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Uidte Jim’s
By J M. Freeman [’hone*/ 12
—October 7th, 1916.
—Going to Nicholls to-morrow.
—Kinder chilly last Monday morn
ing.
—Cotton in Savannah 16 1-3 this
week.
—Turpentine selling last Wednes
day at 43Vi.
—Fannie Paulk was in town with
her father last Saturday.
—Preaching at Salem on 4th Sun
day now. You are invited.
—The Burkett class, Lyman Hayes,
leader, will be at Nicholls to-morrow.
—Mack Wooten was in town last
Tuesday. Didn’t tell me ary snake
stories this time.
—Corn’s new Barber shop, in front
of the court house is a daisy. Nice
barbers there, too.
—Have so many girl and boy friends
that I get mixed some times, and get
their names mixed.
—Have you sold your cotton? If
you have you have forgotten to come
to see me. Didn’t you.
—W. J. Taylor, of Nicholls, was in
town Saturday and poured some grease
on the Enterprise’s wheels.
—Melvin Kight, with his New For
est class, ae brushing up this week for
the Nicholls convention to-morrow.
—Gussie and Cadie Herring, Ellen
Smith, Gaynelle, Dora, and Dollie prom
ised to meet at Nicholls to-morrow.
—Mrs. Charley Stewart, of McDon
ald, who has been unwell for some
weeks, is said to be improving I am
glad to learn.
—Dan Corbitt, up at Broxton, says
he’s “got to have the Enterprise if
mother has gone to Mcßae,” and he
paved th e way.
the best picture shows twice a day,
that can be had, and the lovers of nice,
clean entertainments have fine oppor
tunities for enjoyment.
—Mayor Davis, of Nicholls, was in
town last Tuesday. Hope he will let
the cold drink stands and restaurants
in his town remain open to-morrow.
‘The Old Lady,” wrote to me
again, this week. Her old man went
to the cane patch to get something for
the baby to chew and she saw her
chance.
—Bill Kight was in town again this
week. Looks to me like he hadn’t
shaved in a month or two, and his
face looks like a broom sedge field
just burned off.
—There’s two girls down at Mt.
Zion talking about buying a Ford car,
in order that they may carry their fel
lows to ride every Sunday. Leap year
will soon be over.
—Ellen Smith, down at Nicholls,
says she is going to school now, hasn’t
much time to be writing to me, and
that she will be looking for me to
morrow. Now that’s just like’em.
—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown, of Corn
elia, Ga., daughter and son-in-law of
Sol Sears, out on No. 2, were visiting
friends and relatives here last week,
and Unis brought them to see me.
—Anna Belle Sears, one of the clever
est, nicest girls on this end of the
burn, was in town Saturday, came to
see me and confessed that she did
have her fellow with her Sunday week.
—Lilia Tanner and Mamie Courson,
two of my best New Forest chums,
came to see me last Saturday. I al
ways feel like “two of the children”
had just stepped in when they come.
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—A. D. Brooker, of McDonald, came
Up last Monday and chatted with me
some time. He says he has made a
good crop, potatoes, corn and sugar
cane. And that is what he does every
year.
—Lyman Hayes says they are going
to elect me as secretary of the Buikett
Singing Convention. If they do I’ll
serve all right, but isn’t it strange that
I’m never elected treasurer of any
thing.
I —There are only 200 standard
bchools in the state, and five of them
are in Coffee county. New Forest, In
man, Arnie, Sycamore and McLelland.
Supt. F'loyd says there will be double
that many next year.
—Alma Moore ,up on No. 4, is im
proved, and says there is no cause for
me to go and carry my quinine bottle.
That’s just like Alma, just as she
[found I was about to come to say
“don’t need you now.”
—Dennis Vickers, Jr., of Ambrose,
came rolling into town Saturday morn
ing last, and came near running over
me with his automobile. Curious how
bigity he’s got since he sold cotton and
bought a gasoline wagon.
—Lyman and Hilton Hayes, who live
up near Burkett church, came in Mon
day mornig from Atlanta. They went
up there nearly a week ago, and came
back only when they were compelled
to leave town, or buy another ticket
home.
—You can buy three pretty good
mullet now for a quarter, and they will
make my family, of three, a good meal.
Just about as cheap as bacon or beef
and much better, until you have eaten
them until you are scaley, and then
everything smells fishy.
—Some one put out the report that
the Nicholls Singing Convention was
to be held on the 15th, instead of to
morrow. People that do not know
anything should keep out of the public
prints. The couvention at Nicholls is
for to-morrow, Oct. Bth.
—They are still talking about the
Douglas Singing Convention next year
Looks like all the Douglas District
people are interested in it, and you
can remember that it cannot be mov
ed by the vote of a few children, and
will be better every year.
—There is more Chero-Cola and
Cocoa-Cola sold in Ambrose than in
any other town in the county. Am
brose has a nice lot of people and is
surrounded with one of the best farm
ing sections in Georgia, and shows
good sence by buying cold drinks in
Douglas.
-—Our Mt. Zion correspondent says
I some °f the girls down there have
[“their fellows picked out, and will get
! the license as soon as they get the
leash.” All right, girls, get ’em hem
| med up, and I’ll come down and snap
the buckle on ’em. Then, I reckon
they’ll be good.
—The leaves are turning yellow in
the forest, persimmons are getting red
possums are slipping about in the
woods, the hoys are blowing their
horns for the hounds, the old folks
are sitting by the fire, and the girls
are in their rooms fixing up their
primery for to-morrow.
—I have the names of eight or ten
prominent farmers in the Douglas Dist
rict who say they are going to put
their shoulders to the wheel next year
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DC UGLAS, GEORGIA, OCT. 7 1916.
for the Douglas District Singing Con
vention when town and country pul!
one way together you can always
count on a big success.
—Now, look here Loyd Brooker, of
McDonald, has been right here in town
going to school for a month, and never
came about me until last Monday.
That’s a hair-lip kind of way to treat
me after I’ve help raise from the
time he could slide (not crawl, he
couldn’t) along on the floor.
—I understand that Mrs. Minnie
Wall, of McDonald, and Editor Borders
of the Pearson Tribune, were married
about two weeks ago. They have gone
to Florida for a short visit, but will
be back soon. I am not in the least
surprised, like them both, and wish
them a life of pleasure and success.
—Mr. T. J. Carver, Nicholls, Rfd.,
hunted me up last Saturday and paid
up back dues to the Enterprise and
some space ahead. I appreciate these
avors. One dollar paid for the Enter
prise means twenty-five cents for me,
and you can’t imagine how much a
quarter helps when you have to buy
every thing you eat.
—Joe Lewis and Miss Hall, at Brox
ton, skipped out when no one was
looking and got married last Saturday
night. Another couple did the same
thing a week before, and thei'e’s an
other wedding getting ripe enough to
pull to-night. Cupid and the high
price for cotton is playing the mischief i
with the young folks.
—Cordelia Quinn is up on Rfd. No.
4, Baxley, anomg friends and relatives
I have a time keeping up with that
girl. Just a short time ago she start
ed out west to chastise the Mexicans,
got as far as Little Rock, Arkansas, I
found it out, wrote to her to come
back home, she did, and now is gone
again. When I get hold of her again
I’ll well, I won’t say any more.
—lf we all live and all the girls
don’t marry off we are going to have
the biggest singing convention at Bur
kett church on the 2nd Sunday in next
July that was ever held there. The
church is too small, of course, and we
are going to build a sixty foot bush
arbor in front of the church. Rules
and reguations will say “no class will
be allowed to sing that is not made up
before that daj.”
—Two candidates for Justice of the
Peace, and more in the bushes, I knew
I would have opposition, and I want
my friends to sit steady in the boat,
and come to the polls on Ist Saturday
in December. If you want to know if
I have made a good Justice or not, ask
the lawyers. They know. And then
ask the people who hav e had cases in
my court if they were treated right.
Then you will have the right answers.
—The Grand Theatre is furnishing
—Jim Minix, who lives a few miles
west of town, says he is the only man
in Coffee county, who has a mule that
has crossed the Ocmulgee river on a
steamboat. He was up at Jacksonville
Ga., not long ago, with his mule and
buggy and he didn’t want to drive
away back by hazlehurst, so when the
boat came along the captain let him
drive on deck, on the east side of the
river, brought him down and landed
him at Barrows bluff on the west side.
—Mary Thigpen, down in Ware coun
ty, sends me an invitation to he wed
ding for to-marrow, and says she will
wait for me until the early train
comes. Well, if she waits until I come
there will be no wedding to-morrow.
I am going to leave Douglas on that
early train but will stop at Nicholls
jto see Ellen, Gaynelle, Dollie, Cadie,
j Gussie adn five hundred other girls and
if any of them have their fellows, a
license and a two dollar bill there will
be a wedding ,otherwise there’ll be
nothing doing in the marriage busi
ness.
Handsome, New Offices.
1 —At the invitation of Mr. Gordon
Floyd I went up to inspect the new
offices of the School Commissioner,
Canning Club Girls, and Corn Club
Boys last Monday. The commissioner’s
’office is the first you come to, thatis,
I the reception room, which opens into
! the business office, where all business
|of the ehools is transacted. The walls
of the rooms are handsomely and artis-
I tically decorated with pictures, and
nice furniture is all about the rooms,
but the prettiest picture and most use
ful furniture I found was at work on a
typewriter machine, Mrs. Wilson, who
is temporarily filling Miss Harris
place, as canning club director. As
you come up the steps, how’ever, direct
ly in front of you, across the spacious
vestibule, you will find Mr. Eunices
office. All the offices have occupants
names painted on the doors, with the
paticular information that “Office Day
is Saturday.” It is all very handsome,
and I regret that I haven’t space to
tell more about the whole business, par
ticularly Mrs. Wilson, but I will work
up an excuse to have business up there
again some time when Floyd and Eun
ice are not looking.
Didn’t Think She Was Married.
—I was coming up town the other
night, and just in front of the Presby
terian church, under the electric light,
met a negro man and woman, when the
PROF. ELMER MORRIS
GAINED 24 POUNDS
TENNESSEE SCHOOL TEACHER
SAYS HE HAS FOUND TANLAC
TO BE THE BEST MEDICINE HE
HAS EVER TRIED.
Of the thousands of letters that have
recently been received at the Tanlac
office from well-known men and wom
en, who have been benefited by this
medicine, none are more interesting
than the one received this week from
S. R. Luton at Bumpus Mills, Tenn.
This letter, which was addresed to
G. F. Willis, Atlanta, Ga., reads ae
follows:
Dear Sir: You will find inclosed a
testimonial from Professor Elmer
Morris, who is one of my customers.
Professor Morris had a delicacy in ex
pressing himself and granted me the
right to give you the particulars in his
case.
He tells me that he has been a great
sufferer from chronic stomach and
bowel trouble, and never had been able
to get anythng to give him any relief.
He fell off in weight from 225 pounds
to 170 pounds. He went to Dawson
Springs, Ky., and when he came back
he said he was no better.
I persuaded him to try Tanlac. He
weighed on my scales at the time he
began taking it and only weighed 170
pounds. After taking thee bottles of
Tanlac he had gained 20 pounds. When
he bought this testimonial to me he
had gained 4 pounds more and weighed
194. He did not want to get back to
225 pounds and decided to quit taking
Tanlac.
This man is a teacher in the public
schools in Stewart County, Term. He
lives here in one mile of my store and
bought the Tanlac from me. His true
postoffice is Dover, Tenn., R. F. D. No.
1. Proffessor Morris’ statement is as
follows:
“I have just finished my third bottle
of Tanlac and have gained 20 pounds.
I just weighed 170 pounds and now I
weigh 190, and never felt better in
my life.
“I have been a great sufferer from
stomach trouble for about one year. I
tried every doctor I could get to, and
went to a health resort at Dawson
Sprngs, but nothing did me any good.
1 decided to take Tanlac and found it
to be the best medicine I ever tried.
“Yours very truly,
“PROF. ELMER MORRIS.’’
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Doug
las by the Union Pharmacy; in Wilia
eoochee by Quillian’s Pharmacy; in
Nicholls by the Johnson Pharmacy;
in Pearson by Dr-!. Joe and C. W. Cor
bett; and in Braxton by J. H. Rod
denberry; in McDonald, Lochridge &
Lawton; in West Green, Mack’s Drug
Store.
man asked: “Is dis de judge?” I an
swered that it was. “Well, look a here
j judge, me and dis ’oman wants ,tu git
I married.” All right, I said, give me
the license and two dollars. “Here's
de license, judge, but I aint got de two
dollars.” I waited a moment until he
went through his pockets, after which
he shook his head. I pretended to
hand the license back, when the woman
jerked her hand out of a pocket quick
ly, handed me two dollars and exclaim
ed. “Here’s de money, judge, now go
ahead.” I repeated one of my gfcy
word ceremony and pronounced them
man and wife. “Look ahere, judge, I
wants to know if we is sho nuff mar
ried.” I told them they were, and
that what I had done in a minute
would take 24 jurors two years to un
do, and they went back uptown, bought
a string of mullet and went hom e hap
py and contented.
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