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Volume XXXII. Number 49.
Houston County Census By Militia
Districts and Incorporated Towns
GREAT BRITIAN TO
BLOCKADE
NO ALLIED TROOPS TO FIGHT
RUSSIANS, BUT PLENTY OF
t MUNITIONS FOR POLES
EFFORTS FOR TRUCE
Meanwhile All Reports Tend To Show
That The Russians Are Closing
On The Poles
Hytlie.—Russia has caught the allies
at a time when these war stricken
countries have had about all the war
they will tolerate. And in the diplo
matic exchanges that have been go¬
ing on tor days between the Soviet
regime and the allied spokesmen.
- sia’s knowledge of the real attitude of
mind in the allied countries brought
her out of this situation a winner. She
has done exactly as she intended to
do—has utterly toiled the diplomatic
efforts lor a truce carrying on long
argumentatve discussions, and finds
that for the time being at least the
allied premiers have decided against
carrying out their early threats of war.
The conference between Lloyd
George and Premier Mttlerand here
aus come to an end with the two states
men officially "in complete agree
ment.” Thp decision reached as to the
future course toward Russia, how
ever, would indicate it fell far short
of the militant promulgated by offi
eials of both sides several days ago.
Threats of warlike measures failed
to tease the Soviet regime. Then
lowed efforts to bring about a truce,
which failed. Now both the French
and British governments believe that
Russia is determined to crush Poland
uud set up a Soviet regime in that
country. Lloyd-George admits that
three months of effort to negotiate
w xth the Soviets to efect peace in cen¬
tral Europe have utterly broken down.
The big and' very serious question
asked on all sides now is: "Where will
this Russian movement end?”
The premiers decided upon measures
in support of Poland limited to mili
tary advice, munitions shipments and
naval measures, which imply resump
tion of a naval blockade around Rus
*ia. Allied troops, in so far as yet
definitely decided upon, will not par¬
ticipate in the aid agreed upon.
% But there seems little doubt that the
Russian problem carries with it
threats more potention than at' any
:ime since the Soviets obtained a firm
{rip ujion that nation.
“After Poland wi'l come Germany,”
aas been the “promise” held out by
Soviet newspapers in Russia. And
jld-time threats of a German-Russian
Alliance still cast their shadows over
Allied councils.
RENTS INCREASED;
TENANTS THREATEN TO
PUT ON BIG STRIKE
Women Say That Rents In Atlanta,
Georgia, Are Higher Than In
New York City
Atlanta, Ga.—Atlanta is to have a
‘rent strike, if intentions of occu
pan is of the Knox apartments on
Peachtree street, are carried out, ac
jording to the statement of Mrs. Emma
Garrett Boyd, one of the tenants.
It is understood that a 50 per cent
increase in rent has been asked by the
jwner oi' the apartment and, in an¬
swer to his demand, a committee was
appointed among the occupants of
the apartments, which called upon Mr.
Knox in an effort to have the proposed
mcrease trimmed.
According to Mrs. Boyd, the com¬
mittee was unsuccessful, and tenants
nave announced their intention of cali
ill . -« r a sir ke and seeking other loca
.ions.
“For the past four years I have
been a resident of New York City,”
Mrs. Boyd said, “and on returning to
Atlanta, where I have previously lived,
l was astonished at the exorbitant
rents being charged for apartments.
"In New York City apartments may
be secured in some of the meat fash¬
ionable sections cheaper than in At
lanta. The action taken by the ten
ants of the Knox apartments is just
a beginning of a movement by peo¬
ple who are able to afford the best
apartments, but who are determined
lot to' submit to the whims of a land
lord.
SEMI-WEEKLY
The Leader-Tribune
TUESDAYS AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL FRIDAYS
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 13, 1920. EIGHT PAGES
“ADVERTISE GEORGIA”
PLANS BEING SHAPED
GOVERNOR WILL PROCLAIM OC¬
TOBER “ADVERTISE GEORGIA
MONTH”. TO RAISE $300,000
BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
Atlanta, Ga. August 12 Under
the direction of Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey, who in l^is official
is general chairman, the work of
Advertise Georgia Association is
rapidly taking shape and a big force
is at work in the rotunda of the state
capitol, preparing the preliminaries.
The work has been endorsed by the
general assembly in a joint
tion, and the Governor will soon is
sue a proclamation declaring Oeto
ber to be “Advertise Georgia Moijth. »»
■ ! It is expected to invest $300,000
1 in . a campaign of advertising in na -
tional periodicals, farm journals and
motion pictures designed to bring to
Georgia thousands of home
, ' who paying higher prices for
are
poorer lands in the far west and in
Canada. It is pointed out that Geor
gia would attract a large proportion
0 f these land seekers if they knew
what this state has to offer.
j The Advertise Georgia Enterprise
I j • is the joint undertaking of the Geor
-
gia Association, which for some time
has been at work for the advertising
i and development of the state; and
the Advertising C lubs of Georgia, _
which will entertain the great con
; vention next summer of the Associ -
ated Advertising Clubs of the World,
Governor Dorsey is general chairman
m charge and actively in touch with
the work> and the funds wil] be hand _
led with all the care given regular
state funds and subject to the same
auditing system. Charles B. Lewis, of
Maeon, is treasurer, and other mem
bers of the executive committee are
J. C. McAuliffe, postmaster of Au
gusta; W. B. Roddenbery, of Cairo;
Paul T. Harber, of Commerce; L. H.
Dimmitt, of Savannah; and Dave W.
Webb, of Atlanta. The fund‘is to be
raised by popular subscription.
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COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS
DISCHARGE OF BAHSEN
,
Atlanta, Aug. 11.—Fojlowing the
action of the joint investigating com¬
mittee of the house and senate,
which, by a vote of 6 to 2 on Mon¬
day night, found Dt. Peter F. Bah
sen, state veterinarian, guilty on two
of the charges brought against him,
Representative Williams, of Worth,
the author of the investigation in the
house, on Tuesday introduced a reso¬
lution directing the commissioner of
agriculture to discharge Dr. Bahsen
from his office and to appoint a suc¬
cessor in accordance with the law
prescribing the manner in which a
vacancy in the office shall be filled.
At the request of Representative
Williams the resolution was referred
to the rules committee which is ex¬
pected to discuss it at a meeting at
2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Williams urged that the
rules committee bring the resolution
before the house for action Tuesday
afternoon inasmuch as the matter
involves the moral integrity of an of¬
ficial. !
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JUDGESHIP BILL MACON
CIRCUIT UP TO DORSEY
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Atlanta, August 10.—The bill
creating an additional judgeship for
the Macon Superior Court Circuit
was sent yesterday to the Governor
for approval. The measure becomes
effective in November of this year
and the appointment of a judge is
td hold until the next following gen
eral election.
several , applications al
There are
ready made for the place, but it is
well understood that the matter of
appointment will not be taken up by
the Governor for probably sixty days.
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jIWO GET HEW ASSE1LVS COUNTIES
FIVE NEW COUNTIES IN ALL
TO VOTERS. LONG
APPROVED, BUT NOT OUT
HOUSTON.
Witli but five votes to spare,
senate bill creating Lamar
out^ of parts of Monroe and
counties, with Barnesville as
] county seat, Tuesday morning
I the house of representatives,
j when the result of the ballot, 134
48, was announced there was
monstration in the house gallery
in the rotunda of the capitol
lasted several minutes, despite
efforts of Speaker John Holder
I quell the noise.
A senate bill creating Long
1 in honor of the memory of Dr.
1 ford W. Long, the Georgia
' who first used chloroform
as an
aesthetic, was also concurred in,
J measure receiving a big
This co'unty will be made up of
ritory taken from Liberty,
j Ludiwici as the county seat.
A feature of the voting on
I county was the change made by
resentative Adams of Walton,
1 voted against the bill when it
last before the house. Mr.
a note that had been written him
Curtis Barrett, the young man
made himself , famous by holding
own and defending himself and
American Legion against a
audience. In this note Mr.
requested the representative
Walton, whose son, John C.
had been with Curtis Barrett
France, to vote for the Lamar
ty measure if possible. The
tative was cheered when he
ed that he would change his vote,
Whatever else this general
bly has done or failed to do, it
surpassed all of its predecessors
cept the famous new county
ture of 1907 in proposing the
ation of new counties. With
action by the house Tuesday on
mar and Long counties, the people
will be given an opportunity to vote
for the creation of five new
this fall, bringing the total number
of Georgia counties up to 160.
One of the new counties to be
voted on this fall, Lanier, was passed
up at the 1919 session. The other
four, Brantley, Seminole, Lamar, and
Long, were authorized at the cur¬
rent session.
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JAMES O’NEILL, FAMOUS
ACTOR, DIES OF CANCER
New London, Conn., Aug. 10.
James O’Neill, noted actor, who ap¬
peared for fifteen years in the role
of Edmond Dantes, in “Monte
to,” died at Lawrence hospital here
today. He had been ill for two months
from , cancer of the stomach. m ,
O’Neil, who was born in Ireland
in 1847, made his first stage
ance in Cincinnati in 1867. In the
“Passion Play” in San Francisco in
1877 he appeared in the role of
Christ.
Perhaps a gentleman is a rarer man
than some of us think for. Which of
us can point out many such in his
circle, men whose aims are generous,
whose truth is constant, and not only
constant in its kind, but elevated in
its degree; whose want of meanness
them simple, who can look the
honestly in the face with an
manly sympathy for the great
the small.—Thackeray,
“WANTED—A MOTHER »*
The Chas. D. Anderson Chapter U.
C. are very anxious to know if
is a mother of a Confederate
living * in Houston County. :
want to present this mother, if
can be found, with a gold bar of
If any one knows of such a
kindly report it to Mrs. F. O.
President of the Chas. D.
chapter,
COTTON DADIGS
RECORD
HIQHEST PRICES PAID IN
three Years paid for
• LAST YEAR’S CROP
I SELLS FOR
Total Value Of 1919-20 Crop Placed
Over Two And -One Half
Billion Dollars
New Orleans,—The complete state
ment of the cotton crop of the
States for the cotton year just
on July 31 has been given to the
by the secretary of the New
cotton exchange. Outstanding
In the report are the figures on values
the secretary saying the prices
^ or ^is cr °P were the highest in
ty-three years, and the figures on ex
ports, which credited with
and Austria, after having been prac
Lically out of the American
%uee m4 wfth tttking 475000 bales
Total exports of American cotton
the year were over nine hundred thou
sand bales larger than for the preced
ing year, the total movement
6,366,008 bales from all ports,
5,485,434 last year.
The total value of the crop of 1919
20 was placed at the enormous
of $2,516,544,520, an increase of
292,652 over the valuation of the pre
ceding crop. In this sum Is includ
ed the ___ value _____ of __ the ._______ seed. The _______
age p r j ce 0 j middling spot cotton dur
,j n g the year was 38.21 cents a pound
which compares with the average
30.36 for last year and the average
commercial value per bale was $182.98
against $155.14 last year,
As stated in a preliminary report ol
the trade on the first day of the new
cotton year, the size of the old com
mercial crop was 12,443,000 bales, com
paring with a crop of 11,640,000 bales
last year.
The consumption of American cot
|ton by American mills was put at 6 .
351,000 bales, 3,691,000 bales in the
'South and 2,660,000 in the North. In
addition American mills consumed
*417,000 bales of foreign grown cotton,
(the largest consumption of foreign
cotton ever recorded. The grand to¬
tal of American consumption was 6 ,
786,000 hales, against 6,207,000 bales
for the preceding year. World’s con
jiumption of American cotton for the
year was counted at 12,735,000 bales,
against 10,600,000 for the preceding
ptear.
WILSON IS ALARMED BY
THE RUSSIAN SWEEP;
BUT IS VERY HESITANT
*The President Dislikes To Ttake Step*
Inimical In Any Way To The
People Of Russia
Washington.—Government officials
i here are awaiting with keen interest
jthe outcome of the Lloyd-George-Mil
I jerand conference at llyihe and con
pmation of the report made pub ic by
| the Polisch legation to the etfect that
t}enera , Ha ller’s-army, to the north ol
Warsaw, had taken the'
^ gainst the Bolshevists and is nak
, j gat j a tactorv headway. The state
department is without inforamtion 0 (
r definite character either from the
! American legation at Warsaw or from
! the embassy at London and Secretary
Colby, deeming the situation “up in
?he air" until the conclusion of the
Mythe get-togethei meeting, stayed
? way from the office.
The note reported to have been seDt
from Poland to the United States had
not put in its apeparance up to mid
pight of August 8 , nor was any inkling
to be obtained than that it would
j n a n jkelihood a more direct and
^, rgeat p i ea for at least the publicly
expressed moral support of America
ban was recently made by Prince Lu
jhomirsk, the Polish minister to the
state department. On this occasion it
fa understood the prince was told that
thiB government was powerless to act
,n any material way without the ap
, .
P robatlon . ® aft*p<iYolirv
government s already expiessed policy
neutrality bet ween the Poles and
the g 0 i gbev i8tB was reiterated,
1 lt jg ata t ed that the president is
genuinely alarmed by the Russian
p we ep, but dislikes to take any step
1'inimical to the people o£ Russia.-*’
$2.50 Per Year In Advance
Comparative Figures For Last Three Censuses
Show Population of County 677
Less Than 20 Years Ago.
Would Show Increase Had Lower 14th
Been Included.
Fort Valley Shows Steady Growth For Each
Decade. Perry Gains 74 People and
Elko Loses 60 in Past 10 Years.
The Leader-Tribune received Tues¬
day from the bureau of the. census
at Washington the following report
of the census of Houston County by
militia districts and incorporated
towns for 1920, 1910, and 1900.
It will be noted that the county
shows an apparent decrease in pop¬
ulation of 1,645 within the past ten
years. It will also be noted that the
Lower Fourteenth district is not in¬
cluded in the census of Houston |
n County . e for 1920. ino . Had .j , that , district'
been counted instead of being in¬
cluded in the Macon County census,
and had the increase in population in
that district during the past tep
Minor civil division 1920 1910 1900
Houston County ...................J 21,964 23,609 22,641
No. 500, Upper Eleventh 586 864 917
.............
No. 527, Tenth .................................. 1,659 1,750 1,057
No. .528, Ninth including Fort Valley
city .......... ................................ 6,277 5,358 3,986
No. 541, Old Thirteenth, including
Elko town ................................ 1.252 1,350 1,351
No.-542, Twelfth, including Grovania
town ..................... E 577 1,010 1,550
No. 619, Lower Town, including part
of Perry city ............................ 1,196 1,521 1,592
No. 765, Upper Fourteenth 54 7 1,443 1,487
.............
No. 769, Lower Fifth 1,149 1,290 1,251
......................
No. 771,‘Upper Fifth............. 1,764 1,752 1,815
No. 887, Sixth .................................... 2,073 2,067 2,111
No. 928, Upper Town, including part
of Perry town ..... ................... 1,187 1,2457 1,208
No. 970, Lower Eleventh 1,356 942 9£3
No. 492, Lower Fourteenth. .............. 1,422 1,296
No. 926, New Thirteenth 1,342 1,573 1,477
..... ........
Incorporated places 1920 1910 1 900
Elko town 213 273 171
P’ort Valley city 3,223 2,297 2,022
Grovania town .. ★ 61
Perry city .......-................................ 723 649 650
■k Not returned separately in 1920.
A PLEASANT ROOK PARTY
FOR YOUTHFUL VISITORS
Mrs. M. C. Green and Mrs.
ling , Slappey entertained thevyounger
society set on Monday afternoon
complimentary to Miss Jean
dal of Albany and Miss Matha Sam
| mons of Griffin, the guests of Miss
Virginia Smith. Rook was enjoyed
and a delicious iced course was
served. Misses Ruby Harris, Eliza
beth Smith and little Miss Emily
Taylor assisted in entertaining the
guests.
The guests list included MisseSjMar
garet Branham, Edwina Houser, An
nette Shepard, Gertrude Brown,
Hazeltine Fagan, Louise
Margaret McMillan, Dorothy and
Lois DuPree, Ida May Fountain,
Mary Frances Joiner, Helen
Ruby Duke, Emily Braswell, Fran
ccs Langston and Ora McCarty.
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ONE THOUSAND DEAF MUTES
EMPLOYED BY ONE CONCERN
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The largest deaf mute colony in
United States, located at Akron, O.,
will be represented at the annual con¬
vention of the National Association
of the Deaf, to be held August 9-14
in Detroit, by a delegation of 200.
Approximately 5,000 “silents”
attend the convention front all
of the country.
The entire Akron delegation
be composed of workers in the Good
year Tire & Rubber Company, which
has gathered deaf mutes from all.
parts of the country. !
Eastern delegates will stop at 1
Akron enroute entertained to the by convention the Goodyear! and j
will be
Silent colony of about 1,000 deaf j
mutes. '
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been in proportion to its
during the preceding decade,
County would have shown
loss, at least, in its population.
it may not have shown a gain
be accounted for by the mi¬
of negroes to the North dur¬
the war.
It will be noted that the Ninth
shows by far the largest
in the past decade of any ma
district in the County, the gain
this district being 919, of which
more than half, or 526, was
the corporate limits of Fort
MRS. B. T. MARSHALL HOST
AT BEAUTIFUL LUNCHEON
Mrs. B. T. Marshall entertained a
number of friends Tuesday at a
beautiful buffet luncheon in honor
°f Mrs. Charlie Marshal] of Nash
ville, Tenn. who is her charming
guest.
The living room, music room and
dining room were thrown together
and decorated with garden flowers—
zinnias, Mexican sunflowers and
periwinkle. The color scheme was
red, green and gold. On the dining
table was a lunlcheon cloth of Roman
cut work; in the center of the table
I was an exquisite gold Bohemian bowl,
filled with vari-eolored zinnias; and
pen-winkle was used in vases on the
mantel and on the buffet. In crystal
dishes were crystalized ginger and
roasted pecans, carrying out the mo
tif.
Miss Nettie Marshall received the
guests. Mrs. J. W. McCoy assisted in
entertaining.
The guest of honor and the hostess
wore lovely trucks of flowered navy
Georgette,
The artistry of Mrs. Marshall
shows itself in everything she does,
consequently her home and the af
fairs at which she presides are al
a delight,
Those who enjoyed this delightful
occasion were Mrs. Will Carithers,
Mrs. Harris Turner, Mrs. Virginius
Brown, Mrs. Louis Brown, Mrs. C. /
Z. McArthur, Mrs. Robert Hale, Mrs.
R. S. Braswell, Mrs. Sterling Slappey*
Mrs. Will Smith, Mrs. A. J. Evans,
Mrs. H. M. Copeland, Mrs. James
Everett, Mrs. Holmes of Tennille,
Mrs. Glenmore Green, Mrs. J. w.
McCoy, Miss Nettie Marshall and
Miss Carrie Riley.