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ORGANIZE--BARRETT
‘Farmers’ Union President Ad
dresses Crowd in Ocilla
BEN HILL MEN THERE
“Uncle Bill” Tankersly Presides
at Irwin Meeting {
OCILLA, Jan. 24—" Every other
trade and profession in America isl
strongly organized and the farmers
must have a powerful organization of
their very own if they are to get their
fair share of what they produce, “de
clared the Hon Charles S. Barrett,
national president of the Famers Un
ion and the recognized “first farmer”
of the world, in his address to an en
thusiastic audience at Irwin county
court house Saturday afternoon.
Tankersly Compliments Speaker.
“Uncle Bill' Tankersly, Irwin Coun
ty’s representative fo the legislature.
and an ardent supporter of Mr. Bar
rett, presided at the meeting and in
troduced Mr, Barrett. J. H. Mills,
state pesident of the Union, was pres
ent but did not speak. Mr. Tankersly
declared that Mr. Barrett was a man
‘who had really been the farmer’s friend
‘through thick and thin through the
more than twenty years he had been
«connected with the Farmer’s Union.
“And if we had’ been as faithful to
Char}ie Barrett as Charlie Barrett has
been to us, we would be a lot better off
to-day,” declared Mr. Tankersly. The
-audience cheered with enthusiasm.
Mr. Barrett talked in a friendly
personal way he has that draws his
hearers close to him and makes his
‘words strike home. He repeated the
‘declaration he has made, and fulfilled,
ever since he has been connected with
the Farmer’s Union, that he is not
getting ready to run for office. He
stated that he had been offered port
folio of secretary of agriculture by
President Roosvelt and that Thomas
E. Watson had begged him to run for
the United States Senate in his stead.
- “T’'ve got the biggest office I know
of,” declared Mr. Barrett, “and it will
‘iatymc tiia rest of my life to repay the
farmers with my best work for what
they have done for me during the
seventeen years they have made me
president of the Farmer’s Union.”
Farmer’s Union Not Dead
Mr. Barrett scouted the idea that
the Farmer’s Union was “dead or in
danger of dying.” -He stated that in
£ 1920 the Union had transacted more
'business than ever before in-its history
The total is around $800,000,000.
Mr. Barrett urged on his hearers the
the absolute necessity of farmers being
organized for their own business. He
fla‘yed them good-humoredly for
their failure to protect themselves.
The business men, the lawyer, the phy
icians, the newspapers, labor. and all
other clas ‘,‘are organized for their
own welfare. Mr. Barrett pointed out,
and the only way the farmer can pro
tect himself and be sure of getting
what is his, is to organize and go after
it
Mr. Barrett left immediately after
the meeting for Wray where he took
the A. B. and A. for Waycross. He is
spending a few days in Florida after
which he W_ilill return to Washington
for the -purpose it is understood, of
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‘= wost warytug perhaps is facing
s barttery of moving picture
ameramen who “grind’ out every
haracteristie at every, turn.
t'ormer Senator John W~ Weeks
of Massachusetts, who. it is
thought, will be offered fhe port
folio of navy. paid the p nalty in
a 4 recent trip (¢ Washirgton, as
thown here
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Union Singing At
Mystic Next Sunday
Sacred Song Writers Will Be Special
Attraction of Sing
The first of a series of singing coni
ventions to be called from time to
time this year, will be the Union
Singing at the Royal Tabernacle at
Mystic next Sunday, January 30th,
Prof. and Mrs. R. N. Gresham, noted
sacred song writers of Greenville, S.
C., will sing several special numbers
of the Union Song Book Company
will also be present.
All singers and lovers of song of
Irwin, Ben Hill and surrounding
counties, are invited - to- -attend ~amd
being their dinners. Dinner will be
served from baskets under the trees.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Percy Manning had
as their guests Saturday at thei home
on South Main Street Mr. and Mrs.
Hollie B. Chestnut of Occilla. 5
getting some action out of the recent
ly revived War Finance Corporation.
Among those from Fitzgerald pres
ent at the meecting were Judge T. J.
Luke, A. J. Swords, chairman of the
Fitzgerald farm bureau council, T. V.
Swords, Drew Swords, Editor I. Gel
dors, Stewart F. Gelders, and others.
Mr. Mills spent Saturday evening in
Fitzgerald, going from here to Macon,
He came to Fitzgerald with Mr.
Swords.
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FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEORGIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24. 1921
Ben Hill ounty Sunday School
Association to Convene
STATE OFFICERS SPEAK
Meeting Set for February 7-8;
No Limit on Delegates
The Ben Hill Sunday School Assoc
iation will hold its annual convention
at Fitzgerald in the First Baptist
Church on Monday and Tuesday, Feb
uary 7 and 8, and the Sunday Schools
of all denominations in our county are
invited to send delegates.
A strong program dealing with all
departments of modern Sunday School
work has been prepared. Mr. R. D.
Webb, General Superintendant of the
Georgia Sunday School Association is
expected to attend this Convention.
With Mr. Webb will be Miss Daisy
Mcgee, Children’s Division Superen
tendent, and Miss Flora Davis, Adult
Division Superintendent, of the
Georgia Sunday School Association.
In order that no Sunday School
worker may be deprived of the privi
lige of attending this Convention, no
limit will be set on the number of del
agates who may attend from any Sun
day School, All will be welcome.
Information regarding the Conven
tion may be secured from the Presi
dent,Mr. J. H. Burke. or the Secretary,
Mr. Burr Stokoe. or from the General
Superintendent of Georgia Sunday
School Association, 917 Hurt Building,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Elks Club To Stage
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‘ Amateur Minstrels
Local Club Has Engaged Expert Di
~ rector; Show Is February 14.
~ Lovers of the old time Minstrel
‘Shows have a real treat in store for
?thcm, for on February 14th, the local
%Lodge of Elks will stage a big min
strel show in a large tent theatre
‘which they have leased for that night.
i'ljhe big tent has a seating capacity
for over 1500 people and no doubt it
will be packed.
i The Elks have engaged Mr. Jack
iSpellman, a former Al G. Field Min
'strel man, to direct and produce the
big show for them. Fitzgerald’s best
‘talent will take part and make the bc
‘casion a gala event. The Elks in their
usual unselfish way have decided to
‘donate a part of the receipts to the
Carnegie Library and this makes it
doubly interesting to those wishing
to attend. The admission will be One
Dollar and ten cents extra for War
A, g
This is the first attempt of anything
like this for the Elks but success is
assured for the cause is a good one
and a first class performance will be
given by Fitzgerald’s “Finest”. Fur
ther announcements will be mfade
later.
Mr. F. H. Shyrock, of South Da
kota is wisiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. W. Shyrock on West Allap
aha.
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and Drawers
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$14.00 SHOES, Now___.________s 9.33
$12.50 SHOES, N0W...._......$ 833
$lO.OO SHOES, Now.__._...____s 6.67
$ 8.50 SHOES, Nov?__-_-__-____s 5,64
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al s the fighter who *“gets his
price’s tor doing the job. Benny
Leonard. lightweight champion
knocks ‘em out as fast as they
come His knockout of Richie
Mitchell in the sixth round at New
York recently——after himnself hav
ing been dropped in the first
round—marks him as the cham
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RECREATION CENTER
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Managers Decide on Campaign
at Sunday Meeting
BOXING MATCH TONIGHT‘
Will Install Basketball and Vol-
L leyball Courts Soon
’ The Young Men’s Recreation Cen
ter will launch a drive for new mem
bers this weck, it was decided at the
meeting yesterday afternoon of the
Board of Managers at the rooms of
the Center on South Grant street.
Each member will be given a stated
number of months’ membership free
,fur a stated number of new members,
The Buckalew-Norton boxing bout
tonight at 8 o'clock is expected to
draw a large crowd. Mr. W.. T.
Nipper, who is in charge of the con
test, has laid ou a regulation ring in
the rgoms and all preliminaries to
the bout have been ‘settled. Admis
sion is free to all boys and men over
sixteen years of age. 2
The board of managers decided at
the Sunday meeting to put up their
basketball and volleyball courts off
the vacant lots next to the White
Swan Laundry. The courts will be
open sometime this week and a reg
ular schedule of games between
teams composed of members will be
played.
Reports to the board of managers
yesterday by Mr. A. G. Brown, who
is directing preliminary arrange
ments for the Fathers and Sons ban
quet next month, were that the assist
ant secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
would be one of the speakers. The
ladies Aid Society of the First Meth
odist Church or some other organi
zaton of ladies will prepare and serve
the banquet.
Mrs. H. DeVald will be back the
Ist of February to take up her work
again. She has been in Florida spend
ing a few weeks with home folks.
Misses and Childrens Shoes
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GERSHON’S APPEAL
MEETS RESPONSE
Fitzgerald People Give to Aid
Starving Polish Babes
$55 WAS RAISED TODAY
Leader-Enterprise to Continue
Taking Donations
Moved by the appeal from S. Ger
shon, of Atlanta, who will go to Po
land in March as representative of
the Kobriner Relief Committee, fifty
dollars had been raised this morning
for the relief of the starving Poles
and the subscription list is rapidly
growing. :
Mr. Gershon, who was in Fitzger
ald last week putting his business in
terests here in condition for leaving
them for several months, represent
ed th Kobriner Committee in Poland
all last summer and accepted the post
again for this year. In an interview
with a reporter he gave graphic de
scription of the horrible state of af
fairs in devastated Poland as it was |
last year. He stated that letters from
officials there now declare it to be
even worse since the Bolsheviki had
pried the lid off of hell.
“What the Poles lett to these poor
people, the Bolsheviki carried away,”‘
said Mr. Gershon. “With first the
Great War and then the Red and the
White terrors burning across their
farm and fields, these people have
‘been unable to harvest a crop in six
‘ycars_and have been dependent on the‘
charity of other nations, on the char
ity of America, the only nation that
is in position to give.” |
Gifts fo the Polish Relief Fund are
being taken by the Leader-Enterprise
and by Mr. Gershon’s business part
ner, A. Kruger. They will be sent
{to him ot 212 Washington St.,, Atlan
‘ta, to be administered personally
jwhen he returns to Poland for the
[l\'ohrincr Committee in March. No
| “drive” has been organized hut it is
{cxpcctcd that several hundred dotfars
Iwill be raised through volunt- g"'lgi‘h :
I'l‘hosc whose subscriptions had been
received this morning by either A.
Kruger or the Leader-Enterprise are
as follows:
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Lol ol L 85
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Sinien “Moore ... .. .88
M: Cotthieh ... . .85 .
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Sam Abram b oni 085
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Driods ] Halle oo 28]
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’ Miss Belle Glover________sl.
Marvin McDonald _______sl.
George Davige e og])
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F. & A. M. NOTICE
Pine Level Lodge No. 353 will hold
a regular ommunication Monday ev
ening; January 24th, 8 o’clock. The
F. C. Degree will be conferred. All
members requested to attend. Vis
itors welcome. !
DAVID L. PAULK. W. M.
J. W. PEARSON, Sec.
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$1.90 Quality One-Third Off, Now__________sl.27
$2.15 Quality One-Third Off, Now__________sl.43
Misses and Childrens Shoes
ONE-THIRD OFF
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$3.00 SHOES, Now-_____________s2.oo
$2.50 SHOES, Now.__________.__sl.67
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Mrs H H MecClure of Kansas
City. Mo., ia the first woman ever
to deliver the electoral vote of a
state to the vice president She
s shown here in Washiugton after
feivering her state' Harding
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County Educators To i
Meet Here Tomorrowi
M. L. Brittain Will Speak to School |
Men from Adjacent Counties l
Plans have been completed for the
convention here Tuesday of County'
school superintendents and members
f boards of education from Ben Hill(
Wilcox, Turner, Coffee, Telfair, and
Irwin counties. On the program are
'State Superintendent M. L. Brittain
‘and members of the corps of supervi-|
)sor and specialists of the state depart
imcnt of education. 800
Matters of general interest in rural
education will be discussed and efforts
made to sdeure a larger degree of lo
opcmtinn’e‘. ween local boards and
the state board ‘of ‘¢ducation. Mem
!l)crs of the 'loeal public school facul
ty have been invited to attend the
| conference.
: All the visitors will be the guests
of the Fitzgerald Chamber of Com
merce at luncheon at a local hoftel.
The sessions of the conference will
be at Carnegie Hall morning and afl
ternoon. 3
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY TO
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
The Hospital Auxiliary will meet
in the Woman’s Club rooms at Car
negie Hall, Wednesday, January 26,
at 3:30 o’clock. The election of offi
cers will be held after an interesting
program and followed by a social‘
half hour. All members and those
interested in the work are urged to
be present.
BOTTLING PLANT
' CHANGES HANDS
DOUGLAS, Jan. 24—J. E. Chap
pell, owner of the Chero-Ccla bottling
works, has sold his business to Day
Brothers of Douglas, who have taken
charge of the plant. Day Brothers.
will add some additional equipment to
the plant. Mr. Chappell, for the pres
ent, will look after his farming inter
ests in Coffee county and may at
sometime in the future go into other
business in Douglas.
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Men’s Neckwear
$3.00 Neckwear, Less One-Third, Now______s2.oo
$2.50 Neckwear, Less One-Third, Now______sl.67
$2.00 Neckwear, Less One-Third, Now______sl.33
$1.50 Neckwear, Less One-Third, Now__.___sl.oo =
$l.OO Neckwear, Less One-Third, Now________67¢c =
75¢ Neckwear, Less One-Third, Now________soc
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Monday Receipts -~------None_
AT D.S.C. CEREMONY
Union Service at Rochelle Church
for World War Hero
MEDAL WAS A SURPRISE
Fitzgerald Veterans Speak in
Presentation Ceremony
ROCHELLE, Jan. 24—Some thir
ty-odd Fitzgerald members of the
Legion, together with their wives and
friends, attended the patriotic services
at the Baptist Church in Rochelle
Sunday morning when the Disting
uished Service Cross was presentéd
Walter A, Holt, a citizen of the town.
A union service was held which
brought every citizen of Rochelle and
the surrounding country, and the oc
casion poved to be one that will be
long remembered by those who wit
;n('sscd it and heard the testimonials
[of the men of Mr. Holt’s company,
A quiet and exceedingly industrious
l_\'mmg man, Mr. Holt had never told
{his experience, and the citation came
{as a distinct surprise to even his clos
i est friends.
The chancel was transformed into
a bower of beauty by the use of bunt
ing, flags, palms, ferns, giant potted
caladiums, and red and white blos
soms, japonicas, narcissi, and poin
settas. Mr. Holt was escorted to a
seat of honor by veterans of the In
dian War, the War between the
States, and the Spanish-American
War. :
After prayer and patriotic music,
the initial speech was made by Dr.
J. L. Frazer, who declared he was
proud to be an American. “We nev
er realized we had a country untill it
got in trouble,” said Dr. Frazier, and
refered to the book by Edward Ever
‘ette Hale, “The Man Without a Coun
try.” But the most beautiful thing in
\the world to me,” he said. “Was the
iStatuc of Liberty as our transport,
.ln'inging us home, steamed into New
' York harbor,” :
Captain Emory Wilcox, of Mr.
Holt's company, then told of the cir
cumstances that led up the event which
brought Mr. Holt his recognition for
bravery. Citizens of the town, led by
Mayor Blackshear, then paid tribute
to Mr. Holt as a home man, Mr. Roy
Adams closing the ceremony by read
ing the citation and presenting the
Cross.
The most beautifill hospitality was
shown the Fitzgerald delegation, ev
ery one being taken into the hospit
able homes of Rochelle for an elabo
rate dinner, Included in the party
were Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Frazier, Dr.
and Mrs. J. M. Luke, Dr. and Mrs.
R. M. Ware, Mr. anl Mrs. Lon Dickey,
Rufus Smith, Wallace Smith, Colonel
Norman, Emory Wilcox, Cleon How
ell, Roy Adams, Bob Prentiss, Dean
Hopkins, Ray Frey, S. G. Pryor Jt,
Jarrett Pryor, Will Adams. Homer
Adams, Claude Strickland, and many
others. -
HOTEL AT DOUGLAS LEASED
DOUGLAS, Jan. 24—Dixon and
Hutchinson, of Abbeville, have leased
the Central Hotel which they will
operate as the Commercial Hotel
hereafter on the European plan.
Speciat Prices for
This Week
Best Yard Wide Sea Island______l2¢c yd.
Fast Colored Apron GINGHAM 15¢ yd.
10-4 Unbleached SHEETING.__49¢ yd.
Devonshire Romper CLOTH..__4Oc yd.
Mail Orders
Promptly filled
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