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By J M. Freeman phone « m
Christmas day is just three months
cff.
I have thirteen little friends in Zir
kle.
The next thing in sight just now is
the fair.
I used 103 postals last Friday and
Saturday, writing to chums.
But just before the fair opens the
county schools will open up.
I wonder if the Inman school will
let me come in on the Ist. grade?
Ruthie Houze will teach the Vickers
school, three miles from town, next
term.
Mrs. D. R. Collins, of Camilla, has
been on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Jennings, this week.
The Douglas Singing Convention
will be held at the auditorium in this
place, on the 2nd Sunday in Septem
ber, 1917.
The two educational institutions of
Douglas, has as fine a body of students
male and female, as you will find in
Southern Georgia.
There are nine little girls down at
Zirkle and they all say they want me
to come again. Yes, and Erie would
want to get me into the river, too.
Guess everybody is at work, picking
cotton over on Nicholls, Rfd. No. 1.
Gussie and Cadie won’t write and I
am going to quit worrying about them.
Bill Kight was in town last Sunday
morning. He looked sleepy like he’d
been out all night, as I told him, and
he gave me a dollar to say nothing
about it and hanged if I will.
Mrs. J. I. Hatfield phoned me last
Sunday that there was a six months
old baby up at Nass and-Annie Paulks
home, and just to think, I had not
heard a word about it before.
- is no need for me to remind
the hoys and girls that October is an
ideal month for marriages. The
leaves are turning yellow, the sum
mer gone and the harvest past.
Henry Vickers says he thinks Jim
Wade cut his hand on purpose, to keep
from picking cotton. That’s one of
Jim’s old tricks, and to got the* straight
*o7 it I’ll have to see his wife, T reckon.
alary Sears, my pretty chum, out on
No. 2, nnd who was good enough to
come to see me ovary Week before she
went aWay, is in Waycross now, going
to school. 1 am going to miss that
girl.
Our old friend, Cliett, up at Am
brose, says he wants the Enterprise
printed on Thursday, so he can be sure
to get it on Sunday. See that, wants
an excuse to keep from going to
church.
I can’t see or understand why Mat
tie Vickers, on No. 2, doesn’t write.
Never mind, she’ll get sick again, may
be,l’ll get my old quinine bottle, go
out there, hold her nose and give her
three doses.
Some little girl at Zirkle wrote me
a postal last Tuesday, and forgot to
sign her name. 1 know it was a girl
that wrote tlie card, for it said: “My
self and all the girls want you to come j
again soon.
I was too sick to go to Ambrose
Sunday, much to my regret.
“Two Forsaken Girls,” down near
Mt. Zion, have written the news this
week. Next thing you know they’ll
both be married.
The entire Douglas District will help
Douglas entertain the singing conven
tion next year, hut Douglas will not
need any help. She fell down so com
pletely that she wants to make good
now, and she'll do it, too.
Somebody said the other night that
the lady organist of the best singing
elass, at the Douglas Singing Conven
tion next year will get a lady’s watch,
Whaltham movement, engraved,
“Douglas Singing Convention, Sept.
1917.”
Old Constable John Hall, has recent
ly returned from his wild goose chase
in Florida, and we are all glad to see
him. He came to see me a few days
ago, and after he had gone I missed
one of my pipes, and it hasn’t shown
up yet.
Going to Aunt Betsy Vickers’ re
union at Mt. Union on the 27th? There
will be a crowd there, even if no one
go but relatives, but there will be
many there as friends of the family.
Next Wednesday 27th at Mt. Union.
3 miles from Ambrose.
One of my county chums is in Way
cross and writes to me not to “let the
other girls beat her out.” Not much.
I hav e room in my old heart for all of
them and if it gets crowded will
stretch. That is one good thing about
that old heart of mine, and 1 like it.
One lady and two gentlemen, who
know music as it is written and ought
to be sung, will be the judges of the
best singing classes at the Douglas
Singing Convention next year. The
three best classes will receive hand
some premiums, from the premium
committee.
It is strange that little boys never,
or very few of them, write to me, and
I would be just as glad to hear from
them. I reckon most of the 12 year
old boys of the present day imagine
that they have forgotten more than I
ever knew, and in some things they
may be correct.
Homer Gillis, down near Mt. Zion,
is thinking of buying a new car. Some
time between now and the fair, he in
tends to get his girl on that car,
about supper time, come to me, get
married and get back home before
the girl’s father misses her. Homer
is as cunning as a fox.
I saw Ruby Peterson, in town last
"Monday afternoon, and I hardly
| knew her, she grows so fast. I thought
she was about when I saw her
a year ago, but, my, my, she seems
half a hand higher, now. I don’t
know if she was on a visit to town, or
is thinking of entering school here.
I hear of numerous leap year parties
all over the county. The girls seem
jto think they have been sleeping over
j their rights and are going to put in
full time from now until Christmas.
I hope they will corner the boys, and
| about twenty couples come to me on
I Christmas with license and a two dol
lar bill.
Beulah Purvis, up here on Kirkland,
Rfd., was in town last Saturday, and
went home to spend Sunday with Clara
Dent, up on No. 1. I do not think
there is a better match in the county
than those girls. Both gjpod, nice
girls, good humored and full of fun
and can kick up more fun and mis
chief than a whole barrel of mon
keys.
Bessie Sikes lost her pocket book, a
tan colored, with silver imitation silver
chain, with $57.50, a house rent re
ceipt, and one penny, in it. Lost be
tween Hart’s Furniture Store and her
home, on Ethel St. The finder, if
honest, will return it, and receive re
ward and thanks, as it was all she had.
In one case out of 15,000 she may hear
i of it.
Mrs. W. B. Livingston, of McCrae,
'Ga., formerly Mrs. C. W. Corbitt, of
Broxton, came in to see me last Tues
-1 day, in order that she might have the
Enterprise sent to her new name at
her new home. I am glad to know
'she is well pleased, and I wish her
and husband a long life and frequent
trips to Douglas to see old friends and
pay subscription.
W. H. Harper, of Amity, Ark., sent
in his yearly subscription, last week,
just a few days late, this year, and
says: “1 hope the Enetrprise will
continue to come, as we enjoy it very
much, especially the Note Book.” Glad
to know it, and I know he likes the
Note Book because it carries country
news and tells on Mary, Tishie, Anna-
belle and r>Ot) other Harper girls.
Francis and Ethel Lott, over onCoo
chee Rfd., wrote to me this week. One
a letter, the other a' card, and both
invited me to come to see them. I
wish I could. We would go to the
cane patch, and afterward out in the
sunshrine, or under a tree, chew cane
and tell each other our secrets. All
girls have secrets, and some tell them
to me, and I never tell them to others.
Fleming B. Harper, Fort Du Point,
Del. U. S. Army, writes: “Wonder
how everybody is in dear old Coffee.
Sicking cotton, I guess. Please send
ne the Enterprise. My home is down
in Coffee county, and I like to hear
’from you all once in a while.” Yes,
we will, and we should like to have
just a little postal from you, because
a postal to the Note Book, means news
for all your relatives and friends.
Some negroes in the county jail
tried to break out last Saturday night,
but Lyman Day, a negro trustee, put
Jailer Smith on to the racket, and they
were stopped. Their names are Will
Chapman, Will Ross, and Will Ward.
All under sentence having been tried
last week, one for 12 years and the
other two for eight. They tried to
break out by moving a brace overhead
and springing an iorn door. The
jail is unsafe.
The Douglas Singing Association
has been organized, every singing mas
ter in Coffee county will be requested
to join, no expense attached to mem
bership, the officers will be elected in
th e spring, and the biggest convention
ever held in Southern Georgia will be
held here on the 2nd Sunday in Sept.
1917. It is not antagonistic to the
Coffee County Singinlg Convention,
but Douglas is centrally located, eas
ier to get to than Pearson by classes
all over the county, and the citizens
Douglas will take care of the people
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, Sept. 23 1916.
i and that is assured.
I' Pretty Vida Jolley, down at Zirkle,
Was the first one to get a postal to me
this week. She says she is going to
school“as soon as it opens,and is going
to study hard and learn fast, and J
am going to expect you to' come bock
again.” Now, that is what I like to
hear. I want all my little girls and
boys to study hard and learn fast.
Then, when they are men and women,
they will find they an get through
life much better. When your school
opens, Vida, make this resolve: “I
am going to be a better girl; I am
going to love papa and mama more,
obey them all the time, and love and
obey my teacher.” Will you? And
I want all of my little friends to do
the same.
Rocher Chappell, who has been
spending his vacation with his parents
in the city, returned to Emory Col
lege, last Sunday, where his father
expects to keep him or at some other
college, until he is fitted for life with
a good education, believing that a
good education given Rocher is bet
ter than leaving him money which
may vanish, while the education can
not be taken away. This is one of
my old contentions, that a good educa
tion was the finest legacy parents can
leave (or give) their children. Then,
df they become possessed of money or
property and natural sense they may
know better how tomanage their own
affairs. I wish Rocher well, and have
the hope that he is made of the stuff
'that will make a man of him, and that
he will make his faitihful parentis
proud of their only son.
Miss Georgia Lee Kirke, of Fitz
gerald, was in the city last week, sell
ing postal cards, of her own coloring.
She buys postals from a manufacturer
of high-grade cards and pictures, and
retouches , or paints them with a
delicate coloring of nature. She com e s
•to Douglas twice a year, selling easter
and Christmas cards, not as a specula
tion, but to pay her way through col
lege and to care for her mother, who
'she speaks of with affection. She is
only fifteen or sixteen years of age,
of pleasant address and business man
ners, nothing frivolous about her, and
the daughter of a veteran. She deser
ves tile consideration of all classes of
people, and so, when he comes again,
let’s buy all the cards and postals she
has and send her back home with a
smile on her pretty face, to her mother
who keeps home comfortable, and has
a light in the window for Georgia.
TO THE BOYS AND
GIRLS OF COFFEE CO.
BURBANKS SPINELESS CACTUS.
The great stock food plant of the
age. It is the cheapest food for Hogs,
Milch Cows, Beef Cattle, IIor?es,
Sheep, Goats and Chickens. Ail are
fond of it and devower it greedily.
It is a thick green suculer.t plant ready
for feeding Summer and Winter.
It produces enormously, let me il
lustrate. Suppose the boys and girls
of Coffee County could each invest j
25c by buying one slab of Cactus, and
plant it, at the end of the Ist year
each would have 15 slabs. Plant these
15 slabs and at the end of the 2nd year
each would have 225 slabs, plant these
225 slabs and at the end of the 3rd
year each would have 3,375 slabs,
1 plant these 3,375 slabs and at the end
of the 4th year each would have 50,625
slabs, plant these 50,625 slabs and at
the end of the sth year each would
have 759,375 slabs, sell, these 759,375
slabs at the present low market value
of 10c each. Boy and girl would have
a FORTUNE of §75,937.50. What a
pile of money from the small invest
ment of 25c. now every boy and girl
of Coffee County can do this thing.
What a crop of wealthy boys and
girls this will give us in five years.
T. B. MARSHALL,
Manager,
Burbank Spineless Cactus Agency,
326 Peterson Ave. Next store to
Express office.
There is nothing supernatural about
Chriropractic. It’s apparantly mar
velous cures are accomplished through
purely scientific methods based upon a
profound knowledge of the human
mechanism. W. H. Hughes the Chi
ropractor is located in the Union Bank
Bldg.
COTTON: —PEARCE & BATTEY,
the Savannah Cotton Factors, are sub
stantial, reliable and energetic. Their
extensive warehousing facilities and
salesmanship are at your command.
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.
rub-my-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. 25c
HAS NO MORE NEED
FOR CRUTCHES NOW
I*. G. HOOKS SPENT $2,000 TRY
ING TO RESTORE HIS WIFE’S
HEALTH—GAINS 16 POUNDS ON
TAN LAC.
Another wonderful indorsement for
Tanlac that will be read with interest
by thousands of frail, suffering wom
en throughout the south was given
recently by Mrs. Elizabeth Hooks, of
Rome, Ga. Mrs. Hooks is the wife of
P. C. Hooks, a well-known Southern
railway engineer. Mrs. Hooks made
the remarkable statement that she had
received more benefit from four bot
tles of Tanlac than from medical treat
ment that had cost her husband $2,-
000, which he had paid out in the past
two years in an effort to restore her
health.
“For about two years,” said Mrs.
Hooks, “I have been in very bad health
and have suffered from stomach trou
ble, extreme nervousness and a bad
form of rheumatism. For more than
seven months I was confined to my
bed and was almost a nervous and
physical wreck. My digestion was so
poor I had to diet myself and rarely
ate anything but soft boiled eggs and
milk and things of that kind, and even
the lightest of foods would nasueate
me and lay heavily on my stomach.
“Any sudden noise would effect my
nerves, and my husband had to quit
setting the alarm clock and the door
'to my room had to be kept closed so
I" could not hear the ringing of the
telephone. I have had the rheumatism
in my left hip and shoulders so bad
I could hardly bear anything to touch
me.
“My condition became so bad, my
husband took me to Hot Springs, Ark.,
where I remained for a month. I had
to use crutches all the time. The
treatment there helped me for a while,
and I returned home. I soon relapsed
into my old condition, and then I was
taken to a specialist in Atlanta.
“I had fallen off from one hundred
and twenty pounds until I only weigh
ed eighty-nine pounds—just a shadow
of my former self.
“The specilist prescribed a course
of treatment, but before using the
medicine I decided to give Tanlac a
trial. I did this because of what I
had read of Mr. Cooper's new medicine \
and because my husband had heard
so many railroad men recommend it.
i “That was the best resolution of my
life. I am now on my fourth bottle
and feel better than at any time since
I became ill- I can now eat anything
I want, and my food agrees with me—
besides, everything I eat tastes good
and I enjoy my meals.
“I have set my crutches aside and
actually feel so much better I 'told
my husband a few days ago I believed
I would turn off the cook, but he in
sisted that I wait a while.
“I now weigh one hundred and five
pounds, which is a gain of sixteen
founds, and am improving right along
every day. Before taking Tanlac I
was sc weak and frail I was greatly
discouraged and could not persuade
myself to believe that I would ever be
able to enjoy another well day. But I
don’t feel that way now. I am not
nervous like I was, and I can see and
feel a great improvement. I sleep
better and my strength is returning
rapidly.”
Tanlac 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 Drv>. 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.
We Have Moved
NEXT DOOR TO UNION PHARMACY
We continue to keep a complete line of
Family and Fancy Groceries
Make OUR Store YOUR Store
I. C. RELIHAN COMPANY
Heavy and Fancy Groceries
interest, and upon very desirable terms. By
reason of the direct connection which I have
loans can be handled without delay. :
Union Banking E 1 HAPT DOUGLAS.
Company Bldg • »» • 1 GEORGIA
IB WID AS
AT 6 PER CENT.
The borrower has the privilege of paying
SIOO.OO or any multiple thereof at any in
terest paying period, thereby stopping in
terest on the amounts thus paid. : : : :
I. W. QUINCEY
SAFETY FIRST
Our first aim is safety, next to treat our customers fair an
square , and loan them money according to their balances, and extend ther
any other favor that is consistent with sound banking. May we not hav
a portion of your Banking business? We will appreciate it.
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, Ambrose, Ga.
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 1900 and you have a fortune in sight.
PLANT 2000 and you have a fortune.
PRICES IN 100 LOTS 15 CENTS EACH DELIVERED.
” ” 1000 ” 12 ft ” ” ”
” ” 2000 ” 10'/ 2 ” ” ”
CALL AND SEE
Thomas B. Marshall
AGENCY MANAGER 326 PETERSON AVENUE.
Samples Always On Hand.
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IS NOW OFFERING AT VERY REASONABLE RATES IN
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A COMPLETE COURSE IN BOOKEEPING, BANKING, AC
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ENTER PROMPTLY —and receive that Personal Attention which
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low rate of