Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-04-16

The race for the iudgeship OF the Oconee
circuit promises to be lively one Ex-Solicitor
J,F. DeLacy, Walter M. Clements and War
rem Grice will contest the present encumbents
reelection.
Moultrie is experimenting with sand-clay
pavement. 1t is no longer an experiment how.
ever. the best roads in the state not ACTUALLY
paved, are made of sand aud clay right here in
Fitzgerald
Whiskey will be voted out of Vadosta be-
fore the end of the year, or we miss guess.
The prohibitonists haven't lost in an election in
this state in so long we have lost count on it.
Nashville Herald.
Tax Receiver Earle Gibbs, has duty to
perform to this county that we hope he will IN
no wise shirk, and that is require every tax
payer to return his property at reasonable
valuation. If he will adopt the rule at the be-
ginning and require every tax payer to value
his property at about what it would sell tor IN
the market he would have but little trouble, and
it would guarantee his reelection as often as he
performed his duty strictly.
Anent the question of whiskey ADVERTISE
ments it's funny to see how the brethren scram-
BILE for first place and how new converts tall IN
line when they realize that public sentiment
practically demands the exclusion OF Whlskey
advertisements,
The time is coming when the obscene medi-
cine advertisements will be excluded from all
decent journals. They ought to be excluded by
law but where the law is weak, public sent1"
ment will make good, and the indecent adver'
tisement must go. When we say indecent we
mean TO include such advertisements as French
Pills the Wine of Cordui, Mothers Friend and
other advertisements that are purposelV obscene.
Since the Enterprise began to pay reward OF
fifty cents to any boy girl for starting the
habit of saving and ope ming bank account, we
have issued several each day and the readers
of this paper are intelligently awaking to the
great importance of training their children and
their young friends in the pratlce of banking
their money The Cashier of the bank on whom
we have issued these small safes tells us that
already the young people have made additional
deposits aud and their funds are fast growing.
People on rural routes are taking advantage OF
the proposition considerable as we'll as those in
the city proper and each day brings increased
for the bank
Read our advertisement and arouse your
self to the good deed of starting an account for
yourself, your children some young person
in whom you are interested They will never
be willing to be without money in the bank when
you once start them
In his impusive loyalty to the interests
of this city, Editor Mercer falls into the
error of advocating mob methods and law
lessness in his allusion, in Saturdays is
sue, to certain "knocker" with whom the
city is unfortunately afflicted. We could
fud no criticism to his arraignment of the
knocker, but the remedy suggested while
possibly deserved, is uuwarranted by law.
Publish his name aud let the public attend
to his case-ae will soon emgrate.-Ben Hill
County News.
Now, Editor Lee wouldn't know mob
methods and lawlessness' if he met them in the
road. We have never been inclined to join a
mob, but several times we have had occasion to
discourage their form alton. At this writing
are the chairman Of an organization intended to
discourage mob methods aud lawlessnes,"
Moral suasiou is not always con6ntd to
words, some casees call for heroic trea mt.
We have more than once been member of a
COMMITTEE composed largely cf ministers of
the gospel who had made up their minds to sup
plement the work of the pulpit for morality in
Fitzgerald, by visiting the evil doors and giving
them something to think about We have seen
the lash applied by permission of a court of
Al. &C..