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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1916.
VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 22
PACKING PLANT COMING
Flour MilL
A MeaiPni
A Corn,
A Peanut
These are .the things assured for Tifton with thd coining,
.ear if the fanners of the territory affected want thi
This was the unanimous sentiment of the enthusiastic
**g which filled the Tift county court house Friday night
In oUver words, it is up to the producer. If he Will
stuff, Tifton will provide him with a cash market for it
“If the farmers of Tifton’s territory show that they want
i, I can capitalize the undertaking in 24 hours,”
who can, after the meeting adjourned.
Committee of Sixty will be divided into
each, and a whirlwind canvass of the terri-
jgn
away from cotton, and for crop di
versification, and had already en
deavored to provide a cash market
for feed products. Re had consulted
talks of the evening. He is sure! them recently, and they stood ready
it those who try it will find that to put in a feed mill in connection
tton cannot be grown profitably with the packing plant, conditional
der boll weevil conditions on land I on the erec*ion of same,
it will produce less than a bale to ( Mr. J. J. L. Phillips saw that the
Sere. Growers who try for a weevil was coming several years
, ir or two to keep the squares ago, and begun preparing for it. He
iked from their cotton to make considered improved live stock tWe
to 800 pounds in the seed to the best investment a farmer could
e will find thiB out to their sorrow, make. Replying to Skeen’s statement
ng week.
20th,
I all intef
ting of business men
s will be held to com-
Friday Night’s Meeting.
Mr. W. R. Tucker, Industrial
Wit for the Atlanta, Birmingham
Atlantic railroad, made one of
NEARLY $100,000
/HAS BEEN RAISED
Toward Packing House. $50,000
Wanted From Country \
WILL BE ADDED TO CITY LIST
that other crops can be raised
much easier.
JWTith hogs and cattle we can keep
much on the farm that now goes
waste that in a few years our
ds will be rich enough to raise
ton under the weevil. He was
tain that at the very best, our
ton crop next year would be re-
?ed 30 per cent., the next 50, and
next even more.
Ha road is doing its best to en
rage live stock raising and will
end $1,000 for hogs to give away,
interests are the same as those
the people along its line, for it
at depend on local development
, success. He believed that one
r this would be the greatest live
ck country in America. Mr.
answered many questions,
nr. C. L. Brooks, manager of the
ultrie packing plant, told humor-
ily of his first impressions of this
‘ntry as stock-raising territory
of his change of opinion. Now
thinks this the best country in
world In which to raise stock,
suse we do not have to protect
jo from the cold for half the year
i have twelve months grazing
son. One great obstacle Moul-
encountered had been that the
“.of the' South will not buy
>wn stuff, and must be edu-
nto demanding local products.
Iipe*t fattened on peanuts
finer flavor and the lard
:ent. better.
came to Colquitt county
'*“it $128,000 worth of
wasted every
enongh to pay
honze the first
spending $44,
and meat
raised at
red many
rly.
the chair
of crop
market
e. This
ould co-
all will
je Plant-
[s ready to
ceasary to
nd by-pro-
wtll plant
a cash
tory can
that ho had paid $7,500 for one l$t
of blooded cattle, he said that in the
beginning he had made the mistake
made by nearly every man whan
first embarking in the live stock bus
iness, and did not pay enough. Vfo
need to co-operate in this business,
and can raise live stock here as
cheap as it can be raised in the West,
and perhaps cheaper. Our corn costs
us more, but beans and other feed
cost us less.
Mr. Phillips told of his experience
with crab-grass as a feed, and found
stock shipped here from Indiana and
Illinois continued to fatten on it.
“Our grass is as good as anybody’s,”
said Mr. Phillips, and should be used
under natural conditions. Meat an
imals are growing scarcer and meats
going higher, therefore now is the
time to go into live stock raising.
Mr. H. H. Tift had been expecting
the weevil, but weather conditions
brought It a little in advance of the
time set. “The quicker we realize
that we can't raise cotton profitably
under weevil conditions,” said Mr.
Tift, “the better for all concerned.
We have $150,000 invested in Tifton
in plants depending absolutely on
cotton and don’t want to see it leave
us altogether. Our problem Is to
find a substitute for the inevitable
cotton sortage and I conshider
a packing plant as one of the best.
Thl* ought to be a community enter
prise, however, in which all have b
common interest."
Mr. Brooks, of the Moultrie Pad
ing House, stated for information
this time that Statesboro's packing
house corporation had nearly 700
stockholders, a large majority of
them being farmers and that Anda
lusia, Ala., had a corporation made
un of more than 650 stockholders:
that Moultrie’s corporation had
something over 150. He was of the
opinion that the larger the body of
stockholders the more sure the plant
would bs of being successful.
$30,100 Subscribed In F.w Minutes.
Following the taking of stock sub
scriptions, the motion was made and
carried that a mass meeting be held
at the court house on Friday, Oeto-
ber 20th, at which time fuller re
ports on stock subscriptions. Iocs- ,
tlon and style of packing house and * or , t . hc c “ mpany
NEW STORE TO OPEN
other details woultf be worked out.
Motion was also made and carried
that the chairman appoint two com
mittees, one to work on selection of
packing plant, location, etc., to con
sist of five members. The other
committee to consist of sixty mem
bers to be divided into squads to
make a whirlwind campaign of Tift
and adjoining counties next week fo
get the farmers and business men
outside of Tifton interested.
Vice President
B. H. McLEOD. Cashier
J. W. O’NEAL, Asst. Cashier
gtement of the Condition of
IANK OF TIFTON
. at the dose of business Oct. '0, ! 9! 6
Most Enthusiastic Mealing Held Last
Night. $96,000 Raised. Farm
ers to Raiso $50,000.
ly far the most enthusiastic mej
ing 'irom all angles of view th:
been held dealing with the^Picking
House proposition war held at the
office of Frank Scarboro Company
Wednesday night, the office being
filled with business men and farm
ers.
Before the meeting adjourned
$95,000 was pledged toward the
building of the Packing House,
Mr. H. H. Tift said that Tifton
had to have the Packing House and
that it was up to the people of Tif
ton to stand behind the movement
good and strong to make it an as
sured thing. He was very earnest
about the matter and said he was
willing to do more than his part to
ward making the venture a success.
Col. R. C. Ellis gave a talk which
was very enthusiastic. He said the
more he thought about the matter
the more he was of the belief that
the Packing House was absolutely
necessary for Tifton under the pres
ent circumstances and that he had
faith enough in the project to double
his stock subscription, which he
did.
Mr. B. Y. Wallace said that we
must have the Packing House and
that he wanted to do his part. He
said that it was up to the people of
Tifton to take the biggest interest
in the enterprise and show the people
of the country surrounding that the
business men here meant to do the
right thing'toward giving the farm
ers a market for their hogs and cat
tle.
Mr. Banks said in his short talk
that no individual nor set of men
should have control of the industry
but that It should be in the hands of
the business people of Tifton and
the farmers of the surrounding ter
ritory. He stated that he believed
that the business men of Tifton
should back the project and agreed
that if the people of the city would
raise $40,000, the farmers of the
county $50,000 then E. P. Bowen,
H. H. Tift and himself would guar
antee to underwrite $60,000 worth
of the stock. He said that he did
not mean to say that these three
men would take the stock themselves
alone but that they would raise it
among their associates.
This talk put all sorts of enthusi
asm Into the gathering and as the
city people hsve already raised most
of the $40,000 asked for by the un
derwriters of the $60,000, and as
advices from over the county make
it look easy to raise the $50,000
asked for, it was stated before the
meeting ended that the organization
to operate the
Packing Plant would be completed
before the end of next week, the
charter drawn and actual work be
gun on the erection of the plant
soon after the first of the year.
Following Mr. Banka’ talk, Mr. M.
E. Hendry spoke briefly and remark
ed that he believed that the move,
ment was the proper thing at this
time and he subscribed for some of
the stock.
It wns explained at the meeting
that the $50,000 to be raised in the
county outside of the city could he
paid for in cash, cattle or hogs, pay
able on or before .Oct. 1st, 1917,
and this seemed to be an added at
traction to the farmers present and
they stated that it would be easy to
raise the amount of stock asked for
in this way. Several farmers present
subscribed for cash stock and some
Welch & HalU«Iay Will Locate In
McLeod-O’Neal Building.
It is learned that a new firm has
been organized composed of Dr. C.
B. Welch and Dick Halliday, two
well and favorably known young
men, and that they have leased from
McLeod and O'Neal the corner store
of the new building being erected on
the corner of Love avenue and Sec-
nd street for the purpose of open
ing a modern drug store in all that
the term implies.
The fixtures have already been
ordered for the new atore and they
will be built to be in keeping through
out, matching in architectural beau
ty a modern sanitary American soda
fount which is said will be the
handsomest yet erected in Tifton.
The store will occupy all of the
corner and will be 25x75 feet, with
entrance on Love avenue. It will
be fitted up as fast as the builders
at work on the ouilding get out of
the way so that it will be ready to
open really before the building is
completed.
Mr. Halliday is a druggist famil
iar with all the necessary details to
make a drug store a success and
Dr. Welch is a popular physician of
the city. Both have many friends
here and it is predicted that their
store will add greatly to Tifton’s
already fast growing trading center.
The city has leased the rear end
of the new building for a fire station
with rooms overhead for the firemen,
together with two rooms in the back
of the firemens’ quarters which will
be used as a police court room and
clerk’s office. No information is at
hand as to who the balance of the
space in the new building have been
rented to, but it is understood that
a number of parties are making of
fers for them.
IMPORTANT MEET
ING OCTOBER 20TH
All Phase* of Weevil Campaign
be Taken Up-
ANOTHER GOOD SHOWING.
The Bank of Tifton makes anoth
er splendid showing in their con.
densed statement of business of Oc
tober 10th, appearing in this issue
of the Gazette.
According to the statement there
is on deposit at that bank over one
million and three hundred thousand
dollars, while the total resources run
close to one and three Quarter. mil
lion dollars.
This Is a wonderful showing for a
bank to make in a city the size of
Tifton, and it is attracting attention
all over the country.
It is expected that deposits will go
still higher before the end of the
year, as the cotton crop is not all in
by any means, and business In all
lines is booming.
WILL LAST ALL DAY LONG
IN LITIGATION.
"NEVER AGAIN”
"Going to plant cotton ngain next
year on your Decatur county farm?”
was asked of Mr. F. A. Hardee,
manager of the Chero-Cola Bottling
Company here, by a Gazette reporter
recently.
“Never again,” replied Mr. Hsr
dee, and then he added: "I tried to
convince the planter last spring not
to plant any cotton this year, but he
was sure that he could ‘make just
one more crop’ and I finally con
sented to let him go ahead.”
"What was the result this year?”
he was asked.
"Weevils got all the crop except
three bales,” said Mr. Hardee, "on
the same land that gave us twenty
bales last year.”
“Is your farmer convinced yet
that the weevil is a reality and not
a myth?”
"Yes, he’s convinced—and broke,
too,” was the answer.
State Entomologist and Many Ex
perts Coming to Adviso Farmers
About Yonr’s Crop.
An important meeting incident to
the campaign against the boll weevil
will be held at Tifton at 10 o'clock
Friday, October 20, under the aus
pices of the state board of entomol
ogy, and every farmer and business
man in this city and county is urged
to attend.
There isn’t a man, woman or child
in the county but is affected by the
destruction Ho cotton wrought by
this insect, and it is important that
every known means of dealing with
the situation be studied out and ap
plied in order that the damage may
be reduced to a minimum.
Perhaps the most important ques
tion right now is that of the best
varieties of seed to use to meet boll
weevil conditions. More than 50
per cent of a successful boll weevil
fight depends upon using the right
varieties of cotton—varieties that
will completely resist disease and
mature a crop early in the season.
These varieties often vary for dif-
frent counties or sections.
The board of entomology hr.s
planned a series of meetings, each
of which will be attended by experts
from the department, as well as
from the Federal States Relations
Service, and the United States Bu
reau of Entomology, at which this
particular phase of the boll weevil
problem will be fully presented. Ev
ery farmer should know just what
varieties of cotton are best suited
to his farm under the new condi
tions.
Many other important phases of
the work will be discussed. There
is much work to be done both in
fall and spring. The fall work in
cludes turning under the cotton
stalks as early as possible to
depth of four inches, so as to de.
stroy immature weevils. This should
be done right now. After the first
good frost burn off and clean out
hedge-rows, ditch-banks, around
stumps and outhouses, and born off
swampheads in the fields. This kills
many of those which have gone into
winter quarters.
Sow a cover crop from which some
grazing may be secured and which
can be turned under In the spring
to enrich the soil. It is a good plan
too, to plant a small grain crop of
oats and wheat, or to grow winter
and spring grazing crops for hogs
and cattle.
Advice is given not to plant more
than five acres to the plow for next
season’s crop. Cut down the acre,
age and diversify—plant other crops,
For cotton the soil should be thor
oughly prepared, early varieties
used, and pushed to maturity ns rap
idly as possible.
Large Suits Against Saunders, War.
ren Ira and Ollia Gibbs,
Col. R. A. Hendricks, of Nash
ville, was' in Tifton Tuesday after
noon, representing Mr. Saunders
Gibbs and hli sons, Warren E„ Ira
W„ and Ollie E. Gibbs, in various
matters of litigation pending
against them.
Attachments and suits aggregat
ing $9,450 have been filed against
the four. Of these, an attachment
for $5,550 is by the Bank of Tif
ton and one for $2,500 by the Na-
itonal Bank of Tifton. Suits on
notes amounting to $1,380 were filed
by the Tifton Guano Company and
suits on accounts amounting to
$300 by the Golden Hardware Co.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Ira Gibbs said he was robbrd of
$9,000 during the early morning
hours of Saturday. On the previous
day a deed to real estate belonging
to him was filed for record by his
father, Mr. Saunders Gibbs. The
attachments and suits were filed
Saturday and Monday.
CURSED CONVICTING JURORS
Elbert Strickland, a white man,
was sentenced by Judge W. E.
Thomas to twelve months on the
chaingang with an alternative of
paying a fine of $250, following his
plea of guilty to an indictment
charging him with the use of oppro
brious and abusive language, says
the Moultrie Observer.
The prosecutor in the case was
not a member of the jury that
Strickland admitted that he cursed,
but his brother was and it was claim
ed that the defendant mistook the
man that he abused for one of the
twelve men that brought in a verdict
of guilty against him. The indict
ment charged Strickland with curo-
ing collectively every man on the
jury in the presence of the prose
cutor.
A young man by the name of
Croft entered a plea of guilty to an
Indictment charging him with the
theft of some cotton. He wee sen
tenced to twelve months, with an al
ternative of $300.
Spencer Keagon waa found guilty
of assault and battery as the result
of a rough house that he was charg
ed with raising at justlea court at
Ellcnton several weeks ago. It was
claimed that Keagon became
violent while he was being tried on
a peace warrant that it took two or
three men to aubdue him.
Mr. W. B. Hutchinson, of Route 4
was in Tifton Wednesday. He is still
carrying his hand, which was caught
in a hay press several days ago, in
a sling and it will be some time be
fore he will be able to use it.
WILLACOOCHEE'S WOMAN’S
CLUB.
Willacoochce, Ga., C-L 12.—The
Willacoochec Woman's Club held its
regular meeting Friday afternoon at
the auditorium. The president, Mrs.
L. W. Summerlin, presided.
Several new offices, made neces
sary by the lecent re-organization
were filled and reports were made
by the several committees.
At the close of the business ses
sion, a musical program was render
ed by Misses Smith and Quillian and
Mrs. S. S. West.
Much interest is being manifested
in both educational and civic
provomont and the aim of the club
is to be one of the strongest in the
Federation.
ton, and W. W. Banks, vice pre
dent of the Bank of Tifton, and i
eludes nearly every business m
of this city.
As an indication of how much
HAHIRA BOOSTERS
HERE WEDNESDAY
Large Party Made Tour in Inter
est of Fair-
ANOTHER RACE IN COFFEE.
Atlanta, Oct 11-—The sub-corn,
mittee given charge of the Coffee
county election contest sat all the
afternoon hearing evidence on the
race for member of the house, the
contest being brought by C. E.
Stewart, the present representative.
The sub-committee ruled that Stew
art and John Paulk, who was given
the primary count by seventeen
votes, run the race over in the gen
eral election.
This leaves only the contest in
the Forty-third senatorial
SCHOOL BOYS’ BAND MADE HIT
Eighteen Cars and Lnrge Truck
Loaded Full Carried Party.
Good Music and Good Cheer,
The party of Hahira Boosters
scheduled to arrive in Tifton at 3
o’clock Wednesday did not get here
until 4; on account of a spring
breaking under the large truck that
carried the band while the party
was neating Ashburn, resulting in a
delay In getting the broken part
fixed and the party headed this way
again.
There were eighteen automobiles
in the line besides the large truck
thsjt carried the band, and the party
consisted of about one hundred en
thusiastic men and boys of Hahira.
Mr. W. W. Webb headed the dele
gation which set out from horns
Wednesday morning at 7:30 o’clock
for the purpose of boosting the com
ing agricultural exhibit and stock
shows that are to be held at Hahira
beginning October 17th and running
through the -21st. The party visited
Nashville, Alupaha, Ocllla, Fitzger
ald, Sycamore and Ashburn before
coming here. At Ashburn part of
the crowd went to Moultrie and then
came on here joining the others in
time to get away for Adel at 5:15.
With the party waa the boys' band
of the Hahira public school, tha
only hand of Its kind in the state and
the little fellows made a hit when
they "tooted up” here. Besides this
band there was another aggregation
of musicians that put the flniihing
touehes on that part of the program.
It waa announced by speaker^ in
the party that the fair to be polled
off at Hahira was exclusively a loeal
affair, no pioducta grown more
than nine miles away from that place
being entitled to entry; that there
would be n splendid showing of
home raised hogs and cattle; a big
carnival company to amuso the peo
ple; a parade in which all towngpth
South Georgia could take part-and
compete for prises for best decorat
ed floats, etc.
The party had intended visiting
the Second District Agricultural
School, but because of the delay In
getting here this could not be' done.
Before leaving Tifton a cordial in
vitation was extended all to make
Hahira headquarters during the fair,
and it was pointed out thet the
horse ewappera convention would be
one of the greatest ever pulled off
in South Georgia.
KILLED BY AUTO.
Fitzgerald, Ga„ Oct. 12.—Spur
geon Barfield, aged 22, was instant
ly killed about 5 o'cloek Wednesday
afternoon in a collision between the
motorcycle he waa riding and an au
to driven by Miss Alice Fussell.
Young Barfield'# neck was broken
district, 1 and he was badly cut and bruiseed,
between K. H. Beck and L. II.'death resulting Instantly.
Peeples, undecided. The commit-' Barfield emerged from an alley
tee on that will meet here next' and Mias Fussell did not see him be-
Saturday and almost beyond a cause of u standing automobile un
doubt seat Beck. i til upon him.
Let
US
be your
Bankers
MR. WH1DDON AT HOME.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Whiddon and
baby arrived Monday morning on
the Dixie Flyer and are out at th
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Whiddon, northwest of Tifton.
cmemhered that Mr.
seriously hurt in a
wreck at Warre.i,
eeks ago. He is just
f the hospital, and
It will he
Whiddon was
freight train
Ohio, several
able to he out
who had already subscribed <louble<l j f a r selected.
their subscription. But there is not any doubt about
A committee was appointed to ad-j the Packing House being built, and
dress a letter to the farmers of the i with the concerted determination of
county laying the proposition before j the substantial men of this city and
them, and this committee will send i community back of it, it will be a
out their communications as fast as success and a money maker for the
they can be prepared. The commit*; stock holders as well as a means of
tee is headed by M. K. Hendry. • revolutionizing methods of agricul-
cashier of the National Bank of Tif-jture in this section.
-1 There will be a monster mass
- ’ meeting held here on the 20th at
i j which time plans toward the final
i organization of the company t<r op-
^ ^ I crate the Packing House will he gone
terest is being taken in the Packing j * n *°» an< * as that the day for the
House, one of the committeemen! All-Day Boll Weevil Ral y there
was approached Wednesday by Nor-1™ 11 be hundreds of men in attend.
man Felder, a wide-awake chap! ance—farmer., business men and The |r guiu $r> to
about 14 years of age, who asked; °‘ hcr8 ’ and it goes without saying ?30 with amJ wi ., >00t belts; with
how much the stock cos*. When told;‘ hat the “ceting will be one of the fur an(J bl . tton tri-t.nir.Ks at Whit-
that it was $100 a share, payable j b, K ones he! d here this year. j ey Brother?. di-wl
$50 on completion of the organ!*.- — - We sell sheet music, also violins
tmn and $50 on call, Norman said | **•*»•'* . and guitar? and trings for s mo.
put him down for one share nnd that! Graduate Optometrist Kent’s. C-w2t.
maybe he ecu'-I earn enough to buy , n For with
some more i * r 01, Hi-, rame * ■**; tomer? If yrm nr* suflTe ir.g wit.. f young ca!?er. J. D. Wilba.uC?.
recorded wHL the rest, end it mlgu ■ che, or otht a *irL* en i-ed 1 d-w-tf. !
be r* Y to tut* here that this boy j J^*®* 1 ** 1 ^*' w , « Ve ***** *>00 hens. Will
h. W. I. ller.vy Crzzcry, Sec !
physicians think it will be six
months before he can use hi. right
arm again. His right arm and
shoulder were crushed and he sus
tained injuries to the spinal column.
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