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By], M. Freeman
Malace and hatred in a heart crowd*
out all that is good.
Mr. J. C. Griswold, of Nicholls, was
in town last Saturday.
Did you ever see a girl that would'nt
eat green plums and salt?
Mrs. G. W. Hesters, mother of Mrs.
William Maine, was in town last Sat
urday.
Wonder what has becme of Tishie
Harper? Haven’t seen or heard of
her in a long time.
Well, with fourteen licensed whis
key dealers in Douglas, there must be
tome demand for the stuff.
All the children of the lower grades
of the Normal College are out since
last week on their vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. George White, and the
cute little girl, of the Enterprise force
were out at the sing Sunday.
Mary Jane Jowers was the first girl
to visit me at my new home, the Chero
Cola bottling works, last Saturday.
1 had an invitation to go to an ice
cream supper at Stokesvilie last Sat
urday night, but no means of going.
Sibley Hall, out at Jowers school
section, can’t sit still when Lizzie Har
per is out of sight. Like he’s on net
tles.
Whenever I fail to love my readers,
and try to do something for their
good, it will be when I cannot use my
fingers to write.
Bro. Tom Courson, of No. 1, was in
town Sunday afternoon with Mrs.
Courson, Mamie, Belle and some oth
er little coursons.
There will be an all-day sing at
Blystone on the Ist Sunday in June.
A promised singer from abroad will
conduct the singing.
Old Brother E. F. Douglas, who
lives up near West Green, was in
town last Saturday on his return from
Birmingham reunion.
Mr. H. F. Brown, the city collector,
is a busy man if you judge by the way
he gets about over town. I expect
he is a good one, too.
Gordon Floyd has assured me that
he will let me go to Inman with him
to the school closing, and I am going
to sit on the front seat.
Those Burkett girls that were go
ing to write to me must not have any
stamps, or their letters struck a stump
somewhere on the route.
It is hard to tell how much prettier
Mattie Vickers will grow, I heard a
young fellow say last Sunday. That
fellow has a level head.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Roddenberry,
Mrs. William Rainbow and Misses
Lena and Ida Rainbow, all of Broxton,
Were in town last Saturday.
There were not many of my chums
in town last Saturday. I found about
a dozen of ’em up on the streets. They
haven’t found my new home yt.
I am not informed as to which one
of her fellows came to see Alma
Barnes last Sunday. She was look
ing for two, and maybe the other one
also.
Martha Vickers, the cute little teach
er up at New Haven, was out at Vick
ers school house last Sunday. First
time I’ve seen her since the school
closed.
Vida Strickland, one of my pretty
town chums, was out at the Vickers
sing last Sunday, and she was not
alone, either. No, 1 won't say who
he was.
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William Maine announces that there
will be an all-day sing at Amie on
the first Sunday. It is pretty well
assured that there will be a good crowd
present.
I didn’t see Jim Wade Sunday, but
Mrs. Wade Wa* good enough to tell me
she had plenty of dinner and hot cof
fee at home, if I'd go after it. And
I bet she did, too.
All my chums aer going to drink
only Chero-Cola, because the Chero-
Cola people gave me a place for my
office when no one else would. Don’t
forget that, children.
Eunice Sears was my reporter out
at Vickers School House, at the sing,
last Sunday. When she had my book
and pencil, the boys and girls saw it,
they looked sheepish.
Leon Paulk was out at the sing last
Sunday, and his girl was as pleasing
as if she had a fresh wad of chewing
gum. No need to mention her name,
as everybody knows who she is.
I found Mary, Mae Belle and Homer
Corbitt out at Vickers last Sunday.
You will always find them among
friends everywhere, for everybody
likes them. So does Uncle Jim.
Cassie and Lillian Vickers were
looking their very best last Sunday,
and then Lassie Thompson and Harry
Vickers had smiles on their faces that
could not be rubbed off with a curry
comb.
Johnnie Vickers is beginning to
look around among the girls right
smart. First thing you know he’ll
have a pretty little wife like bud’s,
and he may go to the same place to
get her.
Mamie Courson, up on No. 1, says
“she is not studying and caring for
the boys much, and when she does
she wants a man that does not drink.”
Now that’s the kind of girl for some
good fellow to go after.
My two little chums, Mahue and
Lucile Frier, the former a ten-year
old boy, and the latter an eight-year
old girl, at St. Johns Park, Fla., wrote
to me again last week. lam getting
new chums all over the world.
Jeff Kirkland, of Pearson, was over
here last week, seeing if people had
been giving in their taxable property
at a fair valuation. He says most of
them have, and I let him o)f Friday
to go home and see his wife and chil
dren.
Bertha and Eva Were in town Sat
urday, but didn’t come to see me. I
don’t know that they knew where my
new home was, but they must learn
the way to the Chero-Cola Bottling
Works, and see their favorite drink
is made.
The Inman school will close next
Friday. The exercises will consume
the afternoon, lasting until 10 o’clock
that night. I can tell you. right now,
it is going to be fine, and those for
tunate enough to get there will be
well entertained.
John Tanner, of Nicholls, was on
the jury this week, and I heard him
planning to stay all night with Jim
Kirkland Monday night. Up to this
time I have heard of none of their
meanness, but I am expecting it to be
uncovered at any time.
Martha Knoles, of the Inman school,
j says “the dry weather has made the
plum crop a complete failure.” I was
| just fixing to put some salt in my
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GA„ MAY 27TH. 1916.
pocket and go to see Martha and the
plums. Looks like I can’t get an ex
cuse to go to see that girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Newbern, Eula and
the little boys, from up on No. 1. were
in town last Saturday, but not one of
j them came to see me except the little
boys. Well, if Eula thinks she can
get along with that kind of treatment
she’ll find herself in trouble.
Lucille Frier, St. Johns Park, Fla.,
writes me that she is in the 4th grade,
and now that school is over, she
washes and dries the dishes for mama,
plays with the kittens and puppies,
and has a big time. She was also
kind enough to send me her picture.
And what I want to know, and the
Ware County News must find out, is
who was the girl in white, with a w'hite
mosquito net hat that waved her white
parasol at me the other evening, when
I stuck my head out of the car win
dow, at Millwood, when I was enroute
to Waycross?
I expected some of nay Pearson
friends out at the sing last Sunday,
but they hair.lipped me again, and
Belle Pafford was to blame. If some
way is not devised to keep her and
two or three other girls and as many
boys from promenading on that rail
road track, they’ll start out some day
and keep going.
Martha Knowles, of Willacoochee
Rfd. No. 1, was kind enough in her
last new r s letter to say something very
nice to me: “I have been reading
the Note Book ever since I could read,
and it is the best part in the Douglas
Enterprise.” That may be for you,
dear girl, but there are others with a
different opinion.
One of my little friends out on the
rural routes complains that they do
not get The Enterprise on Saturday,
not till Monday, and wants to know
if the mail carrier or postmaster is
to blame. No, the fault is at the
printing office. Our mailing clerk got
married, another came to take her
place and had to be sent home on ac
count of sickness.
Hardy McLellan. of Fairfax, lost out
last Sunday, thank goodness. Mrs.
Henry Vickers had a big plate of fried
sausages out at Vickeers school house,
and he was not there, and when he
knows that I had a full swing at them
he’ll have nightmares, talk in his sleep
and chew his tongue. Poor old friend,
he had eaten about a barrel of them,
more or less, and thought they were
all gone.
Mr. Durst, the ten cents man, (about
all he’s worth), Mrs. Durst, Mrs. Bar
din and her pretty daughter, Nellie,
wanted to go to the Vickers school
house last Sunday, but the ladies con
sumed so much time in putting fresh
powder on their noses, that they only
got half way when I turned them
back. Well, I am going to get this
same crowd to go with us to Arnie
on the Ist Sunday in June.
Yftu saw Leon Tanner last Sunday,
didn’t you? Goodness! wasn’t he
spruced up? And it made no differ
ence which way Winnnie Harrell look
ed, or where she went, to whom she
spoke, he looked, went and spoke too.
1 declare, she got him on her string
hasn’t she? But Leon is a good fel
low, and I don’t blame her, do you?
Looks like Mattie and Winnie like
those two “Leons,” doesn’t it?
R. E. Shad, over at Pearson, gave
me a silver dollar in February, to
send him The Enterprise for twelve
months, missed two or three copies,
sat down and wrote The Enterprise
a red hot letter “that he wanted the
paper or his dollar back at once.”
Wonder if he was fool enough to im
agine I had kept his silver dollar all
this time? Why, man, I spent that
dollar before I got home, for car hire.
But his paper is going to come regu
larly, and I'm going to come, too.
Some people want to know why I
had to leave the court house. Well, it
is this way: Mr. Sapp, the receiver,
wanted the office Mr. Brown was in,
which was originally built for the
collector and receiver, and so the
county commissioners, to get Mr.
Brow r n out, ordered me out with him,
but no one needed or wanted my office
in the grand jury room, and they
don’t need it now. But the idea was
this, that to have Mr. Browrn get out,
leaving me in the grand jury room,
would hurt his and his friends’ feel
ings, and so out I had to go, didn’t
make any difference if it did hurt me,
as for my friends being hurt, I didn’t
have any. I thought it was hard if
fair, to make a goat out of me because
of someone else, when I had done no
harm, was in no one’s way, and as an
occupant of that room tried to be hos
pitable and kind to all who wanted to
rest while in town, and had nowhere
else to go. Many a woman and child,
some of them little babies in their
mother’s arms, have I seen standing
on the streets in the rain and cold,
when I would go out and bring them
into my office where there was a good
fire to warm them. And women and
children were not the only ones, for
i many a shivering man who had to
come some distance to town came and
warmed in that room. Sometimes I’d
roll m desk away from the fire that
they might come and warm. But, to
make a matter short, it is all right,
there was no one hurt in the transac
tion but me and that doesn’t count,
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and the affair is closed as far as I am
concerned.
Marse Jesus and Mr. Satan.
Old Aunt Mary was the oldest wom
an on the plantation—she said she
was “mighty nigh onto a hundred,”
and I reckon she was. She was my
mother’s nurse, and she nursed sister
and me. When the Yankee soldiers
came after the war was over and told
her she was free, and she could leave
us and go where she pleased, she
shook her old gray head and replied:
“Tank you, Mr. Boss, but Mary wants
to stay wid dese white chillen, and
close dey eyes, and give ’em back to
God lak 1 done dey mother and father.”
Dear old Mary, she did stand by while
my mother closed papa’s eyes, and
then she closed my mama’s eyes. She
was the boss of the plantation, looked
after the children, and parents tried
to make them better, and told them
j how Marse Jesus was her best friend.
Twenty years ago, in Albany, I saw
old Aunt Mary for the first time. She
was sitting on a hale of cotton, and
when her son, a big, strong negro,
told her who I was, as I taken hold of
hre old withered hand, she raised her
almost sightless eyes to heaven and
said, “Tank God, I see ou ocne more,
all my white chillen but you is gone.”
She couldn’t speak any more. The
old thin lips quivered, tears followed
each other down the wrinkled cheeks,
and she dropped the faithful old white
head when I told her good bye. She
is dead now, and in the old Foultown
cemetery, a marble slab marks the
place wdiere old Mama Marse’s ashes
are mingling with the dust, and I hope
her spirit is with the blessed. Here’s
one of her songs:
“Ole Mister Satan am a bizzy bee,
He puts big rocks all in my way,
(Hear dat, niggers ?)
Marse Jesus am a fren’ tu me,
An’ He rolls ’em all away.
(Hear dat, sinners?)
All the old time negroes are passing
away, and there’ll be no others like
them.
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