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The Fitzgerald Leader.
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Isidor Geloers Managing Editor
Earl Braswell City Editor
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Official Or^an of Ben Hill Co.
An opportunity is offered us to
have the State Farmers Union
meet with us in Fitzgerald in Ju¬
ly. The invitation has been ex¬
tended to the Executive Board by
the Ben Hill County Farmers Un¬
ion and also to the people of Fitz¬
gerald to co-operate with the offi¬
cers of the Union tosecure this
meeting. About 800 Farmers
from every county in Georgia for
three days J in Fitzgerald and Ben
Hill County / would , , do , more to place ,
our .Bncultm-al advantages . before
our North ,rorf;ia frionds than
anything else we could do. Thous-
ands of Dollars have been spent to
encourage settlers and invite in-
vestigation, yet all these dollars,
whilst productive of good results,
do not compare with the benefits
that would accrue from this State
chants, meeting to our County. Mer-
Bankers, Real Estate men
let us co-operate with the Ben Hill
County Un’on and make the
nual convention a certainty for
Hill Fitzgerald and a success for Ben
glad County, rhe Leader will be
to extend every opportunity
for publicity to any committee of
citizens who will take up this mat-
ter with.the in proper position authorities help and
we are a to you
and are ready to do it.
Announcement Extraordinary!
5 Pianos At Factory Cost
Realizing That Many Could Not Take Advantage of Our Big Sale, And in Order That Nobody
Will Be Disappointed, We Have Decided To Sacrifice The Few Remaining Instruments In Stock, Rather
Than Ship To a Nearby Town.
NOW OR NEVER!
If you Ever Intend BUYING A PIANO This Is Your GRAND OPPORTUNITY
We Must Leave At The Earliest Possible Moment For Another City, Where We Have a Similar
Sale In Progress Which Demands Our Presence. OUR. LOSS-—YOUR GAIN.
WE HAVE THREE SPLENDID ORGANS FOR SALE AT YOUR OWN PRICE
Convenient Terms W. H. HOWARD PIANO CO For Liberal Old Instruments Allowance
Atlanta, Georgia
THE FITZGERALD LEADER. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1911
In this issue we are printing a
specially prepared article on the
“GEORGIA NORMAL AND IN¬
DUSTRIAL SCHOOL” at Mil-
ledgeville. The euucational facili¬
ties offered by the State for our
Boys and Girls are not sufficiently
appreciated, largely for lack of
information on the part of the
people about these Institutions.
On investigation, we found, that
Ben Hill and nearby counties were
not taking advantage of this fine
school for their Girls, and we de¬
cided to at least do our part to call
our readers’ attention to the fact of
its existence. Send your Young
Ladies to this finishing school,
offered you free by the State, it is
your Institution to make use of,
and it is your daughter who will
get the benefit and through her
following generations. A bale of
Cotton or two will pay for the en¬
tire year. Think it over, you who
have a young lady of suitable age
and see if you don’t find it worth
it to you to give your girl that
chance.
The Fitzgerald Leader is urging
the Torrens system of land titles in
Georgia. There was a time when
the Torrens system of titles would
have meant much in this county.
It would have saved a number of
good , honest . , people , their ., . , homes
and . , have defeated , ,. , some shyster ,
Uwyere in tlieir efforts to makc
money out of foreign claims.—
Moultrie Daily Observer,
Wjlst it is no doubt loo late to
save your particular people the
particular lands in Colquitt, yet
there may be others, and it is for
them that we can provide a safe
guard. Aside from the protective
nature of the Torrens Plan, the
simplicity and cheapness in trans-
"ers appeals to the investigator.
The more possession of the Regis-
teml Torrens Title, as a banker
friend stated to the Editor, would
increase the borrowing value on oil r
lands and its safety would decrease
the inter t rate. Bovs, help
push it, you have never used \ our
space for anything more worthy
far reaching for the ultimate
benefit of your people.
XoneilS System Of
Land Title Registration
(Continued from Saturday’s Paper)
Sec. 26. Every registered owner of any estate or inter¬
est in land bought under this act shall, except in cases of
fraud, to which he is a privy without valunle consideration
paid in good faith, and except when my registration has
been procured through forgery, hold the land, free from
any all adverse claims, rights or encumberances not noted
on the certfieate of title, except (first) liens, claims or
rights arising or existing under the laws or Constitution of
the United States, which the statutes of this State can not
require to appear of record under registry laws; (second)
taxes and levies assessed thereon, but not delinquent; (third)
any lease for a term not exceeding five years, under which
the land is actually occupied.
Sec. 27. The obtaining of a decree of registration and
the entry of a certificate of title shall be construed as an agree¬
ment running with the land, and the same shall forever re¬
main ali registered land, subject to the provisions of this act and
amendments thereof.
Sec. 28. No title to nor right nor interest in registered
land in derogation of that of the registered owner shall be
acquired by prescription or adverse possession.
Sec. 29. Except as otherwise specially provided by this
act registered land and ownership therein shall be subject to
the jurisdiction of the courts in the same manner as if it had
not been registered; but registration shall be the only opera¬
tive act to transferor affect the title to registered land, and
shall date from the time the writing, instrument or record to
be registered is duly filed in the office of the Register of
Deeds. Subject to the provisions of this act, no voluntary
or lands involuntary transaction shall aff ect the title to registered
until registered in accordance with the provisions of
this act: Provided, that all mortgages, surrendered and
canceled certificates, deeds, when new certificates are issued
for the land so deeded, and other papervvritings, if any, per¬
taining to and affecting the registered estate or estates here¬
in referred to, shall be filed by the Register of Deeds for
reference and information, but the Registration of Titles
book shall be and constitute sole and conclusive legal
evidence of title, except in cases of mistake and fraud, which
shall be corrected in the methods now provided for the car-
rection of papers authorized to be registered.
Sec. 30. In case of conflicting claims between regis¬
tered owners the right, title or estate derived from or held
under the older certificate of title shall prevail-
Sec. 31. The fees to be allowed the clerks and sheriffs
in this proceeding shall be the same as now allowed by
law to clerks and sheriffs in other special proceedings
The examiner hereinbefore provided for shall receive
a minimum fee of five dollars for such examination of prop¬
erty assessed upon the tax books at the amount of five
thousand dollars or less; that for each additional thousand
dollars of assessed value of property so examined he shall
receive fifty cents; that he shall receive no other fees or
remun oration whatsover.
There shall be allowed to the Register of Deeds for
copying the plot upon the Registration of Titles book one
dollar; for issuing the certificate and new certificates under
the act, fifty cents each for noting the entries or memo¬
randum required and for the entries noting the cancellation
of mortgages and all other entries, if any, herein provided
for, a total of twenty-five cents for the entry or entries
connected with one transaction; that there shall be no
other "ees allowed of any nature except as herein provided,
and that the bond of the register, clerk and sheriff shall
be liable in case of any mistake, malfeasance or misfeas¬
ance as to the duties imposed upon them by this act in as
full a manner as said bond is now liable by law.
Sec - 32. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court,
by and with the advice of the county attorney and the Attor¬
ney-General, the to prepare blanks in so far required as practicable under the for
petition, affidavit and other forms
provisions of this act.
Sec. 33. That section 980 of the Revisal of North Caro¬
lina, commonly known as the Connor Act, is hereby repealed
to the extent that any and all deeds, contracts, leases or con¬
veyances authorized and required in that section to be regis¬
tered shall, in so far as same affect and constitute liens upon
registered estates as herein defined, be deemed and declared
in iaw to be duly registered whenever the same, together
with the certificate as herein provided, shall have been ex¬
hibited to the Register of Deeds, aud said register shall have
made the entries and done the other acts provided for in this
act,
Sec. 34. That this act be in full force and effect from
and after its ratification.
Mr. Ashley Bovd arrived in the
city Tuesday, to accompany his
sister, Miss Fannie Boyd to Waldo,
Fla., where on next Wednesday,
the former will be married to Miss
Mabel Masters, and Miss Boyd
will act as a bride’s maid.
Yovir Eyes
ARE IMPORTANT TO YOU
Therefore do not abuse them.
If they burn, itch, or pain in any
way; it the type blurs or your
eyes feel strained when reading,
they need the attention of a skilled
specialist. Dr. Kennon Mott has
made a life study of the eyes and
entire system in all branches and
can treat the most difficult eye
cases as well as fitting glasses in a
scientific manner, Dr. Mott is
advertising his Atlanta office and
will give free examinations while
here. His office is at the City
Drug store, next to the Post office.
Dr. Mott will only be here until
Saturday on this his first trip to
our city, so don’t delay but see
him now.
Mr. August Paul and family
have arrived and taken posession
of their new home purchased of
Mr. Max Lueders. Mr. Paul spent
a few days here during Dee., and
decided to locate with us.
Mrs. Margaret Kimball, mother
of Mr. Chas. Kimball, of Pano,
Ill. and Mr. and Mrs. Tatch of
Seattle, Wah., are visiting with
the family of Mr. C. Kimball.
FOR SALE—One beautiful,
2 karat blue gem diamond, worth
S640. Will sell at a bargain. P. O
Box 800. 12-4fc.
FOR RENT-6 room house, 602
W. Suwanee. Apply to
J. W. Norris, Sheriff.
p et i t j 0 n to Remove Disabil-
ities
Georgia—Ben Hill County.
Will Beckton) In Ben Hill Supe-
vs. ^ rior Court, April
Lula Becton. j Term, 1911.
To Lula Becton, Greeting:
You are notified that the above
stated petition will come on to be
tried at the next term of the 3u-
puperior Court of said county,
beginning on the first Monday in
April. 1911. Will Becton.
By his Attorney-at-Law,
E. Wall. aprilS
! "R, LOUIS A. TURNER f
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