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The Pont Valley Leader.
Official Organ of
Houston County
Leader Publishing Co., Lessees.
R. M. Reynolds, Editor and Manager.
W. R. Branham, Associate Editor.
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TELEPHONE Ill
Fort Valley, Ga., Sept. 4, 1908.
Fort Valley needs a gymnas¬
ium. How about it, boys?
We call attention to the article
in this issue on the Sunday
School Auditorium for the Bap¬
tist church, which is in course of
erection, The movement being
made to build the annex is a wor
thy one and deserves the assist
ance of every citizen in hort \ al
ley. The church stands badly in
need of the auditorium, and we
do not belieye that our people
will allow the work to be delayed
for lack of funds.
Negroes Will Support Bryan
New York, Aug. 29.—Henry
Watterson, of Kentucky, editor
of the Louisville Courier-Journal
today gave out at the democratic
national headquarters, in this
city, an advance copy of an ad¬
dress which is to be issued by
Bishop Alexander Walters, of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, to the colored, people of
the country.
Bishop Walters alludes to Mr.
Taft as “a party to the blackest
conspiracy ever perpetrated
against negro soldiers.
He accuses President Roose
veltand Judge Taft of having
practically indorsed the Lily
White movement in the south,
which has for its ultimate ob¬
ject the elimination of the negro
from politics.
Walters urges the negroes to
support W. J. Bryan.
Butler Finds How to
Make Good Roads
Butler, Ga.,—No one would
have thought it, but the sandy
roads in and around Butler have
been made good and hard and
are almost as good as maeada
mized roads. This has been done
by the proper mixture of sand
and clay. The road beds were
first thrown np with large road
plows to the center for about 80
feet wide, on which, when prop¬
erly raked and leveled, clay Was
hauled and placed. This process
makes a firm, but elastic road,
better for horses and mules to
trot over fban a macadamized
road, and nearly as good for haul
mg.
This work was commenced a
bout a year ago by the Good
Roads Association of tjiis county,
which was organized by Walter
E. Steed, who has given since his
retirement from the Legislature
two years ago, practically all of
his spare time to the work of or
ganizing and arousing a loeal
public sentiment for building
good roads in and around Bhtler.
The most remarkable thing about
the building of the good roads
above mentioned is that outside
of a sum appropriated by the
county commissioners, the bal¬
ance of the expense and the re¬
mainder of the work has been
borne and carried forward by
voluntary contributioes made by
the citieene of Butler and the
community adjacent to the town.
The results here show what the
people can do for fchemselve^
outside of road bonds and pub¬
lic appropriations. This is the
most eloquent example of local
self-help we have ever seen.
The truth of the matter is the
people have just begun to find
out that they can do something
themselves towards the better¬
ment of local conditions.
Butler is one of the up-grade
and building and improvement
has, in a sound, conservative way,
been 'going right along all the
spring and summer, notwith¬
standing the financial depression.
Some of these improvements are:
A new brick bank building, by
erected by the farmers’ and
Merchrnts’ Bank; two two-story
brick buildings by W W Edwards
andO S Cox; a brick store by
Arthur MeGhee; a second story
adden to their large brick store
by I F Peebles & Co., Installation
of a water-work system by I F
Peebles, and many other general
•improvements. .There is not now
a vacant residence in the town,
and calls are frequently made
for houses.
A Gymnasium Needed
Citizens of Fort Valley whose
minds are alive to the progress
of the times, have long realized
that our town has a great and ob¬
vious need; and more recently
various readers of The Leader
have felt a desire to bring this
realization to an active focus.
That all young men have an in¬
herent right to proper physical
development, is a fact undisputed
by any and maintained sturdily
by most. Why, then, has Fort
Valley, with her dozens of fine
young fellows, no adequate and
suitable provision for such devel¬
opment? Other towns about us
have their Y M C A buildings of
greater or less suitability; their
young men are afforded oppor¬
tunities for pleasure, usefulness
and self-improvement.
Every man has a social side to
his character and if the right out¬
let be not provided for its growth
why, then it will surely force one
for itself, and that outlet will as
likely be a dangerous one as a
safe one.
Fort Valley people are not
miserly; if we are willing to
spend #30,000 on automobiles
with which to give our friends
pleasure, we are certainly wiliing
to putenterpiuse into our open
hand, and furnish not only pleas¬
ure but ^profit as well, to the
public, by building a gymnasium
or at least equipping one, should
a suitable place be found.
Several men who have been
Y. M. C. A. members and had
gymnasium training, have volun¬
teered their services as instruc¬
tors, which would give our boys
and young men a fine start in
physical development.
This means not only the other
man’s son, brother, or nephew,
but yours.
What will Fort Valley do in this
matter? For that she will be con¬
tent to do nothing, we can not
believe. A gymnasium for Fort
Valley now! And in the near
futures Y. M. C. A. building,
which shall place Fort Valley in
the front rank for enterprise and
wide-awake, up-to-date pro¬
gressiveness.
Speak a good word for your town
When you can;
Do not try to run it down
To any man.
All may not go on just right,
Yet work for it with all your
might clean out o’ sight;
To boost her up
That’s the plan.
The Gubernatorial
tion.
There seems to be some
fusion in the minds of some
pie about the moral obligation
voting in the next election.
wish to say to my own
through the press what
indelicate from the pulpit:
opinion is that every man
voted in the last democratic
mary for either
candidate is under moral
gations to vote for Hon
Brown.
T. G. Lang.
We have heard that there
men in this community who
they would not vote for
Brown in October. A man is
a good Georgia democrat
does not support the
We wouldn’t bet even who
editor of the Atlanta Journal
vote for—Brown or Carter.
List of Jurors for
Term Superior Court.
The following names of
have been drawu by the
commissioners to serve at
next October term |>t
Superior Court:
GRAND JURORS.
B r Marshall T F Anderson
S H Bassett C B Anderson
R J DuPree J T Leary
R S Braswell C F Cooper
J G Avera C L Bateman *
C R Aultman J B T Scarbo
M G Marshall lough
J H Turner S B Brown
H M Chisolm J M McKenzie
W F Walton J C Henderson
J W Woolf oik E L Avera
Stephen M Bas- G H Fincher
sett G T Brown
A D Skellie W W Peavy
R A Haley J FI Hodges
E B Hose Geo T Harris
traverse jurors— 1st week
W H Harrison W 'M Melvin
T J Fagan F S Murray
Jas H Hill Joe E Garvin
T W Fulwood L P Miller
W E Mathews M M Grace
W S Lewis A Russell Mur
F O Miller ray
E E King Sidney D Har¬
Walter E Lev- dison
erett W S Kemper, jr
Z T Leverett L E Murray
G M Garvin J E Mathews
R M Houser E G King
J L Knight E L Fountain
Olin Heath L R Prator
JnoB Hardison W A Heavy
C R Hancock Walter L Lewis
A B Irby G D Fitzgerald
J C Eubanks J Q Adams
R L Arnett
traverse jurors— 2d week.
J S Anderson L M Paul
T JPhilmon J W Garvin, jr
A M Anderson J B Hardison,jr
G B Feagin C B Andrew
C N Rountree W K Pierce
G C McCarty W M Prator
W F McLendon F M Parker
J A Middle- H D Edwards
brooks J T Perdue
WE McLendon P T Perdue
C M Arnold F W Pool
J S Hortman, jr Willie Garvin
J D Martin A B Greene
W Miller Math- L D Holleman
ews F M Pool
J E Parker W F Powell
J E Murray J R Philips
H C O’Neal J S Hortman, sr
J A Arnold Claud Arnold
tales jurors— 2d week.
C E Parker E H Bratley
T F Barfield W G Bradley
C Stem bridge Walter G Ray
Creed Sasser C W Houser
.T T Miller Warren Smith
R D Brantley R R Hall
Card of Thanks
I wish to thank those, of my
white friends, who donated
means for a trip to White Springs
Fla. After 15 days stay, I feel
!*hat I have been greatly bene¬
fited and, for which I will ever
feel grateful
Gratefully,
W. C. Brown.
special Go to weekly Miona rates till Springs Oc¬
tober $7.00 per week.
***
Saturday morning at
o’clock little Thomas
Hardy the little son of Mr
Mrs T F Hardy breathed his
he had been sick 16 days
during that time he
untold agony, he had a
cation of diseases, and most
all had gangerous tonsils, he
a bright little boy over two
old. Just 8 months ago his
sister, Mary Mildred died, so
less time than 8 months Mr
Mrs Hardy has given up
darling children. We have
sweet consolation to think
some day we will meet
(I over there,” where none
say good bye. God bless
bereaved ones, may thy
be sufficient for them in
sorrow.
Everything that medical
parents, grandparents,
and friend s could do was
done, but to no avail, for God
a place for him above.
Written by-his devoted Aunt.
4 4 Sunshine. )$
BEQUESTS OF HEARTS.
The Dyiac AViak of Bruce nnA
Fate of Donglaa.
Bequests of hearts have been by
means uncommon. Richard Coeur
Lion bequeathed his heart to the
ous of Rouen cathedral, and in
1838, this remarkable relic was
again brought to light after the
of six centuries. The heart, which
said to have been surprisingly larga
was inclosed la boxes of lead and
ver and4withered, as it was
to the semblance of a faded leaf.
Bruce’s heart was by his dying
Intrusted to Douglas to fulfill a
which he had been unable to
In person of visiting the sepulcher
Chi-ist. Douglas, “tender and
promised to fulfill his sovereign’s
request and after Bruce’s death,
ing received the heart incased in a
ket of gold, set forth upon his
Proceeding to Spain, however, he
in the thick of a fight with the
having previous to his final charge
the heart of Bruce from his
when be carried It into the ranks
the infidels, crying. “Onward as
wert wont; Douglas will follow
Bruce’s heart was afterward
by Sir Simon Lockhart, by whom
was brought to Scotland and
along with the bones of Douglas in
abbey of Melrose. When the
of Bruce were disinterred at
line in 1S19 the breastbone was
sawed through so as to permit of
removal of the heart.
DIED WITH HIS CHUM.
A. Deed of HeroUui That Stirred
Entire Army,
Iu the reminiscences of General
Evelyn Wood, himself a brave English
soldier, a. touehlngjnstanpe of coui-age
and self sacrifice is given. One
day iu 1885 a detachment of English
marines was crossing the Woronzow
road under fire from the Russian bat¬
teries. All of the men reached
In the trenches except a seaman, John
Blewitt. As he was running a
roar was heard. His mates knew
voice of a huge cannon, the terror
the army, and yelled:
“Look out! It ia Whistling Dick!”
But at the moment Blewitt was
struck by the enormous mass of iron
on the knees and thrown to the ground.
He called to his special chum:
“Oh, Welch, save me!”
The fuse was hissing, but Stephen
Welch ran out of the trenches and,
seizing the great shell, tried to roll it
off his comrade.
It exploded with such terrific force
that not an atom of the bodies of
Blewitt and Welch was found. Even in
that time when each hour had its ex¬
citement this deed of heroism stirred
the whole English army. One of the
officers searched out Welch’s old moth¬
er in her poor home and undertook her
support while she lived, and the story
•f bis death helped his comrades t*
•ohler conceptions of a soldier’s duty.
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n Crvcietfg Revenge.
There Is a stofy of Crockett o t
"Stlckit Minister” fame to the
that when he offered his first volume
a Scotch firm they returned it with a
polite note assuring him that there
was no market for that sort of thing.
The letter was marked “No. 39Cb.” In
later years when the same publishers
asked him for one of his manuscripts
he politely requested them to refer to
their previous correspondence with
him marked "396b."
,l»**«* Uy Thar
Friend—Did the lawyer* pet you con¬
tused? Ex-Witness—Did they get me
eotifueed? Why, I testified that
Mved next door to me, but I couldn't
remember tfco otroet MOhter^-PitdL
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CORDELE GA. SEPT. 9-11.
EXCURSION RATES VIA
Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railroad.
3 ENJOYABLE DAYS 3
Fireman’s Parade Barbecue,
Reel Races. Steamer Contests,
Horse Race.
Tickets will be sold September
8th, 9th and 10th and for morn
iug trains September 11th, good
to return to and including Sep¬
tember 12th, 1908.
W. H, Leahy, G. P. A.
J• R. Rowland. Traffic. Mgr.
E. P. Searcy.
Com. Agt., Fitzgerald, Ga.
sj^tlaata, Birmingham,
Sf si^tlantic Railroad
SCHEDULES
Effective August 16,1908
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE
NORTHBOUND
Lv Brunswick 6 30 am 6 00pm
«< Way cross 8 15 a m 7 55 p m
4 4 Douglas 0 55 a m 9 25 p m
Ar Fitzgerald 10 55 am 10 25 p m
Lv Tliomasville 7 30 a m 6 45 p m
Moultrie 8 38 a m 7 50 p in
44 Tifton 9 48 a m 9 00 p m
Ar Fitzgerald 10 45 a m 10 00 p m
Lv Fitzgerald 11 00 a m 10 30 p m
Cordele 12 35 pm 11 45 p m
«• Vienna 12 54 p m 12 04 a m
Oglethorpe 1 55 p m 115 am
a Manchester 4 03 p m 3 30 a m
JSenoia 5 40 p m 5 25 a m
Ar Atlanta 7 55 p m 7 45 a in
SOUTHBOUND
Lv Atlanta 7 45 am 8 00pm
Ar Seuoia 10 02 a m 10 18 p m
4 4 Manchester 10 40 a m 12 00 n’t
Oglethorpe 1 50 p m 2 35 a m
4 4 ..Cordele 3 15 p m 4 15 a m
4 4 Fitzgerald 4 80 p m 5 35 a m
Ar Tifton 5 40pm 7 00 a m
44 Moultrie 6 48 pjm 8 10am
4 4 Thomasvillo 8 00pm 9 20 am
Ar Douglas 5 40 p m 6 50 a m
44 Waycross 7 15pm 8 25 a m
4 4 Brunswick 9 15 p m 10 20 a m
Pullman, drawing room, sleep¬ and
ing cars between Atlanta
Tliomasville on trains leaving
Atlanta 8.00 p m; leaving Thom¬
as ville 6.45 p m. Close connec¬
tions at Atianta for all points
East and West. Electric lighted,
vestibuled trains.
" The Standard of Excellence
in Passenger Service. t*
W. H. LEAHY,
Gen’l Pass. Agr.,
J. R. ROWLAND | Atlanta, Ga.
Traffic Manager.
FOR SALE
One Mathushek Upright Piano.
Will sell at bargain on easy terms
For full information apply at
Leader office.
8:28-4-t.
Go to Miona Springs
special weekly rates till Oc¬
tober $7.00 per week.
NOTICE..
I wish to announce to those in¬
terested in the stuly of piano
music that I shall open a class
beginning with the school term.
give eight £-hoir lessons for
#8. Arrangements may be made
at any time.
Louise McDonald.
CORN FOB SALE
by P. W. Smith, Fort Valley, Ga*
R. F. D. 2.