LECAL ORGAN OF
COFFEE, COUNTY.
FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, FIRST AND ALL THE TIME!
VOL. 14, No. 21
NOVEMBER 4=l4th, 1903
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BRtfMON ITEfIS.
Broxton?, Ga., Oct. 10, 1903.
Mrs. E. H. More, we are grieved to
state, is critically ill this week.
Miss Mamie Tonie, of middle
Georgia, will soon open her new
lot of upto-date millinery. We
wish her success.
Among those who attended the
tent meeting at Ambrose Sunday,
were Misses Ethel and Neila
Forehand, Miss Effie Willet and
Mr. Hiran Vickers all report an
enjoyable time.
Mr. and Mrs. D. \V. Lott made
a business trip to Atlanta last
week.
Mr. E. A. Tyler is visiting his
brother near Macon who is criti
cally ill.
Fannie Lee Dixson of Osierfield,
entered school here last week.
Mrs. Burk, of Rochelle, who has
been visiting her son, Mr. G. W.
Burke, returned to her home a few
days ago.
Mrs. M. E, Forehand, who has
been suffering of eczema is slowly
improving. We are glad, to note
even the slightest improvement.
Mr. C. O. Beauchamp is looking
very pleasant “now-adays, guess it
is be cause his “best girl” is in
town.
Mrs. M. E. Vickers is very sick
of typhoid fever, but we trust she
will soon recover.
Miss Eula Newborn is on the
sick list this week.
Mr. Gillen, and family, formerly
of Douglas, have moved to Broxton.
We gladly welcome them in our
midst.
The people of Broxton are mak
ing efforts to errect a new school
building.
Best wishes to the Breeze.
CINDARILL.
There has been enough sugar
cane made this year to sweeten
Coffee. Coffee is even heard to
beat with long sweetening.
The editor of the Breeze is
thankful for the honest support
accorded it this week. Old sub
scribers renewed and a good list
of new ones put on.
sottgia?i Ulccltlji §mu.
BRISTON,
Briston Ga., Oct. 10.—-We are
glad to hear that Mr. J. E. Bryant
is improving from his severe sick
ness.
Union meeting begin at Harmony
Grove last Friday closing Monday
night, Brother Oxford, of Douglas,
was with us Friday and Saturday,
and Brother Vining, the pastor,
continued the meeting till Monday
night. And we are sorry some of
our boys created a disturbance
during prayer Friday night; hope it
wi 1 be a great lesson to them.
We have learned that Mr. B. W.
Douglas objected to the wire which
was bought for the Royals church
cometary and would not let it be
put up last Tuesday after the post
were hauled. We havent heard his
reason for it. We onlv regret he
didn’t make his ebjection before
the wire was bought.
Farmers are buisy hauling off
cotton.
Pretty bird wants to inquire
around about Mrs. Grundy and
some of the correspondent’s. Of
course Pretty Bird can sympathize
with Mrs. Grundy and Carranation
but Georgia Boy and those other
single ones could keep up with the
news.
Ptetty Bird regrets very much
that Uncle Jim lost her letter and
missed printing the death of Mrs.
Daniel Metts, who departed this
life the—l7th, of September.
“Asleep in Jesus! far from thee.
Thy kindred and their graves may
be.
But thin, is still a blessed sleep.
From which none ever wakest to
weep.
Mail which usualy arrived here
at two o’clock has changed and
now arrives at n o’clock in the
morning.
Petty Bird.
Mr. V. L. Stanton, of Way
cross, was in town Tuesday.
If you are in need of some job
printing we can accommodate you
in style and prices. If we can’t
please you, there is another office
in town, try them but what ever
you do keep your money at home.
Douglas, Ga., October, 17, 1903,
NICHOLS NEWS.
Oct. io, 1903. —Miss Lily Ross
has returned to her home in Fitz
gerald aftar spending a few days
with the Misses Tanner.
Miss Alice Oliff is visiting her
Brother Mr. J. A. Oliff.
Mrs. Gilbert Meeks is visiting
relitives in Jesup this week.
We are very sorry to know that
Mr. Jim Wade is very sick at her
home.
Mr. John McCloud, of Blarney,
has accepted a position with the
Nicholls Trading Co.
Miss Christian Lee, of Beach, is
the guest of her Sister Mrs. John
Cooksey.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Johnson
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
John Wilcox.
We are sorry to say that Mr. S.
C. Douglas is still here tuning
pianos and organs. Charlton
Annie needs you at home.
TALLAHASSE, GA.
Tallahasse, Ga.. Oct. 12. 1903. —
Rev. Jim Quinn filled the pulpit at
Philadelphia church Sunday in
Rev. C. W. Snows place.
Mr. W. L. Stone and Miss
Wealthy Sellers, of Graham, were
the pleasant guest of Mr. & Mrs. J.
G. Horton last Sunday.
Mrs. Lavinia Ilortor and daugh
ter Mrs. R. L. Googe, visited the
formers sister Mrs. Mary Crapps
last week.
We are sorry to learn that Mrs.
A. C. Gordon is seriously ill at her
home in Montgomery County. She
was a Miss Horton before marriage.
Guess what girl was looking for
her best tellow Sunday but failed
to see him ; too bad!
Mrs. James Yawn is on the sick
list this week also her nephew Mas
ter Belton Carter.
Marie contemplates visiting re
latives in Graham soon.
“Marie.”
ALTAMAHA NEWS.
We are having some very pleasant
weather for the past few days.
Mrs. George McEachin and child
ren visited Mrs. D. W. Dyal Sun
day.
Mrs. A. C. Gordon of Mont
gomery county, is visiting her
parents Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Horton
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Horton at
tended the camp meeting at Graham
Sunday.
Mr. Conwell Yawn visited in this
community Sunday p. m.
Miss Lucretia Sellers, of Oakland
is visiting in Graham, Ga., this
week, we hope her to have a nice
time.
Mrs. J. G. Horton and daughter
Miss Georgie visited Mrs. R. L.
Googe Sunday.
Mr. J. E. Horton, of Laff, Ga.,
visited bis best girl Saturday p. m.,
living near Graham.
Mr. Clayton Swain visited home
folks, Sunday p. m.
Mr. J. R. Horton has got a busi
ness job, in Montgomery county,
this week.
Guess wh..t voung girl was out
riding Sunday p. m—she knows
who was driving for her.
With best wishes to the Breeze
and Uncle Jim.
Lily of the Valey.
We have another correspondent
this week, —“The Lily of theVal
iey.” Now, boys, don’t go to
hunting for ner.
The biggest fool is the man al
ways ready to criticise another
and the hardest looking cusses are
aLvays making remarks as to
another’s appearance.
TABLE SYRUP AND SUGAR.
An Interesting Letter—King Cotton is About to
Loose His Throne.
Douglas, Oct. 10th, 1903.
Editor Douglas Breeze :—I notice your little article recently in
regard to Capt. D. G. Purse, and his remarks on the sugar and syrup
industries ot the South. Now, the name Napoleon brings to mind the
power of perseverance and the will to conquer. This determination to
over come all obstacles in bringing the South’s wonderful advantages
before the world stamps Capt. Purse as the Napoleon of our Sunny
South and its producing powers, in the way of making sugar
and table syrups. liet us look for a moment at the question of cotton
or cane. Cotton at 10 cents per pound, cane at $4.00 per ton, at the
mill—the price offered and paid for it at the government mill at Way
cross :
EXAMPLE.
Cotton, one bale to the acre, o 500
pounds, at 10 cents per pound, will be
$50.00, less $15.00 for seed, fertilizer
arid picking —leaving a ballance of
$35,00 for one acre on cotton.
Cotton $35.00, cane $65.00, aballance in favor*of cane of $30.00.
Now 25 tons of cane per acre is a small average, for they pro
duced 30-6 tons at Quitman last year, and it will run up as high as 40
tons per acre in many places. At Quitman last year (1902), the
average gallons of syrup per acre was 465 to the acre. This was all
carefully tested by a governmertt expert, Mr. Starr, sent from Wash
ington for the purpose. See bulletine No. 75, issued by Dr. Wylie,
Bureau of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Now, if this 465 gallons of syrup was prepared at a regular syrup
mill (as I hope to see running at Douglas some day in the near future)
this class of syrup will sell readily at 35 cents per gallon, will bring
$*62.75, less 5 cent 6 per gallon for grinding, leaving a ballance per
acre for syrup of $139.50. Cotton $35.00 per acre, cane $139.50.
Suppose you cut the product of cane in half, there would be still
$69.75. Which, then, is king, Cotton or Cane?
It behooves us, as a people. Mr. Editor, to hold up Capt. Purse’s
hands while he fights the battle for us, as Moses did of old, and I would
here suggest that the people of Coffee county take up this matter as
other counties are doing, for it lies within ourselves to bring our
southern lands up to tliemghest value.
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about this cane raising
and syrup making; there is lots of syrup made in and around Douglas
that would sell for SI.OO per gallon if it was put up in proper packages
and put on the market, as maple and other syrups are sold.
This cane and syrup question is coming to the front, and it will
be only by our own united efforts that we will reap any benefits on this
line. We will have to do as the farmers of the north and west do with
their milk. They find that it pays to co-operate and build a creamery,
thus, they get a uniform quality of cheese or butter, as the case may be,
and that is the great objection to our Georgia syrup—its want of
uniformity. This can all be changed if we only take the right method
of doing this business.
The United State-, Agricultural Department, at Washington, is
so thoroughly convinced that we can produce a first class uniform arti
cle of table 6yrup that it is now erecting a mill at Waycross, just to
show us that the thing can be done, and they are buying cane from the
farmers, paying $4 .00 per ton for it at the mill, and will make a hand
some profit on the transaction.
In conclusion, I do not see how or why v\e should stand back any
longer. Every one knows that this is a fair business for us all to work
at, and by all means let us have a cane growers’ convention at Douglas.
J. M. JARDINE.
Confederate Veterans Organize.
The meeting called for last Mon
day by Comrade T. C. Allen, to
meet at the court house was well
attended. An encampment was
organized with the names of about
forty old veterans of the sixties on
the roll. Judge J. L. Sweat, of
Ware county, gave all the instruc
tions necessary for organization,
and also tendered an invitation to
attend the rreeting of Veterans dur
ing the South Georgia Fair, at
Waycross, on November 12th. The
encampment was named after
“Gordi n’s Bull,” Spivey, the noted
soldier and whooper. Permanent
officers were elected, as follows :
T. C. Allen, commander; W. M.
Gaskin, Ist Lieutenant, W. M.
Tarrant, Secretary.
Delegates to the Augusta Re
union, November 10-12 th. were
elected, as follows: T. C. Allen,
Joel Gaskin, W. M. Gaskin, J. M,
Douglas, S. Doug'as, B. W. Doug
las, E. Burkett, and J. J. Jowers.
Next meeting will be held January
19 —Lee’s birth day, and it is hoped
every old veteran in the county will
be present.
Two old neighbors,'Messrs. Har
rell and Stephens wanted to have
a pugilistic encounter last Monday,
selected seconds and started out of
towr for that surpose, when Post
master Finley followed them, and
asked th : crowd to k: eel with him
in prayer. After the prayer there
was no fight.
•m ALL KINDS OF
JOB PRINTING.*-?-
SI.OO per Annum
Sugar cane, by the ton, one acre will
make twenty-five tons, at $4.00 per ton
at mill, making SIOO.OO, less $35.00
for seed, fertilizer and cutting—leav
ing a ballance of $65.00 on cane.
Our Next Senator.
For sometime the Breeze has been
hearing rumors that lion. F. B.
Sirmans. of Clinch county, would
be put forward by his county as a
suitable man to represent this Dis
trict, composed of Coffee, Ware
and Clinch, but not until this week
have we heard this report confirm
ed. Th's being Clinch county’s
time to furnish the Senator, accord
ing to the rotation rule, we have
been interviewing some of Mr. Sir
mans’ friends, and while he is not
disposed to enter a scramble for the
nomination, w : ll accept, if his
“people say they want him.” This
is in accord with his general way
of looking at public trusts, and the
people, generally, think more of
him for it, and if Clinch county
puts him forward Ware and Coffee
will confirm him as Senator with
a good, round vote. He has many
friends in these two counties who
know him intimately, and thous
ands who know him by reputation.
This being true we have «o hesita
tion in marking Mr. Sirmans down
as our next Senator.
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