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Highways: Six paved highways radiate from Tifton, including U. S. Highway 41 and U. S. Highway 319. These supply Tift County with good roads in all directions.
Airport: Tifton's airport, in addition to having a flying service to At- lanta and by contract to distant points, is also expecting to be placed on the route between Atlanta and Jacksonville, via Macon, for a feeder line service.
Facilities-Electric Power : The Georgia Power Company supplies Tif- ton with abundant electric power. Included in local power facilities are two 110,000 volt lines, one 66,000 volt line, and three 44,000 volt lines, drawing energy from hydro-electric plants and steam plants in north and middle Georgia and upper Florida. In addition, a contract has been let for another plant and power line which will connect with Tifton's through state wide net work of lines. The Georgia Power Company also serves some rural areas of Tift County.
Two REA lines furnish electricity to parts of Tift County.
Gas : Butane and other forms of stored gas are available.
Communication-The Southern Bell Telephone and the Western Union Telegraph Companies both give continuous service to Tifton residents and business places. The telephone company extends rural lines over much of the County and it is planned to expand this service. Omega, one of Tift County's smaller cities, has its own independent telephone service, which is connected, however, with the Southern Bell system.
Mail Service-Tifton enjoys excellent mail facilities through regular mail trains and by Star Route to and from Thomasville. Over night mail service is available to and from Atlanta and Jacksonville via through trains. Air mail posted in Tifton in the early afternoon arrives in Washing- ton, New York and Chicago the following morning.
Commerce-Tifton has the usual number of retail and wholesale houses, service shops, professional offices, etc. Three wholesale grocers and one wholesale dry goods company are located in Tifton. All of the leading oil distributing companies have agencies here.
Labor-The Tifton area has available labor, both white and colored, skilled and unskilled, male and female. The type of labor in this section is quite satisfactory.
Banking-Tifton and Tift County have four banks, namely: The Bank of Tifton, The Farmers Bank and the Citizens Bank (all in Tifton), and the Citizens Service Bank in Omega, with combined resources, as of June Ist, 1946, of $8,958,086.71. Tifton Federal Savings & Loan Association,
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Tifton Production Credit Association, and other concerns supply capital for building and other purposes.
Manufacturing-Among the successfully operated industries located at Tifton are: Armour and Company (packing house), Tifton Cotton Mill, Southern Cotton Oil Company, International Minerals & Chemical Corp., Columbia Naval Stores, Builders Supply Company, Imperial Tobacco Com- pany, Tifton Brick Company, Tifton Peanut Company, Quality Concrete Products Company, Phillips Milling Company, Short & Paulk Supply Company, Tifton Seed Shellers, Tifton Chenille Rug Company, Tifton Feed Mill, Cotton Gins, Dairy Products Plants, Bottling Plants, Ice Manufacturers, Lumber Yards, Frozen Food Locker Plants, Bee Industry, Bulb Industry.
Good sites, with or without railroad sidings, are available at reasonable rates for new industries.
THE BENCH AND BAR OF TIFT COUNTY by Major Steve Mitchell
It is by no means intended that this outline will give a detailed history of the Bench and Bar of Tift County but the author will touch upon such high spots as he considers of interest from a historical standpoint, and the early recitals of facts will be from hearsay since the author has only a per- sonal knowledge from the time of his residence in 1913.
After the establishment of the town of Tifton by Legislative Act of 1890 when Tifton was a thriving town in the old County of Berrien, there soon became by its growing pains a demand for a local tribunal; and in 1902, there was established a City Court of Tifton in such Berrien County with Judge John Murrow as the presiding Judge. At that time, the Bar of Tifton consisted of the late C. W. Fulwood, Sr., F. G. Boatwright, C. C. "Pomp" Hall, J. J. Murray, J. B. Murrow, James H. Pate and H. S. Murray. Shortly thereafter, into the active practice came Robley D. Smith, James H. Price, R. E. Dinsmore, J. S. Ridgdill, O. C. Griner and L. P. Skeen. The firms of lawyers at that time consisted of Murrow & Pate, Fulwood & Murray, and Ridgdill & Griner, and associated with the late C. C. "Pomp" Hall, R. Eve. Other early practitioners at Tifton were F. S. Harrell; W. J. Wallace, the first Solicitor of the City Court of Tifton ; Leon Hargraves, a practitioner and also a Clerk of the City of Tifton ; J. C. Smith, brother of the present William R. Smith, Judge of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit; and R. S. Foy, who practiced here before moving to Sylvester.
The growth of the practice of the Bench and Bar was approximately that of the thriving village of Tifton as evidenced by the creation of a separate
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County of Tift by act of the Legislature approved August 17, 1905. It was about such time that Judge John Murrow withdrew as Judge of the City Court of Tifton and Judge R. Eve was appointed his successor which office he held continuously from that date until he became Judge of the Superior Court of the Tifton Judicial Circuit created in the year 1916, when James H. Price became Judge of City Court of Tifton which office he held until his death, when in 1922, W. B. Bennett, who had moved to Tifton after the Ist World War became Judge by appointment of Gover- nor Clifford Walker and was elected to succeed himself until his death about 1925 when Britt W. Davis became Judge of said City Court of Tifton and which Court was abolished in the year 1927.
Steve F. Mitchell came to the Bar in 1913, and for some years was asso- ciated with Mr. J. S. Ridgdill under firm name of Ridgdill & Mitchell, and later with Robert C. Ellis, who had been in practice since about the year 1903 under firm name of Ellis, Mitchell & Ellis, engaged principally in farm loans general practice and commercial law. L. P. Skeen, along about 1910 came to Tifton and was associated in the practice of the late C. W. Fulwood until that partnership dissolved and Haines H. Hargett, a young graduate of law of the University of North Carolina, became as- sociated with the late C. W. Fulwood and who later moved to Atlanta and was associated with the firm of King and Spaulding, who later as a tax expert with Miller and Chevalier of Washington, D. C., later moved back to Atlanta where he became associated with the firm of Spaulding, Sibley & McDougal; and it was there while engaged in that practice that he died. At which time, Rob't. R. Forrester moved to the County and became asso- ciated with Mr. C. W. Fulwood.
At the time of the creation of Tift County, it was in the old Southern Circuit and Judges of the Court successively were Augustus H. Hansell, Robert G. Mitchell, and shortly after the famous Carter Rawlings Case, the Solicitor-General, William E. Thomas, became the Judge of such cir- cuit by election. Other young attorneys engaged in the practice of Tifton were R. L. LeSeur, who for a while was associated with R. D. Smith be- fore moving to Americus and Sid Toler, W. T. Hargrett, Jr., were at times associated with the firm of Fulwood & Fulwood, also Martin Mc- Ghee was associated with Fulwood & Fulwood.
For a short term associated with Mr. Robley D. Smith was Stewart Griggs, son of the Congressman, James Griggs of the Second District. Then later, C. A. Christian from the Nashville Bar moved to Tifton and be- came associated two or three years with R. D. Smith; and later, Earl Smith, a recent graduate of Emory became associated with R. D. Smith until he moved away and became affiliated with the F.B.I. After the dis- solution of the partnership of Fulwood & Forrester, John G. Fulwood, a graduate of Emory University, became associated with his father and was
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with him until the death of his father about the year 1928. At the dissolu- tion of the firm of Smith & Christian, Mr. John T. Ferguson, recently graduated from Mercer University, became associated with R. D. Smith for a year or two; and about that time, Briggs Carson, Jr., after standing . the Bar Examination entered the practice of Tifton. It is by no means amiss that John Henry Poole after practicing some years at Albany, Geor- gia, has been a member of the Bar of Tift County for some 25 or 26 years. Judge R. Eve is the present Judge of the Tifton Judicial Circuit since its creation and the membership of the Bar now consists in the order of their length of residence the following members: Robley D. Smith, Steve F. Mitchell, John Henry Poole, C. A. Christian, Rob't R. Forrester, John G. Fulwood, John T. Ferguson, Briggs Carson, Jr., Britt W. Davis, and A. L. Kelly, Jr., who has recently since the second World War moved to Tif- ton where he was for a short time associated with R. D. Smith.
At all times, both Bench and Bar of Tift County have kept high the canons of ethics and generally have brought credit upon the profession out of the common knowledge among the Bar, not only of this County but the Tifton Judicial Circuit that of adjoining circuits, and that the Tift County Bar have in the practice of their profession handling the many matters pertaining to the profession ; and many times by oral agreement and there- by have facilitated the administration of justice to an able and high degree, and have played no mean part in the material and economic growth of this highly developed agricultural and thriving County.
TIFT COUNTY (Created Aug. 17, 1905)
TIFT COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES
E. P. Bowen, 1907-08-08
William H. Hendricks, 1909-10
Robert C. Ellis, 1911-12 Ex .- 12 Robert C. Ellis, 1913-14
J. H. Young, 1915-15 Ex .- 16-17 Ex. Robert C. Ellis, 1917-18 Lennon E. Bowen, 1919-20
Lennon E. Bowen, 1921-22
Robert C. Ellis, 1923-23 Ex .- 24
Dr. N. Peterson, 1925 Thurston Ellis Phillips, 1927
Thurston Ellis Phillips, 1929-31 Ex. Thurston E. Phillips, 1931 Marcus S. Patten, 1933 Marcus S. Patten, 1935
John Madison Goff, 1937-37-38 Ex.
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George W. Branch, 1939 George W. Branch, 1941 George W. Branch, 1943-43 Ex .- 44 Ross H. Pittman, 1945 I. Y. Conger, 1947
Ex. means an extra session of the Legislature.
TIFT COUNTY
Created Aug. 17, 1905 (Constitutional Amendment) TIFT COUNTY SENATORIAL DISTRICTS Tift County was in the Sixth District, Aug. 18, 1906-Nov. 5, 1918 (See Acts 1906, p. 80)
Tift County in Forty-Seventh District, No. 5. 1918 (Created Aug. 17, 1918; Constitutional Amendment). See Acts 1918, p. 84.
List of counties comprising the 47th Senatorial Districts are : Colquitt, Tift, Turner.
List of Senators from Tift County :
6th District
William S. West, 1905-06
Jonathan P. Knight, 1907-08-08 Extra
E. P. Bowen, 1909-10
T. C. Culbreath, 1911-12 Extra-12
W. L. Converse, 1913-14
George A. Paulk, 1915-15 Extra, 16-17 Extra
William Hartridge Hendricks, M.D., 1917-18
47th District
T. H. Parker (died), 1919
M. M. Kendall, 1920
Robert Cothran Ellis, 1921-22
John Henry Adams, 1923-23 Extra, 24
Robert L. Norman, 1925-26 Extra, 26 2d Extra
E. P. Bowen, 1927 Reason Paulk, 1929-31 Extra
L. L. Moore, 1931
Mrs. Susie Tillman Moore, 1933
C. Z. Harden, 1935 WV. A. Sutton, 1937
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Mrs. Susie Tillman Moore, 1939 E. W. Garner, 1941 G. W. Newton, 1943-43 Extra-44 Extra George W. Branch, 1945-45 Extra-46 Walter W. Branch, 1947
Extra means an extra session of the Legislature.
MAYORS OF TIFTON
W. H. Love-1891 C. W. Fulwood-1893 F. G. Boatright-1896 C. W. Fulwood- W. W. Timmons-1904 S. M. Clyatt-1907 W. W. Banks-1908 W. H. Hendricks-1913 H. H. Hargrett-1916
CITY MANAGERS
W. T. Hargrett R. E. Hall, Sr. George Coleman S. A. Youmans Frank Smith
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Top-Scene in Mrs. Pauline Kent's yard. Amos Tift, son of the founder of Tifton
Center-Home of Mrs. Elizabeth Pickard Karsten, old home of her father; where part of the History of Tift County was written.
Bottom row-The Tift sawmill, built in 1872. Mary Carmichael, grand- daughter of Patrick Thomas Carmichael
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AIRPORT
by A. B. Phillips
In February 1941, president of the Tift County Chamber of Com- merce announced through the secretary, Mr. J. E. Rogers, the following airport improvement committee: L. E. Bowen, chairman, E. L. Webb, J. C. McNeese, J. E. Newton, Carson Chalk, and A. B. Phillips. At this time he urged this committee to break ground for negotiations and seek Federal aid for further improvement of the airport.
Mr. F. H. Brown, vice-president of the G. S. and F. Railway Division of Southern Railway was secured for a meeting through the efforts of his local representative, Mr. Bob Hargrett. He met with us and outlined a procedure for us to follow. This contact proved valuable as Mr. Brown made frequent trips to Washington in our behalf.
Bob Choate, J. L. Bowen, and C. A. Christian made a trip to Wash- ington in an effort to find out to whom we should apply for other neces- sary details. These men discussed the matter with Congressman E. E. Cox and Senator Walter F. George and their report was not encouraging.
Mr. B. H. Campbell, assistant airport engineer, CAA, Regional office, Atlanta, visited Tifton and suggested that the securing of at least a square mile of land be looked into, as runways would have to be at least 4,200 feet long.
On June 21 telegrams were received from Senator George and Con- gressman Cox, advising that Tifton was listed for a survey. Then $8,500 for airport was raised at a mass meeting.
The battle raged until December 30, 1941 when the telegram came giv- ing instructions to get options for survey of proposed sites.
On January 5, 1942, a telegram from Senator George announced that Civil Aeronautic Authority had approved Tifton airport project to the amount of $336,039.00. Miss Christine Belle Kennedy rendered valuable assistance in getting project for her home town.
TIFTON CITY MANAGERS
Thus far there have been only five Tifton City Managers. They are:
I. Wesley Thomas Hargrett, began office January, 1921; resigned October, 1922.
2. Robert Edward Hall, began office October, 1922; served through 1932.
3. George Washington Coleman, began office, January, 1933; resigned August 3, 1936.
4. Stephen Alexander Youmans, began office, August 3, 1936; served through 1944.
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5. Frank Henry Smith, began office January, 1945, and is still in office. Mr. Ben Golden is treasurer of the City of Tifton.
For biographical sketch of W. T. Hargrett, see Tift County Pioneers.
For biographical sketch of R. E. Hall, see Tift County Pioneers.
Sketches of other City Managers follow :
Stephen Alexander Youmans-by E. Pickard
Stephen Alexander Youmans, eldest of twelve children of Elbert Ed- mund Youmans and Mary Elizabeth O'Quinn Youmans, was born in Pierce County, Georgia. When about eighteen he moved to Tifton where he finished his schooling. Thereafter he attended Georgia-Alabama Busi- ness College, in Macon.
In 1903 S. A. Youmans married Miss Mary Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Young, of Irwin County. Of this union are a number of children.
For a number of years Mr. Youmnas was in partnership with his brother- in-law, J. T. Mathis, (Q.V.) in a musical instrument house, Mathis and Youmans, in Valdosta. For a while he was at Hahira. In 1919 he pur- chased the T. J. Parker home on Love Avenue, and the following January he and his family took residence therein. He engaged in the mercantile business in Tifton for many years. He was elected to serve on the board of Tifton City Commissioners, and at a meeting of the commissioners, August 3, 1936 he was elected to fill the unexpired term of his brother-in-law, George Coleman, who had resigned as City Manager. Mr. Coleman was elected to fill Youman's place on the Commission. Mr. Youmans served as Tifton City Manager until 1945, when Frank Smith became City Man- ager.
During Mr. Youmans' term of office during one period of about two years $250,000.00 project was inaugurated and completed by means of bonds and W.P.A. This included paving, extension of water and sewerage, a $100,000.00 disposal plant, and a new electric system for the water works, at a cost of about $25,000.00.
At present, Mr. and Mrs. Youmans are enjoying a prolonged period of travel and are seeing the western part of the United States. Greetings to friends at home indicate a delightful time.
TIFTON CITY MANAGER FRANK HENRY SMITH
by E. Pickard Karsten
Tifton's fifth City Manager was Frank Henry Smith, still in office in 1947.
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Frank Henry Smith, born January 31, 1889, at Sayre, Pennsylvania, is son of Charles Walter Smith and Emma Jacoby Smith.
ยท Frank with his parents left Sayre in 1898 and moved to a place in the country near Nashville, Tennessee. Thence the family moved to near Waycross where they remained for about a year and where Frank's mother died.
In 1900 Frank Smith came with his father to Tifton where the elder Smith engaged in the iron molding business.
About 1902 the Smith family moved to Birmingham, Ala., where young Smith was graduated from the Birmingham High School and from the Bir- mingham Business College.
. In 1907 the Smiths moved back to Tifton and Charles Walter Smith opened up a shoe repair business which he conducted until his death, about August 1, 1931.
Frank Smith, after returning to Tifton, worked as an automobile me- chanic for H. H. Tift, Jr., and for Amos C. Tift until about 1919, when he entered into a partnership with J. W. Thrasher and W. D. King and formed the City Garage, with which he continued until January 1, 1945, at which time he became Tifton's fifth city manager. He followed S. A. Youmans, resigned. Mr. Smith had served on the city commission con- tinuously from January, 1937, until he was elected city manage. In De- cember of 1936 he had been elected to fill the unexpired term of S. A. Youmans who resigned to become city manager, which term of office he began January, 1937.
High lights of civic progress during Mr. Smith's administration are: Construction of vocational school building at Tifton High School, 1945; remodeling of Tifton High School, 1946; extending of water mains and sewerage to the section of city annexed in 1940.
Frank Henry Smith, on September 15, 1915, married Nora Goggins, daughter of N. J. Goggins, deceased, and Sarah Ann Gibson Goggins. Children of this union are Mae (Mrs. Charles W. Hahn), of Iowa; Frank H. Jr. (married Pauline Arnold), of Perry, Florida; Robert Emer- son, of Tifton.
GEORGE WASHINGTON COLEMAN THIRD CITY MANAGER OF TIFTON
by E. Pickard Karsten
George Washington Coleman was born July 30, 1875, at Pitts, Geor- gia, where also he received his schooling. He was son of Stephen and Cynthia Elizabeth Fitzgerald Coleman.
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When nearly through high school young Coleman left Pitts and went to clerk in a store at Henderson, Georgia.
In 1903 Mr. Coleman came to Tifton and was manager of Church- well's Tifton store; here he continued until 1907 when he went to Val- dosta to open a musical instrument store, Mathis and Coleman.
While in Tifton, G. W. Coleman married Ella Callie Youmans, daugh- ter of Elbert Edmund Youmans and Mary O'Quinn Youmans. The ceremony was performed on June 15, 1905, at the country home of the bride's parents.
After conducting the Valdosta firm, Mathis and Coleman, for two years, Mr. Coleman sold his interest to his brother-in-law, S. A. You- mans, and returned to Tifton, where he engaged in the plant business. Also he was Tifton's third city manager. He began office January, 1933, and served until August 1936, when, because of failing health. he re- signed the managership and was succeeded by his brother-in-law, S. A. Youmans. Mr. Coleman, however, took the place vacated by Youmans on the city commission. He continued to conduct his plant business until his death.
Mr. Coleman was a member of the Gun Lake Country Club and he and Mrs. Coleman were hosts at numerous delightful parties at their Gun Lake cabin; for the Colemans, genial, hospitable and friendly, had a host of friends.
Mr. Coleman died at his Tifton home on Love Avenue, November 22, 1937. Burial was in Tifton cemetery.
Mrs. Coleman continues to live in Tifton.
The Colemans had no children.
TIFTON POST OFFICE
Records indicate that the first post office in Tifton was in Captain Tift's commissary, and W. O. Tift was the first postmaster from June 1, 1887 to 1890. The exact location of the office from 1890 to 1900 is not clear. At one time it was located on Third Street in Dr. Goodman's drug store. During these ten years it probably moved to different places. Just when the post office was moved to Love Avenue in the building occupied at present by Western Auto Associate Store is not definite; however, the office was there in 1900. The government building was completed in June 1914, and occupied on July 1, 1914.
Rural delivery was established in 1898. City delivery of mail was au- thorized July 1, 1907. From 1885 to about 1907, the following offices were adjacent to Tifton: Sutton, Georgia; Harding, Georgia; Goodman, Georgia; Vanceville, Georgia; Brighton, Georgia; Waterloo, Georgia ;
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Urbana, Georgia; Ansley, Georgia; and Dosia, Georgia. All of these post offices were discontinued with the advent of rural delivery service from the Tifton office.
The following is a complete list of postmasters with dates of service :
W. O. Tift from 1887 to 1890 J. H. Duff, from 1890 to 1895 T. M. Greene, from 1895 to 1898 J. M. Duff, from 1898 to 1907 when he died.
David Comfort was acting postmaster from July 1, 1907 to February 14, 1908. W. O. Tift from February 15, 1908 to September 15, 1909, when he died. J. L. Pickard was acting postmaster from September 16, 1909 to November 25, 1910. Mrs. E. C. Tift (W. O.) postmaster from Novem- ber 26, 1910 to January 22, 1915. W. H. Bennett, postmaster from Janu- ary 23, 1915 to June 30, 1930. Jason Scarboro was postmaster from July 1, 1920 to December 31, 1925. E. E. Slack was postmaster from January 1, 1925 to September 30, 1928. Harris Massey was acting postmaster from October 1, 1928 to October 15, 1929. Joseph Kent, Sr., was postmaster from October 16, 1929 to March 27, 1934. Roy Thrasher was postmaster from March 28, 1934 to December 31, 1944. I. Y. Conger was postmaster from January 1, 1945 to January 31, 1946. Harris Massey was acting postmaster from February 1, 1946.
The present postmaster entered the service at Tifton, on April 1, 1907, under the administration of J. M. Duff, when the office was third class. Postal receipts in 1907 were $8,000 a year; postal receipts in 1947 are about $67,000 a year. Massey succeeded Mr. Walter Harrell, a clerk whom the roaches ran away because they ate the stamps. Since postal au- thorities held Harrell responsible for the roaches' conduct, he resigned. Massey was plowing a field when someone offered him the job. He reluc- tantly left the plow and mule and conquered the roaches during his novi- tiate training. At that time clerks made $500 a year; now the salary is $2,100.
In 1900 the Tifton post office changed from fourth to third class; on July 1, 1907, to second class; to first class July 1, 1929; back to second class July 1, 1930; again to first class on July 1, 1944 where we hope it will remain.
UNION ROAD (The Tifton Gazette)
When the Indians journeyed, they followed the route as the crow flies. Indian trails were later used as guides for the white man's roads because
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they were the most direct, offered fewer natural obstacles and were the easiest established and maintained.
From Macon south, there runs the great watershed between the Ocmul- gee River on the east and the Thronateeska on the west, later between the Alapaha and the Willacoochee on the east and the Thronateeska (which empties into the Apalachicola) until tributaries of the Suwanee are touched.
Along this mighty shed an Indian trail ran, and along this trail the white man built his towns, which grew to be cities, and from town to town ran a road, and because it united the counties and their county seats, it was called "The Union Road."
From Macon, through Perry, the county seat of Houston, through Vienna, the county seat of Dooly, it followed the watershed beneath the whispering pines by where Ashburn, Tifton, and Adel now stand to Troupsville in Lowndes and then on South through Florida.
The Union Road was a tribute to the woodcraft of the Indian. Later the most modern inventions of the white man, the steam locomotive and the motor car brought to the ability of the Aborigines more testimonials.
When the route for the Georgia Southern and Florida railway from Macon to Florida was sought, the surveyors followed the Union Road. Within twenty miles north of Tifton the railway crossed this road seven- teen times. (Of course those crossings were eliminated.) The railway civil engineers paid another tribute to the Indian.
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