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TIIE T1FT0N GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER I, 1916.
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tCiftoit <Sa$ette
Published Weekly
Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
as mail matter of the second class.
of
jao. L. Herring....... ..Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia. .
THANKSGIVING.
It is well, oh Lord, that one day of the year
has been set aside wherein we are called to ac
knowledge our indebtedness to Thee;
For we are prone, to fptfcht,. epd-Jfoo oft to
consider that which Thou in Thy goodness loan
ed for our use to be in fact our own;
And to lose remembrance of the Source of
all things good, in the perversity of weak and
erring Man;
Therefore, we, who should cherish remem
brance of our debt to Thee in every day and ev
ery hour, have allowed Thee one day of Thy
three hundred and three-score and five in which
to acknowledge Thy ownership of that which
we claim for our own for three hundred and
three-score and four.
But it is not alone because upon our heads
Thou hast emptied the cornucopia of plenty,
that we come to Thee today in thanksgiving—
although this Thou hast done;
It is not alone because our land is a Land of
Peace, and the foot of no foe desecrates its soil,
threatens our firesidea or the lives and happi
ness of our dear ones—although for all of thi3
our debt is great to Thee.
It is no.t alone for the bodily welfare of our
selves and those who gather around our hearth
stones—although this priceless boon of health
we owe to Thee;
It is not alone because Thou hast allowed us
to see another span of Time; another anniver
sary at which we may gather and render thanks
—although even Life comes from Thee;
It is not alone lor Plenty, for Prosperity, for
Peace, for Health, for Wealth, even for life
that we’would render thanks to Thee—for all
these things are but temporary, fleeting as the
sunset; evanescent as the bloom of the flower—
but for all these we owe Thee, even as the in
fant owes its Father;
But we would’thank Thee today, oh Lord, for
the spirit of Immortality Thou didst breathe in
to the breast of Man; for that part of Thyself
which raises mortal from the animal and makes
Man a part of God; for the Divine spark, set
like the radiant jewel in the head of the toad
to redeem the inhabitant of carrion flesh from
mortality and make it Immortal; for that Spirit
Thou didst plant within ue, even as.the priceless
radium lies in the bosom of gross earth, to leav
en the whole, to make it worthy to live, to give
'to gross materialism a Soul;
For we know, oh God, that this spark which
gives to us Immortality; which gives to us
Soul ; which makes ufi indeed a part of Thee—
is the Jewel of Divine Lpve—
And Love means Service, such as we owe
Thee; and Service means Sacrifice, such as Thy
Son exemplified when He gave his life that we
might live.
So, while we thank Thee for all things, Lord
-It is for this ray of Immortality Thou hast kept
. alive in our breast; compared to which
things of the world are but'dross; that* with
hearts of love and also hearts of humility, we
. bow before Thee, this Thanksgiving Day, and
render unto Thee the thanks of a Child to
Father for all the things Thou hast given, but
especially for the partnership in Thee in which
lies Hope and beyond Hope Heaven.
If these are unable to maintain former prices, it
ony by extraordinary means that the smaller
papers can do so.
In this departure, we ask the co-operation
our subscribers. We never trouble them
with duns trough these columns, and now we
wish to save them the inconvenience of being
approached by collectors and solicitors. During
the past two years, when things were going bad
with the farmers, we did not press collections;
now that every man can raise the price of his
home paper if he wants to, we ask them to help
make a change which is to the interest of
all. If this fails to make both ends meet, we
will be compelled to raise the subscription price.
Our city collections for the daily will be han
dled by one of the boys from the office.. If sub*
scribers do not want the collectors to call, they
can pay direct to the office.
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TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
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Ty Ty Department
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T)T TY, :
GEORGIA
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SAVING AT THE SPIGOT.
News print paper is the greatest factor en
tering into the cost of newspapers. This is cost
ing the Gazette today 300 per cent, more than
it cost one year ago. There has been a similar
advance in the cost of ink.
To meet this loss, many newspapers are rais
ing their subscription price. We do not want
tp do this until every other resource has been
exhausted. First, we intend, by cutting out
every possible expense, to bring our receipts
from subscriptions as near as possible to the
cost of producing the paper. We think we can
»?o this by making our terms of subscription
r-trictly cash in advance and employing no out
ride, or traveling man.
On the first of January, we will drop from our
list every subscription which is not paid in ad
vance. Then, on the first of each month we will
mail to every subscriber whose subscription ex
pires during that month a card giving notice of
a, same. Unless we hear from that subscriber
during the month, the paper will be stopped.
By this means, we Will huddle our subscriptions
direct from the office and fib saved the ex
pense of an outside man.
During December, bills will j be mailed to
every subscriber whose subscription is past due.
Do not lay these aside and forget them, for the
paper that is not paid for in advance will be
stopped on the first of the yeju\ We hope that
our subscribers will understand that there is
nothing personal in this; that there will be no
exceptions to thistle; and that they wA^jio.f
take offense where none is intended.. W<
simply tryi^p in a business-like way, to meet
an unusual condition, a/tf to jave our readers
money by keeping
the same old price,
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While the Lowndes County Grand Jury was
session last week a delegation of business
men and other citizens went before the body
and asked that the Ellis Health Law not be rec
ommended for that county. A previous Grand
Jury had recommended the adoption of the
law, and two successive recommendations are
necessary to put it into effect.
The principal argument advanced was one
of economy, the expense of carrying out the
provisions of the law, and the coming of the
boll weevjl, which made retrenchment, in public
expenditures more than ever necessary.
It is hard to argue on health, either individ
ual of collective, from a purely mercenary
standpoint, and it should not be so argued. The
value' of a life can with difficulty be expressed
in dollars and cents, and the value to a coun
ty of the health of its citizens is equally as hard
to enumerate. Yet, from a commercial stand
point alone, a board of health under an efficient
and zealous officer is an investment that pays
many hundred per cent.
Perhaps the most notable work done by our
health officer has been in keeping infectious
diseases confined strictly to localities—in a ma
jority of cases, to the homes in which they ap
peared. Next has been the great work of pre.
vention, and inoculation against typhoid and
slow fevers, keeping the county comparatively
free from them while our neighbors were suff
ering alight epidemics. Then there is the distri
bution of diphtheria anti toxin, the isolation of
small pox, scarlet fever and whooping cough,
the treatment of pneumonia, the handling of
cases of suspected hydrophobia, and the hun-
dredsltof other ways in which a county health
bfficer can conserve the health of a county and
community and thereby bring rich returns for
the investment iirhis services.
Should Lowndes have one epidemic of small
pox it will cost the county more to handle ity'
if proper measures are taken, than the sala:
of a health officer for ten years. The cost of
five cases of typhoid fever; or of ten casu aft
scarlet fever; or of a dozen severe attacks of
whooping cough—not to take into account at
tendant consequences, would be greater man
the salary of a health officer for a year.
People have learned in modern times that it
is better to prevent than to cure—cheaper and
more satisfactory. The efforts of the lea ling
physicians of the age are bent in that dlrjjtbn
A health officer is a preventive measure. He
is a guard, stationed on the watch-tower to
safl-guard his people against preventable clis
eases. While the services of such a guard have
a monetary value, they have also a vain? far
greater, which figures cannot touch.
We are sure Valdosta has a board of , ilch
and an efficient one. The majority if not all
the men appearing before the Grand Jury live
in Valdosta. If a board of health and a health
officer is necessary for Valdosta, the city where
population is dense and physicians within easy
call, with officers to enforce sanitary laws, how
much more necessary Is such a board and offi
cer to Lowndes county, where people live at
some distance from each other, where physi-
cians are sometimes difficult to reach, and
where a contagious disease may infect everv
family in a community, with no one in author
ity to stop its spread? ♦
We are sure the gentlemen in Lowndes pro
tested without fully understanding the need.
Mri, George Whaley, of
U very sick. i
W. C. Chapman hai recently pur-1
chased • Chevrolet car.
Mrs. A. J. Ammons, of Omega, Is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Bozeman.
With some assistance, Mr. W. C.
Thompson is now able to walk down
town., ■
Mr. and Mrs. R. £. Harrison, of
Omega, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
W. G, fC hapmjn.^,. ^ {Jjj
Mr. O C. Patterson is- building a
handsome bungalow at his place
near Ty Ty
Route I
WHICH?
DEALS IN COTTON.
Mr. W. P. Sykes says he expects
to bed four hundred bushels of
Porto Rico seed potatoes next
year.
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Mrs. W. B. Calhoun, who has
been visiting in Ty Ty for the past
week or two, returned, on Tuesday
to her home In Cataula.
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Cane grinding ia the principal am
usement at this season and parties
of yojuiy people enjoy it in the eve-
nj"£
Ty Ty streets and lideWMks were
ever in better condition durim
town’s history, and one old ne{
witii'n.dump cart and an old mule
is doing'the work.
Mr Palemqn Pressey, who belongs
to the United States army, is honte
on furlough. Mr. Pressey belongs to
the medical department and it sta
tioned near Washington, D. C.
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Horse traders seem to find Ty Ty
a good place for business. They are
here for some weeks every year and
are kept busy all the time. They
brought an unusually good looking
lot of stock in recently.
There is a man, not a thousand
miles from Ty Ty, whose name
might be either Mr. Good Man or
Mr Easy Man—just according to
your point of view.
Plenty of evidence might be giv
en to justify his receiving either
name, but it is not necessary to pro
duce more than just this one, story,
and thireade* can then decide for
for bimcelt which name fa more
apprpprfart*.
fflK- 191* this gentleman rented his
farm to a well-to-do tenant, the rent
to be paid In money. The war came
on and cotton went down to six
cents, or less. The tenant put up
a hard luck story, making things ve
ry black indeed for himself, and Mr.
Good Man or Easy Mark, just
whichever you say—agreed to take
cotton at ten cents a pound, there
by cutting the rent about half.
So cotton it remained for prices
in 1915 made things about even
and the tenant made no complaint.
Then in 1916, the rent remain
ing cotton the staple brought such
prices as the tenant had never dream
ed fo. And did he think “turn about
is fair play—I doubled up on him
two years ago, and he is welcome
to all the cotton that belongs to
him?” Not at all. He just freshened
up that ”po’ man’s” spiel of two
years ago, made a few little changes
in it and presented it for the con
sideration of Mr. Good Man—or Mr.
Easy Mark And again jt proved ef
fective and this time the rent was
paid in money, reducing it once more
about half.
Take your choice of the names,
but be sure of this: When the great
Day of Reckoning comes, whether
is Goodman or Easymark, before the
Bar, he will not be sorry that he
dealt 'eriently with one whose earth
ly wealth was not equal to Bfc own.
HERE’S STRONG EVIDENCE.
Dr. J. A. McCrea contributes toward the in
formation of the public on the boll weevil ques
tion. The Doctor is Tift county’s veteran hunt
er. He is not only a crack shot, but he has been
at the sport for many years, a large portion
of the time when birds were much more plen
tiful than they are now. He says that it would
require a freight car to move the birds he has
killed, and we are sure the estimate is con
servative.
The Doctor was skeptical of the statement
that partridges would eat boll weevils, because
In all his experience he had never found any
insects in their crops. Monday, he was hunt
ing with a friend and brought home five birds.
When they were being dressed, Mrs. McCrea
found in the crop of the first one five or six boll
weevils. No weevils were found in the crops
of any of the other birds. The Doctor remem
bers that one bird was flushed by itself, and
thinks this is the one that had the weevils.
This appears to settle the fact beyond doubt
that partridges will, under certain conditions,
. eat boll weevils. Perhaps as the season ad-
paper ^vanccs, and more weevils are found on the
ground, the number in the crops of partridges
At lait the Farmers’ Supply Com
pany, has unloaded the greater part
of Its cotton (aevernl hundred bales)
and the price received was twenty
cents. J. N. Mitchell, of Tifton. got
part of it, but the most of it went
to the Georgia Cotton Company, of
Albany.
When cotton reached fourteen
cents. ,aeyeral buyers brought out
their^holdings. fevCTy rile ; «? a£^
consequeca brought oot-' ra< y®-, Sev
enteen seelned too "good to let go
by, and there was a mild flurry in
the local market. And so it went on.
Through it all, the Farmers’ Sup
ply Company held on, and even at
twenty, they say, only part of their
cotton was sold. Just how much they
“cleaned up” outsiders- can only
guess,'and guesses range all the way
from $6,000 to $47,000—one
treme being Shout at far from the
truth as the' other. But they did not
sell all -‘hey had, and they and
nearly every other man in Ty Ty
who can start the money for a bale,
is still baying.
One funny thing about cotton bay-
era (and It ia true of other specula
tors) la that almost every one of
them will tell you that the others
are not making any money. They
say in Ty Ty that only two men in
Tifton have made any money this
season in cotton, .and thia estimate
is too liberal for home buyerp.
Some of the cotton being held,
and some of that sold last week,
was bovght for fourteen and fifteen
cents, and some of it for even less.
Some of it was made on the farms
of the sellers and holders. So it
seems that somebody has made, con
siderable money. •
W* E. WILLIAM*
DEMEI
R IN
THE STORE
Where leerDoll^ Gees Fartlier
Courteous >eatmei)t
Youi Trade Will t Appreciate
W. E. Williams, F. 1 Pickett, _
President. lsIVice-Prei.
W. C. Thompson W. M. Per
2nd Vice-Pres. Cashier,
BANK OflYTY
We Pay Interest on lie Deposit:
Deposits hi This Bank tanmtMd I
BUSINESS A HOME
There will be an important meet
ing of the W O. W. at their lodge
in Ty Ty on Tuesday evening, Dec.
6th. There will-be an election of
officers and a full attendance is
desired.
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Mrs. R. R. Pickett is expecting a
visit from her brother, Mr. C. E.
Grubbs, of Arizona, with his wife
and two children, he is expected very
soon and will remain till after the
holifiays. " —-—_
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The Ty Ty Improvement Clul
pects to give an oyster supper soi
the proceeds goiife to the beaut
ing of the school grounds. People
who attend anything in the way of
!>n eat” given in Ty Ty never fail
to-jjot all their money's worth—often
more.
Mrs. W^T£—Willinms'baa_in-T!er
Boi don a pepper plant that la about
’.eight years old, and now, the first
f December, has on it enough pep
per to warm up all of'Ty Ty. It
is the hot kind—the variety known
as “bird's-eye," and when the vine
is at its best it covers two panels ef
a tall fence. It Is protected through
the winter, and, year after yeitr, it
yields enough pepper to furnish hot
seasoning for a regiment.
OYSTER SUPPER.
On Friday, December 8th, the Ty
Ty Improvement club will give
supper—and it will be a good sup
per,'too, just as all such things are
in Ty Ty. Oysters, chicken satad,
etc., will be served, >nd it is hoped
there will be a big crowd present.
The proceeds go to the improve
ment of 1 the school grounds.
NEW MANAGER OF BRIDGEPORT
HOUSING COMPANY.
To those who knew Mrs. W. H.
Ham as Miss Bessie Lyon (there afe
many in and near Ty Ty-who knew
her as a child) the following ex
tract from a Bridgeport, Conn., pa
per may be of interest:
“The new manager of the com
pany is W. H. Ham, a member of the
consulting engineers firm of French
A Hubard, of Boston. He is a Dart
mouth man and took a post grad
uate in the department of engineers
of that college. He ia 41 years old.
Mr. Blanchard, in speaking of his
successor, said that he was a very
capable man, a and Mr. Blanchard wqs
not backward in saying that he
thought thift he was more capable
for the work than he was himself.
“‘He baa had lots of experience
in construction and' buiffiing work
in making contracts and aa a design-
Messrs. W. F. and W. J. Sikes will
begin .the construction of a brick
garage, forty by sixty feet, next
week on the corner where the
Wesleyan Methodist church was
burned several years ago. Mr. W. J.
likes is to be the manager, and a
killed workman will attend to all. ... . , -
repairs in a shop in the rear of ff’ and h.s experience fita h m in an
the garage. It is good to know that ideal way “ d F*
this comer i. at last to be Improv- a ** m * nt °J. th * *°“ ,ln * Comp “*
«d, for it ha, long been one of the ,Baid Mr ' BIanchard '
unsightly plfcefs of Ty Ty.
Mr. Arthur Lyle, hi» son, Albert,, , . .
and Mr. Tom Fletcher have got in ,aone «' ‘ han “wy intend.,
their gasolene tank as the first step. 13 th * r J^* n ** on to .
toward, the building of their °“ t **•
rage on the lot between the store, & mpo “ dof > UMra ' E '
(tar Gibbs, Aaron Parks
The Fourth
us/that “the Bi
l?led when Marion'
/That’s the way th
beginning to do whek Ty Ty’a name
is told—or it is, a t\ least, If the
weevils mind being \ investigated.
Yet another party has gone over to
Alabama to look after\things, and
no telling how long they will staj
this time. They came bfck before
but now
see the
party Is
A curious incident (to put it ve
ry mildly) recently occurred in con-
of I. L. Ford and Woodward and
Mound.
This is to be an un-to-datc con
cern, with Mr. Albert Lyle as man
ager and Mr. Fletcher at the head
nt Varner and Dr. R. R Pickett.
used to tel)Inaction with Mr. Fowler Leary, who
soldiers trem-|] e ft his home near Ty Ty recent-
e was told.” j ]y to g 0 to Grady hospital for an
11 weevils are operation.
This young man ia the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Leary. As they heard
nothing of him after he left home,
the parents beeame anxious, and,
as time continued to pass without
bfibiging any fidbifs, the father
went to Atlanta tp try to learn
what had become of his son.
At Grady hospital, Mr. Leary
teamed to his horror that his son
had not been there. A search was
begun for the young man and he
was finally located at a Macon hoa-
. Cottle,
end Du-
CAP1TAL
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The TyTy DrrCo/
DRUGS AND DRU6tTS’
SUNDRIES
Prescriptions A Spdtty
School 3o^
and Suppli
A COMPLETE DRUG I
JONES & COMFAlj
Dealers In
High Class General
After you read this adve
go to this store .and do ]
' ’■ shopping.
PRICES RIGHT
FOR SALE.
Berkshire Pigs. S. C. B,
horn Chickens, and"
Cows. I also buy g<
fat cows and ho
| but as he
j he decide
of the repsir department. All .uto-! place V h ‘ m ', So ‘ he /" viU
mobile accessories will be k.pf on hav . e *f u
Ml \ A. B. Parks was to hive gone, p ital. The operation had been per-
but as he was not feeling bery well, J formed and the patient was getting
ided that home w^ the best on finely.
hand for sale—and this, of course,
in ludea gasolene and oil.
The firm will t«U Gazette readers
all about it,
advertisement.
without hii
investigating.
Whatever may be said for or
little later, in an - «ga> n »t Porto Rico potatoes( and
very little of it ia against them) they
are a boon to the laty and unfortu
nate. Weather conditions seem to
and they
There ia a little girl in the Meth-, _ .. . ..
odist home for orphans in Maeon, “l*® 1 them not at all,
whom the Methodist ladies of Ty, thrive on neglect Two young men
Ty have made their especial charge, planted a small patch of them near
though she did not come from this, Ty Ty. Just stuck down the draws
part of the state and has no rela- any old way and left them to take
tives here. Her name is Jennie Joyce care of themaalvea. Not one lick of
and she is eight years old. If tho work did those potatoes get. No plow
clothes sent her, all of them new and or hoe was brought near them. No-
made for her, are all worn out aha body seemed to remember they were
will have to get the assistance of j there, except to refer to them aa
some other little girl eight years old,' one of the jokes of the season. But
for girls and boys in that excellent “he laughs best who laughs last”
institution grow fast, and Jennie It was thought the crop might furn-
gets piles of clothes from Ty Ty, ish enough slips for seed another
twice a year. All the children in year, but chance* seemed against
this home are well cared for, but even that Well, when those potatoes
there may be somebody to help • were dug ths only fault found with
little girl wear out frocks and them was that they were rather large
things. for baking
And on the table down stairs four
letters were lying, one of them tell
ing of the change in young Leary’s
plans and 'he othera about the oper
ation and his progress - towards
health.
‘Nobody to blame,” of course.
In these days of automobiles it U
no use to try to keep up with people
who come and go. There are elder
ly men and women about Ty Ty to
whom a trip to Albany used to mean Cou
not lets than three days—one to. go
one to attend to boainem-or pitas-, Mj
are, and one 'o return. Now yon go
to a man’s place of buainesa and are
told that he is gone to Albany but
will be back to dinner. Tifton Is
only around the corner, and Macon
or Atlanta la jnat a little way.
DR. CARL S. PITTMAN,
Physician and Surgeon.
Phone No. 7.
Ty Ty. Georgia.
WHY EDITOR HERRING IS SPEECHLESS, and placing guards at the windows, told the
From the Macon Telegraph. editor right out flat and plain—just like that—
Editor John L. Herring, of the Tifton Ga-'what they thought of him. Strangers passing
zette, is the proud, pleased man, as why
shouldn’t he be? If the people of your town
were to uprise and invade your office while
you weren’t looking and, after saying a lot of
nice things about you, present you with an or
der on a tailor for the finest suit of clothes that
tailor could build, you wouldn’t exactly hate
yourself, would you? And that’s what hap
pened to Mr. Herring. A night or two ago the
Gazette office was stormed by representative
citizen* of Tifton who, after locking the doors his leisure.
l- r-raa
that way thought the house was afire and beat
it for the fire department, but the fire laddies,
already hep to what was going on, explained
that it was just Mr. Herring blushing his best
and went on playing setback. After the in
vaders had compelled the King’s English to lie
down and roll over in their efforts to tell the
flabbergasted editor what he is, they touched
off the 42-centiraeter having to do with
tailor and departed, leaving him to come