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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON
bAY, MARCH 2, 1917.
^tfton (Bajette
Published Weekly
Entered ut the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
as jnail matter of the second claaai
0ao. L. Herring. Bettor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
From the Tifton Gazette, January 1st, 189:
Capt. VY. H. Snow writes fr 0 m High Point,
N. C./of a trip through this section and advanc
es the opinion that-South Georgia is sure to be
a winner in tobacco growing.
Rev. P. II. Crumpler is pastor of the Metho
dist church.
E. J. Fulwooij resigns as section forejnan at
Cycloneta.
Mr. H. H. THts shingle mill is'approaching
completion.
S. D. Thomas secures permit to build a buck
ster’s stand, corner Railroad and First streets.
'Col. C. W. Fulwood sold his Love avenue res
idence to Mr. Robert Turner, of Kirkland. arM
moved into one of the Fulwood and Alexander
cottages, on Central avenue.
The Berrien County Farmer's Alliaiic
agreed not to use a pound of commercial fertil
izer during 1892.
A fantastic parade is mentioned among the
Christmas festivities, in which Mr. J. C. Hind
starred. /
At an entertainment at Tifton Institute for
the benefit of the furniture fund of the Metho
dist church, Mrs. W. O. Tift, Mrs. F.. H. Tift.
Miss Murphev and Misses Smith, of Sycamore,
received especial mentioh. Mr, E. H. Tift’s local
hits in a character song were features.
At a meeting <>f the Knight’s of Pythias. F.
G. Boatright. M. A. Sexton, C. A. Williams. C.
W! Fulwood. J. A. Alexander, S. G. Slack. W.
O. Padrick and J. H. Goodman were elected
officers, in the order named. A banquet was
served at Robert C. Copeland’s restaurant.
J. E. Dean, lumber inspector at Tift’s mill,
is sure he saw I. D. Sm'th, missing from his
home in Laurens county.
Rev. D. B. Sweat began the publication of the
Sunday School Revival at Waycross.
The Gazette was the official organ of Berrien
county. D. W. Tyson was Sheriff and F. M.
Smith. Ordinary.
The death-of Asa Newsome, of Hahira. is
mentioned by the Cecil correspondent. “Bohe
mian.’'.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
UNCLE SAM TAKES A HAND.
RAILROADING IN 1892.
The general public has an idea that this
the fastest age of railroading the world hns
known, but so far as our immediate section of
South Georgia is concerned, this is not the case.
Before us is a schedule of the Brunswick and
Western railroad, now. a branch of the Atlantic
Coast Line, in the Tifton-Gaiette of January
1st, 1892. or just a little over twenty-five years
ago.
On this schedule, train No. 4 was timed to
leave Albany at 1:30 a. m. and to arrive at Tif
ton at 2:45 a. m., or one hour and twenty-four
minutes for the forty-one miles. Returning it
made even better time. It left Tifton 12:51
m. and arrived at Albany 2:10 a. m., one hour
vend nineteen minutes for the same distance.
^ Thi^was locally known as the "Cannon Ball."
and the description was fairly accurate. It
a through train from the North'to Florida, and
carried Pullman equipment. The train pre
senting the nearest analogy to it now is the
Seminole Limited. This'ia also a through train
to and from Florida, but it does not huAle as
did the "Cannon Ball" of twenty-five year* ago.
It leaves Albany at 1:50 a. m, arriving Tifton
3:25 a. m„ or a schedule of one hour and thirty-
five minutes. Westbound, the-running time is
the same, giving an advantage to the fhrough
train twenty-Jlve yesrs ago of ten minutes fast
er time eastbound and 'fifteen? minutes faster
- westbound.
The difference is really gi
■ The locomotives of that day
concealed in the cab of the
ent. The rails were forty-pot
with ninety-pound today, and
ujter than this.
$>uld be almost
l_.of.the pres-
| as compared
! other equip-
Cal Turner and the Black Runner.
Cal Turner was afraid o^Hnakes.
In this he in no way differed from the aver
age barefoot boy in SoOth Georgia forty years
ago, but Car added nervous frills to the ordin-
fear. When he was fishing, if be saw a
snqke. he jumped at every crooked stick for the
balanc“ of the day, and the savor of wooing the
nimble pike and hungry red-eyes, was gone. His
associates kgcw this weakness, and they played
It tn the extent of many boyish pranks and
practical jokes. ,
But this fear of Cal’s was acquired, not inher
ited. In early boyhood he played with snakes.
1: was one qf his jokes to take a garter snake
or a chicken snake UjMhe tail,and chase a bevy
of squealing girls around the yap I with it. Or he
would-swing the reptile around his head a few
times and with a quick jerk, as if manipulating
n whip, pop its head off. How Cal’s familiarity
was'changed to fear, is the story:
Cal was siding corn in the big field .across Hie
greek. The day was hot. and C-al munched hi*
tobacco and ruminated, as he followed the
scooter, attached to a 'grasshopper stock n.nd a
deliberate mule, up and down the long- row
There was the fishing coming next Saturday af
ternoon. and (inly a few weeks off. prcachin;
over at Rodger Bottom, with the Johnson gals
certain to be there. The thought of’Cynthii
Johnson, in her blue figured calico dress and
pink sunbonnet. brought a smile as the mule
reached the end of the long row and turned
from habit up into the corner of the worm-rail
fence.
A rustling, like the swish of a submarine per;
iscope, caused Cal to glance over in the fence
iamb and there, from under the bottom rail, the
head and about six inches of a black runner
showed, the red tongue licking out at Cal spite
fully. Now. the black runner is not at rfll clas
ed among the lighting snakes, and often ha
Cal chased one to its hole, or caught it uni
wares anil snapped off its head. This one wi
idently a giant of its species, but it was with
the feeling of chastising an impudent coon that
Cal picked up a small pine knotjjmi hurled it ak
the runner's head. (
The missile went true. Perhaps the-blow daz
ed the snake; perhaps, due to thinhot weather,
it had a brainstorm: more probable that under
•orm rail fence its spring eggs (were hatch-
In any event, to Cal> alaytn. instead of
running away the snake came at him with open
mouth.
If the runner wouldn't run. Cal would, and
just as the reptile, coming within easy , reach,
made a lunge at him. Cal turned and flew. In
those days, few boys under twenty wore pant.-
-bile at work. Cal did nbt and his only gar
ment was a homespun shirt, reaching to his
knees. . S
As hir whirled to run, and the snake struck,
the switching TaiTbF this shirt was the only thing
rench and into this, near the hem, one long
tooth of the runner caught—and hung, for the
cloth \fras honest and strong.
Cal felt the cold snake touch his calf and
wit A a yell of horror he "lit a shuck" down the
long corn-row. along the furrow he had just
plowed. Because it could not get loose the
black runner, over three feet long, trailed be
hind. That the snake couldn’t help this. Cal
did not know; he thought the runner had sever
'd diplomatic relations and was trying to com
mit an overt act.
His breath growing short. Cal glanced be
hind him—the snake was coming along the fur
row. like a black streak, right at his heels!
With another yell, Cal put on a burst of speed,
the sweat pouring down his face and body in
streams under the May sunshine.
Thinking Inter that surely he had distanced
the runner in a fair test of speed. Cal jooked
behind. There was the snake, not an inch the
loser! This time Cal went down for it, with ev
ery atom of strength that tense muscles and
frightened mind could give. His bare toes dug
into the freshly plowed ground, thowing be
hind "him a shower of rattling pebbles and a
cloud of dust.
was near half a..mile-JUXQas that.field, apd.
GETTING BACK IN THE GAME.
the “Cannon Ball" were the fib' ones
Brunswick and Western had burning coal.
But the men at the throttlejon the old "B
and W.” were men on the job!{ John and Jo-
Green. John Golden, Pat Craofr, -Bill Futch.
John Clements; and their associates could coax
out of a piece of-machinery alllthat was in it.
Not but their successors (Joe (J-een is still on
the job) are as good and as competent men.
but in those days.xulei were n#t so strict and
l charge of the train had more lati-
Eor making up time. Jphn Green and
»• superiors, while Cramer
"the wild Irishman."
• —- — , , VI1II1U on Uip UIIU men ien mi iuhiivi k,
high sliced under-diffieut- "But ‘hS^was'Too~\yeak fo’cllhib. The best he . .
% Ball" had few accidents,
i goes to show thay while w
i progress in railroading, we
With a Congressional unanimity surprising,
^pcle Sam hns taken charge of the interstate
transportation of intoxicants, and now states
that desire,the total suppression of the liquor
traffic can have it.
The motives behind the almost unanimous
vote were varied. There was the sincere prohi
bitionist, whose dreams for years have been
the total suppression of the liquor traffic. There-
wLs the citizen of a prohibition state, who has
watched the outflow of millions of dollars year-
for intoxicants. There was the moderately
nperate man, who rWslievcs that, with total
prqhibition will sooner come a better under
standing and real temperance. And last‘was the
liquor man. who believes that a law so drastic
will bping reaction and regulation in the place
of totit.l prohibition. But no matter wTiat the
; behind the vote, the result was the same,
-rgia hns been regulating her liquor trade
for thirtV-five years. First with local option,
next with statewide* prohibition with -a leak, and
it With“zin iron-clad law. Now it will t)
possible for her I'ttizens to obtain intoxicating
liquors, wines or beers by any legal tm-aits. if
by any means at all. unless they go beyond the
onfines of the state and drink them. Now
Georgia will find for the first time whether she
really wants prohibition.
One of the fifst-mul most beneficial results
will be to stop the flow of money out of th-
state and the flow qf liquor in. It has been said
in some quarters that many negroes are.leaving
because they cannot get whiskey here. If so.
well and good—negro and whiskey is a combi
nation that no peace-loving people want. It
be that other citizens will *migrate'to fol-
the dram, if so- we’wiH bid them a hearty
farewell. As for the great mass of the people
of the state, they will be left to work out their
•n problems, domestic and economic, without
being obliged to see their laws nullified by
their sister states.
As for the ultimate results—whether for good
or bad—of the new law. time alone can tell.
We believe it will be for the great and lasting
good of the people as a whole, and that- tin
tion of Congress will enable the people to
ulate the liquor traffic in accord with the will
of the -majority—which is wholesome and Den\;
ocratic doctrine.
‘ For the first time in fifty years a British firm
hns placed an order with .American ship-build
ers, the Union iron works, of San Francisco,
having closed a contact for three . 10.000-ton
cargo ships for an importing house in England.
Because of a foolish tariff wall and silly
maritime laws, American shipping had almost
disappeared from therijigh seas before the out
break of the great war. and for half a century
the largest shipping firms in this country had
their vessels built abroad. Perhaps one of the
first direct results of the war will be the open-
fn American eyes to the immense price this
country’ has been paying for bonehead legis
lation.
COMMENIS & COMEBACKS
WHAT MILITARY ^TRAINING MEANS.
The universal military training bill, which
Committee on Military Affairs, in brief, pro
vides for:
The ■period of training is. six months and ii
to begifi ill the nineteenth year. After that
the soldier or sailor goes into the reserve, from
which, until he completes his twenty-eighth
year, he may be called at any time by the Pres
ident only for the purposes of defense. As
suming that at least 400.000 young men will
receive this training each year, it is figured
that after nine years the Nation will have al
ways in reserve approximately 3.000 Quo able-
bodied men with some knowledge >f arms *f}d
able to take care of themselves i«o camp, trench
and field or on shipboard. /
A Duplay of Waallh-
Ope onion that coat a dime
potato that coat- fourteen cents ■
one rutabaga turnip that <
ty cents were weighed In ■
grocery store. And they i
such whoppers in aUe,
Albany Jierald.
Got a Who). Gall-on,-m t
It is a common thing ,1
or orte man to bpn
another to order an extra |
but Quitman presents a
other map’s nar
get a fellow i
Observer. .
Foolish
The Tiftg
pasterous J
’i
From The, (.Villa Star.
The Star views with great regre! the laying 1 . ‘
of the work he has been doing by Dr.| fu r ,her 'eolation would help
WE LOSE A VALUABLE MAN
first p
h-grislatd
time i
Before jn
cigarettes,
tisor. what fc_
of the way?. ,
Point i
» pernicioua ?
peace officers a’
(ted in their u
—Tifton Gaze
The pistol toting If
and cowardly, I)
Fort. >>nr District Health Commissioner.
He hud been on the job about a year, and yet
there is hardly a man. woman or child in Irwin
.niinty (and we assume thn£ the same is true
of Tift)/wHq has not directly or indirectly been
somewhat affected by his work.
He caiTieii on a great educational campaign
along the line of his work, and it is safe to say
that these two counties where he has worked
ill be a great deal healthier on account of his
ear's labor.
New things generally meet ~wRh more or less
opposition. n-> matter how worthy. And yet. so
tactfully has he done his work as a health
cer among the people; that,we have yet to hear
the first word of criticism.
believe that he leaves his work incom
petent hands. He-hns laid the foundation well,
and his successor will have asier sailing. Whilst
another will carry bn the work, and in his
way. the work of Dr. Fort will go xm.
Irwin county regrets the accident that forces
him to abandon the line of work that he loves
mi ktv-ws so well how- to do, but wishes him
■—in i;r.o work he wall
OVERLOOKING THE HOME MAN
The following is from the Dublin Courier*
Herald:
It is said that "a prophet is not without hon
or save in his own country." If you will change »■— , . , .. ,
the word prophet to product you will find one abundant success in the line of
of the reasons why diversified, farming has notjtake up.
proved the,success it was hoped. The story of 1
the potatoes in the editorial, "Out for Results.”
in.the Southern Ruralist. reminds me of an inci-
dent , which huppamiMLJn-Goorgia *«v«rak yoarAjFi-wm-th*^ M<*uUrj« Observer,
go. A fruit grower in Fort Valley put tip his
hen the markets were glutted add the
And for the love of Mite
don’t go to talking too much ebook
right now. Some buiybejHee might
persuade the governoejf_
-a session to corral#/the “great,
til.”—Dalton Cit!
The Assist
Mr. B. H. (
-ill become A
of Agriculture Marc
Clay having resigned
number a
years and have alwayi looked upon
him as a man of more than ordin- a
ary ability, always overflowing with (J
public spirit. He has always dreamed 9B
big things for South Georgia, and
as labored with hu mind, body and
oifey to see his dreams come true,
ommissi'oner J. J. Brown has dona
himself proud and South Georgia *
great service by naming Mr. Groov-
•V’aycrose Journal-Herald.
in Fal'sTirVath was coming tn'piThting gasps':
and from sheer weariness he slowed up. As he
slackened speed, the snake drooped until i*
touched his ankle. No other stimulus was
needed, and oTice more Cal threw her into the
high clutch arn! ret his teeth tor the home
stretch.
Exhaustion was coming when into his dim
ming vision came the rail fence at the end o'f
the row! Maybe he could make it? Was the
snake still.following? A backward glance prov
ed that it was, and with one more supreme ef
fort h? made for the fence and safety.
When he struck the fence. Cal intended to
, lia.ii .in top and then tell the runner t-> go to.
peachu., - „ \ .
prices low. He put up a good honestbaek of
choice fruit and placed attractive I a b4" on his
cans. He endeavored to sell his outptu in Geor
gia, but failing to do so disposed of it to a Bal
timore jobber. Among those to whom he tried
to sell his peaches was a South Georgia whole
sale grocery houscj A short tirne after refusing
to buy the Georgia’product this wholesale groc
ery house ordered a carload of canned peaches
from Baltimore, and when they were received
every can bore on-it the label of the Fort Val
iev grower.
Which reminds us that twenty-five years ag(
Tifton invested something like S30.000 in :
model canning plant. At that time thq peach
industry was at its height in this section, nnd
some of the finest Elbertas that ever tickled the
palate of an. appreciate . connoisseur were
grown here.
The canning plant was designed to conserve
the surplus peach irrop as well as to encourage
truck growing. There were not many farmers
then in this immediate section but for the first
ear or two quite a lot of "truck'was grown For"
the factory, tomatoes especially. Hut the prin
cipal: product of the cannery was peaches, and
of this specialty one of the finest articles ever
placed before the American public was mad«
could do was a running jump! by _which he
struck the two. top rails, knocked them off. and
with them fell on the other side, face down-
On the back "f his bare legs the snake ??]'•
and when he felt its cold body on him. Cal
gave up and for the first nnd only time* in hi.-
life fainted. In some way. the runner extricat
ed itself, and when Cal came to was gope.
After that. Cal played rio more pranks with
snakes.
It hit by the Reed amendment
s in the smaller.counties.
? officials are contingent on
jjority of the rural counties of
:hey do not aggregate over $50
-many of them iWh less- The ..
k registration of whiskey shipments. One of the best of the smaller afternoon dai-
uch went into effect May lit lies reaching this - office is the Rome Daily
the nav of these deserving oU Chronicle. The paper, is just celebrnting its
first anniversary birthday. The Chronicle ««
ably edited and sprightly, to boot-.
Manv have longed for the day of diversifi-] »i«P °° ■PP** 11
.ation in South Georgia. Diversification has . . • • *
been preached for years, it has been taught
by our agricultural colleges, farm demonstra
tors. newspapers and farm papers.
Hasn't the day of diversification arrived? VV'e
an hardly picic up a newspaper printed in
Georgia now that we do not reatTkoine item
about the sale of live stock or the shipping of
grain. .
There is a big peanut story in one. a velvet
bean story in another, a hay story and a syrup
story, etc., etc. . -
Every little town has its mill getting ready
to prepare ground feed from oats, pea vine hay.
peanut bread, velvet beans, corn, etc.
A Tifton mill advertises for one million bush-
ls of peanuts next fall, and the farmers ai;e
neeting the call by buvjng up seed peanuts and
planting fifty thousand acres in the vicinity of
Tifton.
The Camilla Enterprise tells us that one rai
road in Mitchell county has hzr^led sLxt.v-three
carloads of hogs and forty-seven carlonds of
cows out of that county this season. Three or
four years from now it will’bc possible for the
same county to market one thousand cars of
hogs, a thousand cars of peanuts, one thousand
cars of beans and one thousand cars of com..
Just the other day we were quoting some
newspaper that reported the sale of eight hun
dred thousand dollars worth of hogs on the
feet in Grady county, and besides they; was the
largo
and
fill a two-pound can. were put up in syrup
they made a table delicacy that*could not bi
celled. Of course, n cheaper product was put
out. pie peaches and others to meet the demand
.for.liut-urdinary- trade, lml the specialty wns th
dessert- peach.
At that time S. G. Slack was superintendent
of the cannery, and he put up there peaehe-
under the "Tifton Brand" with-the picture of
his daughter, little then—long since grown and
married—on the label.
The product was in every way superior, and
it-deserved the people's patronage, but did it
got it? It did nofTSithougfi-thc price was put
Baltimore goods- -sold- for
here, the wholesalers were so much given-ti
buying-through regular channels that it was dif
ficult to persuade them to try the Tifton goods.
Salesmen mvFhe--road-to sell the produet found
it uphill work. It wns^ difficult'to find “Tifton
Brand" canned goods on the shelves of retail
dealers in near by towns, and too many even
among the Tifton merchants sold Baltimore
stuff. ‘
Lack nf support of a locnj enterprise
largely responsible for the fact that the
ucry was only operated three years. It is also
in part responsible for the failure of similar en-
• r -:- 0 • — -j - By towns of. late yFars. This
is one of the reasons Tifton has not Been very
enthusiastic ^o^er the cannery proposition re
cently.
THE DAY HAS ARRIVED.
SCHOOL TEACHER
Ward* Off Ntrvotti Break Down
Alburti*. Pa.—"1 am a teacher In the
i public KhooU, and I xot Into a rrrr Mt-.
xoua, rau-dmrn condition. I count Ml...
. : ri«-p and kid no appetlt--. I ni tired j
thousand dollars worm in mi K »
n Gt'adv county, and besides there was the
d nroduction of syrup on record and the.
■ gootf"aP<VTnintni?-T)'flsnilrW
and cod liver pcptonce. iron ■m*. w
|«pu.nat.., and Hereto* *
pboapbatea lor run-do* n condition*.
SOLD BY MILLS DRUG CO.
OAKY GROVE NEWS.
lur school i< progresainic nicely
|er [he ciircful nrenanement of
Prof. Leon Gridin. We have some- ,
where near fifty pupil*. «
le sing at Oaky Grove waa very
much enjoyed. Those who attend- •
ed from nround Shady Grove were:
,r*. Berrie Baker nnd Hitonwt.
Goff: Mines Lizzie Living*tom Ber-.-f
tn Johncon and Mattie B-d!e Balter;
I guers everybody U tired of (f
Mr. ans) Mr *- W ‘ J
ere vivting the latter'* etater. MS
. H. Robinson. Saturday and Sow
D. it, lioumsun is at Eldom
tpending a few dnya wW
•r. Mrs. N’arcy Akin*, who I
k. We hope ahe speedily li
Lolflf AUr-v of Coifel
liui Mr*. Eliza Robinson.-g
are also with Mrs
price „
peanuts and fattening cattle for market.
The Albany Herald just a few weeks ago an
nounced the first carload shipment of hogs on
record from that county, but sineg that time
they have been shipping almost a car a day of
cows and hogs from Albany. The market has
just entered that county, and as.in other coun
ties^. the stuff was found waiting when it| got
.there. L ."
Thomasville anaounces the shipment of six
carloads of cows and hogs the past few days,
and as for Boston and Quitman the railroad
yards have not been clear of hogs the whole
season. The shipment of hogs has become so
common in Brooks jrounty that no more atten
tion is given to-itihan to shipping cotton.
.. I« Telfair, county.there has .been marketed
fifteen cars of hogs, and cows already, and
there will be a dozen more cars this seasoh.
Dawson. Bninbridge. Tifton. Valdosta. Cor-
dele, Fitzgerald‘and practically every Syith
Grnrjrta'towTr-haiits own story-of big
ments of cows. hogs, coiji, peanuts and ^elvet
beans. —T*** * ' . _ ' 7 T
The diversified era is here, and if the riyte of
increase is kept up for two more .rears the cot
ton will be secondary, boll weevil or no boll
weevil.
' GUR FARMERS’ CHANCE.
From the Albs 'y Herald. ....
There is a sk rrtage omillion hogs in the
eleven principal hog markets of the country.
What p chance for Georgia .farmers to reap in
»he shekels helping to make up the deficiency!.
We could.fill in the whole gap if we made up
Jour minds to do it.
Trtr-wtr-T'ttri.rtaiTttr'J
her sister, who she had not •
bout twenty years.
Two Little Pink.,
A.V
T ired aching feet fej
freshed after an i
_ r Sloan’s Linim
rob, it penetrates and sc
Cleaner ih,-in tIH!»y .pi*
ointments, does not stain tl
Have a bottle handy f<
mntic pains, neuralgia, g
bago, sprains, strains, t
bruises and muscle sorer
At all drufjists, 25c. 50c. ai
Sloari!
Linimen
rt/LLS PAiri