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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
South Georgia Poultry
Association To Meet
w. R. Skinner, President, Issues Call
To Members and Others Interested

The South Georgia Poultry Asspci-
alton will meet at the Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday night at o'clock.
All members of the association ami
others interested in pure bred poultry
and the poultry industry in Ben Hill
County, are requested to be there.
Come on, get the ''go get it" spirit,
and let's make Ben Hill County one
of the best and most productive coun-
ties in the State with the slogan "the
COW, the sow, and last But not least,
the hen
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

Mr.. P. R. Booker and Mrs. ]. t.
Hendricks and daughters Carrie JOS
ephine and Margaret Ann have return
ed from the G A R ,Encampment at
Milwaukee. They enjoyed visit with
Mrs. Pearl Moody and Mrs. ]. T. Hoff
man in Detroit, also with brother in
Clay City, Ind, and visited Chicago
and Zion City on sight seeing trip
and also Atlanta for few days.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
DISASTROUS WRECK
ON THE A. B. & A.

LA GRANGE, Ga, On Sept. nh,
No. e. through freight with dead en-
glne in town derailed on trestle at
mile post 275 on Birmingham division.
engine and twenty-five cars went down
carrying trestle with it, completely de-
molishing eighteen cars and doing CON
siderable damage to engine, engineer
and fireman went down with engine
and escaped with slight injury.
The trestle will have to be COM
pletely rebuilt from its foundation. Of
fetal report assigns as cause of the
wreck, brake beam came down.
The damage is estimated at 100000
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
AKILLED BY HEARSE

y PEMBERTON, Lancashire, - Mi
4chaci Ceetham, %, after jumping off
tram car was knocked down and
killed by motor hearse.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
Anniversary Column
IA YEARS AGoi
DAILY News, Sept. l4-21, 1909

DAILY News, Sept. 14-21, 1oOo)
The I1tton Gazette has Jus. issued
81 page 7 column trade edition that
does great credit to Editor Herrinp
and his associates. Editor is to be con-
graduated both for the magnificent
volume and upon having cast his lot
among men who can see so clearly the
good there is in harmony and cooper
alton and public spirit.
A trade was closed this morning bv
virtue of which Mr. E. L. Haines of
Atlanta becomes sole owner and pro-
prietor of the Fitzgerald Leader. hav-
ing bought it from Mr.. J. H. Harris.
Misses Grace Parrish and. Annie Ian
RE Jolley entertained at porch partv
at the home of Mrs. G. A. Joley on
south Grant street. Progressive Finch
was played ON the lawn, Miss Hlda
! Cooper making top score. A delicious
ice course was served by Misses Fan
Esther Meakin and Hazel Dean Tol-
ley. Those present were Misses Nina
Mills, Hilda Cooper, Esther Osborne,
Kate Bailey, ]. c. Russell, Dorothy
Jones, Ida Handley, Elsie McAllster,
Fan Esther Meakin, Grace and Belle
Parrish and Annie Laurie and Hazel
Dean Jolley.
A congenial crowd gathered at the
home of Miss May Wilcox to spend
several hours in social chat and chew
ing sugar cane Souvenirs of the oeca-
sion were the visiting cards of the hos
tess with stalk Of sugar,cane painted
on the blank side. Those present were
Misses Kate Wilson of Waycross, FL
inc BEaswell, Mildred Wooten, Kath
leen Braswell Emily Boyd, Daisy
Belle Thompson. Fannie Boyd and
Mrs. Z. w. Murray.
RMS. G. c. Smith returned from
Waycross yesterday in Mr.. Smiths
motor car accompanied by Miss Maud
Beck who will be her guest. =
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

Mr.. A. G. Brown returned Wednes-
da yfrom his trip TO Chicago and Zion
City and was accompanied home by
his step-father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. ] w. Howder. He had delight
full reunions with all members of his
family and many other old friends,
some former Fitzgeraldites.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

If giraffe sees a lion first he can
outdistance him, and, if driven to bay,
matches his hoofs against the teeth
and claws of his enemy.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

DR.. D. B. Ware was brief visitor
in the city Tuesday night.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03

ter" was Hall. and thus caused his ar
rest and return to Georgia convict
camp.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03
Governors Approve.

Augusta. Me-. July 3.--The gov.
errors Of the New England states ex-
cepting New Hampshire, last night
dispatched a telegram to the inter-
state commerce commission request
ing that the proposed hearing on
railroad consolidation be postponed.
The postponement was urged 'in Or
der to give sufficient opportunity to
the citizens of New England, to the
public and commercial organizations,
and to all others interested, to study
the report that has been presented to
the New England governors.
The report referred to was made
Sunday to the assembled governors
at Poland Spring by James ]. Stor-
row, chairman of the joint New Eng
land railroad committee named by the
governors 10 months ago to study the
New England transportation problem
in order to determine what the atti
tude of New England should be to-
wards the Transportation Act of 1920
directing the interstate commerce
commission to prepare plan for the
consolidation of the railroads of the
United States into limited number
OF systems. The telegram also asked
that the several state chairmen of the
Joint committee represent New Eng
land at the hearing. Rehabilitation
of the Boston and Maine and the New
York, New Haven and Hartford as a
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03

preliminary step toward the consol-
idation OF the two roads into New
England system was recommended.
Consolidation of New England roads
with trunk Zines was disapproved.
Commend Committee Report
A statement signed by all the gov
errors Of New England states except
Governor Frederick H, Brown of New
Hampshire, was issued tonight in
which the report of the committee
was commended. .o
THE conclusion and recommen-
dations of this committee are entitled
to the fair and careful consideration
of all persons interested In the pro-
priety and development Of New Eng
land" the statement said.
THE New England states are in
dependent and their problems in
many ways are similar. The people
are vitality concerned in the present
serious situation that confronts our
railroads. The plan of the commit
tee is the first complete constructive
suggestion that has been made for
the rehabilitation of the New Haven
and Boston and Maine roads. |
Problem Must BE Solved
I'VE believe the time has come
when these railroad problems must
be solved and we expect that this
will be done with the same spirit
that has been the inspiration of New
in years gone by.
I'VE have not had time to con-
slider or discuss the committees
plans, but we shall do everything in
our power to promote the interests
not alone of our particular states, but
of all New England. We shall give
the committees report our early at !
tenton and have already made plans |
to meet in Boston early in August
for further discussion of the situa-
ton" |
Vice president Calvin Coolidge, |
Mrs. Coolidge and their two sons, and |
9 Governor Cox of Massachusetts, and |
Tempeton of Connecticut, with |
friends, arrived here at noon today
from Poland Spring as the guests of
Governor Baxter of this state.
Governors Flynn, of Rhode Island
and Proctor of Vermont, left Poland
Spring at noon for their homes.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03
BETRAYS FIANCEE'S
FATHER AS SLAYER.
Suitor Sends Florida Man Back
10 Prison for Life

Valdosta, Ga. July 3.-After ten
years of freedom. during. which he has
| lived under an assumed name and be-
come substantial resident of Florida,
near Leesburg. l. B. Hall, alias J. r.
Forester, who escaped from a con-
Wet gang in Georgia after serving
seven years of a life sentence for
result of trusting to the honor of the
man who had become engaged to his
daughter.
He told the sutton of his past life
because he did not want the young
man to marry his daughter without
knowing the truth. Betrayed, Hall is
philosophical. II would rather spend
twenty years on the gang" he said,
than to have my daughter marry a
man who betrayed me-"
Nearly ten years ago Hall, charged
with killing Dennis Hall, was tried,
convicted and sentenced to be hanged.
His wife and others appealed to Gov
ernor Slaton, who committed the sem
tence to life imprisonment. Hall went
to the chain gang. After he had serv-
ed several years he was picked up by
the roadside one day and whisked
away in an automobile. His wife was
suspected of aiding the escape.
Hail. located in Florida and his wife
and children joined him there. He
changed his name and no one suspect
ed him of being a fugitive from JUS
tice. His daughter was wooed by
young man of their neighborhood and
they became engaged. When Hall took
the sutton into his confidence the lat
ter not only broke the engagement,
but notified the officers that "Forres-
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03
PEARSON silent AS
GOVERNORS AGREE
New Haven Road Head Does Not
Comment on Merger Plan

New York, July Be. j. Pearson,
president of the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad company,
declined here yesterday to comment
on the report that the financial con-
dition of the New Haven is so bad
that it faces the necessity of "rehabil-
itation by cooperation" or the alter
nature Of rehabilitation by receiver
ship,
The report has just been submitted,
after 10 months deliberation, by the
Joint New England railroad commit
tee to the governors of the New Eng
land states, in conference at Poland
Springs, Me.
The committee opposed the plans of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and for consolidation of New England
roads into trunk line systems, and adj
vised deferring talk of mergers until
the New Haven road and the Boston
and Maine are put back on their feet
financially at a cost of many millions.
Mr.. Pearson said he would have to
go over the complete report before
making any public statement and so
far he was forced to rely on news
paper summaries.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03
SLEEPING SICKNESS DANGERS
Medical Authority Says That Ailment
Often Leaves Patient with Other
Serious Disorders.

Atlantic City. July S.--sleeping
sickness as a fundamental cause OF
mental and moral delinquency was
advanced by DR.. Richey Horner, chief
of the neurological staff Of the Cleve-
land homeopathic hospital in an adj
dress today before the annual conyen-
ton Of the American Institute OF
Homeopathy.
OF the rs children between II
months and three years, who suf-
fered attacks of the disease he said,
II became imbeciles one developed
shaking palsy, one became thief and
incorrigible, while three are In schools
for mental detectives.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03
IA Gigantic Balloons to
Start in Race Tomorrow

indianapolis, July 8. Final inspection
of IA gigantic balloons Awas being
made today In the annual national
elimination balloon race tomorrow aft
ernoon, The contest which is for dis
lance is limited to balloons having a
capacity of not more than $4,000 Gu
bic feet,
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03
LONDON DOCKS AFFECTED
Dockers' Strike Which Started Yes
terday in Hull, Spreads With Ra-
pidity To Other Seaports.

BY The Associated Press.
London, July 3.-The lockers
strike which began IN Hull yesterday
and extended to Bristol and Cardiff
in the afternoon now is affecting the
London docks.
The strike is a protest against the
reduction of one shilling a day in the
wages of the operatives by a nation
al agreement.
At Hull 1000 men are out and work
in the port is completely tied up.
Perishabe cargoes are spelling in
many vessels.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03
READY 70 RHARDING
Transport Henderson, All Remodelled
And Painted Freshly, VIII Take on
President ON Thursday.

Bremerton, Wash. July 3. - Bril-
liant with fresh paint, glistening brass
and new uniforms, the army transport
Henderson was to leave here this
morning for Tacoma where she will
be boarded Thursday by President
Harding and his party for trip to
Alaska and return to Seattle.
Above the bridge of the Henderson
has been built an observation deck
luxuriousiy equipped and enclosed in
glass where the president may watch
the mountains and glaciers of the
north Pacific.
The Henderson will carry COM
plement of 10 officers and 460 men,
New Britain herald., 1923-07-03

1t required a special act of con
gress to give Miss Jean Hodson the
unique distinction of being the old
woman field clerk in the United States
army. She is stationed in San Fran
cisco, as secretary to Maj.-Gen. Nor
ton.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-13
20 Per Cent Discount


down. The Lincoln presidential vic
tory cast a different light upon the
matter. By the secession of the
southern states and withdrawal of
democratic majority in congress was
removed and Dakota territory was
organized, as were also Nevada and
Colorado, Kansas being admitted as
Ia state at the same time.
AS the territorial organization wa
the result of national political strug-
giles, so also the admission TO state
hood was the cause for contest be-
tween the two great national parties.
For a decade previous to 1889 the
agitation for statehood was carried
on. So keen was the desire for or
ganization and separation from North
Dakota that a constitution was adopt
ed and a complete set of state officers
elected three years before the enabl-
ing act was finally passed by the
national congress. South Dakota
was admittedly republican. A major
ity OF the national house of represen-
I~tatives was democratic. Admission
of South Dakota would mean two
more republican senators and at
least one more republican reDresen-
ltative in Washington. To admit a
state of opposite political color would
be political folly for the party in
power, so South Dakota waited.
Senator Benjamin Harrison OF Indi-
ana championed the cause of South
Dakota in congress. Suffering de-
feat he carried the question into the
national republican convention OF
1883, securing the adoption of the fol-
lowing plant in the national republic
an platform:
South Dakota should of right be
Immediately admitted as a state of
the union, under the constitution
framed and adopted by her people,
and we heartily endorse the action of
the republican senate in twice pass
ing bills for her admission. The re-
fusal OF the democratic house of rep
reentatives, for partisan reasons, to
fayorably consider these bills is a
willful violation of the sacred Amer
lean principle of local self govern
ment. and merits the condemnation of
all just men,"
With this plant in their platform,
the republican party carried the cleo
ton in 1888. Seeing the sentiment
thus registered. the democratic house
OF representatives passed the enab-
ling act as one of its last official acts,
thus depriving the republican con-
gress, 500 to assemble, of having the
opportunity Of carrying out its cam
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-13

Dakota, not a state until years after
that issue was settled. However dur
ing the years before the Civil War
when congressional energy was
largely spent on the slavery question,
every territory which wished organ
iZation was carefully scrutiniZed as
to its probable attitude toward the
slave. Dakota was one of the regions
which was conceded to be free" in
sentiment. The democratic majority
in congress was loath to organize
territories which shortly would be
states whose representatives would
be free" For many months Dakota,
with other districts DESTROYS of terri
torial organization was regarded
with askance and all efforts to allow
territorial organization were voted
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-13
P.D.Peterson Garage


paign pledges.
Thus twice has national political
capital been made out of the attitude
of political parties toward South
Dakota. Yet another time was the
eye of the nation turned this way,
when the federal government carried
out the experiment of land lotteries
in the Rosebud country. From every
state in the union, dozens of eager
folk flccked to the lotteries to draw
numbers for land filings. Other land
openings, in other states, had attract
ed eager multitudes but the fervor
and craze resulting from the old
theory CT first come, first served"
had taken the zest out of seeking the
land for many legitimate settlers,
leaving the field open for adventurous
and those who worshipped the theory
of might and speed. To avoid an
other such scramble as the Oklahoma
opening had brought forth, the gov
eminent devised the lottery method
and first used it in the Rosebud. The
thousands who came to file, not for
purposes of adventure but for home
steads, showed the wisdom of the
method and also advertised the state
from Pacific to Atlantic. Free land,
opportunity, wealth, became synony-
nous with the name South Dakota.
The gasoline val is not the only
thing that has made the people of the
other AZ states realize that South
Dakota is in the union. Politically
and economically she has had many
opportunities to demonstrate that she
is NOT a land of drouth, of want. Of
and of billiards, inhabited
by u~ncivilized Indians, but that she is
wealthy, capable, beautiful and
healthtul; worthy in every way of
her place in the sun.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-13
STATE In LIMELIGHT BEFORE
PAST HISTORY SHOWS
BY Gladys Pyle, Assistant Secretary
Of State

The present gasoline war, in which
the attention OF the entire nation is
directed toward South Dakota, Is a
good tonic for those who have for
gotten hat the Sunshine State really
has q place In the sun. South Dako-
tans are wont to forget that their fair
state has had several other periods
of national prominence and has on
at least two occasions made history
for h national political parties.
Slavery seems a far cry from South
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-04-06
Something to
Think Ab0ut
HELP YOURSELF

u VERIFYING beneath the sun Is
reach out your hands and help your
self.
To be worthy you should be patient,
industrious, persevering, charitable
toward the weak, respectful to the
strong
You must overcome foolish pride
and envy; be not afraid to soil your
hands, but a veritable coward when
it comes to the point where you arc
called upon to smudge your soul.
Go forth with a heart full Of faith
and a joyous countenance.
Do not grumble If you happen to be
in the lower ranks.
Think of the great men of today
who came up from humble places and
won distinction, whose names are
written across the lands and seas in
flaming letters.
Hold faith high above your head.
Let its unfailing torch illuminate your
path all through life, and march on
assured that the goal you have set
your heart upon is just ahead.
Do not falter If your road should
be difficult and your burden weari-
some.
Difficulties are common obstacles
No one can get anything worth while
without overcoming them.
Affiuence and power have their be-
ginning in small things, both capable
of being won by we'll directed thought
and effort.
They belong to the capable who are
qualified to use them in the right way,
not to the doubling, inefficient and
wavering, but to the courageous, the
steadfast. who never admit defeat nor
turn their faces in the darkest hour
from the sun of faith, shining always
on every cross and care.
II you would help yourself to the
best there is, keep track of your
faults. If inclined to procrastinate,
take a lesson from the tides, the re
volving earth, never delaying or hurry
ing.
Be methodical, even though 1t may
in the present day of haste and con-
fusion, be considered old-fashioned.
Train your mind to remember what
your eyes see; keep your brain SEN
sitized so that the impressions made
upon it shall become permanent pic
lures to which you can turn when
they may be needed.
Only what you can recollect in the
vital moment is of any use to you, and
in that moment If you should fail to
remember, your whole future might
be blighted.
90, 1923, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicats.)
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-04-06
THE RIGHT THING
at the
RIGHT TIME
By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
TABLE ETIQUETTE

Always act in such a way as to secure
the love Of your neighbor.-Pliny the
Elder.
DATING at a clearinghouse table
- can be so gloomy and unpleasant
that it makes of eating three meals a
day very irksome necessity. Or it
may be a real pleasure so that we look
forward to meal time with anticipatory
pleasure And the difference doesn't
entirely depend on the way the food
is cooked in the kitchen or served in
the dining room. Something depends
on the manners of those who assemble
in the same dining room, perhaps
around a single long table.
When you eat at a clearinghouse
table the possession of good table man.
ners becomes not something that you
acquire for your own satisfaction, but
almost a social necessity. If you dine
in a restaurant you can usually sit
alone and endure your bad table man.
ners alone. and at honeywell, 1t is
bad enough to infiict them on your
family But when it comes to making
a whole tableful of other people wit
ness your lack of good breeding, then
you ought truly to be banished from
the table.
But good table manners are the same
everywhere There are some little
points of etiquette that arise only at
the clearinghouse table If you are
a stranger at the table it Is usual for
some one to introduce you to the 9TH
ers at the table, but If there is no one
to do this then you may and should
regard the fact that you are eating
with the others sufficient Introduction
at least for conversational purposes
You need not, of course, indulge very
freely in conversation with strangers
at table, but you can at least say
enough to save the situation from be-
coming awkward Women usually
have the privilege of opening a con-
versation and older persons speak first
to younger persons Thus if young
man and woman CHANGED to meet at
clearinghouse table and there was
no introduction, it would be the priv.
lege of the young woman to speak the
first words, although if her table asso-
ciate were an older woman she should
wait for her.
% by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-04-06
Uncommon
Sense S jSaS BLAKE
WISE ADVICE

TT WAS Publius Syrus who said,
L Look for a tough wedge for a
rough log''-wise and sound advice.
Men prosper better who suit their
tools to the job. 1t is foolish to drive
nails with sledge hammer, or to try
to drive piles with a mallet.
The first uses up twenty times as
much energy as Is necessary; the sec
ond accomplishes nothing.
When you see in legislature or a
political meeting an orator tearing
tie air into tatters over a very small
and unimportant matter, you feel that
he is using a sledge hammer to drive
u nail.
When you see a man in an office
employing three times the energy
necessary to do a very small and I'M
important job, you know that he Is do
ing the same thing.
Save your important weapons for
important battles. Don't hunt rabbits
with machine guns.
If you have big task to do, bend
to 1t all your energies. use tHe plS-
gest weapons you have.
But on the little jobs save your en-
ergy.
We have seen legislators who made
motions to adjourn as if they were en-
gagged in a debate over the fate Of the
nation. We have known architects
who planned as deliberately for the
construction of a one-car garage as
better architects would plan for sky
scraper.
Neither got much but ridicule for
his efforts.
Save your energies for the big jobs
that will come. You will need them
all then-all your thought, all your
effort, all your skill.
For the little jobs use just enough
of these to do them well-don't skimp
them-but don't over-do on them.
You have a mental tool chest which
you will soon learn how to employ
wisely. Make careful selections be-
fore you do your work, and it will be
done better and with less expense Of
time and energy.
60 by John Blake)