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TIFTON, TIFT 00., GEORGIA, JULY 6, 1906. ,
TIPT SUPERIOR COURT.
Merestlng and Ousv Session In Pro-
. nress This Week.
Tbe regular July term of Tilt
county superior court convened Mon
day morning at XO o’clock, J udge B.
G. Mitchell presiding. Solicitor-
General W. E. Thomas, with bis ac-
(justomed vigilance, is lookibg alter
the interests of tbo state. Quite a
number ol attorneys from neighbor
ing towns ware present, and a full
court room faced bis honor when be
notified Sheriff Baker to open court.
The panel of the grand jury was
called, showing the remarkable fact
that there was not a single absentee,
exeept two who did not live in the
comity. Three, Messrs, ffm. War
ren, Elijah Lindsey and L. S. Shep-
here, were excused because of ser
vice at the previous term, and Mr.
3. N. Horne was excused as a mem
ber of the County Board of Educa
tion. The jury is as follows: Q. A.
Williams, N. L. Willis, A. A Hutch
inson, W. W. Banks. Harry Heat, J.
D. Duncan, Isaiah Corley, I. W.
Myem, W. T.'Hargrett, C. W.
Graves, John Pope, E. A Buck, J.L.
Herring, A B. Hollingsworth, J. B.
Hannon, W. H. Coarsey, J. L. Pick
ard, T. A Inman, J. L Gay, Allen
Gibbs, J. A Eason and H. H Parker.
The jury retired to their room
and elected W. W. Banks foreman
and I. N. OOrrin bailiff, returning to
the court room to be sworn in and
receive his honor’s charge.
This charge was very elaborate,
far reaching and comprehensive, oc
cupying fifty minuteB in its delivery.
It embraced every portion of the
work of the grand juror, both on the
genend laws and duties as well as
the special laws required to be given
in charge, and will be a great aid to
that body in their work.
After receiving the 'charge, they
retired to their room, where Mr. J.
D. Duncan was elected clerk, and
the duties of the week were taken
up. As a body, the jury is a most
creditable one, with a majority of
level-headed, earnest, conservative
men, who have the county’s interest
at heart, and much for the general
good will doubtless result from their
deliberations.
Judge Mitohell then empaneled
the potit jury, and at 11:30 adjourn
ed, that Mr. Howell might have the
court room for his address.
SCHOOL RALLIES IN TIPT.
• We invite your attention to
our published statement,
which will be found elsewhere
in this paper, with resources
of over $600,000.00. We are
able to meet your wants.
• THE BANK OF TIFTON.
Commissioner Smith Names Dates
for Aggressive Campaign.
Desiring to reach directly every
voter in Tift county, our County
Sehool Commissioner has made the
following appointments for the next
two weeks. A number of other meet
ings are being held during the pres
ent week:
Brookfield, Wednesday, July 11,
7:30 p. m.
Camp Creek School, Thursday,
July 12,10 a. m.
Vanceville, Thursday, July 12,
3 p. in.
Ty Ty, Friday, July 13,10:30 a. m.
Tifton Court Boom, Friday, July
13, 8 p. m.
Tifton Court Boom, Saturday,July
14, JO a. m.
Oak Bidge, Monday, July 16, 10
a. m.
Eldorado, Monday, July 16,8 p. m.
Ansley, Tuesday, Inly 17,10 a m.
Old Ty Ty, Tuesday, July 17, 3
P-
Salem, Wednesday, July 18, 10
a. m.
Omega. Wednesday, July 18, 3
p. m
Midway, Thursday, July 19, 10
a. m.
Nipper Academy, Thursday, July
19, 3 p. m.
Mill Creek, Friday, July 20, 10
a m.
Zion Hope, Friday, July 20, 3
p. m.
July 21st, the most important
meeting of all, at the polla, where
every true friend of education in
Tift county, votmg that day, will
cast his ballot for local taxation for
onr publie schools.
Speakers have been secured to
address the people at a number of
these appointments and assist the
County School Commissioner on his
short but vigorous campaign.
One feature of these meetings will
be the laying of the corner stone
of the handsome new school build
ing, now in coarse of erection, at Ty
Ty July 13,
It is hoped that Hon. W. B. Mer
ritt will be there on that occasion,
as he has accepted the invitation for
Tifton, and will doubtless be present
at these three meetings. Also Prof.
J. S. Stewart, of Athens, one of the
best educators of the state and a
very foreible speaker.
Every school officer is kindly
urged, every voter earnestly request
ed, and every lady cordially invited
to attend one or more of these meet
ings.
The present month is a crisis in
the history of our new county. Let
COUNCIL’S MONTHLY MEETING
Important as Well as Routine Dust
ness Serore the Body.
Counoil assembled in the superior
court chambers Monday night July
2nd, 19U6, with Counoilmau Bowen
presiding and Messrs. Tift, Golden,
black and Hargrett in attendance.
The minutes of the May sessions
were read and adopted.
The petition of ID- Huff to the
First Assistant Post mas tpr General,
asking for the free delivery of mails
in the oity of Tifton, was adopted
and signed by the council. On mo
tion, a resolution of thanks was voted
to Mr. Duff for bis efforts in the be
half of the' eity for the establish
ment of free delivery of mails.
The street grade committee re
ported, through its chairman, Mr.
Tift, that Mr. H. W. Brown had
been retained by the eity as eity
engineer at 850 per year and at the
rate of $3.50 per day for each day
of actual service performed. On
motion, made and carried, the ac
tion of the street committee employ
ing Mr. Brown as city engineer was
confirmed.
Mr. Slack and.Mr. Golden report. 1
ed that a trash cart had bean pur*
chased for 850 from Mr. Moore. On
motion, made and carried, the pur
chase of the trash cart was confirm
ed.
On motion, made and. carried, it
was ordered that the building com
mittee have electric bells installed
in the new school building.
On motion, a vote of thanks was
extended to the Moultrie municipal
a uthoritics for their invitation to
the Tifton municipal authorities to
spend the 4th of July in the eity of
Moultrie.
On motion, the payment of the
Hughes Well Specialty Co., was left
wi th the discretion of the chairman
of the waterworks committee.
On motion, made aud carried, the
o lerk was instructed to pay W. H.
Ol iver the sum of $1.50 for damages
t o bis buggy received by his horse
f ailing through a bridge on Lore
avenue.
On motion, duly made and ear
ned, the following ordinance was
introduced, read and passed:
Be it enacted by the mayor ana coun-
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A HANDSOME BUILDING.
ontract Let for Tifton’s $20,000
Baptist Church.
Friday night, the building com
mittee of the Tifton Baptist church
let the contract for their new build
ing, to be erected on the northwest
eorner of Love avenue and Fourth
Btreet, to Wagener & Dobson, of
Atlanta and Montgomery, for 825,
000. Later, the committee deoided
to use granite for the foundation
work and this added 81,000 to the
pnee, the total being 820.000.
ia understood that the contractors
will donate $500 to the church.
Adding the oost of the lot, will make
their new homo oost the Tifton Bap
tists about 832,000.
The building will be finished out
side in granite and Washington
white pressed brick, with sandstone
trimmings. It will be a handsome
structure, in the latest style of ar
chitecture. It will have a large aud
itorium, with, vostibulcd entrance,
a Sunday sohool room, three class
rooms and a B. Y. P. II. room or
parlor. The auditorium will be fin
ished in oak and marble, with quar*
ir-Eawod oak doors.
cil of the city of Tifton and it is hereby
enacted by tne authority of the same,
that from and after the passage of this
act, the management of the public
schools of the city of Tifton as contem
plated in paragraphs 64, 66 and 66 of
the charter of the city of Tifton shall
be intrusted to a board of education,
which board shall consist of three mem
bers; they to be elected by the mayor
and council of said eity and to hold of
fice until the first meeting in January,
1907. They shall be charged with tne
ty of administering the ufTairs of
. , . • , ... . said public school system us set out in
each true and loyal citizen resolve | the barter of 1902, and the eity code
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to perform nothing less than his of 1895, where not in conflict with the
whole duty.
Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide."
W. It. S.
First National Bank of Tifton
We endeavor to accommodate and protect our cus
tomers in every way consistent with safe and liberal
banking. YOU are invited to become a customer of
tbis bank.
J. J. L. PHILLIPS, President. I. W. MYERS, Vlee-Preeldenl.
J. H. SCALES, Cashier.
Furniture and
Hardware
AT LOW PRICES.
CALL AND SEE US.
TAYLORVuRNITURE & HARDWARE GO.
MAIN. STREET.
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B. A Bock, President.
J. M. Paulk, Cashier.
The Citizens’ Bank.
CAPITAL, STOCK, 825 000.
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lateral. Your business solicited
ts. Luna made on good coN
■ IIUIR.praise Boatright BuiLMSO
Tunros, Ga.
Attest:
terms of such charter.
S. G. Slack,
W. T. Hargket^.
It appearing that an emergency
has arisen making such an election
necessary, it ia ordered that, the
above ordinance become immediate
ly effective aud continue in opera
tion until the next meeting of coun
cil.
On motion Messrs. Timmons, Har
grett and Golden were-elected as I
members of the Board of Education
to serve until Jan, 1, 1907,
On motion council adjourned.
Leon A. Hargraves, Clerk.
W. T. Hargrett,
E. P. Bowen,
H. H. Tift,
J, J. Golden,
S. G. Slack.
On motion the following ordi
nance was introduced, read and
passed;
ard of weight and fineness at the First
National Bank in the city of Chicago,
state of Illinois.
Section 2. The said bonds shall be in
substantially the following form:
United States of America,
No. State of Georgia, $1,000.00
City of Tifton School Bond.
Know all Men by These Presents,
That the city of Tifton, in the county
of Tift and state of Georgia, acknowl
edges to owe and for value received
K ises to pay to bearer One Thousand
rs on the 2nd day of April, 1936,
with interest thereon from the date
hereof at the rate of five per centum
per annum, payable annually on the
first day of January in each year, (ex
cept the first installment or interest,
which becomes due with the principal
hereof), on presentation and surrender
of the annexed interest coupons as they
severally become due.
Both 'principal and interest of this
bond are hereby made payable in gold
coin of the United States of America of
the present standard of weight and
fineness at the First National Bank in
the city of Chicago, state of Illinois.
This bond is one of a aeries of like
tenor issued for the purpose of con
structing a school building in the city
of Tifton, Ga., under the authority of
Section 377, et seq. of the Code of
Georgia, and of an election duly called
and held in the said city on the 6th day
of November, 1905, whereat more than
two-thirds of the qualified voters of
said city voted in favor of the issuance
of this bond.
And it is hereby certified and recited
that all acts, conditions and things re
quired to be done precedent to and in
the issuing of this bond have been done,
happened and been performed*in regu
lar and due form as required by law;
that a direct annual tax has been duly
levied sufficient for the payment of the
principal and interest of this bond at
maturity and that the total indedted-
ness of the city of Tifton, including this
bond, does not exceed the statutory
constitutional limitations.
In Testimony Whereof, The mayor
and council of the city of Tifton, Ga.,
have caused this bond to he signed by
the mayor, attested by the city clerk
with the corporate seal hereto affixed,
and have caused the annexed interest
coupons to he executed with the fac
simile signature of said officers, this
second day of April, 1906.
A Strong and Forceful Presentation
of His Side of the Question.
Hon. Clark Howell, whose connec
tion with one of its greatest news
papers as well as his distinguished
services to bis state make him no
stranger within its bounds, address
ed the voters ol Tift county on the
issues of the campaign Monday in
the superior court room.
He was introduced by Col. F. S.
Harrell, who paid him an eloquent
tribute, and began speaking at 11:30,
Judge Mitchell having adjourned
court immediately after his charge
to the grand jury.
The court room was filled, and
Mr. Howell was listened to with
closest attention and frequently ap
plauded. He spoke for exaotly an
hour and thirty minutes, and decid
edly made a most favorable impres
sion and no doubt strengthened bis
candidaey in this section.
Mr. Howell began by reference to
our being on the threshold of a new
county and paid a tribute to the
growth and development of this
tion, In no part of the state was
/^progress and prosperity iqpre mani
fest than in the Empire of the Wire-
grass, and assuredly no section had
shown such development
Down here he met numbers of
people from his section, and in some
places, on the street corners, you
could almost call the roll of the
northern part of the state. Our
progress was attracting the atten
tion, not only of the balance of
Georgia, but of the world.
He had received great benefit
from his canvass for governor, if he
got nothing only the privilege of
seeing, intimately, every portion of
the state, and meeting its people.
When he started on his campaign
he thought, in view of the general
charges that things were going
wrong that somewhere in Georgia
he would find depression and stag
nation, but on the contrary, on every
hand, he met prosperity and prog-
Mayor.
City Clerk.
COUPON.
On the..... flay of 1
the city of Tifton, Ga., promises to pay
to bearer Dollars,
in gold coin of the United States of
America at the First National Bank in
the city of (’hicapo, state of Illinois,
for interest due that day on its School
Attest:
Mayor.
AN ordinance authorizing school
BONDS OF THE CITY OF TIFTON, OA.,
TO THE AMOUNT OF $20,000.00
AND PROVIDING FOR THE
PAYMENT THEREOF.
Whereas, at an election held on the
6th day of November, 1906, in the city
of Tifton, Ga., after notice thereof had
been duly given for the time and in the
manner required by law, more than two-
thirds of tne qualified voters of said
city voted in favor of the issue of the
school bonds of the city of Tifton to the
amount of Twenty Thousand Dollars
($20,000), therefore,
Be it ordained by the mayor and coun
cil of the city of Tifton, Ga., and it is
hereby ordained by authority of the
same:
Section 1. That under the authority
of the said election of November 6th,
1906, there are hereby directed to be
issued twenty School Bonds of the city
of Tifton, Ga., of One Thousand Dollars
each, dated the 2nd day of April, 1906,
and becoming due on the 2nd day of
April, 1936, which said bonds shall bear
interest evidenced by coupons at the
rate of five per centum per annum, pay
able on the first day of- January. 1907,
and annually thereafter, except tne last
installment which shall be paid at the
maturity of said bonds. Both principal
and interest of said bonds ehalfbe made
payable in gold coin of the United
States of Amtxiefcoi; the present stand-
city Clerk.
Said bonds shall have endorsed there
on the following certificate of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Tift county,
Ga.:
State of Georgia, ) „„
County of Tift. f 88 '
I, J. E. Peeples. Clerk of the Supe
rior Court of Tift county, Ga., and
keeper of the records and seal thereof,
do hereby certify that the within bond
was validated and confirmed by the
judgment of the Superior Court of said
Tift county, Ga., on the eleventh day
of December, 1906, and that no excep
tions to said judgment have been filed,
nor has any appeal been prosecuted
therefrom.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
Superior Court of Tift county, Ga.,
this day of , 1906.
Clerk Superior Court, Tift Co., Ga.
Section 3. For the purpose of pro
viding for the principal and interest of
said bonds as they respectively become
due, there shall be ana there is hereby
levied a direct annual tax upon all the
taxable property of the city of Tifton
sufficient to produce the sum of $1,666.67
in each ol the years 1906 to 1935,
both inclusive, ana provision to meet
the requirements of this section shall
in due time, manner and season be an
nually hereafter made.
Section 4. This ordinance shall be in
force from and after its passage and
publication.
H. H. Tift,
J. J. Golden.
MW. HOWELL’S SPEECH.
CASES DISPOSED Of,
Board of Trade.
The Tifton Board of Trade meetB
tonight in the court room.
Gome ont; there is important bus-
Mr. Howell’s speech was even and
candid, remarkably free from per
sonalties, and far removed from even
the semblance of mud slinging. He
had spoken for thirty minutes be
fore he mentioned Mr. Smith’s
name, and then only to controvert
some charges made by that gentle
man. His speech, throughout, was
cool, clean-cut discussion of the
issues of the campaign.
Mr. Howell said he was, by nature,
i optimist; he believed in the inherent
honesty of his fellow-jxyM). He referred
to his honor’s recent charge to the
grand jury, in which stress was laid
upon the right of every man to a fair
trial, and in politics or the courts,
when the good name of a man was at
tacked, this traducer should be required
to produce the evidence. He proposed
to speak in that spirit and to appeal to
the reason ami common sense of the
people, not to their passion and preju
dice, and upon that verdict, based on
the common sense of the people of the
state, no matter what it might be, he
would be content.
Of the issues of the campaign, he
first took up negro disfranchisement.
> man in the state would go further
do more than he to disfranchise the
negro, but no state had the power to
amend or repeal the federal constitu
tion. In the disfranchisement bill twice
before the Georgia legislature, the word
negro did not occur once, because to
have put it in there would have render
ed it unconstitutional. It only proposed
change the laws that the educated
could vote anjp the uneducated could not
vote.
In Georgia today, not one white man
as without a vote, while every negro
as disfranchised. Change the white
primary to an educational qualification,
and you disfranchise 70,000 uneducated
white men and give the ballot to 76,000
negroes. South of the mountainjeoun-
ties of the state, where there were no
negroes at all, there were more negroes
in the public schools than white chil
dren.
Seven negro colleges within a few
miles of Atlanta, exceeded in endow
ment the total combined white colleges
of the state. Across the line in Ala
bama, Tuskeegee alone exceeds in en
dowment the combined white colleges
of Georgia and Alabama. It is easier
for Booker Washington to go to Wash
ington or New York and come back
with a $500,000 endowment for Tuskee
gee than it was to raise $5,000 for a
white college in Georgia or Alabama.
Georgia led other states in the dis
franchisement of the negro, and had
they followed her example of thirty
years ago, they would not now be driv
en to such unconstitutional make-shifts.
Toombs, in 1877, gave us the cumula
tive poll-tax, and this, with the white
primary, gave us white supremacy from
the mountains to the seaboard. Do we
want to drop this to take up new-fang
led experiments?
Under the educational qualification,
even with the famous grandfather
clause, they could not touch the edu
cated negro. And the grandfather clause
First Week’s Docket of Tift Superior
Court Is Clear.
The first case tried Monday was
that of Mary E. Graydon vs. J. B.
Huff, trespass, which resulted in a
verdict for the plaintiff.
Suit of Jos. Averbach vs. I. W.
Myers, and of Jos. Roland vs. H. H.
Tift, both for damages, were dis
missed for want of plaintiff’s repre
sentation.
W. L. Fender vs. Ramsey & Phil
lips, complaint, resulted in a verdiot
lor the defendant for $200.
Tuesday, the case of J. E. Johns
vs. W. H. McCleland, injunction, re
sulted in a verdict for the plaintiff,
tbe injunction being made perma
nent.
M. Ferst & Co. vs. J. H. Ford,
suit on account, was decided in favor
of tbe plaintiff.
Gates D. Fahnstock vs. Market
Fruit & Cotton Growers’ Co. waq
granted a rule absolute.
F. M, Mangbam, guardian, vs.
Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Rail
way Co., was settled.
The case of J, F, Fender vs.
Horne & Brown was continued until
Wednesday, and afterwards contin
ued for the term.
Wednesday, the libel for divorce
of Mrs. Lena Willis vs. Spencer
Willis was refered back to Worth
county.
Mrs. C, Denby vs. Frank Willi
ford was still pending in supreme
court.
In five cases, of the Blockshear
Manufacturing Co. vs. J. H. Ford,
tbe plaintiff was given a verdict and
judgment in each.
Tifton Grpcery Co. vs. Gibbs and
Drawdy, complaint; verdict .for
plaintiff.
J. J. L. Phillips vs. M. E. and T.
W. Fletcher, administrators; verdict
and decree for plaintiff.
Brown M’f’g. Co. vs. J. H. Ford,
complaint; dismissed for want of
prosecution.
Thursday morning Covington <fc
Co. were given judgment by default
against J. H. Ford, in a complaint.
H. H. Tift vs. W. C. Mack, was
settled.
Henderson & Powell vs. Wiley
Branch, suit on note, was dismissed.
Mary A. Ham and Ann Conner vs.
H. H. Tift, trespass, was dismissed.
Thursday at noon, Judge Mitchell
dismissed the jury for the week.
The following charters were
granted :
The Georgia-Floiida Saw Mill As
sociation.
The Allen Lumber Co.
Tifton Manufacturing Co.
VOL, xvl-no. is.
A CITY CARRIER SYSTEM. .
Tirton People Will Soon Have Mall
Delivered at Doors.
Tifton ia an applicant for a city
carrier system, on tbe strength of
th<3 gross receipts of tbe office for .
the fiscal year ending June 30tb.
Offices in cities having not less
than 10,000 population, or gross
postal receipts (not including money
orders) of 810,000 annually, are en
titled to a system of free city deliv
ery, and as the receipts of tbe Tifton
offico have passed this amount, even
though far short of the population
named, Postmaster Duff has ap
plied for the installation of a carrier
Bystem.
Once inaugurated, should the
population or gross receipts fall be
low the required amount, the ser
vice is not discontinued. There is
no probability, however, that they
will decrease in Tifton’s case.
The city council has agreed to
have the streets posted and number
ed in due time for the installation of
tbe system.
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Tifton Foundry Si Maohine Co.
Phillips Pine Co.
Tbe McMillan Supply Co., Brook
field.
Taylor Farnitnre & Hardware Co.,"
Tifton.
Charter amended and changed
from Southern Beal Estate and Loan
Company to the National Loan and
Trust Co., TiftOn,
Thursday afternoon was spent in
bearing certiorari caseB and in other
business.
In two caseB, E. L. Moye vs. Tif
ton Beal Estate & Loan Co., and J.
P. Fields vs. Tifton Beal Estate &
Loan Co., the judge ordered the
amount involved, 8700, paid over to
tbe clerk of superior oourt, and by
him held in trust, while the parties
were required to interplead. In this
matter, tbe commission of 8700 on a
real estate deal is elaim',4. by both-
plaintiffs. The defendants acknowl
edge obligation to one of them, and
the courts were called upon to de
cide.
His honor is now awaiting the
adjournment of the grand jury, be
fore adjourning the first week. That
body is busy at work, and will prob
ably adjourn today.
So far, something near fifty trne
bills and special presentments have
been returned, and a number of wit
nesses are up tbis morning, q,
Next week, tbe criminal docke^-if*!
will bo taken up. There is already
| enough business for several days.
Close prices on guaranteed Cook'O
Sloves and Banges. Taylor Fumi- .•«
| tnre & Hardware Co.
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Tha ample resources of this bank as shown
in its financial statement enable it to give its customers every accomoda
tion and the greatest liberality of treatment sanctioned by sound and
prudent banking principles. We believe tliat the success of this bank is
intimately connected with the success of its customers, and we therefore
invite their fullest confidence.
Merchants & Farmers Bank
TIFTON, G A.
Comfort
is what most people are looking for.
If so, call and get you u comfort
chair, and a Perfection Canopy Mos
quito Net, and by doing so you will
get what you are looking for, comfort.
We 6ell them cfh6ap. Get one
they are all gone. ^ ^
Kent’s Furniture'Stored;
Second Street,
Tifton, O
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FOR
One Tenth the cost of Electricity
One Eourtli the cost of Kerosene
INSTALLED ON APPROVAL
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