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T1FT0N, TIFT COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14,1919.
SEAS DELAY WILSON’S SHIP
tke U. S. S. George Wauhington, March 13—The
ITaehington continued to lose tine today because of
ff—-r and it was announced that she would not
-reach Brest before 11 o’clock tonight-
WashinMon, March 13—Between one and two million
round* of ammunition have been shipped into Mexico within
the past few months from the United States, it *a» learned
here today. .
Shipments were part of an order standing with Ameri
can mmakers for two years and entered Mexico with
the approval of the War Department, it is said.
Berlin, Tuesday Night, March 11—(delayed)—Fighting
Was continuing in Berlin tonight over a fifteen and one half
e front.
The city Commander announced that it wag uncertain
when the government can master the situation owing to the
SparUcans’ infilteratiqp tactics.
; As fast as the taroops reconquer one area, insurgents spring
up in another. Two hundred and fifty Spartacans were cap
tured in the heart of the city this evening.
Buenos Aires, March 18—The port strike which has tied
.Mpptng here for over two months has cost $800,000 in
m receipts,'it was announce^ today. -
More than one hundred ships are idle in die harbor, with
three hundred thousand tons of merchandise piled tip On
doOYs and no possibility of an, early settlement. ir ' ,l, . n
Paris, March 11—With military terms adopted and rapi
progress being made towards the completion of other pro’'
ions, it was learned today that the preliminary peace trei
may be ready to present to Germany by March 20.
From the greatest war maker in the world, Germany trill
be reduced to a military status lower than her smallest neigh
bor.
Washington, March 18—The war time regulation requir
ing a license for the use of explosives in stump blasting,! re-
Deputy Collector WUlcox WU1 Visit
Tilton for the purpoie ot Gluing In
structions on Income Tax.
Deputy Collector of Internal Berenue
A. A. WUlcox, of Fltsserald, advise*
that he will epend Friday and Saturday
in Tilton lor the purpose ot advising our
people on how to fill out their income tax
returns.
Mr. Wlllcox was named by Collector
A. O. Blalock oe Deputy Collector lor
the 12th Georgia Internal Revenue Zone,
consisting of the counties ol Ben Hill,
Telfair. Tilt, Crisp. Irwin, Wilcox.
Worth, Turner and Bacon. The revenue
bill waa not passed until the letter days
of February and there waa nb time to
make a tour ot all the counties. Be
cause it has not been publshed many are
ignorant ot ite provisions and do not know
bow to make returns.
Saturday is the last day in which In
come taxes may be returned, but Mr,
WUlcox was not able to got hero until
Friday- Returns made out and turned
over to him will comply with the law,
FOR BETTER ROADS
A $20,000
FOR
l,0OO
mi, Riming land and ather agricultural purposes, will be revoked
March 16, the Interior Department announced today.
W' 'Washington, March 18-^“American workers must/ be
Shren * •share in .tlje.industries, they help to create
thin, a share noit measured in wages,” Senator B
Chahrmah of the Senate tibbr Gominittee, declared
Rsltf that’a»f«t-tbftaf<hs$ must be .dope is
- -wfll ke -nrach Tnnder tif ^ rttaaTW. iiext
William H. Brown,
thority on mortuary statistics, who is
tisties show that the *Jigea*e ; i»jmich : .in'
of middle age or over. Ahj^pmong
R CpK (IW-
Atlanta,
i.fgtgl among
ifcWid people
middle age. The epidemlfti-irMsli-.-ijeswiflywrept the cointy
|s»ow on a marked - \
iNew York, March hO—^lear that. jJew York City’s tran
sit system would be stopped,,-/* the harbor strike continues
tused the .Interborough-Rapid Transit Company to appeal fo)
navy yard tugs to bring fuel.to this port.
The company said that only enough fuel to operate the
system four days is now in the city.
Washington, March 18—That' President Wilson will make
a public statement soon bn the attitude of the American peo
ple towards the League of Nations covenant is the conviction
of his advisers here." - . ' , \
* Newark, N. J., March lS^Switchmen and trackm^hvem-
ployed by the Public Service Railway Company joined;#!*
Striking carmen today.)' ■ TL-iq
s Other trades may Atrike in sympathy.
... Newark, N. J., March 18—With the street car-service at
standstill the people of Northern New Jersey are using jit-
motor trucks ,ahd anything else on wheels for transport
purposes.
ier g and employers are both standing firm. The men
union recognition.
igo—Bang! Suitcase dropped. Flash! Indoor photo-
iph. But hotel employes were nervous. National T.N.T.
experts met here today, x- .
Springfield,' Ill.—Silo gin fizzes wont comfort any after
July 1. A bill bjere prescribes prison for those who tappeth
the fodder fermenter for jag. juice.
famoi b 4u-
jy?J
Scsrban Ca*e. City of Marietta lisa
$18,000 in Note* hi Some Shape
Those ot Tilt County.
Vice-President Ewer ol the National
Park Bank, ol New York City, the bank
which handled the $40,000 in Tift county
notes through Frank Scarboro, lor which
the county received no return, wan in Til
ton Saturday in consultation with attor
neys in the case.
While Mr. Ewer had very little to say,
it is understood that his bank will bring
suit on the notes if it finds there la no
other recourse. It ia thought hero that as
a constitutional and legal proposition the
money cannot be collected from the county
but then ia a strong sentiment that, as n
mftter of right and for the. protection of
ita credit the county should protect the
iflme passes, accounts of the 'short
the Frknk Scetboeo
gnwe.it
is. count
ton, to*
Sctrboro’s
that these were.sold.;
hr matter haa droDD
first reported, to $55,00d ( r *>:n* - of the
Amount being paid.’ -u 1
So far as kr»wn, ao.oae; in Tilton has
heard a word from ; 8carboro cither direc
tly or indirectly, abut he lett ben on the
night of February IS. for the ostensible
purpose of gains to. 'New York/te rate
funds. ■ . !•■./
t was reported that Mr,-m A. Oner,
Aabburn, was also a lpter, but Mr.
*r waa In Tlfton Saturday and uamln
'the record* fonn^tut hi* papers were
irlhg anximla-fiavlng been paid.
CHARGED WITH HOG STEALING
ia and Dan Purvis Ar-
rested by Offlecb.
-'■Ben Langley. Aka and Dan Purvis,
win arrested Whdneaday pn ; a charge o(
Orngr Steal tag. Tbs particular Item in
ss.the theft of ppm fine Duroc
| from the Tift , farms. Thwe
_ located and returned to
the owners. The warrants were sworn
ont for "farm Hauler. J. O. Stewart.
Purriswas already under bond
oh a similar charge, under a warrant
■worn out by J. B. Abbott a few week*
ago. All the parties are white. Lang
ley haa worked on the Tift farm* for
many years. It ia understood that he
haa confessed his fuilt
Langley’s and Dan Purvis* bonds were
ixed et $760 each and Jake Purvis’ bond
at $600. Dan Purvis’ bond waa at first
fixed at $600 and he made that, but haa
not yet made the increased bond. Lang
ley and Jake Purvis are wtill in jail.
To be Held at Courthouse Saturday Af
ternoon at 2:30. Most Take Prompt
Action.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Tift
county Interested in road improvement ia
called for Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at
the Tift county courthouse.
Every one interested in better roads
is urged to attend this meeting, as an
expression of opinion ia desired.
It is necessary f«r Tift county to act
at once if’we ore to secure a portion of
the Federal road funds this year,
report must be sent to Atlanta not later
than Tuesday uight, ajul this action must
come through the Board of County Com
mlsslonen.
If you want Tift county to have better
roads, attend the meeting Saturday.
VOLUME XXX.—NUMBER SI.
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PARTS OF THIRTIETH ON WAY HOME 1
progressive
Omega. That this
ctlve lines is evi-
Washington, March 12—A cablegram received by the
War Department this morning states that parts of the T
tieth Division sailed from St. Nazaire March 10 for No
News on the transport Finland.
Included are 1,404 officers and men, comprising Head
quarters of the Fifty-Fifth Artillery Rrigade; Battery A and
hat the people there, fir,t battalion of the 115th Field Artillery; 115th Machl
r preparing to meet a $20,000 brick Gun Battalion; a complete detachment of 114th Machine Gi
{Battalion and 114th Artillery complete.
i closed with Mrs. I _ . -
by which, the school trustees «>f “ ** possible that the debarkation port may be changed
1 “ u " h “^ ti ®, tr “ e , t , ot 1,nd °“ «“ to Charleston. The Finland will probably arrive about March
pill near Dr. Wj^is residence coutaining ; 21,
etween six and-eight acreH, the purchase
NEGRO PRISONERS
WERE NOT RETURNED
At Least, BID Saw None Come Back*
Willie Pdrtpr Caughfc+y “Kam.
avidff €htnadSb-!' * .•
Accounts drifting the ,.fight
ing ia Franct^hgree that; the • , uj»g»£*
made good soldiers. Thqp i wwa toug}$
took army life phllosophlfcally, and whsu
aroused fought like demons. NoWv they
are coming homo, and they talk pnhesi*
tatingly and interestingly about: what
they saw. Sometimes they exaggerate,
but usually they give the straight goods,
told in their own way. One thing all
agree on; they learned to hate the Geiv
mans.
Willie Porter’s Experience. ’
Willie Pcrter, who wns working on the
Carson place when drafted, says lit will
never do to believe a German
Porter was in the thick of the Cham
pagne fighting and in battle was running
on a German with his bayonet when the
man threw up his hands and cried
Kamerad!” Porter walked up tip take
&im prisoner when the German hurled a
hand grenade which he had concealed in
price being $1,000. It h* intended to sell
the old school bonding and to erect a new
and modern brtjpk building
tract
mtcmplate enlarging the
taking^ in quite a lot of
Frritory and ..perhaps using
lotor truckayfo transport the
and from/ehool. The amount
.which/will be spent on the
governed by the amount
ten in, but if all plana go
A building costing $20,000 will
his hand at Porter. He
hud whirled, the .grenad
pistol on his thigbv It
tiaf t^#v bone. Porter w 1
1 aid «fpent several
on. -He ii
WiUacoochee Officer Has Risen from
First Lieutenant Sinco 1917. Is Now
on Duty in France.
WiUacoochee, Ga., .March 13—Mrs.
Dr. Henry T. Corbett received a cable
gram today from Franco saying that her
husband, Capt. Henry T. Corbett has
just been commissioned as Major.
Major Corbett was appointed First-
Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps
from this place in 1017. He was soon
afterward promoted Captain and now to
a Major. His friends and they are leg
ions,. in A^dnson county, are. delighted
his promotion. They feel that he
is worthy bf all that has been done to him,
in we ask: can the new county of
- belt this record! , We doubt it
his not with S native born son.
FOUR FARMERS' MEETINGS
The fundamental Service of 'A
.famishing of Security. . r
;
Security of jour funds, T;> :v :>
Security of your valuables,
Security of your credit,
Security of your Investments,
Consult and Bank with us.
Will be Held in Tift County Within the
Next Week for Organising.
£our meetings in different parts of the
county for the purpose of forming farm-
nrgsnizntions are announced by
County Agent Dixon as follows:
Harding school house, Brighton Dis
trict, Wednesday. 8 p. m. •
Old Ty Ty school house, Docia Dis
trict Thursday, 8 p. m.
Omega school house, Friday 8 p. m.
Vaucevillc school botue, Monday,. 8
p. m. '
The farmers in the localities named are
invited to attend tbs nesting in their
district
is a# right
: v.‘ , Soon; 1 we.fot word to Caka&'_„ «—
oners,” Porter said; "gad (hht jggt »dib<
.edj.q*. didn’t want to take any. Af
ter that we just went after ’em.”.
‘‘You didn’t fight ri^ht on that way,
one day .afj*r another, all Hie. time!”
ashed a hearer after Porter told of a
fight in which they went for two days
without rations.
No, sir;” he answered. “If we bad
.fought that away all the time, we’d hare
pat ’em up in a week.”
“I had never been on a boat in my
life,” Porter said, “until we started a-
cross. When we got on the water
was scared. I began to learn to pray,
and by the time we got across, I hat
a pretty case of religion. That come ii
handy when I got into the fighting,
then I needed it kU the time.”
A Woman Fighter.
Bill”, who went from Pony Smil
place with the first draft, is back ft
the Argonne front Bill was in somefof
the hottest of ,tb*, figbttnr and says
knows he killed Germans.,
“How do yon know it?? was askt
“He waa standing up'right in ffont/ of
me, and I blowed a hole right
him,” he answjfrw.'' Jffrt qiit
any attention ^to ‘tlvelr ‘Kamerad’ _
They’d just holler to get s chance to PtUl
us. I was! corporal, Mnd they left me
with my sqnad in charge of a bund of
prisoners. The shells were coming tl ick
from the' German guns, and if loo red
like we’d never get ont We had afa rat
sixty prlsopers to atari with but wo
knew we cooldn't get away with all
them prisoners. We got out, but ho
prisoners didn’t”
“One day the officers discovered t iab
a machine gun in front of us was opera ed
by a woman. *Get that gun, boys;' he
Captain said, and we wont after it. F ir-
ty started and about twenty K»t r.*.
That woman-stood right there nnd find
until we paught her and .Wrencl
loose from the gun. Some whif^ i^ys
came up about that time and ton*
of the prisoner. 8he was fishli
stubborn and had to be forced
They were passing a pile , of ha^d
grenades when she wrenched h
up a grenade and started td throw il
Some one jerked a pistol aid >^hot hoi
through the head, I doa’t jknow who il
CUM
Washington, March 8—The War Department will hold
the “ ew “«» "my of 510,000 men until Congres, provides othe
General March announced today.
No reduction ia contemplated until Congress pmr, , lew .
outlining a permanent military organization. March said '
the United State, could not get along with a smaller army.
The total American battle casualties during the war ■
240,000, March said, out of 1,390,000 who were in
against the enemy.
The casualties in the Thirtieth Division were 6,800 and In
the EiglttjqSpe^ui^Division 8,300.
Waahul^loMj-March ■ 8.r—Asnerican claim* for daniago
, . WMTfar total $750,000,000, the
State OepartmenfriSlisAiihViUl today.
Washington, Mdrchpill^Republican proponenU of the
League of Nations, headed by'Ex-President Taft, are warning
the G.O.P. opponents of the Wilson covenant against a too
rigid stand lest they endanger the Republican party.
It is now generally admitted that a peace treaty will
part and parcel of the League of Nations plan. If the treaty
fails of ratification in the Republican Senate, the whole work
will have to be done over again and the party responsible for ■
withholding ratification would undoubtedly be charged there
after by opposing party with having prolonged the war.
Washington, March 10—The United States is pourhig •,
two hundred 'R|jd-fifty thousand tons of food-into hungry •
Poland, Jugo-Sltvjj^. Serbia, Romania, Caech-Slovalda, Arm - „
m>in wad the nswEasttlmFood Administration stated today. , .
Hoover is directing ,Um worh.
it rtragetic poinu »
officials. ■ The same plea is to ;
Mrs. :
' Utter'1
IP®.
wim ^beriklnly -glad to heir
aud hoke. ' to htar
’ d^itLs^caused by the lnfluen-
It haa'iiiri ofily taken our friends
e, but othets In like I manner,
been here toO. }.‘ v > ih **
[ cannot •ay ’as much ap^1 Would like
aay about this Country; iiid tty opin
ion as well ii others is it is sdmewhat of
a different picture than wd, speaking for
others, had in our virion before landing
here. We landed in Brest the 28th of
September, 1918'. It rained from that
day on. There is no difference here in
nationality that I have seen. They
tertain the negroes just ns white people
and the negroes go with white women
and nothing said. Some mighty pretty
girls go with these negroes and they
“Mr” them. It has distasted the boys
here wiftit them. The boys from the
north are beginning to notice how the
negro is. and they are just about the
same as the Southern boys and they are
more of one now thun ever.
>me i place thir part of the country
, ive been from Brest to Bordeaux and
back tq St Bulplce and St Naxaire.
They charge us one price and the
French another, any little old thing costs
from 1 franc up to $100.00. One franc
is 20c in American money and they don’t
like American pennies and I wish yon
could see their pennies— money with
holes in It. They sell American hoys
Any price. They say “Beaucoup francs”
that means “Plenty Money” for us. They
drink very little wgter, all sour wine,
not sweet wine. Plenty of English wal
nuts here. They have very little can
ie'utee Ust a Jcamp.Bign. tor world-wide
. r , the,’OrIent will be foil
Christian Temperance Union U coll
headquarters announced today..
•; Washington, March 18—An imtoediai^'$qD'«f‘ : B<>^iitftfi$tii
in the United States employment service was i?. *
cause its appropriation faUed with the RepubRcah ^ki^tUM^. ^ ' - i
, Orderg Were sent out today by-the Labor pepartuebtii& < ?-<r
ter a final effort to save the service by a wireless appeal to tiw»-4 1 ’;
President He was asked to set aside a part 61 his emerg- '• .’-t
ency war fund, but replied that none of it was now available, ’ #18
BLAZING CAN OF GASOLINE jj Jf
Sylvester, Ga., March 12—Harris Glausier died at an Ai$i% 1
bany hospital this morning as a result of bums received here
last night
Glausier came from Atlanta recently to open a moving
picture' house here and w&N'htopping at a local hotel. About
9 o’clock a fire brp^iutiM McLain’s pressing dub and with;^^
several others Glausier went to the fire to render assistance^,
just as he Staftfefftn at the back door of the pressing club q..
negro inside “aft’empted to throw a five-gallon can filled with
gasoline out at the same door, not seeing Glausier. The can . r
struck Glausier and the gasoline flew all over Mm, at the
same time bunting into flames. He was horribly burned and
was carried to Albany last night for treatment although little
could be done for him. . ,
Glausier’s body will be carried to Atlanta for burial. He
was unmarried but is survived by his mother, who lives in that
city.
dj.
Al RECEIVER'S M ROUND.
“I was there when the']
exchanged after the
tinned, "rad saw s lot
oners so over and a lot
lab, Italian and
hack, hot I never saw S
turned. The
tat it they erer tent
mere were
BUI con-
Gennan pris-
French, Brit-
prisoners come
have not seen many boys here I
know. They soy Dr. Chcsnutt is here.
Ho is a lieutenant. We ore guarding
warehouses here. The American govern
ment has 000 miles of ^railroad yards
here, a good site post. Now they are
turaing'ft into nn embarkation ramp. I
have not had any luck to find Ralph
Poole or Jeff Parker. I saw Rob. O’
Quinn’s brother's name in the Y.M.C.A.
register at Bordeaux, but did not
sec him tho. ,
•here are tome American girh
as nurses tad Y.M.C.A. canteen
We had a show last night in
nndsf the auspices ot tta ICnonl
I attended tat it wt,
and about 100.. or more
lota ot them,
tack I didn't
this
I will ta at. the following places tor
tta purpose of receiving year stale and
county taxes for the year, X9XB
Brookfield, .Monday, March 24, 1819
Chula, Tuesday, March 25,
Cydoneta — Tneaday March 25,
> 0 until 11 o’clock. -
Eldorado —-.Wednesday, March 26,
ga :— Thursday, March 27
T* Tlr —~._t— Friday, U«nh 28,
Tlft0u,_—Saturday, March 20
:hton _—- Monday, March 31
Vancevill* Tuesday, April 1
George Sntton, R. T. B. T. C.
13-8tw2w
FRIENDS AND I
As you already 1
haa gone to tta
something doing for <
r, Harry Knlhenb
and there Is
b sending Juat
lots of goods, st a /reel sacrifice, Tta
customers wtU get thA benefit of the'great
- •
m CecU V. WUMoa,
13th Reg. M. Oo. Srd Bat
P. B.—Yafc-Opl Joe Turner is ia my
napsay from Normas Park. He
nil and' fat He b acquainted, with
ad knows « good many people is Ohale
ad Tlfton..
reduced prieee that
Goods arriving
Oomt In and '
you will are what
13d2twlt
toe bought
- H*
my atock over. Then
am talking about
Harry Knlbcrsk.
DRY CLEANING PLANT EHBtS
. Best, line of Work Shoes on the mar
ket ut ti-M to : $3.75. Guaranteed solid
Sell your host a
Omega, Ga.
NU.6.
leather.WhIUey Bro*. Department 8tore.i Two yd
wit ■ ', / '• i Tlfton iM
It yon
■other!
> Lang A Co.,
them.
27-dwtf
Miaara. D. McLain and J. G) $Mspn
tart rented the old pool room place In
the Boatright bonding, on Mata street,
and have optaud * dry cleaning end
teUoring establishment They wO) do-dry
cleaning gad prtaatag, re-Mock tab Sad
i Outsmetrlri.
tfics la
See onr line of Oil Stovea and Alumin
um Cooking Utensils. We are offering
splendid bargain*. Bennett’* Hard.
lSdwtt
PUT
VOUR. M
bankir
Ths fsdtral reserve bank act y
posltors bstter protection and to Improve our
system.
It Joined all member bdnnr.iMether for the protec. I
tlon of depositors. It provided a district reserve bank for j
each section where member banks may take their; sewj
curitles and get money/thgs making It easy foe men *
banks to always have money. i; .
Do ybur banking where y**M!Hb:"n4tl(
PUT YOUR j