Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-09-12


Grand Jury of this county, for the most hei=ous
of all the crimes laid down in the law books
incestuous adultery
For more than year ugly charges have
been made by his neighbors, and several times
he has been warned of them, but appeared in
different, and certainly made no pretense of
mending his ways. The charges came from so
many sources and so persistently that his mis-
conduct had attracted general attention. The
terrible reports spread beyond the limits of the
city and colony, and when the Grand Jury took
the matter up last week there no great
surprise.
The resentful public sentiment has be.
come greatly aggravated through the almost
universal discussion of the case, and there has
been considerable talk of harsh measures to rid
the community of the offender, although this
feeling has been somewhat assuaged by the
action of the Grand Jury, and the sentiment in
favor of allowing the law to take it's course is
strengthened today with the prospect OF con-
viction. 1t is believed that should failure TO
convict result at the trial, an outraged public
sentiment will act vigorously.
Ryman was arrested yesterday and his
bond assessed at $1,000, which was signed by
ex-county surveyor E. j. Hogan, who this after
noon telephoned Deputy Sheriff Fountain to re-
arrest him and bring him to court:
The unfortunate family has the sympathy
of the community.
Speaking of the consum ption of tobacco,
which cost this country last year more than
three hundred millions of dollars, the Macon
Telegraph says:
"Manv ladies' and some m en- will saw it
is a shame but if the business man was
deprived of his cigar and the working
man of his pipe or his chew" they
would be made to suffer serious pr1va-
ton. Whatever may be the i'll effects
of over indulgence, tobacco unquestlon-
ably soothes tired nerves and begets
contentment.'
The Telegraph is wrong in this and it is
matter about which it should be careful not to
go wrong. No man woman ever suffered
serious prvation" for the want of tobacco who
had not first acquired the habit of its use The
man who never tasted tobacco never suffered a
serious privation,' never needed nicotine to
"soothe his tired nerves" or to beget his content
ment, nor suffered the i'll effects of over indul-
gence. The first chew or first smoke is over
indulgence and the effect is serious shock to
the nerves. We cannot appreciate the effort OF
the great and good" Telegraph when it is used
to influence it's readers to use of tobacco.
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It is said that seven billion, six hundred and
eighty-nine million, three hundred and thirty
seven thousand, two hundred and seven cigars
were consumed in the United States last year.
Think of the smoke, and the Enterprise never
got Whit, except when were too close to the
other fellows smoke. There were nearly half
that many cigar cites smoked, or to be exact,
three billion, three hundred and eighty.six mill
lion, two hundred twelve thousand seven hun
dred and forty. There was considerable more
than twenty million pounds of snuff and
about three hundred and twenty-four million
pounds of ''chawng tobacco" and as we take no
nicotine in ours we did not enjoy any part of it.
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At this distance, it looks as if Editor Mer-
Ger is frantically afraid Col Est will get into
the kace.-Tifton Gazette.
You are right John, we expecting to be
disappointed by Mr.. Estill's announcement.
Ordinarily we are an Estill man. We have not,
and will not have, one word to say against him.
We understand that he has right to run, but
it will not be hard for the editor of the Gazette
to understand that our objection to his candi-
dacy at this time is based on the wish to see
the issues and the candidates before the
public have a fair showing at the polls.
The Enterprise wants to the cotton
planters, the warehouse men, the cotton buyers,
aud all persons interested in the South and it's