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■ U- PrSUff JCor.)—Sixty-one American loldsera, (as
TLbc Litton ©asette
Published Weekly
• Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
(8 Second Clans Matter, Act of March 3, 1879
Jno. L., Herring Editor and Manager
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Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia-
SATURDAY NIGHT.
A Quilting-Bee.
Writing from Enigma, a. correspondent tells
of a quilting-bee. at which there was fun and
gossip, a quilt finished, and much good eating.
In the early days or Wiregrnw Georgia, noth
ing was bought to furnish the bed- The pillows
were of goose-feathers; usually the bed of the
same, or of ccotton hand-picked, carded into
bats, laid and stitched between substantial
ticking; the sheets and pillow-cases were of
cotton or flatC home spun and wove; the
ing of patchwork quilts, topped by a coverlet
heavily woven in attractive patterns on the home
loom- It was to finish the patch-work quilts
that the "quiltings” were given.
The quilt was the product of countless sew
ing hours—on winter nights, by the fireside;
when a few moments could be snatched from
the duties of the day: the utilization of min
utes now allowed to go to waste. For the house
wife and-daughters of those days had no lei
sure moments, and to idle was considered little
short of a crime. Some most beautiful speci
mens of hand-Bewing were handed down to pos
terity in those substantial and attractive patch-
avork quilts our mothers and grandmothers
made.
Every scrap was saved when the family gar
ments! were made—nothing wns
been killed; or a shoat if it was cold enough;
always chicken, fried, and pied, with a pot-full
of dumplings and gravy; pound-cake ,a stack of
potato custards a yard high, and the choice
from the family store of jellies, preserves or
dried-fruit, and of course all the vegetables
of the season.
A brief rest for the tired fingers—bui no rest
for the tongues—and back to the quilt again.-
Thc product of the day was sometimes one,
occasionally two, and even three quilts, depend
ing on the supply and the number of workers.
And the result was always worth the labor,
many times over. The woman who rave- the
“quilting” this week was the guest of the next;
They took turns helping each other with their
work, just as the men had cotton-pkdtings .fod
der-pullings, etc.
At night, the young”folks had their turn. The
quilt disappeared, the beds in the corner were
taken down, the chairs set back against the
all. and in the wide fireplace 'lightwood-
knots blazed. The neighborhood
“DEAR OLD SATURDAY NIGHT.”
Merely Musing" in Jacksonville Times-Union.
Saturday night— * ,
Across the boundary line between Florida
and South Georgia 1 reach out to shake hands
with dear old John L. Herring, editor of the Tif
ton Gazette, another star to that great constel
lation of brilliant Georgia writers—Georgia,
that ha. given a. Joel Cll«n d ler Hnn-a FJ-nnk
L. Stanton, Mrs. Corru Hams. Will N. Harbtn
Ham-Stillwell Edwards and on and on until it
seems the state has run Indiana a close race tor
the book writing honors of the country.
In his new book Saturday Night ^ketches
ff the p ress and which he h Absent me
• , ... •> — .1 .. ,1 n. I ,*t t t-l V SC
just
A PROGRESSIVE STEP.
^ent me
iew.Ye has tried ami adnurai/ly succoed-
t» in interpreting and recording the lite of the
Wire grass section of the state. The author
carries the reader back to his own boyhood
da vs up in dear old-North Alabama.
After all people are pretty much the same
everywhere and the life of the early settlers in
lone eommunity reflects pretty much the life«and
! customs of early days in another.
. it was a fine and hardy race, abn.voandar-
Ytoeratic race a resourceful and highly Intel-
- - fiddler. | »u.Taut, he [or ypunger
came—and until nearly dawn the dance went j ^ H . ni tjon' j n this particular section of the
Or if the family was “church folks" there
was the sinking play, or a candy-pulling—
something that the young folks might have a
good time and Cupid, immortal and ever young,
have hi* inning.
Too bad, that with so-called, progress, quilt
ing is almost numbered with the lost arts—
bad for industrious womanhood, and bad for
man that he must now sleep under the modern
m.onstrosit.v miscalled a "comfort" or itch be
tween scratchy blankets.
We are pleased to see our Enigma friends en
joying the old-time quilting—for there . is a
good deal to the quilting besides the quilt.
All" honor to them. Peace to their blessed
Our great granddaddies endured mlii
hardships that we might sport around today in
th Some* of those 1 " plain,, old fashioned customs
lave conie down to us. today and wilr never
change, as immutable are they as the everlast
ing hills of our native heath.
Let us imagiVie some ofthe scenes which the
author describes with such wonderful accuracy
and interest: .
The Gazette congratulates the Board. of
County Commissioners of Tift on the progres
sive step taken in putting in cattle dipping vats
in the county, and on the sound, sensible man
ner in -which the great reform is inaugurated.
A sufficient number of vats are to be put in
to enable, every community in the county to
have easy access to one and thus make it possi
ble for every’ cattle owner, whether he owns one
cow or one hundred, to have his cattle dipped
and thus free them from ticks. At the san;
time, the dipping is not compulsory, and thus all
possible objection to the installation of the vats
disappears.
Under the stale law which went into effect
Feb. 1st, no man who owns tick irjfeSfed tat-
tle-ciTn sell them or remove therefrom his own
premises. In order that cattle raisers in Tift
may have full opportunity to market their cat-
e, the Board of Commissioners, in co-operation
•ith State and Federal authorities, has arran
ged to put a dipping vat within reach of every
cattle owner. Whether they will avail them
selves of the opportunity thus afforded and free
their cattle of ticks, thus adding to their health
well-being, length of life and productivity of
the animal rests entirely with the cattle owners
themselves. — *
In these days of high prices of food products
hen cattle are almost as valuable as horses
and the nation is begging for beef, such a health
and meat destroyer as the tick cannot be tole
rated in an enlightened community. The peo*-"
pie of Tift are indebted to the Board of Com
mission'ers for putting dipping vats Within reach
and the Gazette ventures the prediction that
before many months there will not be a tick-in
fested cow within the limits of the county;
INCREASE IN HOG PRODUCTION.
1
T hroe years ago,, the most serious handicap to
the Moultrie packing plant was lack of
hogs. This season, with the capacity of the
Moultrie plant multipied by three; with new
plants in operation at Tifton, Jacksonville,
, Waycross, Statesboro and Savannah, the hogs v
.. ' j offered cannot be handled and shipments by UnT
wasted then ( tVainload to plants north and east are necessary-
—waste was n crime equal to sloth. Bright, Three years ago there was not enough hbgtt
bit* of calico, scraps of white and colors, all j on the market to keep one plant going; now
were gathered and treasured. They were cut; e ijfht times its initial capacity cannot hand!'
Into tiny patterns, then assembled and pieced ( the hogs offered. Proof positive that the mar-
together in squares, of many and varied de- ( it e t begets production. Had we no packitig
signs. “The Lone Star of Texas,” “The Flower ( plants in South Georgia, our hog production
Basket." "The Rising Sun,” "The Wild Goose, would not greaty exceed that of four years ago
Chase,” “The Log Cabin." TThe Fleur de Lis." |and this section of the s tate would npt be do-
**The Courthouse Steps.” etc., ad infinitum, in ( nig such a large part toward feeding the nation
proceasion almost endless, pattern passing from ^and our Allies in the war.
home to home, and from generation to genera- j —
ti in. Their beauty and durability were fit testi- ^ Senoia Enterprise-Gazette: “The TiTton
^monials to the ingenuity of the needle artists, Gazette, edited by John L. Herring for the past
and to the materials used. ’ | twenty-five years, has been <)ne of the foremost
The squares, ench incorporating the pattern factors in building up that beautiful little city,
design, completed they were stripped and sew- ( Herring is a good newspaper man and has had
ed together, usually twelve squares forming the ( the pnitqd support of a progressive people.”
quilt top. Then, the family supply of lint cot- (
ton was called into servic. often hand-picked of ^ Writing to home folks, a Tifton boy in France
seed, and carded into bats—flat, oblong strips. SB y„ : ^Pl6ase send, at the next sending, one
A lining was procured, on this the bats care- j, 0Jiest to God drink of sure enough water.”
fully laid, and the patchwork cover tacked on gome misguided people have been trying to
top Then the neigbors were invited in to the makc ua blieve that the boys had no use for
quilting drinking water over.there.
Four strips of pine board about four niches
wide and ten feet long, formed the frame. In , MEMORIES OF GOLDEN DAYS.
two of these holes were bored about a foot and j
a half apart for the pegs- It was to this frame From the Albany Herald,
first the lining and . then the quilt was theked We cannot imagine how any Georgian could
and then the frames were swung by ropes at fal! l< > find John L. Herring's “Saturday Night
.. . . Sketches intensely interesting, and we can
the corner- re.chlnir to the ton jest, overhead. understand ho-v this ne.v volume
or Bet on four chairs. (... country wiitor's reminiscences muy.be expecU
-THe-cumber sf quitters-depcmje.A onlue pop-■firfiTM'* «vleWnfc ’plact: -ttinnnfc Wi'e ’ ireas?
ulation of the neighborhood. Sometime one ured books of a bust of other readers scattered
woman did all the work, because she could get from Maine tn California,
no help, and it ana . *«rl»me U*:W
could do very well, but ilfc. eight or a dozen, ; «. T . Wn r ,, nrt virh growing .jipreclti-'
made the work light. Arbund the frames the arr i v : •. . > ,.fd n»w they hav
The- -vU-of lull h** i
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l.-un -blrt. hhuir
nvr*l by yi*..rt.u« nm-lici
[i|tly u": bf--tan •W-
lirot 1ht»—* bey
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the niebt ami
llrr nkfrta. Ibr
>rr—nev before
then somehow
* Hrledge -
High Soap Prices Anwar 7 4
Interest in Home Hade S
Women «U over the country |)
urine money by making It
•oap. Try thic
First, aet a Urge ci
kitchen; throw into H all meal *
watte grease, bone* ana ottv
chen scrap that haa any gr-
or on It
When the can or jar is Mb rend*
it (by boiling) and you w.B obtain
enough dear grease to make a big
batch of dandy soap, cheaper and
purer than any you can buy.
With Create and Red Deril Lye
You wiU find home aoajwnaking
H,; ' e—V L. .1 R«1
THE SENTENCE OF SILENCE.
ye O.C complete-directions lor
taking soap by the cold process
r by boiling.
Anybody Can Make Soap
I they hare. Red Devil Lye and
Home Made Soap-
itb know
mt .-hiri-l by tbe step*
Tk<- wviit of the jessamine in
! the air and their bloom* «li««
Youth and mail alone with |
the -pirlt- of millions of I
Was u<g the night Saturday
I tb tunny -hours of priirlew •
This u.u»t have been what S
> night v
quilters sat in chairs of hickory with cowhide
ed inti
iiltt
John you are right. .
Saturday night was the night of nights.
We called it “tub” night back home but that
didn’t make any difference. ,
When 1 was a gawky-gangling-long-shanked
youth it was my favorite night for -calling. And
jjcJicve roe, the; gals bad to.huatip some.td help;
ma get supper, wash the dishes and take a bath
and cutey up before I was on the job in the call
ing business. . . . .
So eager was I to go to-see a-Certain girl
back mine village that ! sometimes got there be
fore she had finished her supper and I remem
ber she would come tothe front door where l
stood twisting my hat as skeered as a rabbit for
For several month^the) Gazette has urged
loyal newspapers in-Geor^ia to cease-to allow
their columns to be used by aspiring politicians
who. without personal merit seek notoriety by
abuse of the Administration and those charged
with the conduct of the war.
When these men note that their names have
not appeared in th newspapers for a, few days
they launch into a diatribe of abuse that brings
a storni of criticism, from tho press- The criti
cism doesn't hurt its objects—they aro loo thick
hided for that—but it does send to advertise
them with a certain class and keefis their name
before the people. After awhile it even gives
them a pretext to pose as martyrs and to claim
that the very newspapers to which they owe
notoriety are "persecirting" them
The LaFollettes. the Vardcmans, the-Stones,
and other men of their stamp, would not be
known beyond the limits of their home militia
districts were it not for the newspap.r* They
have, grown and fattened on criticism, ^antl
without the ability to win fame any other way
are constantly in the limelight as obstruction
ists and trouble-makers.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun falls into line
with the. Gazette's policy of- applying the
“silent treatment" to notoriety seekers and next
comes the Americire Times-Recorder which as
serts that it will not. under any circumstances,
publish the name of a certain Georgian who for
the sake of notoriety has disgraced his state
and himself.
We are not prepared to go so far. ' The name
of no ir.an is barred from the columns of the
Gazette, should circumstances warrant its pub
lication- But we have found the policy of
ignoring those who seek to break their way in
to our columns .with a bludgeon aimed at their
country's bead working very satisfaefory. and
we propose to follow it for awhile longer. If
the press as a whole would do likewise, we
would soon be rid of -those who nqifcw mischief
for notoriety’s sake.
bottoms: and the bright Iwedles flew onlv a lit-' ihmte which has jusfrsrctri from the-Gorham Tear lier' ol'd "'dSa" wa§ going to" Answer mr
Ttnock, she still chewing on some food and the
crumbs quite unromanticaliy dopping down her
dress or blowing in ray Vye as she talked.
But what mattered crumbs in my'eye.when
Love is blind,? ,
Her mother used to throw out divers and sun-
do- hints about Saturday night being tub night
and people were not supposed to c.all on such
occasion but did that phase little Willie? I
should say nix. ... .
If they snubbed me at the door I just went
over and sat in the old barrel-stave hammock
until Susie had washed the dishes and presen
ted herself to me (Aweet and radiant as a little
rain washed daisy by the roadside.
Then in the old hammock, we proved oursel
ves jugglers by maintaining our equilibsum and
hot falling out, in fact mv equilibrium was a
dam sight easier to maintain than my nerv e for
at the age when I was madly in love but
tie faster but not more regularly than the J > ■ „ , ■
tongues of the workers. Starting at a corner a | ^^"^e^eTsttL^^umY com-
• row of stitching in a semi-circle of about eigh- j nunitiea of Southern Georgia. He was.raised
teen inches fastened quilt, batting and lining on n f arm where life was primitive as compared
t ogether. BAlow this about an incl»and a half.; with*the manner of living one finds on farms
another circle of stitching, called "shelves,” i in the same region t^day. But though the peo-
th, row, gradually shortcmi,* until the l> lc *“• P 1 ? 1 ";. t ( 10 "S h , ihe,r tMte ’ f™ -
comer waa reached. This completed, another P lp a " d ,heir "“ e " 0 , rl11 na "“ w '
. , I were happy and carefree because they wfere
.circle was laid off with a piece of chalk, finish- honest, unselfish and .true to simple ideals,
fed. and another taken, until the quilting was The memories of these golden days have re-
flnished for about, a foot and a half from the mained green in the-heart of John Herring,
jCrame »nd now he' brings to a younger generation the
• Then tha frames were taken down, the ,,eir >*“> up In the years of hi* boyhood
- .. ... ... „ , , .. I in the W iregrass section He remembers the
removed, the quilted portion rolled up. and , people , and 9cenefl . the social gatherings, the
frames suspended again. This was repeated , religions life and the-community “doings” of
until the last row of stitching completed the that unique period, and he tells it all not -- —
work. It was tedious, but gossip, fun and chat
ter relieved-the tedium. - Across the quilt,
neighborhood .news was told; the snuff-box
passed and repasaed..or left on the quilt handy.
■ There were always a' few maidens present,
taking their'first lessons, and there was more or
less guarded reference to beaux and much
blushing. The neighborhood quilting had the
I society page of the modern newspapers backed
II off the boards when it came to details of the
Bbrho’s who of the community. - Little that was
! Worth knowing (and some that wasn’t worth
knowing) was unknown to the whole settle-
mt at the end-of the 4»y** quilting. Nb won-
f all the women wenfr; only wonder that therm citizenship,
» quilt* enough to supply the .need-
At noon, there was the old-time dinner. The
i had prepared for days beforehand,
[ about 10 o’clock left the quilt, to put the*
" fcer how frugal peo-
ilwaya plenty
apologist for anything he narrates, but rather
as-one with keen pride hr the - simpte virtues,
the homely philosophy and clean living of a
people who were the very saltof the earth.
, “Saturday Night Sketches" have a bouble
value. They are good to read, and good read
ing toever lacks appreciation- Whoever reads
the sketch will not put the book down till
he has read another, and the volume will be
taken up again and again, even
tcrtrnually .seei the company of a cheerful
friend. But th book is far more to be prized
from the fact tha: in its pages will he preserved
f- unborn gen “rations the t oe storv of a peo
ple little known to history and the mitimate
picture of a phase of life in our history tha:
was typical of the finest, cleanest American
The record which Editor Herring
preserves in his book of Sketches is that of a
people rich in humor, disdainful -of the thin
veneers which so often hide real men and wo
men. and true to the “homespun ideals” that
made them honest,, brave and hospitable.
Every Georgian should read "Saturday Night
” and a grea£ nywy qtbers will read
would runliko a^urkey if a-famalo-apoko to me.
It was only the friendly shelter of night that
permitted me to get up nerve enough to go call
ing, but 1 did it.
Saturday night—as we sat out there and
counted the stars we planned our Sunday cam
paign. I was determined I would date her up
before some other fellow (maybe one o’ them
city guys from Chattanooga or Atlanta) beat
me’ to it. Dear old Saturday night—dear old
Saturday night— dear old any night of the long
ago. John, was sw-oet and its picture still hangs
in the halls of memory.
The champion combination fish and snajte
story of the season comes from our staid con
temporary the Hawkinsville Dispatch and News.
It tells of a negro fisherman who caught a cat
fish weighing 18 3-4 pounds on a set hook in
the Ocmulgee. When the fish was opened, a
young rattlesnake about thftee feet long, with
one button on its tail, was found inside. The
Dispatch and New* says .it
IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY.
Ane year ago. the Omega section of Tift county
** --is thrice visited by tfn angry Jupiter Plu-
and three times it. looked as if all pros
pects for a profitable crop had been wiped out.
When corn, watermelons and cotton were just
through the ground, came a hailstorm which
wiped crops clean, throughout a large section,
and beat wheat and oats into the earth past
redemption. The farmers planted again; a rip
again came a hailstorm, and cleaned out their]
crops. - Then, in the midst of the'growing sea-:
son. one afternoon the floodgates of heaven |
opened apt! fields were gullied and crops ap
oarentlv ruined.
Did the farmers of that section get discour
aged and quit? They did not. and here is
the best evidence, furnished by our Oihega cor
respondent-: - Omega marketed a normal cot
ton crop and at an abnormal price: the farmers
throughout that section have their year’s sup
ply of feed and food stuffs, and they have
(hipped to market: elevep carloads of hogs;
$5,000 worth of cattle; twelve carloads of pea
nuts; nine carloads of velvet beans; several
carloads of hay and 3,000 bushels of corn.
And Omega is a small town.
Not only is this evidence of the wonderful
productivity of the Omega section, and of the
patriotism of its citizens in coming to their
country's aid. but it is conclusive proof that
what at first appears like an irreparable calam
ity often spurs to renewed efforts the njgi< / w1i(
have backbone.
SoreThroat?
Thi» fifty oil tenwdy
Throat* anti Btesrhial —
•oottw*. h«l» an.i tttyr. quick
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"©issoverv
Ibr Coughs e Cold3
Keep yonr Stoaachai
A vijorou* Stomach
Liver and rcfular acti
• ill ute Dr. Kins'*
They correct Con«ip*tlon—
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J Health
^ About
Gone
Miny thouttsdi of
women MHeriag from
womanly bouble, hare
been benefited by tbe um
of Cardui, tbe woman's
tonic, according to letters
we receive, similar to Oils
one bom Mrs. Z. V. SpeD,
ol Hayhe, N. C. "1 could
not stand on my feet, and
fust suttered terribly,"
she says. "As my asl- '
feting was so great, sad
be had tried other rmo;
dies. Dr. ——- had us
e l Cardui. . . I began
proving, and It cured
me. 1 know, and my
doctor knows, whit Car
dui did for me, for my
nerves and health were
(bout gone.” ..
TAKE
Now that fertilizers have come underVed-
eraj control, perhaps every farmer will be re
quired to *how results, either in food crops or
bBk
CARDUI
I The WomanVTodo I
She writes further! ”T
am In splendid health ...
can do my work. 1 fed I
owe it to Cardui, lor I was
In dreadful condlUoa.”
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downs d weak, or suOat
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like Mr*. Spell. (Ufa
Cardui a trial. ,
AD Druggist*