Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-12

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They know good thing when they see it.
Pull for Fitzgerald Pun Out
The Atlanta Constitution in a long and splen-
did editorial closes with the statement that the
saloon tshas gone forever from Georgia." The
Constitution had little to do with the going which
makes the statement the more significant and i'm
pressive
Fitzgerald is getting ready to vote on the
stock law. There it is again, twenty five years
behind north Georgia. Commerce News.
Yes fifty years behind in cutting down the
timber and opening up the lands and is advancing
the price for same but getting there lin great
shape.
Fitzgerald or
The Fitzgerald Enterprise is soon to be launched
as daily, with press dispatches and John W.
Greer as editor. He is competent newspaper man,
and the daily it seems to us, ought to "make good"
1t will queer at first not to read Jesse MERGERS
editorials He will retire, tits stated, but eshall
expect him to re-enter journalism ere long.-Cuth-
bert Leader.
Fitzgerald Oh
Chattanooga will not willingly relinquish her
fine trade in booze. To the hundreds of thousands
Of dollars from Georgia they now have like rev.
enue from Alabama, and it is ''too good to lose,"
but the grasp on the iniqutous but lucrative traf
fic will not be relinquished without fight.
The city council, in special joint session, has
adopted strong protest against the legislation of
the state 'interferng with the ciys right to local
self-govenment," in the proposed state wide pro
] hibtion law. There was not dissenting vote.
The resolution adopted concluded:
ssWe most earnestly protest against egisla
ton which can only be predicated upon the
knowledge of men who do not know the condi
tions which exist in this community, which
will destroy without compensation several
millions of property; that will put hundreds OF
men out of employment and that will suhstl-
tute the 'speakeasy" and the 'blind tiger"
for the regulated saloon"
The last sentence is strange admission for the
men who are supposed to preside over any city.
PUN for Fitzgerald or Pull out
In another column today appears small adj
vertisement to which desire to call especial at
tention, not for the ammount that is in it for us
but as a lesson that ought to be valuable to the
average reader
Last spring Mr.. and Mrs. r. V. Bowen left
their old home at Lulaville to move to Fitzgerald.
They were getting old and the family had all left
the parental roof; and for better protection that
they would get here in the city and the comfort
and attention they would receive from their chill
dren and friends who are interested in them, they
moved to Fitzgerald leaving a splendid home at
Lulaville, four miles in the country, once the rail
road terminus where landed the thousands of colo
nists while this city was being founded.
Naturally an affection chung to the old home
at Lulaville and while the building itself was large
commodious and comfortable, its intrinsic value
was small yet there was probably piece of prop
erty owned by Mr.. Bown around which chung so
many memories that were pleasant
On the night of the 31st day of December,
some fiend with probably a small grudge, nobody
can more than guess what the motive was applied
a torch to the building and it was consumed at the
midnight hour just as the new year was peeping
in.
Mr. Bowen has considerable of the worlds
goods, but no man has ever doubted that he earn
ed them and by frugality and strict economy has
been able to own the property that now amounts
to good fortune Had he been spend thrift or
even as careless of his expenditures the average
citizen, he would be possessed today of much less
property, but he has been willing to live life of
self denial and hard and honest effort and as much
entitled In his ripper days, as any man is, to hold
his property unmoeSted. These facts make the
crime of burning his old home more henious. 1t
intensi6es, not only the crime but the poignant
regrets of his family and friends
The Enterprise would be glad to see the Grim
ina brought to justice, not only for the gratifca
ton Of Mr. Bowen and his family, but for the