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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 Our Hobby Is Good _ . Ask to see Printing samples of our busk —— ness cards, — ■— visiting ■' •« cards, wedding and other invitations, parre phlets, folders letter heads, statements, shipping tags, envelopes, etc., constantly earned in stock for your accommodation. Get our figures on that printing you have been thinking of. New Type, Latest Style Faces 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.