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VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 14
49 Banks In State Close
Doors. No Cause For Alarm
Says State Bank Examiner
EFFORT BEING MADE TO SEPAR
ATE LOCAL BANK FROM CHAIN
AND OPERATE INDEPENDENT
LY. CONFIDENCE IN LOCAL
OFFICIALS SUPREME.
The Georgia State Bank, of this
city, failed to open its doors for busi
ness on Wednesday morning. Natur
ally there was some excitement and
surprise but this soon subsided after
the information was given out that
the cause was due to the embarrass
ment of the Bankers Trust Company,
of Atlanta, the real head and parent
institution of this bank. The local
bank being a link in the chain of sev
eral banks in Georgia and Florida, all
under one head, was forced to close
its doors.
It is understood that 49 of these
banks have closed their doors this
week, most of them Wednesday. Sev
eral of them, including the Douglas
bank, is in good shape, it is said, but
could not keep open after the parent
institution failed. An effort was
made to separate tois bank from toe
others and let it go on independently,
but this suggestion failed. The of
ficials here posted a notice on door
Thursday morning that the bank was
now in hands of state bank examiner.
The closing of the bank was not due,
it is said, to any weakness or default
in any way but is attributed to the
appointment of a receivership for the
Bankers Trust Co., of Atlanta.
Hon. T. R. Bennett, state bank ex
aminer, does not seem to be alarmed
over the situation, and has issued a
statement as follows:
Statement of Bennett.
Mr. Bennett’s statement follows:
“In spite of the fact that a number
of banks have been turned over to the
superintendent of banks within the
past few days, the banking situation
in Georgia is better now than it has
been at any time since this department
was organized in 1920. The ba.nks are
•cleaner, stronger, sounder and in 6very
way better able to serve their cus
tomers than they have been since the
period of deflation following the war.
“The closing of a number of banks
has not been due to local conditions
and does not indicate any
or lack of stability of the banks in
this state. The present condition is
due to the embarrassment of the Bank
ers’ Trust company, a corporation not
under the control or supervision of the
banking department, which has been
placed in the hands of a receiver by
a Florida creditor. This condition,
I am advised, was occasioned by the
failure of a number of banks in Flor
ida with which the Bankers’ Trust
company was connected, rendering it
unable to sontinue to finance the
Georgia banks for which it had acted
as fiscal agent.
“When this situation becomes
known, a number of banks as a matter
of prudence, and in order to conserve
their assets, posted notices and turn
ed the banks over to this department.
Many of these were entirely solvent
and if they had had a few days to
form other connections could easily
have met their obligations. The clos
ing of several of these banks will be
temporary as there is every reason to
believe they will be able to reorganize
and continue business. Efforts in this
direction are already being made.
“There is nothing in the situation to
occasion alarm. If the customers of
the banks will not become hysterical,
there is no reason why other banks
connected with the Bankers’ Trust
company should not be able to make
proper connections and continue to
serve their communities.
“The Georgia State bank, having a
number of branches in different towns,
was closely affiliated with the Bank
ers’ Trust company, and as runs were
being made on several of the branches
its directors thought best to close the
bank. The department is informed
that it is the purpose of the directors
to bring about a reorganization and an
opening of the several Georgia State
banks as soon as the present uneasi
ness is allayed.
“The department is not at present in
position to give out any detailed in
formation with regard to any particu
lar bank which has been turned over
to it within the past few days. We
are doing all in our power to have the
affairs investigated and accounts aud
ited and to put competent liquidating
agents in charge, and we will continue
to do everything possible to conserve
the interests of the banks and the peo-
Vhe Enterprise Vulisbhes the Legal of the City of T>ouglas, Coffee County and County Commissioners
SIMON PETER WILL BE SUBJECT
AT METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY
Pastor Stanford announces that the
second of a series of sermons on the
Apostles will be preached Sunday
morning, Simon Peter, will be the sub
ject. The first of the series was
preached last Sunday. These mes
sages will be timely and of unusual
interest.
The Bank that can never fail, will be
the subject at the evening worship.
Jesus gave explicit directions in re
gard to our treasures. And these di
rections will be the theme for study
at the evening hour.
The Epworth League meets at 7:30
p. m. Miss Louise Stanford will have
charge of the program. Books, their
place in the development of character,
will be the subject. Several young
people will make talks on the subjects
among them will be R .A. Moore, John
Greer, Jr. and others.
Prayer meeting Wednesday 8:30 p.
m. The Law of God, will be the
theme. Prof. Breedlove, Mrs. S. F.
Rogers and the pastor will present the
subject from several angles.
“Forsake not the assembling of
yourselves together,” but come and
let us worship God.
SPECIAL!
Hear the Rigoletto Quartette of
Morris Brown University, Atlanta, at
the court house of Coffee county Wed
nesday, July 21, at 8:30 p. m.
These singers won a silver cup in
New York City last summer and re
cently won ip a contest over all col
lege singers of Atlanta. Morris Brown
University is the largest school in the
South owned and controlled entirely
by negroes.
When you hear these singers, you
help Morris Brown University to help
herself. The African Methodist church
gave birth to this great school forty
years ago.
General admission downstairs 50c,
upstairs 25c.
A. R. Cooper, Sponsor.
“Intellect Is Stronger Than Can
non.” —Theodore Parker.
“THE MIND OF MAN” IS
SUBJECT AT B. Y. P. U.
“To think and to decide on a great
course;
Manhood with action follows; but ’tis
dreary
To have to alter our whole life in
age—
The time past, the strength gone.”
—Robert Browning.
Man is the crown of creation be
cause God gave him a mind. Like all
of man’s powers, the mind must be de
veloped by training. A Christian
worker must have a trained mind, and
youth is training time. We invite you
to come to B. Y. P. U. next Sunday
evening at 7:30 o’clock and study with
us about minds, and why God gave
them to us.
New officers have been recently in
stalled and plans for this quarter have
been made, and the B. Y. P. U. is
progressing. Mr. A. E. Parks is pres
ident and he will be glad to see you
at B. Y. P. U. next Sunday at 7:30.
The following program that will be
given by the Senior Union, Group No.
3, twh Mr. Mercer Deavours leader,
will have charge. This is a Doctrinal
Study, and the subject is “The Mind
of Man.”
Devotional and Introduction—Mr.
Deavours.
Man. the Crown of Creation—Mr.
Tom Sims.
Worth To Christian Workers—Mr.
E. L. Bagby.
What Relation Has This to Re
pentance—Miss Alma Strickland.
Thank God For Power to Think—
Mr. B. F. Cameron.
God Appeals to Men’s Minds —Mrs.
Laura Joiner.
A True Conception of Christ—Miss
Alice Harris.
Insufficient Conception of Christ—
Mr. Deavours.
Pub. Chm.
pie of the state.
“The cooperation of the public will
be of great assistance. What is most
needed, how-ever, is calmness and a
realization of the fact that the banks
of Georgia are sound, stable and fully
able to meet all ordinary demands
which may be made upon them.”
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, JULY 16, 1926.
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EXAMINAT ONS FOB
TEACHERS JULY 30
Acting upon instructions from the
State Department of Education, notice
is hereby given that examination of
applicants for license to teach in the
public schools of Coffee County will
be held at Douglas on July 30th and
31st, 1926, beginning at eight o’clock
a. m. Those expecting to apply for
General Elementary license for the Ist
2nd or 3rd grade should report at the
hour appointed on Friday, 30th.
The questions on Education and
Methods will be based largely on the
Manual for Georgia Teachers. It is
suggested, however, that teachers ex
pecting to take the examination should
read the following: Pittman’s Success
ful Teaching in Rural Schools, Ameri
can Book Co., Atlanta, $1.40 postage
prepaid. Frazier & Armentrout’s “An
Introduction to Education,” Scott
Foresman & Co., Atlanta, $1.25 post
age prepaid. Diagnostic Testing and
Remedial Teaching, by Paulu, D. C.
Heath & Co., Atlanta, $1.50 postage
prepaid. For further information ap
ply at this office.
MELVIN TANNER,
County Superintendent of Schools.
SCOUT NEWS.
Mr! Smith held scout meeting last
Monday evening. He made a general
creck-up of what the scouts had been
doing in his absence. Plans were made
for field meet and stunt night to be
held this month. Scouts have been
engaged in turning over -cans that
breed mosquitoes for the last two
w'eeks. Chas Heath, Scribe.
A GREAT REALISTIC PICTURE
COMING, “THE VOLGA BOAT
MAN AT THE RI VO LI MONDAY
The stark realism of “THE VOLGA
BOATMAN”, Cecil DeMille’s new per
sonally-directed feature, is one of the
most talked of pictures of the season
in the opinion of many critics. Pre
senting for a background the mael
stron of ill-fated Russia in revolution,
DeMille has woven in romance, melo
drama and humor with a deft hand,
always bringing out the spectacular
without losing the human touch.
The yawning gulf between Royalty
and serfdom has been spanned by a
fair-haried giant, a lowly boatman
who loves a Rlssian Princess and she
him. Comes a political and social
cataclysm, dragging in its trail, car
nage, peril, degradation, fear and yet
—Here is a real drama, poignant, sus
penseful, alluring, deftly woven to
gether, a masterpiece by a master pro
ducer. A picture once seen you will
never forget. “THE VOLGA BOAT
MAN” comes to the Rivoli next Mon
day and Tuesday, July 19 and 20.
BRQXTON PUNS TO
WIN MORE MEMBERS
BROXTON, Ga., July 15.—The
Roar'd of Directors of the Broxton
Junior Chamber of Commerce met at
the Woman’s Club hall Monday night
and with Secretary Greer outlined the
work of the Junior Chamber for the
next two weeks. ,
The Board planned for a vigorous
membership campaign for the Junior
Chamber at Broxton and appointed
twelve committees of two each to visit
every prospective njember in the
Wooten district during the next two
weeks and to secure if possible two
hundred members.
The membership fee for the Junior
Chamber will be only one dollar a
year, the fee being made small so that
everybody in the district might be
come a member. Of course, there are
a large number of memberships in the
district of the Central Chamber at the
county site and the Junior member
ships will in no wise affect these, as
all those who possibly can will be
memlbers of the Central body, in or
der to have a vote and active working
privilege in the larger body, as well
as to help support the Central body
which employs and pays the Secretary
and his assistant, funds raised by the
local or Junior Chamber being kept
entirely at home for home use.
At a previous meeting of the Board
a few days previously, the following
officers were elected to the Junior
Chamber: W. M. Cook, president; E.
L. Moore, secretary and J. H. Milroliin,
treasurer. The following is a list of
the directors: W T . M. Cook, E. L. Moore
J. H. Milhollin, J. G. Traynham, Mrs.
Homer Ricketson, Mrs. A. R. Lewis,
Mrs. J. L. Sapp.
The committee on membership ap
pointed to meet at the Woman’s Club
hall Friday afternoon at b o’clock for
organizing to secure members are
Mesdames E. L. Bledsoe, B. M. Poer.
J. H. Milhollin, J. J. Lott, J. L. Sapp, l
Roy Byrd, J. B. Jordan, C. F. Cham- .
bliss, Ben H. ChcrnofF, Henry Vickers,'
Dan D. Newbern and J. E. Lott.
Messrs. Dr. J. J. Lott, Earl Ricketson,
J. A. McPhail, M. M. Mobley, L. J.
Fussell, Arthur Pridgen, F. C. Veazey,
E. L. Bledsoe, A. R. Lewis, R. L. i
Brown, Alva Smith, W. M. Rainbow,
C. L. Palmer.
SI,OOO FOR NICHOLLS SCHOOL.
The Nieholls High School has been
adopted as the Coffee County High
school and will receive one thousand
dollars from the special aid fund. The ;
junior high schools at West Green and |
Ambrose will get five hundred dollars '
each.
“Mirth Is God’s Medicine. Every-,
body Ought to Bathe in It.’’—Henry j
Ward Beecher. ,
By A. B APIN'
COL L. 0. LUKE OF
ALMA KILLS SELF
Information reached Douglas about
noon on Wednesday of the suicide of
Col. L. D. Luke, one of the most prom
inent lawyers in Alma, and a former
resident of Douglas. It is said that
he killed himself with a pistol about
ten o’llock Wednesday morning, at his
home in Alma, and that the cause of
such an act was due to his ill health.
Col. Luke has been in ill health for
many months and did not seem to im
prove. He had a nervous trouble
brought about by other physical trou
bles, and naturally brooded over his
condition.
Col. Luke lived here for a few years
and was admitted to the bar while
here. He worked in the office of Col.
T. A. Wallace for some time and final
ly moved to Alma where he and Col.
Cornelius, of this city, opened up a
law office. He later practiced alone.
He had been mayor of Alma, Judge
of the City Court, and was considered
one of the county’s prominent lawyers
and citizens. The news of his death
was a distinct shock to his friends and
acquaintances of this city and section.
SCOUT COUNCIL TO HE
ORGANIZED HERE
At the meeting of the Okefenokee
Conucil Executive Board, held in Way
cross last night, plans were made for
extending the boy scout work through
the counties included in the area or
ganization. A committee composed
of Scout Executive Charles N. Wilson,
Judge H. D. Reed and Dr. B. H. M;n
chew, of Waycross, and Fred Brewer,
of Douglas, was appointed to promote
the organization of a council in Doug
las. Two troops are already in action
in Douglas.
This committee will appear before
the Kiwanis Club of Douglas this
week, it is announced.
Present at the meeting last night
were President B. H. Minchew, Charles
N. Wilson, Jack Williams, M. M. Mon
roe, L. J. Smith, W. D. O’Quinn and
Liston Elkins of Waycross, and Fred
Brewer of Douglas.
Miss Mittie Owen, of Waverly Hall,
is spending sometime in the city as
the guest of Miss Ophelia Owen.
Miss Naomi Denton, of Soperton,
is the geust at the home of her uncle,
Mr. W. A. Wilcox.
Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Davies, of Bos
ton, returned to their home today af
ter spending several days in the city
as guests of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Youngblood.
Miss Nellie Fitch, of Fitzgerald,
was the guest of Mrs. Gladys Palmer
Tuesday.
Dr. T. H. Clark is expected to arrive
in the city next week from Mayo Sani
tarium where he has been for three i
weeks taking a special course.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
MORE COMMITTEES
FOR ERIEJERR PUN
(SECRETARY GREER CONTINUES
TO FORMULATE COMMITTEES
IX) CARRY FORWARD FIVE
YEAR PLAN.
Since the roll of new committees of
the Chamber of Commerce of coffee
County was published, the wrok of the
meetign and perfecting the other com
mittees has gone steadily on and the
following is a list of the perfected
committees up to date, leaving out
those published in the last issue of
this paper.
Membership Committee.
C. C. Gidedns, Broxton, Mrs. J. L.
Sapp, Broxton, Mrs. Barron, West
Green, Dr. W. L. Hall, Nieholls, Mrs.
C. P. Powers, Nieholls, Mrs. Georgia
Paulk, Ambrose, T. Holland, Ambrose,
W. V. Wingate, Bridgetown, W. H.
Bene, Douglas, A. S. Bussey, Doug
las, E. L. Tanner, Douglas, Fred
Brewer, Douglas, L. A. Pope, Doug
las, Rema Sapp, Douglas, R. A. Moore
Douglas, J. J. Rooney, Douglas, R. A.
Moore, chairman.
Highways Committee.
T. J. Holland, Ambrose, Dr. Rick
etson, Broxton, Mr. Paulk, Bridgetown,
Mose Lott, Nieholls, Silas Lott, Wiest
Green, W. H. Bone, Douglas, T. A.
Mitchell, Douglas, (no chairman nam
ed).
Tobacco Committee.
Oettinger &King, Douglas, G. H.
Pegram, Douglas, J. H. McLean, Doug
las, T. A. Dixon, Douglas, T. A.
Mitchell, Douglas, V. W. Critcher,
Dougals, M. A. Buchanan, Douglas,
Henry Vickers, Douglas, Jesse Meeka,
Nieholls, Elisha Lott, Broxton, John
Peterson, Huffer.
Fne Arts Commttee.
Rev. J. H. Green, West Green, Mrs.
B. M. Poer, Broxton, E. L. Bledsoe,
Broxton, H. H. Williams, Douglas,
Myrtle Agee, Douglas, Tom Frost,
Douglas, E. L. Tanner, Douglas, Mrs.
T. A. Dixon, Douglas, Mrs. J. M. Hall,
Douglas, Mrs. Z. V. Hall, Nieholls,
Jesse Meeks, Nieholls, Mrs. C. A.
Tyler, Broxton, Dr. C. W. Minor,
Douglas, Mrs. W. F. Bronson, Doug
las, E. L. Tanner, chairman.
Trucking Committee.
S. A. Lott, West Green, W. R. Eve,
Ambrose, Mrs. John Neugcnt, P. A.
Jones, West Green, S. J. Stubbs, Doug
las, J. E. Phillips, Mrs. A. F. Coffee,
Douglas, Ralph W. Griffin, Dougla,
Jesse Newbern, Broxton, Lewis Vick
ers, Douglas, Crider, Homer Davis,
Douglas, Elam Brooker, Douglas, W.
M. Harden, West Green, R. W. Grif
fin, chairman.
Home Orchards Committee.
Miss Lizzie Buchan, Dougias, W. H.
Bone, Douglas, J. P. Jardine, Douglas,
Micajah Vickers, A. C. Blalock, Nich
olls, Mose Lott, Nieholls, D. H. Meeks,
Nieholls, A. M. Wilcox, Broxton.
Live Stock Committee.
E. L. Grantham. Douglas, C. M.
Griswold, Nieholls, Leon Vickers, John
Tanner, Nieholls, J. M. Thrash, Doug
als, S. M. McCranie, Douglas, M. C.
Jowers, Ambrose, Elisha Lott, Brox
ton, L. J. Fussell, Ambrose, Fisher
Kirkland, Nieholls, Oscar Luke, Ocilla,
J. S. Wilkerson, Willacoochee, S. M.
McCranie, chairman.
Entertainment Committee.
Mrs. Clark, Mis. Slater, Mrs. Fred
Brewer, Mrs. Dickerson, Mrs. Turren
tine, Mrs. McEachren, Lawson Kelley,
T. A. Dixon, T. A. Mitchell, J. M.
Thrash, Fred Ricketson, J. R. Slater,
W. H. Bailey, W. R. Frier, J. M.
Thrash, chairman.
Ways and Means Committee.
T. S. Price, Douglas, J. M. Thrash,
Douglas, M. D. Dickerson, T.
A. Dixon, Douglas, T. A. Mitchell,
Douglas, Lawson Kelley, Douglas, J.
C. Brewer, Douglas, John R. Slater,
Douglas, E. L. Tanner, Douglas, T. A.
Mitchell, chairman.
Publicity Committee.
W. R. Wilson, Douglas, W. R. Frier,
Douglas, Fred Ricketson, Douglas,
Mrs. L. L. Denton, West Green, J. M.
Thrash, Douglas, Mrs. B. M. Poer,
Broxton, J. A. Roberts, Douglas,
Blanche Douglas, Nieholls.
Forestry Committee.
C. M. Griswold, Nieholls, E. D.
Douglas, Nieholls, Elie Tanner, Doug
las, Leon Vickers, T. S. Price, Doug
las, H. Krkland, Douglas, Gordon Tan
ner, Nieholls, Mose Lott, Nieholls,
Henry Jennings, Ambrose, Arthur
Vickers, Ambrose, J. L. Sapp, Brox
ton, Arthur F. Coffee, Douglas, T. S.
Price, chairman.
There are a few more committees to
meet for completion and on Monday
the second meeting of the full com
mittees will begin for the purpose of
putting the program in shape.