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•ymp. » H . The Tilton m 81.00 PER ANNUM. 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. MEMBER. 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