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IE TIFTON GAZETTE
Published Weekly
LAFOLLETTE,
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at the Fostoffice it Tifton, Geerfla, u Second Clan
ir, Act of March S, 1870.
i Publiihing Company, Proprietor*.
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J. L. Herring .Editor and Manager.
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
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Judge the stuff by its-daddies.
In the flood of resolutions favorably reported
by the Senate Committees which were especially
aimed at the President' and designed either for
campaign material or to obstruct the ratifica
tion of the Peace Treaty those introduced by
LaFollette and Borah stand .out significantly.
One introduced by a traitor to his country; a hy
brid marked alternately with the yellow streak
of the poltroon and the red of the anarchist,
who only escaped being kicked out of the Sen
ate because the Republicans needed his vote;
the other by a man so lost to all sense of fealty
to his country that he would sacrifice peace itself
and all those things the war won for humanity in
order to win a political partisan advantage and
vent his hatred of Woodrow Wilson. These are
typical of th e efforts in the Senate just now to
discount the fruits of victory because it was won
under a Democratic administration, and who
would if they could repay the men who took the
MISS EMMA R . l
EDITOI
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Holy day* arc good, but buig^n beings
"iTMTTTg~miiMi i mi hi —- -w*— John Parks, they say, is putting ir
* re J° ***** tliey nee< * *® in * prohibition the New York World b hi* spare time pitching ball for tbo Edi
son team.
WILL FORFEIT THE LAND.
The annouced policy of Judge Evans in Unit
ed States Court of imposing chaingang senten-
' ces in cases of conviction tff distilling Whiskey,
■ is tightening the screws on violators of the law,
Ss When Judge Evans sent a witness to jail for six
tv months and fined him $100 for refusing to tes-1 lead in winning yictory by putting them in the
tify he set another wholesome example, as well prisoner’s dock,
as indicating the hardening of public sentiment'
against such violators.
1 « It comes from good authority that the Feder-
* a l courts will now enforce a statute which has
been on the books for some time, but which has
not been called into service because of its sever-
j ^ Under this statute, the land on which a
I whiskey still is found is forfeit to the law and
] C an be confiscated and sold. The statement is
) made that warning has been given that this sta
i tute will be enforced. The Gazette has been
( requested to give publicity to this that property
, owners in Tift may use unusual diligence to see
A that no liquor distilleries are located on their
? farms or other property. »• ■
CHAINGANG SENTENCES.
Some of the sentences pronounced by Judge
Eve in Superior Court this week are calculated
)r
One Year Ago In the War
July 17, 1918.
Athens reports Spanish steamship, on which
Minister Lopez de Vega was returning to Spain,
torpedoed by German submarine; that Germans
had been notified Of her sailing and ship flew
the Minister’s flag.
Cunard steamship Carpathia (13,603 tons)
sunk by German submarine; 6 of crew killed.
Gen. Pershing reports 600 German prisoners
captured in United States counter attack.
Berlin issues a statement, 33 air attacks made
on German towns by Allies during July, 12
against industrial districts in Alsace-Lorraine
and Luxemburg; 4 against the Dillingen and
Saarbrueken regions, the rest in Rhine district;
34 persons killed; 37 severely injured; 36 slight
ly injured.
July 16, 1918.
Southwest of Rheims Germans advance 2
miles toward Epemay; east of Rheims Germans
■make small gain at Prunay.
July 15, 1918.
German troops begin their fifth drive on 60-
mile front, from Vaux to the Champagne region.
Germans cross the Marne near Dormans.
Americans withdraw four miles to Conde-en-
Brie; they counter attack, driving Germans back
to the Marne; take 1,500 prisoners, including
a complete brigade staff.
Hayti declares war on Germany.
Czechcr-Slovak troops capture Kazan, 430
mil erf east of Moscow, from Bolsheviki.
Washington.announces that if United States
troops are in Russia, they have been sent from
England by Foch.
Five German aviators bomb prison camp in
Troyes region, kill 94 German prisoners, wound
74 and 2 French soldiers of the camp guard.
Two German airplanes bomb United States
Red Cross hospital at Jonay; 2 men killed, 9
attendants wounded.
Transport Barunga (7,984 tons gross) out
ward bound for Australia, with unfit Austra-
,ians on board, sunk by German submarine; no
casualties.
July 13 and 14, 1918
French forces cross Savieres River, southwest
of Soissons.
Gen. March announces 750,000 United States
troops in France, organized into three army
corps; Gen. Hunter Liggett is commander of the
First Corps.
The Reichstag votes war credits and adjourns.
British air force during year, beginning July
1, 1917, on Western front, destroy 2,150; droye
down 1.083, In the same period, working in
conjunction with the navy, shot down 623 hos
tile machines; during this period, 1094 British
machines missing, 92 working with the navy.
On Italian front April to June. 1918. British
destroyed 166, drove down 6, missing 13. On
Salonica front between January and June 21,
destroyed 13, driven down 4. In Egypt and Pal
estine from March to June, 26 destroyed, 15
driven down, 10 missing.
Berlin claims to have downed 468 planes in
June, 62 captive balloons, losing 153 airplanes,
51 captive balloons.
the Marietta Journal: “The clipping be- Agreement signed between Great Britain and
Irar we see floating around among ex-;Germany .providing for exchange of prisoners;
hut it is cood enough to! offlcers - non-commissioned officers and men
changes not credited, but it is gooa enougn to , and those interned in Holland, as well a s civi-
repeat and endorse— Don t judge a man by his i ]; an8 j n t e med in Holland and Switzerland; com-
clothes. . God made one and the tailor the otn- Inlanders of U-boats not included,
or. / Don’t judge a man by his family, for Cain) First Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, (son of
rSalonged to a good family. Don’t judge a man'Col. Theodore Roosevelt) 95th Aero Squadron,
Wtiw, house he lives in. for the lizard and the Fwat Allied Pursuit Group, is killed in an aerial
f S5£TaKe^nder structure. Jhe. gStf “ honors by the
a than dies they who survive him ask what prop-| Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., wounded and
erty there is left behind; the angel who bends taken to Paris hospital.
over the dying man asks what good deeds he has 1 Army and Marine casualties since United
I before him.’ ” > ,ta i es ? nte I ed tl ! e - war total.11,733.
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There baa been so much bard talk
about mosquitoes, and so many move*
made towards their undoing, they seem
to have grown kind of discouraged ant'
quite a job. It baa. been ideal weather
for them, but* they have failed to rise tc
the opportunities.
• •
Mr*. Albert Lyle and the baby arc
gone to join Mr. "Lyle in Jacksonville
tbeir future home.
TV TY DOPE ! *.! •! •! •!! • ••••
Maybe it was “boys,” as reported, whc
provided that “serenade" for Mr. and Mrs
0. I. Jone 8 last week but they must have
Strong, goodriaed boy* .to have been
equal to some of the other'feats execu
ted by the party—putting Mr. Ellis’ dray
on bis front porcli, for instanc*-. A "boy"
• to break up, for a time at least, certain violations
J of the law that were becoming only too common.
The culprit, where his avocation may b e profit-
; able may take the risk of apprehension and fine,
’but he will hesitate when confronted with the
-chaingang. The certainty of a chaingang sen-
tence as a result of conviction will make crime
decidedly less popular, while it usually makes
conviction more difficult. ;
< “Chauffeurs should be compelled to undergo
an examination similar to that required in the
Air Service," said a young man back from
T ' France. “Before a permit is issued for a man
to take up a flying machine there, he had to un
dergo a physical examination, a mental exami-
nation and was examined as to his nerves and as
tb his readiness and self-command in emergen
cy. If we had an examination like that over
y -e before a man, woman at boy was allowed
drive a car, we would probably have fewer
drivers, but we would also have fewer acci
dents.” And the young man is probably right
• Lack of self-command in a crisis is one of the
most prolific causes of accidents.
? Says the Americus Times-Recorder: ‘‘The dis
trict agricultural schols fill a peculiar place in
Georgia. They provide higher educational ad
vantages for the rural boy 8 and girta that could
be had by them in no other way. Scores of
them, with out means, and unschooled in urban
ways and manners of living, come to these insti
tutions of learning and manage to get an educa
tion—and with it acquire a polish and culture
they probably never would acquire otherwise.
These schools uplift and broaden our rural pop
ulation by training the minds and hands of the
country people—and that means the uplift of
the average of the population of Georgia.”
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Between defending Wilson i
Rusian Grand Duke Michael arrives at Kieff,
{capital of Ukraine.
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lately is the endorsement by the Valdosta Times| Japan makes $250,000,000 loan to Siberia;
. the nronosition to create Lanier county, with Japanese troops to be provisioned when they
uiiHnmn ,1,, enuntv seat from portions of reach Vladivostok.
Hillirtown as Ron-ten and Clinch ' Ita lians capture Berat; Austrians fle e toward
counties of Lowndes, Berrien and Clinch Elbagan ftnd Durazzo Allled llne now conl .
„s a general thing the creation of a new county p i ete f rom Adriatic through Albania and Mace-
b fought to the bitter end by the parent counties donia to Aegean Sea.
tiless of the merits of the proposition The
ion taken by the Times is broad-minded and
jtfreshlng.
“How fortunate that the Hun sunk his ships
Scapa Flow.' Now he must pay their worth
cash, anditis so much easier to divide cash,”
the Mucpn News.
iave a City Court if the Senate
passed by the House Wed-
In Picardy French advance mile on 3-mile
front; capture Cartel, Auchin Farm, occupy
Longpont, south of Aisne; take 600 prisoners.
German Chancellor, Count von Hertiing, in
Reichstag, declares Germany stood for a right
eous peace, but that speeches by President Wil
son and Mr. Balfour demanding destruction of
Germany, forced her to continue the war.
Russian Czar Nicholas slain by Bolsheviki.
July n. 1*18
The French capture Corey, also Chateau and
farm of St Paul, south of Corey.
Germans capture 5 United States airplanes
headed for Coblenz, t "’W ^ITW
occasional holiday.
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M«lon shippers continued to load
ears, throughout the Fourth.
Mrs. A. Greene,' of Maimi, FJa..
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
"■ Parks.
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Steve Bishop, a brother of Gordon
Bishop whose home coming was reported
in the Gazette a short time ago, reached
home Monday. These two brothers ware
with the Americas army in France for
nearly a year, but never met Once
they were only twenty miles apart, bnt
it was the fortune of war that they did
not see each other.
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W. 8. Malcom reports open cott6n-ol
ten days standing. ♦
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John Parks is back from Virginia
where he has been busy with peaches.
Palaeman Preasey if at borne now anc
may make tbia headquarters. i' ~
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Mrs. A. A. Lyle, of Jacksonville, if
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cub
pepper.
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Giles Inman is back from Florida, af
ter a profitable visit there which waa not
for bia health.
A hairdresser advertises to put a crimp
in the hair, guaranteed to stay six month
White women try to put it on and negre
women try to get it out This is a dis
contented kind of a world.
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The Russian "Government” ia. asking
the Red Cross for food. This is where
the fable of the grasshopper and the ant
comes in,
Mrs. F. B. Pickett and Evelyn are in
Atlanta.
Ty Ty Methodists paid up their church
dues at quarterly meeting last week, fed
the preachers and the people and had
pleasant and profitable meeting.
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The war taught people pf this vlcinitj
the importance of doing their canning
with their own productions at home, anc
they ore vigorously keeping it up.
body ever before heard of so much work
of thin kind being done nboot here.
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Mrs. R. II. Kelley waa taken to At
lanta last week for an operation. 8hc
has suffered a great deal, but, at last
accounts was more comfortable and will
probably return in- a fair way to com
plete recovery . /
Corn two dollars a bushel in Chicago,
and going higher. Farmers ought to b«
thankful that the all-cotton habit has been
broken up, if only temporarily.
a • a a a
Almost every man in Ty Ty who can
drive a nail has been building tobacco
barns lately. Can’t get anybody to dc
anything.
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The Williams stock of goods has been
sold to Mr. Jack Ford, and he haa al
ready taken possession. Mr. Mark Whit
field will be the assistant The busines*
will be carried on at the old stand.
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Mr. J. A. Aiken has bought the place
of Mr. R. H. Kelley and wiU make Mi
home there. This place, which in in the
southern part of Ty Ty comprises thirty
acres of land. It has a comparatively
new house on it and 1* quite a valuable
little farm.
A recently* married man says people
nre too curious; their curiosity ought to
be curbed, he thinks, and he will do his
part to that end.
For the first time in the memory ol
man, people in this neighborhood did
regular work on Sunday. Tobacco re
fused to get dry on Saturday and fire*
had to be kept going.
Farm labor was never so much in do
mand for there was never so much to be
done, and there was never a time whed it
was so scarce—and cotton picking about
to begin.
Things seem to be kind of waking up.
in s legal way, and it really looks as ii
criminals might sometime get their just
dues. Maybe the time will come wher
courts may be depended on to do the
things for which they were created.
New potatoes—sweet potatoes^-an
here. Mr. Mark Whitfield says he hat
them, big as his arms.
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Miss Taylor, of Douglas, and Miss Tay
lor of Valdosta, nieces of Mr. Bishop
spent last week with their relatives neat
here.
Mr. Owen Dowd greatly enjoyed a lit
tle visit he made last week to his rela
tives, Mr. Walter Overby and family
whose home is near Tifton. This ia the
first real visit Mr. Dowd has made In a
long time.
Guns are often heard around and about
but at what are they being aimed? There
are very few, birds, or gams of any klnf
not protected by law, supposedly.
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Viewing the situation aa things new
are, our fanners ait going to have some
money this fall, should cotton go to 86
or 48 ceuty, according to prophecy.
Mr. Luther Harris spent Sunday it
Poulan.
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Miss Naomi Norman, of Norman Park
bis been the guest this week of Mrs. Earl
Gibb*.
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Willie Jsy Willis, after many months
with the army in France, and consider
able experience with the Young Men's
Christian Association, heartily endorses
all that has been said against this orga
nization. He is loud in the praise of the
Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and even
the Knights of Columbus (most people in
this vicinity seldom have a good wore
fort the Roman Catholics); but, as foi
the Y M C A—well, he’s "ag'in it,” strong
Many other returned soldiers have had
xl deal to *ay uguiust the Y M C A
of some forty summers naively remarked J uud writers, supposed to be in a poxitior
(unconscious of the fact that he war to know what they are writing about
“giving himself away”) that they got it liuve indulged in much harsh criticism
(here easily, but it waa a lot harder to
get down next morning. Wall, boys wiT
be. boys bnt they ought not to disturb 1
other people ao.
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Smashing stills and spilling "stump’
is good, but catching and punishing th<
operators and owners (especially the own
ers) is better. When is the latter men
tioned business to begin?.
against the organization, but most of it if
prejudice, and much of it has no founda
tion in fact.
some years an effort has beer
made to eliminate the “Christian” from
the Y M C A, leaving out all its religiout
features. This, of course, would be -in
direct opposition to what the founders of
the association had in mind when they YoUf Trade Will Be Appreciated
Semi-oW*aNionally—maybe a little of
fener—there is afi outbreak of talk about
enforcing the automobile laws, but it end>
in talk. Probably the most flagrant and
fequently violated of these laws ia that
which forbids the driving of automobiles
by children. A boy of the writer’s ac
quaintance received among the gifts o
his twelfth birthday the privilege of driv-
inf hi» father’^ car at any time the cat
was not otherwise in use. Hi* parent?
are good people—members of the churcb
but violating the law does not seem wrong
to the majority of folks.
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W. S. Mnlcom’s capillary attraction?
in the way of eyelashes, eyebrows am'
front hair—were conspicious by their
absence last week. Too much kerosem
for kindling a fire.
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Because the women of this district did
not write to their representative in the
Legislature that they wanted to vote doee
not prove that they are opposed to femah
suffrage. If he had called on those op
posed to it, the result would have beet
rhe same. The majority of the womer
of Georgia are indifferent on the subject
Jpj ‘4»ws 4»q oy^jgjA CAfsuajxa n»
The government has on hand 21,000,00C
pounds of sugar, which ia now to b« sold
They would not have had this sugar, and
some other millions of pounds of the same
commodity, and of some other things, but
for the self denial practised by the people
of the United Spates; is anybody sorry
that the matter waa a little overdone'
Nay, verily. It waa done gladly, and
when a good thins is done in that spirit
there are no after regrets. Better 21,-
000,000 pounds too much than to have one
soldier go without Mr. Hoover was de
termined ts be on the safe side, and Mr.
Hover was always right in matters like
this. -
The Baptist tent meeting begins ir
Ty Ty on Friday, July 18th. The tent
ia to be oq the vacant lota belonging tc
Mr. E. J. Cottle, weet of hia home.
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A good deal of work has been done oc
the streets of Ty Ty lately, the rail
road crossings having been widened and
improved and good work done elsewhere;
but that bridge near the “Long Trestle’
still needs attention Putting dirt on
each side of it made a bad case worse
for the bridge had settled considerably be
low the level of the street. So it waa the
bridge and not the street, that needed
raising.
Jack Ford has bought from J. H. Aiken
the Walter Ford place, which adjoins the
land Mr. Ford already owned.. This
gives Mi. Ford a twelve-mule farm and
one of the finest places in the county.
Gilbert Willis has been appointed car
rier on Route 1, Silas Gibbs, the present
carrier, giving up August 1st Mr. Gibb?
resigned some months ago, but continued
to carry the mall until a successor wa?
appointed.
There will be a corn shortage in the
West this year, they tell us, because e
guaranteed price for wheat caused farm
era to put all available land in wheat
The corn crop is said to be the smallest
in many year*. Fortunatlly, this part
of the country no longer depends on the
West for corn. In this immediate vicin
ity, a large acreage was planted in corn
and the crop is good.
Of course progress—the upward and
onward movement is a great thing; 'but
it does seem sometimes that it would be
comfortable and consoling to live on
big plantation where there was nobod;
to see but your own company, no noise
but your own noise, and no everlasting
talk about things happening all over the
world. No talk about diversified crops
scarcity of labor, strikes and all those
upsetting questions that people art dis
cussing these days; but just to plant
plenty of cotton, get it cultivated witheut
any trouble, talk about things that Inter
est you and yon r neighbors and sit jm
own views reflected in such newspaper*
as you choose to take.
began their work, and it is a move that
their successors have fought vigorously
and, mo far, successfully. It was probably
these opponents who started all this
talk about the organization, and, onc<
started, the opposition grew, spreading tc
that class of people who like to have some
subject for adverse criticism.
The friends of the Y M C A, admit
that it undertook more than it was able
to carry out, and a few of the gravei
charges may have been true, but no fair-
minded person can believe that this great
organisation is “guilty as charged.”
It is in large cities that the Y M O A
and its kindred organizations, the W
G A, have done and continue to do theii
best work. The good they have don<
there is incalculable, and all Christian!
should rally to their defense when they
are assailed. The Young Men’s Christiar
Association has been engaged in good
work for many years; let us see to it
that the work goes on.
Chariay Via
TY TY,
Everything in t
Drugs,
Prescriptions
pounded.
FINE J]
Gaaoline
W. E. WILLIAMS^
DEALER IN
High Class 6eneral Merdiandist
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THE STORE
Where Your Dollar Goes Fgrtlwr
Courteous Treatment
Ty Ty Farmers Supply Cu
R. R. Pickett, President.
J. M. Varner, Manager^
DEALERS IN . ,
Groceries, Dry Goode
Notions, Shoos, Hats
Roady-to-Wear
Fans Implaraats r ;
And Other Things.
Pictorial Review Patterns ‘
MARRIED
On Wednesday, July 2nd, Miss Veda
Ballenger was married to Mr. T. L. Pat
rick.
Miss Ballenger is a daughter of Rev.
pir. Ballenger, of Omega. Mr. Patrick,
who lives on Route 8, Tifton, has many
friends in Ty Ty.
TY TY DRUG GO.
S. W. OUv.r, Proprietor,
A c MO pl.t. Up. of patoat m
daw. Drug. »nd Saadriw.
Prescriptions A Specialty
TO IMPROVE TY TY*S TELEPHONE
SERVICE.
THE BANK OF TY TT
Willie J. Willis has taken charge of the
telephone busines* in Tj Ty, and he pro
poses to wake things up, making changes
that will be very acceptable to the public.
“Willie J.”—as he is universally known
in this community of Willlaes, where
there are two or three others bearing the
name of William Willis—was the first
volunteer to leave Ty Ty. He entered
the signal corps and was sent to a techni
cal school at Leavenworth, where he re
mained one year. After this, Willie
J. was sent to France, remaining in
active service with' the signal corps for
year. At the end of that time, he
received an honorable discharge and came
home, reaching Ty Ty about two week*
ago.
So Willie J. ought to know about all
there is to know concerning wires and
things like that, and he promises to give
Ty Ty as good a service as it is possible
to have under the circumstances. He
left *this office to join the army, and he
comes back to a better position In the
same office.
The telephone exchange will be
kept open at night. During the day it
will be in charge of the present operator.
Miss Carter, who has given general
satisfaction during the year she has been
there.
There are several reasons why every
body who can afford a telephone ought
to have one.
DEATH OF MR FRANK WILLETT.
Mr. Frank Willett, who has been suff
ering from dropsy for some time, died
Friday afternoon at the home of his par
ents near Ty Ty, and was buried Satur
day at the Hannon graveyard at the old
home of the Hannons northeast of here
There was no funeral service.
Mr. Willett leaves a wife and a baby
the latter about ten daya old. He is the
seventh child of his parents to be buried
in this graveyard.
(Continued on Last Page)
R. J. COTTLE
TYTY. GEORGIA
Yellow Pine ,„■■■■ *
Wood for Sale at Ty
W. F. SIKES
Heavy and Fancy Groceries
Cows Bought and Sold
Fresh Meats
Plants of All Kinds
H. G. MALCOM
TYTY, GEORGIA
Orders taken no# for planta.
Abo I buy and eell hogs.
JHoga, Beef Cattle and MOIL.
SAFETY FIRST
TY TY, GEORGIA
UMDiTiDSD norm
- 1NTBM8T PAID
m TOa >ai SAVINGS D1
MONET «. vQl to ZOOM
jm ton NON*.
WOODWARD’S OARAOB
Tj Ty, » * *
RepUn promptly' atteaM to.
Itape!" op Ford can a a
on. oai Gran for Soto.
JONES a COMPANY
Dealers In
Hiyh Clu. General MorrtoaSn
After yon read this adverts
yo to this store and da
shopping.
PRICES RIGHT
A. PARKS,
Groceries. Dry Goods Etc*
Caskets, Coffins.
Ty Ty, Georgia.
VARNER AND COMPANY
Dtalars In
Grocartoo Dry Good., Caadtoa, Q>
(art, Tobacco and EroQUhi
Else to tbo way of C panel
Mem-o FornWhto*. a SpaciaHy-
DR. F. B. PICKETT,
Physician aid Surgeon.
T.» Ty, Ga.
FOR TASTE AND HMAUBR
Boo J. D. Maaai atoal paNte to a
load S toe* won, Tnra Cotta, sa '
fraa top to bottom, koopinr oat I
far this