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The Font Valley Leader.
Official Organ of
Houston County
Leader Publishing Co., Lessees.
It. M. Reynolds, Editor and Manager. |
W. R. Branham, Associate Editor.
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F#rt Valley, Ga., August 7,1908.
Two new automobiles in town.
And still they'come!
Musquitoes! Musquitoes
Musquitoes! What’s the matter
with the City Sanitary Depart¬
ment?
Peaches are gone, and while
the price was low on account of
the money panic and the large
crop, all the growers received
fair returns
Half the peaches shipped from
Georgia were raised in Houston,
Crawford and Macon counties.
Speaking of new counties, the
question is again being agitated
of forming a new county from
parts of Houston, Crawford and
Macon counties, with Fort Valley
as the county seat, Let’s hear
from some of our citizens on the
subject.
An Editor’s Soft Answer
Our esteemed contemporary
says that in reciting
ride” at the Methodist church
festival one night last week we
looked and acted like a jackass,
We could retort in a way that
would embitter the man’s whole
future life, but we have learned
to pass such things by. Suffice
to say that he is an infernal liar
and a crawling scoundrel.-—Lees
ville Col., Light.
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Important Notice
To Puclic
Southern Railway, Culumbus
Division, train No. 30, now leaves j
Atlanta 5:20 A. M;: McDonough
0:10 A. M., Woodbury 8;10 A. M I
arrives Columbus R);10 A. M. |
No 21 leaves Columbus 6;10 A.M.
Woodbury 8:10 A. M-, McDon¬ j
ough 10:10 A. M., arrives Atlanta
11:00A.M. No. 27 leaves Fort
Valley (5;45 A. M., Williamson
9:10 A.M. arrives Atlanta 11:05
A. M* All other schedules re¬
main unchanged.
J. L. Meek G. R. Pettit,
A. G. P. T. T* P. A.,
Atlanta. Macon.
Rev T G Lang and family are
in Clayton Ga. for the summer.
Mrs Birch Norton and Mrs W
BNorton spending the week at
Miona.
The many friends of Mrs G T
Jones will regret to learn of hei I
illness. j
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W. M. WHITE 1
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PHOTOGRAPHER
The latest- styles in artistic plito
tography.
FORT VALLE3 <4 A.
The Baptist Church
Services will be conducted at j
the Baptist church Sunday j
mornmg and , night . , , , by /~i Geo. TT H. |
McDonald. Sunday School at
9:30. All are cordially invited to
Attend. ft I
Echoes From “Valley
View. »* * £
We are considerably “above 5?
our fellowmen, up here at Rubun
Gap. a city beautiful for its si t
U ation among the mountains rtf
north Georgia.
We have left care ami worry
behind, us. There is no need of
luticlo here; the
tai no©rs have gone out of the
business, exclaiming in the voice
0 f the poet:
Why should the grave cry
t i Hurry!”
Over thejlife road dim and
When we worry, worry, worry,
Won’t we get. there soon enough!
While you are struggling with
the felements, [endeavoring
U keep cool” and ward off that
immense ennui which
broods over Fort Valley at.
season, we are getting into
utmost 'harmony with our en¬
vironments, are thinking new
romances and dreaming
dreams. Out “in the shade
the old apgle tree 5, we sit and
gaze triumphantly down into the
‘peaceful valley below us, with
its numerous brooklets winding
their serpentine way beneath the
sleepy willows, and farther off in
the distance.
ur Flie cowslips spring in the
meadows
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The Roses bloom on the hills.
Al ^Reside herd’s the brook in the
The go roaming at will”
Sometimes we go berrying,
sometimes we climb the moun¬
tain decked here and there with
tiger lilies and flowers of many
hues, over into fbe woodland mid
depths of dreamy dasies, and
then out on the hillside, we list
ty nature’s lullaby, and as the
shadows lengthen, we turn our
eyes from the delightful scene 5
and wend our way homeward,
The curtain drops, and “in the
glooming” we fall asleep, mid
the strains of Nature’s full
orchestra, the katy did, cricket,
whippoorwill and the owl.
There are many guesfs here at
“Valley .View” viz,—Misses
Jessie, Irene and Ora Sue
Mitchell Misses Jennie and
Louise Guinn, Mr and Mrs Willis
Timmons and son and Mr J E
Maddox of Atlanta. Misses
l’attie Mae Brannon, Bessie
Rushing and Carrie Lou Ross of
Macon. Mrs T W Martin and
two sons of Deeater. Mrs M it t ie
Wynne of Fort Valley. Mr and
and Mrs Marion M Little and
three children from Ocala Fla.
Mrs L W Burkett and two chil¬
dren, and Mrs D S Jopner and
two children of Macon, and Miss
Mixson of Gainesville Fla.
New guests arrive each day,
old ones are departing and we
fully realize with our afore said
poet, that.
The life-dream is fadin’—is
fadin’
The light’s gettin’ less in the sky.
Like shadows we mingle with
shadows
We’re always a-saying’ “Good¬
bye”.
Guest.
Presbyterian Church
We again call attention to the
fact that next Sabbath, August
9,4s our day for preaching serv
ices, and We extend a cordial in-,
citation to all to attend our surv-.
1
at 11 a m and 8 p nwnd Sab¬
bath school 4 pm. Prayer meet
m g Tuesday night at 8 o’clock.
It is important to remember
our series of meetings com
Tuesday night, Aug. 1 d. • > i
J W Stokes of' Dublin, Ga>.j
promised , to , assist . , us, and .j
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former experience with j
I know him to be a valuable
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Mrs J L Long and little daugh¬
Alice are at Indian Springs.
Southern Hospitality.
Some years ago one B. of Ke<v
Irak county, la., made a wagon trip
through b the adjacent } southern
ata , , es t On , his • return he , recounUhl , ,
to his friends his impressions of his
journey.
4. Now, for instance, M said he, “I
went to a farmer to ask him the
way to the nearest town. It was
| fl push b out n : 30 and I wanted to
j on. But these here southern
| tellers is so hospitable he would not
me - sa\s, i.ignr, stranger,
an’ come to dinner.’ So 1 ‘lit.’
“They had a great big dish of
| fried potatoes the middle of tho
; table. The host pushed the dish to
i ward me an’ says, ‘Have some,
stranger.’ I took a spoonful an’
pushed ’em back. He pushed ’em
over again an’ says, ‘Have some
j more, stranger.’ I took another
B l )(>on: fal au pushed em back. He
says, 1 alee a whole lot, stranger.
So I took another spoonful an 1 *
.pushed ’em back. Then he pushed
em over again an’ says, ‘Take con
Earned near all of ’em, stranger.’ ”—
Harper’s Weekly “
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Worse and Worse.
Rear Admiral Higginson at a din¬
ner that he recently gave in the
navy yard at Washington said of * a
certain American millionaire*
Once in England he and I were
Btsying at the same country house.
It was the shooting season, and on
the second morning of our stay we
found ourselves shooting over the
same covers side by side.
« The morning was cold and gray f
and through the mist I noticed my
compatriot about oddly. acting strangely. He ran
In a little while the
keepers began to watch him. to
Emile and to make low toned re¬
marks.
“Finally I saw a pheasant running
along the ground and the young
American running after it with his
gun advanced and cocked.
A keeper hastened up to him and
said:
(C c Oh, sir, you mustn’t shoot the
bird a-running.’
tc ^ No, Blake, I’m not going to*
said the young man, ‘Can’t you see
I’m waiting for it to stop?* —New
Orleans States.
POINTED PAHaGRaPHS.
Some people can’t hurry without
making mistakes.
About all we et out of wishes is the |
pleasure of making them.
Just because talk is cheap is no rea¬
son why any one should use a lot ot it
Never expect a photograph album to
interest a man long unless it has bis
picture in it.
A certain amount of will power is
all right, but a man wbo can fast until j
he starves to death doesn’t amount to j
much.
After a man spends two or three
weeks on a jury he ought to be a pretty
good lawyer, Indeed, be ought to be a j
pretty good judge. .
It is a wonder that some statistician !
has found out how after *
never soon a
wedding the word “rights 0 bogius tc I !
appear.—Atchison Globe. j
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A Queer Coincidence. |
While a serial story was running in i
a burg certain magazine a lady in Johannes- j
wrote to the publisher asking
whether Christian Lys (the author's
uom de plume) was assumed or not.
She herself was a Mrs. Lys, who was
trying to trace^an ancestor of her late
husband, who was a descendant of
Jong of Arc. Mr. Brebner, the author
in question, wrote assuring her that
his pen name was a family one, his
forbears having come from Aberdeen.
Strangely enough, it came out that her
family came also from Aberdeen and
their name was Brebner.—Pall Mall
Gazette. i
Pilgrims and Puritans. l
*1 he pilgrims, or, as they are often ,
called, the “pilgrim fathers,” were ;
the seventy-four men and the twenty
eight women, members of the John \
Robinson’s Mayflower church, who sailed in the j !
from Leyden to North
America and landed at Plymouth Rock, |
where they founded a colony Dee. 25, !
1620. The Puritans were the English
nonconforr I- ;ao came ove ,r» 1
the nam6 ; riven to them on ac
count of ike! iosed great purity
of doctrine, life and discipline.—New i
York American.
A Balky Bide.
It is stated on the authority of offi¬
.
cers in the Confederate army that a
balky mule decided the battle of Get
tysburg. The southern and northern
troops were both attempting to reach
an* eminence the position of which
practically ... .. decided the battle, and the
southern column was blocked by a
balky mule just long enough to enable
the northern troops P to gain the emi
nence> and s0 tha t balky mule r0 aiiy
decided the battle. /
Cad Murphy** Brevity.
Old Dad Murphy, as he was affec
«onately known to the boys on the
was a conductor on a trunk line
transporting large shipments of live
gtock from the west Dad had be<ja
In the service so long that the rules of
railroading had become second nature
to kirn, and the result of the superin
tendent’s frequent orders to the train¬
men to answer with military brevity
* !l questions and messages, especially
those ,1JT telegraph, to relieve the bur
habitually short, concise replies, even
to his conversation. On a baking hot
July day, when not a breath of air was
stirring and the sun beat on the ear
roofs till the pitch pulled the soles off
the brakeman’s shoes, Da<l in looking
over the train discovered that eight
ho » s had succumbed to the heat
1 ’’’ * 10tl Puffing 1,10 nex * telegraph sta
tJon he threw off a messa s e to the su
perlntendent:
Burhans, Supt.—Eight hogs dead acc’t
heat, advise. MURPHY, No. TS.
At the second telegraph office he re¬
ceived his answer:
Murphy, Condr. 7S.—What Is the presen*
condition of the hogs? Ans. qk.
blrhans.
Dad grunted, shifted his quid of fin«
cut and -wrote as follows:
Burhans, Supt.—Hogs still dead.
MURPHY, 78.
—Judge's Library.
What He Lost.
A traveling man was leaning against
the counter in the hotel gazuig diee
consol Del v at the floor
Lose something V” queried the hotel
clerk.
A nod of the head answered.
“Was it very valuable?’’
Twice with the nod.
“Sure you had it when you came in
here?”
A jhjrd nod. Ilis face was growing
wistful.
"You should have put it In the safe.”
“Could not have done that very
1
*IIis voice quivered. t
The clerk stretched his neck and I
gasped, “Why, what was it.- j
“It was,” the traveling man began, j
but he choked—“it was—my job.”
Oh, pardon me a minute, the phone j
is ly ringing. ft A And dismal the stillness clerk tiptoed reigned.— soft- j
away. j
San Francisco Chronicle.
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There m, writes a London correspond-!
ent, a stratum of common sense in the !
advice given by a north country teacher j
to her scholn If you have cholera
or scarlet fever in the house, put some
onions under the bed and they will |
sweep away ail disease,” for the onion j
proved its virtue in a remarkable way
years ago. when cholera raged through- 1
out London. It was noticed with sur- j
prise that one of the Lost insanitary ;
districts—Saffron Hill and its neigh¬
borhood—was almost exempt from the
visitation. The majority of the inhab¬
itants being Italians were great onion
eatere, and strings of this vegetable
?’ ere *>und suspended from the ceiling j
311 neai 'b* every room. The medical
officer of health concluded that the
onion, among its many virtues, con
a powerful antidote against chol¬
era morbus and possibly other diseases.
y Hugo and Verdi,
, -labored long before he #er- (
suaded \ ictor Hugo, who was voxeu j
th:it the tragic beauties of his “Le ;
Roi S’Amuse” had been turned into .
operatic effects, to attend a perform* j
ance of “Rigoletto. He succeeded ati
length, and Hugo sat in the box with !
the composer and listened to the op
era. But not a word did he speak.
Verdi’s impatience got the better of
him, and he asked:
“Well, what say you—about the quar¬
tet, for instance?” i
!
“Show me a way in which four per¬
sons can be permitted to speak simul¬
taneously,” replied the poet, and I i
will write something more beautiful |
than your quartet j
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Early Dentistry. '
The of dentistry '
art was practiced
among the Egyptians and Etruscans,
and there are evidences in mummies
and skulls that in very ancient times i
teeth were filled and efforts were made
to supply tbe.loss of natural by arti
fidai teeth. The first writer on the
treatment of u leern^ was Ga- j
.
Quickly Supplied.
There have been many strange things
in English history, One of the most
cunous was recently me i led by a
little schoolc ■ 1 ,
“The liyclrn,’ said this much ii Homed
young person, ‘was married Henry
the Eighth. When he cut her l^ad off,
another one sprang right up,”
-mewhat Dlfferrn-s.
“This question whetl i word should
have ii itlverbiai or its adjective form ,
seems to me to have little to do with
the sense. Now, what is the difference
between talking loud and talking,
loudly?”
“Xo difference ” replied the pedagog¬
ical 1 friend. "But look here: For
a
large fee you give legal advice freely, '
but you don’t give it free. I think
will retain you for awhile.” ,
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Georgia Houston County;
To all whom it may concern;
I. T. Woodard, Clerk of the Su¬
perior court of Houston county,
Administrator on the estate of
Willie J. Thompson, having ap¬
plied for leave to sell all of the
lands of said estate for the pur¬
pose of distribution and t( > pay
the debts of said estate, This is
therefore to cite all persons in¬
terested to show cause before me
at tho September Term 1908, of
Houston court of Ordinary why
said application should not be
granted. Witness my official.
signature this August 4th 1908.
S. T. Hurst, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County.
W. A. Peytoi* has applied for
guardianship of minor child of
Luther Doles, deceased. This is
therefore to cite all persons con¬
cerned to appear at the Septem¬
ber Term 1908, of the court of
Ordinary of Houston county, and
show cause, if any they luJVe why
said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
August 3rd, 1908.
Sam T. Hurst, Ordinary.
Nofci to debfcors and creditors; V
0 Persons , having . claims , . against :
the estate of Willie J. Thompson
deceased, will present them prop¬
erly attested; and those indebted
to said estate will make payment
to me. This August 4th 1908.
I. T. Woodard, Clerk of the Su¬
perior Court of Houston county,
Administrator on said estate.
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GEORGIA —Houston County.
To whom it may concern;
J- R- Miller, Administrator of
Estate of Fv lor E. Miller, deceased,
applied an order dismis¬
sing him from said trust as ad
m inistrator, -fbp representing that he
j-, as v discharged his trust as
Administrator. This is to noti¬
fy all persons interested to show
cause on or before September 7th
L'08 why the cider piajecl toi
should not us granted. This the
4th day of August 1908.
Sam T. IIukst, Ordinary.
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