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—Wonder who the Lax Girls
are?
—Death does not take the old
est every time.
—lt is the safest plan to live
right, and then you can die
right.
—Erie Passmore, my Quitman
chum, is a good correspondent.
W r rites regular.
—Emmie Wall has quit me
sure as gun’s iron, and kicked
me without warning.
—lf the election goes demo
cratic to-day I’ll get up a good
Note Rook next week.
—Mrs. J. C. McCarthy has
been sick for two or three weeks,
but is some better this week.
—Gaynelle Everett, down at
Saginaw, is having such at!me
that she can’t write the news.
—I didn’t go to the sing at
Vickers’ School, because I had
no way to get there. lam soi'-
ry.
—Walter Dent gave me a bot
tle of fine syrup last Saturday,
and says he will vote for me to
day.
—To-day, Saturday, Dec. 2nd.
is election day for Justice of the
Peace. Can you come in and
help me with your vote?
—George Kinght came down
here from Jeff Davis County the
other day and tried to eat Henry
Vickers out of house and home.
—Henry Vickers has been try
ing all the week to make folks
believe I was stuck up, and one
girl from the country thinks it
is so.
—Very sorry, but we have
told you a dozen times that we
could not publish communica
tions written on both sides of
paper.
—Lillian Tanner, up at New
Forest, has quit coming to see
me or writing any news. Some
girls are mightly upity this time
of year.
—C. L. Mobley, at Wray, is j
a colored man, and believes in
keeping up with the legal news
of the county, so he takes the j
Enterprise.
—There is another couple out
onNo. 2 that have been chinning
each other a long time. Hope
he’ll get her to say “yes” by
Christmas.
—Mattie Vickers (No. 7),
came to see me last Monday, for
the first time in six months. No
change, only she grows prettier
every time 1 see her.
—Delia O’Quinn came to see
me the other day to tell me she
going out in the country to
syrup boiling and other good
times. She is always on the go.
—R. J. Joiner says his child
ren are bothering and fretting
about the Note Book, and he
guess he’ll have to have it, and
beswitched if he didn’t pay the
freight.
—G. W. Daniel, of Pearson, is
and old subscriber, got behind,
but like the good, honest man
that he is, came in this week,
and paid up back dues, and some
in advance.
—Perry Adams brought me a
bottle of fine new syrup last Mon
day and I bet it was a present
from Pearlie. They bring me
theree or four bottles every year.
God blCfcs ’em. •*"
■—David Adams said, last Sat
urday, that if “he didn’t come
and vote for me to-day he’d try
to send a hand.” Now, Dave,
that will be a man trick; why
not come and bring a hadn.
—l’ve just gotten a new re
ceipt book and the first man that
has name on it is .T. 11. Crenshaw
His folks has a race with each
other for the Note Book every
week. Paid up for next y r.r.
—Ellen Smith, down at Ses
! soms, said when she was up here
at the Fair, that she was going
jhome and write to me, and she
hasn’t done it. Some girls won’t
do what they promise no how.
| —I said something about a
young fellow carrying a mar
riage license two weeks in his
pocket recently, and three other
fellows came up since then want
ing to know if I meant them,
j —Clara Dent, up on No. 1, was
in town last Saturday and had
‘on her new dress. Curious how
Isome girls will act when they
have on something new; why
she wouldn’t even speak to me.
—Our old rooster ate a poison
ed rat last week and he le&ves
seven widowed hens, and me
without anything for my Christ
mas dinner. Wonder if he com
mitted suicide to keep from dy
ing.
—I saw Rebecca Vickers at
the Fair. Pretty as ever but
she still has that pet freckle on
her nose. Guess I better get my
razor and shave it off some time,
if I can get her to hold still long
enough.
—Mrs. E. H. Harper, up on
No. 3, has concluded that there
would be more peace in the fami
ly if she had the Enterprise,
she’s been reading the Note Book
\>n the sly, so she has paid up
'for 1917.
j —Mrs. James Wade, out near
Vickers’ school house, says she
had dinner for me at the sing,
but I didn’t go for it, and now
I can’t eat at the first table any
more. I don’t care if t.hey’ll
save some sweetened coffee.
—The man that does not want
to vote for me because I am op
posed to the excessive use of
whiskey need not trouble him
self. 1 can get along. Even if
I am not elected God will pro
vide some way for me to live.
—Old Brother Cain, the mail
carrier, says he “never bothers
with a justice peace election,”
I when I asked him to vote for me.
1 hope I’ll be elected, get him
before me sometime, then I’ll try
|to make him “bother about a
Justice court.
—G. W. Busby, of Denton, an
old subscriber, paid up his sub
scription last week for another
year, in order to keep peace with
his daughter who loves the Note
Book. (Oh, iordy, you reckon
she loves Uncle Jim, too.) And
then he wants the Enterprise
because it is a good paper.
—An old friend who lives in
the ’Coochee district said last
week that he wished he could
vote for me to-day as he did in
March, “for he honestly thought
1 had done more for the young
folks, and the people generally,
than any man in the county.”
And don't you know I appreciate
his kind words.
—“The Girls,” down at Lax,
sent me an invitation to the sing
at that place last Sunday, but
did not say how I was to get
there, and they know I can’t
walk that far. I wanted to go
1 mighty bad, too, because I’ve
got a nice chum down there —I
found her at the Fair. I’m go
;ing some time, too, and see if I
can find her again.
—Mr. Bailey, the Coca-Cola
man, is building a nice brick
plant on the east side of Peter
son avenue, nearly opposite the
place he occupies now. The
building going up. (and the brick
walls are nearly complete) has
two nice store rooms, or rooms
for the plant, and Mr. Bailey ex
pects to put in a lot of up-to-date
machinery, and bottling fixtures
that will make his plant one of
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, DEC. 2 1916.
the best in Georgia.
—Winnie Sikes, down at Way
cross, says they are catching
j possums out at her home every
jniht and wants me to “come
down and go hunting with her
'some night.” Wonder if that
[girl thinks I’m fool enough to
tramp around over the woods
with her at night? Why she’s
mean enough to sick the dogs
on me, if she couldn’t find a pos
sum and run me up a tree. No,
sir; I don’t let no girl get me out
in the w T oods by myself With
her!
—I married Willie Giddens
and Edna Peacock on a Ga. &
Fla. train last week, and after
she was married Edna asked
“Won’t you kiss me, Uncle Jim ?”
I did, but if I’d known in time
that she w r as going to do that
I’d charged her husband ten in
stead of five dollars for the cere
mony. I put these girls on no
tice right now that kissing is
not in the ceremony, especially i
when a big fat drummer is look
ing, and said, when I kissed
Edna. “Well, I be damned!”
FROM THOMAS COUNTY.
—Amanda Folsom, Boston,
Ga., Nov. 24th, writes: “Dear
Uncle Jim: You and your Cof
fee county chums must scrouge
aroundand make room for a six
teen year old Thomas county
girl. We have a fine school here
and I am going every day and
studying every moment of my
time. The crop has been made,
the corn is in the cribs and papa
sold the last bale of cotton to
day, brought the money home,
gave it to mother to buy woiter
clothes for me and pay my school
expenses until time to chop cot
ton next May. Isn’t that a good
papa. I love to help him in his
farm, chop and hoe cotton, drop
corn and peas, and then help pick
the cotton as long as there is a
boll in the field. You see how r
we work, I help him all I can
in his crops. He sells the cotton
pays our debts with the money,
and what is left then, he divides
in five equal parts, and as there
are three children, there are five
a
parts, one for himself, one for
mama and one each for the child
ren. We all had one hundred
dollars each this year, i have
written too much and must close
I am sending lots of love and
kisses.” Now r , look here, gal,
you can love me all right by mail
but I draw the line on kisses.
They got microbs in ’em.
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Do You l J jg? rn
Pullman or Freight ?
No one would think of riding in a
freight car if he could enjoy the
comfort of a big, comfortable easy
riding Pullman parlor car.
So with automobiles. Most of the
popular priced cars ride like
freight cars. This is due to the
old fashioned type of spring.
LETTERS FROM A FLORIDA
GIRL.
Elizabeth Adams, down at
Lake City, Fla., writes: “Uncle
Jim, we just want you down here
on week, or a month, if you wjll
stay with us. I have a motor
boat on one of the lakes, and
can manage the motor and go
where I please. Three or four
of us girls go fishing every day
or two, just have the biggest
time, and catch the fish, too. The
girls are just as crazy to see you
as I am. Papa has finished boil
ing cane and digging potatoes,
and we are crating and shipping
oranges now. He has already
shipped over a thousand crates,
and we have just commenced to
pick them. He thinks he will
ship two thousand crates. lam
going to send you a crate for
'Christmas, and then you eat one
you will think about me, for you
won’t do it any other time. It
does look like you could
find time to write to me once
and a while, if it was only a post
al. If you treat the girls in
Georgia as mean as you do me
about writing it is a wonder they
[ w r rite to you at all. I know they
don’t love you as I do, for they
are there with you, and I am
away off in Florida. It has been
five years since we moved from
Ware county. I was twelve
years old then, and it seems that
it has been a long time. Papa
did not make much cotton, ten
bales, I think, long cotton, and
he sold it all at one time at 45
cents per pound. Cholera kill
ed nearly all our hogs, but we
.have enough lard and bacon to
fry our fish and potatoes. I
want every girl in Coffee county
to think of me some time. I love
them, and think I know them,
because I read about them in the
Note Book.”
STRAYED COW.
A frosty colored cow, dehorned, with
mark of underbit in one ear and upper
square in other, has been found at my
house and has been here two months.
The owner may have same by promply
indentifying her and coming after her
and paying all damages. Unless
some one comes she will be sold un
der the stray law. 4t.
J. W. SOLOMON,
Broxton, Ga.
No. ©66
This is a prescription prepared especially
hr MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better tha»
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c
W. L ROGERS, DEALER
Douglas, Georgia
The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio
“Made in U.S.A.”
The Dainty Character
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larity of the line with the ladies, Jm
who will please understand that
they have a cordial invitation to till
drop in on us at any time, if only —Wf
to inspect and admire the beautiful! \ (jf W
things we have in stock. A
THE F. T. CURRIE CO. fl| &
Lankford Bldg. Phone 51
WE OFTEN RISK ARREST FOR EXCEEDING THE
f SPEED LIMIT
IN ORDER TO =
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REACH THE HOMES OF OUR CUSTOMERS ON TIME
«~<TRT THESE >-"0
Stone Cakes Nuts Fruits
Slice Celery Cranberries
Hams and Bacon
WEEKLY RlClP£^—«
CUP CAKES
2-3 c. butter 3 1-4 c. flour
2 c. sugar 4 tsp. baking powder
1 c. milk 1-4 tsp. mace or 1 tsp.
vanilla
Cream butter, add sugar gradually. Separate eggs and add beaten
yolks to creamed butter and sugar. Add the milk alternately with the
dry ingredients mixed and sifted together. Cut and fold in whites of eggs
beaten stiff. Bake in individual tins.
SHI THE INOBEPiEHiTS *s-
J. c. R.ELIHAN COMPANY
Phone 52
LOST.—I diamond platinum
shrine pin. Finder return to
F. T. Currie Co. and receive re
ward.
Many manufacturers still continue
to use them.
The Overland does not. The 75 B
Overland has the latest type of
cantilever shock absorbing
springs. As a result it is one of
the easiest riding cars in the world.
One demonstration will prove this.
$ 635 f. o. b. Toledo.
NOTICE.—One dress coat left
in the City Barber Shop with
initial L. A. L. in same. Owner
will please call and get same.