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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. Ml LIED rS interest,, and upon very desirable terms. By reason of the direct connection which I have loans can be handled without delay. : Union Banking P 11T F\ Al? T DOUGLAS, Company Bldg * • A GEORGIA DOB LOANED £S£, AT 6 PER CENT. The borrower has the privilege of paying SIOO.OO or any multiple thereof at any in terest paying period, thereby stopping in terest on the amounts thus paid. : : : : I. W. QUINCEY 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, GERMANY & MEXICO ARE TROUBLESOME TBS TRUE WORRY Huckabee’s Grocery Store Gives Service to Please You pleasurE| If you want Groceries from a good line, Go to the phone call One Three-Nine; His Fruits and Produce are always fine: Phone in your order and get it on time. YOU’LL GET IT FRESH 22 HUCKABEE’S 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. DR. T. A. WEATHERS DENTIST Ambrose, : Georgia Can your write a letter for a $225. prize? Ask for particulars. $1.25 Douglas to Brunswick and re turn, tickets good going on A. B. & A., Sunday morning train returning Sunday evening. Same rate each Sun day during the summer. RUB OUT PAIN with good oil liniment. That’s the surest way to stop them. The best rubbing liniment is ( MUSTANG LINIMENT Good for the A ilments of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for your own A ches. Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. r> 25c. 50c. sl. At all Dealers. For Good Prompt Auto Sevice =CALL= G. E. WILSON Day or Night Rates Reasonable And Service Guaranteed Day Phone 182 Night Phone 138 Headquarters Douglas Garage Douglas, Ga. Ah! That’s what I Call Coffee .S ~ , .. Everybody that tries Luzianne votes it the best of all coffees. You try it —at our risk. If. after you have used the entire contents of one can ac cording to directions, you are not satisfied with it in every way, throw your can away and ask your grocer to refund your money. He’ll do it willingly. Write for premium catalog. COFFEE Theßeily-Taylor Co. New Orleans TO THE POLICY HOLDERS OF THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK IN COFFEE COUNTY This is to notify you that B. F. 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