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The only newspaper
published in Fort Val¬
ley, fhe largest peach¬
shipping station in the
world.
Volume No. XXXVI, Number 26.
NEW PEACH COUNTY
LEADERS AGREE UPON
COUNTY LINES
TO MAJORITY OF
ON BOTH SIDES,
A new bill for the creation
Peach County along lines agreed
by leaders of both the old and new
county sections and acceptable to a
majority of citizens in both
of this county was introduced
the State Senate at its opening
nesday by Senator G. C. Smith of
Twenty-third district.
The provisions of the new bill and
withdrawal of opposition thereto
former opposing leaders were agreed
to at a conference held in Fort Val¬
ley last Saturday and attended
political leaders of the several
ties opposing the old plan of divi¬
sion, the list including Senator G. C.
Smith of the Twenty-third district;
Dr. Greer, of Macon County; Repre¬
sentative J. C. Duncan, of Houston
County; Senator J. E. Davidson, of
Fort Valley; and Mayor A. C. Riley,
of Fort Valley; Col. Leighton Shep¬
ard, Judge H. A. Mathews, all of
Fort Valley; John B. Guerry, of
Montezuma, and Sam Nunn, of Per
ry
The original bill, which was de¬
feated by the voters, because of op¬
position from Taylor, Macon
Houston counties, provided for an
area of approximately 173 square
miles for Peach County.
Under the agreement reached at
this conference the new Peach Coun¬
ty when created will have an area of
150 square miles, while Houston
County will have an area of 495
square miles.
It was for the purpose of bringing
about a better feeling among the
communities in the heart of the
peach belt that the conference was
brought about. Fort Valley people ex¬
pressed willingness to make conces¬
sions and these concessions met the
approval of the former opponents of
Peach County.
While it is understood that Repre¬
sentative J. C. Duncan feels that the
ticket upon which he was elected
makes it necessary for him to vote
against the bill, he is quoted as
agreeing that if the county is to be
divided the new plan of division is an
equitable one and that he will re¬
lease all his friends in the Legisla¬
ture from their former pledges of op¬
position to the creation of the new
county.
It is the expressed conviction of
a majority of the citizens in all sec¬
tions of Houston County that the
political differences between the
posed Peach County section and the
old county section can be composed
and the best interests and
of the county advanced in no wa>
except by division. Following the
county primary of May 15, in which
the Peach County faction elected all
but one of the county officers, and
contests were filed by losing candi¬
dates, the political situation became
so acute as to cause leaders on both
sides to realize that division was es¬
sential to the peace and good order
of the county. It was this conviction
that caused leaders of the Peach
County faction to make overtures
for a compromise plan of division.
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REAL CHRISTIAN UNITY
The proposal to unify the North¬
ern and Southern Methodist church¬
es is causing the airing of divergent
opinions among leaders in the church
South. While we do not flatter our¬
selves that our opinion would cause
any great ripple in the discussion
or aid materially in its solution, for
the sake of local Christian harmony
we will not reiterate it. But we do
think it would be a fine thing if all
Christian denominations in each sec¬
tion where people have common so¬
cial ideas could merge into one body
politic and eliminate so much com¬
petition in Christian work. It seems
reasonable that Christians ought to
^ be able to agree on fundamental,
c common essentials of Christian faith
and practice and eliminate differ¬
4 ences in ordinances, sacraments, and
hair-splitting theology. Would not
such unity greatly enhance respect
for and the influence of Christian
religion? There are common grounds
of belief on which all Christians in
Fort Valley can meet. None believe
that the others are damned and lost
because they differ on minor points,
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 produced.
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY JUNE 26, 1924. TWELVE PAGES.
Cash Register Rifled at
Houser’s Pool
The store operated by Mrs. E.
Lester and Miss Allie Houser at
swimming pool at Houser’s mill
broken into several nights ago
the cash register taken away,
open and rifled of about five
in change and abandoned on the
tional highway. The burglars left
clue to their identity.
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MRS. GEORGIA ANN DAVIS
PASSES AWAY, AGED
Mrs. Georgia Ann Davis, widow
the late Mr. A. R. Davis, died
day morning at the home of her
Mr. George M. Davis, near Fort
ley. Mrs. Davis was in her
first year and was born in the
borhood in which she died, now,
ley Chapel Methodist Church,
which she was the oldest member.
She was a woman of most
mable character, loved by all
knew her.
The funeral services were
ed Tuesday morning at 10
by Rev. E. B. Sutton and Rev. M.
Marshall at Wesley Chapel and
ment was in the church cemetery.
She is survived by one
Mrs. E. L. Avera of Fort Valley;
sons, Geo. M. Davis of near Fort
ley, and B. S. Davis of
and one brother, B. F. Vinson
Macon.
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Racing and Fireworks
at Lakewood on
Atlanta, Ga.—Atlanta is
ing to celebrate the Fourth of
with an unusually interesting
gram this year, the feature
being automobile and harness
ing and a big fireworks display.
Already more than forty
are reported on the track at
wood Park training for the big
among them the best pacers and
ters to be seen in the South.
track at Lakewood is in fine condi
tion and great sport is assured
the midsummer meet.
The auto racing will show a dozen
of the fastest cars and most fearless
drivers on the track. The purses put
up by the management have brought
entries that will make the competi¬
tion very keen in the speed events,
and the fans who saw the races of
last July 4 still remember the thrills
they got out of the afternoon.
The day will be closed with a won¬
derful pyrotechnic display over the
lake which is peculiarly suited to the
spectacular showing of fireworks,
Band concerts and patriotic speaking
will also feature the day. Improve
of the-grounds make Lake
wood Park an ideal picnic site and
basket parties are especially invited.
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MISS AL1DA HILEY DIES
AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
Friends in this section of Miss
Alida Hiley were grieved to learn
of her death, which occurred Wed¬
nesday morning at six o’clock after
a lingering illness at the home of
her brother, Mr. R. A. Hiley, with
whom she lived.
She was a consistent member of
the Methodist Curch and a truly
good woman. She was of a quiet dis¬
position and to know her was to love
her.
Immediate relatives who survive
her are four brothers: Messrs. R. A.,
Eugene, Wallace and Frank Hiley of
this city; and one sister, Mrs. F. H.
Houser of Tampa, Fla.
The funeral was at 5 o’clock Wed¬
nesday afternoon at the residence,
Rev. G. W. Mathews of Marshallville
officiating in the absence of the
pastor, Rev. Loy Warwick. Interment,
was in Oaklawn Cemetery.
If these minor points were eliminat¬
ed and all were merged into one
great church, would not that church
have greater influence for good than
the combined strength of the sepa¬
rate churches?
All of the Christian denominations
but offshoots of the original
church established by Christ. Hu¬
man egotism, tradition, and error
figure largely in their divergence of
More of the self-affacement,
humility and charity taught by the
Founder ought to bring them
together.
CHANGES IN LIST OF
MANY WHO WERE NOMINATED DROP OUT AND OTHERS TAKE
THEIR PLACES—LITTLE WORK DONE SO FAR AND AMBITIOUS
PERSONS MAY ENTER BEFORE SATURDAY NIGHT. NO “DARK
HORSES” PERMITTED IN THIS RACE—L 1ST AS COMPOSED
SATURDAY NIGHT WILL COMPRISE WINNERS. AN EARLY
START IMPORTANT.
List of Contestants:
(In Alphabetical Order.)
Miss Jewel Avera ......................... ................... Byron
Mrs. D. W. Byrd ........................... ........ Fort Valley
Miss Helen Gassett ........................ ................... Byron
Mrs. Howard Jackson .................. ........... Lee-Pope
Mrs. M. M. Lowery ........................ ............... Perry
Miss Delnia Mathews ................ ........ Fort Valley
Miss Nora Rountree ...................... ...... Fort Valley
Mrs. Frank Vance ......................... Fort Valley, Rt. 4
Mrs. Helen Houser Woodall .... ......... Fort Valley
The opening week of the
moth Subscription Drive
by The Leader-Tribune finds a
ly number of the section’s most
getic and popular ladies out
ing the paper and collecting new
renewal subscriptions. And yet,
course, none of the candidates
gotten into high gear but the
weeks promise to find the race
veloping into a close one with
interest not confined alone to
Valley but extending to the
towns and even into sections of
joining counties.
The list of contestants in this
sue shows that some who were
nated have abandoned the race
others more ambitious and
ic have taken their places. It is pos¬
sible that still others may enter as
the Opportunity Period does
close until Saturday night, but
then no one will be permitted to
ter and the list as then composed
contain the names of the prize
ners.
An Unutual Opportunity
An opportunity to win a Ford Se¬
dan just for spare time efforts is
not presented everyday, and a repre¬
sentative list of local workers is
looked for.
When one considers the fact that
nearly two thousand dollars in prizes
are to be given away, and that every
person who enters and tries will re¬
ceive pay for their time, it is very
evident that those with ambition and
pep will be sure to enter.
No Vote* Published
Many of the candidates seem to be
under the impression that votes se¬
cured by them will be published in
The Leader-Tribune. This is a wrong
idea as at no time during the drive
will the votes be published or will
anyone know the number of votes
possessed by another candidate. This
makes the drive absolutely fair to
Stye ffimittirg Bfeklij
The city dailies often josh about the country press,
But the small-town country weekly is an all-round success
It beats the daily paper for a sheet that’s read clean through;
And its patent insides function and are entertaining, too.
There is less of bluff and bluster, less hysteria and pose,
Less of ballyhoo and brainstorm, less divorce and human woes.
And the sanest folks will tell you, having watched the passing show,
There’s a lot of frothy piffle that is not worth while to know.
Take the city Sunday supplement that is dumped upon the porch;
It buries us in literature, and keeps us home from church.
It corrupts our wives and children with its freakish, morbid show
For its jokes are often nightmares and its ideals often low.
The city daily has a man who reads the country press,
And the news he cribs and re-writes is what makes for his success.
And as he clips and butchers it for all that he can use,
He ridicules the make-up of the heads and locals news.
But how welcome is the weekly along the R. F. D.
When Grandma polishes her specs and takes it with her tea.
And with what kindly comment she smiles and nods her head
As she clips for her scrap album the best things she has read.
The poem by a neighbor, or the winners at the fair;
Obituaries and weddings, are among her treasures rare.
And, unlike the city editor who wields the wicked shears,
She clips the paper lovingly, her smiles mixed with tears.
The country sheet has been the work of men of great renown;
The bulk of all our best-loved men came from the country town.
For ’tis here you get the human touch that’s always understood,
And you’ll find some worth-while people in the small-town neighborhood.
You’ll find more Christian charity, and more good common sense;
Here thrives originality without so much pretense.
While the daily paper shouts it with its billboard type so tall,
The small town ways of doing may be wisest after all.
Roy Churchill Smith in Inland Oil Index.
all and assures each one that she will
receive the prize to which she is en¬
titled.
The main idea with the manage¬
ment of this drive is that the cam¬
paign shall he conducted fairly and
that the ones deserving the main
prizes will receive them. Were the
votes of each candidate published in
the columns of The Leader-Tribune,
then every one would know just ex¬
actly how many votes a worker pos¬
sessed, which would be decidedly un¬
fair.
There is not the slightest objec¬
tion on the part of the management
to the different candidates compar¬
ing their votes if they wish to. The
votes any worker has is his or her
property and he or she has a per¬
fect right to do as they wish with
them, except transfer them to some
other candidate. Each candidate is
furnished a report sheet with each
report showing exactly how many
votes the subscriptions turned in en¬
titles them to, so of course, each can¬
didate knows the number of votes
they possess.
Opportunity Period Closes Saturday
The Opportunity Period closes
Saturday night, June 28th, and ev¬
ery contestant who has not done so
should put forth every effort to
make her total collection by that
time amount to $50.00—thus giv¬
ing them the advantage of the five
opportunity coupons, each good for
50,000 votes, or a total of a quarter
of a million. The contestant who
takes advantage of all five of these
coupons is not handicapped in the
race, but frankly, the ones who fail
to secure them has a handicap that
is hard to overcome. Every contest¬
ant should, by all means, make their
reports total $50 by Saturday night.
First Vote Period Nears Close.
The first and largest vote period
of the campaign conies to a close
Famous Parks Sisters
Coming to the
Movie fans of Fort Valley and
cinity have an extraordinary
in store in the appearance of
Parks sisters at the Austin
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
this week. These girls have
much fame in their singing and
ing acts.
(Advertisement).
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MR. WILEY MELVIN DIES
AFTER BRIEF
Mr. Wiley M. Melvin, a
known citizen of Houston
and for many years a rural mail
rier on Fort Valley route three,
last Thursday afternoon at his
seven or eight miles east of
Valley, after a weeks’s illness. Mr.
Melvin had been in bad health for
several months, but after an illness
in the early spring had been back
on his route for several weeks prior
to his last illness.
Mr. Melvin was about 48 years
of age and was a brother of Mr. Will
A. Melvin of Fort Valley. Ilis long
service with the post office and his
genial nature made for him a wide
circle of friends and acquaintances
who regret his death.
He is survived by his wife and sev¬
en children.
The interment was at Oaklawn
Cemetery Friday morning. The fun¬
eral service, held at the home, was
conducted by Rev. Loy Warwick and
Rev. D. A. Howard.
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J. W. Pearson Loses 7
by Lightning Bolt
Mr. J. W. Pearson of Lee Pope
had the misfortune of losing seven
mules by a lightning bolt during the
thunder storm Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Pearson had nine mules in the
lot in which the seven were killed
and a negro tenant had two mules in
an adjoining lot which were not in¬
jured. Another of Mr. Pearson’s
mules was found to be crippled aft¬
er the storm, but it is not known
how it was injured.
Some corn was reported blown
down in the path of the storm a few
miles west of Fort Valley. No dam¬
age to peaches has been reported.
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Friends here of Mr. Henry A.
Brown, now of Washington, D. C.,
will be interested in knowing of his
marriage on June 15th to Mrs. Irene
Robinson of Atlanta. Mr. Brown is
a brother of Mrs. J. E. Davidson of
Fort Valley.
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Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Stripling, Mrs.
J. E. Bledsoe, of Fort Valley, and
Mrs. E. L. Stripling of Columbus,
Ga., returned Wednesday from a de¬
lightful three weeks’ motor trip to
New York, Washington, Asheville,
and Henderson, N. C. Mr. Stripling
reports finding the roads in splendid
condition, enabling him to average
more than 300 miles a day.
Wednesday night of next week. After
that time the vote schedule will be
considerably reduced. Each contest¬
ant should make a special effort to
see every person who has promised
them a subscription and get it in dur¬
ing the first and largest vote period
—as a subscription now is worth as
many as four subscriptions obtained
at the close of the campaign.
It is not the number of subscrip¬
tions or the amount of money col¬
lected that determines the winner in
this campaign. It is Votes, and the
way to get votes is to get a subscrip¬
tion just a ssoon as possible and for
just as many years as possible. If you
are a friend of a contestant and want
to see her win send or bring your
subscription direct to the office or
get it in her hands before Wednes¬
day night of next week. Do not force
the contestant to look you up. Let
her be using her time in securing a
4i doubtful voter. »»
A Cooperative Proposition
This campaign is a cooperative
all the way through. Ev¬
citizen of this section needs and
take his home paper. They
full value received and help their
win a valuable prize and at
same time is helping their home
to better serve the interests of
people. Get behind your favorite,
“do it now. ' ■
The most intensively
circulated and thorough¬
ly read news and ad¬
vertising medium in its
field.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
mm
STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY
MOVES TO PREVENT IMPOR
TATION OF DISEASED AND IN¬
FESTED PLANTS.
Numerous complaints from grow¬
ers throughout the state to the effect
that they were receiving diseased
and insect infested plants and nur¬
sery stock frqjn other states, and the
fact that many destructive insects
and diseases not present in Georgia
are playing havoc in other states and
countries, forcibly impressed upon
the Department the necessity of
establishing and maintaining an effi¬
cient quarantine system whereby all
diseased and insect infested material
could be refused delivery in the
state.
During January of this year this
department was established. Compe¬
tent inspectors were stationed at At¬
lanta, Macon and Savannah for the
purpose of inspecting all plants and
nursery stock entering the state eith¬
er by boat, parcel post or rail. Due
to the small amount of money avail¬
able for this work only one man
could be placed at each station, and
it was soon discovered that three in¬
spectors could inspect only a small
per cent of the plants entering the
state. Therefore, the activities of the
inspectors were confined principally
to the interception of illegal ship¬
ments of nursery stock and plants
which did not have the proper in¬
spection certificates attached. In this
manner some valuable work is being
accomplished. During one month we
returned to shippers or destroyed
166 bundles of illegal, diseased or
insect infested nursery stock destin¬
ed for Georgia points. Several very
injurious insects not known to occur
in Georgia have been intercepted.
From a protective standpoint, Sa¬
vannah is probably the most import
tant station, for there we have
on an average of three boats a day,
one-third of which are foreign. With¬
out this protection one of these ships
could very easily bring us any day
one of the several foreign fruit flies
which would wipe out our peach in¬
dustry; or a sack of cotton seed from
some foreign port infested with the
Pink Boll worm, which -would ruin
our cotton industry.
Atlanta, the railroad center of the
state, where hundreds of express
shipments of nursery stock are trans¬
ferred daily is also an important
station. The inspector stationed
there intercepts nearly every week
injurious insect or disease
would cause thousands of dol¬
lars damage if it became established
Georgia,
We feel that the Quarantine De¬
is one of the most impor¬
phases of the work being carried
on by the Georgia State Board of
Several of the most de¬
insects and diseases known
exist have not as yet been intro¬
into Georgia, and preventing
entry affords the horticultural
agricultural industries of the
a protection worth millions and
of dollars.
The Department of Entomology is
of increasing the scope of
work. Next season we hope to
in a position to furnish sufficient
along this line and estab¬
more stations so that every plant
the state will be given a
inspection. The growers
the state are invited and
to make complaint.^to this De¬
when they purchase nurs¬
stock which does not come up to
and we assure you
we will use every effort to se¬
an adjustment from the nur¬
making the shipments. Your
is earnestly solicited.
JEFF CHAFFIN,
Chief Inspector,
State Board of Entomology.
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Dr. and Mrs. Willis Garrett spent
in Fort Valley with Mrs.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
enroute from Asheville, N.
to their home in Miami, Fla.
was Mrs. Houser’s birthday,
the visit of Dr. and Mrs. Garrett
a delightful surprise to her, on¬
Miss Hazel Houser having known
their contemplated visit.
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Friends of Mr. W. B. Norton are
that he is able to be out again
his recent illness.