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“The
Enterprise
Covers Every Nook
•nd Corner ot
Coffee County— and
Then Some.”
20 WHITES AND 40 NEODOES
PASSED UP AS QUALIFIED
The local examining board finish
ed their task for this week last night.
They worked Tuesday and Wednes
day of this week and Friday of last
week. The board will resume their
work next Wednesday and examine
all men who hold order numbers be
tween 800 and 900. On the following
Friday the men whose numbers are
between 900 and 1000 will be exam
ined. Those who completed their ex
aminations up to last night had or
der numbers up to 800.
It is to be understood that only
those in Class One are being exam
ined. The examinations will continue
until every man in this class has been
examined. Something like 65 were
passed by the board this week. 22
of these leave next Tuesday, all ne
groes. Our old quota was 144 and we
are still shy 79 of this number, or 57
after the departures next Tuesday.
These 57 men have got to be furnished
before the new quota will be taken up.
The following white men were pass
ed up as physically fit and qualified for
service and await the call from head
quarters :
Lorenzy Williams, Nicholls.
Thomas F. Mixon, Axson.
F. T. Slaughter, Douglas.
Homer Vickers, Douglas.
Kindred Starling, Pearson.
Mm. L. Joiner, Pearson
Wm. Corbitt, Pearson.
Philip Kirkland, Nicholls.
Willie F. Brigman, Nicholls.
Clifton C. Nugent, Willacoochee.
Henry Taylor, Nicholls.
Clifton Lott, Willacoochee.
Vernon Gillispie, Kirkland.
Thomas L. Cribb, Nicholls.
Roy C. Butler, Douglas.
Daniel F. Dorminy, Nicholls.
M~.com Meeks, Nicholls.
John W. McGehce, Douglas.
Hiram L. Mullis, Pearson.
Ernest Burrows, Nicholls.
In addition to these names, twenty,
there are 45 others who were passed
as physicallyfit, these being negroes,
22 of them leaving next Tuesday.
Their names and addresses appear
elsewhere on this page.
There were quite a number who
were passed up to the district board
at Fitzgerald. Of this number it is
likely that several more will be added
to the qualified list for Coffee county.
This paper will start next week and
publish from week to week a list of
those who have failed to show up for
examination. These men will be
termed slackers, and Clerk Haddock
promises to furnish us with this list
from week to week as the calls for
examinations are made.
FOR SALE —A baby carriage.
Phone 387.
“POLLY BFII
tIHGIIS" 11.
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The Enterprise Theatre has booked
for next Monday night that great film
“Polly of the Circus.” This was to
appear last Monday night but was
cancelled on account of the “Million
Dollar Doll, which appeared here then.
“Polly of the Circus” is one of the
greatest films on the road today. It
is full of romanee and has one of the
sweetest love stories in it that you
will find in any picture. Manager
Hall expects a record-breaking crowd
for this picture.
In addition to this picture and other
pictures you see at this popular the
atre, you get more than your money’s
worth in music. Manager Hall has
made arrangements with Mr. C. Trin
ka, of Chicago, who is one of the best
violinists in this section today, and he
with Miss Marie Ward, pianist, fur
nish some of the best music to be found
anywhere. Mr. Trinka is a perma
nent fixture in Douglas, expects to re
main here With the theatre, and the
public may expect this excellent pro
gram of music every night in addition
to the pictures.
Douglas Enterprise
AND COFFEE COUNTY NEWS
VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 43
Wilfacoochse Bailiff
Killed By Nap
Mr. C. D. McCraw, a prominent cit
izen, of Willacoochee, was shot and
instantly killed at Crenshaw, Berrien
county, at 11 o’clock Sunday by Ed
Dancy, a negro.
The deceased was acting constable
of the Willacoochee district, and ac
companied by John T. Pr.ulk, under
took to arrest the negro under a war
rant charging swindling. Dancy, who
was located in a ouse occupied by his
sisted arrest, shooting McCraw with
a double-barreled shotgun, the load
taking effect in the right side of his
head.
After killing McCraw Dancy snap
ped the other barrel at Mr. Paulk
and made his escape. Johnson is in
jail at Nashville charged with being
an accessory, and a posse is in pur
suit of Dancy. The dead man was
the father of Will McCraw of the
Paulk and McCraw Hardware Com
pany of Willacoochee.
Dancy is an alleged slacker.
Patriotic Service
AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
The Committee on Public Informa
tion created by the President of the
United States has prepared a series
of views illustrating the wanton and
inexcusable destruction of the great
cathedrals of Europe and other me
morials of art by the German army
in the present war. I have secured
the valuable and interesting series of
pictures for use next Sunday eve
ning, and will present theip with an
appropriate lecture in explanation.
There are fifty views in all. In con
nection with the yiews,) patriotic
songs will be thrown upon the screen
and sung.
Come also to the morning service
at 11 o’clock. You are welcome to all
services at the First Baptist Church.
Come—“ The Spirit and Bride Say
COME.”
T. S. HUBERT.
, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday, February 24th-
Sunday School at 10 o’clock.
Morning worship at 11 o’clock.
Sermon: “Imparting* Spiritual
Gifts.”
Evening worship at 7 o’clock.
Sermon subject: “Wells of the
Heart.”
BIG ORGANIZATION TO
MEET IN DOUGLAS
The Savannah Preebytery will meet
in Douglas sometime during April, the
date to be supplied later, and further
particulars.
This will be a great treat for the
people, and doubtless will be well at-
We are glad to report the improved
condition of Mayor Lawson Keley, who
has been quite sick. He is able to be
out on the streets again.
Gus L. Brack Is
Naw Ex. Off. J. P.
Judge Gus L. Brack is the new Ex.
Off. J. P. for this district, succeed
ing Mr. H. F. Brown, who retires. He
will enter upon his duties right away
as soon as his commission arrives.
He received his appointment at the
hands of the grand jury last week.
Judge Brack is no novice in this
line of work. He has served in this
capacity before, right here in this dis
trict, and the people are to be con
gratulated upon the fact tna such an
efficient officer will continue in charge
of this office. • s
The Enterprise 'Publishes the Legal Advertising of the City of Douglas, Coffee County and County Commissioners.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, I EB. 22, 1313
Better Farming in the South
FERTILIZER PRECAUTIONS
Plant Food Should Have A Legal Guarantee Of Availa
bility If It Is To Measure Up To Nation’s Pressing
Fcod Demands
J. C. Pridmore, Farm Service Bureau, Atlanta, Georgia.
While the Ameri
can farmer respon
iiypPwt: tied to the world
wide demand ir.
H : gill ture, says that (his
j **! Jo.-s not justify a
: ri|i let-down in farm
.''-•Xri* activities; for he
has stated that
even greater ef
forts must be put
J. C. PRIDMORE. forth in the coming
months.
If the southern farmer is to do his
share in producing foods for man and
beast, and, at the same time, grow cot
ton fibre for the nation, he must either
increase his crop acreage, or else grow
considerably more per acre than cus
tomary.
In view of the scarcity and high
price of labor at the present time,
it seems to be the part of wisdom
for farmers generally not to mate
rially increase the crop acreage, but
to increase the acre yields.
Increase Yield Per Acre
Acre yields can be increased by
better preparation of the seed bed,’ by
the use of good seed of varieties adapt
ed to the region, by using a more lib
eral application of the right kinds of
fertilizers and by better cultivation of
the growing crops.
While all of these factors influence
acre yields, let us call particular at
tention at this time to the kind and
amount of fertilizer to be used. Prac
tically all of the southern soils are
deficient in phosphoric acid, nitrogen
and potash and these must be supplied
in some form to get the largest yields
and biggest farm profits. While the
proper use of these materials will in
crease the yields per acre and help
supply the nation’s needs, the wise
farmer will at the same time strive
to get the largest financial returns
from their use. To do this, he must
exercise care in buying them as well
as in applying them.
The farmer should understand that
plants use fertilizers as foods only af
ter they have been dissolved by the
soil water, and that which is not sol
uble is not available to the plant. It
is to the farmer’s interest, therefore,
to know that the fertilizers he is buy
ing are guaranteed to contain a stated
amount of available plant food.
FOOD AliSTim QUIRGET
GIVES NEW PLi IF BUYIG
The Federal Food; Administrator
for Georgia has relieved the farmers
who produce their own flour substi
tutes from purchasing an equal a
mount of substitutes with the pur
chase of flour. The rules and regu
lations provide that the farmers must
not purchase, under the permits is
sued, more than seventy per cent, of
his customary and usual supply of
flour. The producer can be issued
permits to purchase only in quanti
ties from one sack to one barrel, de
pending on the number of persons in
his family and the amount of flour
on hand.
When a permit is issued to a far
mer and he purchases flour he must
surrender his card, or permit, to the
merchant making the sale, who in
turn is authorized to use the card as
a basis for the purchase of flour in
like quantity without substitutes.
The merchant is required to pre
: erve this card and hold same sub
ject to the inspection of the Federal
Food Administrator for Georgia, and
the seller of flour must take up the
permit at the time the flour is de
livered. A permit cannot be issued
'or less than thirty days nor more
than sixty days supply.
The new ruling allowing the farmer
who has his own substitutes to pur
chase flour in this manner is confined
strictly to the man who produces his
own corn, rice or other wheat sub
stitutes. As Chairman of the Food
Administration for Coffee County.
I have appointed the foiiowing agents
who will issue cards to the farmer*
for the purchase of flour, at the fol
lowing places in this county:
Quick Acting Form.
For the best results in the cultiva
tion of general field crops, materials
carrying phosphoric acid, nitrogen and
some potash should be applied. Pot
ash is more deficient in the light and
sandy soils than in clay soils. Not
'ess than 150 to 200 pounds of com
plete fertilizers per acre should be
used and hundreds of farmers find
more than this amount to be most
profitable. Fertilizers containing these
necessary plant foods are generally es
sential for the most profitable produc
tion of all field crops. Since there is
such a world-wide need for crops, and
since farm products are higher now
han ever before, it follows that the
farmer who strives to fulfill the na
tion’s needs just now by the use of
such plant food as is necessary, se
cures at the same time the largest pos
sible financial returns for himself.
American-Made Potash
Good As German Kind
If there is any doubt in the mind
of a farmer about using fertilizers con
taining American-made potash, in the
belief that it is not as good as that
which was formerly obtained from Ger
many, his mind can be set at rest by
any chemist or agricultural authority.
Any one who knows in what form the
potash exists in the American-made
product will declare that muriate or
suflate of potash is the same to the
plant whether it be obtained from
American sources or Germany, and
that the plant asks no questions as to
where it originated, but feeds on it
just the same.
Raise Home Supplies
And Some To Spare
“Store bought” foods and feeds are
too high priced for any farmer to pay,
even if he could find them for sale.
The wise southern farmer will get in
a crop of corn and velvet beans, pota
toes, vegetables of various kjlnds,
grow a few hogs and poultry and oth
erwise look out for the needs of his
family and his tenants. With all
of food products bringing such good
prices, the southern farmer should do
a patriotic bit if he would raise enough
to spare some for the armies while he
is raising his cotton crop.
J. A. Davis, Nicholls; D. L. Can
non! Nicholls;J. A. Thurston, Am
brose; C. B. McCall, Willacoochee; B.
T. Allen, Pearson; J. L. Palmer, Brox
ton; Y. O. Mathews, Axson; J. A.
Cromartie, West Green; C. E. Ba
ker, Douglas; Moses Griffin, Doug
las; W. P. Ward, Douglas; E. R
Smith, Willacoochee; W. M. Sum
mer, Pearson; E. L. Moore, Brox
ton; Levi O’Steen, Douglas; E. L.
Grantham, Douglas; R. J. Cornelius,
Douglas.
Any effort on the part of the far
mer or dealer to evade the spirit of
the permit or any misrepresentations
in obtaining or using the same will
subject the party so misrepresenting
or disobeying the rules and regula
tions to the penalties prescribed by
law and the Federal Food Admini
strator.
The people of Coffee county, I am
sure, will realize and understand
which are of force to insure the sav
ing of flour for our soldiers and al
lies in France and to insure the fair
ar.d equal distribution to all alike of
the flour used in the country.
The parties who are serving the
people in the capacity of agents and
myself as County Food Administra
tor are doing this work without any
pay or compensation whatever, and
I feel sure that the retailer, the
wholesaler and the consumer will
work in harmony with the Food Ad
ministration and willl give their
hearty co-openation to the regula
tions as outlined and put in force.
; J. W. QUINCEY,
Chairman Federal Food
Administrator Coffee Co.
$1.59 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
22 COFFEE COUNTY I.CCRBES
LEASE TUESDAY FOR CORDON
Now Program For
Eating Places
Public eating places in Georgia are
now officially on a new food program,
and like the households, observe the
following schedule.
1. —Monday, Wheatless.
2. —Tuesday, Meatless.
3. Wednesday, Wheatless.
4. —Saturday, Porkless.
5. —One wheatless meal a day.
6. —One meatless meal a day.
Hotels have been observing the
nent’esr Tuesday and wheatless Wed
nesday but now they must observe
Monday as a wheatless day, Saturday
as a porkless day nnd have one meat
less and one wheatless meal every
day.
It is left to the eating place pro
prietor to designate which meal will
be wheatless and which meatless each
day. Later they will be asked to re
port whic meal is being observed.
These new rules place patrons of
the public eating .houses on practi
cally the same bread allowance that
is being observed in England in that
they provide that a portion of bread
or roils serve patrons shall not con
sist of more than two ounces.
Not moer than this quantity should
be served to anyone at any one meal
except that when rolls or bread made
from corn meal, oatmeal or bran are
served and when only one kind is
ordered, a portion may consist of
flour ounces. Rolls, the regulations
say, should not weigh more than one
ounce ap.e e.
Public eating places row come un
der the Food Administration's bal
ing regulations and must s< ure li
wires and * j governed accordingly.
victo.y bread my be sc.'.ci on
wheatless days. This is bread con
taining- 20 per cent of bread substi
tutes.
Pies, cakes, doughnuts and pastries
may be served on wheatless days, pro
vided that 33 1-3 per cent or more of
wheat flour substitutes are mixed in
the wheat flour used in the manufac
ture of all such products that are
served every day during the week.
Red Cross Notes
It would seem practically easy for
the members of the Rod Cross to give
one afternoon each week to the work,
if they had their heart in the cause.
Up until Wednesday there have been
deplorably few to carry on the work.
On that day there were twelve in the
Surgical Dressing Class and eight for
the hospital garments.
It is to be questioned if the German
women are as slow in working for
their country and their soldiers, and
here’s hoping that the earnest and
thoughtful women of our town will
feel that this call is as for aach of
them personally, and not for somebody
else.
Furney Appointed
Lineman G. & F. Gy.
Mr. C. A. Furney, who has been
connected with the bailiff’s office in
this district for some time, has ac
cepted the position of lineman for the
G. & F. Ry., on the division south of
Douglas. The position becomes ef
fective at once.
The G. & F. are putting in a com
plete telephone system along their
line and most of their work will be
handled in this way, instead cf by
telegraph, and it was necessary to
employ a regular man to keep these
line* up. Mr. Furney Is an exper
ienced telephone man and of course
his services were in demand.
On next Tuesday, the 26th, twenty
two Coffee county negroes will leave
for Camp Gordon, according to an of
ficial call which reached here last week.
The call was first made for the 23rd,
and Clerk Haddock so notified the
men, but it was changed later until
the 26th, and the men, all colored, will
leave via the Georgia and Florida for
Ilazlehurst and the Southern to At
lanta and Chamblee.
These 22 men will be part of the old
quota of 144. Coffee county has 79
more men to furnish under the old
quota before the new quota is taken
up. With the leaving of this num
ber there will still remain 57 to be
sent under the old quota, '’’he bal
ance will likely be white men and may
go forward at any day.
The following is the official list of the
22 negroes who will leave next Tues
day morning:
Henry Wilson, Nicholls.
George Lyons, Douglas.
Jasper Lewis, Douglas.
James Thorne, Douglas.
Shelley O’Neal, Douglas.
Armstrong McPhil, Ambrose.
Pete Knowles, Douglas.
John Harris, Broxton.
Claudy C. Roberson, Wilacoochee.
Lennel Mobley, Broxton.
Mose K. Johnson, Axson.
Pearl O’Neal, Douglas.
Eugene Coleman, Axson.
John Edwars, Broxton.
Oscar Beasley, Douglas.
John Powell, Doughs.
Horton Rowls, Fairfax.
Ed Allen, Willacoochee.
Cordy L. McDonald, Broxton.
Roy Lott, Willacoochee.
Fachion Walker, West Green.
App Wilcox, Douglas.
Jule Bryant, Douglas.
William Harris, Broxton.
The last two names are alternates.
They -ire sumoned to be here Tues
day and wiii go in the event some
fail to show up.
FOR SALE
For sale, large white and yellow
chrysanthemum plants, very double,
$1 per dozen. Won blue ribbon at the
Coffee County Fair. Mail orders
promptly filled. Mrs. J. E. LOTT,
Broxton, Ga. 2t
AiUSIG PHAM
NORMAL PUPILS'
The following program will be given
by the voice, piano and expression pu
pils of the Georgia Normal at the au
ditorium next Monday night at 7:30.
Every one is invited to attend.
PROGRAM.
Piano Solo, Miss Eula Wilson.
Piano Solo, Charles Lynch.
Piano Duet, Howard Whittington,
Miss Gaffney.
Reading, “Who Told the Story?”
Miss Lena Faircloth.
Piano Solo, Dan Jardine.
Piano Solo, Miss Eva May Hender
son.
Reading, “Aunt Sylvia’s First Ge
ography Lesson,” Miss Virginia Grif
fin.
Piano Duet, Miss Minnie Belle Grif
fin, Miss Gaffney.
Piano Solo, Miss Mary Cochran.
Vocal Solo, (a) “Li’l Boy,” (b) Flo
rian Song, Miss Maurine Moore.
Piano Solo, Miss Lois Farnell.
Piano Solo, Miss Robbie McLean.
Piano Solo, Miss Allie McEachern.
Reading, “Aunt Sophronia Tabor at
the Opera,” Mis Oldin Vickers.
Piano Solo, Miss Ethel Levin.
Piano Duet, Miss Ethel Deen, Mary
Campbell Patterson.
Piano Solo, Miss Madeline Moore.
Reading, “An Aspiring Dishwash
er,” Miss 'Willie Fearl Davis.
Quartette, “Springtime,” Misses Car
olyn Whittington, Maurine Moore,
Ruby and Grace Gaffney.
Piano Duet. Miss Carrie Griffin,
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