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Official Organ Ben Hili County,
A Gorrection.
The Leader wishes to call tke
attention of the voters to the can
didacy of J. C, Peavy, fer Coro
ner. Through an error Mr. Pea
vy’s name was omitted from the
list of candidates published 1n our
last issue. We take pleasure in
calling your attention to the fact
that he is in the race for Coroner.
““ Why did you chose to bring this de
posit to The Exchange National Bank.’’
we asked a new depositor recently.
He answered, ‘‘Because I hear so
much of your unusual strength, fair
mindedness and common sense deal
ings. Isaw also a long list of large de
positors, who bank with you, and I
thought if they preferred The Exchange
National Bank, I might wisely do the
same.’”’
We frequently ask new depositors
such questions as the above, and from
their frank and open answers we learn
positively of the high and increasing fa
vor in which this bank is held by the
public.
This makes us more and more deter
mined upon being a bank of exception=
ally high rating.
We invite new accounts.
Interest paid on Savings Deposits.
THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK
Gapital Stock Strength, $200,000.00
Deposits, : \ . $400,000.00
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Here’s real money for you—men!
300 Suits Hart Schaffner & Marx fine clothes for Spring!
235 Suits Miller Bros. fine Spring and Summer clothes!
At a clean saving of 10 per cent—on every suit!
BLACKS, blues, tweeds, crashes and fancy worsteds, in the
choicest patterns and styles. -
NE‘WEST and snappiest clothing of the season at a reducs
tion that’s worth while.
TRUTH of the matter is we’ve just a few too many suits
and we’re going to give our customers the reductions
right now at the openining instead of waiting till the seasons
close.
The stock is in prime condition right
now, men. Come in and get thatsuit
you’ve been wanting and save the 10.
$3O Black, Blue or Mixed Suits $27.00
$25 . e 6 6 $22‘50
$2O o . £ - $lB.OO
$18.50 *° v - . $16.65
a 7 (7 * . $13.50
$12.50 - - i $11.25
$lO 6 66 66 66 $9 OO
The new NoFade Shirts we’ve
just put on sale are fine
The 4-cuff Shirt—in all the new patterns, stripes and figures.
““Another shirt if they fade,”” Priced at
Only $1.25
THE FITZGERALD | . EADER.
Catholic Church
There will be mass, confession
and cormmunion Saturday, April
13th, at 7:30 a, m.; also mass Sun
day at 10 o’clock. At the latter
service special music will be rep
dered by the Eckert Trio. You
are welcome. " L
H. A. Schonhardt.
Stbscribe For The Leader.
FITZGERAILD, BEN HILI, COUNTY GEORGIA, APRII 12, 1912.
9 : 9
“Stand-Patter.” and “Progressives
Among Farmers as Well as Politicia
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Says Barrett--Which Pays Best.
‘To the Officers and Members of the Farmers’ Union:
l We hear much today about the ‘‘standpatters” and ¢ ‘progressives”
in the two great political parties, not to mention the socialists and
three or four other more or less important groups.
There aré ‘‘standpatters” and ‘progressives” among farmers as
‘well as politicians, and lam pinning my faith and the future of the
farmer in America, to the latter class every time.
The standpat farmer believes he has learned everything about his
business and that no one can show him aay new tricks or any better
methods. Generally, he is the tellow who inherited his calling from
his father, and who has made no effort to improve upon the system
handed Jown from sire to son.
He ridicules scientific agriculture, Instead of subscribing for
papers and magazines that will keep him abreast of what the labora
tory aid experimentor are doing for nim, he is content to go on plant
ing and reaping by the way the moon happens to sit in the heavens,
How ne can save monev by seed selection and rotatior, liow he can
get the most out of his soil, doesn’t seem to interest him. His main
concern is i. rocking along from year to year in the old rut, content
if he skimps through the season or gets an extension on the mortgage
that is pretty apt to roost on his roof,
Standpater in his business, he is apt to be in his union, in his at
titude toward public affairs and toward his own family, He is not
of‘en found joining in whole-heartedly in movements to better the
community, It doesn’t seem to occur to him that by msking the
county a better place to live in, he enhances his own happiness and‘
prosperity as well as that of his neighbor, and does more to keep his
son and daughter on the farm than all the preaching under the sun.
The progressive farmer, on the other hand, doesn’t let his mind
stop expanding when he reaches the voting age. He goes to school
every day in the year, and his school-teachers are many and varied.
They may be agricultural journals, daily newspapers, close observa
tion ot the causes which explain the success of his prosperous neigh
bor or taking warning by the manner in which the broken promises
of politicians or hand-shakers have kept the farmer from coming into
his own. |
Visit any agricultural community in America, and you will find
the line drawn with tolerable sharpness between two classes of farm
ers. You are also pretty apt to find that the progressive farmer is the
man who is complaining‘about his hard lick and laying the blame
for his ragged children or his over-worked wife and upon every source
but the right one,
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N The new %'ans, Blues, Greys--with all the new points in style and trimming
$lO.OO Suits $9.00 $7.50 Suits $6.75 $6.60 Suits $5.40 $5.00 Suits $4.50
THE- == | Pichlers new Pumps and Oxfords
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By this, I don’t mean that there is not a great deal in old, estab
lished methods and iz inherited customs worthy of adoption. Nor do
I advise the farmer to follow every brand new notion coined by
visionaries or the peddlers of free counsel as to how to operate his
affairs.
There is always a middle course as between these two extremes
and the wise farmer seeks it out and keeps his feet in it. But as be
tween the two classes—the standpat or the progresssive—l should
gamble every time on the prospects of the latter.
Do a little soul-searching and see what class you belong to. The
answer may help to explain why you haven’t as much of this world’s
goods as your neigitbor, snd while hard luck seems to knock at your
door every day, opportunity literally dogs his footsteps.
Charles S. Barrett.
Union City Ga., April 11th 1912.
" Torturing eczema spreads its
burning area every day. Doan’s
Ointment quickly stops its spread
ing, instatly relieves the itceing
cures it permanently. A$ any
drug store. 24-Bt,
Official Organ of Be_l
Hil County. $.50
a Year,
VoL. XVII. NO. 27
Don’t use harsh physics. The
reaction weakens the bowels, leads
to ch r o nic constipation, Get
Doan’s Regulets. They operate
easily, tone the stomach cure con
stipation. -8, -
