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out to Sell every Voter the^^
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And Quotes a Few Prices:
•fHfl Bed $1.50 to $8.00.
Mattress $1.75 to $6.00.
Chairs $40c to $2.50 each.
|| Ex. Tables, 6 ft., beauties, $4.38. $
fl>attm* of all Kiftds. **
WARDROBES, BUREAUS,
And everything to be found
in a First-Class Furniture
Store.
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Let ue remind vou that J. E. BENTZ will sell you first-class goods at *
the very lowest figures, and will, at all cheap times, meet any .1. legitimate IIENTZ, (4;] v»y
competition. When you want Groceries call on E.
And your wishes will be gratified. Wo also handle Gold Medal, V+J
Ballard and Pillsbury’s Best Flour in Sacks.
J. 5. BBN-TZ, S
East Pine Av., Fitzgerald, Ga. *
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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
goods from which to make your selection, which
is much better than to depend upon the ready¬
made suits where the assortment is so small in
suits that will fit you. Our Fall and Winter
Samples and Fashion Plates 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,
nue.
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 Folice.
Subscribe for The Leader.
Peach Trees for Sale.
Sneid and Elberta June buds, guar¬
anteed true to name. The Sneed is
the earliest peach known. Ripened at
Tifton this year May 15. Sold in
Philadelphia for $6 per crate. For
prices inquire of W. O. Tift,
41-4w Tifton, Ga.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER.
Official Newspaper of Irwin County, Georgia.
Official Newspaper of City of Fitzgerald, Ga.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
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Subscription Kates:— One copy, one year
11.60: Six months, 75o; Throe months, 50o.
Thumb— Invariably In advance.
Job and advertising rates made known on
application. Your patronage solicited.
Marion Crawford, Hall Caine and
other authors are winning two prizes
with the same throw. The lecture
may please where the book fails; 'and
vice versa. Enterprise is pursuing the
muse.
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In an article in the Philadelphia
Inquirer, dealing with some phases of
the railway problem in Great Britain
and the United 'Hates, Robert P. Por¬
ter says the most superlieial observer
must be struck with the widely differ
ent treatment accorded railway enter¬
prise by the legislators of tbe two
countries. In England the railways
have been treated with reasonable in¬
telligence, and, while parliament has
insisted upon equal and reasonable
rates, they have not, as in this coun¬
try, been tied up by an interstate law,
which forbids freedom of contract for
the purpose of unitication of charges
at competing points, nor harassed in
a thousand different ways by almost
half a hundred legislatures, with Mil-
limited power and great inclination
for local mischief. As a result of this
policy, the returns of the British rail¬
ways for 1896 allow these properties
to be in exceedingly prosperous condi¬
tion, nearly all the stocks bringing
fair dividends, the interest on tbe
loans and bonds promptly paid, the
wages of the employes on some roads
voluntarily increased, and an in¬
creased employment, both in the shops
and on the tracks.
East year the statistician of the in¬
terstate commerce commission, when
contemplating the fact that in two
years our railways had run behind
over $75,0*0,000, remarked; "Should
this continue, cither the investment
or the credits of railways must disap¬
pear.” In the United States the credit
has already gone and the investment
is rapidly following. About $3,600,-
000,000, or over seventy per cent, of
tbe capital stock of railways pays no
dividend whatever. In England the
returns of 1896 show that only $285,-
000,000, or aboHt 8 per cent, of the
capital stock is unremunerative. In
England the dividends average nearly
four per cent.; in the United States
last year only about one and one-half
per cent.
In the United Kingdom, the interest
of no loans nor bonds went by default.
The report says of about $5,000,000
“not entitled to interest.” and inter¬
est ranging from two to five per cent,
and over was paid on the loans and
debentures, aggregating ahout $1,450,-
000,000. As an offset to this healthy
showing, we have about $890,000,000
of the bonds of American railways in
default, ornearly 17 per cent, of the
whole. As investments for saving
funds, with a few noted exceptions,
the American railway security cuts no
figure. On the other hand, English
railway securities are looked upon in
that country as excellent stocks to
buy, not for speculation, but invest¬
ment. As a consequence, English
railways can command all the neces¬
sary capital to carry on needed im¬
provement and employ the full quota
of hands. it
J. A. JUSTICE’S
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Is Where I Secure Bargains. In
Real Estate
Five-acre tract No.255, deeded; house 16x30,
kitchen luxl2, barn, etc.: good well, 50 fruit
trees and two dozen grape vines, for $175 cash
or $200, one hall' on time.
Two-story building, corner of Lee and Oc-
mulgee streets, lot 1. sq 16, block 6, in center
block, deeded; $350 cash, This or $100, one-half cash,
balance in six months. is a snap.
Lot 3, square 15, block 1, deeded; house 12x16,
kitchen 10x12, well 27 feet deep ; cleaned and
fencedjin. Think of this, $100!
Five-acre tract No. 637. All good land.
Deeded, $100.
Peach orchard for sale, one year old, on 5-
acre tract No. 870; 70o fine trees: tract under
good board fence, $350 cash, or $400, one half
cash and balance on time. The trees are worth
the price, they will bear in two years.
One hundred and twenty-five acre farm, 2V i
miles south of the town, 15 acres improved,
house 16x45, shed, etc., well 28 feet deep. Good
timber that would sell for one-half the price
asked for the farm. Clear deeds, $900.
Lot 4, squares, block 2, deeded; house 16x20,
well 22 feet deep, good board fence; $75 if sold
by Nov. 8th. Don’t forget this.
How is this for a bargain? Two fine lots on
S. Lee street, adjoining, lots 25 and 26, square
7, block 10, deeded. Only $250.
Seven 5-acre tracts, adjoining, southeast of
city, tracts 1407 to 1413, deeded, $900 if takon
soon.
House and lot on N. Lee street, deeded, *75.
Fine 20-acre tracts, 2,354 and 2,425, deeded,
*150. Cash offer of *50 for timber.
A few rare bargains on W. Central avenue,
from *100 to *150; 40 feet lots.
Lot 5. square 2, block 5, deeded, *50.
Houses to rent. Call and got prices.
Colony stock bought at market price.
J. A. JUSTICE,
Pine Avenue,near Cor. Grant St.
Legal Legislation.
XN VJOTICEIs made hereby the given that applicntlen assembly
will ho to next general
of Georgia for the passage of the following lo¬
cal hill of whloh be entitled the following Is Incorporate the caption: iho
A bill to an not to
town of Irwinvllle In the county of Irwin,
State of Georgia, to provide for a mayor, ooun-
oilmen and other offloers of said town; to au¬
thorize tho ofiteors and corporate authorities of
said town to exercise such powers and do such
things ns may be necessary or proper for the
best interest, benefit, peace, good order, health
and general welfare of said town, and the In¬
habitants thereof: to confer other and addi¬
tional powers and authority upon such officers
and authorities; to authorize the 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
and license the same, and impose penalties
for selling the same without license In said
town; to repeal or amend an act entitled an
act to prohibit the salo of Intoxicating 26.1879, liquors far
In Irwin county approved Sept. so
as the same relates to the territory Included In
the corporate limits of said town and for other
purposes. Oct. 26.1897.
Petition for Charter.
State of Gf,orgia, i
Ikwin County, j
To tho Superior Court of Said County:
The petition of B. M. Pearson, D. M. Pear-
son and J. Evans respectfully shows:
First—^That petitioners desire to form them¬
selves and such other persons as may bo as¬
sociated with them, into a private corpora¬ style
tion under the corporate name and of
Fitzgerald Lumber Company.
Second—That the objeot of their association
is pecuniary gain, and the business they pro¬
pose to carry on is ns follows: To operate a
Bteam saw mill in the manufacture of all
classes of lumber, shingles, laths, staves and
all other building material; to lease, buy and
sell all kind of lumber, to load and ship tbe
same.
Third—To build and operate a naval store
factory or turpentine distillery, for the pur¬
pose of manufacturing navalstores; to lease, of
box, chip, buck anti dip all sizes andclasses
pine timber for the crude turpentine therein,
to buy turpentine, and sell crude and manufactured rosin
and
Fourth—To build mill and turpentine Bheds,
stores, shops, warehouses, stables, log-way, platforms, landings, railway
bams, tram
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 a general trade and merchan¬
dise business; real to buy and and sell personal the prop¬
erty and estate, to convey 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 proper for the promotion and
maintenance of the business and obleets 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 out contracts for
buildingand operating said tram railway and
manufacturing Eighth—The machinery. capital
will thousand amount of employed
of be forty actually dollars, ten per cent,
which is 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 stock subscribed for.
will Ninth—Theprinoipal be in Irwin place Georgia, of doing and business such
other county,
places as may be necessary for tbe pro¬
motion of said business.
Tenth—In addition to the powers aforesaid
necessary to carry on the purpo ses and ob*
jects of said corporation and the powers corn-
uion to all corporations underthe laws of this
State, petitioners desire the following specisl
powers, viz: to increase their capital stock
from time to time to the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars, to receive in payment lor
stock to be issued, money, lands or other prop¬
dtrectors, erty, as may be determined by the lo.rdif
and to provide for the stood tub
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 tho 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 that the privilege of renewal at tho
expiration filed of time.
Original in office this 19th of Oct. 1897.
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.
Drs. C, A. & L> C. Holtzendorf,
Office— In Slayton & Kern building, oppo¬
Commercial hotel. Fitzgerald, Ga
21.
E. NICHOLSON,
Auction e e r 9
East Pine Avenue,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
Is no'iv prepared to give rates on short notice.
Satisfaction Having had fifteen years experience, perfect
is guaranteed. For rates and
bills call at LEADEitoffice.
For Tailor Suits
CALL ON
E. J. DANCY,
Fine At-, Nest Door to Commercial Hotel
A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask.
All garments cut and made on premises.
Cleaning. Repairing and Pmsinz a Specials
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List - Property
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Pay : Taxes
For non-residen t property owners. Small and
large tracts of land for sale. Enclose stamp
giving full information.
F, WILLIAMS, SON & CO, Fiasgerald, Ga,
Real UstateDealers.
OPTICIAN,
Have your eyes fitted by John Ad¬
ams, a man that lias had twenty-seven
years .xperience. I have the best as¬
sortment of goods in the 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,
GHANT STREET,
FITZGERALD, GA.
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