Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-01
= Saturday, April !, 1905. >

is of the greatest moment to Fitzgerald. Our
own little F. O. & R. B. Line is not mentioned,
but it runs along the right of way and will be
connecting link in this scheme. The Business
men of the city are today discussing the extern
sion of the F. O. & r. B. across the Ocmulgee.
The A. & B. people have already done great
deal for Fitzgerald, but if this Augusta to the
Gulf line is put thro it will give us freight and
passenger advantages unsurpassed by any
South Georgia city.
Pull for Fitzgerald or pull OUT
Indecent advertisements should not be per-
rnitted in decent papers.
The Strawberries are promising well and
shipments will begin in a few days.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again SO
will honor, integrity, worth and merit
This weather is fine enough to make dys-
peptic owl smile.-Thomasville Times-Enter-
prise.
We predict that the free pass will pass into
history so far as Georgia is concerned this very
year of our Lord.
With Brvan's Commoner and Tom Watson's
Magazine, the democrat who feels that he has
nothing to live for certainly finds plenty to think
about.
Justice Joseph Lamar has resigned from
the Supreme bench and Governor Terrell has
appointed Judge Joseph Lumpkin to fill the
vacancy.
The average crop of oats in Georgia is about
ten bushels per acre. A crop of one hundred
bushels has been grown upon one acre OF Irwin
county land.
Judge Martin not only instructs the Grand
Jurjes in most convincing way but promises
to stand by their actions and back up their re-
Communications.
Under the Alternative Road Law, with the
assistance of the county convict gang, Irwin
county can soon have iuesystem of roads. 1t
ali depends on the commissioners of roads and
revenues.
The tickle egg market is troubling local
housewives. The hens, it seems, had put ON
their spring laying clothes and were supplying
the markets at the rate of bushels per day OF
the white ovals, and the price was forced down to
cents. But the hens seem to have struck
Tor better prices, with the result that but few
eggs are now coming to town.
Last Tuesdays Enterprise published on its
editorial page:
"Trusts are Marks of Progress" by Jas. T.
Mitchell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania AS an evidence that great minds
do not always run in the same channel we want
10 say that the editor of the Enterprise does not
agree with Chief Justice Mitchell.
Editor Mercer says Editor Small came to
South Georgia nything else but South-Geor-
kian-for-governor man." You are right. Broth
81 Mercer. We could tell lie about it, but
wont! Still if you can produce the South
Georgian who can carry South Georgia, we will
70 for hm!-Brunswick Journal.
If we cannot produce the man we promise
10 Join Editor Small for his North Georgia cam
didate.
A prominent business and planter in
Hnr Office today suggested that the expense of
Expcing was one thing that retards the opening
IA new grounds for cultivation. Although there
plenty of timber in many instances wire fenc-
ia is being adopted because it is cheaper than
lis even where the timber is plentiful. This
<tion of the state has an abundance of timber