The Leader-tribune and peachland journal. (Fort Valley, Houston County, Ga.) 19??-192?, January 29, 1920, Image 1
**4 + +* + + i )»• loading “i * and advertising * >!ln of the great Mid *> v dl. Georgia Peach and 4* ’F Melon Bolt, **♦ + Volume XXXII. Number 10. CONGRESSMAN LARSEN WRITES THAT COMMITTEE RESCINDS DECISION TO REPORT BILL. WILL CONTINUE HIS EFFORTS. Ft. Valley will get no post-office buading appropriation from this con gi-.n. So writes Congressman W. W. Larsen, of the Twelfth Congres io d D,strict of Georgia, in a recent ier.?r i a r ' m t* , to fl Tk, Ihe t Leader-Tribune. i rp ., Con- n , - aman Larsen has been working faunfully for this hill providing for $• -,000 for a Federal building and »U8 in Ft. Vaiiey and it looked as if h:s efforts were going to be crowned ... .a ■. success when . ,, the „ House Com m >«£ on Public r, , Buildings r. u- and , Grounds decided on Dec. 19 to re •port favorably Congressman Lar¬ sen’s bill for Ft. Valley and several other Georgia towns. The commit¬ tee, however, owing to the large de¬ ficit in the treasury, as explained in Congressman Larsen’s letter and in Dje-committee’s resolutions, both of which we publish below, have rescin ded their action. Congressman Larsen’s letter foi- I lows: ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S. Washington, D. C. l January, 24, 1920. Mr. Joel M. Martin, Editor, The Leader-Tribune, Ft. Valley, Ga. Mv Dear Mr. Martin: ! “Since my election to Congress, I have put forth considerable effort to effect passage oi a bill providing ap¬ propriation for site and post office building at Ft. Valley and secured recommendation of Committee for such during the 65th Congress. “I had hoped that the bill would be favorably passed at this session of Congress, until receipt of copy res¬ olutions adopted by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, just sent me. For your information I herewith enclose copy of same. “You will observe that no such bill, Individual or otherwise, will be re¬ pented by the Committee during the present session which authorizes ap¬ propriation of money. Financial conditions, a result of the War, are given as a cause for such action. I feel confident that 1 shall be able to get favorable action on the Ft. Val ky proposition at the next session ' “I regret that the circumstances are as stated, but you may rest as¬ sured of my best efforts when an op¬ portunity is presented to push the bill. i Faithfully yours, W. W. LARSEN. >» The committee’s resolutions are as fellows: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILD¬ INGS AND GROUNDS . House of Representatives, U. S. WASHINGTON Whereas, the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds decid ed on December 19,1919, to report a general public buildings bill at the present session of the 66th Congress; and, “Whereas, the estimates of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year 1921, as recently reported by the Secretary of the Treasury, show that there will be a very large deficit for ■aid fiscal year: Therefore, be it “Resolved, that said decision to re port such a bill at this sesion be, and the same is hereby, rescinded, because of said deficit; and be it further "Resolved that the Committee will not report at this sesion any indivi riuai bill whieh authorizes the appro priation of money; and be it further “Resolved, that, a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Cha:rman of this Committee to the Members of the House for their infor mation. it THE METHODIST CHURCH. Wm. F. Quillian, Pastor. Sunday Sehool, 9:30 a. m. Judge H. A. Mathews, Supt. Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m. “The Peril of Profanity. »» Fra: Service, 2:00 p. m. Junior Church, 3:00 p. m. Enwirth League, 6:00 p. m. Evening Worship, 7:00 p. m. Prayer Service, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. Would you like to live in a com munity where there is no church? Come to Sunday School. You will enjoy it and be helped. All ages are now in Sunday School. There i* a place for you. Everybody we o*»*l The Leader- 1 rijbune AND PHACHLAND JOURNAL FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920. LOUR DEMONSTRATION AT WRIGHT’S PHARMACY. A large number attended the dem¬ onstration of White Crest Flour at Wright’s Pharmacy Monday, Tues day and Wednesday afternoons of this week. The demonstrations were conducted by Miss Emma Shirley Fox and Mrs. Leila Knowles represent¬ ing the J. C. Lyle Milling Company, of Leavenworth, Kansas, the manu¬ facturers. Cakes, doughnuts and other products of the flour were ser Ved , ’ and a t,cket wa * Rented , , to enah ° ne ^lio u sam P^ the da, ” tles entitling the holder to a chance to . a * ac , 0 ht flour hc 10 ‘'‘ ‘ * ‘ ° 1 u numbers ^ en>: a!1 ' n t rf on ’ aes tay ’ ! ^ eetru .^f -. art,n; . Wednesday, r I ' ' The flour is sold by the Marshall Grocery _ Co., and the local various re a; grocers, and is pronounced by at least one Ft. valley house-wife who has used it before to be of unusually good quality. ■o— DROPS PISTOL-BORES HOLE THRU POSTOFFICE CEILING The editor of The Leader-Tribune claims , . to , be some sleuth; , , however, not , having an official badge nor * , being . officer of ... the law , . intent . . on an ,, of . folks . „ who , the exposure are care less with ... their artillery, we arn’t ,, naming the principal in this story. . j. Our Hawksnawing began few „ at a ternoons ago, when . we went to . the post-office .... to get . mail and . ob- . our served , a considerable . , , , sprinkling . , or . a white , substance . on the . newly , swept' ' ' floor under mail . box. Like . all our scientific ....., minds immediately , be ours tan to wonder , whence , came the phen- i and like Newton when , , he omenon, saw the apple fall, we strongly sus¬ pected that the force of gravity had something to do with it. So our eyes went ceiling-ward, and, sure enough, there was a neat little hole in the plaster just above the white powder on the floor. It was too high for anybody to reach, and we saw no fishing pole in the vicinity, nor altitudinous object affording a foot-and-hand hold for a climber; so what more scientific deduction could the renowned Sherlock have made than that a missile of small size had been projected with great force to the ceiling. So with charac¬ teristic detective adroitness we pro¬ jected a sudden, direct and forceful question at Miss Lena Jones, queen of the stamp and general delivery window, as to who had been making a pistol target of the ceiling above our mail box. Miss Lena admitted that while the object of our inquiry had not really aimed at the ceiling we had scored a bull’s eye in our deduc¬ tions. A gentleman had really drop¬ ped his artillery from his pocket when h*er mind was far away from thoughts of Big Berthas and Long Toms and other shock producers, and even if he did have a license to carry a pistol he had no license to scare her into a canniption fit with it. •o WEATHER THIS WEEK AND LAST SHOWS CONTRAST. Quite a decided contrast was shown in t h weather in this this week and last. Throughout the i whole of last week the weather was lis tair and as rnil(1 as spring time, j rendering overcoats, wraps and furs superfluous, and the porches and S' r e a t out-doors most inviting. Late Saturday afternoon rain ac eompanied by a decided fall in the temperature set in. Sunday morn ing thermometers stood just above the freezing point, rain continued throughout the day with little mod sration in temperature, More mod erate temperatures prevailed Tues day and Wednesday but there was no let up of the rain until Tuesday night. Wednesday was cloudy but pathways became discernable thru the mud of the street crossings CARD OF THANKS. We wish to extend our sincere thanks to the many friends who min¬ istered so kindly to our dear sister and aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Dorrough, in her illness and death. We pray God’s richest blessings upon you. Mrs. J. V. Walker and family, o — ^| r . Frank Reynolds of passed thru Fort Valiev Monday en route tu Perry to ' s P eak ,n . the ,nter ' est of the $50,000,000 State Bond ! issue for permanent highways. BURIED HERE WAS ONE OF EARLIEST RES- 1DENTS OF FT. VALLEY. PASS¬ ED AWAY IN ATLANTA SAT¬ | URDAY MORNING. Mrs. S. E. Muttart, one of the ear¬ liest residents of Fort Valley, passed away at her home on Bonnie Brae Avenue, Atlanta, Saturday morning, after an illness of nearly a month, She was taken ill on her 88th birth day, December 20th, after a prayer j meeting at her home at which great spiritual blessing was enjoyed by all present Funeral services were held on Sat urday afternoon at three-thirty o’¬ clock at the Bonnie Brae Methodist church in West End, which had her church home for the twenty years following her removal from ; Fort Valley, and in which she had been a constant and zealous worker, The officiating clergymen were three of her former pastors, Reverends Allgood, of the Inman Park Meth odist Church, Striplin, of Gaines ville, and White, of the Bonnie Brae Methodist Church. The , body , was brought , , . , to m Ft. Val , lev Saturday „ : night . ,, and , taken , was , * to , the . home , oi , , her son, .. Mr. W. _ P. Harwell, T „ on East Main Street, , where , , brief . . funeral „ , , held ., Sun- _ a service was day , morning, . Rev. ... W. F. Qmllian of- . Delating. ... \ ,. Interment , , , . Oak- _ , was in , lawn Cemetery _ , , bv " the , side . , of , , her , husband . , and , , • one son who , , had gone on before. . . Ihe pall-bearers ,, , were ,, Messrs. Will ri. Jones, , O. „ ,, M . Houser tI , A. , B. Greene, „ ... W. C. „ Wright, ,, S. B. Brown „ and Judge H. A. Mathews. Mrs. ,. Tt Harwell ,, came to Ft. Valiev when there was only a post office and two or three houses here. She owned much real estate here and was widely known and beloved, being a frequent visitor here to her son, Mr. W. P. Harwell, and daughter, Mrs. M. F. Snow. „ Besides . , these she , . survived ... by is one other son, Mr. , John I, J. _ Harwell ,, ,, of Atlanta; a at a three ,, , brothers, Mr. „„ „ Sam Mays of Stockbridge, Ga.; Mr. Wes ley Mays, ‘ ol Palestine, Texas; Mr. Henry , r Mays, of Duluth, ^ Ga.jand one sister. Mrs. Caioline Morris, of Pal estine, Texas. Twelve grandchild and . other ,, relatives , . also , ren many sur vive her. «■ LEAP YEAR POSSUM SUPPER IS UNIQUE, j The Leap Year ’Possum Supper given at the Postell House Wednes¬ day of last week by Mr. Henry Cheek was one of the most unique and en¬ joyable affairs that has been pulled off in Ft. Valley in a long time. Mr. D. Burns engineered the program for Mr. Cheek, and the printed menus and place cards gotten up by him were replete with humorous "take¬ offs” on boarding house fare and eti¬ quette. The program included many humorous toasts and songs and was most heartily enjoyed by'all, as are all such events pulled off at this fam¬ ous home of Ft. Valley’s temporarily and permanently wifeless ones. In¬ deed the Postell House deserves to he perpetuated in a printed history of Valley, as no other land-mark of the town is richer in pleasant rem iriiseences. Those present on this occasion were: Mrs. Hickson, Mrs. Nance, Mrs. Almon, Miss Julia Posteii, Miss Lou Postell, Miss NanineBassett, Miss Odille Ou.sley, Miss Gladys Slap P fi y. Miss Kate Myrick, Miss Ruby Harris, Miss Helen Marshall; Dr. Hickson, Buddy Almon, Louis Sin gleton, Lyn Fagan, John Clark, Dom > niC k Burns, Dr. Nance, Lee Houser, B ud Evans, Henry Cheek, Ramsey Fuller, B. Cunningham, Prof. Gray ham, Dave Strother, Brown Riley, Dr. Bazemore, Jim Bostwick and Lawrence Houston. HOUSTON BAR ASSOCIATION TO MEET AT PERRY MONDAY. All of the laivyers of Houston county are requested to meet at the court house at Perry at 11 o’clock a ' m ' on Monday, February 2, 1920, for the purpose of discussing mat ters pertaining to the City Court and other matters that may properly come j ; before the meeting. A. C. Riley, J. C. H. C. -0 The Woman’s Chistian Temperance Union will meet Wednesday after¬ noon at 3 o’clock with Mrs. Frank Fincher. This will be an important business meeting and all members are urged t« b« present. AGED WOMAN DIES TWO HOURS AFTER WORK TRAIN STRIKES AUTOMOBILE AT WEST END GRADE CROSSING. i One of the saddest accidents which has occured in Ft. Valley in a long time was that in which Mrs. Lizzie Dorrough lost her life when, shortly before one o’clock last Sat urday afternoon, a work train on the Columbus Division of the Central o' Georgia Railroad crashed into an au tomobile driven by Mrs. A. C. Mur ray an ,i j„ which Mrs. Dorrough was a passenger. Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Dorrough had been to town on a shopping trip and were returning to their homes about a mile beyond the city. Just as they reached the grade crossing on West College Street their Ford ear was struck by ihe rear car of a work tram which was being backed into the city. The railroad passes thru a cut at this point to the west of the street, making it difficult for auto mobilists to see the approach of a train from the west. Ihe automobile * , ., was knocked . . , ten , or twelve , , feet . , and , , badly ,, smashed, , , NT Neither ... occupant , was thrown ,, out , of - ,. the ear, but , , ,, Mrs. Murray sustained , bruises, ,.....■ which, ,. , , however, were not serious. Mrs. V1 T Dorrough - . received . , a severe cut . above , the right eye, sev eral , , fractured . ribs .. and , . internal . , . m . . She earned to the home juries. was of Mrs. O. D. Williams, where , she , was attended ,, , , by , Dr. ,, M. S. „ Brown, ,, , local , of ... the railroad surgeon coin pany. ,,,, While dazed and suffering . greatly, ,, Mrs. Dorrough regained , eon ■ recognized , those ,, around . sciousness, „ „ her and talked rationally until death came suddenly an hour and fifty min utes after , she was brought into the house. The body was prepared for burial there and was carried late Saturday afternoon to the residence of Mr. and , Mrs. \V. b. Austin „ , on Avenue, a from a which , . , ,, the funeral , . , held ,, Sunday „ , afternoon, .. Rev. _ vice was C. C. Pugh officiating. Interment was in Oaklawn Cemetery. J 'he pall ... bearers Messrs. A. . were C. Murray, J. H. Edwards, W. tin, G. L. Stripling, J. M. Green, l.r, nr VV H. „ ti Hafer. n . Mrs. Dorrough had been a neigh¬ bor of Mr. and Mrs. Austin’s when they resided on Noiith Macon Street, and was highly esteemed for her cheerful disposition and neighborly helpfulness by those who knew her during her brief residence here. She was 72 years old. —o METHODISTS TO CELEBRATE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT. The special services which were to have been held at the Ft. Valley Methodist Church last Sunday night to celebrate the enactment of the amendment of the Federal Constitu¬ tion providing for National prohibi¬ tion, were postponed on account the inclement weather. These ser vices will be held next Sunday February 1st. Plans will then be presented which have been adopted by prohibition leaders looking to world-wide prohibition. S ev er a 1 brief addresses will be made by lead¬ ing citizens. FRENCH LITERATURE HELD HISTORY CLUB’S ATTENTION, The Histor Club met Tuesday af ternoon with Mrs. C. H. Prater, Mrs. J. W. Rundell being joint hostess, The subject for study was French Literature. Roll call was answered by quotations from French writers, Those taking part in the program were, Miss Gladys Slappey, Mrs. J. A. Houser, Mrs. W. J. Braswell, Mrs. F. W. Withoft. Mrs. Julian Webster had charge of the program, After adjournment the members enjoyed a social hour, when dainty were served by the hostess. --o WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETY M. E. CHURCH. The business meeting of the Wo mun s Missionary Society will be held Monday afternoon, Feb. 2nd, at 3 o - clock. At this time, the first topic from Posdick’s “Meaning of Prayer will be considered. •o Mrs. O. D. Williams and Miss Katie Mae Williams were dinner-guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Tharpe, EIGHT PAGES MARKS DAINTIES "DYNAMITE” TO EXPEDITE DELIVERY. A certain fond Ft. Valley mother is still wondering if her son off at a northern university ever received a box of delicious edibles in the shape of cake and candies and all the good ihings that only a fond mother knows how to prepare for her boy who is away from home and has to out up with college boarding-house fare. The box was carefully pre¬ pared for shipment, with every pre¬ caution to prevent its going astray and to facilitate prompt delivery and was entrusted to a younger son to ,ake to the express office with the injunction that he see to it that it got off promptly. To make assur¬ ance doubly sure thaj the express company’s employees wouldn’t over¬ look the box or otherwise man-han¬ dle it, the lad added to the directions on the box “Dynamite; Handle with Care!” And now the mother is wondering if the express officers are holding up the shipment until Uncle Sam’s “Red” chasers can run down the sender of the Bolshevic-looking package. o SENDING APPARATUS mAY BEACH THE MOON WASHINGTON.—A method of sending apparatus to the hitherto un¬ reached higher layers of the air, to Die regions beyond the earth atmos¬ phere and even as far as the moon itself, is described by Prof. Robert H. Goddard, of Clark College, in a recent publication for the Smithso¬ nian Institution. The new apparatus is a multiple charge high efficiency rocket of an entirely new design. Demonstration of its value and practicability are looked for soon. “ The great scientific value of p ro j. Goddard’s experiment,” says the announcement, “lies in the pos sibility of sending recording appara tus to moderate and extreme altitu des within the earth’s atmosphere. ed Ihe highest , . . level , , that , has ever been reached „„ , , „„ up to , the ,, present , time , with instruments is about! mi , accomplish ed with a free , balloon. ,, „ rru The rocket ■ , apparatus' new , ■ ‘ .fraiirht ""ft ' Ijki makm ? ^ P ° M ‘ b le da ' ly ' ’ observations for use in weather . pre dictions The time of ascent would. be very short, only six and a half minutes being required to carry the apparatus up 230 miles, somewhere near the outer limit of the earth’s at¬ mosphere. “Prof. Goddard is at present un¬ der a grant from the Smithsonian In¬ stitution, perfecting the reloading j mechanism, whereby successive j charges are inserted in the explos¬ ion chamber during it upward flight. -o MR. F. W. W1THOFT AT BOLL WEEVIL SCHOOL. Mr. F. W. Withoft, manager of the Southern Brokerage Company, spent several days of this week at the Boll Weevil School at the State College of Agriculture in Athens, where his company is conducting demonstra cions of apparatus used in spraying different kinds of crops. Mr. J. M. Jones, of this company, also, has been at the school for several weeks, a have also two entomologists of the Niagara Sprayer Co., who have been giving demonstrations in the spray¬ ing of fruit trees, tobacco, cotton and other small crops. The Southern Brokerage Company have one of their Niagara Sprayer Power Pumps and several hand sprayers on exhi bition at the show. - o-- BIG PEACH ORCHARD i SOLD FOR $111,000. j ; E. G. Jacobs and T.'W. Hooks, of i Macon, and Col. R. E. Brown, of Ft. I , Valley, have purchased the Roy Ault-j man peach orchard on the Houston Factory road, fourteen miles from j Macon for $1 11,000. It will be known as the Wigwam Peach Or chard, Mr. Jacobs stated. The orchard now has 30,000 bear¬ ing peach trees and 10,000 more are being planted, Mr. Jacobs said. Roy j Aultnlan> one of the most experienc e(J peach men in the state> wjll man _ age the or , harrt . It jg jdeal!v locatedj bein}? 2 y _ 2 • Ueg from Byron and half I a mile from Echeconnee on the national i highway. I The orchard is one of the mogt ; sirable in that section and is one of the largest in the peach belt around i Macon.—Macon News. \zs~m 4* world. ♦ $2.50 Per Year In Advance HORTICULTURAL BODY 10 MEET THIS WEEK FRUIT GROWERS CONVENE AT ATHENS FRIDAY AND SATUR¬ DAY. MR. A. J. EVANS WILL MAKE ADDRESS. The seventh semi-annual meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society will be held at the State Col¬ lege of Agriculture at Athens Fri¬ day and Saturday, January 30 and 31. The meeting bids fair to be one of unusual interest and profit, following closely, as it does, the meeting of farmers at the boll weevil school, and demonstrations of various in¬ secticides and spraying apparatus. The following program has been announced: Morning Session, Jan. 30, 10:30. Called to Order by President R. C. Berckmans. Invocation by Rev. A. G. Richards, Athens, Ga. Address of Welcome by Chan. D. C. Barrow, University of Ga. Response to the Address of Welcome by Vice-Pres., B. W. Hunt, Eat onton, Ga. Address by Dr. Andrew M. Soule, President Ga. State Col. of Agri. Address by Mr. C. A. Cobb, Ed., Southern Ruralist, Atlanta, Ga. Address by Mr. G. F. Hunnicutt, Ed., Southern Cultivator, Atlanta, Ga. Appointment of Committee. Afternoon Session, Jan. 30. Tractor Experience with the Or chard, Dr. Lyman Veeder, Cornelia, Ga. Problems in Spraying Large Blocks of Trees, Mr. J. H. Foster, The Yonah Fruit Exchange, Cornelia, Ga. Report on the 1919 Peach Crop, Mr. W. B. Hunter, President Ga., Fruit Exchange, Cornelia, Ga. Horticultural Possibilities of North central Georgia, Mr. A. J. Nitzschke, Fannin county Agt., Blue Ridge, Ga. How the Board of Entomology is helping the Fruit Growers in Georgia, Mr. A. C. Lewis, State Entomolo gist, Atlanta, Ga. T lhe k Problems r> hi atld . H H °P es of f the Am . * erican Pomological Society, Mr. E. R. Lake, Secretary A. P. A, Washington, D. C. Building and handling the small sweet potato storage house, Mr. C. M. Snelling, Athens, Ga. Evening Session, Jan. 30, 8:00. Address by Mr. A. J. Evans, of Ft. Valley, Ga. President’s Address, Moving Pictures. Morning Session, J an. 31, 10:30. Some problems on Nut Cultivation by Representative Dept, of Agri., Washington, D. €. Yield of Varieties of Pecan at the Ga. Experiment Station, Mr. H. P. Stuckey, Director. Report on a large Pecan Grove, Mr. Guy W. Firor, Louisville, Ga. Pecan Rosette, J. Wm. Firor, Montezuma, Ga. Problems of the production and hand¬ ling of Watermelons, Mr. It. S. Rodenbury, Moultrie, Georgia. Report of Committees. Selection of Winter Meeting Place. Special Business. THE BAPTIST CHURCH. C. C. Pugh, Pa»tor. Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Preaching, 11a. m. and 7 p. m. B. Y. P. U., Sunday, 6 p. m. Prayer-Meeting, Thursday, 7 p m. Continuing the series of sermons on Some Vital Questions, the Pastor will preach at 11 o’clock on: “What’s the Use of Joining the Church?” At night he will speak on “A Wicked World and a Silent God. This church is not a hospital, though it ministers to the spiritual sick and moral anemics. It exists * 0 h e [p people to LIVE, and hence speaks a clear, straight, vital mes¬ sage. It is a pure democracy, and hence recognizes no Head but Jesus Christ. “It is a church without a bishop in a land without a king,” a church of the people, by the people and for the people. Its doors stand open in genuine friendliness to all who desire to worship God •o The Frederick Withoft Post Amer- 1 ican Legion will meet Monday night, February 2, at 7:00 o’clock, in th* law offices of Col, C. L. Shepard,