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*VOL. 111. NO. 27.
HARPER OUT ON
SIO,OOO BOND
Motion Heard Favorably By Sum
merall at Waycross.
Walter Harper, who was bound
over charged with the murder of
Robert Merritt at Ambrose a few
weeks ago, was on Saturday last at
Waycross released from jail on a
ten thousand dollar bond, by ruling
of Judge J 1. Summerall. It is un
derstood some of the most promin
ent men in the county signed the
bond, and it was stated to the court
that Coffee officials declared the
pf'nond to be worth fully one hundred
thousand dollars.
The defendant, who was in jail in
this city, was notified by his lawyers
immediately after their return from
Wavcross, and Harper was allowed
to go to his home near Ambrose to
await trial at the September term of
superior court.
The hearing occupied a greater
portion of last Saturday and several
out-of-town lawyers were present at
\N aycross. The state was represent
ed by J. J. Willingham, John W.
Bennett and attorneys from Fitzger
ald, and Attorneys C. A. Ward and
T. A. Wallace were for the defence.
SPEAKING OF THE
* PROHIBITION LAWS
An Atlanta correspondent says:
“On Monday morning the state of
Georgia became a parching desert so
far as concerns the sale of whiskey,
wine and beer.
The new Georgia prohibition laws,
which went into effect last Monday,
May 1, are probably the most dras
tic and thorough-going ever enacted
by any state legislature in the Uni
ted States.
The legislature of Georgia, pro
fessing to believe that the people of
this state wanted prohibition that
would prohibit, gave it to them in
full measure packed down, heaped
up and running over.
In these new laws the people are
presented an opportunity to test
their prohibition convictions to de
termine exactly to what extent they
willing to practice their temper
ance theories. For the laws are not,
like the previous Georgia prohibi
tion law, a half-handed compromise
between open saloons and strict pro
hibition. They are laws that will
enforce temperance of the total va
riety if they are carried out, and
city and state authorities are now
co-operating to enforce these laws
to the letter.”
NEGRO ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS SELF WITH 44
A negro called Cicero and an em
ployee of W. T. Royal, of Ambrose,
Accidentally shot himself Sunday
night with a 44 army Colts pistol,
in a house near Ambrose, in which
there were several other negroes at
the time.
It seems Cicero had several pistols
and was demonstrating all of them
to the others present, when he ac
cidently shot himself in the abdo
men with the big weapon. It is
thought Cicero as well the others
were drinking.
The shooting took place at I a. m.
Sunday and at 3 a. m. the negro was
brought to the Douglas hospital
where skillful attention failed to
prolong life longer than Tuesday
>ut 10 o’clock.
Rev. W.J. Maddox is still very
low.
Rev. Bledsoe of Broxton visited
friends here Monday.
Mrs. Lou Nash and Mrs-. Henry
Sapp were visitors here Tuesday.
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DOUGLAS ELKS BACK
FROM AMERIGUS
The Elks of Douglas Lodge No.
1276 returned from Americus Satur
day, every one in high spirits and
singing praises of the entertainment
received at this large convention,
which is said to have been the larg
est gathering of Elks in the history
of Georgia.
Most of the local members left
the city Wednesday night in a spec
ial pullman, while several made the
trip in cars and a few on the train.
About thirty were in attendance
from here, over the average num
ber from one city. It is learned the
local delegation made an excellent
showing and despite the large crowd
it was known, “they were there.”
The following are some of the de
tails:
William J. Kehoe, of Savannah,
was elected president of the Elk’s
State association, to succeed J. E. T.
Bowden, of Waycross. The other
officers chosen are: Dr. H. B. Al
len, of Americus, first vice presi
dent: John W. Blount, Macon, sec
ond vice president; T. B. Lamar, of
Columbus, secretary; I. H. Jenkins,
of Brunswick, tyler; J. M. Dent, of
Douglas, inner guard.
Macon won the 1917 meeting.
The upholding, defending and ob
serving of the new Georgia prohi
bition law which became effective
May 1 was the keynote of the ad
dress by President J. E. T. Bowden
at the final business session of the
Elks’ state convention. The re
sponse was a greeting of cheers
from the Elks of the state assemled
in the convention.
The reports of the lodges of the
state were read, showing a splendid
condition. The convention indorsed
President Bowden’s remarks on pro
hibition.
Baptist Announcement
Sunday, May 7th
Preaching by the pastor at II a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning sermon
will be addressed to the members re
cently received into church-fellow
ship and all who have renewed their
vows of allegiance to God. At close
of evening service, baptism will be
administered those approved by
church.
Bible school at 3 p. m.
Welcome to all service, “The
Spirit and the Bride say, Come.”
T. S. Hubert, pastor.
BROXTON HAS BEEN
IN THE DARK
Broxton was thrown in the dark
Monday night about 7:30 when the
i armatures in the electric plant blew
out. No injuries or damage were
reported in the mishap. This is the
second time within two months the
people of Broxton have been
troubled with a similar occurrence.
The Douglas Electrical company
is at work overhauling the machin
ery and placing the blown out parts,
assuring Broxton of probable light
by tonight.
SAD DEATH OF
MRS. DILLBURN
Mrs. Dillburn, aged 60 years, died at
her home in west Douglas, Monday, a.
m. of pleurisy. She had been suf
fering for some time and the end came
as a relief to her, although a severe
blow to her large host of friends.
The burial took place at the D. P.
Lott cemetery, in this county Tuesday
at 9a. ra., a large crowd attending
h ■ services.
A son, several daughters and a large
number of friends mourn this good
lady’s death.
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 3,191 G.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT
WINS IN'DEBATE
Principal Contest of Program Won
By Quincy and Gaddes at Athens
The 11th district agricultural col
lege of this city made a good show
ing at the first annual meet of the
district schools at Athens last week.
Local school boys won the debate,
the most important of all the con
tests, and several other good show
ings were made, despite the fact the
eleventh failed to come out first in
number of points scored.
The Athens Banner had the follow
ing to say in Saturday’s issue: '“At
9 o’clock Friday morning the teams
of debaters from the seven districts
represented held their preliminary,
elimination contest —the two de
baters from the eight and the two
from the eleventh being chosen for
the final debate last night. The
question was, “Resolved that the
boll weevil will prove beneficial to
the farming interests of the state of
Georgia.” The eighth district, repre
sented by Lucius Dean and Rusha
Statham of Madison, was assigned
to the affirmative and Hately G.
Quincy and B. G. Gaddes of the ele
venth district, Douglas, the nega
tive side of the question.
“The question was splendidly de
bated. The negative won the de
cision, however, young Quincy prov
ing to be an exceptionally fine
speaker, a boy Grady in knee trous
ers, and his co-debater being armed
with facts, figures and points.”
Miss Helen McLain made a very
excellent showing in the piano con
test, being second, according to the
judges, only to Miss Alice Walker
from the fifth district, Monroe.
J. A. McGuire of the eleventh won
second prize in the declamation con
test.
Clyde Williams of this district
won third place in running broad
jump; third in the 220 yard dash;
second in the high jump.
The ninth district, Clarkesville
came out first with 21 points total,
W'hile the first district at States
boro and the second district at Tif
ton tied for second with 18 points
each.
SCARCITY OF DYES
IS NOW EVIDENT
If you—man or woman —get
caught in the rain and find that the
color runs or fades in your new suit,
be a sport and don’t complain to the
tailor or merchant you got it from.
It can’t be helped it’s *one of the
horrors of war.
The Natioral association of cloth
iers has just sent out a statement,
which has been received in Atlanta,
warning all purchasers that colors
in garments can no longer be guar
anteed, and “they must learn to ac
cept the situation as one over which
no mill, manufacturer or retailer
can exercise control.”
The American output of anilino
dyes is still far too small to supply
the lack of German dyes. And some
of the American anilinos, because of
the undeveloped state of the indus
try and the haste which manufac
turers have tried to meet the de
mand, are inferior to the “fast”
German dyes.
Eventually the trouble will be en
ded by the renewal of imports or by
the adequate response of the Ameri
can dye industry. Meanwhile there’s
nothing for the consumer to do but
grin and bear k. “Surely,” sug
gests the clothiers, “the' American
public can be trusted to meet this
condition cheerfully, if everybody
is frank about it.”
’Tis with ease to ride on the Uni
versal Shock Absorber. Put on
vour Ford at St:lv.*y’s specialty
station on Pederson avenue,
adv Jim Stalvey.
CITY HALL WILL
BE TWO STORIES
Sweat Memorial Fund Has Been
Utilized For the Undertaking.
Through the efforts of the cham
ber of commerce and the co-opera
tion of the city and the board of
education, the new city building will
be made a two-story structure and
will be in every way modern and
commodious.
As stated in the Progress two
weeks ago, through the activity of
the chamber of commerce, the sub
scriptions to the Sweat mem
orial fund will be utililized
in making the city hall a two
story building, with a suitable in
scription, commemorating the name
of Hon. F. L. Sweat, who was mayor
at the time of his death and who
was such a power in the upbuilding
of the city.
We feel sure that his many friends
everywhere, will delight to hear
that the building is under construc
tion and that its promoters are do
ing all they can to make it creditable
to his memory.
The building, when completed,
will be occupied by the city on the
first floor, for the city clerk’s office,
mayor’s court room and fire depart
ment. The second floor will be oc
cupied by the offices of the chamber
of commerce, county school super
intendent, county farm demonstra
tor and the canning club agent.
There will also be on the second
floor a good sized assembly hall, hav
ing a seating capacity of 200.
Arrangements are also being made
for putting an attractive display of
Coffee county’s farm and forest pro
ducts in the large hall of the second
floor for permanent exhibition,
vv’RTch will be open to thf"pub
lic and all visitors at all times ex
cept on Sundays.
Our city administration is to be
commended for the interest taken
in the matter, which makes it pos
sible to secure a building that will
honor the name of ex-Mayor Sweat
and that will indeed be indicative of
the city’s enterprise.
RURAL SCHOOL
CONTEST WINNERS
The following were declared win
ners in the recent rural school con
tests held here:
All the rural schools in the countv
closed on Friday, April 21.
The rural school contest was held
in Douglas on Saturday, April 22.
iAman school, which was recently
standardized, furnished the largest
number of winners as fellows:
Recitation—Melva Corbitt.
Declamation Jeff Corbitt.
Song by children under ten In
man.
Best Uniformed and Disciplined
School Inman.
Harmony Grove school came in
with a large number of winners as
follows:
Foot Race, 100 Yards Mitchell
Roberts.
High Jump -Clera Metts.
Best Quartette Harmony Grove.
Elie Crosby, of the Ward school,
champion in ball throwing contest.
Dora Kirkland, of Saginaw school,
led all in egg race.
Ira Cowart, of McKinnon school,
led in the potato race.
Johnie Mancil of Arnie school, led
above all in high jump.
Pauline Vickers of Ward school,
led in 50-yard foot race.
Exhibit feature of program has
heen deferred till the Coffee county
fair in the fall.
Miss Mildred McDonald will leave
tomorrow for a short visit to Miss
Jewell Giddens of Nashville.
Mrs. J. M. Ashley and Miss Lucile
Clements are spending a few days in
Atlanta this week.
GEORGIA'S PRO
HIBITION LAWS
Dispatches of April 29, regarding
the strict prohibition laws, state
that Georgia’s new prohibition law,
one of the most stringent passed by
any state, practically went into ef
fect this midnight. The anti-ship
ping provision serves to close the
locker clubs, beer saloons and stops
dispensing of liquor by the more in
fluential _ social organization after
May 1.
Many difficulties are placed in the
way of the person who wishes to
have shipped the small amount al
lowed by the law. Transportation
companies are held responsible for
the consignee signing a receipt at
tested by a notary public, and the
delivery of the receipt to county or
dinaries. Attorney General Walker
yesterday decided that transporta
tion companies could not charge the
usual notary fee for witnessing such
receipts and that every agent of the
companies could act as notaries to
the extent of witnessing liquor ship
ment receipts.
One express company has an
nounced that it will not deliver li
quor, but at Atlanta has leased a
spacious storeroom, where all liquor
shipments will be handled and where
special accommodations have been
provided for consignees to get their
packages and go through the legal
form with as little annoyance as pos
sible. The law prohibiting adver
tising of liquor will make it neces
sary for such advertisements in
newspapers and periodicals to be
eliminated before they can be sold
in Georgia.
Statutes which govern the new
conditions are composed of three
laws passed at a special session of
the legislature which met last De
cember. Briefly they provide that
no beverages containing more than
one-half of one per cent, alcohol may
be sold, that one person may not re
ceive more than two quarts of li
quor, or forty-eight pints of beer or
one gallon of wine in one thirty
days, and that no liquor advertising
may appear in any publication dis
tributed in the state.
Notice to Members Woman’s Club
On account of the revival the Wo
man’s club will hold their regular
monthly meeting on next Thursday
at 4:30. Your president urges you
to come to this meeting and get
your blank tickets to be filled in be
fore the annual meeting in June.
The following is the program:
Song Camp Fire Girls.
Reading Miss Gaffney.
Violin Solo Miss Nora Huss.
Epworth League to Entertain
On June 14 and 18 three hundred
and fifty delegates will be our guests
and the local Epworth League is ac
tively at work working out the plans
in detail for a royal entertainment
of the conference. A meeting at
the home of the president, W. T.
Cottingham, Monday night, brought
the members to work in an intelli
gent way and the committees are
now ready for the different depart
ments.
The South Georgia Epworth Lea
gue conference is one of the big
meetings of the state. At their an
nual meetings they are entertained
royally. Being a branch of Chris
tian young people, they meet with
much encouragement and out of
their meetings come much gooJ.
Douglas is delighted to have so
distinguished a body in our midst
and while it is going to call for more
effort than we realize at first
thought, we are going to do a big
part by them and make this meet
ing a memorable one.
Rev. A. C. Pyle and wife of Ocilla
visited W. J. Maddox Monday.
Mesdames M. D, Dickerson, O. F.
Deen, J. W. Mathews and C. W.
Roberts spent Tuesday in Tifton at a
meeting of the Presidents of Wo
man’s clubs of the state.
Official Organ of Coffee County
STATE SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
To Be Held in Atlanta, June t3th,
14th and 15th.
On account of the disastrous fire
in Augusta it was practically impos
sible for that city to entertain the
State Sunday School convention
which has been advertised for May
2nd, 3rd and 4th. After a meeting
of the Augusta committee their
chairman, Dr. J. R. Sevier, tele
graphed Mr. John J. Eagan, presi
dent of the Georgia Sunday School
association, requesting Atlanta to
take the convention.
About sixty of the leading pas
tors and superintendents of Atlanta
came together in a meeting March
30, and after discussing the matter it
was unanimously decided to have the
convention in Atlanta. As the time
was too short to make arrangements
for holding the meeting on the May
dates, it was decided, after a con
ference with the officers of the Geor
gia Sunday School association, to
change the dates to June 13th, 11th
and 15th. Atlanta is getting ready
to entertain two thousand dele
gates.
DISTINGUISHED MAN
DIED HERE WEDNESDAY
Dr. Guerrant Passes Away While
On Visit to Daughter
I)r. Edward Owing Guerrant of
Wilrnore, Ky., aged 78 years, for
fifty years a Presbyterian minister
and educator, author and organizer
of many reform movements, died
suddenly Wednesday night, at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. C. L.
Patterson.
Dr. Guerrant and his wife had
been spending the winter in Florida,
and came to Douglas several days
.ago to visit their daughter, and
seemed in his usual good health. He
had agreed to fill the Presbyterian
pulpit here last Sunday. Wednes
day aftornoon he attended Memor
ial services, went home and dictated
some letters and then retired, stat
ing he did not feel well. He went
to sleep and at 9:30 it was found he
was dead.
The aged gentleman was perhaps
the foremost visitor Douglas ever
had. Dr. Guerrant was author of
many religious works. He organized
in the mountains of Kentucky and
Tennessee the Soul Winners’ society
and also founded there a number of
well-known educational institutions.
He spent his entire life doing good
and aided many young boys and
girls. He was a loyal southern sol
dier and fought under the leader
ship of Gen. John Morgan, being
with the general at the time of his
death and the one who wrote the
dispatch to Mrs. Morgan.
A short service of prayer and
scripture reading was conducted at
the Patterson home Thursday morn
ing by Rev. T. S. Hubert of
Baptist ehurch, a long time friend
of the deceased minister, and the
body, accompanied by Mrs. Guer
rant, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson and
family left Thursday morning on
the 10 o’clock G. & F. train for Lex
ington, Ky., where the family has a
lot in the cemetery that contains the
body of Henry Clay and other distin
guished men.
The Douglas Uundertaking com
pany embalmed the body and had
charge of the rites in this city.
. v
It will be of interest to the people of
Douglas and Coffee county that on last
Sunday the Methodists of the city voted
to hold camp meeting this summer,
the'exact date to be decided upon la
ter. Owing to the financial conditions
of the country, the campmeeting has
not been held in two summers and its
reorganization will be gratifying to the
families who have moved out to “Na
ture's Heart” yearly for worship anJ
inspiration.