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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1824.
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LIVES AND LIMBS SAVED
BY CAROLINA STOP LAW
Raleigh, N|. C.—Deaths a td in¬
juries from grade crossing accidents
showed a marked decline following
the enactment of the North Caro¬
lina law requiring drivers of motor
vehicles to stop before crossing rail¬
road tracks, according to figures just
made public by the Safety Depart¬
ment of the Southern Railway.Sys¬
tem.
The law became effective on July
1, 1923, and in the ensuing six
months, four persons were killed and
eleven injured in eleven accidents
at crossigs of the Southern’s tracks
in North Carolina, as against six kill¬
ed and twenty-four injured in twenty
one accident during the first six
months of 1923, eleven killed and
twenty-five injured in eighteen ac¬
cidents during the last half of 1922,
and eight killed and twenty-two in¬
jured in fifteen accidents during the
first half of 1922.
This decrease in casualties was in
the face of an increasing volume of
automobile and truck travel, 247,-
612 motor vehicles having been
registered in the office of Secretary
of State of North Carolina during
1923 as against 182,060 in 1922.
One million dollars is now being
sought by Wesleyan College, at Ma
con, for building and
purposes. Alumnae of the college are
leading in the movement.
When in Atlanta...
THE KIMBALL HOUSE
Where you will *e«> and be seen.
The Clearing House
for Georgia People
The people of Kort Valley and vicin¬
ity feel particularly at home when
at the Kimball House uh they always
find a warm welcome awaltbiK them.
FOR SALE CHEAP!
Packard
Truck
The Very Thing To Haul
PEACHES
Powers’ Curiosity Shop
349 Cotton Ave. Phono 642
Macon, Georgia
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Clean Up!
Paint Up!
Get ready for the
Third Annual Peach Festival
And Use
DEVOE’S BEST PAINT
“THE PAINT THAT’S ALL PAINT
FORT VALLEY LUMBER GO.
SOME NEW BOOKS RECEIVED
AT THE LIBRARY
The Rover, by Joseph Conrad.
The Covered Wagon, by
Hough.
The Mine With the Iron Door,
Harold Bell Wright.
The Outline of History, by H.
Wells.
These books were given by
ians Newton, Warwick,
Clark, Hale, and Murray.
The books contributed by the Ki
wanians have been so much
by the patrons of the library that
has become quite a usual thing
the librarian to be requested
“please send me one of-the
given by the Kiwanians; they
always : o good. ’ •
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express to our
friends our deepest appreciation
their sympathy and assistance in
recent bereavement. May the
only Father comfort your hearts in
time of affliction as you have
to comfort others.
J. M. Jones and Family.
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Georgia is to have an
forester, according to wold
by the Forest Service, United
Department of Agriculture. The
selected by the College of
ture for the position is Du Pre
rett, who for the past three years
been a teacher in the forest
at the college, in charge of the
jects of logging and utilization.
Barrett will begin his new
July 1.
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The farm population of the
although less than 30 per cent
the total, is carrying more than
per cent of the child population,
the United States Department of
| riculture. The farm is charged
I the duty of educating this excess
youth and turning it over to
cities at the producing age.
| THE STEADY SUBSCRIBER
(From the • < Liberal New*’’)
i How dear to our heart is the steady
| subscriber,
Who pays in advance at the birth
of each year.
| Who lays down the money and does
i it quite gladly,
I And casts round the office a halo
of cheer.
He never says: “Stop it; I cannot af¬
ford it,
I’m getting more papers than now
I can read.'*’
But always says: “Send it; our people
all like it—
In fact we all tlfink it a help and a
need.
How welcome his check when it
reaches our sanctum,
| How it makes our pulse throb; how
it makes our heart dance.
I We outwardly thank him; we inward¬
ly bless him—
The steady subscriber who pays
i in advance.
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RECLAMATION PROJECT
j FOR ALTAMAHA DELTA
I Atlanta , Ga.—Concluding a se
ries of negotiations that have been
; under way for more than a year,
deals have been closed at Brunswick,
j Ga., whereby approximately 9,000
acres of Altamaha Delta land and an
j additional 1,000 acres of adjoining
Pi nc lands have come under the con
,trol of New York financial interests,
inaugurating what is undoubtedly
and by far the greatest and most
comprehensive reclamation and de¬
velopment project of its kind
undertaken in Georgia or the South¬
east, if not in the entire South.
For months W. R. Tucker, agri
cultural development agent of the
j Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
Railway has been assisting in form
| ing contracts with the owners of the
land in question and in acquiring de¬
| tailed information to guide the pros¬
t
pective owners.
The negotiations were conducted
on behalf of the New York interests
by O. C. Lamp, who represents him¬
self and two associates, Ralph
Wharff, capitalist, and William Dob¬
son, a capitalist and widley known
civil engineer. The lands involved,
the property of a dozen or more dif¬
ferent owners, including several is¬
lands lying within the far-famed del¬
ta of the Altamaha River, their ag¬
gregate area being about equally di¬
vided between McIntosh and Glynn
counties. The project involves an in¬
vestment ultimately in excess of
$ 1 , 000 , 000 .
The land, it is claimed, when the
work is completed, will produce at
least $5,000,000 worth of marketable
produce annually. The uplands are
to be cleared of their pine, put un¬
der cultivation and devoted to the
growing of satsuma organges, accord¬
ing to the present plans of the pur¬
chasers.
Preliminary work, it was stated,
has already been completed on But¬
ler’s Island, part of the property
purchased, and before another month
has passed the water will have been
shut out and 1,300 acres of this land
will be drying in the sun and made
ready for the plow.
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VARIETIES OF COTTON
FOR SOUTH GEORGIA
The Georgia Coastal Plain Ex¬
periment Station at Tifton, Georgia,
has been conducting tests for the
past three years to determine desir¬
able varieties of cotton for South
Georgia. Results from various soil
types show that w-Oj one variety of
cotton is suited to all conditions of
soil and climate throughout the State.
Some varieties of cotton may pro¬
duce well in other sections and yet
be poor yielders when grown on the
sandy soils in the coastal plain re¬
gion. The selection of a variety,
therefore, which is adapted to the
soil and climate of South Georgia
is an important consideration in eco¬
nomic production.
In selecting a cotton variety to he
grown in South Georgia, it is sug¬
gested that pure seed should be
planted which possess as nearly as
possible the following characteris¬
tics :
Wilt or “black root” resistance
Earliness in setting fruit
Good size boll
Continuous fruiting over a long
period
Good length staple
High percentage of lint.
In many cases losses are sustained
from wilt or “black root” where
sistant varieties are not planted. Va
rieties which set a crop of bolls f
early and continue to square through- j
out the growing season made a better
yield at tile experiment station than ■
the extremely small boll early, varieties which few were j
put on a bolls
and shed their foliage. The weevils 1
seemed not to be forced to feed on
immature bolls so much on the va¬
rieties that continued to produce'
squares over a long period. A goad
size boll, good length of staple, and
high percentage of lint are points
that should bf borne in mind in se¬
lecting a variety of cotton.
Below are given the names of the
varieties tested oyer a three year pe¬
riod and the average yield of seed
cotton per acre from a field where
boll weevil poison was used during
the years 1921, 1922 and 1923:
Petty’s Toole 793 lbs; Lightning
Express 749 lbs; Steinheimer’s Clev
land 689 lbs.; Fitzpatrick’s Cleve¬
land 656 lbs.; Poulnot 651 lbs.; Uto¬
pia 648 lbs,; Texas Bur 647 lbs.;
Rexall 647 lbs.; Covington Toole 646
lbs.; Okra Leaf 629 lbs.; Williams
619 lbs.; Cook’s Improved 618 lbs.;
Coker’s Cleveland 610 lbs.; Imporved
Express 604 lbs.; Wannamaker’s
Cleveland 602 lbs.; Coker’s Harts
ville 598 lbs.; Half and Half 578 lbs.;
Coker’s Webber 551 lbs.; Meade 532
lbs.; Livsey’s 498 lbs.; College No.
1 480 lbs.; Hooper’s Big Boll 457
lbs.; Meadow’s Early 453 lbs.; Delta
type Webber 447 lbs.
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BowrfM for Tftlod Foreigner*.
It is said that the daughters of 500
of America’s richest men have mar¬
ried titled foreigners and that their
aggregate dowry falls little short of
three-quarters of a billion dollars.— In¬
dianapolis News.
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Kind Little Artlet.
A email Brookline girl drew a pic¬
ture ot a dog and a cat, and showing It
to her mother, she explained, “A cat
oughtn’t tb hare but four legs, but
I drew It with six so she could run
away from the dog."—Boston Tran¬
script.
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Coloring Ivory.
Brannt’s Teehno-Chemlcnl Receipt
Book gives several recipes for coloring
ivory yellow. It may be placed in n
concentrated solution of potassium
chromate, then In a hot solution of
sugar of lead. Another method is to
place It la a solution of yellow orpl
nient saturated with ammonia. An¬
other treatment Is to mordant fhe
Ivory In a solution of stannous sul¬
phide or of alum, then place It In a
hot decoction of weld
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership of Carithers and Evans
is this day dissolved. A. J. Evans
takes over all accounts due the firm,
and assumes all liabilities. This Jan
uary 28th, 1924. 1-3 l-6t
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There are two very important reasons why
this should be done at this time.
First: V
The new pavement is about
completed and the white wav lights
have been installed. Is your place
going to be in keeping with these?
How will your place look in com¬
parison when the lights are turned on ?
as Second:
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3 . The time of the Third
Annual Peach Blossom Festival is
almost here. There will be thous¬
ands of visitors from every part of
the country to attend this festival.
What impression will your place give
these visitors? Will it look fresh
and well kept?
There is a third reason just as important or more so than the
other two:
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1 and bring an increase in the esteem of your friends and
patronage of your customers. Appearances count big in the
long run. *
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K. Get our prices on anything in Paints, Varnishes, Kalsomine, Oil, Turpentine, Etc.
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Green-Miller Company
Fort Valley, Georgia i\
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DANGERS OF A COLD
Fort Valley People Will Do
Well To Heed Them
Many bad cases of kidney trouble
result from a cold or chill. Congested
kidneys fall behind in filtering
poison-laden blood, and backache,
headache, dizziness and disordered
kidney action follow. Don’t neglect
cold. Use Doan’s Pills at the
first sign of kidney trouble. Here
an experience told by a resident
this locality.
L. A. Shackelford, retired
ist, Commerce St., Hawkinsviile,
says: It I caught cold and it settled
my kidneys, causing 'ame back.
ings when I stooped ,o put my
on, a stitch took me in the small
Lathering and Advertising
I hastened into a barber’s shop the
other day and asked if I could be shaved
in five minutes. “Yep!” was the reply.
The barber quickly applied the soap.
He began lathering and lathering and
kept on lathering until I felt sure I
would miss my train. Still he kept on.
plying his soap brush. I was saying to
myself, “Why doesn’t he quit this pro¬
cess and get busy with his razor?” That
would have been my way of shaving my¬
self in a hurry. When he did finally
take up his razor, the job was over in a
jiffy. And I caught my train.
The incident, for some reason or
other, begot this thought in my mind:
Lathering is to shaving very much the
same thing as advertising is to selling.
If you do enough preliminary work and
do it properly, so that groundwork has
been thoroughly prepared, then the
resistance is very greatly reduced, and
it is possible either to shave with less
trouble or to sell goods with less trouble.
B. G. Forbes.
my back and I raised up by inches. I
had to set up at night to pass the kid
ney secretions and they contained a
red, brick-dust-like sediment. I had
a swimming sensation in my head. I v
knew about Doan’s Pills, so I
bought one box. They cured me of the
the attack.
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milbiirn ♦
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.— Advertise¬
ment.
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Advertise in'The Leader-Tribune.
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Medicine la a Combined
Treatment,both
local and Internal, and has been success¬
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