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Official Organ of Ben Hill County end City of Fiizgerald
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Vote for Taft, Pray for Roosevelt. and Bet on Wilson is the ad
vice a Northern paper gives its readers.
® The Parcels Post can make or mar our City. It Gepends entire
ly upcn cur pregressive merchants wlo should get busy and receive
tbe full berefits of the Law. Judicious advertising will do the stunt. ‘
We peed a live trade body to properly exploit our legitimate territory.
Co operstien cn the part of our merchants will bring them the harvest.
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Fitzgerald has the most progressive scheol system of any city in
{l.e state. The early scttlers of the colony city adopted the free
scheol-bock system, so that no child, of parents ever so poor, need be
embarrassed to atterd school, All children are furpished tuition and
beoks free ard the stendard of cur teachers is as high as any.
Fitzgerald’s greatest ascel is Ler schouls and our citizens have
every reason to be proud of them. ,
One of the reasons for the high cost of living is the fact that goods’
are now sold to such a large extent in cans and cartons. A bushel of
wheat when made into breakfast focd retails at something like $l6,
and a Lushel of tomatoes which cost twenty to twen.y-five cents re
tails from $3 to $4. A bushel of sweet potatoes that goes begging at
40ct. is canned and sold for $5.00. If the producers would co-operate
and do their own canping, the profits would stay at home and large
sums be saved the consumer.
A county in Oregon wished to make extensive improvements in
the way of road work and thought of bonding the county for $1,500-
000. They found that the amount which would have to be paid back
at the end of twenty years was so greab that the plan was dropped. A
man named Scott came forward with a plan which the papers say has
caused widcspread interest in financial circles as fellows:
The county in question should organize itself into a tax-payers
national bank; issue bonds with the entire real estate ard improve
ments of the county as security; place these bonds with the govern
ment as security for the loan of $1.500,000. W ith a small addition to
the taxes the amount could be wiped out in the time zllowed. The
bonds could then be taken up and the bank disorganized.
This idea, if carried out, would, of course, do away with bond
eommission houses and would soon save the pecple an enormous
amount in interest.
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT PROGRAM
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LITTLE SHAMOUS O'BRIEN
Great Irsh Story
With Two Other Good Reels. -:- Price, 10c to AIL
Roosevelt May
Speak in Fitzgerald
NEw YORk, Aug. 31. 1912
Mr. C. W. McClure, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Mr. McClure:—l have
your letter of Aug. 24th, enlos
ing telegram from Geo. w.
Brown, Fitzgerald, Ga , request
ing Colonel Roosevelt to speak in
Ben Hill county. Col. Roosevelt
will be in the State of Georgia
September 26th and we will do
what we can to make the best
use of his time while he is there.
Very truly yours,
0. K. Davis, Sec'’y.
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Sandlin Furniture & Undertaking Company,
Day Phone 116. Night Phone 375.
Social Evil and Graft.
New York, Aug. 18.—Search
ing along the trail of police black
mail that led to the murder of
Herman. Rosenthal, the state’s
attorney reports a form of social
evil from which colossal graft is
collected. This blackmail, he
says, was obtained from about a
dozen houses in this city, each of
which paid from fifteen hundred
to two thousand dollars a month
for police protection to the in
spectors in whose district they
were situated.
Distriet Attorney Whitman has
learned that three of the houses
paid a high rate of protection,
not because of their great income
but because protection was essen
tial to their existence.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE; TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1912,
Bitten by Mad Mule
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. I.
Miss J. E. Boazman, who resides
near Apelika, istaking treatment
at the State Pasteur Institute, as
the result of having been bitten
by a mule, which Miss Boazman
was trying to cure of a swollen
throat.
The mule was a valtable ani
mal, and when it became appa
rent that the beast was ill, Miss
Boazman attempted to alleviate
its sufferings. Putting her hand
in the animal’s mouth, the yourg
woman was badly bitten, and it
later developed the mule was suf
fering with rabies.
Another patient who has just
arrived at the Pasteur Institute
is W. - A. Bailey, of Escambia
county, who was bitten by a vie
ious pet dog. The owner of the
dog had his arm badly lacerated
by the animal, and when it be
came known that the dog had
hydrophobia, Mr. Bailey came
to Montgomery Tor treatment.
The Pasteur Institute is now
treating thirty-three patients,l
which keeps the physicians of the |
department actively engaged dur- |
ing the greater part of the day. l
The record number of patiem’,s]
or the deparment is thirty-seven |
30,600 R. F. D. Men
To Get More Pay
Washington, D. C., Sept. I.
Under authority conferred by the
postoffice appropriation bill, Post
master-General Hitcheock has in
creased the salaries of rural let
ter carriers on standard routes
from $l,OOO to $l,lOO a year, thus
affecting 30,000 men, with appor
tionate increase to carriers on
shorter routes. The order will
become effective Sept. 30.
This will mean an increased
disbursement of $4 000,000 a
year. It is the second salary ad
vance for rural carriers made in
the last four years. At theclose
of the last fiscal year on June 30,
there were 42,031 rural mail car
riers, the aggregate pay being
$40.655,740. When the rural de
livery system was instituted 16
years ago, 83 carriers were em
ployed at an annual cost of $14,-
840, the maximum individual pay
being $2OO 4 year.
The increase provides rural
carriers adequate compensation
for additional burdens to be im
posed by the parcels post system,
effective Jan. 1.
‘““The parcels post system on
rural mail routes can be conduc
ted practically with no extra ex
penses to the government exeept
the increased salary allowance to
carriers,”’ said Mr. Hitchcock.
“In my judgment this additional
cost will be more than off
set by an increased revenue, thus
insuring the maintenance, and
from time to time, the extension
of the rural delivery system-:asa
self-supporting branch of the
postal service.”
Mr. Hitchcock also has directed
that rural carriers, on the com
pletion of twelve months service,
be granted 15 days leave with
pay. This will require the addi
tional expenditure of $BO,OOO a
year in the payment of substi
tute carriers
81,000,000 Damage,
. Reports Indicate
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 2.—Frag
mentary reports received today
indicate that more than $1,000,-
000 damage was done by floods
resulting from -cloudburst last
night in western Pennsylvania,
northern West Virginia and
southeastern Ohio. There are
rumors that the number of dead
as the result of the storm will be
between thirty and fifty. Tele
phone and telegraphic services
were out of commission. |
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