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T V | £ *1.00 PER ANNUM. 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. ; t 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. : ■' 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 .... I- j 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;