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AMBROSE NEWS NOTES
On Thursday A. M. at one o’clock,
the 19th, inst., the soul of Mr. C. P.
Gore left this world to live with Jesus
and His angels. He had been feeble
and in bad health for some time. Mr.
as eighty years of age the
last June. He was bom in
Harry County, South Carolina, in
which state he lived several years.
Mr. Gore and family moved to Am
brose about ten years ago, and have
made their home here ever since. Mr.
Gore was a true Christian hearted gen
tleman, he having been a member of
the Missionary Baptist church for
seventy-two years. He leaves a wife
and two sons besides other relatives
and a host of friends to mourn his
death, his first wife having preceded
him to the grave several years. Rev.
H. M. Meeks, of Nicholls, preached
the funeral in the home, after which
the remains were laid to rest in New
Hope cemetery Thursday afternoon.
We pray God’s richest blessings upon
the sorrowing and bereaved ones.
Little Misses Lucile and Edna Lou
i Vickers visited last week with rel
atives in Fitzgerald,
Mr. Leonard Lott, of Douglas, spent
Saturday night and Sunday with rel
atives at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. B. S. Royal. ■
Mr. George G. Paulk was among
the business visitors to Broxton on
Tuesday.
We are sorry to report that Law
ton and Alton Young, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Young, are sick of fever.
We trust that they both may soon be
well again.
Mr. D. F. Gore attended to business
matters in Douglas Wednesday.
Mr. G. L. Owens, of near Ocilla,
has returned here to be manager of
the Ambrose Ginnery again for this
season. His old friends art glad to
welcome him back again.
Miss Mattie Hursey did not return
home as we wrote last week, but she
was visiting some relatives near town.
The usual monthly services were
held at Mt. Union church last Satur
day and Sunday.
Messrs. S. D. Young, Frank Russ
and W. J. Royal, spent Sunday at
Brunswick and St. Simons.
Col. Chastain, of Douglas, was here
Wednesday attending to business af
fairs.
i Messrs. Isler and Green, of Fitzger
ald, were business callers to Ambrose
Wednesday.
The many friends of Mrs. C. P. Gore
are sorry to note that she is sick.
They hope for her an early recovery.
Mr. W'. T. Royal was out of town
Wednesday attending to business at
Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Sweat were in
Douglas mingling with friends and
attending to business.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Y. Touchton. of
Howell, Ga., were week-end visitors
with relatives at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Foxworth.
The little infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Z. Parker, of Wray, died on
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock,
August 18. The little one had been
sick several days of pneumonia. The
remains were laid to rest in New Hope
cemetery Thursday afternoon, Rev.
G. F. Morris performing the funeral
exercises. May God bless and com
fort the bereaved.
Mr. W. C. Britt, of Fitzgerald, was
a business caller here Wednesday.
While Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Royal and
little daughter, Geneva, were out rid
ing Tuesday night the horse became
frightened and threw Mrs. Royal and
the little one from the buggy. Luc
ily they were not seriously injured.
The singing at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Grantham Saturday night
was well attended, and enjoyed by all
present.
Dr. W. M. Royal and Mr. Ed Royal,
both of Fitzgerald, were here with
relatives Tuesday night.
BROXTON LOCALS.
Prof, and Ms.r Oscar Campbell ar
rived recently from Tennessee and
are making preparations for the open
ing of school next Monday.
Rev. W. B. Smith is at Alapaha
this week assisting Bro. Bugg in a
meeting there.
Mr. J. J. Dorminy is in Atlanta on
business this week.
Mr. J. H. Milhollin returned to
North Georgia after spending a few
days here.
Mrs. Dave Peterson and Miss Belle
Peterson returned from Jay Bird
Springs last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Dubberly and
children spent the week-end in Coch
ran visiting Misses Rosalie and Lou
ise Smith on Railroad street.
Mrs. Frederck Booth, of Savannah,
left after a pleasant visit to Miss
Ethel Wooten, for Cordele to visit
relatives there.
Mrs. Dorminy and children spent
Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Dix-
on, at Osierfield.
Mesdames B. M. and C. A. Poer en
tertained at a barbecue Tuesday eve
ning in honor of their husbands’ birth
days. It was served on Mrs. B. M.
Poer’s lawn. About forty of the
honorees’ gentlemen friends were pres
ent. Drs. C. W. Roberts and Jas.
DeLamar, of Douglas, were out of
town guests.
Mrs. Will Googe and children, of
Abbeville, has visited her mother,
Aunt Mary Lott, here.
We welcome Abbert McLean and
family to our town.
Miss Carrie Mae Knowles spent a
few days in Ashburn this week.
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NEW FOREST DOTS.
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Well, Uncle Jim, I am just home
from a week’s visit to my uncle, Lem
Dent, up at Sylvester, Ga., a beautiful
little town twenty miles east of Al
bany, on the A. C. L. railroad, and I
dare say that no town is made up of!
any cleverer, nicer people. They just
know no end to giving you a good
time, an bdelieve me, I sure did enjoy
my trip. I went car riding nearly
every afternoon; I visited a million
aire’s home about three miles from
Sylvester, where they had a farm of
45 plows. We drove all around the
farm. Uncle Lem took me over to
Albany, I saw the large Read Ferti
lizer plant. My grandmother, Mrs.
T. H. Dent, is still up there for her
health.
Messs.r Henderson and Tom Adams
from near Lehi, have been teaching a
ten days’ sing at New Forest. It
will close today, Tuesday.
Lots of the folks of this community
went to Douglas Saturday and en
joyed the day very much.
Mrs. Nelia King, nee Miss Nelia
Dent, and children were the guests of
John Dent and family Saturday and
Sunday.
From what I hear Mr. Eunice and
Miss Johnson’s visit out to the school
house last week was very much en
joyed by all present.
J. M. Tanner and daughter attend
ed church at Saginaw last Sunday.
We did not have any preaching at
I Sand Hill Saturday or Sunday, but
Mr. Dunk Smith’s little four year old
baby was buried at the preaching hour
on Sunday. He lived near Shepherd.
Prof. T. S. Weatherington was the
guest of Miss Annie Belle Cain Sun
day night.
Mrs. B. W. Tanner and daughter,
Lillie, visited the sing yesterday af
ternoon, and also Mr. John Dent’s big
tempting grapevine.
Austin Tanner and Mr. Henderson
went to West Green Sunday after
noon, but Sunday school wasn’t all
the attraction.
Mrs. M. A. Norman, Jr., and chil
dren, of Hazlehurst, are visiting rel
atives. She is the guest of Mrs.
Frank Tanner today.
Mr. Arthur Baker and Miss Annie
Belle Cain visited his sister, Mrs.
Charles Meeks, Saturday night and
Sunday.
Big singing convention on hand
next. CACTUS.
SESSOMS ITEMS.
; Misses Minnie Taylor and Ethel
| Meeks made a fling trip to Brunswick
Thursday and returned on Thursday
night.
Mrs. H. M. Meeks spent a while
with Mrs. S. S. Smith Friday morn
ing.
Mrs. Darcas Raper and baby,of
Douglas, are spending the week with
her mother, Mrs. Daniel Meeks.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis spent the
day with Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Smith
Sunday.
Mr .Billy Courson and two girls
spent a while at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. S. S. Smith Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Robinson were
the pleasant guests of Mrs. S. S.
Smith Sunday.
Misses Sheba and Nora Cribb stop
ped a while at Mrs. S. S. Smith’s Sun
day evening.
The sing at Pine Grove was well
attended last Sunday.
Mr. F. Rhoden was in Nicholls on
Saturday.
Mrs. H. M. Meeks’ little grandson
is very sick.
Mr. Eugene McDonald visited the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Thomp
son Sunday afternoon.
Ellen and Frances Smith spent Sat
urday night with Misses Pearl and
Grace McDonald.
'Best wishes to Uncle Jim and the
Enterprise. BLUE EYES.
SUNNY SIDE SMILES.
Uncle Jim, our singing school at
Sunny Side will close next Saturday.
Wish you could be here. After the
close I must go to picking cotton.
Miss Annie Callihan Is visiting at
the home of Mr. Will Clements for
the next three or four weeks.
Elsha Douglas, Owen McGovern and
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GA., AUGUST 28TH., 1915.
Doll Clements, were the guests of
Misses Ethel Clements and Annie Cal
ihan last Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Elisha Douglas made a pop call
at the home of Miss Ethel Clements
last Sunday. DAISY.
NO CHILDREN IN THE MINES.
California Eliminates Children Under
Sixteen From Mines and Quarriea.
Among the new limits established by
the California child labor law of 1915
Is a sixteen year limit for mines and
quarries. California has mining prod
ucts valued at more than $(53,000,000,
according to the 1910 census, but she
has never before set an age limit for
the children who might be employed
in their production.
Now that a sixteen year limit has
been adopted no fourteen or fifteen
year old trapper boys will be found
among the victims of an explosion, as
was the case in West Virginia last
year, nor will their thoughtlessness be
the cause of disasters in which others
are killed, as it sometimes is where
boys under sixteen are permitted to
work in mines.
Mining has the highest fatal accident
rate of any industry, but quarrying is
not far behind. A signal boy was
crushed to death by a falling stone in
Photo by National Child Labor Committee.
BOYS WHO BEHOVE SLATE FROM COAL IN
THE BREAKERS.
a Maine quarry last fall. The occupa
tion of signal boy is not generally sup
posed to be dangerous, but it is evident
from this that any occupation in a
quarry is unsafe for young boys and
that a sixteen year limit is imperative.
A number of mining states having
both mines and quarries have adopted
a sixteen year limit for mines only,
forgetting that the dangers from fall
ing stone and blasting make the pres
ence of young boys in quarries a risk
to be avoided.
California’s action is regarded as
particularly significant by the National
Child Labor Committee in view of the
“law of recurrence” which Dr. Felix
Adler spoke about at the Eleventh An
nual Conference on Child Labor. I)r.
Adler said that the evils of child labor
had followed industrial development
from England to New York and Mas
sachusetts, from there to the south
and from the south would go to the
west unless the west prevented it by
enacting child labor laws in advance.
Child labor in the mines will not “re
cur” in California.
FORESTALLING CHILD LABOR.
By FELIX ADLER.
The question is sometimes asked:
“Why have a National Child Labor
Committee? Why not have state com
mittees and let these co-operate?”
One sufficient answer to this is that
the appearance of child labor in those
states in which there is as yet little
or no manufacturing must be fore
stalled, and a national committee is
needed to this end. Anti-child labor
laws must pre-empt the ground before
a greedy industrialism can stretch
forth its hands to grasp the child.
The law of periodicity, the law of re
currence, that has hitherto obtained
in the matter of child labor must be
defeated. England began, Massachu
setts, Pennsylvania, New York follow
ed suit. The same inconceivable out
rages on human feelings repeat them
selves again and again. Whenever a
predominantly agricultural community
develops into an industrial stage the
horrors exposed by Lord Shaftesbury
tend to recur. Mankind does not read
ily learn by experience. The warning
lessons of the past are often writ in
water. Thus the industrial states of
the north simply stepped into the foul
footsteps of early English capitalism,
and the south, ns soon as it became in
dustrial, hastened to repeat the same
doleful story. The great states of the
Pacific and the west must thwart that
horrible law and make it impossible
that the same conditions should there
grow up. That is the one main object
of a national committee.
Don’t fail to read the two install
ments of “The Black Box” in this
week’s issue of The Enterprise. It
will be interesting from start to fin
ish. Read it and then see it at. the
Grand Theatre Wednesday night.
THE CHILDREN’S CRY.
I said: "I am poor this year, and the war
is hard.
I cannot give to the things I love to aid.
So this must go. and this, in the great
discard.
And the children must suffer, too, I am
much afraid.”
Hut I didn’t know how 11try cry tn the night
And pluck at t/nnr skirts and mourn,
H<tw they cry uith the voice of your heart's
delight
And the faces your dead have worn.
There are boys that work all night in the
crystal dust.
There are girls who spin all day at the
whirring wheels,
And how shall I face my dead with my
broken truet
When the “Inasmuch as ye did it not”
reveals?
/ couldn’t bear their cry to the night,
ir/ie clutch of their little hands.
I must do my best witt i the widow's mtts
To loosen the iron bands.
—L. B.
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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.
11. Kirkland, B. Y. P. U. President.
Preaching every Sunday. Bible
School meets at 4 P. M. B. Y. P. U.
meets at 7:00 P. M.
Welcome to all services.
PEARCE & BATTEY, the Savan
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