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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1916.
VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 19.
W. J. HARRIS INVES
HATING COMBINE
r
Alleged to Exi*t Among Cotton
seed Oil Miller*.
SPENDING THE DAY IN TIFTON
THE BOLL WEEVILIS
00 PER CENT SCARE
And Only 10 Per Cent Bite, Say*
Government Expert.
PARK NOMINATED
IN CONVENTION
GOOD CROPS GAN BE RAISED
For Second Congressional Dis
trict in Albany Tuesday*
Federal Trades Commission Receiv
ed Complaints Sixty Days Ago and
Mr. Harris is Taking Matter Up.
From Thursday’s Daily.
If Simple Methods are Employed
Fighting Weevil and Planting
Cotton. Tift Doing Well.
From Thursday’s Daily.
Hon William J. Harris, of the Fed-1 “The boll weevil is 90 per cent
eral Trades Commission, is In the scare and 10 per cent
city today on business in connection bite,” said Hon. II. t,. Savely, gov-
with his investigation of the alleged eminent expert who is here attending
>mbine among the cotton seed oil the farm demonstrators convention
illers to control the price of cotton his address before that body at the
-* I courthouse at 11 o’clock this morn-
Mr. Harris stated to a Gazette re- im
porter this morning that about sixty 1 ^ r - Savely also said that the worst
days ago numerous complaints were thing that could happen to a corn-
received by the Federal Trades Com- munity was for the business men and
mission as to an alleged combine in farmers to get panic-stricken when
Georgia and that the Commission the weevil first appeared, throw up
suggested that he take the matter, their hands and not try to fight the
up while he was in the state. i P est *
Mr. Harris also stated that he had' Mr. Savely said at the outset of
visited a number of places in,Georgia his address that the first thing to
where the complaints originated, but he done was to start to fight the
that during the three weeks he has weevil as soon as it made its ap-
spenTm Georgia cotton seed had ad- pcarance and that the last thing to
vpneed about $15 a ton, and he feels he done was to stop fighting the
Qiat there is now no combine and weevil after it had left the terri-
that the complaints arose largely out tory. He said that the right thing
O'ikt of impatience on the part of the; to he done at this time by the farm-
complainants. I j ers of Tift county was to get their
He came to Tifton because this cotton picked as fast as possible
Was one of the places complained of an( l then turn the stalks all under
as paying a higher price than others as deep as possible. That getting
and during the day went quite deep- r *d of these stalks completely this fall
ly into the matter with the millejs would mean that the fight on the
and cotton seed buyers in this mar- weevil next spring would be very
ket. What he saw here inclined him much less because the crop would
to the opinion that the higher price he practically eradicated this fall,
here is largely due to the enterprise He stated that the thing to do next
of local buyers. j was to plan to get the cotton planted
Mr. Harris is a Georgian who has ™ early as practicable; reduce the
distinctly made good in Washington, acreage 20 that the crop could be
His services as head of the Pension properly worked; pick the weevils
Bureau were of such a signal charac-, from the terminal buds as fast as
ter that when the Federal Trade s they appeared and that where there
Commission was created he was made 1 was a I’cavy infestation of the pest
a member thereof. This was not only it was absolutely nccessaiy to pick
an honor to Georgia but distinct ser j U P an( l burn the fallen squares be
vies Jto the South, whose interest he fore each cultivation. This he said
has ajt heart, and on which hi^ han-' was not nearly so expensive as it ap-
dlin.fe the affairs of his high oflie ■ peared as the work could be done by
reflected much credit. i (Continued on Last Page.)
POPULAR MAJORITY IS 3,721
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN.
URANCE SERVICE
our insurance with the Agent who
:hed the zenith in his line. Your
;y is better protected when covered by
properly prepared.
1
BONDS
.NK SCARBORO
J. C.'Parker, Vanager Insurance Depaitment
TUton, Ga
On the death of Peijtot)
Randolph .President
of Congress, lie ms
scut as delegate
fromVirginia and
signed the Declaration.
He failed in business,
lost his fortune,
inuolosd ethers aid
died ofc broken head.
First District Democratic Convention
Since Griggs' First Nomination
Was Most Enthusiastic One
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of the Second Congressional
District and the Second District Con
gressional convention met in At any
Tuesday. *ays the Herald, for the
purpose of consolidating the returns
from the primary election which was
held for the nomination of a con
gressman on September 12.
The meeting was called to order by
Chairman H. M. McIntosh and was
one of the best attended, most har
monious and most enthusiastic meet
ings which the executive committee
of the Second District has ever held.
In addition to the authorized rep
resentatives of the several counties,
the meeting was attended by a large
number of the leading political fig
ures in the district.
Upon motion of S. B. Brown, of
Dougherty, the chair appointed the
following committee to verify the
consolidation of the returns as read
by the secretary: W. P. Roddenbery.
of Grady; J. W. Callahan, of Deca
tur, and J. T. Kidd, of Baker.
The committee reported the fol
lowing consolidation to be verified by
the official returns from the several
counties:
Consolidated Returns
Baker: Park, 349; Cox, 187;
Park’s majority, 162
Calhoun: Park, 459; Cox, 192;
Park’s majority 267.
Colquitt: Park, 1,135; Cox, 811:
Park’s majority, 324.
Decatur: Park, 1,289; Cox, 591;
Park’s majority, 698.
Dougherty: Park, 305; Cox, 732,
Cox’s majority, 427.
Early: Park, 819; Cox, 536;
Park’s majority, 283.
Grady: Park, 1,230; Cox, 586;
Park’s majority, 644.
Miller: Park, 448 Cox, 226; Park’s
majority, 222.
Mitchell: Park, 823; Cox, 1,191;
Cox’s majority, 3G8.
Thomas: Park, 1,133; Cox, 720
Park’s majority, 413.
Tift: Park, 901; Cox, 504; Park’
majority, 397.
Worth: Park, 1,402; Cox, 296;
Park's majority, 1,106.
Total: Park, 10,293; Cox, 6,572.
Park’s majority in district, 3,721.
The following men were nominated
to serve as the executive committee
for the next two years, and were
unanimousely elected:
Baker—C. H. Hall.
Calhoun—B. W. Forston.
Colquitt—M. M. Kendall.
Decatur—J. W. Callahan.
Dougherty—A. J. Lippitt.
Early—J. C. Chancy.
Grady—W. Y. Bryan.
Miller—W. J. Bush.
Mitchell—D. A. Spence.
Thomas—L. S. Moore.
Tift—W. H. Bennett.
Worth—J. D. Hall.
After the convention adjourned,
the delegates, members of exeeutiv
committee and others in attendance
were the guests of Congrssman Park
at a sumptuous dinner at the New
Albany hotel.
J. W. Callahan, mayor of Bain
bridge, and state senator, was named
temporary chairman of the new
G004I Sized Crowd Greet Speakers at
Ansley School Wednesday Night.
The Ansley School house was well
filled with farmers and their wives
Wednesday night to hear Dr. A. G.
Fort and Prof. L. S. Watson, who
delivered the second of their talks
over the county, the first having been
given at Vancevillc last Friday night.
J. Dana Jones, of the Gazette, who
is accompanying the two gentlemen
on their trips for the purpose of se
curing first hand estimates of the
work the farmers will do in Tift next
year, spoke for a few minutes urg
ing the farmers to co-operate in the
plans that are being laid in this coun
ty to eradicate typhoid fever and to
try to make a crop with the Weevil
in the fields.
Mr. Jones was followed by Mr.
Watson who spoke for about twenty
minutes dealing especially with the
weevil situation. He complimented
the farmers of the Ansley section on
the hearty manner in which they
were co-operating in the work and
among other things stressed the
necessity of getting the cotton stalks
turned under good and deep
quickly as possible this fall. He said
it was very important that this be
done and that if a farmer could not
by any means get rid of the stalks
by turning under they should be cut
down, raked up and burned, but that
he did not like to see the stalks burn
ed as it was bad policy.
He spoke of the wofrk in the coun
ty as being very encouraging and
predicted that if the farmers kept
up as they had begun Tift county
would make a record second to no
section that has been affected with
the weevil. He was listened to with
attention and it was clearly seen that
the farmers there were in hearty ac
cord with the movement of planting
‘against” the weevil.
Dr. Fort followed Mr. Watson and
spoke at some length on typhoid fe
ver especially, explaining the nature
of the disease, how it is contracted
and how to prevent its getting into
the system. He also mentioned slow
fever which he said was a first cousin
to typhoid and stated that he was
inoculating for the two fevers
through the use of one serum
He said that something over 6,000
different people had been ionculated
this season in Tift and Irwin coun
ties for typhoid and slow fevers, and
that the decrease of the disease was
very noticeable in the territory. He
said that more than $1,900 worth of
the serum had been used up to this
time.
He mentioned briefly malarial
fever and spoke of the precautions
that should be taken at the opening
of school against the spread of con
tagious diseases.
Quite a good deal of literature was
distributed at the close of the meet
ing and the people in attendance
seemed much interested in the work
the doctor was doing.
The next meeting will be held at
Excelsior School house Friday night
at 8 o’clock, and the other meeting 1 *
scheduled are as follows:
Old Ty Ty, Monday night, Sept.
25. Fletcher, Wednesday night, Sept.
27. Camp Creek, Friday night, Sept
29. Eldorado, Monday night, Oct.
2. Salem, Wednesday night, Oct.
4. Harding Friday night, Oct.
An illustrated lecture will be given
at Brookfield at a later date.
The meetings are doing a vast
amount of good and the people of th
coanty are appreciating their being
held
CONVENTION ENDS
WITH MUCH PROFIT
Two Day* of Busy Sessions Fin
Uhed this Afternoon-
WILL MEET HERE ANNUAL1Y
WILL LEAVE MONDAY.
Delegate* Exchange Experience*.
Prominent Speaker* Attended and
Much Good Will Result to AH.
From Thursday’s Duily.
The annual convention of Farm
Demonstrators of South Georgia,
which met at the courthouse Wednes
day morning, came to a close at 2:45
this afternoon, completing two days
of busy sessions and lectures that
were voted by those attending as be
ing highly profitable to them and
they wall return to their several coun
ties filled full of information that
will be of great benefit to them in
their work among the farmers of the
territory represented.
The delegates exchanged experi
ences they had had dealing With
problems in their counties and from
these discussions arose which were
of great worth to all, especially as
there were stale and government ex
perts on hand to also give experi
ences that had been met with in the
work.
The boll weevil came in for a large
amount of attention and if any of
the farm demonstrators at this con
vention do not now know how to
teach the farmers how to fight the
pest it is because they did not study
the discussions closely.
Wednesday afternoon the dele
gates and a number of others went
in a body out to J. J. L. Phillips*
farm to take a look at the Black An
gus cattle there. The stock was look
ed over wilh much pleasure. Re
turning from that fnrm the party
stopped at the Second District Agri
cultural School, went through the
main building, took a look at the
model kitchen, the mechanics depart
ment, the dairy barn and stock and
were high in their praise of the
showing the school is making.
Wednesday night, Mr. G. V. Cun
ningham treated the delegates to
visit to the Strand, and Thursday
morning the body inspected Mr. Mor
gan’s meat preserver. They were
much interested in the lattbr and
thoroughly enjoyed the good show at
the Strand.
At 11 o’clock Thursday morning
Hon. II. E. Savely, field expert of
Washington, D. C., addressed the
convention on the boll weevil. His
statement that the weevil was 90 per
cent scare and 10 pfcr cent bite wns
met with applause, ns it was the most
heartening information that has been
handed out in the hearing of any of
the la>mcn piesent.
The convention will be held an
nually in Tifton from now on and the
business men and people generally
are delighted to learn th-* ns it means
much to the city ard county as well
as to the districts represented in the
convention.
Mr. G. V. Cunningham and Prof,
L. S. Watson are receiving many
hearty congratulations over the
cessful work of the convention, the
former having direct charge while
the latter presided.
Party from Tift County to Tour Boll
Weevil District.
The party named at last week’s
meeting in Tifton to visit the districts
in Southwest Georgia and Alabama
infested with the boll weevil and to
investigate possibilities as to peanut
oil and feed mills, or other means
of providing a substitute for cotton
as a money crop, will leave Tifton
Monday, Sept. 25.
Among those going are: G. V.
Cunningham, L. S. Watson, T. E.
Phillips, B. Y. Wallace, J. J. L.
Phillips, H. S. Murray and Cliff Foy.
All others interested who can make
the trip are invited to go with the
party, as it is desired to carry as
large a delegation as possible.
Mr. J. J. Golden will make a trip
to Tennessee and Virginia in a few
days to look into the matter of the
necessary machinery for any plant
that may be decided upon.
BISHOP CANDLER
HERE NEXT WEEK
BAPTISTS PLAN BIG DAY.
Will
Spend Week-End
Tifton Friend*
With
WARMING-UP MEET FOR EMORY
- -
To Be Held Friday Night, to Which
all South Georgia Methodists
are Urged to Come.
Tifton will be honored in having
as its guest Bishop Candler, of the
Methodist church, on September
29th and 30th and October 1st.
Bishop Candler will arrive Fri
day afternoon and will spend Satur
day and Sunday here. At the Tifton
Methodist church Friday night he
wants to hold a warming-up meeting
for Emory University.
The pastors in charge and the of
ficial members of all the Methodist
churches In the section convenient
to Tifton, as well as all others in-
Sunday, September 24th.
Sunday, September-24th, will be a terested in the work, are not only
big day in the program of Georgia ! invited, but urged to attend this
Baptist*. It is State Mission Day in meet ing. Also, every eitUen of Tif-
the Baptists Sunday School of Geor- . Tf . . „
gia, an annual event that crowns the | . 8 n , ot intcnact ^ to * a ^ e U P *
Sunday School year, and is observed collection, but to awaken interest
throughout the entire South
A splendid program has been ar
ranged and sent out by the Southern
Baptist Sunday School Board of
Nashville, Tenn. This program con
sists of suitable recitations, songs,
and demonstrations of modern Sun
day School work. It is right up to
NOW and promises to interest the
Baptist people of Georgia.
Last year this day was observed
with great success. The aim set for
the day this year is 250,000 pupils in
the Baptist Sunday Schools of Geor
gia that day, and $15,000.00 collec
tion for State Missions. All the Bap
tists and their'flrlends of each section
arc urged to attend the Baptist S-n-
day School, in town and country on
Sunday, September the 24th.
KILLED BIG RATTLER.
I ecu live committee and will serve un-
I til the committee can meet and name A big diamond-back rattlesnake
‘its own chairman. It is anticipated about four and a half feet long with
: that the committee will elect Mr. fourteen rattles end a button,
i Callahan, who succeeds H. M. Me- killed on the farm of Mr. J. W.
! Intosh, of Albany. Mr. McIntosh Jones, near the corner of Worth
declined re-election as a member of | Tifton counties this week,
i the committee. It is the third time I The rattler was bayed by a dog
the chairmanship has left Albany in about 400 yards from the house and
a third of a century. } was fighting-mad when parties reach-
| Congressman Park was called be-jedh‘m. One of Mr. Jones’ boys ki!l-
j fore the convention after the pri- ed the snake with a fence rail.
In this great Methodist university
among the membership in South
Georgia.
Bishop Candler will preach at the
Methodist church Sunday morning
and his coming will be an event
among church people. The Bishop is
a classmate of Rev. G. W. Mathews
and his coming is in part to meet ths
comrades of early manhood.
BURN COTTON STALKS
V. L. Collier, Agent Colquitt coun
ty, Moultrie.
C. B. Davis, Agent Wilcox county,
Rochelle.
S. II. Padrick, Agent Brooks coun
ty, Quitman,
Tom Whatley, Agent Telfair coun
ty, Helena.
H. H. Parrish, Agent Dougherty
county, Albany.
G. C. Schenipp, Agent Mitchell
county, Camilla.
U. P. Howard, Agent Turner coun
ty, Ashburn.
Reports will be heard from each
agent as to the work In his county
and the problems eapecially^confront-
ing the farmers in the county repre
sented will he discussed us each
agent reports. At the cloife of the
reports there will be discussions on
various topics of interest such a* an
imal product-on. diversification and
the boll weevil will conic in for a
good shore of attention at these ses
sions.
A trip will be made at 4 o’clock
this afternoon out to J. J. L. Phil
lips’ farm to look at his Black An-
gun cattle, and other trips over the
county will be made to study boll
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 20.—Already
the boll weevil has spread over more
territory in Georgia this year than it
did the whole of last year, and the c
migratory period does not end until
the first killing frost, about Novem
ber 1. State Entomologist Lee
Worsham said the weevil began mov
ing on August 15, and constantly
since that time has maintained more
than an average of progress, until it
has advanced more than in any other
single season, total, since it first en
tered Georgia. The average in all
the territory covered by the pest has
been an advance of fifty miles in a
season, and in Georgia it-has moved
already more than fifty miles.
Just how much longer it will take
to cover the entire state, Mr. Wor
sham will not estimate, but he says
that increased rapidity of the ad
vance this yea** is a new feature for
immediate attention and considera
tion among the farmers. In those lo
calities where the method of com
batting have been followed closely
the farmers are in better shape than
elsewhere, and it is his advice that
advantage be taken of the literature
prepared by the department on the
boll weevil situation. There is* an
abundant supply of the recent ex
haustive bulletin, which may be had
on application to the state entomolo-
weevil conditions and get other i ifor-
motion a» con bo obtained in the j Mr. Worsham advises at this tim.
! that all the farmers of the state, e*.
The meetings are open to the pub-' pecially in that portion nearest th*
lie and all interested are invited to j approach of the weevil, get their cot-
attcnd ' 1 ton out us quickly as possible, imme
diately turn the stalks under at least
From Wednesday’s Daily.
There are sixteen counties repre
sented in the convention, which will
be presided over by Prof. L. S. Wat
son, district agent and farm demon
strator for Tift county, while Mr. G.
V. Cunningham, representing the
State College of Agriculture and
the United States Department of
Agriculture in south Georgia will
nave general charge of the conven-
Nevv shoes
the whole
Stubbs.
hats and clothing for j four inches, or else chop the stalkf
family.—Duncan and ’ at the ground, rake and burn them
22-w-2t.' at once.
had be
I; mary retu
it ! and the result declared.
idat
He 1
Planter Who Failed
„ in Business
JF
was a wealthy planter. In his later years he
indss. His lack of training and mode of living so
the work that he failed and lost all he had.
giv-
pj en an ovation, and made a short
! '• speech in which his deep appreciation
j of his recent splendid indorsement
« was feelingly expressed.
LENNON BRIDGE IMPASSABLE.
in life you matt prepare and train
adoancing step in your career
banking your money.
only a small tmount regularly
the rich man who squander*
F TIFJON
EORC-IA
Lennon Bridge over the Alapaha
river on the Tifton-Ocilla road is
impassable, it having given way un
der the heavy strain of an automobile
truck load of cotton driven over it
Monday afternoon.
The truck belonged to Hon. Jim
Clements and was coming to the- Tif
ton compress with the cotton. The
great weight of the load snapped
one of the stringers of the bridge,
j Commissioner Golden went ou'. there
j after c: tr.’n:AK th? Irohen
j^tring'ir cedoeU j clw-c the bridge
Mr. Jones, who was in Tifton
hurrday, says this is the third big
attler that ha« been killed within
fifty yards of the same spot.
CECIL WHIDDON HURT
J. K. Gib*s State* Agent in Club
Work, of Athens, is also in attend
ance and will have charge of the
convention in matters pertaining to
pig, corn and canning cubs.
The animal industry will be dis
cussed fully with Dr* A. L. ILrlman,
of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
of Washington, D. C., in charge.
Prof. It. A. Jones, of the Mech
anics Department of the State Col
lege of Agriculture at Athens, will
conduct discussions of this impor
tant branch of the work.
Besides the experts named the fol
lowing arc in attendance:
E. C. Mann, Agent Ware county,!
IWaycross.
B. J. Head, Agent Bacon county,!
1fVUA "Wumtu
5 AttttA U0+ £
All
•V&SPH
until -*• voald get '
-repair it.
the. to
In Wreck On B.*nd O. Near Warren,
Ohio, September 8th.
Mr. J. B. Whidton is in receipt of
nowrpapers of Warren, Ohio, do.
scribing the disastrous wreck of t
freight train on the B. and O. at that I Alma,
place September 8th. | C. B. Eunice, Agent Coffee coun-
The wreck was caused by spread-Sty, Dougtas.
ing rails ard as a result a large sec-! J. T. Pittman, Agent Ben Hill
tion of the train af thirty-eight cars j county, Fitzgerald,
went into the river. j C. E. Martin, Agent Early county,
Cecil Whiadon, of Tifton, head; Hilton,
brekeman, was severely bruised ; C. C. Lewis, Agent Decatur coun-
alrcut the bedy, should ::-, arms, vndjty, Bainbridge.
Ts i one sbou'ier ditlocatd. He wc P. II. War-1, Af '"l Grady county,
carried to the hospital at TYarroh, Ca—.j.
•..here i is .">p v rt"<l a» d: eg r.ry! L. G. Proctor, Ajcnt Thome* conn-
'aiec'y and % ,i sos.i oe out. ty, Thciuv.i’le.
ARE YOU GOING TO HIDE YOUR MONEY IN A HOLE
THE GROUND ORIN YOUR HOU*E AND ALWAYS BE WORRIED
FEARING THAT YOU MAY BE WATCHED BY A ROBBERY
NO.
IT IS THE ROBBER'S BUSINESS TO LEARN WHO KEEPS
MONEY HIDDENi AND HE WILL KILL YOU, IF HE MUST, TO
STEAL.
BE A CAREFUL MAN.
BANK WITH US.
WE MY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS.
The National Bank of Tifton, Ga.
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