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H sc m t-L i-j N a tn r a r tfl < Q m 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 Ph 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. WAlSi SON 55 H s wOi| a, iilZKrilU! . Gil , j tt 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. t 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. ZZ.ZSSl: [EditorradFnblii NO. 31. Sfr J*5 $£ $ SjS 3$S J§S 5ft sjs 5§S 5ft $ SjS $ SjE * * * # * m 2$C s!> :DRY-GOODS * y 3& '4f * NOTIONS, # JCLOTHING # Shoes, Hats, Caps, »# ^Trunks, ?> Valises, Etc. < 1 . I* m Is* }\ e invite you to make our Store headquarters. We <v> solicit part of patronage. a your Setvants, n Your Obedient > j* HARRISON BROS., v! 2 j|f FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. ;fs ClearanceSale Every - one knows that & merchant must not ~ V ‘"- 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. mmsm * * V ♦ — * | The • iS * Full Line of Drugs, Patent Med¬ * * A /♦ .u icines of all kinds, Druggists’ Sun¬ * J •v dries, Etc., Etc. * and Fine Perfumery. | Toilet Soaps I *F : The Finest Soda Fountain in Wire- ;* * grass Georgia. Prescriptions Com¬ . •j. 4 ■ * pounded Day or Night. * 1 W The Josej Drug Co t /Wl South Grant, Fitzgerald, Ga.Z 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 tm wvj Acts Bone,” like the magic best fertilzer ! We sell HI on the the celebrated market, at “ same Atlantic price Dissolved of cheap +*r*f 4 .. grades. Call and price our goods. %B% Fres Delrorj* Thomas 13. Corner Thomas find Oconee. ♦ t ^ , 444444444444444444444444