The Leader-tribune and peachland journal. (Fort Valley, Houston County, Ga.) 19??-192?, July 09, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSEMI-WEEKLY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ .♦ ♦ * + + * * Volume XXX11. Nlimber 40. HOSPITAL TRAINING OFFER SPLENDID NITY FOR:; SERVICE WITH GOOD PAY. Macon, Ga., July 7.—The - of trained nurses in Georgia is coming more serious every lay, cording to L. C. Brown, dent of The Macon Hospital. ing the sick will be deprived of per attention unless conditions remedied, he issued „ne following peal ; “This is a cal) for humanity! ly there is no nobler work than sening the sufferings of our man. Yet there are fewer nurses in training in the schools of the tal than ever before. This is in ked contrast with the war period when many girls for took up the profession of sing: The applications for trance to the schools ceased with end of the war and each graduate leaves a place vacant. "There is far more work that graduate purses can do in many places actual suffering—results. It can not be the women of today are less rous of answering the call of human¬ ity, It must be that they do not alise the gravity of the situation. They do not know of the great op¬ portunity offered them. “Thousands of nurses are needed by the Red Cross alone, are needed as public health industrial nurses, private duty ses and in other capacities. If girls will not enter the | schools because humanitarian object, the salaries the fees that graduates xhopld attract, especially those must earn their own Hying, “The Macon Hospital School is one of the best in the South. It offers a three year course to P er SOP* between the ages of 19 and 30 who, have had two years high training or its equivalent, and board and laundry are furnished free. In addition there is a allowance of $10.00 a month the first year and $15.00 during the next two years. It is a great tunity and one that many should take advantage qf. Applications should he sent to the Superintendent of ses, Macon Hospital. p THE BAPTIST CHURCH €• C- Pugh Sunday School, 9:30 a. m, Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. B. Y. P. U„ Sunday, 7 p, m. Prayer Meeting, Thursday, 8 p. m. Of course all members of church will be in their places every service Strangers and visitors in the are cordially invited. The men’s Bible class want meet you under the tent at 9 :30. Hear the large chorus of people sing at the evening service. Come and join them, the service mean more to you. j*r° A RUNNING for P R ESIDENT fhe ladies will accept my bow, - • - Anf} praise my-winning ways: j>or President I’m running days. now, Antj have been all my Mv mother still keeps kissing me, WhenjT am not asleep, .And piles theta up-high as can beV With aixteeij in a heap. I counted them one day last week, Five warmed my little toes, Ten .burned with love upon my And one got on my nose. I’m -having', friends, a jolly time With kisses—none to spare— They'll fit me for a seat sublime, The presidential chair. W. C. powersville, Ga. -o *- No Mistaking the Language •i.He was dressed stylishly and walked up to the railway booking 'floe and asked for a seaman’s turn, •i “We only issue them to gif,’’ was the reply. “Why,” burst forth from other’s Ups, ‘ ! you swivel-eyed son of a sea cook, if feel my starboard boom running of your headlights, you’ll haul your jatt tackle a bit, and then .. Give him a ticket, quick,” ed the train master. . - He’s Philadelphia North American. Leader-Tribune TUESDAYS AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Fridays FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 9. 1920. EIGHT PAGES World War Veteran Scalded At Cannery GEORGE A. HOPKINS, TWELVE TIMES WOUNDED IN WORLD WAR, AGAIN BAPTIZED WITH LIQUID FIRE.” Mr. George A. Hopkins of Balti more, twelve times wounded in the. late World War, was badly scalded about the head, shoulders and arms Monday afternoon at Robert Bro thers’ Cannery on the Perry railroad, Mr. Hopkins was manipulating the steam hoist, when the chain broke ami allowed ijOO cans of peaches to fall into the processing vat, splash ing the boiling water out upon him. The injured man was hurried into the warehouse of the Tannery and a negro woman rendered first aid by applying axle grease to the scalded portions of the man’s body that were accessible. It is said tliai the places to which the axle grease was applied did not blister. Physicians were sum¬ moned and the man’s wounds dressed, and he was removed to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Sheats, where he and his wife board. While very painfully injured he was reported Thursday afternoon to tie doing nice ly. Mr, Hopkins and two sons all served in the late World War, he himself receiving 11 gun wounds and being gassed once. He is patched up! and bound together with silver almost from head to foot—he has, only one whole (jne. He served 22 J mont hs in France and was twice | decorated for bravery on the firing being I one t hese decorations j the Croix de Guerre. When discharge ed he was H sergeant In the 9th in fai ^ ry> 2nd .division. He also served ^ Spanish-American War and on t i ie Mexican border. M r . pipkins has been coming to Valley 19 peach seasons. __ 0 ___ NEGRO kills BIG RATTLER __ A rattle-snake three and one half feet long, with 17 rattles exclusive of the “button, I ’ was killed Friday by a negro, Henry Kennedy, on Mr. Albert Murray’s place just beyond the Miami Valley Fruit Farm. The negro wris in tne act of taking a step when he espied the reptile in a coil. Recovering himself in time, he secured a shot gun and despatched the snake. <h SHARP ADVANCE SEEN IN PEACH MOVEMENT Shipment* Below Normal For Sea ion. Wide Range In Prices. Buy¬ ing Lulls. While the peach movement from local territory for the past week has been below that of normal years, it showed a mapked increase over that of the previous week, when only 17 cars were billed from the local freight office. During the seven days ending Wednesday, July 7, the movement was 247 cars. Total ship¬ ments from local territory for the season to date, 603 cars. Last sea son to July 9 inclusive, 1,743 cars, Total for State this season to 7 inclusive, 2,309 cars; last season, ’ 4,455. Late season, short crop and heavy culling account for the erepaney, shipped The varieties principally have been Carmans, Hileys and Ei rs« ha. " have be™ rathe', bah. Th» has made f. o. b. buyers timid and a lull in the f. o. b. market has re suited. Prices received for good at destination, however, have been in the main satisfactory. The trouble is that there hasn’t been enough fruit of that kind. Local business sentiment generally js pessimistic over the now well-fore seen outcome of this season’s peach deal. But the peach deal like Ban quo’s ghost, won’t down, and growers are already planning hopefully for better luck and a “big killing” next year. It’s that way in the peach business. It is predicted, however, that many orchardists the will pi||l up their “earlies after experiencs of this season, Four Men Killed In Wreck On HEAD-ON COLLISION AT PIED MONT THURSDAY NIGHT BRINGS DEATH TO ENGINE CREWS. MAIL CLERK HURT. A head-on collision at Piedmont at about 7:3t) Thursday night be tween passenger train No. 43, due in Fort Valley at 9:20 p. m., Capt. W. A. Wiooddall, conductor, and ex¬ tra north-bound freight No. 100, re¬ sulted in the death of Engineer Kin¬ ney of the passenger and Engineer Hesler of the freight; also of the fire¬ men on both engines. The names of the latter could not be ascertained early this morning, as only meager details | of the wreck were received by the night railroad operator and the wires were down this morning, pit; venting further reports. Both engines were demolished and the track blocked by the wreckage. Passengers who reached Fort Val ley by automobile this morning sta ted that railway mail clerk J. C. Ad kins suffered a broken nose and that the baggage and mail car was smash ed. The baggage man happened at the time to be on another coach injury. The freight tor was on top of a car when he the headlight of the passenger ng down upon his train. He ed and escaped injury. Passengers °n No. 43 were considerably shaken up but none were injured. Capt. dall, conductor on No. 43, also es " escaped injury. The wreck occured near a trestle, !t is said by passengers that the en gineer of the freight . was making his first run on that division and, not being familiar dith the road, failed to make the siding at Pied mont before the passenger train, which was running on schedule tea ched the trestle south of the sid n g. unable As passenger No. 43 was to pass the wreckage, its Friday run as No. 42 leaving Fort' Valley at 6:45 a. m., was taken by 1 local freight engine, crew and ca which took north-bound pas mongers aft far as Piedmont, whq^e they were transferred, —0- i THE RELATION OF BROWN R INFECTION, AND THE TIME OF RIPENING OF MAY¬ FLOWER PEACHES TO FERTILIZERS APPLIED. In the spring of 1913 a block Mayflower peach trees were set at tbe Georgia Experiment Station, and d ; v j ded into six plats of eight trees each, From 1913 to 1919, inclusive plats were fertilized as follows: p\ a t 1, received 6 lbs. of acid phos phate per tree; plat 2, received 12 jbs. 0 f a dd phosphate per tree; plat ^ received no fertilizer; plat 4, re reived 6 lbs. of acid phosphale, and 2 lbs. of muriate of potash per tree; plat 5, ret -eived 6 lbs. acid phosphate, d |b s nitrate of soda and 2 lbs, muri¬ , ate of potash per tree; plat 6, re ceiveij 6 lbs. acid phosphate and 4 lbs. nitrate of soda per tree. In the spring of 1920 all fertili zers and 'praying were withheld the so fer- as determine the influence of ner.; on the date of ripening of the fruit and its susceptibility to the brown rot The crop was harvested 3rd. The fruit of plats 1 and l, fertilised with acid phosphate alone, that of plat 1, receiving no ter considerably riper than re lfc.r n,, ° X t»-e. ™ X plats ripening ; fruit iru earl iest showed t e • H ^ e ^ er) ’ ripe fruit being more ^ , rot than green fruit, we would uld expect expect a a great- g e er per centage ot brown tot on the fruit of tree. .h»w,ng the great,., degree of ripeness. From the data in harm it wou d —o— Mrs. W. R. Bagley and little son of Tampa are visiting Mrs. Bagley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Brack on College St. 4* ❖ + Miss Louise McDonald is spending a few days with Miss Katie Mae NEBULOUS LIGHTS OVER FORT VALLEY MYSTIFY Much interest and speculation were created here Thursday night between eight and nine o’clock by the appearance of mysterious nubula like lights over Fort Valley. These lights were observed by a considera ble number of persons gathered on the north side of Main street. From that observation point the lights seemed to play over and behind the Evans building, First National Bank building and Brown building. For a while the light would appear for a considerable time in one place as an irregular oval, it would move rap idly up and down and horizontally, and occasional would appear as a vivid momentary shaft. There were considerable intervals when it could not be seen, The consensus of opinion among ■ he knowing ones was that the phe nomenon was caused by the reflec tion against cloud or mist banks of a powerful search light at Souther Field. Recent news stories in the daily papers have reported the rays from such search-lights as having been observed at a distance of 79 miles from their source. -----—o~ ----- MRS. M. M. LOWRY HOSTESS FOR^MRS. MANN MARTIN - j Mrs. M. M. Lowry was hostess on Thursday afternoon at an informal | tea at her country home, Cedar Hill Farm, near Perry, when she invited a number of Perry friends to meet her guest, Mrs. Mann Martin of Fort Valley. The guest list included Mrs. W, B. Sims, Mrs. Charles Kirklagd of Way cross, Mrs. L. M. Paul, Mrs. L. F. Cater, Mrs. B. C. Holtzclaw, Mrs. G. \\ Winn, Mrs. W. L. Orr, Mrs. Tom Warren, Mrs. Cooper Jones, Mrs. C. E Gilbert, Mrs, Sam Townsley. I o---| San Francisco The work of the Convention seems to have been very i satisfactory to all loyal democrats, I except Mr. Bryan. Am! of course what would please the majority of j the party could hardly be expected j to please him and some less loyal recalcitrants. The consensus of opjn ion seems to be that the democrats have a winning platform and ticket. o Friends of Mrs. S. H. Bassett re¬ gret that she has been critically ill | for several weeks. Her Thursday condition j seem ed somewhat improved j but she is not regarded as out of dan-j ger. Little Frances Bassett, grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. sett is improving after serious ill-1 ’ ness. Her mother, Mrs. Neville P. Bassett, "was wired for and came from Chicago severalAlays ago. o-- GOING-AWAY PARTY A UNIQUE SURPRISE Misses Gladys Slappey And Annie j Taylor Are Complimented On i Eve Of Their Departure For Boston | The young men nf Fort Valiev I conceived the idea of giving Misses, Gladys Slappey and Annie Taylor a j going-away-surprise party, on the i eve of thuir leavirm' for .Boston, ' which was beautifully executed by Miss Odille Ousley, who prepared the j „ e » m es. E.eh one d.abtl.., eehoed j “Make me a child again just for night.” A bountiful salad course w,th punch was served, Mr. Fuller acting | as “head-waiter,” at which he w< s las pleasing as serving his customers at the bank. A beautiful cake was cut for “an engagement ring”, but the luck, on, proved engaged. tc bo the Many one who was already wishes were made the young ladies for a pleasant stay ana a safe return, in which this editor asks to join. I From Experience. Philadelphia has dispensed with | spelling books in the public schools,, Every editor will agree that it is just as we n.—Morgantown (W. Va.) new Dominion, MR. D. W. SANDERS DEAD; CONFEDERATE Mr.. D. W. Sanders, a soldier the Confederacy, well known and throughout this section, away Saturday, .July 8; at his in Crawford County _6 1-2 miles of Tort Valley. Mr. Sanders was ly 84 years old, having been July 22, 1836. He was born and his entire life in Crawford County. Interment was at Union cemetery Sunday morning, his sons acting as pall bearers. He is survived by two Mr. J. 19. Sanders and Mrs. Yancey Jordan,with - the latter ot whom lived; one brother, Mr. J. M. ! ders of Muselia; nine 1 and fifteen great grandchildren. While not a member of any he was inclined toward the live Baptist belief. As a man and citizen he was puted to be honorable, upright highly respected by all who him. -o-: ORCHARD AND GARDEN NOTES ave You a Garden Plow? —Now t ^ at tde height of the season for cultivating the garden is here, woultl just like to ask the readers of r phe Progressive Farmer if they have , ( little garden plow. If not, you are making a .mistake, because in few gardens can horse cultivation be de¬ pended upon lf you go mt0 the gar _ den with a horse you tear up more fhan the cultivation is worth. If you must do it . b y hand with an ordinary hoe and raks it is a burdensome laborious job. By using a little garden plo w one person can do as much in an hour as could be done in one -half day or longer with an ordi nary hoe or garden rake. Better get one right now. Cultivate the Garden During Dry Weather. —When dry spells come along it is often advisable to water he garden, provided one is so situa¬ ted that an abundance of water can be applied. We wish to warn our readers, hpwever, that merely a light sprinkling during a dry spell is worse than none at all. iio if you are not in a position to give a thorough soak ing when you water the garden don’t do it at all. One of the best methods that we have found of watering the garden isto let the water un down j urows and soak in. Soon after t |, e wa ter is applied and has soaked and (-^e surface has dried off just ^ j east ^it, a- shallow cultivation should be given in order to prevent the formation of a'crust and the evaporation of moisture. Can the Surplus.— There are thousands of home gardens where there is a surplus of vegetables dur¬ ing certain seasons of the year. surplus should not be allowed to go to waste, but should either be mar¬ keted fresh or canned. Usually when the fresh vegetables are marketed a higher price can be secured than when they are canned, hut this is not always the ease. For those who wish to find a market for the garden pro¬ duce while filesh, we would urge ,hat they gather the evgetables are strictly first-class and put up in neat and attractive baskets and .atcr to the best local trade. A little effort along this line will, in cases prove decidely profitable. Plant in the Garden Every Don’t forget the fact that the most successful garden is the one that is kept -producing b'yfrequent plan¬ tings.- Ip other words, a garden may¬ be a decided success' early in the spring, and in the summer and early fall a weed patch if this successive planting is not kept uf). Follow the early vegetables that have already been harvested with some other veg¬ etable crop.'It is absolutely necessary to plant something in the garden every Week, o'r approximately often; if one is going to get the imum results-— L. A. Niven, in Progressive Farmer. The deadly fly is again with' This insect pest is collecting FANS- FANS FANS P. j *“ ^ I» - t jpl » ♦ $2.50 Per Year Id Advance SAYS BEWARE OF BOLL WEE¬ VIL DESTROYERS UNLESS AP¬ PROVED BY STATE BOARD— NEW BULLETIN ISSUED. . Atlanta, Ga.—Warning to tbo fdrih'ets of Georgia co beware ✓ of buying any so-called boll weevil de¬ stroyers “until it has been proven to the satisfaction of the State Board of Entomology that such claims are meritorious and they endorse same, H has been issued by the Board in a meeting just held. There are so many of these pre¬ parations on the market now which are pure fakes, that the Board of Entomology has deemed it both nec¬ essary to give this timely warning and to request the Legislature to en¬ act a law requiring all parties offer¬ ing for sale implements and chemi¬ cals for the destruction of the boll weevil, to submit them to thfe Board for investigation and approval, in or¬ der that the general punlic may be protected. Under the advice of the Board, no preparation of this sort should' be purchased unless it has the Board's . approval and endorsement. The Board also endorsed the bill of Rep¬ resentative Pope, calling for an ap¬ propriation of $20,000.00 for the con trol and eradication of the MoSaie disease of sugar cane. The Legisla¬ ture . was urged to pass this bill at the present session. Every farmer in Georgia will find interesting and valuable informaticn in Quarterly Bulletin number 82, of the State Department of Agricu.- .. ture,; just off the press. Commissit ’V er J - b. Brown gave careful attention . j to and the Jias Preparation included in of it this .information bulle n : value over the Strife.' ! One of the important features of the book is the soil map of Georgia, ishowuU? *n general the types , in various sections of the State, fol¬ lowed by a list of fertilizer fdrnuoag indicating which particular fertittzer is of most value in each particular section. It even goes to the extent of dealing with particular fertilizers for particular crops in these sect: jus. , Other valuable contents of the book- include Georgia crop statistics, for every county in the Statescotton. statistics for the last fifty years; an article on “Parasite • Diseases of Fam. Animajs”; an article on sii-eep. Raising by the Department’s' Statistician, and a great deal of other useful information. It os the purpose of the Department to plape a copy of this bulletin in ;the I bands .of every school teacher in, the State. A request on a postal card wijl being jt to the home address of anyone desiring it. • . disease germs from germ-laden filth of all kindsand depositing them ou rood and in the baby’s mouth. This rapid messenger of death is spread¬ ing typhoid and other deadly diseases. All dwellings should be screened and traps or poisons used to catch tne flies on the outside. All foods should be protected by screens at all times from flies ana every precaution should be taken to exclude flies from the kitchen and dining room.—The Progressive Farmer. o A prosperous farmer has gain act the reputation of being the stingiest pian in his town and consequently is .jnplj a general favorite with his neigh¬ bors. , v He owns an old horse which, to put it mildly, is very thin. : As if to make up for lack of flesh on its body, .how¬ ever, the animal has'-'a head- many sizes too large. The other week he went to the expense of a new collar for. the animal. A few minutes after the delivery he was bacK at the sad¬ dler’s with the collar.' - “Don’t you know nothin’?” he blurted out. “You’ve made it too small. I can’t get it over his head!” “Over his head?” replied the sad¬ dler. “Man alive, it wasn’t made to go over his head. BacK liim into it!” —Chicago Daily news. o Said old Mother Goose; “Have you heard of the news? The old lady I mentioned to you Boubht a For—yes, she did— It holds every kid— With the money she got.for tfco shoe. —Detroit Now*.