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CAMILLA ENTERPRISE.
p Jf)L lsHED EVERY FRIDAY*
AU fcN, Editor and Publisher
Official organ of Camilla, Ga.,
• . And Mitchell county • •
B it^red at Camilla, Ga., post
fire as second-class matter. |
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TELEPHONE NO. 64.
FRIDAY. JAN 29. 1904.
Marietta, Ga., suffered the
io s by fire of Si 50.000 worth of
property one day last week.
The old veterans of Bibb coun¬
ty will receive $18,000 from the
elate this year in pension money.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee succeeds
Gen. Gordon as commander-in
chief of the United Confederate
Veterans
ThomasVilie lost ten of her
prisoners last week by their cut
ling|thrOUgh the wall with an axe.
One returned and gave himself
up,another was captured at Cool
sdge and eight are still at large.
A cyclone visited the little town
<<f Moundville near Tuscaloosa,
Ala., last Thursday, destroying
every business house except one,
killing 37 people an l injuring
more than a hundred.
Volumn one, number one; of
the Lyons Progress is the latest
addition to the newspaper field
that has found its way to this of¬
fice- It is a five column, eight
page paper, neatly printed and
well edited Mr. L. W. Moore is
t-» he congratulated upon the ap¬
pearance of the first issue of \ s
paper.
1 Dress, ...... Goods and Notions Department,
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We are beautiful daily receiving lines in Embroidery, Laces, Percales, Madras and Ginghams.
Also a large factory shipment of the famous W. T. Corsets. Come early and make your selection.
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New arrivals in Hats, Shirts, Neckwear and Shoes
Hardware and Furniture Departments
faM S| In these lines we have all that can he desired for the home or farm. Call on us and we can prove W E|
to vou that our buyers have done well, making it unnecessary for you to order from cities as has been
||§ $E tlie ease. Give us your patronage and we Yours will prosper Truly, together as well as maintain the Largest Si jlj|
Department Store south of Macon.
J C. TURNER, President T. R. BENNETT, V.-Pres. and Gen. Man’gr
The Rowan county volcano in
Sugar Loaf Mountain turns out
*> b « a moonshine stiii which was
located in a cave in the mountain,
the smoke ascending through a
crevice in the top of the moun¬
tain.
Congressman. Griggs is au
for the statement that
Thomas and, Brooks counties
have never been included in the
bill for a new federal division,
with headquarters at Albany,
and that Decatur and Berrien
have been stricken therefrom at
their own request. Judge New
nan is said t > be willing to the
new division, and it is thought
the bill creating it will become a
law before the close of the ses
sion.—Gazette.
The Valdosta Times says: It
may be interesting to some who
have slipped iu ‘‘just a few
words” of writing in a package
of paper or merchandise mailed
at the lower rates te their
friends, to learn that the abuse
has become so com mon that
postmasters have been instruct¬
ed to examine such packages and
report if writing is frand, to the
department officials. The next
the senders kno w will he a visit
from a deputy United States
marshal with a warrant of arrest.
On last Saturday the people of
Chicago were given another
shock on account |jof their fear of
fire, which broke out in the Ma¬
sonic temple, a twenty story sky
scraper, within one square of the
fatal Iroquois Theater in which
so many people recently lost their
lives. About twp thousand peo¬
ple occupy tho Masonic temple
and it required heroic work on
the part of the elevator men and
firemen to prevent the loss of life
from the fire which was occasion¬
ed by the explosion of chemicals
in a doctors office on the fifth
floor.
THE PROHIBITION
CAMPAIGN IS ON.
The People oi Mitchell County
Must Say by Their Votes
Whether the County Shall be
“Wet or Dry.”
By reference to notice pubhsh
ed elsewhere in this issue of
the Enterprise* it will be seen
that the Ordinary has ordered
an election to be held on Saturday
the 27th day of February to de¬
termine whether or not Mitchell
county shall remain “dry” and
retain its place among the large
number of prohibition counties
of the state or whether it shall
be “wet” and counted among the
proportionately few counties
that are now selling intoxicating
liquors, either in open barrooms
or in dispensaries.
It is true that in many Prohi¬
bition counties the noted “blind
tiger” is to hfe found and this is
a source of argument against
prohibition by those who would
prefer to see licensed t aerooms
opened up all over their county,
or tfho would prefer to have
their county itself engage in the
business through the dispensary.
The “blind tiger” flourishes
only" where the people allow them
to flourish, because of the fact
that they think it is the business
of the officers of*thc law to look
them up and report them to the
court, and sometimes when cases
are made and convictions are se
cured the court only imposes a
light fine and the “tiger” is not
hurt much, only made more
cautions, but produces fewer vic¬
tims than either the open bar¬
room or the dispensary.
The results achieved in Terr -11
and Floyd counties by having
dispensaries- is a source of ar¬
gument that will be made use of
by those who favor the sale of
liquor in their county with the
selfish view of making the men
who drink whiskey pay the taxes
j of the county and doubtless many
will say that this is right and
would, by their vote, commit
their county to the policy of be¬
ing bar-keepers for tne sake of
a little pei.senai gain.
There is no real argument in
favor of the licensed barroom for
these benefit no one but the pro¬
prietor, for the license tax will
not compensate the extra police
force that would be required to
enforce law and erder in the
communities in which tho saloon
is located. These are the places
where social drinking Is fostered
and it is the social glass that
makes tne greatest number of
drunkards and brings the great¬
est amount of sorrow anu want
to many homes.
The editor of the Enterprise
as an individual is a prohibition¬
ist, because he honestly believes
that it is right that all the pro¬
tection possible should be given
to the man who cannot withstand
temptation, but so far as the pa*
per is concerned, as stated in our
Salutatory last week, it is not the
organ of any individual or faction
and editorially it ^ill not have
anything further to say for or
against the question at issue;
however its coluifms are opened
to those who wish to discuss the
question and will pay for the
space they use in the paper at
one cent a word.
Services at Baptist Church on
Fifth Sunday.
Rev. A. S. Atkinson, of Vienna
will preach at the Baptist Church
in Camilla on the 31st of this
month, morning and evening-
A Call to Prohibitionists.
In this week,s, paper appears
notice of Local Option elee ion.
As chairman of last Central Pro¬
hibition Committee, I presume it
is my duty to take some action
and therefore ask all frier,d3 of
temperance who are opposed to
the sale of liquor in Mitchell
county to assemble at the Court
House in Camilla, next Wednes¬
day at 11 a. m., for the purpose
ef organizing and taking such
other iteps as may be considered
advisable.
By calling the election on Sat¬
urday and allowing only one
week for registration the Ordina
ry has given every advantage to
the advocates of whiskey and it
is necessary for the friends of
temperance to take prompt and
dec sive action if we succeed.
Register at once and be pre¬
pared to vote. M. E. Bush.
Camilla, Ga., Jan. 38, 1904.
The Difference.
The farmer who follows the
all-cotton phantom rejoices in
prosperity when the price of the
staple is high and wrestles with
adversity when it is low. The
farmer who diversifies his crops
making his farm self-sustaining
is prosperous under all condi¬
tions, for he has more net profit
in a bale of cotton which sells at
8 cents a pound than has the all¬
cotton planter in a bale which
sells at 12 cents.—Albany Hei
a’d
There is no real success in
farming unless the fanner makes
cotton as a surplus crop.
Fire Insurance,
J. C. Turner, Agent.
represents the following Fire In¬
surance Companies:
Liverpool and London and Globe. Hartford
Fire. Homs insurance Oof N- Y.
Greenwich Insurare 8 Co
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