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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
B. Y. P. U. Meeting

The B. Y. P. u. has been at rest
since about the first of the summer.
We have decided to start it up
again and hope to have a great sue.
cess in the Union.
Short Talks-David Paulk, con-
corning the Union.
j. B. Pope-About duties of the
members.
There will be other talks made
by some of the other members.
The meeting will be held every
Sunday afternoon at 6:15 at the
First Baptist Church. All members
are requested to be present. Those
who are not members are invited
to come and join our Union. We
hope we will have a good attend
ance Sunday evening at 6:15.
Come and | will assure YOU that
it will do you good, and by your
coming will do some good.
David Paulk, Pres.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
The Benevolent Society
Merged Into the Wo-
mans Municipal League

In order that its field Of useful
ness may be enlarged and greater
good accomplished along the usual
line of local charity and general
good of the community, the Be-
nevolent Society, which for more
than a decade has been the princl-
pal Charitable organization of the
City was recently merged into the
Woman's Municipal League.
AS in larger cities, this oreaniza-
ton will cooperate with the Mayor
and Council along any and all lines
of local improvement, especially IN
the investigations of all calls for
charity, and the relief of the poor
and unfortunate.
Mayor Paulk who has ever been
ready to contribute his part and as
sist the ladies in any undertaking
for the relief of the helpless and de-
pendent ones, has kindly rendered
the use Of his office as a place where
the ladies will keep a ledger with
an alphabetical list Of all investiSa-
tons made, and of cases reliVed, in
order that the ministers, merchants,
and others whom appeal for charity
NAV be made, may refer for intor-
maticn relative to the person seek
ing assistance and ascertain the
worthiness of the case and the ex-
tent of a ssistance rendered.
The min listers of the city will di-
rect their charitable work through
this channel and assist the lad es
in ultimately establish ing an organ
ization of associated Charities.
Mrs S. M. Whitchard,
Pres, Woman's Municipal League.
Mrs. L. w. Meaking, Secty.
Mrs. |. Gelders,
Pres. Benevolent Society.
Mrs. J. L. mccarthy, Secty.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
Knight Of Pythias Elect
Officers for Next Term

At a meeting of the local Lodge
Knights of Pythias last Thursday
evening the following officers we're
elected for the next term:
j. E. Turner, G. c.
T. F. Hemminger, V. c.
T. M. Galloway, Prelate.
H. Drummer, M. of F.
A. H. Thurmond, M. of E.
RI. King, X. Of R. & S.
w. H. Bailey, M. at A.
S. G. Pryor, M. of W.
w. E. Taylor, |. G.
O. H. Minter, O. G.
w. R. Dykes, Trustee.
1t was decided to have Public
Installation of officers early in jan
uary and plans are now being made
to have some of the Grand Lodge
officers present. Refreshments will
be served and a general good time
is expected. K. l.. klng,
K. of R. & S.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
OUR HONORS ARE::--

OUR HONORS ARE:--
We have been duly appointed depository for
u. S. Government Tax and Revenue Money
State, County and City Money
Insurance Company Money
Rich Mans Money
Poor Mans Money
Railway Money
AS we are succeeding, invite you to line up
with us and let us assist you on to success
THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
Governors Mansion
Almost Uninhabitable

Atlanta, Dec 16.-The governors
mansion on Peachtree street IS al
most unin habitable. HGke Smith
did not live in it during his last
term, prefering to occupy his own
home. Governor Slaton is not now
occupying it. When Joe Brown
lived in it before, so it is sad said,
the plastering fell one night and
nearly necessitated another guber-
material race. 1t is doubtful if Gov
ernor Brown can be induced to live
in the house after his Inauguration
this time:
Last summer the state had a prop
osition to sell this property for $3.50,
600. At the same time they took
up the matter of purchasing new
site for the governors mansion.
The committee inspected various
sites submitted for their consldera-
ton, all located in the very best res
1idence portions of Atlanta. After
thorough inspection the committee
unanimously recommended that the
state purchase lot offered to them
in Druid Hills, 205 by 491 feet, for
$4,000.
1t is hardly probable that the leg
islature will want to build a man
sion OH peachtree street. The pres
ent one is now surrounded by CARA
ges and stores. There has been a gen
eral exodus of residential inh a5itants
of that part Of Peacht1ee street, on
account of the fact that shops and
stores are being built up in nearly
every block on this once fashionable
thoroughfare.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16

nights later they ordered the negro
TO kill Mr.. Sheffield and threatened
his life at the time, if he did not DO
so, and they sent a negro with Eos
ter to see that the crime was COM
mitted.
The negro stated to the grand
Jury that he expected to be hanged
that he would prefer death to the
concealment of the crime. He and
the negro who accompanied him on
the night of the killing and the two
sons in law of the deceased were in
dicted for murder. Judge George
F. Gober presided as Judge. AS
the solicitor general was related to-
the deceased, Arthur G. Powell,
now Judge of the court of appeals,
acted as prosecuting attorney
Foster stated to the jury that ne
was perfectly willing to be hung,
that he was guilty, but that he had
committed the crime in fear OF his
own life. The jury recommended
him to life Imprisonment, The 9TH
er negro was also subsequently con-
victed, and testified to the truth OF
what Foster had said Under the
law confederation of the testimony
of an accomplice was necessary.
The white men were ably represent
ed. Corroboration was insufficient,
and certain evidence offered by the
state was excluded, with the result
that the white men were acquitted.
Judge Powell says that during the
lapse of years the unusually dra-
matte scene is impressed upon his
memory as if it occurred yesterday.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
B. Y. P. U.

The young people of the Baptist
Church and congregation are cordially
invited to come and bring their
friends to the opening of the B. Y.
P. u, Sunday night at 6.15 o'clock.
The Union has been on vacation
for some months, but will start in
now for earnest work for the winter.
Be sure to come and be on time
if possible.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
Governor SlatOn Uses
the Pardon Power

Atlanta, Dec. 16.-One night ~
years ago; as Seaborn Sheffield, a
! prosperous Early county farmer was
sitting at his supper table, some one
outside the window in the darkness
fired a shot that knocked the old
mans saucer from his trembling
hands. 1t was a death warning.
The next night as Seaborn Shelf
field sat at the same supper table,
needless Of the warning he was
shot through the heart,
This morning, on the urgent So
Iicitation of Appellate Court Judge
Arthur G. Powell and many other
prominent citizens, Governor John
M. Slaton has granted a parole to
the man who fred both shots. The
man is an humble, honest negro,
who has been serving a life sentence
on the Emanual county chain-gang,
where he has been a trusty for
many years.
Behind the strange story of the
saucer and the warning shot there
lies a still more remarkable tale,
which Governor Slaton tells in his
own words as follows in the formal
order granting the parole, in accord
ance with a prison board recon-
mendatiOn;
Seaborn Sheffield was an old
bachelor, possessed of considerable
means and prominently connected
in Early county. He had adopted
two daughters, who had married,
and it was rumored in the county
that he intended to disniherit them,
as he disapproved Of their choices,
regarding the husbands as two very
bad men,
1t was at the time this rumor
was in circulation that the murder
occurred No one knew who COM
mitted it. Four years later, while
court was in session, James Foster,
a strong, able-bodied negro, came
to the sheriff and stated to him
that he wished to disclose who had
murdered Seaborn Sheffield. The
negro said that he was the murder
er. He was taken before the grand
jury and narrated the following
facts:
He said that he was approached
by the two sons in law of the de-
ceased and offered $500. t0kill Mr..
Sheffield, and if he did not do so,
they would kill him, The negro
took the gun provided by the sons
in law, and not desiring to shoot
Mr.. Sheffield, shot a saucer off his
table in order to give him warning.
The negro went back to his en-
blowers and told them he had killed
Mr. Sheffield They found out the
next day this was untrue. Two
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
Bishop Rease Entertained
By DR.. and Mrs. Case

Last Monday evening Dr. and Mrs.
J. T. Case entertained in honor of
Bishop Rease, of the South Georgia
Ti5cesis at an elegant 6 o'clock din
ner.
Among the guests at the hospiti-
able Case hnre on this occasion
were:
Bishop Rease, Mr.. and Mrs. L. W.
Frink, Mr.. and Mrs. D. V. T. Adams,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Lee, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. w. Irving, Mr.. and Mrs. I. ].
Dickey, and Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Min
ledorf, Rector North-Tummon and
Miss Allene.
After the entertainment the
Bishop preached a grand sermon to
an interested congregation in the
new stone church on W. Pine St.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16

The president of the Y. M. c. c.
requests all members of the club to
be present at a mass meeting at the
N. E. Church tomorrow
afternoon at 4.30.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16

The Motto has secured the best
film service that can be gotten and
from now on its patrons can count
on good show.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
Notice

The City Tax Books will close
Dec. 10th after which time the
Clerk will issue executions.
G. Mingledorf, Treasurer.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16

Prizes valued at over 100000 are
being given in various parts of the
country for selling Red Cross Seals,
These prizes consist of vacuum
cleaners, pianos, drinking fountains,
books, and a variety of other articles
down to a button bearing the Red
Cross Seal.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-16
LIABILITIES
S6O3,29I.45

The Honorable Comptroller the Currency Washington called tor
statement Of condition all National Banks the United States date
Of December h and feel that depoors and friends entitled to
the information which give above.
Particular attention called the fact that all money borrowed In the
East for reending has been paid FULL that
assets are hypohecated This very complimentary showing
Particular also called the unusually large Of cash
and exchange showing although considered off business
we are prepared 1912 handd and well equipped take
Of our loyal patrons.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
FRIDAY. DECEMBER IS, 1911

A Duluth man tried to persuade
Lieut.. Gov. S. Y. Gordon 70 call an
extra session of the legislature while
Governor Eberhart was absent from
the state. and contended that while
, the governor was absent. the lieuten-
ant-governor really had all the auth
ority of the governor. The constitu
tion is not clear on this point, neither
are the supreme court decisions, but
even if the Duluth mans contention
is correct nothing would be gained by
a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS overturning the
policy of a governor while the latter
was temporarily absent. If this were
the law. then the governor would be
compelled to always be within the state
and that should not be strictly neces-
sary.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
A RAILROAD SERMON

Gan address by the Rock Islane
railroad to its employes.)
Courtesy leaves fine favor
courtesy a bitter taste.
Courtesy makes friends and friend.
make business.
If you must fight with some one,
join the army. The railroad service
is not training school for combative
ness.
The men at the top are uniformly
courteous. Are you headed that way
Courtesy is not veneer covering
bad disposition. 1t must be genuine
and penetrate to the heart to be effec.
tive.
Good temper is an asset to rail
road, as witness the following advice.
Every time you lose your temper
you do two things: You lose patron
for the company and you injure your
digestion. One is as necessary to the
company as the other is to you.
Complaints cost more and multiply
correspondence-co correspondence means
postage, and postage costs money.
We have to haul a ton of freight two
miles and half in order to pay for
one 2-cent postage stamp.
The only things railroads have to
offer in exchange for business are SER
vice and personality. Personality in
this connection means courteous treat
ment and affability.
Courtesy always pays dividends.
These dividends may not come back
to you in the form of dollars and cents,
but they most certainly insure to your
and the company's credit.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15

small amount of money and the capa-
city for great deal of hard work can
finally grub out home. But other
portions of the state where land runs
to $50 an acre or more also need set
tiers and offer more advantages to the
farmer with some capital than the
cheap land does to the farmer with
small capital. All parts of Minnesota
need more farmers, and they should
not be scared away as much by the
$50 land of Minnesota as by
the $500 land of the Pacific states.
The difficulty has been that the state
cannot advertise SIS land and $50 land
at the same time and among the same
class of people. The work of the
state department should be broken up
into sections corresponding to the diff
ferent sections of the state, and each
section permitted to urge its own ad-
vantages among the buyers who are
interested in the class of land adver.
tised.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
Some Eulogy.

Here's obituary of your life. Ii
appeared in a newspaper published in
a village in New York state: "Sam
Tobdell is.dead. Some days ago he
was stricken with blood poisoning
from bite in the neck inflicted while
fighting with his wife when he was
drunk and intoxicated. Drs. Gridle
of Eureka and Butts of Claryville
were in attendance, but despite their
utmost efforts the poison spread until
as a last report they used the knife.
The operation was of no avail, how
ever, and now he amt here any more.
''Sam was unique character. Only
once in a generation is community
pestered with such a human viper.
He was the unsolved conundrum.
What is he good for? His only virtue
was the persistence of his wickedness
has only excellence the stability of his
unrepcntance. Booze fighter, liar,
wifebeater, chicken thief. egg steal
er. profane and vile of speech to the
point of nausea. he was the trade
mark of sin. the sentient emblem of
vice, with no crime but work beyond
bis capacity. He was even worse.
''Bat he has gone hence and it is
never our inclination to kick man
when he is down; yet at death his
proverbial luck was with him. He
goes below just as the whitening
frosts and chilling winds are ushering
in long and tedious season for the
good who are left. AS was often the
case when in life and in Jail. he'll
keep warm and comfortable at the
expense of other fellows. Well, so
long. Sam, and so long as it is long,
good luck. .
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
Copper Rivets
Monev is the fruit of all evil.

Money is the fruit of all evil.
A painful pair of feet make dull
head.
The surest way to beat competitor
is to be good to him. ...
A mans character does not neces-
sarily affect his reputation.
The man of limited vocabulary is
usually fluent with ,.cuss-words.
Remember. when you roast an ene-
my, you are burning up some valuable
gray matter.
Some doctors think they know more
about the huamn body than Nature
does herself.
Our busy divorce courts furnish one
of the strongest proofs that familiar
ity breeds contempt
One is very appropriately "roasted'
when he becomes the object of the
heat and ire of another's anger.
Seek not among single folks, but
among the married ones, if you are
searching for those who are starving
for love.
Say what you will. this is pretty
tough old world: Where there's wealth
there's often small peace; and where
there's poverty, the piece is even
smaller.
Some folks condemn the criminal
only because they envy him that which
he dares to take in disregard of the
laws which most of US lack the cour-
age to violate.
According to the legend. labor was
sent upon ann as punishment; hence
TO adomonish US to "love our work,
is like asking convict to praise the
scaffold upon which he is to hang.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
Progressive Republicans are vel

Progressive Republicans are very
much in favor of a presidential prim.
ary in each state, whereby the voters
would directly their delegates whom
to vote for in the national convention
rather than have them instructed by
district and state conventions. Under
this plan LaFollette would probably
gain some votes. but it is quite GER
tain tnat the final result would not be
changed. The greatest abuse in con.
nection with the Republican national
convention in that representation is
not based upon the number of Repub-
lican votes cast but upon the number
of senators and representatives in
congress. Alabama, for instance.
that never cast Republican electoral
vote, has the same representation in
the Republican national convention and
the same voice in choosing the Repub-
lican nominee as Minnesota, whose
electoral vote has always been Repub-
lican.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15

Elsewhere in this issue is an article
reprinted from the Minneapolis Journ'
al urging reorganization of the state
immigration bureau, reform which
is badly needed if the state immigra.
tion department is going to be really
useful in increasing the population of
the state. The state department has
heretofore. had difficult problem to
confront in deciding what portion of
the state to advertise. If the state
advertises homesteads and cheap lands,
their advertising applies only to a
small section of the northern part of
the state, where the settler with a
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15

Ex.President Roosevelt has in
structed his friends to cease urging
him for the Republican nomination
for president next year, but it is
noticeable that they keep at it Ejust
the same, and their activity tends to
give the impression that Roosevelt
may really be a candidate next year.
In spite of the popularity of the ex-
president, the fact remains that he
would have much trouble in securing
the nomination next year, and it IS
probable that he realizes this much
better than his friends who seem to
think that all he has to do is to say
that he would take it and he would be
nominated. The first difficulty Mr..
= would run against is that
his own state of New York would be
against him, and it is most serious
weakness for any candidate to 60 in
to convention without his own state
behind him. In the next place the
remainder of the states would not be
unanimous in forcing New York to ac-
cept him. for the delegates from the
c~south will be solidly for the admin
istration, and large number of dele
gates from the West will be for La
Toilette. If there were some other
third candidate in the field. and the
convention became deadlocked, Roose-
velt's friends might be successful in
nominating him to break the deadlock,
but the third candidate who is going
to "unite both factions" seldom gets
very far.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
Wrote Of Scenery He Never Saw.

Wrote Of Scenery He Never Saw.
The most notable instance of q novel
dealing with a country which the au.
thor had never seen was Shorthouse's
"John lnglesant."
The second volume Of that remarks.
BILE romanee deals In the most detailed
way with italian manners and Italian
scenery. Many Of the descriptions
that Of Umbria at night, for instance,
and the scene In the pavilion In the
forest-are charged with the very at
mosphere of Italy; and Florence dur.
ing the plague lives horribly before our
eyes. Yet Joseph Henry Shorthouse
had never been In Italy. Enthusiasm
and the genius for assimilation evolved
it all In quiet house at Edgbaston.-
London Chronicle,
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
Japan's Rothschilda.

Mitsu is the name Of the happy fam
fly whom they call Rothschild Of ia.
pan. A hundred and ffty years ago
they were still in moderate circum.
stances. Now they own property
worth about $500. 100000. The seat OF
the family is In Tokyo. but the mem.
bers are scattered all over japan.
They own the principal banks.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
Leadership from the Inside.

President Worth of the North Dak-
ota agricultural college hits the nail
on the head in a recent address in ar
guing that leadership in the new agri-
cultural movement must come from
the farmers themselves.
This is part of the article in ques-
tion that has the correct idea.
'Manifestly, no important indus
try can with safety submit its regula-
tion or protection exclusively to the
management of men representing
antagonistic or conflicting interests.
Business naturally is selfish and hence
self protection requires intelligent CO.
operation among the varied interests
to the end that neither may become
the prey of any other, nor suffer on
account of mercenary combinations.
"To render this larger service,
however, agriculture must throw off
the lethargy of conversatism-begot-
ten of the centuries-an in the spirit
of true patriotism cooperate with the
powers that be, wherever its interests
are involved, be they political, econ
omic. or educational. The foundations
of more democratic and cooperative
public service cannot be laid too soon
for the safety of the public.
''Had agriculture been alert and
constructive, instead of inexcusably
conservative. such important move
ments as improved highways, con
solidated rural schools and numerous
other schemes inaugurated for the
Improvement of country life would
not have been left to the initiative of
bankers, merchants and commercial
clubs. In these as in many other
things vital to its own interests,
agriculture too long has assumed an
attitude of Indifference or helpless
ness. No substantial permanent
growth can be anticipated, however,
until agriculture formulates it's own
plans and provides the means for its
own betterment. The improvement
of rural life must come from within.
Agriculture must create its own lead
ers and become the architect of its
own destiny.
1.-THE economic injustice against
which the common people so strenu
ously inveigh, is durable. False
weights and false measures, adult
Graded goods and watered stocks, the
ingenious agencies of fraud by means
of which millions of money is extorted
annually from the apathetic public
can be remedied. The lawyers that
supply the statutes with jokers or
protect the looters when caught. can
be reformed. These evils exist only
because of sutf-rances. The apathy
that permits them to exist is little less
sinful than the evils complained of.
Without question, agriculture
must charge to its own conservatism
whatever ills befall it and many of
the economic evils that have befallen
the country. For without trained
leadership and without cooperation
it's separate disorganized units how
ever numerous they may be, are pow
erless to cope successfully with the
trained forces and highly organized
interests with which they will never
be confronted.
Morris tribune., 1911-12-15
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