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The Douglas Enterprise
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
Established 1888
Published Every Friday By
The Enterprise Publishing Company
W. R. Frier, Editor
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR COFFEE COUNTY
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under Act of Congress of Mch. 8, 1879
Member: —Georgia Press Association and Eleventh
District Press Association. : : t
TO OUR
CUSTOMERS ANI) FRIENDS
“A MERRY CHRISTMAS”
Christmas, the season for the
renewal of old friendships,
for the forgetting of differ
ences, for the expression of
good will and kindness is
here.
May your Christmas be tilled
with joy and happiness, un
marred by sorrow, and may
you carry with you through
the coming year the spirit of
the Yuletide.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE
W. R. Frier, Editor
o
Santa Claus is in the land and all the kid
dies in Coffee County are anxiously awaiting his
arrival.
o
The subscribers or members of the Coffee
Gouty Chamber of Commerce will have to be
more prompt about paying their dues, also may
have to increase their monthly payments, in or
der to meet the current expenses. As matters
now stands, it takes practically every cent paid
in to handle the overhead, such as $5,000. per
year for the Secretary, rent, and other inciden
tals. We hope the members will give some
thought to this and increase their amounts or
get some new members, so that every item of
expense may be taken care of promptly, and
without delay.
GOOD EATS for
The HOUDAYS
After a whole year of waiting the holidays
are here—so eat, drink cider and be merry.
This is the season for putting extra leaves
in the tables and unusual activity in the kitchen a
—because feasts are again in vogue. jpTlp A 7^77^
But we’re ready for all the man sized appe- vv\\y^
tites with the largest and most complete store
of good things to eat imaginable.
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CHRISTMAS AGAIN. •
The Enterprise goes to its readers this
week with a sincere wish for a Merry Christ
mas, days full of peace and full of happiness for
all. What more could we wish?
The year has been good to all of us, parti
cularly to the people of this county and section.
Coffee county has been blessed, and has been
rated as one of the few counties which has not
suffered the setbacks of many other counties in
the state.
Douglas, the Pride of the Wiregrass, has
gone forward as no other town in the state. A
review of the activities of the Douglas Kiwanis
Club which appears in another part of this is
sue, will convince anyone of the strides made by
our city. Then there have been other influen
ces which have worked for the progress of
Douglas and Coffee county, all meeting with
success.
Many plans have been made for 1927 which
will soon be ushered in. Our various organiza
tions are preparing for a great campaign for a
greater Douglas and a greater county. Roads
will be built and improved, many institutions
of great value to any community are in the
making, and we enter the new year full of
hopes, ready for the task before us.
May each one of us possess the spirit of the
Christmas season, and put it into execution. It
will be a great period for all of us if we do. The
opportunities are many for making others hap
py, and if we grasp them, we will receive the
major part. If there is any season of the year
when hard hearts are softened, it is now. Then
let us take advantage of this condition of our
make-up, and do something for somebody, while
the iron is hot, and before it cools again. The
satisfaction that wll come to us in the days to
come will be worth its weight in gold.
o
The Boy Scout reorganization has-about
been completed, and Douglas is going to have a,
splendid troop in the next few weeks.
o
The activities of the Douglas Kiwanis Club
for 1926 are many, resulting in great prosperity
for our city and county. It is the lives! organi
zation in the county, bar none.
o
A large number of business firms of this
city are extending the people of the county a
merry Christmas thru cards of greetings which
appear in a double page ad in this issue. Read
them.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, DEC. 24, 1926.
Noted Music
Bowl Self
Sustaining
.*
Symphony music is now within
reach of the hundreds of thousands
and even at the modest fees of twenty
five and fifty cents, the very finest of
symphony music in America can pay
for itself.
This is revealed by the annual re
port Just made by Raymond Brite,
manager of the Hollywood Bowl,
America’s greatest outdoor music au
dience chamber. The Bowl seats
twenty thousand persons. During the
summer just past concerts were given
three times weekly. They were lis
tened to by 293,082 persons who paid
$110,188.79. This gives a surplus of
nearly SI,OOO over expense.
The series of concerts will be given
next summer with world famous
conductors drawn from all over the
world.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a raa-ma doll, car
riage, tea set, lots of fruit and candy.
Please bring my baby sister a rat
tler. Thank you.
Mary Nell Grantham.
Douglas, Ga.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me tricycle, pop gun,
ball and bate, lots of fruit and candy.
Please bring my little brother a tri
cycle and a teddy bear. Wishing you
a Merry Christmas.
D. W. Grantham, Jr.
Douglas, Ga.
Dfear Santa Claus:
1 am a little boy 8 years old and go
to school and I am in the third grade.
I want a pump air rifle, a football,
some fire crackers, and some fruit.
Don’t forget my little brother just
two years old. He wants a baby doll,
some sandy and some fruit. Please
don’t forget us. Cecil Moore.
ETouglas,. Ga.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a coaster wagon,
skooter and a foot ball. I will leave
you some cake where you can find it.
Bring something for Billie. Your
friend, J. B. Jardine, Jr.
Douglas, Ga.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a pretty doll, a
desk, a bath robe and a little china
tea set, also some fruit and nuts.
Don’t forget my little sister, she
wants a mama-car and a little doll
that won’t break. Your little girl,
Lucia Janelle Griffin.
Douglas, Ga.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want you to bring me a carriage
for my doll, and other nice things you
wish me to have. My mother says I
am a good girl.
Esther Weintroub.
Douglas, Ga.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring: me a bicycle and a
foot ball. I am going to school and
study my lessons and am a very good
boy. Leo Weintroub.
Douglas, Ga.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little boy four years old.
Mother says I’ve been a good boy this
year and I want you to bring me a
pop gitn, a little automobile, a ball, a
train, a top, and some fruit and nuts.
Your little boy,
Glenn Max Strickland.
Douglas, Ga.
My Dear Santa,
I guess you have about forgotten
me by this time as I am on the tip of
Florida, but please try to remember
me. I am fourteen years old and
about to complete the eighth grade,
and I want you to please spare me a
kodak, wrist watch, slippers and a
set of “Gollen Boys” books, and any
thing else nice for a girl my size.
Bring my little brothera little car and
my baby sister a rocky horse and
•remember allof the small children, but
come tothe “Magic City” first.
Murial A. Maine.
Miami, Fla.
KING COTTON is yielding to QUEEN
PECAN. Leant why and how by
writing J. B. Wright, Cairo, Ga.
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By DR. FRANK CRANE
The Christmas season is the season of the horizon line.
The earth and the sky, the clouds and the land, meet at
the horizon line.
And so at Christmas* time the practical and the ideal
meet; what is, for the day, reaches up and joins hands with
What Ought To Be.
Talk that is dubbed airy idealism during other seasons
is the guiding plan of action when Christmas comes around.
On that day men think of others as well as themselves,
they feast their bodies, but also their hearts.
Thoughts concern juicy brown drum-sticks and heaped
white mountains of mashed potatoes, but they also concern
the welfare of the unfortunate and the relieving of want.
One deals with the so-called “practical” part of life, the
other with the “ideal.” They both have part on Christmas
Day.
No other season comes nearer humanity. It deals with
the needs of the present. It takes men as they are and tries
to bring the best in them to the top.
It is the most kindly, human season. It doesn’t cen
sure or lecture. It doesn’t attack or berate. It melts the
ice from the springs of human kindness and refreshes the
world.
The significance of Christmas is apparent to all. Its
rites are simple. There is nothing of the mystic ritual
which is comprehended by only a few initated. It is for all,
understood by all.
It comes down to earth and deals with practical things,
translating kindly impulses into kindly acts.
It touches life as we live it and for one day lifts the
world nearer what it should be. Like the parables of the
Master, Christmas infuses idealism into the thoughts and
acts of our everyday existence.
Those who look only at the sky, fail to see the eaiffh,
and those who gaze only at the earth do not see the sky.
Only those who look at the horizon line appreciate them both
and see them joined together.
During most of the year, in many minds the idealism of
the Golden Rule and similar teachings and the practical
actions of everyday life seem to stand far apart.
It is at the horizon line of the Christmas season that
they are universally se'-n to draw together.
It’s Not So Much How to
Buy a Car as Where to Buy It
It’s easy to buy a car. Today’s
prices and terms put the price
less boon of automotive trans
portation within reach of prac
tically everyone. The detail that
needs careful judgment today is
where to buy one.
Here we sell local responsibility
and ample facilities for operation
and maintenanc e—in other
words, satisfaction in ownership
—as well as a car.
Stop in the first time you’re
around this way and we’ll give
you tangible evidence of our
ability to assure satisfaction to
- the Dodge owner.
Jardine Auto Co.
213 Peterson Ave. Telephone 110