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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. FRIDAY. 1 PUBLISHED EVERY ~ Turns of Subscript ion: ; on«y»r............... ........ U-!»! Throe the post-offl Cl at Fort Valley, G». f under the not of Congress of March 8 187ft. We cannot gurantee the cation of any article sent us later than Wednesday noon. _ TELEPHONE iii 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. -------- ■ - - 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 r W. M. WHITE 1 j 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 ■ 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 ' \ ^ ’ former experience with j I know him to be a valuable ‘ , txt W /\ O o S 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 “ ‘ * “ 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 i 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. _ . I 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 ] 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.” , -— 1 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. 6 t. 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. —— / ; “HARD CLINCH” GEORGIA WOOD FIBRE PLASTER Beats the world for holding and lasting qualities. Notice the keys! 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