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Official Organ Ben Hill County,
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EFFORT TO FOOL THE FARMERS
WILL NOT AMOUNT TO ANY
THINGS, SAYS HUTCHENS.
An effort is being made to align
the farmers of Georgia against Oscar
W. Underwood, on the ground that
he “betrayed” the farmers of Geor
gia by allowing Mr. Lamb of Virgina
to be appointed Chairman of the Ag
ricultural Committee of Congress. As
a matter of fact, every well informed
man knows that Mr. Underwood and
Mr. Lamb got their appointments
from the same source and that Mr.
Underwood did not appoint Mr. Lamb.
Besides, how many ever heard of the
incident before? How many have
heard of Oscar Underwood as the
true and tried friend of the former
and the one man in the United States
who drafted the FARMERS FREE
BILL AND PUT IT THROUGH CON
GRESS. The sorriest part of it is
that this effort to align the farmers
of Georgia against their best friend is
not being made by the Republicans,
but by people who call themselves
Democrats—Professor Wilson’s Geor
gia managers.
“] see by the papers that Prof. Wil
son’s managers claim that the Farm
ers’ Union is supporting Prof. Wil
son,” said Manager. Hutchens of the
Underwood campaign. “I do not be
lieve it. Upon what authority can
they say so? The Farmers Union is
not supporting anyone for the Presi
dency. It's not a political organization,
nor can any man deliver its members
or its support to any candidate. This
{8 an insult to the farmers of the
state, just as it 1s an insult to their
;!nt.emgencq to tell them that Oscar
‘Underwood is not their friend.”
Every farmer knows that Under
wood was the author of the farmers’
free list bill, and succeeded in having
it put through the house, though Taft
vetoed it. Under the terms of this
act there were placed on the free list
all agricultural implements, incl:ding
plows, tooth and disk harrows, head
iers, harvesters, reapers, agricuitural
drills and planters, mowers, herse:
rakes, cultivators, threshing ma
chines and cotton gins, farm wagons
and carts, and all other agricnltural
implements of all kinds and descrip
tions, as well as bagging for cotton,
burlaps and bags or sacks for sacking
agricultural implements, harness and
saddles, barbed fence wire, wire
strands and wire staples, as well as
also boots and shoes, sewing ma
chines, house material, foodstuffs and
other articles.
This bill would have removed any
possible discrimination against our
farmers in the prices of these neces
sary articles, and would have placed
them on an equal footing with the
rest of the world. Our domestic man
ufacturers of agricultural tools, imple
ments, vehicles and machinery are
largely organized into great trusts
and combinations, which are selling
these articles cheaper abroad than at
home, which caused agricultural as
sociations in all parts of the country
to protest by public resolutions.
Taft vetoed this measure, which
was drafted by Mr. Underwood and
over which he labored zealously for
months. But when we put Mr. Un
derwood in the white house, the far
mer, in common with the rest of us,
will come into his own.
Mother Burns Before
Eyes 0f Children
Mrs. Mary Kthridge was burned
to death yesterday at her home
near the city. She with her three
small children were alone on the
premises when her clothing caught
a fire from a trash pile, and before
assistonce could be summoned she
had burned to death. The terrified
little children told two men, pass
ing that way, of the awful tragedy
and they immediatelv summoned
Mr. Ethridge who was working on
Sidney Clare’s place, The charred
body was brought to the city this
morning for the coroner’s inquest.
Mrs. Ethridge was thirty-five
years of age and was the daughter
of William Dunbar. The broken
hearted husband and little children
have the sympathy of the entire
community. :
HOUSE For Rent—Good house
.320 E. Magnolia-st. Rates reason
able. Apply to Mrs Chovin for
further particulars.
THE FITZGERALD L _LEADER.
The White Sale.
Ladies while you are up town
shopping tomorrow, be sure to
stop in at Morrisons Tailoring
Shop, 115 S, Main st., as there
you will find just what you’ve been
looking for. Why not buy your
salads, cakes, pies, and easter eggs
already prepared? Stopinon your
way up town and get your pick.
Remember summer is already
here, and you will want more
pretty collars, handkerchiefs and
other embroidered articles which
will be on sale, than you will have
time to make, so go and see what
is there, and get what you have
been looking for. The Sale lasts
all dav, but go early, before every
thing is sold.
This Sale is being given by the
Plus Ultra Class, of the Central
Christian Church, and your patron
age will be greatly appreciated.
Fitzgerald Lodge No. 35
.0.0. F on a Boom
This Lodge had alarge and har
‘monious meeting last Tuesday ev
ening and the question of itzger
ald asking for the Grand Lodge to
meet here in May, 1913, was freely
discussed, A committee consisting
of the representative to Grand
Lodge at Gainesville and Brothers
E. N. Davis and Frank R, Justice
elected to canvass our citizens and
find out how badly they wanted
the Grand Lodge brought here.
To bring the large body here
would mean many good thinge for
Fitzgerald, as it would disburse at
least $20,000 00 during its session,
not counting the great showing
our new city and improved farm
ing lands would make to the
delegates who' come from every
county in Georgia.
. Past Grands. A. Brunper, A. V,
Armantrout and Judge Wm, B,
Moore are representatives-elect to
attend the Grand Lodge 1.0.0. F,
at its convention in Gainesville,
Ga., next month and they can be
counted upon to keep the **Magic
City of the Wiregrass” well to the
front.
Have A Real Garden,
Almost every farm has some
sort of a garden, but the great ma
jority have beer regarded in a care
less way and given but little atten
tion and as a consequence have
never yielded anything to compare
with a well-made garden, The
trucking and market garden indns
try, while it has been a great thing
in some sections, is as yet pcorly
developed in most of the South, al
though the demand for first-class
vegetables is almost everywhere
unsatisfied.
With the proper understanding of
the possibilities of home gardening
in adding to the pleasures of farm
life, and the profits to be made
from market gardening, the South
will no doubt become noted as a
land of gardens. The time has come
for the real garden to set aside the
old makeshift garden, which was in
summer a little patch of beans and
roasting-ears, and in the fall af
forded a few collards and turnips.
The real garden will be a well
cared-for plat of land where can
be, and where will be grown a va
riety of vegetables thrcugh a
long season,—A. M. Latham, in
The Progressive Farmer.
WANTED—Fifteen year old boy
work as messenger. Must have bi
cycle, and willing to attend to bus
iness. Apply 117 Central Avenue
not later than 7 o’clock a. m.
Bad Exercise.
Exercising a bad temper makes It
worse and pulling a leg is likely to
cause shortness.
FITZGERAILD, BEN HILI, COUNTY GEORGIA, APRIIL 5, 1912.
Teunessee Mourns
Death of Taylor
'Body of Dead Senator
Will Lie in State in
Capitol Tomor- .
row
Nashville April 2,—Nashville
will be in mourning tomorrow
during the hours that the body of
‘Senator Robert L. Taylor lies in
lstate in the capitol, The funeral
party will arrive at 6 40 a. m. but
‘the body will not be removed to
‘the state house until 10 o’clock,
‘At that hour a funeral procession
will march, composed of mounted
police, the first Tennesse regiment
band, state guard, United States
senators, members of the house of
representatives,governors and state
officials, mayor and city officials
‘and committees. Special invitations
‘have been issued to Tennessee’s ex
governors to be present. :
~ As the procession moves the city
bells will be tolled,jand throughout
the day flags will fly at half mast.
The body will lie in state in the hall
of the house, where thousands of
Tennesseeans will view if. o
At 6 p. m., the journey to Knox
ville. the place of burial, will be
resumed,
NOTICE.
Upon authority of the Georgia
Railroad Commission, our respect
ive freight depots will be closed at
12 noon.on each Saturday from
April Ist to October Ist, 1912. No
freight will be received or deliv
ered on Saturday afternoons.
H E Judge, Agent, AB& A
j and FO& B
E J Brown, Agent, S A LL
E W Tyler, Agent, Ocilla S?
Woman loves a clear, rosy
complexion. Burdock Blood ' Bit
ters purifies the blood, clears the
skin, r stores ruddy. sound health.
24-Bt.
Easter---and Your Spring Suit
EASTER Sunday you’ll want to look
your best; and be at your best; a
man ought to put on his choicest gar
ments, and call upon himself for the best
spirit, on that day of all others.
Hart Schaffner & Marx
clothes will settle for you all questions of outward appear
ance; if you come to us for them, we’ll promise you the best
results. The inward part of it we'll leave to you.
H. S. & M. Serge Suits and Fancies, $lB to $3O - -
Miller Sros. Serge Suits and Fancies, $lO to $17.50
Bring in the Boy
~ The nobbiest of Spring and Summer clothes are here for
him. Coats with the newest style touch. Trousers full-peg,
with straps and buckles. Great values at every price from
$5 to $12.50--ages S 5 to 18.
Boys’ Straw Hats--Blouses--Oxfords
Men’s Straw and Panama Hats
The best in Furnishings for Men and Boys
«Stetson Hats” ‘‘Manhattan Shirts” ‘‘Boyden Oxfords”
E Ivl I sTORE
W R BOWEN, Prosident J A MURPHY, Manager
SFEFMI-WEEKLY
High School Will
Be Established
Communities are Ask
ed to File Bids.
At a meeting of the Executive
Comtnittee of the Little River
Baptist Association held in Abbe
ville March 29th, it was decided to
establish somewhere within the
bounds of the association a denom
inational high school,
Any community desiring the
establishment of this school may
maké a proposition to either Mr.
J. L, Paulk, Chairman, Ocilla or
to Mr. S. B. Reid, Secy., Ro
chelle, The proposition must be
in writing and must be filed with
one of these officers on or before
May 15.
It is the purpose of the Associa
tion to establish such a school and
the community offering the best
inducement will get the school.
Mrs. Arthur Mobley
Dies Suddenly
Mrs. Arthur Mobley died very
suddenly about five o’clock this
morning at her apartments in the
Buice Building. Death is sup
posed to have followed an attack
of heart failure or was the result
of a severe fright received by the
young mother when ber infant
child fell from the bed to the floor.
Mr, Mobley states that his wife
‘awoke and found the little one on
the floor, and called to him, then
as she raised herself to reach for
it she fell back upon the pillow un
‘conscious and expired in five min
utes.
She had been in a very nervous
state of mind for several weeks,
and it is thought that when the
child fell from the bed the fear
that it miight be seri>usly hurt was,
too great a shock for her. The
babe, however, didn’t receive a
scratch.
Mr. Mobley has the sympathy
of all.
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Mr. J. A, Maxey, division man
ager of the Cable Piano Company
has just re-opened a display room
for his company at 114 E. Cen
tral Ave. Mr, Maxey has been
with the Cable Piano Co. many
yvears and is a post graduate on
pianos. It looks like he andhiscom
pany have sold a piano to every
body in Fitzgerald and surround
ing country,- still he thinks this
territory will stand two or three
more car loads of Pianos so he has
shipped them here,
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Official Organ of Ben
Hill County. $1.50
2 Year,
VOoL. XVII. NO. 25
- Contestants Chosen.
i On Thursday and Friday pre
liminary cortests were held in the
High School to select representa
tives for the Third District contest
in Americus April 19th and 20th. ;
" All the contestants should be
}Congratulated on their showing.
i~ The following were chosen :
Declamation—Sam Kassewitz.
Recitation—Gladys Smith.
Essay—Ethel Hullihen,
Spelling—Sarah King.
The representatives in the Ath
letic events have not been chosen.
The following, and possibly others,
will enter: Jobn King, Mark
Mathis, Robert Prentiss, Briscoe
Waters, Love Martin, Edison Gar
butt.
Presbyterian Church
Preaching next Satbath at 11
a, m. and 7:45 p. m, by Rev, S.
G. Hutton. Bible School 2t 10
a. m, Prayer meeting Wednesday
night. You are invited at all times
to our church.
S. G. Hutton, Pastor.