Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-04-20
Land sold in Fulton County yesterday at

course this included splendid improvements,
and there we're only 18 acres in the tract. But
we have here in Ben Hill county within two
miles of Fitzgerald, better land that can be
bought for 10 per cent of the money. There is
plenty room for advances in our real estate
prices yet But we are not grumbling, the
market is in a fine condition and the ad-
vance in prices quite steady and rapid enough
to make fortune out of it every few months.
Governor Northen's work will be lasting in
Georgia. This love and peace business always
did please and charm US. What would become
of US if it wasn't for love and peace?-Darien
Gazette.
The people seem to be with the governor the
more they see of him and the more they know
of him the more they think of his work. The
Men News thinks he will do little good and
1ess!harm, and as soon as this becomes plain to
him he will be glad to stop" 1t is strange how
opinions differ about this matter. The ma
jority of the people, however, seem to believe
that he is enlisted in a noble mission and that
he is positive good to the state. The Fitz-
gerald Enterprise says that no belittle
the work either of Governor Northen or of Hon.
Hoke Smith.-Savannah Press
There is but one limit to the growth and
prosperity of city like Fitzgerald, aud that
limit is carried in the minds and dispositions,
and we might add, the determination of the
business men who have at heart its business
interest. Fitzgerald will stop growing just as
soon as the men who have the money invested in
it conclude that it is grown that it will not
grow any more. 1t is purely a matter of con-
fdence. When the impression gets abroad and
it always gets abroad pretty soon after it takes
hold of the home people, that there are to be no
more enterprises, no more expansion and build
ing, no more inducements for outside people
and outside capital, that day she will be grown
and not till then. Business men of Fitzgerald,
it's up to you. Whether we shall have Chic
ago or fine healthy country village.
Cobb county has decided to accept no more
convict hire money from the state but will work
her prorata of the convcts on the public roads
of the county; in commenting on the change,
the Marietta County Courier says:
IF county chain gang is established and
the convicts are worked on the public roads
then the officers of court fail to receive the mo-
ney for their hire. The money received for
their sale amounts to many thousand dollars
every year; the tax payers pay the expenses of
court for their conviction, and not one dollar of
the money goes into the county treasury"
The Grand Jury recommended that the
money from convict hire, which is prorated
among the counties of the state, be applied to Z
the schools until the organization of a coun-
ty road gang when the grand jury sug-
gested the convicts be worked on the road,
County Commissioner Wesley r. Walker
writes the Enterprise suggesting that we
change our old slogan Pull for Fitzgerald or
Pull out" that has become bye word or catch
phrase in this community to embrace the coun-
ty of Ben Hill Pull for Ben Hill or pull out. "
Commissioner Walkers suggestion indicates
that he has Ben HIS interest at heart We be-
lieve that he will make record that will i'm
press the people that he really is pulling for
Ben Hill with the sort of enthusiasm that counts.
We have been pulling for Fitzgerald, the
American Tribune Soldiers Colony, so long aud
for Ben Hill County earnestly since III, first
day it was sugge sted (oy the Enterprse) that
we should have. must have, and would have
new county, thai We NEST conscient iously
adopt the suggestion.