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toe tifton gazette,
!, GA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, l»lft
1879.
iiger.
operators
ably the
for many
that Mr.
sum-
BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE.
Although the original stockholders who fur
nished the capital for the organization, erection
arid operation of a meat packing plant at Tifton
undergo a financial loss in the transfer of own
ership of the plant, ip the long run the gfeat ma
jority of them will lose nothing. ,
The development of the live stock industry in
his section; the encouragement of hog and cat
tle raising to replace cotton (at a time when its
cultivation is attended with considerable finan
cial risk on account of the boll weevil) with the
'onsequent increase in realty values and the
volume of business brought to every channel of
Tifton’s trade, will inore than recompense the
financial loss sustained which is represented by
MISS EMMA R. SUTTON
EDITOR
TY TY
The piaat season closed tbit year folly I BOMB AGAIN. '
month earlier thin omul. Untaror-1 ■
atl* weather they *ly. J A "ByInf visit" Med to be a very eom-| Tbmw k t mm in tho
^mon^opradon bedort the day* of flying who male* hit heeihuurteri
everythin* from'« certain Sunday of the
Inn-
I
t m
From present indications,
itermelons
will soon be plentiful. Almost erery
farmer in Ty Tjr’s vicinity- planted melons
this year, the first time this baa happen-
Gea
.phersjthe difference between the amount paid in and
grievance, the amount for whichthe plant was sold,
irig except) Tifton is by no means the same town today
Several that it was sixteen months ago, when th'e pack-
prevent !hig plant began Operation hero. During these'
|b| a general I mont hs, a sum exceeding twer million dollars has
bft wire com- f been paid out by the plant for live stock. The
ylb.this feel-t* r greater part of this sum was money that
n»!strike is would not have been distributed in this section
■Tof-the had not the packing plant been in operation w ^ tbw
/’than the [here. A portion of this money meant increas- C °
Jpss to busi-, ed business to the men who furnished the capi-
ehierfee and ta *> and it is only fair that this should be con-
ito hun- aidered in estimating the total loss,,
esitua-j In a f « w cases only, the loss will be com*
jort of, plete - That there should be loss at all is mat-
_ public I terfor d «eP regret; ordinarily, there would not
jay, and ( be - t° r the packing business should be profitable
•ences as, under conditions prevailing for the past year and . , . .
fto fight Jai’ait- But finder the extraordinary local cir- tl* ’ZVTmZLX
ht, there j cumstances, a loss was unavoidable after it was
found that these circumstances existed.
Asked if the packing plant as a whole has
Idorir; the been a *°° d investment for Tifton, the answer
many was | s ““equivocally in the affirmative. It has
in, “the ( oronjjht a large number of employees here who
jeaten.” command good wages, and the bulk of these
TBrowi, wafJea 80 into Tift county trade. It has given
rk;iWorld, farmers of the section surrounding Tifton
Ion that a .“ 0,ne m ,arket for their live stock at a time
ling]^- e “ it would have bean difficult to obtain a
„„ the “ arket , elsewhere. Added to this, it has estab-
,Iy local, ““ ed a cash market here for products that
first dayj prev i° us ly were not looked upon as certain
1 as the ]™°ney crops. Last, it has given Tifton a new
ive up[ place *“ trade circles, adding largely to its pres-
Kthat and commercial importance, i N
‘So much for the past; what of the future?
Accounts from Moultrie say that since ac-
Wb«n . c.nirwU.nhM prMeUssWbinite, To;;;. t.T”
OBij °P”\“ ontb - ttepwpta WMllr date pecUUy when we .peak ot . soldier. more toJTfa* to£hT£tato plants
«... Any „y.^,t to By-
Sfn. ““5“ b *. Col<md ■>, H m <**omen •»»> to b. found la every
WUlUo, thi* week, to bl> parent, and plaee wbeee , we *t potatoes flourish tod.
other reUtivea here. He reached Ty Ty, until recently, he aeeme to have been fair
Tnemlay morning and left for Texas^ bia dealinxa in this vicinity.
g??* 7 1 Last week » tM* Wt a large order
Colonel Williams look, none the woree wl , h H . G. Makom, and Mr. Maleom
for hU livey experience with the Huna.Vt, hi. hands to work on it When 100,-
and he poaitlrely refuse, to be lionized, ooo plants were ready for delivery, the
When oat. of hie old friends nab, to man cam6 b, ck and uid bt WO uld not
him a. Colonel, he said, “Cen the Colo- ^ them. There wee no written con-
month—aa “Tuesday after the first Si
day,” "Saturday before'the fourth Sun
day,” and so on. Our returned soldiers,
In telling of their sdventures across the
ocean sometimes make use of this kind
of calendar.
• • • • •
Since the rains let up, plows have been
running as rapidly as plows can ran
hut, in' some fields, the crass has kept
ahead. This’ll usually where the grass
had a good start before the rains began.
It Was supposed that the late cold did
not injure the fruit crop* but it ia away
below the average, nevertheless. It
not always easy to tell just at the time,
not vegetation is damaged'by
• • • • •
Anybody who has been longing for
tbe good old summertime” ought to be
satisfied by now. A little beyond the date
of its\sual first appearance, but it cer
tainly got here.
on that
&t, ‘ft was
'* ough
wed,q uirln fir the plant there in July, 1917, Swift and
I th*.
a depend- Pavements, tripling its capacity; that the inten
ds were is expressed of making that plant the equal
lot; up to “ lts five million)dollar plant at Milwaukee. The
_ >nne- “®w owners are said to take a great interest in
% great- Moultrie’s local affairs and development and to
fit be among tho largest contributors to its Chamber
of Commerce and other local public enter-
M0 dead,iP rlsea - Besides this, it is claimed that the
,pturedi cban 8 e has made Moultrie the largest live stock
_a man.;market in,the Southeast, six nillion dollars a
tfWiina, rear being paid out there for live stock,
are thanl ; Artnour-find Company, the purchasers of the t ,
55,QOO—i Tift °n Plwit, are leaders among the big packers 8CCma
who re- J* J he world. Their purchase of the plant at
thing ? ,fton ls the beat assurance of their confidence
-■beat-." 1 ^ u ture of the live stock business in this
jeen to section - 8nd th eir expressed intention is to en-
reasing {**8® the plant and increase the equipment to
iSd, ftake care of the demands of the market This
i / , is something it would have scarcely been possi-
Tele- b * e * or the local owners to do.
orida). Ttere ia every reaaon to believe that the
tons Armoura will do for Tifton what the Swifts
onth ! , done for Moultrie. This will mean a de-
1 lor v ®* opmen t here, an increase in local business
tpol
^almrinth for ve *°pment nere, an increase in local business
As soon as ?. a presti 8« aa a live stock market, impossi-'
ourse it b e under “ther conditions. .
r and living' Considering all these things, we are impress-
itufe* had ed that the man who bui,t the Tifton packing
plant built wisely and for the future. And
that what now appears a loss will mean ulti-
*■ tonal | mate,y 8 rich g8ta ’
oriimis-1 *
l or In any 0ne ' year in advance, the gubernatorial race
E consti- ,n Ceorgia already has two entries and a strong
ion is proapect - Attorney-General Clifford Walker
»y in- and Speaker the House John N. Holder have
unty already 8aid the y will bq in the race and Coliec-
4t to^° r °* Inter n a l Revenue A. 0. Blalock is regard-
now, ed 88 8 stron S Probability. With three such
notable entries already, the race next year will,
‘ not be such a tame affair. '
fistrin-i, ‘ • .. . . ■,
Sisters. 1 Not 80 many Doughboys are marrying French
Ration ® irls > discovers the New York Times. Observ-
Sds the ers were already convinced that such accounts
^already bad been greatly exaggerated. What the av-
prohibits era 8 e American soldier boy wants is to get back
bns, and home, to the homefolks and the home. girl. The
I a deajri exceptions are scarcely noteworthy.
"you can’t most always sou.ttimes tell."
• -
If "pepper grass” bore real pepper and
coffee weeds” made the coffee of
merce, this would be the richest commun
ity in tbe world. King Cotton .vou'd have
to abdicate. Pepper grass and coffee
weeds have no enemies but mankind, and
there is a famous crop of both "vege
tables” this year.
• •99*
There has been an enormous increaese
in tbe value of farm lands, any those
whose business it is to know about such
matters and this, they toy has Urn great
est in Georgia and South Carolina.
certainly true of this section. One
case of many:—Dr. R. R. Pickett re
cently refused $100 an acre
farm si* miles from Ty Ty. This is
probably about twice the price it would
have brought before the world war.
• • • •
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie yarner and
tbelr children, and Dr. .F. R. Pickett and
Jiis daughter, Miss Kathleen, went to
Morgan Sunday and bad a great time.
It waa nothing in the way of a picnic, of
course not even "a fish fry,” aa that
function is understood about here,
there was an abundance * of fried fish,
fried chicken, and numerous other good
things to eat There ia a water mill
there with a little settlement aboqt it
and the proprietor of the mill feeds visi
tors and makes a good thing out of it His
specialties arc fried fish, corn bfead and
coffee—and that would satisfy 'most any
body, but he lengthens the menu un-
believeably, and hia customers keep on
eating. The Ty Ty party brought away
fifteen cents between them.
nel stuff and call me 4 Zeke7*
| tract and, aa the purchaser was known
Well, whatever he may be called, he j jj erej Mr> j|4| Com ^ Squired no cash
cvruimjr brourht bad. . Zeke api-tlt. L, , dv , nct Be bid wltaewes, tboufb.
from “furrln p.rt»," and tbe w.y h,» who had hpard the order given, and be
motber-a good old, time dinner dlnppear- ! Ia | I i 1 t,haTe made a caee against tbe man.
ed under hie onalaughta would have made ! bn J hp tad n0 du!re ^ do tbU. The cue-
Oe hungry hordes of Hondom even hun-j tomw probably a little uneaay. for
f^ er ‘ *** m *<' to yearn especially for h e 0 B end to take the plants If Mr. Mal-
fried chicken and clabber, with pea. ■uing- com wonld p„. u<e 0Q them to. their
led with raw onion, and red pepper, > I Tario o. points of destination. ThU Mr.
clow second. Wbea be was asked if lie MaIcnm di . ljned to do> „ „ Farl , aU the
was ever really hungry while in France.
said, "Yes—for fried chicken.*'
admitted to a prejudice against horse
meat but said he got so that he could
tell it from beef.
Colonel Williams went from here to
Port Bowie Texaa, where hia division
will be mustered out After that, he ex-
Ty Ty—provided he gets the furlough,
most of which he will probably spend in
Ty Ty—provided he get the furlongb,
which he certainly deserves. When he
left here, he expected to return in about
ten days, to* be joined by hia wife and
son. The son who ia at a military school
in Virginia, is to be a soldier, but never
to graduate from Wert Point, bis father
•*y*.
THE PATTED SHOAT
The parable does not say that the- fat
ted calf had been specially saved aud fat
ted for the Prodigal Son, and that is one
of several ways In which Private Clar
ence Spillers, whose parents live near
Ty Ty, wag ahead of the Prodigal Son.
Private Spillers waa nothing whatever
in the Prodigal Son line, except in the
manner in which his home-coming was
celebrated, though it was a fatted pig
that was killed)* and not a rnlf, and the
way it waa "made ready” was to.barlie-
plants were for customers in the eighth
zone. As he had paid for polling, count
ing, tying and packing, the addition
of postage would have taken money out
of Mr. Malcom'a pocket, instead of pi
ting it in. '
So the plants were a dead lois, and the
man who made them so goes on bis way
rejoicing. He bought other plants here,
after he had refused to take these, and
it Is supposed that the price waa less
than be bad agreed to pay to Mr. Maltpm.
When the foregoing facta were given
to the correspondent, they-wfcre accom
panied by the name of the man accused
of unfair dealing: but it is thought best
not to publish tbe name. Bat if a per
son of this name should come to Ty Ty
next season to buy plants, it would be
well for him to bring a well-filled pocket-
book.
POISONING THE BOLL WEEVIL
A number of farmers in Tift County are
preparing to poison the bpll weevil this
coming season with calcium arsenate. The
United States Department of Agriculture
has been experimenting for some time
with this method of attack on tbe weevil*
and to date it has been reasonably suc
cessful. However, the experiments have
no: yet advanced to the stags where the
Also, there were many, many | Department can recommend it on a
good things, in addition to the pig, made uMessle basis for every farmer to prao
TY TY,
Everything In the way ot
Drugs, v
Prescriptions carefully com
pounded. ,
FINE JEWELRY .
Gasoline snd Oil
W. E. WILLIAMS
DEALER IN.
THE STORE
Where Your Dollar Goes Mr
Courteous Treatment
• • * • •
Your Trade Will Be Appreciated
Ty Ty Farmers Supply Go
R. R.
President.
'oromr. Manager^
easy to account for that
"leak'’ about the Peace Treaty for Ger
mans would sell their immortal souls.
Not- many of them think, however, that
they have immortal souls; but that
would give additional pleasure to the
sale.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Dowd, Mrs. R .R.
Pickett and Miss Louise Pickett spent
the day in the w*oods Monday. Ostensi
bly, they went a-berrying'—and, really
they brought home about a bushel of
blackberries—but it was probably just
the call of the woods that took them out.
If boll weevils did not leave the cot
ton looking so distressingly flourishing,
we might regard them with a slight
shade Ipsa of hatred and malice, but to
see all this beautiful cotton without
fruit, is maddening.
• • • • •
The "last Mexican War Veteran,” has
begun to die. This is premature, for the
Revolution veterans are not quite all out
of the way yet However, with the vet
erans of three warn on hand, it was
rather decent of him to begin. He waa
Dr. RUssel B. Tripp, within twenty days
of hia one hundredth birthday, and he
died in San Jose, California. He was a
delegate to the first Republican National
Convention—which seems to have been a
very large convention.
• • • • •
This correspondent ia disposed to "let
God's leather take God’s weather,” as an
old woman of Southwest Georgia used to
aay; but the seasons seem to have
ahifted around so that it is perplexing.
Who would have asked for finer autumn
weather than Tuesday afternoon and
rninir? /
Wednesday morning? ]
) Says the Dawson News: “The newspapers
irk in the 816 congratulating Tifton pn securing the.Coast-
les-Enter- Plains Experiment Station. And it is abun-
Jte a few dantly deserved. Tifton is one of Soiith Geor-
ek, but he 8 1 *’* wide-awake and forward-moving cities
i miss our
Jon e* that
ad there
and always gets what she goes after.”
Some of the same bunch that was howling
Und.^o, Months ago that Mr.- Wilson wap entirely
too tijsy on Germany, are now crying that the
peace terms are too drastic and that they will
bring on another war,
"Fiddler’s Green” ia nearer than we thought,
rhe Pearson Tribune locates it in Atkinsfih coun-
gh..ty. which has “a temple of i
I Tiddler's Graph schpolhouae,
j tone forth bright boya.”
CALOMEL DYNAMITES
A SLUGGISH LIVER
Cnuhe, into Sour Bile, Making Von
Sick and Yon Lo«« a Dxy’. Work
Calomel salivates 1 It*« mercury. Calo
mel acta like dynamite on a sluggish
livar. When calomel comes into con.
,tuct with sour bile it crushes into it,
causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel biUous, headachy, consti
pated and all knocked out, just go to
your druggist and get t bottle ot Dodoon’a
Liver Ton tor a, few cents which is a
harmless vegetable substitute for daagtr.
oua calomel. Take a spoonful and If it
doesn't start yonr liver and straighten
you up better and quicker than nasty
calomel and without making you sick, you
Just go back and get your mosey.
H you taka calomel today youTi he
•lek and nauseated tomorrow;-besides. It
may »«Uvata yon, while If you take Dod-
•on’a-Liver Tone yon will wjjke up feel-
known U tn* rreat, f*lL of ambition and ready for
k..N. v.. woA or play. - It’a harmless, pleasant
and safe to giro to Chlldnp r theg llke
ready—things of which the Prodigal Son
in his hungriest experience, never
so much aa dreamed. In these days of
mad scrambling for hogs—hogs at al
most any price—it la not easy to keep
on hand a seemingly useless pig; but this
pig had been set apart by Mr. Splllerv,
Senior,, for the express purpose ot form
ing the principal dish at tha home-coming
celebration of hia aba, Clarence, and
money could not buy it
The guest of honor, poor fellow, came
very near not being '-among those pres-
He was In the awful battlea of
August and waa twice overcome by gas.
He says hlg company -went over tho top"
with 2G0 men, and came back with six
teen. He got back home, though, aud
that pig, for which so many attractive
prices had beep refused, was killed and
made ready, the friends and neighbors,
not to mention the relatives whose name
Is legion—were called together, and there
waa a celebration that must have com
pared more than favorably with the one
tendered the Prodigal Son.
Mr. Clarence Splllen has not yet fully
recovered from bfi experience in the
trenches, but It is recorded that he was
quite strong enough to do justice to that
dinner. He had been away Just one
year.
BIUB LONG IN SUMTER
Returns to That County After Com
pleting Athena Course
Americus, June fl.—Mra. Olln A. Wil
liams, county canning club demonstrator
here, will be assisted during the current
year by Miss Rowena Long who has re
cently completed a post graduate course
at tha Stats Agricultural College at Ath
ens. Miss Long, who was county agent
here two years before going to Athens,
organised the canning club work among
Sumter girls, and advanced It to a point of
wide Importance.
She la unusually popular among can-
niug girls throughout the county, and is
being extended a warm welcome upon the
occasion of her return here. She will
work I n co-operation with Mra. Williams,
and It la anticipated the work will attain
a new standard of excellence under their
joint direction.
COL BUGG IS BACK
rtom Overseas and In His Old Position
at Terminal Station.
Lieut-Col. B. L. Bugg, of Atlanta, who
has been in command of a Regiment of
Engineers, American Expeditionary For
ces, in France, for 12 months, returned
to Atlanta Saturday, May Slat, and Im
mediately resumed his railroad work.
He becomes Superintendent, Atlanta
Terminal Station, vice L. L McDonald,
transferred, effective June lit ,
Col. Bugg baa been prominently identi
fied with the transportation work of tha
South for a number of yean and hia
many friends In Atlanta and all over the
South will be glad to wekoms hia return
from overseas service.
Dublin, Ga..— a. A. B. Jackson,
n egress, was struck In tbs temple by a
bnllet and painfully wonnded when
Policeman Meade shot a mad dog in
front of a restaurant ben. Tbs bnllet
fund through tho dog glanced from tha
pavement and struck the woman. Shi
will recover.
tice. Tbe Georgia State College of Agri
culture ia conducting a number of ex*
pertinents in tbe state this year to deter
mine just what benefit it will be in bold
ing the weevil in check
One experiment plot la located
on the farm of Mr. B. M. Monroe at
Oycloneta, Tift county and la being con
ducted by Mr. F. C. Ward, Special Field
Agent from the State college in cotton
work. AU those who are famUiar with
past experiments In poladnlng the boll
weevila have great confidence in the opera
tion and a number are using it The cost
per acre for machine and material when
fifteen acres ar Liore are dnr*ea, exclusive
of labor ia about eight dollars. On this
basis an increase of 100 lbs of seed cotton
per acre will more than pay for the
operation.
For those wbo attempt using poison
for control of the boll weevil the follow
ing instructions are issued: Use only
calcium arsenate and apply it with either
a Monarch Duster Sr a Champion Duster
No. 2.
* Directions.
1. —Start dusting when the infection is
very noticeable. When twenty squares
out of every two hundred counted as you
come to them are punctured by the weevil
it is time to begin.
2. —It requires Enough calcium arse
nate to thoroughly cover the plants with
a thin dust, about five pounds to the acre,
each application.
3. —Apply dust often enough «o that
upon examination of three hundred
squares counted aa you come to them in
the field not more Uian seventy-five will
be punctured by the weevil. This will
require one application from every seven
to fifteen days. .
4. —The dust should be applied when
there is little wind, End either late in the
evening, or early in the morning,
heavy rain falling on the dusted plants
within twenty-four hours after applica
tion will wash it off and it should be im
mediately repeated. A rain falling twen
ty-four hour*.after application will not
readily wash the dost from the cotton.
Caution.
Calcium arsenate is very poisonous to
livestock and to people. Do not let live-
stock get into the field where it has been
used. Muxsle mules working in dusts!
fields if they are inclined to‘eat the cot
ton. Keep poison away from children
and out pf feed batns. Workmen hand
ling the poison should wash face and
hands thoroughly before eating. Do not
wash overalls and leave poison where
cattle or hogs can get to the water.
Keep in a dry place. Poison cannot
be dusted if allowed to become damp and
cloggy.
A. M. DICKSON, County Agent
DEALERS IN
Groceries Dry Goode
Notions, Shoot, Hot*
Roody-to-Wear
Form ImpUmaots
And Othor Thing*.
Pictorial Review Pattern*
TY TY DRUG CO.
E. W.’ Oilv.r, hopifatar,
A cMBpUto lla. of p*t«mt mm
(in.. Drags aad SnaMa*.
Prescriptions A Specialty
THE BANK OF TY TT
it FRIEND whra TM
MONEY n win b. IOUBS wi
no have NONE.
WOODWARD’S OABAOE
Yf Ty,
Rtmlra promptly attended to.
Repairs oa Ford cars a
Oils aad Grease far Sale.
TICKETS ON SALE
No Warma ha a Healthy Child
HIBa truth t wkh wenas hava aaa»
kwkfch - aot tau
Tickets lor the Oalna' sisters concert
Friday evening are on alls at Brooks
Pharmacy, Oonger-o, Mills- and Pink-
Iton'a drag stores. y>
Rub-My-TUm U a great pafai
killer. It relieve* pain
eocene** canted by Rhmmat-
Neuralgia, Sprain*, etc. nd
JONES ft COMPANY '
Dealer* In
Mgk Claw General MirrhiaBoo
After yon reed tM* *dT*rtlB**M^L
*° to thii ator* and do yonr
•hopping.
PRICES RIGHT , 4 ,
A. PARKS,
Groeerie*. Dry Good* Etc-
Gasket*, Coffin*.
’Ey Ty, Georgia.
O. VARNER AND COMPANY
Dm1«* In
«»eertn* Dry Goad., Caadiaa, CD
■am, Tobacco and EnrytUm
Blno in the my of Cooaral
Morelia adlM.
Man-a Farahklag. » Specialty.
DR. F. B. PICKETT,
Physician tu d Surgeon. ’
T.’ Ty, Ga.
FOR TA8TB AND HBALTH
***** * *
**** •Mch wan, tan Cotta, eoamntat
hra^top to bottom, kaaptog oat (warn
Addnoa J. D. Maaad, Ty Ty, Ga.
PITTMAN
H. Gi MALCOM
TY TY, GEORGIA
Orden taken now [for plant*.
Also 1 boy and sell bogs.
..Hogs, Beef Cattle ^nd Mntr
ty ty, pEonoiAi.
W.
Heavy and 'Faacy Groceries
Cow* Bought and Sold
Mm Fresh Heat*