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"The Enterprise Covers Every Nook and Cor ner of Coffee County and Then Some” MEETINGS 10 BEGIN MARCH 1 The boll -weevil meetings for Cogfee county will begin next Thursday, Mch. 1, at 10 a. m., at Douglas, and will continue throughout the county until Saturday night. From Douglas the speakers will go to McDonald and speak at 2:30 in the afternoon. On Friday they will speak at Willacoochee at 10 o’clock and at Pearson at 2:30 in the afternoon. On Saturday the meetings will be held in Broxton at 10 o’clock and at Nicholls at 2:30. Experts from the department will make addresses at these meetings and every farmer and business man in Coffee county is urged to attend. TAX RECEIVERS SECOND ROUND. I will be at the following places on the dates mentioned for the purpose of receiving state and county tax re turns for the year 1017. Tuesday Mar. 20t'n Ambrose. Wednesday Mar. 21st Broxton.- Thursday Mar. 22nd T. J. Shrowd ers 10 to 12 a. m. Thursday Mar. 22nd Pridgen 2 to 4 p. m. Friday Mar. 23rd Nicholls. Monday Mar. 26th West Green. Tuesday Mar. 27th Willacoochee. Wednesday Mar. 28th Pearson. Thursday Mar. 29th McDonald 8 to 12 *a. m. * Thursday Mar. 29th Tim Tanners 1 to 3 p. m. Friday Mar. 30th Mora 1 to 4 p. m. E. S. SAPP, Receiver Tax Returns. Husband and Wife Die Two Days Apart i Willaeoochee, Ga., Feb. 21. Special to Enterprise. It is with sincere regret that we chronicle the death this week of two of our best citizens, Judge and Mrs. Isbin T. Giddens. Mrs. Giddens died Sunday night at 10 o’clock as the re sult of an attack some weeks ago of paralsis and was buried Monday after noon. Tuesday night at the same hour Judge Giddens was stricken with heart failure and suddenly passed away. Mrs. Giddens was a member of the Premitive Baptist Church,-59 years of age, a true and devoted Christian wo man and loved by all whose pleasure it was to know her. Judge Giddens was serving his third term as Justice of the Peace of this district. In all of his rulings as a Justice presiding over the rights of his fellow man, he was just and fair and was one of the best officers the district ever had. He will be greatly missed as an officer, a citizen and a friend, whose place will not be easy to fill. They leave surviving them and to mourn their loss four daughters, Mrs. Lou Roberts* and Mi's. Sallie Hardy, this city and Mrs. Alma Wheeler and Miss Bernce Giddens, of Albany, Ga., two sons, Moses Giddens, Elpaso, Tex., and Arthur Giddens, Willaeoochee. Mrs. Giddens leave a mother, Mrs. Mattie Roberson, Tifton, two sisters, Mesdames G. W. Fuiwood, Tifton, and P. J. Clark, Albany and one brother, ( Geo. Dearirg, Tifton. Judge Giddens leaves five sisters,, Mesdames. Nancy Kerby, Arthur Moore, Alapaha, Mrs. T. L. Daughtry, Adel, Mrs. Bettie Wilkerson, Valdosta, and Mrs. Mary Lee, Willaeoochee, and one brother, Mr. John Giddens, Alapa ha. BOX SOCIAL. There will be a B*x Social and En tertainment at Salem School Satur day evening, March 10th. Everyone cordially invited. E. JOY TAYLOR, GEORGIA LEE, Teachers. FOR SALE CHEAP two good mules and wagon. Dr. Quitman Holton. Douglas Enterprise VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 43 AGED RESIDENT BURIED TODIT <!#»* Another of the old inhabitants of Douglas died on last Thursday morn ing when Mrs. Sion Simmons, age 65, passed away at her home on Gaskin avenue. She has been in ill health for a number of years and recently contract ed pneumonia which ended her life Thursday morning. Her husband who is now about 70 yars of age, is lying critically ill and is not expected to live. The funeral was conducted on Fri day morning at ten o’clock, th ar rangements being handled by the Doug las Undertaking Co. Besides her husband the deceased leaves several children among them | being Mrs. Ira Smith and Tom Sim mons, of this city. The aged couple have lived in Doug las for over thirty years, coming to Georgia from North Carolina at that timie. The bereaved have the sympa thy of hundreds of friends in Douglas, who have known the deceased for many years. Jesse Janies Shew At Grand Tuesday ! Manager Murdock has booked for j next Tuesday night, Feb. 27, a big company of over 20 people, playing the well known play of Jesse James. This company usually plyas Under tent, carrying a very large canvas, but the Grand Theatre management have induced them to play at his i house here, and he is now selling re served seats for this attraction, i In the meantime the big A 1 Shaffer Comedy Co., continues to play at the theatre this week, closing their en gagement on Saturday night. 1 This company is drawing packed houses every night, and tongiht (Fri day) they expect to give away a real live baby a*. a side attraction. Every member of the company is popular with Douglas people, having played here before, and they always draw good houses when they visit Douglas. WOMANS’ CLUB. The meeting of the Womans’ Club next Thursday will be in charge of the Social Committee and will be held at the Auditorium at 10 o’clock A. M., from there the ladies and their guests v ill be given a luncheon at the Country Club. The program is as follows: Answer your roll call with the name of a prominent Georgia woman. Welcome—Mrs. M. D. Dickerson. Response—Mrs. H. H, Tift, Tifton. Duet —Mis. E. L. Tanner, Mrs. W. R. Frier. Reading—“ The House by the Side of the Road”—Mrs. J. H.Jordan. What the neighboring clubs are do ing—Our visitors. Music—Violin—Miss Huss. E. L. Vickers Host To Over 200 Thursday .4*' l to - Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Vickers issued about two hundred invitations to their friends and acquaintances to attend a barbacue at their farm Thursday. Surely there was never a more jovial or hospitable host or hostess nor more delighted guests who partook of the delicious barbacue or helped them selves to roasted birds and other de licacies. An interuption in the form of a speech from Judge Bryan almost call ed down mob violence on that worthy gentleman who was attempting to tell the people for Mr. Vickers, that he had prepared the treat for friends who had given him their patronage while in business in Douglas. The guests departed insisting that Mr. and Mrs. Vickers had established a precedent and hoping that this would be an annual affair. THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, FEB. 24, 1917. The Enterprise Publishes the Legal Advertising of the City of Douglas, Cffee County and County Commissioners. TOBACCO MEN HERE TODAT An important meeting of tobacco growers and business men will be held at ten o’clock A. M. today, Saturday, at the office of the Chamber of Com merce in the City Building for the purpose of trying to pedfect arrange ments for opening a tobacco sales warehouse at this place for the sea son of 1917. Through the efforts of Rev. W. B. Smith, demonstration agent of theh Georgia & Florida Ry., Messrs. Ford and Miller of South Carolina are here looking over the situation with a view to operating the warehouse at some point in this territory, provided the necessary facilities in the way of a building can be secured and the co operation of the farming and business interests assured. It is of the greatest importance that the leading business men and farmers of Coffee County attend this confer ence and land this enterprise. WILL PREACH AT COLLEGE. The Rev. W. W. Webster, Vicar of St. Andrews Episcopal church, will hold service and preach at the auditor ium of the Agricultural college next Sunday evening, Feb. 25, at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. W. A. Wilcox and little daugh ter returned from Live Oak, Fla.. Inst Saturday, and were accompanied by Mrs. J. C. Havvard, Mrs. Wilcox’s mother, who will spend some time with her. STATEMENT OF COM COM MISSIONERS FOR JAN. 1917 GENERAL Henry Ellis Biliff Services ,$12.00 David Ricketson . Arrests 23.95 Mrs. Samantha Paulk Int. on Note 554.95 P. E. Pafford Supplies 3.00 Douglas Telephone Co. Telephone 2.75 Will Cade Wood 50.75 M. C. Carroll Mules 2,9(10.00 J. C. Day Work on Bridge 4.75 Southern Express Co. Express on harness 11.02 A. B. & A. Ry. Freight on mules 42.25 Oliver Peterson Mules 350.00 A. B. & A. Ry. Freight on Cage 00.83 A. B. & A. Ry. Freight on Road Scrape 22.12 B. Screiber Supplies 10.00 W. J. Peace Wood 10.00 G. F. McCranie Supplies 8.00 Stubbs & Pearsall Supplies 91.90 Will Cade Wood 43.70 R. C. Relihan & Co. K. Oil 2.25 \ John W. Fussell Work 2.50 D. W. Pittman For feeding prisoner 15.50 M. I). Davis* Work 18.00 T. J. Tanner Corn 30.00 M. D. Davis Meat 8.00 Charlie Adams Vegetables 100.00 W. 11. Kirkland Meat 4.00 Farmers Loan & T. Co. Int. on loan 25.00 Roy Paulk Work 42.50 L. D. Gillis ~ Supplies 55.14 . O. J. Paulk Work 12.00 T. Tanner Lumber 46.11 T. Tanner • Lumber 83.01 Standard Oil Co. Oil 5.83 Charlie Daniels Lumber 31.50 Henry Lott Hauling Lbr. 22.50 J. C. Anderson Work 1.50 T. Tanner Meal * 3.83 J. a! Kirkland Lumber 39.03 J. M. Carter Beef 2.50 Powers & Meeks Supplies 5.75 B. W. Taylor Supplies 33.30 W. L. Sessions (Lumber 284.61 lohn McGovern iHay 14.50 D. S. Goodyear Meat 22.00 M. J. Roberts Work 40.00 J. F. Meeks Board and R. R. Fare 17.04 Carl Murray Work 6.00 S. M. Davis Supplies 18.00 W. W. Stewart Lbr. Co. Lumber 198.00 T. H. Matthews Supplies 302.42 E. D. Southerland Lumber 22.50 G. M. Stanton & Co. Care of mules 7.00 H. J. Sweat, Sheriff Keeping prisoner 15.50 Brooks Plmb. Co. Work 6.00 W. A. Wilcox Co. Premium on bond 250.00 City of Douglas Light & Water 20.00 Douglas Tel. Co. Phone service 2.50 Pure Food Gro. Co. Groceries ’.BO S (Continued to Fifth Page.) AND COFFEE COUNTY NEWS The next regular teachers’ monthly institute will be held in Douglas on Saturday, Feb. 24th, beginning at 10 A. M. in the school auditorium. The program will be as follows: 10:00 Devotional Exercises. 10:15 How 1 was benefitted by a Sum mer Normal School, Kate Wilcox. Round discussion of Normal Schools by all teachers present. 10:40 Phonies, How I Teach, Ruth Howze. 10:50 Diacritics and what it means to pupils, J. G. Floyd. 11:30 Benefits of the Standard school to my pupils and patrons and me by H. C. Roberts and Clyde Mc- Cranie. 12:00 Noon. 1:30 Dont’s for a teacher, Ernest Neal. 1:45 Music and how it helps my school, Homer Corbitt. 2:00 How I Teach Domestic Science, Julia 1 mbert. It is hoped that all teachers will be present and keep up the past good record of attendance. J. Gordon Floyd. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our sincere appreciation to everyone who so gen erously offered their services and ex tended so many kindnesses to us at the death of our beloved mother and wife. J. T. Relihan and Children. TEACHERS COME RN SATURDAY MRS. MARY RARRIS ARMOR SPEAKS HERE MONDAY NIGRT .. / -, * %>. $ % j V I ; 4 • - * j MRS. MARY HARRIS ARMOR Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, the noted woman speaker, of national fame, who is to lecture at the school auditorium on next Monday evening, Feb. 26. Our city is glad indeed to welcome Health Certificate To Be Required Requirement of a health certificate from both parties before the issuance of a marriage license will be proposed in a bill to be introduced in the next session of the Georgia legislature and stroiigiy used for passage. A Wumber of ministers, physicians, .educators and social workers over tiie state, who have had impressed upon them the tragic results of marriage between persons afflicted with certain diseases, are reported to be obtaining signatures to a monster petition urg ing the legislature to pass the bill. They will insist, that persons in good health and free from disease will not be embarassed in any way by the proposed eugenics law, while persons who could not pass a medical examina tion have ro business to be married. FIRST BAPTIST CHUCRH. Sunday, February 25. 11 a. m. preaching by the pastor, Subject: The Kingdom of Power. 3 p. ni. Bible School, with large, well taught, graded and special classes. 7 p. m. preaching by the pastor, Subject: The Absolute Necessity. J. B. I’hillips will come Monday, April 2dn. to lead in evangelistic cam paign. R. O. Bell, who is assistant pastor of Baptist Tabernacle, Chatta nooga, will have charge of music and personal work. Cottage prayer meet ings will begin a week or ten days in advance of Bro. Phillips arrival. The pastor is praying thait this meeting be a real revival of religion— brood and abiding in its results. You are always welcome at all the services of the First Baptist Church. T. S. HUBERT, Pastor. FOR SALE. —1 1914 auto, broad gage, for sale, in running order, at bar gain, will sell on terms for good note. PEARSON HPW. STORE. Pearson, Ga. $1.50 I'ER YEAR IN ADVANCE this speaker, she needs no introduction to most of our people having spoken here on previoils occasions. I)o not miss this opprotunity of hearing her. L. It Breen Named Commercial Agent Effective Feb. 15, Mr. L. M. Breen, who is in charge ofthelocal agency for the G. & F., was appointed Commer cial Agent for the road, with head quarters in Douglas. Mr. Breen will still retain the po sition as Agent, and ihe road has ap pointed Mr. li. N. Hunter as his as sistant in Ihe agency work here. The road is to be congratulated on the appointment, as Mr. Breen will make them a very efficient man. He has lived in Douglas for a number of yeai's and held very responsible po sitions in ihe railroad world while located here, arid has made good with all of them. Douglas is also to be congratulated that the headquarters of this depart ment is to be located here, and may be the beginning of a series of head quarters to be located here later on. REVIVAL SERVICES BEGIN AT WILLACOOCHEE. Revival services conducted by Rev. W. B. Kiser of Columbia, S. C., began at hte Missionary Baptist Church at Willaeoochee Sunday r.ight and will continue through this week. The Rev. Kiser is a revivalist of considerable note and the church is looking forward to a week of genuine refreshing, and much good to the community. ST. ANDREWS CHURCH. TKere will be service in St. Andrews Episcopal Church Sunday, Feb. 25th. First Sunday in Lent. Morning pray er and sermon at 11 o’clock; Vesper service at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Service and sermon at the Agricul tural College. Auditorium at 7:30 in the evening. The public are invited to these servi ces. A cordial welcome awaits you. W. W. WEBSTER, Vicar. Help Us I V By teJephoni: =T News items Numbers -? 44, or 106. **