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The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-02-15
Local Chapter q. D. c.
Celebrates Georgia Day

We are sure that Georgia Day
was never more appropriately nor
more beautifully observed any.
where in the state than it was by
the local Chapter Daughters of
the Confederacy at the silver tea
which they gave on Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. James
Mcdonald. All the credit for the
delightful occasion is due the
committee for the Helen Plane
Educational Fund.-, for which
cause the tea was given. The
able chairman of this committee
is Mrs. A. H. Thurmond and the
other members of the committee
are Mrs. j. E. Turner, the en-
thusiastic president of Ben Hill
chapter, Mrs. Tom Griffin and
Mrs. C. E. Brewer.
Mrs. McDonald's pretty home
was spring like in it's decorations
of graceful ferns and jonquils,
the beautiful yellow of the jon
quils reflected in the shaded
lights and in the dainty refresh.
ments.
The members of the committee
were dressed in white with the
patriotic colors worn in sash eff
feet. Those assisting them in
entertaining were: Mesdames Nc
Donald, Pryor, Mayes, Hale,
Harold Beall and R. M. Mann.
Misses Lillian Dorminey and
Edith Griner furnished delight
full music during the afternoon.
These little maids from school,
Marguerite Pope Thurmond,
Gene Farmer and Francis Nc
Donald sang sweetly Il know
Three Little Girls.
A lesson on Georgia history
was both instructive and inter-
tanning, each guest being hand
ed paper containing seventeen
questions about Georgia. Every
Fitzgeraldite present answered
promptly and correctly the last
question:
What is the most Furnishing
Town IN georgia to be just IL
years old?'
Mrs. W. G. Broadhurst was
awarded first prize, a miniature
bale of cotton, for having the
most correct answer. Mrs. Wood
ing. the second prize, a defie cal
endar, and Mrs. w. D. Dorminey,
the third, a card of interesting
history questions by Miss Ruth
erford.
Small Georgia flags were given
each guest as a souvenir of the
occasion.
A nice sum was realized for
the educational fund.
Chapter Reporter.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-02-15

We hope our farmers will plant
more hay, more grain, and less
cotton. and thereby be more in
dependent than ever before.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-02-15

We now urge all our subscribers
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The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-02-15
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COMPANY, Fitzgerald, Ga.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
The oRANpsrANp.

The orator talks OF the higher
things; the thoughts he hands u.
have golden wings-they shine like
the orb of day. HE is a wondorl'
the young men cry. but the old mer
say, with a weary sigh, TITS naught
but grandstand play"
And that is the trouble with being
old; your heart is calloused, your
blood is cold, your faith in all things
is dead. You've fallen oft for the
green-goods tricks, you've bought SO
many gild-coated bricks, you think
that gold is lead.
When l was young, would sit and
hear the golden speech of an orator,
and his words would never cloy; the
thrills would travel along my spine,
my eyes would sprinkle four kinds of
brine, and my heart would swell with
joy. And when he said he would
bleed and die to keep our banner a.
floating high,I thought he was speak.
ing true; my soul would yearn for
the hero's life, for the battlefield and
the blood and strife, and I'd want to
perish, too.
1t was yesterday when a speaker
spoke of the cannons roar and the
saber stroke, enlarged on the fiery
fray; Bill Wax sat next, and l said
to him, "He shoots his words with eX.
ceeding vim, but it's only grand
stand play"
In the olden days when a statesman
rose and talked three hours through
bis Roman nose concerning the peo.
pies right, really thought that this
able gent was saying things that he
truly meant, was putting up earnest
fights; his long orations 1 learned by
heart and reeled them off in the busy
mart, as gems of the purest ray. But
now reformers don't cut much grass;
l hear their spielings and say, ALAS!
It's only a grandsSnd play!"
The noble words of the hero's
tongue, they thrilled my bosom when
I was young and kept me awake at
night; the ringing challenge Pat Hen-
ry gave to royal tyrant across the
wave inflated me with delight. If
Patrick Henry were speaking now,
with virtue shining upon his brow, I'd
listen to all he'd say, and then I'd
whisper to some one near, "His words
sound big in the patient ear, but
they're only grandstand play!"
All, that is the trouble with being
old You can't believe tnat the gold
is gold, you think that all things are
clay; and still you sigh, with your
latest notwithstanding then to the
bluff of death-"It's only a grand
stand play!"-By Walt Mason from
Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
Tiny Christmas Trees.

The little Tree measures from the
bottom of its wooden pot to the top Of
its highest candle only three feet. 1t
was the gift of one Of the spinster's
friends, who trimmed it with every
kind of a tiny toy, with miniature
dolls, with bonbons, and small Kris
Kringle, and who set it out with its
twenty candles. 1t is blaze of cheer
full glory when 1t is lighted, and it
now has history with its many years
Of associations which no live tree,
faded with seasons service, could
ever have boasted.
The branches of this tree being of
wire, can always be bent, and the
tree itself packed away for another
year or carried from place to place
In a trunk. OF course on general
principles live things are best, and
when great royal tree Of the forest
Is possible it ought to be had. On
the other hand, there are some people
who prefer these tiny trees. A young
mother of my acquaintance, with three
half-grown children. still brings out
on Christmas one of these trees, one
that was given her in her invalid
days before her marriage.-Harper's
Bazaar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
GIVES SIMPLE IVY CURE
New Haven Doctor in Medical Rec.
ord Aids Poison Afflicted.

A very simple treatment for ivy
poisoning is described by DR.. John F.
Lane of New Haven in the medical
Record He writes:
"The affected areas are loosely
covered with two or three thicknesses
of gauze or cheese cloth, which is
kept continually moist with a solu-
tion of boric acid, the strength Of
which is unimportant.
"The gauze is frequently changed
in any case but the frequency de.
pends somewhat upon whether there
Is much ooZing from the blebs. The
larger blebs are opened, but it is un-
necessary to touch the smaller ones.
II the gauze is used more than once
1t is rinsed and boiled before 1t is
reapplied.
"As the largest number of these
cases occur during the hot weather
1t usually adds to the comfort of the
patient to keep small piece of ice
In the solution SO that it may be ap.
piled cold.
"This is usually the whole treat
ment, but in cases where the itching
is very intense some additional relief
may be obtained by gentle sponging
with weak solution of alcohol when
the gauze is changed. A simple oint.
ment may be used for protection af.
ter healing has begun and the skin
has become fairly smooth.
Dr. Lane makes no claim to nov
city for this treatment, nor does he
assert it to be specific, but he says
1t brings great relief to the sufferer
and has the advantage of being
cheap, harmless, clean, easily acces
sible and easy of application, and is
suitable for any stage and every case
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
5antie's Kiss.
BY Margaret G. Hays.


I've hung up my stockin' an said
Goodnight,
An all my FOLKS are sleepin' tight.
Now I'm goin to wa,ch closely, lust
because
| want to see oil Santie Claus.
So out O. bed I'll sof'ly creep,
'Caus ever body's fas' asleep
l hanged two stockings up, cause,
see,
The white one at belongs to me
Is far too small. hope at he
VIII soon come down the chim-me-lee
'Fraid Mother wouldn't prove o. this,
But want to give him JUS one kiss. I"
Dear, dear! the sandman spoils the
plan,
Soon fast asleep falls little Nan.
The fire glows cozily and warm
Upon the little night-gowned form
When down the chimney with his
pack
Hops Santa like jumping jack.
why, see who's here?" Old Santa
said,
Then carried Mamie off to bed.
Tucked her in warm, dear little miss,
Then softly took one loving kiss.
She waited up for me, dear tot"
Laughs Santa, so I'll leave lot
OF all the best my pack contains
And take that sweet kiss for my
pains.
Merry Christmas" Mamie cries
AS she opens her sleepy eyes,
"Oh, see what Santie's left for me!
Both stockin's full as full can be,
An round my bed, upon the floor,
Are toys an dollies-more an more.
Dear Santie Claus has sure been here.
Maybe I'll stay awake mex year.
Now I'll get dressed an have some
fun
So Merry Christmas, every one!"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
sTRANeEsT TREE is IN CUBA
Takes Root on Another one and Fin
ally Strangles It.

Takes Root on Another one and Fin
ally Stranges it.
A singular tree in Cuba is called
the yaguey tree. 1t begins to grow at
the top Of another tree. The seed is
carried by bird, or waited by the
wind, and, falling into some moist
branching part, takes root and speed.
lily begins to grow.
It sends a kind of thin stringlike
root down the body of the tree, which
is soon followed by others. In course
of time these rootings strike the
ground, and growth Immediately com.
mences upwards. New rootings con.
tinue to be formed and get strength
until the one tree grows as a net
round the other. The outside one sur,
rounds and presses the inner, strang
ling It's life and augmenting its own
power. At length the tree within Ia
killed. and the parasite that has taken
possession becomes itself the tree.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
NEED TO GET TOGETHER,

Evidently there are plenty of men
still left willing to be married, in
spite of the frequent complaints of a
scarcity. Some time ago widow in
an interior county OF this state adver-
tised for proposals of marriage, to he
accompanied by photographs, and she
received something like one hundred
and fifty Of each.
Either they proved unsatisfactory,
or the lady concluded to exercise the
privilege Of her sex to change her
mind, for she rejected all the propos.
ais. This was not material to most
Of the applicants for her hand, be-
cause she could have married but one
in any event, and the others would
have felt the discrimination. Each
can feel that he might have been the
chosen one had the lady concluded to
make any choice at all, so that both
honors and disappointments are even
ly distributed.
But the most significant feature Of
this episode is the answer it gives to
the too frequent assertion that men
are not as ready to marry now as
used to be the case in the so-called
good old times. Allowance must be
made, of course, for possible want
of sincerity on the part Of some of
those who so promptly responded to
the widows request for proposals,
but when a fair per cent have been
eliminated on that account, there
must have been plenty who were act
ing in good faith and were honestly
seeking an opportunity to get a wife.
Well, there is no reason why any
OF them should give up and despair
because of one disappointment. If,
as is probable, the most of them live
In sections of the country where wo-
men are less in number than men, let
them seek in those sections where
the women outnumber the men. There
are many such localities In the east.
ern states where the disproportion Is
so great that to many thousands of
very deserving young women the
prospect of a married life is anything
but promising. The appeals for hus-
bands that have at intervals gone out
from these communities to officials
in western states have not been all
flippant and unmeaning.
There is no reason why men who
really want to marry should answer
matrimonial advertisements. There
are other more satisfactory, substan-
tial and safer ways of obtaining a
wife. There are enough men in this
country to furnish each unmarried
woman with a husband, and enough
marriageable young women to make
Ii unnecessary for any man to long
suffer disappointment because he has
been rejected by a widow he has new
er seen. They Just need to get to-
gether.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
HAPPINESS,

Money will not procure happiness.
but happiness will procure money
Happiness makes every task a pleas
ure and every worker optimistic. AMI
an opti nistic worker at pleasant
task can perform it in way but well
Happiness is not only its own reward
but 1t is an irresistible magnet which
is forever drawing unexpected re-
wards. And happiness can know no
evil : evil happiness is contradiction
OF terms. Happiness is religion IN
itself. He who has happiness has
jumped just over the very goal of
life.-Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
INDIANS ABLE TO
OUTRUN HORSES
PuEBLos SHOW WONDERFUL
POWERS OF ENDURANCE chAs.
ING OVER HILLS
PhysIques Of Red Men Show Results
OF Generations ofSFootmen.

In the old days of the wild and
woolly west plainsmen and travellers
by overland wagons held to the be-
lief that a long journey could be made
more speedily by man afoot than
on horseback, says the Kansas City
Star.
In the army the impression is gen.
orally accepted that infantry can out
travel cavalry on long, grinding
marches. But to the Santo Domingo
Indians of New Mexico belongs the
credit Of chasing wild horses over
the ranges of the hills until the ami
mails are exhausted and submit to cap.
ture. No marathon runners have ev-
or been recruited from this tribe OF
Pueblo Indians, for the runners of the
tribe are little known outside of the
district Immediately surrounding their
village.
These runners of the Santo Domn.
Cos come from race of fleet footed
ancestors. Like all tribes of American
Indians, they have accepted the
means Of travelling best suited to the
country where they live. The Sioux
Of the Dakotas are horsemen. The
Santo Domingos have been walkers
and runners always.
Their physiques show the results of
generations of footmen. Great chests
almost abnormal in development,
wedge upward from slender waists,
while sinewy calves proclaim the
strength to hold to a hard trail.
Usually their chases of the bands
Of wild horses owned by the tribe are
matters of necessity. The enormous
stretches Of broken country where
the horses Craze, and the untamed
spirits of animals that may not have
been touched by man in their sever
eral years of existence in the hills,
makes 1t necessary to wear the crea-
lures out and run them down. Mono
but Santo Domingo Indian prob
ably is able to do it.
A courier of the Santo Domingo
tribe rode thirty miles at furious
speed to the pueblo of a neighboring
band bearing a message. His horse
was staggering when the town was
reached. A hasty consultation was
called. The answer was handed to
the Santo Domingo youth. Nodding
he turned toward home.
"Ho! Your horse?" headman
called.
The courier said: "I leave him.
must go fast. The race would kill my
horse"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
AGE OF SPECIALIZATION.

The average citizen little realizes
the evolution which Is constantly talk
ins place in great industrial enter
p1ises; and when comparative de.
gree of perfection is attained we are
often at a loss to understand why
certain features of development have
been brought about by what might
be termed outside influences. For in.
stance, we have often wondered why
the sleeping-car system on our Amer
lean railways was not developed and
is not maintained by the railroads;
and we frequently inquire why the
great express industry or the United
way companies instead of separate
and distinct corporations. Today
many people fail to understand why
the great electric sign industry is not
developed by the electric light COM
panies, since it seems to be part
Of their business.
The fact is that this is an age of
specialization; that affiliated in some
manner with / - industries there
are other separate and distinct inuGs
tries that require men of special
training. To sue -ssfully conduct n
sleeping car system requires differ
ent order of ability than is demand
ed of those who pilot the affairs of
the railroad. In this country there
are thirty-four express companies and
three of the largest have been in ex-
istence more than half century.
One several occasions railroad com.
panies have endeavored to carry on
their own express business, but the
plan has never been found practica-
BILE and every effort was sooner or la.
ter andoned.-National Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
Old Schwab Home in Pennsylvania In
Being Moved.

An old mansion which has for
many years been the summer home OF
Charles NJ. Schwab at Loretto, Pa. is
now being lifted in act over the giant
pines which have surrounded it since
it was erected more than forty years
ago, to make room for a modern res
idence.
Early this year MI Schwab gave
orders for the erection of new man
sion. At the same time he informed
the builders that he wanted his old
house removed without cutting down
the tall pines which surround 1t.
The work has now been under way
several weeks. The old building IL
rapidly nearing the tree tops on q
huge scaffold.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
THE SHINING. EXAMPLE.

I'm weary of Aristides," the an.
cient voter said; "he gives me spasms
in my knees and fantods in my head.
He multiplies my share of woe and
fills me with disgust, for everywhere
that l may go, hear him called The
Just. And now that he's a candidate
for city engineer, I'll show l have MY
crouch on straight and soak him in
the ear"
A thousand voters felt that way,
they loathed that shining man, and
Risty found, at close of day, he was
AT also-ran.
And every one turned out to whoop
good manners men defied. "Aristides
l.; in the soup!" the joyful people
cried. They filled themselves with
juice Of hops, they twanged their rus
ty Tyres, they rang the bells and whip
ped the cops and built a hundred
fires.
And thus it is in modern days. How
we detest and hate the man on whom
we're asked to gaze, to mark and eni-
ulate! In every village in the land
there is a shining gent, whose charac.
ter is great and grand, without spot
or dent. He wears a tie of snowy
white, and whiskers on his cheeks,
and folks profess profound delight
whene'er the good man speaks. He
doesn't cuss, he doesn't smoke, he
hates a game of cards; in fact, he's
such sanity bloke that seraphs are
his pards.
We point him ont when he goes bv,
and to the kids we say, "Just be like
him, and when you die, harp will
come your way" We join the chorus
of applause and say he is peach. the
warmest thing that ever was, since
Noah hit the beach.
But in our hearts we hate him sore
he jars us to the crust; we think that
he's as great bore as 'Ristides, the
Just. And when at last he takes q
fall-and it is strange but straight
that men who are examples all take
headers soon or late-we chortle Will
exceeding glee and dance and ski
around and wave the banner of the
free and make the tom-toms sound.
The man who's moderately good Is
loved where'er he goes; all quietly he
saws his wood and never strikes &
pose. He does his work without 6
boast, he's true and kind and brave
and when he croaks, weeping hos
IA punched around his grave. But Il
OF virtue you would make business
or trade, men feel at heart thai
you're fake and laugh to see yot
fade.-By Walt Mason from Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
Bitter Words.

''Yis," said Casey. "the simple idiot
.sez to me: is Cassidy related to ye'
ser he."
"Did he say that?" interrupted Cas-
'sidy.
'"He did; an sez ] to him, II j
fought Cassidy had wan drop o. my
blood in his veins I'd cut 1t out Of
him."
"Faix, II / had, I'd let ye."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23
Western sparrows Annually Consume
Much Seed.

The amount of weeds annually des-
troyed by native sparrows In Iowa
10 estimated at 875 tons. On the basis.
of one fourth of an ounce of seed
eaten daily by each bird, an average
Of ten birds to each square mile, re-
naming in their winter range 200
days, there would be total of 1885,
900 pounds or S75 tons of weed seed
consumed in single season by this
one species.
The estimate of ten birds to q
square mile is considered conserva.
tive for in Massachusetts where the
food supply Is less than in the west
ern states, the tree sparrow is more
abundant than ever this season. In
Iowa thousands of sparrows have
been seen in the space of few acres.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

This is the newest respirator
adopted by the French army to COM
bat the gas clouds of the Germans.
This apparatus will enable the men
to charge through the thickest clouds
of poison gas without the least diff!
Guilty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

The real difference between a por.
GUS plaster and sponging relative is
that you can pry the porous plaster
loose.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

If a girl wants to marry and is wise,
she never attempts to appear more ir.
telligent than the man whom she is
trying to induce to pay her board for
life.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

Father Time probably hands wo-
man new wrinkle occasionally,
merely as a reminder that she hasn't
been forgotten.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

A girl with pair of natural rosy
cheeks and couple of dimples can
get nearly any old thing she wants.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

The happy wife is not a woman
who has married the best man on
earth, but one who is philosophical
enough to make the pest of what
she's got.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

"A man may take on sufficient liquor
to disable his conscience temporarily,
but it will be doing business at the
OLD stand next morning.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

The first woman handed the first
man an apple, but her daughters have
been handing men lemons ever since.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

How scornfully a woman who mere.
ly powders can look at one who
paiptA!
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

However. the city chap who ina
sines he could get rich raising chick
ems on two acre farm may be per-
fectly sane on all other subjects.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

Forget a favor when it's done
That's what the recipient is likel,
tu do.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

A man may have lot of sense,
but the chances are will not dis
play any of it when ho gets into an
argument with pretty woman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-23

You may have noticed that the ma
jority of husbands look as if the wom-
en- they belong to didn't take very
good care of them.