Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-02-18
y Saturday, February 10, 1905. II

BG" Note the dating of the label on your
&paper. See that it is correct. If not come to
The Office or write US about it, The figures
show the date to which you have paid-Tbat
you owe us from that date at the rate of $500
per annum unless you pay within the year.
Dur cash price is $1.00 per annum
What is lighter wood" anyhow?
Walter Rogers little Courier is disappoint-
inp this week in the matter of information, or
iack of information, anent the Irwinville munich
pal contest.
bat" Masterson is being batted around by
The state press in great shape, but we don't
'guess it matters much to Bat"
Fitzgerald not only needs the city court but
We are as sure to get it as Fitzgerald business
nen are to insist on it and work for it persever-
ingly.
Young Wallace Han1on, IS years old, has
ahown marked ability in his work on the Ocilla
dispatch during the illness of his father. He
may be said to be chip off the old block.
If you find any man who thro selfish rea-
IONS opposes the city court of Fitzgerald smte
him hip and thigh, impress him that some other
Community needs him more than Fitzgerald
Ices.
The Enterprise is essentially local paper
nd while we are interested ia various matters,
ational and state, very naturally prefer
Fitzgerald and the matters affecting her well
IRE, Irwin county and this rapidly developing
lection of the south. For these reasons what
We say editorially is largely confined to matters
Rf local interest.
Another u. S. Senator has been indicted by
grand jury together with saloon keepers and
0ngressmen for conspiracy aud other high
fines. SO long az we allow the vicious ele-
ent to control elections we may expect these
foubles and disgraces. Too many good men
every community not only refuse to engage
politics but even hesitate to cast their ballot.
u The cold weather or rather the absence of
arm weather during the mouths of January
Id FEBRUARY preventing the rising of the sap IN
*uit trees has thus far saved the buds, and if
he buds are destroyed this season the disaster
yet to occur. Thus far the fruit crop is safe,
kcept perhaps in isolated cases, reports to the
kntrary Notwithstanding.
There is probably not community IN the
tate, with the single exception of Triton, taking
Dsimportance of the community and the mac
ability of the court house into consideration,
lat is more entitled to a new county and a
BURT house, under the new county law, than IS
fitzgerald, and we will be prepared to make the
lowing before the proper tribunal when the
me arrives.
Jean Simmons, of Missouri, and member
the State Legislature, has introduced bill to
eohbit the tobacco user from evidencug his
bit by dsiguring public sidewalks in any city
wn or village or upon the floor, stoves, barrels,
6xes or any other article of merchandise or
arniture in any store, public building, railroad
street car, church or school building in the
ate. If he will make it penal off tnse to
nirt amber on a printing Office floor we will
to Missouri and start paper at once.
The Ocilla Dispatch suggests that the lower
Alf OF the state ought to furnish a governor at
Aast once in a century. The only way to do it
10 stand by South Georgia candidate We
he candidate already in the field. Que of
ablest men in public life; man of the high
b integrity; democrat who has done as much
#r the party as any man in it. that South
eOrgia and all the state could easily combine
He is not however, politician, and so far
ed from the demagogue and the ring poll
hat every honest man can conscientiously
him support. We, of course, refer to