Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-16
SATURDAY, JANUARY Is, 1909.
OUR TEN YEARS.
A decade is ten years.

Y A decade is ten years.
We have been in Fitzgerald just that long
isn't it wonderful how much a community like
this can stand. Ten years ago to-day we came to
Fitzgerald to cast our lot with the ''colonist'
for better or for worse, for veal Or woe.
We came here because we thought, after care
full consideration, that the town and coloney had
great future; we believed after careful survey
of the field, that it had advantages over, possibly
any place in the sta te and we believed that We
would like it.
We have not been disappointed
We have never lost faith in the city-it is
stronger today than ever.
We found here population of twelve or fifteen
hundred (the population eighteen months later
June 1900 was 1718.) Some of them were the least
bit gloomy and others held tenaciously to the idea
that ''wide open' policy was the only hope
They argued that the Saloons gambling rooms
and their associate trades were essential to our
business life The tax values then were about S4OO,
OOO
But we never doubted our first estimate OF the
city's possibilities. 1t had then, and has now,
great advantage over any city of its age IN TINS
state-the natural advantages and the people to
use them We have proespered and we shall make
greater progress.
The possibilities are simply immense and our
business men measure up their opportunities
In the next ten years the results will be more
marvellous.
Here's hoping.
Pull for Fitzgerald OF Pail Gut
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the President.
Pun for Fitzgerald Pull Out
Gov. Patterson of Tennessee, is a wide opener
from the back yard. The legislature has given him
the opportunity to 60 on record.
Pun for Fitzgerald or
Roosevelt Tillman and Foraker, three men in
the spotlight, will soon take their places IN his
tory. Their names will be synonymous with the
three terms 'sbig stick" 'pitchfork" and "bloody
Shirt respectively Neither will be considered a
great man.
Pun 10 Pull Out
The blood of Sentor Carmack calling from the
ground where it was spilled by the hand of a
LIQUOR apologist has wiped the damnabe stuff from
the state of Tennessee. With the force of cy-
clone it has swept the who are willing to sell
mems souls into hell for profit off their feet and
out of the state.
Pull fOa FitzSerAd o Pull Out
An old soldier proposes to sell near-bee in
Moultrie on his old soldiers right free of license
tax. He claims exemption from the tax under the
law that exempts veterans of the civil war;
A shame it is that an old veteran can be found
to disgrace the name of veteran and discredit law
that was intended to give them an advantage over
their neighbors in the absence of reasonable pen
sion.
The abuse of the privilege may lead to the re-
peal of the law. 1t is pity and ashame
While it is doubtless unpatriotc to criticise
harshly any old veteran, yet it is probable that all
of the men Unlisted in the confederate army, and
the union army as wen were not patriots of the
noblest mould. It is quite possible that at least
a small per cent of them were trifing men, and
evidently few of them still survive to the disad-
vantage of those of their comrades who would not
abuse law intended for their relief.
Pun FitzGeraId or
S& Gov. HOCh'S Estimate of the Saloon.
1.-THE devil never invented bigger lie than
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