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Local and Personal.
Saturday, January 19th.
Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday.
Attention to business brings
success in life.
Perseverance and modesty
brings all good girls a husband.
Mr. J. M. Denton, of the Pick
ren district was in town Monday.
Mr. T. B. Bell made a busi
ness, trip to Ambrose this week.
Gen. Lee would be one hun
dred years old to day, were he
living.
Gen. Robert E. Lee is dead,
but his name and deeds live on
forever.
Bud Meeks, of Nichols, says
we may look out for cold weather
next month.
Gratitude has no more to do
with reason than sentiment has
with goodness.
Mr. Julius White, working in
Fitzgerald, came in to see his
family Sunday.
Jesse Grantham will insure
your life in a good state company.
See him at once.
Dr. Terrell sold his residence
to Messrs Vickers and Appleby
last week for $3,250.
As soon as plans are complet
ed work of building the new
Baptist church will be commenc
ed.
Deputy Sheriff Anderson has
moved his family from Waycross
to Douglas and they are at the
jail.
Lem Dent came in from Savan
nah, Tuesday night. What
brings him back to Douglas so
often?
Capt Touchton, of Pearson,
was in the city, last Wednesday
shaking hands with his numer
ous friends.
Imagination is the seat of both
pleasure and pain, but it won’t
stop a hole in the wall nor draw
in a load of coal.
- It doesn’t follow that because
*a man continually makes thought
less remarks that he is remarka
bly thoughtless.
Rev. A. D. Kendrick is in Brox
ton this week assisting Mr. Elgin,
the pastor of the Baptist charch,
in a revival meeting.
A month of mid-summer weath
er in mid-winter is remarkable.
We call attention to this because
so few have noticed it.
Contractor Schmitz, of Fitz
gerald, who built Judge Quinceys
beautiful home on Gaskin avenue,
will build Mr. Forbes residence.
Be sure to go to church next
Sunday and hear a good sermon.
You run no risk of missing it, no
matter which church you go to.
B. 11. Tanner & Son are busy
now taking stock Markey Trad
ing Co, Douglas Supply Co., and
several others have finished up.
The Enterprise is in favor of
the Farmers’ Union or any other
class of citizens forming a union
for the betterment of their con
dition.
Judge Warren P. Ward went
down to Jacksonville and spent
tvo days with his wife and the
Misses Canova’s last Saturday
and Sunday.
Miss Mattie Settles, Daughter
of Prof Settles, of Waycross,
who once lived here, is visiting
Sheriff Anderson’s family, and
old friends in town.
Judge Quincey returned from
a business trip some where last
Sunday night. Dont ask us where
for he is on the fly half of his
. time on legal business,
t The Farmers Union people are
beginning to be as numerous as
the leaves in an oak forest, and
some of the members are our
best friends—if we have any.
Did you ever stop to think about
the financial institutions of the
county? Two banks at Douglas,
two at Broxton, two at Willacoo
chee, two at Nichols and one at
Pearson.
Miss Della Heal was in Way
cross last Tuesday.
Dr. D. Kirkland, of Nichols,
was in town Wednesday.
Mrs. W. M. Dent, of Ocilla,
was in town last Wednesday.
Dr. Quitman Holton, of Brox
ton, was in town Wednesday.
Mr. Eustace Sirmans, of Way
cross, was in town this week.
Mr. Moses Griffin was over at
Pearson this week on business.
Pay your subscrpition to the
Enterprise as it taks it to run the
paper.
Mr. G. H. Suddath, of Bar
row’s Bluff, was in town last
Monday.
City Court will convene Mon
day. If you have business, be
on hand.
Advertise in the Enterprise if
you want to reach the people and
get results.
Mr. Z. W. Kirkland, Sr., who
has been very sick, is now able
to come to town.
Miss Mamie Thompson visited
Miss Flora McLEwen, at Bush
nell last Sunday.
Miss Ella McLean, of Broxton,
is in the city visiting Mrs. Jno
McLean’s family.
Mrs. Parish, of Leliaton, was
in town this week, visiting her
sister Mrs. H. Kirkland.
J. M. Wilcox was in town last
Tuesday, and we learn will make
his future home in Sparks.
Mr. W. M. and E. L. Worth
and families are visiting rela
tives at Gardner, Fla., this week.
Does a person find pleasure in
contemplating the old flowers
that mother grew and loved?
Mr. J. M. Jardine, who fell
from his wagon and got hurt
about a week ago, is now fast
improving.
Mr. Cobin, the popular Balti
more drummer, was among the
merchants this week, selling
spring goods.
The recent painting of Mr.
Wilcox’s handsome residence on
Madison avenue has added much
to its appearance.
Cultivate the taste and be sure
that there never will come a time
in life when it will not prove
more or less of a blessing.
Mr. Mark Lott has moved to
Douglas and occupies the resi
dence formerly occupied by Mr.
Ben Hayes, on edge of town.
Mr. M. G. Head occompanied
his niece, Miss Pearl Anderson,
left for Milledgeville last Sun
day, where she will enter school.
Rev. Jesse Miller, of Conners
ville, Ind., has accepted a call to
the Baptist church at Fitzgerald,
Ga., and will go there in a few r
days.
The city officials have moved
a lot of clay from the foundation
of the Tanner-Sweat building
and this will greatly improve
our streets.
Mr. J. E. McCullough, of At
lanta, spent a few day in Doug
las this week. He likes Douglas,
and expressed surprise at seeing
so good a town.
Dr. Bryan is at his post again
for the first time since Christ
mas, three weeks, leaving your
“Uncle Jim” all the work to do.
Most people got over their’s in a
week.
Bids are now open for the
Agricultural buildings and it is
to be hoped that some of our lo
cal contractors will go to Judge
Quincey’s office and bid on the
work.
There is a lot of work to be
done by those who hold city of
fices and we think that they
should be paid. We think that
1 the Mayor should have at least
! SIOO for his services each year,
! and that the members of the
! council should have at least S6O.
! What do you think of it?
| Do YoU Wat)t Itfotjey?
: WE ARE MAKING FIVE YEAR LOANS ON IMPROVED FARM
LANGS, PART OF THE LOAN TO BE PAID BACK EACH YEAR.
If your place is mortgages, why continue paying a high rate
ot interest? We can negotiate loans on first mortgage on
improved farms at 7 per cent on sums of SI,OOO, or over, and
at 8 per cent on sums less than SI,OOO, payable in annual in
stallments. There is no commission charged on these loans.
If you want cheap money come to see us.
JAS. I. HATFIELD, LAWSON KELLEY,
Inspector. Attorney.
DOUGLAS, GA.
18 lbs best granulated sugar
98 cents, everything else in pro
portion.
Markey Trading Co.
Dr. H. C. Whelchel left last
Thursday for New York. He
will be gone about six weeks and
will spend the time in the lead
ii£ Colleges and Hospitals of
New York.
Markey Trading Co, will in
future sell for cash down as you
go up, and cash up as you go
dnvn, at “way down prices.”
The plans of the Baptist church
have been adopted and as socn
as they can be completed by
the architect, the work will be
open for bids, and the building
will begin at once,
CITY AND FARM LOANS-
See Rogers & Heath, Douglas, Ga.
They negotiate City and Farm
loans without delay, at 6 per cent
interest. Dec, 1. tf
The Democratic Party can
' never be successful so long as
we send sixty million dollars to
: the Republican Party each year
to keep the Democratic Party
out of business. Every dollar
that goes east into insurance
goes into the hands of Republi
cans. Will you keep it up?
We don’t have 2 add on any
thing extra 2 pay for the other
fellow that don’t pay. U get
; the benefit.
Markey Trading Co.
There is a girl in an Indiana
city who is five fee*., two inches
high. She kicked an apple off
the top of a plug hat that was
on the head of the editor of one
of the local papers. The apple
was of the variety known as the
“Maiden Blush,” but in this case
the editor blushed moor than the
maiden-
B sure and compare our prices
with what u r paying elsewhere.
Markey Trading Co.
Sapp’s Pharmacy,on the corner
will soon be ready for business.
New and handsome equipments
and a fresh line of drugs and
medicines. A specialty will be
made in the filling of prescrip
tions.
Compare our cash prices with
the credit prices and u will buy
of us. Markey Trading Co.
The people of Coffee county
must not be mislead. The En
tersrise is the legal organ of the
county, tc-daq and is the only
paper that contains all the legal
business of the county.
The farmers are waiting and
wishing for cold weather, to kill
hogs. The hogs are eating and
wishing for a continuation of
warm weather, to spare the hogs
a while longer.
Mr. Freeman was invited down
to Hammond’s new and up-to
date restaurant one night this
week to get supper. They will
be ready for business again as
soon as the express comes. He
enjoyed it.
Mr. O. Rudolph is selling great
quantities of paint manufactured
by the United Paint and Linseed
Oil Co., which appears to be giv
ing universal satisfaction. If
you need any paint suppose you
drop him an order.
Mr, J. -J. Rodgers is in the city
again, after spending the holi
days in north Georiga. We be
gan to think from his protracted
absence that he had fallen into a
berrel of egg nogg.
Jim Wade’s blacksmith shop is
one of the busiest places in town.
He has a blacksmith, wagon ard
buggy maker and a first clats
sign, carriage and buggypainter
to help him turn out work fa: t
and satisfactory.
The pile of dirt near the cou;t
htuse seems to be an attracticn
for the small boy on Sunday now.
The city marshal should see,
hwe/er, that tlmy do not d:r
turb the services in the court
house with their noise.
Mr. Eli Vickers tells us that
Mr. Aaron Anderson, living a
few miles from town, has sugar
cane up and growing. This man
intends, we suspect, to bring in
the first and biggest stalk this
year. If he does he will get this
paper for one year free. See ?
Mr. Eli Vickers, Sr. of Willa
coochee, was in town this week
and paid up his subscription ore
year in advance. He informs us
that “that all fools are not dead
yet, ’ ’ and that he has planted 2CO
pecan trees. If that is what
f)ols do, we need some more
fools.
We will have full school notes
each week from the Institute and
you may know something of
what is going on over there in
that way. as this is about ti e
i only way that most of us will find
lout. Why don’t you visit the
! school more ?
Sheriff Ricketson is getting
himself squarely in the saddle.
It is a hard matter to locate him,
—here, there and all about. Last
Tuesday he was over at Willacoo
chee. But while he is away,
Sheriff Anderson is not far from
the jail or court house.
The new rule now enforced at
the depot, against allowing the
hackmen and draymen to snatch
a passenger off of his or her feet
to get to haul them up town is a
good one. and Marshal Bailey is
going to see that it is observed
all the time. The people are
with him.
The State Mutual Life Insur
ance of Rome, Ga., did more
business last year than any com
pany has ever done at its age.
It took the Mutual Life, of New
York, twenty years to get the
business on its books that this
company now has.
Mr. J. F. Pierce, the landlord
of the popular hotel at Hazle
hurst, was in town last Wednes
day, He reports that Ed., our
young friend, is some what
“down in the month,” as he has
not made much headway with
the girls, yet.
The man that will refuse to
take and pay for a local paper,
and then go around to a barber
shop or some other place and
read it is a sneak. You know
what that means, and the man is
usuallv one that is not much help
to a town.
There is a young lady in Doug
las who has been engaged since
she was fifteen, she is seventeen
now, but her mother objects to
the marriage. Like a sensible
girl she sustains the objection
and her sensible fellow will wait
until next Christmas—by which
time she will be lawful age
eighteen.
Dr. Carlisle’s L. &B* & Liver
Fills.
For Inver and Blood, Stomach
and Kidney. For sale by all
druggists.
Carlisle & Co, Macon, Ga.
Oct 13-3 mo
New Cash Store.
If u don’t believe we R “It,”
c our prices in our big advertise
ment. Markey Trading Co.
Mr. Yad Kirkland is still im
proving.
The sixty million dollars that
go to the northern and eastern
states each year for insurance
would build sixty towns in the
south each year as large as Doug
las. Don’t you think that it wi 1
pay southern people to keep the
money at home, and get the in
surance just as good ?
An effort is on foot to give the
hello girls and fellows a little
respite on Sundays. If success
ful joj will have to quit talking
every Sunday at eleven until aft
er three. But what about the
sick man who wants a doctor, ci
the love sick fellow that wants a
ord with his girl “right now?”
Mudge Tanner brought to our
office last Saturday a red top
turnip that weighed 9 pounds.
When the “lady that we board
with” saw it she said it was pro
bably pethy and no good. She
was mistaken, it was nice ar d
sweet, and we dare any man in
the county to do the same thing
Mudge did.
Our printers, Georger, Janie
and Fannie White, with their
mother, have moved from where
they lived on Ward street, tc
the house formerly occupied by
Mr. S. T. Thompson, on Cleave
land street. All our printers
were made right here in Coffee
county. No other paper pub
lished in the county can say as
much.
The Legal Organ.
TO THE public— There has been
some agitation in regard to chanc
ing the Legal advertising, and I
take this method to notify i .
people of Coffee county that tin
Legal advertising will he Ho
as heretofore, in the Douglas
Enterprise. The Stockholders
of the Enterprise has again leased
the Enterprise to Dr W. C. Bryan
and his paper last year pleased
the readers throughout the coun
tv, and I consider it my duty to let
the advertising remain with the
Enterprise.
Yours Truly,
David Ricketson, Sheriff.
January, 15th. 1907.
The Reception Last Wednesday
Evening
One of the largest attended,
and most enjoyable social events
of this week, was the reception
given Wednesday evening b y
Miss Kate Harden, and Mr. W.
L. Fisher, at the hospitible home
of Mr. and Mrs. Hoke Davis, on
Ward Street, in honor of Miss
Dell Downing, of Barnesville Ga.
The form of entertainment
was a guessing contest. ‘‘A Liter
ary Tea.” The first prize was
won by Miss Willie Sutlive, of
Fort Gaines, Ga., and the con
solation by Miss Daisy Harris, of
Roberta. Numerous other games
were indulged in.
Dainty refreshments consisting
of a salad course, was served
during the evening.
Miss Dell Downing, the guest
of honor, was gowned in white
silk with real lace, and Miss Har
den was clad in lilac silk. Miss
Harden was assisted in receiving
the guests by Mrs. R. L. Loftin,
who wore a Hack gernadine.
Mrs. Davis wore cream silk m i ll .
Miss Harden an 1 Mr. Fist er’s
guests were:
Misses W ill! » Sutlive, Fort
Gaines, Go.; Mattie Belle Chand
ler, Madison, Ga.; Daisy Harris
Roberta, Ga.; Mattie Settles,
Waycross, Ga.; Rosa Lee Thur
mand, Griffin, Ga.; Loye Dee.i;
Hulda Deen: Bessie Lott; Cleo
Brown; Luella Roan Malic Sayre.
Messrs. Fisher Dont; G. T. Bailey
Jr.; Bead: Geo. Tinner; W. A.
Wood; Randolph Relihan; Car
roll Rdihan; Leon Roan; E. L.
Grantham; Wilcox: 11. G. Fisher;
Geo Stanton; Dustin Holland.
t is oi: tion Notice.
The firm of Cole & Williams, com
iosed of W. R. C >le, and M. Williams,
engaged in the mercantile business, in
Nieho s, Coffee county, Ga., has been
resolved, M. Williams retiring from the
irrn, and W. K. Cole assumirg all iia
lilitie'., collecting all debts and con
in-ieinT the business. This January
15th. 1907.
M. WILLIAMS.
THE U- D. C. IN SESSION.
Ne v Officers Elected and an In
teresting Program Arranged.
Robert E. Lee Chapter U. U,
C. held a most intersting meeting
at the home of Mrs. W. W. M*-
Donald, January 19th, the princi
pal business being the election ot
officers for the year, and conf
pleting arrangements for the cel*-
bratian of Lee’s Birthday.
The following officers werp
elected;
Mrs W. W. McDonald President.
Mrs. S. Powell, Ist Y’ice-Presi
dent.
Mrs. J. L. She'tm, 2nd Vico-
President.
Mrs. Turner Brewer, Recoup
ing Secretary.
Mrs. J. W. Quincey, Corre#-
ponding Secretary.
Mrs. H. C. Welchel, Treasurer.
M rs. Frank Appleby Registrar.
Mrs. W. P. Bellinger, Historian
The next regular meeting w ill
be Historical meeting, January
23, and the subject is, “Alfred
Holt Colquitt, bor i in Walt* n
county, Ga., April 24, 1824, died
in Washington, D. C., March 26,
1894.
PROGRAM.
Prayer.
Music—Mrs. Powell.
Roll call—Response with a quo
tation from an / ai t tor.
Questi >ns cn ColquLt:
1. Give ancestry of A. H. Col
quitt; tell of his childhood, edu
cation, graduation and < 1 osen
profession. —Mrs. Dart.
2. In what war did he first dis
tinguish himself, and wl at rank
did he hold?—Mrs. John Hall.
3. Who was the youngest c< i>
gressrnan ever elected in Georgia
and what was his age?—Mrs.
Whelchel.
4. In what year did he serve in
the Georgia Legislature?—Mrs.
Markey.
5. What was his attitude in n -
gard to secession ?—Mrs. Appleby
6. At the beginning of the war
between the states what rank did
he enter the army, and what pro
motions did he gain? What Geor
gia regiments di l he command ?
—Miss Mae Dart.
7. Descaibe the battle of Olua
tee; tell what sobriquet General
Colquitt won, and what Georgia
regiments were with him on this
battle field. - Mrs. Powell.
8. In what other battles did he
figure prominently? Mrs. Ham
mond.
9. When was Colquitt elected
governor of Georgia, and whom
did he succed?—Mrs. J. S. Lott.
10. What distinguished Geor
gian came forward in Colquitt’s
second gubernatorial campaign
and threw the whole weight of
his “high character, poetic diction
and matchless eloquence” in the
I scale for Colquitt?—Mrs. J. W
Quincey.
11. In what year of his a Imin
istration did Georgia come pi emi
nently before the world in the
International Cotton exposition V
Tell of wha; event, (Chapter 63,
Georgia Land and People.) Mrs.
Turner Brewer.
12. How long did he serve as
governor of Georgia, and when
elected to United States .-enate ?
I —Mrs. Lawson Kelly.
Tell of his eharaei r: describe
his death and i, vk;
Music M 5. To >T ox.
Reading on LTo <T iquifct—
Mrs. iioke Dav i.
Sera p Book Sek -lion —Mrs.
I Shelton.
A Business fleeting.
At a meeting of the Progress
ive Union last Tuesday night at
the resid nee o: M s. T. B. Mar
shall, a committee was appointed
composed of Rev. L. A. Hill,
Prof Jap McDonald, Prof. Melvin
Tanner, Dr. W. C, Bryan and
Mrs. T. B. Marshal: to draft con
stitution and by-laws and report
at next meeting, winch will he
held at the home of Mr. Marshall
next Thursday night week, Jan
uary. 24th.
Prof Jap McDonald was elected
a delegate to represent the local
Union at a district meet ng of
delegates to be held at Mcßae
next Monday night.