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VOLUME XXXVI, NUMBER 6
HI SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
BEGINS FRIDAY, MAY 30th;
GRADUATION MONDAY 8:30
The commencement exercises of the
Douglas High School will begin Fri
day evening, May 30, at 8:30 o’clock
when the Senior class will have their
Class Night. This is the first Class
Night ever held by the senior class
in the Douglas High School and a
large crowd is expected.
Commencement Sermon will be
preached at the school auditorium
Sunday morning, June 1, at 11 o’clock
by Rev. I. B. Tyson, Presiding Elder
of the Cordele district. Mr. Tyson is
considered one of the best Methodist
preachers in the state and no doubt
a large audience will hear him.
Monday night, June 2, the grad
uating exercises will be held at 8:30,
when Mr. Geo. A. Carswell, President
of the State Senate, will deliver the
Literary Address. The delivery of
diplomas will follow the literary ad
dress.
This is the first class to graduate
from the High School and the public
is urged to attend all these exercises.
The following is a list of graduates
who will receive diplomas: Mattie
Belle Brown, Thomas S. Deen, Will
iam G. Dickerson, Ona Lois Farnell,
William Ryan Frier, Jr., J. Harley
Moorman, Mary Anne McDonald, Har
vey Louise Roberts, Vera
Sapp, Johnson W. Sapp, Willie Lee
Shepard, Oren Edgar Tally, Jack E.
Woodard, Eula Jeanette Wilson.
RECITAL AT H GH
SCHOOIJRI. 5 P. M.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend the recital given by the Music
and Expression Departments of the
Douglas High School. The program
is as follows:
Violin Trio—Charles Powers, Ethel
Dickerson, Louella Coffee.
Piano Solo —Robinetta Peterson.
Piano Solo—Elizabeth Strickland.
Reading—“ln 1822’ —Virginia Tan
ner.
Piano Trio—Kermit Sapp, Aubrey
Williams, Woodrow Vickers.
Violin Solo —Jack Vickers.
Piano Solo —Esther Grantham.
Violin Solo —Mamie Sara Sapp.
Song—Margaret Williams.
Reading —“A Sewing Lesson”—
Mary Ella Head.
Piano Solo—Carolyn Macon.
Violin Solo —Eva Jackson.
Reading—“ The Mule” (essay)—•
Winnifred Clark.
Violin Solo —Lucile Beasley.
Piano Solo—Doris Martin.
DICKERSON REPORTS HIS
“RESIGNATION* ’FORGERY
Homerville Superior Judge Wires
Denial From Arkansas
Atlanta, May 20.—The resignation
of Judge R. G. Dickerson, of Homer
ville, Ga., as judge of the Alapaha
circuit of the superior court, is a forg
ery, Judge Dickerson, who is spending
a short vacation at Hot Springs, Ark.,
notified the Governor’s office here to
day.
The document was received several
days ago through the mail by Gov.
Clifford Walker. It was signed with
Judge Dickerson’s name and set out
that for various reasons, he had de
cided to retire from the bench. It
contained a recommendation that the
governor appoint J. D. Lovett, solici
tor general of the Alapaha circuit to
fill the judge’s unexpired term.
Governor Walker was said by at
taches of the executive office to have
decided to look into the matter dur
ing his trrp to South Georgia this
week.
On his arrital at Nashville last
night, he wifk hum! to have mention
ed the purported resignation to friends
of Judge Diekersoiv, expressed sur
prise and informed tr.e Governor that
apparently there was some mistake.
They pointed out that the juCsje had
been in Hot Springs several dayswhen
the document, postmarked at Valu
ta, was mailed.
Informed by his friends of the aft
fair in a telegram. Judge Dickerson
wired them today declaring that the
“resignation” was a rank forgery.
The executive office was notified of
his reply.
Friends of the judge and Solicitor
General Lovett say they believe the
“resignation” was prepared by ene
mies of the solicitor general to dis
credit him.
‘Tjhe (Enterprise ‘Pulisbhes the Legal Advertising of the City of Douglas, Coffee County and County Commissioners
OPERETTA TO BE PRESENTED
NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The smaller pupils of Mrs. Simon
Peterson’s expression class will give
an operetta next Wednesday evening
at eight-thirty o’clock.
Mrs. Peterson has worked untiring
ly with her class here, not only to de
velop the pupils, but this operetta is
one of a series that has been put on
as a school benefit. She has been us
ing the proceeds to buy stage equip
ment for the auditorium.
A small admission will be charged
and the operetta is to be sponsored by
the P.-T. A.
MR. O. R. LOWERY’S
CONDITION IMPROVED
Mr. O. R. Lowery who had a light
stroke of paralysis last week is im
proving and his condition seems more
favorable. This is gratifying news
to their many friends here.
His two sisters, Mrs. Clinton Min
nis of Charleston, and Mrs. James
Marvin of Lobeco, S. C., are at his
bedside.
DOUGLAS FISHING CLUB.
Sixteen members of the Douglas
Fishing Club have been camping at
their club on the Satilla River for sev
eral days, but it is supposed the club
will break up today and they are ex
pected home.
Those going were Messrs. Rema
Sapp, Elie Tanner, John Peterson,
Harry Johnson, W. H. Bailey, R. M.
Pearsall, Marshall Ashley, John Sla
ter, J. L. Cochran, S. J. Stubbs, Claude
Stubbs, Joe Brewer, A. Brooks, J. L.
Young, T. S- Price, Alex Jardine, Jim
McLean.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Guyton Fisher, Pastor
Sunday School 10:15 A. M., J. H.
Breedlove, Supt.
Preaching by the pastor at 11:30
A. M. and 8:30 P. M.
Epworth League 7:30 P. M.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday
evening.
All are cordially invited to these
services and strangers are especially
welcome.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT A. & M.
PLACED IN GROUP ONE
The commission on accredited
schools makes the following correc
tions in the list published last month.
Some of the corrections are due to
errors of the commission in counting,
for instance, the vocational teachers,
shop, home economics, in estimating
three-fourths with degrees when the
rule reads “three-fourths of secondary
teachers of academic subjects.” Other
errors were in omissions in the re
ports themselves. One or two other
cases are under consideration.
First District. Agricultural School,
Group 1.
Third District Agricultural School,
Group 1.
Fifth District Agricultural School.
Group 1.
Sixth District Agricultural School,
Group 1.
Ninth District Agricultural School,
Group 1.
Tenth District Agricultural School,
Group 1.
Eleventh District Agricultural
School, Group 1. %
Burney Griffin, Douglas Boy, Hitting Hard As Rochester Star
Rochester, N. Y., May 16.—Georgia
Tech gave Burney Griffin his educa
tion in the arts and sciences, and now
the “Golden Tornado,” as they call
him in the International League, is
learning the 5 points of the national
pastime the guarding wing of
another Georgian, George T. Stallings,
the miracle man of the 1914 world’s
series, manager of the Rochester club.
First In International
’t is Burney’s first season in the In
tentional League upon graduation
from Georgia Tech in 1923, he tried
out wvj] the Tribe of Stallings at
Selma, .q a . Then he was sent to
Scranton the New York-Penna
league, a J HSS 3 circuit. With the
Miners, a t» a ijjngs-Hapgood-owned
club, Burney hn. 385 and had t he
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, MAY 23, 1924.
YOUTH’S INSPIRATION OUR NATION’S SAFEGUARD
*'N*rr E R Tlt / >0 j
ROBERT TALLY WINS
HONORSJTJ. G. A. C.
Douglas people feel proud of SJr.
Robert Talley who won the place as
the best drilled cadet in an individual
prize drill at the North Georgia Agri
cultural College, at Dahlonega. Dah
lonega has been named as one of the
eight best military schools in the R.
O. T. C. and to win the Individual
Prize Drill is indeed an honor.
Each year the college sets out one
week for the military contests with
Army officers in chu.ge, in which
every boy in the school participates,
and it is quite an honor for Robert to
win this place over every other boy
in school.
A. & M. HLUMNI-AE HELD
ANNUAL MEETING MONDAY
The Alumni-ae Association of the
A. & M. School gave a banquet last
Monday evening in the school dining
hall. In the absence of Mr. L. C.
Walker, president of the association,
Prof. Thrash preisded. Several of
the trustees of the school were pres
ent and made short talks.
Mr. G. B. Eunice was elected Presi
dent, C. D. Boggan, Vice President,
and L. C. Walker, Secy, and Treas.
The different committees were not
named, but will be at a call meeting
to be held soon.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
R. L. Wyatt, Pastor
The regular services will be held at
the Baptist Church next Sunday.
Preaching both morning and evening
by the pastor. Bible School at 10:15,
and B. Y. P. U.’s at 7:30.
scouts following him around until they
learned he was under option.
When Rochester reported for train
ing this spring at Savannah where
they have the most x unusual weather,
so the natives say, Burney was placed
in left field and he has been kept
there. In 16 games, all the Tribe has
played this season, due to some very
unusual northern weather that the
natives admit is such, the product of
the red clays of Georgia—Buiney lives
in Douglas, Ga., during the winter—
the Golden Tornado from Tech has
been hitting at a .353 clip, thereby
proving all the good things that the
scribes about him before the
season started.
Burney, who fii-st saw the light of
day at Pearson, Ga., November 25,
A. & M. TRUSTEES
HELD MEETING TUES.
The board of trustees of the Elev
enth District Agricultural and Me
chanical School met at 1 o’clock last
Tuesday afternoon, in the school
library, and held their regular annual
meeting. The officers elected for the
following year, were as follows: Mir.
John A. Strickland, of Blackshear,
Chairman; Col. Lawson Kelley, of
Douglas, Vice Chariman; Col. W. A.
Wood, of Hoboken, Secretary; and Mr.
J. L. Sheton, of Douglas, Treasurer.
On account of the illness of Mr.
Strickland, chairman, who was un
able to attend, the committees were
not named, but will be named later
by him.
• The following members of the new
faculty were elected:
Prof. J. M. Thrash, Principal.
J. M. Branson, Mathematics and
Mechanical Arts.
C. A. Johnson, Agriculturalist.
J. H. Breedloce, Agriculture and
Science.
Mrs. M. Weaver, Matron.
Miss Bernice Reid, History and
English.
Miss Geraldine Hubert, Secretary
and Librarian.
Miss Ethel Wilkerson, Piano and
Voice.
Miss Clara Overby, Home Econo
mics, to succeed Miss Euzella Roberts,
who declined to stand for reelection.
Miss Overby, whose home is at Rich
land, is the only addition to the new
faculty for the coming year. She is
a graduate of one of the best A. &
M. schools of the state, and the State
Normal School at Athens, and is
thoroughly equipped and qualified to
teach the department of home econo
1900, is batting third in the Tribe’s
line-up. The Tribe started the season
by winning five straight, including a
30 to 2 victory over Newark—they
happen in the International—and then
ran foul of the Baltimore Orioles, five
time champions. In that winning
start the bat of Burney, who likes the
north, except for the potatoes that
come wfith every meal, played a po
tent- part.
Fastest Tribesman
He has been at bat 71 times scored
18 runs and banged out 25 hits, one a
home nan. He is the fastest afoot on
the Tribe, and he goes and gets ’em.
One season, perhaps two, and Burney
expected to be ready for the majors.
The club that gets him will get a
“sweet” ball player and modest gen-
lITH. DIST. EDITORS
TO MEETJ[DOUGLAS
Jack Williams Heads Editors of 11th.
District Press Association.
Waycross, Ga., May 21.—The an
nual election of officers of the Elev
enth District Press Association was
held in Jesup and resulted in the
unanimous selection of the following:
Jack Williams, editor and manager of
the Waycross Journal-Herald, presi
dent; B. H. Watts, editor of the Jesup
Sentinel, vice president; Flem C.
Dame, editor of the Clinch County
News, secretary and treasurer.
By a unanimous vote the associa
tion went on record as favoring two
meetings each year, instead of four,
The time set for holding these meet
ings are May and November. Doug
las, Ga., was chosen for the next meet
ing, which will be held during the
second week in November.
The Jesup meeting was an enjoy
able one. The afternoon was spent
in viewing the great agricultural de
velopments in process in Wayne coun
ty.
Coffee County Singing Convention.
The Coffee County Singing Conven
tion will convene at New Forest School
house on the second Sunday in June
at 10 a. m. We cordially invite the
public and especially all singers to
come and enjoy the day in making
music. J. H. Green, Sec.
mics.
Miss Roberts is considered by the
school to be one of the best Home
Economics teachers in the state of
Georgia. Her teaching ability is un
excelled and her discipline has been
perfect. The school regrets very
much to lose Miss Roberts.
tleman.
“Life in the majors,” said Burney
the other day, “would be sweet if I
could get some grits to eat once in a
while.”
There isn’t any reason why Bur-1
ney’s life should be ruined from lack
of that product of com if some south
erner with ambition would pack said
grits in neat packages and spread
them over the waiting north. They
are good eating, and potatoes boiled,
potatoes fried, potatoes mashed, get
tiresome.
Burney’s fiancee lives in Dixie, and
if she reads this little bit of his do
ings let her read between the lines
and know that the Yankee north likes
Burney and wants more players and
youths, as the Golden Tornado from
Georgia and old Tech.
$1.50 PER IN ADVANCE
A. 8 M. SCHOOL
CLOSES IT’S MOST
SUCCESSFUL TEAR
With the exercises of Tuesday, the
11th. Dist. A. & M. School closed the
most successful term of it’s history.
There were enrolled during this term
86 girls, and 115 boys, making a total
of 201.
The first program of commence
ment was given last Wednesday even
ing, when the music department pre
sented Miss Thelma Meade in senior
recital, then on Friday evening Miss
Doris O’Steen also gave a senior
musical recital.
On Sunday afternoon at five o’clock
Rev. L. R. Scott, of Valdosta, preached
the baccalaureate sermon, at the school
auditorium. A large crowd gathered
to hear this sermon, which was a
masterful effort, most of it being di
rected to the student body.
On Monday from 4 to ,6 p. m., the
exhibits of the Domestic Science and
Mechanical Arts were on display.
This was visited by a large crowd, and
many favorable comments were pass
ed on it.
On Monday evening at 8 o’clock the
senior class presented a play, “All On
Account of Polly”. The large audi
torium was filled to its capacity, and
this play proved to be one of the most
interesting entertainments of the ses
sion.
Ojp Tuesday morning at 10:30 the
graduating exercises took place. The
Valedictory address was made by Mr.
Gaston Corbett, and was one of the
best ever made at the A. & M. Dr.
N. H. Ballard, State Supt. of Schools,
delivered the literary address. Dr.
Ballard is a brilliant speaker, and his
address was pronounced, by the large
audience who heard him, to be the
finest address of its kind ever listened
to in Douglas. Judge J. W. Quincey
presented the diplomas to the grad
uating class which was composed of
26 members, 14 girls and 12 boys.
After the benediction by Rev. Robt.
L. Wyatt, all the crowd present was
invited to a delightful barbecue pre
pared by Prof. Thrash and his asso
ciates.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT A. & M.
SENIOR CLASS OF '24
The following is a list of those who
were graduated from the 11th. A. &
M. School at the graduating exercises
held alst Tuesday morning at the
auditorium:
Sammie Theo Avery, Coffee; Her
bert Marvin Baker, Telfair; Florie
Irene Bowie, Atkinson; Thomas Will
iam Brinson, Lowdnes; J. Lee Coch
ran, Coffee; Gaston Samuel L. Cor
bett, Atkinson; Lamar Ashley Doug
las, Coffee; Beaty Beatrice Goodwin,
Coffee; Virginia Hilton, Wayne; Agnes
Katheleen Knox, Brantley; Elea
Mathias, Montgomery; Joseph Nor
man McDaniel, Wheeler.
John Lewis McDonald, Orlindo,
Tenn; Ruby Carroll Montgomery, Tel
fair; Grace More, Brantley; Doris
O’Steen, Coffee; Ruth O’Steen, Coffee;
Rudoph Horrace Robinson, Lowdnes;
Robert Oscar Rogers, Taylor; Stella
Mae Sammons, Coffee; Angus Lamar
Strickland, Brantley; Earl Lamar
Tyler, Coffee; Susan Mae Vickers,
Coffee; Telder William Vickers, Cof
fee; Annie Ruth Wheless, Coffee.
MISS EUNICE DIXON CROWNED
QUEEN OF MAY AT ST. MARY’S
SCHOOL MAY DAY FESTIVAL
Miss Eunice Dixon was crowned
Queen of May yesterday at the an
nual May Day Festival of St. Mary’s
School. The exercises took place un
der the stately oaks on the campus
and together with the bright-hued
costumes and decorations of spring
flowers the many guests witnessed a
lovely scene.
After the crowning of the queen a
number of beautiful dances were giv
en by the girls in the queen’s honor.
The queen’s entrance was announced
by the heralds, Misses Elizabeth Rag
lad and Florence Croft. The queen
wore a gown of white chiffon beaded
i nsilver with court train of satin.
Her coronet was of pearls and white
flowers.
Among the number of dances given
in the queen’s honor were: the Dragon
Fly, the Swedish, the Japanese, the
Dutch, the Chinese, and the Spanish.
The exercises were followed by the
annual luncheon and. business meet
ing of the Raleigh Chapter of St.
Mary’s Alumnae.