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Monkeys and parrots are not the
only imitations.
T.hree weeks now and the children
will be at school.
Delia and Mae Quinn came to see
me last week. Getting real sociaL
Maud Harrelson and Liz/ie McGov
ern came to see me last .Saturday.
1 have came to the conclusion that
Annabelle Sears sent those grapes.
Half a dozen warrants issued this
week for people who have been steal
ing cattle.
I saw two gray horses, at one time,
last Monday, but no red headed wom
an was in sight.
Who was that fellow spooning a
round pretty Mary Vickers, up at Am
brose last Sunday?
Georgia Wilcox, of McDonald, Rfd.
spent last week with her sister, Mrs.
J. M. Mills, near Pearson.
Emmie Wall says she will meet me
at McDonald any old time if not soon
er. That is to the point.
If there’s a warrant out for you,
just well come on in—Dave Ricketson
will get you first and last.
Georgia Wilcox is one of those that
owe me a long letter and 1 expect a
postal card, if it ever comes.
Ruthie Houze has been flirting with
a red-headed fellow by moonlight on
the St. Johns. Did you ever?
Mattie Moore, Alma Moore, Myrtice
Moore, and big old, good natured Hen
ry, came to see me last Saturday.
George Right closed his singing
school at Arnie yesterday. There
will be no all-day sing tomorrow.
“Fine Note Book last week, Uncle
Jim,” said a lady friend last Monday.
She is a married lady, but still a flat
tery!
Correspondent at Blystone signs
herself “Brown and Blue Eyes.” Won
der if that gal has an eye of each
color?
Just could not get off last Satur
day to go to Harmony Grove. These
summer colds are fearful, you know,
Bettie.
Cordelia and Zeppie Quinn went
over to Rocky Pond last Sunday. See
that, now; made me believe they were
not going.
“The five Pridgen girls” says if
Charlie Wall and Sib Vickers don’t
show up they must shut up.” Now,
(hat’s straight!
The State Reunion of Confederates
will convene at Fitzgerald next Tues
day. It is not known exactly who
will go from Douglas,
Annabelle Sears and her sis told
another one. No letter or visit for
two weeks. Guess I'll have to see
the pastor of their church.
Messrs. A. L. Wilson and H. E.
Brown, with their families, motored
over to Jack Henderson’t family re
union, at Pearson, last Tuesday.
Laura Rice’s letter from Hot Springs
will appear next week. She wants
her Cofl'ee county chums to know she
has a new leg; “it’s cork and squeaks
eo bad.”
Jim Kirkland says he made “his
pile” in the country, came to town to
live and spend it, and now he’s trying
to get old friend Eli Vickers to do
the same.
Getting time for a postal card from
Minnie Wall, of Texas. She is a
monthly correspondent and sometimes
tries to crowd eight or ten weeks into
one month.
A girl up on No. 4 says the mail
man on that route “is a daisy.” Yes,
and if she goes to monkeying with
Uncle Sam’s daisies she’ll get into
some trouble.
A widow lady up near the river
says she is “going to the sing if she
has to walk, just to see Uncle Jim.”
Hope to goodness she leaves the hat
pins at home!
The blue eyed girl over at Pearson
owes me a letter and has quit writing.
That fellow from ‘Coochee got her I
reckon, but she was wisher to the
whole business.
Rev. Pan Pearson, the Tribune says,
shjr/ed two car loads of watermelons
tr hicago, and realized 75 cents. Did
2C r ’
i; it is a wonder he didn’t have to
pay the freight.
Two pretty girls came to see me
Monday and staid an hour. Asked
me not to tell on ’em, ’cause they are
coming again! Oho, wonder what
Delia thinks of that ?
Mrs. C. W. Corbitt and son. of
Broxton, were in town last Monday.
Marshall Kight said “stop the pa
per;” Bessie said, “Don’t please,” and
the paper keeps going.
A little girl said last Saturday:
“Uncle Jim, a woman says she is com
ing to see you and bring you some
thing nice.” That’s not very definite,
and leaves me guessing.
Mattie Vickers writes me a card
from Fitzgerald, says she is having a
lne time and I will be home next week.
I will be glad to have her back where
I can put my finger on her.
Wonder what has become of Willie
Sears? That fellow down at McKin
non School House must be keeping
her busy answering questions, and she
ha.' no time to come or write
Since his return from Macon Chief
Stevens looks to me to be too big for
his britches. Good notion to have
Philips to lock him up for a day or
two till he shrinks down some.
Miss Annabelle Corbitt, of Pearson,
recent guest of Mrs. Dan Wall, hav
ing returned home, the thermometer
in Gordon Floyd’s left breast is beat
ing normally, today, thank you!
Sheriff Ricketson never has a night
that he can call his own. He might
go to bed in Douglas, and daylight
will find him in his automobile split
ting the wind fifty miles from here.
I had a pair of scissors, one leg
broken off (Mabel Corbitt says I got
mad and snapped ’em) and they are
gone. Haven’t seen ’em since Melvin
Right was in the office last Saturday.
August 10th was Jack Henderson’s
brthday and family reunion. Bessie
and Laura didn’t let me know anything
about it, and they knew I wanted to
come to Pearson so bad, too. Wasn’t
they mean?
Sent four to the chaingang last
week, and Dave Ricketson and his
deputies are filling up the jail again.
They will fight, cut, shoot, drink whis
key and gamble, and the county needs
better roads.
Georgia Wilcox says she has been
attending one of the best series of
services of her life at Union Hill,
near Pearson, for past week, and did
not have time to write. Excuse is
good, if you were at church.
A little girl up at Osierfield says
“there’s going to be a big sing up
there soon, and she expects me.” I
do not remember to have ever met
the “little chum” as she signs herself,
but she is like a good many others—
expects too much.
Winnie Bennett, of Baxley, was in
town Saturday, and was an attentive
listener to the preacher of the Moor
mans, in front of the court house, but
strolled away when the Holiness Bap
tists began preaching. What do you
know about that? Hate to say.
A man in town last Saturday (I
hate to tell his name) says he never
experienced, during his life, as hot
weather as we have just had. Was
warm, that’s the truth, but nothing
like wha he’ll experience after life,
if he don’t pay up back due subscrip
tion.
Joe Starling, of Pearson, was over
here Saturday, and was an interested
listener at the Holy Rollers’ service
in front of the court house, by the
converted Jew. From all accounts he
needs to be interested in something.
Big Dickerson says “I’ll make my af
fidavy that he sho does.”
Laura Henderson, over at Pearson,
wrote me a letter, I answered it, and
now she won’t write any more. A girl
did me that way a good many years
ago, and I went, got her and put her
at the end of the table where I saw
her three times a day. Wonder if
some one’s done her that way?
The Berrien County Singing Con
vention will be held at Nashville, Ga.,
on the sth Sunday in August. An
invitation is extended all who may
want to go. The people of Nashville
are noted for their hospitality, and
those w r ho attend this convention may
be assured of a pleasant, enjoyable
time.
Clifford Hamilton and Bernice Kit
chen, who are neighboring chums and
live just outside of town, came to see
me last Monday to tell me their trials,
troubles and tribulations. Bernice de
nies that her fellow, looking at her,
instead the ground, fell through the
culvert, about half a mile down the
railroad.
Chief and Mrs. M. D. Stevens, of
this city, report that they have had
the “time of their lives,” at the con
vention in Macon last week. Mrs.
Stevens wrote me a card (maybe I
ought not to have said anything about
that) and told me more than would
fill a column. Think she wants a con
vention every day. - -
Little girl down at Waycross writes
to know: “how long have you been
writing the Note Book?” Since July i
11th, 1911. Have written 208 Note
Books, containing on an average of
three columns. In all the Note Books
for four years there were 624 columns,
about 624,000 words. My little friend
can do some figuring now.
Willie Mae Pittman fooled around
down here last week until she lost her
gold stick pin, somewhere between
Tanner’s Pharmacy and the Method
ist church park. It has the letter
“H” engraved on it, and if the finder
will bring it to my office in the court
house he’ll be paid for his trouble, for
she is one of my chums. Or mail it
direct to her at Jacksonville, Ga.
John McGovern was cranking up his
car last Saturday to go home, and his
wife w r as still on the sidewalk —just
like he was going to leave her. I
waited till she had her foot on the
running board, caught her from be
hind on each shoulder, gave a push
and life, hollered “up cotton,” and in
she went when John wasn’t looking.
Some push and lift. I tell you, some
| where between 100 and 1000 pounds.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS. GA-, AUGUST 14th., 1915.
Mrs. Janie Griffin, at Hoboken, wrote
me a letter last week, and sent me a
two-cent stamp for Laura’s picture.
She said she didn’t expect a letter, as
I put the other in the waste basket,
without an answer. Now Janie, you
know I overlooked that letter, and am
so sorry, but I sent the picture and a
letter, too, so tRe boot is on the other
foot.
Georgia Wilcox, who lives out on
Rfd. McDonald, and who I introduced
to Bessie and Laura Henderson, at
Pearson, some time ago, writes to
know “where those sweet little Hen
derson girls are bow?”. Write to
either of them Rfd. Pearson. They
live two miles out of town, and you’ll
get a letter in reply from two of the
nicest girls in Georgia.
Tom Douglas came to town the oth
er day and left his grip—one of the
big, open mouth fellows, the kind that
blind tiger men carry—in my office.
That was two weeks ago, and he said
he’d get it soon. Well, be didn’t do
it, and it was in my way and I picked
it up, put it over behind a box, and
as it went down on the floor I thought
I heard somethin' rattle like bottles,
and it didn’t rattle like fruit jars,
either. I wouldn’t have said anything
about this if Tom hadn’t sent Jim
Carver, J. P., at Mora, up here the
other day “to bring his grip, if Uncle
Jim hadn’t done away with it, or give
it to some woman!” Now, I guess he
thinks he’s some smartie, but I’ll get
even with him and Jim Carver as soon
as I can write to some girls in his
settlement.
Writing about the newspapers that
have been published in Pearson, the
Tribune of last week has the follow
ing; “Mr. Hill was succeeded by the
original and only James M. Freeman,
and about that time the name was
cnanged to ‘Headligst.’ It was here
that the P’reeman boys (?) learned
to stir theis pretty fingers among the
metal letters and bringing order out
of chaos—forming the letters into
words—words into lines, lines into
paragraphs, paragraphs into columns
and the columns into the newspaper
page. The “Headlight” flourished
for a year or two, and when Mr. Par
ker decided to leave Pearson and go
to Waycross, then looming up as a
hustling railroad burg, he was accom
panied by “Uncle Jimmie and his pet
friend, the “Headlight.” Uncle Jim
mie and the Headlight remained in
Waycross until the opening of the
Twentieth century, then they came
back to Coffee county and located at
Douglas.” * * * Our friend makes
a slight mistake. I published the
Coffee County Gazette for Mr. Par
ker three years, when it was pur
chased by Mr. W. P. Ward, who mov
ed it to Waycross. Then the name
was changed to Headlight. I went
to work to make a good paper, and
succeeded, and W. P. Ward went off
to get married, and also succeeded by
a large majority
Some scientist has found a marble
plate in Egypt, or some other eastern
country, which shows that it was
Noah, arid not Adam that ate the for
bidden fruit. That’s a great relief to
Adam’s folks, if any one believes
it, but I don’t. The Bible is God’s
word, and it said Adam and Eve were
the guilty couple, long before we
heard anything from Noah. It seems
to me he had enough trouble of his
own, in building an ark and saving
his family, animals, etc., from drown
ing, and after all this, his daughters
got him on a high old spree and he
committed an act that is punishable,
accoi-ding to the code, with death.
Yes, I believe the Bible part of the
business, and I believe the scientist
to be a sensational liar. These sci
entists, theologians, preachers and
others concerned, with malice afore
thought, befox-e and after the fact,
have got me all tangled up so bad
that I feel like a big, fat woman with
a hobble skirt—can’t side-step, jump
or stoop down. One of the preachers
says “you can’t keep the Ten Com
mandments,” and another says he’ll
bet ten cents to a ginger cake that
“you can.” So, there you are. Then,
another man gets up and says, “you
will have a thousand years to repent
of your meanness after you are dead.”
After that another one gets up and j
says, “if you don’t quit your mean- !
ness you’ll die and go to hell, as
straight as a goose can swim across
a pond, and you’ll stay there.” Great
gosh, and the weather is so hot, too.
The only true way to straighten this
tangle, which some people get in, on
this question is to remember that
God Himself says: “Return unto me
and I will return unto to you; you
shall be my people and I will be your
God.” Now, doesn’t that seem to
be a fair proposition? But you don’t
seem to know how to “return.” Jesus
says, “I am the way,” and “come
unto me all that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.” You
can come to God only through Jesus
who sweetly promises “Believe, re
pent, be baptised and you shall be
saved,” but there is no promise unless
you do these things.
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Church Directory
METHODIST CHURCH.
Rev. H. M. Morrison, Pastor.
Preaching services every Sunday at
11:00 A. M. and 7:30 P. M.
Sunday School every Sunday at
3:30 P. M„ L. E. Heath Superinten
dent.
Epworth League Devotional, Sun
day evenings at 6:45, W. T. Cotting
ham, President.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday eve
nings at 7:30.
Choir Practice every Thursday eve
ning at 7:30, Miss Ethel Morrison,
Directress.
Strangers are most cordially invit
ed, and the public generally will re
ceive hearty welcome to all these
services.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
T. S. Hubert, Pastor.
M. H. Turrentine, Clerk.
W. R. Wilson, Treasurer
W. C. Bryan, Bible School Super
intendent. •
H. Rirkland, B. Y. P. U. President.
Preaching every Sunday. Bible
School meets at 4P. M. B. Y. P. U.
meets at 7:00 P. M.
Welcome to all services.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA RAILWAY’S
ANNUAL EXCURSION TO AU
GUSTA, GA-
In keeping with its usual progres
sive policy, the Georgia & Florida
Railway will operate a delightful and
inexpensive excursion from all points
on the line, to Augusta, on Wednes
day, August 18.
The round trip fare which they
have made for this excursion, is un
precedently low, and the time allowed
for staying in Augusta amply suffi
cient for a satisfactory visit at that
point, and furnishes an opporunity
for side trips to the innumerable
points in Georgia and South Carolina,
adjacent to the city.
On account of the peculiar and un
fortunate conditions now existing
throughout the territory, he Georgia
& Florida has given first consideration
to the matter of expense, hence the
cheapness of rate authorized.
Augusta is gaining in importance
each day, and is one of the most at
tractive cities of our community. The
city is well supplied with places of
amusement, such as moving picture
show houses, delightful trolly rides
to Summerville, Aiken and other sur
burban points, and has within its own
limits one of the most attractive surn-
mer parks in the South, namely: Lake
View Park, where amusements of all
j character can be found, including
I bathing, boating, etc.
The excursion will be in charge of
j a passenger representative, whose
I business it will be to look after the
I comfort of all the passengers. Am
j pie equipment will be provided to
| make the trip one of great pleasure.
1 The round trip fare from Douglas
will be $2.00, and tickets limited for
return passage, four days exclusive
of date of sale.
NOTICE —By agreement, we the
undersigned dentists of Douglas, Ga.,
will not do any ci-edit work after Sep
tember Ist, only in cases of retraction
or treatment for temporary relief of
pain.
LEWIS DAVIS, D. I). S.
M. H. TURRENTINE, D. D. S.
S. G. ALDERMAN, D. D. S.
MOTOR RURAL CARRIER EXAMI
NATION.
Motor Rural Carrier Examination
for Douglas, Kirkland and Willacoo
chee, August 14th; citizens of county
eligible; special course of instruction,
$10.00; pai’ticulars free. Federal
Civil Service School, Kellogg Build
ing, Washington, D. C.
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