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The Douglas Enterprise.
VOL. 17, NO. 46.
Douglas Baptist Church Notes.
By alexis D. kendrick, Pastor.
The pastor will return from
the Bible Conference in Atlanta,
Saturday, and will preach at both
morning and evening services.
At the night service he will have
something to say of the Confer
ence and Gypsy Smith,
The Sunday School Teacher’s
Meeting will meet Saturday in
the Baraca Class Room at the
church. A full attendance is
expected and desired.
The pastor expects to meet the
children of the Sun Beam Society
at their meeting Monday after
noon.
The weather is getting pleas
ant, and one hour spent in the
church Wednesday evening at
the prayer meeting will be help
ful and interesting, at this meet
ing take some active part, and
do not forget the hour which is
7:30 o’clock.
Sunday is the last Sunday of
the first quarter, and at the Sun
day School each pupil will receive
a lesson help for the coming three
months. Let every old pupil be
present, and fifty new scholars
ought to be present and begin
for the next three month’s study
in the lessons which are proving
so helpful and interesting. We
have classes for every age, and
teachers who are competent to
instruct in the things of the Bible.
We would like to have the men
\ join Dr. Bryan’s class, the ladies
Col. Brigg’s class. We have a
Baraca class for young men and
a Philathea class for young ladies.
At this time we have a number
of visitors, strangers and new
comers in Douglas. To them we
extend a most cordial invitation
to our church and Sunday School
services. This church and pastor
tries to make those who come
to our services feel at home and
your presence is desired. Come
to our services, make your self
known to the pastor and people.
The services of this church is not
for mere form and coldness.
We want you to come and take
some part in every service.
Nashville News Notes.
The grand jury has returned
about thirty true bills up to the
hour the Herald goes to press.
Mr. Major Brown, one of the
linemen putting up the telegraph
wires from Hazlehurst to Sparks,
was in Nashville Tuesday. lie
said they would reach Nashville
with the line by the middle of
next week.
During the Presbyterian servi
ces which closed Monday night,
three united with that church.
It is thought that a local organi
zation will be perfected soon, and
that regular monthly services
will be held.—Herald.
Buy a Home In Douglas Park.
If you want some beautiful
lots in “Douglas Park,” see W.
C. Bryan, Manager, of The Bryan
Realty Co. We are arranging to
give some fine bargains in this
part of Douglos. We sell you
lots with satisfactory terms, and
also build you a house, if desired.
This is going to be the best and
most desirable resident section
of Douglas.
A Revival Needed.
Allow me this week Bro. editor,
1 to write on the above subject, in
view of the fact that the Meth
odist church will have a series
of revival services, beginning
the first of May. Already the
announcement has been made
that we are expecting Mr. Chas.
N. Crittenton, the millionaire
Evangelist, and his field secre
tary Dr. Walker Lewis, to assist
in the meeting. These men are
too well known for me to enter
into a discussion of them, es
pecially as I have something
more important to write about.
Douglas needs a revival. The
Methodists needs it, but God
pity us if we would undertake to
have a revival with no othdr end
in view than to help Methodists
and help to make Methodists.
No, if we are to reach the masses
of every name and order, and of
no name or order, then let us
take them into consideration in
making and carrying out our
plans. Let us like our Lord,
love the whole world of lost sin
ners and seek their salvation.
Some in our town have never
been reached and for these we
should be anxious and hopeful,
that they may be saved.
We need in order that we may
have a meeting of power, deep,
pungent conviction for sin.
You will never see powerful con
versions until there is this kind
of conviction. Oh that the
Spirit may convict of sin, right
eousness and judgement to come.
Men are in peril and do not rea
lize it. They are on their way
to Hell and think little about it.
They are dead in trespasses and
sins and think that they are
alive. Eyes have they, but they
see not, ears have they, but they
hear not. Oh that men may be
made to see themselves, their
God, and their possibilities if
but shved from their sins. If
men had as much desire to be
saved as they have to be rich,
what changes would be seen
here. We need a conviction as
Christians of the importance of
our work, and then we would
all become fishers of men in
stead of fishing for money and
honor and favor and possessions.
May the Lord convict the church
and the outsider. The sinner
within and the sinner without.
S They both need it in order that
j they may be saved.
We all need to wake up. Now
! in this meeting some people are
going to wake up mad. Do you
not know that if a man has been
asleep along time and you dis-
I turb his slumbers that he is lia
ble to wake up mad with you?
So it is in our spiritual awaken
ing, but never get uneasy when
a man wakes up mad, for it
shows that he is waking up and
that he has enough life to assert
itself, and all he needs is a new
life, one hid with .Christ in God.
Mr. Wesley used to ask his
preachers when they came in to
report of their preaching, “Did
any get saved? Did any get
mad?” and if no one found
Christ and no one got mad, then
he pronounced the preaching a
failure.
Douglas needs to he awaken,
not on making money, not on so
cial lines, but on spiritual mat
ters.
Dear reader, are you wide
Douglas, Ga., March 30th, 1907.
A NEGRO’S TALE OF WOE.
A Convict From Brooks ’Gang
Found in Bad Fix in Thomas
v i lie.
If the tale told by Buck Stores,
a negro, is true, there may be
an investigation and startling
revelations as to the conduct of
convict camps in Brooks county.
Stores was discovered Saturday
night at Thomasville by local
officers lying in the street, clad
in convict garb, with shackles on
his feet. He was taken in charge
and found to be suffering from
pneumonia.
The whole top of his scalp had
been crushed in, and he is not
expected to live. He says that
his time had expired at Williams’
convict camp in Brooks county
at Barney; that his wound was
caused by the guard beating him
over the head with a rifle, and
they turned him loose in stripes.
If this is true, the camp has
violated several laws. The negro
was sent up from Grady county
and was subleased to the Williams
camp. The Grady county officials
do not know whether his time is
out.
An investigation of the case
will be made by Thomas county
officers.—Valdosta Times.
LETTER TO S. O. TURRENTINE,
Douglas, Georgia.
Dear Sir: Take a two-story
house and reckon the cost with
different paints; you will be sur
prised. Say the house has a
total of 3210 square feet.
Divide by 300; you buy 11 gal
lons. That’s the rule; but it
never comes-out so.
Buy any other paint than
Devoe, you will have to buy more,
up to possibly 22 gallons. Paint
Devoe and you’ll have a gallon
or two to return. Here are some
experiences:
N. R. Watkins, Lott, Texas,
used 13 gallons on his house be
fore; bought 13 gallons Devoe
for same house and had 6 left.
C. B. Edwards, of Edwards &
Broughton, printers, Raleigh N.
C., used 30 gallons paste paint
on his house; bought 30 gallons
Devoe for same house and had
16 left. Go by the gallons.
Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co.
Watt & Holmes Hardware Co.
sell our paint.
LETTER TO J. C. BREWER,
Douglas, Georgia.
Dear Sir: Why do people send
us such tales as this ?
D. G. Smith, Madison, Fla.,
had his mother’s house painted
Devoe 11 years ago, and the house
looks better to-day than other
houses painted with other paint
3 or 4 years ago.
They are full of goodwill for
Devoe.
Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co.
Watt & Holmes Hardware Co.
sell our paint.
A foolish man indeed is he who
will fire his house to secure light
by which to write a sonnet to
his mistress’ evebrow.
awake? Awake thou that sleep
est and arise from the dead and
Christ shall give thee light.”
More on the same subject next
week.
Sincerely,
L. A. Hill.
Looking Southward.
There are many indications that
the population of the Southern
; States will increase much more
rapidly during the next few years
i than ever before. The develop
ment of Southern industries is
not only drawing immigraiion
from the Northern States and
from Europe but it is also draw
ing Southern labor from farms
and plantations to the towns and
the consequence is that there .is
at present an active demand in
this section for labor of all kinds
including farm labor.
The flow of population into
these states has already been
large but it will be still larger
when the advantages offered by
the South are better understood.
One of the principals of these
advantage is the mild and healthy
climate that prevails in almost
every locality in the South. The
summers are little if any warmer
than in the Northern States and
the winters are not nearly so se
vere.
This means a great saving in
every household for fuel and
clothing and the same weekly
wawes will support a family in
the South much better than it
will in the Nortn. New England
cotton mill owners are aware of
this and other advantages offered
by the South and realize that if
they are to hold their skilled la
bor they must pay higher wages
than the Southern mills. The
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistic
has noted the superior advantage
of the South, and, in its last an
nual report, said: “When the
European immigrant finds what
excellent oppornities exist for
him in the South the tide of im
migration will undoubtedly turn
in that direction.
Increased population of course,
means grater prosperity, not on
ly for the manufacturing estab
lishments that secure needed
labor, but also for the farmers
who secure an enlarged home
market for their products. This
in turn calls for more farm labor
the supplying of which is one of
the most difficult problems with
which the South is confronted.
It is not probable that farm labor
can be drawn very largely from
the Northern States and Europe
must be looked to.
Hence immigration is the com
ing problem of the South, and
the States that get the best start
in this direction are the ones that
will profit most.
What Others Think of Us.
Last week, at the big lot sale
of the Leader Land Co., Mr. C.
R. Porter, President of the State
Mutual Life Insurance Co., of
Rome, Ga., bought a large num
ber of lots, and expressed him
self as being well pleased with
the future prospects of our town
and county.
Mr. Porter is regarded as being
ene of the best posted insurance
men in the country, and those
who are associated with him
place the utmost confidence in
his ability.
i The State Mutual Life has
1 shown our section considerable
favors and the possibilities for
this great company d:>ing great
good is very flattering.
Our town and county should
jbe congratulated on the good
luck of getting such men as Mr.
SI.OO per Annum
Douglas Should Have One.
Valdosta, Quitman, Thomas
j ville and several other towns in
! Southern Georgia have seen the
i necessity of providing for the
comfort and convenience of
farmers and their families when
o'a a shopping expedition to
town, and have arranged wagon
yards, where wagons, buggies,
&c. may be driven in off of the
streets, that roaming cows may
not steal the forage for their
own stock from their wagons,
and stalls and hitching posts are
provided their horses and mules.
In addition to provisions for the
wagons and stock are waiting
rooms, with toilet attachments,
and while the husbands and
brothers are trading the ladies
and children may find some com
fort while on a visit to the city,
in resting,’ and attending to the
children, for children need at
tention all the time and every
where, in town as well as at
home.
Some people in town will ob
ject to anything like this, but it
is simply a matter of business,
and a man that aids in the erec
tion of the acconmodations out
lined will aid in building up his
trade and doing something to
bring the reputation of the town
to the standard she deserves.
This is not a new subject, the
writer has urged the necessity
of such a departure for some
years, and the growth of the
town now demands it.
Bunn-Bell institute.
Rev. J. I. Oxford is here this
week in the interest of the Bunn-
Bell Institute, at Waycross, Ga.
This Baptist college is now being
fast completed, and will be one
of the best Institutions of the
kind in South Georgia. Land,
buildings and equipments will
cost about SIOO,OOO.
While this is a Baptist school,
it will be open to all. South
Georgia is making great progress
in the educational line.
The Local Paper.
The local paper should be found
in every home. No child should
grow up ignorant who can be
taught to appreciate the home
paper. It is said to be the step
ping-stone of intelligence. Give
your children a foreign paper,
which contains not a word about
any person, place or thing which
they have ever seen or heard of,
and how could you ever expect
them to become interested?
But let them have a home paper,
read of people whom they meet
and know, of places with which
they are familiar, and soon an
interest is awakened which in
creases with every arrival of
the local paper all their lives,
and they become intelligent men
and women, a credit to their an
cestors, and strong in the know
ledge of the world.--Western
Publisher.
If it were not against the law,
which of course they never vio
late, the railroads probably would
like to send the president passes
to go way off somewhere on a
long, restful vacation. —Spartan-
burg Journal.
Porter interested personally.
We hope that he will soon decide
to build a nice home in Douglas,
to occupy it when business will
allow him time for recreation.