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Volume No. XXXVI, Number 8.
History Club
Bazaar Success
The Proceeds to be
Used Towards Club’s
Building Fund, Etc.
The Commercial Advertising Ba¬
zaar which was sponsored by the Fort
Valley History Club closed Friday
night and was a splendid suecess.The
contributions tovere iattractively ar¬
ranged and advertised and had a
ready demand. Several kinds of cream
were contributed by the Odum Ice
Cream Co., of Macon and proved
popular. A number of Fort Valley
bossters had supper at the lunch
counter, where sandwiches and cof¬
fee and cake were served. The coun
ery store was exceptionally popular.
The grocery did a splendid business.
There were some bargains and splen¬
did values in staple goods which are
being introduced in Fort Valley. The
notions and miscellaneous booth,
where magazines and various attrac¬
tions were sold, was especially pretty
and successful.
The cake sold like “hot cakes” and
the delivery of the prizes was an
exciting featyre. Mrs. J. M. Green
won first prize for the best layer
cake, with Mrs. John Allen second.
Mrs. Rob. Hale won first prize for
the best angel food cake with Mrs.
Edwin Martin second and Mrs. W.
G. Brisendine second. The flower
booth was a popular place, selling
80 rose bushes in a short while. This
was a noteworthy contribution from
Chio. Storrsf) and Harrison of Paineville,
Another attractive booth was the
beauty parlor where manicuring was
toe specialty and provided lots of
’ n and where one got value receiv
' also the post office affording
much amusement. An auction sale of
some articles, with Messrs. Robert
Braswell and Moses Solomon as auc
tioneers, was enjoyed.
The proceeds will be used toward
the History Club’s building fund, a
gift of money to the library (which
the History Club makes each year),
and to meet a small pledge to the
Tallulah Falls school.
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ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH
Episcopal
Rev. E. X. Saywell, Pastor.
Sexagesima
Service*
Church School 9:30 A. M.
Mr. C. T. Eberhardt, Supt.; Mr. W. A.
Wood. Sec.
Holy Communion 11:00 A. M.
Evening Praver 7:00 P. M.
Church Activitie*.
Vestry and Men’s Club meets 1st
Thursday each month, 7:00 P. M.
Woman’s Auxiliary, every 1st and
3rd Monday, each month, 8 P. M.
Choir rehearsal, every Friday, 7:09
P. M.
Altar Guild, Saturday 9:00 A. M.
Slogan.
The Lord’s Work In the Lord’s Way.
A hearty welcome to all to worship
at St. Andrew’s.
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WESLEYAN CAMPAIGN TO
BE OPENED MARCH 27
Macon, Ga.—March 27 has been
set as the opening date for the mil¬
lion dollar “Greater Wesleyan” cam¬
paign, according to an announeemet
made at headquarters here today. On
the evening of that day Wesleyan
dinners will be held in each communi¬
ty where there is a group of alumnae.
Cooperation of the alumnae in the ,
movement was assured at the meet
ing of county representatives here
Saturday, when over 100 women
pledged to aid their alma m*ter.
Chairmen were secured for over ^70
counties of the state at the meeting
and plans for conducting the cam¬
paign were explained and approved.
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HANDSOME BOOKLET ABOUT
SAVANNAH AND TYBEE
BEING DISTRIBUTED
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The Savannah Board of Trade has
just issued a handsome illustrated
booklet entitled “Savannah—Where
Tourists Go— America’s Most Beau¬
tiful City.” The charms of Savannah
and Tybee are appropriately describ¬
ed in picture and story.
Prospective visitors to Savannah
can obtain a copy of the booklet by
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
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
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1924. FOUR PAGES.
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* negro walks around ♦
* WITH KNIFE IN SKULL 4*
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4* over town with a knife stuck 4*
4* in his head attracted much at- *>
4* tention here a few days ago, 4*
4* especially when the knife resist- 4*
4* ed the efforts of strong men 4*
4* who tried to pull it out. *
4* In a fight, Early McLister, a 4*
4 1 negro, plunged his knife two 4*
4* and one-half inches into the 4*
head of Scrap Franklyn, anoth- 4>
4* er negro. He couldn’t pull it 4*
4- back out. Neither could several 4*
4* other men. Finally Franklyn 4*
4- went to a doctor’s office. The 4*
physician called in three husky 4*
men, and although they put 4>
their feet against the negro’s 4*
shoulders, the knife would not 4 1
budge. As a last resort a carpen- 4*
ter was called in. With a nail- 4 1
1 puller and a block of wood, he 4
managed to prize the blade out. 4*
The negro complained little 4
until air struck the wound. He 4*
apparently has recovered now, 4*
showing no evidence of his un- 4* i
usual experience. 4*
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CHOOSE KING AND i
QUEEN' OF
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General Chairman C. L. Shepard
sent out notices to all officers,
members, and table
for the Third Annual Peach
Festival to the effect that
king and queen o f the festival |
be elected at a mass meeting j
afternoon at the school audi
Only the officers, committee
and table- attendants will
vote. There will be no
and the ballots will be secret.
This has bden decided upon as
mos t generally satisfactory
j n which the king and queen
be chosen.
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METHODIST CHURCH
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Loy Warwick, Pastor.
A “Go to Church Campaign” is
in our church for the next
months. Between now and Easter
all our members be at church
hour on Sunday, if possible.
Hours of worship 11 A. M. and
P. M.
Sunday School 9:30. Judge H. A.
Mathews, Supt.; C. E. Martin,
tant.
A welcome for all.
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WILSON COLLEGE IS
ENDORSED BY LEGION
Georgia posts of the American Le¬
gion are giving their endorsement
to the suggestion that the new college
for boys which is being established
at Valdosta be named Woodrow Wil¬
son College.
Mr. Cornelius Hall, commander of
the Frederick Withoft Post No. 76,
received a telegram last Wednesday
from the Valdosta post asking the
cooperation of the local post in their
seeking to honor the memory of their
former commander-in-chief.
We understand that the college will
succeed Sparks College and will be
under control of the education
Board of the South Georgia Confer¬
ence of the Methodist Church. Eight
hundred thousand dollars have al¬
ready been pledged for the new in¬
stitution, and Governor Walker has
issued a proclamation recognizing it
as Georgia’s memorial to Mr. Wilson.
The Education Board of the Con
ference surely could not do a finer
U 1 * n 8 l enlist widespread interest
in the new institution, not only in
Georgia but throughout the entire
nation, than to adopt the name sug
gested and endorsed by the Governor
and ex-service men.
addressing the Savannah Board of
Trade or F. J. Robinson, General
Passenger Agent, Central of Georgia
Railway, Savannah, Ga.
For fares and schedules to Savan¬
nah and Tybee, apply to any Ticket
Agent or Representative.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
♦
The man who thinks he saves a
$1.50 a year by not subscribing for
Leader-Tribune is sure to lose
more than that amount by not
of something he ought to
known of.
i Aged . 11VT Negro 1 Is
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Killed by Auto
Speeding Machine Kills
Negro Instantly; Fails
to Stop. Blow Heard.
Neil Ezell, an aged negro man liv
ing on Mr. J. D. Fagan's place just
east of Fort Valley, was found dead
in the ■ road near Mr. F. F. Fagan’s
home on the Perry road Sunday
night about 7:30 o’clock. The discov¬
ery was made by another negro, who
immediately reported it to Mr. F. F,
Fagan.
Shortly before the body was found
Mr. Fagan heard an automobile pass
his door at high speed and a sound
as of an impact which he thought at
the time might have been caused by
the automobile striking his mail box.
The sound of the impact was followed
by the grinding of brakes, but the au
tomobile immediately sped away, fol
lowed by another which was also run
ning at high speed.
The negroes neck and one or two
limbs were broken and his skull
crushed. His walking stick was found
fifteen or twenty feet from his body.
Sheriff Chapman was notified and
reached the scene about ten o’clock
and an inquest was held.
MR J - J- MAR5HBURN, 0 - FORMER |
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HOUSTONIAN, DIES IN MACON
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Macon, Ga., Feb. 18.—J. J. Marsh
burn » a S ed 76 years, died at 8:10 5
0 coc ^ Friday night at his home on
i ;0 £ Cabin Heights. Mr. Marshbum | j
^ a d i> een a resident of this city fif
tecn y ears ’ moving from Perry, Ga„!
He was the oldest deacon at the Tab
ernacle Church and was engaged in
activities since early manhood.
Surviving are his wife, five daughters
a,1(J two sons: Mrs. G. L. Slocumb,.
0 ^ Kathleen, Ga.; Mrs. J. N. Weaver
an ^ Mrs. J- D. Sharp, of Macon; Mrs.
R - Joiner, Sandersville; Mrs. J
Perry, N. E., Sr., of At
lanta, and Mrs. T. C., of Macon; one
sister, Mrs. Ida Holmes, of Quitman %.
arlf i several grandchildren,
i^ r - Marshburn had been ill about
a y ear > hut only during the last ten
days had he been confined to his
lloom . He was born in Houston Coun¬
ty, and was the son of Nicholas and.
Mary Marshburn.
The funeral of J. J. Marshburn Was.:
held from the residence Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. Gradjr
D. Feagin, pastor of the Tabernacle^
Church, officiated. Interment was in
Riverside Cemetery. The pall-bear¬
ers were the five sons-in-law and!
George Baynard. -j
HOME BUYING
By Roe Fulkerson, Editor The Kiwanis Magazine
Many KIWANIS cluba in smaller towns are
located near a large city. There is usually a
tendency for the people of the smlaller towns to
it go to the city” for their shopping, especially
for large purchases, such as furniture, jewelry,
pianos and expensive clothing. The excuse is
that “the city offers a larger assortment from
which to select. »»
KIWANIS clubs in such towns can do good
civic -work by starting a vigorous campaign, urg¬
ing people to buy in the home markets.
I If everyone in the home-town goes to the big
city to buy all their merchandise and to employ
professional aid, the home-town will cease to
bo. If Mrs. Smith, wife of the dentist, contem¬
plates going to the city to buy a fur eoat, Mr.
i Smith needs to be reminded that if everyone in
the home-town went to the city for dental work
he would not have money to buy his wife a fur
coat.
KIWANIS aims to make the towns in which
Kiwanis clubs function better places in which to
live. Prosperity is fundamental to better living.
Every dollar spent^outside of the home-town
which could be spent in it, lowers the chances
of the local merchants' prosperity. t
One club at a ladies’ night demonstrated the
home-buying idea by staging a mock marriage
between Miss Home Town and a man who con¬
fessed when he presented himself at the altar
before the club, to having bought his wedding
garments and her ring at a neighboring city; so •
she spurned the bridegroom at the altar and
married another gentleman who bought his 3
clothes and rings at home! It brought the mat¬ 1
ter forcibly home to the club amd its ladies.
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Litizens /^( •, • jn
ravor
Sidewalk Paving
Oakland Heights Is
for Sidewalk Paving.
Petitions Circulated.
Following the publication in The
Leadei'-Tribune last week and the
week before of the price and condi¬
tions under which the sidewalks in
the residential sections of the city
can be paved while the paving con¬
tractors are still here, we understand
that petitions for paving have been
circulated on several streets of the
city.
Up to this time however only the
citizens of Oakland Heights have
signed up strongly for paving. The
citizens of this fast-growing new
section are said to be practically a
unit for paving, citizens in the most
sparsely settled parts of that section
even having signed the petition.
It would be a splendid advertise¬
ment for the Oakland Heights section
and the entire city to hafre the side
waiKs in that section paved, as it
has been definitely settled that the
Peach Blossom Festival will center in
that attractive subdivision again this
year. There can be ho doubt that
such an improvement would tend
greatly to increase the demand for
property in that section and
shift property values through
the city in its favor.
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M rs. EMMA O. ADAMS PASSES
AWAY IN MARSHALLVILLE
Marshallville, Ga., Feb. 18.—Mrs.
Emma 0 Adams, wife of Floyd A.
Adams, died at the home of her son,
W. Adams, today. She yas 73 years
age.
Born in Houston County, Mrs.
Adams had lived for s number of
years in Crawford County.
Funeral services were held Sun¬
day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
vesidence. Interment took place in
Fort Valley.
Mrs. Adams is survived by four
daughters and four sons. Her daugh¬
ters are Mrs. H. (\ Dorough, of Mar
shallville; Mrs. L. T. Cummings, of
Fort Valley; Miss Gussie Adams, of
Marshallville; Mrs. J. Z. Adams of
Macon. Her sons are C. W. Adams, of
Marshallville; B. F. Adams of Yates
vile; O. C. Adams, of Macon, and
B. D. Adams, of Oglethorpe. A large
number of grandchildren also sur¬
vive her.
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FOR SALE—Baby bed* complete.
Phone 114-W. 2-28-1 tpd.
Origin of the-Peach;
China, Not Persia,
Its Native Home
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4* INTRINSIC VALUE OF 4*
4- HUMAN BEING 98 CENTS 4
♦ Canyon, Tex., Feb. 15.—The *
♦ net material value of an aver- 4*
4* age human being is 98 cents, 4*
+ according to analytical research 4>
4i being made by Dr. C. A. Pierle, 4*
4* head of the department of 4*
4> chemistry, West Texas Teach- 4*
♦ era’ College here. 4*
+ Dr. Pierle has found the 4*
♦ body of a man weighing 150 4
♦ pounds, if divided into its com- 4*
4 1 ponent chemical elements, would +
♦ contain enough water to wash 4*
♦ a pair of blankets, enough iron 4 1
♦ to make a ten-penny nail, 4*
♦ enough lime to whitewash a 4*
♦ small chieken koop and enough 4*
4* sulphur to kill the fleas on a 4*
4> good-sized dog. All these ele- 4*
♦ ments, he estimates, could be 4*
4* purchased at a drug store for *>
4* 98 cents. 4>
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SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE
ON AT BAPTIST CHURCH
The annual Sunday School Insti¬
tute is being held this week in the
Fort Valley Baptist Church. The first
session was held on Monday evening,
conducted by Mr. George W. An¬
drews, Sunday school secretary of
the Georgia Bhptist Convention, and
Mrs. 0. M. Gerald, intermediate su¬
perintendent of the state conven¬
tion.
The officers and teachers with
other* interested in Sunday school
work are studying to be able to do
efficient work. The sessions open
each evening at six-thirty for a study
period of forty-five minutes, when a
light supper is served and a social
period of thirty minutes is followed
by another study period of forty min¬
utes.
These hours are adaptable for bus¬
iness men as they have lunch at the
church and the sessions close early
enough so that those who desire may
have time for another engagement
for the evening. A large number are
attending the institute, manifesting
much interest.
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MORE NAMES ADDED TO
FESTIVAL COMMITTEES
General Chairman C. L. Shepard
announces the following additions to
the list of table attendants for the
Peaeh Blossom Festival:
Table Attendants
(Additional)
Mrs, W. H. Flowers, Mrs. L. L.
ftowden, Mrs. S. M. Mathews, Mrs.
Eugene Hiley, Mrs. W. C. Wright,
Mrs. W. H. ftent, Mrs. Minnie L.
Taylor, Mrs. J. H. Arnold, Mrs. J. F.
Lowe, Mrs. M. B. Lee, Mrs. D. Y.
Jones, Mrs. Henry Sandefur, Mrs. E.
L. Fountain, Mrs. E. L. Avera, Mrs.
Mittie Wynn, Mrs. J. O. Scarboro,
Mrs. -Colquit McElmurray, Mrs. Jack
Duke, Mrs. Millard Vinson, Mrs. G.
M. Davis, Mrs. Nina Hartley, Mrs.
Bennett A. Hartley, Mrs. M. J. Good¬
rich, Mrs. J. W. Robinson.
It was also found necessary to
appoint an additional committee to
look after the installing of seats for
the pageant and constructing fences
around the pageant grounds. This
committee has beqn designated
a The Construction Committee” and
is composed of the following:
Construction Committee
J. W. Woolfolk, Chairman
D. F. Carter, R. A. Hiley, W. C.
Helms, C. H. Sammons.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Netiee is hereby give* that the
partnership ef Carithers and Evans
is this day dissolved. A. J. Evans
*ver all accounts due the firm,
and assumes *11 HabiHtie*. This Jan
uacy 2tth, 1M4. l-31-6t
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SALE —Pure Barred Rock cock¬
erel*, ten month* old. A. A. Will-
2-29-1 tpd.
The most intensively
circulated and thorough¬
ly read news and ad¬
vertising medium in its
field.
$1.50 Per Year In Advance.
This is the first of a series of ar¬
ticles bearing upon the history of the
Peach as it wiil be portrayed at the
Third Annual Peach Blossom Festi.
val. These articles were furnished to
The Leader-Tribune by Miss Pauline
Oak, who arranged and will direct the
Peach Blossom Pageant, as she did
the two previous ones.
THE ORIGIN OF THE PEACH
Names frequently breed misunder¬
standings and in the case of the peach
a fine brood of mistakes as to the ori¬
gin of the fruit has come from the^
pame. As we know, “peach” and
most of its equivalents in the coun¬
tries of Europe ard derived from
a Persia” and this has given risie to
the supposition that the original hab¬
itat of the fruit is Persia. The ancient
authors who mention the peach, as
Theophrastus, Columella and Pliny,
agree that the home of the peach
was Persia and, even until our own
time, to be written in any of these
worthies is proof conclusive. While *
negative evidence counts for but lit¬
tle, the notion is so firmly fixed that
some, at least, of the races of peach¬
es are Persian products that it seems
best to clear the way for positive
evidence by first proving that the
first home of the peach was not Per
sia.
Persia is pictured as a land of
fruits before agriculture had begun
in Greece and Rome. The quince and
pomgranate probably originated here
and with the olive; grape and al¬
mond, and, to the north at least, the
cherry and plum, have been cultivated
from three to four thousand years.
At very early times the quince,
pomgranate, olive and grape were
introduced from Persia, according to
de Candolle, still our best authority,
into Greece and Rome and even the
cherry and plum, from countries to
the north if not from Persia, reached
southern Europe long before the
peach. It seems certain, as de Candolle
suggests, that if the peach had been
a native of Persia, had it existed
there during all time, so beautiful
and so delectable a fruit would have
been taken into Asia Minor and
Greece. As gratifying to all the sens¬
es by which we judge fruits as any
other product of the orchard, as easi¬
ly transported and propagated as any
—more so than most—it cannot be
believed that the other fruits named
would have been given preference
over the peach by conquerors or trav¬
elers carrying Persian luxuries to
westward countries.
Moreover, as de Candolle further
points out, the several Hebrew and
Sanscrit peoples did not speak in sa¬
cred or vulgur writings of the peach
as they did many times of the olive,
quince, grape and pomegranate. Yet
these peoples radiated from the valleys
of the Euphrates and were at all times
in close- communication with Persia.
Since, according to the authoritative
de Candoll*, Xenophon, who retread
ed with the ten thousand 401 B. C.
does not mention the peach, this
fruit probably did not reach Greece
until Alexander’s expedition and was
first mentioned by Theophrastus 332
B. C. (if the fruit mentioned by The¬
ophrastus is the peaeh) and did not
reach Rome until the beginning of
the Christian era.
The more one examines historical
the more evident it becomes
that Creek and Roman writers as¬
that the habitat of the peach,
they called the Persian apple,
Persia because it came thenee to
th^ir countries. Ancient historians
very commonly and very confusingly
the assumption that the region
which a plant product came to
country was it first habitat.
The best means of establishing the
of a plant is to discover in
country it grows spontaneously.
would be a simple matter, in¬
deed, if one could be sure that a
plant found growing wild is
not an escape from cultivation. Here
the trouble in the case of the
According to the botanists the
is now growing wild in Persia,
it is in nearby countries, and for
matter in other parts of the Old
and in many places in the
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