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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
these States out of the northern
markets.

these States out of the northern
markets.
The roads wanted to develop
fruit and vegetable growing in
the Gulf Coast section even if
they did not make any money
hauling these products to the
distant markets. They knew
that if they could help build up
a large industry of this kind
they would get more passengers
on their trains and they would
get other freight to haul.
The point which Mr.. MAYO
makes is that all governments
which undertake to make rates
have to do it on the basis of dis
lance. One result is that the
products of such a country are
not freely exchanged with the
country itself. For example,
the farmers of western Germa-
nv cannot sell their wheat in
eastern Germany because of
freight rates. consequently the
west Germany farmers being
near the coast have to export
surplus grain to England where
they come in competition with
wheat from the United States,
Continued on Last Page.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
The TRUCK BUSINESS
Interest Of the Railroads in
Building Up the Great
Vegetable Industry.

Writing in the Business Mag
azine of Knoxville, on the growth
of the South Mr.. E. w. Mayo,
says that the great development
of the iron and coal industries
in Alabama and of the market
gardening in the Southern part
of the State has been largely due
to the low rates made by the
railroads.
It costs very little if any more
to ship vegetables from Southern
Alabama and Mississippi to Chic
ago and st. Louis than it costs to
ship from Tenn.
Some years ago complaint was
made by shipper against this
practice and the Interstate Com
merce decided that the roads
ought to charge more from
Southern Alabama and Mississi-
ppi. The effect of a rule of
this kind would have been to cut
the growers in the lower part of
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Captain and Mrs. F. D. Lee Are
COmpIimented by the La
dies of the W. r. c.

Some two hundred guests as
sembled yesterday at the W. r.
c.. Hall to do honor to the worthy
old couple who, side by side for
half a century, have shared the
joys and sorrows of married life.
The w. r. c. called in the friends
and neighbors to share bounte-
Gus dinner and help celebrate the
golden wedding of Capt Furman
D. Lee and his estimab1e wife,
Eliza Ann Myers-Lee.
1t was a gala-day for all, and
the bridal couple bore the honors
gracefully and with dignity
their voices rembling with
emotion as they responded to
the tender words spoken by
their friends.
Numerous wedding gifts &C.
companied the greeting-among
them two easy chairs" pre-
scented by the different patriotic
organizations of this city.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
Over the bridal table hung a

Over the bridal table hung a
large wedding bell of evergreens
bells tinkling while the bridal
couple and their two sons, c. B.
and O. D. Lee and wife and the
eight grandchildren surrounded
the bridal table and partook of
the wedding feast. In the mean
while, around other tables we're
gathered their merry.making
neighbors.
The elderly groom has reason
to look with pride upon his bride
of fifty years, as she is still a
handsome woman, with a face
beaming with love for everyone,
and especially for her soldier
hus band, who served his country
ia the sixties and is now a past
com mander of the Department
of Georgia and Florida, G. A. r.
Since their coming here in the
early days of colony life, Mr..
and Mrs. Lee have won the es-
TEEN and love Of large circle
of friends and the Enterprise
would Join them all in wishes for
many happy returns of the day.
Department Chaplain J. R.
Green made the presentation
speech in a very able and pleas
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
ing manner. We reproduce his
remarks in full below:

remarks in full below:
81 have been commissioned by
your comrades and friends here as
sembled, to offer their congratula-
tions for your safe arrival at the CEN
tenial halfway house in the journey
of your married life.
"Mlle stone after milestone has
been sighted, attained and passed in
in the upgrade journey of your life
from youth with it's flower decked
hedge skirting your sun-lit pathway.
Through the advancing years of man.
hood and womauhood, with their
wealth of golden grain glistening
with the dews of morning Or bending
to the kiss of the evening breeze,
still upward and onward until, the
summit attained, you pause for a
days rest in the shadow of the mon
ument of Time, on whose hither side
is recorded the legends of the past,
while the neither side shows the
Angel of Destiny holding an unwrit-
ten scroll and pointing with extended
finger to the west where no ray of
light discloses the mysteries of the
future or gives token Of the record
of the coming years.
MANY and varied have been the
vicissltudes of your eventful lives.
Sometimes your pathway has been
strewn with flowers and bright hopes
have come to gladden. each passing
day. Sometimes your way has been
INSTRUCTED by angry rocks and your
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
Social and Taffy Pull.

The Ladies Aid Sociey of the
Roanoke School district will hold
a ten cent social, including Tafy
Pull at the home of Mrs. A. w.
Keeney on West Pine street,
Friday evening Jan. 10. A. corr
dial invitation to all.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
Notions, Toilet Articles

Silkatine, per spool. ........ &c
Smoked Pearl Buttons, large
size, per dozen ............1 Zoe
Menen's Borated Ta1cum, 2
boxes for. .25c
DR.. Lyons Tooth Powder,
per box. ................. .15c
High Grade Toilet Soap, per
box of 3 cakes. -. ....... &c
Safety Pins, 2 cards........ Sc
Good Pearl Buttons, on card
per dozen &c
Collar Foundations, each. &c
Triple A Darning Cotton,
2 spools Sc
White Rose Toilet Soap per
CAKE. ............ &C
Williams Shaving Soap, per
cake. .......... ....... &c
Universal Hooks and Eyes,
per card Sc
Bone Collar Buttons. per doz. Sc
Finishing Braid, per bolt. 4c
Box Writing Paper, 1Oc kind, &c
Novels, by Populpr Authors. 7c
Strictly CSC Silk Ribbon, per
yard, this sale .1oc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
WANTS FAIR PLAY
GOVERNOR ELECT HUGEs SPEAKS
 AT BANQUET {
Says Party Must Set Self to Work to Remove Abuses Which Have Vexed Patience of
 Public.

New York. Nov 2s.-More than 700 Republicans, representative of various sections of New York State. attended the dinner given to Governor elect Charles E Hughes by the Republican Club of New York, in the waldorf-As- toria tonight. State Republican Chair man Timothy L. Woodruff was toast master. ---e
 In his speech Mir Hughes said in part: 4 ..
 If there are those who are alarmed at discontent, as such. and who, satis- fled with their lot. view with ill- con- caaled impatience and disgust efforts at improvement, am not one of them.
 We may we'll be concerned at in- dications of fmpatience with law and with orderly processes of government And it should be our aim so far as pos- stble to remove the causes of irritation by insistence upon just and impartial administration. We want a spirit of fair play toward individuals. toward institutions, toward the public.
 Tt is not my purpose at this time to formulate a policy. I simply desire to indicate to you what I am sure is in the minds of all that the people are in no mood to tolerate indifference to the public interests, and we must. in an orderly way. as, behooves those who be- lieVe in constitutional government, ad- dress ourselves to- the removal of abuses which have vexed the public nakiencN. sg
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
PEARY JOINS WIFE
ARCTIC EXPLORER REACHES sYD.
 NEY IN SAFETY.
Refuses To Talk of Proposed WeIImaz Polar ExDeditiOn--APpears Tn Best of Health and
 SnfrlfR,

Sydney c. B., Nov. 23--FlyinE the flag of the United States which had heen placed nearer to the North Pole than any other national standard, and weather beaten and disabled, the Peary Arctic steamer Roosevelt arrived here under sail and steam after sixteen months vain effort to reach the pole.
 Commander Peary came ashore almost immediately after the steamer anchor ed and joined Mrs. Peary, who has been here two weeks awaiting her .hus- bands return.
 When asked what he thought of the suggestion embodied in .Fridtjcf. Nan sens recent interview to the effect that Peary's last expedition served to strengthen the plan of reaching the Pole by drifting from Behring Sea. Commander Peary said he always be- lieved there were great possibilities in the drifting theory for men of temper ament to stand imprisonment for sev- eral years in the ice. For hts part. he could not adapt himself to 1t. He would not talk about the Wellnlan- Chi cago Record Herald expedition plans {
 Commander Peary looks in the best of health and spirits. pr. J. I. Wolf said that the health of the party had been excellent. There were no deaths and practically no sickness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
DEGREES OWNERSHIP
HARTMAN SAYS THEORY IS IM-
 PRACTICABLE.
Railroad Magnate Talks on Govern ment COntrOI-Believes Present AzitatiOm Will Result In Infiu- enclnE Public Against
 Project.

Chicago, Nov. 23--A despatch to The Record Herald from Elkhart, Ind, says:
 "Government ownership of the trans portation facilities of the counthy would be incongruous, impraeticable and utterly Impossible"
 This statement was made by Edward H. Hartman yesterday, as the Twen- tieth Century Limited sped toward New York.
 DO you not think" was asked, that the present agitation, and the present inquiry into the ownership and oper- otion of railroads Is directing the mind Of the public into channels which may ultimately lead to government owner ship?"
 Not at all said Mir. Hartman. em- phatically. ''on the contrary, the pres- ent agitation Is going to have exact ly the opposite effect. The more agi- tation there is, and the greater the dis- cussion on these subjects, the more the people will see the incongruity of gov ernment ownership.
 'The questions involved in the trans portation problems Of this counthy are being more and more discussed in their broader sense and significance. This must result in a better understand ing by the people generally of the con- ditions which surround the trans portation business and the conditions under which the railroads are operated. When there Is thorough public un- derstanding of these conditions the conclusion on the part of the public will be inevitable and will be such as I have indicated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
MORMON HEAD FOUND GULL TY Joseph Smith Fined For
 Polygamy. MAXIMUM FINE IS IMPOSED Birth of Forty-third Child Leads to
 Prosecution. President of Sect Admits Having Five Wives, says He Has Endeav-
 cred te Live up to Ob-
 lswasfams.

Salt Lake City. Utah, Nov 2s.-- Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mor- man Church. this afternoon appeared in the district court before Judge Ritchfe, pleaded guilty to charge of unlaw- fuI cohabitation, and was fined $500.
 The charge under which the Nor man prophet was arrested and fined was based on the recent birth of Pres ident Smiths forty-third child. born to his fifth wife.
 Earlier in the day, counsel for President Smith secured a transfer of the case from the criminal division of %4t court, where Judge Armstrong nl esided. to Judge Ritchie's division.
 After the noon recess. when the court room was practically deserted, Presi- dent smith went before Judge Ritchie, offered his plea and the fine was ina- posed
 President smith addressed the court. He stated his last marriage was in 1884. All his marriages. he said were entered into with the sanction of his church and. as they believed. with the approval of the Lord. According to his faith and the law of the church, they were eternal in duration. He continued:
 sIn the tacit general understanding that was had in 1890. and tine years
 
 were classed as the old eases of coha- bitation, I have appreciated tho mag namtty of the American people In nos enforcing a policy that in their minds was unnecessarily harsh
 since 1890. large percentage of the poiygamous families have ceased to ex- ist, until now the number within the jurisdiction of this court Is very small and marriages In violation of the law have been and now are prohibited. So far as my own case is concerned, I, like others who had entered into sol- emn obligations. sought to the best Of my ability to comply with all require ments pertaining to the trying posi- ton in which we were placed.
 'sVhen accepted the manifesto is- sued by President Wilford Woodruff aid not underhtand that would be expected tes abandon and discard my wives. Knowing the sacred covenant ana oblieations which had assumed by reason of these marriages, I have conAcientiously tried to discharge the responsibilities attending them, with out being offensive to any one. have never Haunted my family relations be- fore the public, nor have felt spirit of defiance against the law. but on the contrary I have always desired to be A lawabidfng citizer In consider ing the trying position In which l have been placed, I trust that your honor will exercise such leniency, in your sentence. as law and Justice will per init"
 Judge Ritchie imposed the maximum fine but omitted the jail sentence ot from one day to six months.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
BOAT IS WITNESS
USED AGAINST ACCUSED SLAYER
 OF GRACE BROWN.
Hair Found Caught In CIeats Corre- spends to Locks of Girl Whom Chester Gillette is Charged
 With HEurdering.

Herkimsr, N F., Nov. 2s.-rhe twelve foot strip cedar rowboat in which Chester Gillette and Grace Brown ventured on Big Moose Lake last July, the girl never to return alive, was the most interesting witness introduced against Gillette today.
 Cllnging to the cleats at the stern, and twining about the braces which hold the rear seat in place, were strands of long. dark hair The man who found the boat floating bottom up on the lake, testified that he had re- moved enough hair from the cleats and braces to make lock the size of a lead pencil. This hair was introduced in evidence.
 Then followed a dramatic sequel The prosecutor called Frances Brown, sister of the dead girl She had brought with her a lock of hair cut from her sisters head. It was attach. ed to piece of paper. eide by side with the hair taken from the bottom of the boat. The paper was passed to the Jurymen to make their own com parisons. District Attorney Ward contention is that the girl was struck down in the boat and that her hair became entangled in the seats and braces when she fell.
 At the afternoon session came the story of the finding of the girls body. Frank Crabb who discovered the body, was the witness. The girls eye was partly opened and bloodshot, he said The hair was dishevelled and partly down on tho shoulders. The right stocking was we'll down over the low cut shoe and there was a piece Of red garter attached to it
 Charles Kerin, one of the searching party. testified to the same effect but added that there was mark or bruise near the girls left eye He also sal,I that q bloody discharge triclSied from the nose while the body was being taken to the hotel at Big Moose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
GREAT TENOR
 LOSES CASE Caruso Guilty of Annoy
 ing Women.
BITTER ATTACK BY MATHOT
Attorney Declares Singer Man Of
 Misfit Morals.
After verdict is Given Judge Baker Asne.ues Fine of sIo--Lawyers wsfi Make Appeal te
 Himhar Court.

New York. New f0.---Enrico Csruse. the famous grand opera tenor. was found guilty today of having annoyed women at tho Geological Garden in Central Park He was fined s1o by Magistrate BaIser. Carusoss counsel immediately an- nounced they would appeal. The ap- peal will take the form of a writ of certiorsri. directing q review of the case by the court of special sessions.
 Former Judge Dittenhoefer. for his client. will seek to expedite the appeal because caruso is billed to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House Wednesday Tonight Director Conreid declared the conviction would not interfere with Ca ruso's appearance.
 In quiet manner Magistrate Baker endorsed the affidavit Guilty; fine StO,' and handed 1t to a clerk of the court. He ordered that Fred W. Speerling, of counsel for Caruso, be informed of the decision. There were comparatlvely few persons fin the court at the time.
 Former Judge Dittenhoefer expressed surprise when told the decision was against his client.
 We shall appAai,p he said. Fat once. We consider the decision unjust and unwarranted by the evidence.
 AA O~fNeI W@ES EuiiLy or the crime Cain charged him with. but was abso- lutely refuted, he should have been punished Severely if he, on the other hand, Is innocent. he should not have been fined at alt
 signor Caruso said tonight: T am pained and amazed at the verdict. Ar ter all the evidence had been presented took 1t for granted that I would be discharged instantly and honorably I do not doubt that the verdict win be reversed on appealn
 Deputy Commissioner Mathot in the closing Argument Of the trial, savage iy attacked 'Caruso. declaring him to be man of naisft morals. unworthy of being received In any home and unfit to associate with persons In decent so- ciety.
 He said that caruso had never de- nied the real charge against him, that he had annoyed two young girls anu had thrust upon them the most hatefui indignittes
 'T am here.- said Mir. Mathot. Ion behalf of women. our wives and daugh- ters. to ask you if these panderers and sexual perverts shall be permitted 70 use our public highways and the parks for the prosecution of their perform ances."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
SECONDARY
 EDUCATION Notas Gathering of Educators. PRES. ABERcRoMBE SPEAKS Reads Paper Before Conference at
 University of Virginia. Heads of seven state Inatitutsins and otheF. He<t te Discu.s Reform
 se Close asp In Present
 system.
IS. ABERcRoMBE SPEAKS

Charlottesville. Va, Nov 23.--The lconference on secondary education in the South. which President Alderman. of the University of Virginia, called to consider the gap which in many states lies between the high school and the college, convened In Madison Hall In that institution today. The conference will continue through tomorrow.
 The conference brought together the presidents of seven State universities, the heads of all the Virginia colleges. the State superintendents of education of North Carolina, North carolina, Ten- nessee. Alabama and Virginia and Georgia, as well as professors of sec ondary education in these States. in- cluding President F. F. Venable, of the University of North Carolina: Brown Avres. of the University of Tennessee; J. W. Abererombie of the University of Alabama; Benjamin Sloan. University of South Carolina: D. F. Houston, Uni- versity of Texas: Chancellor D. c. Bar row. University of Georgia. President Alderman made the open ing addres, and outlined his ideas for reform.
 President Abercrombie. of the Uni- vsrsity of Alabama. followed with . paper on How the State Department ol Education can Develop Public High Schools" A discussion of these topics was opened by State Superintendents J. c. Joyner of North Carolina. o. B. Martin of South Carolina and ". B. Merritt of Georgia.
 President David F. Houston of the University of Texas. Prof. J. F. Stewart. University of Georgia, and others spoke on the relations Of higher institutions of learning Co high schools.
 Dr. Wallace Buttrick. of the General Education Board, New York. and Prof. Bruce R. Payne University of Virginia. spoke for the definite work of profess sors Of secondary education. Others who engaged n the discussion were Prof. !. D DuBose, University of Ala barna, and Prot N. ". Walker, Uni- versity of North CaroliBa@
 Tonight the professors and students Of the University assembled in Cabell
 Han to greet tha educators attending the conferAnce resi nt Alderrnan preaided and brief talks were made by Elmer D. Brown, U. S. Cotnmissioner of Edueation: President Yenable.. Uni- varsity of North Carolina; President Houston, University of Texas; State Superintendent Martin of South Caro- lina; President Robert E. Blackwell of Randolph Macon College, and others
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
NEGRO IS IGNORED
PLANS APPROVED FOR JAMESTOWN
 EXHIBIT BUILDING.
PittnRn Was Born Near Montgomery And Attended School In Capital
 City--Only Successful Archi- fect of Race.

Washington, Nov. Specially )-w. Sidney Pitman.. negro architect of Washington. said to be the only man of his race who has achieved success In the profession, has had approved by J. Knox Taylor. supervising archi- tect of the treasury. his plans of the negro exhibit building at the James, town exposition next year.
 Pitman was born at Montgomery in 1895, attended the public school there and graduated at the Birmingham high school He then attended for five years the Tuskegee Institute. next he attended the Boston School of Tech nology. and there was advised to make architecture special study. Later he graduated at the Drexel School in Philadelphia. and under an agreement with Booker T. Washington, returned to Tuskegee. and taught architecture there.
 The negro building at Jamestown will cost $s0,000, It will be in colonial style and two stories high.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
ALABAMIAN RAISED
J. DYILIN HALL PROMOTED IN GOV.
 ERNMENT SERVICE.
AppOIntee of Secretary Herbert, se- cures Position of Finger Print Clerk in Enlistment Depart ment of Washington
 gmRRnrr

Washington. Nov 23.-(special, l. J. Dillin Hall of Alabama who fo, some time has been a clerk in tha navigation bureau of the Navy Depart ment at $1.2Oo a year, has had biz jump in his salary. having been rais, ed to $1. 800.
 Mir. Hall was appointed by Hon. Hill lary A. Herbert when Secretary of the Navy, as an assistant messenger al $720 6 year. He won this rapid pro- motion in a competitive examination and the new position to be given IS that of finger print clerk in the en listment department of the bureau
 Mrs L. Flood Channon of New ter. sey who is in the same bureau, earned a similar promotion and her salary ir increased from s1,0OO to S1,s00.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
Deaths In SC. Lawrence.

Chatham, N B., Nov. 22y-More than half a hundred lives were lost and nearly a score of vessels were swept sandbars of the gulf and river St. Law renee during the season of navigation now drawink to a close. Of sixty per sons who perished in these waters within the past year, nearly fifty met death this month, the most disastrous to shipping in the St. Lawrence dur ing a dozen years. The financial losses aggregate a quarter of Q million dollara.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24

wood. of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. yesterday did not mean to convey the impression that the bridge was in danger of collapsing, but that he was afraid teh luocyhrdiuuauauau he was afraid they could not run any more trains or cars on the bridge without danger of accidents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
Attack Freleht Arenta,

New Orleans, Nov. 23.-Traveling Freight Agent J. r. Terrell and Con. tracting Freight Agent s. S. Boniel of the Southern Pacific Railroad were to- night set upon by a gang of twenty men in Alglers and painfully bruised with clubs. Bonlel was also stabbed en route to the Southern Pacific yards to relieve the freight congestion caus- ed by the freight clerks strike, the gang sprang upon them from cover of a saloon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
shootn noolk Anent.

Utica, N. r.. Nov. 23-Miss Louise Pepson. a trained nurse. of this city. fired five shots at Frank P Nagle, an agent for editions de luxe books to- day but none of the shots took effect. Miss Pepson says Naglss secured about s400 from her and only a small part of IL had been returned.