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Volume XXXIII, Ntimber 9.
SERVICE
EVERYONE URGED TO ATTEND.
TREAT PROMISED. MR. RUS¬
SELL TO LEAD SINGING. NO
CHARGE; NO SUBSCRIPTION.
By Cleone Duke Braiwell.
There will be a mass meeting at
the Fort Valley school auditorium
Friday evening, January 28, at 7:30
o’clock, and Francis Russell, repre¬
sentative of the national Coijimunity
Service corporaiton, will lead in the
community singing. Mr. Russell has
accomplished a significant work in
this line in many communities thru
out the states and he is being well
received in Fort Valley, receiving
the unstinted cooperation of the peo¬
ple. There will be no subscription tak¬
en at this meeting and therefore the
people will be unrestrained by the
weight of pocket-books.
Other features of the program for
Friday evening in addition to the
singing will be brief talks pithy and
pointed, relating to community in¬
speakers will be presented.. A. L.
Lincoln, executive secretary of the
Community Sexvice committee, will
also be present and will be pi-esented
to the assembly.
Fort Valley is just waking up to
the possibilities along community
lines and with the awakening is an
evi growing spirit of unity and
cooperation, and there is every rea¬
son to believe htat the city is in the
not far distant future going to be
equally as just to herself and her
community interests as she has been
to outside and foreign needs in the
years gone by.
The ten successive evenings of
play which have been enthusiasti¬
cally indulged in at the school build¬
ing very recently have worked al¬
most unbelievable results and have
put new life, new hope, new energy
into a “Valley of dry bones,” reere
ationally speaking.
Miss Martha Zachman, who di-
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£ V%
£ a This Bank is audited four times each year. Below is a £ £
£ £ part of the report of E. O. Whealler, Certified Public Ac¬
countant, upon the last Audit, held recently.
£ £ V Mr. Citizens C. E. Martin, Bank Vice Prest. ,
£ of Fort Valley, !i
! Fort Valley, Ga.
ii Dear Sir:
£ Upon the recent examination of the Citizens !>
£ Bank of Fort Valloy, as at the close of business
December 14, 1920, I found the records well kept,
the assets and liabilities in agreement with the i
i books well looked and the after. business The of total the resources, Bank closely and ! :
$981,583.76, indicate the growth of the Bank. 11
\ Yours very truly, a
E. 0. WHEALLER.
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Upon the strength of the above condition, we solicit the patronage of those who are ! H
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Capital and Surplus $ 150 000.00 Resources over a Million Dollars. £ £
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AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921.
f
rected the playing, has done a great
work here and the national corpora¬
tion was beseiged with requests that
she stay longer in this city, but it
was necessary that she fill an en¬
gagement elsewhere. A large number
of people, however, have been fitted
through her recreational classes to
lead in the play-ground activities of
the community and have determined
that the work shall be continued.
The kit of balls contributed by the
local , , _ Red , Cross „ to , the community ..
, has proven money well spent . and j
they .. w.ll , be a source of , much , . bene
fica! pleasure to the young and old
°
wu What the t u Liberty i Loan drives , • and .
other war drives , . did j., to . , bring . ,
Valley ,, .. and ...... vicinity together ., patriot- . . .
ically the Community .. o Service . cause
is doing , . in a fraternal , . , and , joy-giv- .
.
ing manner.
One of the has said, ., An
sages
, hour of - play , discovers more than ,,
a
year of - conversation; .. „ and , another ,,
, has said, . , “We ..... should , ,, play . . to live,
not ... live to . play. , „
The Community ,, Service 0 committee ...
much . concerned . that every „
is very
Fort Valleyan and citizen of the com
munity be informed of the great
treat , ,, that 4 awaits .. the , u assembly i, in • the
school , , auditorium i., r? Friday , evening.
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HISTORY CLUB MEETING
WITH MRS. ROBERT BROWN
The History Club held an inter¬
esting meeting Tuesday fcfternoon
with Mrs. Robert Brown. The pro¬
gram was in charge of Mrs. Tom
Flournoy. Th members answered
roll call with quotations from wo¬
men writers. Mrs. W. D. DuPree’s
subject was Margaret Deland and
A study of Dr. Lavender was giv¬
en by Mrs. M. S. Brown. Mrs. J.
W. Rundell told of Edith Wharton,
works. Mrs. F. W. Withoft’s sub¬
ject was H. G. Wells and a review
of “The Undying Fire.” Mrs. Tom
Murphey played “The Erl King,” by
Liszt. After the program the host
ess served a delicious salad course,
with tea.
ALL IS READ) FOR
TENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF
WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SOCIE¬
TY OF SOUTH GEORGIA CON¬
FERENCE BEGINS MONDAY.
The tenth . .. annual . session .__ of the
Woman’s Missionary . „ Society . . of » the
.
South Georgia Conference ~ will con
^ M January
at 7;80 oVlock . A11 thinfJS point
to the largest and most profitable
the conference has . had .
session ever
The , local . auxiliary, ... under the
leadership , , . ' of - Mrs. W. C. Wright, has
about , perfected , , its ., plans . for , the .. en
^ f,
tertainment L . of , the ,, Conference. .
About 200 delegates and visitors
expected. . , Luncheon , , will ... , be serv
are
ed each , day , at . , clock , . . the
one o in
church , , parlors for the delegates. The
, homes of the city have been opened .
'
the visitors . .. and welcome . . such ,
to a
only Fort Valley , knows , how to
as
awal s em ‘
The . . , begin . at .
morning sessions
nine . o clock, ’ the afternoon at 2:ts0,
and , the , . . at , _ 7 :d0. ork
evening services
^ The general , subject , . , will be ~ Pente¬
cost and Missions.
L. W. ROGERS GROCERY
HAS SPLENDID OPENING
I The L. W. Rogers Company’s Fort
Valley grocery store threw its doors
open to the public this morning. And
the public were there waiting. All
morning it looked like Saturday aft¬
ernoon in Rogers store. Not only did
many Fort Valleyans visit the store,
but many people from the country¬
side around, from Marshallville and
other nearby towns were among the
first morning’s visitors and patrons.
The opening setemed most opportune¬
ly timed, psychologically, gastronom
ically, and financially. The public
seemed eager to help give old man
H. C. L. a knock-out blow right in
the solar plexus, and that he got it
right there is evidenced by the prices
shown in the page advertisement of
the Rogers store in this issue of The
Leader-Tribune.
Mr. E. Dykes, manager, expressed
himself as very much pleased with the
opening day’s patronage. Certainly
he and his three assistants were kept
busy. Mr. Hutchison, manager of the
Macon division of the Rogers stores,
and Mr. Lowman of Atlanta, adver¬
tising manager of the company, were
also pleased spectators of the open¬
ing day’s business.
All of these gentlemen, as are all
the other stock-holders and employ¬
ees of the Rogers Company, are na¬
tive Georgians. In fact, the Rogers
Company is a Georgia product. Mr.
Lowman, himself, didn’t miss much
of being a Fort Valleyan. In fact, he
is one, in spirit. He is related to
some of Fort Valley’s most prominent
citizens. His father was a native of
Crawford County, and the old Low
man homestead in that County is
now owned and occupied by descend
ents of Lowman slaves.
The Rogers store is commodious
and attractive in appearance, having
been repainted throughout, inside
and out. The fixtures, also, are new
throughout, being oak finished with
solid oak counters. Everything looks
clean and neat.
Mr. T. M. Nash of Macon was also
here today to witness the opening of
his market under the genial manage¬
ment of Mr. W. B. Jones, and both of
these gentlemen seemed highly grat¬
ified with the way business started
off.
A close perusal of the Rogers page
advertisement and of the Nash Mar¬
ket advertisement in this issue will
be well worth while to the thrifty
house-wife. The prices are there.
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Don’t hold back on advertising
your business because you haven’t
the money to pay for it now.
Play ball! We are at the bat.
SIX PAGES
BEFORE BUDS SWELL
FORT VALLEY U. S. PEACH IN¬
SECT LABORATORY URGES
PROMPT ACTION TO GET A
HEAD OF WORMS.
Unfavorable weather conditions
have been the cause for very little
burning and cleaning up of wood¬
lands, brush, and other hibernating
places for eurculios adjoining and
near peach orchards. Frequent rains
during the winter months have kept
the vegetation and undergrowth near
orchards damp so that it would not
burn properly, and furthermore, to
date very little cold weather has oc¬
curred to properly kill out under veg¬
etation. This burning over of all hi¬
bernating places adjoining and near
orchards to destroy the adult curcu
lios which would make the 1921
peach crop wormy must take place
before the buds normally start to
swell, as the beetles will forsake
their winter hibernating places for
the trees at the first signs of the put¬
ting out of foliage. The time for this
burning is getting short, and growers
should now take advantage of the
first dry weather to burn over all
and waste lands, terrace and
fence rows, rubbish, pruning piles,
and any other place near the orchard
w ic i%Jg it sc ' \' as 1 erna mg
quarters for the beetles. Orchardists
are cautioned to have sufficient su
pervision present during this burning
to prevent damage to property
fences, telephone, and telegraph
poles, etc. The thoroughness
which this burning is done will
ly influence the amount of worm.ness
in the 1921 peach crop. Burning is
not recommended in the orchard
round trees, but all hibernating
quarters in the orchard , should be de
stroyed by cleaning up or turning un
der the vegetation.
''Agents of the United States De
parturient of Agriculture attached to
the Fort Valley station have found
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| hibernating eurculios both in and
near peach orchards, very often being
found at the base of a mass of grass.
Many other beetles have been re¬
ceived at the laboratory from grow¬
ers over the peach belt who have mis¬
taken them for eurculios, when in re¬
ality they were closely related
species feeding on peas, or other for¬
age plants. Nevertheless, indications
are that the peach eurculios are hi¬
bernating in and near orchards in
great numbers, and will undoubtedly
cause a great deal of worminess to
the present peach crop unless they
are destroyed during the winter by
the methods suggested. A word to the
wise here should be sufficient.
Orchardists are again reminded
of the advantages of opening up the
centers of the trees during the prun¬
ing operation, and avoid leaving the
laterals and secondary branches too
thick. This will permit of a much bet¬
ter job of spraying, and the proper
air circulation and sunlight can be
obtained which is so necessary for
coloring, etc. We must prevent any
kind of deciduous fruit trees from
overbearing, and cause it to produce
uniform fruit. This can only be done
through proper and intelligent prun¬
ing.
In spraying whether it be for scale
or during the growing season a much
more thorough job can be done if
each tree is finished before starting
another. A negro labarer can always
see how much of a tree is covered
when it wet with spray( and he will
conse q UeT1 ti y keep spraying until all
rtions of the tree are wet This ig
nQt the cause when one half of the
^ ig gprayed at one time and then
finished when the sprayer returns in
^ next row when thig method is
tked the material on the part of
thfi trefi that has been sprayed at OTe
tJme ig nQt always dry enoush> when
outm returns in the next row to
finish the tree, to see just how much
of the tree has been coverd, and in
^ way portions are often complete
ly missed. Spray each tree thorcrugh
ly from all sides and finish it before
moying forward to a710ther
In order to handle the curculio and
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