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-- BOYS n CONTEST CO^SkATH ! SELLS FfltM State College 4 Agriculture *nd(U. I S. Department if Agriculture at (he Southeastern Hr in Atlanta. The first of ftme schools was held last year and nr 20o boys attend ded. The trifi* a very desirable one and it is expected that every club boy in the wen try will be in the contest. (rsther a very desirable pleqe of prop erty. Mr.Thomartonbak been llr. iag_naar Chuja.Jer'fhe past year. the Navy. Gtbar will be sent to dar and will be appropriately celebrm- Chicago from Ulanta for a course ted by the people of that beliai in schooling. Fitch ami Lang will throughput thejtountcj^_—__ report to Chartaton for duty after The stares in Tlfton operated bj going trough nth the preliminary Jews will be closed on Monday and arrangement* d Atlanta. ; Tutday. Sept. 17 and 18th. The request is hereby made by the local Board of Trade that stores lime with the exception of two years. Those who know her and he' work i ronsider-her one of the strongest and , most success!ul teachers in she sta'r Fccry 3i> I who has graduated : under Mrs. x Crumley admires and i loves her and it is with profound r- gret that ths former jrtadmu .a: *3 . friends of the vhool a* well ns the . present students'and faculty lenm of , her retirement. will show th<ar welcome to the vis itors by displaying flags, bunting or any other appropriate decoration; welccme signs, etc. Tifton is being honored' in having two statewide meetings on that day and we should <Iet the BANK book first and be a manwith FOUR HOUSES BURNED money j makes it necessary of September and 'October Mrs. Crumley, is a graduate of Fitz gerald High School,and of the Geor gia Normal and Industrial College. While a student at Fitzgerx I she took work under Mrs. Crumley h.nic Mrs. Crumley must leave, the Agricul tural school is extremely fortunate ic being able to secure Mias Davenporti: time Prof. Lewis Overland and the snappy eomforta- ’.Np^effy Country- CJdV able fo~~fttt—shetfonli has hoped that the -school would be able to secure her as a teacher of Heme Economics in case Mrs. Crum ley should at any time retire from j Miss Davenport will enter upon her now duties immediately. Mrs. Crum- little 90 Touring SAM IS BACK. Mr. Sam Kulbcrah is a gain after a trip to Balti York, and ofher Easter ore. New PROTECTION! He invites Two years of continuous nractfra tc Tlfton and scores of satisfied cus tomers If you are suffering with headache, or other troubles caused by eye strain be sure and eonmlt me and aee if fiajeeug.perly fitted In the Myon Hotel Block every day- The Tilton Gazette. <1.00 PER ANNUM THE LATEST NEWS BY WIRE London, Sept. 13.—A cablegram from Petrograd la to today says that the headquarters of Korniloff Rave aurremder- COMMITTEES WORK URGED TO ATTEND CAMPAIGN IN TIFT FOR BIG MEETING Bulling Wl he Completed in a Men Spent Wednesday Night in Few Days Tifton •d to the Provisional government forces. Meeting of Georgia Land Own To be Put on Within the Next Mwcbfijical Enthusiasm in Ap- Copenhagan, Sept. *11--Late dispatches received here m at Tifton Thirty Dhya ! proaching Session that entrenchments are being thrown up around Petro- j -—- j —:— “ —““■‘.o' h “ ,or . c “. . DIRECTIONS fROM TAMPBEtl; DISTRICT WORK IS SUSPENDED 64. UNO OWNERS' ASSOCIATN WAILS -Ojffi AND Bdll.FRS SET SHOWN STOCK patrols are active in tbe Lena . ^ I ! TIFTON FEED MILLS INSPECTING TOUR ARE ALMOST READY DARIEN ANn JESUP MILLS i To That Effort. WB Among the Di.tingoLb- ,k.r. Coming. Tifton In ■■tain and Dacorata. duration in Tift county co-operation with the Tift County I Georgia Land Owner*' Association, Board of Health, will put on at once [ «o be held here on Saturday next, an intensive health campign in Tift. I “»der the auspices of the Tifton These steps were taken at a meet-1 Hoar.l of Trade. Farmers, land iig of the Boards of Health of Tift owners and business men have taken and Irwin counties with Dr. T. F. ° been interest in the preparations Abercrombie. Secretary of the State ■"■>. speakers of prominence will Board of Heilth. and Dr. M. K. Con- participate in the program that has nor. of the Rockefeller Foundation been arranged. International Health Board, held in Commissioner J J. Brown of the Tifton Wednesday afternoon. Department of Agriculture will ad- The foil Irwin County Board was I dress ‘he meeting on the subjert of present, consisting of County School! "Th* Importance of State-Wi^e Tick Superintendent Weaver, Dr. Harper.' 1 ”' 1 '' ” , .... .. . of Board, of Health of Ir. Texas, Sep«. 13.—Dissatisfied with the redaction XssUttag S.r.i.rr Kidd.r in P.r- wi> .„d Tift With Dr.. Ab.r- members of the I. W. W. broke Camp at fading Final Arrang.m.nt*. I crombia and Connor, this morning and resumed their wanderings through The various local committees for TJ>* first Kurml Sanitary DisUlet - -- V~ n ' anlendid-start snd the the completion of arrangoments for »f Georg., ha. been suspended until he gtven -splendid **« and tne j . 7. . . _ . . j Tune 30th 1918. 'livestock industry will receive a <ie . The news spread quickly and the towns armed agamat,'^mee h ^°^ een >p The Georgia Board of Health. inl rid * d feSMt at the meeting of the them. Douglas refused them admittance, and «he indications jiojnted by (he Tifton Bo . rd 0 j now are that they will be buffeted about until the government Tradc and are now at « orl[ _ Vari- * ^gain intervenes. |Oua young ladies of the city have Washington, Sept. 13.—Cablegrams reaching here from been asked to co-operate in making f """ " iu °« ■>< ">• * rriv ' 1 ° f ■ ddi,i °"* 1 * r<i "' rT f ° r G ™r dl PershingVforces at the advance framing base near the bp made * a „ , he 5t ores French battle front today pleased bfficials here. f to everyone coming .into town Sat- The Americana have taken over field pieces and perma- jrday^o attend the big meeting at oent big guns have been act aside for them. | the -“ditcHum. A committee of _ , | , imerchants has in hand the work of The •P*cul*t«m .. •»'*'" “« mmtanU „ „„ nd . American forces will go into action. It is accepted that the MatUra of reception and such en- first information will come when the casualty liata are made tertainment as time will permit are - * | also being worked on. The coordination of the air force* arid artillery is under Professor J. Phil Campbell, Roof No. ich of th. 1 And Other Professor J. Phil , _ , . ... • Athens, has issued authorization for W.T, .od C.en.rnl Perth.,* wBl b. r..dy who thn com- j t. .t- pint*. | tend this meeting and has more- Waahington, Sept 8.—Diplomatic relations between the over urged that they do so. His United Stele, end Swede, ere .teemed .. » re.nit of the di* | torwerd One neoin . „ . , _ . . , , • r j . to all South Georgia Agent*. He covery, that offtctal German telegram, have been forwarded ^ not on]y urjrfd lhat , hfy attend from Buenos Ayres to Berlin through the Swedish Legation and ln bot that they bring a Foreign Office at Stockholm. , delegation with them from each- in an official statement issued this afternoon Secretary county. Lansing made public three of the German telegrams. How t * . ... , . . _ , ..of Commercial Seeretarit they came into hts hands was not revealed. They are dated StaU hag faUfd a me , May* 19th, July 3rd and 9th, and deal with the sinking of Ar- aM0C j at ian to be held at TiftoiT gentino ships by German submarines. |co-jointly with the meeting of the Hr metaages -were signed by the Gorman Consul, Count Land Owners for the purpose of al- _ . j-j iL.n »u. a lying the Influence of the former as- 1 sociation to that of the latter -I 10 bounty Physician, and County Com missioner Tucker. They were met by the Tift County Iloard County- School Supt. Ammons. County Phy sician Baker and Chairman Hall of the BoarA of County Commissioners. Also Drs. Abercrombie and Connor. After scene discussion it was de cided to suspend the public health work of the First Rural Sanitary dis trict. consisting of the counties of Tift and Irwin. Bartlett, of the Association ,>Thcn. after compilation between of Tint. Abercrombie and Connor and meeting of tlQat the Tift County Board of Health, it vyjs decided to put on an intensive public health campaign in Tift This will\ consist in part of an inspeetion of every home in the county, white inrf colored, including the wells and- - - d—Inn— Inan-ftinn Snd litter waa called a 1 'Notorious Ass.” Soc - r ,. a jy j n receipt of numerous accept copies of hi* statement and the telegrams unces from secretaries asking -for Swedish Ministers, with the request that hotel reservations, etc. reftued to comment on th. *»-| outai< j. of Tilton „ d Tift county. jit remains for every effort to be Rome Sept. 8 Since August 19th thirty thousand Aus- devoted by local people toward ere- „ p~on.„ h.~ Uk-, including eight hundred nt5- j *f« etn, according to the official statistic, udued today. citizen ahould be at that meeting 1 " Ladies and gentlemen will find the Monte San Gabriele in the Austro-ltalian theatre, has talks equally interesting. There win been the scene of another vicious attack by the Austrians in an ** s®**'°“ s »t th* whool house, endeavor to dislodge the Italians from recently captured posi- 10 *' m " “ nd the other “* premises; a drainage inspeetion and thorough canvass to ascertain all breeding places for malaria or other enemies to public’heatlh. Hookwown cases will be treated also. The ex pense of the campaign will be bornt by tite State Board of Hsalq, and Eradication in Georgia." Other speaker* who have definitely atcept- a place on the program, include W. M. MaeKellar. Bureau of imal Industry, U. S. Deportment of Agriculture; Dr. Peter F. Bahn- State Veterinarian; Clement S- Ueker, Vice-President of the South- Settlement and Development .Or- zation of Baltimore; T. G. Cha.v Atlanta. represerttiag the Shorthorn. Breeders Assoeiatioa; J. •o-operativc extension work. State College. Athens, and W. D Koddenbery*. Cairo. " There will also be a general meet- g of the membership of tbe Geor gia Land Owners' Association and plans will be perfected for a perma nent organization. A large and rep resentative attendance is looked for, only from Tift county, bot also from other sections in South Geor gia as the membership in the Asso ciation covers nearly forty coun- The campaign will begin within thirty days and it is thought now that at least three men, a sup^rin- tions. Their efforts inet with no success- T w . Hughes, of the Georgia 1b the battle of Riga, according tQ the German war office ;i^ n( j owner*' Association, will at* 8,900 Russians were made prisoner and 325 guns and large rive today to work with the local quantities of war stores were captured. The fighting on this | off «* until Saturday, front has now dwindled to skirmishes between reconnoitering detachments. ' ’ SOLD S4 CARS IN AUGUST While optimism seems to prevail in the provisional gov- v>]b# , 7 j 515 p . rt ,.yiy R.cord ernment in Russia that a successful issue of the counter revo- j „f Tift-0*«rUnd Co. lntion started by Gen. Komiloff soon will be returned in favor | As evidence of the tremendous and two assitsants, will charge of the work. It is at marked a step forward in Tift in public health work as was the organization of the First Public Health District something over a year ago. of Premier Kefenaky, the situation still remains most acute. All demand and popularity of the Wil- Ihe dispatches from. Petrograd at present are emulating from 1 b-vKmght ftverland car* in South W *c . . , . , ... , Georgia, the following sales figure* the provisional government or supporters of Kerensky. ^ the raonth of Auffusl are civen Reports from Petrograd are to the effect that Komiloffs by the Tift-Overland Company fiiar. h on Petrograd hits been checked and that even his retreat Overland and Willis-Knight cars, has been cut off by forces faithful to the provisional govern- * old and delivered, si. Sale* in meat; a.Iso that-there have been further defectTons from the : j 5 ” clnd “iE tralght charge*. Tanks of Komiloff, and that a great majority of the command* N , v ,; in thc hirtory of thf T ift •rs at the front are still adhering to the government. A state- Overland Company ha* there been t issued by the vice premier said the country undoubtedly *o great a dwnand for the Will.v»- B with Kerensky. Knight Overland cars in South Geor- ■ gia. ^They arc asking the Willys- • Overland Ccrapany, of Toledo, 0. And i* Succeeded by Mi** Davenport at A. M. S. Mrs. J. J. Crumley, teacher of Home Economics at the .Second Dia. trict Agricultural School, has resign ed from the position and Misj In* Davenport, of Fitzgerald, has been selected as her successor. Mrs. Crumley oocne to the school in the f$ll of 1909 and has be*n a of the faculty is necessary in these STRENUOUS TIMES. j The PROTECTION offered by a BANK ACCOUNT, combfeed with a little "BULL-DOG tenacity” will make you winnertb the fight no matter what the odds. PROTECT YOUR FUTURE by putting your money in OUR BANK. Bank of Tifton k "" l *'^L*-iWrT~* °*— 'ilr Kulhersh has not only had a pleasant trip but the good luck to find_ what he wanted m dry goods, notions, ready-to-wear and novelties. He purchased one of the handsomest lea he has ever brought to Tifton ; the leading physicians, and owing to his fortunate connect ions so far below the market that he can offer them to his customers I at the old prices. ' Jr« ley will remain Tor a few day, to afr J*Ut.hcr ip getting the work-vorgani- zed and not a lesson wil be lost on ac count of thd change. Upon leaving the Agricultural school Mrs. Crumble; will go to Syl vester where her husband is one of | Beginning Sept* 15th Mr. J. S. . i Royal will have charge of the sub- 1 *cription department of the Gazette, *^ r ’ ! Daily and Weekly. Mr. Royal is ex- Grad»U Optonctriat p^tncMd in this kind of work, hav ing been with the Gazette for aev-' oral years up .to five years ago. and needs no'introduction to the people of this bection. It is his intention to see every subscriber to the pa per between now and Christmas. ., .„ . —... Sifbt* of City. 1 MschiMy Already i. the j from W.yo. and Four from Me- Baildinf. j Intolh in Party. Tl»e Tiftei Feed Mills .will be | Tifton had aa rueat* Wednaadag ready for »|*ration on or before | night two parties on inspection tour* October 1st 0 f this section. They spent the night The work n the building, with the 1 here and were taken on a trip around exception of tkr engine and boiler the city to look at the Tift stock rooms, is radically complete and farms, at the packing plant, feed mill, the roof will be finished the coming «nd other things of interest Thuru- vdcck. The a»j ri »-„||* will be fini* day morning. shed thi* w«(t -The completion of One party was from Darien, in Mc- tho engine ud boiler rooms have 1 Intosb r-iiRl;'. and consisted of J W. Waited the hatallatiori of the engine Arr 1. County Afent; R. A. Strain, “fid boiler* aad'u now only a matter N. JVuw-wtein and Vf Moore the lat- of a few ilajx to : Witt, the Governravnt Experiment The—boilen are in position and work stationed at Savannah. They thf smnkr-itath op and t h e engines were traveli: p in (,pe tar. are being id i n place. Much of I The otnet ■ irty consisted of four- tha machineryk already in the build, teen from Wnyne toutity, headed by ing and the btlanee is expected in a J- P. .'b*dd, Count/. Agent; Sheriff few days. ' D. S. Price 2Sd Judge R. B. Hobba. plant iresents quite an im- The other members were: J. B. Har. posbur appeanace as it approaches per. F. M. Tyre. Robert Tyre, J. B. iplotion Tie eptire building is IJistinyer, H. R. MeGanley. J. J. Sur- 200 feet widi and is located in the rency, Walton Long. B. E. Thornton, eastom part «f the city south of J- J- Surrenty and E. W. Aapinwald. Second sttertbfti»-.-cn the tracks of Sheriff Price was the guest of his the Tifton Tnninal Company and brother Judge J. H. Price while here. - TUv ,,m* I- Tifton bv wav of the AMantir-Coast Line. < They cama to Tifton by way of Thera is ■ angle story warehouse Way cross. Valdosta and Moultrie, I x 100 fe«. The main building and were especially interested in the for the milling plant is two stories, boll weevil actuation. The weevil high. 64 x 61 feet, and the engine ha* done little demage to them this and boiler asms 35 feet. The year but they expect it in large nuns- material used % white brick. bers next year. They report the most Mr. W. II. Spooner ha* the con- damage in Lowndes county of any tract and he ispring the owners just section v'siud. one farm of over 100 such a thoroufk piece of work as he "°t showing a proapeet of more has the reputation of turning out than five bales. The mills sfl he ready in ample Member* of both parties Were hlgb- ne for this fall's cron of corn and >y pleased with the courtesie* shown than at Tifton and spoke of their stay here as one of the most pleasant of their trip. In further preparation Dip tin meeting of the - Georgia Land Own er*’ Association to be hedd hero Sat urday and for the entertainment of our guests the committee having the matters in charge was busily at work yesterday. reception committee will every train Saturday morning and'conduct the visitors to the Board of -Trade which will be local head quarter*. The meetings will be held in the High School Auditorium and visitors will be so directed. Professor Hannan will be Charge d'Affaires at the school building. nianber of ladles who drive Have kindly agreed to assist In entertaining the guest* by showing them a little of our city and its at tractions at such times aa may be possible. Further volunteers .for this 'ork will be welcome if they will phone the Board of Trade office, The hoys Hanging to the Corn “d. P1 ' C “»*< ™‘ “T 0 ' *| U Wit .1 Hi... hold a contest at the courthuse in / M Tifton o„ ,1 ...t, Se|>- /„ , „ „ „ The two hojrmaking the best show, ing in the cokwt will be given free trip to fit Southeastern F; Sehool, which rill be held Occupied by Negroes at the ■ ham Lumber Co-, Plant. cabins occupied by negroes at the old plant of-the Southern Lum ber Company, west ofr the city, were destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. They were of little value the total loss being probably less than $300 with the ^exception of the personal "lelonging to the negroes. The houses were still owned by • the Southern Lumber Company. ~ The fire originated in the- house occupied by Henry Armistead and his daughter. Henry is said to be 100 years old and very feeble and his daughter left him in bed, locked up the house and came to town. When the fire was discovered he woiiliThave hurried to iT«*tK if neighbors had not come to the assist- She had also locked up the well bucket to keep her neighbors from using it and the first one* there could not get water to put out the fire. The fire company was called out and had to lay 2,000 feet of hose from the nearest plug on Park ave- Littie could be done to save the buildings but the section houses nearby, which caught several times, were saved. The negroes lost nearly all of their personal effects and are telling wonderful tales this morning of the money they lost. tation west of ^.ittle river to Mr. C.Thomastop, formerly of Frank, lin county, tbe consideration being $20,000. The farm contains about 760 scree which about 350 are in cultivw- tion. It is well improved and alto- Rosh Ha.banab Begins Sunday sad Lasts Through Tuesday. The Jewish New Year begins Sun day evening. Sept. 16th. It la the year of 6678 on the Jewish calen dar and will be appropriately celebra ted by the people of that belief The fundamental principles ofeducatlon are 'readin’. ‘ritin’ and 'rithmetic." All of these can be learned rihore practically In a BANK BOOK than In any other book. If your boy has a bank book he Is (earning what arithmetic Is for. It is the practical application of a thing which teaches it In the most beneficial and lasting way. If yourboy hes NOT gat a bank account s OPENS one. The National Put YOUR money In OUR bank. We pay 5 perfint Interest.