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By J M. Freeman ln°o^l m
You voted as you please, so did I.
There were too many people here
St Sunday to be counted.
The Rev. Mr. Sellers will preach at
Salem next Sunday. The public in
vited.
The Sunday School convention con
venes at Ambrose to-day. Are you
going to-day.
Some people are so mean that corn
bread, biscuit or anything else will
fatten them.
Gussie and Cadie Herrin, down near
Nicholls must have gone into winter
quarters. Never write.
Tom Young was here last Tuesday,
and he’s coming back first Saturday
in December to vote for me.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Goodyear have
returned from a visit to friends and
relatives in North Carolina.
Mr. Maine’s Sears class of singing
children, last Sunday, carried off the
honors for pretty pathetic singing.
Ilenry Smith says he’s going to vote j
for mp for Justice in December if he
has to come to town before daylight.
- If Alma Moore does not write to
me pretty quick, I’ll know she is mad,
and her nose as red as a turkey’s
snout.
Take the classon as a whole, at the
convention last Sunday, and their sing
ing will compare with those of any
county.
The State house officers will quit
writing to me as Hon. J. M. Freeman.
I will ! . Jim Freeman, if they write
at all, now.
Calv in Ward and Jim Freeman were j
not candidates for re-election as pres
ident and secretary of the singing con
vention for 1917.
Emmie Wall was in four feet of mo
last Sunday and would not return my
“hello”. Wonder what she was so
stuck up about?
Mr. Eunice brought me some pears
last Monday, which weie sent by some
friend in the country, but I have for
gotten their names.
. When 1 weighed in May last I
brought the beam up to 133. The
>ame scales, last week, said I was 10
ounds heavier —143 pounds.
Ellen Smith, down at Sessoms, has
uit me. When I was a young fellow
ind a girl kicked me I got another
jrirl, and I’ll do the same now.
Julian McKinnon and his wife were
in town Sunday and Monday. I' irst
time I’ve seen them since they were
hitched uprwhile 1 was out of town.
Lucille Vining and Myrtle Tanner,
two nice girls, well known, came to
my office last Monday, but I can t say
whether they came to see me or Pres
ton Burkett.
All the communications from our
correspondents, but tow or three
which came in early, were crowded out
last week. The candidates had bought
up all the space.
Country people who attended the
singing convention last Sunday in this
place have i the opinion that
people of Douglas didn't care to sec
them only on busine s.
If l was cf a paper in a
small town, and twenty-eight of its
prominent citizens condomed my poli
tical policy, I’d think of floding my
tent and stealing quietly away.
- There was a light vote polled last
Tuesday, not near what it was in
March. The two dollar bill and a piint
of whiskey was not in sight and
about 250 votes didn’t show up.
If the editor of the Pearson Tribune
was in town last Sunday, he’d kept
out of my sight. And I had prepared
three bottles of sour pickles and a
pound of crackers for his dinner.
The attendance at the singing con
vention last Sunday was estimated to
be between 2,500 and 3,000 people. The
largest that has ever or ever will at
tend a like convention in the county.
The childen, relatives and friends of
Aunt Betsy Vickers will hold a re
auion at Mt. Union church on the
27th inst. Mirian Fussell says every
ody will he there and I have a special
citation.
Little Trixie, down at Saginaw, says
)e is coming to see me, “but I am so
,ttle and sross eyed that I will have
io get close to you,’’ she says. Cer
tainly, you will; I’ll put you on my
desk, where I write.
Tom Roberts, over at Coochee, came
in Tuesday and told me not to stop
sending his paper as his children, par
ticularly Emma, would raise a row.
No ones paper will b estopped if they
keep as near paid up as Tom does.
Sheriff Tucker, over in Irwin, went
to arrest a negro last Sautrday, the
negro emptied a load of bird shot from
a shot gun into his left arm, the
sheriff returned the fire with a pistol
and the negro’s burial was largely at-
tended by the colored people last Sun-
I day afternoon.
I Dave Douglas was in town Saturday
j and had left Ruth at home picking
I cotton while h e came to town and sold
a bale for over $1.60. Ruth had help
ed pick out that bale and he said he
said he was going home and give her
some ice cream. Poor little Ruth;
stingey old Dad.
Your Uncle Jim has been Secretary
of the Coffee County Singing Conven
tion for three years, did all the cor
respondence, kept all the books, bought
all the stationery and postal cards
used, and did not expect anything for
it, and did not get anything except
censure and last. Sunday humiliation.
I was glad to see the Mt. Zion and
Stokesville people last Sunday. I will
never see them any more unless they
come to Douglas. The Pearson Tri
bune says the singers of the county
do not love me and my cornet, he
does not know any out of that section
and I never intrude knowingly Geo.
Kight 6ings alto very well.
i Bill Maines two classes elected him
president of the Coffee county sing
ing convention last Sunday. And the
same vote carried the convention to
Pearson for next year, the Ist Sunday
in October, but it is doubtful if the
little girls and boys that compose
those classes will be there. They
were too young to think about that.
A young man who lives out on Rfd.
No.. 2, (I can’t think of his name) told
me last Tuesday that he had killed, a
few days ago, “a little snake live feet
long with ten rattles and that there
were others out there.” Well if they
have 40 rattles, a button, a paper of
pins and a box of hooks and eyes on
bis tail, Pm not looking for any
snakes.
This man Kight, up here at Brox
toti, was in town last Monday and
wanted to know what I’d done with
iiis girls ? He’d brought them to town
they had gotten out of his sight and
like most other fathers and husbands,
when they miss a wife or daughter,
he thought I had ’em hid under the
desk or in one of my pockets. I told
him to search me.
Mr. Anderson, the gentlemanly
agent of the A. B. and A., told, me
this week that he would carry all my
chums, over 12 years of age, to Atlan
ta, on September 26th. next Monday
week, for $4.00 each for the round trip
Tickets good for five days. Chums
under 12 years of age, $2.00. This
is a good chance to see the capitol of
your state, children.
I know some fellows who used to
to town with their girls, and in
walking along the streets would grab
her by the arm to help her over a two
inch plank on the walk, and now when
you see them he is walking with other
boys, and she is pulling on behind with
the baby in her arms. And it is my
private opinion, publicly expressed
that he is a shabby fellow, and it is on
account such chaps that fathers do
not want their daughters to get mar
ried.
Some young people on the train
the other night, coming from Bruns
wick, were guying me about my chums
when a young lady sitting on the seat
with me, listened a while, turned to
me and asked ‘ Uncle Jim, the girls all
along this road seem to know you; how
long has it been since your wife died
“I was surprised, hut answered, “thank
God, she still lives and is in good
health. The inquisitive rattle head
never spoke again, while I was on the
train.
Every time I hear that Becky Fus
sell has a new fellow I ut a notch on
my paper ruler. It has nineteen notch
es on it and they look like a row of
saw teeth. three of her fellows are
red four are pigeon toed, two
have warts on their noses, one has
a wart on the back of his neck which
he uses as a collar button, and the
one that Mary and Tishie Harper are
erying to catch stutters in his taulk
and is cross eyed. Becky says “this
is her best fellow,” and Annabelle
Downing says “she’s got a mortgage
on him.” There ,by gum!
Yes, I am a candidate for re-election
.for the Justice of the Peace, for the
Douglas District, on Ist Saturday in
December. I think I have given sat
isfaction, as far as a man can. Of
course, I have made mistakes in the
past four years, and will probably
make some if re-eleqted, but I have
done the best I knew. My brain and
heart are still in the right place and
the only s<n I have committed is get
ting in debt. I have had some few
trials in my court, and the law read
the same way for the man with a
dollar as for the one with a thousand.
I have tracked the law as near as I
understood it, and have not over ruled
the city, superior or supreme courts
a single time during the past four
years. 1 think that is a fine record.
;ut if I am re-elected, and I hope I
will be, I will try to do better and it
may be my painful duty to over rule
all of ’em before my next term ex
pires.
Some Fun in a Business Way.
There are only about ten weeks or
two and a half moths of the present
year, and two or three men have told
me I would not be Justice of the Peace
any longer. But whether lam or not,
I am going to tell you a feww things
I have done. I have issued about one
thousand vvarrents, been paid for about
one hundred, have handled about four
hundred suits, been paid for half of
them, I have married people from all
the counties within one hundred miles
of Douglas. Some were on railroad
trains, some on automobiles, in bug
gies, one couple sitting on a rail fence
another running to the depot to catch
the train, while I ran along behind
them repeating the ceremony, both
said yes, the girl said yes three times,
I tripped and fell down in front of
Dismukes store, jumped up finished
and told ’em to give me two dollars
and catch the train. He handed me
five, as he ran, I didn’t have any money
with me and h esaid keep the change,
I’ve sot the girl, and she was worth
the money, too. 1
But the funniest marriage ceremony
I ever performed was for a cOuple
from Appling county, October 1914.
It was a cold; rainy night, about 11:30
two automobiles drove up to my house
tooted their horns, a man and girl
came to the door, jerked the bell and
the woman screamed “Uncle Jim.”
“Hello,” I said, “Uncle Jim we want
to be married quick,” she said, and I
told her just as soon as I could dress,
and she yelled back: “Oh, no, Uncle
Jim, we can’t wait.” The man climb
ed over the banisters, pulled the girl
after him and came to the window
where I had raised the sash, handed
me an envelope, I struck a match and
found a marriage license from Appling
county and a five dollar bill. Take
Ellen by the right hand, stand close
to the window. Now William, you
take this woman for your lawful wed
ded wife, care for her, forsake all
others., for life? “Yes.” “Ellen, you
have heard what William has promised
do you, on your part take the same
vow?” “Yes, Uncle Jim.” “Then I
pronounce you man and wife. Go
back to Baxley, and don’t let me catch
you two out again at this time of
night; do you hear?” Yes Uncle Jim
we hear, and don’t you tell on us;
we’ll get back home before any one
knows it; I will go back to school and
William will go back to Macon. Good
bye, you good old boy,” said the girl.
The man climbed back over the ban'
isters, pulling the girl after him, the
gate shut with a slam and soon both
automobiles were racing back to Bax
ley. The wedding was not told about
until two months later, when school
was out. The couple live in Macon,
and Ellen says, in a letter, “our boy
baby is two months old and his name
is Jim!”
SHEPHERD NEWS
O O
(Last weeks Letter)
The Rev. Morrison filled his regular
appointment at Lone Hill last Sunday.
Mr. Ernest Brown, of Rochelle, at
tended preaching at Lone Hill Sun
day.
Miss Annie Carelock is visiting her
sister Mr. Griffin, of Fitzgerald.
Miss Thelma Newfern visited her
Aunt, Mrs. J. T. Davis, of Jeff Davis
county, last week.
Mr. Henry Carelock left home last
Monday to attend school at Piedmont
Institute of Waycross, his many
friends wish him much success in his
school work.
“Lemon Snapp,”
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They are abundantly able to finance
any quantity of cotton shipped them.
Isn’t it to your interest to try them?
Do it now and be convinced.
Borrow money from L. E. Heath
and E. L. Tanner, Douglas, Ga., and
improve your farms. Interest only
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| Km plain how I was
* cured of a re
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days without the'Vmfe. pain or detention from
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about this humane treatment.
R. M. JOSEY, Route 4, Lamar, S. C.
No. 666
This h a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Fire or six doses will break any cate, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
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GEORGIA PEOPLE
PRAISING IANLAC
L. L. HOOKS, OF ROSWELL, SAYS
HE WAS ALMOST DOWN AND
COULDN’T WORK AT ALL.
1 The following letter from the G. T.
Lyon Drug Company of North Ros
well, Ga., is self-explanatory:
“North Roswell, Ge., Jan. 27, 1916.
Mr. G. F. Willis, Atlanta, Ga.
“Dear Sir—We are enclosing a
testimonial which we have just receiv
'ed from L. L. Hook, of this place. He
"seems very grateful for what Tanlac
has hone for him, and every word he
says is the truth.
“This man has been in bad health
for years, and was almost down when
we got him to try Tanlac. Now he
talks it to his friends all the time,
and is anxious to tell other people
what it has done for him.
Yours very truly,
“G. T. LYON DRUG CO.”
Mr. Hook’s statement, written in
his own words, follows below just as
it was given. Mr. Hook said:,
“I suffered from one of the worst
cases of indigestion arid atorruteh trou
ble any man ever had. I couldn’t eat
hardly anything and nothing tasted
right. At times gas on my stomach
would almost choke me. Nothing
agreed with me, and what I would eat
didn’t give me anystrength.
“I commenced taking Tanlac because
I saw what it was doing for other peo
ple, and I could see all the difference
in the world right from the start. It
simply did wonders for me, and made
me feel like a new man.
“Before taking Tanlac I couldn’t do
any work at all. Now lam using the
pick and shovel every day, and can do
any other kind of labor I want to.
When I weighed the other day I found
I had gained 35 pounds. That’s what
Tanlac did for me. I want you to send
this to Atlanta and have it published,
for I think everybody ought to know
about this medicine.”
Another interesting letter was re
ceived this week from A. J. Gillen,
proprietor of a large department store
at Maxeys, Ga., and gives further evi
dence of the remarkable results now
being accomplished by Tanlac through
out the south.
Mr. Gillen said: “I have a custo
mer here who was in bed three years,
and did not go to a meal at any time
She had five fine physicians, and they
gave her out. One bottle got up.
After taking the second bottle she
kept house, and on the third bcfttle
she cooked and did all the house work
fora family of eight. I can get this
testimonial for you if you care to have
it.”
Mr. Gillen has been requested to
furnish full details regarding this un
usual case, and her complete statement
will be published at an early date.
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Doug
las by the Union Pharmacy; in Wilia
coochee by Quillian’s Pharmacy; in
(Nicholls by the Johnson Pharmacy;
! in Pearson by Drs. Joe and C. W. Cor
bett; and in Brc-xton by J. H. Rod
denberry; in McDonald, Lochridge &
Lawton; in West Green, Mack’s Drug
Store.
FOR SALE
GEORGIA, Coffee County,
NOTICE—There will be sold at the
home-stead of W. M. Vickers Sr., five
miles south of Douglas, on the 28th
day of September at one o’clock P. M.
all of said cattle belonging to the es
tate and one mule. Cash will be the
terms of this sale.
W. H. Vickers and heirs.
We Have Moved
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