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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 \ w . .a .4 ■>' •• *" 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. HELP US By Telephoning NEWS ITEMS Number* 23, 44 or IGtL