From Days Gone By Sept. 16, 1915

September 16, 1915.

    This weeks paper was missing from the Grice House files so the following is short stories from September of 1915.

    After a little fight with Mexicans the other day the American Commander reported that out of a force of forty of the enemy about thirty were killed. Which shows that while we may not be prepared to fight any nation in the world, we are just as well prepared as Europe to make sweeping claims. The Mexican chief, unless he was one of the unlucky thirty, no doubt spread the glad news on the other side of the Rio Grande that his little force had decisively whipped half the U. S. Army, and withdrew at the end of the engagement merely for strategic reasons, in order to "regroup his forces."

    The new State game warden is to move to Macon. This has us guessing. Does it mean the first step toward moving the State Capitol and the other officials to the Central City? Or is it because so many deer and bear have been killed along the glades of the Ocmulgee that the new warden realizes where the true game center of the State is? Or is it necessary for an official to be at hand to see that the hunting of the festive Tiger, indulged in season and out of season by the officials of Bibb and Macon is carried on in a true sportsman's style?

    In Millen, John M. Edenfield, who filled the place of Rev. R. L. Bolton, in the pulpit of the local Baptist church, dropped dead this morning while conducting the service.

    Death by starvation because of four years of crop failure faces the 75,000 inhabitants of Curacoa Island in the Dutch West Indies, said the Catholic Bishop of Curacoa. "The suffering in my diocese is fully as terrible as is the war stricken countries of Europe. For four years there have been no crops and the island is turning into a veritable desert." The Bishop said that 50,000 negroes, 15,000 Indians and more than 3,000 Hollanders were in distress.

    A man representing concentrated grit and determination passed through Tifton this morning. With his little boy he was pulling an ordinary grocer's push-cart in which was loaded the family effects and in which his invalid wife was riding. A small daughter was helping a little by pushing the cart. The family was making their way from south Florida to their old home on New York State, which they expect to reach by Christmas. Their progress was slow, as they made frequent stops for rest. The father said he had no money and they were depending for what they eat on the help they could get along the road.

    "Dad" and "Daddy" were well known in this country in the 16th century: "Papa" did not come in, borrowed from abroad, until the 17th century was well advanced. Florio, at the end of the former century, defined the Italian "Pappa" as "the first word that children are taught to call their father, as ours say 'Dad,' 'Daddy' or 'bab'." "Dad" seems to be the commoner to mankind of the two. Nausicas in the "odyssey" calls her father "Pappa Phile", dear papa.: but Greek has "tata" also, and Welsh has "tat", and Irish "Daid".