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V lume XXXII, Number 11 .
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NON-DELIVERY CASH PLAN
DOPTED BY LEADING FT.
LEY GROCERS MEETING
COURAGING RECEPTION.
Another prominent Ft. Valley
eery concern has put into effect
“serve yourself and save system.’
This and the “cash and carry"
hav i been adopted very generally
1. Valley ‘grocers since the first
the year and there are now but
or tour grocery stores and
tha- make a practice of charging
delivering.
On the last page of this issue
carr\ the announcement of the
“Wilson Grocerteria, as J. C.
son & Sons style their remodeled
tail grocery store and meat
The store has been very
remodeled and conveniently
ed in accordance with the
vice system, which system they
augurated this week. In the rear
the retail store they are
a wholesale department from
one delivery a day is being made.
As previously announced in
paper, Abe Glass & Sons
ed the “sell-serve” system the first
of me year. The system proved
quite popular and Mr. J. J. Glass,
the proprietor, expresses himself
much pleased with the change and
with the reception ox the system by
his old customers and the people of
Ft. Valley generally.
Last week Mrs. J. C. Newberry
announced in ' The Leader-Tribune
the "Thrift Grocery Store, »» with
“Buy Where Your Cash Counts” as
her trade slogan, and the week before
Mr. T. S. Graham, a newcomer “in
our midst” and the new proprietor of
wnat was formerly known as the
Hiley Hotel on East Main Street,
now the Graham Hotel, announced
the opening of his “Empire Grocer.v
Store,” operated on the “cash and
carry" plan and located in the Har¬
ris store on Main Street formerly
occupied by the Ft. Valley Brokerage
Company and- more recently by The
Camp Salvage Company.
MeElmurray <x Sanders, the new
grocery firm in the old Arrowsmith
location at the corner of Church St.,
and Anderson Ave., The Ft. Valley
Cash Market on Macon Street, which
is doing a splendid businesss unde:
the popular and capable mar age-me.,
of Mr. E. L. Lisenby; and Mr. T. J.
Hallman on Railroad Street, are still
doing a telephone, charge & delivery
business.
Mr. L. M. Nesmith is a new gro¬
cery-man here, occupying the store
on Main Street formerly occupied b,»
Mr. A. P. Sanders, the opening
which was recently advertised in the
paper. As this article was written
about 10 o’clock Wednesday nigh f
we were unable to get in touch with
Mr. Nesmith and with other grocer
of the city to get an authorized state¬
ment from them as to their present
method of operation, and it woul- :
manifestly be inadvisab r. to speak
for them without .such aachorzatior.
The trend of the family rnaikot
ing situation in Ft. Valley is certain!;
in the direction of thrift and tne ad
option of the net bag ami
basket of the northern hoasc-wifo¬
wl th hubby gallantly toting bis end
enroute home of evening?.
MR. P. H. SKELLIE NOT TO
RUN FOR TAX RECEIVER
Mr. P. Holt Skellie, who has been
tax receiver of Houston County
a long term of years, let it be
to friends in Ft. Valley this
that he would not offer for
tion this year.
We understand that there will
a number of candidates for the
fice widely scattered over the
but as yet none of these has
formal announcement.
The office carries a salary of
100.00 per year.
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RAILROAD STREET, EAST,
NOW A THOROUGHFARE
Nave you traveled Railroad
eat- of the railroad recently?
you wouldn’t know it. There’s
coal pile to dodge, no mud holes
bump into at least there wasn t
fore the rains this week—the
ha:- been filled in and opened
Thanks to the I't. Valley
Cu.npanv, Mr. W. H. Harris and
mtr officials. „ , Another . ,, evidence
the spirit of ec-operation and pro
gress that is going to make Ft.
1 ley a y of beauty as well as of
dustry in a few mere years.
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 5, 1920. TEN PAGES.
U. D. C. PROGRAM TO BE "THE
SOUTH IN SONG AND STORY."
The February meeting of the U
D. C. will be held Thursday the 5th.
at the home of Mrs. W. A. Woodall.
The subject for the afternoon will be
"The South in Song and Story.”
Mrs. M. S. Brown will he chairman
j for the day and will present the pro
j gram as follows:
"The Red old Hills of Ga.”—Mrs.
j A. C. Riley; Music—"Southern Med
1 j leys”—Mrs. Tom Murphey; A Trib¬
' Montgomery Folsom—Miss
ute to
Claudia Culpepper; Selections from
D. G. Bickers—-Miss Gladys Slappcv
Rev. Jim Skinner, one of our val¬
ued colored subscribers, breezed
cheerfully into The Leader-Tribune
office Saturday afternoon and renew¬
ed his subscription a year, in advance
ot expiration and without awaiting
notice thereof.
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GROUND 000 THEORY WOULD
According' to the annually exploited
ground-hog theory the backbone o;
winter is broken and we shall have
an early spring. • If any such animal
exists in this locality it is not at a!
certain that on emerging from his
snug winter quarters he elected to
stay out all day, as the humidity of
the atmosphere was anything but in¬
viting to one long accustomed to a
warm and dry condition of innocuou?
desuetude; but it is equally certain
that if Mr. Ground Hog found hit
winter habitation more inviting and
decided to return thereto, it was no!
because he was afraid of his shadow:
and if he runs true to form and folk¬
lore he will he out again soon to en¬
joy the early, balmy spring weather
Monday was Ground Hog I)a.v, and
ip to day-break Thursday morning—
which is as far in the future as can
>e prognosticated with certainty “at
his writing”—the shy critter didn't
nave a ghost of a chance of seeing
his shadow, and for all we know may
be mired in the mud of one of our
main thoroughfares beyond any kind
of bog’s vaunted ability to extricatv
himself from such a predicament.
And talkir about muddy streets
—it’s a ground-hog case in fact.
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YMERICAN LEGION TO
ELECT OFFICER!:.
At a regular meeting of the Fretl
■rick Wiliioft Post of the American
region on last Monday night Febru
.ry 2nd, it was decided to call a spee
al meeting for Monday February
-th, at 7 p. m., for the purpose of
-lecting permanent officers and per
ecting organization. The members
■f this post are very anxious to have
-very ex-service man in and around
ft. Valley attend this meeting.
For the benefit of those in doubt,
he American Legion is strictly a civ
iian organization-—no public official
oeing allowed to hold office in the
.egion. All ex-service men wh
■rved between April 6th, 1917 and
November 11th, 1918 are eligible, ex
epting those who were dishonorably
iischarged. Rank does not exist in
.he Legion and it is strictly against
he constitution to address a mem
>ar by a military or naval rank. A
eneral and a “buck private” are on
tqual footing.
YVhether the Local Post is a suc¬
cess or not depends entirely on the
:x-service men of the community.
Surely we do not want to see Ft. Val
ley fail short when other towns are
trganizing strong posts. We STOOD
TOGETHER—LET’S STICK TO-
1ETHER.
REMEMBER THE DATE, TIME
\XD PLACE, MONDAY FEB. 9TH,
7:00 P. M„ SECOND FLOOR EV¬
ANS BUILDING.
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PROHIBITION SERVICE.
The service in celebration of the
enactment of the eighteenth amend¬
ment held at the Methodist Church
last Sunday evening was full of inter¬
est. Addresses were made by Mr.
S. B, Brown, on “Law Enforcement”
and by Col. C. L. Shepard on "World¬
wide Prohibition.’ The meeting
took an unexpected turn and several
impromptu talks were made. Among
j j those Rji speaking briefly were A. C.
ey> g r#t q \r. Houser, R. E.
j Brown and W. C. Wright. The good
people are tremendously interested
,hn - this "reat and the , hand
cause
s writing
j !., on the wall; “America shall
be froed ?ro ? n £hs curse of illicit liq
uor £ nd breed if am, crime, pov
•rty and anarchy.
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ML THU 10
HUH MHOFI
HISTORY CLUB TO SPONSOR
PLANTING. EXERCISES NEXT
THURSDAY WiLL HONOR ALR
FT. VALLEY SOLDIERS.
-The Ft. Valley History Club will
sponsor (ne planting of a tree to hon
or the memory of Frederick
who gave his life in the recent world
war. The tree, a live oak, will
planted on the schooi grounds,
Thursday afternoon, February 12,
3 o’clock, and will be the occasion
for appropriate services honoring ttU
<» f Ft. Valley’s soldier buys as well as
a tribute to the one who made the
supreme sacrifice. The Frederick
Withoft Post of the American Legion
will attend in a body and wjil have
a definite part in the program. The
Civic League of the cluf), with Mrs.
Clifford Prater as acting chairman,
has arranged suitable exercises for
this occasion, to which the public is
most cordially invited.
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LOCAL COLORED BAPTISTS
DEDICATE NEW CHURCH.
The congregation of the Shiloh
Baptist Church observed opening ex
creises in their new church building
on East Church Street Sunday
noon, Feb. 1, at one o’clock.
The Editor of The
acknowledges a cordial invitation to
be present and make a shorL talk on
that occasion, encouraging the pastor
and members in their great
ing, and regrets very much his
ability to be present.
The pastor of the church is Rev.
L. Burney; Clerk, Hattie L. Reed;
Treasurer, A. M. Mitchell.
The.se people deserye the eneour
agement and co-operation they seek
in their undertaking. The church
going colored people of Ft. Valley
are progressive and have a laudable
ambition to provide adequate houses
in which to worship our common
God. The religion of Chrsit ogers
the best solution of many of the per¬
plexing problems that always exist
where two digerent races occupy com¬
mon soil. Christ taught on earth the
observance of law, respect for estab¬
lished social customs, tolerance and
mutual service. In His law all races
may meet on a common ground of
mutual sympathy and helpfulness
without the sacrifice of racial ideals
and established inter-racial customs.
Our colored brethren should
encouraged and aided practically in
building, worshipping and living
the spirit of Christ.
The Leader-Tribune has on
subscription list a number of
colored subscribers who have
let the sun go down with their
scription in arrears.
CIT! ILtCIRIC PHOT
10 81 IMPROVED SODH
WATER AND LIGHT COMMITTEE
HAS EXPERT PREPARING REC¬
OMMENDATIONS. READY BY
PEACH SEASON.
Plans are definitely under way
looking to the adequate improvement
of Ft. Valley’s electric light and
ower service,
At a mee ting of the water and light
board last Thursday night a commit
tee was appointed consisting of Dr.
H M Copeland, Mr. J. M. Green and
j Mayor H. C. Neil, and empowered ’■ 0
j have an expert investigation made as
1 t(J the , leu j s 0 f the plant and to pro
J j ceet } with such improvements as a
(iua ijfied electrical and mechanical
| en gj neer might make as id as in the
| j u( jg me nt ot the committee would
be advisable.
■n accordance with this action a
telegram was sent Friday morning
to Prof. A. St. C. Dunston, professor
of electrical engineering in the Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute, at Au- j i
burn, Ala. In response to this tci
egram Prof. Dunston spent Monday
and Tuesday in Ft. Valley looking
over the plant and overhead distr,
bution system, and is to prepare at
once written reconfmendations and
?r , ecifi( . ations based upon three dis
tinct plans for improving the plant
one involving new equipmen
I throughout, one involving addition
0 the present equipment, and one in
,
volying temporary improvements,
I it is understood there are suffi
jcient funds now in the city treasury
to get under good headway with
improvements, and the comm:
1 tee anticipates no difficulties in rais
ing the further money that may be
needed. A ready market at good
1 prices can be found for old equip
j ment discarded in the course of im
provements which may be made. The
light and water committee has a.
ready received a very substantial bid
on some of the old apparatus. lt I
the intention of the committee, to
push this work as speedily as poz
sible in order that the plant may b«
gotten in good shape to meet the in¬
creased demands of peach season, a‘
well as the constantly growing nor¬
mal demands of the city and envi
rons.
YOUNG-GAMBRELL.
Friends here of Miss Lucy Young
are cordially interested in the an¬
nouncement of her marriage in Ma
con on Saturday, Jan. 31, to Mr. J.
C. Gambrell, of New Orleans. After
an extended wedding trip, Mr. and
Mrs. Gambrell will make their home
in New Orleans where Mr. Gambrell
is general superintendent of the Mc
Ginnis Cotton Mills, Mrs. Gambrell
was formerly one of Ft. Valley's most
charming young women,
PHILATHEA CLASS ENJOYS
SOCIAL, ELECTS OFFICERS.
At a business meeting of the
athae Class Thursday afternoon
the Baptist Church the
officers were elected:
President, Mrs. W. H. Hafer; Vice
President, Mrs. A. ,J. Evans; 2 nd
Vice President, Mrs. Clarence Col¬
lier; 3rd Vice President, Miss Owens;
Secretary, Mrs. W. B. Austin; Ass’t.
Secretary, Miss Pauline
Treaurer, Mrs. Tom Murphey; Teach¬
ers, Mrs. L. L. Brown, Mrs. J. J. Cul¬
ver, and Mrs. W. J. Braswell.
The business meeting was followed
by a social, during which tea and
sandwiches were erved. During the
ocial hour a ‘‘flower planting” con¬
test was enjoyed. Other features
were music by Mrs. Tom Murphey,
a song by little Miss Nan Riley and
a reading entitled "Faith, Hope and
Charity" by Miss Charlie Matthews.
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TO FOOT
VALLEYANS FROM MEXICO
W T e are in receipt of a post card
from our globe-trotting fellow-cfit
izen, Mr. H. C. Lassen, mailed at
Tijuana,, Mexico, in which he sends
“greetings to all.
It was a picture post-card showing
the finish of a bull fight with the
bleachers full of natives looking on.
We failed to find Mr. Lassen’s gen¬
ial phys. among the on-lookers, but
it is even pleasenter to imagine him
witnessing the brutal Mexican nation¬
al sport than to picture him in our
minds as dodging the wicked-singing
Greaser bullets, which we are led to
believe are as common there as the
rain-drops in our own fair(“l) land.
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BREAD NOW FIFTEEN CENTS
A LOAF IN FT. VALLEY.
Wednesday at least one Ft. Valley
grocer received notice from his Ma¬
con bakery that beginning Thursday
bread would cost him 12 cents a loaf
and is to be retailed at 15 cents.
This information was received by
,ls Wednesday night, too late for mak¬
ing inquiry of other grocers and the
local bakery as to prices they would
chare.
FT. VALLEYAN WRITES OF
CALIFORNIA’S GOOD ROADS.
The Editor of The Leader-Tribune
had the pleasure of receiving this
week a post card from Col. Louis L.
Brown, post-marked Mount Lowe,
Calif., in which Col. Brown gives
some interesting information abtut
California's wonderful public high
ways.
He writes that there are 1,*172
miles of paved roads around Los An¬
geles alone, and continues: “I wish
something could be done to let our
people learn the great value of good
roads. The roads in this country
are a wonder.”
Col. Brown’s card was written on
January 28 and he said he was to
leave on the following day for home
via Salt Lake and Denver.
Wonder if those good roads in
California haven’t got something to
do with that great commonwealth’s
eading our own in peach growing
ind if good roads wouldn’t have
something to do with quicker hand
iing with less loss, better shipping
qualities and consequent better
prices, which would go a long way
oward paying for better roads in
this section?
We hope Col. Brown will tell us
more about this when he gets back.
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
Wm. F. Quillian, Pastor.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Judge H. A. Matthews, Super¬
intendent.
Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m.
“The Cornerstone erf our Civil¬
ization.” /
Praise Service, 2:30 p. m.
Junior Church, 3:00 p. m.
Epworth League, 6 :00 p. m.
Evening Worship, 7:00 p. m.
According to the general revival
plans of the Methodist Church spec¬
ial committees are being appointed
and at an early date facts will be
gathered for the campaign,
important than organization is
earnest prayer. The League
was well-tilled last Sunday
There is yet room for all who
come. The Pastor is speaking
Tuesday night on . ( Getting
from God. f I You will find at all
vices a most cordial welcome.
$2.50 Per Year In Advance
! CENSUS BUREAU ISSUES FIG¬
URES ON COTTON AND SEED
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBU
TION FOR SEASON 1918-19.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Director
Sam L. Rogei's has issued the annual
report on Cotton Production and Dis¬
tribution for the season of 1918—
1919, (Census bulletin No. 140). The
bulletin contains data concerning the
acreage in and production of cotton
in the United States; the quantities
ginned to specified dates; its import,
export, and consumption; the stocks
held in mills, at compresses, and in
public storage; the imports and ex¬
ports of cotton goods; the world’s
prduction and consumption f cotton;
the production crush and stocks of
cottonseed; and the production ship¬
ment, export, and stocks of cotton¬
seed products.
The unusual conditions of the time
are reflected rather pointedly by the
statistics shown in the report. The
crop of 1918 was the fourth succes¬
sive “small” crop produced both in
this country and throughout the
world. The world’s total for these
four crops, not including linters in
the United States, was 70,883,000
equivalent 500-pound net weight
bales, which compares with 87, 355,
000 bales for the preceeding years.
Notwithstanding this reduced pro¬
duction the “carry-over” at the end
of the season in thos country was the
largest ever recorded. Two factors
were mainl yresponsible for this con¬
dition,— ( 1 ) the actual quantity con¬
sumed in Europe was very much be¬
low normal, although there had nev¬
er been such a scarcity of cotton
goods since the period immediately
following the Civil War, and—(2)
the transportation facilities for ex¬
porting cotton had not yet become
normal, Anohtre factor entering in¬
to the situtation was the inability on
the part of Europe to purchase cot
tn freely because of unstable condi¬
tions in some of teh countries and be¬
cause of the extraordinarily high
ratfej; of exchange.
During the twelve-month period
ending July, 1919, 5,765,936 bales of
cotton and 457,901 bales of linters,
a total of 6,223,837 bales, were con¬
sumed. This was the smallest a
mount reported for any year since
1915, and compared with the total of
7,685,329 bales in 1918, a reduction
of nearly a millon and a half bales,
about 700,000 of which are account¬
ed for by the reduced consumption of
linters, due to the cessation of hos¬
tilities in Europe. Of the cotton con¬
sumed during the year, 51,183 bales
were Sea-Island, 126,087 Egyptian,
33,803 Chinese, 9,128 Peruvian, and
7,098 other foreign.
In the quantity of coton consumed,
Massachusetts led all other states
with 1,324,815 bales, North Carolina
with 1,035,717 bales being second,
South Carolina with 764,794 bales,
third, and Georgia with 702,676 bales
fourth. Massachusetts with 1 1,630,-
397 was first in the number of cot¬
ton pindles, being followed by South
Carolina with 4,955,765, North Car¬
olina with 4,789,322, Rhode Island
with 2,678,180, and Georgia with
2,518,059. The installation of new
spindles in the cotton-growing states
continues to show inedeae, the total
pindles in this section in 1919 being
14,986,311 compared with 13,000 for
The estimated production of cot¬
ton seed from the crop of 1918 was
5.360.000 tons/ Qf this quantity, 4,-
478,508 tons were used i rithe manu¬
facture of cottonseed products. The
production of crude products during
the seasn was as follows; Oil, 176,-
71 1,000 gallons, valued at $227,-
316,000; cake and meal, 2,170,000
tons, valued at $116,119,000; hulls,
1.137.000 tons, valued at $17,917,
000 ; and linters valued at $22,228,
000;—a total value of $383,580,000.
This is a remarkable illustration of
the utilization of what was formerly
considered a waste and in many in¬
stances a nuisance. During the
twelve-month period there were 23,-
827,978 gallons of cottonseed oil and
155,813 tons of cake and meal ex
with exports of 42,448,870 gallons of
oil and 739,538 tons of cake and meal
for the season of 1914-15.
The History Club will meet on Feb.
10th with Mrs. J. A. Houser. “French
Art” will be the study for this meet
ing. Mre. G. M. Johnson will have
| charge of the program and those who
I will take part will be Mrs. John
| Vance, Mrs. J. H. Webster, Mrs.
Sydney McMillan and Miss Wilma
Orr, T '■