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PE AII .SOX TRIBUNE
Published Weekly.
Member 11th District Press Association
B. T. ABLEST, Editor.
10 util red at the PostoMce In Pearson, Georgia,
an mall matter of the second class.
Subscription price, 91.00 a year In advance.
Advertising rates are liberal and will be
made known on application.
The Savannan News wittily re
marks that “writing about spring
flower.-, babbling brooks, warbling
birds and other vernal accompani
ments without knocking on wood
is a risky sport, especially for per
sons who have no fuel for grate or
heater."
Commenting on President Wil
son's Baltimore speech the London
Morning Post says: “It shows that
the spirit of liberty is invincible,
and given time America is able to
defeat the enemy is as lit tie doubt
ful as that she is resolved to do so,
however long the work may take.”
Bill Burwell entered Tom Hard
wick’s domain and came off with
honors, lie spoke at Sandersville
last Sat urday in hehalf the Third
Liberty Loan. The people present
were with him from the start to
the finish of his address, showing
themselves true to the Adminis
tration and its war policies.
The citizens of Bannockburn, in
Berrien county, served a wheatless
dinner at the closing of their liter
ary school last Wednesday. In
their program it was stated that
the dinner would he wheat less hut
toothsome, none bet ter. And their
commendable- patriotism was only
exceeded by the goodness of their
dinner.
“Publicity is a newspaper's stock
in trade. When it gives (hat, it
has given as much as the fellow
who gives some of his stock or his
goods. Yci you wouldn't hesitate
to ask the newspapers to give you
some publicity for your own sake,
when you would hesitate to ask
the clothier for a hat or t he grocer
for a barrel of Hour," says the Tif
ton (iazetle. Well, brot her, there
is such a thing as educating a fel
low into right thiiikiug.
Georgia vagrants of all sorts are
to be rounded up in great shape.
It is contemplated to install a sys
tem of employment cards and eve
ry employee must carry one of
these cards, which will be punched
at stated intervals, so long as the
employment continues; otherwise
they will be asked to give an ae
count of themselves. This is no
time for idling. There is 100 much
at stake in this war for any one to
be permitted to lay around idle.
This war has developed many
eases of the disease known as ('a
eoethes Scribendi. Some of them
know as much about the principles
of philology as a goat knows about
the English alphabet. They seat
ter grammar, rhetoric and logic to
the four winds, which lands their
effusions into the waste basket.
These scribes are habitues of every
department of the government and
employed, it is supposed, to shoot
this ipferior mental pabulum into
every newspaper office in the land.
The Tribune sympathizes with all
concerned in their affliction.
New Irish potatoes, garden peas
and strawberries at the diunertable
are reported by Pearson gardeners.
The editor helped himself to new
potatoes from the Hotel Malone
garden at dinner Sat urday. ,1. A.
Monerief reports new potatoes and
Postmaster Smith garden peas.
Mrs. Lacy Sutton garden peas,
raddish and turnips. The editor
had strawberries from his garden
Wednesday. What is better than
plenty of fresh garden “suss!” The
printer and "devil'' have not said
anything about what they have
boon feasting on, hut judging from
their appearance, they are not suf
fering for t he want of garden "sass. ’
Notice.
His Excellency, the Mayor and
Council of the city of Pearson, do
hereby call a Mass Meeting for
Wednesday afternoon, April 17th.
You are urgently requested to be
present and bring some one
with you. We will have a repre
sentative of the Savannah Voiun
teer Home Guards and, Way cross
will furnish us a speaker upon the
American Red Cross. At the same
time and place we expect to hear
from several local men, and orga
nize Pearson’s Home Guard and
Ited Cross. Come! Come!! Come!!!
Swift & Co’s. Defense.
it lias been demonstrated time
after time and to a nicety that it
is an easy matter to bring charges
of malfeasance or misfeasance
against an individual ora company
of individuals, but it is quite an
other thing to effect substantiations
by proof.
This seems to be the outcome of
(lie charges made against Swift &
Co., by government officials. They
made charges of malfeasance but
are having the time of their lives
in finding sufficient proof in sub
stantiation.
Swift & Co., jealous of their
reputation and good name, have
spent thousands of dollars in giv
ing publicity to their defense
which shows that their success,
their money getting, was the result
of the volume of their business
rather than exorbitant profits ex
acted from their customers. The
showing is complete and convincing.
Something for St. Marys.
For more than a week a govern
ment official has been at St. Marys
and engaged in making a survey
of the little city and her harbor.
He is giving minuteness to every
detail, and the report of his find
ings to superiors will be thorough.
For what purpose the survey
and diagrams are being made just
at this time is a matter hidden in
mystery, hut it is believed that
the government lias found a use
for the harbor of St. Marys and
that city is soon to he handed a
nice plum, perhaps the much hoped
for shipbuilding plant, or it may
be a big dry dock where vessels
can he given a general overhauling.
Tile statement that St. Marys
lias the deepest and safest harbor
mi the South Atlantic coast lias
never been questioned. Then why
not Fuele Sam utilize it in a way
to which it is best suitedt
Piedmont’s War Garden.
The teachers and pupils of Pied
moot Institute, Wayoross. is noth
ing if not pat riotic. They’decided
there was no better way of putting
their patriotism into actual service
than to engage in tilling a war
garden.
Therefore the Piedmont war
garden is a verity. They have a
half acre in Irish potatoes, half
acre in tomatoes, an acre in sweet
potatoes, an acre in peas and quar
ter of an acre in beans. They will
continue to plant until every avail
able foot of land on the campus is
growing food crops.
•They have Mr. F. H. Abbott, a
government employee in tick eradi
cation, and Mr. Lewis Walker,
county demonstrator, as an ad
visory board, and a Coffee county
student, Mr. Pleasant .Towers, of
Ambrose, has charge of tlie work.
He is loyally supported in tilling
the truck by every member of the
student body.
The Savannah Press evidently
doesn't appreciate amateur theat
ricals. Bro. Sutlive should jour
ney to Pearson and see a good one;
they haven't any good ones in Sa
vannah. Ta. ta, Billy!
News reached Pearson Thursday
morning from Savannah of the
suicide of D. C. Odom, Jr. He
was employed as a street ear con
duct or. had just sent for his wife
to come to him and she had not
more than arrived in Savannah
when the suicidal act was com
mitted. The cause of the rash act
is unknown to his parents who
reside in Pearson. His body was
brought here for interment.
PEARSON TRIBUNE, APRIL 12, 1918
Send for
Swift & Company’s 1918 Year Book
It shows that Swift & Company sells the meat from
a steer for less money then the live steer cost!
Proceeds from the sale of the hide, fat, and other by-products
covered all expense of dressing, refrigeration, freight, selling
expense and the profit of $1.29 per steer as shown by Swift &
Company’s 1917 figures as follows:
Average price paid for live cattle per steer £8445 W
Average price received for meat . . 68.97 IT
Average price received for by-products 24,09 BKS33
Total received . . . £3*6 BBUHHH9HB
This leaves for expenses and profit 8.61 [gf
Of which the profit per steer was . 1.29 ]
There are many other interesting and instructive
facts and figures in the Year Book.
We want to *end our 1913 Year Book, to anyone, anywhere free
for the asking. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
\gg %J Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Wheat Flour Regulations.
The attention of allheadsof fam
ilies, hoarding houses, hotels, retail
and wholesale dealers, in Coffee
county, are called to the following
rules and regulations of the Fede
ral Food Administrator for Georgia.
Under those rules no merchant or
dealer, or user, shall have on hand,
unrcporled, more than a normal
supply of Hour for thirty days.
The excess should l>e-inventoried
at once, in duplicate; one copy
to be sent to l>r. Soule and the
other to the County Food Admin
istrator for the county.
Tile following is the official an
nouncement sent to me its Comity
Food Ad minis) rat or:
“Heads of individual families,
hotels, restaurants, hoarding hous
es, retail merchants, wholesale
dealers, and all oilier people in the
State of Georgia, having in their
possession or under their control,
any wheat flour in excess of tilt'
|>ermitted 20 days supply, are call
ed upon by I>r. Andrew M. Soule,
Federal Food Administrator for
Georgia, to tile with iris office. 11 1
Chamber of Commerce Building,
Atlanta, Ga.. by or before tin* 18th
day of April an inventory showing
the amount of such Excess Over
SO Day Sitpi.v at the date you
make the inventory, of flour then
on hand. If you do not have over
a Itt) days supply, at the rale of (>
pounds per person per month, you
need not make any report. If you
have over this quantity, mail him
a statement, showing the quantity
over tile :’>() days supply you have
on hand on the day you make the
report. This is for the purpose of
determining how much flour there
is in Georgia, so that the govern
men! will know how to save wheat
in the grain elevators of the West
for us.“
This rule applies to all parties
using or dealing in flour and the
inventories must he filed on or be
fore April 18th.
.!. W. til IN. EY.
Chairman Federal Food Adminis
(ration for Coffee county.
A st root preacher, whom and
from whence nobody seemed to
know, regaled a throng in front of
the Rearson Pharmacy Tuesday
afternoon on the Bible and its
prophecies concerning this great
war. The Tribune did not hear
him, hut liis discourse is reported
as being above criticism. Nobody
found out to what religious sect, he
belonged nor why he was hem
He was neatly dressed and appar
ently a perfect gentleman. He is
said to have given his hearers some
very sound advice as to making
preparations for the life beyond
the grave, whence they were rapid
ly tending.
W. F. Bartlett.
Oakeieeo, Ga., May 10, 1917.
Old Kentucky Mfg. Co.,
Poducall, Ky.,
Gentlemen:
Please allow me to state that 1
have sold your hog cholera remedy
for one season and have ordered
more for this season. Last year i
sold it to 12 or 15 men who raise
hogs. I told each of them to take
the remedy, feed it to their hogs
aud if they lost a single hog from
disease of any kind not to pay me
a cent for the remedy, hut when
they began to sell cotton every
man came in and paid me for the
medicine and every one of them
told me that it was the best hog
medicine they ever used. One
man paid me for the small package
and bought $5 worth more and said
it was the best he bad ever tried.
Yours very t ruly,
W. I-'. Bartlett.
Two ear loads of corn in the
shuck, amounting to about 1,200
bushels, was shipped from Pearson
this week to Way cross by some of
the farmers of this setion, among
them the Messrs. Ooursou, Dennis
Daniel,.l. M. I‘afford and L. L.
McNeal. The price received for it
81.05 |ter bushel f. o. 1). Pearson.
The farmers are highly pleased at
their good fortune in selling their
crops of corn at such a remuner
ative price, and they arc encour
aged to plant for a bumper crop
for 1918. The editor examined
the com being shipped and found
it in a fine state of preservation.
These two ear loads of corn will
I yield to the shippers around $2,000.
jit can be truly said “corn is being
j shipped from rather than to
i Pearson."
Mrs. Audrey Wall returned to
Pearson Thursday morning from
Atlanta where her husband is do
| ing his "bit" in the United States
j army.
Ur. HENRY P. SMITH
Pearson, Georgia
Office in Post Office Building
DICKERSON & MINGLEDORFF
ATTORNEYS and counselors
Office in the Sew l’afford Handing
Pearson. Georgia
Practice in all the Courts, state and Federal
Mr. Dickerson will be in office every Thurs
day unless other engagements prevent.
BENJ. T. ALLEN
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR
Offices In the Allen building,
Pearson, Georgia.
Will do a general practice in State and Fed
eral Courts.
DR. B. S. MALONE.
Dentist
Office In Malone Block
PEARSON. GA.
LUCKY STRIKE
EVERY month we make enough
Lucky Strike Cigarettes to reach,
end to end, from New York to China,
the long way mound. That’s
15,000,000 A ©AY
Regular men like the Lucky Strike
Cigarette—good, solid Kentucky
Burley tobacco, fine for a cigarette
because —
IT’S TOASTED
IN C O A ,0.
Six Weeks’ Spring Normal at
PIEDMONT INSTITUTE
WAY CROSS, GEORGIA.
From April 10th to May 17th, 1918.
IE YOU WANT '!’< > Make a License;
Make a Better License;
Teach a Better School;
Receive a Better Salary;
Come right on to PIEDMt )NT and tve will heip you to do so.
Board and Tuition only $30.00 for the Six Weeks
Write at once for reservation of room.
M. O. CARPENTER, Pres. Waycross, Georgia.