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The only newspaper
published in Fort Valley,
the largest peach-ship¬
ping station in the world.
Volume XXXV, Number 51.
1. A. \l SEIFERT
IS CALIEU10 BEYOND
FORT VALLEY POSTMASTER
PUBLIC-SPIRITED
SUCCUMBS TO GRIM REAPER
AFTER VALIANT FIGHT
Mr. Albert M. Seifert, postmaster
and one of the most useful and pub¬
lic-spirited cicizens of Fort Valley,
died Wednesday morning at his home
on East C north St. after an illness of
several months. He had been in
dining health for a year or more
suffering from a complication of dis
ea.- es such as might well cause
average man to lose heart and give
up participation in the usual activi¬
ties of life. But Mr. Seifert was not
an av sc man With indomitable
fortitude lie resisted the ravages
wasting disease, kept to his duties
as a public servant and to participa
tion in the civic and social interests
of his community as long as strength
remained to him. He was confined to
his bed for several weeks before the
end, but was courageous and
ful to the last that he would soon
sumo his place in the life of the
munity.
lie was born in Macon fifty-two
years ago, the son of the late
A. E, Seifert and Annette Seifert,
At the age of thriteen he went
New 'i ork City where he lived until
after he reached maturity, return
ing then to his native city. He was
married ’n 1895 to Miss Susie Bras
wo 1 of }■ ort Valley. For a number
of years ho was prominently connect
ed with the Georgia Fruit Exchange,
firs' in their Atlanta office, then as
thi i ort Valley representative of that
onmV.i- ation.
: 'e w a member of the Methodist
( sure’', if the Fort Valley Kiwanis
Chili, the board of water and light
Co ...vioners, and the Masons. He
v -. Mitral chairman of the peach
?. om' festival held here last year,
and was general purchasing agent for
the second peach blossom festival held
thi a n There were few publicmove
meuts looking toward the upbuild
in:>- of Fort Valley in which he was
not actively and earnestly interested.
He loved his fellow man and few men
of such force of character as his had
as many friends. Surviving him are
his widow; three brothers. Will J.
Seifert of New York, Ed Seifert of
Dames Ferry, Ga., and Capt. Charles
Seifert of the U. S, Army, Panama
* Canal Zone: two sisters. Mrs. Robert
Christian of Decatur, Ga., and Mrs.
Doris Gillespi? of New York City;
and a number of nieces and nephews,
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AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Circulates the most highly developed sections of Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where more than half of Georgia s peach crop is produced.
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1923.
LITTLE BOBBIE MCMILLAN
IS CRUSHED BY ELEVATOR
Little Robert McMillan, three year
J old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. McMil-
1 lan, suffered serious injuries last
: Saturday afternoon when he
was
caught between the elevator and
[ floor in a Macon department store.
When the cry was given that a
child had been caught in the elevat¬
or, it was little Bobbie’s own father
who volunteered to rescue it, little
dreaming that it was his own son.
The child was rushed to a Macon
hospital, where a preliminary exam¬
ination indicated that the pelvic
bones had been broken, and it was
feared he would not surv.ve. His
however, has improved,
hope is entertained for his
COVf'FV
Mr. and Mrs. McMillan have been
ci m.tantly at his bedside at the hos
P‘ ta '- Their many friends deeply
sympathize with them in their trouble
a " (1 h °P e that th * littlc p,u ' wil1 con
tinue to improve-and soon be well
agam.
METHODIST CHURCH
Oli:' Sunday School hour is 9:30 A.
384 were present last Sunday. Let
us work for a 100 per cent attendance
next Sunday.
Worship and preaching at 11 A. M.
At 7 P. M. we will go to the Baptist
Church to hear Dr. Cox and help in
the revival there.
The intermediate League meets
2:30 and the Senior League at 6
p M stewards meeting at 7 P. M.
Friday. On account of the revival
services we will have but three more
se , v j ces a t our church before the an
nvul Conference which convenes the
28in inst. Let all members be in the
service next Sunday morning and at
the revival , . the ,, . Each „ ,
in evening. one
doing his part will help to make a
100 per cent report to
Loy Warwick, Pastor.
Funeral services will be conducted
r.t the residence at two o’clock Thurs¬
day afternoon, Rev. Loy Warwick,
pastor of the Methodist Church, and
Rev. D. A. Howard, pastor of the
Baptist Church, officiating.
Interment will be in Oaklawn
Cemetery.
Practically every place of business
in Fort Valley will be closed during
the hour of the funeral, the electric
light plant shut down, and al!
operations will cease while the funer¬
al services at the house are being
held and the eortege is passing.
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We have a hundred dollars or so
due on subscriptions. Wo need the
money.
SHBINERS PLAN BIG
III III CUK
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 12—(Special)
Shriners who will attend the annual
fall ceremonial in Columbus
day, November 21, will have a big
day and night as is evidenced by the
elaborateness of the entertainment
planned by W. E. Page, president of
the A! Oula Shrine Club and his big
committee.
A1 Sihah Temple, Macon, is com¬
ing to Columbus by train car loads
and automobile loads. A1 Sihah will
conduct the ceremonial, the main
J feature of the day.
The usual happy groups of wearers
of red fezes will fill Columbus streets
from early , morning and . this ... means
..... that “a good ... tune is to be had by all.
j At 1 o’clock there is going to be
a spread of barbecued meats and side
i dishes that will make the worst
j grouch—-if there be one in the hun
| dreds of Shriners to visit Columbus—
smile all over his smiling apparatus.
At 3 o’clock on the afternoon
parade wiii move off and after
shorl march .... wlU arrlve at the , scene
o£ the ^remomal. A large number of
novices await the initiation with vary¬
ing degrees of courage. The rest of
the afternoon will be spent in send¬
ing the novices across the hot sands
and doing other things testing their
ability to be wearers of the red fez.
At 9 o’clock the big dance will get
underway and this will be strictly
a Shriners’ event, just like all the
other big things for Wednesday, No¬
vember 21, are to be. Shriners from
cilies more than a 100 miles from
Columbus are coming anih
now point ' to the largest attendance
jof „ Shriners . for , ceremonial
a
staged here.
WESLEYAN COLLEGE
TO RAISE
Macon, Ga., Nov.—Wesleyan
j oldest college for women
,• America, is to enter on a
to raise one million dollars for
buildings and endowment, it was
nounced by Dr. W. F, Quillian,
ident of the college. A
new site, the old Flournoy
in the Rivoli district of Macon,
i been purchased, where the
will build its new campus.
The campaign will he carried on
this Spring under the leadership
Orville A. Park, national chairman,
who is a former president of the
Georgia Bar Association and
piler of Park’s Code of the Laws
Georgia, the official state code. He
a prominent Methodist, chairman
the Board of Stewards of the
ry Street Church in Macon and
25 years superintendent of the
day School.
The executive committee of
nipai j n includes: Bishop W. N.
\hiav.-orth, Rev. W. F. Smith, O. A.
Park, Rev. O’. F. Cook, C. B. Lewis,
Former Governor N. E. Harris, Pres
ident W. F. Quillian, Geo. B. Jewett,
W. R. Rogers, Jr., and W. D. Ander
son.
Wesleyan College was the first
J college in America to grant a degree
I to a woman. Her first graduate,
Catherine Brewer, received the bach¬
elor’s dgree in 1840, the first woman
5. America to receive such a degree.
Mb's B'o-mr later married and
the mother of Admiral Benson
the TJe*' ed States NaVy. A little later,
I after Mt. Holyoke Seminary in
: ' :ctts began to do work of colle¬
giate gi <’e, and Oberlin College in
Ohio granted its first degree to a
I woman, scores of colleges followed
I the lord of Wesleyan by giving
education to women. The college is
under the control of the North Georg¬
ia, South Georgia, and Florida Con¬
ferences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. E. J. Saywell will be in Fort
Valley Sunday and preach at St. An¬
drews Episcopal Church Sunday
ing at 11 o’clock and at 7 P. M.
Sunday School at 9:30 A. M.
The public cordially invited.
O
CARD OF THANKS.
I wish to thank all my friends and
neiahbors, and especially Dr. W. S.
White, for their many deeds of
Iness shown me during the short
and death of my beloved
Wes Stembridge.
Mrs. Susie Stembridge.
STATE IS AFTER GAS
ME TH EVADERS
Atlanta, Nov.—According to the
| records riculure, in 888,f>84 the state gallons departmepjt of gasoline of ag
j were consumed in Houston County
j during 1922. This is the amount
which was inspected at tank sta
tions by the local oil inspector and on
which the state inspection tax of one
half cent per gallon was collected. Of
this amount, approximately four
i fifths was turned into the state treas
ur >’, the inspection work being done
on a piece work basis, and the in¬
I spectors over the state only getting
a small part of the total amount paid
for their work by the oil companies.
| In .... this respect, ...... it is interesting to
I , that ,, . there * difference .... of ,
was a
8,359,838 0 ano gallons „ , between , the ,, amount
of gasoline in . S p eeted in the state
and || le amount upon which the state
road tax ( ,f one cen t per gallon was
paid This is accounted for by the
fact that thc j nspe ctio» work is done
by a force ()f inspectors, none of
W hom are on salary basis, while the
road tax paid by the oil companies
to the comptroller general’s depart¬
ment and the legislature has failed
to provide any machinery for check¬
ing payments.
Recently, as a result of the discrep¬
ancy noted above, the comptroller
general’s office has been checking
their records for 1922 item by item
with the oil inspection department
records. They have already discovered
one lot of gasoline of 1,1 78,105 gal¬
lons, imported by the Hercules Pow¬
der Company, of Brunswick, on which
the one-cent tax was not paid. The
company claims that it is not due to
pay this tax, inasmuch as the gasoline
was used as a solvent in the manufac¬
ture of explosives, and not as motive
power for vehicles. The law however,
makes no distinction such as this and
the comptroller general wil! insist up¬
on its payment, it is said.
The necessity for continuing this
check between the two departments
is now much greater than before, in¬
asmuch as the state tax has been
raised to three cents per gallon. It
will be seen that, at this rate, the
eight million odd gallons on which
no tax was paid in 1922, would cause
a loss to the state of over $240,000.
Even at the one-cent rate the loss was
over $80,000.
JURORS FOR NOVEMBER
TERM OF CITY COURT
City Court will convene on Monday,
November 19, but jurors listed below
will not report until Tuesday, the
20th.
There are about 135 cases set on
the Civil Calendar—all for Tuesday,
the 20th. Witnesses in all cases to be
tried wjil he subpoenaed to appear
•m Tuesday, the 20th, and from day
to day until the final disposition of
the case.
Jurors
Harry Bonner, W. R. Drone, F. E.
Corey, J. D. Edwards, G. M. Garvin,
T. J. Akins, Jesse W. Davis, Harold
Anderson, Herbert Hiley, Smith How
rd, W. I). Murray,* E. W. Bowman,
I. R. McDonald, A. M. Solomon, S.
H. c;c er. ,Tno. A. IT our or, Ben Rob¬
erson, P. M. Beckham, E. B. Wilson,
G. Stembridge, M. J. Wilson, Dave,
C. Strother, W. E. Clarke, N. W. H.
Gilbert, L. F. Cater, S. P. Crowell,
W. J. Braswell, E. II. Renfroe, R. C.
\ulunan, O. Goes, B. W. Long, E. L.
Butler, R. IT. Brown, H. M. Bran¬
ham, T. h. Flo urnoy, O. F. Cheek.
J. E. Ragin. C. H. Avera, C. H. Math¬
ew.;. 2. F. Moslellcr, H. P. Houser,
Claude. V. Walton, Geo. T. Eubanks.
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GOODYEAR COMPANY GETS
ZEPPELIN RIGHTS IN U. S.
Akron, Ohio, Nov.—Announcement
was made this week by the Good¬
year Tire & Rubber Company of the
formation of the Goodyear-Zeppelin
Co., a subsidiary company organized
to take over for this country all the
rights, patents, drawings and de¬
signs of the Zeppelin Co., relating
to rigid airships.
Formation of the new company,
it is stated, places at the disposal
of the United States government and
of commercial interests the cumu¬
lative experience of the Zeppelin
Co., which has built 120 of the 160
airships constructed-' in the world.
The new company, America owned
and controlled, will have exculsive
rights to all Zeppelin patents, equip¬
ment, etc., for North America except
Canad and non-exclusive rights in
Canada. .
SIX PAGES.
FORT VALLEY PARTY FIND
DIAMOND LOST IN TJFTON
Finding a lost diamond after re¬
tracing a journey of sixty miles was
the remaikable good luck of Mrs.
M. Solomon of Fort Valley lost Fri
day morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon, Mrs. Mann
Martin and Miss Wilma O’rr were re¬
turning via automobile from the fair
at Valdosta. At Cordele Mrs. Solomon
discovered the loss of the diamond
from one of her rings. Recalling that
•.he had removed her gloves in a, res¬
taurant at Tifton where the party
lad taken breakfast, Mrs. Solomon
)ut in a long-distance ’phone call for
he manager of the restaurant to no
,ify him of her loss and have a search
nade. Mrs. Martin insisted however,
that the call be canceled and that
the party return to Tifton to make a
personal search for the stone, which
was valued at $800.00. So the sixty
miles intervening were retraced, and
while Mrs. Solomon was trying to ex¬
plain to the Greek manager of the
restaurant the object of their return,
Miss Wilma Orr picked the stone
up off the floor where it had fallen.
A SMILE
Nothing on earth can smile but
man. Gems may flash reflected light,
but what is a diamond flash com¬
pared to an eye flash and mirth
flash?
Flowers cannot smile. This is a
charm that even they cannot claim.
It is the perogative of man. It is the
color which love wears and cheerful¬
ness and joy—these three. It is the
light in the windows of the face by
which the heart signifies it is at
home and waiting.
A face that cannot smile is like a
hud that cannot blossom and dries up
on the stalk.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is
night, and a smile is the twilight that
hovers gently between both—more ,
bewitching than either.—Henry Ward
Beecher.
DO YOUR FEET HURT?
Foot Comfort
Demonstration
IN OUR STORE
Saturday, Nov. 17 th.
This doctor comes to us direct
from. Chicago, with a complete line
of—
DR. SCHOLL’S FOOT
COMFORT APPLIANCES
IF YOU SUFFER WITH
CORNS, CALLOUSES, BUNIONS,
ENLARGED JOINTS or FALLEN
t ARCHES,
we urge you to make a special visit
to our FOOT COMFORT DEMON¬
STRATOR here Saturday, Novem
ber 17th.
Edwards Bros.
C< ■
FORT VALLEY, GA.
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BIG CROWD SEES CONCRETE
MIXER AND VIBRATERS
STARTED AT CORNER OF RAIL
ROAD AND CHURCH STS.
In the presence of Mayor A. C. Ri
iey, Jr., and other city officials, en¬
gineer Knox T. Thomas, and contract¬
or Whitley, the actual pouring of Fort
Valley’s concrete street paving was
begun shortly before one o’clock
this afternoon at the corner of Rail¬
road and Church streets on the Lanier
Park side. A large crowd of citizens
gathered speedily to watch the score
of busy workmen dump their, bar
rows of slag and sand and sacks of
cement into the big Koehring mixer,
the engineer dump the wet mixture
just* where he wanted it, other labor¬
ers wade into it with rubber boots
on and smooth it out, others to cover
the top with broken limestone, and
then the vibrating platforms placed
over it and noisy little engines moved
back and forth over these platforms,
causing the cement to spatter up
through the cracks, and thoroughly
unifying the whole mass.
As the paving crawls up behind the
mixer it is moved forward on its cater¬
pillar wheels to a new location.
It’s the busiest, fastest bunch of
workers we have seen in some time.
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CARD OF THANKS.
We extend to our friends our
thanks and appreciation for their
kindnesses and beautiful floral offer
iivs during the sickness and death of
our daughter Mildred.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Lunceford.