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Entered at the Postoffice at Fitzgerald, as Second-Class Mail Matter, under Act of
Congress of March 18, 1879. |
Official Organ of Ben Hill County and City of F itzgerald
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Bond Election Tuesday, May 14th.
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Vote for Improved streets and a bigger Fitzgerald, |
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It’s again Superintendent Ritchie, to the delight of the teachers,
pupils and parents,
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Fitzgerald will need the united effort of all of its citizens to build
a City, We can’t afford to sit still at this time—everyone is needed
to accomplish the upbuilding of oar town. Personal grouches must
not be allowed to retard the general onward movement of the City.
Street paving is imperative; true economy demands it. If you are
Joyal to Fitzgerald you will help carry the Bond Eiection.
Activity Evident Among Merchants.
The unusual activity among the merchants of the city is an evi
dence that the business men are wide-awake and are going after the
business diligently and persistently. Not less than four of the larger
dry goods and clothing stores of the city are preparing to open big
sales within the next few days, and the manner in which they are
advertising should appeal to the trading public. A merchant who ad
vertises what he has to sell is the one who knows how to appreciate
your patronage and as a rule makes it a point to treat his customers
with the courtesy and fairness that holds their patronage.
GhCL
Mr. Perkins, Director of the Harvesters Trust, the Steel Trust
and the Standard Oil Company, is one of the financial backers of Mr. |
Roosevelt, the trust buster, Does uanyone believe Mr. Perkins is
prompted by a motive to serve the American People?
It it because Mr. Perkins is an ardent believer in the initiative
and referendum?
¢ls it because his ardent soul is set on the recall of judicial de
cisions? :
'ls it because his confidence in a ‘pure democracy’ is such that
he is willing to make any financial sacrifice in order that the nation
may achieve this goal? .
«Is it because he believes that Theodore Roosevelt is the only
statesman who is wise enough and patriotic enough to be presidm
“Or is it because Mr, Perkins finds in Mr. Roo<evelt the most
serviceable weapon for destroying the SHerman anti-trust law?
Schools As Moving-Picture Shows?
Edison is preparing to spenc $3,000,000 and devote eight years
of effort to the perfection of a series of educational moving-picture
films for use in school-rooms, It 1s expected that moving pictures
will in time become ‘‘an indispensable adjunct” of a school course,
and one of the special advantages claimed for the plan is that it will
“‘interest boys who hate school and cannot learn from books,”
When “schools are transformed into amusement resorts for the
benefit of boys too lazy to studv, the new educational dispensation
will be thought to have attained its highest development,
Under the old theory of education,'schools were places of mental
discipline. Their object was to teach pupils to think, and the course
was purposely made difficult to prepare them for the serious
life. But benevolent boards of education have changed all that,
All the rough places have been smoothed away. There is
algebra or hiéber arithmetic for those who do not want it, because
is “‘ruessential” and might cause young bheads to ache, All knowled
is predigested and warranted not to strain the weakest mental dig
lion. Whéii' to this easy short-cut.to learning is added the attracti
of moving pictures, the educational coddling process will be complet
Going to school will then have all the zest of going to the theatr
But it would be instructive to match the gradvate of the mode
peptonized school course with a boy from the old-time little r
school-house in a test of actual mental capacity,—New York \W'(;rl
The Saloon Injunction
: Shrewd L;wyers and sulflicient money to arouse their full inte
est appears to be a stron i 3
es, l’,lgle cases are bii:gent]g;fi l:b:sh ea‘fi::::ssn(;i ttl:]e g
but little progress has been made thus far. Wh e
i g . at apbpears to the la
man as trivial objections becomes in the eyes of the law unsutmoun
able obstacles when they are presented in legal phraseology, and t
progress of the prosecution is thereby water-logged. 5
eT i s T
. en a desire on the part
:::“ :cOf our] I:?Ople t; deal fairly with the licensed beer dealers, y
) cumulating evidence w :
injunctions being made perm::::l: ei:'lb::ebe s‘lffment : Wax"rant
will be the gainer as the investiga;ionm - e' l'eSult.' .
5 ust result in creating healt
conditions and better law enforcement.
THE LEADAR-ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1912,
Boost The Librarv
Fund By Yoting
The contest for May Queen will
close next Monday night.at eight
o’clock, at which time the voting
box at Adams Candy Kitchen will
be closed. As has been stated in
these columns before, this contest
for May Queen was inaugurated
by the Teachers of the Third Ward
Schooi and the proceeds, will be
used 1n replenshing the hibrary of
that school. Any little girl under
twelve years of age is eligible for
entrance into the contest and it is
not too late to enter, “as those al
ready entered have not received
so large a number of vctes that it
would be impossible to catch up
with them.
The Festival which will take
place next Thursday, after the
Queen bas been elected, will be
elaborate and unique, ard will be
the source of great pleasure to the
children.
Below are some of the prizes to
be given away at the Children’s Fete
Day parade for the prettiest decora
ted vehicle: |
First National Bank, $2.50.
Exchange National Bank, $2.50.
M. W, Garbutt, large Doll.
Simons Bros. & Co., a Watch.
Watt-Holmes Co., Base Ball and
Bat.
Adams’ Candy Kitchen, Croguet
Set. :
! McCarty-Johnstone Cg., fine Straw
‘Hat [’
Wm. R. Bowen, a child’s beauti
ful Ivory Fan. ;
Russell Bros., a child's Silver
Purse.
A. B. Cook, base ball Mit.
After Friday these prizes may be
seen in a window at Adams’ Candy
Kitchen.
StanpiNg OF CONTESTANTS FOR MAy
QUEEN.
Athleen Dickey......... 285
Margaret Wi5e.......... 186
Jeanette Farmer........ 164
Ethel Lige0wr.......... 170
Dorothy Thurmond...... 167
MheL Bl .o 1o
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS
Every time an old bachelor meets a
young widow he gets stage fright.
When some people pray it sounds
more like an order than a petition.
A prima donna doesn’t always lose
her temper when she goes up in tde
air.
Eternity seems a long time—except
to a couple of women engaged in say
ing good-by.
Many a woman drives her husband
to drink and then blames him for
letting her do it.
What a small boy can’t understand
is how a small girl manages to keep
her hands so clean.
How contented most women seem
to be who live alone—and how discon
tented most men are who try it!
Ten Things to Do this Month
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1. Finishing planting of cotton
|and corn. Be sure to have a good
seed-bed, even if it delays the time
of planting a day or two.
| “Keep the cultivators going. Stay
| ahead of the grass by using harrows
and weeders. Keep land level and
surface thoroughly fined.
| 3. See that the boys and girls
have a share in the farm work. If
the boys have a corn or cotton acre,
give them a pig or a calf. Interest
the girls in tomato growing or poul
try raising.
4, Make sure of a good hay crop.
Plant cowpeas, soy beans and other
feed crops. Plant corn for silage the
last of the month. Build a silo if
you have none.
5. Make sure now of plenty of
pork for next winter. Put the hogs
in the pasture lots. See that they
have fresh water and shade. Use
spray or dipping vat to kill the lice.
6. - Plant sweet potatoes, peanuts,
popcorn. Keep the garden going;
where the early crops come off plant
others for later use.
7. Look closely after the health
of the chickens. Use disinfectants
and whitewash freely. Market the
early cockerels as soon as large}
enough.
8. Keep on spraying. Use Bor
deaux and Paris green on apple trees
and Irish potatoes; Bordeaux on
grapes and tomatoes; self-boiled lime
sulphur to prevent peach rot.
9. Fix up the kitchen for hot
weather. See that the screens are |
[’ in good working order. Make or buy
a fireless cocker or get an oil stove.
Arrange to keep milk and butter
cool.
10. Keep the grounds about the ‘
house in order. Use the lawn-mow
er. Keep chickens and pigs out of
the yard. Screen in one of the
‘porches for a resting place.—The
Progressive Farmer. ;
City School Board |
Selects Teachers!
The Board of Education met Wed
nesday night to consider the appli
cations for teachers's places in the
public schools of the city and teach
ers for all the places, with the ex
ception of four, were elected. Fol
lowing are those elected at the!
Wednesday night meeting: I
Mrs. R E. Lee. . l
Miss Adelaide Reibsam. ,
Miss Nellie Tyler. |
Miss Jennie Washburn.
Mrs. H. M. Saunders. '
Miss Margaret Emery. |
Mrs. Daisy Brabham.
Miss Julia Conn. |
Miss Willie Willis.
Mrs. Elars.
Mrs. Wm. Howe.
Miss Dovie Blair.
; Mrs. Claudia Hoover.
~ Mrs. L Gelders. i
| Prof. J. W. Morris. i ‘
Supt. H. B. Ritchie. &~ ..«
__ Pigno Contest.
Patronsjinterested in the Piano
Contest will not be .disappointed.
The,: piano is now on display at
Adams’ Candy Ketchen and will be
awarded to the winner, On account
of complications, now adjusted, the
date has been extended until 18th
of June. So get busy on coupons.
1. MCCARTY,}
J. C. GLOVER, Com
T. S. GrRaAHAM,
STRAYED OR STOLEN—One bay
mare Mule, 6 years old, perfectly
gentle. Not shedded good. Stray
ed or stolen from my lot in Fitz
gerald. Return for suitable reward
to H. M. Warren, Fitzgerald, Ga
Attention, Boy Scouts!
A meeting of the Scouts is called
for Saturday morning at 8 o'clock at
the First Baptist Church. Let every
Scout come and bring alunch, as we
expect to take an “outing.”
: ' - ' Scour MASTER.
STUART S|
BUCHE AND JUNIPER COMPOURD |
| FOR KIDNEY TROUBLES }
L_‘ 50 Years on the Markel i
Atlanta Sunday Laws
Under Discussion.
Atlanta, May 9.—Whether Atlanta
is moving toward a greater laxity or
a greater strictness in her Sunday
laws, and which direction is really
the reform direction from a human
itarian standpoint, are the most
serious and complicated questions
now pending before the municipal
government.
Two remarkable motions were up
before the park board yesterday.
One was to discontinue the public
bathing and swimming in the Pied
mont park lake on Sunday, because
it was a violation of the Sabbath
sacredness, and the other was the
petition of Rev. William R. Owens,
pastor of the Capital Avenue Baptist
Church, for the tight to hold relig
jous services in Grant Park on Sun
day afternoon.
The board has not acted definite
ly on the bathing proposition. The
Atlanta Star, an afternoon paper,
which, with some show of truth,
claims to represent the working peo
ple, says it would be a terrible hard
'ship and injustice to close the bath
ing houses on Sundays because the
park is the only place working peo
ple can go for such recreation, and
Sunday the only day in which they
can go. It is pointed out that the
more favored classes can go to the
Country Club at East Lake every
Sunday, where bathing, swiming,
golfing, tennis and other outdoor
sports are indulged in freely, yet no
body says that it is a violation of the
Sunday law.
Whether or not a minister should
be allowed to hold services Sunday
afternoon in Grant Park is also
arousing discussion. The Park board
previously turned down the request
on the ground that the park is not
a proper place to hold religious ser
vices, and that it is a public insti
tution where Christians, Jews. Greeks,
Protestants, Catholics. Mormons and
Mohammtans have an inalienable
right to walk beneath the trees and
listen to the birds without being
forced to listen to anybody’s relig
ious teachings.
Must Believe It
When Well-Known Fitzgeraid
People Tell 1t so Plainly.
When public endorsement is
made by a representative citizen
of Fitzgerald the proof is posi
tive. You must believe it. Read
this testimony. Kvery backache
sufferer, every man, woman or
child with any kidney trouble will
find protit in the reading.
G. W. Phillips, retired preach
er, 803 S. Lee st. Fitzgerald, Ga.,
says: “‘I have used Doan’s Kidney
Pills with the best of results and
cheerfully endorse them for the
benefit of other kidney sufferers.
For over a’year I had kidney com
plaint,”” My back became lame,
stiff and sore and there were
piercing pains through my kid
neys, M) limbs were weak and
in the morning I was hardly able
to straighten, The secretions from
‘my kidneys also caused me added
;annoyance. Doan’s kidney Pills
did me a world of good, ridding
ime of my painrand improving my
condition in every way. Inmy
lopinion, this remedy has no equal
for the cure of kidney complaint,”
[ For sale by all dealers. Price 50
Ecents. Foster-Milburn Company,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
~ Remember the name— Doan’s—
and take no other.
@Dr. C. D. Seely’s new opti
cal Parlors now open on S.
Grant street, over Goldenberg’s
Store, the only exclusive eye
specialist in Fitzgerald not mixed
up with other business, all modern
appliances for diegnosing treat
ing and testing the eye free. If they
run water and burn giving you
a headache, come in and I will treat
them with my new gearman remi
dies free, this hot weather is very
trying on your. eyes, they are the
onlv eyes you will ever have.
Take care of them. All modern
glasses at lowest cash prices.
Please give me a call. Hours 9 a.
m. to 4:30 p. m. Room 15.
“g. §. Inspected”
Woman Preacher Shows .
House Committee What
Such “Inspection” Is..
Washington, D, C., May B,
The Rev. Careline Bartlett Crane
of Michigan told the House Uem
mittee on Expenditures in W
Agricultural Department to-day
pnow in her opinion the meat in
spection law had been vitiated by
regulations made by the bureau of
animal industry in the Depart
ment of Agricuture. Mrs. Crane
appeared in support of the resolu
tion of Representative N elson
which asks for a congressioual in
quiry into the administration of
the meat Inspection law, :
The witness resented the sug
gestion- that she chbarged a con
spiracy between the beef trust and
the Department of Agricultare.
She said she simply was trying to
show how the regulations of the y
department had lowered the re
quirements of meat inspection 2nd
increased the possibility of fraud
and deception on the part of the
packers.
Mrvs. Crane made 1o specitic
charges of fraud sgainstany pack
er,
“‘Here 1s an object lesson,” said
Mrs. Crane, producing a lard cap
embellished with the label of a
well known packing house,
Attached to the label was the
legend, *‘lnspected by the United
States Department of Agriculture
and passed.” Inside the lard can
was the government seal. Quick
ly breaking the seal Mrs. Crane
exhibited the ‘lard.” It proved
to be a couple of pounds of brown
taffy done up in tissue paper.
When the laughter had sub
sided Mrs. Crane passed the candy
around.
Mrs. Crane recounted her ex
periences in packing houses in
several cities to show that the
ante-mortem examination of cattle
and hogs was perfunctory a: d that
condemned meat was »ot so labell
ed, aithough the law requires that
it be stamped and destroyed.
The witness paid a tribute to
the emploves of the meat inspec
tion service. Instead of criticisiog
them she criticised the department.
People were being deceived, she
said, by the descriptions of ante
mortem examipations given the
country by Solicitor McCabe and
Chief Melvin and tbhe bureau of
animal industry. . Mrs. Crane will
continue her testimony to-morrow.
Grand Opera House
Opens Tomorrow
Messrs. Miller & Ricker make the
announcement that they will for
mally open the Grand Opera House
with a matinee tomorrow afternoon
and a moving picture and vaude
ville performance at night.
The opening of the Grand is a
matter in which practically every
bedy is interested, for it will fill the
longfelt need of an auditoriuvm,
Since the destruction of the Corn
and Cotton Palace by fire many
years ago, Fitzgerald has had no
suitable place for large gatherings,
but with this handsome theatre, this
inconvenience will be a thing of the
past.. :
The Grand is located right in the
center of the business section, be
ing available to residents of all parts
of the city. The interior is finished
very beautifully, the walls baing
delicately tinted, and the scenic
effects for the stage are exquisite.
The Grand will seat 12{0 people
comfortably. It will beused by the
lessees, Messrs. Miller & Ricker, asa
moving picture theatre during the
summer season, but during the win
ter months will. play all the big
operas’
Tomorrow afternoon and night the
program will consist of threg acts of
vaudeville, consisting of a team
and a quartette ; also three reels of
pictures. The price of admission re
main the same for light performance
10c, and for the matinee sc.
The gallery of the Grand will be
used altogether for negroes, whose
entrance will be at one of the side
doors. :