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Wmdfe Jim’s
ByJ M. Freeman phonem 4l2 I
Charles Purvis was in town last
Monday.
No news from Myrtice Corbitt again
this week.
Mayor J. A. Davis, of Nieholls, was
ni town last Tuesday.
The Note Book never intentionally
wounds any ones feeligs.
It is best, sometimes, to think a good
deal before you speak once.
It is about time Georgia Wilcox was
sending a pottle of honey up this way.
Wasn't any letters in the mail box
Tuesday morning. Wonder if all the
girls ure picking cotton.
One minute is long enough for you
to do or not do, something that will
cause you regret for a long time.
Y. 0. Mathews was in town last
Monday, as stated, he went home and
brought Joe McDonald back with
him.
I reckon when a man is re-elected
for the second term for any office, he
feels mighty. I would like to try it.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Vickers were
in town Monday, and Mrs. J. B. Dor
miny was with them. All of them
trading.
] am not satisfied about my getting
left on the train Sunday week, and
going by Zirkle. W'ouldn’t have done
it for $22.30.
Gov. Harris, candidate for re-elect
ion, made a speech here last Saturday.
I did r.ot hear him, but I am going to
vote for him anyhow.
Mack McKinnon says his cotton is
cut off about one third, but he will
make corn, potatoes and peas enough
to feed a camp meeting.
Down at McDonald, last week, Miss
Mollie McDonald was married to Mr.
J. N. Lamkin, of Valdosta. The young
couple have my best wishes.
I’m in favor of electing Nat Harris
for the second term as governor, and
J. M. Freeman second term as Justice
of the Peace. That’s my ticket.
The young person who shows that
he or she has no respect for older
people, are often to be pitied. They
are aflicted with brain absence.
That fellow Cecil I’harr, up at Bur
ketts Church, last Sunday, was swing
ing Cadie Herrin around and getting
mighty chummy. I am listening.
Thank goodness, Cactus is at heme
again, and I’ll 1 e able to keep up with
Clara Lewis, Clara Le t, the two
Coin son Osiers, Be ~Le K'ght and two
or three others.
Josie, Anna Belle and Mary Belle
Dorminy, tried their Lands at picking
cotton this week. They didn’t pick
more than a basket full Lut wanted
pay for picking a bale.
Oh, Gussie Herrin, is it true that
Preston Roberts carried you to church
last Sunday, afterwards to some one’s
home for dinner, and then went to see
his ether girl? Dog gene his time.
Mattie Morris one of my most es
teemed chums, was in town Tuesday,
to pick a quarrel with me, and she’s
that way nearly every time I meet her.
If ever she does marry I pitty the
poor dvil. Don’t you?
Mrs. J. B. Dorminy says the Enter
prise has not stopped at their home for
the past three weeks. That’s too bad,
and John paid up to the next big
court. I’ll see about that for 1 know
the girls are pouting. So there!
D. Weathers, of Pearson, was here
1: 4 Monday, claiming that the Enter
prise had not reached him for three
Weeks, and that my two little chums
weie all out of sorts. Weil, i'm going
to see that it goes, if I have to carry
it.
Mandy West, down here in Clinch,
says she “is coming to Douglas, when
school opens, arid then 1 reckon I can
see you as much as 1 want to.” And
you may not like me then as well as
you do now, close inspection hurts
sometimes.
John Courson says he’s going to see
that 1 get out to Gaskin 3i.ir.gs on the
18th, so, if 1 am not three you may
know' John tried a doggone no-such
of-a-thing, again, ana hanged if 1 don’t
get Frank Simmons to tell him so to
his face. Wouldn’t You ?
The Board of County Commission
ers, met last Monday and adjouned.
Chairman Ellis had a sick child, which
was a good excuse, r.nd some of the
ethers wanted to go to Atlanta, to
fight the new county bill, 1 learn,
which was no excuse. W’as it ?
Dollie Freeman and Ruthie Mills
left here last Sunday morning for
Lyonv Ga. It is expected by this time
that Mr. and Mrs. Mills have a long
list of marriages charged up to them,
and I may have to issue a warent and
Jmye them brought back for trial.
candidate for Congress,
nrd his friends
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anyhow if he thinks he’ll beat Lank
ford. He doesn’t look near as well,
in fact, as lie does in his picture in the
Enterprise.
The young man that sets the type
for the Enterprise made me say Tom
, Wooten killed a rattle snake fifteen
feet, six inches long, last week, when
I wrote five feet. Everybody knows
I wouldn’t tell a lie for just ten feet
of rattle snake, and I don’t like them
much anyhow.
Bob Glisson was in town Monday,
and had brought some chickens to
town to sell. He also was complaining
of having stuck a nail in his foot.
A man who is always selling chickens,
| never has any of his own, is liable
to have nails in his foot, and buck
shot in his back.
It looks to me like Colonel Lank
ford will be the next Congressman
from this district. I heard a Ware
1 county man say last week that he
would carry Coffee, Clinch, Ware and
Bacon for almost a certainty, and was
gaining fast in the ether counties. I
hope he was correct.
Gaynelle Everett, down at Faginaw,
‘was sitting on a log out in front of
the house pouting, when I passed there
; last Monday, and wouldri’t answer
when I said “Hello.” When I say
“Hello” to a girl and she won’t “Hello”
back at me, hanged if I “Hello” her
anymore. Would you?
They tell me that the price of Ford
cars is going down some. Glad to
hear it, for the Ford car is the best
on the market for this country, and I
may be able to get cne yet to run down
Henry Ellis, Bob Glisson and some
others that won't keep their subscript
ion paid up a year in advance.
Mrs. Ida Tanner and Miss Mary Sears
| came to see me last Saturday just for
a family chat, both of them you know,
belong to my family of chums. The :
arrangement is that 1 am to go cut
and help Ida learn Mary to swim, and
Tf I go I’m afraid the temptation to
duck ’em both will overcome me.
Delia Quinn and Mae Cato came to
* me last Tuesday. This is the first
time Mae hag been to gee me since she
I was married some weeks ago, and she
| wants to “know if I’m not going to
love her anymore.” 1 am, but I’m
not going to say it out loud so that
her husband will hear me. Would
you?
Josie Dorminy says she never will
go buggy riding with a man with on
ions on his breath the second thime if
he don’t give her some perfumed chew
ing gum to kill the scent. Josie has
always been particular, that a way,
ever since Anna Belle and myself
caught her sitting on the steps that
(time with the ’Coochee fellow.
The old reliable Savannah Morning
News is due here, if connections are
made at Waycross, at 7:45 and when it
does not come I'm all out of sorts.
The Atlanta papers are good ones, but
I like the Savannah Morning News,
because it is an old friend, and I set
type on it in 1870, nearly fifty years
ago, and it carries South Georgia news.
| Viola Cribb, who live* near Nieholls, j
writes me a pitiful letter about her
| mother being ij> trouble. She did not
Isay what the trouble is, whether sick
ness, or in need of the necessessaries
of life, but those good people down
there should see. 1 know the little
girl and mother, only by sight, but
if they are suffering something should
be done.
Nancy Spivey, up near Ocilla, uses
a postal to tell me that the reason she
didn’t write last week was because
I “her mother and sister Janie were
! both ill with fever, she feels bad her
self, ar.d worries nearly to death.”
Poor little girl, guess l il have to go
and carry my quinine bottle and som%
coperas pills. They are mighty good
for fever.
A girl, down at McDonald, says she
can hardly walk sometimes, on account
of a bunion on one of her toes, and
wants to know, of me “v.hat to do for
the bunion and toe.” Quit wearing
tight shoes and swinging on the gate
for three months, and if the bunion
and toe are not better, take a hatchet
I and chop ’em oft'. You’l find that a
permanent remedy.
Some one told me a few days ago
that Miss Adae Mae White, of Mc-
Donald, has been married. I told him
to prove it, and it turned out that she
j was only an attendant at Miss Mc-
P- nald and Mr. Lankin's wedding.
;I was just getting ready to get up and
lhowl, for I don’t want all those Me
| Donald p ; rl to get off without saying,
j“with your permission.”
Julian McKinnon and Annie Mae
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DO UGLAS, GEORGIA, AUG., 12 1916.
peeling something Hke this for a year,
but it seemed like they could rot g.-t
things tjxed. Both of them good fel
| lows, and I can’t see why they should
;not get along without more than two
.or three -lap.-; each week.
A pretty girl sent for me on Fri
• day night, of last week, to come to th ?
school house, and see her home. I
I went, and hanged if she didn’t slip off
with a young fellow ti.nd jump the
■fence before 1 could get out the gate.
If that girl wants t o-ee me any more
| she will come after me. I did run
!my fool head off, after girls when 1
was young, but now the boot's on the
other foot. You hear me?
Gus L. Brack, deputy clerk of the
Superior court, told me last Monday,
that he was figuring on a visit to the
old country, where he and I were rais
ed, that is, Sylvester and Ty Ty, in
Worth county, and Albany in Daugh
tery. I hope he will have a pleasant
visit,, see the old places where we
used to go when we were boys, and
ishake hands with the old friends that
have not gone over to the other lands.
Y. 0. Mathews, of McDonald, were
in town last Monday, and asked me
why I did not come to the picnic last
week at that place, and I did not know
anything about it. He had written
to Mr. Frier, but not to me, and there
was the trouble. I am glad to learn
that it was a grand sucess, with two
hundred well pleased attendant*.
When those people there, or any where
else want me to come to see them, |
write to me.
Minnie Wall, writing from Kings
iand, Texas Aug.,l says: “I am at
home now, having a nice time eatir.g
plums, peaches, peas and watermelons.
I wish you had some of them. I went
do ; ,ee you the last time I was in
Douglas, and you were not at the
office, but I will see you when I retur .
in September. Best wishes, your
Texas churns.” Dear, dear Minnie," of
all my chums thee are none truer, and I
I shall be glad to see her again.
One fellow, lives just out of town, ,
don’t want his name told, says he
i can’t get his girl to stay still long
enough for him to pop the question.
When he’s serious, she wants to talk
about big meetings, sings and the crop
and he wants me to tell him what to
do. He wouldn't tell me her name
but I believe it’s Rebecca Vickers.
Now, if I was a young fellow I’d know
how to get next to her; she’s my chum
and I’m not going to tell him anything
except he’d better let her alone.
Noah Burkett started to Nieholl
•last Monday with a truck load cf !
Chero-Cola, and when about three !
miles from town, while going at a j
good speed, one of the hind wheels ,
of the truck ran off and the u;:ie
dropped to the ground. Ncah stopp
ed after going about ten feet, but the '
wheel, after running o'ff. whizzed by
Noah and his truck, struck a stump,
careered, jumped a wire fence four
feet high ar.d went twenty or thirty
yards down a cotton row. This may
not be believed, but Noah says he’ll
make his affidavy.
No Madam, you can’t take a warrent
for your husband just because be went
off and left you destitute. Your only
remedy is to sue him for divore and
alimony. But if he slaps you side of
the head and makes you see stars you
can swear out a warrent for him for
assault and battery, have him jailed
or give bond. In most of such cases,
the husband and wife -will get together
talk it over kiss and make up, he’ll
say he’s sorry, she’ll say it didn’t hurt,
no how, and there it ends. But, if a
man deserts his wife and children, a
warrent for child desertion will bring
him to taw.
Some time ago Myrian Fussell phon
ed me that there was going to be a
big dinner and re-union at Eli Vick
ers’, but didn’t say whether it was Eli
Vickers Sr., or Eli Vickers Jr., and of
course I knew how popular my old
friend was, and put it Eli Vickers Sr.
Well, he knew nothing about it, but
when the time came a lot of his friends
went to his house, and he didn’t care
to back out, he got and ket
tles out and cooked up a nice young
'beef be had killed the day before. His
friends, of course, wanted to show
[their appreciation, pitched in and ate
lit all up. And now Eli Vickers, Sr.,
I says “I am the whole cause of it all,
[and he intends to see me some time
■ when he is in town.” He may see
me ail right, but he'll not get close
enough to shake hands.
Ben Morris was in town last Mon
day but I didn’t see Tom Douglas,
he’s a little shy of me since he made
that trip to the head of the branch up
there close to the gin house, where
,he and Ben had the lard .ar, and lead
pipe combination, and loot his grip
I sack. This is the way I figure it out
iTom left home to come to town, with
’.bis grip in the buggy, taken a notion
Ito go by the gin house, and when he
'got to Douglas the grip was gone, with
; two thousand dollars worth cf notes,
land o’:d flint and steel horse pistol
and seme other doll rags. He came
Ho me about it, just like he thought I
had beer, out to the gin house, and
jabbered around for some time. He
. Y. ::ai ;r:.'.. Must h; e beer
powerful fluff him and Hen made out
ENTHUSIASM GROWING
IN HARDMAN'S RANKS
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Atlanta Ga., Aug. 9.—According to
deports from all .sections, Dr. G. L.
Hardman still leads the governor’s
I race, and is stedily gaining ground.
Two years ago he carried upward of
sixty counties, and as Indications are
that he will get nearly every one of
these and about thirty others besides
| this time, his nomination is being pre-
I dieted on the first ballot. Dr. Hard
man is jubilant over the outlook, as
not only practically all his former sup
porters, but great numbers of new
,ones in many counties, are rallying
to his cause, and interesting them
selves in his behalf with more en
thuiasm and zeal than ever before.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CONGRESS
As a candidate tor Congress from
the Eleventh Congressional District
subject to the Democratic primary I
pledge myself to run a clean, fair race,
seeking my election by the purest
means and highest methods.
I shall appreciate every assistance
given, whether by vote, kind word or
helpful act, and if elected I shall put
all that I am and all my time into
earnest service of all the people of my
district, valuing at all times, infinitely
more than the meer name of Congress
man or the salary, the privilege and
honor of serving humanity and of la
boring for the people among whom I
live and whom I love.
Respectfully,
W. C. LANKFORD.
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