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Witts?* P. O. BOX 412 PHONE 44 1 have found a pretty little ♦ hum down on Ward .street. Nearly aH girls are the same. They’ll swindle you f they tan in soda water time. Vassie Holton, who has been with the Ten Cent Store so long, is not there any more. Mr. H. M. Thomas will preach at Rocky Pond on next third Sun day. The public is invited. If you have not paid your tax es, you can see the Sheriff for your receipt and cost account. Ruth Knight is still ’round at Durst Variety Store, and would be glad to see her many friends. Tonny Right was buying a dress last time J saw hoi'. 1 be hove that is the tenth this sea son. Some girls go to these sings and parties .just to have a big t’rne. Others go to hook onto a beau if they can. Mitch Vickers went to camp, but heard there was a new baby at home, and he came back to see about it last week. Some of my chums are getting as coquettish as a fairy. When they look at me they hold their heads sideways like a bird. If the government of the Uni ted States does not suit you, just remember that the ports are op en and you can go to some other country. Lucille Brewer and Irene Bail ey whisked in here last Satur day for just a moment and then whisked out. Reckon they call ed that a visit? Mrs. Merrit. who lives up near Broxton, says her Irish potatoes and peas are up and doing fine. 1 see a mess of Irish potatoes in the near future. I am glad to see Chief Terrell on the street again, after his family affliction. lam sure ev eryone sympathizes with him and Mrs. Terrell. This is a good time for the Sheriff and the Marshal to clean up the loafers nnd undesirables. Plenty of them and these officers should go after them. Well, I haven’t seen Dan Lott lately, and this is the time I want to see him and get him to put in a few hills of watermelons for me—he always does. It is often the case that a man you supposed your best friend, wants a dollar or two, you loan it to him and you have lost both your money and your friend. The bathing costume for this summer will not h-v;- any skirt, i ?!d a young lady told me jt w as horrid, but was th • fashion, and shf always follows the fashion. The sheriffs in dieerent coun ties of the state are after the au tomobile owners who haven o lti 18 tags on their cars, an some of them are getting in trouble. D. A. Smith was here this week looking after his paper. Since he changed his mail route from Pearaon to Axson he has not been getting the Enterprise. He Will now. ffered Several Y Mrs. PERUNA MADE ME W£Lsa II ns. Elisa neth Routhar, 10C2 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C., \vr te-s: ‘ 1 endorse Feruna as a 3pl< m3i«l r.'c.V.2\ite for catarrh and ttoiirh trouble, from which I suffered sev eral yes r. f rook I*, for severe! months, found my health mm re - s-** *-- - r - .v --rince. I now take It when [ cot.- * * rotit. and ft ’■lds tho p**s ttSi O. Vava-ihat i.tiaCUCitß' 1 Uncle Jim’s Note Book By J. Ml. freeman Emmett Peterson, of Willa coochee, with a carload of pretty women and children, was here the other day. He always was a lucky dog about getting in the best of company. Mitchell Vickers, of Ambrose, ruvs for me to send his money back to nim or come and bring the Enterprise. Ho wards to sec me and tel! me what is on his mind about me. R. H. Lindsey, from Coochee, was here Monday morning rais ing the mischief about not get ting his paper. Well, I am going to see that Linsey gets that pa per, or Note Book, anyhow. * Mrs. Wells was up about her friends at Ambrose last Sunday, I am informed, and went off, too, without me knowing anything about it. I really thought she was at home, out of mischief. Mr. Jefferson Spikes and Miss Margaret Smith were married at my home last Sunday morning. Both are well-known young peo ple, who live between this place and Broxton, and have many friends. Tom Holland, of Ambrose, was in town a day or two ago. Ilis subscription is paid in advance for a year or two, and he feels so independent that he didn’t no tice me. Curious how a little thing like that ecects some peo ple. Ben Morris is getting ready to plant his corn on the “full of the moon.” He is going to plant a good deal, too, he says, and may take up nearly all the room, and there are others who want to plant on the full of the moon, but Ben says he comes lrst. You don’t find as many farm ers on the street now during the week as you did some time ago. They are all busy with their crops and have no time to loaf. They come to town on Saturday, bring their girls, and the girls come and tell me thenews. Pearl Sears, Annabelle Sears and Emma Williams, out on the J R. F. 1)., were in town Saturday and Emma wanted me to fix her questionnaire—sh’s fixing to run for office or go to the army, while Pearl and Annabelle are wanting to be trained nurses over in the war zone. Mr. J. Ferguson, of Ambrose, was here bright and early Mon day morning and his face looked awful beardy and dirty. Half an hour afterward he had cleaned up. Mrs. Ferguson let him stay around home all day Sunday but she sen thim down here to get his face cleaned up Monday. I. Youngblood, from Nicholls, didn’t take the Enterprise, did n’t know the tax books were a bout to close, and came very near haring to pay double tax, last Monday. He says he can’t read but his wife could and the Sheriff made him give me a dol lar so he could keep up with his taxes in the future*. George Vickers was over here Its My Standby for a Cold. "Thn*t#» •>•■»►♦ *-« lining c ,n c* can procure Pemrwi Tablet::. n» MVOL4J WnttPMK, >0 UGLAS. GEORGIA, MAR. 8 1918- last Saturday and was telling me that he had, ro was going to plant some Tom Watson water melons, and hinted that he was going to sen me some if he was successful. Well, George, al ways makes 'em,an I like any kind of watermelons whether Tom Watson’s or not. W. E. McDonald, who has been getting his paper down at Nich olls, has moved out among the white people, up on the O’Steen ■place, near New Forest School, .where he is going to do some farming this year, he says. I am not going to take his word for it but am going out to see for myself some time. Chas. Purvis was in town a lay or two ago with a cough on aim that looked like a case of ?rippe. It is all right for young men to go about at night, but vhen Chas. Purvis goes lo slosh ng about at midnight over the ountry, you need not be surpris ed to hear of his having the pleu risy- or mumps. Eli Vickers, Sr., and Big Bud ’ussell are in such a dilapidated ■ondition, both in looks and feel ngs, that their friends want me to look after them and see if 1 can get the county to help them i little. Both had plenty of mon ey, I thought, but you see what x>x suppers and Christmas trees aave brought these two old men .o in the beginning of the spring. Rufus Right, Bill Right’s sol lier boy, and a-mighty nice fel ow, because he comes of nice .itock, an artillery man, station ed down at Pensacola, has been aptured—not by the Germans, but by a pretty girlnamed Pau line on January 26th. No offi cial report has been received, but Tonie has given me the tip and I know it must be true. Well, children, Polly is dead. Died on the last day of the past month, and since that time it is impossible to tell you how I’ve missed her. She was a bird, but had more sense and feeling than a good many people I know. 1 could write a column about her and what she did, but I reckon it is just best to say, Polly, my most intimate chum, is dead. A girl out near Broxton says her brother has two 'possums that he caught a month or two ago and wants to know if I want one of them. No, I don’t. 1 don’t like them cooked or alive. A 'possum reminds me of a mis cheivous girl, who is deceitful, and makes you bUicev she is in xoccr.t when all the time she’s iaj* «,.g possum, tciiis and pus* nr.-< • --,1 ’■■*- ■' ; k.l« .A o t it n 1 I Mattie Mac Hutcheson, in her last letter, says she has had a case of what people call German measles, but as she has found >ut that I don’t like anything German, she insists that they musth ave been British meanles. She closes her letter by saying <he is very busy crocheting or scratching—l just can’t make out which. I guess it is scratch ing as that is the way British measles make you feel. W.L. Smith, Douglas. Ga., R. c. D. 4, signed an affidavit in my >fhce on March 1. that from that date he would abstain from the use of all intoxicating drinks, and that he would treat his Wife and family as a white man ought I am glad to have him take this step. Whiskey ist he cause of a great deal of trouble. It turns a ma.i a beast makes him forget Gt I, mistreats and disgraces his family and sends his own soul to hell. Boss I tston, of Nichells, was in to see n e a day or two ago and talked ovi r old limes. Boss is not < u te as ol 1 ;.s 1 am. but he vm< n oers wher. our bieeches buttons were m~.de of pcrsim non seed anu the cooks h.id to make up biscuit cough, when she had any, with tallow. These ase.uts were rigl t rood, too, if you are them when hoi, if you wv i«-rtnn v>OTTIO up.; «, ’er tea. If you didn’t your throat vould feel like the inside of a Special Range Sale fir. Mathews of Engman flathews, makers of the Great Range Eternal wilt be at our Store to hold a special Demonstration of this Great Range. We invite you to come to see this range demonstration whether you buy or not. A nice set of Aluminum Ware free with each Range bought or ordered this week. Special Sale ends, Saturday Tlarch pth. Phone 129 W. T. COTTINGHAM-Managers-F. F. PRESTON cow-hide. When Sheriff Tanner called off the names of the colored boys who were going to Camp Gor don last week, one of them an swered, and said he was a Ger man Special and that he was go ing after the Kaiser. When the names were called the Sheriff told them that they must remem ber that this going to the army was a serious thing, that they must be faithful and patriotic, and study in camp, for if they cameb ack hero he would catch them and it would go hard with them. That little talk did them good and they will remember it. Well, it is hard to tell what the war is going to do before it is over. Everything to eat and wear is out of sight, ( but then the hens down at my house are on a strike.- Throe of them lay on eday and three the next, and they are so economical that they all use the same nest and one hen does all the cackling. The old rooster used to cackle and cluck all day, but now, when a hen lays and flies ofi the nest he clucks once or twice and goes under the house out of danger. A preacher, over at Quitman, has gone wrong. He objected to wheatlesss, meatless or any other food conservation which the government suggested, say ing the government had nothing to do with what a man ate or done, and made some other ob servations that did not show pa triotism, and which was not rel ished by peorle. He will be requested to leave, and as ho cannot conform to the laws and rules of this country, it is thought he should go to some other. D. Weathers, from Pearson, was in town last weke, pretend ing to be on business. Mrs. Weathers, however, was onto his cricks, and sent liuth, his pret ty little year old eergh*- r. and Grayon, his handsome son, to Keep an eye on linn. Mrs. G. L. Moore, of West Breen, wasal so with them, and while on the street they found Miss Fishie Pearson. All of them together lulkt-s Knew Goode Coffee 'IXT’HKN good fellow* of long ego gathered about lUZIANfjF " * ye festive board for a anack and a smack, they h* Jg rjfe * demanded that coffe* ba ye very beat in ya land. f That * tba kind you get today when you drink ■■/Wt! ) M Luzianne. Just try it. If it doesn’t taste better than ’ any other coffee, you’ve gota real’’kick’’comingtoyou, ■'k’pwy - jfc | and your grocer will refund every penny you paid for it. , zV term! I Gat in line with the thousands of good people who drink Luzianne regularly. Buy tome today, in the iM sanitary can. uizum * COFPEE THE UNION RANKING CO. With Capitc* ‘and Surplus of $150,000.00 P~ — Appreciate Your Account Either LARGE or SMALL made a nice bunch of Pearson people. But then, when you come to think of it, Pearson is full of nice people.