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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
Curtis to ALight on Great
Salt Lake.

Salt Lake, Utah, April 6-Glenn
Curtis, the aviator, will attempt
this afternoon at the opening of the
weeks aviation carnival here to
alight on the great Salt Lake with
his hydro-aero-plane. The results
are looked forward to with interest
because of the water being q per
cent salt and extremely heavy and
buoyant. Flights are scheduled
this afternoon also by Willard, Ely,
Parmalee and Brookins. Exhibit
ions of dropping bombs on mock
battleships on great Salt Lake will
also be given. The meet is being
held on a field on the edge of great
Salt Lake, eighteen miles from this
city.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
ION TO ROCHELLE. ="
Mass Meeting On The 18th.

The business men of Fitzgerald
and Rochelle will hold a mass meet
ing at the County Court
house on Tuesday the 18th. of this
month. in the interest of the Ocilla
Southern Railroad in order to fur
Their stimulate the already enthusi-
astic interest of our business men
in the project of extending the road
on to Rochelle
The object of next Thursdays
meeting is to complete arrangements
for beginning work on the extension
Just as soon as possible.
A partof the corps ofengineers and
right-of-way pioneers are here, and
President J. A. J. Henderson of the
company was here yesterday.
The importance of this mass meet
ing can hardly be over-estimated
and the people of Fitzgerald are
earnestly urged to come out and
give both their moral and financial
support to the furtherance of the
plans to build the extension as
speedily as possible.
1t is the duty of every citizen to
encourage in every way possible
every enterprise that tends to build
up Fitzgerald by enhancing its
transportation facilities and adding
new territory to its area of trade
and commerce.
The work on the line is now
being rapidly pushed forward be-
tween AIapaha and Nashville.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
RexalI Remedies Association
Formed in Georgia.

DR.. A. H. Denmark of the Den
mark Drug Co. has returned from
Atlanta where he went to attend a
convention of the eighty druggists
in Georgia who handle the great
Rexall medicines.
A State Association was formed
with forty members and the officers
installed by DR.. Thomas H. Wooten
of Chicago, secretery of the Nation
al Rexall Association.
DR.. Denmark was elected Secre-
tary-Treasurer of the Georgia Asso-
citation, T. H. Brannen of Atlanta
was made President and I. S. Jen-
nings of Cordele, was made chair
man of the executive committee.
Associations are being formed
in every State in the Union as
fast as the National Secretary can
get around to organize them.
"We had grand time" said DR..
Denmark today, and l exepct
much good will come of the organ
ization."
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
AVA ITO N.


mind hereabOuts.
Mr. j. Berger
Waco bring his aeropane and here and
three four day entertainment
Fitzgerald discouraged conditions would
discourage the average The planes not apple condition. had
through
expense mpaentpubc willing did
practically flights his bpane before
accidents
blessed thing the hot
Impotence that has seldom been experen
Mr. Berger and his avator the diff
cu with the public demands They have
banked
difficulty
gerald real flying
Ellis his bpane did flying
He several
yesterday
distance they will fly again. and for the
this place.
and his helpers have certainly played hard luck They have
thousands of dollars the have here
the blame delays
understood
possible
would He has
played hard luck AS rule the bust
and
exceedingly possibly
through lack of understanding the conditions
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
Notice.

By authority of Georgia Railway
Commission, effective April 1st and
continuing until Sept. 31st. freight
depots of A. B. & A. Ry., SeabOard
Air Line Ry., Ocilla Southern and
F. O. & B. Ry. will be closed on
Saturdays at IL o'clock noon.
W. R. McLendon, Agent S. A. L. Ry.
C. B. Brown, Agent A. B. & A., 0. S.
and F. 0. & B. Rys.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
NUMBER 40
DEPOSITS INSURED.

A Certificate of Deposit, issued by
a National bank, and guaranteed
against loss by the Fidelity and
Casualty Company of New York,
the strongest bonding company in
America, affords absolute protection
to the depositor without extra cost,
the usual rate of interest being paid
on all savings accounts. The Third
National Bank adopted this guaran-
tee last year and bank depositors,
especially Savings depositors. are
very much interested in this plan
of insuring deposits.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
The Stripping Case

Atlanta, April S.-The unexpect--
eddy quick decision of the state
prison commission, recommending
the pardon of Thomas Edgar Strip
ling, puts the question of the mans
release squarely up to Governor
Brown.
1t is now believed that the unani-
nifty with which the prison board
decided in favor of Stripping will be
given consideration by Governor
Brown, and that he will permit it to
influence him either to approve the
pardon, or commute the former
Danville chief of policies sentence
to only a few months
The prison commission took
action quite unexpectly yesterday
at an executive session. Stripling's
plea that he acted justly under the
"unwritten law" when he shot
Cornett thirteen years ago is said to
be the ground, at least the chief
ground, on which the pardon was
granted, though Stripling's life since
he escaped from prison, his family
relations, the fact that he had
become a useful citizen and officer
of the law, all counted in his favor.
Governor Brown has not yet in
Dictated when he will consider the
prison boards recommendation,
and it is quite possible that he will
let several days elapse before taking
final &C elton.
Meanwhile Stripping is in Jail in
Muscogee. He has never been
forced to put on stripes, but is COM
fortably quartered in cell, much
in the same condition as any man
on whose final fate the higher au-.
thorities have not finished passing.
When the decision of the prison
board was conveyed to the Stripping
family at their hotel today, the joy
of the wife and other relatives
passed all bounds. They literally
shed tears, so overcome were they
by the quick and happy outcome of
the hearing. The little children of
Stripping, while they have never
realized the true significance of
what was going on, and who have
never understood that their father
was prisoner, were made to under
stand yesterday that something
good had happened TO their long
absent parent, and that he would
soon be restored to them. Over this
they were jubilantly happy, for dur
ing the past month when they in
quired of the mother when papa"
would be back, she was only able
to shake her head and tell them he
had gone away on a long journey
and might not come back for a long,
long time.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
Superior Court Dots

! Ben Hill Superior Court adjourned
yesterday at noon until 10 o'clock
Monday morning, when it will take
up the criminal docket.
Thursday the following cases were
disposed of:
M. P. Seasons VS.. Ocilla and Val
dosta Railroad, suit for right-of-way
damages. Plaintiff was awarded
$50.
In the case of Charles Green VS..
Mabel Green, suit for divorce, mar
rage contract between the parties
was involved, and the divorce petit
ton was amended so as to annul the
contract. Total divorce was granted
the husband and the con tract
annuled. The wife was also au-
thorized to assume he maiden name
Ida Wilcox.
Mrs F. j. Young VS.. W. B. White.
Suit to define and establish a land
line was decided in favor of plaintiff.
On Friday morning the case of
w. H. Young, administrator of Sa-
phronia Young, vs. Mark 7. Young.
Suit to cancel cloud on realty title.
The administrator was enjOined
from action until further orders of
court.
The suit of Mrs. Phebe Hayde
Rogers against j. G. Rogers, her
former husband, for alimony, was
taken up and finally settled. Mrs.
Rogers got a verdict for $2,250, to
be paid in annual installments as
( follows: $3.50. in November next,
and $500. in November of each year
for a term of four years.
The Turner-McMillan Lumber
Co., VS.. H. C. Martin. Appeal from
a Justice Court. Suit on his prom
missory note. Verdict for the plain
tiff for $685..
The grand jury for this term
handed in twenty five bills. The
indictments embrace the offenses of
assault and battery, carrying con-
ceaIed weapons, robbery, larceny,
disturbing public worship, larceny
after trust, forgery, cheating and
swindling, and selling liquors with
out a license.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
To Entertain Mr.. Cabiness.

Hon. Emmett Cabaniss, President
of the State Farmers Union, will
be in Fitzgerald on Tuesday next,
the 18th.
The Ben Hill Co. Union will enter
tain Mr., Cabaniss here in the city
and the citizens and business men
will join with the Union in doing
him honor.
Mr.. Cabaniss will speak at Mystic
Wednesday.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08

Mrs. William McLendon and
little son left yesterday to visit rel
atives at Fl. Gains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
Woman Soldier Now Seeks a Pension

listment In the excitement and
hurry of the early days of enlist.
ment, when there were thousands of
applicants, the disguised girl was pass
ed and found herself a member of Col.
McCowans regiment, the Sixty-third
infantry. She was assigned to Com
pany G under Captain Richardson.
After drilling and being otherwise
whipped" into line, the Sixty-third
started south, and with it went the
girl soldier. For four years she stood
the strain of army and camp life, tax.
ing her medicine" as it came to her.
and in all ways being treated as
were the other soldiers of the regi.
ment.
Just before the war ended the true
sex of the young soldier became
known to comrade, and Immediately
after being mustered out of the serv-
ice because Of the termination Of hos
tilities, she married John Sibler, who
had served in the same company and
regiment with her throughout the
war.
Because of her slight figure and eff.
Terminate appearance Mrs Bliss was
once chosen to "masQuerade" as q
woman and play the spy. This was
during the Vicksburg campaign. and
so successful was she in that role
that she gained extremely valuable in.
formation for her commanding officer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
Kansas Pupils to Have Paper Towels

TOPEKA. Kan.-Paper towels for the
/ use of every child in the Kansas
public schools probably will be in
stalled before the next school year be-
gins. E. T. Fairchild. state superin-
tendent of public instruction, and DR..
8. J. Crumbine, secretary Of the state
board of health, are watching with
interest the experiments being car
ried on in several Kansas schools with
the paper towels. II the experiments
are successful an order may be issued
abolishing the common roller towel In
all public schools and this will mean
that each pupil must furnish his own
towel or the school board must sup
ply the individual paper towels.
The state board of health abolished
the common drinking cup two years
ago and there has not been single
epidemic of diphtheria in the state
since, and very few,isolated cases. The
board also prohibited the use of the
common drinking cup in railroad
trains and stations and the common
drinking cups have bee1 abolished in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16

ri EW YORK.-Nct the wild and
~ Woolly west, but New York city
with its great police powers and it's
highly organized civilization is the
most fruitful field for horse thieves in
the country. The amount of property
stolen by horse thieves in the coun-
try's metropolis in one year probably
exceeds that stolen in Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado and Texas in ten
years. This crime is so easy of ex-
ecution and so hard of detection in a
great city like New York that detect
ives have been able to make but little
Roadway in checking 1t and recov-
er1ng any of the stolen property. On
an average five horses and wagons are
stolen In the city every business day.
10 place the amount lost every year
is difficult, but it is estimated that
property valued at from 100000 to
$1,500,000 is stolen. Ordinarily the
theft of a horse from the streets at
tracts little attention. The thieves
have way of changing the appear
ance of both horses and wagons and
the task of recovering the stolen prop
erty is rendered extremely difficult.
No mans horse is safe in the streets
of the city. The horse of the big de-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
Bankers Quick to Detect Bad Money

TIE exact chance OF any one per-
/ son having bad piece of money
is hard to determine, for the reason
that no one, not even the secret serv-
ice, knows at any one time just how
much counterfeit currency is in circu-
lation. But from years Of experience
the government agents at Washington
have figured out that in paper money
the proportion of bad to good is about
81 to 100000, and in coin somewhere
between 81 and SO to 100000.
The larger the coin or bill to be
counterfeited the greater the danger
of detection and the need of a more
expensive plant. The commonest way
of making spurious money is the turn
ing out of base metal coins-but the
operation is expensive. Silver, for In
stance, cannot be successfully cast.
Base coins with silver in them must
therefore be struck off in a steel die
die representing days of work on
the part of an expert engraver Then
there must be powerful press to
make the Impressions, to say nothing
of all the expenses OF running chem
ical laboratory and keeping it Sc
cret.
In the counterfeiting of paper money
there are three methods used, copy
ing by hand Photographic reproduce
ton, and the raising of genuine bills
from lower to higher denominations
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
Solve Mystery of an Ancient Ghost

strange thing came about when the
giant elm in question, probably more
than 100 years old, was felled at the
instigation of the public grounds de-
partment.
When the big elm fell it was dis
covered that about thirty feet of it's
top was hollow, and inside was found
an owl of the bald-headed variety
sleeping as quietly as though nothing
had happened. The inside of the tree
was found to be filled with egg shells,
corn cobs and various other refuse
which the owl had from time to time
taken there. While the owl occupied
a conspicuous place in the tree. calm
ly nesting in heap in the bottom of
the hole, there was a mother and
father chipmunk with twenty-five lit
tie ones.
People of the district who have re-
sided there for twenty-five years are
glad that the mystery has been
solved. They have been trying to dis.
cover for years the cause Of all the
nightly gruesome noises which have
on more than one occasion frightened
the women Of the district who have
been obliged to return to their homes
after dark.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16

WASHINGTON no other
w building in America is so well po-
Iced as the White House. 1t takes
AZ men to do it daily. If any mis-
chievous stranger should seek en-
trance, he would not get far. Twenty
four men guard the outside of the
building and 10 the inside. Eight are
in the executive offices. Fourteen
guard the White House within and
without at night The number of men
enumerated does not include the Sc
cret service men who guard the per-
son of the president and who are some
times in service to guard the men,
bers of the presidents family. Every
door in the White House has its po-
liceman constantly on guard.
There are always two in the base
ment Of the executive Offices, where
there Is large door leading from
the street for the reception Of sup
plies. There is always policeman at
the kitchen entrance. Two men in
livery, not policemen, guard the main
entrance into the White House at the
north portico. In the daytime there
is policeman in the east room and
one each at both stairways that lead
to the private apartments Of the
president and his family on the upper
floor.
There is policeman always in the
basement, the entrance to which is
from the east wing Of the mansion
At night policeman guards the base.
ment corridor Of the interior, another
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
Uncle Sam Warns Against Mosquitoes

WAR on the mosquito as we'll as on
w the house fly has been declared
by the department Of agriculture. AS
a disseminator of disease the mos
quito is branded as being as great a
menace to humanity as the fly. l.. O.
Howard, chief of the bureau of ento-
mology, has issued bulletin on the
protection of communities from mos
quitoes. He lays stress on the me-
cessity Of abolishing breeding places
of the insect pest.
Where the rain barrel and rain wa
ter tank are necessary they should be
screened. The waste places in the
immediate vicinity of a house should
be carefully searched for tin cans, bot
ties and wooden or tin boxes in which
water can accumulate, and all such
receptacles should be destroyed or car.
ried away. The roof cutters should
be carefully examined to make sure
that they are not clogged so as to al
low the water to accumulate.
THE chicken pans in the poultry
yard, the water in the troughs for do
nestle animals, the water cup of the
e'indstone are all places in which
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16

1t takes a good man whole day to
change one bill. Elves raised to tens
are the most frequent offenders of this
sort. The workman thus makes IS
day.
And yet in spite of all care and all
precautions, counterfeiters are event
ually run to earth. Why? Three rea-
sons: Bank, secret service and system.
In the long run most money in circu-
lation comes into the hands of some
bank. And there the counterfeit,
good or bad, eventually meets it's
downfall. Tellers and cashiers han
die so much currency that they seem
to be gifted with second sight.
If he cannot tell at first glance
whether the money Is bad, he consults
two monthly counterfeiting magazines
and usually finds what he is after.
The magazine people cooperate with
the secret service. And the next tell.
err or cashier who gets the mate of
the note knows right off what the
counterfeit is.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
The White House Is Closely Guarded

the corridor of the main floor and an
other the corridor of the upper private
floor.
Outside there is constant vigilance
in front and in the rear, If the White
House may be conceived as having
any rear. The south front is as beau.
tiful as the north front and indeed
more so. A policeman is always on
guard at the south portico, and espe-
cially so at night. One parades with
the regularity Of sentryman the
half covered corridor leading from
the White House to the executive Of
fees
That the White House should have
to be thus carefully guarded may seem
strange to Americans whose chief ex-
scutive is after all only democrat
who is citizen temporarily, holding
a high public office. But it is neces-
sary. Three Presidents have been
assassinated, although none ever at
the White House. 1t would seem
none ever could be because of the
vigilance kept there. But fierce
light plays upon the White House and
the occupants of it, especially the
president 1t attracts all kinds of
people, and cranks are ever danger
ous Many is the one apprehended
before he has gone far. And in this
land of liberty there are also other
people who have dangerous ideas cen
tering on the life of the chief mag
istrate.
Besides, Americans, and especially
American women are very inQuisitive
and given much to vandalism. They
come in shoals to Washington, and
their first thought is the White House.
They want to inspect 1t from bottom
to top. They want to miss nothing,
and many of them would like to take
away mementoes. Their audacity and
lack of manners and observance of
other prophecies is amazing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
Teaching Parents What Toys to Buy

CHICAGO. - Parents of Chicago
~ boys and girls do not know how to
buy toys for their children"
1t was upon this assumption that the
committee on homes of the child vel
fare exhibit had on exhibition at the
Coliseum a child's play shop" In 1t
there was on display an endless variety
Of toys, but foremost of all were the
new 'd0-with" toys introduced for the
first time in Chicago by Miss Caroline
Pratt, who had charge of the toy ex-
hibit. Miss Pratt was in charge of the
same department of the exhibit in
New York.
Chicago parents a:e as deplorably
ignorant in the matter of buying
proper toys for their children as par.
ents the country over" she told re-
porter. ''Tney don't know the first
thing about it. What they do in most
cases when they go shopping in the
toys that they like to play with them
selves"
THAT, of course, is the reason we
have a play shop exhibit. The ex-
hibit is planned for the education OF
all the parents of Chicago-but, by
the way. 1t is the well-to-do fathers
and mothers who are most ignorant
of all along this line What We ex.
pect to teach them is the real merit of
a do with toy
"A do with toy is one that will
teach the child how to do things. With
it boy or girls can carry out definite
play schemes. 1t should be simple.
1t teaches the child by stimulating it's
imaginative nature and inventive fac
ulties. Such features are lost alto
gether In the elaborate mechanical
toys that leave nothing for the child
to do but press button or release a
catch and watch It go.
Children of wealthy parents are
not happy with their playthings. The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16

little fellow who cannot take a step
in the nursery without having to dodge
an electric train or take a chance of
having a toy flying machine hit him
on the ear has not the opportunity
to learn how to play. The playing is
all done for him by the inventor who
made the toy and by his doting papa
or rich bachelor uncle who bought the
expensive toy for him and taught him
to run 1t. The child is neglected."
What we are trying to do through
our exhibit is to teach parents that
their children have normal play i'm
pulse which can be more easily graft
fled with few simple toys that tend
to inspire the child's imagination and
inventive nature than by all the COM
plicated and mechanical toys in the
world. Equipped with few simple
toys the boy or girl will learn to
make them work for him and do
things. New pleasures will be discov-
cred every day, and the enjoyment of
a toy will not disappear after it is a
week old, and probably is ready to be
smashed.
"A child should not be given whole
tool chest at one time, for example.
Give the little fellow a hammer. Then
when he begins to ask for nails, give
him something to pound. Soon he
will learn how to make things, and
before long he will learn the real
value Of the whole array of contents
of the chest, while If given them all
at once he would not have appreciated
any of them"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-06-16
D OSTON, Mass.-The supernatural

D OSTON, Mass.-The supernatural
ID noises, intonations and weird
sounds which for years have been the
cause of many young lovers retreating
from their trysting place in great
haste, in fear that some white CARRIED
ghost was chasing them, was ex-
planned when giant elm was chopped
down In lot on Adams street near
the Cedar Grove cemetery in Dor.
chester. The explanation was an owl
and family of chipmunks.
For twenty-five years strange noises
have been heard at all times OF the
night in that section, and the lot being
so near the cemetery many people be-
lieved they we're voices from the
grave The police have investigated
nightly and some of the more curious
neighbors have spent many long vigils
in an attempt to solve the source OF
the weird noises. The solution of the