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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 Since another has begun, two more subscribers of this fund have withdrawn their support, leaving the income $lB.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. * * * * 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. - « V * * * 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? * * * * 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 IT a i c i 111 it fi iii rn i i 1 111, ■ I I I■l< LA I J 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. j.. j-r _ • - * ..... , 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