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rooms and bath; large lot 70 80 IT. alley;
2-story garage which will hold large trucks
This piece OF property is located in the first
commercial zone and Is very close to 7th and
Eye sts. NV. Convenient to GoIdenberg's and
all the downtown apartment stores. Fine locs-
tion for doctor or dentist or a light manu-
featuring business. Call Main 2ls
FRANK A. GIBBONS
go Southern Building Main ois
Evening star., 1923-01-17
FOR RENT-STORES.

S5I5 ILLINOIS AVE. N.W.-NEW BUILD
ing: large storeroOm and apartment above,
sleeping porch; h.-w.h., elec.; modern In every
respect; suitable for most any business hent,
SIOO. HOWESSTEIS BROS, 1th ana IL
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Bring Deposit With You.
PETW0RTH - Six rooms. mi, iBcIosed
porches. 20-ft. front, parquet floors, garage.
Easy terms.
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SPLENDID FARM OF 10 ACRES, GOOD
land, 80 acres good timber; good dwelling ani
outbuildings; fine running water; good roads.
Reason for selling, owner retiring. Will ex-
change for Washington, d. G. real estate. Ad-
dress Box 192M. Star office. 25S
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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
SURVEY OF HIGHWAY
in BEN HILL, WILCOX
MAY SOON BE MADE
Division Engineer In consultst;o,
WITH County Commissioners Ard
interested Citizens Thursday

o1''slon Engineer H. L. Furlow for
me 'oth Road District =, the Stat.
highway Department spent last
lhur.day in the city, in consultation
with Members of the Board of County
I MN issioners and Interested citizens
with regard to the constructions Of =
permanent pavement on the Fitzper-
ald7Abbeville Highway.
1t is very probable that Division En-
g'neer E. N. Parker of the 9TH Dist
ret, OF which Wilcox county is part
Will cooperate with the Mr. Furlow
In the survey of the entire route and
submit estimates and plans to both
counties for the completion of the link
of the highway.
The preliminary survey will be be-
gun about August lst and work on
the road may be started about Octob-
err LIST according to present plans.
Chairman John N. Holder, assured
the Leader last Friday that his de-
partment will cooperate to the fullest
with the Commissioners of Ben Hill
and Wilcox counties in this road pro-
iect
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
PEACH SECTION IS
MOST PROSPEROUS
in STATE THIS YEAR
Mr.. w. R. Bowen Inspects MANY Or.
chards And Urges Planting In
Ben Hill County

Mr.. William r. Bowen, realizing the
Importance of finding new and better
uses for Ben Hill County farms than
cotton planting, is enthused over the
possibilities of peach orchards in this
county, especially after recent visit
to Fl. Valley, Montezuma and Mar
shallville, the home of the Elbertas,
which are now being shipped in train
loads from that territory.
Prices have never been so good and
so uniform throughout the season, &C
cording to the shippers and the lentire
peach section is in most prosperous
condition. Mr. Bowen has sixty acres
In peaches, only three years old which
promises we'll for the future and will
put out ten thousand more trees this
tall, being thoroughly convinced that
this county can produce and does pro-
duce the same quality of peaches, as
does the soil in Macon and Houston
counties
Successful growers advise orchards
OF ten thousand trees, one half an
early variety preferably Georgia Bellies
and the other half Elbertas, which
bring so fancy prices, The larger land
owners would do we'll to set aside
hundred acre track for a peach orch
ard and make it thus possible to get
Ben Hill County into the peach bust
ness as at least one thousand acres
should be SO planted to secure the
best results from carload shipments.
Georgia peaches are known the world
over and there is no danger of an over
production of something good to eat,
fresh, canned, or Gehydrated. There
need be no waste of any of the fruit
as there are so many methods to util-
iZe all of if
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
CHILD WORTH A MILLION
SUFFERED LACK OF FOOD
Knew Nothing of Valuable Oil Lands
Now has 5000 A Week

Reputed to be worth a million dol
lars and having in her possession
many acres of rich oil land Ledci
Stechi, seven years old has been ia
ken from her humble little home in
Smithville, Okla, and is in training
school for little girls.
Physicians who examined the child
declared that she had not been given
enough to eat while she lived with her
grandmother in dire poverty. Ali her
wealth was unknown to the child and
her relatives, it is believed.
Finally Ledci's guardian heard of
her condition and planned to sell 40
acres of her oil land. A government
agent interfered, declaring that the
sale would be great sacrifice and
should not be permitted. The court
agreed, but advised the agent that the
child had to be cared for properly.
Finally arrangements were made
whereby the grandmother will receive
$500 week to care for the little girl.
Later the little girl was placed in a
training school where she will bN Civ
en- a good education.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Attention Comrades
Of The G. A. R.

The 57th Annual Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic will
be held in Milwaukee, Wis, during the
week beginning the second day of Sep
TENDER, 1928.
The headquarters of the Department
OF Georgia and South Carolina. G. A.
r., VIII leave Fitzgerald Ga. via the
A. b. & A. R. R. in special tourist
sleeper at 11:20 P. M Saturday. Sep
TENDER LIST, leaving Atlanta at $40 A.
M, Sunday, September 2, via the Dix
1e Flyer arriving in Chicago 7:15 A.
M. September 3rd and in Milwaukee
Zoo A. NJ
The rate will be one fare for the
round trip tickets good for thirty DAYS.
The sleeping car rate is Sc. SO for low
er and $50 for upper berth. All who
contemplate going must secure a GER
tlt1cate of identification from Col. G..
Z. Whitman, A. A. G. or their Post
Commander.
Reservation for sleeper and hotel
at Milwaukee should be made at
once through G. E. Whitman A. A. G.
all expecting to go will please notify
the A. A. G.. at once and secure
certificate.
Any further information desired will
be given on application to G. E.
Whitman or to the ticket agent of
the A. B. & A. or G. G. Harris, At
lapta, Ca
G. E. WHITMAN, A. A. G.
FITZGERALD GA.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
!. '7,?A1lsRKINC JEFF VI
DAVIS HIGHWAY
TO SAVANNAH.
Attractive Signs Being Used Will
Make Jeff Davis The Best
Marked Highway in Country

The attractive markers of the left
erson Davis Highway, are being put
up all along the route from Abbevile
to Savannah by Mr.. G. S. Wilcox,
Tor the Association. This route has
been officially adopted by the execu
tive committee of the East Ocmulgee
DIVISION of the highway association at
their meeting at Vidalia on June 4th.
1t will probably take another week
to complete marking this section of
the route, when the conn letion of
marking the route to Montg omery is
contemplated The designation of the
official route to Augusta by the execu-
tive committee is to be made at their
next meeting.
Three routes are under considera
ton, one via Eastman and Dublin. an
other via Mt. Vernon and Soperton.
and a third via Vidalia, Graymont'
Mlllen and Waynesboro.
1t will require twenty-five hundred
markers for the Georgia division of
the highway and one thorMnd signs
tor the intersection of road and streets
IN the towns and cities through which
the route will pass.
he association plans to so mark the
entire route, so that the tourist may
be able to travel it without at any
point requiring local instruction.
Maps will also be gotten out and
furnished towns along the route. which
give distances and directions via all
OF the 1ntersecting highways.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
FITZGERALD BOY WITNESS
TO ERUPTION OF MT. ETNA

DR.. and Mrs. J. c. Edie are in re-
ceipt Of communication from their son
J. q. Edie, Jr., who made his home
here several years ago with Mrs. Nc
Neil that he participated in the GER
emonies last .Sundhys July I22nd at
which Marshall Foch of France dedi-
Gated the Belleau Woods to the fallen
American boys on French soil.
He stated that during the recent
cruises of the Mediterranean sea that
his party were in close proximity of
the island of Sicily, near enough to
see the eruption of Mount Etna
Mr.. Edie stated to his mother the
sight was enough to last him for a
long time to come and that he did
not care to be near another volcano.
Interesting books and scenes of Con-
sta!ntinople, Naples, the ruins of Pom
pen, the Holy Land including the
Sphinx and Pyramids were sent, being
recently visited on his tour.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Bankers Of South
See New Structure
Many Financiers Attend Official Open
ing of Remodeled Sixth Federal
Reserve Bank Building in I
Atlanta

Atlanta, Ga, July 25.--The house
warming of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Atlanta Thursday which marked
the official opening of the remodeled
building, brought together large mum
Der OF the Souths most prominent
bankers who assumed part in the ex-
ercises which threw the bank open TO
inspection.
The schedule of social and business
events extended over to Friday, and
starting with the presentation of the
building with speeches by builders and
officials of the bank terminated with
a meeting of the executive board of the
institution and a discussion of prob
lens Friday.
The Thursday program included the
presentation of the building by J. A.
McCrary, chairman of the building
committee, to Joseph A. McCord,
chairman of the board. Br. McCord in
turn gave over theb ank' to M. B. Well
born, governor OF the Reserve Bank.
The exercises took place in the general
lobby of the building and were fol-
lowed by luncheon in the cafeteria
of the bank, where directors of the
main bank, of the branches and mana
gers of the banks were present.
Thursday evening dinner was CIV
en- at the Piedmont Driving Club and
was attended by some of the foremost
bankers of the nation. Governor Well
born acted as POSTMASTER for the occa-
sion which assembled officers of the
Reserve Bank and branch banks.
The Atlopfo 1.
covers the sixth federal district includ-
ing the states of Florida, Georgia,
Tennessee Mississippi AMI Louisiana,
has risen from the position of Twelfth
to tenth since the incorporation of the
system in 1914 Under the alministra-
ton OF Governor Wellborn, recognize
ed as one of the ablest fnanciers in
the South, the bank has not only pros
PEREZ but is regarded as a big agency
In promoting the agricultural develop
ment OF the section. Visiting bankers
IN commenting upon the growth of
the bank, do not hesitate to say that
aid to the farming interests thru the
member banks.
The recent addition to theb ank on
the east sile has doubled the floor
space of the building at cost of $780,
600 making the present planto worth
approximately ST 100000 The finest
finishing of the structure of the build
ing.
Three of the most modern vaults
have been installed, tie largest being
40 by 90 feet, these being iashionicd
after plans made by governm<1t ofi-
Gals who haven ade a special study
of types of vaults.
The bank has 285 employees and is
considered by banking experts to be
le of the best equipped and operated
banks of the Federal Reserve system.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
CREAMERY HERE
TO BE READY BY
OCTOBER FIRST
Thousand Pound Capacity Churn En-
route; One of Largest in State

The dairymen of this section will
soon have an opportunity to dispose
OF their cream to the local creamery
OF the Fitzgerald Ice Company, which
will have one of the largest churns in
use in this State. The complete equip
ment of the new creamery has been
purchased and will be installed in a
special building at the Ice Plant early
in October.
For the business men to reap the
benefits of this enterprise it is necesx
sary for them to cooperate with this
progressive institution in encouraging
the extension of the dairy business
among our farmers
One of the first steps to be taken
by prospective dhirymen, is planting
OF feed crops and permanent pastures,
so that they may be assured OF prof
1t on the new venture. Milk COWS will
be shipped into the county as rapidly
'as needed and ample financial backing
can be had by our local banks, by all
farmers who have sufficient feed. on
hand to supply the COWS or who have
made preparations for growing of feed
crops in keeping with the number of
cows desired by them.
The cooperation of the business men
with the farmers is one of the essential
features to make the dairy business
succeed
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Ware Road Work
Is Going Forward
Fine Roadway Made; Eight Highway
Projects Now Under Way

WaVcross, Ga, July 25-Road con-
! struction in the Waycross district has
SHOWN decided increase during the
last month over preceding monts ac
cordlng to a report issued bv the local
office OF the State Highway Depart
ment today.
Total expenditures amounting to
SIS ,2H.l4 were spent on EIGHT b;ob-
way projects now under way in the
district, an increase of several thou
sand dollars over the previous month
Over half of this amount was spent in
Ware and Glynn counties. The re-
mainder being appropriated to pro-
jects in Camden, Wayne, Pierce and
Appling counties. In Glynn county
two projects are under way at the pres
ent time. One of these leads north
towards Darien and the other south
towards Jacksonville Approximately
$500 was appropriated to these two
projects.
In Ware county there are three high
ways under construction, and a total
of $3,753.90 was devoted to these pro-
jects during the past month, actual
work is now in progress on the road
leading from Manor to the Clinch
county line. the Iron project extending
from the iron bridge to the Bacon
county line and the construction of a
bridge on the Alma road. In Clinch
county the Homerville- Manor road
is being worked from bonneville to
the Ware county line, and in Bacon
county work is now in progress on the
road extending from Alma to the Ware
county line.
Next month work is expected to start
on three other projects in Ware coun-
ty contracts have already ben let for
a new concretes bridge over the Satilla
river on the Blackshear road and for
the resurfacing of the first seven miles
of the Dixie Highway south of Way
cross. Work is also expected to get
under way soon on the Manor road.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Notice To Applicants
For Teachers Licenses

The examination for Teachers Ii
cense will be held at the High School
Building, August 3rd and 4th.
Hon. N. H. Billiard. State School
Superintendent has given the follow
ing instructions9 On Friday, August
3rd "All Applicants for renewals, pri-
mary, general-elementary and High
School license, should begin work at
$50 and finish by l O'Clock the first
half of questions; completing the sec
ond half in the afternoon" There will
be no examination Saturday, except
for those who are taking the language
and science groups of the High school.
The State Board has made the fol-
lowing rules: "All applicants for a
first grade, primary, general clement
airy, or high school license must meet
the following conditions:
| The applicant must pass salts
factorily the State examination, max
ing an average of 90 per cent or more.
2 The applicant must also give
satisfactory evidence of having COM
pleted four years of approved high
school work, or must give satisfactory
evidence of having had four years of
experience in teaching or supervision. {"
If you are an applicant for first
grade, please bring the evidence as re-
quired above.
Yours truly, 1t
]. H. BULLARD, {. SIS.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Would Prohibit
Wearing OF Masks
Bill Would Require Secret Order to
List All Members

Atlanta, July 23-Among the num-
erous bills introduced in the Georgia
House of Representatives today was
that OF Representative Copeland of
Lowndes, and others which would for
bid the appearance in public. of per-
son wearing masks; and also would
require all fraternal and secret or
CARNATIONS to record a complete list
OF their membership with the secre-
tary of state.
Another measure-a bill introduced
by Representative Simpson of Lee
county, would prohibit the teaching of
atheism, agnoticism, or Darwinism as
doctrines of facts. Mr. Simpsons pro-
posal is intended to bring about a
cessation of what is supposed to be a
scattered tendency towards dissemina-
ton of these theories.
Still anoth\r measure of interest
is that of Smith and Bryan, which pro-
poses to amend the law of Georgia
as it effects the payment of poll taxes
by women voters. Mr.. Smiths bill
would require al eligible women vot-
ers to pay all delinquent poll taxes
upon registration for voting.
In the senate a bill was introduced
by Senator Pace of the Thirteenth
district, intended as a substitute for
the House bill ID Representatives Nc
Michael of Marion, calling for an in
vestigation of the State Highway De-
partment, and which would if adopted
exclude Mr. McMichael from a position
on the investigating committee. In
introducing his substitute, Senator
Pace stated that he did not think that
McMichael Should sit as a juryman
in the case" of the Highway Depart
ment. The measure was referred to
the Senate highway committee.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Republic OF South
For Maynard Boys
Plans Are Pushed By Juvenile Asso-
Cation to Establish Self Governing
Village-Movement Endorsed

ATLANTA, Ga, july 26-The Ju-
yenile Protective Association, with
members throughout the South. is
rapidly completing plans for building
and equipping the Junior Republic OF
the South, a self-governing village for
hayward boys and girls, it is announc-
ed by Rev. Crawford Jackson, general
secretary of the association, with
headquarters in the Atlanta National
Gank building in Atlanta.
During the remainder of the sum-
mer, an intensive effort will be made
to collect funds with which to com
plete the purchase of tract of land of
l03 acres in Campbell County, six
teen miles from Atlanta, on which it
is planned to erect school buildings
and shops and general farm equipment
Approximately 100000 is needed, Mr..
Jackson said
Endorsement of the movement has
been given by the leading citizens in
many southern states, association Of
ficials state. Mr.. Jackson, in a tour
of the South, said he found sentiment
highly in favor of such an institution
which will be the first of its kind in
Dixie.
Leading editors of the State have
strongly endorsed the movement for
the Republic. Miss Emily Woodward
editor of the Vienna (Ga.) News, and
one of the vice-presidents of the "a.
Press Association, says: "The move
ment, fostered by the Juvenile Pro-
tective Association, to build and equip
a Junior Republic in the South" is
one to be endorsed by every right
thinking citizen.
THE plan provides for a self-gov-
erning village for hayward boys and
girls and includes a plant covering
l03 acres furnished with the modern
conveniences and fixtures of a model
town.
Should this project be a success
and the juvenile inmates, now heidi at
the detention homes, where they know
only fear, brutality, subsection, and
attempts towards escape, and revenge,
be segregated in order to train that
something in them, which makes
them want to break the bonds of fou-
tine, convention, and law, in & place
where shame shall be punishment, and
where respect is the reward for duty,
health, and politeness, then there will
be lessening of crime and tendency
toward support of peace and justice.
And the root of the trouble of jobless
youth shall have been extracted.
Would the young fellow not take
pride in saying that he was trained at
the Junior Republic of the South, as
he unfolded his record before a pros
pectve employer?
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Seismic Shocks On
The West Coast
South California Jared Sunday Night
And Monday Morning

LOS ANGELES, Cal. July %
Southern California was Jared late
Sunday night and early Monday morn
ing by series of earthquake shocks
some of sufficient violence to shatter
plate glass windows and send tone of
stone and brick tumbling from build
ings.
The tremors were heaviest in San
Bernardino and RedNands, mildcr
shocks being felt between 1928 D. m.
and a. m elsewhere from San Diego
on the south to Santa Barbara on the
north and as far east as the Arizona
State line.
Three men lying in their beds in
San Barnardino we're severely ini,i Ell
by falling debris. Two lo4gers in
roomlng house were buried under
roof which collapsed Rocks weighing
more than 200 pounds apiece plunging
from the roof of higher building
crushed into the room of George r.
Fisher, SCATTERING the bed in which
nhe slep. Fisher, however, was hit
by only a comparatively small missile
which crushed his shoulders and frac-
tured one of his hands.
Dozens Of plate glass windows were
broken in Redlands and several build
ings suffered minor damages.
Oil Wells Gush Forth
Typical of the pranks reported from
all points were those of a sharp ire
NOR in Los Angeles. Here the brief
shocks stopped clocks, SET off burglar
alarms, ratified and broke dishes and
cracked plaster Oil wells on the War
rem ranch south of San Bernardino,
which had' not flowed for years gushed
forth Immediately after the quake.
Several hundred patients in the Lo-
ma Linda Sanitarium near San Ber-
nardino were alarmed when plaster
crashed from the walls and chemical
containers in the laboratory burst with
loud reports. The patients were quiet
ed and an examination of all disclosed
that none had been hurt.
In some instances, power, light and
telephone service was disrupted for
time.
Reports had it that tremors had been
felt in the northwestern part of Ari-
IONA. There had been no confirma-
ton this morning as telegraph and
telephone service into that district
from Los Angeles failed.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Accused Men Are
Released AT Trial
Evidence insufficient That Nell Price
Was Murdered

WAYCROSS, Ga, July 24-Marcus
B. Norris and ]. P. Barner, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Nell Price,
who wearing mans attire recently
was found dead on the railroad tracks
at the city limits, were freed at the
conclusion of the commitment trial
early Monday afternoon.
The three justices sitting on the
case deliberated for 20 minutes, then
rendered their decision. The evil
dence presented by the state was held
insufficient to bring them to trial
The states contention in the case,
according to Solicitor Spence, was
that the girl was killed and the body
placed on the track to conceal the
crime; that the defendants were with
her before and up to the time of the
alleged murder, and that they later
made their way to Douglas afoot to
prevent their apprehension.