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Miss Delilah Purvis went down to
St. Simons last Sunday.
Eva Adams has got so she comes
to see me twice a week.
Cotton was selling this time last
year at 9 cents for fair middling.
Willie Durst says there were 50,000
people, more or less, at Arnie last
Sunday.
Corn is selling at 70 cents per bushel
out northwest. The highest price
known for years.
Myrian Fussell was flying around
with a fellow at Arnie last Sunday
to beat the band.
Maud Harolson hasn’t shown up this
week. I was afraid she’d eat too much
at Arnie last Sunday.
Spirits turpentine selling this week,
42 and 4-i, Savannah and Jacksonville.
This time last year 38 and 39.
I am sorry to say it, but it is a fact,
the farmers say, that Douglas is the
poorest cotton market in the county.
Right smart sugar cane coming in
town now. It looks like sugar cane,
but I’m told it tastes like corn staiss.
No classes have reported yet for
the sing on the 2nd Sunday. They
I r:;t write me a card before Thu ra
il. .
Tl>e State Tax Rate for Georgia, this
ye: .is 5 mills, *4 of I per cent. This
i:. the Constitutional limit. Thank the
Lord.
Cay Nelle Everett sent in her news
letter for last week on Friday. That
girl must have been asleep three or
four days.
The second Sunday is the day for
the big sing and if it is a nice day
there will be a big crowd and some
fine singing
The people of Pearson are a plucky
lot. They lost out on the new county
proposition, but they haven't lost their
determination.
Flour is bringing fancy prices now,
and wheat, being a short crop is look
ing way up. Can have biscuit for
Sunday only next year.
Cotton crop s reported shorter than
expected. It is selling at 15 and 16
cents. Crop is over half out in some
sections and will go higher.
L. M. Passmore, of Zirkle, says he
is coming to Douglas on the 2nd Sun
day. Hope he’ll bring Erie in one
pocket and Virgyl in the other.
Charles Purvis was in town Mon
day, but he didn’t bring any syrup.
How am I to get along without long
sweetening? Beulah is to blame.
Fannie Cromer, down at Mclntosh,
Fla., hasn’t written me a line in a
long time. Guess she’s fixing to fool
me by slipping up here about Fair
time.
Every time I go to the Grand Thea
tre I think that show is the best I’ve
seen, and then the next night I’ll think
the same. The Grand has the best to
be had.
Beatrice Everett, eleven years of age
down at Saginaw, wants to be one of
my chums, and wants to know if she
can come in ? Certainly; and sit down
close to me.
B. Burkett, of West Green, was in
town Wednesday. Like most all the
farmers he thinks that sweet patato
crop a faiure, and he won’t have any
thing to sop in his gravy.
Vassie Holton and Vida Strickland
pass my office every day, and their
smiling faces keep me in a good humor
all the time. Did you ever see me
any other way. My wife says no.
Eliza and Latislie Lott, who live be
tween this place and Broxton, came
to see me last week. Latislie has
some sore fingers, but hopes they will
be well before pinder digging time.
Maude Harralson and Sallie Man
cil were here last Thursday. When
I saw Sallie a year ago she was about
as big as a nickle’s worth of sugar, and
it W’ould push her to go over that now.
John Paulk, candidate for legislature
was in town last Wednesday swapping
talk with his fiesds, and niquiring if
there is a good fishing place near
Atlanta, where he can find a log to sit
on ?
Keep it in your mind that the next
county fair will be a hummer. We
had an areo-plane last year, and I am
going to see if Secretary Tanner can’t
get a German submarine here this
time.
Looks like Ruthie Houze, at Green
Cove Spnings, Fla., is going to lose
her number. It has been a year since
1 laid my eyes on her pretty face, and
I don't remember the date of her last
letter.
Ellen Smith, of Sessoms, wasn’t at
home last Sunday, when I called.
Pretty way to treat a chum, but
then I went on to the next town and
had a nice time Ith two pretty chums,
Erie r d '
*’•. on* I'.o on;, wile iuu
been on the police force of Douglas
for a long time, but w'no was succeed
ed by Ira Ricketson in January, is
again Chief of Police, his many friends
are glad to know.
Rev. John S. Sharpe, of Waresboro,
says he and his class will not be here
He says finaces are short and he
doesn’t like to travel on Sunday. We
haven’t any objection to his coming
the Saturday before.
Emma Adams, up on No. 1, came
home the other day, and finding that
her mother had sent me a box of
grapes went out to the harbor, picked
a nice box of fresh ones and sent them
to me by parcel post. See that?
If Alma Moore is through with her
singing school business, I would be
glad to see her pretty face. The last
letter she wrote me came too late,
was not published and she has pouted
long enough. Tut, tut, little girl.
Charley Stewart was in town again
last Monday talking to his friends. I
have not seen John Paulk yet, and I
guvs- he’s trying to catch up with his
ri.-hing. When that is done he’s going
to make Charlie a good run for his
money.
There are some sports of both sexes
! that think so much of themselves, in
| Douglas, that they are disgusting, a
! source of contempt, and some folks
I really are sympathetic enough to be
| lieve they haven’t the sense they were
born with.
When two girls old enough to want
to marry and old enough to know bet
ter, writes to each other and commence
their letters, “Dear Sweet Heart,” it is
pretty good evidence that they are
hard-up for sweethearts, as well as
disgusting.
The law requires that all automo
biles and trucks should carry two
bright white lights in front, and a rear
red light. To fail to obey these in
structions is a misdemeanor. All cars
of every make, are built with these
head and rear lights.
Cordelia Qiunn says “now that wom
en can be lawyers I want to commence
reading law, with you, Uncle Jim.”
She might fool some people with that
talk but the reason she wants to get
into my office is to read the letters I
get from other girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Right, of Jeff
I Davis county, were in town Saturday.
George says where he lives now doesn’t
j seem like home and he expects to
move back to Douglas next year. He
also expects to come to the singing
convention on the 2nd Sunday.
Some people come to town, fool
around all day, and Just when they
think I am at home at dinner phone
for me to run back to the office. It is
wrong for me to cuss back over the
phone or anywhere else, but I can
think what I please anywhere, of such
people.
Ellen Smith, down at Sessoms, says
when I talk to her over the phone I
must ring up at 7 o’clock, no later,
because she goes to bed at 7,30 and
that it won’t cost me but 25 cents.
Cheap enough, but I’d rather talk to
her face to face, and not on the long
distance.
John Hall, the old constable of the
Nic-holls district, is a citizen of Doug
las now. He went to Florida some
time ago, it will be remembered, but
was glad enough to get back to God’s
country. He looks poor and scrawny,
like he hasn’t had a square meal in
six months.
Vida Strickland has returned from
a three weeks visit to friends and rela
tives in Clinch county, and came in
Monday morning to report that she
was at home again. lam glad she has
returned, for I was beginning to fear
one of those Clinchite boys would get
a clinch on her.
Among those that helped in the
singing last Sunday afternoon, at Zir
kle, where Mestlames Gaskin, Lee,
Passmore, and Messrs. Passmore Dor
sey, Brogdon, and others with my
chum, Erie Passmore at the organ. Of
course there were many others whose
names I did not get.
Lula Haskins, Babbie Haskins, Arlie
Burkett, John Starling, Tommie Bur
kett, Maggie Burkett and Vida Strick
land all came to see me at one time
last Monday. I gave Arlie a Chero-
Cola cap and she said if I came to see
her to-morrow she’d kill a chicken.
Going, if the tire doesn’t burst.
Bessie and Fannie Moore, over on
the Southern, wants to know why I
didn’t go to St. Simons last Sunday ?
They need not wonder. When two
girls trip me up in the water like they
did last summer, and then sit down
on my back and kick me in my sides
•w : th their heels. Fm done playing
with 'em
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, Sept., 2 1916..
Brcxt: a, with her Sunday she'd “let
me sit close up to her in the automo
bile.” Yes, and when the automobile
got to running fast she’d bump and
mash me as flat as a flounder. No
thank you, Miss Ellen, I had enough
of a girl bouncing all over the seat
last spring, coming’from lonian.
The Pearson Tribune editor was in
town last week, and failed to find me.
Sorry, for I should have been glad to
see him. We cetrainly are under ob
ligations to him for his kind words
about Douglas. He has the gift of
being able to cluster his words so they
frame themselves into mighty pretty
pictures with a silver back ground.
Burrel Davis, of McDonald, found
out when he was up here last week
that I had nothing to s op my bread in,
and so Monday morning brought me
half a gallon of his nice syup, and a
box of big black scuppernongs, which
Miss DeLuna was kind enough to send
me, and I am returning thanks to her
and the sister who helped pick them.
When I arrived at Zirkle last Sun
dya E. L. Davis and about twenty
five others left town and went to a
camp-meeting at Hortense, on the
train, by automobiles, etc. Pretty
tough slam on me. They acted just
like the devil had come to town and
they were fleeing to the city of refuge.
Well, I’ll bet a niekle to a ginge cake
I had as nice a time as they did.
That man Pottle keeps sending me
his campaign literature. He hasn t
said anything to show why he ought
to be governor, but has taken up his
time trying to show why Dorsey
should not be elected. I would not
vote for Pottle to be governor if he
was the only man in the rcae, just
for that reason, but I’ll vote for Har
ris because he is the most deserving
man in the field.
No. 18, was fortunate enough to get
the number of a lady who was mar
ried last week. No. 18 lives at Zir
i;le, is fourteen years of age, pretty,
plays the organ or piano, using round
or sharp notes. And what is more,
her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
L. M. Passmore, have raised her with
modesty and good manners. She
knows what she can do with an in
strument, but never boasts about it.
The agent of the A. B. & A. down
at ZJirkle is named Smith. He didn’t
tell me whether it was John Smith or
Ebenezer Smith, but he has a pretty
sister and I reckon her name is Smith
and will be until she finds some fellow
she likes, and then she’ll send for me
to come and change her name. I like
Mr. Smith, Agent. He is the right
man in the right place, courteous to
strangers and the A. B. & A. Co., have
a good agent.
I have known Joe Gaskin and his
estimable lady, now living at Zikle, a
long time, but I never saw Mrs. Gas
kin so well tickled as she was last Sun
day, during one of my speeches, where
I was in trouble with a girl. I am
going down there sometime and make
another speech, and Joe had just as
well buy her two or three extra belts
buttons, hook and eyes, etc. I never
tell all I know, or shoot my best gun
at the beginning.
Among the pretty children I met at
Zirkle last Sunday, were Eva Ricket
son, Oralee Ricketson, Bonnie Lee
Williams, Hazle Lee, Annie Mae Sears,
Vida Jolly, Veda Ricketson, Jewell
Gaskin, Virgil and Erie Passmore. I
am not going to forget them, and some
times, when I can find a missing date
—all my Sundays are taken up from
four to six weeks ahead —I am going
to come again, but they must promise
not to fool me with that rotten egg
(sulphur) water again.
Henry L. Smith, who lives out on
No. 3, brought me a peck of the finest
kind of green field peas last Tuesday.
In a separate package he had also
some peas of a new variety, known
as the “Wandering Crowder,” which
were some heavier and longer than
the other peas, still, all were planted
at the same time and with the same
treatment, which he thinks is the pea
for this section. Now, if Mr. Smith
had put in a piece of bacon with the
peas, I could have told how they
tasted when cooked.
A lady who has recently married,
and who was one of my most industri
ous chums, objects to having her name
tahen off the Red Book. She says,
moreover, that if “her name is taken
off she expects to hod and use her
number, 114, and that no other girl
has a right to use it..” She may hold
and use it, contrary to custom, but,
on the Red Book 114, will not be be
fore her name, and will, not be her
number. At present she can bully her
husband as mu«h as she pleases, but
she can’t bully me. Her name is eff
and she is out ar.d gone.
JUDGE GROGAN CANDIDATE
Judge Geo. C. Grogan, of the City
Court of Elberton, is a candidate for
one of the new Court of Appeals
places. He it endorsed by the entire
Northern Circuit and local bars of
East and Northeast Georgia. He is
the only candidate with judicial ex
i pericr.cc. Hij ability, experience, and
■> mind will add strength to the
be- ah.
TWO YEARS IN B:D
AND ROLLING CHAIR
MRS. WILSON SAYS SHE HAD
GIVEN IT ALL HOPE
GAINS 25 POUNDS ON TAN
LAC AND IS NOW A WELL
WOMAN.
For two years I spent all my time
either in the hospital, in bed, or in
a rolling chair, and during that time
I was given up to die, and I don’t
guess I would be here now if it hadn’t
been for Tanlac,” said Mrs. E. O. Wil
son. Mrs. Wilson is well known in
Atlanta, her husband having been em
ployed by The Constitution for anum
ber of years.
“I was a great sufferer from chronic
indigestion,” continued Mrs. Wilson,
“ and don’t guess anybody ever had to
go through with what I did. I was
very weak and nervous, and at times
had those dreadful something sensa
tions to the point of fainting. I had
dreadful headaches, severe pains in
my back and over my kidneys and my
joints ached all the time. For two
years I had to live entirely on boiled
milk, toast and soft boiled eggs, and
even that didn’t digest wel, and would
sour on my stomach. I didn’t know
what it was to get a good night’s sleep.
I took one kind of medicine after an
other until our house was almost filled
with empty bottles, but Instead of im
proving I was getting worse all the
time. Finally they took me to the hos
pital for treatment, and I lay there
for five long months, but even that
didn’t make me well. It was taking
nearly every cent of my husband’s
wages to pay my doctor and drug bills
—our drug boll alone amounted to sl4
or sls a month, and one doctor bill
amounted to SIOB.
“It looked like everything had failed
to help me, and I had about given up
all hope when one day my husband
brought a bottle of Tanlac home with
him and asked me to take it. He said
he had been reading and hearing a lot
of good things about it, and didn’t
see any reason why it shouldn’t help
me. I was confined to my rolling
chair when I began taking it.
“Do I look like an invalid now? I
certainly don’t feel like one, and I
have actually gained twenty-five (25)
pounds on eleven bottles of Tanlac,
and feel as well as I ever did in my
life. I can eat anything I want—such
things as meat, turnips, hard-boiled
eggs don’t hurt me a particle, and I
sleep as good as I did when I was a
girl in my teens. I can get about as
well as anybody and Just the other
day I walked down town, and I am
running around the neighborhood call
ing on my friends nearly all the time
now. I haven’t a pain about me. I
believe I am the happiest woman in
Atlanta, and I think I have a right to
be. I think my recovery is almost a
miracle, and everybody in our neigh
borhood thinks the same.”
Tar.lac 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 Brcxton by J. H. Rod
denberry; in McDonald, Lochridge &
Lawton; in West Green, Mack’s Drug
Store.
HON. 0. H. B.
BLQODWORTH
yyrtclMFaW- At «P*ry
Of Forsyth, Monroe County. Candidate
For One Of the Newly Created
Judgeships On The Court Of Ap
peals.
He is a graduate ef Gordon Insti
tute and of the University of Ga.
Twice piayor of Forsyth, has served
two terms in the Georgia Legislature
and was for 14 years Solicitor General
of the Flint Circuit. Endorsed by the
bar of every county of Flint Circuit;
an active worer in educational and re
ligious lines and President of the
Board of Trustees of Bessie Tift Col
lege.
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Demand the genuine by full name—
nicknames encourage substitution.
WANTED.
Some damaged cotton and second
hand mattresses cheap for cash.
Douglas Mattress Co.
Long term farm loans negotiated
on short notice, at 6 per cent interest
in sums from SIOOO and upward.
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