Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-14

business trip to Banbridge. He reports the
local prohibition fight at white heat
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The local Knight Tempars have esolyed to
ask for commandery for Fitzgerald. special
dispensation will be requested and the proba-
bility is the lodge will be instituted in the next
few weeks.
$55O,OO0 was appropriated by the last Cor
gress for dredging Currituck Croaton and Pam
leo sounds from below Elizabeth City to
Beaufort, enabling vessels to avoid the greatest
of all dangers on the Coast, Cape Hatteras.
We cannot help admiring the hopeful spirit
of the Fitzgerald folks. They really believe
that some day they will absorb Albany and
Americas as suburb s.-Americus Times Re-
corder.
Really it isn't as bad as that brother, but it
would do you good to see how we are spreading
out in that direction.
Americas, Fitzgerald and other places are
fussing through their newspapers as to which
is the "metropolis'' of South Georgia. A city
with a constantly increasing population, paved
streets, municipal light plant, manufactures,
and new industries is going to be the metropo-
lis of the section. In other words, brownsville
is it.-Thomasv Vile Times Enterprise.
Well now isn't it funny how Thomasvle
was entirely over looked. Well, when Fitzgerald
gets as old as Thomasville she may drop out of
the public eye.
Yes every body is tired of the saloon and it
must go. The people have made up their minds
to try change, and they will do it. After all
isn't it shame that civilized people ever sus-
tanned an institution like the saloon. A place
where men go to get fluid to destroy the sense.
Usually gilded place set up at great expense
to lure men from the path of virtue and life of
usefulness. vice that costs h G civilized
world millions of dollars every day will surely
be banshed from the face of the earth sooner or
later.
The Clark and Wilcox Company will take
charge of the B. E. Wilcox dry goods business
Saturday morning. The Store is closed while
the stock is being nventoried preparatory to
the transfer. The new company is composed
of B. E. Wilcox John S. Clark, V. G. Wooten,
and j. H. Harris, and will do a general dry
goods business at the Wilcox stand in the
Phillips block.
The Enterprise predicts that the new
company will prosper and thrive under the
management of the experienced and successful
incorporators.
This paper has no trouble with so-called
foreign advertisers" They pay our price
or they don't get the space, and there's the
end of it. All this hubbub about meeting
of editors to discuss the question, etc, is
bosh of the veriest sort - cambridge
Search Light.
They don't seem to get the space" in the
Search Light. careful examination of the
paper from which we take the above criticism
discovers the fact that not one inch of foreign
ads is carried.
THE AVERAGE PRICE PAID-ACTUALLY PAID
BY FOREIGN ADVERTISERS IS LESS THAN ONE
FOURTH THE RATE PAID BY HOME PATRONS OF THE
WEEKLY PAPERS OF GEORGIA The only way to
correct the wrong-and GET THE BUSINESS is for
the papers-OR MOST OF THEM-to come together
and put the business thro the hands of ONE
AGENCY, REPRESENTING THE PAPERS not the adver-
Users.
Atlanta and Colum bus are going to erect
municipal lighting plants; nearly all Geor-
gia cities own their water-works and are
making money, In the meantime Macon is
wading along in the grip of monopoly and
Maconites are paying high tribute to a ra-
pacious a greedy orporation.-Macon
News.
1t is quite possible to swap the devil for the
witch in a bargain of this kind. 1t is two-sid-