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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
DRIVE Is ON FOR
NEAR EAST RELIEF
Great Interest Being Shown in The
Bundle Week Campaign Being
Conducted in Fitzgerald

A great deal of interest is being
shown in the Bundle Week" Cam
paign being conducted in Fitzgerald
this week, according to Mrs. E. ].
Dorminy, chairwoman Of the cam
palgn to collect old clothes for ref
ugees and orphans in the Near East.
There is however one request that
Mrs. Dorminy makes in respect to the
bundles turned in, and that they in
clude only serviceable garments, and
not silks or finery that would be of no
use to those people in the Bible lands.
Old overcoats, suits for men, women
and children, shoes and any other old
garments will be gratefully received
by Mrs. Dorminy or the ladies asso-
ciated with her in this drive.
Those who have not yet sent in a
bundle can communicate with Mrs.
Dorminy and they will be told where
these bundles may be sent.
Recent reports from the Near East
received in the state office of the Near
East Relief Organization in Atlanta,
tell of great suffering by thousands
of people who are practically without
clothing, and subject TO disease and
the elements. In some sections the
plight OF the people are said to be very
pitiful
81 am sure the people of Fitzgerald
will respond literally to this campaign
for it certainly is a most worthy one.
declared Mrs. Dorminy today. The
Near East Relief which is caring for
thousands of children in the Bible
Lands are depending great deal on
the American people to help in the
present emergency and hope that
Fitzgerald will go over the top in this
campaign"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
STATED COOLIDGE
WOULD DELIVER
Muscle Shoals to Ford. Telegram oi
Interest in Senate Hearing
Today

Washington. D. c. April 28-Presi-
dent Coolidge was quoted in tele-
gram produced today in the senate
Muscle Shoals hearing as having stat
ed he was trying to deliver" Muscle
Shoals to Henry Ford. This telegram
was from James Martin Miller to the
Dearborn Independent, Ford's weekly
paper, and was dated October II,
1928.
In offering the message as evidence
Chairman Norris said the White House
records showed that Miller had an in
terview with the president that day.
The message was one of those subpoe-
naed by the committee last Saturday.
Secretary of War Weeks was on the
stand when the message was offered,
and stated that he did not know Miller.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
Fire Department Has
4 Calls During Storm
All -Four Small Fires and Damages
Are Very Slight

"A small house in the rear of III.
Dornineys residence, on south Main
street containing an incubator in op-
erhhtl1n. .rhi. was shaken up by the storm
wnlchcaused the oil lamp to ignite the
premises. The department made a
record run to the place, despite the
accumulation of trees in the alieys and
put out the fire before it had time to
spread. Barely returning to the fire
Statron when an alarm was sent in
calling the department to a negro house
near the. Seaboard Depot. This was
soon eXtinguished.
Within few moments another
call was sent in from 500 west Orange
street, where small house was aflame
caused by the destruction of the chin
ney by the storm. The small premises
soon were consumed by the flames
Dut nearby property was saved.
Another alarm was also send in
from us west Orange street where a
small blaze was soon put out.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
Putting The City
In Order Again

Supt. Coburn of the Water and
Light plant and Mgr. Manning, of the
telephone company are, with their
forces, repairing the damages done to
their lines by the storm and are max
ing fine progress. The merchants are
especially pleased with the service
rendered by the light plant, the cur
rent in the business district and the
north part of town being put into
operation early Wednesday afternoon
Street Force Doing Good Work
The street force, under Commission
er Downing, are doing good work in
removing fallen trees and debris from
the streets and alleys of the storm
swept district, and will have the
streets cleared by this afternoon.
Carpenters Busy
Every available carpenter lis Iem-
ployed repairing the damage done by
the storm. Roofs are being re-shing-
led, lots cleared of debris, making
ready for new construction and scores
of dwellings are being put in habitable
i, condition again, giving employment
ITO every willing worker in town.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
MUCH DAMAGE BY
STORM In SOUTH
Death List in Alabama and South
Carolina Large; Complete Reports
Not Yet Received

ATLANTA, May /. -Sixty-three
persons are known to have been kill
ed; an undetermined number of others
are reported dead and missing; more
than 400 were injured, many perhaps
fatally, hundreds were made homeless
and untold property damage was
caused by storms of cyclonic pnopor-
tlons which devastated sections of
the Southeast today.
Fragmentary reports, continuing to
trickle in from the storm area wrote a
steadily increasing list of dead and in
jured early last night as the disturb
ance swept into North Carolina, the
fifth state to suffer
South Carolina, Alabama and Geor-
gia bore the brunt of the storms. One
death was reported from Arkansas
last night and two were reported from
Louisiana, with two others injured.
Southern division headquarters of
the Red Cross here were in charge of
the situation at Anderson, S. c., where
a small mill village was partially de-
molished. Relief measures were be-
ing gotten under way there, it was
stated.
Near Sumter, eleven lives are re-
ported to have been lost in rural COM
munities, while at Horril Hill, near
Columbia, a tornado that wrecked a
schoolhouse is said to have claimed
sixteen lives.
Six Alabama towns reported storms
with a total of seventeen deaths, two
persons missing and twenty-seven in
jured.
In Georgia four towns reported cas-
ualties aggregating five deaths and
twenty-eight persons hurt. One town
was struck in Mississippi, but there
was no loss OF life or injuries.
The tabulation, necessarily ncom-
plete, was:
South Carolina: Horril Hill, 10 dead
Sumter, II dead; Walnut Grove, 8 in
iured; Anderson, 7 dead. 20 injured
Georgia: Macon, 3 dead, twelve in
jured; Warm Springs, 9 injured; Chip
| ley. killed ! injured; Lawrenceville
| E injured.
Alabama: Opehka, dead, S in,
iured; Greenville, injured, 2 miss
ing; Auburn; injured; Union
Springs, killed. IS injured; Smith
vile, 7 killed; Clio, 2 killed, 2 in
jured.
louisiana Lake Charles, killed;
Lafayette, dead, injured; Shreve-
port, l injured.
Arkansas: Texarkana, | killed.
Trade in Fitzgerald and you'll see
YOUR dollar again.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
Fire Damages North
Cottage On Main
Fire Department Makes Quick Run
Saving Property; Furniture Loss

The fire department was called to
the cottage at 401 North Main, Mon
day morning to a small blaze that
originated in the kitchen and which
owing to the fact that the house was
covered with sacking, in side, spread
quickly to the dining room and living
room.
The department extinguished the
blaze with their usual dispatch and
quickness. The house itself bore prac-
tically no damage, but the furniture
of the three roms to which the fire
spread, was total loss. No other
rooms except the kitchen, dining and
living rooms were touched by the fire,
and suffered no damage whatsoever.
The house was occupied at the time
by Mr.. Tam,
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
Southern Railway
Has Wreck AT Inaha
Engineer Goes Down With Engine
But Escapes Uninjured

The A. B. & A. wrecking crew was
dispatched to the scene of the wreck
on the G. S. & F. railway near Inaha
south of Ashburn, Monday afternoon
where the Southern passenger train
southbound, was derailed, due to a
split rail. The engine, tender, mail,
express and milk car all leaving the
rails, the engine and tender turning
over in a ditch.
The fireman jumped out of the win
dow and saved himself, while the en-
gineer stayed on the job and was
found uninjured, crawling from the
engine, when help arrived. The train
was loaded with passengers, but for
tunately no one was seriously injured
the mail and express agents sustaining
only few bruises in the mix-up.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
ROAD GUIDE
Out of Fitzgerald
JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY

JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY
Route to Savannah:-Via Abbeville,
cross bridge to Rhine, Milan, McRae,
Alamo, Mt. Vernon, Vidalia, Lyons,
Reidsville, Claxton, Pembroke. Take
road via Burnsed 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-v1a Abbeville
bridge, take north route two miles east
of bridge TO Eastman, Dublin, Wrights
vile, Barlow, Louisville, Wrens. Road
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,
Cross bridge to Eufaula.
DIXIE HIGHWAY
Central Route"
Route to Macon-via Abbeville,
Hawkinsville, Perry. Good to Bibb
County line then paved into Macon.
Route to Jacksonville-Via Ocilla,
Douglas, Nichols, Folkston, Jackson
vile. Good road to Nichols, rough to
Waresboro, good to Waycross, excel
lent to Folkston and Jax'ville.
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 Roada.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
Agricultural Census
Be Taken Next Year

Atlanta, Ga.-The federal agricul-
tura1 census will be taken in 1925, ac-
cording to assurance given by U. S.
Senator w. J. Harris of Georgia to
J.J Brown, commissioner of the
Georgia Department of Agriculture.
The census laws call for the census
periodically but it was not taken in
1920 because of the failure of Con-
gress to appropriate funds.
Senator Harris has advised Commits
sioner Brown that the pending appro-
priation bill for the Department of
Commerce carrier an item of $3500,000
Nor the agricultural census next year,
tand the Georgia Senator feels certain
Congress will approve the use of the
money.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
CYCLONE SWEEPS THROUGH CITY CAUSING GREAT DAMAGE
GUN CLUB FINISHES
PLANS FOR SHOOT
State Shoot to Be Big Affair Here
For Days Beginning May 10Th

President L. L. Griner of the Gun
Club, chairman of the committee OF
Arrangements for the State shoot to
be held here May 1o-20-2lst had a
meeting Of his committe last night at
which final plans were adopted for
the entertainment of their visitors and
the conduct of the State Meet which
is expected to attract shooters and
sportsmen from the entire state and
several from Jotlier sections of the
South.
Secretary Henry Powell made re-
port of teams coming from Jackson
vile, Pensacola, Coco, Fla, Montgom-
cry, Ala. Brunswick, Thomasville,
Macon, Atlanta, Savannah and many
other cities.
Large money prizes will be award
ed to the winning contestants and the
State championship will also be award
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
Potato Association
Membership Campaign
Meets With Success

According to reports coming from
headquarters of the Georgia Sweet Po-
tato Growers Association at Va1dosta
the first week of their membership
campaign has been far more success
ful than even the most optomistic Of
ficial had expected. 1t is said that ar
acreage equivalent to approximate,
$4,000 bushels has been signed up the
first week.
Sign up work has been done in four
counties, including Lowndes, Lanier
Brooks and Co1quitt Preliminary work
has been done in several others. and
much interest is being shown in the
movement \to organize the growers
thruout South Georgia Interested peo-
pie have made inquiries even from
North Georgia.
The plans are to cover some fifteen
or twenty counties of this immediate
section of South Georgia at once, aft
er which a permanent organization
meeting will be held and permanent Of
hcers elected. There will be director
from each county elected by the mem
bers of the particular county. These
directors will have complete control
of the business affairs of the associa-
ton.
The movement has attraced the at
tention of the market bureau chief at
Washington, and he has promised to
send marketing expert down in May
to give any assistance he can render
1t is understood that the federal de-
partInent at Washington is advocating
organization of Southern sweet pota-
to growers, because they recognize the
fact that this is the only way in which
sweet potato growers can ever hope
to. promote this industry.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
CHARLES MURPHY OF
TAMMANY IS DEAD
Leader of Famous Organization Sue
cumbed to Acute Indigestion

NEW YORK,-Char1es F. Murphy
leader of Tammany Hall, died Friday
at $50 o'clock from acute indigestion.
Murphy succeeded the late Richard
Coker, as ,cllieftain of the country S
most famous political organization. He
was a native New Yorker who had
fought his way up from a street car
driver to become leader of the most
powerful political organization in the
world and played prominent part in
nArairg mayors, governors, and pres
dental nomnees
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
40 TAKEN IN RAID
ON BALTIMORE CLUB

BALTIMORE, Md, April 3O-Po-
lice Court here took on the aspect of
a huge negro revival meeting when
406 negro men and women were arr
anged following a raid on negro
social club Monday night by 81 po-
licemen, where razor fight was in
DropreSS
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
FRED STUBS IS
RELEASED ON PAROLE

BY order of the Prison Commission,
Fred Stubs, serving on the Ben Fill
county chaingang for the past year
for completely in the death of Engi-
neer Reed, of the A. B. & A., was re-
leased Wednesday under parole to
DIR. Frank Ward.
Stubbs was found guilty of man
slaughter by the jury who tried his
case, and given sentence of from one
Ito twenty years, making him eligible
Ito be paroled after serving one year.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
GEORGIA GIRL HELD
IN FORGERY THEFT

ANNISTON, Ala, April 30-Lil-
lie Mae Smith, alias Florence Chan
dler, pretty 20 year old girl, who
gives Buchanon, Ga, as her home is
held at the Calhoun county jail here
on charges of forgery and theft of
clothing.
The girl is said to have been en-
p1oyed in cotton mill in Calhoun
county and to have forged the name
of another girl employed at the mill.
The complaint of theft was also
lodged by the same party, it was
said The young woman is being
held pending a further investigation
of the charges and meanwhile officers
are seeking to get in touch with the
mother claimed to be living in the
Georgia town -
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
Water ( Light Plant
Fine Piece Property
Both In Water And Electric Energy.
City Is In Fine Condition

More of our tax payers should make
visit to our Water and Light Plant
and get inspiration from this fine city
asset The plant is being kept in apple
pie order through the efforts of Supt.
Coburn and his efficient staff of as
sistants and the newly installed boilers
have added to the capacity of the
plant, so that both in water and cleo
trio energy, the city is in fine condi-
ton.
The grounds are made attractive and
the machinery of the plant is kept in
fine repair, the water supply adequate
and protected against any filtration
of impurities, guaranteeing healthy
supply of drinking water and ample
for city of twenty thousand popula-
tiOn
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
BANDITS. USING GUNS.
GET $4,000 IN GEMS

NEW YORK, April 30 Bandits
in daring raid Tuesday upon the
iewelry store of M. Selig & Sons at
Broadway and Ninety-Fifth Street,
escaped with loot worth $4,000 after
holding scores of pedestrians at bay
with revolvers and under fire from
clerks in the store.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
$50 REWARD FOR
INFORMATION OF HUSBAND

Mrs. Fred Ellington is offering $50
as reward for the information of the
whereabouts of her husband, Fred
Ellington, and their two children, Hell
en-, age nine, and little boy, age five,
who disappeared last Sunday.
The children were at Sunday school
when their father procured them and
took them to parts unknown in his
automobile. {
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
ATTENDING STATE
EDUCATIONAL MEETING

Supt. J. H. Bullard, of the rural
schools and Messrs. VIM. Williams,
VIM. Roberts and Walter Robitzsch.
OF the county board of education are
in Savannah, attending the session of.
the Georgia educators.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
CITY SCHOOL BOARD
WANTS MORE MONEY

An increase to 8 mills in the local
school tax is being asked for in reso-
lutions adopted by the City Board of
Education, in a recent meeting of the
board. A special act of the legisla-
ture is required for this additional tax
levy, for which Representative Griner
has been asked to introduce special
act in the coming session of the legis-
1ature.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
HAIRY N. 'DAUeHERTY

Huston Thompson, Chairman of
the Federal Trade Commission, tes-
tlties that the Commission tried for
q gear to get Attorney-General
Daugnerty to start criminal prose-
cution Of the Tobacco Trust, ON
evidence collected, but had been
unable to get even an answer from
the Department of Justice. The
Wheeler Committee is now investi-
eating the charge that Daugherty's
old law firm was attorney for the
American Tobacco Company.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
AMERICAN MARINES
TO QUIT HONDURAS

WASHINGTON, April 30-Teguci
galpa capital of Honduras, has fall
len to the rebels, the Navy De-
partment was advised Tuesday in a
dispatch from the commander of the
U. S. S.. Milwaukee at Amapalpa.
Withdrawal of the American naval
forces in Honduras has been approv-
ed by Rear Admiral John H. Dayton
the dispatch said.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
GRINER SHIPPING
SNAP BEANS

The Snap Bean Farm has its
counterpart on the L. L. Griner plan
tation, where four acres of snap beans
are now being harvested and shipped
to an Atlanta firm, bringing $3.50 a
hamper, and Ludlow expects to gath
er about hundred hampers from the
four acres.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
So, 500 PAID IN
CONFEDERATE PENSIONS

Seventeen veterans and eighteen
widows Of veterans of the Confeder-
acy received their pensions this month
from the Ordinary of the county, each
receiving 500, paid in part thru the
tax on cigars and cigarettes in Geor-
gia.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
ELLARS ADMITTED
TO FLORIDA BAR

o. Raymond Ellars, now located in
Orlando, was admitted to practice
law in Florida, having taken the exam
ination in that state recently. Mr..
Ellars will open law offices in Orlan-
do.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01
FRIDAY IS BUNDLE DAY

Do not forget your opportunity to
help in Near East relief by giving a
bundle of warm clothing that will
help clothe the sufferers thru the next
cold season. Mrs. E. J. Dorminy has
charge of local committee.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-01

Trade in Fitzgerald and you'll see
your dollar again.
The Washington times., 1924-01-21
BEWARE THE
COUGH OR COLD
THAT HANGS ON
Chronic Coughs and Persist
ent Colds Lead to Serious
Lung Trouble. You Can
Stop Them Now With CreO-
mulsiOn, an EmulsifGed
CreOsOte That Is Pleasant
to Take.

Creomulsion is new medical
discovery with twofold action it
soothes and heals the inflamed
membranes and kills the germ.
Of all known drugs, Creosote is
recognized by the medical frater-
nifty as the greatest healing agency
for the treatment of chronic coughs
and colds and other forms Of throat
and lung troubles. Creomulsion con-
tains, in addition to creosote, other
healing elements which soothe and
heal the inflamed membrane and
stop the irritation and inflamma-
tion while the creosote goes on to
the stomach, is absorbed into, the
blood. attacks the seat of the trou-
BILE and destroys the germs that
lead to consumption.
Creomulsion is guaranteed salts.
factory in the treatment of chronic
coughs and colds, bronchial asth.
ma, catarrhal bronchitis and other
forms of throat and lung diseases
and is excellent for building up. the
system after colds or the flu. Money
refunded if any cough or cold, no
matter of how long standing, is not
relieved after taking according to
directions. Ask your druggist
Creomulsion Co. Atlanta. Ga.
The Washington times., 1924-01-21
READ THIS FIRST.

It wcs a distinct shock to
JOnGthG1l Brice to discover one
day that his daughter, Chickie,
WGs no longer q gGaOky, LGsaty
chit of a girl. She had quite
grosOn up. She had reached the
mature age of sixteen, had "dome
up" her hair and Lengthened her
skirts. The shock 1OGs intense
to the dotim0 parent. He aOGs
filled aOith vGgae nSisgiViMgs,
and almost 1Uisked she had been
boy. In the meantime ChickieI
met Arthur SOmtGg and e1perS-
enced the joys of her first rO-
nance.
Chickie's first "GffGir" ended
disGstrousLy, for SOntGg soon lost
interest in her and finally disGp-
peGred. At eighteen Chictie OBJ
tanned a Job IN a brokerage Of
fice, and there met JGmi1sG, a girE
wise in the 4OGys of the sOorId of
which Chickie kne1U so little.
The Washington times., 1924-01-21
.LAT|N-A|MER|CAN
POWER NOW
AVAILABLE
United States investors Supply
Money to Develop Plants
in South.

For the first time American
capital is to be invested in a
large way in South American elec-
trio power development. The
American and Foreign Power Com
pany, Inc has been organized by
the Electric Bond and Share Com
directly or through subsidiaries,
public utility properties in the
United States and foreign coun-
tries"
The new company already has
properties in Cuba, Panama and
Guatemala. In financing this new
Share Company purchased all the
12, 900 shares. and holds 52O, 1000
900 shares of first preferred per
cent stock have been offered to
American and European investors
on the basis of $96 per share and
bonus of one share of common
for each share Of preferred. The
American underwriters reported the
issue oversubscribed when the
books were opened.
"A pLCPdACu ny Es d.
Lee, statistician of the Electric
Bond and Share Company, reads
as follows:
ut is interesting to note that
while Canadian, British, German
and South American capital here
tofore has been heavily invested in
public utility properties in foreign
fields, practically no American
capital except that represented by
the investments of the Electric
Bond and Share Company has been
invested in such enterprises. This
is true, Notwithstanding public
utilities have been developed 20 a
much higher degree in the United
States than in any other country,
and accordingly operators of public
utility properties in America should
have the experience to make them
highly successful in foreign fields.
"The present is considered a most
opportune time for the formation
of an enterprise such as the Ameri.
can and Foreign Power Company,
Inc, as many foreign exchanges
are deprecated, making 1t possible
for the new company, with its large
available capital, to acquire proper
ties at low prices"