About The Tifton gazette. (Tifton, Berrien County, Ga.) 1891-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1919)
GAZETTE^ 1 Published Weakly I at the Postoffi ee at Tifton, Georgia, a* Matter, Art ol March 3,1879. Gazette Publishing Company, J. L. Herring.... Editor and Manager. Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County, Georgia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Twelve months $1.60 Six Months ; - ^6 Four Months 60 TO THE DEMOCRATS OF TIFTi THRIFT WILL ■litgr« to a statement juqt issued, Silas W. Davis, Government Direct^, Sixth Federal Reserve District, War Loan ^Organization, points how hrift may be made | great factor in reducing the cost of living. The statement follows: , & ' “Reports indicate that steps are being taken by public officials everywhere to relieve the American people'from the pressure and hard ships of the present high cost of living. These measures may, or may not, be productive of the desired results, but the people themselves told it within their power to apply a remedy that can not'fail. “The solution is found in the simple word THRIFT. “Thrift means increased producton; decrease of waste; Conservation of resources; care and prudence in the management of one’s affairs; careful buying and wise spending. “Let every indiviual, family, business and as- ociation apply these principles to the business of The election for Ordinary of Tift county, coming within twenty days, there is little time for holding a Democratic primary in which to nominate a candidate, even should a primary be necessary, which I do not believe to be the case. ^ _ __ The time is short, and practically the entire reg-jliving and the present high levels of prices will istered vote of the county is Democratic; there- be forced downward. With an increase in the fore, I think a primary not only impracticable, | supply of commodities of all kinds and a de but useless expense to the candidates. There-1 crease in the demand, prices will automatically fore, unless the Democrats of the county desire decline. editor lit Ty Ty. Sir. It. K. Yount, J cane extensively this year, and. be sow the < rop Is fine. Ty Ty school opens on September 8th The school year wlU.be nine month^and the entrance lee Is two dollars. Business has picked op considerably of inferior quality, but with better weath er we-bfve better cotton. ■ Farmers are, fettint far better price, than they erar tot before, bat, compares pected for several __ but too much money 1, going Orthe moil with wbat other business people are mah- J many friends in this vicinity realised that Older \ a primary, and express that desire, no meeting of the Democratic Executive Committee will be called to arrange for one. - This, August 28, 1919. “Let’s put our business and home back on a war basis. The appeal to the American house keeper to ‘save food’ has been,too quickly for- | gotten. The salaried mail and woman, and’the J. L, Herring, Chairman. | business man have gone back to .pre-war care- Democratic Executive Committee Tift Co. lessnesss and extravagances. I “Buy only the foodstuffs we must have to sus- PLAYING THE SQUARE GAME. tain life in comfort. Use every ounce judicious- Nicholson's gin is doing a rushing busi ness now, but Mr. Nicholson thinks the ginning season.will be over ih about three, weeks. ' Mr. J. M. Varner was bunting a nurse Sunday for bis brother*Mr. Kirby Varner who is threatened with an attack ot ttj*r. A nurse was finally procured from Moul trie. It would be worth while for a good trained nurse to make ber headquarter* /nTy Ty. ; We are always due s cool, rainy spell in August, bnt it did look as if we might have escaped it this year. ; There iW no longer any talk of a top crop of cotton. The boll weevil* stopped that early in their advent. Mrs. (’barley Wilson, who bad expected to Hjieiid a month in Ty Ty baa been re* called to her home in Wayeros*, by sick- nesH in the family. A question has been raised as to fair ing their profit la very small. Five farmers to him it waa a bleated relief and a hap-. who were in Washington paid eleven dol- j py release, the death of Judge C. W lars for their dinner. They figured that Graves brought sadness to the town he elghty-two cents of that eleven dollar* J called home for many years. He died went to the men who produced the raw ^ Friday, August 22, and waa buried in Ty material for the dinner. jT'j cemetery on the afternoon of the fol- When the Government gets fairly start- j lowing day. ed after the people who are hoarding Charie# W. Graves, was born sear Moul things, there is no telling where the end trie, (Thomas county then, but now Col' will be. ^he Government is the farmer’s !q„ftt), on the 8th of March, 1848. He friend; otfcerwire we mi(bt bear Borne- t be von of Mr. Joel 8. Graves, of thin* about boarding cotton. Vermont, later of New York, who, aa a That land clearing exhibition near Tit ,. OUI1I m »„, cm. tu Mouth Georgia In the ton on Septonber 10, and 11th aeemi to] daya wb( , n Indiana were plentiful here, intereat the people about here, and, if' Jud , e Grave. waa one of nine children, ail we hear-is true, it will be worth aee- brothers and four listers, only two of log, and trying on tbe wild lands tbit our wh0In _Mr. Spencer Graves, of Poulan, people are . making frantic efforts to get' d Mr H . a Grave., of Colquitt are Into cultivation. 'now living. Tber. ar. farmers in this vicinity and! Hi, w |f e wag Mill Maggie Roberta t ho have not sold tbelr cotton ■ w hoyi he married in Smitbiitle, when he grear, and now they are put- - elaewhjre i crop of.lre ting thfi ly ( was a young man. She died in Hillsdale w • <,ro P ^ ^^ many years ago, and was buried there. TRrnvo „„„ ,, , dealing of the U. 8. A. officer who with* .cotton, the wise, ones -ay, to be put on tbe T j iey bad three children who are now l nrow nothing in the garbage can that J^I,, tm | f the ransom promised by this gov- market vyhen the price goes up, that will Mre c w Hayes, of Macon; Mra. Rosa Per four wars President Wilson and his ad- ,, , .. . V " . .. "—Held nut tne ransom premise. ny naa gov- nonet WM J urn, Jlra . c . W. Hayes, of Macon; Mra. Rosa For four years, president wnson ana ms au CHU ] d be uge( j f or f 00< l. Cast aside no clothing mount to Mexican bandits. One wonld make even (orty-cent cotton impossible, o( W sycross- and Mr,. O. N TtiolpoUnn Vinvn hppn APPIlflRil hv t.hfi IlTI&nClfll 1 1 A- L . J. ...» 1 J J 1 I . I 1J ■ ll.. I— I..,, .wlftln.al f_ ..It. tk. elin.t orm, ’ . ! . .. ministration have been accused by the financial ^hat can be made over, repaired and used long-a ii|>|Mise there could hardly be two opinions interests of the country usually referred to as er Spend only for those things which are a b-' , “ , ° nt honc!,t i’ 00 ' 1 ' 0 ln re ** rd t0 tkl "- 11 Wall Street (although Wall Street no longer )SO lutely necessary. EJjminate useless expendi-'" ,h "‘ controls the money of the nation) as favoring.tures. Give personal attention to the details of organized labor, to the detriment of invested ^ the home and business. • Pu| thought and study capital. It is of more than passing interest to into every purchase to get., the greatest value learn that Wall Street banking interests are en-'for the dollars spent. honor among thieves,” there surely ought to be when one side to the contract Ih xupposed to be honest. Mr. and Mrs. Earl 1’arks have a new baby—a daughter. That touring-the-co»utry party, report- dorsing the President’s position in regard to the “There has been a tendency since the armls H 1 “'“ ww>k wer “ no J, 1 "'“* r 1 ’; or t ; u l ! 1 ” t h t! protesting railroad employes. .. ..... Iilinncr as some Gnxette readers thought; |tice to lift the pressure of production in many| Tllw hnd dintd ^und.ntiy. but good in spite of the short crop. Hayes, of Macon. His second wife waa W. E. WILLIAMS Pay* For Weather prophets, amateur and profes- MIm y ort ^ G f Ty Ty, who survives R. R. Pickett, Prudent, sional, prophesied that tbe weather would binj be dry when tbe rains stopped. Natural-1 Judte Gmr „ w „ Ordinary ol Tift I, it wonld bt: but what they meant «*a' COUIltJ , t the time of bla death and he that after tbe axoasive rains of the P*»tj hmd hcld tbat office, except for the first several wccka,.. : U|»re would be a drouth „ erJ Jt „ .be, Tift became a It's « comfort,to know that tbere'a wh en be waa firat elected, be abundance of water on hand i 1 moved to Tifton; but. after a residence of Because both sides of the great labor and capi- lines. Let every producer strive just as diligent- f rea h uir nnd rapid motion had made them J We certainly do, the worst sort, right he hM fone to xidon every morning need n gronndpea factory." er>1 J(a „ fh ere, family matter, re . advertisement in our borne P»Per. I callad hlm to Ty Tj . S lnce hia return hungry agaiu. Saturday, the few eggH attainable were fifty cents a dozen, and all the butter in tal interests have condemned and endorsed the ly now to turn out raw products and manufactu President, it is only fair to suppose that he has rers articles for peace purposes as they did for tried to be just, according to the information be-j war purposes. Use every ounce- of energy and fore him. No doubt Mr. Wilson felt at first that every minute of time in piling up something .on tmvri labor was not getting a square deal, and acted j he supply side of the balance. It may seem like j ,. P „i a ;.y ■‘accordingly; now he believes that capital is not'a dull monotonous undertaking. Monotony is'town. getting justice, and does not hesitate to take the; more to be desired than worry and suffering.! Thc Fenders poppies, like many other Ih*™ in Tift county-if It can mae _ ^ earlj train _ a tr ,t n that left Ty No bread (baker's bread) reached Ty Ty j xrmiudpen culture profitable to the farm-j Ty >t Mrtain .ensons of the year, when daylight had not fairly come and he re- A London paper, in t compliment to! turned on , Tery anctrt ain train in U>a from the creamery at eighty J American soldiers, compared them to the pound. And this is a country i Romans. The preaent tendency of the “smart set” of women seems to be to wards the Roman women that “Quo And in the end, joy and plewu're^"wiU ' tL^be.^^e u.k „f anti-probib.. necessary position. ... v ..~ vuu , i r, VWT „, i: „ c 4WWMU . The question is bigger than Mr. Wilson, great,in the knowledge that we are making life eas-'^‘ ^y'te aTroubi^omeTe^i man though he is, and greater than any political,ier—getting ahead in life.’ party or administration. The feeling is general Sj, that there must be a stop somewhere; that things WE NEED THAT OFFICER. have gone as far as they can, and that if a strug gle must come, it had just as well come noW.( The list Grand Jury recommended that a The thing must be settled some time, and per- 1 pecial county policeman be employed. Thisre- haps this is as good time as any. | commendation was made after a thorough inves- m„ i Mamie Edward*, and other relatives The shopmen appear determined to strike, ‘ tigation convinced the body that such an officer 'and in this strike will be supported by nearly was necessary, and that his employ would be in all if not all organizations of railway employes, the interest of economy as well as the mainte- Inevitably, it is coming some time, and with it nance of peace and order. So far, such officer will, come more or les3 privation, perhaps disas-'has not been employed. The County Commis- ter. But the policy of continually shortening 1 sioners have been very busy, and doubtless the hours and raising wages cannot go on forever. [ matter was overlooked. There were also re- We cannot lower the cost of living by increasing commendations in regard to' public buildings expenditures. WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. that have not been complied with. Grand Juries chosen for that purpose often make investiga tions at considerable trouble, and make recom mendations thereon but it la too often the case Many of the railroads in France would not that these recommendations get no further than let private soldiers ride first-class,” said he from the published general presentments. i the Aviation, seconded by the Ordnance man. I “This was a challenge to the Doughboys, and] WOULD COTTON DO ANY..BEUER? ie that way. As a train pulled they usually rq . out, the first-cli ' Along came < ss car fillet^ with men in khaki. { Major W. L<,( conductor, and told them they of crop diveraifli ir; (level ^p. -wjfc in but, for sentimental reason* aeeds of it are beinj brought to the United States. Hitter weed is a sufficiency of that kind of thing with us, and it was imported in comparatively recent year*. Miss Oladis Stanford of Atlanta, if spending her vacation with her sister here. Miss Stanford is employed in the Government telegraph office in Atlanta. tionists, one would have supposed there would be a regular riot over New York City going dry, and now they are saying that a majority of the people ther# are either opposed to strong drink or indif ferent about iU Mr and Mrs. J. H. Harris and J. H. Jr., are visiting in North Georgia. You wouldn't have thought it of Thad would you? Tho weather has improved, but the evening, sometimes reaching here boon behind time. Some of hia friends think this constant and irregular traveling has tened hit death, bot thia teems rather im probable. He was always a frail-looking man, bnt his vitality waa somethin* won derful. Occasionally, ho had an attack of illness, but, in a little while, he rallied and went back to work. He luffered J. M. Vorn-j, M DEALERS IN Groceriea, Dry Goode, Notion*, Shoo*, Hat* ' Roady-to-Wear Clothing Fan* ImploBMat* And Othor Thiog*. Pictorial Review Pattern TY TY GO. B. W. Oliver, Proprietor. A complete line et petoat n cbee. Drags end Sundries. Prescriptions A Specialty considerably from Indigestion, and waa JUT DAUV AC TV Tf troubled with catarrh of the head for l*It OAMk W J I 11; several year*. ' About nine weeks ago Judge Graves took to hia bed, and he never left hie room after that, moat of the time, he waa un- .conscious, occasionally delirious, and he 'gradually wasted away until death came. Miss Ida Parka, ol Richland, haa been.roada have not done a great deal in that a pm . „ hU nbaas, hia devoted wife ,1. a 11- -I tf. A %.ffasaa TO Jggy. jAIirOUS l , TT-_ kmmUV visit log thc family of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Parka. She brought her visit to coucluHion Monday, foing to Ocilla to see her grandmother. There is much complaint this season about canned vegetables not keeping, is charged to excessive rains, though one would suppose that extra cooking would overcome that trouble. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Williams went to Tifton Monday to see Mra. Williams' brother-in-law, Mr. Jim Warren, who le said to be very sick. W F. Sikes, In another column, offers beef cattle and cows for tale. They are good stock, in fine condition, and having been raised in this section, they are accli matized. An Item concerning the marriage of Miss Mabel West and Mr. Alva Long was handed in last week, too late for publi cation. It is not too late, though, for *nd apostle on Saturday, i'get out. '*No compreS’ was all the reply getting a line on the true aituaton regarding to- lie got Ht protested, gesticulating like a sema- bacco. “When a'man told me how much his _ phore, until at last he gave it up until the next tobacco cost and how little he got, I asked him 1 congratulations and good wish) ition was reached. Then an M. P. came in how much better his cotton was doing, and how here they •«. d hustled us all out, but when the train star- much more he would get out of ft? He was 1, the same thing was done over again. It did obliged to admit that the prospect was that his t no good to put a guard at the door, for we would cotton would bring less, and take three times go in by him. One day a conductor came in as long to find it out. When he talked of how who had evidently been studying United States, much his barns and experience had cost, I ask- He halted just inside the door, struck an atti- ed him was he going to throw both away? The tude and said, enunciating each word deliberate- only way to come out even is to plant tobarcco - ly, ’This car is first - class. You cannot ride in again and capitalize on both' barns and experi- here unless you pay more fare.’ We looked at ence.” J-Jtim stonily and said ‘No comprez.’ He repeat- ed again. We repeated. For the third time he LANDS ARE STILL CHEAP, id his lesson. For. the third time we said ‘No and aw--.. With Tift county farm lands selling as high as C0 ?, P l- Z L ?, e w\ Tt WaS A Wr °f * 250 an Bcre , the top is not yet in sight. Are no „^„ mcn waa Wi^ his English, threw up his hands in despair, tbey W orth it? That depends entirely on What good money after b«d. This apd went out snaking his head.” ^ — - *• - — - * The Girla' Canning Club seems to be taking on new life. Mrs. Clarke spent a day here last week and one this week, and considerable interest was manifested in her dcmonstrationiK which were held at the home of MIm Lucy Sikes. Espe cial attention was given to figs and black acuppernonga. Miss Lucy Sikes took a premium at the A. M. S. demonstration. Mr. Fred Adams, of Route 2, had a sack of flour stolen from his home on Mr. Akins' place Monday morning, bright and early. Mr. Adams, with Messrs. Akins and Bush, went to cennult a “fortune tel ler" in Moultrie to learn who took the flour—Which was certainly throwing same fortune I *** ru ' | * u " 1 i _ , ... j w as Ms constant attendant. Her health Now and then an optimistic fisherman neTer bwn nrj toodi but, for him, la seen o u hi. way to , swollen stream. I slr( . nfth ataMi mp erhaman. Only He brings back his fishing tackle, that and nothing more. All that racket of shooting, etc., heard on the upper Tifton-Ty Tjr road one night not long ago, was not an uprising of the Bolshevik!. It was only a salute to a newly married couple. Years ago, farmers were planting sor ghum enthusiastically—Chinese sugar* Judge Graves was a devoted consistent member of the Methodist church, many years Sunday School Superinten dent— a Christian for whom nobody had anything but praise. He was a food citi zen, a devoted husband and father and a loyal friend. He came to this section 1 when ihost of what i* now Tift county u J waa an unbroken forest His father's mill cene and African augawane, they called |( ont of the fl „t. If not the two varieties then. After a few yeara nobody was planting-Hr *nd how Interest in it has revived and it hat become one of the usual crops. Mr. Owen Dowd is ^killing two birds with one stone; he is getting his cotton picked and keeping little boya off the streets. He takes a crowd of the boyi out to his farm every day and they are getting the cotton out; but, if he lowers the age limit much more, he will have to take a nurse along. Mr. G. M. Willett now drives a brand new $2,000 car. No wonder for “they say” he made a profit of $6(600 when he sold hia place not long ago. DeSoto was only a little premature (some four hun dred years, or such a matter) when he the very first ever operated In this lo cality and he has lived near here all his life. Every good movement—and this part of the country was sadly In need of good' movements in those days—had hia hCKrty*; endorsement and financial help, and it ta sad to realize that the placet that knew him shall know him no more. The funeral waa held at 4:80 conducted by Rev. W. H. Budd, assisted by Rev. O. W. Durden. The pallbearers, at hia request, were: J. M. Shaw, W. B. Parka, Dr. W. T. Smith, Henry D. Webb, E. L. Webb, T. 8. Rigdon. FUNERAL OF JUDGE GRAVES. Ty Ty, August 25.—All the business came through hero looking for the mine. hoaK] otTjTj claMd Saturday af- Where the Montexumaa found their gold. | tern00n during , he funcra , of Jodf , 0 . The gold waa right here, In what la now w Gr , T „ „ d , ht Bapti „ t churoh w „ U . South Georgia dirt. The people are J».t led with th , people who had met to pay beginning to find It, and the atlr-up waa' him , hF honor nob much woree when told waa first found | Rcy & w Durd ' tIli of Ti (to n Bap- in California. ' tut church, and Rev. W. H. Budd, of the Tifton Methodist church, each paid BISHOP-BEARD. they are used for. To grow cotton? No. But Strange to^ay. the men in the ranks overseas for tobacc0t 8weet potato 8Ugar ^ ane and al- do not appear, as a rule, to idolize General Per- most any other food cropg> truck or tobacco? ,ook,,ttrMm - Bhing. They do not talk much, and When the Yes> and much more. There is practically no Commander-In-Chief is mentioned smile and let limit to t he 8 riand values, once you get away it go at that, but even when questioned closely from cotton ^ highest prlce yet paid for they are still non-committal. Perhaps part of to use it for poultry ralaing> and for t h a t kind of Ms is due to the fact that on the few occasions Tift county land was paid by a man who intends hen they saw him they usually had to stand businega> it was dirt ch in line in a cold drizzling rain, for four or five hours awaiting his appearance. Ttyt would! Secretary of State McLendon has issued a teller teems to be doing a lucrative buai< ness in this vicinity. Moultrie should knock the idol[idea outj>f the most enfmriastic. (warn ( ng to banks in Georgia against the pur- But perhaps the following story illu|trates in c h a se of promissory notes given in payment for part the feeling of the men in ranks. We can- stock subscriptions. H e is after the peddlers of not vouch for Its truth, but the fact that it Is told wildcat stock and intends to make this state an '.shows the attitude: An aviation camp was unhealthy place for them to do business, under inspection, and three young officers had ■gone up in machines for exhibition flights. One j Men who have been discharged from military r «f them had engine trouble, ran into % nose dive or naval service and have allowed their war ^and fell only a short distance from the Comma* risk insurance to lapse, have a yen in which to der-in-Chlef and his group of staff officers. “Is reinstate it. And every discharged mu should at the best he can do?’* Pershing is reported keep his insurance going. It is a valuable estate Tfjge sneered. Thb young man- had given hia-which he could not so easily acquire in any other way. LEMON JUICE K FOR FRECKLES Girlst Make beauty lotion for a few cents—Try Itt Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the beat freckle and tan lotion, nnd complexion beautifler, at very, very small coat. Your grocer has the lemons and. any Miss Mattie Bishop and Mr. J. J * j Beard were married at thf home of the bride's parents, near Tr.Ty, Sunday after noon, Rev. F. H. Mathews officiating. After the ceremony, the bride and groom accompanied by a few friend* went by automobile to Lenox, where a reception waa held by a friend in their honor. From Lenox they went by the A. B. A A to Atlanta, their future home. Mm. Beard has many friends here where the greater part of her life has been spent For a time, aa a trained nurse, she made he r headquarters in Val dosta. Mr. Beard is a business man in Atlanta. Ty Ty’a beat wishea g6 with the couple to their new home. Several friends came from Valdosta ^nd a few from Ty Ty and its vicinity were present Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bow man, Mr. Isaac Willis and Rev. Mr. Por tents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the fact, neck, arma and 5™* " , t0i "l < 2" t S. W 2! ""S of the PrimltiT. Baptist churoh. were three ouncee of orchard whita for a few among the quests. N. B.—This was one wedding, claimed etch dap and we how" freckles and i **J Tj Ty, thxt «l not «n elopement blemishes disappear and ho# dear, reft that took place at home, that had t pretch- and. ro«y-whitc the akin becomes. Yea! ®r to perform the ceremony, and even a^AIfiO 1 Duy ana 8611. IlOgB. Tt is harmless‘and never Irritates. adv second minister among the guests. glowing tribute to the man who was gone, and Messrs. W. E. Williams and \V. B. Parks, also spoke feelingly of their friend of many years standing. The pall-bearers were: W. B.• Parks, Ty Ty; Dr. W. T .Smith, T. 8. Rigdon, Henry D. Webb, Elias L. Webb and J. M. Shaw, of Tifton.. The music was led by Henry Baker, Mark Whitfield and William Whlddon, Miss Julia Parka, alto, and Mra, Dn- pout Varner organist. Among those present from out of town were: Dr. and Mrs. Hendricks, Judge William Sellars, W. L. Harman, and Ed. Walker, of Tifton; Mr. and Mra. W. a Hayes, of Macon; Mrs. Rosa Harris, of Brunswick, and Mr. 8pencer Graves,* of Poulan. M QMm That Don not Affoct tfaHsad Because ot its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE Is better thau oraiuarr e for the stenatore ol E. W. OBOV8 H. G. MALCOM „ TY TY, GEORGIA Olden taken now for plants. .. _ f-Hogs, Beef Cattle and Milk.. SAFETY FIRST TY TY, GEORGIA JONES A COMPANY Dealer, In gk Clue General After you reed this go to this atore and •hopping. PRICES RIGHT and do yew A. PARKS, Groceries. Dry Goods Casketa, Coffins. Ty Ty, Georgia. D. VARNER AND Doslon b Gtocorire Dry Good,, Candloo, Ck •an, T.bacc. • Eire In th. way •» Mn'i FnnUlap •' SpreMty. DR. F. B. PICKETT, Physieisn aid Surgeon. T-Ty, Ga. FOR TABTB AND HRAJLTH Sre I. D. How* akwt | turn top to tottore, keeping m"5S. ,v ' A AMrree J. D. Mawd. Ty tf, CARL S. PITTMAN icbn and Sur Ty Ty, Ga. W. B. PARKS Goa* to Florida, hot | for tiil» space just Aa u K J. COTTLB TY TY, GROBGU af WHIDDON & AKINS Heavy and Fancy Groceries .. Freeh Meats ^. - Cows A Hogs Bought and Sold Ice $
