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FT) LEADER.
WEATHER REPORT.
I^rom Noon Aug. 18th to Aug. 25tli In¬
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Total rainfall, 27-100.
Sun shone on every days.
Suu obscured by clouds 6 hours.
CITY AND COUNTY.
J. P. Gump, of the Peoples’ grocery,
spent Wednesday with relatives in
Tifton.
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H. R. Svmons and Charles De Lang
were at Ocilla on a business trip last
Tuesday.
_
Miss Gertude Keller who has been
reported quite sick is much better and
able to be around.
Mrs. H. R. Kabrich, who has been
visiting relatives at Eustis, Fla., re¬
turned home last Saturday.
ffm. Henderson, a prominent and
well-to-do farmer living near Ocilla,
was in the city last Tuesday.
Mr. S. Tatel left Monday for Boston
where he will purchase an immense
stock of shoes for the fall and winter
trade.
Pie social at Ashdale school house
northeast of city, Friday evening, Sep¬
tember 10. A good time is promised to
all. Come. **
Fitzgerald will have the largest im¬
migration of land seekers in November
that ever reached this section. Watch
the prediction.
S. B. Reid, one of Wilcox county’s
substantial farmers was in the city last
Monday and honored The Leader
with a short call.
Dr. Holzendorf has returned from his
trip among the mountains of north
Georgia. The doctor seems much im¬
proved in health.
Misses Mary and Nellie Burch,
sisters of our talented young attorney
Col. Ed. Burch, were in the city last
Thursday on a short visit.
Mr. Parkey, oi Macon, in the service
of the United States pension depart¬
ment, was in the city last Tuesday
evening on official business.
Geo. Haver brought to this office last
Tuesday a fine stalk of clover
measured three feet in length that
raised by Charley Bradley.
The first bale of cotton to be
to the city was raised by Wright Paulk
of Minnie and brought 30 cents
pound. 2 cents more than the
price.
Mr. S. C. Weisiger, the agent
the G. & A., has rented the Lem Jay
residence on Magnolia avenue. Mr.
and Mrs. Jay will board with Mrs.
Hunter on Altamaha avenue.
Our public schools open up next Mon¬
day. A large attendance is expected
by Prof. Saunders. The school
are being cleaned up and
being put in shape for the opening day.
If all the persons who are loud in as¬
serting that prosperity is returning, or
has returned, would pay what they
owe, there would be some evidence of
the truth of what they are saying, says
the Sparta Ishmaelite.
Wilson & DcLang secured the con¬
tract for painting the handsome new
residence of J. J. Harper, living near
0*illa. The boys are first-class paint¬
ers and if you want anything in their
line give them a call.
Some people imagine that things
“ordered” from a distance are better
than things that are made at home or
raised by their neighbors. And this
silly notion drains every community of
a good many dollars that never
back. '_
Mr. B. H. Finninger, of Palatka,
Fla., will open a first-class tailoring
establishment and gents furnishings in
the Fitzgerald Block next week. Mr.
Finninger comes highly recommended
as a first-class workman and a gentle-
man.
Sam"! Emmons, one of our Colony
Northern farmers living on a
farm south-west of town, brought
this office last Thursday some splendid
- pecimens of cat-tail millet that meas¬
ured 34 feet in length. He also left
some sugar cane and Kaffir corn
were fine specimens.
Those who had the pleasure of going
on the excursion to St. Augustine, Fla.,
last week pronounced it to be one of the
grandest excursions ever run by that
prince of passenger agents, Geo. Mac¬
donald, of the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad.
J. B. D. Paulk and wife, Marcus
Luke and W. C. Kimball, the hustlers
of all hustlers, who has the contract for
making the repairs on the court house
at Irwinville, were in the city on Tuee*
day. We understand that the gentle-
men v? i\l be over Saturday evening to
take a degree in the Prevaricator’s
club. No doubt they will make good
members, as the county seat fight is on.
Wright T. Paulk is back to the city
and has accepted a position with
& Holmes.
L. F. Thompson is having built a
double-deck veranda to his busi¬
house on Central avenue.
Dr. Spicer now sports an elogant
buggy, and with his handsome
has the finest turnout in the city.
Twenty-two bales of cotton were
marketed in Fitzgerald on Wednesday.
price paid was 7i cents per pound.
to-day is worth 7 cents.
Editor Grubbs, of the Sycamore News,
principal of the schools at that
place, has been engaged to teach school
at Ocilla, and will move his office there.
He will publish the Ocilla News.
W. R. Crawford, who has been clerk¬
ing in the store of Drew Paulk for
some time past, left on Wednesday for
Wayeross, where he has accepted a
position.
Old Field Young Peoples’ Christian
will hold a devotional meeting
the United Brethren church on W.
street, Sunday evening, Sep¬
tember 5 at 6:15 p. m. Everybody made
welcome.
Comrade Meacham, who is now one
of the star members of the Prevarica¬
tor’s club, reports to this office that
“Bill” Nelson has gone to raising
pumpkins on his house. For its truth¬
fulness ask Mr. Meacham.
Chas. Clements, who for a year past
has been connected with T. S. Price &
Co., has rented the building recently
vacated by the Economy grocery and
will open up a general stock of dry
goods, notions and millinery. •
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Baisden have re¬
turned from their visit to Americus
where Mr. Baisden has been laid up
for a month or more with fever. He is
looking a little thin but said he was
glad to get back to Fitzgjrald.
Some people won’t advertise because
thev say the paper is not read, says an
exchange- But just let one them be
caught kissing another man’s wife and
his tune changes. If the printing office
i9 in a garret of a seventeen story build¬
ing he will climb to the top to ask the
editor to keek quiet.;
The first “Yankee” bale of cotton of
the season was marketed last Saturday
by W. H. Holliday who is farming
a piece of land belonging to J. Troupe.
The cotton was of the short variety and
the bale netted him $37.98. Mr.
Holliday has the honor of marketing
the first bale belonging to a Colony
member. He will hare six more bales.
W. H. Nelson left at this office
Wednesday a magnificent speciman of
Kaffir corn grown on ground cleared
last February and without the aid of
fertilizer or manure. The head was
twelve inches long and very heavy.
Mr. Nelson is more than pleased with
his success at farming the past season,
and is convinced that the soil here will
produce anything that grows in the
ground with the proper care and culti¬
vation.
_
Bill Nye once said: “Do not attempt
to cheat an editor out of a year’s sub¬
scription to his paper, or any other sum.
Cheat the minister, cheat anybodody
and everybody, but if you have any re¬
gard for the future consequences, don’t
fool the editor. You will bo put up for
office some time, or want some public
favor for yourself or freinds. and when
your luck is a thing of beauty, a joy
forever, the editor will open on you and
knock your castles into a cocked hat at
the first fire. He will subdue you and
you’ll cuss your stupidity for a drivel
ing idiot, go hire some man to knock
you down and kick you for falling.
A. W T . Monroe, of Green Cove
Springs, is here looking oyer the Magic
City. Mr. Monroe was formerly from
New Albany, Indiana but has resided
in Florida fourteen years. He is much
pleased with the bright prospects ior
the Colony City. Later. —Since the
above was put in type Mr. Monroe has
concluded to locate with us, and last
Tuesday wrote hisj wife telling her
to pack household effects and ship to
Fitzgerald. Mr. Monroe is an ex-Union
soldier. He is also an old acquaintance
of Rev. Stoney. Mr, Monroe has bean
a Leader reader for some time past,
which accounts for his locating with us.
The Georgia and Alabama railway is
trying an experiment with Bermuda
grass that is attracting a good deahof
attention. The entire track of this line
from Savannah to Montgomery is boing
sodded with Bermuda grass shoots. It
is expected that these will sprout and
grow until all the space between the
rails and crossties is filled with grass.
If the Bermuda grass can be success-
Jully cultivated on this railroad track
it will be a good thing, it is believed.
It will make a railroad bed firm and
less liable to wash from heavy rains
than now, and it will also do away with
much dust. Each section boss has
charge of the grass planting in his res¬
pective territory and General Manager
Cecil Gabbett has offered a prize of $50
to the man having the best stand of
grass on his division by next spring.
There is only one objectionable feature
to raising fine grass on a railroad track
—the cows may find it such a delight¬
ful loafing place that it will take up
most of the train’s time to keep knock¬
ing them away.
FROST KILLS CROPS.
Report: of Damage iu the Northwestern
States.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 31.— A heavy
frost is reported to have visited the
northern part of the Stute last night.
At East Tawas a great deal of damage
was done to vegetation and the balance
of the crop standing wnB ruined.
The frost through that section of the
country was general.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 31. —Reports
of frost come from a few points in south¬
ern Minnesota and North Dakota. Late
tender crops and garden truck were
killed or badly damaged, but none of
the reports speak of very serious injury
to corn, except one from southern Min¬
nesota, which represents the damage as
being heavy to corn and late flax.
Wheat is unaffected, being mostlv har¬
vested.
Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 31.—A light
frost, tho first of the season, has visited
this section, but did no damage.
Prosperity is indeed here. Seven
bales of cotton came into town last
Wednesday morning before breakfast,
From a Well Ki)oWn Advertiser.
Waycp.oss, Ga., Aug. 30, 1897.
“Leader,” Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Gentlemen—I enclose an ad. to run in your paper during the
month of September. Please send me bill for August ad. and I
will enclose remittance for same on or before loth of September.
My ad. in your paper has brought better results than ads in all
other papers combined. And I can recommend your paper to ad¬
vertisers. Wishing you abundant success I am
Yours truly,
Leighton W. Hubbard.
The St. Augustine Excursion.
The senior editor and wife, together
with about forty others, returned last
Saturday evening from their excursion
trip to St. Augustine, Fla. All report
a delightful time. The entire party
were kindly entertained at Palatka and
St. Augustine at their own expense,
board rates ranging at from $1 to $2 per
day. At Palatka we took a steamboat
ride up the St. Johns river about five
miles, when the writer and wife were
landed at the orange plantation of Mrs.
James Miller. After a short walk to
her palatial home surrounded by ell
kinds of flowers in bloom, we were sadly
disappointed to learn from her colored
servant that she was spending the sum¬
mer with relatives in the North. Mr.
Miller, the lounder of this beautiful
home, died about three years ago. In
1866 Mr. Miller and the writer were
employes on the Iowa State Register,
Des Moine. After an hours’ stay at this
beautiful home, and with sad thoughts
of the departed one, we wended our way
through the orange groves (the trees
loaded with fruit) to the boat landing,
where we signaled a down-river mail
steamer, were taken on board and in a
few brief minutes it seemed to us, were
landed at Palatka. For this splendid
boat ride we are indebted to Captain
Lucas, the owner of a number of steam¬
ers that ply the St. Johns and tributary
rivers. The entire day was happily
spent in Palatka.
At 4 o’clock p. m. the excursion party
boarded the train, and in a few minutes
after 5 o'clock were at St. Augustine,
the ancient and picturesque city of the
United States. Every point of interest
was visited Wednesday and Thursday.
At South Beach manvof the Fitzgerald
contingent (both ladies and gentlemen)
pulled off their Georgia clothes and
donned a bathing suit and into the
briny waves they went, and oh, such
fun! The “Yankee girls” from Fitzger¬
ald, with their low and high cut bath¬
ing suits, were the chief attractions, as
they excelled all others for expert
swimming and riding the monster
waves. And right here permit us to
say that the writer had a little lively
experience with a monster fish that we
caught by tho tail, hut as we were in
deep water, and at the same time his
fishship was pulling us out to sea, we
were compelled to let him go. He
weighed 59 pounds and six ounces. We
soon swam to shore and related to our
party the experience we had with a
monster fish, giving weight, etc., when
Capt. D. C. McCollum, who seemed to
doubt our statement, wanted to know
“how was it you knew the fish weighed
59 pounds and 6 ounces?” and a troubled
look overspread Mc’s face, “Because
he had SCALES on his back,” was the
reply. It was a “horse” on Me., and he
paid the penalty with a number of
choice cigars when we reached the city.
Our ball team played four games, two
at Palatka and two at St. Augustine-
winning two and losing two. At St.
Augustine they were royally enter¬
tained by the Barracks’ club (composed
of United States soldiers) and every
courtesy possible extended the boys.
Our boys appreciate the courtesy, and
hope at some time in the future to re¬
ciprocate the same. A majority of our
party left for Palatka Friday, where the
night was spent, reaching home Satur¬
day evening.
Mr. Geo. Macdonalds Major Glessner,
Capt. Dave Hall and Mr. Richardson,
of the G. S. & F. railway, personally
conducted the excursion party from
J. \Y. Man beck, living one-half mile
south of the canning factory, has a
watermelon vine that has 146 melons
thereon. About 75 of the melons are
good size and are about ripe. If any
one doubts the Story Mr. Manbeck says
for them to come and look at the vine.
Charles E. Page, of Sioux Falls, S.
D., arrived in the city last Monday,
and will engage in the manufacture of
high grade cigars. Mr. Page is a
Colony member and has a beautiful
5-acre tract north of town. Mr. Page
shipped a car load of goods and expects
to go into business as soon as suitable
quarters quarters can be secured. His
family together with two other families
are driving over-land.
About twenty-five ef our citizens to¬
gether with the Fitzgerald military
band, attended the big barbecue at the
river last Saturday, where about 2,000
people were in attendance. Mayor
Goodnow was called upon for a speech
and entertained the large crowd in fine
manner. He was loudly applauded and
his reference to the coming election on
the removal of the court house to Fitz¬
gerald brought forth cries “we are for
Fitzgerald, the market for all our cot-
ton and produce.”
Macon to St. Augustine as previously
advertised. Our train pulled into Pa¬
latka with fourteen loaded coaches, and
without a question of doubt the largest
crowd of people Palatka had seen since
the “freeze.” It was an orderly and
good natured crowd. It was indeed a
happy outing and long to be remem¬
bered by those who availed themselves
of the low rate. We extend to Mr.
Macdonaid, the genial and obliging
general passenger agent, as well as his
able assistants, the thanks of the Fitz¬
gerald contingent for the low rate and
the happy good time enjoyed by all.
Gentlemen, may your shadows never
grow less. B. F. K.
Mr. J. W. Hurst returned last Mon¬
day evening from his business trip to
New York, where he purchased a mam¬
moth new stock of goods. From his
quick trip there must have been seme
attraction to draw him back in such a
hurry.
If the court house should be moved
to Fitzgerald the county of Irwin would
be $10,000 better off than she is to¬
day. The court house would belong to
the county and not to Fitzgerald. Vo¬
ters should remember that there is $10,-
000 deposited to the credit of Irwin
county if the court house is moved to
Fitzgerald.
_
An Oklahoma farmer wrote to a
friend in the East trying to give him
some idea of the soil out there. He
said they had to mow the grass off the
sod floor to find the baby. One family
near him had twin babies, with only
one cradle, and the kid who had to
sleep upon the floor grew twice as fast
as the other. Where the soil is the
richest, a man dare not stand on one
foot any length of time, lest one leg
become longer than the other and
bother him in walking.
From the number of names signed to
the court house removal petition Fitz¬
gerald seems to have considerable
strength. You folks who want the
court house moved, did you ever stop
to think what your taxes would be if a
$20,000 or $25,000 court house is built at
Fitzgerald?—Irwinville Dispatch.
The young gentleman who wields the
pen oyer at Irwinville evidently forgot
that Fitzgerald will build a $10,000
court house and present it to the county
if the court house is moved here. Taxes
will be no higher if the court house is
moved here, hut Irwin county will be
$10,000 better off.
Man born of woman is spanked by a
hired nurse and jerked baldheaded by
a crank schoolmaster, and attended
with a select and varied assortment of
troubles. He lingers on luxury’s lap
until his paternal ancestors fire him
out to begin his battle with the world.
He starts a newspaper. His friends
promise to support him, but in the hour
of need be finds that promises, like
3-cent lamp chimneys, are easily brok¬
en. If he doesn’t pitch into the
prohibitionists-the liberals “cuss him”;
it he does his “high morality” friends
stop their paper. If he refuses to be
social with Tom, Dick and Harry" they
say he is stuck up, and it he makes in¬
timates with everybody he is courting
public favor. If he publishes all the
news, science, foreign reports and busi¬
ness out-looks, they say he is too fresh.
If he does not make the personal men¬
tion of every one in town they feel
slighted, and if he does he will run
across some man who do not'lhre to be
personalized and gets his head
punched 1
SNYDER IN L1M1IO.
A Fitzgerald Man Becomes Tangled I'p j
In a Bud Deal.
Among tho excursionists who went to
St. Augustine Monday of last week was
Will Snyder, who has been driving a
hack for Ed Flathers for the past year,
and from all accounts got filled up on
“red-eye” and allowed some one to
“Him flam” him in great shape, but
from all reports obtainable, Snyder was
not the only one connected with „the
deal. The following account from the
St. Augustine Journal will explain the
deal:
“A party consisting of thirteen of
tho Georgia excursionists went oyer to
North Beach yesterday morning in a
sailboat. Among the number were
Mr. F. E. Smith, of Cordele, Ga., and
W. II. Snyder, of Fitzgerald. While
the others were strolling about the
beach these two decided to go in bath¬
ing, and removing all their clothing
while in the boat, jumped overboard.
Snyder came out first and Smith soon
followed, but after they were dressed
the latter discovered that he had lost
his pocket-book. There were $75 and
two rings in the pocket-book. After
looking for it for some time, Snyder
pointed out tho book floating on the
water, but when recovered it was found
to be empty.
There being some suspicion of crooked
work the party agreed to be searched,
and when Snyder was reached the two
rings were found in h is trouser’s pocket.
He denied all knowledge of how they
came there, and demurred at any furth¬
er searching.
They at once set sail for town, and on
arriving here Officer Neligan was called
by one of the men to arrest Snyder.
This was done, and on the way to the
station house he admitted having the
money, and on arriving there pulled off
his shoe and produced $65 of it and later
gave up $7 more.
He was tried in the afternoon before
Judge Drysdale, and held, in default of
$800 bond to await the action of the
grand jury.”
Capt. D. C. McCollum, who saw Sny¬
der in the jail, informed a reporter that
Snyder would no doubt get clear, as the
fellow Smith would not appear against
hitn. The bond has been reduced to
$200 which Snyder will bj able to give.
The Oldest in Georgia.
“The New York Evening Journal
prints a picture of what is called the
‘oldest printing press in America.’
Until recently this press was in the
office of a Vermont newspaper, but is
probably in a dime museum now, parad¬
ing itself under false pretenses. The
‘oldest printing press in America’ is in
the state of Georgia, and once did
service in the office of The Smithville
News, Lee county, this state,” writes
F. L. Stanton, in the Constitution.
“The date of its birth is lost in antiq¬
uity, but there has never been any
doubt in the minds of the editors who
have manipulated it, that it was old
enough to know better. It is a cross
between the handpress invented by
Washington and a neglected corn shell-
er, and is curiously inscribed with the
desperate hieroglyphics of ancient and
and long-suffering editors. Its joints
creaked, as with the rheumatism, and
when the paper went to press it had a
way of falling down and so mixing up
the railroad schedules that the trains
never knew what time to leave. Every
blacksmith in the county has exhausted
his skill upon it, and it has been patched
and prayed over until it is a mere rem¬
nant of its former self. When Sherman
passed through Georgia to the sea,*his
men used portions of it for battering
rams; but when he started to print a
few official orders on it, it proved its
loyality to a lost cause by falling down
and distributing the type all over the
room. It has been burned out six times
and in the earthquake of 1886 it w-as
dismembered and thrown on the rail¬
road track, where it wrecked the
cannon-ball train five minutes after¬
wards. The sheriff has levied on it
twenty times, only to pay the editor to
take it back, and from the perch it
used to occupy in the lowlands of Lee
it overlooked the graves of fourteen
editors, and old and ailing as it is, it is
designed to go rumbling down the
corridors of time as long as an editor
needs groceries.
Business of all kinds in this city
grows brighter and brighter each day.
Our merchants are wearing a happy
smile. They are stocking up with big
stacks of new goods for the fall and
winter trade. Real estate, too, is on
the up grade, with a more active de¬
mand than for the past six months.
The tide of immigration from the
North has already set in; a nun-ber ar¬
riving this week. Indeed the outlook
is very bright for a heavy imigration
to the colony city this fall and winter.
From letters received at this office
many are coming by teams, and are now
on the way.
_
It is estimated by persons in apposi¬
tion to form an opinion that at least 13
per cent more wheat than is usually
needed by Europe will be wanted this
year. Owing to the short Russian,
French and Austro-Hungarian crops,
the United States will be the only
country able to meet this extra demand.
—London Times
RANKS CROWING THINNER.
Twenty Thousand Fewer Members Thau
a Year Ago—Various Reports.
Buffalo, Aug. 26,—Adjt. Gen.
Charles F. Burraester’s report con¬
tained the following figures:
“The total membership of the order
in good standing June 30, 1896, was 7,-
302 posts, with 340,610 members; on
December 31, 1890, 7,276 posts, with
327,412 members; on June 30, 1897, 7,106
posts, with 319,456 members. The gain
by muster in was 10,534; by transfer,
4,381; by reinstatement, 11,297: from
delinquent report, 6,807; total, 32,929.
The losses were: By deaths, 7,515: hon¬
orable discharge, 1,257; transfer, 4,642;
suspension, 30,771; dishonorable dis¬
charge, 411; by delinquent reports, 3,-
981; by surrender of charter, 606- total,
54,183. Including the members re¬
maining suspended June 30, 1897. (43,-
560), the total borne on the rolls, is
362,110.
“It will be seen from the abovo that
a new element of loss has introduced
itself, which might bo said to mark the
beginning of tho end—the loss by sur¬
render of charter. One by one the boys
have dropped away, joined the posts on
the other shore, until there are not
enough left to keep up the organiza¬
tion, and the charter is surrendered
and the remaining few affiliate with an¬
other post in the neighborhood, or re¬
main afloat with a transfer card. It ap¬
pears to me that right here is where
good work can be accomplished with
the system of outposts provided by the
last national encampment to keep these
‘orphan’ members within the organiza¬
tion.
The following table shows the mem-
bership by States June 30, 1897.
Posts. Mem’ers.
Alabama..... 13 218
Arizona........ 9 215
Arkansas...... 70 1.148
California and Nevada...... 100 r.,108
Colorado and Wyoming..... 69 2.550
Connecticut...... 07 5,778
Delaware........ IB 590
Florida............ 24 184
Idaho............ Georgia.......... 15 624
Illinois.......... 16 851
Indiana.......... 577 I 25,054
485 12,184
Indian Territory 238
Iowa............. 4:;-i 15,294
Kansas ..................... 403 13,283
Kentucky.................... Louisiana 88 3,856
& Mississippi..... 30 1,155
Maine.................. 165 2,288
Maryland............... 53 2.915
Massachusetts........ Michigan............... 212 21,617
383 16,038
Minnesota.............. 173 7,669
Missouri...... ......... 386 13,815
Montana... ......... 28 IMG
Nebraska............... 274 7,077
Few Hampshire....... '.’2 4,177
New Jersey............ in 6,513
New Mexico............ 158
New York.............. I' l ! 36,218
North Dakota.......... .'(• 510
Ohio..................... 623 30,306
Oklahoma.............. 1,067
Oregon.................. 61 1.916
Pennsylvania........... Potomac................ 606 34,352
18 2,878
Rhode Island........... ■9, 2,293
South Dakota.......... 2,243
Tennessee ............ 2,883
Texas................... •7 819
Utah.................... 5 1ST
Vermont............... 112 4,554
Virginia & North Carolina.. 56 1,334
West Washington and Alaska.... 57 1,912
Wisconsin................... Virginia............... 208 57 1,069
10,911
Total 7,106 319,456
There was expended for charity dur¬
ing the year, $210,694.
The way to make hard times in a
community is to send all the money
you can get to a city department store
and then try to trade the half cotton,
half shoddy goods you can get with
some of our merchants for wood. Buy
cast iron imitation Singer sewing ma¬
chines and when they rattle like a run¬
away swearing threshing machine go round
that the Singer machine is no
good. Buy coal oil that has not the
test brand on it and then fuss because
your lamp smokes, gives no light, order
starch which is generally the refuse of
the factory vats,, in bulk and not worth
putting up in packages of well known
brands, and coffee that an expert
couldn’t tell what it was made of. Send
the money in advance with your order,
buy a “pig- in a poke” and when you go
to a store in town ask for unlimited
credit.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many friends and neigh¬
bors who so kindly assisted us in the
illness and burial of our loved Annie.
Our prayer is that you may long be
spared a like affliction.
Rev. C. S. Herrington & Family.
Fruit Growers’ami Shippers’ Association
The Fruit Growers’ and Shippers’
Association met pursuant to adjourn¬
ment. Called to order by Chairman
W. W. Breese. Minutes of last meet¬
ing read and approved. Committee
on by-laws were given more time, they
not being ready to report. Communi¬
cations were read and discussed.
Messrs. L. F. Johnson and E. S, Child
were made a committee to procure a
regular place of meeting. Several new
members handed in their names and
membership fee.
Upon motion the association ad¬
journed until Saturday, September 4,
at 4 o'clock p. m., the meeting to be
held in the audience room at colony
headquarters.
E. S. Child, Sec’y Pro Tem.
A Rare Bargain.
Two hundred and sixty-five acres of
choice land, 8 miles east of Fitzgerald,
for sale at a bargain; 50 acres in cul¬
tivation, four room house, outbuild¬
ings, two good wells of water, all kinds
of bearing fruit trees, etc. Part cash
and balance on time. Call at pvem-,
lses or address me at Dorminev’s
Mill, Ga. J. J. Luke.
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Hereafter, until the opening of the
public schools, I can be found in my
office at the Third Ward (High School)
building, instead of at the office of the
Board oE Education, from 9 to II o’clock
a. M. and from 2 to 4 o’clock P. m.
James T. Saunders,
Superintendent.