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die Georgia Peach and
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Volume XXXII. Number 48,
Fort Valley’s Population Is 3,223;
✓ Houston County’s, 21,964
SEORSIIt'S POP Mil
IS BEAREV 3,000,000
INCREASE OF 284,480, OR 10.9
P£R CENT, IN LAST DECADE.
FORMER CENSUS FIGURES ARE
GIVEN.
Washington.—Georgia’s 1920 popula¬
tion, with the exception of one enum¬
erating district not returned by the su¬
pervisor, Is 2,893,601, the census bu¬
reau announced. Ten years ago the
population was 2,609,121. The rate ol
growth for the ten years was 10.9 pei
cent, about 7 per cent less than the
Increase ten years ago.
Georgia had a population of 2,609,-
121, in 1910, making it as the tenth
most populous state in the Urflon. It
•bowed an increase of 392,790, or 17.7
per cent, for the ten years ending with
1910. The numerical increase was the
the largest in its history prior to the
present census. Georgia’s largest rel¬
ative increase was 97.1 per cent in
the decade 1790-1800. When the first
federal census was taken in 1900 Geor
gia had a population of 82,548 and it
ranked then as the seventeenth among
the states and territories.
In area Georgia ranked as twentl
eth among the states in 1910 with a
land area of 58,725 square miles, mak
Ing its population average 44.4 pei
square miles, compared with an aver¬
age of 30.9 per square mile for the
country as a whole.
Georgia was one of the thirteen orig
Inal colonies, adopted its state con
stitution in 1777 and ratified the fed¬
eral constitution In 1788. During the
first sixty years from the first census
in 1790 to 1850, the rate of increase
in Georgia’s population was much
higher than in the following sixty
years, ending with 1910. During the
first sixty years the rate of increase
did not fail below 31 per cent in any
decade, and the population at the end
of the period was nearly eleven times
as large as at the beginning. During
the second sixty years the rates of in¬
crease ranged from 12 per cent to
30.2 per cent and the population in
1910 was somewhat less than three
times that of 1850.
Comparison of the rates of increase
for the state with those for the United
States shows that during each decade
from 1790 to 1840 the rate of Increase
for the state was higher than that
for the United States. From 1840 to
1910 the rate for the state was lower
than for the country as a whole, ex
cept in the decade 1870-80, when the
state’s rate was slightly higher.
The population of Georgia in
was a little more than 31 1/2 times
as large as in 1790, when the first
census was taken, while the popula
tlon of the United States in 1910 was
23 times that of 1790.
The record of growth of Georgia’s
-rr n ^PoDula ' In Per
Yedr lation. crease. Cent,
191oZZZ”""”2,609,121 1920 .
392,790 17.7
1900. .......2,216,331 378,978 20.6
1890. .......1,837,353 295,173 19.1
1880. .......1,542,180 358,071 30.2
1870....... ------1,184,180 126,823 12.0
I860....... .......1,057,286 151,101 16.7
1850 JW.185 214 793 31.1
1830. 1840 ■■■"" ??«HI m 88’,556 S si l
1820 340;989 35A
1810 252 43 89 747 55.2
1800..... 162,686 80,138 97.1
1790. 82,548
DeKalb Tax Receipts Show Increase
Decatur.—The tax receiver’s digest
for 1920 shows DeKalb county’s tax re¬
turns to be $20,056,710, as compared
with $16,688,340 for 1919, or an in
srease of $3,448,370, which is the great¬
est annual increase-i|n the history of
the county. The returns of colored cit¬
izens of the' county show $401,225,
which is an increase of $98,430^ over re
pirns for 19UK which totaled $302,805..
Fatal Ice Pick Duel
Atlanta. An ice pick and a knife fig¬
ured as weapons in a fatal duel in
which Maud Willis a negro woman,
killed her husband, Archie Willis. The
woman plunged the ice pick into the
heart of the man and he died instant¬
ly, She was cut by Wilis, but not se¬
riously hurt. She was taken into cus¬
tody by Policeman Marker and after
her wound waa dressed was locked in
the police station, She declared her
husband had chased her into the street
with the knife’ and that she stabbed
atm oaly after he had cut her.
SEMI-WEEKLY
The Leader-Tribune
TUESDAYS AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL FRIDAYS
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 10, 1920
HOST HIKE STEPS TO
UPHOLD COM
BEAR SPECULATORS ON THE
JOB, SAYS BROWN. ENDORSES
PLAN FOR SYSTEM BONDED
WAREHOUSES.
Atlanta, August—(Special)—The
State Department of Agriculture be¬
lieves active steps should be taken
now to overcome the usual fall bear
raid on cotton, which always develops
about the time tne new corp is
coming on the market. Speaking
that subject Commissioner J. J.
Brown today said:
<4 Bear speculators are now selling
cotton futures many hundred points
below the spot market, in an effort
to break down the latter just about
the time preparations are being made
for marketing the new crop. This
effort stresses more than ever the
necessity for warehousing facilities
under which there may be issued
gilt-edged certificates which could be
used in financing the new crop.
“We must finance the new crop,
at least to the best of our ability, un¬
til a price is reached which will give
the farmer a fair max-gin of profit
above the cost of production. It is
the only way to check the bear spec¬
ulators who are selling millions of
bales short in their desperate effort
to break the market.
44 I am convinced that if we had a
system of bonded warehouses such
as is now being urged through the
State Bureau of Markets in conjunc¬
tion with the federal government,
we would have no difficulty in pro¬
tecting ourselves. This plan is wox-thy
the careful conideration and coopera¬
tion of every wideawake farmer and
Business man in Georgia.
“If the producers of cotton wi 1
show to the world once mors that
they are capable of financing and
pricing their own cotton, they will
have solved the question of the dis
trjjjution and marketing of the
South’s great crop, in a way to
bring the farmer a fair margin of
profit for many years to come. The
Cotton States Advisory Marketing
Boar( j an d the American Cotton As
sociation are now doing all within
ir r t0 agsist the South a i on g
these . ,. lineS
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COLORED FARMER SHOWS
SOME FINE POTATOES
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j F Turner a colored farmer re
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rQUt g No 1( brou}? ht
some fine new sweet potatoes the
first of last week. One of these
The Leader-Tribune office, as
sample of the kind of diversification
we have advocated from time to time,
weighed a fraction over one pound,
qj course we have seen larger pota
^ oeS; bu t larger ones are not desir
b j e This was a sample, , not a
henominaI 8pecimen , of this colored
farmer’s yield, and was a fine sam
of the kind of necessary food
crops farmers of this section should
pay more attention to. The potatoes
Turner brought in were the first of
the new crop we had seen in this
section.
FREDERICK WITHOFT POST
AMERICAN LEGION MEETS
There will be a meeting of the
Fredercik Withoft Post of American
Legion, Wednesday evening, in
Chamber of Commerce room, at 8
p. m.
All-members and' ex-service men
are urged to be presents
Wesley Houser
Corn’d
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Misses Lucy, Hilda and Myrtle
Joyner and Willie M. Vinson spent
Sunday in Roberta, the guests of
Miss Ennis Kimbrough, who accom
panied them home for a visit of a
few days.
BIST. 18II
TO OPEN S . H
HANDSOME MAIN BUILDING BE.
ING MADE READY; PRINCIPAL
MOSLEY ANNOUNCES EN.
TRANCE QUALIFICATIONS.
The Trustees and faculty of the
Twelfth District Agricultural and
Mechanical School at Cochraq, Geor¬
gia, are making every effort to get
ready for a good opening of the
school September 14th. The njain
which is one of the hand
somest school buildings in the state,
is being equipped and put in order. ,
A nine roonj house, which will serve
as a home for the principal and fur
nish room for a number of students,
is being constructed and will be ready
for occupancy by the time school
opens. Fencing of the farm is
completed and a barn and shop will
shortly be begun.
A faculty of well qualified teach
ers has been secured and every
partment of the school will be ox-gan
ized to serve the people of the dis
trict along the lines intended by the
state in establishing the Agricultural
and Mechanical High Schools.
We eipect to be able to give first
class advantages to a few worthy
students from each county in the dis¬
trict. We will be prepared to room
and board twenty-five to thirty stu¬
dents at the school and will be glad
to enroll others who may be able to
secure room and board in private
families or who live near enough to
Cochran to board at home.
We desire to enroll boys who ex¬
pect to make farming a profession,
and girls who are interested in Home
Economies. We are not running an
ordinary High School and do not care
to enroll students unless they are
interested, or expect to become inter¬
ested, in the subjects we teach.
In addition to the regular sub¬
jects of Math, English, Science, and
History all boys will be required to
take the courses in Agriculture and
Farm Mechanics and all girls will be
required to take the work in Home
^Economies. Boys 14 years old or
older who have completed the 7th
grade may be admitted.
If you intrust your boy or girl to
our c^re every effort will be made
g.ve them the traming that will
help them to become useful and good
citizens. We will try, so far as we arc
able, to supply a wholesome and
j healthful environment for our stu
dents and to develop in them quali
that make good citizens.
Printed announcements will be
mailed on request The principal
hopes to visit each county in the
] District some time in August and will
j be glad to see and talk to parents and
j students who are interested.
Yours very truly,
J. W. Mosley.
■ School, Mchool
*>"• 12th Dxst. A. &. M.
Cochran, Georg.a,
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
C. R. Jenkins, Pastor.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Preaching, 11:00 a. m. and 8:00
p. nx.
Praise Service, 2:30 p. m.
Junior Church, 3:00 p. m.
Epworth League, 7:00 p. nx.
Prayer Service, Tuesday, 8:00 p.
m.
j The public is cordially invited to
all these services.
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MARSHALLVILLE PLAYS
BRONWOOD WEDNESDAY.
An interesting game of ball is
promised the fans Wednesday after
noon when Marshallville and Bron
wood meet at the Marshallville Ball
Park. The game is to be called at
3:30< p. m. Both teams are said to
be fast.. Many local fans will doubt
j less go over to see the battle.
FOUR PAGES
ATTENTIVELY HEARD BY
LARGE AUDIENCE AND
MAKES VOTES. SHOWS LP
HARWICK IN MARTEN’S CASE.
People from every militia district
in Talbot county began arriving in
town early Tuesday morning. The
significance of “First Tuesday, >»
coupled with the coming of Georgia’s
distinguished Attorney General and
gubei-natorial candidate, Hon. Cliff¬
ord Walker, made the day memora
ble.
A representative audience greeted
Mr. Walker; Seated on the platform
with the speaker were Messi’s N. G.
Patterson of Box Springs, and Flot
cher Woodall of Woodland. Judge
A. Smith introduced Mr. Walker
in terms of warmest indorsement and
strongest fraternalism. Tribute was
paid to his high integrity, noble
ideals and Christian endeavors. Mr.
Walker responded gratefully and
briefly, entern&.at once upon the
questions of the hour. He maintained
that Georgia’s first need is a coxi
servative, economical administration,
and that public sentiment should be
enlightened to protect the country
from the spirit of Bolshevism, hold¬
ing that this can be accomplished
through the elevating influence of
better schools, better paid teachers,
better x-oads, the transfoinxing of
tenants and home owiers and renew¬
ed allegiance to the o'd time religion
of our mothers and grand-mothers.
Mr. Walker showed Thos. Hard¬
wick up in'true colors, and made
very plain the Maiden’s case and its
relation to future developments.
The speech was a telling one, and
was given an attentive hearing. Wal¬
ker made votes by his coming—Tai
botton New Era.
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47TH DISTRfcT CHANGES
PLAN ELECTING SENATOR
Candidates To Be Voted On Ojily In
County Whose Turn It is To
Furnish Senator.
The following resolution was unan¬
imously adopted at a convention of
the counties composing the 47th sen¬
atorial district, held in Tifton Fri¬
day a week ago:
Be it resolved, by the Democratic
Executive Committee fox' the Forty
Seventh Senatorial District:
That the rule which seems to be in
force in said District, composed of
the counties of Colquit, Tift and
Turner, requiring candidates for
State Senator from said District to
submit their candidacy ^R) the voters
of all three counties in the district
in the primary election fox; the nom
ination of a Senator be so changed,
that said candidates be required to
submit their candidacy only to the
voters of the county whose time it is
to furnish the Senator under the ro¬
tation system.
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Obeying Order*.
The foreman swore at Cassidy for
not taking a full load of bricks up
the ladder every trip.
One morning the supply of bricks
ran out and Cassidy, after gathering
every one in sight, found he was
still short the proper number, He
yelled to a workman on ther fifth
floor.
44 What da you wantf” asked the
man.
n Throw me down wan brick,”
shouted Cassidy “to make good me
load!” Everybody’s Magazine.'
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Willing to Oblige.
Mistress—“Now, Ada, I want you
to shjw us wh..t you cai do tonight.
We have a few very special friends
coming for a musical evening.
Cook—“Well, mum, I ’aven’t done
any singing to speak of for years,
but as you insists upon it you can
put down for ‘The ’Oly City. » yy
me
The Passing Show, London.
Increase of 536 for Fort Valley; Decrease of
1,645 for County.
Negro Exodus and Land Cession Reduce
t* County’s Showing.
Census Figures for Other Georgia Towns and
Counties Announced To-Date.
The population of Fort Valley, as
announced by the census bureau at
Washington on Saturday, is 3,123.
This is an incx-ease of 533, or 20 pci
cent, over the 1910 census figure,
which was 2,697. While this increase
may not be as great as some of the
more sanguine of our citizens may
have expected, there is no disposition
on the part of the city officials who
wei - e in close touch with the enume¬
rators to feel that the figure is not
fairly accurate for the time of year
taken. While some citizens have com¬
plained that-'their homes were not
visited by the enumerators, Mayor
Neil informs The Leader-Tribune
editor that he cooperated closely with
the enumerators and saw to ii that
persons who could not be seen by the
enumerators were properly listed.
The population of Houston County
was anno unced on August Lst as
21,964—a decrease of 1,645, or 7
per cent, from the cenus of 10 years
ago. This decrease would not be a
matter of marvel if it were accounted
for by no other cause than the
of negroes to the north during
war, a factor which caused a
ci’ease in the census figures of
Georgia counties having a lai’ge
gro population. But the real max-vel
is that the decrease is so small when
it is I'emembered that the greater pox-
tion of the 14th District of Houston
County was included in Macon
County’s census under the land cess¬
ion settlement of which is still pend¬
ing in the courts, and when it is noted
that Macon county’s census shows an
increase of 2,651, or 17% per cent,
largely accounted for by the same
land cession.
The census figures for other Geor
gia counties annnounced August 1
and previously were as follows:
Candler, 9,228. (Organized 1915.)
Chattahoochee, 5,266, decrease
320, or 5.7” per cent.
Dodge 22,540, increase 2,413 or
12 per cent.
Henry 20,420, increase 493, or 2.5
per cent.
Irwin, 12,670, increase 2,209 or
21.1 per cent.
Johnson, 13,546, increase 649, or
5 per cent.
Liberty, 12,652, decrease 272 or
2.1 per cent.
Laurens, 39,605, increase 4,104, ox
11.6 per cent.
Madison, 18,802, increase 1,952, or
11.6 per cent.
Montgomery, 9,167, decrease 10,-
471, or 53.9 per cent.
Pulaski, bl,384, decrease 11,451,
or 50.1 per cent. •
Randolph, 16,721, decrease 2.120,
or 11.3 per cent.
Ware, 28,361, .increase, 5,404, or
23.5 per cent.
Wilcox, 15,511, increase, 2,025, or
15 per cent.
Wilkes, 23,323, decrease 118, cr
5. per cent.
Chatham, 100,032, increase 20,-
342, or 25.5 per cent.
Evans, 6,5554. (Organized 1914.)
Glynn, 19,370, increase 3,650, or
23.2 per cent.
Muscogee, 44,195, increase 7.968,
or 22 per cent.
Macon, 17,667, increase 2,651,
Clay county, Georgia, 1920 popu
lation 7,557; decrease since 1910,
1,403, or 15.7 per cent.
Coweta county, Georgia, 1920 pop¬
ulation, 29,047) increase since 1910,
247, or .9 per cent.
Crisp county, Georgia, 1920 popu¬
lation, 18,914; increase since 1910,
2,491, or 15.2 per cent.
Dooly county, Georgia, 1920 popu¬
lation, 20,522; decrease since 1910,
32, or .2 per cent.
Glascock county, Georgia, 1920
population, 4,192-; decrease since
world.
$2.50 Per Year la Advance
1910, 447, or 10.7 per cent.
Hancock county, Georgia, 1920
population, 18,357; decrease since
1910, 832, or 4.3 per cent.
Murray county, Georgia, 1920 pop¬
ulation, 9,490; decrease since 1910,
273, or 2.8 per. cent.
Pickens county, Georgia, 1920 ^pop¬
ulation, 8,222; decrease since 1910,
8i 9. or 9.1 per cent.
Quitman county, Georgia, 192C
population, 3,417; decrease since
1910, 1,177, or 25.6 per cent.
Figux-es for a number of Georgia
counties previously issued also show¬
ed decreases in population.
It is of interest to note how Fort
Valley’s population compares with
the 1920 census figures that have
thus far been announced for some
other Georgia towns:
‘Cochran, 2,021; Monroe, 3,211;
Social Circle, 1,781; Vidalia, 2,869;
McDonough, 1,263; Easman, 2,707;
Empire, 970; Ocilla, 2,180; Wrighta
viile, 1,476; Colbert, 1,394; Comer,
1,001; Hawkinsville, 2,867; Cuthbert,
,3,022; Shehman, 1,074; Abbeville,
1,119; Rochelle, 1,046; Washington,
3,321; Louisville, 1,040; Wadley, 1,«
432; Wrens, 1,074; Bibb City, 1,090;
Warrenton, 1,407; Montezuma, l,- 8
827; Marshallville, 1,150; Qgel
thorye, 871; Ideal, 304.
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SCHOOL NOTICE.
A rule of the Board of Education
requires that all pupils entering;
school must be vaccinated. A number
of parents wait until school begins
before having children vaccinated
with the result that these children
have to be absent several days with
sore arms right in the beginning of
the term when they need very much
to be in school. This is especially true
first grade pupils and yet nowhere
is absence a greater drawback than
during the first weeks of the first
grade. /
This notice is to urge all parftxts
to have vaccination done now during
vacation so that there may be no loss
of time after school begins.
School will open on the Becond
Monday in September.
All pupils who have been condi¬
tioned in any subject must make up
work in this subject during vacation
and .present satisfactory evidence of
this wox-k at the beginning of school.
Pupils failing in the conditioned sub¬
ject the first month of school will be
sent back to the grade from which
they wei’e promoted.
Ralph Newton.
Adv. Superintendent
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MR. J. D. WILSON SHOWS
FIRST OPEN COTTON
Mr. J. D. Wilson brought into
Leadei’-Tribune office last Wednes¬
day the first open bolls, of cotton
we have seen this season. The bolls
were well matured and fully open,
and Mr. Wilson said that a good deal
of it was open in the field on his
farm just east of Fort Valley. He
expects to begin picking iL sometime
this week.
The variety is Holding’s Early Pro¬
lific, the seed of which Mr. Wilson
bought from Mr. A J. Evans. Mr.
Wilson has 225 acres of this cotton,
and says the boll weevil has done it
no appreciable damage.
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Harding is now on the front porch. Y
After November he will be on the 't
back seat.—Commerce Observer.
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Mrs. J. D. Kendrick and littla ,if
daughter, Mildred, have gone to "
Warm Springs for a month.
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