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YOUR SUIT AN) OVERCOAT SHOULD BEL !
MaoE 70 Your INDIVIDUAL MEASURE
Published Three Times Per Week by JESSE E. MERCER.
$2.00 Per Year.
Wntered at Fitzgerald Postoffice as Mail Matter of Second Class.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1910.
The Turkeys that are left have something to be thankful for.
The cooks and the housekeepers are thankful that it is all over
A few Crippen trials and executions in America would exert a
wholesome influence. |
Let's have the Poultry Club and the Corn Club we need both.
They are prosperity makers.
We may not want the Parcels Post but we certainly want some
thing better than the present express system.
Elbert Hubbard would destroy the home, the basis of all govern
ment, the unit of all that is good in political economy.
Tom Price is a candidéte for mayor of Douglas, or at least his name
has been suggdested; so has the name of Mr. J. C. Brewer been suggested.
Dear reader, (home reader) picture in your mind Ben Hill county
and this section of Georgia ten years hence and you will understand what
we mean when we say that real estate values are entirely too low.
Nashville will have direct railroad connection with Moultrie
by the first of the new year. Now, we should get busy and get
the Henderson road from Alapaha, Ocilla and Fitzgerald.—
Nashville Herald.
According to a news item in the Macon Telegraph Hoke
Smith has a majority of 53 members in the state legislature.
—Milledgeville News.
That is certainly reason enough for the Telegraph to insist on taking
the matter of selecting a senator out of the hands of the legislature.
Atlanta's tax values increased twelve millions in one year.
During 1910 there has been a gain of approximately $12,000,000
in the city's taxable property, divided, about $8,000,000 increase in realty
and $4,000 increase in personalty. The total taxable values, based upon
a 60 per cent assessment, are about $117,000,000.
In 1909 the taxable property amounted to $104.809,813, of which
the realty was $73,940,983 and personalty $30,868,830. In 1908 the realty
was $68,589,387 and personalty $28,779,442, a total of $97,368,829.
“There are three prime factors in fighting the boll weevil,"
said Dr. S. A. Knapp of the United States bureau of plant indus
try, at the boll weevil conference here to-day.
-“The first is a throrough fall plowing; second, the selection of
nothing but good seeds, and, third intensified cultivation. Of
course there are a great many other rules that must be followed
but these three rules form the basic principles that must be ob
served.—Savannah Morning News. ‘
-~ To secure perfect Fit, perfect Grace,
perfect Style—-to realize the fullest
measure of comfort and permanent satis
tion. |
“Presto” Collars are proving very pop
ular this Fall and are used on our Overcoats.
An extensive line of Woolens to select
from---come in and place you order NOW.
W. L. SMITH
In an early issue of the Enterprise we will inaugurate an Educa
tional Missing Word Contest consisting of a page of four inch advertise
ments of the leading merchants of the city. Out of one of the ads each
iissue there will be a word omitted. To the one finding the missing word
‘the most times in the 6 weeks will receive the first prize $25.00 in gold,
‘and the second $15.00 in gold and the third $lO.OO in gold. This contest
is a hummer, and has proven very successful in all the leading papers of
the south and is certainly a hot one for the advertisements as each con
testant must read each and every advertisement carefully in order to
locate the missing words. :
Its easy, just read the gold coupon carefully to get the key. The
first and last letter of the word follows the lead and you will surely land
‘the money. Now all watch for the issue and get in on this for Holiday
‘money, This contest is on the square and the winners get the gold. No
one connected with the office or paper in any way can compete. To
‘those who are not now on our subscription lists, we would suggest it
‘would be a good time to send in your names. You have, no doubt been
thinking of it for some time but just neglected doing so. Come in now
and get in the swim. Look for the first issue.
! THE OLD UNRELIABLE
The Western Union Telegraph, the most complete, the most arro
gant, the most exasperating of all American monopolies.
What has been your experience with the Western Union? Its ex
orbitant rates are bad enough but not comparable to the service, trying
to the nerves, destructive of business, disastrous to many a plan and
blasting to many hopes.
" The public is absolutely at its mercy. While its stockholders revel
in a harvest of gold on fabulously, fictitious capitalizationits officers
are figuring how to reduce expenses at the cost of efficiency. As soon
as an operator or manager has had sufficient experience to entitle him to
respectable pay he is forced out of the ranks by novices who are willing
to work at learner's prices, and messages: are bauked up ‘in
relay offices where the operators are forced to grind hour after hour, often
transmitting messages that have been piled high on the hook for half a day.
Yesterday, Friday, we received late in the forenoon a message that
had been sent from Atlanta Wednesday; that message was received by
the way of Jacksonville, Fla., notwithstanding the fact that the com
pany has a direct line between this office and Atlanta. All the business
from Atlanta and other points beyond, north, east and west is handled
thru Jacksonville where underpaid opperators sit, grinding long
hours upon important messages of the most urgent nature.
Wednesday a business man of this place sent a message from
Douglas to his house here, came home on the night train and received
the message next day 15 or 20 hours after it could have been of service.
If the message had been sent by a negro on a mule it would have been
handled more promptly, the service more reliable.
We might fill this page with instances that are of every day oc
currence, but who cares, does anybody suppose that the Western Union
people care? Our only hope is thru the state and national railroad com
missions, and if they haven't sufficient authority we must appeal to the
legislature and to congress for protection against: this infernal organization
of heartless monopolist, that is robbing the public of every pessible
penny for service thatis worse than farcical, deliberatley disappointing,
standing as a huge mountain in the road of progress and business im
provement, over which it is impossible for competition to climb and
against which the business of the country is fretting and being destroyed.
After all is it worth while? Can the influence of the franking
privilege be overcome sufficiently to give the public a fair hearing in
the public prints? ‘
HIGH FLYING
Philadelphia, Nov. 23.—J. Armstrong Drexel broke all aeroplane
altitude records here today when he climed above this city until his Bler
iot monoplane was unable to make further progressin the rarified atmos
phere. The ink in the needle of his barograph ran out at 9,970 feet which
was accepted as a new world'’s record.
The new game law has had the effect of making game more
prolific in this section. Birds were being mercilessly slaughter
ed until the enactment of the new game law and the present
hunting season promises to be a particularly fine one.—Griffin
: Herald. '
Quail are plentiful in all south Georgia.
The Early County News takes a philosophical view of the sena
torial situation and closes a bright editorial on that question with the .«
following paragraph. i
We are well satisfied that if the situation were reversed there
would be no call for a primary from the ranks of the friends of
the new Senator Terrell, though there inight be from the friends
~of Hoke Smith. " Therefore, we predict there will be no primary,
despite the lack of consistency it may exhibit. Politicians are
9onsis§ent only. when it is expedient. In this case expediency
is against consistency.
W E wish to thank all those who
have contributed to our large
increase in deposits since Nov. 10th.
We have a right to feel proud of
our growth.
On Nov. 10th our Deposits were - $8,889.40
On Nov. 22nd our Deposits were $17,357.39
Percentage of Increase 95 per cent.
in Twelve Days.
It is needless to say that we are highly pleased
with our business and will endeavor to merit the
good will and patronage of the good people of
Ben Hill.
Thanking you again, we beg to remain,
Very truly yours, :
W.R. PAULK, P. F. CLARK,
W. H. KENDRICK, L. L. GRINER,
ELI W. WALKER, JOHN B. D. PAULK,
~ R. L. DUCKWORTH, ARCH GRIFFIN,
~ _JOHN D. WALKER, WILFRED LANE,
: OTIS H. ELKINS,
Dircctors of
AMERICAN STATE BANK, Fitzgerald, Ga.
Central Avenue Bank.