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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 SUBSCRIPTION: SI.OO a Year 50c Six Months If you receive a sample copy, it is an invitation for you t° snliscribe. You will lind The Tribune newspaper worthy of your patronage. ADVERTISIN R \ T£S: I.h“ for single column inch each iiisortion. Reading no tices. in regular tyi>e, 5e per line. In black type 8c a line. 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