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Official 0r;an Ben Hill County.
A, B ; A. Picnic was
Enjoyocble Affair
The A. Ii & A. Shop Employ-
ee’s second annual picnic at Dooley
Camp Grounds Wednesday was a
success in every respect. Notwith-
standing the fact that the weather
had a rather threatening aspect
and it was a little cool, quite an
enormous crowd was on hand with
well-crammed baskets. The spe-
cial train which carried the picnic-
ers to Dooly consisted of six coach¬
es besides the baggage car, and
every seat was occupied, the day
at the grounds passed off very
pleasantly, there being no acci¬
dents or friction among those
present, and indeed it was a very
orderly crowd to be so large. The
different contests were enthusias-
4icaI, y entere d into, and in many
instances it was a difficult matter
for the judges to decide who was
the right winner of the useful and
handsome prizes offered.
Following is a list of the prizes
and their winners:
Manhattan shirt, offered by the
Fitzgerald Haberdashery for the
most popular married man—Mr.
R. D. Diake.
Jewelry case offered by Den¬
mark Drug Company for the most
popular young lady—Miss Annie
Drake.
Material for dress, offered by
Jones Dry GoodsJCom; a ly for the
most popular married lady—Mrs.
G. A. Kent,
Shirt Waist, offered by R. I.
Maffet for the best markslady—
Mrs. F. A. Jackson.
Candy offered by the Home-
Made Candy Factory for the home¬
liest man—Mr. Curtis Minter.
Fountain Pen offered by E. P.
Wightman for the nail driving
contest—Mrs, R. D. Drake 1
Rug offered by Clark Company
for the Fat Man’s Race—Sam Go-
ins.
Pair of shoes offered by J. A.
Jones for the Peanut Race—Mast¬
er Tomey Lyles.
Suit Case offered by Josey Shoe
and,Clothing Company for the 100
yard dash—Walter Walker.
Shaving set offered by Peacock’s
Pharmacy for best rope climber—
C. L. Wilder.
Center table offered by Miller
Furniture Company for [Running
High Jump—J. A. Murdock.
Water Cooler offered by John¬
son Hardware Company for stand¬
ing broad jump—Ed Carney.
Scarf Pin offered by Russell
Brothers and Pair of Cuff Buttons
offered by Wightman for the three
legged race—T.A. Hogg and Cro-
zier Hogg.
Three pounds coffee offered by
L. O. Tisdel for hop-skip-and-
jump—T. Table A. Hogg.
liogers lamp offered by Adams-
Hardware Company for
ladies 50 yard dash—Miss Virginia
Davis.
Box stationery offered Adams
for the egg race.—Miss Mary Put¬
man.
Month’s barber bill offered by
the O. K. Barber Shop for the
standing high jump—Ed Hook.
Sack of flour offered by Dodd
Supply Company for the running
broad jump—W. W. Culpepper.
Pair of shoes offered by Church-
well as gentlemen’s first prize in
dancing contest—G. L. Kilcrease.
Bottle of perfume offered by T
J. Haile as gentleman’s second
prize in dancing contest—Randall
Bryan.
Pair of shoes offered by C. U.
Gaines as lady’s first prize dancing
contest—Miss Agnes Chisnel.
Pair of shoes offered by Beall
Brothers, as lady’s second prize in
dancing contest—Miss Maggie Mae
Carney.
Gentleman’s suit offered by C.
U. Gaines, awarded to T. F. Me-
Ford.
Gentleman’s suit offered by Em¬
pire Store, awarded to B. S. Shep¬
pard.
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SEMI-WEEKLY
Fitzgerald Leader.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 29, 1911.
Physicians Save
Wilbur Warren’s Leg
Mr. H. M. Warren has returned
from Atlanta with the glad tidings
that his little son, Wilbur, will
soon be a well boy again. The band-
ages, in which the little fellow’s
body has been incased for Thurs-
the past two months were removed
day, and it was found that the
broken bones in his leg had knit-
ted during the period that the limb
was imprisoned in the plaster of
Paris, and the physicians state that
he will in several weeks be just
as strong as ever. Mrs. War¬
ren and Wilbur will remain in At¬
lanta a while longer until the limb
has ‘ ‘limbered up” sufficiently for
the boy to get about without as¬
sistance.
The many friends of in the city
of Mr. and Mrs. Warren will be
delighted to know that the young
min’s leg has been saved, although
it seemed for a long time that it
would have to be taken off’.
County Educators To
Meet in Valdosta
Valdosta, Ga., April 28—The
next convention of the county
school officials of Georgia will be
held in this city on May 2, 8, and
4. The convention will be com¬
posed of the county school com¬
missioners and members of the
various county school boards, and
it is expected that 200 delegates
will attend the meeting in addition
to a large number of prominent
educators from the leading insti¬
tutions in this and other states.
The opening session of the con-
vention will be held at the county
court house on Tuesday morning will
where addresses welc„ m e
be delivered by Hon. E. P. S.
Denmark, president of the Lown-
des j county „„ a board u „ n of i- education, .i ... and i
Colonel J. B. Copeland.
An enjoyable social program has
i been been arranged arranged i for for , those those who who . at- at-
tend the convention. The board
of trade has appointed various
committees to look after this fea¬
ture of the meeting, and in addi¬
tion to receptions and automobile
rides over the city, the visitors
will be given an elegant barbecue
and fish dinner at the Ocean Pond
club house, near Lake Park, on
Thursday.
Among the prominent visitors
who will be here is Governor-elect
Hoke Smith, who will deliver an
address on Thursday morning, and
Professor Lawton B. Evans, of
Augusta, who will speak on Wed-
nesday night. Hon. (). B. Mar-
tin, of Washington, D. C., one of
the ablest educators in the country,
will also speak on Wednesday on
“Practical Education.”
Eight-Hour Work Day
Bill Is Introduced
Washington, April 28.—Repre¬
sentative Reilly, of Connecticut,
introduced a bill providing an
eight-hour work day for mail
carriers and clerks in first and
second-class postoffices, the eight
hours to be consumed within a
limit of ten consecutive hours and
for pro rata compensation for all
work in excess of eight hours a
day. It was referred to the com¬
mittee on postoffices and post
roads.
To Abolish Clergy
Rates
The practice of granting reduced
rates to clergymen will be aban-
doned on railroads operating be-
tween Chicago and New York.
Eastern railroads are behind the
movement.
Messrs. McDonald and Strick-
land, real estate dealers, havemov-
ed their offices from south Grant
street to the Five Story Building,
Illinois Senator Proposes to
Give $100 Bonus For Each Baby
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E DMOND be mayor” Beall mayor believes BEALL because of the In is of babies. city a his meaber of friendly "Alton, He of has actions tbp where six Illinois in toward he his was snu?e family, that known senate fabled two as being He the bird, used “stork twins Mr. to
Some years ago attention was called to the fact that In Alton, ns elsewliere.
children were not welcomed in apartment houses. Mr. Beall had a few thou
* ftnd dollars not needed in his machine shops—he has three of them—and be
did that inducements offered' l&ZZZZS.
say would be to couples that were visited occa
siontt " y stork. So the apartment house became known as the “stork
* ats >” aQ d Mr. Beall was praised by young parents. When Mr. Beall recenfl?
began his duties as an Illinois senator he Introduced a bill providing for th<»
payment from the public funds of $100 for each baby born within two years
f fter the maiTla SC ot the parents, and iu order to encourage further increases
ln population the bill provides a similar bounty for each baby born at inter
vals vals of of not not more than two years. The bill has not yet become a law but the
stork ma J° r - now a stork senator, is hopeful, A Chicago statistician has in-
and h f, re f orts that Mr Realls P lau would cost the state more than
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The term for entrance fn the First National Bank’s
cotton and corn contest has been extended to May,
I5th.
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Score of 10 to 6
In favor of Douglas
Fitzgerald’s newly organized
base ball team played a game with
Douglas Thursday, which resulted,
after the seventh inning when the
game was called on account of
darkness, in a score of 10 to 0 in
favor of Douglas. The game was
played on the Douglas diamond,
and the batteries were: for Fitz-
gerald, Sloan, Harrington and
Askew: for Douglas Fiilinger and
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Memorial Exercises
Wednesday was Memorial Day,
and the local chapter of the United
Daughters of Confederacy observe
ed the da V wifch appropriate exer-
c * ses at the Court House, which,
however, owing to the fact that
there were many out of the city
picnicing, was not attended by a
very large crowd, An excellent
program was rendered, and Rev.
Thos M. Cajlaway, the orator of
occasion delivered a fine address.
At the conclusion ot the exer¬
cises, those assembled repaired to
the cemetery where they placed
fllowers upon the graves of the
Confederate dead.
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Mr. Willis L, Smith, the raer-
chant tailor, has returned from a
business trip to Atlanta and Macon.
and Register at the Leader Office for the Businessmen
farmers’ Corn and Cotton Contest between now and
May 15th, after'which-time no entries will be re
ceived.
Rev. T. G. L&ng And
Dr, White of Atlanta
The general public will be in¬
terested to know that Rev. T. G.
Lang, of Montezuma, has accept¬
ed the invitation tof the Board of
Education to preach this year’s
commencement sermon, which will
be delivered on Sunday May 14th.
Rev. Mr. Lang is known :>
many in this city, and is said to be
an eloquent and forciful speaker.
The baccalaureate address will
he delivered on graduation night,
May 19th, by Dr. White, of At
lanta.
R.ev. Hollingworth
Resigns Pastorate
The general public and especial¬
ly the church-folk of Fitzgerald
learn with genuine regret of the
recent resignation of Rev. E
Everett Hollingworth as pastor of
the Central Christian Church.
Mr. Hollingworth is a man
thoroughly consecrated in the
work of God, and during his pas
torate of three years here has ac
complished much in the cause for
which he is working. He has
shown a special interest in youriy
people and possibly has more mem¬
bers among the young men and
women than any other church in
the city. Mr. Hollingworth has
not yet decided where he will locate.
His resignation takes effect July h
Odd Fellow's Observed
92nd Anniversary
The Cdd Fellows Hall was full
to overflowing Sunday afternoon,
when exercises were held, in ob-
servance of the the 92nd anniver-
sary of the Order. An enjoyable
musical program, was rendered,
which was participated in by Mes-
dames F. R. Justice, Ed Thurston,
J- R. Green, J.A. Parrot, Howard
Brown: Dr. Louis Turner, Messrs.
G. A. Lagerstroni, Will Gillespie,
and J. H. Burk. The vocal num¬
bers were accompanied by Mrs.
Gelders and Miss Xorth-Tnmmon
on the piano and violin.
The orator of the occasion, Rev.
W. S. Harden, delivered one of
the most eloquent addresses ever
listened to by a Fitzgerald audi¬
ence, and it/ II long be remem¬
bered by tlv i so fortunate as to
hear it.
Gov, Brown Commend¬
ed for Action in Strip¬
ling Ca.se
Atlanta, Ga. April —Among
the Atlantians who are openly
commending Gov. Brown for his
refusal to pardon Thomas Edgar
Stripling ate numbers of influen¬
tial men who have always been op¬
posed to Governor Brown in poli¬
tics and who will continue to op¬
pose him.
Even before the decision was
made public, there had been con¬
siderable change of sentiment in
this community regarding the
merits of the Stripling case, and
while the unhappy man still has
many strong sympathizers, the
general feeling in this community
low seems to be that the governor
acted justly. When Stripling was
first brought back from Danville,
Atlanta public spirit was practi¬
cally unanimous in favor of his
pardon.
Took Newspa-pers
From The Mails
Savannah, Ga., April 24—By a
decision of United States Commis¬
sioner W. R. Hewlett, JohnS.
Berger, charged with fraudulent
use of the mails in exploiting his
aviators as the “world’s greatest,”
was given his liberty this afternoon,
and the postofiice inspectors bung¬
led another case.
The decision also carried with it
the dismissal of the charges against
Louis Berger and D. J. Lawrence,
who were made joint defendants.
Featured in the evidence offered
by the government were a dozen
newspapers, taken from the mails
by Postoffice Inspector Britton,
who presented them with the ex¬
planation of their abstraction from
the mails that they were unmail-
ab'e, because they contained Ber¬
ger's advertisements and a letter
also taken from the mails, written
by Lawrence to one he addressed
as “Dear Old Pal.” The papers
were not admitted in evidence, anu
the letter was stated to have'no
bearing on the case by the com¬
missioner, they deriving their chief
interest in the manner they were
obtained.
Sent To Gang
For Selling whiskey.
Moultrie, April 26.—Two ’’blind
tigers” came to grief through the
vigilance of Chief of Police A. W.
Hamilton. W. M. Bryant, a negro
preacher was arrested charged with
selling whisky. He was tried in the
mayor’s court on the charge of
keeping whisky for illegal sale and
being found guilty was fined $50
and sentenced to 50 days on the
streets, Charles Swain, another
negro, was also arrested by Chief
Hamilton. He entered a plea of
guilty. The maver fined $100 and
sentenced him to 50 days on the
streets, the latter part of the sen-
fence being suspended.
Official Organ of Ben
Hill County. $1.50
a Year.
VOL. XVI. NO. 33
Profit From Sh ow
For Ben ToJbot
Messrs. Miller and Ricker man-
agers of the Lyric Theatre have
very kindly agreed with the’ ladies
of the Benevolent Society to do-
nate the profits accruing from their
show next Tuesday night to the
subscription f und that is being
made up to puvide treatment for
Ben Talbot at St. Joseph’s Infirm-
ary, Atlanta, where he was taken
last week. All the readers of the
Leader arc familiar with the man-
ner in which Ben Talbot was in¬
jured on a freight some time ago,
and the fact that he seemed not to
be improving under local treat¬
ment, and being his aged mother’s
sole support, prompted the move-
ment to raise a fund to send nim
to Atlanta for treatment. It will
be gratifying to the young man’s
many friends to know that he is
improving under the treatment of
the Atlanta specialists, who confi
dently expect that after the opera¬
tion he will be safely on the road
to recovery.
Mr. Talbot’s expenses while in
Atlanta are being covered only by
voluntary subscriptions, and all
who possibly can, should take ad¬
vantage of the opportunity to help
a good cause by attending the Ly¬
ric’s show next Tuesday.
Revival Services At
Central Methodist
Church
Tha revival services being con¬
ducted at the Central Methodist
Church by Rev. Robert Kerr,
which have now been in progress
one week, are arousing much in¬
terest and a large congregation has
listened attentively to each sermoo
delivered by the Evanglistic.
Rev. Mr. Kerr is well known to
a large number of Fitzgeraldites,
who learned to love and reverence
him during his pastorate at
Central Methodist Church several
years ago. He is an earnest Chris¬
tian man, and as a speaker he
knows how to hold the attention
©f his hearers. The revival serv¬
ices will last through next week,
at 9:30 in the forenoon and 7:45 at
night, and itwill be for the spiritual
uplift of all to attend as many of
these services as possible. Every¬
body, regardless of church affilia¬
tions, is invited to come out and
take part. Good music at all serv¬
ices.
Messrs Dudley Withers and
Tedford Myers, of Fitzgerald,
visited friends in Rochelle last
Sunday.—Rochelle New Era.
Payment of Teachers
Held Up By State
Payment of 10 per cent of the
salaries of the state school teachers
for this year is being held up by
the state treasury department be¬
cause the state hasn’t money
enough on hand with which to
make this payment. The depart¬
ment attributes this lack of funds
to the payment of $1,166,609 in
pensions at the first of the year.
So far this year the state has
paid its teachers $220,459.39. It
still owes them $32,889T7 for work
they did in 1910. During 1911 the
teachers will be due, including this
left over debt, $2,312,429.88.
The desire of the state is to pay
the teachers on the 10th and 25th
of each month. On the 10th the
treasury department paid out$10,-
000 for the teachers. The school
department wished to have over
$200,000 ready for the teachers on
the 25th and the school commis¬
sioner prepared a requisition upon
the treasury for this amount. But
the treasury department finds that
it hasn’t $200,000 now that it can
pay the teachers.—Journal.