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Good morning, Mayor Kelley.
Towns was full of traders for
Christmas this week.
Roseoe Smith is among his friends
in this county l his week.
Solicitor Dickinson was down at
court at Alma last Monday.
If your subscription is not paid up
you will not get the paper next week.
I don’t think Jim Wade has moved
to town, but loafs around here a good
deal.
Gaynelle Everett don’t write to me
now, since postage has gone up to 3
cents.
If you have not paid your taxes you
will see an officer with a fifa in a few
days.
Some of the nicest men in the coun
ty make fools of themselves by drink
ing whiskey.
Dolie Freeman has been working
for a week to get money enough to go
to Jacksonville.
If I don’t hear from Mary Smith
before long 1 am thinking of issuing
a search valiant.
The less money you spend for
whiskey now the more you will have
to buy food for the children next
summer.
The girls up at Ambrose have about
forgotten mo. First thing you know
1 will go up there and shake ’em up.
Hear me!
The negroes will carry pistols and
keep killing each other. Looks like
they could wait until they could get
over in France.
The school children were dismissed
from school last Thursday morning,
and most of them have gone home to
fix up for Christmas.
Hill Kight v us heir Ibis week «u J
driti't bring 'ionnie. lie said “she
wji• :\i nutnp s tting b.v the lire pout
ing about something.”
This is no time to cut off people’s
living by shutting up their cows, Mr.
Councilman. Do it, and God will cut
you as much or more.
My Thanksgiving turkey was a
squirrel. I can’t say who will send
me a rabbit for my Christmas dinner.
Don’t all speak at once.
It is never safe to count your chick
ens before the eggs hatch . Eggs
sell for fifty cents a dozen now, and
boys need « little money.
Between rocking the cradle for his
new girl baby and looking for Ma,ttie
to come home for Christmas, I). W.
Vickers has all he can do, now.
If any one wants to send a mess of
nice, county made sassengers for my
Christmas dinner, they will be ap
preciated, with thanks to the donors.
Some friend sent me a mess of
big corn hominy last Saturday. If
there is anything I love more than
big corn hominy it is more out of the
same dish.
There is a couple up at Salem, try
ing to get things fixed up by Christ
mas. They know the way to my
house, and I will take pleasure in
sewing ’em together.
J. H. Hall, down at Lake Butler,
Fla., wants me to send him 75 cents
worth of Note Book. John will stay
in Flcrida, end I reckon if that state
goes dry he will go to Cuba.
The boys over in France will be a
little lonesome and home-sick Christ
mas, but those girs over there say
F-y will kiss them for their mothers.
?, areful, boys, be careful.
Dora Kitchen, up at Oeilla, wants
t- know if I have a stocking “that
V ill hold a good size Christmas pres
ent. I have, and 1 am going to patch
tho hole in the toe this very night.
Ben Morris said, last Wednesday,
ihat some of the big tax payers had
net paid up, and he was going to issue
s against them. That is nothing
s . ge, but still, they have the
money.
The registration board up at At
lanta has been turned out of business.
Term Loans
On C offee Count) rcr*r«s
Ai 5 Per ent Interest
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1 set the money prompt’/ ! »;• you or t .1 you the reason
why 1 catuiot pet it. promt • You p»y but in
terest. uui.il the end o,” five years. See me.
W. A. WILCOX
Sibbett Bui3c*ins DOUGLAS, GA.
and another appointed. They have
been excusing too many white men
and putting it to the negroes as they
come.
Some of the toy Christmas horns
are made of paste-board and not tin,
this time. The tin is needed for some
thing else, and paste board does just
as well as the horn wont last long
any how.
Joe Moore, the scavanger cart man,
voted for Quincey and Deen, last Sat
urday, but as Deen failed to furnish
the managers with pop-corn, Joe’s
ballot was marked “300”, anj put over
behind the ballot box.
The first five tickets put in the
box last Saturday morning for mayor
and couneilmen were just the same,
voted open, that the voters might see
each other’s tickets, and had the
names that \sere elected.
Quite a number of people in town
and the county knocked off for Christ
mas last Monday, and will not go tc
work until the first of January. It
will take some of the boys that long
to get rid of the headache.
I told the boys and girls last week
that would be the last chance to have
letters! published to Sarwi Clause,
but they keep sending ’em right on
—the girls do. Girls always have the
last word, isn’t that the-truth?
Carl Tanner has been elected may
or of Nichols. J. A. Davis has been
mayor eight years, couldn’t make any
improvements and thought it time tc
quit, he says. I think so, too, and 1
reckon the town feels relieved.
The girls over in France are knit
ting ear muffs for the boys. Some
later they will be laning ear-muffs on
the boys. An American' boy will
make love to a girl or die and these
French girls are terrible coquets.
I have not found out exactly who
the couple was that occupied the big
swing in Ward’s park, last Sunday af
ternoon until nearly six o’clock, but
when they get ready, get the license
and three dollars I will snap the
buckle for them.
State troups, or as some call them,
teh Home Guards, for guard and po
lice duty will soon be called for, and
all men between the ages of 31 and 45
will be enrolled. They will not be
called from the state. Each state will
furnish its pro rata.
Little Thelma Futch, up near Den
ton, is teaching school, and getting
along fine. Some of the scholars are
older than she is, and one particular
ly big boy wants to teach her, but the
only question he has for her to ans
wer is “lovest thou me?”
When the draft law calls fro all
able bodied men between the ages of
21 and 45 Tom Douglas and Ben Mor
ris will suddenly grow lame in one
leg if they have to carry an iron
wedge in one pocket to make ’em re
member which eg to limp on.
I am mighty sorry to learn that the
home and contents of Charlie Stewart
and family wias burned last week.
Very little, if anything, was saved,
and we are not sure that there was
any insurance. Charlie would not
even have an overcoat if I had not
had it in my office.
Myrtle Jones, down at Waycross.
who is twelve years old, writes me
that she is going to hang up her
stocking for herself, and will hang up
her sister Willie’s for me. That will
be quite satisfactory, and while 1
do not know what size stocking Willie
wears I hope it will be a whopper.
The managers for last Saturday’s
election desire to return thoir thanks
to the manager of the Central Hotel,
(the old hospital building) for the nice
dinner sent them. No wonder the
house is aways full, but if your Uncle
Jim was there he would have to be
pulled away from the table with a
block and tckle.
I know two or three men who had
THE DOUGLaS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. nEC. 22. 1917.
uce homes three or four years ago,
>ut they loved whiskey more than
hey did their wives and children, and
hey are, or soon will be, without
lomes. But then, some people would
;et drunk if they knew they would
vake up in hell next morning, and
hey will sumo time.
Have you joined the Red Cross. The
Red Cross is just as essential to the
relp of the army, as the army is to
the prosecution of the war, and it is
he duty of every person to help in
some way. It make
whether you have a son in the army
or not, your neighbor has, and you
have as much right to help the sol
diers as any one else.
Some one worked a nice trick on a
fellow from the country the other
day. He had had some booze, want
ed more, slipped around and found
some, w'hich is easy, called his friends
around him and opened the bottle. It
looked like white -corn liquor, but
proved to be vinegar. It made every
one of them mad, and they scattered
off to find something to take the taste
out of their mouths.
The report comes that the farmers
of Thomas county are having trouble
in getting salt to cure their meat, and
some of them are even talking about
going down on the Florida coast, as
they did during the Civil war, to
make it. Of course the scarcity of
salt is on account of the congested
freights on the railroads, but if it was
not this salt-making business would
be found very troublesome and ex
pensive.
The girls are writing me the pret
tiest kind of letters, this week. Here
is one from Millie McCall, Berrien
county: “Hello, Uncle Jim: I am
writing to thank you for the enjoy
ment of the Note Book for the past
year, and wish you a Merry Christ
mas. I have nothing else to give you,
except my thanks, with the wish that
you will continue to write for us next
year. It is wonderful how much news
and amusement you get in such a
small space. Your loving chu,m No.
120.” Thank you, Millie. Write
again.
The government has issued an or
der that soldier boys in camp must
not gel married without permission
from the captain. This seems hard,
but there are women out at some of
the camps who marry a soldier in one
camp and then go to other camps and
under assumed names marry other
soldiers. They do this in order to get
the money from the government as
the wife of several soldiers whom
they have married under different
names. And then, if these soldiers
are killed they get the money due
them and a life pension. With four
or five husbands this is a paying busi
ness.
In the cities where most of the peo
ple burn coal, and where the fire
places, stoves, etc., can only be used
for that purpose, there is great suffer
ing now. Coal is scarce and high,
provisions very high, poor people
cannot afford the prices and country
now is i na serious condition. Even
here in Douglas the prices are high,
and as for fire-wood, those who have
it are putting on the screws and de
manding unreasonable prices, $1.50
to $2.00 for very shabby one-horse
loads. Most of these wood-haulers
put on a poor mouth generally, when
they have to pay for anything, but
when they have the opportunity they
grind you for all they can get. That’s
human nature.
Manning Peterson, who was here
.i few weeks ago, has arrived at his
home at Pitkin, La., and writes me a
letter last week. He has had a good
rain since his return, the weather
turned cold and disagreeable and he
was sitting before a big fire, toast
ing his shins, smoking his pipe and
talking about Georgia. lie wants me
.o-tell his many friends, (the whok
county is his friends) that he enjoy
ed his visit a great deal, and was joy
fully received by the loved ones at
home on his return. I hope to have
a letter from him or some of his fam
ily every now and then in future, and
I hop 9 to see him 'again, but may not,
we are both getting old, still was can
think of each other.
Myrtis Scott, who the Note Book
readers will remember as the little
girl, up at Isabella, Worth county,
who ost her mother, sister and broth
er in the summer from pneumonia,
all died inside of three weeks, writes
me a letter, as follows: “I know
Christmas without my dear mother,
brother anl sister will be a very em
pty affair. Papa has done ,and is do
ing all he can to make me happy, and
I am trying to make him think I am.
When he is r.way from the house, and
Minnie, Belle and Johnnie are at
school 1 can’t help but thiDk about
my poor, dead mama. Of course, 1
miss my dead brother and sister, my
brother was that born when I was,
and who has been my play-mate and
friend all my life, but it is nothing
compared to how I miss my poor ma
ma. Oh, dear Lord, 1 want my ma
ma! Give my love to all my chums,
and tell them while they are happy
vith their mamas at home I hve to be
mama for my little sisters and broth
er, and I want them to think of their
chum, Number 222.’ :
Reduced Prices
On Everything in Stock Until
January Ist
New line of Coat Suits and
Silk D rsses have just arriv
ed. Prices on these the low
est in city, considering quality
Call at our store during the
Holidays and make it your
Headquarters. We like to
have our friends hang around
SIMON LEVIN
Ward SL Douglas, Ga«
We
wish all our
customers and
\
Friends
A flerry Xmas and
Prosperous
New Year
We appreciate and thank you for
the business yoW gave us this ? >
""year and hope to serve you the
coming year
BARNES & CO.