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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-02
Ons Of Many,

Calumet, Mich, Apr. 25th. 1907
Editor Enterprise:
Dear Sir:-EncIOsed you will find
p. O. order to the value of $500.
Please send me the Enterprise for
one year.
/ have missed your paper dur
ing the past and decided L would
renew my subscription.
Yours truly,
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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-02
Coolest April In 26 Years
Says Weather Bureaus.

Washington, April 3O.-Accord
ing to the Weather Bureau re-
cords the month just closed was
the coldest April in the last
twenty six years and within a de
gree of the coolest April ever ex-
perienced.
The month was characterized by
a succession of cold spells which
swept southeastward over the
northeast Rocky Mountain slope
and gradually spread southwark
and east of the Rocky Mountains.
The cold was almost continuous
except for brief intervals of a day
OF so of warmer weather and, it
closes with remarkably low temp
erature in the interior valleys and
the southwest.
Detroit, April 3O.-A severe
snow storm is prevailing today
over the upper part of the lower
peninsula of Michigan with high
ctld winds.
Milwaukee, Wis, April 3d.
A rain and sleet storm last night
developed into fall of six inches
of snow in this vicinity most of
which remains on the ground.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-02
Red Cans for Kansas

Kansans have always been noted
for doing curious things, but the
story to the effect that Gov. Hoch
has signed bill requiring the use
of red cans for gasoline, smacks
somewhat of the joke order. The
act makes it unlayfuI for dealers
to sell gasoline in any but red re-
cipsocals, and is entitled, SO the
correspondent on Automobile Top
les states, can act to protect hired
girls and absent minded men,
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-02
Florida House
For 21-2 Cent
THE PASSENGER RATE.
Other Measures that Passed
the House.

Tallahassee, Fla, April 3O.-The
House to-day passed a measure
for a two and half cent passen-
ger fare. Several amendments
were offered to the measure to
exclude short lines from the Oper-
ton of the measure, but represen-
tative Long, who is author of the
bill, succeeded in having all of
them tabled. The vote was 43 to
12.
Other bills that were passed by
the house were prohibiting the
selling of cigarettes.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-02

members say the Supreme Court
decision is not enough in the alb
sence of State law giving them
the requisite power to make such
requirements. The Georgia COM
mission has, in its annual reports
to the Legislature. persisteutly APP
pealed Flor law comforting on
them this authority, and several
years ago a bill to this effect was
introduced, but never reached the
point of passage.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-02

hundred years Of past struggle and
to take stock of the resources and
achievements of her present which
is now ralIying her sons for a CEN
tennial celebration.
1t has been suggested that com
mittees be appointed in each mill
tia district; from the several
towns; from the school board;
from the local organization of the
Southern Cotton Association; the
Farmers Union and like indus
trial and patriotic associations;
that these various committees come
together and decide Oh a plan, and
that each school i'll the county
make special study of Telfair's
history for the past hundred years
and celebrate it's centennial with
appropriate exercises at some time
-
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-02
Telfair Will Celebrate Her
Hundred,h Anniversary.

The fact that Telfair County
was organized into a county in
1SO7-just one hundred years ago
has caused movement to be in
augurated looking to celebration
of it's creation it's past progress
and it's present state i'll develop
ment.
No definite plans have been de
cided on yet but from comments
heard on the streets this week
from different sections of the
county, the idea seems to be gen.
eral that centennial celebration
should be held and we understand
that the grand jury will likely
embody some resolutions in their
presentments looking to the en-
enlargement and aid of the move
ment.
What is now embraced in
Telfair County was originally en-
braced in Wilkinson County, as
appears from old land deeds, and
was coded in 1905 by the Creek
Indians in a large body lying be-
tween the Oconee and Ocmulgec
rivers. In 1918 another small
strip of land to the south and west
of Telfair across the Ocmulgee was
coded by the Indians, but the In
dams remained just across the
Ocmulgee until 1912. Thus it re-
manned for a number of years
frontier county between the coun-
try held by the Indians and the
older white settlements. 1t was
laid out and organized into a
county only a few years before the
war of 1912 and it's early settlers
helped to man the block houses
during the Creek and Seminole
war, when Gen. David Blackshear
was i'll command of the frontier
along the Ocmulgee.
Thus it was that the early set
tiers in Telfair were of necessity
trained to hardy, if strenuous,
self-reliance, so that these first
Corners and their descendants have
always been remarkable for their
independence of character and
their ability to take care of them
selves under various shifting con-
ditions in the development of this
section and State; and in the
struggles for freedom and progress
her sons and those who have later
moved in and joined interests with
them have been no laggards.
With all of her troubles Telfair
has worked out d progress and
development and recorded a his
tory of which her citizens may
well feel proud. 1t is to COM
Imemorate her noble achievements
land remarkable progress "a tie
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

changed their minds when I got %
handling them. You'll see later. But
for now you've goi to stay here. and
IL you get out, and find you rambling.
you'n be shot like crows. You quite
understands"
"a He shut the messroom door and
locked It and once more went to the
main cabin. The tall man lay exactly
as he had fallen, and from underneath
his neck i've tricklets of red spread out
across the stopped tablecloth like the
fingers of a monstrous hand. The lamp
light fell also upon other smearings OF
red where Mutt had CROPPED his way
round the paneling. Kettle leaned up
against the rail of the sideboard and
wiped his face with a napkin. Perspira-
ton had loosened the coal dust, and the
skin came out white with only here and
there a smudge OF the old yrime.
Surprising" he saio 10 himself, I'VE
were robbed now. and there was trial,
who's to prove didn't put the pork
knife in that man? o Lord, what O
hat it's gettingi''
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
SOAKED IN COFFEE

Until T0O stiR 10 Bend over.
"When drank coffee I often had
sick headaches, nervousness and bill
iousness much of the time, but when I
went to visit a friend got In the hab-
1t of drinking Postum.
81 gave up coffee entirely and the
result has been that have been en-
tirely relieved Of all my stomach and
nervous trouble.
my mother was just the same way.
We all drink Postum now and, with
out coffee In the house for two years,
we are all well.
"A neighbor of mine, great coffee
drinker, was troubled with pains in her
side for years and was an invalid. She
was not able to do her work and could
not even mend clothes or do anything
at all where she would have to bend
forward. If she tried to do little
hard work she would get such pains
that she would have to lie down for
the rest of the day.
"At last / persuaded her to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum Food
Coffee and she did so and has used
Postum ever since; the result has been
that she can now do her work, can sit
for q whole day and mend and can
sew on the machine, and she meyer
feels the least bit OF pain In her side;
In fact, she has got well, and 1t shows
coffee was the cause OF the whole trou-
BILE.
II could also tell you about several
other neighbors who have been cured
BY quitting coffee and using Postum In
| Its place. There's q Reason" Look
| In package for the famous little book.
The Road % We.lylle."
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
pAlRYINo RESTORES LAND.

The enormous crops grown during
the last five years have used up soils
at a very rapid rate. This thing cam
not keep up always, and already many
heretofore profitable grain farms are
showing the effects of this exhaustion
Of fertility Grain farmers are natur-
ally turning to the dairy cow as the
salvation OF their lands, and she will
do great things, providing she is given
the right care. The gospel of the COW
Is good thing to preach, even IL many
do undertake to handle her in the same
way they have their wheat lands
take everything you can, but give back
only the least amount possible. That
sort of a deal will not pay any better
with cows than 1t does with wheat
lands. Give the good milcb cow q
chance to convert the best grain and
forage crops grown on the farm, into
milk, and then do your part in turn
Ing that milk into money, and putting
back onto your fields all the manure
and the COW will actually build up yout
fields. @
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

Somehow it is difficult to get some
dairymen to look with favor upon the
fall COW. do not understand why It is
so, unless it is little more work to
take care Of both COW and calf during
the winter than 1t is during the spring
and summer. How many of the cows
which dropped calves during April or
May are holding out? How many will
hold out during fly time and late pas
tuRes? Does 1t not look better to have
the cows dry during September and
October and have them come fresh dur
ing November. BY this time the fly
season is over and her grain feed will
be turned into high priced products.
She is at her best when 1t counts for
most, and she comes onto grass in the
spring at period in lactation when
cows usually fall Off. The fresh grass
will increase her flow and she will do
well until clear up into midsummer.
The increased cost of handling the fall
fresh cow is not so much as one would
think.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

In her own home in the country Mrs.
Marshall was a woman OF dignity anc
sense IN the affairs OF her daily llfe says
Stray Stories, but when she took one OF
her rare trips to town she was so keenly
on the lookout for impositions that she
sometimes acted inpulsively.
IT took down one impertinent young
man today" she announced proudly to
her husband on her return from one OF
these trying holidays.
IT was giancing into the window OF a
hardware shop where there were some
nice table knives, and suppose I may
have stood there some time; but wasn't
blocking the way or troubling any one In
the least
"All OF a sudden a young shopmar step
ped out into the window, and right against
the glass, close TO where was standing.
he puts great card with the words Iron
Sinks on it."
"weil. WHAT began Mr.. Marshail, but
his wife waved him into silence.
"Pd stood enough already from the car
conductors, and so on" she said firmly.
'and I'd no idea Of letting that pass. So
stepped into the shop and went right UP
to the young man and / said:
Ibid you think II was a good Joke to
place that card right into my face and
eyes? Or did you suppose that / needed
TO be told that iron sinks7'
II spoke very sarcastic-like, and ne be-
gan to color up; so I saw my advantage,
and said: You'd better have another
card printed with Feathers Float, or
some such thing on 1t. and when you SEQ
another respectable woman from the
country, old enckgh to be your mother.
you can put that under her nose. I'd keep
a number OF those cards on hand IL were
you And then marched out before he
had q chance to say a WORD"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
MHAr ls a aoop coW2

This question was put to me a few
days ago, as was looking over very
promising herd OF cows in Jasper
county, Iowa. A good dairy COW Is one
that will pay her owner a net profit.
That is about all there is to 1t. Look
at the cow from business standpoint.
Let us stop all this foolishness about
this breed or that breed, and get down
to what the individual cow will do.
There are certain outward signs which
point to good dairy material, but no
dairy has ever been established on a
profitable basis by judging cows on
their looks. In determining just how
good COW IS we must know how
much milk she gives in year, how
much butter fat that milk contains,
and how much 1t has cost to keep her
the year. We must know, all. about
these three things. The amount OF
milk given during the year, and
knowing the amount of butter fat 1t
contains, will not show the cows value
unless we know just what her feed
has cost. Right here is where so
many busy farmers fall down. 1t takes
time and pains to weigh and test milk,
and to weigh and keep track of cost of
feed Many will do one part and then
guess at the other. That destroys the
value of any Of the work.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
c. h. MAcKAYs s5oo,ooo CASINO

. l from the new YORK WOrl0.
The 100000 casino and clubhouse
at Roslyn. l.. l., built for Clarence III.
Mackay from plans drawn by the late
Stanford White, is almost finished. 1t is
132x133 feet and contains marble from
Alabama, stone from Maine, limestone
from Indiana, cement from England,
steel work from France and tiling from
Italy. The tennis court is an exact re-
production OF the. court of the old
French prison where the game wah ori-
gtnated as a pastime by the prisoners,
The game differs greatly from the
usual lawn tennis. The court has a
cement floor and sides and is 110 feet
long and 3S15 feet wide. Above It is a
glass roof forty-six feet from the
cement floor.
The building is constructed mainly
Of clinker brick with stucco and half
timber front. 1t Is but one story high,
although there Is a high roof over the
porch, the plunge room and the
women's bathroom. The building faces
the north, overlooking the sound. with
the buildings of the Bronx ip view on
clear day.
There is a porch 4ox1O feet at the
entrance to the building. Eight Corin-
THAN columns Of cement support the
porch roof. Entering from the porch
there is the Dedans salon, with hand
some red furniture, tables and side-
boards OF mission style, red velvet cur
tains, all of which cost about $4,000.
The other rooms are just as handsome
lv furnished. The stone Fireplace in
the salon cost several thousand dollars.
At the right OF the salon is the plunge
room finished in Alabama marble, with
12x20-foot pool and shower and
plunge baths and massage rooms. The
Gaustavina tiling overhead Is q novelty
here, and the floor thing is Italian. The
Momen's reception and bathroom, east
of the salon, is fitted up similar to the
plunge room. There Is also squash
court for women.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
Edna May on Widows.

IT had the honor" said q New York
club man, ito attend the dance in Lon
don that Edna May gave at the Savoy on
her retirement from the stage.
IT found the young lady as pretty as
ever. In fact. she had improved. Physi-
cally and mentally she had improved and
at supper her mots, her witticisms, kept
her nelghbors smiling.
"As she ate her coupe Jacques, heard
be a widow.
Difficult to be widow? said Joseph
Coyne. How do you mean difficult?'
"'Well.' said the beautiful actress, with
her demure and arch smile, II one is q
widow one must assume all the modesty
of girlhoed. without being allowed ia
fAign its ignorance"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
TIMOTHY HAY COSTLY.

While there is no question that go0S.
bright timothy hay is about the only
kind In demand for feeding horses, yet
many have about made up their minds
that 1t is not profitable to grow one
to one and half tons on $100-an-acre
land True IL one could dispose OF his
timothy hay at prices ruling during
the last six months, he could afford to
sell 1t and buy other forage. Timothy
uses up the soil faster than clovers,
and does not usually give as large a
yield. For these reasons clover Is the
more profitable crop to grow. and IL lis
far richer in feeding value. Farmers
have been feeding too much trashy
stuff, and among this must be classed
over-ripe timothy. Other forage crops
should be grown. An acre planted to
fodder corn. well put up and shredded,
will furnish four time as much good
feed as an acre OF timothy; and an
acre Of corn put UP as silage will fur
nish even a greater amount Of feed.
Sorghum makes fine feed and will yield
three or four times as much as tim
othy. 1t looks like poor business to go
right on growing timothy when we
know that 1t is a money-losing propo-
sition " 2. y
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
HAy FoR YOUNG STOCK.

On most farms there Is usually q field
that will produce the finest quality OF
hay. Frequently this is an upland
piece of clover, which has not grown
SO rank as the bottom fields, and on
account OF the lighter crop 1t is handled
better and cured out nicer. A very
sensible stockman tells me he always
saves the crop on this kind OF a field
for his young stock, and he uses extra
care TO cut 1t at just the right stage,
and cure 1t nice and green. This hay
is not so woody as the heavier growth,
and it is not near so apt to mould or
become n1usty. Young animals need
something during the winter to tempt
them, and nothing will do 1t like nice,
sweet-smelling clover hay, when the
leaves, and not big coarse stems, form
the bulk of the crop. Just for the
calves sake, take some extra pains In
laying in the winter supply of clover.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
DAIRY NOTES.

A thing which puzzles many is why
one dairyman makes money out of the
business while another one, perhaps
alongside the first. just breaks even at
the end OF the year. The two sell their
milk or butter fat daily at the same
creamery and are paid the same rate.
The trouble is I'm the cost of production,
The difference in the cost Of foods
grown, and the value of their foods,
may account for the difference. Hence
the value of the food, and the capacity
OF the cows turns the tables one way
or the other.
On many farms milk is set in shallow
pans, which are put away from twelve
to fourteen hours for the cream TO rise.
There is always more or less difficulty
In keeping the milk sweet, for not many
have Ice, nor have they even cold wa
ter conveniences. These pans should
be carefully scaided after each Skim
ming, care being taken that the work
is not hurried, so as to leave scald
flavor. Before the pans are used again
they should be cooled; and, IL they can
be taken right out of cold water, as
they are wanted. for the new milk, so
much the better.
The cows are in clover all right this
year; and the most encouraging thing
q prolonged pasturing season. The re-
suits of good pastures are already
showing up. in the increase Of milk
delivered at creameries over the cor
responding month of last season, also
In the better quality Of milk.
Don't allow the cows which freshened
last spring to even think OF a holiday
for several months yet. They will be
all the better for constant milking. and
two months is enough of a holiday any
way. ~
A correspondent asks whether 1t Is
prudent to crowd heifer the first year
o. milking. The essential thing Is not
crowding so much as 1t is keeping her
at work and up to a good flow right
through the season. In order to secure
this 1t may be necessary to feed some
grain during the fall, but that is as far
as the crowding ought to go.
Many cows have been troubled this
spring with caked udders. A practi-
cal dairyman, who has handled many
Of these cases, uses a salve made Of
four ounces OF gum camphor and one
pound Of fresh lard. This should be
applied TO the udder three times a
day. In ordinary cases II win reduce
the Inflammation in a few days.
Not all cows are good cheese cows.
II COW gives milk containing more
than s per cent. of fat her milk is too
rich for economical cheese making.
Hence a very good butter COW may
not be a good cheese COW.
August is usually very hard month
In the dairy business. After such an
abundance OF grass II is difiicult 10
get iAto the way OF feeding grain. But
as we get into the fall the cows need
strengthening foods, and as cold wealth
er comes on they require still heavier
grain rations 70 sustain the milk how,
dA well as to keep uD animal heat.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
THE RICH DRIFTING TO HOTELS
Now York City's Permanent Hotel
Population Not less Than 135,o00.

Now York City's Permanent Hotel
Population Not less Than $4,000.
From the Chicago Record Herald.
The rich are drifting to the
cities as well as the wage earners.
They are going to the hotels and big
apartment houses to live rather than
creating homes. 1t Is said that the
permanent hotel population OF New
York city Is today not less than 1885,
900 and everybody who is familiar with
the city knows that as fast as the big
hotels are opened they are filled with
permanent boarders and casual pat
rons like the big apartment house in
Washington; although 1t Is difficult to
determine where the people all come
from.
There are 1876 new, to-dste, high
priced hotels in New York citH, where
the rates for lodging alone in the hum-
blest rooms are, at least $3.50 a day,
and range from 81 to So day with
a bath and without meals. 1t Is stated
that 5000 families have given UP their
homes and are now permanently cstab-
lished in the hotels ana apartment
houses, chiefly to avoid the annoyances
difficulty of getting servants, the enor-
nous increase in wages of all donfes-
tics, the increase in the cost OF food, the
trouble OF marketing and other cares
and anxieties connected with house
keeping are thus avoided, and for
those who are able to pay tho bills
there Is greater degree OF luxury and
comfort, with absolute Independence
from care, for the same money In a
well appointed hotel than can be had
In an ordinary residence.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

Professor Swain, OF the Bostcn school
OF Technology, has been made a doctor
OF laws by the University OF New York
in consideration OF his scientifle TO-
searches and eminent engineering wora.
For more than twenty years Or. Swain
has been prominent member OF the
Massachusetts, railroad commission.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08
FARM FACTS.

Cement III coming into wider use now
ON farms than ever before. An Iowa
reader asks whether 1t would make a
good floor for grain bins. where rats
and mice are numberless. Such floors
would be al right, providing the drain:
age Is good; or IL the floors are raised
from the ground far enough to permit
ventilation to keep the cement dry.
The great cement storage tanks Keep
grain, for any length OF time, per-
fectly.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

When buying fruit trees, shrubs OF
vines II Is always safest to get nrst
grade stock. There is not much differ
ence in price but big difference IN
quality of first and second grade stock.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

The careful orchardist will see that
any tree which has been injured re-
ceives prompt attention. Wounds made
by careless cultivators should be bound
to keep out water until the scar Is
healed &c..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

why do not more people grow cur
rants for market? With such varieties
as North Star, Victoria and Red Dutch.
1t will pay, and these sorts will be
found easy for cultivation and hardy.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

A correspondent says that when grain
Is properly shocked It is great saving
to thresh out of the shock. The trouble
Is that shocks are hurriedly set up and
are not made to Withstand rain 0E
wind. with the result that much grain
Is damaged before the thresher gets
around.