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The Tifton Gazette
VOLUME XXIX.—NUMBER
IA, FRIDAY. MARCH 1, 191&
TIFTON, TIFT COUNTY. GEOR<
I$1.50 AND (2.00 PER ANNUM.
’^UTlatest news BY WIRE
Petrograd, Feb. 28.—(By Joseph Shaplen, U- P. Staff Cor)
The Austrian* refused to advance against the Russians in Vol-
ynia, according to Zhitmoir dispatches.
The Germans occupying Reval were heavily bombarded
from Nargan Island by the Russians-
Report of growing disobedience onthe part of the German
troops ii also received from Orsha. Hindenburg has ordered
Operations in the Orsha district halted and German troops have
L< an ordered to cease advance against Pskoff, according to tele
phone advices, but the battle apparently continues.
The German and Austrian commanders fearing the refusal
of the Austrians to fight, have concentrated 200,000'troops in
tbe Dubno district.
Washington, Feb- 28 Japanese intervention gr joint act
ion with Siberia appeared probable today and awaits only Am-
e< ican approval-
British and French diplomats indicate that their countries
are willing that Japan should step into the war to prevent Ger
many setting a gra«p on Eastern Siberia,
1 Berlin. Feb. 28.—At Minsk we captured 2,000 fnachine
gnns as»d 60,000 rifles, the German War Office announced
fhington, Feb. 28.—Convicted of sleeping ontheir posts
wumr American Boldiera in France have been sentenced to death.
Gen. Pershing'approved the sentence but it must be re-
K'e^d by the War Department, and finally passed on by the
*T*reaident.
The names are withheld.
Petrograd, Feb- 28.—German invaders are shooting Rus
sian prisoners the Central Workmens’ and Peasants’ Commit
tee charged in a proclamation issued today. 'the enemy is
, arming released German and Austrian prisoners against the
[Workmens and Peasants Government, the’ proclamation de-
London. Feb. 28—At Greenland Hill. North Scarpe and
uSouthhoulst Forest the British last night captured a few Gor-
vbi«ns and machine guns, Gen. Haig reported
The enemy’s artillery is active near Havicourt Wood and
South Scarpe
Lo^cm- Feb. 27—Revolutionary forces have captured
Novo Tcherkawsk. th<* capital of the Don Cossack province,
according to wireless dispatches from Petrograd.
Washington, Feb. 26.—(By Card D. Groat, U. P. Staff Cor) !
Germany is making a new peace drive, now that she has a !
goodly section of Russia.
TTiat is the meaning international experts put today on the
conciliary tone adopted by Chancellor Von Hertling in his re
ply to President Wilson’s pesise term speech.
t 7*** Chancellor’s acceptance of four of its principles was
f^rerded as ,dieting hi. belief that the Allies at the peace
t*We would not struggle over Russia long if the French, Belgian
H j •°™* of the Balkan questions could be adjusted
... if. n i°- n ’ 7 eb 26—The American and British Embassies
,*** "j? artmg Jram Petrograd leaving a few persons in charge,
Sfccordtng to Exchange telegraphic dispatches from Petrograd
in France - Feb - 25—(By Fred S Furger-
r. Staff Cor.>—An American raiding parly with the
in Me Chemm des Dame, sector Saturday captured two
f^T , “ officers, twenty men and one machine gun. There
\ o° American casualties-
. ’.™ k “J-um-nl, cootm,*,
.up^ior -nmy ob^rv.li„„
“ y ‘ r * in r ' , “ l *“ d in k ”“ d ~P "">•> on th.
F * b “ -Th. Britih force, in Me^n,^.
gu WB^c , Wedne.day end ere now within
PP-JS-nc T offic ‘* n y “nnounced. Hit i, on the Euphre-
mile, writ of Bagdad. P
Feb - 25 —<D»to of 24th Balayed)—The Exo-
*•» a Breed to accept the
prToTvrt, “■ V ° te beini; 126 l ° 85 Twenty-six
.4 'if 1 !"’ Frb - 25—German forces have reached Zhitormr
the War |S ™e hundred tnilee east of Bovno.
tne w ar Office announced-
al.n <he ’ ,atcmcnt “M ‘he whole-staff of the Rue.
menderTh„“S' ^ * 'he
Enthusiastic Throng Greets Gov
Dorsey in Macon.
Will Ask States and Municipal!-: Said Prof. Duggan in Address to
ties to Permit Rate Increases- Twentieth Century Club.
SITUATION IS QUITE SERIOUS
• ^ t — /
PLEDGEDSUPPORTTO COUNTRY
PRESIDENT APPROVES. OF IT BAS MORE SCHOOL OAROENS
All And School Yards aro lha Baal Ha
j Ha. Visited. Club Combined Edu-
I catioo and Annivaesary Program.
iiuoa. ' It is s joy to visit the rural schools
-Following I of Tift county; there is not a school
Jons from ! that is not wdl-kspt; the school ,
itility cot- ^ yards are in tho best condition of j
lute and I any he has visited, and Tift has .
to consid- [more school gardens than any connty ,
readjust-' in the state, said Prof. M. L Duggan (
ould tend! Rural Sute Agent, to the Twentieth (
Century Library Club and its guests f
Tuesday afternoon.
Prof. Duggan was introduced to
thc.club in » short talk by Mrs. Peter
son, Chairman it the Committee- on ,
Education, who said that Prof. Dug
gan had been investigating the schools
of Tift for the past two weeks and
that, although we sll like to hear
nice things and-like to be complimen
ted, Prof. Duggan had come to criti
cise and not to flatter.
But if the nice things Prof. Dug
gan said about the Twentieth Century
Club and its work in the county
schools was criticism, then the writer
iikea to listed to that kind. He made
a splendid and instructive talk and
said in part that Tift esunty was om?
of the foremost counties, education
ally, in Georgia. That it was a joy to
visit the schools and notf the direct
result of the concentrated and co
operative efforts of ^ie club women
pentT teachers of the county. He
said that he had not found a single
school that was not well-kept, and
thatfhis ‘has much to do with the
physical condition of the children as
well ns) the mental. He said that the
schooyyards were in the best condi-
ti.on-'of any that he had foun'd and
that Tift had more school gardens
than any other county.
Prof. Duggan said that while every
school building was good that the only
fault he found was the imperfect
heating and lighting and that these
could both be easily remedied at a
nominal oust. Also, in the 'play
grounds he found no j>lay appliances,
which were very necessary.
(Detailed report of the club meet
ing will appear tomorrow.)
Declare, It- I, Essential That
(From Thursday's Daily.)
Arrangement* have been entirely I
completed for all thc meetings to ,
he held at school houses of the coun
ty tonight. The meeting at the
cotton Mill will be combined with |
thc meeting held in that section at;
the church, Mr. Reid and Rev. G. W.
Mathews being in charge.
In addition to those who were ’ |
mentioned Wednesday, the following'
have volunteered to help: M. S. ,
Shaw, Berry Rigdon, Perry Moore, 1
H. 1a Cartwright. W. S. Cobb. Mr '
Walters, Mr. Harden, P. D. Fulwood, I
Mr. Jolly, R. E. Hall, Jr, and Judge/
J. 11. Price.
Folks in Tifton should attend thb'
meeting at the court house cn mas- j
m\ Every family should be repree- j
ented. The meeting is not for the
purpose of speech making. It is for i
the purpose of putting concretely i
before every one the most serious
itur-lion *Jmt—ha* confronted the,
I South since thc Civil War and for (
I deciding upon.jionie means to carry
jus through that situation. Not only/
the men but the women and the
> he hoys and girls over fifteen are
rnncerncS. It will be brief and to
Ithe pointl If ourselves and our
. children are to be spared from hun
ger this summer and fall it is for us
to act aggressively together hnd at
, once. This meeting is the oppor
tunity for organized and concerted
, action. S. T. K.
, Among those who will > go from
, Tifton to attend the mcetihgm in the
. rural schools are:
T E Stubbs, T S Rigdon, Judge H
Kent. J. G. Padrick, Mai Nathan, R
. Gentry, J N Brown, J K Peeples, M [
. E Hendry, K E Dlnsmore, M S Pat-!
a ten, ^(orris Levy, I M Allan, C V
. Arnold, FT H Tift Jr, I Y Conger. ]
F H Cony, Murray Smith, H S Mur- i
ray. W L Harman. J S Rldgdill. L P
Thurman, R D Smith, J M Peeples, 1
/ J W O'Neal, C W burden, H L Moor. 1
'GW Coleman. J A Peterson. K Car- j
* son, I W Myers, W H Bennett, I D
, Morgan. J L Herring, C, L Parker.
W A Darnell, E P Bowen, W H
, Spooner, W W Timmons, B H Mc
Leod, H H Hargrett, O W Fulwood,
, Prof. Breedlove, Prof. Lewis and G
W Mnthews.
(From Thursday's Daily.)
Gcorgu. went "over the top" yes
terday at Macon in her drive for
food conservation when 3,000 cheer
ing patriotic and determined citizens
of the state took up the challenge
thrown down by Gov. Hugh M. Dor
sey, is. the way thc correspondent of
the Savannah Morning News begins
an enthusiastic account.
Dr. A. M. Soule, Food Administra
tor for Georgia, former Gov, N. E.
Harris, J. J. Brown, Commissioner of
Agriculture, F. C Woolcott, Chief
Aide to Herbert Hoover. Federal
F'ood Administrator and others that
tho people of this state must v not
. *• -• • but must raise
po rations asking
^orul authorities be
cr quickly arguments for readjust- j
roent of rates which woulu .
toward maximum of efficiency, Wil
liam G. McAdoo, as Secretary of the
Treasury, brought the matter to the
attention of President Wilson.
He received today a reply from
the President expressing the convic
tion that the public utilities formed
a vital part of the war machinery and
authorizing him to take up with the
proper officials, when circumstances
might make such action advisable,
the problems involved.
The representative* of the public
utilities had brought before Mr. Mc
Adoo what they believed to be thc
necessity for a general increase in
rates if service was to be extended to
meet the increased demands of war
time activities. It is possiblbc that
some consideration may be given by
the Federal Government to the ques
tion of extending credit necessary for
expansion, especially if thc.War Fi
nance Corporation bill is adopted.
The utilities-in which the Federal
Railroad Administration will interest
itself are street, railway, light, heat.
Pwirson Ci y <-
Brooks Cowart.
Jeff I>«rnell.
Wm. EarnvSt Firmer.
Gerald Herring.
Jeff Parker.
John Parker.
Ralston Padrick.
*■ Neil Ryder.
F'rank Willis,
Some of the boys are in France,
some are on the water and others *r»
stationed in Various part* of th«
country Nearly, every branch of
the service is ^represented.
only fee themselves
a surplus of food crops so that some
may be sent to the allies, and pledged
themselves to support their country'
in this, her most serious crisis.
The gathering was the most re
presentative of its kind that Geor
gia has ever known. Every section
of the state and practically every
county was represented nndi they
brought a store of unbounded cn'Jui-
, Gov. Dorsey's declaration that ‘‘no
one within thc sound of my voice will
doubt .that we must and will win thi.i
war" was greeted w(th the waving of
flags andthe cheers of the entire av
rcmblage. That was really thc Mg
nal that sent the throng* “over* the
top."
^Following the food conservation
meeting the State Council of Defense
held a meeting at the Hotel Dempsey
attended by about two hundred mem
bers of the organisation. refuf*ent •
ing fifty or more Georgia counties.
The meeting was called by Gar. Dor-
*ev to hear reports on what the dif
ferent .county councils are daisg to
he'p win the war.
The plan for registering shipbuild
ers was explained by J- D. Weaver.
Announcement*was mnde tlia'. s simi
lar meeting will be held In Atlanta.
March 21-22, and members of the
VACCINATED ONE HUNDRED.
County Hoath Officor Todd Was a
Busy Maa Wadnaadky.
Wednesday whs Dr. Todd’s busy
day. Incidentally, there are one
hundred more or Ikes sore arms among
the faculty and .pupils ofthe Gram
mar School this morning, with prob-
1 abilities of a more acute soreness
later.
The cause of it *11 waa a ease of
| small-pox, which has been traced as
coming from Alabama. On* of the
FREIGHT COLLISION AT ARCEE.
Engineer Hudion and Two N*groos
Worn Injurod.
Albany, Feb. 26. Three persons
were hurt, one seriottsly, when
Atlantic Coast Line through freight
train No. 212 ran into the rear end
of local freight No. 328 at Acree,
between here and Sylvester, last
night. The local was standing at
the Acree station while the crew was
switching.
Kngineer J. R. Hudson and his
THREE HOGS BRING »02.50.
'•SATURDAY NIGHT SKETCHES.
pearing under the title “Saturday
Night" in the Tifton'Gaxette, are on
sale, price'$2.59, postpaid.
The book hh SIH pages nnd seven
illustrations from original sketches
by Tom J. Nicholl. It is an Author’s
Autqgraflhed Edition, -bound -la
muruun silk-cloth, with gold letter
ing. Clear print, large type, a neat
and attractive volume, that should be
in every Southern library. Sent on.
receipt wf • price * by J: "L.' 'II erring.'
Tifton Ga. tf.
Local agents wanted. Especial in-
dueementa to boys or girls working
their way through school.
them Department 'Store.
mander who flod-
depend'
; many of our war industries
ny other industries essentinl
vnr is produced by them. It
thnt here nnd there, because
prdminence given to less im-
interests immediately at
tatc and local authorities do
nvs- appreciate thc close con-
the soundness and
local utilities and
gth and vigor, and*
i sufficient prompt
er remedial meas.
I'j.e In *'108 cases, I am confident
i thnt all such State nnd local nuthori-
I ties will respond promptly to the na
tional needs when the matter is fnir-
| ly fcnd properly brought before
Our public service utilities are
closely connected with nnd are an es
sential part of our preparations for
nnd successful prosecution of the war,
and the unfavorable tendencies which
the accompanying papers reveal may
moft effectively be checked, when
ever they may be found to exist,
and the needed relief obtained, only
by prompt action on the part of the
respective local authorities.
I earnestly hope that you may feel
rCondnued en Last Page.*
THE REXALL STORE.
At First Baptist Church B*fius
Monday Afternoon, March 4th.
A Week of Prayer will be obser
ved at the First Baptist church,
beginning Monday afternoon at 3
o’clock. Services will bo held each'
afternoon during the week, except
Saturday. ‘J
- There will be a special offering for
Home 'Missions Wednesday after
noon. . The funds derived will be
used for the purpose of having the
gospel preached tothe soldiers in
Every woman member is urged to
devote one hour each day the coming
week to the service of prayer.
Announcement is made today of
the purchase of the fixtures of the
National Drug Store by Brooks
Pharmacy Company. The stock .of
the National is bi-ihg moved to
Pinkston's Drug Store and in a few
days The Rexall Store will open in
thc National stand.
Mr. Emmett Dual, with Brooks
Pharmacy-for a number of years,
will be in charge of Thc Rexall Store
but the store will be run under the
supervision of Dr. J. L. Brooks, who
haa achieved such great success in
the management of brooks Phar
macy.
See announcements of Dra. Brooks
and Pinkston elsewhere.
efficiency of th<
[ the nntional
|FDont kccpj/ourMone*
F IN YOUR HOUSE
PUT IT IN OUR BANK.
Are You Raising a Roof
This picture tells Its own story. They had their
money In the house; they were saving that money for
their old age, or some other purpose. /.
Now they have no home; but If their rj&ney was safe
In our bank they could draw on It for another home.
Your house Is no place to keep your money; lots of
things might happen to it. Put It In our bank.
Longfellow taid: “Into each life a little raiiiij
mast fall" Are you preparing to shelter your
family when the storms come.
The wise man builds when the skies are clear.
Money in the bank, will solve thje “Rainy Day ”
I have sold the fixture# at the Na
tional Drug Store and have moved
the stock to the Pinkston Drug Store
stand.
I want to assure the customers of
the National Drug Store of my hearty
appreciation of thefcr patronage and
trust that I may be able to continue
to serve them from Pinkston’s Drug
Store.
I wrfll appreciate your business and ,
give you the best drugs snd the best
service possSjle. dwlt
N. D. Piakatea, Prop.
A big line of Ladies' snd Child
ren's guaranteed solid leather God-
man slippers, just received at Whit
ley Brothers Department Store. Wo
carry the real article. Buy on* pair
and you will buy this make again.
26-d2t-wll
Put YOUR money" in OUR bank.
We pay 5 par cant Intaraat.
Coma to our bank.
Two year* oi continuous practice
In Tifton and scores of satisfied cue-
toraeis. If you are suffering with
headache, or other troubles caused
by eve strain b* sure and consult me
snd see if glsuse* pr-perly fitted
don't releive them. In onr office
Bank of Tifton
NEW GROCERY BUSINESS—Will
appreciate your trade. J. T. Dlek-
jena, next door to B. H. Bankston’s.
I Main street, Tifton. Ga. 15w4t
The National Bank of Tifton, Ga.