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IS CAMILLA SUPPLY CO H f TU: *“"■_? "■■'* ^HL'JLay/ll.’L Dress Goods and Notions Department We TJSui uneih? Embroidery, Laces, Percales, Madras and Ginghams. Also a large factory shipment of the famous W. T. Corsets. Come early and make your selection. in Gent's Furnishing Goods Department mm New arrivals in I-iats, Shirts, Neckwear and Shoes. 8 Hardware and Furniture Departments *s hSM is In these lines we have all that can be desired for the home or farm. Call on us and we can prove m rpgj to you that our buyers have done v eil, making it unnecessary for you to order from cities as has been ss ip the .case. Give us your patronage and we will prosper together as well as maintain the Largest |i 11 Department Store south of Macon. Yours Truly, Hi m II } Camilla Supply Company, _)•! 1 ‘Cs-S J C. TURNER, President. T. R. BENNETT, V.-Pres. and Gen. Man’gr. 8 a Si CAMILLA ENTERPRISE. FUELISHED EVERY FRIDAY* WALTER A. ALLEN KDlTOli AND I’l llUSHEB Entered at Camilla, Ga., post of¬ fice as second • class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 ONE YEAR - - - $1.00 SIX MONTHS - - - .50 Advertisements and Communications must reach us not later than Wednes¬ day noon, to insure publication. All communications or other articles ad¬ vocating anybody’s candidacy for office will be charged for at the rate of 5c per line. “Local Lines,” 5c per line for each in¬ sertion. Address all business communication and make all checks payable to W. A. Allen, Camilla, Ga. Editorial and news items should be ad¬ dressed to The Ejjtekiuuse, Camilla, Ga. Estimates for advertising furnished on application. All advertising contracts due after first insertion, unless other¬ wise stipulated. Official organ of Camilla, Ga., • • And Mitchell county , . TELEPHONE NO. 64. FRIDAY, MARCH 25, I0p4. Teddy has ordered congress to pass a 825.000,000 service pen¬ sion bill. The pension grabbers must bo satisfied in some way. Tm key must be getting ready to do some fighting her own self as she is reported as having bought another cruiser and a large lot of rnauser rifles. Col. John Triplett, the late vet¬ eran editor of the Thomasville „iL.w Enterprise says that Mitchell county is the best aver¬ age county in south Georgia, and he can be relied upon as authori¬ ty for he has traveled extensive¬ ly over all of them and knows whereof be speaks- Marshall E. Bush Lead. Camilla was shocked on Fri¬ day afternoon of last week when it was announced that Mr. M. E. Bush had died thatj morning at nine o’clock at his hotel in San Antonia, Texas where he and his loving wife had arrived that morning at 9 o’clock enroute to New Mexico, having left Camilla on Tuesday morning before, Mr. Bush had been a sufferer for aoout two years with pulmon¬ ary trouble but at the ( time he left home seemed to be somewhat stronger than he had been for some time. Upon the advice of physicians and friends he had arranged his business affairs so as to spend some time in west Texas andJNew Mexico, where it was hoped that he would be able to arrest the en¬ croachments of the terrible dis¬ ease and possibly overcome it altogether, but fate decreed other¬ wise and within an hour after his arrival in San Antonio, he was attacked with a severe hemor¬ rhage and died in a very few minutes. Within a few' hours after their arrival in San Antonio the devot¬ ed wife, a stranger in a strange city; had arranged for the return trip, and with' the remains of her noble husband was enroute for Camilla, the home of relatives and friends who loved them. The journey was indeed a sad one. At Montgomery, Ala., Mrs. Bush was joined by her sister, Mrs. W. W. Meadows, who accompanied her on the remaining portion of the return trip. Judge I. A. Bush also met her in Montgom¬ ery and returned with them, ar¬ riving in Camilla at 6 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church at 10 o’clock Monday morning, where it was manifested bj r the gathering of people the high os~ teem in which Mr. Bush was by those who knew him. felt eulogies were delivered by pastor Rev, O. T. Clark and Rev. J. L. Underwood, who urged up¬ on all young people that they emulate his moral and Christian character which was above re¬ proach. Tne burial was at Camilla’s new cemetery where he was laid to rest beside loved ones by the Knights of Pythias, of which order he. was an honored member, Mr. E. M. Davis presiding as Prelate. The editor of the Enterprise had only had an acquaintance of a few months with the deceased, but in that short time he learned to esteem Marshall Bush as a friend and true man, but the best thing that can be said of him was the utterance of one of his com¬ panions in boyhood and y;ung manhood. “I have known Mar¬ shall Bush all my life and I never knew him to engage in anythihg of a questionable character or to do a small, mean act of any kind whatever.” The relatives from a distance who were in attendance upon the funera' were: Rev, and Mrs. R. L. Wiggins, of Lumpkin, Ga., Rev. S. P. Wiggins, of West Point, Ga., Mrs. YV. W. Meadows, of Montgomery, Ala;, Dr. I. A. Bush, of Baltimore, Md., Mr. Ross Bush, from Oxford, and Miss Calista Bush from Macon, with Judge Sheffield and Messrs. Charlie and Smiley Bush, of Arlington. Under the recent act of the legislature it is illegal to shoot, ensnare, trap betweehjthe or kill in any man¬ ner snipe, months of March loth and July 15. The law is very emphatic and says liable any one purchasing snipe will be to the same proscecution as the party who kills them. PELHAM’S BIG FIRE. Flames Monday Ni^ht Swept Away Property Valued at $ 75 , 000 . While a large number of Ca¬ milla’s young people were having all the enjoyment and pleasure possible to be derived from so¬ cial mingling on last Tuesday evening their neighbors at Pelham were engaged in fight¬ ing the flames that threat¬ ened for a while to destroy the larger portion of the business Part of this enterprising town. The alarm of lire was sounded at the oil mill of the Hand Trad¬ ing Co.', at about 9 o’clock. Fire was discovered coming from the roof of the oil mill, and cn ac¬ count of failure of obtaining a sufficient pressure, the fire sys¬ tem attached was useless, ami the bucket brigade could do nothing against such a fire. The flames spread rapidly to the guano factory, which, togeth¬ er with the oil mill was totally destroyed. At one time it look¬ ed like the business portion of the town would be destroyed, but the wind changed in time. The livery stable west of the railroad caught several times and the residences of Dr. W. S. Hill and -J. W. McKenzie were in danger a while, from falling sparks. About 15,000 gallons of oh in the tanks made a lire equal to that caused by the burning mill. Several-box cars on the railroad caught fire, and one was des¬ troyed. It contained about ten tons of fertilizer. Mr. J. L. Hand states that the loss was about 840,000 with in¬ surance of $27,000; that he will commence to rebuild at once* Brick will be used to build a modern, up-to-date mill, and Mr. Hand expects to be ready for another season’s business on about August 1. The Oil Mill Company will probably be in die market for an entire oil mill outfit, as most of the machinery is a total loss. It was fortunate that the fire came when it did, at the close of a season, as a month or two ear¬ lier would have caught them with large fertilizer contracts to till, and later would have delayed their rebuilding well into anoth¬ er season. Dr. Scaife gets funny and gives a burlesque announcement for the legislature. O n his platform he should run for congress. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. To My Friends and Fellow Citizens: I hereby announce myself a candidate for Representative to the Georgia Legis¬ lature, subject to the Democratic pri¬ mary. My platform is: 1st. I am a prohibitionist. I am in favor of prohibiting the issuing of recti¬ fying licenses to the big whiskey con¬ cerns and distillers who take a barrel of whiskey—made to-day—doctor it to¬ morrow and the third day put it in ten barrels—all full—and brand it seven year-old whiskey. I am in favor of pro¬ hibiting the prosecution of little law¬ breakers (pot distillers and blind tigers) and let the big law-breaker go free. 2nd. I am opposed to dispensaries, because they are a monopoly, pure and simple, and because it brings to light, the fiiddeu things of some of our moral guides and shows they are not so wed¬ ded to prohibition after all if there is big money to be made out of whiskey. 3rd. If we must have whiskey and the dispensary cannot be run on a de¬ cent plane, then I am in favor of the open barrooms, and let the law be so broad that it can be sold in every ham¬ let in this county. These are my sentiments; if yon agree with me vote for me and I will shell the woods. \Y. L. Scaife. Notice, As our church is undergoing repairs we call on all of our members and friends to worship with the Presbyte¬ rians next Sunday, the 27th. C. T. CLARK, Pastor M. E. Church.