Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955, July 05, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPEARSONffiTRIBUNE VOL. 4—NO. 8 SOUTH GEORGIA. News of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs. Among the new bills introduced in the present legislature is one to create the new county of Lamar from territory to be taken from Early, Calhoun and Baker counties. In an attempt to cremate a mos quito that had bitten him a Tift county man set fire to the mosquito bar and, then, had the time of his life in keeping his dwelling from being cremated. Judge W.'E. Thomas,"of Valdos ta, has made his formal announce meat for re-election as judge of the Southern Judicial Circuit. Know ing ones over there say that he will win without trouble. Tifton and Valdosta are both fighting the pesky mosquito. It is charged that unsanitary back yards raised these myriads of mos quitoes. If this is so, other com munities had better take warning. Editor Jack Majors is back on the job of publishing the Milltown Advocate. He is an all round good newspaperman and will make the Advocate a blessing to Mill town if her citizens will help him with sufficient patronage. Kev. Mack Torrence, a holiness preacher of < toffee county, who has a considerable following in West Coffee and East Ben Hill counties, has been arrested in Ben Kill charged with using seditious lan guage. He was carried to Albany for commitment. The South Georgia Normal col lege at Valdosta will ask the legis lature for an appropriation of $50,- 000 to complete its dormitory equipment. The best interest of the school requires that an ad ditional dormitory be built as quickly as possible. The City of Milltown and the Milltown Lumber Company have amicably adjusted t heir differences relative to the contract existing between them. The terms of Ihe settlement have not been given out. Judge W. K. Thomas played tin* role of peacemaker. The Ocilla Southern railroad lias been placed in the hands of M. W. Garbutt, J. A. J. Henderson and J. F. Gray as receivers. The roads troubles have been brought about by accidents involving it in a number of damage suits which threaten to throttle its existence. The Hazlehurst News publishes the following cheerful crop report: “Don’t worry about the crops in Jeff Davis county, for better crops were never in this county. The boll weevils may get half the cot ton crop, but at that there will be more cotton sold here than last year.” The Clinch County News of last week carried the most heartrend ing story of the death of its em- ployee, Mr. M. C. Edge, and the subsequent insanity of his wife caused by the illnesss and death of her husband. The one was buried in the Homerville cemetery and the other sent to the State sani tarium. Over at Nashville some one is enjoying the evening pastime of poisoning dogs. It is not stated whether it is a move in the in terest of food conservation, kid protection or pure cussedness. The Tribune is convinced there are too many dogs of one sort or another, and a thinning out of all sorts would be beneficial to any community. FOB SALE —Good bicycle. Cheap for cash. Apply, Tribune office. tf Lowndes School Census. After being taken twice the school census in Lowndes county and Valdosta is now considered official and it shows some interest ing facts. In the entire county there has been a net gain of 451 children over the census taken five years ago. In Valdosta there has been a net gain of four child ren in the same time. There is a total of 8,211 children of school age in the county, in cluding white and colored. <>f this number there are 2,-171 in Valdosta and 5.710 in the whole county. In the county there are 3,588 white children and 1.0-3 colored, while in Valdosta there are 1,145 white children and 1.320 colored. It will be seen that in both city and county the colored children outnumber the whites. The reason for the small in crease in children in the county during the last live years is gen erally attributed to the fact that it is plainly apparent that negro families are constantly growing smaller. A few year.- ago they were noticeable for their huge family units, but this is now the exception rather than the rule and has been commented on often in the last two or three .years. The white increase seems, according to a comparison of the figures to be keeping up its average from year to year, but with the colored de crease the whole average is thus lowered. Charlton County Farm. “Well, here we are at George Crawford’s beaut ifu I farm of every thing that grows here,” says t lie St. George correspondent (’harlton County Herald. “Ten acres of a good stand of cotton, in the thin places he has planted a crop of late watermelons. He has thirty five acres in corn with peanuts between the rows, just as fine as can be grown. 11 is 7-acre truck patch is growing everything in the truck line: roasting ears, onions, potatoes and the finest tomatoes we have ever looked upon and wagon loads of them. Then his watermelons are thick on the ground and ripen ing fast His cane is about waist high and very thick. Mr. Crawford has a fine farm of black rich dirt. “We learn that Mrs. Crawford has done her part to bring their farm up to the high standard it has attained. Now we call this Independent America. With a vim they are doing their bit.” Tiiet Savannah Liquor. In the Cnited States Court at Savannah Monday Wallace Miller, assistant Cnited Slates district attorney, filed a libel asking the disposition of $26,000 worth of liquor—one solid car load —recenty captured by the authorities on a private railroad switch near Sav annah. The libel is returnable at Savannah July 16. The finale in the history of this carload is expected to be an order from Judge Evans of the Cnited States Court directing that the liquors be turned over to the mili tary authorities for use in base hospitals for medical purposes. | Sucli disposition has been made of other liquors seized at Savannah. This lot is considered especially desirable, because of its fine qual ity, ranging from the very finest whiskies to imported wines and champagnes. Many of the pack ages bear the original foreign seal. The State Senate has confirmed B. A. Harper to be judge of the county court of Clinch county. Also J. J. Rogers to be judge of the city court of Coffee county. PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, J FLY 5, 1018 ENCOURAGE WHEAT GROWING Twelve Months Supply of Flour for Growers and Dependents. Georgia farmers who have grown enough wheat to meet the flour needs this year will have no fur ther trouble in having it ground at the mills. Food Administrator Hoover has issued orders to all the state food administrators of the South direct ing them to permit farmers who furnish their own wheat to have enough ground at one time to pro vide- t hem with flour for a period of 12 months. This also applies to the farmer’s dependents and to those tenants who have heretofore looked to the farmer for their flour supply. Cnder the original order of the food administrator fanners were not permitted to have on hand more than enough flour to last for 30 days, and this necessitated re pealed trips to the mill. The first, of this week an order was issued allowing the farmer to have enough of his wheat ground to carry him to tie first A October but the congressman from southern states argued that this did not, provide adequate relief, since it made frequent trips to the mill necessary and multiplied the troubles uf both the miller and the farmer. Furthermore, the mills shut, down during the winter and this would leave the farmer without (lour, although In-might have sufficient w heat to make all the flour he would need for his family and dependents. It was argued that to continue needless restrictions upon the farmers would cause them to cease trying to produce wheat in the sout h in sufficient quantities to meet their individual needs. Then the food administration issued ils final in slructions which make it, possible for the farmer to secure at one grinding enough flour from his own wheat, to last, him for a year. State Aid to Market Bureau. \tr.anta, G.V., July 2. —Cpon the basis of desolations un animously passed by the biggest farmers meeting ever held in Georgia just a few weeks ago, the State Department of Agriculture will ask the legislature at its pro sent session for an aggregate ap propriation of $35,000 to meet the necessary ex j tenses of the Georgia Stale Bureau of Markets for the coining year. I laving seen, during its act ivities, what can be accomplished in the marketing of food crops, farmers all over Georgia are directly inter ested in the extension of the ser vice of this branch of the Depart ment so that it will be in a position to take good care of every market ing problem presented to it. Many times the amount of mon ey asked from the legislature for this service to Georgia farmers has been saved them the past year by the work of the marketing bureau. If its possibilities are increased through an adequate appropria tion, unquestionably a far greater and more valuable service can be rendered. The Department is asking the legislature to appropriate this money from funds which arc col lected by it as inspection fees on oils and fertilizers. Within the past, twelve months through these collections Commissioner J. J. Brown has turned into the state treasury $51,000 more than was paid in the year before; so that the increase alone in the state’s income through the department will more than take care of the appropriation asked for. It is hoped the legislature will be sufficiently liberal with the Market Bureau to enable it to give Geor Velvet Beans as Fertilizer. An interesting statement regard ing ilie value of Velvet bean meal for fertilizing purposes has just been issued by Director L. B. Jackson, of the State Bureau of Markets. It appears there is a quantity of this meal in the- state and it will not be long before farmers will be considering fertili zation of their soils for fall plant ing. The statement does not go into the feeding value of this meal, but considering it purely as a fertilizer, it is shown that the meal without (he hull contains .7-1 per cent phos phoric acid, 4 per cent nitrogen and 1.22 per cent potash. Lpon the basis of the spring of 1918 prices for commercial fertilizers I hereforc, a ton of velvet bean meal without hulls would be worth $42.08 as a pure fertilizer. Taken with the hulls the meal contains .58 per cent nitrogen and 1.25 per cent potash, which, figured at the spring prices of eoinniorcinal ferti lizers, is worth $32.30 as a pure fertilizer. ’('lie Department thought it well to call the attention of Georgia farmers to the fact that unit for unil, velvet bean meal is just as good a fertilizer as cotton seed meal. If there is any one who de sires to buy or sell velvet bean meal and will notify the State Bu reau of Maikets, State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., their names will be listed in its weekly market bulie tin. This service is free and all inquiries are welcome. Editor’s War Garden. We realize that it is bad policy for an editor to boast of the pro duets of his war garden, as it might have a tendency of shutting off the table supply from other sources, but boys in our ease this time is just too good to keep. These days we are. feasting on Ponta Rosa tomatoes as large as a saucer, and we have an abundance of good corn, butter beans, okra, cabbage and eollards and our crop of green peas are coming in season with flattering prospects. During the season we gathered ten or twelve bushels of Irish potatoes and we are now engaged in plant ing a crop of sweet potatoes on the same land. This is some of the things we have taken time between printing the regular issues of the Press to do this year on a plat of ground les than two hundred feet feet square within live, blocks of the business center of our city.— Thomasvillc Press. gia fanners everywhere the good services they will need the coining year. Tift county is as large as it ever was according to the map; but, si range to say, the tax books are shy 5,810 acres of land. The Tax Assessor is puzzled to know what lias become of it. Perhaps the “early and latter rains”have washed it over into one of the sister coun ties, and it may take a lawsuit to get it back. New Beef Rules. New rules for hotels, restau rants, boarding houses and other public eating places have been is sued to take the place of those given out on the 19th. The new rules are: Roast beef, iiol or cold, Monday midday meal; boiled or beef hash, Wednesday or Saturday midday meal; steaks in any form,, Thursday midday meal. This re striction also covers veal, but does not apply to by-products of beef, such as liver, tongue, sweetbread, brains and tripe. These rules are for boarding houses as well as public eating places and a strict penalty is provided for violators, COFFEE COUNTY. Items of News Gathered From Various Sources. Seventy Coffee county white se lectmen left, Douglas Wednesday of last week for ('amp Gordon, near Atlanta. A note from Hon. Geo. F. Mc- Crauie, of Willacoochee, brings news of his breaking his right arm in cranking a Ford ear. The annual meeting of days at Stokesville Baptist church will be gin Saturday before the second Sunday in July, next week. Elder J. D. Poindexter, pastor of Alma Baptist church, will do the preach ing. Coffee county is reported as hav ing gone “over the top” in the Thrift and War Saving Stamp drive. Her quota was $139,000. The canvassed pledges are several thousands of dollars above that figure, and others are being made. Our sister city, Nicholls, seems to be just now staging an undue proportion of the lawlessness of Coffee county. The latest are the burning of Moses Kirkland’s barn and tin- killing of Seward Kirk land. Messrs. DeWitt Foreman and Lemuel | Kirkland have con fessed doing the killing under jus t iliable circumstances. The latest news from the bed side 1 of Solicitor-General M. 1). Dickerson, recently operated on for acute appendicitis, say he is slowly improving and will soon be well unless some other complica tions develop. He is not out of danger, but all symptoms are fav orable to his recovery. Mrs. Dick erson remains at his bedside. Sheriff W. M. Tanner has issued a card in which he states, emphati cally, that slot machines, punch boards and similar violations of law against gambling, must cease to operate in Coffee county by July 51 li. After Unit date all such properly will he confiscated. Now, il the issuing of license and the marriage of boys under seventeen and'girls! under fourteen years of age can he stopped, the moral stat us of Coffee county will be on the up grade* Tile Tribune editor deeply sym pathizes with his two sons, Hons. J. W. and 11. J. Quincey, in the death of their father, Hon. Samuel Quincey, who has made his home in Douglas, since 1901, with Judge J. W. Quincey. llis remains were interred beside those of his wife at Lcvyviile, Florida. Mr. Quincey was an Englishman, born at Elm, < lambridge county, England. At the age of 21 he married and came immediately to America. The Tribune editor knew Mr. Quincey while they were both residents of Florida and addressed him famil iarly as "Uncle Sammy,” and al ways esteemed him as a gentlemen of the highest character. A good man has gone to his reward. FRUIT MRS, FRUIT HRS RUBBERS and TUPS JUST RECEIVED BY EXPRESS A SHIP MENT OF IcWIK-LITE FLASH LIGHTS AND SUPPLIES. THERE IS NONE BETTER, AND MANY NOT AS GOOD PARKER HARDWARE & FURNITURE COMPANY Hardware, Furniture, Paints, Farm Tools Etc. MALONE BLOCK -0- PEARSON,GA. 8 LOO A YEAR School Census. , Judge M. A. Pafford has been engaged for time taking a census of the McDonald and Pearson Militia Districts underemployment by the County Board of Education. He has been painstaking with his work and believes it to be prac tically correct. Pearson District. Number of children of school age: Whites, -194 —males, 247; fe males, 284. Colored, 130 —males, 64; females, 66. Grand to ltd, 624. Hogs, 4,407; cattle, 2,655; horses and mules, 618; land in cultivation, 7,656 acres. McDonald District. Number of children of school age: Whites, 312 —males, 180; fe males, 132. Colored, 52 —males, 23; females, 29. Grand total, 364. Hogs, 4,096; cattle, 2,623; horses and mules, 319; land in cultivation, 9,110 acres. No doubt many Tribune readers will be surprised to know that there are a greater number of acres of land in cultivation in the Mc- Donald than in the Pearson dis trict, and that the difference is 1,454 acres. Sedition in Coffee County. S. R. B. Hill, known as Peanut Hill of Douglas, was arrested Sat urday night by Sheriff W. M. Tan ner and placed in jail as being unfriendly to the American gov ernment, and notified the Federal authorities at Valdosta. It is reported that Hill had been working among the negroes trying to persuade them from buying War Saving Stamps, telling them it would be no use to buy the stamps as the Germans in twelvemonths would be walking over the United Slates like they did over Belgium; that the Kaiser would be ruling over the United States in the place of President Wilson in twelve months, and that the Kais er was exactly the kind of man the people of this country needed as a ruler. It is further given ou,t that w hen Hill was placed .in jail Sat urday night the other prisoners in jail bound him and gave him a thorough strapping for being a slacker. It is reprehensible in the Sheriff to liavo permitted, the strapping if he knew of its being done and failed to prevent it. Ilill was in jail for safe keeping until trial and not for punishment. His offense is a serious one and, if ho is convicted, the court will sen tence him to the punishment fixed by law, and if will be adequate. Mrs. Winlocli Kirkland and her daughter, Irma, are visiting her married daughter, Bertha, at the latter’s home in Tennessee. Trust she will have a pleasant trip. Rev. <>. B. Tally is engaged this week in a protracted meeting with his Springhead church. Mrs. 'lally is with him in the meeting.