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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. V m/ 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, r ■ i ■*—— ^" 4— 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. 4 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. -* TOO BAD. - 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. [ j -4 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) 4 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. __ + _ g ome raill theje days . *★*★***★★★*★★★ ★ * * FLASHES FROM FLOYD * if Of the Leader-Tribune Force if ★ ★ ★ ★ 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 -... y__-- 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. 4 Biff Murphy says that his musical education has been o badly neglected hat he can’t even read bank notes. - if - 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. ’ > -— v. — 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. * 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. ★ 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. -4 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. - if - 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. 4 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. ★ 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.” u S)0©(a)<3 # © Having assumed the management of © © of the Kinney @ the Insurance Department (g) Loan Si Investment Company, I will ap- ® /£?\ v ® predate portion of the business of r my g (§) ” a VI/ (Q) friends and ail who desire protection f ,, * © ' (g) from loSS by lllC OF tOmUQOi i © © Can Give Y The Best ou m m I Protection For Your Auto, f © © © HOUSER ©3 © WESLEY © Kin ney Loan Sc Investment Company © © Bldg. © I First Nat ! Bank © 107 m Fort Valley, Ga. Phone © © H c 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. 1 | 1 SHIP Us Your Hides and Pur. The Market Is High. We Will Pay The Following ■ Prices Greet. S Kud Cured Hides .30c Green (Hides .21 e Dry Flint . Ale Dry Salt .She I Number 1 Cake Tallow ,l2e BLOCH HIDF! COMPANY Macoa, G*. ffSBSOSE IW' 5 e Buy % m Ear and Shelled Corn. © © n © Co. © 1 it © f?: © 1)©®®©©©®(®)© m + ** + + + * * * + * *❖*❖**+ + + ♦ + *^****f + ♦ 4 4 * * Bring Us Your Troubles - - 4 4 4 * IN THE AUTO LINE 4 + 4 * Wtty let unskilled mechanic * some amateur or tinker with Vour ear when you can secure the ser- * * line 4 vices oi an expert mechanic in the auto at our 4 4 * garage. 4 We also line of Oils and Greases in stock. 4 ^ carry a 4 + •4 Fort V alley Garage, 4 4 * HARDISON & 3ARTLETT, Proprietors. 4 * 4 v * 4 Phone 279 Cor. Church & Macon St8 4 * 4 ********* * * **************** * * ****♦♦♦