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Uid@ Jim § BKOffl /M. Freeman chcnktV' 2 —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. Which r- ' *s" m ™ „ wr\ # i 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 c The Goods We Handle A v t designed chiefly for ornamenta- IL ,i|j tion, is accountable for the popu- wl IP B 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 = W crucer v ' A. Ir" v 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.