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The Gaiette Publishing Company, Proprietors
JOHN L. HERRING Editor and Manager
Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
as mail matter of the second class.
Official Organ City of Tifton
f »wl Tift County, Georgia.
into a political love feast for the candidate and
hi? friend?. This is as it should be, and wa have
perhaps seen the return of the Congressional
convention to stay.
This convention brings to the writer memories
that are fast growing hallowed, because they
deal so largely with the dead. The convention
twenty yerrs ago was held at Camilla and the
auditorium and corridors of the courthouse were
filled with a gathering of the supporters of Jim
Gfiggs which overflowed into the yard. Griggs
was a young man then with the brilliant suc
cess of his life as well as its hardest years of
Tifton, Ga., Sept. CO, 1916.
Compiled, Filed and Published in
accordance with the requirements of
Section 92 of the Code of Georgia,
Filed in the Offices of the Clerks of
the Superior Court of Tift, Turner
and Worth Counties, composing the
Tifton Judicial Circuit and Publish
ed once in a newspaper having a gen
eral circulation in such Circuit.
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF TIFT COUNTY: public service before him. His address to the
convention was a masterpiece of practical,
It appearing that the nomination of R. Eve straight speaking, by an earnest man with the
for Judge of Superior Court of the Tifton Judi- courage of his convictions. Twelve years in Con-
cial Circuit leaves the nomination of a candi- grass amply justified the confidence of his
date for Judge of the City Court of Tifton va
cant;
And it further appearing that there is no
necessity for incurring the expense of a pri
mary to nominate a candidate for same, the
general election coming within six weeks;
It is therefore ordered, That any recognize
Democrat in Tift county, otherwise eligible to
hold the office, may have his name placed on
the official Democratic ballot for the general
election on the first Tuesday in November as a
candidate for Judge of the City Court of Tifton
on the payment to the Secretary of this Com
mittee of the sum of $10 on or before midnight
of Saturday, the 14th day of October, 1916.
Said sum being for the purpose of printing
tickets and for other necessary expenses of the
party in said election. The name of no candi
date failing to pay assessment within the time
aforesaid will be placed on the Democratic
ticket.
This, September 21st, 1916.
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
TIFT COUNTY.
W. W. Bryan, Secty. J. L. Herring, Chm.
friends and supporters.
CANDIDATE’S STATEMENT OF
CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES.
THE PARTY CONVENTION.
The convention which met at Albany Tuesday
to confirm the nomination of Congressman
Park for re-election was the first held by the
Democrats of this district since James M. Griggs
was nominated for his first term in 1896, or just
twenty years ago,
As the people selected their candidate for the
party at the primary, it was not considered
necessary to hold a convention and the nomi
nation was made either by the Executive Com
mittee consisting of one member from each
county of the district, meeting and consolidating
the vote, or the returns were forwarded from
FACTIONAL OR “SPITE” NEWSPAPERS.
The article from the Albany Herald on "Fac
tional Newspapers,” republished yesterday,
drives home a truth in very effective language
Few newspaper men who have been in the
game for several years but have had to con
tend with the factional or “spite” newspaper.
Editor McIntosh has had such experience, as
has the editor of the Gazette, and nearly every
contemporary we can call to mind just now.
Usually following a bitter political contest
in which the editor has expressed his personal
convictions a little too strong or effectively for
the opposition; or has refused to allow his pa
per to be made the personal organ of a set
of politicians, some citizen of more or less
influence feels disgruntled, and perhaps man
ages to assemble around him a sufficient
number of kindred spirits with sufficient prej
udice and little enough business judgment
to invest their money in a paper of their own.
These people do not want a newspaper,
although they say they do. What they want is
a personal organ; a medium through which
they can express the violent partianship ai.J
bitter pent-up feelings which every self-respect
ing newspaper men will refuse to publish.
The fate of such ventures the Herald has
well told. Men who put their money into
them buy experience with it, and neither they
nor the community are any better off—in
fnct, the community is usually a great deal
worse off. Factional lines are more closely
drawn nrd often the breach between the ou-
posing patties so widened thnt it is never clos
ed again. >
But such is human nature, and we suppose
these things will go on as long as there are
newspaper outfits for sale and men allow
GEORGIA—Tift County.
Before me the undersigned, an of
ficer of said state and county duly
authorized by law to administer
oaths, in person appeared K. Eve,
who on oath deposes and says that
the statement below shows all the
campaign expenses incurred by him
as a candidate for Judge of The Tif
ton Judicial Circuit of said state in
the primary held on the 12th day of
September, 1916, this statement
shows the amount of money expended
in such campaign, the purpose for
which it was used and the source
from which it was derived.
Statement:
Primary entrance fee, Tift
County $25.00
Primary entrance fee. Turner
County 20.00
Primary entrance fee. Worth
County 20.00
Publication of Announcement
in three county papers.... 30.00
Campaign advertising matter,
cards, hand bills, etc 24.25
Automobile hire, drivers
wages, gasoline, etc 103.81
Miscellaneous expenses while
traveling circuit, including
board, lodging, etc 10.00
of the county for building public
roads; 30 cents on each $100 of tax-
of taxable property of said county,
except the property within the city
limits of the City of Tifton, for
school purposes, said levy made by
the Board of Education of said coun
ty, and which levy is hereby embod
ied.
So ordered, and judgment signed'
in open session of this Board. j
J. J. Golden, Commissioner.
I, W. S. Walker, Clerk to Commis
sioner of Roads and Revenues, d.-
hereby certify the above and fore
going is a true extract from the
minutes of the regular monthly.
September, session of said Commis
sioner’s Court.
This the 4th day of Sept., 1916.
W S. Walker,
Clerk to Commissioner.
the Constitution of Georgia, to be voted
on at the general election to he held
on Tuesday. November 7, 1916, said
amendment to amend Article 11. Section
1. Paragraph 2. of the fN»n*t'tutlon of
thla State In reference to the amend
ment creating the County of Bacon.
By his Excellency.
* ,
the County Executive Committees of each coun
ty to the District Chairman who declared the their prejudices, to walk away with their busi
NAT E.
session In 1916 pr
the C
forth !
he following
Total $233.09
Two Hundred and Thirty Three
and Nine-Onehundredths Dollars.
All of the above amounts were
paid by me out of my private and
personal funds.
it. EVE.
Sworn to and Subscribed before
me this 20th day of September, 1916
W. W. Bryan,
Notary Public, Tift Co. Ga
STATEMENT OF EXPENSES.
| noss judgment.
GEORGIA—Tift County.
.Personally comes W. H. Hendricks
who being duly sworn, deposes and
says that he was a candidate for of
fice of Senate of Tift County, Geor
gia, at the Democratic Primary held
in and for said county on the 12th
day of September, 1916, und that
the expenses incurred by him during
and as the result of such campaign
were as follows:
To announcement in Tifton
Gazette $10.00
To assessment by Democratic
Executive Committee 45.00
To Stenographer 7.50
To Other Expense 18.50
Total $81.00
Said accounts were paid out of the
personal funds of deponent and rep
resents the entire amount expended
by him as the result of such elec
tion and his candidacy for office.
W. H. Hendrick*
Sworn to and subscribed before
me, this 20th day of Sept. 1916
E. L. Webb, Deputy Clerk.
Supr. Court, Tift Co. Ga
STATEMENT OF EXPENSES.
result. ’
It was decided at the meeting of the Exocu
tlve Committee in Albany July 5th to arrange j W hnt -i contrast with two years ago. In
for the primary to return to the convention (thc , ntter r , art of September, 1914 .you could- . _ . . _ ,
method; The duties of the Executive Commitec ne i t j ,er SL ,|| co tton, borrow money on it, nor the’undertigm.'d, to" person'appeared
K. C. Ellis, who on oath deposes and
says that the statement below shows
all the campaign expense incurred by
him as candidate for Representative
of Tift County in the recent primary,
showing the amount of money ex
pended in such campaign, the purpose
for which it wns used and the source
from whence it was derived;
Cords in the Tifton Gazette
being almost entirely formal, attendance drop- Kiv(! it awny to nny ^vantage. Now it ia ao
ped until much difficulty was experienced in. valuable that it is being stolen like diamonds,
securing a quorum. It was thought that a party ! pearl8i chunks of coal, slobs of beefsteak, and
convention would create more enthusiasm and aimilar pre ,i ous things. In several of our ex
being in tee nature of a rally of the friends ot changes we note where cotton growers are
the successful candidate, would put a little trying to devise means to keep their seed cot-
S ° *° s P cft k’ * n ^° things throughout t on from being stolen and the stringent laws
in Georgia against selling it or buying it after
the district.
The resuli appears to have more than justified nightfall appear to have little "effect." F\>m
the expectations of the committee. It was re- Savannah <umes the story of a man stealing a
ported as one of the most optimistic and enthu- bale of Sea Island cotton from a steamboat
nastic party gatherings held in the district for wharf. lie thought so much of his acquisition
many years; those attending were entertained that he took it home with him, and that led to
at dinner by the nominee, and the affair turned h is being arrested and lnnded in jail.
follows:
That said County of Bacon is here*
. declared to bo a statutory county,
the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia is hereby given the power by
legislation to create local offices and
local courts in the said county other
than those provided fur in th.* Con
stitution; and It Is further declared that
said County of .
Duntle.H in tho State. That all
cable to the counties in this
State are heleby made to apply to the
said County of Bacon. That .said Couti-
of Bacon is hereby authorized to
create a bonded dent not to exceed one
hundred thousand t.oliara uiw,wvi tor
lUblic improvements in said County of
lacon, by the consent of the majority
f the regular qualified voters of said
County of Bacon voting at an election
for that purpose. That said election to
create paid uebt shall be heal under law
now In force for creation of the debt.
Sec. 2. The Governor is hereby re
quired and directed that when this
proposed amendment shall be agreed to
by the General Assembly as n* tuiret*
by the Constitution, to submit this pro
posed amendment to tha Constitution to
the votfis of ti ls State at the next gen
eral election, to be held on Tuesday after
the lirst Mu day in November next, and
shall cause this amendment to be ad
vertised in at least two papers In each
Congressional district In this State at
* •' ‘efere said next geti-
if the majority of
qualified voters of this State voting at
said election shall, by their votes, rati
fy this proposed amendment oi Con
stitution, said amendment shall become
part of Constitution of this Mate
- ■* tho duty ol
e to certify
the result* of tho votes on this amend
ment to fhe Governor, when said v«»te is
certified that it shall appear by ma-
aml circular letters
Assessment
Automobile, gasoline, etc.
Postage
Incidentals
¥ •
$90.9
25.00
50.00
19.1
5.00
Total $190.10
Also that all the above amount
were paid by himself.
R. C. ELLIS
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 19th. day of September, 1916.
STEVE F. MITCHELL.
Notary Public, Tift County, Get
gia. w.lt.
You, Cant Burn Your Fence Rows
UnlessYoutiaveAMERICAN SIEELFENCE POSTS
Made by AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY
"Buft and weeds destroy,” he says, “unless you kill and remove them. You can only do that with fire.
Of course you cannot bum your fence rows, if you ere still using old, out-of-date wood poets. But you can
row * UM American Steel Fence Post a. * That’s only one reason why Steel Poets
•***• They last a lifetime. Wooden posts rot or wear after five to ten years. Steel Poets protect your
Stock from lightning. Each Steel Post is really a lightning rod. They need no poet holes or staples.
They can be driven.
SPECIAL NOTIC: TO FARMERS Oi TIFT AND ADJOINING COUNTIES
We have just received a carload of American Wire Fence. Now is
the time to put up Wire Fences and we can supply you in 6 and 12
filch stays and the combination wire. We have some steel post on
hand that we must sell as we need the room.
Golden Hardware Company
’i Tifton, Georgia.
Don’t forget our Malleable Range Demonstration will be held Oct 4-10
TAX LEVY. 1916.
Advalorum Tax Levy for 1916^hv
fhe County Commissioner
County, on Each $100 of Taxable
Property in said County,
GEORGIA—Tift County.
Meeting of County Commissioner
eptember 4, 1916.
Pursuant to law in such cases mad
nd provided, the Commissione
Roads and Revenues in and for th
County of Tift, does hereby mak-
The following Tax Levy for count
purposes, and it is hereby order
->V the authority aforesaid that th'
he and is hereby levied for the y<
1916 the following taxes for coun
purposes, to-wit:
Item One. To pay the legal
debtedness of the county, due, or
become due, during the year or p
due: 32 cents on each $100 of th
taxable property of said county
Item Two. To build or repa
Courthounes, jail, bridges or fence
of the county, or other public im
provements according to contract
ir> cents on each $100 of taxabl
property of said county
Item Three. To pay Sheriff, Jail
ors or other officers** fees that they
may be entitled to legally out
the funds of the county: 7 l * cent
on each $100 of taxable property
of said county.
Item Four. To pay Coroner
fees that may be due them by th
county for holding inquests: 1-20 n
one cent on each $100 of taxaM*
property of raid county.
Item Fit*. To pay expenses of the
County for Bailiffs at Courts, non
resident witnesses, fees in crimina
cases, fuel, ic-rennt hire, stationery
wd the like: 6H cents on each $!0P
of taxable property of said county
Item Six. To pay Jurors of both
Superior and City Court, a po t d
consideration: 18% cert* on each
$100 of taxable property of sa
county.
Item Seven. To pay cxpen.es
earned in support;,’* the poor of th-
county, and n; otherwise pr.-cr-be-i
in Code of Geor-ln: 2*f c r.t, o:.
each $109 of taxable p'cp r» of !*;<
county.
Item Eight. To pa> the expenses
able preper-y <•' r* 4 ty,
MUUK, Governor.
vnclft.
jmrtmeru.
August 2V. 1916.
al Assemble It*
Red an amendment
I* Slate an
rl August IS,
rt!d«?
We unloaded a bunch of fine
Mares today; they are high
grade stock.
Right Prices
If you want a good Mare, come
at once as they will sell fast.
Mizell Live Stock Go.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
GEORGIA—-Tift County.
. Superior Court prior to date of levy,
i Property pointed out by Plaintiff*
attorney in fifa and defendant noti-
By virtue of an order from the , oe . . , •
Court of Ordinary of Tift county! "1, T “ re ?“ lred b y
will be sold on the first Tuesday in j T * l,s tbc day of Auguat, 191H.
October, 1916, at the courthouse J. M. Shaw, Sheriff, Tift County.
door in said county, between the le-j %
gal hours of sale, one house and lot
in the town of Omega, Ga., being one j ROAD CITATION,
business lot and about three-fourths
of another business lot described as GEORGIA—Tift County,
follows: Commencing at the corner! To All Whom it^May Concern:'
of Oak street and Florida avenue, 1 “*
fronting sixty feet on Oak street
and running back one hundred feet
on Florida avenue, sixty feet on line
of land of Mrs. Pearl Green, thence
backward one hundred feet on line
<>f Oscar Bussell’s land to starting
point. Said lot being a part of orig
inal lot of land No. 526, in the Sixth
District of Tift county.
R. D. Sinclair. Administrator.
i>rity ot qualified voter*
lamation to auch effect.
follow**: Each voter shall hav<
written or ..rinted on hi* ticket the fol
lowing word*. “In favor of tho ratifica
tion of amendment of Paragraph 2, .sec
tion 1, Article tl, of the Constitution of
mending that portion of par-
Georgti. . ,. . .
agruph 3 creating the County of Uncon,'
,nd thoso opposed to the ratification of
* ‘ amendment shall have printed or
en on their ticket, "Opposed to rats
Ideation of amendment to Paragraph 2.
flection 1. Article It. of Constitution
amendment paragraph 2, in reference to
tho County of Bacon "
Now, therefore, I, Nat E. Harris. Gov
ernor of said State, do Issue this my
proclamation hereby deda’tng that the
foregoing proposed amendment to tha
Constitution Is submitted for ratification
r rejection to the voters of the fltnto
uallfied to vote f->r members of th*
encral Assembly at tho g. nernl election
to b* held on Tuesday, November 7. 1916.
SHERIFFS SALE.
GEORGIA—Tifi County.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday
in October, 1916. at public outcry
before the Court House in said coun
ty, within the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described property, to-wit.
All that tract or parcel of lan.i
lying and being in the county of
Take notice that B. M. Brown,
A. Baker, Chas. L Parker, W.
Baker, H. L. Gentry, et al., have ap
plied for an order seeking a chani
in the Tifton and Brookfield publ
Road, and the establishment of th<
same, which has been laid out am
marked, in conformity with law, b;
commissioners duly appointed, and
report duly made by them as requli
ed by lfiw.
Said proposed change in said pub
lic road is described as follows: Com’-
mencing at the three mile post at the
end of the lane and running thence
east immediately in front of the
home of B. M. Bowen, and S. A.
Mathews; thence Southwardly so ns
to intersect with the present Tifton
and Brookfield public road immedi
ately of the G. W. Guest’s old honte,
a distance of about one-half mile.i
Now, if no good cause be shown
to the contrary by persons interested
in this matter, the order will be
granted by the undersigned at $he
By tha Cove
PHIDH*
N. E llAltltia. Govern
Tift, State of Georgia, and describ , g rar ,ted by
ed as follows: One hundred and j office of the Commissioner of Roads
thirty-seven and one-half acres 1 and Revenues for said county on 'tha
(137’i) of lot of land No. 358 In : ?nd. day of October, 1916, chan*-
... 4l . mg said public road in accordance
the Sixth District of Tift County, the report of the reviewers, ‘
Georgia, and bounded as follows.; establishing the. same, and at
On the East by original land line;; same time, said part of thc Ti:
South by lands of Mrs. Rachel Fu! Brookfield public road affe ,
, . , . . . by this change will he discontinue
ghum; West by lands of W. W j j Gold.**, Commission
Webb, and North by original land
line. Said property levied on iu
thc property of C. C. Guest under Ux-Fos, A Mild, I
fifa issued from the City Coun Does Not Gripe nor Disturb
of Tifton in favor of the First Na
tional Bank, of Valdosta, and again*
. C. Guest and E. A. Buck. A quit
claim deed having boon made and
filed in the Clerk’s office of Tift,^mTorei'thehesJt
Roads and Revenues, Tift <
In addition to other prop
contains Cascara in acc<
stimulating Laxative andl
acts effectively and do
disturb stomach. At the
digestion, arouses t
A PROCLAMATION
Submitting a propo*«d amendment to
tho Constitution oi Georgia to be voted
on at the guit-rai election to bo hold on
Tuesday, November 7, 1916, Raid amend
ment to .tinend Article 7, flection 2, Par
agraph Z, of the ConntiluUon of this
fltate ao at to exempt irotu taxation
ilps engaged in foreign commerce.
By Ills Excellency.
NAT K. HARRIS, Govornor.
•aasion In 1916 proposed an ainendinant
to tha Constitution oi tins fltute as sol
forth In an act approved July II, 1911,
to wit:
AN ACT
To amand Article 7, flection 2, Para
graph 2, of the Constitution ot this State,
which relutcs to the power of the Gen
eral Assembly to exempt property from
taxation, so that the General Assembly
may exempt from taxation ships and
vessels eugaged exclusively in foreign
mmerce owned and operated by Geor
gia cltlse '
The Ran
Georgia corporations,
urposes.
it enacted by ths Gen
eral Assembly of the fltate of Georgia,
and It is hereby enacted by authority
of th* same, that Article 7, Section 2,
Paragraph 2, of the Constitution of this
■' *■ * “ ne is, hereby
and at the end
following words,
neral Assembly shall
pt from i
aged excluj
State be, and
amended by u<
of said paragraph, th
to wtt: "The '
further have power
atlon. ships and ve
siveiy in foreign
Provided, tnat
,fter ten years from the date cf the rat
ification of this i
Assembly si.uu
inttnue this exemption."
Sec. 2. Be It further enacted, that If
this constitutional amendment shall be
agreed to by two-thirds of the members
of the General Assembly of each House,
mediately preceding the next general
election, and the same shall be submit
ted to the people at the next general
election, and the voters thereat shall
have written or printed on their ticket
r ratification of amendment of Arti
cle 7, flection 2, Paragraph 2. of the
Constitution of this fltate, so as to au
thorize the General Assembly to exempt
from taxation ships and vessels engaged
exclusively in foreign commerce owned
and operated by Georgia citizens or
Georgia corporations; ’ or “Against rati
fication of amendment to Article 7, flec
tion 2. Paragraph 2. of thc Constitution
and vessels engaged exclusively in for
eign commerce owned end operated by
Georgia eltlser* or Georgia corpora
tions. ’ as they may choose; and 1/ a
majority of the electors qualified to vote
for members of the r.ext General As
sembly ihall vote in favor of the ratifi
cation. then said amendment shall be
come part <f Article 7, Section t. Para
graph S, of the Cot.jtltullrn of this
Pee i. Le It further entsted. that ad
isws ird p-.fts f Uws .n conflict w'th
this set b*, and the nuns are, hereby
repealed.
Now. therefore, I, Nnt E. Harris. Gov
ernor >f »sid State, do Issue this my
pr*c’srftt!on dt-c xnrg thst the forego-
fr,t pr.-puee*! *r.«nd<r n: ij the Con-
’* submitted Ur n*tifi'**lcn or
isle''tic ft to the rotere cf ths Stats
rj.*a! lea to vet. Ur member* of the
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