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FITZGERALD ENTERPRISE
VYolume XI
Imporfant Road
Soon to Be Built
Macon and Valdosta fo
be Connected By
Another Line.
Directors of -(;c-:-dl—a-& Valdosta
Resolve to Extend Line
Through to Macon.
From the Macon News. 2
Six railroads are now bringing
passengers into Macon and tak
them from this city to other
points, and as the results of a
move made by the more promi
nent officials of the Ocilla and
Valdosta Railway Company, the
gseventh road to enter Macon
seems assured. _ |
Oa May 24 the board of direct
ors of the road named met in
Ocilla and after. talking over
routine matters, the subject of a
pinety mile extension to Macon
was broached. This was the
first time that the matter had
been mentioned in the presence
of all the directors, but it had
beearchearselagain and again in
the miads of the directors indi
vidually. When it came up at
the diregtors' meeting the time
was ripe and a warm discussjon
followed, - °
in the end the directors decided
to make an avplication to the sec
retary of state for the granting
of an aneadment to the charac
ter of the railroal. The action
takeng "by thedirectyrs in come ‘
piete form §s as follows: l
“Resolved by the board "of
directors of the O:illa and Va?-{
dosta Railroad Company, that an
application and petition be made
to the secpetary of state, of the
gtate of Georgia, to have granted
to the Ocilla and Valdosta Rail-l
road Company under the general
laws of said state of Georgia, an
amendment to the present char
ter of said railroad company so
as to change the general direg
tion and route of said railroad
company, and to extend its rail
road line and track as now con
structed and operated by extend
ing the maia line of said railroad
company from one point on its
present line of said road as now
gonstructed,add hetween the city
af Ocilla, Georgia and Osiefield,
Georgia, Irwin county, and from
“guch point thence to run in a
pertheriy di-ection through the
eounties of Irwin, Wileox, Pu'as
ki, Houston and Bibb toand into
the city of Macon, all in said
state of Georgia. The length of
said extension from the point
herein designated on its present
line of road to the city of Macon,
Georgia, being a distance of
pinety miles as npear as the same
" ean be estimated.
“Be it further resolved, That
this resolution and minutes of
this meeting of the boards of
directors he spread upon the
minutes, .- -
“This the 24th day of May, 1906’
; J. A.J. Henderson,
~_ Chairman Board of Directors.
W. N. Sm'i,th,'St;cretary.
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Miss Reibsam leaves tomorrow
for Detroit, Mich., and Chicago,
Jlls., where 'she will spend her
summer vacation returning in
the fall in time for schéol. %
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~ Hon. Hoke Smith
Greeted by Enthusiastic Democrats from
~All Parts of the County.
All Clasgés of Voters Meet Him and Assure Him of Irwin’s Backing
In the Convention—Fitst Good Farming Weather in Two
- Days Does Not Keep Crowds from His Speaking.
High School Gom
mencement Exercises
Held at the Opera House, Last
Night, Rcflected Great
Credit on Graduates
and Teachers,
The commencement exercises
of the High School held in the
opera house oa last evening
proved the evea: of the season
and wgs attesded by a large con
cotitse of the best of the city
It is generally conceded tbat the
programe was equal to those o
proceeding years which means
considerable. Every number on
the programe reflected credit on
the whole and oa the able corps
o} teachers wto bad assisted in
bringing about the frui‘ion of
their hoper and efforts.
Lack of space and time for
bids details and altho each par
ticipapt Cescrves special men
tien. “A Prospect” by Robert
Owen and ‘‘Class History and
prophecy” by Margueritte
Emery and ‘A Modern Knight”’
by Fred Ball will appear in
another issue of the Enterprise.
The only shadow over the propi
tious event was the absence of
Prof. Klepper and Mrs. C. Hoov
ver, high school teacher—on ac
count of illness. The proceeds
will probably amount to $5O.
Prof. Klepper Szriously 111.
The Enterprise regrets that
it is unable to announce an im
provement in the eondition of
Prof. Klepper this afternoon,
He is very ill and his friends will
anxiously await @ more favorable
repo.t, which we trust we will
be able to give them Thursday.
" The Elks Organize, 1
The Elks, who convened and
organized in this city last Friday
eve, elected the following offi
cers: J. G. Knapp, Exalted
Ruler; J. I. Campbell, Esteemed
Leading Knight; D. B. Ware,
Esteemed Loyal Knight; W, R.
Bowen, KEsteemed Lecturing
Kuigh!; L. Jewett Smith, Sectye
J. D. Dorminey, Treas; R. H.
Payne, Tyler.
: {E W. Stetson,
Trustees. <J. M. McDonald.
J. L. Dorminey.
A.J. Lewis is in Mcßea at
tending the wedding of his cou
sin E. F. Mcßea president of the
Merchants and Farmers bank of
that city.
Harley Ayres, came over from
Douglus, yesterday and helped
the bandboys at the Hoke Smith
receiption.
THRICE:-A -VW EEIX
FIYVZGERALD, GBORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1906,
Hon. Hoke Smith, the pe#ple’s popular candidate for governot®
arrived on the 11:25 A. B. &A, train from Waycross on time and
was greeted by practically the city of Fitzgerald, reinforced Dby
crowds of democrats from all parts of the country.
The reception committee of one hundred was augmented by
Hoke Smith Club men from Ocilla and Irwinville clubs.
There can be but one meaning to his reception, one explaua
tion and that is that Irwin county is overwhelmingly for him aand
inspite of the machinations of machine men, or men who for any
reason oppose his candidacy, will see that its vote is cast for him in
the convention, Sept: 4th.
A spacious platform erected at the intersection of Central and
Grant streets accommodated about half of the reception committce
and a balf hundred other prominent men and leading democrats of
the county, and promptfy at 1:20 Col. Belton Jay iatroduced the
distinguished candidate to anaudience entirely too large for any
building. It was at first planned to have the speaking in the opere
house, one of the largest in the southern end of the state, but the
committee decided that it would not hold the crowd. Quite a num
‘ber of ladies were in the throng of more than a thousand people
that listened to the ablest speaker that has been on the stump in
‘Georgia since the days of Bob Toombs. v
The speech was a notable one and made a profound impres
sion not only upon the suppdrters, but upoa eyery intelli
gent mind in the audience. He made it plain that he was not in
sympathy with the effort of the machine politics to exclude those
respectable and intelligent white citizens of the state who for vari
ous reasons had not always ia the past affiliated with the party
ia national and state politics. He is a white mac’s man from the
core and while his democracy has never been questioned until it
suited the schemers and railroad lobbyists té seek to create an im
pression for political purposes in' this campaign. He is a demo
crat of democrats, born of democratic parents, rocked in a demo
cratic cradle, but he is broad minded encugh to understand why
other good men who have been reared under different conditions
might hold different views, and he is liberal enough to permit
all good white men to become democrats whenever it suits their
good pleasure to vote the ticket, and he is good politician enough to
know that arrogance and iron clad rules intended to exclude and
keep out of the party all those who do not happen to be born into it
tends to party suicide.
__His description of and denunciation of ring rule in Georgia
elicited applause, and when he_ particularized by naming Judge
Hamilton McWhorter as the paid legislative bobbyist of a railroad
corgoration and little Albert Howell, of the great insurance com
panies, and T. B. Felder and othersforcorporate interest, he made
a profound impression, G e e ;._,M.;i.-
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| - Umbrella Thief,
In the far west where human
habitations are widely scattered
and herds of horses, flocks of
sheep and bunches of cattle graze
on unfenced ¢ public lands and
where the temptation to steal is
great, the penalty for theft of a
cow is extreme, for the reason
that ordinary punishment would
make the cattle business extra
hazardous. The cattle thief is
usually strung up and shot.
We have always believed that
the umbrella thief was in a class
to bmiself. He’s worse than the
bicycle thief. Any sort of a
scamp can pickup your umbrella
and get away with It, and people
who will not steal anything else
in the world will steal umbrellas.
They’ll take it and walk off with
itand never think toreturn it,un
til umbrellas have got to be a
species of common property.
A law reqviring the deposit of
umb-eilas found with some giv
en party at some certain place,
and fixing a penalty for any per
son found in possession of an um
brella that he could’nt prove the
ownership of, from whom
bought, and the price paid, and
providing for monthly auction
sales of all unclaimed umbrellas
and parasols would not be a bad
law.
At least something ought to
be done to discourage the um
brella thieves, they are entirely
too numerous.
Ed. Algee’s smiling face beam
ed upoan his friends this morning
as he stepped off the train for a
visit in his old home town—Fitz
gerald. :
A letter from Mr, and Mrs. S.
M. Whitchard at the DeSoto,
Savannah, to their neighbors and
companions at the Stratford,
bring tidings of good health and
a pleasant trip. They are ex
pected home sometime this week.
Mr. and Mrz, E, F, Chambless
and their little daughter return
ed home this morning from
Forsyth, Mr. Chambless coming
home sick which we trust is only
temporary. :
Mrs. W. E. Hale accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. S. Winsted to Tif
ton where they took the body of
their baby for interment, going
on the 8:40 A. B. & A, train this
morning. % ;
A letter from Mrs. Rose Te-‘
‘beau Wheelwright, Columbia, S.
C. brings the sad news of the
death of her aged mother. Mis.
Wheelwright is'well known and
highly esteemed in Fitzgerald
and her many warm friends here
sympathize with her in the loss
of her parent. She is expected
in" Fitzgerald atan early date,
and will spend seyeral'days here
with ‘friends while logking afte:
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Typhoid Fev
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- The following interesting
per on the spread of typhol
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Lake, Ind. May 25th. by Dg :
Victor Keen. The occasios
the annual session of the’
State Medical Association,
DR. KEENE ON TYPHOID FEV
The paper read by D
Victor Keene, superintende
the State Laboratory of Hyg
on “The Eticlogy of Typ ‘
Fever,” was perhaps the §
interesting of the day. Im
plaining the various wayss
which fe disease may-be_cal
he said: 5
. “Little real knowledge
garding the life history of
typhoid bacteria out of the B
an body existed uatil within
last few years. There W
many coffflicting theories
fancies, but little real knowle
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known: The typhoid bagillg
not a hardy organism; in ¥ac
tends to die out rapldly aftes
has left the human body, un
grown on special culture mel
or uander conditions which §
not normally found. A
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multiply in water; in fact, §i
they die out rapidly. Loogz lifi
of experiments have been i
ducted, and it has been sh@}
absolutely that the typhoid b
lus dies out i ordinary wates
from four to five days; whil
sterile water they remain &
as long twenty-one days. ‘A
length of time the typhoid B
teria remain alive in water
dependent upon a number 3
factors, probably the most &8
portant of which are the comm
water bacteria.
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“The important point in §
history of the life cycle of 8
typhoid organism outside of
human body is that the organis
does not multiply in water a#
that it lives only from four
five days. From this we at on
get on to other important cof
siderations. To keepa typhe
fever epedemic in force, cause
by polluted water, it is necessas
to repeatedly, at shart intery al
re-infect the water, as it is. vel
obvious from a consideration
the life cycle of the typhoN
bacillus that the organism woul
die out of its ocwp accord M
about a week. So that for:
water to remain nonpotable ové
a protracted period of time it#
necessary that the water BN
continuously re-infected with
typhoid excreta.
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be badly polluted and infect &
large number of people, and by
the time the typhoid fever d€
velops clinically in these peopié
so ‘infected, for the water to:
have completely purified itselfs
and become absolutely potabie;
The period of incubation of t¥s
phoid fever in the human bei@
is about three times the DEEIEE
of life of the typhoid ONEN
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