Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-02-23
The Ocilla and Valdosta r. r.

running its trains regularly
Yesterday, President Henderson phonedthe
Enterprise an invitation to ride in on the hrst
engine, but the heavy editor was 10 Cordele and
could not accept the invitation but the connec'
ton has been completed and the Ocllla and Val
dosta and The F. o. & r. B. have been consoll'
dated.
We predict great future for this little sys-
tenn: certainly its success is TO our direct inter-
est.
Let every Fitzgerald business man feel a
personal interest in this our newest road. Pat'
ronize it and support it.
Oca and Valdosta Railroad Company wel1
come
President J. A. j. Henderson we greet you.
What's the matter with t b business
meeting of the country edtors7 Has the
movement gone into hole somewhere
Speak out. Don't let it drop.-Meigs Re-
view.
Let it Drop
Well we guess not. We will have that bust.
ness meeting, some day, at some convenient
place before the annual convention Of the press
ASSOCIATE q. Thirty days before would
be a very proper time.
We must get together on this important
question, we entitled to legitimate revenue
| from foreign advertising. There is one way TO
get it, only one and that is for the publishers
of the state to get together and stand together.
| Not to form trust or ask anything unreason-
| able, but simply to require foreign advertisers
to pay as much for advertising space as the local
| advertiser is charged.
1t need not cost dollar. Simply agree TO
stand together.
The Enterprise may be little off on its
| theories of civic virtue but we have some we'll
defued ideas about municipal prodigaltty and
official stupidity. We know CRATER when we
meet him in the road (often enough and see
graft plainly stamped on his personality
We are fixing to say something and when we do
it may draw blisters 10 some places. This ls
about as good time as any to prepare to get mad
The Enterprise is going to see that Fltz'
gerald gets public building. When it becomes
practically and defnitly settled it will be anus.
ing to watch :he doodes kick sand to attract at
tention to themselves; kick sand 10 their ef'
forts to make somebody believe they did it.. i
This is one of the instances in which it will
be diff cult to deliver the goods.
AS was the experience in the case of the New
County it will take time first to get public senti'
ment right and then, to get the appropr aton
from Congress.
The Cotton raised in the south last year
brought into this country from Europe and
Asia, $500, 900, 900. Half billion or about 4 of
the exports from the U. S. is represented in
this one item. There is no co untry in h e
world with mon ey crop like it.
The strawberry crop is a little backW ard,
ia spite of the fine weather we have had since
the holidays, and the acreage 10 this colony is
considerably less than last season, all of which
we regret. This is naturally strawberry soil
and climate, they grow here to absolute per-
lection and in great abundance. But the rail-
roads are smothering the goose that laid the
golden egg.
Editor Mercer is using all his energetic
magnetism to secure better foreign adver-
Using rates for the weekly newspapers of
South Georgia and ably seconded by other
gentlemen of the fourth estate, 10 adVocat-
ing the calling of meeting sometime in the
near future to organize in order to call
ringing halt on giving cheap rates to foreign
advertisers good while ago this action
on the part of the weekly newspapers was
not wholly necessary, as the prosperity of
this section of the state had not reached