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The next thing now is picnics and
base ball.
Peach and pulm trees have been
blooming for a month.
I am sorry to hear of the illness of
Prof. Wells, of the Kales school, this
week.
Mrs. R. C. Davis, Rfd. No. 1, who
has been ill some time, is still in an
■ Hsafe condition.
Just as soon a c corn planting time
Mines the base ball fever breaks oul
all over the country.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dent and family
Rfd. No. 1, spent last Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Luke.
Mr. Geo. W. Right has ordered
Mine new song books to be used at
•weetwater tomorrow.
Fisher Dent is at home Rfd. No. 1,
again, after knocking around a while
at Soperton and Glenville.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Tanner, Rfd.
No. 1, were visitors to relatives and
friends at Nicholis last Sunday.
I tell you right now, gals, I’m not
going fishing with any ga! that won t
furnish the bait, and that is final.
The Coca-Cola Bottling Works are
the first to introduce a motor deliv
ery wagon in this county. This com
pany is enterprising.
Mr. G. R. Fourd and Miss Rebecca
Minix, both live out on No. 3, came
to my home last Sunday morning and
were married. I wish them well.
My little chum, Pearl, at Surrency,
won’t tell me when she wants me to
come and go rabbit hunting with her.
Guess she is helping papa plant corn.
I married a couple last Sunday
morning, and had a phone notice to
weet another pair at 4:30, but they
didn’t come. Perhaps papa objected.
“If you give a man a check on a
bank where you have no money for
thirty days previously you are guilty
of a misdemeanor.” That lets me
out.
Tomorrow is the 2nd Sunday, the
second appointment for the sing al
Sweetwater. Be sire to go, if you
can,carry a full basket, and have a
big time.
Mrs. Sopha Griffis, down near Mc-
Donad, is very ill, suffering with can
cer on the mouth, and has to take
food in liquid shape and water, drop
at a tin.e.
“No. tr>o,” at Wilsonpille, says they
are looking for me at that school, and
I am anxious to come, too, but don’t
know how to get there. Now, what
you say?
Charlie Mills says every time he
hear someone say Sweetwater he
thinks about his sweetheart. He will
go over to Sweetwater tomorrow and
see if she is there. •
Miss Lilia Tannerr, Rfd. No. t, had
for her guests last Sunday, Misses
Mary Taylor, Eula Chambers and
Viola Merier; Messrs. Achael Day and
Watsey Courson.
4 Our .Bullard school correspondent
last Week forgot to sign her name,
and if it had not been that 1 knew
her writing, the potes womd
gone to the dead hook.
The Bullard School Girl says foi
me not to forget the sing at Sweet
water tomorrow. Like as if I could
forget such a thing, when I know
she will be looking for me.
When the new school house out at
Salem is finished 1 have promised to
go out and help the girls sweep up
the yards, so they say. Wonder what
else they’ll say for me to do?
Lizzie Story, Kate Lott, Bertha
Smith, Belle Story and Elias Batten,
Dan Batten and Jack Smith, went out
to Sears School a few days ago. They
ought to go to school every day.
Some of the weather prognostica
tors have prophesied that as March
came in tearful, drippy and gentle,
she would go out in a dry, dusty, roar
ing bustle. Anything for a change.
“Jake,” writing from Isaac School,
came in for the first time last week.
Among other good things he said,
was that Miss Lizzie Batten had a
fine school. I’m glad to hear from
Jake.
I have been informed that some
girls up near West Green go out in
the woods hunting every week, but
I can't find out whether they hunt
gophers, rabbits or boys. Which is
it, girls?
“Three Chums,” as they call them-
E,“lves, fourteen, fi teen and seven
teen years of age, have informed me
that it will soon be time for fishing
and picnics. And red bugs will soon
be ripe, too.
Dan Vickers was in town Monday,
but didn’t pay his subscription. He
told me, however, that he is going
to plant 50 acres in cantaloupes, and
maybe I'll get him to pay this sum
mer or fall.
Ethel, down at Saginaw, continues
to pout. It is next to impossible to
keep her and Gaynell in a good hu
mor with me at one time. When one
buries the hatchet the other will go
one dig it up.
Two girls, up at Ambrose, say they
want me to come up there, that I go
to see other girls, and they feel slight
ed, but they didn’t tell me when to
come. Name the day, meet the train
and 1 11 be there.
Miss Lilia Tanner, Rfd. No. 1, didnt
have any envelopes last Monday, and
had to write to her best fellow on a
postal. He’s going to send her some
envelopes—he’s afraid something will
drop off the cards.
Bud Fussell, Big Fussell, F. B.
Harper and Henry Harper, (good
natured Henry) all from up about
Wray, were m town last Thursday
week on business, and may want per
mission to move to Douglas.
Our West Green correspondent says
the Improvement Company of that
place, has recently sold $10,000.00
worth of homes and fifteen new fam
ilies are expected to move there soon.
I am glad to hear such news.
Meat is getting scarce at our house
again. Some person who is behind
on subscription, has no money to
spare, but has some meat that he
could let go, can bring me a small
side, and I’ll be much oblige.
Sam Harrell, who has geen getting
his Enterprise at Kirkland, has mov
ed nearer town and wants the Enter
prise sent out on 1 fd. No. 2. He is
in my district cw, and will be ready
to vote for me at next-election.
Mary Sears, of McDonald, was on
the sick list Sunday, but was able to
read (he Note Book and write me a
line. I certainly wou'd be glad if
that girl could get well again. Won
der if she don’t need me to nurse her.
The people over at Pearson wnl
soon have one of the finest school
buildings in Southern Georgia. Then,
to make them happy, they want a
new county with Pearson for the
county site, and they should have one
Fannie and Bessie Moore, at
Brunswick, writes me that “it will
soon be time to go fishing and catch
snappers, and for me to come down
there.” I’m no “snapper,” besides
I’m not coming, for you two gals to
duck me, like you did that time I was
there.
John McGovern has been off, got
an organ and put it in the Sheriff’s
office, but there’s no use to try to
teach the Sheriff to play anything.
He knows “Sallie in the Wdd Woods,”
that’s good enough for him. Gel
him to whistle it for you.
Tax Receivei Sapp is on his round.
Better see him and tell him what the
old potato patch and the old blue sow
and pigs are worth. That’s what he
wants to know, and then in the frll
another fellow will come and want
you to sell out and pay him before
you can vote.
J. W. Tanner, (Mudge) came bust
ling in to the office last Monday, hand
ed me 50c, and said he wanted to pay
a year’s subscription on the Enter
prise. Mudge must think the panic
has cut the paper half in two, but he
wants both halves of it sent to him on
Route Two, instead of Kirkland.
Miss Carrie Stalvey is the splendid
teacher at the Pridgen school, lias
48 pupils, and everybody out there
likes . her. She will close on April
23rd, and the school and its friends
will picnic at Barrows Bluff on the
24th. I return thanks for an invita
tion through our Mr. Darley.
I announced in the Note Book last
week that there would be no sing at
Vickers School House last Sunday, as
before stated, on account of the ser
ious illness of Mr. Vickers’ little boy,
who subsequently died, and there was
not. But ome time later, if the be
reaved ones say so, the announcement
will be made.
Minnie and Mineola, at Ambrose,
writes me that Ira Smith, at that
place, wants a sweetheart, and is
looking around among the girls, and
can’t tell which one he does like, has
bought options on two of ’em and
sealed the bargain by giving them
lockets. Now, Ira, how are you go
ing to decide between the two. You
can’t have both.
My old Chatterton (hum, Sweetie
Kirkland, and her little friend Thel
ma, came to see me last Monday, and
made me a pleasant visit. Swe ?tic
lives in town now, with my friend
Jeff Kirkland, and can come to see
me any day. She says she believes
the report that she was married three
weeks ago, w r as a mistake. Anyway,
she doesn't believe it.
Seventeen more colored card play
ers were captured in a rousing game
last Saturday night with the paste
board, at Moore’s Mill, by the Sheriff
and his assistants. This makes 32
captured and jailed within the last
three weeks, and considering the bad
condition of the roads of the country,
at this time, the outlook for better
roads is promising.
“School Girl” up at Salem says I
haven't been to see her yet, and
wants to know if “I am waiting for
her to come after me.” Certainly;
when 1 was a school boy I ran after
the girls, and now the School Gir:
can come after me, to the nearest
depot, and I will stay all day, if she
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GA., MARCH 13th, 1915.
will let me study at her desk and ea'.
dinner out of her tucket.
Miss Mattie Maddx, the trained
nurse, who has been with a patient
over near Willacoochee some time,
has returned to her home in the city,
her patient having recovered. They
will all recover, if good nursing will
do the work, and if I was a young
man I’d need a nurse about her size,
age and complexion all the time to
nurse a case of heart palpitation.
Oh, dear, I know I’d have it bad.
“Two School Girls,” at West Green,
last week said: “Come real soon,
bring your cornet and knitting. We
will furnish the grub.” And if I
come and study your books, and eat
grub with you, there’ll not be a schol
ar in that room that will behave for
watching me, and then the professor
will be wanting to furnish a hickory
and make me hard to catch, on the
way back to the depot. What do you
say about that, I’d like to know?
Now, get this down in your mem
ory correctly, and don’t charge the
Note Book with misleading you:
Judge Lankford has adjourned the
civil side of the City Court to the
3rd Monday in November, and the
criminal side of said City Court will
be held on the 3rd Monday in May,
1915. I hope this will meet the ap
proval of all concerned, because it
seems, in his order, that Judge Lank
ford has shown good reasons for his
action.
Mrs. H. C. Whelchel went to Way
cross last Saturday or Sunday, using
an automobile, and in coming back
Sunday evening, stuck in a creek down
near McDonald. The phone was put
to work, Dr. Whelchel was notified,
he pulled Lester Vickers and his car
out of bed, and at midnight put out
after his wife. He found Mrs. Whel
chel without much trouble, the old
car wouldn’t work after being pulled
out of the creek, and Lester got back
to town with the whole business some
how, a few housr later. Mrs. Whe-1
chel will be more particular in future
to have the batteries, carburaters,
piston rods, etc., in good order before
she starts off on another wild goose
chase, but as she was trying to get
back home before being caught up
with, all is forgiven.
Mr. C. E. Baker, commissioner of
this district, was in town Monday and
told me, among other things, that he
is going into the tobacco and canta
loupe business this year. He intends
to plant ten acres of tobacco, and 75
acres in cantaloupes. A buyer will
be here to purchase the tobacco, and
the cantaloupes will be shipped to a
representative in the markets who
will look after the sales. There will
be no commission merchant business
in the game, but this representative
will be on the ground to take charge
and handle each car load as received,
and if there are no buyer in one mar
ket some will be found in another
place. I am glad to know that some
arrangement is being made where
there is some security for a man who
ships a car load of melons to a north
ern of western market. I have heard
of commission men who could steal a
car load of melons and make the pro
ducer pay the freight.
Little Richard Vickers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. I). W. Vickers, on Rfd. No.
fell from a wagon, a week or two
previous to his death last Friday
week, and in some way hurt his leg.
It was known that he was hurt, but
no one thought of a serious result. A
day or two afterward he grew worse,
and notwithstanding the careful at
tention of Dr. Whelchel and the lov
ing care of his parents, he died on
Friday night, March sth, about 8:00
o’clock. He was buried Satu:day fol
lowing, at Carver church, whither a
number of his school mates, teacher,
relatives arid friends who knew the
little fellow in life. Little Richard
was about ten years of age, with a
sunny disposition, and a manner a
bout him as gentle as a girl. He had
a warm place in my heart, ar.d I nev
er sat down where he was when his
little arm failed to steal up aroen l
my shoulders and neck. I shall miss
him on my visits, and my tenderest
sympathy goes out to the loved ones.
My Hoboken chum wrote me one
of the nicest invitations to come
down there this summer I have seen
in a long time. I’m keeping her let
ter just because it has the ring of
true metal—like a good, dutiful daugh
ter writing to her Uncle Jim. She is
one of the first girls for whom I per
formed the marriage ceremony, and,
thank the good Lord, she got a good
husband, and after going to a new
home with him, she says she is happy
and contented. And when the mail
comes and I see a letter, I know that
Janie and Joseph have thought of me.
Yes, I love to hear from the boys and
girls, glad to know they remember
me, have a kind word, and want to
exchange opinions with me. There
are many that remember you only
while you are in sight, but I am glad
to know that I am not one of those.
Often when the day’s work is done,
darkness comes on, and I sit before
the fire in my little room, my mind
and heart go out after the absent
ones, and I remember them one by
one, their names, and where I saw
them last. Oh, I do care for them,
I love them, I feel for them in sor-
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row and rejoice in their happiness,
and when no cards or letters come
from them I breathe a prayer and
wonder “where is my little chum to
night.” Just a card, please!
TAX RECEIVER’S 2ND ROUND.
I will be at the following places on
the dates below mentioned for the
purpose of receiving tax returns for
the year 1915:
West Green, 11 to 2, March 15.
Broxton, March 16.
Ambrose, 10 to 4, March 17.
Wilsonville, 9 to 12, March 18.
Tanner & Gillis Still 2 to 4, March
18.
McDonald, 9 to 11, March 19.
Fales, 2 to 4, March 19.
Nicholis, March 20.
Willacoochee, March 22.
Kirkland, 8 to 11, March 23.
Pearson, 1 to 4, March 23.
Harmony Grove School House 9 to
11, March 24.
Mora, 2 to 4, March 24.
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Hundreds of Successful
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under date of January 27, 1915, cer
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Shell Lime as compared to most of
the Lime Stone we get in this terri
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and prices.
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