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Vol I- No. 36
The Progress Has a Greater Circulation in Coffee Countv Than Any Other Paper Published
BROXTON .WILL BE REBUILT AT
ONCE BY PROPERTY OWNERS
All the Burned Area Will Be Built up With Sub
stantial Fireproof Buildings Immediately.
CAMPAIGN FOB THE
AUTO WAGING HOT
Contestants Are Scouring the Woods
and Will Soon begin to Make
Big Gains in Votes.
There is but little being said about
the campaign for State House and .Na
tional offices, but everyw here one goes
in Coffee county one hears from the
contestants in the great Automobile
contest The Progress is conducting.
As far as from interior Florida word
coupes to us that one of the contes
tants is getting down to business, and
is getting encouragement. Another
contestant is over in Echols county
this week working, another is in Ap
pling county, and others are at w’ork
in Coffee county. This means that as
soon as crops begin to move there will
be some tall hustling among the
workers for first place in the list and
up to this time it is anybody’s car.
The votes at this time tally as fol
low’s:
Mrs. J. B. Cooksey 19,250
Horton Christopher 4,750
Miss Mary Annie Ferguson.... 11,500
Miss Edna Moore 27,750
Miss Lila Sapp 27,650
Miss Gussie Roberts ......... 91,650
Miss Ethel Tanner 55,590
Roy G. Vinson .... 33,675
The Place of Honeymoons.
FOR GOVERNOR
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NAT E. HARRIS
Judge Nat E.Harris Will Speak
Here Tomorrow Morning
Hon. Nat E. Harris of Macon, candidate
for Governor, will make a public address
in behalf of his candidacy, at the Court
House in Douglas tomorrow morning, July
1 6 th.
Judge Harris is one of the most eloquent
speakers in the State; is one of the few re
maining old soldiers in public life, and a
delightful treat is in store for those who
have the good fortune to hear him.
The public is cordially invited, especial
ly the ladies, and the old soldiers from Cof
fee and adjoining counties.
(Adverti»ement)
<MT*< Caunta Progress.
The burned area of Broxton will be
built up at once, is the declaration of
the owners of the property on which
stood the buildings that’W’ere destroy
ed by fire recently.
The new buildings w ill be erected of
fire proof material with steel doors
and will be by far better in every re
spect than the wooden structures that
burned.
This is good news to all the county,
and especially to the northern sec
tion which is. rich in farm lands and
Broxton serves a wide territory there.
It means also that the rebuilding will
increase the business of the city, as
the new stores will be more commo
dious and convenient than the old
ones with the result that the mer
chants will bh able to carry heavier
stocks and be in position to display
and handle them to better advantage.
When the fire first occurred, it was
reported on good authority by people
from Broxton that.the burned area
would not be rebuilt, but after the
shock of the fire wore away, those in
terested in the welfare and growth of
that progressive community began to
make arrangements to rebuild, and
this will be done, and the work will
be started and pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible, and it is ex
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BACON COUNTY BILL IS
SAFELY PASSED HOUSE
Atlanta, Ga„ July 14.—The bill
creating the new county of Bacon,
with Alma as the county seat, passed
the House today with a safe majority.
The bill will now go to the Senate
and will in all probability, be passed
by that body,
Douglas, Georgia, Wednesday, July 15th 1914
CIGAR FACTORY WILL
INCREASE ITS OUTPUT
MEANS MORE PAYROLL MONEY
Manager Smith Expects to Close
Deal That Will Make it Necessary
For Him to Employ at
Least Twenty
Men.
It is planned now’ to increase the
output of the Douglas cigar factory
to such an extent that not less than
twenty men will be given steady em
ployment. This means that a good
deal of money will be put into circu
lation here by this added force of
skilled workmen, as cigar makers re
ceive from $lB to $25 per week.
Manager Smith stated to a Progress
reporter recently that he was nego
tiating with a concern to handle his
product and if the deal went though
he would be compelled to double
the capacity of his plant, and in order
to do this he would move from the
rooms he now’ occupied as living
rooms and use them for workrooms,
giving him the necessary space for
making the cigars, and for the storing
and curing of tobacco.
Mr. Smith expects to begin making
two more brands of cigars, which will
give him five brands in all. His El
Triumfo, Don Abilo and Smith's Blunts
have already proved winners and he
states that the two new’ brands he
contemplates putting out will give his
factory an assortment of styles and
flavors that will reach practically ev
ery taste.
The Douglas cigar factory has been
busy during the season and sales have
increased much to the surprise of the
management, w r ho looked for a decid
ed falling off during the spring and
summer.
Should the new plans work out as
started, Douglas will be able to boast
of as good a cigar factory as there is
this side of Tampa.
CHERO-UOLA BOTTLING
WORKS CHANGES HANDS
Owing to the ill health of Mr.G. T.
Varner, who for some time has been
the principal stockholder in the Chero-
Cola Bottling Works here, and mana
ger of the concern, sold his interest
last week to Messrs. J. E. Chappell
and J. W. Jennings, of Plains, Ga.
These two gentlemen come here with
the best of references and the people
of Douglas will welcome them and
their families.
The Chero-Cola plant here has en
joyed a splendid run of business ever
since it started and the various drinks
the concern puts out have proven pop
ular to the extent that the firm has all
the business they can attend to right
along.
POPULATION OF DOUGLAS
IS INCREASING RAPIDLY
During the week intervening since
our last issue, the poulation of Doug
las has been materially increased,
and by the kind of immigrants we all
like to welcome.
Those arriving were: a boy at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Brantley,
another has come to make his home
with Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Spears. To
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Barrett the stork
brought a girl; and another at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Seaborn Moore;
and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Turner are
rejoicing over the arrival of a girl at
their home.
As far as we are able to learn, the
boys, girls, mammas and papas are
doing well.
HON. J. J. BROWN
SPEAK SATURDAY
The farmers and all others, for that
matter, will be interested to learn
that Hon. J. J. Brown, candidate for
the office of Commissioner of Agricul
ture, w ill deliver an address at the
court hous here Saturday afternoon,
at 2:3,0.
Mr. Brown has hundreds of staunch
supporters in this county, having made
many friends down this way though
efforts that have benefited the fanners
in this section of the state, and it is
openly said that he will get a heavy
vote in the county and many predict
that he will carry the district.
At any rate, Mr. Brown is a fluent
speaker, and has put considrable “life”
into the campaign for the office he
seeks. He can and will interest those
who hear him, especially the farmers,
and earnestly desires to meet as many
of them as possible Saturday at the
court house. ' -
The Dowling Sale
Offers Some Bargains
The public bankruptcy sale of the
Dowling Millinery Store will take
place at the store, corner Madison
avenue and Ward street, Saturday
morning, July 18, at 10 o clock.
The sale will include the stock of
goods as well as a complete set of
furniture aad fixtures, making it a
most attractive sale for those desir
ing this line of business, and will prob
ably be a bargain for some one.
MANY ACRES WILL BE
PLANTED IN MELONS
LOOKS LIKE BIG CLUB AT PRESENT
Farmers in All Sections of the Coun
ty Have Expessed Themselves as
Willing to Club and It Is Ex
pected 500 Acres Will
Be Planted.
Much more interest is being shown
in tiie formation of a watermelon club
than was at first expected, according
to statements made to The Progress.
Already several farmers have stated
that they would be glad to go into the
club, and these farmers are urging
others to go into the club bohinetaoin
others to lay plans this fall to plant
melons next spring.
It is stated by those who have
grown melons that the crop can be
made on new land and that this done
the land is practically ready for a hay
crop to follow the melons, and that
the next year the land is In shape for
corn or cotton.
Among the farmers who have said
that they are going to plant melons
will be found such prominent men as
J. B. Mills, J. E. Phillips, Melvin Tan
ner, Elisha Corbett, Oliver Peterson,
John Kirkland, Griff Lindsay, C. E.
Baker, Sol. Sears. A. J. Meeks,
The above mentioned will plant from
10 to 25 acres each, and it w ill be seen
that already 150 acres are assured,
but it is the hope of the ones deeply
interested in the club’s formation, that
not less than 200 acres will be plant
ed next year. The more acres planted
the more inducement can be offered
to buyers to come here and takg the
corp.
A Progress reporter was recently
told by a melon buyer that he repre
sented a big concern in Chicago, and
that his concern had numbers of men
in the South at this time buying mel
ons and shipping them to points in
the North and East. The buyer said
that he left Chicago with letters of
credit in his pocket calling for enough
cash to pay for all the melons that the
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DOUGLAS TEAM HAS
FULL WEEK AHEAD
s Dougias sent her baseball team to
Eastman to play three games this
week, and after the boots have been
pulled oft there the boys will proceed
to Hawkinsville for three games, re
turning here Sunday.
The team has been strengthened
some what and it is freely predicted
that it will return home with several
scalps, at any rate the fans here are
pulling every minute wTiile the boys
are on the road and only the best of
wishes follow them.
Eastman Won First
Eastman, Ga., July 13.—(8y special
leased wire) —The first game of the
three-game series to be played here
began at 4 o’clock this afternoon, with
a crowd of not less than 600 people,
mostly Eastman rooters, in atten
dance.
From the first man up until Wright
broke up the game in the nineth with
a homer, there was fast and furious
ball played. It was a pitchers battle,
and the two opponents, Dewberry for
Douglas and Holiday for Eastman,
vied with each other for the game,
with the favors going to Holiday, not
withstanding Dewberry made an ex
cellent showing. Holiday struck out
14 men and Dewberry 7.
Douglas made her two runs in the
third inning with two men out, when
Hargroves fumbled an easy grounder
at second with a man on third and
second, both scoring while Hargrove
played with the ball.
No further scoring was done until
the sixth inning, when Eastman came
to bat with Hargrove up. He placed
the ball over the fence between center
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SPECIAL WIRE SERVICE
REPORTING EASTMAN GAMES
Much credit is due manger Smith,
of the Western Union office here, for
the complete arrangement he made to*
get a special wire service installed to
give the Douglas fans a detailed re
port of the games played at Eastman
this week.
A wire was placed on the grounds at
Eastman with an operator and as fast
as any play was made it was announc
ed through a megaphone here and a
record made of it on a score board
placed just outside the telegraph of
fice.
The square in front of the office has
been filled with rooters each afternoon
who thoroughly enjoyed the reports,
which were handled in such a manner
as to make the watching of the reports
as interesting as seeing the boys at
work on the diamond.
The service rendered by Mr. Smith
fully repays the efforts of baseball
lovers here in getting him to put the
feature into effect, and from now on
it is liable to be of reoccurence when
the home team is in Eastman, or on
some other diamond wherfe hard play
ing is looked for.
DOUGLAS OIL & FERTILIZER CO.
HELD ANNUAL MEETING MONDAY
Condition of Company's Business in Fine Shape-De
clared Ten Per Cent Dividend-Will Double
Capacity of Their Plant.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders and board of directors of the
Douglas Oil and Fertilizer Works was
held at the company’s office Monday
morning at 10 o’clock.
The report of the management
showed that the company had been
successful and a dividend of ten per
cent on the capital stock was declar
ed, payable on the day of the meet
ing. Besides the dividend, a snug
sufn was carried into the surplus ac
count.
All the old director were re-elected
and after the election of the directors
that body elected the following offi
cers for the ensuing year: Mr. B. Pet
erson, president; Mr. Dan Lott, Jr.,
vice-president; Mr. S. J. Stubbs, treas
urer and general manager; and Mr.
Ben L. Lane, superintendent.
It was decided at the meeting to in
crease the capacity of the plant to
about double its present size, making
it possible to run out from 8,000 to
10,000 tons of fertilizer a year. Other
improvements in the conmpany's plant
was authorized and will include ad
ditions to their ginning department.
Two new short staple gins will be in
stalled and two hydraulic presses.
With this new’ machinery, the com
pany will be in position to gin from
60 to 70 bales of cotton a day.
This company is a decided benefit
to Douglas and it is gratifying to learn
that these additions will be made as it
means added accommodations to the
farmers in this vicinity as well as giv
ing employment to more men.
A CARD FROM REV. M. A. MORGAN
I am at St. Simons Island enjoying
the surf and the sea breezes.
Bro. M, E. Vickers will lead the
services at the Methodist church for
me next Sunday. I sincerely hope all
the members and friends will attend,
and that God’s blessing will be upon
the entire congregation.
Let everybody remebr the Gaskins
Springs campmeeting, and all prepare
to attend. Let’s make this a great
social and religious occasion.
Hon. J. J. Brown, of Elbert County,
Candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture
Will speak at the
t t
Court House, Douglas, Ga.,
Saturday Afternoon, July 18, 2:30
Mr. Brown has hundreds of friends
in Coffee County who will be glad
to hear him speak, and as he is a
speaker of unusual talent, his ad
dress will be interesting.
COME OUT AND HEAR HIM
IT WILL DO YOU GOOD
He will put some ginger into the campaign and
his address will be worth listening to.
Farmers are especially invited, because the
office Mr. Brown is running for is one of most
importance to them, and he will tell the people
why he should be elected.
Court House, Douglas, July 18th
Make it a point to be there
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JUDGE HARRIS SPEAKS
HERE TOMMORRW
Candidate For Governor Will Ad
dress the Voters of Coffee Coun
ty in the Interest of His Cam
paign at the Court House.
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Judge Nat E. Harris, candidate for
governor, will speak to the voters of
Coffee county at the court house' here
tomorrow, Thursday, morning and de
sires to have as many hear him as
possible. j
Mr. Harris has put some ginger in
to the campaign at other places where
he has spoken, and being a very fine
speaker big address will be interest
ing.
Judge Harris is a Confedrate vet
eran and ex-judge of the Superior
court and has had good crowds at the
various places w here he has spoken
throughout the state, and as he is the
first candidate for a state house office
to speak here this year, doubtless
many will turn out to hear him. At
any rate, he deserves a fair and impar
tial hearing, which should be accord
ed every man who asks for the suf
frage of the people.
His address will be worth listening
to and as he has many friends in
Douglas and in Coffee County, it is
likely that the court house will be
packed when he begins to speak.
Ben 1.. Lane Will Remain
It is with a great deal of pleasure
that the many friends of Mr. Ben L.
Lane will learn that he will not go to
Boston, as lie had planned, but w ill re
main in Douglas having made an
agreement with the Douglas Oil &
Fertilizer Co., to superintend their
plant for another year.