Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-02-02
CHURCH AND SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

what will by-and-by be complete church ana
society direc :ory of the city. We will feel un-
der obligations to the pastors who will furnish
US with information as to hours of service, and
to presiding officers of secret societies who will
let us know when and where their lodges meet.
There are many strangers IN the city, who Will
appreciate directory of this kind, and we are
glad to give it space, and keep it corrected up
to date
Tom Lawson has got folks scared enough
of the disease It's up to him now to prescribe
a remedy.
Mrs. Lillian Ingles keeps the editorial page
of the Fitzgerald Enterprise up to its standard
which is saying great deal.-Broxton Journal.
There is not more pitiful object on earth
than the poor fool who gets pulled up on little
authority and makes disgusting exhibition of
his or her ignorance and insignifcance.
Tuesday afternoon Col Mercer received
telegram stating that his father, w. H. Mercer,
was seriously i'll with smallpox. Mr.. Mercer
took the evening train for Dawson, where he will
PIOUdDly ICudlu uuIll MS ldIuSI udS PdSSCu IuS
crisis of the disease.
We trust that the return to health and to
work of Editor Mercer of the Fitzgerald Enter
prise will not an the retirement from the
journalistic world of Mrs. Lillian Ing1es, the
temporary editor of the Enterprise She is one
of the brightest newspaper women we have run
across in many a day.-Doubin Courier-Dis-
patch.
Thanks We may decide to stay in the
field.
Valdosta's city prison is about as filthy as
any dungeon in Siberia, and it is shame TO con-
fine anything or ANYBODY in it over night. The
blankets are ST IF with filth, the cells are small
and musty, and the entire affair is reproach to
a civilized community like Observation-Disclosures
Times
Judging from the above, the Times is not
boot-licking the city administration to any great
extent.
J. w. Hanlon has retired from the mana
cement of the Ocilla Dispatch. His brother
editors will miss his racy editorials and we be-
lieve they all wish him success in whatever call
ing he may henceforth pursue. Here's health
and long life to Hanlon. -Fitzgerald Enterprise.
The Herald joins the Enterprise in best wishes
for Editor Han1on. The managers of the Dis
patch have evidently made a mistake in dis
pensing with his services. -Waycross Herald.
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recent communication in the Chronicle
accused our friend Sydney C. Tapp of having
built up right considerable law practice-and
in today's Chronicle, Reformer Tapp modestly
admits the soft impeachment. And yet there
are people who continue to ask Does adverts
ing pay?"-Augusta Chronicle.
Um-hum; Sydney is getting way up. We
understand that he is counsel for the complain
ant in the suit filed by who hurt by
a barrel of whiskey falling down stairs him.
Here's three times three and a tigah" for
noble Sam Small the editor of the breezy Bruins
wick Journal and his glorious double-co1umn
editorial wherein he deals out hot stuff galore
to Col. Fred B. Gordon" and his blood-sucking
k May the good Lord bless Sam forever, and
send more of his fearless and great-hearted
kind to dignity and ennoble Georgia sanctums.
He may fail of his reward in this generation,
but chdren's children, to the third and fourth,
yea to the tenth generation, will rise up and call
him blessed.
Hon. Walter Steed puts his refusal to con-
tinue in the race for the presidency of the SEN
ate on high ground, but he will have mighty
hard time convincing the reformcrs OF Georgia
that be was not afraid that one of those thirteen
inch guns would throw hot shot over his way
Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
If there is anything mean about man who
can write such letters as Steed does, be ought TO