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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1918)
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.”
