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The Fitzgerald Leader
1890.
VOL. III.
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THE WATT & HOLMES HARDWARE CO.
Are now offering Hardware to the public at such prices that
makes business lively these days.
FARMERS, ATTENTION!
To our complete line of Farming Implements; Oliver
Chill Plows, one and two-horse ; Boy Dixie and Boy Carbon
Georgia Ratchet Stocks of all kinds of shapes ; Harrows and
Cultivators Guano Horns and a full line of Garden Implements.
STOVES AND RANGES.
From small beaters to large size Ranges.
A superb line of Decorated Chinaware and Crockery at the
right price. Special prices on a limited number of choice
China Tea and Chocolate Sets.
Paint! Painter!! Painters!!!
Our immense stock of Paints enables us to make close prices on
Paints and Oils.
Now is the and time to get that new set of Harness — light driv-
ing, work farm harness at a bargain.
One-horse AVagons, two-horse Wagons, Buggies, Surries. etc.
Another lucky opportunity to get a Bicycle at a low figure.
Come and see for yourself. attention the full
Mechanics’ and mill men we invite your to
line of Harness Leather, Lace Leather, Steam Fittings, Belt-
bigs, Saws, Files, Machine Oils and Repairs of all kinds.
When you want anything in the Hardware line come right
into Watt & Holmes’, for we have it and at the right price.
WATT & HOLMES HARDWARE CO.,
Boyd’s Old Stand, Grant and Centraal Avenue.
W. H. HALSSY.
MILLINERY I NOTIONS
Colony Bank Building, Fitzgerald, Ga.
Halsey is make closing out for his his Millinery
cost to room
Spring Stock,
Now is time ’to buy Trimmed Hats from $1.00
to $10.00; G. A. R. Hats 50c; Boys’ Suits
to $2.50; Youths Suits from $3.00 to
to 28 years. Labor Exchange
taken.
Dress-Making' a Specialty.
1 Climax Lunch Room,
MOST POPULAR IN CITY. t
Has been enlarged and refurnished in First-class style. Oyster Par¬
lors in connection.
HOT and COLD LUNCHES SERVED at all HOURS.
Best Coffee in the City, All kinds Fruits, and Homemade Pies
and Bakers’ Goods always on hand.
BELL & HEINICKER, Prop’rs, Pine A*.
The Corner Grocery
In order to reduce our stock before moving up town, we will
sell at reduced prices with for cash any goods in our stock. Custo
triers are all pleased our goods, for they are the best; with
our prices, for they are the lowest. Our stock of New Crop
Raisins are unexcelled. We sell Ralston’s Hearth Breakfast
Food and Flour. Thomas The Cheapest Tea in the city ; Tobacco and
Cigars. Cor. and Oconee. ’Phone 19.
S. M.JWHITCHARD & BRO.
“ MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.”
FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, JANUARY 20, 1898.
And it now turns out that Governor
Atkinson did not attend the Mexican
bull f%ht, as reported in the daily
papers. ^
That “ possum supper” is getting to
be the wormiest, bald-headed chestnut
ever perpetrated on an innocent, long
suffering people. Boys, it is about
time to “ cheese it.”
Senator $. $. $$$$$, of Ohio, has a
very sore leg. The legislature of that
State, it seems gave it (the leg) a ter¬
rible pull. Some of the senator’s
friends claim it is an old attack of
gout. _
Yes, brethren, there’s difference no use in deny¬ the
ing it; there is a
treatment of the big thief and the lit¬
tle thief, particularly so when the
former has the financial assistance of
unarrested thieves who fear his tongue
and knowledge.
To a tender foot it looks like At¬
lanta will select, nominate and elect
the next governor of Georgia. Geor¬
gia,' it seems, is located in Atlanta, and
not Atlanta in the State of Georgia.
Will the Macon Telegraph or the At¬
lanta Constitution please pass the
bitters.
Farewell, Ben Butterworth! Your
character and your talents were as dia-
nvjnds to the glass of the Hannas and
Kertzes and Forakers of latter day
Ohio republicanism. Better than your
party, too good for your State, you
were the noblest Roman of them all.—
Atlanta Daily Journal.
We hold to the idea that the pro¬
vince of a local paper is to look after
home matters entirely and leave na¬
tional matters to the care of the metro¬
politan dailies. You watch the sub¬
scriber to a local paper and see what
he looks for first. Is it for the editor’s
opinion as to who is to be in the cabi¬
net or what he thinks of the political
troubles in the old countries? No, not
by any means. His first move is to
bunt up the local page and see what
has been going on in his own town and
bounty. This has been our observa¬
tion during nearly twenty-five years in
newspaper work, aud until we have
had similar observations on the other
hand for the same length of time we
shall continue to feel that a good local
page is far better for a country paper
than all the editorials that could be
written, especially when all the latest
news is given on other pages.
Many merchants think that their
names are so well known that they do
not need any advertising. They,
however, forget that every year brings
into trade a new generation of dealers
and closes out a certain percentage of
the older ones. They also forget how
easily it is for one to drop from the
calendar of time or to pass out of recol¬
lection unless the cobwebs in mem¬
ory’s chain are constantly brushed by
keeping one’s name before his friends,
the public. The fact of letting the
public know that you are still in trade
brings many a grist to your mill that
otherwise would probably stop some¬
where else. Men in trade are never
too well known to leave their business
out of the columns of the newspaper.
The business man who says he “ never
advertises” must take down his sign,
stop sending out circulars and dis¬
patching salesmen to sell his wares,
for all this is advertising.
The latest bank wrecker pardoned
by the president is William E. Barr,
of Missouri, who embezzled $20,000
from a St. Louis bank, and was sen¬
tenced to five years in the peniteniary.
An application was made to President
Cleveland for his pardon. Mr. Cleve¬
land took all the papers in the case,
went through them carefully, and re¬
fused to interfere with the sentence
And not only that, but he wrote on
the back of the papers a scathine de¬
nunciation of bank wreckers generally,
and of Barr particularly. President
McKinley’s endorsement on the pa¬
pers sent him was in the two words,
“ Pardon - granted,” followed by his
signature. Some one who has kept
track of the matter says President
McKuri a record of pardoning
ker every three weeks
kito office.
The Fitzgerald
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Atlanta Constitution, ITth tnst.
For several years the country, both
north and south, has been watching
with great interest the experiment at
Fitzgerald.
The idea of transplanting thousands
of people from the latitude of Iowa,
Dakota and Minnesota to that of
•oflth Georgia was something which
clttilenged attention. There were dif-
fit i .ties of nature to be overcome, and
tho experiment of removal to such va¬
riant latitudes carried with it danger.
But the experiment has been made,
and the result shows that it lias been
highly successful. People from the
far north, thousands in number, have
settled in the new colony, carried with
them their thrift, industry and intelli¬
gence, and have mastered whatever of
difficulty there was to be overcome.
Their experience has fully dissipated
the idea that sickness to any abnormal
extent existed in south Georgia, and
Mas established the fact that, with the
■fdiuary care which has to be taken
in any country in the world, there is
no region in which the health record
is higher than that of this State. This
demonstration of health having been
made, we have the further fact that
these men have found our country to
be responsive to their labor, and that
they have made abundant crops, lived
well and enjoyed the perennial sun¬
shine of the south.
It is pleasing to be able to announce
these demonstrated facts, notwith¬
standing the opposition which western
railroad interests have given to the
southward movement. From now on
we may expect a steady flow of the
best kind of emigration from the
states of the north and west. These
men have but to ask their brethren in
Fitzgerald for the facts in order to be
assured that here there is protection to
life, there is good health and there is
abundant return for labor.
Colonel Fitzgerald, the promoter
Uf is‘great calony venture, deserves all
congratulation for the work which he
has done.
The Best Love.
Home-love is the best love. The
love that you are born so is the sweet¬
est you will ever have on earth. You,
who are so anxious to escape from the
home-nest, pause a moment and re¬
member that this is so. It is right
that the hour should come when you,
in your turn, should become a wife
and a mother and give the best love
to others; but that will be just it.
Nobody—not a lover, not husband
—will ever be so tender or so true as
your mother and father. Never again,
after stratigers have broken the beau¬
tiful bond, will there be anything so
sweet as the little circle of mother,
father and children, where you were
cherished, protected, praised and kept
from harm. You may not know it
now, but you will know it some day.
Whomsoever you marry, true and
good though he may be, will, after the
lover-days are over and the honey¬
moon has waned, give you only what
you deserve of love or sympathy—and
usually much less, never more. You
must watch and he wary, lest you lose
that love which came in through the
eyes because the one vho looked
thought you beautiful. But those who
bore you, who loved you when you
were that dreadful little object, a small
baby, and thought you exquisitely
beautiful and wonderfully brilliant—
they do not care for faces that are
fairer and forms that are more grace¬
ful than yours. You are their very
own, and so better to them always than
others.
A Des Moines minister has coined a
new term—“churchanity.” Church-
anity, he says, is Christianity formal¬
ized—a miserable farce, the form for
the substance. It is a religious estab¬
no longer religious, and is
responsible for the failure to
sooner the great problems of the
Christianity is always at war,
always at peace. The
Moines minister makes the some¬
remarkable statement that “ the
body of church members are ad¬
of churchanity instead of
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FITZGERALD, Georgia.
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Yours Business ■
(L I R. T. BAISDEN.
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FRED L. BIGHAM,
Contractor # Builder.
Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice.
Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.