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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25

day." and although the market
rallied very suddenly at the.
close and the general situation
in the minds of some was much
improved, great many persons
having interests in the street"
went home in anything but a
cheerful frame of mind.
1t was freely predicted that
trouble even more serious was
impending. From trustworthy
sources it was learned that three
or more commission houses had
been squeezed" almost to the
bursting point.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
RESOLUTIONS.

WHEREAS; our Heavenly Faith
er, in His infinite wisdom, has
seen fit to remove from our midst
our beloved brother Thompson.
and,
WHEREAS, the Epworth League
has lost consecrated worker, an
earnest member and a faithful
officer, and
WHEREAS, his loving deeds and
cody life have been and ever
shall be an inspiration to us.
RESOLVED, That we, the mem
bers of the L. V. Lyons Chapter
of the First M. E. church, feel
deeply our loss in the death of
Brother Thompson.
RESOLVED, That we tender our
deepest and sincerest sympa-
thy to his bereaved wife, parents
and relatives.
RESOLVED, That the memory
of his life and his death shall ever
draw us nearer to the God he
loved and served.
RESOLVED, That a copy of
these resolutions be spread upon
the records of the League, that
copies be sent to the bereaved
wife and parents and that copies
be furnished the city papers for
publication.
MRS. J. H. CRIMBLE,
LULU M. RYMAN,
L. l.. ScHNARE.
Committee.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25

be real men, and not tin warriors
or toy soldiers. Whatever men
do they should do heartily and
well, and these volunteer soldiers
of Georgia should demonstrate
in their annual maneuvers the
stuff that is in them for more
serious service.
For there are many shadows
moving on the surface of the
times.
There aresome ominous peri1s
that grow out of possible racial
and sectional conditions, and it
is true from the dawn of history
that in times of peril and excite
ment that force is alone effective
and irresistible that is framed in
dicipline and permeated with
order.
It is only practice and service
which can make this equipment
for the possible perils of the
State.
And so the News urges upon
the volunteer soldiers themselves
and upon the patriotic citizens by
whom some of them are employed,
that this is time for responsive
ness, and patriotism, and for
whatever sacrifice of convenience
may be needed to give us full and
earnest regiments in the camps
of the State.
1t shouldneed no argument and
no appeal to induce intelligent
and public-spirited Georgians to
fall milne with this suggestion
Atlanta News.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
The HaDdicsp of Lack of Education

Many men of wonderful natural
endowments are dwarfed and
hampered in their 1ife-work be-
cause of their lack of education.
How often do we see bright minds
in responsible positions, serving
on boards of directors, as trus-
tees of great business houses or
banking institutions, men who
control the affairs of great rail-
roads and manufactures, who
have good judgment and great
natural ability, but who are so
stunted and cramped by their
lack of early development that
life does not Yield them one tenth
of what it might had their intel
lectual and aesthetic possibilities
been -unfolded lin youth. In so.
cial life, on public platforms, in
debate, in the fields of the world s
work, enjoyment, and progress,
they are constantly bafaed, en-
barrassed, and handicapped by
the limitations of ignorance.
Again, thousands of Young
men and young women are work
ing to-day in inferior positions
because of their lack of mental
culture. Conscious of dormant
powers which they cannot get
control of, many of them fret
and chafe under the restraints
imposed upon them by their own
ignorance. They are in the pos
ition of the Chinese and other
non-progressive peoples, who
have great mineral, agricultural,
and other natural resources.
which, however, do not yield
them hundreth part of their val.
Tie because they do not know
how to utilize them. In the very
midst of potential wealth and
vast possibilities, those people
live in poverty and degradation,
just as an uneducated man or
woman, who has never develo ped
their mental wealth, is is doom.
ed to perpetual ignorance and its
consequences August "Suc.
cess"
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25

He moved to Brooks county in
1859, and taught school until the
war, when he entered the Con-
federate army as a private, serv-
ing gallantly until the end, rising
to the rank of captain and suffer-
ing a wound at Gettysburg from
a bullet that was not extracted
until 1868. He was imprisoned
after the battle.
"He was married in 1865 and
ADMITTED to the bar the same
year. He was presidential elect
or in 1872; state representative
from Brooks county in 1874, 1876
1878; delegate to the National
Democratic Convention in 1876,
and elected to Congress in 1880,
and served six consecutive terms
and refused a seventh nomina-
ton that was offered to him
unanimously, because many ofhis
old friends and associates had
gone off after the strange gods of
popu1ism. He could have been
elected without a single utterance
from the stump but he preferred
not to take the chances of being
misunderstood by the people he
loved, and who had honored him
so repeatedly and whom he re-
allied had been seduced from the
old democracy and turned to the
wild theories of Western
alarmist.
Both as a state and nationa.
legislator, Capt. Turner ranked
as an unquestioned leader. Ir
every deliberate body, he has
held a signal and commanding
influence, due to marked ability,
thorough equipoise of temper
rigid justice, we'll balanced judg
ment and an immovab1e honesty
and firmness, tempered with TN
varying politeness.
His views as legislator were
I always heard with profound at
tention, his colleagues showing
undisguished eagerness to hea
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
LET US HAVE FULL
REGIMENTS IN CAMP.

The encampment of Georgia
troops, infantry and cavalry,
duly ordered by the State, and
under the national spirit of the
Dick bill, is, or should be, both a
mandate and pleasant bidding
to the volunteer so1diery of
Georgia.
The voice of the State is at once
the voice of authority and the call
of patriotism. Employer or en-
ployee, in answer to this bidding
in peace or in war, should res
pond with alacrity, and the regi-
ments in camp should muster
with full rolls and with high en-
thusiasm.
Under the provisions of the
Dick bill the results of this en-
campment will determine the re-
latives status and merit OF
Georgia's volunteer military
among the other states of the
Union.
These State encampments are
not conceived in idlenessor folly.
They represent real value and
real discipline for the service OF
the State. The State has nc
money to spend IN a mere junket
without practice and without re-
suits.
And the men who compose
these Georgia regiments mus
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
Mails DELAYED.

Something is wrong-out of
joint in the mail connections to
Fitzgerald. AS we are about to
go to press we are flooded with
two or three days mail including
Thursdays Fridays and Satur-
days mail. We will probably
never know where the abstruc-
occurred. Certainly we have ex-
changes enough on hand to get
out Sundays edition, but will
probably not do that.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
LOCAL g OTHERWISE.

Have you looked for the COM
met?
Tag the lobbyist. Mr.. Tig-
nor is right.
The question of the day is,
who will succeed Leo?
Hon. R. V. Bowen came down
from Atlanta yesterday.
Mr.. JIM. Morrow of St. Aug
dstine is visiting DR.. J. H. Tyy-
man.
Mr.. Justice Turner adds Dig
nifty and strength to the supreme
bench.
Have you seen anything of the
1aziness germ? It staIketh a.
broad in the land.
The Thrice-a-Week Enterprise
and the Thrice-a-Week World
only $1.65 per annum.
Fitzgerald will have a com
press, in fact we have already
got one on the string, and will
soon have it on the ground meal
the light and water plant.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
The Soldier and His StimulaQt.

The old question of the soldier stmulant has been civ
en- renewed interest by cable dispatch just Germany
The Count Won Haese1er lately Faderands
Sixteenth army corps intimate of Emperor William figure
of no small Importance the military world just
emphatcay against the of alcoholic
in the German After deep and panstakng
ton into the question: he his fixed opinion use
beverages in any way to
medicines injurious the individual soldier or officer and
disastrous to the whole.
The soldier who absans altogeth is the best man he
says He accomplish more better and is better
soldier than the who drinks moderately Mentally and
physically he better Brandy worst poison of ALL Next
to comes beer Each limits the capacity lowers mind bod
and SOUL Strong drink tires only the thirst For
soldiers water Coffee and above ALL tea"
Almost concident with the protest German general has
ed against the use OF wines and beers and liquors
the German Association Investigation of Mental Diseases
has announced the result Investigations and STARTLING
enough they For they show that out of every
mental disorder in state asyums result of in
temperance either personal Inherited year $40
afflicted with mental disease took their lives whom 298
drunkard children drunkards Among these 3o
persons were wentyseven children all to drink
The number of unatcs committing suicide y1ums is small
owing the strict watch them The persons who
killed themselves year killed. BESIDES eightv-nne
whom hfty-two were their children.
Women who grow show saws the report sino
ular propensity kill their children The of the past
tour show that lunac mothers have times
many OF their children unatc fathers In where
mad woman has killed her child her caused bv
drink
Also Dr. Mazonito that wonderful vitality of the
PoPN was
the king of England who health can
drunk just as well in water wine The latter be it under
Stood issued death blow to army and navy
which has heretofore made incumbent total alb
stalners to port wine when they his majesty
There and there always have been all probability
there will forever be those who contend moderate indulgence
alcohol not banefu There have past and there
will be in the future instances men who
always chewed and smoked drunk doubtful if
investigation facts will disturb conviction or be-
lief of those who maintain temperate is not
than temperate of food
The majority OF people coming understand
the truth of the matter The state rnne France
long cited example the harmessness
liquor has recently fallen has impressed The phvsi-
cal degeneracY OF the beer and branddrng Engshman
illustrated the campaign against the codwaer men of the
Transvaa has driven home truth of the ahe-
ete and the prize fighter and clerk the branworr who
drinks opposed to him who does not and than
of drinking fallen i'll abstainer fallen ill., are bein
understood for what they really sgnify-Atanta News
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
Two Great Firms Carried Down By the
Collapse Of Stock Market-Son IN Law
OF Keene Forced to the Wall.
Failure Of Taylor &, Co., Due to Fioht
Over the Southern Pacific--Board
Room Scene Of Wild Excitement
Great Apprehension

New York, July 24.-The an
nouncement on the stock ex-
change late today of the suspen-
sion of the firms of Talbot ].
Taylor & Co. and w. L. Stowe
q Co., was the sequel to a period
of excited selling of stocks and
wide cuts in prices which has not
been equaled before or since
the present movementto 1iquidate
set in. There is nothing in
either failure that can be traced
to business or Industrial condi-
tons outside the exchange, the
case lying close to diagnosis of
speculative collapse. Both firms
have been largely concerned in
speculative stock market pools,
formed for the purpose of taking
on a line of stocks, sustaining
their prices by supporting orders
real or manipulative, seeking to
realize profits by selling out to
outsiders at the high prices.
Such operations have suffered
from increasing difficulties, with
the growth in the stringency of
money, the so1icitude of bankers
over loans employed in such pro-
jects, and the jaded appetite of
the public forsecurities.
The operations of the firm of
w. L. Stowe & Co., were on
large scale in Mexican Central
and the difficulties which have
accumulated upon them are I'M
derstood by the price of II touch
ed by Mexican Central under the
forced selling today and the high
level at 81 1-8 last year.
The failure of Talbot J. Tay-
lor & Co. will inevitably be con-
nected with the great market op-
erations of James r. Keenc by
reason of his family connection
with and frequent employment
of the firm. Mr.. Keene's opera
tons in stocks are too numerous
to detail, and much mystery
usually attaches to them neces.
sarily from their nature. But
the market management of the
United States Steel stocks, on
behalf of the syndicate, and the
conduct ofa Southern Pacific pool
are the operations with which
his name is most notably con-
nected.
The accumulation, according
to common belief, of three hun
dred thousand shares of South
ern Pacific and the lifting of it's
price above 80 we're based upon
the assumption that Southern Pa
cific bonds were to be issued for
that roads work of improvement
and the net earnings applied to
dividends. Talbot J. Taylor &
Co., as representatives of the
pool, felt themselves powerful
enough to challenge the Union
Pacific party's refusal to adopt
their policy and to carry the
quarrel to the courts. The ami
mosities and resentments en-
gendered by that quarrel are
supposed to have added to the
weight of the firms difficulties
and to have aided in bringing it
down.
vERITABLE BLACK FRIDAY.
| It was a veritab1e BLACK FRI
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
South Georgian Becomes
Supreme Court Justice.
Talked With the Governor, Then Announced
That He Would Accept---And at Once
Assumed the Duties of the Position.

Atlanta, July 23.-Hon. Henry
G. Turner, of Quitman, has &C.
cepted the appointment by Gov.
Terrell to the Supreme Court
bench, to succeed the late Just
ice Samuel Lumpkin, and is now
On the bench.
The Supreme Court is partic-
ularly busy at the present time,
and Judge Turner's services are
needed. He went to Atlanta for
a conference with the governor,
and after talking it over with
him at the mansion, stated he
woul acceptd.
Judge Turner will serve until
the election of his successor in
October, 1904.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-07-25
CAREER OF CAPT, TURNER.

Henry G. Turner was born in
Franklin county, North Carolina,
March 20, 1929. He was educat-
cd at the University of Virginia.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01
General Crop Conditions.

The unfavorable conditions
of cold and damp weather
which prevailed during the
first hall of the week q eaily
delayed farm work, and
checked the proper growth
OF vegetation. Very little
corn was planted and the
early paintings which are
beginning to come up are
doing no good as to growth /;
much of the recently planted
areas will have to be replant-
ed on account of seed rotting.
This is true also of cotton
the planting of this crop has
been pushed rapidly forward
during the last few days.
Wheat, in many places, is
beginning to show the effect
of the wet, cold weather, and
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01
West End Tennis Club Rules.

The West End Tennis Club met
at the residence of Mrs. L. NJ.
Moore. The following rules were
passed, effective May LIST:
l. No heels are allowed on the
tennis court. Visitors are request
ed to play in tennis shoes.
2. The balls are to be left at the
residence of Mrs. w. S. Cochrane.
3. The court must be marked
each week. 1t is also the duty of
the committee in charge to notify
the next following committee and If
unable to take their turn they must
get a substitute. The court must
not be used for "a hours after being
marked.
After breaking three rules or
breaking Que rule three times, they
are no longer members of the Club.
COMMITTEE FOR MARKING COURT.
Mrs. 7. NJ. Moore, Mrs. E
B. Tate.
Mrs. r. w. Tate, Miss M.
Cochrane.
3-Miss J. Tate, Miss S. Black.
4-Miss S. Durrett, Miss L.
Coffin.
5-Miss G. A. Bills, Mrs. J. V.
Wright.
6-Miss M. Nicely, Miss j. Mad
olson.
Miss l. Bond, Miss s. Hill.
Mrs. T. M. MOORE, Pres.
Miss S. DURRETT, Sec. and Tres.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01
Program of Decoration Services.

The decoration of the graves al
Walnut Grove Cemetery will take
place on Saturday, May 9th. Ev
cry body is invited to come, bring
flowers and pay tribute to the dead.
The Committee on Arrangements
submits the following program:
o'clock am, Music by the
Choir.
Prayer, by Elder U. A. West, OF
Salisbury.
Music.
Welcome Address by Elder w.
O. Young, of Adamsville.
Music.
March to the Cemetery.
Prayer by Elder w. I'll. Jordan,
of Foxhall.
Decoration of Graves.
Dinner.
I.3O pm, Music by the Choir.
Floral Address by Elder w. Ii.
Jordan.
Music.
Decoration" by Elder Perry,
of Mercer.
Music.
"On the State of the Dead
Elders, G. G. Mcdaniel, U. A.
West.
w. r. MCKINNIE, Chm.
Il. T. DORIS, Secretary.
w. M. Raglan.
w. A. BREEDEN.
j. r. HOLMES.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01

as soon as the necessary improy e.
ments and arrangements can be
made will commence business. All
of the stock, $50, 200, has been sub
scribed for.
Paint adds to the dura-
bility and appearance of your
house and now is the time to
apply it. Cox q Co. have a
large stock cheap.
Mrs. Ann Spurlin died Sunday
morning at her home in the 18th
district, aged rs years. Mrs. Spur
lin was a daughter of Esquire P. M.
Fl uddleston, who moved from Nc
Marry into Hardeman when she was
a child. She was twice married.
First TO Frank Ayers, who died in
a northern prison during the civil
war, leaving three children. Mrs.
Robert Henson, T. J. and D. L.
Ayers. Her second marriage was
TO Eli Spurlin, who died six years
ago. Mrs. Spurlin has been con
sistent member of the Methodist
church for so years. She lived ar
exemplary christian life and freely
expressed herself ready and willing
to 60. She was "a kind woman, g
good neighbor and was highly re
spected. Her remains were buried
in Wesley Cemetery in the presence
of many friends, the service con
Quoted by Rev. Walter Young.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01

is rusting badly, and looking
yellow, besides, many fields
are infested with the fly and
the chinch bug. In the
western counties strawberries
are being marketed. Irish
potatoes are coming up we'll,
but some were injured by the
frosts of the 23d and Oath,
which also injured tomato
plants, and other tender
vegetation, and in some
places fruit. Peaches are re-
ported scarce, but the pros
pect for apples is fair in most
sections. The week closes
fair and cool.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01
Commencement Exercises.

The public is invited TO attend
the closing exercises of the South
ern Tennessee Normal, at Essary
Springs, on Friday, May 9Th, when
the following outlined program will
be rendered:
School opens v 18th the usual exer
cises at 9 80 am.
Examination of pupils through
the day.
An address by Prof. d. E. Bish
OPP at o'clock pm.
Concert at night. Admission
free. Respectfully,
D. S. NELMs, Principal.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01

Mr. w. l.. Dunnagan, a mem
Der Of the County Court of Weak
ley County, and Mrs. Ullie Snow
were united in marriage Sunday, at
Toone at the residence of the brides
father, DR.. Butler, Esquire w. II.
Tate officiating.
Mr.. H. P. Joyner and wife
came down from Fulton last week
on a visit to relatives here. Mr..
Joyner, who is connected with the
railway mail service as postal clerk,
running between ST Louis and
Memphis, has returned to his duties.
Mrs. Joyner will remain here for
several weeks.
The BULLETIN acknowledges
the receipt of an invitation TO the
sixteenth annual commencement of
the Ennis CTexas) High School to
be held Friday May LIST. Among
the list of graduates we notice the
name of W alter Stuart Morrison, a
grand son of Mrs. Amanda Coates,
of our town. He has many friends
here, who wish him success in life
We have the exclusive
agency in Bolivar for the
sale of the famous Hoadley
Ice Cream Don't fail to
try it. LIGHTFORT.
Mr.. E. L. LigLtfort, a member
of the old reliable jewelry firm OF
Lightfort & Co., has bought Mr.
G. M. Warren's store house, on
Market Street, adjoining Drs. Tate's
offices, into which the firm will
move as soon as the building can be
remodeled and the necessary re
pairs made. Lightfort & Co. have
occupied their present location
since 1876, and have established g
reputation for superior workman
ship, honesty and fair dealing
Their new location will be equally
as conve nient to the public and thu
popular firm will spare no pains t.
please their numerous patrons.
The Stockholders of the Harde
man County Savings Bank held I
meeting here Friday and elected
Jacob Kahn, president; j. M
Avent, vice president; Jno. V
, Wright, cashier. In addition t.
the charter members, whose names
were printed in last weeks BULLE
TIN, Norman McAnulty, of Hick
r DRY Valley; A. S. Anderson, o
: Toone; John Falls, of Middleton
were elected as a board of directors
We understand the new Bank viii
occupy the building where Light
forts jewelry store is-located, ant
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-01
xLoca1 News%s

The May term of Circuit Court
convenes Monday.
Esquire w. H. Tate, of Toone
was in the city Monday.
DR.. B. V. Hudson is improving
the interior of his drug store.
Senator J. G. Jackson and
daughter were in the city Friday.
Mr.. E. A. Mullen and wife, Of
Cloverport, were in town Friday.
Mrs. Bette Blaylock spent
several days in Fulton this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Bondurat,
of Memphis, are visiting relatives
here.
Miss Mabel Mcclure, of White
vile, is the guest of DR.. Dickson's
family.
Mr.. John r. McKinnie, of
Jackson, was among our visitors
Tuesday.
Mr.. S. S. Knott, an old and
prominent citizen of Toone, died
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Heron,
of Gainesville, visited relatives
here Sunday.
The art class of st. Katharine's
spent last Saturday very pleasantly
at hickory Valley.
MIR. Walter Robinson, OF
Grand Junction, visited Bolivar
Saturday on business.
Several of our growers have
been shipping strawberries this
week to northern markets.
Mr.. R. E. Rose and Mrs. Liz
zie Rose, Hickory Valley, visited
Bolivar Tuesday morning.
Send your orders to Whit
enton for Meat. He has
opened new Market in j.
w. Tate's old stand.