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PEARSON@TRIBUNE
VOL. 4 —VO. 16
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told in
Pointed Paragraphs.
The tax levy of Lowndes county
is 7.5 mills and 3 mills for educa
tional purposes outside of Valdos
ta, making a total of 10.5 mills. It
sounds good alongside of the 23.5
mills assessed in Coffee county.
Surgical inspection of the white
school children of Grady county
shows that 85 per cent, of them
are physical defectives, owing very
largely to bad teeth and bad eyes.
The nose and throat took the third
place as cause of defectiveness.
Thomas county lands are in de
mand. People from Texas, Tennes
see, the Carolina® and North Geor
gia are buying homes and becom
ing citizens. This is true of every
county in South Georgia, but they
are all insisting that there shall be
some cleared lands on the tracts
of land they purchase.
City Attorney Deen, of Way
cross, Ims instructions from the
mayor and council of that city, to
make legal resistance of any effort
to dismantle the Waycross& West
ern railroad. It is stated that the
road cannot be operated except at
a loss, and its sale is desired. The
officials of the little city of Mill
town will also register a vigorous
kick against dismantling the road.
The Charlton County Herald
comes to us now with four patent
pages, primed in Atlanta, and the
issue at; hand is a fine illustration
how' the patent sheet dispensers
wipe out the foreign advertising
patronage of the country newspa
pers that use their sheets. The
Tribune proposes to know the char
acter and fix the price of every ad
vertisement that is carried in its
columns.
The Waycross Journal Herald
expat iatos at length upon .7 udge T.
A. Parker's heart of the city corn
field, and says he will harvest 25
or 30 bushels to the acre, besides
a fine crop of peavine hay. Judge
Parker's field embraces the vacant
lot south of the old wooden office
buildiug and belongs to the Atlan
tic Coast Line Railroad Company,
it is in plain view of all passenger
trains from the west, or going west
from the passenger station.
May 20. 181!), there started from
Savannah for European ports the
first steamship that ever plowed
Ihe waves. 11 was named in honor
of the city, “Savannah,” because
it was Savannah men and money
that built and equipped it. Its
vogage was for exhibition, and she
visited every country of Europe,
and she w as looked over by all the
crowned heads. May 20th, 1919,
will be the first centennial anni
versary of that momentous event,
and the people of Savannah are
preparing to properly celebrate it.
Brunswick people have a feeling
of unrest because of the labor out
look. There is not half enough
men at the site of the Picric Acid
plant. The work there is progress
ing slow, too slow, and the govern
ment is becoming real anxious
about it. Picric Acid is a very
necessary ingredient in the manu
facture of certain amunition exten
sively used in the present war,and
the supply is running low. It is a
matter in which all Georgia, South
Georgia particularly, should be vi
tally interested. The Allies need
the product of the plant now, and
every day’s delay endangers our
cause in Europe. The people of
every section of Georgia should see
to it that every laborer that can
possibly be spared goes to Bruns
wick to help get the plant in shape
to turn out its product at the ear
liest possible moment. It is a case
of absolute necessity.
Conditions at Milltown.
A reporter of the Valdosta
Times, in an interview with Mr.
,T. A. ,T. Henderson, head of the
Henderson Lumber Company,
gathered the following facts rela
tive to conditions at Milltown:
“It is a rather difficult proposi
tion now to operate a saw mill, ow
ing to the scarcity of labor, we
find it almost impossible to keep
even enough men to operate on a
small scale, owing to the efforts of
other concerns to get labor. How
ever, this condition, brought about
by the war is something we cannot
help and the best way out of the
situation is for everybody to give
undivided attention to winning the
war, get through with it and let
matters resume their normal
course.
"1 don’t know, positively, what’ll
become of the Milltown Air Line
railroad. We have sold the road
and it is now' in the hands of
the original owners, the Barney
Smith Car Co. It looks as if they
would soon tear up the road and
sell ; t for junk. This will leave
\[ |!jtovvn in 3, rutlicr uiiplosisciiil
condition, and I think will also
affect Valdosta.
“It looks to me, viewing it from
a disinterested standpoint, that
it would be a safe and sensible
thing for the people of Milltown
and the Valdosta business men to
pool and buy the road. It can
make its own operating expenses
without any trouble and could be
bought, I should imagine,"for a
reasonable sum.
“If the owners want to tear up
the road they can do so without
any trouble, owing to the fact that
it is a private road and has never
been chartered, so there is nothing
to stop them from tearing it up if
they wont to. The road would not
perhaps be a money maker if bought
and operated by the two interests
mentioned, but it could pay its
own expenses and would be a good
investment.”
Colonel Henderson stated that
his company would not rebuild the
mil] at Milltown, although it was
recently reported that they would.
However, he says that he feels
certain that as soon as conditions
regain their normal status that
substantial mill will be put in op
eration at Milltown and the place
regain its prosperity. He declar
ed that even if his company rebuilt
now they would be unable to
secure labor with which to operate,
and therefore would have an idle
plant on their hands. Besides
this he said the necessary machin
cry cannot now be secured for
equipping the mill, so there is no
thing to do but wait until the close
of t he war.
Vote for W. Trox Bankston
for railroad commissioner.
Lankford’s Campaign.
Judge W. C. Lankford, at the
opening of his campagin for con
gress, promised to conduct it on a
high plane. This promise he is
keeping inviolate. Reports of his
meeting state with apparent com
mendation that his addsesses are
practically free from attacks on
the other candidate, Mr. Walker.
He is warmly received wherever
he has an appointment. His audi
ences are composed of the best cit
izens, men and women, who listen
with wrapt attention to what he
has to say, indicating their ap
proval by hearty applause. At
Jesup he was heard, says the re
porter, by large numbers of the
most prominent and influential
men of Wayne county.
He is speaking this week in
Glynn, Camden and Charlton coun
ties. There is no mistake that his
campaign is a vote winning one.
Subscribe for the Tribune, your
home paper —$1.00 a year.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
No Reason to Become Excited
Over the Cotton Market.
Atlanta Ga., Aug. 28. —“There
is no reason to get excited over the
cotton market situation,” states
Comissioner of Agriculture J. J.
Brown. If each farmer will retire
and hold every third bale, market
ing the remainder gradually, the
cotton situation will work out all
right,” Mr. Brown said.
“It, lias cost us an average of more
than 25 cents to produce this crop,”
Mr. Brown stated, “and the deter
ioration has been the greatest in
the last forty days ever known.
It is now evident that we cannot
make a normal crop.
“It has been clearly shown that
the American mills will need in
round numbers a million bales more
than last year. America exported
last year about 1,500,000 bales.
Recently England has increased her
active spindles live percent and in
creased the number of working
hours 15 per cent; so that the En
glish consumption will be more
than a million bales in excess of
what it was last year.
“From these facts it is evident
that the world’s demand will be
more than two million bales in ex
cess of last year; and since the crop
will not be above normal, t here is
no reason that we can see to worry
about the price of cotton.
“The law of supply and demand
under which the farmers have been
selling their cotton for the last fifty
years and every principle of fair
dealing, warrants a legitimate price
of more than 35 cents a pound for
the current crop.
■‘'Pile Cotton States Advisory
Marketing Board, through its
Washington statistician E. A.
Calvin of Texas, will be in a posi
tion to give out a statement in the
near future as to minimum price
at which cotton should be legiti
mately and fairly sold. Through
the Cot ton States Marketing Board
we have been able to ward off the
savage bear attacks of the last
three months, as well as meet and
defeat the advocates of congress
ional price fixing in the non-cotton
producing states. We have thus
been enabled to hold the spot cot
ton market from any material
breaks. If the farmers of the
South will stand solidly back of
the Marketing Board in the efforts
it is making in their behalf, J firmly
believe they will get for their cot
ton a price which is fair, reasonable
and just.”
X X X
Commissioner of Agriculture J.
J. Brown, Director of Markets L.
B. Jackson, and Prasident J. 11.
Mills of the Georgia Farmers Un
ion, have gone to Washington to
attend an important meeting of
the Cotton States Official Advi
sory Marketing Board, which is be
ing held there in conjunction with
a meeting of farmers from all parts
of the United States.
This meeting of the Marketing
Board will be one of the most im
portant it has held since its organ
ization. It will consider and possi
bly take action upon their impor
tant subjects affecting the farmers
of the south.
In the first place, it will appeal
to the food administeration for a
fair price for cotton seed products.
It will also discuss and deal with
the loan value of the 1918 cotton
crop, and will enter with the gov
ernment railroad administration a
protest against any increase in
freight rates on cotton and other
farm products.
Comissioner Brown, who is Presi
dent of the Board, expects this
meeting to acomplish a great deal
in behalf of the farmers of the
south and will make an announce
ment as to its action upon his re
turn from Washington.
Dog Days.
These be dog days! ,
Webster says dog days are a
period of from four t o six weeks, in
the summer, variously placed by
almanac makers bet ween the early
part of July and early part of Sep
tember; canicular days—so called
in reference to the rising in anedvi
ent times of the dog star (Sirius)
with the sun. Popularity, the
sultry, close part of the summer.
The conjunction of the rising of
(lie dog star with I he rising of the
sun was regulated by the ancients
as one of the causes of the sultry
heat of summer and of the prevail
ence of many maladies during the
period.
As the conjunction of Sirius and
the sun docs not occur al the same
time in all latitudes and is not con
stant in the same region for a long
er period; there lias been much
variation in calender-- regarding
the limitations of dog days; but in
the lat itude of the southern states
tin- common acceptance of the be
ginning and end of dog days is from
July 28 to Sept, fi —forty days-
Thero are many superstitions
prevalent regarding dog days. It
is common belief among many that
if it rains the first dog day there
will be rain each day following for
thirty-nine days, it is also believ
ed the bite of any animal is more
dangerous during this period than
at other seasons. —Lincolnton
Journal.
Vote for W. Trox Bankston
for railroad commissioner.
Bankston Bros.
Roberta, Ga.. Jan. 21, 1917.
< )ld Kent uoky M fg. < 'o.,
Paducah, Ky.
Gentlemen:
A Mr. Will Wachter of this
county had some hogs that were
down with cholera and had given
up all hope of saving them and
would not spend one penny on
them. 1 give him one 151 b pail of
your B. A. Thomas’ Hog Powder
and he has just come in and paid
me for it and advises that every
one of his sick hogs got well and
t hat he had killed them and now
had them in his smoke house and
that they wore as fine as any he
had killed this year.
1 want to add that he said his
hogs were down and so sick that
he had to prize their mouths open
and his wife poured the powder
down their throats.
Please find check in full of my
account and wit h kindest regards
we beg to remain
Yours very truly,
Bankston Bros.
For sale by the Pearson H ard
ware Store, Pearson, Ga.
Vote for W. Trox Bankston
for railroad commissioner.
If the farmers of Georgia en
counter any difficulties or have any
doubts with regard to the planting
and growing of wheat this fall and
winter, they should corespond at
once with the Georgia State Mar
ket bureau in Atlanta, which will
be glad to assist them in the mat
ter of procuring seed or to supply
them with any information which
they may desire.
The department is urging the
general planting of wheat, at least
to the extent of two acres to the
plow all over Georgia this fall, and
each should select his best acres for
this purpose and prepare them now.
They should also make arrange
ments in advance to secure good
seed and be in readiness for plant
ing at the proper date. There is
no more patriotic service the farm
ers of Georgia can render, nor is
there any crop at this time which
will pay them better, both in the
material returned and in the satis
faction which they will derive from
the conscience of haveing done
their duty to humanity,
Wanted to purchase, six or eight
hogs prepared or fattening. Call
at Tribune office for particulars.
COFFEE COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered From
Various Sources.
The annual meeting at Arnie
church was well attendedi’and all
the services interesting.
Coffee county, in the death of
Hon Elisha Meeks of near Nieli
olls, has lost one of her most splen
did landmarks, and the loss is one
that will bo lasting.
The Douglas Enterprise has this
to say of Dr. J. S. Morris, who has
just moved from Pearson to that
city: “Dr. Morris has been very
successful in his practice and has
make a reputation for himself, and
his removal to Douglas will be ap
preciated.”
lion. Thomas Paulk, a splendid
citizen and farmer living near Wil
lacoochee died on Wednesday of
last week, in Atlanta, while under
going an operation at Wesley Me
morial Hospital. His body was
brought homo and interred in the
Paulk cemetery at 4 p. m. the
next day.
Rev. <>, B, Tally, the pastor, as
sisted by Layman G. W. Hadsock,
conducted the annual protracted
service at Wesley Chapel, seven
miles north of Pearson, this week.
Mr. lladsock is a man who believes
and practices the religion he pro
fosses and can teach it (o others.
A successful meeting should result.
The tobacco season for Coffee
county ended yesterday. Growers
are more than pleased with the re
sult of their experiences and are
encouraged to enlarge upon their
operations next year. The indiea
lions are that high grade tobacco
will command a fancy price next
year, and that all grades will bring
good money.
The Douglas papers are making
much ado about Coffee county hav
ing two city courts. Well, yes, we
have two city courts —one statu
tory and the other constitutional.
Both are not for keeps, however,
for the statutory court will be;
wiped out of existence at the spe
cial election held for that purpose.
I jet’s all keep cool?
Senate Thomas W. Hardwick
spoke two and a half hours in the
Coffee county courthouse, Thurs
day of last week, tryidg to con
vince an audience of about five
hundred people that he should be
permitted to misrepresent them
another term of six years in the
United States Senate. The audi
ence laughed at the idea.
Willie C. Merrier, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Merrier, of Douglas,
is dead. He was a model and use
ful young man. In his death the
parents and the community has
sustained a distinctive loss. His
exemblary life was a beacon light
to all his associates. He had been
serving as depuly clerk of the su
perior court ever since the incum
bency of Hon. A. W. Haddock and j
was courteous and efficient.
AUTO CASINGS
PORCH SWINGS
MOSQUITO NETS
ROCKERS FOR THE PORCH, AND EVERY
thing usually kept in Hardware and Furniture.
Prices right. ,
COME AND SEE
PARKER HARDWARE & FURNITURE COMPANY
Hardware, Furniture, Paints, Farm Tools Etc.
MALONE BLOCK -O- PEARSON, GA.
SI.OO A YEAR
Letter from Hon. C. E. Stewart
To the friends of Atkinson county:
Some one said we people living
in Atkinson county territory
should keep quiet in the coining
September primary. If the people
will investigate the meaning of this
suggestion they will find it nothing
but a little soothing drops which
the arch enemy of Atkinson coun
ty is trying to administer to put
to sleep until he can get a cudgel to
use against us. Everybody knows
who our arch enemy was and is at
this time; if you do not, I will tell
you, viz:—Col. J. W. Quincey, of
Douglas,(reorgia. 1 le has been the
trouble maker for our section for
the past ten years. He has been
the direct cause of Pearson and
Willacoocliee’s hard feeling in the
past toward each other, He has
accepted a fee from first one and
then the other to fight the other so
often until I doubt whether he
could give a correct statement of
the amount of money he has thus
filched from this section. He has
certainly conducted himself in such
a manner that he does not deserve
l he friendship or support of either;
but to the contrary, merits the
condemnation of both. No longer
than last week he had the brass to
come into the Pearson district to
administer soothing drops and ad
vocate peace, Kaiser like, and at
the same moment that he was here,
one of his henchmen pussy footed
it to Willacoochee and by his direc
tion, made to those good people
a proposition the acceptance of
which by them would have meant
bitter feelings between these towns
for a generation to come. But
thank gracious I am reliably inform
ed that they would not not lie do
ceived this time by his cry of wolf
and they turned his proposition
down. Now, Mr Quincey, why
should you interlope into (lie af
fairs of Atkinson county? On
which side and where do you stand
now? You stood with Pearson as long
as these people filled your pockets
with money, but you failed to de
liver the goods. You then induced
the splendid people of Willacoo
chee to line your other pocket with
money that you might go forth
Goliath like to kill that which you
had failed to create, and again you
failed to deliver the goods. Yes,
as a deliverer of promised goodsyou
are a dismal failure. Now then,
having fought on both sides and
having lost on both sides, but hav
ing continued to hold the money
of both sides, you now have the
gall and intestines to come back
into this territory and look honest
men in the face and tell them to
keei> quiet. Mr. Quincey, don’t
you think that common decency
requires your silence in this terri
tory at this time? You seem not
to think so but your mind will be
put straight in just a few days
more. You have fooled the people
long enough. Kespeclfuly,
C. E. Stewart.
August 27, 1918. Adv.