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- T he Fitzgerald Leader. Established 1896. VOL. II. BARGAIN DAY! AT THE i For Saturday % I^toriday. f0U^/rfght? 'BuUHoW $4 3 3 2 1 00 00 50 00 50 Pants Pants Pants, Pants “ all at all black, “ wool, only.......... wool, at ......... at at only.... only. only.. $3 --KM 00 50 25 50 00 1 00 Pants, Jeans, at only.. 85 Dbyou|ooKf5 90 75 75 Pants, Pants, Pants, cottonade, Jeans, Black Cashmere.. at only... only... at only 50 75 69 k 75 Pants, Jeans, at 60 Everybody know that we sell only the s 20c all Linen White Handker¬ best grades of ready- chiefs only................. 10c to-wear 15c white, colored border, hfim- CLOTHING stiched....... ............... 9c 10c white, colored border, hem- for Men and Boy*, stiched, only............... 5c but there are c 5c Twill...................... 4c many of -ustom- 5c Red..................... 4c our 5c Blue...................... 4c ers who prefer to have White China Silk, only....... 29c 1 their clothes 50c 50c White China Silk, col’d bord’r 29c MADE TO ORDER 40c White Japanese Silk ....... 24c We are Sole 10c Card, Pearl Agate Sleeve But¬ Agents for tons ....................... 5c ___ _ _ - -TT- lie Card, Bone Collar Buttons... 5c MILLS Ay" AVFRILL 10c »11 wood covered sleeve hold’s 25c 4c 45c all wool Scotch Caps........ Wholesale Tailors, of S U Louis, - who never make a suit to order unless they Good all wool suits only...... $8 00 are willing to guarantee it to be strictly Good all wool plaid Suits only.. 8 00 first-class in Good Clay worsted Suits only.. 9 00 Good mixed wool suits ....... 4 98 FIT, FABRIC FASHION. We also offer bargains in other Call and leave and will many your measure, we articles. Call and see our goods be- guarantee that , you will be entirely ... pleased. We fore buyjng e i se where. have a full line of samples. Just received a car-load of Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags and Telescopes. W. J. FERGUSOI) & CO. East Pine Avenue, Fitzgerald, Ga. V Climax Lunch Room, MOST POPULAR IN CITY, Has been enlarged and refurnished in First-class style. Oyster Par¬ lors in connection. HOT and COLD LUNCHES SERVED at all HOURS. ^ and Best Bakers’ Coffee Goods in the always City, All hand. kinds Fruits, and Homemade Pies ^ f on BELL & HEINICKER, Prop’rs, Pine A* Low Prices. Good Quality. 'Ap y 31 Cl! I oi Our new Winter Stock is arriving I daily with some of the newest styles P and handsome Dress Goods ever shown to an appreciative with public, large KJD Our shelves are e filled a and assorted stock of Fine Shoes— T in fact for quality and price cannot fjjj be and duplicated Underwear in the complete city. Hosiery in both || ¥ departments. Lower prices than 1 (Q) ever. If you are in need of Dress (jj) A jUj Goods, Notions, Etc., call and see us. •: l B. T- BfllSDEN |$w \\ / EAST PINE AVENUE. # OF COURSE * YoUHeed Groceries i2j>f Our new stock complete of Family Groceries of everything are arriving known every xjk clay. We have a assortment to the srocerv trade an T3 at Bed-Rock Prices for cash. We take CD of the city fkBk of JSS, - CHARGE. Sherman and Pine. -fp> L. SHUMWAY, Cor. “MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE." FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 2, 1897! - Trying to do business without ad¬ vertising is like throwing a kiss at a girl in the dark ; you know what you are doing, but nobody else does. The foot ball record for this season to date is killed outright, 8 ; perma¬ nently injured, 16 ; seriously injured, 120 ; injured, 130. This only includes games in leading schools and college Every cotton grower wishes ever , other cotton grower would reduce his acreage of cotton, but isn’t willing to plant less cotton himself—Edgefield (S. C.) Advertiser. Arizona is pressing for admission as a State. Its population is only a frac¬ tion of the ratio on which the house of representatives is apportioned—only an average of one inhabitant per square mile. One cannot elbow their way through the Kimball house rotunda without running up against half a dozen men who have their gubernatorial light¬ ning rods up, says the Thomasville Times Enterprise. Georgia wants fewer, simpler and plainer laws, without so many surplus whereases, wherefores and therefores. The multiplicity of laws, many of them couched in language susceptible of more than one construction, is the bane of the State. An editor once received a marriage notice for publication of Mr. Eben- ezer Sweet to Miss Jane Lemon. He commented as follows : “ How hap¬ pily extremes do meet, in Jane and Ebenezer; for she’s no longer sour, but Sweet, and he’s a Lemon squeezer.” A convention of cotton growers is called for December 13th, in Atlanta. The chances are that the growers will meet, pass a lot of resolutions and then go home and plant it all’down in the fleecy staple. That is a good way to push up the price, we don’t think.— Americus Herald. An exchange says that a little girl who had been taught to pray for oth¬ ers and for anything she wanted, wound up her prayer as follows: “And now, oh, God, take good care of your¬ self, for if anything should happen we would only have Mr. McKinley to help us and he ain’ doing near as well as we expected.” If the Australian ballot law is adopted, as we believe it should be, the primary election law should also be so amended as to come within its provisions.—Ex. All right. Let it apply to all elections. It will insure a free ballot if not a fair count. And the voters can be -count.—Thomasville depended upon to look after the Times-Enterprise. The legislature will probably settle the school book question by passing the bill of Mr. Thomas, which has been favorably reported. The bill vests in the county, city and town school authorities the power to provide books for use in the public schools, to prescribe and regulate the manner of making changes in books, and for the renting of books to students. Reports are to be made by the county, city and town authorities to the State superin¬ tendent of education. Having read in the papers that Kansas would send a car load of jack rabbits to New York to be distributed among the poor for Thanksgiving, an evangelist of Washington wrote to Governor Leedy, of Kansas saying that it would be a graceful and grate¬ fully received charity if he would ar¬ range to send a car load of rabbits to be distributed at the capital among the disappointed office seekers. The governor is giving the matter his care¬ ful attenti on. / Some young men are contented to wear overalls and plow shoes that are paid for. They are apt to have some¬ thing laid up for old age. There is another class that want to wear the latest checkered shirt front, patent shoes and tailor made suits of the latest pattern and a nasty cigarette in his mouth, and they are for not particular the whether they are paid except these cigarette. The chances are that will tramp the country and call the former selfish, bloated capitalists. The Wi regrass Circuit. From Cordele Dally Sentinel. The Irwinville Dispatch, a weekly newspaper published at Irwinville, Ga , has seen fit to jump on the new circuit bill and its promoters and say it would inerease the taxation in the State and would increase the number of salaried officials, and in the same breath says that there are now in their proper senatorial district. Well, we presume the editor, Brother Clements, has his eye on the Georgia sen¬ ate and that causes all these remarks about “ people opose it” and “increased taxation.” We are very much sur¬ prised that he does not know that the judicial circuit has nothing to do what¬ ever with the senatorial district and his chances might be better with more alliances. The circuit will not increase taxa¬ tion enough to even be felt by the poorest tax payer and the benefit to be derived from obtaining it will be far in excess of the expenses of main¬ taining. The creation of this new cir¬ cuit will iucrease valuation of lands and other property. It will cost no more to run a court in any of the counties under a new judge than the old ones, and besides every tax payer or citizen of Georgia or other State coming into this State is entitled to a hearing of his case where the law al¬ lows it. The business in these coun¬ ties, which is constantly increasing, and the many interests needing atten¬ tion should be protected before any person’s senatorial ambition is con¬ sidered. We are advised that the people generally desire this bill to pass, and it is to be hoped that the present leg¬ islature will create this circuit and that Representative Henderson will let the Irwinville Dispatch look after its senatorial fences and that he will help the people to land his good old county in the front ranks, where she will control herself and not be con¬ trolled by other counties. By all means, pass the bill and please the people, if you do not pleasff the future office-seeker. Selling Cigarettes to Minors. Almost every day the streets of Reidsville furnish the spectacle ot lit¬ tle boys puffing away at cigarettes. Although it is a violation of the law to sell a boy a pack of cigarettes, there are merchants in Tattnal who do it. The Journal wishes to remind those merchants that it is just as much a violation of the law to sell cigarettes to boys as it is to sell whisky to men. The law says: “ The offense is a misdemeanor and is punithable with a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for not less than six months or confinement at hard labor for not more than twelve months, either or all, in the discretion of the court.” All merchants who keep cigarettes for sale would better make a note of this. And the grand jury is requested to bring the violators of this law to justiee.— Tattnal Journal. The bill introduced in the house by Mr. Whipple, of Dooly, to create a new judicial circuit out of the coun¬ ties of Wilcox, Dooly, Irwin and Worth, seems to be meeting with fa¬ vor among the people of the counties named. These counties, by reason of their rapid growth, and especially by reason of the large number of negroes employed in mills and on turpentine farms, have largely increased business before the courts, and it seems to us that no mistake would be made in placing them in a circuit to them¬ selves. The increased business seems to justify such a step ; but whether the tax payers of the State are in a condi¬ tion to bear the additional expense just now, is a question for the legisla¬ tors to determine. We may safely leave the latter point to be determined by the servants of the people now in session in Atlanta.—Ocilla'.News. Merchant Tailor—“I am sorry to say it, Mr. Goodbeart, but as this is to be your wedding suit, I must demand cash on delivery.” Mr. Goodheart—“Eh? Why, I’ve had an account with you for years, and I’ve always paid sir.” promptly "Yes, to the hour, the very hour, Mr. Goodheart, but you were a bache¬ lor, and had the handling of yonr own money.” B. F. KNAPP, fSditors ind Publishers J. G. KNAPP, NO. 48. Holidays I Here * Mt The Holidays will soon be here, and of coursejthat boy of yours will need a nobby suit for a Christmas present. What is nicer yfet for your boy than a suit of clothes or a nice pair of shoes? Make jdja him a present of something that is of value and which will do sA? him service. It is money in your pocket. Perhaps the men folks p re in need of a new suit, pair of pants, hat or shoes. a a present above all others. |[ OUr Holiday Prices. ||f- ; Mens’all-wool suits, were $15.00, Holiday Price $ 12 . 00 . $ Mens’ 10 00 all wool suits were $12.00, Holiday Price ^ . . Mens’ all wool suits were $10.00, Holiday Price $ 8 . 00 . Mens’ all wool suits were $8.00, Holiday price $6.00. Mens’ all wool suits were $7.00; Holiday price $4.00. Boys’ all wool suits were $2.00; Holiday price $1.50. Our assortment of Boys’ and Childrens’ suits is the largest in the city. All we ask is a visit. No trouble to show goods. f Jones : Clothing: Co. & Fitzgerald, Georgia. 'Ask for our Store when in town. sis sAc sfe sk 9k sk sksksksk zk sksksksk m Auction Sale * $ * OF m City Lots x sfe AND * 1 Condemned 5-Acre Tracts , * iff | Saturday, Dec. 18, ’97 J * sfe g|| At the front door of Colony Headquarters, gjg ^ A number commencing of at 10 o’clock A. M. gjg choice residence lots, jjg jgg condemned lots and 5-acre tracts will ^ X be put and sold to the highest bidder. i Watch this space next week and see J j* the list of property. Go look them over and be ready to buy. Don’t for- W W get the date. * coLony co. $ if? sk E. NICHOLSON, Auctioneer. wnT £TTTTTTTTTnTTnTTnTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTnTTTTTTTTTTTTTTrfnTTTTTTTTTTTTnTTTTTTnTTTfTTTTTi( | JOSEY’S DRUG STORE. | t I am located on South Grant Street, where I can be % ► found with with full line of ^ t a I P s I i i p p s i — 3 E Of all kinds, Druggists’ Sundries, etc. In fact I am = | better prepared to serve my patrons than ever before. | -■ E Remember I keep in stock a fine line of -» I Toilet 5oaps If Perfumer/, j E Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day Night, 3 I c or a *- JOSEY’S DRUG STORE,! z I— South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia. -J ERKD R. BIGHS.M, Contractor # Builder. Platts and Estimates Furnished oh Short Notice. Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.