Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-10-09


! of Ben Hill County in accepting the sug- }
pestion of placing a life size statue OF
that i1lustrous Georgian in the new court (
house to be erected the public {
! SQUARE and to that end is already IN cor (
} respondence with relatives of the de- J
) ceased states man concerning the matter
Following is the editorial referred 5
I Ben Hill County, we salute you'll
J We salute you not for yourself, not tor (
YOUR position on the map, not for your {
capital, which is one of the most marv- }
elous of Georgias young cities. but
( for and on account of the name you bear
for YOUR illustriouS and immortal
! namesake-Benj jamin Harvey Hill, we
) do not know half dozen people IN Ben
Hill County, and still we love it. And !
I we would like to be first to subscribe to }
{ fund to put life sized statutes of the
5 great Georgian in the New Court house
to be erected at Fitzgerald.
May the people of Ben Hill County I
ever be as true to the principles of liber-
: ty, truth and justice as was the inspired
statesman for whom it is named"
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Peaceful assimilation" will probably solve
the Cuban muddle.
Gently installed type-setting machine, here
we NAV expect an i'm provement in that paper
if possible.
The Enterprise lost one subscriber when
the saloons went out and lost two subscribers
when we raised the subscription price to- two
dollars per annum.
Ben Hill county is an established fact, and
Bro. Mercer, of the Fitzgerald Enterprise, ia
happy, or ought to be.-Madlson Advertiser.
We are happy all right, all right, betcher
life!
Even Cherokee, Mr.. Crenshaws home coun-
ty, went overwb elmingly for Mr.. McLendon,
while Crenshaw did not receive solitary vote
in Thomas, Mr.. McLendon's home county.
The result is right aud just.
MW
Some time ago the Enterprise stated that
its modicum of judgement was opposed to the
sale of cotton for less than ten cents.-Recent
advances bear out the statement and we now un-
hestitatingly predict that the price will be above
twelve cents.
Thomas county voted against the Ben Hill
amendment-when famine drives from home
the deluded denizens of that dog-fennel farm,
Ben Hill county will welcome them with open
arms.-Fitzgerad Enterprise
One of the things that Ben Hill county
needs is good society and that will be supplied
if anybody from Thomas is 'de1uded" enough to
go there-Thomas masville Times Enterprise.
Come up, Mccartney and have one on US.
MM
10 another column appears the announce
ment of H. M. Warren for county com missioner.
His announcement is put in at the suggestion
and on the authority of his friends who have
been urging him to make the race. Under the
law we will have to have three commissioners, as
vet we do not know who the other candidates
will be, but it is evident to MUD that Handy
Warren will be on the board if he stays in
two are as good conservative business men as
he, Ben Hills first board of commissioners will
be all right.
Now that Ben Hill county has been created,
the lid is off. For two years we have wanted to
talk. 1t goes nightly against the grain to bite
our tongue" However in the campaign we
have been engaged in for the new county of Ben
Hill it has often bsen necessary ID do for
those with whom we were associated in the
campaign, at least they thought so and said so
and out of Difference to theic wishes and their
rights we have left unsaid many things we want
ed to say awful bad. 1t may do 10 other good
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