Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-09-05

cash price is $1.00 per annum.
Jess Mercer didn't get county, but he
gets out one of the best papers in the state, just
the same.-Brunswick Journal.
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Editor Mercer, of Fitzgerald, says the So
Ions have all promised to give Fitzgerald new
county next time.-Nashville Herald.
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The ''whistling to keep up courage" OF the
Howell organs is the least bit discordant' KING
up bows and try hymn; the doxology will be
appropriate.
Joe Hill saws that Smith 8 fool friends" are
going to force him into the gubernatorlal race.
He will have heap more fun by refusing to be
forced.-Vadosta Times.
The ALBANY daily Herald comes to us four
pages six columns, we think an improvement
on the four large pages. The Herald is one OF
the states best dailies.
The government cotton report announced
at noon today, was little bearish and depressed
theI market about 81 points, or little more than
third of cent per pound.
Editor Mercer is holding up we'll under de-
feat. They keep him explaining
Journal.
Editor Mercer is not defeated, we rise to ex-
plain.
The CITY Public Schools opened yesterday
with fine attendance and the brightest prospect
It has ever had in the history of the schools We
will soon know how the one session innovation
works.
The state and county tax for Irwin this year
will be the same as last to wit, eleven dollars on
the thousand The state rate was Increased to
$500 and the county rate reduced to $6.1O. Last
wear it was 50. 80 and 1920 respectively.
Editor Mercer, of the Fitzgerald Enterprise,
declines the sympathy and charity OF the Herald.
Nevertheless, we shall continue to shower 1t up
on him as the occasion requires and take the
chances of wasting our sentences on the desert
air.-Waycross Herald.
Mercer of Fitzgerald denies that he Haired
up" and refused to support" a South Georgia
candidate. Well, now, Mercer would be dis
tinct ornament to the Estlll band wagon, Tor
sure-Nashville Herald.
We have sometimes been accounted more
useful than ornamental.
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There is one argument in favor of Hoke
Smith that has been overlooked in the long list OF
good reasons why he should be elected governor,
and that is the fact that he has political enemies,
strong ones, bitter ones and most of them with
political and official records that will not bear
close scrutiny.
The grand jury now in session might look
into the matter of vagabond negroes, who GER
4 tain1v can find no excuse for idleness, Around
the towns are enough of this dangerous element
to pick out all the cotton that has been ralsed II
the officers of the law could persuade them that
thew are expected to work for living.
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Congressman Jim Grggs will be tower OF
strength for Clark Howell in South Georgia.
Nashville Herald.
Probably one of the best reasons why Clark
Howell should not be elected governor IS that ne
and the said Jim" are of the same political KID
new. His tower of strength will prove to be
little shaky in the joints
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Earnest Camps first issue of the Brunswick
3 Journal reached us yesterday, and it's just like
him, which is the same as saying that 1t is all
right. His songs by the sea" will be read with
Measure throughout Georgia.
He puts his readers on notice that:
,sz< fine beginning bear in mind that The
nil not be petty and narrow 1t was
zn.Iook from different plane.