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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- SOU. RY. ENGINEER PAID OUT 51200.00 ‘DAD” WATKINS TREATED BY SPECIALISTS IN ATLANTA, BIR MINGHAM AND RICHMOND, 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: “I have been treated by skilled spe 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 velous. I have taken in all ten bot 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 las by the Union Pharmacy; in Willa 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. ROSTER OF LOCAL UNIONS MACHINISTS LODGE NO. 15 A. H. BROWN, President. R. J. SPANN, Secretary. $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. Good Looks are Easy Magnolia JpP Balm. Look as good as your city cousins. No matter if you do Tan or Freckle Magnolia Balm will surely clear your skin instantly. Heals Sunburn, too. Just put a little on your face and rub it off again before dry. Simple and sure to please. Try a bottle to-day and begin the improvement at once. White, Pink and Rose-Red Colors. 75 cents at Druggiits or by mail direct. SAMPLE FREE. LYON MFC. CO.. 40 So. sth St- Brooklyn. N.Y. ed, I felt like I had dropped in the sugar dish, and —(pull down the blinds, please, somebody may be look ing)- \JT) i J TTie Savings Account y on IJN-J imzMhr COFFEE WE flatly guarantee that Luziann* goes twice as far as a cheaper coffee. We flatly guarantee that it will satisfy you in every way. If, after you have used the entire contents of one can according to directions, it has not made good on both these claims, throw away the can and ask your grocer to refund your money. He will do it without ar gument. Write for premium catalog. TTie Reily -‘Taylor Co. New Orleans 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. M ■ j ] Your Summers Go Better ; ® * ■ thanks to the soda fountain —soda fountains " t ■ | are better, thanka to ■ ■ —the drink that made the soda fountain a national ■ institution. That’s because it gave them a useful, . j : 0 wholesome, delicious and refreshing beverage to I ' -a serve. R I Demand the genuine by full name— * nicknames encourage substitution. | l THE COCA-COLA CO. ATLANTA. GA. ! ‘ j | Send for free booklet — The Romance cf Coca-Cola lTj « | ■ , • Don’t forget the popular Sunday outing at the Seashore. $1.25 Doug las to Brunswick and return. Tickets good going on A. B. & A. Sunday morning, returning Sunday evening. ROOMS FOR RENT FOR LIGHT house keeping, with private family, or for leepers. Address Mrs. J. M. Jardine. P. O. Box 457. 5-13-4 t 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.