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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. ■-M