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THE TIFfON GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA^ FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1917.
TLhc Hatton ©ajette
Published Weekly ^
entered at the Postofflee at Tifton, Georgia,
» 4 mail matter of the second tlass.'
i an. L. Herring Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
A NATION RETURNING HOME-
The location at Savannah of the plant of a
concern which has the contract to build twenty
ahipe for the government at an estimated coat
of ten million dollars, means more than the es
tablishment of a great industrial enterprise in
the South. It means that, in time of crisis, a
nation is finding itself; is returning home, so to
apeak.
The Sotfth. with its timber, its mines, ita facto
ries and ita great agricultural resources, is the
part of the nation which is nearest ready to
supply what the country needs on peremtory
call. This because these resources and indus
tries have been so little taxed, the larger con
tracts having gone for many decades through
channels at first created by political expediency
and later following custom-
(Savannah has many miles, of water front ad
mirably adapted to the government's needs. Its
railway lines touch iron and steel furnaces only
a feW hundred miles away on one hand and
belts of undeveloped timber on the other. And
in either direction lie rich farm lands, that the
food supply may be cheap and reliable. wl.Ile
ample labor is ready for the asking.
The ship-building plant is to be lojitjJ at
Port Wentworth, a few miles above the city, on
the Savannah river, the point at which the
mammoth sugar refinery has just been corrph -
„ed. One hundred acres of land have se
cured and the first ship is to be delivered within
eight months; the entire twenty, of 3.800 tons
each, are to be finished within eighteen months
front June 1st.
Shipbuilding had become almost a lost in
dustry in the United States; certainly it was
lost to the South, except in construction of mi
nor craft. With the country’s need comes' tajdy
recognition of the South's possibilities, resourc
es and capacity to supply the nation's needs on
the shortest notice. Hence we have the plant at
Savannah, a location in every way admirably,
adapted- Now that part of our own has retume®
we are sure it will never depart, and that when
the- tide of war has flowed past.the nation will
realize what opportunities it has neglected in
the resourceful South, and having returned
home, like the prodigal, will stay-
CONSTANTINE QUITS.
The abdication of the King of Greece was
not voluntary; it was the result of pressure
from the Entente nations, Jo whom he has for
three years been as a festering thorn. Perhaps
no other one mar^ has cost them so heavily ih
blood, money and prestige. The wonder is that
they so long dallied with him. '
Constantine, brother-in-law to the Kaiser and
educated under German military discipline, has
prolonged the war much beyond the point it
would have been ended but" for him; has cost
Greece her opportunity to regain her old time
prestige and power, and gave to her natural
enemy, the Turk, a new lease of life in Europe.
Four years ago, the triumphant leader of his
people against the Turk and Bulgar ; an able
general, idolized for his soldierly qualities, he
retires with the hatred iuid ( contempt of the
great majority of the native Greeks and will live
in their memories as the most execrated of
It was Constantine who blocked Venizelos
when he attempted to co-operate with the
Allies in the taking of Gallipoli, and for the
failure of that enterprise was largely respon
sible. With Gallipoli in Allied hands, there
would have been no invasion of Servia. It w,
Constantine again 'who held an army in the
Allie.-' rear and prevented a speedy relief of
the Servians; who broke his country's treaty
ith Servia anil left her to be plundered at the
Hun's will while the Greek army lay quiescent
the border. It was Constantine again who
remained a menace behind the Allies-at Saloni
ia and prevented any concerted effort at ad-
■ance; likewise made it necessary to keep
large force helplessly in cami) It'is true, little
promised from an advance now. but at the
time Rumanin came into the war. a northward
ent by Sarrail would have materially
relieved the pressure on that unhappy country.
Constantine's abdication comes late,
there appeared little further harm that he
iuid have done But for what he has accom
plished. the Kaiser should give him a king
dom.
True, much might be said in Constantine's
behalf': His’early training and environment; his
kinship to Germany. Perhaps with his hrlp
Gallipoli woufd still have held; Servia an^l Ru
mania been overrun; even perhaps his course
prevented Greece from sharing Servia"s /fate Wnlter B,n
-|iut it-NiwHw 4«t he -betrayed--hisjifbpte;
made common cause with their enemies-and
CONSERVING RICE.
'Another conservationist calls attention to the
useless waste of rice in the silly custom of cast
ing it after a newly wedded pair-
A correspondent of the New York Sun, esti
mating-two ounces of rice to the handful and
18 handfuls to the average wedding, with ap
proximately a million weddings during 1917 (a
boost, due perhaps to the war, from the 863,-
299 of 1916); then splitting fifty-fifty—500,-
000 wteddingB cum rice and 500,000 weddings
sans rice—he has the enormous waste of one
million pounds of rice a year. With the food
value of 1.630 calories to the pound, there you
have the staggering sum of one billion, six hun
dred and thirty million calorifes absolutely
thrown away every year. And all accomplished
was to afford some gibbering imbecile a chance
to accentuate his or her imbecility, and to add
to the trobules and embnrrussraents of two
young people who have enough of those things
without uselessly piling on the.load.
By nil means, cut out the ousting of rice;
rather keep it in the sack and give it to the
young people to help start housekeeping on. •
The first steamer load of raw sugar direct
from Cuba arrived at the Savannah refinery
last week-The cargo was 6.500.000 pounds and
paid $65,000 import duty. Its arrival marks a
new era in the commercial development of the
South* wher e the supply of raw sugar almost nf
our door has been too long neglected. Po»hap8
South Georgia will be shipping raw sugar to
Savannah before many years arc past-
Ireland and her cause of unity lost a loyal
friend when Wn». H. K. Redmond, member of
•Parliament.from County Clare and brother of
Jo!"i Redmond, the Nationalist leader, died
Saturday from wqundSr received in action the
day previous. Redmond was a true Irishman
and died in defense\y£-the country he had so
long sdught to saVe from itself.
The slackers are hnving a hard row to hoe
• -ft* this 1 •aeetftn.-. Berrien reports the" arrest of‘two
for failure to register; a few other neighboi'
ing counties report one each/ and Tift count
v.\mt niter her first one Monday, but 6e was'
an imported article. So far. than* arrested have
been negroes, but If aBy whites have evaded
registration, their time will soon come.
After getting along without one for a year,
thanks to the activities nf the prison firing
squads, kultured Prussia has again appointed
. an official executioner, to wield the headsman’s
axe. Trust he will get his implement sharp by
the time Unde Sam and his allies round up
ter Bill, the Crown Prince, and yon Tirpitz.
plunderers; and refused them, a sporting
chance to redeem their country and themselves,
placing selfishness above patriotism--Therefore
he is justly hated.
Greeks in the United States receive news of
his abdication with joy. For many months they
have looked forward anxiously for the time
when they would be^ called to fight the Turk,
hated for centuries of cruelty and oppression.
There is little doubt that opportunity will soon
ome now.
POSTPONED FOR A YEAR-
At one time it was probable that Tift county
would vote on the no-feace law this year, but
matter has fcedn postponed for twelve
months, at least.
A petition signed by fifty citizens, the num
ber required by law, was presented to Ordi
nary Graves asking that an election be called
on the no-fence question- When the twenty
dnys' notice had been given, a strong petition
was submitted asking that the election be not
called. Had a counter "petition of twenty-five
qsfcing for the election been filed, it would
have been called- As this was not done, no
lection was ordered.
Under the hiw. (MedtionS on ’the rio-fence.
question must be called for the first Wednesday
in July, and thirty days' notice must b© given
As the opportunity has passed for this year,
the subject cannnt come up again until May.
1918... —— r "
Sentiment is growing stronger in this section
Tor the no-fencc law and its- coming is only a
question of time. There is a general feeling that
with the range of hogs restricted, something
iuid be done to check the ravages of cholera,
hich is now destroying hundreds of dollars
worth of hogs every week in this territory.
Worth and Turner, neighboring counties, are to
vote on the no-fence law July 4th. If their de
cision-'is favorable. there js little doubt That
Tift will have hn election next year.
Turner and Worth counties are to celebrate
the Fourth of July in an unusual manner this
year. Both have called elections on th e stock
fence law for that date. Rather a good idea
to have it on Independence Day.
•Qerifij- fe-etnrgratutattyg itself on a common
battery telephone sj'Stem. and Editor Flanders
no'ionger thicks he is back at the old hand-corn
naill of boyhood days when he wants to get on
speaking terms with central.
Miss Emma Tucker will hold a series of
B'ble readings in Nashville, beginning June
14th. The people in Berrien's capital are for
tunate in having the opportunity to listen to
this sweet and gifted woman.
The scar e ammt Savannah’# water is over,
but we fear some citizens of that burg are still
too nervous to drink jt from preference.
Miss Emma I&jSutton
■" .-'..-/Editor
Ty Ty Department
is 3 -
TY TY,*
GEORGIA
Mr. and Mra. S. M. Cottle, Sr.,
ere in Ty Ty Saturday.
Mra. C. A. Pittman, who has I
away recuperating from a re
illness, is at home again.
Cynol, the best hog oil on e
for lice, a disinfectant and t
kilter at' Lyle and Son.
Major and Mrs. Pelham ari
their home in Poulan', theft- maniag,.
having taken place in Atlanta Mon
day.
Mr. Jim Aiken, of Route -2,
iken suddenly and violently 111 SnL
rday. His condition ia much
THE STOR
Where Your Dollar Gm
Courteotfc fra
Youf Trni
Th,. probably "thunder show,
freely predicted for n long t
’ the weather bureau foiled to
wagon load of watermelons for
Ty Ty Monday.. Melons this season
more noted for quantity than
Prof. Dowd's aumm
creasing in number,
will lead to a longer
Ty’s public school.
The gardens held
against the dry weatht
to succumb at' to:
little isJeft of then
bravely
hul they
. .t.
M. Perry and his fai
■d into their new home
residences in Ty Ty.
uct of his farm naar Ty Ty, and SOMETHING OF A SENSATiON |W. E. WILLIAMS l
the largeat one' of them weighed I . L T ^
nine pounds. This show's what the j It is seldom that Ty Ty was everj DEALER IN
drouth has done for th e crop; under so otirred up or talked so. much i
favonafale condition* these melons about any occurrence, as on Monday ! ... . pi ape Conoral llorfihsi
would probably have weighed at when the two men. J. O. McBryant. Algll UI1SS 00 lib I u I mOluIrdl
least 30 pounds. Mr. Sumner thinks or J. T. Bryant! he has passed un.
Ui» dry weather has cut off the wa- der all these names) and Ely
termelons fifty per cent., and that Eady wer c arrested,
cantaloupes will not make over one- Jt seems that neither of these
fourth of a crop.. His com, he says. especially Bryant, has borne
Is in fine condition, but there is lit- „ reputation, and the author-
tie but dead vegetables in gardens. j t ; c , - Bay that seven© charges can
* * * * be brought against them for what
There was a time when a man they did on Mpaday. and a few
could make a beast of himself hi Ty j Byg before iKot.
Ty by drinking whiskey, raising I They brdtfght in several bottles of
a row and betaking himself else- whiskey and similar stuff, each la-
where; but. happily such limes are lie |ed with the name of a negro in
passed. A white man. once a res- Ty Ty. or near here, and these they
id< nt of Ty Ty. tried that last Sun- had been taken from the ne-
day. and was promptly arrested whom they reported. Bryant
nr.tj locked up by Marshal Poole-A wetu t0 th P postofilce and demand-
quart of whiskey was found in his' ,. d admittance, claiming Jo b e an. ,
possession. Many years ago Ty Ty ojRj,,,. c f the government. When ask- —
here (whether justly or unjustly, it fd for h j, credentials he produc-1R. R-
is not easy to know after the lapse c( | ^ pj CC e of paper bn which several J--
of so long a time) an unenvinble nam ,., wcr( , written In'pencil. Natu-
reputation, but the person who pre- j ra ]|y „ U ch "credentials" wen: not
accepted, and he then asked fs* ,
some "cement” by which he 'meant
mucilage. It was the gene-ru^ opii.- j
ion that he had been imbiTomg too J
freely of something similar to the ]
contents of his bottles.
The negroes, one and all, .declared
that they were innocent tri the
charge brought against them ©nd
reputable white men. who claim to
know something of Bryant's past,
are inclined to believe them. -These
white men think the accusers of the
negroes were th r manufacturers of
Jhc-Whiskey. - ' '
INSECURE SCAFFOLDINC.
fl.> s
endedthe Confeder- |
at home again, de. |
r trip. It was worth ,
Baptist church i
rt of Ty Ty. A pi.
d on which thy sto
he warped, it seems,
e of th,. men ,went to
sition. the plank wh
im under his feA.
Mr W. J. Williams,
inding. jumped and In
•t. but he lost hi* bah
linst a tree and recei
his head. This did not
dr. W J. Wil-
Earl Williams,
ing the Primi-
i the northern
ik of the senf-
md whei
.thi. aputhi
ing him with non-suppot
childreq.
issued Tuesday for
hite mgt} living in
«*-**s*r. ’+**•*•
•.-support's of his
Mr*. J. M. Bell and Miss Floy
Ford, daughter of Mr. I. L, Ford,
kpent" Saturday' in Ty Ty. the
guest* of Mr. and Mrs. W C.
Thompson.
hen people fence in their stock
leave oi»t their crops, bitter
weed and hog cholerj’will be. among
live farmers, among the things that
Speed the day
siiieral.lv shaken up uni:
feared he had injured his
hr mi abje t<. return t-
th,- next morning. anTl h.
hi* hon
tr, E. M. Fo
romer here.
r Ty Ty mo,
TjTyJ
Geo
N of,ions, !
Readr-to-Weaf Clot
Firm Implements
A»d Other Things.
Pictorial Review Patterns
nent injury. It was a fortunate
escape from what might have proven
a very serious matter
The carelessly built scaffolding,
which' painter, carpenters and other
workmen, of their .kind build for
themselves is almost "y prolific of
accidents as the gun not suspect
ed of being loaded. There is even
less excuse for the scaffolding than
there is for the Stun, for the work
men. having recently ‘built it for
j their own use. ought to know wheth-
[ er or not it js "loaded'—whether it
•if lo see; is s u fe for their purpose. But -these
go from J accident*, most of them made more
n his au-'serious than this, are constantly
id to deduct the tlmi
Arthur Ross wi
how long it would tak<
his business to his home
tomobile. He
took him to run into a ditch pnd
j LOYALTY OF THE NEGROES
t crop' evening last «
•xnctly correct
that fl. ”
market, but fanners
had the good sense and judgment to I concluded, a negro was rushln
plant wheat a’r,. eating biscuit, etc., [about the streets in search of a tel
om new flour. rphone operator who wa* at suppei
• • • • | He said he had
Twenty-fivp cents for cotton wasjjie. Myon’Hotel. Tifton. and h.
alluring that the warehouses of I afraid
TjTy are almost empty. Mr. Aaron [ The operator was founi
Parks, one of the most persistent J rated, and the country 1VJ1- savpd.
dor* of cotton unloaded to' . Jfbt long ago. a negro •tr* in. the
of'1 *10 bales. [jiostolflce ItffgiqLfor .United £latv*.
• • • • * - -ofheg. dl« void tf.s- si4*h*- o.n.ny add'
A. Devarte and Mr. Fowfcr that he is willing to fight for it. And
thin;
. men arc guil^- of all with
ritizens of Ty Ty who pro*-
believe that there is some-
ick of it all. and that 1t is
roRTWhtt'are i^iilty. j'nil not
le men. The arrested men
i opportunity to !
BANK Of TYTY
CAPITAL 125,000.00
We Pay Interest c
DO BUSINESS AT HOME
Later—The prisoners
brought to Ty Ty Wednesd
trial iiefore Just-
the charge of hat-
key in .their possession. There
a mild sensation when the Mayor
Dr. R. p. Pickett testified that Rry.
ant had been employed by the town
of Ty Ty to locate bUnd tiger*. The
men were found not guilty and th*-
bailiff who arrested them was caP-d
on to pay the costs.
FINE WALKERS.
year
di.[
Heyward HerringUyi
trorced, their their three (
dren were left in charge of their
paternal grandfather, in -Poulan. the
court ordering that they bo nll<
to spend two day* out of e
{ixty with the family of
The TyTy Drug Co.
DRUGS INI DRBGGISiS'
SWIMS
Prescriptions t Spetiilli
School Books
and Supplies
other.
The
iftiin. and be w‘» I story at all; hul
iother
’ the
I Ml (
barbel
r Mr. Dell', this
i to 1
';ial~S»turd».v.and to this most merit nmpng'iHbm.
if Ty Tv w-g'W'fnvited. Pew of thus-- Their loyalty, a quality so si
invited failed to respond, for barbe-adisplayed toward* their maste
is probably our most p"pulur_ Lhu .(anulits.ajf-tbe*r. wi*«»r---
"OWmHWn. - /old tiny* is unquestionable no>
ysliynld ibev lo- sailed .to th(
stayed In no doubt it may again b,. s
illnesp l4". them. “ the color
A. Corn- ] nobly.'*' •
ome neat There was small comfort for the «
, able to. Germans ih thr happenings of Regi>. that thi
LeSieur^ #hb
Ty Ty during the'extreme
his brother-in-Jaw. Mr. <!.
well, has returned to hi* *
Cycloneta. Mr. Cornwell i
well is mi
irl has en
fough
they visited
er it war no| easy to indue* them
o return to their h»me in Poulan
iiid -day-vvcr rondt.-nf.ty -wi-*hiiik
thing efirfiOrinjifl to Wish' proh'u"-
ry,A COMPLETE DRUG STORE
j JONES A COMPANY
od * Dealers In
h<- High Class Geasrsl IA.rib.adt..
• x jAf'icr you read this advertises
n , I go to this store and do yol
shopping.
PRICES RIGHT
FOR SALE.
Berkshire Pit's. $. C. ‘B. Leg '
horn Chickens, and Milk
Cows. I also buy good,
fat cows and hogs.
with thnr granrimnther tv. nix F. SIKES, Ty Ty, Ga.
n.,i!e* away, having arrived there I •' , ~ .... —1
A. PARKS
Snis-eil. Grandmother ami rbildren [
•r- tha* rii.-x wa ma.l'. Groeerif* ilrv (iood# Etc.,
planned j
laist Saturday they ■
*1 i fore r.r. Hkfo.1 \nl «
If
the childr
and the little
■ed ,
ic bitter milk from i
have been eating the wild i
id to -bp an excellent
irely
i Day.
| yoi
A MORE SERIOUS MATTER.
dint This
nd
which has i
c.iuM a-asr
jj’iindanc
n dose ns the.milk.
Caskets, Coffins.
Ty Ty, Georgia.
WOODARD & CO.,
jcncral Merchandise
Ty Ty, Ga.
ARNER AND COMPANY
Dealers Iir
Wus Lewis Bryan, colored, who has j-CroeorU. Dr, Gbod., i
n be!been working on Mr. J. N. Mitchell's. g .r, i Tobacco and -f
(place stole a pig from Mr. Preston, Els- in th. w« y of
m’ng 1 Whaley on June 7th. Mr. Whaley MereBandu*.
fac- j located the animal at Mr. Henry | Min’, Furnuhlo*. a Sp^Ult,. 1
nine amf
old. Mr.
r hsv P -started-cm .foot. |
the father
* family.
D. V,
of such milk now.. liut ■ those who, went—-hut a more
need Rlfdicfne prefer geL matter of a similar kind seert
m a drug storeit- is not threatened,
' Thi* is the withdrawal of
• • -• white men to work in munitic
llamil Brown, ot lories and factories »f other kinds. |Gibbi
Americus. anounces the marriage of The fir ' 1 L n Ic-Ifc was .Mr. Jim had I .
her daughter. Ruth, My. linus , Walter J»j». Xwi J«. A warrant • was at.w©« —bWer|-
Jay MscPhaui. of? Poulan. Mis* Ohio. His announcement that h,
•Brown is a cousinl- of Mrs. W. C. earning five dollars a day caua?.
Thompson, of Ty ty. and Mr. Mac- L*'*'''* Schwall lo decide that five
Phnul ha* many Ariends here. The dollars a day beat planting garden
marriage takes plkce June 27th ‘f uck - >° b * f ™ K, ' n “l» »''<! R.
Young. Jr., saw'a good deal in it for
him also, v So these young men
t© have been named “ » reported, will
for Queen Ann/, of England. There , lo ^ u _ »oung s example,
to believe that there
Rapidah,
■f-
i, originally
Sunday. Mr. Gibbs Raying he
. Jimjhad buught tlie pig from Bryan for
rran<
Bryan and Monday
given a hearing before Judge Sellar*
and held in jail under a bond of
$300.
tally spelled Rapid
every reason
ve been "n pid" girl* since the
days of Eve’s flirtation with the
snake but if Qt een Anne was one of
that kind hislLry makes t\o men
tion of the fact
Thesp i
• all sober, industrious
young n
s should like t
i, of good families, such as
their country's service. .
keep at hdmi
ally needed for
' Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
Tb« Old SUodsid (racial ■ucosthcnln* took.
OB June llth) Mr. R. O. Sumner o*ovh-s TASTTtiFSSch.utoxic, drirc oat
f , . , 1 Malarta^aikbntbcl-x3d.sadtmild*aptlM*T*
—itennelons, jna prod- j . a . s traamak. fj: id«H» aaichiidten. »
W. B. PARKS
Cotton Broker. Ty Ty, G«.
Highest prices paid for cotton
at any season.
DR. R. R. PICKETT,
Physician and Burgeon.
Ty Ty,
DR. F. B. PICKETT,
Physician ai.d Surgeon.
T7 Ty, Ga.
LYLE & SOU
Ty Ty,. Ga.’ '
Drugs, Seeds. SUtionery and
. / T oilet Art Idas
Ice Cream when the weathc
warm. Cold drinks all £h* ti
DR. CARL S. PI
Physician and Surget
Phone No. 7.
Ty Ty. Georgia..
E- J. COTTLE,
SHINGLES FOR SALE
BUY DIRECT FROM MILL AND
SAVE MIDDLEMAN’S
PROFIT J
Ty Ty, Gb.