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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., AUGUST 27, 1920. POLES USE AXES IN FI6HTIN6 - ,Warsaw Is Relieved for Present, But ^Britain* Fear Great Russian Counter Counter Attack Attack _ Warsaw.— Poland’s army is rapldfy following up the retreating enemy northeuet and east of Warsaw, and further successes for the Poles are re¬ ported. The recapture of Sokolow. Drohiczyn and Biala, with thousands of prisoners and great amounts of war material, is reported in a late of ficlal communique. At Sledloe the Poles captured armed volunteer Jew¬ ish detachments composed of local communists. To the northwest of Warsaw the Bolshevik! attacked Block in a drive designed to carry them across the Vis |tuia, where there is a pontoon bridge, but a Polish counter stroke broke the attack. In this operation the Poles were aided by civilians who fought vide by wide with the infantrymen. A communique of August 20 an trounced the repulse by Polish infan¬ try of a detachment of General Bud enny’s soviet cavalry, wliieh had reached Winulkl, niue miles southeast of Lemberg. Peasants iu the region of Lipno, southeast of Thorn, are reported to be fighting the Bolslieviki with axes aud scythes, Newspaper accounts of the operations there say the peasants are taking no prisoners. The extreme right wing of the Pol¬ ish army is marching on Hrest-Lltovsk, on the Bug river, 120 miles east of Warsaw. The Polish left wing has taken Pul tusk, about thirty-five miles north of Warsaw, and is continuing its prog¬ ress in the direction of Mlawa. In the center, the Polish forces are marching in the direction of Ostralen ka, twenty-two miles southwest of Loman. (GOVERNOR COX | PARDONS THREE CONVICTS f AFTER AN INTERVIEW \ Two Other Convict# Refused Pardon 1 Becauae Governor Cox Said They Fail to Tell the Truth Columbus, Omio.—Regret over his ppponent’s announcement that he will probably not make an address at the Qhio state fair, August 31, was ex pressed by Governor Cnx. “I am very sorry Senutor Harding (g uot going to speak, lie said, as | already have spent more than an hour preparing my speech which I hoped to deliver from the saipe plat form. 1 had expected to request that l be permitted to speak firet, grunting tbe courtesy to the senator of being permitted to answer me.” Governor Cox spent the day at the executive office at the capitol, looking gfter state affairs, in the evening lie pardoned three convicts from the peni¬ tentiary, interviewing each personally before granting clemency Two convicts who also had petition¬ ed for pardons were sent back. “You two boys have not told me ttle truth. You will have to go back for a while," the governor told them. He had asked each man to tell the story of the commission of the crime for which he wns convicted and facts leading up to the crime. Out of sev¬ eral hundred prisoners who have been questioned by the governor in connec¬ tion with their applications for par¬ dons. he said the two were second and third whom he had sent back to the prison becauee it was apparent they were not telling the truth. Coal Shortage Livest Question: Debs Chicago.—The first of a scries of statements which will replace speeches in the campaign of Eugene Debs, So cialist nominee for president, now con fined in Atlantu penitentiary, lias been issued by Socialist national head quarters. In it Debs branded the league of nations controversy a "dis honest issue” and declared the livest question before the American public was the coal shortage. He declared that while a shortage of cars was mak ing it impossible to meet the demands for coal. "Mr. Wilson has had made, by special executive order, four thou sand cars of a special design to aid tbe aristocracy of Poland crush the ouly genuine democratic government on the face of the earth.” Coal Operator# Held A# Profiteers Knoxville, Tenn. — Four more coal operators were held to the December The } % f l GOT IT- 7 I L(.SVJff pJ HCY,T/MMfC( ^ vrrrn. 1 siTGie: i HCR 6 COMCS ; Clancy ; ' SULLY'MUGGS-He'S V * MY CARS an'thcm UP WITH < UiOtilDYAciKETO CO M0Vf£S?l Sticks ’7 Gee! NOTHIN l Kids L i Always an’ 1 nzycp insultin can *m cer e- _h s cotton H€ AS CAN MUCH INSULT AS HC ,160T 7 I'LL TO QLOW MONCYAN' THE YA — y 5T0N65 'tc an tltf^ At a ^TT|(V' frcsh Guy 6ACK likc^ QlllCfu 3CFORC t 1 ^~~i_cers BACK fie i t WANTS. |'LL — l BffCAK MY 80NCS, Timmie Will Never I ^ Anothcron oven COME HIM AS 6ACK 'AT \ BUT NAMES'LL evCRHORTl , , . SOON N Know What He Missed As He opens M£ eH / (TO * ^ HIS tr'ueecASY MOUTH / oV T) UiHCN I OOH’j £ ef \ ' KNOW WHATt t k HCSAYSf hi & t 0 ( 1 i t 1 V' 4 V) W, I I By ‘‘or \ ASOsSAX'* NJMU-. aSsCTr- t- LI I PERCY L. CROSBY & JJcClnr« # by Ih t Ny wpajxr flyndlC 4 U T S! charges uet 20, following hearings on j making excess profits in coal deals 0 law. those in violation of the Lever bound ovel wele A M ‘ Slewart of th ® ’ cleartleld Jellico Coal company, and 1 p. Witherspoon, Emory B. Davis and G. G. Crowley of the Blue Dia¬ mond Sales company. Bond in each instance wus fixed at $2,000. Conscious After Sleepin 8 Two Year* Waukesha, WIs.—Mrs. Clara Jorgen son, Rac ine, who has been asleep at n,e county asylum here for more than two years has regained consciousness. A sister-in-law of Mrs. Jorgenson vis¬ ited the Institution, bringing with her j, er 6-year-old son. It is thought the clll } d uwa kened the memories in the won ian'8 ihind that restored her to a norma l condition, it lias been neces Hary t() f e ed and care for Mrs. Jor gen „ on as if she were a helpless babe, dCCor aing to Mrs. Peters, matrou Agricultural Course For Carterevllle Cartersvllle.—An agricultural course will be a new feature in the Carters ville' HIRi school next term, accord¬ ing to an announcement just made by Superintendent L. C.. Evans, who has perfected plans for inaugurating this feature for the local schools. Profes¬ sor P. C Brook a native of Bowdoin, Carroll county, and a graduate of the slate university, will be In charge of this new work, and he has arrived to complete the preliminary arrange inents. He will also take an active j iarf in ([j 0 athletic activities of the high school, and is confident he will h e a hle to develop some pennant-win n i ng before the approaching season in very old. claims Collector Threatened His Life Macon.—J. A. Pace, a telegraph op¬ erator, was fined $25 on a charge of disorderly conduct and bound over to the state court on a charge of assault and battery in collection with an at¬ tack alleged to have been made on J. A. Gardner, cashier of the Bank of Pulaski, Candler county. Gardner claimed he was on the way Yrom the Terminal station when he was struck a blow from bfhind by Pace, who also cursed him and clinched with Pace did not deny the assault, said he did not strike Gardner from behind. He said when he saw Gard ner j, 0 could not control his anger, He said he was railroad agent for the p e ntrul of Georgia railroae^ at Pulas ki and was also engaged in the broker age business there, and was making 8Q muc jj money other business men wete j Pa i oua 0 f him. Gardner, he cliargedi tr!ed to get information a j )out | lis business, and for tiiat re a son lip removed Ids bank account to another town. Later Gardner and another man, ordered him to leave town, and when he refused they put him in an automobile and took him out of town. Pace said they told him they were going to lynch him, but he escaped. Holy Roller Creed Fail# To Save Baby Fort Payne, Ala.—Reporte reached here from Sand Mountain that indig nant mountaineers 'are threatening to lynch members of the Holy Roller gregation there, following the death of a baby which had been bitten by a rattlesnake during a seance at the church one night recently, It is also reported that the father of the child was bitten at the same time and is expected to die. An effort was made to secure a physician here alter the child’s condition had become known, but, due to a terrific storm that was prevailing, he was unable to reach the mountain in time to save the child, w ,-hich died in terrible agony. It is al¬ leged to be one of the tenets of the Holy Roller (Church of God) sect that tlieir members are immune from the fangs 0 f poisonous reptiles, and rattle snnkos are said to play a prominent part in their services, especially dur ing ve vlva\s. They claim to speak in unknown tongues, and the exhorters engage in many unusual contortions und incantations. --—— Grief Wife, Drove Man To HI# Death New York.— Details of the disap pearance of Adam B. Howard, general manager in South America for the American Express company, from the steamship Martha Washington, on the way from Buenos Aires, were learned when the ship docked in Hoboken. Ac cording to Robert F. Barrett of Rich¬ mond, Va., vice president of Buenos Aires banking firm and a personal friend of Howard, the latter had been melancholy since tbe illness of wife, who had come to the States a short timf ago. PROPOSED PEACH COUOTY COUNTY SEAT PORT VALLEY Area 20S Square Mil##; Population 10,000-, Tax Values $3,265,000. To be formed from the western part of Houston County and a very small portion of northern part of Macon County. Containing towns of Dunbar, Centrevillo, Powersville, Byron, Fort Valley. 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 ....................................................... 150,000 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 be 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 be larger than 73 other counties in the State. PEACH COUNTY IN— Area would be larger than 16 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. REASONS 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 peach growing. Since Houston County is an unusually 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 of interest among its people that would insure co-operation in the management of their public affairs and in an endeavor to develop the resources ^of their section to the greatest possible extent. Ninety-five per cent of the people of the new county favor its cre ation. | As now situated the people of this sedtion 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 of the railroad traversing the coun ty from North to South and having 14 passenger trains a day. Ba¬ V. A > t 1 % a ^ J ✓ **/-,*# > kj r 0 <* A I t O C 1^ * J vl * * ■m£rxj , C r * t zrw‘ 1 '. '--QFV&T l U ~PfeACfli\COUNTY \ \ o o / > 6 X- f ri» 0 O 0 1 A I / / r)«g*> A r / ■V f A <* HOUSTON 1 COUNTY > ' l O 4 > b K z 3 MACON COUNTY^ s‘ i; t etK* C 0 i \ 0 / * A t * t» \ i OOOLV COtIN XV A as. o S' - /, I Vl AX The statistical data contained in this pamphlet is compiled from the Report of the Comptroller-General of Georgia, and United States Census Reports. _ the No violence is done to the Counties of Macon and Houston in creation of Peach County. The experience of other counties from which new counties have been created demonstrates that the progress and de velopment of these old counties have gone forward much more rapidly 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 wisdom 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 within 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 of 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 area, population and tax values with the area, population and tax values of any other County and by this comparison disclose how untenable is the plea that these counties would 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 - Senatorial District, the real and only issue’ between the candidates is as to the creation of the New County from parts of Houston and Macon Counties, with Fort Valley the County Site. This is also true as to the race for Representative from Houston County. Owing to many rumors and statements to the effect that those can¬ didates who favor the creation of this New County propose in some manner, directly or indirectly, to seek to take a part of Crawford County or Taylor County for the creation of the proposed New County, we desire to make this statement in order that our position may be clearly under¬ stood by the voters in casting their ballots. We append as a part of this statement a map showing the area of the proposed New County; and we state unequivocally that we will not, directly or indirectly, seek to secure any of the area of Crawford Coun¬ ty or Taylor County, now or hereafter, but will stand by the lines indi¬ cated in the map which is a part of this statement. We are all life-long citizens of Houston County. We desire only the advancement, peace and progress of all her people in every section of the County. But along with large numbers of the people from every section of Houston County we recognize the fact that every interest of the peo¬ ple of both sections will be best served by the creation of the New Coun¬ ty. We are absolutely sure from an intimate knowledge of conditions that this can be done without violence to any portion of Houston County; and the area sought from Macon County is so small as to be inconsidera¬ ble—just twent-two square miles immediately South of Fort Valley and so located that the convenience of the citizens would be greatly served by being incorporated in Peach County. Upon these facts we confidently base our appeal to the voters of Houston County to support us upon this issue of the creation of the New County; and we sincerely trust that the Citizens of Crawford and Tay¬ lor Counties will also support Mr. Davidson for the Senate. We all state unconditionally that we have never undertaken to secure a foot of Craw¬ ford County territory for the New County, or Taylor County, do not now propose to do so, but on the contrary pledge ourselves to oppose any measure that directly or indirectly seeks to do so; and promise for the future that we will oppose any move from any source to infringe upon the territory of Crawford County or Taylor County. Respectfully submitted, - C. H. JACKSON, E. L. HOUSER, Candidates for Representative. J. E. DAVIDSON, Candidate for Senate.