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¥ Now is the time to clean up.
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| We club the Golden Age with the Enterprise
" at $2.50 per annum for the two.
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3 It seems that the people have simply made
up their minds to elect Hoke Smith Governor.
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It is now generally conceded that that How
ell is not in it. The question is how long will
he pursue the forlorn hope.
MW
Col. Estill was in Cordele yesterday. He
went up to Vienna, where it is said he will get
some votes.—Cordele Rambler,
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Irwin county politics will be interesting for
the next six or eight years. Now watch the old
county heave forward.—Ocilla Star.
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The Springfield Ohio mob and the holding
up of an Illinois town by a band of five armed
robbers proclaims loudly for the civilizing in
fluences of the day in those benighted commun
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The cigar manufacturers are making capi
tal of the gubernatorialicampaign. “The Hoke
Smith” cigar is being sold all over the state and
Smith supporters are puffing them in the face
of all opposition.—Moultrie Observer.
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If there is a county in the district that
wants the rotation system changed, let it wait
till its time to furnish the senator arrives, then
let it contend for the change. To do otherwise
~ is toinvite unfavorable criticism.—Ocilla Star.
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A Dublin special to the Atlanta Constitution
gives that paper the opportunity of mwaking
head line capital out of the suggesticn
that an ex-populist representative from that
county has announced for the State Senate.
We have never beem much of a populist
but we know of nolaw or rule of politics that
forbids an ex-populist aspiring to office.
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The people of Irwinville made an effort to
get a joint debate between Hoke Smith and
Clark Howell for court week. Mr. Smith, of
course accepted promptly. He said he would
like to come to Irwinville and meet Mr. Howell,
but not so with Clark, he had not forgotten Co
lumbus and never will as for that matter. They
do say that Irwin is for Hokeand we are pre
pared to believe it.
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The Grady County Times is published at
Cairo and is for Jim Smith for Governor. The
red hottest Jim Smith paper in South Georgia,
perhaps the only one, but it appears the busi
ness men of Cairo are not following the lead of
that good paper. Mr. T.W. Wood, a promi
nent merchant prepared aballot box and gave
each business man the chance to vote secretly for
his preference for governor. When the box was
opened there were just three votes for Farmer
Jim Smith, two for Russell, one for Nunnally,
eleven for Howell, twenty for Estill, and thirty
one for Hoke Smith, nearly as many as all the
other five.
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It is not a new thought but Thursday
night’s fire was an apt illustration of the ad
vantages of a prompt response.
The Enterprise would have insisted long
ago on some means of prompt response, but for
the fact that we dread the other extreme, and
extremes usually follow each other in matters of
this kind. Fitzgerald can not afford an extrava
gant paid department, nor an expensive equip
ment—we do not need either. What we need is’
plenty of good hose, nozzles and wrenches and a
means of getting the same promptly to the near
est hydrant to the fire. A good horse with the
proper means of attaching him instantly to the
hose wagon is the important thing. To keep
the horse and two necessary men would be
quite a little item of expense but not extrava
gant in viewof the protection afforded. The
present fire company organization ought to be
maintained and two salaried men selected with
‘a view to business only. We mention this be
‘cause it is so easy to pervert the whole propo
sition into two or three private smaps. We
want no pensioners nor ward healers—not select
ed for their political pull, but for pulling the
‘reins over a good horse, and to be right handy
‘about it. The present fire company organiza
tion could dothe work with that sort of as
ace and protect much more of a city than
Our Fire Protection,
A midnight blaze Thursday night burned
two houses on South Lee Street and came dang
erous!y near burning the thiid.
The little house occupied by Mr. J. J. Milli
gan owned by H. M, Warren was discovered to
be on fire about 20 minutes to 12. The writer
was on hand promptly or within a few minutes
after the first alarm. All the top of the house
was in a light blaze but part of the furniture
was removed after we arrived on the scene.
The house was nota large one and at first
we had no idea that the P. B, Owen home 40 or
50 feet away would burn. We believe it could
have been saved with a dozen buckets and han
dy water supply, as the building was low enough
to have been easily protected, but everybody
waited for the arrival of the hose wagon and for
some time there was no effort to remove the fur
piture from the Owen residence. The hose
wagon did not show up. The minutes were, of
course, long ones when finally the hose wagon
came in sight. The half dozen men who had itin
tow were completely exhausted, from dragging
the heavy wagon the eight blocks intervening
between the fire and the city hall. They had
responded promptly to the alarm and had done
everything their physical strength was capable
of enduring to reach the fire with the aparatus,
and the second building was doomed by a short
delay in turning on the water. It was a much
larger structure than the first building and
made quite a hot fire, greatly endangering the
Renke’s residence, next door, from which all the
household goods were removed. The pressure
was weak on account of a bursted main and the
comb of the two story building was barely
reached by the stream. For some time the
issue was in doubt.
The fire boys did their faithful best under
the circumstances but the result was very dis
appointing to every property owner who wit
nessed the fire. :
There is one remedy—only one, and thatis
an arrangement by which the hose wagon can
promptly respond to an alarm or call. By the
time the fire boys are arroused from their
homes by night alarm and make a race for ihe
city hall and lug the old wagon along, a
dozen city blocks they are not only exhausted
but too much important time has been lost.
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Miller & Co., of New York, recently issued’
“cotton facts worth remembering,” in which
we find this statement: ‘ aa
AN UNPLEASANT CONTRAST, - ¢
We, of the United States, feel very ,pro}ud
of our growth and commercial prestige, but
there is one page of our record, which should
be kept open before us until the figures shall
have been revised. Although we raise 75% of
the world’s supply of raw cotton, other nations
manufacture the bulk of the world’s needs from
the same cotton. The value of exports of cote
ton goods and yarns, from the United States
and from Great Britain for the past two years,
presents the following striking contrast:
ExporTS oF COTTON GOODS AND YARNS.
United States Great Britain
1904-05 $49,146,000 $393,519,000
1903-04 27,290,000 340,282,000
It is gratifying to note the increase of over
80 per cent in our exports within a twelve month
but the total is still shamefully small. The
time must come when the Untited States will
export more than $500,000,000 worth of man
ufactured cotton goods, otherwise we shall not
have fulfilled our exploits in other industrial
lines. :
MM
There will be numerous efforts made in
the next few weeks to muddy the political
waters in Irwin, but the people cannot be side
tracketl from the main issue.,—Ocilla Star,
MM
They have a new brand of whiskey in some
of the dry counties of North Georgia. It’s
called the ‘“‘lnstantaneous.” Itis made instan
taneously from powders and produces deathly
sickness instantaneously, and at least one man
died instantaneously from an overdose. The
main difference between this new brand and
the old brands of brooze seems to be that the
new brand is instantaneous while the other
gives the opportunity of acting the hog and the
lunatic before sickness and death ensues.
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There is no need for the least heat in coun
ty politics. Thereis patriotic work to be done
for the present and future of the county and
there are enough patriotic men to accomplish it,
fairly and honestly.—Ocilla Star.
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This is the right kind of weather for clean
ing up the back yard. :
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The rotation plan of the Telfair Enterprise
is one that will not satisfy the people. The fact
that the other counties can choose the candidate
regardless of the wishes of the people of the
county whose time it is to furnish him, leavesa
bitter taste in the mouth and practically nulli=
fies rotation, except in name.—OQcilla Star.
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Pull for Fitzgerald or pullout. :
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~ W.C, T. U, Meeting,
The next regular meeting of
the W. C. T. U, will be held on
Friday March 9, at 3 p. m,, at
the Baptist church. Mrs. E. K.
Farmer, State and local superin
tendent of the department of
“Health and Heredity,” wil
have charge of the program, tak
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for consideration. It is hopec
that all new members, as well as
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body atall interested in this in
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prising the general officers and
vice-presidents for the different
churches, will meet from 2to 3
p. m., immediately preceeding
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