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VOL. 15-. NO. 15.
COFFEE COUNTY
News Items Gathered from Various Sources
Broxtou has the honor of receiv
ing the first bale of Coffee county
cotton of tlie season of 1917. It
is a week later than last year’s
first bale. This cotton was grown
by M. G, Hall near Broxtou.
Mr. J. B. Strickland, who has
been serving as Deputy Sheriff
of Coffee county for several years,
has resigned. The reason for his
resignation. He made a good of
ficer and the Tribune wishes for
him a successful future.
Preston Ricketson, a young
white man of Douglas, was indict
ed at the May Term of Ware
superior court in connection with
the disappearance of some auto
supplies at Tel mo re. He was ar
rested at Douglas last week and
carried to Waycross and lodged in
in jail.
The Tribune has been requested
to announce that a protracted
meeting will begin at Mt. Zion
Baptist church on Friday before
the first Sunday in September.
It is understood that Elder Wil
liams, of Laurens county, has been
invited by the church and will do
the preaching.
There h;us been a series of bur
glaries committed at Douglas wfth
in the past month. The burglar
or burglars prefer to rob stores and,
as they have carried away only a
few small articles, it is believed
money was the object of the bur
glary; the cash register or drawer
in every place was tapped.
The August Term of the City
Court of Douglas will he held at
the regular time. Judge Bryan
is convinced that the opposition
to the Court is not personal, but to
the irregular and uncertain man
ner in which the court has been
held and the loose practice allowed
there, and he is making a new rec
ord for the court. The August
Term begins the third Monday
and continues two weeks —tin-
first week for civil business and
the second for criminal ami such
other business as can be handled.
Carl McDonald and S. D. An
derson, who claim Niebolls, Coffee
county, as their home, was arrest
ed last Saturday a few miles
south of Waycross charged with
a violation of the “bone-dry” law.
They were enroute from Jackson
ville with an automobile load of
the ardent, consisting of ninety
four quarts of whiskey and
twenty-six bottles of beer. The
automobile had broken down and
when Sheriff Sweat and Deputies
Cannon and Mattox appeared up
on the scene the “contraband” had
been transferred from the car to
the bushes, but the tracks of the
wagon used in making the trans
fer betrayed the young men.
Since tobacco selling at Doug
las commenced the growers of Cof
fee county have sold numerous of
ferings at auction. The Douglas
Enterprise summarizes last week’s
operations as follows: E. Moore,
Jr., Nicholls, 400 pounds at the
average price of 20.5 cents per
pound; J. J. Meeks, Nicholls, 522
pounds at 20.6 cents; R. L. Thomp
son, Nicholls. 824 pounds, at 20
cents; Dr. W. M- Carter, Nicholls,
758 pounds, at 27.6 cents; James
Tanner, Douglas. 500 pounds, at
23.1 cents; J. E. Trowel 1, Broxtou,
*1,432 pounds, at 23.9 cents, and J.
A. Boone, Axson, 1.400 pounds, at
25.2 cents. This is practically 23
cents j>er pound all round. From
this summary the farmer can easi
ly calculate whether or not tobac
co is a profitable crop. An aver
age crop of tobacco per acre is said
to be 450 pounds which, at 23
cents per pound, would produce
a gross income per acre of $100,50.
From this amount deduct the cost
oi fertilization, preparation of
land, cultivation, harvesting and
marketing and the result will be
your net profit per acre.
The following marriages in Cof
fee county are of interest to Tri
bune readers: Miss Let ha Star!
ing and J. Audio Wall, on July
28th in Douglas, Judge J. M. Fret
man officiating. Both of the con
tracting parties were born and
reared on the south side of ('ol'fee
county, where they have many
relatives and friends who congratu
late them and bid them bon voy
age on the sea matrimonial . Miss
Louise Smith and W. C. Wooten,
both of Broxtou, on July 29th at
the Methodist parsonage in Doug
las. Rev. B. E. Whittington officia
ting. The bride is well- known at
Axson and Millwood where her
father, Mr. Alvah Smith, lived for
several years. She has visited
Pearson frequently and is highly
regarded by the young people here.
The groom is the assistant cash
ier of tin-Citizens Bank of Doug
las and is highly esteemed by his
associates.
Under an Act passed by the
present legislature and signed by
the Governor last Saturday, the
“Nine Commissioners" law for Cof
fee county was repea led. The new
law provides for five commissioners
and named as such commissioners
until the next general election the
following gentlemen: B. 11. Tan
ner, chairman, Daniel Metis, James
Harper, F. M. Merritt and S. J.
Stubbs. The new commissioners
were sworn in Monday, and enter
ed upon the discharge of their du
ties. It is well known that the
chairman, Mr. B. H. Tanner, as
evidenced by his recent published
cards, is in favor of rigid retrench
ment until the county's indebted
ness is wiped out, anil there can
be little doubt that the policy of
this Board of Commissioners will
be along the line of retrenchment.
In the mat ter of a suit of Chicka
mauga Trust Company against
Joel Wilcox for sums aggregating
about $7,000, Judge Emory Speer
of the United States district court
has rendered a judgment in favor
of the Plaintiff and ordered the
land covered by mortgage to be
sold to pay the debt, provided
settlement of the indebtedness is
not made prior to October 15, 1917.
The defendant, Joel Wilcox, set
up the defense that as the notes
and mortgage were executed on
Sunday they were not enforceable.
Referee Sessoms, as well as .Judge
Speer, held the defense was not
good. The land mortgaged lies in
Irwin and Coffee counties, aggre
gating 442 acres.
Wednesday was a red letter day
for Douglas, the advocates of to
bacco growing and Coffee county
fanners-who attended the tobacco
exhibition at Douglas on that day.
The tobacco harvest season is at
its zenith, and the people of Doug
las, backed by the officials of both
of her railroads, planned and car
ried out an attractive “Tobacco
Boosting Day” program. Invita
tions were extended to the farm
ers of Coffee and adjoining coun
ties to attend and see how the bus
iness is handled. The feature of
the day was an auction sale of to
bacco. The railroads arranged for
special rates and schedules for the
occasion and quite a number of in
terested people attended.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1017
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
M. Kerensky has been declared
military dictator in Russia to the
extent of having plenary powers to
work out the problems of democ
racy in that hitherto ill-fated na
tion. The fruits of his labor are
already apparent. The retreat of
the Russian army has slowed dow n
and along the battle line from Riga
to the Carpathian mountains Rus
sians and Roumanians have shifted
from defensive to offensive and
checked the Austro German ad
vance. The consensus of opinion
now is, that the Russians are back
into the fighting to stay. The iron
hand of Kerensky against spy and
traitor is having its saving effect
on Russia.
In Germany there has been an
upheaval in official circles. Dr.
Zimmermanu and nine others of
the Kaiser’s official family have
been forced to resign, and their
places filled with men less radical
in their views of the world .situa
tion. A neutral newspaper says
of Dr. Richard von Keuhlmann,
the newly appointed Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, that h<- has always
been a vigorous opponent of ruth
less submarine warfare, and that
his policy will be to avoid further
alienation of Great Britain, believ
ing that the after-war friendship
between Great Britain and Ger
many is necessary to the best inter
est of the latter,and he will under
take to bring about an understand
ing with Great Britain at the
earliest possible moment, In view
of this pronouncement President
Wilson has indicated his opinion
that t hose (lerman peace feelers
are not genuine, and that it is now
the duty of the American govern
ment to prosecute the war with
all possible vigor, and the time
had not come whim a profitable
discussion of peace could be had.
The British, French and Bel
gians are pressing the battle on
the western front, in the sector
southeast of Ypres and, notwith
standing the recent rains in this
vicinity have made it exceedingly
difficult, they are forcing the cue
my back. This is believed to be
the beginning of a Hank movement
of gigantic magnitude and which
has for its objective the destrec
tion of Germany's submarine ba
ses, and thus defeat submarine
warfare. The Tribune is of the
opinion that the entente allies are
busy developing an offensive in
Belgium and France that will ef
fectually destroy the Hindenburg
line and cut off Germany's support
of her submarine stations on the
North Sea coast.
At any rate, the British tloops,
notably Canadians, are pressing
tight against the City of lams, in
t he centre of the iron and coal dis
tricts of northern France, and its
capitulation is daily expected. The
Germans are struggling hard
against what seems to be the inev
itable.
The American embargo on food
stuffs going to the so--called neutral
nations to the north of Germany
has had the effect of making the
governments squeal, and Norway
and Sw eden have sent commissions
to America for the purpose of con
vincing President Wilson and Un-
American government that the
German government is not receiv
ing supplies from those countries
and, if possible, to secure the lift
ing of the embargo. Norway and
Sweden have to import practically
all of their foodstuffs, and the em
bargo has brought about the pinch
of famine. The condition of affairs
will be rigidly investigated before
the embargo is lifted.
The Germans are working des
perately for a mi fitary decision on
the w-estern front before cold
weather sets in, but the present
indications are that their hopes
BAPTIST SPECIAL MEETINGS
Tic u
I®!'-
Ei.ber T. S. Hubert, •
Who will do the preaching at
the Baptist protracted services,
Pearson, beginning next Sunday
night. The Sunday night meeting
will be preparatory service, con
ducted by the Pastor; the subject
of hi.s discourse will be “Prepared
ness.” Let everybody (urn out to
the meeting.
Elder Hubert will arrive from
Douglas on Monday. lie comes
strongly recommended as a gospel
preacher and one who dings to
Bible truth tenaciously, using no
claptrap measures to enlist re
cruits in (In- Lord’s army. His
preaching w ill be beneficial to all
who hear him. Gome to the
meeting.
S. E. Bi, itch, Pastor.
BERHICE F. BULLARD
Former Pearson Citizen Passes
into the Great Beyond
The Savannah News, of Monday,
brought to the people of Pearson
the sad intelligence of the death
of their former fellow cit izen—
B. F. Bullard —who came to Pear
son from Graham, Telfair county,
in 1881 and engaged in business
in partnership with the late Alex
anilcr Sessoms under the firm
name of Bullard & Sessoms, and it
was here he laid the foundation of
his most extraordinary business
success and comfortable fortune,
lie made Pearson a splendid citi
zen, was liberal and progressive,
took an active part in religious af
fairs and for several years was
superintendent of the Methodist
Sunday School.
Mr. Bullard had married his
first wife at Graham, Ga,, before
he came to Pearson, and they
were living here when she died.
Her remains sleep in the Antioch
cemetery, seven miles northwest
of the city. Ho was deeply grieved
at the death of his wife and, al
though he had married his second
wife, many of his friends believe
that the selling out of the business
here was for the purpose of remov
ing himself from the atmosphere
of his great sorrow-. For many
years after moving to Savannah he
made annual pilgrimages to Pear
son and Antioch to sec that her
tomb was kept in proper repair.
The older citizens of Pearson
learned to regard P>. F. Bullard
with sincere affection and the
news of his death was a distinct
shock to them.
will be shattered. Their attacks
are growing weaker as their re
serves dwindle and the guns and
munitions of the Entente allies
grows stronger.
SOUTH GEORG A
News of Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs
The 1917 tax values of Lowndes
county is $10,008,482, an increase
of $573,559 above that of 1916.
Owing to Dougherty county’s
large negro population it is report
ed that quite two thirds of her
drafted soldiers will be negroes.
Tifton received her first bale of
new cotton August 2nd. It was
raised by J. W. Hogan, ginned at
Ty Ty, and sold to a local ware
houseman at 26 cents tier pound.
There was an election held in
the rural districts of Wilcox coun
ty a few days since on the subject
of local taxation for the support
of (he schools. The result was
against taxation.
Among the bills passed by the
present General Assembly is one
to transfer Irwin county from the
Cordele to the Tifton • judicial cir
cuit, and one cutting-the annual
terms of Tift superior court from
four to two.
In Berrien county the valuation
placed upon automobiles for taxa
tion is nearly as much as that
placed upon the general merchan
dise in the county. This is evi
dence of the popularity of automo
biles in that county.
Berrien county has several
young men doing business for Thi
ele Sam in France, but the only
one in Pershing's army is Sammie
Mathis. son of Mis. Annie Mathis,
and who was born and reared
west of Nashville near Cottle,
A negro fanner of East Dough
erty county carried his first bale
of cotton to Albany one day last
week and sold cotton and seed for
$175.40. He says South Georgia
is good enough for him; hasn’t
lost anything up North and no rea
son to hunt for it.
Two negro life-termers have es
caped from the Wilcox county
chaingang. < >ne goes by the
name of Australian Frazier and
was sent up from Ghat ham county,
and the other is known by the
name of Jack Miller and was sent
up from Brooks county.
The home guards of Thomas
villi- are faithful in drilling, and
have improvised wooden guns with
which to learn t he manual of arms.
The sham is hard to detect, but
they can’t fire a volley. This
same stunt was pulled off by
Thomasville boys in the sixties.
Justice court for the Itabbitville
(1061st) District of Clinch coun
ty was held last Friday morning.
Judge A. J. Lock Hear presided,
perched upona pile of fence posts —
the courthouse having been burn
ed some months ago —and held his
initial court and passed upon his
first case.
The board of t rustees of Du Big
non Institute, Homerville, will
undertake the experiment of giv
ing free tuition to all high school
pupils throughout Clinch county.
In this hazardous undertaking
they are promised strong support
from the Clinch county board of
education. Agriculture, kitchen
gardening and domestic economy
will be a part of the curriculum.
The Tribune wishes them success.
“Beech Haven, the plantation
in Baker county formerly owned
by the famous Georgian, Hon. B.
H. Hill, and comprising 5,500
acres, has been sold by Mrs. M. A.
Mcßaney to a Mr. Pettway of
Eastman for $33,000 to lie util
ized as a stock farm to w hich it
SI.OO A YEAR
is admirably adopted, located as
it is broadside to the Chiekasa
watchee creek. Mrs. Mcßaney is
the widow of M. A. Mcßaney,
who came from North Carolina a
poor boy about a quarter of a
century ago and worked as a labor
er at the Sparks turpentine place
of Mr. A. C. McLeod, where the
Tribune editor became acquainted
with him. He was a hustler, and
after about a year’s stay at Sparks
he drifted to Baker county, en
gaged in the turpentine business
and farming largely on credit.
By indomitable energy and close
attention to business he prospered,
and was numbered among the rich
men of Baker county- Ho eschew
ed liquor, tobacco and dissipation
of any sort.
Ordinary Musgrove, of Clinch
county, has called an ele< lion for
August 25th on the question of
county-wide taxation in aid of the
public, schools. The Tribune is
outside that county but feels an
abiding interest in Clinch county
people and their children and
hopes they will decide the ques
tion in the affirmative. If the
children of Clinch county are to
get a worth while education Clinch
county people will have to pay t he
bill, and they should do it cheer
fully.
The roller mill at Sycamore has
increased its grinding capacity to
one hundred -barrels i>er day.
Eight thousand bushels of wheat
have already been ground and
fresh shipments are received daily
from all parts of South Georgia.
Ail increased impetus is being
given to wheat raising in South
Georgia, as farmers are beginning
to realize its possibilities.
An unofficial dog poisoner is do
ing business in Waycross and
some of the most important and
valuable dogs of the city have
been sent to an untimely death.
The owner of the dogs are indig
nant and have gone on the war
path for the miscreant who shows
such a pronounced antipathy for
dogs.
Mayor < hlen, of Blaekshear, says
the report, charging that Fierce
county parents are arming them
selves “to keep their sons from
being taken for the army,” is un
true. lie says it is true an anti
draft meeting was held in the
northern part of the county, but
it was adjourned sine die without
any action being taken.
A heme guard has been organ
ized at Albany. Some of the mem
bers have been drilling under the
regular army officer in charge of
the Albany recruiting station. Af
ter drilling for some time it is the
Intention of the members to secure
complete military equipment, in
cluding uniforms,
Tuesday a terrific wind and rain
storm passed over t he western side
of Berrien and the eastern side of
Colquitt counties, blowing down
hundreds of pine trees boxed for
turpentine, battering corn and cot
ton in the fields and wrecking
barns and other out houses.
A bellowing snake is disturbing
the equanimity of Colquitt county
citizens living in the vicinity of
Warrior creek. His snakeship
subsists on small dogs, sheep, pigs
and other domestic animals, num
bers of which are missing. This
reminds the Tribune of Maj.fj. W.
Hanlon’s discovery, the wilfapus
wallapus, over in Quitman. That
“varmint” also subsisted on dogs,
sheep, pigs aud similar animals.