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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, T1FTON, GA K FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916.
VOLUME XXV1L NUMBER 28.
IRANGEMENTS ARE
IDE FOOIG GAME
r Norman Institute and Aggies
TKanksgiving Day
THAI TRAIN FROM TIFTON
id won Will be Cot Oft So Team*
(fan Play Without Hindrance
> From Sideline,,
prof. S. L. Lewis . and Coach
irash went to Norman Park Tues-
f afternoon and completed arran-
ents for the football game to bs
yed there Thanksgiving Day be-
ien the Aggies and Norman In
pie.
leveral improvements have been
e in the arrangements for the
e this year, among other things
c will be appreciated is that the
ton visitors at the game'will oe*
4 the lower end of the field, and
/Norman Park people the upper
J there will be a special parking
•6 for cars from Tifton and oth-
cjities, and everything will be
to make the game interesting
liose on the sidelines..
I special train will be ran from
pn, leaving here at 1:30 o’clock
“'ksgiving Day, arriving at Nor-
Park in doe time. Returning
ain will leave immediately fol
'g the contest. The round trip
;will be 75 cents and already
have been enough tickets sold
arantee the expense of N the
and there will be hundreds
going than those who have al‘
bought tickets.
is expected that the biggest
will be at the game of.any'ev-
tnessing 3uch a contest at Nor-
’ Park, because it is the biggest
ii In South Georgia.
i to the teams, it is reported that
is in the-pink of condition,
are scrimmaging hard every
id hope to go into the fray in
t to “mop up” with the Aggies,
the other hand Coach Thrash
no stone unturned in
He says*his team will be
in all that the word implies,
that Phillips' will be in the
ight of Moultrie, and Mitchell
ifton, will alternate as referee
|implro, which assures that there
rank decisions, and there
-reason to believe that, while
i a hard fight put up, the
pulled off to the entire
of ajl, as far as playing
BULL.
purchased a
bull from the
Iture, *and
d to arrive hdte
days.
olcl, and is
finest specl-
the State
paid *300
Agent L.
: for Mr.
IS DOUBLE WINNER.
A. M. S. Team Prep and State
Champion, This Year.
The Second District Aggies foot
ball squad deserve all the nice things
that can be said of them, and be
cause they have been victorious on
the fields of battle this season, it is
no wonder the girls look at the boys
with more than sidelong glares, for
the team stands at the head of the
state prep schools as well as leading
the South Georgia Prep Association
in winning games this year, having
lost but one played so far, that with
Douglas at Douglas.
They will play their last game of
the season at Norman Park Thanks
giving Day, but should they lose
they would still be winners of the
championships. , (
In all the Aggies have played
eight games this season, three out
side of the Georgia Prep, one at
Lake City, Fla., with Columbia Col
lege one with Gordon Institute at
Barnesvillc; and the other with
Sparks Collegiate; winning all these
games with good margins.
They will have played nine games
' len the Norman Park contest Is
over Thanksgiving Day and if they
win that game they will have won
inwall eight* games; and should the
game go to Norman Park they will
have seven to_ their credit.
Jhe percentage to date stands as
follows:
In the State Prep, 875.
In South Georgia Prep, 866. .
If they win next game they will
stand .in the state 889; if they lose
they will stand 778.
LEWIS POPE KILLED
AT MACON TUESDAY
While Testing Motorcycle at Cen
tral City Park •
which!
is giv-j
s:
,'onths
nes W.
DICKERT-EASON.
The marriage of Miss Florence
Cummings Dickert, of Live Oak,
Fla., to Mr. Robert Usher Eason was
a pretty event of Wednesday after
noon, taking place at the home of
the bride’s brohter and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Charlton B. Holmes, on
Love avenue at 2:30.
The maid of honor, Miss Ola
Barber, came first, and the bride on
the arm of her brother, Dr. C. R.
Dickert, followed. They were met at
the altar by the groom and his best
roan, Mr. Ivan Morgan. The party
assembled around the altar, Rev. C.
W. Durden and the bride and groom
standing underneath a beautiful
arch and the attendants to the side.
The very impressive ring ceremony
was used.
The many handsome presents
were displayed up stairs and their
beauty and quality attested tQ the
high esteem in which these young
people were held.
The bride is the youngest dough-
ter of Mr. C. P. Dickert, of Live
Oak, Fla., and Is well known in Tif
ton, having lived here for many
years. Mr. Eason is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Eason and is con
nected with the local postoffice
force.
Mr. and Mrs. Eason left -at, 3:30
over the Georgia Southern and Flor
ida for Jacksonville and will spend
a week on the East coast of Florida.
They will be' With Mr. and Mrs.
Holmes for a few days on their re
turn
The out-of-town guests were: Mrs.
J. W. Poe and daughter. Miss Lucy,
of Yidalia; Mr. C. P. Dickert, Mrs.
WAS SON OF MR, ALEX POPE
Young Man Was Riding 50 Milas
Hour When Accident Happened.
Buried at Zion Hope.
The information that Lewis Pope
was killed at Central City Park, 'Ma
con, Tuesday, was received in Tif
ton with deep regret by many who
knew the young man and his people,
and a large delegation met the train
bearing the remains which were tak
en to Zion Hope church this after
noon for funeral services and in
terment.
An accourt of the accident whic'
caused the young man’s death is
en in the Telegraph as follows
"Losing control of his machine
when he took his hand off the handl
bars to replace his hat, which hai
blown down over his face, Lewi
Pope, a young white man, was in
stantly killed yesterday afternoo
at Central City park.
'The accident occurred at 3:8
'clock, just in front of the judge'
Stand, and the main grandstand. J
crowd of negtoes, attending the ne
gro fair at the park, witnessed 'th i
accident
“Pope, had been sent down, it
said, by the Miller Cycle Compan;
to repair one of the motorcycles 1 >
be used in the races. He worke 1
with the machine and then mountc 1
it to test it
“He made only ore lap of tljo
track. Coming in on the stretch
front of the stand at a 60 mile clj|>,
his hat blew down over his eyes. 1 e
grabbed it quickly, releasing his h< Id
on the bars. The machine swerv d,
and plunged into a post at he
entrance of the judges’ stand.
‘Tope’s head struck the post, i nd
he was instantly killed. The imp ict
of the blow knocked, a large hole in
his head.
‘Tope was 18 years of age an t
son of Mrs. Susie Pope, widow of
the late W. A. Pope, 560 Edgew od
avenue. He formerly was in he
employ of Schwarts and Paul, fn-
ners.
“Besides his mother he is sur
vived by one sister, Mrs. W. 1.
Hunt, and a brother, Arthur. T
family formerly lived at Tifton ai J
after that at Lake City, Fla. H s
father was an engineer on the Geo -
gia, Southern and Florida.”
The Popes lived in Tifton for a
number of yeats, and Lewis a is
born here. Later they moved ti
Macon and then to Lake City, wh re
Mr. Pope died, after whigh Mrs. F >pe
and Lewis returned to Macon.
supe-,Maude Starr and children, and Mrs.
ne here D. G. Long, of Live Oak, Fla.; Mrs.
HI- Clifford Brunson, of Atlanta; Mrs.
into i W. A. Hill, of Newberry, S. C.; Mr.
1, | and'Mrs. E. R. Barber and Mr. Joe
usly. H. Holmes, of Valdosta.
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Maenuand first
VOTED AGAINST
INDEPENDENCE. DUE TO
THE EFFORTS OF STONE
THE INSTRUCTIONS
WERE CHANGED
TO ALLOW
THE STATE
DELEGATES TO
VOTE FOR THE
I DECLARATION..
STONE
PACKING HOUSE OR
GANIZATION MADE
Temporary Director* and Execu
tive Board Ejected.
fETAILS OFPlANT
TWO RURAL ROUTES
ARE TO BE ADDED
To Service from Tifton Pottoffice
January First
and
tl and Persistent
*
Irned, Stone was practical and per-
Df the Colonies. The early patri*
ause of superior learning, but they
i in their purposes.
haracteristics which you begin
hen you begin to bank your
hney at this strong bank.
[essfui you need a Bank Account.
IF TIFTON
lORGIA
AN INTKEST1NC LETTER
Editor Gazette:
To make my story short, will }>nly
mention a few of the farmers
what they are doing.
My trip cost me only about
teen dollars and I deem it worth
hundred dollars to me.
Mrs. William McKinney runs
plows; made almost twenty-ei
bales of cotton lasa year. This yiar,
1916, planted about the same r im-
ber of acres in cotton, or nearl
much, and made one bale
Mr. James S. Chapman last bear
made twenty-four bales. This year
with about the same amount of land
planted in cotton, made one ba
Mr. J. B. McKinney eighteen
acres planted to cotton, made about
six hundred pounds of seed cotton.
I am personally acquainted With
these farmers and know it wasinot
for lack of effort on their part, lfiey
are all prosperous farmers.
Now you pre wondering what
are going to do next year—e
answered. They are going to fai
There seemed to be plenty
money in circulation.
I visited two of the towns in Dale
county and they were crowded with
fanners and they didn’t go for noth
ing. They had money to spend.
Farmers going to market, as when
they raised plenty of cotton, carry-
Stockholders Authorized Securing
of Charter, Tentative Plans and
Sib for Plant Wednesday Night •
X a meeting of stockholders held
at/the office of the Frank Scarboro
mpany Wednesday night a tern*
rary organization of the Tifton
taking Company was perfected
ith the election of a board of direc-
:ors, from which an executive and
fiance committee was selected, the
latter authorized to go ahead and
secure a charter for the Company,
have plans drawn and look into the
matter of securing a site for a plant.
Following some discussion it was
moved by Col. Fulwood, seconded by
Col. Ellis, that a board of directors
be elected, and this was done in reg
ular order after the motion was
unanimously carried. The following
were elected:
H. H. Tift, chairman; W. W.
Banks, T. W. Tift, Briggs Carton.
E. P. Bowen, R. C. Ellis, W. L. Har
man, J. J. Golden, L. P. Thurman,
C. B. Holmes, R. E. Hall, H. H. Tift,
Jr., I. C. Touchstone, C. W. Rick,
son, R. Eve, M. E. Hendry, I.
Bowen, J. S. Shingler, J. B. Cli
ents, W. D. Fountain, Harry Ken 1
L. A. Baker, J. J. L. Phillips, W.
Greer, B. E. Smith, J. D. Cook,
S. Taylor, Frank Scarboro, J.
Hutchinson, S. H. Lipps, I. W. My
ers and B. Y. Wallace.
The stockholders then passed
resolution to elect from the direc
tors a committee of eight tnembei
with power to go ahead with
matters necessary to get the pli
under way, and elect temporary
fleers. This resolution carried unah-
imously. The committee elected -is
as follows:
H. H. Tift, chairman; W. ' V.
Banks, M. E. Hendry, J, 8.- Bhlngl sr,
W. D. Fountain, Frank Scarbo -o,
Briggs Carson and J. B. Clements
During tbe meeting .Mr. John V.
Greer, of Moultrie, spoke, congra u-
lsting Tifton'on ihe step that h id
been taken, saying among otl er
things that he had predicted tihrt
Tifton would eventually have
packing plant of her own, but thbt
the boll weevil having arrived aht id
of time tbe matter h*d been broug it
to a focus sooner than anyone h id
anticipated. He said that
proper move for Tifton and
•d great success for the pla
Mr. Brooks, the packing
pert of MoultrieT' also spoke. He
gave out the information that at this
time* Andalusia, Ala., had 5,000 head
of hogs on the yard; Moultrie 4,000;
that the Waycrosa plant opened last
Friday and was getting hogs faster
than they could handle them; that
all the plants he mentioned had stop
ped taking hogs for the next week
or ten days in order to get caught
up, and that Tifton need not have
any fear about getting all tbe hogs
and cattle they could handle no mat
ter how big a plant they built
It was pointed out in the mectini
that u plant could be built for be
tween $80,000 and $100,000, and i
was also decided that there shout
be capital enough put Into the o: -
ganization to give at least a margi l
of $25,000 over the cost of tl e
plant to run on. There was $116
000 reported as having been su'
scribedT and it is believed that then
will be no trouble about getting th
balance necessary.
BROUGHT OVER 300 BALES.
473 ADDITIONAL FAMILIES
DRANK AN OUNCE
OF CARBOLIC ACID
In the Georgia Legislature, has haul-!«._ '
ed to Tifton thif year over three Mr ’ W * A * Water * Despondent
Over High Cost of Living
WAS DISCOVERED BY HIS WIFE
Judge Clements Glad Road to Irwin-
ville Being Made Good.
Judge Jim Clements, of Irwinviile,
and representative of Irwin , county
Will Get Daily Mail Through New
Arrangement. Mr. Kennedy
Gets Old Jab Back.
Postmaster W. W. Bennett receiv
ed a telegram from the Poitoffice
Department at Washington Tuesday
that the re-arrangement of tfie rural
service from the Tifton postoffice,
submitted to the department by this
office had been approved by the de
partment and would be effective
January 1st, 1917.
This includes the extension of
the service from the Tifton office
to 473 additional families, and
necessitates the addition to the car
rier force of two new routes.
While it is not possible at this
time to give the details of the rear
rangement of the routes, because all
the maps and many of the papers
are In the hands of officials in Wash
ington, it can be said that every
nook and corner of the territory
served from this office will be cov
ered when the new routee are added,
and the old routes rearranged.
Practically every family In ths
county who desires the service will
g-i dally mail after the tint of the
year, ae the mapi prepared largely
by Aulstant Postmaster Felder cov
er those sections of the county
Where no routes have existed, and
this arrangement will give Tift coun
ty ae good a rural free delivery malls
service ae any county in the South.
The work 'of getting these new
routes established has been under
way by Postmaster Bennett for some
time, and in July when he attended
the annual convention of the Na
tional Poetmasters’ Association In
Washington he took the matter up
in pereon with the head of the- De
partment having the rural service
in charge, Fourth Asietant Postmas
ter Blakslce. At that time he was
not given hearty encouragement
about securing the approval of biz
plans bnt Mr. Bennett got in touch
with Congressman Park explaining
to him the neceiilty of the rontei
and - together they have been able
to get the re-arrangement end
tabliihment of the fnew routes ap
proved.
The creation of the new routes
has-been accomplished without the
aesiitance of the Government sur
veyor! as is generally necessary, and
thia was brought about through the
excellent manner in which Assistant
Postmaster Felder drew the route
maps of the county for the Depart
ment.
The new'rontes will be known ae
No. 6 and No. 6, and two new car
rion will have to be added to 'the
delivery force from this office. When
the re-arrangement was made some
thing over a year ago and Motor A
route was established combining two
routes then existing Mr. W. O.
Kennedy was lain off because hil
route wee discontinued. Now that
[There are to be appointments made
tor the new routes, he automatically
under the law stands first for one
of them, and it is understood that
he will take the work. The salary
of the carriero to start will it
$1,200 a y ca r each.
hundred bales of cotton, and last
Friday his sales here amounted to
nearly two hundred bales.
Judge Clements said that he had
hauled his cotton to Tifton over
the roughest roads in the county,
and there is no doubt but that his
statement is correct, because the
road to the Alapaha river bridge
from here is in bad condition, and
has been ever since the big rains last
summer that tore Tift county roads
all to pleees. However, the Judge
as well as every tfne else having oc
casion to. use the thoroughfare be
tween here and Irwinviile and so
on north, are much pleased to note
that work is now going on by tho
Tift county gang putting this end
of the highway in good shape.
George Branch has been the buy
er of Mr. Clemente’ cotton, and that
brought to Tifton has been worked
through Mason’s warehouse. In all
Mr. Branch has paid Judge Clements
about $28,000 for cotton this year.
Mr. Clements Is holding two hun
dred tons of cotton seed, believing
that the price will go to $65 a ton,
and he will not turn bis loose for a
reasonable length of time In antici
pation of getting that price for it.
MUMPS.
Cause is unknown. It is trans
mitted by direct contact Preven
tion consists in isolation and in dis
infection of secretions from mouth
and nose. Period from exposure till
you have the disease is from 2 to 27
days.
Tifton is up against the same old
snag-which haa sent many a bark to
the bottom. That snag goes by the
name of “Doubt and Indifference.’'
£ child was not well nt school. Tho
iFealth Officer was called on and re
quested that the child bo sent homo
with the statement that the troublo
was mumps. Anohcr anxious moth-
Large Family to Support aad Could
Not Find Enough Work. He
Hu Chanco to Live.
Despondent for several days, the
spell becoming more severe Wednes
day night, over hi* Inability to se
cure sufficient work to support bis
family of five beside himself with
the high cost of food stuffs, Hr. W.
A, Waters, who lives on Ninth street;
this morning at 4 o’clock drank the
contents of an ounce bottle of car
bolic acid.
Mr. Waters was in an unusually
morbid state of mind last night and
his wife could not console him suf
ficiently to get him to go to bed un
til near midnight. About 4 o’clock
he arose, dressed and Heft the house,
returning a short' time afterward
and took a seat near the fire.. HU
wife saw him sitting in the chair ap
parently asleep. Aboat 6 o’clock
■he called to him that It was time to
call the children so that they could
get breakfast and go to work. He
rose from the chair In which he was
sitting and attempted to cross the
room but staggered, and his wife
then saw that he was 111. She told
him to go lie down If ho was-sick,
and he camo where she was and fell
across the bed where she was lying
and as he did so she discovered th*
odof of carbolic add.
• Physicians were hurriedly
moned and three responded at aboat
the same time and together they
worked over Mr, Waters, removing
most of tho add from his stomach,
and they say that unless something
unlookcd for arises, ho will recover ,
but that it will be two or three day*
before tho danger point Is passed.
Mr. Waters came hero from Way-
cross tho first of August. At that
place he had been employed In the
ed called the Officer and he law her p U bii c works department for sons
child and found mumps. It was dlf- tlmo. Ho had not boon able to find
fleult for these to believe the truth ; , te#djr work h(!ro nml for some Ume
as no one knew of a ease in the this has weighed upon his mind.
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neighborhood. Their doubt led to
carelessness and carelessness to the
spread of the dlseaae. The teachers
do not want to deprive a single child
of th* opportunities of an education,
your Health Officer* do not want to
■care you, neither do they want a
disease to spread. Co-operation of
parent* will do more than anything
to stamp out the threatening epi
demic. If your ehild'e jaws hurt
and he can’t, without pain, eat a
sour pickle, and if hia jaw* begin to
swell look ont for mumps and keep
the child at home or expect the
teecher to lend him home. When
the disease develops! keep your
child warm and comfortable end out
of rain to prevent complication!
which while they are not dangerous
to life are exceedingly pelnfuL Keep
your chiI<L«t home till the swelling
and soreness behind the jaw Is gone.'
It ueually takes about 24 days for
one to get well enough to not spread
the disease.
A. G. Fort,
District Health Officer.
Ho has n wife and four children,
ns follows: Mary, Inez, and Lottie;
tho latter working for M. Blcrman,
and Jerry, twho works for the Ga
zette.
Mr. and Mr«> G. V. Cunningham
returned Monday morning from
Washington, D. C., where Mr. Cun-
This organization made Wcdncs-l nln 3 ham attended the meeting of
y night is, of course, only a tem-¥’ tate A >? cnts a”' 1 Directors of the
day
porary one, but as soon as the mat
ters are taken care of a3 directed by
the stockholders at this meeting,
there will be another meeting called
of the stockholders to go into per-
lanent orgapfiiation, and the work
luildimrithe plant pushed.
STATEMENT OF EXPENSE
MR. CUNNINGHAM ON PROGRAM
Judge Thomas Tuesday signed aa
order requiring Mr. G. V. Dorough
to eurrender tho county jail to Sher
iff Morris. When Sheriff Morris dis
charged Mr. Dorough se jailor ha re
fused to get out, giving bond and .
carrying the case into tho courts.
Sheriff Morris recently made com
plaint to the court that on account
of the great number of jail deliv
eries he deemed it safer for him to
take charge of the jail, regardless
of Mr. Dorough’s rights. Hence the
court’s order—Nashville Herald.
BOY IIURNED^TO DEATH.
Moultrie, O*., Nov. 22.—Corrie
Conger, seven years old, we* burned
to death yesterday at the home of
his mother, Mrs. Fannie Conger, sev
eral miles east of Moultrie, accord
ing to new* received here ■**
Farm Relations Service, Department
>f Agriculture.
Mr. Cunningham was on the pro
gram for a talk on “What is Worth
|Whlle in County Agents Work In
1916," and of the two addresses of
which the Washington papers made
especial mention,^thi.i was one.
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham left
Washington on the 10th for New
York, stopping one day in Balti-
Georgia—Tift County.
Personally comes R. C. Ellis, who [ nore - Tb** came from New York
. n .. . , t , , being duly sworn, deposes and says' b y *teamer to Charleston,
ing all kinds of farm produce and j t j iat ^ was a candidate for the of- Mr. Cunningham says that there
there is a market for everything: j fi C e of Representative for Tift Coun*j WIW an anx j oas crow d in front of
Peanuts, corn, velvet beans, hay, po- « in the Geor^a UgUlature «t toe; the buIIetin bo ard.i in W „ h ington
tatoes. svruu. etc. All bringing a'Keneral election held in and for said ....
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tatoes, syrup, etc. All bringing
fair price.
One farmer, a one-horse farmer,
made three bales of cotton, three-
hundred bushels on 5 acres of pea
nuts, and plenty of corn and other
stuff to run him another year.
To say that tbe boll weevil will get
the cotton crop here next year is re
liable and reasonable, but the farm
ers shouldn't, be discouraged. With
peanuts bringing around a dollar per
bushel and at an average of thirty-
five bushels per acre, farmers can
make some money, not mentioning
other produce as profitable.
This is what farmers in Dale
county, Ala., are doing.
A. W. Lavender.
state and county, on the 7th day of j f °r four days following the election,
November, 1916, and that the ex- and the people were in suspense
penses incurred by him during end as
the result of such campaign were as
follows:
No expense incurred.
R. C. Ellis.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 23rd day of November, 1916.
Henry D. Webb,
Clerk Superior Court
even more than they were here.
CINNING NOTICE.
Notice ie given that there will be
ginning done in Tifton this week as
follows: .
Tift County.4 - Farmare* Gin Company Wednes-
Tfiay and Saturday, November 22 and
Graduate Optometrist
Herbert L. Moor,
Two years oi continuous practice
in Tifton and scores of satisfied cus
tomers. If you are suffering with
headache, or other troubles caused
by eye strain be aura and consult me
and sea if glares properly fitted
won’t relieve them. At cor office
in the Myon Hotel Block every day.
It mokes a
real
nksgivmg
Tifton Mill and Gin Company,
Thursday and Friday, November 23
and 24.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Harman and
little Miss Harriet will motor over
to Macon tomorrow to attend the
Vickere-Evana wedding. .
The man
with money
knows it.
The reason why the man with money has a real
Thanksgiving Is because he STARTED to bank his money
a long time ago and is reaping the harvest of his early
thrift.
He is thankful that he didn’t SQUANDER his money on
extravagances or put it into some “Cet-Rich-Qulck”
scheme.
He is thankful he BANKED It. Are you thankful
that you have banked your money?
Put YOUR money in OUR bank.
We pay 5 per cent Interest.
The National Bank of T
MK;