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No young men and
know what is a frow. (Theiword is pronounc
ed as if it were spelled froej'anij has an altoge
ther different meaning from the same spelling
■B — ..... - Proprietor*. pronounced as in oow; for then a frow is a
GaaetU Publishing Company, .— man>8 better half—and is a word quite popular
J.L.Herring -Editor and Manager. wIth the Dutch). Yet the frow had a place
— city of Tifton only second to the axe in bringing this country
l!‘ MdTift County, Georgia. , out of the pine forest and making it the Garden
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t- Twelve months 75
i Six Months * go
Cf ’ Four Months
I • PICKING THEIR CROWDS.
Hi Johnson and Bill Borah, masquerading as
iinitpH States Senators, are not trying to coun
teract t^ effect of Wilson’s talks to the people
teract ine West—they are playing for
throughou wi u be in sympathy
audiences that tne> ki attacks on
with them, and getting out of their attacks on
thA President and incidentally their efforts to
the Pre * ldent a . all the publicity that
ft/Ual will bring The;. And they are win-
ning votes of a certain class-the cluss that sup-
ported Germany in this country as long as it
could do so and keep out of jail.
• C Both are candidates for the Republican for
some other) party nomination for the Pre -
I dency; Borah appealing to the moreradical de
ment of the old Progressives and the hatred of
that element for Wilson, while Johnson is bid
ding for the votes of the Communist Radical ele
ment, combined with the Woman Suffragists
Naturally, to each applause is as a sweet morsel
to the palate and publicity as pie to the hungry.
Johnson made his first speech in Chicago, the
place where the Progressive party was born and
died (Desdemona-likc), and on practically the
very spot where, two days before, four political
parties were hatched, each of which has as a
principal plank in its platform the nationaliza
tion of industry and the despoiling of private
ownership of practically all things, including the
borne—the first open effort of Bolshevism to get
its teeth into the throat of this country. For
^ ’ two decades Chicago has been the headquarters
of the anarchists of America, and there the hy
dra-head of the monster was first smitten when
Grover Cleveland was President. Two years ago,
Chicago had the unsavory reputation of having
in its limits more friends of Germany than any
y ■ other city on the American continent—with the
possible exception of Mexico City. And at the
last election, Chicago proved that it had ex
perienced no change of heart.
To Chicago went Johnson, assured that there
he would find fellows of his faith, and he found
hft them So carried away was his audience by the
m attacks on the Nation’s Chief that we are told
P the crowd became frenzied and shorn women
Iff and uns hom men “danced up and down the
aisles, throwing hats and programs into the air.”
No mere words could more eloquently tell the
; character of the people addressed. And Borah
was with him.
g* They had found their kind—because they
sought them. , ...
E Next, Johnson spoke at St. Louis. Another
German city, with many true Americans, but a
city dominated for so many years by German
bribing interests that the mind of man runneth
not to the contrary. “The second largest Ger
man city in the United States.” And there also
Johnson and his traitorous talk got the glad
1 hand. Once more he had picked his crowd.
perhaps other points on the itinerary will de-
$'%6lop selections likewise shrewd.
The whole thing is illustrative to those Amer
icans who hold their country first of all—above
Woodrow Wilson, or any other man—the char-
J er of the men who are attacking the League
Nations and through it the Treaty of Peace,
hey are the friends of Germany; or those who
tte Woodrow Wilson more than they love their
Spot of the South.
The frow of fifty years ago was made from
iron wrought at the forge of the handy black
smith. It was about four ipchee wide and
beaten sharp and one end curled around to make
a socket for the blackgum handle. The edge
was not ground keen, in fact there was no de
sire to make it so. Dull best suited the
purpose of the user and dull it remained, until
the expression, "dull as a frow” described a
tool that would not take an edge, therefore
never had one.
The frow was applied only in one way
yet its uses were many and varied. It split or
“rived” the boards that covered the log homes
of our forefather; it rived the palings that sur
rounded the vegetable garden of a later day;
it rived the long boards which were used to
ceil or cover the cracks between the logs
that formed the walls of the homes, and thus
kept out the winter winds; it rived the shingles
which covered the roofs of the more pretentious
residences of double pen logs or lumber that
were occasionally used by those who could
afford them; it rived the chimney sticks which,
in pen shape, the chinks filled with clay,
formed nine-tenths of the chimneys in the
Wiregrass Georgia of that day.
When a man wanted to build a house in
this country forty years ago he selected a
favorable spot in the pine forest, felled the
trees and made a clearing; dug a well which
he equipped with a sweep and pole and home
made bucket; cut pine* poles with which to
build his house and peeled the bark from them; |
then he walked five or ten miles to a neighb r’s (
and borrowed a frow—one was sufficient for, ,
a settlement.
Then a tree was selected of free, even ^
grain and convenient size The grain was:,,,,,
ascertained by cutting out a big chip with his! -
axe, taking the chip to the nearest stump, split- V
ting and then riving it. In some trees the ( ,„.
grain twisted; these would not do at alL 1 ' 1
Others were tough and stringy; they were,
promptly passed up. At last the pine with the I
right grain was found, and was felled with thej
axe: it was butted with a cross-cut saw and
a three-fot cut sawed from it. This out was
split with a maul and wedge into four or eight
sections, tapering from an edge at the heart
to about four inches wide where the heartpine
joined the sap.
One of these sections was stuck under the
log, and supported by a chuck or small log un
derneath the end until it inclined at an angle
of about forty-five degrees. Then the frow
was set edgewise against the end of the piece
of timber, being carefully placed on the white
streak between the grains, and then driven in
with a mallet. This split the timber on the
grain. The frow was then driven down a few
inches; then by alternately bearing down on
the handle and shoving it further down, the
frow was driven the length of the piece of tim
ber, splitting off the board. The narrow heart
strip was thrown away as was the sap, about
eight boards varying two to four inches wide,
being obtained from each section.
After the boards were rived they were piled
pen-like, to season, heavily weighted with
slabs to prevent their- twisting and curling.
The same process was used to obtain the ceil
ing-boards, only sections of timber eight or ten
feet long being cut. Shingles were cut much
shorter, eigtheen inches or more, and the ends
sharpened with a drawing-knife. Palings for
country; or those who were reluctant and luke-j the garden fence were made by the same pro-
warm in rallying to their county's defense, re- cess,
is npiling first personal safety or personal gain.| Did y 0 u ever see a garden fence made in
,-j « "'""“the 0 j d da y a , without the use of nails, which
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Later. ' '• -*>-
delcgmtioa which itten- : >
‘ the Valdosta Be tar/
t report a bit and
time. There «u a fine
fun and oratory in abun-
vere on band from
TbomaarUIe, Quitman,
gp.llu and Tifton. Preal-
g^gfNewman presided. The delegation
Tifton Board of Trade were:
Tift, I. W. Myeru, Bev. C. W.
Manager (S. H. Crane,
lour & Co., and Secretary Algee.
A--temporary organization was arran
ged aod 0. W. Cooper, president of the
riile Chamber of Commerce, was
as the temporary president, and
iaezt meeting will be called at a later
which time permanent officers
elected.
ideal. to perfect an organization
twelve or more of the South Geor-
itiea End In conaectioA with
Boards of Trade and other
odies, do all the community
can be done to aid each and
dty, town and county which may
ipose the greater organization. AH
issbrt one anotbe r in a direct way and
;bjr secure better result* than for
city and county to work along inde
pendent lines.
I have a few White Sewing
oat Cheap. Notwithstanding they
per cent, I am felling for leu than tb# <
need a Good Sewing Machine now
get it
W.E. FARMER
Farm and City L
Farm Loans; 5J per cent interest made for 5, 7,
prepayment privilege. Loans made by which
all the money for which he applies. A direct
large insurance company enables us to render pi
City Loam: 6J per cent interest for 5 yi
Title Guarantee Company of,
J. W. Warren, President. R. P.
Room 28. Cot Jon Building. Tifton. Cm.. Worth County
USB THB WANT ADS FOB BESUUfB
No Worm* In a Healthy Child
i troubled with worms have anno*
" h Indicate* poor blood, and a* •
SOME FINE C OTTON
I;. ,|. Watkins, who lives a mile
half HHtilheast of Tifton on Route
.uglit two stalks of cotton to Tif-
atimki). the largest «»nc having 35
Im.IIs.
< lie lmd eight acres
mndr five bales.
made n hale to the
•eovil rut him out of
“FAKE” ASPIRIN
WAS TALCUM
Therefore Insist Upon Gen
uine “Bayer Tablets
of Aspirin”
Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tableta
were sold by a Brooklyn manufacturer
which later proved to be composed mainly
of Talcum Powder. “Bayer Tableta of
Aspirin’ the true, genuine, American
made and American owned Tableta are
marked with the safety “Bayer Cross.
Ask for and then insist upon “Bayer
Tablets of Aspirin” and always buy
them in the original Bnyer package
which contains proper diroctiona and
dftsngc.
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer
Manufacture of Monoaceticacideater “*
Snlicyliencid.
MACON STRIKE SETTLED
Those who sacrificed and paid the price want
peace. The others do not know what war cost.
Johnson and Borah are smoking them out.
Tor that much loyal America should thank them.
But at the same time, Johnson and Borah are
damning themselves by the company they keep.
Man
-nits
Textile worker*
i mass meeting here
IT the strike that is
irtli week,
i similar resolutioi
The ends of justice were served and there was
no row or lynching in the Brooks county incident
which culminated in the hanging of W. E.
Roundtree, a negro preacher, in Quitman jail.
He was convicted of criminal assault on a four
teen-year-old white girl several weeks ago. A
special term of court was held, without fuss or j-| 10 jjext paling was placed in-exact reverse
feathers, and the negro tried. Before and aftci order 0 f ( be fli-st, passing on the other side of
MPktrial he was kept out of { the way of tno| the centel . ra ji. Thus the pressure of one coun-
would-be lynchers in a distant jail, and was only j teracted that of the other, a . principle since
g. .brought home for the trial and hanging. | utilized in cantilever bridges. So firmly held
jp£.Y__ ~ —. T””., were the palings in the panels of the fence that
were not to be had? The posts were of light-
wood, and three holes were bored through each
with a two-inch augur, one of these holes were
bored just above the ground; another half way
up and the third near the top. Laths or rails
were made of split pine and the sharpened ends
driven into the holes in the posts. Between
these rails the palings were wattled. This
wattling consisted simply of thrusting the pal-
caught and held by the bottom rail-the pres
ing under the top rail, and over the center rail,
|sure on the ends and center holding it in place.
f this i-ilj vnt.-il 111
late Sunday to vail
filtering upon its fi
Two weeks gno
was voted down.
Siam then there has been rioting and
the unorganized people of the mill dis
trict have been terrorized.
Twelve organizers and strike leader
are in jail.
Sheriff llieks informed the worker?
that the mills would reopen Tuesday
morning "for all those who care to work,
The following resolution was then pre
sented by John I., Anderson, president of
the Macon Federation of Trades, and
workers:
“That Sheriff llieks be authorized to
advise the mill owners that we call off
the strike and will return to work at any
time we nr,. sassuml that there will be
no discrimination for having joined our
organization.”
The new Alapaha judicial circuit gets off to
early start. Judge Dickinson opened his
first session at Berrien Superior Court Monday
morning, with Solicitor-General Lovett winning
„Ms first spurs in his home town.
See where Thomasville cattle are winning
^prizes in the blue grass country. A year ago,
‘ Tift county cattle were doing the same. After
awhile those people will find out where the real
stock-raising country is located.
■ Cheer up, boys; lively times are coming
udge Fite is to run for Judge of the Cherokee
cuit, and
the panels might be taken from the posts and
carried any desired distance without tailing
apart.
But in talking of garden fences and other
products, we forgot the frow. Indeed, nearly
everybody el^e has forgotten that useful im
plement. It has disappeared, together with
the spinning wheel, the hand-loom, hand corn-
mills and other necessities of that day and time.
But it was a factor in the building and develop
ment of this section, and a very useful although
humble one. Like manyi other humble and
useful things, it has passed and is forgotten—
ope is still editing the Dalton Just as we will be sometime, useful though we
may flatter ourselves we may be now.
WHO PREPARE CAREFtHJX MUD
Motber&Ekiend
AID NATURE AND THE PHYSICIAN
^She should remain healthy by hav
ing avoided the discomforts which
usually accompany such an occasion
where nature is unaided. The nerves,
muscles and tendons tie thoroughly
lubricated. After the crisis she should
speedily regain her natural condition.
Mother's Fries*! is toed externally.
At all Druggists.
Booklet oo'Motherhood «sd Baby fxtc
“ Go. DftfilO.Atlsau.C5i,
chill TONIC given regalany
[weeks will enrich the blood, in-
■oo. and set ss s General Scrsngtk-
tbs whole system. Natsrs will then
■1 tbs worms, sad tbs Child wOl be
| Pleasant to take. Kfc net bottle.
5 1-2 PER CENT FARM
7 Per Cent Tifton Gty Loans
Wa make farm loans at S 1-2 par cant interest and give dm
borrower the privilege of paying part of dm principal at dm
and of any year stopping interest on amounts paid, hot no am
anal payment of principal inquired.
R. C. ELLIS W. W. BRYAN
Golden BoBding Tifton, Georgia
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T ALK about smokes, Prince Albert
is geared to a joyhandout standard
that just lavishes smokehappiness on
every man game enough to make a bee line for a
tidy red tin and a jimmy pipe—old or new!
Get it straight that what you’ve hankered for in
pipe or cigarette makin’s smokes you’ll fihd aplenty,
in P. A. That’s because P. A. has the quality I
You can’t any more make Prince Albert bite joMj
tongue or parch your throat than you can make a horse
drink when he’s off the water I Bite and parch are cut
out by our exclusive patented process I ' q
You just lay back like a regular fellow and puff to beat
the cards and wonder why in samhill you didn’t nail a
section in the P. A. smokepasture longer than you can
to remember back!
A» Ptinc. Albert mryahtn tebaeeel. 10U. Tcmyni ban
tobacco in Lch p.rfKt coition.
R. J. Reynold* Tobacco Co., Win*ton-Salem, N.C