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The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-11-28
Let Us Have A Competent Board

Under the Tax act becomes the duty of the county COM
soners 10 appoint three competent free holders
oafd OF eqaze for the entire county The positions are most
Their duties will be equaze the of the
ana personal property of the county and the proper admnstra
Ios OF th law Will rest the lowering of Under the
ola system too much left to the discretion and honesty of the in
oVdua tax payer Proper valuations should maintain all over the
county and the to the property owners and
taxpayers to appoint MEN to this office who have general know
eoge OF all over the county and brave enough to insist
upon their application special tax lew in one of the
pest sections OF the county proved the necessity this board
equazers IN Ben Hill much other county in the State
Inc colony lands have through its system Subdivision bore the
brunt of taxes the county, tracks paying larger share
the taxes than justified by their real and the larger hold
lng have to extent been the favored class The hoard
so consist OF men OF integrity and fairness whose own
holdings sufficiently large make them feel personal
est in the need of lower tax rate
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SherifF's Sale.

GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Will be sold at the court house
door in said county on the first
Tuesday in December 1913, with
in the legal hours of sale. to-wit:
All that track or parcel of land
lying and being in Ben Hill Coun-
ty, Georgia and being described
as follows: Lot one % square
four "a block five 81 of the
city Of Fitzgerald Ca. according
to the plat of said city of record
IN the office OF the clerk of the
Superior court of Irwin County,
Georgia, said land levied on as
the property of H. w. Brown to
satisfy an execution issued on
the 9th day of Sept. 1913, from
the City Court of Fitzgerald Ga.
said county in favor of O. Lee
Chestnut, against H. w. Brown.
This Nov. 9th 1918.
w. H. Fountain, Sheriff,
City Court Of Fitzgerad Ga.
Ridgdill & Mitchell
Peff's Atty's. Triton Ga.
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Sherif9s SaLe.

GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Will be sold first Tuesday in
December next, before court
house door said county, within
legal hours of sale, to highest
bidder for cash:
Six bales cotton, and about so
bushels corn, in field, and one
fourth acre sugar cane, and one
ton hay and one one horse wagon:
said property located on the land
known as the widow FussellI
place about one mile east of Fit
gerald, and said property will be
sold where it is now located.
Said property levied on as the
property of W. c.. Rodgers to
satisfy execution issued from
City Court of Fitzgerald in favor
of Armour Fertilizer Works ",
W. Z. Rodgers.
This November z, 1913.
W. H. Fountain, Sheriff
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Application To
Sell Bank Stock
GEORGIA BEN HILL CorrNTy

GEORGIA Ben HILL COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that an
application for leave to sell two
shares of the Capital Stock of
Wilkerson County Bank, at
Toombsboro, Georgia, of the par
value of $4,000 per share, and
evidenced by Certificate number
85. Said application being filed by
Mrs. Annie May Sandifer as
Guardian of Sujette Holmes, and
for the purpose of education and
care of said Sujetre Holmes. Said
application will be heard at the
regular term of the Court of Ordi-
nary for said County to be heId
on the first Monday in December
1913.
This Nov. Bird, 1913.
q. NJ. Wise, Ordinary.
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Notice To Debtors
And Creditors
GEORGIA. BEN HILL COUNTY.

GEORGIA, BEN HILL COUNTY.
Notice is ] erebY given to all
persons having demands against
the estate of 0. j. Farnell, de-
ceased, to present and file the
same with the undersigned Ad-
ministrator as provided by law.
All persons indebted to said
estate are likewise notified to
make settlement of such indeb-
tedness wit the undersigned.
This October 25th, 1913.
L. Kennedy,
Administrator de bonis non of
the estate of Oh. Farnell, deceas-
ed. 133-6-wks.
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A administrators Sale
PERSONAL Property

GEORGIA BEN HILL COUNTY:
By virtue of an order of the
court of Ordinary of said county,
granted at the November Term
1913, will be sold on the premises
of the late j. D. Small. deceased,
about one mile West of the CITY
of Fitzgerald, said County, within
the legal hours of sale on Wed
nesday December 18th. 1918 the
following described property of
the estate Of said j. D. Small,
deceased, to wit one saw mill; one
35 h. p. boiler; one so b. p. boiler;
one 20 h. p. engine; one 35 h. p.
engine; one planer, one 16 inch
iointer; one moulding machine;
one door panel machine; one rip
saw; one cut off saw; one tenor
machine; one mortising machine:
one turning machine; one band
saw; one boring machine; one blind
slat machine; one sandpapering
machine; one sash and door clamp;
one turning lathe; one cope NOR
tiaing machine; betting, shafting
and other articles too numerous to
mention.
Terms of sale: Cash. This Nov.
3rd 1913.
NJ. j. Small, Administrator.
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Sale of Land.

GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
VIII be sold first Tuesday in
December next before courthouse
door said county, within legal
hours of sale, to highest bidder
for cash. twenty acre tract Num-
bers 4426-4427 as shown by the
recorded plat q The American
Tribune Soldiers Coiouv Company.
Said property levied upon as
property OF Jim Lewis to satisfy
execution issued from City Court
of Fitzgerald. in favor Planters
Warehouse & Loan Company
against said Lewis:
This November 6, 1913.
w, H. Fountain, Sheriff.
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GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.


Under and by virtue of a pow
er of sale contained in a mort
gage, executed by Jim Kegler to
J. c. Boney & Son, dated 10th
day of January 1913, and record
ed in the Office Of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Ben Hill
County, in book 9 folio $50, the
undersigned will sell at public
cutlery, at the courthouse door in
said county, during. the legal
hours of sale, to highest bidder
for cash, first Tuesday in Deem
Der next, city lot Number Two.
in square Number sixteen and
block Number twelve in the City
of Fitzgerald, Georgia, for the
purpose Of paying a certain pro-
missory note for the sum of
$4,000, executed and delivered
by Jim Kegler and George
Thomas, to j. C. Boney & Son,
on the Goth day Of January 1913,
and due on the 1st day of Octo
Der 1918, STIMULATING for interest
from date at the rate of eight
per cent per annum, the total
amount due on said note being
S213.90 principal and interest
from Oct. Both 1913, together
with the cost of this proceeding
as provided in said mortgage. A
deed to the purchaser will be
made by the undersigned.
J. e. Boney & Son,
Attorney in fact for Jim Kegler
Mcdonald & Grantham
& L. A. Mills, Jr.
Attorneys for Mortgage.
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Sheriff's Sale.
GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Will be SOLD first Tuesday in
December next, before court house
door, said county, within legal
hours of sale, TO highest bidder
for cash, three-tenths undivided
interest in one hundred acres land
in south east corner of lot 1913, in
the third land distric, said county.
Said property levied on as the
property of N. j. and j. e. Min
shew to satisfy execution issued
from City Court Fitzgerald, IN
favor of Exchange National Bank.
Fitzgerald, Georgia against said
Minshews.
This November sixth, nineteen
thirteen.
W. H. Fountain, Sheriff.
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Citation.

GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
To Maggie Small and Lizzie
Conlon:
M. j, Small, Administrator on
the estate of J. D. Small, deceased
having duly filed his petition,
praying an order for division in
kind of the property of the estate
of said j. D. Small, deceased, you
are hereby cited to be and appear
at the Ordinary's Office of said
county, on the 1st. day of Deem
Der 1913 and show cause, if any
you have, why the order prayed
for in said petition should not be
granted. This Nov. Ord 1918.
G. NJ. Wise, Ordinary.
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Sheriff's Sale.

GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Will be sold first Tuesday in
December next, before court
house door said county within
legal hours of sale, to highest
bidder for cash, one, two and
three quarter Sunny South, two
horse wagon.
Said property levied upon as
property of Jim Kegler, to salts
fy execution issued from City
Court of Fitzgerald, in favor of
J. c. Boney & Son against said
Kegler.
This November 6, 1918.
w. H. Fountain, Sheriff.
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Citation.
Sarah L. Sturgess

Sarah /. Sturgess
v.
j. D. Blossom.
Ben Hill Superior Court,
April Term, 1914.
Petition for Specific Per-
Torrance.
To ]. D. Blossom,
By virtue of order granted by
W. F. George, Judge of the Su-
perior Court of Ben Hill County.
The defendant is hereby re-
quired to appear at Superior
Court in the County of Ben Hill
on first Monday in April, 1914, to
answer the plaintiff in an action
for specific performance. In de-
fault of such appearance, said
court will proceed as to Justice
may appertain.
Witness Honorable w. F.
George, Judge of said Court.
This Il day of November 1918.
D. W. M. Whitley,
Clerk Superior Court.
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Leave to Sell Land.
GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has applied to the
ordinary of said county for leave
to sell land belonging to the estate
of Julius Tzschoppe, for the pur-
pose of maintenance and to avoid
expense of keeping same. Said
application will be heard at the
regular term of Court of Ordinary
for said county to be held the first
Monday in December Nineteen
thirteen. This November 6, 1918.
A. Julius Tzschoppe,
Guardian, upon the estate of
julius Tzschoppe.
G. M. Wise, Ordinary.
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Citation.

GEoRGIA-BEN Hill COUNTY.
John B. Russell, administrator
of estate of g. E. Taylor, repre-
sents to the court in his petition,
duly filed and entered on record,
that he has fully administered G..
E. Taylor's estate: This is, there
fore, to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said
Administrator should not be dis
charged from his administration,
and receive letters of Dismission,
on the first Monday in December
1918.
G. M. Wise, Ordinary.
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out extra charge of admission.
The lecture has been given in
many of the cities of this territory
and has been the delight of its
hearers. The many friends of the
Order and the public generally are
invited to be present.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-11-28

Gentlemen OF the Board Of Directors Chamber Of
MERGE get busy and produce results people will back Won in
any undertaking. but they demand competent leadership Each
you must sacrifice something TO the good there is no
other wa your remuneration will you through the COL
ectVe success the whole and each you gain in
your efforts The first practical step take is to select
soliciting committee either from body the voune
members already known to every possible man
firm and corporation the paying membership s You are all
of and have than the AVERAGE CITIZEN
it is up to you to make the effort of make
Tuesdays meeting should be the RED ay for FITZGERALD
You make it
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Notice to Jurors.

The Elrors drawn for the
second week in October are here
by notified that they must ap-
pear for the adjourned term of
the Ben Hill Superior court
to be held on the first Monday
in December.
W. H. Fountain, Sheriff.
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Notice To Public

Notice is hereby given not to
trade for one certain note in fav-
or of J. G. Williams. due Octo-
Der Is, 1914 and given for one
bay mare, eight years old, amount
of note $4,000.
136-1mo At. Larkin Calf
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Ster0OptiCaDL9CturG
Monday Night.

Miss Ella l.. Mark, of Birming-
ham, Ala. Deputy Supreme Com
mander of the Ladies of the Macca-
bees, will give the beautiful stere-
optican lecture of the order at the
Opera house on Monday night.
Through the courtesy of the man
agement this will be given in con-
nection with the regular bill with
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-11-28
Malaria Or ChiIls & Fever

Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially
Tor MALARIA or cHiLLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
If taken then as tonic the Fever will not
returns 1t acts on the liver better. than
Caiomel and does not eripe or sicken. Csc
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Will have your glasses
ground just to fit your eyes
which is the only permanent
remedy for eye strain which
is the direct cause of so much
physical and mental suffer-
ing.
Office--Northwest corner Grant
st. and Central Avenue, ground'
foor.--Phone PIT.
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Notice to Attorneys and Administrators
Beginning November 1913 all legal notices paid for IN
advance as the law contemplates.
Leader Publishing Company
October 3st 1913
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

girl, her charges refused to make a
quiet getaway. The two most unruly
ones led Miss Farrar a chase around
the stage.
Two liefst du her % sang Miss Far
rar as she made a dive for big gray
goose. and she got it by the wings
and started after its mate. She finally
captured the Grant goose by the ueck
and took it cackling off the stage.
Meanwhile the music waited for her
return to go on with the opera.-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
This weeks Dramatic Mirror has a
charming cover design of Maude Ad-
ans, who comes to Topeka this season,
probably in Peter Pan
Fine Feathers the play that was
rumored coming to Topeka, has opened
at the New York Astor theater, but
according to the Mirror" loves its life
and being to an excellent cast and
pistol shot in the dark
Billy Burke, who would have been
house furnisher and interior decorator
had she not become an actress, has
banished bureaus from her new home
Burkeley Crest, at Hastings-on-the-
Hudson.
-'They are the ugliest pieces of fur
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
DINNER STORIES.

The sign in front of a Harlem res
taurant attracted the eye of a farmer and
he went in He had raw, a fry, a stew,
pan roast, broil and a steam on
toast. When he got through he laid a
quarter on the cashiers desk, only to be
told that he was shy a dollar and a
quarter. mo, by jing,' said the farmer.
"A quarters right. Doesn't you sign say,
Oysters in every style for % cents'?''
Miss Rosy Nohall had just returned
from a finishing school, and had evidently
the scholastic line.
She and her father were sitting in the
dining room.
THAT air" remarked her relative.
Father dear" interrupted Rosy, it's
vulgar to say that air. you should say,
that there or, preferably just that -
well, this ear commenced her
father; but he was cut off again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
A WEEK OF FEATURES.
Cozy and Best Theaters to Show All
Three Reel Pictures.

Next week the Cozy and Best theaters
will have unusual offerings for the
patrons of these motion picture houses.
Each house will have three-reel feature
films during the entire week. Each title
will be complete program in itself,
and all will be of high class.
The Best theater will show IRA cked
by Wireless on Monday and Tuesday.
This is a detective story produced by
the makers of the famous "Zigomar''
series. Wednesday and Thursday THE
Redemption much talked about
European film by the Eclaire company,
will be shown On Friday and Satur-
day a big Western feature film will be
the offering. the title being 1.-THE Peril
of the Prairie
At the Cozy 1.-The Star of Bethlehem
is to be shown Monday and Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

where a hundred handclaps are but a
single cheer on the field of Waterloo.
up again, and Genee courteSieS her
way to the footlights with that perky,
tail-swirling walk, forever dancing. A
bower of roses is seen coming over the
horizon at the back of the hall
carried by the first of the pro-
cession of attendants with floral offer
ings-chiefly roses encased in the
quantity cut paper holders of the
period.
Down falls the curtain again, cut
ting off the long queue of flowers in
its very growth. Up again, and Genee
again bowling; the queue of flowers
continues again and the applause never
falters for a moment. Another cur
tain cuts off more flowers; and then
reveals a bank of blooms-three bower
like baskets and some twenty bouquets
but at first no Genee; she IS hidden
in flowers.
AT the final fall of the curtain
tinnidly appears through the opening
the face of stage hand. fearful that
there may be more flowers clamouring
for admission"
George Sidney, Carrie Weber and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
DRAMATIC NEWS
Adeline Genee Next Attraction
at Grand.
Then Comes George Sidney as
"Busy Ivy"
COUNTESS COQUETTE NEXT
A French Musical Vaudeville
Show for Feb. 4.
lara Garments Troupe at the
Novelty.
At the Grand.

NJ the OFanu.
January %. Adeline Genee.
February 1, George Sidney
February 4. Countess Coquette.
February 8. Billy the Kid.
February 10, The Million.
February Is, The Enchantress.
February L. Aborn English Opera
Company in THE Bohemian Girl
February 20. 81, %, Lyman H. Howe.
The theatrical event of next week
in fact, one of the most important of
the years. the concert to be given
by Adeline Genee, the fifth number on
the Parkhurst SERIES Genee stands
alone in her art, unapproached. unex-
celled. She has never been in Topeka
before, but her fame has spread over
the continent One of the most con-
vincing of her press notices is taken
from the Pail Mall Gazette:
She is never still. Surely she must
dance to the theater twice daily; it is
impossible to imagine her walking or.
most horrible thought of all, sitting
still in a taxi-cab. Then her dance
walk down the stage, with the quaint
perky swish of the short skirt like the
clipped tail of some bird of paradise.
When it was all over the curtain
came down in a storm of applause in
that huge theatrically- building,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

One little, haunting melody-"Spring-
time''-which threads through the play,
is expected to attain the popularity
of the Merry Widow waltz. The
company is recruited from the best
New York organization, and is headed
by Knox Wilson, who created the lead
ing comedy roles in THE Silver Slip
per-, The Land of Nod and THE
Burgomaster" with Anna Held. 9th
ers prominent are: Vera Allen, last
season prima donna soprano with the
Chicago Grand Opera com pany. and
hailed as The American Trentini' by
Chicago critics; Maud Williams, who
had leading parts in THE Sultan of
Zulu and King Dodo," with Ray
mond Hitchcock; Templar SAKE, who
created the leading baritones in THE
Gay Musician The Earl and the
Girl" and "Piff. Paff. Pouff;" Harry
PAUL, who was principal tenor with
The Heartbreakcrs'' and "A Stub
born Cinderella" and Emile La Croix,
who was with number of Charles
Frolnlan's successes. The scenery is
from the famous studio of Dodge and
Castle. and the costumes We're design
ed by Fouret of Paris. Owing to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

Mrs. Leslie Carter will make her
first New York performances of the
season during the week of January 81
at the West End theater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

code of his own for possible use while
abroad and handed a copy to his father,
who locked it up in his desk without look
ing at it.
A month later Richleigh received a
cable consisting of one word. Laugh. -
He laughed. 1t seemed to be something <
quite pleasant. His code was at the house.
He went up there in the best of humor
He got out the code and read:
'Laugh-Send me five hundred dollars.
A London story Eliminates the career
of Horace Hamfat, an actor. Rich today,
he was poor and failure up to the age
in the provinces on two or three quid a
week One Saturday in Manchester
Horace Hamfat's show went up, the man
ager fled and Horace for three days lived
on bread and dripping. Then a letter
came to him from a London admirer en-
closing 410. The admirer forwarded also
an item from theatrical page that Hor-
ace himself had written: Horace Ham
fat is starring in Manchester But the
type setter had made this item read truly
enough: Horace Hamfat is staving in
Manchester,
-1ord Rocksavage. who leads the Duke
of Westminster set. is handsome, a fine
rider, a superb shot, and very, very smarl
in dress. He was strolling one warm and
sunny winter morning on the terrace at
Monte Carlo. From the cut of his graz
f1annels, pickpocket realized Lord Rock
savage's opulence and attempted to steal
his sovereign purse But the young noble
man seized in his strong brown hand the
pickpockets grimy paw, and looking at il
dfsgustedly, he said, as he flung it from
him: How dare you put your hand in a
gentlemans pocket without washing il
first2'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

This picture is considered a wonderful
achievement in motion pictures, being
really an illustrated Bible story. Mrs.
Bradden's story. Aurora Floyd will
be shown Wednesday and Thursday. On
Friday and Saturday a film portraying
a famous Civil war event will be the
attraction. The title of this picture can
not be announced until late- as the film
has not yet been released for exhibit
ton, and Lew Williamson has managed
to get it for one of the first showings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

a large chorus come to the Grand Feb
ruary l in a musical comedy entitled
Busy Ivy The play is reported to
have a carload of scenic grandeur,
pretty girls and all sorts of costumes.
The Countess Coquette,'' which
comes to the Grand February 4, is a
rollicking French musical vaudeville
by Marcel Janvier, of Paris, where it
has been running for the past two
years. The lyrics are by Melville AL
exander, and the music by Anatol
Friedland The latter compares favor
ably to anything by Lehar or Strauss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

uary 20. Instead of giving the Gus
tomary souvenirs the management ar
ranged to celebrate the occasion by
having Mr.. Orville Harold, the ia
nous grand opera tenor, appear in the
third act and sing two duets with Mile.
Trentini.
The trained flock of geese, or two
of them, furnished most of the comedy
element in the performance of "Koen-
igskinder" at the Metropolitan opera
house.
When it came time for them to exit
80 that Carl Jorn. the kings son, could
make love to Miss Farrar, the goose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

NO father, smirked the dutiful daugh-
ter. That's Just vulgar. You must
avoid such expressions as this ERE
Father became irate.
Look here, my girl said he, I'm
going to say what I mean. That air Is
bad for this ear of mine, and I'm going
to shut the window
And after that Rosy said no more.
Moliere had written many plays to
ridicule doctors and medicine. Louis
XIV heard that the author had, how
ever, a doctor at his service since he
became famous and well to do, SO the