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. Fore* of About Thirty Mon
. , Now G.ttinf Mill
SUrt in Two Wi
The H. H. Tift m mills will
up In about two week,, or' at
a* the necessary repairs tan be made
and a crew secured.
A force of about thirty men is
now at work cleaning up and mak
ing prepuniions for the .'tart. The
mills have been shut down fo.v over
& yi-Mi
Wednesday steam was raised in
bne Of the boilers for the purpose
of making some repairs and for
changing the boilers in the switch
engines of the Tifton Terminal Com
pany. These must be changed et-
ery three years under the require
ments of the Interstate Commerce
Many Sain Made and Paj
000 People Saw
Whennr SI
The Blue Line fi
made by the Tifton Pi
ufacturing Company, wi
over all competitors 01
exhibited at the Geoi
The first prizewinners
Best grain drill.
Best oat drill.
But harrow.
Best combinatiq
Nearly all the
turers of the coun’
sented at Macon an? the COlfalete
victory of the Tifton made tools was
a clear case of recognition of merit.
Over 110,000 people paid anmis.
Motion and Appearance Dockets Will
be Called Saturday Morning at
10 O'clock
sion to the grounds during the:
Commission. While these change* L, B maJority o£ the30
are being made, a switch engine has
been rented from the Atlantic Coast
Line. \
Mr. lift has timber for six or
eight months run, or perhaps longer,
A according to market conditions. The
? Uf ASlAaL af tVa mill ban— Lmam f alt een
idleness of the mill has been felt in
busines?circles and its renewal of
opeimttonf trill be gladly welcomed*
It is hoped tha$ the sound of its
whistle will mark the end of the
business depression. Many think
next year will see 1 a boom in the
lumber industry, and we trust this
will be the case.
The mill will employ over lOp
men. V y*
Owing td'AdvnucluyPrtces
From the Jacksonville, Fla. Times-
Union.
Owing to advancing prices in lum
ber the H. H. Tif# mills at Tifton,
Ga., will shortly start operations af
ter being shut down tof eighteen
months, according to Amos Tift, son
of the owner, who spent yesterday at
the Seminole hotel. Mr. Tift has
just concluded a 5,000 mile trip over
the country in an automobile during
which he visited the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco.
Blue Line exhibit on account o:
very favorable location.
Quite a number of Implei
were sold jnd over 1,500 prospec
tive buyers registered as being pigh-
ly interested in buying in the s]
This exhibit also won first,prize
l all entries at Valdosta, Dbnald-
nville and Leesburg, as yfell as
m2, con. Messrs. D. L. Jarrard and
A. ty Coe had change of the exhibit
and that it was in good hhnds the
TesulU prove.
RlGkTOR-TtfE JOB
A TWISTER POTATO
Were the Men in Charge of the Tift
County Exhibit at Macon
One of the first places visited by
the people from Tift when they
reached the fair grounds was the
Tift county exhibit, in the main ag
ricultural building.
.There Messrs. Hollis, Kell and
Lewis were right on the job, and
they looked as if they were glad
to see people from God's Country
The Tift county exhibit had a vj
riety almost as large as those of the
big counties, but the volume was not
so great, which did not permit the
display necessary for a first proa
winner. One thing that was a great
Mr. Jim Clements sent the Ga-1 disappointment to those in charge
xette Tuesday, from his farm near | was that the space reserved by Tift
’’■Chula, the twisted potato of the sea-' had been given to another county.
i0I , - This space was reserved for Tift on
it is turned Into a coll like a rat- 1 request of Mr. Hollis last spring but
when he arrived on the scene with
our exhibit he ‘found that it had
tlesnake and is doubtless a product
qf the prolific Bnake season.
Friday U the day and Sam Kul-
bersh’s Department Store it the
place. Shoet, Clothing and Dry
Goods. Main Street. Tifton Ga. d2w
been given.to Barrow county. Sev
eral attempts at explanation were
made by the fair management, but
none that really explained this pro
ceeding.
TO BUY or BUILD a HOME
And not insure it, is
to hook and land an
eel and not secure it!
The home may as
quickly slip away by
_ fire by night, or fire
jpw by day.
It has happened, it
it may happen!
Be Prepared
When It Does Happen
FRANK scarbouo
PHONE 1* OFFICE MYON BUILDING TIFTON, GA.
Make Your»Deposits Here
and you can rest content
ed that they are in good
keeping until you need
them again. We do the
modern system of bank
ing and are very conserva
tive in our loans, though
liberal to our patrons. The
best business men bank
here because they know
this institution is thor
oughly reliable in every
respect,
and let us
visitors.
ou want to know more about us come in
The Criminal week of the City
Court of Tifton convened at 10
o'clock Monday morning in Tift
county courthouse, his Honor R.
Eve, presiding, with all the officers
of Court present, to-wit: J. S. Ridg-
dill, solicitor; J. M. Shaw, sheriff and
Henry. D. Webb, clerk. *
W. A. Ross, E.. M. Ford and E. O.
Oliver were sworn, to serve as bailiffs
during the present week.
The Court proceeded with the trial
and disposition 9* th 9 followini
cases;
Monday, November 8th.
The State vs. Charlie Jones. Car
rying concealed weapons and with
out license; verdict of guilty on each
count, sentence 6 months in chain-
gang on each charge.
The State vs. Walter Hay. Vio
lating automobile law; verdict of not
guilty.
The State vs. T. A. Wetherington.
Assault and battery; plea of guil
ty, sentence 12.months and $100 to
include costs; 12 months sentence
suspended pending good behavior.
This case grew out of an at
tempt on Mr. Wetherington's part to
assault Col. H. S. Murray while the
latter was pointing out property for
Sheriff Shaw to levy on, while he
was acting as attorney for Mr.
Briggs Carson, Wetheriugton’s'land
lord.
The State vs. T. A. Wetherington.
Assault and battery; nolprossed.
This ca$e grew out of the threats
made by Mr. Wetherington against
Mr. Archie Schott, who appeared as
a witness in Justice's Court against
Mr. W. W. Wetherington, who Chief
Thrasher was prosecuting.
The State vs. J. M. Hall. Assault;
verdict of not guilty.
Mr. Hall was said to have made
threats of bodily injury against Mr.
John Furr, who was tried and con
victed at the last term of court for
leaving a dead mule too close to
Mr. Hall's house. The two got in an
argument before the first case was
brought to court and it was at that
time t^at the threat was said to have
been made.
Tuesday, November 9th.
The State vs. Cleve Hatcher, col
ored. Carrying pistol without li
cense; plea of guilty, sentence 6
months or $100 to include costs.
The State vs. Cleve Hatcher, col
ored. Carrying concealed weapons;
nolprossed.
The State vs. Henry Ware, col
ored. Simple larceny; verdict of
guilty, sentence 6 months in chain-
gang.
Ware stole a cross-cut saw from
the City while in its employ.
The State vs. George Jones, col
ored. Pointing a gun at another.
Verdict of guilty, sentence 12
months *in chain-gang.
Jones was indicted by the Grand
Jury for pointing a gun at another.
The State vs. Dempsey Willis.
Larceny from the house; verdict of
guilty, sentence 6 months or $76
and all costs.
Willis stole a load of corn from
a negro tenant on Mr. Lott Warren's
place.
The State vs. A. F. Baggett.
Violating boarding house law; nol
prossed.
The State vs. M. E. Best Cheat
ing and swinding; nolprossed.
The State vs. Burt Langley and
Amos Walker. Simple larceny; ver
dict of guilty. Sentence, $5 and costs
two months on gang in each
case.
The jury in this case did not re
turn a verdict until 10 o’clock Tues
day night. Langley and Walker
were members of the party that raid
ed Mr. W. W. Timmons pecan or
chard recently.'
Wednesday, November 10.
The State vs. Louis Cobb; mis
demeanor; verdict of not guilty.
The State vs. Jack Jones, cheat
ing and swindling; nolprossed.
The State vs. W. W. Weathering-
n. Disposing of crop without pay
ing rent; verdict of not guilty.
Mr. We&therington was accused of
selling two bales of cotton and only
making returns for one bale.
The State vs. H. S. Booth. Assault
and battery; verdict of not guilty.
Mr. Booth who is night policeman
| First and second prises on hay.
First on best variety of hay.
. J First and best green cane.
< First each on egg-plant, tomat
find okra.
i Second on meat.
[ The people of flft county
that those in charge of the e:
won enough in prises to pay the/ex-
pense of getting it ap and cai
to Macon. That they gave £heir
time and work was a foregone con
clusion from the st< %
'Messrs, Hollis an< Lewis returned
Sunday night from Macoi j where
tb#y packed the exhibit forj ihipment
e before lca\
lives
the yay the m«i
treated them, with;
the f*ct that the
iryed for Tift,
other
e e e e'r-
Concerning the exhibit, Mir. Hol
lis says:
“Our meat and &Weet potato^
tracted most attention from thd
dies.' Also the spineless Cactus
banana tree in bloom were the sub
ject of comment from all.
“The men took to our cotton, cc m
and velvet bean diraay, which
by far the best inttU| building,
boys and girls wer^ynost ini
in the candies, cakesand fancy
“Our display of/Japanese
mons was pronounced by all ;$Q
the most attractive of all frults in
the building. Our gophert}'
much attention, and .Upon
our display was moi
educational,' frna '/thf people were
unanimous in their praise of it
“Out of fourteen ribbons at Val-
dpsta, all wpre for first prize ex
cept for meat
“Our contribution to the Georgia
Exhibit cars was the largest of any
county in the state, and we will be
best represented in them. We told
the managers to come down to our
exhibit and pick out what they
wanted . I will fumiBh you a list of
these later. 1
GEORGIA PRODUCTS DAY
Will be Observed by Young Mtn’i
League With Barbecue
At their meeting held in the court
house Monday evening the Young
M^n's Democratic-Progressive Lea
gue voted to hold a barbecue Thurs
day of next week, November 18,
which is Georgia Products Day. The
place for the barbecue* has not been
definitely decided upon, but it will
be somewhere very near Tifton, if
not inside the city limits.
A number of rousing speeches
were made by different members
behalf of the candidates and the
League’s ticket.
About sixty were out and it was
voted to hold a meeting every Mon
day night until after the election is
over.
We are glad to receive inquisitive
THE BANK OF TIFTON
TIFTON, i : OBOROIA
at Ty Ty, was charged with assault
ing Mr. J. C. Ford, when the latter
endeavored to make bond for a negro
woman under arrest.
The State vs. John Clark. Selling
whiskey; nolprossed.
At 6:45 p. m. all matters having
been disposed of that could be dis
posed of at this term, Judge Eve in a
few well chosen words expressed to
the jurors his appreciation of their
prompt and faithful service and ex
cused the jurors and witnesses in at
tendance upon the Court for the
term. Court was held open for the
purpose of calling the Motion and
Appearance Dockets, which will be
oalled Saturday, November 13th at
10 a. m.
Henry D. Webb, Clerk.
The Others With the Atlanta Trips,
Are Contributions from Tifton.
Girls Got Trips to Fair
Tift county has certainly done a
good part by the Corn Club boys this
year. Seven of them get scholar
ships to the Boys' Corn Club short
course at Athens .< and eleven get
trips to the Atlanta Harvest Fes
tival, or Corn Show, as it should be
more properly wiled.
District Agent Cunningham can
vassed among the.business men Mon
day and announces the following
by Bank of Tifton.
Warren Walker* Trip to Atlanta
in by Hail’s D*|i’t' Store and L
• Myers.
Mike T-; c ker, Trip to Atlntffl
Ita by Col. R. D. Smith. ,
John Barnes, Trip to Atlanta giv-
m by Tifton Guano Co. : \
R. A. Griffin, Trip to Atlantal giv
en by Frank Scarboro. 1
Butler Hollis, Trip to Atlanl
en by W. L. Harman,
Joe Cravey, Trip to Attan‘
en by J. J. L. Phillips.
Jeff Mickle, Trip to Atlanl
en by Tifton Produce C.'
Churchwell Bros.
Hunter Royal, trip to Atlanta fiv-
bjr Dr. Wilbanks and Geo. Ba-
jh Blount, trip /a Atlanta giv-
J.H. Mason .and W. E. Far
mer. ~
Colin’’IQlcoW' trip to Atlanta
given by Furniture Store and
M. Chi
George Conger, trip to Atlanta
given by Col. R. C. Ellis.
Dr. W. T. Smith, $1.00
Dr. N. Peterson, $1.00.
H. L. Moor, 50c.
Prof. Jason Scarboro, $1.00.
Brooks’ Pharmacy Co., $1.00.
W. H. Bennett, $3-26.
G. V. Cunningham, $3.25.
The last amounts will be used to
help give one boy who does not get
free trip, a scholarship to the
Boys’ Corn Club short course, Ath
ens, Ga.
Besides these prizes, Geo. Conger,
Johnie Conger, Sim Stewart, Wash
Conger, and Richard Drexel each get
free scholarship to the short
courso at Athens, Ga.
Dr. W. H. Hendricks gives each
of the Corn Club boys a beautiful
gold plated club emblem.
Tifton also gave every Canning
Club girl who waa prepared to go a
free trip to the Georgia State Fair,
and fourteen tickets were bought.
Something further ought to be done
for the girls in the way of scholar
ships to Athens. There arc provis
ions for seven boys and none at all
for the girls. Tift county ought
to send at least three girls to Ath
ens for the short course.
FREE FESTIVAL WEEK
Herbert L. Moor,
Graduate Optometrist
Two yun of continuous practice
‘ * * itisnid cuz-
In Tifton and acorn, of ntirite
SBa-. ,r „'Sr^ssf.
-V "j-v: . * . .
The Great Atlanta Eye and Chron
ic Disease Specialists, Dr. J. R.
Hughes and Kennon Mott, invite you
to make their offices, 428 Austell
Bldg, your headquarters during your
stay in Atlanta Harvest Festival
Week, November 15-20th.
During that week they will wave
the usual office fee and give free
consultation. They successfully treat
all eye and chronic diseases with and
with out medicine and by Electrici
ty, the great health and sight giving
power. They remove growths and
cataracts from the eyes and straigh
ten cross-eyes, with out ths knife
pain.
Stomach, Kidney, Catarrhal and
Rheumatic troubles easily conquered
by special methods.
Special low prices on glasses end
treatment will be given daring Fes
tival week. They hope to see you
in Atlanta.
Come, you will have a big time, it
Dea't arise the flfllijpfcbiai
Sale at Sam KulbmkV Degsrtmsat
Formed, for The National High Ai-
ioclation, Suwan.e River Route
Tifton Repre»ented
Good roads enthusiasm marked
the big rally at White Springs, Fla.,
yesterday, held for the purpose of
promoting a highway from Valdosta
to Palatka, Fla., and thence to the
East Coast.
There were over 1,000 people at the
meeting, and the auditorium in which
the meeting was held did not afford
itanding-room for them. The Val
dosta delegation went in a special
train. Rousing addresses were made
by representatives of delegations
from every point along the propos
ed route, and a formal organiza
tion to promote the route was per
fected.
Hon. A. B. Small, of Lake City,
was elected president; J. L. Herring,
of Tifton, one of the vice-presidents,
and E. W. Elliott, of Palatka, sec
retary.
An executive committee, consist
ing of two members from each coun
ty on the route beginning with
Lowndes, was selected. The chair-
ian of the Board of Commission
ers is one member of this commit
tee. The name adopted was The
National Highway Association, Su-
wanee River Route.
A barbecue dinner was spread at
noon.
Hamilton county, the key to the
situation, is said to be thoroughly
aroused and proposes to build a
hard-surfaced road through the
county. The proposition is to connect
with the National Highway at Val-t
Thou iu Charge Were Struck With
the Tilt County Display and
Asked for Mnny Articlm
Tift county will have the leading
exhibit in the exhibition ear. of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
These cars were parked just outride
the grounds during the Georgia
State fair, and will now make a trip
over the state and will later visit
several states in the South, East and ,
Middle West.
The managers in charge of the .
Tift county exhibit told those in
charge of the cars to select what
they wanted. Many attractive ar
ticles were taken from the exhibit
and these were labeled with the
names of those from whom they
were obtained. The articles, with .i;
thOBe furnishing them, are:
Chinese velvet beans, R. S. Kell.
Bunch rice, Wm. Whiddon. 'f.Sg
Citron.
Sugar cane, red and green, J. M.
Williford.
Bermuda onions, J. W. Jordan.
. Oranges.
Satsuma oranges and cumquats,
Myers Seed & Plant Co.
Spineless cactus, H. H. Tilt, Jr., ^
and W. J. Sumner.
Home wove cloth, and lye soap,
Mrs. Mary J. Walker.
Pecans, eight varieties; lour from
W. W. Timmpns; two from Agricul
tural School, and two from J. W.
Hollis.
Pecans on branch, Jason Scarboro.
Chinese walnut, J. W. Hollis.
Hickory nuts.
Oats, three varieties, and wheat,
dosta and to make the new route an J two varieties, from the Argicultural
extension of the National. It is said
to be almost a direct line from South
Georgia to th# Florida Beast Coast.
Mr. H. H. Tift represented Tifton
at the meeting.
T1FTS CROP 1,999 BALES SHORT
Ginning Report for Nov. 1st Shows
Remarkable Decline
RALPH JOHNSON CASHIER
Reflected to Old Position With
First National of Ocilla
Ocilla, Nov. 10.—At the monthly
meeting of the board of directors of
the First National Bank of Ocilla Joe
H. Little tendered his resignation as
cashier, on account of lack of time
to give to his duties in the bank and
to care for his outside interests, and
Ralph H. Johnson, of Tifton, was
elected to take his place as cashier.
The bank had a most prosperous sea
son under the management of Mr.
Little as cashier, and the board ac
cepted his resignition with reluc
tance.
Mr. Johnson is an experienced
banker, having served the same bank
before in the same capacity as its
first cashier and put it on its feet
twelve years ago, and left it to take
similar position with the First
National Bank of Tifton.
This bank has been recently reap
pointed by Governor Harris as
state depository, and enjoys a good
deposit without a dollar indebted
ness at this time.
If you want to save monay coma
to Sam Kulbarah't lale. . . d2t- wit,
CANNING CLUB GIRLS
Going to Atlanta Requested to Noti<
fy Superintendent Kersey
County Superintendent of Schools
R. F. Kersey intends to accompany
the Tift county Corn G}tfy,boya to
Atlanta next week. They will leave
Tifton Tuesday night or Wednesday
Commissioner Kersey also asks
that any Canning Club.girl who in
tends going to Atlanta notify him,
that he may arrange for
daUons for them. There mi
for gifta, as tbegj
The Government ginners’ report M .
for Tift county shows that a total Mr8 ‘
of 15,057 bales of cotton of the
crop of 1915 had been ginned up
School.
Bermuda grass, J. W. Hollis.
Japanese persimmons, from Agri
cultural School and Mr. McGill.
Tomatoes from W. S. Harlan.
Pomegranates.
Broom corn, from W. J. Sumner.
Canned fruit, from Mrs. J. W.
Jones, Ty Ty. This was put up by
a boy.
Canned peaches and squash from
Canned vegetables, fruits, pre-
! serves and jellies from the Tift
. .. , , , ... ..... county Canning Club girls, their
to Nov. 1st, compared with 17,066 . 1o
in 101 a I names showing on the labels.
bales on the same date in 1914.
This shows a failing off in the
crop of 1,999 bales on this date.
Subsequent reports will show a still
BOX SUPPER AT OMEGA
further decline, as the crop is much Proceeds Will Be U«ed to Help Pay
less than that of last year. j School Piano
0 The people of the Onega school
SHIPPING ROSIN. realize the need of a music depaxt-
ment connected with the school. In
Mr. Geo. L. Paulk spent Tuesday the face of this realization and the
in Brunswick. While there he saw possibilities that here exist, the Board
two vessels loading with rosin for of Trustees have secured a music
Norway. [teacher, and also purchased a piano
These are the first ships to leave | for the school,
that port with naval stores in several On next Friday night, November
months and there have been very 12, a box supper will be given at the
few shipments since the outbreak of school building for the purpose of
the war. They cafry 12,000 bar-1 raising money to pay on the piano.
rels of rosin, which is a small amount Every body is cordially invited to
in itself but of big importance as
marking a revival of the naval stores
business,- which has been paralized
for seventeen months.
come. •
Two small prizes will be given.
The first for the prettiest box; the
second for the next prettiest.
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YOU COULDN’T FIND THAT RECEIPT-YOU DIDN’T
SEND HIM A CHECK FOR IT. IF YOU HAD PAID IT BY CHECK
THAT CHECK WOULD BE A RECEIPT AND THE BANK WOULD
BE HELPING YOU TO KEEP YOUR ACCOUNTS STRAIGHT
THERE ARE MANY WAYS THE BANK CAN AND DOES HELP
ns depositors. ,
START A BANK ACCOUNT. WE WILL GLADLY AS.
SISTYOU.
MW-WITH »8-
WE PAY A PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS DEPOI
The National Bank of
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