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PEARSONffiTRIBUNE
VOL. 3—NO. 41
COFFEE COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered From
Various Sources.
The Tribune has not heard from
Ordinary W. P. Ward on the sub
ject but understands that: Coffee
county's quota of the State pension
fund has been received and is ready
to be disbursed. Pensioners will
have to call in person or send a
written order to get their money.
Mr. V. O. Mathews, of Axson.
requests the Tribune to tell its
readers that the extreme cold
weather which prevailed this win
ter has not destroyed the 801 l
Weevil. If you think so, examine
the old bolls you have failed to
burn and you will find them there,
alive and preparing to feast upon
your young cotton bolls in the
spring. You must burn them.
Coffee county will not be repre
sen ted on the Federal grand jury,
at Valdosta, February 18lh, when
the United States court, for the
southwestern division of the Sou
thern District of Georgia, convenes.
However, she w ill have six repre
sentatives on the traverse jury, to
wit. Dan Lott, Jr., J. A.llaughtery
and S. ,1. Stubbs of Douglas, C. It.
McCall of Willacoochee, and X. E.
Harrell of Pearson, and E. L. Bled
soe, of Broxton.
The 1918 field day exercises of
the rural schools of Coffee county
will occur at Douglas on the clos
ing day of the schools. On Satur
day, April 13th, preliminary con
tests will be held in Itroxton, Doug
las, Nieholls, Pearson and Willa
coochee, the schools going to the
nearest town. The winners in
these contests will go to Douglas
for final contest on Saturday,April
20th. The program for the exer
cises appears in another column of
this issue of the Tribune.
Arbor Day exercises in t he rural
schools of Coffee county will take
place on Friday, February 22nd,
by order of the County Board of
Education. These exercises will
consist in planting out shade trees
and shrubbery, and otherwise re
paring and beautifying the school
buildings and grounds. It will be
a general clean-up day,in which all
the people of the several commun
ities may take part. The Tribune
knows of no better way for a com
munity to show its progressive
spirit than to engage heartily in
the Arbor Day exercises at its local
school. A community is judged
largely by the appearances of its
school buildings and grounds, its
church buildings and grounds and
its cemetery. To create a rivalry
in this matter and, possibly to get
the best results, the County Board
of Education has offered prizes
from $5 to $25, and no doubt it
will prove a proper stimulus to
action.
Bankston Bros.
Roberta, (2a., Jan. 21, 1917.
Old Kentucky Mfg Co.,
Paducah, Ky.
Gentlemen:
A Mr. Will Wachter of this
county had some hogs that w-ere
down with cholera and had given
up all hoi>e of saving them and
would not spend one penny on
them. 1 gave him one 151 b pail of
your B. A. Thomas’ Hog Powder
and he has just come in and paid
me for it and ad vises that every
one of his sick hogs got well and
that he had killed them and now
has them in his smoke house, and
that they were as fine as he had
killed this year.
1 want to add that he said his
hogs were down and so sick that
he had to prize their mouths open
and his wife poured the powder
down their throats.
Please find check in full of my
account and with kindest regards,
we beg to remain
Yours very truly,
Bankston Bros.
For sale by Pearson H ardware
Store, Pearson. Georgia.
PEAK SON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918
THE
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A. COHEN, Prop.
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We handle
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Call and get FREE Fashion Sheet
each month
CjOMPLETE line of (mJILLINERY
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"Ijnt ILK Shirts—complete assortment for Gentlemen.
Drop in and inspect them, and convince your
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Come and make yourself feel at home
when in our store—we are pleased to
show you our stock whether you buy.
or not. Our courteous clerks are al
ways ready to serve you.
THE BOSTON STORE
Malone Block A. COHEN, Prop. Pearson, Georgia
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told in
Pointed Paragraphs.
The second annual ceremonial of
Alice Temple of the Mystic Shrine
w ill he held at Valdosta on Wash
ington’s birthday, February 22nd.
It is stated that the crossing of
the desert sands will begin with
the initiation of fifty or sixty “-no
vitiates, who w ilt go to Valdosta
from every section of South Geor
gia,
It is given out that the govern
ment w ill establish a $50,000 sw-eet
potato drying plant somewhere in
South Georgia, the finest sweet
potato growing section in the world.
The purpose of the establishment
is to demonstrate, by this process,
the practicability of enhancing the
value of sweet potatoes as a bread
food.
Hon. Grover O. Edmonson, late
of Alma, Bacon county, has enlist
ed in the army and is now at Camp
Johnston taking a three months’
training course. Then he proposes
to go to France and do his best in
helping to whip the Kaiser’s crowd.
That is better than being a blind
follower of Torn Hardwick and
Hoke Smith.
Federal court for the Southwest
ern division of the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia will convene at
Valdosta next Monday, February
18th, Judge B. I). Evans presiding.
It will be Judge Evans’ first visit
to Valdosta since he succeeded to
the Federal judgeship. It is re
ported a large docket awaits the
court and a lengthy session is ex
pected to result.
The Ocilla and Fitzgerald sec
tion of the Fitzgerald, Ocilla and
Broxton railroad, lues been bought
by President J. A. J. Henderson, of
flit' Ocilla Southern rail road, which
road has boon operating the sec
tion for several years, at the price
of $17,000, subject to the confirm
ation by the court ordering the
sale. Should the sale be confirm
ed, it is not known what will be its
future, but more than probable it
will be merged with the Ocilla
Southern and become an import
ant branch of that rapidly grow
ing railroad.
H. V. Jeffords of Waresboro,was
robbed a few days since by a couple
of gypsies, who gave their names
as Anna and George Johnson. Mr.
Jeffords says the woman got into
his buggy and took liis pocketbook
and the man came up and threat
ened to kill nim unless he let the
woman go. They plead guilty be
fore Judge J. L. Crawley, ot the
city court of Waycross, and sent
enced each to pay a fine of $125.00
and serve twelve months in the
ebaingang. The later part of the
sentence was suspended upon their
leaving the county never to return.
Don’t Read This!
We are in receipt each week of a list from the State Bureau
of Markets, Department of Agriculture, showing the Wholesale
Prices, in several different markets of Farm Produce. Also
showing a list of various people who desire to buy Farm Products.
Anyone desiring to take advantage of this information may
do so by calling at our store —o —o —o —
also have information regarding the Castor Bean
Parker Hardware & Furniture Co.
DEALERS IN
Hardware, Furniture and Farm Implements, Paints and Oils
PEARSON, -0- GEORGIA
SI.OO A YEAR
Appointed Title Examiner.
Hon. Robt. G. Dickerson has
been appointed by Judge J. I.
Summerall, under (lie Land Title
Registration Act, land title exami
ner for the Waycross judicial cir
cuit. It will be his duty to criti
cally examine and report to the
presiding judge the status of every
claim of title involved in appli
cations for title registration within
his jurisdiction. His jurisdiction
extends to the counties of Bacon,
Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Bierce and
Ware. The appointment is a hap
py one.
Pastor at Hebardville.
The Tribune has it from an au
thentic source that 1 lie I febardville
Baptist church, in the suburbs of
Waycross, has arranged with Elder
S. E. Blitch, of near Pearson, to
preach there t in* second and fourth
Sundays in each month. It is
thought the second church of
Waycross will secure his services
for the first and third Sundays,
thus giving him employment for
all his time except the fifth Sun
days.
He’s a “Georgia Cracker.”
Mr. T. W. Wrench of Folkston,
repudiates the Tribune’s statement
that he was a native “Westerner.”
He claims to he a “Georgia Crack
er horn in Huntsville, Ala.” The
Tribune man first knew Mr. Wrench
at Fitzgerald during her coloniza
tion days, and just took it for
granted lie was from the West; the
great majority of the settlers came
from that section of the country.
The Tribune gladly makes the cor
rection; lie is a live wire, indicative
of a pure-blooded Southerner.
The German Measles.
We learn, with some perplexity,
that the boys in the cantonments
have changed “German measles”
into “Liberty measles.” It’s easy
enough to grasp the fact that they
don’t want anything German
around the place. But why abuse
so good a word as “liberty!”
There's supposed to be a sort of
sardonic humor in the term “Ger
man measles.” It means measles
that arc —or is—not the real thing.
I t,s the same sort of expression as
“German silver.” The dictionary
says that “German” measles is—or
are —“false” measles, wherefore our
soldiers might find a certain pe
ril liar appropriateness in ascribing
it —or them—a Teutonic origin.
(We pass over in dignified silenco
the fact that the dictionary also
calls it—or them—“ French" meas
les. That is what the Germans call
them —or it —a fact which might
be adduced as furthur proof of
German malignity and duplicity.)
Anyhow, we can’t imagine any
possible reason for “Liberty meas
les,” unless it is that Sammy feels
free to catch it—or them —and
generally does. —Exchange.