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VOL. V. NO. 35.
w. S, S. ORGANIZATION
FOR COFFEE COUNTY
So proud are we of the good show
ing made by Coffee county in the sale
of War Savings Stamps that we are
printing a list of the entire organiza
tion for the county.
J. G. Floyd, County Chairman.
J. J. Willingham, Secretary.
J. N. McDonald, Chairman Executive
Committee.
Melvin Tanner, Ex-Chairman. _
Moses Griffin, Member .
T. S. Price, Member.
H. Kirkland, Member.
J. L. Shelton, Member.
Elisha Meeks, Chairman Nicholls Dis
trict.
J. A. Cromartie, Chairman West Green
District.
Dr. J. J. Lott, Chairman Wooten Dis
trict.
Miss Daisey E. Burnes, Chairman Mc-
Donald District.
E. L. Moore, Chairman Willacoochee
District.
Mrs. Minnie Philips, Philips Mill Dis
trict.
W. M. Smith, Pearson District.
G. M. Stanton, Chairman Douglas
District.
NICHOLLS DISTRICT
Nicholls—Elisha Meeks
Elm—John Roberts
Sand Hill—K .K. Bledsoe
Saginaw—Leonard Kirkland
Beach—W. J. Thomas
Bagley—J. K. Carter
Dry Creek—D. Kirkland
Wilsonville—David Tanner
Davis—John Davis
WEST GREEN DISTRICT
Burkett—B. T. Burkett
Wilcox—John Tanner
West Green—S. G. Taylor
WOOTEN DISTRICT
Isaac—B. A. Dykes
Reedy Branch —G. W. Corbett
Pridgen—J. L. Sapp
Bush —A. C. Fussell .
McLean—George Vining
Rocky Creek—C. C. Smith
Rose Hill—J. E. Trowell
Byrd—Thomas Byrd
Mobley—Willis Smith
Pinetta —Tim Young
Broxton — B. M. Poer and I. T. Gra
ham
McDonald district
Axson School —Y. O. Matthews
Pain View School—Jesse Williams
Mount Zion —C. E .Griffis
White—J. W. Pearson
Stokesville —T. Tanner
p a l es —Mrs. B. H. Tanner
Shiloh —A. T. Minchew
WILLACOOCHEE DISTRICT
Leilaton —D. J. Paulk
Willacooehee —Rev. Moody Booth
Inman —Stephen Skipper
Mora —Jake Vickers
PineView—Charles Merritt
Tillman—Dan Roberts .
Temperance—Dr. J. A. Gaskins
Olive —Thomas Daniels
Pine Grove —Smith Deen, Stockton
PHILIP MILL DISTRICT
Harper — J. B. Harper
Bethany—William Carver
Pleasant View —Dennis Vickers, Jr
Bushnell —W. H. Daley
Vickers Chapel—Wiley Vickers
Warren—Warren Vickers
Ambrose — George G. Paulk
DOUGLAS DISTRICT
Blythestone—Fred Brewer
Sheppard—J. 11. Peterson
New Forest —Frank Tanner
Sears—Warren Tanner
Vickers —W. H. Vickers
McClelland—Bartley Vickers
Saint Ella—John Dorminy
Salem —John O’Steen
Rocky Pond —H. L. Smith
McKinnon—Jesse McKinnon
Wai'd —Dan Vickers
Douglas— G. M. Stanton
PEARSON DISTRICT
Pearson —W’m. Smith
Harmony Grove —Thomas Morris
Arnie—M. L. Aldridge
TOBACCO MARKET TO
OPEN JULY 16TH
The Douglas Tobacco Market will
open on July 16th and it is expected
that several million pounds will be
handled thru the warehouses
here during the season.
Douglas is fortunate in having some
of the best known warehousemen of
the Carolinas in charge of the market
here and the growers who ship their
tobacco here may rest assured that
they will find a market equal to any
in the world.
All the large tobacco companies will
have representatives here during the
season and every possible thing has
been done to handle the crop just as
well as it can be handled anywhere
in the tobacco belt.
It is hoped that all the Georgia
growers will take advantage of the
Douglas market and not go to the
trouble of shipping their crop out of
the state for sale.
A LETTER
To Editor Progress paper of Douglas.
Will you please allow me valuable
space in your good paper, to call to
the good people of Coffee county
their attention to some of our citizens
who in this recent stamp campaign,
who refused to pledge for these
stamps, and also to some of our
citizens, who bought just enough to
get througt with, as they failed to
hide, and saw no chance to get cut
of buying.
Now, people of Coffee county, wake
up; there must be something done
with the low slackers of Coffee coun
ty, that bought SIOO worth and who
should of bought SSOO worth.
The burden of raising this money,
isthrown on just a few shoulders of
Coffee countys’ leading people. These
men should be attended to.
We also wish to call to the loyal
people of Coffee county attention to
some of the districts who failed to
raise their quota on the War Savings
Stamps.
The Stokesville school, who was as
sessed $6500 and only raised a meas
ly sum of $2900. This is a shame,
some of our best farmers in the coun
ty live in this section. Sure there
ought to be an investigation, why this
section fallen so low, and to the
writers knowledge the lowest in the
county, in raising their
We trust the people will give this
matter more serious thought and do
their part. This war must go on and
vou people, who failed to do your part
the government wdll sure look into
into your case, for our good govern
ment expects to equally divide the
burdens of the war, and has so gra
ciously called upon you to lend them
your money, so that they might fight
this war for you and me.
Let us hope every Coffee county
citizen will come forward before the
31st day of December and buy their
share of War Savings Stamps.
A CITIZEN.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Purse, Jr., of
Chattanooga, whose wedding took
place last Wednesday in Trion, Ga.,
and who are spending their honey
moon motoring through Georgia, were
the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Brewer, at their home, Spring
Hill Farm.
Little Miss Thelma Lowther, of
Waycross, has returned home after a
visit to Mrs. Fred Brewer.
Sunnyside—Clarence Summerlin
Kirkland—J. L. Sutton
Fussell —Perry P. Sutton
Satilla Park —S. A. Summerlin
Sycamore—L. L. McNeal
Fiddlers Green —D. Weathers
DOUGLAS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY, 4, 1918.
W, E. FENNER TALKS TO
FARMERS AND BUSINESS
MEN OF COFFEE COUNTY
Douglas had the pleasure of a visit
from Mr. W. E. Fenner, of Rocky
Mount, N. C., the first of the week.
Mr. Fenner was down for the purpose
of seeing that the Farmers Tobacco
Warehouse was in readiness to open
for the sale of tobacco on the 16th of
July. This Board of Trade request
ed that Mr. Fenner make a talk to the
farmers and business men on the to
bacco situation in South Georgia and
at 11:00 o’clock Monday morning he
made one of the most interesting ad
dresses ever heard by the people of
this county. Mr. Fenner states that
we have the soil, climate, and every
thing else assures the farmers that
if they will plant tobacco instead of
cotton that within a short time an
acre of ground in this county cannot
be bought for less than SIOO.
Mr. Fenner is one of the largest
warehousemen in the Carolinas and
he is considered the equal of any man
as a tobacco expert and for that
reason his statements are having
great weight with the people of this
section. It is an assured fact that
the crop this year will bring a good
price and yield the planters a large
return for their labors and it is esti
mated that the acreage in this section
will be increased ten times by next
season.
rose RULING
Farmers in Coffee county, who grow
their own Wheat will be permitted
to grind a sufficient amount for
twelve months use of their own fami
lies and tenants, at the rate of twelve
pounds per month for each member of
the family and for each person to
whom they furnish flour as tenants
This is authorized by the Food Ad
ministration to encourage *the farmers
to grow their own wheat.
In the purchase of sugar, persons
living in town can only purchase two
pounds at one time and persons liv
ing the country five pounds and
no person can purchase more than
three pounds for each member of the
family per month. Ho eholders
purchasing sugar are required to
sign the following card, which will
be left with the merchant from whom
they purchase.
•‘I hereby apply for purchase of
pounds of sugar, for house
holder use at Street, city of
There are
persons in my family, including ser
vants. I hereby certify on my honor
that I will not attempt to purchase
sugar elsewhere in excess of three
pounds per person per month for home
consumption, in conflict with the
statement. I further certify that this
purchase, including sugar now on
hand, on in my possession, or under
my control, will not exceed a thirty
days’ supply on the above basis.
Signed
Date
These blanks must be kept and
furnished to customers for signature
by the merchant.
V J. W. QUINCEY.
Food Administrator Coffee County.
Just a few more Porch Rock
ers at less than cost at Fort &
Thompson. ad
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LOST STRAYED OR STOLEN
LOST —One Herford Male marked
•Crop Split and Under Bit one ear,
Crop and Under Bit in other, about
three years old, dehorned and branded
with a heart.
Also One Red Pole Male, marked
Swallow Fork one ear, and Crop and
Under Bit in other.—Please notify
Jno. B .Dorminey or C. E. Baker.—ad
UNION BANKING GO.,
PAYS DIVIDEND
On July Ist, the Union Banking
Company mailed to its stockholders
their usual 5 per ceent semi-annual
dividend.
It is worthy of note that this in
stitution has never failed since its
organization in 1899 to pay an annual
dividend and at the same time has
accumulated a surplus and undivided
profits of over $60,000.
The Union Bar king Company was
the first bank established in Coffee
county and is now considered one of
the strongest in South Georgia.
QeSSTOMPRESSiON
INNER TUBES
Mr. J. T. Walker, special represent
ative of the Doss Rubber & Tire Co.,
of Atlanta, is in the city for a few
days in the interest of the New-found
solution to the “Puncture” difficulties,
which have annoyed motorists since
tires were first made The Doss Com
pression Innertube.
The principal of compression is
built in the tube so that, pressure
closes a puncture immediately.
This is something that the world
has been looking for ever since pneu
matic tires first came into use —an in
vention which for all time will obviate
arty and every trouble from punctures
and blow-outs.
The company is headed by some of
the best people. The factory is located
in Atlanta on the Central of Georgia
tracks opposite Fort McPherson and
within a few weeks it is expected to
beg ; :i operations. The last of the
machinery now being installed.
NEW COUNTY FOOD
ADMINISTRATOR
Melvin Tanner received today ap
pointment os County Food Adminis
trator to succeed Judge J. W. Quincey
who has resigned. The position is
one involving much work and re
sponsibility without remuneration, and
the new appointee earnestly solicits
the co-operation of all the citizens
and business interests to the end that
Coffee county may do her part in the
patriotic duty of food conservation.
Building, and office hours will be an
nounced later.
Judge Quincey has held the position
foi about one year during which time
he' has discharged the duties of the
office efficiently and with satis.' 't-tion
to the public, and he asks to be re
lieved now that he may devote more
time to other patriotic work
Carl Meeks in Brunswick.
Carl Meeks, one of Coffee’s mest
sterling and progressive business men
whose business was a victim of the
terrible fire in Nicholls several weeks
past, has moved to Brunswick to ac
cept a position with a Dank there. He
and Mrs. Meeks are favorites with
the Douglas people and they have the
best wishes of a host of friends here.
Douglas Has Many New Residents.
Mr. and Mrs. Willaford Meeks have
a fine baby boy, who with his mother,
is spending several days at Halls’
sanitorium in Hazlehurst.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Tanner have a
ten pound daughter at their home.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Grantham have
a daughter ,who was born to them
| last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Overby 1 ave
a new baby boy at their home. *
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Grantham have
a little son at their home.
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666 contains no alcohol, arsenic, nor
other poisonous drugs.
DISTRICT INSTITUTE AT
DOUGLAS JULY 16-20
At the Eleventh District Agricul
tural School, Douglas, on July 16, 17,
18 and 19, a Summer Extension school
will be under the auspices of the Dis
trict School and the District School
will be under the auspices of the Dis
trict County Agents supervised by
the professor of the State College
of Agriculture.
Special courses will be given in
Livestock production, Field Crops,
Fertilizers, Soils and Home Econo
mics in line with the plan of the Food
Administration. A special feature of
the school will be a short course in
club work for boys and girls, of the
territory served by the school.
Prof. L. G. Proctor, Principal of
the Eleventh District School, announ
ces the program, inviting a full at
tendance from every county in the
district. Accomodations for all in
ittendance will be furnished by the
school at SI.OO per day, including
board and lodging. Each person
must bring bed linens and toilet ar
ticles.
For further information, write to
the Principal of the school or see
your county agent. A complete pro
gram will be run in next week’s is
sue. W’atch for it.
ONE OF THE GREATEST
RED CROSS WORKERS
Empey has been one of the most
ardent and effective workers for the
Red Cross he says, “I can never re
pay the kindness shown me by the
doctors and nurses in the Munsey
Ward of the American Woman’s Hos
pital. The Red Cross will always be
to me a symbol of Faith, Hope and
Charity”. Through his lectures he
has raised thousands of dollars for
the cause. In the Red Cross bazaar
scene of “Over the Top”, h emakes a
stirring vibrant appeal for the great
cause that will thrill the heart of
every spectator. It is to the advant
age of the Red Cross Society that
every one its workers see this picture
that the public may see it and under
stand the sublime function which the
Red Cross is performing on the fields
of suffering.
His Lecture Raised Millions.
What the American public feels to
ward Empey can besa be measured
in dollars and cents. Through his ap
peals every one of the patriotic move
ments in America has been benefited.
He alone sold $1,011,000 worth of
Liberty Ponds, raised over $50,000
for the “smoke” funds and tens of
thousands of dollars for the Red Cross.
With a life preserver from that
martyr ship, the Lusitania, around
his neck, he made a speech on Boston
Commons to thousands of cheering
Americans.
Throughout the East he has lec
tured in vast halls that were crowded
to the doors.
NICHGLLS TOBACCO
WAREHOUSE OPENS
The Nicholls Tobacco Warehouse
will open for business on July 16th.
The people of Nicholls have built one
of the best warehouses in the State
of Georgia and it is thought it will
sell a large amount of tobacco this
season.
The warehouse will be in charge
of Warren SL Pollard of Durham, N.
C.. The gentlemen have been in the
tobacco business for a number of
years and promise to give the people
of this county the best possible ser
vice.
SI.OO The Year In Advance
WAR SAVING DRIVE
A BIG SUCCESS
Coffee county was able to reach her
quota of $439,000 for War Savings
Stamps with little trouble and when
the returns are all in it is thought
that the $500,000 will have been sub
scribed.
Mr. Floyd, as clvairman of the coun
ty organization, had his forces .well
organized and to the hard work of his
committees is due the fact that the al
lotment was so far exceeded.
The State of Georgia as a whole
fell badly behind its quota of $57,000,-
000 but, it is thought that the entire
amount will be pledged by July 4th.
COFFEE'S TAX ~
VALUE SINCREASE
Tax Collector If S. Sapp has com
pleted the tax digest for 1918 and the
total value of the property shown by
it is $6,129,125.00. This is an increase
over the 1917 returns of $321,899.00
and Mr. Sapp states that when he
lists the unreturned fund in the county
the increase will reach at least half
a million dollars.
The property returned in this coun
ty in 1916 reached a value of $4,801,-
180.00; in 1917 the returns were $5,-
807,226.00.
It is a good showing for the county
that it has made an increase of a mil
lion and a half dollars in the last two
years.
CHARGED WITH SEDITION
Rev. Mack Torrance, said to be a
Holiness preacher of Coffee county,
was brought to this city yesterday
by Sheriff E. H. Dorminy, of Bin Hill
coutny, who had a warrant for the
preacher, issued by U. S. District At
torney Earl M. Donaldson, of Macon.
It is alleged Torrence used seditious
language at a church gathering in
this country recently. U. S. Marshal
Thomas, of Albany, took the prisoner
to Albany where a commitment trial
will be held. Torrence has quite a
large ffollowing on the line of Coffee
and Bin Hill County.— Fitzgerald.
NOTICE !
We beg to inform our friends that
we are now locaetd in the old Pure
Food stand. Will be glad to have our
friends call on us at above stand,
promising to serve them honestly and
contiously as in the past.
H. L. CARTER & CO.
EXPLOSIVE LICENSE NOTICE
All dealers and consumers of one
ounce or more of commodities coming
under the head of explosives, are here
by notified that they will have to ap
ply to the undersigned in person at
once, and procure a license in com
pliance with the law, before they can
legally sell or use any explosive. The
penalty for failure or refusal, is a
fine of $5,000.00 or one year in the
U. S. Penitentary, or both, in the dis
cretion of the court.
Douglas, Ga., July 2nd, 1918.
GUS L. BRACK,
U. S. Explosive Licensing Agent for
Coffee County Georgia.
C. E. BAKER SELLS CATTLE
Mr. C. E. Baker sold at his farm
near Douglas' one hundred head of
cattle for $3,500. The cattle were
bought by J. H, Gibbs, of Tifton.
That beautiful white Suit in
FORT & THOMPSON’S Window,
Cost Price SBO.OO ad