The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, November 22, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY Official i rean "ITIZENS SUGGEST At $5OO for First Ten and $750 for Second Years Franchise OF 20 YEARS DURATION With Poles Off Streets, by 1930 for Bowen Telephone Co. At a meeting Friday night at the Chamber oi Commerce rooms of ten members of the special Citizen's Committee named by Mayor: J. . L. Pittman to make recommendations to city council concerning a new fran chise for the Bowen Telephone Com pany, the members reached an agree~' ment as to what the nature of the franchise shoutd be. Its recommen dations will be made to eouncil at its next meeting in the form of a resolu tion passed at the meeting on motion of Lon Dickey. The resolution recommends that city council issu¢ to the Bowen Tel ephone Company a franchise for a period of twenty years for consider-} ation of $5OO a year license tax for the first ten years and $750 a year for the second ten years in addition to free telephones presently furnished and use of cross arms for police and fire alarm systems. The resolution rec-: ommends that the Bowen Telephone Company agree, as part consideration for the franchise, to remove all poles and wires from the streets to the al leys within a period of ten years from the date of issuing the franchise. The resolution was passed near mid night after the members of the com mittee had threshed out the details for more than three hours. President William R. Bowen of the Telephone Company was invited before the com mittee about 10:30 o’clock, after Mr. Dickey’s motion had been thrown op en to discussion, and presented the Telephone company’s side of the case. Mr. Bowen asked an apparent per petual franchise on the ground that it would make credit from foreign sources more easily available to the company and that, since the city char® ter limits the council to granting fran chises for only twenty years. He ex plained that the policy of the company was to remove telephone poles and wires from streets to alleys as rapidly as possible and stated that the com pany had no objection to a specifica tion to that effect in the franchise. The trunk line on Central avenue, however, will be good ior six to ten vears and to replace it before it wears out would be too heavy a burdci. Mr. Bowen presented figures from other cities inr South Georgia showing that Fitzgerald now exacts a higher license rate, $3OO a year,than any of the oth ers. The citizen’s committee decided not to try to reach a conclusion as te the legality of present franchise or the legal question of whether it was brok cn when Bowen Telephone Company raised its rates at the permission of the Georgia Railroad Commission. The Georgia Supreme Court is the only body in the world that can decide that question. The members decided to ! simply recommend to the council \vhat‘ the committee deemed to be fair and‘ just terms for a new franchise con tract.. ; The members present at the meet ing were J. E. Turner, chairman, J. J. Dorminey, Martin, Gelders, Thurm ond, Pryor, Bfagg, Dickey, and Wild er. Judge Griffin, Mr. Bowen' and Mr. Manning represented the tele phone Company. No one represent i{xg the city government was prescnt. FORMER FITZGERALD YOUNGSTER RETURNS Maurice D. Jones, of Dayton, 0., has' returned to Fitzgerald after an absence of eleven years and will be associated with William J. McCorm ick, ufneral director. Mr. Jones will be remembered by some of his school mates of eleven years ago when he was a pupil in the Fitzgerald Public Schools. i S. Z. Downs of Ma:», ¢ spending the day in the city on business. THE .. : TN =vrß: FURS! FURS! FURS! e - ~EE THESE DISPLAYED IN OUR CORNER SHOW WINDOW ;L? Every kind of Fur you can thi kof made up in SCARFS, CAPES and CHOKERS in black, taupe, brown, fox, &2t —xB lynx, wolf, coney, opossum, stone marten, fitch, mink, sea lion cape. These furs are wonderful values. We a B %’4@ have them bought right and :re offering them to the public right. ,w ' Prices $ll.OO to $45.00 Come in today and look these over. See the display in our corner window. L% —_ﬁ__'?__—*_—_—)__—__ NEDLY A NTFVT Mail Orders g %% | THE EMPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY, |%% (%) THE LEADER=-ENTERPRISE Lawrence Wilkerson Is Accidentally Killed While Hunting At Red Bluft Woman’s Club Hold | . Contest In Thrift For Best Suggestion For How To Save, Valuable Prize Is Offered On the afternoon of Wednesday,‘ December the Ist, at 3:30 o’clock, the ! one hundred members of the Fitz-1 gerald Woman’s Club will be offered the privilege of telling what carhi thinks we can save that is on the verge of being wasted. For the best suggestion, in the opinion of efficient judges, who will probably be a group of grandmothers, Mr. G. E. Ricker through the executive board of the Club, offers six of his best photo graphs, one of which, with the per-‘ mission of the winner, will be offered the Club Page of the Atlanta Con stiution. All details will be published at an early date. “What can we ilo to save,” says a popular current magasme, is a'most as important nowadays as ‘“what can ‘we do to be saved.” And yet so many lessons of economy taught us by pat riotism during the war seem to have sipped away from us and leit uvs to struggle with present hich prices.” 3 What can we save that is on the ivergc of being wasted, table linen, clothing, carpzts, fuel, furniture, food and many other things. Give the matter your serious thought and rem ember, that six handsome photo graphs, “Ricker’s Best,” will be offer ed for the best suggestion, and that your suggestion may be the means of helping many others in these days of discouragement and depression. Mrs. Bennett Appeals * . . For Child Recreation Tells Woman’s Club That Yéuth 'Must Have Healthful Enjoyment The report from the convention of the Georgia Federated Clubs, in At lanta, was given by fourtern members of the Fitzgerald Woman’s Cluh Wed nesday afternoon in a splendid way, and while all reports were good, the following excerpts from Mrs. U. J. Bennett, on “Moral Reform” im -pressed the membership possibly more than .any other phase of the work outlined: “Youth must have amusement. Let us give them the proper chance and teach them the highest ideals of life. Let us make our future matrons and fathers the highest tvpe we can. “Fortunately, the opportunity is at our door now. Community Service workers are here at our bidding to plan adequate, wholesome, community recreation. Our leisure time hours not only represent difficulties, but arej fraught with dangers. “Nothing to do” brings loneliness and dissipation% to some, crime to others. Comnnm-«l ity Service helps us in civic and social efforts, through recreation, educatjon drama, music, and primarily throug citizenship. “At this time our Communily Ser vice workers are being paid by thc‘ National Community Service Coun cil. ~Their time with us is nearly out, and: we must give money, time, and efforts to carry on the work they have so efficiently started. In the‘ next few days we are to decide wtet her or not we shall do this. Mothers and fathers will be called upon to to help this cause in - financial way.l “Be ready to give, not only for the good of your child, but for eos; We may be fortunat- cnough to I.ro vide adequate recreation for our cwn child, but what aboui f other :hi'd| who has not thes ntages ¢nd | with whom your ¢! ‘lt associate in school and chu: elsewhere in this great Demo land. FOR RENT—Fiv¢ room house in nice neighborhood Mrs, 5. I© Stewart, 415 W. Pine St. tf EITZGERALD. BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1920 Shot Gun Discharged in Boy’s Chest; Death In Brother’s - Arms Saturday Funeral For Popular Young Man At M. E. Church Largest Ever Held Here When one of the three shotguns he was carrying was discharged into his chest, ¥6-year-old Lawrence Wil kerson was almost instantly killed at Red Bluff Saturday morning. The! boy was rushed to Fitzgerald for | medical aid by his brother Clifford, with whom he was hunting, but is be lieved to have ' succumbed to his wound before the race with death had started. The accident occured while Law rence was climbing the bluff from the river to the road on which his auto mobile was parked. He was holding ‘two unloaded automatic shotguns and one loaded double barrelled gun in his hands. The hammer of the ioaded gun caught on a projection from the automatic and was discharged. Clifford Wilkerson, who lad pre ceded his brother up the bluff, heard the shot and ran back to his brother, catching him as h 2 {fell, “Well, Cliff, my hunting days are over,’ said the stricken boy as ha lapsed into uncon sciousness. Clifford zarrica him to the car raced home with him, driving over the tortuous trai!l tlat leads along the bluff and =zll the way home with cne hand, the other sup porting the lifeless form. = The funeral services yesterday after noon at the First Mezthodist church were attended by the largest crowd that has ever paid tributs to the mem ‘ory of a man in Fizgerald Dr. ]J. | H. Elder, pastor, was assitei by Rev | S. A. Strawn of the Christian church I N early seventy automobiies were in the procession that accompanied the body to the grave in Evergreen Cemetery. The pallbearers, J. i. Col lier, J. I. Hungate, J. P. Horne and W. E. Brewer, the dead lad’s com rades in the Fitzgerald Fire Depart ment, and Chief Charles F. Dixon and Sam Dixon, preceeded the hearse. Following the hearse were Chief. and i Mrs. W. C. Wilkerson, Clifford Wil " kerson, and Carry Wilkerson, the family of the dececased. The fire , truck which Lawrence had driven ‘ followed the mourners’ carriage. In order to give the firemen an op portunity to attend the funeral of their beloved young comrade, their posts at the fire station were filled by vancy Bowles, Art Hultz, Homer Waters, Harry Myrick, W. C. Busse!l, Bert Casper, Eugene Horne and G. ' C. Burke. | The floral offerings were beautiful and elaborate. Three of especial bcau-‘ ty were the cross presented by the city employees as a whole, the lad-‘ der encircled by a wreath, from tlw‘ members of the Fire Departrhent, and a florai wheel from Mrs. Lon Dickey. “The Wrong One In 9 . Trouble,” Say Friends The Leader-Enterprise:-- We are glad that we can correct the item that was printed in the Fitz gerald paper concerning the little trouble that Mrs. Whitman unfor tunately got into last week by the other party. It i 3 a provable fact that Mrs. Whitman got in the car at her door, drove straight to the post office and there got out. Further more, Mrs, Whitman has never been ‘n any trouble the three years she has lived in our city. Mrs. Whitman is a little woman that attends to her own business and pays her bills and bothers no one. MRS. LEE REED. MRS. W. A. JORDAN Mrs. F. I. McCall of Savannah is spending sometime with her son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Livingston on South Lee Street. AND PRESS FOR S. S. MEETING' Banner From County Convention To School With Most Present ' PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED Convention At Pine Level School Will Be All Day December 2nd. A County-wide attendance contest has been organ'zed in connection with Sunday School Convention to he held ‘at Pine Level Church, near Fitzger ‘ald, Ga, on Thursday, Dec. 2nd, ac-! ‘cording to R. D. Webb, General Sup erintendent of the Georgia Sunday School association. - | At this conventjon an attractive banner will be publicly awarded to the Sunday School having the largest number of delegates in proportion to the distance travelled. Under this plan ten delegates coming ten miles each to the convention count the samea as twenty delegates coming only five mijles each, thus making it fair for all both near and far. The banner becomes the property of the Sunday School winning it, and may be taken home for permanent display in the Sunday Schcoi rocm. MORNING SESSiON 10:15 Period of Worship: Song. Scripture reading. Convention Text, Deut. 6:6-7. Prayer Conducted by Mr. J. B. Pope. 10:15 The Sunday School as an Agen cy for Religious Education. By Mr. D. B. Nicholson. 10:40 Our wants and their nceds. By Miss Flora Davis. | (Continued on Page Three) “ S ® » TL R . gL 8 * § ' R o the prices o gg e D ! ?é‘% L most back to pre-war pric es! 1 ‘*%“ «? Get that EXTRA PAIR PANTS with gy 0 4 each Suit; will give you from now f*””? s until December 10th. NPy REMEMBER---Cur clothes made oy B at home wear better. ard £ BY ) T - Irst Llass rit Guaranteed ! "The F'itzgerald Tail 208 East Pine St. M. GOTTLIEB, Prop. Phone 266 n TUESDAY EVENING Fitzgerald Community Chorus Stage Carol Singing Christmas WILL ORGANIZE TUESDAY Singers To Elect Officers And Present Program At I. O. O. F. Fhe Music Committee of the Fitz gerald Cominunity Service Council de cided at a meeting Friday night to ob serve Christmas here with Communi ty singing of carols. Parties of sing ers will ride over the city in trucks‘ Christmas eve and night singing Christmas songs. A mass meeting} for community singing will probably be held also. | The final meeting of the Communi ty Service song leaders class under the leadership of Ed F. Shumway will be Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock, at the Odd Fellow’s Hall. The pro gram will be opened with community singing by the Song Leaders Class. The class will then be formally organ ized as the Fitzgerald Community Chorus and officers will be elected. The chorus will be presented to the city by the president and accepted by Mayor J. L. Pittman. The final rehearsal for the class will be at 8 o'clock tonight and a full at tendance is required. The music com mitte is as follows: Mrs. R. G. Shan nonhouse, Mr. and Mrs. Burr Stokoe, Mrs. Harvey Mathis, Mr. ). E. Turner, Mrs. Everett Rohrer, Miss Spier, Miss Wise, Mr. G. P. Morris, Miss Marjo rie Owens, Miss O=ella 3radshaw, Miss Eve'yn Alberison, Mr. Cheste: Strickland, Mi. Sam Kassew.iz, Mrs. Jesse Graatham, Mr:. G. M. McNeil. LIAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT Election of officers and adop tion of a general program of work for the next year are principal matters of business to come be fore the generdl meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The members present will probably have to decide matters of great est interest to the city and a full attendance is cordially uurged by the officers and board of govern ors. RUNAWAY MULE BREAKS NEGRO FARMER’S LEG Becoming frightened at a back-firing automobile, a team of mules ran away with a wagon load of wood on west Central Avenue Saturday afternoon, throwing the negro driver, Kid Lew is under the wheels and breaking his leg. The injured man was taken to the Ben Hill Sanatarium where his injuries were dressed. MERCER ADDRESSES LOCAL CSIVIC LEAGUE Jesse Mercer, federal prohibition enforcement officer, addressed the Ben Hill County Civic l.eague on prohibition at the first Baptist church vesterday afternoon. Mr. Mercer made a strong speech which was well received by the large crowd in at tendance. | - Mrs. W. Ashley Dowling is visiting relatives in Hazlehurst. | FITZGERALD COTTON Good Middling __________ls 3-4 Friday Receipts 8 bales. : VOL. XXV, A»0. 138 Will Decide What Crops to Raise And Get Aid In Marketing CONFER WITH C. OF C. Trade Body Committee Will Be Present to Plan Co-Operation The Ben Hill County Farm Bureau Federation will hold a general meeting at the Court House at 2:30 o’clock on Thursday afternoon, November 25th to map out a program for the next year’s work and to make plans for co-operating with the Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce in handling the crops. At a meeting Friday afternoon of members of the county bureau it was suggested that the Farm Bureau mem bers agree to raise certain profitable crops on a larger scale than ever be fore and that the Chamber of Com merce handle the marketing of the crops. The meeting Thursday is to decide what crops are best to raise and to reach a definite plan for co operation between the city and coun try. Secretary,C. T. Owens of the farm bureau states that the farmers intend to eliminate all unprofitable” crops next year and all erops for which there promises to be small demand. About four staple cxops will be select ed to be grown on a large scale as '“moncy crops” if the business men of the city will buy and market the crops for the farmer in a businesss like way that will not force the entire produc tion on the market at once. Prices were discussed at length at the meeting Friday -afternoon.