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!HARLEY m $ k HOLMES: $ | __ Good Mew Goods, Low Prices, £ s --WE ARE THE LEADING DEALERS IN 2; t Hardware, Builders’ & Shop Material f Tinware, Stoves and Crockery. * We carry an Elegant Line of PAINTS, Etc. Send for our # Color Card. Our Specialty is Improved % 0 AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, S In fact everything needed on the farm. Agents for CIIATTA- 22 W> NOOGA Mitchell Celebrated PLOWS, Planet, Ore and Jr, Two-Horse Cultivators. Wagons. McCormick Turpentine Mowers, M /Sj Mill All Goods Supplies, Guaranteed Steam Mill he Fittings, just Emery represented Wheels, at etc. time of sale. !$§ £> to as | i^SSS^SSSS®SSSISSSSSSSSi»S® HARLEY & HOLMES. | | The Josey Drug Do. A full line of Drugs, Patent Med- icinesof all kinds, Druggists’ Sun- % dries, Etc., Etc. | Toilet Soaps and Fine Perfumery. -J The Finest Soda Fountain in Wire- $ grass Georgia. A Prescriptions Compounded Day or Night. * The Josey Drug Co. $ South Grant, Fitzgerald, Ga. a* r ^F _- 0 6 -'trti —tos —o'6 ""Lt rcT “ & ---o'r> -tsV o -T»V' to HELLO! HELLO! ft 4»> to i. ft 4» •-.V to # *:■? p Fok the New Grocery % ? On Pine Av., between Sheridan and Thomas Sts., ; # w p ft better A new to and he had Fresh in the stock market of Goods, and as more good coming as the all hestcan the time. afford Please -none to £ call and see me and you will receive prompt attention. Look for tiie “ ' of the proprietor on the front of the building, ’ J. V name # Yours Truly, J. E. BENTZ. m y.\ —o p — —gg ——gj —g.g *$* —o_n tS‘ m % ? *i ; at? ft* ft 8 * ft 8 * ft 8 * ft** ' : *frft* ft* ft* T| to PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES I)o not give out your order for Nursery Stock until you come and see my stock ana get prices. Hundreds or men told me last winter ttiey were very sorry they gave their order be¬ fore seeing my stock and getting my prices. So don’t get caught again. I will sell you No. 1 June Budded Peach Trees for $35.00 per thousand, and 3 to 4 foot trees for $45.00 per 1000. I will have stock in my yard on South Main Street about the middle of October; so do not give out vour order until you see mo and my stock ami get prices. E.‘M. WINSLOW,Manager. Fitzgerald Nursery Co-D Advertising Asks AYE Would you have your business List pay? and answers, *’Then make it better yourself—you can do it. - But not waiting on the future. Advertising Says AN D f the the Prosperity undecided. waiter, will or to come, the timid, but not or to to Bay : The far-seeing, the energetic and For non-resident property owners. We nlso the is fore¬ furnish Abstract of Titles when desired. En¬ courageous man now close stamp giving full information. closing on the future. He recog¬ F. WILLIAMS, SON A 00,, Fiizgerald, Ga, nizes in the present his oppor¬ tunity. Real Estate Dealers. Advertising Asserts For Tailor Suits That old methods have had their day. The jog trot, in either wholesale or retail business is CALL ON done for. The pace has changed. E. Only the up-to-date, the most J. DANCY, progressive mau is successful nowadays. Fins A?’, Next Door to Commercial Hotel Advertising Proclaims A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask. Higli tension throughout is the All garments cut and made on premises. prime necessity. Given this, Clem?, Repairing and Freesin? a Specialty then Brains, Courage and Energy will compel success. ICE? ICE! Your move is to advertise—ad¬ - vertise to-day, to-morrow and next day. Don’t quit till you quit business. It Is Economy TO Save Advertisers Say That the medium with which to ;“pover the field” is the" THE : LEADER, Vegetables Z A Straight Story, and One-half having the cold comfort water, of solid life butter is keeping and fresh cool Of Straight Goods vegetables. The best quality of Hygenic Ice made from pure distilled water will be deliv¬ ered at your door. Send your orders and re¬ In a Straight Paper ceive the part prompt of employees attention. will Any receive negllence prompt on bound bring business. If attention. Is to you have a‘ good thing, adver- LYLE - ICE - COMPANY, tise it in FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. The ▼ Y Leader. I have Wanted number to of Trade. pieces a excellent And you’ll hit a market you can¬ of Florida land that I wish to trade for not hit through any other Fitz¬ Fitzgerald property. Who has some medium. Each has to trade? Call and see me at the ice gerald whole family for its audience. copy factory. J. F. Stansbrough. a truthful, fair and City Plats at The Leader Clean, newsy, Office. square. I ORDINANCE NUMBER 49. An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 22, so as to Provide for Addi¬ tional Compensation for the City Clerk. Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Fitzgerald, Georgia: Section 1. That section one of ordinance No. 22 of the city of Fitz¬ gerald be and same is hereby amended by striking from the fourth line of the printed copy of said section the words “threw hundred and fifty” and insert in lieu thereof the words “live hun¬ dred.” Sec. 2. All ordinances and parts thereof in anywise conflicting here¬ with are hereby repealed, and this or¬ dinance shall take effect from and after its first publication in the cfficial paper. Passed July 12, 1897. Approved July 13, 1897. C. C. Goodnow, Mayor. Attest; II. II, Kabricii, City Clerk, (l. s.) ORDINANCE NUMBER 46. An Ordinance to Provide for the Re¬ bate of Certain Taxes Heretofore Collected of Certain Dealers in In¬ toxicating Liquors. Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Fitzgerald, Georgia : Section 1. Whereas, Frank Pap- worth, A. B. Marcus and S. M. Cohen have eacli appeared before the city council and have respectively, orally stated to the council that they have each paid the city certain sums of money as a license for retailing intox¬ icating liquors in the city of Fitzger¬ ald, for certain periods of time during which they each claim to have not been in business, and ask the council to rebate to them the respective sums they have paid for the period of time not in business; and whereas, the city council being desirous of doing equity in the premises, and not de- sirig to collect a tax. from any person for any period of time such person is not in business, therefore if the said persons, or any of or either of them, shall make and tile with the mayor, an affidavit signed and sworn to before some officer authorized by law to ad¬ minister oaths, stating that such per¬ son has paid to the city a certain sum of money, naming it, as a license tax for retailing intoxicating liquors in city of Fitzgerald, during a certain period of time naming it, during which such time the said person did not by himself or agent or employee, within said city engage in the sale of such liquors, then the mayor is authorized to deduct from the amount of license due from such person on the first day of July, 1897, one half of the amount claimed to have been overpaid, and to deduct the other one half from the amount due on the first day of Octo¬ ber. 1897. Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its publication, and all conflicting ordinanees are hereby repealed. Approved July 13, 1897.* C. C. Goodnow, Mayor. Attest: H. II. Kabricii, City Clerk, (l. s.) ORDINANCE NUMBER 47. An Ordinance to Provide for the Registration of the Voters of the City of Fitzgerald, Georgia, to Cre¬ ate a Board of Registrars, and to Define Certain Duties of the Elec¬ tion Managers of said City and for Other Puposes. Be it.Ordained by the City Council of the City of Fitzgerald, Ga.: Section 1. No person shall be per¬ mitted to vote at any city election held in the city of Fitzgerald, unless such person shall have first registered as hereinafter provided. of each year the city clerk shall for each ward of the city, a book to designated as “Voters’ Book,” hooks shall thereafter be kept open at the office of the clerk at all times when the said office is open for the transac¬ tion of official business of any kind. Any male person who is a citizen of the U. S., and who possesses the qual¬ ifications prescribed for voters by the city charter, who shall first sign the oath of affirmation specified in para¬ graph six shall be entitled to have his name entered by the city clerk in the voters’ book for the ward in which he resides, or where he makes oath or af¬ firmation that he resides; and it is hereby made the duty of the city clerk to cause such person’s name to be properly entered as aforesaid. The city clerk or his lawful deputy, or the mayor, are hereby authorized and re¬ quired to administer tiie oath to vo¬ ters as specified in paragraph six. In tiie absence of the city <clerk or Lis deputy, the mayor shall perform all the duties of the city clerk in relation to registering voters as herein pro¬ vided, and in the absence of both the said duties may be performed by the city attorney. The said affidavits shall be kept on file in the office of the *ity clerk until the last day of Decem¬ ber in the year next succeeding the year in which the said affidavits were made, when they shall be destroyed by tiie city clerk unless otherwise or¬ dered at that time by the city council. Sec. 3. For the purpose of identi¬ fying tiie voters, tiie city clerk shall make an entry opposite each name recorded in the voters’ book showing whether such voter is white or col¬ ored. books open as hereinbefore provided, the city clerk shall, from the date of the ordering by the city council of any regular or special city election, until three days before said election, keep said voters’ books open and allow vo¬ ters a chance to register every day, Sundays alone excepted, from nine (9) in the forenoon until five (5} o’clock in the afternoon. Sec. 5. Three days before any reg- ular or special city election the city clerk shall deliver said voters’ books and each of them to a board of regis¬ trars for said city, which board shall be composed of the mayor, city attor¬ ney and city clerk. The mayor shall be chairman and the city clerk shall be the clerk of the said board. Said registrars shall meet at the city hull three days prior to any city election and inspect the said voters' books, and each of them, and if the name of any person whom the board has rea¬ son to, is not entitled to vote at such election, is found in any of said books, such person shall be notified, by the board to appear before it at the city hall at a time to be fixed by the board to show cause why his name should not be stricken from the list of voters of said city. At such hearing the board may hear any evidence offered touching the qualifications of such person, and may act upon knowledge of any member of the board. If the person suspected is found disqualified a memorandum of that fact, with the cause of disqualification shall be kept by the clerk of the board. The board shall, on the day of election, before or at the time of opening the polls, fur¬ nish the managers of election for each ward of the city with a certified copy of the list of qualified voters for such ward, and also a list of the disquali¬ fied voters. Sec.- 6. The oath or affirmation re¬ quired to be signed by voters before registration shall be as follows, to-wit; Georgia, Irwin County, City of Fitzgerald: I do swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States; that I am 21 years of age, or will be on tiie ......day of of this cal- endaryear; that I have resided in this State one year, in Irwin county six months, in the city of Fitzgerald 60 days and in tiie........ Ward 30 days, or will have so resided oil the ....day of of tiie calendar year; that I have paid all taxes which, since the adoption of the constitution of 1877, have been required of me, ex¬ cept taxes for this year, and that I am not disfranchised from voting by rea¬ son of any offense committed against the laws of Georgia. I further swear, or affirm, that I reside on.....(or tract No.....(between street and street in city of Fitzger¬ ald. My age is... .years, my occupa¬ tion . Sec. 7. At the close of the city election held for any purpose, the chairman of tiie managers of election for each ward of the city shall return to tiie city clerk tiie list of names of qualified and disqualified voters fur¬ nished them by the board of regis¬ trars, which lists shall lie kept by the clerk with the returns of said election. Sec. 8. Be it further ordained that all persons who have registered for the special city election to be held July 24, 1897, shall not be required to register again for any city election held in the year 1897. But the regis¬ tration list prepared for such election shall be a part of the 1897 registration list. Sec. 9. This ordinance shall take from and after its first publica¬ in the official paper, and all con¬ flicting ordinances or parts thereof are hereby repealed. Passed July 13, 1897. Approved July 13, 1897. C. C. Goodnow, Mayer. Attest : II. II. Kabrich. Vity Clerk, (L. s.) ORDINANCE NUMBER 4I. An Ordinance to Permit the Tifton & Northeastern Railroad Company to Use Certain Alleys in the City of Fitzgerald, Georgia. it Ordained by the City Council of Fitzgerald, Section 1. That tiie Tifton Northeastern Railroad Company is hereby granted permission to lay a track in the alleys of square 4, of block 12 of this city to connect the main line of said road with the ice factory in said square. Said track to be laid in said alley in accordance with the directions of the street com¬ mittee. The said railroad company to at all time keep said track in such condition as to prevent accidents, and to fence the same if required by the mayor or city council. Sec. 2. All ordinances conflicting herewith are hereby repealed. This ordinance shall take effect only after publication in the official paper, and shall not be published until the Lyle Ice Company shall first make and file with the mayor a bond to be approved by him, conditioned that said company will indemnify tiie city against all loss, cost or damage by reason of any suit against the city for damages on ac¬ count of said tracks in said alley. Passed July 13, 1897. Approved July 13, 1897. C. C. Goodnow, Mayor. Attest: II. H. Kabrich, City Clerk, (l. s.) Notice to Colony Stock Holders. The stock of the Colony Co. will now be retired and taken up by the Colony Co. under the following pro¬ visions: It will be taken at face value in payment for any and all new purchases made for either city lots or land tracts. It will be taken at face value for payment of all allotments where per¬ sons prefer to take out their deeds. On such transactions the stock will be taken in any amounts presented. Stock cannot be taken to pay any obligations such as notes given prior to this date, but applies to all new purchases and to allotments where improvements have been made. Board of Directors. Wall paper from 2J cents up. Look at our samples. Colony Furniture Co. 1 fl •ijr •ijr u Some People do noth- ingbuttaik. We pre- frer to let our custo¬ mers talk in regard to our low prices and im¬ mense stock to select from. We have no competition that can duplicate our Prices. Remember we are the Pioneer and here-tc- stay Hardware dealers of Fitzgerald, Ga. Our interests are identical with yours. We are here to assist in devel- oping this Garden spot of Wiregrass Georgia. Boyd HarduJafe Co. i --------- ] / \' b 1 . «? ,—"•’L-'-wi - •*• v i t r M V'- r ^ g - i 9 u tit |f|& . | ^is -. ^;^3 , JBHpf Iff < v 7 TIFTON FOUNDRY 1 MACHINE COM PAN i ♦-MANUFACTURERS of-♦ Iron and Brass Castings, Engine and Boiler Fittings, Inspirators, injectors. Lubricators, Jet Pumos,, Steam Gages; Globe, AngleandCh Couplings; Valves; Pipe Leather and Fittings: and Rubber General llelt: Machinery r.aee-Le /f.^d «^Milt Lubricating Supplies; Pu Oils. lley s^Stiaf 83!^ Repair tings w > > a Specialty. AGonts for all kinds of Machin » Wt- JICE.—Iron and brass melted sixd. inevery Week. A second-hand 50-horse pov yjo foreale. Call on address, for , or prtieulars, R. S. KtliL, Manager, Tiftor., Ga.}' FRKD R. BIGHAM, Contractor# Builder C Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice 'j Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia. T* Notice to the Public. Notice is hereby given that we have sold our interest in the store known as the Paulk Grocery Company, to John B. Paulk. All accounts due thr firm are payable to the undersigned as well as all claims against said firm will be paid by us. D. T. Paulk, W. T. Paulk. This, 23d day June, ’97. 26-4t Vitality and Sexual Strength. A modern treatment tor debilitated, weak and nervous men. The Ameri¬ can Cure for this class of weakness is put up in the shape of small nerve tablets and called “Mazo Tonic.” It will cure. It brings strength and vigor. The price is $1. We will send it to your address upon receipt of the price. American Remedy Co., Indianapolis, Ind. P. O. Box 168. 23-2m I I I We are located on the corner of Central Av. and Grant St., in our own brick building. Our Mammoth Stock of <1 Is full and Complete, and embraces Tinware, Builders’ Material, Farm Machinery, Stoves, ■ Crockery ’ Mixed Paints, Shelf - Hardware, Wire Screens, Etc In fact we keep in stock everything known to the Hardware trade; MILL - SUPPLIES A Specialty. Bicycles Of the Best and Latest make. Attention, Contractors. Sealed proposals will be received ri my office, Irwinville, Ga., until 12 iri Monday, July 19th. 1897, for contrac to make certain repairs and improve; ments on the present county com- house. The same to embrace two act ditional wings, two story high, 24x3}. feet, extension to main building of If feet, and repairs and improvement} in court room and offices on first floor} Successful bidder must immediately enter into proper contract and giv^ bond in terms of the law. Plans and specifications of work will be on file in ordinary’s office after first Monday in; July next. Payment made for same, as work progresses. The right to re- 1 ject any or all bids reserved. M. Henderson, Co. Comr. June 73, 1897. 25-4w i For all the news, read The Leader.