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Clncie Jim s ,^Sook o' .5 Si/ !.freemum 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. SORE HEAD REMEDY. We have a guaranteed remedy for Sore Head on chickens. A 50c bottle will cure a hundred birds. UNION PHARMACY. 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. RELIABLE GROCERS That’s who you are dealing with when you buy from us. We keep and sell everything in our line. PHONE 52 J. C. RELIHAN & COMPANY DOUGLAS, GA. fj/ic Clnion SSankiny (Pom "Wit/i Capital unc) Surplus of 1 $150,000.00 I Appreciates Your Accounts Either Large or Small | A MAN NEEDED HIS WIFE ASKED HIM-HOW MUCH; HE TOLD HER; SHE WROTE HIM A CHECK FOR THE AMOUNT. SHE HAD PUT MONEY IN THE BANK, AND SAVED HER HUSBAND FROM BUSINESS FAILURE C>< »* A woman with a bank account makes a better com panion; she gets interested in her husband’s affairs; she knows where money comes from and where it gees, and she takes mighty good care that it goes as far as possible. She can save you trouble and MONEY. 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