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and Two Lots
e Price Mar
ft Tilton's third
_ active and Imdi-
average price paid
“ha average at the
thought the aver*
of any sales held
sason.
s still coming in at noon and
estimated that there were about
pounds on the* floor. There ap*
to be greater percentage of the
grades of tobacco than was offered
■old 470 pounds for
1 and 254 pounds for 55
cents a pound. This is the highest price
paid here this season. Mr B. E. Brantley
sold ICO pounds for 55 cents a pound.
The highest price received here, before
today wa* 50 cents a pound.
The growers who are getting good
prices are pleased with the crop and t) e
returns. Those who have put a very
poor^ grade on the market are discour
aged. There is a large portion of the
tobacco which is of very poor grade, due
to 'the leaf being gathered at the wrong
time and improperly cured.
Among the best returns reported so fat
was the sale made Tuesday by Welch,
. Segraves and Phillips, Avho sold 1,878
pounds at an average of 44 1-2 cents a
pound.
Sales will be held In. Tifton every Tues
day and Thursday, beginning at 10:30.
Growers are urged to bring their tobacco
l in a day ahead in order that it may be
placed ’on the floor ready for sale before
j starts.
s .sale i
For Experiment Station at Tlftoii, for
Buildings and Equipment. Ellis Be-
fere Committee.
Pleas for more money for the two ex*
periment stations in Georgia and funds
for the use of the atate board of vocation
al training were made before the Senate
appropriation committee Tuesday after
noon, says* the Atlanta Constitution. The
coastal plain station at Tifton was given
$25,000, and the state experiment station
at Griffin was granted $8,000, while no
action was taken on the vocational train
ing money.
The appropriation committee is hard
at work on the general appropriation bill
as passed by the House. The bill is be-i
ing taken up section by section, and It Is
likely that the committee will finish its
consideration in a day or two. The Sen
ate committee is to some degree increas
ing the appropriations granted by the
House, which stuck pretty close to the re
port of the Budget Commission.
No provision was made in the bill as
passed by the House or in the report of
the budget commission for money for
the coastal plain experiment atation, and
R. C. Ellis, of Tifton, appeared before
xmmmittee in asking funds for this In
st itu^n, which was created last year.
In granting the $25,000 the committee
stated that the money was to be used for
buildings and equipment for the South
Georgia station.
FOR ORGANIZATION
HOTEL MEN MEET
Steps were taken in the General As
sembly Monday to put the Ooastal Plain,
Experiment Station at Tifton *on its
feet and make it a going concern.
Senator Parker of the Forty-Seventt
District and others introduced a bill ii
the Senate to place the Coastal PUii
: Experiment Station under the control o
the State College of Agriculture.
*the-game day* Representative;Bow
I cn of Tift and others introduced a bll
in the &ouse to provide an annual appro
priation of $30,000 for the Coastal Plali
Experiment Station.
There has been a good deal of discu
. sion over putting the new experiment sti
tlon under the College of Agriculture,
friends realized that it should go there
wanted it to go there but it was n<
sary to arrange some matters first whl
are not necessary to enumerate
These appear to have been satisfactoi
'V v arranged, and the bills' to
the station through are now before
Committees of the House and Senate.
fc:
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Mr. L, M. Sullivan, of Valdosta, a pho
tographer of 28 year* experience
bought out the old H. W. Brown Studii
tad wRl taka charge August L The
tire place will be remodeled for an up-
to-date studio, where the public is invited
to call and inspect Mr. Sullivan’s work
>hd-
has 1
en-J (
L- .*3d get prices.
Pictures wili be
finished twice each
Mr. Sullivan also will do Kodak
All work guarantied. 20-d3w2t
A meeting was heldWonday in the par-
rnNTDni lors/Jf the Myon Hotel to discuss the or-
l/UlllAUL ganlsation of the Ami-plan hotels in an
1 CT A TTAM auxiUar y brancb of the State orguniza-
M AilUIl tion of the Georgia Hotel Men's Associa-
Tn*
Jas. J. Rooney was elected Chairmau
and S. G. Binion, Secretary, to act as
temporary officers to draft by-laws, etc.,
and to select a place for the next meet
ing when a permanent- organization will
be formed and officers elected.
This organization will affiliate with the
State Association and was got up with
the idea of bringing together the smaller
hotels Jajowns of similar size to ours,
where ideas' cf&r~bee&hBng^l! for the
good of all concerned.
The following were present:
T. W. Hooks, representing the New
Dublin, Dublin.
Chas. U. Rogers, representing the Wind
sor, Araericus.
Mr and Mrs. J. E. Hilton, representing
the Aldine, Fitzgerald.
Geo. L. Keen, representing the Col
quitt, Moultrie.
S. G. Binion representing the Tosco,
ThomasviUe.
J. R. Wilcox, representing the Lee-
Grant, Fitzgerald.
T. C. Vann, representing the Valdes,
Valdosta.
Jt*. - PH** representing the
jrman, Moultrie.
/Paul C. Powell, representing the Marie
Quitman.
Mr, Powell, Sr., representing the Marie-
Quitman.
Mr. Brantley, representing the Oallw-
in, Bainbridge.
\I. J. Rooney, representing the Myon,
iron.
ptber hotels were represented by lett-
rs ok telegrams, the managers being de-
y tAf aeveral small, well located tained aVjiome.
homaa, placed with me for sale. Anyone A speciaKlundieon was served and a
desiring .* nice, small home will do well ride around the city and a visit to the
to bny now. Keith Carson, Tifton, Ga. packing plant completed the dsy.
LIVE ON I
&
s
Had you commenced five years ago to live on
Three-Fourths
of your income and deposited the
,. Other Fourth
in a bank/ you would today be on a sure road to
wealth and happiness. Start that System today
at this bank.
There appears Uitle doubt that th$
young'man who died In Protection, Kan
sas, of typhoid fever a few weeks ago
i Arthur Paulk, who waa serving, a
Ilfsentence for complicity in the mur
der of Wiley Mathewi and who escaped
from; Colquitt county about two mouths
itlves in Tift received, $3
about,the first of July from a. 1
town’0ying that Arthur PaulT
aud Was seriously ill. Thlr
followed by another telegram
his death. His father, Mr. J
wrote % the address given r~
reply telling of the young
and death aud asking that $1<
for expenses. Mr. Paulk was.
skeptical, because he did not 4bjnk Ar
thur ups In that direction; alio , he did
not think he would be out of money.
Sheriff Shaw wrote to Mr. C. J. Sim-
kius, at the address given, asking for par
titulars of the youug man's death and for
a description of -him. Tuesday he re
ceived iihe following reply.
’ - 'Protection, Kaus., July 25, 1911),
Mr, Shaw, Tifton, Ga.
Deaj Sir: Your letter of July 21st
received and note its contents,
gard itqFthe boy that died here under the
nuuie of Arthur Paulk, will say that the
day before he died he gave us his‘ cor
rect same, as he was here under
surned pame as Earnest Clark, from Ala
bama. He died of typhoid and was sick
for tjto *weeks aud three days. I was
at Wichita, Kan., looking for harvest
handrf and picked him up and brought
him to ‘Protection June 6th.
The day before he died be gave me the
namci of Marcus Fletcher, of Chula, Ga.
and Hon. James Clements, of Trwinville,
Ga. lie gave me their names aud had
me to write them for some money as he
was bpoke and said that the Mr. Fletcher
was an uncle of his.
He was about ,5 feet 8 inches tall had
ratheii light hair and was somewhat dark
complected had some gold crowned teeth,
especially one upper front tooth. He was
slender built, weighed about 135 pounds,
and when not shaved hie beard would be
light 4 Q d thin. > I instructed the under
taker to take a photograph ‘of the body
but h^/ailed td do so but the body was
embalmed andTouTT'be ^liHen* yet IF you
wanted to go tb that expense.
The only statements that he made
that he had gotten into trouble at home
and could not go back for a while.
Any* other information you wish will be
cheerfully furnished and without any ex
pense,'and there will be no charges for
this information, Yourg very truly,
C. J. Slmklas.
The description fits Arthur Paulk ex
actly With the exception of the compac
tion, abd this could be accounted for by
exposure to the sun. It can be easily
understood that he might fall a victim to
typhoid after the exposure he had gone
through because he was never robust.
• Botfp Arthur^ patents are living, also
his wife, who was employed in the rail
road restaurant l n Waycross when last
heard from.
If the young roan who died in Protec
tion .Kansas, was Arthur Paulk, and in
dications are ^hat it was, his death closes
one of the most dramatic incidents in the
criminal history of Tift county. Wiley
Mathews was called to his door and shot
to death on the night of December 21,
1915. The Coroner’s jury laid the crime
to James [and Arthur Paulk and Eugene
Jordan, and they were arrested the day
after the shooting. Jordan later made a
confession in which he said that the
I'aulk brothers shot Mathews while he
held the mule, which was hitched to o
buggy in which they drove to the sceue.
The case wa* in the courts for two ye^rs,
oq.ee resulting in a mistrial aud the last
trial in a conviction with recommenda
tion to mefey and a life sentence for each.
It went to the Supreme Court, where the
verdict of the lower court was sustained.
Twice while they were in jail the young
men escaped. They returned and gave
themselves up the first time and the sec
ond time were overtaken aboqt a mile
out of town.
After their conviction was affirmed,
James Psulk was sent to the State farm at
Milledgeville, as he was suffering from
tuberculosis in an advanced stage,
died there a few months ago. Arthur was
sent to Colquitt county gang, from which
he escaped not long afterwards.
It is said that the Paulk boya conten
ded after the affirmation of their sen*
tence that Arthur had no part in the
FSrtt
The T V
turned, the
NEW GOODS COMING IN.
Harry Kulberah is Getting In New Goods
Every Day and Can Save Yea Money.
New goods ere coming in every day at
Harry Kulbersh’s Department Store and
he invites the public to call and tee the
big values he has to offer. He can tare
you 50 per cent on all goods bought from
him.
Fine line of Ladies’ Georgette and Silk
Dresses, worth from $45 to $50, at one-
third off.
8il, Crepe de Chine and Tub Si
Men’s Stirts, worth from $9 to $10, f
j $6.98, j
j Harry 4> motto is. “Your Money’s Worth
>r Your [Money Back.” dwlt
spending; near,
in, ou the way home,
freedom almost in
•m .Come by
of Old Man
for a time—
his way home,
our three boys to
reached, home during
of Wednesday.
1018, took two
Tech and left
waa assigned
Corps on arriv-
he waa on de-
up*^!
ance and did not leave
until July 2. ‘ y
whlcfcr "hi
was bne of the
German ships ;taken over by thin gov
ernment, and vtas comparatively a small
wessel. One of her boilers sprung a
leak on the trip over and she was detain-
port several days for repairs, fi
nally leaving two days after being loaded
threat of the military authorities to
unload the tfoqps thereon and put them
another ship* Soon after leaving port,
another boiler began leaking and the
pumps went bad. Finally, when in mid
ocean, it was necessary to stop half a
day Tor repairs, during Which the ship
rolled at the mfercy of Mg waves, and
drifted. There were 1,500 troops on
board. SOD of them negroes, and things
looked decidedly bad for a tfase. The
ship finally got under way, although stlQ
limping, when a wireless was received
from a companion ship, the Ludenlftch,
asking for a tow. She turned two days
off her c-.i-rse . whcp’ anothr message
came Saying that a destroyer had gone to
the help 0 f the Ludenbach. July 16, after
fourteen days at Sea, the Shoshone finally
got Into Norfolk, where the ship wa* con
demned and the crew discharged. Leeroy
came to Camp Gordon last week, where he
received his discharge.
“I was at HauRRemont, about ten miles
behind the American lines, when the Ar
mistice came,” Leeroy . said. ‘‘We had
been checking both French and Ameri
can artillery cn route to the front Our
men were still using some French guns,
although .th*y*slqtended to use no more af
ter December 5. After-the armistice,' we
had to check the French guns all back
again.
‘‘It was the same way with the big guns,
bound fo r Metz. Three of the five in
tended for that sector passed through
>ur hands. We had just got the third one
checked through when the Armistice
came and we had to check them all back
out. There were many car loads of parts
for each, every item having to be checked
and receipted for. These were the big
gest guns that ever went into war.
Some confuse them with the 14-inch naval
guns taken from warships, but they were
something far superior. They were built
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works ,and
had a range of 38 miles, accurate shoot
ing, although capable of throwing a shell
45 miles. They had a recoil of 35 feet,
despite the fact that they each carried
four 12-quart glycerine cylinders. Had
they gone into action against Metz, they
would have blown those fortifications into
dust heaps.
‘No; the talk of horse-meat
imagination. We bad it, with little other
meat, for six weeks. Transportation be
tween Maiily and the ports turned over
to the Americans was poor aud while
the fighting was on ammunition,
food for the front had first call; after
that for a time wounded taxed o
riers, so that we had to take such food as
could get. I think most of the horse-
ment came from the French. It had
tish taste ami was very tough, nearly
taking out our teeth. On Thanksgiving
day for dinner we had horse-meat steak
and mashed potatoes—boiled, mashed and
water poured on them. But after all, the
horse meat was not so bud as the steam-
cooked stuff we got at St. Xazaire dur
ing the fourteen days we were in quaran
tine before sailing. We could only eat
enough of it to keep alive and I lost
fourteen pounds—a pound a day.
“It is unfortunate that the American
troops brought away with them au im
pression of the French that hardly does
them justice. On every band there was a
disposition on the part of the French to
■kin the Americans for every cent that
could be got out of them. Some of the
lower classes in the portion! of France
where Americans were stationed are rich
er than before the war. The American
boys were partly to blame for this. When
first troops landed, they felt gen
erous toward the French, and when they
would buy an article, if the price waa
three francs they would throw down a
five-franc note and tell them to keep the
change. The Froggies would reason that
if three francs was too cheap, the Yanks
would pay seven, so the price went up.
It is only just to the French to *ay that
these gougers represented only the poor
er, more mercenary or ignorant classes.
The better classes of the French avoid
ed army camps and troop trains and
rarely came in contact, with the Ameri
cans, to the great loss of both. If we
of the better educated
For Electrical Wiring or Repairing call
Tifton Electric Supply Co., Phone 57.
A1k> Horse Cart Paid for Tract of Land
Which Recently Sold for $20,000 Big
Profits in Late Deals
To Invest $10,000 in a piece of prop
erty, hold it eleven and a half years, dur
ing which time it more than pays ex
penses and then sell it fo r $35,000, or a
profit of over 300 per cent, would be a
pretty good trade, wouldn't it? Well,
that is just what was done with a piece
pf Tift county real estate, and not
of the most desirable pieces in the county,
at that.
Some of the transactions in Tift county
property within the past few years read
like romance, none more so than that
lating to what is known as the Southern
Lumber Company property, at Solumco,
near Brookfield. .
This property was originally accumu
lated by W. W/Timmons, who bought it
for the turpentine timber. /
Mr. Timmons bought the land in sep
arate tracts, the aggregate cost to him
being $3,185. - He turpentined it and sold
it for $10,000.
One 490-acre lot has an unusual history
which Mr. Timmons kept as a matter of
record for a number of years. The lot
cost the original grantor from the State
$5. He sold it for a sow and litter of
pigs. Again it was sold for a flint and
steel rifle, and then came back to the
original grantor for the cosideration of a
home-made' horse-cart. The price at
which it sold last week would buy
bunch of automobiles.
November 29, 1907, Timmons sold
the tract of 920 acres to the Southern
Lumber Company for $10,000, having
cut the timber suitable for turpentine.
Tbe Southern Lumber Company cut the
saw mill timber off the tract and Janu
ary 1, 1909, sold the land to S. E. Kelley,
of Ball Ground, Ga., for $10,000, thus
getting the timber for nothing.
April 17, 1900, Mr. Kelley sold a half
interest in the land to John R. Hubbard,
also of Ball Ground, and on December
26 of the same year sold his remaining
half interest to T. E. Hubbard for $6,000,
thug making a profit of $1,000 on half of
his purchase within less than a year.
April 8, 1919, John R. and T. E. Hub
bard sold the, property, still a tract of
920 acres, to ,W. S. Cobb and G. D.
Browning for $25,000. a profit in ten
years of something over 200 per cent
During the year, Cobb & Browning
old one ottvpLpjnaU tracts, and last week
they closed out the balance to John A.
Kitchen, the aggregate prices obtained
for the whole being $35,500, representing
profit to Cobb & Browning of $10,500,
with possession a little over three months.
And the hiBtory of the tract is not com
plete, by any means.
At one time Mr. Cobb was offered the
land for $8,000, for which he afterwards,
together with Mr. Browning, paid $25,000
and then some friends assured him he was
stuck. He wasn’t. A man can’t get
stuck on Tift county land.
Second Sate atTlffen Brought $14,300,
With 65,000 Pounds of Tobacco
Offered to Doyen.
Tifton’s tobacco market set a record
Tuesday for high average price paid at a
With Poor Railroads, Motor Vehicle#
Solved the Great Transportation Pro
blem Says Tifton Man.
Motor transport was one of the Allies
most efficient auxiliaries, says Sgt. Wal-
tobacco sale, 65,000 pounds being sold here J ter Jolley, who returned last week from
at an average of 22 cents a pound. As a sixteen months’ service overseas,
result of the sole $14,300 was placed inj Sgt. Jolley went over with the Engi
the bands of the farmers of tllis section, neers, and landed iu France in April, 1918.
KEPT EGGS FOURTEEN MONTHS
Packed in Silicate of Soda, in an Open
Jar. Still Good Eggs.
In the spring and summer when eggs
are comparatively plentiful careful
housewives can store away a supply for
the winter months, when eggs are scarce,
A little forethought and very little work
would make the average home immune
from the dictates of the profiteer in many
respects.
Mr. H. L. Moor brought the Gazette
office Wednesday an egg that was four
teen months old. It was still a good egg.
It had been hard-boiled and while it was
ot quite so fresh as one laid that morning
it was still sound and suitable for ordin
ary use.
This egg was from the bottom layer of
twelve dozen which had been packed
•water glass” (silicate of soda), fourteen
months ago. They were White Wy,
ilotte eggs and were packed in a stone
jar which sat on the back porch of Mr.
Moor's home. At six and eight months
old the eggs were flue for cooking and
even at their advanced age can be used
many purposes, including chicken
feed.
Indications at the opening of the sale
Tuesday pointed to the average being
higher than at the first sale, and this
opinion was borne out by the figures on
the sale, go far as tenown, this is the
highest average price paid at any sale in
South Georgia this season. The highest
price was 50 cents, while the prices ranged
down to 2 cents fo r the poorest grades.
The farmers in-this section are rapidly
learning how to put their tobacco on the
market in the right shape. They say to
bacco is not bard to raise, the greatest
trouble being in curing. There is one
thing certain, there will be a much larg
er percentage of high-grade tobacco
Tifton market next year than has been of
fered this year, although a good percen
tage of the tobacco offered Tuesday was
of good grade.
Among the buyers attending Tuesday
sale was. Mr. Boyd, general superintend
ent of markets for tbe Imperial Tobacco
He has charge of the branch buyers
for his company.
Sales will be held at Tifton every Tues
day and Thursday beginning at 10:30
o’clock. Messrs. Fenner and Smith, man
agers for tlie Tifton warehouse, urge far
mers to bring in their tobacco the dav be-
the sale in order that it may be plac-
u tbe floor before the sale starts.
HOMELOOKEDGOOD
AFTER VISIT AWAY
DOVE SEASON OPENS
August 1. Game License Must be Bought
Before You Can Hunt. v
County Game Warden W. M. Sellars
has received a sapply of hunting licenses
for the season 1919-20, and as the dove
season opens August 1 he urges all who
desire licenses to secure them before that
date. All last season's licenses expired
April 20, and no one will be permitted
under the law to shoot game until a new
license is issued.
The dove season, which opens August 1,
will close again on August 31 and remain
closed until November 20, when it will be
open with the qnall season until March 1.
Herbert L. Moor, Graduate Optometrist.
Seven yean of continuous practice in
Tifton and. over 1.000 cases of Eye
strain satisfactorily relieved. Isn’t this
recommendation enough for uur work?
If you need Glasses see me anv day in
the week, except Friday P. M. at Moor’s
Jewelry Store, Main St.
JOB GONG
FIRST CLASS LAUNDRY
Work CaRed for and Delivered
PHONE m
“After I got- back, a man asked
what I would take for my farm. I told
him it was not for sale at any price.
3?he borne place sure looked good to
said Mr. W. R. Bryan, who returned
Thursday night from a ten days’ visit to
Troy and other points in Alabama.
Mr. Bryn n says it began raining
them the day they left Tifton, and rained
straight along until they got hack hrnic.
The first day out they were almost wash
ed away near Arlington, and on the re
turn trip the xoada were so bad that tbe
r could scarcely be driven along.
Mr, Bryan says crops fre very poor m
that portion of Southwest Georgia he
went through, and in Alabama they are
still worse. It rained all the year over
there and the grass has taken everything.
He says he does not see how some farm-
make anything. Before he left
home he thought his crop was mighty
poor, but be is more than satisfied with it
now.
Mr. Bryan accompanied his brother,
Mr. J. J. Bryan, home after his visit to
Tifton. He was accompanied by hfc
daughter, Miss Elizabeth, aud Mrs. W.
W. Bryan. Mrs. Bryan remained in
Alabama, but Miss Elizabeth, also his
-in-law, Mr. C. D. Reddock, and his
daughter returned with him to Tifton for
a visit. Despite rain and bad crops he
had a great visit and ail the fried chicken
he could eat.
New Smock Cloth in White, Green,
Rose, Tan and Lavender, just in. 75c a
yard at Whitley Brothers Department
Store. djvlt
Boon after arrival he was assigned to the
Motor Transport Corps, where he was
kept busy until he left France in June,
1910. With poorly equipped and tntique
railways and the excellent paved roads of
Northern France, moto r vehicles had to
be depended on for rapid transportation;'^
he said. That tbe Americans resized
this was proven by the fact that when the
Armistice came, there were 82,000 trucks
aud similar motor vehicles, with the Amer
ican army.
By the middle of 1918 the • Americans
had excellent and well equipped railroads
leading from the base ports assigned
them, to their supply bases in the inter
ior, but before these were built and after
their completion, motors were relied on to
keep men. ammunition and other supplies
up to the front lines and to bring the
wounded to the rear. Motors were con
stantly arriving by the shipload and as
sembling them was one of the big jobs of
tbe Motor Corps.
Sgt. Jollej' was detailed for a large por
tion of this time driving automobiles car
rying some of the higher officers. A Brig
adier General and a Major were among
his most frequent passengers. He was
often close behind the fighttBg lines and
was in Sedan and Grand Pre after their
capture by the American forces. On one
trip he spent eighteen days behind the
lines and wx»s only two klio* bohlnd the
guns when the last American barrage
fired before th$ signing of the Ar
mistice went into effect ' ~ ^
After r few days’ rest Sgt. Jolley will
go back to bis old job, which was held
pen for him while he was away. He says
they can have every bit of France, so
far as he is concerned; Germany also, or
that small' portion that he saw. “The
Germans say ‘Gott mit uns/ and the dev
il isn’t far behind them.” he said. .
OLD TIME MERS ‘
At Convention at Murrow i
nesday. Jacnson Won First; Bass
Second snd McClelland Third Prize
The Old Time Fiddler’s Convention
was pulled off at- Murrow Spriugs Wed
nesday evening with the usual fun and a
great time.
There were three contestants for the
prizes offered. Riley Jackson took the
first prize, of $5; Bruce Bass won Sec
ond, $3; and W. H. McClelland third, $2.
The judges were: W. I. Bell, d!f Tifton
J. A. Robinson, of Lenox, and A. B. Mc
Clelland, Tift county.
After tbe fiddling in time music the
feet became musical and the old-time
break-down was the order and the old-
time dance had its place on the program.
The manager, W. S. Smith, had his
share of the fun and good time. Ex-R.
If you want a good farm, J A Kitchen,
of Sylvester, has it He is offering for
sale 858 acres of the old Southern Lumber
Company place on the Brookfield road and
will sell it in a body or in tracts to suit
the purchaser. 25dwtf
Improve <you.r
Property
MONEY a LOAN
at
Lowest Rates
It has always been an Important part of our I
Buslnou to oxtond accommodation* In tha way
to thos* who could furnish proptr sscuritlM.
If you nsod monsy to Improva your proparty, or ot
purposes, w* Invite you to come to Our Bank. We are c
Home Bank and want to help our own people In i
way we can. ffijg
Everything Strictly Confidential.
The National Bank of Tiftoil
4 percent Interest paid on savings deposits.
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