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A doctor’s wealth is hot
always the reward of well do
ing: some patients die.
A breeze and a sneeze at just
the right time are pleasing to
men in most any old clime.
News! news is what we want.
Will you send us what you may
have? we can’t publish a paper
with out news.
The time some men waste over
a pipe and some women over
their hair would make many a
man a millionaire.
Cc fTee county should have at
least fifty thousand more people
Then there would be room for
that many more. Two hundred
and fifty thousand people could
liAe in Coffee County and then
not be two badly crowed.
Interest is fast growing in
the Progressive Union. The
Union meets every second
Thursday night in each month,
and is enjoyed by those who
attend. It means much to Doug
las. -If interested, join, you
arc invited to join.
The wise woman will call her
husband’s attention to the fact
that enough money has been
saved on fuel in March to buy
a very decent looking spring hat;
but she will say nothing whdt
ever about the proximity of the
ice taking season. —Cedar Rapids
Gazette.
We are contemplating a trade
edition of the Enterprise, some
time soon. We think that this
spring and summer will be a
good time for our people to do
sofne effective advertising of
resources. If the
merchants and business people
will give us a little support, we
will get out a good edition.
TANNER MERCANTILE COMPANY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in General Merchandise,
Douglas, Georgia.
Best Patent Flour,
$4.00 per barrel $4.10
In Cotton. at our store In Wood.
Money refunded If not Satisfied
Come at once. We want your busi
ness. Competition knocked higher
than a kite, in anything we handle,
and we handle anything from a four*
horse wagon to a fish hook.
We are headquarters for anything; you want. Remember, we
do more than meet competition.
TANNER MERCANTILE CO.
DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, MAY lltn, 1907.
The coronation robe of the
Empress of Russia is of fur and
weighs but sixteen ounces. It is
valued at $ 5 00 0.
Douglas will add at least one
thousand people each year. We
are beaded for a town of ten
thousand and there’s no way to
stop us.
Georgia has settled the peach
problem by fighting the frost
with fire, and that problem will
also make the state too hot
to hold the fruit-crop killers.
A Kansas woman, reading a
notice of her death in a news
paper, dropped dead. If you see
it in a Kansas paper it is some
times so.
The negro vote is the only
thing keeping whiskey in the
state of Georgia. We tried to
get a negro preacher to circulate
a petition in favor of Prohibition,
and he said he couldn’t sign if.
ar.d believed his church would
turn him out if he were to try to
get signers.
Spartanburg Journal: A Col.
orado man has just been jailed
for salting a $50,000 good mine.
Serves him right. The law is
hard on pickers in any walk of
criminality*'. He ought to have
gone after a trans-continental
road or something else worth
while.
We are glad to see that all
our contemporaries in Coffee
County are with us on the good
roads movement. The people of
the County can depend on the
nenspapers of the county doing
their duty towards the develop
ment. We have no little petty
fight between ourselves and are
all two busy to keep engaged,
as some papers do, in fighting
each other.
Some Difference in Location
Albany Herald:—Herein Geor
gia we are accustomed to making
more or less “allowance” for a
negro. We don’t hold him up to
the standard of citizenship in
many things, and when it comes
to public utillity and community
demands he is exempt. But it is
different at the north. Down
here we nevef think of pursuing
a negro with a fi fa for poll tax.
If he is not a property owner
and returns no personalty or
realty for taxation, no effort is
made to run him down for poll
tax. Not so in New Jersey. 'We
see in a Philadelphia paper where
m crippled negro—a crippled ne
gro, mind you -was imprisoned
in Burlington county, N. J., nine
months for non-payment of $1
for poll tax and $1.75 costs.
Nine months imprisonment of
a negro in New Jersey for non
payment of a noil tax! What
would happen if the tax officers,
constables and sheriffs down
here in Southwest Georgia were
to start out to collect poll tax
from all tne negroes 7 Our jails
woulden’t hold the delinquents.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., and his
show, “The Clansman,” has
opened with the Exposition at
Jamestown, for the full period
of the exhibition. He also
offers SIOOO to any one who will
point ouc a single historical
error in the construction of the
plot of The Clansman.
Turpentime took a slight drop
in the market last Monday, but
the demand is so steady that
that a further decline is not
expected. Jls /
nundre.
A yd s ictory near Paris
turns s>oo,ooo quills
; annually. wor Jfhe largest plant
i of its k’ncg world.
Furnitiire.
One of our stores is literally loaded with all grades
Household m Kitchen Furniture,
at the right price. We buy in car-load lots and
therefore sell cheaper than anyone else. Then
why not buy that Suit of Nice Furniture for your
wife. Your credit is good.
Subscribe for the Doug
las Enterprise.
Notice to the Public.
“LEON,” the German Coach Stal
lion, will be in Douglas during court
uT V week, and every first Monday.
DOUGLAS HORSE COMPANY,
Douglas, - = = Georgia.
EVER CREASE
Pressing' Club,
RATES:
Rates, membership, per month, allowing four suits-- $1 00
Pressing Suits \SO
Cle m and Press 75
Ladies’ Skirts 50c and 75c
Altering and Repairing Done. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Phone 138 lW 6TO PiTSSIIIO Gill!).
B. PETERSON, THOMAS GRIFFIN, ELIAS LOTT SR
Pres Cashier. ' Vice Pres.
Peterson Banking Company.
(Not Incorporated)
CAPITAL = = = = = $30,000.
Every facilty offered our customers consistent with proper
Banking principles.
Acounts of individuals, firms and incorpation
Solicited
Douglas ----- Georgia.