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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.
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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.
