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€o (ftt (lotwtj} ftevgrtg*. Volume XI—No. 30. CONTROLLING STOCK IN 0, S. TURPENTINE COMPANY BOUGHT BY THE LOCAL CAPITALISTS A deal involving approximately $160,000 was closed here a lew days p-»o Mmsrs. T. S. Price, *. _. Brew er ar.r* John R. Slater, lo.alcapital ist - Ecquiring 51 per cent of the stock in the U. S. Turpentine Company The 'nterest was purenased from stop’holders in the original company of vmch C. R. Porter of Rome, j;.., was the promoter. Closing of this deal means that the innrtgement of the company will be ir the hands of the recent purchasers. The plant was erected here about a year ago at acost of about SIOO,DO* 1 Since that time additional capital has been added making the physical val ue ef the plant much above that fig ure. The plant manufactures spirits turpentine and pine oil, extracting the products from dead pine stumps and dead wood. At present the outlay for wo-od and for payrolls amounts to about $15,000 per month; About 801) gallons of spirits turpentine of a very fine qual ity is manufactured, in additions fine grade of pine oil is produced. The plant is run day and night. It is probable that other similar plants will be erected, and additional diges ters may be added to the present one. The new industry has added to the city one of the largest payrolls here, and are manufacturing a product that is easily salable for various pur poses, paint and varnish manufactur ers being large consumers of the spirits. Under the new control, the manage ment will remain the same, Mr. G. C, Smith continuing as superintendent A meeting of stockholders has been called and the election of officers will take place at this meeting. CHICKEN SALE FOR COFFEE COUNTY Neither of the railroads that ran through Douglas will run a poultry car this season, so it is up to to try to find some other mmket. Therefore, I wonder if we couldn’t have a chicken sale here in Douglas? To have a chicken sale, I must have a little cooperation. I want you to cooperate with me in this way. ' Please notify me by letter or card by Wednesday morning, May 27, how many chickens we can count on you for in the sale. Then, I will find somebody to buy them, if we have enough, and notify you either thru this paper or by letter when will have the sale. I want to try to have the sale sometime in the week begin ning June 1. Remember, we cannot have the sale unless somebody promises to have enough chickens there to get a buyer in. So please let me know just as quickly as you can how many you will have. lam not advertising a sale, or rather announcing one, but I am try ing to find out how many people have chickens that they want to sell, and how many. Be sure to let me know the smallest number you will have, giving number of friers, hens, etc., so I can tell the buyer what to ex pect. Do this at your earliest con venience. Then, if every body will write me as I request, I can announce a sale date in the next issue of this paper. So watch it. A. S. BUSSEY, County Agent. REV. WILLIAM E. SMITH NEW PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR The local Presbyterian church has been fortunate enough to secure the services as pastor of Rev. William E. Smith, graduate of Columbia Theo logical Seminary. Mr. Williams has accepted a call and has already ar rived here. He will preach both here and at Haaelhurst, using Sunday mornings here and Sunday evenings at Hazelhurst. Rev. Smith is a welcome acquisi tion to the church workers of the city and the he is extended a hearty wel rcome. Although being pastor of She Hazel hurst church as well as the local church, Rev. Smith will make his home here, and naturally, will spend the greater part of his time her*. THIRTY-ONE CASES TRIED IN CITY COURT MONDAY Thirty-one cases were removed from the civil docket of City Court Monday. Many of the cases were of long standing and in the natu-e cf contestel claim cases, etc. Judge C. A. Ward presided over the court and solicitor J. A. Roberts acted for the state. The court only lasted for one day, adjourning Mon day afternoon until next Monday, May 25th at which time the criminal docket will he called. The court will probably hold for two days. Judge J. L. Crawley of the Way cross City Court will come to Doug, las one day to preside for Judge Ward in cases where he is disquali fied. A rather lengthy docket will face the court on Monday. Judge Ward states that he is de termined to remove all pending cases in his court as rapidly as possible. THIRTY SIX RECEIVE DIPLOMAS TUESDAY The past Monday and Tuesday marked the closing of the 1825 term of the A. & M. school. They were two big days, and many out of town visiters attended. The program, an extended one, was enjoyable all the way through. Thir ty-six students received diplomas and six were awarded special certificates. Tuesday morning, Rev. A. W. Hal leck, of Waycross delivered the lit erary address, that was said by many to be the best ever delivered on such an occasion in Douglas. Rev. Hal lecks address was received with much enthusiasm. He was warmly com mended for his splendid talk. The diplomas and certificates were awarded directly after the literary address. A wonerful barbecue dinner was served on the grounds to approxi mately a thousand people. The bar becue dinner has been a popular idea for several terms. The dining hall, though spacious, is not large enough to accommodate the many guests who are always present for the final exer cises of the school, The graduating class had their Al umni banquet Monday evening at six o'clock. This was a splendid affair, the settings and dceorations being very artistic. Covers were laid for some ninety-six guests enjoyed the course dinner, prepared and served by Matron, Mrs. M. Weaver, and as sisted by the faculty and girl stu dents. Many trustees were here and re mained during the festivities among whom were the following: T. C. Ham, Echols county; F. M. Austin, Brooks county; L. L. Webb, Lowndes county; W. A. Wood, Brant ley county, secretary to the board, Lawson Kelly, vie e chairman, of the hoard, Coffee coun ty; F. M. Carter, Bacon county; Mrs. H. J. Parker, Appling county; Mrs. Fannie B. Heritage, Wayne county; Dwight Rogers, Irwin county; H. V. Wilson, Jeff Davis county; J. J Knight, Lanier county; T. L. Pickren, Charlton county. Tnere was a meeting of the trus tees in the school library. The chair man, John A. Strickland, being una ble fro attend, the vice-chairman, Mr. Kelley presided and called the meet ing to order. After the usual busin ess, the following faculty was elec ted: J. M. Thrash, principal, elected last year for.two years; C. A. John son, agriculture; J. H. Breedlove, science and agriculture; W. P. Rich ey, mathematics and shop; Miss Ma ry T. Collins, English and history; Miss Clara Overby, home economics; Mi* Lucile Wheeler, secretary and librarian; Miss Ethel Wilkerson, pia no and voice. Miss Elaree Brock did not stand for re-election, as secreta ry and librarian. Miss Catherine God bee did not stand for re-election. Some fellows are more particular about the appearance of their auto mobiles than about their personal appearance. OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY. CITY OF DOUGLAS, AND THE CITY OF NICHOLLS DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THURS DAY. MAY 21, 1925. FIRE DESTROYS FEED BARN AT A.&M. SCHOOL A fire of unknown origin broke out at A. & M. school Monday night corns pletely destroying one of the main barns and burning one of the mulesj so badly as to necessitate killing him. The fire alarm sounded at about* 12:15 a. m., and the whole town was, immediately transformed into an ex cited tumult racing their cars to the scene of the fire. From the city the fire could be seen blazing high in the air, mighty flames bleaching forth in great clouds of snvoke, the sparks seemingly reaching the skies. It was the first opinion that one of the main buildings of the school was afire and it was a great relief to those going to find it was one of the barns and not the academic building or dormitory as was their first thought. Douglas was an excited little "city for a few moments when someone yelled the school was afire;. Some sprang into their cars, not waiting to dress, wearing only nighties. Boys of the schooll were on the ground when the press representative arrived upon the scene and they were scatter ed about watching the course of the fire hoping to be able to save the other building. The calmfiess of the night was a great asset as only the barn and fence nearby caught. There was several cows and mulei in the barn but they were all saved except one gray mule. He was burned black. Prof. Thrash said he guessed they would have to kill him to get him out of his pain. The en tire oat crop of the year was lost. There was no effort made to fight the fire as it would have been little better than useless. Prof. Thrash directed that every effort be made to save the other buildings, knowing there was no chance to save the barn, which was well dried and seasoned, and the oats stored in the loft above. Prof. Thrash was very upset about the fire. He felt very bTtter over the Small water supply from the city to the school, saying the school should be either moved from Douglas or have fire protection. “This is qn ly an example of what a fire could do to the dormitories or academic building should fire break out with the present lack of water supply,” said someone, talking to Prof. Thrash. “If a small barn should be uncon querable, what would a real fire of one of the main buildings be-” re ported Prof. Thrash. “Nothing short of a crime,” he added. SEVEN BOYS FOUND IN FLORIDA SWAMP The following account taken from press dispatches Monday and which is carried below relates an unique ex perience of a number of Florida boys, one of which is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Tanner, of this city: Plant City, Fla., May 17. —Seven boys, ranging in age from eleven to thirteen years, were rescued early to day from the most hazardous sec tions of the Hillsborough river swamp, fifteen miles northwest of Plant City, after a search by hun dreds of men throughout the night. The boys were found reclining against a log two miles from the camp from which they were frightened by three men, thought to have been illicit distillers, yesterday. The log upon which they had scram bled was surrounded by mud an! water almost waist-deep. In the absence of men who had ac. companied the camping party, the boys said, three men came into their camp and threatened them. Fright ened, they fled into the swamp for safety. The rescued boys were Jack am- Fred Knight, George Tanner, James Coble, Charles and Oliver Da’.'gh. trey and J. C. Harrington. Two others, Elmer Wilson and Pete Hath, cock, were chased by the men, thev said, but managed to reach a truck sent to the camp for the tents and other paraphernalia, and escaped. Upon the arrival of these boys in Plant City yesterday posses were or ganized and a search for the other seven was started. ® What is done today in a spirit of adventure is done next year as a mat ter of habit. GA. TOBACCO MARKET TO OPEN JULY 21 ST jf The opening of the Georgia tobac co markets will come earlier this year than in several seasons past, on Tuesday, July 21. This is ten days earlier than the opening last season. The early opening was requested of the Tobacco Association of the Unit ed States by Georgia warehousemen. A meeting of this organization com posed of leading tobacco companies of the country meeting in Richmond, Va., last week set the above date, and a letter was received Wednesday announcing the date, from the presi dent of the association, Mr. T. M. Carrington, and received by Mr. G. H. Pegram, of the warehouse firm of Pegram and Critcher, expressing the hope that this early opening would prove satisfactory to Georgia ware housemen and growers. The crop in this section due to drought, is not as far advanced as it was last season at the present time, buf recent rains have put tremendous “pep” in the plants, and a week’s time has shown vast change. The rain have been pretty genera) throughout the tobacco belt and to bacco growers in Coffee county are highly pleased with prospects. A many growers have set out plants during the past two weeks, and even yet some transplanting is going on where plants are available Predictions two weeks ago were hat the crop here would be cut from 25 to 30 per cent, and even more than this by some. It now looks as though this percentage may be low ered considerably, the weather con ditions having a deal to do with fu ure growth. Farmers are happy over prospects now that rains have come and in al most every instance crops of cot ton, corn, beans, peanuts, etc., are as fine as ever seen in Coffee county. MEM3RIALGOIN CAMPAIGN OPENS A conference of all city and county chairmen of the Waycross district of the Conference Memorial Coin Cam paign, which includes nineteen coun ties in South Georgia was held in Waycross Tuesday, May 19, ac cording to an announcement made by Judge Harry D. Deed, District Chair man. The conference made plans for launching the campaign for the distribution of the Confederate Me morial Half Dollars. Among some of the prominent of ficers of the association which were present were: Preston Arkwright, State chairman; Harry J. Dill of New York, national director; and F. W. Manloe, state director and Harry Still well Edwards. It is probably that the campaign will get under way during the mid lie of next week and coins will be received by banks in the district within the next few days. It is the hope of every officer of the associa tion and those in charge of the cam paign that every bank in the Way f-ross district will place an order for the coins and handle them through u heir organization. Preston Arkwright, state chairman, who attended the waycross conference, in a recent lettej ■o the presidents of chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy sand: “As chairman of the Seorgia state committee in charge of the distribu tion of the Confederate memorial half-dollar.l respectfully invfte your attention to the able editorials in the Atlanta Constitution April 25, 1925. “Immediate resumption and early completion of the memorial at Stone Mountain depends now on the sale of coin reservation certificates redeem able in memorial half-dollars on and after July 3, 1925. Only 2,300,000 coins are immediately available for the whole United States. Of these, about 509.000 have been alloted to to banks and trust companies in north ern states. “The national committee has, up on my request, reserved for Georgia somewhat more than her original quota. The members of the Georgia executive committee assume that not only would the original quota inade quate fro the natural demand, but al so that the state should be given the COFFEE COUNT! SETS EXAMPLE FOR STATE SAYS B, L. BUSCS HARRELL GROVE TO ENTERTAIN SINGERS j The Fifth Sunday Singing conven.| ti-on will meet at Harrell Grove' church, six miles south of Douglas on j Sunday, May 31. A basket dinner will be served. Mr. Jim Tanner is president of the association, and C. V. Willard, W. J. Cannon, and John Sapp are directors of the association, which meets on each fifth Sunday at some point. $25.00 REW ARD The State Game and Fish Depart ment, Atlanta, Ga., offers $25.00 for every person convicted of dynamit ing and poisoning fish and one-half the fine, also, this is good until Jan uary Ist, 1926, and any citizen caus ing the conviction of each person caught violating the above law will get the reward and I ask all good citizens and sportsmen to assist in the conviction of these dynamiters and fish poisoners; it is also against the law to sein, trap, net, shoot or catch fish in any way before July Ist, except with hook and line, and if the law was not violated we would have plenty of fish; so please help protect the fish and uphold the law of our state and county. Respectfully, EUGENE MERIER, County Game Warden. ROSETIME GIVEN Ml NIGHT GREAT SUCCESS “Rosetime,” the home talent pro duction presented by the Wayne P. Sewell Company of Atlanta, under the auspices of the Woman’s Auxil iary, Episcopal chirch, was one of the biggest successes ever presented in Douglas. The play carried a delightful little t romance and the musical numbers ! and dances were applauded with | much enthusiasm. j The entire cast was well selected. ! Each played his or her part as though living it. Mr. T. A. Dixon and Mrs. Frde Brewer as “Pa” and “Ma” Perkins couldn’t have been beaten by profes sionals. The realisticalness of M* Dixon using his corn cob pipe in the opening scene was the most natural thing the writer ever saw in home talent. The tuning of hi 3 voice and the quaintness of the adopted dia lect was splendid. The tuning of his voice and the quaintness of the adopt ed dialect was splendid. Mrs. Brew er as “Ma” Perkins represented the typical sweet and simple, old fash ioned mother. Her acting was very; natural and without selfconcious pos ing. Miss Dorothy Dyer and Mr. Jack Brett, leading lady and leading man, were splendid as the lovers of the story. Mr. Brett had a number,] “Rose” which was sung to an applaud ing audience. Miss Dyer also had a vocal solo, the girl chorus assisting with a dance on the chorus. Thi.s made such a hit that an encore was necessary. Miss Dyer and Mr. Brett '->ad a duet in the close of the first act which deserves much credit. There cannot be too much applause for Jack Oplinger and “Sal” Solo mon woh furnished the comedy for the production. “Sal” as Percival Peabody, the feminely inclined scenario writer, was a perfect scream with his “sissy” voice and actions. Oplinger, the top comedian, kept the audience roaring with laughter from the opening until the close. Misses Vera Bell Barclay and Zeta Mae Burton, vamp and soubrette, had wonderful lines for laughs and they were very successful in hitting the audiences’ funny-bone. Miss Barclay did a song and dance number assist opportunity to lead other states in subscribing for the coins. “The plan of the distribution is for each county, city and town in - the state to form a select sales organiza tion comprised of officers and com mittees of the civic and patriotic or ganizations in the community be tween now and May 30 when the campaign in Georgia will close. $ 1.50 Per Annum in Advance Mr. B. L. Bugg, general manager ot the A. B. & A. railroad, addres sing the Kiwanians of this city last Friday, displayed a profound degree of optimism over conditions and fu ture prospects for Georgia, and es pecially this section of the state. Mr. Bugg unhesitatingly stated that in his opinion. Coffee county was the most prosperous county in the state, possibly one or two other counties only, showing to such good advantage | this county. I Mr. Bugg discussed most interest ingly means and methods of better ing conditions in Georgia. He stated that the state should and must work as a unit and leave petty jealousies that have heretofore existed between j towns and cities, and combine to ad j vertise and promote every section of the state alike. He commended the enterprising business men of Douglas j and Coffee county for their foresight in promoting new crops, of which tobacco is an example. It was here that the tobacco was first grown in Georgia in merchantable quantities, and today, the new crop idea has spread to almost every part of South ern Georgia. Mr. Bugg, with Mr. C. E. Brower, were guests of the Gluh. Judge Harry D. Reed, of Waycross was also a guest of the Club. Mr. Reffd, one of the most pleasing speak ers cf the country, is Kiwanis Dis trict Governor. He urged the Club to send a delegate to the Internation al convention at St. Pan 1 . Minn. A delegate has already been selected to go from the Douglas Club, Mr. W. S. i Connor having been name 1 some time ago. A discussion of the boys and girls club work was presented by Miss Buoha.n, county home agent and Mr. Melvin Tanner, county school super intendent. Miss is engaged in raising funds to take probably a dozen girls t oCamp Wilkins, Athens, Ga., for the summer training course and is asking the support of the Ki« wanians in her efforts. A committee . was designated to work with her, and a fund will be raised to assist the girls in making the trip. A committee was announced to per fect plans for the organization of a chamber of commerce. The follow ing were named: John R. Slater, W. T. Cottingham, Fred Ricketson, R. A. Moore and W. S. Connor. It is planned in about a month to I organize this body and at the same time, raise an advertising fund to be expended in the course of a year. It is the present plan of the Kiwanians o raise SIO,OOO for this purpose, and > is hoped that a county-wide organ ization can be made of the body. Feeble-minded optimism is just as bad as hopeless cynicism. The engagements which a husband makes for his wife never seem to turn out very well. If we didn’t have to worry about our automobiles, some of us would bo as carefree as the birds of the field. ed by the dancing chorus which was received with applause for an encore. Miss Burton, assisted by Mr. Oplin rer had a musical recitation and dance which made a big hit. Mr. Sidney Stubbs, who played the camera man of the movie troupe, had many quaint lines that gave him a ] good place ni the heart’s of his au dience. The three dancing chorus deserves j much applause. Their dances came i off without a break and the apprecia ] five audience encored them to exhaus- I tion. The butterfly dance was one of the most beautiful dances any home talent has ever presented here. The I dance of the little kiddies was delight ful and the “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” was the most comical thing of the entire show. This play was coached by Miss Jane Perry, special coach of the producers in Atlanta, and no amount of praise c aid be too much in congratulating her for the splendid training she gave the amateur company. The crowd was good—almost a ful! house —and many were heard to say he play was the best ever presented [ here.