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THE TIFTON GAZETTE. TIFTON, GA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1916.
VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 29,
26 TO 0 AGGIES
(ON FROM NORMAN
Hotly Contested Thanksgiving
Game Yesterday.
IS CLEAN BUT HARD FOUGHT
CREDITABLE EXHIBI1S.
rusands Crowded Lines to Watch
t$d Rivals in Supreme Test of
The Year. Both Teams Plucky
i their annual Thanksgiving game
jed at Norman Park Thursday af>
oon the Tifton Aggies defeated
[nan Insitute by a score of 26-0.
nis was the last game of the sea-
^for the South Georgia Prep As-
tion as well as for both teams,
both went into the game with
intention to win. It was the only
o of imporance played in South
gia on Thanksgiving and there
large attendance from all over
tion of the state,
was predicted, nearly every-
Tifton went, those that
at home say It was so lone-
here that they hope the next
il will be played at Tifton.
game was clean, with one or
exceptions, and was a hard-
t one from start to finish. Thero
large crowd of rooters for
am but they were placed on
it sides of the field and there
scraps or rough handling,
victory gives the Aggies the
nship of the South Georgia
Assoeiation as well as of the
Prep, and be it said that they
eserve the honors, for they
et nothing this fall that could
m down.
in deserves full credit for
the face of defeat. The team
the game from the first, nev-
'.tering or giving up for a mo-
Th«y'?M.their best: Thrash’s
were just a little too much
.'Id at
3J her
E
And Notable Talk* at Colored School
Fair and Rally.
There were many very attractive
agricultural exhibits at the colored
school fair at the new school build
ing south of Tifton yesterday, and
quite a representative attendance.*
Prof. S. L. Lewis made an ad
dress on diversified farming. Dr. Fort
on “Health a Community Problem,”
Prof. R. E. Kersey on educational
relations, and Mr. G. V. Cunningham
on the boll weevil proposition. Mrs.
N. Peterson and Dr. Peterson, chair-
man of the Tifton school board, also
made short talks.'
Principal J. H. Wilson, of the col
ored school, made a very interesting
and noteworthy talk'on the relations
between white and colored people
in the South compared with condit
ions existing in the North, and spoke
of the great mistake the negroes were
making in allowing themselves to be
enticed away by designing immigra
tion agents. He spoke of conditions
North from personal experience, and
of the co-operation he met with from
white people here.
There were athletic events in the
afternoon and Thanksgiving exercis
es at night.
Altogether, the occasion was a
very educational and pleasing one.
SOUTH
M.E. CONFERENCE
Met in ThomasviUe Wednesday
in 50th Annual Session
DR. LOVETT TUESDAY NIGHT
COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE
BILL.
PICTURES OF LOG ROLLING.
1,600 people saw the game,
receipts were over $600,
I give both teams a nice lit-
for badly needed uniforms
nent.
Line-Up of Teems.
Hackney, fb. Gibson, lh.
rh. Crow, qb. Stokes, c. P.
i and Horne, rg. Sheffield, rt.
rd, re. Hobby, lg. H. Lcverett,
At Cordele to bo Shown is Tiftoa
Tuesday, December 5 lb.
Juniper Camp, Woodmen of the
World at Tifton, has made arrange
ments to show moving pictures of the
log-rolling which was held at Cor-
dele last July and in which a number
of Tift county choppers took part,
in moving pictures at the Strand
theatre in Tifton on next Tuesday
night, December 6th.
There is 1,060 feet of this film,
an * it portrays all the principal feat
ures of the big gathering of South
Georgia Woodmen. Its exhibition
will be a great event in Tift county
W. O. W. circles, and every Sover
eign, his wife, mother, sister, sweet
heart and relatives, ehould see it
DR. McCRAE’S BUCK.
it Martin, le. Smith and Hy.
, It McRainey, lg. Whlgham,
rg. Parker, rt Hafele,
qb. F. Willis and Smith,
lh. Hansel Rlgdon, fb.
Moultrie, and Mitchell,
lternatcd as referee and
quarters were fifteen
Dr. J. A. MeCrae begged the cham,
pion buck of the season yesterday,
while hunting with a party on Capt
W. Lennon’s place, east of Alapaha
river.
The buck carried nine-point horns
and weighed after being dressed, 188
pounds.
It was the biggest buck killed In
this section this season.
auto fire truck arrive
.Wednesday night and is awaltiii
the coming of a representative froi
the factory to unload it
The truck will be put in the ree
house on Central avenue pending tin
completion of the new fire de;
ment faeadqi
RE.
Notice to the Public!
Until 11 a. m. tomorrow, Saturday,
Dec. 1st 1 will sell my three lots
in Edgewood for $300. Each ot 120
ft front by 200 ft back, under good
fence, with bam and good well of
water with brick curb. Good outhous-
After the hour named, these lota
will positively not be on the market.
See. ' S. D. Thomas, Tifton, Go,
Greet Gathering of South Georgia
Methodists to Review Year’s Work
and Plan for Next.
ThomasviUe, Ga., Nov. 29.—The
South Georgia Conference o f
the Methodslst church convened in
ThomasviUe today, Bishop W. A.
Candler, of Atlanta, presiding.
This is the semicentennial. Fifty
years ago the Georgia Conference
it was then called, divided, making
the North Georgia and the South
Georgia Conferences. The South
Georgia Conference has grown un
til it how has about one hundred
thousand members.
The opening session of the con
ference met tiiis morning, but last
evening there was a meeting with
an sddresa by Rev. W. C. Lovett, D.
D., editor of the Wesleyan Chris
tian Advocate. His subject was "Fif
ty Years and Some Heroes of the
History.” He told of the great
progress that Methodism has made
In South Georgia in that time and
of some of the great men who hava
had to do with the work.
ThomasviUe Methodist chureb
where the conference is being held
one of the strong churches of
Southern Methodism. Its member
ship is 1,190, which is the second
largest in the conference. It also
pays the eecond largest amount that
it paid to Foreign Mission!. It sup
ports four missionaries in the for
eign field, and this year has paid
$2,800 to the Conference Orphan’s
Home.
Bishop Candler, who is presid
ing is also Chancellor of Emory Uni
versity. Perhaps no man in South
ern Methodism is at present any bus
ier than the bishop and certainly no
man is doing a work more vital to
the life of the church. Bishop Can.
diet also presided at the North Geor
gia Conference which convened In
Griffin November 22nd.
The Board of Education also met
yesterday to begin its work for the
session. Dr. T. D. Ellis Is president
of the board, W. G. Allaben is secre
tary, and Rev. E. N. Overby
treasurer. On account of the Emory
University enterprise the work of
this board is heavier this year.. The
Rev. J. A. Harman Is commissioner
for the new University and is doing
good work. The South Georgia Con
ference with the North Georgia Con
ference will take a great interest in
the completion of this enterprise. Th
the completion of the enterprise,
The University will be tha property
of the Southern Methodist church,
but ii of special interest to Geor
gians on account of tha relation to
It of Bishop Candler and Asa
Candler.
The work of the Sunday School
Board will receive a good deal of at
tention this year. Rev. J. M. Out
let it president of the bpard, Rev.
E. E. Rose is vice-president, Rev.
C. Oliff is secretary and Rev. M. W.
Carmichael is treasurer. The Sun
day schools of the conference have
made considerable progress this year
and much of this-is duo to the ex
cellent woik done by Mr. J. H. Thcr-
rell, who is field secretary of the Sun
day School Board. Mr. Therrel:
ranks with the leading Sunday
school workers of the South and his
services have been sought in the
North Georgia, North Carolina and
Virginia conferences.
The young men who are appli
cants for admission on trial with the
under-graduates of the conference
met with their committees yesterday.
The committees are: On Applicants
G. Brooks, R. P. Fain, H. L.
Pearson. ,
Class of First Year—Guyton Fish
er, T. E. Davenport and T. E, Pharr.
Class of Tecond Year—C. M,
Meeks, O. L. Evans, L. A. Hill.
Class of Thiid Year—M. A. Shaw,
L. A. Bryan, J, B. Griner.
Class of Fourth Year—J. H. Allen
G. W. Hutchinson and A. P. Segers.
AN ACT to require school atten
dance of children for a minimum
period, and to provide for enforce
ment of the tamo, and for other
purpose*.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, that every parent, guard
ian or other person having charge
and control of a child between the
ages of eight and fourteen yean,
who ia not exempted or ex
cused as hereinafter provided,
shall cause the said child to
be enrolled in and attend con
tinuously for four months of each
year a public school of the district
or of the city or town in which the
child resides; which period of
attendance shall commence at
the beginning of the first term
said school in the year.
Such attendance at a public
school shall not be required where
the child attends for the same period
some other school giving instruction
in the ordinary branches of Eng
lish education, or has completed the
fourth grade of school work as pre
scribed by the State Board of Edu
cation, or where, because of poverty,
the services of the child are neces
sary for the aupport of a parent or
other member of the child’s family
dependent on such services, or where
the parents or persons standing in
parental relation to the child are
unable to provide the necessary
books and clothing for attending
school, and the same are not other
wise provided, or where the mental
physical condition of the child
renders such attendance impractica
ble or Inexpedient or where the
child reside* more than three miles
from the achool house by the near
est traveled route, or where, for
other good reasons (the sufficiency
of which shall be determined by the
board of education of the county or
of the city or town in which the
child resides) tho said board ex
cuses the child from such attendance
such boards being authorised to take
into coniideration the eeaeons for
agricultural labor and the need for
aueh labor, in exercising their discre
tion as to the time for which chil
dren in farming district* Yhall be
WESLEYANS BUSY
IN CONFERENCE
Much Work for Good of Orde
Being Transacted.
PERHAPS FINISH TOMORROW
excused. Provided, that
dian shall be compelled to
no guar-
ORGANIZED HERE
By the Primitive Baptists of This
Section,
child or children to
at.y other than the funds
to the ward or wards,
absence of any child
a pupil may be excused by
cipal or teacher in <'
school, because of bad
ness, death in tha child'
other reasonable eause.
See. 2. Be it further e:
any parent, guardian o:
son who has charge and
a child between the ag<
and who wilfully falls to
the foregoing requf
guilty of a misdemc
conviction thereof
:ted. That
■«r per-
itrol of
oresaid,
ply with
■hall be
and on
. - -Jb*. punish
ed by a fine not to exceed ten dol
lars for the first offenee,<and not to
exceed twenty dollars for each sub-
seqeuent offense, said fine* to in
clude all coats; but the.eourt trying
the case may, In its discretion, sus
pend enforcement of. the punish
ment, If the child be immediately
placed In attendance at a school
as aforesaid, and may finally
remit the same if luch attend
ance has continued regularly
fo# the number of months
hereinbefore prescribed for attend
ance. School attendance may be
proved by an attested certificate of
the principal or teacher in charge
of the school. No person shall be
prosecuted for vlolatloa of the fore
going requirements unless the board
of education of the county or mu
nicipality in which the person ac
cused of such violation resides shall
have caused to be served upon th*
accused, at least ten days before
such prosecution, a written notice
of the charge with the name of the
child to whom it refers. Any per
son so notified, not previously con
victed of violation of this Act as to
child refereed to in said notice, may
prevent prosecution on the charge
set out therein, by giving, at any
time before such prosecution is in
stituted, a bond in tho penal sum of
fifty dollars payable to the ordinary
of the county, with security to be
approved by the ordinary, condition
ed that the said person shall thence
forth faithfully comply with the re
quirements of this' J^ct as to the
ai Morris and
f His Sons
ion in the Continental Army
War. The stories of these
tiful examples of sacrifice and
eatings this bank combines abso-
with satisfactory service, and
ght of either.
TIFTON
ORC.IA
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
To the Voters of till 1314th District,
C. M-, Tift County*
I announce myself as a candidate
for the office of Justice of the Peace
for said District in the election Dee-
emoer 2nd, 1916. If elected, I will
discharge the dutiei of the office in
the future, as I hava in the past, ac
cording to law.
Yoon to earve,
W. M. Sellars.
Graduate Optometrist
Herbert L Moor,
Two yean ox continuous practice
of satisfied cos
in Tifton and ecorea
tomers. If yon an suffering with
headache, or other troubles caused
by eye strain bo sun and consult me
and see if glares properly fitted
won’t relieve them. At cur offid
in th* Myon Hotel Block every day.
r'SnfflEwth .*1.-*r
said child. Each day’s willful fail
ure of the parent, guardian o r other
person in charge %n<L control of
child as aforesaid, after the expi
ration of ten days froih such notice,
to cause the child to httend school,
when such attendance is required by
this Act, Bhall constitute a separata
offense. In prosecutions unde r this
Act the exemptions and excuses
herein provided for shall be mat
ters of defense to be established by
the accused, and need not be nega
tived in the indictment or accusa
tion.
Sec. 3, Be It further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the county and
municipal board of education to in
vestigate as to the attendance and
non-attendance of children required
by this Act to attend the school*
under their supervision, and it
shall also be their duty to institute
or cause to bo instituted prosecu
tions against persons violating this
Act. It shall be the duty of the
principal or teacher in charge of
any public school, in which pupils
between the ages o 9 eight and four
teen are instructed, to keep an ac
curate record of the attendance of
such pupils, and at the end of each
month to make a written report of
the same to the board of education
having supervision of the school,
and to note therein excused absenc
es and the reasons therefor.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That
alj nnes imposed and all sums requir
ed to be paid as penalties under
bends given under this Act. shall,
nfter payment of the costs of prose-
cation and of recovery thereof, be
naid Into the co^ntr treasury and
become a part of the school fund
of the county, ,
. 5. fe ft further enacted, That
the provisions cf this Act shall be-
Nork of Central S. C. t College.
Treat Tonight in Addr.a, by Mrs.
Clerk*, MU.ionary to Africa.
It has been a busy time at the
Tifton Wesleyan Methodist church
since last Wednesday morning, when
the Georgia Annual Conference of
that denomination convened there.
Every minute has been fully oc
cupied in the hearing of reports of
pastors, debate on questions of in
terest to the conference, committee
work, and planning for o successful
coming year. They work like peo
pie who are thoroughly interested
and enthused in their work.
Business is Interspersed with re
ligious services, two of which ar*
held daily, one at 11 a. m. and the
other at 7 p. m. The 11 o'clock sen
vices today were in charge of Prof.
H C. Bedford, principal of the Wei
leyan Methodist college at Central
S. C., when he gave an aceount of
the work done there. At this institu
tion especial attention la given to
moral training and heart culture,
whereas the most thorough literary
work is done and strict discipline is
maintained. Nothwithstanding the
excellence of the work done, the
charge, for board and tuition for a
whole year ia only $100 in advance.
There are many people from thle
section who are availing themselvevs
of the benefit! this college affords.
An incident during the confer
ence was the reading of a letter from
these students telling of the ben-
such' cflta they were receiving under the
ut of teaching and training of the faculty,
and pleading for a liberal aupport
for the college at the hands of the
conference.
Tonight at 7 o’clock a rare treat
in store for the people of Tit-
ton. Mrs. Mary Lane Clarke, who ha*
spent sixteen years aa a mlsionary
in Africa, will apeak and tall about
that dark continent Members of the
missionary societies of Tifton and
our people generally should avail
themselves ot this opportunity, for
the African mission field la one we
hear very little about in this lec
tion.
The Wesleyans are operating on
the west caast ot Africa, in tho
protectorate of Sierra Leone, whercr
they now have ten white missionar
ies not counting those on furlough,
hesldee a host of native workers.
They also havo a flourishing work
in India conducted by a strong band
of white and native workers.
Tha work ot the conference will
probably come to a close Saturday
night, though the deegates and
ministers will remain over until Mon
day morning to participate in tha re
ligions services of Sunday.
The people ot Tifton and surround,
ing country are invited to these ser
vices.
A pleasing event of Thanksgiving
Day was the manifestation of the
fraternal spirit, when the Wesley-
ans, Baptists and Methodists came
together in the Baptist church to re
turn thanks to Almighty God for his
goodness and mercy during the year.
The speaker was Rev J. S. Willett,
who is presiding at the Wesleyan
conference. He gave an able and
heart-reaching address. The Gazette
acknowledges with thanks the very
flattering remarks he made in refer
ence to it in his opening remarks. Al
so thanks him in behalf of the peo
ple of Tifton for his kind worn! for
our city.
From Wednesday’s Daily.
The Georgia Wesleyan Methodist
annual conference convened Tues
day morning at 9 o’clock in their
church in Tifton.
There was preaching last night
by Dr. J. S. Willett, .of Syracuse, N.
Y., who arrived yesterday from Col-
fa», N. C„ whirl- he attended *he
annual gathering of the North Caro
lina conference.
There was preaching today at 11
o’clock by th, Rev. J. B. Cunning
ham, of Atlanta, district superintend
ent of the jtgee Methodist church,
wh< is here ha. fraternal delegate to
the Weslcyah conference.
Organisation Perfected Thursday.
Distinguished Elders and Many
Memhers Teh* Pnrt.
A Primitive Baptist church was
organized at Tifton yesterday with
twenty-five members. Macv other
members are expected, and the organ
ization promises to be on# of the
strongest churches of the order in
this section.
The Elders present were: W. H.
Crouse, of Grsymont. A. V. Sims,
of Valdosta. J T. McArthut, of Cor
dele. J. M. Thomas, of Jennings, Fla.
There was a large attendance of
Itive Baptists throughout this
section to bid their brethren God-
d in their new organize tion
Nearly all the members are: from the
Ty Ty church.
The meeting] were hell In the
Presbyterian church, where services
itives complete the handsome brick
edifice which they intend building
year. Elder W. E. williams Is
clerk and a pastor will bg selected
A
PACKING HOUSE
ASKS A CHARTER
Plant at Tifton to Incorporate
With New Year.
FOR WORK AT ONCE
tebyl
will be held monthly until (the Prim-
lder Crouie made a very inspiring
organization talk. At 8 o’clock in the
aft irnoon he preached a ThaVksgiv
ini sermon with Psalms 107:tr9 for
ext It was an unfitting and\hclp-
fu! address.
it 7 p. m. Elder Crouse prdpeh-
ed on “The Perfect Church,”
Ia lah 88:20-22.
i or tha coming year, the Primll
B ptists have arranged to hold setv-
ie is in the Presbyterian church otfce
a month. Meanwhile, they art goi g
a i«ad to secure a lot in a eonve i-
ii at and desirable location, (n
tl is they propose to oreot a chur h
' tiding which wlll .be a credit »
as well 03 the ■ membership,
building will be of brick s|nd
mo and modern in its appo!
Erection of Paint Will Begin As
Soon After Incorporation as th*
Bids Can be Placed.
All doubt as to the establishment
of a packing house at Tifton is set
tled today with the publication of tho
application for charter of the Tifton
Packing Company.
After the publication for thirty
days, as required hy law, the com
pany proposes to organlzo at once,-
select a site and secure bids for the
erection of the plant.. Work on tho
same will begin earl# in the new
year, ai the charter can be secured
Imcdlately after the first, of Jana
ary. •
This will give the people of the
section tributary to Tifton who have
promised to raise live stock for tho
plant time to prepare for a big crop
this fall, as the packing house will
ba ready to handle hogs with tho
late summer months.
The amount of capital stock as ad
vertised has been subscribed. It is
the intention of the promoters, how
ever, to continue securing stock sub
scriptions until the desired $160,090
is reached. This will provide a fund
for operating expenses and also for
increasing the capacity of the plant
nto.
when samo becomes nocesary.
The certainty of the packing house
makei also certain th* feed and
grain mills, which were conditional
on its erection.
CAMPAIGN DEFICIT.
Tho'strenuous campaign put up hy
the Republicans th* past few months
caused the Demdcratic National
committee to double their energies
and expend a great deal more money
than they had anticipated. There
Is no doubt but every dollar of this
money was apent legally and necea-
earily by the committee. They have
i- SUST© rts
to Tifton. They are of/the J . A . „
a. ...th «„,* >h.l. i*njn\no **» * ntl ”° “ # ° bt *“•* Wl11 '
ho earth, and heir coming TOt connty wn , CB lled upon to
help In this matter. Tho Tift Coun
ty Campaign committee has f arward-
ed $26.00 on this deficit. Bofore the
election they sent In $91.60, and
there was $16 00 sent in that dill not
go through the committee, which
made a total furnished by Tift coun
ty of 8181.60/
salt of, the earth, and ’heir coAiing
ia an elmgh in tho growth ffd de
velopment?
ATTORNEY GENERAL HERE.
Hon Clifford Walker, Attorney-
General of Georgia, was in Tifton
tor a few hours Wednesday morning
between trains, on his way from
Brunswick, where he delivered an ad
dress at the K. of P. lodge Tuesday
night, to Ashburn, where tha ease
growing ont of tho Estate of
Farkas, concerning his Inheritan/e
tax was tried Wednesday aftern
Georgia’s Attorney-General Is dot
only one of the ablest in th* Soul
he j* probably the youngest, and eel
tlanly the handsomest.
It was Judge Walker's first visit
to Tifton, although he has a number
of warm friends here.
PAVING COMPLETED
Tho Gulf 'Paving Company finli
ad tho paving contracted for in Tif
ton on Thanksgiving morning about
10 o’clock.
The equipment will be moved from
he>e to a,point in North Carolina/
the 'firm fiat a contract v-St
People of Tifton who are not at
tending the services at the Wesleyan
church are missing something good.
Some of the ablest speakers in the
organization are here and the ad
dresses are inspiring and uplifting.
Sevtral people in Tifton saw what
they thought to ba tha same flying
machine that pasied over the city
Monday evening, on its return trip
Wednesday evening. It carried a
very bright light and a part of tha
machine was visible. It passed shortly
after 5 o’clock, and wai traveling rap
idly, west to east.
come operative on the first day of
January, in the year nineteen hun
dred and seventeen.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted .That
it shall be the duty of the board
ef education of each county, at
least four weeks before the first
day of January following the adop
tion of this Act, to cause this Act
to be published .in a newspaper of
the county, if there be one, and
to eause copies of this Act to b#
posted at tha court house of the
connty and at tine public schools
thereof.
See. 7. Be it further enacted, That
all laws and parts of tows in
fliet with th-x Act he and the
Be a man with money in the
Lifes December Comes
“Down and out” that’s what you hear them say.
Will they say It about YOU wh«n you hav« grown old
and feeble?
The SURE way to have money for your old age is to be*
glnlNOW and bank It. Remember, your earning power
grows less as age creeps on. The time to bank your
money is when you are making money.
Put YOUR money In OUR ban!
We pay 5 per cent Interest
jsm.
''W
are hereby repealed.-
Approved Au
N.
The National Banl
ifton,
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