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aJlroecd Work
For Georgia^.
BY W. H. LKAHY
^‘ ; The Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railroad, comprises 639
miles of excellently equipped rail-
way, built upon the highest stand¬
ard of construction; penetrating
the very heart of agricultural
Georgia and Alabama, also the
great Birmingham coal and iron
district.
Realizing the necessity for
, populating the vacant lands along
its line, this Company inaugurated
six months ago a campaign
of advertising with a view of at¬
tracting attention to the great
possibilities of the territory, agri¬
cultural and otherwise.
We have only to look to the great
West to see the magnificent results
of the efforts of the railways to
develop that vast section of coun¬
try situated so remotely from the
eastern territory as compared to
the agricultural sections of the
South and enjoying so much less
of nature’s advantages than have
been conferred upon Dixie.
The results of our efforts have
been most gratifying and fully
demonstrate the fact that publicity
is the hub of the wheel upon which
progress of all lines of business
must be made.
With the cutting away of the
vast area of timber in our terri¬
tory, the exhaustion of the naval
stores industry, general attention
^is naturally turning to cultivation
of the soil.
The individuality of the section
of the country traversed by the
A. B. & A. R. R. is laigely due
to the moderate altitude, delight¬
ful climate and practically unlimit¬
ed possibilities in agriculture.
BOOKING SOUTHWARD
The farmers of the West and
Northwest are looking to the
and immediately upon the
inauguration of our campaign of
publicity we found very little
difficulty in attracting general at-
tention to this section of our coun
try. Inquiries came pouring in,
irompting us to more diligent and
THE FITZGERALD LEADER
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Section of the StaAe
Gives More Real Live LocaJ News Than
Any Pamper f n The Sta^te
■
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penings of the county, subscribe for
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C. H. Brightm^n is in charge of the
Job Department, and everybody in this
neck of the woods knows he tvirns ovit
none but the best. All kinds of Job Work
can be haul promptly.
renewed efforts and an increase in
tiie output of advertising matter
treating with the climate, soils,
diversification and rotation of
cro P s i etc., until, now, we feel
l ' lat we have a very complete line
matter, treating with the terri-
tory, for gratuitous distribution.
Our system of placing inquirers
indirect communication with the
communities to be developed, is to
furnish them with names of the
pioper officers of the
bodies of towns along our line,
reliable real estate agents and well
established development compan¬
ies, of which we have standing
lists. The names of inquirers are
then transmitted to the names on
these lists. The people of our
territory have been most responsi¬
ble in co-operating with us and
give evidence of increasing inter¬
est in this great work.
We are carrying advertisements
in the farm columns of about
twenty large daily papers in the
North, West and Northwest,
soliciting inquiries.
Conservatively, we feel that we
have moved into our territory, by
this method of publicity and cor¬
respondence, at least 200 families
within the past five months, locat¬
ing them at various points.
The publication of comprehensi¬
ble and reliable facts, drawn from
people who have either lived in
our territory a long time or have
been located foi a sufficient length
of time to demonstrate what can
be accomplished, we find to be the
best channel of publicity. We are
presenting facts and figures in all
of our literature.
In addition to the line of work
hereinbefore described, we have
secured from the United States
Department of Agriculture, a sup¬
ply of the choicest seed, for
demonstration purposes. These
have been furnished to the Byrom •
ville Farms, located at Byromville,
Ga., 20 miles west of Cordele and
151 miles southeast of Atlanta,
directly on the line of the A. B.
& A. R. R.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION FARM
This farm comprising 1,209
THE FITZGERALD LEADER FRIDAY, JUNE 3 1910
acres, scientifically cultivated, and
located about in the center of our
Georgia line, is excellently adapt¬
ed for demonstration purposes,be-
ing easily accessible from all of our
junctions, as well as rich in its
adaptability to crop raising. We
have published the results of this
farm for the last two years, corn-
paratively, showing most excellent
results,
We lose no opportunity to give
publicity to the advantages offer-
ed by our territory. For example,
we have received Circular No. 21,
issued by the United States De¬
partment of Agriculture, Bureau
of Soils, treating extensively with
Glynn County. It will doubtlees
be surprising to know that the
Government Expert has pronounc¬
ed the soils of Glynn Cyunty as
similar in composition to the sand
and muck celery lands of the San¬
ford (Fla.) district, and states that
there is no reason why celery and
the great variety of other vegeta¬
bles grown in the district referred
to should not be successfully pro¬
duced in Glynn County.
A report of a recent survej of
Ware County, which we under¬
stand is now in preparation, will
make about the same statement.
We shall publish lengthly ex¬
tracts from these circulars, in
book form, for general distribu¬
tion. And so it is in the entire
Georgia territory along our line
of road; some previously unknown
desirable characteristic of the soil
continually developing.
Just now a company in Michi¬
gan has under consideration the
extensive cultivation of figs in
Tift County, the lands there hav¬
ing been found to be excellently
adapted to the industry. A large
tract of land will be used for this
purpose.
We find that it is difficult to
keep an accurate account of the
number of people attracted to our
territory by our advertising efforts,
as a great many of them do not
see the necessity of advising us of
the fact that we have been instru¬
mental in locating them in the
South. However, we eventually
get the information.
We can conceive of nothing
more important to be done by the
Transportation Lines of the South,
than to use every effort to induce
immigration, bringing to our sec-
tion progressive farmers, investors
and manufacturers, and it shall be
our purpose to persevere in this
great work.
Our unlimited faith in this sec-
tian of our country, the excellent
results obtained in the short time
that we have been following up
this line of development, prompts
the anticipation that within the
next two years there will be a
great inflow of homeseekers into
Georgia, incrersing our prosperi¬
ty and contributing materially to
the progress of.the Empire State
of the South.”
The above article is taken from
Progress, and is reproduced here
because of its local interest.
Industrial News
Interesting chapters in the in¬
dustrial story of Georgia and Ala¬
bama for the past week were the
completion of plans for the erec¬
tion of a $100,000 fertilizer plant
at Montgomery, Ala., the organiza¬
tion of a company to build a $20,-
000 fertilizer factory at Milledge-
ville, Ga , the purchase of site at
Tifton, Ga., on which an $80,000
oil mill will be erected, the award
of contract for the building of an
oil mill of substantial size at La-
Grange, Ga., the chartering of a
company at Augusta, Ga., for the
erection of an automobile factory,
the formation of a $500,000 power
and mining company at Atlanta,
Ga., and the official announcement
that the contract will be let atonce
for the completion of a cement
plant at Davittes, Ga.
Mobile. Ala., awarded contract
for the remodeling of its city hall.
Anniston, Ala., voted $60,000 of
bonds and has called an election
on e ' ssuance °* $100,000 of
wa ^ erwor ^ s * Jon< ^ s - Dalton, Ga.,
has engaged the service ol an
en £O neer i n g company for various
extensive city improvements.
Chatham county, Georgians to
expend $20,000 in drainage work.
The Ware county, Georgia, grand
jury recommended the issuance of
$200,000 of bonds for schools,
road improvement and a new jail.
In Tift county, Georgia, 2,100
acres were sold for $35,000 and
the tract will be divided into small
farms. New banks are reported
for Canton, Ga., Fitzgerald, Ga.,
and Pelham, Ga. An insurance
company at Athens, Ga., declared
a 601per cent dividend. Renewed
stimulation has been given to in-
dustnal activity in the
ham district by the discovery
natural gas in apparently large
quantities, and several companies
have already been incorporated
for the utilization of the product
on a large scale. It is believed
that this new element will prove a
potent factor in industrial develop
meat throughout the great
bama mineral district. A Georgia
city, Atlanta, leads the South in
building permits so far this year.
New Orleans, Memphis, Louisville,
Dallas and other chief cities all
being out-distanced.—Indutrial
dex.
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Blue and Gray Park
cided to organize a stock company
with the old Veterans and their
sons, for the purpose ol beautify-
mg the park and putting in a good
bathing pool, base ball park, a
pavillion, and other attractions.
Since the town has been sewer-
aged the park has been drained
well, and will always be dry.
This will be one of the best
enterprises for this organization,
also for Fitzgerald, that could be
had.
We have a lease on the ground
for 99 years for the Blue and Gray
and their sons. Every son ought
to take stock and join the organiza¬
tion.
Wewill meet on the 14tl> ot
June at 2 o’clock to perfect the
organization.
I). B. Mull,
Acting Sec’y.
First Train Over New
Link of A. B. & A.
The first tra in over the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic rail-
roa d’ s new connecting link into
Birmingham will be operated,
Thursday, June 2
It will be the regular passenger
train a ,*rivinjg at Birmingham at
j o’clock. The new link is from
p e lham to Birmingham, through
Bessemer, an approximate distance
c f miles.
Imposing ceremonies will mark
the occasion. A delegation of 100
Bessemer citizens will be taken
down to Pelham in a special train
to meet the regular, and will ride
with it into Birmingham, Joyful
ovations will great them all along
the route.
The first train out of Birming¬
ham over the now completed A.
B. & A. route will leave at 4:30
o’clock.
W. H. Leahy, the well known
general passenger agent of the A.
B, &A., will leave on the train
that opens the link, and will pre¬
side over the ceremonies marking
its arrival.
The completion of the A. B. &
A.’s own line from Pelham to
Birmingham winds up the original
plan of the organizers of the road,
and means that the system’s facili¬
ties for handling all business are
now perfect.
The above news item is taken
from the Atlanta Journal and will
prove interesting reading to our
people, as all this section is deeply
concerned in the development
of the A. B. & A.
Ruth Grey
Ruth Grey, the much talked of
woman who has attained such
marvelous psychic development,
is in the city this week and each
night at her portable theatre has
startled‘beyong measure the large
audiences who witnessed her
wonderful mind reading perform-
ance.
An attraction like this is one
that is generally looked upon with
a certain amount of suspicion and
the majority are inclined to
thoughtlessly exclaim: “O, it is
only a fraud, some trick.” but of
the hundreds in this city who have
seen Miss Grey this week there is
not one who doubts the absolute
legitimacy of the mystifying
manner in which she reads the
innermost thoughts of those sitting
before her.
Miss Grey is fcruly the « woman
wonderfal » and no one shouId miss
the opportunity G f seeing her
while here
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Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thurmond
are rejoicing over the advent of a
hne boy, who arri ved at their home
this morning. Mother and son
are doing well.
The Ben Hill Canning Factory
i )as received all its machinery and
j s now ready for business. Send
j n your fruit and vegetables and
i, ave them canned,
Capt. T. E. White M. i>. will
lecture at the armory of Co. C. 1st
Inff. Tuesday Eve on Hygiene,
Savitation and First aid to the in-
f e rred, this being the third lecture
to the young men of the company.
ville. Mr. Mitchell, during his
residence of several months in
Fitzgerald, made many friends,
who regretted exceedingly to see
him leave,
WANTED—A position by a
young lady who will have finished
business course, consisting of
bookeeping, type writing and
shorthand by June 10. Inquire
Leader office between now and
June 11th.
Beginning Monday, the 6th, for
three nights the receipts of the I.
O. O. F. Air Dome will go to the
Rcbekah Lodge* The exercises at
this popular play house are splen-
did. and in patronizing it you are
helping to sustain a benevolent
order not surpassed in the world.
The pictures are splendid and the
films perfect.
14,000 Soldiers’Graves
Were Decor acted
Monday
A delegation of nearly four
hundred men, women and children
from this city spent last Monday
at the National Cemetary at An-
dersonville, decorating the graves
of the fourteen thousand union
soldiers buried there, and observ¬
ing the day with fitting exercises.
W ith the delegates from other
towns, there aggregated about one
thousand persons present and the
occasion was pronounced the most
successful one in many years.
Concerning the exercises, we
give the follow dispatch:
Andersonville, Ga., May 30.—
A large crowd is attending
Decoration day at the National
cemetery at Andersonville. Four¬
teen thousand graves of veterans
were decorated. Among the
crowd is a delegation from Fitz¬
gerald.
The Americus Light Infantry,
40 strong and under command of
Captain McLendon, acted as a
guard of honor at Andersonville
National cemetery today, aDd at
the conclusion ot the memorial
exercises by the G. A. R. post,
fired the usual salute over the
graves of dead there.
The G. A. R. post at Fitzgerald
is in charge, and a special train,
as usual, brought the orator of
the day and G. A. R. veterans of
that Georgia city to Andersonville.
The program of exercises fol¬
lows:
General decoration of all the
graves, under the direction of
Comrade Hugh Kerf, commander
of George Crouse post No. 17,
G. A. R., of Fitzgerald, Ga.
Prayer by the Chaplain of Post
17-1. B. Allen.
Song—Quartet.
Grand Army salute to the flag.
Reading of Orders by Adjutant
of Post 17—M. S. Harrod,
Song—Quartet.
Reading of Lincoln’s Gettys¬
burg Address—Comrade C. A.
Oliver.
Reading of Poem by National
Patriotic Instructor of the Wo¬
man’s Relief Corps—Mrs. M. M.
North.
Song—Quartet.
Address of the Day—Rev. J. L.
Leichliter.
Song—Quartet.
Short addresses by invited
guests.
Special Serv ices to the Unknown
Dead—Ladies of the Grand Army.
Song—Quartet.
Salute to the Dead-Military
com pan}.
Taps—Bugler.
Presbyterian. Church
Sunday June 5th. 1910.
Sunday School and Bible Class
at 10 a. m.
Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
In the absence of the pastor, Rev.
G. H. Martin will conduct the
morning and evening services.
Let every member attend and
assist in these services.
Teachers. Take Notice
By order S. S. C. and under
sSrES ' c100
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lithand 17t i 18th inst.,at the Third
Ward Public School building Fitz¬
gerald,commencing at 8.30 o’clock,
sharp.
All applicants for license shall
be expected to be present on time
for the opening of questions, and
shall be present both days, as the
questions are divided. No ques¬
tions unanswered can be carried
over after applicant has once band¬
ed in papers. No other examina¬
tion during this year.
Kindly takj due notice and gov¬
ern yourselves accordingly.
By order of Board of Education:
B. E. Wilcox,
R- J. Prentiss, President.
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