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MONDAY, \'EDNESDAY
AND FRIDAY
fficial Organ Ben Hill County and City of Fitzgerald
Minority Report Dissents from
Decision of Citizens
ORDINANCE INTRODUCED}
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Routine Business Transacted at
Regular Meeting Monday ‘
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At the meeting of the City Coun-‘
cil Monday night, the citizen com
mittee through its chairman ¥ E!
Tginer, submitted its recommenda
tions for a new Telephone franchisc.}
Its main provisions call for an an
nual payment of $5OO for the first‘
ten years and $750 for the second ten“
vear period of a twenty year fran
chise. l
A minority report also calls for an
annual payment of $500.00 for a tweu-‘
ty year period. Both propositions
carry with them the free use of five
free phones for city officers and the
gradual removal of all telephone poles
from the streets within a period of
five to ten years. l
An ordinance was given its first
reading, to carry into effect the pro
visions of either of the propositions,
at the next meeting of the council.
The Bowen Telephone Company
was represented by its president Mr.
W. R. Wowen and its attorney Mr. D.
E. Griffin at the hearing. Messrs.l
J. E. Turner, Lon Dickey, Homer
Adams and I. Gelders were presentl
for the citizens committee. For the
city Mayor Pittman, Aldermen Isler,
Mayes, Milton, W. R. Paulk, Geo.
Kilcrease and Flournoy actively dis- |
cussed the measure. ‘
The monthly pay -roll, reports of
heads of departments and other rou
tine business was transacted by thc}
council during the evening, |
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FARM BUREAU MEETS AT i
COURT HOUSE THURSDAY
The regular semi-monthly meeting
of the advisory council of the Ben
Hill county Farm Bureau Federation
will be at 2:30 o’clock Thursday af
ternoon. Large scale water melon
production and marketing, calling an
election of officers will be up for al
tion, and adopting a program of
work for the year come up for action.
Mrs. M. E. Tawlks and daughter
jEdna left Monday for Chicago, 111,
+7»-d Sioux City, lowa.
BENEFIT DANCE FOR
BAND AT ELK’S CLUB
The second semi-monthly dance of
the Fitzgerald Concert Band will be
at the Elk’s Club tomorrow evening.
The band has been practicing on the
latest dance music and Manager Will
cox promises that the evening will be
an interesting one. The dance is open
to the public.
EYEGLASSES AND
SPECTACLES
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Something Different and So Useful
A Pair of Our
Glasses
As A
Christmas
Present
Have you thought of It?
Ask about our special plan for giv
ing glasses.
H. A. MATHIS
Optometrist and Optician
Davis 81dg.,, -:- Fitzgerald, Ga.
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This 25 per cent Discount Sale Continues |
EVERY item of merchandise the Empire Store except groceries at ONE-FOURTH OFF. Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and
Stylerlus 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. s
Simply Take One-fourth From the Marked Price and You Have the Sale Price
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| . They've really done ltf—they]’ve signed the papers, those fatal
} papers—fatal to one of the two, but we_can only stand by until next
| March and do our prophesying, as the contract reads that the bout
| in which Dempsey will defend his title, shall take place in the United
| States, Canada or Cuba between next March and July Fourth, the
| champion to get $300,000 and Carpentier $200,000. Dempsey 1%
certainly giving *Carp” the ‘“‘once over” as he is affixing his John
| Hancock.
Carpentier appears at the Grand Thursday in his first photoplay “The
tWonder Man” with Faire Binney as his co-star. .
W. M. S. OF CENTRAL M. E. - |
ELECTS OFFICERS MONDAY
Mrs. I. P. Tyson Succeeds Mrs. Far
mer as President of Society
On Monday afternoon -at, the an
nual business meeting of the \Vom—‘
an’s Mission Society of the Central
Mecthodist church there was a fulll
attendance showing the keen intcrost{
the women feel in the businéss ma
chinery of their organization. After
the devotional exercises conducted by
Mrs. E. K. Farmer, in which God’s
guidance was most earnestly sought
in the selection of officers and leaders
for the coming year, the regular bus
iness session was begun,
It was with the decepest regret that
after much persuasion the greatly be
loved president Mrs. Farmer refused
to let her name be considered for an
other year. Mrs. Farmer has been a
splendid leader, inspiring the women
by her own gentle Christian spirit and
leading them nto paths of great use
fulness along all lines. Mrs. Farmer
has been ably assisted by the efficient
vice-president, Mrs. Harold Beall,
who also thought it best retire from
office and let .some one else know
the joy of being a real help in the
service of the Master.
According to the usual custbm the
officers were elected by ballot, the la
dies showing an unusual interest in
selecting from their number, some of
the most capable and consecrated
women to lead them into fields of
greater service for the New Yé®r.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. I.'P. Tyson; Vice-
President, Mrs. S. G. Pryor; Supt.
Young People, Mrs. R. E. Lee; Supt.
Juniors, W. E. Yeatman; Supt. So
cial Service, Mrs. R, I. Maffett; Re
cording Sec., Mrs. C. C. Parker; Cor
responding Sec., Mrs. G. A. Jolly;
Supt. Supplies, Mrs. J. -E. - Turner;
Supt. Voice; Mrs. J. A. Jones; Supt.
Publicity, Mrs. S. L. Smith; Supt. Mis
sion Study, Mrs. Jim Paulk.
LOYAL DAUGHTERS WILL
HOLD CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
The ILoyal Daughters of the Cen
tral Christian church will hold their
annual Christmas bazaar in the ware
rooms of the Bradshaw Music Com-|
pany-at 109 East Pine Street Satur-i
day, December 11. Fancy needle worki
for Christmas gifts will feature the
bazaar. . ‘
HUNTERS TAKE NOTICE!
To My Friends:--
Please don’t embarass me by ask
ing me to allow you to hunt on my
land for I will embarass you by re
fusing you the privilege. Others will
be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law. .
This means you, no matter who you
are, i
d2l M. DICKSON.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1920
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Georges Carpentier
At Grand Thursday
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War Hero and Dempsey’s Challenger
Stars in “The Wonder Man.”
Georges Carpentier, idol of Francc,l
whose notable record in the boxing
ring +has won him fame and fortune
and whose fasciating personality has
made him the idol of two continents,
will be the chief attraction at the
Grand Theatre in “The Wonder Man,”
a Robertson-Cole super-special pro-|
duction Thursday.
The picture promises an entertain
ment unique in the realm of the cin
ema art. Unlike the previous efforts
of producers to bring champions of
the prize ring before the public on
the silver screen in the roles of-dare
devil heroes or in hair-raising serials
Georges Carpentier is given as a ve
hcle an intriguing romance of Amer
ican society, with himself in the role
of a smart, well-dressed man about
town.
~ The fact that his gentlemanly qual
ities and his record of valor in the
world war has won the admiration of
‘all classes makes the advent of this
popular youth into the picture world
‘as a matinee idol a commendable
‘achievment. His popularity in Amer
ica is best attested by the unprece
dented amount of favorable publicity
he has received throughout the coun
'try and by the great demand for his
- services.
CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY
SOCIETY MEETS MONDAY
“Need for Savior” Be Theme of Dis
cussion at Meeting
- The Missionary Society of the Cen
tral Christian Church will meet Mon
day afternoon, Dec. 43th at 3 o’clock
with Mrs. B. E. Archer on West Oco
nee. Mrs. S. A. Strawn will lead an
interesting program on “The Need
Emphasis on the Necessity for a Sav
ior"” "as follows:
Music. :
Prayer.
Business. 1 4"7::3
Devotional Period.
Song.
Bible Study, Mrs. S. A. Strawn.
Prayer Continued or Chain of Pray
ers.
Song. |
Song. :
“Personal Evangelism, the Greatest
Work in the World”—Mrs. Bennett.
“The Necessity for a Savior”—MTrs.
Skinner.
“Echos from Everywhere”—MTrs.
Booker, Mrs. Davis, Mrg. Chapel and
Mrs. Archer.
, Hidden Answers.
Song.
{ Benediction. ; |
AND PRESS'
TO SOLICIT $3,500
IN CITY TOMORROW
Community Service Council Fin
ishes Drive Organization |
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WARD CHAIRMEN NAMED
Community Service Recreation
Demonstration at Grand Today |
Plans for the Community Scr\'ice‘
Campaign which will be launched to
norrow are complete. J. E. Turncrl
and N. N. Littlefield are respectively
chairman and vice-chairman of thc‘
drive. Associated with them are Mrs.|
Isidor Gelders, Mr. Lacey R. Ennis,
Mrs. O. L. Bradshaw and Mrs, Joale:
McCarty who have accepted the
chairmansh'ip of the. several wards.
Mrs. Frank Ward, Mrs. J. B. Wall,
Mrs. U. J. Bennett, and Mrs. H. K.
Sligh of the Community Service Ex
ecutive Committee are assisting the
ward chairman in the organization of |
their districts and in the selection of|
teams for the canvass. : |
Thursday the several canvassing,l
teams will endeavor to wvisit every
home and business house in the cityl
soliciting contributions for the per
manent annual support of Fitzgcra]dl
Community Service.
The plans of the committee call
for the employment of a pcrmanent!
worker and for the equipping of 1)1:1_\'-1‘
grounds-in each ward. A small sum
is desired, also, for supporting pm—}
gram of Community Music, Commun
ity Dramatics and administration ex
pense.
The Executive Committee wishes
the public to understand fully that
every cent raised will be spent in
Fitzverald for Fitzgerald’s young
and old. National headquarters of
Community Service asks nothing
more than that this movement which
has gone over the top in neighboring
cities, ~Cordele, Thomasville, Dublin,
Waycross, as well as in other states,
be made to live in Fitzgerald. What
better assets can a community have
than neighborliness, comradeship,
team-work, community spirit, and
iself expression through whols
some play and recreation? Fitzger
}ald must have regard for the leisure
‘time of its citizens.
| The Community Service Recreation
[Dcmonstrntion is being held at the
I Grand Theatre this afternoon and to
‘,night under direction of District Rep
resentative Frederick W. Dixon, Miss
iAgnes Weed and Mrs. H. A. Mathis.
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A far western boy. Robert Mur:
ray, 12. of Tacoma, Wash., has
startled the music world through
his ability to reach higher note?
than ever before sung hy the hu
man voice. The great operatie
stars, Gali-Curci and Tetrazzini
are the only performers who can
sing some of the notes this youilb
attains without any apparent «i
fort. - Mme. Frances Alda discov
ered him while touring the west
Mrs. Robert H. McKay is spending
a few days in Atlanta with her sister
&isses Myrtle and Haloween Vena
ble.
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! manager of a cafeteria at
iuskogee, Okla., not only had the
courage to run on the Republican
ticket for a seat in Congresfo—in
u Democratic state—but sue con
ducted her campaign through the
“want ads” of her district’'s pa
pers—and was elected
Hearing on Bail Is Postponed
One Week
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ORDER ISSUED TUESDAY
Effect of Petition ils Same As|
Writ of Habeas Corpus '
MACON, Dec. B—Judge John P.
Ross, former solicitor g:cm‘ru.l of the
Macon circuit, took the initiative yes
terday in the Shepard case when, as
the attorney for Mrs. Tone Irene Hen
ry and Ernest Hopson, he obtained
an order from Judge H. A. Mathews
~requiring the state to show why she
ishou]d not be discharged from the
custody or released on bail, and that
the State face petitioner ivith her ac
cusers and with the witnesses that
;may testify against her.
I Judge Mathews signed the order
- yesterday just before leaving fqr his
home at Fort Valley. The hearing is
set for next Tuesday, December 14,
. The petition under which the order
:was issued takes the form of an
~amendment to the application for
| bail, and in reality, is practically the
same as a writ of habeas cprpus, al
though it is directed to the Solicitor
:Gencral instead of to the Sheriff.
It was known that Solicitor Gen
|eral Garrett had been planning to
make his showing in court in opposi
tion to the granting of bail, on affida
vits from witnesses whom he expects
to call later when the cases are placed
on trial. The solicitor general yester~
day made no comment on the new
feature of the case, nor did he indi
cate his next move.
. No Move for Mrs. Cutts
There were no developments yes
terday in the case of Mrs. Annie Cutts
the fourth person arrested in the case,
although lawyers were busy in con
ference. Eldridge Cutts, busband of
Mrs. Cutts, was here early yesterday
morning, in conference with his wife
at the jail, and with other lawyers
but he had not made an official move
secking to obtain his wife’s release
up to a late hour last night.
ABOLISH FORD TERRITORIES
Dealers Can Now Sell Cars Anywhere
in Country
Beginning today all territorial lines
of the Ford Motor Company, which
prevented the dealers from selling the
products of the company to any other
than residents of the counties which
were allotted to them, will have a
right to sell the Ford cars, trucks and
parts anywhere in the country, it was
announced yesterday.
LOST—Yellow spotted Pointer, fe
male, bobbed tail; goes by name of
Kate. Return to Home Furniture Co.
and receive suitable reward. 1t
COUNTY BOARDS RENEW
APPROPRIATIONS FOR
" COUNTY AGENT HERE
The county Board of Education
and Board of Commissioners re
newed the appropriation for coun
ty agent work/at their meetings
Tuesday, thus assuring the con
tinuance of the work of county
agent C. T. Owen. Both bodies
also appropriated $550.00 jointly
for the extension department of
the Carnegie Library :
Free Box Seats For l
Polly And Her Pals
Grand Will Give Away Twenty Tick
ets to Winners in Contest
In Friday’s issue of the Leader-]
Enterprise and Press will be printed
a puzzle picture for whose correct so-l
lution Manager G. E. Ricker of thc!
Grand Theatre offers twenty box scatl
tickets to “Polly and Her Pals” as |
prizes. The musical comedy named
after the popular comic cartoon strip
will be at the Grand Monday.
The puzzle is to be clipped and re
arranged according to a diagram
which will#also be printed. The so
lutions of the puzzle are to be sent
to the National Drug Company where
the names will be recorded and given
numbers. The judges will award the
twenty ticket§ to those who present
the nearest correct and nearest solu
tions. The names of the.prize win
ners will be announced in Monday’s'
Leader-Enterprise.
MRS. DAVIS PRESIDENT
COLONY CORPS W. R. C.
First Woman’s Organization in Fitz
~ gerald Elects Officers Tuesday
| Saadiiieng
On December 7 was the regular
annual election of Officers for the
vear 1921. The day was stormy but
32 of the members gathered at their
Hall on South Main street to vote
for their choice. With the following
result for President Emma B. Davis,
Senior vice-President Jilla Linneman,
Junior vice-President, Cora Arman
trout; Chaplain, Addie Brooks; Treas
urer, Francis Beauchamp; Conductor,
Nancy Graham; Guard, Francis
Thayer; Trustee for 3 years, Julia
Griffin. There will be nine officers
to be appointed by the new Presi-‘
dent.
Colony Corps has almost doubled
its membership in the past 2 years
and have very interesting meetings
on the first and third Tuesdays of
each month.
Hattie M. Nelson, Press Cor. l
| s! Spots!
Spots! Spots! !
All “SPOTS” are down—“SPOT” Cotton—“SPOT” Corn,
“SPOT” Everything is Down—even “SPOTTED HOGS”
are down but they still have the “SPOT and Still hit the
“SPOT”—SoO, come over to
The Big Sale
- Tuesday, Dec. 28th
Attend the BIG BARBECUE at noon and eat some ‘SPOT
TED’ HOG and then buy you a “SPOT” at your own price
and fill those vacant “SPOTS” on your Farm—
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The Red Village Farm
“THE HOME OF TH}E SPOTTED HOG”
(One Mile East Of The City)
WRIGHT T. PAULK
FITZGERALD COTTON
Good Middling _.._____:'_ls 1-2¢
Wednesday Receipts___29 Bales
VOL. XXV, NO. 145
~ OCILLA IS*CLOSED
Heavy Loans to President of In
stitution Said Responsible
STOCKHOLDERS MEET
Seek To Merge Citizens Bank
with Ocilla First National
The Citizens Bank of Ocilla was
closed Monday and is today in charge
of the State Bank Examiner because
of a shortage of funds. The stock
holders of the bank went into session
at 2:30 yesterday aftrenoon in an ef
fort to find a solution for the difficul
ty. An officer of the bank stated that
an ecffort would be made to have the
First National Bank of Ocilla act as
receiver for the bank and liquidate
its assets or to merge the Citizens
bank with the First National.
| The difficulties of the Ocilla insti
tution are understood to be due to the
fact that D. J. Henderson, Jr., presi
idcnt, borrowed more than the bank
| was able to loan. His olligations to
' the bank total about $40,000, it is said.
The bank is capitalized at $78,000
aid has deposits of about $lOO,OOO.
It operates under a state charter.
| The officers of the bank are D. J:
ichdcrson Jr., president, D. R, Hen
.dcrson, vice president, G. S. Willcox,
| vice-president, E. L. Harper, cashier,
{Molcy Puvir assistant cashier. All
iare Ocilla men except Willcox who
!raccntly removed his home and busi
{ ness headquarters to Fitzgerald.
| The bank had financial difficulties
| during the business depression of
/1914 and was reorganized under its
i]n’csvnt management in 1915. State
lf)anking laws place no limitation on
; the amount of money that can be
| loaned to one individual or corpora
| tion.
MINATURE PLAYGROUND
AT McCARTY-JOHNSTONE
Passersby on Grant street yesterday
and today have commented with in
terest on the minature playground in
McCarty-Johnstone's Gra‘nt Street
show window. It is an exact replica
’of the City Hall playground and the
ipieces were fashioned by Fire Chief
’VV. C Wilkerson at the suggestion of
| Mrs. H. A. Mathis, of the Community
Service council. The window was ar
!ranged by Mr. Asa Smith, advertis
ing manager of McCarty-Johnstone
‘f Co.
RECREATION CENTER i
\ NEEDS FURNITURE
The Young Men’s Recreation Cen
ter will nced chairs, small tables for
games; larger ones for the reading
room, a large heater. If you have
any of these articles you wish to give
them notify any of the officers at
once. ,
