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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, ■ 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. RUB-MY-TISM Will cure Rheumatism, Neu ralgia, Headaches. Cramps, Colic Sprains, Bruises, Cut 9, Burns, Old Sores, Tetter, Ring- Worm, Ec zema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally or externally. 25c 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. 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 1000 and you have a fortune in sight. PLANT 2000 and you have a fortune. PRICES IN 100 LOTS 15 CENTS EACH DELIVERED. ” ” 1000 ” 121/2 ” ” ” ” ” 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. PresidentjWaycross, Ga.