Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-07-28

1t is known as the Georgia Industrial Home
founded by the late Rev. W. Mumford 1t is
not backed by any church organization but it is
strictly sectaiian, broad in its SCOPE, sincere
in its purpose and wonderful in its RESULTS decid'
edly the greatest institution of its kind in the
state. The hundreds of little waits, boys,-and
girls children of Methodists, Baptists and inf
dels, children of parents INDECENT and hopelessly
inebriate It's refuge for children who need q
home, training school in the pure air of the
country, where every improvement for the good of
the child is brought to bear. Every year many
of the boys and girls out of the home to lead
honest and useful lives. We have had several lv
ing examples in Fitzgerald, the best evidence
With hundreds Of these little waits it takes
hundreds of dollars very often and as the homes
absolutely dependent on the open handed charity
of benevolently inclined people. The appeal is
strong and the obligation binding every gener-
Gus hearted man and woman in the state.
But the Odd Fellows propose to do something
substantial for the home. The following from
The Odd Fellows of Macon have undertaken
to either complete Mumford Memorial Hall at the
Georgia Industrial Home to erect build
ing on the grounds, for the orphans of Odd Eel
lows.
They laid the groundwork for this object
when the following sesolution passed at the
last session Of the Grind Lodge:
''Resolvcd, that w. E. Mumford Lodge No.
265, Macon, Ga, be given peomissing to solicit
from the individual Odd Fellows thru the subordi-
nate lodges in the the State contributions to be
used under the direction of the said W. E, Mum
ford Lodge for the purpose of either completing
Mumford Memorial Hall, at the Georgia Industrial
Home, or building a cottage at the Home and nam
ing it the Odd Fellows Cottage"
Now what we want to see is the Masons, the
Knights of Pythas and the Elks and every other
secret order in Georgia take hold of his home and
build, in the name of the order home or hall in
which the children of the fraternal order may find
a refuge.
We are bound to have orphans and children
of poor and unfortunate parents with us as long
the world stands and it is perfectly PROPER for the
secret orders of this state to provide such home,
and we commend the example set by the Odd Eel
lows of Macon
News comes from Ocila of terrible crime
committed there last night, the details of which
will not appear in the these columns.
Pull fol Fitzgerald or
FBlind Tigers, -" bold and bad are becoming
too numerous in this neck the woods. The peo-
pie have tolerated them in the vain hope that the
liquor selling propensity would off and that
those who imagine they could not make dollar at
honest employment would turn their attention 10
something useful But the hope is not well placed.
1t is altogether probable that the remedy is few
months at road building for the tigers. The aver
age tiger makes good road hand, and we need the
roads
oil Fitzgerald
The News has always contended that Tom
Watson is the worst foe, the most malignant enemy
of the democratic party in the state of Georgia. 1t
brass sounds Watson would sacrifice the party
that freed from Fred Douglas and negro lieu
tenant governor in South Carolina. Yet, in this
day of sound sense we hear talk of the state of
Georgia giving this political trckater it ELECTORAL
yote-Brunswick News
Toms gall is second only to his craftness He
has been toaded to entirely too much by the pol
ticians of the state but is longer taken serious
ly by the Democrats who realize that he is for
anything and anybody that viii give him prestige.
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The terrible TRAGEDY at Jacksonville Sunday
night in Which young Buckley shot his wife to
death is lesson that every who touches
whiskey should study well. The young man came
of good family. His people here are among the
best and the Jacksonville papers state that he was
well thought of in that city. He had the natural
traits of a good citized but he was a victim of
demon rum. If he had been sober man, he would
have been the pride of his old father and his sus