Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-02-29

campaign than it has been at any time in Georgia
politics
Pull for Fitzgerald
Savannah has been having some fun with the
locker clubs there-makng room for "smile' or
''grouch" clubs, or bottle
Fun for Fitzgerald or Pun Out
1t is hardly possible that the people of Ben
Hill county will send a whiskey man to the lcgisa-
turc, in which an attempt will be made to 'modify"
the prohibition law.
N for Fitzgerald O
L. V. Williams, editor of the Waycross Jour
nal, is a candidate for representative from Ware
County, and in a lengthy article sets out his
reasons. Ware County will do herself credit by
sending Williams to the legislature.
Pull to Fitzgerald Ont
The records show that the bankruptcy courts
are having less to do than at any time recently.
Less than half the number Of bankrupt petitions
have been filed in Georgia during the months of
January and February than were filed the same
months last year.
nj for or
Candidate Knapp says that he is not the
Candidate of any clique or ring" Seems to us
we've heard that b fore. Every cheap politician
who has announced for office, as clique candidate,
has used about the same language.
fol o Pull Out
The local ODD Fellows are in high feather over
their new quarters. Perhaps the best in the state
outside the large cities, if indeed there are any
better The lodge is one of the strongest in mum
bers, about two hundred, as well as one of the
richest. They will make strong effort to bring
the next grand lodge to Fitzgerald.
Pun
The Fitzgerald Enterprise has sandwched be-
tween each article in its paper, 'Pnll for tltzger
add or pull out.' But as Editor Mercer is Il can
didate for Prison Commissioner, he seems to want
to "pul out marietta Journal.
Not on your dagueueotype. The man we
want to succeed on the Prison Board lives in Fitz
gerald. We have rot cen anything in the books
to forbid prison commissioners residence here
The law contempates that the members shall live
in different sections of the state.
We are pulling for the office and the town.
Iuu for Fitzgerald o
The effort to make political capital out of the
fact that treasurer r. E. Park had 100000 de-
posted with an Atlanta bank that failed is max
ing him friends all over Georgia. We believe he
will make better race than he would have made
had the misfortune not occurred.
No man believes that he could have possibly
avoided the loss The fact that there are few peo
pie disposed to take advantage of the circumstance
has aroused his friends in all parts of Georgia
and assures his re election by majority so large
IS to remove all doubt of his complete vindicaton.
u for o
There has been ample evidence, from thou
sand sources of the excellent quality of Ben Hill
eouuty soil 1t has been made to produce several
bales of cotton per acre. almost a hundred bushels
of corn, many barrels of syrup, and several hun
dard bushels of potatoes.
Last fall a friend brought to the Enterprise
ofice stalk of cane nearly ten feet long, but Mr..
w r. Paulk, alderman from tn first ward, has dem.
enstrated that this is the home of the blue stem
collard One stalk that he raised was enough for
q meal for dozen families. 1t weighed fourteen
poHnds.
Pun for FitzS<nd or
The panic has blown over leaving the inan-
eial atmosphere clear and bright, and we realize
fully now that there was item, the price
Of which was mistaken turnout the financial
stress, and that was real estate in wire grass
Georgia.
Fitzgerald is not the only town where the
prices of real estate held good but in all the towns
Of wire grass Georgia and all of the wire grass
county round about land prices held good.
Our guess is that in the spring of 1908 is a
good time to buy land in south Georgia. If any
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