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Volume X—No. 37.
Side Trip Will Bring Editors
Fom Ail Georgia to Douglas
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS WILL
MAKE STOP-OVER HERE ON
MONDAY, JULY IST, ON WAY
TO STATE CONVENTION AT
WAYCROSS. ENTERTAIN
MENT WILL BE PRO
VIDED BY KIWAN
IANS AND OTHERS.
Through the offices of Mr. H. ‘M.
Stanley, Secretary of Commerce and
iLabor of the state of Georgia, with
offices in the State Capital, and who
is recording secretary of the eGor
gia Press Association and a former
Dublin newspaper man, and Presi
dent Charles D. Rountree, of Wrights
ville, approximately 100 newspaper
men from all over Georgia .are ex
pected to visit Douglas on Monday,
July 21st on their way to attend the
annual meeting cf the Association
In Waycross from Monday evening,
July 21st, lasting the balance of the
week.
Upon invitation of the city, tib'e
Kiwanis Club and local newspapers
the invitation was accepted by Mr.
Stanley and Mr. Rountree who ad
dressed letters to all members of the
association asking if they would come
to Douglas. A large number, rep
resented largely by Narth Georgians,
responded and this week a list was re
ceived from Mr. Stanley of those in
dicating that they would be glad to
make this a stop-over on the way to
Waycross.
Immediately letters will be dis
patched to those who have indicated
that they will come and to other
prominent newspaper people as well.
Tf e Association is composed, of both
daily and weekly newspapers over
the state.
The passenger departments of the
Georgia & Florida through Mr. J. E.
Kenworthy and the A. B. & A.
through Mr, A. D. Daniel, have writ
ten letters to the prospective visitors,
offering the best of service and urg
ing that they attend the gathering
in Douglas. Most of those traveling
from above Atlanta will come in over
the A. B. & A., arriving here short
ly after seven o’clock a. m.
They will be met by a committee of
Kiwanians and ladies. There will be
a number of ladies in the party and
a committee of ladies will be at the
train to meet them. Others from
Valdosta, Thomasville, Cairo, and
other southern points are expected
to arrive on the Georgia & Florida
after eleven o'clock, while others will
come in on the G. & F., from the
north in the afternoon. Among this
party will probably be president
Rountree.
Breakfast will be served the guests,
after which, according to tentative
program, they will be driven over the
city, visiting schools, tobacco ware
houses, etc. This will be followed
by an automobile trip to Ambrose,
and Broxton. A watermelon and
canteloupe feast is planned at Brox
■ton.
The trip will then extend to the
Country Club where something will
be in store for the visitors. We re
frain from making known this fea
ture of the program for fear that the
guests will exceed the limit of pre
paration. Leastwise it is nqt inap
propriate to state that “fried chick
en” is on the menu. In the early af
ternoon the visitors will be driven in
automobiles to Waycross in time to
register and attend the first session
of the press meeting which takes
place at 8 o’clock.
Every effort w’ill be made to en
tertain those who come to Douglas
on that date, and just as many as
will are urged to make the trip here.
It is planned; to make a short stop
at Nicholls, and if so desired, at Al
ma. The editors and friends travel
ing with them will be given an op
portunity to observe the tobacco and
oti'.jer crops of which Coffee county
is justly proud. The roads to W ay
cross are in excellent condition and
the ride to that city will be of in
terest to those who have never visit
ed this section.
Mr. 'Clyde Tanner, Mr. John Dart,
and Mr. Martin D’Arcy formed an
automobile party whieh left Thursday
morning for Brunswick to attend the
Brunswick-St. Simons road opennig.
KIWANIS CHANGES
PROGRAMFOR 5 WEEKS
Beginning last Monday nigf'.f the
Kiwanis Club discontinued their lunch
eon at the New Douglas hotel for the
next five weeks and wlil met at the
court house at six o’clock instead of
eight o'clock as heretofore at the
hotel dining room.
After the five weeks luncheons at
the New Douglas will be resumed at
one o’clock, noon.
Many clubs discontinue entirely
their luncheons curing the summer
nr.cnths, but it was deemed inadvis
able to do so here. Tlite Douglas
Club has expended considerable
money in donations for various pur
ppses and the club is now in debt a
considerable amount and the luncheon
fees for the next five weeks will go
to liquidate this indebtedness.
A very strong effort is beirf£ put
forth by the membership committee
and all the active members to indtxce
a number of those who have not
been attending regularly, and. on
whom the club has to pay per capita
tax. A drive is being imade to get
all old members to renew their atten
dance, and where this can
not be done it will be necessary t:
drop them from the roll as a matter
of economy.
Very few who enrolled, when the
club was organized more than two
years ago have failed to attend if
not all meetings, periodically.
Every man is wanted and not one
who has belonged to the organization
heretofore but what is needed to
carry on the work of the Club.
HELP FOR BORDER COUNTIES.
Atlanta, Ga.. July 9.—The House
i committee on agriculture favorably
reported two bills this morning in a
brief session just before the House
convened. One a bill by Representa
tive Stewart, of Atkinson, to relieve
border eoant’es-of the expense of tick
tradication and arrange for the ex
pense to be borne by the state treas
ury, was unanimously approved by
the committee.
A bill of Representative Lindler,
of Jeff Davis county, to make the
terms of office of inspectors, and all
appointees of the state agriculture
department expire at the end of the
term of the commissioner of agricul
ture appointing them, was also fav
orably reported.
A bill by Representative Fleming,
of Columbus, which would set a defi
nite value on farm lands for taxation
purposes was unfavorably reported.
THE PURPOSE OF PIEDMONT
INSTITUTE
(Published by Request)
This institution was founded and
has been fostered by Christian men
and women whose desire was to see
young men and young women develop
into Christian leaders in all walks of
life. Those founders wanted + o see
the Bible taught, they wanted to place
Christian training above all other
training. They wanted to see boys
and girls grow into men and women
whose ideals should be Christian.
Men and women who would be willing
to stand for those high ideals regard
less of what others may think or
say. The founders wanted to see the
heart educated as well as the head.
For these reasons Piedmont was
founded and has been fostered for
these reasons that fellow feeling
among high and low has existed, ex
ists now and we hope will continue
to exist at Piecmont Institute. For
these reasons the Bible is taught at
Piedmont, the twilight, prayer ser
vices. are held, the Ministerial As
sociation seeks for the conversion of
the last among the student body rath
er than for church membership.
The people who founded and who
have fostered the school have been
among the class of people who have
stood behind the guns in defense of
every good movement in our section
of the state. With their efforts, their
influence and their money they, have
built and supported the churches of
Southeast Georgia. In like manner,
they have encouraged every civic in
terest. They have paid city, county
OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY, CITY OF DOUGINS, AND THE CITY OF NICHOLLS
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THlRSDjY JULY 10, 1924.
MRS, J. F. UNDERWOOD
DIED SON, AFTERNOON |
Mrs. J. F. Underwood, wife of Mr. j
J. F. Underwood, who has been as
sociated with The Progress for b'r.fe
past ;wo months, and ‘imother of three
small children, died of typhoid fever
at her home here last Sunday after
noon after an illness which lasted for
two weeks of more. Mrs. Underwood
was 26 yeafs of age and prior to the
fatal illness, had enjoyed the best
of health.
She with ’her husband and children,
moved to Douglas 'recently from
Covington, Ga., where Mr. Under
wood held a position with a news
paper.
Vidalia had been their home for
five years prior to moving to Cov
ington where they only lived for a
short time.
It was thought that the condition
of Mrs. Underwood was improved
Sunday morning, but about ten o’clock
a turn for the worse came and she
died about five o’clock. She had been
under the care of Dr. Clark for some
time, and all was done that was pos
sible to combat the dreadful disease.
With Mrs. Underwood at the time
of her death were her husband, J. F.
Underwood, Mrs. Ellen Uncerwood
and her father, W. B. Hilton, of Vi
dalia, and her sister, Mrs. J. H.
Ricketson, of Waycross.
The remains were prepared for
shipment to Vidalia by the Douglas
Undertaking company on the Bonair
Special of the G. & F. Sunday morn
ing, and the burial took place Mon
day at the family burial ground in
Montgomery county several miles
from Vidalia.
At the time of Mrs. Underwood’s
death one of the three cMldren was
seriously ill with Typhoid and the
condition of the child is still serious.
Those surviving here are J. F. Un
derwood, husband; Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. Hilton, mother and father, of Vi
dalia; and two sisters, Mrs. J. H.
Ricketson, of Waycross, and Hattie
MTfr'Htttrm, of Vidalia, and - two"
brothers, W. B. Hilton, Jr.,'of Flori
da, and Alexander Hilton, of Vidalia.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Guyton Fisher, Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor at 11:30
A. M. and 8:30 P. M.
Sunday School 10:15 A. M., J. H.
Breedlove, Supt.
Epwcrtlh Leagues 7:30 P. M.
Prayer Meeting e\ T ery Wednesday
evening.
Choir Practice Saturday at 8:30 P.
M.
In addition to other features and
specials next Sunday, Mr. W. O.
Stevens, of Macon, will sing a solo.
With the coming of the hot weath
er we should be able to put on more
steam —come on, if you are not a
boll weevil.
Ail are cordially invited 1 to the
services and strangers are especially
welcome.
Messrs. A. Brooks, S. M. McCranie.
Rema H. Sapp. B. Barrineau, and
Mr. Avery, of Nashville, expect to
leave early Friday morning to attend
•JFe Brunswick-St.Simons road open
ing. Mr. Moses Griffin, Judge F. W.
Dart and others will go to Bruns
wick, via. A. B. & A. to attend the
road opening.
WARD APARTMENTS—Furnished
Rooms for rent. Rhone 56.
and stade taxes in support of public
education, not only that taxation for
public schools.
In addition to being among those
who compose the salt of the earth
inchurch and public school activi
ties, “those founderes and fosters of
Piedmont Institute have voluntarily
taxed themselves that Christian edu
cation ‘might not perish from this
part of His Kingdom.” They have
sacrificed already to the extent of
SIOO,OOO that a Christian institution
might be established in Waycross. Il
was Judge T. A. Parker who in a
financial crisis of the school mort
ga.ged his own home that Piedmont
might survive. Rev. M. O. Carperft
er, one of the founderers and presi
dent for four years, ate crackers
while canvassing for students. He
did it to out expenses for Piedmont
and that the purpose of the school
might live. The pseeent president,
Prof. W. C. Carlton reduced his own
salary S4OO last summer.
MELON SHIPMENTS
! SETS GOOD RECORD
SOUTH GEORGIA GROWERS
DOA 1) 1.000 CARS IN A SINGLE
DAY—QUALITY AND PRICE
GOOD.
Moultrie, Ga., July 9. —Although
definite figures were nut available
this morning it was estimated by
local distributors that South eGorgia
shipped .fully 1,000 cars of water
melons Tuesday. If this estimate is
correct the day’s movement was by
far the heaviest in the history of tire
industry.
Iti Moultrie alone 82 cars were
loaded. The Georgia Northern, which
plies for Boston to Albany, is said to
haye handled 250 cars, Tuesday.
Shipments also were heavy on the
Atlantic 'Coast Line from the Ala
bama line to Valdosta, and from Ca
milla to Thomasville, as well as on
the* S uthern, the Georgia & Florida
and one or two other roads in this
region.
ihe melons loaded during the day
ware said by R. S. Roddenberry, vice
president of the National Melon Dis
tributors’ Association, to have been
lafeer and of better quality than
hate ever been known before so late
in the season. In this connection Mr.
Roddenberry declared that very few
“poor quality, small size melons’ have
bejen shipped this season. This, he
thinks, has played an important part
ini the remarkable way in whidb the
pifices have held up. They sol Tues
day from $65 a car for 24’s to 209
for 30’s. Ninety-eight cars loaded
at Brunswick prior to Monday night
by independent growers sold fo ban
average price of S2OO a car, accord
ing to a report received here.
■ It is estimated that fully half of
this year’s crop will be shipped
through the Sowega Melon Associa
tion, a cooperative selling organiza
tion. It has given out no definite
futures' as to the reurns, but lacaj
members say that prices have been
“very satisfactory.”
It appears that good melons are
bringing good prices, while the poor
er grades and light melons are not
being paic. high prices for.
A number of cars have been ship
ped from this vicinity and many cars
are being moved today. The- Georgia
& Florida railroad is handling a
great many melons this season and
it is estimated that this road alone
will handle fifteen hundred cars.
RESOLUTION OF
BOARD OF STEWARDS.
Whereas, an all-wise Providence,
in His Wisdom has seen fit to remove
from our midst anc take unto Him
self, our beloved fellow steward and
former chairman, Brother O. R.
Lowery;
And wehereas, his vacant chair,
the loss of his co-labors, wise coun
sel, and abiding faith in his God, wil 1
ever stand out as his monument in
the memory of this body; therefore
be it resolved:
First: That the Board of Stew
ards of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, of Douglas, Georgia
will sorely miss his faithful labors
his cheerful spirit, his wise counsel
his courageous faith in his church
and his god, his liberality, his loyal
ty, his love of church and state, his
congenial' spirit and resourceful mind
Second: That we commend his
life, lived among us, as an example
to be emulated by those of us re
maining in our body; that we esteem
it a rare privilege to have known and
been associated with him in the
King’s work; that we shall ever
strive to live up to that high standar
of Christian character, love and ef
ficiency be set before us.
Third: That we extend to his be
reaved family cur heartfelt sympa
hy, and offer in their behalf our
united prayers that Hie grace may be
sufficient to sustain, comfort and con
sole them in these days of trial and
irroparable loss.
Fourth: That a copy of these
resolutions be mailed to the bereaved
family, and copies be furnished tc
the local papers.
July 8, 1924.
THOMAS GRIFFIN, Chairman.
G. M. SAPP, Secretary.
i
Msscs (Daisy and Tessie Rooks,
Dixie Sword, of Fitzgerald, wqre the
attractive guests of Mrs. J. W.
Stone last week.
Democrats Nominate John
W . Davis and Chas W. Bryan
SON OF PRES. COOLIDGE
DIED WEDNESDAY
Washington, July 9.—Only the set
ting of the historic White House Eas
room, with its profusion of banked
flowers miglht distinguish the simple
funeral services there today for Cal
vin Coolidge, Jr., from that of any
other youth of his country.
Governments of nations, with his
own, wished to pay respect to the
President’s dead son, but the desire
of the bereaved family for simplicity
ruled in every detail of arrangement.
A prayer by Rev. Jason Noble
Pierce, pastor of the First Congre
gatiorH church which President and
Mrs. Coolidge attend here, readnig
the scripture and singing a few fa
simple rite for the services at 4
o’clock this afternoon.
Tonight the body of the youth will
be taken to his boyhood home at
Northampton, Massachusetts, where
services will be held tomorrow.
Joining the family in attendance
at the White House services today
will be a few intimate friends, cab
inet members, chiefs cf diplomatic
missions, justices of the supreme
court, members of congress now in
the city, and high officers of the
army and navy and marine corps.
On the journey to Northampton
and Plymouth the President’s family
will be accompanied by cabinet* of
ficers and their wives diplomatic
representatives, military and naval
aides to the President, a number of
other attaches and personal friends
of the executive.
MEMORIAL ON DEATH
OF O. R. LOWERY
■ XX'
Again the dread messenger cf
death, against whose entrance within
our circle the barred doors and tilers
sword offers no defense, and one of
our dearly beloved brethren has been
called by the Supreme Grand Master
of the universe; from labor to re
freshment.
On June 19th, last brother O. R.
Lowery cied in Atlanta, where he Fad
been taken for treatment. And while
everything that was humanly pos
sible to do was done to relieve him.
he paid the debt that all of us sooner
or later must do.
Brother Lowery was a native of
South Carolina and his remains were
taken to Hendersonville for interment,
and at the request of our lodge, the
Walterboro Ledge gave him a beauti
ful Masonic burial.
We can pay brother Lowery no
higfher tribute than to say that he
was a pure Christian eGntleman,
true and tried and would stand the
test of the unering square on all oc
casions and at all times. A sincere
friend and a devoted and indulgent
husband and father.
And to his beloved ones we offer
our most sincere sympathy in be
reavement.
DOUGLAS LODGE 386 F. & A. M.
Douglas, Ga.
PRISONERS EXPRESS
THEIR APPRECIATION
Douglas, Ga., July oth, 1924.
To the Warden and Commissioners o. r
Coffee County:
Gentlemen:
We, the prisoners of Coffee Coun
ty, wish to extend our thanks for
the splendid dinner you provided for
us on July 4th.
We feel our incaration on these
Holidays more than on any other, as
so we are doubly grateful for the
“ray of sunshine” you bring in to our
lives on fhtese days.
Our thanks ma ynot sound very
much, but gentlemen) it comes from
the hearts of each and every one of
us.
Sincerely,
COFFEE COUNTY PRISONERS,
Per M. D. L. T.
The following gentlemen formed a
party which will spend ten days on
Cumberland Island on a fishing and
camping trip, leaving Douglas Wed
nesday aJternoon: S. J. Stubbs,
Francis Stubbs, R. W'. Griffin, R. B.
Evans, T. S. Price, and Bud Ashley.
51.50 Per Annum in Advance
DEMOCRATE NIMINATE
103 BALLOTS NECESSARY TO
NOMINATE PRESIDENT. CON
VENTION ADJOURNS AFTER
NOMINATING BROTHER OF
W. J. BRYAN FOR VICE
PRESIDENT.
New Y'ork, July 9.—John W. Davis,
of West Virginia, was nominated for
President today by the Democratic
national convention after the 103rd
ballot.
The opposition of William Jennings
Bryan and the attempt of William G.
McAdoo tc deliver his strength to
Meredith failed to stop him.
Beginning with this morning’s
balloting, tjbe movement to Davis
gathered a momentum which could
not be retarded and gradually but
surely through the succeeding ballots
the votes flopped over into the John
W. Davis column as state after state
either increased its offering to him
or turned over its whole quota.
Bryan’s opposition to Davis was
swept in the rain of Davis votes
which swept over the convention.
The attempt of the McAdoo forces to
make E. T. Meredith, of lowa, the
heir to the McAdoo strengih, com
manded a following made him
only a bad third and when the Davis
flood was rising so fast that all other
candidates were being swept before
it, lowa, Meredith’s home state, with
drew him from the contest and voted
for Davis.
Then scenes of disorder swept the
convention as everybody clamored
for a clbance to join the winning
forces. When the furore was at its
height Thomas Taggart mounted a
chair and moved the nomination of
Davis be acclamation. The motion
was carried with a roar and Chair
man Walsh shouted into the din be
fore him: “The chair’ declares the
Honorable John W. Davis the nominee
of tih'is convention.”
Immediately, the tired, worn and
weary convention which had been
struggling in the throes of a seem
ingly interminable deadlock for two
weeks—with the threat of going in
to a third—broke loose in a demon
stration of joy and relief.
Immediately all the state stand
ards which had previously been
parading for other candidates—
some of them in the midst of hard
fought battles of partisan disputes—
were carried into tide aisl/5 of the con
vention hall while a swirling perspir
ing but happy crowd of delegates fol
lowed in a procession of joy and
jubiliation.
Where McAdoo Movement Failed.
New York, July 9.—Out of the de
bris comes the story of where the
McAdoo movement faltered and fell
back when it was in sight of the goal.
On July Fourth the McAdoo forces
stood at their Marne when they push
ed their vote to 530—within striking
distance of a majority. If they
could get a majority they proposed
to make a powerful play to abrogate
the two-thirds rule. They appealed
to the Glass delegation from Virginia
to join them, but the delegation stuck
to Glass. For ‘he next four ballots,
McAdoo field marshals managed by
one device or another to keep their
strength around the same level while
they used all the powerful arguments
at their command to induce the Vir
ginia delegation to come over.
But the effort was in vain. The
Virginia delegates stuck to Glass
when a turn of their 24 votes would
have turned a majority of the con
vention to McAdoo and possibly jerk
ed the key from the long jam and
permitted the McAdoo tide to rush on
to victory.
From that point the McAdoo vote
steadily declined under the battering
of the big drive of the coalition and
only reeovered some of its former
strength when spurred on by Mc
adoo himself, his workers raised its
level again just before he released
his delegation. Evary convention
has its “inside story” of how it hap
pened- This is the accepted explana
tion of how it happened in 1924.
After the refusal of Senator Walsh
of Montana and Senator Ralston of
Indiana to accept the vi«e-paesiden
cy, Governor Charles W. Bryan,
spovernor of Nebraska and brother to
the Hon.. Wflliam Jennings Bryan
was nominated.