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T m rW>\ S W YF75 < k z THE KIWANIS KALL mi m m OFFICIAL ORGAN BUY III HOME MI of the Get Full Value * Fort Valley and Kiwanis Club Published Weekly Thursday by the Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley, Ga. for Your Money on Volume 2. Here’s the beverage that delights taste, satisfies thirst and refreshes. I Every bottle is sterilized—insur ing absolute purity Fort Valley Bottling Co. / W. G. ItKISENDlNB. KIWANIAN J. W. Woolfolk W. L. Snow Ralph Newton * ,J. W. Woolfolk & Co. Spray Material, Peas & Peaches Fort Valley, Georgia HOTEL WINONA EMORY COPPEDGE, Proprietor KIWANIAN l' A Your account, whether large or small, respectfully solicited on r y the basis of sincere appreciation. PROMPT COURTEOUS > EFFICIENT ,|V SERVICE Bank of Eort Valley I H. V. KELL CO. FORT VALLEY, GA. Strictly Wholesale - Phone 276 c Eull Stocks - Prompt Service C. L. FARMER, Mgr. ✓ *- Kiwanian m DEVELOPMENT PEANUTS OF A COMMERCIAL CROP IN GEORGIA “Hi! Yi! Tinkum Tee, se bound to eat dis goober-pea, He grow in de ground, he grow so free, Hi! Yi! Tinkum Tee.” Thus quoth Brer Rabbit “as he sot <’h his behind legs” on the edge of the briar patch, into which Brer Fox had flung him after extricating him from the toils of the Tar Baby, so adroitly placed near the patch along which Brer Rabbit was bound to travel on his way home, and hold up in his fore paws for inspection and admiration a Georgia ground-pea. That happened in Putnam County away back' in the “good old days” when goober-peas were grown only in very small patches and used chiefly by the young folks, both white and black, who ate them after having parched them on the roaster in the front of big log fires during the long winter evenings. They were usually pulled and up and tossed on the wagon shed where they were left for f the wind and sunshine to cure them so that when sufficiently dry to be placed in bags, they might be hand picked from the vines and stored away for future use. Occasionally one of the more prosperous farmers would enlarge his patch to provide quite a lot of excellent food for his hogs. Incidentally, too, it will be re called during the taking times of the civil war they were roasted very brown and used as one of the nu merous substitutes for coffee and, ^ also, as a home confection. The use of them as a commercial commodity, was not put into practice to any noticeable extent then. Their use on any considerable commercial basis came much later, indeed with in the last decade and a half. Just why their great value went unap predated so long is difficult to un lerstand. Not so very difficult, eith er, when we recall how Georgia farm ers were wedded to cotton as a money I crop, regarding it as almost the only ! source of ready cash. ! However, we did finally come to understand its value to both man and beast. Recognized as about as near a perfect food as any agricultural product which we can produce our peoples’ attention was gradually di rected to it and the more our ehem >sts studied it the more enthusi astic they became in noisirfg abroad ] t s virtues, It was first supposed ony the sandy soils of the State were adapted tto its growth. This, however, has been demonstrated to be a mistaken impression. Some of the finer pea nuts now grown in the State, both in the quantity and quality, are pro¬ duced on the red soils of Putnam, Jasper and Coweta counties. Indeed the quality of the nuts grown in these counties is noticeably better than those grown on the grayer, sandier lands of other sections. So much better are they that seed from the Middle Georgia sections are used by South Georgia farmers in prefer ence to those grown in their own lo cality. We had commenced growing them in a commercial way before the ad vent of the boll weevil, but when this evil genius of cotton came among us, almost destroying our prin cipal source of ready money ,and we were driven to seek some substitute, our attention was directed to this hitherto unappreciated and neglected cas h crop, Because the boll weevil first en tered the State in the Southwest cor¬ ner, and the impression was almost universal that only soil of the kind found in that section would produce them profitably, peanuts were large ly restricted to those counties. As the weevil spread over the State and Middle Georgia found it necessary to get and get quickly a partial sub- THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1925. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1925. Education Week WHAT COUNTS IN A MAN— What counts in a man or in a na¬ tion is not what the man or the na¬ tion can do, but what he or it actual¬ ly does. Scholarship that consists in mere learning, but finds no expres¬ sion in production, just as ability to shoot well at clay pigeons, may be of interest and value to him, but it ranks no higher unless it finds expression in achievement. From the standpoint of the nation, and from the broader standpoint of mankind, scholarship is of worth chiefly when it is productive, when the scholar not merely receives or acquires but gives.—Theodore Roosevelt. This week we have an EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM. C. L. Farmer, W. L. Houser and J. I). Kendrick are the eonimittee. Mat¬ ters of vital public interest will be discuss¬ ed by able speakers. One matter in particu¬ lar claims the attention of every good citi¬ zen of the Fort Valley community right now. Be in your seat on the minute at NOON TOMORROW ERL DAY, NOV. 13. y MR'-"',’ Ac •: . -*\i i■- stitute for cotton, she commenced perimenting. Her people found it quired some years to grow a or beef herd and quite a bit of to provide necessary equipment feed for their proper maintenance. likewise required time and money grow peach orchards and both these sources of revenue some expert attention than was ly obtainable and were uncertain the extreme. Those who with peanuts found quite a ence. In the first place they could easily produced by unskilled They did not require, according our experiment stations, much tilization and that of the cheaper ments. Almost any type of soil suitable to them. When properly they could wait for a venient time for picking and picked were, next to cotton, perhaps the least perishable of all They are almost a perfect food, are relished by everything that man, animal or bird. Then, too, they supply one of finest of our hays. These are common everyday advantages commend them to the Middle gia and other sections, to say of the 167 useful things, from polish to an eight course which Prof. Carver, the noted distinguished negro chemist of kegee Institute, had within the tew years discovered and gated. And it is because we have last come to realize and their great value that Georgia ers have increased their acreage the peanut has now become one the state’s most valuable assets. l Government estimate of the 1 for 1924 was 198,000 and our authorities estimate the yield at proximately 80,000 tons. The value of the crop, °f the hay was probably about Million Dollars. Georgia grows more Spanish nuts than any other state, and under normal conditions, bring er prices than any other variety. The Fort Valley Oil Co. Manufacturers of COTTON SEKI) PRODUCTS FORT VALLEY, GA. I>. C. STROTHER & E. M. WHITING, K1WANIANS h'' . » M GREEN-MILLER COMPANY Radios , Batteries and Tubes GREEN-MILLER COMPANY GLENMORK GHEEN, KIWANIAN Georgia Agricultural Works QUALITY SERVICE HARDWARE & FURNITURE 64 We’ve Got: It O F. O. MILLER, Kiwanian m N GALLAHER-HALE GRO. CO. Distributors Purina Feeds .. Feed from the Checkerboard Bag 99 WHOLESALE GROCERS It. D. HALE, KIWANIAN HALL KIWANIAN THE TIRE MAN —t t N? A o ■ vVVl/y^ I When they were first produced large quantities they were all pressed for their oil content. As j the oil sells just a few cents than cotton seed oil they were on a rather low commercial basis, In a few years, however, this con dition was entirely changed. Because 0 f j^ s delightful flavor our Spanish peanut began to be used for salted pea nuts, peanut candy and peanut gutter, ’ and today all of them, except ^ e ver y defective ones, go into these three products, j This is perhaps the most promising feature of the peanuts future value. When an agricultural commodity can be practically all converted into pro¬ ducts which are really luxuries for which our people who have money are willing to pay a good price it becomes firmly established and should continue to bring a satisfactory price except in years when overproduction cuts the price down. So firmly established is it as an approved substitute for cotton, as a ready money crop, that quite a num \, er 0 f shelling plants have been built j n various sections of the State. Some 0 f these have been enlarged this year, In 1923 when the output had grown to very considerable -proper tions the growers organized Georgia Peanut Growers’ Co-opera tive Association for the purpose of selling its members peanuts co-opera¬ tively. It now has a membership of 8,000 and is being enlarged every year. Its affairs are being handled by a Board of Directors chosen by the membership annually. They are conservative business men without any radical proclivities and are handl j ; n g the business as a busines prop osition. It has been of very great value not only to its members, but to the general business of the State, j because of the which conservative it has been construc- handled. 'tive way in | It was particularly valuable when the ' unusually large crop of 1924 came on the market. It is conceded that, by the orderly ! marketing of this crop through the Association’s approved methods, many thousands of dollars are added to its value. Since the general business of the country receiving the accrue ing Benefit of this increase in price, as well as the members of the Asso¬ 1 ciation, the efforts to aid the peanut I ! ! growers of Georgia should be en ! couraged and supported by all our people. The consumption of peanuts throughout the country is steadily increasing. Our farmers are learning how to grow them more successfully and economically and the Association , is growing in strength and experi- j ence each year. This should be en- ; couragtng not only to Brer Rabbit an< t His kind, but every well wisher f° r Georgia agriculture. ^ | j j “LEMME GOSSIP” i Here Sister Lemme Gossip, 1 goes side-stepping and cake-walking across the street, head nodding like a turkey gobbler, as she hurries her pace to impart the latest scandal to Sister Character Aksassin. Nobody is left out. Everything is discussed. Goqd names are slandered. Everybody and everything is cussed and pure, inno¬ cent lives are pictured as black as | midnight—virtue is a thing that you rea d about; honesty, integrity, self respect, Christian living—some may claim them, but few have the genuine article! They have seen and heard too much about a certain young man or young woman, this man’s wife, that woman’s husband—they don’t do. Lord pity these hell-bent souls! They are engrossed by the rottenness of their own lives. I What a pity that all their kind were not made into forked-tongue rat¬ tlers in the beginning. The world would be a thousand times better off and their flesh would have a more honorable companion.—Elberton Star. I give every wildcat stock salesman two orders—get off the place, and stay off! I Professional Directory Claude M. Houser Samuel M. Mathew's HOUSER & MATHEWS ATTORNEYS AT LAW Practice in all the State and Federal Courts Loans made upon City Property on monthly payment plan and regular loans upon farm property. Woolf oik Bldg. Phone 101! Fort Valley, Ga. C. L. SHEPARD ATTORNEY AT LAW Building Phone 31 Fort Valley, Ga. in all the State and Federal Courts Loans M^'le on Realty L. Brown Louis L. Brown, Jr. BROWN & BROWN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Building. Phone 9 Fort Valley, Ga. in all the State and Federal Courts Loans on Realty Negotiated GEO. B. CULPEPPER, JR. ATTORNEY AT LAW Bank Building Phone 374 Fort Valley, Ga. DR. W. L. NANCE DENTIST Miss Florence Taylor, Assistant Citizens Bank Building Fort Valley, Ga. Office 82; Residence 115. x DR. W. H. HAUER DENTIST Office over Copeland’s Pharmacy. Fort Valiev. Ga. ’PHONES Residence 50-J. Office 14-J. f We Insure Everything Insurable KENDRICK INSURANCE AGENCY Fort Valley Phone Bldg. Ga. 58-J. JOHN T. SLATON INSURANCE AGENCY TORNADO & AUTOMOBILE Prompt and Satisfactory Service Guaranteed i Woolfolk Bldg. Phone 283. j ROLAND A. HILEY Real Estate and Renting Agent i Let me collect your House Rents in these parte I don’t think my would count for much.”—Boston Women’s Symphony Orchestra In London there is a symphony or composed entirely of women. It is known ns ttie British Women’s Symphony orchestra nml has a repu¬ for offering delightful programs. is co-operative nnd tins 60 players. THE KIMBALL HOUSE Atlanta’s Best Known Hotel. 400 Rooms of Solid Comfort. The Home of Georgia People. Free Garage Service Rooms, Running Water, $1 to $2. Rooms, with Bath, $1.50 to $5. JACOBS & MAYNARD, Prop. WWMHM Number 11. HE TRAVELS ON IIIS GALL “Stop!” ordered the man in the road. “You are exceeding the speed limit!” i. That’s all nonsense!” retorted Blank, bringinng his car to a stand still. “That’s what they all say, • said the other, climbing into the car. “You can tell your story to the magistrate at Hickville, just seven miles up the road.” The trip was made to Hickville in silence. When the car drew up in front of the courthouse the man got out. “Much obliged for the lift, he said. “You can settle that matter with the magistrate if you want to. As a stran- ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY I THE WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA GEORGIA RAILROAD The West Point Route operates thru Pullman cars between New York, Washington, Montgomery and New Orleans. Tourist car all the way from Washington to San Francisco. Also dining car .parlor car and observation car ac¬ commodations on certain trains. Close connections at New Orleans for the West. The Georgia Railroad offers the most direct service to South and North Carolina points via Augusta, includ¬ ing thru Pullman sleepers. . Use the “OLD RELIABLE. tf Ask any Ticket Agent for information as to rates, routes, etc., or write to the undersigned. We will be glad to assist you in every way possible. J. P. BILLUPS General Passenger Agent Atlanta, Ga.