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Clncic Jim s * Hook
M<y & ffneemam
TO MY CHUMS:
Be good at home,
Be better abroad;
Love your Uncle Jim,
And serve the Lord.
The second story of the Pearson
School House, brick, is about finished.
No, he never gave me a worthless
check for his marriage fee, but gave
Me his worthless word.
Bro. H. M. Meeks filled his regular
appointments at Stokesville last Slin
ky. and had good congregations.
H. M. Thomas, of Nicholls, was in
town Saturday, and tried to make me
think he dreamed about me at night.
My regular old chum, Clara Dent,
dropped in Saturday to say dowdy-do.
•he’s one of the finest figs on the
hush.
My Saginaw chum, 137, says if I
will have a rural route to run along
where she can mail her letters, she
will write every day.
Misses Hesters, Eula Merritt and
Alma Barnes, all came to see me at
one time Saturday. The two former
lives out at Salem.
Mr. J. Dorminy, of Saginaw, was
ia town Saturday on business, and
«ame in to tell me the news and pay
•übscription, last Saturday.
E. H. McClelland was in town a
gain last week. And he’ll be here
every week as long as the sausages
at Henry Vickers’ hold out.
Homer Corbitt, of the Mobley school
wme to see me last week, and reports
his school in excellent condition with
an enrollment of 66 scholars.
Johnnie McGovern was in town on
Saturday, and brought Bettie and
Mary to see me. They were on their
way to visit friends at Broxton.
Sweetie Kirkland and - Eva Woods
6me to see me Saturday, and filled
®ut the circle with three or four other
girls. Yes, us girls* had a right nice
time.
Not a line from Cordelia Quinn on
No. 4 for the last three weeks. Looks
like she might send a news postal,
hut maybe she has run away with
some fellow'.
Prof. Rogers, over at Pearson, was
said to be feeling indisposed to teach
last Monday. Just as I said, he tries
to eat all the cake in sight at these
box suppers.
The “Yellow Violets” say they have
ho fellow—they are only thirteen. I
have heard something like that ’e
fore, and they W’ere mrrried in less
than a month.
Roscoe Smith, of the Jowers school,
was here last Saturday, and as my
•flice is headquarters for all school
teachers, when they want to make it
so, came to see me.
The procedds of the box supper at
Satilla Park School, near Pearson,
last Saturday night was $50.30. I
congratulate the teacher, his assis
tants and patrons.
Berry Hill, Kirkland Rfd. No. 1,
sent me word Saturday that he had
corn ten inches high. That is mighty
fine, if Berry is not trying to fool me,
but you know 7 Berry.
I wrote the Alma Times a nice
■ewsy letter two weeks ago, the edit
or used it and was too stinking stingy
to send me a copy of the paper.
Guess he don’t w'ant any more.
Sweetie says I am going to Chat
terton on the 4th Sunday with her.
And I am going to be particular to
see that she comes back with me, too.
Now, cut a notch right there.
Prof. W. J. Thomas, w'ho gets the
Enterprise at Nicholls, was here Sat
urday, paid his subscription and loan
ed another man money to pay his.
You will have to burst your hatband
to beat that.
Henry Lindsey, who lives out here
somewhere in the bushes, says if a
girl would only smile on him, he would
drop his hat and fall on his knees at
her feet, but they never speak or
look as he passes by.
ITarry Vickers, of Ambrose, was
in town Saturday, and peeped in to
see if his Uncle Jim was still kick
ing. I love for these boys and girls
from the country and little sister
towms to come to see me.
Miss Ida Hunter, who has been ab
sent from school for some time, has
returned to her home and friends at
Pearson, and Horace McNeal goer in
skips and hops, hitting the sidewalk
only in high places.
Superior court of Bacon county did
not convene last Monday, but was ad
journed to the first Monday in April.
It is said that more than a hundred
cases are on the new county docket,
some of them for murder.
Minnie Moore and Charlotte Rick
etson were out on the sidewalk la.-t
Monday trying to find out which could
beat in two-hops-and-a-jump. Why
didn’t they try me when I was there?
They know I can beat ’em; t hat’s why.
India Stewart and Georgia Odum,
of Pearson, were good enough last
Sunday to invite me to come over,
bring my cornet and play for them
all day. And I’m going to be good
enough to go, too. India and Bessie
look good to me.
Georgia Wilcox had two grown nep
hews with her at Stokesville last Sun
day, and because they called her
“aunt,” she writes to me and wants
to know if “she is getting old?” No,
dear girl, you will always be young,
good and pretty to me.
Couldn’t get Marcus Pafford over
to the sing last Sunday, because his
foot was too sick to be out. Mrs’.
Pafford wouldn’t go either, and had
to stay at home to keep Marcus from
eating up everything before Belle and
Minnie could get back from the sing
for supper.
Some people can never be satisfied.
When we had rainy and sloppy weath
er they were wishing for sun shiny
days, and when they came these same
fellows kept looking up at the clouds
hoping it would rain so they would
have to quit work. It is hard to suit
some people.
A fellow up at Ambrose wrote me
a few days ago that he was not giv
ing any girls lockets, but was going
to give one a nice, plain, gold ring
soon. Now, you hear that, don’t you,
and you know what it means, and 1
expect you’d like to know who the
young man is.
Five fan.ie s of Irwin county,
Messrs. Marcus, Elias, Henry, Dun
can and Fletcher, sold 100,000 pounds
of sweet potatoes at sixty cents per
bushel. The sale was engineered at
Tifton, and is said to be the largest
potato transaction of the year in
southern Georgia.
Rev. Tom West, of Leilaton, was in
town on business last Monday, and
said he had a ham at home for me.
I can’t see where that’s going to help
my appetite any when he and Vera
come riding off in the buggy and left
it, but they can make amends and
all will be forgiven.
Lizzie Meeks, after a silence of
several weeks, has written to me once
more. 1 had nearly made up my
mind that she had, or intended to
quit me for good, when she comes
forward with a nice letter and says
her whole family, ducks, pigeons and
fice-pup are all well. I hope she will
write again soon.
Just before the Coast Line train
came up at Willacoochee last Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Futrell came up,
and after a few words she boarded
the train, as I did. I got off at Pear
son, she wouldn’t, and I think went
on to tell her mother at Fairfax all
about the whole business. I hope she
found her mother well.
Everett Bartlett has secured con
trol of the Nicholls paper, changed
its name from Commonwealth, (such
a name was enough to kill it) to
Journal. If he is given solid support
and not promises, he’ll make a good
paper. He is able and willing if he
is patted on the back with a ten dollar
bill every day or two.
Bill Maine was at the sing last
Sunday, did some good singing, at
dinner time ate up everything in
reach, got a letter from his girl after
which he swelled up until he nearly
pushed me out of the buggy, but he
got me to Mora just in time to catch
the train, for which he has my thanks.
Bill’s a good boy, if he wasn’t so dev
ilish mean!
Ive Kirkland, at Wooten’s - Drug
Store, at Broxton, will have trouble
when the next meeting of the “United
Sons of Rest” convene. He has been
caught at work, sweeping off the side
walk in front of the store, contrary
to all rules and regulations of said
order, and his usual habits. This is
a serious offense, and he is likely to
be heavily fined.
Jno. A. Kirkland, of Saginaw, was
in town on Friday of last week. He
says everything is moving along all
right, and the best time for me to
come and get even with her for pout
ing is in the summer time. And when
the good old “summer time” comes
I’m going to pack my grip, and check
myself for Saginaw for two days,
Saturday and Sunday. How do you
like that Ethel?
Y. O. Mathews, of McDonald, was
in town last Tuesday, and among oth
er things said he was in favor of a
law allowing a mnrried man to buy a
marriage license and renew or cancel
his marriage vows every ten years.
He better let things stand as they
are, because when the cancellation
time comes around Mrs. Mathews
would give him the grand bounce, and
if she renewed anything it would be
the bounce.
Coming along the road, away off
where I thought no one knew me,
last Sunday. Bill Maine stopped at a
house, a girl ten or twelve years old
came out. when Bill asked her if she
knew the man in the buggy with him,
and she answered that it was Uncle
Jim! So, you see, they all know' me.
and I couldn't run away if I tried, but
if I was hid out in the bushes, to keep
the sheriff from catching me they’d
bring me something to eat.
Looks like Tom Merritt, out at
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GA., MARCH 20th, 1915.
Jowers school neighborhood, would
learn some gumption, but he won’t,
and this proves it: Some time re
cently six or seven boys and girls
were going along the road, in a bunch
while his own girl was following some
ten steps, and he just raised hmself
in his buggy and said: “Any of you
want to ride?” His girl away back
behind answered, “How could we re
fuse?” Some day he will have his
girl in the buggy, will want to ask
her an important question, but will
be afraid and he’ll ask his mule, “say
mule, would you like to pull this girl
and my-elf all the time?” And the
mule will answer, “Yas-sir, yas-sar!”
“Two School Girls” out at Rocky
Pond School tell me that a fine cake
was voted to the best looking man,
at the recent entertainment, and say
“if you had been there you’d got it,
don’t you think so?” No, I do not
think so; I have never pretended to
be good looking, for I knew I wasn’t.
I have had some who thought them
selves witty to class me with the ug
liest in the county, and while that was
true, and they had a big laugh at my
discomfiture as they thought, I have
always tried to be a gentleman, any
where and under all circumstances,
and to have common sense enough
not to maks sport of the facial ap
pearance which God gave any pers< n.
I thank the “Two School Girls” for
their kind expression of opinion.
I met my new chum, whom I had
never seen, Miss Bessie Odum, at
Sweetwater, last Sunday.
Some people are out of work be
cause they can’t find any, and some
are out of work because work can’t
find *them.
. Georgia Odum, at Pearson, and
Georgia Wilcox, at McDonald, ought
to keep me some news from those
points. I’ll see if they will.
Steve Skipper says some people are
just joking when they say they want
a wife, but he is not, and dares any
girl w'ho thinks he is to try him.
I saw Misses Bessie and Laura Hen
derson, at Sweetwater, last Sunday,
and regret to learn that their par
ents were ill. I hope they are better
now.
A young man in town wants to
know “if it would be advisable to get
married on S3O. per month.” It is
easy enough to get married on S3O
per month, but it would be tough liv
ing.
Cody Vickers, of Mora, was in town
Friday, while a number of criminals
were being tried for different offens
es, and he looked uneasy. Wonder if
he was thinking his time would come
soon.
Annabelle Sears was the biggest
help I had last week. If it hadn’t
been for her help there would not
have been much Note ,Book. Now,
someone else will want her to help
them.
J. A. Wade says if I had been at
the box social at Vickers School house
I would have gotten the cake voted
to the ugliest man. Everybody says
Jim needs a looking glass, and a good
one, too.
A little fourteen year old girl wrote
me a nice letter ten days ago asking
if I would have her for a chum, I an
swered that I w'ould, and I have not
heard from her since. Guess she
thought I bit too quick.
Miss Joann Thompson, Rfd. No. 1,
Kirkland, sent me a fine bottle of
syrup by her father, Mr. W. E.
Thompson, last Monday. The syrup
is very fine and sweet, and so is the
girl. She has my thanks.
It is predicted that the crop of 1915
will not be as expensive as the crop
of 1914. The farmers are not buy
ing as much fertilizer as usual, and
economizing in other ways that will
greatly reduce the cost of production.
Charlie Mille wms in town last Fri
day afternoon with Misses Mattie
Vickers and Tussie Houze. Just as
I said before, girls are not at all par
ticular who they go with these days.
Two at a time, too; wasn’t he greedy?
William Kight, who lives up near
Broxton, w r as here Monday and says
farming operations are being pushed
up his way. He says the girls w'ould
like to see me, and w'ould meet me at
the depot if I’d appoint a time. I’ll
appoint.
Miss Josephine Hill, of Macon, was
born 1886, married 1898, tw’elve years
of age, was a mother at thirteen, was
a widow at sixteen, married again at
twenty, and was a grard-rwthcr at
twenty-nine. She is now living with
her parents husband at Selma, Ala.
The farm demonstrators, who are
in a position to know, announce that
there is more home made bacon in
the smokehouse of the farmers of
southern Georgia than was ever be
fore known. Many who had rented
lands and farmed on shares last year
have provisions enough for them
selves for this year.
Misses Maggie Duggar and Teresa
Meadows, teachers at Harmony Grove
school, had an entertainment last
Friday night, consisting of debates,
recitations, etc., to a full house. The
debate was led by Miss Delilah Pur
vis, opposed by my friend Henry Rob
erts, and I am told that Delilah knock
ed the props from under Henry, and
then caught and shook him as he went
down. Henry had some assistant de
baters to assist him, but they came
viable place in the estimation of critical men.
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up missing, and anyone can see the
reason.
Agnes Vickers, on Rfd. No. 2,
writes as follows: “Hello, Uncle
Jim! Guess you think I am dead, but
lam not. I have or.ly had the small
pox. Our Sunday school is still pro
gressing, with good attendance every
Sunday. Come back to Sunday school
and maybe we will have our new or
gan.” Now, that is what I call a
good nev/s postal. I am glad that
my chum has recovered from the
smallpox, and hope there are no scars
on her pretty face.
Georgia Wilcox wrote me a six
page letter last Monday, and then
folded and sent with it six blank
pages of paper. You reckon she did
that to make me think I had a long
letter from her, or sent the paper to
let me know she wanted a six-page
answer? Lowdy, lawdy, what kind,
of a trick is it these girls don’t work
on me?
Read every installment of “Ex
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