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PEARSGNWTRIBUNE
YOL. a—NO. 40
COFFEE SUPERIOR COURT.
Civil and Criminal Calenders are
Too Much for the Term.
The February Term, 1918, of
Coffee superior court convened on
Monday for a two weeks term.
The officers of the court —Judge J.
I. Summerall, Solicitor M. T). Dick
erson. Sheriff W. M. Tanner and
Clerk A. W. Haddock —were all
present and rendering efficient ser
vice in their respective spheres.
The grand jury was empanelled
with Hon. \V. R. Frifrr as foreman
and Hon. G. F. McCranie, Sr., as
clerk. The grand jury, as a body,
is one of ability and energy, and it
is pushing the work without delay.
The jury adjourned Wednesday
afternoon until next Monday when
they will resume and complete the
work of the term.
Monday was devoted to the or
ganization of the Court, calling the
calendar for the day and the trial
of divorce cases.
Tuesday morning, after calling
the calendar for the day, the court
settled down to the trial of a land
case of long standing, Spivey ver
sus Adams, involving about two
acres of land, which lasted all day
and resulted in a verdict for the
defendent and a motion for a new
trial.
Wednesday morning, after the
day's calendar was called, the trial
of a suit in ejectment against a
negro man, Arthur Lott, was be
gun and, after the evidence was
practically all in, the Defendant
offered an amendment to his ans
wer which forced the other side to
lie “not only surprised buff as
tounded,” so the cause was with
drawn from the jury and contin
ued for the term. Another old
land case, known as the McClellan
land suit, was commenced and was
proceeding late Wednesday after
noon when the Tribune man took
leave of the court, 'there were
many wit mdses in this case and it
was given out that it would take
a day and a half at least to try it.
The civil and criminal calendars
are both congested. Many civil
cases were disposer! of during the
term, but the big calendar is still
a large one. As to the criminal
calendar, Solicitor Dickerson says
that nothing but jail cases can be
tried next week. It will take the
entire week to dispose of this class
of cases.
When I and my w ife go out to
vote our ballots w ill be alike, be
cause l anti my wife are one.
Be it known to all men that
peace will come when one-man
power, autocracy, is swallowed up
in the victory of human liberty.
Editor Powell, of the Milltown
Advocate, remarks: "Editor Al
len's Pearson Tribune is a clean-cut
publication in every particular.
It gripes us.somewhat thatweean’t
stay in his class with the Advocate.”
Editor Allen sees nothing small
about the Advocate except its size,
and the Tribune is very little ahead
of it in that respect. But, Bro.
Powell, we’ll do our best and let it
go at that; it is all that can be ex
pected of us.
There is much said about preach
ing the gospel to soldier boys in
the camps. It is certainly a good
work to carry the gospel to the
unconverted among them. The
Tribune fears our soldier boys are
hearing much, under the guise of
preaching, that is hurtful to their
lives and characters. When men
do not preach repentance toward
God, faith in Christ and the necess
ity of a new birth, the soldiers
would be better off not to hear it.
Christ preached “The New Birth”
to Xieodemus as the way of salva
tion and life. The same doctrine
should be preached to the soldiers
and we are to carry it to them.
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COFFEE COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered From
Various Sources.
Mr. Win. Vickers has sold his
300-acre farm, four miles south of
Douglas, to Mr. W. M. I ’ope, of
Wilcox county, for $20,535.
Mr- G. W. Phillips and family
have moved from Folkston to Wil
lacooehee. Mr. Phillips has ac
cepted the position of engineer of
the Water and Light plant.
The Yaryan Itosin and Turpen
tine Company are establishing a
camp on Mr. Henry Peterson’s
land near Willacoocliee. It will
get much good material from that
section to supply its Brunswick
rosin and turpentine plant.
The stork has delivered four sets
of twins to Douglas families re
cently. The latest was to Mr. and
Mrs. A. F. Coffee, girl and boy. It
is stated that all these twins have
been given to Baptist families and
is considered quite a coincidence.
Coffee county farmers who buy
their Nitrate of Soda from the
government will pay $75.50 a ton,
plus the freight; if they buy from
(lie dealers it will cost from SIOO
to $l2O per ton. Hut. it may be
too late to buy from the govern
ment. Last Monday was named
as the final day in which to place
an order.
Farmers of Coffee county who
are thinging of growing Castor
beans are advised to get in touch
with the county farm demonstra
tor, or some other authorized per
son, before making contracts.
Grafters are abroad of overy sort.
The government wants (he Castor
beans, but it, wants them direct
from the farmers and unmixed
with graft.
A five days Bible Institute, un
der the auspides of the church,
will be held in the Baptist church
at Douglas, beginning next Mon
day. Everybody is invited to at
tend. Free tuition, books and en
tertainment have been provided
for by the church. Dr. W. L.
Pickard, president of Mercer Uni
versity, will be present and assist
in the conduct of the institute.
The lands belonging to the es
tate of the late. Willy Vickers, of
Coffee county, were sold by the
administrators at public outcry to
the highest bidder last Tuesday at
Douglas. A son by his second
wife, Mr. Owen J. Vickers, now
living in Florida, was flic purchas
er at the price of $32,500. There
is about, 1,800 acres of the land, of
which one lot, 490 acres, lays in
the Atkinson county territory and
brought more than one-third of
the price paid for it all. The pur
chase was for speculativs purpose,
and he has already sold the tur
pentine privilege to his uncle, Eli
Vickers, for $5,000. The shares of
stock in the Merchants and Farm
ers Bank of Willacoocliee was sold
to Mr. B. G. Oberry at above par.
The sale was for cash and entirely
satisfactory to all concerned.
The Tribune is agreed that Sa
vannah is Georgia’s seaport par
excellence at which to locate the
Ford shipbuilding plant. The peo
ple of south Georgia should get in
behind it and push for landing it
there.
In nearly every community in
Georgia, where the afternoon ses
sion has been cut out of the public
schools, a skirmish is on demand
ing that it be restored. The two
sessions a day schools have been in
vogue since the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary and it
will be hard to establish a new
system without some friction.
sl.< 0 A YEAR
The Sunny-Side School.
By order of the County Super
intendent of Schools Friday, Feb
ruary 22ud, xvill be observed as
Arbor Day. Each school district
is to work not more than from 6 a.
m. to t> p. m., which will be put to
the credit of the school the same
as so much cash.
Prof. E. M. Pafford, the Princi
pal of the school, in preparing for
the day has divided the men into
companies and assigned them sepa
rate parts of the work to be done
to secure what he hopes to he the
best day’s work in the county:
'To improve the yard and fixtures
he has assigned the foiloxving gen
tlemen: W. E. Clement, foreman;
Wiley Summerlin, Aaron Cook, A.
lv. Burch, Tom Corbitt, John Flan
ders, T. Guldens and Ben Lott.
To repair the homo and fixtures:
Berry Clement, foreman, John It.
Burch, Mark Joiner, W. M. Guth
rie, Tom Davis, John Anderson,
Earl Clement, Oliver Mancil and
Willie Neugent.
To repair the xv r cll and fixtures:
James Summerlin, foreman, H.
Mancil, Tom McGovern, Ed. Mc-
Donald, Joe I)a\ T is, Joe Cato and
Mr. Bridgen.
To prepare school fuel: Daniel
Moore, foreman, Leonard Morris,
E. Flanders, Mark Bowen, Killis
Burch, Jim 'faff, Seaborn Bowen,
Tim Davis and Grover Mancil.
The ladies will be in charge of
the flower garden ami deeosating,
for xvhich they xviil be compensa
ted the same as the tnen.
Sufficient Rural Newspaper.
The editor of the Tribune has
had to do with newspapers, off and
on, for more t han forty-five years,
and when he is told that the day
of the 4-page, (i column, newspaper
has past, it brings activity to his
risibilities. Every community
should have ils nexvspaper, a news
paper sufficiently large enough to
accommodate its advertising pa
tronage, together xvith terse men
mention and editorial comment and
suggestion relative to matters per
taining to the community, and if
Ihe I page paper can do this it is all
the newspaper the community
needs. 11 is an enterprise in which
all the people should unite in sup
porting, every professional and
business man should be represented
in its advertising columns, if only
a card. The local paper should be
a mirror reflecting the business ac
tivity, the thrift, enterprise and
progress of the community. If the
4-page newspaper can do this, it is
the ideal newspaper for the com
munity in which it is published,
and in that community there is no
room for the 8-page blanket sheet.
It is announced that William
Schley Howard, a former congress
man from Atlanta, xviil probably
enter the senatorial race against
the field. He will be the ’steenth
surplus candidate.
The Tifton packing plant began
business last Monday and seems to
be in successful operation. It has
already shipped 3-car loads of meat
products and have orders greatly
in excess ol its supply.
Messrs. Alex. K. Sessoms, Gog
dell, S. It. Kirton, Argylc, and G.
M. Dame, I fornerville, have been
appointed the Clinch county board
of tax equalizers. They are exi>e*
rieneed business men and a better
gCleetion could not be made.
St. Marys has a paper factory.
The output is confined to brown
wrapping paper and paper suitable
to the manufacture of cartons.
St. George lias the only standard
school in Charlton couniy. It re
ceived its certificate of standardi
zation at the recent county teach,
er’s institute held there.