Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-10
Thursdaya August 10, 1905. =

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Well, we felt good for one day, anyway.
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Hon. Hoke Smith is making votes in Daw-
son today.
The sanitary expert" is the whole cheese
these days.
We ought to sue the Atlanta Constitution
for breach-of.promise on that new county deal.
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It is now believed that the increase in tax re-
turns in this state for 1905 will reach the enor-
nous amount of $40,0OO,OOO.
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The Fipinos are becoming Americanlzed
fast. It is reported that they have commenced
lodging taxes over there already.
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A Kansas man was found drowned in tank
of coal oil Tuesday. Mr.. Rockefeller is getting
his revenge on those Kansas fellows.
NM
What great disappointment heaven lis go
ing to be to some church members If anybody
outside of their church happens to get in.
MA
The Atlanta Journal says there are only
100000 words in the English language. Editor
Gray evidently does not read Sam Jones' editor
ia1s closely or he would know better than that.
MM
The Car is said to have given M. Witte
power to end the war with Japan. The only
question that stands in the way of peace now ap-
pears to be, did he also give him money enough!
ID
When any of the departments at Washing
ton are accused of crookedness, all they have to
do seems to be to investigate themselves and re-
port 20. K.," and-what are you going to do
about it?
The New York papers have been strangely
silent about the race riots that recently occurred
in that city. 1t is remarkable what difference
it makes when it comes to sweeping around
ones own door.-Athens Bnnner.
When old man Rockefeller gets onto the fact
that kerosene oil is the magic elixir used to put
Miss Stegomyia Fascata out of business. we
may expect the price to be 'histed" few points.
Your Uncle John will never permit an opportun-
ity like that go by.
Fitzgerald did the handsome thing by pay
ing 81 cents for her first bale OF new cotton.
This is l cent higher than either Galveston or
New Orleans and is an evidence of the public
spiritedness of Fitzgerald Hawkiusville Dis
patch and News.
Cotton is beginning to come in rapidly and
the oil mill ginnery will soon be running at its
full capacity. We hope Supt. Meakn will keep
his bearings all thoroughly fabricated this sea-
son, as the fire department is slightly out of con-
dition from want of practice since he shut down
last fall.
Governor Mickey of Nebraska has caused
the widest trepidation and alarm among the APP
pontive officers of that state by announcing
that he will off with his head" of every officer
whom on close inquiry he finds to be addicted to
drinking or swearing, or who dances, plays
cards or INDUCES in any other irreligious amuse-
ments. There is said to be hardly an officer in
the state that doesn't come under the BAN
Quitman Free Press.
Everyone of our daily exchanges reported
Northen among the list of new counties favor
ably reported by the committee yesterday, and
not one of them contained word in opposition.
It is well understood, and has been so stated by
nearly all of the leading papers OF the state that
the Northen county showing was among the very
strongest presented for the consideration of the
committee and would undoubtedly put Northen
well toward the top of the list in the final report,
but for some unknown reason it appears that
our proposition has been side-tracked