Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-02-18
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1908.

married him wife Sunday, after being shot at by
his brides father and brother. We predict Mr.
and Mrs. Adkins will never trouble the divorce
courts
run for Fitzgerald Pull
ssEditor Jesse Mercer is making fine race for
prison commissioner and he will make fine prison
commissioner when he is elected. "-Darien Ga
zette.
Will why sure, there is no guess work about
that unless the press of the state has lost its in
fiuence we will have the opportunity of demon
strating what sort of prison commissioner we can
make
vi TO xxzaldo
The Southern Railroad and tributary lines
have reduced the pay Of all employees receiving
more than $50 per month
The order will affect. persons getting 500
per month and more, 10 per cent. Employees get
ting more than $50 and less than 500 will suffer
cut in wages of per cent, and those getting
less than $50 will suffer no change"
This great Railroad system seems to recognize
the rights of the labOrer
FOL Pu! Out
'The President, it is reported, has given his
sanction to a classification of hObOes, tramps and
bumss 1t runs like this: HOboes work and wan
der, tramps dream and wander, and buns drink
and wander Work interferes with the life of the
tramp and the bum but never with that of the
hobo who is nearly always honest man out OF
iob.n-Ex.
Then the hobo cannot be cassed with the sor
nv white man for he is nearly always dishonest or
too lazy to impress his honesty on those who live
by the sweat of the brow.
Fun or Fitzgerald Pull Out
"Judge Hart having decided that apple
cider may be sold in Georgia ''with impunity''
now watch those Georgians change the name of
alcohol to t'impunity ''-Jacksonvile Times
Union.
ga very neat paragraph. The only trouble
about it is it's entire inaccuracy. Judge Hart
denies most emphatically that he has decided
that apple cider may be sold in Georgia
stwith impunity'' Or any other way, SO far as
he is concerned. 1.-The Georgian
Pull for Fitzgerald or
The Sermon on the Mount is good Georgia law
or good enough for at least one Georgia Judge.
'tNo man can serve two masters for either he
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he
will hold to the one, and despise the other"
This and only this was the courts headnote
in the case of Gam VS. Retter from the City Court
of Fulton county
The decision was written by Judge Arthur G.
The facts in the case these: A woman
owned piece of property which she placed in the
hands of an agent to be sold for 81, 500. A pur-
chaser came to the agent and offered for the prop
erty piece of land which he owned and 81, 200 in
notes. The agent also undertook to act as the
purchasers agent in the transaction, and offered
the woman the piece of land and 81. 600 in notes,
with the understanding that he was to receive all
above that amount which he could sell the proper
ty for
In the meantime the woman found out that
the prospective purchasers had agreed to pay more
than was offered by the agent, whereupon she
broke,off negotiations thro the agent and dealt
? with the purchaser direct
Then the agent sued the woman for $780,
which he claimed as his share of the profit The
lower court rejected his claim and found for the
defendant. Repeating the foregoing biblical quo
tation, the Court of Appeals has now affirmed the
decision of the lower court
Pull for Fitzgerald or
At least three attempts have been made to
counterfeit the clearing house certificates issued
by the banks ofthis state all of which failed
were detected before any harm could be done.
The first was by Rome lawyer, now under bond,
who planned to use 80, 900 of the Atlanta brand
but was detected before he got the certificates