Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-27
Passes Anti Jug Law.


This time the penal offence consists in de-
livering goods.
1t will be remembered that an ordinance
preventing the shipment of liquors here was
passed more than year ago, and the supreme
court held that the city authorities exceeded
their charter rights in enacting such a law.
The legislature amended Lawrenceville's
charter in August, 1905, giving the local authori-
ties power to prevent traffic, and the new ordi-
nance tracks the amendment.
Mayor Brand is of the opinion that the new
law will stick.
Following is the ordinance which the coun-
Gil adopted:
BE it ordained by the mayor and council of
the city of Lawrenceville and it is hereby or
dained by the authorities of the same. that from
and after the passage of this ordinance it shall
be unlawful for any corporation, company, part
uership, person or persons whom soever, di-
recty or indirectly to delivered within the cor.
porate limits of the city of Lawrenceville any
wine. whiskey beer or other intoxicating liquors.
"For each and every violation of this ordi-
nance No. ] of the bylaws of said city.
"By order of the city council of Lawrence
Vile, Ga this toe 4th day of November, 1906"
+-Toccoa Record.
The Southern Banker" the leading Bank
Journal of the south, gives the following editor
ial notice of one of our home institutions in its
December edition;
"The First National Bank, of Fitzgerald,
one of the enterprising and growing South Geor-
gia banks, sound iE policy and correct in system
gives proof of this fact by its reports. The
November 12statement showed capital, $780, 600;
surplus and profits, $29,311 deposits, $306, ,429;
loans, 1921, ,974; cash and due from banks, $685.
425; total resources, $583,240. The First Ma
tional was organized in July, 190O and since
that time has earned, in addition TO the above
surplus aud profits, Sos 1000 paid in dividends to
stockholders. The officers are: T. W. Garbutt,
president; M. w. Garbutt, vice.president; E. K.
Farmer, who is also president of the Home Sav.
ings Bank, vice-president and cashier; ]. C. Hay.
mes, assistant cashier"
The First National is a history-maker and
deserves high rating with the banks of the
state.
The following from the Waycross Herald
reminds us that we once had a grievance. The
probability is that the whistle fend has been
transferred from Fitzgerald to Waycross.
Some of the young engineers on the various
railroads entering Waycross seem to think the
size of their salary is regulated by the length of
time they blow their steam whistle, and the
various caliopic stunts they perform with it.
Ia fact some of them scarcely know when to
turn the whistle cord loose.
Were everybody on Christmas jubilee and
out for big time twenty four hours every day.
all good and we'll But little do these engine
men think of the effect such noises would have
on some poor weak mother who might be lying
on her death bed begging for peace and quiet,
in her last few moments of earth; or the little
boy or girl with raging fever, whose nerves
are pent up to their highest pitch and who tos-
ses and raves and often goes into delirum at
such continuous and Unnecessary noises.
Let the caliope engineers stop and think a
little and they will regulate their signals down
to railroad requirements until they get out into
the woods"
He that buyeth on a credit bartereth his
freedom. It is partially against the law to kill
bill collector.-Americus Times Recorder.
A Wisconsin claims to have made one hun.
dred and fifty bushels of corn on one acre by
carefully selecting his seed year after year.
Irwin county soil will produce IS or 100 bushels
with ordinary seed corn.
A General Who is Afraic
General Frederick D. Grant says in the
New York Defender of May II, 1906: Tell
the young men through your paper that Gener-
al Grant does not drink a drop of liquor-has
not for eighteen years; because he is afraid to
drink with extreme moderation, because knew