Newspaper Page Text
PEARSON ©TRIBUNE
vol. 3—xo. 4«>
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told in
Pointed Paragraphs.
The wheat crop of Brooks conn
ty is reported to be very fine
and a yield of fifteen to twenty
bushels per acre is confidently ex
pected.
Mr. J. E. Rioketson has been re
elected superintendent of the Fitz
gerald” public schools. He will add
a business course to the curriculum
of the high school next year.
Thotnasville grocers are handling
rice Hour and it is becoming popu
lar. It is especially fine for w allies,
mu (tins and battercakes and many
like it for these purposes as well or
better than the wheat flour.
Alma. Bacon county, have orga
nizod a "Booster's Club," another
name for Board of Trade, and pro
pose to put the little city properly
on the map of Georgia. E. M. Ray
is chairman. If w ill be incorporated
and become permanent.
The Waycross Herald-Journal
prints a petition, signed by ail
the county officials and twenty
three members (practically all) of
the Waycross bar, requesting the
re-election of Judge J. 1. Summer
all without opposition to the su
perior court bench.
The building of a court house
for the new county of Candler is
up for discussion again in the
Met ter Advertiser. Bro. Camp
sees no good reason for waiting for
the mythical “more convenient
season.” The eternal now is the
time to do things.
Moultrie subscribed her quota
of Liberty Loan Bonds, SIBO,OOO,
in two hours. Why spread out
over three or four weeks a job you
must do and can accomplish in two
hours. Get it behind you and
then proceed with your regular
vocation. Moultrie is right.
Postmaster Albert C. Sweat, of
Nashville, has resigned. The pay
was SI,OOO a year hilt he decided
it was insufficient for the service
rendered. Indeed his duties had
been added to here lately until
they had become onerous. He
was not allowed sufficient help.
The Advocate complains that
Milltown is a goat pasture. Bro.
Powell says there is an ordinance
prohibiting his goat .ship from per
ambulating the highways and by
ways of that little city, but sup
poses it has been suspended as a
war measure in the interest of
meat culture.
The Ware Count y Sunday School
Association will hold its annual
convention at Waycross April 20
and 27. The meeting will be held
in the tabernacle on Brewer and A
streets. Hon. W. B. Stubbs, the
great prohibition champion of Sa
vannah, will be one of the speakers
for the occasion.
Homerville and Milltown joined
Nashville in passing up the Rad
cliff Chautauqua for next year.
Tribune thinks they have made a
mistake. The program, as rendered
at Pearson was excellent, instruc
tive, entertaining and elevating.
The "Wake up, America” program
was put on at the request of .the
government, and was worth while.
The late Clinch county grand
jury sent in to the News its pre
sentments, covered by eighteen
closely typewritten legal cap pages,
to be published for the munificent
sum of Ten dollars. It would have
cost the News Twenty dollars to
have had the matter put in type.
The News made a grimace at the
jury’ and declined, printing only
the salient parts of the document.
faster Builder Passes Away.
In the death of ('apt. L. Johnson,
of Waycross and St: Marys, South
Georgia's most constructive genius
has passed to his reward.
His life was a most attractive
one, devoted to farming, saw-mill
ing and railroad building, and in
all of it he had an eye to the up
building of South Georgia. He
had great faith in the possibilities
of this section and lie demonstrat
ed his faith by his works.
lie was a prime fin or in giving
to Georgia the great lanta. Birm
ingham and Atlanti; railway sys
tem, when it was known as the
Waycross Air Line and extended
from Waycross to Douglas.
The latter years of his life were
devoted to developing the port of
St. Marys and in giving the little
coast city a railroad outlet to the
balance of Georgia, by organizing
and building the Atlantic, Way
cross and Northern connecting St.
Marys with the Seaboard Air-Line
Railway at Kingsland, and opened
tip the possibilities of St. Marys as
a seaport, and awaked her from a
sleepy village to a live, industrial
lit!le city.
In his passing Waycross, St.
Marys and all South Georgia have
lost a good and faithful servant,
and they mourn his departure.
Dr. Weathers Convicted.
The Tribune was in error when
it saiil Dr. Weathers, the promoter
of the chain of small banks, among
them one at Enigma, Ga., had been
indicted on the charge of embezzle
ment, but had gone to parts un
known and would have to be caught
before t ried.
Dr. Weathers showed up at Ber
rien superior court last week and
stood his (rial. The result was hi.s
conviction for the embezzlement
of $1,900 from the Rank of Enigma.
The jury trying him recommended
that belie punished as for a mis
demeanor. Whereupon, Judge
Thomas gave him twelve month
on t lie chain gang.
A motion for a new trial has
been made and it may be some
time before he will labor on the
chain gang.
Drying Sweet Potatoes.
A dispatch from Tlioniasville
says: “Herbert Neel, one of
Thomas county's most progressive
young farmers, has je. T sold a lot
of sweet potatoes, which have been
pet through a drying out process
and obtained a fine i ce for them.
Mr. Neel did not 1 e a drying
plant so he put his j .(aloes in the
basement of Neel Brothers’ store
in this city, and turned on tig
furnace and the heat from it dried
them out successfully in a short
time. They were in fine condition
as a result of the drying process
and the" price obtained for them
was much in advance of the prices
before dried. These experiments
prove that drying plants for pota
toes would be of wonderful advan
tage in this section and there is
talk of having one here before
another season. The dry ing plant
of John F. Arch bold on his estate
here, hasattraeted much attention
and'Mr. Arch bold has been using
it most advantageously.”
Carelessness Results in
Failure.
That is why we say "Feed B. A.
Thomas’ Hog Powder according to
directions.” Do Nor Feed it
Sloppy, but mix it with ground
feed and moisten with just enough
water to make a crumbly mass.
Then each hog gets a beneficial
dose. See full directions on pack
age. Your money back if you are
not sat isfied. For sale by Pearson
Hardware Store. Pearson. Ga.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918
WHY BUY LIBERTY BONDS?
Twenty Things for Our People
to Think About.
1 — Germany isn't licked —YET.
2 After three years of trying Eu
rope HASN’T BEEN ABLE to
do the job.
3 America has been called on.
■I —If America can’t finish the job
—IT WON’T BE DONE.
s—America can finish the job if
she tries.
(i —She will be able to try IF she
gels w hat she needs.
7 The need is for ships, guns,
tanks, trucks, airplanes, cloth
ing, food, ammunition and ma
terials —all of which can be se
cured ONLY if the country has
money.
8 — These can be secured only if
the people LEND their money
to the government.
9 This lending is done through
Liberty Loans, the t bird of which
was pulled off April (J.
10 — If the loan fails the materials
CAN’T be secured.
11 — If the materials are not se
cured the war will be LOST.
12 — If the war is lost Germany w ill
MAKE YOU PAY the Kaiser
the money you didn’t lend your
country.
13 — German ships will sail into
your harbors.
14 — German soldiers will walk on
OUR streets.
15 — We shall be insulted, taxed,
oppres- ed, ENSLAVED.
10 —The things that happened in
Belgium will happen in New
York, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado,
California and Georgia —to YOU
and YOUR wife and YOUR
children.
17 — Are YOU going to let those
things happen?
18 — Who is going to buy Liberty
Bonds if you don’t?
19 — Read sentences It and 12
AGAIN.
20 — Read sentences 10,17 and 18
again before you say YOU CAN’T
buy Liberty Bonds.
You Must [fegister.
To Collectors of Internal Revenue,
and Others Concerned:
Attention is called to Article
XXIV of Regulations 43, relating
to war tax on admissions and dues
(T. I). 2081) which provides that
every person, corporation, partner
ship or association, including ticket
brokers, required to collect the tax
on admissions to any place, shall
on the first day of April, 1918, and
annually thereafter on the first
day of July, file in the office of the
Collector of Internal Revenue for
the district in which the place of
business is located, application for
registration on Form 752.
< living to the short time elapsing
between the publication of these
regulations, and the date fixed in
said Article for registration, the
time is hereby extended until
April loth, within which such ap
plica!ion may be filed.
You should give the widest pub
licity to this requirement of the
regulations and to notice of exten
sion of time herein authorized for
compliance therwitb.
Daniel C. Roper,
Commissioner.
From the Held.
Worth county has subscrided
her quota and $25,000 in excess.
She expects to double up. Every
body up there wants a bond.
Moultrie subscribed her quota
in two hours. She is ready to do
more than her apportionment.
The campaign in Tift county
will be over by Saturday night.
Then those people will be ready to
do something else.
If South Georgia is a sample of
the country’s patriotism tbeThiid
Liberty Loan is not only safe but
many millions to the good.
Furloughs and Marketing.
Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1918. —
Spurred on by Georgia congress
men, at the request of the Georgia
Department of Agriculture, the
war department has at last pro
mulgated regulations under the
Dent bill for the furloughing of
certain soldiers in the National
Army who may desire to return to
the farms for the 1918 planting
and harvesting season.
This farm service is, of course,
made wholly voluntary with the
soldier.
If any beneficial results are lobe
accomplished under these regula
tions they must be acted upon
speedily. The planting season over
most of Georgia is now r well under
way and there is no time to be
lost.
X X X
'l’lie Georgia Department of Ag
riculture is in receipt of an inter
esting letter from Edison, Ga., de
tailing tin' plans for the organiza
tion of a “Farmers’ Protective As
soeiation,” with the view of solv
iug the marketing problem.
The purpose indicated is to buy
t he farmers’ products and sell t hem
direct to packing houses, milling
houses and wholesale produce peo
ple. It seems to be in line with
the work of the Georgia Bureau of
Markets connected with the State*
department of agriculture. It is a
part of this bureau’s work to es
tablish Farmers’ Exchanges at cen
(tral points throughout the State,
thus solving the marketing prob
lem in a large degree.
“The Market Bureau,” says l>i
rector L. B. Jackson, “will not oa
ly be glad to see such agencies es
tablished in every community of
the State, but will heartily coop
erate with them along the line of
securing proper markets for pro
duce raised by the farmers of the
Slate. The Bureau has already
secured the cooperation of whole
sale merchants over the State in
purchasing and handling Georgia
grown diversified prod nets,"
The present object of the Mar
ket Bureau is, as speedily as possi
ble, to extend and perfect the sys
tem to the end that these products,
in wbateverainount offered, wheth
er a wagon load or ear load, shall
find a ready and satisfactory mar
ket.
The bureau will be glad to cor
respond and cooperate with and
assist in I he organization of similar
agencies, looking to creating more
ready markets for diversified farm
products.
xxx
The State Bureau of Markets is
publishinga weekly bullet in, which
is mailed regularly to all persons
desiring it, giving all the essential
market information al itsconunand
pertaining to the food and feed
products of the farm.
The information contained in
this bulletin will be found of par
ticularly valuable assistance to
those communities which have es
tablished or expect to establish an
exchange for the handling of farm
products. Market prices of food
and feed products at the principal
market centers of t he State, includ
ing Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, are
quoted weekly. Following the quo
tations is presented a list of prod
nets for sale, with the name and
address of the party offering it;
also there is given a list of buyers
and the products they desire to
purchase. In this bulletin the bu
reau will be glad to list the prod
ucts of any Georgia farmer and to
publish the wants of any buyers of
farm products. It is at the service
of sellers and buyers of farm prod
ucts alike, many _ producers and
consumers have been brought to
gether and sat isfaetory trades
made. These bulletins will be
sent regularly by mail, free of any
cost to those who desire it. Write
the agricultural department for it.
COFFEE COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered From
Various Sources.
Farmers of Coffee county have
practically completed their plant
ing- and are now siding their corn
and preparing to chop cot ton.
The current story that M iss Daisy
Burns, the Postmistress at Axson,
had married on Sunday, March 31,
was an unkind April fool canard,
and must have emanated from some
very thoughtless person.
Judge W. (’. Lankford of Doug
lasumde the principal address at
the Brunswick liberty loan rally
last Saturday. Under the inspira
tion of his earnest appeal $200,000
was subscribed before nightfall.
Coffee county’s quota of the
Third Liberty Loan is $210,000
and every effort is being made to
over subscribe it. Every section
of the county will be thoroughly
canvassed to accomplish that pur
pose. Success to it.
Messrs. Burrell Davis and Law
rence Gillis, of the McDonald dis
tiit t, have each several acres of
wheat growing, and it is reported
1 0 the Tribune that the prospects
are exceedingly fine and it promi
ses a yield of from fifteen to twen
ty bushels to the acre.
The 'Tribune learns from a source
it considers reliable that Miss
Maggie Wilson and Mr. Doll Mur
ray were united in marriage hist
Sunday, the 71 li inst. The high
contracting parties live near Ax
son, and the 'Tribune extends t hem
its heartiest congratulations, “May
they live long and prosper.”
George White, wdio lias been con
fined in the Coffee county jail for
nearly two years under indictment
for murder, has been admitted to
bail in the sum of $20,000. He
has been tried and convicted once,
bu( on appeal was granted a new
trial. Immediately upon his re
lease lie immediately went to work
in Corn’s barber shop at Douglas.
Its reminiscent friend hands the
'Tribune another chapter in the
history of the old William Gaskin
farm, five miles south of Pearson,
lie tells how it was that it came to
be abandoned. At the death of
Mr. Benajah Pearson, the father of
the present owner, Mrs. W. T.
Dickerson, Mr. William Meeks be
came her guardian. He leased the
place to Mr. Matthew Cowart who
installed a negro family on the
place to make a crop. During that
year, through the carelessness of
these negro tenants, the buildings
were destroyed by fire. After
wards forest fires destroyed all the
fencing. The character of the land
is good, being a gray sandy loam
with a pebbly clay subsoil. Many
splendid crops had been raised on
the place before its abandonment.
1 1 was considered and is among the
very best lands in Coffee county.
FLIES AND MOSQUITOES
Will be troubling you before long. Prepare for them by Screen
ing. We can furnish yon with something to keep them out.
automobile “Tires and tubes
The Famous HARTFORD Brand, guaranteed for 5000 miles—
and the best of it is, you will not have to worry with an adjust
ment for they will give all that is claimed for t hem, and more.
—HARDWARE AND FURNITURE—
We carry a full line of Hardware and Furniture. Have you
traded with us yet? If not, we have both lost. We are here
to serve you. and Honesty iis our Motto.
See our stock and get our prices—compare them with others —
convince yourselves of Quality and Quantity before buying.
You owe it to yourselves, and to us. We are expecting you.
PARKER HARDWARE & FURNITURE CO.
p. s. —Ladies, we have just received a Beautiful line of that
Serviceable ALUMINUM COOKING WARE!
sl. 0 A YEAR
Coffee County Kar Interest.
A review of the part Coffee
county people have acted since the
toesiu of war was sounded on tho
(ith day of April, 1917, is no mean
leaf in the history of the times.
When the call for volunteers
was made as many young men an
swered from Coffee county in pro
portion to population as from any
section of the country.
Since the selective draft was put
into operation there has been lit
tle, very lit tle, complaint of slack
ers. The local board in charge of
the selective draft, composed of
Sheriff Tanner, Clerk Haddock and
Dr. Wlieleliel, have managed it
w ith consummate skill, with the
result that there has been so far
the least possible friction between
the board and the registrants. And
yet her full quo!;; of men have
gone forward to the training
camps.
The second call has not yet been
made, but it is expected at any
time.
Coffee county is not without her
martyrs to the cause of freedom
and the perpetuation of civiliza
tion: Walter J. Bennett, of Kirk
land, sleeps benuath the sod
“Somewhere in France”; Luther J.
White, of Axson, died at his post
of duty in a training camp. There
may be others not reported as they
are “there” at the battle front:
Ralph Freeman, Frank Summerlin
and others.
Every interest connected with
the prosecution of the war has re
ceived cordial and energetic atten
tion. A rally for the benefit of
the American Red Cross was held
at Pearson, soon after Avar was de
clared, and the proceeds (about
$275) forwarded through the Sa
viinnali committee. Since then the
Red Cross work has spread to eve
ry section of the county and thou
sands of dollars sent forward in its
behalf. Much hospital supplies,
soldier’s comfort kits, sweaters,
socks, gloves and books have been
forwarded to headquarters.
Coffee county took part in the
first and second Liberty Loans, and
is noiv engaged in raising her quo
ta of the third loan of $210,000. It
is confidently expected that the
loan w ill far exceed the apportion
ment.
The sale of Thrift Stamps and
War Saving Stamps have reached
many thousands of dollars; there
is no way of knowing the amount.
While a great majority of the
people have engaged heartily in
doing their "bit” in helping to win
the Avar forced upon the American
people, the Tribune regrets to say
some are sour and indifferent about
the war and its results. There are
some of our people, lethargic by
nature, who refuse to see the im
pending danger until they are face
to face with it.
The War Young Men’s Christian
Association has its friends in Coffee
county and they are supporting it
with a hearty good will.