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|A/| \ I” I itverv Saturday by
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» fRICR, Editor
. pCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE!
W . ONE YEAR SI.OO
SIX MONTHS 50
THREE MONTHS .25
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COFFEE COUNTY AND
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congress of
March 8, 1879.
SEASON FOR SQUIRRELS.
This is the open season for cat squirrels.
It is against the law to shoot fox squirrels at
any time of the year previous to 1918.
In order that you may be posted on the
game law, cut this out and keep it. Then you
won’t have to ask somebody when the season
opens or closes:
Section 18 of the Georgia game laws pro
vides that “any person who shall hunt without
first obtaining a license, except on his own land
or in his own mititia district, or who lends or
transfers his license to another, or who shall
hunt upon the lands of another without first
having obtained his consent to do so, except
persons following hounds in pursuit of foxes
or deer or any other animals not mentioned in
this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
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Germany is said to be fighting on short
rations. Rut she does not appear to be doing
any short shooting.
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Rumors of war on one side and the snarling,
snapping Mexicans on the other puts the Unit
ed States between two cross fires.
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Wonder if the code tinkerers will be allowed
to get in any of their work if there should be
an extra session of the legislature?
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The old time darky used to count one pound
of ginned cotton good for a pound of bacon.
Now it takes two pounds to buy the bacon.
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The war news from the east is just the
same as yesterday. Both sides giving the oth
er thunder, and the German submarines very
busy.
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The Cobb county coroner's jury in the
Ank case says: “Deceased came to his death
V. B>arties unknown.” And the verdict is ac-
Hpßd as true.
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(«Bic Columbus Inquirer-Sun man says the
girl in Georgia lives in that town.
another one of his slanders; she lives
1 ' and we all know her at sight.
lip 1 V 0
HHHwus found, on examination, that people
|f§S|lW>b county knew no more about the Frank
|U||®ng. which occurred there, than any other
the state. Some of them, in fact.
surprised to hear about the sad affair.
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Bfhe Hazlehurst News has bought out the
IHrazlehurst Enterprise, which began publication
Pi few months ago, by Col. and Mrs. Grant.
This is another instance in which it is proven
that two papers cannot exist in a one-paper
town.
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The Albany Herald says here is a mean
fling from the New York Evening post, but it
can not be denied that there is some basis for
it: “Georgia is competent to manage her own
affairs except when she wants the Federal Gov
ernment to sell her cotton for her.”
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V It is rurrfored that Germany wants to buy
Mhe southern cotton crop, store it and use it
jßfter the war is over. The cash talks, and if
will give ten cents per pound she can
the whole business, and we’ll all sing
88wir der Kiser, und long time may he lit!”
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V Now and then some fire-eater rises to re-
Inark that if this country and Germany should
rget into a war he would enlist at once if not
'sooner. It will be remembered that some said
something like that in 1861, and when the
pinch of time came they were living in the
Okefenokee Swamp.
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Macon has been trying for a long time to
make herself a seaport town, through connec
tion by the Ocmulgee river with Brunswick.
An improved steel barge with gasoline engines
of the latest model has been equipped and made
a successful trial trip to Brunswick, but with
Mjeavy load and the unusual stage of low water
|H»e river, the return has been difficult.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GA„ AUGUST 281 H.. ISIS.
OUTSIDE MEDDLING PHARISEES.
Georgians who are temporarily in the North,
some of our Yankee acquaintances, and still
others whom we do not know, are sending us
numerous marked copies of Northern publica
tions in which Georgia and Georgians are de
nounced and reviled in the severest terms over
the lynching of Leo M. Frank, says the Albany
Herald.
It is pretty tough the way some of the
Northern newspapers denounce us as savages.
In two different papers that come from Mas
sarhusetts the suggestion is made that some
of the money and missionaries whihh the “Chris
tian people” of the holy North are sending to
heathens in foreign lands far away be diverted
to Georgia!
We are sorely tempted here and now to say
something that might make the Puritans and
Pharisees “Up North” raise their hands and
sepulchral voices in holy horror, but, great as
the strain is, there is still grace sufficient to
sustain a forbearance that is closely allied with
the sort of fortitude that is acquired in the
school of old-time religion. It is useless to try
to reason with such people, and to rail at them
would be to make oneself ridiculous.
Outside protests and outside meddling have
done more than anything else to stir up the
bad blood that has finally asserted itself in the
lynching of Frank. The irritation and bad
feeling which followed the commutation of the
death sentence were largely due to the cam
paign which outsiders had made to set aside
the verdict of the courts.
Our Northern critics who are now hurling
such epithets as “murderers,” “savages,” etc.,
indiscriminately at Georgia overlook the fact
that with only two or three exceptions the news
papers of Georgia have not only denounced the
lynching of Frank in the severest terms, but
have demanded that the duly constituted au
thorities of the state exercise every diligence
in apprehending the members of the mob and
bring them to a just punishment. This latter,
with the Governor of the state taking the ini
tiative, is being undertaken, and the more med
dling and aggravating criticism there is from
outside sources, more particularly from the
sectional press of the North, the greater the
difficulty in handling the situation.
THE TAX RATE IN GEORGIA.
The magnificent increases shown in the di
gest of Chatham and Floyd counties—consider
ably above what has been hoped for—has pulled
down the prospective decrease in the aggregate
state tax values. It appears now that the net
decrease n valuations will not be more than two
and a quarter millions, whereas it looked for a
time that the decrease would be more than six
millions, with a chance that it might run to ten,
says the Augusta Chronicle.
The tax rate for 1915 would have already
been fixed, but for the fact that Governor Har
ris is detained at home on account of illness.
Calculations have been made, though, and, while
it has not been announced what the rate will
be, it is safe to assume that it will not be more
than 4.70, or not quite a quarter of a mill in
crease over last year.
The footings, with only Dawson and Pickens
counties now missing shows, in round numbers,
$800,330,000 as against $803,390,196, or a de
crease in the property valuations of about $3,-
060,000. An offset of this is the increase of
$1,100,000 in corporation valuations which, with
other small increases in the other sources of
tax revenues, will put the net decrease against
last year at about a million and a quarter.
The Chatham digest, just in, showed an in
crease of $2,085,000 and the Floyd digest show
ed an increase of $1,600,000. These two lead
the state, and were enough to boost the aggre
gate footings to the magnificent showing they
are going to make, despite the fear that the
drop-off would be enormous.
The state’s net revenue from all other sourc
es than taxable properties is $1,500,000 and
the calculations will show that a levy of 4.70
will about raise the amount of money necessary
for the 1915 expenses.
The decrease in the valuations is found to
be practically all in the value of stocks of goods
carried in mercantile establishments, and the
amount of livestock on farms. In the latter
connection it is cited that the European war is
felt more in this way in Georgia than in any
other way. People who could not realize the
needed money on their agricultural products
did realize on livestock, and many of the horses
and mules have been sold and exported for ar
my uses. A case in kind is that in Coweta
county, where, it is said, from the town of New
nan alone, four carloads of horses and mules
were shipped away in one week for army use.
That being true of Coweta county, it is said to
be equally true of a good many other counties
in the state.
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A Boston corporation declines to take or
ders from Atlanta for caulking material until
the state of Georgia sets herself right on the
Frank case. Atlanta and all other Georgia
cities should let the Bdbton firm caulk itself
up for good. There must be other dealers in
the same jnateriaL - .
INFORM ATOM BULLETIN NO. 11
The Union Pharmacy
Douglas, Georgia Phone 45
Every Saturday is Candy day
Only 39 cents you know
A good many Georgians are out in Texas
and other sections of the over-flown country,
who would like to be “back home” just now.
We certainly hope no harm mill befall them.
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From the published reports of available
money for the cotton producer, one would think
he w'ould soon have money to burn. The farm
er has a long head, however, and he thinks
there is a string to these inviting loans.
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Georgia sympathizes with Indiana because
of the terrible crime in a suburb of Gary. The
pastor of a Lutheran church, whose utterances
were not in accord with the sentiments of some
of his neighbors, was choked and shot. His
body was found in a vacant lot adjoining his
home. Georgia does not believe this crime
means that the people of Indiana are uncivil
ized.—Savannah Press.
THE COTTON CROP IS
25 PER CENT. SHORT
A. P. Coles, vice president of the
Central Bank and Trust Corporation
of Atlanta, has made a statement
compiled from estimates received
from correspondents of the bank
throughort Georgia, to the effect that
the Georgia cotton crop his year will
be approximately 2,030,000 bales.
The statement says the acreage is 18
j per cent, off from last year; the stand
■ is 13 per cent, off, and cultivation is
8 per cent. off. The general condi
j tion of the crop, it is stated, is 27 per
j cent, less than at this time last year.
Attention is called to the fact that
i for the last seven years estimaes
made by Mr. Coles have been within
! two per cent, of actual conditions.
WANTED—-TO BUY IN BULK
Cross Tie Timber, Cypress or Pine
fer spot cash. Address Curling Tie
Company, Lankford Building, Doug
las, Ga.
SORE HEAD REMEDY.
We have a guaranteed remedy for
Sore Head on chickens. A 50c bottle
j will cure a hundred birds.
[SCHOOL TIME ALMOST HERE
The child with glasses is more
likely to be the adult without
glasses than is the weak-eyed lit
tle fellow whose eyes are not giv
en the proper attention —protect
your child's eyes while in school.
—Wilson.-
Manning-Bowman Percolator
Free with 300 Certificates
It’s a genuine Manning-Bowman Percolator, made
of extra heavy pure aluminum with ebonized wood
handle. The glass top
has a patented metal tip
iir^TjTrfLi protector which pre
vents it from breaking
while in use. Makes
y\ M 8 cups of coffee. Stove
VV M plate for gas stove use
with the perco-
lator. You can easily
save 300 of our “divi
dend checks” and get
this useful article free.
COTTAGE FOR RENT—My cottage
on West Ward Street for $9.00 a
month, which is in a good neigh
borhood and a bargain. For further
information write Esther Melton,
care General Delivery, Hot Springs.
Arkansas.
It is admitted that we are having pretty
tight times, but imaginations in many case
make the situation worse. The farmers have
good crops, and in many cases the smoke houses
have enough bacon, lard, etc., to carry them
over to another season.
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Some of the girls in northern colleges say
they would not marry a man if he didn’t make
oved S2OOO per year. Oh, dear, isn’t that fear
ful. But then, there are men in Georgia who
would not marry one of these girls for S2OOO
per annum, and would be cheated at that price.
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A number of counties have turned in their
reports to the Comptroller General, and he an
nounces a shortage. The returns from Coffee,
published today shows a gain over 1914 of
$71,295. Another proof that this Is a section
of God’s countrv.
IONEHO IN
e are in the field for loans on
farmlands from SIOOO. to SSOOO.
here titles are good we can place
the money in your hands in from one
to four weeks after the application is
submitted.
TERMS —5 years at 7%
J, MONROE WILCOX & BRO.
MUCUS GEORGIA
LOST—In Post Office Tuesday morn
ing Ladies’ Purse containing Dia
mond Ring, an order for 5 cases of
Chero-Cola. Finder may keep ring,
but deliver order to Tanner’s Phar
macy.