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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-08

Beulah Coal now $5.25 de.
livered. Wachter Transfer
Co. Phone 81.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
TAX RAISE ON REALTY
SCORED BY GOV. SLATON

ATLANTA, Ga, June Charac-
terizing plans Nfor increasing taxation
of real estate in Georgia as socialistic
experimental and dangerous to the wei
fare of the state, former Governor Jno.
M. Slaton, speaking before the Allan
ia Real Estate Board, declared him
self unalterably opposed to the move
ment for levying more taxes on realty
such as it is predicted will be brought
up at the coming Legislative session.
There is nothing new about such
ideas, just as there is nothing new
about Bolshevism",; he said. Both
have been tried out many times and
found wanting during the history of
civilization. Increased taxes on real
estate will strike at the basis of
wealth production and will do more
to kill initiative than anything that
can be done.
Georgia has been coming to the
fore rapidly under our present sSetenl
and it is folly to change it for a dan
gerous experiment. It is in the sec
tons of the country over-run by for
ign born people that such ideas usual
ly are produced. These people are at
tempting to foist European ideas off
on America, and European ideas on
such subjects are MT m he +rvs+ad
at the present time as is shown by the
sad state of affairs over there"
A resolution indorsing plans for the
sale of old city school properties to
be conducted June rs by the Adair
Realty and Trust Company was ad-
opted by the board. The properties will
be sold free of charge by the Adair
Company and guaranteed title policies
Will be given away to purchasers by
the Atlanta Title and Trusyt Company
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
ROAD :
BUILDING
ROAD CLASSIFICATION URGED
cessfuIIy Highway Program in
This Country.

That public road-building policy re-
quiring road classification according to
function as well as responsibility for
construction and maintenance Is neces-
sary in order to carry on successfully
good roads program In this country,
is the gist of a treatise issued recently
by the Nebraska department Of public
works, on How to Get Good Roads"
The classification policy, the Nebraska
officials point out, has been found upon
adoption abroad to be highly sue
cessful one for highway Improvement.
THAT which has secured roads over
seas" says the bulletin, SHOULD secure
them here. First: There Is the country
road. Its primary function Is to serve
county needs. While Its function is
vital-linking farm and market-its
use Is nearly local. The county,
therefore, should assume responsibility
for it. 1t should be built and cared for
by the county funds. Exception should
be made of certain roads In the coun-
ties whose function places them In an
other class-that Of state or federal
roads. Second: There Is the state
highway. the aggregate Of which con-
stitutes the state highway system.
These are the roads which, while serv-
Ing local needs In the counties, have
for their primary function highway
service to the state as a whole. The
system Is Usually planned to connect
the county seats, and all these and the
various sections Of the state and the
state capital. The state, therefore,
should assume responsibility for. these
roads. They should be built and cared
for through state taxation. Exception
should be made of certain roads In the
state whose function places them In q
third class, that Of national roads.
Third: There Is the national highway,
the aggregate Of which will constitute
the system Of national highways.
These are roads which, while serving
county needs, state needs and inter-
state needs, have for their primary
function highway service to the coun-
try as whole"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
WANTS OUR FARMERS
TO GROW DEWBERRIES

SAVANNAH, CAIN the interest
OF getting the farmers of Chatham
County to start raising dewberries on
commercial basis George H. Firor
field agent, horticulture department
State College of Agriculture was in
the city yesterday comforting with
Gratz Dent and w. S. Brown. He will
leave this morning for Athens but will
return within the next sixty or ninety
days to put the plan more fully before
the farmers.
Yesterday was spent in discussing
the possibilities of the dewberry in
Chatham and several produce mer-
chants and farmers were visited to get
their views. Mr. Firor believes this
county offers every advantage that is
enjoyed in other counties for raising
the plant He said it has been cult
waited for the last ten years in Geor-
gia, but not on a commercial basis.
Only within the last few years hive
farmers near Vidalia and McRae taken
TO the plant with commercial view. 1t
is strikingly akin to the blackberry
and when cultivated grows on trel-
lis. Mr. Firor brings the message to
the Chatham farmers that carload lots
can be considered on a minimum of
forty acres.
The dewberry is profitable \hen
raised with improved methods. In vi
dalia one farm has produced eighty
cars that brought price of $4,000 or
$500 Tor each car.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
A SAFE TEST

For those who are in need of rem
edy for Kidney troubles and backache,
it is good plan to try Doan's Kid
ney Pills. They are strongly recon-
mended by Fitzgerald people. Ask
your neighbor.
A. c. Jeffords, K. K. engineer, 313
N. Main St, Fitzgerald, says:
"The jarring and jolting of the en-
CINE weakened my kidneys and caused
lame back. When I tried to get in
or out Of the cab a sharp pain took
me in the small of my back and
could scarcely move. The kidney
secretions passed too often and they
burned in passage. I read about
Doan's Kidney Pills and purchased
box. They soon drove the pain
from my back and made my kidneys
well. Since then I have used Doan's
on different occasions with equally as
good results"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Jeffords had Foster Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y. Adv
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Cigarette Girl
Dies Unnoticed
Sonia, Shed of Red Lips and Flashing
Eyes, Finds Life An Illusion

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The body of
a Slav girl whom New York knew
only as Sonia was lowered into a grave
in little cemetery on Lon Island.
Only half dozen people who knew
neither her last name nor cared gath
cred around the fresh earth as the
sexton threw clods of dirt in accom-
paniment to the "ashes to ashes" of
the burial ritual.
New York paid little attention to
the passing of Sonia yet in her death
she threw back the curtain from the
soul of Greenwich Village and expos
ed it to the world in all the bare and
ugly outline of its superficiality. Ex-
plotted for years as the fruiting
ground for camaraderic-where the
struggling and the wealthy might
meet on common ground and drink
at Pierian wells, friends all-the viii
lage has been revealed as heartless
exploiter
She Came From Nowhere"
Sonia came from nobody knows
where to little furnished hall room
back 10 years ago. Somebody "staked"
her to a tray of cigarettes. She quick
ly caught up the spirit of the village
and became its duplication to the out
side world. Nightly in her gaudy cos
tune she passed when reve1 was at
its height through the Mad Hatters
Vagabondia, the Red Head and all
those places with fantastic names,
selling her cigarettes, stopping to joke
with customer and moving on at the
beck of another. The young boy from
the department store who punched his
time clock in the morning and read
Freud at night at a corner table and
the author who had attained success
were alike to Sonia That was the
spirit of the village to her.
Heart Disease Grips Her
Seven months ago Sonia faded out
of the village picture. A heart disease
gripped her and she lay on trund1ed
bed in an il1-furnished room. The Vii
lage might have remarked her pass
age but nobody sought her out. Pa
irons of the Mad Halter bought their
cigarettes elsewhere 1t remained for
Capt. Rheba Crawford, then of IT,
Salvation Army to find Sonia and
have her removed to the charity ward
of a hospital. A wealthy woman-not
of the Village-gave her private
room and nurse.
Sonia died last week. On her cher
ry red lips was the question. why
don't they come? Why don't they
come?
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
MISSING FOR YEAR
CORDELE FERTILIZER
MAN ENROUTE HOME


CORDELE, June ll-Missing for
more than year and believed dead
by relatives here, George M. Rogers,
Cordele Fertilizr salesman who dis
appeared from Pensacola, Fla, in De-
cember, 1921 telephoned relatives last
night from Selma, Ala, that he was
on his way home and that he had been
kidnapped and held prisoner aboard
a foreign vessel for more than year
Rogers escaped, he said over the
telephone, and while returning home
became i'll and remainedin a hospital
several months He has wife and two
children here.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Ship Liquors Must
Keep In Open Sea
Those At Sea Can Come With Seal
Supplies

Washington, D. C. June 1l-Bever-
age liquor, which found asylum
aboard foreign merchantmen in
American waters after it had been
shouldered from American soil by the
Volstead act, now is officially driven
out into the open sea-
After the stroke of midnight, under
regulations drafted by the Treasury
to make effective the mandate of the
Supreme Court, there is no substantial
legal foothold for alcoholic drinks
within the jurisdiction of continental
United States, ashore or afloat
A reminder of the zero hour as fixed
in the regulations was given by Treas
Try officials today to "all concerned
with prohibition enforcement It was
pointed out too, that the regulations,
in the face of presentations by most
Of the maritime powers of the world,
are to be applied as rigidly as lit
cral reslling of the highest courts
opinion will warrant
The only ameliorating provisions are
strictly of an emergency and tenn
porary character Incoming vessels at
sea when the effective hour arrives
may bring liquor inside the three
mile limit for the last time, but it
must remain under seal until the home
ward voyage has started.
Ships in distress may seek refuge
in American ports under the same
conditions and there is the usual ex-
ceptions for medicinal, diplomatic and
sacramento shipments" But in all
other cases ships which cross the dead
line must cast into Davy Jones' locker
whatever intoxicants they have aboard.
Under the regulations customs off
GERS are authorized along with prohi-
bition agents to seize and confiscate
cutlawed liquor. A ships owner and
her master are alike amendable. to the
full penal provisions of the Volstead
act upon conviction of violation.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
PROPER SERVICE FROM DRAG
Work Should BE Done After a Rain
While Earth Is Still Soft but
Not Sticky.

To secure results from the use of
the road drag, 1t must be operated
over the ordinary dirt highway at
such time as the earth Is in proper
condition to give best returns for the
labor and effort expended. 1t is not
unusual to see men dragging road
when the latter is so dry as to make
the effort one of scraping rather than
dragging. Highways should be
dragged while the earth is still soft
after a rain, yet not soft enough to
stick to the drag. The surface which
results upon drying is one which sheds
water readily On the next rain If a
proper slope to the road is left. An
experienced worker will accomplish
this by always pushing little earth
toward the center of the highway as
he operates the drag.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
PONY OF NEWSBOY
KNOWS ALL SUBSCRIBERS.

VIDALIA, Ga, June 12-Watter
jenkins, Boy Scout and newsboy, has
a Shetland pony which he claims,
knows the news route perfectly, Walt
er is now attending Scout Camp
and the substitute on his news route
lost the list of subscribers. There was
nothing to do but trust the pony to
stop at the residence ofeach subscrib-
er, of which here are 150
The outfit made deliveries at each
stop made by the pony. When the
trip was over every paper had been
delivered and no kick has been heard
about skips.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

so 1T GOES
Amateur Mechanic: I'm having
trouble with the engine in my car. 1t
keeps missing on one.
Just Robbed: Huh, you're lucky. My
whole car is missing.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
FREIGHT by Motor Trucks.

More than 1,430,000,000 tons of
freight, including 134,4000O0 tons of
farm produce, are now carried by mo-
tor trucks over the highways in this
country every year.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
PACIFIC COAST is BUILDING
Oregon Has Spent $57, 100000 In Five
Years on Construction Of Inn
proved Roads.

In five years Oregon has spent $751;
100000 in road building How's that
for n population of only 100000? No
other state in the Union probably
comes anywhere near such per capita
expenditure for good roads, Other
constructing the very finest paved
highways. Oregon's roads have cost
$4,000 n mile, exclusive Of bridges.
The result is that you can now drive
hundreds of miles north and south on
roads the equal of any that New York,
Chicago or any other large city can
boast. Also, 1t will very shortly be
possible to motor clear through the
state Of Oregon to the Idaho border
line, a distance equal to the total
length of England.
l noticed, too, a great many substan-
tial roads in many parts of the west
ern half of the country. Good roads
always go hand-in-hand with high
state of civilization. If the Romans
needed good roads in their day, how
much does this far-fung continent need
them today? Next to necessary eSpen.
ditures for uI-to-date sanitation no
district can invest a generous amount
of money more wisely than in con-
structing first-class roads, now so nee
essary for expeditions transportation
of products and so conducive to the
development of desirable social inter-
course, without which we can never
hope to have our agricultural resources
adequately developed
Yes, the West Is on the right track.
B. c. Forbes In Forbes Magazine.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
SEQUENCE

Dyke: Have you been reading about
the corner" on Piggy Wiggly?'
Smythe: No, but I heard the squeal
so 1T GOES
Amateur Mechanic: I'm having
trouble with the engine in my car. 1t
keeps missing on one.
Just Robbed: Huh, you're lucky. My
whole car is missing
YOUR HEALTH
Readers are invited to ask Doc ques-
tons regarding health rules. He will
answer them thru these columns:
Dear Doc: Should a young lady go
to bed before 10?
Answer-Dear Sarah. You had bet
ter wait till they leave the room-Doc
Swag.
POOR SOUL
Conductor. Lady are all these child
rem yours-or are you having a picnic? ?
Lady: They are all mine and be-
ieve me, it's no picnic!
THOUGHTFUL TOM OPINES
"Thar's something wrong with our
economic laws, When more eggs are
laid, eggs are cheaper. When more
bricks are laid, bricks are higher.
THE GIRL IS RIGHT
Mother: Ruth all my life I have
taught you to be good girl and
still You are naughty.
Ruth: Goodness mother, what fail
IRE you are.
Observation-Disclosures
Where can man buy cap for his
knee?
Or key for the lock of his hair
Can his eyes be called an academy
because they are pupils there?
On the crown of his head what gems
are set?
Who travels the bridge of his nose?
Can he use when Smuggling the roof
of his mouth, the nails on the end of
his toes?
What does he raise from the slip of
his tongue?
Who plays the drums Of his ears?
Who knows the cut and style of the
coat his stomach wears?
Can the crooks of his elbows be sent
to jail7
If so what did they do?
How does he sharpen his shoulder
blades?
III be hanged if | know, do you?
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
important VehIcuIar Traffic.

The big problem of highway trans
port is in letting the public know Of the
Importance Of vehicular traffic to the
entire community just as the people
now realize the value of schools to all
persons in town whether parents or
not.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

FOR SALE-White Bermuda Onion
plants and all varieties of cabbage
plants one dollar per thousand. Lots
of ten thousand 75c per thousand. -
Kendall Plant Co., Valdosta, Ga, If
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Potted Ferns, Gerani-
ums, and cut flowers Mrs. Lena M.
Lagerstrom, 2ll W. Suwanee St.
Je2lpd
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

The number of mules in the United
States decreased two per cent last
year, but other kinds of kicks showed
a decided increase.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-04-05

II is small tax IN strength 10 hand
out advice
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-04-05

stantIy there came a fusillade from
the opposite bank, four streaks Of fire
the bullets cutting through the dried
stalks. the marksmen evidently hunt
ing In couples.
Sandy. crouching. pulled triggers
and the shots ratified out as II fired
from an automatic. Beside him.
Sans gun barked. Each fred three
times. Sandy finging six bullets with
instructive aim while the he'd Of the
creek echoed to the roar Of the guns
and the air hung heavy with the reek
Of exploded gases. Then they rushed
for the top Of the bank, wriggling be.
hind the cover OF bushes, lying prone
for lhe next chance.
One yell and a stream of curses
came from across the arroyo. Two
indistinct figures bent above a third,
lifted II, hnrrying back toward a
clump OF willows. The fourth man
trailed the others. his oasns smooth
cred. running beside the two bearers
his hand held curiously in front OF
him dimly cen
LN M AL
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-04-05

In the Bed Of the Creek.

Sandy was minded To get hack TO
the ranch as soon as possible with his
winnings. Five thousand for Molly.
five thousand for the Three Star,
that was the agreement. the custom.
and he knew the girls breed well
enough to have no hesitation In max
ing the split as he would with a man.
The next thing 10 do was 10 pick out
a school for her. There Sandy was
at n loss. He mulled IL over as he
rode. his outer senses playing senti-
nels TO his consciousness.
Sandy could not quite gauge P1im.
soils actions In tamely paying over
the winnings and he looked and lis
tened. noting every movemen OF
Pronfo moving free-muscled beneath
him. for sosne sign Of alarm--perhaps
a rihe-shot out of she mesquite.
The ponies struck the loosened
planks of the bridge clop-clon. suring-
Ing forward into a galiep Az their
riders touched heels to TANKS. The
pinto vas the quicker to get into his
stride. just past the center OF the
bridge Sam saw Sandy's mount jump
like a startled cat info the air. He
saw Sandy plant in bis seat. marked
against the starry sky. Then came
u squirt Of red flame frou the far
'ank-to the righf-mother--and an
.dher-from the left. A bullet hummad
by him and his own horse slid stir
legged. blowing the pianks. hind feet
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-04-05
sNsour half, Molly" he said.
"FNe. thousand bucks. Busted
the bankis

tro BIZ c~oSI,ryuED,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-04-05
By j. ALLAN DUNN
Author of "a Man 70 His Mate" etc.
Copyright. 1922. by J. Allan Dunn

might ride into a rattlesnake In the
mesquite, | aim To handle IL. IF j
ever got Into real trouble. an II re-
sembled You, I'd make you climb so
fast. Plimsoll. you'd wish you bad
horns on your knees an eyebrows
Plimsoll forced a laugh. Fair
warning, Sandy. I never raise a fuss
with a two-gun man. II amt healthy.
You've got me wrong In this matter.
"Glad to hear 1t. Then there won't
he no argument. Game openi"
wide. An a little hundred-proof
stuff to take the alkali out OF your
throats. How about III"
II don't drink when I'm playin'. /
aim to break the bank t%ernight. I'm
feelin' lucky. Brought my mascot
erlong."
Meaning Sam hereT'
All three laughed for a mutual
clearance of the situation. Sandy had
said what he wanted and knew that
Plimsoll Interpreted II correctly.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-04-05
Trail

fat from h~oof-2oints to fetlocks as
the pony whirled away from the yawn-
ing gap In the bridge, where boards
had been pried away in the prepare.
ton Of the ambush.
Helpless for the moment until he
got his bearings and his pony gained
solid footing, Sam automatically
whipped out his gun, cursing as he
saw Sandy slide from the saddle.
clutch at the rim of the gap, drop
down to the bed OF the creek, while
Pront0, frantic at the loss of his mas
ter, leaped the opening and fled with
chatter of ho0f and swinging stirrup
into the desert.
Sam, wild with rage at the thought
of Sandy shot, scrambling in bloody
sand below him, flung himself from
the roam as more bullets whined,
whipping into the pIanks. One scared
his upper arm, another struck the
saddle tree as he vaulted off, slap
ping the roam on the TANKS, yelling
at il as it gathered, leaped the gap
anu IOilONe0 PfODtO.
you id, cowardly, murderin'
pack Of lousy coyotesn' swore Sam
mechanically, as he knelt on the
edge of the gap and tried to pierce
the b~lackness, listening fearfully for
a groan. He had not fired back.
There was nothing to fire at but
clumps Of blurred growth. :
He Kneeled over the rim of the last
plank, turned. caught with his hands,
revolver thrust back into its holster.
swung. dropped. A hand closed about
his ankle pulled him down SPRAYING
on the soft sand.
I'm O.. H." whispered Sandy, and
Sans heart leaped. "Only plugged
the rim of my hat. / faxed a fall TO
fool 'em. Snake erlong down the
crick bed. Here's where we cit
even.' Sam knew that ring in his
partners voice. low though 1t was.
and his blood tingled. Immediately
above the bridge were the stripped
trunks of co'tOnwoOds, stranded in a
flood. Peering through the boughs,
they saw STOPPING figures running
along the bank. A man called from
the lower side OF the bridge. a shot
was fired harmiessly. The hunters
in view raced back.
Think they saw u.s." whispered
Sandy. They'll hear from us, right
soon" He led the way back, crossing
TO the town side beneath the bridge,
keeping halfway up the bank, close
under the %stringers Of the bridge,
crawling between bushes on his belly,
Sam with him. Now they could see
no gunner hut occasionally they
caught a whisper, the slight sound of
moving brush.
Sandy found a stone imbedded in
the bank, loosened it, squatted on his
launches and passed it to Sam, TAX
ing a gun I'M each hand. 81
"Clluck> ii into that sunfiower
patch" he said with his mouth close
TO Sans ear. "Then fire at the
flashes Sam pitched the stone
through the darkness. II fell with o
rustic. chinked against a rock. In