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CONSIGN YOUR PEACHES TO COMMISSION HOUSES ADVERTISING IN THIS PAPER
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The only newspaper
published in Fort Val¬
ley, the largest peach¬
shipping station in the
world.
Volume No. XXXVI, Number 29.
PEACH COUNTY BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE
THE WEEK IS
The peach movement for the
ending last night has been
compared with the preceding
The number of cars shipped this
were 738 or about two-thirds
many as had been shipped during
entire season preceding the
week. This brings the total for
season to 1,926 cars.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hiley had
their guests last week, Senator
Mrs. L. D. Passmore of
and Mr. and Mrs. Nash Leyett
family of Leesburg, Fla.
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Mrs. W. T. Gibson, Mrs. E. C.
ton, Miss Anna Benton and
William Benton of Atlanta
week end guests of Mrs. J. A.
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DEPOSIT IN U.S. VAULTS
TO CREDIT OF GEORGIA
SUM IS SET ASIDE TO BE
ON MATERNITY WORK AND
INFANT HYGIENE
Appropriation of Like Amount by
islature Is Necessary to Obtain
Federal Aid.
There Is deposited annually in
3t Uncle Sam's strong vaults in
ington City $24,530.55 to the
Pf Georgia. It has been there now
tbout three years. It was placed
® be spent by our State on
Work and Infant Hygiene. It has not
been called for by our people and it
Is there now at your bidding,
sides this amount there has been paid
our State for several years a gift
$5,000,00 for this particular work. This
has been used to the best advantage.
This money is appropriated to the
State under what Is known as the
Sheppard-Towner Bill. The only re¬
quirement necessary for us to get this
money is to form a co-partnership
with Uncle Sam and put up dollar for
dollar with him The work is so
much needed in our State. The
infant and maternity mortality is fear¬
fully high. We ought to save our
mothers and babies. All men are
taught “women and children
yet 4,368 babies under one year old
died in the year. We have the sad
record—we might say truthfully the
convicting damning record—of 3,157
babies born dead. We know that one
third of all our deaths are among chil¬
dren. The death certificates of 637
mothers dying in childbirth are on
file In the Vital Statistics Department
of the State Board of Health. We
have locked in the fire-proof vault in
our Capitol the birth certificates of
69,615 babies born in a year and that
this written evidence shows that 22,-
709 of them were not attended by a
physician
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ROGERS
SPECIALS
25 lbs. Sack Rogers Hen Feed ........... 83c
25 lbs. Sack Rogers Baby Chick Feed 83c
25 Sack Rogers Laying Mash .............. 93c
25 lbs. Sack Rogers Growing Mash .. 93c
100 lbs. Sack Rogers Hen Feed ....... $2.89
100 lbs. Sack Rogers Laying Mash ..... $3.49
’ Take advantage of these low prices. Two days only.
ROGERS
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, JULY 17, 1924. FOURTEEN PAGES.
G. M. A. CADETS TO WEAR
WEST POINT UNIFORM
Officials say the Georgia Military
Academy Cadet Corps will return
to the full-dress West Point uniform
with the opening of the fall term.
With the West Point shako and the
brass-buttoned coatee, the cadet
corps will present a front second to
none in the South. G. M. A. has al¬
ways worn the Confederate Gray and
this will be continued. President
Coolidge, while vice-president elect,
received a review of the corps and
commented upon the fact that G. M.
A. was the only school in this section
wearing the fulldress West Point uni¬
form and therefore the best dressed.
The academy is making prepara¬
tion for a full company in the band,
a very unusual innovation in mili¬
tary schools. Plans are under advise¬
ment for additional improvements as
the enrollment for the coming year
shows a large increase, acocrding to
Colonel R. B. McGehee, the newly
elected superintendent and director.
HOW MUCH THGU0I1T DO
YOU GIVE YOUR HEALTH?
WELL-EQUIPPED AND BALANCED
CENTRAL HEALTH DEPART
MENT NEEDED.
No Fund Set Aside For Protection In
Case Widespread Epidemic
8hould Come Our Way.
What is the most precious thing in
all this world to you? Your life—
jour health. How much care do you
take of it? How much thought do
you give to it? Do you do the things
that are rtcommended by your State
Board of Health? Ail happiness and
wealth are dependent on how well you
keep and how well your family is.
There should be a sound, well equip¬
ped and balanced central health de¬
partment as well as a local health de¬
partment who is constantly on thd
Job looking after sanitary conditions,
water supplies, and taking the neces
sary precautions to keep off all in¬
fectious diseases. This means skill,
equipment, money—especially a bud
get that is well planned and ample to
take care of all the various phases
of the work Campaigns for health
work must be planned years ahead;
therefore, the authorities should be
given sufficient money that is stable
and not liable to be disturbed, SO
that a program for evaluation of dis¬
ease in a given area can be planned.
As for instance malaria control, drain¬
age projects, etc. There should bt
provided sufficient money to subsidize
weak communities, for here quite often
Is the nucleus of disease. The lives
of our people la the most precious
asset of the State, yet how little Is
invested in taking care of them. How
small Is the amount available for pre¬
vention of disease compared with the
good accomplished.
Had you ever thought what would
happen if we should have a wide
spread epidemic, Plague for instance.
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Subscription Contest
Extended Ten
DUE TO FACT THAT MOST OF CONTESTANTS HAVE BEEN BUSY
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IN THE PEACH INDUSTRY WHICH IS NOW NEAR AN END THE
EXTENSION WILL GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME
REAL WORK. WILL CLOSE SATURDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 2ND.
List of Contestants:
(In Alphabetical Order.)
Mrs. D. W. Byrd .............. Fort Valley
Mrs. IJoward Jackson ........ .............. Lee-Pope
Mrs, M. M. Lowery ......... .................. Perry
Miss Delma Mathews ......... ......... Fort Valley
Sidney McMillan ................... _____ Fort Valley
j Miss Nora Rountree .......... _______ Fort Valley
J Mrs. Frank Vance .............. Fort Valley, Rt. 4
Mrs. Helen Houser Woodall ......... Fort Valley
Due to the fact that most of the
contestants have been busy in the
peach industry since the campaign
opened, and therefore, haven’t given
the campaign the work it should me¬
rit, the management has decided,
with the consent of the contestants,
to extend the campaign for another
ten days, closing Saturday night,
August 2nd, at 9 o’clock sharp,
As the peach season is now about
over the remaining days of the cam¬
paign should find all contestants ac¬
tively engaged in boosting the circu¬
lation of The Leader-Tribune as the
prizes offered will mean that those
who work will receive a larger salary
than they have ever received before
for the same amount of effort.
No contestant has as yet any decid¬
ed advantage ov<r any other con¬
testant, and it is easily possible for
anyone to enter the campaign even
at this stage and by hard work win
the Ford Sedan, while the winning
of one of the other prizes will be
comparatively easy.
No Change in Vote Schedule.
There will be no change in the
vote schedule as published, the final
vote period (advertised from July
17th to 23rd) applying for the last i
week of the campaign, that is, from j
July 28 to August 2nd, inclusive, and 1
the schedule of July 10 to 16, being,
extended through July 26. This
means that the standing of the con¬
testants will in no ways be affected
by the extension of the campaign,
but merely gives each contestant an
opportunity to earn one of the valu¬
able prizes.
Contestants Must Report Regularly.
Heretofore the rule which requires
each contestant to “report regularly
and turn in as many as five subscrip -1
tions a week” in order to qualify as
an . . active contestant” has not been
strictly adhered to, but during the
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Go Not Kill Mad Dog;
Keep in
If you should have a mad dog scare,
do not kill the dog, If It can be cap
tured and put in confinement. This is
the safest way and the best way, for
If the dog Is mad it will die within
ten days. It will then be soon enough
for those who were bitter or scratch¬
ed to take the treatment. However, in
cases of bites on the face or head,
treatment should be begun immediate¬
ly without waiting for the animal to
die or for a laboratory report. If later
on It is found that thp animal Is not
mad, treatment may b.e discontinued.
Of course, If the suspected animal
cannot be captured or put In confine¬
ment, then it should be killed and
the head sent to the State Board of
Health for examination. Do not shoot
the animal through the head or injure
the brain. Preserve the head as well
as possible and pack in ice in a water¬
tight container, so that it wiil reach
the laboratory In good condition.
SHIP BY EXPRESS ONLY—it is con¬
trary to Postal Regulations to ship by
parcel post.
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Mrs. W. H. Durden and W. H.
Durden, Jr., who have been the
guests of Mrs. J. A. Wood will leave
Sunday for Vienna, Ga., where they
will be the guests of Sen. and Mrs.
W. T. George for a week.
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Residence in Lorain, O., with roof torn off and side wails sucked away;
a scene representative of the Ohio and Illinois towns and cities in the path
of the windstorm which killed three hundred and fifty and injured more than
three thousand. Thousands are homeless,
lo Instruct Teachers
Along Lines Of Health
The teachers of our State this year
at the 13 institutes held at. our A. &
M. Schools have the advantage never
given before of having public health
taught them. Dr N. H. Ballard has
always been interested in the subject
and has arranged with the State
Board of Health to put on 10 hours
of work at each of the institutes. The
talks will all be practical and much
good to the teachers and their pupils
should result. Also the work will In¬
clude a physical examination of each
teacher who may desire It. ThlB par¬
ticular part of the work will be
through the co-operation of the State
Medical Association. Dr. J. O. Elrod,
the president, will request some mem¬
ber of the Association to do this work
for the teachers.
Our physicians need arid would
greatly appreciate a life extension de¬
partment in our State Board of
Health. We have been told this would
not require very much money. Exam¬
inations at the laboratory ought to be
made for cancer and the body secre¬
tions. The cost would be nil as com¬
pared to the good accomplished.
Mrs. A. L. Luce on Tuesday en¬
tertained from 5 to 6:30 in honor
of Mrs. J. P. Luce of Chicago, 111.,
J. H. Grores, of Savannah, Miss
Lucy Saussy of Savannh and Mrs.
Mathews, Jr, Cut flowers were
attractively arranged on the porch
throughout the house and the
was lovely in every detail.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Withoft will
the Baptist Regional Confer¬
in Macon July 17th. This is
an important meeting, and a
of the state leaders will be
Mr. and Mrs. Withoft will
our local church.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
UNCONSCIOUS WHITE MAN
FOUND IN PEACH
An unidentified white man
tween 25 and 30 years of age
found unconscious on the
Peach Ranch on Sunday
by one of Mr. Seab Wilder’s
He was carried to the Macon
pital by Messrs. John Vance and
win McMillan where he died
Sunday night..
Physicians at the hospital were
uble to determine the cause of
death as he was practically
when he arrived they said.
The man was dressed in two
of overalls and tivo overall
and had about four days growth
beard on his face. In his pockets were
found some grains of corn, 4 rusty
razor blades, a small amount of salt
and pepper and one dollar and fifty
five cents in change. His face was
scarred as if from small pox. No
identification marks were found in
his clothing.
Appropriation Needed For
School For Feeble-Minded
The writer recently had the oppor
tunity to visit the school for feeble
minded at Gracewood. This is a State
Institution under the control of the
State Board of Healtn The Superin
tendent Is Dr. George H Preston.
There Is a good plant there; the
buildings are all of reinforced concrete
and of course fire-proof, Splendid
work is being done with the equip
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151 VOTES FOR NEW
COUNTI, 37 WINS!
The Georgia House of Representa¬
tives Tuesday passed, by a vote of
151 for and 37 against, the proposed
constitutional amendment creating
Peach County out of portions of
Houston and Macon counties. 138
votes were necessary to pass the
measure, this being two-thirds of the
House membership. Had the 18 mem¬
bers who were absent at the roll call
been presented, it is said 14 of these
would have voted for the measure.
The bill will be submitted to the peo¬
ple of the State for ratification in
the general election Nov. 4th.
Mr. John W. Hammond, Atlanta
correspondent for the Macon Tele¬
graph and Augusta Chronicle sent
his papers the following comment on
the passage of the bill:
No more pleased folks have been
seen around the capitol in a long time
than Davidson, Shepard and others
from the peach belt. The constitu¬
tional amendment bill, proposing the
creation of the new county of Peach,
passed the House by a vote of 151
to 37, and now goes to the people of
the State for ratification on a har
mony settled basis.
“This means the end of those dif¬
ferences of opinion in our section
which have been going on a long
time,” said former Senator Joe Da¬
vidson after he was informed today
the bill had gotten through both
branches of the assembly. “Before
this bill was introduced we got to¬
gether down at home, agreed on the
lines of the new county, and the
folks who were fighting against it
before removed their opposition. Rep¬
resentatives Duncan and Greer have
moved along with us on the basis of
harmony this time mighty fine spir¬
itedly. Their vote against the bill
is recorded, as a matter of course,
but to them we attribute much of
the spirit of peace and harmony that
has aided us in getting through.
“We have been convinced a long
time; this means forward movement
and progress for the whole commun¬
ity down there, and I believe in a
reasonable time now, the people of
the whole state, including our peo¬
ple of the home section, are going
to be quite glad Peach County was
created, for it is going to mean the
end of acrimony and the beginning of
united efforts in behalf of progress.
“The handling of the movement in
the Senate by Senator Smith was
very pleasing, indeed, and much of it
is due to his magnificent personality
as well as to the harmonious merit
of the proposition.
“The bill was once before passed
by the Legislature, but failed of rati¬
fication in the general election by a
few votes because of an intensive
campaign carried on against it by
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