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Xshe Douglai Enterprise.
DOUGLAS PRINTING CO., Proprietors.
W. C. BRYAN, .... Editor.
Entered as second-class matter October 20 1005 at the Post Office
at Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congre/s of March 3, 1897.
SATURDAY, JULY 20th, 1907.
Official Organ of Coffee County and City
of Douglas,
The Fanners Union.
There are those who say that the Farmers Union will never
amount to anything in this county, and by their negligence and
method of throwing cold water on the only movement that now
offers anything to the farming class of people, will drive away
from Douglas some of the county’s best trade. There are other
sections of the county that are awake to the fact that the business
of the country people is second to none and that it is worth going
after. They are going after it. Pearson contributed to the Union
a nice site, worth one thousand dollars and five hundred dollars in
money, and the balance of the money has been raised to build a first
class brick warehouse in the town of Pearson. Mr. Elliott has
been awarded the contract and will have it ready by the time it is
needed, and this means much for the Union people in that section.
Broxton will have a first class ginnery, costing more than
forty five hundred dollars, owned exclusively by the Union. ThU
means that many bales of cotton will be ginned in the town of
Broxton and sold there. It means that there is something in the
Union and that the people of the county that belongs to it, though
they be, as a rule, poor, are awake to their interests and that they
will do what they think will be best for them and that many to
gether can do as much as a few by standing together and co-opera
ting for their best interests.
There will be a Union warehouse built in Douglas, and the
stock is now ready, or about so, and the contract will soon be let
for the building.
The business people of Douglas had as well wake up if they
want the trade and the cotton of the farmers in their territory this
fall, unless they do it will be ginned and sold in the other towns of
the county that are looking and working for it. A thousand bales
of cotton handled in Douglas this fall more than the fall before,
means a increase in volume of business fifty thousand dollars, at
least, and do the merchants of Douglas propose to sit by and let
these things pass out from under them ? Oher people see the ad
vantages to be had by helping and standing by the Union. Other
towns are bidding for its trade. Does Douglas want it ? At least
that part of it that naturally belongs to it ? If so it is time that
some steps were being taken by the business men of the town to
bid for the cotton trade this fall. With our advantages, Douglas
should be a better cotton market than any other place in the coun
ty can afford to be. It should be marketed here at a higher'price
than any other town in the county can afford to pay for it. It
should be handled here by expert cotton men and samplers. A
business that can vary tne volume of business in this town fifty to
one hundred thousand dollars should be taken up and seriously con
sidered by our business people. Do they want this business ? It
can be had if prooerly worked for. Will our business people try to
get it ? The Farmers Union is not a political organization, as
many believe, but it is a business organization, and it means busi
ness. It will have to be handled in a business way by business
people.
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Sub Experiment Station.
It is generally understood that the legislature will pass a biil
providing for a sub-experiment station in southern Georgia. Mr.
Deen, senator, has introduced and had passed a bill providing that
this station shall be located at Waycross, with an apporpriation of
fifteen thousand dollars. This bill, as we said, has passed the sen
ate and will soon come up in the House.
We take issue with Mr. Deen as to the location of this station.
We believe that it should be located at Douglas, since the Agricul
tural College has been located here, since Ware county is not a
farming county, and no cotton handled at Waycross, and a very
small amount of farm products, except vegetables, and that Coffee
is distinctively an agricultural county and the College has been lo
cated here and the two would work well together and be worth
more to this section of the state, more people being able to come
directly in contact with the station, who would be benefitled.
We respectfully urge our representative, Hon. C. A. Ward, to
amend this bill when it reaches the House, so that it will reach
Douglas instead of Waycross. This would be best ami far to the
farming interests of the state that is supposed to be benefitted by
this legislation. We urge our people to take up this matter with
Judge Ward and others wffio may be able to aid in locating this sta
tion here in Coffee county.
Wants a New County.
Underground wire to Enterprise.
Chatterton, Ga., July 18th
Delegation to Atlanta left this
morning by balloon, to urge upon
the legislature the necessity of a
new county on east side of Seven
teen mile creek, made of territory
between Possum Hollow and
Aligator Gulch.' Chatterton and
Saginaw are both pulling to be
come county-sites, but the odds
are in favor of Aligator gulch.
DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, JULY 20th, 1907.
For
Woman’s
Eye
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State Prohibition.
The State Senate, which has always opposed a prohibition bill, I
passed the Hardeman-Covington bill last week by thirty four to 1
seven. There are a great many arguments pro and con on this
most important question, but the large majority of the people of
the State want a State prohibition bill. The lower house will act
suon on the bill and if it passes the house, the Governor will sign
it, and we will have State prohibition after the first of the year.
If this bill becomes a law, Georgia will be the onlv southern
State that has ever adopted State prohibition. This is a forward
move and means that the people are awakening to the fact that this
is a good thing, and it shows that the way of looking at things from
a moral way in Georgia is growing and the people are anxious to
get rid of every evil possible.
If this bill becomes a law, it will be left with the good people
of Georgia and in individual communities in the State to see that
communities wink at the violation of this law, vnd will be rendered
obnoxious, but if the people see to the enforcement, it will be one
of the greatest blessings that has ever come to the State. We be
lieve that in most parts of the State the law will be enforced and that
it will be dangerous for those who are inclined to violate it.
Moral development is taking place very rapidly throughout the
whole country, and other States will soon follow the example of the
State of Georgia. There are a number of good States that are now
contemplating taking the same action that it now looks that the
State of Georgia will take. We hope to see the time come when
there will be no chance for whiskey to be had for any thing but
medicinal purposes.
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Public Schools.
The public schools of the State must be supplemented and there
is only one way to do it. It is provided that any community can
vote for local school taxation, and every community should do this.
The State provides for a large part of the school fund and the commu
nities should be willing to provide for the smaller part that is need
ed to secure good schools and good teachers. There are too many
country schools being taught over the country by boys and girls that
should be in school instead of teaching, but the salaries have been too
low to command the services of good teachers, in many instances.
The public school fund plays a very small part in all city and town
schools, and until the country begins to make some arrangement to
add to the public fund, the country schools will always be unsatis
factory. Agitate local taxation for your comm unity, and get a better
school than you have ever had. Find out how it is done and do not
delay in making arrangements to have an election for this purpose.
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New Counties Too Numerous.
There are now only four efforts being made to make new
counties that cut Coffee County territory. We think that it is time
for this thing to stop somewhere. Coffee county is now in better
shape than many counties of the state, with the court house in the
center of the county, and railroads crossing the county, in every
direction, making the county site much more accessable than
formerly. There is no chance for all these places to get new
counties, and to give one portion a new county would be unjust to
the other portions, as one needs it as badly as another. They pro
pose to come within five miles of Douglas on one side and within
six miles on another. We know that there are some people in the
county that are very inconveniently situated as to the court house,
but these changes would not help them very much, leaving some
as far from the new county site as they are now, and absolutely
ruining the shape of Coffee county. Let us not have any more
; counties made from Coffee’s territory just now.
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Human Life Not Cheap.
The statement has been made that human life was too cheap.
This is and has been true, and only too true in our good state of
Georgia and we are glad to see such vast moves being made to
wards changing this condition. We heartily endorse a good meas
ure that will govern the carrying of concealed weapons. There is
not a more dangerous and objectionable practice, and one that is
more prolific of danger to the innocent man. It is now very grati
fying to the good people of the state to observe the great wave of
moral improvement, and we sincerely trust that it will loose none
of its force and that it will gather strength as it goes on and that
it will sweep all the evils out of our favored section. There is no
doubt but that we have the finest country in the world, and the
outside world is taking cognizance of this fact and it behooves the
good people of the state to persevere in their fight for these reform
movements and their labors will be rewadred.
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whether their friends like it or
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The liquor men of Alabama, as
well as those of Georgia have
been stirred up powerfully re
cently over the prospect of State*
prohibition. If Georgia leads
the way many states will follow.
Ondinary Crosby, of Appling county,
is advertising for bids on building a
courthouse not to exceed in cost $50,000.
The truck farmers of Lowndes and
Daughtery county report having re
ceived satisfactery prices for their
crops.
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The Senate struck heavy, when it
voted 37 to 7 in favor of State prohibi
tion. About five to one and that’s the
case all over Georgia.
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Along with the other achievements
of Atlanta is a full fledged Mormon
church. This may help that city to be
come the greater Atlanta.
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Waycross and Ware county is not in
favor of having tfie county cut up to
make a new one, and has written their
representatives to that effect.
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The Masons of the Eleventh Congress
ional district decided at a meeting re
cently held at Valdrsta to build a large
auditorium on £t. Simons island.
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Some of these deys, before long, too,
those senators and representatives who
voted against State prohibition will be
trying to explain why they did it.
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And now Willacoochee wants to have
a new county, part from Coffee,, Clinch
and Berrien. Nothing doing. The county
has been chipped up small enough.
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Tt is a mistake about any jug factories
in Georgia going out of business. The
farmers of Georgia need them to put
up their excellent, world renowned es
sence of the sugar cane.
The Macon Telegraph, very good
authority, reports that up to last Sun
day 400 car loads of peaches had been
shipped from Georgia. Good prices
were secured for all of them.
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Col. Lawton Walker, of Blackshear,
Pierce county, has announced himself
a candidate for Solicitor General of the
Brunswick Circuit to succeed Col. Ben
nett, we learn from the Broxton Jour
nal.
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The Albany Herald reports that a
truck farmer in that county realized
$50,000 for his crop of cantaloupes this
summer. This seems to us to be a bet
ter showing than can be made on cot
ton. *
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Governor Hoke Smith will meet the
requirements of the people of the state
and will stand by the state prohibition
measure. We have too much confidence
in him to think that he will fail in this
particular.
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It is claimed by the Board of Trade
of that city that prohibition will injure
the cotton trade in Savannah. Less
liquor on the farm will cause more cot
ton to be made. “Fools are not all dead,
yet,” remarks the Nashville Herald.
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Some of the south Georgia papers are
bragging about their fine crops, but, if
you want to see fine corn crops, fine
cotton crops, a fine crop of pretty girls
and manly boys come to Coffee county.
And, we like to forgot, a fine crop of
babies.
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The Clinch County News announced
in its last iesue that Col. M. D. Dicker
son would be at a picnic in that county
on the 18th, last Thursday to address
the people and tell them about his can
didacy for Solicitor General of tne Bruns
wick circuit.
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A gentleman of Atlanta, who knows
what he is talking about, says two
thirds of the population of Atlanta favor
prohibition. If this be true they should
boycott those merchants who refuse to
advertise with the Georgian because it
declared itself in favor of prohibition.