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ie Company Was Organ
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Wednesday,
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uring COMPANY.”
Persuant a call published in these
iloums last week ^he business men
| the community met Wednesday
jrning in room one of the Bowen
|ck to discuss the proposition to
Bd a cotton factory at this place.
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[r. Cuyler and Smith, the of meeting Atlanta, such was
pent [rmation gave
[cost as they required as to
I of different size mills; the
of operation; the different pro
Ds their markets, etc.
Isoon became apparent that the
lie of the county wanted a
njrrfttili BwereVlected here and temporary tbe preliman- offi
and
Hpork B is now being pushed by the
progressive and practical busi
Imen in the community. It was
light out at the meeting that the
piers would be the greatest bene
zJti* ' and that the small mills all
jbe f t) Vcountry are owned largely
; .rmers. It was distinctly
wrllbod this is to be an Irwin
ty institution and not strictly a
[erald company, The Enter
is glad to see this matter take
h and will use its best influence
Ie Ib'iung advancement of the project.
Thomases had as well go
e their heads off at once for we
build the mill.
THE LEGISLATURE.
■sday, Nov. I 61 J 1 ,
jj in house consumed most of its
deciding that the Willingham
[rohibilion Ll bill should be the
order for Tuesday.
DOG BILL PASSED.
rest of the day.s session was
d to a discussion of the dog
Introduced bf- Mr. Dews, of
blph, If wbiafS was passed by a
124 to#.
I measure provides for a tax on
>gs of four months of age or
in this state.
e bill imposes an annual tax of
1 on male dogs and $1.50 on fe
e dogs of four months or more.
dogs must be registered with
^ordinary 2 >d shall of the issue county brass who, checks It
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•e 'worn by the dogs so registered.
Jlto VIdogs found without such .checks
be put to death. f,
lid senate^ passed which had the previous- Nesbitt
labor bill,
defeated and then recon
flered. There was considerable de
over the bill which was ably
mpioned by the author and other
nbers.
le speer bill providing for
tion of the members of the state
oad commission, which was
ly passed by the house,
d. Very properly.
iday.
e house of representatives
i^AIed Vjl a proposition that speeches that body
listen to tho on
suffrage to be delivered on
Ǥ Wkyening of Hie S 8 tb. The mem
w e £ e Willing tq ailqw the u ie qf
tfie iqdies but they de
i k UABDWIGK BILL PLACED.
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in motion of Mr. Hardwick, of
ington, his bill relating to bal
■eform, was made the special
for Tuesday, November 28,
the reading of tbe journal.
ie senate among othar local
following were passed:
IWIN COUNTY MEASURES .
[Wilcox—To provide for the
\bl legal cost to the county
■Irwin county,
senator—To fix the
&|BUbf jur;es and bailiffs
wbat eompensa
in the iaiUMj- WU
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FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1899.
Saturday’* session of the house
was devoted principally to the read¬
ing of bills for the second time find
to the passage of local measures.
Monday.
Tho members had not returned
from tao^ie and the house and sen¬
ate did but little business of impor¬
tance.
Tuesday was devoted to the dis¬
cussion of the prohibition bill.
Wednesday.
Tbe house passed the prohibition
bill by a vote of 93 to 65.
The senate transacted but little
business of importance.
The Same.Iu Ohio As In Georsin.
Bellefontaine, O., November 19.—
There was a sequel to the West Liber¬
ty whitecapping cases early this morn¬
ing, when a mob tore down the
large livery barn of Edward Jacksoa
and turned the horses loose. Jackson
was one of the trio, consisting of two
negro men and a white woman, Jack¬
son’s daughter-in-law, taken from the
West Liberty jail early Saturday
morning and tarred and feathered and
run out of town. The trio came to city
where Nell Jackson, who was severely
beaten, lies critically ill, the result of
internal injuries. Jackson, is nearly
blind from vitriol thrown in hts eyes.
Far Sew Fields.
The T& N. E depot on yesterday
presented a busy appearance. There
were “coons” of all ages, sizes and
conditions leaving. They were tho
turpentine hands from Robystch's
still going to Alabama, their new lo¬
cation and of Gasque, Fla. About
one hundred tickets were sold by
Mr. Griffin, and two special coaches
brought here for their transportation
They were a happy jolly crowd while
waiting for the departure of the
train they enjoyed a cake walk while
one Of their number twanged the
faithful old banjo. They all po
ssesed their babies, one to two dogs
and a gun. More will leave at an
early date.
A $200,000,000 trust will control the
manufacture of automobiles in this
country, With that much capital in¬
volved in their manufacture, even at
high prices they ought to become
quite common, and if Commissioner
Henderson keeps up tbe good work
on Irwin county roads this will be an
ideal country for their use.
Prof. Jas. T. Saunders has been
elected to the superintendenvy of the
Cordele schools. He was several
months principal, but on the resig¬
nation of Supfc. Prentiss last week
Prof Saunders was unanimously elec¬
ted to fill the vacancy. Prof. Saun¬
ders Fi'zgerald friends are pleased
to hear of his promotion.
L. O. Tisdel the progressive young
groeeryman on Ocmulgee, has treat¬
ed his store to a late style of counter
scales with all modern appliances
imaginable and a new-fangled oil
pum o tbat registers everything from a
pint on up besides a lot more articles
never before beheld in an oil tank.
O! .
Ocilia!
You little hussy!
If you weren’t so little and cute
we’d call you real hard names. Put
your pest bouse out on the Fitzger¬
ald road eb? And so close to the
roadu-ugh. A sure enough pest house
stocked with “Hanlop’s Itch” too,
well that do settle it,
Lets tar and feather the first man
who says we won’t bsild the ootton
factory. Tbe Enterprise will no a
half dozen of a dozen good men who
will undertake the job.
Adfniral Dewy is in hot water. He
ought to go to sea at once. The trans¬
fer of his borne has displeased tbe
public and this displeasure has dis¬
gusted tbe Admiral.
Editor Tison of tbe Riohlaud Ban¬
ner pays the Etnerprise this compli¬
ment:
The Fitzgerald Enterprise, edited
and published by J E' Mercer, has
reached our exchange table, and it Is
a welcome addition to our list of ex
changes. Bro. Mercer is a good
newspaper man and a lucky fellow,
as his paper is a seven quarto and it
is filled with interesting news and
editorals and attractive advertise¬
ments.
k SwliceJ
The following warrants are payable
«t Hie City T''easqref’s office on apfl
after the date of ibis nqtice:
Sanitary, No. 1491; Fire Department,
N , ( . y 379f 1393 ; School, No. ftOO, 302,
25)( gog, 339 . 920 , 31?. SJff, i} 2 f, 327;
p„Uce, No. 1426, 1546, 1539, J 6 S} 8 , 3638,
1031, 1032, 1693, 3694, 1395, 3545;
No. 1420. 1458, 1457, 1501, 1498, 1500,
1490, 3556, 3557, J558; Contingent, No.
1384, 1408, 1409, H03, 1353, 1434, J477,
1475,1478,1479, 1511 1523, 1524, *1527,
1528; Rent, No. 1027; Printing and
Stationery, No. 1381, 1382, 1422,
Salary, No. 1515, 1516, 1637, 1638. 1698
Water ai d Light. No. 1692, 1613, 1081.
1735, 172J, 1705, 1718, 1732, 1722, 1769,
1768, 1723, 1773, 1778, 1774, 1598,
1782, 1785, 1662, 1720 1770.
November 24th, 1899.
T. D. Rom. Citv
l’ROF. W. M. SCOTT WAS HERE.
Gave n Short Talk at the Meeting of
Fruit Growers’ pud Shippers*
Association Last Tuesday.
Last Tuesday afternoon Prof. W.
M. Scott, state entomologists, was
Introduced to the Shippers andGrow
ers Association, in session at Colony
Headquarters, where he gave a very
plain, instructive talk and show¬
ed that he understands his business.
We submit a few extiacts from his
many practical suggestions.
“I have looked at some of your
trees and find the San Jose Scale,
that most dangerous of all insects
for orchard trees. * * What you
need to know most is how to treat
them so as to hold the “scale” in
check or keep it under control. The
“scale’’ is quite well developed all
over Irwin, Berrien, Worth and Mit¬
chell counties. It is all over Geor¬
gia but worse here in the section of
Irwin, Berrien and Worth, also bad
at Cyclonetta. The “scale” is the
most' dangerous pest to fight, and
you have got to fight it or give up
fruit growing. For instance in Lawer
ence county the Hughes Company of
Fruit Growers was organized putting
out 90,000 trees, dividing them up in¬
to twenty-five acre lots. The trees
were bought from different nurser¬
ies. One 25 acre lot was put out in
trees bought from Way cross which
had the “scale,” You people got it
from Waycross also. In four years
tbe most of tbe 90,000 trees were dead
They knew nothing about how to
treat the trees and let them die. In
five years the whole orchard was dug
up and burnt, It broke the cos^any.
You can’t keep your trees clear of
the “scale” but you can keep it un¬
der control. I reccommended the
kerosene treatment last year with 25
per cent of kerosene; this year am
reccommending a 20 per cent solu¬
tion. If the weather conditions are
not just right a 25 per cent mixture
would injure the tree. r f the day
was damp the oil would not evapor¬
ate rapidly and the tree would ab¬
sorb the oil and then it would injure
the tree. •
The application should be made as
soon asthe trees drop their foliage.
You will get better results from sever¬
al applications with water than from
a 50 per cent solution. This is the
best general remedy until we find
something better. Gil and water
will not mix; it soon separates, con¬
sequently we must have a mechani¬
cal mixture.
The sprays can be bought from the
Deming Co , Salem, Ohio, They
have different kinds of sprays. The
large orchard sprayer is with a bar¬
rel which you drive between the rows.
They have had a monopoly until re¬
cently the Gould Manufacturing Co.,
of Seneca Falls, N. Y., put on the
market a barrel sprayer. The Gould
pump is better than the Deming
pump. The Peming hucket and
knapsadk spray works al{ right but
their barrel pump is not reliable; you
can’t depend on the percentage of
kerosene; is very troublesome to reg¬
ulate the oil.
The Kerosene sprayer ean be used
the same as the bordeau for ordinary
work. The kerosene spray is a force
pump worked by a lever.
If not too strong, potash is a good
insecticide and tones up a tree gen¬
erally. Whale oil soap is used ex¬
tensively in cleaning up a tree, but
for general purposes reppommend the
Kerosepe.
With whale oil soap you must
make more applications and is more
expensive. Wir.le oil soap ean be
bought from James Goode, Pbifidel
phja. It nourishes inseoticide. the tree as well lb.
as acts as an Use 2
to tbe gallon of water. Leggitt Bro¬
thers of New York make whale oil
soap, but theirs is hard while Goode’s
is soft. One application of any in¬
secticide is not sufficient. Begin now
apply with a small spray nozzle. You
will need one half a pint but it will
average, counting waste, one pint to
the tree.
Tbe Vermoral nozzle is reecom
mended spray from the top of the
tree to the roots. Any insect not
touched by the ‘kerosene Is not af
fected by the treatment.
Give two regular annual prunings.
Cut back one third of badly infected
trees, make your first application
before pruning. Your second appli¬
cation in time to spray in tbe
spring before the buds burst opefi.
If you make three applications' let
ifie second one fie in January, but
your tfiird before the bursting of
buds.
You will miss some tbat are under
tfie hark but .you >yi|l fiqye killed 'the
majority so they will not kill the tree.
Soray the next fall a couple of times.
It will be a constant fight as we see
jt now. It may be that some para¬
site >v}!| rqa|*e its anpearanoe and
destroy them, but we (jannot depend
on that, * *
There is a law to compel a man to
either treat his trees or dig them up
and we propose to do that here.
Two reputable citizens can com¬
plain and it becomes my duty to see
that the orchard is treated.^cuujdg
tro.
Potash is not really a fertilizer
only n stimulant, the same ns
drink of whiskey would to you. *
The “scale” does not go of its
volition but it! introduced
nursery stock. Local
tion is by birds feet or a man’s
or a whirlwind may whip it off
carry it.
I propose to combine whale oil
soap and kerosene soap and try that.
I think the soap will prevent tho oil
from penetrating the tree or evap¬
orating. I also expect to buy crude
petroleum, from which kerosene is
made, which will be cheaper. * *
This “scale” wofks on all kinds of
deciduous trees but has never been
reported on oranges or lemons.
Have found it on grape vines and is
on roses and we may expect to find
it on any kind of plant,. You people
will have to go at it as an organiza¬
tion and appoint a committee of
three to see that every man treats
his trees. #
When it drops off with the leaf or
twig it dies yrhon the lenf or twig
dies. It you will appoint a commit¬
tee I will appoint the chairman of
that committee as my deputy, with¬
out pay. Whitman, Benton and
Manon were appointed.
l'roffesaor A. L. Quaintance, state
Biologist and Horticulturist was in¬
troduced, and produced the little in¬
sects on a spray from a rose bush
and an oleander leaf as the Leuon
ium llesperidum but nothing dan¬
gerous.
He said: “I want to congratulate
you on your vim in taking hold of
the San Jose Scale. If you stand by
your entomologist you will be able
to keep it in check. You have other
obscure diseases tbat you are not
aware of and a spray pump is as
much of a necessity as a plow or a
horse.
Prof Scott is a Virginan by birlb
and education’and is thoroughly at
home in his profession. Professor
Quaintance has resided a few years
in Florida but is formely from Iowa
and can tell you all there is to be
known about insect life and horti¬
culture. They are both young men
whom the people delight to honor.
We wish everyone in the colony
could have heard them.
A Sad Death.
With much reluctance wo are called
upon t,o chroicle the death of Mrs. Ada
Hansen, wife of our fellow-townsman
Mr. Fred J. Hansen. With her hus¬
band she came here from Chicago near¬
ly two years ago, and shortly after¬
wards they decided to cast their lot
with the people of this City. While
possessed of considerabe means, they
were naturally of a quite and unassum¬
ing manner, and for that reason did not
make acquaintances as rapidly as some
people do; nevertheless tho uncompro¬
mising integrity and gentlemanly bear¬
ing of the huaban 1 , tbe uniforn gentle
ness and amiability of the wife, and the
sterling character of both, had drawn
to them a number of friends who mourn
because of this suduen apd unexpected
dispensation pf Providence, During
her brief illness Mrs, Hansen had the
ministry of consecrated medical skill,
faithful and tender nursing, aud the
constant aud affectionate watoh-care of
a devoted husband. But all of this
could not stay the hand of death; and
about nine o’clock p. m.. Friday the
17th inst., her immortal spirit left the
tenement of clay and winged its flight
to god who gave it. Beautiful and ap
propriate funeral services were held at
the first Baptist church, Pr. F. W. Ty¬
ler officiating, after which the remains
were interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
The pall-hearers were Messrs, E. 0.
Snyder, Lewis Weary, Fred J. Clark,
D. Holmes, T, S. Price and S, W.
Jones.
The fqcfc tfiflfc she was so far away
from tile home of her parents, who re¬
side in England, seemed to weigh very
heavily upon her mind throughout her
illness, and gave a peculiar tinge of
sadness to the oloamg scenes of her
young life, Mr, Hansen is left without
a living relative in this oountry and is
utterly grief-stricken at his sad be
reavements. We join therefore with
his friend in extending to him loving
sympathy and in commending him to
our Heavenly Father who is able to
bind up the broken heart and to giyo
light and comfort and peace to tho
overwhelmed and agonized soul.
It is talked around that Judge Wi¬
ley Whitley will be a Candida'e for
tbe state senate.—Oqjlja Dfapatcfi,
The Ept^p^as. would be glgd to Bee
ffio Judge in the race.
The Willingham or prohibition hill
passed the lower liopee of the gen¬
eral assembly Wednesday. The sen¬
ate \yj)l now become the storm cen¬
ter. There are grave doubts of its
passing that body, if it does it will
become a law as the Governor will
sign it.
The Enterprise will print the full
text of the bill if It passes the senate
Manager Clark has secured the
Whitman sisters for Saturday night
the 9th of Dec at tbe Fitzgegald op¬
era house. The company is compos¬
ed of twenty members all cgjpr^d
under Mfli/te management. L,,..
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COLONY ■fr PROPER
NOTICE TO COLONY STOCKHOLDERS.’
residence The Colony lots; ComfSny and Irwin have in Fitzgerald five-acre about 375 business lota
in county, 200 tracts, 400 tc
tracts, and 50 twenty-acre tracts; and in Wilcox county they ha’
ten-acre tracts, 145 twenty and 15 forty-acre tracts, ail of whicl
be sold before the Company can close up its business.,
.. . THE LAST OPPORTUNITY. . ..
The company exchange is now their making stock arrangements for colony to give which the stock! canJ
a chance to property
any time before December 1st, 1899. After that date stock wS
received in lieu of cash, and all persons holding colony stock w,
to wait until the final settling of colony affairs. •:g
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... GRAND AUCTION SALE.... \
On December 7th, 8th and 9th, the Company will hold an aueffi
and sell all the colony Headquarters, property regardless the highest of value, bidder including Grig
Hotel and Colony to on
terms, to-wit: One-third (1-3) cash, balance (No in three equal be pay*ji reejl
3, f> and 9 months at 7 per cent interest. stock will
in payment full. This at the discount sale.) will A discount be made will known be allowed at the time for all of pay the meij safij
Company reserves the right to withdraw any portion offered for g
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... A GOOD INVESTMENT....
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The Company is doing this to enable them to close up the m
company’s business, and it will depend on the amount our rec U
colony lands bring what amount can be paid on the outstanding %
We say frankly to our friends that our lands are more likely to vU
good dividends investment than the stock. ! e
on your ■
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... STOCKHOLDERS SHOULD ASSIST. . .
The taxes each year together with the expenses of the manage^ >\
and such other expenses as there We may be, lessens the chances for a; r
dividends on colony stock. have property enough, if sold a£o
prices, sides. Now, to pay if the off all stockholders outstanding will liabilities take hold and of pay the coming a good sale, divideE^*] see|j
the property offered brings fair prices, their chances for realizing on y \
investment will be greatly enhanced. On the contrary, if they atli
different and the property is allowed to sell at a figure below its
value, they cannot expect to realize on their investment. • V !
. . OUR OBJECT ACCOMPLISHED. . .
The object of the undertaking who has been here largely accomplished (to
homes) here, and gen_______k-l parties have come in good faith and rem;
have 7 __LI____..L_____
or would not come, and those who did come and were not pioneers? satisfied! 1
returned North, cannot expect to reap the rewards of the •
have built aud up homes here. foundation, Many of the homes are elegant and
modious all on a sure where good judgement and!
dustry are united.
r HOMES FOR ALL.
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Wc are unable at this date to say what the stockholders will get
their stock. All will depend upon this auction sale. Therefore we
lieve it would be well for every member to take lots or lands for f
These lots and lands good I s
stock before December 1st, 1899. are
\yifi continually increase in value and will pay you much more than
can expect to get out of the stock. We give all due notice of
action, so that non-resident stockholders whatjou may would come wish, in equally lot with ifo
on of land, the grounds. which offer You may state te low wnaivou jlTice, for wouia stock, wish, thereby a a lot or or enab a a f t 1 -
we at a ver y
membeis to obtain the same. Address )
The American Tribune Soldiers’ Colony Compan
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