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The Douglas Enterprise
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VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 26
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The ecretary of state Monday issued
a charter to the Georgia and Florida
Railroad, which is the name of the
corporation which is to succeed the
existing Georgia and Florida Railway.
The incorporators of the railroad met
this morning at the general offices of
the Georgia and Florida Railway for
the purpose of organization and elect
ed the following officers:
President, H. W. Purvis, present
general manager of the road; vice
presidents, Francis H. Weston, Colum
bia, S. C., and R. Lancaster Williams,
Baltimore, Md.; secretary, D. C. Por
teous, New York; auditor, M. T. Lani
gan, Augusta; treasurer, W. Blanch
ard, Augusta. All of the officers elect
ed are officials of the Georgia and
Florida Railway. The board of di
rectors for the new organization will
be selected at an early date.
John Skelton Williams, Richmond,
Va., was named chairman of the board
of directors.
Judge A. L. Franklin of Richmond
county Superior Court this morning
signed a degree directing the entire
property of the Georgia and Florida
Railway to be sold at auction at Au
gusta, Nov. 1, 1926. It is understood
that the outstanding claims against
the property, including the debts of
the receiver and the principal and in
terest on the old bonds aggregate
more than $16,000,000.
Immediately following the auction
of the railway on Nov. 1, and the
securing of the Interstate Commerce
Commission certificate of approval,
preparatory woik will begin n the new
line from Augusta to Greenwood, S.
C., a distance of sixty-five miles. It
is expected thr.t actual work on the
new line will begin around Jan. 1,
1927.
Purvis Leaves for St. Louis.
Following the meeting yesterday
Mr. Purvis, general manager of the
railway left for St. Louis to inspect
the first of the new freight equipment
ordered by the company some time
ago. More than 500 freight cars were
ordered from a St. Louis concern, at a
cost of $1,000,000, and as soon as the
first lot has been inspected and ac
cepted by Mr. Purvis, they will be sent
to the line of road for service. Sam
Saye, purchasing agent of the road,
and W. H. Dyer, superintendent of
motive power, will join Mr. Purvis in
St. Louis.
Willingham Receives Charter.
Atlanta, Oct. 4. —One of the best
“signs of the times” in many years
was he deliveiy this morning by Sec
retary of State S. G. McLendon, to
Julian Willingham, of the firm of
Hull, Barrett & Willingham, general
counsel, and Thomas J. Hamilton as
a director, of a new charter for the
Georgia & Florida railroad.
This is the beginning of culmina
tion of plans which have been making
for some time that will geing to write
new business history for this part of
the South.
HARDMAN DEFEATS
HOIDERjy 2 TO I
Dr. L. G. Hardman won the nomina
tion for governor in yesterday’s run
over primary, carrying 282 unit votes,
with Holder winning 132, making a
more than two to one beat. Hardman
carried 110 counties and Holder won
51 counties. There are 414 unit votes
in the convention and it takes 208 to
win. The state convention will meet
in Macon, Oct. 14, at which time for
mal ratification of the primary’s
choice will be made.
In the popular vote Hardman got
43,948 votes to Holder 26,514 votes.
(Some of the counties did not report
the popular vote, but the vote in the
state was very small.
Coffee For Holder.
Coffee county went for Holder by
a majority of an even 200. The coun
ty gave Holder a plurality in the first
election. It had been conceded all the
time that Holder would likely cany
Coffee county in the second race. The
vote by precincts follows:
Hardman. Holder
Ambrose 44 51
Broxton 17 311
West Green 18 34
Nichols 108 46
Bridgetown 14 31
Douglas 356 284
TOTAL 557 757
Mr. Rema Sapp made a business
trip to Albany one day last week.
s C7ie Enterprise ‘Pulisbhes the Legal Advertising of the City of ‘Douglas, Coffee County and County Commissioners
SCHEDULE FOR HI
SCHOJJOMPLEIE
Though outweighed by 20 lbs to the
man Douglas High school team tought
gamely during four quarters of foot
ball in Brunswick last Saturday
against Glynn Academy. The weath
er was ideal and a large crowd of en
thusiastic fans turned out to witness a
snappy game of ball. Both teams
played hard and clean. Only three
penalties were called, all for off-side.
The final score was Brunswick 15 and
Douglas 6. Douglas received the first
kick-off and was downed behind her
own goal lßie giving Brunswick a
safety, two points. On the third play
Dan Bland, one of Douglas’ half backs
picked up a Brunswick fumble on his
own 40 yard line arid raced down the
field 60 yards for the first touchdown
of the season. Three men were run
ning interference for him. Mitchell
failed to add the extra point after
touchdown.
During the rest of the first half the
ball see-sawed near mid-field, with
both teams fighting hard. With two
minutes to play and after an exchange
of punts Brunswick made a rush down
the field and scored just as the half
ended. They failed to add extra point
after touchdown.
The last half saw the ball in mid
field, neither team being able to break
thru the others line. Near the end
of the fourth quarter Brunswick
tossed a forward pass for a 30 yard
gain, placing the ball on Douglas 5
yadr line. The Hi chool held for three
downs. On a delayed line buck Bruns
wick carried the ball over for a touch
down. The extra point was made.
The game enled with the ball in pos
session of Douglas on her own 45 yard
line.
The High School boys, are to be
praised for their plucky fight against
alarger team and their steady play
ing. Only a few had ever played a
regular game, but all did credit for
their school. The team was seen off
from Douglas by a large group of
enthusiastic high school girls and boys
wishing them victory. interest has
been aroused among the students as
never before and the whole school is
backing the team.
The following schedule for the High
School remains:
Oct. B—Ocilla at Ocilla.
Oct. 15—Nashville at Nashville.
Oct. 22—Blackshear at Douglas.
Oct. 29—Blackshear -at Blackshear.
Nov, s—Jesup at Jesup.
Nov. 12—Lyons at Douglas.
Nov. 19—Jesup at Douglas.
Nov. 25—Lyons at Lyons.
PURDOM, TOBACCO
MfINJISITS HERE
Mr. J. M. Purdom, Assistant Agri
cultural Agent of the Coast Line Rail
road at Jacksonville, writing to the
Chamber of Commerce, said, “I was
in Savannah at the State Fair last
week and you may be interested to
know your tobacco exhibit put on by
County Agent Bussey created much
interest and favorable comment. I
think it was a fine stunt and a fine
exhibit.”
Mr. Bussey returned from the fair
at Savannah Sunday night where he
had been in charge of this tobacco ex
hibit, it being the only tobacco exhibit
save one very small one from another
source. He reports a splendid inter
est in the Coffee exhibit and in two
small individual exhibits he made from
the Coffee exhibit, both of which took
first prizes. N
The exhibit was first a map of
Georgia showing the bright leaf terri
tory covered by a fine quality of to
bacco, with Coffee county in the very
center of this territory, with letter
ing over and under this map reading
—“Douglas, the Biggest Tobacco Mar
ket in Georgia, Sold One Sixth of the
Tobacco Crop of 1926, County Site of
Coffee the Richest Tobacco Territory
in the World”.
In addition to this map, there was
a large coffee pot, six feet tall, cover
ed with bright tobacco leaf, the pot
tilted and pouring out tobacco, the
stream of which ended in the dollar
mark $.
Mr. J. S. Gibson as a committee of
one from the Chamber of Commerce
raised the funds for paying the ex
penses of this exhibit to the fair in
Savannah.
NOTICE!
The City Tax Books will close Nov.
Ist. Pay your tax and save cost.
R. M. Pearsall, CTerk.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, OCT. 8, 1926.
Georgia’s Next Governor
DR. L. G. HARDMAN
Coffee County Fair Will
Open On Monday Oct. 18
Everything In Readiness
The Coffee County Fair will open
its gates just one week and four days
from this date, beginning Monday,
October 18, continuing five days, and
closing on Friday night of the 22nd.
The fair this year promises to be
one of the old time Coffee county fairs,
when this county held one of the best
county fairs in Georgia. It has been
just seven years since one of those
fairs was held and the people are
ready for another one.
The Kiwanis Club promulgated this
fair some months ago by electing the
following members as a Board of
Managers—J. B. Jardine, Fred Rick
etson, Fred Brewer, W. H. Bone, and
W. T. Cottingham, and this board at
once selected the following committees
from its membership with the power
to appoint sub committees over the
county and to select a woman’s com
mittee. The membership committees
and the local woman’s committee are
as follows:
Agriculture—A. S. Bussey, chm., S.
M. McCranie, R. W. Griffin, W. T. Cot
tingham, C. L. Patterson, S. J. Stubbs.
Woman’s Work—Miss Lizzie Buch
an, chm., E. S. Talley, Fred Brewer, R.
H. Sapp, R. N. Yeomans, W. H. Bone.
School Exhibit—J. M. Thrash, chm.,
Melvin Tanner, T. H. Clark, Jno. R.
Smith, H. C. Roberts.
Advertising—W. H. Bailey, chm.,
Fred Ricketson, W. R. Frier, H. J.
Day, E. L. Grantham.
Finance—John 'R. Slater, chm., T.
Dixon, C. M. Stubbs, Melvin Tan
ner, J. L. Shelton.
Grounds and Arrangements—J. B.
Jardine, L. A. Pope, T. A. Mitchell, R.
N. Mc-Eaehren, R. A. Moore.
Womans Committee—Mrs. Homer J.
Boatwright, chm., Mrs. Ben Gray,
Mrs. M. D. Dickerson, Mrs. M. H. Tur
rentine, Mrs. A. F. Coffee, Mrs. T. H.
Clark, and Miss Lizzie Buchan.
Broxton—Mrs. Alton Poer, Chm.
Pridgen—Mrs. J. L. Sapp, Chm.
Nicholls Miss Maude Griswold,
Mrs. Gray Meeks, Mrs. A. C. Blalock.
West Green—Mrs. L. L. Denton,
Mrs. Winters.
Ambrose Mrs. Carl Dickerson,
Miss Myrtle Vickers, Mrs. Geo. Paulk.
Bridgetown—Mrs. W. O. Wingate.
Mora—Mrs. I eon Vickers.
Fales—Mrs. Laura Gillis.
Shepard—Mrs. Dan Lott.
The committees are well under way
and some of them have already col
lected quite a good number of articles
for their exhibits. Mrs. Boatwright
reports that some of her committees
are do ; ng Inc work rmc’ h- Indications
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are that the woman’s work of the fair
will be most excellent.
Mr. Bussey and Miss Buchan report
fine progress on the boys com and pig
exhibits and the girls’ canning and
sewing work.
The big features of the agricultural
exhibits will be the militia district ex.
hibits, these being the capital prices
in agriculture. The first prize for the
best district exhibit, will be one hun
dred dollars, the second, fifty, and the
third, twenty-five, so that half the
districts will surely get prizes.
At the meeing of the Chamber of
Commerce at Mora Tuesday night,
Jake Vickers and Jim Wilkinson were
appointed to get a committee of men
and women in the Bridgetown district
and go after that prize. There was
a large crowd present and these two
were instructed to go after that first
prize for he Bridgetown district and
hat the big crowd was ready to help
them put it over.
One feature of the fair will be a
fashion show by the merchants of
Douglas to the outside districts. This
will be pulled off in great style, and
the ladies of the county as well as the
men are expected to be there and see
the pretty girls march in the prettiest
clothes that can be produced with the
spot lights playing on them, just out
side the fair building on a platform
raised for that purpose. The pret
tiest girls of the county have been se
lected to show off these pretty clothes
and there will be dozens of them.
The live stock show is expected lo
be fine. The fair proper, of course,
is to be held in the big brick ware
house, while the live stock will be
housed in the stalls to the right of the
building. All live stock will be fed
and cared for by and at the expense
of the fair and all the exhibitors have
to do is to bring them to the fair
grounds and put them in charge of the
stock manager. The stack will be
judged by state experts.
There will be no lack of amusements
for this fair. Wise’s shows have been
engaged for the week and this is s.iid
to be one of the very best on the road.
They will have an assortment of free
and paid amusements and the fun will
begin each afternoon early and con
tinue far into the night.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Conner and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Griffin, and
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Johnson have
rented the McLean home on Gaskin
Avenue.
20 GEORGIA BANKS
HAVE REORGANIZED
Twenty Georgia banks with re
sources of $4,421,000 have been reor
ganized and permitted t.. resume bus
iness by the state banking department
it was announced Saturday. There
are eleven others, members of the
chain, with assets of $2,600,00 which
will be reorganized and permitted to
resume business within the next fifteen
or 30 days, officials said in referring
to the effect of the chain-bank col
lapse in the state.
Included in the 85 banks which
closed was the Georgia state system
with a parent bank in Atlanta and
20 branches. This was a bank with
fO “windows” which it was impossible
to reorganize as the “Georgia State
bank,” it was explained. In order
that these banks might be reorganized
in the various communities in which
they are located, a plan of separation
was worked out by the banking de
partment which necessitated the com
mon consent of about 30,000 depositors
and creditors. This separation was
accomplished last week, and it is prob
able that 15 or more of these branches
will be absorbed by banks organized
for the particular purpose of taking
over the assets of the e branches.
Three banks already have organized,
the primary purpose of which is to
absorb the Georgia state branches in.
those communities, the statement said.
Resources of the 15 Georgia State
branches referred to are $3,200,000.
It will be seen that when these plans
are worked out the total resources of
the banks reinstated and absorbed by
other banks organized fpr that pur
pose, will be approximately $11,000,-
000 of the $18,000,000 total resources
of the 85 banks that closed.
That the Georgia banking situation
as a whole was financially sound is
evidenced by the fact that only one
bank outside of this “ten-pin” system
closed, and that was cause! by a run
incident to the closing of a Bankers’
Trust bank in that neighborhood. This
one bank was reorganized and permit
ted to resume business in less than a
week after it closed.
LEWIS ms 10'
CONSTRUCT DAM
Mr. Lewis Vickers, chairman of the
board of. county commissioners, ac
companied by Mr. A. W. Haddock,
clerk of the board, returned to Doug
las Sunday after an absence of sev
eral days in Baltimore, Washington,
New York, and other eastern points.
A representative of this paper was
informed by Mr. Vickers that he met
with great success on the trip, as af
fecting Coffee county and this section
of the state. He is very enthusiastic
over the strong probability of acquir
ing a high powered dam across the
Ocmulgee river at one of the proposel
crossings in connection with the route
selected by the state highway. The
War department at Washington was
called on by the chairman and he was
promised this dam provided he could
meet certain conditions, which will be
met, says Mr. Vickers.
The War department told Mr. Vick
ers that when he has complied with
the rules and regulations of the state
and federal in connection with having
dam constructed under their supervis
ion at cost of 50 per cent from the
government, 25 per cent from the
state, and 25 per cent from the county,
the latter to be paid in labor, and the
labor to be furnished by additional
men from the prison board, which will
incur practicaliy no expense for the
county except fee, clothing and
guards.
Mr. Vickers says the dam will cost
two million dollars and work can be
begun on it by Dec. 1, and completed
in two years. The dam will afford
power for manufacturers also will
furnish electricity for many towns
around this section. After all these
requirements have been met, the War
department will then O. K. the project
and recommend a bill covering same
to be passed by congress. Congress
man Lankford was approached in
Washington by Mr. Vickers, and he
stated that he would take great pleas
ure in pushing the passage.
Vickers Gets Relay Here.
While in Baltimore Mr. Vickers
made arrangements with the Monu
mental Tourist Transportation Co.,
who operates busses from Quebec,
Canada, south to Boston, Atlantic
City, Washington, and on thru Doug
las to Florida, to have Douglas made
YEAR IN ADVANCE
3 GET TO GETHEft
MEETINGS ARE HELD
The three meetings of the Chamber
of Commerce in its get-to-gether work
at Ambrose, Mora and Broxton have
been decided successes.
At Ambrose Monday night, a good
crowd greeted the Douglas body and
the meeting was well received. The
Ambrose people manifested a fine
spirit and for an hour and a half, the
crowd talked about anything they
wanted to and it was evident that the
people of that community are one hun
dred per cent.' for the Five Year Plan.
The secretary discussed the Plan,
Lewis Vickers talked roads, Bussey
urged dairying and the fair, Melvin
Tanner made a fine talk on the old
Douglas fairs and urged the people
to support the coming fair, Dr. Davis
praised the Ellis Health law and urg
ed its passage, Miss Buchan made a
strong plea for more and better chick
ens and an opportunity was given for
membership in the Chamber of Com
merce. The local branch secured some
what over twenty members and the
meeting was then turned into an ex
perience meeting with refreshments.
Tom Holland made a fine talk on the
work of the Chamber of Commerce,
Mr. Brown said the time had come for
the stock law in Coffee county, and
Harry Vickers closed the talks with a
strong plea for cooperation and the
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Devours
led the music for the visitois.
At Mora Tuesday night, the house
was crowded to the limit and people
filled the doors and windows. It was
an enthusiastic meeting from the be
ginning. Henry Roberts led the sing-,
ing and he got the crowd to sing with
him. Rufus Moore, chairman of the
campaign was present and conducted
the program. In addition to the usual
speakers Mr. Farnum, an expert poul
try man made a most interesting talk
on poultry.
At Btoxton Wednesday night, the
crowd was not so large as in the two
previous meetings, but the interest
was genuine and in addition to the
Douglas speakers, Prof. Parrott, Rev
Mr. Salter, Gus Lewis, Ben Poer am
Mrs. Ben Poer who made a most pleai
ing speech on how the neighboring
communities had helped the ladies o!
Bioxton through cooperation. Mrs.
Durst made a good talk on the work
of the Chamber and Rufus Moore’s
•comments on the different topics
proved him a most effective master
of ceremonies. Henry Roberts is
making himself famous as a song
leader in this campaign, and Horton
Christopher, Charles Powers and Clyde
Williams have been most helpful with
their instrumental accompaniments.
Miss Willie Rvals of Broxton, who is
an accomplished musician, played the
piano accompaniment on Wednesday
night. Meetings at Nicholls and West
Green Thursday and Friday nights.
CHRISTIAN CHARACTER, THE
SUBJECT FOR SUNDAY MORN.
Pastor Stanford announces that he
will discuss the Time Basis of Chris
tian Character, Sunday morning.
Character is the one important essen
tial for right living. It alone abides.
Character determines our real worth
and our destiny. We should try to
know its basis.
Sunday school 10:15 a. m. Organ
ized Bible classes, good teachers and
good fellowship. Classes for all.
Miss Myrtle BarneS and Mr. H. C.
Roberts will have charge of the Ep
worbh League program at 6:45 p. m.
All young people urged to attend this
service.
At the evening worship 7:45. the
pastor will discuss Church Member
ship. Calling attention to the claims
of the church on the thought of all
and why we should join the church
and be loyal to it.
Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30.
Special music, congregational sing
ing led by a large chorus and special
numbers by the choir.
FARMS FOR RENT.
All parties interested in renting
farms nay see me at the offices of
Dickerson & Kelley. Douglas, Georgia,
on the 14 th day of October. John
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
own several farms in Coffee County
that are for rent. A. d’Antignac.
a relay station at once. This com
pany makes one round trip every
thirty days, and this arrangement will
mean a great deal t this city, thanks
to the untiring efforts of Mr. Vickers
who is always on the lookout for
Douglasa nd Coffee county.