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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* City and Farm Loans at 6 Per Cent. FOR FIVE OR TEN YEARS 10»N CORRESPONDENT FOR COBB. JESOP & COMPANY Quick Loans Competent Service WRITE OR SEE 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. PIEDMONT INSTITUTE } In the Breezy Metropolis of South Georgia j Offers thorough business courses. 4K- 48- 48- Rare teachers, delightful locations, splendid opportunities 48- 48- -**■ Boy Scouts for younger students. Christian spirit thru all. 4K- 48- 48- — For further particulars address “j M. O. CARPENTER, Pres. Wayeross, Ga. 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.