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; Litton ®a3ette
Published Weekly
Entered at the Poatoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
as mail matter of the eecond claaa.
Ino. L. Herring ..... . ■ ■ Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia
TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION.
Reports from several sections where the boll
weevil did the most damage the past season,
fhdicate that the fanners .have not taken neces
sary precautions to insure even a part of a cot
ton crop next year.
It. is said that comparatively few destroyed
their cotton stalks before frost and this was ab
solutely necessary if the^ expect to keep down
the weevils next year.. After frost, the wee
vils are said to take refuge from the cold and
the destruction of stalks does not get them.^
The best thing to do is to hunt out the hid
ing places of the weevils and destroy as many
as possible during the winter months.
. According to Leon Trotsky, who was
several years resident of New York but who re
turned to Russia in time to do Germany's work
as head of the Petrograd Council of Soldiet s
and Workingmen's Delegates, the party in
power yesterday in Petrograd does not want
a separate peace with Germany. What they
want is for the war to stop and the misguided
and deluded creatures believe that for Russia
' to stop fighting is the best way to secure it.
In an interview with a correspondent of the
New York World Trotaky says it was found
inevitable that Russia must act alone, and be-
cause the Kerensky government would not
act it was over thrown. Now they intend to
matter millions of proclamations by aeroplam
through Germany urging the Socialists there to
revolt and join those in Russia in a demand for
peace. Then, if Germany refuses, the Russian
soldiers will fight the Germans “like lions."
That may be what Trotsky thinks. But the
man the new revolutionists made Prime Min
ister is Lenine. the notorious pro-German spy
and agitator, who was driven from his country
for its good, only to return and rise to office on
the foam-crest of revolution and anarchy. By
the timtf^he Russian soldiers find out that Ger
many will have no peace except of her own
making, there will be nothing left for them to
fight for. The action of the Bolsheviki has
put the German people further than ever from
a desire for peace. The stamp of men the
Bolsheviki has put into power prove the lean
ings of that anairhl^i- organization.
When dame fact gets down to business, she
puts Dame Fiction out of the running. Wit
ness the finding of the will of the late James
M. Smith, of Smithsonia. last Saturday among
a lot of old papers at his former home. The
document disposed of his three million dollar
estate, leaving the major portion to two broth
ers who are now dead, one leaving a daughter
Wpen no wttLjvas found the estate went into
.-the courts, and thfcce were rich pickings for at
torneys and attaches^Tfie state courts, the fed
eral district court and the circuit court of ap
peals each taking a hand.
Part of the German objective in the Italian
drive has already been attained, as witness the
report from Amsterdam that the German news
papers are no longer talking peace. Much of
the nir^ve for the move on Italy and Susssia
was political, for the German war party had to
pacify the people at home, who were losing
confidence after the continued reverses on t he
Western front. The best counter the Allies
can make to the invasion of Italy Is to win
more ground .where it will hart Germany worst
•—on the Fraaco-Belgian lino.
i The increasing pressure Haig's men are
exerting in Flanders is shown in the British
• casualty lists, which total 25,056 fpr the week
ending Tueaday, compared with 21,891 the
week previous. Since early in July the British
have been losing in killed, wounded and cap
tured, about 100,000 men a month. Yet some
people have an idea they are leaving the fight
ing for others These are Kitchener’s men,
getting down to business.
The death of Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Ha
waii, brings to mind quite an interesting diplo
matic lfcfident during the administration of
President Cleveland, when he called into service
a Georgian. Col. James H. Blount, who visited
. the Jaland. investigated and reported on what
should be done in justice to all parties. While
he decided that the deposed Queen had not
been given a square deal, tthe people of the is
land insisted on a republic and years
later, following action of its Congress. Hawaii
became a territory of the United States.
THE WEEKLY $1.50 AND $2 A YEAR.
Beginning November 1st the price of the
Weekly Gazette within the third Parcel Post
gone from Tifton will be $1.50 per year, 75 cents
*jr six months, or 50 cents toy three months. For
II points beyond the third Parcel Post zone, the
e will be $2 a year.
Beyond the third Parcel Post zone the rates
» complicated and the copies of the paper
tftered that It gfti h(LlWM[ to
t stamp to
The Fifty-first annual session of the South
Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church 8outh which meets in Albany today for
a five days' sesaien, is the event of the year for
a Urge number of progreaaive church workers
of thia lection of the state.
It ia the fifth time Methodism has met in Al
bany, the first session being that of the Florida
Conference in 1849, the Florida conference at
that time extending across Southern Georgia
from Fort Gaines to Mobley's Bluff, on the Oc-
mulgee river. The sceond time was when the
South Georgia Conference met there in 1868.
Bishop George F. Pierce presiding. At that
time there were, 2TTr860 members and 256 Sun
day schools with 10,3(53 scholars belonging to
the Conference. In 1916 there were 95,467
members, and 714 Sunday schools with 65,-
296 scholars.
The Methodist preacher’s home is where
ver he hangs his hat. No one knows when he
goes to Conference where his home will be
wljen he returns; all know this, that four years
is the limit of their service for one charge.
When a man enters the ministry of the
Methodist churfch he enlists in the army of the
Lord. What was once his home is his home no
more and he lives and fights the battles of the
cross in any locality to which his’ commander
directs. It is because of the great number of
annual changes ns well as because of the im
mense gathering and summing up of the work
of the year's ministry in a calling which touch
es practically one-third the homes of this land
•nf ours that make the annual Methodist con
ference an event of momentous interest.
FEEDING THE NATION.
Previously the Gazette has called attention
to the part Tift county is taking toward preven
ting a shortage of food. The evidence of this
good work accumulates, as can be seen from
our news columns.
The oil mill here has bought already 1.000
tons of peanuts, and the season is just under
good headway. One town /nr'the line of Tift
has already shipped ten carloads of peanuts,
rorth about $1,600 a car. Onp firm in that
town has already shipped fou^- carloads of
corn, and the com market is jbarelv open.
When the feed mills here begin operations and
the packing plant is ready for hogs—which
last will be about the first of December—we
can then see stronger proof of the way the peo
ple of ‘his section are doing their bit. Prospects
for the coming year are for a greater in
crease in food and grain crops. One farmer is
wing 100 acres in wheat and 300 acres in
oats. Two years ago. this represented his cot
ton acreage.
J
The farmers in East Tennessee are said to be
organizing anti-auto societies. Over here,
they are nearly all joining the anto clubs.
Miss Emma R. Sutton
Editor
Ty Ty Department
TY TY,
GEORGIA
small outlay la cash
If flnt-clas mail matter eontin-
to decline in balk, as it haa
been doing, that extra cent will
not help much in filling Uncle'e
pockets.
The Aow that is Jo, remain
week got s r 6^d start,
quiet over there. There are courv- .
i, .ttnctlou. for oo. to,
----- W. Mathews, officiating,
Several person, went from Ty Charlotte Alexander of NsshvUie,
Ty Sunday to vitot their semi-in- I G »- Mr - Ed *" GlW>Sl of T* X In
valids in Florida. Among those | T*“* was one of those long-ex-
who went were Mr. J. M. Varner peeted things thet come suddenly
and Mist Jewel Vsrner. Mr. snd j st last Both bride and groom
Mrs. Chas. Varner, Miss Nevie have many friends here, snd to
Pickett, snd Mr J- W. Taylor. I nearly all of these the marriage
* * * * | came as a surprise.
FOUND — About half a mile Mi* Alexander taught in the
freen the eastern limit of Ty Ty. j Ty Ty Jc hool last t-rm and Mr.
1 bo ‘ G ® containing half a tea-1 G|bb , «•„, ,, orn in t hi, vicinity.
f °’S" T'Vh... .ov,„1 raiorou™, of «-
Some work to being done on the I CULPABLE CARELESSNESS.
school house grounds thia weak, j
snd a good deal more ia needed, j What might have been a very dis-
That could be made an attractive as troua fire was started Thursday
little park at a coosparativeb’‘ afternoon in tho piece of woods ly-
for this ad.
L. W. Walker snd family
spent Monday night with Dr. and
- R. Pickett, going on from
here to Albany to the Methodist
conference which convened in Al-
Tursday Mr Walker,
who was once pastor of the Ty Ty
Methodist church, has been sta
tioned at Folkston
Mark Watson. Mr. Hollingxwor
th'a latest assistant, says he. is go
ing back to his home in Emmanuel
county next week. Mark, who is
only sixteen, seems to have a very
xerioos case of nostalgia, a disease
that always grows worse about
Christmas time
Mrs. C. E. Grubbs has reached
her home in Arizona, and from
there she writes of the lovely
weather they are having. If there
iny better weather than South
Georgia has been having during
e several weeks just past, it
list be in Paradise.
Albany is the Mecca of Metho
dists this week, and it look* as if
there will be more visitors than can
find accommodation. It would have
paid those who are willing to take
boarders this week to advertise.
Some of those who are anxious to
from here to the conference
have not been able, so far, to find
place to stay.
C..S
FROM A TY TY SOLDIER BOY.
RENEWED PATRIOTISM.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Traitorom opposition to the war and the war
measures ia going to feel more and more direct
the scorn aid contempt of the American people.
The nation went through the process of deci-j
sion to enter the war and then began the work
of preparing its fighting forces to meet the
enemy. It-has been busy organizing numerous
governmental and civil agencies to care for the -
needs of the war . It has been marshaling its I
resources and calling for sacrifices to which
this, generation has been a stranger. It has
been too largely absorbed in these activities to
give much thought to the faultfinder, the shirk-
'. the copperhead, or the underhand traitor.
But hereafter the dividing line between pa
triotism and treason is to be more sharply defi
ned. The ic'nl crf actnal fighting, the sheddhtg
of Americas blood, and growing casualty lists
will serve to bring out every one of his true
colors. In oa community where there is a fami-
lv made aemainted with grief over e loved one
killed in battle, can there be anything like an
easy tolerance of the slacker, much less of him
who would »eek actively to make less effective
the measures that have been taken to back our
fighting men and to make them as secure as
possible in their great undertaking.
Commenting on the publication of the first
casualty list of our men engaged in battle in
France, the Tifton Gazette says:
“Now is no time for patience or forbearance
with those who by evasion or criticism, give
comfort to the enemy. He who by seeking to
create the Impression that the American people
are lukewarm and indifferent behind their
president and his administration and would
thus encourage Germany to fight longer and
harder will thereby increase toll of American
lives—perhaps taking a part of this toll from
those dear to you and me.
“If we win it must be by persistence, by loy
alty. self-denial, by sacrifices, and by unhesita
ting and uncomplaining support of those who
are conducting this war in our name—There
are no half-way measures in war. Your are
either for America or for heT enemies.*
In company with the Tifton Gazette the
Georgia press generally has taken our first
casualty list as the text for a sermon on loyalty
and on the disgrace now and for generations to
come of those who. like Lot’s wife, would look
back in the w«y we have set for-ourselves in
defense of national honor andthe preservation
of all the cherished principles of civilization or
who. like Judas, would betray the cause.
In preparations we have made for the great
conflict and even in the personal sacrifices that
we have made and are still making in growing
degree, there might still linger a dimness of
nerception about the vast struggle that we are
facing. But about soldiers killed and the sor
row of their families who are our neighbors or
friends or maybe our own. there can be nothin*
remote, nothing obscure, but everything perso
nal and poignant. In circumstances like those
♦he tme patriot] renews his natrfotiam. increases
minatipn and girds himself for more
endeavor. An atmoaohere is thereto-
Jt will and should be stifling to
A gentleman from th* country,
noticing the Ty Ty mail going in
rt to the railroad station, said
it used to be good enough to carry
by hand. He forgot how Ty Ty
d grown since those days.
The letter given here will be of
interest to the people of Ty Ty.
and many^othera, for everybody who
knew the writer was his friend. He
had employment here and his em
ployer. was very unwilling that he
should leave, especially as he was
Ft. Leavenworth. Kan. M-5-1917
Don't he scared or excited~to.get
a letter from me For it is only
one of the little surprises -that- come
in every day life
I just thought I would write you a
o let v
■ know hov
progressing as a soldier
Somehow I have not done the work
it doesn't seem that I should have
since T enlisted. However. I
guess I have done very well
f have been given about three
months infantry drill, and during
that time | have been learning vis
ual signaling- The visual signal
ing is done with flags. While we
have other means of communication,
which consists of telephones, tele
graph, and buzzers.
The regular Morse telegraph code
has been almost discontlhued by
the army, and we use the Continen
tal or International Morse Code.
It was somewhat difficult to
learn the code, but by “getting
on to it." And sticking to it, I have
learned it. and can do very well in
radio telegraphy.
We had a sham
nights ago, and it
out well. Every c
know his part.
I notice in the
The town was crowded Saturday j *° m ® ° f thc G s N
with well dressed negroes who | to ,ook u P° n ,he
seemed to be in a # good humor had thintr It seems fro
with all thc world, including them- «vnptron ■claims that som
selves. They seemed, also, to be | pul ln - , al ****>■ tb ' nk
spending money freely and enjoy-1 bothered,
ing themselves generally. The best T '\** awa > from lh, ' ir ni
of order prevailed, for they were «ne_l'vmg. that the
only our own people from the « houId d ° the:r fighting. And
country spending money honestly- ,on ”' of them -have rven said
irned • we volunteers were forced into iL
• e » • • That most of us wr
Land in this section has in-. an ' 1 j°*n the
creased considerably in value dur- As *° r . m ^ ]{ - F° n . know . wh ~
ing the last few years, hot taxes thcr 1 had
outstrip it is the race, and, when !
war tuts are added,
ing between the railroad and the
north Tifton and Ty Ty road, just
west of the house occupied by Mr.
Hogan on the Hilsdale farm of Mr.
I. L. Ford. Thia woods, though it
ia fenced in, is used as a thorough
fare by negroes, and other pedes
trians jedS* neighborhood, on their
way-to and from Hilsdale. and there
seems scarcely a doubt that a smok-
• among them started the fire.
Fortunately Mr. J. W. Taylor
iw the fire before it had gained
much headway. Taking several of
sen. Mr. Taylor went to the res
and by hard work, succeeded in
getting the fire under control. But
for this prompt work, it is not easy
to say just what the damage might
have been. Thick grass and scrub.
dry as tinder, grow almost to
the door of the new six-room h
Ford's . place, and there
nobedy at home but Vr*. Hogat. jnd
rhildrwy A little he.
yond that is a plarfg where a lot of!
furniture, books, etc. are stored, and
further on. towareb Ty Ty is n big I
field of velvet beam and com. ind a
of tall grass, sui-rounding bam
Ahead of a good wind the fire (hut/
for Mr. Taylor and his tR.*."'. miirV.
have reached Ty Ty. sweeping every,
hing in ita way. Conditions were
deal for a devasting fire. Talking
nd warning and threatening have no
-ffect on Hie* irresponsible persons
who start these fires. The h*
seems to have done all that is possi-
c. hut they go on. Maybe one
»y be caught some day and made
example.
The fire Thursday did. no damage
beyond destroying a lot of. lightwood
eh good wood and some
In places, the wire fencing
burned like wood.
battle a few
sure waa carried
papers where
that position
where he can sing (with gratitude)
“No foot of land do I possess”—
and nothing ebe taxable. “Buy a
Liberty Bond," for that seong to
be the only way out
The rain waa warmly. welcomed
by the farmers - who have been
waiting' to sow grain. Gardena
ffering and wells getting
ne failing altogether. The
j Keep alive (
An effVrt haa been made
ire a lot, on the north side- of
the railroad, for a public building
Ty Ty; but all efforts have-
failed, so far- Some fine day, the
property owner* in what is
sidereal the chace part of Ty Ty
will awake to find that the town
has grown away from tl
the building done here i
years has been in the once-despised
"seuth side," and there a
many desirable lots to
there, with the beat of people for
ighbora. Ty Ty to only passing
through the conditions that have
fronted other growing towns, re
tarding their progress.
Rev. J. A. Hanoc.;. for four
years presiding elder of this dis
trict, preached in thr Ty Ty Metho
dist church Sunday morning to a
large congregation. Rev. S. S.
Kemp, the pastor, preached in the
evening. This may be Mr. Kemp's
last Sunday here, thougn tha con-
gregation expect him to be return
ed. Mr. Harmon is travaling
the Athens University, and both he
and Mr. Kwnp are on their wny
to conference in Albany. Mr. Har-
non, Mr. Kemp and Fider James
Gibb# (the, last mentioned c
Primitive Baptist church 1 wer
tertalnad at dinner Sunday by Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Williams
didn't diavx !c jsiai'f cauH
t been exempt, but I saw
the thing was going. I saw how
the wheels of Pruxxianixm would
soon be grinding upon oar country
rice Trance. Belgium. and the
other European countries.
T realilcd that r have—a moth-
and sisters, and other 1
'es here id"'be prolMWiT from
And before a Hun lays a hand
i one of them he has got to get
r first. And the sooner I get my
traimhg the better for me.
And if the N. A.*S would look
it that way. and co-operate with
the other forces the war would
w. E. WILLI.
DEALER IN
High Class Bensral Marti
THE STORE
Goes Firttor
Courteous Treatment
Your Trade Will Be Appreciated
Ty Ty Farmers Supply Co.
R. R. Pickett, President
j. M. Varner, Manager.
DEALERS IN
Groceries, Dry Goods
Notions, Shoe*, Hats
Ready-to-Wear Clothing
Farm Implement*
And Other Things.
FEMALE TICER IN BERRIEN.
—At i
Nashville. Ga.. Nov. 1!
special se.vy'on of the city
Nashville Saturday afternoon,! An
nie Belle Ethr.dge. of Nashville,
Minded guilty to having liqior ir
).?. possession and was f.H".i J$75®
u: twelve months at the sUta farm.
■.'.:erday night Sheriff Nix ayid .sis
deputies went to Lenox, and put
under arrest three white mg’ sn'F
Ote of the party "squ'-ale i Vi on til
Ethridge woman, by asking the
sheriff why he did not remain «!
; and av.-t Nashville citizens
seems tbit the woman had e* m<
n a Jack .nville train wifh tih,
■ bunch »nd had gott-. i off thi
i at Sparks.
It three men arroste I at i’•
• time krere-flned $1 nr e /h
• hs on the chain gaii^ A!
paid then Jn(T eree, t t'l.di
ungton.
DO BUSINESS AT HOME
TY TY DRUG CO.
NOTICE.
GEORGIA. Tifi County.
To Whom It May Concern:
Rub'e Hobby hereby gives notice
that at the January Term 1918
the Superior Court of said county
to be held on the second Monday in
January he will apply to said court,
by petition, to be relieved of the
diaabilities placed upon him by the
verdict of the jury tn the case of
ttn&WtM*' **• KLbv •Ko'.a.y i n - *
suit for divorce ttried at the Janu
ary Term 191? of said court, where- j
in a total divorce waa granted be-.
twee* the parties, -and petitioner.
Rube ''Hobby, was "eft under'the'
disabilities of not being allowed to
marry again: and Rube Hobby pub
lishes this notice as required by law.
This NoTiinBer it, Ttff. ’ " ~ " ""
Rub* Hobby.
McDonald and Bennett. Attorneys
; for Petitioner.
Pltea Cared In 6 to M Days
Tow drnrrtst win refund money It PAZO
OINTVKNT fall, to cure ■ cv care o« Itchln*.
GRUBS IND DRUG6IS1S*
SUNDRIES
Prescriptions A Specialty
School Books
and Supplies
A'COMFLETE DRUG STORE
JONES & COMPANY
Dealer* In
High Cla** Gsnaral 1
PRICES RIGHT
Of course I rasl-ze that there
some that should not go at all. and WANTED—To buy
some that their claims were jasti- about forty acres,'
liable. ' Some that are in now per-, A. K. Cook. Ty Ty. Ga.
haps would - be of more service at
home but a majority of them showed
a weak streak. 13 1-Z miles north of Ty ty.
Now this was all cut here I hope
it was different in .Tifton and Tift
WiU' close for this time and write
again soon.
Private Wm. J. Willis,
VARNER AND COMPANY
Dealer* In
Grocari** Dry Goods, Candias, Cb
.«» r *. Tobacco aad Everything
ttie in tho way of Conors]
j FOR SALE—160 acres, good land,
80
cultivation,
I house, tenant's house, and other
improvemeoto. W. F. SIKES,
Ty Ty, Ga.
Co. C. 6th Field Batallion Sig- CARLOAD OF FINE PONIES
nal Corp*. | For Sale, See Us at Once
SIKES BROTHERS
Ty Ty, Georgia
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
Mrs. Ree Harris Holt vs. Robert
Holt
In Tift Superior Court, July Term,
1918.
To the Defendant. Robert Holt:—
You are hereby required person
ally or by attorney to be and appear
at the Superior Court to be held tn
and for said County on the First
Monday ln Jaly, 1918, then aod
there to answer the complaint in
the above stvled ease, as in default
thereof said Court will proceed as to
Justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable R. Eve,
Judge of said Court, this the 22nd.
day of October. 1917.
Hoary D. Wobh.
Clerk Tift Superior Court.
B. c WBUfwrd Plaintiff's Attorney.
W. B. PARKS
Is paying for this space.
FOR SALE
My grist mill and blagksmith shop
with toola—-the only place of its kind
in Ty Ty. New building, gasoline
engine, and erarythng in first els
order. Address,
W. 5. Seott, Ty Ty. Go.
A. PARKS,
Groceries. Dry Goods Etc- -
— Caskets. Coffins,
Ty Ty, Georgia.
M. A. WOODARD A CO.,
General Merchandise |
Ty Ty. Ga.
M**’s Furnishing. * Specialty.
DR. CARL S. PITTMAN,
^Physician and Surgeon.
Phone No. 7. » |
Ty Ty. Georgia.
E- J- COTTLE,
SHINGLES FOR SALE
BUY DIRECT FROM MILL AN»
SAVE MIDDLEMAN'S
PROFIT
Ty Ty, Ga.
CITY CASH MARKET
G. W. Willi., Proprietor
Fresh Meats, Fish and Produce
Swift's product* a specialty
“Th* Sanitary Market"
TF Ty. Georgia.
DR. F. B, PICKETT,
Physician aLd Surgeon.
T- Ty, Ga.