Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-10-23
TUESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1906.


the unhappy and puslanimous pest that is try
ing to attract respectable attention by barking
at our heels. The Enterprise has mission en-
tirely above and out of reach of he vaporlngs
and malodor of the disgruntled slum organ.
Here's luck to Wallace Hanon of the Ocl!la
Star. May he live as long and make his life as
useful as did his lamented father.
The Third Congressional District will give
Ben Hill county a warm welcome into it's ranks
after Jan. 1st.-Montezuma Record.
MM
An exchange says:-"If bottle of oil OF
pennyroyal is left open in room at night, not
mosquito will be found there in the morning.
Try it dear reader.
MM
Harley Ayers is again in charge OF the water
and light plant superintendent. Supt Poll1t-
ger turned over the office to him yesterday
morning.
The Fitzgerald Enterprise has and a
half columns of announcements for office in the
new county of Ben Hill.-Turner County Ban
ner.
Two and one half columns.
MM
There is a new rumor for every hour in the
day scheduled to run until the supreme court
hands down its decision on the Irwin b
license case Our advice us don't believe all
you hear"
The Atlanta papers are after the gamblers
again and the gamblers have learned to tear the
papers more than the police. There will be
dull time in poker circles unless the police pro-
ceeds to make lively time in court
MM
Augusta has law and order league. Our
observation is that town is mighty bad when
it needs law and order league, but when 1t
does need the league it is very much III the po-
sition of the man who sends for the doctor, 1t
needs it very much. A law and order league
can do wonders in bad community.
MM
The Office hungry ones in Ben Hill county
are lining up for foot ball rush for official pie.
We know just how it is here; for thirty
years we had no chance for Office and got along
very we'll without one; now with new county,
about every third citizen has developed the
mania for holding office. But it will all wear off
after awhie.-Tifton Gazette.
In the recent election Jeff Davis the only
county that has been heard of that did not cast
Bro. Mercer, think lot of you.-Hazel-
hurst News.
Thank you Pennington for your esteem,
and we thank you most cordially for the unani-
nous vote Of Jeff Davis county. Several good
counties in. Georgia were unanimous.
MM
Bad railroad schedules for several months
have almost demoralized the mail service in this
part of the country. For several weeks we
have failed to get the morning papers at Fitz-
gerald until the arrival of the afternoon mail.
The Macon and Atlanta dailies that have been
arriving on the a. m. train, and rarely missed
until about two months ago. now rarely con-
meet with the result that we have to wait till p.
M. for them.
The Enterprise is the cleanest paper we
can make it. We do not publish in this paper
scandals, details of horrors, or anything calcu-
lated to do harm. Last week we marked an
article found in state daily quoting Kansas
negro editor on the race question. The article
was merely marked for file and not intended for
publication in the Enterprise but in the absence
of the editor at Leary, the printer got hold OF
the article supposing that it was intended for
the paper with the result that it was published
ia Tuesdays Enterprise. We regret t e
occurrence, but accidents viii happen in the best