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*1.00 PER ANNUM. 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. s