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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 Vn.\ t.vc.TV .1 . go ie 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. SAFETY FIRST Our first aim is safety, next to treat our customers fair and square , and loan them money according fo their balances, and extend them any other favor that is consistent with sound banking. May we not have a portion of vour Banking business? We will appreciate it. FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, Ambrose, Ga. FARM FOR SALE 68 Acres nearly all in cultivation. Five room dwelling, good well water and barn. Ideal locafion in city limits ofßroxton. Public schools and free tuition for your children. This is a Bargain, act quick if you want a name. Price $250(<.00. Will accept small cash payment and balance on easy terms. ..Call or write, E. L. BLEDSOE, Broxton, Ga. Garrett Calhoun Cf VTTQN FACTORS AUGUSTA, GA. Correspondence Solicitei> LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIG NM ENTS BURBANK'S SPINELESS CACTUS Best known food for Hogs, Cattle and all domestic stock. PRODUCES ENORMOUSLY 50 Tons on One Acre Ist Year. Burbank Says... One acre of Cactus will produce as much stock food as 20 acres of Alfalfa Clover. Now Is The Time For Fall Planting PLANT 100 and you are started on the way to fortune. PLANT 1000 and you have a fortune in sight. PLANT 2000 and you have a fortune. PRICES IN 100 LOTS 15 CENTS EACH DELIVERED. ” ” 1000 ” 12 Yz ” ” ” ” ” 2000 ” 10*/2 ” CALL AND SEE Thomas B. Marshall AGENCY MANAGER 326 PETERSON AVENUE. Samples Always On Hand. Piedmont Institute IS NOW OFFERING AT VERY REASONABLE RATES IN ADDITION TO ITS REGULAR WORK A COMPLETE COURSE IN BOOKEEPING, BANKING, AC COUNTANCY, PENNMANSHIP, SHORTHAND, TYPEWRITING, ETC. ENTER PROMPTLY—and receive that Personal Attertion which the teacher is able to give each individual pupil, in a school like PIEDMONT. Under a teacher well equipped with several years experience. School opens September 6th. For particulars write to — M. O. CARPENTER. President Waycross, Ga. "Whew, It’s Hot! H Let’s go and get some good old I When you ’re hot and thirsty, A or just for fun, there’s noth- \ ing comes up to it for delicious- r - -: -'.'l’".' ./ ‘ l'.!/*!' - >y 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. L. E. Heath and E. L. Tanner. Douglas, Ga. For quick loans on improved farm lands, at low rate of interest and least exptnse, see F. \V. Dart. Douglas, Ga. R U B-M Y-TISM Will cure Rheumatism,’ Neu ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old Sores, Tetter, Ring-Worm, Ec zema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally or externally. 2Sc