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OREN GRAY KILLED
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Body, With Bullet in Brain, Found Near Arabi This Morning.
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.Cordele, April 8.—The lifeless body of Mr. Oren Gray, of
Waycross, was found near the tracks of the Georgia Southern.
' . - *nd Florida railway near Arabi this morning.
There was a bullet-hole through his brain and it is-believed;
Mr. Gray was murdered and thrown from northbound Dixii
Flyer.
The remains were carried to Cordele, where they were pre
i pared for shipment to Waycross tonight.
VOLUME XXV, NUMB
ETIC Fll
Committee Accepts Propositi
of Council.
150 ALREADY
BN TIFT ROADS
Powerful Machine Now Being
Tried Out.
S, HAULS CLAY
< ' Mr. Oren Gray was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Georg
. W. Gray, of .Waycross, and a nephew of Mrs. Oren Gatehell
. of Tifton. He was named for Mr. Gatehell and operated a gar
age in Waycross. He was about twenty-eight years of age andl
manned but leaves no children.
Mrs. Gatehell knew nothing of the accident aside from
press reports received here. She leaves in the morning for Way-
cross to attend the funeral.
life
Washington, April 8—With the Atlantic coast strewn with
wreckage* as a result of the recent storm, the entire fleet of four
coast guard cutters has rushed to the coast of North Carolina
' to assist in the saving of. life and property. ' .. .
■ Eight vessels are known to be in distress off Cape Hatteras,
TMamond Shoal and Frying Pan Shoals.
Washington, April 8.—General Obregon defeated the for
ces of General Villa at Celava Tuesday and was pursuing them
Wednesday. He inflicted a loss of over two thousand dead and;
wounded in Tuesday’s battle, states a report received here from!
; the Carranza agency today.
El Paso, Texas, April 8.—The adherents of both Villa and
Carranza claim a victory in the states of Guanajuato, San Luis
. Potosi and Queretaro.
General Villa is leading his troops in person. Advices re-
; ceived here indicate that the strategy of the Carranzaists has
. effectually checked General Yilla’s drive against Tampico.
New York, April 3.—The New York Trust'Company filed
application in the Federal fourt today for receiver for the In
ternational Mercantile Company, owners of the White Star
Steamship line and others.
• Petrograd, April 3.—It was officially announced here to
day* that twenty-four thousand four hundred Austro-German
prisoners have been captured during the last seven days, with
eleven cannon and sixty-seven machine guns. *
Brunswick, April'7.—Thomas Moore, age twepty-eix, was
•ntly killed and D. Holmes badly injrued eatiy this morning
’hen their fishing boat, heavily leaded with sea'food, grounded
to Joyner’s creek and the mast collapsed;
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Berlin, April-5.—A news report received here states that
the British battleship Lord Nelson'has been, destroyed by the
fire from the Turkish forts after stranding inside the Darda
nelles. '
Thirty thousand of the Allies troops Were landed on the
. Lemnos Island and are preparing a new attack on the forts of
.Dardanelles. .
The German field Marshall Von Dergoltz has declared that
the straits of Dardanelles can not be forced..
Amsterdam,-April .8,—-The German aeproplane .which
. bombarded Bergues, to the south of Dunkirk, was shot to earth
Steen words, Belgium, early this morning. The aviator and]
observer were killed.
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FIRE DEPARTMENTS ARE MAINTAINED
As a MeanS'of Checking
Disastrous Conflagra
tions. Your Individual
Property, However,
May Not Be Saved!
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While a Fire Insurance
Policy may not prevent
a fire, it restores , -'
You Keep an Exact
of experid ture3 and a
receipt for each item
if you have a check
ing account with us
and make the merest
memorandum oh your
stub. Don’t have to
think, doh’t have to remember—it's all there in
black and white and the money balance (which you
can tell at a glance ) is hero in security. Interest
on long time balances by special arrangements. •
THE BANK of TIFTON
Committees Appointed to CompI
Work. Expect to Hare Ficl
Ready in Few Weeks
Any one who doesn’t believe
there is stilt some life and get upwind
do it spirit in Tifton should have at
tended the meeting of the committee
ir. charge of improving Tifton’s nejv
athletic field, which was held in ME.
Frank Scarboro’3 office Wednesday
afternoon.
> In about a half hour this committee
agreed to accept the council’s proposi
tion and get busy at once and have
tho ground in 3hapo for a game with
in the next twenty days, or earlier,
if possible. In addition several sub
committees were appointed and sub
scriptions amounting to $114.50 tok
en at .the meeting for the purpose! of
improving the grounds. - - i-
The contributors are:
B, Y. Wallace $25.
X. W. Myers $10.
C. W. Durden $5.
H. L. Moor $5.
I Briggs Carson $5.
Frank Scarboro $5.
Jason Scarboro $2.50.
it. W. Goodman $5.
J. C. Jarkcr $2.
Tifton Gazette $5.
T. E. Phillips $5.
1- E. Bowen $10.
H. H. Tift, Jr., $25.
To tho above subscription of $llL-
0 is to be added the subscription o
40 made aome time since by Pro:
’hilds and the boys of the Tifto:
Ugh School. This makes the total
i ubscription $154.60.
Tho following were appointed a
.committee to continue the work of se-
c cing subscriptions: R. L. Moor,
( hairman; L. E. Bowen, Frank Scar-
qoro, .H. H. Tift, Jr., and B. Y. Wal-
lice. v •
/ Chairman Moor showed that his
.committee means business hy calling
'a meeting for Thursday‘morning at
nine o’clock to map out the campaign.
Time is short for doing this work,
pc .when a member, of this committee
colls on you don’t haggle and jaw
around and go ovor all your griev
ances, but conia across with what you
are going to give. It is preferable to
hand the money over when the com
mittee calls, so please have your con
tribution ready.
The following committees were al
to appointed to push tho work, toe
Importance of “Doing It Now" being
stressed to each one:
Buying material for grand stand
nnd fence—I. W. Myers, Chairman;
L. E. Bowen, R. W. Goodman. j
Grading—T. E. Phillips, Chairman!
J. I* Thrash. '
Building Fence and Grandstand-
B> G. Childs, Chairman; J.
Thrash, Briggs Corson.
Prof. Jnson Scarboro was appoint
ed a committee of One to confer with
Mr. Satchel-, manager of the South
ern Bell Exchange hare, in rcgaVH to-
moving the wires which at pijesent
:ross the ball field.
If any of these committee
V business to transact with you
kindly be'ready to talk busblccs when
they iuJI as they liavoyflo time to
Waste.
. A MOTOR TRUCK
Tifton has two bottling concerns
of which any town should be proud.
They du not let anybody or any place
put anything across them when it
comes to"modern improvements. They
don’t keep right up with the pro
cession—they-atay about four jumps
ahead'of It
A few weeks ago Manager Holmes,
of the Tifton Bottling Works, pur
chased a Buick auto truck to facili
tate the delivery of his beverages.
Manager Cartwright, of the Cfcero-
Cola Company, Just couldn’t stand
to driva a mule while Holmes chug
ged by him in an auto, so this week
ho is the proud owner of a “Little
Giant," nuto truck of his own. The
truck was purchased in Macon and
Mr. Cartwright’earns through the
country with It yesterday.
That is competition of the right
tort, boys, it helps you and the town.
We need S few more like you.
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LISTEN! LISTENI! LISTEN!!!
Will Be Used in 'Connection With
Late«t Road Building Machine
Drag.
last started up-
itical road main-
the county su
ite to comply with
|res that the con-
excluaively for
|that a paid force
Tin repair. Here-
feent of the money
f public roads has
Ije county was not
[“up and in a few
|r'at great expense
and
Tift county
■ a system of
tainance.
For tho first
thorities will bi
tho low which,
victs shall be
building road*
shall keep the ri
toforc, a large
expended in bu'
been lost becaui
able to keop
years roads bal
almost disappi
The Board of bounty Commission
ers is now negotiating with the
m “ “ ‘ J y for a 45-horse
I The White peo-
lorse power truck
sod on the coun-
ate its efficiency
while the machine for this county is
being built. .j£j.
Mr. W. H.
here superinb
tions and will be j
days. The motl
its ohm wheels
being tried out ornate National High,
way between Ttftop and Chuia.
Tho truck wil|tjmll two, grading
machines fifty milsS a day or will pull
three drags at a time and drag forty
miles of road a'day. It will pull
more than slxteeii'mules, can pull add
make much better time. It is also
a combined dump' machine and will
carry a load ofVcbiy itself anil pull
several truck losdk. It dumps auto
matically er will distribute tho clay.
The Commhftdners have just
bought an AdamplUant-wheel grader,
which it being used in connection
with-tbe motor truck. It is doing
very satisfactory work.
' It la th* purpose 'of the County
Commissioners to go oyer the roads
and repair them by- tho use of this
motor truck and grader. . The dirt
will be worked- to the middle of the
road with the machine 'and then will
be gone over with, the drags. Once
they are repaired it la estimated that
every road in the county can bo gone
over with a triple drag once a month.
The machine appears to have solv
ed the road problem. If it does the
waste of money in building roads will
be stopped and because ft will not be
necessary to ,use the convicts for
repair work every section of the
county will soon havo a first class,
graded road.
The truck also saves a large outlay
by the county for mules.
JAIL DELIVERY AT CORDELE
ilborth’s Great Easter Sale
until Saturday night only.
^dtejTand get your share.
Yours truly,
Sam Kalfcersh.
tflnmeFL. Moor,
Graduate OptomotrM
Two years of continuous practice
in Tifton and scores of satisfied cus
tomer*. If you are suffering with
headache, or other troubles caused
hy eve strain bo sure and tonanlt me
and see If glssms (properly. fitted
won’t relieve thenafc At our ofllc
the Myoo Hotel S^ek every day.
Burly Negro Overpowered Sheriff
Ward and Six Escaped
Cordele, Ga., April 7 After Sher
iff John Ward, of Crisp county, had
been overpowered and his revolver
taken from him by a negro prisoner,
Lon Hollis, nnd six other negroes had
escaped, tho officer's wife pluckily de
fended her husband, threw a revolver
In the face of Hollis nnd made him
drop the officer's gun before ho bad
an opportunity to use it. The sheriff
and prisoner had fought for probably
ten minutes before his wifo secured
e revolver and went to his rescue.
It was one of the boldest jail deliv
eries ever attempted in this section.
The sheriff had gono into the jail ,to
give the negroes their breakfnstT He
unlocked the cell doOr of Hollis and
tho burly negro, out-matching him
in strength, grabbed his pistol hand
and eventually took the weapon from
him. In the meantime, the other ne
groes bolted from the corridor and
escaped. v
Charlie Wade, probably the most
desperate prisoner, under sentence of
seven years for arson, dashed Into the
dining room In tho apartment occu
pied by the sheriff and family. Mrs.
Ward attempted to prevent hia **-
rape, blocking the door with her body.
The negro. lifted a'chair as If to
strike her, but -Mrs. Ward appeared
so cool and determined that he was
unnerved and dropped the chair at
her command. She Vito.unarmed’at
the time, however, ahd .the negrb
bolted put her, knocking her aside
end almoet earrying hifr-eff her feet
Wade and George jUfnfere later
captured by citizens nnd again lodg
ed in jail. The four otiMrtj who es
caped are Bob Ray,-Walter Snell.
Charlie Morris and Will Burke, all
charged with misdemeanor offenses.
The negrooe had evidently conspired
toRMher toeenpe.. MRwtotockeA
in his. cell when Sheriff Ward regatned
his revolver. Officers nnd other cit
izens in nutomobilea.Vajnw.het puiviflr
suit of several of the earn .this aJSH
temoon. ' l •
READY
FOR SCHOOL FAIR
Special Prizes Announced for
Departments.
HEARTY SUPPORT PROMISED
Arrangement* for Comfort of Those
Attending. School, Working
Hard Getting Up Exhibit*
Arrangements are fast being per
fected for the Tift county School Fair
to be held at Tifton in May. Com
mittees are still being named for the
different departments of the local
work, and the comfort of every one
attending will bo provided for.
Mrs. Peterson has been ill this week
and has not been able to visit the
schools, but all the schools heard from
are working hard for the Fair. She
has already visited nearly all in the
county and teachers and pupils of
each pledged their hearty support
Teachers are requested to send in
as early as possible the names of their
pupils who will enter the contests in
essays, music, reading, declamation,
letter writing, spelling and athletics,
in order that provision can be
fpr them on the programme.
Teachers are also requested to teach'
their puplla the worda of “America.”
Wa realize this year for the first lime
how fortunate we really are in being
Americana and the opportunity should
bo utilised to enthuse the little ones
with the proper patriotic spirit.
The Fair will open in the morning
by the entire assemblage singing
“Praise God from Whom All Bless
ings Flow.” It la intended now to
use the Tift building vacated by
Hall’s dry. goods store, for the Fair,
There is ample room, counters, shelv.
ing and other accessories are already
to hand.
Prof. Burroughs and his committee
will meet in Tifton Saturday to ar
range a programme of athletic
events and the result of the meeting
will be published. Mr. H. H. Tift,
Jr., has been made local Chairman
of athletics. An attractive list of
prizes-will be- offered by hitta and
these will be published later.
The. following special prizes have
beert offered:' . . vr "
Spelling: Best average for girl,
$2.60, given by Mrv Perry Moore.
Best average for boy $2.60, given by
Mr. W. E. Webb.
Letter Writing: $2.50 in gold, giv
en by Prof. Lewis.
Best essay on “Home Economics,"
$3 given by Dr. N. Peterson,
Reading: First Prize, $3; Second,
$2; Third, $1; all offered by Col. B. C.
Williford.
Music: Vocal—1st prize, $2; Sec
ond Prize, $1. Instrumental: 1st
Prize, $3; Second Prize, $1, Best
Chorus: 1st Prize, $2; 2nd Prize, $1.
All offered by J. H. Hutchinson.
Declamation: 1st Prize, $3; Sec
ond Prize, $2; 3rd Prize, $1. All of
fered by Col. C. W. Fulwood.
SWAPPED SHOES FOR COAT
But Charlie Route Doesn’t Believe
“Exchange is No Robbery”
Friend Charlie Rouse, local man-
ager for the Gulf Refining Company,
lias a fqirly good coat that ho wants
to exchange for a pair of shoes,
will give some boot if the present
wearer of the shoes is brought along
with them.
This morning Mr. Rouse left his
shoes on the front porch of his home
at Woodiawn. A negro passing by
got stuck on (or in) the Bhocs and
when Mr. Rouse came out to look for
them, they were gone.
Mr. Rouse came on to town, close
ly scrutinizing the shoes of every
person he passed. He had not gone
far before be recognized his shoes on
tho feet of a negro, and he took both
wearer nnd shoes tn charge.
They were walking on up town
together, Mr. Rouse holding fast to
the |ncgro’s coat and looking for an
officer, when suddenly the captive
bird gavp a jerk and a spring, and
leaving the coat in Mr. Rouse’s hands
used the shoes to pedal his way to
freedom.
Charlie Is not built for sprinting
and hasn’t practiced much since he
and tile editor chased yellow-legged
chickens about thirty years ago. He
gave chase with a good resolution,
but hia wind did not hold out and
the negro got away. As he didn’t
take time to stop and pull off the
shoes, they went with him. There
fore, Mr. Bouse wants to swap a coat
for a pair of shoes and their eon-
tonto.
Mi ,
New lot of Ziegler Pumps and Co
lonial Pumps at the sale at'Whitley
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Dr. A. D. Subler, tbe Eye-Sight
SneeUlbt.
in fis office at the Mills
rar*
tailor# of riritt, I
th« proper glasses.
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FORCING CARPATHIANS
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Russians Are Oow on Hungariaiv Slopes of the Mountains |
Battering Their Way to Plains
London, April 8.—A news dispatch received >'
Petrograd zayz that the Austrian army under GenC
vitch, fighting in the Carpathian mountains, has keen |
in two places by the Russian forces.
The Russian troops captured the town of Smolensk, to theij
cast of Lupkow pass.
Petrograd, April 8—The Austrian guns that were.ca. _ f
when Przemysl fell, with the great stores of ammi^itlon, ; ^l
being turned against the Austro-German armies in the Car)'
thian mountains, where the mighty conflict is raging fiver a I
dred-and-twenty-five-mile battle front. ‘ ‘f
Taking foothill after foothill along the Hungarian slop
of the Carpathians, the Russian forces are advancing sb
alternating between furious bombardments with the
mountain guns and smashing assaults with cold steel.
The Russians are now fortifying the Beskid range, which
was captured after a desperate struggle.
It is estimated here that the Austro-German forces in toe .
Carpathian mountains have lost nearly a hundred thousand
men in killed, wounded and prisoners, since the present cam
paign started. The Russian losses have also been very heavy.
The attempts of the German forces to break through toe
Russian front at Rosiouvka have ceased.
Paris, April 8.—A vast French army of two hundred thou-
-nd, supported by huge artillery, has been concentrated
around Verdun for a drive against the German lines.
Night and day attacks are being made against the Germans
in an effort to force them out of the Argonnes and LaPetre for
ests. •-'v •
To the north of Pont-a-Mousson, the Germans are rushing
heavy reinforcements. The French are losing heavily, but a
victory in this region would compel the retirement of three of
the German armies that are in France.
' Paris, April 8.—The statement of the French War Office
this afternoon reports terrific artillery duels in Belgium and
great activity in the fighting in the Aisne river valley.
To the east of Rheims the French forces have maintained
their gains against the furious counter attacks of the Ger
mans.
In the forests of Bruele the French stormed a German
trench|
In the Woevre river district, between the Meuse and Mo
selle rivers the French claim that they have made further prog
ress despite the stubborn resistance of the Germans.
Berlin, April 8.—It is officially announced that General
Joffre’s drive against the German forces in the Woevre district
has resulted in an enormous loss of life to the French, without
any material gains.
The pressure of the French forces between the Meuse and
Moselle rivers is increasing, and the fighting there is extremely
violent.
Nothing of importance has been reported from the East
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Geneva, April 8.—Italy is preparing for one of the biggest
naval demonstrations in the history of the country, states a dis
patch from Rome.
Despite the rumors of an agreement between Austria and
Italy, the Italian Admiralty is concentrating mighty fleets in
the ports adjacent to the Adriatic Sea.
The Italian Admiralty remains silent on the subject.
London, April 8.—There will be no mandate issued putting
a ban on intoxicants throughout Great Britain and the Colonies
during the war, but an appeal will be made to the people to
abstain from hard drinking while the war is progressing.
The general opinion of the dabinet is that total prohibition
would be impracticable.
Constantinople, April 8.—It is officially reported that a. yjj
torpedo boat destroyer and crusier were damaged by the Turks ., -a
when a squadron of the Allies fleet bombarded tho wwJafia
at the western entrance of the Dardanelles Sunday.
Rome, April 5.—A severe earthquake shock was felt-here
last night. The shock was the most severe in Central Italy, ”
where-communications have been cut off. "f
The Government here is preparing to send relief to the is
stricken zone. -.- i i,, y *';tll
No reports have been received yet of any loss of life.
Director a Meeting
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A meeting of the Directors of the Farmers’ Ginning Com
pany was held this morning. : .
A'very satisfactory season’s business was reported and it-
handsome dividend, the same ns last year, was declared-
The National Bank of Tifton
TIFTOIST. GA. fe
tor t0< a week, hat k at hU office on Mondayi
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In all my Nat
ional Banks^
the stockholders are held lia
ble for double their holdings.
This wise provision amply
safeguards the depositor.
This bank is a member <>f j
the great Federal Reserve
System, and is one of
good ones.'