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WEDNESDAY
EDITION
{fficial Organ Ben Hiil County,
10 VISITSFITZGERALE
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THEY WILL BE ON DISPLAY IN
THIS CITY ON FEBRUARY
THE 13TH TO 16TH.
The people of La@range and vi
cinity have been given a r are treat.
Nothing like it for the price has ever
been seen here,
We are speaking of the Georgia Ex
hibit Cars which were here for two
days this week.
If you say them you were fortu
nate. If you failed to see them you
missed a golden opportunity to see the
vast variety of products which we are
producing in Georgia, the Empire
State of the South. You who have
never ' stopped to consider the many
resources of your dear old native
state would be astonished to gee the
many things in which our state
abounds. Her minerals are divers,
her agricultural products are legion,
and her manufacturing enterprises are
many. Of course you will not see all
of the manufactured products of the
state in these exhibit cars, but you will
see the many and varied agricultural
and mineral products in which the
state abounds, which will convince
you at once that cotton is no longer
King, but there are many other pro
ducts which must have Tight of way
from now on.
Then aside from.the museum of
Georgia products, the reptilian mus
eum is second to none. MTr. Leak,
who has charge of the cars, has gotten
together a collection of aquatic mon
strocities that attract and hold the
gazes of the spectator while he de
lineates upon the various character
istics of the reptiles. Devil fish, por
cupine fish, angel fish, octopus, tor
toise, turtlec and last and greatest of
all the curiosities is the mammoth ele
phant shark which measurcs 36 feet
long, weighs over 10,000 pounds and
is 460 years old. This is a real man
cating shark, and whken you see the
enormcus mouth you can fully under-
Etand how suc), a monster can cadily
s=9)iw a man. !
We believe that these exhibits, as
they go from town to town will be
the means of stimulating /ahong the
farmers a diversity of farm products
and a determination to get from under
the yoke of cotton bondage.—La-
Grange Graphic. °
MR. JAMES FLETCHER
SECURES LARGE CONTRACT
Commissioner Warren Fletcher, of
Irwin. closed a contract with Ja By
Fletcher for an extensive fill at the
bridge crossing the Alapaha, S. of Ir
winville. The contract calls for a fill
759 feet long, twenty-five feet wide
and eleven feet deep. This much
needed road improvement will be
hailed with pleasure by the many who
live along the road to Sycamore and
the many autoists who travel from
this point to Ashburn.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Glover, Mrs.
P'.oodick, of North Dakota and Mr.
and Mrs, E. N. Davis motored over
to Albany Monday. f
The-school children are buying
Chautauqua tickets fast. It is ed
ucational for them.
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The Empire Store’s New Arrivals
February Sale on all Rugs and Art Squares 10 per cent off, '
Be sure and visit our Rug Department. We have arranged our Rug Department on First Floor near
side door. Art Squares $7.50 to $26.50. Small Rugs 50c to $4.98.
~ The New Springs Oxfords in Empire Specials and New Styleplus Suits for men.
Our Dry Good Department is being Filled to Overflowing with all the New Things
- For Spring, All the New Designs in Batiste, Voile and Organdies just arrived. :
IG Assortment of Percales 10c & 12 1-2 c. : @ .
B Ginghams 10c¢, 12 1-2¢ and 15c¢. Emplre | Mercantlle Co°
Watch Our Show Window for New Things. 8 = §;Soven,President. ONE PRICE T 0 EVERYBODY
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE
1,429,171 PRISONERS
| HELD BY THE GERMANS.
~ Berlin,Feb. 7—“ A total of 1,429-
171 enemyq soldiers to date are pris
oners in Germany,” the Overseas
News agency announced today. This
is not inclusive of prisoners made by
German troops and left in Austria-
Hungary in oredr to shorten the trans
port.
“In addition 19,000 cannon, 7,700 mili
tary carriages and 3,000 machine guns
have been conveyed to Germany, these
not including numerous cannon and
machine guns destroyed by the ememy
before capture and those used at once
by German troops.
“The number of rifles taken which
are still fit for use is 1,300,000.”
Mr. C. A. Frtewell and family
spent Sunday with the former’s moth
er at Willacoochee.
Lost between Fitzgerald and Ocilla
on Saturday, January 15, one hand
grip containing values. Finder please
bring to this office and receive liberal
reward. tf.
CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAMME
First Day--THURSDAY, FEB. 17
2;45 p.m.-Words of welcome, Local citizen.
Grand Concert and unique entertainment.
Alpine Yodelers
7:45 p. m. - Prelude Entertainment
Alpine Yodelers
Lecture, - “Social Duty”
U. 8. Senator, P. Gore
Third Day-- SATURDAY, FEB. 19.
2:45 p. m.. Mae Shumway Enderly and
Angie Belle Battis in a feature program of
: Customs and Costumes of the
European Peasantry
7:45 p. m. - Prelude Entertainment
Miss Enderly and Miss Battis.
Unustial Entertainment of Magic
Ray Newton, Mystifier.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILI, COUNTY, GECRGIA, FEB. 9, 1916.
A WORD FROM FITZGERALD PEOPLE:
The busiest of very busy men have spent time and engaged
to guarantee this Chautauqua System against loss by coming to
our city in order to induce them to entertain in Fitzgerald on the
above named dates. Business men do not often undertake such
labors. There is a special reason for their effort. That reason is
to bring to Fitzgerald a higher class of educational, refining, en
nobling and pleasing entertainment than the city hitherto has
been favored with and such as Fitzgerald is entitled to.
Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Jacksonville and other cities
are advanced intellectually by just such Chautauqua systems and
now Fitzgerald has been added to the list.
Neither have these busy men engaged a feature that will
entertain and instruct just one class, but features that will appeal
to the child and the old person, the learned and the unlearned.
Our people may well afford to turn from so much laboring on these dates
and have some pleasantry together.
We call attention to the fact that these on the program are Lapes and
GENTLEMEN, are of the highest culture, and that it is the duty of each audience to
be most respectful and, futhermore, if some of our more cultured homes and fam
ilies desire to show these cultured entertainers any special courtesy of homelife,
any special social attentions that the cultured and refined are entitled to, it will
be appreciated.
- THE FITZGERALD COMMITTEE OF ENGAGEMENT.
10 per cent off on all High Top Shoes!
BRITISH FACE DEFEAT
IN MESOPATAMIA.
Short on Fcod and Ammunition is
i The Repart.
~ Consta .t rople, o). ¢.-=The Britizh
troops that aic beseigerd in Kut .El-
Amara. Mespota:uia, are o the ve ue
of starvation. They are algo short of
ammunition and must surrender soo.
GEORGIA DAY IS ;
SATURDAY, FEB 12TH
For several years, Georgia Day ahs
been obesrved as “Flag Day” by the
U. D. C, the proceeds from the sale
of the Georgia State Flags being used
for the Helen Plane Educational fund.
This year the children of the daugh
ters will sell these little flags for five
cents each. It is hoped that the peo
ple will respond when the “little mig
ses” approach them, and thus help ed
ucate worthy young women.
Mrs. R. M. Mann, Mrs. E. J. Dor
miny, Mrs C. S. Isler, Mrs. A. J. Mc-
Donaldfi, Mrs. A. H Thurmond, Com
mittee Georgia Flag Day.
2-T-WibF
EX-GOV. SLATON TO ADDRESS
NEW YORK BIBLE CLASS.
Atlanta, February B.—Former Gov
ernor Johm M. Slaton, has left for
New York where he will deliver and
address tomorrow night before John
}D. Rockefeller, Jr's, famous Bible
Class. There will be only two othier
}speakers. former President Taft and
Police Commissioner Woods.
‘ The former Georgia governor was
suggested to the class as one of the
three gspeakers, and the idea was unan
imously adopted and the invitation
sent forwith.
“We will be fortunate in having Mr.
Slaton speak to us,” Mr. Rockefeller
is quoted as saying. “He needs no in
troduction to any of us in New York.
Recently I had the privilege of an
hour’s confidential and intimate talk
with him, and my impression is that
he is a man of the highest character,
actuated throughout his career by the
most disinterested motives. He is a
splendid type of the American citzen.”
Let thes Leader-Enterprise figure
with you on your next Job., Tkwe
Second Day--FRIDAY, FEB. 18,
2:45 p. m. Prelude Concert,
Mozart Quintette
Swedish Entertainment,
Karl Jansen
8:00 P. M. Elaborate Concert,
Momart Quintettee
A Full Evening Program of Gorgeous
Music
Fourth Day -- MONDAY, FEB. 21.
2:45 P, M. Prelude Concert
Shorter Players ;
Leeture, *‘The Ecenomic Value of Missions”
Dr. F. Q. Brown
8:00 P.P. M. Grand Instrumental and Vocal
Entertainment,
Closing with Play, *“A Martial Difficulty,”
Gilbert Shorter Players
COUNCIL HOLDS AN
} INTERESTING MEETING.
Monday night city council held an
interesting .meeting, with Mayor Drew
W. Paulk, Clerk David L. Paulk and
Aldermen Griner, Dorminey, Mayes,
Jolley, Pittman and Dykes present.
The monthly reports of the various
departments, showed up decidedly
favorable for the officers, the police
department showing receipts of more
that $4OO, including ‘unearned time,
for the month and the Treasurer show
ing a nice balance.. The street and
sanitary departman presented an ac
ceptable report of the first month’s
work as did also the new superintend
ent of the cemetery. The unusual
porceeding of parties requesting an in
creage of their occupation taxes was
presented by the bottling plants of
the city, and they were accomadated
by raising their occupation taxes from
$5O a year to $lOO. Dealers in bot
tled sodawater, paying another tax
were relieved of their previously as
sessed payments. The money lenders
representing two of the concerns do
ing businesg here applied for a reduc
tion from the tax imposed on their
business of $250 to $lOO and they were
also accomodated after a prolonged
argument on the question. An appli
cation for the privilege to furnish free
trash receivers for business section
and pay rental of $2.50 per year for
same, was made by Raymond Davis
and referred to the sanitary commit
tee with intsructions to report back
at thenext council meeting. A re
quest by Tax assessor G. W .Brown
for the correction of some errors for
the past year, was granted and the
treasurer authorized to refund some
taxes to R. L. Jones and Mr. McGow
an, the same having been allowed by
a previous action of the 1915 council,
WIDOWER AT EIGHTEEN
AND MARRIED AGAIN.
Atlanta February 7.—~Kelsey Hutch
ison of Echols county, though eight
een years old and a school boy, is a
widower and has already married a
second wife. He married Miss Har
riet Wisenbaker in April of last year
and she died six months afterward,
Christmag he married Miss Ethel Cor
bett. :
$l.OO attractions for a quar
ter, if you buy a season ticket
for the Chautauqua,
Twenty Five Theusand Dollars Worth
of Cotton Sold. Money Deposited in
Exchange National Bank.
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Five hundred bales cotton have been
sold during the last few days at the
Planters' Warehouse and Loan Co., prices
ranging around 11 3-4¢ bringing fully
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars. Proceeds
of these sales are deposited in THE EX
CHANGE NATIONAL BANK.
This is a Bank of HEAVY DEPOSITS,
HEAVY DEPOSITS SHOWS STRONG FAITH IN
THE BANK,
Deposits reached Half Million Dollar
Mark,
The Bank CAUTIOUS but LIBERAL,
Mondav
Wednesday
Friday
VOL. XXI. NO. 17
Washington, Feb. B—~The Govern
metitShip Purchase bill framed after
extended conferences between admin
istration leaders and congress and oth
er high officials was introduced last
week in the House, by Representat
tive Alexander, of Misgouri. Hear
ings will begin on this bill in a short
while.
The House is expected to pass the
bill, but despite changes made to
satisfy Democratic senators, strong
opposition among reactionaries, ig an
ticipated in the senate. Il.eaders, how
ers declare they are con‘+”_nt that ev
en if Democrats who helped to side
track the bill a year ago still opposed
it, passage would be assured by the
support of progressive Republicans
and three new Democratic additiong
to the senate. :
It was said last week that six of
the seven American Democrats who
voted against the measure last session
still unyielding in their opposition, be
cause of the provision which giveg the
Government power to , operate ship
lines in times of peace when satisfac
ory leases to private operators can not
be negotiated. These six are larke,
of Arkansas, Bankhead, of Alabama,
Hitchcock, of Nebragka, Hardwick,
of Georgia, O’Gorman, of New York,
and Vardaman, of Mississippi. The
three new Senatorg expected to vote
favorably are Beckman, Husting and
Johnson,
JIM ENGLISH QUITS
THE POLICE BOARD.
ity
~ Atlanta, Ga., February B.—Statting
that his health does not permit him
fo give the necessary attention to the
‘duues, Captain J. W. English Mon
‘av afternoon tendered his resignat
tion as a member of the Police Board
from the sixth ward. It was accepted
after being read to the Couucil,
Councilman Edwin Johnson stated
that he would nominate and urge
John H. Welch to sueceed Captain
English. Mr. Welch is a former Coun
cilman. He devotes much time to
the work in the southeastern division
of the Brotherhoed of Locomotive
Engineers. :