The Tifton gazette. (Tifton, Berrien County, Ga.) 1891-1974, February 12, 1892, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text8SS&5 ■ v" <1.00 PER ANNUM. TlFTOy; BERRIEN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1892. LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH. , What business men and,loafers FIND TO TALK ABOUT. Pavement Paragraph* Picked Up and Pen- lively Penned—All Portalnlng to Persons and Things. Closing out sale at Padrick Bros. Nest Sunday is St Valentine’s day—the 14th of February. Contractor J. 0. Hind will build you a house at lowest figures. The editor was decidedly indis posed the first of the week from la grippe. There was an in terestingywhist party at Hotel Sadie lasL'Tuesday evening. Especial attention is called to the legat advertisements which appear in the Gazette. Everybody in this county whocan should visit Padrick Bros, store, such a slaughter sale this month. There was a dancing party at Ho tel Sadie last Friday evening; also one at Park’s hall. The work of laying 60-pound steel rails on the Tifton and Northeastern railroad is going on bravely. Contractor Hind has a larg» quan tity of first-class lime for sali^Ghe him a call when in need of lime. Mrs. R. E. Wheloss is making some effort to constitute a dancing Glass in Tifton. Have not learned whether she has succeeded or not Mrs. Henry Slack, of Walpole,On tario, Canada, arrived in the city last Saturday afternoon. She is the guest of her son, Contractor 8. G. Black Another Canadian family will take up residence in Tifton next week. It will be the family of Mr. 0. Bilow, and is expected to arrive next Wednesday. / Tifton Chapter, No. 42, hiuf re ceived its new regalia, which /is, in deed, very handsome, lie officers donoUefjK feel proud when clothed in ^ttofir'new toga. PeopTifwlfd don’t get on are not built that way.>! Why there are some who don’t buy their goods at Padrick Bros, when they know it’s the clieap- i cst place in town. Mr. J. W. Padrick, of Bainbridge, f. lias been in the city th& week. He is the senior member of the cnter- prising firm of Padrick Bros., of % this city and Bainbridge. Marshal McCrea and Mr. G. D, Turner captured three convicts last. Wednesday—one from the Gross cuinp near Abbeville, Go., and the Othep two from u Florida camp near ” Lake "City. Sexton has moved his insurance -r- ' office to the front room, second iV-v story, of the Paul k building. Call on jjtaf when you want anything in the fire insurance tine; lie represents solne of the very best companies. Yesterday about noon in Tift’s quarters, a negro man . named Will Allen shot and seriously wounded ft the name of Harmon, aifutlictrniiior-escape be fore an officer could reach the place where it occurred. Misses Dassie Williams and Lizzie Levitt, two interesting young ladies from Sparks, passed through Tifton lust Sunday enroute to Ty Ty for a visit to relatives and friends.* They were the guests of the editor and his wife during their stay in the city, Mr. W. B. Bradford, who lives near Nashville, made a pleasure t call at the Gazette sanctum \ yesterday. He was looking after liii/intereata as a candidate for county treasurer, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. D. Griffin. J. T^JBoyd A Bro.. of Valdosta, k.v«.^'uew advertisement in to-day’s paper, to which we call the attention of our readers. The editor has known these young gentlemen for years aud can confidently recommend' them to the. patronage of the people of this P'on I*. - Mr. John 0. IHiid U getting things in readiuess to commence work on residence on u T$Hm> HeigiitA." ^iisa a splendid/ assortment of uit trees setont invbja yard—com rising peaches, pears, plums, figs, srtinjmnns/etc. He is engaged now |ting 'shade trees along the if the past week is die must still be eo public finding ito, way^fo Tifton, or a new hotel must l/built. Guests of the hotel tbc p&t week have had to sit up all night because they could not be supplied with beds or rooms It is too bad f Co). Jas. M. Griggs, Solictor-General of Pataula Circuit, says: “Migratine lias always afforded me prompt relief In cues of headache." At l)r. J. 0. Goodman's. The Georgia Southern agent was summoned before the mayor lust Monday morning on two oharges of obstructing the public crossings longer than twenty minutes at one time as provided by law. The evi dence in the oases showed that it was absolutely unavoidable owing to an insufficiency of side track. The mayor very properly dismissed the coses, but it is clearly tho duty of the railroad authorities to put in sufficient sidings to keep the public highways clear and should be so re quired to do. My liver Ib out of order, I feel dull and heavy—no life In me. You need a bottle of Simmons llelief, only SOc. For sale by Dr. J C. Goodman, Tifton, Ga. VISIT OF PROMINENT MEN. SOME PEOPLE WHO CAME WEEK PROSPECTING. LAST T1FT-SN0W FRUIT FARM COMPANY. A Promising Industry Inaugurated Two Mile* South of the City. Very little has been said ill these columns, consequently, very little is known by the public what is goiiig ou at the Tift-Snow Fruit Farm, which is located about two miles soutli of the growing city of Tifton. The company is composed of Oapt, H. H. Tift and Rev. L. A. Snow, and hence the name—Tift-Snow Frqit Farm Company. The compuny was organized more than a year ago, but the work of getting the farm or or chard under headway, was not com menced until the beginning of ilie present year. The superintendent, Mr. F. J. Weltzbarker, is a young man of splendid euergies and u thorough knowledge of the business m which he is engaged! lie hoe already an hundred acres \etio trees—fifty acres of which is set VAlberta and other standard market variety of pouches. There are also a huge number of the famous Oriental plums, Turkish figs and quinces, etc. The total comprises 21,600 trees that have been set this winter. It is tho purpose of tho company to add to their orchard one hundred acres unnually, for at least the next five years. Twenty of the second hundred acres is now oleared, and the work of clearing is going on rapidly. This is a big enterprise, one which very few of our people have taken time to consider, or to realize its magnitude or importanoe.. The superintendent tells us that many of the peach trees planted this winter will bear a orop of fruit next year. You don't want a torpid liver. You dont want a had complexion. You don't want n bad breath. You don't a. headache. Then use DeWitt'e Little Early Kisers, the famous little pills. J. G. Goodman. TIFTON'S BLAZE. Two of Heston'* Cottage Dwelling* Re duced i The alarm of Orb rang out upon the midday air yesterday and soon ev- ning to the scene assistance was in save the jeoparded iv all erybody were h« to render firhat their power Vtoj property. I The fire Wyfa accidental, having caught from the (lie place. It orig inated in the extreme northern one of the Sexton cottages, occupied by Mr. Stubbs, and when it was discov ered had gained considerable head way, and by the time sufficient help had arrived, it was too far gone to be saved, and the adjoining cottage south had caught The people turned their attention to saving the contents of the burn ing buildings and a third cottage still further south. Very nearly, if not all, the house Ik Id. goods were saved. The loss is estimated at $1,800,par tially covered hy insurance. »d»W the iraveliisg 'p,u “ Ignoramus of (he merits of DeWUt’t Little Early Riser* la t misfortune. These Little Fills regulate the liver,cure headache, dyspepsia, bad breath, consti- ' nusnew. L G, AttK A Oaxitte Reporter Oom Among Them. ami I* Intereatingly Entertained With View* of Tifton. Mr. F. W. Pike, of Augustu, was here Tuesday prospcctiug for a bar rel factory location. The Gazette is glad to learn from him that he had received all the necessary on-’ douragemeut, and that his plant will be moved here os early as practicable. * ' • # * Mr. Johti Vurn, of the Valdosta grocery firm of Black & Varn, in the city Tuesday afternoon pros- peotiug for a new location and there probability of his becoming a oitizen of Tifton. * Mr. Mitchell 5oyd, of J. T. Boyd A Bro., of Vajdosta, accompanied Mr. Varn here iast Tuesday. His firm has the contract of puttinga tin roof on tho handsome residence to be erected for Mr. E. L. Viokerc. *** The officers of the “Snow Modern Tobacco Company”—President I). A. Waters, of Philadelphia, and Secre tary D. G. Devenish, of Oxford, N. 0.—arrived last Thursday night on a prospecting tour for a location for a Georgia branch of their tobucoi burn factory. 'To say that they are pleased with Tifton, her surround ings and inducements would fall short of expressing the truth—they are perfectly delighted. Oapt Waters left for North Caro lina the first of the week and as soon us lie reaches High Point, Capt. Snow or an equally Competent ex pert will come to Tifton to look af ter the interests of the “Snow Tobac co Farm.” If Oapt. Snow does not come now he will follow socn and take up lug residence in Tifton, the future tobacco mart of lower Georgia. Mr. Devenish is making ids bead quarters at Tifton for tho present, visiting the several points in the vi cinity where tobacco is to be planted to encourage the people, and point out the difficulties which would nec essarily lead to failures and conse quent disappointment. In answer to a correspondent at Pitts,Ga., ho says : “A community should plant nut less than ten nereB so ns to have a barn —there should be one burn to every ten acres—and these ten acres should be planted so that the leaves would begin to muture at the same time. Then to insure success an expert should be employed to gather and cure the crop ; everything depends on the gathering nnd curing—it will not do to jerk the leaves from the stalk and pitch them into a wagon ns you would hay. or straw, for oy ery bruise will make a blemish and destroy the market value of the to- baooo. A fatmer should not plant tobacco unless he has assurance of a barn within four and live miles of him. After it is cured, tobacco can be baled and sent to market as hay or Other product;.” This seems to be a plain and explicit answer to a very important question. Mr. Devenish says that “Snow’s To- bacoo Farm”at Tifton will be afforded every opportunity as an experimental tobacco farm and his company is very sanguine it will prove a grand success. He has visited I’oulan, Ty-Ty, Cyclonete and other points durjng the week and was greatly pleased with the country and its possibilities of development Tifton is destined to become at least one cf the most important commercial and manufac turing cities in this section of the State. On the register of Hotel Sadie, under date of “Tuesday, February 9th,” will be fotimd the names of A. D. Tiugley and W- H. Harrison, Jr., Chicago. The former is u successful Michigan tanner and the latter is engaged in locating colonies of Northwestern farmers in the South, and is at present working in connec tion with the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, Mr. Tingley ia enraptured with what bo saw at Tifton aud vicinity. He enthusiastically remarked to a Gazette reporter, “You hav8 a most promising little city and some far- seeing 'boys’ to guide her destiny. Yours is a fine country mid it is only a question of time when it will stand forth as tho grandest section of the State I have seen.” Mr. Harrison is ivIbo most favora bly impressed with this seotion; lie says he can’t see why the farmers of this section are not all well-to-do. “Yes, I can see, too; they do not realizo the grand opportunities their soil and climate afford thorn of mak ing money—they do not know what to plant for nmrxet, and when and how to pl»nt and grow profitable crops for market. They noed some of our Western farmers to oome and point them to 'the royal road to wealth.’ ” PRESIDENT WATERS TALKS. HIS 'VIEWS GATHERED FROM A TRIP THROUGH GEORGIA. King Cotton Must AMIonto tile (loorain Throne for Kin* Tobacco, a Much More llrmunerative Crop. Migratine Is quick to give relief In severe casoa of heartache or neuralgia, at Dr. J. 0. Goodman's. Cupid Scores Another Vtctory. At tho Cyoloneta Farm, on last Wednesday, February '3rd, Mr. Jas. K. Fitzgerald ami Miss Grace Mo- Munn were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, Dr. DcPass, of Luke City, Flo., officiating. Mr. Fitzgerald, who occupies the position of horticulturist at the State Experimental Farm in Lako City, is a young man of sterling worth, possessed of many excellent qualities, which have won for him the esteem of till who know him, aud we, his friends, moat* 1 heartily con grutulute him for having won so fair a bride. j / Miss MoMmro;a young lady beau tifttl bothofinmou and olmracter, ia the sister of Mr. and Mrs. Henjumin Irby, who are remembered with much pleasure by all who have ut any time known them, or shared with them the rich bounties of their elegant home at Cyclonetu. The house, always tasty ami at tractive, was rendered doubly so cn this ooonsion by tho beautiful decor ations which loving hands had so artistically arranged in honor of the happy event. The wide halls, the parlor uml the dining hall were alike radiant in their wedding attire of evergreens, moss und hot-house plants, and elicited tho admiration of all present. Among the few guests who were present to witness the ceremony were Dr, und Mrs. J. O.Goodmun, Mrs. E. II. Tift, Mrs. W. 0. Tift, Mr. Hawkins Goodman and Miss Kntc Goodman of Tifton ; Miss Margaret Smith, of Sycamore, Prof, ltolfc, of Lake City, and Miss Anderson, D. Irby, Prof. Pickett and Rev. Mr. Conners, of Cyclonetu. The marriugo took place promptly at two o’clock. Miss Kate Goodman gavo a beautiful rendition of Men- delsshon’s wedding march, while the bride nnd groom with no attend ante save Mr. and Mrs. Irby, came down the'long ilightof stairs,through tile hull nnd foamed in a semi-circle under the arch of tho wide folding doors that lead into the parlor. Mr. Irby came first with tho bride and having ptuced Iter midway tho aroli, stepped aside- giving place to the groom os he upproochod with Mrs. Irby. A# soon as the ceremony was ended and Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald had received the hearty congratulations nnd best wishes of all the guests, we repaired to the dining lisll, fragrant With fruits and flowers, and beauti- ful with evergreens, where an elegant repast was served at tete-a-tete tables. The wedding was pronounced hy all who enjoyed the pleasure of attend ing it, as one of the nicest affairs they hod ever witnessed, and indeed everything went as merry as a mar riage bell. The happy couple left ou the Georgia Southern and Florida train at three o’clock for their future home in lake City, It li an < Early lliseis 1 why? f taking,* the unfit" Mr. Daniel A. Waters/ of Philadel phia, who has a large interest in the Modern Tobacco Barn Co., of Ox ford N. 0., and is president of the company, 1ms been spending some weeks in Georgia, looking after the interests of the company, lie has visaed many of the leading, towns in South Georgia, llo found that a great deal of interest has been awak ened in tobacco oultiire. The people generally are planting, mid while it is experimental ns yet they think that in years past a sufficient quanti ty 1ms been grown to induce the people to beliove that the culture of tobacco on a large scale will bo u success. Cupt. W. II. Snow, of North Car olina, was the original patentee of this sjBtem of curing tobacco. The Modern Tobacco Barn company has perfected and patented it until they now know that they have the best system of curing tobacco in the world. They ure so confident of this tliut they are placing u great many of their hams wherever tobacco can- be grown, selling them to individuals or to communities. Mr. Waters 1ms been in Georgia looking after tho building and loca ting of these barns. Fifteen of them will be located in Tifton mid vioini- ity, five at Waycross, two at Cyclone- ta oil the experimental farm of the Georgia Southern und Florida rail road. It is also probable that five will be built ut, Vienna. Other com inanities will order these burns until it is very likely that ten additional burns will lie located at different places ill Georgia. Tho Modern Tobacco Barn com pany insist that in every community where they place thcBC barns tliut an expert tobaooo grower be had, and that they furnish him, so that the people who Imvo invested their mon ey in tiic burns wil I find no disap pointment, It is certain that the placing of theso barns ill Gcorgiu, so judiciously as 1ms been done, will give a great- impetus to the cultiva tion of tobacco m the state. If this experiment, if experiment it can be culled, succeeds os well as the com pany thinks und firmly believes, it will bo a matter of a year or so be fore Georgia will he really and truly a tobacco growing state. The reporter of the Journal witli whom Mr. Waters had this conversa tion asked him wlmt lie thought of the capabilities of Georgia’s soil as to raising tobacco. “I Imvo exumined,” said he, great deal of land between Waycross and Muoon, and I think I cun safely say tlmt it will yield from a thou sand to twelve hundred ]>ouiidii of tobacco per acre, and in inuny places liossibly fifteen hundred pounds per aero." “What will bo the overago price of tobacco if properly cured!'” was asked. “I put tho minimum price at twelve oente a pound. You may safely say that it will average this provided it. is properly cured. A great deal depends on this. In foot all depends on its being properly cured. ' If it is cured green and care lessly its vain-.' wilt be very small,but if cured properly it will lie more valuable. Properly raised and cured tobacco cannot cost more than 6 or 11 cents at the very outside, per pound and a simple calculation will show what profit there is in it. If the to bacco is cared to a bright lernou color, it will really bring 30 to 35 cento per pound. 1 have seen it sell at from 60 cento to $1. Of course this is choice.” “What kind of tobacco is this hnwiiitry adapted for growing! 1 ” was dence that we IfejNTve tobacco can be properly raised in Georgia, we sbaU . cultivate thirty acres ourselves at- Tifton, under our own supervision, with one of the best growers nnd curers, and if this should be suc cessful we may continue to cultivate it another year- * * * * * ‘Yes,we fonud^enthusiostio friends . at Tifton. Mr. II. H, Tift, the founder of the town, and his broth ers, Mr. W. 0. Tift and Edward Tift, are going to plant eighty acres in tobacco this year, and say that if chey are successful will not hesitate to plant anywhere from 200 to 8Q0 1 acres another year. They are will ing to risk their money in the ex periment und did not hesitate to say, ‘Wo want tho best yon can possibly give us, regardless of the coat, as we believe the best is the cheapest.’ “The Messrs. Tift are men of in domitable energy, and have been wonderfully successful, displaying good judgment iu the selection of lands, aud uot doing us many lum bermen have done, buying simply the timber ou the land, bnt buying the lund and the timber, so that they now have one hundred thousand acres of uot only good timber land, but when the timber is cut off the best lund for growing tobacco wc liavo over seen.” “Tho Modern Tobacco Barn Co. oamo to Georgia to stay, and will probably erect a manufactory for our own product at some point in Geor gia next year. If the experiment now being tried will prove success ful, they will bo obliged to liuve a factory in tho state of Georgia.’—At lanta Journal. Mrs. John Churchwell.of Brook field, has been quite ill, but is now convalescent. See notioe of election for ,county treasurer on second page. It occurs on the 10th instant. Elliott's furniture faotory at Alu- pulm is turning out some very pretty mid substantial oureuus, tables, etc. I’av-a-altl-clde euros Itch in 80 minutes. Prlco HOeta, Sold by J. C. Goodman. Mr. W. 8. Walker, of Alnpuha, re cently returned from Texus with a cur loud of ponies and is offering them for sale cheap. ' On and after the first of April the name of the post office in the southern portion of the county known “Vildo,” will be changed to “Afton." Try Inrtlun Cholera Cordial for all bowel troubles. At Dr. J. C. Goodman’s. Harper & Co. are putting up a new saw mill about three miles west of Lenox, and near Little river. They propose to cut nothing but rift flooring. Prof. J.J. .Moore will teach school again at the place near Brookfield," where lie taught last full. It is a good recommendation for him to be culled a second time the sume place. Wlist measure* are taking to slop that eWItt’a Cough coughj Let ua suggest Do Witt’s Cough and Consumption Cure. It Is infallible. J. C,'Goodman. Prof. 0. I* Smith will commence a public school at Brushy Creek church next Monduy morning. Tho good people of that community are to be congratulated upon securing his services us teacher. The Georgia legislature has been polled as to tho members’ choice for tho presidential nomination, ami it is overwhelmingly for David li. Hill. Among those favoring Hill we fiud Representatives Kennon, of Berrien ; Perry, of Worth; Odum, of Colquitt; Young, of Irwin, and Humphreys, of Brooks, provided Hill is in favor of the free coinage of silver. “An honest pill la Hit noblest work of-. tho apothecary." DeWin'a LitM# Iterirjgj lUturs mire constipation, UUiotatai® ana •: sick haafiochs. J. U, Goodman. A note from Mr. W, H. Monjs . states that hjJ^S’ decided to offer his '. name os a oiudidaw fer coantytresiat yror to fill the unexpired term of W. D. Griffin, deceased, and askn/the ,/ supportat the voters of the ifioiihty. Hois atreadytheten and'the ,G$~ wire the rnifi)