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as furnished on iipplicit
buslness letters to THE
JnLISHINO COMPANY,
AY, MARCH 30.
OUNCEMENTS.
R STATE SENATOR.
terprise is authorized to an
le name of Thos. B. Young
ldate for the office of state
•om strict, this, ttie fifteenth sena
subject to regular
iic primary.
R TAX RECEIVER.
» authorized to announce the
jy of F. L. Brinkley for the
' Tax Receiver. Capt. Brink
le of the substantial farmers
ortheastern part of the coun
I will, if elected, make an
; officer.
R SOLICITOR GENERAL.
?eby announce myself for the
of Solicitor General of the
| primary. circuit, subject If elected, to a I will Demo- do
Hf. I shall “hew to the line,
chips fall where they may.”
rote will be appreciated.
| L. Bankston, Abbeville, Ua.
n’s Nebraska platform does
i the democratic masses.
.very probable that Gens.
^.<*nd Lee will be retired
r tiers of the regular army.
»
"i Dewey says all that
Q !)out one's visit to Sa
*i not true.
Sbt but that the inter
ir to be held in Atlanta
& will be a success. That's
|. way.
recent newspaper venture
pon advertised himself,
“if that is what Jesus
s
worth Carolina amend
sampaign was formerly
at Jefferson In that state
ay.
M voter who expects to
|&te in the May election
pot p4hem forget that it is neces
|k>f to register before
May.
jfhought Ijpresident that of the 0. P. llunt
Southern
JKidlroad. is opposing Sena
#gan, of Ala., re-election.
«
ode opinion of Charles K.
i, the editor of (lie Topeka
w Oapital the “Sheldon edi
m* |M
« a “failure as a news
jftd gious not above the average
I, paper.”
■
fequirement of the State
fctig Executive committee
|y those who register be
-‘'w : general primary on the
May shall be permitted to
fde therein’’ is giving dis
ion.
Bible to vote in the pri
iKMav 15th it will be ne
■ to register by the 5th of
|%en ErEyery days before the pri
white voter i n this
If 6 ’he would be entitled to
rAgeneral ftp election will be
yote at this primary.
«on
U^urprise to us that there
-Hibling for the county ad
ttn Irwin county. It will
►cilia Dispat oh more for
h. than the county ad
| ot this county amounts
jfe^r. — Moultrie Observer,
Pdo ay e mistaken, brother,
« scrambling for the
pvertising— at least, there
'•'we are aware of. The
lit is satisfied with its
find the Fitzgerald
Us too high toned to
U<—Ocilla Dispatch.
Is.
ire capable or
r aspired to represent
io the United States
Khan F. G. DuBignon.
”)}b< of the state appreciate
hiid would love to honor
fcy'ie conditions are
Senator Bacon can
|y, by Georgia He or by
senate. has
BBtht to be classed
d other iilus
■P. the south,
|L I
fc,
E-ha
thei» ’ N
vidto IV
of a Bt rong hold u pon the
by reason of having waged a
ceseful war with Spain, vainly
thinks to do violence to the con
si it ution, rule our new possessions
with a high hand and make them
contribute to the trusts ot t^ ie
country, without invoking the
wrath of the people.
But they have reckoned W’ithout
their host. The people are not in
the humor to be trifled with as
they are now being trifled with by
die president and his advisers;
and if the democrats are at all
wise they can wrest the govern¬
ment from their hands.
In order to do this, however, it
will be necessary for (hem, when
they meet at Kansas City in con¬
vention on the 4th day of July, to
measure squarely up to the de¬
mands of the hour and formulate
a broad, and liberal, and patriot
platform—one that breathes the
sentiments and voices the princi¬
ples of true Americanism and
plighted to constitutional liberty.
If they will drop the free silver
slogan and unfurl the banner of
a sound and sensible currency,
inveigling no longer against those
who differed with them in 189G
and will come up manfully to the
new issues that are to be met this
fall, fhe people will flock to their
banner and place the power of
government in democratic hands.
But if the recent platform con¬
spired by demociats and fusionists
and promulgated from Nebraska,
is a promise and a prophecy of
what the one in Kansas City is to
be, the service given to tho party
by The Enterprise can be only a
half-hearted service, for we can
have no hope for party success, as
we do not believe that free silver
and a platform pregnant with pop¬
ulistic tendencies can succeed in a
10 election
popular in this country.
Now is the time above all others
for tiie democratic party to be
wise, and patriotic, and conserva¬
tive, but we can see none of these
things in the apparent effort to
rehabilitate the exploded sophis¬
tries of sockless Jerry and Mary
Ellen, and in trying to foist them
upon the country as winning cards
and democratic principles.
And as certain as the demo¬
cratic party—the party of the
people-'—unuerlakos to ride into
power upon the vagaries of pop¬
ulism, so certain is it that it will
go down in defeat.
And it ought to fail for throw¬
ing away this splendid opportu¬
nity for democratic success.
The prevalence of small pox in
nearly every county in this state
and most of the states of the un¬
ion, demand serious attention.
It has beenylhe good fortune of
Fitzgerald to escape the plague so
far, but nothing short of a mira¬
cle can possible save us from some
sort of experience with the dis¬
ease in the near future.
The Enterprise feels called on
to render any service possible to
afflicted communities.
We publish here a prescription
said to be from a celebrated
Parisian physician. It is claimed
that “it is as unfailing as fate and
conquers in every instance;”
that “it is harmless when taken
by a well person and will cure
scarlet fever ”
Here i, the receipt.
of zinc, one grain; foxglove (dig
it alls) one grain; half a teaspoon
ful of sugar, ’ mixed with two
teaspoonsful of water. Take a
spoonful every hour. Either dis
ease will disappear in twelve
hours. For a child smaller doses,
according to age. *
If we had the disease we would
! u f course want a physician, but a
( > small bottle of this prescription
would be very handy if the
could not be had. Clip
this out and save it.
WAR cotton taxes.
Behind the war cotton taxes there
* t st°t\ of the keenest possible
terest throughout the cotton
governinent i8 indebted t0 the peo
pie of the south who contributed to
1 thb tax fund the sum of over
eight millions of dollars.
This tax was collected in the years
1863 to 1868, inclusive, imposed by a
lict °* congress, approved July
1802 Hml subsequent amendatory
rl ' C t S.
Our congressmen.al ways alive to the
interest of the south, will, at the be
ginning of the next session of con
introduce a bill to provide foi'
refunding of the tax laid and '
j
Hi MstfapL*’
y ^7 -<fdVh bn uic -treatment of
H iegro qaegtion, says that as a
ma tter of faet the southern peo
e art , ma ki ng constant and tre
men( 3 0us efforts to establish aeon
,ijtj nn under which life may be
<0 l era lile without injustice to the
nep;roeg “Northern people are
| t>oun ( l by every consideration of
right and by the interest of the
whole nation, to refrain from
maintaining an attitude that would
give encouragement to the crim¬
inal impulses of the negroes in
the south.
“The conditions of life of the
southern negroes are unfavorable.
They are the immediate descend¬
ants of the slaves who were sud¬
denly freed and endowed by law
with the rights of citizenship,
which they are expected to exer¬
cise among those who were the
slave’s owners. They have been
inspired to insane ambitions by
a civil ngnts law and by irrespon¬
sible political rascals Irom the |
north, and they must be more
than human not to have among
their number some desperate
characters with a hatred of the
the whites. The hatred-drunken¬
ness of a white mob does not les¬
sen the horrible criminality of the
beasts whose deeds provoke aven
gers to the use ot the rope, and
does not lighten the fearful re¬
sponsibility of those who condemn
the white lynchers without de¬
nouncing the black criminals, and
thus encourage the foulest of all
forms of human wickedness.”
It’s funny to see free silver pa¬
pers quoting:
“When, O when, will the farm¬
er learn that when more cotton is
made than the world wants, it
must, in the very nature of things
below? It seems that they will
never learn the lesson.”
A few months ago the sugges¬
tion would have the effect, that
flaunting a red rag in a mad bull’s
face, with any number of “16 to
1. spite o’ h— and high water pa¬
pers.” Taking their cue from
some blantant demagogue the
fellows would spout about “over
production” and “under consump¬
tion Till they would create a con¬
tusion in the crown of their sev¬
eral soft craniums.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS.
In addition to the many good
things contained in our columns,
The Enterprise, in future, Will
publish the Sunday School Les¬
sons each week.
These lessons will be especially
prepared for The Enterprise by
Prof. C. E. Becker, and this gen¬
tleman’s name in this connection
is a guanantee that the Sunday
School Lessons.as they will appear
in these columns, will not only be
carefully prepared, but will be
strictly up-to-date in thought and
diction and evangelical in teach¬
ing, thereby making The Enter¬
prise a fit Sunday morning com¬
panion foe every Sunday school
attendant within the radius of its
circulation, for whose especial
benefit this arrangement has been
i made '
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! FREE 1U)B lL MAIL
The Enterprise has had the sub
i ect of free rural raail delivery un
der consideration for several weeks
I -d has reached the point
success now seems assured. YV e
think there is no doubt but that
! the colony will soon be enjoying
a convenient free delivery
The government officials in the
post office department seem alive
to the interests of the people as
regards a good and convenient
mail service and are making rapid
strides In that direction.
j All the people along the star
routes are to have a free delivery
and carriers along these routes will
be required to deposit the mail of
patrons in such mail boxes as they
provide along the hue of the
J route. The department in its new
| contracts has provided for this
oUmnal service and has been able
to do it with no additional cost to
body. All mail except that
which is registered will be so de
livered. The convenience is
which the people living in the
country will doubtless greatlv ap
c<rec ; a t ei It V vill obviate the ne
ctssity of sending to their post
offices for their letters and new?
papers, ' ’ and in many cases will
tnt ‘UM earlier . delivery , . „ than lorm
frff- j
1° "Virginia. North Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama large
iee are being constantly located
ai *d thousands ot'people are avail
themselves of the “homestead
seeker’s excursions’’to invade the
1 the southern states, and. as are
SU R Ibis influx of thrifty peo
| Pl e the eouih, cotton facto
r ‘ es ) furniture factories, basket
factories and woolen factories are
s P f tnging up like magic every
vMieie.
Upon the whole the renewed
has prosperity made of the possibilities entire country, for |
new t ne
south that has not before been
dreamed of, and 1900 will not only
be a record breaker, but it will
witness an era of prosperity in
*
the south along commercial and |
industrial hues that will put to
shame the croakers and inaugu- e
rate . an epoch , of „ peace and , plenty ,
and goo# cheer.
a) bn oie
Zfjx 9 narffTer, visaed
Savannah a few days ago and
was interviewed by a Savannah
Morning News reporter.
“This is the day of the small
mill, v said Mr. Wit ham.* “I have
thought so for a long time, and
the experience of the past year
has demonstrated it. The small
mills made greater profits than
the larger ones, and far out¬
stripped them in earning capacity
as compared with investment.”
Mr. Witham believes that cot¬
ton manufacturing on the lines
laid down by him, “good mills in
good towns managed bv the right
men,” will pay in South Georgia.
He is showing his faith in this be¬
lief by establishing mills along
the line of' the Central Railroad
between Macon and - Savannah.
Just at what points the new mills
are to be established, Mr. Witham
would not say, hut he already
has a mill at Tennille, and Millen
is understood to be one of the
points wh er e there is a mill in
contemplation,
‘ I .-darted out three .years ago,”
said Mr. Witham, ‘ to disprove
the idea that cotton manufactur¬
ing could not be made to pay in
this section of the state. When
ever I mentioned' the subject of
cotton factories for the small
towns in Middle or Southern
Georgia I was told that ‘small
mills would not pay,’ that south
of Atlanta was ‘too far south,’
anyway for cotton manufacturing
and that satisfactory labor could
not be obtained in these counties.
I undertook to prove the fallacy
of these three objections, and 1
have succeeded to my entire sa¬
tisfaction. I have now reached
the conclusion that this is the
day of the small mill in the small
town; that south of Atlanta is not
too far south for successful cotton
manufacturing, and that our
country people make the most
efficient mill operatives to be bad
anywhere. I have proven this
with my own money, and now 1
am willing that my friends should
join with me and share in reaping
(he benefits/’
Mr. Witham had a little talk
with some of the Savannah capi¬
talists in the afternoon, and what
he told them about cotton mill
profits probably made them open
their eyes. “Of the three mills
in which I am interested.” he
said, “one made a profit last year
of 40 per cent., one of 54 per
cent., and one of 100 per cent. I
think I am safe in saying that
these small mills made a larger
profit than any large mill in the
country, and at least one of them
a larger profit than any other mill
in the state.—Savannah News.
TO BREAK THE RECORD.
The colonization season, this
spring, has opened with unusual
vigor, and the unoccupied terri¬
tory of the fertile south is soon to
blossom like a garden, for people
every where are looking to the
southern states as offering great
iuduceihents tp industrial and
commercial activities.
The railroads that penetrate the
inviting field, of the south are
already doing a “land office busi
ness,’’though April,May and June
have proven the best months of
t! >e year to prosecute the work of
colonization, and one great trunk
U-has already exceeded last
> 11 ■’ J < - cor 0 nevv ln L1& ues
located in its territory by SO per
cent, which clearly indicates that
unprecedented.era of commer
clal and induetnai prosperity has
conie t0 ” 1<?ss and upbuild the
son ^ 1,
j/c LLHLfj DIOSTS iOllQW!
1 0 buying and selling Colony Stock
and Real Estate, buying and list¬
ing property for taxation.
JOHN H. WILLIAMS,
(Successor to F. Williams, Son & Co.)
Headquarters for Real Estate.
East Pine Street, near Grant, !
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FiT^^^HALO _
BAKES1Y*
The Fiuieraid Bakery is now open and can
such b «8 wifea^brMd. d! 1 ^ 1 bread® and^a
....short Ban notice! and pirty^suppers pp ak furnie lurmsnea a hed ln on on
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LAWYERS.
D. B. JAY.
Attorney-At-Law.
COUNTY SOLICITOR.
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
OmcR— South side Paulk bulldiiifr, Grant
Street.
B. B. CHENEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Practices in all the Courts of the
Oconee circuit.
Oftict—U p Stairs in Cheney Building, Pine
Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
E. W. RYMAN
LAWYER.
Practice in all the Courts.
FITZGERALD, GA.
e. h. williams. Wm. A. SHIPMAN.
Williams'&'Shipman,
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the Courts.
7 and 8 Bowen Block, FITZGERALD.
T. J. LUKE, Attorney-at-Law.
Collections a specialty. Prompt at¬
tention to all business entrusted to me.
Office in the Court House,
IRWINVILLE, GA.
C. H. Martin. B. H. Henderson.
MARTIN & HENDERSON,
Lawyers.
OCILLA AND FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention to all legal busi¬
in ness. Agent for fire insurance. Office
ing Powell, Bullard & Co’s, old build¬
Ocilla and Bowen Block, Fitz¬
gerald.
PHYSICIANS.
DR. D. F. THOMPSON,
Special attention given to Ob¬
stetrics and disease of women.
Office, corner north Main and
Oconee Streets. Office hours—
8 to 9 a. m. and 3 to 4 and 7 to 8
p. nu Office 'phone No. 76; Res¬
idence ’phone No. 45.
FITZGERALD, Ga.
J. H. DENNARD 5
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
All calls promptly attended to.
OFFICE IN PHILLIPS BLOCK.
L. S. OSBORNE, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office-Room over Postoffice.
Residence South eud of Grant St. Fitzgerald'
J. C. FUSSELL,... *
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office in Drew building over Gott¬
liebs’ store. General practice so¬
licited. Special attention to ob¬
stetrics and diseases of women
and children. Charges reasonable.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
SPECIALIST
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Chronic Diseases of Men and Women.
Hours: 8 a. m. to 5 p. ru. Sunday, 7 to 9 a. m.
Office in I’owell Building,
PINE ST., FITZGERALD, GA.
DR. J. H. TWYMAN
7
. . DENTIST . .
On Central Avenue, we9t of Postoffice.
15O POUND WATERMELON!
Think of Such a Monster!
vt e can all have them if we plant
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will such melons grow. Thousands
0 f Melons grown from the Seeds in
1S99 weighed loo to 135 pounds each
-one weighed 148 # Pounds,
$210.00 }J e 9 1 ar ge B t
melons grown in 1900 from Girar
deau s Seed.
Liant Beggar Meed Seed a Specialty.
BSTSend for Catalogue giving full
‘"formation t°
W. M. GIRARDEAU.
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