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. SOCIETY NEWS NOTES
C. A. Holtzendort
DENTIST
2ad Floor Rooms 208-9-10
Garbutt-D>novan Eldg.
Miss Chester Wilbanks, of
Qsierfield, was in the city yester
day shopping.
Mr. Chas. W. Merck las re
turned from 1 week’s visit to
Gainesville, Ga. -
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Robinson
announce the arrival of a fine boy
at their home on Central Ave.
Mrs. Fred Waller has returned
-+to her home in Atlanta, after a
visit of several weeks in the city.
Mrs. Smith, of Reynolds, arriv
ed in the city today to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Guy F. Robinson.
Mrs. Wright Garbutt has been
quite sick at her home on South
Lee Street for the past few days.
Mr. and Mrs. C. U. Gaines an
nounces the birth of a pretty
baby girl at their home on Pine
street.
Mr. Frank Haver will come up
from Brunswick to morrow night
.to spend Sunday with friends in
the city. :
Mr. Hugh Turner, of Jackson
ville, is home for a week or more
with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Tur
ner, on North Lee St,
Mrs. Olin Easterlin, after a
pleasant visit with Dr. and Mrs.
Louis Turner, left yesterday for
her home in Americus.
Mrs. G. C. Smith, of Bruns
wick, is expected in the city next
week, comi~g b nd Fair
week with hor wasthes, Mrs. L.
H. Keim.
Mrs. J. Sherman Campbell, of
e Pittshurg, and Miss Mary Davis,
of Ligoneer, Pa., are the guests
of Mrs. Shallenberger and Mrs.
Maldoon.
Mrs. S. W. Bivins and little
daughter, Vivian, left yesterday
for their Tampa, Fla., home. af
ter a visit of two weeks with her
sister, Mrs. Lucian O, Tisdel.
A large number of visitors from
Ocilla are expected in the city
tonight to attend the Woman’s
Club home talent play, “The Ben
Hill County Fair,”” at the Opera
House.
Mrs. James Marston and little
daughter, Helen Janet, left this
afternoon for Brunswick to sperd
the remainder of this month with
Mrs. Marston’s father, Mr. Put
am. - '
Misses Mary Lewis and Ruth
Putnam came up from Branswick
one day this week to superintend
the moving of their household
furuiture to that city.
Mr. and Mrs.- B. F. Knapp
have vacated the J. G. Knapp
place on West Central Avenue,
and are now located closer in,
ozcupying the D. Burnett cottage
at the corner of Pine and Johnscn
streets. .
Mr. Paul Ellison, the new cash
jer of the American State Bank,
is boarding at Mercer’s on South
Main street until the arrival of
his wife and children. who will
come about the first of next
month. :
Mr. Alex Koplin, of Atlanta,
will arrive in the city in the
morning to spend the week-end
with his brother, Mr. Pinkie Kop
lin. He attends Georgia Univer
sity, and made 2 host of friends
when here sometime ago with the
Glee Club.
Mrs. Francis Shallenberger left
for Atlanta to visit her brother,
Dr. Shallenberger, before return
ing to her home, Edgewood Park,
Pittsburz, Pa. While here she
was entertained by her aunt,
Mrs. Shallenberger and Mrs. Mal
doon at six tables of rook.
Dr.G. W.McLean
DENTIST
Rooms 512-513. PHONE 438.
Garbutt Donovan Building
Fifth Floor
Sunday by Appointment
Lorinz Brown, the famousl
poultry expert, will judge the ex
hibits at the Ben Hill Fair.
Mrs. W. V. Chureh, who isin
an Atlanta sanitarium, is report
ed improving, after a successful
operation performed about a week
ago.
The Girls’ Canning Clubs ex
hibits of the Tri-County Associ
ation will be a special feature of
Domestic Science Depart ment a
the Ben Hill Fair.
WARREN-CORNWELL.
Miss Maggie Warren and Mr.
Ed Cornwell were united in mar
riage at Fitzgerald Sunday night,
leaving immediately afterwards
for Atlanta, where they spent a
few days before going on to
Rome, the home of the groom.
The wedding came as a sur
prise to their friends in Tifton,
as the youny people quietly slip
ped off without informing anyone
of their plans. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Warren and has many friends in
the city. The groom has only
been in the city a short time and
was connected with Brooks Phar
macy while here -Tifton Gazette.
J. F, Sheahan Is
Doolittle’s Successor
Mr. J. E. Sheahan has arrived
in the city and assumed the duties
of Master Mechanic at the A, B.
& A. Shops, recentlv resigned by
Mr. R. L. Doolittle, who has
taken up a position in Atlanta.
Mr. Sheahan comes to the A.
B. & A. irom the Georgia and
Florida Railroad,
Fire at Macon.
Reports are received here of a
conflagration in Macon. Tt is
said several cotton warehouses
have already been consumed and
tue fire is still raging as we go to
press. o
: City Loans.
Immediately after Wilson was
elected, the board of directors of
the Calvert Mortgage and Deposit
Company met and lowered the
rate of interest 2 per cent. See
me now for city loans.
86 tf C. B. TEAL.
Sheriff’s Sale.
GrorciA BEn HiLL County.
Will be sold at the Court house
door in said county between the
legal hours of sale on December
3, 1912, one bay horse mule
about six years old, 15 hands
high named Tom. To be sold
under an execution in favor of
Scarbrough Buggy Company
against J. E. Whittleissu'ed
from the City Court of Fitzger
ald.
This November, 8, 1912,
e G Pozler,
Deputy Sheriff.
Sheriff’s Sale
GEORGIA, BEN HiLL COUNTY.
Will be sold at the Court house
door in said county between the
legal hours of sale on the first
Tuesday in December 1912 one
Wing, Plilanlo Style 23, walnut
wood, case No. 87510. To be sold
as the property of E. A. Witham
under an execution issued from
the City Court of Fitzgerald in
favor of Wing and Son against
E. A. Witham
~ This November 8, 1912.
' C. C. (ozier,
Deputy Sheriff.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912
Dr. J. M. Adams
DENTIST
Rooms 304-305 3rd Floor
§-Story Building
Phone 226 :
Chamber Of Commerce Organized At
Enthusiastic Rally of Businessmen
Membership Will Reach 100 by Saturday Night
In response to the invitation of Presidéent D. L. Martin, of tke
Fair Association, thirty five progressive business men assembled at
the Aldine Hotel. :
Mr, Martin stated the object of the meeting and the need of un
organized effort towards building up the City and County. ¢‘Co-ope
ration 1s the keynote to the success of this movement” said Mr. Martin
“and an era of development of our natural resources isat hand. Every
citizen should lend a band and put his shoulders to the wheel.”
Amd great enthusiasm Mr. M.artin was elected presiient of tle
new organization, A. H, Thurmond, vice President, J. E, Turver
treasurer, and I. Gelders secretary. Encouraging speeches were
wade by Messrs W, R. Bowen, J. E. Turner, F. J. Hanson and others.
The membership committee consisting of Pres. D. L. Martin,
A. H. Thurmond, I. Gelders, W. R Bowen, B. T. Strickland, J. B,
Seanor and L. L, Griner, pledged 100 members by the next meeting
of the Chamber. :
Thirty-two gentlemen present envoiled their names on the mem
bership list and paid their entrance fee of $l.OO.
The Chamber will have headquarters at 117 East Pine street and
a bureau of information will be opened for visitors to the Fair, The
members present pledged themselves to decorate their places for the
week of the Fair and the merchauts generally will be requested to
make this week a Gala season for Fitzgerald. The harmony prevailirg
in the organization of the Chamber of Commerce speaks well for tle
obliteration of factional differences and may be construed as being the
beginning of a new era of good feeling and co-operation among the
‘business element.
Members present were: W, R Paunlk, H. L. McLendon, Claude
Wilson, Harold Besll, J. A. Justice, W. G. McNelley, Wall & Fre’-
well, J. Kassewitz, F. J. Hansen, W. W. Martin, J. A. Jones, J. I,
Mayes, W. A. Adams, L. L, Griner, J. B. Seanor, C. A. Renard,
Isidor Gelders, C. A, Miller R. L, Hilliard, T. J. Luke, F, R. Justice
W. B. Moore, Davis & Higgs, N. N. Lattlefield, C. A. Holtzendorf,
H. M. Warren, J. C. Glover, J. E. Turner, D. L. Martin, R. 1. Maf
fett, P. B. Owen, J. W. Scarboro, A. H. Thurmond, B. T, Strick
land, W. R. Bowen, E. L, Dorminey, C. L. Sandersand H. M. Dedd.
Democratic Victury Complete
Electorial Vote.
Waleaw . . e 4l
Boosewele, .. 0o .. .0 u o O
Tt o e . B
Popular Vote,
Wilsan. . ... e BAOILERO
Roowevels, ..o L 8108080
TG o i e i RRNERD
Dehs, o 0 iy B 0
Result In Georgia.
Wilson, 92,804; Roosevelt, 21,147; Taft, 5,505; Debs, 637; Chufia,
40. W ilson’s grand total over the combined field is 65 475.
His Total over R)osevelt and Ta!t is 66,153; his total over Roose
velt is 71,657.
Out of the 146 counties Wilson swept 141, Roosevelt: carried
five—Cherokee Douglas, Haralson Paulding and Pickens. Taft car
ried 31 in 1908, .
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Yacht Racing Cleanest
Sport In the World
By Sir THOMAS LIPTON, English Yachtsman o
O MY MIND YACHT RACING IS THE CLEANEST AND .H'.‘ST
i SPORT IN THE WORLD. IT IS A GOOD THING, TOO, ¥oR
A NATION TO FOSTER. IT BREEDS IN YOUNG MEN A
LOVE FOR THE SEA THAT PREPARES THEM FOR THE
NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. :
. Look at Germany, for instance. In that country the yachting
game is nationally encouraged. The kaiser sets the example by taking
a personal interest in the sport, and as a consequence there are & lot
of young chaps of the right sort TAKING TO THE SEA AS
NATURALLY AS DUCKS TO WATER. They go in for the
sport of it and stay in for the PURE LOVE OF IT. From the
decks of their yachts they go finally, many of them, to the quarter
decks of the kaiser’s warships. -
Germany’s strength as a sea power is, T believe, accounted for to a
considerable degree by the fact that YACHTING IS MADE SO
POPULAR THERE.
The Fitzgerald Press, the new weekly newspaper, has opened
their business in the Garbutt-Ware building on Central Avenue,
and are now engaged in getting ready for their first edition, which
will be issued in about two weeks. Mr. W G. McNelly is manag
ing editor of the néw enterprise. having come here from Atlante.
Mr. McNelly was formerly traveling salesman for the Atlanta
Newspaper Union, and is known to quite a few of our citizens.
Registration books for the city
election. The books close next
Tuesday, Nov. 12.
The poultry show at the Ben
Hill County Fair will eclipse any
previous effort in this section. A
t_housand birds will be on exhibi
tion.
°
Chas. S. Barrett Discusses
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Landlordism in America
To the Officers and Members of the Farmers’ Union:
Discussion the country over is raging ,around the subject of
rural credits. At the outset I want to say I have made some in
vestigation of the matter, and that I believe a meodified system of
rural credits feasible in America that lam convinced the time has
come for action and not merely talk, and that rural credits may be
used to stem the tendency toward landlordism, which I know to be
one of the gravest menaces facing this nation.
There is little use for me to dwell upon the various plans
offered whereby some system of rural credits can be made effec
tual. It is only essential to say that the Raiffoisen and other plans
have been followed in Germany and other old-worid countries with
signal success for more than a century. It is possible, under one
of these plans, for a number of farmers in a given community to
become mutually responsib!e for loans extended to their respective
members. It is also possible for rural credits to be materialized by
cons'ituting the land itself the basis of loans—and that plan is
meritorious and economically sound v the simple reason that in
the last analysis the soilis the source of : 1l wealth.
The International Institute of . : culture in Rcme, under
the direction of David Lubin, has mal horough inquiry into all
these plans and if any American farm desires detailed informz
tion Dr. Lubin will be glad to furnish
I want to stress right now to -+ farmer in this country
who is talking excitedly about ‘‘plans’ . :d who thinks that all that
is necessary to succeed with rural cred ° anyth'ng elseis to find
“‘plans’’—that there are plans galore. v 'at is needed right now
is men bold enough and with sufficient rl.itiative in every commun
ity to carry their plans into execution, and to do it in the face of
discouragement, diffculties and sacrifice of time and health, if
that is necessary.
It'is just as well, therefore, to stop worrying so much about
*‘plans’’ and think more about how we are going to find the men to
execute the plans, not just for one week but right on to the end of
the chapter.
- It is necessary toremember, however, that Germany is a coun
try of thickly settled, smail communities and that the plans which
have proved advisable there may have to be altered to take into
account separation of agricultural unitsin America. This process
resolves itself, however, into a matter of detail and the main por
tion of the task is, as I have stated, the locating and training of
the men to carry into effect any system of rural credits that may
be devised, whether under governmental or private supervision.
Now, to the second feature—that of landlordism in America.
I believe that a perfected system of rural credits can do much to
overcome or at least lessen this evil. If you doubt that it exists I
only ask that you investigate in your own neighborhood as to the
number of men who own their farms, and as to the number of
acres, wild or cultivated, owned by an absentee landlord.
After all is said, it remains that America is a land the pros
perity and progress of which are founded on agriculture. If we
allow to form in this country a class of controlling land owners, and
a corresponding class of tenants subject to these landlords, we cre
ate a system that is the direct opposite of democratic government
|and that will eventually lead to a condition of land monopoly, be
side which the problems of the so-called high cost of living and
other muchly-agitated issues will dwindle to insignificance I was
astonished when, in conversation recently with Professor E. C.
Branson, of Athens, Ga., he gave me figures relating to Georgia
alone of absentee ownership which are almost incredible. Had not
the figures been based on conditions of which I am personally
aware, I would have doubted him,
Unless it is checked. ownership of land by a {few in each com
munity is going to strangle individual and collective prosperity in
America. If every farmer, every American, who reads these lines
and who is genuinely concerned for his individual welfare and that
of the country will deliberately study these condition, I have out
lined, he will be convinced as to the need and the duty of securing
leaders who will materialize rural credits or any other sound, proven
agency that wili prove a remedy for the drift toward landlordism.
Finally, don’t fret so eternally about the plans. The men to
execute them constitute the real problem—the men and the spirit
of co-operation in every community. CHARLES S. BARRETT.
, Union City, Ga., November 5, 1912,
It Is Not Drink That Causes
The High Cost of Living.
The High Cost of Living and Other Kinds of Anxiety, on the
Contrary, Cause Drunkenness and Drive Men to Drink
Eugeune Chafin, who was the earnest and -interasttng presidential
candidate of the Prohibition party, made a remarkable statement the
other day.
He said: ““Liquor is the real cause of the high cost of living.”
Liquor is nothing of the kind,
Nothing is more foolish than to say that drunkenness is responsi
ble for all the ills of society.
The ills of society, on the contrary are largely responsible for
drunkenness.
| Men drink to excess when they are underpaid, underfed worried
and distressed.
' Those that are foolish say that drink causes poverty. It is pov
erty that causes DRINK. ;
} When a man lives in a state of anxiety and whisky holds out
‘temporary relief, the man is apt to take whisky.
i When the high cost of living drives mien to despair, and they
find it difficult to provide for their families, and when whisky holds
out temporary happiness and contentment—too many of them take
whisky.
It is not drink that causes poverty so much as poverty that causes
drinking. :
And the same is true of dirt, disease and ignorance.
Ignorance causes drunkenness.
Pirt is caused by poverty, and dirt and poverty combined cause
drunkenness. ;
Take away the high cost of living, fight ignorance with education
abolish poverty with opportunity, good Mr. Chafin, and you will be
surprised to find how quickly you will diminish drunkenness, and how
rapid!y you will solve the problem presented by ‘“the demon rum.”—
Atlanta Georgian. Nov. Tth, ;