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FITZGERALD ENTERPRISH
VYolume XI
Teachers” Meeting,
The teachers’ meeting” at
Wray, Saturday, was a complete
and consummate failure, on ac
count of the rain, but the peoples
“meeting was the greatest suc
cess ic the history of Wray,
about 50 being present, ahd din
ner to supply the wants of 150.
Only two teacher were present,
Miss Birdie Swords, the teacher
at that place, and Mr. L. V,
Tyler, of the McMillan school.
We could exhaust the vocabu
lary of rhetcric, jawbreaking
words, and poetry, but words
are inadequate to portray the ap
pearance of that table, which was
‘a “'thiog of beauty” and “a joy
forever.” -
After dinaer, an excellant pro
gram was rendered by Miss
Birdie and her bright little pup
ils. Some of the selections were
“An old maids trip to N. Y.”
and “the Kentucky water-mel
lion” by the teacher, and ‘‘l'he
prevailing color,” “Playing
school,” “Bengin on the Raine”
and numerous others by the
‘students. At a late hour tbe
crowd dispersed, after a most
enjoyable day spent, ;
A motjon was mace by one of
the memuvers present who seem
ed to enjoy the dinner, that we
have a dinner like this every
Saturday which was warmly
seconded by all. "Those of the
teachers who were abseat have
the deepest sympathy of the
writer, in the loss of so magnifi
cent a repast.
' Communication,
Tosome persons, whose sense
of honesty is so perverted they
can not perceive that any thing
short of taking some article from
some individual by force, would
be theft, the following will sug
gest nothing. We havean Organ
ization in our midst, ‘which is de
servinz of the patronage of the
city. Yet, when this organiza
tion invites the co-opperation and
assistange of our cultured
and progressive citizeas, there
are certain members, of some of
the so called best society, who
for the paltry sum of the price
of a ticket, will figuratively
speaking, peep through the
cracks and crawl under the can
vass of the circus tent, like
street gamins, rather than pay
the price of an admission ticket.
Not only that, but -there thein
stincts of the street arabfl.Tnese|
same parties invite others of
their own stamina, to come and
crawl through the hole in the
Mss they have secured.
~From this vantage all can hear, if
not see, the whole performance,
s7ith one cents cost. This occur
" d on two seperate occasions re
cently and should it occur again
the whole personel of that class
of hearers will gain quite an un
evenable reputation. .
< A word to the wise is sufficient.
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FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. . SATURDA Y, MARCH 10. 1906,
A Treat In Store,
David Tatum, the noted Quak
er Evenangelist of Chicago, lils.,
will deliver one of his famous
lectures in this city on Sunday
evening the 18, under the auspi
cesofthe W, C. T. U. Watca
tfor the notice of the place. You
can't afford to miss it. Adms
tsion free. :
Thomasville, Ga., Dec. 20, 1899.
l I fuliy, and without hesitation,
give my unqualified endorsment
’to Friend David Tatum, in his
devoted and self-sacrificing labor
on ‘lntemperance, and the Li
quo~ Traffic.”
Friend Tatum delivered a
bighly instructive and impressi
ve address on Drink Evil, and
“"How to Save the Boys,” toa
lary+ and appreciative audience
Sabbath night, the 17th inst.,
and held the close attention of
the people trom the bginning to
the end of his discourse, and
every truly humanity-loving
heart in the audience was doubt
less enraptured with him, as he
spoke, wi'h earnestness and ef
fect, on Behalf of the Home and
the Youth, and surely not one
person regretted his or her atten
dance upon the occasion. 1
RoBeErT H. HARRIS,
(Former) Pastor First Bapiist
Church.
Osierfield News
Mr. J. H. Damersy will soon
bz ready to move ia his new resi
deq;e;on,Troupe street.
-~ Mr. O. Shepherd is buildiog a
residence in west Osierfield
which will be a creditto the town
when completed.
Mr. O. L. Harker is hustling
his building on Troupe street.
Messers. Bradly and Bradly
have moved in their new store on
Main street. . ; |
Don’t forget to register and
vote for Hoke Smith, register
books will be here next Tuesday.
Material is being sbipped here
for the new Unioa depot which
will be located near where The
O. & V.R.R crosses the A & B.
If you can’t speak a good word
for Osierfield don’t putin no bad
ones. ;
Dr. Bradly is attending court
in Irwinvilie this week. :
Mr. M. S. Gurmesy made Ir
winville a business call Monday.
Judge Sweat and Mr J.. Can-l
non of Waycross passed through
Osierfield Thursday enroute to
Irwinville.
Miss Julia Phillips one of
QOsierfield’s prettiest young ladies
is visiting Ocilla this week.
Another hotel is badly needed
in Osierfield. We have a fiine
school here with about forty pu
pils and more to come. Wonder
if we couldn’t get a coat of paint
put on our school house.
'Ask Mr. C. O Sheherd how he
enjoyed the musical entertain
ment last Monday night. ’
Mr. R. S. Talmage madea bus
iness trip to Florida last week.
' Hoke Smith will carry Osier
field two to one.
| - Spooney.
T EHEHIRIOCE:- A =« W EEE
Miss Adele Carnes, of Abbe
ville, is visiting in Elsie.
Mr. C. L. Martin, took a busi
oess trip to Tifton Thursday.
Henry Bostick, of I-winville,
was in the clty trading Thurs«
day. ‘
1 H. L. Vickers, of Ambrose,
transacted business in thigecity
on Tuesday. J’ (
J P. Langford, of Os ¥field,
put in the day Thursday patrons
izing our merchants. !
We feel it in our bones that
the A & B. will put in a big new
depot before a great while.
Miss Carolyn Wooten, return=
ed home on Thursday after six
weeks visit at Washington, Ga.
Rev. Dougherty started yesters
day for Sylvania, where he will‘
hold religious services uatil the
first of April. 1
Mr. A. J. Swords, visited with
his family from Sunday until
yesterday when he returned to
his saw-mill at Fletcher.
Messrs. E. W. Nelson, Louis
Keim, W. C. Wilkerson, and his
father from St. George, spent
the greater part of this week
’huming on the Ocmulgee.
' Oa Tuesday evening a number
of friends waited upon Mrs.
John Bye aad hclped her cele
brat her birthday by a social hour
accompanied by games and cake
and ambrosia. : |
Mr, Carey bas traded his stone
cottage on Lee street to E'
Towne and now presides over
the pretty little farm formerly‘
owned by Mr. Towne—the latter
taking possession of the Carey
stone cottage.
A letter from J. H. Rountree,
from Douglas, Arizona, to B. C.
Mosher, tells of the position he
now occupies with the Singer
Sewing Machine Co., at a salary ‘
of $4O per week. He has fifteen
men under bim and bas a terri
tory of 50,000 population, while
the city of Douglas has a popu
lation of 15,000.
We were pleased to meet D. J.
Brewton, of Thomasville, the
o'her day at the depot. He was
lone of the very first settlers in
tnis colony, who was a native!
Georgian. lantalking over early
¢olony days he pointed out the]
spot where the first beef was
butchered—not far from the
skating rink on Central avenue—
then a dence pine forest. He
drove the first stake ia the town
site and that was .where the
bandstand npow stands, He
helped lay off the streets in this
city—lived near the little, old
white washed church which is
now a part of oome the Harley
' cottages on Oconee and the Drew
Ifamily burial groynd was still
beside it at that time.
WITH THE PROCESSION
MKS NETTIE C. HALL,
(MOTERER ENTERPRISE) -
NEWS EDITOR.
Mrs. C. P. Butler and baby, of
Dothan, Ala., arrived Thursday
and joined Mr. Butler, who is
the foreman painter for the A. &
B. at this place.
~ “Nothing could show more
elearly the reformative power of
labor than the fact that the man
who works is rarely a criminal.
Poverty and crime have always
‘been linked together, higb living
and crime are fast forming the
same close relation. Men from
e.ther of these classes are not,
as a rule, good workman; hence
the difficulty of putting them at
prison work which they can do
well and profitably.”
Com mercizl Agedt’]. G. Knapp
calculates or es'imat®s that there
will be between fifty and one
hundred veterans to go from
bere to the B'ue and Grav organ
jzation in Atlanta. Mar. 27, 28 and
29th. . Those who will go from
Irwiaville, Ocilla near by will join
the party here ard go practical
ly in a body. A 1 cent mile rate
bas been secured by Mr. Knapp
whoe will give notice thro these
columns in plenty time—the day
and hour of the departure of the
train.. Mr. W. H. Marston is
National Sec. of tbis new organi
zation in which Fitzgerald has
unique interest. ’
Dear M¢! I feel much as
Mordecai did when he sings in
the Cantata of Esther—"My
sorrows are many and my pleas
ures aye few.” The early plum
and peach blossoms were so
sweet and I divided with some
of the railroad boys— conductors,
engineers, firemen, etc., and
never once forgot Agent Norris.
Yes, I even loaned them pins to
fasten their boquets on their
coats, Of course when they
arrived home, so gaily attired,
they had to give an accountiog,
and do you know these “‘Boys’
told their wives that their ‘‘Best
girl gave them the blossoms”
and—then—there was trouble in
the camp of the A. & B —for
only a short time though. When
the truth came out that the
donor was only that feeblemind
ed, harmless old lady—Mother
Eoterprise, smiles replaced the
naughty frowns. Later on
while sauntering along saloon!
row on Pine street, cheerfally
carryiog a bright, new tin pail I
was taken to task for Rushingi
the growler” which I indignantiy
declared was some nicely cooked
collards from Mrs. A. Kratz and
nothing short of removing the
lid saved my reputation. Now,
I want to know—dlid you eyer?
And that’s not all. The devil
made me say a cuss word in the
Enterprise-on the first page
too. When the form went on
the press one sentence read
**Helio! can I go air shipping?”
‘But with the perversity of type
)theOdropped out of sight and
;left only Hell. Is it any wonder
‘I take down the alleys and back
istreets” tremblingly asked the
:;old lady as she dejectedly moved
on.
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