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Vol. XV
Eleven Hundred and Ninety-one
Votes Polled In Primary
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. The white primary election, as called by the county
committee for the nomination of county officers, was held "W ednesday,
May 4th.
There were thirty-two aspiring candidates for the ten offices,
and out of this number only seven were nominated,as, according to
the ruling of the executive committee, each candidate must receive a
majority of all the votes cast in order to be nominated for the general
election. In case, however, no candidate received a majority, the ex¬
ecutive committee ruled that the two receiving the highest number of
votes would be allowed to run in the State Primary, which comes off
in August. for Clerk Su¬
^ Those nominated in Wednesday’s election were:
perior Court, D. W. M. Whitley; for Tax Collector, Fred M. Gra¬
ham; for County Surveyor Oscar Barron; for Coroner, W. H, Rogers;
for County Commissioner, Wesley K. Walker; for Judge City Court
of Fitzgerald. E. Wall; for Solicitor City Court of Fitzgerald, Alex.
J. McDonald. Those who failed to receive a majority vote but who
will run in the state primary are: J. B. F. Dixon and Early Gibbs
for Tax Receiver; J. M. Hanes and J. W. Norris for Sheriff: G. A.
Jolly Jand Wm. Williams for Treasurer: J. G. Minshow and T. M.
Parsons, H. D. Vaughn*, and H. M. Warren for County Commission-
ers.
Out of the 1350 white registered voters in the county, 1191 votes
were polled. In Fitzgevald, 883 votes were polled; Dixon’s Mill polled
88 votes: Williamson’s Mill polled 83 votes; 75 votes weie polled in
the Ashton District: Vaughn precinct polled 36 votes; and at
Mill 26 votes were polled. has been
The election was indeed one of the cleanest that ever
held in the county, and while each candidate was busy working for
himself and electioneering was quite lively around the polls, no dis¬
orderly conduct nor drinking has been reported from any of the vot¬
ing precincts. by the election
Practically all of Wednesday night was spent
manager, counting the votes from this district, and when the county
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executive committe’ ^net Thursday morning at eleven o’clock, returns
from all the differei ^precincts were consolidated as follows:
NAME DISTRICTS
Fitzgerald Dixon’s Wllllamiong*si)t on yauglin town’s Total No.
Mill ftj M ||V! Received
Court V
2QT 8 6 T IT* \237
D. W. M- Whitley 635 80 73 66 O Ot SSL
Tax Co'jfctor
F>?diVl. Graham 43 19 49 OT —1 GO
J. D. Mashburn 11 17 6 CO 03 O
S. G. Pryor 94 0 0 9 OT 03 CO
W. B. White 59 32 42 10 w IC 151
Tax Receiver
E. E. Bailey 137 0 2 -S CO O 05
J. B. F. Dixon 257 52 <4^ Ot OI w 00 Oi
Early Gibbs 326 36 ' 'CO r-*- co t- CD
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F. R, Justice 139 0 o c O CM H
Sheriff
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C. C. Dozier 188 2 C' 2 3 1 201
J. M. Hanes 226 35 h-* 22 21 CM 347
J. W. Norris 265 42 14 2 5 frti 289
Moses Pridgen 34 0 12 41 2 CM 133
T. H. Porter 149 5 13 5 5 OO 185
Treasurer
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J. C. Bush 131 12 39 S sD w> to
J. H. Goodman OT 9 10 C. T—i r- oc
G. A. Jolly lO 3 GO I"* I— h
Wm. Williams CO 26 1C r—! Cm r
Surveyor
Oscar Barron 609 34 a- o: -1 l — o
W. H. Minix 243 54 a- ■to wC ^
Coroner
Wm. McCormick *- -I 39 14 20 3 I • o
W. H Rogers CO X oc 46 61 47 31 oc ot
County Commissioners
W. R. Dorminv 160 46 11 33 19 H- 286
J. G. Minshew 301 60 70 62 22 bO 538
H. R. Peavy 257 4 59 24 19 3 366
T. M. Parsons 346 14 1 9 8 4 382
H. D. Vaughn 333 25 9 tc 27 15 432
W. R. Walker 504 54 TO 9 7 666
H. M. Warren 470 55 <TO 14 4 3 583
Judge City Court ot Fitzgerald
% Wall 859 87 82 71 31 2u * 1156
Solicitor City Court of Fitzgerald
Alex J. McDonald 856 85 81 61 30 26 1139
Odd Fellows Open
Moving Picture Show
Fitzgerald pleasure-loving pub¬
lic now has three moving picture
shows, at which to spend their
evenings, the Odd Fellows of the
city having opened their Air
Dome this week on Pine street in
the rear of Miller’s Furniture
store.
The new play house is owned
by the Odd Fellows, and is under
the management of G. W. Urmey.
No vaudeville is being played
Fitzgerald, Ben Bill County , Georgia , Friday, May 6, 1910.
whatever, but the pictures are of
a high order and of a very in¬
structive nature. Seating capaci¬
ty of the new theatre is ample and
the seats comfortable.
The excellent music each night
is one of the most attractive fea¬
tures of the new 7 show—a five
piece orchestra being engaged to
furnish music every night except
Monday, when the brass band will
be on hand.
The admission fee is 10 cents.
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First Grade Pupils
To Get Diplomas
Mrs Katrina Klepper, teacher
f the First Grade, is arranging a
very clever and unique program
for the closing exercises of her
class, which will take place about
the middle of June.
The program will be in the
form of a burlesque high school
commencement, and each one of
her little pupils, who will have
completed their first year in
school, will be given a diploma
with their name thereon. These
diplomas, while of no material
value in any way, will always be
cherished oy the boys and girls,
who, when they receive their high
school diplomas, will no doubt,
look back upon this occasion with
quite a degree of pleasure.
Besides many songs and recita¬
tions by different ones, there will
be the Class Historian, Class Poet,
Validictorian and, in fact practi¬
cally every feature of the leal
high school graduating exercises
will be carried out by these
“juniors.”
Mrs. Klepper has a large and
interesting class this year, and the
several entertainments she has
given during the term, have been
greatly enjoyed by all who attend-
ed.
Invitations will be issued for
the closing exercises next month,
and that it will be’.attended by a
large number is not doubted.
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Rev. Thomas M. Callaway.
The new pastor of the 1st.
Baptist church preached his first
sermon as pastor last Sunday
morning, to a large and apprecia¬
tive congregation, and made a
most favorable impression,
Callaway comes here from Pensa¬
cola, Fla., where he has served
his church for several years. Be¬
fore going to Pensacola he was
pastor of the Baptist church in
Talledega, Ala., for a number of
years. Mr. Callaway and family
were most cordially received by
the membership, and it is hoped
the man and the occasion have
met.
Miss Alexander To
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Give Amateur Shows
Miss Sallie Alexander is prepar¬
ing to present several local talent
shows at one of the moving picture
theatres, for the benefit of the
choir Guild of St. Mathews
Episcopal church.
Miss Alexander’s plays are all
original, and are tinged with a
distinctive air that never fails to
please. She will engage the stage
one of the theatres for one
week, putting on a different play
night, and the flattering suc¬
cess ot her former productions
have been presented here in¬
large audiences for each of
the performances.
Dates together with the cast of
characters, names of different
plays and so forth will be announc¬
ed later.
Monster BacP-to-Farm
Plan Conceived B y
Gov. Ha-dley
St. Louis, May 2.—A nation¬
wide “back to the farm,” move¬
ment to be sponsored by philan¬
thropists of the United States,
will bt inaugurated in this city
May 5th, at a preliminary meeting
of interested parties called by
Gov. Herbert S. Hadley.
Governor Hadley long has been
ani ardent advocate of a
return of city dwellers to the
farm and for months has been
working out the details of a plan
which he believes will solve the
high cost of living problem and
at the same time bring about more
scientific farming.
ESCAPE FROM C ITIES.
He proposes to organize the
National Farm Homes association,
with the philanthropists of the
country as stockholders, to furnish
farms, equipment and instruction
for worthy applicants who are
seeking to escape from the cities.
Prominent men are taking an ac¬
tive part in the plan. Addresses
will be made at the preliminary
meeting by Secretary of Agricul¬
ture Wilson, W. J. Bryan, Jacob
Riia, B. J. Yoakum, Lyman Ab¬
bott, Jane Addams, Immigration
Commissioner J. H. Curran and
others. *
committeeman fiom each
state wil1 be named at the meeting
aQ d a ca ^ be issued for a final
meeting, at which the association
will be formally organized.
MODELED AFTER EURORINK.
Hadley’s plan is made up of
the best features of similar ideas
in nse in Europe, with minor ad¬
ditions by himself. It is proposed
^ ^corporate the a^ooFtion for
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§l,000.00o, tne stock to be diviaeu
into 1,000 shares of $1,000 each.
These shares, it is expected, will
pay dividends which either will be
taken out by the stockholders or
added to the capita!.
It is then proposed to locate
colonies on model farms in Texas,
Missouri, Alabama and other
states where land is cheap and
fertile. Each farmer will be al¬
lotted 40 acres, a home will be
erected for him and fences, uten¬
sils and livestock furnished.
Tlwrty-two of these 40-acre farms
a colony.
cfl.ONY ORGANIZATION^
fcach colony also will include a
central farm, presided over by an
expert, agriculturist, who will
oyeysee the wo^c on the farms,
the* proper rotation of crops, etc.
to Tenants for 'vUl their j^giwn farms, ample and their time
pa/
protits ^.ave been tigured out by
Hadley as averaging $3,500 a
v
year.
Each colony will t^ive a school,
where scientific farming will be
taught in addition to the usual
curriculum.
Entertainments will be.provided
for the colonists, so that farm
will lose the monotony that is
largely responsible for the rush to
the city, in Hadley’s estimation.
Each group of 32 farms will
cost, complete, it is figured, $50,-
000, thus allowing 20 colonies, or
600 farms on the original invest¬
ment, the number of farms to
constantly increase as the tenants
pay off their indebtedness.
Chas Peterson, for many years
engineer at the Water and Light
Plant, returned Monday night
from a prolonged trip in Europe
and his many friends will be de¬
lighted improved to know in health. that he Mr. is much
Peter¬
son left the first of last June, prior
to which time he had been in ill
months health, and during been touring the last different eleven
has
parts of the old country.
and Mayor Held
Council Meeting Monday Nieht
Dome Will
Give Better Show
Gelders and Maddock’s Air
Dome has proved to be quite popu¬
lar with theatre goers this week,
and each night, standing room has
been at a premium.
Besides the motion pictures and
the illustrated songs, sung by Mr.
Maddocks, which are always very
interesting numbers, the vaudeville
has been of a very appealing
nature, the noted Musical Merry
Makers, Holmes and Holmes
amusing the audience during the
first three nights of the week; and
the Iiuxtables, Character Change
Artists, displacing them Thursday
night.
Both teams were very prolicient
in their particular lines, and great¬
ly pleased all who ‘witnessed their
performance.
Since opening, several weeks
ago, the Air Dome has maintained
a most excellent show for the
price, and the statement by one of
the managers, that some improve¬
ments will be raacle next week will
be ot interest to the public.
They state that beginning Mon¬
day, they will start using “first¬
hand” filmns, which will not only
insure a clearer, plainer picture,
but a better class of pictures also
will be used. The managers state
that this will be an additional ex¬
pense, but that they will keep up
the same high standard of the
vaudeville and will not increase
the price of admission. In other
words, they are stm^ -F'-V - - ♦SC'"'- Mr to
give the n- 7 W going
monm' public more for their
~ -J than they have been get-
ting.”
The Air Dome makes this im-
provement as a means of showing
theatre-gowers their appreciation
for the liberal patronage received
and they can always be relied upon
for a good up-to-date show.
FitzgereJd Won.
Over Douglass
Again the Fitzgerald Baseball
team had a perfect ‘walk-over’
when they crossed bats with the
Douglas team Monday afternoon
in this city.
The score was 29 and 0 in favor
of Fitzgerald. During the whole
nine innings, the Douglas team
didn’t succeed in getting a maa to
third base. The, game was um¬
pired by W. C. Wilkerson, and it
is stated by those who witnessed
it that the Fitzgerald team played
like League Boys, not an err'or
having been made.
Batteries for Douglas were
Foster and Russell and for •Fitz¬
gerald were Jowers and Stout.
The result of the game adds
but another victory to the many
the local nine have won this year,
0 fi ^ rst ' iave .V e t t° se their
game.
Presbyterian Church
9:30 a. m. Sunday school.
10 a. m. Bible Class.
11 a. m. “Mothers Day.”
Service, to which a special invi¬
tation to mothers, men and boys
is extended. Special music for
this occasion. 7:30 p.m. preaching
subject, “The Man of Gadara.”
After the fifteenth of this month,
D. P. Adams and Company, Lum¬
bermen, will move to the post
office building, which will be va¬
cated by Superintendent G. C.
of the A. B. & A., who will
into the new depot.
Number 33
City Council met in regular ses¬
sion Monday night at the city hall,
Mayor Drew W. Paulk presiding.
After the reading and confirma¬
tion of the minutes of the proceed¬
ing meeting, reports of the treas¬
urer, health officer and .chief of
police were read and ordered filed.
The Finance Committee present¬
ed their bills and pay roll for the
month of April, and same were
ordered allowed.
The question of the Street Rail-
way Company arose and the coun¬
c il adopted a resolution providing
that said Street Railway Company
shall at once place East Central
Avenue in as good condition as
they found it several weeks when
they began work, or else give
goo*, reason for not doing so.
The resolution also provided that
the mayor shall see to it that no
other streets of the city shall be
worked on by the Railway Com¬
pany until Central Avenue is put
in good shaped
An ordinance, providing for a
twenty year extention of the
Bowen Telephone Company
franchise, was given its second
reading and passed.
An ordinance, oroviding for the
construction of sidewalks on cer
tain streets of the city was read
first time.
Mrs. Lula B. Ryman, represent¬
ing the Woman’s Christian Tem¬
perance Union, addressed the
council on a “Safe and Sane”
Fourth of d-uly, the result beiBg
that an ordinance was drawn up,
probibpinu the firing of cannons,
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toy pistols or any turn oi „
arms, roman candles and all kinds
of combustible lire works within
the city limits on the fourth of
July. The ordinance was given
its first reading.
Annual May Ball
Next Tuesday
The Tuesday Evening Cotillion
Club will celebrate their annual
May dance next Tuesday evening
at the Lee-Grant Hotel, when
possibly the largest ball in the
social history of Fitzgerald will be
given.
Both halls will be used and will
be tastily decorated and brilliant¬
ly lighted for the occasion.
Music will be furnished by
Lagerstrom’s Orchestra, and the
program will include several of
the prettiest figures of the Ger¬
man.
. One hundred invitations will be
issued, and the dancing element of
the city is looking forward to the
qj’gnt with pleasant anticipations.
Fire Destroyed
Two Dwellings
Two negro dwellings houses on
Monitor Drive burned to the
ground Wednesday morning be¬
tween 7 and 8 o’clock.
The fire, 4 >riginated in the second
story of Geo. Stapleton’s house
and spread to the next house,
which belonged to Doc. Lassiter.
The alarm was turned in, but when
the department arrived on the
scene, both buildings were en¬
veloped in flames, and there was
nothing left to be done but to
the remaining houses.
Stapleton saved a portion of his
houseeold furniture and Lassiter -
in removing all his from
burning building, but the
were a total loss.
Neither Stapleton nor Lassiter
insurance on their property.
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