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Voiume X—No. 39.
EARNEST WORK URGED
BY PRESIDENT ROUNTREE
Waycross G.a., July '22.—Georgia
newspaper publishers must “mainain
independence, publish real informa
tion-giving news, hold individuality
and retain the genuine confidence of
the people,” Editor C. D. Rountree, of
the Wrightsville Headlight, said in
his address at the opening session of j
the Georgia Press associa ion which
convened here today.
Mr. Rountree, who is president of
the association, also pointed out the
necessity of increasing the member
ship of the organization to include
all wide-awake publishers of the
state, and dwelt elaborately upon the
necessity of a fair profit to be de
rived by newspapers who expect to
serve their respective communities
to the best advantage, His address,
in full follows:
“Mr. Fellow Newspaper Brethren
and Sisters:
“Another wheel in thecycle of
Father Time has rolled around and
we find, ourselves assembled togeth
er once again in this all-important
task of convention topics and dis
cussions in the beautiful and kindly
city of Waycross, greeted by the
gentle smiles of her progressive cit
izens, warmed by the permeating
rays of her brilliant friendship and
arduous love and fanned by the cool
ing zephyrs of sweet fejjowship so
bountifully arrayed wherever our
faces chance to turn.
Wolf Gone Prom Door
“Permitted to assemble by the un
failing hand of good- fortune and the
Father, we mix and mingle again
in the happy association and revel
in the beauty of sweet fellowship,
one for another, Albeit that we have
each been blessed the past year, that
showers of heavily blessings have
fallen upon us and that the hand
of fate has dealt lightly with all
and success of business is hailed from
every print-sihop in the state. The
hope that the wolf has left the door
long ago and the smiling counte
nance of prosperity’s front prevades
the atmosphere surrounding the
sanctum of each member of this be
loved association.
"We greet you most respectfully
and humbly at this time and submit
to you the power of the press en
gaged to conduct the affairs of
the association the past year. W e
hasten to reiterate that the men and
women of vim, vision and energy be
hind the success of your body are
still standing at the gate, bidding
all to enter therein and sip the sweet
and mellifluous juices of knowledge
and wisdom and expanded relations
as they fervently and luxuriously
flow, from the overflowing fountains
corralled at each coming together
and join in a hearty and wholesome
eo-opereition to cast a radiant view
upon the prospects of the future
newspaper business in Georgia. It
is you, the personnel of a strong
and admirable association, who goad
your officers on to a fuller concep
tion of true ideal of conduct, honor,
services and: happiness.
“My friends, what cen the Geor
gia Press associ|tion| do most ef
fectively in 1924-1925 to promote the
best interests ‘of all its members?
Have you a suggestion ? If you
have, won't you kindly submit it in
as brief a form as you can the ideal
desired to the Georgia publisher at
an early date? We should excite an
interest among ourselves for some
future objective for the association
that will bring about a maximum of
service to our state and to our na
tion, reach our height of influence
and effectiveness, for we declare
this the ideal o newspaper engage
ment.
“We need the unstinted help and
hearty cooperation o Georgia pub
lishers. the strong and the weak, the
high and the low, the small and the
great thereby making this associa
tion thoroughly representative in
the newspapers of the state and in
tertwined with the organization of
othe» - states, go our part in the na
tional attainment being scught by
all of them. To our mind what it
needs most is ths unstinted help
of the strong men of the craft who
can and will give o their time and
substance to the upbuilding and
furtherance of the organization. To
many of our press oiks sit ic’ly by
to let others do the job and do not
seem to realize the possibilities o a
complete organization of the news
paper men of the state.
“Personally, we deeply appreciab
the very high honor and feel it
keenly of having been elected presi
dent of this valuable and lovable
body of ladies and gentlemen who
compose the Georgia Press associa
tion, a thoroughly Democratic or
ganization, but I feel heavily the
very great responsibility the position
carries with it. Knowing that one
man cannot do what must be done
that even a few men cannot do it, 1
feel like in this short message to
you who have thus honored me to
make a strong and a firm appeal to
every publisher here of a newspa
per in the state to get interested
more and more in this organization
and join whole-heartedly in the
spreading movement to make it a
leal practicable service to the pub
lishers.
“The press of our state must not
lose its power. Never shall the day
I come, we trust in Georgia when its
i standards shall be minimized. We
must still hliaour independence and
publish real information-giving news
] hold to our individuality and main
i tain the genuine confidence cf the
people we now serve. The press of
Georgia must remain in the hands of
! real editors and publishers who in
j j ec t their own individuality into
| their publications, who are known
;as the real active, progressive heads
lof their institutions, striving daily
!to climb higher in the channels of
: the fourth estate and 1 holding aloft
i the personal torch with their readers
and patrons so characteristic of the
| Georgia press today. Let no mark
ed decline overtake us in this re
j spect. There is no substitue foi
brains.
MUST MAKE MONEY
“We declare to you here today
| that regardless of the -system !*■
] vogue, the location of the plant,ev
i ery publisher owes it to his com
jmunity to see that his paper is 'mak
!in money. A paper that is not mak
ing money certainly cannot serve its
| community adequately, so in this
J message of supposedly sound count
i sel and admonition let us emphasize
j the prac leal side of the problem
and sum it all up in asking ouir fellow
! workers to demand and' secure a price
' for your output that will sell your
goods and at the same time net you
more than a living ‘hat which you so
justly deserve.
i “The Great Reaper has invaded
our inner circles the past year and
garnered some of our choicest
sheaves, bearing them away to an
estate of eternal bliss and glory, we
feel sure, there to read in the hand
of the Master, Editor ‘Wed done
I thou good and faithful servants.
Gerogia feels keenly the passing of
these good men. Their communities
are yet sa'dened and our ranit
mouming. Let us honor their mem
ory continuously bv strictly emulat
ing their good traits and examples
and push forward with unwavering
loyality for the they so dearly
loved and so laboriously worked to
put on the top pinnacle of emi
nence. We extend the sympathy
of the association to their dear ones
and may they be soothed and sus
tained by an unfaltering trust in
the One who doeth all things well."
MRS. HIRMAN MANCIL, JR.
DIED FRIDAY, JULY 18
The funeral of Mrs. Hirma:: tMancil
Jr., who died o* typhoid fever. Fri
day, July 18th near Kirkland, was
heid Saturday 19th at the Royal
Church Cemetery. The services were
conducted by the Rev. Dan Roberts.
Mrs. Mancil is survived by he 1
husband, four children, mother anc
several brothers and sist- rs.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Guyton Fisher. Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor at 11:30 A
M. and 8:C0 P. M.
Sunday School 10:15 A. M., J. H
Breedlove, Sup’t.
Epworth Leagues 7:30 P. M.
Epworth League 7:30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday
evening.
Choir meets Saturday night at 8:30
Ail are cordially invited to attend
these services and strangers are es
pecially welcome.
OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY, CITY OF DOUGL-fS, AND THE CITY OF NICEOLLS
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THURhDATf JULY 24, 1924.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
WITH 0. & F, RAILWAY
Mr. R. W. Jones, Jr., formerly
'ccating engineer of The Georgia £:
Florida Ry was promoted to Chief
Engineer with offices at Augusta
effective the 15th inst.
Mr. R. W. Jones, Jr., Chief Engineer
of the Georgia & Florida Railway was
in Douglas last Friday in connec
tion with the depot matter and ad
vised the contract for the building of
the new depot has been awarded to
Mr. R. N. McEachren who met Mr.
Jones here Monday closing the con
tract in detail and work on same
should be commenced within a very
short time.
Mr. H. W. Purvis, General iMana.g
er, of the Georgia & Florida Ry was
in Douglas Wednesday on business
for his road.
Mr. J. E. Kenswortby, General Pas
senger Agent, for The Georgia &
Fk Ry with headquarters at
Augusta was in Douglas Wednesday
on business for his road especially in
interest of the Florida Excursion on
the 26th.
Mr. F. F. Powers, Commercial j
Agent., for the Georgia & Florida !
with headquarters in Macon was in j
Douglas Thursday soliciting business
for his road.
MT. Geo. P. Kellum who has been !
foreman of the Bridge Gang on the
Southern District of the Georgia &
Florida Railwa resigned this week
to accept a position with another com
pany, the Georgia & Florida Ry gives
him up with regret.
Roadmaster Heath of the Southern
District and Akeridge of the North
ern District of the Georgia & Florida
Railway was in Douglas Wednesday
on an inspection trip.
Mr. John Skelton Williams, Re
ceiver, of The Georgia & Florida
Raliway will make a general inspec
tion of the entire line Saturday on a
special train accompanied, byGtmero)
VTenager Purvis ana others.
Contractor R. N. McEachren says
(No-Joking) he will begin the erec
tion of itlhe new Georgia & Florida Ry
depot on the sth of August which will
be finished in about sixty days and
when finished should be one of the
nicest depots in this section of -the
country.
Master John Breen, of Waycross is
spending several days in Douglas v/ith
his father, Mr. H. D. Breen, Cashier
of the local Agency of the Georgia
& Florida Railway.
Conductor J. F. (Bub) Griffin of
the Georgia & Florida Ry who went
to Atlanta last week taking his
younger son Freddie there for an op
eration. Mr. Griffin now reports a
successful operation and syas the boy
is getting along nicely which news we
are very glad indeed: to learn.
Mr. Ri. M. Cox. operator of the
Georgia & Florida Railway is spend
ing several days with his parents in
North Georgia getting off on account
of sickness, he is being relieved by
relief operator Spivey from Hazle
hurst.
Mr. W. H. Dyer. Supt. Motive Pow
er of the Georgia & FLorica Railway
was in New York this week on busi.
ness for his road.
Mr. C. D. Byrd, operator of th f
Georgia & Florida Ry at
also authority on fishnig repontr
that fishing at Hebron Church lake i?
fine but his fish stories are hard to
be believed.
The local shops of The Georgia &
Florida Ry has just finished the re-
Deirs and general remodling of
General Manager Purvis’s private car
100 which now looks like a new car.
Mr. Purvis is contemplating a trip t<
San Francisco, Calf, in it during the
middle of August.
TEN DAY REVIVAL MEETING
IN PROGRESS AT HAZLEHURSI
A ten days revival meeting is be
:ng held in Hazlehurei at the Grace
3aptist 'Church by Rev. E. N. Richey
>f Houston, Texas, the father of Rev
Raymond T. Rickey who conducted the
revival in Hazlehurst about a mont!
ago that attracted such wide atten
tion. The revival started last Tues
day night and is being attended by
arge crovvus.
SEED PEAS FOR SALE—Tillmar
Peas, $3.50 bushel: Iron Peas, $4.2:'
bushel: Brabhams Peas, $4.58 bushel.!
Large shipnment just arrived. Place
your order at < nee. LEWIS VICL
ERS.
j' NIGHOLLS NEWS
Ms". W. D. Thompson spent Wed
nesJjay in Waycross on busines.--.
,\#\ E. J. Meeks of Plant City,
spent .several days this week
with friends an relatives here.
Messrs. Ashley Douglas and Albert
Rcbeits spent Thursday in Waycross.
iMlss Minnie Belle Bland has re
turned to her home at West Palaka
Beach, Fla., after a visit of several
weeks to her sister, Mrs. Cliff
Vickers.
Mrs, C. Meeks spent Wednesday in
WajSoross shopping.
Mrs. N. E. Ruddenberry is visiting
her .sister in Brunswick.
Miss Ruby Dewery of Jacksonville,
Fla., spent last week-end with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Dewery.
Bringlo Wooty of Waycross,
speitt Saturday and Sunday with, Mr.
N. E. Roddenberry.
Misses Mary Smith, Ethel Douglas
and Odessa Douglas spent Sunday at
St. Simons Island.
MJr. Vernon Meeks is spending his
two} weks vacation’ with his parents
Mr.'and Mrs. Frank Meeks. He hoi ds
a position in Jacksonville.
The Ga. State Editors passed thru
Nicbolls on their way to Waycross
Moitflay afternoon and were delight
fully entertained by Misses Margurite
air' Blanche Douglas.
Pdfrl and Bronnie Leta Lewis.
Minnie Cohen and Doris Anderson
who served them with cigars, drinks
and a watermelon cutting, refresh
ments were furnished by the citizens
of Nicholls.
Misses Margurite and Blanche
Douglas entertained a few friends
with a dance at their beautiful home
near Nicholls Saturday night, those
present were: Misses Eunice Green,
lone Bass, Pearl Lewis, Bonnie Leta
Lewis, Blanche and Margurite Doug
las, Messrs. Jimmie (Lee Gibson. Al
bert Roberts, Walter Meeks and Ash
ey Dougas. All enjoyed punch and
cake at intervals during the evening.
Messrs. Albert ~ Shot TAslt
ley Douglas were visitors in Doug
las Sunday.
Mrs. Lucy Douglas has been quite
ill for several days, but glad to say
she is better.
Mrs. I. B. Lewis and children I. B.
Jr., and Geraldine are back at horn
after several days visit to relatives
in Brunswick.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Davis announce
the birth of a girl baby July the 19th
Mrs. Lester Blair ,from Paladka
Fla., is a visitor in Nicholls.
Mr. an J Mrs. B. Raulerson and
daughter, Louise from Winter Haven.
Fla., are visiting relatives and
friends in Nicholls:.
Miss Mary Smith is on the sick
list this week, caused from typhoid
vacinatibn.
I.lr, Martin Davis is rapidly im
proving after an illness of tvphoi
fever, fie is able to dismiss his
nurse, Miss Carrie Skipper of Pearson
who did splendid work on the case ;
Mr. Ed Hitch o f VYaycr; f was
guest, i.f Mr. J. M. White Thurs !ay
I J M
Messrs. F. W. Quarterbaum, R. C
Kirkland, Lester Douglas end J. L
Sinsrleteary are enjoying a de’i'.rhu
ful fishing trip in the canals of the
Okefanokee swamp this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Dowelly of
Milledgeville are the guest of Mr. an-
Mrs. iL. A. Kitchens and family. Mrs
Kitehorts has been quite ill for sever
al days.
Mr. O, L. Bradshaw of Fitzgerald
was a business visiotr in thfe city this
wetde.
Messrs. T. P. Cartwright and Vev
nen Meeks rna.e a business trip to
Douglas Tuesday afternoon.
Mr, end Mrs. Calvin Meeks and
Calvin Jr., are spending a few days
with relatives at Hoboken, Ga.
M'r. John iCooksie of Vero, Fla., is
a visitor in the city.
Nieholls and Patterson ball team?
olsyed on the local diamond Wednes
day afternoon the game was the most
exciting one of the entire season, the
teams were so near on an equal basis
‘he boys played hard and untiring to
win, but the others played a
hard, an:' the score was a tie at th
end of the ninth enning. they plave
another to break the tie but whe
the tenth was finished no score had
been made, the game was called by
umpires, Z. V. Hell and Mr. Walke •
on account of darkness, the score wa? -
6-6.
Miss Florence Grace of Wayerosx
was the guest of Miss Ruby Meek?
Sunday.
GA. WILL NOT ABOLISH
ITS DEATH PENALTIES
THE MISUNDERSTOOD
OKEFINOKEE.
Today the Georgia Press Associa
tion, in annual session at Waycross
is to have the pleasure—it will be
a real pleasure—of spending part of
the day in the heart cf the famous
Okefinokee Swamp, the edge of which
stretches up almost in sight of the
Ware county site. Experts have
called this region the “most wonder
ful section of North America,” most
marvelous area in the United States
east of the Mississippi,” and “Geor
gia’s greatest natural wonder. The
swamp has been misunderstood for
decades —because it hjusbeen inti
mately known to few peflfS Experts,
research groups, students from prom
inent educational institutions, gover
nment men seeking out the secrets of
animal and bird and fish and plant
life, photographers, motion picture l
men, hunters—these have from time j
to time become acquainted with the j
Okefinokee. But the people of Geor- j
gia themselves as a whole—even of j
South Georgia have had a veryl vague!
and hazy notion of what the Okefi
nokee is like. A representative body:
of Georgians will see some of the!
great swamp this week —an .' tel! |
about it later in their papers.
The Morning News in its issue of!
Sunday last ad the preceding Sunday!
presented reproduction of two typical
complied by experts, explorers, na
ture lovers who went into the area
and got intimate information. Many
comments have been hear, about
those articles in the Sunday papers—
and usually the exclamation h?s Al
lowed. The Okefinokee isn’t what I
.’nought it was at all. It is, not a
watery waste of marsh—though there
is much water—exclusively; it ha;
vest expanses.of timber, some of thy
finest in the nation, it has island-
inhabitable and inhabi.ated; it has a
wealth of scenery and a world cf in
terest in the living things that make
the Okefinokee their home or their
refuge.—Atlanta Journal.
Miss Ruby Meeks, Shafter Meeks,
Mr. Vanzant and Earlie Meeks, were
among the 75 guests who were invi.ed
to attend a chicken supper at Mr
Arthur Carters home near Bickloy
Saturday night.
Miss Ruby Meeks entertained a
host of friends at a moonligh picnic
at her home Thursday nighit, those
present were, 'Misses Blanche and
1 Margurite Douglas, Pearl and Boun
ileta Lewis, Minnie Lee Vickers.
Minnie Bell Bland, Wilma Gibsor,
Mattie Mae Kirkland, Doris Ander
son, Ruby Dulberly, Eula Dulberly,
Estelle Frier, Ruby Gillis, Neva
Gillis. De'ma Lee Day. from Douglas,
and Messrs D. C. Anderson, Jack
Howard, Tat Gillis, L. Gillis. Earlie
Meeks, J. 0. Wmters, Jack Thompson,
Early Dewery, B. L. Vanzant, M. I.
Stanford, Herman Gibson, Joe Day
and Robert Day from Douiglas, iMr?.
E. I). Douglas and Mrs. W 7. L. Hail
end Dr. Hall. Everybody spent a
delightful evening playing all kinds
of yard games and drinking ice
lemonade and eating watermelon, but
most cf all the wonderful picnic sim
per that was spread whh everything
good to eat.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL
CHANGES HANDS AUG. i
The Commercial Hotel which ha=
been operated for the past several
years by Mr. and Mrs. J. 'Rod Davis
will charge hands cn August first, ard
the new managers will be Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Pierce of Hazlehurst, vet
ran hotel people.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis have built up
a splendid hotel business in the Com
mercial. No future plans have beer,
adven out by Mr. and Mrs. Davis but
they will take a much r.eedeo vaca
tion before re-entering business.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Pierce formerly
resided in Douglas and ran the New
Douglas for a number of yer,r3. They
left here some 17 years ago and pur
chased the hotel at Hazlehurst where
they bull up a good baginees and sold
it. rent some two years ago and for the
past year they have been operating a
hotel in the o'd Hall Sanitarium there.
That lat er hotel will be operated in
the future by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pierce
$1.50 Per Annum in Advance
Atlanta, Ga., July 24.—Half a
dozen bills dealig with local county
matters were passed in rapid suc
cession by the Georgia senate today.
Aong the committee reports sub
mitted in the senate was that of hy
giene and sanitation committee which
reported unfavorably a bill which
would provide for the creation of a
state board of plumbing.
The senate today passed the bill
amending the charter of the City of
Valrosta, another to amend an act
to create a new charter for LaGrange
and a third which provides for
changes in the manner of electing
county commissioners of early coun
ty in primary elections.
Among the new bills introduced
was one by Arnow of the ourth dis
trict, and Cason, of the first district
which would amend and revise the
fish and game laws of the state, cre
ating a state board of game and fish.
The senate finance committee to
day reconsidered its action of yes
terday in reporting favorably a bill
to require all moneys collected by
its agencies to be paid into the treas
ury and be disbursed on state war
rants signed by the governor.
A minority report signed by four
teen of the twenty-one members of
the committee asking for reconsid
eration caused today’s action.
STOVAI. BILL IS
BADLY DEFEATED
The senate, by a vote of thirty
one to nine, today defeated the meas
ure by Senator Stovall which pro
vided for the abolition of capital
punishment in Georgia. Those vot
ing in favor of the measure were
Senator Davi3, Garrison, Greene,
Ho.ges, Johnson, Mason, Phillips,
Smith, of the twenty-third, jind Sto
vall.
No definite agreement was reached
today on the report of the house
| subcdffithmerfftied "to submit a
1 recommendation on the measure
looking to the substitution of as al
ary basis for the system for coun
ty officers in counties of forty thou
sand anc over.
Another meeting will be held to
morrow, at which time further con
sideration will be given the matter.
HOUSE DISCUSSES
RECONSIDERATION
The motion to reconsider the ac
tion of the house ye“‘sterday in de
feating the Lenglev bill providing
for four year terms for state offi
cials, was made by Representative
Stone, of Walton, today. The house
then entered, into a debate on the
motion to reconsider with the pros
pect that it would be long drawn
out.
After defeating the proposal to
do away with capital punishment
the senate then defeated eighteen to
seventeen the measure by Phillips,
which wouild have substituted the
electric chair for the gallows a 3 a
menas of executing the death sen
tence.
Senator Phillips appealed for its
passage as a decent and orderly man
ner of carrying out the death penalty.
4-YEAR TERM BILL KILLED
BY HOUSE AFTER HOT DEBATE
Atlanta, July 24. —By an overwhel
ming vote the house of representatives
Wednesday disagreed to the favorable
committee report on a bill to give the
governor and other s'.ate house offici
als four-year terms. This action kilts
the measure for the session unless a
motion to reconsider puts it back on
the calendar.
Spirited debate preceded the final
vote on the committtee report, the bill
coming up for consideration as un
finished business from Tuesdays ses
sion. ‘ j
Mr. W. H. Carrol. Prop, of the
Rivoli Theatre who lias ben eff on a
two weeks vacation will return home
July 25th. Following are the cities
he visited while away on his vacation:
A lanta, Go., Norfcrk, Va., Ports
mouth. Va., .Richmond, Va., Hamlet,
N. C., Savannah, Ga., and Vidalia.
while Mr. and Mrs. J. l'. Pierce will
operate the Commercial here. They
are hotel people of a wide reputation
and their coming to Douglas means
that the large patronage of the Com
mercial will be given every necessary
attention in the future.