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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
FIRST STEP FOR
CONSOLIDATED
SCHOOLS TAKEN
Committee To Confer With City
Board Education in Regards To
Progressive Measure

he County Board of Education
oJk the first step towards consoE-
eating the rural high schools with thai
OF the City OF Fitzgerald when thew
voted to appoint committe to confer
with the Board OF Education for the
City, in regard to this progressive
measure
The County Board was unap nous
IN their desire to cooperate with the
City Board, if by doing so. the educa-
t,onal opportunities OF the rural chill
dren may be improved without too
"eat an additional expense to .hc
people of the county.
III plan TO be adopted WAS made
possible by a change in the school
law by the last Legislature, which au
thor'zes county and city boards of
Ncducaton to operate Joint high schools
within the incorporate limits of city.
The committee for the County Board
of Education consists of Supt. 7. H.
3ullard r II. Dorminey and w. TT.
Roberts They will meet with a like
committee OF the City Board as soon
as same is appointed.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Buried In Well
Digger Is Saved
Dead Wagon Ready; George Ruston
Decides to Try Other Work

NALDOSTA, Ga, Nov. ! Al
though buried for four hours under 5
feet of earth from a cavedin well
and the undertaken with his dead wag-
on waiting at the mouth of the well,
George Huston an aged negro we'll
digger decided to postpone his fun
eral indefinitely and he is reported
to be slowly recovering his strength
at his home in this city.
Ruston was engaged in cleaning out
a well on the Jerry Jones place north
east of the city and was down about
fifty feet when the we'll caved in,
plunging apparently several tons of
earth on top of him. There was plank
in the we'll standing upright and for
tttnately RuSton was so close to this
that it kept the earth from smother
ing him. His helper on the ground gave
the alarm and although it was four
hours before he was cxtricated, the
negro was alive and it getting over
the effects of his hours Imprisonment.
in the well. He is sixty-five years OF
age and has been digging and clean
ing wells all his life but after coming
out of this affair he says he thinks he
has about caught UP on we'll digging
and will do something else.
Long ladders from the fire depart
ment were hurried from the city and
these were used for the rescue party to
get down to the cave in and enable
Ruston to be dug out in time to save
his life. So certain were the mans
friends that he was dead that an I'M
dertaker was called and his dead wac
on witt, the sombre basket were wait
ing at the mouth of the well when
George was hauled up and instantly
dismissed the undertaken as an I'M
welcome visitor.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Evangelistic Services
Being Held AT Central
Christian Cburch
Revival Conducted By Evangelist Day
and Singer Sturgis To Last Tru
Next Week

Large crowds are attending the Ev-
angellstic meetings being held at the
Central Christian Church which began
last Sunday and will continue thru all
next week. Evangelist E. l.. Day is
an unusually strong preacher, being a
great Bible Scholar, he presents the
truths of the Gospel in such way
that hearers are given food for thought
Night after night his appeals for
consecratlng ones life to the service
OF the Master are placed on such a
high plane that no one is able to say
that he IS isSnot a master at this.
Tonight his subject will be Christ
in the Home. All families are in
vited to come and sit together.
Evangelist Day will give special
recognition to the largest family pres
ent, the Oldest person, those married
the longest, the youngest married cou-
pie, the youngest baby, etc.
Friday night a special message for
the youth of the city and the High
School students and teachers. A spe-
cial place will be reserved for all who
will come
Saturday night is booster night. BE
a booster and be there Regular ser
vices Sunday with service at p. M
Then all next week at 7:45 Rev. Day
will bring Gospel messages.
The music is in charge of Prof ]
+. Sturgis OF Cincinnati, O., who is
one Of the best singers that has ever
come to Fitzgerald. He is using a
book that he himself edited. The song
service begins at 745 and if You en-
joy music, you will hear a great num-
Der and beautiful hymns of the church
by going early.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Twenty-Seven Die
In Mine Explosion
Disaster in Glen Rogers Mine In West
Virginia; 48 Men Escape

BECkLEY. w. Va, Nov. 7-Twen-
ty seven men were killed by an explo-
sion in the Glen Rogers mine of the
Raleigh Wyoming Coal Company in
remote mountain district Is miles
from here at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, EARLY last night rs bodies had
been removed from the shattered
workings and rescue crews were
searching for the bodies of the two
missing men.
State mine inspectors under R. NJ.
Lamble, chief of the state department.
OF mines, had gone through a part of
the workings but declared they were
unable to say anything of the explo-
sion other than it was confined to one
entry where all the fatalities occur
red
Gov Morgan left Charleston for the
mine. State police rushed to the scene
and there was no disorder
The mine which is one of the deepest
IN West Virginia was preparing for a
record production day and IS men
had gone down the 800 foot shaft to
their working places before O'Clock.
Fire bosses, it was stated had inspect
cd the mine as late as 730 and pro-
nounced it safe The forty-eight men
who escaped after the explosion were
working in section some distance
from where the blast occurred The
explosion did not put the cages and
fans out of commission, it was learned
and the miners experienced little diff
ficulty in reaching the surface
Carl Scholz, general manager of the
Raleigh Wyoming Coal Company said
after hurried investigation that all
the men working in the entry where
the explosion occurred had been killed.
SO far as he knew, none of those es-
capped hadI been injured.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Third District High
School Conference
Held in Vienna Friday and Saturday
Important Topics Were Discussed

The Third District High School con
ference was held at Vienna on last
Friday evening and Saturday morn
ing. The meeting was presided over
by Supt u. J. Bennett, the president
of the Third District Association. The
Friday evening program was devoted
to study of the relationship existing
between the Home, the School, the
Church and the Social Environment.
The relation OF the church was ably
discussed by Rev. J. H. Elder of the
First Methodist Church of Fitzger-
aid. Other speakers of this program
were: Mrs. Dave Ketchum of Vienna,
Dean Kyle T. Alfriend of Bessie Tiff
College, and Hon. 0. T. Cover of
Cordele.
A number of important topics were
discussed at the Saturday morning
session among which were: "The cul-
tural and vocation values of Home
Economics" by Miss Ossie Mcintyre
and rs the High School meeting the
Demands OF Modern Business" by Mr..
J. F. Lee, both of whom are members
of the Fitzgerald High School fac
ulty.
~ HICGtllS Vi llle executive commit
tee of the Third District was also held
for the purpose of discussing plans
for the District Meet which will be
held i'll Montczuma next April. The
members of this committee are: Supt.
y. ]. Bennett, Fitzgerald; Supt, ]. H.
jenkins, Vienna; Supt w. H. Mar
tin, Lumpkin; Prin c NJ. Hale, of
Americas; and Prin. H. c. Cults Of
Ashburn
The people of Vienna entertained
the visitors and made it a pleasant
stay for them
Miss Mary Wilson attended the
conference and the other teachers of
Fitz-Hi had planned to go Saturday
but were prevented from doing so by
the rain
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Anniversary Column
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO

(Fitzgerald Leader, Nov us, 1910
There are 81 convGts on the county
gang now situated in camp about three
miles out on the Claire road which
they have been working for SoRre time
and which will be graded and put in
good shape to the Wilcox county line.
Sixteen of the prisoners are felony
convicts furnished by the state.
Bishop Reese, D. D.. held his visi-
tation Sunday, Nov s, celebrating
Holy Communion in the morning and
preaching both morning and evening
and at Lynnwood School house at A.
Excu1 sion rates to Savannah are
being announced for the occasion of
the unwilling OF the Oglethorpc mon
ument which will be gala occasion
with state and federal troops in parade
and other interesting exercises.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
FIFTH PLAYS WAYCROSS
HERE FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Attendants May Expect to See Hard
Fought Battle Tomorrow

In what promises to be one of he
hardest fought games of the season
will be contested Friday afternoon be-
tween Fitz-Hi and the strong Way
cross eleven.
Waycross seems to have made a
fine tecorod SO far this season, having
recently defeated the strong Balm
bridge team in cambridge by 20
margin.
AS yet Fitz-Hi has not been de
fcated on home ground and under the
able leadership of Coach Fits we now
have a team of which we may all be
proud.
The team is i'll the prime of con-
dltion and is sure to give the Way
cross bunch hot time.
Come out and root for The High
School. they need and deserve your
utmost support. The game to be call
cd promptly at o'clock at the Ball
Park Come out and see Fitz- Hi win.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Armistice Day, November 18th.
Mapping Car To
Be Here This Week
A. A. A. Official Car Scheduled To
Reach Fitzgerald This Week On
Tour of Southeast

The official mapping car of the
American Automobile Association left
Washington, D. c. November lst and
will probably pass through Fitzgerald
one; day this week. Plotted by A. G.
Seller, managing the touring and trans
portation bureau and r. w. Cullen
chief OF the map division, the car will
cover the roads between Washington
and the following cities: Richmond
Petersburg, Greensboro, Spartanburg
Atlanta, Macon, Valdosta, Lake Civ
Orlando, Daytona, Jacksonville, Way
cross, Savannah. Augusta, Columbia
Pinehurst and Raleigh
The information so obtained will BIZ
furnished by the associations to it.
364 touring bureaus, and the advice
OF these bureaus will be followed by
tourists.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08

tive selection instead OF cumulative
quotas, while the process of selection
should be carried on in Europe, by
immigration experts of the Department
OF Labor, attached to the American
consulates over there.
There is absolutely no need of for
eigners coming all the way across the
Atlantic to determine their chances of
entrance at Ellis Island
We should follow a precedent al
ready established in the enforcement
of the Chinese Exclusion Act, under
which Chinese of certain class, per-
mittcd to enter the United States in
spite of that law, may determine their
qualifications for such entrance before
they cross the Pacific.
Shall we not, therefore, treat our
own cousins in Europe as we'll as we
the people Of the Far East?
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Belvin Drug Company
Succeeds Paulk Go

The Reason Paulk Drug Company
was purchased this week by Mcssrs
w. M. Belvin of Quitman and P. w.
Alton of Eatonton, Ga, both gentle
men coming TO the city after care
sll investigation of other South Geor-
gia towns for business opportunities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reason Paulk will
make tour of Florida with view to
locating somewhere in the Land Of
Flowers"
The families OF Messrs Walton and
BeIvin will make their home in this
city, Mr.. Belvin having rented a home
on west Magnolia, whilst Mr.. Walton's
family will arrive here sometime later
in the year.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Waycross Wins
School Bond Fight

WAYCROSS, Ga, Nov. I'm one
of the most hotly-contested bond cleo
tons held in the history of Waycross
school bonds amounting to $125,00O
were carried at the special election
today, while the proposed increase of
four mills in milage for school pur-
poses was defeated by the narrow mar
gin of three votes.
Bonds were carried by a 27-vote
margin, both elections being extreme
ly close and the result was in doubt
until the final tabulation of the results
at the municipal building at 9 o'clock
tonight
Possibly the largest vote in the his
tory of the city was polled at the
election today, 1897 votes being cast.
OF this number 1924 votes for bonds
and 623 against
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
TRAVELLERS RETURN
FROM WESTERN TRIP

Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Bigham and
Mrs. E. Fox returned to the city last
Tuesday, after a six months tour of
the Western states Mr.. Bigham gave
an interesting report of the many won
ders on their trip, but states that
Georgia has as many points of beau
Ity as has California, if they were de-
veloped and a much more attractive
climate the year round.
On their trip they visited Yellow
stone Park, South Dakota, California,
Arizona, New Mexico and took brief
peep into Old Mexico, just to be in
Guiding a foreign country in their
itenery.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Creamery To Open
Here Wednesday

The local Creamery will open for
Business next Wednesday, accord
ing TO statement given out by Mr..
Stubs Dorminey The Creamery will
be subsidiary of the Cordele Cream
cry and be run by that corporation.
1t is probable that they will con-
centrate the cream of the surrounding
territory, some OF which was being
shipped to Cordelc at the local plant
and thus establish sufficient quantity
to enable them to run regularly for
some time.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
BOYS THIGH BROKEN

he twelve year Old son OF Oscar
McDerIpit, riding a bicycle on West
Central last evening, was run into by
a car driven by Mr.. Davis and SER
iously injured.
On examination at the hospital, it
was discovered thai his thigh was
broken and otherwise considerably
bruised.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
CONVICT INJURED
IN AUTO WRECK

Sim Williams, whose term expires
on November 30th was seriously in
urcd when truck, loaded with bridge
t'mhcrs, turned over on him on the
Della Road just south If the Irn'in
county bridge.
Immediate medical attention was
rendered and the unfortunate negro
sen to the local hospital for treat
ment. AT last reports he is said to be
improving.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
BOWEN BLOCK
BEING IMPROVED

The Bowen Block on East Central
Avenue will take on Metropolitan airs
with the completion of the new Ex-
change National Bank building. Mr..
Bowen is having model fronts put on
two of his store rooms west of the
bank building.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
JACK STEWART TAKES
DESERTER TO THE NAVY

Chief Dixon and Jack Stewart ar
rested DIN O'Neil a deserter from
the Navy and returned him to Paris
Island, S, c. last week O'Neil was
formerly an employee of the Cotton
Mill here and came home to make
visit to the folks.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Chipso Boys Are
In The City

The Chipso boys will cali on every
home i'll Fitzgerald this week and next
SO be sure to meet them at your door
They will tell You all the fine points
about good soap, especially "Chipso"
a new product manufactured by the
Proctor & Gamble Co Enough soap
will be given away to wash the "old
town" clean one time.
Be sure and get youE'free package
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08

Rev ]. H. Elder accompanied Mr.. C
A. Titus of Atlanta on his homeward
trip by automobile last Monday and
from Alicia Rev. Elder went to Ma
rettaa the conference of the NJ
+. Csyls now in progress.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
Crop Report For
Month OF October

Our neighboring counties didn't fair
any better than Ben Hill in cotton
production, according to the report of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Just issued:
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
ROAD GUIDE
JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY
Out of Fitzgerald

JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY
Route to Savannah:-Via Abbeville,
cross bridge to Rhine, Milan, McRae,
Alamo, Mt. Vernon, Vidalia, Lyons,
Rcidsville, Claxton, Pembroke Take
road via Burnscd bridge to Louisville
road; road good to Canoochee river
bridge; east of Claxton just fair to
Pembroke and Louisville road; Chat
ham county paved.
Route to Augusta-.vla Abbeville
bridge, take north route two miles east
of bridge to Eastman, Dublin, Wrights
fair entire distance
Route to Montgomery, Ala via
Irwinville. Sycamore, Ashburn, Syl
vester, Albany. Dawson, Cuthbert,
Georgetown, Eufaula, Union Springs.
Road fair TO Sylvester, paved to- Al
bany and good road to Georgetown.
Gross bridge to Eufaula.
DIXIE HIGHWAY
Central Route"
Route to Macon-via Abbevile,
Hawkinsville, Perry. Good to Bibb
County line then paved into Macon.
Detour fourteen miles north of Able
vile at bridge.
Route to Jacksonville-Via Ocilla,
Douglas, Nichols, Folkston, Jackson
vile Good road to Nichols, rough to
good to Waycross, excel
lent to Folkston and Jax'vile.
ROUTE TO CORDELE
Via Rochelle, Seville and Pitts,
road good to fair all the way.
(This information will be printed
each week in this column; should any
serious changes be reported, will make
notation of such. )-Leader- Enterprise
Promoter of Good Roads.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08

Medical men who have been content
to sit on State Boafds combining their
activities to attacks on other schools
OF healing, never finding time to in
vestigate their own house and put it
in order, ought also to be interested in
the work that the St. Louis Star has
done for them.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08

The St. Louis Star renders great
service to the country in its exposure
OF medical diploma mill, turning
loose upon the country men equipped
with diplomas authorizing them to
practice medicine and destroy life
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08

The learned Harvard Professor
Shaler in his book on the mob declares
that even a gathering of clergymen by
certain influences could be turned into
murderous lynching mob. Our ami
NAL ancestors are still alive in the
brains that we inherit from them.
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-09-13
KOL NIDRA
BY MORRIS soREMsKY

Yom Kppu Eve the scattered children of Israel assemble
and temples worship what their
of all committed against
their The tells Cod does forgive
sins fellow being until have
rghted did to Others by getting the wronged
forgiveness The song called KoNda which interpreted
obligations pledges oaths of all which
bound this day of
aforehand
ALL They shall all be deemed absoved forgiven annued
and have The
eckoned the obligation shall not be considered
obligatory oah considered oaths The melody
which written which has touched
the hearts Jewish worshpper still keeps
the MANY thousands privileged it today The
beauul vet stirring the
of hearts.
There are great of today, who still wonder from
whence this heart fetching have afforded
without knowledge its The
oestion itself of Importance why is koNidra path
eticq To those learned position to know
1 toll Won that words which explained the eff
foot that Cod, does to make promises which
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-09-13
AT THE ORPHEUM

Snowy Baker. internationally known
big game hunter and motion picture
star. makes his initial bow before
Denver audience. Appearing with Mr.
Baker are his niece loan and his broth
er Harry Baker, in an act interspersed
with stage boxing, whip-cracking ana
fencing. the equal of which has never
teen presented here before. Mr.. Bak-
cr's beautiful white horse, Boomerang,
that has been with him on all of his
thrilling kangaroo hunts in the Anti
podes Bush also appears in the act.
Billy Sharp who for the past i've
years has been limiting his appearance
to the east comes west with his
Twentieth Century Revue. While MI.
Sharp has produced several musical
rcvues in the past. this one is his most
ambitious effort Mile. Marionne, n
dancer of unsual ability and the Oar
ling Sisters. harmony singers are in
cluded in the cast.
Lew Brice who has always scored
heavily in the past returns to Denver
with an entirely new line of comedy
quipS
Paul and Gladys Gerrish present bits
from the latest musical comedy sue
cesses
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-09-13
M A NUS RIPT LETTERS
FROM FAMOUS JEWS FOR
PALESTINE MUSEUM.
tJewish Telegraphic Agency,


.Jerrisalem-A large collection of man.
uscript letters and portraits of famous
Jews will soon pass into the possession
Of the Jewish National Museum here.
The collection includes altogether about
2.JOO portraits and letters.
The letters We're written by Mcndele
Mocher Seforim. Achad Hiram. Lord
Bcaconstield. Bialik. Berdiczewski,
Sara Bernhardt. Ludwig Boernc. Gre
mieux. Rabbi Elijah Gaon of wilma.
Rabbi Akiba Eiger. Jehuda Leib Cor
don. Gambetta, Graetz. Herzl. Heine.
Gustav Landaucr. Max Lieberman Fer
dinard I.asSallc. Caesar Lombroso, Karl
Marx. Gustav Mailer. Max Nordau. Ar
thur SchnitZler. Otto Weiningcr. etc.
1t is intended to add to the ex-
hibits continually. The collection was
first placed on exhibition at the hall
of the Zionist Congress in Carlsbad.
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-09-13
A Definition of America
BY Rabbi Abba Silver.

(From an address before the n. \. l..
A. Convention, Cleveland
In the heat and the strife of the war
was asked c4,ce to give my defh.ition
of America, and said to the men:
To me America is infinitely more than
an aggregate of 11O,OO0,O00 men: to me
America is all that the submerged races
of the world wish to he and cannot :;
to me America is the concrete realiza-
tion of what the ages have hoped for
and labored for That was my defini-
tion | gave to them.
1T is II definition. 1t is n creed. II
is n challenge God built n continent
of glory and filled it with treasures un-
told. He carpeted it with soft rolling
prairies and pillared ii with thunder
ing mountains. He studded it with soft
flowing fountains and traced il with
long winding streams. He graced it
with deep shadowed forests and filled
them with song.
Then he called unto Il thousand peo-
pies and summoned the hrayest among
them. They came from the ends of the
earth. each bearing gift and n hope.
The glow of adventure was in their
eyes and the glory of hope within their
souls. And out of the labor of men
and the bounty of earth. cut of the
prayers of men and the hopes of the
world God fashioned Il nation in love.