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Semi-Week.ly 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 U - on • n 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.