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Volume XXXII. Number 50.
AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS
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MAYOR NEIL ISSUES STATE¬
MENT AS TO LAW AND THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFI¬
CERS THEREUNDER.
A few weeks ago there appealed in
the Leader-Tribune an article calling
the attention ot parents to the law
of the State of Georgia against any
one under the age of 16 running an
automobile. There have been many
appeals made to me to know if 1
couldn’t issue to their children some
special permit, etc., wt«.
For the benefit of all who may
be interested I have the following to
say: The State law says
i VThai it is a misdemeanor for any r
ne under the age of sixteen years to
run a ear or truck or motor propel¬
led vehicle and the punishment is the
same as lor any other misdemeanor,
and the otjly thing your Mayor can
do when a violation of this law is
made and brought bet ore him is to
bind the guilty parties over to the
City Court at Perry as the Court
having jurisdiction, and the fine
will be imposed by the Judge of that
Court.
If our Chief of Police makes the
case, as is his duty to do, you cannot
blame him; he is sworn in to appre¬
hend the violators of all laws, both
City and State, and your Mayor can
only do as the law says, which is to
bind over; so, now, let’s all under¬
stand clearly just how we stand: if
you want your children to become
violators of' the state law before
they have reached sixteen years of
age, let them run cars; if we were to
let this violation of law go unnoticed
we would have to let those who sell
liquor and who shoot on highways,
who carry concealed weapons, who
gamble and, in fact, ail other misde¬
meanors pass by also, as the same
law against one stands against the
other. You may think it’s a poor law,
but it’s law just the same, and it
as much your duty to stand by it
any other law.
If you don’t like the law I
help that; blame the men who met in
Atlanta and passed it, but
blame your Chief of Police for
ing you and letting the law have
way when you are being warned
ahead of time that you ate
it.
If a child under sixteen were to
run an automobile across a railroad
track and an accident occur the rail¬
road company would not have to pay
one cent damage, as the child was not
lawfully entitled to be there. The
same thing would be true if a truck
were to hit the car run by this child.
Yet the damage done by that child
would be held against the parent of
that child both in a civil suit as well
as m a criminal suit. For these rea
sons alone I think it would behoove
parents to see to it that their chil¬
dren keep from behind the steering
wheel until they reach their six
teenth birthday.
Your co-operation along this line
will kg^highly appreciated by the un
dersigned and will doubtless save a
very embarrassing situation that will
surely follow if you don’t stop this
practice.
Respectfully yours,
H. C. Neil, Mayor.
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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 n*ed very much
to be in school. This is especially true
of 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 parents
to have vaccination done now during
vacation so that there may be no loss
of time after school begins.
School will open on the second
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, work at the beginning of school.
Pupils failing in the conditioned sub-
SEMI-WEEKLY
The
TUESDAYS AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL FRIDAYS
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 17,
mice in slow in
; CLAIMING VICTORr MEDALS
Over 90,000 In Georgia Entitled To
Medals. * Apply For Yours At
State Legion Meeting
Captain Joseph L. Bachus, Victory
| Medal Officer of the Atlanta Re
eruiting Station, and two Army
Field Clerks will be present at the
State Convention of the American
legion to be held in Augusta, Ga.,
August 19-20. -
The object of this visit is to re
: applications for the Victory
ceive
Medal now being issued by the War
Department to all ex-service men,
who served in the army between
April fith, 1917 and November 11th,
1918.
All ex-service men attending the
convention are urgently requested to
bring their discharges with them.
The Victory Medal Section was
opened on June 21st, 1920 and it is
amazing how few applications have
been received to date. This state has
over 90,000 ex-service men and at
the present rate of 50 per day, it
would take five years to complete
distribution, whereas the War De¬
partment had expected to complete
distribution in four months.
Cooperation has been sought of
American Legion Posts, VeteransFor
eign Wars, U. S. Public Health Ser¬
vice. Federal Board for Vocational
Education, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.
and Service Men’s‘Welfare Commit¬
tees. Much space has been devoted to
Victory Medal by newspapers in
Georgia without appreciable results.
This special force now on duty at
Atlanta Recruiting Station will not
be there permanently, therefore
ex-service men are urgently request¬
ed to get their own application and
urge their buddies to do likewise.
Applications can be had at any re- '<
eruiting station in Georgia. j
TheYe is no danger to ex-service
men of losing their discharges as |
those received are returned
ately upon verification of their ser
vice.
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SAYS NEW COUNTIES PROVE
VALUABLE ASSET TO STATE
Seminole county will be a good
one. There are half dozen other
places that ought to be county sites
in this state. Fort Valley, Bartles¬
ville and Arlington are among them.
The new counties set the pace in
progress for the mother counties and
are real assets to the state.—Adel
News.
Editor Shytle of the Adel News
ought to know. He helped to get one
of the best little counties in the State
—Cook. And Cook county supports
—yes, supports—one of the best
weekly newspapers in the State—
Fort Valley Leader Tribune.
The above reference to Seminole
county are decidely pleasing to the
citizens of the new site. If we are
not mistaken, we are indebted to
Cook county for valuable assistance
rendered in the creation of Seminole,
and when the time comes for I ort
Valley and Arlington to make the
stand for their just rights, Seminole
will back them. Undoubtedly, new
counties are proving- valuable assets
to the state, and none can refute
that such progressive cities as the
three above mentioned are entitled
to the immunities of a county site.
Hats off to ye gentlemen. We were
about to neglect to say that the above
cliopi-ng was taken from the Calhoun
County Courier, of last week. The
Donalsonviile News.
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3,000 Street Car Men Quit At N. u.
New Orleans.—With deputy United
States marshals guarding gas and
electric plants, car barns and roll¬
ing stock of the New Orleans Railway
and Light company, plans were being
put into effect to offset the strike of
3,000 street car men. Soldiers at
Jackson barracks threatened violence
of a nature which the federal officers
rannot take car of, it is announced.
The strike followed failure of union
workers and the federal receiver to
eeacb an agreement as to wages.
ject the first month of school will be
sent back to the grade from which
they were promoted.
Ralph Newton.
Adv. Superintendent!
TWO BIG MEETINGS TO
i EE HELD THIS WEEK
:
GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL AND
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
TO HOLD JOINT MEETING AT
INDIAN SPRINGS.
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Macon.—A joint meeting of the
Georgia State Agricultural society and
the Georgia State Horticultural socie
t) will he held at Indian Springs on
August 18-19, being the seventy-fourth
annual meeting of the former and the
forty fourth annual meeting of the lat
ter. While the meetings are held at
ttie same time and place, eacli will be
presided over by its respective presi¬
dent, and members of the two socie
ties will be expected to participate in
both meetings. All papers,will be fol
lowed by a general discussion, iu
which anyone may take part. The
two societies have issued
to all persons interested in farming,
fruit growing and stock raising to at
tend the meetings. The wigwam
tel will be headquarters for the ses
sions.
On August 18 the morning session
will he devoted to an agricultural pro¬
gram. This will include the address
of William D. Hammack, of Coleman,
president of the society, and talks on
Georgia cane syrup by W: B. Rodden
bery of Cairo, and peanut culture by
W. W. Webb, of Hahira, president of
the Peanut Growers’ association. The
afternoon session will be given over
to the horticulturists, a feature of
winch will be the address ot R. C.
Berekroans of Macon, president of the
association. The night session will
be devoted to. a business meeting of
the agricultural society and an address
tohaa'r agent" “he Southern ra.T
road
On August 19 the horticulturists
will hold the boards at the morning
session. In the afternoon agricultural
subjects will be featured, including
the following: “Sweet Potatoes,” H. C.
Albin, Valdosta; “Cotton Growing in
Georgia in ReiaCon to Diseases and
Insects,” by Ira W. Williams, Georgia
state board of Entomology; “Best
i J ■ Methods of Raising Hogs in
i i H. A. Petty, Dawson; “Feeding Cattle
in ’the South,” by Cbaylee E.
of the State College of Agriculture;
-The Relation of Fruit and Vegetable
1 Growing to a Railway System,” by L.
if Bell, industrial agent of the A. &
W. P. railway; “Best General Pastures
for Georgia,” by Eveno Lunsgood, of
Covington, and “An Economical Way
of Removing Stumps,” by James M.
Mallory, of Macon.
Gas Increases Sought
Brunswick.— r lhe Mutual Light and
Water company of Brunswick has just
served notice on the city’s mayor,
city attorney and others, of its inten
tion t(, fiie, appiicat.ion with ^ Geor
gia 1 • ■ i COlnllU '’'j.. n 75
0 nC a thousan«[ 1 £ it t0
2 75 pei ubic feet, this
increase is granted, it wilt mean that
the Brunswick consumers of gas will
be forced to pay a higher rate than
(bat o{ uny otber c jty in the states
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0ppo£e D j vers i on 0 f Highway Fund
Dublin „ T he Dublin Kiwanis club,
- £g weeb j y luncheon meeting, went
pn ref . ord ag unalterably opposed to
fbe highway fund’s being used
| for any 0 ther purpose than what it
j wag intended for. The motion was
I made by Dr. C. 11. Kittrell and carried
| unanimously. Also in the touch secretary with other was
instructed to get
Kiwanis clubs in the state and urge
like action, A committee was ap
pointed to look into the feasibility of
erecting a gas plant ij> Dublin. About
twenty members were present.
Colquitt County Taxable Values Gain
Moultrie.—Colquitt county’s tax re
turnq show an increase of $1,527,749
over last year's, the completed digest
reveals. The value of the- property
in the county as returned for taxation
is $9,438,714. The property in the
Moultrie district is valued higher than
that in all of the other sixteen militia
districts combined, being returned for
$4,791,703. Every district in the coun
-y however, showed a ffubstantial gain
t
over 1919.
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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. ni.
Praise Service, 2:30 p. m.
Junior Church, 3:00 p. m. •
Epworth League, 7:00 p. m.
Prayer Service, Tuesday, 8:00 p.
m.
The public is cordially invited to
all these services.
TYPHOID FEVER IS ON
INCREASE IN GEORGIA
Diseasp Increases As Less Serum
Is Used. People Urged To Take
Preventive Treatment.
i Atlanta, Aug. 13.—The Division of
I Epidemiology of the State Board of
I Health shows that typhoid fever is
markedly on tjje increase, there being
177 cases reported during the month
of July. During the last six weeks’
period the weekly reports were as
follows; Week ending July 3, 31;
week ending July 10, 27; week end¬
ing July 17, 52; week ending July
24, '30; week ending July 31, 37;
week ending August 7, 73 cases.
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If this rapid increase continues
there Wl11 be a great waste of human
health and even human life,
Last year (1919) there were
000 cases oi this disease, which cause
1,100 deaths, while at the same time
it was a banner year from the stand
point of typhoid vaccinations,
The State Board of Health labora
lory had dispensed* up to August 1st
last year 131,354 cubic centimeters
(doses) of this prophylactic, while
up to the same (late this year only
73,546 cubic centimeters have been
dispensed. This is only 56 per cent
the total taken last year by the
people of this state, while at the same |
time the protective immunity es- ;"i
tabhshed by typhoid vaccination is
beyond question, and the vacc.ne is |
offered to the entire populace of the i
■
state without cost.
The indifferent attitude manifest - 1
. t tb .J neonle of Genriria is sure to I
j t large number of of *
regu cases
J h ‘‘ di ™ arulmany deaths. There
fore ’ the State Bt>ard of Ht \ alth
strongly urges that every individual
of Georgia between the ages of 10
and 40 procure a sufficient quantity
of this vaccine and have his physi
cian or health offfieer administer it.
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LOCAL DOBBIN DRIVERS ASK «
AUTOISTS TO HAVE HEART
Fort Valley still lias a few uistin
guished citizens, . whose distinction is
manifest not only in the fine
traits of the old-school gentry or in
what they have done and are still do
ing for the community in public ser
vice and in private walk and exam
p ] ti> hut in their mode of travel as
well. Thes gentlemen whether thru
refinement o'f tast, excess of adi¬
pose tissue, adherence to the tradi¬
tions of Southern aristocracy, or sim
ply because they are just naturally
; scared of all these new-farfgled snort
ing ; contraptions, still stick to the
horse-and-buggy mode of transit be¬
tween their homes and the business
^ ^ and a]as ; They
caD no longer enjoy the old easy
Roing habit of dropping the lines in
the foot of the buggy and getting
out for the mail or to chat with a
friend or transact a serious piece of
business. The law of the municipality,
£be na ter of the modern Rosinante,
and the clanger of cavorting, snort
I ing autos, necessitate hitching their
- nags. And,, again, alack and alas!
Around every hitching post in the
business section they find parked
f rom three to thirty automobiles,
These 1 automobilists are asked to have
a bcar t ar)d f 0 kindly consider every
b j tcb j ng pos f and a reasonable radius
; there-about a non-parking zone.
otherwise Mr Alvah Greene or Capt.
pi ournoy ; R liable to hitch to the
tail-light of somebody’s benzine wa
gon—and prosecute the owner for
norse -theft should he thoughtlessly
drive off without noticing.
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YOUNG LEGISLATOR DOESN’T
FIND THE JOB PROFITABLE
had representa¬ !
Fort Valley has a j
tive in the legislative haljs this Sum
mer. Master Coleman Nichols, who
is spending the vacation with his j
parents in Griffin, has been a page
for the Legislature. Coleman wrote
his grandfather, Mr. Alva Green, that
he was making $ 3.00 a day but that
his “expenses about ate up his pro
fits.” He motored into Atlanta from
•riffin each day with his uncle, Mr.
j P Nichols, who is a membef of,
the legislature, and who “set up to
lunch” each day, f’ and Coleman’s
friends , wondering . why , ,. his uv ex-,
are
penses were so heavy. Coleman and,
Jeanette spent last week with their
grandparents at Blue Ridge, where
they attended the Georgia Baptist
Assembly. I
FOUR PAGES.
HOW PEOPLE LEARN
THE SAVING
BOOK BY PRESIDENT
ANfc SERMON BY DR.
WELL JACOBS TELL LESSON
OF PRODIGAL SON.
(Prepared by Publicity
War Loan Organization.)
What will make a man or woman
save money?
Necessity, Hard knocks, The Loss
of a Job, Ambition, Early Training.
All, of these are causes. Most peo
pie learn how to do things they have
to do. Experience is a hard teacher,
but thorough.
Why wait for the hard knocks?
Why be like dumb, driven cattle?
j Why not learn the lesson as the
French do from early training
j which begins in childhood?
Great men look with horror or
I: waste. They think in big figures and
deal on a large' scaie, but they
no patience with spendthrifts.
“I wish I had saved my money,”
says a man ruefully when it is gone.
This regret becomes anguish when
the po\yer to earn money is gone. It
is bitter when the fruits of prosperi¬
ty are wasted and hard times come
upon us.
If a man makes big money in good
times and spend it all, how will he
feeJ wben depression • it
comes , as
wi]| CQ and profits are small and
■ b h d . ’
„ w '" , aen a n ’ an coaies , lo “* mse i - f 1 -
. Preswin^UlsoJ ifwas'reccmUv
0
b
the subject of a timely sermon by
Dr. Thomwell Jacobs, President oi
0glethorpe u niver «ity. The text was
tbp passage w hich tells of the Prodi
^ g Qn ^
Tbat p rodigal received more con
sidevate treatment than the average
spendthrift gets in this rough and
tumble world As a rule the Prodi
. al Eees 10 fatted calf. He has to
on husks until he learns
bow £ 0 do something worth
w hjch the world needs to have (lone
and will pay for.
It takes misfortune to make many
people ' to themselves. They
come
can only learn in the university t
hard knocks. How much easier the
lesson would be if learned at home it:
the formative years when the child
is building the character of the man
oi woman!
Habit is a leverage by which we
lift ourselves more easily when once
we have begun to try. The first ef¬
fort is hard. The same effort repeat¬
ed, not quite so hard, and oft repeat¬
ed it becomes easy and finally second
nature.
So habit makes saving easy. If the
chid » interested in sni^ll saving ,
and they are oft repeated, the haoit
forms and finally saving becomes
natural and easy. •
if there is a habit that the world
needs just now it is saving, coupled
w j t h industVy. The war has opened
a new Pandora’s Box, worse than the
one of Fable. Ie seems to have
] e t loose on a troubled world all the
ills that flesh is heir to. Industry
g a ving and the law of kindness are
ne eded to combat these evils,
Another aid to these wholesome
habits is the purchase of Government
Securities. Thrift Stamps, Savings
g tamps and Savings Certificates,
wbicb CO mpoum> their interest auto
matically, d» not fluctuate in value
and may be cas hed on short notice.
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First Bale Sold In Dougherty
Albany.—The first bale of cotton id
1920 for Dougherty county was
brought to town by H. M. Furr and W,
H. Chambers, former Banks county
farmers, who have made a marked sue
cess on tiieir farms here, bought
a pout a year ago. The bale weighed
365 pounds and they were offered 40
cents a pound,
Red Spider Is Injuring Cotton
Cordele, Ga. C. C. Greer of this
( infection in his
place has a red spider
cotton which has .apparently begun do
struction of a rapid character, Farm
Demonstration Agent Culpepper hat
been after the post with an emuhuon
of kerosene, and.spray of this charac
. g „ elieved suftlcien t. Farmers
howevpr are advise d that thew should
^ QUt an(] (lestroy eV ery stalk of cot
- £on wbere £ h sre is a red spider dec
£ j on likewise destroy all poke b cries
< in the hedge rows.
world.
$2.50 Per Year In Advanca
5%.
Georgia, fourth state
IN MEETING FEDERAL AID
Slate Highway Board’s Report To
Governor Shows Many Projects
Completed And Under AVay
Georgia stands fourth among
of the nation in voting county
bonds to match government road
building funds, according to the first
annual report of the State Highway
Board, which summarizes a success¬
ful period of achievement and pro¬
gtA'ss in the face of serious difficul¬
ties encountered since the body be¬
gan to function.
The Board’s report to Gov. Hugh
Dorsey was issued recently and tells
;n detail ot the effort and results
that have marked the formation of an
efficient road-building department,
itemizes the tremendous amount of
funds and the large number of pro
jects involved in the work, explains
the obstacles presented by bad wea
her, labor shortage and transporta
ion delays, and generally constitutes
in encouraging picture of Georgia’s
progress toward realizing a network
of good roads 4,800 miles long.
Seven Projects Completed.
The report shows that since the
board was established, seven pro
jt' 4 s, representing an expenditure of
8564,733, have been completed and
formally accepted at Washington;
fifty-four projects, representing $ 6 ,-
130,727.55, are now uryler way; that
twelve more projects, representing
81,351,355.84, are under contract;
and that twenty-tivo projects, repre¬
senting $1,314,673.55, have been ap¬
proved.
About $2,000,000 worth of work
was done during the last year, the
board states, adding that in order to
convert the remaining amount of
about $7,000,000 of available State
and Federal funds into miles of per¬
manent thoroughfares, a season of
tremendous effort must be utilized
to the fullest limit by the board, its
engineers and contractors.—Atlanta —
Journal.
CRANDALL—HARRIS
Announcement has been made or
the engager,i it of Miss Lillias M.
Crandall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Crandall, of Albany, to Mr.
Thomas Sanders Harris of Fort Val¬
ley, the marriage to be solemnized
on September 6 , at St. Paul’s Church, .
Albany; no cards.
The cordial interest of many
friends is felt in the forthcoming
iurriage of these two popular young
people. Miss Crandall was a resident
of Fort Valley for a number of years
before the family moved to Albany
last fall and has a host of friends
here who^will be delighted to wel¬
come her return to Fort Valley’s so
ciai circles.
Mr. Harris is one of the most up
standing, clean-cut and efficient
young business men of Fort Valley
and as manager of the Georgia Mill¬
ing Company is the active head of
one of the city’s leading industries.
The Leader-Tribune shares in the
felicitations of their many friends
and in best wishes for the future
happiness and prosperity of these
young people.
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ANTHONY—BAZEMORE
The many friends here of' Dr. M.
S. Bazemore will be cordially inter¬
ested in the announcement of his
marriage Sunday afternoon, August
15, to Miss Maude Anthony, at the
home of the latter’s sister in Daw¬
son.
Dr. Bazemore returned to Fort
Valley yvith his bride immediately
after the ceremony, and they are at
home with Mrs. Wiley Green, on
Anderson Ave.
Mrs. Bazemore, as Miss Anthony,
lived in Macon before the family
moved to Dawson, and has many
friends in these two cities and
throughout the state who will be
pleasurably interested in her mar¬
riage. She will be most cordially
welcomed into Fort Valley’s social
life.
Dr. Bazemore is pharmacist at
Copeland’s Pharmacy, and is a prom
isifig young business man of engaging
personality, very popular and compe
tent in his profession,
The best wishes of the people of
Fort Valley will be extended to the
happy couple,