Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-07-14
FITZGERA AID DELIGHTED
OVER GETTING COUNTY
From the Atlanta Journal.

IS rejoicing over the favorable senate com mlttee
report on the new county bill by which Fitzger-
aid, one of the livest cities in south Georgia, bids
fair to have a new county. The Importance of
this new county to Fitzgerald at this particular
time and for the future is so widely rec ognized
by everyone in this section that there is gener-
al rejoicing there today over the favorable com.
mittee report.
There are ten to twelve thousand people
directly affected by this new county bill and
the feeling that Fitzgerald will soon have coun-
ty of her own, with magnificent new court
house for the people of that section has aroused
the sFsa'5'' enthusiasm .n there
If you find knocker knock him and
charge it to the Enterprise.
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If they can't elect Clark they are willing to
try to elect Dick That's the way the Howell
men in Coweta county feel about it. and it seems
Howell men throughout the state are falling
into line with them,-Newnan News
Well we hope they will not elect either one
before we get back into politics, which will be
before Aug 22ud.
This editor has more to do than he ever be-
fore had in his life and we have been right busy
for twenty-five years. We haven't got time 10
get mad with anybody and if in our haste we do
things that make other people mad we will make
amends when the opportunity is offered. We
are neither hunting trouble nor making trouble
when it can be helped.
Macon is famous for agricultural fairs, and
she always sets the pace for others to follow.
This year the Macon Fair Association is adopt.
ing plan that will soon become general through
out the South It has provided for live stock
auction sales, and auction sales, to dispose of
everything that the exhibitors carry to the fair,
October End. to 10th.
We would like to see Ben Hill county, with
Fitzgerald as the county seat, created by this
session of the legislature. Fitzgerald although
a new town. is growing rapidly and it is very in.
convenient to transact legal business under pres
ent conditions. Success to Ben Hill county
Warren News
Thanks to you Scruggs. We are in very
much the position of the boys digging for the
gopher when the preacher was coming to dinner
we must have it.
That part of the great state of Georgia
known as the wire grass" section has prosper
ural resources have come to be known through
out the country and have proved to be vertible
magnet to the progressive element of the coun-
try. Cities and towns have sprung up as if by
magic, and everywhere is to be encountered an
air of progressveness and prosperity that char
acterized the opening of new territory in the
west third of century more ago-Savan-
nah News.
The Charleston Post tells of South Caro-
lima farmer who made $13 900 net profit on thirty
five acres of land in Colleton county in one year.
The crop was potatoes The average produc-
tion per acre was few barrels more than 100.
The potatoes sold for SIS per barrel or total of
$17, 500. 1t cost ST. per barrel to put them on
the market, or $780, leaving net profit of $14,-
900. That is certainly farming some,' as we
say in Georgia; and we have tens of thousands
of acres of land in Georgia that will produce
just as good results under similar intelligent
management
If it were not for the American tourists to
Europe it wouldn't be many years before it
would be practclly impossible for European
countries to buy meats, breadstuffs and 9TH
er things which they get from us. It is estimat-
ed by eminent New York bankers, who deal in
letters of credit and have other sources of infor-
nation, that American tourists carry abroad
and spend there more than $400,00 1000 year.
More Americans have gone to Europe this year
than in any previous year, and it is the impress
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