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% Volume No. XXXVI, Number 10.
DB. A. H. SOULE HEARD
HEBE WITH INTEREST
Dr. A. M. Soule, president of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture
at Athens, delivered a splendid ad¬
dress here Monday morning to a small
but appreciative gathering of farmers
and business men. This was the first
of a series of twenty four such ad¬
dresses Dr. Soule has been engaged
to deliver throughout South Georgia
under the auspices of the Georgia
District of Kiwanis Clubs.
Mr. P. T. Anderson of Macon, dis¬
trict governor of Kiwanis, came down
with Dr. Soule and introduced him
briefly, after being himself intro¬
duced by Atty. C. L. Shepard.
Dr. Soule’s subject was “Better
Agriculture for Our Section,” and
his address was adapted specifically
to the Fort Valley section. He stated
that tho Greenville sandy loam of
this section is admirably suited to
peaches and asparagus, and advocat¬
ed the more extensive cultivation of
the latter. He said that he would not
recommend the cultivation of tobae
ca here. He stated that the greatest
detriment to the peach industry in
this section was a too general disre¬
gard for proper grading and pack¬
ing. He stressed the paramount im¬
portance of more general and ex¬
acting attention to these two things
if this section would maintain its
prestige in the industry.
He advocated cows, hogs, and hens
as worthwhle sidelines for our farm¬
ers, but advised against the estab¬
lishment of a creamery here until
there are at least 500 to 1,000 cows
being milked in the territory; and
he reminded his hearers that milk
cows must be fed twice a day and
milked at least twice a day.
Quoting from Houston county
poultry statistics, he stated that the
average number of hens to the farm
in this county is 25, and the average
annual egg production per hen, 38;
whereas every farm should have 100
hens with an average annual egg pro¬
duction per hen of 100 to 150. This,
he said, would give this county an
additional $800,000.00 per year in¬
dustry.
Dr. Soule closed his address with
an earnest appeal for young men
from this section to take the train¬
ing offered at the State Agricultural
College, pointing out the need for
trained leaders in agricultural pur¬
suits. He reminded his hearers that
the present knowledge of fertilizers,
soils, insecticides, etc., come first
from the scientific laboratories and
not from practical farming experi¬
ence.
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CHILDREN TO HAVE PART IN
STONE MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL
The Children’s Founders Roll was
inaugurated by the Stone Mountain
Confederate Monumental Associa¬
tion in order that the children of the
South might have a share in the
carving of the greatest monument
that the world has ever known.
It provides for the enrollment of
each child under eighteen years of
age in the great Book of Memory
which will occupy the place of honor
, Memorial Hall at Stone Mountain
and for the memorialization of a
Confederate soldier whom each wish¬
es to honor.
Each child who makes a contribu
t> a will receive a small bronze
medal, designed by Gutzon Berglum,
:flowing that he is one of the found¬
ers of the memorial and later, when
his name has been inscribed in the
great volume of the Children’s
Founders Roll, he will receive a cer¬
tificate showing the number of the
page and the line on which his name
appears.
The Book of Memory will be one of
the world’s greatest books, beauti¬
fully designed and beautifully bound.
It will be held between bronze cov¬
ers and will be placed in Memorial
Hall so that the children
can go there later and read their own
names and those of their
whom they have memorialized.
Hundreds of children from
parts of the country have
enrolled their names and cards
ing their serial numbers have
7 been issued to them pending the
pletion of the medal and the
book.
Each child’s name will be
ed in the order in which it is
at the office of the association.
Application blanks will be
ished to all persons who desira
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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, MARCH 6, 1924. EIGHT PAGES.
BISHOP W. N. AINSWORTH
TO PREACH HERE SUNDAY
Bishop W. N. Ainsworth of Macon
will preach at the Methodist church
Sunday- at 11 A. M. He is one of the
strongest and most eloquent preach¬
ers in the South and is always heard
with delight by Fort Valley' people.
Bishop Ainsworth has charge of
the South Georgia, Florida and the
two Mississippi conferences this year.
Before his election to the episcopacy
he was for four years president of
Wesleyan College and served two
quadriniums as pastor of Mulberry
street church in Macon.
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Dr. Arch C. Cree Tells
of Baptist World Meet
Dr. Arch C. Cree, executive secre¬
tary for nine years of the Georgia
Baptist Mission Board, was in Fort
Valley for the week end and spoke
to a large and interested congrega¬
tion Sunday morning at the Baptist
church.
Dr. Cree’s subject was the Baptist
World Alliance and the European
Situation. He told of three spiritual
experiences he had while touring Eu¬
rope and in attendance upon the Bap¬
tist World Alliance and of three im¬
pressions gained.
Dr. Cree visited the place where
he was born in Scotland and preached
in an English church of which his
father was pastor over forty years
ago, using the same Bible and the
same pulpit that his father used in
the days of old.
He told of the zeal and earnest¬
ness and sacrificial endeavor of Eu¬
ropean Baptists and of how they are
looking to Southern Baptists for
leadership. He paid a tribute to the
education of the Baptist ministers
at the alliance who represented forty
nations and stressed the point that
Baptists the world over have the
same fundamental belief and are j^n
swerving in their convictions.
He spoke of how European Bap
tist leaders in training are seeking
the schools of Southern Baptists
in preference to the schools of the
North or of other lands.
On Saturday evening Dr. Cree met
with the deacons of the Fort Valley
church at the home of Rev. D, A.
Howard.
enroll their children; and
tions also may secure as many of the
blanks as they need to enroll the
children.
Names may be sent in through
the mails without the application
blank.
One dollar was named as the
childrens , ... , contribution , , because ,, the
association feels that it is small ..
enough to enable every child in
South to have a part in the Memori¬
al. It also makes it possible for all
families to enroll the names of
their beloved Confederate kinsmen
whether or not they feel that they
can take one of the adult Founders
Roll memberships of one, thousand
dollars.
If every child in the South
tributed ., , , i his ■ share , to , the ,, Memorial . , it ..
will • u mean not . only , that ,, , ,, the children , ,
will have , the .. , honor and , glory , ■ of . help- , ,
ing to build the world’s greatest
monument to the world’s greatest
heroes but that they will have con
tributed substantially to the
rial fund, thereby enabling the work
to be finished much more quickly.
The association hopes that Memo
rial Day of this year will see the
greatest demonstration of a people’s
love for its dead that the South has
ever known and that the children,
through their contributions to
Founders Roll, will have a notable
part in establishing the records of
the day
Years ago when the mothers of the
present generation were children
they met each year in memory
the dead. With their own hands they
gathered the blosoms from their
gardens, from the fields and woods,
and brought them where the women
of the South were gathered to weave
garlands. As childish fingers bound
these blossoms into fragrant circles
of remembrance, their hearts
stirred and leaped with a strange
piride while tears fell upon their
eager little hands among the flow
ers. From older lips they learned
story of the sixties as they sat amidst
memorial blossoms and next day
they marched among the serried
ranks of the Confederate dead to
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GRAND CHORUS FINALE • •
FOR BLOSSOM PAGEANT < •
..
..
Last year a special chorus was used for
the singing of the songs during the progress • ■
of the Pageant. The beauty and harmony
of the music was lost to the audience how¬
due to the wind blowing away from <
ever -
them and so it was decided this year that
with • ■
instead of interspersing the episodes • >
songs only one final Grand Chorus will «>
be used as the entire caste leaves the stage. •
•
It is therefore the wish of the Pageant «>
individual ■ •
Committee that every single < •
of the entire caste shall learn the < •
•5 words of America the Beautiful,” the • *
* • •
+ verses printed below, and the music to the
£ tune of Mr. Samuel A. Ward. It is also • • • •
requested that the choirs of the various • • > •
f churches shall have a special practice of
■ •
this song each week on the night of their • •
rehearsals. ■ ■
regular ■ 1
To make this Final Chorus beautiful, • •
inspiring, and majestic as it should be will ■.
require the individual cooperation of each • •
member of the caste and to that end a ■ ■
< •
rehearsal will be "held each Friday night of
* the next three weeks beginning on the
High School auditorium at «*
7th, at the
7:30 P. M., for 30 to 40 minutes. WE • •
WILL BEGIN ON TIME AND QUIT ON • • • >
TIME. *
America, the Beautiful *
O beautiful for spacious skies, • ■
"5 For amber waves of grain, • ■
1 For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain.
America! America! • •
•4*
God shed His grace on thee *
I And crown thy good with brotherhood ■ P
• I ■
From sea to shining sea. « »
i O beautiful for heroes proved • •
In liberating strife, • •
Who than self their country loved, • ■
more
And mercy more than life. M
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine.
O' beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
♦ And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
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' PETITION TO REVIVE CHARTER
I Georgia—Houston County.
J j of The The petition Fort Valley of the Knitting stock holders Mil!?,
(show to the Court,
I 1. That the Fort Valley Knitting
-
Mills was chartered and organized
& charter granted by the Su
; penor ... Court of Houston County
jon the first day of April 1901 and
j expired, on the first day of April
j 1921; but that petitioners have con¬
tinued in business and are still doing
business under said charter, in igno
fance of the expiration of said chart¬
er, from the date of the organization
i until the present time.
meeting of the stock- , , .
2. That at a
saud . .. , held , ,
; holders of „ corporation ’ on
the first day of _ March , 1924 said
"
meetin * b f n cal f f ° r ^
P^pose of considering the expira
tion of sald charter and due notice
bav * nK been given o e ime, p act
: and purpose of said meeting, to-wit
j to consider the revival of the same,
a -resolution •was introduced and
adopted by a majority vote of the
stock holders owning a majority of
the stock in saiii company, authoriz¬
ing the revival of the said charter
and instructing the president of the ,
| coni P an y t° take^ legal action o avc
j said charter revi ved by a jut gmen
j the Superior Georgia. A Court of of said Houston reso¬
j County, copy
j lution being hei'rto attached marked
Exhibit “A” to which reference is
j prayed.
j Wherefore petitioners pray that a
I judgment of! 0 A-is Honorable court
he had revivit said charter, incor
porating The Fort Valley Knitting
Mills, for a period of twenty years
from the date of the order reviving
the same; and that all of the prop
er ty and other rights of such corpo
continue in the corporation,
as revived, and the acts and doings
0 ^ th* 2 S£m “> i n P er * od between
j^he date of expiration and date of
rev * ver confirmed and held as the
>
jacts of the original corporation so
revived.
I A. C. RILEY
> Petitioner’s Attorney,
Of
Exhibit A
“Whereas the charter of the Fort
Valley Knitting Mills expired on the
1st day of April 1921 and whereas
the company, in ignorance of the
spid expiration have continued in
business and are now engaged in bus¬
iness under said charter and desire
a revival of the said charter as is pro¬
vided by law; therefore be it resolv¬
ed that the President of the company
be and he is hereby authorized and
instructed to take the necessary le¬
gal steps to have said charter reviv
ed. J>
Georgia—Houston County.
I, W. B. Hardeman, do certify that
I am the Secretary of The Fort Val¬
ley Knitting Mills and that the fore¬
going is a true and correct copy of
the resolution adopted by the stock¬
holders of The Fort Valley Knitting
Mills at a meeting held on the first
day of March 1924 at their office in
Fort Valley, Ga., that said resolution
was adopted by a majority vote of
the stockholders owning a majority
of the stock of said company.
This March 1st, 1924.
W. B. HARDEMAN,
The Fort Valley Knitting Mills.
Georgia—^Houston County.
I, H. L: Wasden, Clerk of the Su¬
perior Court of Houston county, do
certify that the above and foregoing
is a true and exact copy of the peti¬
tion filed in my office on the 3rd
day of March 1924,
Witness my official hand and seal
this March 3rd, 1924.
H. L. WASDEN
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Houston County.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jno. H. Allen had as
week end visitors at their delightful
country home Misses Carolyn Coles
and Betty Putnam, Dr. Jeff Richard¬
son and Mr. Hugh Roberts of At¬
lanta. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Brisen
dine and Mr. D. C. Strother also were
dinner*guests on Sunday.
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EGGS FOR SALE —Black Minorca
Eggs, Pape strain, $1.50 per set¬
ting of 15. F. W. Withoft, Fort Val
ley, Ga. 3_6-4pos. It.
MATERIAL FOR UMBRELLA !
SHEDS AT DEPOT ARRIVES J
Material for the umbrella sheds tq
be erected by the Central of Georgia
Railway Company at the passenger
depot here is being received accord¬
ing to information given to The
Leader-Tribune several days ago by
agent C. H. Sammons. It will be some
weeks, however, before work can be
begun on the sheds, as the workmen
are now engaged on similar work at
other points. The sheds will not be
ready for the Blossom Festival,
March 27, but will be completed by
peach season, it is assured.
Red Cross Float For
Festival Day Parade
Mrs. T. R. Ousley, chairman of the
Fort Valley Red Cross organization,
will have a Red Cross float’ in the
parade on Festival Day, March 27.
A wounded soldier will ride on the
float and little Miss Margaret Bald¬
win will be the Red Cross nurse,
representing the youngest Red Cross
nurse in the world. Mrs. Ousley is
planning to make the float one of the
most attractive in the parade of
floats.
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J. E. MCDONALD, FORMER
HOUSTONIAN, IS DEAD
Macon, Ga., Mar. 5,—J. E. Mc¬
Donald, 53, died suddenly at his
home, 105 Rogers Avenue,, Tuesday
morning at an early hour. Mr. Mc¬
Donald was born in Houston county,
Nov. 10, 1871, coming to Macon
about twenty years ago, and was
well-known here. He was graduated
fro Emory University in 1892, and
was a member of the Vineville Meth¬
odist church. Until his health failed
several years ago, he was owner of
the White Oak Mineral Wells. Since
that time he has been engaged in the
storage business.
Surviving besides his wife, who was
Miss Fannie Rushing, are two sons,
J. E. McDonald, Jr., and William Mc¬
Donald, of Macon; two daughters,
Mrs. J. B. Cole, of Macon, and Mrs.
J. W. Hartness, of Miami, Fla., and
one brother, John T. Miller, of Well
ston, Ga.
Funeral services were held from
the residence Wednesday at noon,
Rev. W. F. Smith officiating. The
body was carried to Crawford coun¬
ty for interment in the family lot.
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ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH
Episcopal
Rev. E. J. Saywell, Pastor.
1st Sunday in Lent
Services
’hurch School 9:30 A. M.
Mr. C. T. Eberhardt, Supt.; Mr. W. A.
Wood. Sec.
Morning Prayer 11:00 A. M.
Evening Praver 7:00 P. M.
Church Activities.
Vestry and Men’s Club meets 1st
Thursday each month, 7:00 P. M.
Woman’s Auxiliary, every 1st and
3rd Monday, each month, 3 P. M.
Choir rehestrsal, every Friday, 7:00
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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J. A. WALTON, CONFEDERATE
VETERAN, CROSSES RIVER
Jesse A. Walton 78, a Confederate
veteran of Company B, Twenty
seventh Georgia Infantry, Colquitt’s
Brigade, died at his home in Byron
at 3:30 o’clock on Wednesday after
noon, Feb. 27. He is survived by his
wife, two sons, James and Gardner
Walton, two daughters, Mrs. Harold
Anderson of this place, and Miss
Jesse Walton of Byron; two brothers,
J. D. Walton of Byron, and V. I.
Walton of Corpus Christi, Texas;
two sisters, Mrs. James Heidle of
Unadilla, and Mrs. Jake Cooper of
Scotland; a half-brother, Charles
Walton of Jacksonville, Fla., three
hilf-sisters, Mrs. Chas. Tidwell of
Walden, Ga.; Mrs. Julia Waldon and
Mrs. Lancy Clark of Macon. The fun¬
eral was held in Byro* Thursday aft¬
ernoon at three o’clock.
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The Governor Treutlen Chapter
D. A. R. will meet Wednesday after¬
noon at three o’clock, March 12, at
the home of Mrs. C. L. Shepard.
Chairman for the program, Mrs. W.
B. Smith.
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EXPRESS CO. 10SEN0
Mr. R. D. Hale, chairman of the
committee of the Peach
Festival is in receipt of a
from Mr. H. M. Smith, manag¬
of the American Railway Express
Atlanta division, offering to
to K#rt Valley four or six of
company’s fine horses to be used
draw one of the festival floats;
March 27. The company offers ta>
either black or gray homes or
accompanied by four men to
them and act as footman w
to lead the horses in tho
The spirit of cooperation shown
the express company official i*
matter is most generous and is
appreciated. These magnifi¬
horses will add much to the suc¬
of the float parade and pageant.
will be recalled that the expret*
sent down four horses fer¬
festival last year.
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J. G. SUGGS, HERE BUT
WEEK, DIES OF APOPLEXY
Mr. J. G. Suggs, a man apparently
fifty years of age, died here
early Sunday morning sft
rooming house of W. G. Arrow
on Church street. Mr. Arrow
is said to have heard the man
about in his room about
o’clock in the morning, and
heard a heavy fall. Upon in¬
he found thq man in an
critical condition and
Dr. M. S. Brown. Mr. Suggs
about three hours later, his
being attributed to apoplexy.
The deceased had been in Fort
Valle*: about a week, comjig here
Montgomery, Ala. He had ap¬
several people here with
reference to buying a quick lunch
or small grocery business.
As he wore a Mason*: pin, Mr. T.
M. Anthoine, Worshipful Master of
Fort Valley Lodge, interested him¬
self in the case and learned that 1|he
deceased was a member of the Ma¬
sonic Lodge of Sylva, N. G., and
upon communicating with that lodge,
it was arranged for the Fort Valley
Lodge to take charge of the body and
give it Masonic burial here.
The widow of the deceased came
from Atlanta Monday night and a
sister, Mrs. Nichols, from Montgoim
ery. Interment was in Oaklawn
Cemetery Tuesday morning with the
Masonic ceremony, Rev. Loy War¬
wick acting chaplain.
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MR. JOHN H. HOLLY FALLS
DEAD FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Mr. John H. Holly, aged forty
seven years, died in Fort Valley
Friday afternoon while superintend¬
ing the unloading of some fertilizer
in the railroad yards. Mr. Holly, it
appears from statements of thoi^a
who were present, was standing in
door of the car, when he fell, the
victim of apoplexy or heart failure.
Mr. Holly had been in poor health
lately, but his death was a severe
shock to his relatives and friends,
as no one suspected that he was
near death’s door.
He is survived by his aged mother,
Mrs. H. H. Holly of Fort Valley;
three brothers, M. H. and A. L. of
this community, and Joe of Smith
ville; and two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Mc¬
Cray of this city and Mrs. J. Q. Ex
um of Smithville.
Interment was in the family ceme¬
tery at the old Holly Home Place,
where Mr. Holly lived with his moth¬
er. Rev. J. W. Smith and Rev. Loy
Warwick conducted the funeral ser¬
vices.
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PAVING AND WHITE WAY
TO BE FORMALLY OPENED
The nine blocks of new street and
sidewalk paving and the new boule¬
vard street lighting system in th»
business section of Fort Valley are
to be formally opened and presented
to the people next Friday, March 14.
The white way system consists of
76 ornamental metal standards each
surmounted by a 400 candle power
series Mazda lamp enclosod in a
Novalux rippled glass globe.
Full details of the celebration,
which will be under the auspices of
the Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley,
are presented in the double page ufi
vertisement in this issue.