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PATHE NEWS
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Coming Saturday—Two new
Serials “The Girl and The
Game” and “The Iron Claw”
Mrs. H. T. Stillwell leaves this
afternoon for Waycross to spend
several days visiting friends.
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Two big Serials Saturday at the
Grand—"G'RL. AND THE GAME”
and "THE IRON CLAW.”
FRESH HONEY—2Oc¢ pound,
while it lasts. Phone 470. 53-3 t
Let the Leader-Enterprise figure
with you on your mext Job. They
are equipped to do any kind of work,
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AN OLD SETTLER’S PICNIC
A committee of colonists met
for the purpose of making prelim
inary arrangements for a picnic
to celebrate the 20th anniversary
of the settlement of Fitzgerald,
and the eolony domain.
This picnic will be held at the
Blue and Gray Park sometime in
the near future’ Due notice of
date,»‘."!'ll be given in this paper in
a later issue. ,
In the meantime be fattening
up some-of those old hens and
stimulating that appetite for the
occasion, and a further determina
tion that you will be there. _
COMMITTEE.
Two big Serials Saturday at the
Grand—"GlßL AND THE GAME"
and “THE IRON CLAW.”
All newa contributors to this paper
will greatly oblige the management if
they will only write on one side of
their manuscripts,
The Man Who
Advertises
Wisely
Advertises Well
FOR SPRING PLANTING
Velvet Beans of all
‘kinds. Prices right.
Soudan Grass Seed,
Mixed Peas, Iron
Peas and Brabham
EUEs Yy
National Drug Co.
“A Good Drug Store”
Dr.G.W.McLean
DENTIST
Reoms 512-513. PHONE 438.
Garbutt- Donovan Building
Fifth Fleor
Sunday by Appointment
MONEY to LEND
On Farm Lands and
City Property. Easy
terms. Low Interest--
Prompt Service - .
J. B NORMAN
Attorney-at-Law
403 Five-Story Building.
ALABAMA DECREASING
" HER COTTON ACREAGE
The boll weevil is certainly
causing the Alabama farmers to
change their system of farming.
It is estimated by the State Ag
ricultural Department that acre
age planted to cotton- will be re
duced 35 per cent. from last year,
and we think this a very conser
vative cstimate.
For ten years we have been
traveling the A. & W. P. road
to Selma, Ala., and we went over
this route last week. The change
is wonderful. We saw 100 acres
of oats to one that we saw five
years ago. It was in this sec
tion that we rode fifty miles and
never saw a corn field; all the
corn planted was dropped at
stated intervals along the cotton
rows. - This year we saw thous
ands of acres of corn. We will
venture the assertion that there
are thousands of negroes in Ala
bama that are this year learning
how to lay off their first corn
rows.
We have hundreds of farmers
to ask how much damage the boll
weevil will do when they come.
Well. we can-tell you what they
have done in Alabama. Up to
1915 Uniontown, Ala., received
from 14,000 up to 20,000 bales of
cottein. Last year she only re
ceived 4000 and 1,000 of these
were carried over from 1914. Mr.
Thomas, of Marion, Ala., told us
that he made over 150 bales in
1914. In 1915, Bon 40 acres that
should have made him 60. He and
Mr. Miree have been growing
from 400 to 500 bales. This year
they will not have but twenty
acres planted. This readjust
ment can be made by farmers in
good financial condition, but it
comes awful hard on the white
man in debt and upon the neg
roes. The only man that it does
not seriously hurt is the man who
begins to get ready two or three
years before they reach him.—
Southern Cultivator.
WOMAN FIRST NABBED o
UNDER 2-QUART LIMIT
The first charge of having more
liquor than the new prohibition
laws allow was made Monday in
Atlanta against Miss C. Walton,
of the Folsom Hotel.
Detectives Rosser and Gorman
said she had two traveling bags
filled with liquor. '
THE LEADER ENTERP PRISE AND PRESS, WEDNE SDAY. MAY 3, 1916.
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Miss Helen Osborne Phone 159,
MOTHER’S CONGRESS TO
MEET HERE MARCH, 1917.
It is an assured fact that the
State Mother’s Congress will be
held in Fitzgerald some time in
March of 1917.
The work of the Mother’s Con
gress is construction, not reform
ation, its aim to build the founda
tion so well that the super-struc
ture will be all that could be de
sired, and not one year or two
can show the results of its labors,
but time will'show that the work
which is well directed, faithfully
pursued, and vital in its import
to humanity, has not been vain.
Mother’s Congress means the
mere fact of coming together for
the study of the problem that
parents and teachers meet will be
a mutual help for everybody con
cerned. It means a time when
mothers get together and forget
for a time'social distinction to the
mutual advantage of the rich and
poor, the physical and moral
needs are studied for all classes,
The busy teachers realize the
need of wiser, better trained par
enthood, and they, too, stand
ready and eager to give their
time to this work.
' PARENT-TEACHERS
‘ RECEPTION,
Thursday evening from ecight
to eleven the Parent-Teachers
will hold a reception. The re
ceiving line will be the City Coun
cil and the teachers. Plans are
made for a delightful evening.
The committees on arrangements
are: Charman of Decorations,
Mrs. Goldenberg; for Refresh
ments, Mrs. Sam Abrams; Mu
sic, Mrs. 1. Gelders: Literary,
Mrs. A. H. Thurmond; Sand
witches, Mrs. Will Adams;
Putich, Mrs: J. C. Griffin. ' The
colors used in decorations will be
the Mother’s Day colors of green
and white.
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IN HONOR OF THE
MISSES WOOTEN.
Complimentary to Misses Rosa
and Gladys Wooten of Shellman,
who are the guests of Mrs. J. L.
McCarty, was a beautiful six
o’clock dinner at the Lee-Grant
hotel Monday evening given by
several young gentlemen.
the centerpiece for the table and)
the dinner was servgd in courses.
The party was chaperoned by
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McCarty. The
other guests were: Misses Rosa
Wooten, Gladys Wooten, Esther
Benton, Mary Fred Braughton,
and Hester Brewer; Messrs.
Stubbs Dorminy, Charlie Talifer
ro, Russ Ford, Albert Smith and
Robert McLain, of Douglas.
Mrs. K. A. Brown, of Birming
ham, Ala., has returned home af
ter a pleasant visit to her sister,
Mrs. Ed Akerman.
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- Mrs. S. G. Pryor, s¢., was call
ed yesterday to Leslie on account
of the serious illness of her aunt,
Mrs. E. J. Eldridge. :
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Miss Allie Mays leaves this af
ternoon for Jacksonville, Fla.,
where she will visit friends for a
couple of weeks.
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Miss Massee Binion, who has
been the guest of Mrs. R. I. Maf
fett, left last night for Cuthbert,
where she will visit before return
ing to her home. She has been
the honor guest at a number of en
tertainments, and spent~a=very
rleasant month here.
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Miss Rosa Lonsberg, of Al
bany, is the guest for several days
of Mrs. H. Garber.
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Mrs. H. Hinberg, of Ocilla is
the guest of Mrs. Harry Garber.
Everybody
Reads
Our
Advertisements
Government to Take Over and
Maintain Phincipal Roads
Washington, May 3.—Provis
ions for an investigation and re
port to Congress of a preliminary
plan for a system of national
highways by the corps of Engi
neers of the army is made in a
joint bill now pending before the
Senate and House Committee on
Military Affairs. The bill was in
troduced in the Senate by Sena
tor John A. Shields of Tennessee,
and in the House of Representa
tives by John H. Small, of North
Carolina.
In particular this bill embodies
the principle of having conduct
ed a scientific investigation and
survey of the highway routes up
on which federal funds are to be
expended before the work of con
struction is begun. It seeks, it is
said, to prevent the hit or miss
building of roads by the Federal
Government which are located,
not by expert surveys, but by lo
cal political influences,—roads
which begin anywhere within a
state and end nowhere in partic
ular. The danger of having fed
eral funds for good roads expend
ed in such fashion has already
caused the dangerous cry of
“pork” to be raised in Congress
when the good roads appropria
tion bills were under discussion.
Under the terms of the Shields-
Small bill, the Federal Govern
ment would devote its funds and
energies solely to the construct
ion of main or trunk-line high
way units connecting and corre
lating the highway system with
in the states. Instead of provid
ing funds to pay a part of the
state’s bills on state roads ,the
Federal Government would take
over, to build and maintain en
tirely, certain of the principal
highways. That would relieve
the states of a considerable part
of their present burden and
would allow them to devote more
money to the building of more
miles of good road radiating from
the federal highways. Countics
would then build good roads ra
diating from the state highways,
while townships or individuals
would build good roads feeding
the county highways. Thus the
entire country would be woven
together by a network of high
ways each system feeding the
other, as is done by the railways.
The Shields-Small bil was
drawn by Cyrus Kehr, of Knox
ville, a member of the National
Highways Association, in CO-op
eration with Senator Shields,
Representative Small, and engi
neer officers on duty at the War
Department. It has been approv
ed by the War Department.
While the bill embodies two of
the principles for which the Nat
ional Highways Association has
contended in its Good Roads
campaign, it is not particularly
supported by the Association
which thus far has lent its sup
port to principles only and not
‘\t(.) any particular piece of legisla
tion.
'That this effect to have Con
gress provide a preliminary high
way plan prepared according to
recognized principles of engineer
g and to provide for federal in
terstate highways bhefore federal
funds arc spent, marks the trend
of sentiment* upon the subject
hiere is indicated in the debates
tpon Good Roads measures
which bave recently occurred in
Congress. In the debate upon
tlic Bankhead bill, Senator Geor
ge W. Norris, of Nebraska, said:
“I think the coniribution of the
I'ederal Government ought not to
£o to all ¢f the roads in the coun
try. It ought to be confined to a
systemi ¢t interstate highways.”
Uhis icea of lestricting the fed
eral partizipaiion in highway con
stractior to a sysicm of main in
terstate crunk-lizes te be located
by an expert survey is now sup
peiisd by the repiesentatives of
many states and many congress
ional districts. The opinion is
growing that in this way such
federal funds as are devoted to
good roads construction will he
spent toward a definite object,
the highest economic results will
be realized and the movement will
be saved from condemnation by
the public on the ground that it
is “pork” legislation.
GASOLINE ENGINE FOR SALE.
One two-horse gasoline engine in
good condition, second-hand, cheap.
Apply Leader-Enterprise.
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| Walter B. Meiller. *
Walking a mile and a quarter
on a 28 lap track in 10 minutes
flat Walter B. Meiller, the Hun
tington, \W. Va., international 5-
mile professional walking cham
pion deeated Furnum W, Lee
and Archie Green, crack roller
skaters in a novelty race at the
Blue and Gray park rink Tuesday
night.
Mr. Meiller walked a mile and
a quarter (35 laps) in less time
than twu skaters rolled two miles
Green, the local champion,
chased the fleet-footed Meiller at
the rate of two laps to one until
the 28th lap, when Meiller, by a
sensational burst of speed was
one lap in the lead. Lce, who re
lieved Green tried to make up the
lost lap but failed to skate twice
as fast as the West Virginian
could walk so lost the race by
7 full laps.
Meiller furnished a wonderful
exhibition of walking and ap
peared as fresh at the finish as at
the start.
Keeping everlastingly AT IT, will
bring FINAL SUCCESS to the ad
veritser.
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With Qur Advertisers
There are some pretty sport
hats in Mrs. E. J. Walker’s that
will go fine with those sport
skirts. Our baseball season just
opens and these sport hats and
skirts wil be just the thing to
wear to the games.
If you want to keep cool this
summer buy one of the Kool
Cloth or Palm Beach suits at the
Surprise store.
Some more stripes, but these
are of thinner and sheerer ma
terial, the voils of dainty colored
stripes for the dresses,. 'These
are at Churchwell’s.
I was in McCarty-Johnstone
Co.'s ye:zterday afternoon and
saw some of !¢ §rettiest striped
sport goods fer <k-rts you ever
saw.
For the thin and fancy waists
nothing is prettier than those of
the figured and plaid chiffons.
The Empire Mercantile Co. have
a particularly fine line of these
chiffons. They also have some
pretty silk hose of fancy stripes
and colors. .
Two big Serials Saturday at the
Grand—"GlßL. AND THE GAME”
and “THE IRON CLAW.”
LET THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE
FIGURE WITH YOU ON YOUR
NEXT JOB WORK.
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FARMERS!?
Attention!
WE have plenty of money
to loan on five year terms
on FARM.LANDS in Irwin and
Ben Hill Counties. If you are
in need of inoney, it will pay
you to see us, for we are pre
pared to make quick loans.
McDonald & Bennett
ey P
Co.
Odd Fellows Building
Fitzgerald, Ga.
Three Big Stores
Bankrupt Prices
Men’s Oxfords! ,
Ladies Oxfords, Pumps!
Childrens Strap Slippers!
White, Black, Tan!
Best makes! Big Saving!
Bankrupt Prices
Boys Suits!
Men’s Suits!
Shirts!
Bankrupt Prices
Laces!
Embroideries!
Wash Braids!
Bankrupt Prices
SATURDAY will be a big
day--Rain or shine be
sure and come.
Bankrupt Prices
OCTAGON SOAP 1 CENT
Saturday every customer
making purchase of other
goods of 5c or more can buy a
cake of Octagon Soap for lc.
Buying 50c or more, 2 cakes
at lc each. Not over two cakes
to a customer. 1 CENT.
Bankrupt Prices
Not everything you want
perhaps, but every
thing you find that you can
use will be a real Bargain.
Bankrupt Prices
Sewing Machines!
Clocks!
Mens Hats!
Boys Hats!
Dress Goods!
Cotton Goods!
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Come ;
to the
Bankrupt
Store
First. "