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VOL 16. No. 39.
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
What is Claimed for the Beautiful Young City.
Population, 2,500.
Four churches, Methodist. Bap
tist, Presbyterian and Episcopal.
The Southern Normal Institute,
with fine board of teachers,
graded from first to Collegiate;
First class telephone system,
connected with ail towns, in the
county, Ocilla, in Irwin, and
Nashville, in Berrien, and many
farmers of the county.
Two railroads, the Atlantic and
Birmingham, connecting with
Atlantic Coast Line at Way cross,
the Sea Board, at Fitzgerald, the
I Georgia Southern and Florida, at
"Cordele, and the Central, at
Montezuma; the Douglas, Augus
ta & Gulf, connecting with A. C.
L. at Willacoochee, and boats,
onJJcmuTttefc 'yiver for Hawkins
ville and Brunswick.
Two well capitalized Banks,
earning dividends and
officered "by men.
Several Real fistate Dealers.
Electric Light and Water
Works Plant, from which all
business houses ■and nearly all
residences on the lines are water
ed and lighted, owned by city.
Two First Class Drug Stores.
HOne $25,000 court house and
jaih
Twenty-two dealers in general
merchandise.
Six Brick Business Blocks,
every room up stairs and stores
down stairs occupied.
Two Barber Shops.
One Harness Shop.
One Hardware Establishment.
One Wholesale Grocery store.
Ik One Gin and Grist Mill.
HtOne Plaining Mill.
Physicians and Surgeons.
. , roi'SS* i ....
L C>hh and Machine
T^hop.
i two Blacksmith Shops. '
One Chinese Laundry, pros*
pective- »:•* ' & i/f I 'IK .
One Bottling * '
One Fire Dpp&^^t-hose,
c - ” w
One First' Class' Millinery Es
■ lafblishment.
. * One department store Millinery
* EstablishihepL
• two Furniture Establishments.
Two M fiscal Instrument deal
ers. * . ' •* ,
. One Tin and BicyclqjShop.
•two Lively, Feed and Sale
Stables. ' *
Several Dealefstin Horses and
Mules. '
Three Dentist Shops.
One Fair Association —hold-
ing annual Fairs.
Several dealers in Buggies and
Wagons.
i One Baker Shop.
One Ice Manufacturing Plant.
One First Class Hotel.
Several First Class Boarding
houses.
One newspaper and job print
ing establishment, incorporated,
with actual outfit worth over
$6,000,00. _ J
Organized Board of Trade.
Douglas Silver Cornet - Band,
eighteen pieces.
Douglas Silver Cornet Band,
Orchestra.
Telegraph connections with
the world.
Direct routes to all points
north, south, east and west,
traversed by railroads over the
A. & B. and D. A- & G. R. R
' and their connections.
Douglas is situated in the midst
of the most fertile and productive
section of Georgia. Peopled by
honest hard working farmers, in
the enjoyment of health, wealth
and happiness. .
Come to the fair this fall unq
we will prove all the above and
as much more to bq only half the
inducements why you should live
in Douglas, in Coffee county, or
any of her towns.
The Douglas Weekly Enterprise.
WHO WAS TO BLAME.
The Pitiful Story' <# d# Treat*
ment of a Young Husband.
On March 10, 1898, a young
man of good family w r as hanged
for murder. Two years before
he had made a run-a-way mar
riage with a girl, whom he de
vptedly loved. He was a well
esteemed young fellow, whose
life seemed full of promise. The
newly-married pair returned to
the girl’s home and were freely
forgiven and kindly received.
They began housekeeping near
her parents, and all went
smoothly until the young wife’s
mother took a strong dislike to
her son-in-law. At once, she be
gan to make trouble between the
pair. She told Dora that she had
thrown herself away, she had
married a man far beneath her,
who would never amepnt to any
thing. Slje coTfnseldd her to
leave John and return to her old
home. It is tme, the youpg hus
band was not able ta give Dora
the comforts she hacT had when
she was a girl, but she knew his
circumstances before she married
him.
Finially the wife was persuaded
to leave her husband. She re
turned to her mother, leaving to
John the message that she
still loved him, flut could not
hold out against her mother’s
pleadings and representations.
A few r monthsafter the sepration
a little child was born. John
could hold out no longer. He
went to his mother-in-law and
begged her to let him see his
wife and child. She refused.
‘‘You are not worthy of Dora, ”
she said. “You shall not speak
to her again,”
He appealed to the law, but
he was defeated. His wife’s
tovTl, drank deeply, and while
intoxicated, armed himself with
a shotgun and went to the home
of his wife’s mother. He de
manded to see Dora and when
sfje. came lo the door, he begged
her tb live with him again. She
was frightened.
“I will ask mother,” she said,
and went back into the house.
He was standing, where ho
could hear her ask her mother’s
consent to her returning to him.
He heard the mother refuse,
with scornful, abusive
about him and walking to a win
dow he fired the fatal shot. The
mother dropped, dying at her
daughter’s feet crying:
“Oh,God! He has killed me.”
After the deed, he went into
the woods about a hundred yards
away, and stayed for two ’ days.
When his vicum. was buried, he
was so near that he could hear
the service and the sobs of the
family, After
that, he went to his sisters house
and slept there for three nights
securely -hidden from his pur’
suers.
He became an armed and des
perate fugitive. For> three
months, the bravest men In the
county hunted him down, but
they failed to take him. In De
cember, he gave himself up to a
friend, and was tried, convicted
and sentenced to death.
His wife attended his trial.
She was very bitter against him.
after he was convicted, he beg
ged her to forgive him—and kiss
him once before he died. She
scornfully refused. During his
imprisonment, he often spoke of
his child with great tenderness.
Je never uttered a reproachful
9 about his, wife, whom he
seemed to love with passionate
devotion. He professed religion,
was baptized and died resigned
and calm. .
Ddta is married again,
is notTiappy. -She istfull of re
morse and. regiet: for the past.-
John was buried beeide -his fa
ther, mother arid sisters.
I‘There is no one left to cherish
bis memory but rfne sister. Who
\tas% blame for this wrecked
life „? -.Sunny South,
Douglas, Ga., January 27th, 1906.
TO HURRY UP THE
RAWLINGS APPEAL.
Attorney General Hart Will Appear Before the U.
S. Supreme Court.
Valdosta, Ga., Solicitor General
W. E. Thomas has just returned
from Atlanta, where he went to
look after the Rawlings case.
He learned that the records had
been forwarded to the clerk of
the United States Supreme Court
at Washington, and he at once
asked the clerk there to certify
to a receipt, as is the usual mode
of procedure.
As soon as the certificate is
received, he will move that the
case be taken up for a hearing as
soon as possible. He will be ac
companied by'Attorney General
Hart. Judge Hart will assist in
arguing the case.
J., G. .Rawlings has been threat
.erfmg himself with starvation
right lately. Since his boys Were
removed from the cell with him
he has not eaten much, and dur
ing the last few days he refuses
to eat almost anything. He told
the sheriff yesterday that if he
would put him with the boys
again and would give him some
thing good to eat, he would eat
his meals as usual, but he is
going to quit eating altogether,
he said, if this is not done. There
were several visitors at the jail,
among them a young lady who
tried to cheer “Old man” Raw
lings with a belief in the here
after.
“While the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return,”
she told him.
“ThaC& good poetry, but it'sj
Scripture,” he re-j
tr ~
“WellLyou ought to i member
the thief on the cross, she said;
“you know, he found forgiveness
at the last minute of his life.”
“Yes; but he was only a thief, ” ,
said Rawlings; “and that was ;
the first chance he had.”
“God is good, and there is for
giveness for all who approach
Him in the right manner,” she
said.
“That sounds nice; but the
Bible says: ‘Woe unto them that
fall under the wrath of an aveng
ing God,’ or words like that,”
he replied.
There is *a general idea over
the state that Rawlings is an old
man, but this is not true. He
married when he was a mere
boy, and though his oldest son
is 22 to 24 years of age, Rawlings
himself is only 43 years old.
LEONARD MUST
* «*' COME BACK.
Young Rawlings Must Stay in Jail
Here Until Case is Ended.
Leonard Rawlings will proba
bly reach the city Monday night
from tue penitentiary, Judge
Mitchell having passed an order
for him to be returned here for
confinement until his case is set
tled in the courts.
The order was granted at the
instant of Attorney Cooper* who
made a big kick about the boy’s
being sent to the pen. Attor
ney Cooper Is trying to find
who is responsible for the incar
ceration of Leonard in the peni
tentiary, and says that if he can
find who is liable for it he will
file a suit for damages.
The elder Rawlings has been
“cutting up” again for the past
two days. Sunday evening he
was calling hogs at the top of his
voice and he kept it up until far
in the night. His yells could be
heard six or eight blocks from
the jail Saturday and Sunday
night.—Valdosta Times.
SAYS STORY IS A FAKE
Milton Rawlings Makes Statement
Through His Lawyer.
If what Milton Rawlings says
is true, he and the rest of his
family behind the bars of the
Lowndes county jail at Valdosta
under sentence of death for the
murder of the Carter children
have been badly used.
In a statement which he makes
to the “world at large,” he denies
stories published to the effect
that he and his father J. G. Raw
lings, had a scrap in their cell,
and for this reason were seper
ated.
In his statement he denies posi
tively that he and his father did
and said as printed in the papers,
and says that their argument
was in regard to things that hap
pened before they “were accused
of thafr awful crime which some
body else committed.”
Today Attorney John R. Coop
er who is now fighting for the
lives of the old man and his sons,
Milton and Jesse, in tlje supreme
court of the United States, re
ceived a letter from „Mrs. Raw
lings, and in it was a written
statement from Milton, denying
the stories which have been pub
lished concerning his row with
the old man.
Mrs. Rawlings declares that
her husband and boys h(ave been I
grossly misrepresented knd mis-!
[quoiefTTn [Tie press, knd that
they do no ecei .e proper treat
ment in the Lowndes county jail.
Milton says the statement that
he seized a piece of iron with
which to strike his father is
absurd for the reason that no
such thing was inside the cell. -
Macon News.
Please Don’t Intrude.
It is often necessary for the
force in this office to work at
night, the engine and presses
attracting considerable attention,
and the curious, loafing ones
that do not have to work as hard
as we do for a living come into
the office, pass around among
the machinery making remarks
and suggestions to the printers.
This is an infraction of the rules.
NO ONE is wanted in either of
fice when they have no business
there, and if they are not told as
much it is only because we are
sorry they have not sense enough
to see that they are not wanted.
Meningitis at Ocilla.
News reaches us, in the way
of a rumor, but which we fear
is true, that severaS persons liv
ing in and around Ocilla have
been suffering with meningitis,
that Mr, W. M. Henderson had
two children afflicted, and that
there had been three deaths
from the attacks of the disease
in the recent past. We have no
confirmation of this intelligence,
and it is hoped the fearful af
fliction may soon be stamped out.
Fine Jack to Lease.
We will have another car load of
mules and horses to-day, and
among them is a fine, thorough
bred jack, and some good farmer
can make arrangements with us
to keep him. He is not for sale.
Corn, Brown, Martin & Co.
FROM AUGUSTA
TO VALDOSTA.
Nevv Railroad Coming in This Direction.
Editor Augusta Tribune:—
1 have been for years, casting
“a wishful eye” over the splen
did territory between Richmond
County and Lowndes County,
trusting that at some early day
our own people woujd inaugurate
and push to realization a move
ment which would have for its
object an air-line railway be -
tween Augusta and the thriving
city of Valdosta.
Did you know, Mr. Editor, that
during the last decade Lowndes
County and twenty-two counties
round about her increased in pop
ulation over 145.000 souls? It is
a fact. There is not in all Geor
gia a more inviting section. It is
growing—growing.
In his customarily quiet but
complete way, Mr. Allen W.
Jones has outlined the Augusta
and Florida railway. From
Swainsboro, in Emanuel County,
to Keysville, on the Augusta
Southern, the road is in running
order, and will be, in a reason
ably short time, in like condition
to Augusta. Mr. Jones will then
rush the line to Vidalia, on the
S. A. L.— thence to Douglas, in
Coffee County—thence to Valdos-!
ta. This a certain
ty, will shorten the distance be
tween Augusta and Valdosta 12G
miles; between Augusta and Jack
sonville, 100 miles. As already:
suggested, it will thread one ofu
of the most beautiful- one of the j
richest < c < 1
wealth. ■
This road will m«n more to
Augusta than wordsjfan express.
It will place her in close touch
with a well-to do, energetic, pro
gressive people. To-day, all
that country is a bee-hive. The
Augusta & Florida Railway will
traverse to a greater or less ex
tent the counties of Emanuel,
Montgomery, Appling, Coffee,
Clinch and Lowndes. These
five counties annually produce
over 15,000,000 bushels of corn:
200,000 bushels of oats; 500,000
bushels of sweat potatoes; 400,-
000 gallons of syrup. They own
400,000 head of poultry, and
gather into their cupboards 800,-
000 dozen eggs a year. They
produce 60.000 bales of cotton a
year making as a rule, both up
land and Sea Island.
The contiguous counties of
Bullock, Tattnall, Telfair and
Berrien constitute a quartet dif
ficult to be distanced in any of
the things which contribute to
the prosperity and happiness of
a people. These four counties
produce annually 1,500,000 bush
els of corn; 200,000 bushels of
oats; 250,000 gallons of cane syr
up; 400,000 bushels of sweet po
tatoes. They own 250,000' head
of poultry and take up h year
500,000 dozen eggs. They make
60,000 bales of cotton a year—;
much of it Sea Island.
The increase in population of
these nine counties, the past de
cade, ranged from 33 to 100 per
cent.
Mr. Jones, confident and re
!
sourceful, prudent and energetic, i
is pushing the enterprise along.!
I refer to him personally, be- j
cause whoever else may be work- i
ing with him, he has proved him- j
self the life and light of. a move- ■
ment that will result in a speedy i
development of one of the garden
spots of this great state*
Martin V. Calvin.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 22, 1906.
SI.OO per Annum.
SEA ISLAND MEN
CABLED TO MEET.
President Harvie Jordon has
issued a call for a convention of
the Sea Island Cotton Associa
tion, to be held at Valdosta, Ga.,
on February Bth, 1906, at 10
o’clock a. m.
The Sea Island cotton planters
of Florida and south Georgia
were organized last November,
and since that time the work
has been enthusiastically pushed.
Some of the important subjects
to be discussed at the coming
convention are as to the devising
of a better system of holding
cotton, plans for the producers
and manufacturers of long staple
cotton to get closer together,
and the imperative needs of im
mediate organization.
It is expected that a large
gathering will be present in Val
dosta on the occasion named, aryj
arrangements are afoot looking
toward the securing of cheap
railroad rates for the delegates.
NO GEORGIAN IN THE SERVICE
Senator Bacon Vigilant and Holds Up
tho Consular Reform BUI.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 24. —
It is alleged that one of the rea-J
sons why senators Morgan
Bacon helped to kill the ciyil seiffl
£lce features of V
Consular reform bill was that
r/vther Alabama or Georgia has
a single appointee in the entire
consular service. This fact was
brought cut during the meeting in
the foriegn affairs committee and
which Secretaire Root was urging
the senators .o oppose the bill.
When Senators Bacon and
Morgan declared theirfstatessfere
without representation in the
consular service, Secretary Root
was forced to assent to the
thruthfulness of their state
ments. He said that he propos
ed in the near future to consult
with the senators and ask
then to suggest eligibles for po
sitions as consuls.
Mrs. T. T. Barber, mother of
Mrs. A. W. Haddock is in the
city, visiting her children and
her many friends. Her daugh
ter, Miss Maggie, will remain
here for some time attending
, school.
Mr. H. Leader has returned
a business trip to Vidalia,
Nichols and other places, and
announces that he has taken
charge of the Rabinowitz bnsi
ness, recently purchased, in thjr
latter place. An ad\prtisem<gß r
informing the public of
ag'-m.-ni will v war |L jSp
The Industrial nufl
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