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FRIDAY
EDITION
‘VOL. XXVI. No. 66
LYNWOOD AND ASHTON DISTRICTS VOTE SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX
‘Will Sell French Poppies for
French Child Relief
MRS. BOYKIN CHAIRMAN
Atlanta Club Woman Plans to
: Organize Entire State ‘
TLeader News Bureau ‘
‘4th Nat'l Bank Bldg, |
ATLANTA, May 20.—The pledge
‘of Georgia’s loyalty to her sons who
made the supreme sacrifice in the
great war overseas for the freedom
of the world has been given by Mrs.
B. M, Boykin, who has accepted the
position of State chairman for the
«distribution of the crimson poppies
that are to be worn generally May
30, which is World War Memorial
Day, in honor of those who fell.
Mrs, Boykin, president of the At
lanta Woman’s Club, was probably
‘the most active Southern woman, in
'war work, She was chairman of the
Southeastern division of women’s
work of the Y, M. C. A., and by her
activities at Camp Gordon, first the
home of the Eighty-second Division
and later the most extensive replace
ment camp, she became nationally
as the “mother of Camp Gordon,”
“I deem it an honor and a mat
ter for gratitude to b e connected
‘with this task)” said Mrs. Boykin
in accepting the Georgia chairman
'ship for the poppy memorial, “It is
‘a movement to keep alive our most
:sacred memories, so that the deeds
of the men who have given their
lives shall not be unacknowledged ox
unsung” |UI U 0 siete, e
The memorial poppies will be dis
tributed in every city and town in
Georgia by the organization which
Mrs. Boykin is working to perfect,
She has undertaken to establish local
chairmen and the committees in ev
ery point where live those to whom
the memories of the war and its les
sons are dear, !
. The poppies are being- sent into
‘Georgia by thousands, silken replicas
«of the crimson poppies =of - Flanders
Field. . The poppy has been adopted
as memorial flower by the American
Legion, women’s auxiliaries of the
Legion, Daughters of the American
Revojution, sons and daughters of
weterans and other patriotic organi
'zations ,and its wearing on World
‘War Day urged by them,
The flowers to be distributed here
have been made by widows and or
phans of France, They are to be
sold to individuals for ten cents each,
and the money devoted to relief of
the French women and children,
made widows and orphans by the
war. Southern headquarters of the
American-Franco Children’s League
have been established at 516 Peters
Building, wth C. Armond Carrofl, as
director, A supply of poppies al
rteady has been received here, and
orders are being filled by shipments
‘to all parts of, the South, -
FRANK C. GILREATH.
‘CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE
IS HONORED BY FLAG
The flag over the United States
Postoffice here was lowerd to half
-emast today on order of Postmaster
W. A, Adams in honor of Chief Jus
tice White of the' United States Su
preme Court, Justice White died
yesterday after a prolonged illness
and ‘considerable interest exists over
his possible successor, : William
Howard Taft ‘and Charles Evans
Hughes have both been suggested.
The Supreme court takes its summer
recess June 6th, :
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Maric Currie, even though the
mothgr of two little girls and with
home’ duties to take up her fime,
did not permit these obstacles to
keep her from_.writing her name:
high in the world’s hall: of fame.
She discovered radium, the most
precious of metals. Now she is
in_ the United States to reccive
from the hands of President Hard
g a gram of radium, valucd at
$lOO.OOO, the gift of American wo-.
men who admire her great scicn
tific work. :There arc only _l4l
grams of radium in the world to
day. Her two girls, now 23 and
16 years old, accompanied her here
from the home in France.
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Honored With Bronze
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Bronze Tablet Placed at Anderson
| ~ ville for Mrs. Brown
A handsome bromze tablet will be
placed in thée rest room at Ander
sonville National Cemetery in honor
of Mrs, Susan L. Brown; a formier
Fitzgerald lady, who served through
the civil war as an army nurse for
thé United States.
Mrs. Brown was instrumental in
having the rest room built at Ander
sonville for the comfort of the old
soldiers and their wives who make
an annual pilgrimage to the site of
the civil war military prison for
the purpose of decorating the graves
of the thousands who died there;
In honor of her work as a nurse
and in having the rest room built,
the National Organization of Ladies
of the Grand Army of the Republic
had the bronze memorial tablet
made. It was received here this week
by Mr. J. M. Mosher, or the local
post of G. A, R. and he will carry
it to Andersonville on May 30th.
The organization also sent a beauti
ful sixteen-foot Unfted States flag
which will be flown over the rest
room, 2
Mrs, Brown will be re remembered
here by most old-timers. She is the
mother of Howard Brown who had
a photograph studio here for many
years, Mrs. Brown now’ lives with
a son in Chicago.. :
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Mr, William R. Bowen, returned
last night from Rochester;™ Minn,
Mrs, Lula Shepard, who was also of
the party to accompany their sister
to Rochester returned as far as' At
lanta, where she will visit friends.
Mrs. Ware is regorted improving but
will remain sometime in- the sani
tatium.
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FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921,
ENTERPRISE and PRESS
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Chamber of Commerce Names
Committee at Meeting
WILL ASSIST SINGERS
Judge Luke Gets Committee To
Help in Securing Homes
The Chamber of Commerce last
night received reports from the Dix
ie Highway Opening Committee
and Fourth of July Committee and
decided to hold separate celebrations
for each event, A committee on
the Fourth of July celebration will
make a’ canvass of the city May
30th and May 3lst to secure funds
for the Fourth of July celebration.
The opening of the Dixie {rlighway'
will be celebrated at a later date
and an effort will be made to make
it a joint affair for Ocilla and Fifzt
gerald and hold the celebration at
Lake {eatrice, a midway point near
the last section of the pavement that
will be completed, Speakers of
statewide prominence will address
the gatherings of automobile and
good roads enthusiusts from Macon
to Jacksonville, :
At the request of Judge T, J. Luke,
secretary of the South Georgia Sing
ing Association, the Chamber of
Commerce authorized appointment
of a committee' to assist the local
singers in securing homes for dele
gates to the convengion which will
be here June 17, 18, and ‘l9, The
Chamber of Commerce also author
ized the appointment of Stewart F.
Gelders as publcity director for the
convention and appropriated a small
sum for publicity expenses.
Judge Luke stated that he expect
}ed an attendance of about three hun-.
dred at the convention this year,
Among the singers will be several of
state-wide prominence as vyocalists,
The convention will hold its sessions
in the Ben Hill Court House.
C. T. Owens, county agent, té
ported to the. Chamber of -Com
merce that it is now owner of nine
teen pigs which are distributed
among the pig club boys of ¢the
county, The orgamization realized
more than ninety dollars from pigs
sold at the co-operative pig sale last
Saturday, Pig Club boys are béing
encouraged to buy their pigs rather
than receive them from' the Chamber
of Commerce on the plan of return
ing two gilts of the first litter,
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Simpson And Reese
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Get Back From Macon
After being held in Bibb county
jail for six days on a charge that
was quashed at the first legal hearing
of the evidence, Sid Reese and Will
Simpson, negro strikers who were
accused of dynamiting Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Atlantic tracks, were
turned out of Bibb county jail in
Macon Tuesday night and told to
“go home the best way they could.”
They reached here \Wednesday even
ing, »
Neither negro had any money,
when released, ' both having been
rushed away from Fitzgerald the
previous , Wednesday without having
time, to" prepare for a trip or see
friends. Simpson was given raliroad
fare to Cordele by railroad men in
Macon. Reese, who® was a fireman
before the strike, worked his way to
Cordele on the G. S, & F. An auto
mobile was sent from Fitzgerald to
get them at Cordele,
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Fitcgerald Leader WANT-ADS
Quick Results, Phone 328. !
Abbeville l-’t) ple See
Curb Market Operate
Will Open Mstkets in Cordele and
Abbeville Saturday Morning
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To observe the operation of the
Fitzgerald Curb Market in order to
conduct the market in Abbeville pro
perly when it opens tomorrow, a par
ty of prominent . Abbeville people
motored to Fitzgerald to see the
Wednesday Curb Market.
In the party were Mayor and Mrs,
J. R. Monroe, Miss Louise White
hurst, Mrs. D. W. Jackson, Mrs. J.
W. Dougherty, Mr, and Mrs, R. L.
Parsons, Mrs. Patton and Mrs. Mc-
Daniel. §
Curb markets will open Saturday
morning in Abßbeville and Cordele
as an outgrowth. of the' Fitzgerald
curb market idea. A Woman’s Club
Committee headed by Mrs, Lon
Dickey explained the curb market to
Cordele people last week and news
paper stories about the market im
Fitzgerald led to the decision to open
a similar one in Abbeville,
Ocilla opened a curb market re
cently on the Fitzgerald plan. Rome,
Ga., ‘'will open”one next month, hav
ing also received the first idea from
news stories concerning the local
market :
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Young Churéfi-Folk of Little River
Association Assemble Supday
. Miss Clotiljv James, and Messrs,
George P. Mérris and Herbert, Brad
shaw are the Fitzgerald people who'
will be on the program of the An
nual Institute of the B. Y, P, U. of
the Little River ‘Association at its
session at the Ocilla Baptist Church
Sunday, May 22. Vice-president
Herbert Bradshaw states that an at
ltegdance of nearly five hundred is
expected.
| A, D, TucKer of Ocilla, president
of the Association, which comprises
four districts in South Georgia, will
preside. Rev. W, B, 'Feaging of
Ocilla, W. ‘H. Taylor of Ocilla, D.
C. Bussell of Mystic, Mrs, R, L
Bariiett of Ocilla, Rev. H. C. Kenny
of Nashville, Miss Lois Coker of
Holt, M#s; J. L. Paulk of Ocilla,
Earnést Ragsdale of Mount Olive,
Rev, Kesterton of Rochelle, will also
‘be on the program,
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Lane’s Ashes To Be
Scattered To Winds
CHICAGO, May 20.—The body of
Franklin K, Lane, former secretary
iOf the interior, who died in Roches
‘ter, Minn,, yesterday was cremated,
here today and ‘the ashes will be
taken to the top of El Captain peak,
in the Yosemite Valley, Cal, ‘and
scattered to the winds, in compli
ance with a request made by Mr,
Lane, prior to his .death, :
Relatives of Mr. Lane explained
‘the unusual request by saying that
‘he had ‘spent much of his life in the
Yosemite region and had grown to
love it so much that he wshed his
ashes to be taen there when he died.
~ The body arrived here this mprn
ing from Rochester and .was imme
diately taken to Graceland cemetery
for cremation. There were no fun
eral services—another request of Mr.
Lane’s—and only the immediate
f?'“ily attended the cremation, The
ashes will be taken west immediate
ly it was said. |,
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Congested working conditions which made mail car robberies easy:
delayed deliveries and in general, depleted mail service are all to be dlimi
natedesays Uncle Sam. This is one of the new steps, a compartment car
for carrying heavy mail, doing away with much. useiess lifting and trans
{ering between central points. The new compartment cars look like the
regular flat car—except .that they are equipped with six ,compartments,
all of which are removable to motor trucks at the destination through the
use of electric cranes. . The mail must now be sorted and routed from
the starting point, and does away with. a great deal of the detail ‘work
on the mail.cars-as formerly, The picture shows the first car arriving
it Chicago f-om New York and a compartment being removed to a wait
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Will Operate Curb Market Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, Starting May 31
Congestion at Two-Day-a-Week
Market Makes fncre,ased 1
Frequency Necessary
Beginning Tuesday, May 3isf,
Fitzgerald 'will be offered a curb
a curb market three days of each
week, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat
urday, If the city fails to support
it, Thursday will be dropped, leav
ing Tuesday and Saturday as tegu
lar market days, the same as towns
that have had a curb market for
‘many years,
All of riext week the market will
be held Wednesday and Saturday as
usual,
The truck gréwers who approved
the plan as presénfed to' them Wed
nesday, many of themi having sug
gested the change, are the following:
J. O. Stokes, James Garrison, D.
G. Reeves, W, B. Blizzard, Raymond
Davis, F, F, Stokes, J. B. Wellons,
W. A. Mobley, J. Q. Carroll, G. W.
Tolbert, J, A, G. Ragsdale, Mrs, Mil
ton Hogan, Miss Vera Brannon, O,
P, Rogers, L. A. Hutchinson, L. N.
Satterfield, D, L, Melvin, G, C.
Bowers, W. Diettrich, C. M. Moye,
W, N. Harris, H. G, Elliot, L, E,
Kilpatrick, E R.- Stephens, H. F.
Bowles, D, F, Mills, K, P. Mangum,
Mrs. Sherrett, Mrs, E. E. Paulk,
Henrietta Weaver (Colored), Mrs.
C. C. Lyles, Mrs, L, E. Kinard, Mrs.
W, A. Turner, M. W. Harris, J. A,
Géorge, L, G, Whitley, J. N. Swear
ingen, Mrs. C, J. *Millington, Mrs.
W, M. Floyd, W. L, Becker and A,
W. Gardner.
A choice lot of vegetables, fruits,
and 'dairy produce was offered Wed
nesday, Spring chickens are com
ing in larger and fatter, berries are
ripe and coming cheaper, channel
catfish are being brought in, and
many other things that go to make
up a successful market are being
brought in, t ! bt
"'A mest magnanimous offer has
heen made the curb market commit
tee for the crection of a permanent
Tarket stard, and Mayor Pittman
is behind the project with all the
energy he js capable of putting in
to it. Public markets may be traced
back through Bible days , on through
Antebellum days, and are just now
'being revived throughout the coun
\try, e L
| The Farm Bureau and Woman's
Club have asked the co-operation of
every individual in encouraging the
sanitation and 'attractive ‘arrange
‘ment of produce brought in, as they
iare anxious that visitors be im
pressed with the cleanliness and at
tractiveness of the market. |
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D.B. Nicholson Leaves
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To Begin Church Work
Attorney and Minister Goes to Jef
fersonville by Motor Today
D. B. Nicholson, popular young
attorney, and former principal of
the Fitzgerald High School, left this
morning with his family by motor
{for Jeffersonville, Ga, to enter the
‘ministry as pastor of the First Bap
tist church of that place. He will
‘be the first divine to fill the pulpit
of the splendid new house of worship
which has just been completed.
Accompanying Col. Nic!zolson were
Mrs, Nicholson, formerly Mi'ss
Dixie Jay, three children, Mary,
D, B, Jr, and Dixie Jay Nicholson,
and Mr. Nicholson’s mother Mrs,
Katie Nicholson, |
General regret is felt in Fitzgerald
at the departure of the Nicholsons
and the best wishes of hundreds of
friends in Fitzgerald and the entire
surroundng section go with them.
Grocery Phone 155
COTTON—Good flm.jf%
Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
MILL SPECIAL TAX
Co——— Wl ionie
Ashton To Increase Faculty
| with Consolidation T
st e oty . e
PLAN LONGER TERM
If Possible Will Make Eight
Months Term Next Year®
By unanimous vote in Ashton dis
trict and by a vote of eight to one
in the Lynnwood district, the pa
trons of the county’s two leading
country schools authorized a 5 miil
Jocal tax levy for school purposes
Wednesday. '
The election was quiet and a light
vote was polled. - Practically no ac
tive opposition was made to the pro
posal to levy the school tax.
At- Ashton school, with which
Horton and Dorminey districts will
be consolidated, the teaching staff’
will be expanded to probably seven,
including a United States Depart
ment of Agriculture expert who will
teach practical agriculture, ke
Superintendent Bullard. states that
the school board intends to authorize
an eight months term at Ashton and :
Lynnwood for next year if the funds
are found to be sufficient, The term
will be made longer than it was this
year as six months is considered too
short for best results. 3
The patrons of both® schools are
vigorously behind the effort for bet
ter rural education and the ‘next’
year will see marked progress in
Ben Hill county school work, *
Cordele Bible Class
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To Visit Fitzgerald
)wm Travel on Special Teein over
: Séaboard Railway
CORDELE, May 20.—The Men's
Bible class of the First Baptist
church Sunday morning voted to
make the trip to Fitzgerald Sunday,
May 29, by specal train to be pro
vided over the Seaboard railway,
According to present plans, which
are subject to change, however, _the
special train of five coaches will
leave Cordele at 7:45 on the morn
ing of the twenty-ninth, arfiving at
Fitzgerald about 9:45, in time for the
Sunday Schoof service, . . _
The Cordele Bible class is going
on invitation of .the Men's' Bible
class of ' Fitzgerald to ticet with
them on this occasion, Between 300
and 400 are expected to make the .
trip.
On the return from Fitzgerald the
special traif will stop for two hours
at Bowen's Mill, whereé the Cordele
men will be entertained at dinner by
the members and friends of the Fitz
gerald men’s class.
pledged by members of the Cordele
class to take the crowd to. Fitzgeérald
on the date named, but the possibil
ity of dusty or muddy roads as the
case might be, together ~with the
probability of more or ‘less automd
bile trouble usually attendant upon
such a trip, caused the class to de
cide on the plan of going by special
train, : !
RETURN FROM BAPTIST
SOUTHERN CONVENTION
Rev. J, F. Singleton, Rev, D, B,
Nicholson, G. A. Jolley, M. M, Ste
phens and Herbert Bardshaw re
turned Wednesday afternoon from
Chattanooga, Tenn,, where they at
tended the annual convention of the
Southern Baptist Association, A
proposal to divide the association
into two bodies because of its large
size was defeated. ;
Mail Orders
Promptly filled