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MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
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_Official Organ Ben Hill County and \Gityipt Fitzgerald
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*“Paula and Her Gang Did It,”
Mrs. Crandall Quotes Her.
SHE PAYS PROSECUTION
Defense Tries Show Self-Seeking
Motive of Crandalls
MACON, Dec, 17—Mrs. Alice
Crandall, sister of Fred Shepard,
charged on the witness stand in Su
perior ourt yesterday in the prelim
inary hearing of the four defendants
charged with poisoning Fred Shepard
of Houston county that Mrs. Annie E.
Cutts, one of the defendants, told her
in a three-hour conference at Abbev
ille on July 17;-that “Paula and her
gang” meaning Mrs. 2 E. Elmer,
Mrs. W. L. Henry, and Ernest Hop
son, and “Dr. Elmer, too,” had framed
the poisoning of Shepard.
In the next hour Mrs. Crandall ad
mitted that the divorce of Mrs. Elmer
from. B. B: Hopson, her first husband,
had been investigated by the detec
tives employed by Mrs. Crandall. The
. purpose of ‘the investigation, she said,
was to show illegal divorce and, hence
an illegal marriage to Mrs. Crandall’s
brother, which would automatically
cut off the®*widow of Shepard from
participation in the estate. The}
questioning in regard to the divorce
feature consumed considerable time
_and it was generally believed that the
defense was attempting to establish.
“self-seeking” on Mrs. Crahdall’s part
in bringing the prosecution.
Mrs. Crandall occupied the witness
stand for more than six hours yes
terday, more than two hours being
required for her direct examination, in
which 'she detailed the story of the
alleged poison plot, which, she said,
was’ poured into her ears by Mrs.
Annie Cutts, the wife- of Eldridge
Cutts, one of the attorneys for the de
fense. g
Through the gruelling cross-exami
nation that followed at the hands of
Judge Ross and later by Eldridge
Cutts, Mrs. Crandall was evasive to
many questions, But Judge Ross
brought out the point that Mrs. Cran
dall is financing the prosecution, hir
ing' the lag:rs to assist the State and
hiring th etectives -to gather the
evidence. From her, Judge Ross ob
tained a”statéfM@gt that her residence
is in California, a ‘move apparently
preliminary to the bringing “of -civil
suit for damages against Mrs. Cran
dall in the . event of failure to establish
a case. :
HARRY VINSON RETURNS
% HOME FROM HOSPITAL.
Mr. Harry Vinson, manager of the
Leonard Brothers Auto Company,
who has ‘been in the Hospital for a
few days, suffering from a paralytic
stroke. was returned to his home in
the Holtzendorf Flat Thursday and is
reported slightly improved.
ENrRE Special Christmas Values EVpIRE
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$75.00 Suit, Coat o DIeSS NOW .....ovververerernrennsass..s37.so
$60.00 Suit, Coat or Dress NOW ..... ov.evrerveisrenesenn...s3o.oo
$50.00 Suit, Coat o DIreSS noW .....ooveinersenneensnns....s2s.oo
$45.00 Suit, Coat or Dress NOW ...:...vu.vsrneieeinesneses..s32.so°
$40.005uit;C0at0‘1:‘Dre55n0w.............................520.00'
$35.00 Suit, Coat or Dress now PR RERPRPPPP PRSP ) ¥ 5.
$30.00 Suit, Coat or Dress now ............ovvvvennn.ss...sls.oo
$25.00 Suit, Coat or Dress now .....;;...........'.’.........-..512.50
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$20.00 Suit, Coat or Dress now )$lOOO
One Price to
Everybody
Agricultural Development Committee
Meets Tonight To Forward Plans
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worid heavyweight wrestling
champlon, the only American
heavyweight matmen to enlist and
nght in France during the war
is on the warpath again. After &
rest on his Montana ranch he has
started out to regain his title.
nov. held by Joe Stecher of Ne
braska. - Gen> Melady, ’Omaha
stockman, is still managing ihe
‘“yrmeer champ.
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Local Mission Groups
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May All Join Forces
Woman’s Society Suggestss Union
Meeting To Discuss City’s Needs
On Tuesgay. afternoon the executive
board of the. Woman’s Missionary So
ciety of the Central Methodist Churchf
met with the newly elected president
at her home on W. Palm St. Mrs:;
Tyson invited the guests into the cozy
living room and \after the devotional
exercises conducted by Mrs, Tyson,
the board went at once into an inform
al business session. /s
At the suggestion of Mrs. -Farmer
it was decided to ask the W. M, S, of
all the other churches in town to meet
in Zunion meeting some time during
the early part of the Year to djscuss
the local mission needs,
Work for the first three months of
the New Year was planned and the
leaders for these months.appointed as
follows: January, Mesdames Harold
Beall and Clayton Jay; February: Mes
dames S. G. Pryor, Sr., and J. M. Mc-
Donald; March: Mesdames R. J. Pren
tiss and E. K. Farmer,
Books were ordered for the Mission
study class. the subject of study to be
Korea, definite announcement of when
this stuly will begin wi}l be announcel
later. A full attendance of the en
tire membership.js urgeddor the first
meeting in January. N
RS SELLIN‘G OF SUiTS, COATS, DRI;JSSES, SK.IRTS-AND HATS, WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR EVERY WOMAN TO HAVE A DISTINCTIVE NEW COAT OR
SUIT, FOR IT OFFERS HOSTS OF DESIRABLE GARMENT §, AT SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER PRICES. With this announcement, prices have struck the bottom. ONE
HALF PRICE simply means that tl.xey will move fast, therefore t?e on hand tomorrow, Tuesday, bright and early and make your selection first. o o |
A Welcome Reduction for Men and 80y5...
One-Third Off on all. Men’s Clothing --- One-Half Off on all Boy’s Clothing
.~ This is Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Styleplus Clothing for Men One-Third Off
- All Boy’s Clothing, Suits and odd Trousers at ONE-HALF PRICE .
A Ladies
Coat or Dress
ONE-HALF PRICE -
THE EMPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY,
THE LEADER=-ENTERPRISE
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1920
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA FRID
lCommittee Named at Wednesday
Conference Meet at Chamber
* of Commerce.
Expected to Adopt A. B. & A’s.
Tentative Plan Without Im
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| portant Change. ..
The committee of ten named at the
conference called Wednesday by Pres
ident B. L. Bugg, of the A. B. & A.
railroad will meet at 8 o'clock tonight
at the Chamber of Commerce to adopt
a definite program for agricultural ex
tension in this section. Improving lo
cal markets for all kinds of farm pro
duce will probably be considered also.
The committee is composed of W.
R. Bowen, Chairman; J. J. Dorminey,.
J. E. Turner, M. W. Garbutt, J. H.
Mayes, Lon Djckey. C. A. Newcom
er, Drew W. Paulk, C."T. Owens, and-
W. A. Adams. It will constitute an ag
ricultural extension department of the
Chamber of Commerce. ‘
The plan outlined by President Bugg
and Vijce-President J. L. Edwards, of
the A. B. & A. at the Wednesday
meeting, was for the bankers and bus
iness men to adopt a definite program
which they would urge farmers to fol
low. The program -suggested by the
A. B. & A. agricultural extension ex
perts comprrises the following division
of land for an average two-horse farm.
One acre in orciiard and garden to
support fifty hens and a few bees.
For cash crops, twenty acres divid
ed five to cotton, five to peanuts or
melons, two and one-half to sweet
potatoes, two and one-half to sogar
cane, five to tobacco. .
For feed and fertility, twenty-five
acres in corn and velvet beans, with
peanuts between rows; ten acres in
oats, followed by cowpeas for hay.
For live stock. fence six acres in
three separate enclosures and plant in
grazing crops for winter and spring;
lve acres in permanent pastue; two to
four good brood sows, two good cows.
It was suggested that the banks use
their influence to bring about the
adoption of the program by the far
mers even if it were necessary to make
‘credit restrictions against those who
insist on keeping to the one-cash-crop
system.
FUND FOR YOUNGSTER'S .
LEG GROWING SLOWLY
~ The fund for the purchase of an ar
tificial leg as a Christmas prdseqt for
Myer Cook, the crippled newsboy, is
growing slowly, according to reports
from the ladies who ‘are in charge of
the fund. When the check for $75 for
first payment on the leg was made
only forty-nine cents balance was left.
Some money has been given since.
Contributions may be left at Brad
shaw Music Company.
Leader-Enterprise Want Ads Pay.
PRACTICAL GIFTS FOR EVERY CHRISTMAS LIST. ALL
OTHER MERCHANDISE EXCEPT GROCERIES‘ STILL . (
. - ONE-FOURTH OFF '
This includes all Christmas Goods making it possible for you to fill
your Christmas list complete at good old-time prices. o
. THE REAL CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IS IN FULL BAST AT
THE EMPIRE STORE .
Wonderful Displays of Practical and Useful Gifts, Everybody pull- *
ing together this year to make this a UTILITY CHRISTMAS.
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ALL MILLINERY ONE-HALF PRICE
P i, - $15.00 Hats now Half Price ..........$7.50
/’,&fi :_‘;;“‘ . $12.00 Hats now Half Price ..........$6.00
7 “—E'}'éw’g;\s $lO.OO. Hats now Half Price ..........$6.00
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& © D| $ 8.00 Hats now Half Price bereneen..s4.oo
h - Y| $ 5.00 Hats now Half Price ..........$2.50
\ ' 3@;\:;_7 7 $3.50 Hats now Half Price ..........$1.75
o 48l '8 250 Musk new Half Price ..........$1.25
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;MUST PAY $27,000
$82,000 Tax Assessment Unpaid
On Thursday Evening :
BOOKS CLOSE MONDAY
Payments Must Be $27,000 Per
| Day For Last Three Days
If all state and county taxes owed
by Ber Hill county people are to be
paid within the time allowed by law,
$27,000 must pour into the office of E.
M. Graham, tax collector, each of the
last three days before December 20.
I,Collections today were several thous
| and dodlars under the neccessary miv.-
ithuvm so the daily toll must be larger
‘Saturday and Monday, the cnly re
maining days. :
~ Up to last night $lB,OOO in tax mon
ey had been received at the tax receiv
er’s office. The receipts were übouti
on a par with those of last year, al-|
though the assessments aggregate
about $17,000 more.
After Monday evening at 6:00. v;hen
the tax books close, the penalty pro
to force against all property owners
vided by law will a@tomaticaliy go in
whose taxes are uripaid.
Say Man And Wife Stole $250.00
From Dry Goods Stores.
JAILED ON ' WARRANT
Fair Store and Farmers Dry
Goods Stores Are Losers.
Charged with having stolen about
$250.00 worth of dry goods from the
Fair Store and the Farmer’s Dry
Goods Company, Lena and Isom Bur
ton, a negro couple living at Queens
land, were arrested yesterday and
jailed on a warrant sworn out by Abe
Kruger, manager of the Fair Store.
A quantity of women’s fine dress
goods and children’s clothing was
found in a trunk at the Burton home.
Most of it was identified by Messrs.
Jake Tatel of -the &armer’ Store and
'Kruger of the Fair Store but some is
still unidentified and may have come
from other stores.
~ According to Mr. Kruger, the Fair
Store has been missing articles of Dry
goods for some time but no one was
caught in the act oftakinganything.
Acting on.a “hunch,” he says, M.
Kruger swore out the warrant for the
Burtons. It was served by Deputy
Sheriff Gordon Roberts and a search
of the premises uncovered the stolen
goods. i
The accused negroes have not made
bond.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Jackson have
returned home after a brief visit to
‘Atlanta,
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Man Who Cut Him Out
ATLANTA, wa, Dec. 14—Any
young Atlantian who calls on a girl
and behaves himself is entitled to full
and complete protection at the hands
of the law against the jealous wrath
of rival suitors, according to Police
Judge Johnson of the Atlanta police
court, and the police judge inaugur
ates ‘his policy with a case very much
to the point.
A young man who called on a girl
was interrupted in the midst of a
quiet consegvation in the front porch
hammock by. the unexpected arrival
of an angry rival who proceeded yto
make himself very unpleasant and at
tacked the, young man in the ham
mock. The “latter called the police.
The attacking party was given a jail
sentence.
BURNS MAY BE FATAL
TO MRS. T. J. TILLORY
Mother of Mrs. O. L. Bradshaw
Thought Dying at Opelika Home
When her clothing caught fire from
an open grate at her home in Opelika,
Ala., yesterday moratng, Mrs. T. J.
Titiory, ‘mcther-of-Mre~ O L Brats
shaw, -was seriously and perhaps fat
ally burned. Mrs. Tillory was alone
in the room at the time and extin
guished the .flames herself, but only
after she had been horribly burned.
Immediately on receiving the news
of Mrs. Tillory’s accident, Mr. and
Mrs. O. L. Bradshaw left for Opelika,
going through the country in an au
tomobile driven by Holly Key, of
Bradshaw Music Co. .
Atlanta Bank Makes
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Interest Innovation
ATLANTA, Dec. M4.—Financial
circles here ire greatly interested by
an innovation that will be introduced
according to announcement, fh the
savings department of the Fourth
National Bank of Atlanta, now recog
nized as one of the South’s largest fi
nancial institutions, '
Effective next year the interest on
~savings acCounts in the big Atlanta
‘bank will be due and payable on June
first and December first, which is a
‘month earlier than ig paid by any oth
}er bank in Atlanta or in the South.
'The reason given for the change is
that not only do Christmas holidays
‘bring many- demands of their own,
but there are year-end obligations of
one kind or another that nearly every
body has to meet. The bank has 39,500
depositors, of whom nearly 25,000 are
in its savings department.
ATLANTA PLAIN CLOTHES
COPS SEEKING OUT HOLD
- UP MEN,
ATLANTA, Dec. 17.=Following
two more daring holdups in Atlanta,
Chief -Beavers has_detailed a squad of
policeman in plain clothes to pat;;li
the streets at night as an added pro
tection to pedestrians and to run down
highwaymen, footpads and burglars.
#The two attacks formed part of a
‘series of similar street holdups and
robberies in the last few weeks. It
was because of the growing operation
of the night bandits that Chief Beav
ers determined to put plainclothes
men on the streets,
Men’s
Clothing
One-Third Off
$75.00 Hart, Schaffner & Marx or Styleplus Suits now ......$50.00
$66.00 Hart, Schaffner & Marx or Styleplus Suits now ......$50.00
"$60.00 Hart, Schaffner & Marx or Styleplus Suits now .. ... .$40.00
$50.00 Hart, Schaffner & Marx or Styleplus Suits now ......$33.33
$45.00 Hart, Schaffner & Marx or Styleplus Suits now ......$30.00
$36.00 Hart, Schaffner & Marx or Styleplus Suits now ....™524.00
$30.00 Hart, Schaffner & Marx or Styleplus Suits now ..... .$20.00
BOYS’ CLOTHING ONE-HALF PRICE ¥
$20.00 Bays’ Suits now ONE-HALF PRICE ................$lO.OO
$lB.OO Boys’ Suits now ONE-HALF PRICE '5.....c....... $79.00
$15.00 Boys’ Suits now ONE-HALF PRICE . ...............$ 7.50
$12.00 Boys’ Suits now ONE-HALF PRICE ................$ 600
$lO.OO Boys’ Suits now ONE-HALF PRICE ................$ 500
$ 9.00 Boys’ Suits now ONE-HALF PRICE ............... .$ 450
$ 8.00 Boys’ Suits now ONE-HALF PRICE ... .. ...........$ 4.00
$ 6.00 Boys’ Suits now ONE-HALFPRICE.. .. "' 2a¢on
FITZGERALD COTTON =
GOOD MIDDLING .....13 1-84
Friday Receipts ....... .26 bales. |
RECREATION CENTER
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B OPEN MONDAY
Executive Board Meets Sunday
at Recreation Room. -~
NEED MORE SUBSCRIBERS
Forty Have Subscribed To Sup
port Work; 100 Needed.
The Young Men’s Recreation Cen
ter Branch of Community Service will
open Monday evening, it was annunc
ed'today by Mr. A. L. Lincoln, of the
Community Service Coucil, who is as
sisting the Baraca classes of the city
n launching the enterprise. The ex
ecutive board will meet at 3100 o’clock
Sunday afternoon at the Recreation
Room to complete plafis for the open
ing. , s
The Executive Board, which will
have supervision of the activities of
the young men’s department of com#
mujty service is as follows: Herman
Wentz, Albert Mathias, W. S. Lon
kert, Fussell Walker, N. B. Andrews,
Floyd Eads, Warren Davis, Mark/';Ma
this, S .A. Bradshaw, S. G. Goodnes,
Milton Hopkins, Stansell Turner, .W,
T. Nipper, Everette Rohrer, Mr. A, G.
Brown is chairman of the Board:
The Board has secured about for
ty subscribers to the support of the
center at $l.OO each. To carry out
the work as it should be done, 100
‘subscribers or members are needed.
he committee is securing additional
gfis. People with odd pieces of furni
ture that they do not need are asked
to notify A. G. Brown, A. L. Lincoln,
at the Chamber of Commerce, or any
member of the executive board who
will send for it and place it in the rec=
reatjon room.
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Community Chorus To
Learn Cargls Monday
’fhe last practice meeting of the
Fitzgerald Community Chorus before
the Christmas Eve carol singing will
be at the Carnegie Hall at 8 o’clock
Monday evening. All members of the
chorus or any who may wish to . join
before Christmas eve must’ be pres
ent at the meeting Monday if they
are to take part in the car6l singing
Four automebile trucks have been se
cured to carry the singers around the.
city Christmas eve. The chorus will
lead the singing at tfie Clitistmas tree
planned for Christmas n!' gt.,_/—"/
NEWN FAMILY MOVES TO
FITZGERALD FROM NORTH
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Tolle, of Indian~
apolis, Ind.,, have come to Fitzgerald
to make their future home. They are
stopping temporarily with Rev. W, M,
Blackwell on West Pine, but will move
into their new home at 512 W. Pine
St., next week. Mr. Tolle was in the
mercantile business in Indianapolis,
but has not announced his plans here.
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