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“The Enterprise Covers Every Nook and Corner of Coffee County —and Then Some.” cur POLITICS GRSW WHOM US ELECT! our APPROACHES The municipal campaign is just one Week off, and things are beginning to move thick and fast, politically speaking. Every candidate is on the move and the 266 registered voters are being interviewed every day. The only new developement in the campaign is the entry of Mr. S. J. Stubbs, whose friends announce him as a candidate from the Fourth ward. The other candidates in this ward are E. L. Tanner and Simon Levine. This Fourth Ward race promises to be a mighty interesting one because of the multicplicity of candidates. All of the candidates have qualified by making the proper registration on schedule time. The council at their last meeting fixed the assessment of candidates at $1 each, to be paid to the City Clerk by 6p. m., Dec. 11. In other words, if this fee is not paid by that time the candidate’s name will not be placed on the official ballot. Executive Coin. Smyrna Meets Executive Committee of Smyrna Association held a very important meeting at First Baptist church Mon day, Dec. 3rd. With one exception, the full membership was present. Ladies of the church, led by Mrs. Hoke Davis, who is president of the Woman’s Missionary Union, served a lavish dinner. The committee proposes an active misionary work in Coffee county this year—supplying needy fields and strengthening the weak. Four hun dred dollars and perhaps more will be spent in this way. Other interests of the Association will be cared for. T. S. Hubert, pastor of Douglas Baptist church, is chairman of the committee, as well as moderator of the association. H. M. Meeks is Clerk of both committee and associa tion. Other members are J. F. Smith, A. S. Minchew, R. W. Bugg, 11. Kirk land, A. S. Minchew, E. L. Minor, F. H. Brown, J. O. White. Committee will meet again Satur day, 29th. AX SON NEWS School is progressing nicely nuder the management of our efficient prin cipal, Miss Bessie Steakley, assisted by Misses Mabel Bostwick and Gertie Hughes. Mrs. Joe McDonald is spending a few days m Waycross. Mr. «and Mrs. Martin and family spent Thanksgiving week with Messrs Y. 0. and T. H. Mathews. Miss Grace Peters, of Waycross, rpent the week-end with Miss Dasiy Burns. Messrs. Y. O. Mathews and W. J. White made a business trip to Way cross Monday in behalf of our school. Miss Adie Mae White, who is at tending school here, spent the week end with her parents at Pine Valley. Thanksgiving day was dutifully observed by Mrs. James McDonald and family, who served a delightful turkey dinner. Those present out side of the relatives were Misses Bes sie Steakley, Mabel Bostwick, Gertie Hughes and Addie Mae White. Mr. W. J. White spent several days in Valdosta last week. Mr. Loyd Brooker left Tuesday for New Smyrna, Fa., where he expects to learn the trade of machinist. Loyd leaves a host of friends who wish for him much success. Mr. G. L. White, Misses Steakley and Bostwick motored over to Doug las Saturday evening for the movies. Mrs. T. J. Lockridge spent part of last week in Atlanta listening to the abie evangelist, Blily Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gunter, Mrs. B. 11. Tanner ar.d ittle daughter, Mary, left last Friday for Monroe, Ga., to visit relatives. They are tak ing the trip thru the country and will make several towns before returning. MERRY WIDOWS. Douglas Enterprise VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 32. With The Churches The evangelistic services which have been in progress at the Presby terian chuich for ten days, closed Thursday night. Rev. R. A. Brown, pastor of the Waycross Presbyterian church, who has been doing the preaching during the time, was called back to his own church to attend urgent business. The interest in the services contin ued up to the closing night. There were three additions to the church by letter, and the spiritual life of the church was greatly revived. ST. ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services on Sunday the 9th inst. Holy communion at 10:30 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a.m Evening prayer and sermon, 7 p. m. The Rev. J. W. Bicker desires the church guild to meet with him im mediately after morning services. Thomas B. Marshall, Senior Warden. PREACH IVG AT METHODIST CHURCH, SUNDAY, DEC. 9 R,ev. R. F. Eakes D.. D„ of Atlanta, will preach at the Methodist church Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Dr. Eakes is one of the strong preachers of the Southern Methodist church. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear him. B. E. Whittington. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Dec. 9 Sunday school 10:00 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Evening worship, 7:00 p. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Preaching next Sunday, December 9th, at 11 a. m., and 7 p. m., by thfe pastor. Live subjects. Sunday school at 3 p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 6:15 p. m. Welcome to all services. Come. “The Spirit and the Bride say, Come.” T. S. Hubert, Pastor. Santa Clause Letters To Start Next Week As has been the custom of this pa per for the past ten years, we will publish Santa Claus letters this year, beginning next week, and running for two weeks. Remember we will publish them for two weeks only. We invite letters from any white boy or girl of Coffee county, or, the boy or girl of any par ty living outside of Coffee county. If you live in the county, whether your parents are subscribers or not, makes no difference. Get the letters to us by Thursday morning, for that week. All letters received after then will be pubished the following week. Write a short letter, only on one side of paper, and sign name plainly. If you mail it, pace a 3 cent stamp on it, if out of town, or a 2 cent stamp, if in town. Remember this, as it costs more to mail this year. We want your letters. So if you comply with the above rules, we will be glad to print them. WOMAN’S CLUB The Woman’s Club met at the Club House Thursday with a good program Roll call was answered with a Christ mas custom in foreign countries. Mrs. Peterson read a splendid paper on the relation of Home Economics to Soc iety and a very excellent report from the Federation in Augusta was given by Mrs. J. M. Der.t. The ladies were adjourned by sing ing “America.” ‘Uhe Enterprise ‘Publishes the Legal jddvertising of the City of ‘Douglas, Coffee County and County Commissioners AND COFFEE COUNTY NEWS THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GEORGIA, DEC. 8, 1917. THANKSGIVING IT NEWFOREST The good people in the neighbor hood of Sand Hill church and Shep herd came together last Thursday at New Forest school house for the pur pose of observing Thanksgiving. In stead, as has been the custom in former years, of having the service at the Sand Hill church, the commit tees representing New Forest and ■Shepherd schools came together and moved the service to the school house which was more convenient to all. It has been the writer’s pleasure to at tend these services for a number of years and this occasion was the best of all, for the reason that there were a gr£at many people who took part. We found the same old stand-by, the Tanners, the Dents, the Bakers, the Kirklands, and Smith’s, and Meeks families, with many others. This oc casion demonstrated that there was a fine community spirit in that sec tion. We found, which in fact we have known, that Shepherd and New Forest were two of the best schools in the county. Fine school buildings, excellent facilities, headed at Shep herd by Prof. W. C. Rozar, and New Forest by Prog. A. E. Rozar. It does one good to spend a day with such people. There was dinner on the grounds, and it loked like Hoover ought to have been there to have ob served a large part of it until Judge Levi O’Steen hit it, then Hoover was not needed so badly. This commun ity is noted for serving the finest dinners and this occasion showed tnea- SOUTH GEORGIA FARMERS ' PAY ENORMOUS TAX The cattle tick takes toll from the farms of South Georgia larger than their entire share of the war tax. Following is a part of the tick’s toll: 1. The quarantine reduces the value of tick infested cattle in Georgia from fifty cents to three dollars a hundred. Estimated loss at $2.50 a head of cattl,. in tic A infested counties, $2,000,000. 2. The tick takes an average of over seventy-five pounds of beef from the back of each animal. Esti mated loss en 800,000 head, $5,000,- 000. 3. The tick robs the children of Geor gia of an average of one quart of milk a day for each of approxi mately 250,000 milch cows in tick infested counties. Estimating 200 milking days for each cow and valuing the milk at 10c a quart the tick's annual milk toil is $5,000,- 000. 4. The tick reduces the breeding ef ficiency cf cows over twenty.five per cent. The tick’s estimated an nual calf toll is, therefore, 60,000 calves worth at SIO.OO a head $630,- 000. ■«Hsr ; ' *«.»«, W : -.~ * This is an ordinary tick infested Georgia cow. She will give about 1 gallon poor quality milk per day. She eats as much as the cow in the other picture. This cow has an unbroken chain of tick-infested ancestry. Ticks do two things; either kill good cattle or degenerate them to scrubs. Ticks take at least one quart of milk a day from this cow that should go to feed the babies. Estimating that th's cow was in milk 200 days, her owner could iave sold the milk the tick stole for 5c a quart, or S3O. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION I am happy to be able to announce that George W. Andrews, Sunday School expert of the world at large, will be at Douglas to conduct a con vention on the 29th and 30th of this month. Those who ever once heard George Andrews will reed for no urging to come again. Those who never heard him must do so to know his varied superiorities. He is a living wire, a personified thunderbolt, and the near est solution of the problem of perpet ual motion yet discovered. First service Saturday morning 10 o’clock. Services also Saturday after noor.a nd Saturday evening. These services Sunday. Pasijors and church wnrkcrr o' Smyrna Association are expected to attend. All others who will do so will rind cordial welcome. The Douglas church will entertain all visitors. Come. “The Spirit and the Bride say, Come.” • T. S. HUb£ „£\ best efforts. In carrying baskets and boxes away, they seemed almost as heavy as when they were brought. The welcome address of the occas ion wsa happily delivered by Prof. A. E. Rozar, of New Forest school, responded to in a beautiful vein bj Prof. W. C. Rozar, of Shepherd school. Rev. S. G. Taylor conducted the devotional exercises and delivered a very appropriate address on Thanks- 5. Loss in deaths directly and indi rectly due to tick fever conserva tively estimated at $2,000,000. Total tick tax on South Georgia farms estimated, over $15,600,000. This dees net include the loss in tick damaged hides, which alone would more than pay the entire cost of com plete tick eradication in the State. Can Georgia farmers and business men afford to continue the payment af this tax piu? the war tax? They willingly will pay the war tax, but they can escape the tick 'f&x and save enough in doing so to pay many times their share of the war tax. The dipping vat and one season of unanimous co-operation of farmers in dipping will destroy the tick forever and save this enormous toll. Fifty-six Georgia counties have already done it; many others have started; all will have to, under the Davis-Townsend Tick Eradication Law in order to per mit the movement of their cattle to market in tick free territory. The Georgia Land Owners’ Associa tion is working to make the cost as small as poss b!e to each farmer by assisting in a movement for state-wide tick eradication. There should be no slackers in this campaign to save this enormous $15,- OCO,OOO tick tax JgjS - - | :" wmimMm Sftto ' ' y '*m. • '..•.****; .'&***. ■ >? *■& '• I * - - * „ y t **, ' , . This registc. .d Jersey cow, “Violet ;f Experiment." is owned by Mr. Jim Hooks, Warthcn, Ga. She Is 13 years old, gave 160 pounds of butter in 80 lays under test. Her owner has sold SI,BOO worth cf her offspring in 13 years and tod* y has 21 head of Her offspring in hR dairy herd. This cow .vas dipped every 14 days during the year 1916. Mr. Hooks found it cost too much to feed his herd of dairy cat tle to the cattle tick; he eradicated them er.d increased the yield cf m!!:< from Mu i,erd. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE LOCAL RED CROSS CHAPTER SUES COMMIES FOR CO. Enterprise Named The county officers having in charge the naming of the official organ for the county, met last Monday after noon to determine the matter for an other year. The Enterprise was se lected to continue the publishing of the official business of the Sheriff’s. Ordinary’s, and Clerk's offices, to gether with other advertising which goes with th election for the yea 1918. BOX SOCIAL There will be a box Social at th: Wilsonviile school house Saturday night, Dec. 15ih. Proceeds to be use,, for the benefit of the school. YoUr presence and help will he ap preciated. Mattie Morris, Principal, Alma Gillis, Assistant. BOX SOCIAL There will be a box social at the Sears school building on Friday night. Dec. 14. The proceeds to go for the benefit of the school. The public is invited. Lillian Paulk, Principal, Eunice Williams, Ass’t. BOX SOCIAL Everybody is cordially invited t attend a Box Social and school enter tainment at the Rock Creek schoo house December 15—Saturday night. Jewel McLean, Principal. BOX SOCIAL T ~~ There will be a box social at Plair. View school house on Saturay night, Dec. 15th. The proceeds will go foi painting of building. Everybody in vited to attend. Lula Haskins, Teacher. giving. Interesting afidressese were delivered by Judge evi O’Steen and Judge W. C. Bryan, of Douglas.' From what we saw of the commun ity, John’s pants won’t be cut oft bui one time. If you have never been out there, you ought to go. OBSERVER. Enterprise leetre In Rap 17 v>iUai:i ftiwfcn* lisJi’. is Manager Hall has booked the South well Stock Co., for a week’s eng *,;< • ment, begining Mor: ay, Dec. 17. £ is a well known company, and :ne’ put on nothing but f:r..t class play • They will be here the netire vi and The Enterprise Theatre will Li I a great gathering place for first clas* amusement during that time. There will be plenty of good mush and each and every member of th: company aie recommended a*- l- in first class in every respect. Y.' .t . out for further announcements of th company next week. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OR GANIZES The new Democratic Executive Committee of Coffee county met las: week and elected Judge W. C. Bryan chairman, Hon. Jesse M. Paffor vice-chairman, Mr. T. H. Brown sec retary and Mr. T. B. Burkett treas urer. The committee is composed of W. C. Bryan and Sol Sears, from the county at large, E. J. Barclay, Doug las district, George Corbett, Wooten Charlton Gillis, Tanner, T. H. Brown, Phillips Mill, E. C. Henderson, Wil lacochee, Jesse M. Pafford, Pearson. George Gillis, Jonathon Osteen, Mora B. T. Burkett, Pickren. T. H. BROWN, Sec. W. C. T U. A full attendance of the Union is desired for next Friday faternoon -a the Baptist church as business o' I importance is to Le discussed. HELP US ,3 By Telephoning NEWS ITEMS to >' fcn ' or 106. Executive Committee: Mrs. C. L- Patterson, Mrs. J, L. Cochran, Mrs. C. E. Baker, Mrs. S. J. Stubbs, Mrs. Melvin Tanner, G. B. Eunice. Citizens Committee: W. R. Frk-r, Fred Ricketson, Rev. B. E. Whitting ton, Rev. T. S. Hubert, Rev. R. T. Henderson, Mayor Daniel Gaskins, Dr. A. S. M. Coleman, Judge J. W. Quincey, G. F. Dixon, Oliver Peter son, J. A. Barnes, H. B. Johnson, Prof. W. A. Little, Dr. J. M. Hall, Thos. Overstreet, J. M. Dent, C. L. Tanner, Prof. C. W. Fraser, W. L. Rogers, Judge W’. F. Dart, N. Me- Eachern. Campaign Committee: J. N. Mc- Donald, Mrs. G. F. Dixon, Miss Eunice Lott, Mrs. Mose Griffin, Miss Miriaire Kirkland, Turner Brewer, Mrs. A. E. Markett, Mrs. Jeff Williams. Broxton: Mrs. J. L. Shelton. Willacoochee: Mrs. J. M. Dent. Nicholls: Mrs. S. J. Stubbs. Pearson: Mrs. Ashley. West Green: Mrs. Lawson Kelley. Ambrose: Mrs. T. H. Clarke. Axson: Mrs. E. L. Tanner. Publicity Committee: Mrs. W. R. Frier, Mrs. L. E. Heath, Mrs. Geo Stanton, Col. L. E. Heath. Thea M by For Hod Cross Today (Friday) is Theatrical Day for the American Red Cross, all over the country, and Manager Hall is do ing his share towards this great move ment. He has turned his theatre over to the local committee of the Red Cross* and is patriotic enough to give a lib eral part of the receipts to this great organization. Manager Hall always responds to these calls, and this reminds us again that the people of Douglas have not been responding to the liberal pat ronage they should give this theatre. Mr. Hall is giving the people of Douglas one of the best shows in the country, the same pictures the people of Atlanta and other large ctiies are giving, and in some instances before they give them, and the people of Douglas should appreciate this fact more and attend tjiis theatre. There are a lot of towns that would appreciate a good theatre like the En terprise. They would give it their patronage, and the facts are those; if the show is not more liberally pat ronized, Mr. Hall cannot afford to give the people the class of pictures he is now giving. Suppose you think about this .xnd go out. Your money’s worth agaits you and if you will attend a few times you will begr.i to realize what you are missing. M. E. dickers tad Pres. G esiiit SI t e. The Crescent Oil Co., with htv.tf quarters in Atlanta, has a page act vt this issue of The Enterprise. We in vite our reads attention to it. It is interesting to Douglas p«rph; because of he fact that it’s Presdwr.t lives in Douglas. Mr. M. E. Vickers., of this city, is the big mogul In it, owns the land, and he is associated with a couple of other gentlemen, with headquarters as above stated. They have a proposition to offer which we believe to be a good Invest ment, and we ask that you read the back page of this paper carefully. RED CROSS BENEFIT Don’t forget the picture, this after noon and tonight for benefit of Red Croas. Manager Hall has t- ■: ».«, js ly donated his profits on the picture to the local chapter of the Red Cross. The picture is a good one, entitled, “The Stolen Trentv ” Prices in