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VOL. 18, NO. 6.
Douglas Baptist Giiurcli Notes.
By ALEXIS D. KENDRICK, Pastor.
Wo have classes for all ages
and different grades in the Sun
day School. We want you to
become a regular member of a
■class.
At the B. Y. P. U. service at
10:15 A. M. Sunday those who
attend the state Convention at
Waycross this weak will report
the meeting. Mr. McLemore,
the leader of the B. Y. P. U. of
this state is expected to be pres
ent and make an address.
“Why More Men in Douglas
Do Not Attend Church,” must
have been an interesting topic,
judging from the large congre
gation Sunday night.
Rev. Mr. McLemore, the lead
er of the Baptist Young Peoples’
work of Georgia, has promised
to visit Douglas, and preach Sun
day morning at 11 oclock. Mr.
McLemore is a fine speoker, and
those who hear him will receive
some helpful instruction. We
especially urge the young peo
ple and parents to attend this
service.
The following young people
atteended the B. Y. P. U. Con
vention at Waycross A. D. Ken
drick, Melvin Tanner, Misses
Orr, Shappell, Paxon, White.
Gaskin, Rellihan, Thompson.
The Baraca- Philathea Ban
quet. will take place Tuesday
evening June 25. rAn interest
ing program will 'be rendered,
and a tempting menu awaits all
who are so fortunate as be either
a Baraca or Philathea. The
place will be announced Sunday.
On account of Mrs. Kendrick
being out of Douglas during July
and August, Miss Orr will return
home at Davisboro. The pastor
has found Miss Orr’s services
quite helpful in his work, and thq
treasurer of the church has been
greatly assisted in the church
financies. Miss Orr has made
nearly two hundred visits during
her two month’s work, secured
thirty-two Home Department
members for the Sunday School,
and looked after the church finan
ces. The church will doubtless
secure somi young lady who lives
in town to look after the church
finances and not before fall will
the services of a young lady for
full time be needed. Mrs. Ken
drick will leave June 28th, for
her parents home in Windsor
Connecticut. Again we wish to
call attention to the new feature
in our Sunday School work, the
Plome Department. This phase
of the Sunday School work is be
coming quite popular, and many
who do not attend the regular
session of the school take the
Home Department. This is the
plan: Once each month the sec
retary of this department carries
to ecery member one question
blank for each Sunday in that
month, and once during the quar
ter a lesson quarterly. At the
end of the month the secretary
calls for the reports as filled out,
and after examining them, she
sends a report card for work done.
Mrs. Dr. Whipple, will teach
the class in the Sunday School
that has been taught by Mrs.
Hall. Mrs. DuVall, will teach
the class that has been taught
by Miss Bailey. These classes
were without teachers on ac-
ROBERT E LEE CHAPTER U. D.C.
Program for June 26th, 1907, 4
O’clock P. M. at the Audi
torium*
Lord’s Prayer—ln unison.
Roll Call—To be aaswered with
quotations from Snakspear.
Business Meeting.
Instrumental Solo —Miss Irene
McDonald.
Quizing on State Program to be
conducted by Mrs. W. W. Terrell.
QUESTIONS.
1. When the secession ques
tion was agitating cur state,
what was advocated by T. R. R.
Cobb?—Mrs. Brooks.
2. Give an account of his career
up to this time.—Mrs. J. W. Quin
cey.
3. Describe his personal mag
netism, his love for children, his
literary attainments. Mrs. Turn
er Brewer.
4. What institution of learning
was elected through his influence,
and by what name is it called? —
Mrs. Tom Wilcox.
5. What does history record of
Cobb’s Legion?—Mrs. Whelchel.
6. When were Thomas R. R.
Cobb and his older brother, How
ell Cobb made brigadier generals?
Mrs. Hoke Davis.
7. Before the bombardment of
Fredericksburg what was the
strength of the federal army and
at what place did Burnside desire
to eat his Christmas dinner? Tell
of the disparity of forces.—Miss
Hortense Briggs.
8. When the battle of Fred
ericksburg was hotly raging and
General Lee sent word that the
position must be held, what was
General Cobb’s reply ?—Mrs. Tom
Hart.
9. Describe heroic conduct of
General Cobb in this battle, his
death, and its effect upon his
men. What other prominent
Georgians participated, and give
result of the battle. —Mrs. Frank
Appleby.
10. Where was General Cobb
buried 7 Describe his funeral
procession, and what great com
mander wrote a letter of condol
ence to Howell Cobb, in which
he sounded the merits of Georgia’s
lamented son?—Miss Hattie Pax
ton.
11. For what Georgia baby,
who afterwards became the wife
of a Georgia governor, was Camp
Birdie, in Virginia named?—Mrs.
J. L. Shelton.
12. General Cobb was the first
to codify the laws of Georgia,
which is said to be the “only
code in the United States where
the princip es of equity have been
reduced to a seiies of seperate
and distinct propositions having
the force and form of statutory
law.” When was this code ori
ginated and perfected? —Miss
AUie McCormick.
Scrap Book Selections—Miss
Dollie Freeman.
Please remember the date, June
26th, and all be present. The
business and historical meetings
are combined for the summer.
Mrs. Turner Brewer,
Rec. Sec.
Mrs. \V. W. McDonald,
President.
count of their former teachers
leaving the city for the summer.
Mrs. Kendrick, will secure a
supply teacher to take charge of
her class during July and Au
gust.
Douglas, Ga., June ?2nd, 1907. m
From Postmaster Overstreet.
Mr. Editor: Will you allow
me through the columns of your
paper to say a word to the patrons
now being served from this of
fice by the rural carriers. I have
just completed visiting all of the
routes and find that there could
be some improvements made,
which will be done as soon as
possible. I find that the roads
on said routes are in very poor
condition, and I hope that the
patrons will assist me by chop
ping out a root and filling in the
ruts, as I will endeavor to get
the County Commissioners to put
them in first class condition soon,
thereby giving you the benefit of
a good road and the privilege of
dispatching and receiving your
mail more promptly.
These rural routes are for your
convenience and it is the desire
of the carriers to please their pa
trons, and to give you satisfac
tion, therefore I hope you will
appreciate the service enough to
secure a box, if you haven’t one,
and patronize the service of the
rural routes.
I notice one thing that is being
practiced by some of the patrons
that will have to be excluded,
that is the sending of packages
from one box to another, and to
and from town by the carrier
without the postage being paid.
The regulations require that pos
tage be placed on all packages
under four pounds at the regular
rates. You h 'Y no more right
to ask the carrier to accept and
deliver these packages any more
than you would have to go to the
Postoffice and ask that the pack
age be sent to the next office
without postage.
The carriers are supplied with
stamps and material and are pre
pared to do practically the work
that is being done in the Post
office, hence they are a traveling
Postoffice. The carriers may
carry such packages that weigh
over four pounds, provided that
the hire is paid for by the pur
chaser. Though it is the desire
of the carriers to be courteous to
everybody and will do these
favors if possible.
Respectfully,
J. F. Overstreet,
Postmaster.
Will Johnson Hanged.
Will Johnson, the arch demon,
murder and rapist, was hanged
in Atlanta, last Friday. Not
withstanding the multiplicity of
the enormous crimes he confess
ed to have committed he assured
his audience, in an address from
the gallows that he had a hope
that he would meet God in peace.
He confessed to assaults upon
two married ladies, and two
young girls, kiiling two men and
trying to kill another. He
gouged one of the young ladies
eyes out, beat her and her sister
terribly and for this crime an
other negro is serving a term of
forty years, but of course, will
be pardoned now.
The Union Wants to Debate.
The Farmer’s Union has issu
ed to the Georgia Bankers’ As
sociation, a challenge to debate
the question of immigration.
The Union has more than once op
posed immigration, and now asks
the bankers to send orators for
debaters to be held at Monroe,
Sandersville, Cordele, Barnes
viille and Rome, between July 1
and 20.
Program of General Meeting.
The General meeting of the
Smyrna Baptist Association will
meet with Rehobath Baptist
church, on Fridav before the sth
Sunday in June 1907.
2:30 P. M. ORGANIZATION.
3:00 p. m. “The Individual
Duty of Each Church Member.”
—Q. A. Smith.
3:30 p.m. “The Profit of Bible
Study.” -S. G. Taylor.
4:00 p.m. “What Part of The
Bible Would Not be Taught If
the Baptists Did Not Teach It ?
—M. A. Love.
NIGHT.
7:30 p. m. “Introductory Ser
mon, By James Vining, Alt.,
-S. G. Taylor.
SATURDAY MORNING.
9:30 a. m. “Devotional Ex
ereises.
10:00 a. m. “Did John the
Baptist Baptise Any of the Di
ciples of Christ ?”—H. M. Meek.
10.30 a.m. “What is Fore Or
dination and Election ? And How
Are We Elected ?”—M. A. Love.
12:00 m. Dinner on Ground.
1:30 p. m. “Song Service.”
2:00 p. m. “Missions.”
“Ist State Missions.”
—A. D. Kendrick.
2:30 p. m. “Home Missions.”
—G. A. Bartlett.
3:00p. m. “Foreign Missions.”
—H. M. Meek and A. S. Minchew.
Question Box.
7:30 p. m. “Sermon.”
SUNDAY MORNING.
9:30 a. m. "Song Service.”
10:00 a. m. “Sunday School
Mass Meeting” Conducted by
—Rev. S. G. Taylor.
"11:00 a. m. “Missionary Ser
mon.” —Rev G. A. Bartlett.
SUNDAY NIGHT.
7:30 p. m. Sermon —“Power
of the Gospel.” —M. A. Love.
We are expecting a large at
tendance and all folks who will
come on Friday will be met at
Waltertown with conveyance. So
come one, come all.
A. S. M inchew, (
H. M. Meek. Com.
It Rained Fish in Hissouri.
Independence., Mo., June 13. —
During a downpour of rain
two tons of small silver colored
fish closely resembling mountain
trout fell from the sky here.
Although a few of the fish fell
in all parts of town the fall was
the heaviest over the public
square, which was covered with
a thin layer and where catch
basins carrying water to sewers
; were clogged, and the water
backed up and covered the side
walks. Hundreds of people
came out through the pouring
rain to see the fish. Nearly
everybody in Independence had
fish for dinner that evening.
Some of the fish were alive and
swam around briskly.
Rev. A. B. Finley at Hazlehurst.
Rev. A. B. Finley, by request,
will begin a series of meetings
at Hazlehurst on the sth Sunday
in June 1907. Everybody and
his wife, and those who have no
wives but want one mighty bad,
are invited to attend Bro. Fin
ley’s meetings.
“Job never sought relief in
suicide,” says a St. Louis
preacher. There are a lot of
other things Job neve*- did. For
instance, he probably never
waited until the middle of June
for spring come, and then
went on / -■ and shivering
some more '
SI.OO per Annum
Too Good For The Church.
Among the excuses given the
pastor of the Baptist church by
some citizen of Douglas last week
in answer to the question “Why
he did not attend church” was
that “the people who did not
attend church were as good or
better than those who did.”
Now that is the very man that
the church needs, and he is doing
God, the church and the people
great injustice in keeping away
from any church, in fact, it would
be a blessing to humanity if he,
or one of his kind would join
every church in the land, and by
his greatness, goodness and saint
ly personalty purify the member
ship of all of them.
What the church has lost by
not being able to secure, interest
and claim as a member the gen
tleman who gave this startling,
eyeopening excuse can only be
imagined and regretted. But—
“ While the light holds out to burn
the vilest sinner may return.”
Wants Rural Route Extended.
The people of Burkett Town is
likely to be put to some incon
venience about getting their mail
as they have been left entirely
out of the proposed R. F. D.
route from Nichols, Ga. Would
it be possible for the R. F. D.
route running toward Hazlehurst
from Douglas to be extended so
as to give us our mail handy ?
The people of this section read a
good many newspapers and other
periodicals and would read a good
many more if they could get their
mail handy. Let us hear from
that end of the line and if pos
sible we will start the ball to
rolling and get up the route.
Citizen.
The Enterprise takes pleasure
in calling postmaster Overstreet’s
attention to the above, and re
quests that he do all in his power
to accommodate those people
over there, and w r e are sure he
will.
Rural Routes Discontinued.
The failure of rural route pa
trons to keep their roads in a
passable condition has resulted in
the discontinuance of the Rural
Free Delivery service in many
portions of the country. The
Department holds that there is
no excuse for roads to be in such
a deplorable condition as some
are, and in order to enjoy the
benefit of free delivery, rules
that the patrons must see to it
that the route is kept in a fair
state of repair.—Advocate.
We trust that there will be no
routes discontinued from Doug
las. This will speak badly for
the town and section through
which the routes pass. Every
one along these routes should at
least take the Enterprise and add
that much to the number of
pieces that go over that route.
Also some good semi-weekly pa
per. This is the greatest boon
to the farmer and if a section
onece loses a route it will be
many years before it can get re
instated. Don’t let the route go
down.
Senator Foraker says he does
not believe the negro soldiers
shot up the town of Brownsville,
Texas. Certainly not, the sol
diers are negroes and will vote
the republican ticket, the people
of Brownsville will not.