Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-06-28
THURSDAY. JUNE 20, 1906.
THE LEGISLATURE.


lied to order at 10 a. m. by Speaker Slayton
md President West, respectively
The governors message was received and
read in both houses commanding the close at
Ntention of the members.
Thirty-eight new bills. were introduced,
among the most important of which were the
Following: A bill to prevent the renting OF hous-
Ses which have contained contagious diseases
.u1til properly dsinfected; A bill to make it un-
la wfu for railroads doing business in the state
Ito charge more than cents per mile for the
carriage Of passengers bill comforting upon
Prohibition counties in the state the right to
Regulate the traffic in Intoxicating liquors, to
prohibit the delivery of the same and to enforce
penalties for the provisions of this act; bill to
amend an act fixing salaries of judges of city
courts so that Judges in counties having city
of more than 10000 population shall receive an
annual salary of$5,O0O.
La the senate but little business was trans
acted beyond the reading of the governors mes
age.
Don't fail to attend the tent meetings
- MM
Mr. r. G. Hudson, State Commissioner of
Horticulture, is of the opinion that the cotton
rop in this state has been damaged fully Is per
&ent by the rains and winds.
81 n n
The killing of Stanford White by Harry K.
~ I'M New York on Monday night at once be-
mesa celebrated case" and the newspapers
viii be full of it for some time to come. This
tragedy is already being compared with the
filing of James Fisk Jr., by Edward S. Stokes,
lore than thirty years ago. Thaw has money,
md this insures long run of the case in the
ourts. @@
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According to the predictions of Meteorolo-
LIST DeVoe, Georgia and the other southern
ates are to have all sorts of weather during
he month of July. In the interest of humanity,
IL. DeVoe has written Governor Terrell let.
r telling him what the people of Georgia may
pect and advising them to prepare for what is
nming. He says in part:
The month of July will enter with hot
I'VE over the Western States; the center of
Is hot wave will reach the Atlantic Coast
ties by the 4th. followed by very violent
nderstorms on the 5th and cold wave for
Neral days. We will have violent thunder
torms each week, but on the 10Th great storm
III form over the Mississippi valley, increas-
g in energy as it moves eastward, causing a
sclone along our Atlantic Coast between the q
Ma "a with cold wave. send you this notice
you can prepare for it.
MM
OF the 1877 counties of the state of Georgia,
AZ, nearly three fourths, are under prohibition.
My IS counties are wet" in any degree. But
these IS wet" counties, 10 allow the sale of
Iuor in but one place in the county leaving but
counties where license is the general policy
the county.
OF these thirty.fve nominay wet" coun-
&s, 81 allow the sale of liquor only in dispense
NJ, II have the old time saloon, while two coun-
81 have both saloons and dspensaries.
Eight counties follow the general dispen-
nv plan: Chattooga, Coffee, Lee, Mitchell, Ste
ART, Terrell Troup and Webster. Thirteen
bnnties have dspensaries only in one place:
illock, Chattahoochee, Clark, Early, Fannin,
Ike, Merriwether, Pulaski, Quitman, Rabun,
wigs. Union and Walker.
The six counties where license is the gem
EaI policy are: Bib, Chatham, Fulton, Glynn,
owndes, Sumpter. Baker. Dougherty, McIn-
6sh Muscogee, Pickens and Richmond allow
Icons in but one place in each county.
Decatur and Irwin counties have both sa-
ons and dispensaries.
In point of population, 1864 people of the
tate. about one third of the total population,
f z.219.331, live in counties wholly under the
rohibition policy. Besides this, 594, 4S2 more
eople live in counties where temperance senti-
nt is so strong that the saloon is barricaded
eingle rat hole town or city.-Ex.