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gjfM Note Book
P O box 412 By J. M. Freeman
PHONE 44
Mrs. Grundy Says—
That she always planted her pel
corn patch on the 14th of February,
-ain or shine, if it wasn’t Sunday.
That if you know r. girl who calls
every other girl she meets, “sweet
heart,” it is a sign she wants a he
male sweetheart.
That she is thirty-six years old and
her hubsand is thirty-six, they were
married thirty-six years ago. G*et
thing out.
That all the fools are not dead nor
gone to the war‘ and they are not
going to do either if they can help it.
That she has heard of a girl in
Douglas who says she had rather
see her father* 50 years old* and her
brother, 17 years old, go to the army
than for her sweetheart to have to
go. She i. not fitting to be picked
up in the road.
That she knows some people who
won’t buy their hats and clothes in
Douglas because they are afraid some
other person, living here wfll buy
and wear something liki they have.
That she always looks at The En
terprise before she gcis shopping to
see who is advertising and then she
goes there to trade. Others do the
same.
That she is riding this week in
Uncle Jim’s (Note Bock) car just
for a trial to see how she will like it.
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He may think I am flirting with him,
as a good many others do, and want
me to keep it up.
The little Bledsoe girls, down at
Nicholls, haven’t written this week.
The Note Book copy must be ready
every Tuesday and not Wednesday
as heretofore.
Justice Court for the 748th Dis
trict will convene next Monday morn
ing at ten o’clock.
You can find more boys trying to
keep out of the army than there are
trying to get in.
We have a new Linotype man, and
he may do well, if he ever gets used
to my sesatcherscript.
The boys are hunting up every ex
cuse in the world that can be thought
of to keep out of the army.
Haven’t heard a word from Josh
Smith and his twin calves this week.
Bet they have the German measles.
Mattie Vickers, up in Atlanta, says
she and the Woodbury girls generally
are so busy that she came very near
George Kight, from Jeff Davis
county, was in town last week. First
and last he will come back here, if
he can.
Tucker says he is going to get mar
ried just as soon as he can get her
to say Y-E-S, I reckon so! Oh
dearie.
Eli Vickers, Sr., and Bud Fusseli
TUB DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DO UGLAS. GEORGIA, FEB. 22. 1918
will be at the “Prairie Rose” show
at Ambrose Saturday nighti it is
learned.
forgetting to write to me. Now, you
ee hat? Suppose I forget her; why
3he would have a postal in the mail
every day.
Cora Grantham, Tonie Eight’s
married sister, is ‘going to move to
Douglas in a few days. Her hus
band is a barber.
Katusa Mobley, from up above
Broxton, was here last Saturday.
She is a mighty nice little girl, and
I don’t care if she knows I said so.
Mr. Hough, of Pulaski county, calls
deserters and German sympathizers
copperheads and says the best way
to doctor them is to swing them up.
Vassie Holton, at the Ten Cent
Store, is not in a very good humor
this week. There is something the
matter with the mails between here
and Camp Wheeler.
The Grand Jury thinks the county
needs a City Court and have gone to
work to have one organized. There
are a great many people who think as
the Grand Jury did.
Beck and Myrian Fusseli and their
best fellows will be at the show at
Ambrose Saturday night. Becky has
a new dress and Myrian is hurrying
to get herself one made.
If the new City Court is organized,
and I reckon it will, we will have four
terms a year for it and four terms
for the Superior Court, it will be a
pretty good job for the whole year.
A soldier writes from “Somewhere
in France” that he is getting three
meals a day, plenty of clothes, doc
tor’s bills paid, lots of fun in the
trenches, and, in fact, having the
time of his life.
Clara Dent was in town Sunday ex
pecting a leter from Camp Wheeler.
I always liked Clara, but since she
•aid she has had the German measles
she has lost out with me. I don’t
like any girl that has German about
her.
The Americans over in France on
the battle line have three sectors and
are preparing to be as good soldiers
as some that have been there for a
long time. There are not quite
enough of them there for a good
long.
A little boy wants to know what
his sister means when she says, “I’ll
wan and be dinged.” Oh, don’t you
know? Well, she means “I’ll sweai
and be damned. She used different
language, but the meaning is just
the same.
Bettie Sikes, over at Baxley, sends
me word that the boys and girls are
talking about getting up a big sing
before long, and wants to know if I
will come, if she lets me “know the
day and the place selected.” I am
afraid not.
Bell Bronson, over here at Mill
wood, says she is coming here next
week, and wants me to help her do
some shopping. The great goodness,
I bet that gill wants me to go along
and carry her bundles for her. It
just looks like they expect me to do
anything for them.
I was sorry to see the rain come
jp last Sunday afternoon and run a
boy and girl from thiitir cozy re
peat in the park to their homes.
I key had (seemed to ei/oy them
elves immensely, and if there is any
,hing in the world I enjoy it is to
■ce a boy and girl in a nice case of
pooning.
Tonie Right was here scon last
Monday, but she wouldn’t go home
with me fo drnner—think there was
omeone up town she was waiting to
ee. She can say it was papa if she
vill but I have known girls to call
heir fellows Fido when it was Wil
am. Some girls are such cute lit
!e things, anyhow.
Mattie Kempton, down at Madison,
la., wrote to know what was the
itter with me, that there was no
lote Book in The Enterprise week
efore last, and that she had written
) me four times without an answer?
guess the mail must have gone
ong, and the press ran so fast that
:e Note Book got left.
The teachers of Bethany school re
luests me to tell all the boys and
-iris that on Saturday night, 23rd of
'ebruary, they will produce at Am
rose that popular drama, “The Prai
ie Rose,” highly entertaining as a
lean, up-to-date mirror of western
ife; amusing to old and young, ancl
vith nothing that could offend thi
nost fastidious.
There’s an old farmer up in Jeff
Javis county who says tere ought to
e a law compelling the town people
o eat cornbread, while the country
>eople could have all the flour they
■vant. You will find just such old
ools all over the country, and it is
aselcss to explain that the town peo
ple have more to do with the foot,
•ontrol laws than the countr ypeo
ole.
You would think it looked mighty
■ad to see two or three big, strap
ling officers with pistols and guns
Handling along bAir.d or.e little ok
veazered face felow, carrying him tv
he entrainment camp, wouldn't you
Jf course, but I hope you never will
nit 1 have seen a few such cases wa;
ack in the ’6#’s. They would no
o to the army but deserted and wer-
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W. T. COTTINGHAM-Managers-F. F. PRESTON
hunted down an came.
I am back in the Grand Jury room,
after being out two weeks, and found
it in a nasty condition. Peanut hulls
all over the floor, spitoons turned up
side down, window shades pulled off
walls stained where they rubbed their
dirty heads, drinking cup smelling
like whiskey, and everything looked
found out who was in that crowd
that there would be a regular mess.
But then, they did some good work,
and will be forgiven.
Several parties have been to me
during the past two weeks with affi
davits to be signed in which they
swear that certain men in the army
are needed at home to look after their
farming business. This may, or may
not be true, but if it is not, they are
doing the country a great wrong, in
weakening he work in camps, and
there are very few men but what has
some friend at home that would give
any advice needed in preparing for
tl.e planting of the crop.
Annie Chase was near the firing
line since her last leter to me, so her
sister says. In the absence of an am
bulance driver she went to the first ro
'ief line and brought in some badly
wounded soldiers. Annie Chase and
Marie Verette, the little French girl,
are a whole team. Annie will stick
to a soldier as long as there is life, and
then when his breath grows short nr i
a film comes over his closing eyes, he
calls for his man.a, and Mari’ will
stoop and hiss him on the forehead as
she softly says, “Mama is here, dear
boy.”
Mrs. Gertrude Meeks, of Willacoo
chee, was in town recently. I did not
know her at first, it having been some
months since I had seen her last. Mrs.
Meeks is the wife of Gray Meeks, the
daughter of D. E. Gaskin, and has one
if the best mothers on earth. Seeing
Mrs. M. B. Meeks, hearing her voice re
minded me of one that has gone to the
Spirit Land, one who used to sit in the
big rocking chair on the piazza when
the train came in from Douglas and
look for me, but Heaven wanted an
extra sweet flower and Rudella was
the fairest of the fair.
Yes, hat’s the way it was; the girl
married a fellow thinking he was go
ing to give her a home, but he didn’t,
but went to her home to live on her
parents, and then, when he went to
the camps he wanted her to swear she
was dependent upon him for a liv
jing—her sole support, so that lie
would come back and continue to
make her old parents support him
and her. Will she do it? Will she
I ieliberately perjure herself, swear to
a lie, just to help a slacker in his ef
forts to avoid doinghis duty for his
country? And then, she, herself, as
well as her usband, become a slack
er. Will she do it?
SPECIAL TAX NOTICE
Douglas, Ga., Jan. 14th, 1918.
All dealers, salesmen, agents, etc.,
liable for Special Taxes due the State,
are hereby notified that this class of
Tax was due and payable on January
Ist, or on the first day thereafter that
one starts business. The law makes
it a misdemeanor to refuse to pay on
demand. This class of tax cannot and
will not be collected by the old pree
dent of postponement, by order of the
Comptroller General. To save costs
be reay when my authorized deputy,
Gus L. Brack, or myself calls on you,
or executions will positively issue. *
4t B. MORRIS,
Tax Collector Goffee County, Ga.
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