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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE j
Dnuglaa, Georgia
Established 1888
Published Every Saturday by
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
W. R. FRIER. Editor
Subscription Rales in Advance:
One Year $1.09
Six Months 50
Three Months 25
The Enterprise publishes the Legal
\d* ertising of the City of Douglas,
Wee County, and County Commis
sioners.
Entered as se;' >• i-class matter at
_je postoffice at Douglas, Ga., under
the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
LADIES REST ROOM.
The Ladies Rest Room will be a
thing of the past, if the people who
have subscribed to its maintainance
don’t pay their dues. This condition
cannot afford to take place, at least
the business men of the city cannot j
affj ... let it go by for failure of
support.
The ladies of Douglas worked hard
to get the enterprise on foot and as
a goi lg concern, and certainly* the
business men of the city should sub-
scribe liberally enough to maintain it.
Here are some facts and figures fur
nished us by the management of the
rest room:
For the past year there has been
subscribed S2O. per month. The up
keep and expenses has been about $24.
per month, leaving a deficit of $4 W . for
12 months. Since another has begun,
two more subscribers of this fund have
withdrawn their support, leaving the
income $lB. per month.
Now the rest room will be closed
unless some more people arc willing
to lend their aid. It has been no
easy job to collect what has been sub
scribed, and many months the faith
ful chairman of the rest room has had
to make three trips to each subscriber
to get sl.
Something must be done. Can or
will you help? Phone this office or
club president, and give your name,
either to donate or subscribe regularly.
Who will head the list?
COMPLIMENTARY.
A bible institute will be held in
Chuttanooga in October, led by Dr. R.
A. Torrey, who is Moody’s successor
in charge of the Bible Institute at
Chicago, and with a corps of evangel
ists conducted a mission which swept
the whole world and resulted in 40,000
conversions.
Pastor T. S. Hubert, of Douglas, has
received an invitation to take part in
the Chattanooga Institute, having cer
tain devotional subjects assigned him.
This i?' quite a compliment to our
pastor, and The Enterprise wants to
he among the first to offer congratula
tions.
School days are with us again, or
will be in a week. This will revove
business.
The last legislature passed 367 bills,
breaking all records for the past 14
years. Some law makers.
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The only chat ge in the gubernatorial
race since otfr lart issue, as we see it,
is the gain of Gov. Harris. It seems
that he is steadily gaining everywhere,
and from the Hardiman-Pottle forces,
too.
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Hugh Dorsey and Joe Pottle keep
the gubernational race in the lime
light, while Jet Bowden furnishes
the dope for the congressional race.
Who will take the lead in the race
for representative?
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Some of the newspapers are now
predicting a convention fight. We
don’t believe there will be for from
all reports from everywhere in Geor
gia, Hugh Dorsey will have enough
votes to nominate him on the first bal
lot.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
T. S. Hubert. Pastor.
U-ual preaching services next Sun
day morning and evening. The pastor
will preach at both hours. Remember
that the evening service will begin
at 7:30 P. M. which is fifteen minutes
earlk r than in the part. Good music. 1
Bible School meets at 4 P. M. Judge ;
W. C. Bryan is superintendent.
Welcome to all services.
TAsk Yoiir Grocer
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RULES FOR PRIMARY
(Co ti.'ued from First Page)
Rule 8. A ballot box or boxes, shall be placed at each voting precinct,
in -aid county in charge of sworn managers and sworn clerks at each place,
“aid boxes to be prepared and furnished by this committee.
Rule 9. No registration certificate will be allowed on election day.
The managers will allow no one to vote unless his name appears upon the
egular registration list furnished them by the executive committee.
Rule 10. The committee shall appoint and announce the managers in each
voting place in said primary and shall fill any and ail vacancies, up to the
date of the primary. In the event any manager or cierk shall not appear,
the manager or managers appearing shall appoint and fill all vacancies on
said day.
Special Rules.
1. That the use of carriages or other conveyances, either directly or in
directly, by candidates on the day of the primary election, for the purpose
of conveying voters to and from the voting places, shall be prohibited. This
rule, of course, not to apply to individual voters using their own private con
veyances for their personal use.
2. That it shall not be admissible for any candidate desiring to be voted
for at the primary to engage paid workers in his behalf, that no such can
didate shall at any time, after the adoption of this resolution, either directly
or indirectly pay any person any sum of money or other valuable considera
tion, or promise to agree to pay, or otherwise give, either directly or indirectly,
any valuable consideration, or shall use intoxicating liquors, either before,
during or after the day of the primary, in consideration of the vote of such
person or of his influence or service to secure or control the votes of others
in favor f such candidate.
3. That upon evidence satisfactory to this executive committee that any
candidate has been guilty of a violation of any of the foregoing special rules,
the vote in favor of such candidate shall be declared null and void, and that
person receiving the next highest vote foi said nomination shall be declared
the regular nominee for said office. In the event there is no other candidate
contesting for such nomination, or in the event all contestants for
nomination for any given office shall forfeit their nomination by the viola
tion of the foregoing special rules, it shall then be the duty of the executive
committee to arrange for nomination to be made for such office.
4. That all persons are hereby put on notice that any candidate who
submits his claims to the voters of the county at this primary election, by
that action agrees to the conditions under which said election is to be held
those special rules, and obligates himself to conform to the sama
and abide by the action of this executive committee in its enforcement of said
rules and requirements.
5. The County Executive Committee shall provide the official ballots;
to each precinct twice as many ballots there are registered votes in such
precinct; the ballot .shall be plain white paper (501 b Book) with the names
of the respective offices to be filled and the names of the candidates printed
thereon in black ink, viz. following the name of each office the name of the
seeking such office. Each ballot shall be attached to a stub, and
both ballot and stub corrspondinglv numbered. No ether marks, words, names
or devices whatever shall appear upon the ballot or stub, except that all ballots
shall be marked, “OFFICIAL BALLOT," and shall hav e piinted thereon
and on the corresponding stub the name of the District in which same is to
be voted.
6. The voting shall be done in a room to be selected and to be prepared
in the respective districts and the ballot box shall be located in the room.
.It shall be the duty of said managers to see to it that there is but one en
trance for voters or others to said room, and all other entrances, if any,
v ha 11 be kept closed by the managers during said election and the count. The
exits shall he through the same door as the entrance.
7. One each of the sworn ma... gors and clerks at the respective vot
ing precincts shall be stationed at the entrance of said room, and it
.-hall be the duty of the said clerk to have a copy of the registration list, and
to ascertain from the same whether or not each person desiring to vote is
registered, and if registered, the clerk shall notify the manager at the door,
and when given such notice it shall be the duty of the manager to furnish
said voter with one of the prescribed “OFFICIAL BALLOTS” and direct the
voter to a booth located in said room in which to arrange his ticket without
the assistance of any one, unless unable to do so from phisicai disability or
from inability to read. If the voter is capacitated from either of the above
causes to make out his ticket, and such is apparent to the managers upon
investigation, the managers at the ballot box, or either of them, or one of
the clerks in the presence of such managers shall, upon application, make
out the ticket for such person, but shall not directly or indirectly, hint, sug
gest or indicate which of the candidates for the respective offices the voter
is to vote for, but shall scratch said ticket in accordance with the desire of
such person, with suggestion from the manager or clerk.
8. Voters shall arrange their tickets by scratching the names of the
respective candidates whom they do not desire to vote for, and leaving the
r«smes of such candidates as they desire to vote for, except as hereinafter
provided. When the voter has prepaired his ticket, he shall proceed to the
ballot box to have the same deposited without delay, and after depositing
the same with the manager, he shall retire from the room immediately The
manager at the entrance shall furnish the OFFICIAL BALLOT to those
whom the clerks at the door, declare registered, and no other persons, and he
shall give each voter one ticket, and if said voter shall make a mistake in
arranging his ticket, he can, by delivery of said ticket to the manager at the
door procure one other and continue to do so until he has been furnished not
exceeding two tickets . The manager shall take up said mutilated ticket
before furnishing another and shall destroy them, and shall In no instance
furnish more than two tickets to any voter. Any ticket that is
not voted shall be returned to the managers and same shall be destroyed and
the correspoding stub shall be marked cancelled. Each voter shall be al
lowed not exceeding three minutes in which to prepare and cast his ballot.
9. There shall be a sufficient number of booths in each of the rooms of
j the respective voting precincts to accommodate the registered voters of said
! precinct.
10. It shall be the duty of one of the managers at the ballot box in
each of the respective precincts to keep a registered list and to vertify the
registration of each voter before depositing his ballot in the box in order to
see that no misake has been rnhde by the clerk at the door.
11. Voters shall approach the entrance of the various polling places
single column, and shall be protected from the solicitation of the candidates
and workers by ropes or other device extending from the entrance of the
voting place a sufficient distance and in such manner as may be neccessary
to carry this provision into effect, not less than thirty feet.
12. No candidate, worker or other person shall approach a prospective
voters after such voter shall have entered the space designated for the col
umn of voters.
13. It shall be the duty of the members of the executive committee of
Coffee County, in each district to select and establish places of holding elec
tions, in their respective districts and provide polling places in conformi.y
with law and with th rules of this committee.
14. It is the purpose of this committee to provide a secret ballot in
the primary election to be held on September 12, 1916, and no manager, clerk,
or other official holding said election shall open or examine any ballot which
shall be presented foi the purpose of ascertaining how the person casting
the ballot is voting, or has voted, and r.o manager, or clerk shall disclose or
divulge how any elector voting in said election voted, or for whom any ballot
was cast, unless said manager or clerk shall be called upon to testify before
this committee or in some court of law.
15. Any manager, clerk or official holding or assisting to hold said
primary election shall give out no information or divulge how any district
has voted upon any candidate in said primary until after six o’clock p. m.,
standard time, and until after the polls have been closed at all the precincts
in said county.
In. There shall be three managers which -hall lie Justices of the Peace,
Notaries Ordinaries or free-holders and clerks appointed who shall
held th© election to each district in the county, except at Douglas, where
six managers and three clerks -hall be appointed to conduct said election.
'7. Any violation of any rule gnvering this primary shall be vigorously
dealt with under the lew.
J. W. QUINCEY, Chairman,
W. R. FRIER,
r CORDON BURNS.
~ Ar ~ -*v Pm?' ?*ra 4 ip Executive Committee.
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, AUG., 26 1916.
KEEP REST ROOM GOING
SAYS PASTOR T. S.HUBERT
I cannot believe that the people of
Douglas will suffer the Rest Room to
be closed. That would be inconsist
ent with their record as a people
prompt to respond to every earthly
appeal.
A more meritorious Institution than
this Rest Room, outside of our chur
ches, cannot be found, and there is a
true and thrilling sense In which it is
a church, a sanctuary of repose, re
minding us of Him who called,
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I wll give you
rest,” and who so often laid his hand
upon the tired and burdened and achng
bodies of men with relief for every
woe.
This Rest Room is a mission—a
mission to our own, as beautiful and
as blessed as anything done in the
name and spirit of Jesus can be. It
is abnormal and diseased type of
Christianity that weeps and energizes
itself over distant distress but does
nothing for the needy and stricken at
home. It is not a type of Christian
ity that will meet the tests of the
last, —day
There'll come a time in the future near,
When this life has passed away,
When these needy ones will stand with
us
In the light of the judgement day.
When the angels read from the book
of life
Our deeds for that.last review,
If those should come and accuse us
then,
I wonder what we should do.
I am ready to co-operate with the
other pastors of the town in making
a pubile offering once a quarter or
oftener to the Rest Room. We must
help the ladies who have fought so
nobly to keep it open.
T. S. HUBERT.
INCONSISTENCY.
The Lord gave you 2 eyes and 32
teeth.
You will willingly spend ?i!0.00
patching up your teeth.
But you would “croak” at paying
half that amount to keep your eye
good.
You can grind up Douglas steak
with a SIO.OO set of false teeth—But
you would have an elavatime seeing
with a pair of glass eyes.
Have the proper glasses fitted.
DRUGS
On Each Saturday we will offer for
CASH the following BARGAINS:
Mosleys Lemon Elixir #I.OO bottle
for 60^
Mosleys Lemon Elixir bottle
for 3 Of!
Six (6) 25f* packages of any Liver
Regulator for #I.OO
e have in stock a full and
complete stock of TRUSSES both
double and single and can fit any one.
TANNER S PHARMACY
FARM FOR SALE
68 Acres nearly all in cultivation. Five room dwelling, good well water
and barn. Idea! location in city limits of Broxton. Public schools and free
tuition for your children. This is a Bargain, act quick if you want a
home. Price $250Q.00. Will accept small cash payment and balance on
easy terms. ..Call or write.
E. L. BLEDSOE, Broxton, Ga.
Garrett a Calhoun
C OTTON FACTORS
AUGUSTA, GA.
Cork ksri>ndknck >eicitei>
LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE OX
CONSIG X NIE XT K
ANNOUNCEMENT
THE BOSTON STORE
In just a few days will be ready
to show you one of the most up to
date fall wearables at our usual low
prices.
Wait for the opening
The Boston Store
Douglas, we give premiums Georgia