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Newspaper Page Text•- - TIFTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 01, . j-.- - <V-W*rI :r • *- KVrJGNSUlS $20,000 PAID FOR fifty: ~ NEGRO ISi Cattle and Hop Exhibited at 1 ‘ ‘— with Ere. K. Pb- • thet place* mar be at the banquet at Steve K Mitchell of tin , American Le«too, hai n tha* qeqtlon .to rpplt& ew [reg ram rente etocfc. T^ow ere ate ebip- laat Friday from the Bed Pebble Stock Fanaa, at Aahbarn, to K. Bill, at Bell Center, Ohio. In the lot of catUe were z&s. “«. as? z er^nlmtlon and will cooperate with the W* «00 each, or *20.000 for the Woeoan'e committee in arran*in» th< ■*»>*<<*' protram and enrollinf the attendance. ,The BUffeition has been made that a form of entertainment be provided eomethinf . like those fiven in the army campe over- It was only a few months afo that a fine lot of Aberdeen Anfue cattle were ipped from Titton to Teoneasee. The Hereford, sold ftfim the Bed Peb- May Maks A Bay of It. Quite a number of bualneaa men have Insisted that Armistice Day abould.be made the'occasion of'a general celebra tion. The entertainment proposed toj the Stock and the INSTITUTE returned Service men at night would not interfere In the least with this. The women have secured a band and this Talks by Prof. Moon, Miss Pinkston and Miss Wade. Plan Illiteracy Cam- palpi fly Tift County. The Tift county 'Teacher, held their could be used for the day just as well ! first institute at the High School Audi- 4 As yet no steps have been taken to make ' torium Saturday, October 25, beginning the first anniversary of the signing of . at 10 a. m. the armistice a - general celebration but j Prof. Jenkins, of Omega, was elected should tl)!s be done It will in no Way ; President for the ensuing year nnd Mrs. '. conflict with the entertainment given the ' Stella Sutton, Secretary. boys at the Myon Hotel at night. I Prof. A. H/ Moon, Superintendent of % ' o | the Tlftou schools, was first on program, • Tius FOWLTOWN ASSOCIATION ; and discussed "The Becltatiou.” He bandied his subject in u way which prov- m/Rtt Farms Jersey and’ at Albany during Fnjt ibulled down.a -big ' total award* being 81, il chamnionthiDS. The following Is a Uat «t as announced in The Ai ild 8ntardays , ' ' r ~‘ ' "E Shorthorn Cattle Pi ires. Junior yearllni bull, semnd; senior bull calf, third; Jhnlor bull calf, aecond and fourth; covr over throe years.old, first and'third: cow over two yeare old, first and second; senior yearling heifer, aecond; junior yearling- heifer, senior heifer calf, third: Junior calf, first; young herd, third; calf herd, third; get of sire, second and third produce of cow, third; senior champion cow, graud champion female. Total pris es on Shorthorn cattle, 18. Duroc Jmey Hog Pringa I Junior boar pig, second; aged sow, sec- pnd; junior sow pig, third; get of alro, third: produce of sow,* second. .Total Duroc prises, 5. \ Hampshire Hog Prises. Junior yearling hour, first; junior isjar pig; third: junior yearling sow,'first; junior sow pig, aecond; senior champion bonr,\aenlo r champion joysr ond; grs (jounpsfqi sow. Total^Mmnpshirebiprb I UnfavoraMe Season i 583 I Ciraun- i Tift John Myers Charged Bartow for Wf Much has I about, tho-b bat Me id' ,‘ the'meetings office during To a good on the actus might bo of KllfiK lo la Now Myers, coi- place, |n bafiMiv.fjfr in Ber- A GIGANTIC PABADE Adjourned Forfy-Scvenfh Annual Session «1 him to be u muster of it. l-'irst, ii At Waycross .Monday Night. few well chosen words, he welcomed the Tuesday morning Tifton was full of teachers to Tiflon and to the High school ■§»• delegates’returning from the Forty-Bev- building, mid esproased his w.llingnese oath,annual session of the FowTtmvn Hap- 1“ **W the teachers at any time Ibat H tint Association, which met in Waycross they might need liis.help, eilhc r in In- ' Friday of last week and adjourned Mon- Kt ‘ tute or * u tl*^ir school work. He then day night. *poke of the pleasure that the teachers r - This is the largest and oldest Mia- should derive from their meetings and aionary Baptist Association amoug the ulw> told how they should be a means of colored people of South Georgia. It ta- 1 , making better teachers. Speaking of tend*- from the Atlantic at Brunswick to the recitation, he said being perfectly the Chattahoochee river, and from Crisp ( organized was one of the greatest means county, south to the Florida line. It em- of doing a maximum amount of work braces seventy churches' and there were and of obtaining success. Other means. ■ , ’ - over two hundred delegates in attendance *>e said, are thorough preparation on the at the Waycross meeting. I P» rt ot teacher, feeling the real im- .■'»*The report* showed* the churches of'Portance of the subject beiug taught, the Association in a growing and pros- and knowing each pupil and planning to -perous condition. There wo** much bus- j meet the need of same. His talk was ?inesa to attend to and four full days .very Inspiring and helpful and we ex- /*'•; ' were spent. Some of the fcidiqg preach- ,tend to him a cordial invitation to take ers of that denomination among the col- .part with ua.^nllour taeetings. ored people preached during the session. Miss Julia PipjUida, one of the first w . * * The 1020 meeting will be held at Bruns- ‘grade teachers ofTIfton school, discuss- kV wick. T. S. Sims, of Albany, was re-led “Phonics.” Her discussion was par- * Mentor and P JB, Bel| f of tieularlj ha)phil to our primary teachers expIosiveH and .Wckcts: / • u Among th^ pairing fend they manifWtwHheir Mtaftstdirher pTfiTOTf tvninMifttfiue 'through Satuf- tbrough Tifton Tuesday were G. J. Lane, talk by asking her a nummber of ques- of Ty Ty, and B. I.. Jonc<, of Sycamore, lions concerning the subject. We hope Directors and members of the Executive jalso t 0 have Miss Pinkston visit us again. Board. ' j Some Definite Aims for the Yenr was ci 'discussed by Miss Lucile Wade, of Ty TIFT CO it NT Y BOY WINS ,Ty. She said some of thei r aims were, to have longer terms, graduating class, Marked Opening of Crisp County Fair. Lasts AU Week. Cordele, Oct. 29.—One of the big gest and best parades uver-vviturssed iu tliis section of the State - featured the official opening pt the Crisp County Fair, Tuesday afternoon at *2 o’clock. Prac tically every industry iu the towu and comity were represented in the parade, which was more than a mile long and witnessed by thousands of people. The weather was ideal and people bad been pouring iuto town since early morning and by the time set . for the parade one could scarcely pass through the streets. The thousands of people who passed through the gates yesterday afternoon und last nght had nothing but praise to offer for the hundreds of exhibits of farm products, live stock, etc., that occupy a large part of the fair grounds. The amusement features of the fair are high class and of a wide variety. A detachment of soldiers from Camp Benning put ou a real show of war every evening. They have their trench and’ barbed wire system*, rifles, cannon, high Calf Club Prlxe in Exhibit at the Georgia teach the children to know their state State Fair. land what Americanism is. to send ont day. Friday- will be education ftoy, when nil Crisp County schools will have holiday. State Superintendent Brit tain will deliver an address just before the big school parade forms. Saturday will be given over to the colored people. * farmers a few figures *ad marketing interest, fines it would just what could be expected from •btcco cro^ It. T. B. Phillips had made hla ar rangements to'plant twenty acres in to bacco and cultftate it with wige labor, but on account of what seemed to him undue expenae'at the start hi* liras about to decide to lose what he had already si»ent and get tout white the getting waa good. But ati^thls time Mr. H. Segraves upon the scene with a proposal to take over the;crop on shares. This ar rangement was made and Mr, John H. Welch was put in charge Of the crop with Mr. Segraves furaishtng a hand against Mr. Welch's time. Mr. L. H. Bryan was employed as tobacco expert. The land was 1 prepared very thorough ly and ten acris of tobacco set out early. Then seasons jjwere lacklug and the re maining ten acres were put out much later. 1 ' - . A total „f (13 «ackB of guano were uned. .*»<• sacks of Tobacco Special costing $03 per ton and T sacks of n lower grade costing .<40 per ton. Very little dif ference could tye t°ld in the work of the two grades, i - *>*'■ Exclusive of*Mr. Welch’* time nml the i:m hired by Mr. Segraves to match lr. Welch’s work, the labor costs bl inding making, gathering,- curing and titling «*n the market, totaled $735.72. ’his also included $172 paid Mr. Bryan, he tobacco expert. The total of eight sales, running from 210.10, the lowest, to $987.30, the high- st.. was $3,822.15. The lowest 'price >cr pound received was 5c. this being or trash swept up from the floor of the tnrage room. '-The highest price received vns (50c. 1 The total receipts from the tobacco $3,822.15. The total expenses fertilizers, warehouse barges, etc., but not including cost of barns, were $1,159.52. This leaves an income of $2,6b2!03. from which the cost of the barns should be deducted to get the net return* on the crop. Only two barns were used to cure this tobacco, and at one time during the mid dle of the gathering season these -were entirely inadequate, and both Mr. Weleh and Mr. Bc|^h*timute:^bh^Dsfrb4u8cd from nut having sufficient barn space at Sheriff Shaw arrested ored, Wednesday, ob the upper edge of t T . the Bartow county ati< Myers Is wanted for tow county, nine years ago. The sheriff of that county arrived Thursday morn ing after the prisoner and will leave ^vith him over the A. B. A A. Thursday night Sheriff B. A. Hicks, of Bartow coun- , who arrived in Tlfto n Thursday morning for Myers, gives quite a bit of interesting information relative to the murder. < > r ; > Jim Gore, father-in-law if John Myers, was killed in a general family row and the body thrown into the Eta wall river. The crime was discovered and several arrests followed, thA family of tho dead man laying the crime on one of the boys, who was half-witted. He was convicted and given a life sentence, and is still in the penitentiary. Now the other members of the family have recanted and employed a lawy They claim the half-wit innocent nnd lay the crime to Myers, claiming that th( man arrested by Sheriff ShaW is the real murderer. Mattor With ’People of Coomtr. A taiaqratn *r*a roeelrod-Wcdnetfaj MVW. H. Ftuntr, the well known man of Itocky Honut, W O. that he will he with ua on next Saturday afternoon and will meet with the farmer, and bualneaa men of Tilt county at the Board of Trade rooma wa » ua a mini ■•mm »> at 8 o’clock in order to briny to their boma into Georgia, and I .give you attention a matter Uat will mean more word I struck no auto road, worthy of tM nan DOBSEVS COTTON PLAN liy Wiiicli the Soutli Would Finance Its ■ M Cotton Crop. Athiutn, Oct. 28.—Governor Hugh M. Dorsey broke n commert'inl bombehell In the house of representatives today, w. E. Fenner, the Bi( Tobacco Ware- housemsn Will. Be Here to Dlscdsh ' to the interests of this section tluin any thing that has been brought up In the last few years. We all know what a hustler Mr. Fen- oer >, and when he undertakes to carry anything to a successful termination, he usually succeeds, and it is up to us who are working for the good of Tift county to meet with him and hear his proposals as to what he has in view to offer our people. ' ... Mr. Fenner managed the tobacco ware house at Tifton last season and ia recog nized as one of the leading tobacco ware housemen in the country. If you are interested in Tift county's tobacco future, dou't miss this meeting. OVER 12,000 PEOPLE when he unfolded, to a gathering of be tween 20(j and 250; eottou planter* and bankers of the. whole State a plau, ou Which he ha*' been’ working for several iicliidiiig lab^r, 1 barges, etc., but Macou, Ua., Uct. 29.—John Frank Stewart, ten year old, son of J. O. Stew art, superintendent of Tift Farms, Tifton, carried off the honors in the boys’ calf club at the Georgia State Fair this year. Not only did he win the grand champion ship, but he also carried off first prize in his class. Young Stewart also, won the grnhd championship at the Southeastern Fair i n Atlanta this‘year. The calves exhibited by the boys’ calf dub will be auctioned off tomorrow. Today was Georgia awine and cattle breeders’ day at the fair and breeders ^ fron^ many Southern atates were pres- -ent. A.luncheon was given in their bon- 4>r on the fair grounds and they will be -guesti at a barbecue tomorrow, when the auctions of live atock will be con tinued. • - < a. Tomorrow *will be tractor demonstra tion day . and will be featured by a pa rade of the different makes of tractors and actual demonstrations, in the field. Today’s attendance was more than 20,- 000. 1 Hens 25c, fryers 30c, eggs B0c. Bring hem to ns and get the top, always. Lang Ac Co., Omega. 8dwtf better trained boys nnd girls, to help break up illiteracy in Georgia, and to teaeh the children how to kill disease germs and thereby prevent diseases. Dr. Wood then spoke for n few min utes on Sanitation. He made the start ling announcement that fully 80 per cent of our school children are defect ed in some way, the most of ^he defect* being so that they might bo remedied. He asked the teachera to co-operate with him in his health campaign. The teachers then discussed the Illit eracy Campaign, after which they ad journed to meet again in November. Stella Sutton, Secretary. I. O. O. F. MEMORIAL .SERVICES At Tifton Methodist Cliurcli Sunday Night at 7 ;30 O’CIock. Special memorial services for Tifton Lodge No. 135, I. O. O F„ will be con ducted at the Methodist church Sunday night, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. A special sermon will be preached. A11 Odd Fellows are requested to meet at the hall at 7 o’clock and go to^ the church in a body. The service will be held in memory of the following deceased members: John W. Boswell, Z. T. Brown and W. B. Carter. 30d3twlt BOX SUPPER AT RED OAK There will be a box supper at Red Oak School House Friday .light, Novem ber 7. v • The proceeds go to the school. . Everybody invited. Texas Red Rust Proof Seed Oats at Choate's. SOdwlw I want to buy your Peanuts. Highest cash prices paid. Keith Carson. 30d3twlt There is but One Sure Way Te get money-earn it; but one sure way to have money-save it; but one sure way to - .v-P?/’ / Save Money I -by systematic setting aside each week or month a portion qf your, income and putting it to work in A Reliable Banking institution. We offer you our services. BAWTIFTON A Bank of Service Much credit is due Mr. Welch for (bis i-client showing, ns lie was with those ms day and night, regardless of who its firing. And he novc r got in n hurry cure out a barn. He nlwavs took four lys and nights to cure it. And Mr. Bryan says tyit John Welch is the best man to carry out instructions he ever Raw. h \ Bryan C‘Lt>ng Hungry”) SOUTH HAS THE CLIMATE Mr. J. *1. Owen, of Fender, was a pleasant caller at the Gazette office Sat urday. Mr. Owen moved to this country from California a few year* ago, and has traveled quite extensively ;u rne West He is very enthusiastic ovar the good roads movement and say* that, though the West has an excellent system of good roads and Southern California is all that could be asked so far as climate is con cerned, the South will get the tourists when she gets 'the roads, because the South has “the” climate and cue doesn’t have to climb mountain passe? nor travel for days through deserts to get here. should nqt be lost sight of. He knows the tobacoo industry from u to z. Now these men say that it is not necessary to have nearly as much labor expense as they had j but experience is the best teacher. Rome of their weekly payrolls ran as high, during gathering season as $80.00 v and this was excessive. FIRST STUDENT HERE The first student to enroll with the Reeond District Agricultural School when It opened eleven year* ago, was the guest of Prof. Lewis at A. M. R. Sunday. His name is Wm. Ilarvin, and he op erates a large plantation in Calhoun county, running eighty-seven plows. He a traveling man, and does not live the farm, however,, making headquar ters at Houston, Texas. Whitley Bros. Department Store la re ceiving Men’s Suits almost daily. SEASON'S COTTON RECEIPTS Warehouse receipts, 3,102 bales. Compress receipts, 13,542 bales. Compress receipts same late last year, 7,008 bales. The compress receipts this year «ra nearly double that of the same date last year, due to the fact that last year there waa practically no export trade, the do mestic mills taking the cotton as it came from the gins. Hr Seed oats and seed rye for ante by Geo. Baker Grocery Company. 25d5twlt <► W# expect to bo ln Am market for mv corn, bogs, rice. fore *11. Latf ft-Oo* Omega. Sdwtf HeckfttrL. Bevefi ye Tifton years of continnona practice m oVer 1,000 cases of Eye jetorily relieved. Isn't thii recommendation enough for our work? If you need Glaa*aa aee me anv day In the week, except Friday P. M. at Hoort Jewelry Store, Main St wtf the i diner eudy red. nt from $1000 to $1,200. They y that if they Imd had three barn* ey could have gathered all the tobacco fust ns it ripened nnd this, with prop curing, makes the grade. Aud grades e more important iu tobacco than in months, for the absolute independence of the Georgia cotton crop through financ ing it not only at home, but by a gigan tic banking and trust corporation to be oWucd by the farmer* themselves. . The meeting, was made up *of a care fully selected number of the farmers nod business men of the whole State, was conducted in the nature of a free business conversation, and, to say the least, of it, swept over the gathering, when the plan was announced, like a veritable prairie fire. TlNForm Cotton Bank. The Georgia Cotton Bank and Trust Corporation, with an original minimum rupltaTfention, paid in, of $2,100,000, is to be formed at once. The state ’* to be divided into sevcu divisions each 41- vision to elect, by the stockholders of that division, two directors, which will tompose a board of fourteeiS riirectors of the corporation, each two directors rep resenting 3,0<)Q. shares, of *the - stoclt. 'which is piaeecf 'fifi' thtPUfashr Of* Toopl $125 per share. To each county in the State the capi tal stock has been allotted on the basis of the 1910 cotton crop, especially select ed, and figures a cost of $1.23 cents per bale for each bale of rot ton raised in the county that year. APPRECIATE JEN M NS STATEMENT People of Omega .Supplement County Funds Paid Principal. l’rof. J. II. Jenkins, of Omega, attend ed the Teachers’ Institute iu Tifton Sat urday. To Prof. .Tcukias is due the credit of buildiug the Omega school from a small, three-teacher school to the larg est in the county, except of course the city school* here aud the Agricultural school. Omega now employ* s *»ix literary teacher* besides music, art und expres sion, and has an enrollment of nearly 300. And the people of Omega appreciate Prof. Jenkins. To show that they do, they quite handMmely augmented the rounty funds and arc paying him a sal ary more nearly in keeping with the work he is doing. Of Ute Ownership. Management. Cir culation, Etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24. ?012. Of the Tifton Gazette, published week ly nt Tifton. Georgia. For Get. 1st, 1918. STATE OF GEORGIA—County of Tift, Before me, a Notary Public in und for the state and county aforesaid, personally appeared J. L. Herring, who having been duly sworn according to law. deposes and says that he ia the Editor and Manager of the Tifton Daily Gazette aud thnt the following is, to the best of hi* knowledge and belief, a true statement of the owner ship, management, circulation, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, print- the reverse of this fsrm, to-wit: .. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor and business managers are. Publisher. Gazette Publishing Cora* ,...ny, Tifton, Gn.. Editor, Managing Editor. Business Manager, J. L. Herring, Tifton. Ga. 2. That the owners are: Gazette Pub lishing Company. Stockholder*: G. L. Blalock, W. H. Hendricka. Prank Scar boro, W. H. Parker, G. W._ Julian, H. Doro, w. n. rarter, u. n• aiuunu, a*. D. Webb. G. W. Coleman, It Kent am) Son, T. K. Phillips, B. P. Bowen, L W. Meers. J. H. Hutchinson, J. J. Golden. J. J. L. Phillips. J. 8. Taylor. B. Y. Wallace, R. Bee, B. D. Smith, H. H. Tift Jr.. J. M Shaw. Jason Sctrboro, W. W. Banks. C. W. Fnlwood, H. H. Tift J. L. Herring. I. B. Herring, J. G. Herring and G- It. Herring, ail.of Tif ton, Ga. S. That the known bondholder* mort gage* and other security buldera owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total securities, are; Noue. ^ Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 20th day of October, 1M9. (SEAL.) UR Herrl—. 1022? commission expire* June 23rd, Have rom Tifton'wfiobeve visited tho Crisp county fair at Cordele this week are enthusiastic in their praise of the exhibits. The fair is not on a pretentious .scale, j funds available the promoters being obliged to use tents j W as postponed until it could be ascertain- to shelter the exhibits, as buildings have 0 j if the money for the work would bt t been erected as yet, but the exhibits forthcoming. ' e good, and receive the commendation 1 prof. Lewis was present by invitation, ■ of all who see them. Especial mention J f Dr conference. He reports more boya v is made of the exhibits by the .county than usual applying for work on th# farm, by the Home Economics depart- School farm .They arc putting in oatl - ment, by the Crisp county schools and an( ] other grain crops at the School nowv by the Ft. Benning detachment. The latter is a series of trenches, complete with lookout and dugout, and with barb ell wire entanglements in front. The midway is also very good, ‘ the Cosmopolitan show* having about twen ty attractions. Large crowds arc attend ing. A WONDERFUL OPERATION Mr. L. M.'fftfczy, of Motor A, returned Friday afternoon from Atlanta', accom panied by his little four-year-old son, L. M. Jr. He carried the little boy to At lanta two wVeks ago, where I)r. Fort operated on his eye. When he was six months old the little boy fell in the fire nnd was badly burned, the burn* leaving scars on his face and head. His eye-lid was drawn up into the brow and as to relieve this that the operation was performed. It has almost removed the trouble, aud an operation on the low er lid will be performed luter. ANNOUNCE DECISION LATER At the meeting of the County Board of Education held Friday for the purpose of discussing the question of the country children coming to the city schools, plans » made to bring about an adjustment of the matter, but as ouly throe of the Board were present It was thought best to submit it to the entire Board before any final action is taken. We are now in the market for peanuts see ua before you eelL Golden Live 8tock Company. 10-4tf TO THE PUBLIC. Dr. Kemp baa moved his offices from the Clyatt-Elk* building, tn^reoma over he Willis Drug Company, on Main street, where he will be pleated to serve yon. 30d4twlt . Just received a new shipment of La dles? Serge and Poplin Skirts, sizes regu lar and at Whitley Bro*. Depart ment Store. c 30d2twlt TIFTON SPOT COTTON MARKET Good Middling, 87c. NOTICE OF POUND SALE Georgia, Tift County, City of Tifton. . Will bo sold before the pound In said city during the usual hours of sale o Saturday, November 8, the fblowing live stock, towit: tV *>»«* ww. *i:ht 100 pounds; avked cut aud swa! •* v folk in right ear, bit and slit in left «ar. *tI*o eight pip. about six weeks old. Said hogs impounded and fold under ordinance prohibiting live stock from run ning at large on the street* of said city. This the 28th day of October, 1919. J. O. Thrasher, Chief of PeUce. Now la the time to buy One, Two and Four pound Fruit Cake.f Choate Gro cery Co. 30dwlt THE BEST HE Between HammonJ, Ia&, anil 1 MeCI*y Will Make Hla Hai ■ aafi Build KeaMaaee* far I The so-called Dlsie Hiahaaj t* 1 until you croaa the Georsla fine inc to Mr. J. H. McClay, who i through from Hammond, Ind.; to Tift arrirln* Sunday. ' ,, ■-/jK.'v ■“I ape out of Indian, into Kentucky' ] Attend Colquitt County Fair First Two Days. Great Exhibit*. Moultrie, Oct. 29.—More than twelve thousand people passed through the gates of the Colquitt County Fair today and iterolay. or nearly twice as many as attended it during the first two days lost year. The exhibit features have aston ished the,visitors and the Colquitt coun ty-people, despite the fact that, this has been one of the'most adverse agricultural reasons the county has known ia several years. The agricultural building ha* an exhib it from every militia district iu tin* coun ty nnd the girls canning club htrlding exhibit from every one of the. districts also. The live stock show* is one of the big gest features of the fair. More than two hundred fine hogs are on exhibit and the showing of beef cattle is possibly the big- gei4 ever seen at a county fair in the South. Swift and Company’s ten thous and dollar many-sided exhibit is also at tracting much attention. It in itself is ag large as some county Cars. The pac ing house here is also ketping open house during ’the ffflr and hundreds of visitors have been shown through the big plant by special guidee^ ’ 1 . name, until after I crossed the Geor- gta line. Your roads ire W> moch. baiter than Anything I saw that they warned-;j almost perfect The only part#'r< the', Dixie Highway that I saw fit to travel over la. the National Highway, ; We are not speeders, but just tc ehow how good your roads are. w.lU say that we left Atlanta with, eight Inr the cai at 8 o'clock Sunday moraidjg and were at the Myon Hotel in.Tifton at 8 o'clock Sun day afternoon." Make Tifton Hls-Ifome. # '^ Mr. McGIay has come to Tifton to inake:^ his-home. He bought .property here last spring and the first thing tip intends to do i* to build a residence ' One of-.his . sons, is attending the Second District Agricultural School nnd the other, who is just bade from France, came with him. Mrs. McClay will arrive Jater. - ^ Mr. McClay came to Tifton together with Mr. Frank S. Betts; of Hammond,^ Mr. Betts bought four business lots be tween the Gazette office and the court- • ouse and also a residence hero. He will^l o Tifton this winterl V3 Build Homes to 8cll. McClay comes to Tlftou to build for sale. Ife says thor« ; is pracV no limit to the number of homes' supply ami that he wsuts tp build II at least twenty-five. He will dHces Monday oVer Kent’s Fumi- -ttore and invites those desiring in.Tifton t«tcall op him. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS CRISP HAS GOOD FAIR ■ ■ For Informal Conference on Heatii riant and Sceptic Tank. ’ - An informal meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of- the Second District Agricultural Sthool was held iu the offices. of Chairman H. H. Tift Tuesday afternoon, with every., member of the Committee present. Plans for the heating plant at the school, for whictu,4u appropriation ol y , $7,000 was made at tfier last session of > the General Assembly, were .submitted^by, • I. D. Morgan & Co., and twefq discussed, ' but no action was tfken, awaiting 4h es timate on the cost of the work. It ia , J more thu* probable that the Work cosf. twice. the amount ApUroprlaft^U^ Vjqjj Building a septic tank at the SchcjM;.'-'^ was also discussed, but no action taken. -j Such a tank as the School needs will - <1 probably cost $1,500 and there are do • Further action- ’ £3 potato curing house is about. com- pleted which will have a capacity of'%'!% 1.200 bushels. . GOOD PRICE FOR LAND HITCHING IN DOUBLE HARNESS From the Valdosta Times. There was an interesting double wed ding at Adel at high noon Sunday, when two young couples from Valdosta were united in marriage. The ceremony was performed at the residence of Mr. A. D. Shaw and Rev. W. H. Budd of Tifton, who onme to Adel to preach for the Methodist congregation, officiated. The contracting parties were Miss Leei- la Edith Cline and Mr. G. Virgil Dasher, ond Miss Eva Ruth Eaxtcre and Mr. Charlie G. Reid. Large Plantation in Turner County Brought $107 an Acre. v \A The Darien Barfield plantation, a large 4 ■ J tract of land in Turner county, was aoId.."^| last week to C. F. Shingler for $107 an;,/ ‘ acre. A few days ago a small farm in Turner sold at $204 an acre and the ■■'’.•'il sale of a Tift county farm was made long ago at $250 an acre. Howei both of these farms were small and 1 ly improved. The Barfield plant! was a large one and not in the best i of cultivation. We are now in the market for Bean*. See us before yon sell. Live Stock .Co. npta OUR BANK STANCE BUILDING UP OUR OWN HOME INDUSTRIES Tha director* and officers of our bapk are well known to you as mtn of high character and ability, who have bided In the upbuilding of this city and community. s Our bank I* big enough to handle the largest banking buelnese, yet It Is not too big to appreciate the smctlte*! .depositor. ^ We Invite the accounts of firms', corporatlo vldual*. Children's accounts ali ~ The National 4 petcent Interest i m .

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Tifton gazette. (Tifton, Berrien County, Ga.) 1891-1974, October 31, 1919, Image 1