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The Fitzgerald Leader.
Published Every Wednesday
and Saturday by
THE LEADER PUBLISHING CO.
Isidor Gelders Managing Editor
Earl Braswell City Editor
$1.50 Per Year.
Application pending to be entered as
Second-Class Matter under Act of Con¬
gress of March 3, 1879.
ADVERTI8INU RATES:
Rates for Display Advertising
furnished on Application.
Local Readers 5 cents the line
for each insertion. No ad taken
for less than 25 cents.
Official Organ of Ben Hill Co.
Reduction Wanted In Express
Rates
For the purpose of considering
the proposition of reducing the
express rates on the Atlanta, Bir¬
mingham & Atlantic railroad, the
railroad commission has issued
an order for the Southern Ex¬
press Company to show cause on
next Tuesday why a reduction
should not be made.
When the A., B. & A. was first
put into operation the commis¬
sion allowed a higher express
charge on the line than was per¬
mitted on other and more firmly
established railroad companies,
and also allowed it to charge a
slightly higher freight and pas¬
senger rate.
Now that the freight and pas¬
senger rates have been reduced
to the basis of the rates charged
by other lines, the commission de¬
sires to find out why the express
rate should not be reduced to the
same basis of express rates
charged on other lines.
The above news story sent out
from Atlanta is somewhat mislead¬
ing. One would infer from it that
the A. B. & A. passenger rates
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of FITZGERALD
Everything Must Have a Beginning
Do not postpone opening of a Servings Account
simply because of the smallness of your first deposit. The
Big Things of To-day were the Little Things of
Y esterday.
Eleven years ago this bank began business with a Cap¬
ital of $15,000.00, and today has a Capital and Surplus of
$200,000.00, and is growing more popular and prosperous every day.
A Savings Account started with us today,with
interest bank has we pay, compounded quarterly, will grow as this
grown.
Every person who works for a salary should lay aside a
portion of the same each month. Unless this is done one
cannot be considered prosperous or a good business manager. Wealth does not result from what a per-
son makes, but what he or she saves.
We solicit and appreciate the accounts of all, but we especially invite the young men and young wo-
men who are just starting out in the commercial life, to open a Savings account with us and cultivate
the habit of laying up a part of their income each week or month as the case may be.
Save now while you have health, time and opportunity; “for the timecometh when no man can work.”
FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of FITZGERALD
E. K. FARMER.. President M. W. GARBUTT, V.-P. A. H. Thurmond, Cashier
T. F. HEMMINGER, V.-P.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER. SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1911
have been reduced by the K. R.
Commission. This is not so, the
rate for passengers on this trunk
line is still 3 cents per mile. A
slight reduction in freight charges
has been ordered some time ago
but no effort has yet been made to
get the road into its proper class
on passenger charges.
The GOOD ROAD movement
goes right ahead. The people
along the Short Line propose to
have the best as well as the shortest
road to Jacksonville. Every coun¬
ty interested on this line has its
road gangs working on the con¬
necting link with its neighboring
county and long before the snow
falls again we’ll have a complete
highway to the banks of the St.
Mary’s. We may fail to get the
“Sign-Boards” but we’ll get the
travel; the best roads and 70 miles
travel saved, will force the inter¬
state travel over the Fitzgerald-
Douglas, and Waycross route.
Would Give Carriers
Whole Holiday
“We, the undersigned, patrons
of the Post Office of Fitzgerald,
Ga.. seeing that the present sys¬
tem of distributing mail by the
city carriers upon the Sabbath de¬
prived them of a day for complete
rest and worship; and beleiving
that all mail necessary to be deliv-
ered can be satisfactorily handled
by the lock-boxes and the general
and special deliveries, respectfully
petition you the honorable Post
Master to secure the discontinu-
ance of the city carrier’s delivery
upon the Sabbath day,”
The above petition, which will
be presented by the various minis¬
ters of the city to-morrow at their
respective churches, speaks for
itself.
Under the present system pf
Sunday Postal service each carrier
and clerk has to be on duty a por-
tion of nearly every Sabbath. The
hardship of this and the fact that
it is often to answer unneccesary
calls is being recognized by the
Entertainment For Benevolent Society
Following is'the program that will be rendered Tuesday evening
April 25, at 8:30, at the opera house for the benefit of the Benevolent
Society.
PROGRAM
1. Piano—“Etude Miguonne,” Edward Schmett—Mr. Stewart.
2. Voice—L, Ardita, Luigi Arditi—Mrs. Livingston.
3. Piano—“Si Ouiau J’itais”—Opus 2, No 6, A. Heuselt—Mr.
Stewart,
4. Voice—Le Tortorelle—Luigi Arditi—Mrs. Livingston.
5. Reading—The Power of Prayer, Alice May Gouse—Miss
Julia Prentiss.
Singing Mr. P. F. Clark.
6. Piano—Etincelles—Opus 36, No. 6. M. Moszkowski—Mr.
Stewart.
7. Voice—LePandiro, Paul Henrion—Mrs. Livingston.
8. Piano—Die Jagd, J. Rheinberger—Mr. Stewart.
9. Voice—Che Gioja, Fito Matter—Mrs. Livingston.
Post Office Department and the
public generally.
The Post Master General has is-
sued orders that wherever the peo-
pie wish it all Sunday distribution
of mail is to be discontinued ex-
cept the lock boxes, the special de¬
livery, and a sufficient time at the
general delivery window to meet
the urgent needs of the traveling
public. The general public, rec-
ogniziDg that all the service actu-
ally needed is thus furnished, has
generally taken advantage of this
act of the Department, and thous-
ands of Post (Iffices, among them
New Yerk, Chicago, and Savannah
have discontinued all work not re-
quired by the Department to the
benefit of the Postal force and no
material inconveniences to the
public.
The Ministerial Alliance felt that
Fitzgerald ought not to be behind
so many of her sister towns in tak¬
ing advantage of this act, and in
consultation with Post Master
Marston obtained his opinion that
it would be a decided benefit to the
Postal force. Accordingly the
pastors will present this petition
to-morrow at their churches with
the hope that the people will grant
their carriers one day for complete
rest and worship and the public a
better kept Sabbath generally,
Come, citizen, do this good
work.
Local Trimmers
Will Organize
Yesterday at Mrs. M. C. Russ’
Millinery Store preliminary steps
were taken looking to the organi¬
zation in this city- of a Trimmer’s
^ Tn ‘ on > which possibly will be the
on ly organization of the kind in
the United States. It is a matter
that at different times has been
undertaken in the larger cities but
with no degree of success,
The object of the project is not
for the purpose of raising the
price of millinery, but for the pro¬
tection of its members against bad
accounts, and for the promotion
of the millinery business aloDg
legitimate lines.
The local trimmers present at
the meeting were: Mrs. M.K. Day,
Mrs. M.C. Russ, Mrs. E. J. Walk¬
er, Mrs. S. Alexander, Mrs. P. E.
Groves, Misses Eliza King, Effie
Floyd, and Miss Bertha Sedlmeyr.
A meeting will be held next
Tuesday, at which time the organ¬
ization will be perfected, officers
chosen and a petition for charter
applied for.
WANTED—To purchase or
ease a reliable country weekly
newspaper in south west Georgia.
Address, with particulars.
30-2t Box 655, Fitzgerald, Ga.
Cotton And Corn Contest
Fund Has Been Completed
Fitzgerald, Ga. , March 1, 1911.
We, the undersigned business men and farmers, do hereby
agree to pay the amount opposite our names for the purpose of cre¬
ating a prize fund, for the purpose of encouraging the farming in¬
dustry in our county. ($1,000.00),
We desire to raise One Thousand Dollars, and to
appropriate $500.00 toward cotton growing prizes and $500. QQ to¬
ward corn growing prizes.
We propose to give notes, without interest, due and payable
November 1, 1911, for the amounts subscribed hereto.
The funds to be used and disbursed by a committee to be
selected by those subscribing hereto:
American State Bank......................... .....$ 25.00
Planters’ Warehouse & Loan Co. ......... 100.00
J. A. Justice & Co.............................. ... 25.00
Leader Publishing Co.......................... . 25.00 /
Empire Mercantile Co....................... 50.00
L. L. Griner................................................ "**r ...... 25.00
Griner Sons Co........................................ . 25.00
The Ben Hill Co...................................... ... 25.00, 5.00
J. C. Bush.....................................................
Exchange National Bank.................. . 100.00
Third National Bank........................... 50.00
Fitzgerald Haberdasher Co........... 10.00
Simons Bros. Co............................... 15.00
R. I. Maffett................................................ 5.00
Peacock’s Pharmacy........................... 15.00
First National Bank.............................. 50.00
W. L. Smith......................:........................ 5.00
R. E. Lee and Watt & Holmes Hardware Co. 25.00
J. Hawkins Goodman...................................................... 5.00
Denmark Drug Co......................................................... 25.00
B. T. Strickland.............................................................:.... 5.00
Johnson Hardware Co.................................................. 25.00
I. Golden berg & Co....................................................... ... 20 00
Adams-Rogers Hardware Co..................................... 5.00
Josey Shoe & Clothing Co............................................. 5.00
G. E. Davis............................................................................ 25.00
W. W. Mu-ray ............................................................... 10 . 00 -
A. Brunner & Co................................................................. 5.00
Frank Hager-......................................................................... 10.00
Fitzgerald Cotton Oil Co............................................... 50.00
Stovall, Jones & Co........................................................... 10.00
Dr. J. M. Adams .........................._.................................... 500
J. W. Scarbrough & Co.................................................. ........,.. 25.00'
R. Davis & Co........................................................................ 10.00
Beall Grocery Co................................................................ ...... I0.0O
Consolidated Grocery Co................................................ 25.00
C. W. Hayes............................................................-............ 5.00
L. O. Tisdel T 10.00
This completes the subscription to the CORN and COTTON
Contest, and the above subscribers will meet Tuesday afternoon at
3 o’clock at the Leader office to adopt rules and regulations for the
contest. We trust that every subscriber will be present at the
meeting, so that we may frame satisfactory regulations for all.
The prizes will be large enough to interest all ambitious farmers,
and we can expect some astonishing results in corn and cotton cul¬
ture in Ben Hill. The rules will be published, as soon as the com¬
mittee has met, and distributed among our farmers. The Leader
will publish them in its next issue.