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ENTERPRISE SUBSUIiIfIiON RATES
ADVANCE TO 51.50 ON JANUARY 1
On January I, nex\ the price of The Douglas
Enterprise will be advanced from one dollar to $1.50 per
year, payable in advance.
All subscriptions received between now and that
lime, will be taken at the old price of one dollar, provided
you pay up all arrears, and we will also give ycu the op
portunity to pay ahead as far as you like, at the rate of
one dollar per year.
f his change in subscription rates is made after
mature cc■'.<•; <r, and we know that we are do ing the
best for us anti for you. Ihe price of print paper has ad
vanced over ?00 per cent in the past ten months, and we
cannot afford to send out a paper like we have been, at
the price of one dollar, and get by with it. We believe we
will come nearer getting by with the advance of fifty cents.
All the weekly papers in Georgia and h lorida 'are
doing the same thing. 1 hey are forced to it. I here is
no profit in subscription even at that price, but it will puli
us thru, and give us a good list for our advertisers.
r urtnermore, we expect to pay special attention to
our list in the future, and no name shall stay on it, who is
in arrears over one year. We must have the money, or, olf
you go. A general revision of the list will be made in a
few days, and cn Jan. 1, our list will be carried, as an
nounced above, on a basis of $1.50 per year. Please ad
vise us if you do not want the paper after Jan. 1, at that
price, and we will omit your name, if you dont want to pay
it. We dont believe we will lose a single name, and our
list is now growing daily as fast as we care for it to
AT ARNIE SCHOOL.
There will be a Box Supper at
Arnie School next Friday night, the
22nd. at 7 o’clock. The public is in
vited.
H. C. Douglas,
Mrs. Lessie Aldrich,
Teachers.
I‘E'TH OF MRS. LAURA BI'RKKT.
Mrs. Laura Burket died near West
Green last Tuesday morning about 4
o’clock.
Ph? .id been suffering for some
time ’.viui consumption and when the
end it was a great relief to her.
Laura Burket was married to Len
ard Burket about eighteen years ago
and they hud lived peacefully together.
To them were born nine children all
of which are living at the time of her
death.
.She also leaves her mother, Mrs. ’
Elizabeth Meeks. Six sisters and
brothers, Miss Lizzie Meeks, Mrs. L.
S. Cole, Charlie, Gray Meeks, Nich
olls. Mrs. J. S. Starling, of Pearson,
and Col. Melvin Meeks, of Ocilla.
Mrs. Burket joined Unian Church
near Nicholls when a small girl but
was later transferred to Burket where
she remained a member until her
death.
Her funeral took place the follow
ing day and was preached by Rev. H.
M. Meeks. Then her remains were
laid to rest in Burket cemetary. Since
her death the future for husband and !
children is very gloomy.
RULE TO PERFECT SERVICE.
STATE OF GEORt 3 \. Cofree county.
Lillie Brown vs S. A. Brown, Libel.
It appearing by t> ■ return of the
Sheriff that ‘he dt'■ endant does not
reside in Coffee County, and it further
appearing that he does not reside in
this State, it is ordered that service
be perfected by publication twice a
month for two months in the news
paper publishing Sheriff's advertise
ments for said county, requiring de
fendant to appear at the February
Term, 1917, of Coffee Superior Court,
to answer this petition for divorce.
Witness the Hon. J. I. Summerall,
Judge of said court, this December,
14th 191(5.
DAN WALL, Clerk.
Sale Under Power Contained In Deed
To Secure Debt.
GEOFGIA, Coffee County.
Under and by virtue of a power of
sale contained in a deed to secure a
debt executed by A. C. McNeely and
Sophie K. McNeely to Bank of Nich
olls on the 18th, day of May 191(5 and
recorded in the office of the clerk of
the Superior Court of Coffee Cuonty T ,
Georgia, in book of deeds No. 8.4, page
462. The undersigned will sell, at
public sale, at th t > court huos deoor in
said county, on the first Tuesday in
January 1917, during the legal hours
of sale, to the highest bidder for
cash, the following property, to-wit:
‘ Five lots of land in the town of
Nicholls, Ga„ Nos. Twelve (12), Thir
teen 1 14), I urtaen (14), Fifteen (15),
and Sixte. i (16), « Block No. Ei«ht\
Six (8(5) said land is bounded as"fol
lows. On th e cast by North Main
KeepingYourselfWell
HOW YOU GET SICK
I Sometimes you overload your
stomach with rich foods. Your
life may be an active one. and thus
you may care for all you eat. But
a few days of inactivity show your
system does not call for so much.
r You awake in the morning tired.
Your body feels heavy; you know
you are not up to the mark. Your
digestion has not cared for the
overload. Part of it remains. It
generates gas that inflames the
delicate linings. They fall to pour
out the digestive fluids and neglect
to absorb the life-giving elements.
Yon know something is wrong.
Your body gets weak, and soon
opportunity is offered for some se-
I vere Bines. <9
| Taken in time, the Indigestion
i would not become serious. First re
move the overload; then soothe tho
sore membranes; then build up tho
weakened body. It’s simple to say,
but nottooeasy todo. You need help.
A tonic that will quicken diges
tion, help remove waste, soothe tho
soreness and arouse the system—
that's just what you need.
Peruna has an enviable record in
this respect. Tt has aided many
thousands in the last century to
overcome just these conditions, and
thereby prevent serious sickness.
The tablet form is convenient
for regular administration.
- . . , . „ Manalla
Tablets are
tuflthe ideal
laxative and I
liver tonic.
J lOil They have
T 1 ° unpleas
■« !l n *- e ff pcts
and form
n ° habits.
10c and 25c.
The Peruna Co I
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Street, south by Douglas Avenue, west
by lot No. 11 of Block No. 86 and on
the north by an alley (Lot No. 16 de
scribed above is excepted from said
sale, the same having already been
sold under a prior lien) for the pur-,
pose of paying a certain promissory
notjC bearing date of the 18th, clay of
May 1916, and payable six months
after date thereof, and made and ex
ecuted by the said A. C. McNeely ar.
i Sophie K. McNeely said note being
I for Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars
| ($450.00) principal, stipulating for in
-1 terest from date at the rate cf 8 per
j cent, per annum, the total amount
Idue on said note being Four Hun
jdred and Fifty Dollars ($450.00) prin
cipal, and Twenty ($20.00) interest,
j together • with the cost of this pro
ceeding as provided in such deed to
secure debt.
A conveyance will be executed to
the purchaser by the undersigned, as
authorized in said deed to secure debt.
This the Bth, day of Dec. 1916.
! Bank of Nicholls Attorney in fact
for A. C. McNeely and Sophie K.
McNeely.
I E. L. Grantham, Attorney at Law
for Bank c.’ Nicholls.
LOST.—Light red jersey cow, mark
ed split and underbit in one ear and
underbit in other, about 6 years old.
Strayed from my house about six
weeks ago. Notify
J. D. JOWERS, Nicholls, Ga.
FOR SALE.—House and lot in city
of Douglas. Reasonable price. Sec
or write MRS. MOSE JOINER,
P. O. Box ."75, Douglas, Ga. 2t
No. 60S
This it s prescription prepared especially
far MAL ARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Fir • or tix doses vill creak any csjc. 3nd
if taken then r.s a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better thaa
Caicurel acd deed aot gripe or sickea. 25c
TTTK norm. AS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. DEC. 16, 1916.
BRYAN AGAINST
OWNERSHIP BY
THE GOVERNMENT
Gives Newiands Committee His
Views on Railroad Control.
COMPETITION PREFERABLE
Federal Regulation Should Not Be Al
lowed to Exclude Exercise of State
Authority, He Contends—Thinks Rail
road Stocks Should Represent Actual
Value and Be Stable as Government
Bonds.
Washington, Dec. 11. - William J.
Bryan, who startled the country ten j
years ago by advocating government
ownership of railroads, appeared be- j
fore the -Newiands Joint Committee on |
Interstate Commerce last week in sup- 1
port of the claim that the states should j
he allowed to retain authority over the i
regulation of all transportation lines |
within their borders. Mr. Bryan ex- i
plained that lie had long regarded gov
ernment ownership as inevitable, but)
oniy because of railroad opposition to
effective regulation.
Against Government Ownership.
“Personally I cannot say that I de
sire government ownership,” he ex
plained, “because I lean to the indi
vidual idea rather than to the collec
tive idea; that is, I believe that gov
ernment ownership is desirable only
where competition is impossible.”
Alfred P. Thom, counsel to the Rail
way Executives’ Advisory Committee,
previously had presented before the I
members of the Newiands Committee I
as one of his reasons for urging a bet
ter balanced and more systematic reg-1
illation of railroads the argument that!
this is the only alternative to govern-1
meut ownership. Calling attention to j
the restrictions imposed upon the ■
transportation lines hy conflicting state j
laws and regulations, to the practical
cessation of new construction and to the
impossibility under existing conditions |
of securing the new capital needed for
extensions and betterments of railway
facilities, liv‘ ; .D .'. ' > V ifY.’s -' i
that unless they pio* uu.ii a lair a.ini
reasonable system of regulation that
would enable the railroads to meet tile
growing needs of the country’s busi
ness the national government would
be compelled to take over the owner
ship of the lines with all the evils at
tendant upon such a system.
Preservation of Competition.
Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, holds
that the further extension of federal
authority over the railroads would be
a step in the direction of government
ownership. He advanced the view that
the centralization of control in the
hands of the national government ]
would impose too great a burden upon ;
the regulating body, would offer strong j
temptation to railroads to interfere in !
politics and would encourage the gen-:
eral movement toward centralization
of power in the federal government at
the expense of the states. He said that
he did not object to consolidations of
railroad lines so long as they did not
destroy comi>etition, that he knew of
no complaint against great railway
systems because of their size and that
he believed that the preservation of
competition was the test to be applied
to all consolidations.
Regulation of Securities.
Mr. Bryan declared himself in favor
of national regulation of railway stock
and bond issues, hut added that be saw
no reason why that should exclude the
states from acting on the same sub
ject as to state corporations. “I would
like to see the stock of a railroad, as
long as it is in private hands, made as
substantial and as unvarying as the
value of a government bond,” he as
serted.
, He suggested that railroad capitali
zation be readjusted to equalize it with
actual valuation of the property rep
resented, making due allowance for
equities, and that when this was done
the roads should be allowed to eani
sufficient income to keep their stock
at par and to create a surplus. The
latter, he tentatively proposed, might
be allowed to amount to 25 per cent
of the capital.
Railway Earnings Low.
This subject of railroad capitalization
and the amount of railroad earnings
received further attention from the
committee during its recent sessions.
In answer to questions by Senator
Cummins. Mr. Thom submitted figures
showing the net earnings of the roads
in recent years. These figures show
that (luring the five years from 1905
to 1910 the average net earnings were
5.25 per c*>nt of the net capitalization,
while for the five years from 1910 to
1915 the average was only 4.56 i>er
cent. The total earnings on the stock,
computed by adding to the net oper
ating income the income from the se
curities owned and deducting bond in
terest. were for 1910, 7.09 per cent;
for 1911, <5.17 per cent; for 1912. 4.97
per cent; for 1913, 5.94 per cent: for
1914, 4.06 per cent; for 1915, 3.44 per
cent, t lots showing an almost contin
uous decrease throughout this six year
period. It was announced that Hal
ford Erickson, formerly chairman of
the Wis onrin Railroad Commission,
would submit more complete informa
tion on t! is subject to the Committee
r.t a later date.
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HEADQUARTERS
As Usual
Phone 1 28
Douglas Hardware Cc,
W. T. CoTtingham & f=. F. Preston
Managers
FOR SALE CHEAP.
Some 50 head of stock cows, some
of fine breed that can not be used for
, beef this season but will be in milk
through the winter And spriisg.
Parties wanting a bargain in milk
cows all young. Come and look over
the stock and get my bargain prices.
J. M. CHAPMAN,
Douglas, Ga.
SALESMAN WANTED!
To sell lubricating oil, grease, spec
ialties and paint. Part or whole time.
Commission basis until ability is es
tablished. Permant position and wide
field when qualified if desired. Man
with rig preferred.
RIVERSIDE REFINING CO.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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