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CASH PRIZES FOR
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PEANUT GROWING
To every boy and girl in Tift County plant
ing One Acre in Peanuts we offer an opporimity to
gain a CASH PRIZE in addition to our assurance
that we wilbpay the cash market price for every bush
el you raise. •
$15 FOR THE LARCEST YIELD FROM ONE ACRE
$10 FOR SECOND LARGEST YIELD FROM ONE ACRE
$5 FOR THIRD LARGEST YIELQ FROM ONE ACRE
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contest is open to any girl or boy in Tift county. Get your acre of ground ready, have it’s measurement/ properly witnessed,
prepare the soil, liming it well, and send your name in lo the Planters Cotton Oil Company. This is all there kto
do except work your acre intelligently.
It is comparatively easy to raise from 60 to 125 bushels of Peanuts to the acre. They are bringing big money and
should be worth big money next fall.
Farmers, encourage your boy or girl to get into this contest. They have all tojgain and absolutely nothinj to lose.
And, Farmers, go into the Peanut Industry on a large scale yourself. It is a certain money crop.
Plant White Spanish Peanuts
PLANTERS COTTON OIL COMPANY
TIFTOiSl
GEORGIA
and FARM Thom.
B of any amount and dnration:
khd.aoaiaat rates.
»- C. WILLIFORD. Any., Agent
Bowen Bilding, Tifton. Ga. w-tf.
dr. n. peterson]
TIFTON, CEORCIA.
h*«rs< lOllll l.a tUlIK,..
at BsaKtaooa Ball Thom So. I.
JOHN A. PETER80N.
OFFIOI DENTIST.
Naw Goldas Bolldlac. Racoon Btreai
Tifto*. Q*. ^
. Candidal
for tb<
Southern District Judgeship.
VA hen the news of the candidacy
of Judge Joseph Hnnsell Merrill for
the vacant-Southern District Feder
al Judgeship reached Tifton today,
friends of the Thomasvllle aspirant
put in some hard licks in his Tie-
half.
"I had a long-distance talk with
Judge Merrill this morning." said At
tomey J. S. Ridgdiil, • and he inform
ed me that he entered the race with
the kind of support that promises
success. What this is I do
know. Judge Merrill would make
eminently satisfactory Federal
DR. A. E. O’QUINN.
FIRSTS CUSS DENTAL WORK Judge
Drown and Bridge Work Judge Merrill is well known
*’***®® , “ , * y - section, particularly for the service
, ***" * °”* rendered when appointed to fill the
T,FTON : CEORCIA nnexpired term of Judge Mitchell.
Mother’s troubles
■C. R. DICKER!
General Practitioner of Dentistry
" B and Bridge Wort a Special!. :
tui " ,i ' aaoEQiA. devotion drains and strains hei
—fTTi ILLiS physical strength and leave*
attorney-at'law its mark in ^mmed eyes and
Special attention give, to collect CareW °m expressions—,»he
a anil to matters -elating to | n - r ' ®g«* before her time.
**■ ,, Any mother who is weary
TTairre# rmira. rod Unpuirt «!umlrt xra w i*innn
Md*. Building. , Tifton, Gs
H. S. MURKA.Y
Attorney-At-uaw
7®* QEORQIA
Ht OoWan BntWtng.
.WOOD A. HARGRETT
Attorneys -at-Law
* Golden Building
Tifton, Gat.
. J. D.\ WILBANKS
VETERhf-ARIAK
Office at Touchstone 1 !, Stable
Office Phone. 373.
. Residence 137.
j responded to day or nijjl t
4 Georgia. 1
.MURROW
OPRACTOR
ind 8 Cly.lt Building
scorn
EMULSION
OF NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL
as a strengthening food and bracing
tonic to add richness, to her blood
and build up her nerves before it
is too late. Start SCOTT’S
today—its fame is world-wide.
No Alcohol
TRAVELERS CROSS
FIVE BRIDGES NOW
Passable for First Time in Thre
Months. Saturday
CONTRACT WAS LET
FOR FOUNDATION
Work for Packing Plant Satur
day Morning.
ONLY THREE BRIDGES ARE LEFT I
Uny Change, and Improvement, on
One of Principal Highway. Into
Tifton. Work Not Completed.
For the first time iji three months,
•agons crossed at the five bridges on
Little river, west of Tifton, Satur-
8ay morning.
While the work of building con-
“te abutments and rebuilding the
bridges has not been finished, and
be fer several weeks,’it has
'progressed far enough for tnc trav
eling public to cross, which is a
Mother’, ununding wo,ka «7’“' ep~i.Hl
» ■ ■ those living near the bridge on $ie
•west side of the river.
The bridges wore closed to travel
last November, and since ahen the
public formerly served by that road
has lii-ert obliged to detour by way
of the Overstreet bridge, five miles
the Royals bridge, four
if'* tiflfth.
By the w«y, this crossing is no
longer the five bridges. There are on-
y three bridges now, rour of the
ormcr short bridges being turned
-e-. T!u« was done without
licreasing the outlet or. material
• .ci basing the bridge spans, In
irder to save cost of abutments.
J. A. McCrea
Physician and Surgeon
KILLS MAD DOG.
Monday's Daily,
James Goodman, who Hvcb in
j the northwest section of the county,
^killed a Jtoad dog this morning near
J th home of Mr. G. W. Walker
i Mr. Goodman was on his way to
, Tifton, and when .near the hbme of
Walker heard the sereanfs of n
nan. Almost immediately after-
ds a large dog came bounding, 1n-
he rnad anappiag-at. the air antF
Hing at the mouth. It required
shot to dispose of the anl-
j And Contract for W.ll Will b. Lol
N.»« Weak. Work on Foundation
Bogin, at One*.
: From Saturday’s Daily.
The Executive and Finance Com
mittee of the Tifton Packing Com-
pany let the contract Saturday mom
inj for the foundation work of |hi
packing plant building.
Work on the foundation will be
gin at once, and h -ill he ready by
•Hie 'time the contract is made for
the buildings proper The founda
tion will cost about 16.000.
TV grading.for the jjiiir track to
the packing plant aite has been fin
ished and track will J»e laid the com
ing week.
Contract will also be let the en
suing week for*-a twelveMneh arte-
ipn well for the plant.
All possible is being done by the
ILLNESS OF JUROR
C.u.vi Mistrial in McCrania i* itv
At Douglas.
Douglas. Ga., Feb. 16.—On ae-|
count of the sudden death of Mrs. j
J. T Rclihan, mother of Juror J. C.
Relihan. serving on the case of Geo. |
F McCranie, charged with embez
zlement. the juror was withdrawn
t 10 c
clock and a mistrial was declared
by Judge Summerall. The jury had
the case since 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and they seemed hopelesi
ly disagreed.
Mrs. Relihan was about 55 yeai
old and was seemingly in the best
of health when the family was at
supper. Later the men of the fam
ily went dowtj town, and when her
husband returned just before
o'clock, hr found ail the lights out
And TMc*. Relihe.r. lying ca tha -floor
dead,'apparently having been dead
some time. On her head was a bruise
evidently whore she struck the floor
as she fell.
mplete and ready for
Tifton, Geo
Chroni
Giv.
KeepingYourselfWell
HOW YOU GET SICK
know, s^nivtking la’ wrong,
opportunity’ 1. offered for «ome
Taken In time, the indices!
woubi not bi-rom-^aerljy*JFtrat _
i W ,rB
New York, Feb. 20.—Altkugh the United States is not
at war and England is, the pris of potatoes in New'Yod is
I double that in London.
In New York today, sev« cents is asked for potatoes,
while the London price is thraaad a half cents per pound.
Sugar in the New Englarf states today jumped from
ten to fifteen cents per pound
You NeeJ Not Sihr From Catarrh
You have probably been in the habit
of using external treatments to relieve
your catarrh. You have applied sprays,
washes and lotions to the mucous sor-
facee of the nose and throat, have
been temporarily relieved, and then
wondered a short time after, why yon
were troubled with another attack of
catarrh.
You should realize that catarrh is
an infection of the blood. This fact
Aedfie Oo. S. S. 8. which was dis-
r«ed over fifty years age, will
■use your blood of the catarrhal
sons and will thereby relieve yea
the dripping in your throat, the
as in your nostrils, spitting, hawk-
I gagi uj i it ■
CONG
it-Class laundry
•d Street, West of l
Myon Hotel ♦
TiHoe, Georgia *
THE HEN THAT LAYS.
Consumption in the First and See i '* Hie I 160 that pays. If she does •
and stage. Cancers in, their Yourg n0 * * a 5‘- kill her. Iiut before you kill
stage and all Bronchial Diseases *’ cr K' ve her B. ^ Thomas' Poultry
• -AH “Us giver, special attention . Remedy twice a day for a week, and
lay or night. ,hen T»» will not kill her for sly
J. A. McCREA, M. p. “'ill he paying you a profit It not
— k ' “fly makes hens lay bui it is a rem-
To Cure a Cold In One Day edy for Cboierr, Roup and. Gapes
Take laxative mroMo Ouinine. itstopvthr * W ® Ifuarantee it to cure or we re-
ssjruarias* | '™ d .
E. W. GROVE S stgaaturr on «.ta bei. ^c. | tils Co.
J .your money.—Phiffips Mercan-
(•dr)
HEAVY RAINSTORM
om Monday’s Daily.
Shortly after noon yesterday, one
of tile heaviest rainstorms In months
visited Tifton, and so heavy was ths
loynpour. which on the Hcigh|a as-
iunu d proportions of a miniature
•loudburst. that the streets were
’loodcd for nearly an hour and in
iom<- places culvert* and drain* ant-
'jt ••• I material damage.
Near - the Intersection of Third
!«l-eet and Central avenue, the ditch
es proved totally .inadequate, and a
I laige ciiivert was swept oi
-the last named thoroughfare.
The early part of the rainstorm
was accompanied by considerable
hail and a wind of sufficient velocity
to shake houses. The storm came'
from the Southwest.
CRAFT-McLANEY. j
Miss Pearl Craft Snd'Mr Angus
VcLanoy were married in the Or-
•linr-ry's office at the courthouse Sat-
ni-lav morning at 9JO, Judge Gr
W. Graves performing
meny.
Mr and
m. McLaney were
m Elmodel, Ga., in Baker county
1 were students at the Agricultur-
Sf hoal.
PROBATION OFFICER NAMED
Judge Eve has appointed J L.
Herrins Pauhation Officer for Tift
county, to fill office recommended by
the Grand Jury at the January term
j of Superior Court..
The appointment is effective March
1st and .carries a salary of *15 a
month.