Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15
COTTON QUOTATIONS.


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Remember Che poor next week, and next year.
Pun for Fitzgerald Pull
All the season through and no 10 cents cotton.
we have hoped Tor better prices but all the time
18th a weak heart however the real trouble
eems to have been weak market.
Pull for Fitzgerald or
A Wayne coanty young man took the part OF
Ii woman attendant at the Jussup depot restaurant
hen she was insulted by the sheriff of that County
IA for the interference, was shot to death by the
#heriff and his son a few hours later
Pull for Fitzgerald
Since you appear to be in earnest about it,
lear Pauline, we say it in all candor; NO, no. Inc
lOthes do not make fnefolks. Some OF the dlrtlest
Neople wear diamonds and the most refined and
#nltured wear plain dresses. Don't worry about
he frills and trinkets, improve the mind and take
cur bath regularly.
70. Pull Out
NJ Miss Silvey Speer sometimes called Silvey
spear Thomas, through her father, has MEDIA suit
III Fulton Superior Court for the anullment OF the
marriage consummated with the young man; hus-
Esel r. Thomas her Gathers chauffeur last Septem-
Der She alleges that she is young girl not YET
Seventeen, that the young man Thomas, shortly
fter his employment by her father as chauffeur,
Normed the purpose to take advantage of her youth
Md persuade, lead, force and defraud her into
marriage with himself and that in accomplishing
his purpose he hadthe active assistance OF his 1ath
I'd w. b. Thomas, who conspired with young
thomas to bring about the said marriage by force,
uress. threat and fraud and that they were aided
Nv divers other persons; that the father, W. Is.
thomas, and his sou led plaintiff, who was an I'M
nature child to believe that unless she married
aims violence would be done her father that, as
hid she vas greatly influenced by these threats,
Shat Russell Thomas and his father told her that
NInless she married him that she would bescandali
ed; that there had been gossip about her and that
the only way to relieve her name from the gossip
And save her reputation was to marry; that she
.aias greatly influenced by this conduct of Thomas
and his father and ntimdated; that she was carri-
sd into the city to the old man, w. B. Thomas and
she then went to the Office ofthe ordinary and that
w. b. Thomas perpetrated fraud on the ordinary
0y representing that he was the guardian of the
nlaintiff and that the ordinary, being in doubt,
Thomas signed writing as guardian giving his
consent for her to wed the boy Russell Thomas,
md 4that Russell Thomas and his father, w. b.
Thomas went with her to minister of the gospel
and fraudulenty representing that her father w.
A Spear, had consented to her marriage, deliber-
ately practice fraud upon the minister and her
self; that Immediately after the ceremony, she was
hurried off on train but was intercepted at Char
aotte North Carolina and brought back to Atlanta,
never having lived with the defendant as wife.
She says that the marriage not voluntary on
her part but that she was forced into it and she
therefore prays for total divorce annuilment
If the marriage.
The Enterprise regards just such characters as
old man W. B. Thomas, father of the lad who mar
RED Miss Speer as the ugliest sort of character,
ana the crime committed by him is clearly an effort
Is participate it the Spear estate 1t is worse than
prand larcency because of the diabocal measures
adopted; his willingness to sacrifice the innocent
vonng woman to acquire fortune for his son. We
hare too many crimes of this kind, too many sorry
lite men looking about for fortune through
ETiage with some innocent woman, and when the
crafty old father of the aspiring young man takes
= hand, as old man Thomas did in this instance,
65gshonld be CONDEMNED in uncertain way as
& possibly The only punishment under the
can reach him. That is why this is