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TIPTON AND NORTHEASTERN R. It. ’’SOLDIERS' COLONY ROUTE.’’ General Offices, Tlfton, Georgia. No 1. NoII- j Feb. 11, 1897. |No. 2. |No. 4. • A. M. P. M. p. m. p. JI. 7:3(1 4:00 Lv. Tlfton, Ga. Ar. 12:00 11:45 j 7:15 7:00 7:45 4:13 t f Brighton 11:38 0:51 7:55 4:22 If Harding. 1 11:10 , 11:01 8:15 4:43 1 Pinetta. 11:10 <1:25 8:31 ■1:48 if Irwin. 110:50 I 6:13 8:43 5:00 Fletcher. Lv.110:45 | 6:00 ILiiO 5:15 Ar. Fitzgerald. Trains Nos. 1, 2.3 and 4 run daily except Sunday. Nos. 7 and 8 Sunday only. Trains run signal. on (t) Trains stop only on with Plant System Trains connect at Tlfton Georgia Ala¬ and G. S. & F. railroads, and and bama at Fitzgerald. H. H.TtFr, President. IV, o. Tut, Vice-President. Traffic Manager. F. (1. Boatright. GEORGIA A ALABAMA RAILWAY, “THE SAVANNAH SHORT LINE.” Passenger Schedule, Effective Sept. 7. P. M | A. M A. M . I- V . M. G 30 ill 25 Lv. Fitzgerald Ar. 10 15 5 50 8 30 12 25 Ar. Abbeville, Lv. 8 15 4 50 A. M ; p. M. i 1 45 3 88 1 40 I 1 50 Cordeie 112 20 2 50 ! 3 25 Americus 35 2 P. M. A. )1. 7 40 8 40 Montgomery 8 40 ! 7 40 3 65 | 5 35 Halena U 35 111 18 8 10 ! II 40 Ar. Savannah Lv. 7 25 I 7 25 Close connections at nil junctions and ter¬ minal points for nil points. & Mgr. Cecil Garret, Vice.Pres, Gen. A. Pope, Gen. Pus. Agt. ( has. N. Right, Ass’tGen’l Pass. Agt. En Stallings, T. P. A., Fitzgerald. Postoflice. Mail closes at 10:50 a. m. and 5:30 p. m. Mail closes 20 minutes earlier Sunday even- ing. Office , from 7 to 7:30 p. m. open a. m. 10:30 Office open Sunday from 9:30 a. ni. to a. m. D. G. DREW, P. M. CITY DIRECTORY at 7:30 p.m. Visiting brethren cordially Reporter. in- vited. • - W. F. Way. C. P. McMillen, Dictator. TT”NIGHTS OF PYTHIAS—Unity Lodge No. JlV. 8*5 meets every Thursday evening brothers 1 at 8 p. m. and earnestly invites visiting 1 to be present. T. S. Ross, G. G. W. F. Thompson, K. of It. & S. T OGAN CIRCLE NO. 1, ladies of the G. A. JLi U.. meet every Thursday at 2 p. m. in the G. A R. hall,on Pine avenue. Pres. Elizabeth Fkink, Emma Peipeh, Secretary. 1E. Church South, on Oconee a mU oh ns ton. school 9:45 a. m.. Epvvorth League 6:15 p.m. Every Sunday, standard time. /CHRISTIAN SCIENCE-Servicesevery Sun- KJ day morning at 10:33 a. m.; Sunday school 11:30 a. in., held in the K. of P. hall over the Savannah shoe store, Pine street. AU are cordially invited. __ "Presbyterian church— Corner of Palm and JL Grant. Sabbath school at 9:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. prompt. Cordial welcome to all. r 1ENERAL prayer and praise service will be VT held at the “Free Gospel Tabernacle,” corner Jessamine avenue and Hooker street every Thursday night at 7:30. Also preaching every Sunday at 7:30 p. Everybody com. j. W. McIntosh, pastor. TITHE First Baptist cnurch, corner Pine ave- nue and Longstreet street, four blocks west of postoflice. Sunday school at 11:00 a. m.. young peoples’ meeting 6:30 p. m. Ser¬ vices following at 7.30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. "CURST Methodist Episcopal cnurch, J. H. X' Stoney. pastor. Preaching every Sab¬ bat n at 14 tV. m. and TifiO p. m. Sunday 2:30 school 9:30 a. m.; Junior Epwonh Epworth League League p. 6:15 m. every Sabbath; Senior people’s p. m. every Sabbath. League young 7:30. prayer meeting, Tuesday evenings at Regular church prayer meeting, Thursday evenings at 7:20 p. m. TXT C. T. U. 1st and 3<1 Saturdas’ of everd TV month at 3 o’clock p. m. sharp, at the residence of Mrs. Tebeau on Magnolia and Sherman. TXTOMAN SUFFRAGE association 2d and Vi 4th Wednesday at 2 p m. at the resi¬ dence of Mrs. Frey on Fine near Lee. T O. O. F. Fitzgerald Lodge No. 35. meets -L every Tuesday evening at 8 p m. at Odd Fol¬ lows’hall on Grant street; visiting brothers cordially invited to attend: John Seanor, N. G.; C. M. Wise, Sec’y. VTA SONIC LODGE— Pine Level Lodge, No- Ji 353 A. F. and A. M., meets every first Sat. urday. Members in good standing are cor- diall invited to meet with us. D. A. McCaskel, IV. M. JI. Dixon, Secretary. /'TATHOLIC CHURCH—North Grant street. \J Services every 3d Sunday in each month, Rev. Father Goar officiating. T>HOTHER -D church WALDEN Lord’s will preach day at 11 at tho Christian on a. m. and 7 p. in. Bible school!!) a. m. QEVENTH Day Adventists. Sunday school ► i and devotional exercises every seventh day at 2 p. m. at residence ot' Rev. Reiber, Altamalm street, between Lee and Johnson. TpPISCOPAL CHURCH—Lenton Servlces- J-4 Sundays 10:3u a. in.. 7:30 p. m., except on 2d Sundays. Sunday' school 9:15 a. m. Wed Hi — days, Thursdays and Fridays at 4:30 p. m. /"Iongrrgationalisf—P Cougregationalist, reach In if by Rev. the S. VV C. Kennedy, at Tabernacle, Sunday aftereoon at 3 o’cloek. A welcome to all. B. B. CHENEY, ATTO R N E Y-AT-LA W, Office—I n Paulk Building 1 , Grant Street, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. WAY & JAY, Attorney-at-Law, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Office— In tho Slayton & Kern building on Pine avenue. E. W. Kynuin, h. Kennedy, Of South Dakota. Of Savannah. RYMAN & KENNEDY, Office—I n Fitzgerald Block.. A. T. CURRY, Notary Public, COLONY BANK, Fitzgerald. Georgia Srs. C. A. A l C. Holtsendorf, Office— In Slavton & Kern building, ’oppo¬ site Commercial hotel. Fitzgerald, Ga Phone 21. DR. J. H. POWELL, (Late of the Best American Hospitals) Specialist in Chronic Diseases, Of Men and "Women. Office, 8. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per¬ manently located.) rca PC Official Newspaper of Irwin County, Georgia. Official Newspaper of City of Fitzgerald, On. PUBLISHED EVEUY THURSDAY 11Y J G knaM'! f Editors and Publishers. Subscription It vtfs:—O ne copy, one year J1.60; Six months, 75o; Three months, 50c. Terms— 1 nvariably advortislntr In advance. made known Job and rates on application. Your patronage solicited. COUNTY OFFICIALS. C. C. Smith,Judge Sup. Court,HawkinviUo.Gu McRae, Tom J. Eason, Solicitor Sup. Court. It. Clements, Co. Judge, Irwinville, J. E. Burch, Co. Solicitor, Fitzgerald, J. J. Lee.Ordinary. 1). Paulk, Clerk Irwinville, Sup.Court,Irwinville, “ .1. B. It. V. Handley, Sheriff, Fitzgerald, O. L. Royal, Tax Receiver, Ocillu, Sycamore, J. R. Paulk, Tax Collector, James Walker, Co. Treasurer, Irwinville. ” E. J. Hogan, Co. Surveyor, Minnie, Marion Dixon, School Com., “ M. Henderson, Co. Commissioner,Ocilla, CITY AND COUNTY. The Brunswick Weekly Advertiser is a gem of a newspaper. Owing to business matters Mr. Fitz¬ gerald will not reach here until Satur¬ day evening.___ J. S. Wilson spent a few days last week at Valdosta on business. He reports our sister a nice, booming little town. Not satisfied with building a new side¬ walk and awning, Druggist Goodman has treated his building to a fresh coat of paint. _ E. W. Ryman is buildinga neat resi¬ dence on west Magnolia avenue. When completed it will be one of the prettiest cottages in the city. A light shower of rain visited this section last Tuesday night. It is re¬ ported that the east part of tho county received a heavy fall. The weather we are having must be of the made-to-order variety. The soft sea breezes from the coast makes the weather delightful and everybody happy. Editor Brown, of the Irwinville Dis¬ patch, was here seeing the sights and learning the fashions, and also visiting relatives and friends. He paid THE Leader a fraternal call. A great many society people of our town, including the ladies, are going to Tampa on the excursion, May 24th, on the Georgia S uthern & Florida rail¬ way. We know they will have a good time. __ Fred L. Bigliam, the contractor and builder, left at The Leader office last Saturday a fino sample oE this year’s cucumbers, raised in his garden. Thanks, Fred, and may your shadow never grow less. Mr. Warman presented this office last Monday with a fine sample of ripe wild plums gathered near town!' Mr. Warman reports the “ woods full” of this desirable fruit, which is now just commencing to turn ripe. Nearly everybody in town who have very near broke their back in the ancient game known as “beating the carpet,” are wielding a brush with plenty of paint attached thereto on their dwellings and outbuildings. Sixty-six tickets were sold to Abbe¬ ville last Saturday night by the G. & A. R’y to people going to hear the celebra¬ ted evangelist Sam Jones. Most of them report .Tones a big failure, while others speak very highly of his lecture. H. A. Burkhart is building an eight- room residence on west Central avenue. The building is 40x70, with the kitchen detached. When completed it will he one of the most durable and convenient homes in the magic city among the pines. _ Shall Fitzgerald celebrate the Fourth of July V This important matter should be[attended to at once. Several towns in this section are already making prepa¬ rations for celebrating and Fitzgerald should do likewise. By all means let us celebrate. _ It is related that a certain farmer who claimed that he was unable to spend a dollar for a year’s subscription to his county paper, sent that amount down east for a receipt to stop a horse from slobbering—he got it, and it is: “Teach your horse to spit.” At. Sioux City, Iowa, April 28, the mercury crawled up to 82° in the shade. It is either one extreme or an¬ other in that country. If the people up there would only come down to wire- grass Georgia they soon bo convinced that life was worth living. A Kansas school ma’am has intro¬ duced a new feature in her school. When one of the girls misses a word, the boy who spells it has permission to kiss her, and now the larger girls have a hard time in trying to spell the com¬ mon, every-day words. E. Alphonse, living west of town, left at this office last Saturday morning a stalk of corn that measured an even five feet in length. A more healthy stalk of corn never came out of the ground. Roasting ears will soon be on the market at this rate. Georgia has paid to foreign life insur¬ ance companinies during the past five years $10,709,315 in premiums, and has received in death benefits $3,8%,976. As the comparative death rate in Geo- gia is very low, there is a suggestion of genuine profit in having state life in¬ surance companies. G. A. R. regular meeting Saturday 2 p. in. Full attendance is desired. The council met in spocia' session last Tuesday evening, but nothing of important was transacted. Garden truck is fairly shooting out of tho ground on account, of the copious rains. Let the,m conic, wo need them. Capt. R. T. Coverdalo was called to Pniludelphia on Tuesday on matters relative to tho machinery for the water¬ works. A Minnesota editor says he wrote a strong article on patronizing home in¬ dustries and one of the storekeepeis wrote to him thanking him for the sen- timeut on a letter head printed in Chi¬ cago. _ It is estimated that fully seventy-five Fitzgerald people will take advantage of the low rate and go on the excursion to Brunswick to-morrow; $2 is the round trip. _ G. Le [Forest Wood, impersonator, will be at the G. A. R. hall on Satur¬ day evening, May 15, for the benefit of the new hall. Admission, 25 cents; children. 15 cents. Be sure and attend. Your money will be well spent. Those who love fishing should not fail to take advantage of the very cheap rates offered by the Georgia Southern & Florida railway to Tampa and return, May 24 to June 1. Tampa is quite near St. Petersburg and other famous fishing resorts on tho west coast of Florida. The Georgia Southern & Florida rail¬ way is again advertising a cheap per¬ sonally-conducted excursion to Tampa. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper. We are sure all who go with Mr. Macdonald will be well taken care of, as he has made a wide reputation for the manner in which he looks after the interests of his excursionists. A Chicago druggist has been con¬ demned by a jury to pay $10,500 dam¬ ages for the mistake of a prescription clerk, who used carbolic acid in a lotion for inflamed eyelids, which destroyed the sight of one of the eyes of a little child. Another druggist of the same city was fined heavily for his negli¬ gence, a verdict oE $8,000 being giverf against him, because one of the clerks sold corrosive sublimate for calomel. A timid Abbeville school ma’am, hav¬ ing an inordinate dread of contagious dis - eases, sent a child home because her mother was sick. The next day the child presented herself at school with her finger in her mouth and her little bonnet swinging by the string, said : “ We’se got a little baby at our house, but ma said to, tell you it wasn’t catch- in’.” The teacher is said to have blushed slightly, said she was glad and then told the little girl to take her seat. H. N. Jones, who it will be remem¬ bered, erected the Fitzgerald block and the corn and cotton palace building, was in the city last Friday interviewing old-time friends. Harry has just finish¬ ed a large building for the Armour Packing Co., at Macon. Mr. Jones left Saturday for Birmingham, Alabama, where he has secured a contract for the erection of a large warehouse for the Armoiv,:,. Mr. A. L. Butts, who recently arriv¬ ed here from Duluth, Minn., has pur¬ chased 5-acre tract No. 99, has already cleared up one acre and erected a cosy cottage, which will be finished in about a week. He is delighted with the out¬ look here and intends purchasing the adjoining ten acres. Mr. Butts is a hustler and will help to build up the Colony, and we are glad to welcome him to the magic city among the pines. The New York postoffice will soon put in use the first horseless mail wagon ever operated in the United States. The wagqp will be employed in the col¬ lection of mail from letter boxes about the city, and letters thus collected are to be assorted, stamped and sent to their proper railway stations without going to the general postoffice or any branch office. It is understood that if this ex- periment proves a success that the wagons will be used in all of the larger cities of the country. Peter Cooper, who died worth many million dollars, gave some good advice to the business men of every town when be.said: “In all towns where a newspa¬ per is published, every man should ad¬ vertise in it, if nothing more than a card stating his name and the business he is engaged in. It nearly always pavs the advertiser, and besides, lets the people at a distance know that the town in which you reside is a prosper¬ ous community of business men, and that people may settle in it with a chance to make a living. Never pull in your sign in a home newspaper while you expect to do business.” “Uncle Jim” Barnes, southeast of town, sent to this office last Monday a magnificent sample of apples. On one stem, about six inches in length, were eight large apples. Mr. Barnes has never failed, we are told, to raise a crop of apples every year, and in his orchard can be seen a number of the leading varieties known to the lovers of good apples, fctis trees (including Siberian crabs) are loaded with fruit this year, many of with the trees that being so limbs heavily will loaded fruit the have to be relieved of a part of their burdeD. Mr. Barnes was formerly tax receiver of this county for a number of years. A ^Northern editor is mourning the loss of two new subscribers. Number one wrote asking how lo rear twins safely, while the other wanted to know how to rid his orchard of grasshoppers. The answers were forward by next mail, but by accident he transposed them into the wrong envelopes, so that the man with the twins received this answer to his inquiry : “ Cover them carefully with straw and set, fire to it, and the little pests, after jumpingabout in the flames for a few minutes will be speedily settled” ; while the man with tho grasshoppers was told “ give castor oil and ruh their gums with a bone.” Dogs are more numerous than they were a year ago. At that time there were three dogs to .each legal voter but at the present time time it is estimated that there is a fraction over four. This shows that the dog industry has greatly increased. The city reaps a revenue of one dollar per dog from this canine pop¬ ulation and other property will be taxed light in proportion to iho number of dogs. When this tax is paid into the treasury it will be expended in general improvements. It is evident prosperity will soon be upon us. All that any town ijeeds to make its citizens proser- ous is plenty of confidence and lots of dogs. Fitzgerald has ’em and we are happy. _ All Are Gamblers. In the homes, the churches, the schools, business, from childhood to the grave, this life is like a game of cards which each one has to learn. Each shuffles, cuts and deals his pack, and each his trump doth turn. Some turn a high card to the top, while others turn a low ; some hold a hand quite flush with trumps, while others none can show. When hearts are trump we play for love, and pleasure decks the hour ; no thought of sorrow checks our joy in friendship’s rosy hour, and when the heart is in the hand our life is but a holiday. When diamonds chance to crown the pack 'tis then men stake their gold. Large sums are often lost and won by gamblers young and old. ’Tis then that honest men become the dupes and rogues and rogues each other cheat, and he is fortunate indeed who never meets defeat. When clubs are trump, look out for war, on ocean and on land, for horrid deeds are oft times done when clubs are in the hand ; but the last great game is when the spade'is turned by the hand of time. 'Tis he th/it finishes the game, in every land r/id clime. No matter how much each may win, or how much each may save you will find, r.t last, that spades turn up and dig the player’s grave. The Directors Meeting. The meeting called for the purpose of electing a new board of directors of the colony met at G. A. R. hall last Satur¬ day evening, with about 200 stock hold¬ ers in attendance,. Mayor Goodnow was elected chairman, who, in a neat little speech, said he thought it was bad pol¬ icy to try and elect new directors when there was no charges brought up against the old ones. A number of “hot” speeches were made both pro and con in regard to the matler, and a copy of the charter was read in which nothing is said in regard to directors or when tney should be elected. A man by the name of French, who had signed the call as chairman, spoke for a few moments, in which he said he was going to shake the Georgia dust from his feet in a few weeks and that ho thought there should be some new directors elected by the colony stock holders. He was given a rousing cheer (nit) and the cries of. “Why don’t you leave now? nobody has got a string tied to you.” “These directors suit us all right,” etc., etc. He sat down, but in a few moments arose again and told the large crowd that the reason he was leaving was because his wife was sick. After much discussion as to how di¬ rectors should be elected a motion was made that a committee of ten be ap- pointed to confer with Mr. Fitzgerald in regard to the matter, It is thought that Mr. Fitzgerald will appoint some more directors to act in conjunction with the old ones, but that they will be men of business principles and integrity, but will not-, under any consideration, allow it to go to a vote, as a person now days could not tell who would be the men to look after the in- terest of 14,000 stock holders. The Leader believes that if there is to be any new directors appointed that they be appointed through Mr. Fitzgerald, as we believe this will give the best sat¬ isfaction to everybody here and away. Died, At the home of his son, three miles northwest of this city, on the 9tb.inst., William Sayre, aged 81 years, 8 months and 24 days. The deceased, in his earlier life, was a resident of Milford center, Union county, Ohio. He enlis¬ ted in the army of the Union and after the war made his home in Kansas, from which he came to Fitzgerald. He uni¬ ted with the Presbyterian church in which he served as elder during the greater part of his long life. Pious and cheerful in his home, a pillar in the church and always ready for any good service he could render. Comrade Sayre filled his life with usefulness, Rev. H. F. Long conducted the funeral service. Text: Ps. 91.1-16. * The average reader can t tell any¬ thing definite about the war in CJnba, and an effort to predict the resultXvould be only that much time given tpfrormu- lating a guess. There are reports from the islands of buttles and defeats, vic¬ tories, routs, etc., that road more like election lies than anything else imag¬ inable. B. J. Moran, special correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, whose arti¬ cles are appearing in that up-to-date paper from different sections of Georgia, on the wonderful development of the wire-grass region, was in the city Tues¬ day and Wednesday gathering data for an article that will appear soon in the Constitution. Mr. Moran’s articles from the different sections of the wire- grass country are attracting much at¬ tention and are food for thought to those who have never lelt the northern part of the State to see just what there is in tho wonderful southern section. While here Mr. Moran was the invited guest of Mr. Sidney Lascelies. Mr. J. A. Justice, of this city, receiv¬ ed a letter from his sister, dated Rose, South Dakota, April 25,1897. We are permitted to copy a few extracts from the letter, relative to the severe winter just passed, deep snow, floods, etc., which will prove quite interesting to resident Colony members and others in this section of wire-grass Georgia, the land of copious showers, sunshine and flowers: “ Dear Brother John We were glad to hear from you again. We have had a terrible winter, and then followed the floods this spring. Water stood in our house a foot deep all over tho floors, besides spoiling our hay and feed, and making us no end of work Seeding is slow on account of the wet condition ot the land. We have about Every bridge in the county is out. To go to Mellette one has to drive to the James river, pay 25c to get rowed across, and then another 25c to ride to town and back in a ’bus. How very ro¬ mantic and inconvenient! Who ever said this was a dry country ! when you can sail all over in your house and around it. The water was 80 rods wide from the corner of Gregory’s and over the grade east of our house, and in places ten feet deep or more. Dug ditches through banks of snow from 12 to 20 feet deep. To have dug it through the trees beyond the well in tho old channel would i ^tve been to dig it through * he all the trees ■ ■ - i . deep iw mjffit crashes and breaks off nearly every tree, leav¬ ing no branches on the trees cottonwoods standing. You remember two large by the well. Just the’tips were seen above the snow last winter. The hen house was under over 12 feet of snow. We put several joints of stove pipe through the snow bank into the hen house to give ventilation! We had to tunnel every day down to the floor of the house, throw in feed and then let down a lantern for the chickens to see to eat by. That was from Jan. 1st to March 20th—then came the floods. Never saw so n uch water in snow be¬ fore—7i feet deep on the level! Wish I had some of your garden stuff and strawberries. O, my ! wouldn’t I feast myself! is looking big Every one I do hope for a it. crop We this year, and we get intend to make a break this fall for the Sunny South. Your sister, Mary. P. S.—Kind regards to Mrs. Ryman. ? Does tho baby grow pretty like his pa General Manager Gabbett and Chief Engineer Hammond, of the G, &. A. railway, were in the city last Tuesday on a tour of inspection of the railroad between here and Ocilla. Ed Stallings, the gentlemanly travel¬ ing passenger agent of the Georgia & Alabama railroad, permitted his genial countenance to shine in upon The Leader this morning. He said he brought the rain along with him, and when vve desired any more just to tele¬ graph him and he would come down and bring a couple of barrels. A subscriber thinks eggs should be sold by the pound, and expatiates as follows why this should be thus : “The past week, out of a ease of eggs in one of our stores, we selected two dozen eggs. One dozen of them weighed just two pounds. They were ail bought and sold at so much a dozen. The small egg was in no way better than the large. That is like buying cream by the inch or gallon, as the creameries did in an early day, some gallons of cream being worth twice as much as others. We have quit this foolishness, and should sell our eggs by weight. The French people do so and we will some day when we get ready.”___ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. SIZE OF GREECE, Editor Atlanta Constitution: How big is Greece? Please compare it with some State in the United States. 2. How big is Hawaii? F. S. S. Atlanta, May 8. 1. Greece has 25,000 square miles and is almost twice as large as the State of Maryland. 2. Hawaii has 6,000 square miles, the combined size of Connecticut and Del¬ aware. CONFEDERATE SURRENDER. Editor Atlanta Constitution: Will you please tell me how many confeder¬ ate soldiers surrendered at the close of the war? Macon. Macon, May 9. Army of northern Virginia, 27,805; army of Tennessee, 31,243; army of Missouri, 7,978; army of Alabama, 42,- 293; army of Trans-Mississippi, 17,586; at Nashville and Chattanooga, 5,029; paroled in departments of Virginia, Cumberland, Maryland, Alabama, Flor¬ ida, Tennessee, Texas, etc., 42,189; con¬ federate prisoners in northern prisons at the close of the war, 98,802; total confederate army at close, 273,025. A large and unknown number of confeder¬ ate soldiers were not present at sur¬ render. COUNTY COURT IN SESSION. Finos the Saloon Mon, But They Appeal to the Supreme Court. County court convened at Irwinville last Monday with Judge J. B. Clements presiding. A large docket of criminal cases—such as gambling, assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons —wore disposed of, together with a number of civil eases. A goodly num¬ ber from this cit}’ were in attendance. The State oi Georgia versus the sa¬ loon men of this city, with selling liquor contrary to the laws of Irwin county, was up lor trial and the defend¬ ants fined $150 and costs. Notice, how¬ ever, of certiorari was given and the eases taken to the supremo court. The attorneys for the defense say the out¬ come of the cases will be that tho whole of Irwin county will be “wet,” as no vote was ever taken making Irwin county a “dry” county. The eases are attracting much attention. E. W. Hy¬ man and Hal Lawson appear for Frank Papworth and Keller & Kirkland and B. M. Frizello for S. M. Cohen. The State vs. J. H. Ingresliaw for practicing medicine without a license, was given a fine of $35 and costs or four months on the gang. A. C. Calhoun on the charge of gam¬ bling, was given $50 or ten months on the gang. Zara Harper, a colored damsel, was up on the charge ol misdemeanor, pleaded guilty and the judge gave her a fine of $75 and costs or ten months on the Ben Langley, on the charge of carry¬ ing concealed weapons, was given $50 or ten months on the gang. A. J. Bennett, on the charge of sell¬ ing liquor, was given a fine of $150 or twelve months on the gang, Washington Wash, on the charge of assault and battery, was given $40 or eight months on the gang. J. F. Cobb, on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, to superior court was fined $25 and costs. Jack Griffin, on the charge of gam‘ bling, demanded indictment by* <the grand jury and gave bond. The case of W. W. Martin on the charge of trespass, was dismissed. The case of J. M. McDonald on the charge of gambling, was nolle proses, dismissed. Case of Frank Papworth on the charge of selling,iiqu^to montJfcon mmors, was fined $125 or twelve the Case carried to * reme gang. was court. Case of Harold Papworth, on the charge of selling liquor to minors, was dismissed. Was also the case of T. S. Kirkland. Case of S. M. Cohen, on the charge of gambling, was given a fine of $100 and costs or twelve months on the gang. He appealed to superior court. Case of Jake Hungate, on the charge of gambling, pleaded guilty and given a fine of $100 and costs or twelve months on the gang. Case of Chas. Richards, on the charge of gambling, found guilty and given a fine of $100 or twelve months on the gang. J. C. Cook pleaded guilty to the charge of selling liquor, and was fined $100 and costs. Case of Thos. Luke for assault and battery, pleaded guilty and given a fine of $50 and costs. A Word to Our Business Men. The time has arrived when you must, unitedly, put your best efforts forward and work for the upbuilding of Fitzger¬ ald as you never worked before. It is the duty of every one of you to be up and doing, and the sooner you get to work the better it - will be for the city, and what is good for the city is good for the people who reside therein. Do not set back in your easy chairs and ex¬ pect the newspapers to do it all! The newspapers of Fitzgerald can do no more than what they have already done. They have talked the city in season and out of season, and the time has now arrived when you must put your shoulders to the wheel and assist in the work. There’s no getting around this, if you want to see our city go ahead. Say a good word for Fitzgerald at every Opportunity. Hold your city up, speak of the many advantages, its im¬ mense ] umber industry and the fertility of its soil. In fact, talk at all times for your home city. This town needs a few more factories to give employment to the young men and women growing up ail about us. If these young their people can’t find employ¬ ment in place home city, they will go to some where they can. This should not be thus. We should strive to home, keep our they young men and women at for will make good citizens. Strive to get factories to locate here. Be liberal in the inducements you offer. If you want to see the city prosper and to add value to your possessions, be lib¬ eral in your givings and it will make you money in return. But don’t wait for factories from other places to locate here. While you are sending out in¬ ducements in that direction, get to¬ gether and build two or more factories yourselves. Two or three men* can’t do this alone, but by a united effort on the part of all much can be accomplished. Get the citizens in general and the farmers interested,|for all will be equally benefitted by the results. Men of means, men who have large bodies of land lying near the city, and the laboring men and mechanics must stand shoulder to shoulder and'work together if you want the city to grow and the com¬ munity become prosperous. Now is the time to act. Don’t stand back!