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The Fitzgerald Leader.
Vol. XV
Street Railway Proposition
Begins To Look Favorable
It looks very much like Fitzger-
aid will have an electric street
way—and that in the near future.
Mr. W. A. Heller snd Mr. E.
P. Morris, New York capitalists
were in the city looking over Dr.
Holtzendorf s proposition and ver-
ifying the reports made by engi-
neers, and although very little in-
formation regarding the results of
their observations has been given
out, it comes from an authentic
source that they were most favora¬
ble impressed with the proposition.
Fitzgeraldites note this new de¬
velopment in the street railway
movement with much pleasure,
and feel assurred that it will be no
great while before those interested
in the proposition will give out
some definite information.
Valentine German
A very delightful Valentine
German was given Monday even-
ing at the Lee-Grant Hotel by the
dancing class of Professor J. S.
Roberts, who left this week for
his home in Atlanta, after spend¬
ing- several weeks in this city,
teaching dancing.
The spacious ball room of the
hotel was picturesque in gay deco¬
rations, red hearts being used in
profusion and the lights were
with red crepe paper.
The dance consisted of several
figures of the German and barn
dance, afterwhich a general hop was
.the program.
Music for the occasion, which
was furnished by Lagerstrom’s
Orchestne, was most inspiring, and
the accommodating musicians were
untiring in their efforts to render
the sweetest music.
The dance was participated in by
about thirty couples and pronounc¬
ed by the large number of spec¬
tators as one of the most beautiful
ever given in the city.
‘ Mr. Roberts has been very suc¬
cessful with his dancing class in
Fitzgerald, and the ease and grace,
which characterized the movement
of every dancer on the floor was
glowing testimony to his ability
a dancing master. Mr. Roberts,
during his stay in this city,
made hosts of friends, who
gretted very much to see him leave,
and sincerely hope that he
organize another class in
ald in the near future.
At Christian Church
\ Pastor Everett
.Avill occupy tho pulpit next
day as usual, the sermon
being: Morning. “Fishing
Men;” night, “The Fruits of Sin”
Everybody welcome; only once
stranger here.
Throuout March prayer
will be held in a number of places
in the city on Wednesday evenings.
The places will be announced next
week. This is in preparation for
the coming of Evangelist Clarkson,
of whom the Rome (Ga,) Tribune
Herald says:
“Mr. Clarkson’s sermons appeal
to a man’s reason, and are present¬
ed with force and power. The
methods of this evangelist, being
devoid of sensationalism 8nd the
spectacular, haveproducedwonder-
hi) results. He insists that the
Vk of the church is to make bad
good and good men better,
and to keep all so through the
Gospel.”
Just Received—New samples of
imported dress goods and table
linen. Mrs. Stoner at Woman’s
Exchange, <■
Fitzgerald, Ben Bill County , Georgia, Friday, February if, 1910.
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Williamson Mill Items
The farmers are now r busy pre-
paring their land for planting.
After an illness of only a few
days Mr. Jesse Wright died
pneumonia last Monday. He is
survived by his mother, wife and
c ild, four sisters, and one brother
fympSLzTwfth' the bereaved
family
Mr. Warren Paulk, wife and
little son, Carlos, spent last Friday
night with the family of Mr.
Marion Young.
Mr. Moore Williamson was in
Rochelle one day last week.
Several of the “Rebecca Boys”
enjoyed themselves shooting doves
out on Mr. Marion Young's place
last Saturday morning killing
abouttwo hundred and fifty birds.
Mr. A. L. Williamson was in
Fitzgerald last Monday on business.
Misses Sara and Martha Young
spent last Tuesday evening with
their friends, the Misses William¬
son.
Some of our young folks attend¬
ed the singing at Rebecca last
Sunday evening. We are sorry
to note that we have a lot of sick-
ness in our community at this
time.
Rev. Daniel filled his regular
appointment at Young’s Chapel
last Sunday. Quite a crowd P 10s
ent.
We are sorry to note that Mr.
Jesse Wright is seriously ill with
pneumonia.
, Miss Charity Williamson, who
has been visiting her uncle, John
Hancock, near Rhine, has returned
home.
Mr. Sam Abrams of Fitzgerald,
was in our community last Wed¬
nesday on business.
The singing conducted by A. M.
Pace at Young’s Chapel last Sun¬
! day afternoon, was enjoyed by all
present.
Mr. Elbert Paulk of Fitzgerald,
VI Led his daughter, Mrs. M. D.
Young, one night last week.
Misses Jennie Bragg and Sara
Young attended the teacher’s in¬
stitute at Fitzgerald, and returned
home Sunday. While there they
visited the latter’s relatives. Mr.
and Mis. Elbert Paulk, and uncle,
Mr. Billy Paulk and family.
Miss Rebecca Luke, who
been visiting her relatives,
turned to her home near
last Monday.
Daphine.
Notice.
The members of the American
Woman’s League are urgently re¬
quested to be present at the home
of Mrs. W. C. Wilkerson at 3 p.
m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22. There
will be an election of officers.
Lost
On last Friday nigh, between
I. O. O. F. Hall, and 312 Hooker
street, one ladies gold watch with
fob and chain, finder will be re¬
warded by returning to J. E.
Leverett at Fitzgerald Iron Works.
To The Public
It has been rumored that I am
to be deputy sheriff if J. M. Hanes
is elected sheriff. There is abso¬
lutely no truth in this statement.
I would not have the position*
C. L. Prescott.'
Southern Fa.rmers’
Opportunity
The stock of money in this
country is today approximately,
$3,130,000. Ten years ago it was
$2,340,000. This is gain of $790,-
000,000 or approximately 30 per
cent.
Authorative statistics show that
the 1909 wheat crop was 8 3
bushels P er capita, against 8.63
bushels per capita ten years ago;
corn crop dropped from 34 9
o 30.9 bushels per capita; the
hay crop from 1 ton to t of a ton
per captia; and the number of
food animals, swine, cattle and
sheep, fell from 2.5 to 1.9 per
capita.
In the matter of meats the
government returns issued on the
25th of January show, under the
head of swine (hogs,) that the
total supplies in 1900. of 54,000,-,
000 feU to 47,000,000 in 1910, a
decrease of nearly 15 per cent.
Other cattle, in 1909, 49,000.000,
fell to 47,000,000 in 1910.
The number of cattle killed un¬
der the inspection law in the
United States in 1907 was 7,621,-,
717, in 1909 it had fallen to 7,325,-
337; during the same period there
was an increase in the number of
calves killed from, 1,668,574 to
2,046,713. The receipts of hogs
at the markets fell 13.8 per cent
from 1908 to 1909. When the
panic of 1907 came on many of
the farmers in the West ^old their
hogs because food was too high to
feed them and these brooding herds
have not been replaced.
In the matter of the production
o f fruits, the leader and standard
(because it keeps longer) apples,
in the United States, have fallen
from 68,000,000 barrels in 1866 to
21,000,000 barrels in 1909!
Here is money, per dollar, de¬
creasing ia its purchasing power
because of a 30 per cent, increase
in volume. Here is an increasing
deficit in the Held food crops per
capita. Here is a marked decreas¬
ed in hogs and cattle supply.
Here is a decrease in the leader
among all the fruits (apples) of
approximately 70 per cent.
On the top of all this is an
average tariff of 60 per cent on
all foreign food stuffs.
As result of all these things—
the increased supply of money,
the decreased supply of all food
stuffs, and the tariff—the prices of
beef, pork and its by-products,
mutton, chickens, eggs, butter and
milk, and all other food products
taken on an average—have never
been as high as now, barring of
course the war prices of the ’60’s.
Is not this the Southern farmer’s
golden opportunity?
The Telegrapn has shown in
previous articles that in 1860,
when the population in Georgia
was 1,057,276, there were in this
State 2,036,116 hogs. In 1907,
with a population of 2,700,000,
there were only 1,599,000 hogs.
With the population more than
doubled, the number of hogs has
been reduced nearly one-half!
The Telegraph has shown that,
in' 1860, there were 299,688 milch
cows. In 1907,-308,000—an in-
crease only of 8,312. That in
I860, there were oxen and other
cattle. 706,194. In 1907, 680,000
—decrease of 26,194! That in
1860, there were 512,618 sheep.
In 1907, 269,000—a decrease of
243,618!
These figures are surprising,
and yet they are based on actual
statistical returns.
The Telegraph has shown that
in 1890, when Georgia’s popula¬
tion was 1,837,353, Georgia farm¬
ers owned 1,627,008 swine. In
1907, when the population had in¬
creased to 2,700,000, the swine
Ordinance No. 296.
An Ordinance to amend Ordi¬
No. 282, the same being
Plumbing- Ordinance of the;
of Fitzgerald, and for other j
Section 2—Be it further or¬
by said authority that said
Ordinance No. 282 be further
amended by striking therefrom
Section 59, and by substituting
therefor the following:
Section 59- Be it further or¬
dained by the authorities afore¬
said, that all surface closets be
condemned and that they be re¬
moved as fast as Sewer connec¬
tion for the property upon which
said closets are located is made,
provided that this shall apply
only to property which has a
Sewer adjoining thereto;
Section 60- Be it further or¬
dained by the authorities afore¬
said, that all closets within the
areas bounded on the North by
the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railroad, on the West
by Main street, on the South by
Magnolia street, and the East by
Thomas street, shall hereafter
be placed within the building
which they are to accommodate,
or in a building especially for
that purpose attached to or ad¬
joining the same, and not on an
alley:
Section 61—Be it further or¬
dained by the authorities afore¬
said, that all ordinances or parts
of ordinances in conflict here¬
with be and are hereby repealed.
Approved this 8th day of Feb¬
ruary. 1910.
Drew W. Paulk.
Mayor of Fitzgerald.
To CorvtraLctors
Bids for the building of the
Episcopal church are solicited.
All bids must be sent sealed to J.
G. Knapp. Specifications can be
seen in Mr. Knapp’s office.
Wanted— Gentleman or lady to
represent an old business firm.
Salary $2 per day. Address Al-
dine Hotel.
owned by Georgia farmers decreas¬
ed to 1,599,000—a loss of 28,008.
That in 1890, the sheep owned by
Georgia farmers numbered 411 >■
876. In 1907 they had decreased
to 269,000—a loss of approximate¬
ly one-half That in 1890, Georgia
owned 354,618 milch cows. In
1907. the number fell to 308,000—
a loss of 46,618.
All of these figures are amazing
—but they are collected from the
most reliable sources. They call
to the farmer with irresistable elo¬
quence and force They cry aloud
to them to plant less cotton and
more grain; to raise more cattle
and hogs—not as a patriotic thing,
but as a profit-making business.
It is the farmer’s opportunity.
His day has come if lie is wise
enough to read the signs of the
times and take advantage of it.
Food is the first] and the last of
the natural man. All men must
eat. Everything else is secondary,
We can go naked and live in the
woods as the heathens do, but we
must eat. It takes a pound of
meat. A pound of. meat can be
raised more cheaply than a pound
of cotton. A farmer can eat his
meat but he cannot eat his cotton.
The money supply has grown
faster than the food supply. The
farm production for the J last four
have been low in comparison
with the increase in other forms of
value. Manufacturing enterprises,
materials, stock and
corporations 4 have more than
in value in ten years. The
have not kept pace. —
The Macon (Ga.)Telegraph,
1910.!
Ladies’ Clubs Working In
Behalf Of Carnegie Library
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Society Notes.
Mrs. M. M. Pantridge spent
Tuesday in Douglas, the guest of
Ler daughter, Mrs. W. E. Baggs.
Mrs. C. C. Lobingier anddaugh-
ter, Miss Mary Lobingier have re¬
turned home from a few days spent
in Cordele.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Butts enter¬
tained a large number of young
people at their beautiful country
home on Thursday evening of last
week.
Mrs. M. C. Russ, Mrs. J. A.
Day, Miss Ethel Hale and Miss
Ada Walker, left Wednesday for
Atlanta to attend the millinery
openings at the various whole-sale
houses and to buy their spring and
summer line of Millinery.
Mrs. J. H. Mayes left the early
part of the week for Barnesville
to attend the wedding of her neice*
SCHNAKE-KOYAL
On Sunday at noon, at the home
of the bride occurred the marrage
of Miss Bessie Schnare and Mr.
Julius Royal of Tifton.
The wedding was a very quiet
one, only a few intimate friends
being present, and was quite a
surprise to the friends of the con¬
tracting parties.
Mr. and Mrs. Royal left on the
afternoon train for Tifton where
they will make their future home.
DELIGHTFUL PARTY.
Miss Rosalie Oliver was the
young hostess at a delightful party
on Friday evening at the home of
her aunt, Mrs. J. Hawkins Good¬
man, on South Lee street.
Amusing games with music was
the pleasant past time of the even¬
ing after which delicious refresh¬
ments were served.
The guests were Misses Bessie
Bryant, Daisy Boney, Lola Bell
Robitzsch, Monola Bryant, Minnie
Parson, Mary Stephens, Tommie
Parsons, Messrs Willie Harris,
Ed Moore. Fred Robitzsch, ITom
Wilcox, Louis Bryant and George
Fusseli.
BIRTHDAY DINNER.
A pleasant surprise to Mr. H.
M. Warren was the lovely birth¬
day dinner on Monday, given by
Mrs. Warren at their home and to
which eight guests were invited.
The dinner consisting of several
courses was en joyed by the follow¬
ing guests;
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Bowen, Mr.
and Mrs. II. H. Taylor, Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Mashburn and Dr. and
Mrs. J. C. Fusseli.
VALENTINE PARTY.
Among the delightful Valentine
parties of the younger set, was the
one at which Miss Eva Davis was
hostess on Monday evening at her
home.
The room, where the guests
were so delightfully entertained,
was effectively decorated with
of led hearts,'suggestive
the Valentine season and much
was the result of the
and “answers” written
the young men and young ladies
turn. 1
Those enjoying/ thejjdelightful
were, Misses]’Mary Put¬
Pearl Jowers, EubyJ Walker,
Laurie Putnam, Ida Paulk,
Hubbard, and Virginia
Messrs Sam Jowers, Fred
Dave Paulk, Alex Jowers
Emmett Andrews.
Number 22
Another step toward ultimately
securing for Fitzgerald a Carnegie
Library’was made Monday night,
of last week, when a committee of
twelve iadies, representing the U.
D.C., Woman's Club, W. C. T.
U., W. R.C., and the Benevolent
society, appeared before the
city council in the interest of ob¬
taining f romthe city the use of a lot
on which to locate the building,
and asking a yearly appropriation
of $1000 for maintenance of the
Library.
The site which the Library
association is now seeking, is the lot
east of the city hall on the Fire¬
men’s Park. Mrs. I. Gelders was
the spokesman for the Association,
and in a very able add apprehen¬
sive manner laid before the coun¬
cil, their request.
No definite action was taken on
the matter, but it was very evident
that the aldermen were impressed
with the many good reasons which
Mrs. Gelders mentioned pertain¬
ing to Fitzgerald’s need of a Carne¬
gie Library; and Mayor Paulk
appointed Aldermen Seanor, D.
P. Adams, and D. B. Ware as a
committee to confer with a com¬
mittee from the Association in
regard to the matter.
This conference was to have
been held Wednesday afternoon,
but circumstances prevented, so
the ladies have arranged to meet
with the aldermen next Monday
nsght, just preceeding council
meeting.
The ladies of this city are work¬
ing very diligently to secure a
Carnegie Library, realizing, as
they do, the great benefit that
would come from it. and with the
support and encouragement of the
business men, it will be no great
while before their effoits will be
rewarded with success.
It is true that many have
erroneous idea regarding the great
work Andrew Carnegie is doing
in this line, but it has been observ¬
ed that this element have only to
be enlightened, so to speak, and
they are heartily in favor of the
proposition. So, if there be any
in Fitzgerald who are fighting the
ihovement to erect a Library here,
it will be well for you to confer
with those who are authority, as
to the terms upon which Mr.
Carnegie makes the donation, be¬
fore opposing it further, for in all
probability you have been misin¬
formed.
The Leader is much in favor
of the movement, and hopes to
see it grow and to see everybody
take a part in boosting it. because
it is to the interest of all.
C. B. F. Slo&n Dead
Chas. B. F. Sloan departed this
life Monday morning, having
dropped dead while on the street.
Mr. Sloan had gone over in the
eastern part of town to visit his
wifes sister, and was returning
when he suffered a sudden attack
of heart trouble, dying before
assistance could reach him.
Mr. Sloan’s death is attributed
to the incessant use of tobacco,
against which he had been warned
by physicians a number of times.
He was 59 years of age and was
a native of Covington, Ind. He
moved to Fitzgerald in early
colony days and lived here until
the time of his death. Mr. Sloan
was well known here and his death
is mourned by a large number of
friends.
He is survied by a wife, one
sister and one brothor.