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CAMILLA ENTERPRISE.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY*
WALTER A. ALLEN
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There is some talk of changing
the southern terminus of the
Georgia Northern road from
Pidcock to Quitman.
The legislature cn Tuesday, by
a vote of 112 to 26, passed-a bill
raising the governor’s salary
from §3,000 t o $5,0 00.
Deal Jackson, the Dougherty
county colored farmer, marketed
his first bale, which is also the
first bale for the state, on Friday
of last week. It weighed 351
pounds and sold for 15 cents per
pound.
The State Horticultural Society
will hold its 28th annual session
at Tallulah Falls, Ga., on Thurs¬
day and Friday, August 4th and
5th. The subject, “The Pecan
in Georgia,” will be discussed by
Hon. J. B, Wight, of Cairo, Ga.
Bern tan’s Saturday and Monday we place on sale Berman’s
a line of goods which should appeal to any
shrewd buyer.
\ Never in the history of our merchandise
career have we shown such values.
Extra Special. Suspenders.
All-wool Men’s coats for §1.50 Buy a Lucky Purchase lit Yew York, 500 pairs of fine silk suspenders
Boy’8 wool knee pants 25c. I secured 350 full suits—coats, vesls and pants. Not suit in the lot worth
Boys’ size 18 knee pants $1.00 a good grade, a trifle short, 10c
Men’s tan kid oxfords §1.25 less than $12, many worth $15. NeaiV every suit has famous satin linings, Longer ones for 15 cents a pair.
hair-cloth fronts, hand padded shoulders and close fitting collars.
Another Berman Bargain—If you wear clothes you should see these $12
Ladie’s black straw sailors 25c, suits for $7.95. BERMAN’S.
each worth 50c.
I Come quick, not many of them.
Extra Special. $12 ouits $ /.yo. Camilla, Broad - Street, Geogria.
Silk thread, all colors 5c.
500 children’s parasols worth $2. Men’s fine F-C tailor made shirts
giving them away for 25c. We expect to get busy early and stay aU colors and designs §1 each.
busy all day, Saturday and Monday. If we
don’t ’twill not be our fault. i
Berman’s Buy a Suit! 1 Berman’s „
Augus ta, Ga., was visited by a
severe stor m on Thursday of
l ast week, wh ich swept the eas*
tern and southern portion of the
city doing great darngae to prop¬
erty and killing and wounding a
number of persons.
The Albany Herald wants the
city to use a part of the old fair
grounds and some of the waste
lands along the river as a park
It is something every city needs
fora large majority of a cities’
population cannot get off to su m -
mer resorts,
The strike situation among the
butchers and meat cutters in
Chicago hasj reached a critical
stage and a race war is threaten¬
ed because of the fact that ne
gro men are taking the places of
the white strikers, both men and
women, the latter having been
.employed in the restaurants.
A department of immigration
may be alright, but Colquitt
county cannot wait on this. What
»c deeu rs good, substantial,
Georgia farmers, and a state
commissioner will never help us
to this.—Moultrie Observer.
You are right brother, each
county must look out for itself in
the matter of immigration. A
state department simply means
another fat office for politicians
to fight over.
A bill to rotate the circuit
judges has been introduced in
the legislature. This would do
very well if they would increase
their salaries, but it strikes the
editor of the Enterprise that
the best thing that could be done
in the matter wiuld be to make
their term of office, say twelve
years at a salary of $2,500 or $3
000 a year and disqualifies them
from re-eleetion to a second
term.
Subscribe for the Enterprise
Wafer Works.
The question of Water Works
for Camilla is being discussed
now by her citizens with a view
of establishing some plan by
which thty can be obtained at
the lowest possible cost to the
tax payers.
The building of the new jail
will demand that a system of
water works be put in for its
protection against disease which
will but naturally find lodgement
in such a place if its sanitary
arrangements are not such as to
insure perfect cleanliness at
all times of both the building
and its inmates- This being
true, the County Commissioners
will bo only too glad to co-oper¬
ate with |he town authorities in
any movement towards securing
to the town a system of water
works that will meet the de¬
mands of the times.
The Enterprise, if asked for
an opinion on the question,
would unhesitatingly declare for
water works to be supplied by
an issue of bonds, because it be¬
lieves that the saving in insur¬
ance rates will more than pay
the interest on the bonds, an I
then by consolidating the elect ric
lignt plant with that of the water
works they can be made almost
self sustaining right from the
start, white in a few years as the
town advances in growth they
will prove to be a profitable
source of revenue to the town.
Give us witer works. It
means a step forward in this day
of push and enterprise and will
place Camilla in the list of pro¬
gressive up-to-dats towns of the
wiregrass. It will give protec
ti n to property, add to the
healthfulness of her people and
invite immigration and manufac¬
turing industries. Do not look
for these to come upon you like
an avalanche, but piepa e the
wav for them and they will come.
Rome was not built iu a Jay,
neither can a progressive town
reach its full growth in one short
year.
A town, like a man, cannot sit
down and wait for something
to torn ap, if it does it will never
accomplish anything. To be
prosperous one must put the
lever of progress under apparent
immovable barriers and with a
united effort turn something up.
Wbat if we should have to
make some sacrifices for a time?
Has anything of importance ever
been accomplished without a
sacrifice at some stage of its pro¬
gress toward success?
The man who accumulates
money and property does so by
many sacrifices of his personal
pleasures to the rule of strict
economy and close application of
his time and talent to his busi¬
ness. Thus it is with the people
of a progressive town. They
must make some sacrifice of
their time and energy, and pos¬
sibly some of their money in the
development of their town, if
they would have it grow and
prosper.
Statesboro News: Com and
bacon and home supplies will
bring the cash at all seasons of
the year, and lucky is the farmer
whose barns and cribs hold such
things, for he can bid defiance,
even to the Standard Oil Com¬
pany.
That is the kind of farmers we
have here in Mitchell. They
grow plenty of corn and pinders
with which to raise hogs and we
venture the assertion that Mitch¬
ell county farmers ship more live
hogs and pork to markets outside
of the county than any other
county in the state.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
COTTON DYING IN COLQUITT.
The Disease Very Closely Re¬
sembles Blackroot, it is Said.
Nearly every day the Observer
gets a report of cotton dying from
something very much like black
root. Some farmers say it is
blackroot, and others say it is a
new disease, more like “wilt.”
Mr. M. J. Norman is one of
those suffering from its effects.
He has several acres that is prac¬
tically all dead. The disease ap¬
pears in spots and takes the cot¬
ton almost clean as it goes. Mr.
Norman says it has appeared in
his best and the cotton dying
would make a bale to the acre.
With this exception, Mr. Nor¬
man says he has a fine crop, and
all around him, he says, the pros¬
pects would be unusually good
but for this disease in cotton.
Recent rains have supplied the
only thing that has been lacking.
Moultrie Observer.
The sinking of an English ves¬
sel by the Russians and other of¬
fences against t he shippi ng in¬
terests of England and Germany
has placed the Russians in a bad
light before the world. It may
be that the little Japs are too
much for them and rather than
get licked the Russians have de¬
cided to step cn the tail of the
English lion and bring about an
intervention and put a stop t; the
war.
An investigation by Col. Steve
Posted, Atlanta correspondent of
the Macon Telegraph, into the
prison records of Georgia reveal¬
ed the fact that there are no news¬
paper men in the state peniten¬
tiaries. Even if newspaper men
ever committed crime, the futili¬
ty of trying to punish them any
further would probably at once
suggest itself to the courts.—Au¬
gusta Chronicler