The Tifton gazette. (Tifton, Berrien County, Ga.) 1891-1974, February 26, 1892, Image 1

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, §§# TIFTON, BERRIEN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 2(>, 1892. LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH. WHAT BUSINESS MEN AND LOAFERS FIND TO TALK ABOUT. ' *' Lv 1 • - - * ■■ ■ \ . i- * * , ■ . l'nvcment P&raffraplis ricked Up and Pen sively Penned—All*-Pertaining to Pcrcong and Thl hum. ■ taking Special and Local Agents wanted in Georgia for the best-life insurance association in the world. Address with good-references J. W. Hannon, general agent, Tifton, Giv. Capt. CL'A. Williams has two pet catamounts safely housed in u nox. He talks of turniug.onc out to-mor row and enjoy tho sport of a chase with a paok of hounds. Sic him, See J. W. Hannon before out a life policy. Contractor J.C. Hind will buildJdusLe! you a house at lowest figures. v The street committee has oontraot- Hev. P. H. Orhmpler naS ototfmt- ed for tfie cutting out and straight- oil a continued meeting at the Aleth- tn ( nK 0 f the road Wbioh diverges odist church during the week. * — ‘ ~M|j| J. W. Hannon has tho best thing in life and accident insurance be fore the public.. Baker’s Bread, fresh every Satur day at Mrs. A. B. Graves’, Pitts building. Messrs. Goodmau & BrofrtuGiave opened a turpentine farm in one Lois settlement of this county. Don’t forget Contractor Hind when you have building to do. t Mr. M. W. Gaskins is handling " aet'eral grades of standard commer cial fertilizers. Col. J. A. Alexander made a fly ing business trip to Atlanta the first of the week. Everybody in this county whoci should 'visit Padriek Bros, steftn, such a slaughter sale this lpbnth. Peach and plum trees are/full of blooms. This is the result of the recent warm weather. Mrs. J. A. Phillips and daughter, Mtsa Ida, have returned to Tifton after an absence of several weeks. The pesky English sparrows have found their way to Tifton. They can be heard twittering around jJlcse beautiful spring mornings, Rev. P. H, Cnimplqr, pratfcbcr in charge of tho Alupalm Circuit, re- reports his wife still wry ill; she Continues to have fever. _ Mr. J; W. Brian is buildip&him Belf iTsjileiiilid new resillengt on bis ft beyond the pqrlhern city '. B. Muck, D. D., Presbyte- ehed to a large and at- congregation at (lie Metho dist "church last Thursday, night Mr. O. M.'Tift is selling his ca tire stoek of goods at and below cost to oloS'i out the business. Here’s a clmnee|.o make a dollar count for all . it is with. . Ib. (Ijldens, of Alapaba, has been coiiviu lal that Tifton is a healthy placet When Jb. makes a confea- gion tl -re is sure to be convincing proof shiud it. BeveP.l'Tiftou citizens have un derbvki i tlio -.commendable task of beau tif ing their front yards—lay ing tt ni off into nice plots and plant!it flowers and shrubbery. --I'Yiflfiff, fircB have done considerable damage ibis spring in the destruction of fencing. The farmers of Berrien, Irwin and other counties nave. suf fered greatly in this respect. Capt. Syl Wliittingtoh, of south east Worth county, was in Tifton one day last week soliciting' help to build a substantial • footway across Ty Ty creek near bis place. It is needless to Say his wants were lied. sup- seen them devouring tn«r victims; but it remained nuti! last week for-him to me a sheep- killing hog. An old sow caught a lumb.just above the Brunswick & Western railroad depot, kiileil and §Hdevoured It with a relish. ’ f Capt C. A, Williams is having ; builta cdikmodioiis and* comfortable . . barn apd cow stable on his premises on Tifton Heights. He has somo spiemlid miieh cattle and projxsses to have plenty of rich milk and but ter. He lias a correct idea of life and living. Mr. Sim lltirreli, of Mogul, was w the city yeBerday. He came to pat ronize Tifton’s firm of young and affable .lawyers, and to iqteuk a word from tho Union road near the little sohoolhouee and running in .1 south east direction until it oonneots-with Ijove avenuo inside tho northern city IirnUtu It will be a Bplendid road !en the work is completed. The merry wedding bells are be ginning to chime the glad announce ment that one of Tifton’s staid oiti zena will take upon himself the sol emn obligations of Hymen’s altar before another moon shall wax and wane. The Gazette extends con gratulations in advance. Several thousand yards of very thin ootton cloth are being fashimi- ed into tobacco coverings to protect ■the young plants from the cool weather these chilly mornings. Mr. Marrow, one of the experts, is wont ing enthusiastically to make the to bacco oulture experiment in Tifton and vicinity a' perfect success, and he wili accomplish his purpose., Vice-President Haines, Sup tendent Haines and otliej the Brunswick and Western r; made a trial trip Thursday afternoon. Albany to Tifton-w hoiir—the utmost Mj ongiiie. The result tyFthia was highly satisfactory to the officers of the road. Oupt. D. G. Devciiisli, secretary of tho Snow Modern Tobacco' Barn Uompany, left Tifton last Friday morning for bis home at Oxford, N. C. He, like all others who come here prospecting, has gone away eii thusiustio in bis admiration of Tif ton and contiguous oomitry, and de cidedly pleased with the intelligence and progressive spirit of the people with whom he met. Mr. H. H. Tift, of Tifton, having succeeded the late Col. Nelson Tift oB administrator on tho estate of 4' F. Tift, ha* qualified in that caption ty. In company with Mr. C. ,W Tift he went down to Key West the past week to look after some of the interests. Mr. C. W. Tift returned yesterday morning.—News and Ad vertiser, 21st Capt. H. II. Tift re turned to Tifton ut the same tiiho. Attention is called to the adver tisement of the ‘*0011060110111 Iiidem nity Association,” Mr. ,J. W. Han non, State Agent, Tifton, Ua. This is one of the most liberal aiid yet reliable mutual life insurance associ ations before tho public. Mr. Han non has jnst returned from a most enjoyable trip to the homo office at Waterbury, Conn., and while there wus shown into the beantieg of the Association's guaranteed system of scientific life insurance, and he is highly pleased with it. The election last Friday for coun ty treasurer to fill the unexpired termof Hon. W. D. Griffin, deceased, passed off very qnletly ; in fact, there Was ypry little interest token in it. Ail three of the gentlemen, who were candidates', stand high in the estimation of the people,- who ap peared indifferent, which was elected, In the Tifton district ho TEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST GARNERED BY THE PENCIL AND bCiSSORS PROCESS. Batch of News from Nolghborlnj* CuwuUo* Deemed of Special Intercut to ' Gnxotte Deader*. There will be about 500 acres planted in tohacco around Tifton this year—Vienna Progress. Our' experience- covers many ills, many pills and many bills. Our Ills arc smaller, our pOla nro smaller anti our bills arc smaller, whoa wo use DvWitt's Littlo Early Kisers. The Missionary Baptists, of Adel, have decided to begin the erection of a house oi worship. Sucooes to them. Mr. H. J. Parrish, one of Berrien county’s well-to-do farmers, has two expert growers employed r.nd will plant about twenty acyes.in to bacco. You may cough and cough and Cough aud cough, hut yon will not. If you take Dewitt’s Cough and Consumption Cure,, J. 0. Goodman. jf 'stern/rnil - The Brunswick Si Westan road will run a spatial traffi from Wilhtcoochee to Sumjietvto necommo- drtte Mtvions and otltorif desiring to attend the fnueral, with masonic rites, of Henry C. Overstreet. Hon. Ben E. RusBell, the “John Temple Graves" of lower Georgia, has accepted ail invitation to deliver an address before the Waresboro Literary Society .to-night Huesell is well equipped aud will do himself great credit Some of the oitizena of Worth county are clamorous foj/a public bridge across Little river ut some point near the railroad bridge. Let them show their utiKaety in a tangi ble wtvy and the people on “this side the brunch” will .meet them half way and build the bridge. Efforts are being made to induce B. B. Gray & Brn., at Pino Bloom,on the Brunswick and Western rail road, to extend their tram road in a northeast direction until it connects with another tram road which runs in a southwest direction from Dormi- ny’s bluff on the Ocnmlgoo river. The now railroad would not only prove u great convenience to the poo- pie and start Willacooohee oh a boom but would open up for development- a very fine section of country. The* O.'-ZKlTii wishes its neighbor success in securing this new transportation outlet, ____ Contractor Hind Ims a largeqtittB* tit.y of first-class lime for sale. Givo him a call when in ncod of lime ltathbone, of Washington, who, at the age of 18, became so euamored With the story of the immortal pro totypes, Damon and Pythias, that in it lie saw a plan for the fraterniza tion of tho world, and from this was bom the noble order. A t tho time he wrote the ritual he was teaching school in the little village of Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior. Friendship, charity and benevo- lenco are the cardinal principles of the order. Incipient Pythianism was established upon tho rook of an intelligent unity. Pytha goras wits the founder of the Italic sohool of philosophy. He was a native in the island of Samdk, born about 5?0 B, 0. lie quitted Samos on account of U>o tyranny of Polyorates and settled in Southern Italy. Here lie established the fa mous Pythagorean fraternity. He towfied a select society of 900 bound -by a vow to himself and each other. Thoy constituted a philosophical school and exercised the power of a political association as well. Modern Pythianism comes in here with an improvement; jwlitica as known to-tlie outside world has not ovon a thought Within tho sacred Pythianism circle now. Thu Pythagorean system died out about 300 B. G., 200 years after its founder’s death. It was revived some two centuries later and lasted for a considerable length of time af ter his death. EDITOR’S JADi GOSSIP FROM THE TOWNS DOWN THE GEORGIA SOUTHERN. Cream of the New* from Cecil, Adel, Bimtk*, Lenox, MorbI and Kldo- nulo—Sonie hb * Villages. K. OF P. ANNIVERSARY. History of tlio Origin nttd l*ur|»o*e» Noble LastFrlduy, February liltW was the twenty-eighth nnnivorafry of the organization of the nojfle order of the Knights of PyUiiai In Piuey Woods loilgc/Tifton has a flourishing branch/of/this mystic brotherhood, which/ismontiuning to gain strength and Influence. A great many of/tir people know very little or. nothing of the origin and aims of the order. To these, perhaps, the following bit of Pyth ian history will prove interesting: Oii the 10th of February, 1801, ttys now flourishing order - was or ganized in Washington City by some eight or ton men who met by pre vious agreement atTemperaucfl llali. This was during the year before the close of tbe war, when the conn* try was rent by that mighty and un happy conflict. It was of all times the' elect, was.held; Judge E-tlberford disposed to carry the I reptfrns Nashville fov ' eonepliwmon and could, find no one who . would agree to go, *o it. was decided to hold no election. Tbe vote v?as light thi-oligiiout the county, and Stood: Morris, 118; Futoh, 132; Bradford, 139. '- ; ■ People who don't get on are not built that way. Why there are some wlio.doa’t tiny their goods at Padiiek Broyi.' when ibrj know 4*fa tire eliekji ityf-phtof! in towire ' Tlfton’a Coinuofclal Import- nnco. There is no disguising tho fact that Tiflon Is not receiving the trade to which her geographical po sition entitles her. Her inerobmita are not making the best of her com mercial opportunities, Located in almost the extreme northwest coiner of Berrien county naturally brings tributary It her a largo territory embraced by the counties of Berrien, Irwin, Worth and Colquitt. Thin section to thickly dotted over with small faring mid a hog; of in dependent farmers, and the Gazkttb can boo no reason why tin; trade of these people should not come toTif- t n, cxeept that no positive efforts have been made and no inducements offered for it to come here. It is a duty which the merchants owe, to the city its well its themselves to use all legitimate means to ate tract trade here tmd thereby increase the commercial importance of the place. Farmers should be given ev- ry advantage of ingress ond egress into tho city and ample protection for themselves, stock and produce while they arc here. Bad roads arc most formidable barriers against tho commercial pros perity of any place. Everything else being equal a farmer will natur ally go tlie best road to town, whetli er it leads to Tifton or not. After lie gets to town nothing will please him better than to have a lot into which lie can drive his teurn ami be safe from the ravages of tlio town cow and the town hog. This would call for a central warehouse and stock yard. This can be provided for by a joint stock com pany and lie iinvdo to pay in a few years, a handsome dividend. Such is tbe history of the first warehouse built in Valdosta. This warehouse can be need to store cotton, corn, wool, guano, tobacco, etc., and 1» great reocssity. Tlien,nno.thcr matter which theincr- olwnta should look after very care fully and persistently -a reduction of freight rates that would give them equal advantages with Vasdosta, Al bany and Way cross, and enabling them to sell goods as cheap as them places and at the same time pay os much for tile farmer’s produce. The merchants should he mi unit in theso demands upon the railroads, There are only a few suggestions. The Gazsttk will turns much more to say tdong this lino in tbs near fu- tnns.’ | wbicb could lmvc been to insiitute and build up an ler having for its immediate and active purposes the propagation of good will and peace and brotherhood among men. During the next month or two after the formatem of Washington Lodge the member* labored faith fully for the advancement of the order. They sneemkd iu getting additions to that nnmbcr, and from that time tbe order lias gone ahead with wonderful growth until how there arc 300,000 Knights of Pythii s in the world. “Aajtionesl pill is UienoMr*! work of Yho ». Of the order of\ OW Wto tta'ClK-rp remo ter , mm-r 1.^*® ™ 'T f * - Knights of Pythias ' was Justus H. j sick IWMtwiu. J.C OpwOusn. . Ji-jautu tlW-t Coming north on the Georgia Southern and Florida* Cecil is th6 first town tho travelei reaches after crossing the Lowndes and Ber rien county line into Berrien. Cecil is a bustling village of some five hundred souls. Tlie streets nro laid off with marked regularity ns Well as uniformity, and ns a reflex of an intelligent people are nicely graded and kept clean. About two hundred beautiful water oaks have becii set along tlio sidewalks, which promise to furnish ample shade in tho yours to coir.j, Tlie progress of this growing town is calculated to favorably im press strangers with the zeal of a Berrien county community that un dertakes to build a town. Tlio citizens of Cecil have thor oughly appreciated her importance ua the southwestern gateway to the oouuty, and they arc to bo com mended for the heroic efforts they have made to sustain tho exalted rep utation borne by Berrien ns tbe ban ner county of lower Georgia. The-edueatkmal interests-of the place are well maintained; a flour ishing school of sixty or seventy pu pils, under the administration of Prof. Crenshaw, is under full head way and progressing vory nicely. The mercantile interests of the place is well cured for by Mutthis & Dobson, W. W. Byrd, Peters & Ue- lote, J. T. Webb, Jr., and ,,—. —. Malthis. They keep full stooks in their respective lines. Harrell & Boyd handle great quantities of commercial fertilizers and are now kopt quite busy deliver ing tlie ‘Heaven” that is to make tlio lumls of contiguous farmers burst fortli into bud, blossom and fruit. Tlie Cecil Lumber Company is theJ. N. Brny saw mill business transformed into a atook oompany, In connection is a well-stocked oora- missnry. Another flourishing enterprise is the Covington & Richardson tur pentine business. This company also keeps a well stocked eoinmis- Bury, and sella to the general public. Tifton’s former citizen, J. ]). Pear sall, is now engaged with tills firm. Judge Beulty outers to the travel ing pnblio at Hie Cecil House. The people worship in a neat’ Methodist church just completed. Cecil’s two public buildiugs—the church and uoademy—are ornaments to the village. Cecil posseses tho conveniences of express, telegraph und post offices. Tho town was incorporated some thing more than a year ago. Dr. J, R. Folsom is the present mayor and wo were told ho is “tarnation hard" on tramps. 80 a word with Pearsall, a bite of dinner at tlie Cecil House aud we skip his nmyorwiok. * Adel continues hopeful of her future, although there exist some conditions which arc inimical to her progress, The most potential of these is the unfortunate division o£ senti ment relative to educational matters. The people should uuito and haw but ono school and that in tbe build ing provided at the public expense for that purpose—the Adel Aeado- cmy. Harmony juid union of sentiment and notion is necessary for the well being of any town or community, *rS' 7 Sparks, iu spite of all disasters, continues to plod along upward and onward. There is considerable evi deuce of thrift about tbe place, Tracklaying on Beckwith & Rogers’ railroad from Sparks to Btiyboro is progressing nicely. Mr. Rogers says that two miles of rail .'mvo been laid and the track surfaced up rubetau* thilly. Ho also stated to the U the litm would to com- pletcfl to Bayboro within sixty the bridge ucross Little rivei ished, consequently there delay in that direction. Capt. C. II. Beckwith's ele dwelling is approaching comple and bis family will soon move Glcnmore. Sparks and her are to be congratulated upon accession of this splendid family t the citizenship of the town. . It is stated that Messrs. Beckw & Rogers' mammoth saw mill enh prise Vrijl ' add about thirty whitt families to the town. Sparks Academy opened on the 15th with an attendance of sixty?, five pupils, and Prof. Chesnntfc poets on hundred by the close of month, He has scoured the service of an accomplished assistant in l’rot J. M, Gregory, and the outlook i bright for a most successful school. The principal merchants, since tho burning of J. Z. Elliott’s mam moth store, are W. J. McKinney, \Y. E. Green and \V. A. Huokabce, It . is now understood as a settled fact- . that Mr. Elliott will rebuild and open his business aguiu practicable. Dr. 8, G. Ethridge’s,office is in a ' fair way of completion. Considerable work has been do reoently on tlio streets, and a quant ty of additional shade trees put out. Lenox continues to forge to tlm front notwithstanding her many misfortunes. A short time since she lost ho only saw mill, located in town, by fire; however, two new ones soon be in operation * near the i One three miles west, by Harper, Gainey & Co., and the other two nr three miles south by Griffin, Mc- Cranio & Co. ' Mogal boasts of one of the very best ginneries and grist nulls in tho comity; also a spiemlid storehouse aud an elogiiut stook of goods. There is also a prosperous turpentine busi ness boro. All these enterprises are owned by Capt Sim Harrell, tlie owner und founder of the piano. iQl £ g Mr. J. R. Robinson has settled. down at last, and is keeping the rnilroad woodrack at Eldorado su plied with wood. Scraps. Tin* News reports real estate iu Syeamoro in good demand, with prices advancing. Dr, N. Peterson, of this city, has ; , ust returned from a visit to his old home—Douglas, Coffee comity. The Smhner Local says: “Worth comity is no laggard aud will not be loft behind in helping 'out the World’s Fair movement. Coffee oouuty has a new briok jail' and a thoroughly organized county court for the trial of misdemeanor'i* cases. Tax Collector Jtfeeka, of county, baa delivered to Sheriff Tan ner $1,152.32 worth of tax executions | for collection. He lias ulreudy turu ed over to tlie county treasurer $8,- 600 in cash. Program. Tho Ladies’ Aid Society of the ML: E. Church will hold its next regular meeting at the residence of Mr. AY. O. Tift Monday, the 29th inst 7:30 u. m. All are cordially hi to attend. The program evening is as follower 1. Instrumental duet, M and Mrt. E. If. Tift. 2. Recitation, Miss Murphey. '-'/J 3. Vocal duet, Miss and Hr. E. H. Tift 4. Recitation, Miss Nellie : 6. Instrumental Ptyllipe. 0. Vocal duet. M< and E. 1L Tift. 7. Donkey jiarty, in v expected to partiti] the committed Miss L K. H. You don’t want»torpid li want s bad eomidexta a bwl breath. You Then use. Dft'SSlt’!* tty taoiCjUx UtV