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Volume XI.— NO. 47. Douglas First In Georgia; Seventh in America SEyEN HUNDRED HIGH SCHOOL HERE MONDAY The chatter of children and the I tramp of fourteen hundred little feet -sounded through the halls of the Douglas High School building last Tuesday morning as they gathered ■ into the auditorium for the first time (since commencement last spring. Several speakers were on the pro gram at the opening, and many pa trons present. Dr. Carl W. Minor, pastor cf the First Baptist Church of Douglas read the Scripture lesson, and Rev. T. M. Christian, pastor of the First Meth odist- Church of Douglas led the de votional. Prof. J. T. Henry, Superintendent of the school invited the audience to join in singing America. Chairman of the Board of Educa tion E. L. Grantham, made a stirring address in which he said, among oth er things: “There are three things necessary for us to have a successful school, organization, cooperation ar.d lan ideal.” “There never was a time when there was such a demand for real men, real women, in the world as there is today,” declared Mayor John R. Slater. Continuing further, the mayor said: “There are more things today to attract young people to im mediate pleasure and from ambition than ever before. We live in a coun try where any child of normal mental capacity can obtain an education. Sin comes from two things, bad com pany and selfishness. Ambition and selfishness are two entirely different things, as ambition'is a desire to be somebody.” Rev. T. M. Christian remarked that there was one thing important for every boy and girl to learn and that was that it is necessary to have laws. “A man doesn’t get too old to go to school. He can study his books at home after school days and that is one way to keep in school,” af firmed Mr. Christian. “What you learn in school is not so great for, a greater thing is to r rt ake a great and good man or wo |ian,” said Rev. R. J. Stilwell, rector Af St. Andrews Episcopal church of this city. Dr. Carl W. Minor commended the student body on having such a splen did faculty and board of education and extended to everyone an invita tion to all of the Sunday Schools of the city. “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy pathes,” quo ted the pastor. Mrs. M. D. Dickerson, member of the board of education approved what' had been said, and expressed her ap preciation of being present. Mr. W. T. Cottingham, another member of the board of education, stressed the importance of going “Out to the House of the Lord on the Sab bath, and made a strong appeal for co-operation. “Obey your teachers, obey your par ents, work hard, and fear God,” said Trof. J. M. Thrash, principal of the 'Eleventh District A. & M. School. Mr. Melvin Tanner, superintendent of county schools, tried to impress up on the children the importance of reg ular attendance. “The limitations of any community is found in the refinement and in overcoming selfishness, we become re fined,” said Mr. T. A. Mitc&ell Among others making short talks at the opening exercises was Prof. Herndon, new principal of the High School. After a brief organization school was adjourned for the day. Prospects are brighter for the term than heretofore. With adequate class rooms, a strong faculty, every el ement seems to combine for a pros parous year. The attendance at the opening shows 2 marked increase over last year. KINDERGARTEN NOTICE All parents who wish to send their children to kindegarten, please see me. Tuition, $3.00 per month. Opens September 22. MRS. H. F. STIREWALT. (Bo fftt (Eeiwiji tyroQtt&s. MILLEN FARMERS LIKE DOUGLAS MARKET Millen, Ga., Sept. 16.—Jenkins county has practically completed mar keting of its tobacco crop for this year. Some of the growers and To bacco Demonstrator G. P. Parrish re turned from Douglas this morning where they found a very satisfactory market for their last car of tobacco. The returns from this sale far exceed ed that of other markets and many stated they regretted having not vis ited the Douglas market before. With every element to discourage the industry in this county this year Jenkins county tobacco growers are not quiters and intend planting again next year. Tobacco ’ Demonstrator Parrish this year had approximately 150 acres of tobacco in the county and has driven around 23,000 miles demonstrating tobacco. His services have been entirely satisfactory and Jenkins county has been fortunate in securing him and everyone is glad that he will be in the county another year. NOTE—The above press despatch appeared in the Savannah Morning News of Thursday, September 17th. PROPERTY ON COLLEGE AVENUE IS ON BOOM As the result of a business trans action between the Dixie Realty Com pany and Mr. Carl Tannen, Mr. Tan ner bought a city lot on College ave nue, fronting the new home of Mr. F. S. Williams, Wednesday morning. Mr. Tanner plans to build a modern home on the property, which will be occupied by himself and family. The managers of the Dixie'Realty Company are well pleased at the in quiries which they are daily receiv ing about property on College ave nue. They say that the prospects were never better. SHRLDUex shrdlu cmfwy cm cm h BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES Circle No. 1 met at the home of Mrs. Porter Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Thirteen were present. Mrs. Ben Gray led the Bible study. A good collection was taken. The circle was delighted to have Mrs. Carl Minor. Next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Lawson Kelley. Mrs. Whittaker and Mrs. Porter were joint hostesses and served a delicious salad course.| Circle No. 2 held its regular meet ing at Mrs. Minor Turrentine’s. Nine members were present, including two new members, Mrs. Knot and Mrs. E. L. Rigsbee. Mrs. Breedlove, the re tiring chairman, led the devotional. We had a good collection, considering how few were present. We were de lighted to have as our visitor, Mrs. Claud Poindexter. Mrs. Turrentine was a charming hostess and served a delicious salad course. Our next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. W. R. Wilson. All are urged to come as this will be quite an impor tant meeting. Circle No. 3 met at the church. Dr. Minor made a splendid talk on the book of Ezekiel. Circle No. 4 met at the home of Mrs. A. P. Darby. Eight were pres ent. Mrs. Bronson led the Bible | study, which was splendid. The gen eral collection was good. Mrs. Dar by served a lovely salad course. There will be a business meeting at the church Sunday morning to com plete plans for the reorganization of the Sunday school. Regular services Sunday morning and evening. A most cordial welcome is extended to all. Come and be thou with us. NICHOLLS HOST TO WIREGRASS SINGING CONVENTION OCTOBER 4 The 1925 session of the Wdregrass Singing Convention will be held at Nicholls the second Sunday in o:to ber. All singers and scng leaders arc invited to atend and help make the convention a success. Tl*e convention will open at ten o’clock. Come and worship with us in song. * S. L. VINSON. OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY. CITY OF DOUGLAS, AND THE CITY OF NICHOLLS DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17,1925. STATE EDUCATOR WRITES OF WORK OF THE GEORGIA ASSOCIATION Editor Constitution: I have just noted a statement in today’s paper regarding the work Mr. Slater, president of the Georgia association, is now doing in the drouth territory. I am taking the liberty of address ing this letter to you while I have a few minutes between conferences on this matter to say that he has started the business men in this town and surrounding country in the right di rection. It is fortunate that he arrived on the scene just as there was beginning to be a lull in the interest aroused by our conference at Camp Wilkins on August 26. He quietly put new life and determination into the busi ness men of this town and several towns in the surrounding country. As a result, concerted action is being taken by the key men in this terri tory to give such relief as is possible. To be perfectly honest, I want to say that the farmers have been leav ing this section rather rapidly for the past few weeks. Work stock and all other live stock are being sacrificed at ridiculously low prices. Carloads of mules have been shipped out of the territory recently, and a good many of our folks seem to be blind to what is happening. Mr. Slater came in a way to wake them up to the situation and to show how his people worked out of a similar condi tion in 1922 and 1923. Everybody has gone to work, as the inclosed literature would indicate, following MISS SARA FUNDERBURKE, MISSIONARY FROM CHINA, TO SPEAK IN DOUGLAS Miss Sara Funderburke, who has been a missionary to China for the last seven years, will speak at the First Baptist church of Douglas next Sunday morning at the regular preaching hour, 11:30 a. m. Miss Funderburke is now in Ameri ca on her furlough and while here she is giving a series of interesting talks on the China of today. WALKER DEFEATS HYLAN FOR MAYOR CF NEW YORK CITY Tammany Hall, A 1 Smith, his fol lowers, James J. Walker and his sup porters prove too strong for the present incumbent, John F. Hylan, mayor of New York City, in the race for mayor, on Wednesday of this week. The election ended the hard est fought race for the democratic nominee for mayor that New York has ever witnessed. NICHOLLS HIGH SCHOOL OPENS DOORS TO RURAL STUDENTS OF COFFEE COUNTY (Contributed) Since adjournment of the last ses sion of the General Assembly, the State Department of Education has advised school authorities at Nicholls that an appropriation covering a de ficiency exisiting in the Barrett-Rog ers fund was passed, and that State aid for the Nicholls school would be come available during the term. Thus the scope of this school’s service becomes county-wide; and upon the payment of an entrance fee of $4 per year, its doors are open to any high school pupil in Coffee coun ty, who reside outside the corporate limits of a town. Mpre than fifty pu pils have entered the high school de partment already and present indica tions are that all records for attend-1 ance in this department will be bro-j ken. I The money that will come to this school from the Barrett- Rogers fund has made possible the employment of three teachers for the High School department Miss Alice Hodnett, of Atlanta has been elected to become the* thi. I high school teacher. She arrived last week and already has as sumed b?r duties. Miss Hodnett has had years of successful experience as a teacher of high school subjects in the public school systems of Atlanta, Columbus and the state of Texas, his visits to various localities. Mr. Slater had to leave us this afternoon,'l>ut I hope it will be possi ble for him to come back within a week or 3ten days to instill further determination in our people to con tinue untfii the end. This is* the kind of work that an organization similar to the Georgia association can do most effectively. The college of agriculture has a world of-information on all agricul tural problems and is broadcasting this information in various ways most effectively. We do not need or ganizations supported by the business interests or otherwise for the pur pose of duplicating our work in dis tributing .'information about growing crops or handling live stick. In fact, such organizations have sometimes been embarrassing because they frequently turned into boosting agen cies or “wind jammers.” An organi zation, however, that undertakes to seek out .the real problems and help solve them as Mr. Slater is doing in this instance is of benefit instead of detriment. Mr. Slater is a man of of broad understanding, deep sympa thies and George T. Betts’ enthusi asm. I think the Georgia Associa tion is most ortunate in finding him and I only hope he can be kept ac tive throughout the state in attack in the problems that come up one by one. J. PHIL CAMPBELL, Director, Athens, Ga., September 4, 1925. WORKERS’ COUNCIL OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MET TUESDAY NIGHT A workers’ council of the First Baptist church of Douglas was held at the church last Tuesday night. A renewed interest was manifested by everyone present and it was decided that the council would meet once. a month. Some of the class room work was reorganized and a real Sunday school rally is to be held at the church next Sunday morning, begin ning at 10:15. BOY DIES FROM SNAKE BITE A 16-year-old son of Mr. Riley Adams, who lives on the B. H. Tan-| ner farm, known as Fales, was bitten by a rattlesnake last Saturday and died Sunday about 3 o’clock. It is reported that the snake was in a path which the boy was travel ing at the time he was bitten. It was 1 evident that the young man suffered j much pain before the end came. and she brings with her every recom mendation that could be expected of a desirable teacher. Miss Hodnett will have charge of the department of Latin and History. Prospects for a successful school term were never so bright as they are today. Every possible provision is being made for the safety and com for t of the faculty and student body. Patrons and friends of the school seem to be full of that spirit which says: “Here I am, use me.” No one seems to refrain from speaking any word that will enlarge the school’s service or from doing any deed that will promote its progress. This is the character of the school that has thrown open its doors to the country boys and girls of Coffee coun ty who desire a high school education and who have been denied the privil ege of acquiring it. The future progress of our county! and the future happiness of her peo-! pie will be measured largely by that degree in which the educational ad- : vantages of today are made to reach into every home. Because this truth is known to all our people who think, such invitations coming from the splendid high schools of Coffee county should not fail to find a response on the part of parents and pupils alike. GEORGIA NORMAL HAS FLOURISHING OPENING: The Georgia Normal College and Business Institute opened its doors last Tuesday morning to the largest enrollment that has ever been pres ent in the business department on opening day. Pupils are there from all over South Georgia and then some from other sections. Prof. Kuhl has a number of applications for those who are yet to arrive, and he anticipates the most prosperous year in the his tory of the institution. The school has played a large part in the development of Coffee county and South Georgia. All classes are busy at work and show that they have come to work hard and make good. THOS. W. HARDWICK STARTS WEEKLY “FREE LANCE.” Dublin, Ga., Sept. 16—“ The Geor gia Free Lance,” owned and edited by Thos.. W. Hardwick, former U. S. sen ator, came out for the first time to day from the presses of a local print ing plant. It will be issued weekly. In a front page editorial, Editor Hardwick states emphatically the pa per wall be independent. ““Indepen dent in thought and speech. It has no axe to grind. It has no grudge to gratify. It will neither be Democrat ic nor anti-Democratic. It believes profoundly in the democracy of our fathers. From a hybrid democracy this paper would call the people back to democracy and to the Amaricanism of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.” It’s first issue is filled with some very Teadable comm#hts on state pol itics, and like matters, both for and against. Those interested in state affairs will find it rather spicy read ing. Mr. Hardwick is thoroughly ca pable of making the paper fill a big place in Georgia affairs, and if he keeps it up to the standard of the first issue he will get plenty of no tice and readers. He has been plan ning to start this paper for the past year or two, but not until a few weeks ago did he get arrangements started for actual publication. LITTLE FLORIS TANNER IS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY YOUNGER SISTER r [ Floris Tanner, the eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Make Tan ner, who reside three miles from Douglas, was accidentally shot by her little sister, ten years of age, yester day afternoon about 4:30 p. m. Im mediately after the shooting Floris was rushed to the Clark-Smith Sani tarium, where she died within the next thirty minutes. The gun had been carried to the front porch of the home for the pur pose of shooting hogs. Mr. Tanner, not knowing the gun was loaded, let it remain on the front, and later when a small boy took the weapon in hand his sister took it from him, and while trying to unload it the discharge took place. The Douglas Undertaking Com pany has the burial arrangements in charge and the little girl is to be buried at the Douglas cemetery this morning. THREE DROWN NEAR ADEL At McConnell bridge, several miles west of Adel, J. R. Daughtrey and his two sons, ages 12 and 14, were drown ed in Little river last Sunday. It was reported that the Daughtrey family were spending the day at the river and that the wife and mother witnessed the drowning. THE WORLD’S GROWING BETTER Yes! Chief Barrineau did indi cate that the world is growing better when he said Wednesday afternoon that he had not made an arrest in a week or two except two or three cases of drunkenness. The Chief did not say that any of the force had been laid off because the crime wave had ceased to be per manent, but he suggested that there was some likelihood of the whole force having to hunt other means of making bread. $1.50 Per Annum in Advance 9,032,423 BRINGS GROWERS $1,331,801 LOCAL MARKET TAKES RANK WITH LEADING MARKETS OF COUNTRY. The close of the 1925 tobacco sea son in Georgia came Wednesday When the local market ended. 9,- 038,422 pounds were sold here since the opening, July 27, at an average price of $14.73, which is slightly above the average for the State, which is given at $14.09 by the State. This market paid to the farmers sl,- 331,801.33. The pounds sold is virtu ally one-fifth of the tobacco grown in Georgia with 23 markets operating, and is more than one-fifth of the total of approximately $7,000,000 paid for the crop in Georgia this season. All other Georgia markets closed last Friday, September 11, and a consider able quantity of inferior gra ies to gether with some good grades found its way on the market he-e. The av erage on the market here was re duced in the late days by the quality on sale. According to figures furnished by men who have been on •‘ho Carolina and Virginia bright leaf markets, Douglas becomes the seventh largest market in the country, counting past seasons. Few markets in those states have sold fifteen million pounds. The public generally are satisfied that the prices tobacco brought this year are in keeping with the grades market wavered but slightly from the opeping of the season, when good prices were paid for tobacco of qual ity, and this continued until the last day, when tobacco sold at handsome prices for some good grades that were handled. The average price is far below that of last year, yet there is apparent no condemnation on the part of the grow ers of the companies, all of whom maintained strong buyers here until the close of the season. Favorable comment is heard from every source for the men representing the American, Imperial, Export, Lig gett & Myers, R. J. Reynolds, China American, and the independent com panies. There is a feeling that the Statistics are not available on the various warehouses in Douglas, and the other markets and it is impossible to give the number of pouh<js sold and the average on each warehouse. It is fitting that the maTket here should lead, inasmuch as it was here that tobacco culture had its beginning The increase has been phenominal since 1923 when only a. million and a half pounds were sold. The increase over 1924 in round number is 3,500,- 000 pounds, and indications are that there will be an increase next year. THOMAS SUMMERLIN OF KIRKLAND DIES Mr. Thomas Summerlin, a life-long resident of the Kirkland section died Wednesday from a stroke of paraly sis. He was at his country home when death came. He was the father of a large fam ily, one of whom is Mrs. Hiram Sears, of Pearson, and a widow. Mr. Summerlin was widely known and prominent throughout the section. BILLIE MEEKS OF AXSON SECTION DIED WEDNESDAY Mr. Billie Meeks, aged about 75 years, prominent farmer and business man of the Axson community died Wednesday evening about 9 o’clock. Heart trouble was assigned as the immediate cause of death. Mr. Meeks had been in falling health for several years, but only about a year ago was he forced to suspend business activi ties. He had been prominent in his sec tion for many years and died in the community of his birth. He was the father of Mrs. Jesse J. Lott of this city and Mr. Elisha Meeks of Pearson, both of whom survive, He is also survived by a widow', and a brother Mr. Daniel Meeks, of this city. The funeral and interment kook place at Sweetwater church and cem etery in Atkinson county.