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‘THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE.
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Under Act of Congrecs, March 18th, 1897
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Local Rzaders 10: per Line for each insertion. no ad
taken for less than 28e¢.
Preparedness is galloping along. !
* Health hint for today: Keep healthy.
This is to be & great year politically, but of course it will not
be permitted to interfere with baseball or fishing.
Here’s an original idea—push it along! The quickest way to
get gm;(l roads in this community is to present every official with
an automobile. : -
Keep right on yelping for good roads. The louder you yelp the
more likely 'you are to be heard, and if we all get to yelping some one
will soon be doing. i
Just about an ordinary old empty tomato can is about the proper
thing to tie to that continental army schéeme, And even a: tnat it
might be rough on the can. e
When you meet a gronch on the. street, smile at him; if you see
him in church, singto him when he is at home, feed him ; if he creeps
into heaven,—but he won'’t, ’ . e 2.
I this government goes into tl.e business of meaufacturing its
own war munitions we will at feast have munitions with which to
fight if war is forced upon us. .
There are lots of good things we could say about this town—
things that we have said before, and expect to say again. But we
would like to hear a few warbles from your own lips.
Things do move aroud the farm these days. When Bill wants
to come to town he lights his cigar, steps into his car, pulls a lever,
gives a few honks, and alights at the store a dozen or so miles away.
Twenty-three Georgia boys on farms in as many Georgia coun
ties have each been awarded a registered shorthorn bull by the
Central of Georgia Railway as a result of the four-crop contests
conducted under the direction of the company’s agricultural agent.
This means that the strain of ca ttle in all of these counties is to
be improved in no slight degree. It is accepted that when the typi
cal Georgia scrub cows are cross ed with thoroughbred stock the
descendents are satisfactory. Ge orgia does not need to get rid of
her scrub stock if imported stock when crossed with them, pro
duces a strain of fine stock that will thrive better under ordinary
conditions here than any that cou 1d be brought in from other states
for slaughter or for dairy purpos es.—JSavannah News.
What this railroad is doing for its territory with cattle, the
Leader-Enterprise will do for B en Hill county with high bred
hogs. When “Lady Enterprise” and “Madam Leader” furnishes
us their “first born” next Spring, we shall arrange to give them to
the progressive boys and girls of our rural schools. The only de
mand that will accompany this g ift, will be that they are bred to
a “Hempshire” and that we shall receive from their first-born, two
of our selection of the litter. Th ese in turn will agaimr be distrib
uted in like manner until every f arm home has some of those high
bred descendents of “Madam Leader and “Lady Enterprise.”
The State Democratic Executive Committee will meet at At
lanta next Saturday to call a primary or the election of delegates
to the National Democratic Convention, which will nominate a
candidate for President and Vice-President.
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A PEANUT CULTURE.
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The State Department of Ag riculture is about to begin a acm
paign looking to the production of peanuts in Gorgia on a large
scale. Its experts have found that peanuts constitute a
wasteless crop, that it is possible to equip peanut oil mills at com
paratively small expense and that cotton oil mills can be used for
the manufacture of peanut products such as oil, used for cooking
and worth 75 cents a gallon, and peanut cake, valuable as food for
livestock. It is an assured thing that the farmers will grow pea
nuts in abundance when they are certain of a ready market near
at home for the surplus crop. Here, it appears, is an opportunity,
not only for the cotton oil mill men, but also for others with a lit
tle capital, to establish lgmut oil mills and develop an important
and profitable industry.£Savannah News.
WHISKEY AND A PISTOL.
To just such pitible tragedies—and awful crimes——as that
committed in Macon last night, when a drunken man shot and killed
an innocent, light-hearted girl whom he did not even know, may be
attributed the spread of prohibition.
It has been well said that “Babylon in all its desolation is a
sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins,” and there
is no time when this spectacle is so appaling as when the intellect
is overcome by liquor and dethroned of its reason.
In time to come not only the man who cimmits a crime, when
under the influence of whisky will be punished for his act but also
the man who sold him the brain poison. Morally, now, the lat
ter is an accomplice in guilt, and upon his head rests a share of the
responsibility for the taking of a useful life.
The illegal sale of whisky in Macon yesterday has plunged two
homes in grief, sent one person to an untimely and undeserved
vrave and lodged another in jail almost within the very shadow of
the gallows. But the consequences would have been the same had
1.2 sale of liquor been properly legalized. :
Is it any wonder, therefore, that there are more converts every
cay to the cause of prohibition? Also, can one marvel at the in
« reasing sentiment in favor of prohibiting the sale, if not the manu
facture, of pistols, the deadly hip-pocket weapon, which, in the
hands of a man crazed with strong drink, has wrecked so many lives
and homes?.—Macon News.
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNESDAY, F EBRUARY 16, 1916.
WHITE MAN WILL SUCCEED
HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON
AS RECORDER OF DEEDS
Washington, February 15.—Repre
sentative Carl Vinson reported to the
house today a bill which will insure
the successor of Henry Lincoln John
son, the Atlanta negro lawyer, as re
corder of deeds of the District of
Columbia, being a white citizen of
Washington: The bill passed with
out debate.
The office of recorder of deeds pays
$4,000 a year and has in the past been
regarded as patronage of the colored
supporters of the administration.
White women in this office work in
the same room with, and usually un
der surveillance of, negro chiefs. The
condition was considered intolerable
by southern congressmen. Upon at
taining niembership on the District
of Columbia com:nittee. Mr. Vinson
sought to reliecve this situation.
The president was being urged to
nanie ancther nsaro as collector Sen
ators Hoke Smith, Vardaman, Tillman
and other southern senators told the
president a negro con'd not be con-
Tirmed.
“he LA ‘placing the office under
tlic'conrtiol of the Dist. ¢t commission
¢.s which passed tlie Louse today.
make§ certain the selection of a white
democrat,” Little tiouble is appre
hended in the senat- - -
PARENT-TEACHERS TO MEET
NEXT TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
There will be 4 meeting of the Pa
rents-Teachers association on Tues
day Feb. 22, in the Carnegie auditori-i
um at 3 d'clock at which all patrons
of the High school, including Junior
High -school, arfe urged to come out
and organize their special section of
this association already so enthusi
astically begun among the ‘ward pa
trons. RO T e
'~ Memorial Anriive‘rsdry.
At 4 o'clock on Tuesddy Feb. 22,
there will be a public memorial ex
ercise held in the Carnegie auditorium
‘undcr the auspices of the Woman's
Club library committee to pay tribute
to Mrs. E. G. McCabe, of Atlanta,
whose recent death calls into notice
her long and active work as State Fed
eration Librdry ~ Chairman, besides
other good works that have made her
well known in the State.
This short exercise will precede the
large public reception that is offered
in the library by the same committee,
an anniversary celebration and book
shower for the benefit of the public
library and to which everyone is cor
dially invited. Remember, Washing
ton’s Birthday at 4 o’clock in the Li
brabry. ;
The Woman’s club will hold its bus
iness session on Wednesday Feb. 23,
in the clubroom-at 3 o’clock.
At 3:30 Mrs. Beauchamp will meet
in the auditorium all mothers who
have inquiries about the costumes for
the coming entertainment, which is to
be presented early in March. Probab.
ly the date can be announced on that
day and all other necessary informa
tion given.
Chautauqua opens February
17th. Get your ticke's early.
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NOTICE.
All parties keeping boarders, wheth
er.boarding houses or private homes
will be required to pay-a license of
$lO. This is in accordance with or
dinance No, 386, of the City of Fitz
gerald, Ga.
B. T. STRICKLAND,
Chief of Police.
Say, Chimmey Fadden Out West is
some picture AMUSU Thursday.
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THREE FROM GEORGIA
Among 82 Cadets Who Failed to Pass
Naval Acad- i Exam.
WASHINGTON Feb. 14.—Three of
the eight-two midshipmen whose
resignations have heen requested by
the navy department for failure to
pass their mid-winter examinations
were Georgians—Woodward of At
lanta and Hunter of Savannah fourth
class men; Crossley of Macon, second
class man. Efforts of the Georgia
senators and congressman to have the
order modified with respect to these
Georgians has availed nothing. Sec
retary Daniels won't reopen any of
the cases, and the door of the naval
academy is shut to these young men,
except by reappointments.
Congressman Howard this morning
announced that he would reappoint
Woodward at once. It is understood
that Congressman Edwards of Savan
nah will reappoint young Hunter, and
[Congressman Wise of the Sixth prob
ably will reappoint Crossley, who will
‘have to begin his course all over as a
fourth class man.
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$l.OO attractions for a quar
ter, if you buy a season ticket
for the Chautauqua,
SHOT FROM AUTO;
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MISS ROSA LEE EUBANKS IS
FATALLY WOUNDED RY
RECKLESS MOTORIST
Macon Ga., Feb. 14.—Miss Rosa Lee
Lubanks 16-ear-old Macon girl was
tonight fatally shot as she was walk
ing along Second street en route to
her home. The bullet,'fired from an
automobile which sped by at the rate
estimated at forty miles an hour,
pierced the heart of the girl and she
succumbed while being taken to a
hospital. e
J. A. Branham, well known young
man about town, was placed in jail
charged with the shooting. His broth
er-in-law, Riddick by name, who was
with ‘him, admitted that Branham did
the shooting. He was'endeavor’ing to
take Branham home, he said, as the
young man was intoxicatéed and had
previously fired two shots in W‘a_ll
street alley. ;
Branham, it is stated was not cvcn!
acquainted’ with the girl who S Was
killed. No statement from hirq::"“d&'as
obtainable, it being sand that heswas
in no condition to talk. L
Feeling ran high' for a time fal
lowing' the killing of Miss Eubanks,
and there was fear of serious’ trou
ble. " The identity of the nien in"the
ica'r from which the shet waé*fired‘
was not immediately established, and |
the affair for a while had the aspects
of a_ murder mystery. Ina ;;iho‘i't
time, however, Ri‘ddick’s " statément
eleared the situation though, very
lightly alaying - the "popular resenty
ment of the iflingl "+ I%y 8o
' Miss Eubanks, who was popular
here, was the daughter of H H. Eu
banks. She had been employed as
stenographer and cashier by the Wil
liams Manufacturing Company, Short
ly before she was shot Miss Eubanks
left the home of F. W. Williams to
go to her home. There she was to
dress for a Valentine party to be
given by the Philathea class of which
she was a member.. .
No word was uttered by the girl
after she was shot, and her death
|occurred within a few minutes.
INVENTS ELECTRIC HAND.
A dispatch from Berlin announces
the invention of an electro-magnetic
hand for the convenience of disabled
soldiers.
The hand operates with an unusual
ly powerful battery which can be car
ried by the operator, making it un
necessary for him to be near an elec
tric current in order to magnetize the
“hand.” The invention, it is said, can
perform all the functions of the hu
man hand and others besides. The
current is regulated by a switch op
erated by hand or foot. It is hoped
that the invention will solve the prob
lem of livelihood for many crippled
soldiers, enabling them to engage ev
en in trades requiring considerable
manual dexterity, such as cargentry.
By its use the manipulation of knife
and fork and simliar instruments is
casy. :
The Mother's Clubo f the Ashton
school will give an Oyster Supper,
Saturday afternoon and night, Feb. 19,
1916, for the benefit of the school.
Begin serving at 4 p. m.
Cornell University has thought well
enough o fthe poultry housing bulletin
recently issued by the College of Ag
rivulture to ask for a number of cop
is to be used in class work of that
famous institution. '
A number of season tickets have
been sold to the Chautauqua to out of
twon people and on account of the
strong attractions at The Grand cach
night this week large crowds are ex
pected from the nearby towns. A
number of ladies from Ocilla who are
driving their own cars will be here
for the afternoon attractions.
‘GEORGIA MOCKING BIRDS
BEAT ENGLISH NIGHTENGALE
Atlanta, Ga., eFb. 14.—Georgia
mocking birds have outdone the Eng
lish nightengale as the world’s pre
mier songsters.
Two Georgia birds imported to
England, one owned by Joseph Doer
flinger and one by Annie Kemble, the
famous novelist, are pronounced by
English experts to sir.g more beauti
fully than nightengaies.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Root, of Brook
lyn, N. Y., and Mrs. E. L. Munson and’
daughter, of New Haven, Conn., ar
rived in the city to spend the winter
with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Clare atJ
Lynwood.
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Crochet T hread
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Just Received
White Silkine Crochet, Star Brand 4 f _
N05_5,10,15,20,30,40,50, 60,70 80, C
per ball s ; 3 2. :
Cream and Liizen Color Crochet Twist |
Thread, Ne. 5 -- 22 yards in Ball - c
A new thread 3 : 4
White Silkine, Embroidery Floss, 4
strand mercerized Thread, 58 vyards 56
to ball -10 c. 28 yards to ball only
M & K Turkey Red Embroidery Cotton 5 o
30 yard spools, 3 for : : s
Sansilk Crochet, white and colors, spool - §¢
Star (English) Embroidery Hooks, Nos. 1 5
2,3, 4, 5 1-2, 6 1-2, each ‘ -OC
A large assortment of ‘Utopia’ Emix-roid'—l O
ery thread in leading colors Sc, white c‘
Simons Bros. & Company
GEORGIA MOTOR
G oannRQUTE, BOOKS.
The Motor Way Yedr Book of
the State Chambet of Commerce
is out and copies can be had at
this office. ~ The book is com
plete, carriés all the Known motor
routes of the State and gives full
description of the condition of the
roads. It's a comprehensive en
cyclopedia of the Georgia Good
Roads Movement and has both
of the proposed East Dixie High
ways fully logged. Theré are
eighty three first class motor
routes logged in the book and au
itoists can save time and money,
‘when contemplating a trip, by
Lsupply'ing themselves with a copy.
. ‘ATTENTION FARMERS. . l
Mr. C. D. Dismuke has called a
meetting of farmers at the courthousel
Saturday 10:30 a. m., to present al
plan by which he can sell your sweet'
potatoes at from 60c to 90c per bush-‘
el. If you are interested it may payi
you to attend this meeting as the
prices offered on a contract for July
delivery are good and it may give you
an_ opportunity to put some of your
land into profitable use. ‘
NOTICE. ’
The U. D. C’s. have postponed thvsirl
regular meeting from Friday, Feb. 18,!
until Friday Feb. 25th, on account °fi
Chautauqua week. '
W&F MRS. W. E. HALE, '
Secretary.l
If Its Furniture
(s Furniture
You want at a live and let
live price, you should see us.
We are connected in a way
that we can get anything in
the Furniture line tfor you at
less than wholesale prices,
and get it now, and listen!
Wewillsell anything you have
on hand that is worth while
and turn it into money. If
you want us to sell your fur
niture our charge is only 10% A
of what it brings. 4
Phone 462, or see us at our
store in the Grand Opera
Building. Yours for business,
GASKIN FURNITURE & SALES CO.
THE BIG EUN SHOW. .
“Everything new this scason,” like
“your money’s worth or your money
back,” has become a watchword with
Joe Coburn’s Big Minstrels and each
season’s return of this splendid at
traction has demonstrated it is no idle
press item in the advance notices.
Clean comedy, splendid singing, and
the latest and best minstrelsy has also
been forced into prominence with the
amusement public by this jovial hust
ling fun purveyor, until we do not
question its authenticity and have
learned to expect and depend on one
of the seasons most enjoyable events.
Music, mirth and melody, fun comegy,
and novelty, follow conting ‘{9“
throughout the bi;,-showywmh
blemish or objectionable featur®s
From the “roost” tb‘the box seats
Joe Coburn’s patrons receive their
money’s worth. We are always glad
to announce the coming of this com
pany. Don't forget the date, Tuesday
February 22, at The Grand.
Rev. E. B. Somers, formerly of Lake
Magdalene, Fla., has been appointed
by the Superintendent of Georgia-
Florida conference as pastor of the
local United Bretheren church and
will preach his first sermons Sunday
morning and evening at the usual
hours.
S e os oG
Judge Walter Georée held a short
term of the Superior court here Mon
day to dispose of a receivership case
from Ocilla,