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Volume XXXIII, Number 8.
GEI IN TOILS HERE
JAILED HERE ON SUSPICION,
DISGORGE STOLEN GOODS,
BREAK JAIL, ARE RECAPTUR¬
ED. ONE LANDS IN GANG.
For an early and bold bad start on
a career of crime the record is doubt¬
less held by four Macon youths, rang¬
ing from 13 to 16 years of age, thx-ee
in knee trousers , who were arrested
here at 3 o’clock last Thursday morn¬
ing by Chief of police W. A. Lyon,
and broke out of the local calaboose
at 5:50 o’clock that afternoon, were
re-arrested on the road to Marshall
ville Friday morning, were tried be¬
fore Mayor Neil that mox-ning, and
had their cases disposed of in the
City Court at Peri-y Monday morn¬
ing.
The lads, whose names we with¬
hold from publication on account of
their youth, to keep down the crimi¬
nal record handicap on their future
as much as we can, arrived here as
“blind baggage" on a freight train
about 2 o’clock Thursday morning.
Their misconduct about the depot
caused Night Marshall Joyner to go
after Chief Lyon to assist him in
dealing with them. The lads were
locked up on charge of suspicion. On
being searched before being locked
up, four pair of heavy automobile
gloves, one pair of lady’s kid gloves,
one pair of gold-rimmed automobile
goggles, one wrist watch, and one
tire guage were found on them, All
of tlyese goods had evidently been
stolen from automobiles in Macon.
At 5:50 o’clock that aftenxoon all
four lads escaped from the calaboose
by prizing off four bars of the main
door with the aid of a bar which they
had with extreme clevexmess remov¬
ed from one of the cell partitions.
Early Friday morning Messrs. Lon
Champion and Ben Roe Marshall
overtook two of the lads on the road
to Marshallville near Mr. Z. T. Wil¬
liams’ place. Later the other two
were arrested by Mr. Bryant on his
place, and were brought back here by
Mr. Champion.
When re-arrested one of the lads
had a 38 caliber Colts special army
pistol and another a 32 caliber Smith
and Wesson. They said they had the
pistols concealed in the blouse of
their trouser legs when put in jail
the day before.
They showed alderman McMillan,
Chairman of the Police department,
where they had hid in a sewer pipe
the cell bar used in makixxg their es¬
cape from jail. They accused a Mr.
Smith, a mill-worker living on Fair¬
ground St., of aiding them from the
outside in making their escape, but
on seeing Mr. Smith’s great distress
over the accusation, they later ex¬
honerated him completely, to his
great joy, and admitted that they
were unaided.
Mayor Neil bound the four young
culprits over to City Court under
bonds of from $150 to $300. The
fathers of two of them made bond
for them and took them home. The
other two were taken to Peri-y. One
of these, one of the youngest of the
four, who seemed an absolutely hard¬
ened criminal and had a record of
several terms in the state reforma¬
tory at Milledgeville, gave so much
trouble in the automobile enroute to
Perry that the deputy in charge had
to threaten to tie his feet to the top
of the car, before he quieted down.
In the City Court the case against
the oldest of the boys, who seemed
to be the least criminally inclined,
was nolle prossed. The other, the
mostt obstreperous and hardened,
was given a fine of $50.00 or six
months on the chain gang. Up to
Tuesday his fine had not been paid,
we understand. This lad boasted of
his career of crime, stating, that .he
had fully $1,000.00 worth of stolen
valuables buried in various places a
bout Macon, giving the location of
some of these places of buried treas¬
ure After completing service in this
county he will have to answer to the
court in Macon on the charge of
stealing from automobiles there.
On communicating with Macon of¬
ficers Chief Lyon learned that one of
the pistols was the property of Mr.
Wilson,assistant manager of -the
Dempsey Hotel,and the other, of Mr.
S. B. Brown Jr., of Forsyth, former¬
ly of Fort Valley. It is suggested
that the purchase and resale of these
pistols by parties here may lead to
some complications. One of them,
however, was restored to its owner.
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FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921.
ROGERS’ FORT VALLEY STORE
PREPARING -FOR OPENING
A force of workmen has been busy
for the past week in the store re
ently occupied by Abe Glass and
Son, converting it into a standard
L. W. Rogers' yrocery store. The
interior is being rearranged, and the
exterior front of the store is to be
painted the well-known Rogers’ red.
The work is under the personal di¬
rection of Mr. T. B. Hutchison, man¬
ager of the Macon division of the
Rogers stores. Mr. E. Dykes, who
has been with the Rogers Company
for some time and knows the Rogers
way of doing things and of treating
customers, will be manager of the
Fort Valley store. Mr. Hutchison
stated several days ago that he hoped
to have the store all ready for open¬
ing to the public on or about the
27th of this month, with a complete
fresh stock of the standard Rogers’
lines of groceries, fruits, produce,
etc., at standard Rogers’ prices, the
same as those of the Atlanta and
Macon stores of that company. Mr.
Dykes will spend next week here and
will be glad to get acquainted with
the people of Fort Valley. He will
bring his wife with him and they ex¬
pect to make their home here.
Mr. T. M. Nash, the well-known
Macon meat market man, will oper¬
ate a first-class meat market in the
local Rogers’ store, under the local
management of Mr. W. B. Jones,
who has lived in Fort Valley for the
past three years and is well and fa¬
vorably known to the Fort Valley
trade.
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WEATHER AT FORT VALLEY
WEEK ENDING JAN. 17, 1921
Rainfall amounting to nearly an
inch occurred during the night of
Thursday, Jan. 13. Total rainfall for
the week was .91 inch. The highest
temperature was 66 at 3:00 p. m.
on Sunday the 16; the lowest was al¬
so on the 16th; when the thermom¬
eter read 29 at 3:00 a. m. There
were three cloudy and four clear
days during the week.
Table for the Week.
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HISTORY CLUB TO MEET
WITH MRS. ROBERT BROWN
The History Club will meet next
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Robert
Brown. In continuation of the study
course on Modern Literature the sub¬
ject of the program will be “Pur
poseful Delineators,” and will be in
charge of Mrs. Tom Flournoy. It
is said that “The right to think, to
know and to utter is the dearest of
ail liberties, Roll call will be re
sponded to by quotations from
women writers. Those who will take
part on this program are Mrs. W. D.
DuPree, Mrs. M. S. Brown, Mrs. J.
W. Rundell, and Mrs. W. B. Norton.
MR. A. B. GREENE IS
HOST AT STAG DINNER
One of the most enjoyable affairs
of the week was the six o’clock stag
dinner with which Mr. Alva Greene
entertained Friday at his home on
Beauty Square. Eighteen of his
friends were assembled arcund the
festive board where a delicious six
course dinner was served. The home
was bright with its artistic decora¬
tions of japonicas and narcissus.
The stately dining table had for its
center decoration a large platter of
white japonicas, while on the buffet
and mantels were vases of fragrant
narcissus. After dinner the guest
repaired to the living room where the
cordial host dispensed cigars ancf to¬
bacco and Missouri corn cob pipes as
favors. The guests reveled in smokes,
jokes and a good time in general,
all having spent a most pleasant eve¬
ning.
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We were compelled to omit .from
this issue several important items of
Red Cross news and “News of the
Green and Gold,” on account of lack
space. These will appear in our
issue.
TOP WEEK'S EIIEHTS
SILVER AND MACKEY’S STORE
SUFFERS HEAVY DAMAGE.
POSTMASTER MURRAY LOSES
ROOF FROM HOME.
Fire which broke out in the store
of Silver and Mackey on Main St.
about 6:45 Tuesday night caused
damage to stock estimated at about
$20,000, with $11,000 insurance.
Very little of the stock, which inven¬
toried January first at $22,500.00,
escaped damage by fire or water and
much of it was totally burned. The
store was a mass of flames inside
by the time the alarm was turned in,
but in an incredibly short time the
valiant laddies of the fire department
had the flames entirely quenched,
with little damage to the building
except to interior wood-work.
The fire is said to have originated
near the stove in the rear of the
store in some manner unknown.
This store being in the very heart
of Fort Valley’s busuiness section,
too much praise can not be given
the members of the local fire depart¬
ment and volunteer helpers for their
splendid work in preventing the
spread of the flames to adjoining
business houses.
Wednesday morning the entire
roof of Postixxaster F. S. Murray’s
residence at the corner of College
and Miller streets was consumed by
flames originating from a spark fall
ing on the roof. Barely twenty-four
hours previously the fire department
had responded to a call to Postmas
te Murray's residence and nipped in
the bud a small blaze originating in
the damage same to manner, the roof with of about a resultant $2.00. j |
The damage from Wednesday’s ’
fire, however, Mr. Murray estimates
at about $2,500.00, about covered
by insurance.
Again splendid work on the part
of the fire department saved the
residence from entire destruction, the
damage being confined entirely to
the roof. The damage by water was
comparatively small. Practically all
of the furniture was saved, with lit¬
tle breakage. Mx\ Murray and family
are making their home temporarily
with Mr. and Mrs. Miller Mathews,
How* Many of Europe’s
Starving Little Ones
Will Fort Valley Save?
They tell us that three and one
half million children in Europe will
starve this winter if the American
people do not furnish the food to
save them. They tell us that $10.00
will save one child from this horri
ble fate. The European Relief Coun
cil, headed by philanthropic men
who are giving their time and ener
gies to the work without charge, as¬
sures us that every penny contrib¬
uted by the American public goes to
the starving children.
Shall we, the people of Fort Val¬
ley, who pride ourselves—and not
without cause—upon our liberality
to church and charity and every oth¬
er worthy cause, turn a deaf ear and
stoney heart to “the cry of the chil¬
dren” in these war-smitten lands?
We, ourselves, are hard hit financi
ally, but most of us have three meals
a day and do not know hunger. We
delight in the contemplation of the
rosy cheeks and exuberant health
our own bairns. Can we not spare a
little—make some small personal
sacrifices—to hush the piteous cry
of these children across the seas,
bring the roses back into- their pale
cheeks, and faith in a good God back
into their hearts and those of their
despairing parents?
We think so.
MRS. B. H. FINCHER HOSTESS
AT PRETTY BUFFET
Mrs. B. H. Fincher entertained
delightfully last Friday evening at
buffet supper. Shaded candles with
flowers and ferns made a pretty
setting for the congenial party
people who enjoyed Mrs. Fin¬
hospitality. Those present were
Misses Frances White, Etta Carith
Miss Byrom, Miss Hazelton,
Willis Campbell, Hill Rigdon,
Smisson and Maxwell Murray.
DEATHS FROM CAUSES
REPORT OF DR. W. A.
CHIEF OF VITAL
STATE BOARD OF
'"•CONTAINS GRAVE
If you will man a passenger
0 f s j x coaches with a full crew
fill every seat, permitting
to stand on the platforms and in
aisles, you will have, the
Special of Georgia, Such a
may be named and filled with
murdered during the first
months of 1920.
The State has a record of 384
icides during that period, not
ing the infants murdered, either in¬
tentionally or through carelessness,
and buried without a death certifi¬
cate being filed and a burial permit
being secured, as is required by state
statute.
The four rear coaches must be re¬
served for those murdered by fire¬
arms, for in addition to the 240 seats,
29 will be found in the aisles, 48
women, 221 men, a total of 269 per¬
sons murdered by such weapons dur¬
ing the first nine months of 1920.
As a motive power for this special
train, you might imagine a huge pis¬
tol, since that weapon was used in
more than 85 per cent of the cases to
usher the individual into eternity.
The .report of a suicide causes a
shudder to pass over the community,
the murder of a prominent citizen a
j-ouses the anger of all who knew him,
but the feeling that spreads like a
p a u over the neighborhood when the
life of some innocent child is snuff
ed out by a pistol which was “not
loaded" is beyond description,
Such conditions are local and in re
a ]it y receive little consideration, for
morning after the buriai the com¬
excepting the home which has
been robbed, assumes a normal inter¬
in business affairs and nothing
is done to prevent the repetitions of
tragedies.
Each person unthoughtedly asks
the question, ‘What is one
in three million people?’ and
it ‘Nothing,’ and drives a
with his personal affairs, This
wilP change when it is re¬
On the suggestion of Mr. S. H.
Bassett The Leader-Tribune has op
j ened a subscription list for these
| starving children. Mr. Bassett is per
sonally soliciting subscriptions to
this cause. The following subscript
ions have already been paid into the
hand of the editor of this paper and
check in full of the amount has al
seady been forwarded by him to Mr.
Jos. A. McCord, State Treasurer,
care of Mr. E. Maivin Underwood,
State Chairman, European Relief
Council, 1715 Candler Bldg., Atlan¬
ta, Ga.: S. H. Bassett, $5.00; Mrs.
E. T. Bassett, $3.00; Miss M. F.
Bassett, $5.00. J. M. Martin and fam¬
ily, $10.00; total, $23.00.
Other contributions will be for
warded each day as received. Give
your conti*ibution to Mr. Bassett, or
send it to The Leader-Tribune (make
checks payable to Jos Jos. A. Mc
| Cord, State Treasurer), or send it
to State headquarters. This is
not for personal glory, but for the
sake of the children who will die un
less we save them. Why not save one
for every one God has given you?
The editor of this paper has ef- !
fected a real, definite economy in ]
his personal expenditures which will
pay back his subscription in a few
weeks.
iEXCHANGE BANK DECLARES
USUAL ANNUAL DIVIDEND
At a meeting of the stock-holders
of the Exchange Bank, of Fort Val¬
ley, last Friday, all the old officers
of the bank were reelected, the usual
eight per cent dividend was declared
and a satisfactory addition made to
the surplus fund.
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A Chicago woman left $8,000 to
provide a home and luxuries for her
pet poodle dog.
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MRS. ALFRED HUME GIVES
PRETTY BRIDGE
j of One of the prettiest social
the week was the bridge
on last Friday given by Mrs.
Hume in honor of Mrs. Mattox
Elberton, the guest of Mrs.
Crandall; Miss Gladys Stephens
Chicago, the guest of Mrs. John Al¬
len; and Mrs. Lynn Fagan, a
of the season, A lovely three-course
luncheon was- served. A box of sta¬
tionery was presented to Mrs. Ste¬
phen Bassett for making high score
in the games. Hand-made handker¬
chiefs were given the honor guests
and the consolation was won by Mrs.
J. H. Webster. Those who enjoyed
Mrs. Hume’s charming hospitality in¬
cluded Mesdames Robert Hale, Tom
Murphey, Sam Hurst, Will Brisen
dine, Ben Roe Marshall, J. H. Web¬
ster, Fred Crandall, Stephen Bassett,
F. C. Hall, Sydney McMillan, Misses
Gladys Slappey, Helen Marshall, Ru¬
by Harris, Gladys Stephens, Mrs.
Jeffries, Mrs. Lynn Fagan and Mrs.
Mattox.
alized that in nine months,1,532 per¬
sons in Georgia lost their lives from
cause other than disease. Of this
number, 87 were suicides, 1,061 ac¬
cidental deaths end 384 were homi¬
cides, showing a px-oportion of one
suicide to 4 homicides and 17 acci¬
dental deaths.
All these deaths are said to be pre
ventable, yet suicides are ascribed
to conditions over which apparently
nothing less than the Almighty has
control. All accidental deaths cannot
be prevented so long as floods and
storms are no better understood than
at present. All homicides will nev¬
er be stopped so long as man’s na¬
ture partakes of the human. But
the conditions leading to and the in¬
struments used in producing such
deaths may be taken from the people
and in this way the number reduced.
Of the 25,253 deaths recorded by
the State Bureau of Vital Statistics
during the first three quarters of
1920, one out of every 16 was due to
some cause other than disease, one
•in 25 was due to some accident, one
in 65 was a homicide and one in 290
a suicide. This waste of human life
is realized when it is remembered
that in every 100,000 people in
Georgia there are 4 suicides, that 17
are murdered and that 48 meet an ac¬
cidental death during the year.
Railroad and Street car accidents
during recent years have been held
down to a minimum by laudable leg¬
islation requiring safety devices.
This Legislation reenforced by ‘safe¬
ty first’ campaign has shown splen¬
did results in reducing the number of
deaths from such accidents.
State statutes and city oi'dinances
have been enacted controlling the au
tcgnobile on the streets and public
highways but the utter disregard fox
such laws, both by the drivers of au¬
tomobiles and by officials whose duty
it is to enforce them, is shown plain¬
ly by the rapid increase in the num
ber of deaths due to automobile acci
dentg. This increase has kept pacx
with the increase in the number o
deaths due to careless handling oi
firearms. July, August and Septem
ber of this year show 52 deaths dux
to the careless handling of firearm:
as compared with only 79 during the
previous six months, an increase oi
34 per cent every six months and at
the present rate of increase, xxnles:
al carelessness, there will be ap
some check is placed on such crimin
proximately 325 deaths in 1921 from
this cause.
Man has been divided into twe
classes, the normal and the abnor¬
mal. Abnormal man into two classes,
the genius and the insane. A norma
man under no conditions will'-destroy
himself. A genius thinks along one
line until a complete and correct con
elusion is reached and then acts. The
insane act without reaching a correct
conclusion. The line of demarkation
is so blurred by environment that a
distinction cannot be easily drawn.
The freak who would be known as a
genius does not think normally, and
should be placed in the latter class
Suicide rates for the genius are not
available, it is safe to state that
such deaths are a negligent factor.
Suicides occur in epidemics altho
these deaths are not due to any com
municable disease. The gi’ewsome
story of how the individual ended his
life, the notes left for his family and
friends explaining the gross injustice
done him and the difficulties making
life unbearable, the method of death
and the appearance of the body after
the act was committed, a description
of his excellent character, brilliant
acheivements and kindly qualities
(To be continued.)
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KU KLUX
MANY LEADING CITIZENS HEAR
ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY HON.
J. O. NOLAN AND APPLY FOR
MEMBERSHIP.
An audience of about two hundred
of the leading citizens of Fort Val¬
ley and vicinity, gathered at the
Austin Theatre here Monday night,
heard with close attention and fre¬
quent applause Hon. J. Q. Nolan of
Atlanta expound the origin, princi¬
ples, purposes and methods of the
modern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr. Nolan opened his diseiurse
with an eloquent tribute to the in¬
domitable courage, faith, determina¬
tion and lofty principle displayed by
-he Confederate veterans in redeem¬
ing their homes, the South and
America in four years time from the
devastation of war and the iniqui¬
ties of “carpet bag” rule, and as¬
cribed no small part in this redempt¬
ion to the effective and orderly
work of the old Ku Klux Klan, of
which the new organization is a revi¬
val in many respects, though not in
ts method of operation, the members
of the modern order never acting
under any form of disguise in carry¬
ing out the real purposes of the or¬
der, the paraphernalia being used on¬
ly for public parades, etc. He ex¬
plained that the order does not coun¬
tenance violation of the law but, on
the contrary, is pledged to its main¬
tenance and to upholding the hands
of the officers of the law. Charter¬
ed by the State of Georgia, its cor¬
porate rights upheld by a decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, and given a clean “bill of
health” by the United States gov¬
ernment, he depicted the high pur¬
pose and opportunities of the order
in maintaining the high social and
chivalrous standards of the Old South
and in preserving the American
government and American civiliza¬
tion under (the supremacy of the
descendents of its founders.
At the conclusion of his address,
which was splendidly received des¬
pite a temporarily disconcerting in¬
terruption, which the speaker had led
in a most gentlemanly and consider¬
ate manner, opportunity was present¬
ed for those present to make ap¬
plication for charter membership in t
a branch of the order to be organ¬
ized here. A large number of appli
:ations were signed that night, and
Mr. W. G. Keen is continuing his
work here for several days securing
other applications. Only law-abiding
citizens of unquestionable integri¬
ty, whose oaths are inviolate, are
accepted, all applications being pass'
ed upon by the Atlanta headquarters
of the order.
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MRS. FRED R. CRANDALL’S
BRIDGE FOR MRS. MATTOX
In honor of her guest, Mrs. Mattox
if Elberton, Mrs. Fred R. Crandall
■ntertained a number of friends on
Tuesday evening at a bridge party.
Fragrant narcissus mingled their
beauty with the green of ferns and
palms in the rooms where the games
were played. The guest enjoyed an
interesting game of bridge un¬
til late in the eveiing, when a two
course refection was served. Mrs.
3am Hurst and Mrs. John Houser
assisted in entertaining. Those enjoy
ng this delightful occasion were Mr.
and Mi's. Will Brisendine, Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Roe Marshall, Mr. and Mrs.
John Allen, Mi-, and Mrs. Steve Bas¬
sett, Misses Helen Marshall, Gladys
Slappey, Ruby Harris, Messrs. A. C.
Riley, Jr., Wesley Houser, Louis
Brown, Dave Strother, Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Hume, and Mrs. Jeffries and
Miss Gladys Stephens of Chicago.
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MRS. SAM HURST IS HOSTESS
AT BRIDGE FOR MRS. MATTOX
Complimenting Mrs. Mattox, a
popular visitor, Mrs. Sam Hurst en¬
tertained Tuesday afternoon two ta¬
bles of bridge players. At the con¬
clusion of the games dainty refresh¬
ments were served. As the guest of
Mrs. Fred Crandall Mrs. Mattox is
being cordially welcomed and a num¬
ber of social affaii-s have been ■given
in her honor.
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