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The Weekly Semi Fitzgerald Leader
Official Organ Ben Hill County.
Turner Art Exhibit Will
Be Held In Seanor’s Store
The Turner Art Exhibit, which
will be held in this city March 15th
to 18th, in the interest of the pub¬
lic schools, and of which the Boston
Transcrip asserts: The finest col¬
lection ever gathered together, is
being well received everywhere.
The following newspaper commets
concerning the exhibit are interest¬
ing:
The fine arts exhibition of the
of the season hare in Boston open¬
ed yesterday morning in the Art
Club galleries, in the shape of a
collection of works suitable for
school decoration. The object is an
important one and the collection
admirably illustrates the purpose.
The subjects are well chosen and
indicate how rich a variety of ma¬
terial is avaiable. The landscape
photopraphs of American scenery
are particularly good, and the
views of Mooris architecture are
the most beautiful ever shown here.
—Boston Sunday Herald.
The exhibition of art photo¬
graphs which opened in City Hall
this morning repesents the finest
things in this line which has ever
visited Springfield, and merits a
good attendance. — Springfield
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Genuine artistic merit is the
Report of The Condition of
The Third National Bank
At Fitzgerald,
State of Georgia, at the Close of
Business, March 7, 1911.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts $148,701.81
Overdrafts, secured and un
secured................................ 1,360.75
U.S. Bonds to secure circu¬
lation ................. ...... 50.000.00
U.S. Bonds to secure U.S.
Deposits.............................
Other Bonds to secure U.
S. Deposits......................
Advances on Cotton............ 3,080.00
Premiums on U. S. Bonds. 375.00
Bonds, Securities, etc.
Banking house. Furniture,
and fixtures........................ 3,187.31
Other real estate owned ... 3,500.00
Due from National Banks.
(not reserve agents)........ 18,775.82
Due from State and private
banks and bankers, trust
companies and savings
banks ................................. 7,282.43
Due from approved reserve
agents................................ 17.768.29
Checksand other cash items 878.63
Exchanges for Clearing
House ...............
Notes of other National
banks................................. 250.09
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents............. 155 91
Lawful Money Reserve in
Bank, viz:
Specie .. $4,048 45
Legal-tender notes 218 00
4~266 43
Redemption fund with U.S.
Treasury (5 per cent of
circulation).................... 2,500.00
Due from U. S. Treas-
urer
Total 262 082 40
The FITZGERALD LEADER
Twice a Weeh-One Year and a Ticket to the
FLYING MACHINE MEET FREE
OLD or NEW SUBSCRIBERS For $1.50 OLD or NEW SUBSCRIBERS
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 11, 1911.
is the quality for which the picture
hare been chosen, their value as
an aid to general school work al¬
though great in some cases, being
a minor consideration. Old masters
a& well as modern artists are rep¬
resented.—New York Post.'
There is history, poetry, nature,
religion, life and all that is iovely in
old and represented by the masters of
modern times. All pictures
of suffering have been excluded,
of even though it meant the rejection
Ruben’s masterpiece, the “De¬
scent from the Cr5ss.”—Detroit
Journal.
The new Seanor store next to the
Lyric Theatre will be used for the
exhibits Mr. Seanor very generous¬
ly donating the use of this exclient
place to the schools for the oc¬
casion.
A Bank Statement
-
is published in to-davs Leader
that should be examined. The
Third National Bank, a three year
old bank, shows a surplus fund
with undivided profits of over
ten thousand dollars, which is the
full amount of surplus required
by the government. Most banks
not pay cash dividends until
tqq s sur p) us f UPC j j s acquired but
the Third National has paid out
ten thousand dollars in cash divi-
dends in addition to placing its
surplus and profit account up to
the full legal requirement.
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in......... $50,000.00
Surplus fund 40.000 00
Undivided profits, less ex¬
penses and taxes paid 6.897.09
National Bank Notes out¬
standing 50,000.00
State Bank Notes out¬
standing
Due to other National
Banks......................
Due tojStateaad Private
Banks and Bankers
Due to Trust Companies
and Savings Banks ..
Due to approved Reserve
Agents ...........................
Dividends unpaid............. 40.00
Individual deposits subject
to check $90,239,06
Demand Certificates of
Deposit.............
Time certificates of deposit 15,393 42
Certified Checks
Cashier’s checks outstand-
ing 512 83
United States Deposits .
Deposits of U. S. dis¬
bursing Officers
Bonds borrowed ............ 25,000.00
Notes and Bills redis¬
counted .............................
Bills payable, including
certificates of deposit
for money borrowed 20,000 00
Reserved for taxes............
Liabilities other than
those above
Total 262.082.40
State op Georgia, Ben Hill County, ss;
I, A. B. Cook, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
A. B. Coo k. Cashier
Correct Attest:
J. M Mosher, 1
C. W. Kimball, > Directors.
J. C. Glover, j
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10th day of March, 1911..
chas. k. teal
Notary Public.
Fitzgerald is Practically Assured c f
Farmers’ Union Convention
Encouraging Letters are Received From
Members of the State Executive Com¬
mittee; All are in Favor of this City.
It is practically settled now that Fitzgerald will get the State
Convention of the Georgia Division of the Farmers’ Union which
meets next July, as Chairman W. H. Thompson of the Executive
Committee as well as all the other members have been heard from and
expressed themselves heartily in favor of Fitzgerald. The executive
committee will hold a meeting at an early date when the matter will
be definitely decided.
Following are some of the letters in answer to those sent out by
Clerk Hanger, on the suggestion of the editor of the Leader at a
special meeting of the Council last week.
Cedartown, Ga., March 8th, 1911.
Mr. E. L. Hanger, Clerk,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
Dear Sir:
Please convey to the City Council of Fitzgerald my deep appre¬
ciation for the consideration shown the Farmers Union of Georgia by
the adoption of the resolution of your Board of Aldermen extending
an invitation to hold their annual meeting for 1911 in your city.
When the time arrives for making a decision of this question, I
will lay your invitation before the committee, accompanied by an
expression of my personal preference in your favor.
Very truly yours,
Wm. Bradford.
Member State Ex. Committee.
Eastman, Ga., March 9th, 1911.
Hon. E. L. Hanger, Clerk,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 2nd received and contents noted in regards to
invitation extended by your City Council, asking for the next State
Convention of the Farmers Union be held in your City. Thanking
you for same and promising you that we will give same a favorable
consideration. Yours very truly,
W. H. Thompson,
Chairman of Union.
Cochern, Ga., March 8th, 1911
Mr. E. L. Hanger,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
Dear Sir:
The invitation of your City Council, expressed through you, to
hold next Annual Convention at Fitzgerald has been received, also
numerous letters of similar import from individuals. /
It will doubtless be painful to the Ex. Com. to decline your
earnest and cordial proposition, and although there are good reasons to
disappoint you, I will urge its acseptance. Please publish this in
your news-paper as a reply to all.
I return my special thanks to Mr. Manheira for his hearty senti-
meats of personal regard. Yours truly,
F. D. Wimberly.
Male Qua.rtette
Gave Fine Show
Fitzgerald is certainly indebted
to the A. T. O. Society of the
Christian Church for the four
Alkahest Lyceum numbers, which
they have brought to the city this
season. Never before has Fitzger¬
ald had the opportunity of patro¬
nizing a more up-to-date class of
shows. They have every one
proved entertaining in the highest
sense and at the same time very
educational and instructive.
The fourth number of the course,
The Wilbur Starr Quartette Com¬
pany, made their appearance last
jammed night, to a house that was fairly
long before the curtain
went up, and the appreciation on
the part of the audience of the
program was demonstrated by the
vigorous applause. Each member
of the male quartette possesses an
their exceptionally good voice, and
rendition of several operatic
and sacred selections was sublime,
while the humorous numbers
rendered, brought down the audi¬
ence in the most vociferous laugh¬
ter. Mrs. Starr who takes the
part of piano accompanist for the
quartette is herself a talented
cellist, and gave several selections
tliat were thoroughly enjoyed.
The program was indeed well
worth the nominal admission price
and it is a safe assertion that
everybody feeling went away satisfied, and
much the better for having
attended.
Fitzgerald Aviation Meet Will
Be Largest In South Georj
Pr-yer Meeting Is
Spiritual Pulse Of
Church
That the “prayer life” is rssen-
tial to the welfare ot‘ the Christian
is apparent to all, and that the
Christian may have a healthy
prayer life, several things are nec¬
essary; ®neof which is regular at¬
tendance at the time honored mid¬
week prayer service, held by prac¬
tically all Christian churches.
A plea for better mid-week serv¬
ices in the churches of Fitzgerald
is the purpose of this article. If,
as most people admit, the prayer
meeting is the spiritual pulse of
the church, it is highly desirable
that the pulse beat strong and
true. It must be sadly admitted
the per cent of attendance at the
mid-week service in all of the
churches is astonishingly small.
Various reasons are given why
the prayer services of the church¬
es are not attended as they used to
be. Perhaps the reason most fre¬
quently given is the multiplicity of
engagements. Modern society has
such a superabundance of organi¬
zations that one’s time is so divid¬
ed as to make it practically impos¬
sible to attend the appointed ser¬
vices of the churches as formerly.
Will you permit a few sugges¬
tions, which, if adopted, should be
mutually helpful both to the mid¬
week services of the churches, and
their membership; and to the vari¬
ous other organizations and func¬
tions which bid for a portion, and
often a large portion, ot our time.
In the first place:—Let all of
the churches hold their services on
the same evening of the week.
Wednesday evening seems like the
logical evening for the mid-week
service. Now should all of the
churches hold their services on
that evening, the people might
soon come to regard the evening
as prayer meeting evening and
plan their engagements according¬
ly. The church by divine appoint¬
ment, and by common consent has
the Lord’s Day for religious ser¬
vice. Shall she not by the same
consent, have Wednesday evening
for her prayer service?
Secondly: in deference to the
above, would it not be possible,
and mutually profitable for all
other orginiziations, fraternal, so¬
cial and otherwise to arrange tlieir
meetings on the other five even¬
ings of the week? It is a matter of
fact that these organizations are
largely composed of the various
churches.
If by some mutual aggreement
Wednesday evening might be giv¬
en to the prayer services of the
churches, then no member need
be absent from his place in the
church, and members and officers
VOL. XVI. NO. 19
I he aviators with t^eir flying
machines will be here next week,
-oming up from Waycross where
they are showing this week, and is
confidently expected that the Meet
in Pitzgerald will be the most
cessful suc¬
that has ever been in South
Georgia.
Up until yesterday there had
not been any very spectular flights
made in Waycross, which howev¬
er, was not the fault of the avia¬
tors as some might be inclined to
think from the telegraphic dis¬
patches in the Daily Papers, but
was due to the the fact that the
VY aycross committee failed to pro¬
cure a suitable place for the flights
and as result Count Ladis Lewko-
wicz’s Bleriot Monoplane was
wrecked by colliding with a stump
Thursday. This information was
derived over the telephone last
night from the Cashier of the
V\ aycross Exchange Bank, who
exonerates the aviators from any
blame whatsoever. He stated that
the field had been practically clear¬
ed of stumps and tliat th: y expect¬
ed to make successful flights to r ’t/
Count Ladis is a member of the
F rench Aero Club, and there is no
doubt about his being an up-to-
date aviator. The Savannah Morn¬
ing News has recently investigat¬
ed his record and makes the state¬
ment that his past experience in¬
dicates that he is just as be repre¬
sented himself.
With our good, clear, open field'
where, there is no reason why the
Fitzgerald Aviation MeetJ should¬
n’t be a big- success.
in the various organizations deed
not be absent from their places in
such organizations. This should
prove mutually beneficial to all
concerned.
Finally: If the churches unite
on Wednesday evening for their
mid-week service, then all lectures,
concerts etc. in which people gen¬
erally interested could be brought
here on other nights of the week,
thus giving all an opportunity
to attend such meetings of general
interest.
This paper is both a plea and an
inquiry.
A plea for larger and better mid¬
week services at the churches, and
an inquiry whether it would be
possible and mutually profitable
to sort of pre-empt Wednesday
evening, for these services, giving
right of way to other meetings and
organizations on the other five
evenings of the week.
By action of the Fitzgerald Min¬
alliance.
J. L. L&ichliter,
Committee.
We will give you a $1.00 ticket
the aeroplane show for every
subscription you bring to
Leader. tf.