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The Tifton Gazette. FARMERS’ MEETING. WUI B. H.ld at Coart Houao Satur- _Jay Afternoon. Th* December farmers' meeting under the auipices of the Tifton Board of Trade will be held • court house Saturday aftern. 3 o’clock. These meetings are for open discussion by the farmers them- Ar';“ ■ The new cucumber pickle proposi tion will be thoroughly explained at' this mcettno HEALTH COMMIS’RS HOLDMEETING HERE TEACHERS INSTITUTE. IntsCetting M.etio* H.U in Tiftoo Many Snbjecta Diacuaaed. The Teacher’s Institute, Decem ber 8th, was called to order by the president and opened with the song SALTING STATION IS SECURED FOR'TIETDN Mt ' L '" c °^T,.NNAiR,s THELATEST NEWS BY H/j Five Per Notice is hereby given i registered in Tift county, that a _ , _ „ , , —Mi »—■« „ , , _ . _ , _ . beginning Saturday, Dee. 15th, we t Perfect Organization for Health • America’’ Board ot I rade 1 akes Kesponsi- w j|j begin mailing Questionnaires Work in State j The president read the program. bility for Contracts iwcnUethTf'thi'rwstSuw rack , 1. The teacher as the reformer. , .lav for twenty days, Sundays and . ORESTS OF COUNTY MEOICOS .is a person of intelligence to lead WILL EXPLAIN TO FARMERS Immediately upon receiving Qui I children no teacher should be allowed 1 T * •C this meeting. Dr. Abercrombie Presided Regular to teach who has any bad habits. r Expected Thai Matter Will Meet with All North Georgia farmers who Organisation Formed and An- Mr. W. C. Mitcham gave a very Public Approval When Terms . have located in this county are espe- nual Meetii gs Will Be Held. striking talk. He told the joke of of Contract Aro Known. cinlly asked to be present. Not be- The County Health Commissioners an old preacher and his sermon. The Heim Salting Station at Tif cause of the cucnmber proposition of Georgia met in Tifton Wednesday ; His topic w:.-: “The teacher the ton is to be a reality, primarily, but for the sake of another and outlined plans for the work next. ideal of the children.” The child- With it’s characteristic promptnesi mntter of peculiar Interest to North year. V ren have a.desire to follow teacher's to take advantage of a good thing.fot Geonria farmers. Detail, will be Dr. T. K. A - • • Secretary examples. The teacher’s influence Tift county; with a substantial nnd made clear at the meeting of the Stu i: ,-rd t f lie .!th, ; renebes the^patrons n- well ns the fully representative attendance. The •ng thoM.- present ! children. The story of I.ot QUITE A REVOLUTION. v.-ic: I)r. II. J :icCo. l. of lloir.v; |>"?r ^'her >« the best example of ■ ^ ~ . Dr. John' Schrcibci /fa Tea chin 7 in District Agricultural Dr y„ . V. - S-hnol. Under New Law. „ 0retr . of lira Prof. Moseley ofthe State Univcr-1 coo d. of L-.Grang. tity spent Thursday at the Second <lf Tifton >r District Agriqpltnral School, his nl -W.lons were adopted pled*-> in connection i nc . every'Health officer to get the fund nn-« hi . ai. 0 , V ', of Thomasvi]!e I Dr. K. > sent th. n tided latex r the health I har- ! dy requirements i to the patron: -s are responsible for mi •fee;. “To Krop Order in Pr on inf Mr. Prof. I. special mission hei with the Smith-Hughi work to be done thereunder. Hejs Tl"'. . ..... . visiting all of the eleven District Agri . Ct ? cultural Schools, inquiring into con-" ,J J . a ' riitions and -seeing whnt preparations . : . ,-t| are being made for earning out the * A '* '’' ‘ 1 ’ provisions under which the appropri- atioaismade. meetin.-. Th These require a revolution in the 1,1 methods of teaching agriculture in ' i . r: ■ °"'‘ l this section. Agnculture will he tnu* en “* d il! "l P> 3! ght as a vocation, especially tb e.juip wor ^> * n Various young men for their life work, and Student* will required to do a !o*. Tll<! meeting was of practical work on the farm. Boys monious nnd pleasant one nnd will Lnkine this course will he required do much toward furthring ebunty to show a profit—that is, their work health- work throughout the state . .. . must produce sufficient crops to pay At night, the visiting health of- expenses and a surplus. ficer* were the guests of the physi- The farm course at the A. M. S. cians of Tift county at their annual dinner at the Hotel Myon. Drs. Price. Pet.-son. Baker. Smith and Fort, of Tifton. and Wiiiis. of Omega, were seated at the table with the guests. The Tift county doctors will meet one night next week to act on the at Dr. Willis’ residence at Omega teacher’s influence, istnlled in them follow. Tench- do-more to mold the character preachers do. Through ta.-ich- ind pupils, drunkards and smok- ire reformed; through lessons in one and Physiology habits of tifyinir femes. Fail to do your bv not 'reforming. !ifi»ing Standards in Rural Board of Trade Wednesday after noon jjnuniimju-iy, in open meeting, voted to tuke. upon itself to accom- . plish what the Company wants, namely the planting, according to he details will b ned to farmers rested nt the co at three P. 1!.. tailing at the Board of. ■ D Pie.. will please ha nd return to Local Board tressed envelope enclosed ionnaire, which requires Those who are unable till their Questionnaires i t, I by the attorneys of • will -be in the Court i day for this purpose, •v . have kindly consented i or’; free of charge. • onnnircs must be re- i I ocal Board within :u the date appearing o of Questionnaire. NOTIFY BOARD : Marshal General announ- | .I! registered men who have ;hcir adresses since June 5, ify the local board with •ir names arc enrolled, or : k of not securing a copy ntcred Hartain, Manchuria, to pro- . 15 c should tered men think that fill ary is to get a copy of h -. nr.'pertjr fill It n-.t a the local board. This ir the copy of the ques- fa being remodeled to meet these ditions which .are welcomed by the faculty as wise measures. Among the requirements is that the farm in- stuctor shall receive not less than 31,200 a year bt^t must work for the entire twelve tnoiRhs. 1 unless he was nt the meeting Wed- ‘ l,nnal |n.-s.i^v afternoon, after he is;**” 1 thoroughly familiar with the terms : , ttf the proposition. Further and i ard ' songs and yells ht‘!|i-Ahc school, more detailed ‘outline will be given ! e gave the general standard of liv- in . this paper from time to time. " g. Teachers should he ieformers, This i s only one more nccemplish- every phase of life. pient which goes to make up the Miss Long, who has charge ofthe prosperity of busy Tfftqn. a fill. t be ’ i from his own local board t bear the stamp ofthnt local Failure to All n the registered n o fail- J. D. SHARPIE DIES HERE. Mr. J. D. Sharpie died at the hos pital here Saturday night from an attack of fever. The body was taken to Florida Sunday morning and probably will be interred at Cedar Keys. ; Mr. Sharpie was ?' wars old ana i reporting contagious' MR. SUMNER LOSES HOME. Home Dcmonitr.- an interesting talk. She told {bis Home Demonstration work one of the greatest branches < cation. The time now deman ■th taKb the lent how WHICH IS WORSE. i dismissed by th • Bessie Freeman. Secretary, ; ing heads the 'list imho first call from his county, nnd will be imme diately inducted into the military ser- »vice of the country. It IsC therefore. , to the interest of every man within ( the military age to see that his local i hoard sends him a copy of the qpes- iti nnaire. Failure to make the ans- |wers required in this form will 3e- privc the man of any claii ed l- Comparison Bot-een tb* T •llat ! and the Permanent Abl I “It's a burning shame!" • n-jij. “What now. Smith?” "Why Jones has gone off with that emption of deferred clasaification he Alaska expedition.-trill be gone three ’ might otherwise have. < left hi* family without three o Mr. Seaborn S. S»m«r. abo . - '• “ Y “= «»«W -*»“ >«* SALE BROUGHT UM. .in Ik. norlhwe.lern port of th, roon- M ‘ j- P M ""- of * bre- of it An,| hr . toembrr of onr" _ I hi. hoot, and ront.nL, by «„ •' «'■ 1 W , ** »' R» h “ *“* “ A n oHoinal id„ that of th. hod born ootMrrd bp lb, rorrm- Sa.ort.,- »i S bt about 10 MS ,“ h ° *“ ** “* 'T?***^ W |““- " ; onloHainmonl ot Midway «hool Pri- ment as lumber inspector in th:. -- | The tire caught from the fireplace, Monday afternoon while killing hop and something ahead, I would help i tion. He was taken sick at Enigma 1 which was of the sills. n his farm near Docrun was resting them. last week and came to Tifton Thur* ! which extended through the space ‘hi* morning and is thought day, being carried to the hospital ; ben „ th the hearth. When discovered ‘ ' Bfa fether Mr. H E. Sharpie, of , t was betweeii th e w ,|is and ceiling. i take charge sething ahead. I , , . , ■ _ It i. bod. otirtty bod bo,i.| J ‘>- flfht. •.h.n . P.re.! Po« Sal. Should h, ,v,r retoro. whirb *“ U "• >“■ 0 be fatally hurt Ji. not likely, he will be | ™ .old by ponUr rote »td broo S ht A rifle was used to kill the hogs handled.” ' , A strong wind was blowing and it was and th “ was dt**anred while in the I VBy the way. Smith, you will go I only by hard wor^ that the children hands of Mr Myer’s helper, the bul- ,»ff on a tnp one of these day, to e——— were rescued. Little of the house- ,ct penetrating his itomach. HU | Heaven, we hope to be A-dining suit is a nice thing to give j ho jj were saved and Mr Sum- condition xras thought to be critical thing more than three y awife. SeeusKenfs 12-d2wlt| ner wfts Jeft barefoote( j , nd ' bar*.-nt one time, but he was carried to an 1 family be left with We are in the market fo r com. 'headed. ' : Albany hospital and an X-ray showed three months supplu shelled or shucked, snd field peas j His son Charley had moved into ’he nature of the wound not to be as say th.it you Baker and Rigdon, Tifton Ga. 2mo. jtj, e boU5e witb bili fatber temporarily dangrrou, as was feared. We Claus' headquarters for Santa and nearly all is household effects Kent's 12-d2wlt were lost. The total loss was prob- " j ably $1,200 with no insurance. Mr. Sumner had just built his new home, with hard work and some sacri fice and moved into it not long ago although It was not quite complete. The loss falls heavy on him. Toilet Sets Shaving Sets Manicure Sets Military Brushes • / All with Pure Ivory fondles ( ' $3.50 to $22.50 Complete line of Combs and Brushes. Conger Drug Company The Store That Sella You Whet You Ask For, and Not Something "Just As Good.’’ PHONE 9411 » Tifton Board of Trmdo. Among the land vales closed recent ly through Brown and Peeples ware: George Walker to J. B. Manning, of Denton, Ga., 72-acre farm, seven miles west of Tifton, for |3.100. Rjekerwa .Grocery .Company Mrs. A. B. Goode, of Dawson. .100- e farm, two miles east of Tifton, f^- Jfi.500. Mrs. Gnode will reside in Tifton. S?00 Rc’vard, <100 ■ llu* paper r»* trended di*«ue ^ that science hjui ^ fraternity. Catarrh beliirw mnstltuttonsl disease, reralrcs s e*ns;!ta:lGii:.t treat ment. nail’s Catnrrh Curo Is la'-rn !n- ■.craxil*. scUng directly apon the blood - -id m -cous surfaces of the system, thers- r dciUT>rtn* tbs foundation cf tlie.dL-- -1SB. and giving the paUent strength by aaturnla Solng Its work. Ths prepri. tors so much faith In Us curative pow- lat they offer One Hundred Hollers . . . - j c-ias that !t f*J!s to cure. Bend Mlrwr. OO., Toledo. Ohio. vJl UsU's rseluy'ltle to* eensUpaUso. MATHIS-JONES. Omega. Dec. 11.—Mr- Clark Jones and M:>s Minnie Mathis.both of thii place.were married Sunday at 2:30 by Rev. 0. M. Martin at the home of Mr. E. K. Patrick, who gave them a splendid dinner. The wedding was I almost private, only a few friend* being present Mr. Jones enlisted in the army sev eral years ago, where he spent four years. Then he re-enlisted In the Marine Corps for three years Ibnger. After .hgiog-hoj home in the early part of the summer and has lived with his par ents Mr. and Mrs.W, A. Jonea. Graduate Optumstrisl Herbert Two years of continuous pructle In Tifton and scores of eetixfied cu* comers. If yon are suffering wlU headache, or other troubles caused by eye suraig be sura and consult me and see If gifuaea pr'parly fitted don’t releive them. In our office i the Myon Ho'al Block every dav- Will than Didn’t you t in debt and nothing ahead? And you an officer in our church! How I would pity your wife and little ones! Now iu haven’t a cent of Life In- Don’t you think it* bad mighty bad business? And if you should ever get hack, which iantj likely, ought you not be -.oaghly h .idled? You better "get right” »g- making application to the United Life for of their combination life and accident -insurance policies. The United i» a splendid Old Line com. finny whose policies are unusually attractive. 'ifadt- NEWBERNE-NORMAN. “SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE." A letter received from Gerald this (Friday) morning brings the good news of his safe arrival “Somewhere in-Europe.’” No date even fa given. He says he had a pleasant trip across with courteous treatment and plenty at He adds that he certainly enjoyed the voyage. We sent his Christmas boxes on the 4th. They not sent sooner because we • not sure that he had sailed. BOX PARTY. There will be a box party -at Chula on Friday evening December 14th,. ■ . -—— Everybody fa invttod to W. C. Dodson, Cost LttUs . l i £35na.'srB8s£ pmtoht* wMmq. S'imSsir'ytS to Sm TqWbiMiMCt IaaU NOTICE OF DISSOLUTH GEORGIA—Tift County: To all whom it may concern: Notice fa hereby given that the firm of Whiddon and Jenkins, doing business in drugs and notions at Chula, Ga., fa this day dissolved by mutual consent, J. T. Jenkins having old hfa Interest therein to T. J. Whid don, who will continue the business at the same stand, assuming all obli gations and collscting all aceounta due laid firm. | This, 17th day of November, 1917. T. J. Whiddon, Jo T. Jenkins. m ns (fataks That Dees Hot Affect Os Nasi Braue ot lu tonic end laxative-etat. I TIVIt lauuo CLI.VINE Ir r .alter then oci Quinine do* not cane Penn—11 An line in hud. KeRnanbrr the tell nan look tor the aissntoit ot £. w. CBOVg Moultrie, Dec. 12.—On last Wed nesday morning Mias Bessie Newber- of Adel and Mr. J. A. Norman, near Moultrie, were married at Nashville. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tillman, of Berlin, and immediately after the ceremony left for several itcresting points in Florida in Mr. Norman's Mr. and Mrs. Tillman were married i Thanksgiving and she was former ly Miss Vance Newberne a sister of the bride. Mr. Norman fa engaged in fanning and the last mill business. The newly married couple will make their ne sear Moultrie. The bride ia a very charming young woman who made her home in Tift several yean ago, and who has many friends who will be inter ested to hea r of the marriage. $71.18; $7.60 worth of peanuts sold, and Miss Biitch sent in $1 for the Red Cross, making a grand total of $122.55. Twenty-five per cent was given to the Tift County Red Cross Chapter, amounting to $30.34. The school's part xras $91.21. which will be used for improvement' ot buildings and grounds. The pupils had sent out letters many friends asking for parcel post packages for the sale, and the res ponses with packages numbered 88. They were sold by Sheriff Shaw at Woodrow Wilson sent picture of the White House and this brought $1.25. For the popularity cake, Mias Ger trude Hutchinson by Die single men and Miss Agnes Marchant by the married men. Miss Marchant winning by a small major ity. . f _ Dr. fort snd-Col Rldgdiil sent and when called on for talks' made splendid addresses on the Red Cross work and our duties in the MR LUCIAN CORBETT KIRKLAND Mr. Lucian Corbett died at hta home In Kirkland Monday and was buried at the cemetery at that place Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock. He fa survived by his wife and three children, two boys and one girl. Mrs. Corbett fa a sister of Mrs. G. W. Julian and made her home here for some time. FViends here deeply sympathize with h*r and her V ones In their loss. Mrs. Julian went over to Kirkland for the funeral yesterday morning returning home last night. Toys for all the family at Kent’t Copenhagen, Dec. 13.—Disorder has broken out in Pel Pad. Firing is taking place in the streets andtbe Bolshevik Placed machine guns on the house tops. In the peace terms submitted to the 1 m Germany.-promised to protect the BAsheviki government horn its domestic enemies. B«me, Dec. 13.—Turkey is about to make separate peace, according to articles appearing in the Swiss press today. Mouktar Bey a Turkish delegate sent here to exchange **r prisoners, has asked his government fer authority to open aeso’.iaticns, it is reported. London, Dec. 13.—Three heavy German attacks on the Umbrai front last night were all repulsed, the War Office an- oounccd today. Jerusalem the Holy City has been captured by the British Gen. Allenby. J-.rjs.iIrm thus passes into Christian control for the first r:ncr 1516, when it poised „,-?der the yoke of the Turk. Tokio, Dec. 10 Japanese tr**,.is have landed in Vladi- *o»tock. Chinese troops fact their interests. NOTE Presumably th- . .panes* troops were landed at ladivostock to prevent ’he immense Itorel of munitions sold !t Russia by J.ipan ar.d A merit* from falling into the hands of Ibe Bolshevik!. Washington, Dec. 8.—The American destroyer Jacob ones wax torpedoed and sunk Thursday. There were only 37 '•rvivors, the Department announced. The Jacob Jones was one of the latest types of destroyer*, -wd was torpedoed on December 6th, at 8 p. m. Thirty-seven cf the crew were rcscuod from life rafts after suffering greatly ffen exposure. It is believed that 72 men perished, including Lieutenant Commander David Worth Bagley, brother of Mrs. Josephus Piniels, Wife of the Secretary of the Navy, who commanded tie Jacob Jones. San Antonio, Dec. 11.—Without any previous announce ment to indicate a decision on the part ofthe military authori ties, thirteen ring-leaders among the negro soldiers who recent ly killed seventeen persons at Houston, Texas, were hanged A Ft. Sam Houston today. These negroes were members of the Twenty-Fourth In- bntry and wre among the sixty-three who were tried by court- nartial for mutiny and murder. Besides the thirteen hung forty-one were sentenced to life iagu-isonment; three to two years imprisonment and one to two ad a half years imprisonment, and five were acquitted. Washington, Dec. 13.—Congressional opposition to gov ernment operation of railroads is chrysUlizing rapidly. Heavy snow on the northern Italian front will aid the Ita- ikns in holding the Austro-Germans back from the plain®. Anid the first Hurries of the storm Tuesday the enemy resumed tleir at’ack among the hills and was rewarded by the capture <x several positions. Later, however, the Italians in a counter a*ack regained fheir lost terrain. Stockholm, Dec. 18.^-TJie Bolsheviki has issued a procls- nation denouncing the revolution and threatening the leaders «th death. The Bolsheviki claims to be winning inthe field but this is ret confirmed. They also claim that Korniloff is wounded, aid his capture is expected. Washington. Dec. 13.—The United States Guards, a body o! armed American^ who will take over the guarding of muni- *sn plants, railroads and the like essentials of war, was crea ted today. The first increment will be 25.000 me n. between the ages oi81 and 45- services to be voluntary enlistments. Washington, "Dec. 11.—The government reported the to- trf cotton crop for this year 10.949,000 bales. Second Lieutenant W. L Mut- who had been ipending several days in Tifton with relatives friends, left Wednesdi..- night for Louisville, Ky„ to join his company. The Gazette wishes Lieut Murrow God speed, and that promotions will continue to come'his wsy. Mr. Lott Warren, of Inaha, wa* Tifton between breezes Wednes day afternoon. He it offering i choice brood sows for sale, and as he has made hog raising a specialty for era! years he has something worth while. See his ad elsewhere. We are In the market corn, shelled or shucked, and field Baker and Rigdon, Tifton Ga. 2mo. A nice McDongall Kitchen Cabinet for Xmaa, at Kent's 12-d2wl r. E. W. Ulm, of Route 3, was among the business visitors to Tif ton Thursday. TEJSaSSffiJBSjSBV- *— -vur trank 1 * - — iisSrc: /Hi live For imas her What better Gift can(you make for wife or £ daughter? Start an account for them Today. Set an example of thrift and teach them to save. Put YOUR money In OUR bank, pay 5 per cent Interest. Come to our bank. The National Bank <