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CHENEY & BURCH,
Office—I n Paulk Building, Grant Street,
FITZGERALD,
WAY & JAY,
Attorney-at-Law,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Office—I n the Slayton & Kern building
Pine avenue.
E. W. Hyman, L. Kennedy,
Of South Dakota. Of
RYMAN & KENNEDY,
Office—I n Fitzgerald Block.
W. F. THOMPSON,
CORDELE. GEORGIA.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
(Late of the Best American Hospitals)
Specialist in Chronic Diseases
Of TVIen sind 'Women,
Office, S. Grant street, near Magnolia.
manently located.)
Drs, Ci A, & L* C. HoHorf,
Office— In Slayton & Kern building,
site Commercial hotel, Fitzgerald, Ga
Phone 21.
E. NICHOLSON,
Auctioneer,
East Pine Avenue
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
Is now prepared to give rates on short notice.
Having had fifteen years experience, perfect
Satisfaction is guaranteed. For rates and
bills call at Leader office.
BEFORE YOU BUY
Or order anything in the line of
WATCHES, - JEWELRY,
Silm Diamonds. Clocks and Spectacles,
EXAMIME
Wetfstem’s
Goods and prices. Remember that we give
from 25 to 40 per cent from the prices quoted
in any illustrated catalogue, with a guarantee
that everything is just as represeted. Repair¬
ing in best manner and at lowest living rates
at the oldest established “Pioneer” Jewelry
Store, Grant St., between Central and Pine.
For Tailor Suits
CALL ON
E. J. DANCY,
Fine At*, Next Door to Commercial Hotel
A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask.
AU garments cut and made on premises.
Cleaning. Repairing and Pressing a Special
WE
List - Property
♦ AND ---= +
Pay : Taxes
For non-resident property owners. Small and
large tracts of- land for sale. Enclose stamp
giving full information.
F, WILLIAMS, M A 00, Fiasgerald, Ga,
Real EstateDealers.
Wanted to Buy.
Twenty to thirty acres of land near
Fitzgerald, Ga.. improved or not. Must
be a bagain. Address. J. L. S. Hall,
4712 S. Ashland ave., Chicago, Ill.
Wanted— To buy or trade for a
milch cow. Address Box 94.
43-1 w x
Choice Ohio butter for sale. Call at
residence of J. M, Earnest, S. Grant.
42-4wx
Advertising Asks
Would you have your business
pay ? and answers, “ Then make
it better yourself—you can do it.
But not waiting on the future.
Advertising Proclaims
High tension throughout is the
prime necessity. Given this,
then Brains, Courage and Energy
will compel success.
Your move is to advertise—ad¬
vertise to-day, to-morrow and
next day. Don’t quit till you
quit business.
Advertisers Say
That the medium with which to
“cover the field” is the
THE : LEADER,
A Straight Story,
Of Straight Goods
In a Straight Paper
Is bound to bring business.
you have a good thing, adver¬
tise it in
The ► ► Leader.
And you’ll through hit a market you can¬
not hit any other Fitz¬
gerald whole medium. family Each copy has
a for its audience.
Clean, newsy, truthful, fair and
square.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER.
Official Newspaper of Irwin County. Georgia.
Official Nowspaper of City of Fitzgerald, Ga.
PUBLISHED SVERY THURSDAY BY
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Subscription Rates;— One copy, one year
11.60; Six months, 75o: Three months,
Terms—I nvariably in advance.
Job and advertising rates inado known
application. Your patronage solicited.
A man who can’t read and
will not be allowed to vote in
necticut.
O. B. Joyful has not yet got an
office, but the new postmaster at May-
field, Ky., is O. B. Happy.
No doubt the bicycle will prove a
useful militiary adjunct; the [tandem
is said to be very useful in engage¬
ments even now.
The bicycle rider may make what
speed records he pleases; he will never
be as beautiful a sight as a high bred
horse in full action.
A firm in Omaha, Neb., advertised
the other day “the most highly sensa¬
tional bargain sale of line shoes since
Adam went barefooted.”
With regard to Klondike and gold
seekers being frozen to death, some
will remember in other late get-rich-
quick schemes how many were laid
out cold.
The Fitzgerald Leader is now a
full-fledged democratic paper. And
it will do yoernan work for the party.
Success to the Leader.— Thomasville
Tirues-Enterprise.
Counterfeit money is being made in
a Pittsburg prizon. The only way to
reform the Pittsburg criminals is to
remove them from the evil influences
surrounding the jail.
There are 90,000 lawyers in the
United States, or one to every 800 in¬
habitants, and their numbers are still
increasing. Unlike the editors they
seem to be hard to starve out.
If Cleveland were president it would
doubtless be charged that he was res¬
ponsible for the low price of cotton
and the prevalence of yellow fever.—
Thomasville Tiines-Enterprise.
A circus visited St. Joseph, Mo.,
the other day, and the News, of that
city, declares that attending a circus
in October is “too much like eating
ice cream at Christinas dinner to be
enjoyable.
Nearly 600,000 voters will decide
the fate of New York City in Novem¬
ber. The registration was unexpect¬
edly large and the election will be
closely contested so long as there is a
vote outside the ballot box.
Les Miserables is excluded from
the Philadelphia girls' high school as
an unfit book because it tells of the
French grisettes. The new testament
must be an unfit book also. It tells of
Mary Magdalene and the scarlet
woman.
The Klondyke seems to be rich in
names as well as in gold. It has been
known as Clondyke, Klondyke, Chan-
dike, Chandill, Deer, Reindeer,
Throndike and Throndluck, And
the time will come when its name will
be plain Dennis or Mud.
The New York World and the
New York Journal each has a press
that will print 75,000 eight-page
papers. The press holds sixty-four
plates, making eight papers at each
turn of the press. These are the fast¬
est machines in the country.
A bishop once gave this advice to a
boy who was greatly helped by it.
“When in trouble, my boy, kneel
down and ask God’s help; but never
climb over the fence into tbe devil’s
ground, and then kneel down and ask
help. Pray from God’s side of the
fence.”
They talk about greater New York
and greater Atlanta, now what’s tbe
matter with annexing Irwinville to
Fitzgerald and have greater Fitzger¬
ald. This would do away with all
future court house trouble, We
could just move the building from one
side of the town to the other and save
the expense.
Rejoice that you don’t live in
Great New York, where big ratifica¬
tions are being held at the rate of a
dozen a night, with oratory emphasized
by megaphone accompaniment and
electioneering wagons, blazoned with
candidates’ names, clangs their big
gongs in the streets day and night.
It approximates Bedlam broken loose,
Fitzgerald demonstrated the fact
she could cast the ballots, but ns a
“ counter” she was a total fatlure.
If Miss Cisneros lias recovered from
the fatigue of that great reception by
the New Yorkers she ought to be as¬
signed to duty as a reporter on one
the yellow journals.
_
General Miles returns home from a
visit to the leading capitals of the old
world and writes out a recommenda¬
tion for an increase in the size of the
regular United States army. The
general’s recommendations surprise
nobody.
_
Will the United States give up
Senorita Cisneros? Never. Every
American with a drop of red blood in
his veins stands ready to throw his
arms around her, paregorically speak¬
ing, as Mrs. Malaprop would say.
Fitzgerald fails to pet the Irwin
county court house. Fitz seems to
have been a little too previous. Per¬
haps she will succeed better next
time.—Waycross Herald.
Yes, we admit the corn. We have
learned a few things about Georgia
politics. Pass the bitters, please?
Take something?.
Says an agricultural exchange:
These are hard times. We let our
timber rot and buy fencing. We
throw away ashes and buy soap. We
raise dogs and buy hogs. We grow
weeds and buy vegetables and brooms.
We catch fish with a 81 rod. We
build school houses and send our
children to be educated away from
home, and so forth and so on until we
are broke. Yes, these are hard times.
South Georgia has been the home of
conservatism and common sense for
years. The people have been slower
to run off after revolutionary doctrines
and vagaries than in any other section
of Georgia. In the wiregrass regions
can be found the sturdiest citizenship
of the country. It will remain for
them, if they stand together and by
the old lines to furnish the brawn, the
muscle and brain that will bring to
Georgia its highest and most perfect
type of development.—Valdosta Times.
An exchange reports they have
found one editor in heaven. How he
got there is not positively known, but
it is conjectured that he piously passed
himself off for a Christian and stepped
in unsuspected. When the “dodge”
was discovered they searched the
beautiful realms of felicity in all their
length and breadth for a lawyer to
draw up the paper of ejectment but
they could not find one and of course
he held the fort. Lucky editor! How
did he thus manage to make his “call¬
ing and election sure?”
This immediate section of old
Georgia is indeed a delightful para¬
dise to those who desire to better their
condition. Here we have no drouths,
no floods, no blizzards, no colds snaps,
no hot winds, no heated terms, no
long, cold winters, no grasshoppers
and no cyclones. As great advant¬
ages, and as few objections are found
here as in any other section of country
either North or South, and the man
who is looking for a prosperous, prog¬
ressive community, should investigate
the advantages of South Georgia be¬
fore locating.
The Columbia, S. C., negroes, who
have subscribed nearly three-fourths
of the 8100,000 capital with which to
start a cotton factory in that city
(which will give employment night
and day to 600 of their race) have
shown a degree of thrift and enterprise
that cannot be too highly commended.
What the Columbia negroes have done
their brothers in other southern cent¬
ers of population can as readily do
with advantage to all their kind.
That way lies the best solution of the
race problem, and the way is open
and inviting.
The editor of an exchange has been
making some purchases since the
Dingley hill has begun to alter
prices in the necessaries of life, and
the theory that the foreigner pays the
tax finds no favor with him. He says:
“Soon after the passages of the Ding-
ley bill we read a labored article in a
republican journal trying to show
that the foreigner paid the tax. We
bought a dollar’s worth of sugar from
the grocer and found that we got two
pounds less than before the passage of
the act, and a bill made at a dry
good store showed an advance of 20
per cent. We paid the grocer and
the merchant. When will the for-
eigner pay us?”
A good old mother received a
dreadful shock the other day through
a telegram from her boy who is in
New York city enjoying himself. As
enjoying one’s self sometimes cost
money it is not strange that the young
man sent the following somewhat
slangy dispatch for more funds to his
father: Had my leg pulled. Broke.
Send me 850 by wire.” When the
mother read this appeal she was
plunged in grief. “My poor boy,”
she moaned. “He must have been in
one of those cable car things. Send
him 8100, father, and tell him to get
the best doctor in the city.”
The invention and proposed appli¬
cation of the new missile called “the
infernal bullet,” will certainly add an¬
other terror to war. The latest death
dealer is a projectile intended for the
rifle, and so constructed that it enters
the human body as a die cut into steel.
The entering end of the projectile is
cup shaped, as it cuts its way into the
opposing flesh broadens and expands,
producing a wound that no surgeon’s
skill can heal. Usually it adminis¬
ters instant death. Rival military au¬
thorities of Europe have raised the
question of the admissibility of the new
bullet into the uses of modern warfare.
It is seriously regarded by some au¬
thorities as a barbarous and unfair ac¬
cessory, to be tabooed by civilized na¬
tions.
Judge W. B. Butt held court dur¬
ing the past week at Clinton, Jones
county, repaying the service Judge
Hart rendered him when he presided
over the special session of the Talbot
court last summer. A rather remark¬
able feature of the Jones court is the
fact that the docket there has been in
use since 1817. For exactly eighty
years the cases tried at this court have
been entered upon the same book. The
book is of old style make and some of
the earlier entries in it are quaint and
amusing. In those days the minutes
of the court were also recorded in the
docket. None of the space in this re¬
cording volume has been wasted. The
big book has been styled “doequett,”
which is the old way of spelling the
word. The time-honored docket is
nearly used now, after it has done
nearly a century of service, and will
soon have to be replaced by a new one.
Hensons Why Chamberlain’s Colic, Chol¬
era and Diarrhoea Remedy Is
the Best.
1. Because it affords almost instant
relief in case of pain in the stomach,
colic and cholera morbus.
2. Because it is the only remedy
that never fails in the most severe
cases of dysentery and diarrhoea.
3. Because it is the only remedy
that will cure chronic diarrhoea.
A. Because it is the only remedy
that will prevent bilious colic.
5. Because it is the only remedy
that will cure epidemical dysentery.
6. Beeause it is the only remedy
that can always be depended upon in
cases of cholera infantum.
7. Because it is the most prompt
and most reliable medicine in use for
bowel complaints.
8. Because it produces no bad re¬
sults.
9. Because it is pleasant and safe
to take.
10. Because it has saved the lives
of more people than any other medi¬
cine in the world. The 25 and 50
cent sizes. For sale by J. II. Good¬
man, druggist.
OPTICIAN,
Have your eyes fitted by John Ad¬
ams, a man that has had twenty-seven
years oxperience. I have the best as¬
sortment of goods in tbe city. Gen¬
eral line of optical goods in stock.
Lenses, spectacle and eye glass frames,
cases, also opera and field glasses, tel¬
escopes. barometers, microscope, com¬
passes, etc.
JOHN ADAMS,
GRANT STREET,
FITZGERALD, GA.
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Sealed Bids Wanted.
Sealed bids for fifty (50) cords stove
wood, thirty-five (35) ctrdsto be twen
ty-four inches long; fifteen (15) oords
to be sixteen (16) inches long, twenty-
five (25) cords to be delivered at the
First Ward school building, and twen¬
ty-five (25) cores to be delivered at the
Third Ward school building on or be¬
fore December 10, 1S97, will be re¬
ceived by the clerk of the Board of
Education of the City of Fitzgerald,
Ga., until Tuesday next, Nov. 2, 1897.
The right is reserved to reject any and
all bids. W. II. Maston, Sec’y.
Take Notice.
All owners of stock running at
large in the city of Fitzgerald, Ga.,
must be taken up at once, in compli¬
ance with ordinance No. 14.
J. S. Jones, Chief of Police.
For Sale or Trade.
A farm of 100 acres, one half mile
from Fitzgerald. Improvements and
thirty-five acres old ground, Ad-
dress P. O. box 335, Fitzgerald, Ga.
43-31
Legal Legislation.
i-N \TOTTCEls horeby the given that applicatlcn assembly
win be made to next general the following lo¬
of Georgia for the passage of
cal bill of which the following Is the caption:
A bill to bo entitled #n aot to incorporate the
town of Irwinvllle in tho county of Irwin,
State of Georgia, to provide for a mayor, coun¬
cilman and other officers of said town; to au¬
thorize the officers and corporate au thori ties of
said town toexerclse such powei-6 and do such
things as may be necessary or propor for the
best interest, benefit, peace, good order, health
ami general welfare of said town, and the in¬
habitants thereof; to confer other and addi¬
tional powers and authority upon suchotfloers
and authorities; to authorize tho corporate
authorities of said town to pass and enforce
proper rules, by-laws and ordinances for the
government of said town; to authorize pun¬
ishment for any violation of said rules, by¬
laws and ordinances; to regulate or prohibit liquors
the sale of spirituous and Intoxicating
anil license the same, and impose penalties in
for soiling the same without license said
town: to repeal or amend an net entitled an
act to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquors far
In 1 rwin oounty approved Sept. 26,1879, so
as the same relates to the territory included in
the corporate limits of Raid town and for other
purposes. Oct.
26. 1897.
Local Legislation.
IVJOTICE -In is hereby given that application assembly
will be made to tho next general
of Georgia, for the passage of the following
local bill, of which the following is the caption:
A bill to be entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Ocilla, in the county of Irwin, State of
Georgia, to provide for a mayor, counciltnen,
recorder and other officers of said town; to
authorize tho officers and corporate authori¬
ties of said town to exercise such powers and
do such thiugs as may be necessary or proper
for the best interest, benefit, peace, good or¬
der, health and general welfare of said town,
and the inhabitants thereof: to confer other
and additional power and authority upon such
officers and authorities; to authorize the cor¬
porate authorities of said town to pass and en¬
force proper rules, by-laws and ordinances for
the government of said town; to authorize
punishment for any violation of said rules, by¬
laws and ordinances; to regulate or prohibit
ihe sale ol' spirituous and intoxicating liquors,
and license the 6ame, and impose penalties for
selling the same without a license in said town;
to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the
sale of intoxicating 26, 1879, liquors far in Irwin the county,
approved lates the Sept. territory included so as in the same re¬
to corpor¬
ate limits of said town, and other purposes.
Petition for Charter.
State of Georgia, i f
Irwin County,
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of MadiBon Buice, Z. V. Borden
andJ.J. Borden,respectfully shows:
First—That they desire to form themselves
and such other persons as may be associated
with them, Into a private corporation under
the corporate name and style of Ii win County
Dry Goods Company. this association
Second—That the objectof
is pecuniary gain, and the business they pro¬
pose to engage in and carry on classes is as follows,
viz: To buy, store and sell all of dry
goods and wearing apparel for male and fe¬
male customers, including boots, shoes, hats,
cap«, bonnets, millinery goods, notions, etc ,
and to own and run a first-class dry goods
store, to buy and sell all kinds of personal
property, and real estate and convey the same,
to lend or borrow money on note, bills, deeds,
mortgages, or other liens or obligations, to sue
and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to
have and use a corporate seal, to enter into
and carry out contracts, and generally to do
all acts and things necessary and proper for
the promotion and maintenance of the busi¬
ness of the corporation. of capital employed will
Third—The amount
be twenty-five thousand dollars, ten per cent,
of which is actually paid in, and the capital
stock shall be divided into shares of one hun¬
dred dollars each. No stockholder shall be
personally liable except for the stock sub¬
scribed for. That the principal place of doing
business shall be in Fitzgerald, Ga., and other
places as may be necessary for the promotion
of said business.
Fourth—In addition to the powers aforesaid
necessary to carry out the purpose and objects
of said corporation, and the the powers this common
to all corporations under laws of State
petitioners desire the following special pow¬
ers, viz: To increase the capital stock from
time to time to the sum of seventy-five thous¬
and dollars; to receive in payment of stock to
be issued, moneys, lands, or other property as
may be determined by the board of directors;
to make by-laws not inconsistent with the laws
of this State or the United States, and gener¬
ally to have and enjoy and exercise the cor¬
porate powers and privileges incident to cor¬
porations under the laws of this State.
Wherefore petitioners pray that, they and
their associates be incorporated with the
rights and privileges aforesaid for the term
of twenty years unde^ the name aforesaid,
with the privilege of renewal at the expira¬
tion of that time.
Cheney & Burch, Petitioners’ Att’ys.
Original filed in office 25th day of Sept., 1897.
State of Georgia,
Irwin County. \
1, J. B. D. Paulk, clerk of the superior court,
of Irwin county, do hereby certify that the
foregoing filed is a true office and this. correct September copy of the pe¬
tition in my 25.1897.
J. B. D. Paui.k, Clerk S. C. I. C.
Petition for Charter.
State of Georgia, i
Irwin County, f
To the Superior Court of Said County :
The petition of R. M. Pearson, I). M. Pear¬
son and J. Evans respectfully shows:
First—That petitioners desire to form them¬
selves and such other persons as may be as¬
sociated with them, into a private corpora¬
tion under the corporate name and style of
Fitzgerald Lumber the Company. object
Second—That of their association
is pecuniary gain, and the business they pro¬
pose to carry on is as follows: To operate a
steam saw mill in the manufacture of all
classes other of lumber, shingles, laths, staves and
all building material; to lease, buy and
sell all kind of lumber, to load and ship the
6ame.
Third—To build and operate a nava! store
factory or turpentine distillery, for the-pur¬
pose of manufacturing naval stores; to lease,
box, chip, hack and dip all sizes and classes ol
pine timber for the crude turpentine therein,
t o buy and sell crude and manufactured rosin
and turpentine.
Fourth—To build mill and turpentine sheds,
stores, warehouses, platforms, landings,
shops, barns, stables, log-wuy, tram railway
and equip same, and to use and run locomo¬
tives on same, and to operate all kinds of ma¬
chinery necessary to carry on said business.
Fifth—To do ageueral trade and merchan¬
dise business; to buy and sell personal prop-
ert>**md real estate, and to convey the same
by the president and secretary under the seal
of said corporation.
Sixth—To clear, fence, plant and cultivate
farms, and to generally do all acts and things
necessary and proner for the promotion and
maintenance of the business and objects of
the corporation
Seventh—To lend and borrow money on
notes, bills, deeds, mortgages and other'liens
and obligations; to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, to have and use a corporate
seal, to enter into and carry said out contracts for
building and operating tram railway and
manufacturing Eighth—The machinery.
amount of capital employed
will be forty thousand dollars, ten percent,
of which is actually paid in, and the capital
stock shall be divided into shares of one hun¬
dred dollars each, the stock holders shall not
be liable except for the 6tock subscribed for.
Ninth—The principal placeof doing business
will be in Irwin county, Georgia, and such
other places as may be necessary for the pro¬
motion of said business.
Tenth—In addition to the powers aforesaid
necessary to carry on the purpo sea and ob-
jects of said corporation and the powers com-
mon State, to all corporations desire under the laws special of this
petitioners the following
powers, viz: to increase their capital stock
from time to time to the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars, to receive in payment for
stock to be issued, money, lands or other prop¬
erty, as may be determined by the board of
d ! rectors, and to provide for the stock sub¬
scribed to be paid in installments or other¬
wise called for; to make by-laws not incon¬
sistent with the laws of said State and the
United States, and generally, to have, enjoy
and exercise the corporate powers and privil¬
eges incident to corporations under the laws
of this State. Wherefore petitioners prays
that they and their associates be incorporated
with the rights, powers, privileges, etc., for
the term of twenty years under the name
aforesaid with tbe privilege of renewal at the
expiration of that time. Oct. 1897.
Original filed in office this 19th of
Cheney & Burch, Petitioners’ Att’ys.
I, J. B. D. Paulk, clerk superior court of Ir¬
win county, do hereby certify that the forego¬
ing is a true copy of the petition filed in my
office, this. October 19,1897,
J. B. D. Paulk, Clerk of S. C. I. C.
Irwin Sheriff Sales.
Statu or Georgia, i
Irwin County. |
Will Unsold on the flrst Tuesday In Novem¬
ber next tit the court house In said county,
within the legal hours ot sale, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following property to-wlt:
One ten-aero tract number ilHtli of the colony
domain as shown by the recorded plat of the
Amerioan Tribune soldier colony company,
same being part of lotof landnumberoi in the
4th district of Irwin county. Said land levied
on as tlio property of D. I:. Carpenter, to sat¬
isfy an execution Issued from the justice
court of the 1637th district, G. M., of said coun¬
ty. in favor of E. K. Nelson against said D. 0.
Carpenter. K. V. Handuky, Sheritt l. C.
This Oct. 6th, lb97.
Will be sold before the court house door of
gal Irwin hours county. Irwinvllle, the Ga., between the le¬
of sale, on first Tuesday in No¬
vember next, the following property, to-wit:
Seventeen acres of lot of land number ninety-
four (04) in the second district of Irwin county,
Ga., Deloach; bounded on the west lands by lands of Murray
& north by of W. A. Story;
east by lands of Mrs.T. D. Swcaringain: south
bv original land line, one acre excepted of
lands of Mrs. Susan Williams, levied on and to
be sold as the property of A. J. Dyess, jo sat-
isfy one county court fl. fa. Issued from the
court of Irwin county, in favor of H. H. Sut¬
ton vs. said A. J. Dyess, levied on and re¬
turned to me by Wm. Rogers, county court
bailiff. Written notice given tenant in nos-
scssion ns required by law.
D. A. McInnis, Deputv Sheriff I. C.
This Ootober 5,1897.
Also nt the same time and place will be sold
the following property, to-wit; One tive-acre
traetof land number nine hundred and twelve
of the domain of the American Tribune sol¬
dier colony company, in Irwin county, a plat
of which domain appears on record in the
clerk’s office of superior court of said county,
together with the buildings and improvements
thereon. Said property levied on and to be
sold as the property of O. L. Jay, to satisfy one
county court fl. fa. issued from the county
court of said county in favor of L. F. 'i'ho.mp-
son vs. said O. L. Jay, levied on and returned
to me by Wm. Rogers, defendant county court bailiff.
Written notice given as required by
law. D. A. McInnis, Deputy Sheriff I. C.
This October 6,1897.
Petition for Charter.
State of Georgia,
Irwin County.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of J. B. Paulk, J. T. Boyd, F.
J Clark and D. VV. Paulk shows:
First—That they desire to form themselves
and such other persons as may be associated
with them, into a private* corporation under
the corporate name and style of “Fitzgerald
Mercantile Company. ”
Second—That the object of this association
is pecuniary gain, and and the business they pro¬
pose to engage in carry oa is as follows,
viz: To buy, store and sell all classes of dry
goods, notions, shoes, hats, caps, groceries,
hardware, and in fact everything that is kept
and sold in a first-class general mercantile es¬
tablishment, and to do a general mercantile
business. To buy and sell all kinds of personal
property and real estate, and to convey the
same, to lend or borrow money on notes, bills,
deeds, mortgages, or other liens or obligations,
to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded,
to have and use a corporate seal, to enter into
and carry out contracts, and generally to do all
acts and things necessary and proper for the
promotion objects and of the maintenance of the business
Third—The corporation.
amount of capital employed will
ten thousand dollars, ten percent of which
actually paid in and the capital stock shall
divided into shares of one hundred dollars
No stockholder shall be personally lia¬
except for the amount of stock subscribed
Fourth-Theprincipal be in place of doing busi¬
will Fitzgerald, Ga.. and such other
as may be necessary for the promotion
said business.
Fifth—In addition to the powers aforesaid
carryout the purposes and objects of said
and the powers common to all
under the laws of this State, pe¬
desire the following special powers:
increase the capital stock from time to
to the sum of twenty-five thousand dol¬
to receive in payment of stock to be is¬
money, lands or other property as may
determined by the board of directors, to
by-laws not inconsistent with the laws
this State or the United States, and gener¬
to have, enjoy and exercise the corporate
and privileges incident to corpora¬
under the laws of the State.
Wherefore petitioners pray that they and
their associates be incorporated with the
of powers and privileges, etc., for the
twenty years, under the aforesaid Ex¬
with the privileges of renewal at the
of that time.
Cheney & Burch. Petitioners’ Attorneys.
Original filed in office Sept. 25th, 1897.
Ik of County, Georgia, f )
win
I. J. B. D. Paulk, of the superior court of
county do hereby certify that the forego¬
is a true and correct copy of the petition
in my office.
J. B. D. Paulk, C. S. C. I. C.
Notice.
In requirement of the statute in such
provided, notice is hereby given
that at the next ensuing session of the
Assembly of the State of
a bill will be introduced to
au act entitled, “An act to in¬
the city of Fitzgerald, in tbe
of Irwin, in the State of Geor¬
to define the corporate limits of
city ; to provide for the election
a mayor and aldermen, and other
officers, for the government there¬
; to enact all necessary ordinances,
to provide penalties for violation
tbe same ; to regulate the sale of
malt and intoxicating
merchandise and other com¬
; to provide a system of pub¬
schools ; to construct and maintain
system of sewerage ; to regulate fire,
and police protection ; to
revenue by taxation and specific
or otherwise; to defray ex¬
of the city government; to
franchises to railway, electric
telegraph, telephone, water
ana other companies, and such
franchises as may be deemed
; to provide for the laying
of streets, alleys, sidewalks,
parks and other public grounds,
and maintaining the same, and for
purposes,” and approved De¬
2, 1896. Said bill will seek to
amend said act of incorporation by
repealing sections tliirty-eight (38),
thirty-nine (39) and forty (40) entirely ;
and also all that part of section one
hundred and three (103), which has
reference to said sections 38, 39 and
40. Also an amendment to said act
of incoporatlon by introducing into
ttie same a section wholly prohibiting
the city council of said city from reg¬
ulating or licensing the sale or giving
away of any spiritous or malt liquors,
wine or cider, or anything else which
can intoxicate, within the limits of
said city, or within the police jurisdic¬
tion of the same. Also at the same
time a bill will be introduced into the
General Assembly to repeal tbe entire
act of incorporation hereinbefore re-
to by its title, and a new bill in¬
with the same title.
Rev. J. H. Stoney,
President Citizens’ Reform League.
W. W. Biieese, M. D., Secretary.
Fitzgerald Cotton Market.
Thursday, October 14, 1897.
Tho market is quoted as follows:
middlings 5%
511-16
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