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The Fitzgerald Leader
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Entercd at the Post Office at Fitzgerald as Setond Class
Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 12& 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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STEWART F. GELDERS_.__Managing Editor
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taken for less than” 30 cents. AMERICAN PRESS
ASSOCIATION, forcign JAdv. Representatives,
THE SCHOOL BOND ELECTION—On Aug
ust Ist the voters fo Fitzgerald, men and women,
will have to decide the question of a $68,000.00
issue of municipal bonds for school purposes, The
bonds will cost the city approximately $3,666 per
year for thirty years. This will amount to a tax
of aboat $1.13 per thousand dollars of taxable val
uation of property in Fitzgerald, For this expen
diture the city will get modern, and SAFE first
ward school building; a capacious high school
auditorium and eight additional high school class
rsoms which will provide accomodations for pri
mary grade children in the fourth ward who are
now compelled to either cross railroad tracks to
get to the first ward school or walk the long dis
tance to third ward school four times each day,
and which will relieve a very real congestion in
the high school grades; and will make the negro
schools habitable and incyease their efficiency by
approximately fifty per cent.
Five major reasons for voting for the honds oc
cur to the Leader: the pressing need for relieving
the present congestion in our schools whith were
not built to accomodate the number of pupils who
will be enrolled in September; to make room for
the further increase in enrollment that is sure to
come within the next few years; the need for a
safer building for the approsimately three hundred
children who attend the first ward school; the
need for a high school auditorium for a real com
munity center where frequent amateur and hene
fit entertainments can be given without inconven
iencing regularly established commercial enter
prises; and the need of giving employment to the
many men who will he unemployed and unpro
ductive during the next few months, The expen
diture of $68,000.00 in Fitzgerald this fall, and
those in charge must sce that every nickel of that
$68,000.00 which can be spent with Fitzgerald
concerns for supplies, will be worth a great deal
more than a similar expenditure at a later date
when the scars of the recent and passing business
depression have healed. And this money MUS?
be spent sooner or later because the improvements
are absolutely needed. Eventually, why not now?
DON'T LIKE THE CURB MARKET—That
Fitzgerald can put some things over where other
towns fail is evidenced by the following from the
Moultrie Observer: ' .
Cordele has been experimenting with the “Curb
Market,” amel Cordele is getting some of the ex
perience Moultrie and other points have gathered.
The Cordele Dispatch is quite frank and practical
in discussing the curb market troubles. What the
Dispatch says of experiences there will apply to
any community where ¢hey may have a curb mar
ket, or where they are contemplating having one.
The Observer is convinced that the curb market
is not the right thing for cities the size of Moul
tric. and Cordele. We need something a little
more elastic. We need a produce selling and dis
tributing agency in each county site, but it should
be in touch with outside markets. There should
be an outlet for the left over. A small canning
plant in 'cmmcctifm might be necessary. The
producer must be able to say to the buyer, “The
price is so and so," and then must be able to back
it up. The price must be based on what can be
neited on the product if shipped. The local pro
duct must®compete with the price of imported
products at the stores
But the editorial from the Dispatch is interest
ing ¢énough to be reproduced here, and to be gen
erally read. It says: -
“Human nature is complex. Good people may
work their heads off to bring together those who
can help and be helped in such a thing as the curb
market, and yet they cannot get around the prob
lems that come in bartering and selling in such a
place.
Somebody with an article which he thinks real
ly fine and worth while will come in and demand
a price twice what the purchaser ought to pay
for it As a consequence the purchaser passes by
and refuses it. The good woman who gets her
bonnet and comes out carly in the hot sun to this
market goes home unwilling to try the curb mar
ket again.
On the other hand the man with the fine arti
cle, it may be corn. or chickens, or tomatoes,
sticks to his price till the demand for it has pass
ed. Then he gets ved headed because he has to
reduce his price to a more reasonable figure. He
sacrifices his goods finally after he sees that the
buyers are not going to pay his high price, and
be, too, goes home disgusted with the curb mar
ket,
[t is a right interesting moment for the person
who goes to the Cordele curb market to watch
human nature displayed in all sorts of forms, It
is therg bless you, in many variations for thus
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{prevail in all other business that is worth while.
| The seller must have some idea of a fair deal, and
| the buyer must have a knowledge of fair values.
| The purchaser is not going to make a habit of
| going to the curb market to get stung in her pur
é«-i1;1~x-.~. The people who bring commodities 1o
'be sold will do far better by stigking ‘to prices
| that will be sort of an inducement for the buyer.
| It will take that to bring buyers.” v
| Fitzgerald’s curb market is evidently being
‘operated along the lines suggested by Editor
Charlie Brown because it is drawing buyers and
E\(:ih-rs and they all come back for more every
time. Fitzgerald’s curb market has the advan
tage that it was not launched by one class of
people alone. The _Cardele market was launched
by the city peoplé. We don’t know who launched
‘the Moultrie market that faited. But the local
market was established on the initiative of both
‘the country folks and the city folks, the produc
er and consumer. It was started by a joint com
mittee with a co-operative idea and the idea has
been firmly implanted in the minds of the farm
erse and the housewives—that the market is be
ing run for the especial benefit of neither but for
the mutual benefit of hoth, .
The ladigs with their market Laskets g to the
market with the intention of paying (:nnugh‘ to
make it worth while for the farmer to bring his
stuff to town. The farmer comes with the in
tention of offering at a price which will make it
worth while for the housewife to bring her mar
ket basket and com€ to the market instead of
using the telephone,
Cordele and Crisp county have the same sort
of folks and the same cort of vegetables that
Fitzgerald and Ben Hill county have. They sell
from the same sort of wagons and flivvers. What
the difference is that makes Fitzgerald's market
satisfactory and Cordele’s unsatisfactory The
Leader can not be sure but it is probably to be
found in the group psychology of the people
at the market, their attitude toward cach other
Selfishness and co-operation don't mix.
T RAINED MONEY YESTERDAY--You may
not realize it, but that shower yesterday afternoon
was literally a shower of money fallmg into Fitz
gerald. The town will collect the money later on
chis month when the tobacco crop starts coming
m and next month on corn and cotton and other
hings that grow in the fields. The rain helped
‘he crops thousands of dollars worth and the crops
are the wealth of this section.
The period of slow business should actually be
past now with the beginning of July. The water
melon crop has started moving satisfactorily and
nas started some money, the life blood of com
merce, flowing in the veins of business. In a
few days the tobacco money will start coming in
ind will loosen things up some more and then
comes all the other products of Georgia's fertile
ficlds to be sold in Fitzgerald to concerns in oth
er sectibns and to bring the cash into town. As
far as the commercial phnsc'is concerned, the
strike will be settled this month and that will pull
‘he thorn®irom Fitzgerald’s side. The railroad
noney can start flowing freely again. Apd Fitz
rerald will be as prosperous as the palmiest day
before the war.
No one thing that 1s in prospect for the rest of
the summer and the ensuing scasons of this year
offers other than cause for optimism on the part
of Fitzgerald people and Fitzgerald business men
especially. We are just about to step out of the
tight and twisting lane of the last few months in
to the broad road of progress and prosperity again,
't is time for folks to get their hustling clothes
layed out and ready to put on because there is
going to be something to hustle for during the
rest of the year,
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HOW DO THEY MAKE 'EM THIS WAY >—
While “You, Us & Co.” pay up oug little $lO. o
$lOO in income taxes without a word. a certain
voung person in New York of the name of Regi
nald Vanderbilt is making Uncle Sam work hard
to get what the said Reggie owes him.
It seems that Reginald's income for the veu
was aoout six hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars—not for life, d'ye mind, but for one year
He sent Uncle Sam a check for $3,500, or about
half of one per cent on the dollar.~ Under the
faw, the.check should have been $36,000, or abouat
ive and a half cents on the dollar, and the gen -
ernment sued for the difference. It now trans
oires that voung Vanderbilt's learned lawveis
are fighting the case tooth and nail through 21!
the courts, so that it will probably take many
vears to settle it.
’ We can’t understand the thing at all. Herc
is a country and a government that makes it POs
’sihlc for this young man to stick three-quarters
of a million of dollars into his pants pocket
every year. but he refuses to obey its laws or
help the government to pay its expenses. And
what a small thing it was—if he has paid th
336,000 without a murmer, Reggie Vanderbilt
would still have had left well over $600.000 for
the year. ,
How do they make 'em that way, anvhow ?
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THE clief aim of every alligator’s life is to be
'ome a satchel—Border Cities (Ontario) Star.
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“LOOK, mother,” cried Willie, pointing to the
elephant, “He’s bigger than h--1, aint’ he? “Willie!
How many times must I tell you never to say
AINGE ?"—Bost(‘m Transcript, .
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CIRCUS manager: “So you want a job do you?
What steps would you take if a lion were to e;—J
;ape?” “GOOD long ones, guv’nor!—Edinburg
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS FRIDAY, JULY Ist, 1921,
NOTICE OF BOND ELECTIOI:I
Notice is hereby given that an elec
tion will be Held at the City Hall of ‘the
C:ty of Fitzgerald, Georgia, under the
laws providing for the holding of elec
tions in said city, on the first day of
August, 1921, to determine whether
or not said city shall issue its bonds
in the sum of sixty-cight thousand
($68,600.0) dollars principal for the
iollowifig purposes, towit:
Forty-five thousand ($45,000.00)
dollars of the proceeds of said bonds
to be used for crecting #hd equipping
additional rooms and an auditorium
in the high schoo! building in the
fourth (4th )ward of said city;
Twenty thousand ($20,0060.00) dol
lars of the procecds of said bonds to
be used for erccting and equipping a
public school building in the first ward
of said city, to be owned by said city,
and used as a public school building;
Three thousand ($3,006,00) dollars
of the procceds of said bonds to be
used in repairing the colored school
building in the second ward of said
city,
Suid bonds to draw .interest at the
rate of five (5%) per cent per annum,
which interest is to be payable semi
annually; said "bonds to be issued in
denominations of one-thousand ($l,OOO
.00) doilars each, and all of said bond.
to become due and be payahble with
in thirty years from the date of their
is‘sm-\, that is to say none of the prin
cipal. of said tionds shall be payable
annually, but al of the sasd principal
sha’l become due and be paid thirty
vears from the date of their issue.
R:el]s;ts‘ will be printed for the use
in voting at said election as follows:
For the issuance vof $6R,000.00 of
bonds for school purposes.
Against the issnance of $68,000.00 of
honds for school purposes,
And those desiring to vote for bonds
for school purposés shall strike from
said hallot the words:
“Againct the issmance of $68.070
ci Lbonde for scheol purposes.
And those desiring to vote agai: s
bonds for scheol nurposes shall strike
irom said ballot the words:
“For the issuance of $68,000.00 of
bonds or schoo! purposes.
I, L, PITTMAN, Mayor
DAVID L. PAULK. City Clerk:
Fitzgerald Leader WANT-ADS
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PBarache, Toothache, Lumbago and for
Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets
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NOTICE!
In ‘the matter of Steve Wi'liams,
doing business as “Magnolia Grocery
& Cafe” Bankrupt,
GEORGIA, Ben Hill County.
Will be sold in front of the late
place of busincss of said bankrupt,
in Fitzgerald, Georgia, within the
legal hours of sale on M_onda_v, July
11th, 1921, to the highest bidder for
cash, all of the eauitr ot said bank
rupt in one certain Five passenger
1918 Model, Dodge Automobile,
Said property being sold under znd
by virtue of an order granted by
Hon. U. V. Whipple, Referee in
Bankruptcy.
This Ist day of July, 1921.
D, P, ADAMS, Trustee.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Corner Main and M:gacha,
Sunday School 10:GH a. ra.
Preaching 11:30 a .m. and 8:00 o'-
clock p. m.
Sunbeams 3:00 p. m
B Y, P U 7000 m
Men’s Prayer meeting Monday 8:00
p m.
\id-week Prayer meeting Wednesday
8:00 p. m.
A cordial welcome to all to attend
these services.
J. F. Singleton, Pastor
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BUS LINE TO DOUGLAS
AND WAYCROSS, GA.
Messrs, Stewart and Knight «of
Alma will give a daily Bus Service
to Ocilla, Douglas and Waycross.
The bus leaves Fitzgerald via Ocil
la, Ambrose and Brokton, connect
ing with the: Waycross bus at Doug
las.
Bus will leave from both hotels.
Schedule of Bus Line for Douglas
and Waycross
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right column upward,
MORNING SEKVICE
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Not long ago a rtrain started out of
Grand Central in two sections. After
running a few miles the first section
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ahead, was ordered to put up green
signals and run as first section. As this:
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