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Volume No. XXXVI, Number 23. FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY JUNE 5, 1924. FOURTEEN PAGES. $1.50 Per Year In Advance.
CONTESTS FILED BY
TWO NON-RESIDENTS
THEY VOTED ILLEGALLY
FORT VALLEY IN
COUNTY PRIMARY.
Immediately following the
dation of the votes in the
primary of May 15, the county
ocratic executive committee
the following candidates
for clerk, Emmett Houser;
R. E. Brown; tax receiver, C.
Rountree; ordinary, C. T.
treasurer, A. M. Anderson;
commissioners, O. J. Bateman
A. W. Tabor; tax collector, T.
Tharpe; county surveyor, C.
Vance; coroner, A. B. Schilling.
Contests were filed by T. S.
man, candidate for sheriff, M.
candidate for judge of the
court, and W. H. Lord,
for school superintendent, and
committee decided to entertain
contests ford 'received
only 1295
against M. C. Mosely’s 1915
school superintendent, but the
mittee sustained Lord’s contest
the ground that the Fort Valley
cinct was not legally entitled to
for county school
owing to some slight difference
the law creating the Fort
school system, which the
classed as an independent
although it receives its share of
State school fund through the
tv board of education. Ten
were allowed for appeal to
courts from the committees
The committee met again on
30th to consider the contests of
Chapman and.Mr. Kunz. At this
contests were filed also by H L.
Wasden, candidate for clerk, and
W. Blood worth, candidate for
tor of the city court. The
decided to entertain these
also. These contests were based
on affidavits made by one
blood and one R. E. Moore, who
they were resilents of Douglas.
and that they*had, upon
of several Fort Valley citizens,
ed three or four times each at
Fort Valley precinct in the
of other persons who were on
voters’ list. Their testimony
oath was heard by the
They are said to have admitted
the stand, in answer to
that they knew they were
the State election laws.
A special subcommittee was
pointed to meet Tuesday, June 3,
further investigate the alleged
ularities. That committee was
posed of C. A. Thurmond, G.
Tucker, C. B. Watson, C. E.
son, J. H. Davis, P. H. Hodge, J.
Martin, J. G. Avera, J. E.
D. H. Daniel, J. H. Clark, B.
King, G. L. Slocumb. J. M.
was unable to serve on account
the pressure of his business at
season and W. E. Murray was
pointed in his stead.
Only two or three members of
committee are of the Peach
faction—the faction which has
larger number of registered
and which polls its heaviest
at the Fort Valley precinct.
This subcommittee met
to appointment and heard again
sworn testimony of Youngblood
R. E. Moore, and new testimony
Trucks for Hire!
I would like to contract with
Peach Growers to HAUL
PEACHES. : : :
Have 6 Ford and Selden Trucks.
P. THOMAS,
Dublin, Ga.
Reference: H. L. Moody, care of
Rogers ’ Fort Valley Store.
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Circulates the moat highly developed sections of Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where more than half of Georgia’s peach crop is produced.
NEW DEPARTMENT STORE
TO OPEN HERE FRIDAY
A new department store, the “Un¬
dersellers,” is to be opened in Fort
Valley Friday, June 6, in the W. R.
Brown building formerly occupied by
the Fort Valley Brokerage Company,
next to Copeland’s Pharmacy. The
business will be under the personal
management of R. P. Carver, assist¬
ed by Walter Land, Paul Rhoden, C.
T. Hanibrick, and Herbert Rountree,
all recently of Moultrie, Ga.
The new store will carry a large
stock of men’s and boys’ clothing,
shoes, ready-to-wear, millinery, and
everything needed to outfit the fam¬
ily. This store is one of a large chain
stone system and promises to give
the people of Fort Valley and trade
territory real advantages in mer¬
chandise and prices.
Mr. Carver, the manager of the
store, has taken rooms at Mr. and
Mrs. I. N. Royal’s. Mrs. Carver will
join him here Sunday. Fort Valley
will extend her usual hearty welcome
to these new citizens.
F. _ P. _ Hardy , of Perry _ who , Staf¬ , ,
near
ed that a citizen of Fort Valley en
dea ™* ed * h ™ to ™ te hort '
but that he dld not do so ’ 8 ° me °J
the testimony on this occasion d.f
f ered fro ™ tbe testimony previous
one 1 * ° f the ** witnesses . he same was called back an ?
the stand h J on « c < mtest '
ants < and chan / ed h,s testimony
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18 sa '
A tte consisting of S. A. .
c ™ *
N“nn, C. E. Brunson and W E.
Murray was appointed to recheek the
vot and f «P of ort the their findings galley back precinct, to
the subcommittee on June 18
Several persons, who profess to
have information that would discrc .
d;i tfec teBti of the two witness
eg heard by the cornmittee( have
volunteered to appear before the
committee and taka the 8tan d, if
permitted to do so .
The members of the County Dem _
ocratic executive commi ttee, who
^ be ^ final arbiters of the con .
Upper 5th _ G D Tucker( H A
Tucker> R E Dunbar .
Lower 5th _ w j Pott8f B en
Robersoni c> B Watson .
Town—R. L. Thompson, J.
^ ' ^ ard '
Lower Town _ s . A . Nunn , j. p.
Duncan> j H Davig
New 13 th—P. H. Hodge, W. O.
GoJe c pierce .'
9tb Digt __ A C. Riley, ' Sr., J. E.
Davidson> R E Brown .
6th Dist .-J. G. Avera, H. J. Pea
vy ’ j -p Lisenby.
10th Dist.—J. E. Carney, E. G.
p ounta in, V. R. Hartley.
12 Dist._D. H. Daniel, C. G.
g b arpe, Geo. W. Smith.
01d 13th _j L. Eubanks, J. H.
Clark, E. P, Kezar.
Upper 14th _j. J. Culler, S. W.
jjj c ks<*i, g r , ( C. A. Thurmond.
Upper llt h—W. A. Woodward, B.
jj King, J. T. Perdue,
Lower llth—H. E. Talton, J. W.
g toryi g L slocumb.
Considerable indignation is felt in
the Ninth district over the nature
0 f the charges made and some politi
C al leaders threaten to bolt the pri
mary and put up an independent
ticket in the November election if
the Fort Valley precinct should be
thrown out.
[The situation created by these
contests is discussed editorially in
this issue.]
Wedding Is
Week’s Premier Social Event
By Alice D. Shepard
The most interesting social
the week is the marriage of
Houser, lovely daughter of
Mrs. W. L. Houser, and the
Willis Garrett, pastor of
Presbyterian Church of
The wedding will take place
Methodist Church. Dr.
Jenkins will perform the
The bride will be given in
by her father, Mr. W. L.
The church will be a bower
pink flowers.
The ushers will be Messrs.
William Houser,
Jr., and Sam Mathews.
The little ribbon girls will be
Sara Martin and Ruth Howard
flower girl, Miss
Preceding the ceremony Mrs.
Newton, of Sylvania, sister
bride, will sing a solo, which will
followed by the entrance
young girls dresed in rose
and carrying garlands
singing the bridal chorus from
Rose Maiden. ft
Mrs. Lee Houser will be matron of
exquisitely gowned in orchid.
Hazel Houser, sister of the
will be maid of honor and will
a green chiffon over flesh sat¬
The bridesmaids will be Miss Sa¬
Hill, of Atlanta; Miss Helen Mar¬
and Miss Ruby Harris of Fort
Miss Hill will wear yellow
Miss Marshall's gown will
rose chiffon and Miss Harris will
blue chiffon.
Mr. W. F. Garrett, of Miami,
of the groom will act as best
The young ladies who will sing
cborus are Misses Annie
Annette Shepard, Edwina
ser, Miriam Edwards, Marjorie
Brown, Gertrude Brown,
Margaret McMillan, Helen
Helen Dasher, Fannie Little,
ViLoula White.
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BR1SENDINE SUCCEEDS
KINNEY AS COUNCILMAN
At . a special . , meeting ,. of . the ., city
Wednesday , , rnght ... of - last , ,
, Mr. W. G. ,, Bnsendme t, ■ j- was elect- , .
, to fill the unexpired term of , Dr. n
T „ R. Tr Kinney, . resigned. , Mr. „ Briseu- .
made , chairman , . of . the ,, street , ,
was
et.
Mr. Brisendine was a member ot
,, council under former r ,, Mayor TO 11.
C. Neil’s administration. He is pro
and a “go-getter,” ,, ., „ and , will
make , the „ city an excellent official.
„ Friends . . of . _ Dr. Kinney rr- will n regret ,
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. resignation. . ,. .. He made , a conserva¬
conscientious, and faithful offi
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LARGE HAILSTONES
AUTHENTICALLY REPORTED
The Weather Bureau of the Unit¬
ed states Department of Agriculture
is frequently asked what is the max¬
imum known or possible size of hail¬
stones. According to its records and
documents in the Weather Bureau
library, the maximum possible size
of a single hailstone can not be posi¬
tively stated, but stones larger than
a man’s fist and weighing over a
pound have several times been re¬
ported on good authority. Daring a
hailstorm in Natal on April 17,
1874, stones foil that weighed a
pound and a half, and jassed
a corrugated iron roof as if
it had been made of paper. Kail
stones 14 in. in circumference fell
in New South Wales, Februray,
1847. At Cazorla, .Spain, on June 15,
1829, houses were crushed under
blocks of ice, some of which are said
to have weighed four and a half
pounds. In October, 1844, a hail
storm at Cette, France, wrecked
houses and sank vessels.
Authentic reports of the finding
hailstones much larger than-those
above mentioned undoubtedly refer
in all cases to masses of ice result¬
from the coalescence, after fall¬
ing, of a number of smaller hail¬
lying closely packed together
on the ground.
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Leader-Tribune want ads. are real
little “go-getters. ft
IS DAMAGED BY FIRE
J. P. LUBETKIN SUFFERS BURNS
AND GASH ON HEAD WHEN
SMOKE ODOR LEADS TO CLO¬
SET.
The residence of Mr, and Mrs. A.
H. Lubetkin on Church Street was
damaged to the extent of $2,000.00
or more and Mr. J. P. Lubetkin sus¬
tained severe burns and a gash on
j the head in the course of a fire which
broke out in the house shortly before
two- o’clock last Friday morning.
Mr. J. P. Lubetkin was the sole
occupant of the house at the time,
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lubetkin being
on a visit to their daughter in Way
cross. Smelling smoke in the house
Mr. Lubetkin began to search for its .
origin, and on his opening a closet
door in one of the rooms on the first
floor flames burst forth, singeing his
eyebrows and lashes and blistering
his face, neck, chest, arms, and
hands. In his hasty retreat he ran
into some obstruction and received
a bad scalp wound. Despite these
painful injuries, he made his way to
the garage and got his car out to a
place of safety.
Two hours of valiant work by the
fire department confined the flames
to the interior of the house and fin¬
ally subdued them. This was remark¬
ably efficient work, as the house
was built of heart pine and the heat
was so great by the time the fire
fighters reached the scene that they
could not enter the house.
The alarm was turned in by Mr.
W. G. Southall, night despatcher for
the Central Railway.
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LUST PEACH SPRAYING
Hi leys will be ready for the final
application 1 * of spray during * the first
week . .Tune, and , growers are ad- ,
in
vised . to Hiley tree . , be
spray 1 every k,.
ifor the close of that week. This •
is an „„
exceedingly .... important , , treatment . . , for ,
’
both curcuho ,. and , , brown rot, . and , as
it . the last application ., . , before , har- .
is
vest a special ” effort should be made
to thoroughly “ cover each peach us
. the full , „ 4 pounds , of . arsenate . of „
mg ®
lead to the 32-32-200 self-boiled
lime-sulphur. If dust is . used the 80-
5-15 formula , is recommended , , for „
this application,
Georgia Belles should receive the
last treatment sometime during the
week of June 9-14, and Elbertas
should receive the final spray dur¬
ing the week of June 16-21. Do not
make the mistake of spraying Geor¬
gia Belles and Elbertas for the last
time immediately after finishing Hi¬
ley?. Wait until the dates given
above.
The quality prospects of the crop
of peaches which i? soon to be har¬
vested are the best since 1918. The
fruit is remarkably free from evi¬
dences of the curculio, and unless
very unfavorable weather conditions
occur brown rot should give no se¬
rious trouble. The crop is, however,
not yet made, and growers should
not become over confident as to the
final outcome. It is still possible for
either curculio or brown rot to onuse
serious losses. The late varieties are
just completing or are now in the
stone-hardening period, which is a
period of curculio inactivity. The
curculio will become active again in
each variety 3 to 4 weeks before
ripening, when the acid test in cur¬
culio control will occur. Therefore,
the last application should be applied
on time, and in addition discing un¬
der the spread of the trees should
be frequent during the na»ct several
weeks for curculio pupae destruc¬
tion.
Government and State Laboratory,
Fort Valley, Georgia.
Issued May 31, 1924.
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Mrs. A. Wood and her daughter,
Mrs. Shults, of Chicago are guests
of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. CTscar
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FT. VALLEYANS HEAR BISHOP
CANDLER ON UNIFICATION
Quite a number of Fort Valley
people motored to Macon Sunday
afternoon to hear Bishop Warren
A. Candler, who spoke at Mulberry
St. Methodist Church on the pro¬
posed unification of the Northern
and Southern Methodist churches.
The bishop discussed the proposed
plan of unification step by step and
in an entirely unimpassioned, plain,
and matter-of-fact manner stated his
objections thereto. It was evident
that the bishop’s views were approv¬
ed by a considerable portion of the
large audience, for after several tim¬
orous attempts at applause by one
or two individuals, the audience fin¬
ally threw off the restraint usual to
a Sabbath gathering in a house of
worship and applauded him often
and generously.
Bishop Candler concluded his dis¬
section of the plan of unification
with a touching plea that the church
he had served so devotedly for near¬
ly fifty years and the connectional
university (Emory) he had helped
to found be left to him as they are,
to be passed down as a cherished
heritage to his children and child
children.
Bishop Candler was introduced by
Rev. W. F. Smith, presiding elder
of the Macon district, who seemed
to share the bishop’s views on the
subject of unification.
A delegation from the Men’s Bible
Class of the Fort Valley Methodist
Church attended the Bible Class of
Mulberry Church Sunday morning.
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CEMENT COMPANY BUYS
HOME SITES IN PERRY
The Clinchfield Portland Cement
Company is to build a number of
homes in Perry, (25 or probably
more) for their employes and will
establish their headquarters here.
This important piece of news was
given out last Saturday -with the
announcement that the Company
had purchased the 40 acre tract
from the H. M. Holtzclaw estate on
the edge of town. Several streets will
be cut through the tract to form a
subdivision, and twenty-five dwell¬
ings will be built soon, the construc¬
tion of the first group to begin with¬
in the next ten days.
The establishment of the big
here is an event of more importance
than anything that has happened in
this county in many years, and its
effect o.n the development of the
town of Perry and this entire sec¬
tion is sure to be far reaching.
The plant site at Coreen is now
being graded under the direction of
E. M. Beckham of Perry. Sidings will
be laid just as soon as the grading
is completed and building ma¬
terial will be moved in by the
train load. Workmen will be concen¬
trated here, about 200 carpenters,
brick masons, mechanics and other
construction men, and the construc¬
tion work will be rushed to comple¬
tion.
The people of Perry must and will
rise to the occasion, by extending a
welcoming hand to these new people
and cooperating in every way pos¬
sible in furthering the industrial de¬
velopment coming our way.—Perry
Home Journal.
Pearson. Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Shults
are on their way home from Florida,
where they spent the winter.
PUT A NEW
FORD MOTOR
j
in your old car or truck
mo .00
Fort Valley Motor Co.
The most intensively
circulated and thorough¬
ly . read news and ad¬
vertising medium m its
field.
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCI
ATION RECOMMENDS MINI¬
MUM RATES THAT ALLOW
PROFIT TO PUBLISHERS.
(From The Publishers Auxiliary)
Any weekly newspaper which has
a lower advertising rate than th«
scale recommended by the N. E. A.
committee in 1923 is not making
money enough to permit its publish¬
er to serve his community, his sub¬
scribers and his advertisers as effi¬
ciently and effectively as he should.
This is the statement contained in
the report made by the advertising
committee of the National Editorial
association before the thirty-ninth
annual convention, held last week at
Oklahoma City. The report, which
was concerned chiefly with the ooun
try weekly and its problems, calls
particular attention to the following
statements:
Advertising produces about 80 per
cent of a paper’s revenue.
Subscription rates are constant—
$2 a year being the accepted and
prevailing rate.
To meet increased costs and to
make enough to serve his community
effectively, the publisher must look
to his advertising revenue.
An advertising rate should be
established that will absorb not only
a composition cost of ten cents an
inch, but also the many other items
of cost, editorial and mechanical,
and in addition provide a profit for
the publisher.
The N. E. A. schedule of rates for
country weeklies is as follows:
For 500 or less circulation 25c
For 1,000 or less circulation 30c
For 1,500 or less circulation 35c
For 2,000 or less circulation 40c
For 2,500 or less circulation 45c
For 3,000 or less circulation 48c
For 3,500 or less circulation 51c
<( The foregoing rates are based
sufficient cost data to be absolutely
dependable. The rates recommended
are conservative, and in some fields,
where costs of production are above
the average, and in which the non¬
advertising type of merchant pre¬
dominates to the extent that the to¬
tal lineage carried is low, the rate*
are not high enough,” the committee
reported.
In arriving at a profitable adver¬
tising rate, one must consider two
items which enter into the cost of
producing an inch of advertising—
two items to which most publishers
have not given sufficient considera¬
tion.” These items were given, first,
as the cost of composition, and, sec¬
ond, the cost of selling.
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METHODIST CHURCH
Loy Warwick, Pastor
Sunday School at 9:30 A M. Judge
H. A. Mathews, superintendent; C.
E. Martin, assistant.
Hours of worship 11 A. M. and
8 P. M.
Senior League at 7 P. M.
Strangers and visitors always wel¬
come.
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The 79 American cities having a
population btween 50,000 and 100,
000 spend approximately $91,000,
000 annually for educational pur¬
poses, other than libraries.