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PEARSONftTRIBI J N E VOL. 3—NO. 17. COFFEE COUNTY News Items Gathered from Various Sources The copious showers of July and August has changed the aspect of the sugar cane crop wonderfully. There will be plenty of syrup made in Coffee county next fall and win ter for home consumption and to spare. A lied Cross chapter was organ ized last week in Douglas, with l)r. H. C. Whelohel as president and Mrs. Whelohel as vice presi dent, Mi's. A. S. M. Coleman, as secretary, and Mrs. .1. L. Shelton as treasurer. It was reported here Thursday that she safe of the Clerk of the City Court of Douglas was robbed Tuesday night of a goodly sum of fine money belonging to the coun ty. The report coming to tin* Tribune is of such a meagre charac ter further comment is withheld. Mr. J. H. Pafford, of the Me Donald district, says he will de vote three of his best acres to wheat next season. The experi ment will be given his best atten tion. He experimented with three acres in tobacco the past season and was successful; therefore, In* will try three acres of tobacco next season. The Woman’s Club of Douglas has interested its members and other ladies of the city in knitting wool comfort for the boys who sail on the battleship Georgia. This reminds the Tribune to re port that the State has just paid for the silver service presen ted at the time the ship was launched. It was a case of tardy justice. Chairman IS. H. Tanner, of the Coffee county Hoard of Commis sioners of Roads and Revenues, is offering for sale fifteen or sixteen head of the county mules. It is the purpose of the Commissioners, the Tribune is informed, to use motor trucks instead of mules in claying the roads, believing it will be faster and cheaper. Many people in this section doesn’t seem to know how to spell “Axson" the name substituted for McDonald. Some spell it “Axen," some “Axon,” others “Aesen" and the Tribune has seen it spelled “Aeson.” Readers, it is spelled “Axson.” and the name is derived from the maiden name of Presi dent Wilson’s first w ife, who was a Miss Axson. The Tribune understands that the county Board of Education will call for a 3-mill tax for school purposes. This will make the en tire tax levy on the taxable proper ty of Coffee county —State, County and School —$15.50 on the thous and dollars, or $2.00 on the thous and dollars less than it w-as last year, when it was $17.60 on the thousand dollni's. The August term of the City Court of Douglas, convened for the trial of civil business, came to an abrupt termination Wednesday morning when counsel in a civil case raised the point that the court was functus officio as regard ing civil business before it. It is said the language of the statute is such as to render verdicts and judgements taken of doubtful validity. Judge Bryan promptly adjourned the court sine die. However, some verdicts and judge rnents had been taken and the parties are willing to risk their validity, believing it was the in tention of the legislature not to interfere with any part of the court until October Ist. Hon. C. E. Stewart drops the Tribune a note from Axson with the request that it state emphati cally that la 1 has no desire or idea of moving out of Atkinson. He says: "I expect to live and die in Atkinson county and I shall work in the future as hard to help make this one of the best counties in Georgia as I have the past four years to help create same.” The City Court of Douglas com menced its regular A ugust t erm last Monday. It will be the last term as it will stand abolished on the first of October. The Tribune regrets this, but it is free to con fess that the people demanded its abolition, it is their court and they had a right to abolish it. The Tribune is of opinion that condi tions will demand its early resto ration. The local examining board has completed examination of the first 300 drawn for army service, with the result that 15 |>er cent, were found physically unfit, 10 per cent failed to appear of whom 4 per cent, have already' joined the army r and it is thought the failure of the balance is due to not receiv ing their notices, some of the no tices having been returned to the board. It is evident that there w'as no deliberate intention to avoid the draft act in Coffee coun ty. All examined and found fit filed claims for exemption except bout 15 per cent. It comes to the Tribune by way of the Douglas Enterprise that Hon. C. E. Stewart will be a can didate for representative in the legislature from tbe county of Cof fee at the election next year. That Mr. Stewart after the crea tion of Atkinson county, will re tain his citizenship in Coffee by moving to eit her Douglas or Brox ton. Some one has put this good one over on Bro. Frier, as Mr. Stewart has no idea of leaving his splendid farm in southeast Coffee county. He will run for the legis lature whenever he sees fit and his opponents will discover he is in the race for sure. Uncle Jim Freeman flares back at the Tribune and says its editor is very wrong in saying “In an idle hour satan entered his brain” and caused him to write and pub lish in his otherwise splendid note book the charge, that “Lawyer’s homes are built with fool’s mon ey,” which as an abstract propo sition is not a fact. But, holy gee, the Tribune didn’t know it wns bucking up against such a good man, in whose brain Satan has not enteredin forty years. Well, the Tribune will not argue the point. The Tribune editor loves all good men, women and children, Uncle Jim in particular. Editor W. R. Frier and Mr. \Y. R, Wilson and family', of Douglas, attended preaching service at the Pearson Baptist church last Sun day. They were also present at the Bliteb re union at Hotel Ma lone. They came at the special invitation of Elder S. E. Blitch; W. R. Wilson is related to Elder Blitch, A CAR LOAD Of I. H. C. Wagons just received, all kinds from alight one horse to a heavy two mule Tie or Turpentine Wagon. We can sgv# you money on Wagons, also on Stoves, Ranges and all kinds of furniture. Sc# us before you buy'. Cash Bargain House. “The Cash Store” Jliilwood, Georgia. PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1917 ATKINSON COUNTY Well Thought of in House of Representative. The Tribune publishes below the official vote in the House of Repre sentatives on the Atkinson new county proposition, showing ayes 139, nays 38 and not voting 11. In reality the vote was 139 in favor of and 49 opposed to the new county. Mr. Speaker Holder was not required to vote hence his vote is not counted either way r . However, The Tribune doesn’t consider it a breach of propriety to say Mr. Holder would have voted for the measure had it been necessary to its success. To Mr. Speaker Holder and the 139 members of the House who voted for the measure, making At kiuson county a reality, the people throughout this territory without reservation tender them profound thanks and assure them that in the coming y<*ars they' will feci proud of their vote. Our people opponents and advocates, arc going to join joyfully- and en t husiastically in making Atkinson rank high in the galaxy of Georgia counties. To the opponents of the measure at home the Tribune will say' that Atkinson is your county and ours —it belongs to the people of every section of the territory—and it can be made a splendid home county. Let’s all join hands in making it such. It brings to our people many great and very desir able benifits: let us cherish them. Let’s forget the past and press for ward to a glorious future. Toward those who voted against the proposition there is nothing but the kindest feeling —they did their duty as they saw it: Ayes —Adams of Elbert, Adams of Towns Akin, Allen, Anderson of Jenkins, Arnold of Clay, Arnold of Coweta, Atkinson, Austin, Bag well, Bale, Ballard of Newton, Bar field, Barwick, Beazley, Beck, Bdlah, Blalock, Band, Bower, Bowers, Boyett, Brown of Clarke, Biown of Houston, Burt, Burwell, Carroll, Carter, Cason, Chambers, Cheney, Chupp, Clarke, Clifton, Collins, Cook, Cooper, Cravey, Culiars, Culpepper of Clinch, Dav enport, Davis, Davidson, Dennard, Dickey, Dorris, Du Bose, Duncan, Ellis, Ennis, Eve, Fowler of Bibb, Fowler of Forsyth, Frohook, Gul dens, Gordy, Grant land, Green, Griffin, Hagood, Harden of Banks, Hardin of Glascock, Harris,Harvin, Hatcher of Wayne, Hayes, Haynes Hodges, Holden, Hollingsworth, Howard of Liberty, Howard of Oglethorpe, Jones of Coweta, Jones of Elbert, Jones of Lowndes, Jones of Wilkinson, Key, Kelley, Kimsey of Habersham, Kimsey of White, King, Lankford, Lawrence, Mat thews, Maynard, Mays, Mercicr, Middleton, Moore, Morris, Mullins, McCall, McDonald, Neill, Nesmith, Owens, Pace, Parker, Palmour, Pickren, Pilcher, Rainey, Recce, Reiser, Roberts, Smith of Fulton, Smith of Telfair, Staten, Steele, Stewart, Stone, Stovall, Strickland, Stubbs, Swords, Sumner, Swirt, Tat urn, Taylor, Timmerman, Trippc Turner, Veazey, Vincent, Walker of Ben Hill, Walker of Pierce, White, Williams of Ware, V\ ilj liams of Worth, Winn, Wood, Woods, Woody, Worsham, Wright, of Jones, Wrjght of Walton, Wyatt, Wylly, Youmans —139. Nays —Anderson of Wilkes, Ayers, Baldwin, Ballard of Col umbia, Bankston, Barrett of Pike, Beall, Booker, Brinson, Brooks, Burch, Burkhalter, Buxton, Coates, Culpepper of Merriwether, Foy, Hinson, Hogg, Johnson of Ap pling, Johnson of Bartow, Lanier, Lasseter, Law, Lowe, McCalla, McCrory, Pickett, Richardson, Russell, Scott, Shannon, Sibley, Swift, Trammell, Walker of Bleck ly, Williams of Merriwether, PROGRESS OF THE WAR The past week has been marked by strenuous fighting along the eastern, western and Austro-ltalian fronts. On the eastern front the Rus sians in Galicia and Buckowinaare holding their own against the Austro German forces, but in the sector of Roumauia the combined Russo Roumanian forces have had to yield ground to the enemy su perior forces. In the Austro Italian thea’re the I talians began a vigorous drive to ward Trieste, Austria’s largest and most important seaport city, and the bat tie is sti 11 on. Up t o Tues day night, had captured more than 13,000 Austrians and also 243 offi cers of various grade. The Itali ans are moving steadily forward toward their objective, the city of Trieste. < >n the Western front the fight ing is the most violent and de leruiiiied of the war. In the sec tor of Swim the slaughter has lit i'ii terrrifieon both sides, but the result seems to be favorable to the French, they having made advan ces in territory and captured 6,500 prisoners since Monday morning? On the northern end of the Wes tern front the British and French, operating in unison, have made considerable advances, notwith standing the most violent counter attacks hy the Germans. The British have captured important strategic positions for a mile along the Ypres-Menin road for a depth of two and a half miles. The city of Lens seems to be almost within the British grasp. The Canadian troops are slowly but surely en veloping the city from three sides. On February sth a German sub marine sank the Peruvian sailing vessel, Norton, off the coast, of Spain. The Hamburg prize court having refused to pay damages to the owners, the Peruvian ire is up and it has sent an ultimatum to Germany. In view of Peru’s bcligcrcnl note the Hamburg de cision has been referred to the Berlin upper prize court for final adjud ieat ion. Th<‘number of Brit ish merchant men sunk by German* submarines or mines during the past week was slightly above I hat of the week before, but on the whole the operations of the U-boats are gradually decreasing. The Brit ish and French fear of being star ved into submission is growing less acute every week. The losses in vessels and cargoes does not ex ceed one half of one per cent a week. In America the work of mobi lizing and training an army goes bravely forward, and it is confi dently stated that by spring of 1918 more than thirty-five divis ions of troops will be ready for transportation to Europe. The mobilization of Porto Rican troops, com| vised of negroes, is causing some t rouble. There is a full di vision of them; it was indicated that they w r ere to be mobilized and trained in the vicinity of Columbia. S. C, The people of lhat city ue protecting against it, believing it would result in trou ble. Tbe government will look elsewhere for a suitable place. The Pope’s peace note is not receiving favor in any of the beli gerent nations. The American answer, which will he ready in a few days, will reach the Pope through the Brit ish Foreign Office, from which source the peace note came to America. Wright of Bulloch, Wright of Floyd—3B. Not, Voting—Arnold of Lump kin, Barrett of Whitfield, Blasir, game, Clements, Conger, Gary, Gilmore, Hall, Hatcher of Musco gee, Kidd, Smith of Dade—ll. SOUTH GEORGIA News of Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs The banks of Montezuma were the purchasers of the $25,000 pav ing bonds of that city. The Butler Herald is pulishing the premium list of the Taylor county fair, to be held at Butler October 16th to the 20th. A Tift county farmer living near Chula, J, D. Cook, sold eight bales of short staple cotton last Friday which netted him $982.50, besides t he seed. A live stock census has just been taken in Lowndes county, and it shows the number of cattle to be 19,780 and hogs 65,180. It is a good increase over 1916. The barns of Mannasseh Paulk, near Oeiila, was burned a few dyys ago and destroyed large quantities of hay, oats and corn. It is I bought th(> fire was of incendiary origan. It, is stated that 300 bales of cot ton have been ginned in Ocilla this season up to date. Cotton is going in at the rate of 75 bales per day, and the Ocilla ginneries are running full swing. Ware county has organized the “Sat il la Farm Land Loan Associ ation, and its members have filed application for nearly $70,000 in loans from the Federal Farm Land Rank at Columbia, S. C. A Lowndes county mob, Thurs day night of last; week, destroyed nineteen cattle dipping vats with dynamite. The Tribune had Imped the antagonism against cat tle dipping had ceased. A letter from Camp Harris, Macon says: “Mrs. George Gray pays a daily visit to her son, Capt. Walter Gray, and quite often re mains for supper. Just to show that we do have some good eats.” It is authoritatively stated that Judge W. E. Thomas will be a candidate to succeed himself on the bench of the Southern judicial circuit. Ilis opponent will be Oscar M. Smith, also of Valdosta. Mr. Ralph Yeomans, of Douglas, has been elected Cashier of the Baxley State Bank, which was re cently incorporated and which be gan business last Monday in the defunct Citizens Bank of Baxley building. The Judge and Solicitor-Gen eral of the Wayeross judical circu it, under the new law, will both be paid a salary. The Soliciton-Gen eral gets $3,000 a year, and the Jddgc’s salary is increased to $4, 000 a year. Clarence Onsley, now of Texas, and named hy President Wilson as one of the assistant secretaries of agriculture under the provisions of the food survey law, is a native of Lowndes county; he was born and reared at Onsley station, seven miles west of Valdosta. The Primitive Baptists in and near Tifton has let the contract for a $7,000 church edifice, to be built on the northwest corner of Fourth street and Tift avenue. It will be built of brick with every modern appointment, and work on it will begin at an early date. The anti-draft promoters had an “inning at Moultrie last Satur day. They were refused the use of the court house and grounds, but they gathered on a vacant private acre and Grover Edmond son the orator of the day, excoria ted the authorities for their action. SI.OO A YEAR The election in Clinch county on the question of county-wide taxation for the benefit of the lo cal schools lakes place next. Satur day. The Tribune trusts that the schools will win. It is the only hope for the children of Clinch county getting a satisfactory edu cation. The 8-year old son of Editor T. R, O’Steen, of the Clinch County News, was seriously injured last Saturday afternoon while playing back of a garage at Homeville. The youngster climbed into the body of an old car that was lean ing beside a brick wall; it fell over on him and broke his left leg. Gov Dorsey, and r an Act passed by the recent legii it ure, has ap pointed five add ional trustees for the South Georgia Normal Col lege, at Valdosta, \ a S.M. Turn er, of Brooks; 11. 11- Elders, of Tattnall; R. M. Bov r, of Randolph; Frank Pidcock, of Colquitt, and M. M. Dickerso; . of Appling county. Announcement is made of the engagement of Mi Lillian Mor ton and Mr. Harry . James, of Wayeross, the wedding to occur at the residence of the brides aunt, Mrs. L. R. Bailey, 54 Howe street, Wayeross, on Wednesday, September sth. No cards. r l he Tribune extends congratulations in advance. W. 11. Mobley, a merchant and cattle owner at Fargo, Clinch coun ty, lias just sold 120 open-range steers for $4,200, or $35 per head. These cattle have been at very small expense —he had not spent a dollar in feeding them, the cost of penning, marking and branding them in the spring was all of his expense in caring for them. Mr. Byrd Belote, tax collector of Lowndes county, has discovered there arc 158,000 acres of land in that county unreturned for taxa tion, and lias escaped the tax di gest for the past ten years. Where it is and to whom it be longs is a question he finds not so easily solved, but be is making a vigorous effort in that direction. The Nashville Herald says “the pesky boll weevils arc stepping lively these days, if reports coming to Nashville is to be believed. The recent rainy weather has given the weevil anew lease on life. It has enabled him to do work that he could not, have done while the sun was shining. Far mers around Nashville have been paying small boys fifty cents a day to hunt weevils.” The effort of Sheriff J. Frank Passmore, of Lowndes county, to enforce the “bone-dry” law has brought about a situation more ridiculous, if possible, than that produced by the Hand 20,000 gal lons of wine. The Sheriff has been temporarily restrained from searching Georgia Southern and Florida trains from Jacksonville either with or without a search warrant. Judge J. J. Summerall has call ed an extra session of Ware supe rior court to convene next Monday. The purpose is to try criminal business and clear the jail as near as is possible. The Jugde thinks the various county boarding house sliovld enclose few prisoners in this day of the high cost of living. The case of chief interest |is that of Sherman Higgs charged with the killing of David Davis at Millwood in February.