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PEARSONffiTRIBUNE
VOL. 3—STO. 24
COFFEE COUNTY
News Items Gathered from Varius Su rces
Judge Levi O’Steen of Douglas,
is beginning to let tbe voters know
that he is a candidate for Solicitor
General of the Wayeross judicial
circuit.
Don’t forget that the Fiddlers
Convention meets at Nicliolhs next
Salurd ay —tomorrow —and tko
Wiregrass Singing Convention
meets there Sunday. Go io both,
have a good time, and help them
to success.
The Georgia & Florida railroad
has changed its scheduled) that
the afternoon train from Douglas
makes connection with the Atlan
tic Coast Line at Willaeoochee for
Pearson.
Neuralgia of the face, shoulders,
hands, or feet requires a powerful
remedy that will penetrate the
flesh. BALLARD’S SNOW LIM
MENT possesses that power. Rub
bed in where the pain is felt is all
that is necessary to relieve suffer
ing and restore normal conditions.
Price 25e, 50c and #I.OO per bottle
Sold by Morris Drug Store.
The Woman’s Missionary I' nion
of Smyrna association met at
Stokcsville church, in the eastern
part of the county, last Thursday.
It was a pleasant and profitable
meeting to those who attended.
The next annual meeting will be
at Alma, Bacon county.
Judge \V. C. Lankford of Doug
las, it is announced, will assuredly
be in the race for Congress next
year. The Judge received a good
vote in this section last year,
which will be trebled in the next
race. If all sections of the Dis
trict were like this he would go to
congress by a big majority.
A colored tenent farmer of Cof
fee county has just sold h is part of
the cotton crop and invested
$1,165 of the money in an automo
bile. Had a good roll left. It
will be a wonder if he is not a
spoiled tenant farmer. That auto
mobile will be mightily in his way
as a tenant farmer, unless he
proves an exception to the rule.
Editor Fred Picket.son. Coffee
County Progress, reads the Tri
bune a lecture because it didn’t
know there was any dipping vats
in Coffee county, when there was
one or two right under its nose,
and that the farmers had interes
ted themselves in tick eradica
tion. Well, the Tribune is young
yet, it is learning rapidly what is
going on in the good old county
and what it finds out will be given
to its readers while it is fresh. Its
corkscrew, in this instance, has
brought to light and given to the
public an important fact about
our farmers and their progressive
ness along this particular indus
try. The Tribune probed for the
facts arid got them; the people,
with Editor Ricketson, fell all
over themselves in giving it the
information sought. Many good
people display ignorance in order
to get real facts, and the world is
thereby made better and wiser
Thanks, Bro. Ricketson, the Tri
bane will know where to apply for
such important facts in the future*
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L. A. HARGREAVES
Pearson, Atkinson County, Georgia
Judge J. AV. Quiuccy, of Doug
las, sold 181 bales of upland cot
ton last Saturday at 24 cents a
pound, the aggregate sum being
more than $20,000. He is one of
the big farmers of Coffee county.
Mr. G. S. Darley departed Ibis
life at his home two miles north of
Homerville, on Wednesday of last
week. He leaves his wife, a sister
of Dr. B. S. Malone, of Pearson,
—two sons and a daughter to
mourn his decease.
Coffee county farmers have had
a regular debt paying time this
year, and have some money left in
the till for Christmas. With
proper management next year they
will be able to hold their cotton
and other products off the market
until such time as they see fit to
sell.
The men appointed to manage
the “Liberty Bond” campaign in
Coffee county are J. J. Shelton,
county chairman. C. E. Baker,
Douglas; Carl Meeks, Nieli
oils, B. G. Oberry. Willacoo
elice; 11. P. Smith, Pearson; I. W.
Moorman, Ambrose; J. S. Palmer,
Broxton, are the district chairmen.
Surgeons agree t hat in eases of
Cuts, Burns, Bruises and Wounds,
the first treatment is most ini
port ant. When an efficient an
tiseptie is applied promptly, there
is no danger of infection and Un
wound begins to heal at once. For
use on man or beast, B< )R( Y/A )N E
is the IDEAL ANTISEPTIC and
MEALING AGENT. Buy it now
and be ready for an emergency.
Price 25c. 50c, SI.OO and #1.50.
Sold by Morris Drug Co.
Some of the citizens of Douglas,
especially those who were leaders
in locating a tobacco market there
are up in arms against the appoint
merit of W. E. Lea, of Timmons
ville, S. C., to be the tobacco
demonstration agent of the Atlan
ta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail
road and whose special duty it is
to advocate the growing of large
crops of tobacco in the counties of
Ben Hill, Colquitt, Irwin and Tift,
and the location of a central ware
hous, presumably at Tifton, for
these four counties. They say
Lea, who owns a warehouse at Tim
rnonsville, was the only opponent
they had in establishing the Doug
las warehouse and that the rail
road authorities know it, and that
the stockholders who put their
money into the building of the
warehouse and establishing a mar
ket at Douglas did so at the in
stance of the railroad authorities
and they view this action of the
railroad as a very raw deal to
Douglas and the stockholders of
the Douglas warehouse, and es
pecially when they had taken the
necessary step to enlarge their fa
cilities to handle a much larger
crop next year. As the Tribune
sees it the deal is very apparently
a raw one, and a kick is in order,
but the signs of tobacco growing
next year will not he a small affair
and that "Lea and the railroad will
not disturb the soundness of the
Douglas warehouse, with all its in
creased capacitp and facilities, nor
the market established there.
EAR SON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 11)17
ATLANTA LETTER
Atlanta, October 10 —Represen
ted by their Commissioners of Ag
rieulture, Market Bureau Direc
tors and the State President of the
Farmers’ Union, the farmers of
the cotton growing states have
declared that present conditions
justify a price of not less than 80
cents a pound for cotton, and have
formed a permanent organization
to look after the regular market
ing of the crop on a fair basis.
It is due io Georgia’s earnest
and persistent effort in the New
< )rleans cotton convention of last
week, that these two important
steps were taken. In that con
vention Georgia was represented
by Commissioner of Agriculture J.
J. Brown, Director L. B. Jackson
of the Georgia Bureau of Markets
and J. 11. Mills of Jenkinsburg,
President of the Georgia Farmers’
Union.
It was Georgia, too, that pre
vented the passage by that con
vention of a resolution indorsing
government/ control of cotton.
Georgia led the fight against it,
because Federal control would
have meant, in effect, the control
by three fourths of the states
which are non producers and large
consumers, of the one fourth that
are producers of cotton,
On the question of suggesting a
price for cotton the convention
was divided. Some wanted to iix
a minimum price; some wanted
figures left out entirely; while still
others wanted figures higher than
those which were finally adopted.
Commissioner Brown strongly
supported on the floor, the follow
ing resolution offered by Director
Jackson of the Georgia Market
Bureau, with the result that it.
w as adopted by a unanimous vote
of the convention:
“it is the sense of this meeting
that the present selling price of
manufactured cotton goods pro
ducts fully justify a price of not
less than thirty cents a pound to
the farmer.”
This was directly in line with
the announcement and warning is
sued to the farmers of Georgia
through its Department of Agri
culture the latter part of Hep tern
her when cotton was forced down,
without reason, to 20 cents ;i
pound. It will be recalled at that
time that Commissioner Brown
and Director Jackson issued a
statement urging and warning the
farmers of Georgia not to let a
pound of their cotton go at less
than 25 cents and stating that, in
their opinion, it was worth fully
30 cents. Subsequent facts have
fuJiy borne out the wisdom of this
declaration.
'The most important action of
the convention, urged also by
Georgia, was the organization of
the Cotton States Official Advis
ory Marketing Board, to be corn
posed of the Commissioners of Ag
riculture, The Market Bureau Di
rector and the Farmers’ Union
President of each of the cotton
states. This was the plan offered
by the Georgia Department of
Agriculture, and presented to the
convention by Director Jackson.
The work of this organization
which will grow in importance
every day, will be the marketing
of southern agricultural products
at a fair price, with cotton as the
immediate problem. Its head
quarters will be in New- Orleans,
the southern center of cotton trad
ing, and it will employ an expert
statistician who will gather facts
about the cost of production, in
every county in the south, as well
as the cost of cotton goods and the
price obtained for them in all
markets. It will be seen that the
organization is directly represen
tative of the people, as it is com
posed of men chosen by popular
vote in their respective states)
THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR.
Atlanta, Ga,, Oct. —With the
greatest exhibit list ever assem
bled in one enclosure ready for the
big crowds that are coming, the
’Southeastern Fair at Atlanta, will
open its doors Saturday morning
Oet. 13, for an eight day session.
Bigger, brighter, belter than
ever describes not only the fair as
a whole, but each individual de
partment in particular. The great
ly increased prizes, aggregating
#65,000, have spurred the farmers,
stock raisers and housewives of
the southeast to enter ail their
finest products with the result, that
every booth is running over with
the very pick of all the farm pro
ducts.
Foremost in interest to the huge
crowds that, are comingwill be the
cattle show, automobile show:,
Grand Circuit races and the long
list, of free attractions.
The cattle show will reveal the
most magnificent collect ion of
blooded stock ever seen in the
south. To the fanner who is in
terested in growing meat, or pro
ducing dairy products, ihe oppor
tunity for learning what is best, in
cattle will be unsurpassed. The
kings and queens of cattledom will
be there, some of them direct from
the Royal Cattle Show of Kansas
City, others from tin 1 prize farms
of the middle west, while still oth
ers will hear the colors of south
ern est ablishments.
-The automobile show will in
elude special displays of farm
t ractors and trucks, many of which
embody the very latest ideas in
applying the motor to farm work.
The greatest of the Grand Cir
cuit performers this year will be
seen on Lakewood track.
The women’s exhibits will draw
thousands of women to the fair
grounds from every walk of life.
Jams and jellies xvill share interest
with knitting for the soldiers and
educational exhibitions.
Children’s day will be on Tues
day, when all school children will
be admitted for ten cents. Of
special interest on this day will he
t he exhibits of the hoys’corn clubs
and the girls’canning clubs. The
fireworks every night, the free
vaudeville, and the wonderful mid
way attructions will also keep the
eyes and ears of those who attend
busy from the time they step in
the grounds until they finally are
dragged away late at night to go
to bed thoroughly tired but won
derfully happy.
The officers elected were Presi
dent Harry D. Wilson, Commis
sioner of Agriculture of Louisiana;
Vice-President, John A. Simpson,
President of the Farmers’ Union
of Oklahoma, and Secretary, L. B.
Jackson of the Georgia Market
Bureau, who offered the organiza
tion plan. The advisory Board
will meet in Washington, I). ('.,
October 15th, when an executive
board will be elected and rules
and regulations adopted.
“In my opinion,” said President
J. 11. Mills of the Georgia Farm
ers’ Union, who is just back from
the New Orleans meeting, “this is
the biggest and best day’s work
that has ever been done for the
farmersof the south. Itwillmean
millions and, perhaps, billions to
them, in the greater stability
which it will give to fair cotton
prices. Every Georgia farmer
should know of this organization,
and what it is going to mean to
him; for it is going to work right
now- in his interests:
“I feel that we are done now
with mere resolutions and high
sounding speeches, and are going
to get results. And one of the
most gratifying things about it all
is that Georgia led the fight for
this constructive work.
SOUTH GEORGIA
News of Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs
fcGharlton Superior Court last
week adjourned after a two days’
session, but those two days were
busy ones.
Messrs. W. V. M usgrove and R
G. Dickerson, of Homerville, have
just sold a tract of saw mill timber
for $15,000. The Southern Pine
Company were the purchasers.
According to the verdict of the
coroner's jury Eulaw C. Murray, a
young man of Berrien county, was
drowned in the Alapaha river near
Alapaha on the sth instant.
Tax payers, over in Lowndes
county, are rushing to (ax collect
or’s office to claim “no man’s land”
which they failed to return. They
rather pay taxes than to lose the
land.
The Charlton county fair was
held last week. The exhibits were
good, though the agricultural ex
hibits were not as good as last
year on account of the climatic
conditions being unfavorable to
the growth of most of the crops.
W. A. < 'lark, Jr., of Jacksonville,
Telfair county, sold a 2-year old
colt, raised on his farm, for $175
last week, lie raised five and sold
two, both netting him a handsome
profit, lie, his brother and fath
er, all raise their own stock, and
find it pays.
The Tribune regrets to learn of
Ihe misfortune that befell Warren,
the II year old son of Judge Joe
Powell, of the Mud Creek district
of Clinch county. Two weeks ago
one of his feet was caupht in the
machinery of the Simians ginnery
and was so badly lacerated that
amputation just above the ankle
was found to he necessary.
The old Confederates at the
Thomasville reunion adopted a res
olution, offered by Judge George
llillyer, of Atlanta, suggesting
that the general government re
fund to the South not only Ihe il
legal cotton (ax it collected just
after the war but also the money
it has paid in taxes for pensions.
It would now amount to several
billions of dollars.
Mr. L. G. Whitley, a progressive
farmer living south of Fitzgerald,
has a twenty aero field of soja
beans which he has just harvested,
and he reports a yield of two tons
of hay and twenty bushels of beans
per acre. The hay is said lobe
worth $35 per ton and the beans
$2 per bushel, making an. aggre
gate of sllO per acre for this crop.
A man by tho name of Surles,
wanted in Wayne county twenty
two years for murder, has just been
eaptureil in Savannah. After com
milling the crime he hastened to
the far West and assumed tbe
name of Jernigam lb* married
and has a family, wife and child
ren-—among them three sons about
grown. He thought his sin had
been forgotten and he ventured
back to Georgia. He will now be
tried for his crime, confronted by
the witnesses all of whom are still
living.
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s*l.< O A YEAR
Dr. Reavis, of Homerville, lost
his handsome bungaloo residence
by fire one night last week. It
was partially covered by insurance.
John J. Bouhan, of Savannah,
was sworn in Monday and entered
upon his dut iesas assistant district
attorney for the Soul hern District
of Georgia.
Capl. Walter A. Gray, of the
160th engineers at Camp Wheeler,
is visiting his sisler, Mrs. R, G.
Scruggs, near Wav cross. Several
Pearson boys are i . the 160th.
A preacher. Rev T. N. Hard rick,
went to Valdosta o circus day and
pickpockets relic d him of his
wad of $22. It w; the only theft
of the kind durin the day; must
have taken him fc a preacher.
A train load of o lured selectmen
passed through Ai any last Satur
day enroute to Camp Gordon, and
it is reported the conductor had
a difficult time in .reserving order
on the train. Ser io was prone to
show his natural individuality,
which Jacked the quality of good
breeding.
The present out look is that there
will be tobacco pkv'i! * l in nearly
every county iij :■ >,.:h Georgia
next year, and there will be many
lobaceu w arehous- s built to accom
modate the crops raid where it will
be offered for sale next summer.
John A. Course. 1 ,; a prominent
Toombs county farmer, was shot
and killed by a former tenant by
the name of Henry Collins. Bad
blood had existed between them
for about a year. Collins went to
the home of Courscy where the
shooting was done one day last
week.
J. T. Strickland, former tax col
lector of Ware county, purchased
a lot of hogs Septeinper Ist, at an
average price of $5.30 each. They
were turned in on his fields of hog
food and on October 3rd sold them
to the|packing plant at an average
price of $20.40 each. The time
has come when it pays to raise
hogs. ,
Rev. J. M. Foster, formerly tho
Methodist pastor at Douglas, but
now at Rochelle, has four sons in
Uncle Sam's army. Hinton is with
tho Macon Volunteers, Robert is
with the “Rainbow Division,” now
enroute to France, Sam is a second
lieutenant at Camp Beauregard,
near Alexandria, La., and George
has recently gone to Gamp Gordon.
Mr. G. T. Weaver, of near Osier
field Ben Hill county, who was ad
judgiM a bankrupt in H)I4 and re
lieved of ail his indebtedness, has
been enabled from his cotton sales
this season to pay off all his unpaid
obligations involved in the bank
ruptcy proceedings and all other
indebtedness, and have money
enough left to buy a splendid new
farm. It is a splendid example to
bankrupts; he is a working man,
and “you can’t down a working
man.” He may get crippled, but
he will come again.