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There are to be t-otne elections this
fall.
W. M. Meeks, of Axson, was in
"own Monday.
?orre peaches were sold in Douglas
'a«t week, but they were not raised
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vickers were
n town Monday, looking after their
axes.
The most interesting news in the
.tapers now is the letters from the
'>oys over in France.
Ln. James McDonald, down at Ax
son, who has been ill so long, is still
. onfined to his be<l.
Miss Mae Gibbs, of Broxton, is visit
or the family of Rev. and Mrs. Beal,
•t Elco, Ga., this week.
One of my chums at Broxton, says
he is pomp to tell me about her fel
>w in France next week.
In the reports from the army in
''ranee comes the news that Eddie
Henderson is wounded.
I have a Note Book pirl at the Brox
ton High School. What do the Brox
’on school girls thing about that?
More men die in camp and at home
han in the army. Still some people
hink when they tell the boys goodbye.
Summer time is coming again and
will have to begin to get out among
'he boys and girls and see what they
rre doing.
I see from the paper that Mr. M.
L. Moore, of Waycross, was treating
bis friends to nice, ripe peaches, grown
hose, last week.
I understand that there is a man in
is county who says “This is Wilsons,
ar, and 1 dont propose to have any
ling to do with it,”
Most of the farmers 1 have seen
■port that they have fine crops of
.“tats. One farmer told me he would
commence cutting this week.
“Miss U. S. A.” at the Enterprise
heater, last Monday was as fine a
licture as you want to look at. It
taught a patriotic lesson too.
The Superior court for May has
been adjourned to the regular term
n September, to give the farmers a
better chance at their crops.
Dan Gaskins and Dan Motts were in
heir glory last Monday. Some one
ad given them a cigar, and they
were like two boys learning to smoke.
Maj. A. D. Burke, at Broxton, is
•eported as having been ill for several
lays, but is said to be out again,
lard to keep the old war horse down.
Tiie best and most interesting shot
.'aragrapher in Georgia is on the Sav
annah Morning News. Read those
•tarr.graphs and you have a drift of
i* current news.
The proper thing to do would be to
back them up against a wall, or out
n the open and fire a load of buckshot
nto them. That’s what they do in
the r countries.
Some one predicts that the price on
he Irish Potato crop '' ill be low when
he < rop first e.r a - in. Some way
must be devised to keep them until
rice are offered.
Henry Vickers, Sr. wanted every
jody ‘.o come to the reunion, he did’nt
‘are whether they were kinfolks or
•ot. The biggest thing about Henry
s his dear old heart.
The young people at Broxton are
■all ; ng about picnic some time soon,
ip ; ' the rocks, and the red bugs are
'nxious to know the exact date, so
they can sharpen up their bills.
The United States will be full of
pies as long as the government ar
rests them, put them in large, com
ji'.-.bie prisons with soft beds and
! rst class rations with nothing to
, i
.0.
The Government at Washington, is
repaving to send out blue cords to
cgistrants in the draft law who have
become 21 since June 1017. There will
be .quite an army of them from a!!
Uncle Jim’s
Note Book
By J. M. freeman
the states.
Mrs. Barnes wbo comes to see me
mow and then, says she has a girl, 16
years old, who wants to dutch me
mighty bad. Sbe is a good sized girl
but if she don’t watjph I’ll turn the
table on her.
The Government has taken ever all
the products of the Bull Durham to
bacco company for the boy’s in France
and other camps. This is alright, the
boys “over there” should have the
best, af everything.
B. H. Tanner, county commissioner
is thinking of buying a motor truck
with a tractor to do the long hands
on the road working. He thinks it
would be more economical than the
mules on the long drive.
Thelma Bledsoe, down near Nieholls
says she is going to send or bring me
a bottle of honey when papa cuts the
bee-tree. Thank you little girl, but
it would be so much sweeter if you
were to bring the honey yourself.
A man comes in with a load of
chickens wants fifty cents each for
them. Some will weigh five pounds
and some three, but the price was all
the same. All the swindlers do not
live in town, as our country friends
say.
The Sheriff of Ware County captur
ed a lard can still and two barrels
of buck near Milltown last week. The j
sheriff believes the women was the
operator of the still. Nothing strange
about that. A woman is the meanest I
shrewdest criminal, when she tries to
be.
Mrs. D. P. Spivey of Broxton, went
out in the country last Sunday to see
homefolks. Even after a woman has
been married she loves to go out to '
where the best people in the world 1
live, her papa and mama, and see
what the dear ones have been doing
since she went away.
“I don’t have to work,” said a six
teen year old boy to me last Monday,
and that is the sentiment of a num
ber of them, white and black. They
intend to eat and wear clothes, and let
me tell you, friend, people of that
class are not particular as to how
they get the necessities of life.
The time for giving in State and
County taxes is past, and the tax
equalizers are at work. The equali
zation board consists of J. H. Dent,
Thoms Byrd, and D. J. Pearson. These
are all well known men, men who
know every part of the county, and
who will give every one justice.
Eighteen negro selectman from and
adjoining county, for Camp Gordon,
went to Waycross last week and
bought eighteen good, sharp razors
before they “went to the war”. Give
a negro a razor, either man or woman,
and he’ll do some damage. Every ne-
I gro in France should have a razor.
My friend, Mrs. Barnes, who lives
| a few miles from town came to see
Ime last Monday, and brought Miss
j Cora Dell, who lived here some years
ago, but lives at Rebecca now. Cora
is a nice little sixteen year old girl,
and is just waiting for the war to
end, and her fellow comes back to
her. —* •
The Methodist preacher and the
marshal at Nieholls, came up here
last Tuesday and swore out warrants
■
for Charlie McLelland. Dewey carter
anJ 11. Altman for violating the pro
hibition law. The marshal swore
out the warrants and the preacher
paid the bills, showing that he was in
earnest in prosecuting those who do
wrong.
1 could not get out to the Vickers
reunion last Saturday. John Vickers
and several others promised to see
that 1 had a way to go, tut when
Hie time came, I was left. Well, it
is alright, 1 am informed that there
were about 2000 people there and th >
there was more than enough to feed
THE DOEGLAS ENTERPRISE, DO IT. LAS, GEORGIA. MAY 1«, 191 S.
them and some left.
Emma and Thelma Bledsoe, my two
pretty chums, down on route D.,
writes me that they have both been
»romoted at school, to the 6t,h grade.
Now, isn’t that nice, and last year they
:hey were in the third grade. I think
’ll have to get my fishing pole and
<ome worms, go down there and go
fishing with those girls.
Mattie Vickers ,in Atlanta, writes:
“The present term of the Woodbery
School will dose in about two weeks,
and then there will be a sad parting,
as many of the girls are going home,
while others, among them myself, will
remain here all the summer. My room
mate, who lives at Key West, Fla.,
is among those going away.
Miss Belle Hursey, at Broxton, was
playing off sick last Saturday. 1H
bet a thrip to a gingeT-sake that if
you bad put her down to a plate of
ham and eggs and combread she’d
cleaned up the whole business. Noth
ing the matter .with her but spring
“laziness” fever. May have to go,
owever and give her a spoonful of
quinine.
Joseph Hutchinson and Miss Lizzie
Miller pulled Judge D. D. Spivey, J.
P.., at Broxton, out of bed last Satur
day night about 12 o’clock and told
him they wanted to be married in time
to catch the early train. Don’t that
beat the band, and no train leaving
there until 6 o’clock. Joe had the li
cense, but it had taken from 8 to 12
o’clock to get Lizzie in the notion.
Wilma Ring, up at Wray, is as
mad as a wet hen, this week. She went
to Ambrose last Sunday to try to get
a glimpse of a certain fellow, when
her best fellow from Osierfield came
to see her. Wilma dont say anything
now but “dog-gone it,” when she
thinks about it .
Robert Odum, at Broxton, who has
been sick for two or three weeks is
some better, we are glad to learn.
The Savannah Morning News of
May 7th, has this item, “Mrs. J. B.
Fountain, of No. 208 West Jones St.,
and her twin sister, Leona Crosby, of
Willacoochee, who was visiting her,
have mysteriously disappeared from
the Fountain home here and so far no
trace of their whereabouts has been
found. No reason is given for their
cisappearance,” The ladies mentioned
are daughters of Mr. Crosby, the Coun
Catarrh of Stomach
Mrs. Mary Fennell, R. F. D. , Po
mona, Missouri, writes:
“1 wish to say a few words in the
praise of Peruna. I have used it
with good results for cramps in the
stomach. Also found it tiie very
thing for c. tarrli c; the head. .My
rister was cured of rat Th of stom
ach by the use of Peruna.”
Mrs. E. T. Ckomer, 03 East 42nd
St., Chicago, 111., says: “Manalin
best laxative on the market for liver
and bowels, very good for indigestion
and heart burn.
ft Those who object to liquid medi
cines can secure Peruna tablets.
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IN BOTTLES |\ !
20 YEAR
GUARANTEE
%
E have the biggest ship
ment of Aluminum Ware
ever came to Douglas.
$$ See ur display and get
prices and you will be
convinced that its cheaper to
buy Aluminum with a 20 year
guarantee than to buy high price
Tin which rust out.
Douglas hardware cr\
Phone 128 W
W. T. Cottingham - Mgrs. - F. F. Preston
ty Surveyor.
I see that Savannah is preparing a
list of delinquint loan Bond subscrib
ers, or rather people who subscribed
Made Well
By Peruna.
My Sister WfjpvH
Also Cured
PE-RU-NA
for bonds and have never made ar
rangement for payment of same, and
they will be published all over the
country, besides will be sent to the
treasury department at Washington
for such action as may be necessary.
This action will bring to view’ a good
many loan bond slackers all over the
country, who to appear patriotic and
prominent, subscribed for large am
ounts when the bond and war relic
train was in a town and a large crowd
present, ard then failed to make ar
rangements for the payment named.
And these people some of them, in
nearly all towns, do this same thing
incity and church affairs, have their
names put on the subscription list for
church purposes, to get others to fol
low suit, and then fail to pay them.
They are slackers of the meanest
kind.
GUS. L. BRACK
Notary Pablie and Tlx-ftfiein Justice
•f thn Peace, 748th (Douglas)
District.
Respectfully solicits a share (not all)
of your business. All business shall
have my most carefui and prompt
attention. Iron - clad mortgages,
deeds anid contracts executed anid
approved at most reasonable prices.
Marring* contracts a specialty.
Office in Courthouse, Upstnins.
You can buy a nice dreser for
$8.50 at Fort & Thompson’s new fur
niture store.
