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<3o@ik 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. . -.. 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 75 B —s 635 —f. o. b. Toledo. 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. Make our store your headquarters. Wilson Jewelry Co. OtSIASCS MO MHCiff A TOftit IS MOUiPID Directions— Priceso Cts, (6b®«»f«jr»a joj a The tablet form of this old reliable remedy makes it possi ble for you to check any illness at the very onset. It is a safe guard against coughs, colds and other catarrhal conditions, no matter what symptoms are manifest. Catarrh is an inflamma tion of the mucous membrane that lines the breathing apparatus and the digestive apparatus. PERUNA relieves catarrh. In tablet form it is EVER-READY-TO-TAKE Its prompt action makes it in valuable for men and women ex posed to sudden changes in the weather or compelled to be out in slush and rain. It will also be found most satis factory as a tonic following an at tack of illness. CARRY A BOX wherever you go. Travelers and others com pelled to take long drives in the cold and anyone whose occupation subjects him to the danger of sudden colds may use it as a preventive with the assurance that the tablets made are from the same formulary as the liquid medicine with its 44 years of success before the American Public. The P:runi Company, Colombo*. Ol io STOP IN ATLANTA AT HOTEL EMPIRE Opposite LTnion Depot on Pryor St. Renovated and refurnished throughout. Reservations made on application. Hot and cold water, private baths, electric lights and elevator. First class accommodations at moderate prices. Rooms 50c ANn D up JOHN L. EDMONDSON, Prop. 1 »l I P This Coffee is Guaranteed good In your search for the best and most economi cal coffee, you take no chances when you buy Luzianne. Each can carries this unqualified guarantee: “After using the entire contents of this can according to directions, if you are not satisfied in every respect, youi grocer will re fund the money you paid for it." We also give a money-back guarantee that you only have to use one-half as much Luzianne as a cheaper coffee. Write for premium catalog. LUZIANNE ■ 1 ' / COFFEE ‘The Re ily-Taylor Co. New Orleans Attention farmers YOU CAN BUY ON EASY TERMS, OR RENT AT REASONABLE PRICES GOOD FARMING LAND AT WEST GREEN,COFFEE COUNTY A GOOD OFFER TO RENTERS Seize this opportunity before it is too LATE. 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.