Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-11-03


appointed. Trade is good.
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Editor Mercer of Fitzgerald intimates that
some of the candidates over there were very
lukewarm towards the Ben Hill county PROPOSE
ton few months back, and thinks they should
not be so i'm modest as to ask for piece OF pie
at the first go-round.-Nashville Herald.
That's Just it Sweat They should wait at
least one term
The Savannah preachers have awakened TO
the whsk ey situation in Savannah and last sun
daV every pulpit in the city denounced the
dives and the reckless disregard by the saloons
and the city officials of reform or even the ooser-
ance of the laws already passed. 1t was the pre-
valing opinion that relief was surest through q u
effort for higher license and regulations somf.
what like Albany has recently proposed.-Moul-
trie Observer.
The Cordele Ram bier and the Fitzgerald
Enterprise are entitled to the blue ribbon when
it comes to handling taffy?-Montezum ma Leader.
And their motto is, You tick and III
tickle you ''-Fitzgerald Leader.
Won't somebody please tickle the Leader.
The old man would like to know how 1t feels.
He would be tckled to death.
Editor Mercer is giving Fitzgerald the best
paper of any place the size of his 10 Georgia.
But then Mercer is ca patle of doing this, II only
he will keep out of the Office bunting mood
Montezuma Record.
There is prohibition fight on IN Vsldosta.
The council has been petitioned to refuse to re-
new the license which expired Nov 1st 1t is
said that nothing has occurred there 10 many
months that excited as much interest. The
council refused to grant license for a longer time
t1an March first and put the saloon men on no
tice that they bad just four months in which to
prepare for the change.
Valdosta has prospered gre y IN
spite of her saloons. Now if she follows Fitz-
gerald's lead and pushes aside ] Inn Barleycorn,
two of the best towns in South Georgia will head
the procession of material progress and moral
advancement
2 The failure of the canta1oupe crop in this sec
ton two or three years ago so discouraged the
growers that they have practically abandon
ed what is one of the finest money crops that
can be produced 10 this section. An occasional
failure is not sufficient excuse, for when the
crop is good and everything favorable the profits
are SO immense lDdt a IdluTe uOeS not justly
the growers in neglecting to plant every year
larger acreage. Our freight rates are better
and shipping facilities are better every year.
Next season we will be in touch with the SOUTH
ern, the Seaboard and the A. B. & A.. We
want to see a large canta1oupe acreage in the col
ouy. 1t beats ten cent cotton and that's mighty
good.
Does prohibit prohibit? Well we should
say it does. Right here in Fitzgerald where
the wide openers have all kinds of encourage
ment and full f1adged organ. There Is every
sort of evidence discernable to those who are
willing to see, and plenty of that sort of evidence
that even the most unwilling believers dare not
dispute. The police court record is one of the
evidences that carries conviction and is fhcult
to controvert. The saloons were closed here in
the month of August. The docket of the police
court shows SO cases in July, 20 in August ADD
in September the first dry month There
we're 3 cases in October with two circuses and
several blind tigers to take in consideration
a considerable amount of booze was left ia the
city in packages that bound to leak, we
think this is a remarkable record. When we
put the blind tigers out of business we will
have but little use for police court.
RE
Home, sweet home, whether it is a fathers
home a husbands home, is no longer the goal
of girls ambition. 1t does not even appeal to
her. A cynical man once declared that home
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