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PEARSONftTRIBUNE VOL. 3—NO. 19. COFFEE COUNTY News Items Gathered from Various Sources Mr. Henry Ellis succeeds Mr. J. B. Strickland as deputy Sheriff of Coffee county. He makes a good officer. Mr. Y. O. Mathews, of Axson, has just returned from an exten sive trip through the southwestern and western section of the State, into the boll weevil section. He believes the government’s estimate of present cotton crop is too high by a million bales. The Willacoochee high school began the fall term Monday morn ing, with a hundred and fifty ma triculates in attendance and the following faculty: Prof. J. N. Carr, principal: Miss Eula Cham here, Fitzgerald, first, second and third grades; Miss Mae McWhor ter, fourth and fifth grades; Miss Mary King, Jesup, sixth and seventh grades; Miss Charline Sasser, Senoa, music and expres sion. A splendid program of open ing exercises was rendered. A protracted meeting of inter est is in progress at Mt. Zion Bap tist church, having commenced on Friday night of last week. The Tribune has heard of some friction between some members and the pastor, but hopes it is not so bad as represented and that the meet ing will beget good fellowship and the work of the church proceed smoothly again. If harmony can not be restored it would be better for them to separate in peace. COFFEE SUPERIOR COURT Coffee superior court convened last Monday for the September term. Judge J. 1. Summerall is presiding and Solicitor M. D. Dickerson looking after the inter est of the state. The grand jury empaneled for this session is a body of splendid, earnest, hard working men. Dr. John M. Hall of Douglas is the foreman, and Postmaster William Smith of Pear son is clerk, both most efficient men. The Judge’s charge to the grand jury was short and forceful and covered all the subjects mat ter required to be presented to the body. It is uuderstsod there is a great volume of work for the grand jury to perform, requiring its attention all of this and a great part of next week. Monday, after the court had organized for busi ness, was devoted to the trial of divorce cases and some had to go over until Tuesday. There was quite a hopper full of this kind of grist. The calling for announce ment of the tremendous calendar of civil cases showed very few ready for trial, being carried over for one reason or another. To continue a civil case was an easy matter, the demise of the City Court of Douglas and the crowded condition of the criminal calendar, necessitated the taking up the criminal docket at the earliest possible moment, and Thursday morning the trial of Dr. Wooten, charged with poisoning his 10- year old daughter at Broxton, was to begin. There are three or four more murder cases to be tried, and other felonies of not so serious import. Solictor Dickerson has plenty of work for the term. Un der the new arrangement for quar terly terms the calendar will be the first and second Mondays in February and September, when the grand juries will convene, and the third and fourth Mondays in May and November Just how satisfactorily the new regime will work remains to be seen. The ' Tribune hopes it will work well. Seven Coffee county boys will have to report io Camp (Jordon, near Atlanta, for duty today. The Tribune has been unable to learn the names of those called. The territory of Atkinson conn ty is represented on the present grand jury by Messrs J. J. N ickers, R. .1. Taff, David Weathers, 11. F. Sears, J. W. Morris, I). M. Doug lass, J. A. Hodges and William Smith, eight as handsome young sters as there are in the bunch. Yes, sir, they would do rredit to any section of Georgia. ’Vncle Jim, of tin* Note Book" says the singing convention that was to be held in Douglas has been called off indefinitely; he says these are no times for singing con vent ions, with the world war on hand and its accompanying dis tresses. But the Tribune can’t, see why it should be altogether a season of ’’sackcloth and ashes.’’ God has greatly blessed this peo pie and they have much for which to be thankful. Lot the Coffee county*singing convention, which holds a session at Pearson on the fifth Sunday instant, come togeth er with thanksgiving and praise to God for the great blessings of health, bountiful crops, the rad iant prospects for improvement in all things necessary for our coun ty, state and national welfare, which He has bestowed upon us. The Tribune believes such wor ship, rightly engaged in, will be an acceptable tribute to His love and mercy bestowed upon this people. THE PAFFORD REUNION The Tribune greatly regrets not being permitted to attend the lOtlt annual Paftord reunion at Springhead (Pafford) church, six miles south of Leilaton, last Sun day. People who attended say it was the largest and most spiritual meeting of all- the preceding re unions held there. The day was a very pleasant one, a lit tle warm, a great crowd was present, coming on foot, in buggies, automobiles and on a special train of two coaches packed until there was scarcely standing room; the crowd variously estimated at from 1,000 to 1,500 people. The program ar ranged for the meeting was ob served in toto. Two choirs, one led by Mr. Cox of Willacoochee and the other by Mr. M. A. Paf ford of Pearson, furnished ample music. Mr. Pafford led the music for the devotional services. Rev. N. T. Pafford, the Metho (list pastor, of Camilla, preached at 11:00 o’clock a most appropriate sermon, using fora text the first six verses of the 137th Psalm. Many could not get into the church, but those who heard the sermon wept as did the Jews of old of whom the Psalmist David wrote in this touching Psalm. There were people present from Camilla, Patten, Adel, Nashville, Ray City, Mitltown,Simians, Wil lacoochee, < Cilia, Fitzgerald, Douglas, Nieholls, Pearson, Way cross and Jacksonville, Fla. The lunch table, 100 feet in length, was covered with the best of food and all present were amp ly supplied with refreshments. There Was a bountiful supply of water from the splendid spring near the church. Members of the Pafford family say better preparation will be made for the 1918 reunion, so that all who attend may have an op portunity of hearing the preach ing service. Mrs. A, R. House has returned from a visit to relatives at Lake City, Florida. PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917 PROGRESS OF THE WAR The American government has formally rejected the peace over tures emanating from Pope Bene dict and President Wilson's note in reply seems to have covered the situation so perfectly that the en tente allies have adopted it and will not make a separate reply. It is expected that Germany will make at once other and more lib eral peace overtures. However, it is the temper of t lie American government and people, as well as the entente allies, that German autocracy shall end and nothing short of it will ensure the reign of democracy and a permanent peace. The American government is not letting up in its preparations to prosecute the war to its finality. The new National army is gradual ly being concentrated at the train ing camps present ing a most form idable array of man power, millions upon millions are being spent in the construction of the latest ap proved air and water craft, and the munition factories are running at their ext reme capacity, all press ing forward with tin' only view point of waging a successful war, and winning liberty and perma nent peace for (he world. The Russian army on the north end of the battle line has gone to pieces and is in full retreat from Riga toward Betrograd, a distance of 350 miles. The Russian inter nal dissensions seem t o have dissi pa ted all hope for her future help in the war, still Germany's offer of a separate peace has been declined. It is now possible that Japan will be requested and permitted to turn loose her powerful fighting oua chine to bolster up the Russian situation, and a million Japanese soldiers appear on the Russian fir ing line next spring. Italy has resumed her offensive on the Austro-Italian front with the greatest concentration of men, artillery and aeroplanes she has ever had on this front, and arc re doubling her (liive toward Trieste and Laibach. It is stated that 261 aeroplanes are participating in the fighting, while British and French field artillery are aiding in the land fighting and British and French warships are eo operating with Italian monitors in shelling Pola, the Austrian great Adriatic naval base in the Gulf of Trieste. Among the indications of the week on the western front is that the Germans arc preparing to withdraw from their present line in Flanders, evacuating some 2,250 square miles of Belgium, including West Flanders, East Ypres and Dixmude, to a new line established between Court rie and Thorout, and to impede the progress of the British will open the dikes of the rivers and canals and flood the territory. As evidences of this retreat the German artillery is ar live around Lens for the purpose of distracting British attention away from the movement. But Gen. Haig is having an eye on their every change. German air craft have made three English raids during the past week. No great harm was done. At Scarborough 3 persons were killed and 5 injured. At Shermess 170 sailors were killed and 86 injured. At Chatham no casualties. The viewpoint seems to be very clear that the entente forces on western and Austro Italian fronts are making heroic efforts to relieve the situation in Russia and pre vent an advance on Betrograd be fore winter puts a stop to military operations in that region. The recent rains have improved the sugar cane prospects all over South Georgia. It is now thought a fine crop will be harvested. ROWE-LANIER The marriage of Miss Eula Rowe and Mr. Henry Lanier on July 15tli, by Ordinary Carr Cheney at Iteidsville, was a quiet affair and strict secrecy was maintained for sometime, although a rumor was current of a secret wedding that caused numerous conjectures and inasmuch as wc were implored to withhold announcement the quer rying continued until their de parture for their new home at Pearson. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and M rs. Eli Rowe, her ami cability secured many firm friends and her kindliness was appreciated by all of her acquaintances. The groom is one of a largo list of relatives of Bryan county, popu lar with his frielids and energetic in his line of business. They went to Pearson Sunday where they will be at home to their friends. —Claxton Enterprise. The happy young couple arrived in Pearson on time and are pleas antly located at the boarding house of Mr. M. A. Pafford, and the Tribune commends them to the kind consideration of our peo ple. A good roads meeting is planned for next Wednesday at Nahunta. A large attendance from the coun ties of NVayne, Pierce, Ware and Glynn are expected. The comm is skmers of these counties are spec ially invited. Clark Howell and W. T. Anderson, the Georgia mem hers of the Dixie Highway Com mission, are expected to be present ami address l lie people and urge prompt action in linking up the «4rtra! and eastern Dixie highways, Big dinner, the drawing card. The religious revival at Fitzger ald, under the leadership of Evan gelist Bob Jones, is assuming large proportions. Tuesday morning he preached from the text: “The Hasvest Is Past, the Summer Is Ended, and We Are Not Saved.” 11 created a profound impression, and it is reported “About 100 ‘hit the trail,’ promising to give up their sins and devote their lives to God. The Tribune would suggest the better plan: “Surrender your lives to Christ and let His Spirit lead you in ways that are new and pastures green.” If you know a good thing and have confidence in it yourself, your love for humanity compels you to impart it to your friends that which you know to be worthy of praise. We positively tell you that we cannot speak too highly of Drew’s Salve in the treatment of croup, colds, coughs, sore-throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis and pneumo nia. Try it and if not benefited we, your druggist, will return your money. Mr. L. I). Sheppard, the contrac tor and builder, is now engaged in erecting a neat bungalow at Willa coochee for Mayor 1). E. Gaskins. He has just completed two in Pearson, one for Dr. J. S. Morris and the other for Mr. W. L. Five ash. He also was the builder of the Harmony Grove school build ing, among the nicest rural school houses in Coffee county. He is permanently located in Pearson for business. Messrs. Pafford & Harper will open a real estate office in the Ma lone block. The necessary furni ture has been ordered and is ox peeled to arrive soon. Lucie Jesse w ill have the business represented in the columns of the Tribune. My son, there is nothing to this sporting life except a deep, dark chasm looming up ahead of you to tumble in and be swallowed up before you live half your days out, if you persist in following it. SOUTH GEORGIA News of Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs Hawkinsville will add military training to the curriculum of her public school. Ware county is to have a poul try association and encourage the growing of poultry and supplying the home market with eggs. The At lantic Coast Line Rairoad Company will pay off its shop em ployees at Way cross semi-monthly, for which the shop employes %re truly thankful. The cotton buyers of Valdosta confidently predict that Sea Island cotton xvill sell for one dollar a pound before the season closes. They say not a half crop of this staple will be marketed. Half dozen bicycles were stolen Monday from as many Waycross boys. The “bikes” were recovered about ten miles from the city, but the boy thieves escaped. When last scon, they were headed for Nichols in Coffee county. The mammoth saw mill of Boo tle & Lane, six miles east of Nash ville, lias been completed and is in full operation. They use powerful overhead skidders for taking logs from the swamps and bays. The mill gives employment to about one hundred hands. .). M. l’urdom. Jr., of Blaekshear, has been admitted to the United States military aeronautical school at Princeton, and will learn avia I ion. Ileis a son of J. M. Purdom, Sr., and a nephew of the Brantleys. He has been connected with the National Agricultural Department and located in Atlanta until re cently. Western cattle are to take tlie place of native stock in Lowndes county. An order for sixteen car loads has been made, and Messrs. W. T. Staten and Thomas Dampier will go in person to select the cat tle, which are about one year old and guaranteed to weigh not less t han 800 pounds each. The farmers of South Georgia are being urged to use peanut meal for feeding their hogs instead of fresh peanuts as has been the cus tom so long in this section. It is held that the peanut meal makes better moat and firmer lard than the peanuts, the only objection to them being they tend to make both the lard and meat soft. The delay of the pay train of the Atlantic (’oast Line railroad in bringing back pay caused about fifty men in the Waycross shops and several hundred in the Savan nah shops to walk out on a strike Tuesday afternoon. However, ihe train arrived soon after the walk out, the men were paid and they returned to work N\ ednosday morning. It is stated an unusual hold up of this money at the head office in Wilmington, N. ('., caused (he walk out. About the only disposition of Hie famous Judson L. Hand wine supply that could be made, consis tent with state laws, is being made; that is, it is being poured out. Thus endeth a serio comic chapter of the story of prohibition in Georgia. And at the same time it may be said that there is genu ine regret in some quarters at what seems to be a terrible waste. Think of the parched tongues that wine could cool! Better if it had been consumed long ago than to be saved for such an unusual fate. —Scvannah News. #I.OO A YEAR The Jerusalem yam is a new va riety of sweet potato raised in the vicinity of Sycamore, Turner county. Another train load of Chinamen from San Francisco enroute lo Cuba passed through Way cross last Fri day night. They are laborers and are to work on the sugar planta tions of Cuba. A new species of syrup produc ing cane is being grown in Turner county, it is a hybrid produced by blending sugar-cane and sor ghum. The yield of syrup is re ported to be sevoi ecu gallons to a 2-horse wagon k d of cane, and of excellent flavor. The people of tl. • United States who give encour: ‘incut to the Germans at the ] sent time will not live long enou h to get over it. Fifty years from i w they will be pointed out as t >n who sulked when t heir count iwas in trouble. —Valdosta Times. The Moultrie O’’server suggests that “there shouhl be a law in South Georgia requiring I he schools to stay closed uni i ; . hot weath er is past.” Just as well have a law requiring the pupils to wash their faces and h inds and comb their hair six days in the week and rest on the seventh. The conference at Waycross on Wednesday for the discussion of matters pertaining to the Pecan nut and Satsuma orange industries was well attended and a profitable meeting. The Tribune regrets that more pressing engagements prevented it from being represent ed at this conference, Sheriff Tucker of Irwin county raided the private office of G. S. Wilcox, Mayor of Oeilla, last Tues day and confiscated 38 quarts and 137 pints of whiskey. The Mayor has made no statement, but his friends claim he is a victim of a “frame up.” That is surely too much whiskey for one Mayor to have on hand at one time. Hon. Charles (!. Edwards, former congressman from the first district, will be named to succeed Charles I). Russell, as assistant United States Attorney for the southern dist rict of Georgia. The Georgia delegation in Congress, except Fot Overstreet, had him slated for a position on the new waterways commission. <) verst reefs objection blocked it. The Georgia Land owners Asso ciation will hold a special meeting at Tiftou on the 15th, at which time it is expected a permanent organization will be effected. It is probable Gov. IT. M. Dorsey, Coin. J. J. Brown, State Veterina rian Dr. P. F. Bahnsen, xvill be present and discuss the two sub jects for which the Association stands —the Torrens land registra tion and the tick eradication Acts passed at the last session of the legislature. Most all of the high schools of Sout h Georgia opened for the fall term last Monday, and quite all of them have increased faculties and equipment. There is no doubt this sect ion of Georgia is waking up to the necessity of educating the rising generation. Speed the day when not only the town and city schools, but also the rural schools, will have improved appa ratus and nine months terms a year. This can be accomplished by properly laying off the counties into school districts.