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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
Kirkland Sutlive Buys,
Blackshear Newspaper

Atlanta, Cav. Kirkland Sutlive,
of Savannah, Ga, has purchased the
Blackshear Times from Jack Williams
and has just taken over the manage
ment. Although young man, Mr..
Sutlive has had wide newspaper ex-
perience, having served as city editor
of the Americas (Ga.) Times-Re-
corder, and the Daytona (Fla.l Jour-
nal. He is the son of w. G. Sutlive,
managing editor of the Savannah
(Ga.) Press, and he also has two
brothers in newspaper work.
Blackshear has for years had the
distinction of being Georgia's great
est sweet potato market, the worlds
greatest sea island cotton market.
and is also one of the States leading
markets for Georgia cane syrup and
paper-snell pecans.
Jack Williams, former owner of the
Blackshear Times, said today that it
was his purpose to sell his other news
paper interests in Lagrange and
Hogansville, Ga, and concentrate his
time and energies on the Waycross
(Ga.) Journal-Herald which he owns
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
COOLIDGE ILL,
LEAVES DESK
TO TAKE REST
CANCELS ALL ENGAGEMENTS IN
ORDER TO FORESTALL Sc
WERE COLD.

Washington, February 17.-Presi-
dent Coolidge after bief stay today
in his office returned to his living
quarters in the White House to seek
relief from heavy cold.
The president conferred during the
morning with Chairman Madden, of
the house appropriations committee
and received a call from Ambassador
Riano. of Spain. He then cancelled
other engagements for the day.
The president appearedasts his desk
at the usual tihadRR lsacted bust
ness demanding his immediate atten-
ton. He has suffered for a long time
with a nasal trouble and has taken
regular treatments for it.
White House officials did not con-
slider the cold which he has contracted
as serious, but said it could be more
quickly dissipated if more rest was
afforded him.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
Georgia Highway
Farms Will Soon
Be Dressed Up

!, Highway farms in Georgia will be
given new dress-a brand new ap.
pearance-if editors of some Of the
progressive weeklies have their way.
For, be it said right here, these
editors are using their editorial col
umns in telling the folks to get busy
with paint brush, hammer and saw
and what not in an effort to elk
things up"
Attention is called to the fact that
today Georgia is entertaining thou
sands of visitors who pass along the
highways and from them CLEAN the
impression, of agricultural Georgia
which they will carry back home and
which they will Convey to others.
"The county that dresses it's high
way farms is the county that is going
to be spoken of favorably by the Wis
itors who drive along the county
highways" is the way one editor puts
it. Better farm houses, better barns,
better fences around the farms are
urged. The editors take the posi-
ton that the farm should look as good
as its productivity warrants.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
j. j. Harvey Is
Taken By Death
EDITOR HAWKINSVILLE PAPER
FOR IS YEARS WAS BURIED AT
HAWKINSVILLE SUNDAY.

J. J. Harvard, for 35 years editor
and owner of the Hawkinsville Dis
patch and News, died, at the family
home in Hawkinsville Saturday fol-
lowing a short illness from pneumo.,
mia. He was near seventy years of
age and had been leading citizen of
histco,nmunty for nearly fifty years.
He was an active member of the
Methodist Church, was chairman, of
the board ofstewards at.*the time of
his death and was a. member of the
board of education. q:
Two sons, Charles4afi ]. P, and a.
daughter, NFs. Bass, survive. The
funeral was held Sunday afternoon at;
the family home. Mr.. and Mrs. 0. Z.
Cover, Mrs. ]. P. Wardlaw and Mrs
E. K. Markert, relatives, attended the
funeral from here.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
FITZGERALD MAN PAYS $525.OO FOR
SKIN-CAlhE EDUCATION in ATLANTA
AGREEABLE STRANGER WITH
OXFORD ACCENT, AND SIX
FOOT DRAWLING YANKEE,
= SEPARATE LOCAL MAN FROM
HIS ROLL.

A nice stranger, with two golC
teeth and good store of jokes, in
conspiracy with six-foot drawing
Yankee, worked R. P. Barnett, Of
Fitzgerald, Ca, out of $525 Sunday
afternoon in an ancient but profitable
skin game.
Barnett had come up from Fitzger.
aid on his way to Chicago, and was
waiting at the Union Station for the
train which would take him north. He
had in his pocket the sum of 1925,
part of which he planned to use for
his railroad fare.
He had a long wait for the train.
Time dragged. He was glad of the
diversion when young man in Eng
lish tweeds and an Oxford accent
strolled over to seat beside him and
sat down.
The young Englishman was good
joker, and Barnett often laughed at
the tales he told. Then, after few
well-told jests, the young Englishman
observe dthat it was such a lovely
afternoon-why not take a walk.
1t was a long while until train time.
Barnett agreed. Together they went
up Pryor Street toward Edgewood
Avenue.
Near Edgewood Avenue, a friend
of the gold-toothed joker appeared.
He was six-foot Yankee. Great sur
prise between the Englishman and the
Yankee at meeting. They were, it
seemed, old acquaintance.
"My cars right here" said the
Yankee. Lets go for a ride"
Barnett got in and rode. Some dis
lance out in the country game of
matching coins was suggested by the
Yankee. A fine stunt, agreed the
Englishman. And Barnett joined in.
Monday Barnett was back in Fitz-
gerald, his Chicago trip postponed.
Before he left Atlanta, he told De-
tective H. T. Brown how the coin
matching scheme had taken every
penny of the $525, and gave de-
scription of the suave stranger as
being about feet inches in height,
weighing 145 pounds, dressed in a
gray suit and wearing two twinkling
gold teeth. The Yankee, he said, was
about six feet, lanky and talked with
a wheedling twang, like the people
who once sold wooden nutmegs.
Atlanta Georgian.
Mr.. r. P. Barnett, the victim of
the confidence sharks, is q newcomer
to this city, having recently arrived
from Miami, and is member Of the
Fitzgerald-Miami Realty Corporation.
Mr.. Barentt was en- route to Chicago,
where he was married Wednesday.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
Geargia Dey Celebrated in
First Ward

The sixth grade of Miss Jewel Will
liams gave program honoring Geor'
gia Day on last Friday that was a
credit to them and their teacher and
was enjoyed by number of patrons
The program follows:
Devotional, Rev. Bruce Nay.
Georgia Song, Class.
Story of Georgia, six boys and four
girs.
Song, Land of Mine, Class.
Song of the Chattahoochee, Lucille
Tyler.
Cherokee Rose, Josephine Collier
Famous Georgians, Viola Cakes.
Where Georgia Comes First. jamie
Bullock.
Georgia Land, Glass.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
Why Join the Chamber Of Commerce?

This question may naturally arise in the minds OF
some of our citizens who will shortly be called on
by one our committees to put their name on the
dotted lne'' for years membership.
There are many good reasons why you should act
along with the rest of the community you are mere
making your living making your home among us.
One of the main reasons, we believe is, that you
would like to live in live progressive town WITH a
progressive, active citizenship This cltlzensmp
finds it's most marked expression in the active work
done through the collective agencies OF the town,
among which The Chamber Of Commerce should be
and usually u.s. the foremost 1t gets results better
and at less cost than any other agency yet devised
to build a town. r>@&
We can only grow in the proportion that our
neighbors grow and together we can bring about
condition of healthy growth for all of us 1t matters
not whether you are banker manufactures store
keeper, lawyer, doctor, builder insurance agent
clerk or salesman-your interests are the same-co-
operate with your fellows and see them enlarge and
your opportunities to make that living better ana
easier. Put your name on the dotted line, when
called , nm, rnnc
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
Big Dairy Colony
Planned for Georgia

Atlanta, Ga.-Plans to establish in
Georgia a gigantic dairy colony of
10000 to $4,000 acres of land were
revealed today in a letter to Fred
Bridges, Assistant Commissioner OF
Agriculture, from HOLSTER Sage, of
Pompa.aa. Fla. Mr.. Sage asked the
Georetto official to put him in touch
with soToe one who had this amount
of land 10 sell.
BMr. Bridges wrote that there were
MOI s1<ch tracts available at present
by Ne would make inquiries and en-
deayor to find a suitable LOCATION.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
EMPIRE STORE
HAS BEEN SOLD
TO MACON FIRM
LEE DEPARTMENT STORE OF
, MACON TO BE NEW OWNERS;
BUSINESS To BE CONTINUED
AT SAME LOCATION.

The sale of the stock of the Empire
Mercantile Company to the Lee De-
partment Store Syndicate of Macon,
which has been currently rumOred for
the past week in the city, has been
officially announced by the directors
of the Empire Mercantile Co., who
held their final meeting this after
noon, and the new firm is now in pos
session of the Empire Store, which
for the past twenty-five years was
the pride Of the city md under the
peronal inanageReentsof Mr.. William
R.. Bowen.
The Lee Department Stores are
operating in Macon, Columbus, TT.
Valley and ,Milledgeville, Ga, and the
I urgafizatioff operates the Georgia
Wholesale and Manufacturing Com
pany, of Macon. The Lee chain stores
are unique in that they localiZe their
affairs in the fullest degree. each
store being a separate unit though
the chain idea is taken full advantage
of in the purchasing end for the sew
eral stores of the organization, Civ
ing them strong position with the
manufacturers and jobbers of the
country. The organization maintains
a purchasing agency in New York
through which all merchandise is pur-
chased for the entire system.
The Lee Chain Stores are owned
exclusively by members of the family
of which there are five brothers. four
of them being actively engaged in the
organization, each with wide exper-
fence in the various phases OF the
mercantile business. w. S. Lee, pres
ident of the company, resides in Ma
con and will probably take active
charge of the local store for the pres
ent; H. E. Lee, secretary of the COM
pany is located in Columbus in charge
of their store; +. H. Lee, treasurer, is
in charge of the Milledgeville store;
J. E. Lee, vice-president, is in charge
of the business at Fl. Valley; r. E.
Lee, of Monroe, N. c., has charge of
the insurance department of the firm,
being a member of the insurance firm
of Lee and Coble of Monroe, N. c.,
and is a director of the Lee Chain
Stores. All of the Lee brothers are !
active participants in community af-
fairs in each of the cities in which !
they operate and take life interest
in civic affairs, especially those per-
tanning to the interests of the BUSH
ness element. Mr.: w. S. Lee is presi-
dent of the Retail Merchants Asso-
citation at Macon, and was president
of the Raleigh, N. c., Merchants AS
ISOLATION, before his removal to his
present home in Macon. Fitzgerald
citizens and especially our business
men will find in the new firm a
staunch supporter of the trade extern
sion idea through collective adver-
Using, a feature that was introduced
by Mr.. Lee as president of the Macon
Merchants Association. 1t is under
stood that one Of the departments
of the new firm will be conducted at
ZIG East Pine Street, the store for
merly occupied by the Fitzgerald Dry
Goods Company. -
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
Fitzgerald Band off For
Rroxton

The Fitzgerald band, fifty strong,
left this morning for Broxton to play
their first engagement at the Brox-
ton roads meeting and barbecue,
given by that progressive little city.
The band was conveyed to Broxton
by automobiles, literally donated by
public spirited, citizens who are in
terested in cultivating the better
neighborly spirit with our Coffee
county neighbors. The band tender
ed it's service free.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
DEPUTY COLLECTOR TO ASSIST
INCOME TAXPAYERS

For the convenience of those who
are liable to file Federal Income Tax
Returns, Deputy Collector of In
ternal Revenue, will be at the Post
Office, Fitzgerald, March g., 8, 9 and
10, 1926, to assist taxpayers in pre-
pairing their returns. No charge will
be made for this service. The matter
of filing your Income Tax Return
should be, given immediate attention,
in order to avoid penalty and interest.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
PECAN GROVE BRINGS $500
PER ACRE

The Griner Land and Development
Company announce the sale of Foil
tract, southwest of the city and ad-
Joining property of DR.. Cass to Mr..
J. E. Lobinger of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Lobinger is newcomer to this Sec
ton and was so much impressed with
possibilities that he decided to move
here. Mr.. Lobinger will begin i'm
mediately the erection of handsome
residence on this property. The prop
erty contains two and one-half acres
of bearing pecan trees and sold at
$500 per acre.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
A. & M. CLEE CLUB ENTER
TAINS HIGH SCHOOL

The Fitzgerald High School was
highly entertained by an impromptu
visit of the South Georgia College
Glee Club of Triton, Wednesday
morning. The clubis under the man.
agement of Prof. J. G. Holt and has
about twenty members of the student
corps in its personnel.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
INSPECTING OUR ROAD MAKING
MACHINERY

Chairman Gammage and Commits
sioners Wilcox and Walten of Wilcox
county came over today to look over
our improved woodworking machin-
cry. Hon. r. J. Burch, Jr., of East
man, accompanied the party.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
PosroFErcE CLOSES MONDAY

The Fitzgerald postoffice will be
closed on February %, 1926, on &C.
count of Washington's Birthday. The
general delivery and money order
windows will be open from $3.50 to
900 a. M, and from 400 to 4:3O p.
m. City carriers will make one COM
plete trip in the forenoon.
w. A. ADAMS, P. NJ.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18

BANKS WILL CLOSE ON MONDAY
7 The First National Bank and Elk,
change National Bank will De closed
next Monday, February 22nd. Wash
ington's Birthday.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-18
LIBRARY CLOSED

The Library will be closed on Mon
day, February the 22nd, Washing
tan's Birthday.
LIBRARY BOARD.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14
ONCE GOOD MONEY,
NOW WASTE PAPER

Dealers in old paper take notice !
The Jugoslav government has fifteen
carloads of waste paper for sale, II
is all tina, is left OF billions of Austro-
Hungarian bank notes, called In and
replaced by dinar notes. Jugoslavia
WIS constructed out OF Serbia and sew
eral parts of the old Austro-H ungar-
ian empire. Along with the increase
In territory Jugoslavia inherited an
inflated currency. First the bank notes
circulated on basis reduced from
the inflated value. and later were
stamped. Afterward the stamped notes
were exchanged on basis of four
crowns for one dinar. Now dinars cir
culate throughout Jugosavia, and
Austrian crowns are not legal tender.
Exports are greater than imports and
the dinar shows tendency to appre-
ciate. The Jugoslavs like their dinars
and do not mourn the crown. The ma
tional bank officials found that the old
crown bank notes were taking too
much space, consequently they are to
be disposed of us old paper-f fifteen
carloads of them. 1t is not often that
so much money goes so cheaply.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14

An indication of how the Telephone
people feel about general business con
dltions in the new year is shown by
the fact that they are planning to
spend about s3t 100000 in Pennsyl-
vania Central and Southern New Jer-
sey and Delaware TO expand the tele-
phone plant of the Bell Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania, The Della
ware and Atlantic Telegraph and Tela-
phone Company and The Diamond
state Telephone Company to meet this
years requirements Tor telephones
During 1926 telephone engineers
estimate that almost 272,000 tele-
phones will be installed in the terri
tory given above-an average of $50
each day. Approximately lS9 900 tele-
phones will be removed during the
same period, including those tele-
phones that are disconnected, because
of people moving about in the terri
tory This leaves net increase OF
"A 1000 telephones for the year
Bell engineers are expecting about
5.25Q 900 calls to be handled each day
in the local areas of the territory and
about 100000 ont of town calls
throughout the year
More than one-third of the entire
amount of money TO be spent will be
used For outs de plant" extensions
This term covers aerial and under
ground cables, conduit system. poles
and equipment outside of the central
Offices and subscribers premises.
The pew wire to be placed this year
in und nrground and overhead cables
would luild three complete lines
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14
Telephone Company
Plans Large Construc-
ton Program for 1926
About So 100000 to be Spent in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware for Expanding
Telephone Plant

between the earth and the moon. The
bare and insulated wire to be placed
on pole lines would loop the earth
seven times at the equator. The new
poles to be set and those to replace
worn out poles would build a com
ple.e pole line between New York and
Chicago.
Seven new machine switching Offices
are to be opened in 1926-Penny-
packer, Stevenson and Waverly In
Philadelphia, new offices in Reading,
Sinking Springs, Williamsport and
McKeesport. A large addition will be
made to the machine switching cen
trail Office in Altoona.
This does not mean that Ya1nual
central Offices are to be relegated to
the dis I'd, according to telephone
officials. AS evidence to the contrary
IS the announcement that new manual
Officer are to be opened this year in
Willow Grove, Wyoming, Jermyn and
Reading, Pa. Large additions are in
prospect during the year for the Jack
son Central office In Philadelphia, the
Lehigh office and Tandem toll Off e
in Pittsburgh. The Tandem Office
handles Pittsburgh's suburban calls.
Additions are also to be made to the
manual central offices in Chester,
West Chester, Reading, Carnegie,
New Castle, Sewickley and Union
town, all in Pennsylvania.
Increased business and the growth
Of the telephone habit" are the fac
tors in back of the new requirements
for telephones. according to telephone
! officials
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14
Red Herring Across Trail

This phrase, originally ito draw a
red herring across the track" is fire.
quently heard in everyday speech to
signify means used to divert ones
attention, to throw one of the scent
by injecting into the matter in hand
new object upon which the atten-
ton is then focused.
The expression dates back to the
Seventeenth century for its origin. be
ing a survival of the old practice of
sportsmen to draw the carcass of a
cat or fox or red herring across the
track In training dogs for hunting.
The uniqueness of the phrase made
II stand out, and 1t soon became popu-
lar In the figurative sense in which
1t is used today.-Jean Newton In
Chicago Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14
TRIBE CLINGS TO
ITS OLD CUSTOMS

The Japanese government is having
trouble all the time with a tribe In
Korea which cannot be made amen
able to laws or reached in any man
ner. The members insist on doing
things In just the same manner as
their forefathers have done and all eff
forts to induce them to adopt the Gus
toms and convenieneeS of modern
times are fruitless. They have a habit
OF burning down valuable forests and
wood Is quite scarce, but that makes
no difference when they want the land
for farming purposes. 1t Is easier to
get rich land by burning II over than
to cultivate that which is already
cleared Efforts have been made to
get these people to pay some attention
to personal cleanliness, but it Is i'm
possible to get them to take bath
for any consideration. They do not
battle from the day they are born UNI
til they die and yet they are sound
and healthy and good physical speei-
mems. Their marriage ceremony CON
sists of merely shaking hands.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14

DETIrIANS declare that the aver.
- age boy or girl of four years
should receive about forty calories a
pound of body weight per day The
average weight of child of four years
is forty pounds. Therefore the total
caloric requirement would be ap-
proximately 900 caories. Calory is
merely the name for certain meas.
ure of heat derived from the burning
of food
Necessarily, the caloric requirement
of the child is dependent on his
temperament, since child who plays
hard and long requires more nourish-
ment than one who leads a Quieter
life. Rate Of growth also has bear
Ing on caloric requirements. The
child who is growing rapidly should
be given more food to meet his caloric
needs than the boy or girl whose
growth is normal
Mothers know the daily diet should
consist of the essential foodstuffs, pro
TEN, carbohydrates. fats, minerals an0
water. The important thing for her is
to learn the foods that contain these
essentials In balanced diet Below
is well-balanced menu for any child
six years old compiled by an authority
on home economics.
ONE DAYS MENU FOR SIX.
YEAR-CLD CHILD.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14
Just Wanted to Keep
Promise to the BARN

Judge Joseph SABBATH, of Chicago,
said recently that the increase in d.
vorce is not necessarily bad sign.
but may be, onithe contrary, sign that
woman, more emancipated now, insists
more on square deal.
Il have presided over 10000 divorce
cases." Judge SABBATH said at lunch
con, "and | have seen more than one
husband who was as impossible rs
Wully Dugan.
"Wully, just before Christmas, at
tended performance given by an IL
iusionist The illuslonist put wom-
an in cabinet, shut the doors, then
opened them again-and behold, the
woman had disappeared and In her
place was green parrot
"Wully buttonholed the illuslonist
after the performance and said TO
him:
Mon, could We do that trick If ma
wife was put in yer boxT
Aha the illusionist laughed, $50
you want to get rid of your wife, do
your
'Weel,' said Wully, it's not so
much that, We ken, but ! promised the
BARN green parrot for Christmas "
Detroit Free Press.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-01-14
Famous Religious Order

The Franclscans were n religious
order founded by st, Francis d'Assssi
about 1909. In England they were
called Gray Friars. in allusion to the
cray nantes worn by them They
appeared in Great Britain in 1920, and
at the time of their suppression by
Henry VIII in 1896, they had more
than sixty nbbeys The Franciscans
were vowed TO chastity, poverty, and
obedience, and lived an austere and
ascetic life. Among their number may
be mentioned Duns Scotus, Roger Bn'
con. st. Bonaventure, Cardinal Kim
enes. Alexander of Hales, and Gillian
Of Okham. St Francis WAS canonlzed
by Pope Gregory TX In l228.-Knnsas
City Star