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BONE DRY" LAW SIGNED

Olympia, Wash. Feb. 20.-Govern-
or Lister today signed the "bone-
dry" prohibition bill, which unless
referred by petition to the 1918 cleo
ton, will become effective ninety
days after adjournment.
The law prohibits possession Of in
toxicating liquor by any person ex-
cept regularly ordained clergymen.
priests and rabbis Tor sacramento
purposes. 1t allows wholesale and
retail druggists and manufacturing
chemists to handle alcohol only if
granted license after public hearing
and provides radical penalties for vio-
lations.
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MISS CRAWLEY ENTERTAINS.

MISS CRAWLEY ENTERTAINS.
Tuesday evening Miss Pauline
Crawiey entertained number of her
friends with card party at hd hand
some home on South Main street. She
was assisted in entertaining by her
mother, Mrs. Pauline Crawley. and
Mrs. w. B, McWhorter, who furnish
ed beautiful music during the evening.
Different card games were played at
three tables until a late hour when a
dainty sweet course was served.
The guests for the evening were:
Misses Esther Benton, Mary Living
stone, Lillian Dorminy, Inez Dor
miny, Helen Osborne and Maude
Glover, DR.. Mccall, DR.. Warren
Royal. DR.. John W. McElroy, Mr..
Needham Harper, Mr.. Emory Will
cox, Mr. Everette and DR.. and Mrs.
McWhorter.
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HOLIDAY HOURS

Holiday hours at Postoffice tomor-
row, Feb. p, Washington's birthday.
All windows open from 8 to $3.50
A. M. and from to 4:30 P. M.
City carriers will make a complete
trip in the morning.
Rural carriers will not serve their
routes on this day.
w. A. ADAMS.
Postmaster.
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NOTICE

At Ashton School House Feb. %,
at ZOO P. NJ, will be held debate:
Resolved that Education Mas
Proved of More Benefit than Money
On the affirmative Jack Welborn
and Bryan Bishop. On the negative
Theodore Middlebrooks and Clarence
Jelks.
Everybody come.
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!. 0. Harris, Superintendent OF the
Mumford Industrial Home at Macon,
is in the city today in the interest of
that institution, incidentally Mr..
Harris bought an oil plot from the
Fitzgerald Pennsylvania Oil Com
pany and one was donated by this
company for the benefit OF the home.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

The w. R. C. and G. A. r. will cele-
brate Washington's birthday with
special program at the w. R. c. Hall
on Thursday afternoon at o'clock.
The public is cordially invited to be
present. Program Committee.
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PARENT TEACHERS MEETING

A special meeting of the Parent
Teachers Association is called for 5
?. NJ. Thursday evening in the rest
room Of the Library.
This is not intended to conflict with
the reception at the Library but as
a convenience to those who will at
tend. The meeting will be very brief
but of great importance.
MRS. |. GELDERS,
President.
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Mrs. Howard Wooding left this
morning for her home in La Grange
after spending several weeks with her
sister, Mrs. E. K. Farmer.
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Staple crops
take out large
amounts of plant
food from the soil.
For example: A
cotton crop Of one
bale per acre will
remove from the
land in seed,
leaves, stalks and
bolls, about II
pounds of nitro
gen 81 pounds of
potash a n d %
@0"-Iu 80 ok@H
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SUSIE DAMN CLUB MEETS.

The Susie Dahm Club held meet
ing Saturday afternoon at popular
down town refresh1::ent parlor where
a very pleasant social time was en-
Joyed and one new member recorded,
Miss Leila Hall
Those present were: Misses Hazel
Jolly Isabelle Paulk, Pauline Gold
enberg, Mavis Paulk, Madeline Dav-
export, Elvynne Alberson and Leila
Hail.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

Be sure and see the Great Auto
maton in Johnson Hardware Com
pany's window Saturday, March "a.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

Be sure and see the Great Auto
maton in Johnson Hardware Com
pany's window Saturday, March "a
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

Miss Lucybelle King returned to-
day from Jacksonville, Fla, where
she has been the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. H. Burton.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Yancey on North
Thomas street, report the birth of a
daughter Wednesday morning.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

Miss Beatrice Adams, of Thomas
vile, was spending the Weekend with
Mrs. K. A. Millett IN the city.
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Mrs. w. r. Smith. of Americas, is
spending few days with her parents
Nj. and Mrs. H. c. Chapel, in the
city.
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Mrs. f. H. Hale. of Athens, is the
guest of her son, Mr. Grailey Hale.
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NEWSY NOTES
of
NEARBY TOWNS
By Will v. Jones

]. Z. Wilkes, prominent merchant
and cotton buyer. OF Abel, is dead.
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lltton's Community Festival opens
tomorrow and lasts through Monday.
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Terrell county farmers have shipped
80 cars OF porkers this season.
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A meeting OF the Georgia Land
Owners Association will be held i'll
Valdosta on March 18th.
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County Commissioner Warren
Fletcher, of Irwin county, has tend
cred his resignation to the governor.
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$3.50 in cash and several cases OF
liquor have been missed from the
Della and S. A. L. depot in Rochelle.
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Della Baptists have torn down the
old church building preparatory to
erecting modern brick ediice for
the members of that denomination.
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The open CRATE has claimed its third
victim in Colquitt county this year.
Math Strickland's little 2-year-old son
was burned to death Monday near
Moultrie.
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The Triton Gazette states that while
two-thirds of the oat crop of that sec
ton was killed by the freeze, other
grain crops suffered very little dam
age.
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The Dawson News says that diver
sifed farming and the exodus of ne.
groes to the north has left Terrell
county with about Is per cent of farm
labor.
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Walter Lee McKelvin and w. T.
Green are languishing behind the bars
of the Thomas county jail both of
the young men being charged with
check forgeries.
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The flying parts of bursting en-
cry wheel at the Second District A.
and M school at Triton Monday af-
terncon severely, if not fatally, in
jured Mr.. A. H. Hasty, the Farm SUI
perintendent.
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Duncan Smith, an aged naval stores
operator, of Doerun. died at the home
of his son after he had aroused the
family to tell them that the house
was on fire. 1t is supposed that the
excitement caused heart failure
$3.50
Basketball is proving too strenuous
for the girls OF Rochelle and they
will probably quit the game or adopt
rules more suitable to the gentle sex
Two girls have had t.mber OF teeth
knocked out and another suffered
broken finger this week.
$3.50
Waycross officers are worrying
over the increase of liquor in that
city. Although rail shipments have
fallen off considerably they continue
to find it in large quantities We
suggest that they keep sharp watch
out for auto tigers"
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Physicians have hopes of saving the
life of little Frances Miriam, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P Stripping,
Of Macon, who secured quantity OF
potash and ate it, thinking it was
candy. Her face, mouth and hands
were frightfully burned.
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Mr.. W. S. Mathis, farmer living
two miles northwest OF Omega. died
Monday night from the effects of
blow from shovel in the hands of his
l6-year-old son. Harvey, 1t is said
that Mr.. Harvey, while intoxicated,
struck his wife, and the boy went to
the rescue of his mother. Had it been
impossible to get whisky in Georgia
this tragedy would probably have
never happened, which has caused un-
told sorrow to come to an entire
family.
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Numerous Terrell county farmers
and several of Lee have been heeced
by a tobacco expert from Virginia, F.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

Mrs. f. B. Judge is spending few
days with relatives in Atlanta
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See Us Tor Job Work
Better Farming i'm the South
WHAT THE CROPS ARE ASKING FOR

Feed the Plants
Increasing Crop
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Numerous Terrell county farmers
and several of Lee have been heeced
by a tobacco expert from Virginia, F.
r. Zeigler, according to the Dawson
News. 1t appears that the tobacco
growers had agreed to pay him $500
per acre for looking after the prep
aration of the crop, and most of this
money was collected in advance from
the farmers and turned over to Zeig-
Ter with the agreement that he de-
post it in the bank and pay himself
off quarterly. With the several hum
dred dollars in his pocket Zeigler
wandered away and, so far, has neg
lected to return. He was employed
last year by the farmers of that sec
ton with splendid success and they
had no reason to doubt but that he
was all right.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-21

Judge S. E. Leverett held his reg
ular term of Justice Court last Satur-
day.
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after some counter attacks, were fnally
left in British hands, and the Allies now
held line from the User Canal, where 1t
enters the marsh district, as far east as
the northern environs of st. Julien, which
correspondent roughly with the line held by
the same Allies when the First Battle or
Ypres began. They had, in word, aool-
ished the Ypres salient, and from the
flooded districts south of DiXmude to the
Lys below Armentieres the Allied line ran
practically straight, while at the northern
and southern extremities-that is, about
Pilkem and Wytschaete-the high ground
was wholly in their hands.
High Ground Still With Enemy
But from the Ypres- Confines Canal at
Hollebeke to the foot of the ridge near
Gravenstafel, north of Zonnebeke-that is,
along the whole centre of the Ypres sector
all the high ground, all the ridge, still re-
NAMED in German hands, and this was the
portion which was essential: all the other
operations had merely been preliminary
work on the two fanks to clear the way
for an attack in the centre. While the
Germans held the Pilkem and "White
Sheet" ridges it was not possible to push
forward in the centre, because the advance
would be enfladed by German guntire from
the TANKS and all British concentrations
could be observed and reported before they
had passed Ypres and while they were
still further than German reserves were
from the actual firing line.
By the middle of August, then, the
Allies had restored the situation on their
tanks which had existed at the moment the
First Battle of Ypres had opened, in Octo-
Der. 1914. In sense this is what the
French achieved in their first Verdun
offensive, in October, 1916, when they re-
took Douaumont and Vaux; but when the
French retook these two vital positions
thew limited their effort to this objective
and tho enemy still held all the nearby
hsishts. The successive drives that "
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December of last year and that in recent
weeks, completed the task. But 1t is well
to remember that the French were merely
seeking to disengage Verdun and not pre-
pairing any great offensive. They were
satisfied when they had reoccupied all the
important positions from Hill 304 to Fort
&C Vaux which had been in their hands
before the German attack of February,
1916.
About Ypres, on the contrary, the Allies
were seeking a far more ambitious objec-
tive, and they regarded the June and
August operations as necessary, but rela-
lively minor, preparatory thrusts. When
they were over the British on the operative
front from st. Julien to Hollebeke looked
up the slopes of the ridge to the positions
which they had held in the opening days
of the fighting in this region and had only
given up completely in May, 1915, after the
Gas attack had broken in the northern end,
or reentrant, as the soldiers say, of the
Ypres salient.
The Most Difficult Country
On the large scale map of the German
front in this sector made by the British
staff from aeroplane observation, copy
of which General Maurice, Chief of Mill
tary Operations, gave me in London in the
winter, there are indicated before the Brit
ish line Of last autumn three systems of
trench lines, separated by something like
q mile, the first running along the foot
of the ridge from st. Julien down to Holle-
heke, passing through the hamlets Of
Frezenberg, Westhoek and Klein Zillebeke.
Practically all of this line was preached in
the fighting of August, when Langemarck
was taken, but it was not for many weeks
that the British were able to surmount
it, and some of the fiercest and most deadly
fighting of the war has taken place in this
first system. This is revealed in the weekly
British casualty lists, which show a total
loss Of 10000 In three weeks ending
Augvt II. weeks n which there WAS Nc
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Last Fight of 1917
ON Ground Which
Saw BittereSt
Phases of Early
Struggle
By FRANK II. SlMONDS
Author Of "The World War" They Shall
Not Pass"

Not Pass
In the present article desire to discuss
IN detail the latest British operation from
WIRES eastward, a logical and natural ex-
tension of the two earlier operations,
which are themselves phases Of the great
british campaign of 1917. To do this 1t
will be necessary to examine at consider
able length the main geographical and
strategic circumstances of the Npres re
sion. so frequently mentioned and so little
described in current battle reports.
10 start AZ the beginning, there IS be
tween Iangemarck and the Jys River at
Warneton a ffteen-mie front of good
oround-that is, solid ground over which
armies can advance. North of Lange-
uarc'; the land is low and swampy and
has been flooded since the Battle of the
Ysor. i'm October, 1914, when the Belgians
opcned the sluices and thus halted the
German advance on the User front. South
q, Warreton and on the right bank of the
Iys the forts of Lille and the city and its
suburbs make any advance difficult, and to
the difficulties of ground is added the OBJ
s,acla incident to the certain destruction
&c this great French city should the fight
ing approach it. What the Germans have
done in St. Quentin and Lens they would
certainly do in Lille.
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The Bulldog Closes In


Meantime attention should be fixed upon
the front between the Roulers railroad and
the Menin road Here the last fight Of
the campaign Of 1917 will probably he
fought on the ground that three years
ago at the very same time saw the Bit
terest phases Of the First Battle of Ypres.
Then the Germans outnumbered the Brit
ish five to one and the British fought with
out heavy artillery or high explosives. To-
cay the Germans are outuumbered and
outgunned. Then a ;hin line of British
infantry fighting with rifles against ma
chine guns and field pieces against heavy
artillery blocked the German road to
Calais; now the German line with equal
desperation is seeking TO block British
army aiming to push eastward through
the Ypres sally-port and cut of the Ger
mans from the Belgian coast.
Here is a measure Of the fashion in
which the conditions of the World War
have changed in three years: Instead o.
100000 British, there are to-day nearly
1900, 900 in France and at least fifteen
times as many on the firing line as Field
Marshal Sir John French had at Ypre..
And it is rather an impressive evidence
Of British obstinacy ard tenacity that now,
after three years, they are retakiEg the
ground the Germans captured in the open
ing months Of the war. A victorious Brit
ish army advancing over the ground on
which the "Old Contemptibles" stood and
died, holding new Thermopyls, is one
more evidence of the amazing justice Of
the comparison of the Briton to the bull
dog. - -
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to Langemarck, behind several of the little
brooks which flow west to the User.
In the First Battle of Ypres-in October
and November, 1914-the British were
pushed westward off the ridge from
Broodseinde all the way through
Wytschaete and Messines, except for one
little strip from Gheluvelt to Zonnebeke;
hut from Zonnebeke to Langemarck their
line was pushed back very little indeed.
This fighting transformed the Ypres Sec
tor into a very disagreeable salient, and
the Germans on the ridge about Messines
and Wytschaete looked down upon Ypres
and swept the rear of the British and
their lines of communication in all the
salient.
Germans Won All Heights in 1918
In the Second Battle of Ypres-in April
and May, l915-the battle in which poison
pas appeared, the German attack was
about Langemarck, and, having broken
the French Colonial troops, who held the
line about Langemarck and to the west,
the Germans came south until they
reached the User canal at Lizerne. They
even passed the canal at the crest OF
their rush. This advance necessitated a
new adjustment of the lines, and the Brit
ish were compelled to draw back along
their whole front between Langemarck
and the Menin road, giving up Zonnebeke
and all but tho barest foothold on the
ridge. To all practical purposes they
were now off the ridge and the Germans
held all the good gun positions and OBJ,
servation points from one end of the ridge
to the other. And this situation endured
down to June of the present year.
At this time the British. having deter
mined to make their main offensive for
the year in the Ypres district, were faced
with the immediate problem of the ridge
Before they could move at all it was neces-
sary to drive the Germans of that portion
Of the ridge south Of the Menin road and
crowned by the villages Of Messines and
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great drive, but merely the "ding-dong" Of
local operations.
By the first Of September we may say
the British had surmounted this first Ger
man system from st. Julien to Hollebeke;
they had touched the foot of the ridge,
which lay before them from Gheluvelt, on
the Menin road, to Zonnebeke, on the
Ypres- Rouers railway.
The British had before them now a Sec
end system of defences stretched across
some of the most difficult country on the
whole Western front, country of small
woods and little ponds, hiding solid farm
houses which lent themselves to fortifi-
cation. To these woods, ponds and farm
houses the British Tommy" and his
Canadian and Australian comrades had
given familiar names, although some of
the more considerable patches Of forest
kept their old names. Polygon Wood, the
largest belt of woodland, famous in the
First Battle of Ypres, retained its name,
as did Nuns Wood; but Glencorse Wood
Inverness Copse, Stirling Castle and
Shrewsbury Forest, with DumbaSton
Lakes near by, signalled the presence of
Britons and Scots, while Toronto Farm,
Quebec Farm, Abraham Heights and even
Kansas Cross testified to America, as did
Anzac, Helles and Gallipoli Farms to Aus
tralia.
Hindenburs's Elastic Defence
This second system was an inextricable
tangle of underbrush, marsh, ruins-it had
endured three years of Smelling, and only
those who have seen the battlefelds of the
Somme or of Verdun can even conjecture
what such country really is like. Roughly
speaking, this line covered Zonnebeke and
Gheluvelt, which were behind it and between
it and the third line, which lay along the
crest Of the main ridge. This operative
front was approximately seven miles broad
from st. Julien to Tower Hamlets, a re.
doubt southwest Of Gheluvelt; It was de-
tended By the old-fashionsd rsdoubts and
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Only Third System of
German Trenches
North of Menin
Road Remains
To Be RewOn
Copyright, 1s17-The Tribune Associations

Notifications of the Somme time. now be.
come obsolete, but it was also defended
by deep network of little cement forts
Tor machine guns-"pill boxes" in the
argot of the Tommy prepared shell
holes, details in Hindenburg's elastic"
defensive.
1t was against this system that thu
British launched their last offensive 81
September 10 and 90, and in this offensive
they took all the works of importance in
this system on the whole front attacked
Their advance was nowhere over a mic
deep, but it carried them through the Ger
man second line, as the August operation,
had carried them over the first, and j,
was a much more clean-cut and immedi-
ately successful operation than that of
the previous month, comparing fsvorably
with the recent ISench offensive operation
at Verdun, which made an advance ~
about the same distance over front but
little broader.
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Wytschaete, because from these positions
the Germans commanded their rear and
all their lines of communication from the
User Canal at Lizerne all the way round
to the foot Of the ridge at Wytschaete.
This was done in the battle which is
known to the British army as the Battle
Ct white Sheet" Ridge, and this battle
marks one of the most successful British
operations on the technical side in the
whole war, comparable with the several
French attacks in the Verdun. sector,
which alone rival it in brilliant correlation
Of artillery and infantry tactics. In this
battle the British captured all Of the
southern end of the ridge as far north as
Hollebeke, where the Ypres Confines
Canal, connecting the User and the Lys,
cuts through it.
But this was only preliminary step.
II was a necessary preparation for the
main attack, but this main attack neces-
sarily had to be made north of the Co.
mines Canal and along the Menin and
Roulers roads. From June to August the
Preparations for this great operation went
forward. In this time all the great mass
Of munitions had to be accumulated, roads
and railroads built, guns concentrated, and
this work was completed by July 81, which
saw the opening of the second phase in
this British offensive.
British Abolish Ypres Salient
This time the operation was from the
north side of the old Ypres salient. Pre-
csely as the Germans from the Wyt-
schaete- Messines Ridge commanded the
Ypres salient from the south, they swept it
from the north on the Pilkem Ridge south
Of Langemarck. 1t was necessary to clear
away this side of the salient, too. This
was done in that attack of July 81 and the
succeeding days in which the British, with
the aid of French army on their extreme
left, pushed across the User Canal and
took Steenstraate, Het Sas, Pilkem, Blk
schoots and St julien. These positions,