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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1916.
VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 21
ORN AMD CANNING
LUO EXHIBITS SOON
nnual Prize Contest Will Be
Held Next Week.
SMASHED WOODEN COACHES
r AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL
turday, October 14th, is Day Sat
When Club Members Wilt Re-
ceive Their Awards.
The annual Corn and Canning
exhibit will be held at the See-
District Agricultural School on
turday, October 14th, and it is ex-
ted that this year’s show will com
favorably wth others held in
past. .
if. L. S. Watson, cunty deraon-
r, and Miss Rowena Long, can-
club agent, will be in charge of
exhibits, and awards of prizes
be made by a committee
hose having the matter in charge
the Gazette to state that the
must have their ten ears of
and the record book filled out
ording to the rules at the school
later than Friday morning pre-
u s to the day of the exhibit.
The girls are asked to have their
libit in Friday also with their
ord book and their story, accord
to the instructions they have re-,
red- from Miss Long.
' e public generally is invited to
the exhibits at the school Sat-
ay, and it will be worth any one’s
le to go out there and see what
boys and girls of the county are
g In the way of building up crop
reification and stocking the lard-
against the day when the boll
vil will feast on the cotton that
danted in Tift
While Steel Care and Pullmans were
Comparatively Little Injured.
The majority of the nineteen in.
jured in the wreck at Folkston Sun
day night when the Dixie Flyer,
northbound, plunged into the South
land which was taking water, were
in the day coaches, nine carsfront
of the first car hit.
While the engine of the Flyer tore
its way far into the observation ear
and two Pullmans on the Southland
were so badly damaged that it was
necessary to set them off, only one
or two people in this part of the
train were hurt, the others injured
being in two wooden day coaches far
up the train, near the locomotive.
The steel cars in their fronV and
rear caught these wooden cars like
a vise and smashed them. One man
was pinned down in such a way that
it was necessary to cut him out with
axes. He was little hurt. Mrs. Bar
ber, of Montgomery, Ala., was se
verely injured, as was a negro wom
an from Pelham. Three patients are
in the Waycross hospital, and the
condition of the women was consid
ered serious last night. Of the other
nineteen injured, all were able to go
home.
Supt. McCranie places the blame
for the accident on Engineer Wright,
of the Dixie Flyer, who ran by
caution and stop block signal. The
force of the onrushing train drove
the Southland a train length when it
was struck.
UVENILE HORSE THIEVES.
<v-<
Short Career and Landed in
'Jail Sunday Night.
o negro boys. Ernest and Will
iane, aged respectively 9 and 13
rs, stole a mule from a tenant on
Dan Fletcher’s place, near Ho-
ille, Saturday night between 7
8 o’clock.
heriff Shaw was notified and
■dily got on trail of the thives.
y were caught Sunday aftcr-
a between 1 and 2 o'clock near
gerald. On their way they had
in a buggy from a negro ten
on Mr. Hogan’s farm near Ir-
dlle and when the officers over-
them they were calmly driving
g enoying their stolen prop-
. They wore brought to Tifton, n
lniidcd in jail and the stolen uc-
5 and buggy returned to tho
I 1:00.
wane was discharged from i s car b 0 ro
k if OTA rm ntrt r nltnnl mv *
ILL ASSOCIATION
CONVENESATLENOX
LOST RIGHT ARM.
Mr.
Begin* Three-Day Session of
Thirtieth Annual Meet-
GOOD SESSIONS ANTICIPATED
FOR STATE MISSIONS.
Program for Tifton Baptiit Church
Wednesday, Oct. 11th,
Wednesday, Oct. 11th, is the day
set aside for prayer for State Mis
sions. The following program will
be given at the Tifton Baptist
church, beginning at 10:30:
Devotional—Mrs. J. B. Murrow.
Early Georgia Baptist History—
Mrs. J. 'B. Smith.
Song—How Firm a Foundation.
State Missions—Mrs. J. E. Coch.
ran.
Baptist Hospital and Orphanage—
Mrs. W. W. Banks.
Duet—Redeem Georgia—Mrs. J.
J. Golden and Mr-. C. W. Durden
Tho Consecration of Our Talents
—Mrs. I. D. Morgan.
Song—Take My Life and Let it
Woman’s Missionary Union Moots
Tomorrow. Association has 26
Churchat. With 2,100 Mambsrs
From Wednesday’s Daily.
The Mell Baptist Association con
vened with the Lenox Baptist church
Wednesday morning for three days
in the thirtieth annual meeting of
that body and as great preparations
have been under way for some time
by the people of Lenox and those of
the association having the meeting
in charge, it is expected that the
1916 gathering will be as good or
better than any of the previous ones,
Mr. M. S. Patten, of Tifton, is
Moderator, and Mr. R. F. Kersey,
Superintendent of Schools of Tift
county, is clerk of the association and
these two gentlemen together with
Rev. C. W. Durden and a number of
others left thi g morning for Lenox.
The association has twenty-six
churches with a membership of 2,100
and 150 delegates are expected to at
tend the meeting. These, together
with the officers of the asso
ciation, the prominent men of the
Baptist conference, field workers
and others interested , as well as a
host of friends will swell the crowds
at Lenox through the three days that
the association is to be in session,
but the people of that progressive
place have sent out word that they
are ready to take care of all.
W. M. U. Thursday.
The Woman’s Missionary Union of
the Mell Association, of which Mrs.
W. S. Walker is superintendent, will
meet at Lenox tomorrow, Thursday,
at the Methodist church, the exer
cises of this department of the
church work to begin at 9:30 o’clock
Branch Had Limb Caught in
Phillips’ Gin.
Mr. Sylvanus Branch was badly
hurt on tho farm of Mr. J. J. L.
Phillips Thursday morning at an
early hour. He was working at the
gin and in some way got hit right
arm caught n the saws of one of the
gins and badly cut.
Mr. Branch was brought to the
Tift County Hospital, where the in
jured limb was taken off at the
shoulder, it being so badly mutilated
that the operation was necessary,
Mr. Branch stood the operation
very well and was resting comfort
ably at noon.
Mr. Branch is a son of Mr. Mike
Branch. He is about 26 years old,
and has a wife and one child.
MEETING AT ELDORADO.
Recut- ,
Devotional—Mrs.
R srtere hTLd S beeiS «e'itL I Th ! I C ° m ™« Stato Convention—
Mrs. H. H. Tift.
3E A CANDIDATE.
one of the senior
£on bar, has been
p of friends to
br Judge of the
iprcciate the
,to confer on
Unsolicited of-
see my
pndidate,
i reporter
,of Tift
favors
their
about
iy for me
ate.”
A quiz.
Song—The King’s Business.
Baptist Educational Work
Georgia—Miss (Jora Page.
Mrs J. E. Cochran,
Secretary Woman’s Missionary So
ciety of the Baptist Church,
AT LONG BRIDGE AND FLAT
CREEK.
Nashville, Ga., Oct. 3.—The an
nual meeting of the Primitive Bap
tists of Long Bridge church, five
miles west of Nashville, was held
Saturday and Sunday, September 30
and October 1. A large crowd was
in attendance and preaching by El
ders Knight and Parrish and com
munion and foot washing were the
order of the day. The citizens in
that community extended the old-
time hospitality and large crowds
were fed at several homes near th
church.
The regular monthly preaching
service was held at Flat Creek
church on last Saturday and Sunday
and the preaching by Elder Gibbs,
of Ty Ty, who has been scrying this
church as pastor for over 20 years.
There was a school house full of
farmers and their wives at Eldorado
Monday night to hear Dr. Fort and
Prof. Watson speak.
Mr. Watson told his hearers about
the conditions found in Alabama by
the committee recently sent there by
the business men of Tifton, of which
he was a member, and urged the
planters to study carefully about
planting next year and especially
urged that they get the cotton stalks
turned under this fall not later than
October 20th, before that time if pos
sible.
Mr. Watson stated that it was go
ing to be necesssry for the farmers
to get their stalks under early this
fall; plant early next spring and
plant an early variety of cotton; pick
the squares off as fast as they were
infected by the boll weevil and that
it would be dangerous to plant more
than five acres of cotton to the plow.
He pointed out that unless the farm
ers meant to fight the weevil good
and strong they might expect that
FREE SHORT COURSE
BE GIVEN TWO BOYS
During Southeastern Fair in At
lanta This Month-
EXAMINATIONS HELD FRIDAY
Superintendent Kersey Invitee Boye
to Come to Hit Office So That He
Can Examine Them.
From Wednesday’s Daily.
Two boys from each county in tho
Btate will be given a Short Course in
Agriculture free during the South
eastern Fair to be held in Atlanta be.
ginning Saturday, October 14th, and
continuing through Saturday, Octo
ber 2lst, and in order that the two
boys to go from Tift county may be
selected, Superintendent of Schools
R. F. Kersey asks.that all boys who
want to compete for'-ttio free course
be at his office In the\ourthouse at
2 o’clock next Friday, October 6th, to
take the examinations. •< >
This is a rare opportunity for.iwo
boys from this county to got the free
short course, to which is added the
privileges of the fair grounds free of
charge, and the only expense that is
attached for the boys to pay Is $5
and the railroad fare—board and all
other expenses will be paid.
The examination which Superin
tendent Kersey will hold Friday Is a
very easy one and will not take long.
The boys who want to try for the ap-
pointment to represent Tift county
should be at Mr. Kersey’s office
promptly at 2 o’clock.
Special Meeting for Farmers to be
Held Saturday, October 14th.
Arrangements are under way to
hold a monster mass meeting of Tift
county farmers at the courthouse
here on Saturday, October 14, at
which time a full discussion of the
new packing house and stock raising
will be gone Into,
That the business men and fa]
ers of the county are going to
put forth organized efforts
combat tho weevil next year is ap
preciated by all interests at this
time, and for this reason it has been
thought to bo best that a packing
house be built in Tifton to care for
hogs and cattle, and in order that as
many of tho farmers as will may
join in this movement this meeting
has been called.
It is believed by those having the
matter in charge that the more farm
ers and business men who take active
Interest in the packing house the
quicker it will be a success.
This meeting Is called especially
for the purpose of letting the farm
ers have a chance to got acquainted
with the proposed movement to build
the packing house and to let them
have an opportunity to express them,
selves in a material way toward
making it a weight to help crush thi
boll weovil that is sure to be In thi
fields of Tift county next year li
millions.
!W WELL BEGUN.
\
Work of sinking the additional
. ........ —....... well for the city of Tifton wak com-
the weevil would eat them up and menced by tho Southard Construe.
Tho October term of the. Cl
Court of Tifton convened Monday
morning at 10 •’clock, Judge R. Evo
presiding, with all tho officers of tie
TTJTT-JT SA SK5?Mr “wKrSKS
Solicitor; J. M. Shaw, Sheriff, afid matters gone Into at will be of 1:
Henry D. Webb, Clerk. terest to those attending.
The following cases were disposed A report^on the. building .of feed.
° f bet ° re the Court without the if S? &?&
TO THE GOOD CITIZENS OF
TIFT COUNTY:
There is a serious proposition ex
isting in our county, end one that ev
ery good citizen within the bounds
of our county should be vitally inter,
ested in.
That ii the whiskey traffic. There
are hundreds of people in the county
who are ordering whiskey to their
alotted amount each month in their
own name, then ordering in fictitious
names and then getting some other
person to go to the express office and
have the party who is ignorant of
the law to swear to it being theirs,
(the party making the affidavit)
thereby perjuring themselves.
However, this is not the worst of
it yet. There are automobiles run
ning regularly from here to Jackson
vlllo, bringing carloads of the whis
key nnd getting the cheap stuff in the
hands of lawless people, thereby en
dangering tho lives of the citizens
anil property of the county and com.
munitios.
The one thing that has prompted
me to write this card is that it is a
daily circumstance of people coming
to me and asking me why I don’t
catch some blind tigers in their set
tlement. I ask who is it? and the
answer is: “I don’t know just who.
Well. I do, but I can't nfford to have
anything to do with it.”
Now, good citizens; I ask your co
operation in this one thing, and help
me, for it is impossible for me to be
in every section of the county at one
time.
There has never been a time, neith.
nr will there ever be a time, when
the officers of the county don't need
the co-operation and assistance of
the citizens. Friends, my view in
this and any other lawless act is.
that if your friend is violating the
prohibition law, then furnish me
with the evidence; I will become
prosecutor and enforce the law.
Thereby save our boys from being
drug into the courts of our county.
Good people, will you help me?
I believe you will. I have the
faith and ever will, that the good
society demands it of each and every
of you to co-operate with your
county and city officers.
I have had people in different sec
tions of this county to tell me that
they were expecting serious trouble.
I have gone to those places and in
stituted searches for whiskey and
failed to find it- I thank them for
all information given me.
With best wishes to each and ev
ery citizen of the good county of
_ Tift, I am as ever your friend to
5 serve,
J. M. Shaw, Sheriff,
said that he would be glad to help the
farmers plan their crops for »4xt
year. He said that they should plant
some wheat, plenty of corn, oatst rye.
rape and a big crop of hogs. /
Dr. Fort followed Mr. Watson and
spoke at some length on diitherla.
He said that he was planning: to visit
Eldorado school Tuesday or Wednes
day to make examinations of all the
pupils and that he hoped that there
would be co-operation on tile part of
the parents with a view
the school free during the
all contagious diseases. H
diptheria started with sym itoms of a
cold and was generally
during the afternoon, tho
ting more hoarse as even
along, and that after mil
patient generally becai
keeping
erm from
said that
to
noticeable
child get-
ng wore
light the
very
croupy. He said that generally
small quantity of kerosene oil mixed
with sugar given to the child would
relieve this "stuffed up" condition,
but that if the croupy symptoms
showed up bad again by 9 o’clock the
following morning a doctor shdutd be
called at once for the chances, were
that the child had diptheria.
Dr. Fort stated that what ,
known as membranous croup was
really diptheria. He alio said that
great care should be taken to keep
the children where they could rtpt
pass the disease along tc others, and
said that one of tho best ways to
keep fromKetting diseases at school
was for each scholar to have his or
her own drinking cup.
SELLS CANE JUICE IN MACON,
CAR LOAD MULES.
I! Mr, C. O. Gilley announces thut
11 he has just received a carload of
fine young mules, from steel dust
mares. They can be seen at the old
Williams -barn on Fifth street.
Mr. Gilley states that he is in po
sition to sell them cheap, or ex
change two for one for the differ
ence.
Mr. D. W. Sumner was in Tifton
Monday morning, returning to Ma
con from a visit to his old home at
Sumner. While here he contracted
with Mr. B. E. Conger for a supply
of sugar-cane for the cane mill which
he will operate on one of the prin
cipal streets of Macon this fall. He
operated a mill and sold cane-juice at
the fair last year, but the venture
was not a success. He thinks busi
ness will be better in the city.
Mr. Sumner says that he can buy
sugar-cane much cheaper in Macon
than he can buy it here and ship it
to that city but the juice has not the
flavor of the juice from South Geor
gia sugar-cane.
For several years Mr. Sumner har
been trying to create a demand in
Macon for South Georgia sugar-cane
products, especially syrup. At one
time he carried a line of syrup in
stock there. His efforts have only
met with a small.measure of success.
tion Company Tuesday afternoon
and will be continued as fast as pos
sible until the woik is completed. \
The new well is being sunk aboOt
sixty-five feet from the old one and
it is expected to go down about 50q
feet. How long it will take to sink\
the well Is a matter of conjecture,
but it is not expected that there will
be the delays experienced with this
one that was experienced when the
other well was sunk, for the reason
that the Southard people havo mado
careful soundings and have prepar
ed their drills and equipment
meet all looked-for emergencies.
It will be remembered that there
was considerable difficulty expert
enced in the drilling of the other well
when a strata of flint rock was
struck and the drills used kept breakj
ing, and that the equipment had to
be replaced with a heavier drilling
machine than tho work was begun
with, resulting in it taking something
like six months to drill the well to
the required depth.
No such delays are looked for this
time because the drilling machine
is large enough to handle any sort o:
wa * strata and probably not more than
few weeks at the longest will be tlyb
time spent.
The well will supply water at i/ic
rate of 1,000 gallons a minute when
finished and it is believed that it trill
get its supply from an underground
lake the same ns the present/Well;
(bis calculation being based
number of soundings that h/ve al
ready been made. If the soundings
are true then the water coining from
the new well will be the sqme as that
alreadyXhcing used in Th
The tower and tank .has been com
pleted and tcBted out., and when the
new well is finished 1 Tifton will have
ample water supply for years
come.
terventlon of a jury. I mill will also he mado and these im-
E. E. Gilbert vs J. P. Pool, defend- provements discussed,
ant, R. R. Pickett, claimant, fifa, It ii urged that the business
levy and claim. Calm dUml« , ^^ZeW
levy proceeds. | on 0 f those versed ' in conditr
Armour Fertiliser Works vs. Johq such as the boll weevil creates
tv >\ this is the greatest move in l k e r
direction that hae yet been mac
MAKES HIM HUNGRY.
FARMERS' MASS MEETING.
BIG MEETING HERE
FOR PACKING HOUSI
Friday Night at Courthouse.
PromitionrMen to Spe
NOW
Expected That Half of the Stock
Necessary to Build Will be Sub
scribed at Meeting Tomorrow.
Nothing that the business people
of Tifton have suggested In the peak -
met with more enthusiastic sup.
than the proposition to build a
$200,000 packing house here aa a
« to help the farmers make a
cceiaful fight against the boll
vil.
As announced in a recent issue of
e Gazette, a mass meeting will be
held st the court house tomorrow,
Frldey, night, at which timo sub
scriptions to the capital stock for
the concern will be taken and on
good authority it la learned that at
least half the amount necessary te
*>uild will be subscribed at the mect-
buil
ing.
IN CITY COURT
Prominent Men to Spcalt.
Among others who will speak a
the meeting at tho court house wi'
be Mr. C. L Brooks of the Moultrie
packing house, formerly of Minne
sota, and a man who is perhaps more,
familiar with such institutions than
any other man in South Georgia at
this time.
Besides Mr. Brooks, Mr. Clinton
Shingier, of Ashburn, son of Mr. J.
S. Shingier, one of the largest stock
raisers in South Georgia, will alse
be on hand to address tho meeting.
Organisation Will be Perfected.
An organization to handle the
proposition will be completed at the
Murrow. Fifa, levy and illegality;'
Illegality dismissed, levy proceeds.
Tift’s Garage vs. R. L. Lovett, W.
A. Puckett and J. W. Hall. Suit on
ote; settled, coeti against plaintiff.
W. M. Sineath vs. J. L. Ssndlin.
Jail trover; settled; coite against de
fendant.
Freldlander Brs. vi. Weinstein and
-cvy. Motion for new trial. Order
ivcrrullng motion.
The State vs. Will Webb. Larceny
ilea of guilty. Sentence 10 months
>r $$75.00 to Include costa.
the farming and business inti
o*. Tifton and Tift county, nnd
it deserves the united support of i
GOOD
MEETINGS
MR. GREEN'S FUNERAL.
Thc funeral of Mr. J. E. Green,
vho died at bis homo near Tifton
itonday, was held at Providence
:hurch, near Buena Vista, hts old
home, Tuesday morning at 11:30,
Rev. Allison conducting the services.
A large number of friends gathered
to pay the last tribute of respect.
The body was accompanied to
Buena Vista by his son, Mr, C. C.
Green, and two daughters, Misses
Irma Virc and Leona Hazel. These
returned to" Tifton Thursday morn
ing. Mrs. Green and three younger
daughters, MIsscb Fannie Kate,
Mary Lee and Wylie Luie, remained
at. home.
The serlee of revival meeting
the Wesleyan Methodist chi
which began Sunday are still in ‘
gross and will continue each after
noon at 3 o’clock and night at 7:36
o’clock, a prayer meeting being held
at 7 o’clock before the night services
(tart.
Evangelist G. C. Douthit, who lx
conducting the services is an abla
speaker and his sermons are meeting
with much good.
A cordial Invitation is extended
tho public generally to coma out and
hear this splendid speaker.
BUT FEW ATTENDED
The extremely bad weather kept
people indoors Wednesday night and
for this reason many who had plan
ned to do to were kept from at
tending the concert _ at the court
house given by the Drum and Bogle
Corps of' the Georgia Industrial
Home.
As it was about twenty-five at
tended and were highly entertained
by the boys,
Thursday morning the corps
bugled and drummed" at several
places in town to the delight of the
crowds that gathered to hear them.
The boys deserve much credit for
the splendid manner in which they
OFF FOR MOULTRIE.
Four automobiles loaded to ca
pacity left Tifton at 1 o’clock this
afternoon carrying a delegation of
business men nnd farmers who have
gone over there to go through the
R acking house and to get some flrst-
and ideas as to what will have to be
done in the wav of starting off the entertain those who go out to hear
building of the $200,000 plant here. them.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
When You Take Cold.
With the average man a cold is a
serious matter and should not be
trified with, as some of the most dan
gerous diseases start with a common
cold. Take Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy and get rid of your cold as
quickly as possible. You are not ex
perimenting when you use this reme
dy, as it has been in use for many
years and has an established reputa
tion. It contains no opium or other
narcotie. Obtainable everywhere.
At public outcry Tuesday, 58 acres
of lot of land No. 360, sold by Sira.
Susan Aultman, administratrix, were
bought by W. H. Caudll for $1,200.
A house ad lot in the town of
Herbert L. Moor,
Graduate Optometrist
Two yean ox continuous practice
in Tifton and scores of sat is Jed cuv
- - , looier*. If you are suffering
Omega, soid by It. D Sinclair, ad Ihr .Ja^he or other trc .b ee caused
mir’stratir wtste M». M. A Sin .1/eye etram bn sure uH m .
, 7 „ - land see if gb. res A ’rv*V fitt-
elm was b>d in by 3. B. Murrow fori TOU t relieve then, .it cuv oC*
Ki j 1 in the dyon Hotel Block c rr/ dnj
Dear Mr. Editor:
Can’t you stop talking about
those potato custards in your Satur*
day nights?
You keep me hungry, for I have
read all of them and it seems to me
they all happened right there around
Tifton. my old home.
“Going to Mill With Bud” was
very interesting to me. It carries
us back thirty-eight years, when
Mr. B. C. Hutchinson and myself
went to mill. He drove a yoke
oxen while I wa? driving one.
We came to where the roads fork
ed. Either would lead us to the
for they only went around Unc! 1
Johnny Roberts' place, and we were
undecided which was the nearest,
the right or the left? So Mr. Hutch
inson said there wa3 one way to
make the te?t. Said he: “You take
the left hand and I will take the
right and the one who gets there
first without trotting, his way will
he the sortest.”
We went, and I guess each of us
used the whip on our oxen and long
before we got to where the two
wrys met I could see him a straddle
the tongue with his hare feet hang
ing down and the oxen trotting. Of
course he best me to the mill, wh'ch
e intended to do at the bejrnning.
Well we love to think tfcos*
days hack yonder. I was vTfittng in
your town the other day era drove
out to the Midway school house
where i went to school thirty-five
yer-s ago. How my thoughts
rr tibitd on •emen.hering all my
■cnAolfv ates.
God Mess them.
Charlie King.
Vitim*, Ga.
The Man with Money keeps
his money safe in. the
Bank.
Th ais wh> he
money.
11
All the regrets In the world won’£ bring back your
money if you invest It foolishly In some “wildcat” scheme
and LOSE It,—for lose It you surely will.
The one sure way to have your money Is to put it
our Bank, where It Is SAFE, and let It pile up. Then yo
and yours, who are entitled to it, will have It.
Put YOUR money fn OUR bank.
We pay 5 per cent Intere-.t.
The Nst 5 oi?.«i! Bank o? Tiatoi
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