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Volume XXXII, Number 19.
ELECTION
NO rnuDrT.T.AM 0 cnJ IT OFrVERS PR TS A
FOR
NOMINATED FOR NEXT
NESDAY’S “ Ar * ELECTION tLt -VlION
The municipal democratic
election for mayor, three
two school commissioners, two
;.nd light commissioners and
members of the municipal
ic executive committee will be
Friday of this week, April 2, at
city hall, or council chamber,
tween the hours of 9:0** i. m.
4 :00 p. m. There is no contest in
primary for these offices, so the
tion will be a pure formality.
ever, every good ctizen should
out and vote. Some of the
have already served the city
acceptably and are offering for
election. A large vote in the
would be a graceful compliment
these efficient public servants
would show' them and the entire
munity that the ovt;-whelming
timent of the community
their past official record and is
ing them for the future
The candidates are as follows;
For Mayor, H. C Neil; for
men, J. D. Duke, John A
W- M. Wright; for School
sioners, A. J. Evans, A. C. Riley;,
Water and Light Commissioners,
M. Seifert, C. L. Shepard; for
bers Municipal Democratic
Committee, C. B. Anderson, A.
Greene, Emmett Houser
There are 336 names on the
tration list posted in the
and only those <vh->«B names
on this list can vote in the primary.
The regular election for tnese
fices will be held next
April 7, at the same place and
as announced for the primary.
The city is to be congratulated
the list of candidates who have
fered and qualified for the
Every one Is a man of splendid
ity and character and will assure
administration making for the
interests of the municipaltiy
any point of view they arc
ered.
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METHOD1ST REVIVAL
PLANS
On last Sunday morning the
tor of the Methodist Church
nounced that a revival meeting
be held at the church beginning
day, April 18th. Rev. Arthur
will be the preacher, Mr. O. W.
pleton will lead the singing and
Jas. V. Reid will play the
There is no stronger
team in the country and it is
ed that people from the entire
ty and adjoining counties will
these services.
WOMAN’S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY M. E.
(By Publicity Superintendent)
The Woman’s Missionary'
of the Methodist Church will
Monday afternoon, April 5th, at
o’clock in the church parlors.
Some Thing* Mission* Have
They have made the name of
us the best-known name in
world.
They are preaching the
statedly in over ten thousand
ferent places.
The' - have created a areat
of Christian schools and colleges
have stimulated the government
the leading nations of the world
establish educational systems of
own.
They have introduced modern med
icine, surgery, and sanitation into thi
darkest quarters of the globe.
They have lifted women from
condition of unspeakable
tion and trained a new generation
Christian mothers, wives, and
ters, w'ho are making homes and
trodu g new ideals of social life.
They have held the home
true to the essential purpose of
gospel, have broadened their
deepened their devotion, and
s’rated the universal and
quering character of
Selected.
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Mr. J. R. Underwood,
er for the Gallaher-Hale Grocery Co. :
has been ill for several weeks
malarial fever at his home in
zuma. Friends are glad to know
he is now convalescing and will
be able to return to his work here.
The Leader- I ribune
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
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MRS. ALLEN’S LUNCHEON
FOR POPULAR
A charming; courtesy
Miss Maurice Fagan was the
i luncheon on last Friday, at which
Mrs. John Allen was hostess at her
g8m0S 8 ° Ve three-course lun
cheon was served ' A color scheme of
pink and white was attractively car¬
ried out. The table had for its cen
j ter decoration a silver basket filled
with peach blossoms. The place cards
were hand-painted wedding slippers.
The ices were frozen in the shape of
slippers and wedding bells. At the
brides table which had for it’s cen¬
tral decoration a mirror on which
stood a miniature bride-groom and
preacher were seated Miss Maurice
Fagan, Miss Helen Marshall, Mrs.
Ben Roe Marshall. Miss Bertha
Bassett and Mrs. W. G. Brisendine.
The guest present included other in¬
timate friends of the honoree.
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Mr. Horace L. Moody, formerly
book-keeper for J. D. Wilson and
Sons, has accepted a position as ship
ping clerk and assistant book-keeper
with the Gallaher-Hole Grocery Co.
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WHY M’CORMICK
ENDORSES PALMER
Gives to All Forward LookinQ
Democrat* a Stimulating
Agency for Promoting
Their Cause.
Harrisburg, P«.— Hob. Vane# C. M<*
Coriulclt, formerly chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, who
conducted the campaign of 1916,
which resulted In the re-election of
President Wilson, has formally en¬
dorsed the cHiididacy of A. Mitchell
Palmer, Attorney General of the Unit¬
ed States, for the Democratic nomina¬
tion at the San Franctaee convention.
President Wilson recognized Mr.
McCormick * political sagacity when he
selected him as his campaign manager,
and the result fully vindicated his judg
ment. Mr. McCormick, who knows At
torney General Palmer perhaps better
than any one else, Is enthusiastic over
the announcement of Mr. Palmer's cau
didacy.
In a statement issued following the
filing of the Attorney General’s name
In lhe Georgia primaries Mr. McOar
mick says;
‘A I torney General Palmer’s formal
consent io the filing of tits candidacy
for President in the primaries of Geor¬
gia Is the welcome sign progressive
Democrats in Pennsylvania and else¬
where have been awaiting with lively
anticipation, Mr. Palmer’s action dl
rectly preaent* to the people of tho
country hi* claim* for consideration
and jp vest to all forward looking Dem¬
ocrats the agency for promoting thalr
o# use.
“Mr. Palmer’s political career ha*
been one of liberalism, of progressive
principles and actions, While Wood
row Wilson was fighting the hosts of
privilege in Jersey as It* governor
Mitchell Palmer wa* w»glng battle
with the same force* In Congress. A*
early as 1910 he had become a national
figure through hts coi gressional war¬
fare againRt entrenched and defiant
legislative power.
“Retrospection brings to him nothin*
new by way of advanced principles.
Great movements, so ■ ear accoBi
pushed facts, measures of great hu
man Justice, prospered by his chssa
pionship many years ago.
“In those esrl.v days he gave »•
tional distinction to th" Democracy of
Pennsylvania by hi* pioneer effort* to
\vre*t control of the people’* liberties
from the special privileged few which
abused them. This official conduct has
been a source of pride and gratification
not only to his fellow partisans in hts
home state of Pennsylvania, but t* hi*
fellow-citizens regardless of party. He
was ever the exponent of a forward
looking Democracy. He stand* un¬
changed in that respect today.
“To all similarly-minded men within
and without his party his announce¬
ment should bring and will bring
cheer and comfort. To them his can¬
didacy is the opportunity for swinging
back of a nan who typifies their view¬
point. who has a conspicuous record of
national service before, during and
since the war, who has ever stood with
President Wilson and who stands with
him today,
“In his own State and party the
Palmer announcement bring* a special
thrill and satisfaction. His own State
Rn d neighbors are proud of him. The
1 severest test of a mun I* applied bv
thoae who know him best. In his home¬
land he has met that test with gratify¬
ing results. He has not heen found
wanting. True Democrats do and all
progressive American citizens can pro
I claim Palmer a* their own.”
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FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1920. TWELVE PAGES.
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CHERO-COLA BOTTLING
WORKS CHANGES HANDS
Mr. Bennett Joiner of
Ga., was here this week and
a deal whereby he takes over the
entire business of the local
Cola Bottling Works, which for
past six months or more have been
operated r.s a stock company
Mr. J. W. Pass as manager. Mr.
Joiner will assume management
the business early in April and will
bring his family here as soon as
can find a suitable residence.
Mr. Pass, the present popular and
efficient manager of the company,
has not yet decided fully upon his
future business plans, but his friends
hope that they will admit of his con
tinuing his residence here.
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RUBBER-TIRED PALACE CAR
ATTRACTS ATTENTION HERE
A house on wheels, a veritable
Pullman car, attracted much atten¬
tion on Sunday afternoon when park¬
ed for the night by a couple of tour¬
ists on their way home to New York
from Florida, where they had spent
a delightful winter visiting all parts
of the state without accident or mis¬
hap and living altogether in the car.
It was built on a Republic truck
and contained all modern eonven
iences, including electric lights, wa
ter works, gasoline stove, wickei
chairs, folding bed, etc. They had
solved the high cost of living in every
way and from appearances had been
drinking from the famous “Fountain
of Youth.”
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PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS TO
HOLD SERIES OF SERVICES
_,, The , local , n Primitive ■ D Baptist .
gation .. will ... , hold ,, , here the ,,
% services in
Congregational church building at
the corner of „ ..... Miller and , D Person St. 0 ,
Friday „ . , night, - v. April .* o 2, at * n 7:30 on o i clock, i „i
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Sunday „ j . at . 11:00 and „ Sun
morning
day , night L, at . 7:30. n on
Elder Henry Swain and Elder
Bird of Graymont and Elder
of Hawkinsville will preach at these
services.
Everybody is cordially invited.
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MRS. ALMON WILLIAMS
HOSTESS FOR SISTERS
Mrs. Almon Williams entertained
on Thursday last, complimentary to
her two sisters, Mrs. George S.
Olive, of Indianapolis Indiana, and
Mrs. S. L. Burgin of Ellaville, Ga.
After an interesting game a most
delicious course of salad with ice
was served.
U. D. C. MEETING
The regular meeting of the Chas.
D. Anderson Chapter U. D. C’s.
will be held at the residence of Mrs.
W. B. Smith on Anderson Ave. Apr.
lst. 3 p. m. with Mrs. M. C. Greene
hostess. As this is the last meeting be
fore Memorial Day all members are
urgently requested to be present.
MR. J. E. DAVIDSON IS
TALKED OF FOR SENATE
Friends of Mr. Joe E. Davidson,
of the Miami Valley Fruit Farm are
said to be bringing pressure to bear
upon him to offer as a candidate for
the State Senate from this the
23rd senatorial district, embracing
Crawford, Houston, and Taylor
Counties. It is hoped that Mr.
Davidson will consent to the use of
his name in the primary, as he is
prominently known thruout the dis¬
trict and is eminently qualified for
serving the district in this capacity.
Mr. Davidson is one of Lhe most
substantial citizens of this county,
having large holdings in realty and
peach orchards of this section, and
is also a prominent stock-holder and
a director of the Citizens Bank of
Fort Valley.
His announcement would be very
gratifying to his many friends in
this section and, we are confident,
would meet with popular favor thru¬
out this and the other counties of the
district.
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WALLACE PEDDICORD DEAD
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
A telegram was received this
(Thursday) morning by Mrs. W.
j Peddicord stating that her step-son,
Wallace Peddicord, aged 22, had been
killed Wednesday midnight in an au¬
tomobile accident at Canton? Ohio,
the old home of the Peddicords. No
further details of the sad accident
had been received up to the time of
our going to press. The body is ex¬
pected to arrive sometime Saturday
for interment here.
Besides his step-mother, he is sur¬
vived by two brothers, T. H. Peddi
i cord of Monroe, La., and E. G. Ped
‘ dicord of , Gadsden, „ . , Ala., ., and , one
Samuel , Peddicord D jj- of t
Fcrt Valley. His father, , Mr. , ... W. D Ped- ,
dicord, . died ,. . several , months ., ago.
i Many triends will deeply sympa- „
thize with ... these ,, bereaved , . ones,
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
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Wm. F. Quillian, Pastor.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m.
“The Abundant Life.”
Praise Service, 2:30 p. m.
Junior Church, 3:00 p. m.
Epworth League, 6:30 p. m.
The congregation will worship with
the Presbyterian church at the night
service. Celebrate Easter Day by at¬
tending Sunday School and church.
You need the church. The church
needs you. Everybody Welcome.
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HISTORY CLUB TO MEET
WITH MRS. LEWIS RILEY
The History Club will hold its
annual business meeting on Tuesday
afternoon, April 6, at the home of
Mr. Lewis Riley. At this time offi
| cers for the next year will be elected
and other business will be transact
ed. No other program than business
will be rendered on this occasion.
SUNDAY’S STORM LEAVES
PEACH CROP UNSCATHED
The disastrous storm which took
heavy toll of life and property at
West Point, LaGrange, Milner and
Macon in this State Sunday after¬
noon left the great Middle Georgia
peach section unscathed, and there
was little sympathetic disturbance
of the elements in 'this section ex¬
cept a little higher velocity of wind
than usual Sunday afternoon and a
heavy rainfall early Monday morn¬
ing.
No well-defined damage to the
peach crop in this vicinity so far has
been reported as a result of late
freezes and excessive rainfall, altho
the precipitation of this week has
been a serious draw-back to the far¬
mers and is liable to affect the peach
crop if long continued.
There is some report of very small
fruitage on some of the trees of the
section, this being attributed to the
late cold weather, but most of th«
largest growers of the section are
still optimistic over the prospects for
a good season.
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PALMER’S FITNESS
FOP, PRESIDENCY
No Candidate for America's High¬
est Office Ever Had a Finer
Set of Moral and Politi¬
cal Ideals.
(William T. Ellis in Leslie’s Weekly.)
Various men have more or less hesi¬
tatingly shied their hats into the Presi¬
dential ring; A. Mitchell Palmer, hat
less and coatless, is in the ring Uiniself.
A hoary American story narrates
the visit of a horseman to a stock
farm, where he was shown veterans of
the paddock with famous records and
colts of infinite promise. At length
the visitor exclaimed, “I‘ve seen plenty
of ‘has-beens' and a lot of niay-bes,’
but I would like most of all to seen an
‘Is-er.’ ” I
Palmer is a personality In the pres¬
ent tense. He is first in the public eye
because lie is at the moment first in
the service of the government, That
i* what I mean by saying that be is in
the ring himself, As America's cham
pion knight errant against the four
dragons—the “Reds," the food prof¬
iteers, the Industrial malefactors and
the prohibition violators—the Attorney
General Is at the moment the busiest
man in the public behalf to be found in
America. He Is our prize “is-er.”
No candidate for America's highest
office ever had a finer set of political
and moral Ideals, consistently held and
practiced, than this young Friend with
the story book rise by self-help from
the lot of a country lad to a position
of national eminence; < evertheless, it
Is as a doer rather than as a dreamer
and a talker that Palmer Is known. He
lias the characteristic American quul
|y of ability to “make good" at his
resent post, whatever that may be.
As a congressman his efficiency made
him the key man on the Ways and
Means Committee. The same trait hail
put him at the head of the cleansed
political organization < f the Democrat
Ic Party in Pennsylvania- after one
Belleau Wood of s fight. President
Wilson, who distributes offices after
an Inscrutable fashion of his own, hav¬
ing In 1912 offered this Quaker the in
congrnous post of Secretary of War In
hts Cabinet, thus showing his estimate
of Palmer's first class qualifications,
later, when America hail entered the
war, named him to the nondescript
and apparently trivia 1 post of alien
property custodian.
What thereafter happened the whole
world knows. Palmer's name became
» word of execration In Germany and
n word of admiration in America and
thp allied nations. He took eight hun¬
dred million dollars of German money
sway front onr enemte*—revealing In
eldentally the relation of German bust
ness to espionage and propaganda—
and turned it into Uncle Sam’s war
Chest. The country learned that tin’s
placid-faced member of the Society of
Friends was about the figlningest Yan
kee of us all. What a crop of bitter
enemies he raised up for himself dur
ing the war, ranging In location from 1
ihe smallest German beer- garden to
the Stately halls of the United States
senate. Is In part known to the public.
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Phis fine dtsiegatd for foes Is a qual- j
ity which the presidency ever need*.
Painter would not truckle to the Irish
vote or the German vote or the British
vote or the negro vote or the labor vote
or the business vote: as Presblerot he j
would contend vigorously for the
American Constitution and the rights |
of the whole American people that the i
nation would rediscover It* historic
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PRELIMINART CONTEST
EVENT OF INTEREST
FORT VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
REPRESENTATIVES SELECT¬
ED FOR TWELFTH DISTRICT
MEET AT EASTMAN
Quite the most interesting thing
that has happened within the walls
of the Fort Valley Public School dur
ing the year 1919-1920 was the Pre¬
liminary Contest held last Wednes¬
day evening in the school auditorium.
An audience of several hundred peo¬
ple gathered to hear the students in
music and expression and were not
disappointed in the least for the en¬
tire program was of a high character
and reflected much credit upon the
teachers and students.
The winners were: Expression—
Maymie Ousley, first, Florrie San
defur, second, Frances Langston,
third; Declamation—Claude Smith,
first, Albert Evans, second, Charles
Baldwin, third; Music—Mattie Belle
Turner, first, Vilulu White, second,
Julian Hiley, third.
The judges were Mr. Clem Powers
of Macon, Mr. Owens of Americus,
Misses Lendert and White of Wesley¬
an, Misses Bowman and Loveland of
Bessie Tift.
The winners in the athletic con¬
test were: Shot-Put, Paul Murray,
36 feet, 7 inches; 222 yard dash,
Paul Murray, 27 1-5 seconds; 4-10
yard dash, Louis Green, 59 1-5 sec¬
onds; broad jump, Claude Wilson,
18 feet, 5 inches; high jump, Mil
ledge Brown, 5 feet, 1 1-2 inches;
vault, Felton Taylor, 8 feet, 10 inch¬
es; hurdles, Paul Murray, Felton
Taylor, and Clarence Fagan, tied.
The successful contestants will go
to Eastman to the Twelfth District
High School Meet and it is expected
that the Fort Valley students will
rank highest in the winning of the
various points which make represen¬
tation at the State High School Meet
eligible.
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A FITTING MEMORIAL TO
AN ABLE JOURNALIST
We are pleased to acknowledge
receipt this week of a splendid pho
tograph of the late lamented Editor
George H. Long of the Macon Tele¬
graph—a graceful and most appro¬
priate expression of appreciation
from Mr. W. T. Anderson, Editor of
the Telegraph, to the editors of the
State for their expressions of appre¬
ciation of Mr. Long’s work. Every
newspaper office receiving one of
these photographs should frame and
it as a permanent mural mem¬
orial to this able journalist who has
on before, and should be a con¬
inspiration to emulate his high
to his sense of responsibil¬
to his readers and absolutely un¬
expression of opinion.
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SERVICES AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School, 10:00 a. m.
Preaching, 11 :00 a. m. and 7:30
m.
The revival services at the Presby¬
church have been attended by
numbers each day arid
They will continue on into
week.
Rev. J. E. Wallace of Macon has
delivering instructive messages
both afternoon and night meet¬
He will preach Sunday at 11:00
m. and 7:30 p! m.
A most Cordial co-operation is
on the part of every church
good is resulting to all.
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DAVIDSON’S PARTY
FOR MRS. WILL HOUSER
Complimenting Mrs. Will Houser
Jacksonville, Fla., who is visiting
and Mrs. L. Carter on Central
Mrs. J. E. Davidson gave a
party at her home at the
Valley F’ruit Farm Tuesday
Those invited were the
of 1901 of Grady Institute, of
the honor guest and the host¬
were both members.
Mrs. Will Houser was invited to
the day, not suspecting that
were invited for the afternoon
Among the guests were Mes
J. D. Duke, W. J. Braswell,
x. McMillan, J. E. Bledsoe, Mrs.
j jj Houser, Misses Allie and Liz
Houser and Mrg 0Ia Vance .
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Mr. C. B. Culpepper was in Daw
] as t wed on business. A very
notice appeared in
Dav;on News regarding Mr. Cul
pepper’s visit to that thriving little
South Georgia city.