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The Douglas Enterprise
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
Established 1888
Published Every Friday By
The Enterprise Publishing Company
\V. It. Frier, Editor
iuiJSC RIPTION KATES IN ADVANCE:
ONE YEAR $1.50
SIX MONTHS 75
OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR COFFEE COUNTY
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, (la., under Act of Congress of Mch. 8, 1879
Member: —Georgia Press Association and Eleventh
District Press Association. : : :
The holiday spirit is prevalent everywhere,
Christmas is here, and old Santa is ready for
the big night next week.
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Big publicity has shifted from Coffee coun
ty to Toombs county. We are glad to have the
transfer made.
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Now is the time to begin thinking about
swapping presents and Christmas cards. They
come high, but custom is a hard master. —Dal-
ton Citizen.
The Enterprise will issue next Thursday
morning early, on acount of the holidays. So
govern yourself accordingly with copy for
notices and ads.
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Douglas stores are receiving a splendid
trade this Christmas. All of the stores carry
good up-to-date holiday stocks and there is no
excuse for anyone to leave town to buy what
thaey want for Santa Claus or other gifts.
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EXPRESSION FROM HON. JOSEPHUS
DANIELS.
“The recent convict ons in the Coffee Coun
ty lynching were worlh a hundred million dol
lars to Georgia in advertising, because they
show that the spirit of the State is opposed to
such lawless outbreaks”, said Honorable Jose
phus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy, in
a press interview in Atlanta last week. The
South has lost vast sums through the unfavor
able publicity caused by lynchings, said Mr.
Daniels. “Such crimes cannot always be pre
vented”. he continued, “but the state that pun
ishes those perpetrating them will benefit from
the increased esteem of the nation. Coffee
County is to be commended heartily for its
action in the recent case.”
Greatly Reduced
Prices on all
•J|™y» Ladies’ Dresses
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lIjSPB Special for the next ten days—greatly
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IliUSik' 4 ' MM reduced prices on all ladies’ dresses and
coats—crepe satins and wool twills in
•w all the wanted shades, beautiful mater
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fAJTTocXSrS $7.95
HIGH GRADE SHOES
If you want quality and style you will find both in our Fashion Plate Shoes.
These are perfect fitting shoes. New shipments arriving every week.
Sold in many places for $12.50 and $14.00. Oour price—
s6.9s & $7.95
THE BOSTON STORE
MAKING OF LAWS.
Congress began a new job yesterday with
12,000 bills left over and with nearly every sen
atoi and representative ready to put more into
the hopper. With all the legislation that some
people hink ought to be made into law, this must
be a terribly unfinished country. Here w'e have
been filling the statute books with new laws, and
repairing and repealing old ones, and yet no
body is so foolish as to say that at last govern
ment has all the directions it needs to run per
fectly. How long will it be before somebody
will think more laws are necessary? The ans
wer to that question is: Just after the next
to the last person on earth dies. So long as
there are two persons in some ,sort of contact
with each other, a condition which makes for a
possible conflict of rights, or of what the two
think are rights, there will be necessity for leg
islation. So infinite and tangled are the rela
tions human beings bear to each other, and
groups of them bear to other groups, that there
ever will come a time when every person and
group is satisfied.
3o w'e might as well avoid inveighing a
gainst the constant flow'-of new laws. So long
as we have legislatures we w'ill have legislation.
The millennium will start the day when a leg
islature meets and looks about it and considers
the state of the county and says, “Resolved,
That everything is all right and that we do here
and now' adjourn.” By that time invention
will have ceased, because each new invention
brings new human relations, as for example the
radio and airplane have done. Every law will
have proved its value or w'ill have been repealed
as obsolete and unfair. Government will have
been exactly just, and there will be no need to
hunt for new methods of protecting the tax
payer and the voter from unwise or bad officials.
Everything will be lovely, in fact. Which
means that it will be a very long time before
legislatures lose their usefulness.
At that, maybe the law'-mills can be slowed
up a bit. Here in Georgia there is need for
more thinking about law's in advance of the
making of them. Perhaps biennial sessons of
the General Assembly will tend to have that ef
fect. Legislators should be chosen in Georgia
for their stand on state-wide questions and their
ability to consider them. To elect a lot of men
on county-wide issues to conside state-wide
questions is to take the. chances that state is
sues w'ill not be considered very deeply before
decisions are made.—Morning News.
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Only eight more days until Christmas!
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. DEC. 17, 1926.
GIFTS FOR MEN
AT THE MAN’S STORE
Men appreciate sensible gifts. Good looking gifts, yes, but something
practical and useful. Something he would buy for himself. Something he needs
is the ideal man’s gift.
Our store has everything a man’s heart can desire. If you buy it here our
label guarantees his appreciation—no matter how large or small the gift may be. He
knows that it is of finest quality and the newest style.
Our Christmas stocks are the most complete and boast of the best gilt mer
chandise we have ever offered. We are pleased to say that our prices are an induce
ment in themselves to all thrifty shoppers.
Suspenders
Belts
What could be more useful
than a belt or a pair of sus
penders? See our new braid
ed leather belts —some in alli
gator or in plain quality.
Suspenders as gay or plain as
they come —with plenty of
snap. In Christmas boxes.
Belts SI.OO to $1.50
Suspenders. .50c to SI.OO
Shirts Headwear Socks
Our stock is complete—
y- style, quality and good look-
Give one or more of our
quality shirts handsomely
packed in a gay Xmas box.
We have them in silks—
broadcloths —and finest per
cales and madras, as well as
other new materials. All
sizes and patterns.
EACH
$1.95. $2.50, *53.00, $3.50
—and a hundred other handsome,
quality gifts!
G. C. WEITMAN COMPANY
Hatters Haberdashers Clothiers
Scarfs
He can use a scarf! If for
protection or for fashion or
both —see ours! Gay striped
silks—knitted ones and oth
ers of warm brushed wool.
Each $1.50 to $5.00
Gloves
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The old saying of cold hands
warm heart doesn’t apply
here—for to give him a pair
of our quality gloves will
surely warm the coldest
heart.
Per Pair.. $1.50 to $4.95
Several names on your list
can be given socks. Luxur
ious silk ones—silk lisle or
the fancy colored wool for the
younger man. In Xmas boxes.
Per [‘air... ,35c to $1.50