Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-10-28

robbed of half it's sting.
A Hastings (Neb.) man has beer
making brooms steadily for sixty-fivt
years, and Phineas Shark, the emf
nent statistician and mathematician
who writes exclusively for this de-
oartment, estimates that if all the
brooms he has made in that period
were laid end to end 81 per cent OF
the young ladies of today would say
Leave 'em lay"
The reason why the man who is
gouged by gambler gets no sympa-
thy is because he is sucker, and no
ne vas ever known to have any re-
spect for fish.
A royal quarrel said likely to frus-
trate the visit of Queen Marie to this
country, is denied. Evidently her
press agent thinks she is trying to
break into the movies instead of
merely visiting the United States.
We were told of wizard who re-
Gently played ten games of chess and
twenty-eight of checkers at the same
time. A man that can keep all that
in his head should be able to remem-
Der to mail his wife's letters.
Relatives of President Coolidge
have organized an orchestra. Per-
haps the publicity agents had con-
WINGED them that the president is too
modest to blow his own horn.
Fifty years from now," says
Booth Harrington, "the skirt as an
article OF women's apparel will have
disappeared entirely" Will it take
that long to go the little that remains
of the journey?
A boil delayed a speaking engage
ment of Colonel Roosevelt. Boils, it
has been pointed out, are not re-
specters of persons.
A New York woman with one arm
has won the prize as cook. With two
she would have Frustrated regiment
with indigestion.
An American screen star who re-
Gently got married says she will act
for the films as he did before. We
are relieved to hear that it will be no
worse.
Some of US may think we have bad
luck, but a Washington golfer re-
Gently made a hole in one-only to
find that it was on the wrong green.
Claimed the American people chase
after the dollar too much, and they
would no doubt stop doing so if their
creditors would stop chasing after
them.
Frank Tinney, the blackface come
dian, must pay something more than
81, 400 in alimony or go to Jail. Now
we'd like to see Frank laugh that off.
Secretary Mellon says there is to
be $127, 100000 surplus. Evident
ly Uncle Sam has no installment
monograph and automobile.
A New Yorker asked divorce be-
cause she slapped him in a bridge
game, but the judge disregarded the
little slam.
1t is now claimed that rubber can
be grown in South Florida, but we'll
believe the tale is stretched until
proved.
The roads of Fitzgerald will never
be safe until people learn to drive
with their heads as we'll as their feet.
Secretary Hoover says we have re-
covered from the war, but he fails to
state what it was we recovered.
Perhaps one can think best on an
empty stomach, but no one can think
best on an empty head.
i The French are said. to be boycott
ting such distinctively American
dishes as French fried potatoes.
New York is such fast town a
century plant has started blooming
every forty-five years.
Il Perhaps man in Chicago who
shot two train porters wanted to
carry his own bags.
Thinks yankee Doodle
Sprang From Dutch
Cherokee, Iowa.-W. I. Endicott,
student of archaeology and of Ian
guages, believes that yankee Doo-