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Volume XXXII, Number 28.
Copies of This Issue of The Leader-Tribune Will Be Delivered By Air-Plane In Powersville, Byron,
Centerville and Wellston Tuesday Noon.
GHEROGOLt ME
ARRIVED HERE HONDA!
WILL SPEND SEVERAL DAYS
HERE FLYING OVER AND
“BOMBING” TOWNS AND
ING UP PASSENGERS.
An airplane advertising
Cola dropped into Fort Valley short
ly after one o’clock Monday
noon, making the trip direct from
Columbus in just one hour.
The plane, a Canadian Curtis
biplane, had the word “Chero-Cola”
painted in large letters on the under
sides of the lower wings and
lage, and was piloted by Mr. C. W.
Meyers, who carried as a passenger
Mr. Buift Hood of Columbus. Later
in the afternoon Mr. Meyers was
joined here by his mechanician, Mr.
Edgar Ellis of Loraine, Ohio, who
came in by train.
Mr. Meyers is a Canadian ex-ser
vice man, having for two years
with tt|e British Royal Air Force as
a flying instructor. • little
He is *a very capable looking of hav
man, with every appearance
ing been "built to fly.” cir
The first landing here, after and
cling the town several times
throwing a few stunts, was made in a
field behind belonging his residence, to Dr. hut W later (5. ^hit«, the
in
gfternoon the plane was transfered to
the end of Troutman Ave., in the
Oakland Heights subdivision.
Mr. Meyers will remain here with
his plane several days, bombing the
low literature n and of vicinity the Chero-Co|a with advertising Gompa
ny and taking up passengers for air
flights. He will use the end of
Troutman Ave., Oakland Heights, as
as a landing field and all flights will
start and finish there.
To Deliv: y Leader-Tribune arranged By Ajr,
The Leader-Tribune ha*
With Mp.' Meyers to throw several
packages of Tuesday’s issue of The
Leader-Tribune from his plane over
the business section of Fort Valley,
and, in cooperation with the publicity
committee of the new county forces,
to have the same stunt
over Powersville, Byron, Centerville ’
and Wellstripj .
Thv plane of will rise for its special
delivery the Leader-Tribune to
these communities about U ;40
day morning, While this issue
The Leader-Tribune is of the
size of its regular special Tuesday’s
it contains a
relating to the new county issue
two important news items
movement, ( pH'e? in the, If.fcfWU of
SUNDAY SCHOOL
PICNIC FRIDAY. MAY 21
The Sunday Schools of Fort Val¬
ley will have the Jlouser’s annual picnic nqilL Thfe on
fgiday committees the 21st transportation at and en¬
on
tertainment will have everything in
readiness and it is expected that a
large crowd will attend. Those who
>vant to go will meet on the Baptist and
priuj-ch lawn by pine porvided, o'clock and all a
way to go will be
who have conveyances have them to spare at are the
asked to please
church.
Following are the committees in
charge.
Finance, Jonn Vance, W. R. Full¬
er; grounds, Houser Edwards, C. T.
Eberhardt, J. W. Woolfolk, Glenmore
Gyeen; transportation, H. C- Neil, W.
G. Briseridine, G. L. Stripling, D. II.
Fiypt; lemonade, % Flournoy, Axel
Riiqnorngu, J- E. Byoadnck, L. Shepard, J. I).
Duke; entertainment, Brown, Mrs. C- W- A. Wood
Mrs. M. S. 0. Pugh,
Sail, Mrs. Sammons, Kendrick, Mrs, Miss C. Lennie
Mrs. J D.
Green.
WE ARE ACCUSED OF
SLIGHT EXAGGERATION
We have been accused of over¬
playing a little news item reported
to us last week, with reference fo
the “handsome maple tree a foot in
diameter,” which wa§ uprooted by
the storm of the previous week, and
whose umbrageous shade was so
highly prized by the Southern
chard Supply Co. that they were
thinking of having the tree replanted.
upon an opportunity to pre¬ in¬
sented us Sunday afternoon
spect the scene of the 4is a that s ter we
were constrained to admit we
must have got an exaggerated im¬
pression of the catastrophe fr°m nowhere re¬
ports received. We could
find the iree of greater diameter
than 0 or H inches, and it had about
o - much foliage on it as milady’s
seashore parasol,
All of which goes to snow now
hard it is for a newspaper to tell the
truth. But, of course, if the editor
could always see everything that hap
pens before he writes about it, he
would never tell a lie, unintention¬
ally.
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Of all the roots of bitterness m
human nature, from which moral evil
grows, there is none more luxuriant
and prolific than pride.—Rusticus.
SEMI-WEEKLY
The Leader-Tribune
TUESDAYS AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Fridays
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY II, 1920.
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HEIR HERE SATURDAY
CITIZENS OF NEW COUNTY DIS-!
TRICTS ENDORSE LEGISLA
JIVE CANDIDATES; REPUD1
ATE MISREPRESENTATIONS.
Complete unanimity of. thought in
reference to the creation of a new' J •
county out of the western'portion of
Houston marked a mass meeting of I ;
citizens from Byron, Powersville, and
adjacent districts held here Satur
! day morning.
There was not a dissenting candidates voice who [
as to the following i
had been tentatively agreed upon: J.
E. Davidson for the State Senate, j
I Charles H. Jackson of Byron and for!
Emmett Houser of Fort Valley
j the Legislature. These gentlemen are!
\^ell known, have been ef fective j
1 workers for the creation of
a new ;
county, and with an undisputed ma
of the citizens of this county i
favoring a division, it is confidently
believed that they will be nominated |
jn the primary this fall.
Some of the opponents of a new
county having spread a report in
Crawford County to the effect that
a large portion of the most fertile
an( j desirable lands in that County
would be incorporated in the new
j county, the mass meeting went on
i record and made positive disclaimer
to any such intention And as a fur
j ther ’ assurance that in no event
would a foot of Crawford’s lands e^o
to the making of a new county Mess
rSi Davidson, Jackson and Houser
made the positive declaration that if
elected, not only would they leave
untouched Crawford, but would vio
lently oppose any measure that
sought to take any of Crawford’s
I land either for the making of a new
county or for anv other purpose.
a* a matter of fact, however, the
report was purely and simply a
ical canard without any foundation
whatever, for the relationship exist-.
ing between the people of Crawford
an d this section has always, been
such a cordial nature that in no in
stance and at no time have the peo
pie of this section entertained for a
moment the idea of thus doing
lence to the territory of a neighbor.
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METHODIST REVIVAL
MUCH GOOD
The three weeks’ evangelistic ser¬
vices at the Methodist church came
a close Sunday night with a re¬
cord-breaking congregation in at¬
tendance. Every available seat in the
main auditorium, Sunday School an¬
nex, and class rooms was taken, and
chairs were brought from the prima¬
ry rooms and placed in the aisles to
accomodate the throngs desiring to
hear Rev. Arthur Moore’s last §e,r
mon here, Sunday
All of the services were with
unusually impressive, beginning
the “Mothers’ Day” program at
SuAfjay morning at the eleven o'¬
clock hour Mr- Moore preached after¬ on
The Seven Hungers.” In the
noon he pr'eaehed on “The Christian's
Amusements,” paying his respects
again In no undecided terms to danc¬
ing. At night his text was: “The har¬
vest is past, the summer is ended, and
I am not saved.”
The song services on Sunday con¬
ducted bv Mr. Reid were inspiring
and his solos effective;
Envelopes for free-will offerings
for the evangelists, Mr. Moore ami
Mr. Reid, given out during the past
several days and returned' up Li Mon¬
day night contained a total of about
$1 400-00, and" this amoubt will prob
a bly be still further increased by
subsequent contributions. This sum,
while gratifying, is a paltry ope these com¬
pared with the earnest labors of
consecrated men and with the incal¬
culable uplift in spiritual life, of the
community and section effected.
As a-tangible 30 result members \vi!l be
ings, about new
received into the church next Sunday
on profession of faith and about If)
on certificate as a direct result of
the meetings. This will make a total
of about 75 new members received
into the church this year.
Besides these visible results, the
general religious condition of the
community and section has been won¬
derfully uplifted, and many have
been converted.
Mr. Moore is truly a remarkably
forceful, consecrated and effective
preacher, fighting sin and indiffer¬
ence with a vengeance while win¬
ning the sinner and callous Christian
both to himself and to God, and he
has further endeared himself to all
good people of this community.
Mr." Moore has returned to
home in Macon and Mr. Reid to
home in Indiana. Their next
begins next Sunday at Princeton, W.
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OnDortunitv has hair in front,
hind she is bald; if you seize her
the forelock y° u
suffered
himselx can catch her
the Latm.
COUNTY "COMMISHES H
HEEI IN GOLUHSUS
ELABORATE PREPORATION BE
ING MADE FOR SIXTH ANNUAL
CONVENTION TO BE HELD
MAY 20 AND 21.
' Atlanta, May •6.-“—Elaborate prep
orations have been made for the
sixth annual convention of The As
sociation of County Commissioners
of Georgia, to be held in Columbus
May 20 and 21, the tentative pro¬
of which was announced here
today by Charles L. Davis, of Warm
Springs, president of the association,
and Fred Houser, secretary.
Especial interest is being mani
fested in the convention by county
commissioners in all parts of the
state, for the reason that action is to
be taken on the proposed roads $40,000,
000 bond issue tor good pur
poses, pow pending in the legisla
ture. Leaders said they were sure
the measure will receive unqualified
endorsement and backing of the asso
elation, as its purpose is to connect
every county seat and important
town in the state with splendid high
ways,
The program is to be participated
in by numerous good roads boosters,
among that number being Prpf. C.
R- Strahan, chairman of the Geor
tfia Highway commission; W. R. Nee.,
chief engineer of the highway de
partment; W. S. Kellor, state high
way engineer of Alabama; J. Ofecav
Mills, chairman Fulton county coin
mission; W. Tom Winn, president
Georgia Automobile association;
Judge T. E. Patterson, state prison
commissioner, and H. J. Fullbright,
state ta: commissioner,
Columbus has prepared extensive
entertainment for the visitors. Ladies
have been especially invited to at
tend.
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MAJOR M, L. COOPER’S RES.
IDENCE AT PERRY BURNED
The two-storv residence belong
i„ g to Major M. L. Cooper, deputy
q s. marshall, in the northern part
of Perry .was destroyed by fire Sat
uday afternoon. The fire originated
' i roof of the portion of the
n the
house occupied by Major Cooper, Gil¬
■The families of Messrs. H. T.
bert and G. W. Traylor also occupied
house. The furniture was all
saved but low water pressure is said
tq effectively have prevented the firemen i'rom
fighting the flames. The
residence was totally destroyed. It
was valued at about $10,000.00 and
was partly covered by insurance.
HERRICK
ON STOCK SWINDLERS.
The sale of worthless and fraud¬
ulent stocks is a daqgcvous leak in
the darn of our financial security,
according to Myron T. Herrick,
banker of Cleveland, Ohio, and
former ambassador to France. Bet¬
ter Business News, organ of the
National Vigilance Committee Clubs of
the Associated Advertising of
the World, in an appeal for coop¬
eration in checking the efforts of
fake promoters quotes Mr, Herrick
as “Experienced saying: business should
men
cooperating in protecting less ex¬
perienced neighbors from the stock
swindling industry in this country.
Pubiic opinion must ha warned
against good the fraudulent promoter.
Every citizen who finance happens to
be inexperienced in is a no
tential victim. fi^drivioi This traffic is a
vice, in our structure thri.
which flows a sonutant torrent oi
funds in utter wastage.”
Better Business News quotes
"Judge Kenesaw Mountain ’ Landis
a
making the following statement re¬
garding the practice of promoter:
in building high the hopes of thei.
prospects: the future “To lie purposely about your hope; wil¬
for and
fully to get money from a man’
said Judge Landis iri sentencing Pan S
C. Pandqlfo, promoter qf the
Motor Co. to ten years in prison,
“is just as actionable in a court a:
to lie about an existing fact for the
• ’
same- purpose.
But even if false promises re¬
garding hopes are actionable, it Is
far better for the investor tq invest
in sound and safe .securities than to
change the necessity of bringing One in¬
suit to recover his money.
vestment holds out no false promis¬
es; makes no false claims and yet al¬
ways pays both principal and inter¬
est without fail, That investment is
government savings securities. They
are safe, sure and profitable. They
not only plug the lean in your indi¬
vidual income but conserve the fi¬
nancial resources of the nation.
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THE HISTORY CLUB
The next meeting of the History
Club will be held at the home of Mrs
Ralph Newton. The delegate from the
club to the Twelfth District meet in
Abbeville will give a report from this
co,,venti °n. The subject for study
at this meeting will be “France in
! America.
TO HEAD WESLEYAN
ELECTED TO PRESIDENCY AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THAT INSTITUTION FRIDAY
TO ASSUME CHARGE JUNE 1.
Rev. Wm. F. Quillian, who is ser¬
ving his fourth year most acceptably
as pastor of the Ft. Valley Methodist
Church, was elected Friday to the
presidency of Wesleyan College at
Macon, Ga., to succeed Dr. C. R.
Jenkins, who recently resigned.
I)r. Quillian announced to his con¬
gregation at the revival service Fri¬
day night that he had accepted the
position tendered him by the board
of trustees of the college and that he
would assume his new work on June
1, conditioned on the approval of the
Bishop and of the local church offi¬
cers.
While the Methodists of Fort Val¬
ley and people of the community
generally will regret exceedingly to
give him up, especially before the
close of the conference year, they
cannot but congratulate him upon
bejng selected for this important po¬
sition, and the college upon securing
so capable and well-qualified a man
for its head.
Mr. Quillian is a thoroughly conse¬
crated minister of the gospel, wholly
sanctified in the fullest sense taught
by his church, withal well-rounded in
the Christian graces and intellectual
accomplishments, a man of charming
personality and of wonderful tact
without compromising with evil. We
have never known a man who in our
estimation is better qualified in every
particular to head a girls’ school of
the high standing of Wesleyan. We
predict for this famous old Methodist
college—the first for women ever
chartered-—a new and unprecedented
era of prosperity and Christian use¬
fulness under his administration.
Many of us, even those who have
not been such faithful church atten¬
dants during his ministry here, will
feel actually bereaved- over his de¬
parture, but are gratified that his
new field of work is so near us that
much we may hope to continue to feel
of the benefieient influences of
his fine and lovable character.
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MORE RESIDENCE BUILDING
IN PROGRESS AND PROSPECT
Slowly but steadily the acute res¬
idence shortage in Fort Valley is
being relieved. New residences are
now nearing completion qityend in several
sections of the several others
will be begun in the near future. Sev¬
eral of the ricuses now nearing com¬
pletion have oeen built for sale,
Mr. J. W. Woolfolk has just com¬
pleted two bungalows cm East Main
street, .mentioned, in this paper a
week or more ago, and he has the
framework of a third up in the same
section. He has also a bungalow on
Troutman avenue nearing
tion-
Mr, E. L. Fountain has completed
several bungalows on North Macon
St.
Mr J. B. Lucas is completing on
Troutman of the Ave,, Qakland weU-built Height’s
one most attractive,
and completely appointed Stucco
finished bungalows over built in Ft.
Valley for side. It is equipped with
all modern fixtures, sleeping porch
and Calorie hot air furnace, and la a
credit to the enterprise qf the promo
gers of this fast gpewrng residential
subdivision. M*’- Lucas will soon be
gin idences trite erection for sale of in several other res
this section, ma*
erial for one of which is now being
.ilaced on the ground,
Mr. J. C. Wiken began work last
veek remodeling tjie Church street
residence of Miss Pearl Brown, which
.vas The recently dwelling partly is be destroyed by fire.
to converted into
-n apartment house with four
Mete apariments, One of the apart
nents will hfe occupied June first by
Dr. Virginius L. Brown and family.
HIGH SCHOOL FUPILS
PRESENT PANTOMINE
A pantomime written by Miss
Frances Langston of the Freshman
class, or class of 1923, was beautiful¬
ly presented by the class on Monday
morning in the public school audito¬
rium, under the direction of Miss
Vance, teacher of expression.
Each member of the class had been
requested to write a pantomime, and
Miss Langston’s was selected from
among the number submitted.
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A GARDEN SCENE
A play given under the direction
of Miss Carolyn Vance for the bene¬
fit of the D. A. R., Monday evening,
May 17, 8:00 o’clock. School Audi¬
torium. Adults 50c; Children 25c.
2-11-2 pos.-2t.
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IIe
"a him
not write ver heads,—Col- profound
lec ture on other men’s
ton, Lacon Lacon.
FOUR PAGES
I HOED 8IC MEETING
OVER 500 DELEGATES FROM 26
STATES PRESENT AND CHEER
SPEECHES AGAINST FEDERAL¬
ISM AND SUFFRAGISM.
(From The Woman Patriot, Washing¬
ton, D. C. May 1, 1920.)
The National Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage held the greatest
meeting in its history last Thursday,
at the Hotel McAlpin, New York City,
With spontaneous enthusiasm
more than 500 delegates, representing
the 26 State organizations that com¬
pose the nationa.l cheered again and
again as and speeches, plans, legal argu¬
ments Federalism political measures against
and Suffragism were ad¬
vanced.
Senator George A. Frick, Chairman
of the Judiciary' Commitee of the
Maryland Senate, and father of the
Maryland resolutions denying the val¬
idity of the Federal suffrage amend¬
ment, aroused a storm of applause
when he declared;
“If it is proclaimed, I believe the
courts will set it aside. »»
After discussing at length the legal
history of the adoption of the Con¬
stitution, the Bill ofRights and the
early court decisions thereon, Sena¬
tor Frick said:
“Any sound lawyer would agree
that the Constitution cannot be amen¬
ded to destroy the sovereignty of
the States. It is not amendable, in
my opinion, to destroy the local self
government that is the basis of State
sovereignty, and I have confidence
that the Supreme Court of the Uni¬
ted States will so declare.”
*4 But," he added, “we must never
let it get that far. You must con¬
vince the legislators that it is wrong:
that they will lose rather than gain
votes by supporting it, and if you do
that, woman suffrage will never be
adopted by Federal amendment."
Hon. John R. McNabb, Democratic
leader of the Delaware House of
Representatives, the highest declared that one of
officials of New York
State had tried to prevent him from
coming and to the anti-suffrage meeting,
was even then attempting to call
him by long distance to stop him
from speaking.
He praised both the Democrats and
Republicans in the Delaware Legis
lature who had resisted every' form
of "pressure.
“They gave away all the postmas
terships in Delaware in an effort to
get the Republicans to vote for rati
fication,” publicans he declared,“but the Re
are standing firm, as we
-
Mrs. John Baleh, of Massachusetts,
Chairman of the Finance Committee,
announced a $55,000 budget for the
coming fund” campaign, and a “surprise
immediate recently raised of $6,600 for
use. Miss Mary G. Kil
breth was unanimously re-elected
President with a rising vote of thanks
and many tributes to her adminis¬
tration. Resolutions were passed in
memory of James Calloway and in
appreciation of the firm stand taken
by Governor • Holcomb and
Clement and the manly
who resisted . all forms of
coercion,
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J. N. WHITE TO
' LEAVE FORT VALLEY
Ca.pt, J. N. __
duetor White, _ the popular con
of the Perry division of the
Central Railway, has resigned that
position and left yesterday (Mon¬
J a y), for Macon, out of which city
be will pull the bell cord on passenger
train* on the Montgomery division,
un< J«;rstand that the reason for
Capt. , White’s ehange was that the
work on the Perry division had be
come intend too and heavy for ons man to super
the officials of the road
decided to divide the work between
^ wo men-^ This rendered the position
unattractive to Capt. White and he
decided to ask for a transfer.
,.' bis Ve family understand to Macon. that he Their will move
friends here many
many will regret ex¬
ceedingly to give them up.
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CITY COURT
On account of the farmers being
so far behind with their work on the
farms, the jurors drawn for the May
Term, 1920, of the City Court are
excused from attending said Court.
No litigated cases will be tried and
judgments will be taken only in cases
in default. The Cou- will be in ses¬
sion on Monday and Tuesday without
a jury.
This May 10th, 1920,
A. C. Riley,
Judge City Court of Houston
County.
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LOCAL U. D. C. TO HONOR
THEIR STATE PRESIDENT
The Chas. D. Anderson chapter of
U. D. C. will give a large reception
at the home of Mrs. A. J. Evans on
May 27th in honor of the President
of the Ga. U. D. C., who will be the
guest of the chapter. Other promi¬
nent club women 0< State will be
here.
world.
$2.50 Par Yaar In Advance
CENTERVILLE VOTERS
FAVOR NEW COUNT!
ONE HUNDRED VOTERS OF UP¬
PER FIFTH HOLD BIG RALLY,
HEAR SPEECHES AND DIS¬
CUSS NEW COUNTY ISSUE.
Upon invitation of citizens of the
Upper Fifth district fully 100 of the
most influential voters of that and
other districts of the new county
section met in the school house at
Centerville Saturday morning and
participated in a discussion of the
new county issues. Mr. G. E. Rape
presided over the meeting arid intro¬
duced the speakers. These, in behalf
of the new county, were Col. C. L.
Shepard, Col. Emmett Houser and
Prof. Ralph Newton, of Fort Valley,
while Col. C. C. Richardson, of By¬
ron, upon invitation, spoke against
the new county movement. The bur¬
den of Col. Richardson’s opposition
was in the allegation that Fort Val¬
ley would over-ride the other new
county districts in building an ex¬
travagantly costly court house and
jail. This allegation was refuted by
other speakers and is further refuted
in the half-page advertisement ap¬
pearing in this issue of The Leader
Tribune. If anything-further were
needed to allay fears of this nature,
citizens from other districts need on¬
ly visit Fort Valley and see if they
can find any evidences of e'xtava
gance manifested in her municipal
buildings and other civic undertak¬
ings. Citizens of the Fort Valley sec¬
tion have no fear of the faith of the
citizens of other districts of the pro¬
posed new county section in the good
faith of the Fort Valley section be¬
ing shaken by such suggestions. This
town and section have amply demon¬
strated their ability to economically
administe'r their own affairs and
there is not the slightest reason for
doubting that the Fort Valley section
will be fully as much concerned as
are other sections of the proposed
new county in the economical ad¬
ministration of the new county’s af¬
fairs.
A majority of the voters present
at the Centerville meeting were pre
nouncedly in favor of the creation < f
a new county including the Upper
Fifth district, and some voters fro i
the Lower Fifth who were present
at tais meeting expressed themsel"
as desirous of their district’s being
included in the new county.
Others from Fort Valley who we e
P re ?® nt at the meeting were Mr. \, T .
P u T v PP T er harpe, T lf th a and former still resident large of la> the 1
a
own ?f 111 that district, and Mr. J. R.
Davidson, candidate for the Sta e
' Senate.
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ii GLEAN AND WHOLESOME
AND FULL OF INTEREST
The following kind words from a
distant ated. We subscriber aredeepjy appreci¬
shall continue to try to
live up to tis reputation.
Mr. J. M. Martini
Fort Valley
Ga.
Dear Mr. Martin :
Just a word
of appreciation of your paper, tho
Leader-Tribune, which weekly cornel
to us here in Chicago. It doe3 a
Christian’s heart good to see a se >
ular paper that is, clean and whole¬
some and one which is full of interest
also.
Am enclosing a cartoon which I
cut from the Chicago Daily News
a few days ago, bearing on the
“High Cost of Living”—I think it
rather good.
Cordially yours
Ida M. (Mrs. Jno. R.) Vousden
Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago, 111.
May 5, 1920.
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SWARM OF BEES CREATES
INTEREST—AND RESPECT
Considerable interest was attract¬
ed early Saturday afternoon by a
large swarm of bees which chose that
balmy afternoon to emerge from
their winter quarters in one of the
large columns of the front veranda
of Mr. I. N. Royal’s residence on
Church street. Thousands of bee3, ap¬
parently were encrusted on the cap
of the column and circled about it in
the air, and their gyrations respectful wove dis¬
watched from a very of
tance by quite a crowd people. their It
is said that the bees have made
home in the column for several years
but no one dreamed there were so
many of them. Judging from the
number of them seen Saturday the
column must contain a rich hoard of
honey.
Two gums were improvised in the
front yard and the swarm lured into
them, where the products of their fu¬
ture industry will be more accessible.
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If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, ex
perience your wise- counsellor, hope cau¬
tion your elder brother, and
your guadian genius.—Addiaon,