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Mrs. Oscar Minter has gone to
A mericus, to visit relatives.
Miss Ocie Johnson is visiting
her grandparents at Oglethorpe.
Mis R. A. Wilson expects to
leave soon for an extended visit to
relatives in Texas.
Ladies' -CORSAIR” COLLAR,
( Al, 35 and 50 cent values selling at
C. U. Gaines, for 23ct.
Mrs. Daisy Braham has gone
to Ocilla to spend several weeks
with relatives.
Miss Hester Brewer came up
from Douglas yesterday, to have
home dental work done.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Patterson,
of Adel, are spending several
days at the Aldine Hotel.
Miss Alice Shepherd, of Abbe¬
ville, is the attractive guest of her
sister, Mrs. J. L. Pittman.
Ladies’ “CORSAIR” COLLAR,
25, 35 and 50 cent values selling at
C. U. Gaines, for 23ct.
Mrs. T.M. Beckham, of Bridge-
boro, is the guest of Mrs. T. L.
Warren on south Grant street.
Miss Edna Watkins returned
yesterday from Macon, where
tihe has just finished a course in
music
Mrs. Ethel Hoitzendorf, of
Douglas, was the guest yester¬
day of Dr. and Mrs. C- A. Hoitz¬
endorf.
Miss Ellen Henderson, of Ocil¬
la, and Mrs. George Dickson, of
Osierfield, were in the city yes¬
terday.
Miss Blossom Mercer returned
this afternoon from Bessie Tift
College, at Forsyth, where she has
been attending school.
Miss Hattie Taylor is in Hawk-
insville, where she was called on
account of the serious illness of
her father, Col. T. C- Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Perkins
spent Sunday very pleasantly
with the family of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Perkins.
Mr. S. H. Pel ton and sister,
Mrs. Mary P. Foss; and Mr. A.
Woodman, compose a party who
will leave tomorrow for Boston,
Mass., to spend the summer
months.
Mr. W. T. Hammock returned
this afternoon from Sandersville
with his wife, who for the past
several weeks has been a patient
in the Rawlins Sanitarium. Mrs.
Hammock is now convalescent,
and within a short time will be
entirely well.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. M. Whit¬
ley and daughters, and Mrs. Jas.
Paulk. Jr., and Mr. and Mrs- H.
B. Isler and children, are spend¬
ing a few weeks at White Sul¬
phur Springs, Fla., having gone
through in Mr. Whitley’s and
Mr- Isler’s touring cars. They
will also visit in Jacksonville and
other places before returning.
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STILE.WELL-WELLS-
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Stillwell,
of Montezuma, announce the en¬
gagement of their daughter,
Brooksie Mae, and Dr. W. Frank
Wells, the marriage to take place
at the home Wedesday. July 5. at
12 o’clock.
The foregoing from the Atlanta
Journal will be of interest to the
many friends of the bride, who,
as the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Pat Day, was an admired visitor
to the city this past winter.
Mr. Robt. Fair, of Sparks, was
here yesterday.
Mrs. E. Da>her, of Halcyondale,
and Mr.-. Dr. Brannon, of .Savan¬
nah, aie visiting Mrs. W. E. Ad¬
ams.
Ladies' - ‘CORSAIR” COLLAR,
25, 35 and 50 cent values selling at
C, U. Gaines, for 23ct.
Miss Ella McLendon went down
to Douglas yesterday afternoon, to
attend the commencement exer¬
cises at the Agricultural College.
PERSONALS
Mr. Lon Dickey was a recent
visitor to Atlanta.
Mr. N. R. Amos, of Douglas,
spent Tuesday in the city.
Mr. Israel Levin, of Douglas,
spent Tuesday in the city.
Mr. Edward Wilson, spent
Monday in the city on business.
Ladies’ -CORSAIR” COLLAR,
25, 35 and 50 cent values selling at
C. U. Gaines, for 23ct.
Mr. J.C. Spell, ofCordele, tran¬
sacted business in the city Mon¬
day.
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Mr. C. Kirkland, of Nicholls,
was in the city Monday and Tues¬
day.
Mr. W. A. Nasworthy, of Re¬
becca, was among the visitors in
city Monday.
Mr. Ernest Arnold, of the
Churchwell Stores, is spending the
week in Waycross.
Mr. R. W. Durden, of Bruns¬
wick, transacted business in the
city Tuesday.
ltev. Guyton Fisher, pastor of
Central Methodist Church, preach¬
ed the commencement sermon at
Monteznma Sunday.
Rev. T.G. Lang, of Montezuma,
filled the pulpit of Central Meth-
lOdist Church at both services Sun-
‘day.
New Ice Cream
Parlor Will Open
The “Tarrymoore” is the name
of Fitzgerald’s newest ice cream
parlor and cigar stand, which is to
be opened next week by Mr. Will
Moore. Mr. Moore has leased the
building on Pine street, recently
vacated by theVendome Grocery
Company, and is now having the
walls tinted and making other in¬
terior changes preparatory to the
opening.
Mr. Moore has spared neither
time nor expense in fixing up an
attractive and inviting soda dis¬
pensary and it bids fair to prove
a very popular resort. The soda
fount and other furnishings have
already arrived and just as soon
as they can be installed, the
Tarrymoore will be opened. Mr.
Moore intends to have a formal
opening one day next week, and
you are invited. Watch for the
announcement. *
Notice.
American Woman’s League
members.
A mass meeting is called for
Thursday June 1st for election of
officers. All members please be
present 3 o’clock p. m.
Mrs. M.E. Whitman, Pres.
Mrs. G. A. Griffin, Sec’t.
Regulates the bowels, promotes
easy natural movements, cures
constipation—D o a n’s Regulets.
Ask your druggist for them. 25c.
a box. 31-8t.
H. ELKINS. JOSEPH B. WAL1
ELKINS & WALL,
Attorneys at Law,
Booms Uarbutt-Ponovan Building
•Will Practice in all the Courts.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER. WEDNESDAY. MAY 31. 1911
Ashton Items
A large crowd-attended the sing
given by Misses Bertha and Mollie
Minix, Sunday p. m.
Mr. G. B. Williams paid Miss
Bertha Minix a very pleasant call
Sunday p. m.
Mr. John Hardin and Miss Lula
Dykes were seen out driving Sun-
day.
Mr. Judge Hardin called on Miss
Mollie Minix Sunday p. m.
Miss Bertha Minix’s friends will
give her a surprise party this week
in honor of her 17th birthday.
Mr. Bennie Williams will leave
Friday for his home in Empire,
after a pleasant visit to Miss
Bertha Minix.
Miss Mary Bye is still visiting
Miss Bertha Minix.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dykes at¬
tended the sing Sunday p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dykes will
leave Saturday for a visit to his
people in Tampa, Fla.
Farmer’s News.
A.T.0. Triumphs
Over Plus Ultra
The attendance contest that for
the past several weeks has been
waged between the Plus Ultra and
A. T. O.'Classes of the Christian
Church closed Sunday, last, with
the boys triumphant. Much in¬
terest has been manifested in this
contest between the girls and boys
and both are to be complimented
for their jiever ceasing efforts to
bring into their Sunday School
young men and women who were
not attendants elsewhere. The
Plus Ultra class last Sunday had
an enrollment of 56 and the A. T.
O. Class had 59. This is said to
be the largest number of members
that has ever been enrolled in two
classes in the history of Fitzgerald.
The collection Sunday at the Chris¬
tian Sunday School was also a rec¬
ord breaker amounting to $6.59.
In carrying out the agreement
of the two classes when the contest
inaugurated, be that the winners were
to given a banquet by the los¬
ers, the Plus Ultras are preparing
to entertain the boys Friday even¬
ing at the W. R. C. Hall.
The Weeder Or
The Hsvrrow?
The question has been raised as
to whether our statements relative
to the usefulness of the weeder
have not been misleading.
The editorial statements regard¬
ing the weeder, we believe, have
been strictly correct. We have
stated that it was the one imple¬
ment which the one-horse farmer
could use for rapid cultivation and
that it was a splendid implement
for the two-horse farmer in culti¬
vating his crops.
But we have always stated that
the weeder will not prove satisfac¬
tory when thorough preparation is
not given, nor on heavy lands or
lands run together to form a hard
crust. In these cases the smooth¬
ing harrow should always take the
place of the weeder.
It is then asked, Why not the
the harrow in all cases? For these
reasons; (1) The one-horse farmer,
whose land is well prepared and
light or mellow, can get over more
ground with a weeder than with a
harrow. (2) The weeder on such
lands does practically as good
work and runs much lighter.
(3) The weeder on such lands
will do satisfactory work and may
be used longer, or until the crops
are larger than is practicable
with the smoothing harrow.
Some of our correspondents may
possibly have been less careful in
stating the true function of the
the weeder. but we feel quite cer-
tain that the editorial position of
The Progressive Farmer has been
correct, as to the work to be done
with the weeder. It has limitations;
but it is very useful for early,
rapid cultivation when the land is
in proper condition, especially for
the use of the one-horse farmer.—
Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farm¬
er.
How Our Money
1 Originated.
j It is to Lydia that Europe owes
; the invention of coinage. In all
jt : mes and in all countries the pri V-
ilege of coining has been allowed
j the sovereign. Croesus of Lydia,
i j was the first monarch to introduce
j a bimetalic system of coinage—
gold and silver in the proportion
of about three to four. This was
some time between 560 and 545
B. C. Darius, of Persia, is said to
have later adopted this idea also.
At a very early age the ancients
found it necessary to discover
some definite medium of exchange
to take the place of the inconven¬
ient method of bartering—the
most primitive means of carrying
on trade. Metal was chosen doubt-
j i ess by reason of its durability,
and j n t,h e case of gold and silver.
by reason of their intrinsic value.
Silver and brass were first used,
particularly ia Greece, from alack
of sufficient gold. Later however,
this deficiency was overcome in a
manner to be described further on.
The less liable a metal is to
change in value the better it is
suited for a standard.
The first method of using pre¬
cious metal as a medium of ex¬
change was impractiable and in¬
convenient. It was simply weighed
and exchanged, in full, for com¬
modities of various sorts. Soon,
as commercial transactions increas¬
ed and became more complicated,
it was found necessary to divide
the mass into units of various
weights, which took the form of
rough coins. To this day there is
one surviving relic (in name only)
of this first system of payment by
weight. It is the world pound.
This division proved unsatisfactory
also, since no two merchants were
likely to have split their store of
silver into pieces of equal weight.
Their units could not be taken as
a standard, since a piece of weigh¬
ed metal becomes a coin only
when it is stamped by the state,
and is thus guaranteed to have its
professed weight and purity.
Governor-Elect Names
His Officia.1 Staff
Governor-elect Hoke Smith has
completed the organization of the
staff which will assist him when
he takes over the governor’s office
in June. He announced Saturday
that Calvin M. Hitch, of Atlanta,
will be the executive secretary.
Mr. Hitch has been connected
with the governor’s office under
the administration of three chief
executives—Governors Candler,
Terrell and Smith.
Morris K. Haralson will serve
the governor as private secretary.
He has been private secretary to
Mr. Smith for the past two years
in his law office and served under
him for a time as a stenographer
in the governor’s office.
Malcolm Johnson, of 53 Sum-
mit-st., will be warrant clerk and
will have charge of requisitions
and matters pertaining to pardons.
P. M. Edwards, of Quitman,
Ga., will act as recording secre¬
tary. Mr. Edwards was a railway
conductor for a number of years
and Is a member of the O. R. C.
He is an expert accountant and has
had wide office experience.
Zack Cowan, of Atlanta, will be
given the position of messenger in
the governor’s office. Mr. Cowan
is at present attending the Uni¬
versity of Georgia. He probably
will hold the position only during
the summer vacation.—Atlanta
Georgian.
Thomasville Is {Given
Postal Savings Bank
Washington, May 29.—The
postofiice department today desig¬
nated 50 additional postal savings
banks.
This makes the total number es¬
tablished to date 326. The new
offices will be open for deposits
June 27.
Among the offices designated to¬
day were the following in the
South:
Alabama—Opelika.
Georgia—Thomasville.
North Carolina—Rocky Mount.
Heart to Heart
Talks.
By EDWIN A. NYE
GOING TO FATHER..
An aged churchman who passed
away not long ago while dying said:
“I want to go to God. the Father.”
Tired, worn, weary of his days, the
good man was like a child who at
evening time calls for its father and
reaches for his hand.
And we all-
in our better moments, as at the
last of life, we nil come to that simple
kinship—God’s fatherhood and our
childrenhood.
“Like as a father pltieth his chil¬
dren so does the Lord pity them that
fear him.”
We are his children—“children cry¬
ing in the night,” to be. sure, yet chil¬
dren “crying Abba Father."
In our callow wisdom we think to
know many things we do not know,
and finally, having boxed the compass
of our religious thinking, jve colne
back to the simple faith we got at
mother’s knee.
Children, all of us.
Like children, we play at the game
of life, and. like them, we tire of our
earthly playthings. And then, leaving
the broken toys strewn on the ground,
we lift beseeching eyes for some one
who will lift us in his powerful hold.
Children all.
Like them, we sail our gayly colored
vessels—toy ships that come to anchor
with the poor stuff that we call gain
or go down under thq stress of misad¬
venture. But, whether our ships come
In or no, there comes a day when we
no more take pleasure in their sailings.
We are but children.
Like children going to their holiday,
we go joyously on our way. mixing
much of happiness with a few meager
tears, and. like them, when the gala
day Is done we return with laggard
steps, and at eventide we long for the
Father who can rock us safe to sleep
Is it not so?
As the weary child lifts its little
arms with beseeching eyes and cries.
“I am tired, father: take me up.’’ so
we—
When the uighttime comes we reach
up the arms of our feeble faith with
a baby’s trust In the eternal love and
care.
And so of that aged' man who so
many times had nestled his mortal
life in the everlasting arms. What
more natural than that he should say:
“i want to go to my Father.”
MOLLIE’S GUMPTION.
Back In southern Ohio they were
known as Jim and Mollie. Now they
are Mr. and Mrs. -of Pittsburg.
They were children of neighboring
hill farmers and went to school three
or four months in winter and worked
the remainder of ffie year, and they
were in love with each other.
Jim built a log cabin on one corner
of his father’s rocky acres and mar¬
ried Mollie, and they managed to get
along fairly well.
Mollie was ambitious.
One day she said to Jim: “You were
always good at books, especially arith¬
metic. You should be a civil engineer.
Let’s go to college and educate you.”
Which took Jim’s breath.
“How can I go to college? We have
no money.” And Mollie smiled and
said, “Come on, let’s go.” And they
scraped up barely enough to pay their
car fare to the college town.
Which seemed a reckless voyage.
But immediately Mollie got a Job as
waitress in a college boarding house.
Jim took care of furnaces, cut lawns
and did all sorts of odd chores. At
the end of six months they rented a
cottage and opened a boarding house
of their own. When the spring semes¬
ter closed they had $400 in bank.
That was more money than Jim
could have made in five years on the
Mils.
Before the second year was over a
red headed baby came to their board¬
ing house, which complicated things
to some extent. But Jim succeeded in
crowding four years’ work Into three.
Three months before graduation day
a Pittsburg man offered any senior a
job as draftsman at $60 a month.
All refused—except Jim.
Mollie had talked with the man and
looked him over carefully, and she
said to Jim. “Take the job.” And Jim
took it
The outcome?
Five years afterward the Pittsburg
man took Jim as a partner, and last
year half the profits of the engineer¬
ing Arm were $27,000.
Now. how did Mollie know Jim
would make an engineer? Why did
she take a long chance in going away
from the farm? Why did she advise
Jim to take the Job at $60 a month?
Why, Mollie had gumption.
And that is one of the most valua¬
ble things In the world. Many women
have it It is more than Intuition. It
is the prophetic faculty plus pluck. It
is instinct coupled with daring.
The feminine mind is wonderful in
its fruitfulness when given a chance.
If you are married to a Mollie who
has gumption do as she bids you.
CHILDREN OR. CALVES?
Here is something new under the
sun—fattening school children.
The school authorities of Philadel¬
phia discovered that some of the chil¬
dren were underfed. They came from
homes where the parents leave for
work early in the morning and return
late in the evening, and there Is not
much to eat
An experiment was made.
Fifty of these children were selected,
and for a month they were given three
cent hot ranches, consisting of ham¬
burger steak or Irish stew, with rice
or gravy.
The result?
These lean school children—poor kids
—gained an average of four pounds In
twenty-sis days! Some, half starved,
gained more, but the average was four
pounds of solid flesh.
Now—
I have just been noting in a farm
journal a tabulation of some elaborate
feeding tests of cattle and hogs. Much
is said about the “balanced ration.”
And I remember that experiment
schools are maintained and bulletins
issued by the government to promote
proper feeding of farm animals.
Which is all right, but—
Why draw the line on famished chil¬
dren? Is it because cows and pigs rep¬
resent money and children are mere
human flesh, which has no value on
the stockyards quotations?
Ask yourself.
Why do we spend so many millions
on battleships and rivers and harbors
and conservation of forest, mine and
stream and so little on the children?
Afraid we will pauperize them if we
feed them?
, Did we pauperize the Union Pacific
when we gave it millions of acres of
land? Do we pauperize the steel bar¬
ons when we give them a monopoly
on steel rails, or our army officers
when we retire them on half pay?
How about free schoolbooks?
Did we pauperize the children of the
poor when we gave them—in many
places—books free of cost? .
The fact Is we pauperize
children or make criminals jR k %
when we let them go hungry.
You can give a thin boy or
wholesome meal a day for a less sum
of money than it costs to feed a fat
calf.
You do not pauperize the calf by giv¬
ing it something to eat
How can people of the cities where
the ill nourished children of the poor
are found permit such conditions? Are
they hard hearted, or don’t they know,
or have they become used to the piti¬
ful thing?
THE PAYROLL.
In this world, whether you buy on
credit or pay cash, you must settle
for everything you get.
And—
In return for everything you do, ev¬
ery effort you make—whether you get
your envelope Saturday night or
whether the paymaster is slow with
the payroll—you get what is coming to
you.
You must pay.
You must get full pay.
You must pay as you go—or after¬
ward. Whether you ride on a pay-as-
you-enter car or put the nickel in the
Blot at the end of the trip, you must
pay or you cannot ride.
You get your pay as you go—or after¬
ward. Like the street car conductors
Who deduct their day’s wages from
tfieir “turn in,” you may get what is
sured doming to you daily, or if not, be as¬
of this: If you have to wait for
Your pay you get interest after ma¬
turity.
Now, what you do is either good, bad
or indifferent.
If you do good work you may be
gore you will get good pay. If you do
bad work you will draw evil wages—
the wages of sin. If you do indifferent
.work yon will get indifferent pay.
Is It not so?
Here is a rich man who has made
his money by compromises with his
conscience. Credit him up with his big
house and bis motorcars and his stocks
and bonds. Now charge with betrayal
of trust and a good memory of it, an
extravagant and ungrateful family, a—
I’m going too fast?
Well, strike the balance. The man
Is getting his pay right along.
And you?
Credit your ups and charge your
downs. Charge the tears and credit
the smiles. Put down on opposite
■ides of the ledger the days of cloud
and the days of sunshine.
The trial balance shows overwhelm-
Ingly on the credit side.
Now put down the good things you
bare done, and the bad things, and the
Indifferent
Does the account show “In red?’;~_^^_
Then you better begin to get
dally credits on the Journal. Beu!9P
good pays good, bad pays bad, each
after its kind. But always the pay.
You pay for what you get and you
get what you pay for.
Emerson called It the law of compen¬
sation.
Notice
Attention is called to the ad¬
vertisement of the Georgia South¬
ern and Florida Ry. appearing
elsewhere in this paper in regard
to the excursion to Jacksonville,
St. Augustine and Tampa, June
14th. Dont fail to read it. 31-3w.
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