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Purely Personal
Mr. G. M. Stanton spent Sunday in
Atlanta.
Mrs. Dan Wall has returned from
Willacoochee.
Mr. Shep Pell left this week for
D. C.
Mr. J. J. Rogers has returned from
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. J. H. Moore is visiting rela
tives in Hazlehurst.
Mrs. Andrew Wood is visiting rela
tives at Jackson, Ga.
Mrs. T. B. Moxley has returned
from a visit to Augusta.
Mrs. M. E. Bardin and daughter
have returned to Douglas.
Mr. A. J. Meeks, of Nicholls, trans
acted business here Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Salter spent
Sunday at St. Simons Islond.
Col. W. W. Bennett, of Baxley, was
here on legal business Friday.
Mr. Len K. Roan has accepted a
position with the G. & F. offices.
Mr. T. J. Harmon, of Ocilla, was
the guest of friends here Sunday.
Mr. Prince Noell, of Valdosta, was
the guest of friends here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bartlett, of
Nicholls, spent the week-end here.
Miss Eula Hankinson, of Augusta,
was a visitor to the city this week.
Mr. W. B. Zachry leaves tomorrow
for Sarasota, Fla., to visit his father.
Mr. Charlie Crews left this week
for his future home at Spartanburg.
Mrs. Cordie Patrick, of Cordele, was
the guest of Misses Hinson Sunday.
Miss Susie Parrish left toclay for
Albany after a visit to Mrs. H. W.
Baird.
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Taylor announce
the arrival of a baby girl at their
home.
Miss Nettie Barrett, of Calhoun, is
the guest of her brother, Mr. H. W.
Barrett.
Mrs. W. A. H. Davis has returned
from a visit to relatives in North
Georgia.
Miss Grace Brown, of Fitzgerald,
was the guest of Mrs. J. W. Powell
this week.
Mr. Arthur Ponder and daughter,
Miss Irene, have erturned from a visit
to Tampa.
Mrs. Jesse Grantham and children,
of Fitzgerald, are guests of relatives
in the city.
Mrs. S. J. Brown and children, of
Nicholls, are the guests of Mrs. A.
W. Haddoek.
Miss Dollie Freeman, now in Jeff
Davis county visiting friends, will re
turn next week.
Mr. R. B. Chastain is at home from
the Panama Exposition and other
western points.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pafford were re
cent visitors to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Elias Lott.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Evans, of Claxton,
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. I. Weint-,
roub over Sunday.
Mrs. L. E. Heath has been confined
to her room for several days, but is
improving again.
Mrs. T. A. Wallace and children
have returned from a several visit at
Steubenville, Ky.
» Mr. C. N. Fielding and Misses Lil
lian and Jessie Fielding spent Thurs
day at St. Simons.
Mrs. Hoke Davis, on a recent visit
of a month to her mother, returned
to the city this week.
Mrs. J. M. Hall, accompanied by
her sons, Jonh and Lawton, have re
turned from Augusta.
If your child was slow in school
last term, start it right this one
by giving its eyesight the proper
attention. —Wilson.
Mr. Dan Knowles leaves tomorrow
for a trip to the Adirandacks before
returning to Cincinnati.
Mr. M. Vickers, of Pearson, will
move to his new home near Douglas
by the first of September.
Mr. Edgar L. Brown, of Columbus,
spent Wednesday night with his sis
ter, Mrs. S. H. Christopher.
Mrs. R. J. Cornelius and baby are
visiting friends in Waycross this week
and are expected home tomorrow.
On Thursday evening Circle No. 2
sold ice cream and cake at Ward Park
for the benefit of the Baptist church.
Mr, J. W. Monk and three children,
of Sylvester, were guests of his sis
ter, Mrs. J. L. Kersey, here Sunday.
Mr. W. I. Christian is moving his
family into the cottage vacated by
Mr. H. W. Barrett on Gaskin avenue.
Miss Maude Lee Bryan’s class of
boys, and their girl friends, are en
joying a picnic at Gaskn Spring to
day.
Mrs. T. J. Holland, of Pensacola,
and Mrs. R. I. Denmark, of Cyrene,
are guests of their sister, Mrs. A. F.
Coffee.
Miss Mattie Hardman and little
sister, of Jacksonville, Fla., are visit
ing their cousins, tyfr. and Mrs. C. T.
Darley, this week.
Miss Beatrice McDonald left this
week to visit her brother in Fitzger
ald before going to Ocilla where she
will teach this winter.
Mr. M. D. Jones has moved his fam
ily into the Hart cottage on Pearl
street, recently vacated by Mr. J.
Monroe Wilcox and family.
Mrs. S. H. D. Barnes, Sunday school
class enjoyed a delightful picnic at
Gaskin Spring, having as their guests
the young ladies of their set.
Mrs. R. N. Fain will leave in a few
days for Waycross after a visit to
Mrs. G. F. Dickson. Mrs. Fain has a
number of oil paintings for sale.
Mrs. Hulda Thigpen, of Lakeland,
Fla., formerly Miss Hulda Deen, of
this city, is visiting friends and rela
tives here this week, and will remain
several days.
Mrs. John McLean and Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Vickers, and Miss Oldin
Vickers will leave Sunday for a trip
to New York, Washington and other
eastern points.
Mrs. Hattie Fussell, of Pearson,
was operated on at the King’s Daugh
ters’ Hospital at Waycross on August
26, the operation being successful.
Her father, M. Vickers, was with her.
Those attending a house party and
camp given by Miss Mary Burns, of
Vienna, are Misses Lucile Clements,
Mark? Ward, Eunice Lott, Ruth Johns,
Mrs. Gordon Burns and Mr. Preston
Ward.
Prof. J. 0. Rogers was in the city
last Friday enroute to Fruitland,
where he has been conducting a sum
mer school, from an extended trip to
Augusta.
Miss Era Goodyear has returned
from Waycross. She was accompan
ied by Prof, and Mrs. Noland Good
year on their way to Oxford, Ga.,
where he will resume his place at
Emory.
Miss Helen McLean’s entertainment
on Thursday evening was the second
of a series in honor of Tier guest, Miss
Lina Hearn, of Eatonton. Through
out the evening punch was served, and
after the pleasant games were ended,
an ice cream course with cake was
served.
The streets and sidewalks and va
cant lots of Douglas continue to be a
disgrace to the community. Why
can’t we pull the Weeds from our own
premises, thereby insure safe navi
gation to the business section? The
Civic Committee of the Woman’s Club
is much interested in find a way to
have smoother, cleaner sidewalks and
streets, and are asking the co-opera
tion of every property owner.
NOTICE—By agreement, we the
undersigned dentists of Douglas, Ga.,
will not do any credit work after Sep
tember Ist, only in cases of retraction
or treatment for temporary relief of
pain.
LEWIS DAVIS, D. D. S.
M. H. TURRENTINE, D. D. S.
S. G. ALDERMAN, D. D. S.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GA., AUGUST 281x1., 1915.
SOCIAL CALENDAR
FOR THE WEEK
The U. I). C.’s
The U. D. C.’s will have an enter
tainment at Ward Park next Thurs
day evening. Ice cream and cake will
be served.
The K. K. K.’s Entertain-
Misses Mary and Maude Lee Bryan
were hostesses to the K. K. K.’s on
Thursday afternoon at their suburban
home. An unusually good time was
enjoyed by the young ladies present,
with games and dainty refreshments.
Picnic at Springs.
On Thursday a few ladies and their
children spent an enjoyable day at
the Spring. Those comprising the
party were Mrs. J. W T . Quincey, Mrs.
M. D. Dickerson, Mrs. J. M. Mathews,
Mrs. J. L. Shelton, Mrs. 0. F. Deen
and Mrs. W. R. Frier.
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W. C. T. U. Notes-
The W. C. T. U. meetng held at the
Methodist church Friday afternoon
was under the leadership of Mrs. Mol
lie Lott, the Flower Mission Superin
tendent, and an interesting program
showed the importance of this great
work.
It was announced that a temperance
program will be given to the public
at Vickers Park at an early date.
The union entered enthusiastically
into the work of planning for their
float at the Coffee County Industrial
Fair in October.
Mrs. Fielding reported two meet
ings at the jail. These
seem to be greatly appreciated by the
prisonrs, and they are giving good
articles to read.—By the Press De
partment.
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.”
But I didn’t know how they crp in tire night
And pluck at pour nkirtn and mourn.
Row thrp erg with the voice of pour heart *
delight
And the face* pour dead fcoee 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 trust
When the "Inasmuch as ye did it not”
reveals?
/ couldn't bear their erg In the night.
The eluteh of their little hand*.
I must do mg beet with the widow's mite
Tv loosen the iron bond*.
—L. B.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENT.
Preaching at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P.
M.. Please notice that the evening
hour is thirty minutes earlier than in
the past. All our trains pull out on
schedule time. Come promptly and
often. Shall be glad to see you
“pretty nigh continually all the time.”
Bible School, W. C. Bryan Superin
tendent, meets at 4 P. M.
All welcome to all services.
T. S. HUBERT, Pastor.
CARD OF THANKS.
Editor Enterprise:
Please allow us space to return our
thanks to the people of Ambrose, our
kind friends, and others, for their
kindness and sympathy in the recent
sickness and death of our husband
and father, C. P. Gore. Their unsel
fish attention to him and us in this
dark hour, means a great deal to us.
MRS. C. P. GORE,
W. E. and D. F. GORE.
A CARD OF THANKS.
I wish to thank my friends and dear
neighbors for their many kindnesses
to me in my deep affliction. It seems
that nothing which could have light
ened my sorrow was forgotten or neg
lected, and from the bottom of my
heart I pray God’s richest blessings
on every one.
MRS. H. D. YORE.
SCHOOL TIME.
Your children’s vacation is rapidly
drawing to a close. School time will
soon be here again.
You are thinking of and preparing
many comforts to assist your children
while gaining an education. They
will need books, clothing, shoes, etc.
They will get them.
Now seriously, have you thought of
your children’s eyesight? Have you
considered that with their efesight
they accomplish fully 90 per cent, of
their school work ? Is it not very im
portant that you provide them good
eyesight while providing other com
forts and necessities ?
Bring your children in for exami
nation—l will give you honest advice,
and tell you what is best for the child
—some need glasses—some lo n <t —
it costs you nothing to knew-—come
now.
W. R. WILSON, Opt. D.
SPECIAL FAVORS TO
TENNESSEE DANNERS
Amendment to Child Labor Law
Passed This Year.
NEED FOR A FEDERAL LAW.
An effort made in New York last
winter to grant canneries special fa
vors by permitting them to .work their
operatives longer hours was strongly
condemned by the press throughout the
country, and the attempt failed. But
no attention was paid to Tennessee
when she did the same thing at about
the same time. In fact, the National
Child Labor Committee regards the
Tennessee amendment as far more se
rious than the New York one would
have been since the change in the New
Y’ork law would not have affected any
children under sixteen, while the Ten
nessee amendment permits children un
der fourteen to work in canneries and
for unlimited hours per day.
"It is strange how many states fail to
realize that children are more valuable
than fruits and vegetables,” said Owen
R. Lovejoy, general secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee, in
commenting on Tennessee’s action.
“The idea is so common that canning
goods is more important than protect
ing children that we find not only Ten
nessee, but Delaware, Maryland, In
diana. Maine and Virginia, making spe
cial exemptions to their child labor
•laws for the benefit of canneries, while
Mississippi does not regulate them at
all. I do not know why the idea should
prevail that employment in canneries
cannot possibly l»e harmful to children
when the conditions there are usually
worse than in factories.
‘‘We feel that the only successful
way to meet the cannery situation is
through the federal law which will he
introduced in the next congress and
which, if passed, would prohibit the
shipment outside the state of canned
; goods which children under fourteen
! hadhel|>edto manufacture or on which
they had worked more than eight hours
a day. A letter came to us the other
day from a woman who wished to
know what variety of canned goods she
could buy and feel sure that no chil
dren had worked on it. We could not
tell her. but we did tell her that if she
would help us iu passing a federal law
she could buy any kind of canned
goods with safety.”
MESSENGER SERVICE
A “CRIME FACTORY”
S® Lewie W. Hine Tells Child Labor
Conference.
“Crime factory” is the term which
an investigator for the National Child
I-abor Committee made use of in de
scribing the evils of the messenger
service at the Eleventh Annual Con
ference on Child Labor. This man.
Lewis W. Iline. lielieves flint there is
not a messenger bey of any experience
who does not. know more about tlie
underworld than the average citizen,
because one very common phase of
messenger work is the serving of pros
titutes by carrying messages, running
errands and procuring dope. Investi
gations of the night messenger service
during the past five years in cities rep
resenting every section of the country
Photo by National Child Labor Committee
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THE PRODUCT OP THE “CRIME FACTORY.”
have failed to reveal a single night
messenger whose work had not brought
him into personal contact with vice.
The chances of promotion in the
messenger service were summed up by
one boy as follows: "Nothing to it un
less you are the right kind of guy.
You can get to be a check boy or a file
clerk after being in the service a year
or two if you stick to it. but ordinarily
nobody wants to stick. * * * There is
nothing to do when wete not on calls.
You can go into the office and sit down
und loaf, or you can go outside and
Stand up atyi loaf. In our office the
manager never cared what became of
you as lom; as you were within calling
distance. *
The at frfSde of other employers to
ward the boy who has worked as a
messenger was brought out last winter
by Miss Anne Davis of Chicago at a
hearing on the proposed Illinois child
labor law. which included a twenty
one year limit for night messengers
“Employers tell me.” said Miss Davis,
"they always specify that a boy shall
not have worked as a messenger vetoes
tiiej’ employ bUn."
A CHARTER FOR CHILDHOOD.
Ohio Codifies Child Welfare Laws, but
No Other State Does.
If any one asks what the laws af
fecting children are in New York state
no person in any position can without
considerable research answer the ques
tion. according to a statement made by
Homer Folks at the Eleventh Annual
Conference on Child Labor. The only
state in the Union where it could lie
readily answered is Ohio, since Ohio is
the only state that has codified its
child welfare laws.
A committee appointed last May at
the National Conference of Charities |
end Corrections, with C. C. Carstens j
of Boston at its head and Edward N.
Clopper of the National Child Labor
Committee as one of its most active
members, is now at work drafting a
children’s charter that would show
how all laws relating to children
should be co-ordinated and tffiat could
be adopted as a whole or in part ac
cording to the needs of the Individual
state.
The benefits of the children’s charter
will not be confined to a clearing up of
the principles on which the various or
ganizations and committees which are
interested in the needs and rights of j
childhood should base their work. In j
fact, the friends of tlie charter are in ,
dined to believe that its greatest value !
may lie in the simple fact that it will 1
encourage co-operation. The drafting
of the charter, which will be in itself
a co-operative effort, will teach work
ers in tlie various fields to think of
their work as a part of a larger whole.
The relation, for instance, between
the school attendance officer, the fac
tory inspector, tlie Juvenile court work
er and the administrator of mothers’
pensions will become a practical help
to each of them. For the child such
co-operation all along the line should
mean that the care that is now availa
ble for the child who happens to come
under the eye of the official or social
worker who is fitted to meet bis case
will be extended to a larger proportion
of those who need it.
BOYS ON THE NIGHT SHIFT.
Pennsylvania Now Prohibits It, but
Maryland and West Virginia Do Not.
After Jan. 1, 1916. no more young
boys will l»e working on the night shift
in the glass factories of the largest
glass manufacturing state in the coun
try—l’euusyl vania.
This means that West Virginia and
Maryland are now tlie only glass manu
facturing states of any importance
which permit children under sixteen to
work at night An attempt was made
in West Virginia Inst winter to pro
hibit night work to children under six
teen. but tbe bill did not pass. The
National Child Labor Committee,
which took an active part lu the cam
paign for the West Virginia law, be
lieves that the outcome will be quite
Photo by National Child Labor Committee
5 P. M.. READY TO CIO ON THE NIGHT SHIFT.
different tbe next time.because theglass
manufacturers there will no longer fear
the corn petit iou of Pennsylvania.
“We may not even have to wait until
the legislatures meet in 1917 to bring
these states into line.” said Owen R.
Lovejoy, general secretary of the Na
tional Child Labor Committee. "If the
federal child labor bill which will be
Introduced into congress early in the
next session becomes a law it will auto
matically establish a sixteen year limit
for night work in the glass factories of
Maryland and West Virginia. The chil
dren now exposed to the serious
physical harm likely to come from go
ing out into the air from the overheat
ed glass factory and the cramped posi
tions in which rhey work, combined
with the degrading and coarsening in
fluences which prevail on the night
force in tin* factory, will be protected
by Uncle Sain
"if you could see tbe boys, as 1 have
seen them, working in a temperature
which frequently rises to more than 100
degrees, their shoes cut with the broken
glass which covers tlie floor, holding
the mold for the red hot glass or walk
ing endlessly back and forth carrying
bottles to tlie annealing oven, you
would realize that the only thing ibat
muttered was to get them out tbe
-quickest -mnl stireet way by means of
a federal law.”
OF PELLAGRA;
\N IS SO HAPPY
______
yjfc-Ida Creel, of this place,
enjoying fine health, bet
afiJj in years. My weight is
in taking your treatment
S jfjJ ire can praise your treat*
anything I want ani\it
any denbt that pel* \
■ed. Don’t delay until it 's
The Mat y° ur duty to consult th#
is not ah®'
, . hands red like sunburn,
his eyesi wre mouth ljpg>
more thai a flaming red, with
faculty froioking; indigestion and
tificial illu^ o** 0 ** or consti feve. f
light contai et percentage*
of rays harmful to eyesight. All
that danger can be done away
with if you view your work
through lenses made to your pre
scription from the wonderful
new glasses discovered by Sir
William Crookes, the actually
filters out all the harmful colors.
Don’t neglect your sight
whether you work overtime or
not.
W. R. WILSON,
Optometric Specialist.
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.
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ANNUAL MOUNTAIN ANI) SEA
SHORE EXCURSION
—Via the—
“ATLANTIC COAST LINE”
“The Stanbard Railroad of tre South”
AUGUST 11th, 1915.
Round Trip Tickets will be Sold from
WILLACOOCHEE, GEORGIA
For all trains via the ATLANTIC
COAST LINE RAILROAD, August
11th, good returning to reach
starting point prior to midnit
August 29h, 1915. er
j —TO— { °~
Asheville, N. C i
Abbeville, S. C
Baltimore, M. D •
Brevard, N. C ti £
Beaufort, N. C ‘
, Flat Rock, N. C
' Greenville, S. C irth
i Hendersonville, N. C to
Hickory, N. C
I Hot Springs, N. C ;
Lake Toxaway, N. C .W
; Laurens, S. C
Lenior, N. C
Lincolnton, N. C
Luray, Va
Marion, N. C V
Morehead City, N. C
Natural Bridge, Va
Norfolk, Va J55H55*.
Richmond, Va
Saluda, N. C
Spartanburg, S. C £
Washington, D. C
Waynesville, N. C
Walhalla, S. C 1
Waterloo, S. C thta.
White Stone Springs, Sa bat
Wilmington, N. C., (foilth of
Wrightsville Beach..®®**®*
Winston Salem, N. C....
VETERINARY SURGh
- Douglas, Georgia •
Office: J. S. Lott’s Stable
All calls responded to Day or N
Night Phone 151 Day Phone '1
I)R. E. B. MOUNT
j j PEARCE & BATTEY, the Savan
] nah Cotton Factors, are suostan-
I tial, reliable and energetic. Their
extensive warehousing facilities
and superior salesmanship are at
your command. They are abund
antly able to properly finance any
quantity of cotton shipped tYf
Isn’t it f o your interest. J/i
them ? Do it now and Be eonvir
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CITY TAX NOTIC T
The City Advalorum Tax L
open for the payment of 191 b
and will stand open until SepM
Ist, after which date
be issued against all
payers. J. D. KNOWLES, C
r
DOUGLAS LODGE OF FARMER}
UNION
Meets every 2nd and 4th Saturdays
at 3 o’clock P. M. All are
cordially invited. County Unions
meet every Ist Saturlay at dJerer.t
places. * 1
WILL SELL’CHEAP FOR CARHM!
Mare with fold by Stanton’s Rt
R. C. RELIHAN.
It would be a grave mistake the
hot days for you to bake; try inste
a Stone’s Wrapped Cake. J. C. B‘
han & Co.