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Volume XXXII. Number 51.
t. PEACH COUNTY” LEADERS
LAY CARDS ON
Offical Map and Statistical Data of Proposed
New County Now Ready
For Distribution.
CANDIDATES MAKE PLEDGES
CRAWFORD AND TAYLOR
The publicity committee of the new county movement which pro¬
poses to form from the western part of Houston County and a very small
part of Macon County a new County to be known as “Peach County, «*
or by some other suitable name, and containing the towns of Dunbar,
Centreville, Powersville, Byron and Fort Valley, has had prepared a
'map and statistical data of areas, population, tax values, etc., of the pro¬
posed new county and of the mother counties, before and after the for¬
mation of the new county. The map was drawn by Mr. C. S. Vance,
County Surveyor of Houston County, and the statistical data are taken
from the Report of the Comptroller-General of Georgia and the United'
States Census Reports.
This information has been compiled for publication and general distri¬
bution in pamphlet and circular form, so that every voter may be clearly,
fully and unequivocally informed as to exactly what the advocates of
the new county propose and pledge themselves. '
This map and data and pledge of the candidates are published below
for the first.time, and will be available tomorrow (Saturday) in circu¬
lar and pamphlet form.
SOME STATISTICS
Area Houston County .......... ... 591 square miles
Loss to Peach County ......... 183 square miles
Area after forming Peach ..... 408 square miles
Population of Houston County ................ 22,000
Loss to Peach .................... 9,500
Population after Peach is formed .......... 12,500
Tax values Houston County, including corporation tax ............$7,255,500
Loss to Peach County,....................................................... ............ 3,115,000
Tax values after formation of Peach ... $4,140,000
Area Macon County ............ ........................ ..... 392 square miles
Loss to Peach County 22 square miles
Area after forming Peach ..... 370 square miles
Population Macon County ................. 16,000
Loss to Peach County..... ................... .......... 500
Population after Peach is formed .................. . 15,500.
Tax values Macon County, including corporation tax $4,600,000
Loss to Peach County ............................................... 1 50,000
Tax values after formation of Peach $4,440,000
HOUSTON COUNTY IN—
Area would be larger than 93 other counties in the State,
Population would be larger than 70 other counties in the State,
Tax values would bt* larger than 75 other counties in the State.
MACON COUNTY IN
Area would be larger than 72 other counties in the State,
Population would be larger than 79 other counties in the State.
Tax values would 1 be larger than 73 other counties in the State.
PEACH COUNTY IN—
Area would be larger than 1 6 other counties in the State.
Population would be larger than 48 other counties in the State,
Tax values would be larger than 53 other counties in the State.
REASON FOR CREATION OF PEACH COUNTY
Houston County has two great lines of railway running through
from North to South, the Central of Georgia on the West side and the
Georgia, Southern and Florida on the East.
Quite naturally the county has developed along the lines of these
railroads into two distinct sections, each with its own group of towns and
each with its own interests—the Eastern section being devoted largely to
general farming, the Western to pea c h growing.
Since Houston County is an unu SU ally large county any division of
its territory ought to be from North to South along this natural line of
development.
The Western section of Houston County comprises the peach belt
_the largest contiguous peach growing area in the world. If made into a
county, there would be a community 0 f interest among its people that
would insure co-operation in the management of their public affairs and
in an endeavor to develop the resourc es 0 f their section to the greatest
possible extent.
Ninety-five per cent of the peo p i e of the new county favor its cre
ation.
As now situated the people of this section of Houston can reach
their county seat by rail only over a branch line with few trains and
poor schedules.
In the new county every man would be convenient to his county
seat which would be on the main line 0 f the railroad traversing the coun¬
ty from North to South and having 14 passenger trains a day.
The statistical data contained in this pamphlet is compiled from the
Report of the Comptroller-General of Georgia, and United States Census.
Reports. and Houston the
No violence is done to the Counties of Macon m
creation of Peach County. The experience of other counties from which
n At counties have been created demonstrates that the progress and de
y rapidly
velopment of these old counties have gone forward much more
than before the new counties were formed. And the new counties have
had such marked increases in population and enhancement in tax values
as to justify most completely the wi sdo m and patriotism of the General
Assembly in their creation. There is practically no added expense to the
State in the creation of a new county, while the State is the beneficiary of
the enhancing values.
Every new county created withi n a generation has been confronted
with opposition on the ground that its creation would prove ruinous to
the mother counties. It has required only a few years to prove how un¬
founded-were these fears.
Houston County will have 408 square miles of territory, and Macon
365 square miles after the creation 0 f Peach County: Their territory
will comprise as fertile, prosperous and valuable areas as can be found
in Georgia. Houston will be larger than 93 other counties in the State;
Macon larger than 72. Compare their are a, population and tax values
with the area, population and tax values of any other County and by
this comparison disclose how untenable ; s the plea that these counties
WOUi d be practically disrupted and destroyed.
A STATEMENT TO THE VOTERS OF HOUSTON, CRAWFORD AND
TAYLOR COUNTIES.
As is well known in the present race for the Senate from the 23rd
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SEMI-WEEKLY
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
Tuesdays AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL* Fridays
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 20, 1920.
DRAFT DODGERS
TD GET PUBLICITY
DRAFT DODGER'S WILL BE PUB
LISHED TO THE WORLD, SO
THEY MAY BE KNOWN
DESERTERS NUMBER 173,931
It Will Fall On All, Rich And Poor,
Alike, And Interesting Disclosures
Are Anticipated
Washington.—Less than one per
of more than two million tour hun
dred thousand tnen who registered un
der the selective service act during
the war have tieen found chargeable
with willful desertion, according to
an announcement issued by the war de
purtment. The actual figure is 173,
931 against whom desertion charges
have been recorded, and this repre
seats, the statement says, a “tremen
dons improvement over the draft rec
ord of the Civil war.”
The department will soon make pub
lie the names of those branded as de
serters and the statement adds that
ttie government "desires to obtain the
co-operation of the various state and
local officials, patriotic societies and
other agencies, including the depart
ment, of justice, in bringing about the
apprehension of these men.”
Pending publication of the list, the
statement continues, any man charged
with desertion may avoid arrest by sur
rendering at the nearest army post,
where his case can he investigated and
his status determined. It his record is
cleared, his name will he omitted from
the deserter list when it is made pub
lic. Those in doubt as to their sta
tus are urged to address inquiries to
the adjutant general ot the army.
The list for publication was com
piled after local boards had been in
tructed to segregate and send to Wash
ington records of all men classed as
draft deserters during the war period.
A total of 489,003 records were for
warded, but on examination at the
war department it was shown that
163,000 of these dealt with cases dis
P<>m< of ' uiing e war. ey ibc u
and tailed to notiry tnen aiau uoaiu,
men who failed to report when drafted,
because of ignorance, and who subse
ipientiy reported at the camps l’or
iluty; few men (Hscharged as physi
cully unfit and some convicted of de
eertfon during the war and •• gistrant*
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SERVICES SUNDAY AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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Rev. J. N. Blackburn of
La., will fill the pulpit at the , „ Pres
byterian efcurch Sunday morning at
11:00 o’clock.
Mr. Blackburn is a brother of Mrs.
J. W. Woolf oik, and is spending part
of his vacation here.
The public generally, and especial
church.
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TWELVE PAGES.
AMERICAN CRUISER
ORDERED TO BALTIC
CRUISER AND DESTROYER OR
DERED TO THE BALTI SEA TO
PROTECT U. S. INTERESTS
' VESSELS NOW AT CHERBOURG
No Indications That United States Gov.
ernment Is Seriously Considering
Recognizing Anti-Bolsheviki
Washington.—The armored cruiser
Pittsburg and a destroyer have been
ordered to the Baltic sea to protect
American interests there,
The vessels are now at Cherbourg,
Fiance, and It is announced at the
n.rvv department that they will proceed
immediately for Russian waters.
The vessels are under orders to pro
ceed to Danzig, the free city on the
Baltic. The threatening situation in
Poland has jeopardized the lives and
interests of a large number of Ameri
ears who are scattered in various parts
of Poland. Many of these Americans
have alerady made their way to Dan
>.jg and others are endeavoring to reach
that port It is primarily for their pro¬
tection (hut the waiships were ordered
to the Baltic,
lt is stated at the state department
that a few Americans were at other
points on the Baltic, and that the
ness of Bolshevik activities in the
tie states has made it important that
some protection be within their reach.
Some of them are officials of this
ernment sent to observe the situation
j u that part of the world, and others
are commercial representatives, en
deavoring to establish business
tions with the anti-Bolshevik states
and their nationals.
There i s still no indication that the
American government is seriously con-
8 j de ring recognition of General Wran
gel anti-Bolshevik leader in south Rus
s j a Careful consideration is being giv
W1 however, to plans for extension of
8Uppor t to Poland, and officials inti
lna t e U that a result of this study
might be ma de known shortly.
information reaching the state de
partment direct from Pohmd under re
cent date wa8 that the Polish govern
ment was pi . e paring for a prolonged
siege of Warsaw.
Dispatches to the department from
Helsingfors say that Finland and So
viet R llss j a concluded an armistice on
August 1"
W. C. T. U. RECEPTION
FOR MRS. BURGHARD
The reception given by the W. C.
T. U. Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Robert Brown in honor
of Mrs. August Burghard of Macon,
State Treasurer, was a delightful „ , oc
casion. Mrs. Burghard i* a most
worker and talked interest
ingly of the W. C. I. U. work and its
accomplishments. Miss Julia Gooda
delighted her hearers with a vocal so
lo; she having a velvet softness in
ENTHUSIASTIC RALLIES
IN NEW COUNTY CAUSE
All Sections of Proposed New County Repre¬
sented in Big Rallies at
Fort Valley.
LAKEVIEW SECTION WILL HAVE BIG
RALLY TONIGHT.
Two enthusiastic mass meetings
here within the past week have
niarked the resumption of interest in
the forthcoming primary particularly
with reference to the new
slate for senator and representatives
in the state legisature.
The first of these meetings was
held last Friday night when a
audience representing every section
of the proposed new county gathered
to hear enthusiastic speeches by
leaders in the new county movement.
At this meeting two prominent citi¬
zens of Cook—one of Georgia’s new¬
est counties-*-and Berrien, the mo¬
ther county from which it was cre¬
ated, upon special invitation ad¬
dressed the audience from the re
ti oints 0 f v j ew 0 f the-n-'W
d M Countv . Eaeh of these spea ’:
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10 erl lcn an o0 oun V a
profited . by the division . and
thecitizens of neither county would
under any circumstances wish to re
j turn to the old order of things.
Wednesday night the Chamber of
Commerce ha n here was packed to
i OVM ° verflowin .f lowini * , with interested ,.J voters ®
! from distnct the sed d
every ln n P ,0 nn P°
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j new county, area.
j A large map of the proposed new
county of “Peach” was tacked upon
the wall where it could be seen by
everyone and the proposed new coun
, ty lines, just as they appear in the
map below, were explained by
Ea j p > j, Newton, who also discussed
advantages of the div
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P oint of both new and old count
sections. Speeches were made also
by Col. C. L. Shepard, Col. Emmett
Houser, candidate for the legislature,
Mr. C. H. Jackson of Byron, also
■ candidate for the legislature, both
on
the new county ticket, Mr. J. E.
Davidson, candidate for state senate
on the new county ticket; Mayor
c Neil; Messrs. H. J. Peavy, M. C.
M osley and Claude Clark, of Byron,
and Mr. J. T. Hancock.
.
There was not a dissenting nor
, joubtful voice heard during
meetjng and not more than one man
^ of the more than 250
observed to keep nis seat upon
caJ1 for a rising vote pledging
^ ^ movement
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$2.50 Per Year In Advance
to do so. A number of those present
promised to be on hand. A harmon
ious and enthusiastic meeting is ex
pected.
Reports were received at this meet
ing from various portions of Hous-*
ton, Crawford and Taylor counties
i °f steadily increasing confidence in
an(1 sympathy with the new county
movement and of support of the new
county legislative slate in the pri¬
mary September 8th.
YOUNG MAN “FROM MISSOURI”
BACK WITH A BIG VISION
Mr. Jno. B. Vance has returned
i from a week’s business trip to
St. Louis. While In St. Louis Mr.
Vance mailed the editor of The Lead
er-Tribune a picture post-card show
mg the store of Scruggs-Vander
voort—Barney, a part of which is
16 stories high, the other part being
stor j eS) and containing a combined
I 1 f] Qor S p ace 0 f 44 acres. Mr. Vance
j wro j. e on the card ,’ “some day you
may gee something ike this at home ,
r „f e ,. rinL , ’ no dou bt to his vision of
th I futu e Evans T \ rading “ g Co of
which u he is the popular and , efficient .
manager. We hope his store will
grow to be as big as the gt. Louis
one, but that its name wont grow in
the same outlandish proportion and
sound. 'It already has a good enough
name, for good goods and fair deal-
1 j and if reader needs fur
n g- ; any any
ther evidence that Mr. Vance is an
“up-and-doing” store manager and
I that folks, .* will get their money's
worth ,, and more , by trading . ,. with ... , him .
can find all the evidence they
' in his fine whole advertise
wan t page
| j ment full f The of Leader-Tribune, bargain prices in this
ssue 0
j Dr. Geo. ft Slappey, Mrs. J. C.
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Slappey, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Houser,
Miss Emily Keen and Mr. Lynn Fa
ga „ returne d Wednesday night from
an automobile trip through eastern
Tennessee and western North Caro¬
lina and South Carolina. Miss Beulah
Harris of Atlanta was also a member
of the ty . Desp ite daily showers
! which made the roads treacherous,
and having to be towed out of mud
twelve m ji es a b 0 ve Atlanta, the p^r
ty report a mos t enjoyable trip. The
t were t b e guests of Dr. Slappey
during the trip, which included At
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