Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-04-20

M SATURDAY. APRIL 20. 1907.
Yesterday mornings shower was cleans
ing one, so far as the streets are concerned.
9 Inculcate into the minds of the youth the
IDEA of saving. It's good time to get the habit.
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Everybody seems TO have their trou bles.
The white house is said to be haunted and the
third Term Haunt" constantly disturbs the
presidents dreams.
4 Fitzgerald will show a greater percent
a1e OF increase in population in 1910 than any
civ in the south. We are not gambler by
pfofession, but we are willing to wager several
hundred thousand dollars on the proposition
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Extravaganza is a curse to individuals
and communities; it checks the wheel OF
real progress it impoverishes rather than
senriches; let all strive to live within their
income, at least.
Open a savings account we give you the hrSt
half dollar with little pocket bank that will
take care of the small coin you can spare and
hight spends e.
Cordele and Waycross are talking a good
zeal about trolly lines. Evidently somebody in
lose communities with money to burn, has the
rect car fever aud is anxious to get in on the
ound floor In the meantime it is pretty safe
calculate on Fitzgerald running the first
Dliey car north of Valdosta and south of Ma
Nj, and the business will be based on the city
tic; we have no suburban communities that
pnld warrant troly system, unless we reach
pnt for Ocilla and Ashburn and the Ocmul-
river.
The item from Broxton on our front page,
eculating on the extesion of the F. O. B. from
NAt place, the news correspondent doesn't know
thing more about the deal than the average
ekder of the Enterprise does. He is simply
Suspicious Of the fact that the new president
NA principal stakeholder of the 0. & V. was
but recently connected with the A. B. & A. 1t
quite possible that there will be direct line
rom Fitzgerald to Savannah in time and we
h0pe soon, but the Broxton correspondent was
Aerely guessing.
We congratulate G. A. r. Post II and II
ring the next Encampment for Fitzgerald.
This is the G. A. R. city of the state or the
@pnth Alarge percentage of our population
s1e men who escaped rebel bullets in the six
I'D, some of them however did not entirely es-
Npe but they have been shaking hands with
msefves (where they have two hands lefD that
A& said bullets did not find vital part of their
nAtomy, but they are good southerners now
AID if they had been here in 1860 they would
ave tshoudered their muskets and marched
9ainst the hosts of Michigan and Maine
The G. -AssRe Enca mpment will find hearty
Wslcome in Fitzgerald next year, from Rebel
aud Yankee alike.
1t has been suggested by thoughtful citi-
ZEN, who has devoted his most conscientious eff
forts for the best interests of this city since the
days of shack town, that it might be a good
sdea to provide for water and light commission
pr an executive board, of three tax payers and
local business men, to control and manage the
public utilities OF the city. There is general
belief among the best informed business men
that the plant has been mismanaged most of the
lime of the seven years of its history. 1t is
arite possible tina: it will be an expense and tax
bn the city this year in spite of the fact that
nany thousand dollars have just been spent to
kniarge aud improve the plant.
Several similar systems, in towns about Fitz-
efald's size in South Georgia. where the condi-
ns are about the same as they are here, pay
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