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Volume XI—No. 42.
Increase in • Volume and Price Mark Tobacco Sales For The Week
RIOT RUMORS GAIN
NOTORIETY FOR CITY
Two farmers coming from a county
beyond Bacon arrived on the floors of
a local warehouse Tuesday night be
tween four and six o’clock in the
morning and related a ghastly story
of a riot that had occurred in Doug
las in which a couple of tobacco buy
ers and a few “pin-hookers” had been
slaughtered in a bloody struggle.
The story continued that all the ware
houses had be<?n closed down in this
city except one, and conditions here
were very badly demoralized. The
gentlemen concluded to “take the
risk” and brought their tobacco on to
Douglas where they were told that
not an arrest had been made in or
around the warehouses in this city
since the opening of the market, that
no more peaceable city could be locat
ed in the world, that if there had been
any undue excitement it was because
jthere is more tobacco being sold here
than on a dozen of some of the smal
ler markets, that sales were orderly,
prices good, and general good feel
ing existed in every quarter.
We could not learn who told the
story of death and destruction, but
telephone calls came from Blackshear
and other places asking to know who
had been “Killed”. If Alma does not
stop such rumors, the naughty little
thing should be spanked. Of c urse,
every one knows uo one concocted
with the market, or interested in the
town would spread such stuff as tnat,
because people would flock here to see
what it was all about.
W. & A. SITUATION
REGARDED AS ACUTE
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 11.—Members
of the House and Senate Western &
Atlantic committees believe the time
has come for action in the dispute - f
more than 20 years standing between
the city of Chattanooga and the State
of Georgia over the W. & A. proper,
ties in Chattanooga.
The property there is in the center
of the business district of the city
and is one of he most valuable tracts
in the city. Chattanooga wants to
extend Broad street, which heads in
to the N. C. & St. L. railroad station,
on through the station and the W. &
A erminal property to connect up
with that portion of the city which
has built up beyond the terminal prop
erties. For two decades, the state
has resisted successfully the efforts
of the city to do this.
It will not be but two or three more
sessions of the Tennessee legislature,
it is pointed out, before the city will
be granted the authority to condemn
the property, which it does not now
possess, and go ahead, whether or no.
Members of these committees now
feel that if the state is to make an
advantageous trade, it must act now
with decision or run the risk of losing
a great deal of money. They believe
they are faced with a cruisial situa
tion.
This is the principal reason by the
resolution now being put through the
asembly providnig for the creation
of a commission f 12 members to
treat with the city and obtain the
best possible deal for the state it can.
The commission would be composed
of the governor, Paul Trammell, C,
M. Candler, six members of the house
and three members of the senate.
COURSON FAMILY REUNION
GASKIN SPRINGS, AUG. 18.
The annual family reunion of the
Courson family will be held at Gas
kin Springs on August 18th. The
gathering of the county’s most promi
nent families has been an annual af
fair for years, and the beautiful site
at Gaskin Springs has boon used for
some time in honoring Mr. William
B. Courson, a pioneer citizen of Cof
fee county, who died several years
ago.
The relatives and friends of the
family are invited and urged to at
tend. A picnic dinner of the famous
sort served by this family will be
served.
OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY. CITY OF DOUGLAS, AND THE CITY OF NICHOLLS
NEGRO BOUND OVER
ON SERIOUS CHARGE
Jce Brown, a negro man was given
a commitment hearing here this week
on a charge of assault and attempt
to murder Jule Redding, another np
gro, and the trial judge, J. J. Rogers
bound him over on the charge to su
perior court which convenes in Oc
tober. Redding was shot four times
by Brown about two weeks ago while
they were engaged in a difficulty.
Redding was not seriously wounded
and appeared as prosecutor at the
trial. Solicitor J. A. Roberts ap
peared for the state and the defend
ant was represented by Mingledorff
& Gibson.
FEDERAL AGENTS
TURN EFFORTS TO
OTHER SECTIONS
While local officers dare not be
lieve that Ware county is free from
moonshine operations, government
agents have passed the county up
during recent v/eeks. The federal
agents are centralizing their efforts
in other portions of the state at the
present time, local officers having
been transferred more than a month
ago.
First steps in the government’s
plan to centralize prohibition enforce
ment in Georgia, South Carolina and
North Carolina, at Charlotte, will be
taken in Atlanta Monday when J. D.
Taylor, field supervisor of the North
Carolina enforcement office, arrives
to prepare a schedule of all govern
ment property in the office of F. D.
Dismuke, federal prohibition director
of Georgia.
.Under, the new plan of enforcing
prohibition recently announced from
Washington 22 prohibition districts
will be established and a prohibition
director will be placed in charge of
each district. These districts will
take the place of state boundaries in
the divisions of the work.—Waycross
Journal-Hrald.
BAR COMMITTEE
DECIDES DISTRICT
The committee in Savannah of the
Georgia Bar Association, which met
yesterday at the Oglethorpe Club to
consider a place for headquarters of
the new Third district, will recom
mend that the no*’ federal district to
be known as the Southwestern dis
trict, be created.
This will include the present Ma
con and Albany divisions of the South
ern district, the Columbus division of
the Northwestern district, and also
certain counties_which will be cut off
from Athens, Atlanta and Valdosta
divisions. It thought Macon may
be the headquarters.
The chairman, Warren Grice of Ma
con, is to confer with representatives
of these border counties last men
tioned as to changing them from the
old districts to the new' district and
ascertain their wishes. A subcom
mittee, Mr. Grice, chairman; George
S. Jones, Macon, and Judge A. B.
Lovett, Savannah, was appointed to
draft the bill creating the new dis
trict. Another subcommittee will go
to Washington to confer with the
Georgia representatives in Congress
and Georgia senators when the bill is
introduced in December.
Those present yesterday were Mr.
Grice of Macon, chairman; John W.
Bennett, Waycross; J. D. Pope, Al
bany; George S. Jones, Macon; Dan
G. Augusta; Judge A. B.
Lovett, Savannah; Herman H. Swift,
Columbus; John B. Gamble, Athens.
CAR LOAD CHEVROLET
AUTOMOBILES UNLOADED
A car lead of Chevrolet automo
biles have been unloaded in the city
by the Broadhurst & Williams agency
of Fitzgerald and will be placed on
sale in Douglas. Their display
rooms are on South Peterson avenue
and all the latest models, with all
Chevrolet improvements are included
in the stock. There are some attrac
tive prices and terms for prosepec
tive purchasers in this lot of cars.
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13,1925.
SURPLUS OIL
INSPECTION FEES
BILL DEFEATED
Atlanta, Ga., August 10.—Oppon
ents of the $225,000 appropriation
bill for agricultural and educational
defeated the measure to
day, by adopting a substitute in the
committee of the whole house and
then voting to make an unfavorable
report of the substitute so adopted.
The measure sought to appropriate
$525,000 annually, from the surplus
Irom oil inspection fees, which money
goes into tne general treasury, to
various educational and agricultural
institutions in the state. The sub
stitute measure would have appro
priated SIOO,OOO for the $525,000 to
the common schools.
A test vote was taken when Rep
resentative Wilhoit, of Warren, one
of the authors of the substitute, of
fered an amendment to the substi
tute. It was adopted 93 to 62. The
substitute measure was then adopt
ed by a vote of 88 to 75.
Representative of Dodge,
an oponent of the original bill, then
moved that the House, which was act
ing £s a committee of the whole con
sideration of the bill, report the meas
ure to the House unfavorably. The
vote on this motion was 92 to 57.
Long and Hot Debate.
The measure had betn under con
sideration since last Friday, and had
which reached its culmination today
when Representative Barrett, of
provoked lengthy and hot debate,
Stephens, chairman of the appro
priations committee, declared that a
“conspiracy” had been formed to pass
the bill.
After adopting the substitute meas
ure and voting, as a committee of the
whole, to report the substitute un
favorably, the House spent the re
mainder of the morning session in
debating on the question of whether
or not to acquiesce in the committee
report. The vote as finally taken was
100 to 82, thus killing both the origin
al bill and the substitute.
MRS. MAJOR BROWN’S SON
MISSING SINCE NOVEMBER;
ASKS FOR AID TO LOCATE HIM
Mrs. Major Brown, of Douglas,
Georgia, desires to enlist the aid of
the press in locating her son, Cleo
Roberts, who disappeared from the
Public Schools in Douglas on Novem
ber 7, 1924. Cleo will be fourteen
years old in September, and is fair
complected, and well grown to his
age, with light hair and bluish grey
eyes, and with a scar over left eye,
and big scar in edge of hair over
right eye. At the time he left home,
his mother and step father were liv
ing five miles from Douglas. His
step father, Mr. Major Brown was
employed as an automobile mechanic
in a garage in Douglas, and each
morning, he and his boy would come
intcT town, Mr. Brown going to his
work, and the boy to school. They
carried their dinner and at noon, the
boy would go to the garage, and he
and his step father ate dinner to
gether. On November 7th, 1924, the
boy disappeared, and no trace of him
has been found since, though his
mother has made a nation-wide in
quiry to locate him. Not evan any
of his school mates knew anything
about his going, or where he was go
ing. His mother thinks that perhaps
he fell in with some tourists going
North or South and left in this man
ner.
She will appreciate any informa
tion touching his whereabouts, which
may be written or wired collect to
Mrs. Major Brown, Douglas, Ga.
Holton —Blitch.
A marrige of interest to many peo
pie here was the one of Mr. Pierce
Groover Blitch of Savannah to Miss
Ernestine Holton of that city.
The brilliant wedding took place in
Epworth church, Savannah, Tuesday,
the ceremony being performed by his
father, Rev. W. M. Blitch of Blakely,
formerly pastor of the church here.
800,000 POONDS SOLD FIRST THREE DAYS OF
WEEK; TOTAL TO 2,000,000 ON DOUGLAS MARKET.
PRICES ROOSTED AS GETTER GRADES APPEAR
ODD BURIAL RITES FOR
> AGED NEGRO MAN
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One of oddest court cases ever
recorded in,'this section was that
before Justice J. J. Rogers, but set
which was called for trial Tuesday
tied before the trial stage
by attorneys £or litigants.
Jerry Robinson, an eld negro man
died Sunday and a local negro under
taker took charge of the body, pre
paring it for burial and abeut two
o’clock at night carried it to the
negro church where it remained until
Morning. The wife of the deceased
desired a maafonic burial for her de
ceased husband, and learned that the
parties handling the funeral and
burial arrangements were not masons
as they claimed to her. She con
tended that the undertaker had seen
her two or, three days before the
death of hey husband, with a request
to “handle f;he job.”
On Tuesday the local masonic col-1
ored lodge proceeded to take matters
in hand, purchased another coffin
from the Douglas Undertaking Com
pany, and had the body transferred.
This was objected to strenously by
the colored undertaker, and he pro
ceeded to force the claim for expen
ses out of the policy of the Guaran
tee Life and Accident Insurance Co.,
a local negro society, and which had
been given to him by the wi iow of
the deceased negro in order to insure
payment c/ burial expenses.
Counsei mployed My both the
widow and the undertaker, Mingle
dorff & Gibson by the defendant, and
E. L. Grantham by the plaintiff.
A compromise was effecte before
the trial, and apparently all parties
departed rejoicing.
A. D. KING LEASES
STANDARD FILLING STATION
Mr. A. D. King, for eight years
connected with the Union Banking
Company, and for the past few years
assistant cashier, and paying teller
has resigned effective September 1.
Mr. King has leased the new $lO.-
000 filling station being erected by
the Standard Oil Company at the in
tersection of Ward street and Madi
son avenue, and expects to open for
business on September 5. The new
station will handle only Standard Oil
products, with the exception of tires
accessories, etc. It will be one of the
handsomest in this section, and is on
a very prominent square.
The resignatio nof Mr. King re
moves from this institution one of
it’s most valued and popular em
ployes. He has many friends who
will wish him utmost success in his
new venture.
NO PLANS FOR REST ROOM YET
Although the members of the Wo
man’s Club and other public spirited
citizens of the city have been very
much concerned over closing the rest
room here, nothing definite has been
done about opening up another one.
Congressman Lankford has offered
them the small wooden building next
to his home place on Ward street and
if possession of it can be obtained,'
they expect to fit it up for a rest
room.
Mrs. W. H. King, who has made the
club such an excellent matron for the
past two years, has been waiting im
patiently for something definite to
be done about it. It is hoped that
for the convenience of the large num
ber of country ladies, who are in town
all alone with small children, that
some suitable place can be provided
in the near future.
Party Friday Afternoon.
Mrs. Johnnie W’ilkins is entertain
ing with a bridge party Friday after
noon at 4 o’clock at her apartment
on Gaskin Ave.
GEORGIA KIWANIS
GOVERNOR PAYS
VISIT TO DOUGLAS
Col. W. W. Mundy, District Kiwan
is Governor of Georgia, was guest of
honor at the weekly lunchen of the
Douglas Club Thursday. The lunch
eon was moved up one day in order
to suit the convenience of Mr. Mundy.
wh was accompanie dby Judge Harry
D. Reed, of Waycross, district gover
nor for the Eleventh district, and
whom it is anticipated, will be the'
next Kiwanis Governor for this state.
John R- Slater presented Judge
Reed to the Kiwanians and in turn,
Mr. Mundy was introduced by Judge
Reed. Brief,, but splendid talks were
made by each of these gentlemen.
Juge Reed, always a delightful and
refreshing speaker, had many nice
things to say of the Douglas Club.
He told President Mnudy that the
Douglas Club was the ideal one, and
the best one in Georgia.
In his address, Mr. Mundy touched
upon the things that Kiwanians are
now doing and planning to do. He
was splendidly received.
A more thorough account of his
visit will be given later.
This is his second visit to Douglas
recently, he having delivered the lit
erary address at the commencement
exercises of the High School here last
spring.
PLANT FALL GARDEN IS ADVICE
OF HOME DEMONSTRATION AGT
Every farm home which is doing its
full duty by the farm family has a
garden.
No plot of ground will give a bet
ter yield than the plot planted in
vegetables if well cultivated. The
yield in dollars and cents is surpris
ing. The benefit to health cannot be
estimated.
Our Georgia climate can’t oe beat
when considered for vegetable grow
ing. With frequent cultivation the
water proposition can be controlled
sufficiently to produce a good yield.
With these facts in mind and a
determination to have a garden the
following list of vegetables adapted
to fall planting in Georgia may be
helpful:
Beans, snap to August 15th; beets,
cabbage, carrots, collards, cucumbers,
endive, kale, kohl-rabi, lettuce, mus
tard, onions, parsley, parsnips, Eng
lish peas, potatoes, radish, rape, ruta
baga, spinach, Swiss chard, tomatoes
and turnips.
ROGERS STORE TO
OPEN SEPTEMBER 1.
Douglas will be added to the chain
of famous Rogers’ Stores on Septem
ber first. Mr. Bryan, branch man
ageer of Macon, was in Douglas Wed
nesday completing plans for the open
ing of the new store in the Over
street building on Peterson avenue
in the 100 block.
This company ha 3 stores in all the
principal cities in this and other
states, and when one of their stoies
are located in a town the size of
Douglas it is a mark that business i 3
good in that locality. No announce
ment has been made as to who will
have charge of the store.
KING’S COMEDIANS HERE
ALL NEXT WEEK
Jack King’s comedians, traveling
with tent and a good show, will ar
rive in'the city Monday, and will give
the first performance on Monday
night, and will show each night for
the entire week. This company has
made Douglas on many occasions and
Mr. King and his entir troup are pop
ular in Douglas.
The tent will be pitched on the cor
ner of Peterson avenue and Bryan
street. The opening play will be:
“The Slacker,” anda change of pro
gram is made daily.
$1.50 Per Annum in Advance
With prices ranging from 17 to 18
cents the Douglas tobacco market
approaches the height of the season,
which will come next week, when
better grades of stalk tobacco will
find it’s place Qn sale.
So big an increase in acreage this
season has found the sales up to date
largely composed of nothing but in
ferior grades. The crop here is being
marketed very much as it is in tha
•old belt, and a disposition is noted
to hold it off sales. This probably
comes from the fact that there is am
ple floor space this season, and the
price situation, which is not up to
that of last year. It is readily
agreed by the growers as well as the
buyers that tobacco is not of as high
grade generally as it was in 1924.
Another difficulty is that one very
large export company has not been
heavy buyers this season due to in
ternational complications.
However, the week’s showing on
average price is above 17 cents and
the market opened strong Monday.
The bidding was spirited iand the
sale was the most active of the year
up to that date. Subsequent sales
have shown an upward tendency and
little objection is heard from those
selling and “turned” tobacco is no
more than ig normally seen. A few
take advantage of the opportunity to
place their tobacco on another floor
the following day.
The sales were marked here this
tfrPhk by of 17 Car loads
of tobacco from other sections. The
bulk of foreign tobacco placed on sale
here, however, is brought by truck.
Local growers are biding their
time and in no hurry to sell. While
most curings have been completed,
there are hundreds of barns yet run
ning throughout the county, and it
will require timeTo gTTthis late crop
ready for market.
Douglas is running a very close
second to the leading market and is
far in the lead of the closest third.
Not in years has so many visitors ap
peared .on the Douglas market.
Estimates are that 20 per cent of
the crop has been sold to date, and
the fi 'ors on Thursday, were above
the average sales for the week. Fri
day will perhaps be the best sale of
the week here.
Many large growers have sold but
lightly, and some have not yet mark
eted a pound.
Weather conditions have made the
crop perhaps the most complicated
that has ever appeared here. Plants
were set from early in March to as
late as May, consequently there is not
the uniformity that has been noted
here in past years in grades. At one
time it appeared as though this
season would be earliest in history,
and the reverse has proven true and
it will be the latest.
TELEPHONE COMPANY
ADDS IMPROVED SERVICE
The Douglas Telephone Company
is this week installing a new switch
that will be of material assistance to
users of party lines. The Harmonic
four and eight party ringing machine
is being added at a cost of about SSOO,
This machine is so arranged that only
one telephone will ring on a party
line regardless of the number of
the phones on the line. It is an im
provement over the old method of
ringing by numbers, and each tele
phone on the line ringing at the same
time.
Mr. Minor Carmon is in the city
making the installation for the Kel
log Electric Company, from whom
the equipment was purchased.
Y. W. A. MEETING
All members of the local Y. W.
A. are especially requested to be pres
ent at the meeting to be held Mon
day evening, August 17th at the
church in the Berean class room.
LUCY POSTON, Reporter.