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Nicholls News
Miss Glady Carelock of the G. N. C.
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John
Burkett last week-end.
Mr. Charlie Wilcox of Tampa, Fla.,
is spending a while with his father,
Mr. Bud Lott.
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Misses Inez and Stella Hatfield of
the G. N. C., Douglas, were at home
last week-end. They had as their
guests. Misses Susie and Mary Annis
Vickers of Douglas..
Miss Eunice Green who is staying
with her sister, Mrs. J. M. Clements,
in Waycross, spent the day in Nich
olls Sunday.
Messrs Preston Demery and J Q.
Waters spent a few days i*i Bruns
wick last week.
Misses Kate and Ida Sfcreat, Irene
Andarson and Mr. Garcia Singletary
spent the day with relatives near
Douglas Sunday.
Mrs. B. W. Taylor, who has been ill
several days, was carriedto the
King’s Daughter’s hosj’tal in Way
cross last Thursday tk undergo an
operation.
Carolyn Taylor, little daughter of
Mrs. D. C. Taylor, who has been crit
ically ill for several days is some
what improved.
Miss Marguerite Douglas was on
the sick list last week.
Hearp,
V acation time is close. You will soon be going
on eampipg trips and there is no better way to
make it a real vacation than to let us furnish the
GROCERIES and other equipment for you.
You will be pleasantly surprised to know how
nice it will be to just ’Phone us and let. us assem
ble everything for the trip.
0. R. LOWERY Estate.
MANY MORE
BARGAINS
Our PRE-INVENTORY Sale
continues and we have hun
dreds of bargains that we
know you need.
Come in and let us furnish
you with household items that
you use every day.
ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS AND THIS
OPPORTUNITY IS GONE
Special price in every thing
in the store during this sale.
Yours for real Service ,
Douglas Hardware Co.
Douglas, Georgia
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a meet
ing of the stockholders of U. S. Tur
pentine Company, a corporation creat
ed and organized under the laws of
the State of Delaware, is hereby call
ed, and will be held, at the office of
said corporation in the City of Doug
las, State of Georgia, at eleven
o’clock in the forenoon, on the 15th
day of June, 1525, for the purpose of
amending the bylaws of said cor
-1 poration and for the transaction of
other business generally.
Given under my hand, this the
11th day of May, 1925.
C. R. PORTER,'’'
President of U. S. Turpentine Com
pany. 14-21-28-7-14
City Loans, quick delivery, easy
termsj. sse L; F, Heath in Lankford
I bidding. 7-14-21-28
Misfees Vera Bethune Julia
Head, of Alma were the guests of
Miss Wilma Gibson last Tuesday.
Misses Rita and Abbie Taylor, Ma
:y Lindsey, Messrs. B. W. Johnson
and Trenton Taylor spent the day in
Waycross Sunday.
Mr. Sam Bradshaw was a business
visitor in the city on Monday.
Mr. Dan Kirkland, who has been
heidmg a position in DeLand, Fla.,
returned last Friday to spend the
cummer with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. M. Kirkland.
Mr. J. B. Williams returned last
Thursday night from Sarasota, Fin.
COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS
SARAH PARKER WILLIAMS
84TH BIRTHDAY JUNE STH
The public is invited and all the
relatives of Sarah Parker Williams
are requested to attend her 84th birth
day celebration on June sth, at the
home of Lyman Adams, six miles
southeast of Douglas, on the Raccoon
bridge road. She is the daughter of
“Short Arm’’ Bill Parker and a niece
of old Doctor Calvin Green Berry
Washington Parker. The family is
noted for its love for each other. As
many of the relatives should attend
this celebration as possible. She. is
the last of the old members of both
of these families. Short talks will
be made by members of the family
and others from 11 to 2 o’clock after
which dinner will be served. The af
ter dinner program will consist of all
socially mingling together.
No relatives should fail to meet
and have a short talk with every oth
er relative present.
These annual celebrations have been
very pleasant in the past and it is
the wish of the family that this one
be best of all. The Gillis band is ex
pected to be with us.
THE CHILDREN.
SERVICES AT ST. ANDREWS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
First and third Sundays in each
month at 8 p. m.
Second and fourth Sundays at
11:15 p. m. cmfwyppwwfm
11.15 a. m.
Sunday School at 10:15 a. m.
Bible Study each Friday at 8 p. m.
Services next Sunday at 11:30 a. m.
L. E. Heath has moved his law
office to Lankford building, see him
there for City Loans. 7-14-21-28
DO YOU KNOW?
THAT 21,000,090 letters went to
the Dead Letter Office last year?
THAT 803,000 parcels did likewise 9
THAT 100,000 letters go into the
mail yearly in perfectly blank enve
lopes ?
THAT $55,000.00 in cash is remov
ed annually from misdirected enve
lopes ?
THAT $12,000.00 in postage
stamps is found in similar fashion 9
THAT $3,000,000.00 in checks,
drafts and money orders never reach
intended owners?
THAT Uncle Sam collects $92,000.-
00 a year in postage for the return
of mail sent to the Dead Letter Of
fice ?
THAT it costs Uncle Sam $1,740,-
000 yearly to look up addresses on
misdirected mail?
THAT 200,000,000 letters are given
this service, and—
THAT it costs in one city alone
$500.00 daily?
And Do You Know?
THAT this vast sum could be saved
and the Dead Letter Office abolished
if each piece of mail carried a re
turn address, and if each parcel were
wrapped in stout paper and tied with
strong cord?
MORAL: Every man knows his
own address if not that of his cor
respondent.
Put it in ttar upper left hand corn r
>r!
FOR SALE
GEORGIA, Ooffee County.
To All Whom It May Concern:
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Coffee County,
will be sold, at public outcry before
court house door on the Ist Tuesday
in June, 1925, in said county, be
tween the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing described property, to-wit:
The equity of redemption in and
to 237 acres of Lot Number 119 ni
the sth District of Coffee County,
Georgia, bounded North, South and
West by original land lines; bound
ed East by lands of Pearlie Harper.
The tract named has a loan against
it in favor of John Hancock Mutual
Life Insurance Company secured by
a loan deed for $3500.00 and interest
for one year, the purchaser of said
sale will be reauired to assume the
principal and interest due upon said
loan and taxes for 1924.
T. R. RARPER.
Administrator cf the estate of F. B.
Harper. 7-14-21-28
$25.00 REWARD
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
>f our state and county.
Respectfully,
EUGENE MERIER. ’
County Game Warden.
ANNUAL MEETING OF
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION
Problems vital to the future de
velopment of Georgia will be discuss
ed at the annual meeting of the
Georgia Association to be he!<! in
Macon on June 5 and which is expect,
ed to attract representative citizens
from every section of the state, ac
cording to a program in an official
call for the meeting. At this meet
ing officers will be elected and plans!
of work adopted for the coming year. 1
The program will be featured by
discussions and action looking es
pecially toward the organization of
a better market for eggs and hogs
and the improvement of credit facili
ties for the advancement of the dairy
industry and other phases of the per
manent far mprogram adopted at the
Farmers Conference in Athens last
January, as well as the making of
plans for attracting new farm set
tlers to Georgia.
An inspection of the Macon Pack
ing Plant and explanation of plans
of the Macon Chamber of Commerce
for utilizing it for the benefit ol
farmers of the state, in the storage
and orderly distribution of their per
ishable products including peaches
and peach by-products other
fruits and eggs and meats, will be an
other interesting and instructive fea
ture of the program while a few
hours will be devoted to a special
airplane cotton dusting demonstra
tion by the Huff-Deland Company.
The Macon Chamber of Commerce
and the Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions and
Civitan Clubs of the city are co-op
erating with the Georgia Associa
tion to make this what officials be
ieve will be the biggest and most
important meeting ever held by the
Association. With this in view, these
several organizations are arranging
a chicken barbecue at the Macon Pack
ing Plant at the noon hour. The pro
gram will start at 9:30 A. M. Macon
time.
O. B. Martin, head of the extension
‘’orces for the southern states in the
U. S. Department of Agriculture and
personally representing U. S. Secre
ary Jardine, will be one af the chief
speakers and he will discuss Geor
gia’s permanent farm program,
“resident Soule of the State College
and Commissioner Brown of the
State Department of Agriculture and
orominent Georgia bankers are farm
ers and business men will take part
n the discussion.
G. & F. RAILWAY POPULAR
PRICED EXCURSION TO
FLORIDA JUNE 2ND
Very attractive excursion rates to
interesting points in Florida will be
put on sale June 2nd, according to
announcement made by General Pas
senger Agent Kenworthy of the Geor
gia and Florida Railway. The excur
sion rates w’ill be from Augusta and
all stations on the line to Jackson
ville, Pablo Beach, Daytona, St.
Augustine, West Palm Beach, Miami,
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota,
Moorehaven and Fort Myers.
The tickets to Jacksonville, St.
Augustine, Pablo Beach and Daytona
will be good four days from date of
sale and tickets to all other destina
tions will be good eight days from
late of sale.
Through comfortable day coaches
will be operated on the day train and
through coaches and pullman cars on
the night train, hence making it pos
sible for anyone to go to Jackson
ville without changing cars.
Now is the time for the farmers
and business men to take a trip to
Florida and see the wonders that
they have been reading about. The
•ates for the Excursion will be found
n display ad in this paper. Look
for them and make up your mind to
take advantage of these greatly re
uecd rates.
FOR RENT—Nice up-to-date
apartments. Located on Gaskin av
enue.
See CLYDE TANNER.
10 cents a chance to guess how
many grains of corn little Oscar wall
eat when fltd, Saturday a» Court
House Square. Benefit Woman’s
Club. Ad .?&
ADVERTISEMENT FOR SALE BY
GUARDIAN FOR REINVESTMENT
After four weeks notice pursuant
to Section 3065. of the Civil Code of
Georgia. of 1911, a petition,
of Vhich a true and correct copy is
subjoined, will be presented to the
Hen. Harry D. Reed, Judge of the
Superior Court, at the Court House
in said county, at 11:00 o’clock A. M.
on the 26th dev of June, 1925.
This May 27th 1925.
HA.MP SEARS.- Guardian
MOVED
OWING to remodeling Georgia State
Bank Building we have moved our
shop to Lewis Vickers’ store. Will
be pleased to have our patrons and
friends call on us in our new home.
Going on a vacation to the seashore
or some snow-capped mountain? If
so, inspect our line of Felt, Satin and
Taffeta Hats.
For our South Georgia climate we
have the Bangkok, Leghoon and Lacy
effects.
Yours for Service,
JACKSON & NEWBERN MILLINERY CO.
Douglas, Georgia
for Stanton, Hiram and Eather Sears.
GEORGIA, Coffee County.
TO THE HONORABLE HARRY D.
D. REED, Judge Superior Court.
COURT OF SAID COUNTY:
The petition of Hamp Sears of said
County shows:
1.
That he is the natural qualified
guardian of the person and property
of his three minor children, to-wit:
Stanton, S/ears, age fifteen; Hiram
Sears, age thirteen and Eather Sears,
age eleven, all of whom reside in Cof
fee county, Georgia, and petitioner
qualified as guardian before the Or
dinary of Coffee county, Georgia.
2.
That he desires to sell for rein
vestment at private sale to W. H.
Bone, Jr., for the sum of $385.74 the
following property belonging to said
minors: Three-sevenths (3-7) undi
vided interest in and to all of lot of
land Nnmber 215 in the Sixth Dis
trict of Coffee County, Georgia, which
lies on the East side of Little Creek,
being all of lot number 215 except
ninety (90) acres, more or less lo
cated on the West side of Little Creek,
now belonging to Mrs. E. J. Sears, as
conveyed by deed to her by C. L. Pat
terson, dated January Ist, 1924 recor
ded in Deed Book 43, page 155 of the
Deed records of Coffee county; the
tract herein referred to being four
hundred (400) acres, more or less,
and being the same lands conveyed by
deed from Hiram Sears to Hamp
Sears and his six children, dated May
10, 1919 an recorded in D§ed book 37,
page 219 of the deed records of Cof
ffee county, Georgia.
3.
Said 1 lands ape unimproved wild
lands located away from any road
with no timber thereon of value, and
said lands are a very poor class of
lands; that said lands are yielding no
revenue an cannot be made to yield
any revenue without the expenditure
of a good deal of money thereon to
clear and erect building thereon; that
327—M,Y—2S
Everything
You W ant
You’ll find everything you want in the drug
line w'hen you visit our store. We are carrv
ing a full line of drugs and drug sundries,
W’e wish to handle the things you care for
and if we don’t have it tell us so we can get it.
Your business will always be appreciated and
in return we shall endeavor to repav with
good service, courteous treatment, fair prices
and quality merchandise.
Dent’s Drug Store
Phone 200 , Douglas, Ga.
Thursday, May 28, 1925.
said minors have no other property
and are totally without means to pay
the taxes on sayl property and instead
of said property yielding an income,
it is a source of yearly expense for
taxes; petitioner in his 'ndividual ca
pacity owned the other leur-sevenths
(4-7) undivided interest in said lands,
which he has already sold to W. H.
Bone, Jr., at the same ratio of value
as for the three-sevenths (3-7) inter
est, owned by said minors, now of
fered by W. H. Bone, Jr.
4.
Petitilonjer )desires to invest said
money in interest bearing time certi
ficates, issued by Georgia State Bank,
not subject to check except upon ap
proval of J. L. Wall, Joe Roberts, and
L. E. Heath, or a majority thereof,
with the privilege f later investing
said money in lands which will pro
duce an income upon a like approval
by J. L. Wall, Joe Roberts and L. E.
Heath. —m
5.
Petitioner shows that it is necessa
ry for the Court to appoint a guar
dian ad litem to represent said minors
as provided by law.
6.
Petitioner shows that notice of his
intention to make this application has
been published once a week for four
weeks, in the Coffee County Progress,
the newspaper in which County ad
vertisements are published in and for
the county,of your guardian’s appoint
ment and the County in which said
land is located, and that said minors
and next of kin have been served as
required by law.
WHEREFORE, petitioner prays
that guardian ad litem be appointed
to represent said minors, and that an
order for sale of said property for
reinvestment be granted as herein
prayed with the privileges and con
ditions set out in said petition".
HAMP SEARS, Guardian.
L. E. Heath, Attorneybe J m hhhh
L. E. HEATH, Attorney
for said Guardian.