Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-07-09


ourselves with our readers.
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On the question of state prohibition, the cities
of Georgia naturally protest against bill, that
has fair prospect of becoming law.
Back of the men who doubt the efficacy OF the
prohibitory, there is the Industrious element that
lives by the traffic. The law of self preservation
stimulates them to action.
They are making determined fight although
they are fighting against hope.
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Those who have expected great deal of sick
ness in Fitzgerald this season have suffered the IN
convenience of having their expectations for their
pains. The city is unusually healthy The rec
ord shows one death in June 1t is now July ana
and still the people are healthy. We are not dls
tressed about the fact but we can immagine long
line of Itold- you SOS, if we had had considerable
fever this spring or summer. A whole lot OF home
people had brought themselves to believe and tried
to persuade others to believe, that we were bound
to have sickly season.
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The First National Bank stockholders held
their regular semi annual meeting at the bank last
week, and the showing made by cashier Farmer
was the best ever made by that bank, which has a
most remarkable record. 1t is claimed to be the
chest showing ever made by bank in this sec
tion"
The surplus was increased to $4,000 dollars.
This is handsome surplus, :but the First National
has not accomplished so much on that line as IL
has in the matter of dividends. 1t has been
great dividend payer. 1t paved out forty per
cent dividend the first year; and has paid out
pretty regularly on that account since, but the
stockholders have decided to strengthen the bank
by placing the earnings to the surplus account,
that is leaving it in the bank where it is protec
ton to the depOsitors.
If we were given to the habit of Dragging we
certainly would brag about Fitzgerald banks.
They are the thermometers of our business circle,
and the showing they make, is reassuring indeed.
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Representative Adkins, OfDooly, wishes to
establish press censorship in Georgia. He
should know that there already exists such
censorship, and better one could not be Great
ed by legislative enactment. tits public opinion
and no newspaper dares to run counter to it,
The unclean or unwholesome newspaper can
not live in Georgia. This has been illustrated
on several occasions, with respect to which
Atlanta. The journalistic boneyard glistens
with the skeletons of,periOdicals that tried to
fatten on sensationalism, only to "starve to
death. Mr.. Adkins can find much better en-
ployment for his talents than trying to censor
the press.-Savannah News.
Mr. Adkins is on the right line. The fact
that skeletons of periodicals that tried to tatten
on sensatOnalism glisten in the journalistic
boneyard is the best evidence of the wisdom of
his bill. Until there is a law restricting the
journalistic scavenger there will be sufficient ex-
periments along that line to insult the decency of
our homes.
We admit that it is a seriOns matter to restrict
the press, but the restriction proposed by repre-
sentative Adkins will not interfere with any re-
spectacle publisher.
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Animosties are expensive luxuries> few men
can afford them, altho great many men indulge
in them Every local issue that arises bears
abundant crop,
The court house removal campaign in Irwin is
rot an exception to the rule.
While we have believed for several years that
rwinvlle is too far from the business and railroad
centers to hold the court house and that the peo-
pie would find way to move it, and while we are
heartily in sympathy with DELLA in the present
contest and believe that it is sure to win out, we
are not so blind that we cannot see the rights of
those who oppose the removal.
Judge Clements and his venerable mother and
their friends and neighbors have rights that ought
to be respected No man should tall out with
them for opposing the removal. 1t means great
deal to them and while the greatest good to the