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Vol. 2, No. 5.
«i NOSE OUT OF JOINT.”
TRENTON MISSOURI IS OUT
After Exploring the Magic City So
Reads the Verdict *f Mr. Bunn
and his Accomplished Daugh¬
ter, now Residents of
Our City.
Fitzgerald Ga., Dec. 12, 1896.
We, my daughter and myself,
arrived in Fitzgerald, Oct. 22 , at 4:i5
p. m., and was driven to the Kimball
House, in the central part of the city,
and 1 was so disappointed that if I
had been back I never should have
come here. From what I had heard in
the papers, I expected to see a solid
built up city of fine houses, but not
bo with my daughter who had
read so much about the line city,
She did not expect it and was vor y
well pleased.
The next morning we, with a friend,
G. W Martin from Borden, Ind..
with whom we formed acquaintance
on the train, took a carriage and
took in the suburbs, and we were
better pleased arid considerably sur¬
prised to eee ' the improvements
made in 13 months. The city proper
is l^id out 1 3-4 miles squares with 2
central streets or avenues crossing
’ in rtro central of the city, running
through with a double wagon tract
... or ro.u 4 , and park in the central of
■each. Tire business iajnow done out¬
side of the brick limits, being but
few buildings in central part but what
are being built are very nice. The
population of the city said to be f>' 0 tn
4,000 to 6,000 and including Jcoloriy
lauds about 9,000. Building with lum¬
ber can be done very cheap here
’ and still rent is high again
as
as in Trenton. Lumber, iu rough,
can be hid here for S3 per thousand
delivered. Finishing or patent siding
best, ;S'> per thousand and it is beau
tiful,- being all hard pine. They say
posts made of what they call fat wood
Will last 40 years, that is trees that
have died and are fall of rcjihi.^
• of the ‘hailflihgs outside of
the central part are very common.
Some of them are called shacks built
'of rough lumber and not ceiled no.r
plastered, bat many of 'them are
being replaced with fine buildings,
and since the election you. can hear
the hummer had saw in all directions
from morning until night and see
shack buildings moving in all dir
actions. They do not move there as
t itliey do in Trenton. They put under
two long beams one under each side
and fasten each end up to what we
would cal! the hind truck of a wagon
and hitch three or four teams to it
and away they go. I have seen them
moving shacks that way 21 by 40 feet
j and the wheels ride up on top of the
\ ground, though the timber is twice as
heavy as our pine there.
The land is loose hero but it never
gets..muddy even after a three days
rain coming straight down. The land
lays a little rolling, most of it about
like the Peery farm near Trenton,
with a black loam and sand 4 to 10
inches under which is 10 to 15 inches
of what is called pebble subsoil. It is
gravel and clay and under that is a
nard pan clay that holds water but
doe 3 not melt and wash as it does in
Missouri. They never wail their wells
here, they dig down to the clay and
put in wooden curbing and then they
get them bored for 15 cents per foot,
and they stand as if cemented, and
are from 18 to 30 feet deep.
Northern settlers who have been
in this country 6 to 12 and 15 years
say if the farmers would tako the
pains here as they do north and use
stable manure, they can raise from
40 to 60 bushels of corn per sere and
it does not take near the fertilizing
here as it does in Missouri; and last
longer, and yet corn is the poorest
paying crop raised here and sells at
50 cents and SI per bushel.
I -will give the growth of products
and trees that I saw here—ail of last
spring and this summers planting.
In one lot enriched only from the
stabling of one cow he brought with
’ him last spring, Dr. Coe—there are
■ hundreds of others just as good, a
• Hicks mulberry (a switch when set
out in April) 24 feet high (there was
no spreading top to it;) peach trees
only 18 inches high when set out now
6 to 8 feet high, body at ground three
inches through and many peach
buds on them; a fig bush brought
here in .his pocket, 6 inches
.
when set out, has 6 or 8 stems, o
4 feet high, has picked about 100 ripe
jigs and had about as many more
Fitzgerald 4 Enterprise
FITZGERALD, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15tlr, 180 7.
maturing and ripening;
f.ower vines covering a story and a
half house, some of the vines being
100 feet long and he raised two ma¬
tured crops of sweet potatoes, turnip
radishes, cabbages, &c. I saw in
Cotton and Corn exposition building
the largest stalks of corn I
ever saw. I conld not reach first ear
with a four foot lath and some of
them were three inches through at
crown, and carried their size pretty
well to the ear, one stalk being 17
feet and 9 inches high—and other
things in proportion. One man in the
fall exhibited a watermelon vine 220
feet long. The ground does not
produce so well unless fertilized to
start it.
The climate is delightful. We had
three days rain, being a little cold
the last day. Had two or three frosts,
enough to cut the tomato vines but
no freezing yet. Sometimes it
w|ll freeze ice as thick as common
window glass in January. The north
ern people here last summer
suy the sun shines vex - y warm in
July and August but the pressure is
equal all over and does not oppress
you. There are more Michigan and
Indiana people here than from any
other states and they say the heat is
not as bad here as iu their own states
there being a cool breeze all the time.
They worked all summer and when
they got a little hot would get in the
shade and would soon cool oil. There
aas been several days since we came
that the thermometer stood at 85 de¬
grees and yet 1 walked all day with
.my coat on. ana felt reasonably com¬
fortable.
This country is death on catarrh,
rheumatism, throat or kidney disease
if the patients are not too far gone
when coming here. There is some
.jiilious fever here a great many of
tne people coming have to be¬
come aeoiimated. But I belive that
will not bp the ease after the country
is settled and cleared up and I believe
it would be better if all the wells
.vere walled and cemented down five
or six feet to get below the decaying
roots of tne Umber and shut out all
surface water. Of course there are
some, disadvantages. The watjr
•-■»} t\U iSiwj out very warm
when.first drawn from the well, but
Will get cooler after being drawn, up
a?wniic, ana ii set where the breeze
will striae it over night will get much
cooler than the air and about like
•vhqtjcool well water there but it does
not get warm through the day.
Cellars do no good here as it is
warmer in the cellar than in the
oreeze. Butter and milk will keep
sweet longer here than any place or
country I ivki ever in.
Wages are rather iow. Mechanics
get from 31,50 to 32 per day. They
are finishing up the largest and
iine 3 t frame hotel I oyer saw in wood.
It has 108 rooms some are as large
as Trenton Opera House.
The longer I stay here and the
more I see of this country the more
1 am pleased with it and that is the
case with those who have been here
for several years. G. W. Bunn.
Spirited Away.
From composing cases, job presses,
leaden type, and dingy newspaper
rooms and dumped out on one of the
finest “ 5 ’s” in the colony, inside of
tbe city limits. Such was the ex
pea *nce of I. M. Mallory of excur¬
sion fame, Comrade Mallory was
playing the part of “good genius” to
tho Enterprise, giving a lift at job
work, slinging type, etc. when a
special invitation to dinner at tho
home of Lee Rollins was too much
and he yielded and gives the result
as follows:—“I found a fine house,
painted and plastered, a patch of
healthy looking rye, 500 peach and
other trees, and strawberries. We
had for dinner radishes, lettuce and
turnips all fresh from the garden.
And such light biscuit (such as
mother used to make) besides numer
aus other good things. Mr. Rollins
came from Sheldon, Iowa, one year
ago. John Bell of Sheldon, is
ins* Mr. Rollins and is improving his
°
own tract ^ near oy. We were royally ,, ,
entertained and carried back to the
city. Oh yes, grandpa Perkins is
there also and getting well
Mrs. xloilin’s care.”
And that same day Jan. 1897, we
garnished our dinner with spinach
greens and young onions. (Editor.)
A Sur^i Thing foi’ Yon.
A transaction in which yoiioiumot loscisa
sura thing. Biliousues'a, sick thouMund
red tongue, caused fever, by pile:! constipation and a and sluggish
its arc Dundy
liver. Cascarote Cathartic, the
derful new liver .stimulant and intestinal
tonic arc ly all druggists guaranteed to cure
or money refunded. (J. C. C. are a sure
thing. Try a box tn-ilay; 10c., 2.)0 , 50c.
fcUxuplo anil booklet free. Bee our tig ad.
Saloons or no Saloons? That Is
the Question.
With saloons there always has
been, always will be, and we are
sure to have*
1st Wide spread drinking habits.
2nd Degeneration of moral char¬
acter.
3rd Out-breaks of disorder, vio¬
lence and crime.
4th Frequent and costly litigation.
5th Heavy taxes for police and
police court.
6 th Ruin of boys and young men.
7th—Great waste of money for that
which rots the vitals and burns up
the brain.
8 th Consequent robbjry of the
butcher, baker, grocer, dry goods
dealer and other reputabios business
men.
9th Constant impoverishment of
families.
10 th Heavy costs for {He relief of
the poor.
11 th A tempting bait to attract
outside riffraff, as carrion attracts
buzzards.
12th A danger signal^ to warn
away men who value schools, good
order, sobriety and prosperity. In
short, to build tho saloon into the
town is to provide for our- own de¬
struction, as did the man who built
his cabin with hollow logs tilled with
poison.
Real Estate men have brains but
when nice grass began to grow did
they ever bid for settlers or inves¬
tors oy advertising and bragging
over the saloons in the town they
were building?
The saloon is not a drawing card
and they know it. It is the "enemy
of the store, the mechanic shop, the
farm, the family, tho schools and
every good thing. Many Illinois vet
erans are watching to see what kirn*
of a town Fitzgerald is to be as d
termined by the vote on the 22. ’ dou
is to be cursed forever with sal,
we are done with it. We can 'I
our tent near Sodom without
so far. South
B. Warf.
Chillicothe, Ills., Jan’y •
Orders - w%rr | 1
F,rom„*^- ^ . v
General i Order 1 i j Jf j i]
No. 2
In compliance with our by-laws,
the following appointments are? here¬
by made.
Committee on Finance: S. B. Coe,
F. O. Messinger, J. W. McAJee.
Committee on Applications; V. P.
Dillingham, J. W. lJarnell, R. R.
Lombard.
Committee on Hall, I. B. Morse,
H. F. Atherton, W. M. Bliss.
Committee on Relief, Com. W. Ff.
Withey, S. B.’Coe, surgeon. J. W.
McIntosh chaplain.
L. F. Johnson, J. B. Wilson.
Committee on Memorial, Graves,
and Flags: S. Fockler for three yrs.
Committee on Conference: The
Adjutant ex-Officio D. C. Welch,
T. C. Blaisdell.
Committiee on Entertainment: G.
W. Harlan, J. W. Barnell, H. F.
Atherton.
Committee on Greivance; I. H.
Dempsey, V. P. Dillingham, H. S.
Norton,
Committee on Building: H. G.
Taylor, S. B. Coe, I. D. Morse, S.
Fockler, G. E. Whitman.
Color Sergeant; J. R. Green.
The above narae^ comrades are re¬
quested to assume the duties of the
aforesaid committees at once thus
relieving the old committees.
By order of committee.
Official W. H.Withy
G. E. Whitman, Adjt.
Temperance Meeting.
A Union Mass meeting will be held
under the auspices of the W. C. T. U
S n ay evening in the new M. E.
church south.
Program.
Music By the Band.
Ring the bells........Chorus of children.
Flower misson chorus of young ladie.
Recitation....................... Bertha Chovin.
Glasses upside down ............Six boys.
! Music............................ By the Baud -
Duett, Waifs of the city
..............Maud Andrews, LeRoy Miller.
Lecture..................................Rev. Norris.
j dave e0 urage to say no
Solo and Chorus.
Recitation ......Grace Chupell.
Y Bells....... Children’s Chorus
We are Daughters of the King...........
........................................Chorus of Girls.
Everybody invited.
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] Notice.
Ticket No. 248 won our Princeton
Bicycle, The lucky party who pos¬
sesses Ticket 248 should come and
get the wheel.
Savannah Shoe Factory.
Later—Miss Maud McPheters on
Magnolia and Gordon got the Sav¬
annah Shoe Store Bicycle.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
NEWS IN AND AROUND TOWN.
What People Have Been Doing the
Past Week. Things That
Attracted Attention.
Garden time.
Continue to register till the 20 th.
Five National banks failed last
week.
A pool table for sale cheap enquire
at Kimball House.
Mr. DeLee who arrived last week
has a flue ( 20 ) 6 miles out.
Board and Lodging at the Bruns¬
wick Restaurant, reasonable too.
Anything in the pipe or tobacco
line at Fordham’s.
If you don’t get the Enterprise
report to the Editor.
Look out for the program of the
Indiana boys next week.
Remember we deliver anywhere
in the city free of charge. Forhdam’s
Call for Native Herbs at the En¬
terprise office.
Day Board $2.50 per week. E. 8 .
Child, north Main street.
Don’t neglect to get a Boys suit at
McCollum’s while he is selling them
so cheap.
Remember the election is postpon¬
ed until Feb’y. 22
Two tons of salt just received. 65
cents per 100 lb. At Fordham’s .
Fresh lot a t), of tonally candy just
receiy’are. 9. George X. •
Black (Republican), Alvan of hr; r;o.
of Massachusetts. 12. Au,
of Colorado. 13. John It. Tai!<
Edwanl Scofield (Republican), of
of Michigan. .16. Lorrin A.
17. Frank Steunenberg (Democrat),
of Washington. 19. Robert B.
FARMS PAY.
plantation Has Made
Money for the State.
annual report to the gpver- j A S 0 l j
JuaGors of thtbOBUn------—
onnm’nXe that I
TliE JOSEp3RUG CO.
19 lbs of granulated ^Sugar for * 1 ,
at Robinson & Tisdel’a on Ocmulgee.
Remember the Brunswick Restau¬
rant. They board as cheap as any
well regulated Restaurant.
Smoke the celebrated Le Panto
cigar. The beat five cent cigar on the
market.
THE JOSEY DRUG CO
Buy or rent your bicycles of E. II.
Wilkerson, of the Indiana Vehicle
Store.
The Model Steam Laundry i 3 get¬
ting up in the world by adding an¬
other story.
Go to Robinson & Tisdel on Ocmul
gee for Arbuckles Coffee for 20 cents,
and Water ground meal for 15 cents
a peck.
Mr. Kibby brought us a winter rad¬
ish measuring 9 inches in circumfer
once and it was sweet and crisp.
New stock of Fancy Candy just re¬
ceived at Fordham’s. First building
south of Fitzgerald Block.
Just recieved a full line of station
ery at Rock Bottom prices.
The Josey Drug Co.
The IXL grocery has opened a foed
grain and hay store in the rear of the
main building. Call and buy your
feed.
Hotel Dempsey’s bill of fare is
complete—an obliging host and host
ess with everything first-class in
every respect.
Everything we have is new and.
fresh and sells low as tho law allows.
Where? At Fordham’s.
The Firemen’s Ball tonight is a
public benefit the proceeds to equip
our Fire company. Tickets 81.
Rumor talks of Capt. Harlan as
street commissioner also Sigol Smith
as chief of police.
Where do you get the finest pies,
cake and bread? At the Colony
Bakery and baked by E. W. Turner.
We wish to say to our friends that
we are not burned out, but ready to
serve them at the same old stand.
THE JOSEY DRUG CO.
Call and see our line of goods, they
are all new and fresh, at Ritchey,s,
old stand on Grant street.
Fred Bingham has the contract
for the brick block to be erected by
Boyd, Jones and Pelkey and will
begin work as soon as brick and
lumber can be secured on Grant and
Central opposite the Fitzgerald block.
J. M. Mallorys business house on
Grant st. is for rent, cheap.
Did you notice the chic appearance
of Ritchie’s now building on Grant.
Anyway Mr Robinson came home
more than ever satisfied with Fitz¬
gerald.
Central Cigar Factory started up
last Monday over tho Central Cigar
Store on Grant.
Old papers for sale at this oflice
at 20 cents per hundred.
City Recorder Flemming has a sis¬
ter and family, Mrs. Ballard, from
DeQuoin, visiting him.
Mrs. Addie Douglass and son re¬
turned Sunday from a ten weeks vis¬
it in New York.
If you do not recleve the Enterprise
report to Mrs. Hall in the Enterprise
oflice.
A new firm will soon open up next
to Price’s store on Pine, a grocery
firm under the name of Holtzendorf
and Raney.
The South is asking for a protec¬
tion tariff on rice, sugar, lumber and
cotton.
Just notice, how those who adver¬
tise iu the Enterprise are kept
busy waiting upon customers.
The fragrance of tuberoso from
its pure white flower upon our table
and new peas for breakfast Jan. 8 th
1897.
The sound of the hammer and
saw is heafd every where in the city
even away out in the suburbs yes on
6 *
Experienced dressmaker would
like engagements to sew in families,
Mrs. Cool corner of Suwanee and
Lee or Box 353, city, J
OyCall at the Central cigar store for
To cigars and tobacco of ail kinds
(F.. and Co Grant st..
X
AS sss relating to the Enter
remember that Nettie G.
_Je proprietor . xl no one
interest or/lcontrol ‘
CAROLINA N. 8
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continuing ; /g on Saturday*" Sabbath. at v' h p. m.,
over
Rev. J. J. Lohr, Pastor.
Scott and Reynard are putting up
a 40x100 building on Grant and Cen¬
tral—lower rooms, stores, upper
rooms hotel.
The pleasent kindly faces of Mr. and
Mrs. Tompkin and wife of Oklahoma
city broke in upon our routine office
work this week.
We are glad to welcome all such to
our city.
Sign. Marchecclla now located In
Fayetteville Ark. one of the finest
violinists and music teachers west
of the Miss, is negotiating for a tract
of land with the intention of locating
here.
Lutheran services in the south
Methodist church on west Oconee
street, every Sunday at 2:30 p. m.
Evervbody is invited to atttond.
We will soon have another lot of
the International stock feed to re
place one lost by the fire.
II. N. Fordham.
Christian Science services every
Sun da}’ at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
in Odd Fellow’s hall over McCollum’s
Sunday school immediately after the
morning services. All are invited.
Episcopal Church services on all
Sundays, except the second in each
month at 10:30 a. in. and 7 p. m.
Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. Morn¬
ing prayer on the first Sunday in
each month at 9 p. m.
The registration books will be open
from Jan’y. 14 to 20. Walk up and
register and show your appreciation
of the soverignity of the people —
(men-people.)
Lost at the fire 2 comforts, one
worsted and one calico quilt, one
sheet and pillow with my name on,
one high-back new cane-bottom din¬
ing room chair, one umbrella and
one canvas top cot. Leave at IXL
store. G. W. Bunn.
We have carefully laid away among
other relics for our twin grand¬
children the first copy ol the first
message of our first mayor of Fitz¬
gerald. Speaking of twins reminds
us that some gentlemen will persist
in complimenting us with the title of
“Miss Nettie.” We deny the charge
Just simply a staid old grandmother.
Brunswick Restaurant.
We Board and Lodge as cheap
as any one. Try us, first-class
Table Board too.
Brunners Brop’s.
$1 Per Year
J. HoMarkwell of fcbo North west
Georgia ltoal Estate Investment Co.
is visiting our city. He hails from
Oklahoma city Ok. and is a property
owner here.
Mr. Banner foels more at home
now that his old friend I)r. Griffin
and family of seven have arrived
from Medosia Ills 1 The Dr will locate
upon his.40 acre tract.
Rev. George Taylor, colored, while
holding services Sabbath evening
narrowly escaped losing his home
and all its contents. The impression
seems to prevail that it was set. Some
bedding was destroyed..
There are places where local sen¬
timent is opposed to the law against
moonsbining and yet Uncle Sam goes
right ahead and enforces the law.
15,000 hungry men women and
children were fed by the Salvation
Army Christmas in Philidelphia alone.
Just notice the smile lighting up
‘Harrys’ face, “brother’s here”, For¬
rest Kabrieh from Lagrange Ind.,
who will help him to hold down the
two offices.”
The cheapest 40 acre tract in Irwin
county, 35 acres under cultivation,
fenced, lays fine, soil of the best
quality, 5 miles of the city, at a big
bargain. Inquire of Dillingham &
Hartman.
The ex-Oonfederato soldiers are
urged to prepare on Gen’l Lee’s
birthday Jan. 19, to send delegates
to the reunion at Nashville May 6 ,
6 , and 7.
Abbeville ordinarily is suppose to
be a live town, but Landlord Demp¬
sey who has just returned from there
says it seemed dead compared to
our city.
A Colonist with wife and five
children arrived last week. The
father bad $453 rolled up in a paper
and handkerchief and while asleep
some one took It from his hip pocket.
Moral—never use your hip pocket
for a pocket book. E. S. Childs has
the family in his home at present.
bL just returned irom^a trip to the
Dr. Manner’s boom town,Baldwin, In
North Georgia and reports times
harder than here. Produce all cheap
you can get no price . for what yon
raise, the country rough and moun
tainous. The only good feature
was mountain springs but it would
be rather slim living to exist on that
alone.
Druggist Goodman is building on
his old stand—Paulk ditto. Mr.
Burkhart on Grant, Mr. Buice on
Pine, Williams Son &Co., are at
home in the old place in anew house,
and—and, well there are so many new
buildings going up wo just catch our
breath and stop counting.
Several pleasing exercises attended
the installation of tho W. R..C. of¬
ficers last Tuesday, for instance the
presentation to Mrs; Dempsey of a
sett of silver knives and forks and
an artistic lamp shade to Mrs. Mes¬
senger and Mrs. Rollins. The latter
entertainingly recited, “tb6 little
brown button. The whole installa¬
tion was very creditable to the ladies
The comrades encouraged them by
their presence and remarks from
some.
An all day prayer meeting will be
held under tho auspices of the W.
C. T. U. Friday, Jan. 22 at the M. E. •
church.
9 to 10—Rev. J. J. Lohr.
10 to 11—Rev. Norris.
11 to 12—Rev. Millington.
1 to 2 —Christian minister..
2 to 3--Rev. Glenn.
3 to 4—Prof. Becker.
4 to 5—Rev. McIntosh.
6 to 6 —Mrs. McIntosh.
Each minister Belect his own «ab
ject.
Tuesday the 19 is General Lee’s
birthday, made a legal day in Geor¬
gia, consequently the election will be
postponed till Friday the 22 nd. The
registration will continue from 18 to
20 .
Ladles of the G. A. R.
"Logan Circle No. 1, meets every
Thursday at 2 p. m. in the G. A. R.
Hall on Pine ave.
TreaSi Agnes E. Allen.
Emma Peiper Sec.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Aw*y.
If you want bemadevvcll.strong. to quit tobacco using magnetic, easily
and forever,
lull wonder-worker, of new lifeaud vigor, that makes taka No-To-Bac, weak
the men.
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten of days.
Over 400,000 cured. Buy No-To-Bao your
druggist, under guarantee to cure, 50c or
11.00. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York,
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