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VOL. 17, NO. 39.
Dougsas Baptis! Ciiurcli Notes,
ALEXIS D. kenurick, Pastor.
Postal card pictures of the new
church can be purchased from
the protographer a t 5 cents each.
Within the next few days we
hope to be ready to receive bids
for the new church and pasto
rium.
All of the services were well
attended Sunday. The Sunday
school numbered 140, and the
night service comfortably filled
the house.
Sunday night at 7 o’clock the
pastor will continue the series of
sermons on “The Second Coming
of Christ.’’ As he did not con
clude the sermon last Sunday
night on The Personal Reign of
Christ on earth, he will continue
the same subject Sunday night.
The large congregations that
hear these sermons show that
the people are interested in the
subject.
A place has been secured to
have the entertainment of the
Baraca-Philathea Sunday school
classes, and one night during
the week after the third Sunday
in this month the entertainment
will take place. The literary
feature will be held at the
church, and the public will be
invited. The refreshments will
be served in the telegraph store
room, and only the members of
the two classes will be present.
We hope to have with us at this
time Mr. Will D. Upshaw, editor
of the Golden Age, and he will
make an address at the church.
The two classes now number
nearly one hundred young men
voung ladies.
vve are expecting Rev. Dr. J.
J. Bennett, Correspondent Sec
retary of the State Mission Board,
Thursday. Dr. Bennett has nev
er made a visit to our town and
church, and his coming means
much to our work in Douglas.
The pastor’s Adult Bible Class
was organized in the Sunday
School Sunday. We are anxious
to have a large number of men
in this newly organized class, and
a cordial invitation is extended
to all men not in Sunday School
to come and join the class. The
lesson for Sunday is “Abraham
Called To Be a Blessing.’’ Gene
sis 12:1-8. This being the begin
ning of the Hebrew Nation, the
lessons will be of special interest.
The pastor is arranging to hold
a series of Revival Meetings real
soon, and he desires his people
and all who are interested in the
spiritual welfare of our town to
join him and his church in prayer
and work to the end that great
good may be accomplished. The
date will be announced soon, and
also the name of the one who will
assist in the meetings.
The pastor will continue preach
ing Sunday mornings the special
sermons on “ ‘The Deepening of
the Christian Life.” We extend
a cordial invitation to all to these
services, and we especially insist
that the church membership be
present at these meetings.
The Sunday Tchool Teachers
Meeting at the pastors home each
Saturday afternoon is proving
quite helpful to all who attend.
Q recently one of our expert
v lri day School Secretaries said:
A teacher that will not attend
the Teachers Meeting is not in
terested enough to teach a class. ”
We are pleased to see our teach
ers attend so well as they do,
but hope to see every one present
a t every meeting when it is
possible for them to do so.
Agitation is the deadliest foe
of stagnation.
It’s hard to make your boy
believe the stories of your early
struggles.
FEARFUL CASE OF fIURDER.
i
Waycross Man Shoots His
Wife and Baby.
Waycross, Ga., January, 30. j
The most horrible crime this
section has ever had to record
was the killing to-night of Mrs.
Liles and the probably fatal
shooting of her 4-months-old
baby by her husband, H- E. Liles.
The shooting occurred just after
dark at the Liles place on Eads
street, in the center of the resi
dence section of the city.
There were no eyewitnesses to 1
the killing, but the evidence be
fore the corner’s jury to-night,
was to the effect that Liles
placed a double barrelled shot
gun to the left side of his wife’s
face and pulled the trigger.
Mrs. Liles had her babe in her
arms at the time, and as she fell,
the babe was droped. The
second barrel of the gun Liles
fired into the baby as it lay on
the floor, tearing its left arm off.
Liles is proprietor of a barber
shop here, and according to the
evidence of another family that
occupies part of the house in
which he resides, has often
beaten his wife during the past
few weeks and more than once
has threatened to kill her and
the baby.
This morning Liles came home
drunk and locked his wife up in a
room, telling her that neither
she nor the baby would leave
the house alive. Shortly after
he went to sleep, when Mrs.
Liles escaped with her baby, go
ing to the home of her uncle, Mr.
Henry Arrington, on Jane sTreet.
She told him that her husband
had threatened to kill her, but
latter in the day Mr. Arrington
thought he had settled the
trouble by Mr. Liles, promisi.ig
to agree to allow his wife to go
to her formerly home near Moul
trie.
Late this evening, Mrs. Liles
walked with her husband up
town. He stopped in a restaur
ant and secured his shot gun,
and the two returned home to
gether. It was immediately af
ter they entered the front porch
of their house that the shooting
ocurred.
When officers arrived, Mrs.
Liles was Bing on the porch with
the side of her head blown away
and the baby was on the floor
nearby, with its arm shot off.
The powder had blackened the
wound of Mrs. Liles’ and her
hat was set on fire.
Liles was standing near his
wif’s body when arrested and
did not seem to be very much
worried over the matter. He
said that he dropped his gun and
that the shooting was an acci
dent. He was not drunk when
arrested, but seemed to be re
covering from his debauch of
this morning.
Won Out.
“So you want my daughter,
do you?” said the proprietor of
the newspaoer to the young man
who was sitting nervously on the
edge of a chair in the parlor, ac
cording to the Milwaukee Sen
tinal.
“Yes, sir.”
“Have you spoken to her on the
subject?”
“She’s willing, sir, and refer
red me to you.”
“How do you know you love
her?”
“How do I know!” gasped the
young man. “I give you my
word, sir, that I haven’t eaten a
square meal in two months, and
sleep is almost out of the question
for thinking of her.”
“Young man, there’s some
style to that talk, I think you
may come into the family. I
need a man of your ability to
swear to the circulation of my
paper.”
Douglas, Ga., Ferbuary 9th, 1907.
UP TO DATE TREATHENT OF
DISEASE.
The Use of the X ) Ray In Diagnos
ing Disease, and Some Other
Interesting Facts.
A reporter of this paper drop
ped into the office of Fitzgerald’s
Specialist, Dr. Emmett V. Ball.
It seemed to be the Doctors busy
day. There was patients enough
to represent most every ill flesh
heir to. The skillful manner in
which the doctor manipulated
the complicated instruments,
was very interesting. Many of
the patients were examined by
X. Ray. It was astonishing how
quick a complicated case could
be diagonized. After one or two
questions, the doctor seated them
in front of the tube and, in two
minutes was telling them their
precise trouble. One very inter
esting case was what is known
as hour-glass-stomachs. The
patient was given bismuth, which
enables one to see the out-lines
of the stomach very plain. The
stomach was in the shape of an
: hour-glass, aud also very much
enlarged. This patient had been
treated for almost every named
disease. There were many in
teresting cases, some were of the
I eye, ear and nose.
The doctor was very kind, to
all, and it A’as a pleasure to see
him work. I should have liked
| to have remained all day, but my
time was up, so thanking the
| doctor I taken my leave, promis
ing to call another day’—Fitz
i gerald Enterprise.
W. G. Brantley.
The following from the Savan
nah Press will be read with in
terest by Mr. Brantley’s friends
■!1 ove 1 ' the district. It is always
pleasant to know that our public
men are appreciated away from
home as well as here where they
are well known.
“The people in the Eleventh
district still believe in Brantley.
The truth of the matter is there
is no abler man in congress to
day than William G. Brantley of
Brunswick.”'—Darien Gazette.
The Gazette has not overstated
the matter. Congressman
Brantley is probably the leader
of the Georgia delegation and
one of the ablest men from the
South. His influence is very
preceptible in Washington, and
South Georgia, especially, re
gards him with great confidence
and admiration. He has been
in congress a long time and
should the Democi’ats come into
power in the lower house he
would be chairman of a very im
portant committee. Mr. Brant
ley is heard from on all impor
tant questions and his advice is
not only regarded by his consti
tuents but is accepted generally
by the delegation. In fact,
should the Hon. Sharp Williams
be promoted to the United States
senate, Mr. Brantley is looked
upon as one of the possibilities
as minority leader of congress,
or as one day being speaker of
the house. The new Eleventh
district is fortunate in always
having had representatives like
Henry G. Turner and William G.
Brantley. They have followed
the rule of keeping a good man
in office, for each year that he
stays there his experince
boardens, and his capacity ripens.
He is a power for good and for
usefulness.—
Strangely enough Senator For
aker does not take kindly to the
appointment of a negro to a high
federal position in Ohio. To hear
Foraker talk one would believe
that Roosevelt had only to appoint
a negro to any position to win the
eternal friendship of the Fire
Alarm statesman of the Buckeye
state.
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The Baptist Church.
We are giving this week a cut of the new Baptist Church, plans
adopted by the building committee. This will make a very hand
some church and will be a credit to the town of Douglas, and would
be creditable to towns much larger than Douglas.
The plans and specifications will soon be ready for the contrac
tor, and as soon as this is Gone the work*will begin and be pushed
as rapidly as possible.
The church will be built on the large lot purchased from Mr.
G. W. Deen on the corner of Ward street and Gaskin avenue.
Mr. G. W. Thompson, the Architect, will be here in a few days
to submit final plans and specifications.
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The Chinaman’s New Year comes on February 12th. Den hee
playee, eatee and have a good time.
Hawkinsville intends to have an ordinance passed to keep dogs
off the streets. Now, Hawkinsville is trying te put on airs.
The Atlanta News has been suspended, the office, contracts,
&e., will be filled by the Georgian, which now appears as the
Georgian and News.
Rose & Co., of Atlanta, had a thousand dollar fine stuck to ’em
last week for soliciting orders for whiskev in a neighboring town.
That must have taken all the profit.
The Ooera pn?fo'-mance of the Andrews company at the Audi
torium of the Institute last week was the best ever seen in Douglas.
Martha will be welcome on her return.
Carrie Nation, the great barroom smasher, is in Atlanta this
week, on the stage in “Ten Nights in a Barroom.” Atlanta always
gets the most prominent people and frauds.
The Ben Hill County News, published at Fitzgerald by Clarence
G Lee and u,_H. Brightman, is before us, in its first number. Both
are gentlemen of experience and will make a good paper if they
are encouraged.
Some of the newspaper people now complain that the details
of the Thaw murder trial, now in progress, must be thrust upon
the average reader. These same newspaper people do not wait for
it to be thrust upon them but hunt it up with anxiety and growl if
the mails go wrong and cheat them of the precious morsel.
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Letter From L. A. Hill.
Last week’s letter was badly mixed up and it is not my pur
pose to seek to correct them now, for I suppose all intelligent read
ers were able to note them and know what ought to have been.
Of course Dr. Bryan would put the mistakes off on me and say it
was my bud writing or else on the printer, saying that she failed to
follow corrected proof. Well God bless the printers, they are not
held responsible for the mistakes they make and those the other
fellow makes too !
Now to get back to our subject of last week, I will start off
by saying “thank God for the child labor law of the great state of
Georgia.” Thousands of little children now have an opportunity
to get an education because of this law. It was always a sad sight
to me when a boy in Macon Ga, to watch the large number of small
children going to and from a cotton factory. I have seen large
strong, able bodied fathers carrying dinner to the factory for the
children. It was true of that home ‘ ‘every body works but father. ’ ’
Our law makers ought to go a step further now and let us have
canpulsor/ education and then we will at last, have caught step
with Japan in this respect.
Now to come closer home, yea to speak of conditions in Doug
las. allow me to say, we ought either to see that an effort is made
to change the small boy’s working here or else if it be necessary
for him so to do, let us provide a good night school for these boys.
There ought to be a good night school taught here, for the
benefit of boys, who are compelled to work. Because they are un
fortunate and have not the means back of them to enable them to
ge t the alvantages that others enjoy this should move us to pro
vide for them.
Let us open our eyes and look about us. Is there a necessity
for a night school here?. I can count nearly a dozen boys and that
number ought to move us to do this needed work. How many can
you court? What say the editors of our town papers on this sub
ject? Let them speak out in meeting on the subject, and this may
move our city fathers and our citizens to provide a good night
school. Sincerely,
L. A. Hill.
Atrocions Crime.
One of the most atrocions
crimes of southern Ga., was
committed at Waycross one day
last wee 3. H. E. Lile shot and
killed hi-16 year old wife, and
their four months old baby.
There is only one cause, atribut
ed for this killing, “Juice,” a
death dealing and reason robbing
concoction, that has been sold
them. We hope we will not
| have any “Juice Jints” here, the
! Express office and hand boys
i are bad enough.
Stray Cow.
Black cow, white spot in fore
head, white belly, white bushy
I tail. Heavy horns like a steer.
I Not marked. Notify with in
formation.
W. W. Cason,
1 Feb 9. 1907. Nichols, Ga.
SI.OO per Annum
Clerk Hup Court , 0L As .
SOCIATION.
Thirty-Third Annual Convention
Marietta, March 12-14, 1907.
The executive committee of
the Georgia Sunday School Asso
ciation met in Macon on Wednes
day last. Members of the com
mittee from Augusta, Atlanta,
Macon and Fairfax were present
and expressed gratification at
the progress of the work during
the present yeah The commit
tee were also much pleased with
the prospects, indicating greater
success in the year to follow than
ever before in the association’s
history. An invitation was re
ceived from the churches of
Marietta asking the association
•to hold its thirty-third annual
convention in that beautiful little
city. This invitation was unani
mously accepted and the dates
were fixed on March 12, 13
and 14.
At this convention special at
tention will be given to depart
mental work and therefore it
was agreed that one session be
devoted to the study of primary
work exclusively. At this ses
sion Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner
will speak, also Rev. Herman L.
Jones, of Macon. Mr. Jones be
ing an earnest student of modern
Sunday school methods, will un
doubtedly present many features
that will prove both interesting
and helpful.
The adult department, which
embraces that feature of Sunday
school work, which includes the
Baraca and Philathea movement
as well as all young men or young
women. Bible masses will also
receive careful consideration.
Mr. Walker White, of Atlanta,
who teaches a large class cl Phi
latheans, will be heard on the
Philathea work and Mr. A. B.
Caldwell, teacher of a large Ba
raca class, will discuss Baraca
work. Mrs. Bryner will also
speak at this sesionon “The New
A. B. C. D. of the Sunday school.
Teacher training, perhaps the
most important work of the Sun
day school, will be presented by
such able, earnest and consecra
| ted workers as Major Geo. P.
Butler, of Augusta, and Rev. J.
W. Stokes, of Dublin, Ga.
To the home department, that
branch of Sunday school activity
which carries the word of God
to the home; to such as for var
ious reasons are unable to attend
the teaching or the preaching
service of the church, special tal
ent will be given in the person
of Mrs. E. C. Cronk, who is with
out doubt the leader in the home
department movement in the
south and perhaps the United
States. Other speakers will as
sist Mrs. Crook in the discussion
of the home department. Such
noted speakers as Rev. S. R.
Belk and Rev. Junius W. Millard,
both prominent ministers of At
lanta, will deliver addresses dur
ing the convention. The Sunday
school workers of Georgia are to
be congratulated in having se
cured the services of Mrs. Mary
Foster Bryner for this conven
tion.
Mrs. Bryner’s experience is
world wide. She has not only
worked in every state in the
un’on, but has spent a consider
able time in Mexico and has tak
en active part at international
conventions held in Atlanta 1899,
Denver, Colo., in 1902, and To
ronto, Canada, in 1905. Mrs.
Bryner also attended the World’s
Fourth Sunday school convention,
which was held in the city' of
Jerusalem, April 17, 18 and 19,
1904 and delivered an address at
this convention.
Mrs. Bryner has visited many
places in Georgia and her coming
again will be glad news to att
who have heard her and those
who have not had this pleasure
will hail with delight the oppor
tunity of hearing her at the Mar
ietta convention.
(Copied from Augusta Chronicle,
Sunday, January 20, 1907.)