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PEARSONfiITRIBUNE
VOL. 3—XO. 2(5
COFFEE COUNTY
News Items Gathered from Various Sources
It is said that more than a hun
dred Coffee county people visited
the Southeastern Fair at Atlanta,
last week.
Mr. E. D. Brinson is the new
manager of the Kirkland Naval
Stores plant, lie was reared on a
turpentine farm and knows the
business thoroughly.
Mrs. E. L. Moore has been elec
ted president of the Willacooohee
Woman's Club for the ensuing
year. She will prove an intelli
gent and energetic officer, and her
selection is excellent.
The Nashville Herald brings the
sad intelligence of the death of
Mr. Will Register, of Coffee coun
ty. He had been in the employ of
the Nashville Lumber Co. just a
week, when he was accidentally
killed while working with the
skidder gang in the Teumile bay.
llis hotly was brought back to
Coffee county by his father for
burial.
The Nashville Herald says: “A
big delegation of Woodmen ac
companied the family of Mr. \V.
H. Lee to Willaeooehee Sunday
for the purpose of unveiling a
monument over his grave. It is
saitl that the Willaeooehee camp
failed to turn out and assist in the
ceremonies. However, the Nash
ville camp made a very creditable
and impressive affair of it.”
The Coffee county public schools
will all begin next Monday the
1917-1918 session. The Tribune
will be glad to hear from them all,
and especially those located in the
territory which is soon to be At
kin son county. This will proha
bly be the last session of school un
der the Coffee and Clinch county
authorities, and all the people in
terested in education should keep
the matter in mind and lay plans
for a get together and get acquain
ted meeting next summer, at
which the important question of
county education shall be discuss
ed. and tentatively agree upon
suitable leaders in the work. At
any rate the Tribune will gladly
publish short articles of publlic in
terest in connection with the work
furnished it, and all items of gen
eral interest from the several com
mu nities.
Surgeons agree that in eases of
Cuts, Burns, Bruises and Wounds,
the first treatment is most im
IKjrtant. When an efficient an
tiseptic is applied promptly, there
is no danger of infection and the
wound begins to heal at once. For
use on man or beast, B< >R< >Z< >N L
is the IDEAL ANTISEPTIC arid
HEALING AGENT. Buy it now
and be ready for an emergency.
Price 25c, 50c, 81.00 and $1.50.
Sold by Morris Drug Co.
When the chest feels on fire and
the throat burns, you have indi
gestion, and you need HERBJNE
to get rid of the disagreeable feel
ing. It drives out badly digested
food, strengthens the stomach and
purifies the bowels. Price 50c.
hold by Morris Drug Co.
City and Farm Loans at 6 Per Cent.
SZf FOR FIVE OR TEN YEARS
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L. A. HARGREAVES
Pearson, Atkinson County, Georgia
A Douglas couple, 'Bailey-Wil
liams, skiddoed to Homerville last
week and were joined in marriage
by Judge Kimery.
Jess Willard, the champion pugi
list, will be in Douglas next week a
an attachment to “Buffalo Bill's
Wild West Show.” Wonder what
he lookes like! Will not have time
to visit him.
Has the Coffee County Progress
stepped down and out! It has
not called at our sanctum for two
or three weeks. Both the county
seat newspapers seems to be in
hard lines in getting printers and
electric juice to run their ma
chines.
Mrs. Henry C orbett' of Willa
cooehec, underwent an operation
at Tifton hospital on Thursday of
last week. The operation was
very successful. Her husband,
Dr. Henry Corbett, who is a lieu
tenant in the Medical Reserve
Corps at Ft. Oglethorpe, secured
a leave of absence and came down
to be with her during the ordeal.
There will be an innovation at
the Coffee county fair this year, a
"Gospel Tout Concession,” under
the leadership of Elder T. S. Hu
bertof the Douglas Baptist church.
A number of religious services will
be held each day. it will be a
veritable bearding the devil in his
abode. Secretary Tanner and the
Fair Association have, unless there
has been a change from last year,
granted concessions which permits
the enactment on the fairgrounds
of many incongruous follies to say
the least of it. Mow the mixture
will harmonize remains to he seen.
11 reminds the Tribune of a wed
ding that took place in a palatial
Florida homo. The mother of the
bride-to-be was a very zealous re
ligionist. When the preacher and
the guests had arrived there was a
host of people present, and to the,
mind of the old lady came the
thought that it was an opportune
time to have preaching before the
marriage, and so suggested. The
daughter at first timidly demurred
to the proposition but, finding the
mother somewhat determined, fin
ally declared "If there is preach
jug, there will be no marriage here
to-night.” The preaching service
gave way to the marriage. It may
he, in this instance, that the follies
will give way to the preaching.
CARELESSNESS EES LETS IN
FAILURE.
That is why we say “Fend B. A.
Thomas' hog powder according to
directions.” DO NOT FEED IT
SLOBBY, hut mix it with ground
feed and moisten with just enough
water to make a crumbly mass.
Then each hog gets a beneficial
dose, See full directions on pack
age. Your money back if you aro
not satisfied. Sold by Rearsen
Hardware Store.
Dr. B. S. Malone. S. W. Harrell
F. E. MeNeal, Malcom Tanner and
B. T. Allen were Pearson people
who attended Clinch superior
court the first of the week.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1!)17
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
The war news of the week seems
more encouraging for the Allies
than for the previous month.
The British in the Ypres sector
has driven another wedge into the
Teutonic battle front, gaining ad
vantageous positions across the
Ypres Stadeu railroad and captur
ing many prisoners.
The French, in one of the swift
est and most dashing drives of the
war, on Tuesday smashed through
tin* German lines north of the
Aisne river for a depth of more
than two miles, inflicting heavy
losses on the enemy, besides cap
turing more than 7,500 prisoners
and 08 pieces of artillery—2s of
w hich were heavy guns and the re
mainder field guns.
The war department at Wash
ington has given out the informa
tion that the American forces in
France are ready to enter the
trenches, and Ihe probability now
is that there "will be no cessation
of active warfare along the west
ern front during the ensuing win
ter. It is stated the Allies’equip
ment. is such that they will be able
to keep the enemy busy all winter
and give them no opportunity to
recuperate and strengthen their
defense. The A Hies objective is to
shut Germany off from the North
Sea, which includes Ostend, Ze
brugge and other of her subma
rine bases, hoping to cripple and
render less effective her submarine
warfare. However, it is thought
the German operations in the Bal
tic Sea are with the view of chang
ing their submarine bases from the
North Sea. Brit ish warships have
shelled the North Sea with long
range guns and allied aircraft have
bombed them until life there is
intolerable.
The Germans have made a sec
ond attempt to land on the Estbo
nian coast, threatening Betrograd,
but they were frustrated by the
Russians. Russian submarines are
also giving the German fleet at the
mouth of the Gulf of Finland.
Several of the German ships, in
cluding two dreadnaughts, are re
ported as having been torpedoed
ami sunk by the Russian subma
rines. In this quarter naval oper
ations will soon cease for the win
ter, the sea being frozen over nav
igation will be attended with great
danger to the vessels.
From what is supposed to be re
liable sources it is reported that
Germany Is threatened with in
ternal troubles. It is said the
people are getting exceedingly
tired of war. They are demanding
that it should not continue
through another winter.
The Austro-Italian front has
been practically quiet for a week
past, except intense artillery duels
along the Julian front and the re
pel Ting of an Austro German at
tack in the Cordore region at
Monte Blana.
W. F. BAR LETT.
Oakfieid. Ga., May 10, 1917.
Old Kentucky Mfg. Co.,
Paducah, Ky.
(lentlemen:
Blease allow' me to state that I
have sold your hog cholera remedy
for one season and have ordered
more for this season. Last year 1
sold it to 12 or 15 men for raise
hogs. 1 told each of them to take
the remedy, feed it to their hogs
and if they lost a single hog from
disease of any kind not to pay me
a cent for the remedy, but when
they began to sell cotton every
man came in and paid me for the
medicine and every one of them
told me that it was the best hog
medicine they ever used. One
of them paid me for the small
package and bought $5 worth
more and said it was the best he
had ever tried.
Yours very truly,
\V. F. Bari.ett.
Bold by Pearson Hardware Store.
IT PAYS TO OWN LAND
For t lie encouragement of young
men, ami old ones as for that mat
ter, to own a home —some land —a
farm in fact, the Tribune prints
the statement of Hon. Jesse M.
Pafford relative to his ownership
of one and a half lots of land three
and a half miles north of Pearson.
He bought this land about thir
teen years ago, paying therefor
$12,00; he has paid out in improve
ments about $2,400, making the
gross cost, of the land about $1,500.
He sold the saw-mill timber
privilege for S9OO, the turpentine
timber privilege for $350, the tie
timber privilege for S3OO, a small
tract of t he land for $550, another
small tract of the land for $650
and the remainder of his original
purchase for $15,890. He farmed
on the land ten years, reaping an
average annual net- profit of SSOO
or $5,000 for the ten years. To re
capitulate: the land cost him
$4,500: he received from it, during
his thirteen years ownership, the
nice sum of $24 640, or a net profit
of $20,150.
Has it paid Mr. Pafford to own
this land! Can you figure out the
the per centum of profit? Can yOu
conceive of any investment he
could have made of $4,500 that
would have paid a greater profit?
A like opportunity awaits every
homeless man in Coffee county,
even under the prevailing high pri
ces. Any young man with a dis
position to work and get ahead in
the financial world can now' buy a
tract of land on terms which he
will be able to meet, and in five
years he will have, a home, pleas
ant surroundings and be indepen
dent The Pafford fncidmt above
is not an isolated case, an excep
tion to the rule, for the Tribune
can add stacks of cumulative evi
deuce upon the subject.
Young man, you without a home,
why not t ry to own your home and
stop moving from pillar to post,
Learn to be self-reliant and inde
pendent. Slop being a “hewer of
w ood and drawer of water” for the
bothersome landlord.
Baptist Association Meetings
Mell association has just closed
an interesting and a harmonious
meeting at Brushy Creek church,
near Sparks in Berrien county.
The Willaeooehee Baptist church
is a member of this body.
Piedmont association held its
annual session with the Nahunta
church in Wayne county, last
week. It is one of the strongest
associations in South Georgia. The
churches of Brunswick, Jesup,
Biackshcar and Waycross belong
to this association.
Little River (Freewill) associa
tion has just closed a profitable
session at Ozias church, Clinch
county, seven miles south of Bear
son. A number of Bearson people
attended Sunday’s services.
[Union (Brimitive) association
has just closed a three day’s ses
sion at Arnie church, Coffee coun
ty, nine miles northwest of Bear
son and was well attended on Sun
day by people from this city.
< >ne Smyrna association begins
its annual session at Big Creek
church, in Bacon county, seven
miles north of Alma, to-day and
continues through Sunday The
other Smyrna association holds its
session with Millwood church,
Ware county, beginning today and
continuing three days. These two
associations arc largely composed
of churches seceding from thcorig
inal Smyrna association. The
churches differed on the subject of
footwashing. Those of the former
do not wash feet, while those of
the latter do. Both retain the old
name, “Smyrna,” and the same
time of meeting.
SOUTH GEORGIA
News of Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs
The Consolidated Mercantile
Company, of Oeilla, has filed a vol
untaiy petition in bankruptcy.
Its liabilities are $45,000; its assets
are not given.
The 35th annual convention of
the Georgia Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union has just been
held at Dawson. Reports say it
was a great session.
Robert M. Cooper wasl elected
Ordinary of Colquitt county to
succeed the late A. B. Buxton.
The election was held last Satur
day. Mr. Cooper is a native Col
quitt county man.
'the mammoth sugar refinery at
Fort Wentworth near Savannah,
has had to discontinue operat ions
for a lack of a supply of raw sugar.
II is not expected to resume op
orations until the first of next
year. ,
Military training is to become a
part of the curriculum of the
Quitman and Hawkinsville high
schools. In fact, the idea is grow
ing throughout South Georgia.
Americus high school adopted
military training several years ago
and is now the model.
The tobacco acreage in Ben Hill
county will be greatly increased
next year, making a local ware
house and market necessary, so a
brick warehouse will be built in
Fitzgerald, convenient, to all the
railroads entering the city, having
a floor space of 15, square feel
and full equipment for fire pro
tection.
Mr. Edwin Sterne, of Albany,
says he is quite certain that the
thirteen counties of the southwest
Georgia district, of which he is
chairman, will subscribe $1,000,000
of the second “Liberty Loan”
bonds. He says, further, that De
catur county alone will take one
fourth of the amount. He has just
returned from a trip through some
of the counties and found the peo
ple generally enjoying great pros
perity.
The booze-loving citizens of
Georgia are equal to the heathen
Chinese in their "ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain”
when it comes to finding means to
procure a fluid t Hat will slake their
thirst. Over in Thomas county
they extract booze from silos. The
drippings, when fermented, forms
an alcohol which mixed with a
little water and sugar creates a
“stagger juice” on a par with
“buck” and similar concoctions.
The fire fiend is getting in some
destructive work in Berrien coun
ty. Mr. W. E. Flair, nine miles
southeast of Adel recently lost
his barn, with its contents of 350
bushels of corn, a lot of hay, fod
der and farming implements; also
a horse and two mules were burn
ed to death. Later the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Harrelson,
with its contents, was destroyed.
One lived on the Tittle place anil
the other on the Homer Hall place.
Neither of them carried insurance.
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SI.OO A YEAR
President A. 11. Moon, of the
defunct Citizens Banking Com
pany, of Baxley, indicted for felony
in connection with the failure
of tin 1 bank, has been acquitted.
Mayor Scott Beaton, of Way
cross, makes the largest single sub
scription to the second issue of
"Liberty Loan” bonds of any per
son in that city. He took $20,000
worth.
The $20,000 bond issue of Cam
den county has been sold for par
to M. B. Lam*, of Savannah, and
now the work of bridging the St.
Mary’s river on the Eastern Dixie
Highway will be commenced at
once and pushed to completion.
The municipal election of Adel
was held on We luesday of last
week. 'Phc incumbents had be
haved themselves so nicely during
the past year that they were un
animously re-elec I e d —m ay or,
councilmen, clerk and marshal.
“Well done good and faithful ser
vants,” etc.
Royal Daniel, of Hie Quitman
Free Press, has recently visited
many counties in South Georgia in
the interest, of the B« d Cross work,
and reports the p> ,q ,■ solidly be
hind President Wilson in liis
views and methods in conducting
war preparations, lie has traver
sed South Georgia from Bruns
wick on the east to Fort Gaines on
the west.
Processioners are busy marking
and establishing the boundary
lines of the Mizell Bros. 10,000
acre tract of land in Camden
county. The reason for the sur
vey and plat is a pending sale of
the land to the New Jersey Zinc
Company. It is said the Zinc
Company has two large govern
ment contracts for lumber and the
timber on this tract will In 1 uti
lized to fill these contracts.
RESULTS OF ELECTION
The election for a county demo
cratic executive committee last
Saturday resulted in the trium
phant election of the gentlemen
who had been suggested and
whose names were published in
last week’s Tribune. The com
mittee is composed of eleven mem
bers —two from the county at largo
and one from each militia district,
viz:
County at large —W. C. Bryan
and Sol Sears.
Ambrose —T. H. Brown.
Douglas —E. J. Barclay.
Mora —Jonathan O’Steen.
McDonald —George Gillis.
Beamon —Jesse M. Bafford.
Bickren —B. T. Burkett.
Willaeotchee —E. C. Henderson.
Wooten —< leorge Corbitt
This is one race in Coffee coun
ty where the offices sought the
men. The election was unanirnous,
and all are delighted at the result.
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