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“The
Enterprise
Corert Every Nook
and Canter of
Coffee County and
Then Some."
23 COFFEE Cl. BOYS WILL
BE ENTRAINED SATURDAY
In accordance with the call issued
by the department a few days ago,,
Coffee county’s quota was 23 white
men and 45 ngroes, this number to be
sent to camps detween Afril 26 and
May 1.
The 23 white men will 1 eave Sat-,
urday morning, April 27, being en
trained at 10:30 at the Georgia &
Florida They will transfer at Hazle
hurst and take the Southern, arriv
ing at Camp Gordon about 8 o’clock
Saturday evening.
The 45 negroes will be entrained
next Tuesday morning at 10:30 over
the Georgia L Florida, making the
same transfer at Kalehurst and ar
riving at the Camp about 8 o’clock.
The following is the official list of
both white and colored, as furnished
us by Mr. A. W. Haddock, clerk of
the local board.
White
Homer Vickers, Douglas.
Cornelius Vickers, Douglas.
Kin Starling, Pearson.
William L. Joiner, Pearson.
William Corbett, Pearson.
Theodore Yarberry, Ambrose.
Hezzie R. Herrin, Blackshear, Ga.
Henry Taylor, Nic-holls.
Roy O. Butler, R. F. D. 3, Douglas.
S. G. Alderman, Douglas.
James R. Therrell, Broxton.
F/lean W. Kirkland, Nicholls.
.Fred Ricketson, Douglas.
L. C. Darley, Douglas.
Julius 0. Busby, West Green.
Frank Patton, Dublin, Ga.
Emmett S. Hursey, Broxton.
M. P. Relihan, Douglas.
Homer Corbett, Broxton.
Edward L. Kirkland, Douglas.
Weaver Holton, Douglas.
M. G. Spears, Douglas.
William S. Young, Palatka, Fla.
ALTERNATES
Lester Lott, Douglas.
David Reliford, Axson.
Elias Batten, Douglas.
COLORED
Jim Hughes, Jean Sanders, Kete
Thomas, Frank Walker, Ernest Bur
rows, Joseph Brockington, Earnest
Cheatham, Dock Hall, Billie Springer,
Charlie Price, Willie Bowden, Carl
Moore, John Morgan, Sam Coffee, Alon
y.o Dupree, J. H. W. H. Coleman, Wil
lis Gaskins, Howard J. S. Davenport,
Newton Madison, Sam Fennell, Rob
ert Robinson, Wesley Myres, John
Watson, Eli Whitehead, Vernon Gal
lon, Wiley A Fussell, Granville Ed
monson, Robert Jacobs, Charlie Cross,
James Edwards, Richard Wright, Sid
ney Hudson, Jno. Franklin, Thos. J.
Walker, Henry Hill, James Fullmore,
George Samuels, Oliver Shaw, George
Dill, Jasper Carter, Joe Thomas, Jr.,
Tommie Elkins, Claude Yancey, Wil
lie J. Cook, James Duncan.
ALTERNATE
Norman Fuller, Willie Moore, Walt
er Bryant, Usher Boone, Josh Brown,
Calvin Edmondson, Cicero Mims.
till. I. J. Walker, of
flcilla, Died Tuesday
The friends and acquaintances of
Col. J. J. Walker, ,of Ocillo, will be
grieved to learn of his death on last
Tuesday. He was hurt in an auto ac
cident some time ago and never sur
vived the injuries.
Col. Walker was a former resident
c.f Douglas, practicing law in this
city many years ago. v
Douglas Enterpris e
Diuglas Wins Bsth
Games This Week
Two very interesting ball games
were played in Douglas last Monday
and Tuesday between the Agricultur
al boys and the Norman Park boys,
the home team winning both games,
the first by a score of 6 to 4, and
Tuesday’s game by a score of 17 to
4.
These games practically decides the
championship of the South Georgia
Prep Athlectic Association. The stars
for Douglas w r ere: Adams, Jeffords,
Short and Newton and the pitchers,
Hinson an Bean Norman Park’s best
playing was done by their pitcher,
Lanier.
Next Monday’s game will be played
in this city, the rival being Gordon.
This will be one of the most interest
ing games of the season.
BIG MISER
FILM WJ 14-1S
Douglas theatre goes is to be treat
ed to the biggest picture of the year
on May 14 and 15, at the Enterprise
Theatre, a detailed announcement of
which will be made at an early date.
This is the famous picture, ‘The
Kaiser, the beast of Berlin,” which
has been the talk of filmdom for
many months. Douglas is getting
this great picture in advance of
many cities larger,, and it is due to
the enterprise of o ur manager here
It has been shown in Atlanta for sev
eral weeks and the crowds at each
performance were left standing in the
streets, the house being packed to its
capacity.
This pictre will make your blood
boil, but it portrays the facts, very
interesting, shows the Kaiser from
the inside, and shows the end of him
from fancy. The picture is endorsed
by the American Council of Defense
and the Georgia Council of Defense,
Gov. Dorsey being the chairman.
Keep in mind the dates, as it will
be here for two days, and the prices
will be 50 and 75 cents. Tuesday and
Wednesday, May 14 and 15, matinee
an night.
Tobacco Men
Here All Week
We are advised that the new tobac
co warehouse people have decided to
build the second warehouse here and
will have it ready f or business with
the opening of the s eason.
Messrs. Barnard and Austin, two
experienced warehouse men from-
Tennessee, have been in the city sev-r
eral days at w ork on the propostion.
They are putting up SISOO. a sa part
of the s tock and the people are to
supply the balance needed . There is
some talk of a deal being made where
by Mr Oliver Peterson will build the
warehouse and lease to the new com
pany for a perdiod of v ears.
With this additio*al warehouse
Douglas will become the tobacco city
of Georgia, having the market, and
planting more tobacco in the c ounty
than any other section of the state.
‘Che Enterprise ‘Publishes the Legal Advertising of the City of ‘Douglas, Coffee County and County Commissioners
AND COFFEE COUNTY NEWS
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, APRIL 26,1918
U. S. Must Cut Use
Of Wheat by One-Half
Jr; 1
America Consumed 42,000,000 Bushels Monthly.
From Now Until Harvest Must Use
Only 21,000,000.
RATION PER PERSON IS 1* POUNDS
OF WHEAT PRODUCTS WEEKLY
Military Necessity Calls for Greater Sacrifice Here—Allied War
Bread Must Be Maintained—Our Soldiers and
Sailors to Have Full Allowance.
If we are to furnish the Allies with the necessary propor
tion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the
next harvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce
our monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month, as
against our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels,
or 50 per cent, of our normal consumption. This is the situa
tion as set forth by the U. S. P'octd Administration at Washing
ton. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for
special cases, leaves for general consumption approximately
1 1/2 pounds of wheat products weekly per person. The Food
Administration’s statement continues: Many of our consumers
are dependent upon bakers' bread. Such bread must be durable
and therefore, requires a larger proportion of wheat products
than cereal breads baked ’in the household. Our army and
navy require a full allowance. The well-to-do in our population
can make greater sacrifices in the consumption of wheat
products than can the poor. In addition, our population in
the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abun
dant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these
other cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations.
With improved transportation conditions we now have avail
able a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the spring months
a surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for human
consumption. The drain on rye and barley, as substitutes, has
already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains.
To effect the needed saving of wheat
we are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall he observed:
1. Householders to use not to exceed
a total of IVi pounds per week of
wheat products per person. This
means not more than 1% pounds ot
\ idory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-lialf
pound of cooking (lour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, all combined.
2. Public eating places and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present.
In addition thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any one meal an
aggregate of breadstuffs. macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a total
of more than two ounces of wheat
flour. No wheat products to be served
unless specially ordered. Public eat
ing establishments not to buy more
than six pounds of wheat products for
each ninety meals served, thus con
forming with the limitations requested
of the householders.
8. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time and
not more than one-quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and in no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
sold, by delivery of the three-quarter
pounu loaf where one pound was sold
before, and corresponding proportions
in other weights. We also ask bakers
not to Increase the amount of their
wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per
Sis Cow Wins First Blood
* Sis Cow gets the first blood, accord
ing to the result of a special meeting
of the c ouncit on last Thursday night
The ordinance to repeal the now
existing law,which is to keep all cows
hogs, etc., off the streets, was intro
duced by Councilman Young, and up
on its first reading passed by a vote
of 3to 2. Its second reading will be
had at the next regular meeting and
if it should pass then, the ordinance
will be published and become a law.
The ordinance as introduced by Mr.
Young gives the cows, hogs, an all
•ther animals, a permit tP use the
cent, of the average monthly amount
purchased in the four months prior to
March 1.
5. Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts fof non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely.
C. There is no limit upon the use o!
other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat, potato flour, el
cetera.
Many thousand families throughout
the land are now using no wheat prod
ucts whatever, except a very small
amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so in perfect health and satisfac
tion. There Is no reason why all of
the American people who nre able to
cook In their own households cannot
subsist perfectly well with the use of
less wheat products than one and one
half pounds a week, and we specially
ask the well-to-do households in the
country to follow this additional pro
gramme in order that we may provide
the necessary marginal supplies for
those parts of the community less able
to adapt themselves to so large a pro
portion of substitutes.
In order that we shall he able to
make the wheat exports that are ab
solutely demanded of us to maintain
the civil population and soldiers of the
allies and our own army, we propose
to supplement the voluntary coopera
tion of the public by a further limita
tion of distribution, and we shall place
at once restrictions on distribution
which will be adjusted from time to
time to secure as nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible. With the arrival
of harvest we should be aide to relax
such restrictions. Until then we ask
for the necessary patience, sacrifice
and co-operation of the distributing
trades.
streets of the city, as of o Id.
Tax Appraisers Named
At this meeting the Mayor appoin
ted the tax appraisers for the city
for the y ear 1918, as follows: E. L.
Vickers, H. Kirkland, and Moses Grif
fin.
Clerk’s Salary Increased
The work at the city clerk’s office
having inrreased for the past year,
and also considering the high cost of
living, the council decide to increase
the clerk’s salary front SIOO to $125
per month, begnning May 1.
$1.51 PER YEAR IN ADVA
5031 PEOPLE IIEW RELICS
ON LIBERTY LOAN SPECIAL
Prizes Offered For
Sale if Stamps
The following persons and firms
have offered the following prizes tc
the school boy or girl who sells and
delivers the greatest number of Thrift
and War Savings Stamps between
April 27th and May 20.
Mrs. J. M. A ’aley—s7.so first prize.
Chero-Cola Co., —$5.00 second prize.
Fields & Mize 11, —$3.00 third prize.
L. S. Peterson and J. F. Hancock—
s2.so -fourth prize.
M. F. Head C 0.—52.50 fourth prize.
F. T. Currie uc C 0.—52.00 fifth prize
J. L. Young Co.- — 52.00 fifth prize.
Tanner-Brice C 0.—52.00 fifth prize.
Jougtas Grocery C 0.—52.00 fifth prize
Petersen & Relihan—l.oo sixth prize
VV. R. Wilson—sl.oo sixth prize.
Tanner’s Pharmacy—sl.oo sixth prize
The Boston Store—sl.oo sixth prize.
Sapps Pharmacy—One pound box of
candy, seventh prize.
The contest will be open to any pupi’
1 of either school in Douglas and rccori
lof sales will be kept on cards whicl
| will be supplied at the postoffice. I'
J is necessary that each contestant have
these cards as it will be from these
that the final count will be made
; Subscriptions will not be considered
; stamps must be delivered and paid
for or sales can’t be counted. Prize?
givep, except the seventh, will not be
paid in money but the winners w'il 1
be giver, that much in Thrift and War
Savings Stamps.
Now is the chance for everybody to
help win the war by buying and selling
| War Savings Stamps. The Govern
ment is depending on you to do “your
bit’’. Let the slogan of the contest
t« "don’t put off ’till tomorrow.”
L. S. PETERSON, P. M.
MEMORIAL DAY
IS OBSERVED
Memorial Day on Friday of this
week was celebrated at the Schol Au
ditorium at 10:.'i0 Friday morning.
The Daughters usually have charge
of the Memorial Day program but
this year it seems that no action has
been taken by them and Prof. Little
did not wart the day to go by unno
ticed, so he arranged an interesting
program for the day, and Rev. T. S.
Hubert of the First Baptist church
of this city, has accepted the invita
tion to deliver the address. The fol
lowing program was carried out:
Song—America.
Invocation.
Reading—Uncle Sam’s Help Hands. —
| Ethel Dickerson, Mary Winn, J. C
I Gillen, Bernard Rogers.
Reading—The -t Tribute—Dan Jar
dine.
I Song—Dixis For Me.—By the School
[Reading—On the Fields of France.—
Will Dickerson, Arwyne Lott Wil
bert Little,
i Music—Glee Club.
i
; Reading—Your Flag and My Flag.—
Virginia Griffin.
: Meledy Southern Airs.—Violin and
Piano.—Misses Gaffney and Huss.
Address—Rev. T. S. Hubert.
, Song—Star Spangled Banner.—By
j the Hcltool. . v
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The largest crowd of people that has
visited Douglas since the Coffee Covm-.
ty Fair was here on Wednesday ev
ening to witness the War Relic Ex
hibit Train which came in over the
Georgia & Florida Railway about T
o’clock and was transferred to the
tracks of the A. B. & A., where from
8 o’clock to 11 o’clock, somethng like
5000 visitors entered the train, the
people coming here from every sec
tion of Coffee county.
Late in the afternoon the peoipe
began to come in and by night-faft
they had gathered about the streets
awaiting the opening of the cars for
visitors. They were here from Nich
olls, McDonald, Pearson, Willaeovi
chee, Ambrose Wray, Broxton, West*
Green, Denton, and other parts of the
county. The train left Thursday
morning early for Fitzgerald over the-
A. B. & A.
The train is being sent out under*
the auspices of the govern nymt for
the instruction of 'the people- amt to.
boost the Third Liberty Loan,, It
proved to be a success here, as it is
elsewhere, The exhibit consisted of
relics from the French batlefields *sui
was in charge of publicity experts,
who gave lectures and fj.l inform-.?—
'ion as one wou’d pas thru... Thee
there were •*; eeci.ea, ueii-<> .tst! by
"X **
three of the experts, including a Ca
nadian, and a! Jof them were ) >sCe=r.
for the Lib Cy bonds. .Subscription!
lists were started, the bond selling
rentinued. We t.re advs-d tnu so>
lliicg like *26,000. wert 1 of bind?
were sold at the train. Ihe ivutu. -
ing list is not perfect,,?, few r.amee u ,*r
being o 1 j r he reason ihit the iwar
.h.ui'ge c : d not catch a!! f it*-
be the-e are among th >,O u 1 -o fib—
•rcty '• rChed to the hind* at the
t'rain:
Tanner-Brice Co. $." 000; Tanner•
Mercantie Co. $1,000., M. F. & J. fi\.
Griffin, SSO; J .J. Rogers $500; K. C.
jShith SSO; J. W. Griffin $200; ML
Stalvey $100; A T. Minchew
New Douglas Hotel SIOO., C. J. Meofcv
$1.00., A. Harris SIOO., J A. Sikes.
SIOO., Dan Metts $1.00., C. M. Ayer*
$50., Elks Lodge No. 1286 E_
C Ryner SIOO., Lonnie Overman- SSEL*,
Mrs. Ethel Handcock $50., M. A. Dav
is $50., R. L. White $50., W. T. Cut
tir.gham SIOO., Mrs. T. S. Price SSWSj
Rupert Trowell $50., J. L. Wiggins;
$50., J. J. E. McClelland $50., Wil
liam Gibson $50., J. A Day sloo*,
O. Rudolph SIOO,. Msr. E. L. Tanrxer
s3oo., Lewis Davis SIOO., Law—
ther SIOO., L. J. Fussell $300., J. V_
Sweat $50., W S Durst SIOO,, JL [*.
Trowell SIOO., Oliver , $50:..
Margery Lott SIOO., Fran kSmtioonas
SIOO., W. F. Sibbett $100.,, D. E„ ?ua
ton $50., Mrs. G. L. Sims SIOO., J-X.
Polk SIOO., Ilarmon Barnes sloo,*. I*.
J. Davis $50., W. G. Salmors
Tom Ferris $50., Mary Ferris $50.,
W. A. Little $600., W. H.Bone sl*b.
Chester Lankford $50., Cecil Lank
ford $50., R. V L. Day & Sons SIBO ..
W r . J. Courson $50., O. Peterson s2o<Kfc,
Lula Lee $50., S. J. Stubbs S2OO-,
Lawson Kelley $200., City o fDongher-,
$6500., Dan Metts SIOO., Orvil Ptjataati
$50., Jeff Lewis SIOO., M. Bf Barnr
$300., Virginia Griffin sso;* A_
Crbb $50., R. C. Scott SSO, L Gu. *i.
ler SSO.
At the regular meeting of •' ■ .
council last Monday night, .V
Pharis was elected Chief of
department, succeeding T. !. *
resigned. At this meetir g - r
Ricketson was reinstated a - - •
with Mr. Dykes as extra.
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