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PEARSON@TKiB UNE
VOL. 4—NO. 21
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told
in Pointed Paragraphs
Mr. I>. D. Fiveasb, of DuPont,
70 years of age, is dead, lie is
survived by liis wife and three
ehidren, a son and two daughters.
Emanuel and Troup counties are
entitled to blue ribbons. Their
quotas of the Fourth Liberty Loan
were fully subscribed by Saturday
night.
The Southwest Georgia Fair, at
Donaldsonville, Decatur county,
Inis been the attraction in that
part of the State this week. It
opened Tuesday.
Elder J. E. Hall, of Wadley, has
accepted the call of the Adel Bap
list church to become its pastor.
He will enter upon his new work
the third Sunday in October.
K. E. Carter is suing C. S. Nor
thon in the City Court of Valdos
ta for $50,000 damages for slander.
The defendant charged the Plain
tiff with cattle stealing. Both live
near Naylor.
Solicitor Hay, of the Southern
circuit, made a good record at
Berrien superior court last week.
There was a conviction in every
case he tried, including two mur
der cases, and he had a very busy
week.
Mr. J. E. Sutton, over in Ber
rien county, lost his barn and con
tents by fire Thursday of last
week. His loss was heavy and in
cluded two bales of cotton, a quan
tity of cotton seed, and considera
ble provender.
The grand jury of Berrien coun
ty paid their three newspapers, at
Milltown, Nashville and Adel,
$7.50 each for publishing their
general presentments. They are
getting nearer to the real value of
the service rendered.
Col. J. If. Gary, of Nashville,
not satisfied with being elected
solicitor of the City Court of Nash
ville for the next four years, has
joined himself to second wife; Mrs.
Pace, an estimable lady of Barney.
The Tribune congratulates him.
The Spanish influenza epidemic
at Brunswick is something shock
ing. It is reported that there
were twenty-six deaths from it in
one night. The authorities have
taken effective steps, and it is be
lieved they have it under control.
Dr. A. H. Culpepper, of Homer
ville, who was defeated for the leg
islature from Clinch county, has
settled down to the practice of his
profession. He reports the arriv
al of six new- boys in his tearitory
wit hin a w'eek; it is war times and
the arrival of girls were overlooked.
Bravo, Doctor! that beats going
to the legislature.
’ DID YOU
KNOW
WE ARE CLOSING OUT
Gur Big Stock of General Merchandise
Including Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Hard
ware, Mattresses, and Everything in FURNI
TURE, At Less than EACTORY COST to day.
SEE US QUICK.
CASH BARGAIN HOUSE
The Big Red Store. MILLWOOD, GAORGIA.
W. F. BARTLETT.
Oakfield, Ga., May 10, 1917.
Old Kentucky Mfg. Co.,
Paducah, 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 1
sold it to 12 or 15 men who raise
hogs, 1 told each of them to take
the remedy, feed it to their hogs
and if they lost a single hog from
disease of any kind not to pay me
a cent for the remedy, but when
they began to sell cotton every
iiian came in and paid me for the
medicine and every one of them
told me that it was the best bog
medicine they ever used. One man
paid me for the small package and
bought $5 worth more and said it
was the best that he had ever
tried. Yours very truly,
\V. F. Bartlett.
For sale by Pearson Hardware
Store, Pearson, Ga.
Urgad to Chop Cord Wood.
Atlanta, Ga.; October 2nd. —
“Cut wood now”, is the advice
of the state department of agricul
fure to Georgia funnel’s who have
woodlands. The fuel situation is
growing more and more serious,
Commissioner Brown states, and
there will undoubtly be a demand
for all the cord wood that is avail
able. This is the season to cut it
and get ready for the winter de
mand. Georgia is going to use a
lot of wood this year because it
will practically bo impossible for
the state to secure all the coal it
needs.
Mr. James Moore, who was born
and reared in the “Round-About”
section of Coffee county, but ram
bled off to Alapaha, has now moved
to Adel. He was made a judge at
Alapaha and there is no telling
what they will make of him over
at Adel. They generally make
’em ‘'git,” if they don’t behave
just right.
Col. Sherod Burk halter thanks
the people of Clinch county for his
nomination as a eondidate for the
legislature. He says: “I now
promise the people of my county
that when the legislator assem
bles again if not providential hin
dered 1 will meet with them al
ways stay at my post working and
voteing for the right thing and
aginst the wrong thing if any such
thing should come up."
Col. E. K. Wilcox, attorney for
Lowndes county, has filed suit
against the sheriff, J. F. Passmore,
to recover $640 which, it is alleged,
he has illegally obtained from the
county treasury. Passmore was
elected sheriff as an independent,
bolting the primary because as he
claimed of unfair treatment, over
the nominee, Gornto, and has bad
trouble ever since his term began.
Nobody believes Frank Passmore
is a thief or took a dollar from the
treasury to w hich be did not be
lieve he was justly entitled.
PEAIiSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 11)18
MEMORIES OFJHE LONG AGO.
Recollections of Harrison Reed,
Governor of Florida.
CHAPTER IV.
My vacation and the visit to
Lloyds, Fla., ended and it was
Sunday morning tne return trip to
Valdosta was being made. Gover
nor Harrisen Reed was on the
train; we met cordially and chat
ted with each other the greater
part of the trip to Live Oak.
1 judged the governor to be a
man about fifty years of age. He
was pleasant in conversation and
evidently extensive research and
learning, but not a man to attract
attention as a public officer of high
station. 11 is face, at the time, be
trayed a painful mental strain.
In his conversation there was a
very apparent effort to divert his
mind from matters of state. The
greater part of the conversation
related to farming, truck-growing
and kindred topics.
He was an accomplished gentle
man, a man who abhored small
things, a Republican truly but of
a different typo from the carpet
bagger and scalawag crowd of Re
publican politicians that had gath
ered like vultures in Florida, veri
ly in every southern State, and
had set to work to financially
bleed her to death.
Governor Reed was not a politi
cian in auy sense of the term, and
it has been a puzzle to me liow the
rank and file of Florida Republi
cans of those days accepted him as
a candidate for governor, except it
was for the purpose of using his
conservatism as bait to catch the
vote of unstable .Democrats and in
this way continue their party in
power, and then throttle him.
At heart Governor Reed held
nothing in common with the car
petbag plunderer who came to
Florida for the sole purpose of
robbery, of filling his coffers from
the State treasury. He fought
with his might against scalawag
ism—Florida people who had join
ed the Republican party for the
spoils of office.
I readily discovered that he was
then fleeing from a stormy week’s
work in his office in the capitol
at Tallahassee and that he was go
ing to his home, near Jacksonville,
for a day or two respite.
He went into the gubernatiorial
office with a determination to put
an end to the financial excesses,
the extravagant administration of
the State’s affairs he found exist
ing. He had started out with a
splendid mentality, a strong will
power, to accomplish those very
desirable things, but the pressure
of greed was too great for him, be
cause he had to fight his battle
alone. He gave up in disgust, and
at the end of bis four-year term lie
would not have accepted a renomi
nation if it had been offered him.
Rut his was the last Republican
administration in Florida. Hon.
Wm. I). Bloxham, a Democrat was
chosen as his successor. He re
tired to his home and farm near
Jacksonville and for several years
remained in political seclusion.
Under the Constitution foisted
upon the State by the Republican
party at the beginning of recon
struction, floodgates were opened
for all sorts of legalized excesses.
When Governor Bloxham went in
to office, notwithstanding his ear
nest desire for a more democratic
instrument, one that would enable
him to enforce retrenchment, his
legislature refused to accord it to
him. He was forced to plod along
under a regime as reprehensible as
that of his predecessors. He was
surrounded by democratic officials
as eager for plunder as were the
carpetbaggers and scalawags.
This failure of democratic re
trenchment gave Governor Reed
courage to attempt to reorganize
The American Dollar.
The American dollar is as good
as it ever was. It is a gold-stand
ard dollar and its intrinsic value is
equal to that of any dollar in the
world, but its purchasing power
has been shrinking mightily since
this world-war started.
But while the purchasing power
of our dollar has been gradually
diminishing under the changing
conditions imposed by the war,
t here will bo no revision of our
monetary system following the
war. There will be no agitation for
the “resumption of specie pay
ment,” such as we had following
t he civil war; but with the restora
tion of normal eondititions the
prices of commodities will settle
down to something like they were
before the war.
There will not be enough dollars
in the world to pay the world’s
debts after this world-war, and the
dollar will come back into its own
wit h its ante-war purchasing power
rapidly.
Another thing that will conspire
to make the American dollar the
standard dollar of the world after
tiiis war Is the fact that this will
be the creditor nation of the world.
We are that already, but before
the war ends the balance of credit
in our favor will have been largely
increased. —Albany Herald,
Liberty Day.
Saturday, < )ctober 12, is the fouv
hundred and twonty.sixth anniver
sary of the discovery of America.
President Wilson has named it
Liberty Day and requests the citi
zens of every community in the
United States —city, town and
countryside —to celebrate the day.
The President, in his proclaina
tion, says:
“Every day the great principles
for which we are fighting take
fresh hold upon our thought and
purposes and make it clearer what
the end must be and what wo must
do to achieve it.
“We now know more certainly
than we over knew before why free
men brpugnt the, great Nation and
Government we love into exist
ence, because it grows clearer and
clearer what supreme service it is
to be America’s privilege to render
to the world.”
the Republican party of the State
upon a platform of conservatism,
a new constitution, insuring to the
people of Florida greater security
of Ufe and rights of property.
In order to give correct and
complete publicity to his view's
and bringing the people in line
with the cleansed organization he
proiMjsed to bring into existence he
organized a stock company and be
gan the publication of an afternoon
daily, Florida Evening Journal, at
Jacksonville and assumed the pos
ition of Editor-in-Chief. This news
paper continued for more than a
year; he saw his bank account
growing “small by degress” and no
signs of life in his rejuvenated
party; he let the paper die and
abandoned polities forever.
During the life of his newspaper
I, connected with another news
paper, came in contact with Mr.
Reed frequently and found him a
most affable gentleman, a man you
could not help admiring because of
his rugged frankness and honesty.
If he could have controlled the
elements by which he was sur
rounded the reconstruction period
in Florida would have been shorn
of much of its severity.
The suffrage amendment lost out
in the senate by a narrow margin.
So near and yet so far. The sena
tors of Georgia, Florida, Alabama
and the Carolinas voted against it.
The states must regulate the elec
tive franchise in their own border.
COFFEE COUNTY
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
Coffee county’s quota of the
Fourth Liberty Loan is $247,800;
the county is thoroughly organized
and it can and should be closed
ii]) within the three weeks limit.
Judge Levi O’Steen, in his race
for solicitor general, expended the
neat sum of $1,325, and failed of
election. This looks like the irony
of fate. It is one of the beauties
of the primary election system.
Rev. Daniel J. Pearson, a pro
gressive Atkinson county farmer
living three miles southeast of
Pearson, has seehred his w'heat
seed and is making every prepara
tion to supply his family with
home grown wheat flour.
The director of the census, de
partment of commerce, has sent
out a comparative statement of the
number of bales of cotton ginned
iu Coffee county up to September
Ist. The figures are 2,476 bales in
1918 as against 3,599 in 1917.
The rural schools of Coffee conn-,
ly will begin the new year’s work
next Monday, so far as teachers
have been secured. Satisfactory
teachers arc scarce and hard to
procure. There will be » number
of young and inexperienced teach
ers working next year and the Tri
bune hopes they will makegood.
The Federal authorities at Val
dosta have released Wesley Rick
etson, whose mental condition
caused him to refuse to register
for tin* selective draft, and he has
been returned to Lis flume and
relative and friends aear Pearson,
lie was not required to give bond,
and the Tribune hopes this is the
end oJ the almost fatal absurdity.
The Tribune learns with regret
that Mr. David Tanner, living at
Wilsonvllle, lost his barn by fire
Thursday night of last week. In
addition to the barn eight head of
mules and about SSOO worth of
feed were burned. The total loss
amounts to more than $4,000, with
only SI,OOO of insurance. The or
igin of the fire is a mystery. Mr.
Tanner has sustained a heavy loss.
Judge W. C. Lankford spent
$2,770.67 in his campaign for con
gress, all his own funds except
$465.50. This is a mere bagatelle
to what it cast Randall Walker’s
friends U) elect him over Judge T.
A. Parker. The Tribune has it
from reliable authority that Mr.
Walker and his friends spent up
wards of $.30,000 to win that mem
orable race. If that be correct,
he spent more money in his first
campaign than his four years’sala
ry in congress. However, this is
modern politics. The evils of our
miserable and delusive primary
election system grows worse as the
years go by. It is time a halt be
called on such a blot.
REMOVALS
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.
SI.OO A YEAR
No Price Fixed for Cotton
Atlanta, Aug. 2 —Foliowdng
one of the most important meet
ings, in Washington, of the Cotton
States Official Advisory Board, at
tended by more than 100 Southern
Senators and Congressmen, com
missioner of Agriculture J. J.
Brown, President of the board,
brings back the good news that
there will be no arbitrary price
fixed on this year’s cotton crop.
Commissioner Brown emphatic
ally expresses this opinion, and it
is further confirmed by telegrams
from Washington from Director
L. B. Jackson of the state bureau
of markets, who remained to at
tend later conferences with govern
ment officials.
Commissioner Brown said:
We made it clear to the gov
ernment cotton committee, I am
sure, that it would be unfair to
the south to fix a price for cotton
in the midst of the harvest season;
and especially when not over 20
per cent of the crop will be needed
for war purposes. lam convinced
that no action will be taken, look
ing to price fixing, as to Hie pres
ent crop, and 1 believe such action
is now indefinitely postponed.
“In order that cotton prices
may adjust themselves at proper
level under the law of supply and
demand, 1 earnestly suggest that
fanners gin their cotton gradually
and market it slowly and cautious
ly and that all cotton not for mar
ket be held in the seed. This
will prevent congestion at the oil
mills, and avoid damage to seed
through heating.
“This action will have the effect
of restoring normal conditions,
both at the mi lls and at the cotton
market. With the price of seed
fixed at s7l, there is no danger of
a decline.
“Reports to the Cotton States
Marketing Board show beyond a
question that the average cost oi
producing the present crop is a
little above 35 cents a pound—
varying from 32 cents in some
states to 36 and 38 in others. It
is conceded that the farmer is en
titled to a margin of profit; and if
it should ever become necessary
to fix a price, 1 believe it would
be put at least between 35 and 40
cents.
"The government, we are assur
ed, will buy its own cotton in the
open market, just like any other
purchaser. We find the world
has consumed 41,000,000 bales of
American cotton the last three
years, while the production for the
same period of time has been only
about 33,000,000 bales. Yet 1 do
not feel justified, under these facts,
in advising holding for a price
above 35 cents. In my opinion,
however, if the farmer will hold
cotton in the seed for a short
period, it will go above that figure;
and if the law of supply and de
mand is left unhampered, in my
judgement it will bring around 40
cents in the near future.
“Should changed conditions
make price fixing necessary in the
opinion of the government, we
have been given posit ive assurance
that the cotton states will be
given a full hearing before any
action is taken.”
