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THE LEADER TRIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established Ittsn
—Puolished by—
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor
Subscription Prices
(Payable in Advance)
l Year $2.50
• Months 1.35
8 Months .70
Published Every Tuesday and In
day and Entered at the Post
office at Fort Valley, Ga. , as
Second Class Mail Matter.
' Let’s see what rhymes with
bane, pain, strain, slain; also
So there you are; we don’t
which to take. Anyway, our
wings are too wet and his spirit
dampened to attempt any flights
poesy.
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We regret very much to note
our good friend, Mr. C. E. Benns,
itor of the Butler Herald, is
ing his affairs to submit to the
geon’s kftlfe for appendicitis.
success to the operation and
wishes for a speedy recovery,
ther Benns.
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Other South Georgia counties
going after tho malaria
Why should we tolerate this expen¬
sive pest here? Why would this
be a good thing for our Chamber
Commerce to get busy on and secure
the co-operation of the State Board
of Health, Red Cross, U. S.
Health Service and Georgia
tion in combatting? Read
in this issue the fearful financial
of malaria.
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There were only five cases of
municable disease reported to
Slate Board of Health from Houston
County during the month of Febru
ary, chicken at required by law: two
pox, one of pneumonia,
two of influenza. Laurens
physicians reported 833 cases of
municable disease for the same
iod’. Our County either has a
able health record or not all of
physicians are complying with
law.
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Beginning with this issue we
carry regularly in The
fpr the convenience of our readers,
time table of the arrival and
ure of all passenger trains at
from Fort Valley. This table
been furnished us by Mr. J. I.
mons, local ticket agent, who will
vise us promptly of changes as they
may occur, so that the table will
kept accurate and up-to-date,
course all such time tables are
to change without notice and
guaranteed either by us or the
road Companies.
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MR. R. 1^. NICHOLSON IS
HONORED IN HOME CO.
T)te many friends of Mr. R. M.
Nicholson, who for several years was
•n associate of Mr. Emmett Houser
in the practice of law here, will be
gratified to learn that he was re
iritemdeni c#ntly elected county school super
of Oconee County, receiv¬
ing nearly twice as many votes as
hla two opponents.
Mr. Nicholson numbers his friends
here by the score and all will learn
of this attestation of the regard in
which he is held with delight.
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THANK YOU, BRO. BENNS;
WE READ THE HERALp
In keeping with the steady growth
and advancement in all Jines of its
fine farming, peach growing and
manufacturing section, the Fort Vai
Leader-Tribune has launched in¬
to the semi-weekly field. The paper
will be published weekly on Tues¬
days and Fridays. Editor Martin is
ode of the best newspaper men in
this section as evinced by his spark¬
ling editorials and abundant local
and county news appearing in each
issue of his publication. He has been
in the game only a few years but has
made remarkable success of his ven
tur*.—Butler Herald.
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THE FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA
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(From Red Cross Briefs.)
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Au art B Red a Cross n Chapters in the
•outhsrn part of Georgia have been ’
requested by Division Headquarters
to aid in a campaign against malaria
rn their own territories — part of a
movement which the Red Cross is
undertaking at the request of the
l&Uru long has been eae of the
THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., MAY 4, 1920,
moat prevalent and perhaps the moit
harmful of the diseases in the rural
portions of the United States, par
dcularly in the South. In South Geor
gia it is so great a scourge that con
servative estimates place its annual
•ost to the state at not less than
1)00,000.
At the same time, medical author
ties regard malaria as a malady that
an be combatted successfully, to the
iltimate end of its absolute extinc
.ion, as yellow fever has been stamp¬
'd out in other sections of the South.
The ubiquitous mosquito, for ex¬
ample, is known positively to be the
principal if not the only carrier of
.he malaria infection from the suf
erer to the well person. It is confi
lently believed that the eradication
of the mosquito is the key to the
eradication of the mularia.
Responding to the call of the state
ioard of health, the Red Cross
purposes to join with the board's rep¬
resentatives in an active
against the agencies that cause
spread the fever. .
One of tho first steps taken by
Red Cross Headquarters in
will be to disseminate the board
health’s motion picture which
trates methods of fighting
This will be done by sending
picture machines and other
ment into every county in the
ria district where there is a
Cross Chapter, accompanied by spea
kers, who will deliver lectures
also assist the local Chapter in
ing practical plans for the war a
gainst malaria in their own
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FRIED CHICKEN.
(By Bridges Smith, In Macon
graph.)
There is something about
chicken that has never been
factorily explained, though the
tempt to explain it has been made
numerable times. Why is it that
chicken fried in the country, or
in the small towns, is so much
than if fried in the city?
You can take a country cook urn
give her a country chicken, let
use -lard or any kind of grease
wants, and turn her loose in
kitchen on the same make of
and that chicken will be a
brown, dry at the bone and greasy
the outside. Now send her back to
country and let her bring you in
dish of fried chicken, and there is
the difference in the world.
It will be a light brown,
cooked, the meat white aid
and a lady can handle a leg or a
or a piece of the breast, or the
nose, and not soil or grease her
kid gloves. Expert culinary
cannot tell why this is.
That being the case, just
now that as a city man you were
seated at a long table wild people
with appet : les whetted tj the keen¬
ness of a razoi’s edge, with a great
big dish of country clvcken fried
country sV/.e by a country cook_
oh, man!
And while supposing, suppose that
there were several gre.u big di.ihes
of that same knd of fr ei chicken on
the table, thus insuring enough to go
around and that your supply will not
be cut short; i na *
Suppose that on that table were
dishes of cou"try-baked chicken, with
well-seasoned dressing and the crisp¬
est and brownest Saratoga chips, and
great big disiies of tlnr sl'ceJ coun¬
try ham, rod and tender and of the
avor, real hammy flavor, ano
every kind of salad known to the
housewife:
And suppose the b ead to * go with
it if all oil was *. the . brownest and fluffiest
of hot rolls, none of the doughv, gur
wadding kind, but rolls on which you
could make a dinner of all by them
selves if buttered with rich ‘ countrv un
butter that ■
sinks m and , flavors even
to the crust; and
Suppose on top of all this was a ;i
the relishes and things on the table
that if e you were to attempt to
,
supply your city home table with
our grocer and butcher would throw
you into the hands of a receiver- and
Suppose if all this wasn’t enough u * f
*: n jou to overflowing, that
on
same table, or handed around by a
lot of lovely women, were every kind
of cake ‘
Jakfr and nie h™,, V h, 6 , art ° f e
p cake and pie, from the , old
fashioned sure-enough pound cake to
meringue custard, the merigue two
inches in thickness, as white as snow
and as light as a zephyr, and then
coffee and real 1 cream- tream and a na
.
Suppose -
she-bear you were as hungry as a
arising from hibernation,
and you were made that hunt.™ T
hour '
an or so of / » r,. f on ' the clt v
where if -
iert 11 you ever get anything good
to eat it is by accident, and you sat
down to such a spread, with plenty of
P Ce nol d r th
a nd ' * t o 0 H- binder you from get
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I rf^ '* 6 can ° ne you square imagine mea l anything of your
s bort of being suddenly knocked in
tb e head from taking it all in, or as
inucb as you could crowd in?’
Weil, that’s the kind of a dinner
spread or feast, just as vou mav
wa nt to call it that wa ■ set hef.re
lucky invited frind* by the good wo-
men of Fort Valley on Memorial^
Day and every year on such an occa-,
sion. 1
And the beauty of it . . is that u ,
every good thing on the table was
raised right there in Houston county.
Glorious old Houston! Not only is it
famous for fine men and beautiful
women, but its area is- covered with
peach orchards, pecan groves, cotton
and grain fields, and its smokehouses
are filled with bacon, its pastures
dotted with sleek cattle and chickens
are so plentiful that, if put to test,
Houston county could feed the world
on fried chicken fried country style.
Talk about good eating and living
—oh, man!
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HELP SELF AND COUNTRY
BY CONSTRUCTIVE LIFE.
The greatest builders in the world
are those who build character.
Men have built houses, roads and
temples that lasted for generations
and empire builders have raised
structures that lasted through cen¬
turies, but the man who builds char¬
acter fabricates something that
through eternity.
Efficient industry yields two of the
best results in the world; production
and the development of character.
Wholehearted work brings out
best that is in us and drives out evil.
j Production is the only thing that
give food and clothing to the
and reduce the cost of living,
j Economy ia the kind of
> ment that takes care of the
! and makes the best use of it,
■curing ail that money can of
| fort, education, development,
! and service.
It is a great thing to be free
the oni free man is the one who
self-sustaining. Make sure of
independence by thrift. Work,
and buy Government Securities.
A young man who will save
a year the first five years and $300
the second five will have over
a t the end of ten years. That will
'■tart him in many kinds of business.
He can accomplish this by
Saving Stamps and Treasury
Certificates. Twenty Stamps may be
exchanged for a Certificate worth
* 1 °° at maturity,
Government bonds at present mar
ket prices offer a fine opportunity
for a safe investment with a high
return. Don’t be misled by the mar¬
ket price into thinking the bonds will
" ot realize one hundred cents on the
dollar. The Government has kept its
promise about the interest and will
i )a - v the principal promptly at ma
turity. If you buy now and keep them
t0 maturity you are sure of a profit,
United States bonds are good be
c ’ause they are a promise to pay by
the richest nation on earth, and its
,lebt * s much smaller for the strength
of the country than the debt of other
nations.
Our government is worth helping.
Under it we have become the great
est and freest people in the world.
Dur fibers and our sons fought for
it, and wemust sustain it for the ben
efit of our children as well as our
selves.
Set a goal for yourself by under,
taking to buy Stamps, bonds or Sa
vings Certificates. None will succeed
hut those who undertake it. Start
now. Ask the postmaster for further
information.
CLEAN UP THE STABLE FLY.
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u Have you ever tried . . . to . sleep , on a
hot summer night when just one mos
quito had crept through the window
screen? Imagine your state of mind
L plied f ,s by W* 100 and ™ 0 you S( I ui l had t0 , were your hands
tied!
Thai sensation, according to the
Bureau of Entomology, United States
Department arabl of Agriculture, is some
thil ? g cf>m P f with what a horse,
mule, or cow endures when the stable
fly is present in great numbers,
The stable fly greatly resembles
the ordinary house fly but for the
lance with which he is armed. It is
known that .he carries disease from
infected arvimals to heauhy ones, and
there is some ground for belief that
insect aids the spread of spinal
menin ^ itis amon K hanian beings.
The eWS ° f the fly arP ia id *2
, loose, warm straw f heaps u and . piles , of
stable refuse. A plague of flies al
ways starts from these sources^ and
tbe contr °l °f the pest is best man
aged by scattering the straw early
in the spring before the beginning
of warm weather and plowing it un -1 j
der. or by burning it when the for
n,e ^ method connot be 1
stable refuse should be scattered
regular intervals of one week
less throughout the season, starting
with early spring. In this way the
first generation of the pest is de
str °y ei i an *i a Plague averted. A
Farmers S, ent Publication of the
Bulletin 1097, gives in de
tail the life history of the stable flv,
methods for its control, and some
facts concerning the amount of dam
a ^ e done b^ tbe insect.
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Scotch for Tough.
Stopping at the same boarding house
fls myself was a young Scotsman who
WBS annoyed at every meal hv the
bmdlady inquiring as to the name in
Scottish of the various articles on the
tflble - ° n r, ils particular day she
r, m jneut to luin saying. “What
"? U < y °” 0:1 1 ,at ,n Soot,nn<lr He
rxs
Le U Uier.’’-Excba J1 ge.
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We do not know much, but we do
know that the man who wrote “fa
miliarity breeds contempt” was a
married man and knew whereof he
! spoke,
Scheme.
Imagine the grass of the field and
[the leaves of the forest created blue,
or niagnetn. or scarlet. instead of
rreen! Some speculative ..scientists
the foliage of the planet Mars
is red. and that the people there nre
.
retf continually, It would not
ie difficult to believe that keeping the
?eaoe <,n this good green earth is not
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There’s something in these sunny
days, skies of blue,
These cloudless
That makes a man sit down to work
And wish that he were through.
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Kindness is an instinct, politeness
only an art.
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There is cheats in all things; even
poison is adulterated.
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Sweet are the smiles a man’s wife
hands him on pay day.
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If a man marries money he should
be devoted to his wife.
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The absent have their excuses and ,
the present their excuses.
A
begn^
abroad never reach home.
There is no punishment for wast
ing taxes; so it never stops.
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Marriage is sometimes an illusion
—and somestimes a disillusion.
A smile is cooler in summer and
warmer in winter than a frown.
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Beware of the man whose chari
table gifts consist of sympathy. •
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No man over fifty should marry a
woman who isn’t a good nurse.
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Late hours may tell on a man, but
his wife doesn’t have to be told.
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There is no treacnery in
silence is a hard argument to beat,
The man who is thoroughly polite
is two-thirds of a Christian, any how.
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Most women are genorous to a
fault if it isn’t one of their husband’s.
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It is a case of intellectual farming
when a man’s feelings are harrowed.
Foresight warns against love at
first sight—and hindsight regrets it.
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The self-made man is often the
only one who is satisfied with the
job.
There was once a man who told his
wife “I love you” as offen as once a
week.
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The " Almighty evidently didn’t
have much to do when he made some
people.
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If a girl gets only one letter a
year, she always reads it on the
street.
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Patience is not passive; on the con¬
trary it is active; it is concentrated
strength.
Many a mhn refuses to trust in the
Lord as long as he has a dollar in
his pocket.
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Will anyone ever call these times
“the good old days”, and shoes at
$12 a pair.
Every man of sand should have
have enough sense to build his house
upon a rock.
Don't mistake habits for character.
The men of the most character have
the fewest habits.
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A fish out of water is as much out
of place as is a white flossy poodle
in a soft coal town.
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A shy pup means a sneaking dog.
And yet a man feels kinder flattered
when you call him a sny pup.
The best medicine that I know of
for the rheumatism is to thank the
Lord— that it ain’t the gout.
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If a man happens to know two
words with the same meaning he’ll
use both if you talk to him a while.
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No matter how much money a man
makes, a married man knows that his
wife would need more if he made it.
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The more a skinny girl exercises,
the thinner she gets. And the more a
corn fed girl exercises the bigger she
gets.
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There is a great of learning in this
world which is nothing more than I
stand. trying to prove what we don’t under- j
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If you can’t trust the man for the
full amount. let him skip. This trying
to get an average on honesty has al
ways been a failure.
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M dear boy there are but few
wbo can jj com mence ^ at the middle of
tbe i a er an re ach the top; and
proba t bly ' vou and I don’t belong to
bat bpr
It’s a mark of good judgment
to read the Leader-Tribune; it’s a
mark of good principles to sub¬
scribe for it.
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