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'jsSKff MHM THE TIFTON GAZETTE Published' Weekly Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia, Second Claw Matter, Act of March 3, 187S-. L. Herring..... -...Editor and Manager Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County, Georgia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES' Twelve Month! Six Months 4130 -.75 ( ENCOURAGING HOME ORCHARDS. • Very gratifying is the report of the results of the work of County Agent H. J. Prance, in Candler county, who has succeeded in arousing a renewed interest in the home orchard. As a result of frequent demonstrations it is said thpt a large majority of the farmers of that county have provided themselves with spraying and pruning outfits, and have purchased trees for the purpose of setting or resetting home orchards. There is nothing more pleasant or profitable on the farm than a small orchard, well assorted and well cared for. It requires a little atten tion, but this can be given at a time when there is leisure and intelligent care will bring most gratifying. results. Although it is not gen erally known, apples yield very profitably here and these, with peaches, plums, a few pears, etc., not to forget a few grape-vines, will prov ide every farm with the fruit that is needed and prove a source of pleasure and delight to every member of the family. Besides, it will yield fruit for canning, preserving or drying, and go far towards supplying the table with luxuries during the summer months. s. Every farmer in Georgiy should write J. B. Berry at the State College of Agriculture, Athens, for a copy of/Bulletin 168 entitled "Georgia Plant Diseases." It i s said that plant diseases cost Georgia farmers last year more than one hundred million dollars, "most of which loss coul.tf have been prevented through the exercise qf a little common Sense and with out any mqtfked increase in the price of produc tion." Sj&ut, a disease which may be absolute ly predated by seed treatment, cut down the whe^t and oat crop about 10 per cent. A pint ’formaldehyde is sufficient to treat about 40 .Pushes and the outlay for treatment, including fobor and-equipment, is about 2 or 3 cents a mshel. The same is true of potatoes, both , . weet add Irish, where seed selection .and treat- ( nent will often increase the'yield 50 percent or more. Surely these things are worth at tention, and the bulletin is free. » Our hat is off to genial Editor Duke, of the Griffin News and Sun, for the following: "Edi tor Herring, genial and beloved editor of the /Tifton Daily Gazette and a man who occupies 'a unique' vises in Georgia journalism, continues *6 print his Interesting ‘Saturday Night Sketch es’ every every Saturday afternoon in his excel lent newspaper. The last one was on *Building -aa Flutter-Mill,’ and was greatly enjoyed by the editor of the News and Sun and thousands of others who chanced to read it. It does a man good to take his thoughts away from the thoughts of today—of the advent of Bolshevism _*nd war-tom Europe, and even the advent of ~ ipring—occasionally and read Herring’s mas- - ;erpieces of the old days in South Georgia." m w The last Grand Jury of Berrien county was a very progressive body. One paragraph of the general presentments refers to the “useless waste of money” spent in trying to build roads to meet the increasing requirements of traffic, GAZETTE, TIFTON, GEORGIA. EY ARE BOUND. The declaratii Minister, that that unhappy cc all debts cancel Bolshevism is bj Russia’s reigf against those against those found with eit crime and was Hungary’s new F three days all lands in itry would be confiscated and 1, shows the direction in which md, head on, at full speed, of terror was directed first owned property; second g an education. To 1>e was considered a capital ily' punished with death. The consequences of such a policy in a country where eighty per cent of the populace was il literate can be better imagined than deacribed, Apparently, Hungary is following directly in Russia’s footsteps. We can sympathize with Russia because that country saved the cause of the Allies during the early stages of the war, even though its defalca tion later came near proving calamitous, but with Hungary we have no sympathy at all. The Allied nations, notably Italy, are in position to take care of the situation unless their armies are too deeply tainted with the same poison, and we can leave the matter with them. What chiefly concerns us, is the menace to our own country. Already, Bolshevism has taken root here, brought over by the foreign element to which our doors were wide open. A recent report of the Postmaster-General, giving the names of the I.W.W. publications in the United States, showed that already there are ten deeply tainted with Bolshevism. That four of these are in New York and three in Chicago shows this element prefers the congested cen ters of population, and the further fact that half of them are printed in foreign languages points where the danger lies. Bolshevism shows itself in continued unrest and persistent strikes; in the alternating de mands for shorter hours and higher pay; in the flagrant disregard of employers’ interest or the public welfare. The time has cbme when the danger here can no longer be disregarded. Its remedy lies in stopping the inflow of foreign blood, and in an operation that will remove the taint that is already festering. The only way to do this is by deportation. American should exist only for loyal Americans. Those. who come here to foment strife or who plot to dis organize our government, should be shown the door, and that without delay or haggling. Our country is too precious to ub, our people have paid too dearly the price to its liberty, to allow it to become the refuge of the off-scouring of Europe. A friend shows us a copy of the Columbia Centinel, published in Boston, Mass., July 2, 1796. The paper is very interesting because of the quaint typography and news matter, but the foreign news is significaiit. It carries re ports of the victorious progress of Napoleon's armies along the Meuse and Somme rivers, in action against the Austrians, the names being almost indentical with those familiar in the war news of last year. Have we only traveled in a circle, from a fighting standoint? Note—“Centinel” is the way they spelled it then. i > v L " THE END OF A WELL ORDERED LIFE. and recommends that the County Commission-, r ___ qrs call an election to authorize the issue of! child, a disabled body and no capital, and only From the Moultrie Observer. The average boy of today, confronted with such conditions as confronted Miles Monk, Sr., who died here yesterday, when he was a young man, would say he has no chance in the world. There was a little opportunity to secure an education in those days. There were no jobs open that offered good pay. About the best a boy could do was to marry and settle down, and that is what he did before he was twenty. Be fore the end of the first year of his young mar ried life war broke out and he was called to the front. In the war he was wounded in the right arm, a wound from which he never fully recovered. At the close of the war he was in poor shape to face the world. A wife and 5600,000 in bonds to meet an appropriation a’limited education. . . from the Federal Gov ernment for tl.e construe- l atout hearti a bright mind, a clean character tion of paved roads. It also recommends that, an( j a a trong determination to win his way in ' an act authorizing a revision of the jury boxj the, world. He started out on the program of HE be secured at the next session of the General'spending less than he made each year, though I Assembly his family grew fast and there was opportuni- I , tv for spending much more than he made. This . „ ~ I I7TT . * program won for him in the end a very hand- The German, helmet will by no means be a * ome f or tune. ' rarity in this country, if we may judge by the 1 His morals and his clean personal habits in following, from the Stars and Stripes: "Just his young days left him with a clear mind and as an incident in January’s postal business the a straight and sfrong body in his last years, infiSAii i k onn .Tnoiijannira even. He lived to be nearly seventy-seven, The no-fence law ia all rery well, bat a good fence about a place la flwaja an lmproremeat In ita appearance. ' Y >., a a a, a Mr* W! 8 Scott ia at’tone* Stain, af ter a visit to Parrott, her old home town. taaaa lflaa Emma Carter, who baa been away on a visit, la back on her telephone job. While abe wia away, her place waa Oiled by l(r. Wood, of Sumner. In apite of low price*, bad weather and other drawbacks farm era continue to talk hoya, raise hot*, and adriae other* to so into the business. There ia money In It, they aay, In apite of It* all .* e • e . M Dowd hae recently retui from a visit to Mr. w B Calhoun, danfhter, In Catania. “Get rid of Bnrleao'n,’’ aeeme to be ue burden of talk and writing in tbi* part Ty Ty baa 'always kept a dose watch of the country, for ramblers, hut • recent ordinance! »••* The cold that (Upped np on ub Mon day ntfht—Tneaday momlnf, rather— waa somewhat In the way of a surprise. No barm dona. * * i • • • Mr. and Mrs J M Varner, Mrs. Bow man and Mias Jewel Varner went to Al bany Monday for the day If you fo to Tifton by the railroad to spend the day now, “spend the day” hardly describes the trip. You must leave ken before day and gat back some time that night, just when ever it is con venient for the • railroad to bring yon Try to get back on the so-called 12 o' clock train, and there is not much time left after the early hours have been spent waiting for the places of bnslhess to open. Miss lone Stanford, who it Uttle more then a child, has made e wonderful re cord In the Government telegraph office Atlanta. She has advanced rapidly In the time (considerably lees than year) and has been promoted more than once. At her last examination shi made Her eieter, Miss Gledis, also, hes done well. . ( see mid-summer, according to "Wil son's time,” the son wUl be shining in Ty Ty at 9 p. m. e * * • a petition waa being circulated last week, begging clemency , for one of the whiskey distillers caught last week. It received very few signatures, for the (a white man) was known as an old offender. • a a e e If the rank and file of the Boleheviki could read, the beet educaUonal work that could be done among them would bo to furnish them histories of Prance beginning with the first French revolu- tion. ._••••* One Who writes at long range sympa thises with tkibcub reporter who we* Instructed to put such phrases as “It 1s said," “according to report,” etc., into accounts of anything he did not actually know. All went wcU till the editor saw paragraph about “his alleged wife." It makea- awkward-sentences, but it is impossible to trace np every little item. Preachers ffrnd drummers were very much ia evidence here last week, and all of them were "plumb welcome." • a a.- • .• It ia Marshal Woodward now, though you may call him "Chief,” if you prefer that title. By whatevfr name he may go, he promises to be a terror to evil doers. i - .*»• •» • »• e a • • • This i« to be a great season fo r fish ing, experts say, basing their proph ecy on the high waters, fast subsiding (supposedly) leaving the fish in lakes and ponds. has made the lines still tighter. It looks The frost did not hurt us, to any ao- now as if boys who play marbles for predahle extent, hat "the full moon in “wtonance” might he subject to arrest April” is due in shoot two weeks. Those Asd why not? It la the first atep-the' who%»Uev. la tha moon” (a few " ■tap that counts. | them are still with ns) sa»—“Bew.e.t“ O • O • 9 When bogs wets at their lowest prices, Ur, ON Dowd (old three that brought $115.50. They were not fancy sttfck, hut just bogs that had not cost very much In the nixing. Bo it does pay. though the old problem, why hoge at -9-12 cents and pork at SS, steady, remains unsolved. There are lota of problems, though, that will never be •rived in this life. And now that the rains hive ceased and the weather Is perfect, people are beginning to prophesy “a long dry •pell,” and that would mean no black berries. It does seem sometimes that, rosily and truly, “this world’s a wild erness of woe.” There was a mixAip last week (no fault of the editor) about the newly elected trustees of the Ty Ty school. There are five trustees, and three of them—J B Hollingsworth, K N Varner and W W Willis—were elected last week. Dr. P B Pickett and J J Ford were "hold-overs." It' does not seem to be generally known, even yet, that all soldiers dis charged from service since April Oth 1017, will receive a bonus of sixty dol lars. It is theirs for the asking, or even without the asking, though a copy of their discharge must be sent to Wash ington. Write to the Zone Finance Of ficer, Washington, D. C. Several places have been telling the fishiest kind of fish stories, but here is a truly true one: Last Saturday, a party in an automobile pasted 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, but there was no Evidence to show that he had any hard feelings to ward* the Metropolis. Affidavits fam ished when applied for. • • t • r That froet the weather man told us about did not get to us. Maybe it will, later. In caktlng about-for a money-crop to Uke the place of cotton, farmers have' gone back to watermelons. It has been many years since so much land in Ty Ty’s immediate vicinity has been planted in melons. port of Bordeaux loaded lS.OOO^mallsacta full «^’ h ' e waa never an old . man . of German helmets on homeward bound boats. ,^y e mus t give the mothers of his two sets of 'There were some other, souvenirs mixed in a- children the credit they deserve in raising the mong the helmets, of course, and the old iyon large family of hoys and girls; they were them- market of a few years to come will probably selves of fiee families and ^ere noble women. •L. _ , j? a.j mnfovnoi <ooaArfad on j m i v ' but even st thftt there «s ft lflrfte Amount of have a new listed material, assorted and raix- credit due him for raising nine boys and six i ed Prussian scrap, or something like that. R i r i a . a ll to becoine good citizens and heads of ” families, with not a dissipating member in the the Southern Congress of lot. There was no black sheep in the family. It is slack business when the Ty Ty postofflce fails to Uke in from $1,200 to $2,000 in the month, but It remains a fourth-class office, and seems likely continue that kind for sometime. • s • • • Ty Ty is threatened with another epidemic of measles (It has not been a great many months since we wound up the latest one.) Already there are a few well developed cases here. • ess Miss Sophronia Sikes, a sister of W F and W J Sikes, is on one of her brief visiU to Ty Ty. She makes this her headquarters, but spends very Uttle time here. • • • • Ty Ty is as well lighted now as some towns of several times its sixe. Mr. Rally is in charge of the power house, and of the system generally, and the ser vice it entirely satisfactory. 15 15 5 Major Pelham came down on the 6:48 train Tuesday to join Dr. F B Pickett and Mr. Jack Ford on a trip to Valdot- ta, where an important meeting of Me thodisU took place* The party went down In Mr. Ford's car. That very gUb and entertaining agen of insurance, with us several days re cently. is strongly suspected of hav ing had a hand in gathering evidenc about those stills. If so, send us aom moire like him. VINt MAKES GOOD BLOOD It has been proposed that each of the persons arrested last week for manu facturing whiskey be fined $1000, the a money to go into the good-roads fond' If all the offenders in this neighborhood should pool their total assets the amount would hardly reach 1000 cents. • ••••• Elder Barfield preached in the Primi tive Baptist church of Ty Ty Sunday. In the afternoon, he went with Mr. W K Williams to Ashburn, where a meet ing, conducted by Elder Krouse, had been going on for a week in the Primi tive church. Mrs. Williams accompanied them as far as Sycamore, stopping there to visit her sister. * 5 5 5 5 v An advertiser is offering pink legis- tremin. o r crepe myrtle, “good, strong plants,” at 35 cents. If buyers would travel along the upper Tifton road, they can get all such plants by the wayside, without money and without price, and they might even find lot owners in Ty Ty who would be willing to pay for hav ing superfluous crepe myrtles grubbed up. The plant has the habit of coming up from the roots and spreading indef initely. •tui with ns) sa,—“Beware!" ..... Mies 1Uf McCarthy, who has Ida, tires and many friends In Ty tj, con- tianes to advance in the position which •he second with the Government in Wuhiogtoa. She teedres a handsome nlarr to ax excellent position, but the la qualify,nx fo r a still higher place Mi» McCertey was principal of the Ty Ty school when the Tift county schools were closed on account of the fnfluenxa As these teacher* rewired no stleries during their enforced Idleness, she ac cepted the piece in Washington ' ».o a o' . Clashes between schools are aneroids- ble, generally speaking, but when the results an serious the offenders should be punished. It Is not the duty of the teacher to do this, when the affair oc curs out of hour*, and away from the school grounds: the parents should take the matter to hand,, or, falling that, an officer of the law should look after it. In the trouble lest week, between a pupil ot the white school and. one of the negro school, the eggreaeor should have been sererely punished—made So un derstand, In youth, that nobody ia ex cusable for taking the law into Ms own hands. It girea a community a bad name to hare garbled accounts (the kind that usually reach people it a distance) go out ot inch things. Neither of the combatants, In this case, Urea to Ty Ty; but anything like tbli that happens within ten miles of here is pot down to Ty Ty’e discredit. The way to present that is to keep such things from happen ing—at least, that might help. W. E. WILLIAMS DEALER IN High Class Central MirelniJi* THE STORE Where Yoor Dollar Boas Courteous Treatment OF THE OLDEN TIME. The death of Peter McLean Saturday morning at his home near Ty Ty, re moves one more of the "'fo' de.\wah' negroes left us. He was eighty-four years old, and be leaves children, grand children, great-grandchildren, and sev eral great-great-grandchildren. Notwith standing this, he made a crop last year and had been plowing and getting ready to make one this season. Peter, like most of his race (especial ly the old-fashion kind), waa mneb given to laughing, and hia last conscious act was a hearty laugh. Cows were In his field, and he and one of hia grandsona were chasing them out Some antlca of the cows struck him as being very fen ny and he laughed, a good deal, leaning against the fence aa he did so. He fell to the ground, and was unconscious when the grandson reached him. He was breathing, when they got him to the house, bnt died shortly after. There was no cqjpred person in ttris neighborhood so thoroughly the old-time plantation negro as Peter was, and he waa not more popular with his own race than he was with white people. Every- Ixxly had a pleasant word for him, and his lifted hat and cheery "Howdy, Mis carried some of us back to the days when negroes were among the first and best friends a Southern child had. Peace to his ashes. Comparatively few negroes of Peter's class made s success' of life after they were freed, for they were like bewilder ed children; bnt he had acquired some property. He owned a good farm and made a comfortable living. Hia health was good to the hour of hia death. He retained all his senses, got about aa ac tively a« a man of half his age, and a stranger could scarcely have believed that he waa well beyond four sore years. The Ty Ty Plant Co. bought a carload of those potatoes from Tift Farm last week. Mr. and Mrs. Queen have taken rooms at' Mrs. Thompson's, Mr. Queen having accepted a position with W F Sikes • • • • • They sty money was never so scarce, bnt people aeem to be spending about as much as usual. Plant growers expected to begin the shipment of potato plants last Monday; but, owing to weather conditions, they were unable to do so. The cold 'did not injure potato plants, bnt it retard ed their growth. the^Leagu^to^enforce Peace', this edftor-and Good example, a kindly disposition and a well-, ... , Editor Shope, of Dalton, conferred upon the educated home waa his part in this contribution rDeitnrc CoPTmcmg Roof question of organizing a league to prevent to.the wealth of the world, chiflin’s.—Walton Tribune. Mr. Monk was not an old-timer. He was . And we are pleased to say that applications a* much a man of his day when he Was sixty- for membership are coming in fast. Therefore, i fl V e and seventy as when he was twepty or we would suggest that.the organization should, thirty. He enjoyed life, lived quietly and be put over at once. Certainly before Editors! without ostentation. Never sought honors for tuve and Herring meet to fight a duel.—Dal-1 himself, but delighted to. honor others. Wi The Ethridge pitoperty, which wns /old Tuesday, was bought by Mrs. Parn ell, a sister of Mrs. Ethridge. The price waa $1,000. It ig for sale. • M • • ton Citipffji, - . " " ■ V. I hfOnest in all his dasRlMN; JUyer fftained hia long Said duel is all off. After arrangements had j successful life with any qUMtionable act andj been agreed upqn by mutual friends in which ^SH^Th& feliow man. ^ “ Sutlive, considering himself the aggrieved par-. Hjs wa3 a well-ordered life. He lived the ty, had chosen as weapons a sausage couchant |jf e of a Christian gentleman here and is gone . on a field ardent, with a ham tangent' for a to a Christian’s reward. He leaves a rich heri- , he all at once turned Bolshevik and ob-tage ja hfa good name to Ms cMdren, Ms .to washed chitterlings: As we couldn’t ^children and great grandchildren by ler £ghtin| for—or with—any other kind,; ^ j s interesting to make calculations as to H ¥ltW4 , J I**"Vthe.League to the extent to which a life like;that which has',*-gale Just passed out enriches the world. 1 ” vtrv: ■ Many so-called remedies for anae mia are only so to name. Tbeir mak ers are afraid to prove their claims by tailing what their medicines contain. Tb* only, way to be booatt with tha people is to let them know what they paying (or. Here to the Vtaol rale, when the doctor know* ft medicine contains, it |e be a-potent” modktoe. T> CoS Liver aaCBwfP.ptoc.e.lrcaiae Any doctor will toll yoa that the fa* gradients of.Vinol, as named abort, will enrich the blood and banish ante- •Meld, he i has been i Pexce. ‘ and rich and red, the ~ robust. wr.L se returned iTcyoct health. Oeaser Dm* O*. sad Dm,- A*r. * . Oats are flourishing, and thcre'g a sight of 'em. Ty Ty used to be almost a dogless town. Things have changed. Ty Ty merchants are opening all sorts of seasonable goods, and there is no laok of buyers. That hard-times talk doesn't amount to anything. e • • • Mrs. J E Parnell, who came to Ty Ty to attend the sale of the Ethridge prop erty went back to Mfllen on Wednesday. • •••• Do yoor beet to help mike the Ty Ty school as good a* any ot its rise to the state. It can bo done. | (Men taken now for plsnts. Also I buy and sell hogs. ■ft H. G. MALCOM TY TY, GEORGIA KNIGHTS AND KNIGHTE88E8 The last Sunday in March was a treat day for the colored people in this vicini ty, and hundreds of them vlelted Ty Ty. The occasion was somethin, in the way of a celebration by the colored lod,e of “Knltbti of Pythias” The ruem'.ert of this organisation formed at their new building, adjoining the colored Methodist church, and marched over to the Baptist church where n special service woe held. There were not eny lady knights, “when knighthood wes In flower, there were no suffragettes In those days: so there la no tlUe to give the female members of the “Knights of Pythias, unless knlghtesses wUl do. They were out Sunday In full force, all In white, and they made a fine appearance. A drawn eword, wands, and other paraphernalia, were not lacking, end knights, knlghtesses and visitor! enjoyed themselves in an orderly manner. NO MOBB BUMPING THE BUMPS— AT PRESENT. Take It all back about that eanee- way—not Uke It beck exactly, hot pat It to the put tense. What waa written •boat It was true, at the time, bnt a Mg force of Tifton coon ty’e toad hands went to work on It Thursday morning and carloads of cinders are waiting to Ty Ty to he applied. No more hogging to the mod -and Jolting over holes and rldgei along there In quite awhile.' That "bumping the bumper la no longer ptae- ticable. Thanks, many timea, Mr. Com- mlafcwer. FOB TABTE AND HKALTH Sea J- D. Maaad ahent petting to a geed 8 toeh won. Term Petto, y—to*** front top to totted, keeping oet ootftm Addreee J. D.Mauxd, Ty Ty, Ga DR. F. B. PICKETT, Physician ai d Surgeon- T > Ty, Ga. Your Trade Will Be Ty Ty Farmers Supply c« R. R. Pickett, President. . J. M. Varner, DEALERS IN Groceries, Dry Goode - Notions, Shoes, Hate Reedy-to-Weer Ootfcix* Farm ImplenaaeMe And Other Thmge. Pictorial Review PattenM ' THY DRUG CO. E. W. Oliver, Pneriatee. A acplato he «f patoet as. Drags sad SeaMas. Prescriptions i Specially THE BANK 0F1TTX SAFETY FIRST TY TY, GEORGIA-< CAPITAL UNDIVIDED PROFITS INTEREST PAID ea TIME asd SAVINGS DE Be oar FRIEND wtoa yea MONET wa wffl to YOURS yen have NONE. WOODWARD'S GARAGE Ty Ty, Ftpsht promptly sttoftMl to* . « 80 h. p. heller. 1 40 h. p. boiler. 1 No. 8 Portable « mUL p 1 shingle machine with 8 MM Md •> i nice art e( lumber treats. 2 log-carts. ■■■■■■■ TUe Material la to a*ot mMe ‘ ■k A Ort*, «*«*, <*. • — , JONES A COMPANY! Dealers In j gh Class Csearal Minheadtsa ■I ' this ‘ (0 to title store end do yrat •hopping. “ ; A. PARKS, Groceries, Dry Good* Ete..j Caskets,. Coffins. ty Ty, Georgia. 1 D. VARNER AND O Dealer* In Greoaeiee Dry- Goods, Caadtoo, tars, Tobacco and Em