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FITZGERALD ENTERPRISH
Yolume XI
Line From Augusta
~ To Guif is Assured
All Arrangements for Connecting Series of
. Short Lines to Valdosta Has Re
o cently Been Completed.
Before the end of the next
year an air line railroad between
Augusta and some deep water
port on the Gulf coast, possibly
Carribelle, Fla, will bein op-l
eration, :
tionable authority that an inde
-pendent syndicate, headed by
Mr. John Skelton Williams, the
_great Baltimore financier and
_railroad magoate, who built acd
steered the fortunes of the Sea
board Air Line railway for so
long, have already com pleted ar-]
rangements for:the purchase of
‘a series of short lines between
this city and Valdosta, about two
hundred and fifty miles distant,l
‘and they will at once commence
the work of building be con
_mecting links. which will require
that less than one hundred miles
of track be laid. Tangible ac
_tion in the carrying out of this
_project was. taken in the city of
"Augusta yesterday when a deal
was closed for the purchase of
the Augusta. |
" Florida, operating -between
Keysvilleand Midville and owned
by Allen W. Jones, and the Mid
ville Swainsboro, operating be
tween Midwille land Swainsboro,
.and owned by Jesse Thompson,
while the trade was ‘‘cinched”y
by the deposit of the purchase
_money in an Augusta bank.
The first step, of course, will
be the completion of the Auguste
- Florida from Keyville to Augus
ta, a distance of about twenty
five miles. This will take only a
few months and will immediate
1y place into operation a through
line of about 72 miles from
Augusta to the Southwest, with
.the other terminus at Swainshoro
‘in Emanuel county, as 47 miles
-of this from Keysville, on the
- Augusta Southern, to Midyille,
“on the Central of Geoagia, and
“thence to Swainsboro. is already
.complete and in use,
From Swaiusboro, a link of
~aboit ten'miles will connect with
“the . Millen & Southwestern.
.which. then was a distance of
-some forty odd miles down to
Vidalia, Toombes county, on
the Seaboard Air Line. From
Vidalia another link of about
:l.twen,ty-five miles will bring the
.rout to: Hazlehurst, the count
_seat of Jeff. Davis county, on
.\‘ihe'Southern. .- From Hazlehurst,
-there is - already "in operation
‘about forty miles down to Nash
;f.‘iille.the county seat of Berrien
_.county. Another link of about
“%wenty-five miles will bring.the
“Jine into Valdosta, the thriving
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Whit.e Goods, Dress Goods and Embroidery Sale
_——_NOW GOING ON AT BROWN BROS—Mmm—————
Come before the best selections are all picked over. Having bought heavier than ever before, and having the cash to pay down
enables us to give you all some of the Best Values ever seen in Fitzgerald. We treat one and all alike, and give everyone the ad
vantage of our close Cash Buying. Ri:)bonds! We have them for everyone. Thanking you all for past patronage and soliciting
a continuance of the same, we are your friends hamiis
’ y ’ BROWN BROS.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1806,
little metropolis of extreme
southern Georgia. It is then
about forty milesfurther on from
Valdosta to Tallahassee, Fla.,
whence there are already in
operation two separate lines to
the Gulf eoasti—————— ———
The instaat effect upon Augu
sta’s commerce and population of
the completion of such a maguoifi
cent trunk line is hardly to be es
timated. As soon as through
trains shall be operated from
Augusta to Valdosta it will bring
an additional trade of hundreds
of thousands of dollars and many
thousand more of inhabitants,
It will traverse the counties of
Richmond, Burke, KEmanuel,
Toombes, Jeff. Davis, Coffee,
Berrien and Lowndes, eight of
the lJargest and most prosperous
counties of the state, with a
varied wealth which is hardly to
be estimated, including the finest
cotton growing section in the
world, both long and short staple,
unsurpassed timber, turpentine
and cattle lands. taking in scores
of large and growing towns and
embracing, exclusive of Richmo
nd, a territory of more than a
hundred thousand people, for
besides these eight which is
actually touches, it runs within
“hailing distance of a half dozen
others equally as desirable and
withal that the resources of the
country bave been scarcely touc
hed, for in most part it is undis
turbed.
From Valdosta to the Guilf it
would have to cross the great
county of Brooks, admittedly the
most progressive and prosperous
rural county in the State, if not
in the South, where the farmers
sell meat to the merchants,
There would be three or four of
the virgin Florda counties, to say
nothiog of the tact that it would
touch Tallahasse, the capital city.
—Augusta Chronicle.
[By reference to the map it will
be seen that the Augusta Keys
ville, Swainsboro, Vidalia, Hazel
hurst, Broxton, Douglas, Nash
ville, Valdosta and Tallahassee
route is a more circitous, tor
tuous, longer and . indirect than
would be the Augusta. Sanders
ville, Wrightsville, Dublin, East
man, Fitzgerald, Tifton, Moul
trie, Thomasville and Talla
hassee route. Theline is near
completed by the later route and
thro as good country as there is
in Georgia.. We for purely self
ish reasons of course, would
imuch prefer the Fitzgerald
route between Augusta and the
igulf, as we have often admitted
before.] :
THRICE-A -VWEEEK
REV.VAL SERVICES
At Central Methodist Church,
Beginning N:xt Sabbath
at ll a, m,
Rev. Stanton is an evangelist
'of some note among the churches
winning souls to Christ. We
hail his coming and that of the
sweet singer with delight.
The membership is urged to
attend the meeting, and to pray
and labor, that God's favor and
blessings may be upon us all.
The public united to wait with
us before God for his great sal
vation, :
The children may find it con
venient to the afternoon and
pight services. Parents ana
Sunday school teachers will find
this a good time to bring their
children and classes to Christ
He is the savior of children as
well as of grown people. ‘‘Let
all thepeople praise thee oh God,’
and let the unsaved seek thy
face and blessings.
Give faith, prayer and service
a chance during these seasons of
grace.
Prayerfully
W. L. Wootten.
Flag Is Up.
Montgomery. Ala., February 5.
—Through the breezes that blow
about the new flag pole oo the
dome of the state capitol today
floats a twenty foot edition of Old
Glory that can be seen from afar,
and it attracis attention as it al
ways does at this altitude, Per
haps half the men who have walk
ed up Dexter avenue today have
looked at the beloved banner,
and lifted their bats to its cheer
ful coloring flashing in and out
as the winds toss it hither and
yon, Theflag is a pet of the
governor, and he likes to have it
there, save once in a while, when
it is replaced for a time by the
befty bars and white field of the
St. Andrews cross of the state
emblem.—Atlanta Constitution.
Free Reading Room,
The members of the free read
ing room and library met Feb,
13, 1906 and elected the following
officers: Prest. Rev. T. G.
Davis, of the Baptist church, V.
P. Rev.O. O. Johnson, of the
U. B. church, Sec. and Treas. J.
B. Schroll. Any donations of
‘money, or of lineolium for the
floor will be appreciated—the
‘mroney to be paid to Jacob Schroll.
‘This being a charitable institu
tion it takes money to runm it.
‘Membership fee $1 a year. A
load of wood would beacceptable.
Roanoke’s Valentine
l Social Postponed
On account of ' the inclemency
'of the weather the Roanoke
Valentine Social was postponed
until tomorrow (Friday) eve
lning.
“He that is slow to wrath is of
great understanding.”
JUST FOR LOVE
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Rep
resentative Longworth will
* . be Married Next Sat
urday at Noon,
Another President’s daughter
is to be married. Kings and
potentates, senates and ruling
assemblages of all lands hasten
to do the bride honor and thereby
to honor her father and the great
world power over which he has
been elected the Chief Magi-~
strate.
A most notable company will
be present, Every ruling sove
reign will be represented in per
son. High officials will be there;
gold lacewill trick—eut _hundreds
there. No American assem
blage gathered together has ever
bad the eclat that is promised
for next Saturday.
But for all that, there will be
the purely romantic side., It
is a love match pure aud simple.
Young Mr- Longworth had to
plead his suit very diligently.
There were plenty of others who
might have aspired; many of them
far richer than this young Con
gressman from Cincinnati. But
it'was nota match for money.
Another Business Block.
- Br. Holtzendorf will immediat
’ely begin preparations for the
erection of a two story stone
business house on Pine street,
G. W. Hayes haviag the contract.
The frame buildings occupied by
the Radcliff News Co., and Car
lo’s fruit stand will be moved out
to the Doctors residence prope
erty on the Drive and be fitted
up as servants quarters. The
Radc)iffs are now established in
the Bowling alley and Carlo’s
fruit stand will resume business
in the new building as soon as
completed.
A few hardy orange trees ar
rived yesterday from Jackson
ville, Fla., and were at a prem
ium while they lasted. They
were ordered by a few narties of
this city—with a view to dem
onstrating that oranges can be
grown in this soil and in this
climate, The trees are stake
trained, good stock, with an ab
undance of healthy roots and of
the famous Satsuma species—
grafted on tri-foleated stock.
Mother Enterprise already as
sumes a very independent air as
she proclaims that she will soon
set under her own vine and
orange trees.
Mrs. Comer Woodward, Dis
trict Sec. of the W. F. M. S. of
the Valdosta District will ad
dress the congergation of the
Central Methodist church Sun
day 18th, at 3p. m. Mrs, Wood
ward is a fine speaker, and a
deeply spiritual woman. The
officers of Fitzgerald auxialiary
will be installed at that time, with
appropriate ceremonials—by
Mrs. Woedward. Every one is
'cordially invited to attend. No
colection. 2t
Southern Cotton Assn.
Preparing for Battle
District Organizers to Effect More Thorodgh
Local Organizations in the Georgia
Division of Association.
Atlanta, February 13.—District
organizers to push the work of
the Georgia division, Southern
Cotion Association, in each of
congressional districts of the
state, to effect more thorough
local organ zatian, to battle for
reduced acreage, which is the
most important fight of the year,
to fight for 15 cent cotton and to
raise funds for the support of the
division. bave been named by M.
L. Johnson under anthority of
resolution passed unanimously
at the convention of the Georgia
division on January 3. o
These organizersin the respec:
tive congressional districts are
as follows:
First, C. D. Adams, Sylvania:
second, W. R. Green, fort Ganes;
third, J. J. Easterlin, Montezuma;
fourth, W. S. Copeland, Newnan;
fifth, L. L. Middlebrooks. Covin
gton, sixth, S, H Mays, Jackson;
}seventb. J. Lindsay Johnson,
Rome; eighth, Claude Tuck Ath
ens; ninth, M. D. Irwin, Winder;
tenth, J. W. Whitly, Gibson;
~ Shakespeare Club,
The Shakespeare Club met at
the home of Mrs. G. P. Mingle
dorf last Friday evening,and the
meeting was exceedingly inter
esting.
A completion ef ‘‘Julius Cae
sar’’ was the work for the eve
ning and a more interesting sub
ject is not to be found in Shakes
peare. There was a differ
ence of opinion and greattumult
when the discussion of of Brutus
and Caesar arose. Maj. A. E.
Jones, Prof. Klepper, Mr. James
Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Klepper, Mrs.
Mingledorf and Miss Yancy con
tended like the little girl that
said, ‘‘nay we are seven”, that
Brutus was a strong character
and stabbed Caesar for the love
of Rome. That Caesar was not
the man that Antony said he was;
that he loved power and was not
the representative of the common
people as Auatony said he was in
that great oration. They furth
er contended that if Caesar were
not ambitious and doing all those
great acts for power——why did
he refuse to go to the secate un
til he was told Ibat he would be
offered that day a kingly crown?
His wife, Calpurnia, had told him
her dream, that she saw his stat
ute running with human blood
and begged him not to go to the
senate that day. But the very
moment that he was .told that
the crown would be offered him--
in spite of what he had just told
Number '
eleventh, Melvin Tanner Doughe
las
These district organizers, whe
will be expected to visit each
country in their respective dise
tricts in the prosecution of the
work, have been caled to meet
the office of President Johnson,
519 Empire building, Atlanta on
Wednesday February 14 at 10 a.
m., together with the new finance
committee for 1906, at which
time the important campaiga
for the new year will be mapped
out ’
The new finance committee
appoiated by President Johnson
for 1906. one from each congres
sional district. is as follows:
First.J. R. Miller, Swainsboro;
second, I. A. Bush Pelham; third
D. G. Hughes. Jr,, Danville;
fourth W; A, Brannon. Newnan;
fiith.W. P, Peel. Atlanta: sixth,
J. T. Williams, Haddock; seventh
30 Reynolds Rome; eighth,
Paul Atkinson, Madison. ninth,
T. A. Pate, Snelville; tenth, J. H,
Boyd, Thomson; eleventh, J. M.
Finn, Dublin.
them that he would not go, and
in spite of that awful dream he
put out to the senate.
Mrs. Hoover, Messrs Den
mark and Teal rebelled and said
that Brutus was a very weak
character. ‘That he stabbed
Caesar not for the love of Rome
but for the love of himself. He
never thought of the love of Rome.
He envied the power of great
Caesar and wanted him out of
the way. He was led to the deed
by the conspirators and nothing
shows that he ever thought of
stabbing Caesar until that plot
just before the crime. Theres
fore, any man that can be pure
suaded to commit a crime is a
weak man and would not be a
safe man for Rome. It appeared
after Mark Antony’s great ora
tion,Brutus began to think what
an act he had done,and up until
he met his fate, he shcws a loss
of confidence in his friends and
in himself, The ghost appear=-
ed before bim and he can stand
it no longer but runs against his
own sword and dies when he
thinks it would be no use to live,
These things the parties just a
bove mentioned I thought proved
a very weak Brutus.
CHuas. B. TeAL,
Club Reporter.
It will pay you to hear the
strong platform lecturer, Mrs,
Callie H. Howe, Sunday after
noon at three in the opera house
and at 7:30 p. m. in the First M.
E. church. 3-t.