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PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS
Mr. L. N. Hall is transacting busi
;}Aess in Atlanta. .
Mrs. Mollie Smith is in Dublin be
ing called there on account of the
gickness and death of her niece Miss
fiirgaret Flanders.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gurr andl
(fi‘reu spent Sunday very pleasant-l
ith Mr. and Mrs. Jack Funder
urke on North Thomas street.
GOSSARD Corsets in all sizes
and styles at Miss Virginia
Gaines. tf
Mesdames H. F. Stilwell and P. C.
Collins, Miss Carolyn Stilwell and
Mr. Preston Collins motored over to
Tifton Sunday afternoon to meet Mr.
Stilwell who was returning rfom
Albany.
Newest designs of Millinery at
Miss Virginia Gaines.
Mrs. Thomas M. Griffin has re
,turned home after an extended visit
to relatives in Amerfcus, Atlanta and
Wadley, Alabama.
Mrs. J. Wandall Reid of Atlanta is
»the charming guest of her mother
Mrs. Mary James on South Main
Streef.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McLaughlin
have as their guests at their home on
South Main Street their daughter
Mrs. Malcolm A. Pridgeon and pret
ty little daughter Elaine Pridgeon of
C?lg, oo
Or the best fitting Corsets try
Gossard’s at Miss Virginia Gaines.
5 You can find that late shape in
Qhats for ladies, misses and children
at Miss Virginia Gaines.
Mrs. Frank Schuessler of Wadley,
Ala. is the greatly admired guest of
her sisters Mesdames James M. Mc-
Donald and Thomas M. Griffin on
South Main Street.
Mrs. Oscar L. Bradshaw’s many
#itiends are delighted to see her at
home again after spending several
months at the bedside of her mother
in Opelika, Ala. She reports her
mother greatly improved in health.
@s. J. Gould Williams and lovely
littMdaughter Sarah Francis and Mrs.
Roswell Smith of Tifton attended the
large reception here Saturday after
noon given by Messdames U. J. Ben
nett 2. M. Pryor honoring Miss
Rhea ncis Wise, bride elect.
,!iyss Myrtice Harden gave an Easter .
“Ao¢ Hunt Sunday afternoon. Many
c m’;s vere played by the younger
c @id they also enjoyed singing,
while t others and fathers hid the :
eggs. rbunt began about five thir-'
ty and [‘L__Lu’gltil sun-down. About
sixty guests were present and cvery-l
body reported a good time. |
FOR MR. AND MRS. i
1% BREWER : .
The members of the Sigma .lotal
Club delightfully entertained at a rook
party Friday evening in honor of Mr. |
and Mrs. Jake Eston Brewer whose!
marriage was a recent social event. |
The entire lower floor of the prettyl
home was thrown open to the guests
and beautifully decorated in fragrant
sink and white roses and ferns. L{ach'
playing table was topped with a cut
glass bon-bon dish filled with pink and l
wmlints. i
I “several exciting games th¢
hostess assisted by Misses Helen Os
horne and. Lula Smith served delic
‘ifihs«,, ice cream and angel food cake.
Among those present were: Mr. and
Mrs. Jake E. Brewer, Misses Lillian
Tucker, Helen Osborne, Lula Smith,
Lucy Tucker, Hazel Dean Jolly, Maryl
Eva Martin, Alice Byrd and Messrs:
Sam Story, William Tuttle, Hiram
W¥gins, Richard N.- Mathis, Bill
Mashburn, Hubert Young, Frank H.
Hilliard and L. Everett Rohrer.
FORMER RESIDENT WEDS
DEAD SISTER’S HUSBAND
x}"The tnany friends of Mrs. Frances
Worth of Fitzgerald will be pleased to
learn of her marriage to Mr. D. C
Thompson ‘of Lawton, Mich. at the
Celumbia Hotel at Kalamazoo, Michi-!
gan Sunday morning, March 6, 1921,
Rev.. Hartman officiating.
Mr. Thompson who is 69 years of
tge is secretaty and assistant manager
of the Southern Michigan Fruit As
ociation.
Mrs. Worth is a sister of Mr.
Thompson’s former wife.
Mrs. Worth is well known here,
having spent her girlhood days six
i\iles from the town of Lawton where
she will reside.
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OTTON SEED FOR SALE—Lon
iglfoy Lumber Co. has for, sale Wan
am¥kers Improved Early Variety and
Hasting’s Bank Account Cotton Seed.
: )Prices reasonable. d 2
BULL DOG FOUND—Dark brindle
bull dog with collar found, is in my
“place and can be had by owners b
paying for this ad and reward, o
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)R SALE—Union ¢27
‘ton dump body. Ele@ %2,
Miss Pauline
Crawley
Phone 350-]
MISS WISE HONOREEE ‘
“Complimenting Miss Rhea Frances
Wise a popular and attrastive bride
elect, Messdames Ulric J. Bennett and
Robert M. Pryor were joint hostesses
Saturday afternoon at the lovely home
lof Mrs. Pryor on West Jessamine St.
entertainiig at an elaborate reception.
The pretty interior of the home was
made more attractive by the lavish
use of gorgeous pink and white roses
placed in baskets on tables and cabi
nets, a pretty color scheme of pink,
white and green being carried out in
every detail.
Mrs. S. G. Pryor Jr. in her charm
ing manner greeted the guests on the
porch where punch bowl embedded
in_ exquisite greenrye was gracefully
presided over by Mrs. Rufus E. Smith
and Mrs. L. C. Glover. Mrs. Ulric J.
Bennett invited the guests into the
living room where the receiving line
stood which was composed of, Mrs.
Robert M. Pryor, and Miss Wise,
both becomingly gowned. for the
occasion.
Beautiful music on the Victrola was
played by Miss Louise Few.
Miss Lillian Dorminy ushered the
guests into the dining room where
they were served delicious green and
white brick ice cream and pink cakes
tapped with “W-F” in green, and pink
white and green mints by Messdames
Robert H. McKay, Tedfred E. Myers,
Frederick M. Powers, and Genevieve
Spier. :
Mrs. Claude Cutts Persons grace
fully presided over the bride’s book
where many good wishes were written
to Miss Wise, and Mrs. Nellie Frazier
Moncrief and Miss Julia Prentiss had
charge of the blue bird room.
About seventy guests called during
the afternoon.
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RETURN TO COLLEGES
‘ Among the “College Set” who
spent the Easter Holidays here with
‘relatives and who are leaving daily
for the various colleges are: Misses
Josephine Manning, Corinne Wom
ble, and Edna Tyson to Wesleyan
iCollegc in Macon, Misses Julia Wide
'man and Evelyn Shewmake to G."N.
1. C. in Milledgeville, Miss Athleen
Dickey to Washington Seminary in
| Atlatita.
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'FLORIDA RABBIT A FIGHTER
;Victor in Remarkable Combat With
| Dog, as Reported by “Honest and
1 . Upright Person.” -
Russell Thompson of Sarasota, a
noted angler and dealer in fishing
tackle, consequently a very honest and
‘upright person, has submitted the fol
lowing, with affidavit attached to the
Florida Fisherman. ’
“Last Sunday morning I happened
to be standing looking out the win
dow. All at once Dr. Jack Halton’s
bird and hound dog came down the al
ley with his back feet over his neck
(in the act of running) and Mayor
Edwards’ rabbit in the lead. The rab
bit is a very large specimen of the
rodent family and well able to care
for himself, as well as the dog who
happens to be a combination bird,
rabbit, coon and anything else that
happens to be in sight. Well. it was
not long bhefore the same pair came
back, but the rabbit was not in the
lead. Rube, the dog, and the rabbit
played for about twenty minutes uyp
and down the alley, in the back yards.
and seemed to be having a wonderful
time, when all of a sudden the rabbit,
tiring of such amusement (please he
lieve me), jumped and bit Dr. Jack
Halton’s dog under the neck, then,
to do the job up right, kicked poot
Major several times, thus ending the
morning’s exercise.”
ONE HIGH SCHOOL A DAY
For Twenty. Eight Years That Has
Been the® Record This Coun
try Has Made.
In a pamphlet on high schools in
this country, issued by the federal bu
reau of education, it is stated that the
total number of these schools in 1917-
18 was 13,951, The mailing list of
the bureau includes the namesg of
16,300 high schools. The number
of these schools has increased over
452 per cent since 1890. This means
that one high school has been estab
lished in this country each day in
each calendar year since 1890—a high
school a day for 28 years,
In 1890 60.8 per cent of the high
schools were under public control, but
in 1918 the public-controlled high
schools were 87 per cent of the whole.
The average size of a city high
school is 653 students and of a rural
school 59 students.
In 1890 only 312 persons in each
1,000 population were enrolled in pub
lic high schools. In 1918 the corre
sponding number was 15.6, or almost
five times as great a proportion. Cali
fornia, leads in high-school education,
with 27 persons out of each 1,000 in
the population. Kansas is a close sec
ond, with South Carolina at the bot
tom of the list, with 5.3 persons.
Mesopetamia’s Old Glorles.
Nebuchadnezzar's vast frrigation
system, which™dnce watered all Baby
lonia, can still be easily traced for
wuiles about Bagdad. One giant canal,
e Narawan, runs parallel with the
~is for nearly 300 miles; it is 850
wide, and all about it the takeoft
‘terals may still be fidentified.
ws sald he found a “forest of
‘om end to erid” when he vis
- . potamia.~-National Geo
VAULTERS AND SPRINTERS
SHOW UP WELL ;
The boys are coming out every af
ternoon for track practice now. They
are working hard under the direction
of Mr. Carter, and are confident of
winning at Ashburn. The pole vault
seems to be one of the most popular
events of the athletic contests, and
some of the boys have cleared the pole
at the hight of nine feet. From the
‘way practice is going now, it looks as
‘though we will have several men who
will make the hundred in very close to
ten flat.
Miss Willis’ classes in expression,
are showing some unusually good tal
ent, and it is expected that we will
have some excellent material to
draw our representatives in declama
tion and recitation.
The senior class is working hard on
their essays, which they will have to
write soon now, to determine the rep
resentative for thsechool in the essay
contest,
Announcements
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For City Offices
: FOR MAYOR
To the Citizens of Fitzgerald:
Recognizing the importance of the
changes made through the addition
of the Women voters for the election
of officers of the city, and appreci
ating fully their laudable gm to help
to make Fitzgerald a bigger and better
city in conjunction with the former
voters of the city, I have consented to
become a candidate for Mayor at the
solicitation of numerous friends
among the men and women of the city.
who have the wellfare of the commun
ity at heart.
Should the voters honor me with
this office, it shall be my purpose to
‘administer the affairs of the city in the
interest of all of the people, without
prejudice or favor, to the end that
the moral and material welfare of the
city may be properly advanced with
due regard to the tax burden from
which the tax-payers are entitled to
reasonable relief. It shall be my aim
to enforce rigidly all ordinances lead
ing to a higher morality and to the pro
tection of life and property.
Assuring you of my fullest appre
ciation of your careful coasideration
of my candidacy, I am,,
it Drew W. Paulk.
FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE
At the request of a large number of
citizens, I hereby announce for Alder
man at Large. If elected I shall
serve the city to the best of my abil
ity.
CLAYTON JAY.
FOR CITY TREASURER
Tao the Voters of Titzgeraid:
I respectfully announce my candi
dacy for re-election to the office of
Treasurer of the city of Fitzgerald,
subject to your approval in the com
ing primary. &
G. P. MINGLEDOREF.
FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE
At the solicitation of many friends
[ hereby announce myself a candi
date for re-election as Alderman at
large, subjcct to the choice of the
voters at the coming primary.
GEO. L. KILCREASE.
FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE
After careful consideration I here
by announce my candidacy for Alder
man at Large, subject to, the prim
ary to be called by the executive com
mittee.
E. J. DORMINEY.
FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE
After conferring with my friends I
have decided to be a candidate for
Alderman at Large in the coming
primary to be held for the election
of city officers and will appreciate the
support of all the voters.
A. H THURMOND.
FOR WATER LIGHT AND BOND
COMMISSION
At the urgent request of many of
my friends I hereby announce my
candidacy for the Water, Light and
Bond Commission of the city of
Fitzgerald, subject to the coming
primary. If elected I pledge by best
attention to the city’s business in
this office.
HUBERT ROUSH. -
FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE
My friends having requested that
I be a candidate in the coming prim
ary for re-election as Alderman at
Large, I hereby announce myself a
candidate and will appreciate the
support of the voters.
W. R PAULK.
Hope to Insure 40,000,
The International Association of
Machinists announced through its gen
eral secretary, E. C. Davison, that it
purposes to investigate the feasibility
of group insurance for its 400,000 mem
bers In this country.
At the present, according to Mr. Da
vison, a better spirit exists in shops
in . which employees are insured by
their employers, and the union will
attempt to eliminate the necessity of
individual employers insuring thein
workers through establishing an in
surance ' department.
In letters mailed by Mr. Davison to
all local unions of the organization
throughout the country he asks for
complete data in order that' the union
may develop its plan., !
Deverence.
Deference is the most complicate,
the most indirect nnd the most ele
gant <" 11 comniinents— henstone,
THE FITZGERALD LEADER TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921.
TO EXPLORE OCEAN’S DEPTHS
British Government Contemplating an
Expedition for the Gathering of
|‘ Scientific Information.
. The British government is con#em
' plating the dispatch of a deep-sea ex
‘ ploring expedition which is expected
to gather much valuable scientific in
~formation.
~ Most people imagine that the depths
‘of the ocean have been pretty thor
‘oughly explored, but this is very far
from being true. As a matter of fact,
~oply u very small fraction of the
whole area of deep sea bottom has
been surveyed. Attention is particu
larly called to a vast subaqueous re
gion around the Falkland islands and
up as far as Montevideo, which is al
most unknown, and which, having a
depth of less than 100 fathoms, may
offer opportunities for the development
of lucrative fisheries,
The first deep-sea exploring expe
dition, that of the famous Challenger,
was set on foot just 50 years ago.
The ship left port in 1872, and ideas
on the subject were in those days so
primitive that there was dispute as
to whether she should use wire or
hempen rope for soundings. It took a
whole day to make one sounding, or
a single cast of the dredge for bring
ing up fishes and other animals.
Since then deep-sea sounding ap
paratus has been much improved by
cable ships, and fishing gear has been
greatly modified by steam trawlers,
which use dredges. Besides, a great
deal that is of value has been learned
by oceanographic expeditions subse
quent to that of the Challenger. Hence
the new exploring vessel will start out
with a prospect of accomplishing a
very great deal of work of real im
portance,
TOO MUCH FOR SMALL MINDS
Childish Messengers Have Hard Time
Remembering Names of Books
They Are Sent For.
‘ “l want ‘Ressurection in the
Parks,’” demanded a little chap of
the librarian at the West Indianapo
lis branch library. “My brother said
for me to get it for him.” -
~ The librarian did not wish to let
} the little chap know she was puzzled.
She knew it was something that went
on in the parks that the ‘boy wished.
The ‘“resurrection,” she decided,
might be “recreation,” and that was
what she suggested. “That’s it,”
smiled the little chap, “I knew I had
that word wrong.”
Librarians often deal with little
brothers and sisters who are running
errands for big brothers and sisters
in high school. When one of the tots
asked the librarian at the West Indi
anapolis branch for “Europe’s Fa
bles,” the librarian smiled, for that was
simple to translate into *“Aesop’s Ka
bles.” It was different when another
asked for “Out of the Twist,” the
librarian then had to inquire diligent
ly before she found that the child
patron meant “Oliver Twist.”—lndi
anapolis News.
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Explanation Briefly Made.
Harold Knutson, Republican whip of
the house, tells a yarn about an old
fellow up in his country who has a
job carrying the mail from the depot
to the postoffice, for all of which he
gets $1 a trip.
Some of the boys around the gro
cery store the other night got to kid
ding the old chap about his job and.
eventdally, they asked him how much
he made out of it,
“T make $1 a trip, three trips a day, |
$125 a month, or $3,000 a year,” he
- said.
~ These figures not sounding just
right, one of the boys sought to pin
him down on his calculations,
- “How do you make $3,000 a year?"
he asked.
- “A-carryin’ the mail,” responded the
carrier, and with those few words he
departed. l
| Saturday Change. s
.~ Many storekeepers begin their Sat
vrdays by shopping in the neighbors
hood for small change—dimes, nickels,
and pennies. Seven customers out of‘
ten at the butcher’s,” baker’s and gro
cer's on Saturday pay for their pur- |
chases with $lO and $5 bills. Not one |
in twenty counts out the exact amount.
One storekeeper has found that $5O
in subsidiary coins is none too little
to carry him through.
Transit lines and automatic vending
machines receive tons of coins in a
day. Within 48 hours these coins are
back in circulation.
Dimes, nickels and pennies are the
most active elements of our circulat-
Ing medium.
Cat Evidently Was Offended.
A yellow cat called Shimmy, of no
particular breed, but lately a cher
ished mascot of the Aberdeen (Wash.)
fire department, left her home there
suddenly. Shimmy, according to the
fire laddies, who hunted three days
without success for their vanished
pet, made her nest in a coil of hose
which is used to wash the floor of
the fire hall. On the morn of Shim
my’s disappearance a careless fire
man turned the water into the coil.
Shimmy was ecatapulted toward the
ceiling and shot by the stream of wa- |
ter into the street. The cat has not
vet come back. i
Financial Backing. |
“Your friend the reformer seems to‘
be enjoying great prosperity these
days.” ‘
“He had a stroke of luck.”
“What was it?”
“He ran across a very rich person
who had a troubled conscience.”
United States’ Bad Lands.
This s the translation of “Mauvaises
Terres,” the term used by the French-
Canadian trappers to describe these
regions of unconsolidated rocks that
have been extensively eroded. Bad
lends occur on arid plateaus formed by
horizontal strata of loosely cemented
sands and gravels, The best examples
of such regions are found in the upper
portion of the Missour! drainage basin,
in the vicinity of the Black hills, SBome
are to be fownd sixe in Colorado, Ar
zona, New Mexico and Texas
‘ # NOTICE
The Assessment Roll for the year
1921 is now in my office at the City
Hall, and will remain for inspection
to all Tax Payers until the First Mon
day in April, at which time said Roll
will be delivered to the Board of
Equalization.
The Equalization Board will meet
the 4th of April (first Monday) for
the purpose of equalizing the taxes for
the year 1921. Any person aggrieved
The Daily lead
---has been published for the last
20 days to best serve the public
interest of Fitzgerald. |
The Daily Leader was not ex
pected by its publishers to be a
money maker but they do not con
sider themselves obligated to con
tinue to lose money with it for any
length of time. -
The circulation of the Daily
Leader has grown rapidly, but the
subscription lists have been so ar
ranged that the paper can be dis
continued at any time on one
week’s notice. ;
If the business people of Fitz
- gerald want to give their custom
ers a local daily newspaper, they
should concentratetheir advertising
in the local daily newspaper in
order to enable it to live. ,
Every dollar that is spent with
the Leader Publishing Company, in
ardvertising or Job Printing, helps
to insure the permanence of the
Fitzgerald daily paper.
Daily Leader advertising is
read by all classes of people
in Fitzgerald. It is good advertis
ing. And the advertising receipts
are what make the paper possible.
Subscription receipts pay approxi
mately only one-fourth of its cost.
If you have anything to sell,
Advertise in The Daily Leader.
If you want to buy anything,
Buy it from Leader advertisers
The Advertisers are the ones
who are giving you the paper
by anything in the Assessment Roll
may appear before said Board and
file complaint, 5
The Board will be in session from
day to day in the Clerk’s office until
its labors are completed.
This 25th dav of March 1921,
DAVID L. PAULK,
25-28-30 City Clerk
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NOTICE
All persons, firms or corporatons
doing business in the city of Fitzger
‘ald and have not paid their 1921 oc
cupation taxes are hereby requested
to come to the City Hall and pay
same, as they are now past due.
C. F. DIXON, Chief of Police.
Let us send your boys and girls
off at school the Fitzgerald Leader—
they will appreciate it! A special three
month’s subscription offer.