Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-01-11

Brownson affair not that he thinks more OF Brown
son but less of the president.
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Todays paper carries the ocupatiun tax ordi
nance. It'll an important document and is worth
preserving for future reference.
To- Fitzgerald Pullo
Railroad wrecks come high. 1t is estimated
that the recent wreck of the southern train At
lanta this week will cost the railroad company
$500, O00 wrecks cost more than state inspection
of road beds
Pull for Fitzseald or Out
The ginners report shows that the cotton crop
is about 9 00O 900 bales short Of last years crop
which was itself short of the demands. Then why
the prices do not advance to Is or 20 cents nnder
such showing is one Of the remarkable features of
the business situation.
Tor Fitzgerald o.
The visitors to Fitzgerald yesterday had many
words of praise for what appeared to them to be
one of the most prosperous cities in Georgia. A
number Of them were their first visit to the
colony city and were not prepared for what they
saw of business blocks and thriving industries.
The truth of the matter is Fitzgerald looks
more like prosperity than any community in this
part of the world right now.
PsH for FITZGERALD hi
Governor Smith left Savannah last night
in good spirits and the best of health, Those
folks down there must have modified the treat
ment they handed out to Admiral Dewey. .
Macon News.
Savannah is great place for spirit, good
spirits We had some of the Savannah spirit here
yesterday, up to O'Clock this a. m. the hour we
fell asleep it was in evidence. When we awole, to
day it was gone The fact that Governor Smith
was in good spirits is due to the fact that he did
not have so much of the good spirits in him.
full for Fitzgerald or
The banquet at the Lee Grant Hotel the
grandest affair of the kind we have had in Fitz-
gerald and was enjoyed by as fine crowd of men
as could well be assembled in the spacious dining
room from twelve until three this morning; it
was scene to delight the soul and cheer the heart.
The Lee Grant service was at its best and the
hundred and fifty men present were the salt of the
earth, South Georgia's best material. The speak
ers were f. A. Cults, illustrations Potentate of
Alec Temple E. X Farmer, Noble Abe Quicken
heimer director S. Il. Theus Raban, Col.
Tom Eason, Thomas Mcmillan, Julian TisOn, Hon.
Crawford Wheatly Rev. Robert Kerr j. h. Mercer
acted as toast master. The menu was the best
ever gotten up by the Lee Grant
Pan for Fitzgerald
Not day passes UnaV we uO nou nave one VI
more applications for employment. Both sexes,
both colors. We confess these opportunities are
little more frequent than year ago. 1t may be
an indication of more stringent times or it may be
the advent of a period of industry. There must
come time when every man will earn his bread
bv the sweat of his brow and we may be approach
ing that epoch.
Anyhow it is embarrassing to have applications
of that nature that we cannot relieve
1t isn't like the hard times in old Scotland
when Robert Burns refers to the poor er labored
wight so abject, mean and vile who asks brother
of the earth to give him leave to toll 1t isn't as
bad as that times are better now. The world has
progressed many thousand leagues and We are all
richer The laboring man of today is better Off
than the we'll to do of the days when
the scotch bard wrote ''man was madet mourn. :
If Burns had lived in this colony in 1907 he would
probably have written 'tman was made to prosper
and fare sumptuousy.
But we are doing the best we can for the APP
plicants. We believe there one of them. Useful,
honorable and remuncrated employments