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FRIDAY, AUGUST IT, 1*17.
We have our new Drug Store thoroughly
screened, we have no flies or gnats.? So if
you want to sit down and talk to you^friend
and be in perfect comfort while you Rait or
drink, meet at Mills Drug Store either
morning, noon or night It's a good place
to meet anyway. It’s on the comer and near
the hotel Our phone is 43.
Mills Drug Store
"Ob the Corner.”
Uf »rf»ICU
! such rdvertisement on fll« *t
week on regular *U» provided
therefor for the inspection of the
pnbttc tn the offler'Ufsald boarB end as may bit authorized by said board.
COTTON NOTICE
To My Farmer Friends
The cotton season 1917. is again on us and I trust you
will favor me with a portion ot your cotton. It will be
my aim and put pose to serve to your interest at all
times. I appreciate your friendship and patr.onage of
last season and ask that you bring me^our cotton ihis-
fall. I will have a competent man at the scales 10
weigh your cot'on. . 1 ;will also look nftcr the buying
and selling ol your cotton and will keep in touch with
the American and Liverpool Markets. I will be on
Railroad Street in the old. Merchant stand.
Call and see me when in town, will be glad to see and
talk with you.
Yoara to Serve C. R. AVEN
alto in the office of the Ordinary of
■aid county and by iucb other adver
tisement as said board may deem ad
visable in any particular
sealed bids shall be addressed to tbe
Clerk of said board and shall b a kept
by said clerk in the office of said
board until the tlra* specified in said
advertisement whan they shall
be opened in open court and the
tract shall be let to the lowest bid
der. quality and material bains
sidered. In a*J public advertise
ments for lowest bids for supplies
contracts for work said commission,
shall reserve the rght to reject
and all bids made when It should
appear that the be *t interests df the
county require such rejection. f
Section 11. Be It further enacted.
That no member of said board of
commissioners, or anyone employed
or elected by them, shall receive
either directly or indirecUy any
mission, sift or any other thins of
value in connection with the sal r
of any article sold to
bought from the County of Tift,
receive an rebate, expense account,
ransportaton, or other valuable
onsideration In connection with
such purchase or sale, or In the
ployment of any one whose salary
is to b e paid frevn the funds of said
county; and no member of said board
or any on e elected 017 employed by
them, or any firm of which he may
be a member, or any corporation
provided, Ia>wever, ranta drawn on the treasurer
■aid asperinUndent may purchase poaitary as in th* case of
veg*tables and other perishable claims against said county,
fooda, from farmen of said county
other 1
SPECIAL ELECTION
H e shall receive a salary fixed by
said board of commissioners and be
fore enteriny upon the performance
of the duties of his office' he shall
execute and deliver to said board a
good and solvent bond in the. sum
of f 1,000 payable to the chairman
of said board and his successors in
office for the faithful dischars e of
the duties of his office which said
bond shall be duly recorded upon
the minutes of said board and filed
in laid office.
Section IS. B e it further enact
ed, That in addition to the chain
sans amployed <o\i -the roads of said
county, said board shall establish a
repair gang composed of free labor
and equipped with proper machin
ery for drayying and repairins roads
and repairins bridges and conslst-
ins of as many men as may be
needed to keep the public roads of
said county in ■ good state of re
pair. Said repair yang shall
employed in gradins new
ssloners
GEORGIA—Tift Coaaty:
n- 1* For three Countv Coi
. _ , ,. fn ™* er for the Cobnty of Tift
7* 1 ““ 1 * h *' 1 Bl u. ,„IM in m.
quarterly reports within fifteen days vj. ,*. t 0 f L<«islnturj of
from the expiration of each quarter f>orgia. of the year 1917. I hereby
taking the calendar year as a basis. election to b, held on the
e.rh In »h- 3t h day bf August 1917, st each
each In the official gaaetto of said nrecinet in Mid eount and .aid
.1.. „ . d.11, P.P„ 11 „ b. bdd under th. ....
ther. b e one published in said caun- u i e , and regulations ;ss ele.-tioas
ty, containing a full and couplet- 'it members of the Legislature and
statement of the finances c/f said ’“nty offices witj, this special pro
county during the proceeding |uar- r ' on ®f the said act of the Legis-
■»<-"« •>' -f S2S 3
from what sources derived, and all n f Tifton and Eldorado Militi* Dis-
disbunements and for what purpose tricts,, vote only for the Commls-
paid out and such reports shall not \ "loner who is a resident of those
. , , ,, . ..... | two districts and the voters of Dla-
be mere ledger balances but shall .^ ct No 2 , ccmposed of the Chula,
roads but shall be employed exclu
sively in repairing roads and shall
keep the public roads of said county
whether graded or ungraded, in a
good stat c of repair and shall work
on the public roads throughout the
county aa needed drithout regard to
road district line. Said board
shall appoint a superintendent for
said repair gang who shall be a
practical builder and repairer of
roads, and shall fix his salary and
term pf his office, and may dis-
be made in such manner and form
as to plainly show the revenues of
the county as well as the cost af the
county government in every braneh.
Section 21. Be it further enact
ed, That said board shall make
full and complete written
of the financial conation of the
county to the grand jury of Uie
county at each term of the Superior
be ] Court of said county, a copy of which
report shall be kept
uisc
enact- dpci
nake a-<*om
ii^i "«*
office of said 'board. Their office
shall be subject to an examination
by the grand jury, their committee,
any person whom they may spe-
illy empower to report to the
me or a succeeding grand jury,
who shall submit in writing th e con
dition of such office, and the books
and files thereof, and specify any
neglect of duty or anything done
wrongly or corruptly by such board
Brighton and Brookftdld Districts,
vote only for the Countv Commis
sioner who is a resident of those
three districts and the voters of
District No. 3, composed of Ty Tjr.
Tpcia and Omega, vote only for tfe
ommissioncr who is a' resident in
those thre P Districts.
The returns of said election to be
returned b v 12 o'clock noon, of the
next ds v after the election to the
Ordinary of said county.
This August 9, 1917.
C. W. Graves.
Ordinary Tift County Ga.
whirh he may own stock or by which
;hFT!'*5’‘l , £ retntocrin the third degree miss him from office for incompe-
i of consanguinity or affinity, shall, tency. incfflcicncv. neglect of duty
sell anything to said counjy either,or immoralty. Said board may
directly or indirectly unless such sup-|it deem it advisable, place the
plies or materials to be furnished i pair gang and the superintendent
shall he let at public outcry or by j thereof herein provided fer under
sealed bids to the lowest bidder after;the general supervision and control
due advertisement as hereinbefo^t : of th„ superintendent of roads and
provided. Any violation of,any of bridges of said county, and in that
the aboy e provisions of this Act shall case he shall have the right to cm-
"bo punished as for a misdemeanor j ploy th e superintendent of said re-
under th c penal Code of th e State pair gang and to dismiss him from
ef Georgia, and a person so convic- office upon proper cause; but if in
ted shsll.be dimissed from office. I the opinion of said board anch
_____ . j Section jo Be it f ur ther enact- ! duties shall cause said superinten-
(Continued from Page One.) of this state in couities where there ed , That ejiid board shall -^plect a dent of roads and bridges to neglect
ship of said board of commissioners' exist no boards of roads and reve- clerk fef said board tor ., term of his duties in building roads they
occuring in less than six months of nues. That said bosrd of comission- one year and fix his salary. Said "hall relieve him of such repair work,
the expiration of such term of office era shall be vested with all rights clerk *hall Jcpep the books of said I ' Section 16. Be it further enMct-
ahall be filled by appointment of a powers and authority formerly vested hoard and make a record of the sets ed. That said boa'd shall in tegular
duly qualified person resident of said in the' inferior courts of this State *"d doing of said board in a minute o r special les.von with all members
district by th e Ordinary of said when aitting for /county -purposes book kept for jiuch purposes, and also of thevboard present make general
county and such appointee shall be prior to the Constitution of 1868, ’all other rec^/ds and accounts of said plans specifications and requirements
commissioned and bold office until and shall constitute a court for the hoard and perform such other acta prescribing the manner and style
th« expiration of the unexpired term trial of road defaulters and of any *"d duties ss may be required by in which all the public road* of the
an^ until his successor la elected and and all matters pertaining to county said hoard, not consistent with the county shall b c constructed, which
qualified. That all vacancies 00- matters formerly vested in the infar- provisions of this Ac t or the laws of shal be uniform for all the roads of
curing in the membership of such ior courts of this stats, or now vested lhi " * u,le - 8a*d hoard mny require the county, and such plans, specifl-
board mor # than six months before i n th e Ordinaries of this State In ** il ,lccms it advisable t 0 have cations and requirements shall nol
the expiration of the term of office counties where there exist no boards i“‘ d to give ■ bond with good be modified or charged in any par-
■hali be filled by ■ special election of roads and revenues, when sitting ** carit y *n »uch sum ss said board ticular except on th e action of the
In aaid road district called by the for count purposes, as aforesaid, m *7 deem proper, which said bond whole board in like manner as thc
Ordinary of said County In th e same and" shall hav e th e light and power "hall he payable to the chairman of same wer e adopted. Said board
manner aa in tha case-of elections to summon parties or witnesses be- " a 'd board and his successors in office shall‘furnish the superintendent of
to fill vacancies in other county offl- bore them and shall have the power and "hall be duly recorded on the roads and bridges with a copy of
cee and the person so elected shall to punish for contwpt by fine of minutes of said boafd. i such plans, specifications and rr-
b# commissioned and hold afflea. until, -imprisonment- In thj' sam e manner J Section 12. B e It further enact- quirements thus adopted by thejn.
the expiration of the unexpired term as the Courts of Ordinary of this ed. That the chain gang employed and shall hold hkn strictly respon-
and until his successor ts elected and State. That the dteriff of said in working the roads of Tift county sible for the character and quality
qualified. The expenses of any such county, or his deputy may be requir-' shall not ho divided into two or more of the fork done, and upon thc fail-
apoeial election shall be paid out of rpd to attend upon the meetings of comps and shall no t be divided into ure of said superintendent to build
the general fund of said county. said board, and shall serve all writs, i such small work-gangs as to un- a reasonable quantity of roads of
Section 6. Be Ij further enacted, subpoenas, or other process of said necessarily increase the cost of guar- the preaerihod character within a
That the returns of all the elections, court, and said sheriff shall receive'ding them but shall bc kept in one given time without good cause shown j
hotjj general and special, held under for such service the tame compen-'camp and worked in such gangs ns said board shall dismiss him from I
this Act shall be made to the Ordl- sation as is provided by Taw for like ' to reduce thc cost of guarding office. Said board shall in like
nary of said county of Tift at noon services in th„ Superior Court. /them to the minimum which will se- manner iprcscribc general plans,
thc day following the election at the .Section 9. B e it further enacted, cure th e grestes amount of work specifications and requirements gov-
Courthouse of said county. Said That said hoard of commissioners with the least cost to th e county; and erning thc repair work of said oi'ua-
Ordinary shall thereupon consolidate shall hold their regalar sessions on , that such chain gang shall also be ty. and which in like manner may
the returns of said-e^ection for the th e first Monday of each month in so employed in working the public not be changed except on th e action
militia districts composing each of th c Courthouse of said county, and roadj of said county as to require of thc whole hoard, and shall deli-
the three Road Districts Numbers may adjourn from day to day until said chain gang to work in each of ver a copy thereof to the superin-
Onc, Two and Three, respectively their business is finished; and extra the road districts of said county for tendent of the repair gang of said
as ab ove s* t out, separately, and sessions may bo held at any time on such length of time each year as county, and shall- reqj(lr e him to
derive the person leceiving the th c call of th„ chairman or any two the total number of miles of public repair the roads of the county in
highest number of votes in each numbers of the board when in the roads in said district bears to the to- accordance therewith, and on tha,
respective Hoad District duly elected judgr...‘,t of the board the interests tai number of miles of public roads failure of said superintendent t 0 re
ft member of said Board of Commis- of the’ county demand It. That at in said county. Pair a proper amount or quantity of
■ioners of Roads and Revenues in th c first meeting of said hoard Section 14. Be It, further enact- said P ublk road "' ! n the manner .
and for the County of Tift, for each after the spoci*! elsetion provided id. That said hoard of commission- prescribed, within a given time with-,
of said road districts, respectively, for after th c creation of this board CI> .hall at their first meeting' or out » nod cau, « * ho * n ' said • hoardj
and shall certify the result of said and at the first meeting in January a , , oon thereafter as practicable, ,h * n di-miss him from office.
•lection to the Governor of this f-Mowing '-the general election at ..i^t „ superintendent of rosds and ' Section 17. . B c it further enact-!
State, giving the names of th e person vhich a new member or members of brklgts tor said County 0/ Tilt, fld. That all varr*at% drawn on- sa-id'
flr P*WM-» olaetad and atabing the wrid board riiall ‘hav* been elected,' ( who shall also bc the convict war- county shall be signed by th e chair-
term for which each of said commis- said board shall orgaait e by electing* den of said county), who shall have man if said board of commissioners'
doners has been elected, m or.# of their number chairman. Said charge and supervision of the chain and countersigned by on c of tho.
Section 7. B e it further enacted, board may make such rules und regu- g n ng of snid county and of the con- other commissioners before being
That said commissioners shall b B each Utions as it may deem advisable for struction anil maintenance of all paid by th e treasurer or depositary
commissioned by the Governocpfor its own government and the govern- roads and bridges of said county of said county. And all said war-1
the teim of office for which he shall ment of its secretary and other em- (except such work as said board rants shal! b e duly numbered and I
be elected or appointed, as the case ployes, not inconsistent with this Act'may .have done by special contract, shall show fo r what purpose and on
m«y be, and each shall befor e enter- or the laws of this state. Snid board . or by the repair gang herein pro- "hat Amd drawn. Thc chnirmnn j
ing upon the duties of hi* office take shall keep correct minutes of its of- yjded for), ua<fcr the general super- of said commissioners shall .gjvftj
•nd subscribe in addition Jo. tbe.oath fieial acts-and duings-In-n-minute vision of sa^d board. He shall also bond' in the sum of $5,000 in a
provided by law for all civil officer* book kept for such purpose, a book b P subject to removal by said board (food and solvent fidelity and guar-
of this state, the following oath, to of receipts and disbumementa, a gen- of commissioners for incompeloncy anty company payable to the Ordi-
wit, "I do solemnly swear that I will eral ledger and a warrant book, such inefficiency, neglect of duty or im- nary of said county aqd his succcs-
is ar c now kept in *uq, office, a morality. He shall be a practical *°rs in office conditioned for the
book containing a complete list of roa ,i builder, skilled in the building faithful discharge of the duties of
all county property re* 1 and personal 0 f sand-clay roads and in doing any hi » offlce - which shall bc duly filed
and shall make a record of all sales Bnd a ]j necessary in the eon- and recorded in the offlc c of said
r other disposition of the same, also struction of bridges and in grading Ordinary a* the bonds of other
road register in which shall b e kept Bn ,i repairing roads under condi- county ..officers. Tha premium o£
* record of all th. public rosds of county. H« said hood shall bo paid out of ihc
siid county particularly describing ^1 prescribe the manner in which reneral funds of said county,
said roads, and shall make therein ■ the convicts and road machinery shall: Section 18. Be l t further enact-,
record of all new roads which shall be employed and how th# work shall ed, That the board of commission-j
ho hereafter granted In accordane# be done In building and grading;era shall have th. right and autho-
wffli law. Said board ahall also keep [rosds which he shall do in accord- rhy to employ a county attorney
on file all Pftid warranto and vouchers' Bnc< . w j t j 1 the general plans, sped-! when necessary, his compensation
and other papers necessary to show
complete record of all th. tram
ANNOUNCEMENT
I take this method of announc
ing my candidacy for the office of
County Commissioner for the First
Commissioner District of Tift, com
posed of the Tifton and Eldorado
Militia. Districts. »nd earnestly ask
the voters to 'Support ?t the polls.
I have bee, nere sinc> lori k r before
the county of. Tift was created; you
know, me und ! will do my d<ity as
' 9 iC Respectfully:.
D L Swioi.ll.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby an.7pu.nee m>- r-.ndidacy
for the office of CsHIl'.y Commis
sioner from Commissioner District
No. 2, composed of the militia dis
tricts of Brighton, Brookfield and
Chula, and respectfully ask the sup
port of the voters of same.
* Sincerely,
J. S. B«lflow«r-
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
; GEORGIA—Tifl County:
This is to notify the'public that
, the firm of Hendricks and Kemp,
mposed of Dr. W. H. Hendricks,
- '"/and Pr. A. J. Kemp, doing a general
No member of medical and surgical practice, has
‘ * 1 this day been dissolved by mutual
consent. All notes and accounts
due either of thc said above parties
shall be payable to Dr W. H. Hen-
* drieks.
This August 16th, 1917.
W. H. Hendri
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'The Drug Store That’s.
Easily Convenient.”
member thereof.
Section 22. “ Be il further enact
I, That a majority of th e members
'of.-said board shall constitute a quo
rum for thc transaction of ail busi
ness, and that a majority of th e board
must concur in order to pass an or
der. or lot any contract, or grant or
allow any claim against th e county;
and their acta on all such matters
shall be duly entered on the minutes
said board.
Section 23. Bc it further enact
ed, That no person Shall be eligible
|*i» be a member of said board of
missioners unless such.person
hav c been a citizen of Tift County
for two years immediately preced
ing his election.
said board of ctmmissioners shall be
eligible to hold any other
office while a* member of such board.
Section 24. Bc it further enact
ed, That the provisions of this Act,
except those portions thereof pro
viding for a special election to elect
thc first board of commissioners as
herein provided, shall not he opera-
tiv 0 and effective until from and
after the first daiy of September
19 i 7 ' ..... | note for $100, made b v N. L. Coar- j j u »tice ahall appertain.
Section 25. Be it further enact- sey j c . Dodd> bein? trans- J “* _
ed, That all laws and parts of laws:f e rrad by J C. Dodd to A. J. Kemp, Witness the Honor
in conflict with this Act be and tbe | as the said N. L. Coarse* has made
*“•"« hereb7 i VSE X. “13 Si.i?"
NOTICE OF LOST NOTE
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
In Tift Superior Court, October
term, 1917.
tlifc. ineljna Stevens vs. C. V.
Stevens.
To the Defendant, C. V. Stevens;
You are hereby required personal
ly or by Attorney to be and appear
j at the Superior Court to be held in
and for said County on the Second
(Monday in October, 1917, then and
[there to answer the complaint in tha
above styled case, aa in default
GEORGIA—Tift County:
All parties are warned
trade or barter for one certain rent!thereof said Court will proceed aa to
Mrs. H. L. Lester and little s
returned to Macon Thursday
12:30 after a three weeks' visit
Tifton.
Witness the Honorable R. Eve,
the said N. L. Coarse£ has'nude 'Judge of said Court, this the 11th.
at hand to A. J. Kemp in lieu I day of August, 1917.
above and this is'to warn all 1 n
parties that thc above note has Henry D. Webb,
been cancelled. Clerk Tift Superior Court.
This August 16th, 1917. B p Smith.
A. J. Kemp. Plaintiffs Attorney.
Mrs. R. L. Bennett is spending a 1
Col . Self-Starter for you r Ford. week or ' ten day , of har
They ore the trick. B. H. Bank, sister Mrs. Flournoy Clark, at Cros
ston sells them in Tifton. 13cowlm land.
Invigorating 10 We Pale and Skid?
Th- nil irons' •ir-nubcalnt ionic,
VK S TAI.THLHSS t mil TONIC, dorrs ool
wall and truly discharge the duties
of commissioner of rosds and reve.
nues of, Tift county, and in all mat-
tors whfsfe ,requir c my official action,
to th. best of my knowledge and
■Mil, and I will *0 act as in my judg.
ment will be moat conducive- to the
welfare and beot interests of the en
tire county; so help m e God."
Section 8. B e it further enacted,
That the board of commissioners of
1 and revenues 0 f Tift county
hereby created shall hav e exclusive
jurisdiction over and control of all
h as pah lie roads
of said county.
Section 10 Be it further enacted,
fcftt except in cases of emergency
sto f tb. expenditure does not ex-
* tie sum of twenty-five dollars
iteria'
fications and requirements prescrib- he fixed by the board and paid from
ed bjmfd board. He shall devote j *h e county treasury,
his entir ( time t<, tbe duties of his J Section 19. Be it further enset-
offle, and shall not engage actively ed, That the members of said board
in any other business which will in- of ccmmlssionera of rosds and reve-
terefere with the duties of his office, nues shall each receive as their' com-
Said superintendent shall not buy pensation a salary .of three hur.dred
, supplies or material but shall make dollars per annum, and they shall
“>d J requisition upon said board for all reemve no other compensation of
board supplies and material needed for any kind whatsoever. Said saiarieft
for the maintenance of the chain shall be paid from the county treah-
mt- gang and for the road work ury In monthly installments and war-
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