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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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THE RED CROSS DRlVE—Frightful calami
ties used to sweep over the world without any
means of mitigating them. The earth abounded
with wars and pestilences and fires and floods,
but there was no organized system of relief, and
people just had to suffer and meet their awful
fate without hope of assistance. y
In these times of plenty and comfort, when
there is abundant food and clothing and all need
ed supplies, it is unthinkable that people should
Le left to suffer from disease and sudden misfort
une. But to bring quick and adequate relief,
some society must have ample funds and workers
so that its supplies and relicf parties can leave at
once for the scene of disaster. Also there is a world
of ordinary misery and suffering which needs the
constant work of remedial and preventive agen
cies. In these fields the American Red Cross has
done its marvellous work.
The creation of the superh machine for the re
iief of sufiering has softened the miseries of life
ior innumerable people. It took the victims of
war and nursed their wounds on the battlefield.
it cared for the orphans It has assisted the dis
abled veterans and their families. |
Wherever disease and death and suffering from
any cause have broken loose, there the Red Cross
has gone, a symbol of life and hope and succor.
It has saved millions of families from despair and
from anguish greater than they could bear
A ministry which accomplishes so much to
bind up breaking hearts and make it possible for
people to live through their troubles, is the nob
lest product of our country. The millions should
pour into its lap until its treasuries are full to ov
erflowing. There will be plenty of need for more
funds, even if some of the folks of Fitzgerald for
get to give before the date set for the end of the
annual drive. I you want to help leave your
dollar with Miss Irene Jones at the First National
Bank.
GOOD ADVICE FROM OUR NEIGHBOR—
The Moultrie Observer gives its readers some
good advice which fits admirably at this time to
most every community and we heartily join Bro
ther Allen in passing it to our readers. Under the
caption of “Don’t Start Rumors” the Observer
says:
Be careful how you start rumors about the fi
nancial standing of men or institutions. Men some
times talk at the assembling places about town,
of this firm that is supposed to be weak or near
the wall, or that man who is reputed to be heavily
i debt or facing foreclosure. It is casy in times
like these to start rumors. Often they are ground
iess rumors, but if they had foundation, there
woud be no use discussing them.
U. S. Department I
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Ot Agnculturel
Cotton Quotation Service; Burc:\u‘
of Markets and Crop estimates; At
lanta District, B. R, Oastler in charge,
The cotton market is still dull, hold
ers are very firm and will not dis
count their prices. A little more ac
tivity was shown by mill interests the
past week. Some sates reported:
COLUMBUS
Date Grade Staple Price
sßMiddling.. ....._ 78 -1814-1834
DUBLIN
Date Grade Staple Price
28 __Strict Middling__ 7-8" sanmxlBl7
& - Midding........ 7.8 .IR
28 __Strict low middling 7-8” ____l7
FITZGERALD |
Date Grade Staple Price
27 ..Low Middling__.__ 7-8" senald3d
28 __strict low middling 7-8" ____l67;
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29 _.strict low middling 7-B"____ 1614
TIFTON
Date Grade Staple Price
28 __strict low middling 7-8" ____l9
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No Worms in a Heaithy Child
All children troubled with Worms have an un.
healthy color, which indicates poor §lood, and asa
rule, there is more or less stomack disturbance.
GROVE'S TASTELESS chi!l TONIC given regularly
for two or three wecks will enrich t§e blood, im
prove the digestion, and act as a Gengral Strength
ening Tonic to the whole system. Nafure will then
throw off or dis »el the worms, and th Child will be
in perfect healti ™ Pleasant to take! per bottle,
A TONI
QGrove’s Tasteless chill T restores
Energy and Vitality by Purffying and
Enriching the Blood. When jou feel its
strengthening, invigorating eff¢ct, see how
it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even children like it. The blood
needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor
ating Effect. 60c,
7{@%@ %f"i}i}i
- Diem ~
= J—2p A THANKSGIVIN' HYMN
£ \ When ripenc crowns the
R fruitful fields, and the bins has
‘3 W took their toll, a million comforts
‘ stand revealed to cheer our in
-1 4 BAlmost soul. And so, this fittin’
LS "._J:huur has come to doff our lids
“ind say, “These blessin’s pure
from a Higher Power inspires Thanksgivin’ Day”
We ain’t been what we might abeen, such weak
lings are we, nor realized the state we're in, so
clost to eternity! And therefore it becomes us
well, with these poor forms of clay, to sanctify the
place we dwell with a glad Thanksgivin’ Day.
Contrite because of wrongs we've did, repentant
knees we bend, well-knowin’ that no deeds is hid
irom the blessed Lord, our friend____Considerin’
what he'd done for us, our best is but meager pay.
Let’s tell him so, in - harmony plus, this glad
Thanksgivin’ Day. :
You injure your community when you shake
the public confidence in a firm or financial institu
tion- A good many men are in debt now, and but
for the leniency of their creditors they would be
forced to the wall, but with a helping hand from
the public and with the continued assistance of I]lo}
banks they will pull through. Give them the ben
cfit of the doubt, and if you speak of them at all,
speak encouragingly.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN—I{ the Country
had elected a Democratic Congress and president
one year ago, certain things would have gone dif
ferently. There would not have been the aston
ishing record of inaction that has ch:u':u‘tcriu-(!%
the present Congress. If anyone had said last Ap
ril when our national legislators met, that they
would have achieved nothing of first class impor
tance by the succeeding November, he would have
been laughed to scorn. All our Republican wise
men would have haw-hawed, and said “Just yon
wait and see.” Yet the months have dragged
along and the tarifi and tixation and other ques
tions which were to be settled during the extra
session, still remain in the air.
The Democratic congress during the first six
vears under President Wilson, showed a remark
able ability to get together and shape programs
of legislation, that has been woefully absent this
year.
A Democratic administration would have had
the taxation guestion out of the way by this time
[t ~vould have made such minor changes in the tar
iff os conditions warranted, without upsetting the
entire business of the country by the threat of «
general revision. There is no reason for whole
sale changes in the tariff, so long as imports re
main .on their present quiet moderate level. An
aurmpt to change all these rates of duty throws
a pall of un-ertainty over the plans of business
men.
A Democratic Administration would have re
vived the federal employment service on its o
efticrient basis, and would have thereby done a lot
to find work tor the idle men. A Democratic ad
ministration would have entered the league of na
tions with desirable reservations and would heve
aiven this country the good will of Europe. Action
along these lines would send the current of life
throbbing through our business world.
KENNEDY MEMORIAL
BAPTIST CHURCH
Corner Gordon & Altamaha Sts.
REV. C. A. GINN, Pastor.
Sunday School 10:00 a. m.
Preaching at 11:00 a. m.
Bl Yy P U at?p m
Preaching immediately after B, Y
8.. U.
Midweek Prayer meeting Wednes
day 7:30 p. m.
EPiSCOPAL CHURCH
R. G. Shannonhouse, Rector
Sunday School 10:00 A. M,
Church services, Sunday morning
at 11:00 (except on second Sunday,)
Sunday night at 8:00 (except on
2nd and 4th Sundays.)
Every Friday afternoon at 5:00
Social service,
Visitors cordially invited to make
church home with us, ‘
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
Corner Palm and Johnson Sts,
Elder Walter M, Blackwell, Pastor,
| Preaching Ist and 3rd Sundays at
11330 8. m.und 8 p. m.
. Bible Study every Sunday 10:30 a.
m,
| Prayer meeting each Wednesday
8:30 p. m. d
We invite you to all these services.
SR R -
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IAL
YOU WILL BE WELCOME IN
OUR MEN'S BARACA CLASS
NEXT SUNDAY
We meet at 10:00 o'clock every Sun
day at the First Methodist Church—
Corner of Lee ana Magnolia Streets.
We want you to be with us,
Come, ge the Baraca habit,
Come next Sunday Sure!
No questions will be asked.
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Fiery, Itchy Skin
Quickly Soothed
With Sulphar
ph
———
Mvntthquhur. a pleasant cream,
will soothe and heal skin that is ir
ritated or broken out with eczema:
that is covered\with ugly rash or pim
ples or is rough'and dry. Nothing -
dues fiery skin dpuptions so quickly,
says a noted skin \pecialist,
The moment this\ sulphur prepara
tion is applied the ithing stops and
after two or three appNcat.ons, the ec
zema is gone and the Xin is delight
fully clear and smooth. Yulphur is so
precious as a skin remed¥ because it
destroys the parasites thaf cause the
burning itching or disfigurement,
Mentho-Sulphur alwavs heals ecze
ma tight up,
\ small jar of Mentho-Sulphur may
be had at any good drug store, adv.
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Grain Elevator Being
Erected Near Americus
AMERICUS, Ga, Nov, 15—] W,
McDonald of Wells Mill, is erecting a
Qgrain elevator for the convenience of
farmers which will he completed with
in the next thirty days. It will have
an initial capacity of 3000 bushels,
and will be used at the beginning ex
clusively in the handling of corn, Mod
ern clevator machinery to be installed
has already arrived, and power devel
oped at the Wells Mill dam will be
used in its operation. There is a large
quantity of corn held on the farms
of Sumter and Lee counties this vear.
and Mr. McDonald expects the capa
city of his plant to be taken from the
beginning,
e ——_——
Mrs, C, B, Salter left Friday for
Terre Haute, Ind.. where she will vis
it “er brother for several weeks
THE LEADER-ENTERPRTSE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1921
Plant A Good Home
Orchard Now
The census reports show a large de
crease from 1910 to 1920 in the numb
er of fruit trees in Georgia, says the
Extension department of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture, although
there was a dccided stimulation in or
chard planting during the past four
years,
The reason probably for this decline
in fruit trees in the state of Georgia is
more or less due to the fact that the
small frui grower and he average far
mer have given up the raising of fruit
to the commercial grower who has
sufficient equipment to combat the in
festation of numerous insects and dis
cases and, also, the knowledge of the
growing of the fruit,
The increase in the number of fruit
and insect pests attacking the home or
chardchard has caused many farmers
to neglect fruit production, Pruning
and spraying are essential to the pro
duction of good fruit but any farm
er can soon learn how by a little stu
dy of the subject.
The special equipment necessary for
orchard management is not expensive
but this cost may be reduced by pur
chasing it cooperatively with a small
group of farmers,
The following fruits are recommen
ded for home orchards in South Geor
gia.
The hnrso, early harvest, Yates and
Terry apples, planted thirty feet apart
The Keiffer and LeConte pears, 30
feet apart, The Stewart and Schley
pecans, fifty-four feet apart. The May
flower, Greensboro, Carmen, Hiley,
Georgia Belle, White English and El-
Lerta peaches eighteen feet apart, Le
mon, Green Ischie and Brown Turkey
figs, ecightees feet apart, Hyakume
asd Goshio persimmoss, eightees feet
apart, Kumquats and Satsumas, 18
fect apart, Sweet asd Purple sceded
Spasish Ruby pomegranates, planted
18 feet apart, Chinese quinces -
cd 18 feet apart, Abundance asd i
Goose plums, planted 18 feet apart,
Concord, Deleware, Diamond and Ni
agra grapes planted in rows ten feet
apart and eight and one half feet in
row, Scuppernong and Thomas (Mus
cadine) grapes planted 16 feet. Early
Harvest and FErie blackberries and
Lucretia dewberries planted ten by
six feet,
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Arbitrators Settle
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Perry-Scarbrough Suit
Messrs J, H, Dorminey, J. J. Dor
miney and W, R. Bowen acting as
arbitrators in the case of J, L. Perry
and J. H. Scarbrough reached a sat
isfactory agreement for both parties
to the suit.
Mrs, J. G, Waters of Abbeville was
in the city this week,
BUILT THE FIRST SKYSCRAPER
Whitelaw Reid’s Structure That
Housed the Tribune Was the
Wonder of Its Day.
The skyscraper was undreamed of—
until Whitelaw Reid laid the corner
stene of the Tribune building in 1874
The Florentine campanile that he then
lifted into the air gave his contempo
raries what was, for them, a greater
sensation than their descendants have
received from Manhattan’s tallest tow
ers, Voyagers coming up the bay
hailed it with astonishment, little im
agining the formidable structures it
foreshadowed.
The skyline it broke was that of an
essentially flat, low-lying city. In
Reid’'s eyes New York was not then
precisely beautiful. So we may judge
from the instructions he sent to Clar
ence Cook in 1870, with a request for
a serieg of architectural articles. “What
I want,” he wrote, “is first a crisp edi
torial on the prevailing lack of archi
tectural taste in New York, the dreary
miles of browstone fronts, the worth
lessness of brownstone as a material
for building, the mostrosities given us
by our wealthiest men.”
Then article after article was to be
written, discussing the question of ar
chitecture tn our cities generally, but
particularly in New York. The “fright
ful example” was to be fearlessly pil
leried, and suggestions were to be
made.—From *“The Life of Whitelaw
Reid,” by Royal Cortissoz,
HONOR CLAIMED FOR BOSTON
First Public School in United States
Is Said to Have Been in
That City.
It is probable that the beginning ot
the American public school was in
Massachusetts. In 1635 the people of
Boston assembled in town meeting, re
quested Philemon Purmont to become
schoolmaster and voted him 30 acres
of land in part pay for his services.
The school begun by Purmont later
became the Boston Latin school and
has had continuous existence to the
present time. Other settlements fol
iowed Bostan's example and withic
the next ten years common schools
were established in all the New Eng
land settlements. In 1647 the gen
eral court of Massachusetts ordered
every town having 50 families to ap
point a teacher, whose wages were to
be paid by the parents of the children
he taught or by the inhabitants in
general. At the same time townships
having 100 families were required to
establish a grammar school to fit
youth for college. The law establish
ing these two grades of schools laid
the foundation of the public school
system in the United States, Three
years later a similar law was passed
n Connecticut, but Rhode Island
made no attempt to form a school
system until 1790,
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“Birth Of A Nation”
At Grand Wednesday
D. W, Griffith’s superb spectacle,
“The Birth of A Nation” is to be
presented at the Grand Theatre for a
special engagement oi one day on
Wednesday, November 23rd,
The engagement follows in the
wake of its recent triumph at the fa
mous Capitol Theatre, New York City
where it set a record for motion pic
ture attendance that has never been
equalled, The tour was arranged by
the stirring interest of this wonderful
Mr, Griffith under his personal direc
tion and everything to keep up pro
duction will be in evidence.
Its story unfolds those marvelous
pictures of the old South before the
war gathering clouds of the impend
ing struggle, the political manauver
ing at Washington to avert the catas
trophe, he call o arms and the break
ing of romances under fairer skies be
tween the northern beaux and south
ern belles and gallant colonels and
Union’s fairest advocates, th epatient
Lincoln with firm hands upon the
helm of the ship of state, the jealous
ies of his rivals, and then the great
war, with Sherman’s march to the
sea, the wonderful battlefield scenes
as Grant and Lee lock foes in the
struggles before Richmond, the end of
war as declared at Appomatox and
the tragedy of it all culminating in
the assination of President Lincoln,
The second half reverts to the South
and the efforts of the little colonel to
rericve the shattered fortunes of the
Cameron family and make the old
plantaiton what it was before war's
devastation laid it waste, the death of
he pe sister, the longing of lovers sep
arated by the common misunderstand
ings and the hatred thus engendered
and thes the flame of revulsion from
the tyranny of an invading throng of
carpetbaggers and schalawags and the
‘ce of the invisible forces of an out
“ared people to save their homes and
rights and put the South upos its feet
again after vears of suffering,
Little wonder that such dramatic
material was welded into a thrilling
story which holds the interest every
moment of its action. Tt is all portray
ed in that sweeping, powerful manner
i\\'hi(‘h stamps the work of D. W, Grii
fith asd is made lifelike and real by
the following cast of screen favorites:
Henry B, Walthal, Mae Marsh, Lil
lian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mary Ald
cn, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode
Aiken, Ralph Lewis, Joseph Henabery
lßanul Walsh, Donald Crisp, Howard
l(‘.:l_\'o, George Siegman, Walter Long,
lF.lmcr Clifton and Wallace Reid.
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE
I will be at the following places
named below for the purpose of col
lecting state and county taxes for the
year 1921,
Ashton, Monday, Nov, 14, 9 to 9:30
AL M
Dickson's Mill Monday Nov, 14, 10
to 10:30 A, M,
Bowen’s Mill, Tuesday, Nov, 15th,
9 to 9:30 A. M.
Vaughn, Tuesday Nov, 15, 10 to
10:30 A .M. ;
Williamson Mill, \Vednesday, Nov,
16th 10 to 10:30 A, M,
I will be at my office at the Court
House all other days except when
making my rounds,
F, M. GRAHAM,
Tax Collector,
Leader Want Ads Bring Results.
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easily inexpensively ovircomes any
tobacco habit, Fine for s\omach trou
bles, Just send address, A. Stokes,
Mohawk, Fla,
OPTOMETRIST and
MFG. OPTICIAN
Eyes Examined, Glasses Furnished
BROKEN LENS DUPLICATED
We Grind Our Own Glasses.
We Make Old
Furniture New
Picture Framing
Our Specialty
Phone 49
Phone 359
For Better Than Average
Altering,
Dry Cleaning,
Dyeing,
Pressing,
Tailoring,
We are equipped to do quick
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THREE-FIVE-NINE
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W. ROYiBI}AQG. Proprietor
More Federal Judges
°
Bill Is Appoved
WASHINGTON, Nov, 15—Favor
able report on the Walsh Bill to create
23 additional federal district judges
was ordered today by the house judi
ciary committee, Similar legislation
is pending before a senate committee
and has been recommended by Attor
ney-General Daugherty and Chief Jus
tice Taft.
The measure is approved by the
house committee also provides for the
holding of an annual conference in
Washington with the chief justice of
‘the supreme court presiding and rep
resentative circuit and district judges
iand the attorney-general participating.
Reports of the condition of dockets
would be submitted at such conferences
and means of relieving congestion and
expediting the handling of cases would
‘be considered.
' The bill, which authorizes temporary
transfer of judges to other districts
)to relieve dockets congestion creates
among others, one new district judge
ship in eastern Oklahoma, eastern
Virginia, middle Tennessee, southern
Florida and northern Texas,
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! Miss Dorothy and Margaret Pope
‘Thurmond leaves Thursday morning
’for Moultrie to attend ihe B. i P
U. Convention which convenes there
this week. Miss Margaret Pope has
invited to render violin selections on
both days of the Convention and she
will be accompanied by her sister Miss
Dorothy on the piano,
e Yish To Announce
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The opening of a Family Washing Department in
cur laundry. It has always been our aim to give
the public the best s¢rvice and work possible and
in placing this Family Washing Service to the
public our aim is to give a grade of work and ser
vice that will be out pf the ordinary.
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I'he rate for this service will be by the pound.
ifteen cents per pound for everything ironed.
Seven cents per poynd rough dry (this means
Bed and Table linen ird‘:\led, wearing apparel wash
¢d and starched ready to iron.) ;
These rates do not include shirts or collars.
We will appreciate your patronage.
TMM AWY SRS AN T Mo
R e e
PHONE 35
Launderers, Dry Cleaners, Dyers
Grand Theatre
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
ONE DAY ONLY
Wednesday, Nov. 23rd,
D.[W. GRIFFITH’S
American Institutioi\l
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““‘Surpreme Pictures of All Time”
---N. Y. Mail
Orchestra Accompaniment of
the Origina' Score
Nights - - 25¢ to $l.OO
Matinee - - 25¢, 50c, 75¢
BRING YOUR OLD
WINTER CLOTHES TO
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Fitzgerald Tailors
Wwe'll ?;‘,,.ke them like new
208 E, Pine St Phone 266
Drs. Holtzendorf
and Turner
DENTISTS
Upstairs, Next Door to the Nationfil;_
Drug Company
PHONE 57
Office Phone 511
Res, Phone 545
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J. T. BRICE, D. C.
*
Chiropractor
Rooms 201-202
Farmer-Garbutt Bldg.
Office Hours 9:30 to 12; 1:30 to 5
Other Hours By Appointment
Fitzgerald :-: Georgia