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PEARSOIN © TRIBUNE
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COFFEE COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered From
Various Sources.
The Tribune learns of t he death
of a child of Mr. Son Moore, and
the burial at Antioch cemetery, 4
miles north-'west of Kirkland, to
day. The sym pat hy of tbe Ti ibn ne
editor goes out to the bereaved
parents.
The wide awake citizens of Doug
las are planning the organization
of a corporation to build equip
a canning factory and have it ready
to take care of the vegetable crop
of 1918. It is proposed to can
sweet potatoes, beans, peas, toma
toes, etc. It is hoped that vege
tables of every variety will be
grown, so as to furnish the plant
an abundant supply of materials to
keep it busy.
The last evidence of debt against
the Douglas Baptist church,
amounting to $9,000 was cremated
last Sunday morning to the delight
of the members of that congre
gation. The Chief of the Fire De
partment was invited to witness
the deed of the firebugs, but he
and the entire congregation sat
complacently and witnessed the
setting of the fire, with no effort
to prevent it. They thought it
was the proper thing to do, and
so does the Tribune.
Mr. Ferd Christopher, having
registered in Fannin county before
moving to South Georgia, has been
called to take the physical exami
nation February Bth. lie is teach
ing at the White school near Axson
and is trying to get the matter
transferred to Coffee county so he
can take the examination at Doug
las. He is really physically unfit
as will appear at the examination,
and it would be a hardship upon him
and the school, of which he is the
teacher, for him to go to' Fannin
county to be examined.
The patrons of the Douglas pub
lie school are bringing grievous
complaints against the sanitary
condition of the sewerage system
of the new school building. If the
toilets are in any worse condition
than those of the court house they
are justly the subjects of com
plaints. The toilet rooms in the
court house the last time this edi
tor was in Douglas were a-s filthy
is a pig pen, and he wondered how
the officers, whose constant pres
ence in their offices are required,
could stay on the job.
Messrs. W. J. Decn, of Pearson.
L. L. Sutton, John Davis and Geo.
Cowart, from tins section, will
serve as petit jurors the first week
of superior court. Messrs. J. F.
Smith. J. L. Harrell, M. A.Pafford,
I). A. Smith, J. A. Hodges, W. L.
Mancil, and Jesse McKinnon will
serve the second week. From the
Willacoochee section K. E. Luke,
Leaston Harper,Charlie Daniel and
Thomas Daniel, Sr., will serve the
first week, and George Taff, John
N eager) t. N. L. Me Neal, J. M. Rob
erts, F. A. Shaw, Lem Summerlin
and D. E. Gaskin will serve the
second week.
Next Friday has been designated
as Arbor Day in the rural schools
of Coffee county. The regular ex
ercises of the schools will be sus
pended and the day devoted to
improving the buildings and
grounds. It will be a general clean
up day. The board of education
has offered prizes of sls, $lO and
$5 for the first, second and third
best kept and improved buildings
and grounds, and this begets a
spirit of rivalry among the schools
to win the prizes, and results in all
the schools having most present
able buildings and grounds.
A Sudden Death.
The Tribune learns with genuine
sorrow of the sudden death, at
Macon, of Sherry Lewis West, Jr.,
the 8-year old son of Mr, and Mrs.
Sherry L. West, Sr.
He was stricken with measles
Saturday night but did not appear
to be very sick. Monday morning
there was nothing in his appear
ance to indicate seriousness and
his father, at a few minutes to eight
o’clock, went down town to his
business. Shortly afterwards the
patient showed signs of serious ill
ness and the mother telephoned
the father to come home at once
as Sherry was worse; but before
the father and the doctor reached
his bedside he was dead. Just be
fore the breath left him the little
boy jumped out of bed and ran
around the room in an effort to get
breath. His mother caught him
and placed him back on the bed,
but in a few minutes, nine o’clock,
lie was dead.
The funeral and burial was at
Willacoochee on Wednesday after
noon at three o’clock. Rev. Moody
Booth officiating.
The deceased was a grandson of
Elder and Mrs. G. Tom Wes; of
this city, and the only son of Mr.
and Mrs. s. L. West, of Macon.
The Tribune extends its sincere
sympathies to the bereaved rela
tives. May his going away prove
a benediction to the living, warn
ing them of the uncertainty of life
and the certainty of death. Be ye
also prepared for you know not the
day or the hour when the Grim
Reaper will call you hence.
Cash Bargain llouseof Millwood
sells 1. 11. C. one and two-horse
wagons for less than factory cost
to-day. See us at once. 88-41.
Davis—Roberts.
Miss Cora Davis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Davis, and Mr.
Matthew Roberts were united in
marriage last Sunday afternoon,
Judge Geo. W. Sweat, officiating.
The bride and groom went out
to the Judge's home in an automo
bile and the ceremony was said
white they were sitting in the car.
The vows being plighted they drove
back to town and gave out the
news of the happy event in their
lives as a great surprise to their
many yaung friends.
The Tribune extends the newly
married couple its congratulations
and best wishes for long and happy
married lives.
Wnlker Appoints Several To
Annapolis.
Representative Walker of the
Eleventh Georgia district has ap
pointed the following young men
from his district to Annapolis:
William R. Terrell;'of Douglas; Ja
cotrß. Baum, of Quitman; Morrell
Flanders, of Oeilla; William E.
Hollingsworth, of Oeilla; and John
M. Cox, Jr., of Way cross.
The first alternates follow: Wil
mer Smith, of Valdosta; Luther 15.
Brooks, Waycross; Wm. A. Clary,
Screven; Leonard R. Seibert, Val
dosta; Wm. D. Buie, Nashville.
We sell T. H. C. one and two
horse wagons for less than factory
cost to-day. See us quick. Cash
Bargain House, Millwood, Ga.
Coffee superior court will convene
just one week from next Monday.
Sad to say the boys have no fish
ing ground at this season of the
year and t hey will have no excuse
why they should not be at court if
called. Judge Summerall is par
ticularly drastic on “pistol toters - ’
and “blind tigers.” He says 90
per cent, of the murders com
mitted are the result of liquor
drinking and pistol toting.
PEAIISOX, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918
PRESS MEETING AT ADEL.
A Raw Day Made Pleasant by
Smiles and Humor.
Last Monday was a viciously
raw day, damp and cold, inauspi
cious for one to go away from home
to any sort of a gathering, but a
number of the newspaper men of
the Eleventh Congressional Dis
trict, including the editor of the
Tribune, braved the tempests to
attend the triennial convention of
the Eleventh Congressional Dis
trict Press Association at Adel.
Editor Shytle, of the News, and
citizens of Adel, among whom we
mention Dr. Woodard, Messrs. Par
rish. Pope, Clements, Wiseman,
Webb and Sutton, did themselves
proud in the preparations made
for the comfort of the visiting edi
tors and made them forget that it
was drizzling rain, chilly and raw.
The editors were made so com fort
able that this one forgot his um
brella and left it in Bro. Shy tie’s
office. Mr. W iseman was born and
reared in Coffee county, at Kirk
land, but has been at Adel in the
mercantile business for twent y-five
years and is prospering.
The convention was hold in the
City Hall, which is also fitted up
as an Opera House, and was called
to order hy President Turner.
The invocation was offered by
Pastor E. L. Courson, of the first
Baptist church. Pastor Courson
is a ministerial graduate of Pied
mont Institute at Waycross. He
is making good and the people of
Adel generally esteem him highly
as a Christian gentleman and as a
minister. He is doing good work
at Adel and especially among the
young people. He is proud of
Piedmont and its high standard in
preparing its students for the bat
tle of life. Piedmont is proud of
him and rejoices in his success.
The address of welcome was
made by Dr. Arthur Robinson, an
other young man of splendid gifts.
His address was short, pithy and
liiled with the brightest humor.
Among many other good things he
said was that the duty of an editor
was to find out the truth of current
events and then publish that truth
in whole or in part as will best
subserve the community’s interests
and not expose the stingers which
the happening he is reporting pos
sesses. By tin* time he had con
eluded each editor present felt
himself welcome and quite at home.
The response to the address of
welcome was hy editor Volney
Williams, of the Waycross Journal-
Herald, and was also replete with
good humor, lfc said the editors
were all glad I hey had come to Adel,
as the people of Adel bore fhe rep
utation of being the most hospit
able and warm-hearted people in
Georgia. He mentioned the fact
that he was an inmate of the State
legislature and while there he had
heard about the good people of
Adel and their desire for , the new
county of Cook; that some of his
political enemies had charged him
with getting a $2,500 fee from Dr.
R.C.Woodard, who was present, to
secure a favorable report for (took
county from the committee of
which he was chairman. He was
now in Adel and no doubt Dr.
Woodard knew about it and was
ready to respond. This absurdity
brought down a hearty laugh at
Dr. Woodard’s expense.
The roll was then called and the
minutes of the previous meeting
was read and approved,after which
an adjournment was ordered for
lunch at Hotel Estey, owned and
operated by Mrs. Fannie Hester,
who was one of the earliest settlers
of Adel.
Reconvening the convention list
ened to a splendid talk from Editor
\V. G. Sutlive, of the Savannah
Press. The newspaper men are al-
Hoke, the Kaiser.
What with her senior Senator
at Washington standing above all
for Hoke and his junior teammate
so brazenly bally booing for "der
Kaiser,” it’s a sad spectacle that
our grand old State presents in her
claims to patriotism before the
highest representative body in the
hat ion; aye, in the eyes of t he whole
world.
Senator Smith has apparently
lost no opportunity to secretly ob
struct some of the most vital plans
of the administration for expedit
ing o«r war, while openly proclaim
ing himself the veritable savior of
these plans. The details of his
alleged treachery have been ex
posed in full by more able writers
and will not be touched on here.
On the other hand, Senator
Hardwick’s record stands brazenly
open at its face value. He has
made no secret of his anti-adminis
tration attitude, playing his hand
kith contemptuous effrontery.witli
the Kaiser for partner. Of the
two, Mr. Smith is deemed by some
to be the most dangerous traitor.
There is no mistaking where Mr.
Hardwick stands, the patriotic vo
ters of the State having no trou
ble in classifying him intelligently.
Both men have subordinated every
ideal of true statesmanship, patri
otism, humanitariauisin, world jus
tice and human freedom to the
Contemptible game of polities,
playing the long odds on their
chances for re-election. The one is
actuated by unbounded egoism,
selfishness and, it is charged, an
unmistakeable sympathy for Ho
benzollern “kultur,” hate of Eng
land, and utter indifference to the
fate of heroic, bleeding and freedom
loving France, and other countries
so ruthlessly and uselessly dßvast
ated by the heartless Hun. The
other is act uated by a sadly mis
guided conception of the real sen
liment and the caliber of the loyal
freemen of t he Empire State of the
Sou 1 h, who so cheerfully or stoic
ally, according to their circum
stances, are giving their money,
their services, and the sons of their
loins to back our splendid Presi
dent —the noblest, ablest, clearest,
visioned man of the century—in
the prosecution of the most just,
and altruistic war this nation has
ever been called upon to wage.
Is it not time, O Georgians, that
we begin to plan for house clean
ing in Washington, and be looking
around with intelligent, careful
scrutiny, for new senatoriol tim
ber 1 ? —Ft. Valley Leader.
ways glad to have Editor Sutlive
with them and hear him talk. He
is always beaming with sunshine
and radiant with hope. His ad
dress was exceedingly inspiriting.
A real business talk from Mr. J.
J. Newman of the Southern Sta
tionery and Printing Company, of
Valdosta, and the adoption of a
resolution to hold the next conven
tion at Waycross on the third Mon
day in May, and the appointment
of a committee, composed of Edi
tors Williams of the Waycross-
Joumal-Herald, Shytle of the Adel
News.Turnerof the Valdosta Times,
and Allen of the Pear on Tribune
to draft a circular letter to be
printed and distributed among the
craft, the business of the conven
tion was concluded.
The Tribune editor, in attending
this meeting, made a complete cir
cle, spending Sunday night at
Willacoochee, going to Adel hy the
way of the Georgia and Florida
railroad. From Adel he went to
Valdosta, where he caught the A.
C. L., for Waycross and home. He
enjoyed the visit to Adel and
meeting the friends of long ago
very much.
The Tifton packing plant is now
ready for business and the outlook
is for a prosperous season.
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told in
Pointed Paragraphs.
Judge James B. 'Clements, of Ir
winville, will plant a large acreage
to tobacco.
Twenty two Savannah attorneys
have enlisted in tHe American
army service. Truly, lawyers are
no slackers.
Americus is to have an aviation
camp, where volunteers in the avi
ation corps will be trained for ser
vice “somewhere in France.”
Mr. Flem C. Dame has been re
nominated to be the postmaster as
Homerville, which will be con'
firmed without opposition.
Hon. Wm. H. Berrie, sheriff of
Glynn county is dead. He filled
many positions of honor and trust
and proved himself one of the most
useful citizens of Brunswick and
Glynn county.
The Savannah sugar refinery has
reopened for business and it is re
ceiving a continuous supply of raw
sugar from Cuba, ship load after
ship load. Its capacity is oue mil
lion pounds of refined sugar per
day, and at this rate the sugar
famine in the Southeast should
soon be abated.
Mrs. Lou Mixon, who has been
confined in the Clinch county jail
for several months charged with
being an accessory before the fact
to the murder of her husband,
John Mixon, has been permitted
by Judge Summerall to return to
her home to attend the bedside of
one of her children reported to be
seriously ill.
A party of Marietta huntsmen,
Messrs. C. W. Dupree, J. T. Ander
son, T. J. Conner. William Dupree,
Jr., and Fred Morris have spent
the week hunting on the Satilla
river, wit h their camp at Bull Head
bluff, in Charlton county. These
gentlemen make annual visits to
Bull Head on hunting expeditions.
Mr. Morris is one of Cobb county’s
members of the legislature.
The annual teachers’ institute
for Clinch county will convene at
Homerville on Monday, February
18th, and continue through the
week under the direction of State
supervisor, F. E. Land. Echols
county will combine her annual in
stitute with that of Cl inch county,
and thus bring together at one
place and time about one hundred
teachers. The institute of negro
teachers will convene also with
State supervisor, G. I). Godard, in
charge.
The business men in the larger
towns and cities of South Georgia
have commenced to observe the
Monday closing request in the in
teres of fuel conservation, and will
continue it for ten consecutive
weeks. Some of the towns are not
affected by the fuel famine, but
they decided to observe these days
as examples of loyalty. They had
a fine excuse for closing last Mon
day, the weather was too inclem
ent to transact business.
Jewelry Robbers
Brunswick seem to be infested
by a gang of bold robbers, and who
are adepts at keeping hid. Follow
ing closely the robbing of the home
of Hon. A. V. Wood comes the
news that the home of Hon. Col
umbus Downing had been entered
and robbed of diamonds, watches
and jewelry of t he value of SB,OOO
or SB,OOO. Maj. Downing offers a
reward of SI,OOO for the apprehen
sion of the guilty parties, and an
other of SSOO for the return of the
stolen property.
SI.OO A YEAR
In the Toils of the Law.
The Sheriff of Coffee county
came to Pearson Wednesday and
took in charge Tom Smith, William
Wyatt, Ira Murray and Lewis Mc-
Neal, and is on the lookout for
Bernice Crosby, who are charged
with various offenses in connection
with the holding up of a car driven
by a lady and her 14-year old son
from Alapaha, searching the ear
and beating the boy.
All the parties have given bond
to appear before the Superior
Court for trial.
it matters not what their mo
tives were in this affair they are
in trouble that will mean much
to them and perhaps teach them
a lesson it is well to learn even
now.
Facing Food Shortage.
Moultrie faces a serious flour and
sugar shortage,notw i thstanding the
fact, that if report s are half true,
there is enough of t hese articles in
Colquitt county to last over a
period of several weeks. Colquitt
has been without a food adminis
trator and until just a few days
ago there was no limit to the
amount anyone could buy and as a
result the food hogs swooped down
on the dealers and gobbled up'
great quantities of sugar and flour.
A food administrator was named
for this county at the time these
officials were selected for the other
counties of the state, but the ap
pointee resided at a point in Mitch
ell and has never served. The re
tail merchants of the city are anx
ious for someone to be named to
take the place of the administrator
who has been unable to serve.
Blackburn Loses Suit.
.J. 15. Blackburn lost out in Col
quitt Superior Court Wednesday
in his attempt to break the will of
his wife, Mrs. Josephine Blackburn
bequeathing her property, valued :
at about SIO,OOO, to her brothers
and sisters. Blackburn sought to
prove that undue influence was
used upon Mrs. Blackburn at the
time she made the will and that
this was easily made possible be
cause of the condition of her mind,
which he alleged was bad. Scores
of witnesses were introduced by
both sides, but just before the case
was ready to go to the jury Judge
Thomas directed a verdict in favor
of the claimants of the property
under the terms of the will because
Blackburn failed to show that Mrs,
Blackburn’s mind was bad prior to
making the will in which she cut
him off with $5, although they had
apparently been happily married
for twenty years.
Colquitt county citizens are cir|
eulating petitions to have an elec
tion called at which the people
may vote on the question of coun
ty wide taxation for school pur
poses. We really don’t see how a
county as progressive as Colquitt
is in many things has gotten along
all these years without local taxa
tion for schools. It is the only way
to have an efficient county school
system, and once the people are
persuaded to adopt it, they can
never again he induced to try to
get along without it. —Tifton Ga
zette.
The Woman’s Club, of Homer
ville, under the leadership of Mrs.
Claude Harvey, has ordered SSO
worth of yarn and will use it knit
ting sweaters for the Clinch coun
ty soldiers.
The Coffee county registration
board is very busy citing regis
trants in Class One to appear and
take physical examination. This
examination will be made during
the early days of February. Those
passing the examination will go to
the training camps after Feb.lStlj,