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&&$&$$$# 000000000 00 While Talking 00 COURT HOUSE, « Don’t Forget To Mention That 00 If FRED J. CLARK f I * 00- Is out to Sell every Voter the ssfRost 00068*2 He ever did get for 1 1 W Money, 00 00 00 00 And Quotes a Few Prices : 00 Bed 11.50 to $8.00. 00 00 Mattress $1.75 to $6.00. 00 00 each. 00 00 Chairs $40e to $2.50 00 00 Ex. Tables, 6 ft., beauties, $4.1 ■>,S 00 Inf- 00 00 fDatfm? 5 of 1 all Kinds. 00 00 WARDROBES, BUREAUS, 00 00 ■ M ft# . 00: And everything to be found 00 00 in a First-Class Furniture 00 00 Store. 00 || Fred J. Clark 00 *00 00- Blook - 00 00000000 HWim J 6 As There are Plenty of Golden Nuggets to be Pieked Up Right Here in Our Store Without Risking Life and Limb in the Far Northwest, UR STORE Is a Veritable Klondyke, and Worth Prospecting. Our Line of the CeIebrated^® BBB ^ Barnesville k Rockhill Buggies is Complete, and the Prices Lower than Ever. If you are in need of a Wagon, come and look over the “FLORENCE,” either one or two horse. The RAMBLE BICYCLES are going fast at $37.50. Our Mammoth Stock of • • HARDWARE Is Full and Complete and Embraces Tinware, Builders’ Material, Farm Machinery, Stoves, Crockery, Mixed Paints, Wire Screens and SHELF HARDWARE, In fact we keep in Stock Everything Known to the Hardware Trade. r— SUPPLIES - A - SPECIALTY. When in need of anything and you don’t know where to get it, come to the Boyd Hardware Co •f Fitzgerald, Georgia. thIe county-site QUEST ion. A Logical and Convincing Letter From Ex-Gov. Northern Fitzgerald More Accessible by Railroads and Covenient For The People to Transact their County Business! Editors Fitzgerald Leader. Whilst I have not been in position to keep myself fully posted on the details of the campaign now in progress in your county for and against|the removal of the court house, I must confess to some sur¬ prise that there should be any special opposition to the proposed re¬ moval to Fitzgerald. discharged always The public business of any community should be at the convenience of the greatest number of citizens. The center of population, and not the geographical center of the county, therefore should determine the location of county public buildings. If this proposition is not true, the people of any given county would be sub¬ jected to great inconvenience, without the least possible public ben¬ efit therefrom. The view I am presenting is especially true, when the convenience of travel from the more sparsely settled sections are. desirable and satisfactory. the The contest, as I understand it, is between Irwinville, present county town, and Fitzgerald, the proposed location for the county business. Fitzgerald and the country immediately contiguous, and easily accessible would be far more convenient for a large majority of the people of the county. Irwin county is now entirely traversed bv railroads leading directly to Fitzgerald, while transportation to Irwinville would involve the necessity for hack lines that could not be expected to be sufficient for the demands, on public occasions, be- cause the business occurring during the interval of regularly ap¬ pointed public days would not authorize a proper outfit and regular engagements with the trains. Of equal importance with the fact just presented, it is no reflection upon the good people of Irwinville to say, that hotel accommodations for the entertainment of the peo¬ ple attending upon public days, are far better at Fitzgerald than they can ever be made at Irwinville. The people of the county can¬ not afford to neglect this consideration as a prime element in de¬ termining their choice between locations. I am sure the citizens of Irwin county have already awakened to the fact that there is a great and unusifal development awaiting them in the near future. The prime, if not the sole factor in this remarkable opportunity has come through the large and desirable interests built in and about the city of Fitzgerald. In my candid judgment, the public spirited people of Irwin cannot afford to deny to this opening prosperity any condition that would advance the common good. What helps Fitz¬ gerald helps Irwin county and, indeed, helps the State. The peo¬ ple who have built Fitzgerald have already put into the county more than one million dollars worth of taxable property. If prop¬ erly encouraged and given their share of opportunities, this large Slim will feel the benefit. I cannot believe the intelligent people of the county will vote away these chances. Whilst the developments in Irwin, brought about by the good people at Fitzgerald, are un¬ usual in the history of the State and, certainly in the history of the county, they have, by no means, reached their ultimatum. Irwin county, the State of Georgia and the South are now inviting desirable settlers upon our unoccupied lands. To get them, we must not only offer land upon which they can squat, but we must recog¬ nize every element of good citizenship they bring with them, and open up to them, without qualification or restriction, the same con¬ ditions of growth and profitable settlement that we claim and exer¬ cise for ourselves. The question, stripped of all undue considerations, is simply this: Shall the public business of Irwin county be transacted, hereafter at Irwinville, a small community, centrally located, with limited hotel accommodations and away from the line of railway ; or shall it he located at Fitzgerald, a large and thrifty city', with abundant hotel facilities, easily accessible from all points of the county by rail, and the center of population ? This is a simple business proposition, submitted to intelligent busi- ness people, who should look to the common good, and not to any personal preferment or local honors. If this is done, I do not see how a good citizen can hesitate a moment in determining his choice. I trust that I will be pardoned for this interference, when it may be said I have no local interest. I do not believe the people in Irwin county who know me and my purposes will make any such undue criticism. My identification with them in the past, I feel quite sure, has obtained for me their confidence, and I cannot but believe that they will accept my statements as made from the standpoint of the public good. W. J. Nortiien. Atlanta, Ga., September 23, 1897. Important Notice. Read Very Carefully. A rigid and thorough inspection of all colony lands, including city lots and all tracts, will be commenced on Octo¬ ber 1, 1897, and all such as have not not been improved as required by the board of colony directors, will be de¬ clared forfeited and the allotments on same cancelled. No extensions, ex¬ changes or trades will be granted or made until after the auction sale on No¬ vember 18th, next. By order of the board of colony directors. D. C. Welch, Superintendent. The New City, Not in opposition to Fitzgerald, but an extension of Fitzgerald or to give her citizens as well as others an oppor¬ tunity of settling and investing in manufacturing enterprize that hereto¬ fore lias been denied them for want of water power and transportation facil- itiee. Nowhere from Macon to Sa¬ vannah or Darien does tlie Ocmulgee river present as beautiful, lovely and inviting a location for a manufactur¬ ing city and fruit and truck growing farms as at Lumber Landing, just north of the city, and within one mile of Fitzgerald colony lands. Eight hundred acr^s of land with unclouded title, lias been secured by Messrs. Smiths, and will he disposed of at nominal prices. City lots on river front, and four-acre lots in rear. For further particulars address G. E. and VV. E. Smith, real estate agents, or W. B. Fassell, treasurer, Crisp, Ga. City Taxes ARE NOW Due and Payable At the office of the City Clerk. H. H. KABRICH, s City Clerk. For Sale at a Bargain. A fine mare and a horse, wagon and harness for sale. Call at Leader office. 39-4 w WE List - Property •f - -1 " AND —. 4- Pay : Taxes For non-resident property owners. Small and larire tracts of land l’or sale. Enclose stamp Hiving full information. F, WILLIAMS, SON & CO, Fiasgonld, Do, Real EstateDealers. BEAR IN MIND —ZWdS LEADER to any address unless paid for in advance. No cash, no paper. Latest and Greatest Invention in Bicycle Eqi m A marvel of simplicity and a career of usefulness. A Medal winner in the prize competition of valuable and meri tions confered by the WEDDERBURN Board of Awards, Wash Our confidence in the merits and universal demand for our POR'J TOMATIC BICYCLE PROP induces us to make the desiring following lil tion and unprecedented GUARANTEE to Agents to ban portant PROPOSITION—To Accessory to Every Bicycle. applicant sending order for the first us an < will assign the exclusive Agency for City, Town or County as desist teet their rights by referring to them all subsequent for orders dozen, receive territory. Thirteen will be sent with the first order one <» liver a single Prop, prepaid, to any address in the United States upon receipt of the regular retail price, $2.50, and deduct that amou first GUARANTEE—We dozen ordered by the same party. them accomplish all claim, confidence, guarantee to refund the purchase we dence of our faith and agree to ] PROPS remaining unsold and returned to us in event of desiring fn to discontinue the Agency. influence sale, have They require no elaborate oratory to a you on tention to the one in operation on your wheel. Applied to any Bicycle, Tandem, Triplet, Quad Sextet or any Mu equally effective on incline or level road pavement, floor, ice, glass single Prop will hold any bicycle or tande#i. Triplets, quads, sextets require Constructed two. of ALUMINUM, and free from springs, will not rattle tarnish or fail from any cause to perform the work of two men and a ing a wheel RIGID and STATIONARY. Aluminum isanexpensb the advantages of lightness, freedom from rust and beautiful finish make it more desirable and far superior for this especial purpose. Weight only four ounces (or half the weight of the ordinary hi Rapid, reliable, durable, simple and automatic. Dismount, release tb the PROP DOES THE REST. ♦' DIRECTIONS. 4MB As shown The clamp in the is adjusted illustra¬ V 1 HOI I» . tion. ' Tklf ■j. ■ at a proper height to give the lV wheel the same inclination as J fa contact the lever with when the the.point floor. Swing is in ) I m five six ■ the point of lever or , - m ,'Ar \ inches toward the rear, al- i lowing the clamp to turn on % * the tubing and set the screws < - 7/ securely. H - To Reverse, first bring the wheel to perpendicular, al- lowing tomatically the lever in the to slot. drop au¬ In¬ ■\v vert the lever and it will se¬ curely hold in this tubing, position and parallel with the f msr V ? iu no way interfering with - V-p manipulating the wheel. 0f- •C oy Dismounting—Lift the lever, allowing it to drop at the same t.r the wheel, and as the point contacts with the floor, release the w' oman In ordering mention size of seat post tubing. Write for confidenf discounts. Address all communications to AUTOMATIC BICYCLE PROP CO., Fitzgera d. ilous # 0 <¥ 0 5^ 0 0 010 0 0 0 00 v Z M President. WM, It. BOWEN, Cashie •king FRANK S. BALDER, my "A M. The Colony Bank Y. A4 / V ood w BAUDER «Sa BOWEN, Bankers. i >n 35 v/ W •*-----< This Bank is now open and doingaGeneral Banking- Business. We cred p \ Af Northern Exchange and Pension Checks at Pa : wv, V/; When deposited by our customers. We issue Exchange on New York, Sara-r. nah, Macon, Darien and Oordele at one-hall’ the rates charged by postiiffie • . i# We lend money on high class security, never charging 1 over eight percent annum. * per Ourratesand hanking rules and customs are the same as those of Atlanta :Y/ and Louisville banks. In other words, we give the business men of the Fitzger- aid the same banking rates and privileges from the start, that it took mer- chants of Atlanta and Memphis twenty years to get. Lack of competition # will never cause us to take any advantage of the colonists. For lCmre ©rugs Goodmans New Drug Stoi Cor. Pine and Grant Street. Fresh and New with a Full Line Medicines. Prescriptions Compound' FRED U- BIGHAM, Buildei and Estimates Furnished on Short Noti Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Dr. Maury M. Stapler, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, 506 Mulberry Street, MACON, GEORGIA. DR. J. H. POWELL, (Late ol* the Best American Hospitals) Specialist in Chronic Diseases, Of IVXeii and Women, Office, S. Grant street, located.) near Magnolia. (Per¬ manently GET our prices on all kinds Job Work* For Tailor Sui CALL ON E. d. DANCY, Fine A h NkI Door to Ccmmoroial A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all j All garments cut and made on premises. Clewing, Hairing ani ressin? a Spaa