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‘Subscription Vates | Oae Year....... 3.50 SIMONthS ..cv.eans +TO T ree Months....ee. 30 cial Orzan Ben Hill County ® ® ® Steamer Titantic Sinks; 9 ® 1,500 Lives Lost The morning papers contained in sickening detail an account of the most horrible marine disaster in history. The steamer Titanic, the largest vessel in the world, was on her maiden voyage, and aboard were macy prominent persons. It is reported that John Jacob Astor and wife were aboard the ship, but had not been learned this morning wheth er or not they were among the lost. Itis thought that about six hundred of the passengers were saved. The following brief sketch is from the Macon Telegraph: , Yesterday a traveling man sold some thing to a person in Fitzgerald, ‘and took his $50.00 note in settlement. He then offered the note to us for $40.00. The note. was good and would have been paid. but If we had bought it, the money would have gone to anothsr state. A man from down about Waycross ap plied to us today for a loan, and we could have gotten a stiff rate of interest, but the money would have gone entirely beyond vur territory. We declined both of these propc: sitions for the reason that we believe in the conservation of our funds. We endeavor to save money to lend in the territory from which we get our deposits, and thereby we know that we are a very useful institution. Our strongest dasire is to be an exceed ingly strong bank and very useful. THE EXCHANGE NA TIONAL BANK Capital Stock Strength, $200.000.00 Deposits, . . . . $400,000.00 SPECIAL OFFERINGS IN ART SQUARES, RUGS AND TRUNKs This Week Intense interest in this e ' e . nseinterestin this, . Fine Spring Suits TEN PER CENT is worth saving any time, but particularly attractive now when the summer season is just beginning and selections are so varied STOCK is a little large, that’s all, and so we're dividing the reductions out now in stead of waiting for the seasons close. Blacks, blues, nobby mixtures, every suit in the store included in this sale. Come and get yours now. $27.50 Suits, 10 per cent off, now $24.75 $20.00 Suits, 10 per cent off, now $lB.OO $25.00 * % “ ¢ $22.50 $l5OO ! “« 41850 $lO.OO 4 . ¢« S 000 s$YO ¢ g i Hart Schaffner & Marx and Miller Bros., the standard of America’s best clothes. ‘ New Stetson Hats. ~ Manhattan Shirts. Boyden Oxfords. Lovely Waists just in, $1.50 - $L.75 - $2.00 - $2.50 ‘Here are the choicest things of the season---sheer fine waists of Voile, Lingerie - and finest Batiste, trimmed in dainty lace and embroidery. Unusual values. New Lingerie and Linen Dresses, $5.00 to $lO.OO Express shipments during past few days bring this Dress Stock of ours up to first of season interest. Soms vary profty new things we wast o show you, $5.00 to $lO.OO Baby Dresses .2t 59c to $l. Children’s Wash Dresses &2 59¢ to $1.25 THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE FITZGCERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEORGIA, APRIL 16, 1912. | More than 1.500 persons, it is feared, sank to death early yesterday, ‘when within four hours after she crashed into an iceberg, the mammoth ‘White Star Line steamer Titantic, bound from Liverpool to New York, on her maiden voyage, went to the bottom off the New Foundland banks. Of the approximately 2200 persons on board the giganic steamer, some of world-wide prominence, only 675 are known to have been saved. The 'White Star Line offices in New York, while keeping up hope to the last, were free to admit there there had been “horrible loss of life. Accepting the early estimates of the fatality list as accurate, the disaster is the greatest in the marine history of the world. Nearest ap proaching it in magnitude were the disasters to the Atlantic in 1873, when 575 lives were lost, and to the La Bourgogne in 1898, with a fataliy list of 571. , Should it prove that other liners, notably the Allen Liner’s Par isian and Virginia, known to have been i the vicinity of the Titanic early yesterday, had picked up other of her passengers, the extent of the calamity would be greatly reduced. This hope still remains. g L 4 _ - : / ¥ . : gl g 2 T|A7 o .. / - f)'yv A—,'v.';' =) Ifi (§Il /' : '/1, £ {‘»\x 5 7 PO | RRS (& 7 /?ff? R .\"\\& 1 S e TR s et N l /) e Sy A «}a}\ ' By £ i/ //o s 1 8 By f R ) AN / R S N\ W g/ % L i W) f 4 b 9 B A 0 WY = \"\ e s /A' 2 ~\‘ ”‘ RENA e RN ko SRS, e = D —WPPI7. Y. ViAo " ¢ s M e et A 8 e ddias RN T e I,‘ . S Fiael B So ’ [ R se e T T GRS IR T e eeß O T () ’ ) _asaess A R m R bot S‘;D".;,'.._t.‘,’:;.,@.r = bl iy - T .::p:-:::iifl‘;_‘.:g 2 e G Qv = REESEENEE N o - R N | T ;::-'_;"*'"\’:.-'v‘vfl 7 g;! 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A city's growth depends largely upon the peace, health and happiness of citizens. : In order to rid the city of mosquitos we have named next Saturday, April 20th, as “MOSQUITO DAY,” and will offer a prize of $lO.OO and a second prize of $5.00 to the boy under 18 years of age that on the day named gathers the largest pile of empty tin cans or boxes from vacant lots, alleys or streets, . placing same in piles on lots convenient for the city's wagons. In reporting to the Inspector, give the number of cans or boxes in piles, and also make a note of any holes or low places breed ing mosquitos. We will haye a better or cleaner city in this way, and we desire the co-operation of our boys. In filing your report, also note any breeding places for flies, A. B. Cook, Mayor, L. S. Ossorng, Inspector. FOR JOB PRINTING, Give the Leader a Trial MAIL ORDRES | FILLED PROMPTLY THE DAY RECEIVED e 77 . - & o) |K | \ | oK p ‘\“\\\\ N l‘u;-‘v"\[ \ \ & A ‘\)Lv% E . ) | Ay N T | | I‘ i A | AW s [ - 4 9 L ~“ ’’ ‘ or; i B ¥ I X . Official Organ of Ben Hiil Counry. $1.30 a Year, VOL. XVII. NO. 28