The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, November 29, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY Official Organ Ben Hill County and City of Fitzgerald MRS. ELDRIDGE CUTTS ARRESTED HERE ON MURDER CHARGE BUSINESS OF TERM Sl | Judge O. T. Gower Makes Pow erful Charge After it Organizes OPENS OCTOBER TERM W. R. Bowen Is Foreman and J.‘ C. Strange Is Secretary of Jury l The-Ben Hill county Grand Jury organized this morning with twentyl members, naming W. R. Bowen as foreman and J. C. Strange as secre-| tary. It has a heavy run of business to transact. | Charging the grand jury that a judge can enforce the laws no strong er than they are written on the hearts of the grand and trial jurors, Judge Cl. T. Gower opened the postponed session of the October term of Ben Hill Superior Court Monday morning.. The judge commended® the activi ties of the recently organized Ben | Hill County Civic League in its effort. for “law observance” and declared that the laws of Georgia had consti tuted grand juries as “law enforce ment leagues” with all the power of the state behind them to make their wishes effective. “The grand jury is the state of Georgia on wheels,” declared the| judge. “It is the law of Georgia equipped with legs. _ It’s decisions represent the crystallized public sen timent of its county.” Judge Gower promised to send to jail for contempt of court anyone who refused to answer freely the questions of the grand jurors in investigating cases. He declared his belief that all pistol toters, moonshiners and boot leggers should be sent to the chains gant. o R 0 The grand jury was especially in structed to investigate the recent jail delivery from the county janl inl which eleven negro prisoners made their escape. Judge Gower also sug gsted that they consider the question of continuing in session instead of ad journing when their work is finished. Mr. W. A. Leonatd of the Leonard Brothers Motor Co., arrived in the city Saturday night 0o spend a few days here in the intercst of his com pauy. Miss Hallie Alexander has returned to Thomasville after a delightful visit to her sister Mrs. Joseph W. Green awalt on South Main Street. Leader-Enterprise Want Ads Pay. .-- More Money? O Matter What Busi- N ness You Are In Or What Line of Work You Follow, If You Live in Fitzgerald You Can’t Get More Money Until More Money Is Spent Here. The Fitzgerald Trade Ex tension Campaign Edition of The Leader-Enterprise and Press Will Bring More Money Here If It Is Backed by All the Busines§ Men of the City. If You ‘Have Something To Sell and We Haven’t Seen You Yet, Tel ephone 328 for Information. THE = /! i THE : (=rer; | EVERY THING STILL ONE-FOURTH OFF [ =75 l i This 28 per cent Discount Sale Continues | EVERY item of merchandise the .1 pire Store except groceries 4t ONE-FOURTH OFF. Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and Styleplus Clothing, Boyden, Emyp i+ Special, W. L. Douglas, Dorothy Dodd, Grover, Educator and Star Brand Shoes---- Ladies’ Ready-to-wear and Millinery. Silks, Wool Goods, Cotton Goods, Hoslery and notions, Stetson and Knox ' Hats, Manhattan and Nofade Shirts. This is a great saving If you will Stop and figure what this really means and what the re duction really is. | , : _ | - Simply Take One-fourth From the Marked Price and You Have the Sale Price | et it gey To R B N S PRy .-¢-‘ ‘ ‘ . S Bremnsis’ | THE EMPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY, | Y Ontre _ : “A STANDARD STORE®*” : THE LEADER=ENTERPRISE Recreation Room For Young Men - Be Opened By M. E. Baraca Class y ° e | Automobile Bandits ' Loot Rochelle Store Take Plate Glass Out of Merchant's l Window and Cart Good away 1 ¢ The W. G. Brown Co’s mercantile l establishment at Rochelle was bur glarized Saturday night, the burglars lcarefully taking out the large plate » glass from one of the front doors to | leis store and empting the shelves into a truck or autompobile. | The exact damage has not been as certained but as this is the second 7isit to Rochelle by night marauders, it is likely that this little village will| engage night watchmen for future pro ltection of their merchants | SR R go GO \ Community Service To Confer Tuesday Vil | Joint Committee of Council, Woman’s Club, Legion and C. of C. Meet ! The Community Service Campaign Committee is called to meet Tuesday‘ night at 8 o’clock at the office of the. Chamber of Commerce. This com mittee is composed of representatives of the Community Service Executive Committee, the Chamber of Com merce, the American Legion and the Woman’s Club. The membership 1s as follows: Community Service Executive Com . mittee J. E. Turner, Chairman, W. A. Ad ams, Mrs. U. J. Bennett, Mrs. F™™R. ustice, Mrs. H. A, Mathis, Col. A. ' J. McDonald, Mrs. H. K. Sligh, Mrs. IJ. B. Wall, Mrs. Frank Ward, Wal ter C. Wilkerson. : ‘ Chamber of Commerce W. R. Bowen, N. N. Littlefield, Dr. A. H. Denmark. : American Legion J. B. Norman, C. R. Adams, Dr. Jno. L. Fraser. ’ i Woman’s Club Mesdames Geo. Brown, C. S. Isler, S. G. Pryor Jr.,, Nelle Frazer Mon crief and Miss Julia Prentiss. At this meeting final details with regard to ‘plan and methods of the campaign will be d:cidzd upon. A full attendance is urgently requested. MAY SELL HOSPITAL . TO GEORGIA BAPTISTS Meetig of Stock Holdes at Carnegie | Hall Tuesday Will Descide The Fitzgerald Hospital may be sold to the Georgia Baptist Associa tion if terms agreeable to both parties can be reached. A specrat meeting ot the stockholders in the hospital cor poration is called at 3o’clock Tues day afternoon to confer and proba ‘bly pass on the proposal. The Fitzgerald Hospital is an en terprise organized last year by a group of local physicians who are principal stock holders. It is one of the largest and most completely equipped in South Georgia, occupy ing a new pressed brick building that covers a half block square, and is understood to be in prosperous con dition, - Mrs. R. L. Hampton and daughter and grand-daughter Miss Aline Hampton and little Miss lithel Hamp ton Harris have returned home after a brief visit to Mrs. Hampton’s par ents in Americus. FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1920 Library, Games, Gymnastic Ap-! paratus, and Music Be Attrac- l tions in Leisure . ‘ Recreation Room Will Form | Nucleus for Fitzgerald Y. M. | C. A. in Near Future l As a npcleus for a Fitzgerald Y. M. C. A. during the year 1921, a recreation room will be opened in the business district by the Baraca Class of the First Methodist church early in December. The initial cost of the room was subscribed by the for ty members of the «class at their meeting Sunday. * The rent and heating of the:recre ation room, part of the/.furniture and gymnastic apparatus’ has been‘ pledged by the Baraca:Class. Dona-| tions of books and magazines for th»et library, furniture, piano and talking! machine, will be asked of the peo-: ple of the city. Game tables will bef built by members of the Baraca class. | Recreation-Center Needed l Since the Sunday lid was screwed? down tight in Fitzgerald by the Ben| Hill County Civic League’s activities! Fitzgerald youth has faced a problem! of “nothing to do and nowhere to go” on Sundays and the recreation | room is offered as one answer to the question. No fees of any kind will be charged to those using the room and | all expense of keeping it up will b_el! born by the Methodist Baraca class and others who will subscribe to its! support. Although similar recrca-+ tion centers have been opened for young men here in the past, none have been placed in so convenient a| location or equipped as fully as this | one will be. The promoters of the rccrcatiu_n‘ room proposes to stage a “fathers: and son” banquet around New Years’ day, similar to those given by or ganizations in Macon and Atlanta.! monthly luncheons at which promi-: nent men from other cities willi speak, constitute part of the program.; Alvin G. Brown is teacher and di-| rector of the Baraca Class, Herman Wentz, president, Mike Chalker, vice president, Percy Tripp, secretary, Warren Brown, treasurer. MRS. DOWNS HONOREE A delightful compliment to Mrs. S. Zed Downs who has recently left to make her home in Macon was the rook party given by Mrs. J. L. Mc- Carty on Wednesday afternoon at her beautiful home on south Lce street, Quantities of lovely yellow and white chrysanthemums in tall baskets and roses added to the attractiveness of| ‘the interior. Each playing table wasi topped with a cut glass bonbon dish‘ filled with Divinity fudge. | Mrs. David B. Nicholson in her us-! ual charming manner furnished de-l lightful music on the piano and Vic-| trola during the afternoon. ‘ After a most interesting game the hostess assisted by Mesdames Sam B. Bower, John H. Dorminey and Da vid B. Nicholson served an elaborate three course luncheon. Among those playing were: Mesdames S. Z. Downs, S. G. Pryor, Sr., Joseph W. Greena walt, James L. Dorminey, Henry A. Dickey, Tedfred E. Myers, Jesse D. Powell, Horace C. Chappell, Charles S. Isler, Bryant E. Willcox, Forrest H. Farmer, Frederick M. Powers, L. [.. Griner, Clayton Jay, Jack H. Mays, D. P. Adams, J. L. Frazer and Ar thur H. Denmark. Misses Lottie Drexel of Tifton and Nora Powell' of Ashburn were visit ors here Saturday. AND PRESS ® Ex-Fitzgerald Man g . Wins Razor Dueli Dr. Mclflroy Slashes Hote." Man In New York, Girl Alled~~d Cause New York, November 27,-Dr. )i W. McElroy, of the Post Graduate hospital here, and Ralph Burkhardt | manager of a row-of apartment houses | on Cathedral Parkway fought wWith razors in the physician’s room at the Hotel Albert, on East Eleventh st. ntil the furniture was upset and | smashed, the entire hotel aroused and: ~khardt seriously injured. The physician received several minor slashes. Both are under arrestecharged with felonious assault. Burkhardt is in the Stl Vincent’s hospital. The police said that the men fought as the re sult of pre-emptory notice served on! Mr. McElroy by Burkhart that his. attentions. to a nurse with Burkhardt was acquainted must cease at once. A PUBLIC LETTER TO THE WOMEN OF FITZGERALD, AND 1537 G. M. DISTRICT Dear Madam: I am a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace for this District, the election for which is to be held on next Saturday, December 4th. ' Since the women of our Country have at last received the political re cognition, which they so richly de served, and which was umustly 'so long withheld from them. I honest-| ly feel that every woman ought now to register and assume her full share of the responsibilities and obligationsl that good citizenship carries with it. | Of course you, our mothers, wives, and sisters, have always, since thc§ beginning of time, been a tremend »uas force in every community for good | force in every community for good | and for the moral uplift and upbu”.d—l ing of their communities. But 1) having been given the ballot, o will have the opportunity of “:"1g a greater force than ever, and I ~on fidently expect to sce, as a result of your political participation, a higherl standard of moral Christian citizen- ! ship. 5 2 ‘ Therefore, as a citizen feeling ser iously concerned in the moral and economic welfare of our community, I believe thab it is the unquestioned duty of all of our newly enfranchised voters, not only to register, but to‘ also go to the polls and cast your bal lot. We men need your help and in fluence for good in our political af fairs, equally as we need you in all our other affairs. As before stated, I am a Candidate for Justice of the Peace. I have} been a resident of Fitzgerald for sev en years, and I have always unequiv ocally stood for Justice and right. I believe in equal rights to all and special privileges to none. I am not aligned with any faction, and if elec ‘ted will discharge the duties of the ifice to the very best of my ability. I shall most highly appreciate your, vote and influence, and will thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, , J. R. Reese. Adv. s Mrs. D. B. Nicholson Sr. of Fla. is spending several weeks with her son Col. D. B. Nicholson Jr. and family on South Lee Street. Mr. and Mrs. Ludlow L. Griner and Col. and Mrs. Clayion Jay were the guests for rThanksgiving of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Wittiams in Tifton. Lost anything, anything stolen or want to sell? Try Leader-Enterprise - Want Ads. ] : | et 11-Year-Old Child’s Head Blown Off by Accidental Shot | ON THE PRESCOTT FARM Funeral Services Yesterday at Valley Grove Churchyard When his shot gun was accidental ly discharged while hunting Saturday on the C. L. Prescott farm, the 11- year-old son of Mrs. Hester Purvis was instantly killed. The top of his head was literally blown off by the impact at close range. : | It is said that the little fellow was standing on a log with his head ‘bent down over the gun’s muzzle | when he slipped, firing the gun. Fun leral services were held Sunday at !Valley Grove church near here. In- I terment was made in"the church yard. ' The youngster is~ survived by his | , mother, who is a widow. ‘ The tragic death of the Purvis I child brings the déath toll in the pres | ent hunting season in Ben Hill county . alone to two in the first week. Law ircncc Wilkerson, 16-year-old son ol ‘ Fire Chief W. C. Wilkerson, was ac i cidentally killed the week before. Judges Selected For . Club Thrift Contest Three Grandmothers Will Award Prizes For Best Thrift Letters The program of the regular meet ing of the Woman’s Club, Wednes day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, is as follows: | " Roll Call with Thrift suggestions. | Prize awarded by the Exccutive‘ Board. ! Monologue, “In Imminent Peril,” Miss Florence Willis. | The roll call having bega dispen sed with at previous meetings, mem bers will please write their “Thrift Suggestions” in a letter to be left with Miss Louise Smith, Librarian, or mailed to the Woman’s Club be fore noon Wednesday . | erations, and members are urged)to The importance of thrift has been stressed by the General and State Fed show their stand, incidentally, the thrift in the club. All details in the contest have been announced pre viously, having been extended to the geheral public. The grandmothers selegted as jud in this ¢ontest are Mrs. R. A. Majors, Mrs. J. H. Covin, and Mrs. J. W. Turner. Five prizes will be awarded. ATTENDING TO CHICKENS AND GARDEN ~ “My neighbors are surprised to see me looking so well, for they thought I would not live to see summer. I had such pain around my heart as to cause me to faint. I knew it came from bloating and pressure of gas in my stomach. A friend in St. Louis told me to use Mayr's Wonderful Remedy and I now feel better than in all my life. lam doing my own work, attending to my chickens and my garden and have cleaned house.” It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus Jfrom the intestional tract and allays the inflamation which causes prac tically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money refund ed, Swithches and Doll Wigs made by Susie Roberts, 511 E. Pine Street. 2t. . Tom Watson In City | * Last Saturday Night Senator-Elect Passes Through to Florida on Dixie Short Route | Senator-elect Thomas E. Watson of Thomson passed through Fitzger ald late Saturday evening on his way ! with a party of associates to his win ter home in Florida, In the two au-! tomobiles which passed through were‘ Mr. Watson, Major C. E. McGregor, Grover C. Edmonson, Mr. Watsou's! physician, two body guards, two} ‘chauﬁeu;s and Edmonson’s secretary. The party spent Saturday night in ’Waycross, pressing on despite the rain, ‘ ‘ Mr. Watson was recognized by only a few people here although he stopped several minutes at Hussey and Bowles to take on a supply of oil and gas. Col. Myer Goldberg, member of the IDcmocratic State Executive Commit tee from Ben Hill county, was one of the senator’s admirers who had an opportunity of speaking with him. THANKSGIVING SERVICE HEARD BY LARGE CROWD The pastors of the city are being congratulated on the Thanksgiving Day Union services last Thursday which were said to have been the best and best attended ever held here. Rev. I. P. Tyson of the Central Methodist church offered the ‘opening prayer. 'Rev. Straun of the Christian church delivered the address of welcome. Rev. James H. Elder of the, First Methodist read the scripture lesson. Rev. J. S. Singleton of the First Bap tist church preached the sermon of the evening. Rev. R. M. Mann of the First Presbyterian churéh closed the service with a short talk: 7 Music was furnished by a choir of thirty voices from all the churches.l The church itself was ‘prettiy decer ?ated with feens and potted plants. Dr' Denmark Plans . > To Sell Business After Nearly Quarter Century Here Prominent Citizen May Retire Dr. A. H. Denmark is negotiating the sale of Denmark Drug Company, the oldest drug concern and one of the oldest business houses in Fitzger ald, with S. L. Sharpe of Lyons and D. N. McElmore of Vidalia. Dr. Denmark came to Fitzgerald from Valdosta more than twenty years ago, after the Soldiers Tribune Colony Company had started the work of carving a city from a pine forest here. His is the only drug store and one of the few businesses of any kind that has remained under the same control since the colony days. Dr. Denmark will remain in Fitz gerald for some time winding up his affairs. He has not decided whether he shall remain in Fitzgerald or move to some other location. The pros pective purchasers are young men who have been in the drug business in Lyons and Vidalia. The friends of Master Leon Kasse witz sympathize with him for his ser ious mishap, Sunday afternoon. Leon was playing foot ball with some neighbor children, when he fell upon a broken bottle and cut a deep gash in his leg. A number of stitches were required to patch him up and‘ he may be confined to his bed for sev eral days. Editor Cross of Rochelle New Era ‘was a visitor in Fitzgerald today. FITZGERALD COTTON Good H‘!dd1ing..........a....u 3-8 c Monday Receipts ... ......33 Bales VOL. XXV, MNO. 141 AIDED IN SHEPPARD Arrest Made at 2:30 This Aftdr noon on Macon Bench Warrant LEFT FOR 8188 JAIL Attorney Eldridge Cutts Accom panies Wife to Macon in Ford ' The most sensational development in the gruesome Sheppard murder mystery was this afternoon when Mrs. Anna E. Cutss, wife of Attorney Eldridge E. Cutts, was arrested at her home 323 S. Grant street by Dep uty Sheriff Gordon Roberts on a war rant charging murder. Shortly after 3 o'clock Mrs Cutts, accompanied by her husband, left for Macon in John Rcland’s taxicab, under custody of Deputy Roberts, She will be placed in jail with Mrs. F. E. Elmer, widow of Fred D. Shep ‘pard, who was arrested Saturday af ternoon at Ford Valley after a Hous ton county coroner’s inquest had re turned a verdict that Sheppard, mil= lionaire Fort Valley Peach grower, - came to his death through poisoning by bichloride of mercury., Earnest Hopson, a son of Mrs. El mer by a former marriage and who is well known in Fitzgerald, is under arrest charged with murder in the same case. Mrs. W. L. {(lruc) Hen ry, is another of the alleged. Unusual interest throughout Geor gia will center around the implicating of Mrs. Cutts in the alleged murder !plot. She is a sister-in-law of the most prominent Mason in Georgia, 'A. E. Cutts of Savannah, who se | cured the Shrine convention for that city, and a sister-in-law of a one-time Mayor of Abbeville. Mrs. Cutts is an aunt of John S. Hopson and aided his mother, the present Mrs. F. E. Elmer, in nursing hWim while he was lying .almost at the point of death as a result'of gun shot wounds in Abbeville from May 18 to early in June of this year. 7 Mr. Hopson has been residing here with Mrs. Cutts for the last two weeks He s tated this afternoon that Mr. Cutts will return to Fitzgerald Tuesday to resume his work og cases now on trial in Ben Hill Superior Court. ‘ ’ ® Nine Acres Of Yams e Yield Farmer $1,053 H. T. Fletcher Sells Crop ¥rom Nine Acres to Fitzgerald House H. T. Fletcher sold last week’ 1756 bushels of sweet potatoes to the Union Cotton Qil Co. for $1053.60 being’ the marketable crop off nine acres. This gave him an average of $ll7 per acre. s Besides the potatoes sold to the Curing house, Mr. Fletcher retained the over sized and smaller potatocs for his stock seed and home uses. Mr. Fletcher brought his crop to market cv a large motor trucks frq"n‘ is farm, fourteen miles west of the :ty. ° Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Bowers had as their guests for the week-end at their cozy home on South Lee street Misses Marian Ragan and Eddie May Rogers who are teachers in the Pub lic Schools of Tifton. Mr. Alf Lewis, the celebrated sign writer, returned to the city, after an extended visit to points in Florida. »