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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1918)
PEARSON ®T RIB UN E VOL. 4—NO. 21) SOUTH GEORGIA. News of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs The Folk itou canning factory has resumed operation and is now canning sweet potatoes. The mar ket is good for this product. Cold weather will find Bruns wick bins well supplied with coal. The people placed their orders for summer delivery, and they acted wisely. Ringling's circus having been shut out of Thomasville, and find ing no sympathy in Alabama, has disbanded and the attaches have gone their several ways. The rural schools of Clinch coun ty opened Monday, October 7th. They number thirty; others will open as soon as their new buildings are completed and teachers sup ! died. News from Savannah indicate a revival of interest in the project of bridging the Altamaha river at: Sister's blutf. In the meantime I ie Oglethorpe ferry boat is doing business right along. In Charlton superior court, last week, Charlie Crews was convicted of manslaughter and drew a fifteen year sentence, lie shot and killed an old man by® the name of Craw ford at Moniae in 1010. Will Cunti, Jusaice of the Peace and Railroad Agent at Enigma, died last week of pneumonia. He was 35 years of age and known as the “Big boy of Berrien county,” although he was born at Westonia, ia Ceffee I'ounty. lie tipped the beam at 462 pounds. The Tribune editor has known him since he w as a very small boy. lie was always a care free, joyous, happy-go-lucky boy, with a sunny disposition, and all who knew him loved him. The Tribune editor tenders the strick en family his sincere condolence. An t inted War Work confer ence for the Eleventh congressional district, will be held at Way cross on October 30th, 1918, according t o announcement of State Director, Ely R. Callaway. Some of the best oratorical talent in the State will tie at Wayeross, including J. Iv. Orr, state chairman, Dr. S. E. Wasscn, Methodist minister, and Rabbi Marx, Jewish leader and pa triot, of Atlanta, and Dr. M. Ash by Jones, noted Baptist minister, of Augusta. This conference will be followed by county conferences, one of which will be held in this county early in November, featur ed by addresses from men of note in religious, business and industrial circles, presenting the interests of the National War Work Council, calling for funds to help safeguard the morals of American soldiers at the battle front in Europe. raapiS® DIDYOU KNOW WE ARE CLOSING OUT Our 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. Meeting of State Committee. The State Democratice Execu tive Committee was held in city of Atlanta, last Tuesday to consider the three pending contests. The organization and members of the committee has been an nounced, as follows: J. J. Flynt, chairman; Nath F. Culpepper, vice-chairman; Clark Howell, national committeeman; 11. L. Gardner, secretary. From the state at large: J. J. E. Ander son, Statesboro; Byron B. Bower, Bainbridge; O. B. Bush, Pelham; Dewitt C. Pickett, Dawson; S. G. Austin. LaGrange; H. H. Reville, Greenville; J. D. Robinson, Atlan ta; B. H. Hardy, Barnesville; E. 8. Ault, Cedartown; J. Z. Foster, Marietta: Ernest Camp, Monroe; Albert E. Douglas, Madison; H. H. Dean, Gainesville; A. S. Hardy, Gainesvile; W. J. Wallace, Macon; 11. J. Quincey, Qcilla; A.T. Wood ward, Valdosta; S. J. Slate, Colum bus; J. T. Gillis, Soperton; J. Gor don Jones, Cordele; Emmett R. Shaw, Ft. Gaines; Harry D. Tarver, Albany; C. E. McGregor, Warren ton. The district committeemen were chosen by the convention and published last week. The three contests were referred to a committee of five in each case with instructions to report their findings at an early date. Cotton Crop and Market. Atlanta, Ga., October 15. —Im porlant information bearing on the cotton Market and cotton crop, reaches the State Department of Agriculture from Washington. E. A. Calvin, special representative of the Cot ton States Marketing Board, at the national capitol, wired Presi dent J. J. Brown as follows. “It is reported that spinners are adopting a hand-to-mouth policy, and will buy sparingly and only as they are compelled to have cotton. This, with other things, wdll cause a limited demand, and the farmers should meet the situation by re fusing to sell until the spinners need the cotton and are willing to pay fair prices for it. Farmers should not sacrifice cotton merely because there is a combination trying to beat the price down.” Commenting on the foregoing dispatch, Director L. B. Jackson of the State Bureau of Markets, said: “This Bureau indorses what Mr. Calvin says, and urges the farmers to follow his advice. Only by marketing cotton gradually, can we hope to get near its real value. It would be better still, if the cot ton were held in the seed, as this will serve the double purpose of strengthening the cotton market and solving the acute seed problem which is causing so much concern, before it has opportunity to be come more acute.” For Sale. Several thousand nice Red and Red Ribbon sugarcane, suitable for seed. Will deliver at my place when I dig the cane for banking. J. L. Corbitt, Kirkland, Ga. PEAIISOK, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO. Some of the Suffering of the Civil War Period. CHAPTER V. When war was declared between the North and the South, in 1861, my father enlisted in a company from Thomasville, commanded by Capt. Lucien C. Bryan, and known as the “Dixie Boys.” The "1 )ixie Boys” was first station ed at Screven, in Wayne county,and did patrol duty along the Atlantic and Gulf railroad. Picket posts were established at the important railroad bridges, and especially the one spanning the Little Satiila river. This watch upon the railroad bridges was necessary because the Georgia seacoast was unpro tected and the enemy could easily land a force for the purpose of de stroying them. It. was vitally im portant that the railroad be pro tected and kept open for transpor tation. The “Dixie Boys” remained at Screven not more than three or four months before being ordered to Savannah. Upon arriving at Savannah the company was attach ed to a brigade under the command of Brigadier-General Harrison, now the commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans. From Savannah they were sent to Virginia. However, while the company was in Savannah my father was strick en with pneumonia, and came near to death’s door. While he was desperately ill Captain Bryan and other friends secured for him an honorable discharge from the Con federate service and he was put aboard the train and sent home to Thomasville. My older brother, about 12 years of age, met the train with a carriage and brought him home. His illness continued for many weeks, and when he was sufficiently convalescent to under take any kind of work his friends secured for him a position with the railroad as a section master. The names of these friends are mentioned with pride: Judges A. H. Hansell, J. R. Alexander, and J. 11. Merrill, Hons. J. L. Seward and A. T. Maclutire. These gentle men saw he was unfit for further military service, and secured the place for him with the full know ledge that he knew nothing of the job he was to fill. Yet, if he could succeed in filling the place satis factorily, it would keep him out of the army, which he greatly desired. The Confederate government be gan, in order to mantain the army, ,te> commandeer great stores of provisions. Food began to get scarce and notwithstanding the farmers planted large grain crops and increased their meat supply, hunger began to be felt thorough out the entire south. People who had been raised in affluence,accus tomed to everything to eat that heart could wish, were forced to subsist on food that theretofore they would have disdained to touch. Many substitutes were improvis ed. For coffee many concoctions were brought into use; cereal coffee, now patented under the name of Postum, was well-known and used. Wheat flour, in South Georgia, was rearely seen on the tables. The meat supply was the worst feature of the situation, although much flesh came into use that had been considered unpalatable. Meatless and wheatless days be came the rule rather than the ex ception. Salt was difficult to obtain; a supply was secured in different ways, but the greater portion was obtained by boiling the briny water of the ocean or gulf in syrup ket tles. Some people established salt camps, near the ocean and gulf, Prices Nitrogen Bacteria Up. Atlanta, Georgia, October 15. —Commissioner of Agriculture J. .T. Brown announces an advance in the price of the nitrogen bacteria, now being furnished to the farmers of the state at actual cost by the Department, from 20 cents to 30 cents an acre. This advance was made necessary on account of the increased cost of producing the bacteria, and even at the increased price Georgia farmers will still get it at actual cost of manufacture to the state, and way below the price in the open market. This nitrogen bacteria has been widely used by Georgia farmers for treating tlie seed of leguminous crops, and in practically every in stance splendid results, in increas ed yield, have been obtained from it. In writing the department of agriculture for nitrogen bacteria, the crops with which it is intended to be used, should always be stated a - it often makes a difference in the particular nature of the bact eria to be used. Value of Peanute. Atlanta, Georgia, October 15. The State Bureau of Markets has ascertained that the products made from one ton of peanuts, at present market prices, are worth sl-12,58. The yield is based on the results obtained from the 1917 crop, as these are the only figures now available; but the value is figured at present market prices. According to this basis a ton of peanuts will yield 831-10 gallons of oil worth $1.36 per gallon, or a total of SLI 3.02, and 1075 pounds of 7 per cent peanut meal, worth $55.00 per ton, or $29.56, making the total above stated. This will no doubt prove very interesting in formation to Georgia fanners who are preparing to harvest peanut crops this fall. and made the manufacture of salt a business. They had to be care ful so as not to he detected by enemy gunboats patroling the coast and on the outlook to detect and destroy their camps. Some camps wore destroyed only to be rebuilt as soon as the enemy was out of the way. Clothing was scarce: what the people wore was manufactured at home, going patiently through the tedious process from growing, (licking and ginning the cotton to carding, spinning and weaving it into cloth, and then converting the cloth into clothes. The cloth was a coarse fabric, some of it woven in solid colors (white, blue, brown and copperas) and some in stripes. The stripped goods were for the dresses worn by the moth ers and daughters of the Confed eracy. They were as proud of them as if they were made of the finest silks and satins. The dyes used were secured —blue from the indigo weed, black and brown from dogwood bark and black walnut, light brown from a powder called “Spanish Brown,” and a dingy yellow from copperas. The few shoes that w f ere worn were made from leather tanned at home by a very slow process. The hair was gotten off by soaking the hide in lime water for several days. The hair off, the hides were soaked in an ooze made from water in which white oak or hickory bark had been boiled. The ooze was changed weekly and when the change was being made the hide was (nit through a carrying pro cess. It took from sixty to ninety days to tan a hide under this pro cess, although twice that time would have made the leather bet ter. From this the reader will readily discover that every South ern home in those days were busy manufacturing centres, as each had to provide for its own. COFFEE COUNTY Items of News Gathered from Various Sources. Private James Edwards, of Am brose, is dead of disease in France. Thus another Coffee county boy pays the supreme price for Ameri can liberty. Every cotton stalk in Coffee county, should be plowed under, good and deep, before the end of October and cold weather begins, to checkmate the boll weevil. Broxtoit district was the first to subscribe its quota of Coffee coun ty’s apportionment of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Coffee county will go "over the top” before the end of the drive. lion. Melvin Tanner has resign ed as Coffee county food adminis- j t-rator, but the big boss has not as I yet accepted his resignation. How ever, lie is now traveling South east Georgia in the interest of the State bureau of markets. There will be no session of Coffee superior court until the first Mon day iii February, 1919. This means that all cases emanating from the Atkinson territory of Coffee coun ty will be transferred to Atkinson superior court, which is scheduled to convene on the fourth Monday in January, 1919. The Coffee . County Progress says: “The action of the commis sioners in paying the officials of the city court established by the legislature last summer doubtless means that they will recognize it as the legal court of Coffee county. llj is thought they will continue to ignore the court established by the Grand Jury and approved by the vote of the people.” The directors of the Coffee coun ty fair association held a meeting a few days since and, after a full and free discussion, formally called off the fair of 1918. II is probable the officials of the Colored fair asso ciation will do likewise. Their fair grounds arc in Douglas and, with a very contagious disease and death stalking about the country, would be exceedingly unwise to gather people together and invite suffer ing and sorrow. Uncle Jim, in his Note Book, says: “I am in favor of this game of spite in Coffee county be stop ped, as nothing can be gained by such.” What’s the old man talk ing about? It sounds a little spite ful itself. Must be talking about Babe Tanner’s refusing to pay for some warrants he issued? Why not make the affiant pay before the warrant is issued? It is gener ally a good test whether or not a warrant should issue in the matter and a prosecution started; have the prosecutor show good faith by paying for the warrant. This is a rule by which all Justices of the Reace should largely be guided. 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 Sympathy Extended. The Tribune, with all the people of Pearson, extend their sincerest sympathy to their fellow-citizens of Douglas iu their sorrow and light against what seems to be an epidemic of Spanish Inlluenza. Several prominent people of the city, including R. V. L. Day and Mesdames Ward and Kennedy, died last Friday from pneumonia developed from that disease, while others are now critically ill with the disease. However, Mr. E. L. Tanner, of Douglas, was in Pearson Monday afternoon and stated that the dis ease was being checked and would be under complete control within a week or ten days. Statement Of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., of Pearson Trib une, published weekly at Pear son, Georgia, required by the Act of August 24th, 1912. Editor, managing editor, busi ness manager, publisher and owner —ls. T. Allen, Pearson, Georgia. Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders, holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages and other sc curities: L. W. Herrin, Millwood, Georgia. Average weekly circulation: 000. 15. T. Allen, Managing Editor. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of October, 1918 (Seal) W. M. Sumner, Notary Public. My commission expires July sth, 1922. Important Newspapar Rulings The postoffice department calls attention of postmasters to the ruling of the War Industries Board regarding the prohibition of new newspapers. Inquiries as to wheth er a new publication may be estab lished should be addressed to the War Industries Board, pulp anil paper section, Washington, D. O. Conservation of paper is behind the ruling. x x x The War Industries Board has abrogated its ruling against the is suing of legitimate special editions and Chief Donnelley, of the Pulp and Paper Division, authorizes t ho publication of the order annulling the prohibition of such editions. Under the new ruling special edi tions may be issued, but no special allowance will be made for paper used for special editions, and re ductions must be made elsewhere to insure the saving of space or tonnage required by the Board’s rules. The point is that when a special edition is issued the pub lisher must conserve both his ad vertising space as well as the quan tity of paper used. The edition is to be confined to the number of papers that can be profitably used so as to be no waste of paper.
