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PEARSON TRIBUNE.
Published Weekly by
Tribune Publishing Company.
U. T. ALLEN, Editor.
Entered at the Postoffice in Pearson, Georgia,
as mall niAtter of the second class.
Subscription price, sl.ooa year In advance.
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All hall to the American eagle.
Proud bird of freedom, all hail!
Thy hpoUphk name no man can inveigle,
Or put suit on thy beautiful tall.
NEGRO EDUCATION
The Tribune is in receipt for
publication from the Department
of the Interior, Bureau of Educa
tion, a lengthy report on “Negro
Education in Georgia,” with sug
gestions for ils impi'oveinent.
The eonelusions reaehed by the
report is so out of harmony with
the conditions existing in this
community its publication would
do harm rather than good.
The Georgia negro, in this sec
tion sjiccifirally, is being fairly
treated in the matter of securing
an education, they receive all pos
sihle encouragement to that end.
The generally accepted idea that
the negro will live on a crust of
bread in order to educate their
children has no foundation in
fact; the rule is negro parents are
entirely indifferent to the educa
tion of their children. Sending
their children to school has lost it
novelty, and the attendance of ne
gro children upon I lie schools pro
vided for them is exceedingly in
different.
The editor of tlie Tribune lias
been closely identified with the
educational interests of the State
of Georgia for many years, lie
can speak from elo.se observation
and careful study of the situation.
It is absolutely impossible to
secure prompt attendance of negro
children u|>on the common schools;
they will drop in leisurely any
time between 8 to 10;30 o’clock in
the morning and the teacher, try
as he may, absolutely fails to
change the policy. The teacher
is non plussed, he cannot gel good
result out of the school. Capable
teachers are plentiful, men and
women, but finding themselves
without t lieco-opera) ion of parents
and patrons they give up in des
pair, fall into the rut with the pu
pils, and the school becomes praet i
cully worthless.
Ibe trouble is the negro has
never ceased to be the ward of the
nation, t hey look to the govern
nient to do all in the way of edu
cating their children, and shirk
all possible responsibility; self-re
lianee is not cultivated; they know
nothing and are careless of the
principle. “The gods help only
those who try to help themselves.”
They take no interest in the school
buildings and grounds dedicated
to tin l education of their children,
with some exceptions, and are
practically abandoned in their
attitude towards schools and edu
cation.
the Savannah news quizzically
inquires, “Is your number w ritten
there?"
The editor of the Tribune was
especially anxious to attend the
meeting of the Georgia weekly
press at Thoniasville last week.
He spent his boyhood days iu
Thomasrille and it would have
been to him almost like going
back home. He has many friends
there whom he would have lioon
glad to meet again—K. T. Me
Lean. It. t!. Mitchell, .1. T. Culpep
per, If. Thomas and many others,
all of whom stand four square for
all the best traditions of Georgia.
Alas, professional engagements
slip|H‘d a cog in his arrangements
and set aside liis planning for the
trip. lie had promised Bob Let'
Wylly to go see his mother, now
blind, and not to do so was a great
disappointment. The editor knew
Mrs. Wylly in Valdosta when she
was Miss ltalston.
SOUTH GEORGIA
Ncaws ot Oui* Neighbor! Told in
Short Paragraphs.
New crop sweet potatoes are
on the market at Thomasrille and
bringing $1.60 a bushel.
Prices are long but t runs porta
t ion is short is the complaint of
south Georgia lumbermen.
Walter E. l>ee, City Clerk of
Way-cross, has also been elected
city t reasurer. The salary is SI.OO
a year.
The election in Berrien county
on the question of county-wide
taxat ion for school purposes went
against taxation.
The Georgia Weekly Press As
social ion held its annual conven
tion at Thoniasville last week anil
reports say it was a pleasant and
profitable one.
The election of Hon. 1). M. Park
er as representative from Ware
County in the Georgia legislature
gives satisfaction throughout the
State. He will make an admira
ble member.
The taxable resources of Irwin
county shows an increase over DIG
of $502,010. The total lax returns
will be $3,240,668. It is a splen
did showing for the small interior
county of Irwin.
Miss Katie Howell, a daughter
of Mr. ll;imp Howell, of Milltown,
succeeded in eloping wilii W. F.
Spells, on Tuesday night of last
week and was married at DuPont,
where they took the train for
Jacksonville, Fla.
Knitting is now the pastime
among the women of Thoniasville;
they are knitting for the boys in
the army and navy. The older
women has stirred up interest iu
knitting by rehearsing the fact
that they learned how by knitting
for the soldier boys of the sixties.
Work on the government build
ing at Fitzgerald w ill begin in a
few days. The contractor has al
ready erected tool houses and
made all necessary arrangement
to begin actual work on the build
ing. The location is said to be
one of the most beautiful in the
city.
A grain elevator is in o|H>ration
at Quitman, the first built in
Georgia. It pays the highest cash
prices for corn, oats, velvet beans
and similar crops, and has a capaci
ty of twenty thousand bushels a
day. It furnishes an ample mar
ket to Hu 1 farmers of Brooks and
contiguous counties for all the
grain they can raise.
The intervention in the matter
of the validation of the Baaou
county bond issue will be heard
by,Judge James 1. Suinmerall at
Alma to day. The election was
held in June and carried by a
big majority, and authorized the
issue of SIOO,OOO bonds for several
purposes. However, it is being
attacked by a number of Bacon
county citizens.
The Eleventh District Masonic
Convention, at Valdosta, elected
the following officers: .1. N. Stin
son, Waycross, W. M.; A, J.
Gibbs. Homerville, D. M.; F. T.
Bergstrom. Valdosta. S. W.; E. J
Young, Fitzgerald, J. W.; C. T.
Darley, Douglas, Secretary and
Treasurer: B. E. Whittington,
Douglas, chaplain; J. E. Young,
Brunswick. S. D.; J. E. Webb,
Hahira. J. D.; H. C. Dickerson,
Homerville, S. S.; G. R. Corbett,
Lake Park, J. S. The next an
nual meeting will be held at Ha
him.
You are right, John I>. Spencer!
When W. D. U. is elected United
States senator, from Georgia, the
time will have come to “Flee into
the mountains of Hephzidam, .
. . where the whangdoodle
mourneth for its first born.”
PEARSON TRIBUNE, JULY 27, 1917
Repair Work
a Specialty
YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED
I wish to an
nounce that I
have procured
the agency for
DORT CARS
and if you are
in the market
I would be glad
to give you a
demonstration.
PRICE $780.00
Tires, Tubes,
Etc in Stock
COFFEE COUNTY
News Item! Gathered from Va
rious Source!.
Coffee county’s quota under
select ive draft was 221 men; she is
credited with 78 enlistments, and
the number yet to lie furnished
is 143, or one of every fifteen regis
tered.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage on Si nday, August sth.
of Miss Ida Rainbow, of Broxton.
and Mr. William Berman, of Ala
mo, Wheeler county. Alamo will
tie their future home.
It is given out that the county
board of registrars will notify
I hose drawn in the competitive
draft when and where they will
have to appear for examination'.and
to present their claims for exemp
tion. It will be several days be
fore the notices are sent out.
< >ne of the real tobacco growers
of Coffee county is Mr. J. A. Boone
of McDonald district, who recent
ly came from north Georgia.
At the auct ion sale of tobacco at
Douglas on Tuesday of last week
Mr. Boone had on hand for dis
jxisition tin' largest quantity of any
of the growers present and of fair
quanity for “spuds.” It sold for
$3Ol. Mr. Boone came to south
Coffee about two years ago, and is
winning success in fanning by
dint of energy and preservaiiee,
and the exercise of bis native in
telligence.
The Tribune announces the
death of Mr. Willy Vickers at his
home near Mora one day last week.
Mr. Vickers was a member of a
large and thrifty family of Coffee
county. Besides his relatives he
had many staunch friends who
genuinely sorrow over his decease.
He had reached a ripe old age,
he had been ill for some t ime and
his death was not unexpected.
Ho was of the Primitive Baptist
faith but hail never united with
the church. He lived a life replete
with "good works. People who
came to him iu distress were never
turned away empty handed.
Among his children, sons and
daughters, is one of Pearson's
jolly good citizens, Mrs. Matilda
Corbett, who was married to Mr.
Henry Corbett when she was
about fourteen years of age.
Low Excursion Fares to Atlanta
Account Convention Woodmen of the World
The A. B. & A. Railway will sell tickets from all Agency
stations in Alabama and Georgia, July 8-9-10-11th. Tickets
sold on the first two dates will be good returning until July
25th. Tickets sold on the last two dates, good returning July
15tn- The entertainment Committee has arranged three days
of public entertainment for visiting Woodmen and their friends.
These dates are July 11th. 12th. 13th. The A. B. A A. offers
double daily service to Atlanta with sleeping cars on night
trains from Waycross, Thoniasville and intermediate stations.
W. W. Croxton, G. A. A.
HAMILTON’S GARAGE
The City Court of Douglas has
been in session this week, Judge
Walter C. Bryan presiding. Only
civil business will be handled this
week. * Criminal business next
week. Judge Bryan informed the
editor that, nut withstanding leaves
of absenee had been granted at
torneys in order to (ill engage
ments at Atlanta in opposition to
tile Atkinson county measure,
there will be sufficient business to
keep the court in motion the en
tire week.
The Tribune interviewed a num
ber of Coffee county farmers
Saturday as to crop conditions.
D, A. Smith says his crops of
corn and cotton are all he would
desire, simply excellent, he has
discovered no weevils in his cotton
so far, and has more than a half
crop safe on the weed. All side
crops are good. Mr. Smith lives
in the Pearson district, near the
Clinch county line. A young
farmer over in the .McDonald dis
tri<-t. north of Axson, reported as
favorably as Mr. Smith, and said
his cotton was beginning to open.
This reminds the Tribune to say
that the firsi open cotton to reach
its office came from the field of
Mr. Carl W. Harrell, whose farm
lies within the city limits. W. L.
Kirkland has unusually good crops
of corn, cotton, sweet potatoes,
sugar cane and peanuts. His
farm lies one and a half miles
northwest of town.
The Tribune is informed by
Supt. Floyd that work began
Monday on the SI,OOO negro school
building to be erected a short dis
tanee beyond Sunnyside. six miles
northwest of Pearson It will be
the best negro school house in
Coffee county, and its erection has
been made possible by the liberal
ity of the negro citizens of that
community, who contributed S7OO
and the greater part of the land.
The balance of the money camel
from the Rosenwald fund, S3OO.
and the County Board of Educa
lion purchased the additional land.
The education that will be iin par
ted at this school will be distinct
ly industrial. They have sufficient
land for exi>eriinental gardening
and farming, and the girls will be
taught domestic science. These
negro citizens have set a worthy
example to their race in every
community of the county, indus
try and frugality will win.
The Best Way
is to take your Shoes to Martin s
Shoe Shop before they wear too
long
Thirty Miles
A, s> to the next Shop. Located in
\ \dams Garage Building, look for
V \s»_
V, J. S. Martin,
Pearson, Ga.
Excursion Fares
VIA.
G. S. & F. Ry.
Account of the following Special Occasions. G. S. &.
F. Ity. w ill sell teduced round trip fares from coupon
stat ion.
Athens, Ga. Vccount Summer School, Universi
ty-of Ga. Dates of Sale June 30.
July 1. 2, 3. 9.10, 10, 17 and 30th,
Return limit fifteen.
Knoxville, Tenn. Vccount Summer School of the
South. Dates of rale June 10. 17.
18, 23, 24. July 1. 7 and 14, limit
fifteen days.
Nashville, Tenn Peabody College Summer School.
Dates of sale June 11. 12, 13. 14,
21. 22, July 20, 21 and 20th. limit
fifteen days.
Black Moutain and Ridgcrest, N. C: Numerous
Sjiecial occasions, during May, June, July and August.
Dates of sale and limits upon application.
The above excursion fares are open to the public.
Excursion fares also on rale to Mountain and Seashore*
resorts.
For complete information as to fares and schedules
call on any ticket agent. G. S. A K. Ry., or address
J. W. JAMISON, T.P.A.orC. B. RHODES, G.P.A.
MACON, GEORCIA
SPECIAL OCCASION FARES
VIA
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
“Standard Railroad of the South”
At CCSTA. GA Grand Lodge. K of P. Tickets on sale
July 89 and 10th, 1917. Limited July
10th. 1917.
ATLANTA, GA National Convention, \V. O. W. Tickets
. <>u sale July 8 9-10 and 11th, 1917. Limit
July 15th. 1917.
ATHENS, GA Summer School, University of Georgia.
Tickets on sale June 30th. July 1 23 9 10
10 17 and 30th. Limited fifteen days.
KNOXVIELE. TENN Summer School of the South, University
of Teim. Tickets on sale June 16-17 13
23 24 30. July 1-7 and 14th. Limited
fifteen days.
LITTLE R< KK. ARK National Grand Ixxlge Mosaic Tomdlars of
America (col.) Tickets on sale July 7 8
and 9tli. Limited July 17th, 1917.
NASHVILLE. TENN Peabody College Summer School: Tickets
on sale June 1112-13-14 21-22, July 20 21
MONTEAGLE AND and 20th. Limit 15 days.
SEWANEE. TENN Religious Conference. Tickets on .rale
July 6 7 13 21. August 3 0 91617 and 23.
Limit Sept. sth. 191 7.
MACON. GA— Gl OOF of America. Tickets on sale
(From points in Georgia only) August
12-1,3-14th. Limit Aug. 21st, 1917.
For information as to faros, schedules, etc., call on or write-
A. R. HOUSE.
Ticket Agent
PEARSON, GA.
Fire-proof
Building
I also carry a
full line of tires,
tubes and other
auto accessories
in stock.
We also make
a specialty of re
pairing aul os
and my juices
are reasonable.
PHONE No, 57.
Satisfaction
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