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The Fitzgerald Leader
VOL. XVI.
Colony Proposition
For JL vl Ben JLJPCaJI JLaAAAo Hill
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In response to a letter directed
by Mr. J. E. Turner to the Manu
facturers Record, the following was
received which we publish for in
formation of our large land own
ers, who may derive a benefit from
it, if they are willing to part with
some of their lands at a fair price
and help Duild up the county.
New York City.
J. E. Turner, Esq., Vice Pres.,
The Exchange National Bank,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
Dear Sir:
I have read your letter of No¬
vember 8th, rublished in the Man
lacturers Record of November
17th, with a special interest in
your remarks about cut-over lands
and would be pleased to receive a
complete, comprehensive report on
this subject with a map of your
section if one is obtainable.
Myself and associates are looking
for a first class land development
proposition, and if your lands are
susceptible of cultivation on a
profitable basis, the price reason
able and the spirit and temper of
your people one of encouragement
to settlers we will in all probability
look actively into the matter. I
would like to have information on
the following points:
I. Approximately how many
acres, easily accessible, could he
secured in your vicinity.
2- What is the nature of the
soil? Has the United States gov¬
ernment ever made a soil survey
of these lands; if so when?
3. What is the topography of
the country, how many feet above
the sea level; is it well drained; is
it in danger of being flooded by
the overflow of rivers and creeks
during the rainy season?
4. What is the condition of the
roads? If not at present in first
class shape would your people take
steps to build good roads after an
investment in the lands was as¬
sured?
5- What would it cost approx¬
imately to clear the land for culti¬
vation per acre?
6. Is there a naval stores com¬
pany or by-products company in
your section that would use the
stumps for the extraction of tur¬
pentine, rosin, etc., or for the
manufacture of alcohol, paper,
etc?
7. What are the crops best
suited to the land? In your arti¬
cle you mentioned peaches. Are
not the days so warm and the
nights so cold in the early spring
as to render the raising of peaches
with any guarantee of success
highly problematical?
8. Is the land suited for general
or diversified farming, the culture
of corn, wheat, oats, etc, and the
raising of cattle, pigs, chickens,
etc.
8. What are the dairying pos¬
sibilities?
9. What are your markets; will
your home markets consume the
grain and dairy products, eggs,
chickens, etc.?
10. Can you compete with Flor¬
ida in the production of early veg¬
etables for shipment to northern
markets? What are the compara¬
tive freight rates?
11. Have you a commercial or¬
ganization of any kind? If so, is it
prepared to render assistance in
finding markets, the securing of
good freight rates, etc?
12. Are your local bankers
prepared to render every reason-j
able assistance to settlers?
13. What is the population of
your town?
14. Would the present owners
of the land, or business men in
your section be willing to invest in
a corporation for marketing these
lands. This is more or less of an
FITZGERALD , BLN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18, 1911.
A p ‘ eas i n! E " r P rise
or
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j The Teacher’s Institute convened
Saturday, Jan., 7th, and after an
hour and a half of busy work it
was announced to us by our
j County Commissioner that the
Woman’s Club had a surprise for
us.
In a few minutes a neatly cooked
and and arranged luncheon was
served which was thoroughly en¬
joyed by all present.
We wish to extend our heart
felt thanks to the Woman’s Club
and feel that this act of kindness
has made a warm corner in each
teacher’s heart for every member
of the Club.
A. C. Tanner
Mrs. Amie Hunter
Committee.
J. W. Rodwell Dead
Mr. J.W. Rodwell passed to the
Great Beyond Monday morning at
2:30 o’clock, after having suffered
a stroke of paralysis one week
previously.
The deceased was in his forty
eighth year and was born in Wai
ton county, this state. He became
a residenCof Fitzgerald some years
ago and was known to be one of
the most influential and law-abid
ing of the city’s leading business
men. He was an active member
of the Baptist denomination and
was a deacon in the first Baptist
Church of this city.
For some months previous to
his death Mr. Rodwell’s health be¬
gan gradually to fail, but he was
able to give attention to his busi¬
ness interests until he was stricken
with paralysis, just a wesk ago.
A brief funeral service was con¬
ducted at the home Tuesday morn¬
ing by Rev. Thos. M. Callaway
and concluded at the grave, inter¬
ment being made in the Evergreen
cemetery.
The bereaved wife and daugh¬
ter have the sympathy of the city
in the loss of their husband and
father.
acid test. Unless the local people
are enthusiastic and have confi¬
dence in a development proposi¬
tion involving the investment of
considerable capital is likely to be
a trifle shy.
15. What is the assessed val
ation of these lands at present, and
what are the owners willing to sell
at?
16. What are the tax rates?
17. Are the titles to these lands
clear, and what kind of deeds are
the owners prepared to deliver?
18. What is the average rain
fall for the year and also by
months; how many rainy days last
year? By this I mean does it rain
three or four inches at a time and
then let up for a month. Is the
rain fall uniform: is the old saying
“It never rains but it pours” ap
plicable to your section ?
19. What results have your
present farmers secured; is there
any scientific farming being done
at present?
20. What are the labor condi¬
tions, rates of pay, etc. ?
In addition to the above I would
be glad to receive any other in¬
formation you may be able to give
but I do not whish you to go to
any expense in securing this in¬
formation, as it is entirely probable
that we will never make an invest
ment. If the information you are
able to give me proves encourag¬
ing we may then look into the mat¬
ter thoroughly.
Thanking you for your courtesy
in this matter, I am,
Very Truly Yours,
Robt. W. Wishart.
Rev. Fisher Discourses
On The Apostle’s Creed
Synopsis of First and Outline of Second of Seven Ser¬
mons Dealing with The Apostle’s Creed, That
are Being Preached by Pastor of
Central Methodist Church,
“I Believe In God 1 he
Feather Almighty”
FIRST OF SERIFS OX
apostles’ creed
(Synopsis only for lack of space.)
Mr. Fisher said in part, The be¬
lief in God is an intuitive and
constitutional principle of man,
than requiring no proof any more
the belief that two and two
will always make four, every
effect demands a cause, etc.
Therefore, as is to be supposed,
no nation or tribe lias been found
that did not believe in some sort
of a deity
I believe in God because Atheism
or and Agnosticism is all that is left;
in the course of reason they
are wrecked on three rocks of
fact: Matter, Motion, and In¬
telligent Order In the Universe.
As to Matter, it is here. It is
easier to believe in an eternal
Spiritual Being than in eternal
matter whether it be seventy
elements or seventy million
eternal atoms; for after all, is
the question, “ VV ho made them ?”
Again, reason has something to
say about intelligent order and
and harmony and life that is here;
we are led from the world
house built to the World-Build¬
er, God.
We still have to do with Motion:
matter inert can not originate
activity. hypothesis There will never be
an satisfactory so simple and
as that in Genesis:
God created—the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the
waters.”
But man is the stumbling block of
modern atheism. Man in whom
is intelligence and persenality.
Some one or some what created
this man; if there is personality
in man there must be personality
in his creator. Till Atheism
can account for the heroes of
earth, and for Calvary’s Christ
we must believe in God.
SECOND SERMON OF SERIES
ON apostle’s creed
IS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD?
1. I believe Christ was the son
of God because his apostles be¬
lieve He was the Son of God.
When one comes to speak of
this he is actually hampered by
the abundance of evidence. One
might expect with some confidence
to exhibit the form of the world in
the sphere of a dewdrop; or by
reversing the optic glass bring the
starry universe within the vista of
the human eye; one might even
hope to awaken all the melodies of
nature by sounding the diatonic
scale; but to attempt to bring be
fore your mind in a few minutes a
composite grouping of the pictures
painted on the hearts of the
apostles by the influence of Christ’s
life and death and resurrection
were a feat to arrest the hand of
a bolder artist than I.
The task is more difficult be¬
cause each disciple draws with a
pencil. Matthew is the
black and white artist, Peter the
engraver, Paul the sculptor
whose sharp chisel takes the marble
without shape and cutsand fashions
the form appears strong and
lovely and altogether like the Son
of God. John is the marvelous
color blender who finds his tints
amid the light of setting suns and
eternal dawns, they are as chaste
as the diamond’s gleam when a
moonbeam finds its heart: among
his warm tones we bethink our¬
selves perforce of that artist who
mixed his pigments with his own
heart’s blood. And yet it is the
same picture whether drawn in
quick strokes by Nathanael as he
exclaims, “Rabbi, Thou art the Son
of God:” or cut deep by Peter’s
emphatic, “Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God;” or
transfused with the supernal glow
of John’s matchless brush, “In
the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the
Word was God, and the Word was
made Hesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and
truth.”
Into the Apostle’s conception of
Christ certainly there entered
three things, that lie was the Son
of God, in His Sonship He was
Divine; in His Divinity that He
was eternal. There has arisen a
school, lacking the essential of a
school, that is to say, a teacher,
who hold that we take the disciples
too seriously; and insist that His
disciples to-day give to Jesus
what He nor his followers then
ever claimed for Him. There is
a possibility of doubting the sound¬
ness of the Apostles’ belief, but
we cannot doubt that they believ¬
ed. John tells us that the record
is left, “that ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God; and that believing ye might
have life through His name.”
They believed in His divinity.
The question has arisen, does di¬
vinity reside In goodness or in
power? Whatever answer may be
given, the apostles felt that good¬
ness needed power to make it
divine; hence his miracles were the
beginning" of evidence, as Peter
surely believed when he referred
to the “miracles and wonders and
signs which God did by Him.”
They believed in His eternity.
The apostles believed that one
divine must be not only good and
powerful, but that his goodness
and power must be infinite in point
of time. It was when they could
say, “Jesus Christ, the same yes¬
terday, today, and forever,” that
they rallied with unflagging cour¬
age to His cause. I ask you to
consider some things that inevit¬
ably follow if we decide they were
mistaken.
As Bishop Candler profoundly
suggests, If Jesus Christ was not
what his disciples thought him to
be, “then a phantom andashadow
has been the center of a mightier
power, and has exerted a mightier
influence for good, than all the
realities which have ever existed.
This being so, on3 thing is true,
and the only thing that is true,—
man is walking in a vain shadow
and disquieting himself in vain.
The present life is a dream, the
life to come a blank, and man’s
only hope—shall I not say, his
best hope—is to be swallowed up
in that eternal silence out of which
he has come, to which he is hasten¬
ing, and from which there will be
no awakening?”
2 Before we shall say His dis¬
ciples were deceived, let us con¬
sider that in such a case His life
becomes the profoundest problem
in the philosophy of history. I fid
Christ die? Then what does good¬
ness avail? Jesus died never to
rise again—the all-glorious Christ!
Then what avails power? And
the poet wrote more truly than he
thought:
“The boat of heraldry, the pomp
of power,
History Questions for
W C. T. U. Meeting
Mrs. C. E. Baker, secretary of
t he local Chapter United Daugh¬
ters of Confederacy, announced
that the first meeting of the year
1911 will be held at the home of
Mrs. E. J. Dorminey on Main St.
Friday, Jan. 20, at 3:30 o’clock. It
is the purpose of the Daughters of
the Confederacy to make a thor¬
ough study of “Arlington”, the
home of General Robert E. Lee,
and the following history questions
are scheduled for discussion at the
next meeting:
1. Where is Arlington? How
far from the National Capital?
2. How is Arlington endeared
to the hearts of all Southerners”.
3. What two National Cemeter¬
ies are located there?
4. Of the 265 graves of South¬
erners, jn which almost every
Southern State is represented, how
many Georgians sleep at Arlington.
Why should Georgians feel most
interested in the erection of Arling¬
ton monument?
5. What plans were adopted for
increasing funds during Christmas
Season ?
6. Through whom did Robert
E. Lee come into possession of
Arlington?
7. What was the fate of Arling¬
ton when he resigned his federal
position and wenttolRichmond?
8. Into what was Arlington
converted at that time? Where did
General Lee live after the war?
9. The residence at Arlington
was begun in 1804, completed in
1812, and modlled after what plans?
10. What was the amount of tax¬
es due upon Arlington when it was
sold in 1864?
11. Give sketch of life of Rob¬
ert E. Lee.
12. What Georgia city was the
scene of General Lee’s first mili¬
tary service when he was a young
lieutenant of engineers, and again
in the war between the states was
his home while commander of the
coast ?
And all that beauty, all that wealth
e’er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour,
The paths of glory led but to the
grave.”
3. Again, if the disciples were
misled in their conception of
Christ, then a delusion has saved
the world! When Christ came
the world was tottering on its
social foundation. He put His
hand upon it, and said, “Perce!”
The nations which have taken
the chiefest places of the earth
are the people who worship Him.
These results flowed from the
preaching of men inspired and
empowered by their faith in the
Divine Christ. Was it a mistake?
Then it was the most astounding
mistake that ever darkened the
erring mind of man—a mistake
that not only nerved its votaries
to hardship, peril, and death, but
in every age has flung its charms
about the best, the most cultured
and intelligent men. Were they
mistaken? Then let us thank
heaven for their error. Without
this mistake the world had gone to
hell.
2. I believe Jesus was the Son
of God because He believed it.
The character of Jesus Christ
stands in the range of history
solitary and sublime. None ap¬
proach Him in person or mission,
and what is more if one should
claim to be like Him in origin,
authority or work, we would at
once excommunite him from the
province of goodness and intelli¬
gence. When others speak on
eternal things, though they pro¬
fessedly borrow from Him of
whom it was said, “He spake
with authority,” we somehow feel
(CONTINUED ON LAST 1‘AOF.)
NO. 4.
The City Council
Met Monday Night
The City Council held their mid¬
month meeting Monday night at
the City Hall, with Mayor Paulk
presiding.
Several important ordinances
were read the second time and duly
passed, and the “heroes and scape¬
goats” unanimously adopted very
stringent measures, regulating
near-beer saloons and the illegal
sale of whiskey.
The annual report of the Chief
of the Fire Department which was
overlooked at the proceeding meet¬
ing was read and ordered filed.
According to the report there
were 51 alarms during the past
year, and the loss by lire amount¬
ed to $31,000.00;
Mr. II. Wettstein addressed the
Council, requesting that a case
which was made against him in
the Mayor’s Court, as a result of
his refusal to comply with one of
the City Ordinances, be dismissed.
The matter was discussed and a
resolution insisting that the Mayor
enforce the law was adopted.
Educational Train
Will Tour Stacte
An Education Train will again
tour Georgia from February 7, to
March 25, inclusive. The rail¬
roads are providing the necessary
equipment of cars while the live
stock, machinery, and other exhib¬
its are being installed by the State
College of Agriulture.
The itinerary wil[ be published
as soon as approved by the rail¬
roads. About 140 towns will be
visited, a stop of between two and
a half and three hours having been
provided for. As these towns
are nearly all iu different counties
the state is being very completely
covered.
The exhibits will consist of a car
of live stack, including draft hor¬
ses, beef and dairy animals, sheep
and swine. There will be a car
load of farm machinery of the
latest and most approved type.
Two cars will be devoted to exhib¬
its of soils, fertilizers, farm crops
and other educational material.
Their will also be an exhibit of the
work done by the boy’s corn
clubs. In all, six cars will be pro¬
vided for carrying exhibit-.
This will be the most complete
Educational Train ever operated
in the Southeastern States. Data
of interest of every person who
owns land or who is interested in
agricultural education will be
shown. Since about 150,000 peo¬
ple visited the last train and it is
believed that the attenoance will
be large this year, it is easy to see
that this movement may be made
the means of distributing informa¬
tion which will be worth several
millions of dollars annually to
the people of Georgia.
The train will be accompanied
by some twelve experts who will
speak on topics of special interest
to the localities visited. The cost
of preparing and installing the ex¬
hibits is being largely borne by
friends of the institution, while
the train itself, is being provided
by the generosity of the railroads.
Every town visited should make a
special effort to advertise its com¬
ing and invite the people from the
rural districts and surrounding
territory to be present.
Let every one co-operate in this
great movement to disseminate
agricultural information which the
tour of this train makes possible.
P. B. Heefner, the Tonsorial
Artist has moved back to town
from Lincoln Ave. little Marie
and Hellen had over a mile to
come to the city to shook