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Frances and Ethel Lott wrote me
' ,vo nice letters this week. Two nice
iris they are.
Don’t cross a bridg until you come
> it. You will get over the river
me enough.
Too much rain. The crops ar all
uining, but Gcd makes everything
>me out even.
Two pretty girls wrote me this,
/eek, in one letter. Coming at me
t a double barrel way.
Some people think they could do
>me writing if they only tried, and
hen when they try find out their
listake.
John Stewart is teaching a singing
chool at old Midway Church. John
i a good one and he will doubtless
.ave some fine material.
Better organize a singing class and
ome to Douglas on the 2nd Sunday in
September. There’s going to be some
hing doing in the singing line.
Rocher Chappell has been trying
' -> get off to St. Simon’s all l the week.
• le thinks there’s a certain mermaid
‘own there that he’d like to catch.
The protracted services at the new
Jaginaw church still continues, Gay
elJe writes, the meetings are good
ut no members have been received
up to Tuesday night.
Leonard Christopher and “Slim
Tim” Parley set the type and printed
he Enterprise this and last week,
doth are good, smart boys, and are
,;oing to make fine printers.
Mr. D. F. Goodyear, who farms near
the city, says the rain is ruining his
-rop but it is all rght, for if it was not'
right it would not be so. Now, that
is the kind of faith to have.
Hatfield says “the rains have just
ibout ruined his crop, but his ‘boys’
>.nd the chickens and the ducks are
loing fine).” There’s always ffome
hing to be thankful for isn’t there.
John Higgs has run his mail car
hrough the mud until it is splattered
frcm end to end with dirt. Uncle
‘sam is a mighty clean man and John
>ught to leean his pretty car to car
ry his mail.
Several parties have written to
know if I would be at Arnie tomorrow
tnd this mgst be an answer to all, I
will not, for the reason that I promis
ed seme weeks ago to go to Zirkle on
.he sth Sunday.
Ethel Lott says she is eating nice
reaches now, and grapes are getting
ipe. Don’t these girls do everything
hey can to make my mouth water?
Yonder how I’d travel to find where
-'Vances and Ethel live?
The Grand Theatre is a nice place
to go and it is a pity seme people who
go there are not content with the
•hair they occupy, but must put their
feet on the one in front and rot on the
'loor, to the disemfrt of others.
Lyman Hayes, of Burkett town, was
:ere last Tuesday with two of the
Burkett girls. He came to see me but
he girls didn’t. Perhaps they think
’ll put up with that kind of treat
nent, but they are mighty wrong.
Lizzie Meeks must be busy with
"Vince and the ducks. She wrote to
me six months ago, said she wanted
in answer at once, I wrote it, and she
has never replied. I could have ex
pected that from some girls, but not
her. I
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It is childrens day at Rocky Hill
next Sunday. The children are to
have nice pieces to recite and s blue
eyed girl up there wants me to come
and say my little piece. If I don’t
come perhps her best fellow will get
her off in one corner and say his little
piece.
| Agnes Burkett, up at Burkett town,
’ is getting too saucy, she promised to
, Wiite me but don’t, I sent her a repre
j mand and she said in reply, “that she
[would be freeing me.” Just as much
as to say she was the best man and I
• couldn’t help myself. Now isn’t that
a pretty hewdy-do ?
Reason Lott, from Jeff Davis Coun
ty, was in town last Monday and was
complaining that he hadn’t had the
paper this year. This is all due to
an oversight in crediting subscription
but such oversighs are very annoying
to ny one that wants the paper, and
'Reason Lott is good pay.
Frances Lott, over at Inman hasn’t
written to me since school was closed.
She must be sick; gues I better put
a dozen quinine capsules in my pocket
book and waltz over there. Hope she
won’t bite me while I’m holding her
|nose, and shoving a bird load of these
capsules down her throat.
Belie Pitman, at Jacksonville,Ga.,
isays “she went to church last Sunday
with her best fellow in his buggy. A
heavy rain came up and washed her
out of the buggy into doctor’s car.”
Well, well, I’ve heard of lightwood
not floating rains befre but this is
the first time I ever heard of a got
floater.
i Gaynelle Everett, at Saginaw ar.d
Belle of Jacksonville, spy
'they never hear from me and then go
on and say they they read the Note
Book. Looks to me like the Note
Book is a pretty good letter, but then
these girls won’t be satisfied unless
| they get a peror.a! letter commencing
“My Dear Chum,” girl are very ex
acting.
Oliver Corbitt and Lillie Batten, out
in the Harmony Grove district, were
married on Thursday night of last i
week. This was a kind cf slip up on
me, but then they’ve done just what
all the girls and boys are thinking
about. Good luck to ’em. If Lillie
can make aything out of good, old
clever Oliver it is more than I could !
ever do.
Tom Young was in tow-n last Wed
nesday, and said Mrs. Young and all
the home folks were well, but there
had been sc much rain that the whole
family was watter-sobbed. I told him
jl was going to run for Justice of the
Peace and he said he was too. And
he is thinking about writing Uncle
i Tom’s Note Book, also. Anything tc
he in opposition to me.
\ Wesley Meeks has his Ford car so
j well trained that all he ha to do is to
crank it up, jump in and it scoots
j down the road to where Arlo lives.
‘ Arlo sees him coming, runs to her
1 room, puts a quarter’s worth of pow
der on her nose, and as he comes in
smiles one cf her sweetest seventy
five cents smiles at him, Which gees
to his heart like an arrow. This thing
has been going on some time, my little
bird tells me and Wesley is threaten
ed with an enlargement of the heart.
Poor boy;isn’t it dreadful, and he’s
so young, too?
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, JULY 29 1916.
Lottie Smith up on No. 1, says she
is eating costing ears and other truck
until she is just about sick, and she
wants me to come to see her and get
in the same fix. Now, aint she mean.
Good notion to go up and make a pot
of red peper tea for her to take, half
a glass every hour, and a dose of
quinine every two hours. That will
put her head to buzzing like a hive of
bees.
j My blue eyed correspondent up on
! No. 1 says there was a big crowd at
old Forest Grove Church on last Sat
urday and Sunday, and a mighty good
dinner. Did you ever notice that blue
eyed girls are always particular about
good dinners, bet if that girl ever mar
ries a fellow that don’t feed her well
she’ll quit him in three weeks and gc
back home to mama and papa, and
hanged if I blame her.
Macie Smith, up at Vidalia, wants
me to come up there to a big sing,
that she and a dozen cher girls want
to see me, and have me to take dinner
with every one cf them. Thanks for
the invitatation, but I’ve quit run
ning aftr strange girls, especiall out
cf the country. When I was a young
fool I did something like that, but now
tht boot is on the other foot, the girls
come after me. Ho, ho; ha, ha!
One Sunday no t long ago Eaiy
Hayes, Eur Cothren and Ira Carver,
over at Hayestowui, slipped into some
girls room, stole their powder boxes,
and whitened their own old rough faces
until it was all used up. Then when
CeElla Cribb, Gussie and Cadie Herrin
and some other girls were ready to go
to church they had no powder to put
on their noses. That was too bad, and
all on account of those old sissie boys.
Mean things!
Gussie and Cadie Herrin over or.
the Nicholis Rfd., are Florida girls,
have been in Georgia only a short time
and have a home with Mr. and Mrs.
B. T. Cothren. Their mother is dead,
but their father lives in Florida, Mrs.
Cothren is their sister and I am their
Uncle Jim, and I love them as hard
as a billy goat can butt a fellow when
he’s stooping down. They are my
chums, and the rest of the girls must
scrouge around and make room for
Gussie and Cadie on the front seat.
All orphans are my pets, because 1
was an orphan myse’f until my wife
adopted me and since then 1 have had
plenty to eat and wear, thank you.
Guess I’ll Drop her Mother a letter.
Ruthie Mills, from Lyons, is in
town attending the teachers’ Institute
She and a big, heavy rain arrived about
the same time, last Sunday afternoon,
and she, Doilie Freeman and Myrian
Merrier, who had gone to the depot
to meet her, fussed around, kissed
each other right thehe before evry
body, until the car drivers and hack
men were disgusted and went off and
left them standing there in the rain.
Of course, then they had to slosh home
through the rain and mud, and when
they came ip at the gate they looked
like three drounded rats. Well sir.
the first thing that Ruthie girl did
when she came in at the door, was to
grab my wife and kiss her two or
three times right there before me,
and me standing there with my lips
all perched up, too, my cliin wiped off
nice but there was nothing doing for
me in the kissing hne. Guess I’ll
write her mama a postal and tell her
how mean Ruth is. After she was
dried out before a fire, she went in to
supper; I was at the end of the table,
she sat at the side to my right and
hanged if she didn’t fidget around un
til she kicked me on my shin, right
1 there under the table without blink
! ing her eyes. Now, I have been kick
■ed and mistreated by girls long
enough, and I think I’ll drop her mama
another postal and confess what a
kicker Ruthie is. She is at school to
day and I am going to take just as
good care of her as I can, while my
wife looks after her just as if she was
one of our own girls come home to
rest for a little while. We wish we
could have our own girls, Mattie and
Euola, who live in Jacksonville ar.d
Madison, Fla.,at home for a rest. It
has been a long time since they were
at home. Now and then they write
us a postal or letter; I read them over
half a dozen times and give them to
their mother and she carries them in
her pocket until the writing on the
postal is all worn off and the letter
torn up. Sometimes we sit on the
piazza at night, looking south, and see
the lightning flashing away off yon
der in the southeast and she pulls her j
chair up close to mine and says:
“Must be raining down where Euola
lives. So much rain and so many lives
and property destroyed.” Then a
long arm of lightning will flash out
in the southeast and reach away out
west to a dark looking cloud, a crash
| of loud thunder will peal out, follow
jed by a low growling mutter as it
dies away in the distance and she pulls
| her chair into the house, but before
v '> shvts the door she looks at the
dark, threatening clouds in the south,
and is gone—gone down on her kr.ees .
beside her bed, talking to God, with j
her dear old eyes straining to see the .
angry clouds down toward where the j
children live. The clouds aie gene !
, .1, ; J : .; t v!u.'l*.T'’TT'
the moon as she ploughs her way
through the skies; all is quiet up stairs
Doilie and Ruth have gone to bed, and
I guess i’ll drop hex- mother another
postal and say:s “The best new I
have to toil, Kuthie is dreaming and
all is well.” Good night!
EXAMINATION TO BE HELD
The United Str.tcV Civil Service
Commission will hold an examination
for stenographer and typewriter (male
and female) August 8, 1916, to fill
sventeen existing vacancies in Ala
bama, Florida, Georgia* Mississippi
Tennessee, lt.cl South Carolina, and
other vacancies as they may occur.
Entrance salaries from S9OO to SI,OBO.
Age, 18 years or over.
Applicatio.x blanks and full infor
mation can be obtained by applying
to hte Secretary, Local Civil Sex-vice
Board, your city, or the Secretary,
FithCiviL Service District, Atlanta,
Georgia.
This is an excellent opportunity
for competent stenographers and
typewriter s to secure government
positions.
NOTICE.
There will be preaching at the
Vickers Graveyard Yard, by Bro. S.
J. Harper and Jesse Grantham on the
sth Sunday of this month, every body
is invited to attend these services.
If you need draying done, call C.
E. Bailey, at New Douglas Hotel, for
quick service. 4t
NOTICE
To the Jury Commissioners of Cof
fee County, Georgir. You are here
by notified and requested to be and
appear at the Court House, Douglas,
Ga., on the first Monday in August,
1916,at 10:00 A. M. for the purpose
of revising the Jury list for said
county.
DAN WALL,
Clerk S. C.
A. B. & A. SCHEDULE CHANGES
The A. B. & A. announces changes
in schedule to become effective Sun
day, June 25, as follows:
Train No. 3 for Atlanta and Birming
ham, will leave Douglas at 9:10 p. m.,
instead of 9:18 p. m.
Train No. 7 for Atlanta and Bir
mingham, will leave Douglas at 7:45
a. m., instead of 9:58 a. m.
Train No. 4 for Waycross and Brur.s
wick, will leave Douglas at 7:15 a.
$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.
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ON TANLAC
MRS. J. D. MORRISON DECLARES
SHE IS NOW WELL AND HAP
PY AFTER AN ILLNESS OF
THREE YEARS’ STANDING.
The phone rar.g at Morris’ drug
store in Ensley, Alabama, recently,
and when Mr. Allison, of the firm,
answered, this is the message he re
ceived :
“This is Mrs. J. D. Morrison at 1403
Avenue F, Ensley, and I want you to
ask on of the Tanlac Company’s men
to come to see me, for I want every
body to know what this medicine has
done for.”
That same afternoon the local Tan
lac representative called to see Mrs.
Morrison at her home, when she made
the following remarkable statement:
“Three years ago I losa my health,
and have been sick ever since. I had
chronic stomach trouble of the worst
kind and just seemed to go into-a gen
eral decline. Nobody but people who
have had this awful trouble know how
I have suffered.
“I tried doctors, I tried medicine ar.d
tried everything, but nothing seemed
,to help me a particle. I tried dieting
and lived on liquid foods, raw and
things like that until 1 almost starved,
but even that failed to relieve my
trouble.
“I lost all the strength I had and
was a nervpus wreck. I never knew
what it was to get a good night’s
sleep and was nervous .feverish and
restles most of the time. I also suf
and constipation, and was never free
'•from pain night or day.
“The 26th of last March I was taen
to the hospital an opeated on for what
was supposed tc be female tronble,
and when I left the hospital I was
1 nothing but a living skeleton and only
weighed 66 pounds. That isthe truth,
and everybody who knows me will tell
you it is a fact. The operation didn’t
do me any good as far as restoring my
health was concerned. If anything, I
got worse and it just looked like I was
going to die.
“Finally I was told that my trouble
was Tuberculosis of the bowels and
j that I had better stay out in the fresh
lair all I could, as nothing else could be
done for me.
“About that time I began hearing a
lot of talk about the new medicine,
Tanlac, and read a great deal in the
papers what different people had to
say about it. Something just seemed
to ted me it was what I needed, al
though the doctor didn’t think so, but
I told him I was going to try it any
way, as they had already said they
could do nothing more for me.
“The first bottle didn’t do me much
good as far as I could tell, but that
didn’t disharten me, for I knew it
would take time in my case, so I got
the second bottle and began improving
right away.
“After this I commenced eating and
my appetite increased every day. By
the time I had taken three bottles I
was able to eat whatever I liked and
gained flesh and strength right along.
“My nerves got settled and 1 got
so I could sleep good a£ night. Why,
on the fourth bottle alone I gained 7
pounds and the other day I actually
weighed 99 pounds. Yes, sir, I went
from 66 pounds to 99 pounds—that’s
what Tanlac did for me.
“I feel so much better and stronger
I am now doing every bit of my work,
I even do the washing and nothing
seems to hert me. Honestly, this Tan
lac beats anything 1 ever saw in my
life, and 1 would not give one bottle
of it for all the other medicines in
Ensley and Birmingham put together.
“I have just retrned from a visit to
my old home near A&bama City, and it
is an honest fact that my own sisters'
did not know me at first. All around
here my neighbors are wondering what
on earth I have found to put me on
my feet again, for they had given me
up to die months ago.
“Never as long as I live will I ever
be without a bottle of Tanlac in my
house, because I ewe my life to this
medicine.”
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Doug
las by the Union Pharmacy; in Willa
coochee by Quillian’s Pharmacy; in
Nicholis 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.
FOR SALE.
I am selling White Leghorns at
fifty cents apiece for the next two
weeks. J. 1. HATFIELD,
Douglas, Ga.
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.