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VOL. 17, NO. 48.
Douglas Baptist Church Notes.
By Alexis D. kendrick, Pastor.
The Baraca- Philathea, debate
will take place Friday evening
April 19th. at the Baptist church,
and the public is invited. The
subject chosen for the debate
is “Resolved that Abiaham
was a greater man than Moses.”
The new 7 officers for the Bar
aca Sunday School class for the
next quarter are the following:
Jonnie Williams, President, Vice
President, Mr. Frank Head,
Secretary and treasurer Verder
Roberts, Assistant Teacher,
Clifford Bartlett.
At the 11 o’clock, service Sun
day, those who were Paptzed and
those who have not received the
right hand of church fellowship
will be extended by the church
the right hand of church fellow
ship. We hope every one will be
present on this occasion.
Notwithstanding the storm
Sunday afternoon the Sunday
School met as usual and fifty re
ported present. The fact that
so many came through the storm
is good evidence that our School
has some who are deeply interes
ted in the study of the Bible.
Personally, we feel proud of
our band of faithful teacher
and regular pupils.
On next Sunday at the Sun
day School, the superintendent
will deliver to the teachers whose
classes have gained the most new
pupils during the past two months
several beautiful rewards, also*
to those teachers whose classes
have made advance during the
same time some token of ap
preciation will be given them.
Monday afternoon at 3:30
O’clock, the Young Ladies Mis
sionary Society will meet and
hold their first meeting since
the society was organized. It is
earnestly desired that a large
number of young ladies be pre
sent. The President Miss Hern
don, will lead the service, and
several others will take part, in
cluding a paper by the pastor’s
wife. The pastor is anxious that
every young lady of the church
and congregation will become a
member of this society.
Miss Dollie Freeman, is al
ways doing something to interest
and to entertain her Sunday
School class of girls, and the
latest w r as a Picnic at Gaskins
Springs last Monday.
To Our Contributions.
Once more we are compelled to
ask our contributors to send in
their favors not later than Wed
nesday noon. Those that are
held out later than that hour
will positively be left over
for the next week’s paper. We
are held back every week nearly,
on this account, and while we
are anxious to please, and want
the ne-vs, we intend to apply
this rule, and all contributes
coming in later will be side
tracked.
Better Times Coining.
Heavy frost for two mornings
this week has damaged crops
considerably. All cotton that
was up is dead. Corn may come
out. Fruit and gardens badly
injured.
Notwithstanding this, there is
a general feeling that this will be
one of our best years. We are
optimistic, and if the people of
our county will economize, this
fall will show the most prosperous
season we have had for some
time.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Arominta Daniel passed
from this to the next life March
25 1907, in the 82nd year of her
earthly life.
The deceased was the sister of
the late C. A. and Jack Ward,
and of Walton Ward who is a
resident of Coffee county, Bettie
Graham, of Hazlehurst and Desta
Ward and the=e three last are
the only living members of Mrs.
Daniel’s father’s family.
Mrs. Daniel was married first
to Mark Lott, a relative of many
of this name in this county. He
died during the Confederate war,
leaving the widow with nine
children, which she reared and
it is a remarkable fact that all of
these nine children had reared a
family of grown children before
any of them died.
Her second marriage was to
S. E. Daniel, and he died about
four years ago, leaving two child
ren, John, who died about a year
ago after being an invalid all his
life, and Tom Daniel who resides
in this city.
It is a great comfort to this
surviving son, Tom Daniel, that
he ministered to both his father
and mother as long as they lived,
the best he could, and from his
home, the dear mother bade
farewell to earth and its ties.
The deceased was a good Christ
ian and a member of the Metho
dist church for many years, and
she often said she was ready to
meet God and go to His judge
ment bar. After all the Christ
ian life is the only life worth
living. What a heritage to leave
the children, a noble, true Christ
ian life!
Mr. Wesley said “our people
die well,” and they do because
they live well.
May the grace and blessing of
God be upon those left on earth
and may there be a reunion in
Heaven. Her Pastor
L. A. Hill.
Coffee County News please
copy.
Camp Spivey 1539 U. C. V.
My dear Comrades—l wish to
call your attention to the fact
! that our next meeting will be
held in Douglas Ga., April, 26,
1907 memoral day, and that every
member of our Camp is expected
to attend.
We will have with us Rev. C.
0. Goodwin, of Forsyth Ga.
“Crosses of Honor” will be given
to all Veterans who have their
applications signed and sent in
to Mrs. W. W. McDonald to this
date all other Veterans wishing
crosses can get them June 3rd,
by getting application blanks
from Mrs. McDonald, President
of Robt. E. Lee, Chapter U. D. C.
ane filled out and properly signed
and returned to her, by tfie first
| of Mav, 1907.
Comrades, let us come together
! once more and have a good old
I hand shaking and mingle together
with the good people of Douglas,
and Coffee county for it will not
be many years before the place
that knows us now will know us
no more forever.
We expect you to come to
Douglas, on that day and bring
your families, the United Daught
ers of the Confedercy will serve
dinner for the veterans and their
families on the school grounds.
There will be a program arranged
for this occasion, (memoral day)
the U. D. C. will furnish the
music and resitations and the
U. C. V. will furnish the speak
ing, so let us all come out and
have a good time and don’t for
get the day, “memoral day,”
April, 26.
As ever your comrade,
Major A. D. Burke
Douglas, Ga., April 13th, 1907.
The General Meeting a Success.
Sunday, last closed tlm first
General meeting of the Smyrna
Association for the year. The
interest was good from the be
ginning and increased with each
service. Monday strong
speeches and sermons were de
livered and listened to by appre
ciative audiences. Brother H.
M. Meeks, the former chairman
called the meeting to order at 11
o’clock Friday and introduced
Brother S. G. Taylor who preach
ed a splendid sermon on the
Christian race. G. A. Bartlett
and H. M. Meeks were elected
chairman and clerk respectively
and Brother Cole treasurer.
The opening address by H. M.
Meeks was a strong one on why
should the Smyrna association
have a General meeting? Some
strong argument was offered in
favor of organizing a ministor’s
and workers council. The ser
mon in the evening was preach
ed by G. A. Bartlett and was
well received. M. A. Love de
livered the first address Saturday
morning on the “Character of
vangelical preaching” which
was a strong discourse G. A. Bart
lett followed this address with
one upon “methods of evangel
ism.” The regrets of the writer
are here expressed on account of
not having space in which to
present the readers of the En
terprise the strong and all im
portant points brought out in
the address. We believe how
ever, that much good will grow
out of them. In the afternoon,
Saturday Dr. Bryan of the En
terprise made an eloquent speech
upon the subject. ‘‘The
power of a newspaper for good
or evil.” Several of the Breth
ren took part in this discussion.
“The church and her interests”
was discussed next. This im
portant subject was divided in
to topics and assigned to difer
ent speakers as follows: “The
church” to H. M. Meeks; State
missions to Prof. Melvin Tanner;
Home missions, H. Meeks; For
eign was spoken to by M. A.
Love. These were all good
speeches and did credit to the
occasion. At night this subject
was continued by a strong ad
dress on Christian education by
M. A. Love. Sunday morning
the discussion was continued by
S. G. Taylor and Uncle Jim
Freeman on the pastor’s place in
the Sunday School, who both in
structed and entertained a large
and appreciative audiance. At
11 o’clock G. A. Bartlett preached
from Gal. 3: 26. “For ye are
children of God by faith in Christ
Jesus.” From this text the
preacher showed that the plan
of salvation is now just what it
has always been —“the just shall
live by faith.” At the close of
the sermon a liberal offering was
made to state missions. At 3:30
o’clock p. m. two deacons were
ordained for Union church. No
church or community can afford
to miss having such a meeting
as the one just closed at Nichols
if an opportunity is offered them.
No person can afford to miss a
meeting of the kind if it is pos
sible to be there.
A word about Nichols: This
is one of the “coming towns” in
this section of Georgia; two
banks, a fraternity hall, several
up-to-date stores, a good school,
two churches and various lum
bering plants in operation, sev
eral nice dwellings and business
houses under way of construc
tion. All this and more are some
of the signs which indicate that
Nichols is a good town and is
destined to be one of the first
towns in the section.
Yours, Alex.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart Entertain.
Quite an elaborate social func
tion of the season was the recep
tion given Tuesday evening from
8 to 9 and 9 to 12 o’clock by Mr.
and Mrs. Thos: S. Hart in com
pliment to their guests, Misses
Harden and McCall, of Quitman,
The house was decorated with
Palms, Ferns and cut flowers,
the color scheme being pink and
white. Mr. and Mrs. Hart were
assisted in receiving their guests
by Mrs. Comas and Misses Pax
son and Norman, while Miss
Luella Roan presided over the
“Punch Bowl.” The guests
were served with delightful re
freshments consisting of ice
cream and bonbons.
From 9 to 12 o’clock the young
people enjoyed the game of “A
Tournament of Harts.” Misses
Hall and McDonald were station
ed in the hall and gave each
guest a passport, a pink heart
for the girls and a white one for
the men, with a long ribbon to
match, by which it was suspend
ed about the neck, and by bak
ing on the passport each guest
discovered which table had been
drawn by number. When the
game was finished at the head
table a bell announced the change
of seats, and the heart of each
player who lost the hand was
pierced, those who won ceming
unscathed through the ordeal,
after nine games, time was called
and the number of wounds were
counted. The young man who
came unwounded, through the
series received for the prize, a
small picture frame, showing a
legued in place of a picture ‘ ‘For
your hearts dearest.”
The young man who received
the greatest number of wounds
received a whisk broom, and a
cord attached by a ribbon, the
winner found “Sweep not away
the hearts you’ve won, Not thus
my use you’ll find, I’m only
meant for you to sweep the cob
webs from your mind.”
The consolation for the lady
was a small box of kisses.
At a late hour, the guests de
parted, declaring they had spent
a most delightful evening.
Mrs. F. Willis Dart’s Picnic.
One of the most enjoyable oc
casions of the season was the
picnic at Gaskin Springs Monday
afternoon, given by Mrs. F. W.
Dart, in compliment to Misses
Harden and McCall, the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Hart.
After refreshments, the guests
at twilight bade Mrs. Dart good
bye. Those present were Misses
Harden, McCall, Rutherford,
Ward and Canova.
Messrs Stanton, Bailey, Fisher.
Dr. and Mrs. Terrell. Mrs. Dart
Mr. and Mrs, Hart.
Payments to Troops.
Governor Terrell announced
yesterday that Judge C. G. Janes,
of Cedartown, would begin today
or tomorrow at latest, paying out
to the Georgia troops who served
in the war with Spain, the extra
money which has been allowed
them by the United States Gov
ernment. Judge Janes wants to
get the addresses on postal cards
as fast as possible of those who
have claims on this fund.
No deduction will be made
from the amount due those sol
diers who receive $2 or less, it
having been arranged that the
officers will pay the expense of
disbursement to these. The cost
of disbursement will be about 5
per cent, but those receiving $2
or less will get all that is coming
to them.—Constitution 2nd.
The railroad presidents hesi
tate to visit the president for
fear he might have a brainstorm
in their presence.—Portland
Journal.
SI.OO per Annum
Nichols Items,
On last Sunday evening
Nicholls was visited by a cyclone
which struch the town without
Warning blowing down several
small houses and doing consider
able damage to the school build
ing rendering it unfit for use.
(The School is being taught in
the Methodist Church for the
present.)
Mr. Melton’s new residence
which was in course of construc
tion was blown down but fortu
nately no one was hurt.
Work on the new bank build
ing is progressing nicely.
Mr. J. S. King has been quite
sick for several days. We hope
to see him out again soon.
Mrs. Francis Thompson has
been visiting Col. and Mrs. N.
M. Pafford the past week.
Mrs. J. B. Ellis has returned
home after visiting relatives
near Wilcox for two week.
Mrs. “Bud” . Tanner and
daughter Mrs. Wright of
Fales Ga visited Mrs. H. Tanner
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Street are
visiting relatives at Leliaton this
week.
Mr. Leonard Kirkland and
Miss Alice Rawlerson were mar
ried last Sunday P. M. .wonder
who’ll be - the next girl to capture
one of our widdows.
Badger Anderson is smiles
now its a girl.
The meeting at Union church
last Sunday was largely attened.
It would have done your soul
good to have been tftere and wit
nessed that true emblem of faith
Baptism. Twelve candidates
were baptized by our beloved
pastor M. A. Love.
We praise God for the moral
dignity of baptism How fair and
beautiful the farm of baptism,
an emblem of the death burial
and resurrection our Savior.
The type is so clear and restful
to those who are thirsting after
righteousness, and as we looked
on those young boys and girls
who have put on christ and have
said by their actions that they
will walk in newness of life our
heart swells’ with gratitude to
the great giver of all good and
perfect gifts.
After baptism we retired to
the church and listened to some
beautiful Music rendered by the
choir, those people at Union can
certainly be complimented on
good singing, then Bro. Love
entertained us with one of his
most impressive and instructive
sermons we think surely he is
the right man in the right place
and is reaping a good reward.
We join Bro. Love in asking
everybody to come over in Ma
cedonia (Nichol) and help us out
with our Sunday Schood what
we want is help and all of us
must help we want a school that
is uplifting, interesting and
helpful how are we to get it?
By being present every Sun
day instead of else-where giving
some of our time and energy,
having a good work to say to
those who should come. Pray
God to help us fight the great
battle. All work like big a un
dertaking but nothing is impos
sible to him that believeth.
Reward for Murderers.
Governor Terrell yesterday of
fered rewards of SIOO each for
Jack W r oodward and John Brooks,
alias “Nig” Brooks, to negroes,
each about 22 years old, who are
wanted in Meriwether county,
for the murder of Henderson
Gates, in January last.