Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-02-21

SPOTLIGHTS.
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PEOPLE =.
DIXIE SAILORS
elders

DIXIE SAILORS
Georgians assembled in conventions
of different kinds within the past few
years have had an opportunity to be
come acquainted with Admiral A. O.
Wright and his admirable work that
OF establishing official records of the
500 sailors from Georgia in the Con-
federate navy, these being far from
complete at present. He estimates that
$500 more is necessary to finish the
research work he has SO persistent
ly begun, and for this amount, Mayor
Sims and the city council OF Atlanta
have designated Feb. p, as Tag Day
as a means OF raising the money.
SWEDISH HONORS FOR
GEN. LEE
Another evidence of the respect that
Sweden as a nation holds for America
and her great sons was the demon
stration of honor paid to Robert T.
Lee at New Orleans last week when
the officers, cadets and crew Of
Swedish cruiser marched to the Lee
monument in Lee circle which visitors
never fails to see, and in ieverential
manner placed a wreath of red and
white flowers at the base of the shalt
Olaf Lamm the Swedish consul gen
eral from New York who had come
to meet the cruiser there was the
head of the procession.
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SPLENDIDLY ADVERTISED
When the antique furniture and-~art
possessions of Mrs. Onezima DeBou-
chel were sold at auction February H.
in New Orleans her former home,
there were buyers and bidders from
Los Angeles. Atlanta. Montgomery.
Louisville. Chicago. Baltimore and
other distant cities. However the
prices paid were very low considering
the value of the collection as to real
beauty or antiquity or the interest ar
oused through the romantic episode
in which they figured.
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TRUE TO FORM
SO often has the story Of an impov-
erished old age been told of inventors
that it is a matter of surprise when
a successful one actually reaps the
fruit of his labor which is so often the
work of entire lifetime. OF late years
the reverse has happily been true es-
peCially with war time inventions
which have paid large royalties An
instance of the former sort is noted
this week however, where an aged
chemist in Baltimore who had been
working on a certain formula for the
remedy of rheumatism and just on the
eve Of financial returns after ten years
of great poverty was found sitting
dead in his room with freshly signed
contracts from hospital heads and 9th
ers lying before him, the assurance
Of comfortable living as long as he
might have survived.
SERVICES UNDFRVALUED
Shall our sympath'es be with the
moor lawyer who plotted with Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick partners in
real estate to form a trust that should
be tax free and thus save all that
terrible waste of money, and then
received as his reward only beggar-
1y 500 per day and a fee of $3.50
where it is quite plain he should have
had the $500 per day and a sum COM
mensurate with the amount of the
taxes saved, which would be more
like $6250? Since when did robbers
lose all sense of honor between them
selves?
THOSE TERRIBLE TURKS
homogeneous as it NAV seem with
our previous notions especially of their
marriage relations. a regulation has
been lately issued in the province of
Constantinople making medical ex-
animation compulsory for persons in
tending to marry. and the doctors re-
port must be accepted by the NUM-
cipal authorities before the marriage