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FITZGERALD ENTERPRISE
VYolume X 1
Railroad Shops will be
Located at Fitzoerald
Deed for Large Tract of Land
Delivered to Officials of
A, & B. Railroad.
From Saturda.yfi Atlanta Journal. >
For the purpose of delivering
- to the A. & B, railway officials a
deed to a tract of land at Fitz
gerald, Ga.,on which the railway
company propose to erect at
that place a number of repair
and manufacturing shops, a com
mittee of four prominent Fitz
geral citizens was in Atlanta,
Friday morning and made a for
mal tender of the deed to George
Dole Wadley, vice president of
the A. & B. road. 1
Those comprising the com
“mittee were William B. Bowen,
E. K. Farmer, E. W, Stetson
and J. E. Mercer. These citi
zens reached Atlrnta, Friday
morning and after transacting
their business with the road
officials returned on the after
poon train.. The land in ques
tion comes as a donation from
the business men of Fitzgerald.
Editor J. E. Mercer, of the
Fitzgerald Enterprise, one of the
most widely known papers in
South Georgia, in speaking of
Fitzgerald’s growth said this
morning: ot -
**Our town is now on the crest
‘_f a mighty wave of prosperity.
I should not use the word boom
in describing it for the stability
of our progress keeps it from
‘having anything like a mush
room appearance or quality.
Within the past five years our
bank _clearings have increased
beyond all expectation. Where
five years ago pine thickets were
cleared away bustling business‘
blocks now stand and waste
places of twelve months past are'
today yielding = thousands of
dollars in agricultural and man
ufacturing products. Fitzgerald,
I can safely say, is destined to
become one of the most thriying
and densely populated cities in
Georgla.” |
Mr. E. L Fendig has come to
live in Fitzgerald. Mrs. Fendig,
who is in Florida, will join him
at an early date. Mr. Fendigis
a brother of Albert Findig of the
well known firm of Brobston and
Fendig, and belongs tothat ag
gressive type of American citi
zens that always stands for
something. The Enterprise is
glad to welcome these good peo
to Fitzgerald. -
Miss Blanche Roberts left
Pitts for Fitzgerald to speanda
few days with her old friends.—
Pitts Journal.
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REMARKS.,
Some time during the year
1806, history failing to give the
month, a party of sturdy North
Carolinians, attracted to Georgia
by reports of its beauty, rested
on one of the hills overlooking
the spot where Macon now
stands. From this hill, looking
westward, the scene was so en
chanting that in spite of the
fact that along the banks of the
Ocmulgee River telow, winding
its way in the distance, was en
camped the hostile red men,
they resolved to make this the
end of their jourmey, and this
spot their home. |
At once they felled trees with
crude tools hewed them into
shape, and with the rocks gath
‘ ered fromall about, they proceed
ed to erect forts or block-houses
for their protection, naming
their home FORT HAWKINS,
For twenty yecars the colony
thrived in and about this fort.
There were occasional fights
with the Indians, who finally
drifted away. 'Then the rmem
bers of the colony built their
homeés nearer the river, and as
the fear of the return of the red
men vanished, they crossed the
river, and from all this the town
of Macon grew.
When a name was needed for
the little town, these North Caro
linians selected that of the young
and brilliant Senator, from their
own State—Nathaniel Macon.
As the settlement at Fort
Hawkins in 1806 marked the be
ginning of the town of Macon, it
seems appropriate to celebrate
in some befitting manner the
one hundreth anniversary - of
that event. |
As one means of celebrating|
the occasion, it is proposed to
make a Centennial Fair of the an
nual fair held this year in Macon
and to this end the Macon Fair
Association desires thc co-oper
ation of every man, woman and
child, wherever they may be,
who feels any pride in our
beautiful city.
The Fair Association will be
aided in this feature of the com
ing Fair by the Nathaniel Macon
Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution.
All over this broad land are
'scattered Macon-born people.
Is not this, the one hundreth
ibirthday of their beautiful city,
2 most fitting occasion for them
to visit the old home, meet old
friends and kin-people, and enjoy
a glorious homecoming?
Mr. R. O. Bell, who corducted
the musical program, for the
Baptist church returned home to
day. :
TE RICE-A-W EREIK
FIVZGERALD, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1906,
NEW COUNTY FOR FITZGERALD.
Well that’s what a good majori
ty of the white voters of Irwin
County waat. And if the citi
zens of Fitzgerald had worked to
gether in perfect unison .during
the last Session of Our General
Assembly we would today have
been citizens of Northern County
instead of Irwin.
My good friend and erstwhile
neighbor Edward Winslow told
me that it was talked on the
streets of Fitzgerald that I at
the crucial moment turned trai
tor to Northern County and
therefore Fitzgerald failed to
win out. Friend Winslow per
sistantly refused to tell me who
made such a statemeht. I could
not go to him, her, or them in
person, therefore I take this op
portunity to say that any person
or persons who say. Intimates
or by inuends insinuates that I
sold out, turnedt raitor or in any
way failed to keep faith in our
efforts to get a New County,
that person or persons making
such a statemeut is an unqualifi
ed, unmitigated, uncalled for
liar. At the very heel of the last
Session of the General Assembly
and after Northern County had
been adversely reported. I in
troduced the same Bill as an
amendment to our constitution
providing for one more County
and describing its metes and
bounds, that Bill has been favor
ably reported by the Committee
on Coastitutional amendmeants,
has been read a second time and
I think will pass ‘he House with
out a speech being made against
the Bill. With the Senate favor
able to the creation of more New
Counties and Fitzgerald and
surrounding community having
made greater material develop
ment during the last ten years,
than any other section in Georgia
I cannot see any reason why the
Bill will not pass provided its
’friends get together and work in
‘harmony. But there are other
issues ahead of us besides New
Couunty Bill.
I was elected to the Legisla
tur from Irwin County with the
direct understanding that I
would do everything in my power
to close the saloons of Irwin
County through the Legislatur,
During the last Session of the
General Assembly my High Lis
cens Bill passed the House, was
favorably reported by the main
Senate Committee to which it
was referred. The Saloon men
appealed to a special Committee
of three and that Committee re
ported the Bill favorably. It
was read a second time in the
Senate and the next day could
have been pasied, but my atten
tion was called to the fact that I
had not advertised the Bill accord
|ing to the very letter of the law,
land rather than risk baving
trouble in the Courts, the friends
of prohibition decided that it
would be time saved to table that
Bill, wait until next June and
come back before the Lagisla
ture with a Similar Bill properly
advertised. This I expect to do
and we confidently believe that
Irwin County’s Extreme high
Liscens Bill will become a law
within ten days from the opening
of the next Session of ‘the Gen
eral Assembly.
’ At tne same time as a compan
ion Bill we expect to repeal
;Ocilla?fs Dispensary Law. How
ever after thinking the matter
over, 1 find that we are up against
this obstacle Mr. Duncan Paulk
one of our Candidate for the Leg
islatur is an open saloon man.
Dr. E. J. Dorminey is our
otner condidate for the Legisla
ture, and I approached Dr. Dor
miney about this High Liscense
Bill, immediately after he an
nounced for the Legislature and
I said'in substance the following:
“I. hope to pass my High
Liscense Bill, during the first
ten days of the next session of
the legislature, Then I expect
to put through immed
jately thereafter, the New
County Bill, and if I do both and
you are elected to succeed me,
can we depend upon you to push
the High License Bill into the
new county?”’ 3
Dr. Dorminey said to me “I
will see you later about that
matter.”” Well we are now in
fifteen days of the primary, and
Dr. Dorminey has never been
back to see me about that very
important matter, and at this
stage of the game I know things
that cause me to believe that Dr.
E. J. Dorminey could not be de
pended upon to keep the new
county dry.
You see under the Joe Hall
Blanket Bill for new ‘counties, if
the high liscense bill is passed
ahead of the new county bill, and
we cut the new county from two
dry counties, then the New
county will rcmain dry unless
voted back wet. Therefore we
Prohibitionists are losing what
we have gained if we fail to send
a man to succeed me in the legis
lature wlo is committed and sent
there to carry the high license
law into our new county.
A very small combinatioh of
men—not over aix in number—
have laid a plan to bring whiskey
into the new county at Fitzgerald.
A very small number of men got
together and said we will send
Mr. ——— to the house and Mr.
to the senate. lam satis
find that one or the two of that
number were deceived and at
this time find themselves doiog
things contrary to their better
judgment. Its a bad day my
countrymen when six men can
The Proposed High
School Bond Issue
get together in secret, and
then and their elect the men who
shall represent, two thousand
free born American white voters.
But I want to say to my tried
true friends who have so nobly
stood by me in the past, that
this plot to bring liquor back to
Fitzgerald will fail. |
For whilel am thoroughly in
sympathy with the new county
movement, I do not intend to
work for the establishment of
the new county, untill I am as
sured that said new county will
have the same protecticn from
liguor —curse, that the mother
county is to have.
Now I am aware of the fact,
that a Fitzgerald citizen remark
ed that *“lts more important to
elect Dorminey and Henderson
than to have Wilcox on the floor
of the House.”
Another Fitzgerald citizen,
business man, and politician
went so far as to say that ‘“‘The
new county bill car be passed
without the assistance of Wilcox.
Well posibly so, for accidents
hapen vou'know in the best of
regulated families. However
both Messrs. Henderson and
Paulk tell me that they are ex
pecting me to pass our new
county bill and they go further
and say that should I fail with
assistance of friends to the meas
ure, to pass the bill, they could
not hope to follow me and gain
victory on the heel of two suc
cessive defeats.
And gentlemen it nearly looks
just a little that way to me.
Yours to better the condition
of the masses and at the same
time do no injustice to the clas
ses.
B. E. WiLcox.
W. L. Dunn was called to
Worth county this morning on
account of illness of his son. ‘
Mrs. M. Morrison sold her
residence property on Oconee
to Mr. Lester. Consideration
$l6OO.
- Miss J. M. Wade, after a visit
with Mrs. S. A. Dempsey, re
turned to her home in Kingwood,
this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Lon Dickey, of
Fitzgerald, spent Tuesday night
at Hotel Lott. Mr. Dickey on
Tuesday, bought the Boyd estate
on the Ocmulgee river. This is
said to be a fine farm, containing
1700 acres for which Mr. Dickey
paid s6,7so.—Broxton Journal.
Mrs. G. A. Manoe and Messrs.
F. A.and J. A. Brockinton, of
Brunswick, attended the funeral
of their sister, Mrs. H. M. War
iren, which was held in this city
on Saturday.
Number 478
EpiTorß ENTERPRISE:
Having carefully studied the
situation relative to the needs of
more school room for our come
stantly increasing population,
which is to be met with a pro
posed bond issue of $30,000 for a
high school building, I would
submit the following for your
consideration. ,
Would it not be more feasible
to issue bonds for the erection
of two school buildings, one for
each of the wards not yet pro
vided with them, exact dupli
cates of those we have Ta the
first and third wards. These
can now be erected at a costof
not over $5,000 each and will fill
all requirements for years to
come. This would reduce the
bond issue from $30,000 to $lO,-
000. If we now erect a high
school building in some central
location, it will not be long bee
fore the second andfourth wards
will be clamoring for school
buildings, and they are certainly
entitled to them, to judge from
the way they are filling up., The
time has come when the sites re
served for school buildings
should be utilized for that pure
pose. If $30,000 are now ex
pended for the unnecessary lux
ury of a high school building, it
is doubtfal whether the taxs
payers will very soon vote an=
other issue of bonds for school
buildings in these wards where
they are needed.
If it be objected that for two
new schools two complete sets
of teachers are needed, while for
a high school only one set is re
quired, thus increasing the cost
of running two additional schools,
we should bear in mind that
with the increasing population
the assessable values in these
wards are augmented, which will
not only provide for all such re
quirements, but also reduce the
burden of taxation for each indi
vidual. Thatis to say: as real
estate increases in value, the
tax rate can and should be re
duced in proportion and still
raise the necessary funds for all
legitimate and necessary ex
‘penses to ‘‘run’ the city.
~ Self-evident as this proposition
is, still it seems not to be largely
understood by the average taxe
payer. For instance, the valu
ation of real estate is increased,
we will say, 25 per cent. this
year, the tax rate should be re
duced from 1 per cent te %
per cent., or less, If the tax
is not reduced, our reciepts
‘would be out of all proportion to
our eqpenditures, and that would
lead to all manner of ‘‘extrava
gances,’’ as you please toexpress
iit. being averse to calling it by
the right name. (There is a
“happy medtx” between ex
\travagance add parsimony!)
Respectfully,
H. Wi%'s'rmm.