Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-22
PUN for Fitzgerald or Pull Out.
Good Roads and Bad Roads

In the United States we have about g.
OOO 900 miles of road and about 800 900 miles Of
it is in bad condition. Shamefully bad.
The American people have been two busy
with other things.
This is new country and one of the easiest
things for busy people to neglect is the common
highway.
But the So, 900 Inhabitants have spread
out over about all of the territory and will no doubt
get busy at the important task of road building.
Here in Ben Hill county our little gang of less
than twenty men are quite industliously employed
aud nteligently directed and SO far as their abiIi
ty extends will do much good work on thecounty's
roads
AND In twenty years may be able to complete
system of graded roads to every part of the
county, but it will require hundred years for
such a force to build them right A cviz-
eel and progressive people need and ought net
to be willing to wait. The county's road force
ought to be doubled this very spring, AS for the
citys shameful apologies for streets wehave long
apologised and explained that we were Vet young
and express the hope that in the near future the
roads and drives would be opened graded and kept
smoothe We growing weary.
Lets get busy in city and county on the all
important question.
Pull for Fitzgerald Out
The Enterprise will make it its business to see
to the prosecution, OF if need be, prosecute the To-
cal gambler or gamblers referred to in several re-
cent issues of this paper We are soon To quit
this work and we want to have fair field for our
successors.
We have seen this splendid little city grow
from one of the most immoral and lawless commun-
tiles to be of the best cleanest and most moral
in the state.
We are proud~r of Fitzgerald's moralimproye.
ment than we are of her Industrial growth or her
wonderful commercis progress
But there is a residuum of the wide open re-
gime with which we have been entirely too indul
gent and the time has arrived toput stop to gam
bling in every form. 1t can be done now because
the temper of the people is ripe for its accomplish
ment
We regret to have to resort to the courts. it
has seldom been done in the campaign that has
been waged these ten years. 1t has never been the
policy of the men who wish to free Fitzgerald from
the influences Of vice aud awlessness but we fear
it will be necessary in this instance to invoke the
strong arm of the law and prosecute vigorously the
men who have been spoiled by indugenccs.
There is one way to escape prosecution, Mr..
Gambler that is simple and effective, and that is,
sPull out"
BE prompt about it, for we mean business
Mr. Gambler, will you please pull oalq
Oh Out
Col. Taylor, Who escaped from the Tennes see
night riders, tells most interesting story of the
murder Of his companion, Captain Rankin on the
shore of Reel Foot lake in Northwestern Team
Col. Taylor is sixty three years old, but when
the murderers were shooting at the dangling body
of his companion, he dived into the water and
swan across the arm of the lake and ciung to a
log while the bullets raned about him he was
finally left for dead, although he had not been hit
aud made ais way around the lake, travelling two
nights through the brambie, brush aud mire.
We believe that the dastardly and cold blood
ed murder will be avenged on the band of ugly
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