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FALL ANNOUNCEMENT
L T WISH TO ANXOCXUE to my friends
££ _ and customers I hat iny FALL GOODS
are coining in by express and freight
and my stock will be complete in every depart
ment. I want to extend to you a cordial in
vitation to conic in and buy your bill of goods
from me.
H. L. Lankford
SPECIAL OCCASION FARES
— VIA _ . ,
THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE
"THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH"
VICKSBURG, MISS National Reunion and Peace .Jubilee.
Tickets on sale Oct. 14th and Tsth. Limil
Oct, 01st, 1917.
11l RM INC HA M, ALA Alabama State Fair. Tickets on sale
(from stations in Alabama only) Oct. (i to
13th. Limit Oct. 15th. 1917.
MACON, UA Georgia State Fair. Tickets on sale Oel.
iiOtli to Nov. Bth, Inclusive. Limil to
Nov. 12 th, 1917.
For information as to fares, schedules, etc., call on or write:
A. R. HOUSE.
Ticket Agent
PEARSON, GA.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA RY.
.Schedule Effective August 26th, IDI
Train* leave Wlllaeooehoc (or Dourlah,
I In/.!ehurut, Vldalla, Mt 111 mo re. Har
fieltl. Milieu, SwnliiHboro. Mltlvllle,
KeyHvllle, AuffUßta and Intermetllato
polntK.
Trains leave Wlllaeoocliee for Nukli
vllle, Adel. Sparks, Moultrie. Val
doHta, Madison, Fla., ami interme
diate points.
T. E. HARRIS, L. J. PARKS,
General Passenger Agent Traveling Passenger Agent,
Augusta, Ga. Augusta, Ga-
WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE
WEST & DUKES
PEARSON. GEORGIA
PEARSON TRIBUNE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
B. T. ALLEN, Editor
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JOB PRINTING
Every description of printing done at lowest prices in
keeping with the high prices of material used.
No. 1 Daily 9:4ba. m.
No. <i Daily ex, Sun. 6:03 p. tit.
No. 5 Dai1y....:.,... 4:26 p. in.
No. 7, Daily ex Mon. 7:47 p. in.
That we have bought out
the Whitley market fix
tures and have opened up
in the same building an
up-to-date market in ev
ery respect and will ap
preciate the patronage of
the general public.
PEARSON TRIBUNE, SEPTEMBER 28,1917
PEANUTS BRING HIGH
PRICE WHEN STACKED
Vines Ripen Normally And Give a
Bright, Nutritious Hay Equal
To Cowpea Vines
Instead of small, wrinkled nuts and
poor quality hay, as results from sun
cured peanuts, stacked peanuts ripen
normally and defvelop heavy nuts of
excellent quality along with a bright,
nutritious hay equal to cowpea hay for
feeding purposes, says Mr. Tabor of
the State College of Agriculture.
To stack peanuts select a stout pole
eight to ten feet high, set firmly in
the ground and nail two cross pieces
about a foot above the ground. The
peanut vines should be gathered be
fore they dry out and oiled about the
pole. The first vim*, are placed on
the cross pieces with the nuts toward
the pole and the. stack should be one
vine thick as measured from the pole.
The stacks are made as high as one
can conveniently reach and the tops
capped with grass to keep the birds
from the nuts at the top of the stack.
Five to six weeks is generally long
enough to allow for curing, though the
peanuts will keep longer in the, stack
if other farm work Is pressing. When
the peanuts are to be hauled to the
picker, the. poles are loosened and the
stacks loaded without tearing them tip.
Tn unloading grasp the poles below the
cross pieces, and shake the entire
stack on the picker or thresher.
The acreage fcf peanuts in Georgia
has increased according to crop esti
mates, 220 per cent this year. Mills
in southwest Georgia crushing cotton
seed have arranged tc, take care of ail
the peanuts offered and it is thought
that a considerable amount will be
crushed.
SECURE HOME GROWN
m OATS QUICKLY
Owing Do the fact that the major
portion of tlio oat crop was winter
killed, this year and that the supply
of need is very short, farmers are
urged by Mr. Childs of the United
Stut*s Department of Agriculture and
the, Stole College of Agriculture to se
clyre home grown seed oats as soon as
uOsalble from those counties In south
Georgia, where fair yields were ob
tained. Most of the seedsmen and a
number of individual farmers have a
limited (supply on hand at present, and
farmers are therefore urged to secure
their send for fall planting as soon as
possible, inasmuch as the supply of
native rfrown seed is limited.
Many inquiries have been received
as to tide use of Texas and Oklahoma
grown Red Rustproof oats for seeding
In Georgia. These oats will not do so
well as our native seed, even though
they can he purchased cheaper. Most
of the oats tn that section of the coun
try are grown for spring seeding,
while we want to seed them in the
early fall. If home grown seed can
not be obtained, the Texas crop is the
next best source, but when seed are
secured from that section the buyer
should satisfy himself that pure win
ter grown Rustproof seed are secured
and that they are free from such ob
noxious seeds as Johnson grass.
According to reports from Texas
and Oklahoma the corn crop of those
sections is practically a failure, due
to recent drought, and it is likely that
a large part of the oat crop will be
fed unless purchased soon for seed.
LEGHORNSPRUVE BEST
FOR EGG PROOUCTION
Because they lay more and eat less
Leghorns produce eggs cheaper than
hens of the general purpose breeds —
Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode
Island Reds and Orpingtons—says the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, and the Georgia State College
of Agriculture.
Feeding tests have shown that the
feed cost of a dozen eggs for one of
the Leghorn pens was 7:34 cents in
1913, while the average cost of all
the pens of the general-purpose breeds
was 10.6 cents. In 1914 the feed cost
of a dozen eggs tor the same pen of
Leghorns was 8,7 cents as against an
average cost of 15.1 cents for the sec
ond laying year of the general-purpose
pens. During their third laying year
the cost of a dozen eggs was 8.8 oents
compared to 18.6 cents for the general
purpose fowls. The total value of
eggs per hen over feed cost in the
Leghorn pen for three years was $6.84
against $4.30 for the general-purpose
hens. The highest' egg production ob
tained in any of the feeding experi
ments up to 1915 was by a pen of
Leghorns, which laid 157.6 eggs per
hen. at a feed cost of 6.7 cents a
dozen.
The value per dozen of the eggs
produced by the Leghorns was from
1 to 3 cents less each year than the
eggs of general-purpose hens. This
difference is due to the fact that the
general-purpose breeds are better win
ter layers than the Leghorns, while
the latter give a higher production in
the spring and summer. Very few
Leghorns become broody, which prob
ably materially affects their egg yield
as compared with the general-purpose
breeds. Better fertility in the eggs,
especially with stock confined to the
yards, is more often secured with Leg
horns than with the general-purpose
oi any of the heavier breeds.
FAMOUS TUNNELS
The Simplon Is the Greatest and
Costliest of Them All.
LONGEST HOLE EVER BORED.
This Road Through the Alps la More
Than Twelve Miles In Length and Its
Cost Exceeded Fifteen Millions—Our
Own Hoosao Tunnel.
Tlie costliest as well as the biggest
raiiroad tunnel in the world is the long
Wile burrowed below the Alps between
J4rigue, Switzerland, and Iselle, Italy.
This tremendous tunnel, the Simplon,
is 12 miles 537 yurds in length and cost
more than $15,1X10,000. Several mil
lions more will be spent in completing
the second chamber. Work was begun
on It in 1898, and traffic began to move
through In 1906.
The Simplon la about three miles
longer than the St. Gothard and the
Loctsehberg tunnels and more than
four miles longer than the Mont Cents,
the three next longest of tho world’s
railway tunnels.
The Mont Cents was the first of these
big bores. It was completed in 1871
ami at once diverted passenger and
freight transportation away from Swit
zerland, as it furnished a direct route
to Italy from southeastern France.
The Swiss determined to win back
their lost traffic, and in 1871 work was
started on the St. Gothard, which was
not finished until eleven years later.
The St Gothard Is about nine and one
third miles in length and cost $11,500,-
000.
In its toll of lives it was the costliest
of all. Faulty ventilation, the terrific
heat and tho lack of care in keeping
down the dust caused the deaths of 800
laborers. This tunnel is wholly in
Swiss territory, tend eight years ago It
was bought from the owners by the
government.
The Simplon, located about halfway
between the Mont Cenis and the St.
Gothard, Is a double tunnel, although
only one chamber linn beam wholly ex
cavated. The other will be enlarged
and [nit Into service when the first be
comes overtaxed. Butter arrangements
for ventilation kept the death roll
down to sixty, twenty-five cubic feet
of fresh air being supplied to the labor
ers for every ot*o blown into the St.
Gothard.
The difficulties conquered were tre
mendous. The SSmplon is not only tho
longest, but the lowest of the Alpine
tunnels, and the rock temperature
sometimes reached 138 degrees.
When tho workmen from the Swiss
side reached the center of the great
bore they were halted by an enormous
sluing of hot water. Then the Italians
were stopped, and for some time it
looked as though the whole work might
have to be abandoned. But the engi
neers refused to be daunted, although
six months were required to dig out
tho lust 300 yards of the tunnel.
So slight were the errors made In
tho digging that the headings from ei
ther side met with deviations of but
eight inches Internally and three and
one half inches vertically. The total
length of the tunnel was thirty-six
Inches less than had been calculated.
Trains are pulled through the tunnel
In eighteen minutes, at the rate of
forty-two miles an hour, by powerful
electric locomotives.
The I.oetschberg is the latest of the
big Swiss tunnels. This is about the
same length us the St. Gothard and
is also wholly in Swiss territory, being
located to the north of the Simplon.
It is a part of the Bernese Alps rail
way, which has thirty-four tunnels in
its forty-eight miles between Thun and
Brigue.
The Simplon will apparently remain
tho biggest of railway tunnels until a
submarine one is driven under the Eug
lish channel or perhaps under Bering
sea. At present the longest projected
mountain tunnel in Europe is a French
undertaking, which Is planned to pass
directly under Mont Blanc, the high- 1
est mountain in Europe, and to form
another highway between France and
Italy. But this tunnel will be only a
little over eleven miles long, so that
it will he merely second in rauk if It
Is carried out.
The Hooeac tunnel, in western Mas
sachusetts, was the first really big tun
nel In the United .States. Begun in
1555, it was not finished until 1576.
Air drills and nitroglycerin were used
in this work for the first time on a
big scale In any American engineering
work. The Hoosao tunnel is four and
three-quarters miles in length.—Boston
I’osL
Geologist's Thermometer.
Quartz is the geologist's thermome
ter, for it is formed between narrow
ranges of temperature. If the mate
rials from which nature makes it are
subjected to more than so much beat
they take on an entirely different char
acter from quartz. The same is title
if they are subjected to less than a cer
tain amount of beat-
None Worth While.
‘‘There is one thing I am rather
worried about in this suburban club
business.”
"What is that, my dear?”
“Do you know if they serve cakes
with these golf tecs?” Baltimore
American.
An Improvement.
“He left his home all for her.”
"Why so':"
“Well, you see. hers was the bettor
home.”—l’cnn State Froth.
To double your troubles and lessen
your friends taik ibutte them.—Youth's
Companion.
ATTENTION PUBLIC!
I have just received a full line of
Fall Goods, at which 1 bought be
fore the prices advanced. K am
going to give my customers the
benefit of the Bargains. Call
around and let us show you our
stock before you buy.
PEARSON BARGAIN HOUSE
I. PASSON, Prop.
PEARSON, - - - GEORGIA
Every Person Should Consider
In The First Pface
The ability to save is one of the very first
rules in the game of success.
In The Second Place
Did you ever meet a successful man who
at some time did not owe his success to his
cooperation with sonic Bank?
Onr success depends on your success.
Think it over and start an account with
Pearson Banking Company
Patterson’s Pharmacy
( any Complete Line Druggists' Sundries Such as
Velvetina Toilet Articles, Large Assortment of
Toilet Soaps, Variety Dental Creams
Attention of Housewives is called to our stock
of Red Indian Fruit Jar Rubbers.
Handsome Line of Jewelry. Call and see it.
Standard Proprietary Medicines.
Our Fountain Drinks are Unexcelled.
When in town, come to see us
EXCURSION ARES
VIA.
G. S. & F. Ry.
To
Atlantic Beach, Pablo Beach,
Jacksonville and White Springs, Fla.
Tickets at following round trip Excursion Fares: can be
purchased from Tilton, (la., via. G. S. & F. Ry.
SEASON TJt'KETS Sold Daily
Atlantic Beach ..$7.30
Pablo Beach $7,25
White Springs $4-75
WEEK END TICKETS: Sold for Saturday trains and
train No. 3, Sunday's limited Tuesday following date of
sale.
Atlantic Beach or Pablo Beach $4.60
White Springs $3.30
FIFTEEN DAY TICKETS: Sold daily, limited 15-days
from date of sale.
White Springs $3.80
SUNDAY ONLY TICKETS: Sold for G. S. & F. Ry.
train No. 3. each Sunday morning, limited to return on
train No. 4. date of sale.
Jacksonville $3.00
White Springs $1.50
For full details as to schedules etc., call on W. E. Dodge,
tic ket agent, Tifton. Ga.. or address
J. W. JAMISON, T. F. A. or C. B.RHOEESG. P. A.
MACON, GEORGIA