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* *2* 4 * . die urn and sje The Georgia of *J« advertising **, the leading * * great Peach ❖ * medi* newt Mid> * and * •{. *t* * 4* 4* The Leader-Tribune + + + published growing of The the only largest section in newspaper the Peach- of heart the * ♦ + ♦ * Melon Belt. . ♦ world. * 4* + 4» *> 4* 4 * 4 * *<s 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 ❖ . AND PKVCHLAND JOURNAL V lume XXXII, Number 11 . ‘ SERVE YOURSELF AND 1 A If | M pUATTftfl 0 L 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. ---_o 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. o 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. 0 - 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. ■o 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. GIVE THE AMERICAN BLUEGRASS A SHOW fTTG ' O 1 -M N ) n “ T ■ V £—iw' N Kit rfi Jtyi -Qi v %c. « KD •»u r tm •U| » -.%»* I\ r (I//!>••' '-V. ’Tif.'Tk mm xSK'lll'i \ 4y-- x ' m l\K' Eg’-' ft.. sa r» t ft u m % ,o« im Mi % I ms tf im j % ^ !! 1 W-- \H I m gig Kidd HSfP m i j [\V Kfll p # Hi iSS ■Vf- Wi I AI 0 \‘A .Km f a % y\ m >1 sm tWi A y rw! Mr 1 7 sk A\ rf/3 .-z" V m v* 'Wy IV ur- , ^ . V Si / /, 1 Reproduced by permission New York Tribune, Copyright, 1919. 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. -0 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. ~0— 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. -o 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. —o— 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 '■