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The CL N o m r o Leader. ^stablislied. 1896. . VOL. II. ########£#######*# I fflSi’ir' irFALL Sic * A uuuiiliilllU lumimiiuu M ste W Our stock of Dry-Goods, Notions, Flannels, Shoes, in fact everything Sk jjg, usually kept in a first-class store, is now * complete in every department. Never before have the people of Fitzgerald ± and country seen a more from complete which or * better selected stock to make their purchases. WL c® 4 4 1/ ] No firm above in Fitzgerald expression realizes fully the $ truth of the more <*< than we ^°* This season we have priced goods cheaper than ever before. It is vt/ our constant aim each season to better e r^ * our best of the season past. * ¥ Dress Goods! >;c aij k In this department we are better pre- sfe si I t pared to serve you than ever before. t Our stock is repiete with noveltiesGso $ popular this season for Shirt Waists. i of ’ We have made a special effort this out' g season on Black and Colored Wool li Dress Goods. Our stock is larger, assortment more nothwithstanding complete and prices the sk cheaper high tariff than will ever, surely make goods of S§* has this kind higher O later on. sp SUoe Department. m We carry the largest and best stock ^ Ladies’ and Gents’ Fine Shoes ever 3§* seen in Southern Georgia. We sell the jp finest Ladies Kid Button Shoe in the city for $3.00. Why pay $4.00 and & $5.00 elsewhere and get no better? 1" STORE. * «e T* X. «. PRIC A CO .. I^itzgrertxld, Oa. ####### t-. w /-i &"W T JT\ W T I * m $ • 6 — w A Full Line of Drugs, Patent Med¬ * icines of all kinds, Druggists’ Sun¬ * $ * J dries, Etc., Etc. $ * ¥ Toilet Soaps and Fine Perfumery. B ; Finest Soda Fountain in Wire- The t I g grass Georgia. Prescriptions Com¬ * i * pounded Day or Night. ;j % ! The Josev Drag Co 1 1 I * 4* ' $ A South Grant, Fitzgerald, Ga. t ■u. G. DREW & CO. 1 Warehousemen, are Ready foP Business at ISTTTTTTTTTTTnTTTlTTTTTITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTnTTTTTTTTTTWtn'TftTTTTTffTTTTTtrr^i I The Cotton Warehouse. |l t| pumumuminaunHUlUUiiiauiUUUUitUUiiUUUmiiiiUiiiHiMliiimi in omraI Avenue, near the Colony Bank. Reasonable storage rates charged on Hay. Grain, Provisions ami all kinds of merchandise. Car-load lots a specialty. is fire-proof and patrons are guaranteed against loss by fire. n nr Our prices on all I of Job work. “MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLEJ.” FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897. All Klondikers who come back are lucky. Those who fail to catch the last train are all unlucky. The theory of a French physician that love is a disease is not unreason¬ able. People have been known to grow sick merely at the sight of two young persons under its influence. Under the German compulsory in¬ surance law 18,389,000 persons were insured last year, and the total cost of the system was $13,400,000. The in¬ surance is wholly for small amounts and is for working people exclusively. Last week B. F. Raney purchased 800 acres of land in Invin county a good farm included, at the Mrs. Pru¬ dence Porter sale, the price paid being $150. There are fishing lakes and good hammock land included in the tract, and the purchase will certainly prove a paying one to Mr. Raney.— Ashbuni Advance. Republicanism progresses. Gen¬ eral Harrison, it will be remembered, modestly claimed that the Lord had assisted in liis election to the presi¬ dency. Now comes Hanna, in a speech at Benton, O., and proclaims without qualification that the Lord is a republican. No further counties need to be heard from, apparently. A railroad company lias been organ¬ ized and incorporated in Kansas for the purpose of building a railroad from Savannah, Ga., to San Diego, Cal., and another road ‘from some point in North Dakota to Honduras. Fitzgerald cheerfully concedes that the promoter of these lines is entitled to the leather medal. There was never a rise in tiie price of grain in this country that was so beneficial to the farmers and of so lit¬ tle advantage to the speculators and grain gamblers as the rise of this year. It came while the crop was still un¬ sold, and the few speculators who got rich did so at the expense of other speculators^_ The largest shipload of grain that was ever cleared from the pert of New Orleans was carried out the other day by the British steamship American. The cargo comprised 228,800 bushels and 1,000 sacks of corn, 64,000 bush¬ els of wheat, 2,899 sacks of cotton seed meal and 200 bales of cotton. Tills lias been exceeded only by the cargo carried out of Baltimore a few weeks ago, consisting of 325,000 bush- bushels of grain. _ Some wise men went to California in 1849; Colorado in 1859; * Montana in 1864; Black Hills ill 1873; Klondike in 1897; but more wise men will come to Irwin county during the near future than went to all the western mining dis¬ tricts com bined. The cables brings the news that a son and heir lias been born to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, at their ducal palace in London. The Duchess of Marlborough was Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. So it comes about that the child of an English no¬ bleman and an American heiress may fall heir to one of the proudest titles in all England. What more can Yankee money want?—Atlanta Jour¬ nal. From the Northwest to the Southeast. Only a few years ago it was quite uncommon to hear of people from northwest of tiie Ohio river going into the South. The country immediately south of the Ohio was extremely for¬ eign to them, let alone that territory east of the mountains and south of the Tennessee. What a Wonderful change has been brought about! Iu nearly every section of the South we find planted and rooted that people who had enterprise enough to break away from a section of Country prac¬ tically at a standstill. They are but the first of a large and important movement; this season of 1897--99 thousands will go from the northwest to the southeast; next season more will follow, and the movement will continue until our ljuids will all be taken up, improved and enhanced in value, our towns will be cities, and every avenue in the South will teem with a contented’ and a prosperous people. A few years' ago those peo¬ ple would leave the northwest during the winter months, many of them go- to California. Now a large raa- them are coming southeast for ulie winter. We suggest they come stay permanently with us; the is the best “all-the-year-round We are in position *to lo¬ them for the summer, winter or ail time to come. Reader, can we serve If not, give your friends our ad¬ we believe you have some friends who should locate with us. The County Seat Question. Very little is said by our people on the county site removal election. We feel that we are in the hands of the and that the farmers are our friends and we have no fears as tp their deciding this matter light. Like Commissioner Henderson, whose glow¬ ing eulogy of our city and its people, is reproduced on another page, the farmers realize the advantages of hav¬ ing a good town in the county, and as¬ surances reach us every day that all is well with Fitzgerald in the country precincts. We abuse no man or place, and in this fight are relying solely on the merits of our case and the efforts of our farmer friends. The cry of high taxes is being effectually silenced. The farmers of old Invin are a think¬ ing lot of men and they know enough of their own laws to know that we colonists have absolutely nothing to say about the rate of tax levy. The tax levy is usually recommend¬ ed by the grand jury, and is fixed by the county commissioner. The com¬ missioner is elected by the grand jury and the grand jury, in turn, is se¬ lected by the iudge of the superior court. Fitzgerald will donate $10,000 to¬ ward building a new court house; if more money is spent than that sum for the building, the responsibility will ( rest entirely with commissioner Hen¬ derson. Growth of the South. Imposing as had been the progress from 1879 to 1880, the growth of the South from 1880 to 1890 is still more remarkable. According to the statis¬ tics quoted by General Jau.es Long- street in a speech at Augusta, Ga., on tiie ninth day of March, be said: “Be¬ tween 1880 and 1890 the true valua¬ tion (not the assessed valuation) of real and personal property in the South increased from $7,641,500,000 to Sll,534,000,000—a gain of $3,800,- 000,000, or 50 per cent., while the New England and Middle States com¬ bined gained only $3,900,000, or an in¬ crease of only 22 per cent, The value of farm property in the South in 1880 was $2,314,000,000; in 1890, $3,182,- 000,000—a gain of 37 per cent. The increase in farm values in all other sections was about 30 per cent. In 1880 the South hod $257,244,000 in¬ vested in manufacturing. In 1890 she $657,288,000—a gain of 156 per while the gain of the entire coun¬ try was about 121 percent. The value the manufactured products of the in 1880 was $457,454,000. In 1890 it was $917,589,000—a gain of 100 per cent. In 1880 the factory hands in the South received $75,917,- in wages. In 1890 they received In 1880 the South hud in cotton manufacturing $21 in 1890,$61,100,000. and now $120,000,000. In 1880 the South had $3,500,000 invested in the cotton¬ oil industry. It has now more $30,000,000 so invested. The mileage of the South has been since 1880 more than 25,000 at a cost in building new roads in the improvement of old ones of one billioil dollars. In 1880 the made 897,000 tons of pig iron. 1895 it made 1.702,088 tons. In the South’s output of coal was tons. At present it is at the of 30,000,000 tons per year.” Notice. Read Very CareftTlly. A rigid and thorough inspection of colony lands, including city lots and tracts, will be commenced on Octo¬ 1, f897, and all such as have cot been improved as required by the of colony directors, will be de¬ forfeited and the allotments on cancelled. No extensions, ex¬ or trades will be granted or until after the auction sale on No¬ 18tfe next. By order of the j of colony directors. D. C. Welch, Superintendent. B. F. KNAPP, | Editor?and Publishers; J. G. KNAPP, f NO. 39. A GOOD STORY mu bear remiss i k*. V story that tells people where and how to save s 'M money by buyimg New Goods at Low Prices. In «i = fact a story that never gets old. My story today, and ' especially on i: w SATURDAYS, A magnificent new line of Dress Goods will be sold at a bargain, viz: W§ Dress Plaids from 8 to 10c per yd 22 in. Brilliantine 10 to 12c pr yd 38 in Brilliantine 25 to 30c “ Suitings from 8 to 12c per yd. i; = « i JO’ B »■! A. Specialty* m Ladies’ $1.25 Shoes for 75c. liens’ h Hats I Cheapest on the Market I 'I' The Hustling Dry-Goods Dealer. Cor. Pine and Grant. Suits Made To Order. You can have a Suit of Clothes made to fit yoc in first-class style at only an extra small expense. We have One Thousand Samples of goods from which to make your selection, which is much better than to depend upon the read} T- made suits where the assortment is so small in suits that will fit you. Our Fall and Winter Samples and Fashion Flates are now in, and we are daily taking measures for suits and supply¬ ing our many customers who are acquainted with our work. We are practical tailors and know just how to take a measure to insure a perfect fitting suit, which is the most important thing in the business. We have made thousands of suits and never had one left on our hands on account of a misfit. Prices range from $12 to $20 and higher, if you desire. Please call and examine samples. D. C. MCCOLLUM, Pine Avenue. Fitzgerald Bottling Works, North Grant St. All orders will receive prompt attention CLIN S. McCOY