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PEARSONffiTRIBUNE
VOL. 3—NO. 45
GEORGIA FOOD PRODUCTION.
Georgia Farmers are Urged to
Grow Much Food Thu Year.
Atlanta, March 12. —The Ma
con Food Production meeting, the
other day, was only the beginning
of a campaign for more food on ev
ery Georgia farm, which will be
waged vigorously during the next
few weeks in every militia district
in the Slate.
When the meeting was called by
Commissioner of Agriculture, J. ,T.
Brown, as Chairman of the Georgia
Food Production and Conservation
Council, and Dr. A. M. Soule, as
Federal Food Administrator for
the State, it was planned in ad-
vance to make it far more than
just a flash in the pan.
Arrangements have already been
made to carry the message of that
meeting to the remotest corners of
the State. With an attendance of
nearly 2,500, representing practi
cally every county in the State,
the Macon meeting unanimously
pledged itself to support heartily
the State and National authorities
in the prosecution of the war, and
to the utmost of the ability of ev
ery man present to produce more
tood and feedstuffs than were made
in Georgia last year.
The men who met in Macon,
states Commissioner Brown, not
only meant what they said, but
declared their purpose to use their
utmost efforts with their neighbors
about them, in order to procure
greater food production than Geor
gia made last year.
The campaign now contemplates
community meetings in every pos
sible militia district in the State.
These will be brought about
through the representatives of the
State Council on Food Production
and Conservation, and the County
Farm Demonstrtion Agents, the
latter under direction of Mr. J.
Phil Campbell, of Athens.
There are some 3,000 represent
atives of the State Council, the
majority of whom were present at
the Macon meeting, representing
their respective counties. Through
these the district meetings will be
called, and in each instance they
will be urged to take the same ac
tion as was taken at Macon.
It is the belief of the Depart
ment that the farmers of Georgia
are uow thoroughly aroused to the
seriousness of the situation, and
that their response to the National
call will be. if anything, even more
than is expected of them.
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There is a possibility that farm
labor in Georgia will be shortly
augmented by the release on fur
loughs of several thousand young
farmers who were drafted for ser
vice in the National army.
This is to come through enact
ment by Congress authorizing the
Secretary of War to grant fur
loughs under such restrictions as
he may see fit to adopt, to men
not immediately needed, so that
they may return to their farms
and make and harvest 1918 crops.
The Senate has already passed the
biU granting this authority, and,
with a slight amendment, making
it voluntary with the soldier as to
whether he accepts the furlough,
it is assured that it will soon pass
the House and be signed by the
President.
Director L. B. Jackson, of the
Georgia State Bureau of Markets,
has just returned from Washington,
where he went to represent Com
sioner Brown on the committee
named as to the result of the re
cent meeting of Commissioners of
Agriculture in Memphis; the com
mittee's object being to secure
some arrangement whereby these
young farmers might be released
for farm work and food production
this year.
It may be interesting to note
that the suggestion to arrange for
New Flour Ticket Ruling.
In order to prevent hoarding
which is expressly forbidden by
the statute of August 10th, 1917,
sales of flour to iniovidual con
sumers in towns or cities are not
to be made except in quantities of
from one-sixteenth to one-quarter
of a barrel or less; and in rural
or farm communities, from one
quarter to one-half of a barrel or
less. In no event shall any pur
chaser have more than thirty days
supply.
Unrestricted sale or delivery of
w heat Hour is an unreasonable and
wasteful practice, and forbidden
by Section 4 of the Food Adminis
tration Act of August 10, 1917.
It is the opinion of the Food
Administration that the gross
maximum profit for wholesalers in
Hour should not exceed from 50c
to 75c per barrel.
The profits to retail dealers in
original mill packages should not
exceed from 50c to $ 1.20, depend
ing upon the character of service
rendered. Where retailers sell in
amounts less than the original mill
packages, the gross profit should
not exceed one cent a pound.
Any profit in excess of these, or
in excess of those obtained on an
even market under freely competi
tive conditions in normal times
w ill be considered cause for inves
tigation.
The rules and regulations of the
Food Administration, as well as
Section I of the Act of August
I.oth, forbid excessive prices.
Merchants are subject to revoca
tion of license or stoppage of sup
plies for violation of Section 4 of
statute which covers both licensed
and unlicensed dealers.
Substitutes for wheat are also
covered by the law.
Agents for the Food Adminis
tration are governed by this rule.
the release by furlough or other
w ise, of these young men, in order
to assist, in the increased food pro
duction so badly needed, came
originally from the Georgia De
partment of Agriculture. The
Memphis meeting followed, the
committee went to Washington,
where it found that Government
authorities had already realized
the importance of action, and the
plan is now about to be carried
out.
War Garden Suggestions.
“The suggestion lias been made,”
says Elmo Ragsdale, Emergency
Home Garden Agent, Athens, Ga.,
“by some of the leading merchants
and business men of the smaller
towns and cities that a general or
der Ik; issued for the closing of
stores in towns of five thousand or
less two half days each week (pref
erably Tuesday and Thursday
mornings) to allow the merchants
and employees to prepare and cul
tivate their gardens, the fact being
evident that with the scarcity and
high prices of labor around towns
of this size it is almost impossible
for many families who desire home
gardens to have them.”
The plan is a good one and has
the approval of J. Phil Campbell,
Director of Extension, and a truly
patriotic movement. No one lias
authority to issue such an order,
and must result from voluntary ac
tion. It is further suggested that
merchants and their employees
could, in addition to their gardens,
produce sufficient corn to fatten
meat for their families.
A cominittee to organize the
horse power of the communities to
plow these gardens and small farms
is suggested. No plowing will be
needed, if the ground is thorough
ly broken at the start, more than
can be done with a Planet, Jr.,
hand plow.
Let's adopt these suggestions.
PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told in
Pointed Paragraphs.
Last week the Tifton packing
plant shipped two car loads of lard
to Chicago. Formerly Chicago
shipped lard to Tifton. The tables
have turned.
lion. Abe Minchew, who has re
ceived the appointment of judge of
Bacon county court, is reported as
administering justice with firmness
and impartiality.
The Tift on packing plan t slaugh t -
ered twelve hundred hogs and sev
eral hundred cattle, costing a half
million dollars, during its first
month’s operation.
W. M. Faireloth, an extensive
farmer of Mitchell county, recently
sold fifty head of steers at $122
per head, or a net profit of $52 per
head. He realized in the deal $2,-
600.
Valdosta is having a row over
the ordinance prohibiting wooden
roofs, and which allows but a small
percentage of repairs to be made
of this material. An effort to re
peal the law is now' on.
The city of Adel is reported out
of debt and with a balance in the
treasury of $10,129.95. This is a
fine showing, and the Tribune
doubts if there is another city
in Georgia of Adel’s size that can
equal it.
The government plans to con
solidate all four of the railroad
terminals at Brunswick under one
yard master. All the terminals
will be used for various purposes
not given out. The same plans
will obtain at Savannah.
Thomas county loafers will be
given a job unless they find work
for themselves at once. A band of
gypsies, encamped on the outskirts
of Thomasville, were given their
choice of paying SSO per day or
moving on. They didn’t delay in
moving.
The Bank of Ktatenville has gone
into liquidation. It is entirely
solvent, but its business was too
small to afford its continued oper
ation. The business has been trails
ferred to a Valdosta bank which
will pay off the depositors and
w ind up the business.
The Ben Hill county singing
convention meetsatOsierfield next
Sunday. O. L. Downing is the
president and he is striving to
have his singers thoroughly orga
nized for the South Georgia sing
ing convention which meets in
Fitzgerald some time in June.
Records show' that 730 car loads
of foodstuffs —including hay, corn,
velvet beans, hogs, pecans, sweet
potatoes, peanuts, meal, syrup,
cattle and oats —have been shipped
away from Mitchell county be
tween October Ist and March Ist.
Mitchell is doing her “bit” very
handsomely.
The city council of Brunswick
has discarded its jail and will use
the county jail in future. The
city jail will be fitted up for a
gymnasium and reading room, a
place of recreation for the general
public, especially the new citizens
arriving to work for the Federal
government.
The little city of Meigs, over in
Thomas county, has let the con
tract for a new and handsome
school building, to be erected of
brick and stone and to cost about
$20,000. Meigs is composed of a
live progressive citizenry and she
would have proved a worthy Capi
tol of the new county of Hansell.
Scarcity of Seed Cane.
Throughout Coffee county, and
and South Georgia as well, there
is a scarcity of seed cane.
For some unexplainable reason
a great quantity of the sugar cane
that was set aside and banked last
Fall to be kept for seed did not
keep well, and when it was opened
up a week or two ago to plant, the
farmers discovered that they were
practically without seed, the most
of it being spoiled.
It was the purpose of our farm
ers to plant a big sugar cane crop
this year, but the seed failing to
save has frustrated their plans.
It, is stated that a Lowndes
county farmer had a few thousand
to spare; he advertised them, and
he received orders for an hundred
thousand more than he had on
hand.
It. requires some skill to save
seed cane. But there’s no trouble
to sell it, when advertised.
Burning the Woods.
Although it is a violation of the
laws of Georgia to fire the woods
after February 20th the atmos
phere of Coffee county, for the past
two weeks, has been laden with
smoke and the fumes of burning
grass, straw and rotten trash set
tled in the ponds, now dry and in
flammable.
The w orst feature of the matter
is you can’t find out who set these
fires. It is done clandestinely be
cause it is a violation of the law,
and farmers have to keep a close
look out for their fences lest they
get burned.
The law provides for firing the
forests prior to February 20th, and
when; t hey were burned off early
the tender grass has sprung up and
is affording excellent grazing for
cattle.
Gat lie fattened on wiregrass
makes the finest of beef.
Strenuous Political Campaign.
The strenuous political campaign
that is sure to develop iu Charlton
county during the spring and sum
mer months was actively inaugu
rated during t he two-day session of
Superior court held this week. A
mong the candidates already in the
field who were here were Messrs.
Levi l i’Stecn, of Douglas, and A. B.
Spence, of Waycross, who are to be
opponents for I he office of Solicitor
General. Judge W. C. Lankford,
of Douglas, who will probably be
in the race for Congress again, was
also here. There was considerable
political discussion, and it is ex
pected tliat some formal announce
ments will be forthcoming at an
early date. —Charlton County Her
ald.
Cooper in the Toils.
Dispatches from Atlanta state that,
warrants, charging L. J. Cooper, of
the First National Bank of Way
cross, with exchanging worthless
bonds for $150,000 worth of Chicago
real estate, had been brought to
that city by a Chicago arresting
officer. Simon and Ella Hamburg,
of Chicago, made the affidavits up
on which the warrants are based.
Cooper will resist the issuing of
requisition papers.
Gov. Dorsey will hear the motion
on the 19th in his office at the
capitol.
It transpires now there was no
truth in the report that a Quitman
minister, who is a British subject,
was disloyal to the United Slates
government. As soon as the pub
lished report reached Quitman the
friends of the minister hastened to
try to correct it. Be careful always
to speak the truth about people.
The Ware County News,of Mill
wood, has been resuscitated.
COFFEE COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered From
Various Sources.
It is estimated that 1,500 acres
of Coffee county soil will be devot
ed to growing tobacco. If it pans
out well it will afford big- business
during the midsummer months.
The public road from Pearson lo
Ilomerville, north of the Clinch
county line, is in fearful condition.
The Vary an wood wagons out them
into mud during the rainy weather
in February.
John IT. Pafford, who lives north
of Ax,son, reports his tobacco plants
up and growing off finely. He has
two large beds, and will begin
transplanting the last of March or
the first week in April.
The statement of the clerk to
the county commissioners, Eugene
Merrier, shows the county’s expen
ses for the month of February were
$8,876.47. It is costing quite a
sum of money to maintain Coffee
county.
Have you paid your county taxes
yeti if not you will have to pay
interest on it, from the 20tli of
December last. This matter of
paying taxes can’t be avoided.
You just have to rack up to the
< aptain’s office and settle.
The eastern division of the Great
Eastern Association, colored, will
hold ils fifth Sunday meeting at
Beach, Ga. The programs for the
meeting has just been issued from
1 In; Tribune job office. Jasper
Pearson, who lives above Kirkland,
is the secretary.
Geo. D. Edenfield, of Nicholls, is
in durance vile over at Jacksonville,
Fla. He was arrested last week
by Federal authorities and charged
with a violation of the law forbid
ding the transportation of contra
band liquors into a prohibition
state. It is hoped these proceed
ings will put the blind tigers out
of business.
11 has been planned to have a
big patriotic rally at Douglas on
March 30tli, at which all the lead
ing farmers, teachers, ministers,
labor organizations, and business
men generally are expected to be
present to hear patriotic addresses
from prominent speakers, some of
them to be men who have been
“over there,” and give the people
of the county some information
about the present crisis, as they
have seen it. It is also the purpose
of the meeting to discuss the con
servation question and advise the
fanners about the planting of food
crops.
r TfIBACCn •* *I
i uunvuu JOHN F SMITH ||
pj . Pearson, - Georgia.
YOU WILL NEED
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son is here. We have a complete line of
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Stocks, (both bent and straight feet,) Shovels, Scrapes, Scoot
ers, Turn Plows, Etc. We have a specially good price on Plow
Lines. Gome and see them. SHELF HARDWARE of all kinds.
FURNITURE.
As nifty and serviceable a line of Furniture as has ever been
brought to Pearson. ALL OF OUR STOCK IS NEW, not a
single piece of second-hand Furniture in our Stock.
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Adams Kill Adams.
News reached Pearson early
Monday morning of the killing of
Gary Adams by Quincey Adams
the day before at the home of Bud
Tanner a short distance northeast
of Fales.
Some time ago Gary Adams
married a widowed daughter of
Mr. ,J. W. (Mudge) Tanner. Their
living together was not agreeable
and he beat her and ran her away
from his home. She took refuge
at the home of Bud Tanner.
Sunday Gary Adams went to
Hud Tanner's, presumably to see
his wife, and found her engaged in
conversation with his cousin,
Quincey Adams. He was drinking
and in a humor to raise a row.
He first had some hot words with
Hud Tanner, and t hen turned on
Quincey Adams and, with a threat,
made an attack on him with a
bludgeon; Quincey quickly pulled
his gun and shot him dead.
Murder at Yaijan Camps.
Last Saturday morning a most
dastardly murder was commit !ed
out at the Yaryan wood camps,
about four miles south of Pearson.
A colored man, by the name of
Caesar Hamilton, became enraged
with his wife and cut her throat
from ear to ear, using a club ax as
a weapon.
Both parties were standing up
when the deed was committed, and
it is hard to understand bow the
murderer managed to make the
blade of the ax strike the victim
squarely across the neck, com
pletely severing the throat and
jugular vein. The woman ran about
twenty yards to her shanty door
before she fell; she expired in a
few minutes.
Hamilton, >o soon as he realized
what he had done, burnt the wind
toward the Okefinoke swamp or
the Florida line.
News was received in Pearson
early Sunday morning that ex
sheriff David Rieketson had been
killed in an automobile accident.
The Tribune learns that the acci
dent occurred on the road between
Douglas and Broxton. The ear was
being driven at a very rapid speed
and was rounding a curve, in a
deep sand bed, when it turned
turtle. The ex-sheriff fell under
neath the car and the windshield
pierced through his left lung.
There are William J. Harris
clubs in Bibb, Chatham, Glynn,
Randolph, Spaulding and Ware
counties. The Ware county club
is said to be 1,000 strong. In the
congressional race of 1916 Bowden
had a Ware county club 2,000
strong and yet he was the slowest
man of the four in the race.