ® J'" 1 " 8 r ° om and h ving room
were ro n * ’ 8
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^'house^as '
with beautiful fall fIowers jn attr ac
^ arrangement ,
The meeting was called to order by
the new presidenti Mrs . Edgar Duke>
who after the t)Usiness sessi on turn
ed the meeting over to Mrs. R. D
Ha , e> program chairman for the day.
Mrs. Hale’s subject for thought was
“The Home,” and she gave the quo¬
tation, The Home—“A wealth of love
shut in—a world of care shut out.”
“The blessing of the home is good
ness,
The honor of the home is hospitali
ty,
The ornament of the home in clean¬
liness,
The happiness of the home is con¬
tentment.”
The first number on the program
was The Evolution of the Home—a
paper prepared by Mrs. George Cul
pepper and read by Mrs. Chester
Wilson. The Influence of the Home
on the Future Citizen—Mrs. Frank
Vance. Here Miss Edwina Houser
read beautifully, It Takes a Heap o’
Livin’ in a House to Make It Home,
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Thp concluding nljmber was The
gou] Qf the Home> The Bi hl C) by Mrs.
w } Braf , we]]; after wb j c h the club
. u j'- ‘ ourm , d f 0 „ a K0C ; a l hour and en
£7 ^ delicious refreshments ' ‘ served
the hostess.
b un, member of the previous Senate,
ade the statement today that he had
een feeling out the income tax situa
and finds that “some of the rich
are now ready to stand
or a moderate income tax, and it is
conviction that the question of
will be a part of the busi
s of the extra session, and will be
In that respect, the Governor
weeks ago made mention of the
ac t that it was strongly urged upon
to include his tax reform pro
to which his administration
been committed ever since he
in office, and at that time he
that he was of serious mind
do so.
None of these things, though, has ;
reached anything like a state of |
and there is no real rea
to expect they will before the
of the year. A couple of weeks
the announcement was made that
the pension commis- '
a:> soon as
could get up a correct and ve
list of the pensioners and the
due them, the scrip provided
under the bill so much discussed
be issued. Colonel Clarke stat
that, immediately afer his return
the recent reunion he
that list completed, and would
it over to the Governor.
Prizes Offered For
Playground " ° Beauty
A contest for the improvement and
beautification of playgrounds, m
whlch . . . ? 3 000 ___ . awards , wdI , be
over ’
the ,
distr ibuted, is being conducted by
Playground and Recreation Associa-,
tion ° f America and the Harmon
Foundation of New York City. Pub
lie outdoor playgrounds in America
are eligible to contend for the prizes
and honors offered. Competition is
open to any public playground, ath
letic field, and other spaces used
primarily for active outdoor play and
conducted by non-commercial groups,
Entry must be filed before December
1 1925. Selection of the winning play
grounds will be based on photographs,
plans, [ sketches, ami statements show
mg the progress in beautification
submitted by the competing commun¬ |
ities.
The object of the competition is to
determine which of the playgrounds
entered, has, from the present time
to November 1, 1926, made the great¬
est strides in improvement. Not to
determine which is the most beauti
ful.
The Harmon Foundation, which
since 1922 has expended several hun
dred thousand dollars in helping com
inanities to secure permanent play
fields, offers three awards of $500
each and thirty of $50 each to those
whose playgrounds show
greatest progress in beautifica-i
during the period of the contest,
In addition, certain nursery compa
n ' es w ’ d K’ ve the winning play
nursery stock and will grant
reductions in prices to
contestants making purchases
ronl them. j
The three $500 prizes will be given ;
communities in cash having of three the leading j j
popu
a tion groups as follows: communi- j
j es un der 8,000; communities 8,000
25,000; and communities prizes of $50 of more each |
han 25,000. The
j b e made to the ten other play-|
roU nds which rank highest in each
ro up. The awards are to be adminis
by the Playground and Recre
tj on Association of America, 315
th Avenue , New York City,
rom whom full information regard
ng the contest may be obtained.
W. M. S. MET WITH MRS.
SMITH
The Business Women of the Meth
dist W. M. S. held their regular
on last Tuesday night with
Ruth Smith at the home of Mrs.
Fincher. The Bible lesson was
by Rev. T. H. Thomson fol
by a program of readings and
g S ; Miss Etheridge giving a spec
a ] so lo and Mrs. Smith a reading
“Sonny” that was enjoyed by
During the social hour a fruit
with tea was served.
Mrs. I. E. Brooks, of Albany was a
in the city last Wednesday.
NOW LOOK , MR.
SUBSCRIBER
Here we are having to mail out
a lot of second notices to a num
ber of subscribers (his week be¬
cause they failed to pay up when
notices were mailed them about
two weeks ago. DQN’T disappoint
us this time, beloved. We need the
money. The Leader-Tribune has
earned it hy making large improve¬
ments and coming to you regular¬
ly, serving your community inter¬
ests with all of its energy. Ray
up and help us to serve you even
better. When you get that notice
this week make us happy by PAY¬
ING UP QUICKLY. One day’s
delay leads to another. That makes
it mighty hard on. The Leader
Tribune. DO IT NOW.
REAR-END CRASH
RATAL FOR 2 ON
GEORGIA RAILS
Two men were killed and two others
injured on the Georgia Southern and
Florida division of the Southern oouinern Rail Kau
way at Clmchfield, Georgia, Sunday
morning in a rear end crash of freight
trains.
Joseph E. Crowell, 28, making his
Second run as an engineer, met in
stant death when the locomotive in ^
whlch he was ndin K at the head of
the second train turned over on him
Allb botly wab bdcJ ly mutilated.
Charles D. Fowler, 21, brakeman,
riding in the same cab, also met in
stant death.
The fireman, Will Rudolph, negro,
was seriously injured and was taken
to a Macon hospital.
The other person injured was Hob- I
son Brooks, fireman on the second
train who received severe bruises
and Both burns. trains |
were southbound, each I
drawn by two locomotives. On a
curve and at the bottom of a hill at
Clinchfield, the first train broke in
two. Before a flagman could get out
the second train plunged into the rear
°f the first train. I
Tangled Mass of Wreckage. j
Both locomotives of the second
train and fifteen cars of goods for
Florida points were piled into a tangl
ed mass.
A. S. Jones, flagman on the first
train, made a desperate effort to stop :
approaching double header sec¬
ond train but the second train was
too close upon the first train for him
to stop it. There was a curve at the
P° lr *t where the train broke in two,
it was stated, and Jones was unable
to get on the straight track before
the oncoming locomotives rounded the
bend.
The wrecked cars were filled with
automobiles and automobile
and there was one car contain
£ fine horses consigned to West
Palm Beach, Fla.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Eberhardt left
Thursday morning for a ten-days mo
tor brl P to Florida.
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A number of hort Valley Presby
attended sessions of the Ma
Presbytery in Perry this week,
them were Mr. and Mrs. J.
Woolfolk, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. AI
- H 6V - W. Smith, Rev. Jas. M.
and John H. Jones.
DESTROY COTTON STALKS
On October 10th, the National City Bank of Rome held a meet¬
ing of farmers to hear specialists talk on the value of vetch in in¬
creasing the yields of corn and cotton, and showing them how to
inoculate and plant it. Five hundred farmers from five counties
registered. Interviews with these farmers showed that in every
county it was thought that the hot weather and drought of the sum¬
mer had desroyed all the Boll Weevils. Since the rain has come the
Boll Weevils are found in considerable numbers in practically every
field.
In favorable weather they will continue to multiply very rapidly
until Christmas, and we will have a large stock of them to start
with next Spring in the cotton fields. The only way to prevent this
is to IMMEDIATELY DESTROY EVERY COTTON STALK.
In a trip through eight, counties in South Georgia last week, we
found similar conditions. Should we have a wet season in 1926, the
destruction of cotton that occurred in 1923 will be repeated.
II. M. COTTRELL, Agriculturist,
GEORGIA BANKERS ASSOCIATION.
Peachland Journal
37 years old—only newspa¬
per in the heart of one of
America’s richest diversified
agricultural sections.
CARNIVAL WILL
CAPTURE TOWN
ON HALLOWE’EN
Th^ Woman’s Club will sponsor the
Hallowe’en Carnival to be held on the
main business block on Saturday
.night, October 31st.
On account of the protracted meet¬
ing which will be in progress at the
Baptist church the affair will be on
Saturday night, which is Hallowe’en
night. Committees are making plans
and it is expected to furnish clean,
i wholesome amusement for the
young
people in the community.
Liquor Raid Lands
16 In Macon Jail
Macon, Ga., Oct. 21.—Battering
down heavily barricaded doors, break
ing through barred windows, and in
one instance effecting entrance
through a skylight, a so-ad of federal
agents l ed by Fred D'smuke, Tues
<Jay " ight raided Mar " n ' s alle S ed sa *
^ j ° ints ’ a " d the
clty awoke today to ;- ind itse]f dry jf
not high, with a neat tide of whisky
that has prevailed for a year rapidly
receding into the far distance.
There also awoke this morning
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some 1® Macon men, who opened
their eyes on tfle of day that
W!ls m terrupted in free passage by
' ron bars and stone walls. They are
dubbed by the agents “the aristocrats
Macon bootleggers,” who languish
ed m J ad cells through the night and
morning while United States Com¬
missioner W. E. Martin turned a deaf
ear to their pleas for the privilege
of making bonds.
One of these is the proprietor of a
^ ar S e hotel; another is the owner and
°P era t° r of one of the city s largest
fleets of taxicabs; all are well-known
111611 abou(; town.
^ be wholesale arrests followed
three weeks of c ! uiet work by “under
cover” men sent here a month ago by
Mr. Dismuke. In the government in
into the whisky traffic
in Middle Georgia, precipitated by the
slaying of two Jones county officers
^ ter tb(? y had raided a still August
> 23 ba ve been destroyed by
in Jones, Monroe, Bibb, Hous¬
Crawford and Bleckley counties.
15 alie 8' ed moonshiners arrested.
FOOTBALL
On Friday, Oct. 23rd at two thirty
p. m. the Amerieus Institute Tigers
play the undefeated High & In
School eleven on the Peach
Festival park grounds. Fort
Valley has not lost a game on her
home grounds during the past three
and Hudson High & Industrial
eleven of Macon was the fii^t
to cross her goal. This hap
in the game last Monday when
forward pass was intercepted. How
Fort Valley won by tbe score of
to 6. The keen rivalry existing be
these two schools insures an
game.
Coach Bywaters has his men prae
mornings and afternoons and
all who witness this game a
treat.
The manager of the Fort Valley
wishes to take this opportuni
to thank all the friends for their
co-operation and patronage,