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The Douglas Enterprise
VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 35
LANKFORD OFFERS
BILL FOR RELIEF
OUR CONGRESSMAN OFFERS
GOOD COTTON BILL ON OPEN -
ING DAY OF CONGRESS. COM
PLIMENTED BY MANY SOUTH
ERN MEMBERS.
Establishment of a Federal cotton
co-operation capitalized at $500,000,-
000, and functioning to maintain cot
ton prices at a level of 22 cents per
pound, is proposed in a bill laid before
the House at the opening of Congress
today by Rep. W. C. Lankford, of
Georgia. The proposal is the first of
a series which are expected to bo pre
sented to Congress by representatives
of the cotton belt in an effort to obtain
legislative relief for producers of the
South.
Under the Lankford bill the pro
posed Federal agency would be au
thorized to purchase cotton at 22
cents per pound when the open mar
ket failed to respond to that price
level. Resale by the organization
would not be permitted at a price less
than 22 cents, plus two cents profit to
the producers, and plus storage and
insurance charges, which would run
the total resale price to approximate
ly 25 cents.
Representative Lankford, who con
ferred with a number of bankers and
producers in drafting his measure, be
lieves that the Federal agency sug
gested would operate to hold cotton
at a minimum of 22 cents without the
necessity for using funds appropriat
ed. Buyers of cotton for manufacture
would pay 22 cents in the open market
before allowing the staple to go into
the hands of the government corpora
tion, where the cheapest resale price
Would be 24 cents, he pointed out.
In arriving at a price of 22 cents as
a minimum Mr. Lankford he used
purely arbitrary figures, Once the
bill is under consideration Congress
can set any minimum it determines as
a fair return.
The gency would be organized along
lines of the war finance corporation,
with power to issue bonds or stock six
times the amount of capitalization,
which w r ould increase the total re
sources for cotton buying to $3,000,-
000,000.
The corporation would be adminis
tered by a board of six directors with
the secretary of agriculture serving
as chairman. Directors w r ould be ap
pointed by the President from a list
of nominations sent in by governors
of the cotton states. Only one direc
tor would be appointed from any
state.
In order to hold down production
to the need of industry, the corpora
tion would be given authority to re
strict cotton acreage. Severe penal
ties, in the way of equalization fees,
would be imposed for excess acreage.
M. W. OF A. ELECT OFFICERS.
The Douglas Camp 16783 Modern
Woodmen of America met in regular
session Wednesday night, Dec. 8, and
elected officers for the coming year.
Those elected for 1927 are: H. F.
Stirewialt, Counsul; John D. Adams,
Clerk; B. F. Sweat, Adviser; Frank
F. Adams, Banker; O. A. Sweat, Es
cort; J. A. Johnson, Watcher; D. A.
Peacock, Sentry; Trustees, M. F. Head
Sibibett Merrier, Luther Black.
MASONIC NOTICE.
J.
At the next meeting of Douglas
Chapter No. 49 R. A. M. and Douglas
Council No. 26 R. & S. M. to be held
at the lodge room on the 14th inst. at
7:30 P. M., will be held the election of
officers for the coming year. All
members are earnestly requested to
be present.
Jno. M. Hall, H. P. & I. M.
BROKTON TO OFFER
12 MONTHS PLAN
We are authorized to announce that
our sister city of Broxton has made
arrangements to install a new modern
lighting plant, with a Decile engine.
This will be quite an improvement
over the present plant.
We are also informed that the citi
zens over there are preparing to in
stall an ice factory right away, and
that practically the amount necessary
for this is in sight.
Leading citizens give further infor
mation that a twelve months pro
gram for Broxton will be announced
at an early date. This program will
include many improvements for 1927.
c C7je (Enterprise Dulishhes the Legal flrhertisins of the City of Douglas, Coffee County and Cnuntx Commissioners
THIRD WEEK OE
HAGGARD CAMPAIGN
CROWDS INCREASE AND GREAT
INTEREST IS BEING M ANIFEST
ED. NEXT TEN DAYS PROMISE
BIG REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN
DOUGLAS.
The evangelistic meetings being
held at the tobacco warehouse and
conducted by the Haggard Evangelis
tic Party are now in full swing, and
great interest is being manifested at
each service. The preacher is doing
some of the best preaching ever de
livered here, and the interest has been
increased, as the meeting progresses.
Prayer meetings are being held
throughout the city daily, and a lot
of personal work is being done
throughout every section of Douglas.
The music is a great drawing card at
each service. It is conducted by Mr.
Dixon, who is a splendid choir leader,
assisted by Mrs. Byers. The Hag
gard song book is being sold nightly
by Fred, the Jew, as he calls himself,
together with a little book of personal
helps which has been compiled by Fred
himself.
This is the third week of the meet
ing, and it was first announced that
it would continue for four weeks. We
have not been informed as to any
change in dates as to the termination
of the services.
Tonight, Friday, Rev. Haggard will
preach on “Hell”, as announced last
night. The children will have charge
of the song service. The Jews of
Douglas have been invited to attend in
a body on Sunday night. The G. & F.
shop men will attend in a body Mon
day night, and the W. 0. W. will at
tend in a body on Wednesday night.
The men will hold a special meeting
: at the tabernacle Sunday afternoon at
three o’clock, and at the same time
the ladies will hold a-similar meeting
at the Baptist church conducted by
Mrs. Byers. Dr. Haggard will con
duct the men’s meeting.
DR. W. F. SIBBETT HAS
PARALYTIC STROKE
We regret to announce that Dr. W.
F. Sibbett had a very slight paralytic
stroke on Thursday morning and was
carried into Sapp’s Pharmacy. He
was later sent home and is doing nice
ly at this time. The stroke was very
light and his condition is by no means
serious.
MISS MADELINE MOORE, FORM
ER DOUGLAS RESIDENT, DEAD
News reached the city this week of
the death of Miss Madeline Moore, a
former resident of this city, her death
occurring at her home in Miami last
Friday morning. She was buried on
Saturday in Miami.
The deceased will be well remem
bered here, one of the twin daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Moore. She
was sick for about six months, and
her death was no surprise to the fam
ily.
“THE kING COMETH ”, A
CHRISTMAS CANTATA
“The King Cometh”, a Christmas
Cantata by R. M. Stults, will be pre
sented at the High School auditorium
Monday evening, Dec. 13, at 8 o’clock
for benefit Pipe Organ Fund St. An
drew’s Church. Admission charge
will be, adults 50c, children 35c.
Introduction—Piano.
“Awake, Awake, Put on Thy
Strength, O Zion”.
Opening Chorus.
Raft I—A King Is Promised.
“And There Shall Come Forth a
Rod”.
“Therefore the Lord Himself Shall
Give Y'ou a Sign”.
“For Unto You a Child is Bom”.
“Thy Kingdom is an Everlasting
Kingdom”.
Reading—“ Why the Chimes Rang”
—Miss Gaffney.
Part ll—The Incarnation.
“And the Angel Said. Unto Mary”.
“He Shall Be Great”.
“And the Word Was Made Flesh”.
Part lll—The King Is Born.
“There Were Shepherds”.
“And, 10, the Angel of the Lord”.
“And This Shall be a Sign Unto
Y'ou”.
“Glory to God in the Highest”.
Reading “The Angel and the
Shepherds” from “Ben Hur”, Lew
Wallace —Mrs. Simon Petersen.
Tableau—The Nativity.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, DEC. 10, 1926.
THE FAVORITE WINTER SPORT
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SCHOOLS 10 pi
FOR BOLUS'
The Douglas schools will adjourn
next week for the holiday season, ana
most of the week has been devoted to
exams in the various departments.
The A. & M. School will have their
last work on Dee. 17, and all students
will be cheeked out on the morning of
the 18th. They will be required to
return on Monday, Jan. 3, and will re
port for work on Tuesday morning,
Jan. 4.
The Douglas High School will close
this term’s work Thursday at noon,
Dec. 23. We understand that the
grades will also be dismissed at the j
same time. The return work wll be-!
gin Jan. 4th., we understand. The j
Kuhl school will also dismiss for the
holidays the last of next week, with
about two weeks vacation.
BOX SOCIAL.
The public is cordially invited to
attend a Box Social at the Arnie
School on Saturday night, Dec. 11th
at eight o’clock.
Marguerite McGowan,
Gussie McDaniel, Teachers.
MEETING CIRCLE NO. 2.
Circle No. 2 of the Baptist Church
met at the home of Mrs. Fred Brewer
last Monday afternoon, with Mrs.
and Mrs. Homer Johnson hostesses.
Mrs. A. F. Coffee, chairman of this
circle presided and in a most inter
esting manner disposed of the busi
ness. The members answered to roll
call with verses from the Bible pro
physing the borth of Christ.
An enjoyable social hour followed
the program, and salad course with
coffee was served. Salted nuts in
novelty Christmas baskets were pass
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WELFARE WORKERS AD
DRESSED BY CHURCHMEN
At a meeting of the Welfare work
ers of the city Thursday morning in
the Chamber of Commerce, Rev. 11. H.
Barber, Rector of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, of Augusta, addressed
the meeting on the work, especially
emphasizing the jail and county pau
per work.
He complimented the excellent con
dition of the Coffee County jail, mak
ing a few suggestions such as chang
ing the tub bath to a shower, covering
the mattresses used ad painting the
walls from dark to light.
Rev. Mr. Hobart, of Hawkinsville,
accompanied him.
Mr. and Mrs. Rema Sapp returned
Wednesday night from their wedding
trip through Florida and are at home
to their friends at their home on Gas
kin Avenue.
an* OtoWTe
NO CONTESTS IN
CITY CAMPAIGN
The city election will be a very tame
affair since the withdrawal of Col.
John Gibson fion the race in the Sec
ond ward. This leaves no opposition
to Councilman Ja'dine, and there is
no opposition to Councilman Mc-
Cranie in the Third weid. These are
the only two races to be run with the
exception of the vacancy in the May
or’s office, and there is no contest
there, as Mayor Slater will be elected
for another term of two years.
Col. Gibson cairics his card of with
drawal in another part of this paper.
The election will be held on Saturday,
Dec. 18, a week from tomorrow, and
the new term starts on January 1.
This will leave the 1927 and 1928 per
sonnel the same as has been for the
past two years.
WACONA SCHOOL
BURNS 10 GROUND
The Wacona Consolidated School,
two miles north of Waycross at He
bardville, was completely destroyed by
fire originating from a burning wood
pile, Sunday afternoon, several hun
dred partjcipaots in a singing conven
tion in the Wacona auditorium escap
ing without injury.
The Wacona school is the largest
consolidated school in the county.
The building, a brick structure,
about three years old, was valued at
$35,000 and the equipment at SIO,OOO.
Several hundred people were in the
building when the fire alarm was
sounded, and it probably was through
the iool action of Dan T. Cowart, of
Fairfax, that the crowd filed from the j
building in an orderly manner, pre-!
Venting injury or loss of life. The j
blaze started in a wood pile, several ,
feet from the rear wall of the build- j
ing, from an unknown origin. !
The proximity of the blazing light- .
wood to the building made it impos-j
slide, in the high wind to save the
building. When two fire companies
from Waycross reached the scene it
was too late to render effective ser
vice. A small water main from
Hebardville was the only water sup
ply and this was negligible. Chemi
cals were not adequate to cope with
the spreading flames.
Two carloads of fire wood were un
loaded several days ago and stacked
in the rear of the building, and the
thoughtlessness in placing The wood
in such close proximity to the walls
resulted in the disaster. Four hun
dred students attended Wacona, and
twelve teachers are employed for
their Instruction.
Mr. and Mrs. Hutch Williams are
spending today in Waycross.
By A. B. CHAPIN
D. B. LOTT 6IIIES
UP TO SHERIFF
Mr. D. B. Lott, one of the alleged
lynchers recently indicted by the
giand jury, and who ha : been at large
for some time, came in late Thursday
afternoon and surrendered to Sheriff
Tanner, it is understood. He will re
n ain in jail until Judge Reed comes
over and opens court for the dispo
sition cf this case. There re. Pairs
only one more at large, Mr. Make
Tanner. His whereabouts are un
known.
CITY COURT TWO DAYS.
The criminal division of the City
Court of Douglas convener! on Mon
day morning and continued for two
days only. The court was adjourned
Tuesday night for the term, and t: e
next regular term will convene in Feb
ruaiy.
Judge Roberts dispatched a lot of
business during the two days, assisted
by Solicitor Cornel'us, A lot of civil
business was handled during the term
of last week. Several visiting attor
neys were here during this term of
the City Court.
WOMAN’S AUXILIARY OF ST.
ANDREW’S CHURCH MEETS
The Episcopal Woman’s Auxiliary
meeting for this month was held on
Monday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. R. B. Evans. Mrs. J. D. Adams,
president of the Auxiliary presided.
This being the last meeting of the
year, with Christmas close at hand,
there seemed more than the usual
amount of necessary things to be done.
Besides the Bazaar which will open
on Thursday morning of this week at
the Ga. State Bank, there will be a
Cantata on Monday evening, Dec< 13th,
at the school auditorium. Consider
able preparation is being made for
this entertainment which promises to
be very pleasing as well as instruc
tive.
A Christmas tree will be given the
members of the church school and
plans were made to give gifts to child
ren in needy families known to our
Auxiliary.
A $5.00 donation to the Empt v
Stocking fund was unanimou-dy a /
proved by the meeting.
Mrs. T. Dixon of the prr
, j /yam
committee, gave a short des ..
of the very first Christmas ri , c ° n
written by the well kmr h or
Henry Van Dyke, which ’ V/e „ ren
dered and proved ais outstand
ing feature of the rn'*etmg.
Those present we .*e Mosdames J D
Adams, Davis, Dem, Dent, Dicker
son. Dixon, Qurncey, Shelton, Stubbs
Evans and Miss Mae Dart.
A very dainty refreshment consist I
mg of fruit salad en parfait with
chocolate wafers was served by the 1
hostess at the close of the meeting j
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
MMFTEES NAMED
FOB WELFARE WORK
COMMITTEE PROPOSES TO RAISE
FUND FOR CHARITY WORK
THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. MRS.
M. 1). DICKERSON HEADS BAND
WORKERS.
The poor in Coffee County will all
have a Santa Claus this Christmas,
provided the people respond to the ef
forts of the Welfare Board, which
has about perfected its organization
and on Friday of this week will begin
its campaign for funds in the Douglas .
district and in some of the other dis
tricts of the county.
Record sheets have been sent out
by the Central commttee of the Cham
ber of Commerce to every school
teacher and preacher, both white and
colored, to every district chairman,
the head of every lodge, club and fra
ternity and these have been urged to
get the names of all people in need
and send these sheets back to the
Chamber of Commerce by December
15, where they will be recorded and
handed over to each district chairman
by the 20th, so that the good thipgs
to fill these baskets may be bought,
the baskets prepared and on Christ
mas Eve day, the young people in
each district will be g'lven the baskets
with directions thereon and they will
deliver them to the addresses.
Most of the districts will' handle
their own baskets, raising the funds,
buying what is necessary, preparing
them and sending them out.
Contributions will be solicited by
committees and through the local pa
pers, these will be turned over to the
district chairmen and those from the
Douglas district to the central treas
urer, T. A. Dixon, of the Union Bank
ing Co., not later than December 20th.
The district chairmen are Mrs. M.
D. Dickerson, Douglas; L. L. Denton,
West Green; Eric Moore, Broxton;
Mrs. Fisher Kirkland, Nicholls; Leon
Vickers, Bridgetown; Mrs. Reba Phil
lips, Ambrose.
Solicitors for the Douglas district
[ are Mrs. Dickerson and Mrs. E. L
Tanner, for the business district, Mrs.
. Dr. Smith and Mrs. Ralph Griffin, res
j idence district of Ward No. 1, Miss
j Dollie Freeman and Mrs. Johnson for
{residence district of Ward No. 2, Mrs.
A. D. King and Mrs. Randolph Reli
han for residence district of Ward No.
3, Mrs. John Jardine and Mrs. Lawson
Kelley for residence district of Ward
No. 4.
Mrs. Dickerson, the chairman thinks
it will require fully three hundred
dollars to secure good baskets for the
Douglas district alone. It is possible
that a deficit will have to be met *
some of the smaller districts i
county, and whatever may be left
from the Christmas baskets wil.
used in the permanent work, so
there is little danger of getting
much.
Mrs. Dickerson also wi' ,v ~ =t
the fact that the Welfare
trying to take over anyt
rogative in doing this Chris
It is simply desired that th
done thoroguhly and a recor
families and individuals >
the Chamber of Co mm ere Je
plicates will be sifted ; a
kept. These records w lT]r j
iately returned to the /]] ■
men of each district ir district
will in turn give it J . the county
who is to distribute ;o the
The records will the baskets
the permanent wr be kept for
Board. This is irk 0 f the Welfare
poverty may e- the only Way th °
out and beggr ' entually be stamped
P ' done away with.
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MICMII®
The city ejection was held at r-,,
fe\\ fCWdayß «nd resultfd fn
for I !m7‘" S bei " !? “ »»*r.
Mayor, A. R. Lewis.
Ojundlm., P. L. Moore. .A. Sooth,
Jr , C t etson and J. E. Lott.
Clerk, Luther Roberts."
hiS ,s the same ticket that has
power for several years^Horp
c'tv J as already serv ed the
tem s a a nd ay<>r cons «“«ive
'sixth TK 18 n ° W elected the
isfied with l: P,e e - ldently are sat
and other officers. * Mermen