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grippfe-' ■ J uar The Tifton GaZefte. •' ^ **-O0 PER ANNUM THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TlFlON, GA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917. VOLUME XXIX.- thelatest news by hire in A heavy German bombardment ng directed against the Passchaendale senior the War Office announces. aid. Near L^vente the Portuguese, repulsed a German nn tk«r-‘ “ Keeping up a contn ne German lines and the military works in Belgium. tial 1 Dec.. 20- With Petrograd under mar- thp irGii nd th ^Bdsheviki digging trenches and placing f ® * rtl ‘‘ e J7 °. ut8lde of the city to defend it in even*, coun- iutipnwts draw near, reports that Kerensky is ap- ln § ^ e J r °£ ra( * at the head of an army are still »n- ^Jbrmed. f It is now believed to be only rumor but the Iea ??f 8 are . evidently much concerned over the large nodies of Ukranians who are reinforcing the Cos- SIX SELECTMEN TEFT WEDNESDAY One U In Alabama * to Report TIFT NOW HAS FIFTY IN CAMP LAST DAY OF GRACE 58 QUES1I0NNAIKES FOR THE TAX PAYER NOW BEINGMAILED Under Law, City,-Qounty and A Day to Tift County Registrant* ■State Books CIcAe Under Selective Draft AT MIDNIGHT, DECEMBER 20TH SEVEN DAYS 10FILE ANSWERS A Lilli* Over Halt Slat* and County Each R*gut*r*d Man Will R*c*i* s Paid in Tift and About Thr**- Blank. Attorney. Furni.h Fro* Fourth. Paid City. Advic*. Panallw. for Failure. Have yon paidT The Tift County Exemption Board If not, the officer with his litUo began mailing the questionnaires to execution will be after you, if you tho Tift county fregistranu under m't watch out. Selective Draft Saturday. Oue-twen Thursday, Dec. 20th, was the last ticth of the total list, 58 names, was day under the law for paying taxes mailed. Another 58 was mailed , d to leave at 7:15, but which was to the city of Tifton, the county of Monday morning, and 58 will be mail j nearly half an hour late. Quite a number of friends aad rcla mJ 17 Colored to of SI opgs* Four Mor* Whit* Malta up Qui First Six Tift couKy Selectmen left Wednesday morning for Camp Gor- 6i>',. completing Tift's white quota ol »• e first call. The boy* went over h . Atlanta, Birniugham and Atlanta SCHOOLS CLOSE FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY Allies Completed T*rl6' Wed- “«d*y-Public Schools Friday A.R.S. TO OPEN JANUARY 1ST P * J * Uc School Pupil, Gat Two Week, if Term Opening SPECIAL COURSES PLANNED FOB FEB.4 At Agricultural School by State College of Agriculture THE FARMER’S SHORT COURSE Food Conservation and Canning Club State College to Send Best Tal ent Her. in February. A winter extension school for the London, Dec. 19.—Ten were killed and 70 injured by the Tift and State of G " >r K i *- The last e d each day for twenty days. German air raid last night General Assembly made an iron-bound Answers must be filed with the Paris, Dec. 19 The F—u-h rk . n . l. and concr<te foanded that if you Board within seven days of the date submarined amd T r ^ ^ Ren*uJt, was did not pay your taxes by the. night of m ..ling, "Failure to do so con- nned and aunk. Ten of the crew were lost. , of the 20th, not only should an- offi- st itutea a misdemeanor punishable Washington,, Dec. 18.—The innermost secrets of the war, j Ccr be after y° u wi th a writ immedi- by not to exceed one year's imprison. mrolring questions upon which hang the fate of the nations, nI,lv - bnt y° a * bon,d also pay inter- ment; and such failure may also de- were revealed to Wilson by Mr. House in a conference that a ‘ the rnU ° f 7 P * r C * nt until P riv * the registrant of valuable righ- luted from immediately .fte, dinner lut night to e.rly hour . '"'l 2? '‘LZta’u, „ , “ ' hi> this moraine and W*. . y Seeing this example, the city of tl0n mto military service and trial by A ■ re f un ^ ed breakfast. Tifton will follow suit and close iu court-martial." t u admitted that the immediate reault will be a tighten- hooka on the same day and hour -Any person desiring to claim a »ng up of all matters of American participation. “Win the war at Therefore, it's pay quick, if you deferred classification by cither Local any coat” will be the slogan. haven't paid, or trouble is coming. or Strict Board’ on any gound in All proceedings of the Inter-Allied War Council and in- Thursday morning Clerk and Trea. of registrant designated j formation gathered hv Ik. r i -j l , v,rer Ca ” on “** that abo0t ha!f bhe therein may. within seven day* from the President °Tkel«l»!^e ^ Germany we C e la.d before .mount of taxes due the city had the date thereof. and Bot |„ er . sub- ■telite^T ' v mform*tion .how. Ih.i Gorm.oy’, „!* Th.y „,r. mw.I« l„ mi , mh ,, nim lh , L «„ B „ r ,. Bum ry power u crumbling, slowly bpt surely, in every part of lively, however, and he expected th*t accompanied by suefi affidavit evi- the empire. _ three-iourths would be paid by night i fnce „ snch r „ on may de5ire to The dissatisfaction in Turkey and Bulgaria is extreme Tax ‘ ColIee,or Ritfdon had " b ^<ave considered.'* The school holidays for tho pupils of 111 Tifton High School and the[ fBrmer » ot Tift and the gr»amia r school begins Friday at ] tbc Second District to be held the no# °. when the schoolg close for the * cek begining Febraary 4, has just fall term two weeks, the spring term b 'cn announced by Prof. Lewie of the opening on Monday, January 7. j Second District Agricultural School. The Second District Agricultural T%« school held Jere last winter was a School closed Wednesday afternoon, ! decided success *ftd even a better down at the depot to see the students leaving for their home* '•choo! will be held Ohis season, the boys off. There waa no speech- Wofaesdsy afternoon end Thurxsdsy The school will b* held under the making, but just before the train j morning. The student* will return -wtBices i' »bs SJ»U College of Agri- came the boys lined up on the plat- Tuuday, January 1. and the work of calture arM specialiuta and experts form where all could get a chance to , the spring term will begin January ‘ n 'barge oithe vari-oos departments bid them good-bye end wish them 2. 1 theTl will appear on the’ program, luck. They were a fine-looking lot ft, two weekn h>ye b#en six „ t ensiCr. Rhools will be held and of young soldiers, and will prove a,bus, ones for the pupil, of both Tifton is fortunate In securing one. valuable additon to Tift county's schsols. a, the examinations for the One of the features of the meet- force of fighting men, of which we fall term were given. ing will be a Food Conservation .iled ques-j excused until Dec. 15. and Willie J The Allies are moving towards a separate Deace with Tur- and Bulgaria. M4.000. He had more tR ‘ > ^ nal ^^ tionnaires Saturday. Dec. 15. angwera jsutton. excused until Jan. There is no real weakness intko A j . hUI 7""’** th * book Thun ~ a Tr^urifablo on o r before Saturday,] Tift county has being taken t* A " ,ed ranka ' “ nd * te P* fe , morning, but hi. office was crowded Dc y 22; Tift county attorney . are orpd me „ t to f| * “ *” U " Ru "‘“ "teteHoa j t, U.-p.T.n dl d.,. Th, .«.hpt „ I, „ d .d, | lh ,„ , u „ d a , Stockholm, ttec. 17.—A thre.t to drench Route in Wood **** , , U I, IUS3 h conteined te . ; “^“1^ SS *, Wt* ^ •pood, mode h r Trotzky according to di.p.tchc, from Hapa a- , !r j r *■ _ V ^ it you have mt paid, and reach the The Lenine-Trotzky Regime is making wholesale arrests 'collector before 'he officer reaches in an effort to coerce dissenters. The confusion is such that the J -out Ukc .f'ei-c b-cause you outcome of cnril strife cannot be foreseen. |" 10 pay lntJ ' ,hc Uw Tokio, Dec. 17 A number of Americans arrived here *50.000 STOCK SALE. today from Russia and many others are enroute. Conditions in — : — Rassia are described as chaotic, with bloodshed and anarchy on s * m K« lb *" b «• Civiag Big Bar. svsry hand. sains lo ChVi.lm., Shoppri Tl>* public school celebrated t^e School under the supervision of Mrs. cloiuig of th* fall term with public Wood, representing the Cotlege and execUes'tn th* auditorium Thurs- th' Feilernl Food Administration, da, afternoon. Christmas carols She has-had charge'df this work with wei* sung and an 'interesting pro- club women in many sections of the Rtwa rendered. state and will be pleased to have the — o women of Tifton take part in the R. L. BENNETT SHOT work to be-given at the Agricultural — School. Special courses will be leave, R. C. WHHamson and DanJJoff. Sewrdy_Wmaded by W. T. McC.II given in food values, dictry ,Und- nearly two hundred in s ice. Those going were: James English Slaughter. Batesi Cleveland Harper. Bruce Will* Waldrop. * Walter William Jolly. William Heath Hightower. Clyde Warn ell Hargrett. There were also three n u making an effort to take over the garrison. bjir $ ^ of)n su ^ k Sale whjch u . "— now in fuB blast. He is offering The Austro-Germans have renewed in great strength bargains never before heard of in this their effort to pierce the Italian line. In fierce fighting around Monte Asolone, reinforcements in large numbers were brought Sam ha ' t0 ° many ,rood!, " nd he up and the Italians were compelled to give ground. Accord- U turBin,r th " n ,0 ° se “ a ' m ° 3t Ing to the Germ made prisoners. wnnt ,o save money, attend this big Along the southern reaches of the Piave river, the invaders tale. Sam Kulbersh's Is the place to and the Italians are engaged in heavy fighting. A crossing carry '"f bl * p»ek"ge« Jot little of the old Piave on pontoon bridges was successfully carried mon,J - out by an enemy detachment, but later the Italians drove them Ju,t ‘° lf,vr yon *° m ' back to the water’s edge. Wl 19 si. 1123* i of the ronderful bargains Sam is offering, a __,v e . , , ~v ne is sening yard-wide sheeting. An .™ er s P»nish Steamer, the Noviembre. has been torpe- worth 2i> cents a yard, for tfnly 13 1-2 doed without warning by a Teutonic allied submarine. ""ta a yard. The very hest ging- Various reports continue to come from Russia with regard worth 25 a yard - '* bf,in,r to the operations ofthe revolutinary and counter-revolutionary lurned ,OOM for ,hf remarkabIe ,ow forces in their snaggle for-supremacy. Ouf o? the maze "us TT V* ' ' T'Z V?' , C n° at s r an ac ; urate idea 2 to which iz isa of Dry trovenry k in the ascendancy. jtousjow price*. . _ “ ow ““ had weather generally has brought the : 1{ 7®* 1 want to pet nirr -rood* for nghtmg almost to a standstill on the western*front in France ^ ynnr monfy - carTy nway paek - »nd Belgium, except for small encounters by outpost and re- i ac ” and hn " money ,ef * n,tCT von Ciprocal bombardments. It'* through with your Christmas shop fi „i nalior Hnnrj Imtnon German naval forces again 1n the Korth 9s* *mrarS«lA " UcnB Ul * rl 'W»b6.Ufio Stock * 1I4r , o-Quinn. Ira C2 A 'is c T»ds «nd four mtaMwecpank Of two BriUuh dwtroj-e™ ' h ’ •»w>rting the vessels one was sunk and the other damaged. The German forces, so far as is known, consisted of four des jjJJJJ Wh#th «r *”7 these were hit has not be»n made KotwiUtetaudiu, terrible ] 0M e, the anuie. i„ „ orl heru Italy continue in their efforts to break the Italian line and a passageway to the plains below. Thvrvday Afl*rnoon. ards andthr canning snd preserving Hr R. L. Bennett, of the firm of of fruits and vegetables by the most ■seven col- Beaactt'* Hardware, was shot late improved .methods, n the first Thmday afternoon by Mr. W T. Me- ! The canning club members who vr ““ “■'»* "“is ■“•nd the nec- about s mile west of the Lennon have been working under,- the dlrec- \easary examinaUon. With tho six brilfe. sight mite, northeast of Tif- Uon of Mrs. Peterson and Mr. L. 3. 2,Who went fom-ard today, we hare too, Watson wiii be interested to’know 3 34 wbit « l fi colored Selectmen j Bennett had gone out to Mr. that special courses have been arran- 4 jin camp. Thirty-two wbite and 17 McM’s collecting and it i a said that gtd for them that will be both lnter- 6 colored went forward previous to foliwing a few wqrds. Mr. McCall esting and entertaining. - It ia repor- 7 today but of these four white and one dr«4r a shot-gun on him. He caught ted that a special agent will take 8 Colored failed to pass the necessary thawespofr and after a brief struggle rharge of the home demonstration 9 examination,' leaving a total of 44 l*stpossession of it A» he turned, work in January an-’ the courses 11 in camp before the boys went today. ( McCall shot him. should prove a stimulus tothis Mnw 12 When the three out on leave and' T»o buck-shot struck him in the of work. 14 Homer Florence, short on today's -of the back and three in the For the farmers there will be oour- 18 quota, go it^will give us 54. leaving ri * kl 9»W>- Tifton was telephoned ser in fertilixers, livestock produc- necessary to make the quoU of , fw^edlcal assistance and Mr Ben- tion dairying and farm management Under the first call. 147 Select- nettw brought to Tifton last night In an effort to help solve the labor *° mpn were neeiled from this county. *° ** hospital. His wounds are con problem a tractor demostration will 24 Tift got credit on this for 66 volun- serious hut not necessarily probably be held at the School. leers, which left the net amount to ^ n 4*L implement dealers bringing their 2 be furnished 81. ———° most improved machinery here for 27 Thursday morning the Tift county OFFICERS ELECTED. actual demonstration. 30 Exemption Board was notified by Wlon ^Ke No. 185. I. 0. ProT'Cny Firor, director of axten- Matthews. Thomas Homer 32 Provost Marshal General Crowder <> t- held »a annual election Wed- , ion w hools. was In Tifton Tuesday 33 through the office of the Adjutant- nesisy night the following officen making final arrangements for the 34 General in Atlanta, to forward the b *i* selected to serve the lodge for school, said. “We expect to bring the 35 remaining white men due to fill Tift 1911: b „ t ajrrieu |turol talent of the state 36 county* quoU on the first call to | R F. Jones, noble grand, to sue- to Tifton. and trust that the fanners 37 Camp Gordon on Wednesday. Decern- ceed J. A. Yarbrough. and u,. ir faraI ii„ v m UV , advantage ” n ^ „ F W Meadows, vice grand, to of u, e opportunity to hear these men 40 Daniel Livingston Goff was ex-lsuccted Mr. Jonea. and women” 41 cused hy the District Board until ! T. M. Brown, secretary, re-elect- — ~ „ 1178 Houghton. Willie Thaddeus 42 December 15th. On the expiration ed. NOTICE. 433 Herrington. Charles D. 44 ?f lhl " leave he will be certified back . Ontpn Mathis treasurer, to- 'All registrants receiving question 10 Baker. Merritt Franklin 45 j mto sendee ami if this certificate is'elec id. naires are requested to read them 1015 Hall. Allen Jefferson 46 received in lime he will Uavu with . 'ifc'new officers wffl be installed over carefully snd study them st 4S7 Blalock. William Florence 48 ‘he other* f«r Camp Gordon Wed- lhj fr * t meeting nifht In January, home before bringing them to con- 797 Johnson. Watkini “ T,v "* " — ' free to registrants. r 458 Pitt, Thad Jake 834 Ray. Hodges 1095 Lankford. Robert Minor 1117 Morris, j’ack 837 Owens. Tom 337 Wuiker, Jim 67*5 Armstead. Irvin 509 Mathis, Billy Goodman 1185 Reed, Daniel George P. 945 Butler, Clements-Ivory 1267 Jackson, Stonewall 536 Watson. Lonnie Monroe 126 Rowland, James Lee 1237 Wilson. Ben Hanging. Jr. 616 Goff. Daniel Livingston 373 Lawrence. Tom Herbert Yarborough Harrison F. 775 Hardy. Joe 600 Arnold. Charlie Linder 507 309 Brown, Will 437 Hutto. James Clifford 604 Brady. Willie Thomas 43 Jones,'Clyde Henry 1264 Youmans, 3nraea Elbert #24 Arnold. Clay Anderson 420 Dumas. Roy Lamar 1014 Fletcher, William Ollio Aikins. William Voru*. Jerome 132 'fildve^. Logan IX Dubose. Lucia- Vastine 927 Bum-. Jacob Theodore Forks; Mack mption Board, STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF The Bank of Tifton Locatad at Tifton, Georgia, at the close of business Dec 15 . , . RESOURCES land Loans 1 Loans ’ »an d^Stocks owned by from Banks and Bankers in this State Due from Banks and Bankers in other States Currency Gold Silver. Nickels, etc Clearing House- Advances on Cotton 8 138.161.83 45.121.03 27,993.00 2.480.00 4,961.70 5,341.53 * 113,999.68 697,755.71 13.190 00 26,000.00 School Auditorium 1bar 27. The management of the High School' Auditorium announces the cooking of BetPs -Famous Hawail- for a performance at the audi- tohum oh the' evening of Thursday -December. 27. This is a big .attraction and will visit Atlanta, Macon, Columbus and Albany Th the ofder named before coming to Tifton. The Hawaiian; go from here to Jacksonville. The auditorium management is 765 trying to. give the people oT Tifton j and^’territory surroueding a series of TOTAL 592,401.27— 81^460.36 11.666.805.76 LIABILITIES 1S&S “ I 50,000.00 JKU^c^tE^-iig 1W5 - 00000 ^DgodtU Subject to Cheek’9 826.028.64 151 06208 681,631.74 Checks 64.82 1 Chackl 7,684JO— 1,866^46.70 11,666406.76 TOTAL ‘ATE OF GEORGIA Tift Cmty. s cams B. H. McLeod, Cashier of The Bank of Tifton, iwom isvs th*t -—j m , » being duly sworn **Yi that tha above and foregoing shstemen? 1 ? • true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of file in said bank. B. H_ McLeod. 8wom to and subscribed before me, this 18th, day of Dec. 1917. v R. W. Goodman. Notary Public Tift Co. Ga. BELL'S HAWAHANS COMING. Big Attracti 182 Jones, Dewitt Talmage 46 Little. Walter Cicero 1020 Fletcher. Thomas Elbert 1099 Lupo, Willis 65 223 Whiddop. Warren Nicholaa 66 117 Maxwell. WiHianr Arthur 67 602 Baker. Charlie Thomas 68 390 Spradley. Jim Duran *69 721 Dye, Rhodie 72 280 Mayer. James 972 Cobb. Arthur Atkinson 966 Conger. Thomas Kibble 379 Milam, Perry Lee • other* fgr Camp Gordon Wed- 1 " v,n >\ If ^ ot hf Wl ” eo ns soon as a fte, which the other officers will suiting attorneys to" be filled out S0 ,v o , K- doing 0.1. they will save much Florence, among ,he Select- ; bh*t d^rree work wp.i engaged In Ume. 52 men d«e to leave for Camp Gordon Mtter ^ election 53 Wednesday morning, came in Wed- ! 55 nesdny afternoon from C. W. Dur- ! 5G den's place, where he had been work- 57 -ng He had -him to Alabama' but re' 58 turned, hnd the notice mailed by the 59 Local Board to his former address did 80 not reach him. He heard that he waa 6i wanted however, and came. He was 63 * ent on to Camp Gordon Thursday 64 morning. THE GASKINS CASE. Board of Bcrrim Exempli £ S.y. Intended No Wrong. ” News was given out a few lays 72 since that Clerk J. H. Gaskins of 7 * the Berrien County Exemption Board 7 ® had been removed by direction of the 73 Provost Marshal General's office. u , . _ MrrGaskins’ offense was that when Thom., * J th « , Berrien county was in Detroit. Mich, he wrote the marshnl ofthat city that if he would give him half the reward The following were mailed ques- hr , would fur7li ’ h him wi . ,h tha des "' high-claas theatrical attractions.'Co- tionnaries Monday, Dee. 17, answers tfr » «ddress. together with-nll paper* burn'*. Minstrel, was the first, and returnable on or before Monday. Dee Bell’s Hawaiian! will'be next. If,* 4 ' 874 Searles. Frank Genyard, James Williams, Georg* In his own behalf, Mr. Gaskins does ™- |]i« Ov,„te«teCte. Cr.nd.1 88 b “i r848 Kichol., Al.z.zdru 89 U “ t h ' ”« •*"" *■>-! Clftnent*. All™ tenjtete 88 I?-**** ri *' “*» b ' ,lo " ld i want to see attractions of his ] nature continue to exhibit in Tifton. they should show their desire by giv ing the attractions their financial support by attending. We have all kinds of frsah fruits for Christmas, among these being twelve kegs of Malaga grapes. Kick, i Grocery Company. 19-d5wl H*rb*rt l_ Mmi, Grmduta Opt—».lri.t Two yaart of continuous nraeOe* In Tifton and scores of satisfied cus tomer*. If you are suffering with headache, or other troubles caused by eye Strain be sure end consult me *"1 see if rla.-*** pr-pe-iv J don’t releive them, fn our office in the Myon Hotel Block every day. -16 933 Blanchard, Coseie 355 Gentry, Marcu* Doyle 96 630 Willis, Edge,. Wright 97 1114 Mitchell. Steve Frank 99 645 Beach. Sellie 100 620 Hall, Dennis J. 102 550 Edwards. Georg* 103 574 Norris, Steve 104 31 Holton, Coaraey 106 770 Hopes, Jesse 107 677 Anderson. Willi# 109 749 Grant, Herbert 110 525 Tncker. Warren 112 760 Hardy. Albert 113 66 Rod rev. Wood fin Grady 115 792 Jinks. E1H«h 11* 860 Cosrpev. 'Nsthan Lawton 118 f Con tinned have half the reward; that he had no intention to graft, and that if he did wrong it was under a misconstruction of the rules laid down by the various -•-artmenta; also that if there were any short-comings, they were due to NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. The Rice Mill will not be open Christmas week until Friday, Dee. tt The public win take notice and gov- themselvea accordingly. Touti respectfully, t Mutual M«Hag Co. Bring ns your hogs, or , • on# us and w# will send forthem. Ox are right Lang and Co. FOR y XMAS GIVE Make th« Joy of your Gift Lasting and Substantial. S*t a good example for the recipient'©! your Tglft by starting a savings account for him or her. Put YOUR rngmy in OUR bank. |We pay 5 per cent Interest. Come to'our bank. 'he Nation