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Alma Moore and her big sister were
in town Saturday.
Mary, Mabel and Homer Corbitt
went to Arnie last Sunday. •
There will not be any sing at Arnie
tomorrow. But there will be one at
Blystone.
T. J. Holland, of Ambrose, was ni
town last Tuesday on business* and
hunted me up in my new location.
Lem Harper, with two pretty girls,
was in town Tuesday. He didn’t find
me, but the girls did. Ask them.
Please do not send death notices, or
obituaries to me. Send them to The
Enterprise. Remember this, please.
Those who have federal liquor li
cense are liable to prosecution for an
infringement on the prohibition law.
The program for the Sunday school
convention at Ambrose on the sec
ond Sunday will be found in this issue.
Oliver Peterson says his “water
melon patch is all right since the
rain.” It is a fine one, too, and close
to the road.
Mrs. Mose Joiner and Mrs. John
Higgs came to see me Tuesday. They
were just scouting around to find my
new location.
Alma Barnes was in Augusta last
week. Didn’t come back Sunday, and
that little bow-legged fellow was look
ing for her everywhere.
Singing at Burkett’s church on the
second Sunday, begins at 9:30. Din
ner at usual hour, if Agnes and Mag
gie caught the old blue hens.
Mrs. C. W. Corbitt (Big Sis), and
one of the boys, of Broxton, went to
Arnie last Sunday. Seems to me that
Big Sis gets better looking every day.
Jesse Lott, an old Douglas boy, who
has been away a long time, is in town,
and says he is going to remain lam
real glad to see him, and hope he will
do well
Boys and girls that haven’t enough
respect for their parents to command
obedience, have a good deal of time
for regrets and remorse when they get
into trouble.
Even if I am away from the court
house the people, especially the girls,
are finding me. But 1 am thankful
to the officers for letting me Aay
there as long as they did.
The girls and boys of the agricul
tural College, are scattering out for
home this week. 1 hope they will find
the homefolks well, have a fine, happy
vacution, and return soon.
John Moore, of Hazlehurst, was in
town again last Monday. He’s got so
he just won’t stay at home, but I’ll
try to keep Minnie posted on his do
ings on this end of the line.
Miss Pearlie Sessoms, at Chula, Ga.,
says she has not received The Enter
prise in a month, and wants the Note
Book, “as it seems to cheer us up.”
And it is going to her, too.
Bryant Jowers and a good force of
hands were bus ylast week putting a
new floor on the brick yard bridge, on
Seventeen Mile creek. The roads on
Koute 1 are needing work badly.
Mr. J. S. Ward and fttntily, of West
Green, have moved from that place to
Lee, Fla., where he has been for the
past six weeks. They have many
friends here who wish them well.
Mary Carter, down at Rockingham,
says everybody has finished cutting
oats; cotton and corn,is growing fine,
blackberries are ripe, fish biting, and
she wants me to come and go fishing.
Mary Harper says the Sunday school
convention of the western district of
the county, will be held at New Hope
church, near Ambrose, on the second
Sunday in June, and she expects me.
My pretty widow chum, Mrs. Ma
lissa Howell, across the street, went
hiking off' to Arnie last Sunday with
out telling me in time to spruce up
and go with her. Outrageous, wasn’t
it?
“The Battle Cry of Peace” at the
Grand last Monday night, ten reels,
three hours, was the finest thing I
have ever seen on a screen. And the
Orchestra was one of the best on the
road.
I learn that since the schools closed
down at Nicholls, the boys and girls
haven’t raucji on their minds, and are
trying to catch up on their courting.
I am listening for a telephone call any
hour.
There are two or three good adver
tisers over at Hazlehurst, and had
page and half-page advertisements in
the News last week. Good advertis
ers make good papers deserve pat
ronage.
Don’t forget that the singing con
vention at the Burkett church comes
off on the second Sunday. There will
be several classes presen, a large
crowd besides, and dinner on the
ground.
My Fales chum says if I come down
there we can go fishing, but if I pay
“too much attention to Ruby, Uncle
Jim, I may not be jealous, but I won’t
like it.” Now, isn’t that just like a
woman ?
The last time I saw Bro. Tomlinson
in town, he had on a light blue shirt,
a deep blue pair of pants, a pair of
yellow leather shoes and a white straw
hat. He’s a dressy old dude when he
gets started.
The Chero-Cola people shipped out
185 crates, 24 bottles to the crate,
which totals 4,440 bottles of Chero-
Cola, Saturday. And this is May,
and last Saturday was not a very good
day, anyhow.
Eva Adams, down at Kales, writes
and says “she is not feeling very
well.” Yes, and I vetnure to say she
has been eating green plums. Coming
Eva, just as soon as I can find my old
quinine oottle.
The little Phillips girl, down near
Millwood, says “she would be glad for
me to come down there again soon.'’
Don’t see how I can get there “soon,”
as the calendar is marked with dates
to the second Sunday in October.
There will be no Sunday school rally
at Saginaw, as announced some time
ago, I am informed. Sorry to hear
this, as I think every section should
have Sunday schools, as it is a help
to train the children in the right way.
In her last letter, an eighteen-year
old girl says: “I wish you was here,
as I hhd much rather talk than write
to you.” Certainly; most women had
rather use their tongues than anything
else. And they know how, too, don’t
they ?
My little chum, Simeon, a grand
duaghter, has gone home to spend va
cation with her parents at Madison,
Fla. This leaves me without a home
chum, except Polly, the parrot, and
she always wants me to “come back
quick!”
Lucy says when her father was
through eating dinner at Bro. Tom
linson’s last week, “he wasn’t able to
get up from the table.” No, I reckon
not. He saw that plenty was left
from dinner and he wanted to stay
for supper.
D. Meadows, from down about Pear
son, was here last Saturday, and told
me that “he risked one on me and
lost.” So he did, and so did 400 oth
er true and loyal friends, who would
not sell their votes for $2.00 and a
pint of whiskey.
It is a mighty good practice for a
boy or girl to read a chapter in the
Bible every morning. Or if you can’t
read a whole chapter, just a few vers
es. You can’t imagine how much you
will read in a month in this way, or
the good derived.
“The Old Lady,” up at Ambrose,
wrote to me the other day for some
stationary, “if I wanted to hear from
her any more, that she was nearly
out of soap.” I sent it, but I marked
it so it could not be used to write to
the other fellows.
John Gaskin, an apprenice with me
on the old Coffee Couny Gazette, pub
lished at Pearson thirty-odd years ago,
who now lives at Ocilla, was in town
last Tuesday, and I was glad to see
the old boy, and also glad to know he
is getting along well.
A girl down near Fales wrote me
last week that “she just had reached
the field when the rain came up, and
she had to race home to keep from
getting wet, but she was glad to have
the rain.” Yes, I know all about it.
“More rain, more rest,” is your motto.
Got two Tishie Harpers now. What
do you know about that? One gets
her mail at Bushnell, the other at Am
brose. I am glad of that, because
there will be no probability of big
Tishie getting little Tishie’s lettres.
I have to be very careful about that,
you know.
Monsieur Seligman, of Nicholls, was
in town Tuesday. He is a prominent
merchant in his town, and Mae Meeks
is his right hand clerk, but T am
afraid she will spend too much time
with that fellow I saw with her at
the drug store (she knows) while the
boss is away.
Frank .Hancock went to Stokesville
and thereabouts last Sunday. He told
me he wasn’t going, didn’t want me
to know anything about it, but I was
aware that there was a magnet down
there that can draw him through a
brick wall. If old Boss Tanner will
send me his board bill I’ll sue it at
once.
Big Sis, (Mrs. C. W. Corbitt), of
Broxton, says she killed a hog, made
about 50 pounds of sausage last week
and packed 'em away in a lard can.
She knows I am Justice of the Peace,
her telling me about it is a contempt
of court, and she is fined 5 pounds of
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, JUNE 3, 1916.
sausage or two days in the watermelon
patch. How do you like that, Big Sis?
Delia Quinn came fluttering down
to the depot last Monday afternoon to
meet her sister, Marthann, who was
expected from Hazlehurst, but she
didn’t come, a/id then Delia came
down to me to “know why her sister
fooled her?” Well, for mercy sake,
have I got to keep up with every wo
man in South Georgia ? Looks like
it, sure.
Francis Mae Hutchinson, of R. F.
D. 1, was in town Saturday, and so
was her father, but she left him on
the street to come to me. Then she
left me to go bo him, and then he
came to me to find her, and hanged if
I didn’t have to go out, find the girl
and turn her over to her papa. When
a man comes to town and loses his
wife and daughter he comes to me.
Bro. H. M. Meeks, who lost a pair
of pants up about Ambrose some time
ago, the news of which excited me so
at the time that I imagined “how come
him with two pair of pants at one
time," has explained that some of his
relatives gave them to him. Wonder
if the man who taken the pants didn't
make that same kind of explanation
to his wife when she caught him with
the goods?
Mary and Tishie Harper, of Am
brose, were in town last Tuesday, ar.d
1 carried them through the Chero-
Cola bottling works, and let then: see
how their favorite drink is made, how
the bottles are cleaned, rinsed swab
bed out with a revolving brush, filled
and tested over an electric light. They
told me before they came in that they
were Chero-Cola drinkers, but now
they like it better.
The Pearson High School closed out
its session last week, and the past
term has been successful. The board
of trustees announced the new faculty
elect for the next scholastic year:
Principal, Rev. C. E. Rich; first as
sistant, Miss Nelle Rich; second as
sistant, Miss Florence Padrick; third
assistant, Miss Nannie Littleton;
fourth assistant, Miss Kathleen Burns
piano and voice, Miss Ruby E. Neal.
J. F. Bennett, of Millwood, was in
town last Saturday on business, and
when he went away I was one dollar
better off. He thinks there will be
some people from Millwood here in
September. That little black-eyed
girl that sat on the end of the seat
near me, at the sing, may come with
her fellow and want me to perform a
two and a half minute buckling togeth
er ceremony, and I will, so help me
over the fence.
Dennis Vickers, Jr., was in town
last Monday afternoon at 4:30, and
said he intended to leave here for
home at 6 o’clock. Well, that was all
right, I never want to hurry him out
of town, but what I want to know, is,
what made him run his watch back
30 minutes? I know. He just want
ed that extra time for some devilment,
and I feel it is my absolute duty to
tell Mrs. Vickers, and she expects me
to do my duty. So, there!
Ruth Mills, down at Lyons, and a
“certain person,” in Douglas, have
been corresponednts for a long time,
and last week Ruth wrote a letter to
the “certain person,” and expressed
her affection and friendship. The
next mail carried a letter to Ruth ask
ing “if she would be the friend and
love the “certain person” for life.
Ruth hasn’t had sufficient breath to
answer as we go to press, and the only
regret is, both are girls, and they are
just practicing.
The Ware County (Millwood) News,
of a recent date, says: “Uncle Jim
Freeman moved his seat three or four
times during the play by the orches
tra. Just couldn’t remain still.” Well,
if you had notiede the four pretty
Millwood girls, on a seat near me, you
would have known the reason why,
and the mean part of it tvas, they
knew me and I didn’t know their
names. But Jim Cowart and myself
are going to find ’em if we have to
sue out a search warrant, and you can
tell ’em, too. So there!
The railroads of Georgia are pro
posing a new schedule of freight rates
for the shipping of watermelons this
season, which will double the present
rate. The present rate for shipping
a car load of melons one hundred miles
is $15.00. The cost under the pro
posed rate would be $26.00. A car
load for Atlanta is $23.00 now, un
der the proposed new rate it would be
$42.00. It would be foolishness un
der this double rate for growers to be
lieve they can make any money on
watermelons. This is not an item,
strictly, for the Note Book, but is pub
lished for the benefit of some who
tell me they do not read anything else.
I have been looking through the
dictionary, Greer’s almanac and the
civil and penal codes, for words to
exuress my thanks to Mr. Borden and
other citizens of Millwood, for their
kindly expressions concerning myself,
and can’t find them. I was in this
fix once before, when I asked a pretty
girl a particular question and she an
swered in the affirmative. I couldn’t
de a thing but stand and look at her.
I felt my lips quiver, reached out and
taken both her hands in mine, she
dropped her head on my shoulder,
then both my arms went around her
waist where her belt had tf*e way blnz-
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‘DAD” WATKINS TREATED BY
SPECIALISTS IN ATLANTA, BIR
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WITHOUT RELIEF.
Nearly everybody who has ever rid
den a passenger train between Bir
mingham and Atlanta knows S. T.
Watkins, known by his friends as
“Dad” Watkins, the “Preacher Engin
eer,” for a number of years locomo
tive engineer for the Southern Rail
way, running between; Birmingham
and Atlanta. Mr. Watkins is one of
the oldest engineers in the service of
the company. In a recent interview'
Mr. Watkins said:
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cialists in Birmingham, Atlanta and
Richmond, and guess I have taken a
bout as much medicine as any man,
but never have I found anything that
has helped me as much as Tanlac, and
I have spent twelve hundred dollars—
a small fortune —trying to regain my
health.
“I suffered for twenty-seven long
years with stomach trouble, which the
doctors told me was caused by ca
tarrhal asthma. Instead of getting
better, I was getting worse all the
time. I got so whenever I ate or
drank anything it was almost like tak
ing that much fire into my stomach.
I was so run down that when the time
came for me to go out on my run, I
just simply had to force myself tc
duty, and when I got in my cab I knew
I was in no shape to sit at the throt
tle. The pains in my stomach and
head were so severe I could hardly
stand it. About two months ago I
had such a severe attack I decided
that ’my time had come,’ for no man
ever suffered any more than .1 did
then.
“I practically gave up all hope, but
when I began to hear of the remarka
ble things Tanlac was doing for sick
people in Atlanta, many of whom I
knew, I bought a bottle. I then began
to feel better every day. The first
bottle helped me so much I got the
second, and results were simply mar
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tles, and have never in my life seen
anything to equal it. It went straight
to my troubles, and was in a hurry
about doing it, too. My friends be
gan to ask me what I was doing to
myself.
“The chnge has been so great that
I can hardly realize that a short time
ago I was such a sick, tired, worn-out
broken-down piece of humanity. I
haven't a pain about me now, and have
more life and energy than I have had
in years. 1 can eat whatever I please,
and it doesn’t hurt me, and I sleep
fine—something I couldn’t do before
I began taking Tanlac. Tanlac has
ended my troubles, and you don’t know
how happy I am over it.
“I believe when a medicine puts a
fellow on its feet, like Tanlac has done
me, it is nothing but right to come out
and tell the people about it through
the papers and on the streets, and I
wish it were so every poor, sick per
son in the country could know the
good Tanlac has done me. Everybody
who knows me—and I know a great,
many people—knows that it has made
a new man out of me.”
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Doug
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coochee by Quillian’s Pharmacy; in
Nicholls by the Johnson Pharmacy;
in Pearson by Drs. Joe and C. W. Cor
bett; and in Broxton by J. H. Rod
denberry; in McDonald, Lochridge &
Lawton.
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$1.25 Douglas to Brunswick and re
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A., Sunday morning train returning
Sunday evening. Same rate each Sun
day during the summer.
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outing at the Seashore. $1.25 Doug
las to Brunswick and return. Tickets
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morning, returning Sunday evening.
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house keeping, with private family,
or for leepers. Address Mrs. J. M.
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PEAS FOR SALE—MIXED, $1.45;
Whippoorwill, $1.60; Brabham and
Iron, $1.70 per bushel delivered at
Douglas, Ga. Geo. W. Heard, P. O.
Box 136, Atlanta, Ga.
5,000 bead of stock sheep at once.
Will pay reasonable price. Buy
cattle also. J. W. STEGALL,
Thomasville, Ga.