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II. Mo. 8 IF YOU'VE GOT TO FILL UP THIS YEAR, FILL UP ON CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, IT ONLY INTOXICATES WITH JOY WALLACE REELECTED MAYOR OF DOUGLAS STRAIGHT TICKET WENT ALONG Balloting Saturday Was Staedy and a Heavy Vote Was Polled. Roth i ndidafe* For May f, r Worked Hard —No Unpleasantness Hon. T. A. Wallace was re-elected mayor of Douglas over Col. R. A. Moore, in the municipal election held last Saturday. The race between the two candidates for the office waxed warm during the day, but while there was strong competition no unpleasant ness of any nature came up and the voting went along rapidly and with good feeling cn all sides. Mayor Wallace had lined up a tick et and it was elected without a single exception. There was some surprise When the votes were counted and the result an nounced at the majorities some of the candidates for council had received as many had predicted that the result would be a different one. However, the newly elected council is made up of splendid men and everybody seems to feel tha htet affairs of the city will be well taken care of during the coming year. The newly elected council will take hold January 1. Mr. Sydney J. Stubbs lead the tick et for councilman, being re-elected; and this was not a surprise. Mr. Geo. Crowder, who stood for re-election to the council, was the lowest man on the ticket and this was somewhat, of a surprise to many who thought that he would surely be returned. A comical incident, or at least it turned out to be comical after the check was returned to the owner, was the casting of a s2l check for a ballot by Mr. W. A. V’ilcox. Mr. Wilcox by mistake handed the \ieck, all neatly folded, to the clerk, who, without ex amining it, of course, deposited it in the ballot box. Mr. Wilcox missed the check about 3 o’clock in the afternoon but did not dream that he had voted It and he made a most diligent search for it, because s2l is a great, huge pile of money these times. The check was discovered by the tellers, when the vots were counted and as none of the candidates’ names appeared upon it it could not be considered a vote and so the check was returned to Mr. Wilcox. It is said that he wept with joy when this was done. The result of the election was as follows: Mayor: T. A. Wallace, 212; R. A. Moore. 125.—Wallace’s majority, 87. Councilmen: T. W. Upton, 233; S. J. Stubbs, 251; J. R. Overman, 209; Melvin Tanner, 219; W. L. Rogers,2o6; Geo. A. Crowder, 74"; G. A. Tanner, 132; Oliver Peterson, 117; J. F. Over street, 75; I. C. Sapp, 127. War Taxes Marriage Special to The Progress. Atlanta. Dec. 21. —While the govern ment war tax does not apply on mar riage licenses young bridegrooms need not cpngratulate themselves on escap ing entirely their share of the cost of war. The government has ruled that the certificates provided by ordinaries or ministers, declaring that John and Mary were lawfully bound in holy wedlock, shall bear a ten cent stamp to prove it afterward. Forrest Adair Again v Head Of Yaarab Temple Special to The Progress. Atlanta, Dec. 21. —For another year at least Forrest .Adair, the leading fig ure in Southern Shrinedom, will serve as potentate of Yaarab Temple of At lanta. He was re-elected this past week, the vote being unanimous. Plans were immediately set on foot for send ing a big delegation to the Seattle con vention. Forrest Adair is the man who brought the great Shriners’ conven tion to Atlanta last summer and who worked night and day for weeks to in sure its success. Naturally, he could have anything he desFred at the hands of Atlanta Shriners. Job' printing at The ProgTeaa office. (Sonuftj Jhrogr*&& A BIG EDUCATIONAL BALLY BE HELD HEBE STATE SUPERINTENDENT COMING Also Ron. R. H. Phvell President of The Normal College of Valdosta. Rally Will Re Held on Decem ber 30 and Re Rig tft'air. One of the iggest educational rallies ever held in Douglas, as well as one of the most important, will be held here an December 30, at which time State Superintendent M. L. Brittain will ad dress the gathering and it is expected that Hon. R. H. Powell, president of the Normal College of’ Valdosta will also be on hand. It is certain that Prof, rittain will be herer, and Mr. Powell will come un less something transpires in the mean time to prevent him. Supervisor Geo. .D. Goddard, of Mil ner, and Prof. W. A. Little, of this city are also on the program and will de liver addresses during the day. Besides speaking during the day to the teachers and others at the rally, Prof. Powell has agreed te remain over and speak at the school auditor ium at 8 o’clock that night. It is expected that this rally will be attended by hundreds who are interest ed in educational matters, and a cor dial invitaition is extended to the gen eral public to be on hand at all the meetings. Can’t Mail Skunk Skins Special to The Progress. Atlanta, Dec. 21.—Georgia'boys who may be tempted to enter the fur mark et, are warned that Uncle Sam has barred the pelt of hte well known skunk, or pole cat, from the mails, giving as a reason the noted odorif erous qualities of that unpopular ani mal. The ruling of the postoffice depart ment also applies to the furs or hides of any animal so badly cured that they give a disagreeable odor. So the would-be fur shipper will have to tan his product or ship it by express. LELIATON NEWS NOTES. (Special Correspondence) Miss Kate Wilcox, teacher of the Tillman school, left for Douglas Sat urday, where she will spend the holi days. Miss Mary Jones, teacher of the Pine Grove school, left Saturday for her home in Manassas, Ga. Miss Jones has resigned as teacher of the Pine Grove school. She has rendered good service, and her many friends regret to see her leave. Miss Gussie Roberts attended the entertainment at the’auditorium in Willacoochee Friday night. Mr. H. E. Dukes visited his brother G. C. Dukes, of Glory, Sunday. Spikes-Flanders Mr. Oren Spikes and Miss Jessie Flanders were married here last Sun day at 11 o’clock. The wedding was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents.. Miss Bessie Spikes and Mr. Tom Metz, Miss Mattie Flanders and Mr. Roy Tomlinson. The couple left for Tifton and Atlanta Sunday afternoon. Rev Rogers officiated. JUDGE Ql INCEY PRAISED BY WAIT ROSS LAWYERS Waycross, Dec. 21. —Judge J. W. 3uincs(F has been extended a vote of thanks and appreciation for his ser vices as judge of the Waycross cir cuit by the Waycross Bar association. January 1 Judge Quincey retires, his successor to be J. I. Summerall, of Blackshear. Judge Quincey was nam ed judge to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge T. A. Par ker. of Waycross. STATE HEADQUARTERS OF FARMERS’UNION COMING HERE Douglas, Georgia, Wednesday, December 23rd 1914 At Mess Meeting at Court House ot Fanners and Business Men Held Last Night, Proposition of State Body Was Unanimously Accepted CHILDREN MAKE A FINAL APPEAL IN LETTERS TO GOOD OLD SANTA Many of the Roys and Girls Have St ilt ti iin Word What to Rring and We Print Today the East That The Progress Has Received. Wants Big Doll and Fireworks. Douglas, Ga., Dec. 18, 1914. Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring me a big doll and some fireworks, and a carriage; some nuts and candy. Bring me some things to give to children who will not get any things. Your loving friend, LULA JOYCE. Has Tried to he Good and Smart. Nieholls, Ga., Bee. 14, 1914. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me some fireworks and fruit and candy, as I have tried to be good and smart boy all this year. Please bring the other children something nice, also. Your friend, MERRITT TANNER. Two Little Girls Write. Denton, Ga., Dee. 11, 1914. My Dear Santa Claus: YVe are two little sisters, ages 11 and 12 years and go to Sunday School and are good little girls and we want you to bring one of us a»little iron cook stove and the other a little pi ano, and bring us some fireworks and fruits of all kinds and don’t forget all the other little children.* YVe wont ask for any more now, as times are so hard. Your girls, SALLIE AND DOROTHY JACKSON Remembers Other Little Children. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 9 years old and try Denton, Ga., Dec. 11,1914. to be a good boy and I want you to bring me an air rifle and some fruit of all kinds and carry all poor little children something too. I am your little boy, LAMBERT JACKSON. Goes to School and Studies. Nieholls, Ga., Dec. 14, 1914. Dear Santa Claus: I am going to school and learning fast. I have minded my teacher, Miss Tressie, and my parents good, so please bring me a flag and lots of goodies to eat; also take other good little children something to gladden their little hearts. Lovingly, REXFORD TANNER. Wants a Drum and Football. Douglas, Ga., Dec. 17, 1914. Dear Santa Claus: Please send me a drum and footall. I am a little oy six years old and go to school and try to be smart and good. And you send me all you'can. LOVELLE McNAB. AN EVANS POI NTY HOG This cold weather has been an op portune time to butcher hogs x says the Claxton Enterprise, and adds: “Wal ton Rogers informed us that he killed his monster hog last ' Monday, the gross weight of which was 817 pounds and after dressing it the net weight was 732 pounds, from which he ren dered five cans of lard, being 250 pounds. As he is a candidate for sher iff, he hopes to succeed as well at pol itics as at raising swine.” BE BIG IMPETUS TO ALL THIS SECTION Extensive Campaign Being Planned E<*r the Purpose of Advertising Coffee County’s Resources in An Effort to Rring Farm ers Here One of the most Important develop ments that has taken place in Douglas in a long time, occurred at the Court House last night, when it was unani mously voted by a large crowd of en thusiastic farmers and business men to accept the offer made by the Geor gia State Farmers’ Union as an induce msnt to get the state headquarters to locate here. Meeting Has Well Attended The meeting last night was well at tended, and several prominent men ad dressed t>„e assemblage, setting forth the advantages that would accrue to this section if the headquarters were to locate here. It was pointed out that it would be the biggest thing towards adverising Coffee County farm lands that had ever been undertaken, and the plan met with hearty approval by those present. Meeting Held East Saturday Last Saturday a large and enthus iastic meeting of farmers, professional and business men was addressed by Hon. C. S. Barrett, president of the National Farmers’ Union, and Hon. J. J. Brown, of Elbert County. The two gentlemen made addresses that great ly enthused the audience. President Barrett, who is official head of the greatest organization of farmers in the world, has held the po sition for nine years and grows strong er in the esteem of the members of the Union as the organization grows older. He is, indeed, a man of won derful information—a genius in the great work to which he is devoting his life. , . Made Important Announcement Mr. Brown made the important an nouncement in his speech that the headquarters of the state and likely the national organization would move to some point in South Georgia in the near future, and that Douglas impress ed him and Mr. Barrett as being the logical place for the headquarters pro vided the city and county would co operate by giving the National Field, the official organ of the Union, a cer tain amout of advertising and five hundred subscribers. Meeting Last Night Accepted Offer The meeting held last night was fbr the purpose of considering the propo sition made by the two gentlemen who came here Saturday representing the Union, with the result as stated in the beginning of this article. Will Spend $1,500 in Advertising It was agreed that some ten pages be taken in the National Field to use in advertising Coffee County farm lands and to set forth the wonderful advantages and possibilities that are here. These pages will be used from time to time, not all at one time, and a committee was named to took after the preparaion of the material to be used in making up the ads. A commit tee was also named to solicit the five hundred subscribers, and another com mittee was appointed to solicit the subscriptions to the fund to’defray the cos of the advertising. BANKS WILL BE CLOSED FOR TWO DAYS THIS WEEK. The three banks of this city will close for two days, Friday and Satur day, December 25 and 26. The public will please take notice. UNION BANKING CO. BANK OF DOUGLAS. CITIZENS BANK. FIRE DISCOVERED IN COTTON AT OIL MILL MIGHT HAVE CAUSED MUCH LOSS Negro Working in Gin House ill The Douglas Oil and Fertilizer W°rks Discovered That Cotton in the Yard >V»s Yblaze What would have proved a disas trous fire had it occurred in the night, or at a time when a strong wind was blowing, was only a small blaze yes terday morning at 10 o'clock wnen a number of bales of cotton was scorch ed in the yard at the Douglas Oil & Fertilizer factory. Lonnie Dupree a negro, who is em ployed in the gin house there happen ed to look ou tof the d6or and saw smoke coming up from a pile of cot ton stored in the yard. He investigat ed and found that the cotton wasafire. The flames were soon extinguished with perhaps S3O damage being done through the ends of several bales of 'he cotton being scorched. If the fire had gained any headway and had been fanned by a strong wind, there is no doubt, but that the build ings and the great quantity of cotton stored on and in the premises would have been destroyed, making a loss of something like $75,000. LUMBER PROPERTY UNDER THE HAMMER IS OF MUCH LOCAL INTEREST / Assets of Gray Lumber Company Will l-e Sold on the First Tuesday in February, Sale Having Been Granted By the Referee All of the assets of the Gray Lumber company, located in this and Ware and other South Georgia counties, and val ued at upwards of $125,000, will be sold on the first Tuesday in February, an order having been granted recent ly by Referee Crovatt, of the bank ruptcy court of this district. This large company went into bank ruptcy almost a year ago. During the summer the three receivers made ap plication for authority to sell the as sets, but at the hearing all parties at interest agreed that to sell the large estate at that time would be a bad move, as it was realized that it would hit. “The session was both a pleasant and profitable one and we all gained considerable experience as a result of it. The commissioners discussed plans for marketing food crops, whose production next year will be extensive and there is no doubt that some defi nite arrangements for taking care of these crops will be made in every one of the Southern states." A dollar now will be more appre ciated than two dollars later on. Ex-Senator West Found Dead Special to The Progress. Valdosta, Dec. 23. —William Stanley West, formerly junior United States Senator, died unexpectedly at his home here Tuesday, yesterday, morning. The news of Senator West’s death caused the greatest excitement in the city and county, as it was entirely un expected. He had suffered an attack of acute indigestion the night before, but was thought to have fully recovered. Tuesday morning, however, whep he did not appear after some itme, Mrs. West sent her son, William, to call to awaken his father. The son soon re apeared wpith the startling news that his father was dea>d. Senator West was found lying as if in slumber, and death had probably been painless. It is thought that the nd came about 4 o’clock in the morn $1 Per Annum FOUR HUNDRED ACRES BE IN CANTALOUPES IN COFFEE COUNTY NEXT YEAR Farmers Will Reduce Co ton Acreage By Substituting Other Ct©ps is a Certainty Now—They Mean to Put Threats Into Execution That the farmers in Coffee County will out the cotton acreage in 1915 and substitute other crops is not a dieam nor a bluff. That they mean to put their threats into execution is attest ed by contracts now being signed up to plant, from four to five hundred ac res of tobacco in the vicinity of Nich olls, and four hundred acres in can taloupes In and near Douglas f/. Mr. D. L. Campbell farm demonstra tion agent of the A. 8., & A. R. R., spent Monday and Tuesday here clos ing contracts with a number of our leading farmers for the cantaloupe crop to be grown under the direction of Mr. N. E. Marsliburn, of LaGrange, who is an expert in cantaloupe produe tion and marketing. Mr. Marshburn has been engaged in the co-operative business of growing and marketing for a numbei of years, and has made a success of the venture. The large acreage to be planted here means that thousands of dollars will be turned loose in the early summer, which will put life and energy into all lines of business at a season here tofore inactive and dull. The Progress commends this advanceed step in di versified farming, which means pros perity and independence. BIG REDUCTION IN COTTON ACREAGE **' ■■ Atlanta, Dec. 21.—The convention of commissioners of agriculture of the Southern states held here the latter part of last week for the purpose of discussing the problem of more food stuffs and less cotton, developed the fact that the cotton acreage all over the South will be reduced from 40 to 50 percent in 1915. “I talked with each one of the com missioners upon this particular sub ject, "i said Commissioner of Agricul ture J. I). Price, “and I asked them to give me conservative estimates, which I feel satisfied they did. I am inclined to think from what they said that the reduction will come nearer to 50 per cent than to 40. “It is not a question of what the farmers want to do," continued Mr. Price, “ but of what they have got to do. Farmers in every Southern state have been hit hard by the develop ments of this fall and they can not afford to put themselves in the same fix another year. They are not going to take any chances on it, anywhere. “Judge Kone, the Texas commission er, tells me the cotton crop will be cut fully 40 per cent in his state, and when Texas reduces its crop to this ex ,tent, you may know it has been hard not bring anywhere around its real value. Now that conditions are about normal again in this section the sale has been ordered. The property to be sold includes a mammoth saw mill at Pine Bloom, together with large tim ber rights etc., a tram railroad some ten miles long and other valuable property. The case is one of the larg est that has ever been handled in the bankruptcy court of this district. . ing. Senator West spent Monday at his farm near here and was apparently in robust health. He was taken ill while at the farm and upon his return home Dr. Griffin was summoned and the remedies given seemed to have the de sired effects, and at 11 o'clock, when the other members of the family retir ed, Mr. West appeared to be sleeping in comfort. Senator West was 65 years old and one of South Georgia's wealthiest men. He is survived by his wife and one son, William, 12 years old. The fun eral and interment takes place here this, Wednesday, afternoon. Mr. West was appointed to fill the vacancy caused through the death of Senator Bacon. His term expired last November.