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be is wanted to answer a misda Ber. John 8. Lindsey will preach
or charge' Sheriff C. S. Howeel Saturday afternoon at 1-JO and on
from Thomaston, came for his prisjSunday at Pineview church,
oner. \ The public is Invited.
impany. of Now York, he
of typo that brcedt
and November.
It 'vk-ili ho recalled that the Th
-bods dancir.it around on
"Whiting tor their, turn.
“All of which make* m
What Tifton is missing by jii
a winter tourist hotel. At
orerrun. and the hotel there had 400
Bookings before it was bunted. Many
^■Ple I saw mid that South'-Georgia
!*nal„hank..Which nual. tho'sno-
“!..b ,d -f"1 the .New York vom-
• offered to pay these warrant,
in Atlanta. so that there might
10 delay in getting the mono,
the hand' of the school author
for the payment of the school
enough to
there arc sixty-six pensioners in gu* c
county, and no class of people them
■d the monyy that is due them his ht
re The fund will go where it chase
! «upp?y many keenly felt wants, bring
The mart with, morve^ j
some in the Balk where iis
Beer, have HONEY iu,. Winter becoi
work every day during fMossom time/’ tfx
honey to their hive.
'You can have MQNELIn Just the somI
you are EARNING mone^ltgularly BANtOH
You are not going l»l«ta little BEol
you. are you?
Put YOUR money In OUR bank,
pay 5 pet cent Interest.
rare especially attracted to
because of its railroad facil-
Think of what wc have and
r» it with Miami and Palm
with only one railroad—and
ne caring little about what it
S, just so Ha high. I-hope we
pre speh a hotel here before
has hud; a new cow baft 40x100
1 .feet, with every convenient, and al-
,so a,v» I f.harji. Every -atail of th—
: Utter is now full.
Onto Mr. Phillips put'nearly all
1 of his farm in cotton, and it "Was
rthe -home of flair and Half This
| year he will plant only, a few acres.
. perhaps 100. Tie is preparing now
(to plant 150 acres in cantaloupes.
His principal crop, however, is grain.
He sowed 100 acres in oats last fall
and 100 in wheat and barley. The
oat crop is cut at least half and per
haps two-thirds by the freeze hut his
wheat and barley are little hurt. He
,v» good signs. They re-j
° ^ store health, relieve 1
Hwadacht. *straighten ]
‘ Ah OOM eyes, remove ^
Vj'-'j i fyE? 8 row ths and dissipate 1
K ‘ ■ *P°te from the eyes. |
relieve itching, burning and gritty 1
lids, treat all 'chronic diseases of the !
eyes and entire body, absorb ade- 1
noids. tonsils and cataracts, all with- \
out knife and pain. Some eyes are i
cured so that glasses need not be J
worn. They represent thetr own of- 1
flee and can only be seen at Myon 1
Hotel. Wednesday, February 28. J
Don’t forget the date.
•.!naoun practfri
of satisfied cu-
;• suffering witi
troubles cause-:
in Tifton snd scores
turners. If you r.ri
headache, of othei'
by eve strain be sitri
and see if glares „
wont relieve them. At cur offic
id th* Myon Ho’el Block every day
Let Wednesday to Southard
trading Company
EQUIPMENT BE PLACED TOI
District Ag
ios1 School.
going back to that
which our climate am
FRIDAY, COMMUNITY DAY
>. Commercial Addi
■ Human.
SATURDAY. WOMAN'S DA'
THE TIFTON GAZETTE. TIFTON, GA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1
DOING EMERY LIQUOR SHIPMENTS
JURES A.H.HASTYj INTO DRY STATES
Superintendent at A. M. S. Prohibited by Measure Passed
feverely Injured by Congress Wednesday
AUSE QF ACCIDENT MAKES GEOROEA REALLY DRY
Measure Cam* from Sanata and
Pasaaa Houee by 4 to 1 Vote.
Doubt aa to Data Effaetive.
As told by a dispatch to the Daily
Gazette received Wednesday after
noon • after the paper had been is-
TWO MULES KILLED PURE BRED STOCK CHAUTAUQUA OPEN
BY A FALLING TREE GO WITHOUT TEED FOUR-DAY PROGRAM
But the Negro "fcrivt
Unhurt.
Escaped : 125,000 Herd Angus in Pasture Splendid Event Begins Its Spring
All Winter Season Here
SMALL CYCLDME IN S. W. TIFT'NOW FAT AS BLACK BUTTER REFINES, EDUCATES. AMUSES,
Belonging to J. D. Co*
43,000 Damage to Timber on
A. Warren’. Place.
A small cyclone visited the south- j
part of-Tift county Tues
Until Taken Out of Field, That Plow, Toimy, Saturday and Monday Pre-
Might Start, Cattle Had Not • Features Replete With
Fad. Entertainment and Instruction
j Forty years ago, live stack raising Tifton's Spring Chautauqua opan-
" |»“ practically the only industry in ed s four-day program nt the court-
ay just after noon. Two ''••“•blj | this part of Wiregrass Ocorgla. Then house auditorium Thursday after-
came the turpentine operator, the noon. Rev. J. H. Jackson making an
lumber manufacturer, snd after address of welcome?
them the cotton grower Now we are The Wales Dramatic Company was
industry for the first of the Chautauqua features,
section is-so They presented “Too Muoh Busi-
admirably adapted—the production new" for the afternoon, and at
night “Rejuvenation.”
different conditions. The following is the program for
r stockman owned a today and the remaining two days
. *f** r Wo hours of uproarious de- 1 damage done to fences and Umber,
iverely, if bate, approved by a four to one ma- A heavy rain accompanied the blow.
^ I jority the Senate measure which I The mules belonged to Mr. J. D.
ig an aze raises an ironclad barrier against Conner, yrho operates a saw mill,
the machine importation of liquor Into prohibi- and were part of a log-cart team,
after he tion states. It is expected to re- i which was bringing in a log from J 0 f ij vc
engine that J ceive the approval of President Wil- the woods. They were the two wheel | r , d
fast, probably 1 son within a week, addingymmedi- n.ules and a tree fell dirceUy across I where Un "
failing to act, | ately to the “bone-dry” territory them silling both instantly. Strange J t j, 0 uaa»,
tal Unit- to say, the negro driver who
Before the boy ed States. riding one of the mules, esc-pv- ,
the emery wheel ez-, The provision forbids entirely “"hart although he was knocked off i few dollar* a hLd we T
large The team was about half a mile _. iM ’ , , * n0W ,
- fo “ i from the mill. breeder of pedigreed stock, one of
'whose animals is worth in dollars as
much as 100 of the Wiregrass breed
it the boys in the 1 about one-third of eontinenUl Unit- to say. the negro driver" who was I “°“*“ nd hcad ot c * tt h' or 5 - 000 of the
- - . head of aheep. roaming an almost
of the mules, escaped, unltoited nnfse „
v ‘ c " oek ' d off few dollars a head
importations into the large ‘he team was about half a mile' . f n „ di _„„ H _ , 2:45 p. m. The Castle Squai
•trpek Mr. H«ty on the number of states which have for- 1 from the mill, 'whose animals is worth m rinltero ^ terUiners. America’s foremost
wrist, cutting a bidden manufacture or sole, but The cyclone was .bout half a| mnrh „ , on nf , h( . k “ quart.-t of singers, instmmen
Another piece struck have permitted importation for per- mi,c widi
him in the stomach, just to the left sonal use. ■ west to east-
of the bowels, and it u here that The vote was officially announced "early $8,000
the worst iujury was inflicted. It as being 321 to 72. but a re-check Mown down on
evident that there is .a rupture! of the roll changed it to 319 to 72. Phwte and quit-
lining of the stomach, as j A provision barring liquor, adver- 1 done to timber
considerable protrusion 'tisement, from the mails in slates sides of LitUe
bowels. Prof. Lewis hap- that prohibit such advertising is in- Mr. Conner's mill was about the
be in the shop at'the time eluded in the measure, which came venter of the storm, but was in a
"•.. Hasty as be stag- before the House as a rider to the depression and nope of the buildings
tk. Aid was called and Mr. annual postoffice appropritmn MU. was blown down,
hurried to the Tift.Coen- 1 inserted b_v the Senate last week Reports from the Filyaw school
ty Hospital, where an operation was on motion of Senator Reed by a •- ote section, cast of the river, say that
performed. of 55 to 11. Although the approprin- a good deal of timber was blown
^ Mr. Hasty was on the operating t '°" will go to conference because d wn. and some fencing. Mr. W
table for nearly three hours. After the-House disagreed to other Senate Harman reports practically th-
the ordeal was over, the attending amendments, there is little possihil- “me from his farm, in that section.
physicians said that, while his in- ">' th“t the prohibition amendment. • s
juries are critical, he has a good eoneurred in without change, will ATEMPTED SUICIDE
chance to recover should peritonitis lu ‘ a'lered. Members of Congress
was traveling from , .
.. . .. , of half' a century goi
It is estimated tnat _
orth of timber wa, Th * cl,mate 80 adn
Mr J \ Warren’s ! ° ro,, '"‘t seeoh cattle
a lot of damage U ' r _
»ii d fencing on both
I m- aucicu. oienumrs oi congress are
I taking it for granted that President *“* 11
e of the W ''* on approve it, nlthough
s their I.
I- —Special.- - 1 1
The 16-ycar-old daughti
three miles north off yea,
be effective until July I, the effec- , cn03t - attempted suicide yesterday. this
tive date of the appropriations it! afternoon about 5:30 o'clock. [ s ,
carries. Senators and Represents- 1 She had some trouble during the I
isidcred authorit- day with hfr «hool Kacher and the
There is a compoundfractui- ...
bones of the left wrist, but ampu- 5 °'" c B,ml '
tation may be avoidad. A five-lnch " p,niaB th * t the feature,
gash was cut in the loft side of the; * ddH to . the P?* 1 * 1 bm would not
atomsek. penetrating to the bowels, \* ****
snd one of the boweU was punetur- d, ‘ U • of the “PPropriati.
ed. It is here that his is-biries are
the most dangerous. ' .....
... ’ ie» said that all the legislative riders t,a en«-r. who was another young la-
Sr. But, » tnm a*m tount, ,..u,d!nc th. M pt.hihitl.t,' *r. Out p~..b h.t. wtot,
imrndment undoubtedly would be- Mias Mary’s father a note to come
tome operative as soon as President tc ^ school house. Mr. May did
tee, l..t a , Wison had signed the measure not k°- but * ent Mrs. May When
. . ’ * a . yoUn * Of all the Southern states. Iiq- ’ be learned the trouble. Mrs. May
. 7." " ,l ■» tould b. .,.1 inb, ii), rout thullua h.t
, hlphl, Py th. f.culty „ nJ „ a, „ Aft., rtipy hop,.. M.y h.d
ud .Uid.nt body, u w.ll u hy ” „,d.„d h., d.urh», „ “
oe They are Florida, Louisiana, Tex- kitchen to prepare supper. Instead
,n '. as and Kentucky, which with about a °t Miss May going to the kitchen.
of other local option states will ‘he went into another room. Her
•way' be affected. It is point- mother asked her what was the
t that the amendment will not trouble, if she
and is a graduate of A. M. S.. hav
ing been elected to the faculty at ‘
meeting of the BoaH of Trus- ,
hat offered such fine i
his country was nearly all forest,
ilfer the same inducements for de-
irable pasture lands to the man who
ias found that it is as easy to ra se
. pedigreed cow worth $10U us a
crab worth *10.
A pioneer in demonstrating the
adaptability of this climate and soil
for live stock snd pasturage, and the
ease with which pedigreed cattle can
to- raised, is Mr. J. J- L. Phillips,
j and his herdVrf 72 Aberdeen Angus , ' ry l!o,,p *- l,arl10 "': Col-
-on his farm live miles north of the- r ' v,oIin “ t: John Rebarer. plan
city, not one of which had been fed Br,,y Bouk er. .oprano. of the
le spring of 1916 until Feb- Rw “ i °P cra - Covent Garden. Lon-
4th. 1917. is the finest Ulus- don '
we have seen of what all tho 8:45 M, “ s ““""“ Cocroft, the
ound open a.r pastocage in P hy * i “ 1 benefactor of 100.000 Amer
tion means. ' x . lr “" wom e"- >n “The Woman Worth
While." a marvelous lecture for both
m«-n and women. (After the lecture
the gentlemen will withdraw, and
tne ladies given tht privilege of
questioning Miss Cocroft.)
S 00. Grand Full Concert-—T
New 1 nrk Trio and Betty Booker.
many friends throughout this i
tion, all of whom hope that his in
juries will not prove fatal.
Those who sntf~the effet-ta of the
explosion say that it is a wonder
that Mr. Hasty ■
. instantly
immediately
? narked a few pays i
many farmers were going
mess backward in this
blooded stock first withoi
ing for pasturage.
Mr Phii!ipS"did not make this mis
take. and that is why his herd of
Angus costs him nothing for feed for
al out eleven months of th^ year. He
planted liberally of velvet beans and
grain crops and they did not eat
out these pastures until they were
taken out sif the fields February
14th. that the land might be turned
f»»r another crop.
.Since that date, they have been
fed a ration of five pounds of ground p'
Work to bo RiMhod. With C
and Othor Preparation!. Plant i, j
Beginning to bo a Bu.y Place. j Abusing His WWo.
The contract for the artesian wel Mr. W. S. Hatbis,|t farmer Uvis«
at the plant of thvTifton Paekinjitwo miles northwest of Omega, diad
Company waa Jet Wednesday aft«n! Tuesday morning at 4 o’clock from a
noon to the Southard Contracting 1 blow from a shovel in th# hands ad
Company, of Lakeland. Fla., ths'hu sixteen-year-old son, ~
firm which bored the second w*a f Math*, .inflicted Monday I
for the Tifton waterworks plaatlMiout 11 o,c!ock.
well will be 450 to 500 feet,! Mr. Matbl. and his aon had bocw
the contract price was |5.5«flo Omega that morning for a i«sd of
P* r foo ‘ Isawdust On their return Mathis
Work will begin , at once. lirj** nt 4° the house while tho boy
Southard, head of the contractile 1 *** throwing off the load. It is
company, is in Tifton, and begag 1 **^ that Mathis was Intoxicated
today getting their drilling eqaip.j and lb * t h * insisted on returning
ment out to the plant. This equip- ^ unhitch the muJee. As they wero
ment was already here, where it bar** nd restive, Mrs. Matbl, waa
been retained since the well for tV afraid he vould frighten them and
city was finished. It will be ne'cey-Misd to disauede-him. He became
snry, however, to ship in s boiler, w * raged and su.-lcd to beat her and
the waterworks plant fumuiheij" the scuffle tine two fell off the
'team for the city’s well. The oily F or ei> >t wr« than that Harvey ran
trouble will be in ob'aining p,*. °P sr. 1 -truck l.is father with the
there being delay in all Oitpmenia id *hcvel » hich he was using to un-
t 1 - s material. fed the wagon.
Mr .Southard is very anxious u Mr. Mstfcls was knocked acnseleaa
ompletc the Tifton Job. and wort and "ever recovered consciousness
-ill he pushed as fast as j-ossiblt] b *f°re his death that night. In
le contracted this week for n l,50»-'**P®"s* to a telephone message no-
•jot well for -the Savannah water, hfying him of Mr. Mathis’ death,
■ork, system, and is drilling a wefl-®*P“ty Sheriff Kossie Shaw want to
I ..I Miami, with two or throe otherjOniegn Tuesday morning but learn-
jobs under way He also has fiv* all the circumstances did not
! wells Contracted for at the different-P'* c '’ lbe hoy under arrest because
plants of the Southern Utilities! 0 * hi * mother’s delicate health. Ha
- 40 p. m. Grand Concert. The Company. |told him to-come to Tifton later and
’' orl( Trio and Betty Booker. With the grading of the spur lesd. arrange for bond,
ahley Hupps, baritone; I.ucile Col- ln|f to (j, e packing plant completed^. Mr. Mathis was a man about 40
the work of putting down the rmik fears old and had seven children. It
.ready to Eicgin, and the contracts * there had been trouble in
for foundation and watef rupply let hi* family before of the tame na-
the enterprise is making fine head- ton that led up to the killing. The
way toward completion. eon stated to the Deputy Sheriff
Work in every department wijihtt he had no idea of killing' Wa
be pushed aa rapidly aa possible, si fslher. but in^ia excitement struck
the need of early commencement ol him harder than he intended,
operations is every day more appen Additional to Mathis KHliag.
ent ’ * Mr. Mathis had obtained a quart
° of .whiskey from the express office at
MRS ARMOR'S ADDRE3S. Omega that morning when tic was in
The son, Harvey, waa a fav-
The Castle Square Entcr-
Messrs Contid. Schmidt. | ]
and Dojcn.
The Great Community |
r Address “A New Patriot-|'
he Mon Behind the Cummu- '
Ben R Yardoman. President
'Is Trade Journal and Na
•sociation of Community Bet''
m.d. On. ot th. pi,™ of oi
7 ”1“ . I «.«. ."tir,lv dr,
shop and another through the floor., j >WJ ,
"Whoever shall order, purchase asked what it
cause intoxicating liquor, to be told him nothing was wrung
Needed la Tifton. Florida Ov.rroa !’ tran,port " i in inU ‘ r * U,e rommetce. ver. in a few seconds the
With Toorlats,. I except for sacramental, scientific, -hut was heard -pnd the paiVnts «*>*monds that
"Take it from me, Florida is run-1 medieinal or meehanical purposes, hesyd the girfs body fall to the "*' rvativc,y * ,tl
— =• •»-- • '• — hlnK Angus is worth S25.000.
L king over -with Yankees,” said Mr.
I C. L Parker, who with Judge J. B.
f Clemente, of Iririnriile, returned
[ Sunday from a trip to Palm Beach
i and Miami.
J “The streets are full of them, and
•t the cafes and restaurants thcri
is a- waiting (in* extending out on th<
K^atiewalk. Hotels have hung sut the
• 8. R. O. sign long ago, and rooms are
I ranting at the biggest kind of (trices.
L I know one family that gets $55 a
month for three roprns, Tind a man
' who has rented his house uut for,
• 8500 for the season and is living in
his servant house.
“I saw the motor boat races in
which Car! G. Fisher, the Dixie
Highway man. of Indiannpolis, Ind..
made a new world’s record. Aero
planes are* as common as buzzards,
and can be eeon any day, with
them in thc^afton
MONDAY. CLOSING DAY
3.00 p. m. Grand Full Concert by
The Kuyai Venetian Orchestra under
direction of Paul R. Doti. the cele
brated young band master.
7:4i>. Chas. D. Roberts, the cele-
lu-ated cartoonist snd humorist, in
“Making the World Laugh.”
9:00. Grand Closing Concert.—
The Royal Venetian Orchcatra. with
ml R. Doti, director.
The first four rows are strictly re
served for old persons. Each session
will begin promptly on time.
„. .... , . „ . , . , Tifton invites her neighbors from I y**rs
Phillips has a bunch of black t j, e
A representative Tifton audieno ante of his father, snd went with
heard Mrs. Mary Harris Armor’s «4 him on nearly all his trips. He does
dress on “Temperance" at the Metb B ot appear to realize yet what he
odist church Wednesday night Tht has done.
collection that followed was tie Harvey was unloading the eawdusf
largest yet taken for this cause bf , t the barn when be saw his father
the Tifton W. C. T. U., amounting strike his mother, and she fell from
nearly *150. tk* porch, his father falling on her.
At the lecture, the telegram t) Mrs Mathis says she relieves that
Daily Gazette that the mea.u^fc her son had not interfared her
beauties. Con-
•ountry and nearby towns
,, ... and enjoy with her this “feast
■d. h„ b„d »r „ f now c[ ,
* , “ A The quel -
prohibiting the shipping of liquor
to prohibition states or the advi
ing of it in same bad passed
id. Mrs. Armor
moved to tears, that the end sh«
labored so zealously for so x
in sight.
' !-*keside Black Cap. whose val- will plant this spring —
ie is fixed at $1,000. Then there corn and velvet beana. Mr. R. G.
* Ariana 2nd. worth $600. and many Coarsey. for many years chief of po-
I lice of Tifton, is superintendent
CHECKS FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS
Third National «/ .Atlaata Send. Oot
. f- *224.938
The Third Xationaj Bank Kriday
mailed out checks for state school '
~H»5 enunry vriinoT “suporln-'
tendents for an aggregate of $224.-
18. *ays the Atlanta Constitution.
This is part of the total fund of
.500.000
Georgia through tho
(18 for fifteen 'mlnhtcs. and
or territory
the manufacture or sale thi
intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes, shell be punished by a tongue and coming out at the oth, ‘ r P urebri
fine of not more than $1,000 or im- , „ p D f u, c heBd value The kings of the herd are this. farm, and you have only to look
prisonment not more than six [» r . Williford was immediately RUrk C “P Pnnce. a tw'o-year-old bull at it tp 4 »ee the thoroughness with
months, or borti. and. for. an*- subac'.. umproppd He .found Miss May col, | wei ri in g 1.26° pounds and worth _ which iho work
knpriMned „ ni | seeming .ia . what ?s . oft - ftdnnie Ben Jed. a-tbsc* w n the fanu are now 200 head of
ue had done. However, she was un- > ear-old weighing 1.610 pounds, hugs. Duroc Jersey and Berkshires.
>le to talk The doctor sa.vs !wor!h * 500 - Th « re flrr four* fine Sir Phillips says these are not nec-
lere.is but.little hope for her re- >’ oun *? bulls, six months did. a fid sev- nssarily for tie packing plant, be--
■very. leral teoge among the calves. cause he likes u> butcher hit txwnl
Miss May lias lawn despondent.ov- The calves are eighteen in num--mea«. He killed 100 head of hogs!
bad health for a year orSnoie.' bcr an, ‘ nearly'all of thiv cow- this -ea»on and the meat hanging'
id i! is said she has threatened 5l . V - 'bring a calf every year. Some of m his smokehouse is finer than the
III limex to ceil her lila and -get-i thc younger calves are So snurh i-ke product -<rf-any Western packing
«• of it. little black coons, with thnjr staring house He still has a lot of meat in
eye*, that the resemblance brings a the refrigerator of the Tifiok Ice
VETERANS MONEY READY smile Hut they are worth even more I Power Company which will be
n money than a coon baby was in burr up in a few days ’He takes
Iden slavery time. A queer circum n - ihar.ee* hy 'depending on the
Brade Sledge was arrested neg^
Omega by Deputy Sheriff Shaw fa
the officials of Upson county, wharf
he is wanted to answer a misdemeaaX
charge' Sheriff ~
band would have killed her. *She
pjn* critical condition now from
fee fall and ahoek.
1 Mr. Mathis came from North
t Georgia to this section three years
L«r>-
• The boys were noteworthy in
■;Omega for their gaod behavior when
•attending church anr Sunday school.