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Jill ®@©lk 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. 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 Attention 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. Ga. On improvec farm lands, at low rate of