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VOL. 111. NO. 33.
G. N. C. & B. I. COMMENCEMENT
BEGINS NEXT SUNDAY MORNING
According to the general program
carried in this issue, G. N. C. & B. I.
commencement begins next Sunday,
June 18th and continues through
June 22nd. Professors Little and
Kuhl state that the institution has
enjoyed one of the most successful
years in its history and all the board
ing students that could possibly be
accommodated were in attendance.
Attention is called to the fact that
Rev. George Hyman, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Sanford, Fla.,
and a former student and graduate
of the local school will preach the
eor imencement sermon at the school
auditorium Sunday a m. at 11 o’clock
Rev Hyman is one of the most noted
pastors in the Florida ministry and
a large audience is expected to hear
him.
The list of graduates is is very long
and time fojbids the publication of
the name and graduating final sub
ject of each. There are nineteen to
graduate from the commercial clas
ses and seventeen from the teachers
class. Sixteen members compose the
scientific graduating class as follows:
Misses Lillian Price, Ola L. Duggan,
Margaret Darley, Jewell Alberta Mc-
Lean, Fannie Burkett, Tanner Por
ter. Ruby Haddock, Nell Bardin and
Sarah Woodard; Messrs. D. R. John-
J. L. Law, Julius V. Garrason, Geo.
Stroud, Malcom G. Donalson, Clar
ence Finlevson and Henry Durrence.
General program:
Sunday, June 18, at 11:00 A. M.
commencement sermon, Rev. George
Hyman. Monday, Jupe 19, at 8:00
p. M,, commencement entertainment.
Tuesday, June 20, at 8:00 p. M. Al
umnal Oration J. L. Purcell. Leban
on, Ky. Tuesday, June 20, at 9:00
p. M. Alumnal Banquet. Wednes
day, June 21, at 9:30 A. M. First sec
tion Commercial Classes. At 2:30 P.
M. second section Commercial Class.
At 8:00 P. M. first section teachers
class. Thursday, June 22, at 9:30 a.
M., second section teachers class.
At 2:30 p. M., first section scientific
class. At 8:00 P. M., second section
scientific class. Music by Moll’s Or
chestra, Macon, Georgia.
PEARSON NEGRO
LANDS IN JAIL
Deputy Sheriff J. P. Strickland
made a raid upon the place of one
George Bryant, colored, at Pearson
where he is running a small grocery
store and located 68 pints of Black
Label whiskey and escorted both
Bryant and the whiskey to the coun
ty jail last Friday. Bryant is some
what a chronic offender and has
been before the courts before. The
charges lodged against him were for
having more than the amount allow
ed by law in his possession. He was
given some credit, however, for
having on hand a brand.
He was able to furnish a $250.
bond Monday and was released.
SHIPPING LAW DOES
NOT INTERFERE
Sheriff Ricketson and Deputy
Strickland made a very good vigi
lance committee and seem to know
where to locate offenders of the law
readily and surely. To cite an instan
ce an'illicit still was raided last Sat
urday near Lax and destroyed and
Will Wiggins, colored, was arrested
while he was on the job running off
a charge and landed in jail in Doug
las last Saturday. This is the first
case of this kind that has been dis
covered since the new prohibition
law went into effect and the officers
did some good work as the place
which which was a lard can and a
small copper pipe had been running
for only a short while. Wiggins s
not able to furnish bon i and is st
in jail.
(Coffee (County IJrogaress.
LONE McFADDEN
RETIRES FROM
ACTIVE LIFE
From a free and easy life fraught
with possibly no cares nor wmrries
as to where the next meal would
come from with an occasional oppor
tunity to earn sufficient money to
maintain that lofty height to which
he had attained among the dusky
brethren, and an occasional oppor
tunity to handle the steering gear of
a Ford for some one and sufficient
friends among the white folks to
keep him in the latest styles as re
gards to clothes, to a still more
simple life where not many clothes
are required and the daily bread is
as simple as the life with possibly
more to worry about and almost
certainly an active future fell the
lot of the notable Lone McFadden,
one of the very best known of Doug
las citizens of the duskey hue Mon
day morning.
Mr. Oliver Deen, of the Union
Pharmacy has been missing articles
from the store for some time and
when two $5.00 gold pieces disap
peared from a punch board, things
began to happen and an investigation
of the quarters of McFadden and
Arthur Blount several
articles were found that had been
carried away without using the eus
tomery plan of paying for them.
Officers were notified and forthwith
a shaddow of gloom was cast
over the McFadden and Blount fami
lies for one of their number had bes
mirched their heretofore good name.
At the same time and place Johnny
Blount, also colored and brother of
Arthur, was given a place in the
county jail for the theft of articles
from Peterson & Relihan’s store.
No bond was given and all three of
the boys are in jail.
RAILROADSCONSIDER
ING UNION STATION
Sometime since the Chamber of
Commerce made a move for for a
union passenger station for Douglas
one of the railroads interested advis
es this week that the proposition is
receiving due consideration and that
a further report on the subject will
follow at an early date. This is in
teresting and welcome news to our
citv and to the patrons of the rail
roads as there is great need of im
proved facilities for the accommoda
tion of the growiag passenger
traffic at this point.
WILLIAM VICKERS
DIED SUNDAY.
. Wiliam Vickers, widely known
throughout this section, a wealthy
farmer, a member of one of Coffee
county’s largest families and a life
long citizen of this county, died Sun
day from a stroke of paralysis and a
complication of ills which proved to*
much for him at his mature age of
seventy-two.
There was not a better known fig
ure in Coffee county and a man who
held the respect of the entire people
more than did Mr. Vickers,
He is survived by a wife and eight
children as follows: Messrs. Richard,
Elie. Dan, Henry, John and Mitchell
Vickers; Mrs. Matilda Williams, and
Mrs. Rebecca Wall. He is also sur
vived by by four brothers and two
sisters as follows: Henry aged 80,
Wiley aged 76, Micajah aged 66, Elie
aged 64, Mrs. Polly Sears aged 69,
and Mrs. Tilda Lott aged 62.
The interment took place at the
Carver church Sunday and Elder
Vickerv preached the funeral ser
mon. Hundreds of relatives and
f riends were present to pay the last
bute.
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 14, 1916.
WELCOME, DELEGATES!
To all the Epworth Leaguers of South Georgia in our
midst:
We welcome you and consider each of you one of us
so long as your presence honors our city. For this con
vention of your rnagnificient organization we have been
looking forward with much pleasure and hopeing that
our entertainment and your pleasure would be such that
satisfaction would be expressed on every hand and
this be the greatest convention in the history of the South
Georgia Epworth League.
The conference programe has been read by local peo
ple and nothing but interest can be the outcome of each
meeting. It is understood Epworth League conferences
afford more interest than most any other and both those
who know and those who have heard of the great work
will be present with you.
Many prominent League and Church w-orkers of the
country as well as many leading young people of South
Georgia are to meet, speak and be with us. May we have
four days of most successful sessions.
The keys to the city are yours.
J. G, FLOYD TO
SPEAK AT SUMMER
CONFERENCE ON
RURAL EDUCATION
Still another honor comes to J.
Gordon Floyd, Coffee county’s well
known superintendent, which is an
example of invitations he is continu
ally receiving and indicative of how
his ability and success is recognized
throughout the state. He has been
asked to address the summer con
ference on rural education, to be
held at Athens, July 18 to 21.
Mr. Floyd has been written to
prepare a talk on the following sub
ject: Give us a short story of one
or two specific things which you
have undertaken during the last
year in your schools different from
previous years, describing the con
ditions accompanying and the bene
fits resulting or the difficulties in
volved. The invitations further
reads, “We are very desirious of
having specific, concrete facts given
to us right from the field of action
sent by those who know, and you
will confer a favor upon the con
ference and your fellow superinten
dents by giving us a short paper of
this sort.”
The invitation will be accepted by
Mr. Floyd and he will be in position
to speak as one who knows. In the
last year or two Coffee’s rural
schools have made as rapid strides
as any in the state.
ATLANTA NEGROES .
SLEEP ON GROUND
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta, Ga., June 12. —Hot weath
er in Atlanta has driven the people
in the poor districts of the city to
sleep on cots and pallets outdoors
under the stairs, which is the only
place they can rest in comfort.
New York’s outdoor sleepers are
famous the world over, in certain
quarters the people sleeping on the
sidewalks by the hundred, while
sightseers step on their toes in their
rounds through the slums.
Atlanta’s slum dwellers haven’t
quite reached the point where they
sleep on the sidewalks, but the ne
groes along Decatur St., and other
famous Darktown thoroughfares
have a scheme that’s just as cool, if
not a little cooler.
They go into the alleys and court
yards in the rear of the tenements
where they live, and there they
stretch themselves upon the naked
ground, fold their coats and put un
derneath their heads for pillows.
The man of comfortable circumstan
ces who goes to bed on a sleeping
porch is not one bit more cool and
comfortable.
THE COWPEA IS THE
MOST VALUABLE
A system of agriculture without
the use of a leguminous crop tends
to lesson the productivity of the soil
and makes necessary large outlays
for nitrogenous fertilizers. With a
leguminous crop grown at frequent
intervals, the productivity may be
maintained or even increased. The
cowpea is at present, and will proba
bly continue to be, the most valua
ble legume for this section, and can
be depended upon to succeed on
practically all types of soil. It has
been well said that the cowpea is to
the south what the red clover is to
the north and alfalfa to the west.
It is safe to say that no one thing
can add more to the agricultural
wealth of this section than the more
extensive growing of the cowpea.
This will supply our markets with
much of their hay, which is now
shipped in from the north and west.
It will tend to increase the produc-
I tion of live stock, which is very es
i sential in securing the maximum re
! turns in any system of agriculture;
and it will go far toward keeping
j the soil in good tilth and maintain
ing its productiveness.
For growing hay in this section I
offer the following suggestion:
Sow one bushel of cowpeas to one
peck or six quarts of sbrghum, this
will give you a mixed hay which is
very nearly a complete ration, and
is relished by all farm stock. The
variety of sweet sorghum most used
is the amber, as it is not as coarse
as the others and hence cures more
rapidly. The seeding is best done
with a grain drill on well prepared
land, the two kinds of seed being
well mixed and sown at the same
j time. If a grain drill is not availa
ble for seeding, the cowpeas should
be disked or plowed in, and the sor
ghum seed should then be sown
while the land is rough, and covered
with a drag harrow. The iron pea
is a wilt resistant, and requires
about the same time as sorghum to
mature and therefore should be used
instead of the early maturing varie
| ties. The planting may be done
from June Ist to July 15th.
Yours truly,
G. B. Eunice,
County Agent.
A CORRECTION
In last week’s issue of the Prog
ress we inadvertently stated in con
nection with the case of Cox vs the
state for embezzlement that Solici
tor M. D. Dickerson agreed to a
bond foF Cox and named the amount.
This was a mistake as the bond was
assessed by the justice and the sher
iff and it was not within the jurisdic
tion of Solicitor Dickerson to assess
the bond as the defendant had not
been indicted by the grand jury. We
gladly make the correction as it
placed Mr. Dickerson in a false
light. >
THROAT CUT WHEN NEGRO
REEUSES TO GIVE CHANGE
NARROW ESCAPE FOR
PARTY OF SIX
( hief of Police Ira Ricketson’s car,
in which there were besides himself,
driving, Ira Fales, Percy Ward,
Hardy Corn, Cooney Lott and Mr.
Hendry, of Ludowici, turned turtle
Thursday night about four miles
from Ocilla on the road to Lucy
Lake.
The accident resulted in Messrs.
Ricketson and Ward being painful
ly hurt, the former being cut severe
ly by glass and mashed in chest,
while Mr. Ward’s leg was badly
injured by some part of the car
penetrating the member three or
four inches deep just above the
knee and otherwise bruising the
knee cap.
Chief Ricketson, with wounds
bandaged and although painfully
sore, was able to be up town in his
car Saturday. He will be able to
resume his duties in ten days or two
weeks. It was found Ward re
ceived the most injuries of the two,
contrary to first reports, and there
was fear some complication would
set in and he would lose his leg.
However, by careful attention under
skillful medical advice, it is thought
Ward will be able to be out in two
or three weeks.
Both Mr. Ricketson and Ward
were in the front seat. Ira Fales
was also in front but escaped un
hurt other than a bruised leg. Mr.
Lott who was in the back seat suf
fered a slight wrench of back, which
did not prove serious. Messrs. Corn
and Henry had marvelous escapes by
jumping and came out of the wreck
unscratched.
The party had made almost re
cord time from Douglas to Ocilla,
but stated they slowed up considera
ble when they struck the road not
so good to Lucy Lake. Chief
Ricketson must have been unfamil
iar with this stretch, for when about
four miles out of Ocilla, he failed to
lessen his speed from about twenty
five miles an hour, in order to make
the famous double curves at this
point. Several wrecks have occurred
here where there are two sharp suc
cessive curves, which fool the tour
ists and make a wreck inevitable if
going at all fast. The Dodge made
the first curve but in doing so was
thrown partly out of the road on
the last and thereby turned turtle.
The car’s top being up probably
saved the lives of some of the par
ties. As it was, Mr. Ricketson was
pinned underneath and the car had'
to be lifted off of him. Mr. Ward
being in the middle of the front
seat accounts for the seriousness of
his injury. That others escaped as
light as they did was truly fortun
ate.
Within a few seconds an Ocilla car
headed for Lucy Lake came along
and took the injured ones, assisted
by Messrs. Lott and Corn, to the
Ocilla hocjJtal where they were
given aid. Mr. Ward insisted that
he be brought home that night and
Mr. Ricketson v»as brought in Fri
day afternoon.
The car was considerably dam
aged, the top and all glass being
broken and mud guards and several
other parts bent. However, it was
later brought to Douglas by ; ts own
power.
Large crowds go to Lucy Lake
Thursday night of each week to en
joy dancing and other merriment
and a large number of Douglas cars
made the trip last Thursday. The
Progress reporter was in the car
which reached the scene of the
wreck about five minutes after it
occurred.
Mrs. J. G. Acton has returned to
her home in Shreveport, La., after a
week’s visit to her father, Judge G.
R. Briggs.
Official Organ of Coffee County
That a $2.00 bill is unlucky can no
longer be disputed. To substantiate
this claim John Burch, colored, was
killed last Saturday at West Green
by Will Chatman, another negro be
cause of his refusal to give back the
change from a $2.00 bill when hand
ed him to pay for a cold drink. From
what could be learned Chatman owed
Burch $2.00 and when the money
was given to Burch to pay for the
drink he refused to hand the change
to Chatman, wereupon Chatman pro
duce a knife and before he could be
stopped cut Burche’s throat, produc
ing instant death.
Both negroes were employed at
the saw mill at West Green, and it
is said there was no provocation
other than stated that caused the
crime to be committed. Chatman
was captured by the Sheriff, Sunday
and placed in the county jail.
HARRIS SAYS HE
HAS PLENTY WIND
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta, Ga.—Governor Nat L.
Harris has once more made em
phatic denial of the report which
had again gained circulation that he
would retire from the governor’s
race.
“You may say for me” said the
governor, “that I am still in the
race and that lam running just as
fast as my wind will allow, and that
I am a long way from winded yet.”
The source from which some of
these reports are gaining circulation
seems to be clear to the governor,
and he intimated that, with the con
tinuation of such reports, he would
pay his respects to the circulators in
the near future.
A well known politician, who for
personal reasons, asked that his
name be not used, declared his hon
est conviction, after trips o'er the
state, that Governor Harris will be
re-elected. This politician is support
ing another candidate.
A Card of Thanks
we thank the town papers for the
program published last week. The
address of welcome will be well
made, and the address by Dr.
Cook will meet your highest expeta
tions. Do not fail to be present at
7:45 Wednesday evening. The get
acquainted meeting will be held on
the lawn of Judge W. P. Ward im
mediately after the services at the
church on Wednesday evening. We
expect to get good out of this con
ference and urge that everyone at
tend all the services at the church pos
sible. We most heartily thank the
good people of Douglas for the op
ening of their homes to our visitors.
Faithfully,
H, M. Morrison.
G. & F. PICNIC
SPARKS, JUNE 23
The annual picnic of the Georgia &
Flordia railway employees will be had
june 23rd at Dixie Lake Park near
Sparks and a special train will be run
for the occasion and extensive prep
arations are being made to carry one
of the largest crowds ever attending
one of these occasions. Committies are
at work and the plans will be complet
ed in time for naxt week’s paper and
we will furnish a more detailed write
up of the trip
Kindergarten for Douglas
A teacher of 8 years’ experience in
kindergarten and primary work
wishes to establish a kindergarten in
Douglas for the coming term, if
there are enough pupils to warrant
her coming, if you are interested in
kindgarten and wish to enroll your
; children from 3i to 6 years of age,
: call Mrs. Julia Foster at Mrs J.W.
i Dale’s, phone No. 304.