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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

Messrs. Little & Philips will
break dirt today for the erection
OF a new bank building at the
corner of Grant and Pine, which
is to be one of the prettiest in
the state. It will be of the fin
est pressed brick, three and a
half stories, substantially and
splendid built.
The Montezuma excursion
over the Atlantic & Birmingham
with train carrying six coaches
and baggage car, and with 173
passengers from Fitzgerald
alone, was a complete success
even to the cutting ARRAY on the
return trip, which is generally
understood to be a part of the
program of every modern excur-
sion.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
zgerarld's Chamber Of Com stands for something


Fitzgerard Chamber of Commerce stands for something
What?
For Fitzgerald.
For her best ineress-hef upbuiding
Through it the individuals who up the business
munity have the opportunity with united intelligent
accomplish all that be hoped for.
The opportunity is offered, the individuals envted.
The united efforts forth will agencies
good and bring forth enterprises that will very naturally
multiply
New investors must have encouragement.
New enterprises must have moral substantial backing
In dealing with these and with questions of
even matters affecting the cy with the effort
are often easily accomplished.
Stand by Chamber of Commerce. II it's
change it, if don't like its rules rewrte hem you
don't like its assessments readjust them if you
officers, elect others.
Stand by your Commerce by so doing YOU
stand by Fitzgerald.
Bring to it, and before it your original ideas.
Open up there the schemes you propose
Discuss there enterprises wish to promoted
Do not allow su1kincss rdifc1e in erie with
your duty.
Your duty:
Every duty to the community in which he lives
Some men forget the fact apparently.
The Chamber of Commerce offers the opportunity.
Exert there influence and forth such
efforts conceive to be Fzgerads
The business who is selfish not to be willing
contribute to the good does not deserve
chance he succeeds he probably incapable enjoying
ward of his crafiness, growing of his sefshnes.
Attend the meetings of the Chamber of Commerce.
You will find it decent company If have business
property in the city will find it to your advantage.
Identify yourself with the Chamber of Commerce.
Attend it's meetings.
Because
It's your duty to yourself and to your
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
WILCOX COUNTY COURT HOUSE

1t seems that the Wilcox Coun-
ty court house muddle will not
remain settled. 1t has been set
tied" time and again at the ballot
box, has been settled by the leg
islature, and often disposed of by
the county commissioners and
by the various grand juries.
Still the question grows. the
plot thickens.
Abbeville has often won out
only to be confronted again by
the same proposition. The pres
ent board of commissioners was
selected on the issue and we're
understood to be favorable to
Abbeville and a new court house.
Considerable has already been
done on that line, consider
able money expended for plans
and specifications ETC., but it is
by no means certain that Able
vile will soon realize on her mod
ern court house speculations, an
other election seems inevitable
before the matter can be set
tied" again.
County commissioner T. M.
Parsons is the recognized bal
ance of power on the board of
commissioners, and while he is
accredited to the Abbeville side,
it is not quite certain that he will
risk any radical action on the
question. A little more than a
month ago, just before the date
of the meeting of thu board to let
the contract for the new $4,000
court house, he found an ugly
coffin at his front door, decor
ated with the skull and cross
bones and warning that if he
signed the contract for the. new
court house, he would be dead
man before the ink in his sigma
ture dried. The result was
Commissioner Parsons was alb
sent from the meeting of the
board when the matter came up
for action.
An effort is now directed a.
gainst what is termed the extra
vagance of a $4,000 court house
proposed by the com missioners.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
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Additional Locals,
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Master Clarence BLIZZARD has
had a severe spell of fever but is
much improved.
Hon. T. B. Young was shak-
ing hands with his friends in
the city Wednesday.
Mr.. John Rish from Coleman.
visited his sister Mrs. Il. M. Kill
lingsworth. here this week.
Mrs. E. F. Cham bless enter
tanned Miss. Paxon from Doug
las last Friday night and Satur-
day.
DR.. E. J. Dorminy returned
from New York last Friday
where he has been several weeks
in attendance on the Polytechnic.
Mrs. L. A. Higgins was prob
ably the happiest spectator
at the Opera House last Friday
night.
WANTED:-Good beef cattle.
The highest cash price paid. See
me before you sell. C. L. Pres
colt. If.
Mrs. Snow. from Abbeville is
here visiting her daughter Mrs.
George Davis who is sick with
the fever.
Miss. Ethel Moore was up
from Douglas Friday and spent
Saturday and Sunday in the city
with Miss May Day.
Mr.. Sheffield from ALBANY
came over. Saturday and visited
friends on Lee Street.
Rev. Patterson of Statesboro,
Primitive Baptist preacher,
preached yesterday and last
evening at the Baptist church.
Mr.. ]. L. McCarty returned
from New York Monday eve
ming, He left Messrs. Bowen
and Seanor in the metropolis.
They seemed to like it and are
probably thinking about buying
it.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

The recommendations of fire
chief w. w. Allen are on the
right line. They are not extrav-
agant though they mean an enor-
nous improvement in the system
and service. Our fire protection
is none too good considering the
large aud rapidly increasing
risks. A quick alarm and quick
response has more to do with
the efficiency of the service than
any one thing. The chiefs re-
Communications are on that line.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

Georgia has lost her place as
second in the list of cotton pro-
duction. She produced more
original packages than Mississ-
ippi by about 10000 bales but in
pounds she fell behind about H.
600 bales of a 500 1b. average.
Texas produced nearly as much
as both Mississippi and Georgia.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

Condemned by courts and legi: :
latures, the press and the pulpit
and ridiculed by speakers and
writer's it is natural to suppose
that cigarette smoking is discar-
ded by all who are not so much
addicted to the habit that they
cannot overcome the desire for
the little stinkers or who are not
too ignorant to understand the
full force of the strong sentiment
against the pernicious habit.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

Each paper in Georgia is sup
posed to moralize on the defalca-
ton of the dude collection clerk
of an Atlanta bank who cut a
swath in society six or eight
years, and now is supposed to
fill niche in the prisons for two
or three years to come.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

We are here to write things,
and about things, things in gen
eral and some things in particu-
lar. If anything we write strikes
you wrong, get right before we
strike again.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
JONES' MEAT MARKET

Order for breakfast, dinner and
supper, your meat from w. M.
Jones Market, Pine and Sheri-
dan, Phone No. Sc, dealer in all
kinds of fresh meats, fish and
oysters. Prompt delivery. See
me before you buy. 10-31tf
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

There have probably been
frauds in the world since the
boyhood of Adam. AS one crop
is harvested another, more luxur-
liant, makes its appearance. Per-
haps the supremest fraud on the
face of Gods earth today is the
head of the Zion colony near Chi
cago-Dowie. That he is shrewd
no one denies, that he is h ypo-
critic perhaps his most enthusi-
astic followers have never dou bt-
ed. Until recently we have re-
garded him in the light of an en-
terprising fraud who would pos
sibly do some good to offset his
pernicious influence in a relig-
ious way, but he has branched
out now on lines that affect the
social questions. lie has some
how conceived the idea that he
can make capital for himself,
converts to his religion and
strengthen his influence over his
followers by advocating miscege-
nation and social relations be-
tween the African and Anglo
Saxon races in this country.
Such sociologist will probably
be a success at PROSECUTING among
the negro lubbers. If there is
any class of people to which he
is more welcome than anoth er,
from our standpoint, it is this
last class. The old fraud is well
come to them.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

man who attempts to run
eantile business no wadays
at printers ink should try
|ng or some other pastime.
mot possibly hope to sue
Ia the face of the competi-
men who understand the
Of advertising.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

The next meeting of the Cham
Der of Commerce will be held at
the city hall next Thursday eve
ming at 7:3O o'clock.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

If you want to locate among
the best people on earth and
make your life worth the living,
come to Milled.eville. -Milledge-
Vile News.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

he young bank clerk who
bed an Atlanta bank of $685.
which he spent in riotous
-, parted his hair and his
le in the middle; a regular
h.faluten thief.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

! peach crop in the middle
northern sections of the
End other peach sections of
United States is almost a to-
lure, while the crop in this
/ promises to be above the
ye
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

arocious bull dog made a
! attack on a 13-year old
Atlanta last week, tearing
thing into shreds. We do
DIV how others feel about
we do not believe all the
4 the world are worth the
lone to the little Miss.
t like dogs a little bit.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

be Enterprise is still of the
'on that a female seminary,
|gh class college for girls is
of the things that would
\ for greater Fitzgerald, by
ANS, a college.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

9cilla proposes to issue $4,000
Fthof bonds for the purpose of
ting $4,000 school building
$1,000 for erecting an cleo
light plant.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

he loss>of the Georgia peach
4 is a calamity not only to
Egia but to the thousands of
pie in distant parts of the
ntry who annually enjoy the
sious fruit.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

Re are after the doctors, will
to pauperize the whole ca
|dlum if we can do so by keep
Fitzgerald healthy. See?
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

wkinsville isn't the best
It's size in Georgia well,
ke to take a peep at the
/ is entitled to that dis
d Hawkinsville Dispatch
Harvard! You were in
I'D only a few weeks ago.
can come and take an
eep when YOU like.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

In the language Of Bob Toombs,
we say, "dammer paper that will
not pull for it's own town and
people. "-Milledgeville News.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

The rains have damaged the
oat crop in this part of the state.
Most of the fields show signs of
rust-some of them are badly
damaged.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

F.
le and Dublin are both
Ia to accept Mr.. Carmel
Il of $40, 600 for a public
Mr.. Carneigie's terms
cities require an annual
Iurc of $1,000 to keep up
tain a library, for which
rs $4,000. Properly
\ library established
is desirable to towns
y Of Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

The Garbutt Lumber Co., is
building another boat for use on
the Ocmulgee. 1t seems that
the reduction in freight rates to
Fitzgerald has not deferred them,
and they will probably bring
freight from the seaport cheaper
than it could be shipped by rail.
The Ocmulgee will probably be
greatly improved within the next
few years and an inside route
opened up between the Altamaha
and Brunswick which will
forever guarantee minimum
freight rates along the river.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

There will be plenty of peaches
in the colony this season unless
all signs fail.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

John Triplett, the best
bachelor in the world
pf the most popular ed
II ever devoted a useful
nat profession was this
fesented with a loving
BE hands of two of Thorn
popular ladies, but in
, large number of the
Thomasville had a part.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

'otton is high, as is the pricelof
rything else. These are GER
aly piping times of peace and
Ssperity.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

The Mississippi has poured
its floods into the gulf and it's
wide spread waters are again
seeking the chameleon the over
flowed areas. It will be at least
another twelve months before it's
annual tide again tests the capa-
city of the great levee system
which has been proven entirely
inadequate TO control the great
father of waters. The flood of
1908 has not been so disastrous
as it might have been a few weeks
later. The farm ers in the great
valley yet have ample time for the
annual crop.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

fitzgerald is healthy, and it is
Ter to keep it healthy than to
wcome an epidemic.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
FOR SALE.

One IS H. P. engine, new
One rs H. P. engine, seed hand
One IS H. P. boiler, seed hand
One E II. P. engine and boiler
mounted on wheels, second hand.
All in good condition. Would
take IN part payment a so or 60
II. P.second hand boiler.
Apply to
J. W. Bailey, Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1908.

'otton has been up again this
sk-up above the 10 cent
IA.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

Have you seen the appeal for a
cleaner Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
uBLrsHED WEEKLY
MERCER, Editor and Manager.
Dollar per Annum If Paid In Advance
TWO DOLLARS. CREDIT.

suterprise is continued to subscribers
s<e willing to credit until discontinue
aa requested. accompanied with{
en1 due to date, but every subscriber(
pected to pay sooner or later. and wei
MAke strenuous efforts TO collect in al 4
where 1t appears that the subscriber
INHERENT about his obligation.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10

'uyertising rates furnished on applica-
4 Address all business letters to TIKI
fA9 EkALD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
'fEerald. ga.
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other candidates, one member of
our party expressed an unwillingness
to be made the object of special IA
vors in the way of initiation and a
preference for induction into the
mysteries of the order in the regular
way. The members of the camp were
quite ready to take him at his word,
and it is sufficient to say that the in
itiation was thoro and complete, to
the great edifcation and entertain
ment of his fellow travellers. The
Arctic Brotherhood is really an ,ex-
cellent organization, serving purposes
substantially similar to those pro-
NOTED by such organizations as the
knights Of Pythias and the Odd Fell
lows. There is a camp at Seattle
composed Of Alaska men, and it was
this body which provided a special
entertainment for President Roose-
welt when he was in that city last
spring, at which he took occasion to
make the speech with regard to Alas
ka which attracted so much attention
at the time. At this meeting of the
Rampant camp notice was taken of
President Roosevelts extraordinary
interest in Alaska and by action of
the camp the president was invited
to become and was duly elected as
an honorary member Of the brother
hood and the senators were COM
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so that this contribution to the Smith
sonian collection is no doubt a valu-
able one. &- 49, d. RI
believe the time will come when
Alaska will produce it's own dairy
products, but the beginnings are GER
tainly very small. One of them is at
Rampant, where a daughter of the
Scandinavian peninsula was found one
day in a high state of excitement be-
cause one of her two red COWS, the
only two of the species for hundreds
of miles in any direction, seemed about
to choke to death on a potato. Hap
PLY she did not, but think what that
would have meant to the dairymaid
with milk at 81 quart. And speak
ing about prices, I took a picture one
evening about o'clock of bargain
counter price list written on big
blackboard on the front of the North
ern Commercial company's store. This
was after the boats had commenced to
bring supplies up the river and was
regarded as a slaughter sale" by COM
parison with regular mid-winter
prices. ISL '-
Rampant is the present terminus of
the telegraph line which runs south
ward to the Tanana river, along the
Tanana to the Yukon, down the Yu-
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ALONG THE STRETCHES OF THE LOWER YUKON

m1ssioned to convey to him formal
notice Of his election. The emblem
of this society, worn by members, is
small bronze button in the form Of
miners pan with the letters A. B.
at the top. and on the lower edge
three small gold nuggets.
AS 1t happened that all the senators
We're lawyers, 1t was also suggested
that they ought to be members Of
the Alaska bar. They We're accord
ingly invited to enroll themselves
among the legal fraternity Of the
fore Judge Wickersham and having
exhibited sufficient legal Y attain
ments and the proper qualifca-
! tons In all other respects, good
! moral character, ETC., were duly adj
nitted. Down at ESitka there is an
! " and scientifically, known as the
|Sheldon-Jackson museum. It Is pro-
vided by law that all fees for admis-
sion to the bar shall be applied to the
maintenance of that institution, so
that the Sitka museum, to which the
senators paid avisit a month later, was
enriched to the extent of $40 by this
! action, which also increased the mem
bership Of the bar of Alaska by adding
four distinguished names from the
roll Of the United States senate.
I d AMPART. was an Indian village
IN before it became an important
! station in the commercial sys-
tenn of the transportation and trad
ing companies and just across the
/ mouth Of the Little Minook is the In
dian village of which William Pitgu is
chief. Here is a collection of Indian
cabins and on the racks in front are
strung the red salmon which the In
dams are drying and smoking for their
winter supply. AS previously stated,
these Alaskan Indians appreciate the
ter but they almost invariably be-
take themselves to- tents - and
wickiups in summer during the sal
mon season. In the house of William
Pitgu, to which I was invited by the
hospitable chief, and which in point of
cleanliness and furnishings was very
much the best Indian habitation seen
in Alaska, I found his son, and his
sons wife sewing canvas and making
q, tent and the young man displayed
quite as much skill in running a sew
ing machine as he had in the con-
struction of the long boat which car
ried me across the Minook to his
fathers village. >. q
They say that in Alaska the worm
never turns and then they rather tard-
lily explain this departure from nature s
law by the further statement that there
are no worms. It is also capable of
demonstration that the cellars in
Alaska are never damp but the course
of reasoning is not quite the same.
The fact is the Alaska cellar is built
about five feet above ground. They
call it "cache," and pronounce it
cash. It is to all appearances a little
log cabin set up on poles, the entrance
!. to which is by means of a, ladder made
: out of a notched log, and here, high
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above the reach Of the dogs and
other prowling animals, are stored the
family SUPPLIES. r.,
The white man, however, has not
adhered strictly to the Indian GUS
tom, for the leading refreshment place
Of the village has a refrigerator for
the preservation of fresh meats and
other articles which are improved by
q low temperature. Here, as every
where else in Alaska, the frost never
leaves the ground to a depth of more
than two feet, and all that is neces-
sary to provide an icebox is to dig to
the depth of three or four feet where
perishable food supplies may be kept
in constant cold storage. box is let
down into the excavation where, sur
rounded by the perpetual ice, the tenn
perature Of frst-class refrigerator
plant is constantly maintained. The
use OF such devices in hotels and
domestic establishments furnishes an
obvious answer to the query as to the
desirability Of being the ice man in
| Alaska.
In numerous places in Alaska the
| i enormous ivory tuskS Of the mas
1 todon We're met with These rem
nants of the animal life Of a past
age are supposed to prove that at
some time or other the earth has
slipped upon its axis, changed the di-
rection Of it's diurnal revolution and
THAT what is now the frigid zone was
once within the torrid belt. OF late
4 that theory has been combated by hose
who contend that the mastodon was
not necessarily the denizen Of q warm
Icountry and that the climate Of the
| north has not necessarily changed.
However, that may be, all relics of
prehistoric days are suggestive to the
imagination and nog little interest was
excited by the discovery on the roof of
i one of the Rampant cabins of pair
of enormous horns joined together by
a portion of the skull Of the animal to
i which they once belonged. These
horns were found by some miners dig
Iging In the gravel$sof Little Minook
lcreek not far from Rampant They
were embedded at q depth of twenty
/ two feet below the surface and were
4 in a remarkable state Of preservation.
j They measured three feet and ten
i inches at the widest spread and fif-
i teen and a half inches In circumfer-
Hence. The tips curved inward some
thing after the manner Of buffalo
4 horns, but the pair were much larger
4 than the horns Of the American bison.
lColonel Timothy F Wilcox, deputy
surgeon general OF the United States
army, who first Joined our party al
Juneau, and subsequently fell in with
us again at Eagle, and who was on a
tour Of inspection Of the hospital serv-
4 ice and sanitary condition of the
Il Alaska military posts, obtained from
Il the owner Of these horns permission
Ito forward them to the Smithsonian
institution. No other animal remains
Il of this kind have ever been found In
4Alaska, SO far as was able to learn