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Volume XI—No- 21.
EDUCATION BOARD
REVIVES HOME
ECONOMICS WORK
After a suspension of the work of
the county home agent since January
Ist, the work has been resumed in
Coffee conuty by the employment of
Miss Elizabeth Buchan, who assum
ed her duties this week. Miss Bu
chan came to Douglas from Hawkins
ville. She has been in the work for
several years and is experienced.
4 She has been making a tour of the
* cafuntyl, ,vis|ting schools and reor
ganizing the girls clubs. Many of
the schools have been visited by her
already in company with County
JJSchool Superintendent Melvin Tanner
and County Agent Bussey.
The Board of Education once
thought to abandon the work for the
sake f economy, but underwent a
change in opinion and decided that
this was not wise. The home
agent has for many years been a fix
ture in this county, Coffee being
among the very first counties of the
state to employ both home and dem
onstration agents, and the work is
very much a fixture here.
Miss Buchan comes well recom
mended by the state college, and asks
the assistance of all the public gen
erally in getting organized to do the
best work possible during the spring
and summer.
CITIZENS BANK BUILDING
PURCHASED BY SLATER
ANI) BREWER MONDAY
The four-tory brick building on the
corner of Peterson avenue and Ward
street known as the Citizens Bank
building was purchased from the
State Banking Department Monday
by J. C. Brewer and John R. Slater.
It is understood that the purchase of
the building involves possibilities of a
modern hotel structure.
In the event a hotel is promoted it
will be of fifty or more rooms each
with a bath, with steam beat through,
out and splendidly furnished room?
and all equipment used of the best.
A great deal of work will be re
quired to remodel and plans suggest
ed are to build an addition which will
be used for lobby and dining room.
It i 3 also understood that the plans
as suggested will mean the beautify
ing of the building on the exterior,
and somewhat following the Florida
idea of architecture, and the grounds
will also have the attention of a land
scape artist.
fff The building is well situated for
the purpose and such a hotel in
Douglas is very much a necessity. It
is estimated that completed the hotel
property would involve an outlay of
$75,000 to SIOO,OOO.
HALF-HOLIDAYS LIKELY
TO BEGIN IN APRIL
Petitions r.re being circulated end
freely signer by business houses of
the city designating Thursday after
noon as half-holidays in Douglas dur
ing the summer months, beginning
the first week in April. A majority
of the business houses have already
signed the egreement, and it appears
as though there will be little difficul
ty in putting over the half-holiday
idea in the city this year. The sub
ject was discussed at the Kiwanis
Club last Friday and received the en.
..dorsement of this body.
• The closing will include practically
every class of business, such as banks,
mercantile establishments, grocery
stores, wholesale houses, barber shops
and in fact every business institution
in the city is asked to pion in observ
ing afternoon, from 12:30 on as a
half-holiday.
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
SMYRNA ASSOCIATION W.M.U.
There will be a meeting of the
Executive Board of W. M. U. of
Smyrna Association Sunday after
noon, March 22nd, at the First Bap
tist church at 3:30 in the Home Build
ers class room. _
All members of the board, and
other Is "lies who hold any office in
the W. M. U. or Circles are urged
to report for business Sunday after
noon on time, if for any reason you
cannot come please notifl the Super
intendent before 3 o’clock Sunday af
ternoon.
MRS HOKE DAVIS,
1| f MRS. F. M. APPLEBY,
Secretaries.
(fioffw (fftfmtJjj progress,
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Weekly Road Bulletin *
* CENTRAL DIXIE HIGHWAY *
(Short Route) *
* MACON, GA., TO *
* JACKSONVILLE, FLA. *
* Condition of Road as of this *
* Date: *
* Between Macon and Perry *
* 12 miles, PAVED *
Balance GOOD *
* Between Perry and Hawkins- *
* ville GOOD *
* Between Hawkinsville and
Abbeville GOOD *
* Between Abbeville and *
Fitzgerald GOOD *
* Between Fitzgerald and
* Ocilla PAVED *
* Retween Ocilla and Douglas
* GOOD *
* Between Douglas and Nicholls *
* GOOD *
* Between Nicholls and Alma *
* : GOOD *
* Between Alma and Waycross *
EXCELLENT *
* Between Waycross and *
* Folkston EXCELLENT *
* Between Folkston and
Jacksonville PAVED *
* This information is compiled *
* from our special Road Report- *
*• ers. *
* W. R. BOWEN, President *
* Central Dixie Highway Asso- *
* ciation. *
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W. A. CATHEY MANAGER
A. & P. STORE HERE
Mr. W. A. Cathey has been named
manager of the local branch of the
A. & P. Tea Company succeeding
Frank Cannady, who has been trans
ferred to Valdosta as a branch man
ager. Mr. Cathey is an expt%ienced
groceryman and has only been in the
employ of the company for three
months.
GENERAL PRESENTMENTS GRAND
JURY. OF THE MARCH TERM, 1925
We, the Grand Jury selected, chos
en and sworn for this the March
term Coffee Superior Court, 1925,
herewith make these our General
Presentments.
After electing Dr. C. C. Giddens,
Foreman and Homer Ricketson Clerk,
B. J. Minchew was selected as Bailiff.
The following committees were ap
pointed:
Committee on Chaingang: Jesse
Newbern, Homer Ricketson, J. R.
Dockery.
Building Committee: A. P. Darby,
G. C. Weitman, J. M. Dent.
Book Committee: M. D. Davis, W.
H. Bailey, T. P. Cartwright.
W T e, the committee appointed to
examine and report on the Chaingang
report that we find same in good con
dition in every respect. The prison
ers all appear to be satisfied, well
kept and are in good spirits and do
ing good work.
JESSE NEWBERN,
HOMER RICKETSON,
J. R. DOCKERY, Committee.
We, the building committee ap
pointed to examine and report on the
condition of the public buildings of
our county, have examined the Court
house and find it as well kept as could
be expected under the circumstances.
We find the Jail reasonably well
kept as a building, but recommend
that the bedding be put in better con
dition, same not being as well kept
as we think it should be; we recom
mend that spreads, such as quilts,
blankets and the like be renewed in
so far as is necessary to make them
clean and sanitary.
A. P. DARBY,
G. C. WEITMAN,
J. M. DENT, Committee.
We, the Book Committee appointed
to look into the books and records of
our county, find that an audit has
been made of the Tax Collector’s of
fice and of the County Commission
ers office; but theie dees not appear
to have been an audit completed as to
the other officers, hence we recom
mend and order that this committee
be continued till this audit may be
completed and make our final report
to'the next Grand Jury.
We find the books and records of
the Clerk of Superior Court correct
ly kept in so far as we could deter
mine; all Grand and Petit jury lists
being properly recorded as well as
the records of other matters.
There does not appear to be an
audit of the County School Commis
OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY, CITY OF DOUGLAS, AND THE CITY OF NICHOLLS
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1925.
THREE RECEIVE GANG
SENTENCES MONDAY
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Henry Howard, a negro man charg
ed with assault and_pttempt to mur
der was given a sentence of one to
three years in prison Monday in Su
perior court. Other convictions were:
Roosevelt Adams, negro assault
and attempt to murder given 1 to 4
years.
W T . B. Bunkley, white man entered
a plea of guilty to bigamy and was
esntenced by Judge Reed to serve
from 3to 5 years. Bunkley, a young
man, was married in Swainsboro,
left his wife and about a year ago
married again in Coffee county.
Willie Tarrant, a young white man
entered a plea of guilty to a charge
of selling whiskey before Judge ward
of the city court and was given a
straight sentence of three months.
Judge Harry D. Reed presided over
the court which lasted for one day
only. A great deal of business was
disposed of, but judge Reed rushed
matters to the fullest extent and dis
posed of business that might ordi
narily have taken two or three days.
Solicitor Allen B. Spence and Court
Reporter W. J. Summerall were in
their places. The grand jury ad
journed Monday afternoon.
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* ILLNESS AND BREAK *
* DOWN CAUSE OF DELAY *
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This issue of the paper is is- *
* sued under utmost difficulties. *
* Illness of part of the office *
* force, part of the week, coupl- *
* ed with a crippled linotype has *
* made it impossible to issue the *
* paper on time.
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sioner, or if there is, same was not
brought to our attention for inspec
tion.
We desire to call the attention of
the County Superintendent to the
fact that a number of children with
in the school age are not attending
school, and ask that he request all
county teachers to report to him all
children within their respective school
districts who are not attending school
and that he in turn make report to
the next Grand Jury so that the rea
sons for not so attending school may
be investigated, and this be done
from time to time until as nearly as
possible, all children within school
age, be kept in school.
We also desire to recommend that
this Grand Jury is in hearty sympa
thy with the movement looking to the
ultimate consolidation of our small
schools within our county, and that
same be consummated as early as
practicable.
We find the N. P. Books in the
Broxton District in good condition
and properly kept.
The J. P. Books from Broxton, E.
Todd, J. P. were not presented for
examination as required by law.
We find that there is no N. P.
serving in the Ambrose District,
therefore no no N. P. books were pre
sented for inspection from there. The
J. P. Criminal Docket from Ambrose
District was not presented for in
spection, and the Civil Docket which
was presented and examined is in
completely kept, the cost bills not be
ing itemized and the disposition not
being stated in some cases.
We find that H. M. Thomas, N. P.
in Nicholls District did not present
his dockets for our inspection as re
quired by law. That J. P. Bearden,
the retiring J. P. and W. M. Penn who
succeeded him, and who has since
resigned failed to present any books
for our inspection also.
We find the books of the West
Green District J. C. Ellis, J. P. fail
ed to present his Criminal Docket v but
his civil docket which was presented
is in good condition and well kept.
No Dockets of the N. P., J. J. Ward
were presented, as required by law.
We find the books of both the J. P.,
J. J. Rogers and N. P. John S. Gib- 1
son neatly and correctly kept, being
the Douglas District officers.
We find that there were no Dockets
presented from the Bridgetown Dis
trict either by the J. P. or N. P. as
GASOLINE EXPLOSION
FATAL TO M.G. MOORE
Using a lamp to see how to fill his
car with gasoline Friday night M. G.
Moore was burned to death when
fumes frpm the gasoline ignited, caus
ing an explosion and saturating
him with the oil and at the same time
a mass of fire. The lamp was be
ing held by a little ten-year-old boy
and a little sister still younger was
standing, nearby, and both the latter
were seriously burned. The car, a
rebuilt Ford was destroyed by the
fire which resulted. The little boy
thought first of his sister and his ef
forts in saving her were heroic. He
sustained bad burns in his attempt.
Moore frantically attempted to ex
tinguish the blaze which enveloped
Hi pi by rolling on the ground. He was
some distance from his residence,'and
before hi wife and other children
could reUch him he was burned al
most to" a crisp. He lingered until 4
o’clock in the morning before he
died. %
He wsis an employe of the Georgia
& Florida railway shops and lived as
a tenant on the farm of Mr. J. S. Lott
about three miles west of Douglas.
He was* 35 years of age and had ten
children, the eldest, a boy 14 years
of age,; and the youngest, a girl 3
months-of age. He has been a resi
dent section for about three
years, coming here from Swainsboro.
His wife and ten children, all depend
ent solely upon him are left in a de
plorable condition, and quite a bit of
money and provision was raised at
the various churches and other organ
ization since their condition became
known. ' He is also survived by his
parents and several brothers and sis
ters.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Methodist church at 2:30 Sunday
afternoon with Rev. T. M. Christian
officiating. Interment followed af
terwards at the city cemetery.
MORC ’8 MARKET AND
GROCERY IN NEW STORE
Mr. D. D. Morgan occupied the new
brick store erected by him for the
conducting of his meat market and
grocery last week. The new place
makes a most attractive appearance,
and was built at a cost of more than
SII,OOO. Mr. Morgan, who is an ex
perienced groceryman and market
man, announces that his stock will be
enlarged and every convenience for
the service of the public installed.
He is paying especial attention to
promptness in deliveries and announ
ces in another section of the paper,
list of prices for this week.
required by law.
We recommend that the Dockets,
all of them from the various dis
tricts be presented to each Grand
Jury for inspection as the law directs.
We recommend that J. L. Brown be
appointed N. P. & Ex-officio J. P. for
the Ambrose District.
W r e recommend that the County
Commissioners confer with the Com
missioners -of Ben Hill County and
Telfair County, looking to the build
ing such a road and bridges into or
near the old Jacksonville Ferry on
the Ocmulgee river as will be pass
able the year round, and that if such
road is built and such ferry estab
lished and put in operation that Cof
fee County lease the ferry and ap
ply the funds arising therefrom to
the liquidation or payment of the cost
of such roads and bridges as may be
necessary to put into operation this
project.
We desire to thank our Judge H. D.
Reed for his able charge and for his
courteous manner.
We desire to thank our Clerk,
Sheriff, Bailiff and all the officers of
the court, as well as our very ef
ficient and courteous Solicitor Gen
eral and his assistant J. A. Roberts
for their advice and assistance.
We recommend that these present
ments be published by the Douglas
Enterprise and the Coffee County-
Progress and that each be paid the
sum of Five Dollars for same.
We recommend that A. W. Haddock
be paid the sum of Five Dollars for
transcribing these presentments.
We recommend that Grand and
Petit Jurors be paid the sum of
Three Dollars per day for their ser
vices in both the Superior and City
J. n. McDonald forms law
PARTNERSHIP IN SARASOTA
Attorney J. N. McDonald, formerly
of this city, but now of Sarasota,
Florida has formed a partnership with
Ex-Judge John J. Strickland, of
Athens, and Attorney J. W. Dennard,
formerly of Cordele. The style of
the new firm will be Strickland, Mc-
Donald & Dennard. Mr. Strickland
senior member of the firm is an elder
ly gentleman, a former judge of the
Athens circuit, and one of "he state’s
best known attorneys. Mr. Dennardd
was formerly a prominent member of
the Cordele, Georgia bar. The firm
will occupy offices in the new Bank
& Trust Company building, Sarasota's
newest and tallest office building,
which will be ready for occupancy in
a short time. Mr. McDonald an
nounces that he has taken up his per
manent residence in the Florida city
and will engage actively in the prac
tice of law. He has been in Saraso
ta for the past two or three months.
The departure of Mr. McDonald
from Douglas removes one of the
leading members of the bar and one
of the most aggressive and progresive
citizens the section ever had. A man
of tremendous energy, he has origin
ated and executed some very progres
sive ideas here. He was an original
promoter of the tobacco industry,
worked for several years ceaselessly
to “put it over” and today his efforts
along this line, combined with that
of other citizens of forethought, is
noted in that tobacco in virtually the
leading crop of South Georgia. He
promoted the beautiful country Club,
deserving more credit than possibly
any one else for its existence. He has
been a strong contrubutor in every
progressive movement, and has many
friends who regret that he will not
longer be a citizen here, but wish him
deserved success in the rapidly grow
ing Florida metropolis.
Mr. McDonald will continue to be
allied with the Douglas firm, of Mc-
Donald, Mingledorff & Winn.
LEWIS VICKERS TO
OPEN NEW 'STORE
Mr. Lewis Vickers announces that
he will open his store with a new
stock of goods about April 15. A con
tract has been let by Messrs. Holton
& Brice, owners of the building which
was badly damaged by fire recently
and in which Mr. Vickers lost heavily
in merchandise and fixtures, has been
let to Mr. R. N. McEachren, who will
rush it to completion as rapidly as
possible, making such changes in the
front and interior as to make the
place an ideal one for the business
Mr. Vickers will conduct.
Mr. Vickers has been in the mer
cantile business in this city for years
and has a very large number of cus
tomers. He will open w-ith an en
tire new line of merchandise, all of
the stock remaining from the recent
fire having been disposed of at such
price as the public would offer.
HAIL INSURANCE A
GOOD INVESTMENT
Mr. L. A. Pope calls attention to
the necessity for protection against
hail to the tobacco growers of thi
section. He states that a very sub
stantial reduction in rate for this
class of insurance has been obtained
for the present season. He paid
several claims to customers last year
who suffered hail damage, all of
whom are pleased. Mr. Pope prom
ises to have something to say on the
subject later.
courts for the ensuing year, and that
the Foreman and Clerk of Grand
Jurors be paid the sum of Four Dol
lars per day. We also recommend
that Bailiffs be paid the sum of Three
dollars per day for services in both
Superior and City Courts.
Respectfully submitted,
C. C. GIDDENS, Foreman
H. RICKETSON, Clerk,
and 21 others.
GEORGIA, COFFEE COUNTY:
The grand jury of Coffee county
Superior Court at this the March
term 1925, of said Court having pre
sented and read their general pre
sentments at said term of court, it
is ordered that said presentments be
received and published as therein
recommended.
This March 17, 1925.
A. B. SPENCE, H. D. REED, j
Solicitor Genetal. J. S. C. C. C.
$1.50 Per Annum in Advance
STATION WSB
BROADCASTS DOUGLAS
TOBACCO STORY
Douglas radio fans were surprised
one night last week while ll'tening at
the program broadcasted by Station
WSB, the Atlanta Journal, to sud.
denly hear the announcer say that
there was then in the room a party
of North Carolina gentlemen who
over on their way to Douglas to look
over the section as to tobacco and
that they were spending the night
in Atlanta.
Following this quite n bit of his
tory concerning Douglas and Coffeo
county tobacco was broadcasted,
statements being made that the in,
dustry had its organization here, that
the Douglas market led the state in
prices paid last season and that this
would be the leading Georgia market,
and in a few years may outstrip the
largest Carolina and Virginia mark
ets. The announcer closed by saying
that Atlanta was proud of her sister
county and her achievements.
The people here aie grateful t*
this popular station for this choicest
bit of publicity and are mindful of
the fact that coming from this
source no more desirable publicity
could be obtained. The Journal, the
premier newspaper ef the South, has
of its own voilition given Coffee cou»
ty publicity through its columns ia
recent months of which the value
cannot be estimated.
PROMINENT VISITORS FROM
CAROLINA AND KENTUCKY
IN COFFEE THIS WEEK
Coffee county has had this week
quite a number of prominent visitors
from North Carolina and a number of
gentlemen who will grow crops of
tobacco in the county have arrived
for the summer.
Mr. J. W. Rhodes and 1 Mr. Pete
Powell, of Lexington, Kentucky,
leading tobacco men of that city were
here part of the week. They were
very much impressed with the soil,
climate and conditions generally.
Messrs. Clyde Austin and Bush Mc-
Wherter, of Greenville, Tennessee
were here the first part of the week.
They came with a view to making in
vestments probably in warehouse and
farm lands.
Messrs. Leon Oettinger and F. S.
King, of Lexington, were also promi
nent visitors this week.
Messrs. W. E. Bass, A. Squires and
Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Riley also arrived
and will be here during the growing
and sale season.
DOUGLAS W. C. T. U.
March the 27th ha 3 been set apart
as the day for Temperance instruc
tion in the schools, this is now a law,
and the W. C. T. U. is very sorry not
to have furnished programs for this
day to every school in our County,
we had the great pleasure of doing
this in Laurens county last year, the
schools responded beautifully.
Temperance covers so much, and
just at this time we are stressing re
spect for law, it has been sand,
“without respect for law, nations
perish,” the Bible also says, “Where
there is no vision the people perish.”
So let us get a vision of where self
indulgence and disregard of law
might carry us.
Our faithful superintendent of edu
cation has called the attention of his
teachers to the day and its work we
feel sure they will honor him by com
plying with his advice in observing
this day and thereby keeping the law.
TO CLOSE THURSDAY
AFTERNOONS.
We the undersigned agree to close
our place of business every Thurs
day at 12:30 o’clock P. M. and re
main closed the rest of the day, and
we further agree to close at 6:30
every day in the week except Satur
day beginning April Ist, and lasting
until August Ist, 1925:
J. T. Cannady, A. & P. Tea Co.,
The Harris Store, M. F. Head & Co.,
J. T. Woodall, Berber Shop, Watt &
Holmes Hardware Co., G. C. Weit
man Co., Union Dry Goods Co., The
Boston Store, Douglas Hardware Co.,
R. W. Griffin, Hart Furniture Co.,
Union Banking Co., Ralph Yeomans
cashier, O. R. Lowery estate, J. H.
Calhoun, B. Rigell & Co., Peoples
Hardware Co., Jacob Prager, Mike
Nahra, J. N. Boggs, City Barber Shop,
A. Brooks, Georgia State Bank.