Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955, September 20, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPEARSONSTRIBUNE VOL. 4-M). 19 SOUTH GEORGIA. News of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs Col. Sherod Burkhalter won the legislative toga over in Clinch county. Just imagine Burk squeezing himself out of his seat and shouting, Mr. “Speaker. Glynn county doubled her allot ment registration day. This is owing to the presence of many men at work in Brunswick at the various government enterprises. Miss Clifford Tyler, of Naylor a sister to our Mr. W. J. Tyler, has engaged to teach out the school at Alexanderville, which was left without a teacher by the death of Rev. E. M. I’afford. Berrien county will be represent ed in the next legislature by that indomitable individual, Hon. John P. Knight. The big vote he receiv ed shows that the people of Berrien county still trust him. Editor “Pat” Griffin and John \V. Calhan will do the legislating for Decatur county, during the next two years. The fellow, Abe Conger, •who voted against Atkin son county will remain at home. The civil service examination for post master at Hoincrville was a one-sided affair. Postmaster Har greaves was the only applicant taking the examination and will, no doubt, continue to hold the position. Mr. W. A. Tankersley won the legislative seat over in Irwin conn ty, defeating Mr. Win. Henderson by a small vote. Mr. Tankersley is the father of Miss Anne Tanker sley, who taught music in Pearson for two years. Piedmont Institute at. Waycross has made application to the war department to be designated as a military training school so long as needed. The colleges and univer sities already so designated are insufficient to meet the demand. Col. (!. A. Whitaker and Mr. O. K. Jones, having received the highest vote, will represent Lown des county in the next legislature. Col. Whitaker is a first cousin of the Tribune man, while Mr. Jones is an esteemed friend of long stand ing. Ware County has given the fifth Senatorial district a senator in the person of Mr. J. E. T. Bowden. Bowden will be on the Job, O. K„ but fear he is too gay to seriously consider the legislation in hand. Jet is a good one, any way you take him. Over in Ware county the legis lative toga fell upon the shoulders of that old war horse, Judge Josiah L. Sweat and the young barrister, Col. Walter A. Seaman. Ware will have in the legislature the wisdom of age and the energy of youth.a splendid combination. The yearly meeting at the Mud creek Primitive Baptist church, Clinch county, will embrace the first Sunday in October, beginning the previous Friday. There is no doubt there will be a large attend ance from Pearson and vicinity. They will go to see relatives and friends who reside in that neigh borhood. The Board of Control of the Landowners Association will hold a meeting in Savannah next Fri day. Sixty or seventy prominent landowners are expected to be present. A new board of directors are to be elected at this meeting and plans formulated for a general meeting that is to be held in Sav annah later. Subscribe for the Tribune, your home papei —$1.00 a year. Cotton Prices This Year. Atlanta, September 18. —Presi- dent J. J. Brown, of the Cotton States Official Advisory Marketing Board, has received definite tele graphic advises from Washington, through E. A. Calvin, the board’s representative there, that there will be no attempt made by the government to fix cotton prices for this year’s crop. The same advises state, however, that the present plan is to have a committee appointed from the war industries board, to investigate the whole cotton situation with a view of fixing prices for the crop of 1919-20. “The position of the marketing board,” said President Brown, “is equally opposed to the latter step as to the former. We do not want cotton prices fixed now or in the future, because we believe the cot ton producer should be left alone with his product responding to the law of supply and demand. “To prevent auy action being taken in this direction, it is vitally important that cotton producers and merchants, and business men over the state and the south, should write or wire their congress men and senators, supplying them with any information they may have, in order to enable them to keep up the fight for a free and open market for cotton. “It is now apparent that the present crop will be around only 11,000,000 bales. We are in pos session of data showing that this crop has cost the producer an av erage of more than 30 cents per pound to grow and market it. “At the New Orleans meeting of the marketing board recently, we passed unanimous resolutions urg ing the producer to market his crop gradually, not offering more than 20 per cent of it in any one month. We reiterate that advice now, as the best possible course the producer can pursue, for we do not hesitate to say that upon a basis of comparison of values of raw cotton and the manufactured goods, cotton is worth 40 cents a pound, and would be cheap at that price.” This will probably be the last opportunity of the State Depart ment of Agriculture to appeal to and urge the farmers of Georgia, of every section of the State, to plant wheat —to plant all the wheat they can. “In a recent trip to the coastal plains region of Georgia," said Commissioner J. J. Brown, “I was deeply impressed with the enthu siasm everywhere shown over the planting of wheat. Many of them are responding to the call. “Particularly was I impressed with the patriotic action of R. E. Jarman of Baxley, a well known hardware merchant, who ordered 1,000 bushels of seed wheat from Tennessee, for the benefit of the farmers of Appling County, and stated he would order more, if needed. “This wheat is being ordered in carload lots and sold the farmers at actual cost of delivery. Mr. Jarman stated if he had a single dollar left over, he proposed to give it to the Red Cross. Not only that, but Mr. Jarman guaran teed the farmers of Appling that there will be established in the county in time for the next crop, a firstflass wheat mill. “Let me appeal to the patriotic business men over the State to fol low the example of Mr. Jarman, and to farmers everywhere in Georgia to plant not less than two acres of wheat to each plow this fall. There is more need for wheat than ever, and if they will do this, Georgia will have what she needs next year. If they fail, Georgia is liable to want for food.” PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO. A Week of Varied Amusement Planned and Observed. CHAPTER 11. Chapter one of this series of ar ticles told of the Tribune man's visit to his maternal grandparents, near Lloyds Florida, for the Christ inas holidays of 1869. Among the grandchildren present besides the Tribune man were his cousins Samuel, John and George Whitaker, brothers. These had planned for a week of diversion covering his visit. However, as is generally the case, in the obser vance there occurred incidents not on the program. There was a dove hunt on Mon day. A field had been bated be longing to a Mr. Stephen Houston, a near relative of Hon. Sam Hous ton, of Texas fame, and a front iers man who had seen service in the Indian wars and knew what a beleaguer block house meant. The party started out with three shot guns and borrowed fiom Mr. Hous ton a fourth, a tremendous muzzle loader the like of which the Tri _ bune man had never seen before nor has In* seen one since. The Whitaker boys had named it “Mr. Houston’s bear gun” as, according to its owner, many bears had been killed w ith it ; they were somewhat dubious of tt and hence Cousin Ben was honored with its use to kill doves. It behaved very nice ly during the hunt and never failed to kill a dove when it was pointed at one and fired. One remarkably fine shot is remembered; it occur red just before the party left the field for home. A dove came fly ing by apparently out of range but, as the gun was to be carried home empty, 1 quickly fired at the bird and brought it down. The dove hunt was a big success but just how many were killed is not re membered. It was the Tribune man’s last bird hunt; life with him has been too strenuous for such diversion and he has never liked the sport sufficiently to make room for it. The program called for a social party and candy pulling at Lloyds for Tuesday night. Only a few names of the young people present are remembered —two Misses Dansby and George Dennis, of Lloyds, and Misses Virginia and Amanda Patterson and a Mr. Hightower, who lived a short distance south of the station, it was a surprise to the Whitaker boys that the Misses Patterson and Mr. Hightower were present. There was a branch running east and west, just a short distance south of Lloyds, which marked a division between the “Piney Woods” on the south and the “Oaky Woods” in the north, and the people living on either side of this dividing line had nothing to do with each other, did not visitor attend each others diversions. Whether they had invitations or not, with this occasion began the oblitemation of the dividing line which had been held sacred for years. The social passed off as customary, but for one incident not on the program. The Tribune man and the younger Miss Dansby were sitting in a corner conversing, had excused themselves from tak ing part in a game that was being played. Some one told Mr. High tower to promenade with Miss Dansby. She heard it and, re membering the tradition that had separated them socially for years, she remarked “1 do not care to promenade with him.” He came up to her; she kindly asked him not to disturb her; he caught her by the hand to pull her up; I arose and asked him to desist. He listened to neither request, when impulsively I dealt himablow that felled him to the floor. As he Comment on Lankford. Congressman Lankford, we salute you. Hope you will never have to crawl on a clay floor any more. You are a runner now. . . . . . We can say this, any way: Chester Lankford is a clean, able and energetic fellow, and will make a good congressman.—Nash ville Herald. x x x In tin 1 Eleventh Congressional district there is a big surprise in the elect ion of Judge Lankford — not that he is a good man, but be cause it was generally thought that Walker’s record during the past two years had offset any objection that might have come from patron age disappointments before that. Congressman Walker did little campaigning, while his opponent, had covered the district pretty thoroughly making friends as he went. It was only a day or two before the election that Mr. Walk or or his friends realized that he had trouble on his hands. Judge Langford is well known in Valdos ta and has warm personal friends here. In his congressional career he"will receive flu backing of the Valdosta people, who, though dis appointed, are not going to carry a sore head. —Valdosta Times. X X X Of course there were many pre dictations as to the results of the recent primary, and these are now being checked up. In the main they proved to be well-founded, but scarcely a single one was fully verified. Locally the greatest was in the election of W. C. Lankford for congressman in this district. — Way e ross Journal H e ral d. arose he opened an ugly looking knife; George Dennis caught him by the coat and jerked him to the floor again, and when he arose the second time he was facing a revolv er and told to stop, and had the discretion to do so. He then threatened the Tribune man that he would see him again, and start ed to leave. He was told that they could see each other the next morning at if) o’clock on the depot square. Before the young people took their leave for home, the Tri bune man had accepted a cordial invitation t* visit the Misses Pat terson the next Sunday. The Whitaker boys demurred to the Depot square meeting as well as to the Sunday visit. They insisted that they would surely involve me into serious trouble. However, I determined to meet both engage ments. I went to Lloyds Wednes day morning on time, but High tower did not appear. Sunday morning I prepared to visit the Misses Patterson, only one of the Whitaker boys, George, would agree to go with me. They agured two reasons for not going, viz: the tradition of social separation exist ing and it looked like seeking trouble. Both were good reasons. But 1 had a boyish curiosity that required that Sunday visit to satiate. George and 1 reached the Patterson home about 11 o’clock and spent a delightful day. About 3 o’clock the arrival of Hightower was announced; he did not come to the house, preferred stopping at the gin bouse. The young ladies tried to dissuade me from going to the gin house to meet him, said there would only be trouble, so we all went to the gin house where Mr. Hightower and others had gathered. Hightower met me cordially and as we shook hands he apologized for his rudeness on Tuesday night and said I had given him what lie deserved, i have never met any of the parties since, but Mr. Hightower became a preacbei in the Florida conference. Miss Virginia Patterson married Mr. John Bryan, a son of Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, the noted novelist, who was a Miss Edwards and rais ed near Lloyds. Miss Amanda Patterson married Rev. Ira S. Patterson, a distant cousin, and who is now a prominent minister in the Florida conference. COFFEE COUNTY Items of News Gathered from Various Sources. The citizens of Douglas continue to celebrate the election of Judge Quincey, their candidate for the legislature. No wonder, its been some years since she has furnished the legislator. The people of Coffee are now tickling their palates with “now” corn bread, made from corn raised this year. And it is good enough for kings and queens,the American gentleman and lady. A wag suggest that Judge Lank ford cease lo “weap for joy,” come round and let his friends shake his hand in congratulation. They feel more like shaking hands with him now than before the election. Nope they don’t want anything. Now that Judge Quincey has been ejected to represent Coffee county in the legislature the enter prise says: “Whatever McDonald, Pearson and Wiiiaeoochee wants Douglas is ready to reciprocate.” Liberal soul! Heretofore McDon ald, Pearson and Wiiiaeoochee have had to pay and fight like the "dickens” to get anything, and they are not silting down on their laurels yet. To whom it may concern: This is to announce that Coffee county has never owed any Aggie school debt, never legally contracted one —couldn’t do it. But the folks who have engineered Coffee county finances for the past ‘steen years have practically saddled $4.0,000 upon the tax payers of the county. They say it has been paid. If so, it was paid with road tax money illegally. The truth is it has never been paid and now, the last chance to make McDonald, Pearson and Wiiiaeoochee people pay a pro rata part of this money, a 23.5 mills tax is levied. From what the Tribune can gather McDonald, Pearson and Wiiiaeoochee people, with their eyes wide open upon this illegal bit of impudence, arc going to pay this tax and endeavor to part with Douglas in peace. This debt should have been paid by Douglas; she has the goods and all the profits and honor arising therefrom. Cattle Strayed From my place near Mr. Irwin Corbitt’s, in Clinch county, about year ago, one light red cow, mark ed crop and a hole in one ear and crop and split in the other, brand ed "J.” One unmarked light cream inale yearling, white fore legs, and about 2 years old. Liberal reward will be paid for information that will lead to their recovery. W. M. Lewis. After October Ist subscriptions to the Tribune must be paid for in advance. This is the ruling of the War Activities Board and we have to abide by the ruling. REMOVAL^ I respactfully announce to our Customers and Friends that our Stock of Hardware and Furni ture have been moved from the Malone Block to the Mancil Building next door to the Morris Drug Company, and cordially invite all to call and see me. Courteous treatment to all. H. H. PARKER, Manager. PARKER HARDWARE & FURNITURE COMPANY Hardware, Furniture, Paints, Farm Tools Etc. MANCIL BUILDING -O- PEARSON, GA. 81.00 A YEAR The Statutory City Court. Tomorrow the voters of Coffee county are called upon to say by their ballots whether or not they wish to retain what is known as the grand jury made city court of Coffee county. What the Tribune has to say about this matter is not intended and must not he taken as a criticism of the foreman or any member of the grand jury who set the machinery of this court in motion. They did what they thought was right at the time; some of them now realize that the question was too hastily acted upon and unnecessary. The proposit ion now confronting the voter is, How shall 1 vote in Saturdays election! Shall I vote for or against the retention of this statutory court ! As the situation now stands there are two City Courts in and’ I | for Coffee county. One is the j Statutory court created on the ' recommendation of the grand jury, j and the ot her a constitutional city 'court created by an act of the legislature. The county does not, need bot h t hose courts, and one of them should be abolished. The statutory court can be ab olished by a vote of the people to morrow, the constitutional court cannot be abolished except by the legislature. What about the relative merits of these courts? The statutory court was created under a law having general application, and does not meet the special require ments of the large and important county of Coffee. It has many imperfections which the Tribune lias not the space to point out this time. Suffice it to say that it is not approved by a majority of the attorneys of Douglas. They say it is not the court Coffee coun ty needs. The constitutional court meets all requirements of the county. Only two objections have been suggested: It emanated from Rep resentative Stewart and the sal aries of its officers are too high. The first is too puerile to consider for a moment and comes only from persons who dislike Mr. Stewart. The salary objection should be considered from the standpoint of conditions. The cheapness of goods invaribly cast suspicious upon their quality and character. So it is with human institutions. The salaries of the constitutional City Court of Douglas are not too high when you consider the costs of everything necessary to com fortable living. The salaries pro vided by the act are not as high relatively as the salaries provided for the old city court of Douglas, because of the much higher cost of living now and then. Any one man can figure this out. The proper thing for the people to do, as the Tribune sees it, is to abolish the statutory court by their votes tomorrow.