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Established 1896.
VOL. II.
S3 m SrA
Official Newspaperot Irwin County, Georgia.
Official Newspaper of City of Fitzgerald. Gft.
PUBI.ISIIEP EVERY THURSDAY BY
B.F. KNAPP, j-E ditors and Publishers.
J.G. KNAPP,
Subscription Bates:—O ne copy, months, one year 50c.
I1.5U: Six months, 75c: Three
Terms—I nvariably in advance.
Job and advertising rates made known on
application. Your patronage solicited.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
C. C. Smith,Judge Sup. Court.HawWnville.Ga McRae. “
Tom Eason, Solicitor Sup. Court. “
J. B. Clements, Co. Judge, Irwinville,
J. E. Burch, Co. Solicitor, Irwinville, Fitzgerald, “
J. J. Lee. Ordinary. Sup. Court, Irwinville, “
.1. II. D. Paulk, Clerk Fitzgerald, '*
R. Y. Handley, Sheriff, “
C. L. Royal, Tax Receiver, Sycamore,
J. R. Paulk, Tax Collector, OciJla, *'
James Walker, Co. Treasurer, Irwinville,
E. J. Hogan, Co. Surveyor, Minnie,
Marion Dixon, School Commissioner,Ocilla, Com., “
M. Henderson, Co.
TIFTON AND NORTHEASTERN R. R.
“SOLDIERS’ COLONY ROUTE.”
General Oillces, Tilton, Georgia.
Nol. iNoSS. Feb. II, 181)7. |No. 2.INO. 4-
A. M. F. M. 1*. M. a
7:30 4:00 Lv. Tifton, Ga. Ar. 12:00 -1 iSSSSSS
7; 45 4:13 i Brighton lUIfi aoiossja-i
7:55 4:22 t Harding. 11:3#
8:15 4:42 1 Pinetta. 11:10
8:31 4:48 Irwin, 11:10
8:43 5:00 f Fletcher. 10:59
o : nft 5:15 Ar. Fir/.irerald. Lv 10:45
Trains Nos.l, 2,3 and 4 run daily except
Sunday. Nos. 7 and 8 run on Sunday only,
Trains only signal.
. (f) Trains stop Tifton on with Plant System
Trains connect at Georgia and Ala-
. and G. S. & F. railroads,and
bama at Fitzgerald, President.
H. H.Tift, Vice-President.
W. O. Tift, Boatright. Traffic Manager.
F. G.
GEORGIA & ALABAMA RAILWAY,
“THE SAVANNAH SHOUT LINE.”
*] ’assenger Schedule, Effective June 1, '97,
m A. M A- M. P. M.
f 10 55 Lv Oc.Ha Ar o 5 05
/m 11 25 Lv. Fitzgerald Ar. » 45 4 35
7 30 12 25 Ar. Abbeville, Lv. 3 35
P. M. Cordeie 0 05 2 15
BK 1 40 7 20 12 50
7 30 | 3 00 A meric us
P, M. A. At.
7 55 Montgomery 7 50
12 25 4 15 Halena Lv. 7 25
7 20 8 35 Ar. Savannah
Sunday—Lv. Ocilla 5 15p.m: Ar. 9 30 a. m.
Ar. Abbeville 6 40p. m.; Lv. 8 00 a. m.
Close connections at all junctions and ter-
ina j points f Qr a n points. &Gen. Mgr.
fre*Ci£ Garret, Vice.Pres. Gen. Pas. Agt.
A. Pope, Agt.
r H.A8. N. Right, Ass’tGenT Page.
Ed Stallings, T. P. A., Fitzgerald.
Postoffice.
Mail closes at 10:50 a. m. and 5:3u p. in.
Mail closes 20 minutes earlier Sunday even :
^Office open Sunday from 7 a. f ^^ m. to7:80 p. m.
Office open R. P. M
a. ra.
Christian Science.
Services every Sunday morning 10:30; Sun¬
day school 11:30, and Sunday evening services
at 7:30. over McCollum's in the Odd Fellows’
hall, Pine avenue. A cordial invitation is ex¬
tended to all of whatever creed or calling.
CHENEY & BURCH,
ATTO R N E Y-AT- L A W,
Office—I n Paulk Building, Grant Street,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
WAY & JAY,
Attorney-at-Law,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
OFFICE-In the Slayton & Kern building on
Pine avenue. __
IS. W. Kymau, L. Kennedy,
Of South Dakota. Of Savannah.
RYMAN & KENNEDY,
Office— In Fitzgerald Block.
Be On the Safe Side
And Take Your Work to
H. WETTSTEIN,
The Pioneer Jeweler.
Watches, Jewelery, Clocks, Silver¬
ware, Diamonds, Spectacles, etc., at
Lowest Living Rates.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.,
GrantSt. Between Pine and Central Avs.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
(Late o7 the Best American Hospitals)
Specialist in Chronic Diseases,
Of Men and Women,
Office, S. Grant street, located.) near Magnolia. (Per¬
manently
Srs. C, A. & L< C- Holtzendorf,
Office— In Slayton & Kern building, 'oppo¬
site Commercial hotel, Fitzgerald, Ga
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WE
list ■ Property
4- = AND .__ 4
Pay : Taxes
For non-resWent property owners. We also
furnish, Abstract of Titles when desired. Em
close stamp frlvioir full information.
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Beal Estate Dealers.
“MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.”
FITZGERALD, IRWIN GEORGIA, AUGUST 5, 1897.
But four States—Massachusetts,
Virginia, Ohio and Iowa—elect gov¬
ernors this year.
A Florida man claims to have a cow
which gives eight gallons of milk a
day, and that $200 will not buy her.
The discovery of a cave full of sil¬
ver in Virginia will be somewhat of
an offset for the Alaska gold discov¬
eries.
It is getting so now that a woman
is willing for her daughters to go
where they please, but is afraid for
her husband to get out of her sight.
A S; Louis yoHth who weighs 133
pounds married a girl who tips the
scales at the 340 notch. We believe
this to be the warmest hot weather
item in sight.
The Orlando Star calls attention to
the fact that in Florida a boy of 14
and a girl of 12 years may marry,
with or without a license or the con¬
sent of parents.
Audree, who sailed in a balloon o.i
the 11 tli inst. for the north pole, may,
if he is lucky, land in -Alaska or Si¬
beria. He may be heading for the
Klondike gold region.
There are nineteen orders of Bap¬
tists in the United States, and thir¬
teen branches of Methodists, the ag¬
gregated membership of the former
being 5,404,024, and of the latter 5,-
961,927.
There is probably no human faculty
that is more in need of faithful and
patient cultivation than judgment, for
there is none that has more complica¬
tions to deal with or more difficulties
to overcome.
For the benefit of the little girls in
Fitzgerald who seem disposed to go a-
hunting for a husband at a tender age,
we will say that Georgia has 2,493
more males than females in popula¬
tion, and there is no cause to rush.
A Missouri farmer has developed a
potato that will grow without vines,
tiius doing away with all danger and
trouble from potato bugs. If this po¬
tato will grow without work it will be¬
come universally popular.—Waycross
Journal.
The Chattanooga Times reports the
wheat crop of east Tennessee as being
unprecedented in botli quantity and
quality. In fact, the wheat belt of
the United States reports a heavy
yield. It seems to us this ought to
mean cheaper flour.
“A newspaper whose columns over¬
flow with advertisements of business
men lias more influence in attracting
to and building up a city or town than
any other agency that can be employed.
People go where there is business.
Capital and labor will locate where
there is an enterprising community.
No power on earth is so strong to
build up a town as a newspaper well
patronized, and its power should be
appreciated.'’—Rev. Dewitt Talmage.
Colbert county, Alabama, recently
floated $ 100,000 worth of bonds, the
purchasers being Chicago brokers, for
tiie purpose of general road improve¬
ment. It is intended to rebuild tiie
main roads throughout tiie county,
and it is believed that tiie improve¬
ment will be worth far more than the
amoutil expended on them in improv¬
ing the general condition of the farm¬
ers and in attracting capital and im¬
migration. The county has set an ex¬
ample to that section of the South in
this respect which might well he imi¬
tated. It is calculated with the
amount appropriated that about fifty
miles of improved highways can be
constructed.
An editor’s duty, an exchange says,
is to speak of his town as the loveliest
place beneath the blue arch of heaven.
Speak of a deceased citizens as a
“fallen oak” when he died of jitujams.
Call a man a prominent, influential
citizen when yon know he is the best
poker player in town. Speak of a
street Arab as a bright-eyed youth on
the road to fame; a big-footed newly
married woman as a beautiful and ac¬
complished bride. Call a man who
lias a few dusty bolts of calico and a
soldier’s blue coat a prosperous aud
experienced dry goods merchant; call
a lawyer a leading light, of whom the
profession should be proud, when you
know him to be an ordinary petti-
fogger.
Here is what Governor Pingree, of
Michigan, thinks of the Dlngley bill:
“I wish somebody would tell me how
h sugar duty, that makes people pay
more, is going to benefit them, or how
higher prices for sugar is going t0
bring prosperity. It 8ee ms to me the
trust is going to reap all the benefits.
I he lumber schedule hits the people
of moderate means the hardest, it
increases the price $2 per thousand.
Not much lumber is used these days
m business blocks and fine city resi¬
dences. It is the farmer and work¬
ingman who have cause to complain,
for they cannot afford brick and stone.
And it’s all for the benefit of the few
who control the remaining pine in
Michigan and adjoining States. I
don’t recall that the Dingley bill im¬
poses any additional duty-on paintings
or diamonds. It is the necessary com¬
modities that are to bear the increased
taxes. The promoters of this bill
ought to be proud of it. I predict a
reckoning for them yet with the
people.”
Speaking of lynchings the editor of
the Atlanta Commercial says many
things to the point, among them this:
“If the people knew absolutely that
such criminals would be hung by law
m thirty days from their apprehension,
mob violence would continue una-
abated. It is not the uncertainty of
the punishment that excites them. It
is a spirit that breathes the loftiest
chivalry, a determination that the
pure victim shall not be subjected to
the harrowing experience that follows
court inquiry in order that her assail¬
ant may be properly punished. This
is the main consideration in every
lynching for this particular crime, and
ail appeals to law will be futile until
gallantry becomes a thing of the past ”
The Commercial’s editor is being
severely critizised by the northern pa-
pers those that can see crime in
every act and utterance of a southern
white man.
While the Commercial man may be
rather sweeping, he has the points for
many of his arguments.
This scribe was an attendant at a
trial once where a rapist was tried as
the aw directs. Ili s victim was an
old lady, who was subjected to all
manner of questions, put by a little 2
x4 lawyer the court had appointed to
defend the hellion. The woman had
sons who were in the capturing party
when the rapist was captured, but the
law-abiding spirit they breathed never
elevated them in the estimation of the
people among whom they lived y
witness to such a trial, if possessed of
any manhood, had rather participate
"i “; polling bee than to go through a
similar experience. The Commercial
may be wrong, but it isn’t far wrong.
BUkely Observer.
Who Can Beat This!
From the Abbeville Chronicle.
As every one knows, tills is an off
year for peaches in Georgia, but Jerry
Moore, the well known colored barber
of Abbeville^has produced fruit that
would challenge admiration any year,
and in any market. From three-
fourths of an acre of ground lie has
gathered and sold $150 worth of
peaches at the low prices prevailing m
this market.
Mr. Walter Ferguson bought one
dozen of the largest peaches to pre¬
serve whole, but could not find a fruit
jar in town with a mouth large enough
to admit them. Mr. Abe Mohr pur¬
chased fifty tiiat weighed in tiie ag¬
gregate 22 J pounds, and for which he
paid 60 cents. Such peaches would
easily sell for 50 cents a dozen in any
large market of the North.
The finest specimens came from
trees only three years old and sup¬
posed to be of the variety known as
“July Leaders.”
Carefully packed and sent to a good
northern market, this crop would
probably have brought twice or three
times as much money, but $200 an
acre is pretty good, and shows what
the colored man witli energy can do
in Wiregrass Georgia.
The Kentucky girl who went to
California with the Christian En-
deavorers and captured an old sweet
heart, shows, says an exchange, what
a genuine Christian endeavor will ac¬
complish when fortified with red
cheeks and a plump figure.
At a steam-shearing fifty plant in Wy-
oming recently, men sheared
3,400 sheep in one day.
THE BIG EXCURSION.
Fitzgerald’s “ Yankee” Base Ball Team
Will Go—Don’t Forget the l’rice,
$3.50 Round Trip.
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The excursion to 8t. Augustine,
Fla., Aug. 23, promises to eclipse any
previous effort made by the Georgia
Southern <fc Florida railway. The
board of trade and citizens of Palatka
are going to entertain the excursion¬
ists on the evening of the 23d and the
24th. On the morning of the 24th a
big excursion will be taken down the
famous St. Johns River, returning in
time for dinner. In the afternoon the
Fitzgerald “Yankee” base ball team
will cross bats with the Palatka club
for a purse of $100. At 5 o’clock in
the evening the excursion will leave
for St. Augustine, where two days will
be spent in sight-seeing in the ancient
city. Another ball game will take
place with the Augustine base ball
club. Geo. A. Macdonald, general
passenger agent, D. G. Hall, traveling
agent, and Maj. W. L. Glessner will
have personal supervision of the trip.
Tickets good to return on any train.
Issuing of Bonds.
As will be seen from reading the
council proceedings to be found in an¬
other column of The Leader the tax
payers and citizens will be called upon
to vote soon on the issuing of $5,000
in bonds to pay the colony company
its claim against th^ city; $ 2,000 in
bonds to. pay the school furniture
debt and $5,000 in bonds to put down
a deep well.
The issuing of these three bonds is
of vital importance to every resident
of Fitzgerald and should receive the
hearty support and co-operation of
evei'j tax payer in the Magic city.
Plenty of pure water we must have,
and to get this, money must be ex¬
pended. The colony debt of $5,000
must be paid. The colony company
have offered to settle for a mere song,
for, in the settlement of its claim,
they deed to the city the two hand¬
some school houses that represents a
cash out-lay of $3,700, ten acres of
ground in the east and west portion
of the town and 74 choice lots in dif¬
ferent portions of the city.
This water question of putting
down a deep well is of more import¬
ance to the city and the colony than
of anything that could possibly be
commenced. To have a good system
of water-works we must have water,
and plenty of it.
Tins Leader believes that every
fair minded citizen will vote and work
for the issuing of these bonds. Throw
off this ring of petty jealousuess,
brother colonist and citizens of Fitz¬
gerald. and show to the world that we
are here to stay, and that we are a
people of one mind on all public
questions.__
Will Have a Beep Well.
The city council at a special meet¬
ing last Thursday night revoked the
contract with tiie Southern Water
Supply Co., of Atlanta for tiie putting
down of the two wells, made with
them some two months ago. This ac¬
tion of the council is approved by
nearly every citizen. The machinery
sent here by the company was entirely
too light to go over 300 feet, and
hence the “city dads” thought this was
the best wav out of the difficulty.
The city will now' advertise for bids
for the putting down of a deep
! well of 1,000 feet or more. By
this means it is thought a fine arte¬
sian well can be secured. Brunswick
and other towns which are nearly on
a level with the sea, get a flue flow of
water at a depth of about 400 feet.
Fitzgerald being about 450 feet above
the sea level, will no doubt have to go
to a depth of 900 or 1,000 feet. The
members of the city council have made
up their minds that they will not here¬
after take any stock in shallow wells,
and will go to a depth where there is
plenty of artesian water.
Col. John F. DeLacey, of Eastman,
Ga.,oneof South Georgia’s brightest
attorneys, was elected as the Fourth
Vice President of the Georgia Bar
association. His election is a neat
compliment to tiie Georgia Bar as well
as to himself. The Leader sends
congratulations.
Kansas City is arranging to build
a convention hall to cost $100,000.
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FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. ;fs
ClearanceSale
Every - one knows that & merchant must not
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carry goods over from one season to another -rj .
For 30 Pays
We shall make a GENUINE CLEARANCE
SALE. You will realize that we mean just
what we say when you come in and get our
prices. We do just as we advertise. Our
stock consists of Mens’ and Boys’ Suits, black
Alapaca Coats and many other summer Coats
from 75c to $2.00. Meny Pants, (light weight)
will be closed out at almost your own price.
Nice Laundred Percale Shirts and Gentlemens’
Straw Hats in latest styles. You will save a
little money by coming to us.
D. C. MCCOLLUM,
Pine Aven ue.
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| Toilet Soaps I
*F : The Finest Soda Fountain in Wire-
;* * grass Georgia. Prescriptions Com¬ . •j. 4 ■
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5 $ The Corner Grocery. ||| Iff
Wj *|S. W. WHITCHARD & BRO., Prop’rs.
We carry a full line of Groceries, Feed and Fertilizers Magic
Stock and Poultry Food, tne only reliable Condition Powder, 4,T
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