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'“The Enterprise Covers Every Nook and Cor ner of Coffee County and Then Some” CEO. WHITE KILLS TOM DANILL ABOUT NOON TODAY. NOW IN JAIL The city was 'shocked about noon today ■when the news spread broad est that George White, a barber working at Brooks’ barber shop, shot and killed Tons Daniels, a painter by trade, at the home of Flander Gas kin, -tei the eastern part of the city. After the sheeting was over. White walked direct to the court house and told Jailor Smith, who was sitting on the front steps, to come ©n and lock him up. Smith immediately fol lowed and placed White in one of the cells. Several Stories. It is hand to get the same stony about the affair and the casises lead ing up to it, but the best obtainable is as follows: On Thursday morning Flander Gaskin, a hrother-in-law o? George White, was dodged in jail on a charge "■of assault .with intent to murder, be ing charged by his wife’s brother, John .Ivey,'iff trying to kill his wife. Flander Gaskin and Tom Daniel are brothers-in-law, having married two sisters, the daughters of Air. Joe Ivey, if seems that Gaskin and his wife had been separated for several days, .and .trouble had been brewing between them, when the assault was made, »esulting in Gaskin’s ;arrest. It is also said that George White was sore ;d»«out rhis brother-in-law being locked up. Daniel and White Confer. It is said ,£hat about noon today (Friday') Tom Daniels went to Brooks’ shop and called out .George White. The .two were in conversa tion far several minutes in front of the post office, although nothing out of 'the (Ordinary conversation .seeras to have (Occurred. After the conver sation, George White went hack into the barber shop and got his hat and proceeded alone to the home of Flan der Gaskin, in the eastern part of the city. There he found Gaskin’s wife alone with lihe children. In a few minutes, it .is said, Tom Daniels appeared on the scene, and the three were in the kitchen engaged in a conversation about the case of F lan der Gaskin. Mrs. Gaskin’s Story. Mrs. Flander Gaskin says that Daniels and White, after being in the house a few minutes, engaged in a heated conversation, while standing in the kitchen door. She says that the argument was .or seems to he about the conversation that had oc curred down in front of the post of fice an hour before. White, it is said, claimed that Daniels said so and so, and Daniels denied having said it. It grew more heated until Dan iels put his hands on White’s shoul der and told him that he did not say it. At this juncture, it is said, White pulled out his pistol and shot him thru the breast, the ball going just above the heart. Mrs. Gaskin was the only eye witness to the shooting. After the shooting, Daniels walked out the kitchen door on thru the room and front piazza, and down the steps, falling, when he reached the ground, and died immediately. White proceeded, as stated, to jail, and de livered himself to the officers. White’s Story. George White, after he was locked up, makes the statement, so we are informed by the sheriff, that Daniels was coming on to him with a knife when he shot him. The sheriff says that no knife was found about Dan iels, and Mrs. Flander Gaskin says that she saw no knife. The whole affair is a regrettable one as both parties are prominently connected and had many friends in the city. Both are hard working men, and have lived here for many years, Daniels having been reared in the county. Mr. White has lived in Douglas for several years, and a few years ago married the daughter of Mrs Joe Gaskin, of this city. — R. C .LAW, BARBER, IN JAIL. R. C. Law, a barber at Corn’s bar ber shop, and who has been in the city for a few weeks, was arrested about noon today, on a charge of Bimple larceny, being charged with taking money from the pockets of Cooney Lott. Douglas Enterprise VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 10 NASHVILLE MAYOR ASKED BY COUNCIL TO RESIGN Nashville, Ga., July s.—The city council oof Nashville has passed reso lutions commending the resolutions recently passed at a mass meeting of the citizens of that plsue in wtecih Mayor J. D. Lovett was called upon to resign his office. Mayor Lovett’s resignation is de manded on the ground that lie has accepted employment to work te the interest of the proposed new county of 'Cook, which, if created, will take away a considerable slice of Berrien county. The city council declares in its resoultions that the creation of the new county will be detrimental to both the interests of the city of Nashville and the comity of Berrien. PiNKOM The packing and leading off the famous Pink Queen cantaloupes, and the daily shipment *if extra fine .wat ermelons in car load lots for the past itwo weeks, add materially .to the bus iness activity in ansi a Soul Douglas these summer days. The seasons have been most favorably for growing and maturing both melons and canta loupes in this vicinity and the quality off the two fruits, that are adding to Georgia’s wealth and fame, is the truest. We understand that the carftaloupes a»e being marketed at prices that are very satisfactory to the -growers. The 'production per acre is fair in ad vance of last year, and the quality is all that could be desired. Under these conditions, the farmers will no doubt plant heavily another year. The finest watermelons grown in Georgia are moving, several cars' daily, to the northern markets. Some of the growers are leading and sell ing them at fair prices f. o. b. Doug las. Others are shipping and mar keting through jobbers and commis sion dealers in the large cities of the North. The Chamber of Commerce is taking an active inteest in finding the best possible markets for the growers and the sales reported so far have been highly satisfactory. The high quality of these and oth er products grown here demonstrate thoroughly that nowhere, North or South, can soil arid climate conditions surpass those of old Coffee in the pro duction of things that command good prices and ready cahs when properly piarketed. The truck industry will be a boon to this section if adhered to wisely and persistently. The pro duction of things for the market is easy, but finding a market after they are grown is where the difficulty lies. A marketing association, or bureau, should solve the problem, and in the inauguration of same, the Chamber of Commerce can give valuable as sistance. WHAT COMES OF IT. At First Baptist church next Sun day morning, the pastor will have for his subject, “What Comes of Be lievers in Jesus as the Christ of God, the Lamb of God, the Son of God.” This will be the third of a series of sermons in the Gospel according to John. Hear it. Bible School meets at 4:00 p. m. W. C. Bryan is superintendent. Usual preaching and popular ser vice at 7:45 p. m. Come! This is the Friendly Church. T. S. HUBERT, Pastor. HATS BELOW COST. We will close our doors in about tert days. All hats at and below cost. Wish to thank all for their generous patronage and hope to be with you' in September next. BROXTON MILLINERY CO. ' Broxton, Ga. THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, JULY 8, 1916. The Enterprise Publishes the Legal Advertising of the City of Douglas, Cffee County and County Commissioners. ATKINSON COUNTY BILL LOSES WHEN VOTE IS TAKEN THURSDAY A vote on the Atkinson county bill was had in the House on last Thurs day about nooij, and the bill faihd to pass. Messrs.. J. C. Ellis, C. E. Ba ker, John M .'Govern and Thos. Hol land, four of* Coffee’s esmmissioners, were on hand to light the passage. In addition to these gentlemen, At torney T. A.. Wallace and W. A. Wood were pres ant to assist in tine fight against th e passage of the bill. There was also a, large delegation -from Wil lacoochee present working against the bill. The following account off the vote and the speeches made in the House, appeared in the Macon Telegraph on Friday morning, and we eerewitb re produce same: 7!w Telegraph’s Story, j The bill to create the county cf , Atkinson by cutting off a portion of Coffee county, though strongly sup ported on the floor of the house to ’day, failed *to pass, with only 39 mem - bers voting against it. Being a con stitutional amendment, it required 126 to pass the bill, .and only 119, other than Hie 39 opponents, were in ; the house to vote. The showing made / for the measure was .a strong one, |an especially forrceful "speech in be half of the new 'County being made by H. H. Elders, of Tattnall, and a beautiful tribute paid to the memory fof the late Goyennor W. 'Y. Atkinson, 'of Coweta county, for whom the new county would be named, by Garland M. Jones, of Coweta. Strong oppo sition to the creation of any more new "counties was voiced by Henry J. Full bright, of Burke, and Judge W. W. Stark, cf Jackson. The Cook county bill comes on for .action tomorrow morning, having | been made the order following the Atkinson county bilk Effort to Split New Counties. An effort was made to split in be tween consideration of the Atkinson 'and Cook county bills, but it lost. Representative Neill, of Muscogee, whose primary election bill, seeking to make the county unit system a law and do away with conventions, was the special order for today, and Mr. Neill moved that it be defend until immediately after consideration of the Atkinson county bill. To this objection was raised and a substitute motion offered by Mr. Knight, of Ber rien, that it be made the next order after the Cock county bill, inasmuch as the county bills had already been arranged to follow one behind the other. Judge Stark fought any postpone ment of a genera] state for the pur pose of going into consideration of a measure which, he said, is almost en tirely local in its interest. However, on vote the substitute motion by Knight of Berrien, carried and the election bill was put over. If the Cook county measure is concluded be fore the end of the Friday session the election bill be taken up and dis posed of. If not, it will be the next order of business thereafter. Speaking for Atkinson County. Five speeches were made in behalf of the Atkinson County bill and three against it. Representative Bob Dickerson, of Clinch, said the people of that sec tion have been trying to break into the doors of the legislature and get this county for the past ten years. He declared that the members cf the house and the senator favor passage of the bill, as do those representa tives from the terriory surrounding Coffee; that the only opposition comes fom those of other sections. It is a matter of local interest to • the peo ple of the localiy where it is sought to create the new county, he said, and does not affect the members or the people from other counties. Mr. Fyllbright, of Burke, took is sue with that view, contending that the creation of a new county directly affected every member of the house and the people of all the state. He contended that the members of the house are not local representatives sent there solely in the interest of ambitious towns or communities, but they are represenatives of the state of Georgia, and every time one new county is created it invites some oth er ambitious and prosperous little AND COFFEE COUNTY NEWS town to want to be a county seat. [“The whole thing,” he said, “‘is tend ing to that end where first thing we know we will be trying to so cut up the State of Georgia, that every mi litia district in it will be a county, jand already there are too many of jthem. The situation is becoming con gested; and this thing of creating j new counties and new offices, regard less almost, has reached that state j where we can’t move around up here fan the capital ,now. In a litle while |.you ■wssl have to add a lot more room f'to this building—or move it some where else where you can build one jlsTge 'enough to accommodate the t needs as they stand now.” He said |T>e has consistently opposed the cre mation of additional new counties from Title cutset, believing it not in the best ; interest of the state generally, but his opposition hadn’t been very ef , fee five. j Tribute to Departed 'Statesman. \ Ga;land M. Jones, of Coweta, de < siring only to speak on the subject of ■ the name proposed for the new coun ty, jinid a magnificent tribute to the j memory of the late Governor Wil iliam Yates Atkinson and said, “Geor gia Ban do nothing more fitting than to commemorate the name of this great statesman; to perpetuate the memory of ‘Bill’ Atkinson, of the county which I have the honor now to represent; the name of a man who gave his life for the state he so loved” Judge W. W. Stark, of Jackson, ar gued that the time has come to cal! a halt on the new county fad. “We are getting into the habit of side tracking the business of the state of Georgia at every session to go into these local fights, and It ought to be stopped. There are too many coun ties in the state now, and certainly there is a stopping place somewhere, and I think it is here and now.” Mr. Dickerson, of Clinch, asked 'him: “Then you favor killing a good bill in order to keep some bad bill alive?” “Why,” replied Judge Stark, “I be lieve in smashing the head of a snake wherever he sticks it up.” Representative Smith, of Dade, said 16 per cent of the tax money col lected in the state now goes to pay salaries of too numerous officers, and the continued creation of new coun ties means a continuation of that. Besides, he said, it costs abot as much to run a small county as it does a I large one, and that feature of the situation adds to the burden of the local people themselves. Mr. Elders, of Tattnall, believed strongly in the creation of a new county in any isolated section where by that section would be made to develop and become a thriving and more valuable part of the state. He pictured a condition of isolaion in this instance, and said he would see the situation in the same light wherever the great undeveloped parts of Geor gia could be brought to a period ar.d state of development and enhance ment in valtlfc. Charged Use of Money. In concluding the debate Mr. Stew art, ox Coffee, who had made a strong showing of the desire of the people of one part of Coffee for the creation of the new county and the acquies cence of the others charged that four members of the board of county com missioners, illegally acting, have us ed county money without authority for fighting the new county; that they have taken SSOO out of the common treasury “to come up here to Atlan ta and have a good time and try to kill the measure.” “But they had better get ready for me; I’m going back down home and make it hot for them, and I put them on notice now, and the people of the county, that I am going to make each of them dig down somewhere and get $125 apiece and put it back into the county treasury—or there’s going to be trouble.” On the roll call, the bill being put on its passage, the result was 119 for its passage, 39 against it. The bill lost for lack of seven votes, and Rep resentative Ed. Wohlwender, of Mus cogee, gave notice of intention to makee motion at the proper time to reconsider. HUGH DOBSEY WILL ADDRESS VOTERS HERE THURSDAY, 2 P. M. A REWARD OF $1„©00 IS OFFERED FOR DOWTHER Waycross, Ga., July s.—City coun cil tonight authorized a reward of SI,OOO for the arrest of former City Clerk A. C. Lowther. Previously a .reward of SIOO was offered. Rumors had reached council that the former clerk could been located if a larger reward wtr e offered. The last heard of Lowther was when he wrote May or Beaton from Atlanta in January, confessing to a shortage, it was said. NEWIIIEIS IN TRODUCED DAILY The passage of one general bill, that provided for a board of optom etry, and of a number of local bills, uneontested, was the principal busi ness transacted Wednesday by the house of representatives. Members of the house continued to introduce many new bills, one of these being to raise the salaries of members of the legislature from $4 to $7 pr diem, with the speaker’s sal ary increased from $7 to $lO. A number of important bills, taken up for passage, were postponed to some future date at the request of the authors of the bills. The bill providing for a revision of the state game laws came up for pas sage and was recommitted to the com mittee on fish and game. A bill drawn by Representative Swift, of Muscogee, to give the Wes tern & Atlantic commission power to deal with all encroachments upon the roads and rights of way was not sub mitted in the house Wednesday. A bill was also drawn to strike from the Western & Atlantic act the proviso conferring upon the commis sion the power to prescribe the terms and conditions under which the tracks may be used by other roads. Both bills were introduced in the senate. 1511 PEOPLE VISIT REUNION Over 1,500 decendants and friends of the famous Meeks and Moore fam ilies of Coffee county gathered them slves together at the old Charles Meeks place, two miles east of Nich clls, on last Tuesday, July 4, for a general reunion. The place is now owned by Dr. D. H. Meeks, of Nicholls, and is over a hundred years old, and for this rea son the two big families decided to bold their annual reunion there. The large crowd came from miles around and during the early part of the day the crowd had gathered, it seemed, from everywhere. A big basket dinner was served at noon and everybody left satisfied, and there was plenty to eat and drink, and quantities of the food was left over. Judge Jas. I. Summerall, of the Way cross circuit, was present and made the reunion speech, reciting a history of the two famous families. His speech was well receievd and much interest was manifested throughout. Hon. J. E. T. Bowden, one of the congressional candidates, was pres ent and made an address in behalf of his candidacy. His speech was well received. The day as a whole was thoroughly enjoyed by the large crowd of visit ors, and the memory of the occasion will last for years to come in the minds of the decendants of these fam ilies. SI.OO PER YE AR IN ADVA> Help US By telephoning News Items to Numbers 23, 44, or 106. We are advised and instructed by the friends of Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey to announce that he will speak at the court house in Douglas on next Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, July 13. He will speak at Ocilla in the morning at ten o’clock and ccome here from there. It is very likely that he will spend the remainder of the af ternoon here, as he speaks in Jeff Davis county on the following morn ing. Mr. Dorsey's campaign managers have a long list of dates arranged for Mr. Dorsey, extending to August 1, and this program which was shown us by one of his supporters here, calls for two speeches daily. That he expects to make an aggressive, campaign now seems evident. The hour of two o’clock in the af ternoon will enable the people from Nicholls, McDonald, Pearson, WilJa coochee, Mora, Ambrose, Broxton, Westgreen and other parts of the county, to come here and hear him and return on the afternoon trains. Large delegations are expected to be present from every section of the county. This will be the first campaign speech made in Coffee county during the present campaign, that is, in the irace for governor. That a political speech attracts the people of this sec tion goes with saying. The friends of the other candidates will likely an nounce dates for speeches at a later date. TROOPS MOYE IN TEN DAYS That no Georgia tboops be permit ted to move from Macon for at least ten days was the essential feature of a report prepared Wednesday night by Maj. T. Q. Donaldson, inspector general of the department of the east U. S. A., who yesterday made an in spection ftff the greater part of the national guard encamped at Camp Harris. Maj. Donaldson alsio reported to Gen. Leonard Wood, commanding the [department, that the camp is in ex cellent condition and that the per sonnel of the men is “fair,” but that so many rookies as now are in the ranks should be whipped into better shape before any unit is forwarded to the border. May All Move at One. This probably will mean that the j entire Georgia brigade will move at I one time, the various commands go ing forward, after the entraining once is started, as fast as rolling stock can be provided for them. Their destination will be Del Rio, a central point on th e Rio Grande, above Eagle Pass, to which section many eastern troops have alreadw been sent. The Georgia troops still are woe fully short on equipment and, if this is to be supplied at Camp Harris, they could scarcely be ready to move Monday afternoon, at which time the departure of the Second infantry had been arranged. It is not believed that the government will supply the soldiers and mules in Georgia, but will transport them to Texas and out fit them with stock that has been sea soned and already is in federal cor rals there. Only sufficient mules to move the army wagons will be need ed in Macon and these easily may be hired. To supply the men with horses and mules here would necessitate the gov ernment going to the added expend of providing a long stock train or two for each regiment and the horses and mules that could be purchased in the east would not be hardened or ac climated for the service that will be required on the southwestern frontier It is possible, however, that the gov ernment, before the troops are or dered to move, may face a stock shortage in the west and ask for bids in Geogria. Under present arrange ments, these would have to be for warded to Fort Royal, Vu.