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v .A ’Bp **' v /- 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 DRINK f TOE HD©(yJO© IF©®© Made from universally known cereal food products by a natural process of extraction. ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION AUGUSTA ICE BEVERAGE CO. AUGUSTA, GA. Ynr,. si ri.i— i■! ——in — N©fog E!>®©ik 3y] M. Freeman 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. $380.00 f. o. b. Factory Wood’s Mobilette “The Car That Cuts the Cost of Upkeep” America's Lightest High-Powered Automobile, Supreme in Economy, Convenience and Efficiency It is a b ; g saving in First Cost —Tires, Gasoline, Oil, Repairs, Insurance, Accessories, Cleaning, Worry and Time .Easy to start, operate, ride in, own, maintain, and keep in condition. A beautiful and dignified automobile that you will be proud to own. I have the agency for the following counties: Coffee, Ben Hill, Irwfin, Berrien and Tift. Call on me for demonstration. EUGENE MERIER, Teorgla II WOMAN GAINS 33 LBS. 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.