Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-12-13
Business Managers Corner
Georsia's Goodness

Advocate-Journal will be of interest
to many of our readers:
When nature wanted to make
great humorist and dialect writer
who could make animals talk better
than do many people, she went to
the red hills of Georgia and out of
pure virgin soil nodded Joel Chand-
Ter Harris whose "Br'er Rabbit" and
other "Br'ers" is the delight of thous-
ands of people, young and old, all
over this world; when the elder
Roosevelt desired a wife of what he
he deemed the right sort and who
would be a helpmeet indeed he
went to remote plantation in CEN
trail Georgia and from the fine old
Bullock mansion took as his bride
one fits fairest young maidens who
was to mother man child destined
to be the most widely known man
of the day and generation in which
he lived; when by the strange para
doxes of politics New Jersey demo-
Gratis sought man who could over
come normal republican majority
of several thousand and do it on the
merit of clean politics all political
seers with one accord turned to
Woodrow Wilson of Princeton Uni
versity whose early days were spent
| in Georgia. And Woodrow Wilson
won. Thus we might 60 on almost
indefinitely. But it is not necessary.
After spending Monday evening
very pleasantly with Simpson
Church folks, to Birmingham, and
lunching Tuesday with that fine
young layman, A. D. Peck and his
excellent family, | turned my way
for an all night ride through Alaba-
ma and Georgia to Fitzgerald, the
seat of the Georgia Conference. This
town is i'll Ben Hill county in the
Southern part of the state, and is
comparatively young but very thrifty
and enterprising 1t began as a
colony little more than ten years
ago.
AS the 6 o'clock train steamed in
that morning expectantly we alight-
ed ready for the warm sunshine oil
4 Dixie" land but behold it was colder
than in the mountains of Tennessee
The efficient pastor, Rev. E. j. Ham
mond, gave us a most cordial greet
ing and soon we were shown to the
elegant and hospitable home of Mrs
Shallenbarger where every want and
the slightest desire was kindly given
DR.. E. M. Randall lunched at this
fine home with US on Friday and
was delighted with its warmth and
pleasantries.
On Thursday morning the Georgia
Conference came together with de-
votions by Bishop Anderson. Rev.
IW. A. Parson was elected secretary.
I Here we met our old friend, Rev. R.
II. Robb, evidently the dean of Geor-
ola Conference. And here was that
gracious and genial dean, Walter D.
| Agnew, D. D, of the University of
| Chattanooga, who spoke on Wednes-
day evening to the delight of all
who heard him.
The Georgia is one of our smaller
conferences having twenty pastors
and three thousand five hundred
members. But it is very much
alive. Attention has already been
called to the fine record this confer
ence made last year in the Home
mission collections, being one eighty
six to make an increase over the
preceding year and the only con-
ference in our Southern connection
to make such record. If you could
see the type of men who do this
work there would be no surprise at
such record. They. work at their
job-that's all.
THE VISITORS
Dean Agnew spoke on Wednesday
evening as has been mentioned. On
Thursday evening Mrs. Anna D. FL
der of Boaz, Ala. already'well known
to our readers. gave a most interes-
lind oddroco IN tho yuork Of rho