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the post office at Fort Valley,
Ga., under the act of March
3, 1879.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1924.
If it were not a presidential elec
tion year, wonder ii all this rotten
Jtraft in national poiiti- ■ "''•!<!
been turned up at all. If it would
turn all the rascal; out il would
a good plan to elect a president and
congressmen every year.
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People who are shallow, or
whose inner lives are harrass
ed by forms of fear (“most mo.i »I
as Thoreau says, “live lives of quiet
de. paration.”) rarely care to be
lent, rarely wish to be alone vrith
themselves; but it is the ign of a
noble nature, that it has made terms
with itself.—David Grayson.
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MRS. WALTER E. STEED
PASSES AWAY AT BUTLER
Butler, Ga. Feb. 19—Mrs, Belle
Carithers Steed died Tuesday, a re¬
sult of pneumonia, with which she
was ill only a short time. She was
the wife of Walter K. Steed, an at
torney of Butler, and well known
throughout the state. Besides her hie -
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band, Mrs. Steed is survived by one
son, Mr. W. W. Steed, of Atlanta*
one brother, Mr. W. H. Carithers of
Fort Valley and one sister, Mrs. J.
F. McTyer, of New York City. Funer
al and interment will take place
, here Wednesday , , afternoon, ,. ... it is un
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derstood.
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From the Boston Transcript, this
gem of purest porkandbean: “ ‘You
are an educated man,’ said the judge,
‘but this is a disgraceful crime you
have been found guilty of. Have
anything to say before seritence?’
‘Only this, Your Hour, replied the
pedant. ‘Whatever the sentence may¬
be, for heaven’s sake don’t end it
with -a preposition!’ ”—Inland Printer
One of the tragedies of life, per¬
haps the supreme tragedy, is that
we should be unable to follow
we love to their serenest heights. I
once knew a man who had lived for
twenty never" vears with a woman,
got beyond what he could
with the eyes of the flesh. The
to the uplands of the soul long stood
open to him (and stands open now no
morc); he passed that way, too but
he never went in—David Grayson.
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A ROSE TO THE LIVING
A number of Georgia towns have
recently paid tribute to the worth of
their editors to the community when
the editors died. But two towns have
stood out conspicuously for recogniz¬
ing the puhjic service of their editors
while they were yet alive and able
to appreciate the tribute and be en¬
couraged to greater service thereby ‘,
A fcw weks a P° the business
men of Adel in the progressive little
county of Cook presented Editor W.
T. Shytle with loving in token '
a cup
of their recognition of his conspicu¬
ous public service; and more recently
Associate Editor H. A. Stallings of
the Waycross Journal-Herald was
presented with a bronze medal by the
Kiwanis Club of that city for the
greatest service to his city and sec¬
tion during 1923.
These editors were no doubt con¬
spicuously worthy of their honors—
and the communities, of thejr editors.
THE NEWSPAPER JOB
(Senatobia Democrat).
The editor of the Woodbury Re¬
porter, an excellent weekly news¬
paper published in Connecticut, in
the current edition takes his readers
somewhat into his confidence con¬
cerning the kind of a job running a
newspaper really is.
It has been said that everyone in
the world knows how to run a news¬
paper except the people actually do¬
ing it, and few newspaper men escape
the witty and sarcastic comments
(we are viewing the situation from
the standpoint of the person making
the remarks) that friends and ac¬
quaintances frequently deliver with
great gusto.
The Reporter's editor says thatj
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1924.
many people bc'i. sh.il a newspaper
fail together v:;ho«t wMk or
certcd action or plan. He Telia about
a Presbyterian mini t r of Californ¬
ia who was so unxiou. to ftVodufc the
perfect newspaper that the editor of
the Pasadena Slur told him to go
ahead and do it. The editor went
fi king ami the clergyman moved in.
When he finally- put the paper to
bed, to use u term more often em
ploydll-outside of a no\£fpaper office
than : in it, he wrote a few last lines
in which he said that his hand was
•almost paralysed, his brain befuddled
I and that he wan glad -hideed to quit,
He aid: ‘‘Such rush and riot and dis
l array. Such a jumble of potpourri, it
t : a e. a:, a? 1 effort to bring or
dec out of chaos, and do it lightning
qutei (u ir.-iir/ io five suitable
c..mp;..-i:-jn <1! the clergyman could
think of v/o ; thi pc riod immediately
after ceation of heaven and earth
when the earth was without .form
all(1 ,, n j do.dsn ■ .• was upon
0 f the water;.. He announced
}i .; lie would never criticise
j,. r . nil „, ;itf airi.
He that (bey are the hardest
v or ked, tie -horti lived and
poore 0 n id brain workers on
weary old planet.
The Reporter says that if a man
• wants t« get acquainted with human
ini him edit a»newspaper for
a short time.
:ie knows nothing of the ups-and
: do\ of !i r - until ho has served in
.
• •' rapacity. He may have .preached,
’ conducted bank, sold
a goods,
hot i.,, practiced iaw, raised chick
'eus, sawed.wood or operated a.pop¬
corn factory, but he needs a few
j months’ experience as editor-in-chief
of a country newupapei; to complete
' his knowledge of the eccentricities
.
'of human nature. •
CATHOLIC DOMINATION
j
t i J; the Bulletin of the Catholic
Laymens Association of Georgia
dope right, fears of -CathoHc
' 'dominalion of the government of tlic*
, u . e )H)t weH-founded, fu"
nf I(iast go far as - tljc , immediate
turfi is concerned. If the figures which
h(j Bul)ctjn ote8 fpom the Fellow .
I ship .. Form ., Correct,. . they should .
are
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be of interest to Protestants, Masons, ..
and members of the Ku Klux. Klan.
The Catholic Buletin says:
“Tlie anti-Catholic Fellowship Fo
rum, of Washington, D. C., in its.De
cember 1 issue, declares there are
->26 Republican members in the House
0 f Representatives, of whom 215 are
; Protestants, seven Catholic, two
Jews, qne Mormon and one,whose
affiliation-is unknown. Of the 223
Democratic members, 168 are listed
as Protestants, 30 are Catholics, five
are Jews. The Farm-Labor and So
cialist parties each have onte
j sentath e. The total membership of
Ithe House is 435. Tl ree seats are
j vacant. 1 here are thirty seven Cath- j
| a,5 d 301 Masons ; among these
432 members. In the Senate there j
are 49 Republicans, forty-eight of
whom «'>* Protestants and one a
Mormon. The forty-five Democrats
»»’e composed of thirty-nine
five Catholics and one Mormon,
The othfcr two Senators,
men. are both Protestants; Sixty-one
of the ninety-six Senators are Ma-1
sons, The figures are, it should ba
understoo'd; those of a Masonic paper. |
“The House .of Representatives is,i
thereto re, over sixty-nine per cent
Masonic and less than eight- and one
half per cent Catholic.' The Senate is
more than sixty-three' per eent Ma¬ I
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sonic and five per cent Catholic, “If
these figures are correct, • « savs The
Echo of Buffalo, “and we haxenorea- 1
son to doubt their accuracy, the Ma
sons have a majority in both houses,!
nnd th( . Catho1 f cs arc }n a very sma i):
linBrity In view tJl ; is , stato ()f
affairs,. with Masohry strongly en
Tenched in practically all the exec
utive- departments of the government, I
it is difficult to understand' why the!
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Oculists ’ Prescription Filled
Macon Optical Co.
J. N. Kalish
F. H.Johnson
l< OPTICAL SPECIALISTS >»
565 Cherry’ Street
MACON, GEORGIA
Fellowship Forum and its friends
bo so mortally afraid
‘Catholic domination. If anyone
should be uneasy, it should be
olics, but thus far we see no reason
why we should lose our confidence
in the fairness of the American peo¬
ple or its legislative’ bodies as a
whole. • -
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ESTIMATED WEALTH OF
THE STATE OF GEORGIA
Washington, D. C., February
1924.—The Department of Commerce
announces, for the State of Georgia,
its preliminary estimate of the value,
December 31, 1922, of the principal
forms of wealth, the total amount ,
to $3,896,759,000, as compared with
$2,117,410,000 in 1912, an increase
*)i 24.0 per cent. Per capita values
increased from $785 to $1,206, or
66.3 per cent.
Ail classes of property increased in
value from 1912 to 1922, except live
which decreased from $106,
to $159,411,000; or 76.3 per cent
railroads and equipment from
$246,422,000 to $319;619;00 or 29.7
per cent. Privately owned transporta
tion and Iransniision enterprises,
or than railroads, increased in value
430,000 to $101,764,000, or 4.4 per
cent. The estimated value of
ival property and improvements
creased from $821,580,000 to $1
•783,(98,000, or 117.1 per cent; ex
empt real proerty from $83,403,000
l0 $i 70,938,000, or 10a.0 per cent;
iaI ™ implements and machinery from
$23,177,000 to $39,908,000 or 72.2
percent; manufacturing machinery,
tool i, and implements from $00,429 r
000 to $159,411,000, or 76.3 per
cent. Privately owned transportation
and transmission enterprises, other
than railroads, increased in value
from $129,509,000 to
or 30.'5 per cent; and stocks of goods,
vehicle other than motor,.furniture,
aiui c!othi,;i ' from $616,460,000 to
1 ’ 098 ’ 762 ' 000 ’ or 78 - 2 P" teni No
com!,an ' on is P° i;s,be for Uie va!ue
f rootor vehicles, which was er<ti
mated in 1922 »t $53,489,000, be
cause no eparato estimate was made
in 1912 ‘
In making these estimates the De
partment followed in general the
methods employed in making the esti
mates for 1912, though it is
that in some respects the work
192S»has been more thorough. If
should be borne in mind that the in¬
creases in money value are to a large
extent due t0 tho ri: 0 in P rices which
has takeB P lace in recent V ei,rs - and
86 far 09 that is the « a8 « do n
re P rese, 't corresponding increases j n
L;e qun.r.ity of wealth.
The estimateij values of gold and
silver coin alld bullion - the vessel"
of the navy, and privately owned
waterworks will appear only in totals
for the United Sates.
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HOME MIXING OF FERTILIZERS
A great many farmers want 'to
their ™ fertilizers, but hesi
tate about doing so because they
think it is a complicated process. All
is needed for home mixingoffer
is a knowledge of : imple arith
a shovel, scales, sand screen.
find a ^ght floor. Often a farmer
can save from $6 to $10 per ton by
loii\g his oVn mixing. When proper
ly mixed, home mixed fertilizers .are
{,s « ood a * ready mixed goods. Often
are better because the farmer
choose the material .suited to
so n and the crops he is growing,
.
Fertilizer mixtures are best named
according to the amount of available
^ 00( * they contain. Thus a 9-
3-2 fertilizer means one containing
; P er cent Available phosphoric acid,
3 ! ,er cent nitrogen, and 2 per cent
potash. Our most common fertilizing
-such as acid phosphate, so
nitrate, etc., usually contain •
only one ■ fertilizing element. It is ■
rC( > ui red .bv law that fertilizers be
labeled with ta ^ s S ivin * tho amounts j
of available plant food they contain.'
.By uSe of the following table any
one'who can divide can. figure the!
pounds of materials necessary to mi;;
a ton pf fertilizer.
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.Table for- quick calculation of
amounts of mat erials to use in mixing
fertilizers.
. Per eent of Number to be
.
plant food divided by per
. in mixed fer- cent of plant
fertilizer. food in materi- .
als used.
1 2000
4000
3 6000
4 8000
.5 10000
6 12000
7 14000
160C0
9 18000
. 10 . 20000
il 22000
12 24000
(To be continued next week)
Leader-Tribune want ads. are real
little “go-getters. >r
fULI ftfll ITIPAI I IbAL HWRUUSIbLRiiLIl 10
(Cash in advance).
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
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I hereby announce my candidacy
for Tax Collector of Houston County, j
subject to the Democratic Primary.
Your vote will be greatl;, apprecia t'd..
T. E. THARPE.
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FOR TAX RECEIVER
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To the Voters of Houston County:,
I respectfully .announce that I am (
a candidate for re-election to the Of
fice of Tax Receiver f Houston |
County, Georgia, subject io the Dern
ocr'atic primary.
Your vote and support will be ap¬
preciated.
C. N. ROUNTREE.
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FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT
The friends of Emmett Houser
hereby announce his candidacy for
clerk of Houston Superior Court, sub¬
ject to the Democratic Primary.
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A PUNCH ON THE NOSE
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Haw you met that queer gent, all
broken and bent, who crabs that the
town’s on the bum—who’s sick with
( self-pity ’cause he lives in a city
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j “where things ain’t worth a gol
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<jumHave you heard ids sad ; .ng
j 0 f “everything’s wrong’’ as the wonder- tears
f rom hi eyes softly fall, and
e j j UK t why that sort of guy had to
I come to the city at all? If you have
met this chap, this simpleton sap, and
harked to his swan song of woe, we
know what you said as you punched
bis hard head and we know where
you told him to go. For six days a
week these crabs you can meet and
to each one deliver the punch, but
each Wednesday noon, which comes
none too soon, you’ve got a date with
a regular bunch; where ’stead of the
croaking there’s singing and joking
and the voice of the knocker is still
e d—then you know—or you ought to
-what is meant by our motto, Ki
All—We Build.”—The Ri¬
wanis Magazine.
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Was Borne Otbc- Fellow’s Gi-l.
One i,:y I thought ! would got my
girl and go to the show, as there v as
to he a special picture. She was <;:y (
dearest. ; I (!h! not call her up, but
*«>’ n, '° ' v “ nt to ”” r I
, Se IViThir^rh ei i.Vvi 'first "" to ‘
Mmw. That .uv love
i ■ H(Ta(l . .(thjeago ,T«urnui
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SPECIAL EXCURSION FARES
ACCOUNT RlAROl GRAS
CELEBRATIONS
New Orleans, La., Feb. 28 to March
4, 1924, Inc.
Mobile, Ala., March 2-4, 1924, Inc.
’ensacolst, Fla., March 2-4, 1924, Inc.
Fare and one-half round'trip, tick-
a. .xsjuit
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Buy Your Ford Now
W ITH pating spring the demand almost that here is thousands certain to exist of families, for Ford antici¬ Cars
and Trucks are placing their orders for immediate delivery.
Sales now are far ahead of -sales at this time last year.
Advance orders calling for delivery under the Ford Weekly
Purchase Plan have already reached a total of 255,758
Cars and Trucks.
The prospect of securing prompt delivery is daily becom¬
ing more uncertain. We cannot urge too strongly, there
fore, the necessity for placing your order immediately, if
you are planning to drive a Ford Car this spring.
See the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer
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Detroit, Michigan 0
It is not necessary to pay for your cm in lull In order
to secure delivery. You can get on the preferred list 1
for early delivery by making a small payment down,
Or, if you wish, you can arrange for delivery under
the terms of the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan.
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u One dollar
m
our bank
is worth two
in your pocket j?
Keep your dollars in our bank
i and your valuables in our
Safety Deposit Boxes.
Fire---the ft---robbery---any
of these things could happen—
and often do---to money or
valuables kept around the house
---and think of the load on the
mind of the owner.
For $2.00 per year we’ll give
you restful nights and full
protection for your valuables
in our Safety Deposit Boxes.
Isn’t It Worth Considering?
Citizens Bank of Fort Valley
CAPITAL & SURPLUS $150,000.
“There Is No Substitute for Safety. •>
ets on sale to the public to New Or
icans, February 26 to March 3, in
ch'.rive; to Mobile, February 28 to
March 3, inclusive; to Pensacola,
February 29 to March 3, inclusive.
Final limit of tickets March 11,
1924, except that tickets may be ex¬
pended to March 26, 1924, by r de-
positing them with Special Agent at
destination and upon payment of fee
of $1.00 per ticket.
Apply to any ticket agent or rep
presentative for total round tripfares,
schedules, sleeping car reservations,
and any other information desired.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY