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Congrass of March 18. 1879.
Official Organ of Ben Hill County and City of Fitzgerald
Rates for Display Advertising turnished on Application.
Local Readers 10 cents the line for each insertion. No ad taken for
tesg than 25 cents.
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE wants YOUR co-operation. To
build a City we must help build
the UNITS that make up the
: whole. The units of a City are
it’s Merchants Bankers and Man
ufacturers. The general public
are the rounds of the ladder, up
which the successful City Build
er has to climb. We want you to
’ do your part as we expect to do
ours. We shall see toit that
Your Dollar will purchase as
much as can be bought anjy
where of the same style and
quality. All of cur progressive
Firms will co-operate with us in
giving you the best prices and
: and the best for your money at
these prices. We want You to
give these Firms your prefer
ence against the catologue house
that can never help your town.
Help vourself and Your City
by trading at HOME.
Election for Justice of Peac2 next Saturday.
Eighteen shopping days to Christmas. Do it now and avoid
the rush. Finish the year right, trade at home and start to build
that CITY.
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The City Court And The Civil Docket
Business men generally are entering a complaint on account of the
failure of the cours indisposing of its civil cases. The advantage claimn-,
ed for the City Court; and upon which claim it is practically created
and maintained, is the theory that the business element has been bandi
capped in the routine and delay of the Superior courtsn the handling
civil cases. If the city court, with its aaditionsl expense to the Coun
ty does not give the promised reliet we see no reason why it should
be continued as a burden to the taxpayers, The people look to the
courts for a systematic disposal of its affairs, they are willing to pay
the freight, but are entitled to get what they pay for. We do not
know the causes of these frequent adjrurnments of the civil end of
the court, we are not charging the Judge with the failure to hold
court, but we are certain that the litigants are put to a considerable
expetse and annoyance, in having the court adjourned from time to
time without bringing the cases to a tinal hearing, It is a serious im
pediment to the business interests and they have a just cause for
complaint,
‘Tagging And Branding Foods
: (From The Nashville Tennessean.)
Since enactment and enforcement of the pure food and drugs laws
there has been a great awakening among the people as to the quality
of food and drugs they buy.
The people are coming to their senses on these vital matters, in
that they feel that it is but tair and equitable that the consumer should
have a reasonable guarantee that the article he buys is exactly what
he bargains for, and not something else. S
Some municipalities require the compulsory tagging of all cold
storage foods that may be offered for sale at retail. This is done on
the theory that the purchaser bas the right to know just what he is
buying. He has the right to know how long an article has been in
cold storage, and it should be left to the judgment of the purchaser
whether an article of food is suitable for use, and not entirely to the
pleasure of the dealer. ‘
The cold storage 1s & great thing to preserve certain kinds of food
Hut it is the belief that some kinds suffer from being held after the
fapse of a limited time, but whether this be true or not, the consum
-2r should be allowed to be the judge, for he has the right to know
what he is buying.
It is absurd to say that the dealer mav put off on the consumer
such things as eggs, butter, aud poultry which have been for an inde
terminate time held in the cold storage and represent them to be fresh
when they are not fresh, but old. They may be justas good as if
they were fresh, but that should be left for the consumer to determine.
Before the pure food laws were enacted, all kinds of spurious
griicles were foisted upen the public as genuine, but now 1f such a
thing is done the dealer lays himself liable to punishment for a serious
infraction of the law, and so it should be as relates to articles of food
which have been held in the cold storage or anywhere else, as to that
matter. '
The trend of the times 1s to compel a square deal in everything.
TLe correct theory is that the purchaser should have exactly what he
buvs.
STHE FITZGERA T .EADFR.ENTRERPRISE TITRSDAY NECEMRERR . 1912
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Fair Association and Chamber
0f Commerce Meeting
let each and every stockholder of the Ben Hill Fair association
and every member of the Caamber of Commerce and everybody
'else who feels the least interested in the material social and moral
{advancement of the community meet at the Court House Tuesday
} night, Dee. 10th, 7:30 o’clock for the purpose of receiving a report
TOf Ihe financial status of the Fair Association, election of officers
and attending to other matters of vital importance to the Fair Asso
ociation. :
| This matter is also within the scope of the Chamber of Com
merce, as the object of the Fair Association ls purely an enterprise
for public benefit. There are also some matters of Importance
interesting solely the Chamber of Commerce.
Let’s have a full house and square up with the old year to the
fullest extent possible and receive the New Year with clean hands
and brave hearts. 2
Checks for premiums will be mailed out to those entitled to
them after this meeting and every obligation met.
D. L. MARTIN,
President Fair Ascociation and Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Bryan Sounds A Warning
Condemns The Aldrich Bill
It behooves members of congress to be on guard. The big fin
anciers who are behind the Aldrich curreney scheme are planning
to rush the bill through congress at the short session which con
venes in December. It must be prevented. The Aldrich bill in
cludes the two things for which Wall street has been planning for
nearly twenty years, namely. an asset currency and complete con
trol of the business of the country. An asset currency would en
able the banks to make a double profit on their money —they wcul i
first loan their money and then use the notes of borrowers as u
basis for bank note circulation, and then their organized control of
the financial world would be made absolute by the central bark
system proposed. The reformation of the currency should be post
poned until the new congress meets and then it can be undertaken
and be given all the elasticity it needs without increasing the privil
@ res of the banks or the influence of Wall street.—The Commoner.
* Mr. Bryan has sounded the alarm and the Democrats will do
well if they heed the warning. The currency system needs revision
but like the tariff, the Republican Party has contracted to revise
it for the benefit of the System banks, which would enslave the
entire people. We again take the liberty of suggesting Mr. Bryan
as the ideal for the Secretary of the Treasury. as bis financial poli
cies would give the relief to the people mostly in need. An in
crease in the volume of money for circulation is necessary. What
we need is real money issued by the Government and put into cir
culation through public improvements by the individual States. By
this means the entire country would share in the benefits accrueing
from this revised currency system.
Advertising.
Until business is successful withont
a proper store, proper employees and
the right amount of capital it must be
assumed that these three conditions
are essential to the conduct of profit
able trade, and it is as obvious that
80 long as advertising accomplishes the
business of profit advertising is nec
essary for the upbuilding of busi
ness. The mere appenrahce of adver
tising indicates that business is being
done or will be done, and so long as
everybody prefers to buy of men of
success rather than of men of fallure
‘just so long will the man who adver
tises be likely to do the largest busi
ness.
Her Simple Question.
A young man took a young woman
friend to a ball game for the first time
and in his superior knowledge he asked
her after the first inning was over if
there was anything about the game she
would like to have explained.
“Just one thing,” sald the sweet
young thing. *1 wisbh you would ex
plain how that rheumatic bush league
relic in the box ever gets the ball over
the plate without the aid of an express
wagon.”
And in the silence that followed all
that could be heard was the faint chug
ging of the young man's Adam's apple
working feverishly up and dowun.—Bos
ton Traveler.
Curious Murder Case.
Some years ago a murderer in the
duchy of Brunswick escaped death for
a curious reason. For over twenty
five years there had been no murder in
the duchy. The law enacted that the
murderer should be beheaded, but no
one could be found who would under
take this out of date method of execu
tion.
Finally the regent commanded that
the condemuped man should be shot or
hanged, but here arose another diffi
culty. The method of execution could
not be altered without a special act of
the legislature. Finally the regent had
to send a dispatch to the governor of
the prison commuting the sentence.—
Pearson’'s.
The Temple of Diana.
The most noted fire which involved
the burning of a single editice was the
destruction of the great temple of Di
auna at Ephesus in B. C. 356 on the
night Alexander the Great was boruo.
The tire was kindled by Herostratus,
who when apprehended confessed that
nis only desire was to transmit bis
name to further ages. He was put to
death with exquisite and prolonged
tortures, and the Ephesian senate cowm
manded that on pain of death bis name
should never be proaounced. hoping
thus to disappoint his expectation.
Falling From the Sun te the Earth.
The philosoplhers have figiured out
some queer problems since the time o?
Horats, but none of them is more «u
rious than that relating to the amouni
of time it wounld take for an object tu
fall from the sun or moon to ot
earth It has been decided, after au
immense amount of figuring, that if a
bowlder weighing a ton should fal
from the sun it would take vinety-nine
vears, nine months and two hours to
reach the earth. The same bowlder
could make the trip from the moon to
the earth in four and oune-half days.
The East Side. .
*A city's slums,” said a globe trot
ter, “are always in its eastern quarter
[ wonder why? Tuake New York. Its
east side ix its slum side. So it is
with London—the east end is the slum
end. Of Philadelphia, Chicago., Can
ton and Madrid the same thing bholds
good, as 1 know from personal experi
ence. The only possible ground 1 can
give for a city’s slums being invariably
in its eastern quarter is that this quar
ter is the one that is exposed to the
harsh and unpleasant rigors of the east
wind.”
Went Him One Better.
Lawrence, twelve years old, was told
to go out and cut wood. and Marshall,
ten years old, was told to go and help.
Both boys found the ball ground in
stead of the wood pile. !
In the evening when Lawrence came
home his mother said, *Well, son, how
much have you dune today?’ He very
meekly replied. I have done nothing.”
Then in came Marshall, and mother
asked him the same question.
“I've been piling it up,” he replied
promptly.—Everybody’s.
Isle of Man.
The oldest government now to be
found among men is that which ob
tains in the Isle of Man. The Tyn
wald. as the legislative body of the
famous little island is called, is the
oldest lawmaking assembly on earth.
It dates back to the ninth century and
is the only legislative body on earth that
has had a continuous existence from
that time to this. The Isle of Man is
still independent of .Great Britain so
tar as its local affairs go. the British
pariiament exercising jurisdiction only
in a federal way. The Manxmen are
and ever have been stubbornly tena
cious of their liberties and not even
to the majesty of England do they
propose to bow.—New York American.
Chinese Albumen.
German manufacturers of ginger
bread and spice cake use guantities of
“Chinese albumen.” and even the large
‘restaurants and hotels use some of it.
Chinese albumen is the dried whites
ot hen or duck eggs.
Advertising | |
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STORE NEWS WORTH READING
People Who Watch Advertisemants
Profit Accordingly—Patronize
Home Merchants.
The merchant who buys space in a
newspaper to tell the news of his
store knows that the news is worth
telling and is of vital interest to you
or he wouldn’t spend that money ad
vertising. He's trying to tell you
what he has that you should have
and he’s just as anxious that you
read and profit by what he tells you
as is the editor of the newspaper that
you read the town news. :
You've missed a chance te save
some money if you've missed read
ing the ads. You've overlooked one
of those opportunities for eccnomy
that come along each week to the
readers of the advertisements. You've
let a good chance slip, but there are
geveral more equally good chances
coming.
Now read the ads. You'll be sur
prised—but happily so, by what you
read. You’ll find these merchants
using type to distribute really vital
information concerning your needs
and their merchandise.
Mrs. - R—— went to C—— the other
day. She purchased a suit and some
dresses in one of the big stores there.
She paid $35 for the sult and the
cheapest dress she bought coste her
$lB. The suit didn’t fit very well so
she had to leave it to be altered.
They charged her $2.50 for the altera
tions. The dresses didn’t fit, either,
but she didn't have time to wait so
she brought them home. She just
had three of them. The suit came
and it doesn’t fit very well.
One of the home tewn merchants
had the same Identical suit adver
tised for s3o—he can afford to sell
them for less than the city merchant
can because his expenses of doing
business are much less. He has
some dresses that Mrs. R—— admits
are better than the ones she got in
the city and he is selling them for
sls—no charge for alterations.
Mrs. R—— learned her lesson and
she paid a fairly good priece for the
knowledge. It costs nothing to read
the ads—and the returns are always
big.
ADVERTISE ALL THE TIME
Spasmodic Newspaper Publicity Poor
Policy—Size of Space Used Should
Also Be Regular.
Would you consider that this news
paper was well managed if it issued
according to the mood of its publish
ers—instead of at regular, stated and
invarlable intervals? asks the Canon
City (Colo.) Recordette. Would you
think it a good newspaper if it print
ed a twelve-page issue at one time—
and a one-page, handbill-size issue at
another time? Would you feel that
it was serving its constituency effec
tually if, now and then, it suspended
issue entirely—to be resumed at some
time when the publishers felt in
clined? -, R
Yeur stere serves your patrons with
store news throuzh Its advertising.
They assume: that there is always
store news worth telling—store news
that is important to them.
Is is not a poor policy for a store,
as it would be for.a newspaper, to
serve its patrons in a spasmodic, un
dependable way? If your store is im
portant to the people of the ecity,
your advertising is important to them
all of the time—not merely now and
then.
The size of your advertising space
should not vary any more than the
size of a newspaper varies, and the
appearance of your advertising should
be as frequent and as regular as the
appearance of this newspaper.
Good for Any Business.
The value of advertising to manu
facturers as well as to merchants and
retail dealers is well shown by re
sults which the International Harves
ter company has had from a recent
short advertising campaign in a num
ber of newspapers, the smaller dailies
and weeklies having only a local cir
culation, net the metropolitan papers.
So successful have been the results
in building up the sales of the Inter
national Harvester company's machin
ery that the company has undertaken
a second advertising campaign in
which more than twice as many pa
pers are to be used and double "the
amount of space. The day has passed
when publicity is not an aid to build
ing up business of all sorts and a very
important aid because always profit
able to the business when rightly
applied. Even the churches are
finding that display advertising in the
newspapers brings them larger con
gregations. %
Hoping.
“Have you ever had an operation
for anything?”
“Not yet; but if a certain invest
ment of my husband’s turns out right
1 expect to undergo one in the fall.”
The Proper Way. :
“Hello, old man; how do you find
business?”
“How?! By judiclous advertising, of
course.”
62ND GONGRESS .
THERE ARE SCORES OF IMPORT
ANT MATTERS THAT MUST
BE CONSIDERED.
ARCHBALD WILL BE TRIED
Impsachment Proceedings Expected
to Be Spectacular Members
Siow in Arriving.
Washington.—The expiring Sixty.
geconu cunzress assembled tor it final
work of legislation. In the brief pe
riod remaining before coustitutional
limitaticns bring it to an end and
turn many of its members back into
pr vate lite, fittcen appropriation bills,
c.rrying over cne billion dollars for
{he support of the government, must
{e pa.sed; tiie impeachment of Judge
Archtald of the commerce court
mast be tricd in the senate; maay in
vestigating commuitecs must con
clude inqairies and make their re.
ports; and scores of legislative mat
ters must be disposed of. 1
Throughout the session, atfracting
as much attention as the actual work
of legislation, will run the prepara.
tory work for the extra session, to
be called soon after President elect o
Wilson takes office March 4,
Committees pursuant to this wil~
thresh out questions of tariff, curren.- #
cy and anti-trust legislation, aiming
to have democratic policies shaped,
and democratic plans made, before
the new administration comes into
power,. :
It is assured, say the legislative
leaders, that there will be no tariif
legislation this winter. Neither is it
expected that the currency or anti
trust problems will receive much at
tention in the house or senate, the
principal work of the session being
confined to preparation for the Demo
cratic administration and the enact
ment of some of the more important
bills pending on the calendars
Important bills to receive attention
include the bill for a department of
labor; the Sheppard-Kenyon bill pre
venting shipments of liquor into “dry”
states; the Page bill, to give Federal
aid to vocational and agricultural
schools, and the resolution for a con
stitutional amendment limiting a pres
ident to a single term of six years.
These measures have all been debated
before both houses, and have reached
the point where action of some kind
upon them is expected.
PEACE PROTOCOL DRAWN
It Will Be Signed by Ali Parties at
Interest.
Paris, France.—The Constantinople
correspondent of The Tempes gives,
under reserve, the main lines of &
peace scheme as outlined by Turkish
semi-official sources.
According to this scheme Greece
gets Epirus; Servia gets old Servia
and Movipazar, and DBulgaria gets
Thrace, following the frontier from
Midia to Dedeaghatch or Kavala, but
excluding Adrianople, which remains
connected with Constantinople and
the Dardanelles.
Autonomy is to be granted to Mace
donia, with Saloniki as the capital. Al
bania, minus a part ceded to Monte
negro and also the provinces, are
placed under the ‘suzerainty of the
Balkans, The final condition is the
admission of Turkey to the Balkan
League.
$35,000,000,000 Business for Year.
Washington.—This year the inter
national business of the world will
reach the enormous total of $35,000,-
000,000, according to a report issued
by the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce. The estimate is made on
official returns of exports and imports
from virtually every commercial coun
try in the world. The new figure will
establish 2 record, for it is four Ris
lion dollars greater than the trad
1910 and more than double that
in 1890, twentytwo years ago. Se
ty leading countries furnished t}leir
figures to the government Statisti
cians. Only Argentine and Russia
reports decreases. both falling off
sharply. The TUnited States so far
has shown a monthly increase of $lB,-
000,000 over 1911, ;
Aeronaut Tumbles to Death.
Jacksonville, Fla.—Richard Frayne,
an aeronaut, fell 2,000 feet from the
air here and was instantly killed.
Three thousand people saw the acci
dent. The aeronaut was thrown from
his seat in the parachute just after
he had cut loose from the balloon.
His body landed in the driveway of
the Eregreen cemetery. Physicians
say that every bone in his body was
broken. Together with Jack Crosby,
his companion, Frayne started an as
cension at the Tri-County Fair here.
Both men had individual parachutes.
Promise of Amnesty to Rebels.
Mexico Citv.—Convinced that num
erous bands of rebels in the states
of Durango, Coahuila and southern
Chihuahua are continuing their oper
ations merely because they believe
surrender would mean summary exe
cution under the suspension of guar
antees, Rafael Hernandex, the new
minister of the interior,. announced
that he would attempt to gain for
them a promise of amnesty. Cherche.
Campos and Benjamin Arguado, offi
cers in Orozco’s organization, are the
chief rebel leaders in those districts.