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MARES—MULES—COWS—PIGS
We are in a position to supply your wants along
these lines, and always at the right prices. We have
just received
We also have a new car of the famous EMPIRE
BUGGIES. Call and see us at our stables. Old Stalvey
stand.
G. M. STANTON & COMPANY
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
Clncic Jim s
J. .free mam
Time to Pop the Question.
I can’t tell the reason,
But I know there’s a season
When my best girl is sweet and
shy;
It’s when the big logs are blazing,
And the old cat is lazing,
That the love-light shines in her
eye.
Bertha and Eva have Just about
forgotten the way to my office.
Several pretty girls and boys ex
pect to go down to Nicholls tomorrow.
Wonder why Bessie and Lucy Join
er never show themselves in this of
fice ?
Pearly Adams came to see me last
Saturday and brought her father and
mother also.
It is hoped the mayor of Nicholls
will have some ice water where we
can get it tomorrow.
Wonder if Mike Carter and his
pretty daughter from Alma will be
at nicholls tomorrow?
Big court r.?xt week, and my friends
will find me in .PvSheriff’s office. I
will have a receipt hook.
My Nich ~s chum, lizzie Meeks,
and her mother, were in town last
'-Mw?cf;fy'"on business, and came to see
me.
There was a time when Eunice Sears
and Rebecca and Mattie Vickers wrote
me a postal now’ and then, but they
never do so any more.
My country chums are not furnish
ing me with any postal news much
now. I)o they want me to turn the
Note Book into a town affair?
Mr. Philips, up at Ambrose, says
he thinks he “can keep up with me
without much trouble. The lady 1
board with has a different opinion.
Dewitt Foreman, of Saginaw, was
up here Monday. The old man’s eye
sight is getting so bad that he had to
come and have Wilson fit him up some
eye glasses.
C. E. Baker w r as in town with a car
load of pretty girls last week. And
the girls went to the Grand Theatre
to a mighty good show, and found
their Uncle Jim.
Seme enterprising burglars broke
into three or four stores and other
places at Alma last week. But you
see they never tackle anything like
the Times office.
My old friend, J. Wesley Roberts,
Car Load Fresh Mules
Car Load Jersey Cows
Car Load Registered Duroc Jersey Pigs
“ “ Fine Mares
Sr., of Pearson Rfd., was in town on
Tuesday on legal business, and stop
ped in at my office to grease the axle
of The Enterprise.
Editor Sweat, of the Nashville Her
ald, has been appointed postmaster
at Nashville. I think he deserves
this, and much more for the splendid
service rendered his people.
Dave and Ruth Douglas went to
the big union meeting at Upton last
Saturday and in the afternoon came
to see me. Ruth is a good friend of
mine and w’ill vote for me for ordin
ary I think.
Eli Vickers, Sr., was in town Tues
day and says “he and Bud Fussell are
going to stand to my back until my
face is beat blue, in my race for Or
dinary. Well, that is consoling to
have such backing.
Tom Nolan was in town this week,
and with a syp-glass you couldn’t
notice any change in him. It is un
derstood that he has quit the law and
has gone to digging wells. He may
make a success now.
Arlo Burkett and her father were
in town last wtek and, would you be
lieve it, that girl never came near me?
There’s some things I will take and
say nothing about it, but this girl’s
conduct in this case must
Marshall Starling, of Pearson, was
in town Tuesday. He says Pearson
is a better cotton market than Doug
las, and a better own any way. He
was just talking, not on oath, still,
it would have been all the same.
L. M. Dubberly, of Nicholls, was in
town last Tuesday. He was once a
reader of The Enterprise and his wife
was an ardent friend and reader of
the Note Book, but he has fallen from
grace now and the Note Book friends
are lonesome.
Bessie Henderson, chum No. 1, at
Pearson, is the hello girl at that
splendid little town. She served Mr.
Sutton and the public well and faith
fully in this capacity before, and it
goes without saying that she will do
the same agan.
Ben F. Summerlin, of Willacoochee,
good old Ben that us :d to give me
such good dinners when I did the trav
eling for The Enterprise, was here
Monday. I have known him a long
time, ar.d he was a good man then
and he is a better man today.
Oliver McKinnon, out on No. 2.
THE! DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GA., OCTOBER 9, 1915.
keeps the road leading to Nicholls in
good order, and after he gets there
he keeps the trail to Saginaw hot.
Some boys down there have a bow
and arrow, are going to shoot him in
the heel and let his brains run out.
Quite a number of old subscribers
who were behind from two to three
dollars, were left off the list in July
ar.d do not get the paper now, but
they owe hese amounts Just as hon
estly as a man who buys their cotton
owes them, and of course they intend
to pay.
Ethel Kirklar.d, down at Nicholls,
says her father has two pretty red
hogs that he thinks a great deal of,
and she is jealous. She says he comes
in every afternoon and asks her moth
er if the hogs have been fed, but
never asks if she (Ethel) has been
fed. Too bad, isn’t it?
The next monthly meeting of the
Farmers’ Union of Coffee county will
be held at Wray, on the first Satur
day in November. Ernest Squires
says he is a union man and will have
special business there that day. Won
der if he is going to try to get that
girl to be a unionist too?
The young married lady in Doug
las, of whom I said last week forgot
her husband to take a walk with him,
says she will not flirt with him any
more, for I tell too much. Just as
well for me to have told it, for her
husband would have found it out any
how, for she talks in her sleep.
The Pearson Tribune says I must
go slow when I say anything about
Joe, “if Joe is slow.’’ I am not go
ing to say a word about him, and I
don’t thing he is slow, for he is the
only man in my knowledge that ever
found Paradise on earth. Now, Mr.
Tribune, what you “gwine to do about
that?’’
D. H. P. Smith, of Pearson, was in
town Tuesday on business, didn’t re
main long, but dropped in a moment
to say howdy. He has a fine practice,
is a good physician, a nice man, anu
has one of the best wives in Georgia.
If I go to Pearson and fail to visit
the doctor and Mrs. Smith I feel like
I had slipped a cog, and lost my shoe
heel.
Tisha Harper, up at Ambrose, was
one of the pretty girls I saw over at
Arnie two weeks ago, and I think she
fell about seven feet in love with me.
at any rate she went home and told
her father she had to have Uncle
Jim's Note Book, and he came in to
see me last week and paid for twelve
months. Nothing like standing in
with the g'"r!s.
When J. L. Carter died the county
lost one of its best men, and there’s
many a poor man and woman that
will miss him, and I am one of them.
It is a good thing we nave some
one to go to with our trouble and
find more relief than friends can
give. He already knows our sorrows,
lifts the load, dries our tears, and
takes the lumps out of our throats.
No one else car..
Some one killed nineteen ratt'ue-
I snakes oui on the lands of C. C.
Courson last Saturday morning. The
old one, probably the mother, was
6 1-2 feet long, and had 11 rattles,
two buttons, and two pairs of hooks
and eyes. The eighteen younger ones
were about 18 inches long, had one
button and a self-starter. The dry
weather, with so much dust Saturday,
was not considered a good day for
rattlesnakes anwhow.
We had visiors from Sand Hill, Sa
lem and New Forest last Sunday night
to hear Bro. Hubert’s interest ing
sermon on “Home and Home Gov
ernment.” It was beautifully illus
trated by pictures on a screen, with
appropriate songs and explanations.
These Sunday night services are mak
ing wonderful impressions on the
minds of the adults, and with retro
spective glances, the child of today,
(the man of the future, will find them
a bright spot in his foggy memory.
I heard a young man say once that
he would give his right arm if he
could recall two wordo he had spoken
to his mother. He could not, for her
small, pail, pinched face, with closed
eyes lay before him in her coffin.
I She had remonstrated with him five
years before for gambling and drink
ing, when he had angrily exclaimed:
Go away, let me alone, “old fool.”
“Old fool” are the words he wanted
to recall, and which filled his heart
with remorse that followed him to a
drunkard’s grave. Oh, children, be
careful. This is not a joke; is not
intended for any one particular, bot
is the truth, mentioned as a warning
1 to any thoughtless boy or girl.
Miss Dollie Freeman’s Fidela class
entertained at Mr. Dixon’s residence
last Monday night, was a failure on
account of rain. There w r as only a
bout one dozen boys and girls pres
ent, and it was decided to call the
entertainment off until tonight, 7:30.
llt is a “measuring party,” have o
j nay 5 cents for each foot, and a cent
I for each inch, for instance, if a fellow
j is 5 feet ar.d 6 inches tall, he must
pay 31 cents. If he is 5 feet 6 inches,
and his girl is 5 feet he must pay 56
cents. And the tall boy hunts for
J the short girl, so he won’t have to pay
much, while the short boys wants a
tall girl so that his donation will reach
a respectable amount. Little “Cutie
Cute” and the “Buckskin Girl” will be
in demand. Amusements, plays and
tricks—the boys play and the girls
show ’em a trick or two. Refresh
ments, ice cream, cake and pretty
girls. Proceeds go to the Fidela’s
class fund for helping the Baptist
church.
A young gentleman writess me
from Courtney, Fla., an eight-page
letter, in which he undertakes to show
me that every one does not think as
he did. He says he was once in love
with a red-headed school marm, but
could never persuade her to believe
he was in earnest in his love-making.
He was growing desperate, thinking
about doing something awful, when,
one day, while she was with him, a
bug buzzed by, he struck at it and
Knocked her red wig off, leaving her
bald head exposed. She screamed
and her false teeth fell out, she then
kicked him and her cork leg came off.
It was his time to do something then,
and he promptly fainted. When he
came to his senses again, false teeth,
red wig, cork leg and the bundle of
calico were gone.. He is now glad
he couldn’t get her to think as he
did. My young friend may be a suc
cess as a joker, but is a sad failure
as a space writer. His eight-page
letter would have made a third of the
Note Book, and its contents are in
the above.
At a recent term of Superior Court,
in Berrien county, the grand jury
found fifty-five true biiis, most of
them misdemeanors, only a few ser
ious casts.
Ruby Peterson hasn’t written any
thing for The Enterprise this week,
but she wrote your Uncle Jim a migh
ty nice letter. Now Clara Dent will
come to town and go through all the
papers on my desk looking for that
letter, but since her hunt for “busi
ness letters” from the girls two weeks
ago, my correspondents write on the
bottom of the last page, “burn this
letter.”
Capt. Thomas Holland was in the
city last Wednesday, and informed
me that the new church at Ambrose
was fast approaching completion, and
that the ceremony of laying the cor
ner stone will take piace on Friday,
October 29th, by the Masons of Doug
las and Ambrose, under the direction
of Grand Master John M. Hall, of
Douglas. The Note Book has kept
step with the preparations of our
friends at Ambrose in the building
of this church from the very first, and
it notes with extreme satisfaction the
near consummation of heir desires
and endeavors.
More pretty girls in town Thurs
day than you ever saw, and every one
of ’em promised to send me the news
soon. But you know about a girl’s
! promises.
For the want of space Laura Rice’s
! letter from Vicksburg, Miss., is left
over today. She writes a bad hand
to read, the little darling having to
use her left hand, and I couldn’t get
it re-written in time to give it to the
printer first of the week. This letter
surpasses all others she has written,
amuses you at first with her impres
sions at the World’s Exposition at
San Francisco, and leads you to tears
as the wonderful child stands in the
“city of the dead,” where ten thous
and confederate soldiers were buried,
at Vicksburg, and tells you good bye.
This letter will go into five thousand
scrap books. Parents should read it
j to their children.
The ladies of the Baptist and Meth
odist denominations, at West Green,
are preparing for a big enertainment
at the school house tonight, to con
sist of ice cream and cake. Cake and
candy, cold drinks and other refresh
ments will be sold, while the ladies
promise every one a good time and
more than their money’s worth. The
proceeds cf this entertainment will he
used to build a church at West Green,
I and whatever the amount it will be
j equally difided between the two de
! nominations so that each may have
j credit for their respective contribu
tions. I am pleased to note this
| spirit of unity and hope success may
crown the efforts of the ladies to
build a church, and wiii watch the ac
complishment of the project w'th a
great interest.
The Farmers’ Union of Coffee coun
ty held their monthly meeting at Up
ton, three miles west of Douglas, last
Saturday. There were several speech
es from prominent union men, and
the meeting taker< altogether, was
one of the best the Union has held.
The people of the Salem church had
, a fine entertainment for the farmers
and their friends at 12 o’clock in the
shape of a heavily laden dinner table,
covered with provisions of the quality
> that characterizes these union dinners,
j T h e next monthly meeting will be
; held at Wray, on the first Saturday
|in November. This place is easy to
reach from Douglas, and being on the
line of Coffee and Irwin, it is expect
i ed that a number of farmers and their
j friends from Irwin and Ben Hill coun
! ties will be present. This being true
1 m ay well be looked forward to for
j a big day.
“Neal of the Navy” starts this week.