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Oh, How He Loved Her.
“Tell me again you love me;
Kiss me on my lips and brow.
Love of my soul—l love you—
Hoy can I leave you now?”
Cogee County Singing Convention
on the second Sunday.
Beulah Purvis is a nice little girl—
sent me a box of grapes Tuesday.
Emmie Wall is not treating me ex
actly fair. No letter in two weeks.
I saw Roscoe Smith and Bill Maine
together last Tuesday. Now, listen
out for some mischief.
Mrs. E. M. Teston and children, of
Murdock, Fla., are visiting her moth
er, Mrs. 1). S. Batten, in town.
All those classes at Nashville last
Sunday vould sing, too, but I think
Arnie Class did as well as any.
Rosa Fiveash is at Levin Brothers’
Store again, and the boys from the
country go there to buy their collars.
Eli Vickers, Sr., says $e makes no
promises, but he “does what he does.” ;
And he generally does what he thinks
is best.
Ellen Smith, down at Sessoms, a
pretty little blue eyed girl of fifteen,
is becoming one of the most regular
corsrpondents.
Ethel Kirkland and Gaynell Ever
ttt, down at Saginaw, haven’t let me |
know if they are coming to Douglas
on the 12th or not.
Friends from the country will find
me in the Sheriff’s office (luring court,
or on the streets. Be sure to see me,
for I have some things to tell you.
Bertha Woods and Bessie Joiner
have kicked their fellows as high as
kites. Eva, however, has hypnotised
(Jus Thompson until he’ll eat off her
head.
We want our correspondents to be
gin sending in the news. Come to me
and I will give you envelopes and pa
per cut just right for our correspon
dents.
Some one stuck fire to the home of
Mr. T. J. Shrowder, of Broxton, last
Friday night, and burned it up. It
wis worth SI,BOO, and was insured
for SI,OOO.
Viola Leavens says her fellow went
back on her two or three Sundays
ago, and she wants me to find a new
one for her. I will have to look a
round a little.
Viola Leavens wants to know if I
can pick cotton. I am afraid to let
her know, because she'd want to give
me a task of ISO pounds a day, and
she’d rob my basket to keep me back.
All next week and the week after
ward, my friends will find me in the
Sheriff’s office. My Contract with the
Commissioners was to allow the grand
jury to use my office twice each year.
Ralph and Malcom Newbern, two
smart looking boys, came and brought
me the first stalk of sugar cane I
have seen this season, last Saturday.
It was a red cane and had seven nice,
sweet joints.
I was just thinking about Pearlie
Adams last Saturday morning, when
jn she walked, followed by her clever
father, with a nice box of grapes.
Busy picking cotton, too, Pearl is, but
she don’t forget me.
, Delilah Nipper and Eula McDon
ald, out on No. 2, came in to see me
last Saturday, and extended an invi
tation for me to come out and help
them pick cotton. lam afraid of ’em
—they both look tricky. j
The Clements family over on Rfd.,
Kirkland, had a family reunion a few
days ago, and the house, yard and
road were full of the Clements fam
ily. I have ail their names, and in
tend to adopt the whole business.
It taken ten minutes for Judge W.
C. Lankford to tell the people over
at Nashville last Sunday what he
knew about mhsic. It would have tak
en me an hour for me to have told
them what he dd not know about
music.
Luke T. McCrea, of Broxton, was
in town Saturday, and came in to see
me a moment. He says his grand
daughter is an enthusiastic friend of
Uncle Jim and the Note Book, and
Miss Carry Belle Wilder has my
thanks.
Ordinary Ward issued license last
Saturday for the marriage of Dr. Joe
Corbitt and Miss Mary Lou Paradise,
of Pearson. Ido not know the young
lady, but I do know Doc, and I am
glad he has a Paradise on earth. Con
gratulations.
Dollie Freemau returned from her
visit of three weeks to her old chums,
Eva Mims and Mrs. Reason Lott, in
Jeff Davis county last Wednesday, but
she is not satisfied and is planning to
go back. I am afraid these people
treated her too well.
Mrs. Charls Purvis Sent me a bottle
of syrup and a twenty pound pumpkin
last Tuesday by her husband. He
quarreled all the way, and thought:
“I can’t see to save my life what wom
en want to be sending ntle things to
old Jim Freeman for.”
The several committees of the Cof
fee County Singing Convention will
have to get very busy if they expect
to get things in order—only one more
week. Two thousand people are com
ing, and it won’t do for them to go
home disgusted with Douglas.
The ladies that went to Nashville,
composing the Arnie class, were Mary
and Rebecca Neugent, Effie Skipper,
Lizzie Mancill, Elsie Tak, Silla Mc-
Donald and mother, Leila Miller, Le
tha Starling. We had about as many
gentlemen, with Geo. Kight leader.
Tom Byrd was in town last week,
and had been shaved and had on a
clean shirt, and seemed mighty clever.
He knows I am going up his way to
morrow and is afraid I’ll see Mrs.
Byrd and confess to her about some
of Tom’s meanness out at Hot Springs
Mary and Homer Corbitt came to
see me last Saturday. Mary had
been to the dentist and he had pried
her mouth open until she looked
whopper jawed, but still, she is one
)of the finest girls in Georgia, and I
can prove it by a fellow up at Wray.
Some of the court house people
charge that I hold court every Satur
day, and all my jurymen wear dress
es. In trying Gordon Floyd last Sat
urday, they brought in a verdict of
“guilty.” He must have heard about
it, for he was seen in Berrien county
next day.
Those five Pridgen girls may look
for us tomorrow, and Sib Vickers says
he is coming too, if old Brindie will
tote double. Brindie will tote double,
but he has been trained to know who
and what the “double” is, and Sib
can’t counterfeit the kind he is used
to carrying.
Every time I pick out a chum to go
with me some where she picks out one
of her fellows and stays at home. I
thought sure Lizzie Skipper would go
with me to Nashville last Sunday, but
she gave me the slip, and I believe
John vickers was to blame for the
whole business.
Leonard Smith, from up about Prid
gen, was in town last Monday, and
told me not to forget that people were
looking for me at Wooten’s School
Huse tomorrow. Yes, and one of the
Pridgen girls say a widow lady will
be there to see me, too. Doggone,—
getting popular!
Albert Smith, of Broxton, was here
last Satprday, feeling mighty happy,
for a license had just been issued for
him to marry Miss Carrie Belle Wil
der. Albert is a good boy, and Carrie
is a nice girl, a friend of mine, and I
hope they may have a life of happi
ness and prosperity.
Ira Vickers, who has ceen married
to one of my chums for two or three
years, and has a pretty baby, has
just found out that he can’t get along
without the Note Book for his wife,
and came in Saurday and started it
on its way for one year, and now
Gussie will feel better.
Laura Rice, in a postal dater last
Sunday, says: “Uncle Jim, I slept
under two blankets last night, people
have on overcoats this morning, and
I am sitting by a warming stove. I
hope we will have some heavy frosts
so I can come t 6 see you—don’t you?”
Yes, when you start south, let me
know in time so I can meet you at
Augusta.
Georgia Wilcox, down at Stokes
ville, in closing a letter to me ast Mon
day, says: “I wish I could have gone
to Arnie, but it- was' impossible, for I
had a rising on my face and could not
powder my nose.” lam certainly sor
ry she couldn’t come, but no woman
can be expected to go anywhere if
she cannot powder her nose. Cer
tainly not.
Mrs. Mamie E. Dennis, Manate'fe,
Fla., has written me to send her pa
per to Arcadia, and be quick about it.
I’m putting a stamp on one, giving it
proper directions to her house and
letting it slip. She says she is in
love with Laura Rice and wants to
keep up with her, but just between
you and myself I think she is loving
your Uncle Jim.
Bertha Thompson, down at Way
cross, is the right kind of girl. Her
fellow asked her if she loveh him ,a
few nights ago, and she said: “Yes,
Joe, I love you, dearly, but will never
marry you until you quit cigarettes
and whiskey.” Joe said he woud let
no woman rule him, and she replied:
“And I let no whiskey and cigarette
soak rule me!”
A young lady, one of the finest in
the world, down near McDonald, writes
and says: “I am taking music les
sons now, and enjoy them more than
going to school.” I am glad to hear
that she is taking music, and I am
1 coming down there some time, if I
| can get a way, and see if she has im
| proved any. If she hasn't there’s go
: ing to be some trouble.
Sibbett Vickers told me last Sun-
I day that two of his father’s mules or
j horses had gotten together the night
before, some how,, and in a fight one
had kicked the other and broken its
ribs, and that it was feared the in
jured animal could not live. Mr.
Vickers has had a good deal of bad
luck this year, but it is hoped all will
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GA., SEPTEMBER 4, 1915.
! come out right in the end.
The Farmers’ Union is a good in
stitution and the farmers want all the
j good out of it they can get, and hey
I ought to attend the meetings of each
local regularly. Being a member does
not amount to much, with no attend
ance. There are twenty or twenty
five members of the Douglas local,
and at last Saturday’s meeting only
seven were present. That is not much
of a rcord.
I regretted to learn last Sunday, in
Nashville, that Editor Sweat, of the
Herald, was ill with typhoid fever. It
I is hoped he will soon be well again.
I I was pleased, however, to meet his
courteous son, Hoke Sweat. I also
found another gentleman of the Her
ald, whose name has slipped me, but
he was a good natured fellow, small,
top and bottom, with a waist ine like
a bee rkeg.
At the Farmers’ Union local at
Douglas last Saturday, delegates to
the county union in Douglas today,
were elected as follows: J. R. Over
man and G. B. Eunice, with W. J.
Maddox and J. M. Freeman as alter
nates. The committees for entertain
ment of delegates to the Union Meet-
ing today are J. R. Overman, C. T.
Darley and J. T. Daughtery. This
| committee will look out for entertain
ment of delegates.
Found a box of cigars on my desk
one day last week, inside was a card
on which was written, “Compliments
of Dan Wall.” That reminds me that
I was out at Hebron last year when
Dan was a candidate for clerk, and
instead of electioneering as the others
were doing with the men, he was off
in a top buggy with a pretty girl, and
I saw at once he was a candidate for
matrimony, too. He was successful
in both campaigns, as I hope he will
ever be in life.
The Berrien County Singing Con
vention last Sunday, at Nashville, was
a big success. There were about sev
en classes, with something like one
hundred and twenty singers present.
The people of Nashville taken care
of the visitors, between 1,000 and
1,200 with ease, and every one, that
I know of, was well pleased. President
Chambliss and Secretary Griffin seem
ed to be the right men in the right
places. Quite a number of those peo
ple are coming to Douglas tomorrow
week.
Eli Vickers came in Tuesday morn
ing much excited, out of breath, and
reported that he had seen Seward
Lott’s automobile in a ditch, on the
side of the road out toward ’Coochee,
badly bogged up, and he is afraid
someone had told it, if not, he wants
to know what in thunder Seward was
doing out in that section of country
at night, ear bogged up, in the ditch?
Eli wants me to investigate, and I
am afraid if I do I’ll find out some,
thing that Eli and Seward world
rather keep qsiet. Believe me, I
think Eli wants to turn state’s evi
dence! I’ll see Bud Fussell, John
Purvis and Dennis Vickers. Mayfe
they know.
W. H. Purvis, Pearson, Rfd., came
in to see me last Tuesday, and informs
me that he has picked out and sold
three bales of cotton this season, at
8 cents a pound. He has ten children,
they all help him, and he gets out 5)00
pounds every day. In two days he
has enough seed cotton to make a
bale. Mr. and Mrs. Purvis started
life down at the very foot. He was
a poor boy with no money or friends,
but his willing mind and strong arms
to help him, and she was an orphan
girl, honest and not afraid to work,
standing by his side, sharing his ms
fortunes and good fortunes, pulling
together, and they have raised a fine
crop of boys and girls, and every year
make good crops of cotton, corn,'etc.
Rev. H. M. Meeks, of Nicholls, on
August 30th, writes as follows: “Un
cle Jim: I send this for the Note
Book: I was at Pridgen last week
and went to New Hope Saturday to
General Meeting Sunday. At the
close of the service I left my suit
case in the church and went to dinner
with M. J. Ferguson, returning to the
station called at the church for my
suit case, found that it had been re
lieved of one pair of pants, I suppose
by some one who needed a pair of
pants. Now what do you think of
that?” The pants were too small for
Dennis Vickers, about right for Fer
guson, but he was with you and hard
ly slipped back and got the pants
while you were at dinner. Since I
come to think about it, those pants
were just about right for J. J. Philips,
but if you had on a pair of pants, had
a pair in the suit case, that suggests
another question: How came you to
have two pair of britches at one
time ? That’s what I want to know!
DOUGLAS LODGE OF FARMER!
UNION
Meets every 2nd and 4th Saturday*,
at 3 o’clock P. M. All visitors are
cordially invited. County Unions
meet every Ist Saturlay at different
places.
VETERINARY SURGEON
Douglas, Georgia
Office: J. S. Lott’s Stable
All calls responded to Day or Night
Night Phone 151 Day Phone 77
DR. E. B. MOUNT
September Term
Of Superior Court
The September term of Coffee Su
perior Court will convene Monday
week, Judge J. I. Summerall presiding
and Solicitor M. D. Dickerson repre
senting the state’s interests.
Following is a list of grand and
petit jurors for the term:
Grand Jury September Term, 1915.
Johnnie Grantham, T J Courson
W T Sirmans, P A Jones
H Mancil, Jr, Joel Wilcox (Wray)
j Hiram Vickers, Jno M Hall
G R Moore, I J Williams
J J Sapp, J R Overman
Oscar Paulk, Sr, Jesse M Pafford
A J Meeks, Jesse Newbern
I B Coffee, I) A Smith
D D Morgan, Jno M Lott, Sr
P L Street, D L Cannon
E Corbitt, Wm Paulk
Johnnie Morris, Y O Mathews
Nat Boyd, B H Cribb
B F Hall, J M Pafford
Petit Jury September Term, 1915
First Week.
Wm Fussell (Bud) E F Vickers
R J Merritt (Tom’s son) A J Banks
Daniel Moore, B D Davis
Moses Smith, Me'vin Tanner
L M Dubberly, C F Meeks
Wiley Harper, Henry Merritt
J P Jardine, Moses Lott
T C Powers, J I Hatfield
Lacy L Sutton, S E Register
H M Thomas, Leon Wall
Willie Meeks, S A Meeks
J E Carelock, Leonard Burkett
G L Sims, Elias Batten
George Herndon, George Tanner
W T Cliett, R L Thompson
R H Deen, C B Linder
D A Youmans, H D O’Steen
Jesse Carver,(Broxton)W II Gamole
Second Week
E J Carelock, J H Day
G M Tomberlin, J O White
Joe L Hall, J E Trowell
J D McCollum, M D Jones
D E Poston, W S Durst
Dennis Vickers, Jr, A T Frier
J R Parker, J A Moore
Bartley Vickers, J D Parker
J L Carter, J W Pridgen
Bennie Joyce, J O’Steen
C G Willi ams, Jas Summerlin
R K Mosley, J Lee Spivey
M M Seymore, Jeff Kirkland
W H Joyce, Aflen Moore
B M Poer, L J Fussell
R B Moore, A E Gillis
Micajah Vickers, Willie Kirkland
Leonard Kirkland, Jacob Vickers
Dan Wall, Jr, S J Harper
J J Vickers, M C Paulk
Harrison Davis, O A Dukes
G J Meeks, B F Gillis, Sr
J L Brown, B F Gillis, Jr
J H Crenshaw, Eli Lott
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