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A dollar in the Bank is an obstinate thing—it
stays put. Can you say as much if it’s in the pocket?
Does your pockei pay interest—does it give you the
self respect and confidence in the future thata grad
ually increasing bank account does?
The road to prosperity is before you—start
saving with a Dollar deposit. You'll be surprised to
see how the habit grows. So does the deposit.
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The First National Bank,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
We Have Just Received a Car Load
John Deere Plow Cornpa
ny’s Farming Implements
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Stalk Cutters, Cultivators, Disc Har
rows, Rollers, Planters, in fact
Everything in the Implement Line
Examine Them Before Buying.
Adams-Rogers Hardware Company,
Agents for Davis’ Semi-Paste Paint---The Best ‘
thing in Paint.
210 E. Pine St. Fitzgerald, Ga.
F. M. Graham & Co.
Lumber : Laths : Shingles
= MANUFACTURERS OF =
Window Frames Door Screens
All Kinds of Mouldings
Special vOrders For Dressed Lumber Filled on Short Notice
" PLAINING MILL AND NOVELTY WORKS
EAST END OF MAGNOLIA STREET
sy ELEPBONE : NUMBER FOURTEEN
BABBITT METAL-
Plenty of it; the Best Kind, at a
Bargain Price. At -
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Save the Coupons, they will be worth 10 votes in deciding
who shall have the Grand Banner Piano and other prizes.
| VOTING COUPON
| Enterprise Piano Contest.
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THE FITZGERALD ENTERPRISE
It’snot what you
earn that makes
you rich, but
what you save.
Then, why don't
you start
SAVING NOW?
THRICE-A-WEEK
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1910.
$5O Gold For The Holidays
To be Given to. Readers of This}
Paper—Read Particulars on
Fourth Page. |
With this issue of the Enterprise
wa start our Missing Word Contest
on the fourth page. This contest
has been Tun in most of the leading
papers of the South, and has proved
very popular with the readers and
advertisers. The merchants who
advertise on this page are the
leaders in their lines in the city.
They carry large stocks and know
‘how to let the people know it through
la good advertising medium—The
Enterprise—and the Educational
‘Missing Word contest. Now all get
busy and find the missing words,
as it means money to you—s2s,oo
in gold to the first, $15,00 to the
second and $lO,OO to the third. Re
member there is only one word left
out each issue, and we give the first
‘and last letter of the word in -the
gold coupon. So get the key, locate
the word, fill out the return coupon,
mail or bring to the Enterprise
office and there you are. It's easy.
To those who are not subscribers to
iThe Enterprise, get in line. Send
us your names and have the Home
\paper for you and your family left
‘every issue.
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Comparitive Bank Statement
NOV. 28, 1909.
Dep05it5..........$ 67,000:00
Resources .. ......$206,000.00
NOV. 28, 1910.
Deposits. . .. ......$121,000.00
Resources . ...... 274,000.00
The growth of the Third National
Bank the past year as shown by
these figures has been untisual.
City Court
Judge E. Wall convened the city
court yesterday with one of the
heaviest dockets before him in the
history of the courts. It was remark
‘ed it would require several weeks
to clear the docket if all the cases
went to trial, but with a large num
ber of them continued, it will in all
probability require longer than this
week to go through the docket.
The court house was well filled
with lawyers, litigants, jurors, wit
nesses and spectators, and pre-}
sented very much the appearance
of the opening of superior court.
List OF Jurors
List of jurors serving this term of
city court as follows; |
~ E. G. Pridgeon.
J. T. Jackson.
L. E. Ashhurst.
G. S. Deyo.
R. L. Porterfield. :
J. D. Dorminy.
C. W. Hays.
J. C. Peavy.
I. A. Cardwell.
S. G. Pryor.
J. A. Parrott. ‘
0. M. Minshew.
M. S. Hopkins.
J. B. F. Dixon.
Geo. H. Bryant.
A. B. C. Dorminy.
L. Robitzsch.
H. G. Powell.
P. F. Stone.
G. W. Gladden.
A. H. Thurman.
D. D. Mitcham.
J. D. Thorton.
L. M. Chasteen.
G. E. Ball.
I ee Mercer.
An idle woman is a danger
ous quantity in any communi
ty in the world, especially in
civilized countries where gossip
is a fashion and slander a fad.
The 801 l Weevil And
How To Meet It
Editor Constitution: The recent
boll weevil convention, held in At
lanta, was not only timely, but I be
lieve will arouse the farmers and
business interests of the state gen
erally to an appreciation of the im
pending danger from this destruc
tive insect.
i However, Georgia has been active
1y alive to the coming of the boll
iweevil for the past seven years, and
‘seversl thousands of dollors have
‘been expended by the state depart
ments of agriculture and entomolo
gy in protecting the state from the
lboll weevil,
In 1903, while you were president
of the state senate and I was chair
man of the senate committee on
agriculture, a bill was introduced
and passed appropriating money to
enable the state entomologist to
study the habits of the weevil, issue
bulletins to the farmers as how best
to safeguard their cotton crops from
the insect, and also to establish and
maintain a strict quarantine against
the shipment of products from the
weevil-infected territory of the
southwest into this state.
Our state entomologist has been
active along these lines for the past
seven years, and the farmers’ insti
‘tute and extension work of the State
College of Agriculture has likewise
been an important factor in prepar
ing the farmers of the state for the
coming of the weevil.
Within the next two or three years
the boll weevil will invade the cot
ton fields ofsthis state and the real
fight against the pest will begin.
The United States department of
entomology and plant industry wili
then establish a force of experts in
Georgia to-assist the farmers, just
has been the case in the other cot
ton states already infected.
As an adjunct to the state depart
ment and college work, it should be
’the policy of the state to welcome
all the aid which can be given by
‘the federal government.
~ The boll weevil is the most dis
astrous insect known to science, and
one which no specific, as yet discov
ered, will eradicate.
The cotton acreage of Texas has
been increased 30 per cent in the
past ten years, but there has been
no corresponding increase in pro
duction. Normal crops in Texas
can only be assured when the win
ters are so severe as to practically%
exterminate the weevils in their
period of hibernation. |
Last year with nearly 10,000,000
acres planted in cotton, Texas pro
duced only 2,500,000 bales.
The state of Louisiana produced
over 1,000,000 bales of cotton in
1906, but since the invasion of the
weevils the crops for the past two
years have been reduced to a_quar
ter of million bales, practically par
alyzing the cotton industry of that
state.
In 1908 the state of Mississippi
produced 1,700,0i0 bales. but - with
the invasion of the weevil the crops
for the past two years have been
reduced fully one-third.
-1 believe that the climatic condi
tions in the old cotton growing
states mill be far more favorable
for the propagation of the weevil
and it sconsequent dest: uctiveness
than is possible under the severe
winters and hot, dry, summers of
Texas.
Georgia farmers should be im
pressed with the seriouiness of the
situation they are to face within the
next three years and, urged by the
state press and our departments of
agriculture, to prepare for war in
times of peace.
Follow the advice of the govern
ment experts who have spent years
in the study of the weevil and have
learned the best methods of fight
ing the insect. :
Above all things teach the farm-
Twenty-Eight Bales of
Cotton On One Wagon
Dublin, Ga., Nov. 26.—Wi1l Lin
der, who resides seven miles east of
Dublin, brought to the city on one
wagon twent-eight bales of cotton
of average weight of 500 pounds
yesterday. -
The cotton was worth more than
$2,000.
Six mules pulled the wagon and
had no trouble in doing so because:
of good roads.
Jacob Dorminy
At nine o'clock this forenoon Hon.
Jacob Dorminy died at his home
about ten miles East of Fitzgerald.
He had been in feeble health
some weeks and his family and
friends had expected the end.
He was a native and one of the
oldest in this section of the state
and leaves a large family connect
ion that will be gathered about his
grave, near his home tomorrow.
He was a man of -high integrity
and was honored for many years by
all his neighbors and acquaintances
as a man of great strength of char
acter.
The Editor Nominated For
President
Springfield, Mo.
Mr. J. E. Mercer,
Dear Editor:
Please find enclosed one dollar
postoffice order for continuation of
the Fitzgerald Enterprise. ‘
I see in the Enterprise you are
hitting hard those who are helping
the saloon element; and poor Tom
Watson gets his face smashed three
times asweek—well; you-keep on in
the right and maybe you will be
the president in 1912; certainly if
the women get to vote by that time,
Yours truly,
Phone the Enterprise about your
visitors. It will help our news
columns and compliment your
friends.
[ers of Georgia to begin at once the
‘production of home supplies and to
break up the credit system.
Teach them the imperative nec
essity of beginning now the better
methods of diversification and in
tensifying the culture of the soils
and crops.
If the average farmer can be
brought within the next three years
to the onership of a full corn crib
and smokehouse as anecessary part
of his farm operations the invasion
of the boll weevil in Georgia can be
better resisted because the farmers
will have ammunition on hand with
which to make the fight.
The corn demonstration work,
now being so splendidly carried out
in Georgia by the United States
Department of Agriculture is doing
inestimable good along these lines
and should be in every way en
couraged. Let no man minimize
the tremendous destructive forces
of the Mexican cotton boll weevil
Millions of ‘dollars have been ex
pended by the states infected and
by the federal government, and the
pest is still going forward with its
destruction unabated.
Farmers’ organizations with the
business interests of the state and
all of our co-operative forces can
not too quickly inaugurate an active
campaign to save the Georgia{ cot
ton crop from the demoralization
and destructive influence of the boll
weevil.
We cannot afford to lose a fourth
or even a third of the aggregate
value of the great staple crop of
Georgia without experiencing a cor
responding depression in the busi
ness interests of the state.
Yours truly
Harvie: JorpaN
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DEPOSITS INSURED.
A Certificate of Deposit issued
by the Third National Bank,
guaranteed against loss by The
Fidelity and Casualty Company
of New York, the strongest
bonding company in America,
affords protection to the deposi
tor without extra cost, the usu- |
al rate of interest being paid on
Savings Deposits.
RESOURCES $300.000.00
$44,000,000 Deposits In
Georgia National Banks
Washington, D. C., Nov. 26.—An
abetract of the report made to the
controller of the currency showing
the conditions of national banks in
Georgia at the close of business Nov.
18 last gives the total deposits as
$43,795,611; loans and discounts,
$52,906,271, total resources, $87,-
807,716,
Typewriter Ribbons for any make,
in any colors desired at the Enter
prise office.
Prizes And More Prizes!
The Enterprise Piano Contest is
Growing. i
The merchants like it, the con
testants ‘enjoy it ~The meérchants
are putting up so many prizes ' that
the capital prize; the Fine Upright
Banner Piano, is small in compari
son.
There are almost as many prizes
already offered as there are contest
ants in the field.
The Miller Furniture Company
has put up a Solid Leather Morris
Chair, valued at $20.00. See it in
their large show window.
Russell Bros., Ladies Gold Watch.
Johnson Hardware Co., a steel
beam Oliver Chilled Plow.
Hussey & Parrott a Bicycle, for
man or lady, boy or girl.
Empire Mercantile Co., Ladies’
Tailored Suit, to order.
Watt-Holmes Co., a Cook Stove.
All of these prizes, and more. will
be on display at the various stores
where the contestants and their
friends can see them.
Ask for the coupons at the stores,
19 of them, every dollars worth
couns one hundred votes in decid
ing who shall have the piano and
other prizes.
Rules of Courtesy
For The Children
From the Detroit Free Press
Every boy and girl will find help
ful the following rules, which have
been adopted by the Children’s Guild
of Courtesy, in connection with the
London county council schools.:
Many of the other London schools
have followed the same course with
great success:
Courtesy to yourself.
Be honest. truthful and pure.
Do not use bad language.
Keep your face and hands clean
and your clothes and boots brushed
and neat. :
~ Keep out of bad company.
Couriesy at home.
Help your parents as much e¢s
you can. :
Be kind to your brothers and
sisters.
Do not be selfish, but share all
your good things.
Do your best to please your pare
ents. -
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