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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. | ] 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 I ; - 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, l