Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-04

county business once and for al
Following is a communication
addressed to the editor from
Hon. John B. Query, of Monte
yuma. Colonel Query has beer
actively engaged in this fight
for many years and he knows il
as few others can.
"To The People of Sumter
County:
an as much as the Amefi-
Gus Times-Iecordcr has kindly
offered its columns to the pro-
ponents of the Peach county
and anti-Peach county move
ment, | am glad to take this
opportunity of representing
Macon county's side of this
proposition.
"In the first place Macon
county is in the same senator
ial district with Sumter coun-
ty. In the next place, Macon
county is in the same congress
ional district, in the next place
Macon county is the nearest
neighbor of Sumter county,
and possibly more than any OF
its other neighbors is con-
nected by social and business
ties with the people of Sumter
county.
The merchants of Ameri-
Gus see each day in their
stores people from Marshall
vile, Montezuma, Oglethorpe
and Ideal and all of the sur
rounding territory of Macon
county We believe that be-
ing near neighbors and friends
that we should have the sup
port and backing of Sumter
county in a matter that is OF
such vital Importance to the
taynayers of our county as
well as to the taxpayers OF the
State of Georgia.
Macon county is losing for
ty-four square miles of the
very best Of its territory 1t
is losing land just north OF
Marshallville, and all of the
landing being at the corporate
limits, east and southeast OF
Marshallville. Such citizens as
Burke Murph, Frank Murph,
John Murph, Howard Murph,
Lewis B. Rumph, Dave c,
Rumph, F. j. Baldwin, c. J.
Goodwin, S. B. Goodwin, j. c.
Walker, W. H. Rice, Clay Tay-
lor, Tom Taylor, Hoke Taylor,
Marshall Undertake, j. G.
Haslam and others are being
taken into this new territory.
This was done after they'd
been assured by the represent
alive and Senator of Fort Val
ley and by the people of Fort
Valley, that they would be left
alone. Macon county is lit
orally afre with opposition to
this. Her people from all sec
tions are an absolute unit IN
opposing this change. They
are fighting to keep from los
ing twenty-seven thousand five
hundred acres of land and a
half million dollars worth of
property. They have spent
one hundred ana siXty-fivc
thousand dollars on a bridge
connecting Sumter county and
southwest Georgia with Ma
con and otEer parts of The
state.
They have a progressive
county but one that is heavily
burdened. They believe that
in making this fight in Georgia
on the creation of any more
new counties they are not only
saving themselves but are do
ing a lasting service to the
people of Georgia. They be-
lieve they have the Peach
county movement whipped,
but whether it is whipped or
not they believe that they have
crystaIIized sentiment in Geor-
gia to such an extent that no
more new counties will pass
the legislature.
"They have killed this par
ticular movement in the years
1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920
in the legislature, and
were lulled into a sense of
security in 1922 because of
promises made to them that
they would not be troubled.
Fort Valley has seen fit to
leave Crawford county, which
is within two miles of the city
limits of Fort Valley, and has
come down into Macon coun-
ty to Marshallville, eight miles
away, and taken the land up
to the corporate limits of the
city.
They trade with Crawford
in their own senatorial dis
tlict and have cut into the
thirteenth district and cut us
without rhyme or reason. They