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THE GAZETTE: Til TON, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1893.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
A Oil) in Tilton.
Tlic industrial editor of tho Worth
A Batch of Interesting Items from the' t'ounty Local, “H,” spent a day in
Assistant Editor.
Advertising is the mercantile pho
tograph of a live business man.
Mrs. E. IT. Tift spent last Satur
day in Albany with relatives and
friends.
The month of December, with its
cool weather, bracing air 'and Christ
mas cheer, is doubly welcome.
Book and job printing done at this
office with neatness and dispatch, and
at prices that defy competition.
Christmas will soon be here. Don’t
let it slip up on you before you pay
your subscription to the Gazktti£
Tho Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad is doing a firm business help
ing to tpove the Florida orange crop.
If cold weather counts for anything
the farmer, who killed hogs last
week will have no trouble in saving
his meat.
Arbor Day was not thought of in
Tifton and hence there were no trees
transplanted as was suggested by tho
Gazkttf..
J
The cutting down, of tho»c weeds
on vacant lots makes a wonderful
■(improvement. Some more work of
'ithe same kind, if you please!
* The Ohio people passed many
complimentary remarks upon the
' unique platting of Mrs. II. II. Tift’s
flower yard. It is di s.wving. .
The matrimonial market was pret
ty brisk during the mouth of Novem
ber, but there still remains an ample
stock of good material on hand.
Don't promise the little Ones any
more than Santa Claus can, bring
them. Disappointment falls about as
■heavily upon children as upon grown
people:
While you are endeavoring to'make
yourself happy during the Christmas
season, sec if you can’t make some
one else happy and then you’ll be!
happier.
Mrs. E. II. Mathews and, master
llurjord, came from Wnycross last
i Friday night, and will spend some
time in Tifton with her sister, Mrs.
Jas. T. Mauhd.
Madame Humor has several mar
riages booked for the holidays, but
we are awfully afraid the old girl will
be possessed with a slight, feeling of
disappointment when she discovers
S'.me of them will not materialize.
« •
The farmers arc nearer out of
debt and will be in better shape
for making the next crop than they
have been for several years. The
most of them have raised meat and
corn enough to run their farms fur
another year.
We see quite a number of people
from adjoining counties in the city
every week who comes here to liny
" their goods. They tell us Tifton is
the cheapest, market they have ever
tried. If our merchants would use
• it little more printer’s ink they could
greatly increase the number of cust -
nters from abroad. ’
The success of the canning indus
try at Tifton is encouraging. There
arc no reasons why a canning facto
ry would not prove a splendid invest
ment in Thnmasville. Tomatoes,
fruits and many vegetables*-!™uch of
which now goes to waste—could be
utilized and made profitable. A fac
tory here would cause many idle
spots of ground to he cultivated, and
it would give employment to those
needing it.—Times Enterprise.
The friends of Mrs. B. T. Cole, es
pecially the members of the Woman’s
Baptist Mission Union, of Tifton,
whose representative she was ni the
meeting of tin: Fourth District at
Statesboro, will be pleased to learn
that she took and maintained a posi
tion among the leaders. In the dis
cussion of methods and plans for in
teresting children in mission work she
occupied a prominent place, and the
Gazkttx is pleased to state she im
pressed, her »i*tei-s with tho idea that
TIFTON AND ITS THRIFT
Tifton a few Saturdays since and the
following paragraphs appeared in his
w rite-up of the city and country :
About the most conspicuous tiling
just now is the good work done on
tile‘streets during last fall liy the
tramps. Tifton’s clever mayor un
derstood how to utilize these birds of
passage, anil, convert what is usually
a nuisance into a public benefactor.
Few of the citizens of Tifton and vi
cinity ever do anything to lie arrest
ed for, and it will not do to tax even
these clever people enough to build
a system of streets in one year, so
the tramp in this instance filled a
“longfelt want,” and earned for him
self ‘Jo cents per day anil rations.
A visit to the Gazkttk PuPtlHH-
ixo 11 or si: showed everybody, from
(lie handsome anil hustling-editor to
the little boy who plays the' “devil,”
as lmsy-as the proverbial bee m the
tar bucket. The amount of first-
class work turned out liy this house
is something phenomenal, for, .al
though the proprietor is a ‘‘square”
man, vet lie is always trying to put
up a “job” for somebody. A com
positor was Ppuder-ing over the fact
that he lied secured the services of
an extra fat ’possum for his Sunday
iinner, and was thinking of Maund
ering ■"Wound witli his colleague to
ascertain the location of a desirable
pcftqto hill. * No cleverer team of
typos can be found than these two,
and they have earned their ‘east.
Out on the farms, and there are
soine lino ones around Tifton, land is
being turned, rubbish cleared away,
and extensive preparations made for
another crop. Vegetables and truck
will probably be planted another seas
on, as the canning factory will use
all the surplus product, and the
choice varieties will bring * hand
some 5 prices in the markets. Tifton
Is setting a good example to oth
er southwest Georgia towns in this
line.
Vineyards and orchards are being
pruned and put in lint) condition, and
everything is getting in ship-shape
for another crop. With a favorable
season, grapes and fruit will bring
thousands of dollars into that section
next year.
Quite a lot of new lands are being
opened up lor cultivation in tho vi
cinity .of Tifton. They are being
set to fruit trees and grape vines,
and in a few years will ho adding
materially to the city's yearly in
come. Among them is a linn of
northern capitalists, who lmvu pur
chased 5(H) acres of land about five
miles north ol town, and have al
ready begun preparations for putting
out the entire plaiit in trees ami
vines.
A carload of live hogs were ship
ped over the Tifton and North eastern
from Invin county a few days since,
for market. Among the many prosper
ous and financially solid counties in
southwest Georgia, none are on a bol
ter footing than old Irwin.
As an evidence licit the farmers of
that section are saving plenty of meat
for another year, it is worth mention
ing that a mercantile firm, in Tifton
received a car-load of salt a few days
since, and sold thirty sacks of it,
in less than 2I hours after it was re
ceived.
While the mills are shut down,
the machinery is all being over
hauled and repaired, and a good deal
of work done on the lumber yards to
avoid delay when the big whistle
once again sounds its call to tho Op
eratives.
A Section that is Prosperous While
Others are Crowing Poorer.
Col. F. E. Twitty, a rising young
lawyer of Brunswick, in a special
correspondence to the Atlanta Jour
nal, spunks the following kind words
of the industrial progress of Tifton
and vicinity:
France never had a stable govern
ment until she was divided into small'
farms and her hillsides and valleys
were decked with the fruit and tho
vine. Then poverty and bloody rev
olutions were succeeded by prosperity
and contentment.
Again, to a certain extent, “history
will repeat itself.” In southern Geor
gia King Cotton’s “head rests uneasy,”
and his reign of oppression will soon
be over. The blushing peach and the
luscious grape will hold joint sway.
The fanner is the chief beneficiary in
this reformation, hut this whole sec
tion, and, indeed, the entire state, will
greatly profit by this slipping of the
yoke of tho hoary oppressor.
The fruit growers of this section
had the only fresh fruit exhibit fit
the world’s fair for one month, their
fruit ripening more than three weoks
in advance of,thatof California. This
means that the fruit crop of South
Georgia can largely be marketed be
fore the crops of any of the other
groat fruit growing states are offered
for sale. This is an incalculable ad
vantage, and means that Georgia, as
a fruit growing state, will always he
unrivaled, ...
Thu famous farm of the Georgia
Southern,' “Cyclonola,” where almost
every known variety of fruit that can
he grown outside of the tropics, veg
etables, cotton, corn, hay, grasses and
grains of all kinds are successfully
cultivated, demonstrates what can he
done an the poorest land that could
lie found on the lino of the road on
the Georgia side.
The queen of all tho lovely villages
that have sprung up along tho Su
wanoe lloute is Tifton. Situated at
the junction of tho G. S. & F., and
faith of these gentlemen in the future
of Georgia fruit.
KliTTI.KltS FROM THIS NORTH.
Four 1’ensylvania gentlemen with
their fnmi ies have moved to Tifton
to engage in the fruit business, having
purchased a tract of five hundred
acres.
A party of forty Ohioans, of a sect
known as Ornish, leave Millersburg
on the 6th inst., under the conduct of
Major Glessner, for Tifton and other
■points on the Goorgia Southern.
They have had representatives here
before and many of them will nn-
doubtly locate. Tho chief article of
their creed is that ali men should pay
their debts. Shey will find a welcome
hero.
The Ohio Press Association will
isit this section, stopping for a day
in January.
The reader will note that Tifton
and this section of Georgia is not be
ing built up at the cost of other sect
ions of the state, hut outside brains,
muscle and capital are being brought
here, anil they are coming fast.
Tho question “What will become
of south Georgia when all the, timber
is gone?” 1ms been satisfactorily an
swered. When her.matchless (line
forests are no mote,south Georgia will
not he a desert waste, hut will be one
vast garden, hardly less fair than
Eden and with a population much
more numerous and contented, and
Tifton will he the fairest and proud
est of tho beautiful cities of the bright
future.
Fall and Winter Goods.
LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK
Daily Arriving from the Markets.
B. & W. I!s., on the highest point
To make room for these new goods I am offering my entire stock of
Spring and Summer Dry-Goods, Clothing, Shoes and Hats at rock-bottom
prices for cash. The first to come will be the first serve!, so yon will have
to come early to get tho cream of these
GREAT BAJRGA.I1SJ S I
Give Me Your Patronage and I will Save You Big Money.
fly Fancy Grocery and Hardware Departments
.Are fully stocked with the best goods.
Mr. .1. 1’. blalzo, an extensive real es
tate dealer iu I)ca Moines, Iowa, narrow
ly escaped one of llie severest nttreks of
pneumonia while in the northern part of
that state during a recent blizzard, aaya
the Saturday Jlrrim, Mr, lllalze had oc
casion to drive several miles during the
storm and was ao thoroughly chilled that
he was unahlc to gel warm, ami inside of
an hour after his return lie was threaten
cil with a severe case of pneumonia or
lung fever. Mr. Dlaize sent to the near
est drugstore and got a bottle of CJmm
bcrlnin’a Cough licmody,of which he liud
often heard, and look a number of large
doses, lie. says the effect was wonderful
and Iq a short time he was breathing
quite easily. He kept on taking the
medicine and the next day was able to
come to t)es Moines, Mr lllalze regards
his cure ss simply wonderful. For sale
at./. W. Paulk’s Drugstore.
CRYSTAL LENSES
children.should bfe taughtto work for
the money they give to missions and
beg for it; each penny should
represent some aaetifice made by the
t * le Mg'atcfWaosw.
Skill
Our Clubbing List.
The editor has arrangements where
by ho can clttli tho Gazicttk with tho
Homo and Farm, an excellent agri
cultural paper,semi-monthly,for til .00;
with the Atlanta Wee sly Constitu
tion for 81 .25; with tho New York
Weekly World for $1.40. The con
dition)! of this arrangement are that
all subscriptions must be paid in ad
vance. If you are a subscriber to the
Gazkttk and in arrears, you must
pay up the arrearage besides a year
in advance. This proposition is lim
ited to January 1st, 1801, so if y.on
want any of these papers at the above
greatly reduced rates you must make
it known before the opportunity
closes.
6'uaranteeJ- to care
Uch a 80 minutes'
For sale by J. IF.
south of Macon; and surrounded liy
fertile lands that are being rapidly
anil judiciously developed, Tifton
may well ho envied by her sister
towns.
AM, IN FOUR YKAItS.
Four years ago the site of a saw
mill, to-day it is a thriving town of
one thousand people, with most sub
stanttnl academy, church building)
and business blocks, canning factory,
planing mill, pure water, a health rec
ord that cannot he equalled, and a
citizenship so enterprising that a
special correspondent would have to
he stationed here to keep tho record
of their progress properly before tlie
public.
Cnpt. II. II. Tift, lor whom the
town is named, was its founder, and
lie and his brothers, Messrs. W. O.
and E. If. Tift, are the leaders in the
great work of development, not only
of tho town, but the country.
First demonstrating that tho wire-
graBS lands around Tifton could easi
ly he made to produce a hale of cot
ton or fifty bushels of corn to tho
acre, Messrs. If. II. and W. O. Tift
turned their attention to the culture
if the grape, and three years ago
planted a vineyard of forty acres,
embracing the leading varieties,such
as the Delaware, Concord, Niagara,
Moore’s Early, etc. This year that
vineyard netted its owners a hand
some sum, and its yield ill 1894 will
be much greater.
Across the road from tfyc vineyard
are 750 bcautitul pecan trees that
will begin bearing next. year. No
country in the world produces larger
or more richly flavored pecans than
southern Geoigia.
A short drive behind Mr. W. O.
Tift’s bay ami your correspondent
was looking upon seventy-five acres
of,flourishing one and a half-year-old
peach trees, the projierty of Mr. W.
O. Tift. This orchard is on perfect
ly level ground, and when it comes
into full hearing iu ’95 it will ho a
picture tho eye will delight to feast
upon and will afford its owner a
handsome income.
Turning toward town a drivo of
three miles takes us to tiie farm of
Tf.fl (II, II.) & Snow. Two hundred
acres in peaches—fifty acres more to
be planted in January, a l*rgc acreage
THAOl MAftH.
Quality Firat atd Alwayi.
W. PAULK,
-DltVUMST.-
llas tlm Exclusive Halo of Uiom Celebrated Glaee-
oh Iu Tifton, On.
KEBLAM & MOORE,
W.
O. TIE
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
T
TIFTON DRUG STORE
Kkkfs a Fum. Supply of
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TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES,
Fine Perfumery, School Books and Stationary.
Larrps of Every Description.
PAINTS, * OILS * AND * VARNISHES.
The most sulect stock of Tobaccos and Cigars In tho city.
My customers can tic served with good Havana cigars.
I call special attention to Prof. Dexter’s Cnttirrli Cure, Mnjjlc Balm
Kidney mill I.lver.Ciire, I.nng Restorer, Mesmeric Ittood Clennaci
iitul It In-ii in is • ie Cure. They sic proprietary medicines tlml are recommended
very highly for the purpose* claimed for them.
FRESHEST and BEST GARDEN SEEDS, all the year ronnd.
Call and see me.
tor
Tifton, Gn., April 22, 1891. J. C. O OODIMT A.3ST.
Tift & Snow Co.
II. II. TIFT.
L. A. SNOW.
Empire State Nurseries.
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Vines, Shrubs, Plants and Seeds,
for the Orchard, Harden, Park and Forest.
We respectfully Invilti your attention to our stock—complete In all depart
menta; adapted to our cllthalc; of superior quality ami sold at moderate price*.
Handsome 20 page Illustrated, Descriptive Catalogue free to all applicants. Ad
dress all orders to
TIFT & SHOW C0MPANV, Tifton, «a.
Thoonlv manufacturing optician* in thu smith
Atlanta, (la, n^Toddler* are noUu|»]>l!e<l with
these fatuous kLiasos. ll-to-tf.
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A thoroughly tooted Remedy
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This standard rom«Hy hM b»»i*n trlwl,
and not fount! wanting, for forty yenra by
nn amluvnt physician, wmi torn tnn»«1 it
with certain uotJ tin v»i y lug hui’cpsa fur all
dltoiwes fur wbleU it 1* motmtmmlMl. It
novor foils to bannlH from tho firat
quickly rttui oifotuully driving put nil
due am* perms from the nyetom through
tin* ntrillum of the fcLIn, llvor anti kid*
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a fleett. hit I a nut tho result of tgnoraiina
nr nup^mitloti, hut It Is foumlnd upon
common and a thorough knowliHly-
of modern nmdicnl aulftte**. It *flbct willy
purine* and nnrlchos the blood anti brings
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tho current of llf<v; quickly
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Itlisumnliani, Liver. Hldner and
ft I ltd «l«»r ninesMO, {‘entitle Weal
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irivtetiaATC row voowetLF.
fend for our Free Book of Valuable
Information, tu'Other with a womlar-
(til array of certificates of icmarkabtt
cure* from tho simp lost to the most vir
ulent rtlsoar". after nil known
had railed. Tliww* cert duaWitMtlly with
no uncurtain sound, tlmt Rotsnlc Wood
To the Public.
la bow ready to commonct buslnoii and la tho market for tho purchase of
all kinds of fruits and Vegetables. Como and see or write us hoforo disposing of
your products.
Tifton Canning and Manufacturing Co.
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
7 flm.
To Tobacco Dealers!
Haim»«tho h**At,c|iuspcst, 0^V’h«i| i srMtt-
cst. and must powerful JfU
known to the *
Piood Purifier ever
PtUit®—$1.00 per hoftto; CS.C0 fur « hottle*.
Vor ogle by druggists*, If not, bo: d ut.
Addreu QLOOO BALM CO . Atlanta, Ge.
TIFTON
in jjhmi* and other fruiU, .shown thu
I have for gale about Six Thousand Pounds of
PirstoLbss Manufactured Twist Tobacco, divided
into Three Grades. .
NICE SELLING SIZE TWIST.
EVERY BOX GUARANTEED.
Yon can anvo Five cent* per pound, besides freight, by buying from me.
Cali at or address Cydoutta Tebact® Manufactory, Irby, Ga.
D. G. IRBY, Manager.
THE
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TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
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TIFTON, GEORGIA.
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C. A. WILLIAMS, Proprietor
5iMa&ligiiiiii
1 am pleased to state to my friend* in Berrien. Iiwiu,
Worth and t'olqullt counties that I am prepared to exe
cute tastefully, expeditiously *nd cheaply, all classes of
printing. Hew type, new press, new and excellent com
mercial stationery. Patronage solicited.
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