Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-02-04
WILL HAVE FREE DELIVERY SOON.

feels elated over the excellent showing made by
the Fitzgerald Office during the past twelve
months.
On June 80 last, the years receipts were only
few hundred dollars short of the amount re-
quired to secure free delivery
If the receipts for the remainder of the cur
rent fiscal year equal the average shown for the
six months already past, the records, on June
3Oth next, will be considerably above the amount
required by law to secure free delivery inside
the city.
The innovation has long been anxiously
looked forward to, and it's establishment will be
an occasion of rejoicing among our citizens.
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We are glad to know that Editor Mercer, of
the Fitzgerald Enterprise, has recovered from
an attack of the smallpox Quitman Advertiser.
Poor Dorothy Ru sell, has had to 60 back
to her mamma. She couldn't stand it to rustic
for Abbot, after he stole her diamonds to gam
BILE with.
After hard tussle Editor Mercer, of the
Fitzgerald Enterprise, has succeeded in subdu.
ing smallpox. Here's hoping that his beauty
has not been married. -Cuthbert Leader.
An exchange has long article deplorlng
the dirty conditions of the paper money in use.
1t says, the dainty lady will stuff her reticule
with the dirty bills, "etc. Well, that never was us.
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We agree with Mrs. Myrick of the Ameri.
Gus Times Recorder, that the young man " he
is too clean to do honest work for fear Of solllng
his hands does not always develop into the god
Lest citizen
The Osborne-Morris fuss promises to come
to survival of the fittest" finish The oppo-
nents of the letter-writer seem to be going out
of business with cheerful alacrity, and the pub
lie is kept busy guessing where he will hit next.
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A Chicago man who raised nineteen children
on SO week complains that they are now filled
with ingrattude." Luckily there is no ngratl.
tude trust or the children couldn't have been
filled with that, on SO week.-Lyons Progress.
According to reports, Mrs. Celia Parker
Wooley, of Chicago, has organized movement
to give cultured colored women social recognl.
we'll as wooley.- ;Waycross Herald.
Well, we guess so too
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During our tusse with La Grippe for the
past week. we have been assisted in our clerica
work, by Miss Virginia Bryan, young lady Of
intelligence and refinement, whose agreeable
compauionship is appreciated no less than her
efficiency as an emanuensis.
An exchange informs us that it has come to
stay and it is useless for us to butt our brains
out against it. Well, the admission that we
have any brains is some departure from former
observation-disclosures Breeze.
Well, now Jim, that's modest of you to say
that. We Fitzgeraldites don't think that way
It's hard work to write editorials; it takes
time and physical strength, and good measure
of grit, but when pick up exchange that
has three little original squibs and the rest of
the page filled up with plate matter aud patent
medicine ads, we feel that it pays to write.
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Hon. Joe Hill Hall should be sure of his
steering gear before he comes scootin around
the bend in the road.-Brunswick Journal.
Don't worry, Sam. Uncle Joe will be pro-
vided with careful and capable chau ffeur.
The only danger will be possible explosion of
the gas-tank.
We infer from the tone of its editorials that
the Fitzgerald Citizen favors the mercen-
cries. We beg to differ with that paper
on that question aud trust that eyerv south