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The Singing Convention in Douglas
2nd Sunday i September.
Big meeting begins at Burkett’s
church Ist Sunday in September.
“Big Sis” will be married next
Chuesday. Dog gone that fellow.
Nothing from Dora, at Saginaw, this
week. She or the red pig must be
sick.
The Wiregrass Singing Convention
at Nicholls, on the 2nd Sunday in Oct
ober.
Myrtice Corbitt, one of my Inman
chums, must be sick. She don’t ever
write.
City Court met and adjourned last
Monday. Short and sweet, like the
trot of a donkey.
The regular annual service of the
Primitive Baptist, at Arnie church, to.
morrow, 4th Sunday.
Eva Adanms, of Fales, is in the city
with relatives, and of course, came to
see me, last Tuesday.
I am told that thee will be about
thee other candidates in the race for
Justice, besides myself.
The regular service days at Salem
has been changed from the 3rd to 4th
1 lay in each month.
ynelle Everett said if I’d send her
r ■’paper and envelopes she’d write,
I . !, and no letter yet. What did she
t.-il?
George Stanton says the next sing
ing convention at this place will be
some convention, and then some left
over.
The Pearson Tribune has 105 bona
fide subscribers. Now, if it only had
one bona file editor, all would be for
given.
Jim and Fannie Tarrant, two of my
old firends, who live up near Salem,
were in town last Monday and hunted
me up.
In answer to a note from a lady. I
will state again, that the Note Book
goes to the printer at 12 o’clock every
Wednesday.
We all fly oft' the handle sometimes
and say things we are sorry for in a
few moments. It is just mean old
human nature.
Riley O’steen came in off the road
bits Saturday one crate of soda water
short, but he had a goat under the
seat of his truck.
Been looking for a letter from Myr
tice Tanner, down at Nicholls, all the
Week but she’s fooled me. Well, she’s
not the fist girl that did that.
The editor of the Pearson Tribune
attends all the big sings. Can he
sing? Did you ever hear a big old
billy goat with a bad cold, bleat?
Gussie and Cadie Herrin, Rfd. No. 1
Nicholls, have not been heard from
this week. Wonder if some fellows
have run away with those girls?
Not the scratch of a pen from Ellen
Smith, at Sessoms, this week, and sing
gin school is out, too. Hardest girl in
the country to keep your finger on.
Fannie Lewis, up at Osierfield, says
Hell Courson, one of my chums, up
on No, 1 and Casey Kirkland, who
lives near Chatterton, were married
fast Saturday They have my best
Wishes, T •» * “
febe »" coming to the singing conven
tion on the 2nd Sunday, and that I
must look out for her. We’ll be
sure to do it.
Now and then you will find some of
those who you thought to be your
friends, untrue, but you’ve got to do
Something mean to make a girl friend
forsake you.
Mandy West, up at Osierfield, says
she “Wants to see Uncle Jim mighty
bad.” The man with the little bread
account against me for last month, is
in the same fix.
All the gins in the county a«e mak
ing full time. The gin at Huffer is
making over time, and our correspond
ent s talking about sending me some
sweet potatoes.
Gaynelle, down at Saginaw, says
“If you want me to write to you you
will have to send me some paper, en
velopes, stamps and a pencil.” Doesn’t
charge a*ything, does she.
I am told that Johnnie Paulk, in the
Willacoochee district, is out for the
legislature. He is a good man, will
make a good race, but I don’t see how
he’s going to keep up with *
Dora Kirkland, down at Nieholls,
who has the sick red pig, named Jim.
wrote to me again lust week. She did
not say anything about Jim and 1
reckon he’s dead. Poor old Jim.
My Madison, Fla., chum, Mattie,
writes that she is setting type with
both hands and spacing it out with
her teeth. That is the reason that
girl is getting snaggle toothed.
I will not answer a letter from a
gill, or pul ’.i; 'i a r.cte from rmo
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By ] M. Freeman phonk^V 1 ”
i s for love and harmony, not strife.
Emma Adams, in a note last Mon
day, says “she met some of my girl
friends down below Nicholls.” And
if Emma will take the trouble to notice
she will find them all over Southern
Georgia.
Bro. Harralson was in here last
Monday and wanted me to go out to
see him next Sunday, but that was
just a bluff. He knew I had to go to
Zirkle. He will invite me sometime
and I’ll fool him, and go.
Miss Annie Gilis and her father
were in town last Wednesday, and
Annie came to my office. Don't know
whether she came to see me or Pres
ton Burkett, but I rather incline to
think it was the latter.
Dollie Freeman, Ruth and Daisy
Mills, up at Lyons, are busy washing,
ironing, starching and sprucing up for
big meeting next Sunday. Three girls
can study up more mlscief and fun,
than a bunch of monkeys.
Latest name on Red Book is Miss
Emma Lou Adams, No. 3t)B. She is
the pretty sister of Prof. Adams, and
one of the sweetest, softest alto sing
ers in Dixie. Listen for her at the
convention on 2nd Sunday.
Burrell Davis, of McDonald, was in
town last Monday monkeying around,
and I thought was about to buy him
self a car, be h e went off without one.
He’s coming again soon and will bring
me a gallon of syrup in his coat pocket.
Alice Renfroe, clown at Atkinson,
writes a postal and says: “I was at
St. Simons last Sunday, and came near
being drowned.” Well, Alice, you
can’t blame me, for I told you not to
go in the water until you learned to
swim.
Barto Teston, up near Salem, is still
playing around Vanie Deen. She won’t
stand hitched, and before Barto can
ask permission to geed her regularly
she slips the halter and is gone again.
First and last she’s going to get away
from him, too.
Allen Stephens and Lillie Anderson,
both of this district, were in town last
Saturday, and nothing would do them
but that I must marry them, which I
did in short order. That’s another
case of the hard looking chaps getting
the best looking girls.
The Pearson Tribune intimates that
ther’s no truth in the statement that
the “Noe Book is read by 10,000 people
each week.” The trouble s, the editor
of the Pearson Tribune is so unaccus
tomeed to the truth that he doesn’t
know it when he sees it.
The protracted services at Burkett’s
church will commence on the Ist Sun
day, to-morrow week in September,
and not on sth Sunday, as stated, last
week. Now, you see that Gussie?
You or some other female woman is
always getting me in trouble.
Pretty Bertha and Eva Woods came
to see me Saturday and told me about
their trip to St. Smonsi. They went
all right, but saw a girl eating whale
tporpoise) about three miles from
shore, and struck a trot for a tent
about a mile from the beach.
Annabell and Mary Sears, Rfd. 2
were in to see me last Saturday. When
theae two girls come everything in the
shop puts on his Sunday smile and
Preston Burkett runs inside the syrup
room to the lookin glass to see if his
pair is parted straight, and then cuts
a sheep's eye at Mary.
“The weather for the past two weeks
awful hot, has been making cotton pop
open in a hurry,” says one of my
country birl chums. The weather was
hot, nice moon light nights, the very
kind for the boys to pop an important
question to the birls.” lam unanwer
ed" and Lucille looked guilty.
Ex Tax Collector Moore has lost
both of his girls this year, and now he
comas in and makes complaint to this
court in addition to losing the girls a
muie is missing. He says he’d like to
have the mule back, but didn’t say anv
thftig about the girls. But we know
he loves Minnie and Annie.
George Stanton says “E. 1.. Tanner
will soon have a larger car, his fam
ily is growing.” Tanner oomes back
at him and says “Stanton doesn't need
anv lager car. That torpedo came so
sudden that a slight pause is necess
ary for an answer. Both parties are
under bond to keep the peace, how
ever.
Arch Young, of Ambrose, was in
town last Friday and went b\ me with
a stiff neck, like he had a carbuncle
on it, and didn’t even say hello. Since
the county commissioners kicked me
out of the grand jury room and shut it
up for tlj£ use of the rats and roaches
Arch and Dennis Vickers Sr., are
mighty repity.
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERT RISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, AUG., 26 1916.
tried to get him to tell me if he knew
anything about Tom Douglas and Ben
Morris’ lard can and lead pipe com
bination in the head of the branch near
the Bristol gin house, but he wouldn’t.
Hanged if I don’t believe Tom and Ben
he... him hodoed so he wouldn’t issue
any warrants for them.
I will be glad when the schools open.
Maybe Elsie Tuff, Myrtice Cobitt, Mel
vin Corbitt, Frances Lott, Fannie
Lott, Fannie Paulk, Lucena Spivey,
Perlie Adams, and forty-seven others
will let the postals come every day. I
remember one day last spring when 61
postals came in one day. My chums
,are some writers when it comes to
postal card correspondence.
Mrs. J. Q. Adams sent me a box of
nice grapes last week, and to keep
her husband from knowing anything
about it said she sent it at the request
of Miss Emma. Down in the bottom
of this box was a nice letter from her
to me, and my wife found it. So, she
knows all about it, and I am afraid
if 1 say anything about the matter for
fear Mr. Adams will catch on, so I j
won’t say a thing where it will get out.
Noah Burhett is not only one of
the best truck drivers the Chero-Cola
1 people have, but is one of the most
notorious flirts in the country. Last
Sunday he was going up to Burketts’
town when he passed a house where
some one had hung a lady’s dress on
a post to sun, the wind shook the skirt
a little, and hanged if Noah didn’t slow
up, lifted his hat, bowed, cleaned up
his throat and smiled one of his sweet
est smiles.
Dr. T. H. Clark, from Leesburg, was
in town last Tuesday for a short visit.
He lives in the county where my moth
er and father were buried 62 years
j ago, just twenty eight days between
i heir deaths. Sixty-two years is a
j long time but I can still see, in my
imagination, the big strong man, and
a little frail woman. Whenever my
troubles and trials come thick and fast
the face of that little woman peeps
at me thru a rift in the clouds with a
smille, and the shadows vanish. Thank
God, even an old man is loved by his
mother.
Some pretty little girls up on Gaskin
avenue, have to pass my house with
their fellows, every Sunday afternoon,
their sharp eyes detect me on the piaz
za, hidden by the foliage of a tree,
and they cross their lips with a finger,
look at the tall fellow at their side
and shake their heads which means,
“Hush, he’s listening.” McDonald’s
lips slap together with a smash, he
tries to look innocent ond solum, the
girls smile at me from under their
hats, and they move on like going to a
funeral. God bless the boys and gilds,
they are the future hope of the country
I was a boy once and know “how it
Maggie Goodyear, visiting from
Nieholls, S. C., Aug. 21, says: “I am
out in South Carolina having a dandy
good time. I stopped at your place of
business before I left to see you, but
kvas told you had gone to the show,
the movies, I reckon and had taken
“Susie” with you. That is about what
you generally do, as some girl must
Jook after you all the time. It is hot
fend dry here, tobac-co bringing a good
price and politics hot, hottest and get
ting hotter. If you will come up here
you can get an apple dumpling.” You
can see from this girl’s writing that
she is jealous as far away as she is,
of little black eyed Susie.
COFFEE COUNTY ANNUAL
SINGING CONVENTION.
It is only a short time now before
the 3rd Annual Convention of the Cof
fee County Singing Convention will
comvene in September, two weeks
from to-morrow.
The program for the government of
the conventon will appear in both the
city papers next week. The following
committees have been appointed to
make arranements for the convention
from start to finish, and it is hoped
the gentlemen composing these com
mittees will find it convenient to meet
at the Chamber of Commerce next
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock, to or
ganize and map out a course of action.
Soliciting Committee.
G. M. Stanton, Chairman, Melvin
Tanner, J. N. McDonald, Moses Griffin
and J. L- Young. These gentlemen
will see the merchants and business
men for contributions to prepare din
ner for our visitors, probably two
thousand.
Committee on Arrangements.
S. J. Stubbs, Chairman; Gordon
Floyd, G. B. Eunice, J. M. Dent, D.
B. Johnson, J. A. Dorminy, J. E. Chap
pell, W. A. Bailey, Dr. Gordon Burns,
R. N. McEachren. It is hardly nec
i essary to tell these gentlemen that
they aer the “Big Ten,” and have the
lbulk of the work. That is, providing
i a means of furnishing water and pro
, \ isions for feeding the people.
Reception Committee.
Levi O’steen, Chairman; Rema Sapp,
G. A. Tanner, 0. F. Deen, Dr. Willie
Sibbett, Dr. John R. Sapp.
J. M. Freeman, Sec. C. A. Ward. Pres.
j Renew your farm loans through L.
'F. H'-'-'D' and E I Tanner. Douglas.
- !.o« imerest ami quirk delivery.
MRS. G. W. WILLIAMS
| HAD GIVEN UP HOPF
HER FAMILY WAS TOLD BY
DOCTORS THAT SHE WOULD
..DIE AND CHILDREN WERE
SUMMONED TO HER BEDSIDE.
Many wonderful indorsements have
been gvien Tanlac, but the statement
made by Mrs. G. W. Williams, of Gads
den, Alabama, is in many respects so
remarkable as to be almost inerd
ible. Her complete statement follows:
“For nearly fifteen years I have had
: kidney trouble. I also had stomach
i trouble and suffered from nervious in
digestion. Icould take ito nourish
ment except a little sweet milk, and
| would have palpitation of the heart
and nervious headaches and terrible
pains in my sides and back. I got so
weak I had to take to my bed, and I
stayed there 18 months. Doctors
called two or three times a day, but
1 kept getting iSvorse and fell off un
til I was almost a skeleton and had
to be turned in bed, and only weighed
90 pounds.
“My husband spent more than SBOO
trying to get me well. Finally, I got
so bad I was told that I could live only
a few days. I believed, of course, that
I was going to die, and told my hus
band to telegraph Thomasville, N. C.,
for my son and to Atlanta and Bir
mingham for my other children.
“When my daughter-in-law, Mrs. R.
C. Nelson, arrived from Atlanta, she
begged father to get me Tanlac. He
went right down to Vance’s Drug
Store and got me a bottle. I began
taking it, and on the second day I be
gan to get hungry, and asked for
something to eat. They gave it to
me, and it agreed with me and I have
been eating ever since. After a short
time I got so I could eat anything I
wanted, and just as much as I wanted
“After this I improved right along,
and it wasn’t any time hardly before
I was out of bed. It just seemed like
the more Tanlac I took the better I
got, and I have actually gained 48
pounds in weight. I sleep good now,
and am not nervous any more like I
was. Yes, I feel almost as well as
I e,ver felt in my life and am doing
nearly all of my housework and milk
the cow and churn the milk.
“After I got able to go about, I
visited my daughter, Mrs. Short, at
fEnsley, Alabama, and have just re
turned from a trip to the store. I
don’t do anything but talk about Tan-
All of my neighbors are talking
about it, too, and think it is wonderful
how this medicine has helped me.”
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 Dr;. Joe and C. W. Cor
bett; and in Brexton by J. 11. Rod
denberry; in McDonald, Lochridge &
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Do it now and be convinced.