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The Font Valiev Leaden.
Official Organ of
Houston County
Leader Publishing Co., Lessees.
R. M. ReykoldS, Editor and Manager.
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telephone in
Port Valley, Ga.,OCT. 80, 1908,
Tom Watson is censuring Hok<
Smith for drawing his salary as
Governor and taking the
for Bryan in the North and West.
Let him alone, Tom,
would be far better off if
had spent the entire time of
administration in other states.
The $10,000.00 telephone
tem which the city
are comtemplating
is causing considerable
among our citizens. The
to decide the question of
bonds i will mi u be i held , u \t„„ Nov oi zl. mi ;,,
will require a two thirds vote
carry. Many opinions are
advani rable rif U u
favorable to issuing bonds, t is
impossible to to conjecture
outcome of the election with any
degree of accuracy, as the citi
zen^appeav to be about
divided on the subject.
Yancy Carter announces
he is to leave the state.
is to be congratulated.
The Atlanta Journal
hemp rope as a remedy for
riders, and the remedy is
too severe for those outlaws
go about in the night and
people and burn houses.
A . little; led , hail , . will .„ ,
very < o, n
up several generations vividly.
Kuai purity in a woman
be soiled even by being married
to a boast.
The inspiration of a good
of genial hospitality is a mania
show off.
The more times a woman
married the more surprised
is to tied what it’s like.
The best of men are not so
from being brutes as the
of women are near to
angels.
Some specimens of the fair
are must unfair.
Men with long heads
possess long tongues.
The Man who marries for
money deserves all he doesn’t
What is the matter with
cream as the cream of society.
A small boy is’t
impecunious beceuse he is strapp
ed.
A man is never sure ti
is his friend because she says
is.
A Chicago church has ^ K
a physician, a lawyer, and a
of trained assistants and
started daily ‘ comfort meetings M
for the benefit of all who need
comforting-spiritual, medical,
financial or legal.
rPAY I AX MOTItT NO l ICE
By order of the Mayor and
City Council the tax books will
open on the , Nineteenth T . . __,, 19th of
October 1908 for the purpose
collecting the last installment
City, School, Water and
Light Taxes. Books will
ope “ 10 days -
W. M. Blewster, Clerk.
1 Why Fort Valley Doesn’t
Grow Faster.
In location, climate, R R facili¬
ties and good lands we have the'
best best opportunity town in Georgia, to make and city. the]
a
Port Valley will be whatever
its people make it.
The trouble is—and the plain
truth might as well be told—we
spend our time and energies
fighting Against one another, in - j
stead of Par one another.
Last year an act was pending
in the Legislature increasing the
Mayor’s salary from $150.00 to
$500.00 and*proposing sundry
other changes, and there was
quite a scrap, the Mayor and his
cohorts favoring it and many
j citizens opposing- Money, time,
(many ' ' ■} to Atlanta''and lots of
! energy were f roe ly spent in the
: This pendin
[ year an act was ' F
in the same Legislature to es¬
tablish a City Court for this.
Comity. Our municipal authori¬
ties did nothing, citizens did
nothing, the matter went by de¬
fault and the City Court which
was promised Fort Valley in the
charter agitation last year was
j established in Perry for good,
j | which means a great permanent
i loss to Fort Vailey.
! Half of last year’s surplus
energy spent, this year would
have prevented this action— but
: then we were lighting Against
one another last year, this year
-
merely .. > had , , the opportunity or
we ,
rht ; r , k tor one another!
Good citizenof Fort Valley.
• • i ; h and !
ecu men c to in r prop s. Let's
I! id shoulder to spout der, help
mg one ; in er.v good
j j cause Ulu Wt in material, slum make 1 „ business, this old
town grow
j social ana r io us advancement
far beyond your fairest pre
dictions.
Citizen.
GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND.
How Their (TainiN Were PstiiMlsIied
lu the middle Affeg.
A curious meeting was liold in Lyons
on Jan. 4, 1099. The royal commis¬
sioners solemnly sat in council to tie
cide tj/e question if lawyers and doc¬
tors could be regarded as gentlemen.
| ' It proved too bard a problem for the
wise beads, and the doctors and law
y erg themselves were summoned to
, prove their right to gentility. Themat
^ the satisfaction of
I p r 0SBl0nal partie3 . ;
ln Ulc lxl i t uiie ages of England her- j
aid* went through the counties to ex- |
amine into the claims of landholders
i to bo called gentlemen. There is in ex
j istence qualified, an and interesting reads list of today the dis- the
one
shame of a certain Thomas Robbins
who failed to establish the title and
was writ union? the ■ v. Charles
Anseo repiu: 1 LI ivo of one of the i
j oldest famiheo, is registered ns "en
titled to he styled a gentleman, al
tlmugii worth not more titan £."00.”
Brooke, an old writer, has given toe
world his opinion of what constitutes
a gentleman, and his definition has
| never been excelled:
‘‘The character, or, rather, quality, oi
a gentleman does not in any degree de¬
pend on fashion or mode or state or
opinion; neither does it change with
customs, climates or ages. But, as the
j spirit of God alone casi inspire it, so it
’ Is that quality of heart which is the
yesterday, today and forever. it
same
A a Lesnon < In , Ornithology. _ ... ,
A gentleman who rather overvalued
j himself, looking at a case of birds, said
to an ornithologist who was with him,
**what is that bird?”
“That,” said the other, “is a magpie. if
It’s not my idea of a magpie,” was
j ti, “Perhaps e rejoinder. not,” replied his friend,
: — t it’s God’s idea of a magpie.”
A LETTER . FROM
NORTH CAROLINA
iWarrenton, N. C.—I was nearly dead
with kidney affection for six months,
growing worse all unable the time. My about case
was but little. hopeless—was I had tried everything to get with
little benefit. I took three bottles of
Stuart’s Buehu and Juniper and was
perfectly cured. Am now well and all
nght. I owe my hfe to Stuart s Buchu
*nd Jumper.—H. T. Macon.
If you suffer with backache, dull
ache, swollen feet, stiff joints, and have
j no ener gy ar jd see imaginary specks ft>
the air, you have symptoms of kidney
Stuart’s Buehu and Juniper will relieve
you. All druggists, $ 1 . 00 . Write for
*
Stuart BnnS Manufacturing Ca.
ATLANTA. Qt
a «SaaS vv n e® > tSs enty
:: r^r* . ' - -. ■» . : Million
& I t 1***J.= V . ll J V*' Voices
i W" it
% -
w j PERFECT understanding l by public
the of the man¬
e W jOL agement and full scope of the Bell Telephone System
»''lev¬ can have but one effect, and that a most desirable one
—a marked betterment of the service .
Do you know what makes the telephone worth The object of this and several succeeding maga¬
while to you—just about the most indispensable zine advertisements is not to get more link subscribers. It is
thing in modern life ? to make each one of you a better in the chain.
It isn’t the circuit of wire that connects your in¬ First, give "Central” the number clearly and be
strument with the exchange. sure she hears it. Give her full and clear informa¬
It's the Twenty Million Voices at the other end of tion in cases of doubt. She is there to do her
the wire on every Bell Telephone ! utmost to accommodate you.
We have to keep them there, on hair trigger, Next, don’t grow fretful because you think she
ready for you to call them up, day or night— represents a monopoly. The postmaster does, too,
downtown, up in Maine, or out in Denver. for the same reason.
And to make the telephone system useful to The usefulness of the telephone is its univer¬
those Twenty Million other people, we have to sality, as one system. have Where there are confusion. two sys¬
keep you alert and ready at this end of the wire. tems you must two telephones—and
Then we have to keep the line in order— kemember, the value of the service lies in the
8,--000,000 miles of wire—and the cent nil girls number of people you can reach •without confu¬
properly drilled and accommodating to the.last sion—the promptness with which you get your
degree, and the apparatus' up to the highest pitch response. respond quickly when others call bear¬
of efficiency. So you,
Quite a job, all told. ing in mind the extensive scope of the service.
Every telephone user is an important link in the The constant endeavor of the associated Bell
system—just as important as the op With companies, harmonized by one po’icj and acting'
a little well meant suggestion on our part, we as one system, is to give you the best and most
believe we can improve, the service—perhaps save economical management human ingenuity can
a second on each call. devise. The end is efficient service and your atti¬
There are about tlx billion connections a year over tude and that of every other subscriber may hasten
these lines. or hinder its accomplishment.
Saving a second each would mean a tremendous Agitation against legitimate telephone business
time saving to you and a tremendous saving of —the kind that has become almost as national in
operating expenses, which can be applied to the its scope as the mail service—must disappear with
betterment of the service. a realization of the necessity of XV
American Telephone O Telegraph Con
-
•i tiWs a 1 4 y
And Ps Associated i TO One Policy—One System
Bell Companies « Universal Service
UNITING OVER 4,000,000 TELEPHONES
Iocludin£ those ot The Fort Valley Telephone Company.
Jurors For April
The following is the list
jurors drawn last Friday to
at the April, 1909, term of
ton Superior Court.
Grand Jurors.
W J Braswell S T Hurst,
L Carter, W C Wright,
J ,S McMillan, E L Dennard,
W D Du Pree, Hugh Lawson,
E F Tharp, J J Houser,
A J Houser, J A McCowan,
F S Murray, T B Braddy,
j Houser Edwards,. C B Watson,
\y |-> Sims, W F Bennett,
G T Bunt. B F
J E Carney, T V Fagan,
S L Norwood A H Clark
it i' H Hartley, J C McKinley,
E D era, W M Blewster,
A A Smoak, J L Brown,
Traverse Jurors— 1st week.
W L Houser, W C Fagan,
D L Knight A H McCarty,
j jj JJ 0 ward, S .T EUis,
J S Langston, M H
J H Haddock, R L Marshall,
W H Glosser, E M Fagan,
J T Hancock, 0 S Arnold,
E H Marr, J T Leary,
C J Marshall, J D Lamar,
J W Garvin, Jr., J L Long,
R F Flournoy, J B O'Neal,
L J Howard. J R Ammons,
C T Eberhardt, J O McKenzie,
y ■ rionem -ii„ „„ , W B Green,Jr,
J M Farr, H F Marshall,
•) M Kimbrough, IN Royal,
W A Slocumb, T L Burden,
J A Russell, E M Ballard,
Tra v EKSE JURORS— 2nd week,
E A Houser S W Smith,
jv g Auliman F P Shepard,
D Gai ^ inj G L Small,
A J Garvin, J TFretwell,
J H Hal), OH Stem
CD Aultman,Jr, R W Long,
J G Holtzclaw, J L Rozeman,
W M Giles, SP Houser,
W H Carithers, J A Israel,
q p Scallergood, W B Norton,
t, ^L t Ajr Marchman. ow v,ms»n ., r Is "4 A-Tnrnb Murpil,
J M Lisenbj, * 1
R B Pierce, J b'Scarborough ,
j T Si Strunk, W E Ingram
M g p itts C L Holleman,
B McDowell, F PIrby.
w p n K stem bridge, U Burns.
Joe : - Palmer, , m 1 ai *' ci™,, Stoiy,
Tales Jurors.
^ TOr.?3i J A Evans,
pi G E Rape,
, „ B A Heard, Jr
S D Thompson R M English,
g f WH Kimbrough
w A BasS ett,
Sept. 27 1908. «
l j Dear Friend 1 J L\
Have yon gone back to
school? I have- <1 V sSji V
What do you have for \\ s’
lunch? I get some nice fffi
cookies a. 3 nd chipped \v A
beef and cheese and V t \ 4,
things at the grocery . VbA&f/on \
Mama says its lots {IE*;' \ls over. I
nicer and cheaper and I
lots less trouble than 3
baking up things f or me. i ?
And then mama helps X ■e-IHi, V
me with my lessons too. ‘A
And she says that is
better than spending so /l
much time in the kitchen. k 2
Your friend, '
JACOB. •V
P,S. That’s why she gets so many things all
ready to eat from.
W. K. Thwestfs,
'I
i U w on
34O to 352 Poplar Street
* MACON, GA.
Your money is as good as any
bod> s You are entitled to the
best that the market affords when
you spend it. That’s the reason
why you should come to see us
when you are in the market for
Buggies, Wagons or Harness.
OA.STOHIA. Bought
B-anths Jto Kind jou Haw Mhays
Bignatuxe
«»*
"HARD r CLINCH"
GEORGIA WOOD FIBRE PIASTER
Beats the world for holding and lasting
qualities. Notice the keys! It locks as
securely as if there were a lock and key on
every lath. It never cracks, breaks or dis¬
integrates. In fact, it is the one and only
real wood fibre plaster which gives lasting
and guaranteed satisfaction. It is sold ny
thousands of tons all over the South. Oo n “
consider using any other brand until you
write us for information, prices, etc.
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