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MR. FRIERS’ BIRTHDAY.
Mr. Frier, editor of the Enterprise,
was 39 years of age on the 3rd of this
month, and I had dinned with him—
just to celebrate, you know. I think
it was a kind of thanksgiving dinner.
Thankful that on this birthday he had
with him his mother, 71 years of age,
his wife 25, Ryan, his oldest son, 8,
Mojorie, 6; and Julian, th e younger
boy,4. All bright, pretty children, but
they couldn’t be anything else with
such parents—that is on the mother’s
side. The table, at dinner time, was
laden with templations for a man’s ap
petite that had to be avoided, so I just
tipped around on the outside and ate
enough to make one remember the oc
casion for another year. After dinner
Mrs. Frier at the piano, the children
sang some songs until it was time to
go back to go back to work. Mr. Frier
has been owner of the Enterprise since
October 1909, has buHt up tk 2? e,
put in a linotype, bought new job
type, and today the paper is one of
the best in Southern Georgia.
On the corner of Ward street and
Gaskin avenue he has a pretty home,
just built a year ago, well furnished
with plain, durable furniture, and last,
but the best, he has a fine library. It
was an enjoyable occasion for me, and
whether I am there or not, 1 hope for
Mr. Frier and his lovely family many
returns of the occasion which was so
pleasant to me on his 39th birthday.
I have known him since 1907, knew
his father before him, and the longer
I know him the better I love him and
his, and may God, in His mrcy give
them long life and prosperity.
—I am not saying which school
made the finest display.
—Ther e were more children in town
this week than I cound count.
—Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Smith and
their pretty children came to see me
this week.
—My oid friend Minchew, of Alma,
came up last Monday to take in the
fair and v : sit friends.
—Farmers are buying more mules
this fall than you ever heard of them
dc.r.g before. Careful, boys.
—John Paulk says ‘’By gum, he
can go fishing, and no one in the
county can beat him at that.
—Don’t forget the sing at Vickers’ :
school hou.- e to-morrow. Let’s all go |
out and see how Ruthie looks.
— I have not heard from Pearl Cor
bitt since April, except now ar.d then
just a whiff cf news from some one
■else.
—and what do you think? Ellen
Smith, my chum, down at Sessoms,
came to see me Monday. Yes, she is
w.
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Old Style
Above is the old-fashioned type of
automobile spring still being used
by many motor car manufac
turers.
It gives the car a violent “throw” on
every rebound.
Most of the automobiles that ride
uncomfortably do so on account
of the “throw” in this kind of
spring.
They are back breakers.
pretty.
—E. J. Burkett and Mrs. Burket
came to see me Monday, to quarrel
because the Enterprise missed them
last week.
—The Pearson Tribune and Ware
County News are both much improved
Both papers full of good stuff and
well printed.
—Misses Effie, Bessie and Jessie
Burkett, accompanied by Frank Bur
kett were amng those who came to
j see me last Monday.
—lf biscuits keep going up a buis
cuit and a half per biscuit, how long
will it b e before you’ll have to give
a dollar just to see a biscuit?
—Georgia Wilcox, of McDonald,
Rfd., came to see me last Tuesday. I
gave her a show ticket and then she
wouldn’t let me go with her.
—Woodrow Wilson was elected on
Nov. 7th, 1912, and I cam e along and
,was elected a month later. I expect
it will happen that way again in 1919.
—Carrie Staley has the Pridgen
school again this term. She must
have a nic e school and is being well
fed, for she looked better than usual.
—Mrs. W. M. Mancill came in the
other day and gave me two silver dol
lars on subscription. I wish she’d
, move to town so she could vote for
me.
—ou young friend up at the Enter
prise office. Leonard Christopher, is
going to make a good job printer. He
made a fine job on the Ladies Cook
Book, this week.
—lf I had to pay a man money or
whiskey to vote for me I would not
have any voters. If a man does not
care enough for me to vote without
pay he is not my friend.
—The “Old Lady,” up at Ambrose,
didn’t write last week. I guess her
hubby wouldn’t hold the baby and give
her a chance, or she is busy making
soap. She’s mighty industrious.
—Dennis Vickers, Jr., cf Ambrose,
was here Tuesday, having a big time.
Mrs. Vickers was with him and he
went home early, but as he went out
of town he kept looking back, like
he’d left something.
—Myrtice Peace was in town agaii
last Saturday. When she was here
! before she said her best fellow ware a
j white cap. She has kicked him, and
!was looking for one this time that
I wore a stripped cap.
—Coffee County seems to be getting
a mighty bad name abroad. It is said
there are more murderers and blind
tigers here than any where else in
Southern Georgia, and what I hate
about ie is that it is true.
Bartley Vickers came in last
Monday with some of the longest, red
and blue cane I ever saw and what he
W. L. ROGERS, DEALER
Douglas, Georgia
The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio
“Made in U. S. A.”
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. NOV. 18 1916.
liked in filling out the car he made
up with flowers and pretty women.
Bartley has mighty good sense, any
how.
—Teh boy or girl at school must
remember .fj-urj pal nt have
paid their bills all through life, are
‘■■till paying them, and the dutiul boy
or girl ought to show their apprecia
tion by trying to learn fast and cut
off the expense.
—Somebody' is getting Wiley Neu
gent’s paper over on the Kirkland
route. We keep sending it and he
heeps writing that there is something
wrong and he doesn’t get it. If I
could just catch the fellow that takes
it I’d have his teeth plugged.
—The only couple that I could find
this week wanted to be married were
J. G. Thompson and Eva Moods.
Both of them are well known young
people with hundreds of friends. Eva
w r as one of my chums. That makes
29 I hav e lost this year. I wish them
well.
—Warren Vickers was in town last
Saturday, with a good looking woman
in his car, and it wasn’t his wife either
but I’m going to tell her. No married
man in the county allow’ed to side w'ith
women that are not their wives ex
cept me. I’m priviledge character.
See that?
—George Melton, of the Alma
Times, complains of hard times, and
he has been married only two years.
When he has six youngsters to buy
clothes, shoes and school books oor,
and more shoes every two months,
then he will have reason to complain
that his fifty dollars per week will
not hold out, and that times are get
ting tough.
—Mr. and Mrs. Weathers and three
children, of Ambrose, were in town
I Tuesday. Weathers told me later
| that h e had a hole in his pocket and
I had lost his money. I saw the hole
in his pocket all right, but I never
I have seen him with any money. Why
! in thunder couldn’t he have lost the
hole and shown me the money? Just
1 a story he hatched up to fool his wife.
—Girls are getting married so fast
1 that I can hardly keep up with them,
j All my- Wooten school chums are mar
! ried. Mattie Wooten, that was once,
! gave me a list of them but I lost it,
or some girl fooling around my desk
| hunting some other girl’s letter, mis
placed them. Girls are awful trouble
sme sometimes when you are busy and
they want to talk some—just a min.
ute.
—The New Forest school had “Un
cle Tom’s Cabin,” built entirely of
stalks of green sugar cane, at the Fair
j There were no wooden logs in its con
struction, every log cut and shaped,
was of green sugar cane. I do not
know who did the work, but the idea
was certainly an original one. Efut,
then, when you know those New For
est people as I do you need not be sur
priised at anything they do.
—There is not a man in Coffee Coun
ty that has don e more for the people
and their children than I have. I have
tried to make friends of all of them,
visited their schools and churches,
noted their progress and prosperity,
and in their troubles I have sympa
thized with them, and it looks like
they ought not to let a man that has
never done anything for them put me
New Style
Above is the up-to-date easy riding
spring. It is the well known can
tilever type.
This spring absorbs all shocks, jars
and jolts.
It is the easiest riding spring in the
world.
It is used on the famous Overland
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out of office by the use of whiskey.
You know who.
—Cora Kight up near Broxton,
found out last Saturday morning that
her best fellow was coming to se e her
on Sunday and as she had kicked the
toes out of her last Summer’s slip
ptrs she came to town to find a pair
of shoes, and I got to see her. I do
not remember whether I told her that
j Tonie had come to see me the week
before or not. I hope not, for it
won’t do to let your left hand girl
know what the right one is doing.
Girls are so fractious.
FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
I am a candidate for re-eleciton for
Justice of the Peace of the Douglas
(748th) District at the election to be
held on the Ist Saturday in December,
next. I have tried to serve the people
faithfully for the past term, my record
stands before the public, and if re
elected will have my experience and
knowledge of the law to help me. I
need the proceeds of the office to help
me live, and will thank you for your
support.
J. M. FREEMAN.
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SOUR GEORGIA FARRS COMPANY
west Green, Georgia
A GEORGIA FARM THAT WON
SUCCESS BY DIVERSIFYING
ANDREW M. SOULE, President, Ga. State College Of Agriculture.
Given a typical Piedmont farm,
with its characteristic red clay soil,
operating primarily as a cotton plan
tation, what can be done with it? In
other words, can this farm be chang
ed over to a diversified proposition
with profit and success? Many a
land owner is confronted by just such
a situation, and hence the topic is
of general interest. That an under
taking of this character can be suc
cessfully accomplished has been clear
ly demonstrated at the College farm
at Athens. It has been the policy
to reclaim a new area of land each
year. Unsatisfactory crops are raised
on, much of this land the first year
or two after an attempt to reclaim
it because of its eroded condition and
its bad physical state. An increase
in the herds of live stock, thereby en
abling larger amounts of yard manure
to be made available each year and
its return to the soil, has resulted in
improving the land and increasing its
crop-yielding powers. Three hundred
and fifty acres of land are now under
the plow.
The farm had been abused for years.
It was without satisfactory buildings
or a suitable equipment of implements
or live stock. It was determined at
once to organize it on the basis of a
stock farm, but without overlooking or
neglecting the possibilities of cultivat
ing cotton and the varied crops adapt
ed to the soil and climatic conditions
of the Piedmont area. Of necessity the
equipment could only be slowly pur
chased and assembled. The first un
dertaking was to organize a small dairy
herd and offer milk for sale. The re
ceipts from the herd the first year
amounted to $1,124.44, and the sales
of live stock to $72.29. The value of
the cotton and the cotton seed was
$469.72, making a total turnover of the
farm $1,799.37. This happened in the
college year 1907-1908. Nine years la
ter the sales from the dairy herd
amounted to $6,700.41, showing a
steady and uniform increase through
out the period in question. The sales
of live stock increased from $72.29 to
$3,056.02, showing an even greater in
crease. The sales from cotton and
cotton seed have varied somewhat ac
cording to the season and the price
of the staple. The first year the crop
brought $469.62, and in other years
it has sold for as much as $1,831.83.
The total receipts have varied f;cra
$1,799.37 the first year to $11,002.69
in 1915-1916. The total receipts from
the dairy herd in nine years have
amounted to $43,768.21, from the sales
of live stock to $13,377.95, and from the
sales of cotton and cotton seed $lO,-
819.68, making a total of $69,572.99 for
the nine-year period.
No profit was made from the farm
for the first three years because of the
lack of equipment and the impover
ished condition of the soil, but since
1910-1911 the receipts from the farm
show a net return of nearly $18,000.00
over the actual outlay. This must be
regarded as a satisfactory demonstra
tion of the possibilities of building up
worn-out plantation lands through the
institution of a diversified farm prac
tice in which live stock husbandry is
strongly emphasized. Remember, that
it was necessary to start in and re
claim practically all the land now un
der the plow, a considerable part of
which had been thrown out for a
number of years and it was, therefore,
badly washed and eroded.
A great variety of crops have been
raised successfully. Cereals are grown
each year and a crop of 2,000 to 3,000
bushels of oats obtained. Corn is rais
ed in considerable quantity, the stover
being used for roughage. Cowpeas
and sorghum, oats and vetch, oats,
I'ye and crimson clover, Sudan grass
and other forage crops have been
grown on considerable areas and cut
and cured as hay. Kaffir coni and
soi'ghum have been grown together
and used primarily for the produc
tion of silage, several hundred tons
of which is made each year. Cow
peas have been used as soil builders
and turned under whenever practica
ble. A considerable area of land has
been devoted to alfalfa which has
been cut from four to five times a
year.
A rotation of crops has been estab
lished. Oats have been planted after
cotton and corn and followed, as a
i ule, by cowpeas sown alone or in
combination with some forage crop to
be made into hay or turned under for
soil improvement. Cotton and corn
have been grown after cowpeas. A
three-year rotation, including the four
crops, has been the object kept in
view. It is conservatively stated that
the lands now under cultivation are
vorth S2O an acre more for agricultu
ral purposes than when the work of
improvement was first undertaken.