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ner of Coffee
County and
Then Some”
MEMOIL DAY IS OBSERVED
HYDE IN SPLENDID PROGRAM
Memorial Day was fittingy observ
e in Dougas and a very attractive
program as prepared by Mrs. Jno. M.
Hall, the president of the U. D. C.,
was rendered, the exercises beginning
at 11 o’clock and lasting until 12:30.
The large school auditorium was
packed and every one present seemed
to enjoy every number on the pro
gram. A surprise was given when it
was announced by Prof. Gordon Floyd,
who was master of ceremonies, that
an added number would appear on the
program, and jffiis new unexpected
feature proved to be a most
ing and instructive address by Dr. Haf
Frink, of Jacksonville, who is at pres
ent the guest of his sisters, Mesdames
«T. W. Quincey and M. D. Dickerson.
Dr. Frink spoke of the Red Cross
work, how it originated and what it
was doing in the present war, and
gave some interesting experiences
with which he was personally connect
ed. He spoke for about twenty minu
tes and great hit.
Rev. B. E. Whittington made the
opening prayer and pronounced the
benediction. The opening song was
“America,'’ which was sung by the
whole audience. Next came Marjorie
Frier with a reading. Then Dr.
Frink gave his address which was
followed by a song, “The Bonnie Blue
Flag,” rendered by the Boy Scouts of
Douglas.
Minor Turrentine made a great hit
with his war recitation which brought
forth great applause.T his was fol
lowed by a quartette. Then came the
main address of the program which
was delivered by Judge T. A. Parker,
who was introduced by Col. M. D.
Dickerson. Judge Parker spoke for
forty minutes and every word was full
of fire, feeling, and patriotic to the
core. He always makes a good speech
and on this occasion, he did not vary
from his usual practice.
Judge Parker also spoke of the
many Georgians who stood high in the
nation’s army and navy and that they
had achieved. Along this line he
might mention that Mr. Bob Pearsall,
of this city, holds a very responsible ,
position with the admiral having
charge of one of the boats. Douglas
feels proud of him and considers it a
distinction worthy of note all the
time.
After Judge Parker’s speech, the
audience joined in singing the “Star
Spangled Banner”. Then came the
benediction.
Mrs. Hall had the stage beautifully
decorated with the stars and bars and
the stars and stripes, as well as a
great number of the April flowers,
the whole setting being artistically
made.
METHODIST TO
BEGiNJEVII
The regular Spring revival for the
Methodists will begin in their house
of worship next Sunday morning and
continue for ten days or two weeks.
The pastor, Rev. B. E. Whittington,
will be assisted in the revival by Rev.
L. J. Ballard, of Brunswick. Mr. Bal
lard will not arrive until Monday. He
is a strong preacher and has been very
successful in reviyal work and his
coming to Douglas will no doubt be
the means of a great revival of relig
ion.
The people of Douglas should take
advantage of this opportunity and at
tend the services regularly. The pas
tor will preach both Sunday morning
and evening. He says, “come and go
with u sand we will do you good’,, so
the people of the city should rally to
this meeting and help make it a soul
winner, as we believe it will be.
Remember we accept no three
months subscriptions to this paper.
Nothing less than six months for 75
cents.
Douglas Enterprise
AND COFFEE COUNTY NEWS
VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 52
Present Public School
Teachers Reelected
The board of education met on last
Tuesday and elected teachers for the
public schools for the next term,
The Enterprise is proud to announ
ce that all of the present teachers
were reelected and we understand
they will accept. Without an except
ion, every grade teacher has made
good with their grades and the pa
trons in general express satisfaction
with the work obtained by them.
The election resulted as follows:
First Grade: Mrs. Julia Foster and
Miss Lucile Peek; Second Grade: Mrs.
Jordan and Miss Nora Huss; Third
Grade: Miss Corinne Little and Miss
Nonie Quillian; Fourth Grade: Miss
Foster; Fifth Grade: Miss William
son; Sixth Graeme: Miss Hamrick; Mu
sic: Miss Grace Gaffney.
The public sch|ool will close the
term’s work in about three weeks and
the several teachers will probably
leave immediately for their respective
homes for vacation.
NOTICE TO PUBLIC.
Broxton Lodge 251 I. O. O. F. will
hold their anniversary on 2nd Sunday
in May. Sermon will be preached by
Rev. Bugg at Broxton Baptist church.
Public cordially invited.
Colored Rural Schools
Have Big Rally Day
Saturday April 21st was a closing
day for all the Colored Rural schools
of Coffee county.
For two years we have had all the
rural schools to come to Douglas with
their industrial work for the purpose
of creating a spirit of thrift, industry,
progressiveness anu( Cooperation a
mong the colored people of our county.
Out of 32 schools 27 were represent
ed with their industrial work, pupils
and friends from each of the com
munities.
The exercises were carried out nice
ly thru out the day. The program be
gan at 10 o’clock, at 11:30 all were
ready to march to town, as many of
the pupils and teachers as possibly
could assemble in the court house
yard. The Nicholls band then played
“Dixie.”
Rev. Brittian and Prof. H. A. Hunt
of the Ft. Valley High and Indstrial
School were introduced. They both
gave good talks.
The teachers and pupils were anx
ious to show the patriotic spirit that
day, so while the children waved the
Flag that has never touched the
ground, the teachers sang “My Coun
try ’Tis of Thee’ and “The Star Spang
led Banned.”
The evening session opened up with
quite a number of white friends pres
ent. Prof H. A. Hunt and wife of
the Ft. Valley H. and I School were
the speakers of the day. In Mr.
Hunts lecture he explained the pres
ent condition of the country and asked
the farmers to plant more food stuffs.
Both lectures were enjoyed by all.
We want to thank the many white
friends who gave us prizes.
Union Banking Co $2.50
Mr. Frier, Editor Douglas
Enterprise, 1.00
Watt-Holmes Hardware C0...1.00
Boston Store, merchandise,.. .50
5 & 10c Leading Store, mer
chandise,. 50
Several i Fiends, contributed
to band, 4.50
We hope each year our industrial
program will be better with the co
operation of the teachers. We are
sure to better the conditions in the
rural districts.
MADIE V. BURNETTE
Jeanes Industrial Supervisor.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, APRIL 28, 1917.
The Enterprise Publishes the Legal Advertising of the City of Douglas, Cffee County and County Commissioners.
DOUGLAS WINS
INDEBATE
Saturday night the Eleventh Dist
rcit State Agricultural School debated
the First District State Agricultural
School df Statesboro for a representa
tive place in the Annual debate at the
University of Georgia between the
Eleven District State Agricultural
Schools of the State.
Each school was represented by two
teams, one team debating the affirma
tive, te other team debating the nega
tive of the following.: Resolved: That
for economy of product and efficiency
in marketing farm products, the size
|of the average Georgia farm should
be increased.
I Following the rules sent out from
!the State College of Agriculture at
! Athens governing the debates, the
negative team of each school debated
away from home, and the affirmative
team debated at home.
The affirmative team of the Eleven
th District State Agricultural School
was repiesented by Messrs L. C. Wal
ker and C. D. Boggan, who debated
at home against the negative team
from the First District State Agri
cultural School composed of Messrs
Purvis and Easterly.
Messrs Walker and Boggan repre
senting Douglas did some very effec
tive debating in their main speeches,
and showed up especially well in their
extemporaneous rebuttals, against
their opponent’s memorized “cut and
'dried” rebuttals.
| Although the Douglas team only re
ceived one of the three votes -cast by
the judges, they won the decision of
practically the whole audience. It is
to be believed that that a division of
the judges rendered their decision ac
cording to their individual opinions,
and did not consider the merits of the
debaters.
| Douglas was represented by Messrs
J. H. Sims and J. T. Culbeith on the
negative side of the debate at States
boro. It is useless to write the pro
ceedings of the debate at Statesboro,
the unanimous decision rendered by
the judges in favor of Douglas signi
fies that we were well represented in
Statesboro. In counting the total
votes cast Douglas won four of the
six votes cast by the judges, and one
of the two total decisions, which gives
Douglas five votes out of the possible
eight, and also eliminates Statesboro
from the contest at the University.
Professor Powell left Thursday
morning for Athens with Messrs Wal
ker and Boggan who will enter in an
other contest Friday with three other
winning schools for the final place of
high school champion debaters of Geor
gia. The final debaters will be chosen
Friday and the winners will debate in
the auditorium of the University Sat
urday night. TILLETT.
Boatload Of Whiskey
I v
Captured On River
ALBANY, April 24.—Quitman coun
ty was the scene of an exciting cap
ture of a boatload of whiskey on the
Chattahoochee river this morning.
Police of Eufaula, just across the
river in Alabama, received a tip from
Fort Gaines, Ga„ that a gasoline
launch loaded with whiskey was on
the way up the rive-, and the soldiers
on guard at the bridge were deputiz
ed to stop it and make arrests when
it arrived.
When the boat was stopped at the
order of the soldiers it drifted to the
Georgia side, where two of its occu
pants escaped. The third was arrest
ed. He gave the name of Smith and
said he was the engineer of th<? boat.
He was taken to Georgetown, county
seat of Quitman county, and placed in
jail. Pursuit of the others was in
progress at last accountg. The boat
contained S4OO worth of whiskey. It
lis said to be a Columbus boat and
was cn route from Apalachicola, Fla.
If this paper is not worth $1.50 to
you, we don’t war t you to have it. It
is worth that much to us.
J. B. PHILLIPS
WRITES BACK
To The Good People of Douglas.
GREETINGS!
I am very thankful to say that 1
have had the privilege of conducting
three meetings in your town and dur
ing my stay among your people have
met many of them personally. I be
lieve there are a number of the best
people in cur entire conutry in the
town of Douglas and 1 am glad to
number many of them among my per
sonal friends.
I shall never forget the kindness
shown me by these saints of God dur
ing my stay of four hours in oyur
County Jail. They have a very ten
der place in my heart and if I ever
have an opportunity to show them a
kindness it shall certainly give me
great pleasure to do so.
In regard to those who tried to
cause me trouble and do not feel kind
ly toward me. I'wish to say there is
nothing in my heart but the kindest
of feelings for them and it will al
ways give me pleasure to do any of
them a kindness if the opportunity is
ever afforded me. With Christian love,
I am Cordially yours,
J, B. PHILLIPS.
Apr. 26, 1917.
Pastor Baptist Tabernacle, Chattanoo
ga, Term.
SHERIFF CFfS
11 VAGRANTS
Douglas is no place for vagrants,
says Sheriff Tanner, and it is purpose
to show the people that he means bu
siness in complying with this part of
' the law. As evidence of his intention
jto carry out his promises to the peo
! pie, he and his deputies got busy last
Tuesday and made eleven arrests of
white women, placing every one of
I them in jail.
Seven o*f the number entered pleas
of guilty in the City court and Judge
Bryan assesses a fine in each case of
l m *
; S3O. to include the costs and in- ad
dition a sentence of 12 months at the
state farm, the latter part of the sen-
I tence to be suspended during good be
havior.
Five of the number were released on
bail while two of them remain in jail.
This no doubt will have its effect
and this class of vagrants will in the
; future be scarcer arid continue so as
long as the sheriff continues his pres
jent policy, and he says he has no idea
of letting up in any degree.
MR. L. B. DALE MARRIES.
! Of interest to Douglas people is
the announcement of the wedding of
Mr. L. B. Dale to Miss Pauline Smith,
both of Alma, at the Baptist church
in this city last Sunday morning about
j noon just after the morning service.
The party came over from Alma
j during the morning and waited until
the congregation, had dispersed and
; then a runner was sent to Pastor Hu
bert who had retired to his study for
!a few minutes after the service and
he was informed that the wedding
was planned to take place there and
i right now, if there were no objection,
and in a few minutes Mr. Hubert had
said the words which united them as
man and wife.
Miss Smith is originally from Dub
il in where she is connected with some
of the most prominent families in that
’ section of hte state. For the past
t-nn she has been teaching music in
Alma where Mr. Dale met her.
Mr. Dale is a former resident of
| Douglas at one time being connected
| with the Union Pharmacy. He is a
i brother of our fellow townsman, Mr.
|J. W. Dale. He has many friends in
Douglas which he made during Lis
stay here and we join these in wish-
I ing for him and his bride a long life
!of wedded bliss.
Our subscription list has increased
with the increase of price. Verily
there’s a reason.
EEYI O'STEEN IS CANDIDATE
TO SUCCEED I. D. DICKERSON
Grocers Make Rules
For Future Deliveries
At a meeting of the undersigned re
tail Grocers of Douglas, called for
| the purpose of devising some plan
(whereby tKe hours of service could be
minimized and some delivery system
(stsblished; finding our present hours
| long and laborious and the delivery
| system a nusance as it is now con
ducted.
If the housewife will adopt a busi
ness method and make up her orders
end let us have them all at one time
instead of ordering half a dozen times
in a half day and waiting until meal
time to do so they will like it better
in the end. We are the servants of
the people but we have suffered im
positions untill patience ceases to be
la virture. We wish to emphasize the
fact that the before breakfast deliver
ies will be discontinued, and that,we
will take orders in the forenoon until
11 o’clock to be delivered by 12 o’clock
and in the afternoon till 5:30 to be
delivered that day, orders taken after
that time will be delivered next day.
These rules will be strictly adhered
to, stores close at 6:30 and the above
does not apply to Saturay P. M.
Delivery South and West Douglas
will leave stores at 8:00 A. M. one
trip.
Delivery South and West Dougas
will leave stores at 4 P. M. one trip.
Deliveries North and East Douglas
will leave stores at 8:30 and 10:30
A. M.
Deliveries North and East Douglas
will leave stores at 3 and 5:30 P. M.
Wm. Worth, J. D. Perkins, J. C.
Relihan Co., R. T. Dismuke, R. 1).
Butler, H. L. Carter, G. T. King.
EDITOR VOLNEY WILLIAMS
SPENDS DAY IN THE CITY.
Editor Volr.ey Williams, of the Way
cross Journal-iierald, spe..t Wednes
day night in Dougla, enroute to Oeolla
where he was the orator of the day
at the Memorial Exercises held in that
city at 11 o’clock Thursday. Mr. Wil
liams returned this way in the after
inuon and spent several hours here
again, where he has numerous friends
v.ho are always glad to see him here.
GREEK - AMERIC AN TO
OPEN NEW PLACE SOON.
The well known and popular Groek-
American Restaurant expects to open
a second place in a few weeks, or,
just as soon as the Peterson Block is
completed.
They have rented one of the stores
in this new building, down on Peter
son avenue, and expect to equip it
with all modern conveniences for their
growing trade. They figure that they
can give better accomodations to their
friends by having two eating places.
MRS. H. C. GIRTMAN
DIES AT HAZLEHURST.
The death of Mrs. H. C. Girtman,
of near Hazlehurst, occurred last
'week and was received in this city
jv/ith much sadness, where she was so
well known. She was 69 years old.
The remains were intered at Hazle
hurst last Friday.
Her husband died a few months ago.
She left five children, three sons and
two daughters, among them being
Mrs. T. E. Terreil, of this city.
Superintendant Charles Peterson of
the city’s street force si doing some
splendid work in Ward Park this week
The large canal is being sunk deeper
and bridged at crossings, and portion*
of the grounds pie being leveled by
filling in the low places. The Wo
men’s Clubs of the city have material
on the ground to erect a neat club
house in this park, and the park com
mittee will further beautify the park
Ln a few weeks.
$1.30 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
j This is an off year in state politics
.as the state election does not come
joft' until next year, but you can hear
(the bees in the bonnets just the same
jand plans are being made by many
j prospective cadidates as to how they
| expect to “mop up,” showing their
opponents a new thing in a political
way. However, we do not mean to
apply this preface to the main sub
ject matter of this article.
It has been known for some time
that Solicitor General M. D. Dicker
son, of this city, would not be a can
didate to succeed himself. At least,
he has told many of his friends that
he would not be a candidate. This
announcement made a clear field for
the lawyers in the circuit who are am
bitious to fill this distinguished po
sition, and since Mr. Dickerson’s de
rision not to be in the race, there are
rumors of a red hot race for the place.
There is one out and out candidate
from Douglas. Judge Levi O’Steen,
one of the most prominent members
of the Douglas bar, has definitely de
cided to be a candidate for this place.
This much is certain. Col. Allan
Spence, of Waycross, will also be u
candidate, if reports from that city
a’-e correct. There is a little rumor
of a Blackshear candidate, but not
much has been heard of this. As it
now looks, the race wi r 'ikely nar
row down to O’Steen anu .jpence, but
of course this is by no means a cer
tainty, as it is an open field and each
county in the circuit may furnish a
runner.
HIT CLOSED
WITH BANQUET
As announced in our last issue, the
rural schools of the county closet;
their term’s work last Saturday, with
the exception of two or three school
which will continue a week or *
longer.
The last program was given on Sat
urday night at the New Douglas Hotel
when a banquet was given, the hosts
and hostess being Messrs. Gordon
Floyd and G. B. Eunice and Miss May
Cheatham.
i Besides the rural teachers therj
,were several outside friends invited.
: Many toasts were given and every
! one enjoyed immensely enjoyed.
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BOILER EXPLOSION.
'
I The Henderson Lumber Co’s Mill at
Leaton is almost a total wreck on ac
icunt f the explosions of three of the
huge boilers Friday night. Parts of
the boilers can be found two or three
: hundred yards away and the mill biuld
ling is almost torn down.
! Work to repair it will start Monday
morning. There were six men hurt
jin the accident, four negroes and two
‘white men, two of the negroes are ex
pected to die.
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CHAMP CLARK IS ~
OPPOSING DRAFT.
Speaker Says War Department I-
Jumping Around Trying to Bull
doze People Into Passing Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-, peak
er Clark opposed the selective draf-.
and predicted it never would pass
congress today in receiving a dele
gation from the National Security-
League. Several hundred petitions,
bearing a million names, asking con
gress to adopt the administration plan
were laid before the speaker.
“Conscription never will pass, in my
opinion,” he said. “I am for letting
the flower of youth of this country
volunteer before we fasten the dis
grace of a draft upon them. The war
department is ujmping around trying
to buldoze people into passing this bill
and I don’t think they are going to
succeed.”
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