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MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
AND FRIDAY
Officigl Tean Ben il tounty and Carty of Fitzgeraid
FARMERS MOBILIZING FOR A DRIVE AGAINST PRICE DECLINE
CHARGES AGAINST TEACHER
QUASHED BY GRAND JURORS
“Takes No Action on Warrant for
Assault Arising from Hazing
: Scuffle
‘October Term of Ben Hill Court
Adjourned After-Small Run
of Business &
The charges of assaultand battory
brought against Mr. Carter, instruc
‘tor at the high schoo!, by the father
of Stancil’ Turner, who was injured
a scuffle that is said to have resulted
from an alleged attempt by high
'school boys to haze another instruc
tor, was quashed by the Bes Hi'l
county Grand Jury before its adjourn
ment yesterday. The warrant was
tahled.
It is probable that the city school
board will take up the hazing inform
ally at its regular meeting at the
city hall at 7:30 o’clock tonight.
Young Turner is improving from the
injury said to have been caused by
a kick received from Mr. Carter.
* Judge O. T. Gower formally ad-.
journed the October session of Ben
Hill Superior court yesterday even
ing after it had been in session five
days. Several small misdemeanor
cases were tried, including three pro
hibition' cases in none of which were
convictions made. Not a single fel
ony came up for trial.
The rGand Jury made no mention
in its presentments of the jail deliv
ery last mont which eleven escaped
from the county jail. It is under
stood that no b'ame is attached to
officials for the occurence.
Tax Collections Far
Below Normal Here
Graham Reports $2,000 Less on Dec
ember 1 Than in 1919 ‘
Tax receipts up to December Ist
show a decrease of $2,000 from the
same date in 1919 despite the fact that
tax valuations have been increased at
a rate that will increase total collec
tions by at least twenty per cent, 1
Tax Collector Fred Graham re
- ported today that approximately $13,-
‘OOO has been collected to date, against
$15,000 last year. At last year’s spead
of collection, $lB,OOO should have
been collected so, as a matter of fact,
Ben Hill county people are $5,000
slower on state and county taxes than
last year. o
Total collections this year should be
around $lOO,OOO instead of last year's
- $83,000. ’
The tax books close at 6 o’clock
the evening of December 20. Only
fourteen more open days are left in
* which to pay taxes. Mr. Graham has
made his last round of the county pre
cincts and taxes must be paid at his
office at the court house. |
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Corner Lee and Jessamine Streets i
Bible School 10:00 a. m, W. A.
Adams, superintendent. ! é
Preaching 11:15 a. m. ~Address by
Mrs. Mott of Waycross, C. W. B, M.
secretary of this district and formerly
sec. of C. W. B. M. in State of Miss
issippi.
Preaching 7:30 p. m. “Our Posi
tion, It's Safety and Strength.”
~ Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30
p. m, |
Subject “Jesus, and the Way To
Live,” Leader A. Kratz. i
All are welcome, “Come then, with
us and we will do thee good.”
S. A. STRAUN, Minister.
314 South Lee street Phone 69-L!
PIRLE
EVERY item of merchandise the Empire Store except groceries at ONE-FOURTH OFF. Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and
Styleplus Clothing, Boyden, Empire Special, W. L. Douglas, Dorothy Dodd, Grover. Educator and Star Brand Shoes----
Ladies’ Ready-to-wear and Millinery. Silks, Wool Goods, Cotton Goods, Hosiery 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 |
Cne Price w
Kvervhody .
THE LEADER=ENTERPRINE
BAILFOR MRS. CUTTS
| McClellan Leaves for Abbeville
i to Collect Sworn Statements
!‘ BARTLETT WITH CUTTS
| T e
Will Assist Berner, Nicholson
i and Eldridge Cutts in Case
- MACON, Dec. 3—That the State
I\\'l'll present its case principally in
| affidavits, at thé hearing for bail next
Tuesday for those arrested in con
nection with the death of Fred D.
Shepard, was indicated yesterday. W,
A. McClellan, noted criminal lawyer,
who has become associated in the
prosecution, left yesterday for Abbe
ville and other points, it was learned
-to collect these affidavits,
Had Been Estranged ‘
Fred D. Shepard and his wife were
sa‘d to have been separated for ap
proximately a month before his
death, he living at the home of Mrs
Tone Henry at Perry and she resid
ing at the home of her mother in
Jacksonville. The latter was said to
have been ill and was attended by
Dr. F. E. Elmer, the family physician.
When J. A. Turner, overseer of the
Eldridge Cutts farm at Abbeville shot
John Hopson, a way was opened for
an effort to bring about a reconcilia
tion between Shepard and his wife.
Mrs. Shepard (now Mrs. Elmer)
hastened to the bedside of her son,
John Hopson, and Mrs. Henry and
another son of the former, Ernest
Hopson, succeeded in getting Shep
ard to Abbeville.
It was said to have been at the
Cutts home that Shepard and his wife
were brought together again in an
effort to re-establish their marital re
lations.
From an unauthoritative source, it
is said, this attempt failed, and in
the failure Shepard is alleged to have
received scars which he carried to his
grave.
The State, it is understood, has
several witnesses to the scene that
took place in the Cutts’ home and
also some affidavits as to statements
made.
It is alleged that some of these wit
nesses assert that Dr. Elmer’s name
was mentioned by Shepard before al
leged trouble started in which he 1s
said to have received scars.
Claims Will Feature Irrelevant
Solicitor General Charles H. Gar
rett said that the will feature of the
case was only an after incident and
had no direct bearing upon the alleced
poison plot and it made no difference
with the State’s case as to whether
the wil is bona fide or not.
Lawyers for the State yesterday
thought it strange that the lawyer
who is said to have drawn the will
should have remained silent, permit
ting Shepard’s widow to qualify as
the administratrix of the estate. And
incidentally, it develops, there was
absolutely no suspicion of poison at
the time, for one of the Crandallsl
went on the widow’s bond in the
Houston court of ordinary.
The array of legal talent figuring
in the Shepard case was aumented
yesterday by the appearance of Judge
C. L. Bartlett as one of the lawyers
for Mrs. Cutts, R. L. Berner of this
city, and D. B. Nicholson of Fitzger
ald, are others associated with EIL
dridge Cutts in her defense. They |
had filed no petition for bail up to
EV EngTzililNG S’!l}L ON E]F 9URTH OFF
THE EMPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY,
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President Jim Howard. of the National Farm Bureau Federaticn, invited the brains of the nae
tion to attend the first called pational convention of his organization at indianapolis, Ind., Dec 6, 7
and 8 An attein obe made to overcome thoa‘"nv—pri('o level for corn, wheat and cotton by a new
marketing arva: One miillion three bund, “J thousand farmers will be renresapted
last night, but will do so, it is said.
Gen. Walter A. Harris and Charles
M. Durrance were busy yesterday on
the defense of Mrs. F. E. Elmer, the
latter visiting, her at the Bibb coun
ty jail.
- Conferences of lawyers Jatured the
day’s developments here and the col
lecting of affidavits featured the de
velopments in other sections of the
State.
B e ‘
Lol .
tretwell Again Makes
6 ufi nn»? I
- “$100,000” Lite Club
For the third successive year Mr.
C. A: Fretwell ‘has qualified as a
member of the “Hundred Thousand
Dollar” Club of the Virginia Life In
surance Company, one of the several
concerns he represents. His record
for 1920 was $144,000 and entitles him
to attend Athc 1921 convention.
Leader-Enterprise Want Ads 'Pay.
We offer for sale 190 acres of very fine farm land out of the
estate of H. M. Warren deceased, next Tuesday’s public sale at
Ben Hill County courthouse. This land will be shown by either
of the undersigned upon request. :
The land in question is bounded West by original E. K.
Farmer lands, on South by Stokes and J. J. Dorminey lands and on
West by Warren lands, on North the land comes close to Fitzger
ald-Irwinville Public road.
Annie Warren and J. E. Turner, Joint Administrators.
AND PRESS
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WOMEN NAY VOTZ
IN JUSTICE ELECTION
.
Judge Adams Says Polls Open to
200 Fair Registrants
FOUR CANDIDATES IN
Race Has Been Briskest for J. P.
in Many Years of Politics
The more than 200 women regis
tered for the ballot may vote in the
election for a justice of the peace for
the 1537 George Militia District to
mrorow, it was stated this afternoon
by Judge D. P. Adams after a con
ference with Solicitor General .0
Wall.
Two of the four candidates have
becn making an especial appeal to
the feminine vote and have canvassed
the fair voters pretty thoroughly. It
is expected that many will take ad
vantage of their first opportunity to
effectively express their choice.
The official ballot is as fol.ows:
FOR JUSTICE Of The PEACE
FOR 1537 DISTRICT
(Vote for one)
T. Wiley Fletcher _
» D. F. Paulk
F. M. Powers
J. R. Reece
FOR CONSTABLE 1537
DISTRICT
Brown McCall
0. E. S. MEETING
Adah Chapter No. 15 O, £, S. will
hold a regular mecting Monday ev
ening, Dec, 6th, at 8 o’clock. Annual
election of officers and other business
All members in good = standing re
quested to attend. ot
MRS, C. L. FOX, W. M, |
MISS AUTO GRIFFIN, Sec.
: dD6
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Bryan an
nounce the arrival of a baby girl at
their home on West Central Avenue.
Mother and daughter are both report
ed doing fine,
. : ®
Will Attend National
Farm Bureau Conclave
: St e
Convention in Indianapolis December. 6-8 Will Be Most Important
Ever teld by Farmers in America
CONSIDEP; EXPORT TO CENTRAL EUROPE :
Invite Business Brains of Nation To Advise with Producers on
lieans of Preventing Farm Disaster
BY ROBERT FULLER “
Written Specially for The Leader-Enterprise and Press
The most important agricultural convention ever called in this
country will be attended Dec. 6-7-8 at Indianapolis, Ind., by men
foremost in agricultural activities, for the purpose of solving some
of the pressing prot lems affecting the welfare of American farmers,
Ariculture is “going to the mat” with present systems of dis
tribution. -
The recent decline of farm commodity prices has brought about
a most serious situation, both industrial and agriculturally, which J
the American Farm Bureau Federation will attempt to correct. The
convention was called by President J. R. Howard. BE R
ey o Y EY R 1
WILL TRY TO GET
OB T &y .
BAPTIST HOSPITAL
Meeting at Chamber of Com
merce Tonight of Committce
OTHER TOWNS CONTEND
ey
Securing of Baptist Location
. Said To Mean Thousands
L A
A “go getter” committee composed
of all the members of the board of
directors of the Fitzgerald Hospital
Company, the board of governors of
the Chamber of Commerce and the
mayor and city council of Fitzgera'd
will hold a 'meeting ton‘ght at the
Chamber of Commerce to form plans
for pulling to Fitzgera'd the Baptist
Hospital which is to be Tocated in
South Georgia by the Baptist Hospi
tal Association.
The committee was named and the
date for meeting set after a rousing
mass meeting, at which gbout fifty
prominent business: and professional
men were present Wednesday night,
That meeting had been called after a
‘mecting of hospital stock holders
Tuesday night. . 4 ‘
The project as outlined by William
R. Bowen at the Wednesday meeting,
means increasing the local hospital
of forty beds to at least one hundred
beds and probably more, and an ex
penditure of as much as $200,000 in
the city from the Baptist treasury, in
addition to making Fitzgerald the
health center of South Georgia.
At their meeting Tuesday the stock
holders voted to sell the Fitzgerald
Hospital to the association for $75,000
its actual cost, and to then donate
$37,500, of the amount to the Associ
ation.
* Albany, Valdosta and Thomasville
are known to be seeking to locate the
hospital in their respective cities and
probably other cities will make a bid
for it. The “go-getter committee”
will determine on the best offer Fitz
gerald can make and will name a
sub-committee to go before the board
of trustees of the Baptist Hospital
Association with their proposition.
At the meeting Wednesday, Dr.
Frank Ward, owner and proprietor of
the Ben Hill Sanitarium, offered to
close his hospital and subscribe $5OO
to a gift to the Baptist Hospital As
sociation if the location is secured.
Among those who spoke at the meet
ing were Messrs. Bowen, Mayes, who
presided, Parrott, Ward, R. M. Ware,
John Dorminey, E. L. Dorminey, Kil
crease, Turner.
Mr. an| Mrs, /W. H. Taylor moved
to Ocilla Thursday. ;
FITZGERALD COTTON
Good Middling ____.______ 15z
Friday Receipts ________7 bales
INVITE BRAINS OF COUNTRY
The brains of the entire country
have been invited, including such?
fundamental doers . and thinke; Aas
Herbert Hoover, former FOO{AG
min‘strator; Senator Arthur fii)per
of Kansas; W. P. G. Harpingj G})v
ernor of the Federal Ileséry'c__;B’é’g%g
Secretary of Agriculture E. T.('rllé'_x_'-'-"
edith; Clifford Thorne, tr;msportat_ib‘gg
gxpert; Wi'liam Redfield, sectetnry',.p;{;“:l
commerce, and labor; J. Oédcn"fl?—"‘f
mour, head of the famous packing in-:
terests; Eugené Da\'enp)o’rs,__ggw
Ilinois Agricultural College; George
E. Roberts, president of the N_\;atidni; 3
City Bank, New York; Secretary D.
F. Houston, U. S. Treasufy” Departé,
ment, and’ others. 1";;:-;“
The prob’ems to be confld%g o
the decline in the price of whdat g\i
$1.50-a bushel or some 35 Cen‘ts;‘f%‘
bushel below the cost of p:joddfc’tli‘o’_?',‘%
the decline of corn to 60 ceflfia;%;
bushel when the farmers say ‘they
would lose money if theyé‘éceiyed“
a hushel; the decline of cotton, whicli
is now around 15 cents a potfll’dw
it costs at least 23 cent§'a pounfifl‘g
produce, x ‘m'
TO STABILIZE FARM m
PRICES " * " atmgipe
Recently President tHoward cal'ed
on farmers to curtail their crop pro
duction till prices should become more
or less stable on the basis of supply.
and demand. F U S S
Recent declines in’the price of farm
products averaged 75 per cent. Man ‘
commodities declined more than lflg
per cent. o
It will be a ceariug house of farm,‘%
troubes and for the first time wi'l the
American Farm Bureau _Federation
show its full power as a functioning
natioal organization. L AR
Millions of bushels of wheat. re
main unso!d throughout the north
and west. In lowa farmers. are ta'k
ing of burning corn instead of coal
this winter unless they receive more
than 50 to 60 cents a bushel for the'r
crop. Throughout the south cotton
growrrs are in bad shape., o
TO CONSIDER EXPORTING
‘ The problem of expprting cotton
and other tarm commodities to coun
tries in central Europe whose credit
has bedn practica’ly wiped out by the
war, will be considered. If Germany
and Austria could be financ~d to the
extent of buying the low grade Amer
ican cotfon crop, the south would re
cover tx:ickly. In the same way, if
a world market could be found for
other American faim compwdities,
th: entire nation would benefit.
Among the other problems which
the convention will andertaks to solve
are the tariff; transportation; labor
activities; wage reductions; cooperat
ive market'ng; collective bargaining;
land tenancy; credits and ficansirg of
farmers.
EMEPIRE
Vi Urder
Promptiv filled
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