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■, a id TIFTON, GA., Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietor*. now country is uncouth, yet they were men of re. finement who held steadfastly to the light before them. Barrooms were at every crossroads, yet they were temperate men. No matter what their surroundings, they deviated not from the even tenor of their way and the men, rough or ignorant, with whom they came in contact re* j, l. Herring Editor and Manager. Pected them, and respected their religion. They ¥ b established and maintained Sunday Schools; they helped organize, build and support chur. ches; in every work for the cause of morality religion or education, they took an active part. Official Organ City of Tif ton and Tift County, Georgia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES* Twelve months $1*50 Six Months Four Months SATURDAY NIGHT. The Influence of the Good Man. The influent? of the good man in his com munity and throughout the section in which he dwells is like the perfume of the flower or the pure waters of the flowing spring—it goes out, it spreads, it percolates through every human at mosphere; it is the leaven of good that makes the bread of life. This influence canr.ot be measured; it cannot be calculated; only the Great Book-keeper above knows the immense reaches of its accomplishment, i Such men in their day and time were Thomas M. Greene and Charles W. Graves, A good part of the high moral atmosphere of this section today is due to these two men and their kind, and to their influence on their fellow. Notable it is that the end of both should have come within a few hours, at their homes many miles apart. The end as different as the men were different, although they had so many things in common—one swiftly but painlessly and peacefully, as with the brush of the wings of the Death Angel; the other slowly and after much suffering. The lives of the two first touched more than forty years ago, while both were in the vigor of young manhood. Uncle Charlie was clerk and book-keeper for his father at the latter’s pioneer saw mill at Hillsdale; Uncle Mitch came from Middle Georgia to win fortune or seek adven ture in the timber business of the new country. They met, they were friends; yet they drifted '<$ apart, to meet again after many years and re new old friendships. At that time, Hillsdale k was the town and Ty Ty only an incident, with one store—that of Uncle Jimmy Hannon, later augmented by the business of Daddy Jeks. Uncle Mitch did not find his cross-tie business profitable. Railroads did not pay much and that little only after the ties were accepted; ac ceptance was slow in coming and there were many rejections. He sold his team of mules and for a while tried oxen for hauling the tie*. He sold his tie business and went to Coffee coun ty, where the saw mills were numerous. There for many years he was with the Furlong mills, and in the early 80’s came to Tifton where for two decades he was with the mills of H. H. Tift. A good judge of timber, with experienced eye and calculating mind, his was the task to go be fore the man with the axe and select the pines for cutting. His duty kept him out in the woods, in advance of the foremost log carts and trucks, and there he met Nature at her best, and there his soul was tuned in accord with his Creator and he developed a kind philosophy and a broad conception of his fellowman.. Twenty-five years ago he left the mills and the woods to accept the place of Postmaster at Tif ton, under appointment of Grover Cleveland, ff 'Four years later the shift of politics sent the office back into Republican hands and he with his son engaged in the saw mill business, in which both were trained through many years. Later, his rare ability in judging timber put him with the Gress Manufacturing Company, who were large buyers, and in their employ he trav eled a majority of the woodlands of South Georgia and Florida. Advancing years kept furnish the city Water at f very low gross rate, . .. — the to supply fwater to consumers at rates So it is that today, as we lay them to rest, wr prevailing now, or at any other rate it may look around at the country they served and .left and see some of the things their lives and work have wrought. And we know that, on and on, through the ages, this work shall live after them until man is no more. Who can estimate; who can fully realize, the value of the life work of these men to the world in which they lived and which they only left to answer the call, “Well done, Good and faithful servants; enter thou into thy reward.” “Good men die not! what seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian Whose portal we call death.” "He but sleeps the holy sleep.; say not the good man dies.” THE DAY OF INDEPENDENCE. “I do not expect to realize all my desires in life, but one thing I have always wanted has come to me," said a planter Saturday, who for merly reckoned his cotton crop by the thousand acres. “In years past when cotton was open, I was up before day and out until- late in the night, hunting for and hauling cotton pickers. I had to beg them to work, pay them a big price and worry when they quit, until I used to say that I wanted to live long enough to see the time when I was independent of the negro cotton picker. That time has come. “Today, coming out of the bank, I met a negro who used to work for me. ‘Bos4’ he said; ‘it’s- about time to pick cotton, ain’t it? When do you wantus?’ ‘Mose,’ I told him; -‘I haven’t got a lock of cotton to pick, and don’t think 1 -will ever have one again. I don’t want any cotton pickers, and if I always feel like I do now, I won’t never want any more.’. A movement to on foot to erf*,] lie utilities coi ed of local a city waterwi station and The proposed stocl in Tifton. ” Itisito he form- and proposes .to combine iant with a light and power and commercial gas plant, is 1100,000. It is intended to make the city a proposal to tak^ivei^he present waterworks plant, and to Wy'*‘ find equitable. ■ Lights, power, gas and ice will be furnished bV the company, to the consu mer direct. .'V : ThosO behind the movement assert that by a combination of the public utility plants, the cost of production dan be lowered to the consumer. With only one plant there will be a great saving in the cost of fuel and one crew, of engineer, fire man and helper, can do the wbrk for which two crews are necessary with the plants separated, This should certainly cheapen production, and therefore enable the company to supply the consumer at a lower rate. It is estimated that the number of street lights can be doubled with out additional cost to the city. It has been apparent for a long time to those who gav ethe situation study that money could be saved by consolidating the waterworks station with the light, power and ice plant. For that reason, there was a strong movement seven years ago for municipal ownership of these utiii- illustrated article on tobacco growing in this section, telling of the markets at Douglas, Fitz gerald, Tifton and other points, and closed with a deserved tribute to the good work of W. W. Croxton, General Passenger Agent of the Atlan ta, Birmingham and Atlantic railway in behalf | of the tobacco industry. . Mr. Croxton had a far vision in this regard. I When he began to devote his time and energy to developing tobacco growing in this section, he 1 was confronted with many difficulties. People I tried tobacco here about twenty-eight years ago and the experiments were disastrous. Tlie mem-j ory of this experience had to be overcome, in! Bya addition to persuading the people to depart from the all-cotton system. But with a small pliant for beginning five years ago, the tobacco industry | in this section of South Georgia has already as-] looked to to" _ Burned enormous proportions and with good! Mo ‘ w * Primiu ‘ prices it is almost certain to become one of our Al big money crops. | gn*uu*.ni,i„c* r*pt.M.AtUnic* This is what thd Constitution says of Mr. Crox- ' r ton’s work: |tift county men bound {■ For the introduction of the tobacco industry 0VKB ® N distilling charge- RI^C m P = , ^ CU i?. r .n« <lit !? dU 5 the Atlanta, t - rom the Alban7H«aId7A«f. 22. Birmingham and Atlantic railroad and its gen-] united sut« commi,.loner a«r* e r, s . # | triiiwu males vVIUUIISBlUUCr ucui j," r, ®™ passenger agent and he&d of its industrial • white held • preliminary hearing yester- development department, who, a former North'day of three Tift county men chilled Carolinian, was a pioneer in the introduction of. with illicit distilling. Joe Wooten and’ tobacco growing in South Georgia; and to W. R. Warren Webb, negroes living at Tifton, Tucker, his assistant* The success of the indus- ( and L. 8. Stephens, a white man from try thus fur is in nd small measure attributable. Brookfield, were the accused ones and ■ . , , , to the splendid encouragement and co-operative came up in company with Sheriff j il-. ties. Many of our people Were opposed to mu- agencies of that and other railroad lines serving Hh.w, ", Tift LL, for th. h«d»“ nicipal ownership, and the city had other im- ] the southern part of the state, and to that of the Mr. white placed ail thr« of the men nn-> provements in contemplation for which It Was'State College of Agriculture, whose tobacco ex- der bond t 0 appear tefore the federal considered there was more urgent need than for E * c * Eastbrook, together with C. B. Eunice, 1 grand jury here in December. Three tobacco growing expert for the A., B, & A., and ™ w , out of raid, Sheriff Shaw made one or two other trained tobacco culturists, has in June In company with Deputy Collee- - labored long and indefatigably among the far- tore Pierce and Newbetry. mers or planters since the industry here had its! ' inception, preaching the gospel of tobacco, de-j bi'RGlary Thursday night monstrating the methods of growing, curing and *;—' :— marketing, and actually with their own hands I Golden Hardware Company’s store wag. all advantages of municipal ownership^, without Rowing hundreds of farmers how, and helping . bur * lorilKi Thursday nijht, the burglar the change in utilities. Therefore, the matter was dropped for the time being, and municipal ownership now, with a consequent bond issue, is not practicable. The new company proposes to offer the city political disadvantages, and without the noc- them in the various processes of the business, ><*«»* in by smashing one of the essity for another bond issue. It will propose to from the burning of the seed bed to the packing win<,ow " opening into the office, a watch furnish water at a minimum rate, as before out- of the product iin hogsheads. j belonging to Mr. nnum imtchinaon. . lined • to furnish ice liriit and nower at the • ° wln ? to the vision, community pride, will- p^ 01 - ,wo 01,1 knira, and J2.80 la «n lined; to turnlsh ice, light and power at *“•, ingnesg to serve, the technical knowledge and th,t The chatge w« left lowest rates consistent with good sen-ice: then .skill, and the all-round enterprise and spirit of in the cash registerd over night. to charge off the cost of operation; to pay the helpfulness of such men and instrumentalities,! stockholders eight per cent, on their investment; coupled with the .excellent yields thus far pr*-! -n,, -* nlULAUUiUcro eigUL JJcr UUll, Ull LUCM IIIVLBIHICHI, r , . * .vavviismi JlClUO LUUO iar pr§-; Til, merits nf PlinmHnrlnI.i’o an A to charge off four per cent to depreciation, and j? an< * ’J 1 ®, c nc S“J?prices being paid Diarrboea Remedy are well known and !!!^“tobacco°^thi n sfa y B m e ” 8ald t0 be £ ,id ta JL.4 “I have lived to see the day flonged for. I,This would give the people the advantage of mu-| And, in view of this yearis^extraordinary D^r'T hotel” miu’' .Td of its Ravages of the boll weevil, which have in the ina-;S r .2d*DiiK.i am mdependent of the cotton picker. There is cotton on my place, but renters grow it, pick it hemselves, and bring me my part of the money.” So much for packing plants, the live stock nicipal ownership while eliminating many i disadvantages. j ances of many cotton-am Tifton has never had commercial gas. Its largely offset by the gral..,.„ ? advantages for heat and fuel for certain purpos-' 18 er crop ’ the reason is readily understood. y cotton-and-tobacco farmers, been w ° nd ' r,al ™**Ri that i'bnrainceKcoml by the gratifying returns from the mcnd ' d “ *■> faigda." ad*. industry and food production. In a few years, j es are so well known to those who have used it if the present lick is kept up, they will make the! that they need no detail here. To be able to South independent. j furnish it will add materially to Tifton’s desira- WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. GOOD WORDS FOR THE NATIONAL. billty as a home town and In the course of time,| it ol after it came into general use, it should prove a — MEETING AT MACEDONIA. 4U M 7 T TJ T’ T P TiV‘ See 14 in my hair, almost across the iprofitable investment for the promoters of the sca , p? In what battle7 l nt h e battle ofjavai 1- en ern se. fought Under the sign of the dipper. I was do- i section •"noanding are invited. A Michigan editor; who motored from Mia- enterprise, mi, Fla., to his home in Niles, Mich., writes in] The whole proposition is one which should p Tnii »*i l *!I Per ".j 1 was °' high terms of praise of the National Highway have intense interest for those concerned in the .f , a ™ a “® myself between Valdosta and Macon. He is George building and development of Tifton. ' CUP ° f C ° ffee ’ sweeten ed »t. and got in the canne E. Gillan, publisher of the Daily Sun, at Niles, j ]ed milk ), when a top sergeant'eame'in ’Gim- Michigan, and he writes to the Tropic a maga- TAKING IN NEW TERRITORY. ne that,’he said. ‘You won’t get this ’ I answer- mne publishe 1 ! at Miami. In conclusion he: led;’make you a cup of your own.’ He steuck at y I The people of the Waterloo section of Irwin my cup, but missed, but the coffee spilled. Protract'd sorvleca began at Mace donia ebureb, near Waterloo, Sunday Pastor West is assisted by Her. Geo. F. Clark and others, and there are ezcellent prospects of a good meetldg. The atten dance is large and some strong sermons sre being preached. The people from the . got in the canned J antiieptm; ^MkOU Uio°poUoo imlk (which I had swiped as w e were not allow-, caused from infected cut*, oM «*»*, totter, etc. ed. hundred Vnd°fi1ty-7n7 mUes,^he e ZSt teds *° Un r ty to b . e annexed to 8ays “Smada” .fisted Wm“and"hTftll, tat aThe^oTupTcame 1 compensated for the previous day’s hard riding. I t“ e Gazette s veteran correspondent. »t me with one of those big, heavy tin kitchen dip This road we found in the very pink of condition. | They are nearer Tifton than any other mar- pers. I grabbed one too, and we both hit at the It is very wide, gently sloping to the sides and ket; there is a direct graded road to Tifton, and'same time. Both went down and thev carried one can drive in the center or on both sides with ] they should be in this county. They are separa- 1 us to the hospital. Six stitches each were re- are to be^een'at wirk cm^t'he nrnik 8 ^ b ig°^ V caL^ d ^ r ^* n ’ ;be ® rpresan t coun t y * s e a t. Ocilla, by the'quired to keep our brains from^ushhig^u^ tlmj led the National Highway, and it is a credit to, aP®ha river, and the corner of Irwin on the bare skulls, and after the docs fixed us up we the state of Georgia to have such a fine example w est side of the river should be annexed to Tift.'made friends arid came back arm in arm. We of efficient road construction as an object lesson' Back in 1905, when the proposition to create had to, or they would have nut us in thn hrio- ” for road builders from other states. The struc-Tift county was before the General Assembly, ture of the road is the native red clay. I ima- man «,» nan, ’ gine in wet weather this road might be found a ~ e m . ap °. . ,, w C0Pnty . as drawn by 4 J| e little bit slippery; but in dry weather it is as Committee having the matter in charge made the near to road perfection and road comfort as can Alapaha river the line between Tift and Irwin, WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. , . , “Every day was Sunday over there!” chorused be imagined. The use of oil as a binder has Some of the citizens of that territory objected’Coast Artillery, the Engineer, the Ordnance the not yet been resorted to on this road. jto being Included in the new county, and peti-'Aviation and the S. O. S. “That is, Sunday _ . When Editor Gillan makes his next trip to tioned the General Assembly to that effect, was in no way different from every other day— him closer at home and with his son he again Florida over the National Highway a year or so Then the Committee drew a new line, leaving.it was work all the time until the armistice was went into business, this time at Gainesville. He hence, he will probably find it paved all the way ( the comer on the west side of the river in Irwin, (signed. Sometimes we got a little better dinner had practically retired from work when death fn) m Macon to Jacksonville. Then, indeed, and the bill was passed. jon Sunday, and there was usually a service at came. Only a few weeks ago he made a trip in] ^ hat will he have to say of the National, of Geor-j But conditions have changed. Some of the (the ‘Y,*’ but there was no relaxation from the his car to the scenes of his birth and boyhood, .F' a > al, d of the delights of travel by motor among Stopping on the way with relatives and old Progressive people? Mends in this section, saying that he wanted to see them all once more. Truly, there was a whisper from Divine lips that the pilgrimage was nearing its close. Uncle Charlie remained closer to the home base. After the mills at Hillsdale closed he went to Ty Ty, where he was in business for many years. For two terms he served Worth county as Receiver of Tax Returns, and in many- other ways he served his people. At the second election ih the new county of Tift he was chosen Ordinary, and this office he Ailed until his ' death, never having opposition after the first election. Always he was in this office as the : friend of the widow and the guardian of the largest plantations have been cut Into small!strain of getting men, munitions and supplies to farms, new people have moved in, and if those the front, erecting buildings, building roads, or living in that portion of Irwin county now want pushing up the big guns. After the armistice, j to come into Tift we will be glad to have them, we usually had to work Sunday morning but Together with a large majority of the reading | _ public, we were under the impression that the I Irwin county should not object, for it doubtless (some of the departments got a haif holiday* wffh swamp lands of the state were in South Georgia, | costs that county more to maintain the bridge leave, Sunday afternoon. The Ordnance was but now we are told that “Some North Georgia across the Alapaha river thrin the tax revenues [too busy taking over French and captured Ger- swamp lands (formerly of no market value), are from the territory involved amount to. jman guns to let up. And we were working to now worth $300 per acre aq a result of reclama tion which cost less than 1-12 of that amount Yet not so many years ago many North Geor gians were afraid to come to South Georgia, lest they die of malarial fever. WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. “The Paris taxicabs were called boll weevils,” my——| i said the Ordnance, the Aviation and the Coast phan, his big heart and generous mind peculiarly Artillery, in chorus. “They darted here and fitting him for its rather exacting duties. He v was truly a Father to the people of his county. Recently as the months passed, with sinking we saw his gradual decline; noted his ef forts to remain at his post despite failing strong- "iJ at last saw that he sat In the familiar chair ip more, and well knew that In the flesh he rould never return. these men, so different yet so much alike, an impress on fhia section that will live 'ugh the centuries—going on, growing and sdening, with the years. * Rough people but- minded them then yet they were men of leanor. there; would run to a corner, stop, turn and dash off again; just like bugs that were bug- house. You could readily tell who was in one. If he was a Frenchman, he would sit straight up, hands crossed on head of cane, with his high hat nearly touching the roof; if.it was a Britisher, he would be leaning back, almost out of sight, but if it was a son of Sam, there would be a hob nailed shoe sticking out of the window on each side, and the call: ‘Allez! Allezl’ came constant ly. "If yoq met a Froggie jondarm coining d< street in f jog-trot,' take Me! or. Loud voices were common, yet they,There was s.re to be en American ft,spoken. It was a new country^ and a. on." WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. "‘One thing you can say for the British air men,” said the one from the Aviaton. “They were the most daring flyers in the Allied armies. Most of them were young men about twenty-one, and the record was that thirty per cent of those who went into training were killed before they got to the front. One day at our camp, the mo- get through with the job and get home, so didn’t object. Home looked like a glorious Sunday to us.” AMONG THE REASONS. Those who wonder why shoes are so high may find a partial explanation in the statement from Boston that a grand jury inquiry developed that some shoe workers were receiving $120 a ther and sweetheart of a young Britsh lieutenant i we ®k: a great many were being paid $60 a week, came over to visit him. He was going up to give an exhibition for their benefit and just for fun the girl said: Tf you start to fall, drop close to us, so we can see jrou.’ About 600 feet up he put on a lot of daring stunts, something went wrong with his machine and he got into a nose dive. He came to earth like a rocket and struck within 100 feet of his mother and sweetheart went into hysterics, and had to be carried ite Committee on Foreign Relations, while the average was $40 a week and boys werq being paid $30 a week. Then, after paying these prices for help, a pair of shoes sold hy,a manufacturer for $6.50 were displayed in a store 1 400 yards from the factory, marked $12, 1 This appears to be a good year ftbhj Bed- nett’s—whether they spell their names with one “t” or two. Stanley Bennet, over at Quihfi^n, has been named on the State Highway Commis sion ; T. R. Bennett st Camilla, is our new State Banking Copmissioner, and John W. Bennett of Way crow, is elated for Southern Federal Die- wrestle witlj Wood^pw,. trict Attorney. the good one for the public to dp| .family With.