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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. FOR FIVE OR TEN YEARS vyffriy LOAN CORRESPONDENT FOB COBB. JESUP 8 COMPANY Quick Loans Competent Service WRITE OR SEE 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? PIEDMONT INSTITUTE | In the Breezy Metropolis of South Georgia mm Offers thorough business courses. -**• Rare teachers, delightful locations, splendid opportunities Boy Scouts for younger students. Christian spirit thru all. For further particulars address" M. O. CARPENTER, Pres. Waycross, Ga. 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.