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SANTA CLAUS LETTERS MUST REACH US BY NEXT TUESDAY AND THAT IS LAST DAY FOR THEM
FARMERS AND BUSI
NESS MEN TO MEET
.* BIG CROWD IS LOOKED FOR
Campaign by Farmers’ Cnion to En
large the Organization Will be Ex
plained by the Head the Body
Here Next Saturday.
l
is announced in the last issue of
The Progress, the farmers and busi
ness men of Coffee County will hold
a very important meeting here next
Saturday.
President Barrett Will Speak.
President Barrett, of the Farmers’
Union, and Hon. J. J. Brown, of El-
S bert County, will deliver addresses.
All who were formerly members of
the Farmers' Union, and all others
who care to enlist are urged to be in
attendance at this meeting.
Want to Increase Membership.
President Barrett and his co-work
ers are making an active campaign to
enlarge the Union and to make its
work of co-operation and education
harmonize with the business interests
of the country. The principles of the
Union are sound. They are not in any
way antagonistic to honest business.
A successful organization of the
farmers to the end that crop diversi
« location may be established and better
■haarket facilities provided, would be a
~ boon to all lines of business, and the
business man and the banker should
lend a helping hand. ,
Will Re of Special Interest.
The meeting next Saturday will be
of special interest to Douglas and Cof
fee County. Some very important an
nouncements will iikely follow.
MULES BREAK INTO
STORE; 5250 DAMAGE
This morning while Mr. W. A. Cath
ey was at breakfast, a .team of mules
attached to a wagon ran into the side
of his store. So fast were the mules
Tunning that when the end of the wag
on tongue hit the side of the building
it went on through tearing a large
hole and throwing the mules to the
ground. The end of the tongue hit a
l'sixty-gallon tank of kerosene oil on
the inside of the building, knocked it
over and spilled the contents around
the place. About $250 worth of flour,
sugar, meat,etc., was ruined by the oil
being smeared over them.
There was a good fire going in the
stove in the store at the time, and it
is a wonder -that it, too, was not turn
ed over. Had it been, with the oil
scattered around as it was nothing in
the world could have saved the build
ing.
After the mules had regained their
composure, and their feet, they started
off as fast as they had approached and
at last accounts were still proceeding.
WESLEY MEMORIAL OFFERING
WILL BE TAKEN NEXT SENDAI'
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 15. —The annual
‘Christmas offering for the charity
work fund of Wesley Memorial hospit
al of this city will be taken next Sun
day, December 20, in all churches of
the North and South Georgia confer
ence of the Methodist church, as the
work has been approved by those bod
ies and it was directed that the col
lection be taken. The fund is for the
purpose of helping to furnish treat
ment for the poor who are sent to the
hospital. It is not fqr the hospital it
self, for every bed could be filled with
pay patients and the hospital could
make a profit, but in so doing would
not fulfill its purpose. Every care is
\taken to see that the fund is properly
jused.
No patient has ever been denied en
trance when there was an unoccupied
bed in the wards unless he had some
disease that was infectious, contagious
or incurable. Of the 1,128 patients
treated in the past year, 110 were char
irt patients unable to pay for treat
ment and 469 were part-pay ■ patients.
More than 75 per cent of the counties
of Georgia were repres£ntse4k by the
patients. The cost to the hospital,
above what was paid was over ten
thousand dollars. * Last year 345 pas
toral charges Georgia gave $5,006.-
73 for free work at JVesley Memorial.
<MT tt Cfomttljj JPmgwss.
MBS. Wm. KIRKLAND
PASSES TO BEYOND
Death Caine After a Lingering Illness
Was Daughter of One of Coffee
County’s Pioneersand Promi
nently Connected.
The death of Mrs. William Kirkland
at her home at Willacoochee last Wed
nesday removes from the walks of life
a lady well and favorab'y known to
thousands of our citizens.
Death came after a long and linger
ing illness, which she endured with
great fortitude. According to the fam
ily afehives, she was sixty-eight years
old, She was the mother of the iate
Mrs. Benjamin F. Summerlin, of Wil
lacoochee, and the grandmother of
Randolph Summerlin, wTio lost his life
at Vera Cruz in the early part of this
year.
Her father, J. K. Hilliard, was one
of the first settlers of Douglas, back
in the fifties. He built a hotel on the
premises no*v occupied by the resi
dence of Mr. B. Peterson. The huge,
but decaying old oak tree in front of
the Peterson home, is a product of
Mr. Hilliard's planting.
Besides many friends and loved ones
Mrs. Kirkland leaves of her immedi
ate family to survive her, three broth
ers: James Hilliard, Kissimee, Fla.;
Henry Hilliard. Odom, Ga., and Bob
Hilliard, Jesup, Ga. Four sisters: Mrs.
Emma Carr, St. Augustine, Fla.; Mrs.
Sarah Nabb, St. Augustine, Fla.; Mrs.
Mary 'King, and Mrs. Martha Heap,
of Lakeland, Fla. One son: Dr. T. J.
Kirkland, Douglas, and four daughters
Mrs. E. B. Whilden, Live Oak, Fla,;
Mrs. J. 11. Paskins, Zirkle,. G&- and
Mrs. D. Wynn and Mrs. John Sirmans,
of Willacoochee, Ga.
The funeral, which was very largely
attended, occurred at Antioc on Tliurs
day afternoon.
MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND
.MORE RALES GINNED HERE
According to the Government re
ports, there have been ginned in this
county, up to December Ist, 22,246
bales of cotton, as against 16,860 of
the 1913 crop. This is a gain for the
1914 crop of 5,38.6 bales.
It is estimated by those competent
to figure on the crop, that there will
be about 1,000 more bales ginned in
the county out of the 1914 crop.
DR, MORRISON WELL
REOEIVED ON SUNDAY
Dr. Morrison, the new pastor of the
Methodist church, preached his initial
sermon Sunday morning. Owing to
the severe weather only a small con
gregation was on hand to near him.
Dr. Morrison is a fluent speaker,
md has a splendid delivery. He is
a man of imposing appearance and to
judge from his sermon Sunday morn
ing gives much thought to his sub
ject.
Judging frqm the expressions heard
by those who have been under his
voice, Dr. Morrison will receive a ve
ry hearty co-operation fro mhis peo
ple and if he continues to deliver the
Gospel in the manner he has begun
it is predicted that he will be a power
for good in Douglas.
FARMERS SHOULD EITHER SEEL
OR BORROW, SAYS R. F. MADDOX
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta, Dec. 15. —That farmers who
liavd cotton on hand w T hich they do
not wish to sell should borrow- on it
and pay their debts is being urged
strongly by Robert F. Maddox, of At
lanta, w r ho is Georgia chairman of the
vice-president of the American Nation
al bank.
“There are considerable more than
a million bales of cotton in Georgia
unsold and ready for the market,” de
clared Mr. Maddox. “If the owners of
this cotton do not care to sell at the
prevailing prices they should borrow
a considerable amount on it, which, if
put into circulation by payments of
debts, will be of mu£h relief through
out the State.”
- Job printing at Tij.e Progreaa office.
Douglas, Georgia, Wednesday, December 16th 1914
HAVE YOU SEEDED
• YOUR OATS YET?
IMPORTANT THAT IT BE DONE
Farm Demonstrator Eunice ( alls At
tention to This Matter and Crges
The Farmers to Seed.—Call
Attention to Statistics.
There are a great many farmers in
Coffee County who have not seeded
their oats yet, mostly due to the fact
that they are feeling a little discour
aged over the cotton situation at pres
ent. However, it is important for ev
ery farmer to act promptly if lie is go
ing to get his oats in this fall. If you
will read the following statistics giv
en out by Dr. Knapp, special agent in
charge, you will easily see why it is
important that every farmer should
plant at least enough oats to supply
his own feed.
The eleven cotton states, including
Tennessee, in 1912 had 4,140,000 acres
of oats on which they produced some
thing over bushels. There
are in these states over 6,500,000 hors
es and mules. If we were to* figure
only three pounds of oats for each
horse and mule per day for three hun
dred days, with 32 pounds of oats to
the bushel, at the average production
per acre of each of these states, it
would require 7,898,000 acres to raise
the necessary oats to feed the mules
and horses at this small'amount per
day.
Louisiana only had 45,000 acres in
oath in 1912. To feed her mules and
horses three pounds per day for three
hundred days would require 412,926
acres in oats.
Alabama had 325,000 acres in oats
in 1912, and to feed her horses and
mules the amount named:—three
pounds per day for three hundred days
—would require 571,875 acres in oats,
at the average production of the state.
North Carolina had 230,000 acres in
oats in 1912, at her average produc
tion it would require 523,125 acres to
produce a sufficient quantity to feed
her horses and mules, as above point
ed out.
In these figures no account is tak
en of the other uses of the oat crop.
Feeding value of the oat straw, etc.
At this date the demand is good for
oats in this country and abroad. Fig
ures could be given for the otheT
states, but these examples are suffi
cient.
How is it here in Coffee County?
Do the farmers raise enough oats to
give their horses and mules a quarter
of a feed a day, *to say nothing of a
full feed, for three hundred afid six
ty-five days?
In 1911 the commissioner of agri
culture of South Carolina estimated
that for the previous year the state
of South Carolina imported one mil
lion dollars worth of oats. The
Chamber of Commerce of Georgia es
timated last winter jthat the State of
Georgia purchased thirty-nine million
dollar s worth of oats.
Now if you will notice the above
figures carefully I am sure that jon
will quit the one crop system and de
vote some of the cotton land to this
valuable crop, and by so doing in
crease the price of cotton by cutting
down the acrc-ige and at the same
nne raise enough feed for your hous
es and mules, thus saving the expense
of hr ying the high priced oat:-, and
ctvn during the summer nonius.
G. B. EUNICE, Farm Demonstrator.
MR. BEN L. LANE ELECTED V
DIRECTOR IN PROGRESS CO.
At the annual meeting of the Direc
tors of the Progress Publishing Co.,
Mr. Ben L. Lane was elected as a mem
her of the Board. Mr. Lane is too well
know r n in Douglas to require any in
troduction and the company feels that
a wise selection was made when he
was added as one of the members to
act as a director.
The reports of the company were
good considering Abe financial situa
tion, and especially as to the patron
age of the Progress, which has grown
during its first year to a commanding
position in Coffee County It was
shown in .the report that its subscrip
tion list had grown steadily since the
paper started. It is expected w ith the
opening of business that The Progress
will go farward with leaps and bounds
as expressions are h£ e * r ' , j^ on every
side that it has filing wj mission in
the county and is the - loya 1 *- a news P a
per tbe people want, y< j
SANTA GLAUS STILL
RECEIVING LETTERS
MANY MORE SENT IN FOR HIM
The Boys and Girls Have Shown Thai
They Still Have Faith in the Good
Saint and He H ill Not Disap
point Them That is Sure.
What “Old Santa” Overheard.
(James Whitcomb Riley, in Collier’s.)
'Tis said old Santa Clans one time
Told this joke on himself in rime:
One Christmas in the early din
That ever leads the morning in,
I heard the happy children shout
In rapture at the toys turned out
Of bulging little socks and shoes —
A joy at w r hich I could but choose
To listen enviously, because
I'm always just “Old Santa Claus.”
But ere my rising sigh had got
To its first quiver at the thought,
It broke i.n laughter, as I heard
A little voice like a bird—
“ Old Santa’s mighty good, I know',
And awful rich—and he can go
Down ever’ chimbly anywhere
In all tlie "world!—But I don't care
I wouldn't trade with him, and be
Old Santa Claus and him be me,
For all his toys and things—and I
Know why, and bet you he knows
why!
Tey wuz no Santa Claus when he
Wuz ist a little boy like me!”
Yes, indeed, when Santa was a lit
tle boy there was no such an event as
Christmas, and even though at this
time, when the people of the old world
are going opposite to the teachings of
the Spirit of Christmas, Old Santa is
present in the hearts of the little ones
and he will be with them here this
year as before. True he won’t be able
to bring as many toys and things as
lie lias in years gone by, but he will
come just the same, even though times
are hard and the people are blue.
For, at this season there is some
thing that stirs within the hearts of
mankind that makes an appeal to Old
Santa and he can not resist this ap
peal. He is the Saint of Goo Cheer
of "peace on earth, good will toward
men,” and his greatest follow'ers are
the little ones. Assuredly, if his teach
ings had been followed, there would
not now be a great war, and the peo
ple would be prosperous and happy.
Christmas 1914 in the land of cot
ton will not be the merry one it has
been but when we stop and consider
how many many times more blessed
we are than the people of the warring
nations we should be more happy
than ever that we live in a land of
peace.
Remembers Little Sister,
Pearson Ga., Dec. 9, 1914.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am 9 years old and I want you
to please bring me a doll and ’ cart
also a doll for my little sister Miri
am.
RAY SMITH.
Douglas, Ga., Dec. 14, 1914.
Dear Santa Claus:
Wants Overcoat and Automobile.
I am a boy 10 years old, and I want
an overcoat, a toy automobile that I
can ride in, a tricycle, a toy hammer
that costs 8 cents, a toy bank, two
tennis rackets with lots of fruit and
candy.
Bye.
WALTER WILCOX.
P. S.—Please bring me a gun called
“Dixie.”
tiring A Horn and Train.
Pearson, Ga., Dec. 9, 1914.
Dear Santa:
Please bring me a horn, train and a
little watch. You need not bring me
a new reader for grandpa will get me
one. I am 6 years old.
D. A. SMITH, JR.
Four Year-Old Girl Wants Doll.
Douglas, Ga., Dec. 14, 1914.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am 4 years old and I w-ant a big
dollie with black eyes, a cradle, a
carriage and lots of fruit and candy.
And don’t forget sister who is 3 years
old. I want you to bring her a little
cup and saucer and a big dollie. We
are good little girls.
Good bye,
GLADYS WILCOX.
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
FOR THE HOLIDAYS
All tin 1 Institutions °f Learning in
Douglas Will (lose Friday For
Holidays and Recess Hill Last
For Two Weeks.
The Georgia Normal College and
Business Institute and the city public
schools will take a two weeks’ recess
next Friday covering the holiday per
iod. Many of the students who have
been with us since the opening last.
September will go to their homes to
spend Christmas and will return in
January to continue their studies dur
ing the spring term.
Taking into consideration the strin
gency in money matters, the attbnd
iuice for the fall term has been re
markably good.
The Agricultural School will dis
miss Friday for a two weeks’ vaca
tion. The fall term has been success
ful and the outlook is fair for a larg
er attendance in the spring term.
To tlie faithful teachers and the car
nest students of botti institutions, The
Progress extends a word of good cheer
and friendly parting and wishes for
all a Suerry Christmas and a happy
New Year.
1914 COTTON CROP
A RECORD BREAKER
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14. The to
tal production of cotton in the United
Statds for the season 1914-15 will
amount to 7,637,113,000 pounds (not
including 1 inters) equivalent to 15,-
966,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight, against 14,611,000 bales last
year, according to an estimate made
by the crop reporting board of the de
partment of agriculture.
The following table shows the esti
mates by states for the yield of the
191 T-15 season, as compared with the
actual yield last year.
This is the largest estimate ever
.given to cotton in the history of the
United States, and with 600,000 bales
of linters added to the estimate it in
dicates a collossal production of 16,-
566,000 bales, compared with the
“bumper” M?rop of 16,138,000 bales in
1911. In 1911 the government esti
mated the yield at 14,885,000 bales, ex
elusive of linters and repacks.
| The first column of figures give the
estimate for the 1914-15 crop while
the second column shows the actual
yield in I!H3.
Georgia .2,650,000 : 2,457,000
Virginia 24,000 |
North Carolina .... 950,000 873,000
Soutli Carolina ....1,500,000 1,465,000
Florida 75,000 j 69,000
Alabama i 1,690,000 1,538,000
Mississippi 1,275,000 1,313,000
Louisiana 450,0001 459,000
Texas 4.560,000 3,949,000
Tennessee 365,0001 401,000
Arkansas 1,040,000 1,079,000
Missouri 75,000 |
Oklahoma 1,350,000 881,000
California 37,000 I
All others 15,000 127,000
FARMERS ADOPT LEE KIIM'Y
PLAN TO REDUCE A( KKAGE
Special to The Progress.
Tiie farmers of the Sears Sciiool
community met last Thursday night
and signed up the Lee County plan to
reduce cotton acreage to 10 acres to
the plow for 1915.
J. H. WILLIAMS, Secy.
A mean rich man may jolly himself
into thinking that his means justify
his meanness.
Loves Her Teacher.
Denton, Ga., Dec. 9, 1914.
Dear Santa:
I am a little girl eight years old. 1
go to school and love my teacher v
er so much, her name is Miss Fannie
Tyler.
Please brjng me a great big doll. I
have a little brother six years old, and
he wants a tricycle. I will not ask
you to bring very much on account
of the big war. I hope you will re
member those little boys and girls ov
er there.
R. L. MEEKS.
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$1 Per Annum
250 ACRES PLEDGED
FOR TOBACCO CROP
FARMERS ARE Ml( H INTERESTED
Enthusiastic Demonstration Meeting
Held at the Farm of S. J. Brown
At Nicliolls Last Friday.—Many
Farmers ami Others Attended
A very interesting tobacco planting
demonstration was helat the farm of
Mr. S. J. Brown, at Nicholls, last Fri
day. Diversified farming was discuss
ed in general by five or six prominent
and practical farmers in the forenoon.
At noon tiiere was a emonstration of
a sdre ’nuf Georgia barbecue.
Seed Bed Planted
During (he afternoon, the farmers
were shown how to prepare a tobacco
plant bed by burning thoroughly. Also
iiow to sow seed on a bed that was
alreday prepared by Mr. Brown.
250 Acres Pledged to Tobacco.
In the neighborhood of 250 acres
were pledged for tobacco culture next
Prominent Farmers Present.
There were a number of the most
prominent farmers of the County in at
tendance, among them: E. L. Minor,
R. M. Lewis, O. E. Giddens, J. J. Fore
man, Jesse Meeks, Ben Cole, J. F. Care
lock, Willie Meeks, Staton Smith,
Melvin Tanner, Elias Moore, Jno Dav
is, .1. J. Carter, W. M. Thompson, J.
K. Carter, C. S. Meeks, Gray Meeks,
E. N. Waters, W. G. Meeks, E. L. Wil
liams, Josh Carter, W. L. Cole, G. L.
Carter, Ira Moore, T. H. Deen, W. B.
Stone, C. E. Baker, J. E. Phillips, W.
F. Eads, J. B. Dorminey, G. M. Hes
ter, S. H. Blancett, besides the host of
the occasion S. J. Brown.
If any farmer is desirous of getting
detailed information about tobacco
culture they may do so by applying to
Mr. S. J. Brown, at Nicholls, either in
person or by letter or by addressing
D. L. Campbell, Alma, Ga., or W. R.
Tucker, Moultrie Ga., who are farm
ers co-operative agents for the A. 8.,
& A. railroad.
HOME INDUSTRY
MOVEMENT DRAWS
MUCH ATTENTION
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta, Dec. 14.—The Home Indus
try movement is spreading rapidly
among the smaller cities and towns
of Georgia, urged on by the live news
papers, and is is producing results.
There is hardly a town in the State
which does not manufacture some
thing; Which has not a factory of
some type. When the home people
give first choice to home articles they
aid directly in employing the factory
workers and the money stays at home.
Many large factories in the bigger
cities have complained that they have
found a market more readily far away
from home than in close by places,
and dare uniting in a “Home Prod
ucts” campaign. There is no town in
the State where a similar movement
would not be an aid. But one reason
why bomd products frequently are not
purchased is because they are un
known. Systematic advertising at
home is a remedy for this.
Spugs Working Hard
/ •
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta, Dec. 15.—The Spugs are
working hard in Atlanta this Christ
mas to break up the foolish custom of
giving something that's no good to a
person you don’t care a hang for just
because that person is likely to give
you something you' don’t want and
make you feel sorry Christmas was in
vented.
The Spugs are really the Society for
the Prevention of Useless Giving, and
they are pretty well organized. It is
believed that their work will mean
fewer carpet slippers for father and
fewer pin cushions for mother, and
a lot less of those mysterious articles
on sale at Christmas tima .
which nobody can disco^
But the Spugs are nt, \
Christmas gifts, ‘lfm \
erybody cut out <
tory giving and r~
some real good. Cou: ‘