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MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
AND FRIDAY
Official Urgan City ot Kitzgerald
A.B.&A. RAILWAY CASE UP TO FEDERAL RAIL LABOR BOARD
RURAL EDUCATORS
State School Experts Address
Men from 8 Counties
ABOUT FIFTY ATTEND
Need for Better Trained Teach
ers Stressed by Speaker
The “Flying Squadron” of the
State Board of Education, headed by
State Superintendent ot Education
M. L. Brittain, met the county super
intendents of education and members
of the county boards of education
from eight of the counties in the dis
trict at the Carnegie Hall Tuesday
morning and held an all day session
in instructing them in the many
ways by which the State and Federal
governments stand ready to assist the
rural schools.
M. L. Brittain Presides
Mr. M. L. Brittain presided dur
ing the sessions, and introduced the
several specialists during the day.
Prof. J. T. Wheeler, representing the
Smith-Hughes fund, explained in de
tail the advantages to . the rural
schools of the help extended by this
federal aid in vocational education in
rural schools. ;
Prof. Aldine Pound, state super
visor and specialist in rural high
school work, presented the impor
tance of at least one central high
school for rural pupils in every coun
ty.
Prof. Walter B. Hill, director of
the schcol extension work among
the colored people, gave an interest
ing explanation of his department,
stressing the economic and human
advantages of assisting the colored
children to a practical education thru
vocational training at the school
houses both for boys and girls.
Need Better Primary Teachers
M. L. Duggan, veteran educator
and superbisor of elementay schools
in Georgia impressed upon his audi
tors the importance of a thorough
preparation in the primary and ele
mentary grades and the necessity for
petter equipped teachers in those
#rades in rural schools. :
. Miss Lane of the G. N. & I. C. of
Nhlled‘geville spoke on Health and
Play, important contributing factors
in successful school life and commun
ity activities.
Entertained by Chamber Commerce
Mr. W. A. Adams. secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce extended
an invitation in behalf of the Cham
ber of Commerce and the County
Board of Education for dinner for
the visiting educators at the Lee-
Grant hotel at 1:30 o’clock. After each
of sixty-odd visitors had been called
upon by Mr. Brittain for their “auto
introduction,” the meeting adjourned
to the dining room at the Lee Grant
where dinner was served .and the
exercises continued.
Prof. Fred E. Land, supervisor of
Rehabilitation work spoke at length
after dinner on this new phase of
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THE LEADER=ENTERPRISE
Sam Willcox To Install Burglar ‘
Alarm For $3,000 Poultry Yard
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CHARCGE ARSON TO
Say Prominent Tift Men Burned
Houses for Insurance
$B,OOO WAS COLLECTED
Confession from N. L. Willis
Follows Arrest of Three
TIFTON, Jan. 26.—An alleged ar
son conspiracy involving one of Tift
county’s prominent families was un
covered. here by confession of one of
the alleged conspirators to Sheriff J.
M. Shaw Saturday morning, follow
ing his arrest on warrants sworn out
by J. A. Sharp, state fire marshall,
Duncan L., Ben P, and Nick L. Wil
lis are the accused. It is charged that
they were responsible for the burning
of four buildings during the last three
months and that collected about $B,-
000 insurance money in all.
According to a confession said to
have been made by Nick L. Willis,
the incendiaries used waste, paper
and kerosene oil to start their fires.
The first was a storehouse on Scuth
Central Avenue. Tifton, on Octobcr
10th. They are said to have collected
$l,lOO insurance on it. Another was
a dwelling house in the Dosia district
of Tift county on October 2. The
proceeds were $1,400 insurance. A
third was a dwelling house in Edge
wood on November 24 on which $l,-
500 was collected.
All the buildings belonged to mem
bers of the alleged “arson ring™ and
the frequency of the fires aroused
suspicion of the insurance companies.
Fire Marshall Sharp had been work
ing on the cases two weeks before he
found evidence to justify swearing
out the warrants. The confession of
N. L. Willis was given voluntarily af
ter his arrest. It is understood that
the insurance companies which are
said to have been swindled by the
alleged firebugs will press criminal
charges in the next term of Tift Su
perior Court.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Shryock of
Wessington Springs, South Dakota.
arrived yesterday to spend a month
or more with relatives in Fitzgerald,
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%+ WHY SHOULD THE CITY +#
%+ INCREASE THE LIBRARY %
%+ APPROPRIATION FOR 1921 %
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% “In the upbuilding of educa- %
% tion, character and good citizen- %
% ship we find our public libraries %
%of incalcuable value and they %
% should have our moral and fin- %
% ancial support second only to %
% our churches,” C. T. Owens, ®
% county demonstration agent and %
% secretary Ben Hill Farm Bureau #
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All Blankets, including Cotton and All Wool ONE-THIRD OFF!
THE EMPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY,
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEORGIA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 :421
Depredations on Chicken Yards
to Cause Proptection for
“Red Ripper” Birds
Is Breeding Thousand Dollar
Pen of Chickens for Spring
Poultry Show Here
To prote’t his $3,000 flock of blood
ed Rhode Island Red chickens, Mr.
G. S. Willcox will instal an electrical
burglar alarm system. Occasional
chicken thefts reported recently have
made it unwise, he states, to leave his
feathered pets without ample protec
tion from thefts.
The burglar alarm system will oper
ate on an electrical circuit. Each
gate to the twelve poultry pens will be
wired so that when the switch is
thrown on, the gates closed, an unin
terrupted circuit will be made. Should
any gate be opened while the switch is
on, the circuit will be broken and an
alarm sounded in Mr. Willcox’s house.
The chickens are all housed in a barn
and pens built in the back yard of his
home on South Grant Street,
“I am not afraid of any poultry
breeder trying to take my fancy poul
try,” said Mr. Willcox, “but I would
hate to think of some negro walking
off with one of my $5O birds and eat
ing it like ordinary chicken.”
Mr. Willcox is breeding a pen of
five hens and one cock which he values
at $l.OOO, for the pen, for his own flock
and will enter the pen in practically
every poultry show in the South this
year. Two of the birds already have
won many prizes. The first show of
the year will be The Ben Hill County
Spring Poultry Show Febuary 19-26
in Fitzgerald He is in charge of ar
arranging for the show. Mr. Willcox
is secretary of the Poultry Breeders
Association and vice president of the
eastern district of the Rhode Island
Red Club of America. Poultry breed
ing has been his hobby for seventeen
years.
Mr. Willcox developed the Red Rip
per strain of Rhode Island Reds him
self during the last seventeen years.
The strain is line bred and has ‘been
unusually successful at poultry shows
all over the South. Mr. Willcox has
sold more show birds than any other
breeder in'the Southern states. His
present flock numbers only about 300
fowls but is said to be one of the
most valuable in Georgia. The “dad
dy” of the whole flock, a handsome
cock that has won prizes for years, is
still heading a pen.
The pens are all carefully selected
to insure breeding true to form. Only
the most nearly perfect specimens
are allowed to breed. Others are sold
to be eaten.
BOX SOCIAL AT ABBA
~ Friends and patrons of the Abba
school are invited to attend a box
social next Friday night at the school
house.
Leader-Enterprise Want Aas Pay. -
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and Drawers
$1.85 Separate Garments, One-Third Off, now $1.23
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$14.00 SHOES, N0w......_..___$ 9.33
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$lO.OO SHOES, Now.____—_____9% 6.67
$ 8.50 SHOES, Now._.__.________s 5.64
“Fitzgerald” on Wheels Repaint
ed and Ready to Ride i
IS CARNIVAL PULLMAN
Chamber of Commerce May As-'
sist Formal Christening |
“Fitzgerald” has a new coat of
paint, is all refinished and refurnished
and built over inside and outside and
is ready to roll from here to Maine
and back before next winter. It cer
tainly does look nice today. {
“Fitzgerald” is the new name for'
one of the big special Pullman cars
of the Veal Brothers Shows, which
open the season in Fitzgerald Feb
ruary 19-26 at the same time that
the Spring Poultry Show will be con
ducted in Fitzgerald. |
The carnival people and Manager
John Veal have taken such a. liking to
Fitzgerald since they first put up
here for the winter in November that
they decided to take a reminder of
Fitzgerald with them wherever they
went and have christened the big
Pullman car which is the home of
about thirty of the players for the
whole season, as “Fitzgerald.” |
No plans have been made for a
formal christening of the long. shiny,l
luxurious home on wheels, but it is
possible that a Chamber of Commerce‘
committee and the officials of the|
Show will hold a ceremony overl
“Fitzgerald” on the eve of its depart
ure from Fitzgerald for the show
season February 26th. The car will
be a splendid advertisement for Fitz
gerald, carrying as it does the enter
tainers in one of America’s highest
class carnivals all over. the United
States. i
The Lon Dickey Tobacco Ware
house is buzzing with activity from
dawn until dark every days now as
the final touches are put to the half
million dollar amusement plant of the
Shows. Troups of entertainers will
begin arriving next weck. |
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“Sings” At Ashton
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And Mystic Planned
Mr. G. C. Ball, president of the Ben
Hill County Singing Association,
stated that the Association would
hold the first of a series of communi
ty singings at Ashton all day Sun
day. The sings beginning Sunday
are preparatory for the annual sing
ing convention in the summer. The
Royal Singing Association’s sing at
Mystic will be held Sunday accord
ing to schedule in the Royal Taber
nacle. A number of Fitzgerald peo
ple are planning to visit both sings
during the day.
Dr. W. A. Newsome and Mr. Arthur
B. Daniels motored to Macon Sunday
and spent the day pleasantly with rel
atives and friends.
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' Will Build College
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Fitzgerald Elder Is on Committee to
Select New College Site
The Primitive Baptists of Georgia
will found' a new college some place
in South Georgia this year and have
practically decided upon Thomasville
as the site for the institution, accord
ing to Elder W. M. Blackwell of Fitz
gerald, one of the committee named to
sclect the site. |
The committee composed of Elder
George D. Goddard, who is also state
school supervisor, Dr. J. T. McAr
thur and Elder R. H. Barwick of Cor
dele, Elder T. E. Sykes of Vidalia
and Elder Blackwell of Fitzgerald,
met in Thomasville Monday. The city
has offered them a city block with
three good college buildings for $25,-
000 and they do not expect to find a
better offer.
The investment in the plant will be
$200,000. Only collegiate courses will
be given at first but a seminary may
be opened later. according to Mr.
Blackwell. The institution will prob
ably be opened by next September.
PREACH ON REVELATION
AT PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
Elder W. B. Screws on Graymont
will deliver a series of four sermons
on the book of Revelations at the
Primitive Baptist church February
7-10, it was stated tpday by Elder W.
M. Blackwell. Elder Screws has
preached here before and is well
known among Fitzgerald church go
ers. :
Mrs. Melvin J. Paulk of Ocilla was
shopping in our city Monday.
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Wauchope To Preach
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Personal Evangelism
Large Crowd Hears Power of Prayer
Sermon at Presbyterian Church
The Presbyterian Church was well
filled with people last night to hear
Evangelist Wauchope discuss “The
Power of Prayer,” the text being
from Isaiah 59, 1,7, 16.
Mr. Wauchope said in part: “This
chapter teaches three things; the
fact that men are dying of spiritual
thirst; that God is the Great Reser
voir of the Water of Life; and that
the Water of Life may flow freely to
thirsty souls, ‘
“Another figure that helps to make
plain’ this condition is that men arc‘
living powerless lives, their eyes arel
blinded with sin, and their hearts are
cold with selfishness. God is the
Great Dynamo full of heat, power and
light, but there is a switch that must
be turned that the connection may be
made between the Dynamo and nién
—and this switch is Prayer, Turn
this switch and there at once flows
into the hearts of men the power to‘
live holy lives, the ability to loye God
and men unselfishly and the know
ledge of eternal truth.”
The subject tonight will be “Pulpit
and Personal Evangelism,” and the
subject for tomorruow night will be
“The Unquenchable Love of God”
All the people of the City are in
vited to attend these services which
begin every f\'ening at 8 o’clock sharp
and close approximately at 9. Ser-—}
vices next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m. Christian Endeavor at 7p. m.‘
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Mr. James L. McCarty returned
this morning from a business trip to;
Atlanta. |
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FITZGERALD COTTON
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Monday Receipts ________None
QUICK DECISIGN IS
Employes Claim Road Violated
the Transportation Act
BUGG IS IN CHICAGO
Left Atlanta Monday, Was Sum
| moned to Testify in Case
! CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Contending
‘that the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railway have vio'ated the
transportation act by posting notices
of wage reductions, employes of that
road presented their case before the
railroad board today. An ecarly de
cision on the matter. which Chair
man R. H. Barton characterized as
“pressing” is expected. 5
E. P. Curtis, vice-president of the
Order of Railway Conductors, briefly
stated the employes’ position, de
claring it was their contention that
in any dispute originated by the car
riers o emplyes, no action be taken
by eithe until after a hearing and
decision as required by the transpor
tation act. He urged that the wage
reduction order be recalled, pending
the hearing. |
B. L. Bugg, president of the road,
said that since the termination of
Federal guaranty the road had been
unable, despite reduction of forces
and all possible economy, to make op
erating expenses and taxes. “Wage
increases since 1917 amount to $2,-
400,000 a year” said Mr. Bugg, “and
we propose to reduce wages one half
of that amount, which approximates
the amount by which we are failing ta
‘meet expenses.”
BUGG ATTENDS
WAGE HEARING
ATLANTA, Jan. 26—C01. B. L.
Bugg, president of the Atlanta, Bir
‘mingham and Atlantic Railroad, left
Atlanta Monday for Chicago in re
sponse to a call from the United
States Wage Board to attend its con
ference Tuesday, when the new wage
reduction issue between employees
and officials of the road will come
up.
The board is expected to come to
a quick decision in the local issue.
Numerous conferences were held in
Atlanta between union officials and
representatives of the road followigg
the road’s announcement in Decem
ber that a general wage reduction on
all its lines amounting to 50 per cent
of all increases granted since 1917
would take place February 1.
Officials to Disregard :,oard
The outcome of the.local meetings
was a declaration by the union offi
cials that the railroad virtually dis
regarded its contracts in taking ac
tion in the wage reduction =matter
without first consulting the United
States Wage Board; and a declara
tion by road officials that the finan
cial condition of the road made such
action necessary, and that the pro
posed reduction would have to take
place regardless of the disposition of
the wage body.
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This Week
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Fast Colored Apron GINGHAM 15¢ yd.
10-4 Unbleached SHEETING.__49¢ yd.
Devonshire Romper CLOTH____4oc yd.
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