Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-07-04
Official Organ Of Ben Hill County.

The preset Legislature will do something for
the pistol toter. That's our guess
uncle Remus,' Joel Chandler Harris, is quite
sick at his home in Atlanta
The G. s. & F. r. r. Co. have increased salaries
which were cut some time ago.
Dublin anu Laurens county will fight the new
county movement in that part of the state.
Bulloch county is working herroads with theer
modern road machine twenty mules and thirty
The Valdosta Banks and other Corporations
paid out about thirty thousand dollars in dlvl
dends July the 1st
This Fourth of July editorial and we term
it trihle short in order to give an opportunity
for celebrating the birth of Independent America.
A music store right under our sanctum window
NAV account to some extent for the melody and
pathos to be found in these columns. Ifyou don't
find any melody or pathos you may find something
else
1t is evident from the get that if
Z the A. B. & A. wants to go to Jacksonville
1 they can get all the help they want, not
only in Waycross and Jacksonville but along
the lines
With two candidates for president, Tom Wat
s son on the POpulist, Saborn Bright the PrOhi-
M btion tickets and the prospect ola candidate for
: Vice President in Gov. Smith Georgia is putting
M her sons to the FORE
The cotton picker is coming into notice rather
N late this season. it usually makes its appearance
on about January when there cotton to pick
III for several months They will have to hurry to
81 get it out of the way by the time cotton opens
luE The Mercer endowment of three hundred thous.
81 and dollars on which Rev. J. l. Oxford was engag
Isl ed was raised within the time limit, July LIST,
81 and which insures that institution of learning
high place in the list of the Universities of the
. country.
of Mr. John T. Moore of the Macon Brick Co.
q charges that two members of the committee from
the Legislature that visited his camp in the spring
were drunk $50 drunk that they had to be helped
out of the buggy" The members of the Committee
W deny the charge emphatcally. Somebody lied.
III wm
SH The Fitzgerald Granitoid Co is doing some
fd Of the permanent improvement the Enterprise al
ways loves to go on laying tile side walk around
oseE three important corners On the Pine and Lee
Or Street fronts of Dr. Whites home, around the new
Garbut Donovan building and in front of the three
Orn lots of Watt Holmes Co. The tile pavement laid
actby Mr. Hayes is of the very best quality, as well
easd put down any in large cities.
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1ar bill has been introduced into the legislature
ehnkhis week. making it unlawful for person to carry
ank revolver less than twenty four inches i'll length
there has been law thestatute books makngt
Unlawful to carry pistol concealed of any length
eedgnder the new law it will, if understand it,
cbe just as easy to carry the five and sixinch
Il narrel pistols as before We understand the long
plaistol law went into effect in Alabama July 1st
strghat we seem to need is law to enforce the old
d BdAw.
leriff
49,; The Legislature is going ahead, creating and
hoIishing city courts instead of passing general
49, Nv court law with uniform rule of practice and
jurisdiction and manner of selecting its officers
fixing their compensation, in three classes one
49, e. CITY counties another for counties with cities of
w. Re thousand and another for country counties.
- The city and county courts of Georgia have
tn used by the peanut politicians and demagogues
I'm forbesrance is no longer virtue. Give us a