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Coffee County Progress
FREI) RICKETSON,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
Published Every Wednesday
By the
rBOCiRLSS PUBLISHING COMPACT
Official Organ of Coffee County.
Entered at the postoffice at Douglas,
Georgia, as Second-Class Matter.
Subscription SI.OO a year in advance;
Six months, 50 cents; siDgle cop
ies 5 cents.
Advertising Rates on Application.
Floods always destructive are
neither new nor out-of-date.
It is still quite an ideal season
for “mud-slinging.”
Mosquitoes seem to thrive the
most each succeeding night.
Are you from Dixie? Nough
said. Play it sing it. Act it
show it. Love it boost it.
If what Pottle said is true, Dor
sey is disqualified to be governor
of the state of Georgia.
It is said, “girls will be girls,” j
which is all right. But some of
the older women seem to be try- j
ing to edge into the girl class.
Pottle’s speech was well receiv
ed. His friends appreciated the
pointedness and forcefulness of
his remarks.
Saw where a girl marries soldier
boy by mail. The effect is good.
Wonder what of the seriousness of
the thing at the show-down?
When the fellows get off on the !
side and "sing’ there is probably]
in the crowd, an epidemic of
sickness, caused by the bites of j
"love-bugs."
When a false rumor gets started |
it seems impossible to stop it.
Newspapers, it appears, are akin
to gossipers when it comdk to
passing a thing along.
It is said the mosquuito is kind
enough and has good taste enough
not to bite some people writer
not included. However, we pre
fer to lend our sweetness in some
other direction.
A case of heart-ache boored him,
1 was daily growing worse.
But proper treatment cured him;
It was a pretty nurse.
—Exchange.
These words have been inspir
ing and consoling to many:
This word we’re a-livin in
Is mighty hard to beat;
You get a thorn with every rose
But ain't the roses sweet!
We have had speeches from
two of the candidates for governor
and Hardman, "our next gover
nor" is to hit Douglas and Coffee
county a little later. It is not
known whether Uncle Nat will
speak here or not. . We rather
like to have 'em.
Common countrymen are “get
ting by" in great style working on
papers in places other than the
country. These fellows that have
had the actual experience and can
write of things nearest to the peo
ple in a plain and intelligent way
are proving the most influential
and successful writers.
EXTEND THE SEWER
Now, that we are in the midst
of the summer season, whose
nights should be a delight after
the beduim of the day, we are to
blame that our town is infested ,
with mosquitoes. As it should be. ’
we are the ones to suffer from a
needless pest and suffer we will
until the right steps are taken.
We may keep our premises ab
solutely free from weeds and ves
sels that hold water, and our
drains clear of all congestion but,
until we arise as one man and say
the sewer must be extended, we
will still have the mosqui'oes with
us.
People, who can, have screened
their homes splendidly, some in
addition to that sleep under nets,
screen the chimney tops and use
“ Skeeter - Shoot" in profusion.
Enough has been spent in this dir
ection to have long since extend
ed the sewer, to say nothing of the
poorer class who have to sleep in
unscreened houses.
The property owners near the
sewer’s dump pile have been more
than indulgent in this matter, al
though they have been the worse
sufferers from it. Disease, foul
odors, flies and mosquitoes have
long been in the midst of them.
We do not say who is to blame.
We do not say who can remedy.
According to reports, Bowden
recently made the statement at
; Brunswick that the congressional
j race was between Walker and
himself, with Mr. Bowden in front,
that Lankford would finish third
and rhomas a poor last.
The following from the last issue
of the Adel News, commenting
on Mr. Bowden’s speech at that
point, delivered Saturday. July 15,
would indicate that the Waycross
candidate has considerably chang
ed his mind within the lapse of
three or four days:
The speaker did not attack
Judge Lankford, as he claimed the
latter was not a factor in the race,
saying that if it developed that Mr.
Lankford gained strength to en
title him to be classed as a factor
he would discuss his record.”
Yet, in his Adel speech, Mr.
Bowden discussed the record and
candidacy of Judge Thomas, a
man, only a few days before at
Brunswick, he had picked to finish
a “poor last."
Reckon what Jet says all de
pends on how he is feeling, where
he is and the effects his claims
might have in the different places.
One may claim the earth for him
self and naught for the other fel
low, but yet when it comes to a
show down, he will likely find
there is more than one owner of
the earth.
The truth of the matter is Mr.
Bowden is likely growing nervous
over the rapidly gaining strenth of
Judge Lankford.
To the People of the Eleventh Dis
trict of Georgia:
I beg to formally announce my
candidacy to succeed myself as your
representative in the Sixty-fifth Con
gress from the Eleventh District of
Georgia. 1 feel the deepest sense
of gratitude for the partial consid
eration which you have accorded
me, and have at all time been fully
conscious of the duties and responsi
bilities resting on me.
1 am standing squarely and confi
dently upon the record I have made,
and point with pardonable pride to
the achievements of the present ad
ministration which stand unparalled
in the history of the country. I
have done my humble part towards
the enactment into law of the many
constructive pieces of legislation
which we have passed, bringing re
lief and opportunity to the great
masses of the people everywhere.
We are today at peace with the
world;- happy and prosperous, with
our rights on the land and on the
seas preserved and our standing and
dignity as a nation fully upneld.
I have stood by our great Presi
dent in the many exigencies that
have arisen and have helped to un
hold his righteous hands in both his
domestic an f foreign policies.
lam better able to represent you
now than ever before, and have
] learned that which any new mem
ber of Congress must learn before
he can hope to reach the same de
i gree of efficiency.
i 1 shall hope to give you a full ac
, count of my stewardship before the
primary in September. Relying up
lon the will and pleasure of a just
and noble people, I am.
Faithfully and obediently yours,
(Signed) J. R. Walker,
Washington, D. C.
July 22, 1916.
For quick loans on improved
farm lands, at low rate of interest
and least expense, see F. W. Dart,
Douglas, Ga.
COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS
GEORGIA NEWS IN
SHORT STORY FORM
Covering All Sections
of the State
FROM LATEST REPORTS
Up-to-Date Condensation of State,
County and City Intelligence Pre
pared For the Perusal of the Busy
Reader.
The storm of rain damaged Decatur
county to the extent of $750,000.
“Mother” Jones, the labor agitator
and defender of organized labor, vis
ited Atlanta last week.
Several eases of infantile paralysis
have been reported in Atlanta, though
there is no epidemic there.
Three eases of Infantile paralysis
were reported at Athens. All are chil
dren of cotton mill workers.
The Masons of the Second district
met in convention at Moultrie. Over
300 were in attendance.
Col. O. R. Horton, president of the
Georgia Military college, will go with
tlie* Second Georgia regiment to the
border.
The Milledgeville postoffice for the
fiscal year ending June 30 showed an
increase of $897.76 over the preceding
year.
Judge .T. W. Means, on account of
failing health, has resigned the office
of ordinary of Pike county, after hav
ing filled the place for twenty years.
DeKalb county crime has been re
duced 90 per rent since the prohibi
tion law went into effect, according
to county policemen.
Peter M. Edwards, a clerk in the
state department of agriculture for a
number of years, was found dead in
bed at ttie residence, 50 Manigauit
street, Atlanta.
The jury in the case against O. J.
Winters, of Reidsville, charged with
the murder of his wife, by giving her
strychnine, returned a verdict of
guilty with recommendation of mercy.
News was received in Atlanta that
the Kappa Psi Medical fraternity had
decided to meet in that city during
the week of November 13. More than
three hundred delegates will attend.
Burglars are becoming active in
Macon again, rich hauls having been
made from the homes of C. 1!. Wil
lingham, on College street, and W. L.
Cheatham, in North Highlands.
The All-South convention of the
Christian Endeavor society closed a
successful meeting of three days in
Atlanta. A good representation from
all states attended.
Cad Rodenberry and Porter Reville,
well known in Charlton county, killed
two large bears in the Okefenokee
swamp in the western part of Charl
ton.
One bank president, one postmaster,
two assistant postmasters and two
merchants were indicted by the United
States grand jury at Albany charged
with various offences.
Frank Stewart, who was appointed
postmaster of Madison recently by
President Wilson, has received liiS
commission and lias entered upon his
duties.
July 29 is the new date set for hear
ing the motion for a new trial in the
case of Zeddie Patterson, under life
sentence for the killing of M. Orovitz
at Waycross on Memorial day.
A mild compulsory education bill
passed the Georgia senate. The bill
provides that children between the
ages of 8 and 14 in the state shall
be compelled to attend school for at
least twelve weeks during each year.
Tifton voted tlie cows off the street
at a special election, the vote being
over three to one against cows. This
is the fourth election lielii on the cow
question, cows winning at all previous
ones.
The forecaster says that
Georgia need have no tea? that crops
will lie injured following the long
rainy spell, lie said that Georgia is
due to escape the heat wave prevail
in'' o Mo* rest of tlie country.
T. D. Ridley was elected treasurer
of Whittle id county to till the unex
pued icrm of the late Jim Coker, who
died recently. Ridley was unopposed,
lie will serve until the first of next
year, when tlie office is abolished by
legislative enactment.
At a full meeting of the state com
mittee of the Georgia Progressive
party, presided over by Harry Still
well Edwards, chairman, at Macon, it
was unanimously decided to support
Hughes and Fairbanks for president
and vice-president, respectively.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the City National bank, of Dawson,
K. S- Worthy was elected president to
fill the place made vacant by the
deatli of W. A. McLain. Kenneth
McLain, son of W. A. McLain, takes
the place of Mr. Worthy as cashier.
Dr. John Grant Lyman was taken
to the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.,
to serve a sentence of eighteen months
for using the mails to defraud cus
tomers of the brokerage firm he con
ducted in New' York under the name
of John H. Putnam & Co.
Mrs. Ida May Innes. jointly accused
with her husband. Yictor E. Innes. in
the alleged swindle of the missing
Eloise Nelms Dennis, will be tried in
the Fulton criminal court early in
September, according to announce-t
lueut by Judge Ben Hill.
Three children have been drowned
in the Alapaha rivir near Mtlltown.
J. I). McGowan, a furniture dealer
living at *1429 Broad street, Augusta,
committed suicide, shooting himself
in the head. Despondency over busi
ness affairs is believed to have bH*i
the cause. He left no explanatory
message.
The publication of Park’s Anno
tated Code of Georgia has just been
completed. This code is the most am
bitious work of the kind ever attempt
ed in Georgia. Its completion gives
to Georgia the best code of any state
in the Union.
Vigorous protests were lodged with
the war department by the Georgia
delegation in congress, following the
receipt of the Georgia papers telling
of the illness and discomfort in the
Georgia mobilization camps because
of the delayed receipt of needed sup
plies and camp equipment.
An order received at Augusta shows
that Judge Emory Speer has placed
tlie Georgia Coast and Piedmont rail
road in the hands of receivers. The
road runs from Collins, Oa., to Bruns
wick. Ga. Frank B. Aiken, Clarence
Heavy and M. It. Brailey, all of Bruns
wick, are the receivers.
J. P. Means, postmaster, died at
Zebulon. His death was unexpected
and came as a great surprise to his
many friends and relatives. He was
suddenly stricken with blood poison.
He was tiie son of J. W. Means, or
dinary. and leaves a wife and several
brothers and sisters.
Bulloch county watermelons are
j commanding highest prices of the last
j four years. Thirty buyers, represent
ing Chicago, New York and Cincin
nati houses are now on the ground
and pronounce the yield the best now
j obtainable. Four hundred cars have
j teen shipped.
Will Shiver, a member of a widely
I known Mitchell county family, com
mitted suicide at his heme in Ca
milla. He shot himself through the
head with a large caliber pistol and
death was instantaneous. Relatives
assert that he was temporarily insane.
No inquest was held.
The members of the Thirtieth Geor
gia regiment will hold their annual re
, union : t I\ rest Park July 28. Mem
bers of the regiment live mostly in
Butts. Henry, Fayette and Douglas
' counties, and delegations from each is
| expected to he present. R. S. Ozburn
, is president of the organization, and
A. P. Adamson is secretary.
James House. .Tr., first mate of the
P.ritisli steamer Rosalie, in port at Sa
i vannuh, received a cablegram from
i Cardiff, Wales, advising him that his
j uncle, James House, a ship owner
1 there, lias died and left him an estate
| valued at $250,000. House claims to
he a cousin of David Lloyd-George,
and of Col. E. M. House, of New York,
a close friend of President Wilson.
Wes Story, a negro, was hanged at
Hamilton for the murder of Cherry
Hilling, a negress. in the early spring
of 1915. Execution of the negro had
been delayed by appeals for commuta
tion and a respite to present new evi
dence. Storey confessed on the gal
lows that he had deliberately killed
the negro woman.
The house concurred with the sen
ate in a resolution urging the govern
ment to build an ammunition plant at
Mussel Shoals, in Alabama, near the
Georgia state line. The selection of
the site is in the hands of President
Wilson. An appropriation of $20.-
000.000 has been made by congress
for the purpose.
The descendants of John Mann,
who formerly lived in Monroe county,
will hold their fourth annual reunion
in Grant park. Atlanta, July 23, at 1(!
o’clock. Surviving members of the
family, of whom there are several gen
erations. will come from Clayton,
Gwinnett, Butts, DeKalb. Troup and
other counties.
The largest sale of cotton ever made
at West Point at this season was con
summates} when J. J. Hagedorn & Co.
sold 2.000 bale's to A. M. Baker, rep
resenting Manget-Brannon Cotton Co.
of Newnan, (la.; price paid, 12 8 4
cents, netting about $125,000. This
sale clears out the last large lot ol
| cotton held by local merchants.
The body of Harrison Ross was dis-
I covered on the railway track neaj
Kyle, a flag station between Blue
Ridge and Copper Hill, with his he*ad
completely severed from his body and
otherwise bruised and cut. It is sup
posed that he either fell from a freight
train or was asleep on the track wher
death overtook him.
For violations of the national hank
ing law*;, Ansel It. Cook, president of j
the Fitzgerald bank, which was con
solidated with the Ben Hill National I
bank in an effort to protect creditors,
was indicted in the United States
court, now in session at Albany, and
will be tried on an indictment cover
ing twenty typewritten pages. There j
are fourteen counts.
Damage to the cotton crop in
Dougherty county is estimated at not
less than 25 per cent, as a result of
excessive rain. The corn crop will be I
cut off about 10 per cent, with other |
crops suffering less. There is a great j
amount of lowlands in cultivation this j
year and the crops on these will be
almost a total loss. Many low fields!
are under ten feet of water.
A. Pratt Williams, attorney, of
Folkston. who early this year an
nounced that he was a candidate for
governor of Georgia, and who has
distributed many cards through that
section, was married, according to an
announcement from Folkston. The
bride. Miss Addle Mnrchew. of Wino
kur. is one of Charlton’s most charm
ing young ladies.
AN ACTOR’S REAL TRAGEDY.
Pathoa of John McCullough’s Last Ap
pearance on Any Stage.
John McCullough, the tragedian, died
in an insane asylum. Writing about
the famous actor's last appearance on
any stage, E. R. Sothern in his "Re
membrances'' in Scribner’s says:
He went through a scene in “The
Gladiator;’’ then he went to the last
scene in “Virginius,” where Virglnius
raves after he has killed his daughter;
then to Othello's farewell speech, one
he had often told me that his great
master, Edwin Forrest, had only read
t® his own satisfaction once in his life:
Oh, now, forever
Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell con
tent!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big
wars
That make ambition virtue! Oh, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed and the snrill
trump,
Tlie spirit stirring drum, the ear piercing
life,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious
war!
And, oh, you mortal engines, whose rude
throats
The Immortal Jove's dread clamors coun
terfeit.
Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone.
It was pitiful in the extreme to hear
McCullough read this at any time and
trebly so now. He wandered through
others of his various characters, the
people about him weeping and seeking
to hide their grief. At length he drift
ed into the part of Cardinal Richelieu.
He played the scene in the garden
where Baradus, the creature of the
king, comes to take Richelieu’s ward
aw-ay from him. He had spoken the
tender speech of protection to Julie,
and now Richelieu says to Joseph, who
holds him up on one side while his
ward assists him on the other, "Well,
w-ell, we will go home!" Here he walks
feebly up the stage. Baradas, seeing
how broken he is. says aside to De Be
ringhen, “His mind and life are break
ing fast” Richelieu overhears him,
turns with his old fury and cries: “Ir
reverent ribald: If so, beware the fall
ing ruin! 1 tell thee, scorner of these
whitening hairs, when this snow melt
eth there shall come a flood. Avaunt:
My name Is Richelieu! 1 defy thee!
Walk blindfold on—behind thee stalks
the headsman—aha! How pale he
glares—God save my country!” And
he falls fainting as the act ends.
Boor McCullough went up the stage
at “Well, weil, we will go home.” Ba
radas said his line, the tears streaming
down his face, “His mind and life are
breaking fast” McCullough threw Jo
seph and Julie off as he turned on Ba
radas and began: “Irreverent ribald!
If so. beware the falling ruin,” and
stopped dazed.
lie looked af the weeping Baradas, at
Julie sobbing, at the rest of the com
pany standing about overcome with
grief and terror, and collapsed utterly.
An Army Corps.
In round numbers an army corps con
sists of 40.0uu men. it is made up of
three infantry divisions, each having a
I proper proportion of cavalry, artillery
and departmental troops. Each divi
sion in turn is made up of three bri
gades and each brigade of three regi
inents With each division there are
also what are known as corps troops
that form the field hospital, bearer com
pan.v, pontoon troops, telegraph divi
sion, field bakery, supply columns, am
munition column, etc. Each division
has attached to it also, though not
forming an integral part, a cavalry bri
gade for scouting and an aerial section
The army corps is one of the great
units of the whole army organized for
fieid service.—New York Times.
Tobacco Famines In Sieges.
The tobacco habit has added terribly
to the privations of many a siege in its
last days, however much consolation it
may bring at earlier stages. “The
leaves ot the trees were all smoked
away for want of tobacco.’’ Lady Can
ning wrote home concerning the siege
of Lucknow, and even bark was smoked
there. In Ladysmith the men smoked
dried sunflower leaves and tea leaves
for many weeks before the relief
Three weeks before the end a half
pound cake of black tobacco cost 45
shillings, a box of inferior cigars £5 10s.
and a packet of ten good cigarettes 25
shillings.—Loudon Globe
Plantation of Ulster.
Tlie “plantation of Ulster” does not
refer to a plantation (farmi in the com
mou sense of that word, it Ls the
name that was given to the planting
(settlingi of Scotch and English immi
grants upon the Ulster lauds that had
been cleared of its former Irish inbab
itants by the English King James;
hence the name "Scotch-Irish,” the de
scendants of the Scotch and English
settlers in the north of Ireland.—New
York American.
Takes Expertness.
“It must injure a sleight of hand art
Ist to explain his tricks."
"Not at all. Now, take the latest ex
pose in high finance.”
“What of it?”
“You see exactly bow the trick was
done, and yet you can’t do iL”—Louis
ville Courier-JouruaL
Why, of Course.
“What are the twins called 7” asked
one neighbor of the other.
“Henrietta.” was the reply.
“But not both of them, surely?” said
the first.in surprise.
“Certainly not," was the truculent
answer. “One is Henry, and the other
ls Etta.”—Ladies’ Home Journal.
Do You Need Money? y Plentiful
We are now closing farm loans promptly. If you need
money, come to see us
DICKERSON, KELLEY & ROBERTS
THE HUMAN BUZZARD
The tongue is the most useful
member of the body for the cause
of good.
Its ability to do good, however, is
equalled by its power of destruction
and harm.
Gossip is the canker sore of con
versation and it spreads from lip to
lip like the blight of death.
Many a woman’s character has
been ruined by gossip. Many a
man’s life has been wrecked by the
same use of the tongue.
“They say’’ is always a liar and a
thief.
The man who is always black
guarding and telling nasty stories
and cracking vile iokes has a stink
pot boiling in his heart.
The habit of useless and silly talk
is bad enough, but it is entirely
1 outclassed by the gossip and tattle
i which fall from many lips uncons
cious of the harm done.
In almost every community there
are old “carrion crows and hell hye
nas’’ going round digging up and
dragging out in the open old corpses
of lie-born tales and scandalous
stories too old to disprove and too
unreasonable to consider.
Let a story spread against char
acter and it hurts wheather it be
true or not. The breath of gossip
will bar a girl from society and ruin
her good name quicker than any
thing else.
The Chinese say that “A lie has
wings and flies far, but has no feet
and can not stand” —but gossip flies
so far and so fast that it is often ac
cepted as truth because you can’t
get it stopped long enough to look
at it.
“Tattling is the world’s most co
wardly cut-throat, society’s hateful
hyena, the buzzard of business, the
shark of reputation, the king of
polecats, the burglar of honor, the
murderer of good name and the
curse of conversation.”— Exchange.
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