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PEARSON®TRIBUNE
YOL. 3—NO. 22
COFFEE COUNTY
News Items Gathered from Various Sources
I)r. J. B, S.,Bliteh and family, of
Tifton, were week-end visitors at
the home of his brother in law, Mr.
L. A. Hargreaves, four miles north
of Pearson.
Mrs. Sarah Inman died suddenly
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Dennis Sears, inWillacooehee, last
Saturday. Her remains were in
terred in the Kettle Creek eetne
tery, near Wayeross, which was
her home. She was a splendid
woman and beloved by all who
knew her. The Tribune sympa
thizes with the stricken relatives
in their loss.
The Coffee county write-up for
the Savannah News’ industrial edi
tion was by a Douglas man. From
it one would never know there was
any other town in the county save
Douglas. The agricultural and in
dustrial prosperity of Coffee coun
ty is told from a strictly Douglas
viewpoint. Don’t know whether
the Nows wanted a write-up of just
that character, or the scribe put it
that way because of an unfamiliar
ity with the county and her four
thriving little cities of Broxton,
Nicholls, Willacoochee and Pear
son. They are worthy the best
efforts of your pen, Bro. Heath.
The shooting of .1. C. Kennedy
by Cleveland Tanner at Nicholls
hist Monday morning, seems to
have been the culmination of pre
vious trouble between them rela
tive to hogs belonging to Tanner’s
father-in-law getting into Kenne
dy's potato patch. Kennedy and
and his brother were attacking
Tanner when he was shot. Kenne
dy was hurried to the hospital of
the King's Daughters at Wayeross
for surgical attention. Tanner
wired the Sheriff of Coffee county,
W. M. Tanner, that he would sur
render himself into the hands of
the law, and he is now in jail at
Douglas.
The criminal week of Coffee su
perior court has been in session
this week, and it has been a very
busy week. There was no recess
for Thanksgiving. The case of the
Stale vs. .!. S. Burns, charged with
the murder of .1. S. Williams at
Axson on a Sunday morning in
April. 1916, was on trial when the
Tribune went to press. Mr. Burns
is a father-in-law of Messrs. W. W.
and C. E. Stewart and the killing!
took place in front of and about a
hundred yards from their home.
Because of the extenuating cir
cumstances surrounding the killing
the Defendant was permitted to
give bail and he has been out un
der bond ever since awaiting his
trial. The grand jury adjourned
for the term Wednesday afternoon
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thinking of.
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The biggest cotton deal ever
pulled off in Coffee county was a
few days since when Mr. B. 11.
Tanner sold something over two
hundred bales for about $65,000.
The Douglas Enterprise says the
late Coffee county fair was a splen
did financial success, and that tin'
fair association w ill commence at
once to prepare,for the fair of
1018. The Tribune seconds the
motion, and hopes that it will be
held at a time when the entire
county can take part in making it
a grander success than it has ever
been before. Eet each Militia Dis
trict commence with the opening
of the new year to provide for the
biggest and best collection of ex
hibits ever assembled in the fair
grounds at Douglas. It will need
only will power to accomplish it.
So mote it be.
The Tribune is called upon to
report the death of Mrs. Mary Ann
O’Steen, wife of Mr. Jonathan
O’Steeu, at tlioir home in Coffee
county, near Mora. This very sad
event occurred Tuesday and the
Tribune's best information is her
death was sudden. If she had
been ill her brother, Mr. K. 11.
Dickerson, had not been notified.
The interment was Wednesday af
ternoon in the Arnie church ceme
tery, nine miles northwest of Fear
son. Mrs. O’Steen was esteemed
as a woman of many noble traits
of character and she will be great
ly missed by her many friends and
relatives. The Tribune extends
sincere condolence to the stricken
husband and children.
Judge W. C. Lankford presented
an unique question of law to Judge
Summerall in Coffee superior court
last Friday. The legislature, at
ite last session, passed an Act pro
viding for four terms of Coffee su
perior court a year, one of which
should be held on the third and
fourth Mondays in November, and
it was signed by the governor. At
a later date in the session the leg
islat are passed anot her Act which
fixed the calendar fall term of Ba
con county superior court, in the
same circuit, for the third Monday
in November, and this Act was
also signed by the governor. The
latter Act carried a clause repeal
ing conflicting laws. Judge Lank
ford’s point was that the repealing
ch ase of the later Act; repealed
the former and, as the court was
not an adjourned session of the
r-gular September term, it. was il
legally in session. Judge Summer
all. having passed an order ad
journing Bacon superior court, he
overruled the point, and it will be
carried to the Court of Appeals of
Georgia for final adjudication.
HOME ON FURLOUGH,
SOLDSER SUiCIDES
WlI-LACOOCHEE, NOV. 29. —While
at home for a visit to his parents
Jordon Roe. member of Company
B, 17th infantry, of Fort Me Rear
son, killed himself Tuesday night,
using a shot gun. Ife got a four
day furlough on Nov. 15, but re
mained here claiming be was sick.
He was a son of William Roe, a
prosperous farmer of this place
and volunteered some time ago.
| The family was at supper when
the soldier ended his life. No
1 cause for the deed is known, as he
has often expressed himself as be
ing perfectly satisfied with army
life.
Rub a soare throat with hallard’s
snow liniment. One or two ap
plication will cure it coinpletly.
Brice 25c,50c and 81.00 per bottle
Sold by Morris Drug Co.
FEAIISOX, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1017
THE BIG FIRE.
Pearson’s Costly Conflagration
Last Sunday Morning.
About five o'clock last Sunday
morning the alarm of fire hurried
out citizens to the scene of the
most costly fire Pearson has ever
known,
The tire started, it is supposed,
from the Ascetylene Gas fixtures
iu the store of the Morris Drug
Company. The fire was practically
confined to that building, owing to
the facts that there was little or
no wind, independent walls be
tween the store rooms and the
metal roof kept the blaze smoth
ered to some extent.
The drug store and contents
were destroyed. The building was
the property of Mr. Newsome Cor
bitt, and he had only SBOO insur
ance. The stock of drugs and the
fixtures were owned by the Morris
Drug Company, and they carried
only SI,OOO insurance.
The next heaviest loss was that
of Mr. Hiram Mancil, Jr., whose
brick store, occupied by I. Passon,
was wrecked in the effort to stop
the flames. It caught fire in sev
eral places but, by heroic effort,
the fire was extinguished. The
wooden shack, attached to the east
side of the brick building, was also
wrecked, it was occupied by J. L.
Harrell as a grocery store, hut he
soon moved bis small stock to a
place of safety. An explosion of
the Ascetylene gas fixtures tore
down a part of the brick wall. The
roof had to be cut into at several
places in order to get at and put
out the fire. Mr. Mancil had only
SI,OOO insurance.
Mr. Isidor Passon’s stock of mer
chandise was greatly damaged by
fire and water, estimated at $2,000.
He carried $4,000 insurance.
Pearson Banking Company sus
tained damage to building about.
SSOO. The front was charred and
the plate glass windows and glass
doors were smashed, and the roof
damaged to some extent.
,T. O. White store was scorched
in front, but no very great damage,
SSO will probably cover it.
The aggregate damage caused by
the fire is estimated at $12,000,
with only about $5,000 available
insurance.
The owners of the property, the
Tribune is informed, will coin
mcnee rebuilding at an early date.
To My Friends »Customers
i|| | BEG TO ANNOUNCE that owing to the
damage done to the building I was occu
pying by the fire last Sunday morning when the
Morris Drug Store was destroyed, I have moved
my stock of goods into one of the store-rooms of
Pearson Union Warehouse Company
Where I will be temporarily located and ready
to serve them in the future as 1 have in the past
by selling more and better goods for less money.
I carry a first-class line of general merchan
dise in every respect and it makes no difference
what you may need in my line 1 can save you
money, as “Small Profits and Quick Sales” is my
motto. Watch this paper for further announce
ment.
Pearson Bargain House
I. PASSON, Prop’r. PEARSON, GA.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
The week’s news so far as the
fighting was concerned has been
favorable to the Entente allies on
all frqnts.
The ancient city of Jerusalem is
practically in the hands of the
British under the command of
Gen. Allenby. The British have
advanced within two miles of the
city and dispatches say that the
Turks are evacuating without re
sist adee. British authorities have
given out the statement that Pal
estine, at t he conclusion of t he war,
is to be made an independent. Jew -
ish State under the protection of
Great Britain.
There has been some fighting in
Albania, at a point about ten miles
northeast of of the Adriatic sea
port of Avlona, in which Austrian
attacks were repulsed by tne Ital
ians.
The fighting along the Piave riv
er in Italy has been confined to
heavy artillery bombardments.
The Italians are holding their po
sitions against great odds, and arc
shelling the enemy boats in the
lower Piave. It is stated that the
British and French troops have
arrived on the, Piave battle front
in large numbers, and confidence
is expressed that, the German rush
upon Italy is at an end, although
the situation demands yet a watch
ful and strenuous defense. From
German prisoners it is learned t hat
Hindeuburg had personal charge
of the drive into Italy, with a well
conceived plan of operations, but
the Italian resistance before Me
iet ta and Gallic) put an end to what
was expected to be a spectacular
undoing of Gen. Gadorna’s army.
The British are shelling the city
of Cambria. Civilians have left
the city and the Germans have re
moved everything that could be of
advantage to the British but are
stubbornly contesting the posses
sion of the city.
There seems to be a lull on the
French front.
It appears every preparations are
being made in Potrograd for peace
negotiations between Russia and
Germany. The Swedish legation
at I’etrograd has agreed at Leon
Trotzky’s request, to act as media
tor between the two count l ies, and
has already sent, to the Berlin for
eign office a note proffering a truce
and peace negol iat ions.
SOUTH GEORGIA
News of Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs
Mr. H. M. Passmore, of near
Hahira, has realized this year
from eight acres planted to pea
nuts the neat shin of $1,050.
Fhe Staa admits that Ocilla is a
dull place unless oliere is a carni
val or some other sort of show to
put life- iu the town. Thought
Ocilla was a brisk little city; Jim
Henderson led us to believe so.
The Bank of Arabi, in Crisp
county, has decided to liquidate
and quit, business. Depositors are
requested to call and get their
money. Arabi needs the conveni
ence of a banking institution. Why
liquidate?
Mr. Mitchell Langdale, of Clinch
county, near Milltown, lost his
barn and crib, with their contents
of corn, hay, oats and fodder, by
tire on the night of the 171,1 i in
stant. A mule also was burned to
death. It is not known how the
fire originated.
Dock Crews, aged 17 years, is
in jail at Follcston, charged with
the murder of John Crawford,
a prominent farmer at Morniac.
Crews is a son of Benny Crews al
so a prosperous farmer. The trou
ble grew out of an accusation by
Crawford that young Crew had
stolen a pair of shoes.
The Alliance Shipbuilding arid
Navigation Company, with an au
thorized capital of $7,000,000, is a
new Arpo ration for St. Marys.
The shipyard site is on North riv
er, and work has already com
menced preparing the ground for
the necessary buildings. Two
schooners of 900 tons capacity, cos
ting $300,000, will be the first ves
sels built. When operated at full
capacity 300 men will bo employ
ed.
From every section of South
Georgia comes the glad tidings
that the farmers have raissd in
their fields enough provisions to
feed their families and some to
spare to their less fortunate neigh
bors. Go where you will now in
any section of South Georgia and
you will find the farmers busy
making up their supply of sugar
and syrup and plenty of fat hogs
in tin) peanut, and potato fields.
There kill be plenty of the good
things of life for our people next
year.
An Americus negro girl is in
k
jail charged with the offense of
cheating and swindling, by work
ing a flim-flam game on the iner-.
chants of that city. She would
telephone a merchant ordering a
quantity of goods saying “a ser
vant would call for them.” and
then she would go and get the
goods. She was caught up with
by a merchant sending the goods
ordered to the home of the tele
phone number, and was told by
the madam that she had not or
dered the goods.
H. G. HARDING & CO.
Byron, Ga., April 11, 1917
Old Kentucky M’f’g. Co.,
Paducah, Ky.
Gentlemen:
1 had cholera in my herd of
hogs recently and begun feeding
the B. A. Thomas' Hog Cholera
Cure and stopped losing my hogs
at once. I was losing from four to
five each night until I began the
use of this preparation. 1 raise
about 200 head of hogs per year
and never expect to be without
your remedy.
Yours very truly,
H. G. Hardison & Co.
Sold by Pearson Hardware Store.
111.00 A YEAR
Editor Volney Williams, of the
Wayeross Jonrnal-I I erald, burned
his hands severely a few days ago
to save his wife, whose clothes had
caught fire, from being burned. He
succeeded.
Nineteen convicts escaped from
the Colquitt county chaingang
Sunday night. The escapes were
all long term prisoners. Some
have been recaptured and returned
to the camp, but there are others
still at large.
Messrs. Walter and Warren
Dickerson has just returned from
a trip to Texas, where they went
to buy some of the Texas Here
fords. They found the cattle in
such poor condition t hey decided
that they would not make an in
vestment.
Sheriff Rehberg, of Thomas
county captured at Boston a few
days ago more than SI,OOO worth
of contraband liquors and S. M.
Gore in whose possession it was.
Gore was fined in the City Court
of Thomasville $330 and the liq
uor, valises and trunks confisca
ted ad destroyed.
Mr. C. IV. Byrd of Homerville,
wont coon hunting on Wednesday
of last week. Following his dogs
into the swamp he got lost and
could not find his way back home.
He stayed all night in the swamp,
about seven miles from town, wan
dering around trying to find his
way out. Not coming home Wed*
nesday evening his family and
neighbors became alarmed and
early 'Thursday morning a search
ing party set, out to look for him,
and about 10:30 o’clock found him,
hungry and thoroughly exhausted.
The great live stock rally is on
to-day at Townsend, Ga., near Da
rien. Townsend is the headquar
ters of a 128,000-acre ranch. Gov.
Dorsey, of Georgia, and Gov. Stew
art, of Virginia, besides other not
ables will be present and deliver
addresses. Gov. Stewart is one of
the owners of this big ranch,which
embraces about one fourth of Lib
erty county. Every phase of the
cattle industry will bo discussed
by men who know. Among the
features of the day will be a bar
becue dinner and an automobile
trii) for the guests along the beau
tiful Sapelo river seeing the ranch,,
and the herds of cattle and sheep
with which it is stocked. A
Three big suits have just been
filed in the Federal court at Val
dosta: One by M. A. Williams, of
Madison, Fla., against the A. P 4|
Brantley Co., of Blacdshear, for.
s2o*ooo, alleging that a certain lot
of Sea island cotton was shipped
to defendant with instructions not
to sell for thirty days. Williams
drew on the cotton for 34c. a pound.
At the end of thirty days Sea Is
land cotton was selling at 54c. per
pound, but the Brantley Company,
disregarding instructions, claim to
have sold for 34c. The $20,000 is
the difference in the two prices.
The second by the Export Com pa,
ny, Limited, of New Orleans, La.,
against the Boston Oil Company,
of Boston, Ga., for damages in fill
ing a contract for cotton seed cake
with goods that would not meet
Ihe Oil Company's guarantee. The
third is a foreclosure of a mortgage
to the Jefierson Standard Life In
surance Comgany, of Greensboro,
N. C., against the J. M. Cox Com
pany, of Wayeross, Ga.
Miss Charlotte Ricketson, who
is teaching at Brad well, spent the
week end with her mother and
home folks.
