Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-10-26

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That this is really fall is plainly evident from
the showers of leaves released by every passing
zephyr.
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Oaklegh Thorne has sold the Central of Georgia
Railroad. The dear boy never needed the thing
any way and no body seems to know why he
bought it unless it was because his spare change
burned his pockets
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We congratulate the administration On its
decision to enforce the curtew law. 1t is not log
cal to lock the stable door after the horse is stOlen
unless there are other horses inside In this case
there are other boys to control. We have always
bought the curfew a good thing and shall not OBJ
iact to it's enforcement.
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The great Westinghouse Electric| Company
Is In trouble, not because it had failed to make
money millions of it, nor because it tailed to make
he monopoly in electric supplies complete bTcom
ming with the General Electric Company but>be-
ause they owned too much property and had\
is its till too little cash.
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ems to have been as unwarranted as it was unex
Nected. The ginners report shows shortage of
aearIy million bales, aItho the weather and labor
ambitions for gathering have been much better than
1or several seasons. Cotton ought to have advanc-
81 a hundred points, whereas it declined thirty.
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The trouble in the money centers has not dis
fnrbed Fitzgerald.
We have all the money we want and more
than enough to meet our needs in our local banks.
there is plenty to do at good prices and every
BODY seems to be happy and prosperous The
truth about it is the wall street troubles never
Aouched this part of the Sunny South.
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The quail season opens next Friday and the
wire grass partridge will sing low, for the shot
Guns are whetted and the dogs are in trim for the
kfay. We understand there has been considerable
Extraction of the law intended really for the pro
kection of the men who break it. The law should
be SO rigidly enforced that it will not be consider
ed joke to steal few shots before the opening
day.
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The visit of Vice President George Dole Wad-
ley and the work of the engineering corps on the
site of the shed means that work will start
Immediately or rather has already began on the
big structure. This improvement was interrupted
asst spring by litigation that might have
changed the plans of the Railroad company entirely
but we congratulate them and Fitzgerald on the
saCt that the work will now go forward, which
nean that Fitzgerald will have the finest railroad
alton in Georgia excepting Savannah and Atlanta.
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OF course its wrong to return your property
IN taxation at half below half its real value but
be average man excuses himself the ground
Aat his neighbOr does, or the average tax payer
Ices, and if he returns his property at full value
Mhile everybody else, or practically everybody,
Ise returns at half value, that the man who makes
full return is practically double taxed.
So it is with counties. About half the tax
bes to the state and if the tax receivers, grand
ries, superior court judge, in this orany other
unity, required full return of values while
actically all the other counties returned at half
hes it would virtually amount to double tax
for the county making just and full return.
hat does not excuse the crime 1--WE use the
zinc deliberately if the Superior court
aired the grand jures in all the
respective circuits to take hold of
6rously, the evil would soon be cor
he still greater wrong oflow valuations
81 as against small estates, would