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FINE JEWELRY
Gaaolina and Oil
W. E, WILLI
DEALER
THE Sl&RE
Courteous Treatment
SAFETY FIRST,:
spat, •offer, from awful pain, at regular TtotabT StaTV
or toeguhr intervals aho should turn to a Mri. D E Hilton, of Tift
tome made up of herb,, and without ah brother, Mmra. Lee Bml
«hol,_ which mikes weak women atrong! crow, and Hart Smith, of
D. VARNER AND COMFi
Mrs Hilton was caUed to Brunswick case*. Ihw* h mg O 1 * - *
i Sunday by a meaaage telling of bet ala-1 Bw.aowgiummecwiafc *n
ter-s aerlooa illness, but when three mtlea| VOB TA8TR AND UUUB . '
thin aide of that city, waa met by her Sea i. D. Mamed ah lot nttfcc ha a
niece and told that Ifn, Ingram waa'geed • lath and, Tam Cetta, HI
dead. The funeral of the mother war fram tap te kettam, kespdag mal amfaaa
held on the birthday of the oldest daugh- watar.
Our boys overseas had just as soon be kick
ing the sawdust out of a few Bolshevik! as sit
ting around waiting for transportation home.
So if Hungary and her Austro-German-Russian
associates want to start anything, just let ’em go
to it A lot of the boys think the Germans were
not drubbed hard enough, anyway; so if
VipMi *|g:hM traveled.in nearly every
item tbnraion has bought an orange grqve
Florida jnd named Us hcfms "Dunmovin,"
Ms would also be a good name for a cemetery.
they have to pijt on their fighting clothes again,
. they'll qrnke e thorough job of it Then, m*y-
be yrhile their blood is qp, they’ll come back
i over' htire and ride a few reactionary Senators
. on a rail—unless their daddies decide to do
i 'that for them, so they’ll Have a clean country to
SEED POTATOES WANTED
Orders taken now for plants.
I bay and.sell hogs.
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Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
■ Second Class Hatter, Act of March %j r 1879.
1 j. L. Herring.
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In some of the pub]
ty the plan of consol
.Editor and Manager
Qfalal Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Twelve Months — 41.S0
Si* Months —75 Cent*
PAVING THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY.
CONCENTRATE
OOL WORK.
I schools of Worth coun-
atlon and co-ordination
of school work has been tried, with very satis
factory results,
continued and mol
portation of the pu
to larger schools m
schools were consol
1H/SS EMMA R. SU
EDITOR
Shortening the National Highway between
-Tifton and Jacksonville by about 28 miles and
the paving of 40 miles of it Was assured the
past week when the officials of Hamiltoon coun
ty, Florida, sold the $400,000 worth of road
bonds wUch were voted more than it year ago
and the sale of which waff held up because of
war activities. The bonds were bought at par
by a Florida bank.
Hamilton will build a paved road about 40
miles in length, from the Georgia line to the
line of Columbia county at White Springs.
Columbia is already arranging to pave the Na
tional through that county and the same steps
are being taken by Baker county. Lowndes is
arranging to sell half a million dollars worth of
bonds and pave from the Hamilton county line
to the line of Cook. It will then be up to Cook,
Tift, Turner, Crisp, Dooly and Houston coun
ties, in the order named, to complete the pav
ing of the National from Jacksonville to Macon
This would not only give us one of the finest
highways in the South through its most beau
tiful section but it would supply a link which
has been badly needed for travel from the east
and northwest to Florida. At present when
this travel reaohes Tifton, Valdosta, Moultrie' 1
or Thomasville it is about to the jumping'off
place. Paving the National will give this
travel one direct, all-the-year around route
from North and Middle Georgia into Florida. It
would give this section such a boost as it has
not had in twenty years,
schools have been din
icks used for the trans-
they formerly supplied
y. At one point <thre»
.ted into one and at oth
ers two were consolidated. At Sumner it U
said that occasionally as many as forty pupils
are carried to school in one day by motor trans
port
This plan was tried in Tift county about ten
years ago, soon after the county waa organised.
It was a- good plan then, but there were many
objections and there were not the facilities that
we have now—neither the, motors nor the
roads. Finally the pita waa abandoned, but
not because it was not a good one^ Instead of
such co-ordination of school work, we now
have a number of onO-teacher schools, in
communities where the patronage is not liberal,
Hr. Lanier, with Ma family, has
moved to Sylveeter.
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Mr*. W S Scott, who hta been on «
vlelt to Parrott, in at borne afiin.
and both teachers and pupils are losers.
At three points—Ty Ty, Omega and Chula,
plans have been made for incorporation of the
school district and the consolidation of the
school work in one building, under one faculty.
If these plans succeed, better and more com
modious buildings will be erected .and the
result will be that the people of the district,
although they may live several miles in the
country will have the advantage of a city
school. The popularity of the Tifton schools
with people living within reach affords some
Indication of the possibilities of these district
schools, with free motor transportation, for the
children added. y
The plan contemplates more 'comfortable,
school rooms with better surroundings; mono
competent because better paid teachers, longer
school- terms, and the community of interest
that grows out of association in study and
school work. We hope to see .the time come
when, instead of thirty or more schools, Tift
county will have not more than ten, and these
schools operated, as the Tifton schools ate now
operated, for nine months in the year.
Oondltlona art ideal (or apeedlog the
plow, and fanners are doing their beat
• • • • •
Mrs. Otia Wade baa joined her hut-
band in Waydroaa, where they will make
their borne.
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“Stomp,” “Buck,” whether dittllled
or not—“a ton by any other name”—
plenty of drunk in all of it
a e o • •
Preacher! and drummera were very
much in evidence here laat week, end all
of them were “plumb welcome.”
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If the W GTU of Tiifton bid toy
thing to do with stirring up things here
recently, Ty Ty sends a card of thinks
on s silver tray—--metaphorically.
Bear in mind tbit good teacher* can
not, unaided, make .41 good school. Put
your shoulder to the wheel and help
with all your might.
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It seems that the war is not over,
after all, and things that were going to
happen “when the war ends," may not
feel called upon to happen.
i" And now that the mini have cesaed
and. the weather la perfect, people if*
beginning to prophecy “a long dry
•pell,” and that would mean no black-
berriea. It doea aeem aometimea that
really and truly, “(Ua world’! a wild-
DISEASE AND CRIME.
Only recently have the best informed among
to regard drunkenness as a disease,
outgrowth of a depraved na-
cure on this foundation ,we begin
depravity itself is a form of dis-
and from that comes the inevitable con
clusion that crime and disease :§rei closely and
inseparably related; .■• - ; ■**><
In an address in Tifton the Secretary of the
Georgia sWBohhi of Health stated that dtf
ing a recent examination of a number of
titutes, it was shown that an overWheli
majority of them were mentally unsound. Very
few gave, evidence of average mentality, there
being sckrcelji one that did not register below
normal. % S. “ . '
This surprising statement gives a new light
on responsibility for underworld conditions;
and the great possibility that lies in intelligent
work for the prevention, rather than the punish
ment of crime. Are we nearing the day when
the criminal will be recognized as a man or wo
man diseased, to be treated accordingly? When
our National, State and County governments
will bend their energies toward the prevention
of crime as they are now working to prevent
disease by seeking out the sources and elimin
ating them? Perhaps it will not be so very far
in the future when the majority of our prisons
will be sanitariums.
As a preliminary to this work, a rigid ex
amination of ail children of school age is a wise
and necessary step. Here the great work pf
prevention can find the field most fallow, for
the diseased mind or body of the child offers
the readiest response to curative treatment.
s
Iyi! They say Jack Flynt is going to run for
Governor. All thingB come to the man who
-••••• •* !'•
There waa a mix-up laat week (no
fault of the editor) about Ibe nearly,
elected trustees of the Ty Ty echos!.
There ere five trustees, and,three of
them—3 B Hollingsworth, K N Varner
and ,W W WMIa ware elected laat
week. Dr. F B Pickett and J J Ford
were "hold-overs.”
It does not seem to be {eneraliy
known, even yet, thet all soldiers din-
charted from service since April 6th,
1817, will receive a bonna of alxty dol-
lars. It la thelre for the asking, or
even without the aakint, though a copy
of their discharge must be cent to Wash
ington. Write to the Zone Finance Of
ficer, Washington, D. C.
The othere were drafted. One «
nt to Camp Jackaon, aad
week after he retched there.
It la Marshal Woodward now, though
you may cnU him "Chief,” if yon prefer
that tide.. By whatever name he may
go, he promises to be a terror to . evil
doers.
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This ia t?'be • great season ,.(o^ fisS
fn*. -experti anr,, basin* their prop*
the tygh water*, fut subsiding
and (nuppofi the flail lq
It ia
TSiV.
~ • fffljjtoepe, when the Ty Ty
works while he waits, and the Lord loveth the
meek in spirit.':‘ Three years ago, when we were
trying to talk to the House Committee on Agri
culture about an experiment station in South
Georgia, Jack Flynt waff palavering for the
: homefolks. We had a time limit of a minute
and a hplf and Jack had 45; tninute3, 8o he
“jes’ walked wid us,*’ as the darkies Say. Now
he is going to run for Governor, we’re in to get
even. Just watch our smoke this coming sum
mer and fall and spring. We may even go so
far as to vote for him if we get wrought up
enough.
VAGARIES OF THE HOG MARKET.:
Marketing hogs at a packing plant is some
thing comparatively new for South Georgia,
consequently there are lots of things about it
that the producers—and for that matter, the
amateur packer, also—has to learn. About
the most discussed proposition is the difference
between the price paid for hogs in the South
and the price, prevailing ip Chicago. There are
many reasons for this, but Kereis one we havc
not heard before: j M:.
Chicago packers buy one day for theuj kill
next day. They keep no live stock on hand,
buy from the stock yards. On the other
hand, the Southern packer must buy his stock
from the producer, and must of necessity keep
a supply on hand. The cost of this is not gen
erally understood. Added to feed is the loss
in weight and to this must be added the loss
from death and disease, which reaches aston
ishing proportions when the pens are crowded.
It is said that one Southern plant lost $10,000
worth of meat from this cause alone in a few
days last year when it became overstocked with
hogs and cholera got among them.
Another thing that is a mystery to the prod
ucer is the difference of a cent a pound be
tween the price of wagon hogs and car hogs,
Ordinarily, his hogs look cleaner and better
and the man with the wagon thinks they should
bring more. But the wagon hogs are full, just
from the pen or field; the car hogs'have been
out of the pen an average of twenty-four hours.
Actual weight figures show that wagon hogs
weigh on an average six pounds more than car
hogs—and this weight they lose before they
are killed. Therefore, the difference of one
cent does not repay the loss in weight on hogs
bought from wagons.
There are a lot of other things the producer
has to learn, and quite a few the new man in
the packing business has to learn, about the
hog market. But those in both branches of
this industry are learning fast, and the more
they learn the nearer they get together. One
thing soon becomes evident—the packing busi
ness is by no means ail profit
poetoffice fails to take ift from $1,200 to
$2,000 in the month* bat it remains a
fourth-class office* and aeema likely to
continue that kind for sometime.
• • « • •
Ty Ty is threatened with another
epidemic of measles (It haa not been
a great many month* since we wound up
the latest one.) Already there are a
few well developed cases here.
• • • •
Several places have been telling the
fishiest kind of fish stories, hot here
is a truly true one: Last Saturday, a
party in an automobile passed a fish (a
fish can't travel very fast) on the road,
about half a mile from Ty Ty. His
head was towards Ty Ty, and it might
be that he had heard of this as a desira
ble place of residence. He was on the
Tifton road, his back in the direction of
that town, bat there was no evidence to
show that he had any hard feelings to
wards the Metropolis. Affidavits furn
ished when applied for.
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Another was sent to Camp Wheeler
where, after two weeks' stay, be died*
The other started across -the ocean,
died before he reached the 'other aide,
and was buried at sea.
No; this could not hare been the work
of Nemesis, unless she deals differently
with different offenders* Had she
thus in all places, the war would have
ended sooner, and there would be no talk
of anarchy now. *
Dr. and Mrs Snead have moved to At
lanta where 4hey will make their home
iteverend 8 8 Kemp spent Monday in
Ty Ty, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. R R
Hekett.
Mr. J K Pickett, acting Third Assis
tant Postmaster, spent part of Saturday
and Sunday with hia relatives here.
Mr. Ifeinsohu, of Sylvester, waa in
Ty Ty a short time Monday on a little
matter of business.
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Ty Ty will ship many millions
plants this season. Orders have al-
. . . w , ready been* received fo r aeveral millions
?* “' - .7 •“'> the «•»«« haa not opened yet
P and W J Sikes, ia on one of her brief
visits to Ty IJy.. She makes this her
headquarters, but spends very little time
President Wilson just could not afford to have
Congress in session while he is at the Peace
Conference. The continued yawping here would
have a tendency to handicap his work over
there. Therefore, he wisely took the only safe
, > course and put the muzzle on. It goes mighty
.hard with the reactionaries, both in the House
7 and Senate, but they have no recourse. Then,
[ when the Treaty of Peace is ready for ratifica
tion the Senate can ratify, or refuse and face an
outraged nation. Meanwhile, the country is
the flannel-mouthed have no
The acquittal of Jeremiah O’Leary on four
counts of the indictment charging violation of
the espionage law, and failure of the jury to
agree as to guilt on the fifth count, waa prob
ably due more to relaxation of the public mind
incident to changed conditions that to the fact
that O’Leary was any less guilty than Berger,
Debs, or others who had been previously con
victed on similar charges. While O’Leary
has, for the time being at least escaped punish
ment by law, he has none the less earned the
contempt of all loyal American people and
done more than any other one man in this
country to bring discredit on the Irish and their
cause.
Ty Ty is as well lighted now as some
town* of several ( jtimes Its si*e. Mr.
Rally ia in charge of the power house,
and of the system; feperally, and the ser
vice ia entirely satisfactory.
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In spite of low prices, bad weather
and other drawbacks, farthers continue
to. talk ho^s, raise bogs, and advise
others to go into the holiness. There Is
money in it, they iiay, in Spite of it ail.
• i m •
That very glib and* entertaining agent
of insurance, with ua several days re
cently, is strongly suspected of hav
ing had a hand in gathering evidence
about those stills. u If so, send us some
more like him.
If the cold will only let us alone till
another winter, this will b« a great
year for, froit and crops of ail kind*.
Things are growing now at a rate that
would ma«e ^Jack's, bean stalk and
Jonah's gourd aahnmcd of themfclVes.
“The mercy I to athpr* show” (have
shown) “That mercy, show to me,”, ia not
a German prayer. Judging from the way
they are demafifiing terms ih that conn-
try, they think they are 'in possession
of that “place in the sttn" they were
fighting for. •'* • : - rv " >-*•
MtM / T
A young man of Ty Ty—* good-look
ing young man, though people do aay
that he ia mortgaged property—waa lost
in Tifton Saturday afternoon. The
friends whom he accompanied to Tifton
sought diligently for him, but were
finally obliged to return without him
It was learned that he bad found more
Major Pelham came down on the 6:48' nnnmnnim .
train Tuesday to join Dr. F B Pickrtt, COn "' ,, • | ' 0mp *. DT ; . . .
and Mr. Jack Ford on a trip to Valdos
ta, where an important meeting of Me
thodists took place. The paTty went
down in Mr. Ford's car.
Ty Ty has always kept a dose watch
for gamblers, but" a recent ordinance
has made the lines still tighter. It looks
now as if boys who play marbles for
“winnance” might be subject to arrest
And why not? It Is the first step—the
step that counts.
When hogg weft *Jkt their lowest
prices. Mr. O’ N Dowd sold three that
brought $145.50. They were not fancy
stock, but juat hogs that had not cost
very much in the raising. So it does
pay, though the old problem, why hoga
at 0-12 cents and pork at 35, steady,
remains unsolved. There are lota of
problems, though, that will never be
solved in this life.
Wbrn it comes to saving daylight in
chunks of two hours, no wonder people
arc objecting. When the^ added an hour
to ou r day, by putting this part of the
country in the Eastern Zone, very little
was Raid about it. It was understood
then that there was not to be another
change and we were only about half
an hour (a little less) ahead of the sun;
but moving us up another hour is really
too much. What we need is to know
“Where we arc at,” in regard to time.
These constant changes are perplexing.
Adverse criticism, from part of the
country, has been hurled at the United
States Senate, but no remedy haa been
suggested for improving its quality.
Where could we get better men to take
the places of those Senators now in of
fice? If Daniel Webster, or any one
of his contemporaries, should make one
of those eloquent speeches, common in
his day, he. would be laughed at, for elo
quence is out of date. We have plenty
of hard-headed business men, but they
have no wish to go to the Seriate. ‘ So
only politicians are left
MRS. JOHN
F INGRAM, BRUNS
WICK.
Mrs. John F Ingram, of Dock Junc
tion, died at a hospital in Brunawick
LET THE GOOD WORK GO ON
The revenue officers have left Tj Ty,
apparently, but they are supposed to be
still on a still bunt for atffla.
Reports are very contradictory, even
those obtained directly fram officers, but
ia certain tbat tkift, atlBi Un km Wfe|V9 Yfilf DOillf 60B8 Flftt*
found in Ty Ty’s vicinity, betides the
two near Omega.
Report says that ten stills were fonnd
in Worth, and two (whether additional
or included with those in Worth ia not
known) in Tift .The still at-Hillsdale
was.:>U& ilut discovered ne«r here. It
wm da«the howa ot a negro *ho protest,
ed that-it vaa.xJ^eto when he^apved in,
that he had qptbing .to do Udth.it, and
so on; bnt it has lpng been suspected
that whiskey was.bdag manufactured is
thrit neighborhood.
The most recent development in this
crusade, is a “lady” distiller. She and
n boy (both negroes), accompanied by
a suitcase, appeared at Hillsdale Satur
day. That night waa like old times in
Hillsdale. There were about twenty-five
negroes, they say, drank as some of their
fathers were in that same place, thirty
years ago. When the woman waa arrest
ed, she had only a little more than a*
quart left The whiskey was said to
have been manufactured at her still in
Worth county.
It seems that, whenever a still was
raided, some person, or persona, got away
with a* much of its products as possible.
In consequence, there has been consider
able drinking, even while the rglds went
If prison sentences, hot finea, fall up- 1
on these offenders, and all others of
their kind, it will help to break up the
business; but, what will help even more,
is for the officers to keep constantly on
the watch. To make a big raid, and
then wait two or three years, while the
traffic goes on, does very little perm
anent good. A constant^ watch should
be kept for these violators of tile law.
Eternal vigilance ia the only way to stop
it for all time.
YourTi
Vide Will Be Appreciate*
Sm ' "' 441
R. R. Picket*, President
J. M. Varner, MftnftffW,
DEALERS IN
Groeerie*, Dry Goods
Notion*, Show, Hate
Roody-to-Waar CMkkq
Farm ImpleMb
,A*d Oth.r ite* EH
THE BANK OF TY
MADE MONEY ON PEANUTS
From the Odlla Star.
Mr. John R Bussell, who has been
threshing peanuts over the county, in
forms us that farmers who raised pea
nuts on a commercial scale last year
found the crop profitable. Several,
says, are going to increase their acre
age in peanuts this year over what they
had last. He took pains to gather some
information as to yields and prices re
ceived by those who raised them last
year, and a reading of these results may
throw some light on the subject for those
who n^ny be contemplating this crop.
Mr. J B Morgan, manager of the J
B McCrary farm,. near Mystic, had CO
acres, on which he made 1,800 bushels,
and sold the peanuts for $102.50 per
ton and had his hay left. In all the
results below it is well to remember that
the hay crop is in addition to the figures
for peanuts. Figure 80 bushels to the
ton.
Mr. J M Willis planted 40 acre* on
new land, and gathered 1000 bushels,
which he sold for $00 per ton.
Mr. D J Henderson, Jr., had 8
and gathered 350 busbeia. He has pot
yet sold his crop.
Mr. J M Bussell had 6 acres and made
300 bushels which he sold for I102JS0
per ton.
Mr. I J Russell had 8 acres tram
which he gathered 400 bnahela, receiving
for them $102.50 per ton.
Mr. J R Russell had 3 acres and mad*
ICO bushels which he sold for $102.50
TY TY, GEOF
UNDIVIDED PROFITS
Sunday motnlnf ahortiy after midnight per ton. In other word* he recelred for
of ietkage of the heart The body waa hia three acres of peanuta $203.00, and
brought to Enigma Monday at 11
clock and the funeral waa held at 3 o'
clock Monday afternoon. Rev. W I Pa
trick conducting the cervices.
Mrs. Ingram ia roreived by her hna-
band and five children—four girls and
one boy. They ere: Katie Leo aged 18;
Mjrtice,
had hia hay left.
Mr. Artie Fletcher planted 8
and gathered 300 bushel., for wMch he
received $90 per ton.
SpringSeld Republican: “The whisky
trust, by Its decision to qnit and mann-
13; Motel, 12; Norene, 13 factnre food products, show* at
months and ono boy, Barrem, aged fonr. good business sense. No on, yet hss
Also by her (other Mr. 3MB Smith, of ever made money trying to annnl
Brunswick; three sisters, Mrs. 3 T But- amendment to tha constitution ol the
ton, of Enigma; Mrs. W E Bast and United Statea.” j
Mrs. D E Hilton, of Tifton; and two, 1 ————- -
brothers, Messrs. Lee 8m!th, of Wny-| UMm Cana* Onp ana
INTEREST PAID
I and BA VINOS
ia nr FRIEND whan
MONET we will be YOURS
yon has* NONE.
1 Ty Ty, • • •'
Repairs promptly attended to..
Benin an Feed can
Off* aad Grease far Sale.
Oaee Oemeral M.reheidlii f
After too read this advarttaananf
I* to thia store and do yo*f