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By J M. Freeman
Some fine corn shucking weather
for the past few days.
Don't forget to pay your taxes be
fore the 20th of Decembtr.
Send your Santa Claus letters to
the “Enterprise,” not to me.
Every body knows what to do with
a bad case except those who have it.
Dr. W. A. Sibbett will not go to
camp until about the 15th of January.
John Vickers is at the Citizens
Bank now. He is a good fellow in a
good place.
Tht stores in Douglas have the most
goods and the prettiest goods that I
have ever known.
A. Brooks says “he is in favor of
letting old sis cow go on just as she
is, on the streets.”
I reckon my chums are thinking
about what kind of Christmas pres
ent they intend to give me right-away
pretty soon.
Tax Collector Morris will be in
Douglas on the 17th, 18th, 19th and
20 of this month. On the 21st he will
begin to issue fifas.
E. L. Tanner says he has nothing
against old sis cow. If the people
want the question brought up Ijpt
’em settle at the polls.
Boys and girls must answer my
questions promptly when they come
to me to get married. If they don’t
tht business stops right then.
Business was not very good 1 ast
Sunday, and I didn’t write but four
warrants, and no one came to get
married. The war is to blame.
If I am not mightly mistaken little
Mary Carver, and another little girl
who came with her are going to make
some pretty girls after awhile.
The Grand Jury adjourned last
week in time to have gotten home for
Thanksgiving, but I have not heard
that any of them were thankful.
In these times when money is so
plentiful it seems that any one could
pay $1.50 subscription for the Enter
prise if they wanted the paper. <
It would surprise you to see the
number of soldiers’ names on our list
that get the Enterprise. It is like a
letter from home, they write me.
A lady in town told me a day or so
ago that my powder article last week
about Mamie was very near correct,
and that Mamie was not the only one.
Toney Eight hasn’t been to town
since she was down here with that
soldier boy. If she had a uniform
she would go to the army in a minute.
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Some of those who would give their
souls for a bottle of whiskey will
•pend their Christmas in pail or on
the gang. Their families at home in
trouble.
The boys and girls are beginning to
writt to Dear Santa Clause. They
never think about him until they want
something, and then they know they
will ge it.
The boys are going to be very par
ticular who they vote for this time.
This fast and late auotomobile driv
ing and whiskey selling by prominent
parties must stop.
James moncrief, who lives near
Pearson, has made his supply of sug
ar for 1918. The editor of the Tri
bune says it is good ‘C’ sugar. Other
farmers can do the same thing.
Since I have been charging and col
lecting for warrants, cash down when
issued, there are not as mahy called
for, and it is much better. Yes, my
motto, no money, no warrant.
Bro. M inchew was in town Satur
day for the first time since he went
to my house, taken Dollie in his car
and ran off with her, to Thelma. My
shot gun is not in good order.
It is hinted that Gov. Dorsey may
oppose Hoke Smith for Congress in
the next campaing. If he does he’ll
beat Smith, and I’ll be glad of it, for
1 never was much of a smith man.
Billy Sunday says the farmers ask
more than they are entitled to for
their products. That is true, in some
instances, but it is human nature, and
what are you going to do about it?
There are a great many fault-find
ers in the world. People who think
you committed a great crime when
you have done just as they have done,
claiming they were right and justifi
able.
The boys over in France say the
girls are is pretty as pictures, yet
they can’t make love to ’em because
they can’t talk to them. But the
girls are cute enough to make love
with her eyes.
Annabell and Josephine Dorminey
are expected in town today to buy
their Christmas finery. Both of them
will have several presents to buy, for
each have several new fellows. That
is what I heard.
Vassie Holton, over at the ten cent
store, has been cracking nuts with her
teeth until she has broken out two of
them. Now, when her fellow comes
she keeps her mouth shut to keep
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, DEC. 8, 1917.
him from seeing her snaggled teeth.
A notice published last week in
the daily papers that all examina
tions granted to parties in the recent
registering and examination had been
revoked. This will put the boys on
the rack again, but Uncle Sam must
have soldiers.
Hattie Rice, remembered as a sis
ter of Laura Rice, is training for a Red
Book readers, is training for a Red
Cross nurse, at Wilmington, N. C.,
and will go to France next spring. I
hope she will get with Annie Chace
in the same hospital.
Forty or fifty names of persons
w T ho have been reading the Enterprise
have been cut off the list for non-pay
ment of dues. They cannot blame
anyone but themselves, and while 1
regret it I am glad that as many new
names go on the list.
I have enough invitations to spend
Christmas to take up a month’s time,
but I can’t go, for Dollie is powder
ing, and fixing to go to Jacksonville
or some other place and I will have
to stay home and look after Sallie,
Polly and the rest of my chums.
There was a woman in town last
week hunting for 5c homespun, and
had just said she had sold her cotton
for 28 cents. That is the kind that
wants the world and all in it, but
never wants to give anything, and
the world would be better off without
her.
Willie Vickers, who lives just two
or three miles from town, came in
last Saturday to see how his subscrip
tion stood, as he was afraid if his pa
per was stopped he would have trou
ble with his pretty children. I btt
ble with his pretty children. I bet
steady on till next October.
The automobile races at the Fail
ground on Thanksgiving day were
failures. Not enough money was tak
en in to pay exptnses, one of the cars
was run into a ditch and broken up,
there was trouble among the parties
and some attachments were issued
before the matter was settled.
Early in the season, a farmer came
to our door, on Ward street, and had
a wagon load of West India yams, for
which he wanted and received $1.40
per bushel. It was extortion, and he
was told so, and replied that “he
knew the potatoes were not worth tha*
price but be could ge it, and was go
ing to have it.”
Some of the prisoners in jail think
Judge Summerall did not pay them
the respect due them, in not giving
them a trial at the last term of court
or, at least, conferring with thtm as
to heir wishes. Since I come o think
of it I am sorry the Judge has incur
red the displeasure of these gentle
men, and hope he will hasten to make
amends at his earliest convenience.
A young lady who told me about a
year ago that she didn’t want me to
put htr name in the Note Book, was
in town las Saturday. She is mar
ried now, and said she didn’t see any
notice of her marriage in the Note
Book, (forgetting what she said once)
but when she dies her friends will not
see any notice, either, of that event.
The Note Book is never at a loss for
something to publish.
Eight or ten young men who did
not abide by the registration laws,
and failed to respond when called for
examination, in a town in Mississippi,
have been captured, tried as deser
ters and sentenced to ten years each,
in the Federal prison, at hard labor.
This is pretty severe, but the young
fellows will be free from danger until
the war is over and the country is in
a prosperous condition.
A warrant was issued last Satur
day for a man who was in the habit
of beating his little four year old
child unmercifully. It had black and
blue stripes on its little back for sev
eral days after he beat it, and while
it was being beaten it would cry out
in its agony, “Papa please don’t kill
me!” The neighbors were so enrag
ed that thty want a stop put to the
outrage, and the child may be taken
away frem the cruel man.
There’s a little French girl near
the camp of the boys in France, who,
when the boys go to get their soup
at the soup wagon, goes and gets in
the line and when she gets in front
of the barrel, holds up her bowl to
be filled, and if she is not high en
ough one of the boys holds it up for
her. The chef fills it, she smiles and
thanks them in French. The boys
say they don’t know what she says
but it sounds mighty sweet and they
are willing to go without soup just
to hear her say it. She is eight
years, and her father was killed in
1915, in a battle. She sews on but
tons for her big buds, as she calls
the boys.
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