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By J M. Freeman
and the Baby Coming to the
Fair.
.You remember in 1913 I wrote
about John, Bettie and the baby? Of
course, you do? And you know the
last time I wrote anything about them
1 told you that they had gone to a
home they had bought over in Jeff
Davis county? Certainly you rem
ember all about it. Well, I met John
here in town last Saturday and he is
a different man now, looks different,
smiles at you and shakes hands dif
ferently. “Hello, Unde Jim,” he
said, “Hello, John,” was my answer,
and he was gone. H e was dressed
nicely, face all clean and smiling. I
tried to catch up wth him, to ask
about Bettie and the baby, but couldn’t
and so I went on down to my office,
sat down and wondered why John
hadn’t brought them with him. I
hat’. ’t seen them since last Christ
mas, and did want •' sc F. •
bad. So I was sitti ; in my < ”• ■
down at the house on Sunday morning
when 1 heard the front gate slam,
some one was in the hall, and I heard
Bettie’s voice. I couldn’t hardly wait
for her to come to me, (it was just
like one of the children coming home)
in a moment she was standing by me,
her pretty eyes looking down at me,
while she talked like one of the girls
telling me about what had happened
snee she saw me iast. I couldn’t get
her to sit down. She was just like
John, looked so happy and when she
talked it seemed that her heart was
almost in her pretty throat, as she
told me what a dear old John was,
and what a good girl the baby was.
Oh. Bettie was happy.,l could almost
see tears of joy in her eyes, and see
ing her soh happy made me have to
take off my glasses and wipe a tear
aside. Sh ( . went away Sunday morn
ing, wouldn’t miss going for anything,
because John would be at the depot.
She carried a hat and and a dress
home for th e baby and John and Bet
tie and the baby and John
are coming to the Fair. God bless
’em.
—There is rejoicing and lamenta
tion in the land.
—Buelah Puris and Mary L. Mead
ows were in town Saturday.
—Lucena Spivey says her father
is some better. I am glad to hear
it.
—We would be thankful if the girls
or boys at school would write us a
postal every week.
—Gussie and Cadie have not sent
me word that they had kicked me, but
they have, all the same.
—The best man is not always elect-
’795 ’795
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„ w „ Luxurious Bigness!
A big roomy car is luxurious —no two ways
about it.
But extra inches in an automobile cost hun
dreds of dollars —as a rule.
It took an investment of millions in facilities
for tremendously increased production —
tTo effect the economies necessary to produce
luxurious size at this price.
The wheelbase is 112 inches —•
• ed. Money and whiskey is a powerful
factor in elections, but it did not
elect as good a man as Wilson.
—Georgia Wilcox, down on McDon
ald, Rfd., says she is coming to the
I Fair. And she says besides, that to
! morrow, 12th, is preaching day at
Stokesville.
—My little chum, at Quitman, Erie
Passmore, writes me that she is go
ing to school, learning music and
having a nice time. I am glad to
hear from her.
—And you know that many farmers
I (
will plant too much cotton next year
on the strength of having received
good prices this fall, and the price
will go down.
—Ada Tanner and Mary Sears were
j in town one day last week and want
led me to go down somewhere to a
leap year party. Guess they thought
I might find a job of “tying ’em up.”
—The next big to-do will be Rob
inson’s show and the Fair. Robin
son’s shows are always good. And
our old friends who have no children
must borrow one as an excuse to
come and see the animals.
—Bill Right was in town one day
Fast week, lost his pretty daughter
! for a while, and accused me of hiding
| her somewhere. Besides two or three
| young fellows here in town wanted
!to know “who was the pretty girl
j dressed in brown?”
—George Right and O. A. Stokes
will conduct an all day sing at the
Vickers School House, near the resi
dence of 1). W. Vickers on the 3rd
Sunday, 19th of November. Every
j body invited to come and bring dinner
| Ruthie will please tell the children to
| sweep up the yard at the school house.
—Jap McDonald is the most in
consistent fellow I know. He spells
| the nam e of his Country Kracker Club
with only one “K.” Every word is
'spelled rightfully with a “C” and the
words at both ends ought to be spelled
i with a “K,” as well as One in the
! middle, thus Kuntry Kracker Klub.
• —Pretty good evidence comes from
' the farmers of Alabama that partrid
|ges and boll weavils are not friends.
lln the boll weavil infected districts
of Alabama, comes the story that
partridges have been caught, and after
examination their craws were found
to be full of boll weavils. The far
mers are posting their lands against
tresspassers, hunters who come out
from towns in car loads to kill par
tridges, and Coffee county farmers
should do the same. Droves of geese
in the spring time keep grass out of
cotton and the partridges will do the
same for the bollw eavil.
—Martha Nobles, writing from
W. L. ROGERS, DEALER
Douglas, Georgia
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE UGLAS, GEORGIA, NOV. 11 1916.
Manor, Clinch county says: Uncle
I Jim, you ought to have come out to
I I he big quilting at our home last
! Thursday night. Twenty-two girls
and as many boys came, just after
i uniner and by nine o’clock we had
quilted, taken out of frames and hem-
I med four quilts. We used two pair
jcf frames. Nat Rodgers and Bur
j rell Smith quilted as many squares
as any girl there, leaving twenty boys
|to strip, grind cane and boil syrup,
j We pulled candy until ten, o’clock
land then danced until midnight. We
I will have another one next week, and
mama says if you’ll come she will
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dance with you. Be sure to Come.”
I am not making any promises now,
for I am rather skittish about fooling
around with you Clinchite girls any
how.
—Don’t tigure on 20 cent cottor.
next year, if you do the account won’t
ballance out. Brown, the big farmer,
says he does not expect to plant much
so does many others, and Smith and
Jones overheard them say so, and now
they are making arrangements to
plant twenty acres to the mule, in
stead of ten, as they did in 1916. You
see ? ,
Th^'oliage^^^^t
\ that never blooms through hand-
A. some in itself, laks the attractive
ness of its neighbor, radiant with
brilliant blssoms.
H apo 'l v * the human foliage plant
f ma Y be adorned with gems and
jewels, enhancing natural grace ana
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