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VOL. 17, NO. 36.
Douglas Baptist Church Notes.
DY ALEXIS D. KENDRICK, Pastor.
Wejsredicted some time since
that Tiur \junday school would
reach one hundred and fifty by
February. Two weeks before
February was Sunday, and the
secretary reported one hundred
and fifty one present. We hope
to have two hundred by the first
of April, and to reach this num
ber, we ask for the full support
of our forces. Come on friends
and help make things keep going.
The Philathea class wa s so
large Sunday that the class room
would not hold those present, so
the class was taught in the church
yard. We are anxiously looking
for our new building w T here there
will be ample room for our con
gregations.
Last Sunday night was the sec
ond time during the pastor’s
work that the house was too small
to hold the congregation. We
wish there was more room in our
building, but under the present
circumstances we can not remedy
the matter.
The pastor is assisting in a
meeting at Broxton this week,
but will return for Sunday’s ser
vices, and will preach Sunday
morning and night. The Second
Coming of Christ series will be
continued for some time on Sun
day nights.
Sunday afternoon it was de
cided to fit up the vestibule for
a Young Peoples’ Reading Room,
and also a place to teach the
Baraca Class of Young Men.
Two or three dozen chairs will be
ofyjed in the room, a large libra
has been ordered and
will be used. The best magizines
the daily papers and also religious
papers will be kept in the room,
and two nights in each week it
will be open to the young people.
Stationary will be provided for
those who wish to write. The
room will be presided over by the
pastor and members of the church
The pastor is anxious to have
every member of his church at
tend the Sunday morning services
and the public is aiso invited. At
the morning services special
sermons arc preached to the
church and Christian people. May
we not expect you next Sunday
morning at the opening song ?
We have a large number of
Baptist in our town, whose mem
bership is not with us. Friends,
we want you to bring your letters
and become one of us, we need
your co-operation and presence,
and we are satisfied that you
need the influence of our church
And too, there are hundreds of
people in Douglas who are not
members of any church, and with
out a church home. We want
you to come with us, and if you
do not care to join our church,
we want you to come and worship
with us. Come and make your
church home with us. Let us
become acquainted, and the prob
abilities are, that we will like
each other so well, that you will
worship with us on every Lord’s
Day. Remember that Douglas
Baptist church and pastor are
here to serve the people as well
as to worship the Lord. Our
services are free from coldness
and #ad formality. We invite
you to a home like church, and
to services of reasonable length.
Stray Cows.
The undersigned has in his
care two cows marked as follows:
One Horned Cow, undersquare
in each ear; One Dehorned Cow,
split in each ear.
The owter can have same by
paying for keeping and the price
of this notice.
J. L. Douglas.
GEORGIA NEWS
News and Views Culled From Ex
changes of the State.
Now that eggs have dropped
in price, everybody’s hens are
laying—Sparta Ishmaelite.
An any rate the negro troops
had better be kept out of the South
—Waycross Herald.
Well, how much did you get
soaked for in the recent exchange
of presents? —Jones County News
Who would have ever thought
that South Carolina would ever
rush to the defense of President
Roosevel t ? —Col umbus Enquirer
Sun.
The whipping post should be
set up in every county jail for
men who beat their wives and
unmercifuly beat horses. —Ilazle-
hurst News.
The income from Thomasville’s
police court last year was nearly
$4,000. That is what we call
“fine” work —ThomasvilleTimes-
Enterprise.
It is to be hoped that when the
Democratic flag is unfurled for
the next Presidential campaign it
will bear the time-honored slogan
of “States’ rights.” —Blakely Re
porter.
Ben Tillman seems so stuck on
the negro troops that President
Roosevelt kicked out of the army
he should be put in command of
the animals. Americus Times-
Recorder.
The War Department has order
ed all the negro troops to the
Philippines. They can “shoot up”
the country out there as much as
they like, and even Foraker won’t
object.—Dublin Times.
Alpharetta Free Press: The
bucket shops have been run out
of Georgia, but the tiger contin
ues to smile as the boys continue
to buck it by long distance. The
boys are funny old creatures.
Why not let Barnesville go
after the sub-treasury over which
Atlanta, Macon and Savannah are
scrapping at Washington ? Bar
nesville could take care of it all
right if she could only get it. —
Barnesville News-Gazette.
The Brunswick News: Several
white men have been in the city
doing the begging act for the past
two or three days. The local
police should get them. There is
too much work going on in Bruns
wick to have any able-bodied men
asking for alms.
Macon News: Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish says if a woman is careful
she can dress on $5,000 a year.
As there are 20,000,000 women
in the country that would make
the annual dress bill $100,000,000-
000, or a few millions more than
the aggregate wealth of the na
tion. We are grateful to Mrs.
Fish for her suggestion.
An Atlanta dispatch says:
“Mrs. Russell Sage has given
$25 to the associated charities in
Atlanta. She says she will give
away more of her millions through
such organizations. ’ ’ She should
rest awhile, after this effort,
however and not incur the charge
of being too precipitate in her
charity.—Macon Telegraph.
In a north Georgia town last
week at a social entertainment
a young lady gifted with some
hypnotic powers selected as a
subject a young preacher, pastor
of one of the churches, whom
she easily put to sleep. After
some minutes’ duration she at
tempted to restore him to his
natural state, but could not suc
ceed, and outside help was em
ployed with success, but not be
fore the young lady hypnotist
was frightfully alarmed. There
are some lessons in this to be
remembered, the least of which
is, no young woman should put
a fellow under a spell by her
love and bright eyes and then
become alarmed.
Douglas, Ga., January 19th, 1907.
THE COTTON REPORT.
Showing Number of Bales Made
by Each State in the South.
The census bureau has issued
its reports on cotton ginning,
showing that up to Jan. 1 there
were 28,390 active ginneries in
operation and that 11,750,944
bales counting round as half bales
were ginned against 9,750,000 at
this time last year.
By states the number of bales
ginned and the number of gin
neries in operation are given as
follows:
Alabama—Bales, 732,201; gin
neries 3,628.
Arkansas—Bales, 732,201; gin
neries, 2,299.
Florida—Bales,s9,o3o; ginneries
723.
Georgia—Bales, 1,573,701; gin
neries, 4,551.
Louisiana—Baleo, 836,646; gin
neries, 2,046.
Mississippi —Bales, 1,238,697 ;
ginneries, 3,727.
North Carolina —Bales, 572,143
ginneries, 2,128.
South Carolina—Bales, 868,328
ginneries, 3,128.
Tennessee—Bales 8,419 ginner
ies 695.
Texas—Bales, 5,626,269; gin
neries, 118.
The number of sea island bales
included is 54,168. The sea island
cotton for 1906, distributed by
states, is; F10rida,23,144; Georgia
23,596; South Carolina, 7,428.
Waycross is in the midst of a
gigantic effort to build the finest
Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion Building in the State. Way
cross is very ambitious, and it is
probable that no failure will be
made, as those people are noted
for their generosity in raising
money for religions and educa
tional purposes.
Cordele Rambler: If Senator
Crawford Wheatly and his friends
build the road from Americus to
Hawkinsville, we predict that
Americus will have a population
of 20,000 people within ten years
after the completion of the rail
road. Uhadilla and Vienna people
are both making an effort to get
them to build through their town,
but it'is not yet known which
will get it. If it goes by Unadilla
Byronvii'e will be reached which
will be inducement to give it that
route.
Oglethorpe Echo: A snow
white partridge was captured on
Mr. R. Lee Callaway’s place near
town Monday. It had been seen
in a covey of birds by several of
Mr. Callaway’s hands and he
offered a prize to the one who
would capture it alive. Monday
one of his hands brought him the
bird unhurt and he has it caged.
In all other respects there is no
dissimiiarity between it and other
partridges but all the feathers are
creamy white. Mr Callaway hopes
to tame it.
Albany Herald: Senator Bacon
balks at the use in official docu
ments of the term “rebellion” in
designating the war between the
states. In this respect he is not
different from other Southern
people, all of whom will approve
the stand he took in the Senate
yesterday when pension legisla
tion was being considered. He
insisted that “war of the rebell
ion” is an improper designation;
that it is furthermore odious to
the people of this section, and,
being odious, is offensive. He
fought the point to a finish with
Senator Teller, of Colorado and
others who “could see no oppro
brium in the word rebel,’ ” and
carried his point by having “civil
war” inserted in the bill where
“war of the rebellion” had been
placed in the original draft.
FAITHFUL SWEET-HEART.
intercedes for Young Man, And
His Sentence is Commuted.
Through the pleading inter
cessions of Miss Sarah McCormck
a beautiful young school teacher
of Providence, R. 1., who modest
ly admitted that she was the
finance of Marcus Craham, sen
tenced to serve fifteen years in
the Federal prison for his offense,
President Roosevelt has commut
ed the sentence to six years and
he will march out a free man in
a little over two years.
The commutation went as a
New Years present to Miss Mc-
Cormick, who has not ceased to
work for her sweetheart since he
entered the grim prison walls in
June 28, 1904. She followed him
to Atlanta during her vacation,
and was allowed to see him at the
prison. She was there last in
June immediately after her school
was out and. she promised him
that she would go before the
President and plead his case. She
kept her word and melted the
heart of the President who on
New Years day commuted the
sentence by three fifths. Warden
Moyer has received the notice
and Craham has been notified of
the success of his sweetheart.
Up to the time he was convicted
of making $5,000 in gold certifi
cates he was a prosperous photo
engraver in Providence where he
won his future wife. He wanted
to get rich quick and made the
counterfeit notes. lie floated
them at the tracks in New York
and St. Louis in which latter city
he was arrested. After his af
fairs were straightened out $4,0C0
of his money was paid to Miss
McCormick on his order. She
has worked for over two years
and hopes to get his sentence
still further reduced.
Waycross Han Accidently Killed.
Waycross, Ga., Jan. 15. —Mr.
Arthur Devore a young man
twenty- two years of age, was
instantly killed this morning by
the falling of a steel truss at the
Atlantic Coast Line shops. A
piece of steel weighing about
three tons was being raised to the
top of the electric power building.
A pine saplin to which one of the
stay ropes was hitched pulled up
thus letting it fall fifteen feet.
Men saw the stay giving way and
cried for everybody to get out
of the way.
YY’hen the alarm was given De
vore was out of danger, but under
the excitment ran under the fall
ing steel. He was struck on the
head which was mashed to a pulp.
The young man came to Way
cross with the Penn Bridge Co.,
about two weeks ago. He was a
single man his home being in Ohio
where his remains will be shipt
tonight.
Failed to Hake returns.
Atlanta, Jan. 15.—Forty cor
porations doing business in the
state have failed to pay their
taxes, amounting to over $20,000
to State Controller General W. A.
Wright. The time for payment
expires Dec, 20. The delinquents
can be charged 7 per cent increase
from Dec, 20, and those who fail
ed to pay must pay the additional
amount.
There are 16,000 weekly news,
papers in the United States with
a combined circulation
000 and there are 2,200 dailies
with a cobmined circulation of
15,000,000.
Representative Hardwick, of
Georgia, introduced a bill in Con
gress to force all railroads in
Georgia to put on the block sys
tem and license the operators.
Read the Douglas Enterprise
and be happy.
DIDN’T LIKE HIS OBITUARY.
Supposed Dead Han Comes to Life
and Kicks about Write-up of
His Death.
While his family was weeping
because he had been mangled by
a Chicago Junction train and
while a claim agent was arguing
with his wife that she should
accept a certain sum from the
railroad company for his death
VVilham Wenzel, a Hammond
(Ind.) carpenter, entered bis
home at his usual home coming
hour.
“What’s the matter with you ?
Where’s my supper ? he asked
when he saw the mingled expres
sion of fear, sorrow, bewilder
ment and joy on the faces of his
wife and children.
“Why, this man just wanted
to pay me because one of his rail
road engines killed you to-day,”
explained his wife.
“Huh!” snorted Wenzel. “I’ll
show you whether i’m dead.
What do you mean cornin’ round
here and scarin’ my wife ?”
The claim agent from the van
tage ground of an easy exit ex
plained to Wenzel that he had
been run over and killed, that a
coroner’s jury had passed on his
case and that his body was then
at Charles Neidow’s undertaking
establishment. In proof he show
ed Wenzel a copy of a Hammond
paper containing a description of
his death and telling of the iden
tification of his body by friends.
Wenzel tore out of the house
and made for the undertaker.
He demauded of Neidow an ex
planation of the obituary notice.
Because Neidow couldn’t explain
satisfactorily Wenzel started a
row, which the police were called
in to quell.
Meanwhile the man taken for
Wenzel lay unidentified at the
undertaker’s. Wenzel is won
dering if it had not been better
that he had kept his temper and
allowed the claim agent to settle
with his wife.
Institute News Notes.
The school year is half out.
Five more short months will bring
us to the end of the term.
In the eighth grade classes
have just been begun in Rhetoric,
Literature and Ancient History.
The students in this grade are
enthusiastic over these new sub
jects. They continue their work
in Arithmetic, Latin and Algebra.
The pupils in the seventh grade
are rejoicing over the addition of
Physiology and Physical Geogra
phy to their work, having just
finished Geography.
The changes in the other grades
consist mainly in laying aside the
regularly adopted readers now
completed and taking up supple
mentary readers. In some of the
grades new work in drawing is
being introduced.
The Principal is making a study
of the several grades with a
view to making the work more
effective than ever if possible.
He is spending much time this
week in the first grade and is
greatly enjoying the work with
the “tots.” The other grades
will be taken up in regular order.
We most cordially invite the
people of Douglas to visit the
school and cooperate with us in
every possible way to make it the
pride of our town and sectien.
When the new Agricultural Col
lege is opened up here, our local
school will to a large extent be
overshadowed unless we rally
with new zeal and energy to the
support of our faithful old S. N.I.
We need both of these schools in
order to bring about the proper
development of our splendid re
sources and to train our boys and
girls for their parts in life. But
in rallying to the one we should
Clerk Sup Court HUtim
j The Rural Route Carriers Must
Have Better Pay.
If the bill introduced in the
house by congressman W. C.
Adamson, of Georgia, which is
now in the hands of the commit
tee on postoffice and post roads,
is passed, all rural mail carriers
will receive SBO per month.
Congressman Adamson’s bill
is shorn of all verbiage and goes
to the heart of the matter with
simple directness. It reads: ‘Be
it enacted by the senate and the
house of representatives of the
United States of America in con
gress assembled, that on and
after the passage of this act the
compensation of all rural carriers
shall be SBO per month, payable
monthly.”
The salaries now are graded
according to the length of the
route covered, but the maximum
pay is only S6O per month. The
number receiving this amount is
comparatively small, the larger
percentage of the great force
receiving under SSO.
Already the department is be
set with difficulties in securing
high-class, competent men to ac
cept the places at the small sal
aries paid. The carrier out of
his salary must furnish his mail
cart and his horse, and say noth
ing of feeding his horse, keeping
his cart in repair and supporting
his family.
Fred L. White, president of
the Georgia Rural Letter Car
riers’ Association, has done vil
iant work toward securing better
pay for the carriers, and has and
is devoting aU of his spare time
to that patriotic service.
Congress can do no worthier
or more just act this session than
to give the men who brave sun
shine and storm to deliver the
mail of the rural population of
the country more pay.
The Business Men and the Printer.
Some merchants in Douglas
tell us that they cannot sell goods
as cheaply as their competitors
in other towns, on account of
having to pay heavier freight
rates, but they insist tha we
must do job printing as cheap as
Fitzgerald or other places, not
withstanding the difference of
lower freight rates in favor of
our competitors in those towns.
They would think little of us if
we should take part of the'money
[ of the office force, three families,
! and order provisions and dry
i goods from another town and
save several dollars, when to save
less than we would, they send
off for printing if we tell them we
cannot afford to work as cheap
as those in other places. Still,
i they tell us to patronize home
| institutions, and we do. It is
hoped the freiget rates of Doug
las will some day compare with
other places, but until they do
consistency should be considered.
The printer man must and does
suffer as much if not more than
the merchant because of exces
sive freight rates.
not neglect the other.
The school is very glad of aa
opportunity to join wi t h the
Daughters of the Confederacy
and the Confederate Veterans in
celebrating the birthday of Gen.
R. E. Lee on the 19th inst. Such
opportunities to teach history and
patriotism should never be lost.
The United States flag present
ed to the Instituted by the Pat
riotic Sons of America, now floats
daily to our balmy Southern
breezes and symbolizes to our
children the greatness of our com
mon country and teaches them
to honor the ‘ ‘Stars and Stripes.”
The flag at present is in the
1 custody of fifth grade and they
| take much pleasure in unfurling
lit to the breezes each morning.