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AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
—Published by—
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
Subscription Prices
(Payable in Advance)
1 Year $2.50
6 Momha 1.35
2 Months .70
Published Every Thursday and En¬
tered at the Post-office at Fort
Valley, Ga., as Second Class
Mail Matter.
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OUR CUP RUNNETH OVER.
We have received many compli
ments recently on The Leader-Tri
bune from appreciative readers and
many substantial evidences of appre¬
ciation in the shape of check* for re
newal subscription*.
All of these we appreciate sincere
ly.
When the world praises a man he
is very liable to conclude that he has
reached the pinnacle of achievement.
But pruise from one particular
iiource never has such an effect; it
melts and humble* and spurs to more
consecrated effort. That la praise
from his mother.
The editor of The Leader-Tribune
received that full meed of recom¬
pense for his long duy* of worry and
long nights of toil thi* week whan
his mother wrote him: "The Lead
er-Tribune was a gem lust week, I
enjoyed it so much. 1 know you arc
proud of your paper.
Whatever satisfaction of pride—
there has been none of purse so far
—we may derive from our efforts
to publish a good paper there is
nothing of which we could be more
proud than of praise from the little
mother. It is as soothing to the dis¬
appointed spirit of the man a* her
gentle, sympathetic hand was to th*
hurts and aches of childhood. It
spurs his ambition as no acclaim of
the populace could.
Whatever trials may beset him,
however thwarted his hopes and am¬
bitions, whatever temptation s he
may have to play the despicable role
of a “quitter,” a man just must make
good when his mother believes in
him and praises him
A SERVICE—AN OPPORTUNITY.
The Leader-Tribune, its readers
and advertisers ure greatly indebted
this week to Mr. Poland, head of the
Linotype and Intertype Department
of the Georgia-Alabama Business
Co'lege in Macon, for timely assist¬
ance generously rendered, which
made it possible for us to get the
paper out.
Monday night our linotype machine
•lipped a cog on one of its gears,
getting the mechanism out of time
and locking the machine. After
hours of patient investigation we
finally located the trouble about 11
o'clock Tuesday morning, but de¬
cided it was a little beyond our
knowledge of the complicated mech¬
anism of the machine to undertake
to remedy. So we sent in an S. O.
S. call over the telephone to Mr. P.
T. Anderson, General Manager of
The Macon Telegraph, who has gen
erously helped us out of trouble on
more occasions than one. Mr. An
derson was just as willing as Barkis
was—as willing as the Dickens—but
as The Telegraph was at the time
without a regular linotype machi n
ist, referred us to Mr. Poland, We
got in touch with Mr. Poland about
11:30 and he readily agreed to take
the 12:32 (C. T.) train for Fort
Valley, bringing with him one of his
student linotype-machinist operators,
Mr. Dyer. It didn't take him long
to remedy the trouble and make some
other needed adjustments on the
machine, for all of which he would
accept no compensation beyond the
actual expenses of the trip.
1 his was a most practical and sub¬
stantial demonsration of the fact
that this school for Typesetters at
the Georgia-Alabama Business Col¬
lege, etablished at the instance of
Mr. W. T. Anderson, President and
Editor of The Macon Telegraph and
under the auspices and guarantee of
The Southern Newspapers’ Associa¬
tion, is being operated upon the
broad-guage principle of service to
the newspaper^ of the South as a
whole and that the big dailies are
not exercising any influence over
the school to appropriate its benefits
•xchjsively to themselves.
The school ba« been in operation
THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALL.EY, GA , JANUARY 29,
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about a month and already hns sev¬
eral student operators who are
about ready to go out and take re
numerative positions. The school I
was established by the Southern
Newspapers’ Association to fill a big
deficit in type-setting machine oper
ators, and it gives brilliant promise
of making good its task.
The school offers exceptional op¬
portunities for young men of satis¬
factory educational qualification* to
prepare themselves in a short time
for dignified and creditable employ¬
ment in “the art preservative of ail
arts ’ » the trade that helped develop
Benjamin Franklin into a master¬
mind, 1 ’ ■as the school’s advertise
ment in The Leader-Tribune so aptly
says (which advertisement we carry
without charge as our contribution
to this great need of the press as a
whole). A graduate of this school
can earn $30.00 or more per week at
the start and some operators on the
city dailies are earning $65.00 a
week regularly and occasionally
$75.00 and $80.00.
The Leader-Tribune will be glad to
furnish further information regard
ing the school, the cost of tuition, ex
penses, and the opportunities offer
ed to anyone interested.
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THE COUNTRY PRESS.
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The paper shortage is making mat
ters difficult for the press of the no
Lion. The metropolitan press is pro
tecting itself as best it may by rai>:
ing subscription or advertising rate
and cutting down its space and hulk,
or both, while the country press, i
limited fields and with sources of
money earning not so capable of ex
pansion, is losing many of the weak¬
er sisters, and it is difficult to fore
see just how far the mortality will
go. A Michigan newspaper report
a dozen suspensions of small eounlr;
newpapers in the Grand Traverse re
gion alone. In the Middle West the
country press mortality rate is very
high. In our own state no very great
number of suspensions has been ap
parent, hut the future for the coun
try paper in the thinly-settled dis¬
tricts is not bright.
The old, care-free, independent,
plain-spoken country weekly, record
ing the homely happenings and re
fleeting the life of the rural commu
nities, has been losing its privileges,
one by one, for many years. A quar
ter of a century ago it was quite pos
sible to "run a weekly with no more
cash capital than was required to pay
the ready-print bill. The editor and
his wife often “set” the copy, the
oditor "pulled” the Washington press
and his spouse “fed” in the paper.
Then they got off the mailing list,
and sometimes "swept out” and
cleaned the rollers and worked off a
little job work as a side issue.
And the constituency was mighty
good in those days to the small town
editor. Cordwood, hams,\ fruit,
prize vegetables, fell, like manna,
from Heaven, and the editor had ac
counts with the town merchants that
were settled up only about twice a
year, with tittle cash involved. It
looked like an ideal existence for a
fellow who merely wanted to live
comfortably, without worries. And
(here was a contract for mileage with
the local railroad that gave him a
trip or two to the cities every year.
One by one he has been losing his
privileges. The government cut off
his mileage; print paper has gone up
out of sight and it takes cash, and
plenty of it, to run even a small
country paper, with labor and rent
and the h. c. 1.; the farmers are not
so generous, and everything has come
down to a cash basis. Beide that,
wages have gone up to the extent
that he is losing time and money by
not jumping out and getting a job in
some of the favored trades or indus¬
tries.
Perhaps the equation of the future
will appear more encouraging for the
brethren of the country press, We
hope so; the neighbohood and the na¬
tion as well would sadly miss the act¬
ivities of the country editor.
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TOO BAD.
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The King of Greece has conferred
a medal on Frank II. Simonds,
polemical writer. How
What a pity the Kaiser did not think
to throw a handful into his satchel
in his hasty flight. The post-war
services to the Central Empire s ren
dered by Senator Lodge and the sen
ior senator from Georgia must re
main without fitting recognition.
Savannah Press.
Lodge, Hoke, et al should have
been decorated with the iron cross
when they gave their country the
double cross. But since it is ail
over Hoke is trying to camouflage all
his cussedness with cotton.
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There were no mourner* at the
funeral of a stingy- fellow who was
killed by lightning while on the way
to a fellow neighbor’s home to bor
row a copy of the county paper—
Covington News.—Did you attend
Jack?—Taibotton New Era.
PETITION FOR CHARTER
Georgia, Houston County,
To the Superior Court
of said County.
The petition of E. L. Dqke, .1. D.
Duke, C. B. Almon and C. C. Robi
nett shows to the Court that they
desire, for themselves, their asso¬
ciates and successors, to be incorpo¬
rated and made a body politic under
the name and style of the Southern
Orchard Supply Company for the
.period of twenty years, with the
privilege of renewal at the expira¬
tion of that time as provided by the
laws of the State of Georgia.
The principal office of said com¬
pany shall be in the city of Fort Val¬
ley, Houston County, Georgia; hut
petitioners desire the right to estab¬
lish branch offices within and out
of the State of Georgia, whenever
the majority of the stockholders shall
so determine.
The object of said incorporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and it
shareholders.
The business to be carried on by
said corporation is that of a general
orchard and farm supply businefi
and to that end they desird the righ
to buy, manufacture, and otherwise
acquire, and sell all kinds of horti¬
cultural and agricultural implements
and machinery, together with all
parts and accessories per ainiri
thereto; to buy, grow <uid sell al.
farm and orchard products and sui
plies and to deal generally in th
same; to farm lands and grow there
on all kinds of agricultural and hoi
ticultural products as may be found
to be desirable in the conduct o
said business, and to that end to ac
quire and hold lands, either by pur
chase, rent or lease as may be foun
necessary for that pudpose.
The capital stock to be employed
in said corporation shall be fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000.00); hu
petitioners desire the right to in
crease the same to one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars oy n majorit;
vote of the stockholders, said stool
to be divided into shares of Ont
hundred Dollars ($100.00) each
More than ten per cent of said cap
ital stock that is to be employed b;
them has been actually paid int ■
said Cemuany.
Petitionear desire the right ti
have the subscriptions to said cap
tal stock paid in money or proper.,
to be taken at a fair valuation.
Petitionesr desire the right to sui
and lie sued, plead and be impleaded
to have and use a common seal, (<
make all necessary by-laws and reg¬
ulations and to do all other thing
that may he found necessary for the
successful carrying on of said bus
iness, including the right to acquire
hold and sell real estate and person
al property suitable to the uses ot
said corporation, and execute note:
and bonds of i.-.dcolcdness as evi¬
dence of indebtedness incurred i;
-he conduct o; th*’ affairs of th.
corporation rad to secure the saint
by mortgages; deeds to secure debts
or other forms of lien under the then
existing laws.
They desire the right, power and
authority to apply f >r and accep
amendments to its charter of eit hot
form or substance by a majority
vote of its stock outstanding at the
time, also the right to wind up it.
affairs, liquidate and discontimn
business at any time it may deter
mine so to do by a vote of two-third
of the capital stock outstanding at
the time.
Petitioners desire that they havi
all of the rights, powers and privi
leges and immunities as are into
dent to like corporations or permis
sable under the laws of the State
of Georgia.
Wherefore petitioners pray tha
they be incorporated under the nanv
and style aforesaid, with the powers
privileges and immunities herein set
forth and as may now or may here¬
after be allowed corporations of a
similar nature under the laws of the
State of Georgia.
A. C. RILEY,
Attorney for Petitioners.
Filed in office this 14th day of
January, 1920.
C. K. Hardison, Clerk.
Georgia, Houston County,
L C. H. Hardison, Clerk of the
Superior Court of Houston County,
Georgia, do certify that the forego
;n K * s a true a “d correct copy of the
r.onlicntion of the Southern Orcahrd
Supply Company as the same appears
of file in this office.
Witness my official signature and
the seal of said court, this 14th day
of January, 1920.
C. H. Hardison,
Clerk of the Superior Court
of Houston County, Ga.
(Seal)
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You can just bet that Quitman
will get more free advertising now
than most any little old Georgia city,
The editors having just met there
ar >d all of them are bound to tell of
the progressive ways of this little
city.
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Hot air wiii carry a baiioon up but
it will not keep it up.
Doesn , t seem —*~TT as it Georgia will „ v be
dry
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It often happens when a man
wants to make a fool of himself he
..elects a woman to help him.
When a Clay Center girl got mar¬
ried she disappointed a dozen men.
One of them was her husband.
The reason a luxury tax brings in
SO much money is because so many
people think luxuries are necessities.
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Biff Murphy says that his musical
education has been o badly neglected
hat he can’t even read bank notes.
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After sampling the newest brands
of “near-beer” most of us are apt to
admit that we have no "kick ■ * com
ing.
Politics is warming up in this sec¬
tion, men are selecting the man that
they will back as the one to serve the
“dear people. ’ >
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Some people who are always fuss¬
ing about wanting to start omething
and don’t know what to do might try
cranking up a Ford.
No trouble yet reported in getting
people to serve on juries which have
to investigate personally whether
jeer is intoxicating.
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Great encouragement is felt, that
as a result of the Clean Teeth Cani
jaign, many homes have been in¬
duced to intsall a family toothbrush.
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The Bolsheviks who advocate a
evolution by force, are terribly in
tignant if they are assisted to take
free ride down to the police sta
ion.
The courts had better look out, or
hey are likely to be summoned be
ore the labor unions and the capital
its to answer to the charge of eon
empt.
Chicago is to have a new daily pa
er which, as announced, will pub¬
lish no crime or scandal news. In
/titer words, it will not be a local
paper.
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Those base ball moguls shi Id
::ive pulled off that row when there
•vere not so many counter-attract
ons if they expected to get much at¬
tention.
So far no smypathy is express^
or the people whose property depr
•iates because they and a lot of oth.
.'oiks have sent so much money out of
own to mail order trade.
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The profiteers are not afraid of
‘hose threats of tar and feathers,
t’hey will just raise the price of tar
ind feathers to prohibitive levels and
ive the folks the hoarse toot.
A town with well painted buildings
looks three times as well and pro¬
gressive as one of the ame size with
habby paint. Begin saving money
now for that painting next Spring.
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Someone asks what has become of
he farmer who used to get so sleepy
n the evening that he went to bed
it eight o’clock? Well, last heard
rorn his wife telephoned down to the
timers’ Club at midnight to know
f he wasn’t ever coming home.
Some one wants to know what
hall be done with the people who
tear up waste paper into about 1000
pieces and scatter the pieces on the
sidewalks? Oh, well, make 'em pick
ap the 1000 pieces and account for
every one of 'em.
Some one complaining about the
way the lights are not turned on on
i,he streets until sometime after it is
dark and they wanted us to flash
something about it in this column.
Well, all that we have got to say is:
that it is a very dark subject.
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HOW THE COOK DID.
A very prominent Atlanta woman
living on Peachtree street in a fine
brick mansion decided to turn over
to her cook the buying of the groc
eries. with certain limits as to what
she should expend. The other day
the lady was in her room in the
house when the cook did not know
she was there and overheard the fol
lowing conversation when the cook
called up the grocery store:
<< Hello, is dat Blimper’s? Well, dis
is Mrs. So-and-So .giving the name of
the lady), at so-and-so Peachtree
street, I wants to give you my order,
please. Now let’s see, I wants a hot
tie of pamilla extract, a package of
magetti, a bottle rooster sauce. And
let’s see, what else? Oh, yes, how
much is dat Maccaboy’s railroad
snuff? Is it? Well, send along a
box, but dat’s a mighty high price.”
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THE UNIVERSAL CAH
One Hundred Per Cent “Pep i)
Wlicn your Ford car m Kurd truck dosen’t display
its usual qn ;ntit> r quality of “pep and dash, it’s
time to have a repai’man who understands the Find
mechanism give it the “once nv r tin n m i j e the
necesi IV adjustments or repairs. And return it to you
full < i iis old mwer. l ! pop. ? ) energy, pull, and service.
Y< u 11 n i 1 ' the j tiffin e nee.
We employ i nly skilled Font mechanics',--men who
KNOW
t; made, and how they should he kept,
i how Ford i rs are
in order to ■ live the most efficent and economical ser¬
vice. And ■ ur sto p equipment boasts a great many
specially designed Ford tools, and time-saving devices
and machinery. In our s'.rckr, om is a complete a«-ort
vnunt ot repair part— genuine Ford at's— that are ’X
ac: Iv tin same as their tough, sinewy originals in the
Ford car.
For prompt pair work or adjustments, phone or
drive to < ;u garage. l.)on t risk chances, play fair w i: b
your Kurd ear. Keep it in the hands of its friends, the
authorized Ford dealers.
G. L. STRIPLING 8c CO.
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The Market Is High. We Will Pay The Following
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Green (Hides .21 e
Dry Flint . Ale
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