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Don't mind the mean weather
• f the wind don’t .storm,
go fishing with the girls
When the weather grows warm.
l)ave Davis, out on Rfd. No. 1, has
prone to the Navy and left a broken
hearted girl out on the route.
The blue bird that was singing a
beut spring time last Sunday morn
ing was frozen that night. The ear
ly bird gets naught some time.
Mr. and Mrs. I. .1. Williams, of
Chatterton, were at Salem last Sun
day. 1 am afraid waiting for the
train in the night air was not agree
able.
Beulah Purvis came to see me last
Wednesday. She was in town to at
tend the Odd Fellows’ entertainment,
and expected to ride the goat. Poor
•Id goat!
Annie Moore was over at Salem
last Sunday, so I learn, and had her
Cook along. His other name is Wal
*er. I was there, but she kept hid,
and so did the Cook.
Big Dick Dickerson, one of the best
fellows on earth, says when we have
that big sing at Pearson, “he’ll be
around there.” Yes, and I bet he’ll
*o his part to make it a success.
The Willacoochee Record is improv
ing. It had a whole page of corres
pondents last wek, and they were
good, too. One or two of them wrote
irighty like some of our old ones.
Miss Ida Hunter has returned to
school, after a short visit to home
folks at Pearson. Horace seems to
be very puny since her departure,
with heart affliction. Poor fellow!
T. J. Holland says Ambrose needs
a good Methodist church, and he is
going to help get it. That’s right;
and then Ambrose needs some “good
.Methodists” to go into that church.
There will be services at Chatter
ton, but I’m not sure I will be there.
This standing out in the night air
waiting for a train gets the best of
me, and puts me out of business for
a week.
Minnie Moore started to Salem last
Sunday in the buggy with another
fellow, met her “best fellow” on the
road, got out and went another way.
Didn’t I always say Minnie was a
slick one?
Bill Starling has gone to Kirkland
to take a position, and there’s a sad
eyed Mattie Mae out on the route.
Never mind, Mattie, don’t you cry,
Bill will come for you by and by.
Who told me?
Mr. C. E. Dun, at the box social at
Pearson last Saturday night, was
voted the cake for being the ugliest
man there. Now, that was a slam on
poor old Dun, and wasn’t right. It
was a put up trick!
Cordelia wrote me last Friday that
the reason she had not written to me
lately is because she just neglected
(didn’t care about it) to do so. That’s
what a girl gnerally says when they
want to shake a fellow.
Our friend A. ,J. Banks, the popular
drayman, had to be excused from his
business last Monday to go to and
see his sick brother at Collins, Ga.
On his return 1 am glad to learn that
the sick man is some better.
Vickers v writes that there
will he an all-day sitin' out at Vickers
School house on the first Sunday in
April. Everybody is invited, and she
says she is looking for me. I’ll
whisper something in Sibbett’s ear.
There will be an all-day sing at
Vickers School House on the first
Sunday in April, next Sunday week.
This is the third appointment made
for that place, and it is hoped nothing
will happen to prevent it this time.
Annahelle Sears says she has a
brother in the Coast Artillery, now
stationed at Fortress Monroe, and he
writes that he likes it out there, hut
wants the news from home. She
tells him to subscribe for the Enter
p rise.
There was a good crowd on the
train to Valdosta last Monday to wit
ness the base ball game. Some peo
ple can raise money for a trip like
that when they can’t find any to pay
their subscription or give the baby a
new dress.
There will he services down at Mt.
Zion on the first Sunday. 1 wish I
could be there, but promised to go to
Vickers School House on that day,
and I just can’t figure it out, Emmie,
how I can be at both places at one
and the same time.
Mary Sears, down at Stokesville,
says it is “time for me to get down
there, and if I am waiting for her to
come after me there will be some
thing doing when she gets me out
there with the other girls.” That
sounds like trouble for me.
Well, look at this, will you. One
of my girl chums writes that she has
a “bad case of toothache, and hopes
I am enjoying the same.” That’s
one time a girl got left, because when
my teeth hurt me I take ’em out. wash
’em and put ’em back and they behave
better than ever. Better wash yours,
gal!
J. W. Boswell, at Ambrose, prac
tices hopping and jumping all the
week, and some Sunday mornings he
hops and skips over to Bushnell to
see Rachel. There’s a fellow down
there that says if he don’t keep away
from Rachel, he’ll get his legs broken.
Mr. Aaron Bailey, nn old Confed
erate Veteran, and known in this
entire section, who lived at Denton
for the past few years, died of cancer
of the face, last Monday night. Hhe
has been afflicted a long time, and
death may have been a sweet relief.
A. W. Griffin, who live two miles
from town, on the Broxton road, was
in town Friday, and told me he had
1 52 head of hogs, had the serum to
inoculate them, and was hunting for
| Mr. Eunice to do the work. The se
rum to inoculate that many hogs cost
| $18.05.
Sidney Bennett, down near Mill
wood, says he is not a Coffee county
boy, but his sweetherat is a Coffee
county girl, and he thinks he has a
right to call me Uncle Jim. No ob
jections; there’s a parrot down home
that calls me “pretty boy;” “papa,”
and “Uncle Jim!”
Pearl Bohannon a; she wants me
to come up the-re a- d he knows I’d
fall in low • i.li her teacher. I know
1 would, too; there are about one hun
dred here and I am trying to tretch
| my love to go all around, but maybe
11 can stretch it around a little more
i and take in Pearl’s teacher.
The young people down on McDon
ald Rfd. No. 1 hope Mr. and Mrs.
Abe Minchew will give another nice
entertainment, something like the one
given last Saturday night. One fel
low says he thinks he found the right
girl at that party. Haven’t heard
what the girl thinks about it.
There was a drummer from Tifton
to Pearson last Saturday night who
bought my blue-eyed chum’s box of
cake, at the box supper, then ate sup
per with her, and all that fun and
pleasure cost only $1.05, while I was
not there. Guess I’ll see Mr. Den
mark about that, sooner or later.
Annabelle Sears says the pinder
popping at her home last Saturday
night was a success. Everyone en
joyed themselves to the limit. Henry
Sears furnished the music on a guitar
and harp, or mouth organ. The harp
was six inches long, and his mouth
covered it from end to end, an infor
mant tells me.
The young men at Ambrose are
thinking about organizing a club call
ed the “Coming Men of America.”
Mary Vickers says if the “coming
ones” are no better than those already
there, that they will be a lot of “slow’
coaches.” Je-ru-sa-lem, didn’t Mary
throw a strong ball at Smith, Barber
and Sangster, that time?
Mr. Coffee, up at Upton, was a
friend indeed to me last Sunday night
The train was four lours iate, the
wind .'lowing in blasts and it was
time for me to be at home, so he
hitched up a mule an 1 sene me to
town in a hurry. 11 I o.cr c.J.ch
him and 'he in a tight lil prize ’em
out if it i leaks my shoe sting.
My little chum, Pearl Bohannon, up
|at Surrency, wants me to come up
I there, go to school with her, and go
j to the river on Saturday fishing and
i hunting for rabbits, etc. She says
we’d have a big picnic if I’d come, and
I bet we would, too. Pearl is mighty
nice, goes to school, and helps her
mamma, too. Those are the girls I
like.
“Pansy,” in the Willacoochee Rec
! ord, writing from Temperance school,
J wants to know what’s the trouble at
! Mora and Pine View, and thinks 1
j can tell. If Pansy is talking about
! Ethel Vickers, I know what’s the mat
■ ter. Her fellow- was with her the
; last time I saw her. and about the
1 same thing, or more so, has happened
to that Pine View gal.
The Central Grocery Co., of Tifton,
has been buying up the syrup of the
1 farmers of Tift county, at fair prices,
all the winter, and after putting it
j up in good, new half barrels, shipped
1 a solid carload to Atlanta, with the
valuation of $2,000. The example of
the Central Grocery Co. could be fol
lowed w-ith advantage by the mer
| chants of other towns.
Oscar Newhern was out at Salem
* church last Saturday, he in a buggy
and me walking, he got out and let
nv line with Mrs. Newbern. But
you can bet he walked mighty fast
and kept up Dose behind, for besides
Mrs. Nev. Tun there was a pretty
baby in the boggy. Yes, it was a
pretty baby, but 1 couldn’t see where
ii favored Mr. Newbern,
Some enterprising man of Tifton,
is preparing to erect a flour mill, in
that little city. It will grind twelve
barrels a day when at work, will be a
great help to this country, adn with
fine Georgia syrup and home made
flour, such as John Herrin can get. I
see no reason why he should not have
home made ginger cakes, "such as
grandmother used to make.”
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GA., MARCH 20th, 1915.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GA., MARCH 27th, 1915.
Mary and Minnie Grantham, up at
Ambrose, are playing havoc with the
boys again. They smile on one fel
low a few days, and go courting with
another when Sunday comes, and now
the boys don’t know which of them
is the “every day” or “Sunday” fel
low.” Well, don’t that take the rag
off’n the bush!
George Eight, who went from
Sweetwater to Pearson, two weeks
ago, at night, and had a big sing at
one of the churches, is still talking
about the nice time and fine singing
they had, and is telling me that me
and the cornet will be needed over
there at an all-day sing some time
soon. Set the date and we’ll make
room for it.
Frances Tanner may not know ex
actly what became of her books, used
at Sweetwater, two weeks ago, as she
went away from the church in an
extra hurry with a special attraction
in the buggy. Wells, Wells; yes, it
seems to me that was the name, and
George Kight has the books she left
in the church. What do you know
about that?
Jim White and Harry Roberts want
a big sing at Pearson some time soon,
if it hair-lips every croaker in town.
And Minnie Moore says if I want any
one to hold my book, I can get ’em,
for she won’t. Ain’t she mean?
Well, Minnie is mad, and I am sad,
and I know what’ll please her; a gin
ger cake and a glass of milk, and old
squinch eyes to tease her.
I learn that the box social at
White’s School House was a grand
success, and the results were quite
satisfactory. The girls carried nice
cakes and the boys scraped up their
nickels and tried to buy everything in
.‘ igp.t, One nice little boy was there
any nickels and the girl fur
nished the money to buy the box, and
then ate with him. Wasn’t she a
nice gnl 9
Georgia Wilcox says the protracted
meeting begins on the second Sunday
in July at Stokesville, will convene
during the week, and she is good en
ough to promise to meet me at Mc-
Donald, and I am going to do my best
to get there. Someone may have to
go back to the depot on Monday for
Miss Dollie, as she can’t come on
Sunday on account of her Sunday
school class, which she never misses.
Minnie Grantham, up at Ambrose,
went riding with her fellow a few
Sundays ago, in a buggy, and she
drove the mule, at the rate of forty
miles an hour, more or less. The
front wheel struck a stump and stop
ped at once. Her fellow went right
on over the dash board on to the
mule’s back. Minnie is some driver,
and will break some fellow’s head or
heart before I can get up there and
make her quit her foolishness.
Nevada Smith, one of the prettiest
girls in the district, held the book for
me to play from last Sunday at Sa
lem, and I thought I had that girl to
liking me, but after services she
slipped into a buggy with a squineh
ed-eyed fellow, and was gone before
I had time to thank her. It always
happens just that way. Now you
watch me get even with that fellow.
I’ll make him hit the ceiling when he
is not looking. See if I don’t.
Emmie Wall says the next time she
catches me out from home .she intends
to kndnap me and my cornet and car
ry us home with her. That she will
kill chickens, and I shall have all the
lizzards. You reckon that child im
agines I eat lizzards? And besides,
a lady who is looking over my shoul
der as I write says these girls just
want the cornet and not me. Well,
there may be something in that, and
they invite me to come so they will
get the cornet.
Fred Ricketson and Archie Roberts
want me to find them a good, smart
girl that wants to marry. Fred says
he wants a canning club girl, and
Archie says his girl must know how
to darn socks and sew on buttons.
For these two homeless, moneyless,
wifeless boys, I have promised to “tie
’em up” at half price if they could
find a girl, which is doubtful. Let
me hear from you, girls, but come
one at a time—don’t be trying to w-alk
over each other.
I mentioned some time ago that C.
E. Baker w-as goinng to plant some
pretty, good fields of tobacco and
cantaloupes. Now I learn that one
of his neighbors, Mr. J. B. Dorminy,
is goinng to plant about fifteen acres
in cantaloupes, and five or ten in to
bacco I am glad to know that the
farmers are giving attention to some
thing else than cotton. I believe if
farmers would pay more attention to
the raising of corn and hogs it would
pay more than the cotton and mule
crop.
It was mentioned by our corres
pondents and the Note Book also last
week that our friend B. F. Griffis had
suffered severe loss from fire, but w-e
did not then know he had lost 250
1 ushels of com. $25.00 worth of fod
der, five bales of cotton, a brand new
buggv. his farm implements, a good
deal of guano, etc., besides his cribs,
barns, etc. Judge Adams gives as a
conservative estimate that the loss
he sustained is between SI,OOO. and
$1,200. Everybody that can should
help him a little.
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We regret to announce the death
of Mrs. Joel Gaskin, formerly Miss
Rena Harney, which occurred on the
15th day of March, last Monday was
a week ago, near Waycross. She
was married to Mr. Gaskin about 3
years ago, and was loved and es
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Gaskin was afflicted with typhoid fe
ver, and what adds to the sorrow of
the news of her death, she leaves
twin boys, only a month old. In
their hour of distress our sympathy
goes out to Rena’s bereaved mother
and husband, and may God in His
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motherless babies.
That girl down at Stokesville, who
has ben sick, and is sick now- half the
time, says she don’t need me to sit
up and nurse her, but she would like
to “have me come and bring my cor
net, and go to school with her, help
her with her lessons, and at noon and
recess I could take the book and help
her (and half dozen other girls I
reckon) with their dialogues and
speeches.’’And I would like to do so,
but getting off in the woods with her
and half a dozen other girls, all of
’em loaded to the muzzle with speech
es and dialogues, would be danger
ous, and there wouldn’t be enough of
me left to bring home. But I’m com
ing anyhow.
Mrs. Oscar Newbern, of Bushnell,
does not seem to have had any sick
ness in her life, and six months ago
weighed 220 pounds, and she was
afraid if she kept up growing she’d
soon push her husband off of the sofa,
so she sent off for some medicine to
reduce her weight. It came in due
time and After, doctoring, and starv
ing herself for a month, she mounted
the scales and found she had fallen
away until she weighed only 232
pounds. The medicine and treatment
was like the musket I used in the
army-—had kicked the wrong way.
Well, I have seen a good many pretty
fleshy ladies in my life, and she’s one
of ’em, but I’d hate to run a foot-race
with her, have her to stump her toe
and fall dow-n on me. It’s horrible
to think about.
And I can’t help but think small of
a girl that will flirt around Sunday,
leave her mother at home to do all
the work, and then after supper leave
her in the kitchen to wash the dishes
while she goes into the parlor to chin
and be chinned by her favorite dude.
It is not right to treat mamma so,
and the girl that will be guilty of
such a thing is a mighty light gnat.
Of course, she wants to marry, but
the man that ties up with her will
be sorry that he ever saw Tier.
Out at Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Coffee’s
there are four little chaps about the
same size, four or five years of age,
and when they do anything wrong,
they are made to kneel down on the
rug, in front of the fireplace. They
did somethig wrong last Sunday night
and when I came in they were all
down on the rug. While Mr. and Mrs
Coffee were knocking around the
house attending to business, Miss
Clem McArthur was left to watch
them. I wouldn’t mind getting down
on the rug myself if I was a young
man, if she’d watch and listen to me,
and I’d do my talking in seven differ
ent languages, too.
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