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The Fitzgerald Leader.
Established 18 Q 6 .
VOL. II.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
O. C. Smith,Judge Sup. Court,Hawlrinville.Ga
Tom Eason, Solicitor Sup. Court. McRae,
«L B. Clements, C ). Judge, Irwinville, “
J. E. Burch, Co. Solicitor, Fitzgerald, *•
J..J. Lee,Ordinary, Irwinville, “
J. B. D. Paulk, Clerk Sup. Court, Irwinyille, “
H. V. Handley, Sheriff, Fitzgerald “
0. L. Royal, Tax Receiver, Sycamore, “
J. R. Paulk,Tax Collector, Ooilla, “
James Walker, Co. Treasurer, Irwinville,
E. J. Hogan, Co. Surveyor, Minnie,
Marion Dixon, School Com., 44
M. Henderson, Co. Commissioner, Ocilla, “
Christian Science.
Services every Sunday morning 10:30; Sun¬
day school 11:80, and Sunday evening services
at 7:30, corner of Pine avenue and Lee street.
A cordial invitation is extended to all of -what¬
ever creed or calling.
TIFTON AND NORTHEASTERN R.
“SOLDIERS’ COLONY ROUTE.”
General Olllccs, Tifton, Georgia.
Nol. No3- Feb. 9, 1897. No. 2. No. 4.
A. M. y r P. M. P. M.
7:30 SSS6SSS Lv. Tifton, Ga. Ar. 12:00 *1 isssssis:
7;45 f Brighton 11:45 -1
7:55 f Harding, 11:36 »
8:15 f Pinetta. 11:16 =5
8:31 Irwin. 11:10 Oi
8:43 cn f Fletcher. 10:59 C5
9:00 jjt Ar. Fitzgerald,Lv. 10:45
Trains Nos. 1, 2.3 and 4 run daily except
Sunday. Nos. 7 and 8 Sunday only,
Trains run on
if) Trains stop only on signal. with Plant System
Trains connect at Tifton
and G. S. & F. railroads, and Georgia and Ala¬
bama H.Tift, at Fitzgerald. President.
H. Vice-President.
IV. O. lift, Traffic Manager.
F. G. Boatright.
GEORGIA & ALABAMA RAILWAY.
“THE SAVANNAH SHORT LINE.”
Passenger Schedule, Effective Oct. 3,’07,
No. 19 No. 17 STATIONS. No. 18 No. 20
P. M. A. A. P. M. A. M.
7 20 7 55 Lv. Savannah Ar. 8 35 11 55
9.51 9 38 Claxton 6 50 9 18
10 20 10 03 Collins 0 23 8 42
10 05 10 31 Lyons 5 55
ft 1 11 58 Abbeville Helena 3 4 25 15 5 4 ;J5 55
2 14 12 48
P. M. P. M. P. M.
.7 15 3 35 Lv. Abbeville Ar. 12 25 7 30
A. M
9 1- 4 35 Ar. Fitzgerald Lv. 11 25 0 00
10 00 5 05 Ocilla 10 30 5 20
P. M. A. M.
2 39 1 °Z Lv. Rochelle Lv. 3 00 4 10
a 53 1 17 Pitts 2 55 3 57
3 40 2 08 Cordele 2 20 3 15
4 20 2 40 De Sota l 27 2 25
A. M.
5 or 3 09 Americus 12 23 I 29
5 54 3 45 Preston 12 13 12 X)
. A. M. P. M.
0 15 4 00 Richland U 55 12 10
5 20 Columbus 10 30 4 15
M. 5 00 3 25
35 9 35 Albany
A. Jl. Lumpkin Lv. 11 28 11 43
H 30 4 21 Lv.
7 25 5 05 Omaha 10 40 :o 53
7 47 5 27 Pittsboro 10 18 10 31)
8 20 5 59 Hurtsboro 9 48 9 58
10 45 7 55 Ar. Mont’mery Lv 7 50 7 40
Nos. 17 and 18 day express trains, carrying
Georgia & Alabama new and magnificent buf-
let parlor 19 and cars. 20 fast night .... trains, carrying
Nos. sleeping between Sa-
Pullman palace Montgomery. cars
vannab connections and at all junctions and ter¬
Close for all points.
minal points Vice.Pres. &Gen. Mgr.
Cecil Gabret, A. Pope, Gen. Pas. Agt.
C. N. Kcoht. A.G.P. A.
Ed Stallings, T. P. A., Fitzgerald.
CHENEY & BURCH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office— In Paulk Building, Grant Street,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
WAY & JAY,
Attorney-at- Law,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Office— In the Slayton & Kern building on
pine avenue.
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E. W. By man* Xj. Kennedy,
Of South Dakota. Of Savannah.
RYMAN & KENNEDY,
Office— In Fitzgerald Block.
W. F. THOMPSON,
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CORDELE, GEORGIA.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
(Lato ol’ the Best American Hospitals)
Specialist in Chronic Diseases !
Of TVfen and Women,
OflSce, S. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per¬
manently located.)
A Card to the Public.
Being reliably informed that certain'unprin- the
eipled parties charm aro spreading purchased a and report sold by to
effect that a me
was oni y pawned, 1 would, in order to disap¬
prove the falsehood, make the following
statement: I have at present ovei *100.08
worth of customers’ watches on ray rack
which I have a right to dispose of because the
time in which they must be called for in ac¬
cordance with the laws of this State, has ex¬
pired. Now, is it reasonable to suppose that
I would dispose of an article I haye no right
to sell, while holding over *100.00 worth of
watches left for repair overtures months ago
Without being called 78r, and which 1 have,
therefore, a perfect legal right to sell, but
NEVE lt OFFERED TO SO IN SINGLE INSTANCE.
Let an intelligent public answer. Also, know¬
ing full well in whose interests said black¬
mailing scheme was concocted. I will, until
further notice, clean watches and clocks for
60c; Mainsprings 50c; Jewels from 25 to 75o:
Crystals and hands loo. All other work In
proportion and fully warranted. Best 8-day
Clocks *2.50, worth $4. Rogers’ triple-plated wo|th*2.75.
( No. 6) Teaspoons *1.75 per set of 6,
Triple-plated Tablespoons *3.50 per set, worth
*5.00. Rogers' triple-plated (No. T2) Knives
and Forks, *3-50 per set of 6 each. Other goods
at proportionate reduction.
H. WETTSTEIN.
E. NICHOLSON,
A-ULctioio. eer,
East Pine Avenue
PITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
Is now prepared to give rates on short notice.
Having had fifteen years experience, perfect
Satisfaction fa guaranteed. For rates and
bills call at Leader office.
“MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.”
FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 25, 1897.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER.
Official Newspaper off Irwin County, Georgia.
Official Newspaper of City of Fitzgerald, Ga.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
j G KNAPP,' f ®® 1TOR8 and Publishers.
Subscription Rates:—O n e copy, one year
$1.50; Terms—I Six nvariably months, in 75c; Th ree months, 50c.
advance.
Job and advertising rates made known on
application. Your patronage solicited.
Just to show that if is as civilized
as other states, North Dakota has in¬
dulged in the luxury of a lynching.
If the world should be thrown into
a fever of excitement over the gold
finds on the Yukon, how much more
should it become interested in the
marvelous riches taken from Georgia
soil this banner year! Why, our
chickens alone are worth more* than
all the gold taken out of Alaska at
the sacrific of life and peril of health.
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The New Tourist Hotel, Nearly Completed, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
The last Kentucky legislature had
a republican majority of three. The
next will have 102 democrats and 36
republicans. The Kentucky planters
and farmers didn’t take much stock
in McKinley’s prosperity.
Whipple, bill of Dooly county, has in¬
troduced a in the legislature to
create called a new “Wire judicial circuit, to be
the Grass circuit,” and
to include Dooly, Irwin, Wilcox and
Worth counties.—Ashburn Advance.
Now if the legislature will make
the officer of Superior Judge and so¬
licitor elective and clip the county
court of all criminal cases The
Leader would then be in a position
to say “Amen.”
Dr. Charles Smith, of New Jersey,
testified in court the other day that he
is 121 years old, and that he has lived
thus long because he bathed in Law¬
rence brook. Last summer he con-
ucted a sanitarium, and he took his
patients to bathe in the life-giving
stream. Residents of New Brunswick
objected to this and caused Dr. Smith’s
arrest. The jury sided with the skep¬
tics and found the doctor guilty, and
he must pay a fine of $1,000 or be im¬
prisoned for two years.
It is merely making the wish father
to the thought when some republican
papers say that New York will con¬
trol the next democratic national con¬
vention. The power of New York in
the national democratic convention
was broken forever when in 1892 and
1896 the democracy of the west and
south nominated candidates who were
bitterly opposed by the New York
delegation. The West and South will
name the candidates and ( draft the
platform of the next national conven¬
tion and no dictation from the East
will be allowed or permitted.
Election By the People.
Teifair County Yeoman.
The sentiment has beeen gaining
ground during recent years through¬
out the state to take from the legis¬
lature the right and duty of electing
judges and solicitors-general, and
placing these elections in the hands of
the people of the various districts of
the state.
We believe that a vast majority of
the people of the state is in favor of
this change in the manner of electing
these officers. The legislature should
so amend the constitution and make
these officers elective by the people.
Some of the republican papers
which have been hurrahing over Sen¬
ator Gorman’s defeat were rather
taken aback when they found that his
term doesn’t expire until March 4,
1899, and not next March, as they
supposed.
“No man can sit on the fence and be
elected to office in Georgia next year,”
says the Albany Herald. No, indeed.
No man can sit on anything and be
elected to office in Georgia next rear.
He’s got to keep moving,
If the Dingley tariff caused the rise
in the price of wheat, and not the
foreign shortage," our Canadian brotb-
ers must be pleased with the new tariff
because the price of wheat there has
kept pace with the price in the United
States.
There are many reasons for such a
change, and we are conscious of none
against it. If there ever existed a
good reason for putting these elections
in the hands of the legislature, such
reason has disappeared. The people
desire the change.
The members of the supreme court
are now elected directly by the people.
The people could never be induced to
vote for an amendment to the consti¬
tution increasing the number of judges
until a provision was made making
these judges elective by the people.
This shows that popular sentiment
in the state is in favor of elections
directly by the people. If the people
are competent to elect judges of the
supreme court, they are cetainly com¬
petent to elect circuit court judges and
solicitors general. If there is no dan¬
ger that the judicial ermine will be
corrupted in contact with popular
politics when it comes to the election
of the highest judicial officers of the
the state, there can be no reason for a
fear of such dinger when it comes to
the election of these other officers of
the state. We beleive as an original
proposition that all these officers
should be elected by the people and
held by the people responsible for
their trusts. It is in keeping with
the spirit of democratic government.
The wishes of the people are often
times not carried out by these elections
in the halls of the legislature. The
manner of the election are often not
commendable. Votes are often traded.
Ability and fitness of the aapirants
are matters of small consideration.
The main question with many legislat¬
ors is, “who can afford me the most
assistance ns a return for my help
and support?” It has been (charged
that candidates before the legislature
for these positions have actually sent
money to counties in the state to assist
a henchman in being elected that they
might obtain his vote and assistance
in the legislature. The trading and
corruption attending the elections by
the legislature have disgraced the
state long enough, and it is high time
that a change is made in accordance
with the sentiment of the people.
An act by the legislature amending
the constitution so as to put these
elections in the hands of the people
will receive an overwhelming ratifica¬
tion by the people.
Support your home newspaper.
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Is again with us, and now has a stock in a complete line of Buggies, Carriages,
^ Pbajtons, Delivery Wagons, etc., and begs all customers in want of any kind of a
X vehicle to call and see his assortment before purchasing elsewhere. Heinem-
^ her, at a Vehicle Store i6 the place to get your Vehicles.
I Indiana Vehicle Store Cor. Grant and Magnolia. .
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M, 0 usually kept in a first-class store, is now ***
W before complete have in every the people department. Never,
of Fitzgerald *
*Pf ^ better and country selected seen a more complete or *P
stock from which to
sMs ■m make their purchases. 3fc
# u LOW PRICES MARE LIVELY BUYING.” X
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than we do. This season we have priced T
¥ goods constant cheaper aim than each ever before. to better It is ^ ^
our season
w our best of the season past. *
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ife In this department we are better pre- 3§£ sjs
gjg pared Our to serve you than ever before,
stock is replete with noveltiesQso ^
f p T ular this season for Shirt Waists, ±
* e have made a special effort this *
j*- season on Black and Colored Wool ^
jl Dress Goods. Our stock is larger,
X assortment cheaper than more noth complete withstanding and prices the jjjj *§*
*fs ever,
3$E high this tariff higher will surely make goods of s§c
kind later on.
Shoe Department.
We carry the largest and best stock
3$S 3§g of Ladies’ in Southern and Gents’ Georgia. Fine Shoes We sell ever the sjs ^
seen
gjg finest Ladies Kid Button Shoe in the ^
^ city for $3.00. Why pay $4.00 and X ^
$5.00 elsewhere and get no better? *
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PRED L. BIGHAM,
Contractor # Builder.
Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice.
Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Too Sporty, Ye Gods.
Americus Herald.
The Albany Herald publishes a
lengthy editorial under the caption
“The trouble with the state uuiversity”
and it is interesting reading to say the
least of it.
It goes on to say, and most truth¬
fully, that the institution is not so
popular with some people of the state
as it should be and then it looks for
the reasons why this is the case.
After stating several minor reasons
the Herald ask the following:
What is it? Why is it that so
many fathers in the State who have
boys to educate are afraid to send
them to the State University?
The tendency of the University at
Athens and the influences that sur¬
round it are too “sporty” and aesthetic
to suit the common people of Georgia.
Too much football and baseball and
“swell” society! There’s the trouble
with the State University that we have
at Athens today.
There where oh, where will our
fathers send their sons so that they
may attend a college that is not so
“sporty” as the university at Athens.
Many of our young men get their
educations in institutions outside of
the state. Some of them go to
Harvard, some to Yale, some to
Princeton, others to Columbia, Cor¬
nell, Rennsalaer, Stevens, Pennsyl¬
vania and various different colleges
in the north, yet none of these colleges
are at all “sporty” or are located in
sporty cities. Oh, no.
There is evidently no aestheticism,
no swell society in any ot the northern
cities where the greatest colleges in
the world are located and that is the
reason, according to the views of the
Albany Plerald, that our Georgia
fathers send their sons to the quiet
little villages like New York, Phil¬
adelphia, Cambridge, New Haven.
Ithica, Troy, and others injorder that
they may pursue their studies in abso¬
lute quiet, with no football, baseball
or social entertaintments to take their
minds off their studies.
If the true reason as to why parents
do not send their sons to the university
is wanted it is because the ((university
has not the support from the state
which is due it. The Herald wants
the university to succeed in every
possible way, but it cannot do so un¬
less the state will help it. As soon as
the legislature sees fit to do the proper
thing by the best institution in our
state and place it on a par with other
firstclass colleges, just then will our
people only be too willing to send their
sons there for their education.
A government inspector pounced
down on Postmaster Lee, of Thomas-
ville and found him short $206.00 in
his accounts. Several days was given
Mr. Lee to raise the amount, but he :
was unable to make good the amount. 1
An extravgant family is said to be the
cause, Mr, Lee being a man with no
bad habits. The affair has caused a
profound sensation in Thomasville.
The first number of The Poulan
News and Immigrant has reached our
X table. The enterprise is a 7-column
folio, neatly printed and ably edited
e. a. Nisbett is at the helm as editor
and manager. Success to it.
! Editors ad hbttikm
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