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PEARSON#TRIBUNE VOL. 3—NO. 4. GLEANINGS OF COFFEE COUNTY Items Gathered From Various Sources By Our Lynx-Eyed Reporter Absorbed in the tasks of looking after military registration and scouting after “bone-dry” liquor, Sheriff Tanner is a very busy man these days. But he is dependa ble. 'Phe closing exercises of Har mony Grove public school occurs to-day. The exercises will consist of singing and public addresses. On the program is a patriotic ad dress by Rev. B. E. Whittington, of Douglas, and an educational ad dress by Judge T. A. Parker, of Waycross. No doubt there will be a large attendance. A short trip along the Pearson Douglas road revealed some very pretty crops of corn, cotton. The O'Brien brothers, who lives on the old Jerry Batten place, just across Pudding creek, have the finest corn, one field waist high and abo A e. Jerry Batten, who lives on the old B. W. Douglass. Sr., place—among the oldest settled places in the county —has a fine crop of oats on land thought to be worn out. But, put him where you will, Jerry will show his farm ing sense. Sheriff Tanner, Clerk Haddock and Dr. Gordon Burns arc in re ceipt of full instructions in the matter of military registration officer in each militia district of the county who, in turn, will se lect two helpers. June 5 is desig nated as registration day, and all males between 21 and 80, inclusive, will be required to register —it doesn't matter what your color? occupation or condition in life— and the matter of eliminating the ineligible* will occur later. Aliens w ill not be required to register, as the United Stares government has no jurisdiction over them. The first increment of 500,000 men it is estimated will take about 100 men from Coffee county. Apply to sheriff Tanner for further in formation. The Tribune advises every young man, white or black, between the ages 21 to 31 on June 5 to register without hesitation. TO TRIBUNE PATRONS The Tribune desires to make a definite statement of its policy: First —The subscription price of the paper will continue to be $1 a year so long as it remains at its present size, or the high cost of pajx-r forces us to increase it . W e find many of those on our present subscription list in arrears, but we trust they will pay up and con tinue reading the {taper. The law permits us to extend a short cre dit and we are disposed to do so. We exiK-ct to make the paper of sncfficient interest to ail that they will gladly subscribe and pay for the paper. Sample copies will be sent on request, Second —Our best asset is the space devoted to advertising. It is really our stock in trade and de sire to sell it to all legitimate pur chasers, but under no considera tion will we give publicity to fakes and fakirs. We want to recommend, without hesitation, any person or article we advertise. Our prices will be just, and in keeping with present conditions, and will be furnished on applica tion. Third —The editor desires to publish marriage, birth and death notices —short notices —as a matter of news, and such news notes are solicited for publication- How ever. long memorials and obituaries, also all notices of church, society, school or other entertainments for profit must be paid for at regular advertising rates. The Tribune Just as was expected the new 8 that "City Court is postponed" ar rived Saturday via the Douglas Enterprise, and the* two hundred and more cases on the calender will not be heard from in May. What you t hink o’that? John Moncrief and his children ate having a big law suit over some cattle, a Rossessary Warrant hav ing beon sworn out. The case was to have been tried in the Justice Court at Axson last Saturday, but the cattle not being before the court as the law requires, the ease was |K>st poned until Tuesday, when the cattle will be penned at the old homestead and ease threshed out there. Levi O'Steen repre sents Mr. Moncrief and Chastain & Henson the children. The effort to save G. W. Lott, convicted of murder in Coffee superior court, February Term, 1910, now very old and feeble, from serving his few remaining days in the Georgia penitentiary, is a real labor of love for frail humanity. It is true he commit ted a grave crime against the state and society, took the life of his own son; it was done in the heat of passion and, doubtless, as soon as reason was restored he would have given all he possessed if he could have recalled it. It was one of those unfortunate affairs that occur, throughout the length and breadth of the land. JJic Tribune is in favor of releasing the old man, if only under parole; his punish incut has already been severe, per haps more severe than if he had suffered the extreme penalty of the law. lie has lost practically all his earthly belongings—his wife, children, home and property, lie has suffered till the pangs of heart destitution. Let him breath the fresh air of liberty the feu years left to him, and may God forgive him his great crime. will be just as liberal in all those matters as the interest of its busi ness will permit. It is aware that misunderstandings about these matters have ever been a source of friction between patrons and publishers of country newspapers. This statement is made now that our patrons may understand it. Fourth —The Tribune job print ing plant is prepared to print all grades of commercial printing and at prices that will compete with any legitimate printing business. Ail orders for job printing will be turned out promptly and on first class material. Paper stock has advanced Bom 100 to 200 per cent; withjn the past year, and our pa trons must, not lie surprised if they are charged similar advances for their work. Atlanta has just emerged from a $2,000,000 conflagration—sixty bloeks of residences and other buildings were consumed. The city has declined all generous proposals of help from the outside Mayor Candler stating that, the city would be able to take care of the situation. Remarkable city! The general assembley of Presbyterians in session at Birm ingham, Ala., has declined to adopt Oglethorpe University, at Atlanta as a denominational school, but passed resolutions of commendation and confidence in the projectors of the University. PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1917 AT HARMONY GROVE The editor went out to Har mony Grove church last Saturday to be present at the ordination service which would set apart T. R. Hat away and W. Gillispie to be deacons of that church, but missed it by being too early. He reached the church about 11:30 a. m., but the service was not held until 3 p. m. The presbytery was com posed of Elders 11. M. Meeks, the pastor of the church, l>. M. Doug las and S. E. Bliteh. The latter gave the new deacons the custo mary charge. Don't know what was his charge, but suppose he told them that the origin and ob ject of the deacon's office was to “serve tables," and it was an all sufficient reason for the office. This editor has served as a deacon and found it an office abounding in good work and opens a fertile field for spiritual growth. To “serve tables” is a wonderful and most exhiliarating work. The pri mary duty of a deacon is to look after t he temporalities of t he church and reaches far beyond its finan cial exigencies. The true deacon must always have his eyes, his cars and his heart open to distress in all th»‘ community surrounding his church, as far as its influence can reach. He must not only see and observe distress, listen and hear of it, but go out and find it —“visit the widows and orphans in their affliction.” It is his business to report all destitution to his church at the earliest possible moment, and the duty of the church to furnish the means of alleviating the suffering. This calls for a melding of the church on the first day df each week, and the mem bers to lay by in store, “as the Lord has prospered them," in or der that a common treasury may be had out of which may be met the expenses of this work. Re ports arc that the two new dea cons are well qualified for the work assigned them. The Sunday morning service was a memorial of Hon. Itilcy Wright, who was a member of that church, and a large concourse of people were present. REGISTRARS FOR JUNE 5 The county board of registrars, consisting of Sheriff Tanner, Clerk Haddock, Ordinary Ward and Dr. Gordon Burns, have appointed the district registrars, as follows: Ambrose —Dr. 1. W. Moorman, Robert Vibbert and Jack Fer guson. Douglas—A. W. Haddock, W.P. Ward, W. M. Tanner, Gordon Burns, W, R. Frier, T. S. Hubert, B. E. Whittington, E. L. Tanner, E. L. Grantham, .1. N. McDonald. McDonald —V. O. Mathews, Joe McDonald and M. I). Davis. Mora —B. Morris, T. J. Douglass and M. L. Aldridge. Pearson —W. C. Patterson, Dr. H. P. Smith and J. O, White. Pickren —J.C. Ellis, W, B. Cour son and S. A. Lott. Tanner —John Kirkland, J. A. Davis and Col. Axon. Willacooehee —J. T. Guldens, E. L. Moore and J, M. Roberts. Wooten — P. L. Moore, Homer Picket son and J. L. Sapp. These gentlemen are required to complete their work in one day. Every male citizen, white and black, between 21 and 30 years, in clusive, will be required to register and any neglect or refusal to do so will subject the person to a straight twelve months sentence in prison and then be required to serve in the army. There is no getting around this service. You might as well walk up to the “captain’s office” and put your name in the i>ot. PROGRESS OF THE WAR Last week the Tribune told of the arrival of an United States flotilla of submarine destroyers at Queenstown in the war zone, aud the promptness with which it set about its opening the way for safe carriage of provisions and muni tions to the European allies. This week it carries the news that Ma jor-General John J. Pershing has fleen assigned to lead an expedition of land forces to France that will he sent immediately. The Tri bune would not be surprised if ten or twelve divisions of United States troops, composed of regu lars and National Guard will be in France by August Ist. 4 The government is making all possible haste in mobilizing and training units of a tremendous army —not less than a million and a half of men —to meet every re quirement. It will lose no time in bringing the National guard up to 144 regiments, which will require approximately 31 new regiments of all branches of the service. Of these Georgia will tie required to furnish two battalions of infantry, one regiment of field artillery, one batalion of engineers, one wire com pany, and one outpost company, signal corps. The Italian commission has ar rived at Washington and will re ceive their proixirtion of the mam moth loan the United States is making to the several ententes. It will be spent in the United States for food and munitions. There is no where else it can be purchased. (resident Wilson is insisting upon the adoption of rigid meas ures for food conservation and censorship. The latter, he says, is made necessary for the protec tion of the nation against persons who cannot be relied on to main tain patriotic reticence. To illus trate the insistence for secrecy, the necessity therefor, the Tribune states that Gen. J off re, Viviani and other members of the French commission, lately in this country, have arrived safely in France. Their sailing was known to hun dreds of newspaper men but it was withheld from the public, who were of the opinion they were still in Washington. Declarations of war against Germany is imminent in Brazil. ( hina, Spain and Sweden, and poor w arid den Mexico seems to be ready to hump her back against Germany. Everthing seems to be quiet along the Mesopotamian, Mace donian and Russian fronts, with only desultory artillery duels as reminders of each others presence. Activity has been resumed along the Italian front and the Italians are making some advances on the Austro Hungarians, territory and prisoners being taken. Along the western front in Franco the fight ing continues with unabated fury. The Germans have withdrawn many divisions of her troops from other fronts in the attempt to stay the* continuing advances made by the British and French. However, the British and French are battering away at the Hinden burg line, ever and anon making slight headway. The result of submarine war fare during the past week has been greatly descreased, and has brought rejoicing to the British admiralty. It is expected the result will hence forth continue to decrease. The American flotilla’s activity, their method of “getting there” when they start, has won meads of praise from British naval officers. Among Our South Georgia Neighbors READABLE PARAGRAPHS [GARNERED BY THE PENCIL AND SCISSORS PROCESS According to Sheriff Sweat the Ware county jail is now empty. Hon. Martin V. Calvin is in sisting upon the acceptance of his resignation as Secretary of the Ware county Board of Trade, to be effective June Ist. Savannah shipbuilders are ex pecting and will probably receive contracts for building some of the government wood craft, which is one of the proposed methods of overcoming the submarine menace. The regular session of Piedmont Institute, Waycross, was closed last Friday, David M. Parker de livering the literary address. Thirteen graduates received diplo mas. The summer school begins June 15th and continues two months. Rev. Bascom Anthony, of Lown des county, has sold to the Madi son county, Fla., pig club boys forty-five head of pigs, raised on his farm at $lO a head or $450 for the lot. Mr. Anthony is Some farmer and stock raiser as well as preacher, Sylvester was the scene of de plorable tragedy last Monday when J. T. Gregory, 13-year old, accidentally shot and killed Ids 10-year old cousin, Aubrey Gre gory with a 22 calibre parlor rifle. The slayer was 100 badly frighten ed to give a coherent account of the affair. The families of both boys are grief stricken. The city council of Moultrie, has placed a bail upon “matching” and the City Recorder was among the first to get caught in the meshes of the new ordinance. He had four comrades, and the five men were tried befere (he mayor, W. J. Ve reen, and paid for such violation. They were “matching” for cold drinks. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION This religious Ixxiy holding its annual meeting at New Orleans, has just adjourned. Among the developments of the session was the announcement of Mr. Browlow, of Tennessee, that the convention itself was an illegal organization — not having been properly chartered. A committee was appointed to look into the matter. The convention also took a strong stand against excessive governmental paternalism in the matter of education —the thought being advanced that the Stale should foster education no farther than secondary schools, that high er education received at colleges and universities, technical and pro fessional education, should be relegated to the people. This is the Tribune’s position in the mat ter —holding that young men and young women who aspire to tech nical and professional training can secure it without the aid of the State. The Tribune holds that all the ixiwer and energy of the State should be devoted to primary education —give the children of the State a basis to build upon and they and their friends will do the rest. Many children cannot receive an education under any circumstances, perforce of natural endowments. Another matter which claimed the attention of the convention was the pensioning of aged and in firm ministers, and an endowment SI.OO YEAR IN ADVANCE The grand jury of Ware county found thirtyseven true bills —two of which were for murder. The court disposed of twenty-nine cases, the majority on pleas of guilty. The annual convention of the Eleventh district masons will be held in Valdosta on July 18th and 19th- An interest ing program is being arranged for the occasion. W. L. Darley, of Douglas, is the district secretary. Sheriff Frank Passmore is in high dudgeon over the discovery that a large quantity of whiskey, he had captured in divers rail' had been stolen from the vault in the court house where he had it stored. He is a sadder but wiser man. The grand jury that has just ad journed recommended the adoption for Ware county of the Ellis health Act. However, another grand jury will have to pass upon the matter before it becomes effec tive; It requires the concurrence f two grand juries to make it effec tive in any county. An interesting criminal prose cution is on in Glynn county. Last December Philip Boroez heimer, the millionaire owner of the Eagle Pencil Company, spent some time on his island —Little St. Simons. While there he enter tained] and among other amuse ments arranged was a deer hunt on his own property for deer brought by his agents from the North. Twenty-one citizens of Brunswick and St. Simons, who ac cepted an invitation and particip ated in the hunt, have been indic ted under the State game laws. Mr. Boroezheimer lias taken up the gauntlet on behalf of his guest, and will have his right to kill his own game on his own premises judically settled. fund of $4,000,000 will lx* sought for this purpose, the Sunday- School board already lias set aside SIOO,OOO to this purpose. The convention of 1918 will be held at Hot Springs, Ark. WILL BE IN PEARSON AGAIN SATURDAY COkfIOEHCE gE LI ABILITY Our glasses are right. ’ Our lenses are'accurate. Our frames are comfortable. Our Mountings are easy. Our examinations are thor ough and carefully done.- Our customers are pleased be cause they have the best that the science of Optics has to offer. Come Now Save your eyesight--the best is none too good for you. W. R. WILSON, Opt. D. Niti-Wi win kin i Kcinsak an fo PuriH •nry Sitarty it Morris One Stora Malaria or Chills &. 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