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Gbc ZEifton ©alette
Published Weekly
1 tie Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietor*
JOHN L. HERRING Editor and Manager
~ Entered at (lie Postoffice. at Tifton, Georgia,
•nail matter of the second glass. ■ '
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County Georgia
ANNOUNCEMENT
" Mr. L. H. Kimbrough has charge of the Ga
zette's daily and weekly subscription list and
has also the outside work of the office, including
advertising and job soliciting and collecting.
Mr. Kimbrough is no stranger to our people,
... having been associated with the Gazette for
I nveral years in the past. Recently he has had
charge of the carrier circulation of the Atlanta
Journal in this territory. He is an experienced
circulation man and under his direction we ex
pcct to see that of the Daily Gazette largely
■ increased.
THE RIGHT WAY.
It is gratifying to know that the canning club
t work will be continued in Tift county this year.
Ills still more gratifying that it will be support-
Bpl, «d by the farmers.
kir It has been our opinion from the first that
more general interest would be taken in can
ning club work and farm demonstration work
if the expense of carrying them on was distribut-
- ed among a greater number. Some effort has
Been made in the past to have the farmers con
tribute towards carrying these things on, tut it
was not a success. Perhaps because it was not
Bandied in a way calculated to bring results.
When the farmers of the county think enough
'\9t the canning club and farm demonstration
work to contribute to their support then the
good effects of both will be multiplied many
times. It was necessary for the first few years
in this county, in order to get both of these in
troduced, that a few should bear the expense.
The farmers have had ample opportunity to see
what both lines of work mean to them and they
■hould not only be willing to contribute to keep
them going, but to aid the work in every pos-
cible way.
The men behind the movement this year ap
pear to have started on the right line. The can
ning club work for this year is assured. We
hope next year the farm demonstration work
can be guaranteed by the same means.
The dreadnought Pennsylvania, launched
Tuesday, cost to build and equip oVer $14,173,-
000. When planned she was supposed to be
the last word in warship building, but before
her Completion faster ships were built by other
nations with guns of larger caliber!
The Pennsylvania will have a speed of twenty-
one knots an hour. Some of England’s newest
dreadnoughts have a speed of twenty-eight
knots; several of Germany’s have twenty-seven
and one twenty-nine knots; one of Japan’s
twenty-seven and another twenty-five knots;
one of Italy’s twenty-five; one of Russia’s twen
ty-seven, and even Turkey has one of twenty-
two and Greece a battleship of twenty-three.
The Pennsylvania is equipped with 14-inch
guns, while the guns of England’s latest dread
noughts are 15-inch.
Modern sea-fighting has been reduced to a
science, the ships with J;he greatest speed and
the longest range guns send their opponents to
the bottom. There is no longer the opportunity
for individual daring and achievement as in the
days of Drake or later of John Paul Jones and
Stephen Decatur.
The fastest battleships of England, France or
Germany could steam away from the Pennsyl
vania; on the other imnd, she could not by her
speed escape them if she desired to do so. With
her 15-inch guns the British Queen Elizabeth
could stand off out of range of the Pennsylvania
and send her to the bottom,
Against, a more speedy antagonist and one
with guns of long range, the Pennsylvania could
neither fight nor escape.
Then why waste money in building her?
For many years the nations of Europe engag
ed in a merry contest to see which could build
the biggest and fastest battleships, that could
carry guns of the largest caliber. What this
contest led to the cables have been telling since
the last day of July. Our country has caught
the fever and has joined in the wasteful, money
spending race to see who can build the costliest
battleship today to be relegated to the junk-
heap tomorrow.
The Pennsylvania affords a vivid illustration
of the senseless waste in such a contest.
If we must join the merry dance of naval ex
travagance why not profit by the lessons the
war taught and bu’ld ships of speed that carry
guns of long range?
Why spend so many miltions on a dreadnought
that nothing dreads and that is outclassed before
she is launched?
ONLY A BLUFF.
Why is it that raising hogs, even on
limited scale makes a man talk big? Is it be
cause he feels big? '
Since Editor Anderson of the Telegraph ac
quired - two pigs (by gift) he has become a great
bluff. He says he is going to plant an acre of
aweet potatoes that he swears will produce 300
bushels and will invite the farmers visiting at
the State Faff - next fall to see him dig his crop,
Then he offers $50 in gold to the Georgia editor
that will raise the greatest number of potatoes
on an acre. ,
Now, why should Anderson start a thing like
that just to get a chance to brag a little? He
knows the editors in Georgia haven’t time to
raise potatoes; they are too busy telling other
people how. And if they raised their own pota
toes what in the world would they take on sub-
acription when money got scarce?
Then, how can the editors expect the farmers
-Co - subscribe for their papers if they go into com
petition with them in potato raising? Wouldn’t
It be the turn-about of fair play for each far-
| mer to start a newspaper? Then where would
w the newspapers be and what would the editor
of the Telegraph do about it when two or three
hundred jobless editors besieged his sanctum?
No; the province of the editor is to give ad
vice. His work is to tell other people how to
.raise good crops, and then to swap the produet
V of his labor (or the product of theirs. If the
farmers of Georgia once caught sight of the 300
r more potato dutches cultivated by the editors
in this state, they would no longer read the ad-
■ vice so freely and trustingly given them. There
would be the merry horse laugh. Let the far-
•• met; stick to his potato patch and the editor
stand by his pencil; that is the only thing he
.kno'ws hoy/ to plow with.
sides, Editor Anderson hasn’t got $50.
ther has any other editor; if he had, he
ildn’t be an editor.
You among the Gazette readers who are ad'
id to the mail order habit would do well to
ider over the following figures given out by
Postoffice Department: During the year
§4 the department caught mail order swind'
who had relieved the people of $68,000,000,
increase of $14,000,000 over the previous
and in five years the total has been $361,-
i,000. This only includes the swindlers that
Hie government has been able to catch up with.
;«ow many more millions of dollars the trusting
nail order public is fleeced of every year, no
haan knows. Probably they deserve it, for we
akould all trade at home. But then, the home
fingehints ought to advertise,
B/Tifton’s^ cotton recipts passed 30,000 bales
j^^gday. It was a high water marie for Tifton
ra n cotton market end was only made possible
superior railroad facilities and the qn-
i and public spirit of those citizens who
I provided the means to handle the crop that
> South’s greatest staple.
WASTEDMONEY-Spp
TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT.
The impression is growing in the ordinary,
every-day American mind that we are being
governed not wisely but too much.
Primarily, it was supposed that government
was to leave us unrestrained in “life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness,” to quote a cher
ished document, and laws were supposed to be
for the restraint of criminals and the protection
of the law-abiding. Of late years, however, we
find the government interfering with just about
everything that enters in to the life of the aver
age citizen. It criticises and inspects the food
we eat, the liqnors we drink to drown our trou
bles, the drugs we take to escape the doctors,
the newspapers we read to avoid the junk-heap
Just about everything we come in contact with,
spiritual, moral, intellectual or social, the gov
ernment insists on butting into. We fear that
the time is coming when the sanitary kiss, the
eugenic marriage and the 100-per cent baby
will be under strict government regulation and
supervision. Then we may indeed sigh for the
comparative freedom enjoyed by the care-free
subjects of the Sultan and the Czar.
With government supervision and regulation
we have the governnment expert. The expert
in foods that knows better what you want to
eat than you do; the expert in drug3 who knows
more about what ails you than your doctor; the
expert in eugenics who would kill out the weak
lings and breed a race of giants; the expert in
agriculture who can’t run a straight furrow but
thinks himself fully competent to instruct men
who have spent their lives on the farm
—and so on, down through the list, with an
expert for about everything under the sun that
the powers that be can devise a scheme to pay a
salary for.
GOOD FOR GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH.
Mr. Asa. G. Candler looms large as one of
the South’s great men. He gave a million to
found a universary; put thirty million at the dis
posal of the cotton growers of his state at a time
of need, and now he comes forward and takes
up the entire issue of Georgia bonds.
It is good for a state to have men who arc not
only able but willing to finance it. It is well
that we do not have to hawk our bonds before
the financiers of the North and East, but have
men at home with the money to buy them and
the willingness to pay the highest price for
them.
It marks the dawn of a brighter day for Geor
gia and because Georgia is a typical Southern
state, for the South. It marks the cutting of the
strings that have bound us to Northern and
Eastern financiers and the measure of a han
dicap that this has proven to our highest de
velopment. Best of all, the bonds are one of
the best investments that Mr. Candler can make.
And it should not be forgotten that he made
the money to buy them right here in Georgia
where he is spending it—and that he made it
by advertising.
It strengthawd Georgia’s credit abroad when
it was known she had money enough at home to
take care of her bond issue.
MiBignatsts Circulation,. Etc.,. Re
by tBo Act of Aug. 24, 1912
of Tfin - Ttftoii Gazette, pub*
WeekliMit Tifton, Georgia, for (
Editor, J.* L. Herring, Tifton, Ga.
^ifamagng Editor, J. L.- Herring,
Business Manager, J. L. Herring,
Tifton. Ga.
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pany. - - '
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of stockholders holding 1 per cent
or more of total amount of stock.
If not a corporation, give names and
addresses or individual owners.)
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Ga.; W. T. Gostin, Reynolds, Ga.;
J. N. Brown, L. P. Thurman, G. W.
Coleman, W. H. Hendricks, Frank
Scarboro, J. S. Royal, H. L. Cart
wright, W. H. Parker, G. W. Julian,
H. I). Webb, H. Kent & Son, T. ia.
Phillips, E. P. Bowen, I. W. Myers,
J, H. Hutchinson, J. J. Golden, Mrs.
J. J. L. Phillips, J. S. Taylor, B. Y.
Wallace, R. C. Postell, R. Eve, W. H.
Spooner, R, D. Smith, H. H. Tift, Jr.,
J. M. Shaw. Jason Scarboro, W. W.
Banks and C. W. Fulw„od, Tifton, Ga.
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Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 18th day of March. 1915
"“eal.i L. R. HERRING,
Notary Public, Tift County, Ga.
(My commission expires Juno 23,
ISIS.)
SOME HOG AND PACKING HOUSE
EXPERIENCE
Farmer friends, you have heard
great deal about the Moultrie packing
house, no doubt. Now some more.
What I tell you is my actual experi
ence.
About December 15, 1914, I haul
ed It hogs to the packing house. A
Mr. Taylor, from Omega, carried 4
hogs the same time. He was first
there, his hogs were unloaded, and
while they were weighing his, I asked
tho manager, Mr. Brooks, what they
wore paying. (Mr. Taylor had never
asked the price.) Mr. Brooks said
6 cents. “Mr. Brooks, I thought you
were going to pay Chicago prices.”
We are.” After talking for some
time, he went out and looked at my
hogs in wagon ard gave me $6.40. Mr.
Taylor 6nly get 6 cents. His hogs
veighed 1,040 pounds, average weight
260 pounds, afry hbgs averaged 154
pounds. That difNgence/l thought,
was because- my hogs had been fed
four weeks on corn, Mr. Taylor’s 2
weeks, but have found out that that
was not the:
Later M!r. T. R. Denby haulod 18
hogs. I hauled one load for him. He
was offered 9 cents without knowing
they had been ted com. That was the
price they were paying if you were
willing to take it. Mr. Denby got
$6.15 after so tong a time.
Many of you who read this heard
Mr. Brooke talk at the farmers* meet
ing in Tifton about one year ago.
He said then hogs fed com four to
six weeks will harden them. You
tell him that when you haul your hogs
there; and; see what he tells you.
I have hauled four loads there,
three for myself and one for Mr.
Denby, and every time I would not
sell until I saw the manager, except
the last load, February 25, 1915, I
had written them several times and
always talked a good bit before sell
ing. I did not want to be always,
what I thought worrying them, so I
told the manager that I thought he
would givo me all they were worth,
also lqt him know that I would appre
date the very best price. Now, this
load of hogs had been up in pen eat
ing nothing but com, cotton meal
And shorts for 60 days and bofore
this they had eaten velvet beans and
potatoes. Didn't hardly know what
a peanut was. Sure I told hi3 this.
Some time before this I wrote the
house about prices. They replied that
they were paying $6.35 for hogs that
had been fed com 4 or five weeks. I
wrote back and asked if they were
paying $6.35 for hogs on (say) Jan.
20, that had been fed corn four
of five weeks, what were they paying
for corn raised hogs, and to date
havq not heard from them.
This last load of hogs were Berk
shire Essex, fattened on corn and
had averago weight of 170 pounds.
They paid me 6 cents.
Two carloads of hogs were unload
ed and weighed while I was there. I
saw them weighed, ono weighing,* did
not average 100 pounds each. Eleven
hogs weighed 900 and a few pounds,
and two that I noticed were in bad
shape. There was not a hog in the
two cars that was equal to raino for
the purpose for which they wanted
them. This gentleman was paid $6.35
around for the two cars. Was that
right?
I was a little fellow, but should
have had what my hogs were worth
according to the market But what
can the little fellow do? any
thing but take what they give you
and say nothing—that is if you take
your hogs there. A better plan I
think is to kill our hogs, cure the
meat and sell to the merchants. They
will buy for I killed my last bogs
and three weeks from the time I kill
ed them I was paid 12 cents for aides
and shoulders and 14 cents for bams.
Cash; yes in Tifton, Ga., too.
If we do not want to kill, had better
•ell to Gibbt Bros. W« will not have
expenses getting our stuff to Moul
trie. Sure we have to pay the ex
penee of gettfaf them eomygipfe
but we Laow Just what we are getting
without any expe&M*. Jfjta
Joy t» OU a wagon 23 miles with
Mr. J. T* Herring, v ;
Editor Tifton Gazette, 7
Tifton, Ga.,
Dear Sir: Please note copy of
letter from Charles J. Brand, of the
U. S. Agricultural Department, with
copy of my reply. Yours truly,
J. J. L. Phillip*.
United States Department of Agri
culture. Office of Markets and
Rural Organization
Washington,#D. C„ March 15, 1915.
Mr. J. J. L. Phillips,
Tifton, Ga.,
D«ar Sir:. Your letter of March
11th and telegram of today have been
received, and the following telegram
has just been sent to you:
“Cotton you sent less than
siAen-eights inch average
length; weak and wasty; not ad
visable to plant. Letter fol
lows.”
The three sacks of half-and-half
seed cotton *were received late Satur
day and consequently were not gin
ned until today. They out-turned
40-%, 41-% and 41-% lint and
stapled 13-16, 3-4 and 3-4 inch re
spectively, each sample being weak
and wasty and containing aborted
seeds. On account of the shortness
of staple and poor character, this
cotton would not be tenderable on
future contracts, and therefore,
•hould not be planted.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Charles J. Brand,
Chief.
Tifton, Ga., March 17, 1915.
Mr. Charles J. Brand, Chief,
Office of Markets and Rural Organ
ization,
U. S. Department Agriculture,
Washingtor, D. C.,
Dear Sir: Your telegram and let
ter of March 16th received. I would
be very glad if your Department
would send an expert here to go in
to the cotton situation. A very
large per cent of the crop here wi'l
be planted in the half-and-half. Du
not think there is any way to avhid
it this year, but something might' be
done for another year. I qm of the
opinion that there is a good deal of
the other varieties of cotton grown
here that the staple is the same
length of the half-and-half.
In your warning to Texas, Okla
horaa and Arkansas, you advise the
planting of “Triumph.” You will
note by circular, that at Auburn.
Ala., my cotton made 403 lbs. of lint
against 268 lbs. of lint of Triumph.
In the anthracnose test at Athena,
Ga., my cotton had 7.36 per cent of
effected bolls; Triumph had 16.9 per
cent You advise not to plant half-
and-half and advise Triumph, while
our experience here is the reverse.
Yours truly,
J. J. L. Phillips.
THE LORD IN THE WILDERNESS
From the Dalton Citizen:
The eighty-year-old Colquitt coun
ty man who was sued for divorce
this week ought to be sent to
Dalton to Join with the octogenarian
grass widows and widowers that Edi
tor Shope says are frisking aroutn.
the mountain sides of that rocky ant’
weary land.—Tifton Gazette.
At last Brother Herring has shelled
down the corn. Ik'writing the above
paragraph, he doubtless had in min?
the words of that familiar old hymn’
“Jesus is a Rock in a Weary Land,”
thereby virtually acknowledging thl
to be God’s country.
Picnic tim
is nearly here and we hare prepared for it an well a, for the
school children,’* hmche* by buying a fresh, crisp lot of big 5c
packages of Sweet Cakes, Crackers, etc., hi sealed packages
and will sell six packages for 25c. The variety consists of—
SODA BISCUITS, LEMON DROPS, JERSEY CREAM LUNCH,
GINGER. SNAPS, JUNIOR * VANILLA WAFERS, LEMON
BISCUITS, ETC
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Sweet and Sour Pickles
also help to solve the lunch problem. We have plenty of them
in plain or mixed, sour or sweet, chow chow and olives. These -
are good Pickles put up in 10c jars. We will sell them three
for 25c or 90c per dozen. We also have Salad Dressing in IOc
and 25c Jars that is extra good. The 5c size Potted Meats are
sold 6 for 25c
Standard Tomatoes
FOR EVERY DAY USE
We are selling FREE STONE and BIG R. standard 2-pound
size Tomatoes for 75c per dozen and the 3-pound size for $1.00
per dozen. 3-pound Lye Hominy 90c per dozen cans. Van
Camp’s Pork and Beans, No. 1 Size, 90c per dozen. .'
Van Camp’s Evaporated Milk, large size, 90c per dozen
by the case of 4 dozen. Small size 46c per dozen by the kata.
of 6 dozen. No. 2 Vi “White Top” California Dessert Peaches *
$2 per dozen
Sugar Gone Up
Sugar has advanced sharply and may go higher. We aro
still selling 25-pound bags for $1.50.
Have you ever used DE SOTO Flour. This is an extra
good plain flour and only $1.00 per sack.
DELICIOUS and HEART’S CONTENT are self-rising
brand* at $1.00 per sack. We have a big trade on these
brands and they satisfy.
Advance in the Price of Hulls and Meal
Although Cotton Seed Hulls and Meal are advancing in
price we are still selling Hulls at 40c per sack and Meal for
$1.40. Wheat Shorts and Wheat Bran has also advanced but
we are selling 100-pound sacks at $1.75 fof Shorts and $1.60
for Bran. Don’t feed your chickens Com alone. Give them
a balanced ration and they, will pay for it in eggs. Scratch
Feed only $2.15 per 100 pounds.
Peas and Peanuts
If you don’t buy your peas at once you will have to pay
more for them. We have a good supply of Mixed Peas, Iron
Peas, N. C. No. 1 Peanuts and Spanish Peanuts. V . .
Bring us your Eggs, Corn and Hay. We will give you the
market prices for them and sell you goods at the lowest prices. '
GEO. BAKER
WHOLESALE
RETAIL
AN EDITOR IN TROUBLE
DECREASE IN COTTON
The trada is becommlng more dis
posed to believe in a considerable
acreage reduction, says the Savannah
Morning News. Reports to the Jour
nal of Commerce indicate a decrease
of 25 per cent, in Texas and 30 per
cent, in Oklahoim% If these states
decrease so much where cotton is
grown without fertilizing, it is only
reasonable to look for a larger de
crease in tho eastern and central see
tions. Indeed, if Texas and Okla
homa decrease to the extent stated it
would seem reasonable to expect a
decrease for the belt ns a whole of
35 to 40 per cent. Needless to say
that such a cut would be a prodigious
stimulus to the market.
What Is the Best Remedy For
Constipation? I
This is a question asked us many tim**
eachday. Tho answer is
We guarantee them to be satisfactory
to you. Bold only by ua. 10 cent*
Mills Drug Co.
a load of hogs, try it to.Moultrie, and
expect to got Chicago prices, and take
one-half to ono cent less.
I just want you to know my ex
perience and if you want some, al
right, got it. C. H. Mitchell.
HUT GOLD YOU HAVE
may bring sickness, doctors bills and
loss of work; you know that serious
sickness usually starts with s cold, and
a cold only exists where weakness
exists. Remember that. -v
Overcome the weakness and nature
cures the cold—that is the Uw of
reason. Carefully avoid drugged pills,
syrups or stimulants; they are only
praps and braces and whips. '»
It is the pure medicinal nourishment
hr Scott’s Fmnlai<m that quickly en
riches the blood, strengthens the lungs
and helps heal the air passages.
_ And mark this well—Scott's Emul-
skat generates body-heat as protection
Jgfrat wlmuriDM, ttM TTmuV
From the Worth County Local:
Friday our City Editor went to Ty
Ty on pleasure and business bent, and
while in the city decided to take a
ride over the streets.
While riding in the edge of the city
he met a man on a mule and in some
way the auto collided with, the mule
to the destruction of the auto.
Said auto is still in the garage un
dergoing repairs and will probably
cost some steen dollars for repair bill,
and just about the time our junior
editor was preparing a damage suit
against the man and the mule for
running over him the sheriff of our
sister county walked into the office
and placed the strong hand of the law
on the much surprised editor.
It seems that the man and the mule
both swore out warrants as the sher
iff was armed with two.
From the besj information obtain
able it seems that the mule is the only
one in connection with the accident
that hsould be sued or prosecuted.
Eye witnesses say that both the man
in the auto and the man riding the
mule did all they could to avoid a col
lision, but that the mule was so
determined to collide with an auto
that when hef ound he could not run
into it going forward he backed into
it
OFF TO THE GANG
Total May Reach 35 to 40 Per Coat
of Crop
Sheriff J. M. Shaw escorted Charlie
Williams and William Webb, both
colored, out to the gang Monday af
ternoon where the two will serve out
sentences.
Charlie appeared before Judge Eve-
Monday morning and entered a pie*
of guilty to escaping from the gang.
He was sentenced to serve eight
months under a simple larceny charge
in February 1912, but escaped befor*
the sentence was completed. He wa* .
caught at Poulan in September last
year and has just finished serving out
the balance of his eight months time.
He will now serve six months for in
terrupting the serving of the other
sentence.
They Know It’* Safe
Parents who know from experience
insist upon Foley’s Honey and Tar
Compound when buying a medicine
for coughs, colds, croup and la grippe.
C. T. Lunccford, Washington, Ga*
writes: “I have used it for six years
and it never has failed. I think it
is the best remedy made for coughs
and colds.” For sale by Brooks* Pnar*
inacy. adv.
Cures Old Sons, Other Remedies Won’t Cora.
The worat cases, no matter of how long standing.
i rre cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves
Pain and Heals at the same time. 23c. 50c, &.£•
Gare For Your Hogs and Cattle
THERE IS MONEY IN IT
Here is a way that is recommended by the State and Gov
ernment Veterinarians:
BUILD VATS AND DIP STOCK
The dipping process is the cheapest - and best way to com
bat the cattle ticks, hog lice and other skin diseases-of stock.
Have me to build you a concrete cattle or hog dipping vaL
It will keep your cattle in a clean, healthy condition, kill the
dreaded ticks and other insects that sap the blood and life out
of your cattle, stunting their growth and keeping them from
taking on flesh.
Now, take the Hog dip. Here it kills the Lice and fleas,
cures the mange, scruffy skin, is a preventive of hoig cholera,
keeping the hog in a good, healthy condition, where he can
grow and get good, solid flesh,-
A concrete vat will pay for itself in a few months and last
forever. The solution that goes into the water for the dipping
is very inexpensive. Don’t take my word for it Write to the
State Veterinarian and he will tell you the same.
See me and let me give you the particulars as to concrete
dipping vats and their uses.
I also make concrete hog troughs, feeding floors, house
blocks, piers, found*Whs, and anything in the concrete line. :
These vats can be seen on the farms of J. J. L. Phillips and
C. L. Parker.
JOHN H. BROWN, JR.
0X55, TIFTON, GA.
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