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PEARSON®TRIBUNE
VOL. 3—]STO. 22
COFFEE COUNTY
News Items Gathered from Various Sources
The Tribune is proud to learn
that; Mr. Isaac .1. Owens, at almost
the last moment before entraining
at Douglas for Camp Gordon, re
ceived an honorable discharge un
til further orders and was permit
ted to return home. The right
tiling will always prevail.
The ginner’s report shows a 20
per cent, shortage in the cotton
crop of Coffee county. They say
that there has been ginned this
year up to September Ist. 3,599
bales, against 4,039 lasi year. And
many of these bales have not gone
on the market the farmers are
properly holding for better prices.
Dr. J. M. Hall, of Douglas, fore
man of the grand jury serving at
the September Term of Coffee su
perior court is the recipient of
many complimentary references by
his comrades as to his capability
as a foreman. They say he carries
on the business smoothly and with
facility. He gets no knots tied in
the skein of business.
The fifth Sunday meeting of
Smyrna Association will be held
with the llurkett church in the
northern part of Coffee county,
one and a half miles from Lehigh
station on the Georgia and Florida
railroad. It will be a two days
meeting, tomorrow and next day
The program for the meeting em
braces some timely topics, such as:
1. Is the standard of Christian
living what it should be? 2. Could
a gos|H*i tent, if allowed by the as
soeiation, be used to advantage?
3. Could a general missionary be
supiiorted by the association? 4.
What is Christian literatim*? 5.
What are the means of growth in
grace after conversion? 6. What
is Christian education, and is it
worth while?
A horrible homicide was commit
ted at the Vary an wood camps,
four miles south of Pearson, last
Saturday night about eight o’clock.
A Mr. lYttus was the victim of a
load of buckshot from a shot gun
at the hands of, according to the
verdict of the coroner's jury, Geo.
Yates and William Starling. The
parties are all white. No motive
has yet developed for the dastard
ly deed. It is understood, how
ever, that the load of buckshot
found the wrong victim; that it
was intended for Mr. McQuaig,
who was sitting down and talking
with Mr. Pettus when the shot
was fired. Officers have taken
charge of Yates and Starling and
one lodged in jail at Waycross and
the other at Douglas.
A CAR LOAD
Of 1. H. C. Wagons just received
all kinds from alight one horse toa
heavy two mule Tie or Tur|>entine
Wagon. We can save you money
in Wagons, also on Stoves, Ranges
and all kinds of furniture. See
us before you buy.
Take Herbine for all distur
bances in the bowels. It purifies
the bowel channels, promotes reg
ular movements and makes you
feel bright, vigorous and cheerful.
Price 50c. Sold by Morris Drug
Co.
City and Farm Loans at 6 Per Cent.
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L. A. HARGREAVES
Pearson, Atkinson County, Georgia
November 13th to 17th are the
dates named for the holding of the
Coffee County Fair. It appears to
the Tribune rather late to begin
active work in behalf of this enter
prise, but much can be done with
in the intervening five weeks. It
will require a lot of hustling. The
Tribune will do its “bit” in the
matter.
The Smyrna Baptist Association
will hold its regular annual meet
ing with the Stokc.Nville church,
beginning Friday. October sth, at
10 a. m., and continue through Sun
day. This church is located on
the eastern side of Coffee county
and in the midst of a splendid
community. The Baptist Woman’s
Missionary Cnion meets Thursday
before at the same place for a one
day session.
There now! The United States
government has located an expert
at Douglas to teach our people
how to raise, harvest and keep
sweet potatoes. Tubers have been
raised, harvested and kept in Cof
fee county ever since “the memory
of the oldest inhabitant runneth
not to the contrary.” Our young
men have been tutored in the
science from their childhood, and
in all this time it is insinuated
they failed to learn the best way.
The Tribune will bet a “thrip to a
ginger cake" that Uncle Dan
Gaskins, now mayor of Douglas,
can give this expert more pointers
on this subject than he ever
“dreamed of in his wildest imagi
nation.” And these pointers will
be safe and sane.
Coffee county is taking little or
no interest in tick eradication.
There is not a vat in the county
within the Tribune's knowledge.
Little or no interest in cattle rais
ing, notwithstanding in the days
agone the county was one vast cat
tie range and the early settlers
grew rich on their herds of cattle,
driving them in great herds to
Savannah, Augusta and Macon —
these being distributing points.
11 was real interesting to hear Un
cle John M. Lott and others of the
former cattle men detail their ex
periences in driving cattle to mar
ket and tlnf difficulty in getting
home safe with the money paid
them for their cattle. Highway
men were plenty and always on
the lookout for rich cattle men.
Banks were not the conveniences
then that they rre now.
John E. Herring, a farmer of the
Fowlstown district of Decatur
county, has returned to the use of
home-made shoes. He furnished
an old negro shoemaker a couple
of goat hides and a cow hide and
he made Mr. Herring five pairs of
tan shoes at a total cost of $7.50,
that looks and wears as well as the
$8 and $lO sort. The old negro
charged $1 a pair to make these
shoes.
When you need Noteheads,
Enveloupes Statements or any
thing else in the printing line
let us figure with you.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 101 T
SAVANNAH LETTER
Savannah, Sept. 26. —Work is
expected to start- within thirty
days on an electric, line to Port
Wentworth, the new manfaeturing
district, according to announce
ment made by General Manager
Foss. At Port Wentworth is lo
cated the mammoth plant of the
Savannah Sugar Refining Corpora
tion, the big Savannah Warehouse
and Compress Company, the At
lantic Paper and Pulp Company,
Port Wentworth Lumber Company
and the Terry Shipbuilding Com
pany and other large industries up
the river. These industries with
their large contingent of working
people form a considerable settle
ment which makes it imperative,
to facilitate business relations be
tween the city and these people,
that a convenient car line be es
tablished and it will prove a pay
ing investment for the Electric
(Ynnpany.
xxx
Solicitors to raise $150,000 for
the building of the much needed
bridge across the Altamaha river
have been sent out from Savannah
by the recently formed Altamaha
River Bridge Company. The loca
tion for the crossing of the river
has not been secured as yet. All
stockholders will be entitled to
free use of the bridge. When W.
G. Sut-live, managing editor of the
Savannah Press, was at Josup re
cently one man offered to sell
$25,000 worth of the stock if the
bridge be built at Doctortown.
xxx
Savannah’s five Methodist con
gregations arc planning to build
and supply a Methodist church at
Port Wentworth during the pres
ent winter, Plans will be taken
up and discussed by the Mission
Board of the South Georgia con
ference when it meets in Albany
in November. It will be a great
church convenience to the working
people employed by the several in
dustries at Port Wentworth.
xxx
No successor has been named yet
for E. T. Comer, of Millray, ••hair
man of the First District exemp
tion board, who has resigned on
account of ill health. Hon. J. .1.
E. Anderson, of Statesboro, has
been elected chairmap although no
one has been named to take Mr.
< omer’s place on the board. The
headquarters of the board is in
Savannah.
xxx
So valuable has county demon
stration work proved in carrying
out war emergency measures that
forty new county demonstrators
have been appinted and South
Georgia divided into four districts
with Savannah, Macon, Colum
bus and Valdosta as headquarters.
Miss Catherine Lanier, formerly
county demonstrator in Ghat ham,
lias been named to head one of the
four newly created districts,
x x x
J. Ward Motte, formerly presi
dent of the Savannah Board of
Trade and head of the Producers’
Naval Stores Bompany, has been
made export license agent for the
export license adm i n i s 1 ration
board at Savannah. Savannah
thus becomes, under the selection
of the government, the administra]
tive point for all of the South At
lantic coast and much of the Gulf
coast. Charleston, Brunswick,Jack
sonville, Tampa and smaller ports
on this section of the coast procure
their licenses from this city instead
of sending to Washington.
xxx
Odd Fellows from the First Con
gressional District will hold their
annual conference in Savannah on
October 4th. It is expected the
Grand Master will attend the ses
sion which gives promise of being
a large one.
ATLANTA LETTER
Atlanta, Sept. 27. —“In com
parison with the price of wheat
and some other products, cotton
to-day is worth and should be sell
ing around 31 cents a pound,” is
the emphatic view of Commission
er Brown of the State Department
of Agriculture.
When cotton went down to 20
cents for no apparent reason the
Department urged the holding of
cot (on off the market. Evidently
thb advice was heeded as, within
a few days, the staple began to ad
vam e and will soon assume a price
in keeping with that of other pro
duets and where the produeer can
afford lo sell.
There is not anywhere near a
sufficient supply of cotton to meet
the world’s needs. “We are on
the verge of a cotton famine,” says
Commissioner Brown, “indications
point to not more, than 12,000,000
bales in all the South, when the
world needs and can use 20,000,000
bales.” Farmers are acting wisely
to hold their cotton.
x x x
Georgia has grown thousands of
tons of velvet beans this year and,
singularly enough, owing to short
age in other protein supplying cat
tle foods, there is extraordinary
need and demand for them. Cesj
satiou of whisky manufacture has
cut off a very large proportion of
the cattle feed supply for which
grain mash, after distillation, was
used. Velvet and soy beans must
take the place of this material. To
get in touch with the right mar
kets the State Market Bureau has
communicated with more than two
hundred leading manufacturers of
cattle and stock feeds in the Uni
ted States and Canada, from which
about seventy five replies have
been received, asking for samples
for analysis and car load lots, and
one northern manufacturer wants
30,000 tons.
The Stale market bureau is not
only engaged in locating markets
for this'Georgia product but it is
also working on the matter of se
curing proper and reasonable rates
of freight.
The market bureau invites all
Georgia farmers who have velvet
beans, peanuts and similar prod
mis for sale to lisl them and prom
ises to push the matter of finding
the best possible market with the
least delay.
xxx
Current newspaper articles an
nounce shipments, already begun,
of nearly 6,000 head of Shorthorns
and other varieties of high grade
cattle for breeding purposes, frolu
Texas to various points in Georgia.
The Department of Agriculture
calls attention to the fact that
tick-free cattle are being shipped
only to Georgia counties which
have been freed of the tick.
Tick-infested counties cannot af
ford to get these splendid cattle
for breeding purposes and can only
buy from tick-infested territory.
They may get some fair stock, but
cannot hope to get the same splen
did quality of breeding cattle that
comes from the tick-free sections
of Texas and other states.
Every Georgia eounly naturally
wants the best and to get it there
is only one thing to do — Get Rid
of the Cattle Tick at Once.
X X X
Go to your County Fair; not
once, but often. Go to the Slate
Fair, the Georgia Florida Fair at
Valdosta, and the Southeastern at
Atlanta. It is a good thing for
every farmer and his family to vis
it and make a study of all the fairs
they can. Fairs are educational;
they teach you much about agri
culture and are in every way a
great help. Every fair should be
well attended this fall.
SOUTH GEORGIA
News of Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs
Thomasville will entertain the
Georgia Confederate veterans at
their annual encampment next
Tuesday and Wednesday.
It is reported that Clinch coun
ty is not short on road hands. New
recruits are added from each
monthly grinding of the County
Court.
Senator T. W. Hardwick is be
ing kicked all about the State.
Judge Ledford, a relative of Mrs.
J. 11. CavenPer of Axson, “skinned
him alive” over at Cairo last Fri
day night-.
Mrs. Bessie Stanley Wood, head
of the county home demonstration
work in South Georgia, announces
that she has placed the twenty ad
ditional home demonstrators in
her territory.
'Phe annual South Georgia con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South will be held in Al
bany, commencing November 24tli.
Already elaborate preparations are
being made for its entertainment
and the comfort of attendants.
The Southwest Georgia Fair
opens at Bainbridge next Tuesday.
'Phe fair grounds cover an area of
th>rty square acres, and its promo
ters claim it to be the third largest
fair in Georgia. Bainbridge is a
progressive city.
Mr. J. E. Carter, of Tifton, mis
took his wife for a burglar several
niglils ago and gave her life con
tents of a shotgun, from the effects
of which she died last Sunday aft
ernoon. Mr. Carter is crazed with
grief. She left him with live little
daughters, the oldest fourteen and
the youngest five years old.
< lov. Dorsey lfas not made an ap
pointment of judge for Clinch
county court as yet, and the prob
ability is he will not do so until
(lie legislature meets next summer,
as his appointee would have to be
confirmed by the Senate before be
coming a full-fledged judge and
authorized to assume the duties of
I he office.
The 13-year old son of J. A. Rob
inson, owner of the Milltown gin
nery, was instantly killed last Fri
day afternoon. The lad went to
the pump to get a drink of water;
his clothing was caught by the
belt driving the pump, hurling him
over the shaft and almost stripping
his body of its limbs. Both arms
were torn off, both his legs broken
and his body otherwise mutilated.
Miss Johnnie Smith, an attract
ive young lady of the Mud Creek
district of Clinch county, and who
lues many friends among the young
people of Pearson, is another stud
ent from this section for the co
educational college at Meridian,
Miss. Funny our Georgia colleges
are not attractive to our young
people. What is there about the
Meridian college that gives it su
periority to our Georgia schools?
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SI.OO A YEAR
J. A. Robinson, of Milltown, who
owns and operates a large ginnery
and grist mill, is now adding the
necessary machinery for grinding
stock feed.
Swainsboro, Emanuel county, is
a candidate for the location of tho
Twelfth District Agricultural Col*
lege, for which provision was made
by the legislature last summer.
A company of Salisbury, N. Cl,
dealing in road aid bridge mate
rials, has sued Irwin county for
$3,500, tlie price lor supplies furn
ished and for ,wlii< i the county lias
not paid.
Judge Emory Speer has appoint
ed Judge D. E. G iffin to succeed
Mr. Hal Lambdin as referee in
bankruptcy for the southeastern
division of the Uni led States Court
for the Southern District of Geor
gia. The headquarters will be in
Fitzgerald,
Hon, T. V. Kea in, of Fort Val
ley, and an enthu iastic promoter
of the new county with that city
as the county seal, has propagated
a new and very late peach, which
comes on the market ig after the
regular crop is forgotten. It is re
ported to be of fin ■ ilavor.
There is a complaint in Clinch
county of a shortage of meat hogs.
The farmers of that county have
raised more feed than their supply
of hogs will consume. The Tribune
suggests that the surplus be har
vested and sold to the feed mills;
dhere is a •market for all they can
gather.
Military tactics has become a
part of the curriculum of the
Thomasville high school. The Tri
bune remembers in 1862 military
was the physical training at old
Fletcher Institute, Thomasville,
and ('apt. Charles B. Ilansell was
the drill master. Hardee’s tactics
was used, and I he young men mado
their guns of ash wood.
The four ilomerville boys to go
,to Camp Gordon next are Messrs.
E. J. Smith, F. L. Saunders, W. J.
Barlow and Lee Peagler. Those
from Clinch county who went for
ward on Hie 19th were Messrs.
Thomas Higgs, Wilburn Parmer,
George Cason, Fred Nettles,Lonnie
D. Davis, J). R. Brady and Brant
ley W. Swearingen.
The wealthy saw mill firm of J.
It. & T, Bunn, of Fairfax, Ware
county, will dispose of their mill
machinery and engage in farming
and stockraising on a large scale.
They own 12,000 acres of land ad
joining Fairfax; they will fence
4,000 acres immediately and put it
in cultivation. They already have
700 acres in cultivation from which
they will gather this season 125
bales of cotton, 8,000 bushels of
corn, 50 tons of hay and velvet
beans, peanuts and other crops in
great quantity. They will begin
to improve their live-stock, enlarge
their farming operations and show
the world what a glorious country
we have down here in wiregrass
Georgia.