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Brantley, congressman from the Eleventh Congressional District and one of the most popular men in public life with the people of this city and vicinity, arrived here today at 11 o’clock and is being entertained at an informal reception at the Lee-Grant hotel this afternoon at 3 o’clock. He will have to leave the city at 4 o’clock to meet an important engagement tomorrow morning at Brunswick. Congressman Lewis will arrive on the train that takes Mr. Brantley out of the city. Judge U. V. Whipple and Editor Charles Jackson Shipp, of Cordele, are also expected to arrive with Congressman Lewis. Editors John L. Herring, of Tifton, and Oscar F. McRae, of McRae, are also expected. Tonight at the Lee-Grant a committee of twenty from the Chamber of Commerce and twenty representatives of the G. A. R. posts, with a few invited friends, including the Mayor, will meet the visitors at the Lee-Grant hotel, at a dinner given by the Chamber of Commerce. Burglary. The large store of the Wright Mercantile Co., corner Main and Central, was burglarized last night. The thief entered through a transom over the door of the grocery department, and apparently took only a limited amount of dry goods, which were packed into a missing suit case, after supplying himself with the things probably most needed, the burglar opened the back door and made his exit. escape into the wide world, and possibly oblivion so far as his identity is concerned. The Wright Mercantile Co. are fortunate in their misfortune to the extent of the thief’s modesty. He might not be so easily satisfied on his next visit. Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Out. Cotton Crop Short, Worth Fifteen Cents. The Ginners report announced today shows that the present crop is about one and a quarter million bales short of last year's crop. Last year's crop was not a large one and with an average crop this year, the price ought to be about 12 cents, but with a crop evidently short, more than a million bales, a fair price would be 15 cents and up. The ginner's report issued today by the Government that up to November the 14th, 7,311,000 bales had been ginned against 8,580,000 bales last year. Pall for Fitzgerald or Pull Out. Prof. Peterson sold one of the improved Kingsbury pianos to Miss Katie Booker this week. - ¢ DR. EMMETT V. BALL e U N e am . . f Practice Limitedto Diseases of B e BN o T il B e e st N T e - S fuﬂ{])trfoﬁ«zd“(:iiiSétS*Scl&utlﬁCdllyﬁtud(Jffxc(ycquq)pm : L e TR B e g G SRS Re Bl T e L 5 .  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The proclamation was issued from the executive office yesterday afternoon and is the first of its kind that Governor Smith has issued since his inauguration— Thursday, November 28th, will mark his first Thanksgiving Day as governor of Georgia. The proclamation follows: State of Georgia, Executive Dept., Atlanta. A PROCLAMATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY, HOKIE SMITH, GOVERNOR. - THANKSGIVING DAY, 1907, The people of Georgia have again approached the season when, in accordance with time-honored custom, the governor issues his proclamation setting aside a day of prayer and thanksgiving for the blessings which Almighty God has so bountifully bestowed upon us. This duty is not performed in a perfunctory spirit. We are so signally blessed that every day should find our hearts filled with reverent gratitude and we should hold Thanksgiving Day in special regard and fittingly observe it, remembering in the midst of our own blessings the less fortunate of our people, so that every heart may rejoice in this festival of the harvest time. We live in the enlightenment of the highest Christian civilization, with the church bells of a thousand spires calling us to worship God, according to the dictates of his own conscience. We are at peace with all the world and no strife disturbs the tranquility of our state. No famine brings hunger and starvation; no shock of earthquake lays waste; no floods desolate; no pestilence scourges. Beautiful Providence has filled our barns and plenty has showered her blessings everywhere. What more could people uskl than has been vouchsafed to Geor gia? Can we not, then, with thel ‘dcepest gratitude to the Giver of | all good things, lift our hearts with | ithankfuluess and ask Him, “lest! e forget,”” to guard us against ‘pride, vainglory, sclfishness and | ingratitude? | l Following the custom of my hon- | ored predecessors, I, Hoke Smith,’ “governor of Georgia, do sct apart’ :and proclaim Thursday, the 28Lh| ~day of the present month of No ; vember, a day for general thanks- I ' giving and prayer, and I recom- ] i mend that on that day the people, | 'as far as they can do so, shall cease !from all their daily labors and in i their homes and in their houses of worship, shall ponder upon the lmany blessings which they have received, give thanks to God and - CLEARING HOUSE Certificates Wanted. Bring them with you and take : home with youanything inour . | Store. . i CLARK COMPANY. pray that they may not become unmindful of His goodncss and mercy. : In testimony whercof I hercunto set my hand and caused the seal of the executive department to be at tached. Done at the capitol, in the city of Atlanta, this, the fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hun dred and seven, and of the inde pendence of the United States cf America the one hundred and thirty-second. . Hox SmithH, Governor. DBy the Governor. JosiAn CARTER. Secretary Executive Dept. ‘Married. Last Sunday at 3 p. m., by the Rev, Jesse Miller, Miss Amanda Coates, of Fitzgerald, and DMr. Irvin M. Hyde, of Chester, Fla. The happy couple took the 4 o’clock train for Waycross and then on to Chester, where they will reside in the future. ~ Get Budy at Something Useful. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Drew, formerly of Fitzgerald, but now of Orlando, Fla., took their depart ure for home this morning, after a visit with relatives. Get Busy at Something Useful. Mr. and Mrs. M. Payne, of Mont gomery, Ala., arrived Friday and are guests in the home of Mus. Paynes parents, Mr. and Mis. Gray on Ocmulgee street. New Officers. The Benevolent Society’s new officers have been installed this week. Mis. Lon Dickey succeeds Mis. A. J. Dixon as president; Mrs. J. ‘ L. McCarty succeeds Mrs. J. E. Mereer as treasurer and Miss Ger- ‘ tic Kiem succeeds Mrs. C. A. Holtzendorf as secretary, This association of good ladies has done considerable good work in Fitzgerald and if the object for which they are associated was bet- ] ter understood, their work would :bc more generally appreciated and i ‘theis opportunity for usfulness ‘enlarged. 1 ; Under a City Ordinance it is; useless for a professional beggar to 'ply his trade ou the streets of Fitz-i {gerald and every such case should 'he referred to the officers of the iL’oncvolent Society, thus protect ing the business men from frauds !and fakirs and at the same time | guaranteeing proper consideration for the worthy, always the more timid begsar. . Give these good ladies every cn- | i couragement. t ' Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Qut. Mr. M. D. Holt left with his family yesterday, for Mellville, Fla., where he has bought a turpentine farm and naval store. We regret very much to lose Mr. Holt and his family but wish for them good health and success in business. The Third National Bank completed its organization yesterday. The board of directors, as appointed by the incorporators, when application was made to the department at Washington, as follows: B. N. Davis, J. H. Goodman, J. M. Mosher, J. G. Knapp, J. C. Glover, C. E. Baker, A. Cook, met and elected E. N. Davis president, A. B. Cook, vice president, and C. E. Baker, cashier. The bank will be located in the new Buick building, at the corner of Main and Pine streets, and soon as the furniture, which being manufactured, is ready to be put up, the bank will be opened. Mr. Baker has been in the city this week conferring with the directors. Many of the best merchants and farmers in the county have taken stock in the new institution. Deacon M. L. Shellenberger treated his young men's Bible to another one of those delightful "At Homes," at his residence in Roanoke Drive on Tuesday night. Pall for Fitzgerald or Pull Out, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jones. Their departure on Saturday Cordele. They visited about country place of Mr. Jones, near Cordele. Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Out, Dr. J. H. Tyman, who has been here about two weeks winding his business affairs, will return to his home on the Rio Grande next week. He has been the guest of many of his friends during his stay. Get Busy at Something Useful. Everett Smith, representing Douglass Shoe Co., was kept by today greeting his old-time friends. He will spend Sunday in this city with his mother. Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Out. Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Dees. This morning at 2 o'clock, Elizabeth Dees died at the home of her son, Mr. John Dees, in South Grant Street. She was very old—more than eighty—but had been in fairly good health until about ten days ago when she was taken ill, and steadily worse until the end. The burial will take place in China Grove tomorrow morning. Jet Busy at Something Useful. Several Couples of Fitzgen, leading young people, enjoyed the cane grinding at the country home of the widow Wilcox, four miles east of the city, off Tuesday. Mesdames D. B. Ware of Wilton, and G. B. Whitfield, were in attendance. 