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MONDAY
EDITION
Official Organ Ben Hill County and City of Fitzg/erald
URGANIZING TRAFFIC
"CENTRAL ROUTE"
Dixie Highway Officers to be
Named. Regarded as Unique
Waycross, Ga., April 10 --v What
is regarded as one ¢f the most
unique highway propositions ad
qeneed in Georgia sines .tnc sturl
of the good roads ¢ampaign years
ago will be formally passed upon
this week at a coanference.of the
directors of the Georgia Short
Route Association and the man
ager of the Central Dixie High
way bureau of Waycross. It is
proposed that the highway asso
ciation appoint officials with titles
like those given the passenger de
partment of a railroad. Isadore
Gelders, of Fitzgerald, secretary
of the Short Route Association,
will be made general passenger
agent. He will have several trav
eling passenger agents, locating
one at each imporiant town from
Macon to Jacksonville via Way
cross. Besides these agents, there
will be demonstration agents, who
will assist the various counties
now working on their roads, and
an engineer. will co-operate so
that no serious mistakes in grades
and bridges will be made.
The publicity campaign is going
to be extemsive and funds for this
purpose are being raised along the
route now. Waycross will be the
center of the movement, placing
the new bureau at the disposal of |
all hishway enthusiasts along the |
Central Dixie Highway. J. D.|
Mitchell, the manager, will attend
conferences and mdetings in every
county and with al counties busi
i{ ¥gaged making needed im
pré.ements and keephg their |
roads in tip-top condition, it ap
pears that the division of thel
highway at Macon really ageom
plished more good than hartn so
far as the good roads movement in
South Georgia is concerned. The
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The Biggest Before Easter Sale of Ladies Suits that has ever occurred in Fitzgerald!
25 Per Cent and More Off!
LADIES SILK SUITS, WOOL SUITS, NOVELTY SUITS!
~ Your Choice of the Empire Stores Sugyfl, Stock!
W eiit P st L S o and the oty end Soopy S
Don’t wait---Come at once for yours.
‘ NOTE THE REDUCTION AND SAVING TO YOU!
Regular Price $8.98 Snappy all wool Serge Suit 25% off- now $6.73 --your saving here $2.25
= ’ $15.00 Silk and Wool Suits 25% off -- price now $ll-25 -- your saving here $3.75
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& (13 20.00 ‘¢ 66 66 66 25 66 66 66 66 34.98 c 66 66 66 5.02
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All Sport Coats in Stock te Go at 25 per cent off also!
sl This week FMPIRE MERCANILE CO. At The Busy
LA Mure e One Price to Everybody Big Store!
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A. S. FORD RE-ZLECTED
AT MEETING.OF BOARD
By invitation from the Board
some seventy-five interested citic
zens, both men and women met
with the Board of Education Fri
day evening at the High School,
primarily to urge the re-appoint
ment of Prof. Ford as Superinten
dent of the Schools. A number
of those present made short talks
on education and the esteem in
which they held Mr. Ford.
A petition presented by Mrs. J.
lE. Andrews, in behalf of the Par
ent-Teachers association and the
members of the Woman’s Club,
signed by some ninety ladies, pa
trons of the schools, urged his re
election, and was filed with the
Board. . ;
On a motion-te re-elect the
present Superintendent the Board
voted 3 to 1 for re-election of Mr.
Ford.
A rising vote was taken on the
motion to instrucé the Board of
Education against changing the
present free school system, and
to oppose any fee system contem
nlated by the Board.
Among those who addressed the
Board were: Mesdames. Andrews
and Manning and Messrs. W. R.
Bowen, E. G. Orahood, .W. T.
Paulk, S. G. Pryer, W. R. Skin
ner, R. J. Prentiss and others.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Office of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, Wasnington ,D. C., March
6th, 1015.
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons who may have claims again the
“Ben Hill Nationl Bank, of Fitzgerald.
@a.,” that the same must be presented
to Christopher L. Williams, Receiver,
with the legal proof therecf, within
three months from this dats, or they
may be disallowed.
JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS
Comniptrolier of the Currency
M-d-May 29. ..., i st
slogan of the Central Dixie High
way boosters 1s “Make the short
est the best.” And apparently
nothing will be left undone to ac
compish the desired result.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 17, 1916
CENTENARIAN BUT
IS STILL ACTIVE‘
Atlanta, April 15.—Though 103
years old, “Uncle William” Clax
ton, of Claiborne county, Tenn.
can walk ten miles a day with lit
tle fatigue, declares an Atlanta
man whko has just returned fron
a visit to that section of the state.
The aged man has never worn a
coat in summer or winter, and
during his entire life has neither
called a physician nor taken any
medicine. : .
- “Unele William”? resides with
his son, Albert Claxton, who is
now sixty-eight years of age, at
‘their home on Straight creek,
‘about six miles west of Ney( jaz
@ s Nejtiiaz
well. The older man wa¥% born
‘and raised in Claiborne county,
‘and has resided there thorughout
ihis life though at present he is en
joying a visit to relatives in Vir
ginia.
. Though almost deaf, this active
centenarian thoroughly enjoys a
'conversation with any of his va
|rious friends or acquaintances
when it is possible for him to un-
B. B. Burkett and two sons, of
}Dnuglas. motored up to visit his
sister, Mrs. M. H. Towns, Sunday
n:orning.
THIS Bank has never in its history
enjoyed so many overwhelming evidences of
increasing popularity &s |t presont. llt's
Just simply because peopfl% ars-finding
out that we are DETERMINED TO BE AS SAFE
AS THE SAFEST and FAR, BY FAR, SAFER THAN
THE AVERAGE BANK.
Mighty strong, busy business men of
high standing, succesful in their per
sonal affairs direcf and back this BIG
THE EXCHANGE'NATIONAL BARK *== -~
Entered on Honor Roll Ju%y 1912.
Deposits over Half Million.
LIBERAL.
THE BOOSTER’'S CHORUS
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
In the many years during which
we have observed efforts to im
press moral teachings upon the
young and old, and the many
methods by which the desired
object was to be achieved, we
have never seen better judgment
used, nor a more far-reaching
method adopted, than the one in
augurated by Mr. Wolslagel at the
Baptist church revival, when he
organized what he termed a
“Booster Chorus” whom he drills
in something like a college yell,
that within itself carried one of
the strongest and most impressive
mandates of the Bible.
- The boys and girls, who in turn
carried the well known theme in
to every home in the city, will
reap the good of the meeting
along their entire travel thru life,
if nothing else during the entire
services leaves an impression up
on them. We congratulate Mr.
Welslagel upon the ingenuity and
inspiration that called forth this
origingl idea of his. It’s a lesson
that will abide and bear valuable
fruit. Look it up.
“First Thessalonians
“Five-twenty-two,
“There you will find exactly
»“whag to do.”
PRINTERS SUPPLIES
STILL ON RISE
Atlanta, April 15.—How ‘would
you like to pay fifteen cemts a
week for your newspaper, instead
of ten or twelve cents that youl
are paying now? Such a thing is‘
a distinct possibility if the pricci
‘nf paper, metal, ink, and the oth
"er commodities the mewspapers
luse continue to advance as they
have in the last few days.
I The Atlanta newspapers as well
as all other newspapers in Geor-
Igia and over the Southern states
' will have to pay from three thou
‘san(l dollars more for the white
| paper they use to orint their edi-
Itiuns this year than iast, if they
are able to get all the paper they
need. Every publication has been
hit by the skyrocket of prices.
Ink was the latest to feel the
stiffening of prices, while metal,
used in the typesetting machines
and for making cuts has just
doubled in the last few weeks.
So far as can be learned the
daily papers do not contemplate
an increase in subscription rates
-—yet they may have tc do it be
fore the summer is over. Geor
gia weeklies, in a number of in
stances, have raised their sub
scription price from one dollar to
a dollar and a half, but, take it
from a newspaper man, most oi
them are worth that anyway.
Several newspaper men {rom
over the state, in their trips to
Atlanta, have discussed the mat
(ter of increasing their advertising
rates, in a frantic effort to make
‘msti_\‘ meet and the question im the
iraternity is: Whete is it all go
ing to end.
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young companies.
Jd. E. TURNER, at
Exchange National Bank
Mondavy
Wednesday
Friday
VOL. XXI, NO. 46
CORDELE SCRODL WING
QUT 1N DISTRICT MEET
Third District Meet Is Most En
. thusiastic Yet Pulled Off. A
Large Crowd Present
Cordele, April 15—Surpassing
expectations, the Third district
high school meet, held in Cordele
Friday and Saturday, has attract
ed between two and three thous
and visitors hege from a radius of
forty to fifty miles. About 500
of these were contestants, teach
ers and others representing the
various schools participating in
the meet.
- Cordele took first place in hon
fors with 19 points in the respect
ive events, Americus coming sec
{nn(l and Montezuma third with 13
points. The field events Friday
iaftcrnn(m were largely attended
and very enthuygiastic. The reci
}tati(m and music contests Friday
night were witnessed by an audi
ence that filled to its utmost ca
pacty the spacious auditorium of
the school, and placed standing
room at a premium. Several han
dreds were turned away. The
declamation contest was held Sat
urday morning, and likewise at
tracted an audience that filled the
auditorium to its fullest capacity.
The partcipants in all contests
acqutted themselves most credit
ably, and all of the schools in the
'meet have cause to feel proud of
’H’H‘ showing made. The various
exhibits from the schools, princi
paly that of the Americus high
school, were remarkabe for their
completencss and for the skill dis
plaved by the pupils ¢f the re
spective Institutions.
Barbeoue a Feature.
THe capital feature of enter
tainment for the visitors was the
basket and barbecue dinner serv
‘ed today on the campus of the
schools, attended by four or five s
thousand people. The excellent
hospitality ‘with .which Cordele
entertained the meet is the topic of
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