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m '-'~w THE JN GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA., THE TIFTON GAZETTE Published Weekly Xattred it tbs PostoBce it Tilton, Georgia, u Second din Hitter, Act ol Mirch 8,1870. Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietor*. J. L. Herring Editor and Manager. Official Organ City of Tif ton and Tift County, Georgia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Twelve months $1.60 Six Months 76 Four Months 60 SATURDAY NIGHT. What would the world do without Saturday Night? It would have no surcease front toil and worry and care; it would have no interval between the days of work; it would have no semi-colon for rest, for change, for recreation; for turning our thoughts from sordid thins to higher things. Saturday Night we lay aside the work and worries of the week and give mind and body op. portunity for recuperation; we lay aside the small things the earning of our daily bread to sustain this life makes necessary and turn to those things that should be preparation for the life which is eternal, Saturday Night is holiday for employer and employee. The man who labors with his hands gets his pay check and turns to its spending, get ting as best he may of the lighter things that make this life easier living, and with those near est and dearest to him proceeds to share in the pleasures of the passing hour. The man who works with his head closes his desk, locks his office, and is transposed from the man of busi ness to the head of the home and family. Saturday Night for all of us is the eve of the day of rest; to the young it moans social pleasure aughter and song—perhaps love-making. Even A FREE RIDE TO TIFTON. The merchants of Tifton are offering the peo ple who live within 60 miles of this city just as many free rides to Tifton this fall as they care to take. . '' All you have to do to get the free ride is to trade $26 in cash with the seventeen merchants who are members of the club. They are the most wide-awake, best merchants in the city, too. You don’t have to spend the whole $26 with any one merchant, but you get your trans portation if your total cash purchases with the seventeen merchants total $26 on any one day. Here’s the way the plan is worked. When you purchase an article from a merchant, upon your request he gives you a ticket stating the amount purchased. When you have finished your shopping, you take the tickets from all the stores to the office of the Board of Trade. If the total amount on all the tickets amounts to $25 or over, the secretary will refund you three cents a mile each way for your trip to Tifton and return, providing the mileage is not over 60 miles. It doesn’t matter how you got to Tifton, whether you came to Tifton on the train, in a car- or otherwise, you get the 3 cents a mile each way when you present the necessary amount of tickets. All the purchases must be made on the same date, however. Tifton’s stores have larger, better and more complete stocks this year than ever before and are better prepared to handle the trade of the people in this section than they ever were before. Having the goods to sell the people after they get here, these seventeen wide-awake merchants are offering to pay the shoppers’ transportation to get them to Tifton. . Come to Tifton to do your shopping. You will find larger stocks, better stocks and more complete stocks here than anywhere else in this section. Tifton is the place for you to buy. BER 12, 1919. « REAL PROSPERITY. ■ With the information _ of Floyd Guest appears to be d, the killing urder, as corn 'd up behind a plete as though a man had wal stranger in the road and brained him with a club. There are usually two sides to everything, and when the other is heard from there may be ex tenuating circumstances, but it is difficult to see how running a man down, who was stationary, ‘ ;ht moonlight can in a broad open be satisfactorily explained. The man going abbut his own affairs on the public highway is entitled to; the protection of the law. And the law lays down certain rules for his protection which rules, if followed, guarantee him safety, except from unavoidable accident. When a man violates these laws he takes on his own head the consequences. If Floyd Guest was murdered, his blood, his widowed wife, his helpless orphan, cry to his civilized fellow-man for vengeance. The ravished laws of the state call in thun der tones to those charged with their enforce ment for vindication. We want no innocent man punished. But we do want a full, complete and .thorough investi gation, that the blame may be placed where it belongs. This can 'hurt no man who is inno cent; he should demand it for .his protection. Justice to the dead also demands that the blame should be put where it belongs. Turner Superior Court is now in session. The Grand Jury of that county o%es it to the good name of their county, ai well as to the protection of the thousands of innocent people who travel its highways daily, to make prompt and thorough investigation, .that the blame may be placed where it belongs and the innocent cleared or the guilty punished. WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. We thank the editor of the Albany Herald for the following: " Formal announcement has been made both at Cordele and Tifton that Cordele is to have a new daily paper, The Sentinel, and r r “When you walked up the gang plank of am that Mr. John L. Herring, of the Tifton Gazette. thYoorest are rich for a time with what the. American transport, it looked like a big boat," j 8 to assume editorial management of it. In week has brought, and in its spending are com- remarked the Engineer, “but when you got out the Gazette Mr. Herring assures his “home parative plutocrats in their own circle for the | n ^° the middle of the Atlantic and the waves folks” that he is not contemplating leaving the hour. To the old, it brings its memories 0 f iJ> e K an r, dmg her high, she grew mighty small.!Gazette or Tifton, but that he will undertake those who lived, loved, and are gone; it affords| ™ ade y ° a f , e<d . lkeyou ' v ’ ore m . the middle of to edit the Cordele paper and continue to serve time for retrospection and opportunity to relive a big wash tub with the water racing all around his old constituents and keep the Gazette going, Real prosperity consists in producing an abun dance for everybody and making good use of it. To consume it all would be extravagance. To consume a reasonable amount and save the rest so as to accumulate capital to employ people and so increase their comfort would be the best possible use of the resources at our command. This is the meaning of the Thrift program which the Government has put on and of the or- ganization of Savings Societies throughout the country. It is said to be a fact that after all great wars here is a period of extravagance at the very time when there is the greatest need for industry and economy to repair the frightful losses caused by war. The Government is trying to overcome this tendency by the organization of Savings So cieties. At the same time, it has started, through the Department of Labor, a campaign to encourage home owning and home building. This is a very important form of Thrift. It has been greatly aided by the organization of Building and Loan Associations, of which there has been a great development in the Eastern and Middle States during the past thirty years. Very few of the Southern States have any considerable number of these Associations. Only Kentucky, North Carolina and Louisiana cut any figure in their development. This is unfortunate, because the Southeastern States have a majorityof rent ed homes, where Eastern and Middle States have a majority of homes occupied by owners. This section is also behind the Eastern and Mid dle States in the matter of Savings Banks, al though there has been a considerable growth in the last few years. There is no section of the country that needs Thrift as much as the South and that is why a tremendous effort is being made by the organ ization of Savings Societies to establish the sav ings habit among the people. To accumulate the “nest egg” for a home build ing fund or for any other good purpose ther is no medium of accumulation so convenient as the War Savings Stamps, which increases in value >ach month. The Tj 1 which Mr. < and treasurer, | fern to j for the! to houaJ Iti place { the crafi jmtato 1 , ! | j , j, - pense of handlfDftwke, also loss from rot TRACKS LEAD TO ARREST. Valdosta, (ia., Sept 6.—W. H. Kirkland, a well known white farmer in the Upper Tenth district of Berrien county, has been placed under arrest by Sheriff Nix on a warrant charging cotton stealing. It if alleged that two or three hundred pounds of lint cotton were stolen from John L. Mathis' place, In the name district of the county. Tracks led from the cotton house to Kirkland’s home and upon this evidence the warrant was issued. Kirkland was placed under bond to answer to the charge Y • in the 'City Court of Nashville. The'>» cotton was not recovered and the seems t» hinge entirely upon the ciretUB*^ stuutiaI evidence of the tracks leading -jij from the cotton house to Klrklaud'a house. the past with its lights and shadows ; its ghosts yoa I and up to its old standards, with the assistance 666 ha* proven It will cure Malaria, Chill* and Fever, Bilious Fever; Colds and La- Grippe. It kills the parasite ■ that causes the fever. ttUnJ splendid laxative and Tonic. It it a general IRWIN OUT OF DEBT. County in flood Shape and Tax* Levy Reduced $1.00. Irwin county people will pay $1 less on 4*4 the thousand dollars this year than last, says the Ocilla Star. Commissioner 'J Tucker has just levied the county and Nearly all visitors to Savannah rejmember school tax for the year at $i.w> on the I Jack Apple, the heroic invalid who lived forhundred. nnd this with the state t«i of fifteen years with a broken neck. He receivedS ™ Y his injuries when he dived into shallow water, than we paid last year, but was an Optimist who scorned death, andl t Commissioner Tucker States that he indebtedness of - -j , . j ..v been In office, and V responsibilities incident to the publication of a making a living by soliciting fire insurance. In with the money that this levy will ■ of those departed. - - ’ I Reca , 1,inK t l he return YY w " T'tl of his sons - Mr - Herring’s idea seems to be Saturday Night gives the world a period in j more Peasant, except while the Ole Marster that, relieved of the details and nerve-try ing | then refused to become a burden on his family,! ^ nt *'YY ‘ha. which to swing the mind from worldly things was trea “ nB them rough, he said Coming responsibilities incident to the publication of a j makin K a livin K b y soliciting fire insurance. In .with the money tl to holier things; for preparation for tomorrow’s ,ack on . ti’ansport, we had a OIK bunch of ,la ‘ daily newspaper, he can do the major part of!* 1 * 3 wagon, later in an automobile built espec- bring in will be able tr» get along bv econo- devotions. ’ * - . - ,groes up in the bow. The sea got unusually the editorial work necessary for two papers. * a » y to fit the body which he could not move, ' h ° nws, " r 0,1borro,rin,! Saturday Night the Mother prepares for nexto ou f* aad Ihe big waves washed all over the Thoae of us who know John Herring believe that he was a regular attendant at " i>”s dinner and secs that the children’s fittings!tZ, the °“t Y ^ 8nybody l -' an successfully edit two papers heYer public events and spent m day cr relaxes and prepares for^YY Y" YY" Came ,° f ut " ,CC can do **• a " d with trained “^stents at both «*e “P*"- ; Daughter gives the Sunday Ifried the salt pn the negroes faces and they all nds of the line . he wiu probably have an eas . night and we « rm % turned wnite. i j n. ... .... I Utm/i «■» i*a«*svv are ready. Father rest and comfort finery and last once-over, and Son cleans up, goes down town and perhaps arranges his Sun day date. The pastor gives his Sabbath sermon another review and the hardened sinner won ders why the fish bite best on Holy days. . . , . „. , . ,. . , . _ , , , , , i . o read about in Eighteenth century stories. Saturday Night, next only to Sunday, is one of, h ' , . Y would come out in a little French vi ball games and! He died in Baltimore Thursday UGH! CALOMEL MAKES mourn his passage as a man who _ . , , T ,, .ier job than the one he has been holding down Hved a hero ’ s life > cheerful under great diffi. “I had read of he Town Cner but I thought fnr the last quarter of a century . The He rald' cultie8 ’ he was an institution of an age that is past congratulateg the , e of Cordele on m said the one from the Aviation, until I got to their hooks into Editor Herring and cxtend3 France. There I saw him at work, just as we best wishes to a „ concerned ... A YOU DEATHLY SICK the world’s greatest institutions; we just could not get along without it. i . - ■— INTO CURING HOUSES. “Several tobacco growers are already utiliz- village,; For this we thank Editor Allen, of the Moul- ring a bell and the people would gather around trie Observer: him. Then he would read his bulletin, or pro-; "Editor John Herring of the Tifton Gazette claniation, and go on to another point.” “The has been secured by the publishers of the Cor- Mayor would come out and ring a bell,” said the dele Sentinel to take the editorial management Artilleryman, “and the people would come out 0 f that paper. The Sentinel is to become a daily i Stop Using Dangerous Drug Before It 1 Salivates You! It’s Horrible! Engineer Stilley has joined the heroic arn.y, ... . of devoted men who gave their lives to save] beiY'ZTYwu?YYoZatoY others. It is more than a co-incidence that he md to start your liver and clean yourY died within a mile or so of the spot where En-i bo “ ctl -. , '\_ gineer Buckalew gave his life in the same cause. Y u4r i£?|] It illustrates the heroism of the locomotive en-! and take a spoonful toaight. if it doun’t gineers as a class who, without hesitation, when! s, " rt 50llr livcr ® n<1 ,trai « ht ' n >ou *****.' ,, J . 1 . ...... . ., . I up better than calomel and without grip the time strikes, give their lives to save their. iBt or making J0U , ick t wtnt J0U l ^ trains and their burdens of hundreds. It is S • back to the store and get your money. ing their tobacco barns to dry Keifer pears,” i to see what was the matter. He would read his j„ a short time, and Editor Herring will under said Hon. W. W. Webb, of Hahira yesterday, proclamation telling them what to do and then ak c the job of editing it carrying on the editorial “The plan has worked so well that now they are P° st ** U P-” Evidently, the local daily newspa- work of the Tifton Gazette at the same time, preparing to use the barns for potato curing P er doesn t exist in rural France. The extra editorial work will take him out of the plants this fall.” | “Of course that talk about the British stop- business office where he has spent the greater Thus, the tobacco barn is brought into triple,P in S the war at four o clock every afternoon for.portion of his time and energy in the past. It service, and the money invested therein can no | ea was a joke,” said the one from the Engineers, wd l give him a much better opportunity for the longer be charged against the tobacco crop as a 1 "* 1 ! 1 *- ** wasn’t all joke. In fact, it came too near development and display of his unusual ability whole. A profitable market for Keifer pears 'b ein E the truth a lot of times. Those Britishers as a writer. We have no doubt that he is equal was a problem many years ago that the majori-!| iat * to hav e their tea, war or no war, in trench, to the task of giving the Sentinel a brilliant edi- ty of growers finally avoided by cutting down | * n camp, in hospital or on the inarch. I wonder torial page, without any noticable discrimina- their trees and putting out something else. The what would have happened if the Teuts had ti on against his own paper. The Gazette will crop is one which yields very little revenue, but launched an attack just at four in the afternoon. 1 rem ain his property, and the business manaee- could be developed if a reliable market was to Doubtless they would have thought of it—they men t will be turned over to his sons three of be had. To dry them in a tobacco barn and mur- , * lou>f * 1 * °* 80 many mean things, but the Ger- whom have just returned from France.'” ket them at will looks like the easiest and per-. mans l* a d something of the same habit, so the haps the most profitable opening. | hour was pretty generally observed as a rest noble tradition, upheld by heroes whose graves , T “ kc C“ lomel today and tomorrow row should bear wreaths of laurel. The Gazette has had several inquiries concern- T ™ e tonl * ht * nd w,ke “P ing the vocational education act, passed by Con-j gress for the purpose of enabling men who were] lot thom eat anything afterwards, wounded or disabled in service to receive spe cial training. The act is rather long for publi cation, but can be seen at this office, or a C0py,| .Wording to information received by with full particulars, can be had by writing! relatives near Sycamore Saturday morn- Senator W. J. Harris, at Washington. 6 1 Says the Griffin News and Sun: The man who wantsto market his sweet pota-, tima ' And strange to say, those who came- *n' r ing announTesThaTin connection wUhTii^es- contact with the British took up the habit right ent position as editor and manager of the toes at the highest price must cure them. Few .... „„ „„„ u . ..... growers as yet have potato curing houses, but , away ' H the war had lasted a few years longer Dai)y Gazette> he has accepted the editorial all should have them. Many have tobacco barns we would all have been tea-drmkers—if there management of the Cordele Daily Sentinel, who have not potato curing houses, and the utili- had.been any of us left. which w| „ begin pubIicatjon the Iat t er part of zation of these barns, now that the tobacco crop, neighboring city had a lynching scare the the month - He believes the change will bring is harvested, would save them the expense of neignuonng cuy nau a lyncning scare me ..... — another heavy investment. other morning. Wild rumors were circulated.the two hustling South Georgia cities closer to- If tobacco barns can be used in the summer thata n , e * r ° had b u ee " lynched right outside the,rZefeZ to cure tobacco and in the fall and winter to cure' c,ty llmits the n ’K ht before and that more than 1 newa Paper men inthe State and the Cordele pa- t t bacco and m tne ran an winter to cure hundred shots had been fired As the ru- iper 18 lndeet * fortunate in securing him as its sweet potatoes, the tobacco industry will receive 1,013 ' “ reu • lne ru lj.w .. an impetus and growers of sweet potatoes will mor gre ' v ’ even the " am ® of , the vlctlm was be encouraged to cure their crop. Mr. Webbj glve "’ Tbe report got lts f] rst J ar when the al lays that information • desired as to remodeling Y . V 't 8een ' valk ' n «' aro « nd on the tobacco barns into potato curing houses can be' Rtree ‘ s andlatel ' ll waa found that the shooting was done by a recruiting party with a machine obtained on application to him. If the tobacco barn» will dry pears and pota-; gun ‘ toes, it will dry peaches and other fruit, also berries and vegetables, Perhaps 'the day is coming when the tobacco bam will be kept busy the year around. “Speaking of newspaper plutocrats, Pat Grif. fin is ahead of John Herring. Pat owns or con trols four newspapers and they are all good ones,” says the Thomasville Times-Enterprise. Tha Irwin county Grand Jury makes a strong recommendation against minors under sixteen years of age being allowed to drive automo biles, contrary to law. The Tift County Grand Jury, also the Grand Juries of Colquitt and other counties, made similar recommendations, but so far we have noticed no good results. Mr. John L. Herring is now editing the editor- We don’t belong in Pat’s class at all. He has ial pages of both the Tifton Gazette and the Cor- papers in Bainbridge, Donaldsonville and Col- dele Sentinel, says the Adel News. Mr. Herrtafr quitt and a half interest in a paper at Cairo, is one of the strong newspaper men of the state Still, he finds time to take a two months’ vaca- and he will do splendid work on both papers, tion, during which he represents .Decatur in the That’s too feist for us. Norman Institute opened what pron its moat successful fem Monday mor >m-|the years pass, this most excellent r “ i.school, a pioneer ii» Soutl Says the Valdosta Times: “Of the 2,000,000 who went to France, only 2 now remain unac counted for. Last January there were still more than 19,000, but by August 20 there were only 4 and now there are only 2. Obviously the army system of investigation and identifica tion is very thorough, for in addition to the men lost or missing through circumstance there were no doubt as least a few who wanted to disap pear and made every effort to do so.” With all the land deals that are being pulled off around Tifton, there was bound to come a real big one sooner or later. The sale of 1,200 acres of Joe Young’s, Waterloo place for $94,- 000 sets a record for farm land deals in South Georgia. The price was around $80 an acre, which indicates that the value of South Georgia dirt is appreciated. A Macon packer assures the Telegraph that a higher price is being paid for hogs by Georgia ! packers than ■core for the will teelr weak and sick and nauseated. Don’t lose a day’s work. Take a spoon-• ! ful 0 f harmless, vegetable Dodson’a Liver JOHN LIFSEY SHOT. Now the postal clerks want more pay. hope they will get it. They are underpaid, more so perhaps than any other government employes with the exception of the third- and fourth-class postmasters; they have given the country their best service under trying condi tions, and we want to see them get fair com pensation for their work. ini;. Mr. John I.ifeey was shot by s tenant 1 on his furm neur Alma, in Bacon couaty.'x^ , Tin* nature of the wound was not statt We in the telegram. The Railroad Commission has allowed the Bowen Telephone Company, operating ex changes at Ocilla and other points in that sec tion, including Alapaha, Fitzgerald, Abbeville, Rochelle, Pitts, and Rebecca, to increase its rates, after which increases were rather vigor ously opposed. Those Mexican bandits have an easy time When spoopju and tortillas run short, they pick up somebody who is worth something and hold him for ransom—which they usually get. We are going to have some interesting hangings down there some day. Mystic people have organized, says the Ocil la Star, and will build a permanent home at that place for the Royal Singing Convention. It will be a tabernacle, ample to accommodate the large crowds. “Wonder how John Herring will feel when he becomes editor for a syndicate of newspapers,” asks the Griffin News and Sun. Pretty old, we expect. •v LEST WE FORGET September, 0, WI8. British advance 8 miles on 12-mi of Peronne WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Need Help to Pan die Crisis Safe ly—Proof that Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound Can be Relied Upon. . Urbsns, III—"During Ch&nge of Llfs. ' lU addition tc its annoying symptoms, i had an attack or grippe which lai t«<J all winter.and left me in a weakened condition. 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