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volume XI—No. 44.
The Douglas Tobacco Market Prepares To Take Commanding Lead
SKELETON OF MAN
FOUND NEAR DEPOT
AT OSIERFIELD GA.
A gruesome find was made Wed
nesday morning at Osierfield, a small
twenty miles west of Douglas
Wn Irwin county. The skeleton of a
man, from appearances, had been
dead from one to two years was dis
covered a distance of about 200 yards
the A. B. & A. station at
Osierfield. Apparently no attempt
had been made to cover up the body
when death came, and the only means
of arriving at any conclusion what
ever as to age of the party was by
missing teeth and some gold dental
work in the mouth. It was thought
by tho. a making an investigation
that the party was an elderly white
man, about six feet tall.
No one in the community could
connect any one of their acquain
tance in any way with the find, and
no person had been missing from that
community that could be in any waj
connected with the dead person.
Profound mystery surrounds the
finding of the skeleton, and especial
ly it appears strange that the body
remain within such a short
distance of the habitant of so many
people so long without being discov
ered. The place where the bleached
bones were found is a “sink” or flat
pond only about 200 yards from the
station of the A. B. & A. railway at
Osierfield.
FRED BREWER, JR., WINS
IN WRESTLING MATCH
Fred Brewer, Jr., a student at the
naval academy, Annoplis, Md., won
•out in a wrestling match in which all
cadets' Of his class participated.
There are several hundred young
men and it is quite a distinction for
young Mr. Brewer, who, in the final
test, threw his oponent, several
pounds heavier than he.
In a letter addressed to his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brewer, he stated
that he would probably be able to
spend the Christmas holidays with
them here.
JOHN BANKSTON PROMOTED
BY GEORGIA & FLORIDA
Notice was given this week by Gen
eral Manager H. W. Purvis, of the
Georgia & Florida railroad that Mr.
John Bankston, who has been local
agent for that company for several
years and had been promoted to the
rank of general agent. The promo
tion carries with it broader responsi
bilities, and may include work out
side of Douglas for Mr, Bankston,
who has been a valued employe of
the road for many years. The title,
general agent takes official rank.
Mr. Bankston is being congratula
ted by his friends here and else
where, and his promotion indicates
his popularity with the road as with
the people of this city.
EXECUTIVE MEETING OF W. B.
M. U. OF SMYRNA ASSOCIATION
Executive meeting of W. B.
OTyU. of Smyrna Association met
August 23rd at First Baptist church
Douglas. Each of the five districts
were represented by the chairman of
same, except first district. Superin
tendent of Young Peoples work was
in attendance. Also several of the
local officers were present. This be
ing the last meeting in the associa
tional year, quite a number of items
claimed attention. The reports of
officers showed the work through out
the association advancing in a fine
way, along many lines. And the an
nual meeting which convenes in Doug
las, late in September, points to one
of the very best sessions in every
way the pnion has even held. The
out of town officers attending this
meeting were, Mrs. R. O. Martin,
of Broxton, Mrs. Bessie Clement
Smith, of Pearson, M!rs. L. iL. Dne
ton, of West Green, and Miss Maud
of Nicholls.
Mrs. Irvin Langley left yesterday
for her home in Wilson, N. C. Mr.
Langley will leave the last of_ the
week.
CITY COURT DOES
MUCH6USINESS
Criminal week City Court conven
ed Monday morning at 10 o’clock and
held until Tuesday afternoon. Dur
ing the day and a half the court was
in session, the criminal docket was
practically cleared of all business.
Judge C. A. Ward presided and So
licitor J. A. Roberts represented the
state. The following cases were dis
posed of:
Lee Thigpen entered a plea of
guilty to having whiskey and was
fined SSO or three months. Fine paid.
Oss Morris entered a plea of guilty
to the same charge and was given
a similar sentence, and he paid the
fine.
Albert Stevens, a blind man, who
has cn numerous occasions, been
charged with having and selling whis
key by the city authorities, was
found guilty by a jury and was sen
tenced by Judge Ward to serve six
months at the state farm without the
alternative of a fine. An appeal was
filed by Stevens attorney, R. B.
Chastain.
Anders-on plead guilty tc carrying
pistol and was fined $.5 which was
paid.
E. L. Youngblood, charged with
criminal trespass was found not
guilty.
Tom Pickren, a white man, charg
ed with cheating and swindling, was
given a sentence cf 3 months or SSO.
E. Wilson entered a plea of guilty
to cheating and swindling and was
given six months on the state farm.
Roy Sutton, charged with simple
larceny, was released -cn demand.
Aaron Ellis entered a plea of guilty
to violating the prohibition law and
paid a fine of $l5O. Shortly before
court convened, Charlie George, a
Syrian, who formerly operated a
cafe in the city, plead guilty to vio
lating the prohibition law on several
counts and was sentenced to pay a
fine of SSOO or serve 21 months. He
paid the fine.
Bonds in the case of Raymond
Weaver and W. J. Cribb were for
feited at preceding terms of the court
and a rule absolute rendered in each
case Monday.
W. R. Johnson, J .B. West, Mrs. J.
F. Hill and Charlie Harper,, all
charged with misdemeanors, were re
leased upon payment of cost fn each
case.
The court is well in hand, and very
little business remains on the crimi
nal docket.
GEO. W. LOTT DIED IN
GREENSBORO, N. C. AUG. 16.
Nicholls, Ga., Aug. 21. —George W.
Lott, thirty four years of age, died
at Greensboro, N. C., Sunday, Aug
ust 16th. His remains were brought
to his old home here for interment.
The funeral was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Lott, at eleven
o’clock Thursday, August 20th and
interment took place at the Lott
family cemetery.
Mr. Lott was a native of this coun
ty, but was living at the time of his
death in the North Carolina city. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Geo.
W. Lott, four sisters, Mrs. Bessie
Jeffords, Mrs. Mary Buclieu, and Mrs.
Alma Fitz all of Lakeland, Fla., and
Mrs. Nancy Davis, Wilmington, N.
C- A host of relatives and friends
mourn his early passing to the great
beyond.
The funeral was conducted by Rev.
J. A. Cook, pastor of Nicholls Meth
odist church. The following were the
pall bearers: W. B. Patterson, Fisher
Kirkland, Chaa. Meeks, Ira Cribb,
Dr. Z. V. Hall, C. B. Gibson, Seward
Lovett, and Ashley Douglas.
Suddath—Pelt.
The marriage of Miss Eva Suddath
formerly of this city, to Mr. J. E.
Pelt, was solemnized in Tampa re
cently at the Hyde Park Methodist
church by the pastor, Rev. John T.
Myers. Only a few close friends a~nd
relatives witnessed the ceremony.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Suddath of Tampa,
but formerly citizens of Douglas.
The groom is a young business man
of Quiaeey, Florida.
OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY. CITY OF DOUGLAS, AND THE CITY OF NICHOLLS
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1925.
JUDGE G. A. WARD IS
PAINFULLY INJURED
About 9 o’clock Wednesday night,
during a heavy wind storm, Judge C.
A. Ward was knocked down by a
Ford coupe driven by Mr. Herrin, an
employe of the G. & F. railroad here.
The car was driving slowly, and
stopped, after knocking down Mr.
Ward immediately over him. Par
ties who witnessed the accident came
quickly to him and dragged him from
beneath the car and carried him to
the Clark-Smith Sanitarium, where
an examination was made by Drs.
Whelchel, Clark and Smith. It was
found that his left shoulder was frac
tured and his hip badly bruised. Mr.
Ward has been suffering much pain,
and today, (Thursday) attending
physicians expect to make X-Ray
pictures to determine the extent of
the injuries.
Judge Ward explained that he saw
the car, but thought he could get to
the side walk before the car reached
him. He stated that the driver
swung close to the curbing. Mr.
Herrin was somewhat blinded by t!ne
wind and rain had been falling, and
did not realize that he was close to
any one. The accident, which occur
red in front of the Union Bank, is
extremely regretable, and the many
friends of Judge Ward earnestly
hope that his injuries are only slight
and that he will not be confined to
his bed many days.
HIGH SCHOOL TO
OPEN SEPTEMBER 15
*
To the Patrons of the Grammar
and High School of the City of Doug
las:
Due to not being able t-o get in
readiness the addition to the High
School building we are forced to put
off the opening of the school until
the 15th of September.
V*'e want to, at this time, take ad
vantage of the opportunity to remind
the citizens of Douglas that with the
addition the Mayor and City Coun
cil of the City of Douglas are mak
ing to the High School building that
the City school will have one of the
best Domestic Science department of
any High Schodl of this section. This
department has a very excellent
teacher at its head. She has done
special work at the University of
California this simmer in better
equipping herself to carry on the
work of this department. This de
partment will be located in the new
building and will have rooms especial
ly equipped for the carrying on of
this work and we believe and hope
that we will have a large class dur
ing the coming term.
We desire also to remind you that;
under the compulsory attendance law]
all children between the age of eight j
and fourteen are required to be in
school for at least six months out
of each year and we beg your as
sistance in helping the faculty of
this school to see that every child
between the age of eight and fourteen
in the City of Douglas are entered
and kept in school during the entire
term of nine months. The co-oper
ation of the parents and patrons with
the faculty in looking after their
children to see that they attend school
and attend regularly will do wonders
for the children and the school.
On behalf of the faculty we urge
all partons to visit the school oc
casional as in this way you will en
courage both the children and the
teachers.
In the selection of the faculty for
the Douglas school, coming term, we
school for the coming school term we
have done our best to obtain the ser
vices of experienced and well recom
mended teachers and we believe we
have a faculty that will put forth
their best efforts for our school and
we beg you to give them every pos
sible assistance.
We are aware of the fact that sev
eral of the grades last year were
handicapped on account of being 10-i
cated in class rooms that were very]
undesirable and unsuited for class j
rooms, hut with the completion of the!
new building every grade and every
MANY MARKETS TO CLOSE FRIDAY; AND SALES
FORCE TO BE REDUCED ON ALL MARKETS WHERE
DOUBLE SETS BUYERS ARE USED, SAYS REPORT
POLICE CAPTURE STOLEN
FLORIDA AUTOMOBILE
Chief of Police Ben M. aßrrineau
received ateiegram Tuesday from Ft.
Pierce, Farida, officers to look cut
for a newfc Willis-Knight Sedan auto
mobile, whjch had been stolen from
that city. ■; Just as he had finished
reading tht> message and handed it
to Officer qShaw, a car of similar
make camqiaround the monument on
Ward strew ’The driver went around
the block And parked alongside the
hospital biffllding. The two officers
made an Investigation* ‘and found
that the atflen car was in the hands;
of James Henley, who had made his |
home in Ft| Pierce for about a year. I
He was caving, and with him was
his wife and six children, the young
est, an infsnt -of ten days.
The offjcbrs at Ft. Pierce were
notified, Hehly placed in jail, and his
wife and children taken to a board
ing house,pHenley denied that the
car was Mplen, and stated that he
owned the par.
Thursday, (today) Sheriff Merritt,
•of Ft. Pierdf! arrived as did the owner
of the cgr,*, which was identified and
claimed, and Henley, with his family
is '* ing taken back to Florida. Sher
iff Merritt stated that in addition to
caking the car, the prisioner had
cashed bad checks to the amount of
hundred dollars. There was
a rewacd £i SSO for the recovery of
the stolefrcar.
A. B. & A. IMPROVES
PULLMAN SERVICE
Announcement is made by A. D.
Daniel, passenger traffic manager
of the A. B. & A. railway that addi
tional pullman service will be in
augurated to Douglas and Waycross
on that road. The first run of the
additional pullman will be to Way
cross on train No. 4, Thursday morn
ing, August 27, arriving at Douglas
at 7:10, and the lolllowing night,
August 28, train No. 3 will carry the
pullman to Atlanta.
An effort has been made for some
time to secure better service, but
the railroad company has not felt
that business would warrant it. The
people of this city are very glad that
the service is being established tem
porarily, and will make every effort
to maintain it regularly.
The following circular was issued
from Atlanta August 19:
Effective with first car southbound
August 27th and first car north
bound, August 28th, twelve-fcection
drawing room Pullman sleeping car
service will be established between
Atlanta and Waycross on trains Nos.
3 and 4, as follows:
Connection is made at Atlanta,
northbound, with all morning trains
of connecting lines.
At Manchester connection is made
with trains 23 and 24 to and from
Birmingham.
At Nicholls connection is made with
trains 13 and 14 to and from Bruns
wick.
Connection is made at Waycross,
southbound, with A. C. L. train No.
33 for Jacksonville, and No. 43 for
Florida west coast points.
This service is in addition to At
lanta-Thomasville sleeping car line
which will continue operation as at
present.
Dr. B. O. Quillian and sons of
Willacooehee, were guests of his sis
ter, Mr 3. J. B. Thrasher, Wednss
class will have ample room and equip
ment to do good work.
We want and hope to make the
coming year a banner year for our
school and to do this it will take the
assistance of all concerned to-wit:
Patrons, teachers and pupils—let’s
every body pull for our school.
BORAD OF EDUCATION
of the City of Douglas.
FAIRFAX HARRISON
AND JOHN SLATER
Athens, Ga., Aug. 26.—Addresses
by Fairfax Harrison, president of the
•Southern railway system; R. J. H.
Deloach, of Armour & Co., and John
R. Slater, of Douglas, were among
the features at Tuesday’s session of
the marketing conference under way
at the State College of Agriculture.
Mr. Harrison stated that Georgia
and the south have gene through
much trouble in the past and now
that_the section is entering its right
ful prosperity it is a source of much
gratification to him. He declared
that the south offers all the opp r
tunities for success anyone could
wish.
J. H. Wood, poultry husbandman
at the college discussed the progress
made in that direction in Georgia in
recent years. He said that this state
is admirably located to raise poultry
and has splendid markets in Cuba,
New York and Florida.
Mr. Deloach spoke on experiments
made in controlling the boll weevil
and raising cotton under boll weevil
conditions.
Mr. Slater, president of the Geor
gia association, stated that tobacco
as a cash crop, has come to stay in
Georgia. He said that the tobacco
and peach crop in Georgia are worth
more than Florida’s entire citrus crop.
Handling the large volume of fruits
and vegetables which are rushed- on
the market within a very short period
of time, is the greatest problem in
marketing perishable farm products
declared Arthur R. Rule, general
manager of the Federated Fruit and
Vegetable Growers of New York.
In 1924 a large peach crop was
produced in Georgia, all of which
was placed on the market within a
period of three weeks, and a s a con
sequence the market was badly de
moralized, said Mr. Rule, and as a
result very low prices were received.
In 1925,, under more favorable sea
sonable condition, the Georgia peach
crop was placed on the market over |
a period of about six weeks, and as a
result the crop was handled in a very
orderly manner and good prices ob
tained, he said.
The Southeast Georgia Water
melon Growers’ association. which
produces and sells the famous “So
wega” melon, was warmly praised
by Mr. Rule for its efforts towards
the standardization of a product
which is highly perishable and which
must be handled quickly and care
ful, in order to get it on the mar- ;
ket in first-class condition.
DART HOME PURCHASED
BY FRANCIS STUBBSi
The beautiful Gaskin avenue resi
dence of Judge F. Willis Dart was
today purcheased by Francis Stubbs.
The price paid was not given out,
but it was a handsome figure. The
Dart home is one of the most beau
tiful in the city, and will be occupied
by Mr. Stubbs and family after Judge
and Mrs. Dart have taken up their
residence permanently in Tampa.
Judge Dart made his decision to
move to the Florida city some time
ago, and will continue in the practice
of his profession in Tampa, where
he has formed excellent connections
already. He expects to leave Doug
las in about ten days, but Mrs. Dart
will remain here for an indefinite
period, a 3 yet.
Theatre P a rty Last Thursday.
Mr. Johnnie Bernard, popular sales
mite opening and social,
warehouse entertained about forty of
his friends last Thursday night at a
theatre party. The guests assembled
at the New Douglas hotel and at
tended Jack King’s show.
After the show refreshing drinks
were enjoyed at the Union Pharmacy.
Si.so Per Annum in Advance
This has been a week of rec
ord-breaking sales on the Doug
las tobacco market. Not since
the market was established here
has there been seen near the
amount of tobacco that has been
on the local market this week.
It was only possible to estimate
the amount here Monday, as the
two groups of buyers were only
able to sell about half way
through the immense number of
baskets, which were placed as
closely together as they could
be and hundreds of baskets
heaped upon each other, neces
sating a crew to spread them out
in regular order as the buyers
sold row after row through the
houses.
Total sales for Monday were
416,437. Sales increased Tues
! day to approximately 450,000,
and for the first three days of
the week sales amounted to 1,-
332,588. Thursday morning
every house was full to over
flowing, and 900,000 pounds of
tobacco will in all probability be
sold Thursday and Friday, bring
ing the grand total up to two
and a quarter million pounds,
The price average has been
above that of last week, which
was $16.10. There has been
great quantities of inferior to
bacco on sale, but a lot of me
dium grades have shown up, and
the average for the week may
be sl7 and above.
One lot of 18,000 pounds sold
for an average of 27 cents per
pound, and smaller lots have
averaged as high as 35 cents per
pound.
The total sales for the season
in Douglas, counting the figures
above, will be approximately
7,000,000 pounds.
Many Markets to Close
It is stated that all Georgia
markets except Douglas, Black
shear, Nashville, Valdosta, Ha
hira and Tifton will close with
the end of sales Friday, and in
addition one group of buyers
will be taken off the three mar
kets which have had double
sales this season.
It is thought that at least
three or four markets will re
main open until September 15th,
and possibly later. This report
is not absolutely authetic, but
comes from reliable source.
Every indication points to an
eight million crop at Douglas,
and should this figure be reach
ed this market will doubtless
lead the state in pounds sold.
This will be a remarkable show
ing, as only a million and a half
pounds were sold here in 1923.
Total sales for 1924 were five
and a half million.
ERROR IN LAST WEEK’S PAPER.
In a story published in last week’s
Progress concerning the, capture of a
whiskey still, it was erroneously
stated that the still was located with
in sight of Arnie church. A number
of good people of that community
have informed us that we were in er
ror and we gladly make the correction
The still, in reality, was several miles
west of Arnie church and school and
was not in the Arnie community at
all, and the people of that community
state that there are no still being
operated in their section. The party
informing us of the capture did so
in good faith, but w r as also misin
formed.
MULE LOST OR STOLEN
Strayed or taken from my place
near Ambrose Thursday night Aug
ust 20th, one black mare mule, weight
about 900 pounds, four years old.
Notify L. B. Knott, Ambrose or Doug
las and receive suitable reward. Ad