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gmM, MM Preaching at Okl Midway on last Sunday was not wcdl attended. Bertie Herrin (tame to see me two weeks ago. Looks like she ought to show up again. Some of our truck growers are shipping cantaloupes by the car load from this place. I’d like to know what the “Old Lady” thinks of letting the “Old Man” go to war. Gaynell Everett, down at Saginaw, says “she thinks of me sometimes.” Some consolation. Clara Dent and her pretty mama (wonder how John will like that?) were in town Saturday. speed limit for automobiles to run in Douglas is 10 miles per hour; on the highways 30 miles. Pretty Clara Lewis and her mama, of No. 1, were in town Saturday. Clara is getting real saucy. Some people never think they have any new-s unless they can tell some thing mean about their neighbors. Bessie Kight, Lilia Tanner and Mamie Courson, all came to see me last Saturday, to tell me the news. All the stores in town were closed on the 23rd, and the bosses and clerks were off on the railroad boys’ picnic. Cordelia Quinn came to see me last Wednesday, and to hear her talk you would think she was right off for Mexico. I wonder how many of the Inman Mora, Arnie and Sunny Side girls 1 am going to meet at Arnie on the eighth ? Jim Cowart, down at Millwood, says he is a “better looking man than his brother Dan.” Poor Dan; he has my sympathy. Sibb Vickers was in town Wednes day, but didn’t say whether he was going to Mexico or not. I’m afraid he can’t leave Effie. And Agnes Burkett was going to write me the news, and she was go ing to do this and she was going to do that, but she didn’t. I was not with the railroad boys on their picnic, but would have been had 1 been able. I was sick, and then I did not have the dollar. Lawrence Cato, who was married last Saturday night, does not talk much like going to war. He says he's a man of family now. Ruby Peerson once promised to let me hear from her at least once a week, and if I have heard from her in six months I can’t remember the time. Mineola Cone, of Ambrose, is on a visit to friends in the city. She came with her friend, Miss Lula Revie, of Collins, Ga., to see me last Tuesday. There were 300 people at Alma on last Sunday, a report says. Wonder if Mike Carter was there? They say Mike is some singer, with a voice like a goose. Dismuke, at Pure Food Grocery Store, says he wats to adopt a whole orphan asylum until the Mexican war is over. Men with large families, you know, are exempt. Well, Myrtice Paulk said, in her last letter, that she intended to write regularly, but the letters have mis carried and none been received. What about that, little girl? Bill Maine invited me to an all-day sing at Salem last Saturday, but I couldn’t go, to my regret. He has just finished up a successful singing school of ten days out there. Little old Viola Lott, one of my favorite chums, acquitted herself beautifully on the last day of school. She had a nice subject for a final, and delivered ti without a bobble. I don’t know when the priest is coming to this county, but I want to see him and confess to him what ter rible liars we have here, but I won't say anything about Jim Kirkland. The nine-year-old son of Mr. Rat Kirkland, who lives a few miles east of town, accidentally shot himself in the leg with a pistol last Monday. The wound is not serious, but pain ful. The average young fellow from the country last Saturday, reported “fine crops, plenty of watermelons and pretty girls. Loyd Lankford says “that’s enough for anyone.” 1 think so, too. There’s a girl down at Saginaw’ that dates her letters “Monday Morn ing.” Shedoesn’t say what week, month or year, and it seems to me she just does that to keep a fellow guessing. Now and then you hear about two or three beys from here making a trip to Waycross, Fitzgerald or Ocilla and back the night before. Doesn’t that have a sound with a sickly, %limv !ir?r~ to "1 ? | Bro. Jowers, of Ambrose, was in I town last Tuesday, and went off with I Bro. Williams of Chatterton. Must Ibe getting up some big meeting or something, I don’t know what. Guess 1 better write to Tilda. Catura Mobley, of the Wooten dis trict, was in tow-n last Friday and Saturday. She was with an old bald headed dude when I saw her about six months ago, but she doesn’t say what she did with him. Una and Mattie Kirkland, two of my chums from Wray, were in town Tuesday, and called to see us for a short time. They both promised to w-rite to me, but then, you know how girls keep their promises. Every town has a few young men that do nothing but sit around and talk about baseball, girls, parties, etc. but if the country needed their ser vices conscription would be the only means to get them to the front. Vestal Jackson, formerly the pop ular and efficient “hello girl” at West Green, is in the city visiting the fam ily of Mr. and Mrs. Howard, out on Madison avenue. She expects to go to Broxton to visit friends this week. The Fales News was left out last week. I keep telling that girl to write on Monday so it will reach us Tuesday, but she just won’t do it, and comes poking in here on Thurs day. Never mind; I see her before long. Parson Tomlinson and Frank were in tow-n Saturday, and the Parson in vited everybody in sight, but me, to come and see him, eat watermelons, etc. Dog-gone him, I don’t care; too many watermelons are not healthy, anyway. It does not matter how faithful you have tried to be in the discharge of life’s duties, there are seme, when you are old and helpless, that would like to give you one more kck to send you to the bottom. That’s my experience. The Chero Cola man, who drives the truck, says he is going to carry me on his route to Nicholls and drop me at Saginaw school house until he comes back in the afternoon. Then, if I knew the way I could go to see one of my chums. The Ware County News suggests that Editor Borden has the country around McDonald “posted against other newspaper men.” Borden him self is a tresspasser; I have owned full rights and privileges at McDon ald for 25 years. Elsie Taff, one of my Inman school chums, says she may come to the Normal College here next term. I hope she will, because her success at Inman convinces me that she will make good here, or at any other col lege. And we have the best. Did you ever know a boy or girl that would not obey or respect the wishes of their parents amount to much? Very seldom; because God does not make any promises to any but the obedient, and then the obstin ate boy or girl doesn’t deserve any thing. Bro. Gardner, of Broxton, was in town again last Tuesday w-ith a load of strawberries for sale, and gave me a basket full for my dinner. If it was not for these kind friends from the country giving me something now and then my dinner plate would be very light. Since the New- Forest school house has been repainted, the yards re cleaned, it is one of the prettiest rural school houses and grounds in Southern Georgia. And I might add, has some of the cleverest boys and prettiest girls in the county in the neighborhood. John Hall, Jr., and Rochell Chap pell, were on Ward street last Sun day afternoon w-ith a girl on either side. Two girls to the boy. What do you know about that? And doesn’t it go to show- that some girls in Douglas are not particular about who they go with ? I have not had a messege over the phone from Lucy Fussell at Ambrose in a month, and I don’t know- wheth er the red-headed fellow- is still fool ing around Rebecca or net, and she never would tell me the name of the fallow that carried Miriam out to ride last Sunday afternoon. Some men, who have their children to work and help them make their crops, are too mean and stingy to give their children a dollar for the Enterprise, still they spend ten times that amount for whiskey. To com pare them with a skunk I would have to do so with apologies to the skunk. One of my chums down near Nich olls says “she saw Wesley Meeks us ing a long-handle broom to curry his (horse, as she passed Mr. Lester Cole’s THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, JULY 1, 1916. lot last Saturday. Wesley didn’t want to bend his back.” Poor fel low; we will have to come dow-n and bring a porous plaster for that lame back. The laws on running automobiles are to be found in another place this week, and if the proper authorities do their duty some reckless automo [bile drivers are going to be arrested. | There are some in this town and county that never carry a rear light I and many times are without any in front. Elsie Taff invited me to go and see her last Sunday, her 17th birth day. Sorry I could not go, for no one will ever hear of her having an other birthday until after she is mar ried. If she is not married in the next year, the 25th of June, she will “just be sixteen.” They come back ward instead of forward. Married, last Saturday night, June 24, at the residence of Mr. Brown, in north Waycross, Mr. Lawrence Cato and Miss Mae Quinn, J. M. Freeman, J. P., officiating. Both parties are well anr favorably known, anr have a host of friends who wish them a long life of happiness and prosperity, and among those friends is the writer The Grand Theatre stood out of the way when the League was in ses sion here, when the school entertain ment was in progress, shut up and all hands went on the railroad picnic, and now is giving the best pictures that are made to Douglas twice a day. Of course, you should make a note of this, and govern yourself ac cordingly. A girl writing from Hayestown last Monday says: “Uncle Jim, we all had high expectation of some wed ding cake here recently, but Lovie Moore kicked out of gear.” That’s all right; tell the fellow to save his license until I get there, and we’ll hold Lovie until I can snap the buc kle. Then she can kick as much as she pleases. Mattie Kirkland, at Wray, says she “has not fully decided which one of her fellows she will marry.” Well, she must not be so particular; they are all nice fellows, and the price is just the same—sl.7s for license and $2.00 for “hitching ’em up”—looks like $3.75 is cheap enough for a girl about her size. Arlo Cothern and Cadie Herrin, down on Nicholls Rfd. No. 1, says “Here we come to join your band of chums. Will you have us?” Cer tainly; you have been mine all the time, but didn’t know it. Don’t you go and ask any other fellow that question. If you do he’ll say: Just as soon as I can go to Douglas for license and Uncle Jim. Una and Mattie Kirkland, Mineola Cone, Lula Revie, were all in town at one time last Tuesday, insisted that they wanted to go to jail, and almost compelled me to go with them. After looking around a little while, and were leavig, the prisoners invit ed them to “come again, ladies, we are always glad to see you,” but they never promised to return. Willie Durst went to Augusta this week on one of his wild goose chases, leaving Mrs. Durst at home to hold both ends of the bag. Strange how many people go to Macon, Atlanta and Augusta these days on “busi ness,” and they never let any one at home know what that business was. Hanged if I don’t believe there’s “something dead up the branch.” My friend Pafford, who lives a few miles out of town, furnished a nice dish of peas for my dinner last Tues day. If he had just thought about it and brought along a little piece of meat to season them with he would have hit the nail on the head. He will do that in hog killing time, and if I can just make my meat skins hold out for chewing until then, I’ll be safe. “Wireless” tells me that Prof. Em mett Whelchel, of this city, has a bad case of heart affection. The main cause lives up at Sandersville, in Washington county. Uncle Sam’s mail service does carrier pigeon duty between them three times a wek, and Emmett’s friends declare the thump | ing in his bosom grows louder every, time the mail comes. Desperate, isn’t it? People are beginning to talk about the reckless manner in which auto mobiles are run in this tow-n, and they want to know why the marshal does not make cases against those who run over ten (the posted speed limit) miles per hour. Can get all the evidence wanted if he’ll notice. After some child is knocked dow-n and killed will be too late in that par ticular case. “Ira Burkett and Layman Cothern of Burkettown, went to see Gertie Adams last Sunday evening. One of i them talked to the girl and the other was caught in D. W. Cothern’s water melon patch near by,” a girl w-rites me, but another report says “Ira found Arlo dow-n in the watermelon patch.” Well, all right; I don’t blame the boy, because pretty girls and watermelons go mighty well to gether. Mary and Tishie (not the one w-ith the striped dress) Harper, up here near Ambrose, had their fellows with them last Sunday. Little bird says Mary “w-as too happy to talk much.” Tha’s the way they get before some thing happens., Tishie had a “far away look in her eyes like she was trying to make up her mind about something.” Look here, you reckon I’m about to lose tw-o chums up in that section? Arlo Cothern went home with Cadie and Gussie Herrin, dow-n on Nicholls Rfd. No. 1 last Sunday, and as usual, and got into some mischief. They went out and robbed a hen’s nest, cooked the eggs and were get ting ready to eat them when the lady of the house caught up with them. They refused to eat the eggs then, when given to them, because they wouldn’t be stolen. “Stolen things are always the best,” as her fellow said w-hen he kissed Gussie on the cheek, as she w-as looking the other way. See right now I’ve got to go down there before long. Will you meet me, girls? LOW EXCURSION FARES Via ATLANTIC COAST LINE “The Standard Railroad of the South” FROM WILLACOOCHEE To BRUNSWICK JACKSONVILLE, ST. AUGUSTINE, ST. PETERSBURG AND TAMPA JULY NINETEENTH Tickets sold to Brunswick, Jack sonville and St. Augustine limited to reach original starting point return ing not later than midnight July 24. Tickets sold to Tampa and St. Peters burg limited to midnight July 25, 1916. For fares, schedules and further information, call on W. T. SINGLETON, Ticket Agent A. C. L. Ry. Company, Willacooch.ee, Ga, STOP IN ATLANTA AT HOTEL EMPIRE Opposite Union Depot on Pryor St. Renovated and refurnished throughout. Reservations made on application. Hot and cold wafer, private baths, electric lights and elevator. First class accommodations at moderate prices. Rooms 50c anVup JOHN 1,. KDMONDSOX, Prop. Federal Inquiry or Railroad Strike? Faced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen that would impose on the country an additional burden in transportation costs of $100,000,000 a year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be settled by reference to an impartial Federal tribunal. / With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railroads have no differences that could not be considered fairly and decided justly by such a public body. Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration The formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of the controversy is as follows: "Our conference* have i)emon*tra*ed that we cannot harmonize our difference* of opinion and that eventually the matter* in controversy must be passed upon by other and disinterested agencies. Therefore, we propose that your proposals and the proposition o( the railways be disposed of by one or the other of the following methods: 1. Preferably by submission to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only tribunal which, by reason of its accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and its control of the revenue of the railways, is in a posi tion to consider and protect the rights and equities of ali the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue necessary to meet the added cost of operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just and reasonable; or, in the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premises, that we jointly request Congress to take such action as may be necessary to enable the Commission to consider and promptly dispose of the questions involved; or 2. Ky arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law” (The Newlands Act). Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New York, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whether authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: No other body with such an intimate knowi-dge ployes as wages; and the money to pay increased wages of railroad conditions has such an unquestioned posi- can come from no other source than the rates paid tion in the public confidence. by the public. The rates the railroads may charge the public for The Interstate Commerce Commission with its con transportation are now largely fixed by tins Govern- tro | over rateti is j rl g pos ; t i on to make „ comp | ete ment board. investigation and render such decision as would pro- Out of every dollar received by the railroads from tect the interests of the railroad employes, the owner* the public nearly one-half is paid directly to the em- of the railroads, and the public. A Question For the Public to Decide The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of $100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that shall determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. The single issue before the country is whether this controversy is to be settled by an impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. National Conference Committee of the Railways ELISHA LEE, Chairman IP. R ALBRIGHT, Gen't .Manater, G. H. EMERSON. Gen’t Manatar, N. O. MAHER. Pt^Ao/iw!, Atlantic Coaal Line Railroad. Great Northern Railway. Norfolk & Western Railway. L. W. BAL DWIN, Gen't Manatar, C. H. EWING. Gn'l Mar.ater, JAMES RUSSELL, Gen'l danatrr. Ccotral of Georgia Railway. Philadelphia A Reading Railway. Denver A Rio Grande Railroad. C. L. BARDO, Gen't Manater, E. W. GRICE. Gen'tSnU. Tran i*.. A. M. SCHOYER. Resident Vica-Pm. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Cheaapeake A Ohio Railway. Pennsylvania Lines West. E. H. COAPMAN, Vicr-Pressdnt. A. S. GREIG. Aset, fa Receivers. W. L. SEDDON. Vice-Pres.. Southern Railway. St. Louis A San Francisco Railroad. Seaboard Air Line Railway. S E. COTTER. Gen't Manater. C. W. KOUNS. Gen 1 Manner. A. J. STONE, Vice-President. Wabssb Railway. Atchison. Topeka A Santa Fe Railway. Erie Railroad P E CROWLEY, Aset. Vice Presidnt, H. W. McMASTER. Gent Manater, G. S. WAID. Vice-Pres 9 Gn'l Mm New York Central Railway. Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. Sunset Central Lute*. (Advertisement) “TANLAC MADE NEWMANOFME” SAYS NEWMAN | ENGINEER SAYS TANLAC DID HIM MORE GOOD THAN ANY THING ELSE. “This Tanlac is certainly a railroad man’s medicine and that is all there is to it,” said said W. G. T. New-man, a well-known W. & A. engineer. “Y’es, sir,” he continued, “it has simply made a new man out of me and I can now mount my engine and feel as young as I did when I first got my run, and I expect to take it along w-ith me on my engine for some time to come. “I had been suffering from a mean, nagging stomach trouble for ten or twelve years, and Tanlac was the on ly thing I ever got hold of to give me any relief. “My doctor said I had acid stom ach, and I guess he was right because I always had a sour taste in my mouth, and was constantly belching up sour gases. “My digestion was awful and some times my food just seemed to lay in my stomach like led and then gas would form and I would have a full, bloated feeling that would last for hours. Sometimes my stomach would swell up so I could hardly get my breath. At other times I would have pains in my back over my kdneys that would almost bend me double. “I was tired and worn out most all the time and was so nervous I would MflllPU MlUirm On improved II is I II I farm lands, at llUlUll LUiliUlU >ow rate interest, and upon very desirable terms. By reason of the direct connection which I have loans can be handled without delay. : Union Banking E* -««/ DART DOUGLAS, Company Bldg * • ww • I GEORGIA almost scream, and was easily fret ted. Then again I would have head aches and felt sore all over. “I bought Tanlac because of the high testimonials of my railroad friends? and I can understand now why they all allowed their names to be published. I hink it is a medicine that everybody should know about, because it has done me more good than every other medicine I have tak en put together. “My appetite is good now- and ev erything I eat agrees with me. lam not nervous any more either and can take more interest in everything. That’s what this medicine has done for me.” Mr. Newman, who made the above statement, has been an engineer on the W. & A. railroad between At lanta and Dalton for the past twelve years, and his hundreds of friends all over that division, and at his home in Dalton, will be glad to hear of his complete restoration to health. 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; in West Green, Mack’s Drug Store. “SYCAMORE SCHOOL.” On Thursday night, July 13, there will be an entertainment at Sycamore School House for the purpose of rais ing funds for benefit of school. The public i^gcordially invited. HOMER CORBITT, Prin. MARY CORBITT, Asst. $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.