Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

T The Tifton Gazette. TIFTON, TIFT COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1918. VOLUME XXIX.—NUMBER 42. T NEWS BY WIRE FIRST SHIPMENT BY NEW PACKING PLANT! TICK ERADICATION _7. —Germany’* tub-tea attack on the I a probable' toll of 145 United » and ar/tyflre othert, according to official and unofficial report* compiled here from the war xone Three Carload* of Meal in Thn Report* total the missing a* 210 with 2,127 aaved. Day* Thi* Week, r York, Feb. 7.—The United Pre**’ London dispatches ,! Voted by County CommunonKi at Regular Maotia*. Tick eradication for - Tift county i wa* voted by the Board of County *l(_'ommis*ioner» »t their regular ses sion thi* week.' Dr. P*ter F. Bah- |ten, state veterinarian, and Dr. Rob- Ate that the total ntanber of men and officer* of the United ,160,000 PAID OUT POD HDDS “ •a army lost or missing on the Tuscania is 145 divided a* , j | Cattle dipjflng will not be compul- follows: Forty three officers and 102 men. • Capacity of P.a. Doubtad — Mmi *ory. Vat* will be lodged in vari- London, Feb. 7.—The transport Tuscania floated for *ev«r- Ord.r. Comin, in Faat.r Thau ous parts of the county fnd the far- al hours after being torpedoed in Irish Wate'r*. it w’a* learned Shipm.ni. Ar. Mad.. men. will be invited to dip their eat- tod.,. It we. .Ulod that "Amorim, .boeed other .™el. ™e Tifton Iftek,ft; IW ».d. Tt.^j-01Ik. ft dtp U •»n...nrl »k » ,w- n | first shipment Wednesday, the , once. Dr. Bahnsen Util send a Wl ® orpcaosng. [shipping force' being busy until y man here to assist in selecting places Washington. Feb. 7—The greatest and most dramatic - o'clock Wednesday night getting sff for the vat*. They wfll be comple-' cue work of the war has been acconfelished in saving tlvte near-! rush' orders. The plant shipped a jted as soon as possible in order that ly all the American soldier* aboard the torpedoed Tuscanisy 'carload of meat Wednesday, anoth- the wdrk of dipping may": .- started, officials believe. j or Thursday and will ship the third ! The state will employ^ Tift conn- 1W ■>«*“• «f detroyer, p.MI bo.U end ho.pit.1 .hip.! ~‘“' 1 J F ' ,d *>' , *" *“ » »“ “A* oouvcHn, .boot tho.iokm, ,o^l. JdUIull, dlroctod b,! ™ “** ” ' >U f”’ T , _ .. • . ’ . y Atlanta and Brunswick. The plant b »aval officers, with a net saving of 90 per cent of thos*; .ire.dy has more orders for meat REPORTOF DISTRICT BOND ELECTION IS BOARD IS RECEIVED’ CALLED FOR TV TV ON VISIT TO TIFTON Sixty-Eight Questio turned to County Board i People Will Consider Matter of Public Improvements. Fairfax Harrison, J. B- Munson and Director* See Packing Plant the sinking ship, ii e that will reflect glory in ntva i, Feb. 7 i —Hope anjl belief that the loss of ife will be greatly reduced by later reports is ex- Brigadier General McIntyre of the War Depart The General said that may ships were in the vicinity of fhip. When all have reported it may be found that men may have been saved, after the tragedy left its mark on official Wsish- T of War Baker issued a statement of comfort to ^ »ons and brothers have bedn added to the Nation' c dead. , In the meantime the purpose of the War Department and i of Congress to relentlessly repay Germsmy for her by thrust at America’s mpi was strongly avowed. “We and we will win this war,” Baker declared. This state- was echoed throughout official Washington. , Tfe® Department announced chat ica records showed the following were on board the Tuscania: „ c Hfadquarters detachment and Companies D. E and F of the Twentieth Engineers. One Hundred and Seventh Engineer train. One Hundred and Seventh Military Police. One Hundred and Seventh Supply Train, No. 100 Aeroplane Squadron. One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Aeroplane Squadron. Two Hundred and Thirteenth Aeroplar.e Squadron. Replacement detachments No. 1 and 2 of the Thir- »nd Division. Fifty-one casual officers. The One Hundred and Seventh Engineers was com- 1 of the First Battalion of Michigan engineers; the \ hundred and Seventh Military Police was made up Sixth Wisconsin Infantry and the Hundred and Seventh Supply Train from tha Fourth, ' mm i Sixth Wisconsin Infantry. Thirty-second Division is composed of National ops from Michigan and Wisconsin. The division amp McArthur, Texas. b announced that the Tuscania was manned by ^th a British naval guard and was con- r British warships. % * a was a British passenger and freight f 14,348 tons gross register. The last report of k^ma was her arrival at an Atlantic port January Buncrana, at which survivors from the Tuscania B landed, is located on Lough Swilly, on the northern 1st of Ireland, 12 miles from Londonderry. Lough Swilly * long narrow.bay running in from the Atlantic ocean. • « Larne-, where ©Infer survivors were landed'from the _ Bel, is on the northeast coast of Ireland, 23 miles from Belfast. It is a North Channel port. The approximate n ce by water between the two ports is 100 miles. For some time the Tuscania has been under charter o the Cunard Line and she is the fifth vessel of the Cunard Jiy lost since the war began. $ ICsntlnufed on Last'Page.) rcgulai pert* to begin killing three weeks. Manager Brooks and his assistants e long white robes, like a force . internes at an operation. - In - _ . . j fact, there are some anatogu* feat- Tb. flat ho. a gftnt Hnmpehire, urM , fc ,, his jowls distended with fatness, was ! caught by Willingham Tift just at 9 Four hundred and nineteen hogs ’clock. He was hooked to the hoist- in ^ hondred minutes wss the re- Passed i n front of Frank Scar-; cord „„ of the pI , nl of ^ Tifton The Tifton packing plant made a [ , killing Monday morning. b„ro, «bo welted. , keen pointed p.ekft. Com,™,-the (At tftj ot iu “"I.T.In E.tl Jon... knife in hand. His arm directed »«' ■ I SiTas Arrington. .operation. th. eject -pot b, SupL Sftltenborj, | | the first-hog of the millions-deatined to go through the plant was stock, a stream of dark blood spurted, and the animal, squealing, way to the scalding vat. From the carriers, the hog ^ to the dropped into the vat. turned this wa y ! »"d it urn. 2 o clock be- andthat by-men on either side with '°7 ** *5 *”°°" T“ ,* poles, and then guide,! to the run- 1 But th " th ' n,f8 m?Ved In e “ cWy way from which he wa* hoisted into! thrc ' houra “ nd twent - v “ the big scraping machine. Here he toUl1 of 419 hofr * h,<l b * en kiHed - COUPLE., than The. hogs killed Monday were cdt up Wedne day morning, and the plant resumed killing Wednes day afternoon. The killing record Wednesday night was: Mon day, 419 hogs; Tuesday, 517 hogs; Wednesday. 4(4 hogs. This in add!-, in to the frequent stops necessary new equipment. About ten carloads of hogs were unloaded Wednesday and ten car loads more were reported on the way Thursday. The hogs are com- to the Tifton plant from all over South Georgia. Up to & o' clock Wednesday afternoon 360.000 had been paid out for hogs. Ir^ ad dition to the car shipments, a. -large number of hogs have bee/i brought here in wagons. The cotnpany al ready has _■* . . rnH- > double.) the capacity of the pen*, wmch vtii hold 6,000 hogs completed. The matter of employing a county farm demonstrator was brought to the attention of the Commissioner* tot the matter was declined. Lo cal attorneys informed the Commis sioners that they were not permitted under tha law, to employ * demon strator. It is expected that the mat ter will now be taken before the County Board of Eduesrtion. The Commissioners ware in ses- >n Monday and Tuesday. cessary, but everything will be work ing'like a clock within a week. Dr. C. S. Lemon, of Augusta, ar rived this morning and will act as substitute Government inspector un til the regular force arrives. Th? plant opened with a full crew of employes, in fact s few sur plus men among the coupon labor ers. who tnll undergo a weeding-out process for the first few days. The ^double! cx P erts * rf b11 tried “ nd *PP rove<, :",-imen The capacity ofthe plant is i* pens, wmch win ;—' . .. when the addltLn P y ‘ Mr. T. W. Tift sold six flne'liog to the plant Wednesday, securing J r J270 for them. n 600 to l.QOTT noga £ ■ work- The plant ex in killing rattle in about 54 ARE PLACED IN CLASS ONE THREE ITEMS IN THE ISSUE MAKING INSPECTION OF OSAO G- S. a ad F. Fairfax Harrison, president of tha Southern Railway System; J. B. - Itunson, vice-president of the Geor gia Southern and Florida, and dl- » be voted ( rectors of both roads made an in- s follows: spection of the Tifton Packing Plant 7,000 for the purpose of building Thursday. by Th* District Board; Willie Thaddeus Houghton Lafayette StaUina. Col. Chester Alonso Matthews. Thomas Verlin Hobbs. Wesley Rollins Duff. Jim Burton Langley. Charlie Henry Childs. Millard Hosmer Pearson. Logan GlWrer. Land Andrew Rigsby. . Clark Hobby. Dalton Wright Willis. Allen Hairy Hasty. Mack Willis Gibbs. Joseph Alford Porter. James "Melvin Fletcher. John Washington Cobum. Charlie Nunnally. Col. Simon frade Stewart Trummie Lee Patrick. Athle Lee Lyons, f _J ^n James Barnes. Willie B."inc.. G 0 ' Clarence Raymond Hancell. Walter Lee Watson. Merritt Franklin Baker. William Kirby Daniels. Eugene Lamar Jordan. Allen Fort Dorman. ’ Burie Singleton. •Oliver Johnson. John Phillip Adams. Edward Dickinson Hollingsworth. Board. I 32,500 for School. The Distri ct Exemption Board 1 Notice of s bond election t has returned to the Tift County Ex-' held in Ahe town of Ty Ty on March iption Board the questionnaires of j 8th 1918, is given >n an advertise- 1 cty-cight Tift county registrants ment elsewhere in the Gazette, which had been referred to the dist- The total bond issue t rict board for special classification. | jn is 312,000, divided i Of this number, 54 were placed-37,000 in Class 1, four in Class 2 and ten in and equipping *n electric light plant! The officials of the two Class 4. 1*2.500 for the extension of the rived in Tifton Thursday morning There still remain sixty cases ! town’s waterworks system by build- 1 , special train and were taken from thi* county to be decided by|ing.a reservoir, the extension ' out to •F;fton's new plant in can, mains and new water pipes; *J.- 1 sorted b, Messrs. Frank Scarbo- Tb* Following Were Placed in Class 500 for the purpose of eonstrartlng ‘ h H. Tift. Jr., and others. They and equipping a new and modem )W ere carried nil through the plant school building. , an I -ivor *n idea of th* modem j Ty Ty already has a small water- nen -dustry just started up in Tif- jworks system and is so well pleased t>n. with the umple, that the town is go 1 n,, oflicitds are on s tour of th* jing to branch out It has one of G _ g. ind F.. and after spending jthe best schools in the county, but 1 . ttw hou „ here> j,f t f or po| nta | wants an even better. Some of the ' ond u,, M uth of Tifton. | town‘people already have aleetria E. H. Coapman, keneral manager light plants of their own. ljut being of u, e Southern; J. M. Cutler, gene- progreseive, they want a plant for r .j frwivHt agent of the G. S. and F.; alf Ty Ty. , j A. E. Marsh, muter of trains; J. E. _TyJPy hu grown fhost rapidly Inwall, keneral counsel; G. O. Lott, c-eM years. 1 no wonder Such traveling engineer, and other G. S. •nterpri.e it bound to show. jand F. offlcial* were in the party. D | In addition to inspecting the pack PEANUTS $209 ACRE Jng plant, they took • trip over th* | rit yand visited the Tift farms. $140.50 Afl.r OaM. Thi. Man Mad*, ‘FEW RETURNS MADE. through the-plant was 62,466 pounds and the net weight of the - indeed j I hogs wu 44,951 pounds. After the start at 9 o’clock there j whirled until his overcoat only hair, andthen he dropped out i the scraping platform. Contrary to the general opinion, there is still much handwork in the packing business andthese men went tdbk very much a« the old- time hog-killers, but much faster, nen on either yf>K- with long knives, took off the hair the machine had missed, giving especial attention to the head and feet While the last mss Wns’scrsp- Ing. "his opposite in-cried 'tile gamb ling-stick, nnd the hog whd again swung on the carriers. On these he pawed in f-—it of two -rapes; then before a third who opened the head; then the fourth who turned a jet of steam over the intol; on the same trolley he passed to the first butcher, who removes thchcad. This was thrown on the inspector’s platform and exnmined by long incisions on either side of the fleshy parts wider the jaw. The gutter, with lightning-like slashes of his knife disemboweled the animal, the intestines, liver, Jungs, and *11 Tiog’a hogs to the minute. Manager Brooks says that the highest number of bogs kiUed on opening day before this at any plant he managed was 202,\hc first day at Tifton more than doubling this re- Wbiefc u further .erideuu that Tifton has one of the best"peeking plant* in the South—or anywhere else, for that matter^ Tht-day 1 * Tun was very gratifying to the operating force as well as to ,the company** oflUals, Secretary Hcarboro evidencing the latter’s ap- ; I predation of the good work done hy^” ' flic presentation o’f tiiree - Boxes cigars to the men in charge. the balance of the 1 i interior SiTas Arrington. .Homer Lane Bolton. Warren Tucker. James William McCoy, Col. Tyner Butler. Col. Alvie Jerome Long. Fred Forrester Stokes. Thomas Dickinson Halliday. Henry Clay Davis. . Marion Cobb. Sam Burke, Jr. D*vid Haywood. Col. Henry Clay Halliday. Charlie Young Workman. Warren E. Lovett. . George Perry MeCrant^.— John Bryant McKellar. Eugene Paul Drexel. Ben Franklin Herrtdon. Benjamin Wilson Dowd. The Following Were Pieced in t - 2 by The Dir Ariel 1 Leon Daniel Bozeman. Herbert Tail Horne. Thad Jake Pitt William Hawey SonfSw.'. The Following Wee* Pieced in Cle.e 4 by The Di.tr,c B< *ilt Talmage Jones. *1.881 on Nine A< What do you think of if $209 an acre from peanuts? Also, bow about $140.50 an a for peanuts after oats? I M r. O. H. Pendley, who it spend- Iik « big money, even In (in(f the week here ^ mmist Xlft these days of bV-KiiS^' but “, countyj people in making out tjeir just what a man made on ,cre *, income tax returns, says that few of Tift county land. Yet some peo- county people have made re- ple still talk about money in 30-cent turns *'aItfi9iC > ’ be * large J «"' 1 t-"- -I number ftnm i"- 1 B *7 < " bunt P-r U„m ^» nuM—— ' ' Thi. mnn h, » r,.d, ft, m.h. 1 P "<’” J”" W “ dlftt ft ft, tftft h. -ft lorth fft-.-lft-in.bl All who nft «*. . below, ft hi. own word.; U " — W - Sreftnnm. G.„ Jrn,. n. I»«. tt "- R ' tun ” m "“ W Editor GM,tft: .ftede bdford Merch 1. A, I am , reiidrni of jour eoun-1 pwrtloo onbjoot ft the 1*1 tj. If I do lire id the extreme Berth- “*-* reft™ voldhtortlj, the joe- west corner ofthe county,, owning ,* rnment *ffsnt# will have to ssareh of the corner lot of two them ® nt o* eoura* call counties. 1 thought I would let you ■ Penalty. If you think yon know what this part of the county subject to the tax, see Mr. Pend- will produce, with good fertllUei- 1*7 before Saturday night and thorough cultivation. mk I planted nine acres in Spanish peanuts in March and gathered 98 i bushels per acre or 882 bushela on ■ c nine acres' and one and one-half j ns of hay per ere. I sold the peanuts for seed purpo- S. Royal want sver to Shingler Thursday to visit his broth er. Mr. A. D. Royal, who was re ported quite ill Wedneeday. Mr. Royal suffered a stroke of paraly sis last Octobey. and has not been at $1.75 per bushel or $171.76 Jin very good health since, acre, and the hay at $25’per ton | — $37.50 per acre, or a. total of per acre. I told the peanuts for $1.75 *209 per acre. land th* hay $>5 or $140.50 per Mere I also planted thirty acres sft^r Now, I will make affidavit to that leaking s gnnd crop of nat*..,aw!..Mid proveJt if ace gathered 2,000 bushels or a Tittle SCHEDULE OF 'SCHOOLS. of Meetings of Heelth Confer- ence. W. S. S. nnd Other.. Excelsior, Friday. Feb. 8th. ilxrding, Monday, Feb. lit*. Salem. Tuesday, Fed 12th. Red Oak. Friday, F*b. Uth- Ar.sley. TTuesday. Feb 10th Brookfield, Thursday, Feb. 2lit. Fillyaw^ Friday. Feb 22, 1918 Works going on the inspector’s table.! Fairvrfw. Monday. Feb. 25, 1918. for here is the test of health. | Carpp Creek. Tuesday. Fob. 26. Thehog the z panes before the Hot Creek. Thursday, Feb. 28. trimmer, who removed parts which go to the lard vats;.then before a with a cleaver who split him in tveairt, tearing only a small strip" holding at -the -top. Thehog then passes on esrriera to the cutting rooms, thence down back through the building in the vari processes of conversion until b»- emerges in the shipping rooms in hams, shoulders, side* 'srd, and aliens by-produets. We propose later to follow the hog through oth er departments. There were a great many visitors out to sew the start. For the wit few days there win. be more or less adjusting and preliminary work ne- 1918. Myrtle. Monday. March 4, 1918. Pearman, Wednesday, March 6, Bay. Friday, Ua*h 8. 1918. ■Brighton.' Tuesday, March . Midway, Thursday, March 14, Pineview, Fridny. March 16. Nipper. Tuesday, March 19, 1918. Old Ty Ty, Thursday, March 21, Vaneeville. Friday. March 22, ANNUAL CONVENTION. Of Berriea County Sunday School The annual eonvntion of Berrien county Sunday School Workers will be held at the Methodist church at Alapahm Thursday and Friday. Feb ruary 7 and 8. From the present Indications this wfll be one of tb* most successful m.etings ever held hi tbs county. LconariL Grady feonnell. Robert Situ Gibbs. Daniel Livingstqn Goff. Jesse Asbury Whaley. Thomas Willingham Tift. - William Arthur'Sutton. Samuel Reid Bowen. _ ' Homer Preston Crum. MORE TIFT COUNTL riOGS. Tift Farms Shipped Fifty Haad Outside Parties. Twenty-one head ’of bred Duroc sows were- shipped from the Tift Farms Wednesday to Alex K. Ses- soms of Waycross. They brought $751.20. or an average of more than $35.76 a head. The sows aver 226 pounds. Th* Tift Farm* also recently 29 head of hogs for something $800. Mr. Willingham Tift_reports that they have eleven hogs ready for the packing jflant with which h* peeta to take the blue ribbon. He expects th* hogs to weigh 400 poun- eacb and thinks they urffl bring the top market. The Tift Farms hard is now being groomed for the Florida fair latter part of this Rionth, and Mr. Tift says they Mr. J. J. L. Phillips also will send Us herd to this fair. NOTICE—Cafl telephone No. 297 tor- your rural telephone repairs. Lewis and NoH Electric Company. 61d4wl come to our Ban i 1 AND GET ONE FOR ] When you give money. It l^a practical way of proving your sincerity. When ytfu give her a bank bgolt you are doing yourself a favor. She can get more'for her money* tfcan you can. She- can pay her blU^ with checks and our bank can help her to keep her act her time and trouble. tccounts straight—and save Put YOUR money In OUR bonk.f ' We pay 5 per cent Interest. Come to our bank. The National Bank ot^Tift