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.g well as the fox squirrejWalmost disappeared.
The negroes had hooks attached to long poles
or the purpose of pulling' the gophers from
heir holes.
Only a Georgia Cracker, to the maimer horn,
"•an cook Georgia collards and bacon properly;
ply a negro caq cook gopher as it should be
cooked. It cannot be cooked on a stove, and
THE TIFTON GAZETTE
s PnbIbMWM4r ;
The putkular colons! paopb of the
United States um
Nelson’s j
HalrDresslng
Lwscly Attewkd from All Part* of South
Ooorsta. Sinn* Sermons sod Inter.
eMIns DlMUMloni of the Work
•f fko Chunk.
The Primitive Boptixt meetlof at Cor-
dele, which boftn Tneodajr and will last
through three dara !* a sreat fatherjof
...Editor and Manager,
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ban sold and noonmandad by <£1
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SUBSCRIPTION
Twelve month.
Six Months —
pour Months .....
MnHQ&fiuOENP
h«aM»r fcy tay
•coufixtswhich
SATURDAY NIGHT.
they are in session from 3 to 5.
The meeting is for the purpose of gen
eral discussion of matters pertaining to
the work of the denomination, and for
co-operation between the churches. The
discussions the first day were on the
work aud duties of the Elders, and were
very interesting and instructive.
Dr. L. A. Baker and Elder Mollis at
tended from Tifton.
5 1-2 PER CENT FARM uHn
7 Per Cent Tifton Gty Loan
Tffls nuk*fannioMw «t B t-2 par «mL Mans! md gf«««U-
bon'owor the prhrilego of paying part of tha principal at fka
*ay year atopping interest en amoonla paid, htman
nnal paymait of principal nqnirsd. ,
R. C ELLIS W. W. BRYAN
Goldan Bufldin* Tifton, Gaergia
SAVE THE MEAT YOURSELF
. Get»
M0I6AN MEAT PRESERVER
And save your neat, no matter what the weather.
Hundreds of farmers are using them today wiAenthe
satisfaction. s
Write os for full information
I. D. MORGANS SON S
morgan’s“meat preserver
TIFTON -{- GEORGIA - i
Women
AiHsBesi?
The receipts for the Nonnin-Af|ie
lime at Norman Park Thanksgiving Day
exceeded |S00, of vrhleh each school gets
one-half after all expenaeo of the game
ar e paid. The returns for thia game
*111 pay all debts of the A. M. S. ath
letic aiaodatloit and leave about $75
In the treaaury to atari tha next eeaton
Member, of the team have requested
the Gaaette to extend their thanks to
people .of Tilton for the liberal support
given the team. The boya appreciate the
support given them here and also the loy
alty of tho fans who have accompanied
them on games away from home.
A Conditioner and Worm Eij
Don’t allowyour stock to “get o
■Odin a run-down cdhdition.
Condition your cows for cab
feeding Dr. Hess Stock Tonic
Tie Woman’s Took
M Deyo«Mw«sk,dn- _
fm ay, won-cut? Is yodr V
# lack of good health caused R
W <n>m any of the coo- M
freshing. Then , feed it regularly to
crease the flow of milk. It length
the milking period. ? ■ %
Buy Stock Tonic according to the 1
of your herd. Get from your dealer
foundsforeaah average hog, five pou
for each home. Cow or steer, to start w
If Constipated, Bilious
or Headachy, take
"Cascarets”
much less both in quantity and value. After
cottoh,'nogs came second in value, cotton seed
thirdrapd watermelons fourth, the melon ship
ments aggregating $43,250. Com came next,
cpttle next and peanuts seventh, with a value
of $10,000. A very interesting item was $2,000
worth of hay. Not many years ago, Omega was
buying Western com and hay.. Then cotton
was practically the only money crop; now it is
only one of half a dozen—all - profitabe. These
figures do not apply to less than carload ship-
feed as directed and then watch ri
Why Pay the Peddler
Twice My Price?
Sick headache, biliousness, costed
tragus' or sour, gassy stomach—always
trace this to torpid liver; delayed, fer
mented food in the bowels.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out of the
system is rtvobsorbed into the blood
When this poison reaches the delicate
brain tissue it causes congestion and
Grocery Co
" TIFTON, GA.
WUtflyM bownrahTb2ktuhi£
Dr. Hess Instant Loot
K Kills I ce
ments and tobacco is not mentioned because.it. |
was marketed largely by truck. \
- — . ;' ,r 1
Since the Farmers Union of Georgia has gone
on record as opposed to collective bargainingj cunttip^tvd waau mattvr'liud
it will brace up some of those weak-kneed, poli-i u>*. towels,
tlcians and others who fear to speak because : ;L h ^‘Z‘ "SSL
AD Druggists
■nragraBHarara
The Patting of the Gopher.
Occasionally, some one brings a gopher to
town; it is a curiosity. Not so many years ago,
the gopher ranked with the fox squirrel as the
most numerous citizens of this section. The fox
squirrel is now a little more of a curiosity than
the gopher. * ’
Some people will tell you that a “gopher is a
misnomer—that you are really talking about a
tortoise, and that the real gopher is a sala-
This is only in part correct. That the
> GA.,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, ISM.
rarely in a house. The best place to cook go-
efcgr is in a pot over an open fire in frbnt of a
abin or* in the wide fireplace of a stick-and
lirt chimney. The proper cook is a coal-black
legro, with thick lips and white eye-balls, and
inferably half a dozen hungry pickaninnies
tending around.
Rut gopher, properly cooked and seasoned,
yas good-J-surprfalngly good. The old fellow
vas a pretty tough looking customer, with his
ough shell and scaley skin, but separated from
hese and parboiled and seasoned, then eaten
rom a tin plate with a hoe-cake of hot corn-
tread, no chicken meat could compare with it.
The bones are snow-white, like pigs-feet, and
he flesh juicy, sweet and tender, as is that of
learly all animals that live exclusively on vege-
ables.
The best time to eat gopher was when coming
lome from a long day’s tramp, hunting or fish-
ng, and stopped, late in the afternoon, at Mam-
ny’s cabin in answer to her call. Gopher, like
mander.
land tortoise is properly called gopher we have ^
no less authority than Webster’s Unabridged >, great many other things, has to have the pro-
and the International Encyclopedia. To both I , er surroundings to be at its best,
we are ' indebted for the information that the But' gopher meat, like many other good
name is a corruption of the French word “gauf-: hings, is only a memory now. But it is a mem-
fre,” “a honey-combi” which was applied by , r y that makes a man’s mouth water if he has
the French settlers in America to various bur- , a d the privilege of tasting it at its best.
rowing animals which “honey-combed” the soil. j
Strictly speaking, or rather the first definition, i SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
of a gopher is any of several American rodents j «
which burrow the soiL In the South, especially | Pointing to the splendid work done by the
in this section, this species of gopher is mis- Maine Library Commission, the Americus Times-
called a salamander. (The salamander by the Recorder urges that some systematic and corn-
way, is a species of lizzard with a short tail, prehensive method be devised for providing
which inhabits the water in a tadpole state, and free circulating libraries to the rural sections
returns to it only to deposit its eggs, generally of Georgia.
living in moist places, under stones, roots of! Commenting on this, the Savannah Morning
trees, etc. It Varies in size and color in dif- News cites the fact that about twenty years ago
ferent countries, being common in America, this work was begun by H. H. Stone, while he
Europe and Asia. What we call a salamander was School Commission of Newton county, the
here is not a salamander at all, but is really a county in which the first boys corn club in the
gopher, or burrowing rat. The superstition United States was organized. Stone establish-
that it can withstand fire is a myth.) The pro- ed traveling libraries in the common schools, the Kt<:wnr,lK
per name of the species of turtle which we call books being placed in cases equipped with han
a gopher here is “gopher tortoise.” Under this dies and taken from one school district to an
name it is accurately described in both diction- other.
ary and encyclopedia and is located in the san- 1 Tift county began establishing school libra-
dy coast districts of the Southern United States. lies several years ago. Where interest was man-
A 1 portion of this description may be of inter- ifested or could be aroused, a library was es-
est. “The shell, brown and black above and tablished for that particular school, until now
yellow below, often measures fifteen inches in nearly every school in the county has a libra-
length, the females being larger than the males. *y °f its own.
They are strong animals, burrowing deeply In- ( According to reports of some of the club wo-
to the soil, where they hibernate in winter and men at a recent convention of the women’s clubs
eome out at night in search of vegetable food, of the Second District at Tifton, the circulating
They are numerous and somewhat gregarious, Mbraryis not always a success. One of the wo-
especially in Florida, and do much damage in 111611 said that sometimes when a committee went
gardens and among'root crops. The rural ne-W a school to take up the library and send it to
gfoes eat them for food, and also search for another school, they would find the books had
their buried eggs which are as large as the never been unpacked. At other points the 11-
eggs of a pigeon and five in number. The ani-“My workers did not fare this well; they
mal Is thus an important foot! resource hfFlori-fennd that the books had been distributed
ds, where he fa captured largely in pit traps.” ,*niong the children and had v disappeared.
The latter proves how the encyclopedias even [where fbere is a local interest in books, the
fail to keep pace with development in the South. Mhool library fa a most excellent thing—but it
Forty years ago, when this section of Geor- “ ® est to cultivate this interest first.
gia was covered with a pine forest and a thick
carpet of wiregrass, nearly every hillside had
its gopher-hole. The crawling fellows prefer
red sandy soil, where the digging was easy, and
some of the sand hills had quite a gopher colo
ny, of a dozen or more holes. But the gopher
MAKING A POOR SHOWING.
We are not surprised that the new Georgia
law, making it the duty of trial juries to fix
the term of sentence is already proving unpopu-
wis a forager as well aa a pioneer and he did Jar.
not always dig where the digging was easiest. From the first, we have regarded the law as
If the location suited him he would burrow in-ja mistake, and this paper was one of the first
to the hard, pebbly clay, sometimes going as far ( in the state to point jjiut some of its weak places,
as 20 feet until he got a home to suit him. The Juries have enough to do in determining the
holes were curved, perhaps for safety’s sake, jsuilt or innocence of the accused, and this law
and very often the rattlesnake and rabbit would Roubles their tasks, for it is often more difficult
seek refuge therein. The gopher’s eggs were to' determine the sentence than to agree as to
usually buried at the entrance to the den where j the guilt, A Crisp county jury discovered this
the heat of the sun hatched them. His front fact a few weeks ago when it was unable to
lio-rtat old Officers. Increase Pastor's
Salary and Set Aside Sum for Use
of Woman's Missionary Society
Tho new Hoard of Stewards of the
Methodist ehnn h met Monday uicht and
organised for the year. The following
officer* were re-elected: It. Eve, chair
man : (Jeo. {taker, vice-chairman; Joe
Kent, secretary-treasurer. The chair
man announced that he would name and
announce the standing committees at the
first opportunity.
Upon motion, duly passed, the chair
appointed the following committees for
immediate service:
To prepare treasurer's record book and
write names on contribution boxes: T.
A. Mitchell, chairman; Harris Massey,
A. I). Maxwell, L. I’ardick and C.
A. Irby.
To assess members of the church: 3.
N. Brown, chairman ; M. K. Hendry, 3.
O. Padrlck, J. X. Mitchell and E. L.
Ireland.
Tho above two committees ore to
meet tonight in Judge Eve’s office and
•mplcte their work as soon ns
possible.
To assign membership to the vurious
Aveu, chairman3im
Don’t Let Malaria Sap
Your Strength and
Vitality
Your physician will tell you malaria is
the cause of more disease than any mal
ady known. Chills and Fever, Malarial
Fever, Bilious Fever, loss of appetite^
drowsiness, loss of energy are the direct
causes of Malaria. Ameco Chill aod
Fever Tonic ia the deadly enemy of Ma
laria. It kills the germs and its action
prompt and sure in breaking tha
Thousands of prominent citizens have
been cured with Ameco Chill and Fever
Tonic and unhesitatingly recommend it
to their friends.
W. T. McDonald, prominent employ*
of the Macon Railway k Light Go*
of Macon, Oa^ says;
I bad Malaria and Bilious Fever and
Chills and Fever and Ameco Chill unit
Fever Tonic cured me. It does every-
thing you claim for It.**
Ameco Chill and Fever Tonic fa «|t
in Tifton and guaranteed by Brali
Pharmacy Company.
nick and 1*. D. Fulyood.
Upon motion. Chairman Eve and Su
perintendent of Sunday School Fulwood
were relieved of the duty of looking sf-
r a list of members during the year.
Upon motion, the pastor’s salary was
increased from $2,400 to $2,700 a year.
Arrangements also were made to have
the treasurer mail the pastor a check
the last day of eaeh month for that
month's salary.
A letter was read from the Woman's
Missionary Society, which requested the
stewards to set aside u certain sum each
year to be used by the ladies in taking
of the parsonage and the needy of
the city. Upon motion, $300 was
aside for the tear to be used by the W.
M. 8. in earing for the parsonage and Hie
poor of the Repairs to the par
sonage, painting, etc., will not be taken
care of by this sum, this matter still
remaining uuder the direction of the
church property committee.
Mrs. W. A. Puckett was re-elected
organist for the year.
After an appeal from Mr. Baker, Who
presided at the meeting, for the stewards
to be faithful in attending all meetings
and in all their duties, the meeting ad
journed.
The attendsnee was the best of any
meeting held within a yehr.
O.
FUNERAL OF L. M. CRISP
i'bc funeral of Mr. LeRoy M. Crisp,
son of Postmaster and Mrs. J. B. Crisp,
of Fender, was held Saturday afternoon
at the home of the deceased, 338 Calhoun
Street, Macon. The services were con
ducted by Rev. T. W. Callaway, pastor
of the Tabernacle church, and interment
was in Riverside cemetery.
Mr. Crisp died at bit home in Macon
after an illness of about two Wteka, al
though his condition was not considered
serious until a day or two before bis
death. A postmortem eximinattya show
ed that death was caused by a ruptured
blood vessel in Hie lung.
Mr. Crisp moved from South Carolina
to Eldorado, wherd he lived for several
years, before moving to SttCC
he was connected With iha Cf. & k F.
railroad.
The burial rites were in charge of the
Brotherhood of ftathraf Trainmen, of
which order h# wae * member.
■ft!
claws were shaped like shovels, with shovel-like agree on the sentence of a negro who had r< *
nails and with these he could make the dirt plead guilty and it was necessary to declare
fly at a rate surprisingly rapid, throwing it in a mistrial, Now report comes that the ends of
shower behind him. Authorities are right a-1 justice are often defeated under this law be-
bout the gopher being strong, for one of aver-[cause the jury .usually fixes the lowest possible
age size could travel with a man standing on his sentence,
back. He could also make surprisingly rapid The law is wrong in principle and appears
progress when hustling for his hole. | to be working harm in practical application.
They were not commonly used as food, the The next General Assembly should repeal it.
Georgia Cracker largely holding them in con. ‘
tempt. There was more or less talk about the
gopher being sometimes used to help out when
meat was scarce, the expression “a gopher case”
being attributed to the story of a circuit rider
passing a boy who was fiercely digging, with
hoe and shovel. As he stopped to wipe the
THE TIDE HAS TURNED.
The fact that more than half a million dol
lars worth of farm products was shipped in car
load lots in one year from the small town of
Omega, in Tift county, shows the development
streaming perspiration from his brow with his'of diversified farming in this section. A little
sleeve, the minister said, “You appear to be more than half the amount waa cotton, but a
In,a desperate hurry, my son.” "Yes," was, the few years ago it would have been all cotton, but
eply; “It’s a gopher case. The preacher fa
oming to our house and we ain’t got, no meat.”
The gophers did not interfere very much with
the cultivation of crops, for they wer,o soon
filed out. The chief annoyance in this respect
ame from the holes the gophers left. Culti-
•ation of land would soon fill these up at the
ntrance, but the hoofs of plow-horses or mules
would break through, sometimes with trouble-
.ome results. A mule had a curious second
else, or instinct Where it broke through one
if'these holes once, it could never be driven
ver the same place again; horses did not: have
Uch good memories.
\Thoee who ate gophers were principally ne-
. -lies, and especially those negroes who came,
o this section with turpentine operators from,
th-and' South Carolina. It was-not very.
er the negroes came before the gophers, they arc afraid of orgnaizSd labor.
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