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VOL. 4—NO. 11
SOOTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told in
Pointed Paragraphs.
Argylo, Clinch county, wants
the legislature to incorporate it as
an independent school district.
Ray City. Berrien county, is
seeking to float 5i5.000 in bonds
w ith which to erect and equip a
school building.
The increase in the tax values
of Irw in county this year over last
is §305,816. Irwin county’s total
tax values are $3,546,503.
Farm demonstrator, O. H. Cad
dis, of Clinch county, has swapped
his job for a position in the army,
and has already donned a suit of
khaki. Thought it was more pa
triotic.
The flour mill at Ocilla is, says
the Star, rimning night and day.
Wheal is being sent there for fifty
miles in every direction. The flour
from this mill is excellent; the
Tribune man has sampled it.
Waycross is figuring on operat
ing iiie sweet potato canning fac
tory this fall and winter. She, is
also figuring on having an apjKived
sweet potato drying house ready
for operating at harvest time.
Mr. A. Hargraves, the recently
appointed postmaster at Homer
viilo to succeed Klein C. flame, re
signed, has entered upon the dis
charge of his duties. AIT. Dame
goes with the army V. M. ('. A.
The annual protracted meeting
Bridges chapel, in the Mud Creek
district of Clinch county, began
last Saturday and will continue
until flu* close of the week. The
pastor. Rev. < >. I!. Tally, dill the
preaching.
A count y - wide evangelistic meet
ing is to be held in Tifum during
September, and an invitation is to
he extended to liev. Bob Jones,
who held a similar meeting in the
city of Fitzgerald last year, to be
come t he leader.
The proposition to construct, dig
and cut the St. Marys St. Marks
canal is assuming definite shape.
A meeting of the movement w r as
held in Atlanta a few days ago
and a civil engineer retained to
make the survey.
The News says Homerville is
“Bone Dry” and in “Total Dark
ness.” The Water and Light plant
has got itself into court; a Receiv
er has been appointed, and he is
expected to furnish the city with
the necessary fluid.
The race for Solicitor (tenoral of
the Southern judicial circuit is de
veloping into a very warm one.
Besides Hay, Maclntyre and Turn
er it is thought that Knight of
Berrien and Langdale of Lowndes
will yet shy their castors into the
race for that office.
St. Marys is looking forward to
the growing of flax in Camden
county on a large scale; also, the
planting of a Slav colony, natural
ized Americans, on the Scotchville
tract of land belonging to the St,
Marys Development Company'. It
is conceded that both projects are
good ones and should be promoted
with zeal.
The housewives of Bacon county,
according to lion. Leonard Taylor,
are conserving much foodstuffs
that would go to waste but for its
being canned and preserved by the
good women. Clad to know that
the women of Bacon county are of
a practical turn and are ready and
willing to share with their hus
bands, in their peculiar spheres,
the burden of making the home a
delightsome resting place. God
bles-j our thoughtful women.
As to Dogs in Georgia.
A farmer, writing to the South
ern Ruralist, says that he knows
of a very small county that is esti
mated to have a thousand dogs. It
has also been estimated to take
five bushels of grain, besides other
food, to feed each dog one year.
Then it will be seen from the above
figures that it takes the sum of
5,000 bushels of grain to feed the
dogs, besides the losses they cause
to the sheep and stock industry.
The correspondent says that he
doesn’t mean to say that all dogs
are bad, but a large per cent, of
them could be gotten along with
out.
The News has always been in fa
vor of an efficient dog law and
prays for the day when the legis
lature will be courageous enough
to enact a dog law with teeth in it
and let it stay on the statute books
long enough to prove its benefits
financially. There must be 2,500
dogs in Early county. If we had
2,500 pigs to eat the food the dogs
destroy there would be a great in
crease in the wealth of the county
and in the help we give towards
winning the war.—Early County
News.
Tomatoes and Potatoes.
Mr. (). (’. (}rambling, of 103 Lee
street, north, has demonstrated
this year that Irish potatoes and
tomatoes can be raised on the same
vine, thus doubling a crop on the
land at the same time. We saw a
perfect tomato this morning which
was grown from an Irish potato
vine, the potatoes bearing under
the surface of the earth while the
tomatoes were growing luxuriously
above the ground. The result was
brought about by grafting a tomato
vine to a potato vine, cutting off
the potato vine near the ground
and grafting the tomato plant to it.
The potatoes which were raised
underneath were of average size
and plenty of them, while the
yield of tomatoes above were in
about the same proportion.—Val
dosta Times.
STRAYED. One Jersey cow and
heifer calf, color yellow, on the
15th of July. Cow has one small
, incision in each ear; calf has a
small white spot on forehead
and had on feeding muzzle. Any
one knowing their whereabouts
will rccivea reward by notifying
G. W. Phillips,
Willacoochee, Ga.
The Home Beautiful.
There is no excuse for the owner
of a home not making his nest a
bower of beauty in this land of
plenty. There is scarcely any
kind of tree, shrub or vine known
to the human race that will not
grow and thrive in our soil and
climate, and yet we find but few
country homes with even a cem
inon native grown shade tree about
it, much less a beautiful landscape
of evergreens, vines aud flowering
plants. These things can easily
be had with little effort and small
expense. Wake up, fellow citizens,
ahd make your nest a home in
stead of a staying place. Your
family is entitled to that God
given right.—Thomasville Press.
Illiteracy on Decrease.
There is an increase over last
census of more than twenty per
cent, of children of school age in
Clinch county, according to the
census jast completed by Superin
tendent Rodgers anil his assistants.
The reports show that there are
now in the county 17 children
above ten years of age who cannot
read or write, six of whom are deaf
and dumb; four feeble-minded, and
two of whom have never attended
school. The percentage of illiter
ates in Clinch county has been re
duced more than 50 pier cent, dur
ing the past six years. —Times.
PEAK SON, GEORGIA, FIUDAY, ,1 FLY 20, 1018
MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO
Thomasville’s Newspaper Sixty
Years Past and Its Foreman.
Glancing over the lasi issue of
the Thomasville Press the Tribune
man’s attention was attracted to a
report of the death and interment
of Mrs. Sara Hippolite, and a name
among the list of pall hearers that
awakened within him many sweet
memories of the long, and that
name —.1. T. Chastain.
The Tribune man was a boy in
Thomasville before and during the
early part, of the war of the sixties.
His father was a patron of the
“ThomasvilleEnterprise,” of which
Maj. Lucicn C. Bryan was flic edi
tor and proprietor, John T. Chas
tain was the foreman, Alex. L.
Wattles a compositor. The “Eh
terprise" was the first newspaper
the Tribune man ever read —it was
worthy to he read—and. at the
time, had it in his mind that it
was the only newspaper published.
Thomasville was an inland city,
had no railroad, no telegraph, no
telephone, and a boy’s opportunity
to learn what was going on in the
world was circumscribed. iiis
knowledge of the world and cur
rent events did not reach beyond
Thomasville, her people and tin*
things they were doing.
It was different then than now:
the general demoralization result
ing from the war and the recoil
struction that followed it had not
developed.
In the “Enterprise” office there
was a desk with pigeon holes num
bered from a to z, like that used
at the postoffice, and it. was from
thence the town patrons received
their papers; they went into the
printing office and got their papers
at their leisure, for nobody was in
a hurry in those good old days.
Going to the printing office for
the "Enterprise” was how the ac
quaintance with the lovable John
T. Chastain began. Boyish euri
osity led to an invasion of the com
posing room; lie became interested
in knowing how John Chastain
and Alex. Wattles manipulated
the little metal type and the old
“Washington” hand press so as to
produce a newspaper, four seven
column pages. Foreman Chastain
had a kindly disposition and, un
like the nerve wrecked printers of
to-dah, he was apparently delight
ed to explain all the ramificat ions
necessary to the finished news
paper.
John was an orphan boy, the
support of liis mother and two sis
tors. His mother was a magnili
cent Christian woman, with the
same kindly disposition she had
transmitted to her son. She had
taught her boy to be temperate in
all things and hence he never im
bibed strong drink, chewed or
smoked tobacco, or acquired any
of the other vicious habits that
usually betake the boy who loiters
and lounges on the street sat night.
Acquaintance with John led up
to many visits to the home of his
mother. Oh, those happy visits
to Grandma Chastain’s on Satur
day afternoon and the delight af
forded us in devouring the splen
did “gingercakes” she always bak
ed on Saturday morning prepara
tory to the Sabbath of rest, anil
she never failed to give us one.
Not so certain, after many years
have flown, but the certainty of
getting one of those delicious gin
gercakes had much to do with the
Sat urday afternoon visit to Grand
ma Chastain’s after the first expe
rience. Yes, they .were happy
days! How sad to realize that
they are gone forever.
John Chastain remained with
the “Thomasville Enterprise” until
it was merged with the “Times”
and became a part of the present
“Times-Enterprisc.” He bought a
farm not far from the city, had
Refining Georgia Cane Sugar.
In reply to a letter addressed to
Hon. Mills It. Lane on the subject
of refining sugar for our farmers
next winter, the editor of Hie Tri
bune has received the following.
Mr. Lane is a director of the “Sa
vannah Sugar Refining Corpora
tion.'' and In' turned over our let
ter to tin' secretary of t he corpora
tion. who could give the desired
information:
Saywxaii. July IS, 1018.
Dioar Sin: We note with inter
est your letter of the 13th, which
was addressed to Mr. M. R. Lane.
We Ijave had no practical experi
ence with raw .sugar made from
Georgia cane, hut as a rule such
sugar is made in open evaporators
or kettles and without the use of
centrifugal machines to separate
as is customary the crystals from
the molasses. As a result such su
gars are usually of a soft, mushy
grain containing considerable, mo
lasses and polarize very low.
For your information centrifugal
sugars- aie bought on a basis of 9(1
deg. test. Molassess sugars are
bought oil a basis, of 89 deg. test.
In each instance there is a bonus
for each fraction of percent, above
base and a penalty for below.
Hour assumption is correct in
regard to .Georgia cane sugars, be
ing molasses sugars and of a low
test, it would only be possible fin
us to melt t hem in with other high
grade sugars. It would, however,
we think he perfectly feasible for
this to be done, hut it would be
impossible for us to give price for
this work until we could have a
sample of such sugars so as to as
certain its polarization, is it pos
sible for you to secure a sample of
sawh sugars from the last crop!
This might give us an idea. Do
not know just Avlien your new crop
comes on, but assume it must he
during October and November,
somewhat similar to Louisiana.
It is our understand ing that as
a.general proposition t he season in
Georgia is to short to allow the
cane to reach any thing like ma
turity, in fact as you know the
cane in Louisiana does not mature
as well as Cuban or Hawaiian
Cane. \Ye could either refine
these sugars for you on toll or buy
them from you at some price to be
agreed upoit but in either instance
it is necessary for us to secure the
approval pf such t ransactions from
the International Sugar Commit lee
of thp L. S. Food Administration.
We think, however, there will he
no difficulty in obtaining such ap
proval,as we -have recently bought
anil ; refined small lots of Lou
isiana washed raw sugars acquired
by Georgia jobbers during the
scarcity last winter.
Wo will be very, glad to co oper
ate with you to the fullest extent
but as you see-it Avill be necessary
for us to have additional inform
ation. •
Yours very truly,
W. S. I’aim)oxm;r, Sect'y.
moved to it and was making good,
when he dropped out of our mem
ory until-bis. name appeared in the
list, of pall bearers. Thought lie
had gone to the reward awaiting
him on,the other shore.
The Tribune cannot complete
this deny of .Thomasville history
Without adding: John Chastain’s
oldest sister married a printer by
the name of. Renneau, and it may
have been from him John acquired
his knowledge of the “Art Preserv
ative.” The other sister, Julia,
married Dr. E. B. Carroll, who was
one of 'the foremost Baptist minis
ters of South Georgia. Dr. Carroll
was reared in or near Milltown,
Berrien county, when she was the
religigus, educational and commer
cial centre of all this section of
country—a gem amid the primeval
pine forests.
COFFEE COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered From
Various Sources.
The Coffee County Progress will
support, after viewing the line
up, Harris for United States sen
ator. In other words, thinks
Harris is the winner.
Solicitor-General M. D. Dicker
son returned to his home at Doug
las last, Sat urday afternoon, after
a six weeks stay at the Georgia
Baptist hospital in Atlanta. It
will he some time yet before lie
will he strong enough to resume
his duties. However, his many
friends are glad he is get t ing along
so well.
Eugene Merrier succeeds C. A.
Furney as County Game Warden,
and wants to sell you a hunting
license. The game laws, State
and Federal, is observed more by
its breach than otherwise. It is
strange how some grand jurors
will violate this law with impun
ity and then assist, in the indict
ment of some fellow who gefs
caught in its violation. But they
do so.
The marketing of the tobacco
crop of Coffee county began at
Xicholls and Douglas last Tues
day. The prices at the auction
sale ranged from !8e to 46e a
liouiid. Monday and Saturday
were sale days this week, but in
the future the days -will be Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday. The
opening day, Tuesday, found to
bacco on hand and for sale from
the counties of Appling, Ben Hill,
Berrien, Clinch, Coffee, Jeff Davis,
Lowndes, Toombs, Wire and
Wayne.
The annual camp meeting at
Gaskin Spring, near Douglas, is
expected to commence to-day and
continue four or five days. Past
or Whittington of Douglas is the
host, while Presiding Elder, E. F.
Morgan will do the preaching or
the most of it. Among the min
isters who are expected to be pres
ent are Revs. T. 1). Ellis and R.
Jenkins, of Macon; Bascom An
thony, of Valdosta, and R. F.
Fakes of Atlanta. May they
have a regular camp meeting timet
Syrup for Preserving.
Most of the thrifty housewives
here are solving the sugar problem
by using syrup for making pre
serves, especially where sugar is
mixed with corn syrup. Some of
the women use the Georgia syrup
without any sugar with good re
sults. Mrs. L. C. Jones tried syr
up at making jelly anil was much
pleased with the result. She used
syrup in making blackberry jelly,
though she found it necessary to
cook it longer than where sugar is
used. —Valdosta Times.
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MALONE BLOCK -O- PEARSON , GA.
SI.OO A YEAR
The City Court Question.
The city court question having
come up in the legislature Senator
Dickerson, in order to got the sen
timent of tile bar of Douglas in the
matter, wired Judge Quincey:
“It seems impossible statutory
City Court to be established for
your county unless Willingham,
Dart or Kelly accept the judgship.
Get your bar together and see if
they desire it under these condi
tions and wire me.”
Whereupon the Douglas bar as
sociation met, with Judge F. W.
Dart presiding, and adopted the
folloAving resolutions as an expres
sion of its views:
“The Douglas Bar Association
having been informed that there is
now pending in the General Assem
bly of this State certain legisla
tion looking toward file abolition
of the present City Court of Coffee
county, and that upon the passage
of this measure a bill will lie intro
duced to establish a City Court to
be known as the City Court of
Douglas in and for Coffee county:
“Be it resolved by the Douglas
Bar Association of Coffee county,
Georgia, regularly assembled, that
we recommend to our Regresenta
tive and Senator that should the
present City Court of Coffee coun
ty be abolished, its abolition be
made contingent upon the estab
lishment of a Constitutional City
Court for Coffee county to be
known as the City Court of Doug
las.
Be it further resolved that
should such Constitutional City
Court be established, that its offi
cers he made elective by the peo
ple of Coffee county at the general
election to be held during the Fall
of 1918, and that both bills or
acts bo mode operative as of the
date of such general eletion.
Be it further resolved that we
hereby express our thorough and
complete disapproval of the legis
lating of any person into office in
such City Court Act, and affirm
our belief in the propriety and
wisdom of allowing our Court offi
cials to be selected through the
popular vote of the people of our
county.
Be it further resolved that the
Secretary of the Association be di
rected to mail a copy of this reso
tion to Senator JR. G. Dickerson
aud Representative C. E. Stewart.
Adopted in open meeting, this
July 17lh, 1918.
F. W. Dart, President.
J. J. Willingham, Sec’y.
The Tribune is not, under pre
vailing conditions, directly inter
ested in this matter, and perhaps
should not get mixed up with it.
But the editor is constrained, as
lie is friendly to all parties, to ven
ture some suggestions. The reso
lutions, as worded, should not have
been adopted; very few lawyers are
agreed upon the sentiment that
judges and solicitors, in Coffee
county or elsewhere, should he se
lected by popular vote. No county
has suffered more from this prac
tice than Coffee. Thinking Coffee
county people oppose the resolu
tions; they see the ill effects of
such policy.
Judge Rogers, the seeming bone
of contention,should relieve t he ten
sion by laying himself upon the al
tar of sacrifice aud eliminate him
self from the tangle for the good of
the comity and relief of his friends.
