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Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
UNIMPAIRED PROSPERITY FOR SECTION IS SHOWN BY BANKS
Committee Appointed to En
courage Growing of Exhibits
T R e o
WILL FOSTER PIG CLUBS
Fitzgerald Committee to Attend
Advertise Georgia Meet ‘
Fitzgerald ‘Community Council
met at the Chamber of Commerce at
1:30 p. ' m. January 13th; 1921. A. J.
Sword 'presided
Minutes of the previous meeting
read and approved. The following
business *transacted. A motion pre
vailed requesting County School sup
erintendent, J. H. Bullard and the
school teachers, to assist County
Agent C. T. Owens, in securing a
goodly number of club members,;
both girls and boys. |
The followling motion = prevailed
appointing J. A. George, H. H. James
F. Hitch, J. H. Smith and C. L. Pres
<ott to look after the growing of‘
farm exhibits and live stock to be
exhibited at the Fitzgerald Fair thisl
Fall.
The chairman appointed C. L.
Prescott and C. T. Owens to attend
the Georgia advertising convention
‘which meets in Macon Tuesday the
18th. They were also -instructed
while on this trip to secure prices
on field Peas to beé used by the Farm
Bureau members in this County.
Sec. H. H. James and Buying Ag
ent D. F. Null were instructed to
list fertilizers to be used by the
Farm Bureau members in this Com
+4indfity Council also to secure prices
and report at the next regular meet
ing Thurslay 1:30 p. m. January 27th,
1921.
A resolution was passed accepting
with thanks the offer of the state col
lege of agriculture and federal depart
ment of agriculture to make cost es
timates of tobacco in Ben Hill coun
ty. E. C. Westbrook and a federal
expert will make a cost survey before
the 1921 tobacco crop is ready for
the market in ordér that farmers may
haye a working idea of the worth of
v @ir crop.
* Pihere .being no other business the
deeting adjourned the meeting ad
journed. :
A. J. SWORDS, Chairman.
H. H. JAMES, Secretary.
Mr. T. Seigler of Savannah was a
business visitor in our city this week.
# WHY SHOULD THE CITY
# INCREASE LIBRARY AP
-3 PROPRIATION FOR 1921
B bt 5 |
# The schools of this city would
# be seriously handicapped if it
# were not for the library on ac
# count of the large amount of ref
# erence work done in connection
# therewith. A large percentage of
# our homes have few, if any, ad- |
# vantages in the way of reference
# books, and pupils are largely de
# pendent upgn helps secured in
# the library.” ‘
3 U. J. BENNETT, '
% President of School Board
TLLEADER-ENTERPRISE
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THE LEADER=ENTERPRISE
Baptist Will Send Commiittee To
Inspect Fitzgerald Hospital Site
May Get Yam §yrup
Plant For Fitzgerald
Government Agents Will Be Here
Wedneslay to Submit - Proposition
Possibility is considerel that a
sweet potato syrup experiment plant
may be located by the federal govern
mer © in Fitzgerald. A party of three
federal experts will be here Wednes
day to discuss the proposition with
local business men and to look over
possible sites for the plant.
The sweet potato syrup project is
result of Congressman = Charles R.
Crisp’s bill to appropriate money for
the purpose of developing the com-.
mercial possibilities of the sweet po-?
tato. The federal bureau of chemis-‘
try discovered that a good syrup
could be made from the potato.
The party which will come here
Welnesday includes D. J. Price, en
gineer in charge of development work‘
in the Bureau of Chemistry, Dr. H.
C. Gore, chemist who developed the
sweet potato syrup; and J. O. Reed,
engineer who will-install the propsed
unit.
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Former Fitzgerald
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Man Dies In Cordele
3 Al ns PRI
A. G. Palmer, formerly of Fi/tzger
ald, where he was connected with
Fletcher’'s Garage for a long time,
died Thurslay at his home in Cor
dele. Funeral services will be held
by the Fitzgerald Masonic organi
zation at Arbor church at 3:30 o’-
clock this afternoon. Mr. Palmer is
survived by his family.
MRS. J. L. DORMINEY
IS HOSTESS -
On Tuesday afternoon at her at
tractive apartment at the Aldine Ho
tel, Mrs. James L. Dorminey delight
fully ‘entertained a few friends at
bridge.
The parlors where the guests as
sembled were made bright and attrac
tive with quantities of narcissi and
ferfl, placed in cut glass vases. and
baskets. ;
Following a most interesting game
an elaborate four course luncheon
was served to the - following: Miss
Marie Ward of Douglas and Mes
dames James L. McCarty, Jesse
Grantham, Horace C. Chappell, F. H.
James, Forrest H. Farmer. Frederick
M. Powers, D. P. Adams, Ben Reid,
Charles S. Isler, Guy Robinson and
L. C. Glover.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of Mr. M. A. Bryan
wish to thank their friends both here
and from the A. B. & A. Shops for
their many expressions of sympathy
during the illness and death of their
husband and father.
Mrs. M. A. Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. J. S, Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brown
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14. 1921
Sub-Committee Considers Out
- look for South Georgia Bap
| tist Hospital Good
Three Other Cities Represented
at Board Conference in At
| lanta Yesterday
Dr. D. B. Ware and W. A. Ad
ams returned this morning from At
lanta, where they presented the local
hospital proposition to the general
committee of the Georgia Baptist, in
charge of hospital extension work
for that denomination. " Hon. Clif
ford presided over the meeting,
which was attended by the following
members: M. M. Norman, Hartwell;
R. M. Harbin, Rome; J. S. Summer
all, Waycross; Jas. B. Shatneck, La-
Fayette; J. M. Williams, Winder and
W. B. Willingham, Atlanta. Besides
the Fitzgerald delegation. Thomas
ville, Albany, Waycross, and other
points were represented with offers
of local hospitals Messrs. Ware and
Adams secured the promise of the
committee to look over the local hos-‘
pital proposition and a committee
may shortly make a survey of the
conditions.
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Community Chorus
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- Meet Mounday Nights
The Fitzgerald Community Chorus
will meet each Monday night at 8
o’clock at the Carnegie Hall. -Mrs.
R.”G. Shannonhouse urges all mem
bers to attenl next Monday night.
PRETTY BIRTHDAY .
PARTY
Miss Fannie Fletcher delightfully
entertained Monday afternoon at her
pretty home on West Lemon street
in honor of her attractive niece and
nephew Miss Frances Brightwell and
Master Marvin Brightwell the occa
sion being in celebration of Miss
Frances Brightwell’'s twelfth birth
day anniversary.
- Quantities of red and white flowers
adorned the rooms where the guests
were assembled.
- Various outdoor and indoor games
were played after which Miss Fletch
er ably assisted by Misses Ethel Ev
ans and Gladys Stevens served deli
cious orange crush and cakes.
Miss Frances received many lovely
gifts attesting her popularity.
Among those present were: Misses
Gladys Stevens, Ethel Evans, Eliza
beth Russell, Elizabeth Rigsby, Dor
othy Dixie Jay, Martha Strange, El
sie Bragg, Martha Oliva Boney, Vir
ginia Hale, May Gillespie, Mamie
Ruth Rogers, Louise Morris and
Messrs. Ward Grantham, Eugene
Stevens, Bayne Adams, Fleeman
Boney, Paul Strange and Garbutt
Mayes.
Mr. A.'B. Achord has returned to
the city after spending a few days in
Jacksonville, Fla. this yveek.
Mrs. A. B. Achord is visiting her
daughter Mrs. G. L. Hancock in Ar
cadia, Fla.
After Four Days Session, Re
cesses Until Next Monday
HARDWICK IS VISITOR
Governor-elect Non-suited in
Case ih Ben Hill Court
After grinling for four days on a
grist of small civil suits, Ben Hill
Superior Court was recessed this
morning until 10 o'clock Monday
morning when the criminal docket,
which has begun to assume imposing
proportions, wil be taken up. |
Governor-elect Thomas W. Hard-i
wick was a distinguished visitor in
Fitzgerald yesterday. He came to
represent the pliantiff in the damage
suit of Sherrod vs the A. B. & A.
railway. As a special courtesy to Mr.
Hardwick, members of the local bar
agreed to clear the way of all
cases slated before the Sherrod case.
After the case went to trial Judge
O. T. Gower ruled that the plaintiff
had male out no case against the
road and non-suited it. Representing
the railroad was Judge D. A. R.
Crum, former judge of the Cordele
Circuit and Judge Gower’s opponent
for the office two years ago.
Indictment of three well known
white men on charges of violating
the prohibition law was a sensational
development in the grand jury ses
sion before it recessed Thursday un
tii Monday morning. Mr, Jim
H. Mayes, Jeff Greer and “Happy”
Phipps, a paralytic whose wheel
chair is a familiar sight on Fitzgerald
streets, were indicted for violating
the prohibition law.
MISS STREETER’S TALK
HAS BEEN POSTPONED
s
Miss Streeter, of the Victor Talk
ing Machine Company, who was to
appear at Carnegie Hall tomorrow in
a lecture under the joint auspices of
the Woman’s Club, Review Club and
Bradshaw Music Company, can not
be here then. She will probably come
some time in February.
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M. A. Bryan Dies at
Home Here Tuesday
Mr. M. A. Bryan died Tuesday
morning at his home 218 W. Oconee
street at the age of seventy-two
years, He has been ailing for some
time. Funeral services were Tues
day evening, Rev. J. F. Singleton, of
ficiating. The body was taken to
Marshallville, Mr. Bryan’s old home,
for interment. The deceasel is sur
vived by his widow and sons. |
Mr. O. D. Smith, formerly in the
auditing department of the A. B. &
A. but more recently one Baldwin
county’s progressive farmers, was in
the city today.
Mr. Richard N. Mathis * has re
turned home after a pleasant yisit to
friends in Manchester.
Miss Isla Mosley Green left Thurs
day for a visit to relatives and friends
in Orlando and Tampa, Fla. )
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Veal Brothers Shows To Open Here
For Benefit Of Fair Association
Performers to Arrive Next Week
to Prepare Opening of
Nation-wide Tour
Proceeds of Week’s Showing
Here to Enable Better Fitz
gerald Fair in Fall
Announcement was made today by
officials of the Fitzgerald Fair Asso
ciation that a contract has been
closed ‘with the Veal Brothers Shows
to open the season in Fitzgerald thé
week of February 21-26 for the ben
efit of the Association. Performers
will begin arriving this month to re
hearse for the opening.
Veal Brothers Shows have been
quartered since November in the Lon
Dickey Tobacco Warehouse where
about ninety people have been work
ing to put the half-million dollar
equipment in jam-up condition for
the 1921 season. Business manager
McAbee has outlined a tour that will
take the Shows into practically ev
ery state east of the Mississippi before
next winter. when Mr. John Veal,
general manager, expects to bring
them back to Fitzgerald, “**
The Veal Brothers Shows are the
highest class carnival attractions that
have ever been secured for Fitzger
ald. The only other towns they will
play in Georgia are Macon and At
lanta and the entire schedule includes
no -other city than Fitzgerald of less
‘than 50,000 inhabitants. The man
‘agement of the Shows consented to
open here for the benefit of a Fitz
gerald boosting enterprise in appre
ciation .of the splendid treatment the
carnival people have received from
Fitzgerald business concerns and cit
izens. i
The carnival will play at the Fair
Grounds, in the old baseball park. No
admission will be charged at the gate,
The Veal Brothers’ Shaws are clean
and strictly modern. They carry no
“Forty-Nine” show or similar attrac
tion. The concessions are carefully
regulated and every effort is exerted
at all times to maintain the reputation
of the show for highest standards.
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Civic League Wants l
Grand Jury Detectiv=
Special Meeting Sunday to Pass Res
olutions for Grand Jury
The Ben Hill County Civic Leagu
will hold a special session at the First
Methodist church at 3 o’clock Sun
day afternoon for the purpose, it is
understood, of passing ' resolutions
urging the Ben Hill County Grand
Jury to employ secret service men in
ferreting out any possible violations
‘of prohibition or gaming laws in the
county. Announcement of the meet
ing was made today by members of
the league. ‘
Judge O. T. Gower suggested em
ployment of a special detective by
the grand jury in his charge Monday.
. CHARLES RAY IN RING |
“The Egg Crate Wallop” Staged in
Real Arena |
Thomas H. Ince built a genuine‘
prize fight arena and stadium at his'
studio for the “punch” scenes in the"
latest Paramount-Artcraft picture,
starring Charles Ray, “The Egg
Crate Wallop will be the attraction
at the Grand Theatre next Monday.
To give’the proper atmosphere, about:
five hundred fight fans were hired as
“extras” to sit in the bleachers. For
two days they watched some of the
liveliest Ypugilists in the country in
action, and most of the “spectators”
agreed it was the softest job they
ever had.
“The Egg Crate Wallop” depicts
Charles Ray as a freight handler who‘
becomes a pugilist to clear his girl’s
father of a serious charge and turns‘
the trick with his famous knockout
blow, hence the name of the picture.
Colleen Moore is the girl well worth
fighting for.
Leader-Enterprise Want Ads are
Business Getters. Try Them.
FITZGERALD COTTON
Good Middling__________ls 1-2¢.
Wednesday Receipts e S
VOL. XXVI, NO. 6
Six and Seven Per Cent Semi-
Annual Dividends Declared
' RETURN ALL OFFICERS:
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Stockholders Both Local Banks
Endorse Managément .. -
The meetings this week of stock
holdets of the Fisst National and the
Exchange National Banks evidenced
continugd prosperity of this section.
during the last six months of 1920 des
pite low cotton and other busness bug
bears. The #First Natnal declared 2
isix per cent semi-annual dividend.
‘The Exchange declared a seven per
cent semi-annual dividend. . ;
All officers and directors of both
banks wefe re-elected and the stock®
holders of both banks cordially en
dorsed the work of their official fam
ilies. The officers of the First Na
tional are Jack Dorminey, ‘president,
M. W. Garbutt, J. C. Brewer, J- B
Milhollin, F. H. Farmer, vice-presi
dents, D. A. Bragg, cashier. The di
rectors are J. C. Brewer, W.G. Broad
hurst, Dr. J. T. Cass, Marion Dick
e~= Dr. W. D. Dorminey, J: J. Dor
\l M. W. Garbutt, M.- G. -Hogan,
, .. A. Holtzenderf, Clayton Jay,
R. E. Lee, J. L. McCarty, J. H. Mil
hollin, Drew W. Paulk, W. T. Paulk,
J. B. Seanor. . Y
The officers and members of the
administrative staff of the. Exchange
National Bank were all re-elected by
the following gentlemen who were
named as directors: Wm. R.Bowen,
J. B. Clements, J. D. Dorminey, J.
H. Dorminey,. E. J. Dorminey, P.. H,
Gaskins, A. J. McDonald, Jacob Mc-
Millan, J. D. McLaughlin, T. S.:Price,.
J. E. Turner, D, B| Ware.
Reports to the shareholders by the
active officers indicated a very suc
cessful year, in spite of stringent fi
nancial conditions locally, nationally
and the world over. &
The meetng was enthusiastic and a
general discussion was entered ‘into
over financial conditions in . foreign
countries, in America and locally, and
the report at length by: the active of
ficers to the shareholders indicated
the activee officers were thorouughly
familiar with the fact of the process
of readjustment, in general finance
and that caution in handling. the.af
fairs of the banK is to.be. practiced. ! .
The institution’s ‘deposits have held
up splendidly at a time when it might
be generally supposed that deposits
would be considerably reduced. £
The officers were able to report to
the shareholders that they had exper
ienced no strain whatever on their res
sources and that, their contiection with
money centers and the Federal Re
serve Bank placed them in position
to take care of their regular deserv
ing patrons in very satisfactory shape
during the present year. ° i
It was brought out that this bank
shows very reasonable indulgence to
its debtors.
Col. Myer Goldberg ‘and- Mr. Harry
Goldberg have returned home from
Metter where they transacted busi~
ness.