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—Spirits turpentine selling at 43
to 44 in Savannah, this week.
—School has commenced at Zirkle
and my little friends are busy.
—Common grades of flour are sell
ing at $8.40 to $8.60 in Chicago.
—Savannah cotton market, 16% to
15%. Last year, this time, 12%. Sea
Island 32 to 33.
—Havn’t heard anything from
Macon’s steamboats on the Ocmulgce,
recently. What’s the matter.
—Our friends in the country and
email towns are wrong in fighting
Douglas. We love our neighbors.
—My little friend, Lucena Spivey,
is over at Pearson, visiting the family
of Henry O’Brien and other friends.
—Eva and Bertha Woods were in j
town last Monday, and looked one of
their sweetest as they passed our
door.
—David Kirkland and Mineola Cone
lip near Ambrose, were married last
Sunday week. Another one of my
chums gone.
—The auditorium at the Normal
College and Business Institute, is the
largest in the county, and will seat
more people.
—Trixie Everett, of Saginaw, was
in town last Saturday, and didn’t
come about me. That’s a pretty way
to treat a chum.
—Mr. A. W. Haddock is President
of the Douglas District Singing Con
vention. A mighty good man in a
mighty good place.
—Can hardly keep cool Chero-Cola
at the bottling works for the patrons
who come in from the country for
dead beats around town.
—Your Uncle Jim is Secretary of
the Douglas District Singing Asso
ciation, until September 1917. He is
secretary only for organization.
-—There are nine districts in the
county, and I wish every district
would get up a singing convention for
next year, not all at one time, mind
Vgu.
—Effie Taft was good enough last
Monday to wrote to me to go over and
have dinner with her and the girls at
the dormitory some time, and 1 am
going, too. |
—Mattie Hutchinson wrote me a j
letter last Tuesday and used red ink. !
Red is a sign of danger, but if that j
girl thinks she can scare me she has j
missed her cue.
—1 have heard of matrimonial |
lightning striking several couples over |
about Pearson, but don’t know wheth- I
er Mary Shad was shocked or not. ;
Can’t never tell.
—John Paulk has bought himself a
brand new Ford car. They are the
best cars for the country, but how
is John going to get down to the fish
hole in his Ford car.
—Don’t forget the Wire Grass Sing- i
ing Convention, at Nicholls on the 2nd i
Sunday. The convention at Nicholls |
is always a big one, and this one
promises to be up or above the rest.
—Bessie and Fannie Moore, at St.
Simons, say they are coming to the
fair. They said that last year, didn’t
come, and I won’t believe them until
I see them. Bessie Henderson won’t
either.
—The president of a Chicago college
says he does not “like to see the
students coming to and going from
school in an automobile.” What does
the old goose want them to use, an '
ox-cart ?
—I have been Justice of the Peace !
for nearly four years and have mar- |
ried about three hundred couples.
Hope to have the chance of doing bet
ter another term, but Pll nevre have
more fun.
—The Savannah News says “when
the farmer sells a bale now he gets
4a bale in return.” That’s right, and
We are all rejoicing with the farmer,
and it is hoped he may continue in his
—Our friend, A. B. Finley, says
the fish were all poisoned in the lakes
near his place, this year, and he has
no smoke house now. If the laws
wsi'B enforced this poisoning fish
WCuld stop. 1 - ■
—Bessie and Fannie Moore, two
pretty girls at Brunswick, write that
they are coming to the fair this fall,
and will spend a week with Bessie
and Laura Henderson, and other
friends at Pearson.
—Sol Sears says when he bring
Unice to town with him, he gets
through with his business, and she is
out of place, he always knows where
to find her. And he always finds her
with good company.
—Those Mt. Zion girls and a few
others in Ambrose district are re
minded that there remains only about
two months of leap year. Get your
fellow and license and come to see me
Umd® Jim’s
By J M. Freeman £hone°™ 2
quick. Two dollas, please.
—Mary Sears says she finds a good
many good looking boys in Waycross.
I thought she went to Waycross to go
to school, and if she is going to go
looking around for boys I’ll have to
have her sent back home.
—Mr. S. S. Smith, down at Sessoms,
Ellen’s clever papa, came n last Sat
urday, said his paper had been stopp
ed and I must start it up again for
Ellen must have it. Bless her little
mean heart —won’t write to me.
—Mary Sears, down at Waycross,
wants to konw if these Coffee county
girls have “taken her fellow since she
has been gone?” Guess they have
if there is anything a Coffee county
girl will take, if she can, it is another
girl’s fellow.
—Mr. Salter sold twelve new-style
Ford cars last week, and on Saturday
was dodging around to keep out of the
way of a man who he had promised
to let have one that day. He has a
branch house over at ’Coochee, but
can’t get cars to fill thcdm and.
—Mr. J. T. McCallum, who lives up]
near Wilcox school house, was in town
last Saturday, and told me that his
boys killed two rattle snakes the day
before, Friday. Ono of them was six
feet long, the smaller five feet six in
ches. The former he says was as
big around as the calf of his leg.
—I regret to learn of the continued
illness of Henry Spivey, the father of
Lucena, who lives over on the Kirk
land Rfd. He went to Hot Springs
Ark., for a month, but it did not seem
to do him much good. He is at home
now under the care of a physician, is
some better, and I trust he may soon
be himself again.
—Eva Ricketson, of Zirkle, did not
answer my card of last week until
Wednesday. She was off on a visit to
friends at West Green, she is at home
now, going to school. She is in the
6th grade, Ora is in the Ist. ad Vera
is so fat the teacher don’t know what
to do with her. Wait ’till I come and
I’ll duck her in the river.
—Mattie Mae Hutchinson came to
see me last Saturday, and invited me
to come and go to a cotton picking
with her. Of course, if I did, she
would hook her cotton out of my bas
ket and put it in her own, so she
would have the most at weighing time
or play some other trick on me, like
all the girls do. Wonder if girls have
any consience?
—Anna Belle Sears had her best
fellow with her last Sunday, out under
a tree, on the grass chewing cane.
He is four feet high, weighs 200
pounds, and after chewing up four
or five canes tried to get to his feet,
but he was as broad as long, and pull
ed up all the wire grass in reach try
ing to pull up. Wonder why Anna
Belle didn’t roll him over in the ditch?
—Fannie Tatum, up at Vidalia,
writes me that she has “been engaged
to get married to five different men
this year, and is not married yet. Two
of them moved away, and neither of
the other three could raise money to
buy the license.” I am afraid Fannie
struck a bad set, still, there are boys
and girls getting married every day,
where the groom has just enough
money to buy the license, but not
enough to buy supper for the two
after marriage.
Coffee County Fair.
—Our people must remember that
the Coffee County Fair is just what
they make it. It is for the develop
ment of the county, to bring the peo
ple together, let them see the exhibits,
see what each other are doing, and
what improvements can be made. It
is a county institution, for the benefit
of the people, not an individual spe
culation, as some seem to think, for,
with all the past fairs, not more than
enough, above expenses has been real
ized to pay for the houses and im
provements, fences, etc., to say nothing
of the land on which the Fair Grounds
stand,
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Cinnamon Bark and Quinine.
—Mr. and Mrs. John McGovern,
Bettie, Mary and the baby, were in
town last Saturday. First time I have
seen them all in a long time, and now
they are talking about moving to
Florida. I don’t gnow so much about
that, Bettie you know, is not healthy,
might take “one o’ them spells of
, fever,” and mighty near die before I
I could find my quinine bottle and get
there. And then, Mary is kinder puny
in the spring time and might take one
o’ them backsets ’bout cotton plant
| ing time, if I wasn’t there to give her
[ -ome cinnamon bark tea and quinine.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, Sept. 30 19l|.
Cinnamon bark tea ad quinine is migh
ty good for puny little girl.; in the
spring time, long ’bout cotton plant
in’ time.
Bad Checks a Misdemeanor.
—lt is a misdemeanor to give a man
a check on a bank where you have no
money, if you do not redeem the check
with cash in thirty days from date,
and it is surprising to know how many
people continue this practice, when
they know they have no deposits to
pay the check. Some people, to whom
t tese worthless checks are given, never
get their money because they do not
know there is a law to protect them,
but most of them do, and it would sur
prise you to look over the record of
warrants in my office and see the
names of people for whom warrants
have been issued, making the cost
then, more than double, in some cases
the amounts for which the checks
were given. But, then, they had the
pleasure of showing off as a man of
importance and means and it’s worth
the price, even if their relatives do
have to foot th e bills.
Small Crops and Big Prices.
—Directly after the heavy rains in
the summer, many of our farmer
friends complained that their crops
were cut fearfully short, and that their
prospects were very gloomy. They
had planted with th e nope of realiz
ing at least ten cents for a big crop,
but the crop was cut off and at ten
cents they could not see light ahead.
And then, when our farmers were
bluest, with no hope, it was found that
all cotton producing counties had met
disaster, the over-plus from last year
had been exhausted, and prices began
to climb, and now cotton is selling for
fifteen cents, nearly double what was
expected. Th e secret of good prices
for cotton is solved. The thoughtful
farmer can see that over production
means 8 o r 10 cents, and that small
crop means big prices. The trouble,
however, is, that farmers, this year,
jare getting good money for their cot
ton, they will put in next year for a
big crop, buy car laods of fertilizers,
plant large fields, spend hundreds of
dollars for cultivation, I fear, and re
ceive ten cents per pound.
The Joker on the “Mary Jane.”
I had a letter a few days ago from
my old friend Tom Odom, who lived
when he was a boy, at Newton, Bak
er county on Flint river, and getting
this letter, reminded me of incident
of which he told me years ago. It
in 1868, and steamboats came up then
from Apalachicola, every time the
river was full enough. In 1868 there
were many idle rich people in the
north, and tourists for observation,
too, and they all wanted to see the
country which had recently been con
quered and over run by Sherman and
his horde. The “Mary Jane” was the
boat that made the trip from Ap
alachicola to Albany the most fre
quent, and on this occasion there were
some half a dozen of these young
northern galoots aboard that ivere
playing all kinds of bull dozing pranks
on the passengers, crew, and the peo
ple at the little places where the boat
stopped. They had their own way,
without molestation until they reached
the “tie up” at Newton, when one of
the most over bearing of the number
said to Rube Griffis, the pilot, “just
watch me now, captain. I’m going to
have some fun.” All the passengers
were standing at the railing, on the
upper deck, while the boats crew was
busy piling on wood from a rack that
stood near the wharf. A tall, raw
bone country hoosier stood near the
wood rack, gazing at the boat and the
people. He said nothing to any one,
except to answer a question now and
then from the boat crew, with who he
\vas acquainted, w'hen suddenly the
northern practical joker, wdth a big
knife in his hand, jumped down the
gang-plank, ran up to the country
hoosier exclaming: “Aha, I've found
you at last, after looking for you all
over Florida,” and pretended to make
a lunge at the country man, who quick j
as a flash straightened up, his right i
hand shot out like a battering ram.
and the northern joker went over back
wards into ten feet of w’at'er. After
his companions had fished him out,
greenie looked up at the people, turn
ed his tobacco over in his mouth, and
asked. “Is thar ay other gen’lemen
on that thar boat lookin’ fer me?”
There w'as not, and Mr. Griffis says
them gen'lemen didn't try any more
practical jokes on that trip. Greenie
had tamed the whole business.
Why sell your cotton in the country,
when you can obtain better results by
shipping to The John Flannery Com
pany, Savannah, Ga.
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CHIEF OF POLICE
OUT WITH FACTS
POPULAR OFFICIAL WAS CON
FIXED TO BED THREE MONTHS.
NOW HALE AND HEARTY
SINCE TAKING TAN LAC.
If there is a man in Macon who is
universally known and liked, that man
is Geo. Samuel Riley, the popular and
efficient Chief of Police of that city,
Cheif Riley has been prominently
identified with Macon’s public affairs
for a number of years, and is highly
esteemed and respected for his high
character and integrity by all who
know him. In an interesting inter
view with Dr. W. B. Logan at the
Taylor-Bayne Drug Company Thurs
day morning, Chief Riley said:
“I came to Macon when I was only
a 16-year-old boy from Huston coun
ty, and have been living here for 38
years. I have always enjoyed very
good health, and have been what you
would consider a strong, healthy man.
Last June I was taken very sick, and
was confined to my bed for three
months with a trouble that developed
into pleurisy with serious complica
tions, and I had to undergo several
operations. For a while I was en
tirely helpless.
“After getting out my right side
continued to pain me. My breath
would get short, ad I had terrible
pains and swellings in my legs and
feet and catching pains in my hips
and the small of my back. This trou
ble made me very nervious and I lost
sleep. To tell you the truth, I was
in mighty bad shape, and nothing in
the way of medicine seemed to do me
much good.
“My kidneys bothered me a great
deal and my whole system seemed to
be filled with Uric Acid poison. For
a while I had little control over my
kidneys and this bothered me a great
deal. Like everybody else, I got to
reading about Tanlac and decided to
give it a trial. I can understand now
why everybody is praising this medi
cine, for it helped me right from the
start. The pains in my side have left
me entirely and I now have control
■over my kidneys. The swellings have
all gone down and, I feel like a new
man in every way.
“Yes, sir, this Tanlac just filled me
\vith new life and energy and I feel
more like myself than in months. Ev
eryone has noticed the wonderful im
provement in my condition, and I am
only too glad to say a good word for
Tanlac. I had taken medicines ever
since I was taken sick and nothing
seemed to help me, but two bottles of
Tanlac have put me on my feet and
I feel like myself again.”
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 Dr-.;. Joe and C. W. Cor
bett; and in Brexton by J. H. Rod
denberry; in McDonald, Lochridge &
Lawton; in West Green, Mack’s Drug
Store.
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.
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.
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
J. C. RELIHAN COMPANY
Heavy and Fancy Groceries
■1 in =S
interest, and upon very desirable terms. By
reason of the direct connection which I have
loans can be handled without delay. :
Union Banking E* \JiJ HART DOUGLAS,
Company Bldg F V ** 1 GEORGIA
KIfINEV I DflNPn ° nCoffee
lIUIIDI LullnDU County farms
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 and
square , and loan them money according to their balances, and extend them
any other favor that is consistent with sound hanking. May we not have
a portion of your Banking business? We will appreciate it.
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Now Is The Time For Fall Planting
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” ” 1000 ” 121/2 ” ” ”
” ” 2000 ” 10/2 ”
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