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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, CA., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 191«
VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBERS
CARRANZA BACKS DOWN
Washington, June 29.—Until the United. States gets offi-
1 word through diplomatic channels that 'Carranza himself
s ordered the release of the United States prisoners at Chi-
ahjlta, and the answer to Sunday’s ultimatum is received this
nrfry cannot consider mediation, was the reply made by Sec-
ary Lansing to a delegation of La tin-American diplomats,
inmpanied by the Spanish Ambassador, who called upon him
is morning.
The situation, however, has changed from one of high ten-
•n to hope that hostilities can be avoided,
i 'Consul Rodgers in a brief cablegram dated yesterday stat-
! that he had been handed the Mexican reply and that the
nfieal prisoners had bene ordered releasd.
He gave no intimation in his cablegram of the contents of
rrsnza’s note. I
In the meantime, President Wilson has abandoned hi#
ins to appear before Congress today, and although a rupture
ispparently been avoided for the time being, there is no bait
the movement of troops and other warlike preparation*, j
El Paso, Texas, June 29.—The United States troops tb it
re taken prisoners at Carrizal during the fighting there 1 y
Mexicans have arrived at Jaurez.
BIG AUTO AGENCY
BE ESTABLISHED
By Willys Over
ering Sixteen Counties-
A. E. TIFT HAS CONTRACT NO
NEW CIRCUIT BILL
NEW DISTRICT Bl
Both Introduced At Yest
Legislative Session.
R PULP MILL'
IS SUGGESTIOI
lay’s, To Take Place of Saw Mill,
Tifton.
WANT BIENNIAL SESSIONS THE BUSINESS IS PROFITABLE
El Paso, Texas,-June 29.—The Carrizal prisoners did n >t
ive here nt 10 o’clock Ihis morning, as was promised by tlie
Mean authorities. It^was stated at Jaurez that they woujd
■ive by noon.
Jn the meantime, both armies are surprised’by Carranz: 1
den change of front and breathed easier, but did not rels:
■ir Vigilance.
The. ief is growing here that Carranza will rescind liis
j sfor an attack on the United States troops and that h( s-
ae s will be averted.
He
{ Mexico City, June 29.—In reply to Carranzr.’s request
ill report on the Carrizal fight. General Trevino has f
ifded from Chihuahua, the supposed sworn statement of Lejr
Ijsbury, the interpreter for the United States troops at Car
In his statement, Spilsbury holds the United States troc ps
onsible for the battle, as Captain Boyd thought the Med
,s| were bluffing and tried to force their way through i he
'it, despite the warning of General Gomez.
(Washington, June 29.—The Senate adopted today
iferencc report authorizing the drafting of the Natioh
for Mexican service, and it now goes to President \
r his signature,
ashington, June 29.—Commander Burrage has ordered
| gunboats Machias and Marietta to take up positions to pifo-
e oil wells at Tampico.
his report to the Navy Department, Commander B(ir-
says that the conditions there are critical.
T»)»i Effect July First. All Business
For District Hsndlsd Through
Him. Coin For Tifton.
An agency for the Willis-Overland
utomobile Co., covering sixteen
counties has been secured oy Mr. A.
C. Tift, the contract being signed
and to take effect July-first.
This means a great deal to the bus
iness interests of Tifton, as it means
a vast amount of money will pass
through the banks here, because the
agency will handle not less than
three hundred of the cart a year and
will make every effort to handle five
hundred.
Already the creation of this big
agency is felt, because Mr. Tift has
secured the services of one addition
al expert salesman, and will have to
employ additional office force as
well as mechanics.
Mr. Tift will appoint sub-agents in
the various counties throughout the
territory, but all the business will be
handled through this office, and this
will mean that numbers of people will
visit Tifton to see cars and have
demonstrations made.
The cars made by the Will's-Over-
land people and which will be handled,
oy this agency consist of seven dif
ferent models, namely: Three styles
of 4’s; two of 6’s, and two of 8’s;
including cars with two, five and sev
en passenger capacity.
The agency secured by Mr. Tift
covers the following counties: Tift.
Turner, Crisp, Worth, Colquitt, Cof
fee, Lowndes, Brooks, Clinch. War:,
Berrien, Irwin, Ben Hill, Wilcox,
Echols and Pierce. In all cf these
except Tift sub-agencies will be es
tablished, but all cars will come here
for assembling and try-out. and it
will be necesary for Mr. Tift to use
more space than he now occupies
as he will have to have a warehouse.
Mr. Tift states that he hat been
trying to close this deal f >t some
time, but that because of the tixe of
the territory he wanted he has not
until now been able to get the con
tract through. He says that he is
| certain that five hundred of ’.he cars
will pass through the agency annual
ly, and is hopeful that by hard work
this number can be largely increas
ed.
Besides the Willis-Overland agency,
MrNTift will still handle the Fords
and Buicks, having Tift cour&t-fnr
the fonnerj-TtfV Juswn*;~Trwin am!
half of Worth counties for the lat
ter.
PARK IS INVITED
TO JOINT.
With His Opponent at Thomas
ville on July 4th.
INVITATION WIRED TODAY
Anti-Lynching, Four-Year I rm For
state- Officers, Local 8ch .1 ■ Tax'
Among Firat Day’a Mea urea
Atlanta, Ga., June 28.—Tie Gen
eral Assembly of Geoi-gia ci nvened
today in the state capitol for its
annual fifty-day session. The! House
was called to order by Speaken W, H.
Burwell of Hancock county, mid the
Senate by President G. Ogde(i Per
sons, State Senator from the [Twen
ty-second district. j
Colonel John T, Boifeuillet who
hrs boen Clerk of the House 0: Rep.
resentatives for seventeen year >, and
who is special first secretary o the
American embassy in London dur
ing his ’tween-legislative se sons,
was in his accustomed place i the
hou;o, but; his" veteran young < alen-
dar clerk, O. H. P. BloodworthA was
missing for the first time iff years,
having gone to the National Gtard
mobilisation camp at Macon atlthe
head of a company of Infantry. \
Devereaux F. McClatchey, former
ly Reading Clerk of the House cfod
now the Secretary of the Senate,
was on the job with his famous sten
torian voice, which made a conspid
uous hit with the Democrats of the
country in national convention in St
Louis recently.
The following bills Introduced in
the Senate and House yererda^ are
of especial local interest:
By Hutcheson of Turner—To
abolish the office :f {-.usurer of
Turner county.
To establish a county depository
for Turner county.
To amend act creating city court
of Ashburn.
By Knight of Berrien—To amend
the charter of tow x of Lenox, Ber
rien county.
To amend the Cool? county Mil
now pentlng.
By Sumner of-Worth--T? create
city court of Sylvester-
By Senator Tison of the Tenth
To create the Tifton judicial circuit.
By Dorris of Crisp and Hutchesm-
of Turner—to create two new state
senatorial districts.
The following bill* are of especial
general interest:
By Fullbright of Burke—"Anti-
lynching bill," to pvna!i« sheriffs
for failure to protect prisoners.
By Ledbetter of Polk—To ptovide
for biennial sesiona of the legisla
ture.
By Senator Persons of the twen
ty-second—To amend the constitu
tion of the state of Georgia granting
authority to the counties t<> levy
local tax for the fjf ort ef public
schools.
By Same—To -Hoi 1 i the oft. e
of attorney of thj railroad comm.s-
: ion.
By Senator Peacock of the Four
teenth—To provide for biennial ses-
j'iRs of the legislature.
By Senator Peacock of the Four
teenth—To make the term of gever-
From Cairo. Both Had Accepted
Invitations to Speak at Thomaa-
ville. Politics Discussed.
Moultrie, Ga., June 28.—Judge
E. E. Cox has invited his opponent,
Judge Frank Park, to a joint dis
cussion of the issues of the campaign
at Thomasvillc on July 4th, as per
the following telegram:
Cairo, Ga., June 28, 1916.
Hon. Frank Park, M. C.,
Washington, D. C.
I notice from press reports that
you like myself have accepted invi
tation to address the public at
Thomasville on July 4th, and that
both are privileged to discuss poli
tics. I therefore invite you to
joint discussion of the issues of our
race.
E. E. COX.
Senator Peacock if the Four
teenth—To increase the per diem of
members of the legislature to S6 for
the 60-day biennial session.
By Senator Persons -To empower
e governor to rcmoi • sheriffs and
appoint successors t-->‘ the unexpir
ed terms.
By Senator McLaughlin of lie
Thirty-sixth—To call special e.ec
tions for the ratification of consti
tutional amendments
MELON MOVEMENTS.
COINC TO DOUGLAS.
Mr. W. W. Whiddon and Mr. Lott
Whiddon have returned to their home
nesr Tifton from Douglas, where
they have been in school for the pas*
ten months.
Mr. W. W. Whiddon wi’l only be
at home a short time a| h: has ac
cepted a position with the Union
Bank in Douglas and will begin his
work there the 15th of July.
HU many friendowith for him tbo
greatest stf&esa."
Herbert L Moor,
Graduate Optometrist
Two yean 01 continuous practice
in Tifton and scores of satisfied cos-
If yoo are suffering with
headache, or other Doable* caused
by eye strain be sore and consult me
cad see if gta~ses properly fitted
won’t rrl-rve them. At cur
And Product in Active Demand. Oi
Such Mill in. Gsurgia it Making
Money.
I have just read ir. the Gazette tin
passing of the old saw mill, and pm
especial attention to the lest sen
tence of the editorial, “One manu
facturing plant is gone; we must have
another to take its place.”
I will say by way of suggestion,
that I know of no manufacturing
plant needed more to follow a big
saw mill than a paper pulp mill. The
saw mill has left thousands of acres
of wo:dland thick with small pines
around Tifton, all of it In wagon-
haul! ,g distance of the railroads.
The machinery employed in a pulp
mill now takes grean yellow pine
wood, with bark on.jtp to S inches in
dfameter and 5 feet long, or cord
wood size. A pulp mill company does
not have to own the land. The atock
is usually furnished, delivered to the
mill by the farmers within twenty
miles that happen to have such stock.
The cutting, hauling and manufac
turing of the little pine timber around
Tifton would furnish profitable em
ployment to the people fer many
years, and would hasten the land into
cultivation, necessitating in a few
ears grain elevators, the growing of
k and the building and operating
packing houses.
land is too valuable for ag-
■al purposes to wait for the
trees to grow into saw mill tim-
It will therefore be cut
out iikthe next ten years and wasted
if the ufcuri course is followed. This
small timbei*pet imj paper pulp will
yield greater returns than.any oth
er way it could be used.
The small yellow pine timeber
makes a coarse brown paper ,now in
strong demand for container ihipping
boxes; and with lumbar growing
scarce and since shipping boxes can
not be made from , such substitute*
for lumber as stoel and concrete, the
demand for heavy cardboard paper
will certainly increase.
The people In Tifton did a good
thing in getting bonda for street pa
ing, school building and fire depar*.
ment equipment. All those things ate
needed; but if you stop to think, any
kind of a fellow can spend money,
especially the other fellows. The
thing most needed at thi* time, it
some men who can come forward and
locate industries thut will bring mon
ey from the other counties, states
and countries; that is what really
builds up.
I understand that the pulp mill nt
Gordon, Ga., is operating vety profit
ably, in a section not near so favors
ble to such an industry as Tifton.
I found a man near Waycmia with
68,000 acres of cut-over pine land
that he is beginning to put into cul
tivation, I told him of the pulp mill
to use the amall plr-e timber, and he
went at once to Gordon, Go., to se
the one there In operation; and ha,
since learned of a firm in New York
who will finance a pulp mill in a goo
location.
I believe it to be the duty of men
who are gifted with the making of
money to use a good part of it in
operating such business as will give
profitable employment to the man not
so well favored.
I hope soon to hear of some move
to start a pulp mill or some other
manufacturing plant.
J. L. W.
TIFTON CETS UNION STA TION
At a conference this afternoon between the Committee
r Council and Vice-President Munson,'of the Geor- ,
them and Florida, and Vice-President DelAno, of the
tic Coast Line, plans were agreed upon for a new union
Wenger station at Tifton. I
The railroad officials are very anxious to have/the station
eady for the winter travel, and work on same will begin at
once.
The station fronts on Central avenue. 144 feel. The tram
entrance will be from the rear and the train sheds will extend
along the tracks to Central avenue in either direction. A cow
ed:..:* restaurant is part of the plans. The angle now occui
!c . by the telegraph office will be left for a small park.
\ The building will be of brick, the paving and curbing of
\n-'Tctc. Its approximate cost will be $2S,000.
. The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic has signified its
willtrlgpess to come into the new station.
Shipment* Grow He**»*r •• Seaaoi
Advances. Market U Oh.
The.Atlantic Coast Line moved
car of melons yesterday for Mr. J. P.
Adams and a car of cantaloupes for
J. L. Phillips and W. E. Farmer.
i.i (1 .orgia, Souther” and Flori
da moved a car of mt tons from Tifton
yesterday for F. H. Short; three care
from 109-mile post for I. W. Myers,
and five cars from Eldorado for var-
ous parties.
The Atlanta, Birmingham and A*
have moved 97 cars c f melons ye
terday from various points along it*
line and from its Moultrie -onnec
tions.
The market for both melons an
cantaloupes was reported off this
morning.
London, June 29.—Sir Roger Casement, a leader in the.re- .
ir : sh rebelibn, and who was captured when landing from a
German ship on the Irish coast, was found guilty and sentenced
‘o death for high treason.
Sir Roger received his sentence bravely.
Berlin, June 29—A demonstration in fnvor of Dr.
C-tri Ln b'Knneht, the Snuiniist leader svho was senti
to thirty months imprisonment for circulating a manifesto
agiin^t war, was held here today, despite police precautions,
P.ufs. June 29—strong German attack in the re
gion of Thiaumnnt Wood was repulsed. ,;
There was heavy artillery bombardments ori both
sides of the Meuse river Inst night.
The German forces are concentrating their tire on
14 Metre Hill nnd Chenois Wood.
The British forces continue their big gun hre against
the Germans on the Northern front, destroying enemy-
trenches bv shell hre.
O ly a lew infantry attacks are being made.
Gains of additional ground by the Italians from the
Austrians, by the French from the Germans northeast of
Verdun, and by the Germans from the Russians in Volhy-
nia are chronicled in the latest communications. In addi
tion, it is seated that tjie Austrians are holding back the
Russian army, wMgh ji endeavoring to drive past Kuty,
Bukowina. with Kotomea as its objective.
In the Trentino region, the Italians continue to force ’
back the Austrians along the entire front, having made
progress between the Adige Brenth rivers, in the Lagarina
and Arsa valleys between the Posnia and Astico rivers and
along the Upper But river.
Northeast of Verdun, the French have recaptured
more ground from the Germans north of Hill 321 and
around the Thiaumont work. Northwest of Verdun the
Germans bombarded the Avocourt and Chattancourt sec
tors, but were prevented from launching an infantry at
tack from the east of Hill 304.
In Champagne the Germans occupied French positions
iear Tahure, but later were driven out. , - •
On the British front the expected big offensive by King
George’s men apparently has not yet bgun, but they are- carry
ing out nt various points successful raids on German positions
and bombarding heavily from the region of La Bassee canal
to the Bouth of the Somme. In the latter region small British
Attacks were put down by the Germans, according to Berlin.
Continuing their counter-offensive against the Russians in
Volhynla, the Germans have captured the village of Linewka,
to the west of Sokul, and also have taken by storm positions to
the south of the village. Vienna reports that additional Ruv
inn attacks near Kuty in Bukowina have been repulsed
by the Austrian forces. "■ ''
Between the Vardar river and Lake Doiran on the Greek-
seibian border artillery duels are taking place.
4kfc-Uutt
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Powell and Mrs.
J. W. Miller motored over to Daw
son Tuesday, where they were the
guest* of relatives for the day. They
were accompanied home by Mr*. J,‘
D. Averette, who will
a) days with her iieter
A WONDERFUL MACHINE
For Popping Corn and Making it Into
Candy Installed.
Brooks Pharmacy has installed a
machine that cost them as much as
moderate sized automobile, and it
is attracting much attention os it goes
about making pop com candy .out of
the loose grains of com fed into if.
The machine is automa’ic and
takes the corn, pops it, seasons it with
just the right amount of pure cream
ery butter (no other grade of but
ter will work in the machine), an!
turns the finished product over to
the consumer in such a manner that
more is wanted.
Dr. Brooks says he want, every
body to see the machine at work
while it is brand now, and adcs that
they visit the store right away. He
will be glad to tell all about the won
derful contraption.
One man wanted to know why the
pop corn coming from the “Butte--
Kist” machine was like Haring a pret
ty g'rL When aomeene said they d’d
not know, h« mid: "Because there’s
t goodness
Ef
FEW MEN “GET-RICH-QUICK” AT ALL.
FEWER MEN “GET-RICH-QUICK” AND KEEP THEIR MONEY.
IT GOES LIKE IT CAME.
CAN’T YOU SEE THAT IF THE SCHEME WAS SUCH A GOOD
ONE, IT WOULDN’T BE PEDDLED TO TOUT THOSE SMOOTH
STRANGERS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN YOU—IT IS YOUR
MONEY THEY WANT. YOUR BANK IS INTERESTED IN YOU
AND YOUR SUCCESS. BANK YOUR MONEY.
BANK WITH US.
WE PAY 5 PER CEU IYTETEST 0.4 HvlE 0;.»011TJ.
Pal The National Bank of Tifton, Ga.