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'(Uncle /Jim s Ufote ISOOA
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TO “UNCLE JIM.”
(Whose Christian life and words of
cheer have inspeired many hearts and
beguilded many a dull care when life s
pathway was o’ershadowed with
gloom-clodus )
Faithful and true as the clear pole
star
Shining serene through the distance
afar,
Patient and cheerful in sunshine or
shade
Glad in the joy his presence has made.
Still unsullied by storms of the years
Viewing t'le light through the mist
and the tears,
Loving and smiling and friendly to all,
Prompt in response to stern Duty’s
call.
Lowly in living and lofty in thought,
True to -he precepts the Master has
taught,
Modest Jind kind in his own sweet
way,
Meeting with smiles each new-dawn
ing day.
Cherished alike" by the old and the
young,
Singing their praises and hearing his
sung,
His memory forever enshrined in theii
breast,
And loved most of all by those he
knows best.
Standing on the shore of the ocean
Unknown,
Waiting to follow where loved ones
i are gone,
Waiting and watching with never a
I, fear,
Anxious the voice of his Pilot to hear.
Bidding him cross over death’s silent
bar
Through the pearly-white gates of the
City ajar,
To dwell with the Savior, be like unto
Him —
dod bless you and keep you, our dear
“Uncle Jim.”
—John Milton Samples,
Macon, Ga.
Tyson Fitch says she’s in town—
she’ll have to prove It.
The girls will soon be picking cot
ton, and the boys pulling fodder.
If the Note Book can’t hande news
first, it will let it alone entirely.
If you failed to get your paper last
week, better come in and let us ex
plain.
Ruby Peterson umst have gone off
to spend the summer, as I never hear
from her now days.
There’s a recent law in this town
to keep dogs off the streets, but they
don’t seem to notice it much.
“Nobody’s Darling,'' at Garrant,
wants to get acquainted with “Some
body’s Darling, at Ml. Zion.
Not a g.rl, big or little, came to see
me Saturday. Wasn’t that a shame?
And me lonesome and sick too.
I sent a list to Pridgen to enrole
some chums, but have never heard of
it since. Wonder what’s the matter?
Beulah Purvis says it was all she
could do to keep from being scorched
by the hot weather last week. Now,
deny it!
Bill Maine will commence teaching
a singing school at Salem next Mon
day, to last ten days. Hope he’ll be
successful.
I did not go to Salem, as promised,
last Sunday, on account of sickness.
Have a large sized summer cold. Ever
have one?
Christine Mumford is the cutest lit
tle girl in Miss Dollie Freeman’s class
and I don’t care if she knows I said
so. So, there.
Eva Woods hasn’t been to see me
in two weeks. One week more and
I’ll issue a subpeona. That’ll bring
her, feet foremost.
Mattie Vickers never looks in as
she passes by. If I have to come out
there I’ll make you sing “Just Before
the Battle, Mother!”
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wilcox spent
spent last Sunday with relatives up
about Cordele, returning- to the city
last Monday afternoon.
Bill Maine has sent me his photo
with the request that I put it in the
paper. He must think that I have a
grudge against our readers.
Charlie Wall cays he is now ready
and anxious to get up a singing class
at Pridgen. What does Mack Wooten
and his five Pridgen girls have to say
about that?
Georgia Wilcox wrote me on the
16th that the revival meeting at
Stokesville which convened on the
20th, still continued, with four new
members.
News items for my use in the Note
Book must reach me on Tuesday. The
Note Book goes to the printer every
Wednesday morning. Don’t forget
this, now.
Judge W. C. Lankford is in the race
fo*' congress, and Douglas had as well
have a congressional candidate as any
other town, especially when the man
if a good one.
Talmage Foreman says the tobacco
crop is fine.
Ira Ricketson’s wife and babies
went home with her father last Tues
day, and since then he’s been skipping
around here like a dog that has slip
ped the collar.
If that little Carter girl, at Rock
ingham, doesn’t write to her best fel
low more than she does me, I can see
why her nose is out of joint all the
time. I’ll ask Mike.
Ordinary Ward says the sale of
marriage license for July has taken a
bottom tumble—no sales. Looks like
Judge Ward could see the reason why
in the recent torrid weather.
Dave Ricketson has bob-tailed his
car, so only two can ride in it. Says
he’ll piece it out when the campaign
begins. Yes, but he and Dan Wall
owe me a box of cigars each.
A fellow at Ambrose says he wants
to see leap year come again. If that
crazy loon thinks some girl will pro
pose to him he is as much mistaken
as if he had bitten his tongue.
The county primary is about one
year off, but candidates are beginning
to talk. Well, if any of them wants
my office I’ll keep the flies off’cn ’em
while they are making the race.
Wrote Marshall Right to bring me
a bushel of meal last Saturday, and
if he did I have heard nothing about
it. I had a small piece of meat, but
needed some meal for long forage.
Minnie Wall, over in Kingslanl,
Texas, must be pouting, because she
invited me to come and eat a water
melon with her, and I couldn’t get
oc. Not a line from her In six weeks.
My Jacksonville (Ga.) chum says
her father has promised to let her
come to see me “if she’d be pretty,”
and wants to know if “I don’t think
she is pretty anyhow?” Of course I
do.
If Fannie Cromer, Mclntosh, Fla.,
and Ruthie House, Green Cove Springs
Fla., don’t hurry a letter to this of
fice, it will be “whack,” and off their
names come. Put up with ’em long
enough!
A man that comes to me when he
comes to town, expecting personal
mention, and then go to others for
the same purpose, is what I call a
“cheap screw.” He wants notoriety
without paying for it.
Two or three parties came to see
me this week to know if they could
get board with the same lady I was
putting up with. Indeed, they can
not, for she is talking about turning
me out with a grand bonnee.
George Right is out at Blystone
this week, teaching those young peo
ple to sing. There is a nice lot of
them out there, and he’ll learn them
to sing if they will only open their
mouths adn use their brains.
Charley Anderson says the next
time we pass his house and kill a
goose, to stop coming back, and have
some goose for supper. Now that’s
liberal, and his heart is in the right
place if he is getting cross-eyed.
Bertha Woods has found her old
flop-eared, brindle cow, and she don’t
care whether she sees me now or not.
Never mind, I’ll give Eva a pound of
candy to let down the gap and turn
that cow out again. Oh yes, goodie!
Mrs. John Courson said last Mon
day as I was coming down town, “I
am coming down to see you, Uncle
Jim, about my paper. I can’t afford
to miss it, especially the country
part.” Country part gets the most
of them.
Gaynell Everett, down at Saginaw,
says she has just helped eat a water
melon, grown by her papa, “which
weighed 40 pounds, and she wishes I
had one like it.” Yes, and if wishes
were pretty girls all the boys could
be married.
When a boy learns to curse, chew
tobacco and smoke cigarettes, he
thinks he has done a man’s first duty.
When his father catches him, takes
him on his lap, face down, and wears
out a shingle, he has performed a
father’s first duty.
Isn’t it strange that during this hot
weather you seemed to be burning
up, and looking across the room at a
girl she smiles back at you, shakes
her fan a time or two and looks as
cool as a cucumber. Hanged if they
don’t get the best of everything any
how.
The Royal Singing Convention, near
Fitzgerald, had its regular yearly ses
sion last Sunday. Charley Wall was
present, was so well pleased and
treated that he desires us to return
his thanks to Prof. Royal particularly
and to the entire convention for cour
tesies.
Messrs. Griffin and Cobb, who have
a farm two miles from town, on Rfd.
No. 4. presented me with a Hubbard
squash last week. It looks like a
kershaw, but is not; it would be a
pumpkin, but the punk family won’t
have it, so it is just a squash, 7 or 8
pounds, big as a peck measure with a
green, tender rind. Griffin and Cobb
may be squash-heads, but they raise
fine squashes. If they’d only brought
a little meat.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GA„ JULY 24th., 1915-
A pretty girl out on No. 2, wrote
me a letter last week and addressed
it to “My Uncle Jim.” A girl in the
office saw the envelope and says the
writer of that letter must remember
that other people have some rights.
Now, Cordelia, what do you know a
bout that?
I wrote Ethel Kirkland at Sag
inaw, one of the sweetest love letters
you ever saw last week, but there’s
no answer yet. Now, if a certain fel
low, the first letter of his name is
Oliver, will let it go at that, had wrote
that letter there’d been an answer
before this time.
Getting drunk and mixing up with
bad company, has caused some young
fellow to have to pay out about $26.00
each, as court costs, besides stand for
the cost of the spree. No names are
mentioned through respect for the
parties, and the item is only mention
ed as a warning to others.
Some of the legislators are advo
cating a bill to furnish free school
books for children in the first, second
and third grades. This would be a
great relief to a poor man, who al
ways have the most children in those
grades, and the Book Syndicate al
ways charge one-third more than
books are worth.
Bill Maine has been making a suc
cess of his singing school at Inman
School House, last week, I am told.
He is thinking about getting up a
school for Salem, and may do so, but
if my little book holder gets into that
school Bill’s a goner. She is as pret
ty as a peach, and can sing a mocking
bird clean out of countenance.
Somebody told me that Senator
Ward had introduced a bill in the leg
islature making it a misdemeanor to
use profane language in all public
places. Wish it had been the law
last Saturday when a certain well
known young man rolled out a lot of
profanity without the least provoca
tion, on the court house steps.
My little chum, Lucile, McDonald,
Rfd. Kirkland, says, “I am sorry to
learn that little Laura Rice has al
ways been a cripple, but what the Lord
does is for the best.” That is exactly
what Laura says, and when she comes
I intend to bring her to see you, and
sing for you. The newspapers say
“she sings a flute-toned soprano.”
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Meeks, of
Nicholls, were in town last Saturday,
and they had with them my young
friend, Talmage Foreman, of Sagi
naw. And wasn’t it hard that he had
to leave for home before his girl came
to town? Yes, she was here all right,
for I saw her. Poor fellow; wipe
your eyes and don’t take it so hard.
One of my Saginaw chums wrote
me last Saturday that she had just
picked a peck of tomatoes, half a
bushel of cucumbers, and that her
mother was cooking about two dozen
roasting ears for dinner, and that she
wished I was there. Wonder if Gay
nell thought it would take all these
things to make a square meal for me ?
Charley Wall, who has been teach
ing the Union Singing School up a
bove Broxton, came down from Brox
ton last Monday afternoon, having
finished the term. He is very loud
in his praise of those clever people,
and thinks he pleased them in his
work and made friends with the pa
trons. I think I like him better than
ever since I learned that Emmie is
his sister.
A girl said last Saturday if I would
help her find a fellow she’d give me
five dolllars. She is so dog-gone par
ticular tho that she’d turn down ev
ery fellow I brought up just to save
her money. A woman is a woman
anyway you take her. Isn’t that so,
Charlie Wall? Yes? Well, I’d like
to know what you know about it, and
you’d run and fall in a hole if you
saw one coming toward you.
Georgia Wilcox, McDonald, says in
her letter of the 19th: “Uncle Jim:
I am sending you enclosed one dollar
for my subscription, (Aug. 1, 1916),
or to pay parcel post on the Note
Boof for one year, and I want to get
my dollar to you in time so that I
may not miss a single number of the
Note Book.” All right, little girl, you
are now safe for the Note Book, if I
live, for one year and one week.
Miss Eva Mims and Mrs. Reason
Lott, up near Hazlehurst, are writ
ing about a big meeting they are go
ing to at Philadelphia church in Au
gust, and want Miss Dollie Freeman
to come, without even a hint that they
would like to see me. Now, isn’t that
too mean ? I’ve good mind to write
to Aleph Burkett, make an appoint- j
ment and go with her. Oh, yes,
goodie; you hadn’t thought of that!
Went home sick last Saturday af
ternoon at 6 o’clock, and Mary, Mose
Joiner’s pretty wife, came to my of
fice, didn’t find me and left this on
my desk: “Dear Uncle Jim: Came
to see you and pay up my subscrip
tion, but you was out; will see you
next week; sure have missed my pa
per.” That is the first love letter
she ever wrote to me, and I hope she
will come, bring the baby, and leave
Mose at home to hoe potatoes.
Col. Wi C. Bryan knows that I
have a good many girl friends, and
he would like to outdo me, if he could,
so last Monday piorning he came driv
ing into town with a buggy load of
girls, came ’round in front of my
window, so I would be sure to see
him. While his horse was drinking
water the girls flopped out of the
buggy, and I saw they were his two
pretty daughteis, Misses Mary and
Maude! Regular old fraud, wasn’t
he? Of course he is popular with
them!
Mr. Johnson, of Appling county,
has introduced a bill in the legisla
ture requiring parents to register all
female unmarried children with the
Ordinary, in order to prevent mar
riage with minor children. If Mr.
Johnson succeeds in getting his bill
through he may live to see that he
has made a bad matter worse. Doesn’t
he know that Mary Jones’ father is
not going to register her name and
age with every ordinary in the state?
And don’t he know that when Bill and
Mary take a notion to get married
they are going to do it, and the old
ordinary's list can be durned, for ten
dollars will pay their yay to Jeff Da
vis or Ben Hill anj buy their license
and I’ll meet ’em down by the cow
pen, under the big oak? Bah, Mr.
Johnsing!
W. H. Harper, Anity, Ark. ; July
12, writes: “Dear Uncle Jim: Please
find enclosed two dollars to pay up
back dues on subsiription to the En
terprise, and give renewed energy to
the Note Book. As you know, my
wife is a Coffee county girl, and cays
she can’t possibly get along without
the Note Book.” Certainly she can’t;
why, don’t you remember when you
first carried her off, she was whim
pering and talking in her sleep, one
night, and when you woke her up and
asked what was the matter with her,
she looked up, big tears in her eyes,
and said: “I want to see my Uncle
Jim so bad!” You patted her on the
head and said: “Go to sleep, daring,
we’ll go to see Uncle Jim in the fall.”
Then she lay down again, nuzzled her
head close to your shoulder, and as
she fell to sleep again, said: “Going
to Georgia to see my own Uncle Jim
in the fall.” No use to get jealous;
you know she said it, bless her heart!
RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY
FROM WOMAN’S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY OF M. E. CHURCH-
Whereas, It has pleased the Al
mighty to remove from our midst, our
friend and co-laborer, Mrs. H. F.
Brown, who has for many years oc
cupied a prominent place in our midst
maintaining under all circumstances
a character untarnished and a repu
tation above reproach.
Therefore, Resolved, That in the
death of Mrs. Brown we have sustain
ed the loss of a friend whom it was a
privilege to know, that we bear testi
mony to her many virtues and to her
stainless life, that we offer to her be
reaved family and friends our heart
felt condolence, and pray that our
Heavenly Father will bring speedy
relief to their burdened hearts and in
spire them with the consolations that
faith in God gives even in the shadow
of death.
Resolved, That a copy of these reso
lutions be published and that a copy
be sent to the family of our deceased
friend.
Resolved, That a copy of these reso
lutions be spread upon the minutes of
the Woman’s Missionary Society.
MRS. LEVI O’STEEN,
MRS. J. A. DAUGHTERY,
MRS. J. MONROE WILCOX,
Committee.
FINAL NOTICE TO TEACHERS
The regular teachers’ examination
will be held in Douglas the last two
days of July, beginning at 8:30 o’clock
A. M. All those expecting to teach in
this county or elsewhere, should take
advantage of this, as under no cir
cumstances save emergency will any
special examination be given during
the next year.
J. GORDON FLOYD, C. S. S.
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