Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-15
THE DlSPENSARY A MONEYMAKER.

it we obtain the following interesting figures:
The total sales for the year amount to S17O,5Oz.
&c. Amount of profits TO the city and county
for the year is given as $50 ,613.04. That amount
is net p1o oft after all salaries and operating ex.
penses have been deducted. The present stock,
which is an average, is given as SCI, 333.99 VI
the profits shown 81 ,292.45 comes from the sale
of empty bottles and barrels.
Since it's esta blishment the dspensary has
paid the city and county $75,813.O4.
It is safe to say that the dispensary will
abide with Rome for long time to come.
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Pays To Advertise.
(Thomasville Times.)
Advertising doesn't pay-the man who
doesn't advertise.
If Fitzgerald gets new county the name OF
the county will be Northern" but Editor Mer-
Ger will continue to talk up for Southern"
Georgia-Mou1trie Observer.
Judge Cam, of Savannah has decided that
newspaper article tends to influence Juror.
Judge Cam is right, newspaper articles tend to
influence all classes of society. The news
papers mould public opinion.
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The For est Blade is squarely out for Hoke
Smith for the United States senate. Hoke
would be large improvement IN that BODY, Tor
a RELATIONSHIPS Journal.
He stands conspicuous among the biggest
and best senatorial timber of the South.
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FITZGERALD is preparing to double her popula-
ton and tax values again. Of course it is not
the work of day; it usually requiresfrom II to
To hriu fhinOS around
business pulse normal. If any doubling Thorn
as reads this we invite him to clip it out, and
paste it in his hat for future reference.
WAS Governor James M. Smith, of Musco-
gee, South Georgian or North Georgian!
That is not conundrum, but fair query for
fact."-Brunswick Journal.
"He was neither. He was Georgian, big
and broad-minded. columbus Enquirer Sun.
Then if James M. Smith was big and broad
minded may the Lord deliver from the b. and
b. ms.
Gov. Folk is trying to close the saloons in
St. Louis on Sundays. The Enterprise under
took the lob for Fitzgerald several years ago and
how we'll we have succeeded is known to all men
in this section We regret that we are too busy
to 90 over and assist Missouri's Governor IN his
1audable undertaking. We wish him well, how
ever.
The best way to be popular is not to be sue
cessfu1.-New York Press.
Certainly there is no truer truism A man
may commit the offense of succeeding. APP
parent prosperity is crime in the eyes of ones
neighbors, especially in the eyes of competitors.
Young man if you would be popular do not at
tain success then you may succeed in being
popular.
Editor Mcintosh remarks as follows: 1T is
very unjust to Mr.. Hoke Smith to intimate that
he ever occupied the attitude of candidate for
United States senator against Mr.. Crisp. When
he challenged Mr.. Crisp to meet him in joint
debate on the silver question, then paramount
as an issue in the campaign, Mr.. Crisp, as all
who remember the correspondence between the
two gentlemen will readily recall, tried to force
Mr.. Smith to declare himself a candidate. This
Mr. Smith declined to do, whereupon Mr.. Crisp,
anxious to discuss the question at issue before
the people, waived the ethical point and agreed
while candidate himself, to meet in joint de-
bate one who was avowedly not candidate
The Herald was with Crisp aud for Crisp in
that memorable campaign and in looking back
over it all and in view of all that has TRANSFERRED
since, we can see no reason why anybody should
want to be unfair to NJ. Smith. He won his
spurs in that campaign one of the strong
men of Georgia, and could at any time since
then have mustered formidable political follow