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PEARSONttTR, JUNE
VOL. 3—NO. 7.
GLEANINGS OF COFFEE COUNTY
Items Gathered From Various Sources By Our Lynx-Eyed Reporter
Free mail delivery will positive
ly begin in Douglas on June 30th.
Temporary carriers will be used
until permanent crrierscanbe pro
vided through 'civil service chan
nels. The examination occurs
June 23.
Miss Gertrude, the only daugh
ter of Sheriff W. M. Tanner, and
Mr. Ben Smith, an attaehee of the
Douglas lire department, were
quietly married on the lith instant
at the residence of Elder Win.
Tomlinson, a few miles southwest
of Douglas.
The commencement exercises of
the Georgia Normal college, at
Douglas, are being held this week.
The sermon was preached last Sun
day by Rev. Carey M. 1 ntingeT. a
former student who was reared in
Douglas. The exercises continued
through Thursday.
Uncle Jim's Note Book: "The
home of Mr. James Sweat, in the
Mora District, was burned a few
nights ago. The household goods
were taken out and carried to a
nearby corn crib, and the corn
crib was burned that night."
These facts arouse a grain of sus
picion that “an enemy" had a
hand in the business.
Mr. Hately Quincy, son of .1. W.
Quincy, is at home from Suwanee,
Teun., where lit 1 has been attend
ing the University of the South,
lie was the winner of two medals; —
one forgeneaal excellence and the
other in mathematics. He took
second honor in oratory.
The Douglas Oil and Fertilizer
Company has decided to put in a
feedstuff mill of sufficient capacity
to create a ready market there for
corn, beans, peas, piudars and
other farm products, that enter
into the manufacture of foodstuffs,
from a large and thrifty section of
South Georgia, it will also lay a
substantial foundation for diversi
fied farming in Coffee county.
Hon. Jeff Kirkland tells the
Tribune the County Board of Tax
equalizers have completed its
work w ith the exception of hearing
complaints. The Board is com
posed of gentlemen thoroughly ac
quainted with every section of
the county, upright and inteligent,
and if they are guilty of partiality,
the Tribune is sure the error is
of "head and not of heart.” The
Tribune believes they have equal
ized taxation in Coffee county as
well or better than any other three
men could have done and, hence,
confidently expects there will be
but few complaints to lie arbitra
ted.
The Franklin Stock Company
has been playing here, at the
school auditorium, all the week.
The plays presented have all been
clean and worthy the patronage
of jK-ople w ho desire diversion from
the regular daily grind incident to
earning a livelihood. The vaude
ville acts between the scenes were
conspicuous by the absence of
course and evil-suggesting jokes
that usually accompany shows
now days.
Rev. E. L. Padrick represented
the Pearson Methodist church at
the Wayeross district conference
at Homerville this week. He re
ports a most pleasant aud profi
table meeting.
Attorney John R. Cooper has
argued the case of “The State vs
G. Wash 'fibtt” before the State
prison commission. He tendered
the commission as new evidence
an affidavit of Elder S. G. Taylor,
which reads: .“1 live at West
Green, in Coffee county, Georgia.
1 was present on the occasion of
the homicide that resulted in the
death of Warren L. Lott and for
which the defendant, G. W. Lott
was tried and convicted. 1 was
sitting on the porch of my little
grocery store at West Green,
when the defendant, G. W. Lott
came by. He spoke as usual and
showed no signs of excitement and
made no indication that he was
mad or that lie was in any unusual
frame of mind. After he passed
me, he went about forty steps
where he met his son, Warren, the
deceased, and they stopped and
engaged in conversation, Warren
Lott was standing facing mo and
the defendant was standing with
his back toward me. I could not
understand what they were talk
ing about. The deceased had
something in his hand which look
ed like a knife and which 1 took
to be a knife. He was using the
knife; either eating something
with it or paring his finger nails
with it. Suddenly the deceased
ran to the defendant and threw
his arm arrtund the defendants
neck —his left arm it was —and
they began to wrestle, the deeeasd
sfiil holding his arm around the
neck of the defendant. I could
not tell at first what the deceased
was doing with his right hand.
After defendant and deceased had
been thus engaged for a shorr time
I noticed that the deceased had
hold of something apparently
trying to take ft from the defend
ant; defendant was in a shooting
position with his hands between
his legs. It was at this point:
that the pistol fired and deeeased
fell. The best that I could see,
both men had hold of the pistol
when it fired. 1 did not see the
defendant draw the pistol or make
any moves tword drawing it. The
first time f saw the pistol was
gred and the deceased had. fallen.
I was about forty yards from the
two men when this shot was fired.
I had full opportunity to see both
men, who were standing in the
positions indierted; my sight is
not impaired and there was
nothing to hinder my vision.
From the position of the two men
when the shot was fired and from
the manner in which it was fired,
and basing my idea upon the facts
as above set forth and alleged, it
is my conclusion that the shot
was purely accidental I am a
baptist minister located at West
Green in Coffee county Georgia.
I was born and reard in Uofiee
county.
This affidavit is made for the
purpose of being used upon the
application of G. W. Tott in his
application to the Prison Corn
mission for his pardon, or to tie
used elsewhere by the defendant
or his counsel whereever the same
may be reverlant.
(,Signed) 8. G. Taylor.
In rho meantime the Defendant
will be confined at the State
prison farm.
Elder John F. has sent
the editor a sample of his Irish
potatoes, and very fine.
Think he regrets If planting a
big crop of potatoes as the farmers
of this section was advised to do
last winter. The soil of this sec
tion is admirably adapted to the
growth of Irish potatoes and had
our farmers heeded the advice
given them last winter they would
now lie reaping a rich harvest.
Thanks. Bro. Smith.
The city council met in regular
monthly session Wednesday night.
The Tribune does not know what
business was transacted, but un
derstands some very important
matters were considered.
PEARSON, GEORG(A, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, l‘L7
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
There have been several signifi
cant developments in war circles
during the past week.
Senator Root and his commission
arrived in Russia the early part of
the week and, through the United
States ambassador, presented Pres
ident Wilson's note to the Russian
people to the President of the Rus
sian provisional government. This
note succinctly states the A uteri
can position in the war. It is be
ing published and scattered among
the people and especially in army
circles. The result is a stronger
war pulse, aud it is now believed
Russia will remain with the An
tente allies to the end of the
struggle. These has been no active
hostilities along the Russian front
during the week.
There has been little or no ;vc
tlvity along the Roumanian, Meso
potamian and Macedonian fronts.
Rut King ('onstant ine’s abdication
of the Grecian throne early in tin
week removes a tremendous bar
rier t hat has prevented any deci
ded activity on the latter front,
and it is now confidently oxpectqd
that strong offensive movements
will begin. The Greek army will
lie hard to control in a passive
mood; it has been chafing under
the restraint that has prevented if
from going after their ancient ene
my, the Turk. At any rate, should
the Greek army not take an active
part in the hostilities it will no
longer be a menace to activity on
the part of the British, French and
Italian forces. Constantine gave
way to his son, Prince Alexander,
who is a pro-entente. The kinjy
and his family will take up their*
residence in Switzerland.
The western front in France and
Belgium has been the scene of
fierce fighting all the week. The
British, French and Belgians art
pressing tin- Germans, gaining new
territory and capturing many pris
oners and guns.
The Austro-i talian front has also
been the scene of bloody fighting,
but without material advantage to
either side. The Italians have been
able to retain all the ground cov
ered in their recent offensive in
the vicinity of Trieste. The indi
cations arc that the Italians are
preparing, with the assistance of
British and French troops, to win
the city of Trieste, Austria’s most
important seaport city.
The week has been marked spe
cially by a strong revival of sub
marine and aerial warfare. An in
creased number of merchant men
have been sunk by Germansubina
rines; all were outgoing, having
safely landed their cargoes. A se
rious aerial raid on the suburbs of
London is reported, in which many
women and children were killed or
injured. Then* was no extensive
property loss,
Gen, John J. Pershing and staff
have arrived safely at Paris and is
the cause of great rejoicing. They
received quite an ovation during
their stay in England, but it was
nothing compared to the great re
joieing throughout France. Re
sides Gen. Pershing and his staff,
quite a commissary contingent has
also arrived in Franco and great
cargoes of war supplies for the use
of the incoming American army.
The commissary contingent are
busy receiving these supplies and
placing them at specially prepared
headquarters. Hospital and med
ical headquarters are also being
established. Gen. Pershing and
his staff have gone to the front to
study the new twentieth century
warfare. It is expected the United
States forces will be assigned to a
battle front contiguous to the Brit
ish army, both speaking the Eng
lish language.
And the yankees will soon show
their colors along the trenches.
WHY THE CORN BELT M
IS COMING m
The State Department' of Agrv
culture, through the survey of.ft*
Market Bureau, working prcptUKL:
tovy to safeguarding farm products
of food stuffs the liexi two ycaH|!
or during the “war shortage,”®
convinced that the corn belt ult|?
maU-ly is coining to the hear! ,o|
the old cotton belt —largely
State of Georgia. Already it iS
clearly evident that "war condi|
turns” and demands are fast bring!
ing (lie country to the period of
very large substitution of corn
bread for wheat flour. Here are'
some interesting and important
figures, illustrative of what may be
expected—much of which has al
ready come.
Huh he Is.
Reserve stock of American wheat
May. 1916 45,000,000
Reserve stock of American wheat
end of May, 1017 18,000,000
Reserve slock In flight on August
81, 1917 None.
Winter wheal crop, 1016 418,000,000
Winter wheat crop, 1917, estlm’d- 850,000,000
Total wheat supply of this country
July 1,1917, under same date one
year ago, estimated 155,000,000
Winter wheat crop, 1915, was 678,000,000
Spring wheat crop, 1915, was 852,000,000
Total crop, 1915, was 1,025,000,000
Exported In 1916 from surplus of
two years 248,000,000
Total crop l . S. winter and spring
wheat this year will be, esUma'd, 040,000,000
Normal annual demand in U. S.
for food stuffs at home 580,000,000
Needs of allied Nations from l\ S.
this year 300,000,000
Seed demand In V. S. from this
crop 90,000,000
Therefore, if the law of supply and
demand, backed by necessities of
war and executed to meet those
demands, are to control, a crop of
640,000,000 bushels of American
iwlicat is going to Ik- called upon
Tosupply our actual minimum de
mand for !M0,000,000 bushels, thus
presenting a shortage- of 270,000,
000 bushels, or more than one
half the normal food supply de
mand of this country on its own
wheat crop. That can mean only
half ration of flour for the people
of this country and the necessary
substitution of the next best
thing —corn bread.
The demand for corn-meal, there
fore, is going to lie relatively in
creased. Food crop production in
Georgia has turned considerably
more to corn this year than in
the past and next .yeai —assuming
foundation of expert opinion to be
good, that the war will not be
short —t he reason for an even lar
ger Georgia corn crop t han what
ever this year’s will yield, will la
fore that time be self-evident.
Therefore, the expressed opinion
of tin- market experts of the Geor
gia Department of Agriculture
that “the corn licit is moving to
and around Georgia.".
An Irresistible Call.
Ifulda, (lie Swedish maid, hud served
her mistress faithfully for a year,
when one day she announced her in
tention of leaving:
“Why, Ifulda, what is the matter?
is the work too hard? Or don't you
like your wages?”
“lie work he be all right, an’ de
vages he be too, but de beau —he moost
have me.”
Very Puzzling.
Eddie who hud always attended a
Baptist Sunday school, was taken on
a visit to Sunday school at a Metho
dist church. “Mamma, how is that?”
he said. "I thought you said this
was a Mefodist Sunday school.”
“So it is, my dear.”
“Well, hut, mamma, the lesson was
al! about John the Baptist.”—Chris
tian Herald.
Proper Hats Important.
Wearing hats In boyhood retards
the growth and full development of the
vessels that nourish the roots of the
hair aud accounts for the baldness in
early life. An examination of the heads
of boys will enable one to determine
whose heads will be made bald by the
wearing of hats and whose heads will
not, with a reasonable degree of cer
tainty. Hats should be made to meas
ure like suits and be so constructed
that the pressure will rest only upon
the corners of the forehead and the
center of the back of the head.
A^gPUrSouth Georgia Neighbors
A&jb.* S^^BLE' PARAGRAPHS IGARNERED BY THE JPENCII. AND
I •SeWM-'.,,;SCISSORS PROCESS
vt aud Worth
jjtttikUpS «il*’ ’ 1 A In - glorious
it Mil, ...iis iH | I he ipli -
“no fence.”
\ ■Jfwin v has a farm
4v-mouff rat' ifßgent, Mr. O. T).
,-:r eb.-i!,- ,if thr
Slat V n ; Iture and is
well cfjijifor the work in
Jlnuid.
siir
a >- panna', sugar rehin-n
wtfi bo-gjn .operation about July
Ist. . Already 8,600 bags of crude
sugar has arrived from Cuba con
signed to il,. The capacity of the
refinery is 1,060,000 pounds of
white sugar per day.
Amerions will entertain the
Gi§)tgia < ’minty Officers’ Associa
tion for a two day’s session, be
ginning next Wednesday. All
arrangements for the convention
are announced complete and the
largest attendance in the history
of the association is anticipated.
The electiofi in Pulaski county,
last Friday, to determine the
question of county wide taxation
for school purposes, was carried in
favor of taxation liy the narrow
margin of throe votes. However,
it is enough to set in motion the
wheels of progress,
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At an election held in Camden
county Wednesday a bond issue
of $20,000.00 was voted, the money
arising from their sale to be used
in building a bridge across the Sa
tilia river at Woodbine, on the
Dixie Highway. The result of the
election is very gratifying to those
who have been laboring in the in
torest of I his enterprise.
The friends of education in
Clinch county have started a cam
paign in behalf of county wide
taxation for school purposes. In
order to get the question clearly
before the people a general insti
tute is planned to hi- held in the
school auditorium at Homerville
on Sat unlay, June 23rd. A
splendid program of exercises
have been arranged and all par
ties interested are cordially invited
to be present.
The Worth County Local is
nothing if not optimistic, It says:
“Never before lias business been
better with our merchants, never
in tin* history of the county has
there been so much money in the
banks at this time of year as there
is now. Indications*’are that we
will have a banner year and our
merchants arc buying their fall
goods with the prospects of a big
ger business t hail before. There
is such a thing as practical econo
my without stintiV*iid our folks
are fast learning how to do this."
Short term courses in the State
College of Agriculture at Athens,
to be competed for under the
rules of the college, will be provi
ded by the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad to the young men
who win in the pig club contests
of 1917. The awards will be
made to the winners in Ribli,
Houston. Dooly and Crisp counties
at the State fair at Macon; those
in Turner, Tift, Berrien, Lowndes,
Echols, Clinch and Charlton coun
ties at the Georgia Florida fair at
Valdosta,
SI.OO YEAR IN ADVANCE
TliV lax equalizers of Clinch
county have placed the tax valu
ation of cattle and hogs in t hat:
county on a flat rate of sl2 and
$3 per head respectively.' % ■
’ " .su
it is alleged that a band of cab-*
tie rustlers lias been operating in
Colquitt county for some months.
J. A. Strickland, the supposed
loader, was arrested last week, and
’sent to jail in default of a SSOO
bond.
Bacon county has voted a bond
issue of SIOO,OOO, to wit. $60,000
for road building, $30,000 for court
house and SIO,OOO for jail. A 12-
acre tract of land has already been
purchased up°n which t lie court:
house and jail will be built.
Bro. R. M. Martin, of the Liber
ty County Hearld, says he is get
ting tuned up for the annual meet
ing of the Georgia Weekly Press
Association at Thomasville, July
16. He says "it is only a few
miles to the Florida line.” Yes,
“so near and yet so far."
A permanent shipbuilding Indus
try is to lx* established by the
Ferry Shipbuilding Company at
Port Wentworth, on Savannah
river near the city. The firaLeon
st ruction work will be twenty car
go steamers, of steel and wood,
for the United States Emergency
Fleet corporation. It will employ
about 3,000 men.
Reports from Berrien county
say that crop conditions there un
satisfactory, despite the boll wee
vil. A large acreage of cotton
was planted and, which much of it
was plowed up to make room for
more corn, t here is yet a good crop
of cotton, mostly sea island, which
is in excellent condition. A
bumper crop of corn aud peanuts
will be harvested
Rallies in the interest of Pied
mont Institute are being held with
the Baptist churches of the Conso
lation association, beginning
Wednesday, the 13th, and continu
ing three weeks. Judge T. A-
Parker is the leader this week,
Judge J. I. Summerall next week
and John W. Bennett the third
week. If similar rallies could lie
held with the churches of the New
Xunbury, Piedmont and Smyrna
assoeiations the Tribune believes
it would go a long way toward re
lieving the embarrassment of the
school.
Every thing at Wayeross has
put on a warlike appearance
“Old Glory” furled to the breeze
from every vantage; the soldiers
tents spread on Plant park exten
sion and the Boy's Scout tents on
Beauty park, with the constant
tum-tum of the toy drum, serve to
remind the citizen and the stran
ger within the city gates of the
roar of artillery and the rattle of
rifles on the great battle fronts
across the ocean. Then, the war
is the topic of conversation from
early morning uutil dewy eve.
