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T l ETON. BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, .lUEY 1
An ExamplA of What Pluck, Energy, Brains vand Capital
Can Accomplish.
the sympathetic chords of an yEolian wooden ><
harp vibrating to the sweet touch of j the (laptii
■ >Id .Eolus liiniio If. Then thu •
playful little squirrel, with its
mate, gamboled on nature's own V
playground, ami the shrill .note of jf
the quail as he whistled to his _ fctCTmj
mate across the great forests was |
uninterrupted save hy the plav- J A
fill sport of saute cotton tail as •
he chased himself about front hill
to hill. The sncreligious agencies N.
of civilisation had not laid tlieir
despoiling hands on Paine Na-
tore's work, and eveiythillg was
as beiinlifnl and serenely quiet us jT
\a summer’s day. Jint now how 1 N
different. fc'edrccly auc .liort gen-
fiii.tioi) has passed away, amt the
changes arc almost miraculously \
wonderful. The shrill shriek of J. ,
the giant iron horse, the 1mm
drum of machinery, the noise- f .
the hammer and saw, and the old .
plantation melody of the negro at
the mortar box—all these are v>«^
abroad over the land, vv.
ITitil quite rceenlly no one \
ever thought, of the possibility of. tr\.
everybody wlm knows Captain
Tift and lias been cognizant of his
many liberal and generous acts,
knows that he never leaves un
done anything that will redound
to the upbuilding or bettering of
his community.
Next, hut not least, comes the
Tiftou Foundry and Machine
Company's plant. Tift.m has
long needed such an establish
ment, and only a few short
moifths ago came that mo-i pleas
ant and affable gentleman It. S.
Kell, of (Jrilliii, tin., and who by
the way is a son of our Adjutant H.
M. 'Kell, of Alabama warship fame,
to confer with some of the citizens
here as to the advisability of putting
in a first class machine shop and
brass and iron foundry. Some ut
our wide-awake citizens immediately
seized hold of the opportunity, and
the result of it is that we now have
in operation, with 11. S. Kell as man
ager, a machine shop anil foundry,
running through fitted up with the latest improved
ure the residences j maehiiieiy for doing all kinds .of.
colored population j repair work and prepared to inuhld
ier, but .instead s ail kinds of brass- ami iron castings,
ion have t^.ji’hfey also carry lit all lime- a full
outside of, jj, |e „f s team gauges... 'pipe-fittings,
globe valves, cheek val' esf injectors.
nm SHOM/NG LOCATION
R CLIMATE.
Unsurpassed win
PRODUCTIVE SOIL. GOOD CflURCMES,
SCHOOLS AND hotels
teni, running; to go up, and the aearpertters and
Imiliswdek, on! hriekmasoits are never idle. 'J'he
It is also one'Streets mid blocks are laid oil on a
ton unit Xojaili- ’ liberal plan, the lots being lUOxtHid
ftoiu Tiftou in feet and all streets mi feet wide,
imi toward Ah- w nj, gq Lot ailnvii
Kung the mteii- tl .
to push it on • vt, - v Nor
, (hi., just ’ll* 1 of thu white and
I’lie Tiftou atid | All jumbled up togetli
is aNo graded llhe colored jw(mla1
stance, and we t.iwns of■ their'own just
that it will be I the* incorporate limits, where they
tile work can | .-an jnmiage their own affairs to suit
•s im excellent, themselves and neither he harassed
li direct outlets by nor linra-s their white neighbors,
Uif, and also to The convenience* are all that
clever, soh.-r, law-abiding, helps,
trims, social, cultured, refined, tlior-
•mgh-goiiig, energetic people cannot
he found aiiyw'hcje. Those who
laVe come to us from other sections
\;in t<* have imbued us (or those id
who were' lacking in it) with
dr e.haraeterisrie -energy, and all
'(^Working together for the np-
’iug—.socialIv. linaneiallv, iutel-
