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—Wonder what has become of Mike
Carted, down at Rockingham?
—Myrtice Corbitt and Fannie Paluk,
Kirkland Rfd., were in town Tuesday.
—Looks like qotton is going to
twenty cents before Christmas.
Eighteen now,
—Big old Sampie Smith says he’ll
be- here on the Ist Saturday in Decem
ber, bright and early. I want just
100 more like him.
—Little Lilia and Banah Adams,
who live out on No. 2, brought me
some nice pears last Sunday and they
are nice girls, too.
—l’ve been looking for a letter from
Erie Passmore, over at Quitman, for
a week, but it don’t come. Guess she
got sorter stuck-up like.
—Bonny Lee Williams, at Zirkle,
says she don’t “want m e to waste too
much time with these girls/iiK here,
that i must rerrirfijnlTer' the Zirkle
gms.” /'
—I am .mighty gird thrt f’o G -i
sutjwfatfne boat can’t hit Do . n
the three mile limit. I’m getting
mighty tired of this German war fool
ishness anyhow.
—Mr. M. E. Vickers, who has a
nice farm, east of town, was cutting
hay last week, and one day, found and
killed, four possums, one snake, seven
rats and two rabbitts.
—Noah Burkett has been married
over a month now, and his wife has
begun to call him “old man.” Wonder
ful how marriage makes people so
old folksy, isn’t ii ?
—Ellen Smith, down at Nichoils,
want- to know what 1 am mad with
her about? Ellen knows better than
that, but you know how a girl is,
always keeping you guessing.
—Cadie and Bessie, over on Nichoils
Rfd., has just finally quit me. Looks
like when girls are going to quit a
fellow they ought to give some kinder
notice. It’s not legal, otherwise.
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—Latest wireless from Saginaw
says my little chums down there have
all picked out a felloy, and gone to
spooning to beat the band. Reckon I
ought to go down and investigate.
—Capt. Walker, the road master ,of
the Ga. & Fla., at this place, showed
me a fine sample of pecans grown in
his yad, in the city. They were very
fine and the largest seen tills season.
—The Tribune says, last week, that
Mr. Tally Guthrie and Miss Maud
Mercer, were married near Pearson on
the Bth. They didn’t let me know any
thing about it, but they are forgiven
this time.
—Writing paper is getting so ex
pensive that all my girj friends are
requested to use only,ohe side of their
paper jn, wilting to me. I need the
tfth<£ side to write my answer on.
Remember this, girls.
—J. Walter James, of Pearson, was
in town la.-t Monday, and so was his
pretty daughter, Lois, who says she
is cooking now. When I have a
chance to go down and see then I’ll
know something about cooking.
—One of the new subscribers this
week is J. S. Moore, at Fairfax. The
! remmittance was made by Mrs. Moore
land it is believed, at this office that
; she wants the Enterprise so she can
keep on the trail of Uncle Jim.
-—I regret to learn of the death of
Mr. Duncan Floyd, near Pearson last
week. He has suffered for some time
with dropsy, of which he died, but
still, his death, while expected, was a
shock. The bereaved ones have our
sympathy.
-Manning Smith, one of opponents
for Justice, says his job at the jail
will expire on the Ist day of January,
and he wants mine. Isn’t that courte
ous? But if lam re-elected, I will do
my best to get him another position at
or in the jail.
I —I have heard this week, that ome
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, OCT. 21 1916.
o:,e held up J. I. Hatfield, between thi:
place and his home, one night this
week, and relieved him of hiis chewing
tobacco and pocket knife. That’s too
bad. Hatfield would rather lost ten
dollars than his tobacco.
—Virgil Passmore, down on the Sat
illa, writes a postal and says: “I bet
you’ve forgotten me.” That's one
you’ve lost, and have got to pay for
I may forget to pay my debts but
never have been known in the past
hundred years to forget a pretty girl.
Can prove it.
—Sibbett Vickers says it is “nice to
be the father of a bouncing baby.” I
noticed that he seemed mighty bigity,
while in own last week, and I thought
it was the high price of cotton, but I
learned better. That’s all right; and
it entitles him to vote for me in Decern
her. Who’s next to qualify?
—Dave Kirkland, up at Wray, says
I’ve just about ruined him, in publish
ing a notice of his marriage, when he
hasn’t ever had the “pleasure of know
ing a girl that would talk sweet to
him.” Well, I knew he wanted to
marry, and thought if I’d publish that
notice he’d hurry up, get busy and
make it true.
—My Mount Zion correspondent in
forms me that they “have the cash,
the boys would not or could not raise
jt, and they will soon be ready for
business.” lam ready now, girls; get
the documents, have th e boys up in a
corner, get me on the wire, I’ll come
and snap the ’buckle before leap year
is out and gone.
—Robert Ricketson, up here at Am
brose, caught a boll weavil on Oct Bth,
put it in a bottle tightly corked, and
up to this time October 18th, it is still
alive, active and in good health, being
without food, water or air for ten days.
Some people in this section seem to
think this “boll weavil talk” a myth,
but if they fail to combat its invasion
it is feared they will find a very costly
realization.
—My old friend, Gus Brack, says
he wants to be Justice of the Peace in
order that his son in Tampa, Fla., will
be honored, or words to that effect.
I can go Gus one better: I want the
office in order that I may get a square
meal, in Douglas, at least three times
a week. “Keep the honors at home,”
as Betsy Hightoner said when she
married her step father, a week after
her mother’s death.
—Little Johnnie was late at school
Thursday morning and when he came
in with his bucket on his arm, puffing
and blowing, and climed upon his seat,
(the teacher gruffly askied: “Whj.t
makes you so late, Johnnie?” Please,
sir, I have a new little sister at home
that cairio last night,” was the tremu
lous answer. “Well, don’t let this
thing happen again,” the teaher ad
monished. “No sir, I sure won’t,”
Johnnie nswered as he eyed the bunch
of switches in the teachers hand.
—An old farmer outside cf town,
tame in, sold three bales cf cotton
last - week for 8250, and wanted tc
know if I couldn’t let him have the
paper for 75 cents a year, when he is
getting the best price for cotton he
ever got in his life and the paper costs
more than ever before. I wouldn’t
argue with him, but just made it up
in my mind to ask Jake Donniny to
ship three extra car loads of ccal to
hell for the benefit of this old titewad
when he gets there—he’s going. And
for goodness sake, Jake, don’t make a
mistake and ship ice! If you do you
may have to go down there yourself
and rectify the mistake.
CORN SHUCKING IN 18C8.
Thecotton will soon be all out, then
the corn must be hauled up to the
cribs. When I was a boy this was a
season of fun, because late in October,
the corn was hauled up in front of the
cribs, piled in two long rows across
the lot, and invitations sent out to the
boys and girls of the neighborhood to
come over to the “corn shucking.”
Some time the cane was ripe, and had
been hauled up to the house, not far
from the cane mill, and when the tim e
came around, generally on Friday and
Saturday nights, the mills were start
ed early in the day, and by diner
time the kettles on the furnaces were
full of nice, clear cane juice. The
fires under the kettles were started
about 2 o’clock, the boiling was going
on and the mills were kept busy fur
nishing more juice. Then the boys
and girls commence arriving, some go
ing to the syrup kettles, while others
spread out all along the rows of corn.
One fellow, way up at the head of the
corn row, would holler out, “Who laid
the Rail?” Another, down at the
other end would repply “Sallie” or
“Mary,” whichever name he happened
to think of, and then she would com
mence to hide, for the first fellow
that shucked a red ear of corn was
going to catch and kiss her. And
sometimes if the fellow with the red
ear of corn happened to be the right
one “Sallie” wasn’t hard to catch, but
she’d manage to get around behind a
crib or something that would serve as
a sceen before she’d let the boy catch
and kiss her, in order that there would
be some privacy and decency in such
a ticklish proceeding. Some of the
boys were mean enough to say she
i HAVE NOW THROWN
MY CRUTCHES ASIDE
SAYS MRS. BISHOP
MOTHER OF NINE CHILDREN
SUFFERED FOR TWENTY-TWO
YEARS.
“When a medicine gets you over
your troubles you’ve hnu far twenty
two years and takes you off of crucch
es, there’s nothing in the world too
good to say about it, and that’s what
Tanlac has done for me, ad I certain
ly ought to be willing to testify to the
truth and let everybody know about
it.”
This unusal statement was made by
Mrs. N. A. Bishop, of Roswell, Ga.,
who is the mother of nine children,
and has a great many friends and ac
quaintances in that section. Mrs. Bis
hop was talking to Mr. R. S. McDer
ment, of the G. T. Lyon Drug Co., of
that place, who had heard of this re
markable case and driven five miles
out in the country to the Bishop home
to investigate the report.
“Yes,” continued Mrs. Bishop, “I’ve
been a criple with rheumatism for
a long time and for three years I’ve
been using crutches and hadn’t been
able to do anything about the house
for a good many years back. That’s
the plain fact and my folks and all the
neighbors know of my helpless condi
tion, and will tell you the same thing
any time you ask ’em.
“I would have severe pains in the
hips and small of my back even when
1 wasn’t trying to get about, and be
sides that, I was not in a very good
general condition. It may have start
ed because I couldn’t get about and
take exercise, but I lost my appetite
and things didn’t taste good nor agree
with me after I had eaten. I was
constipated a good deal too.
“I saw where Tanlac was helping a
great many people and I thought may
be it would make me feel a little bet
ter even if it failed to help my pains;
but I am happy to say it has done a
hundred times more than,l expected,
for I have laid aside the old crutches
and am now actually doing all my
house work.
“I have taken five bottles and can
walk anywhere I want to without
crutches and my rheumatic pains have
left me. My appetite is good and I
can eat anything I want without its
bothering me in the least, and I believe
if I continue to take it a while longer
it will make me entirely well for good
and all.
“I want everybody to know about
this great medidne for it certainly is
wonderful—my case ougtit to prove
that to anybody. I want everybody
that has such troubles to get it and
stop wasting their money on quack
medicines.”
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 Creen, Mack’s Drug
Store.
enjoyed it, but I woudn’t like to be
quoted as saying she did. In this way
a man could get a good deal of corn
shucked, and at the same time the
young folks had a nice time, for about
ten o’clock it was found that the syrup
in one of the kettles had been cooked
too much and was just right for can
dy pulling. Every pan, tray and buck
et on the place was filled with this
overcooked syrup, and the boys and
girls pulled candy, smearing each
other with the sweetness until mid
night, and then went home. I went
to a good many of these corn buckings
and nearly all of them a pretty little
black eyed girl stood near me as I
shucked corn, and when I got a red
ear I didn’t wait for anyone to call
her name for me to perform the kiss
ing act, but many times she saw the
red ear before or as soon as I did,
and was gone like a shadow. Well,
it is all over now, and many of those
boys and girls have passed away, are
at rest on the other side of the river
and I am still on the road of life plod
ding along tired and feeble but I love
to think of those happy days.
—Lois James says she’s “a fine
cook.” Ces, I know, those were ex
cellent mud pies she used to cook on
the side of the ditch, down the road.
Ten or twelve years ago.
—Delia Quinn, who has been up
about Baxley for two weeks, is at
home again. I was not at the office
when she came to see me last Monday,
Jim Chappell was, and he says he is
a splendid substitute when the girls
want to see me. I see right now I’ve
got to move my office or learn him to
stay in his place.
—Cotton is nearly all out, farmers
will have only a few bales to sell for
20 cents.
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