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VOL. 4-NO. 27
ANNUAL MEETING RED CROSS
Atkinson County Chapter Elect
Officers for Next Year.
Next Wednesday is the day set
apart for the annual meeting of
the Atkinson County Chapter of
■he American Red Cross. Among
the business to be transacted nil 1
be ;he elec(ion of officers for next
year. It is greatly desired that all
! le members possible be present.
') he following committees have
been selected to look after the ac
t vitics of the day :
A risashexkxts —Messrs. F. E.
McXeal, J. M. .Meek. Jeff Kirkland,
N. E. Harrell and l>r. 11. i\ Smith.
Lunch Countes—Mrs. ,1. M.
Nieck, chairman. Mesdamcs Viola
Kirkland. 11. 11. Parker, Floy Star
ling, 11. P. Smith. NY. L. Kirkland
and J. O. White.
Coi i) I)ri\ks —Mrs. B. S. Ma
lone, chairman. Mrs. W. J. Tyler
ami Misses Eugenia Allen and Es
t lie Parker. Masters Ben Brown
i ig. Joe Williams, Ernest Parker
and Cleo. Kirkland.
Program —Mr. F. K. McXeal,
Pee. <). P. Tally and Mesdamcs M.
,1. Meek. B. S. Malone and Jeff
1 irkland.
FROG SAM.
Prayer.
“America,” sung by audience.
Introduction, (J. I!. Minglodorff.
Address, Hon. John SV. Bennett
Election of officers for Atkinson
( minty ( hapter for the ensuing
y sir.
Xoon recess of twenty minutes
for lunch.
Red Cross Tableau.
“Star Spangled Banner,"sungby
audience.
Benediction.
Sra Ricketscn Offers jor
Sheriff Hew County
Mr. Ira Bieketson resigned his
position on the police force here
effective Nov. 1. and will return to
Pearson, liis home, ay ho re he will
engage in a campaign for the office
of sheriff of the new county of At
kinson. the primary election
comes off in December and Mr.
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Mass Meeting Monday
Pursuant to a call a mass meet
ing of citizens of Atkinson county
was held in the Pafford building,
Pearson, last Monday afternoon.
The meeting was organized by
the selection of F. E. McXeal as
chairman and J. IS. White as sec
retary.
It Avas the unanimous sense of
the meeting that an Executive
Committee should be selected to
serve for the ensuing tAvo years.
It Avas then agreed that the rep
reseutatives from the three dis
tricts retire and nominate tAvo
committeemen from their re
spective districts Avith the privi
lege of naming a third man from
the abutting Clinch county terri
tory, making a committee com
posed of nine members.
The following nominations were
made:
Willacoochee —John 11. Haskins,
T. G. Lindsey and J. M. Roberts.
Axson —C. E. Griffis, W. O.
James and ,T. G. White.
Pearson —J. O. White, Newsom
Corbitt, Sr., and I). M. Douglass.
The nominations Avere unani
mously approved by the meeting.
The executive committee will
meet at Pearson to day, organize
and begin to give direction to the
holding of the elections for county
officers and a member of the Gen
eral Assembly.
The meeting Avas harmonious
throughout. Not. a discordant
note aa as sounded. Judge E. L.
Moore, of Willacoochee, expressed
the general sentiment of those
present, Avhen he said: “The citi
zens of Atkinson county are now
one people; the issues between the
sections have been settled beyond
recall and should remain settled:
citizens should vie with each other
in being the Ik citizen, and in
doing the most in building up the
new county and placing her in the
front rank of Georgia counties.”
The sentiment expressed was
unanimously adopted by arising
vote.
Thus the initial meeting of citi
zens from all sections of Atkinson
county to transact business for the
public welfare is an augury of not
only good will, but of a successful
organization and development
along all lines of endeavor.
Bieketson has already announced
for this position.
Mr. Bieketson has been on the
police force here in several capcai
ties for some time and has made
the city one of the best officers
she has ever had. He has served
as deputy sheriff of Coffee county,
and has plenty of experience
to handle the office of sheriff.
Atkinson can make no mistake in
electing him, although xve do not
mean to dictate in the premises,
and ayc do not know of any other
announced candidate. Ira Rieket
son is competent, faithful, and
Avill make Atkinson or any other
county an officer which they
might well be proud of. —Douglas
Enterprise.
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PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 15118
WORLD WAR ENDED.
Autocracy Dethroned and Dem
ocracy Enthroned.
In joint address to Congress
Monday President Wilson offici
ally notified the American people
that German plenipotentiaries
signed the United States —Allies
armistice terms at 5 o’clock Mon
day and fighting ceased at 12
o’clock Eastern time.
The terms of the armistice in
clude:
The cessation of hostilities.
Thb evacuation of invaded terri
tories, including Alsaee-Loraine
and Luxemburg.
The surrender of vast amounts
of guns and equipment.
The evacuation of the left bank
of the Rhine.
The surrender of vast amounts
of rolling stock in occupied terri
tory. '
The abandonment of the Buch
arest and Brest treaties.
The unconditional surrender of
all German forces in East Africa.
Reparation for damage done.
The surrender of scores of sub
marines and larger war crafts.
'l’he concentration of air craft at
stipulated points.
The evacuation of all Black Sea
ports.
The restoration of all Allied and
merchant vessels.
Tue armistice is limited to thir
ty days, but the terms laid down
by Marshal Foeh is of such a
character as to absolutely preclude
the renewal of hostilities. There
fore it may be definitely stated
that the Avorld war has ended, and
that the reconstruction of Europe
Avill soon begin, involving great
problems.
The preliminaries av ill be ar
ranged and Avritten out at a peace
conference, sitting possibly at
Brussels, at which av i 11 be assem
bled delegates from all countries
that declared war against Ger
many. Germany, Austria-Ger
many, Turkey and Bulgaria av i 11
have representatives there to hear
the sentences pronounced and
sign an agreement to abide there
by.
The peace conference will be a
most solemn occasion; the world’s
destiny being shaped and marked
out for many centuries. America,
the “Giant of the West,” and her
delegates will be the cynosure of
all eyes. They will be there from
a country that has put billions of
dollars into the war and performed
an unparalleled feat in the moboli
zation, training and transporting
to France an army of tAvo mil ion
splendid fighters within eighteen
months from the declaration of
Avar; they will go from a country
from whose almost limitless re
sources the world has been fed for
the past tAvo years, and must con
tinue to feed and clothe the world
until it can adjust itself to new
conditions, and sow and reap for
their oavu sustenance. The talk
seems general that President Wil
son will attend the conference and
be its presiding officer, to proclaim
that the world is safe for democ
racy, and that autocracy will be no
more —that the world is free!
There is never a tragedy with
out its comedy: It is stated in
the dispatches from the American
armies in France, that immediate
ly after the signing of the armis
tice —Motorcycle couriers tore
along the roads today shouting
“it’s Over Boys!”
Marching columns, tired and
mud spattered, were galvanized
into new life. They shouted,
laughed and sang.
i saAv several doughboys under
full packs foxtrotting in the mid
dle of the road. Cheers rang from
column to column.
In the race back to the nearest
1 cable office 1 passed many delach-
County Executive Committee
The executive committee of At
kinson county met in regular
meeting and transacted the follow
ing business:
Organized by electing J. M. Ro
berts, chairman; C. K. Griffis, vice
chairman; J. G. White, secretary,
and J. O. White, treasurer.
Assessed the candidates, viz:
For Ordinary, Clerk, Sheriff,
Treasurer, Tax Collector, and Tax
Receiver, $15.00 each; Represent
ative, $50.00 each; Superintendent
of Schools, SIO.OO each; coroner,
SI.OO each.
Agreed that members of the
Executive Committee be paid
$3.00 per day for actual services
in attendance upon tho meetings
of the committee.
Agreed that announcements bo
closed and the assesmont fees paid
by 12:00 o’clock noon Monday, No
vember 25th, to insure the names
going on the official ticket; to be
paid to J. O. White, treasurer.
This does not apply to Represent
ative, as this election does not oc
cur until January, J9L9. An
nouncements for this office closes,
and the fee paid to the treasurer,
by 12:00 o’clock noon, December
lfith.
The folloAving managers of elect
ion Avere appointed:
Pearson —B. Kirkland, Jr., G.
W. Sweat and M. A. Pafford.
Axson —K. L. Griffis, Y. O.
Mathews and A. D. Brooker.
Willacoochee —C. B. Linder,Wil
lie Lankford and J. F. Shearer.
The Managers shall select their
oavu Clerks, not exceeding three to
each precinct. Managers and
clerks to receive $2.00 per day for
their services.
Agreed to pay Pearson Tribune
$5.00 for publishing the minutes
of this meeting.
J. M. Roberts, Chairman,
J. G. White, Secretary.
meats avlio had not heard of the
armistice. It Avas easy to tell by
their appearance who had heard
the news and who had not.
Shortly before 11 o’clock,
French time, the American gun
ners stood Avith watch in hand.
They fired right up to the last sec
ond, saving the shell eases of the
final rounds as souvenirs.
The dispatches furthur state
that the Kaiser lias abdicated,
the Crown Prince renounced his
“Divine right to succeed to the
throne of Germany,” and the en
tire Hohenzollern family, Avith
Gen. von Hindenburg and all the
noted German military leaders,
have taken refuge in Holland,
where they will escape the just
punishment which they deserve,
Throughout America Monday
afternoon was given over to gener
al rejoicing, that the war had end
ed and that bloodshed and carnage
had ceased. The air was perfum
ed with the grateful prayers of
America’s citizens that God had
brought success to the Allies'and
Ameaica, that right and justice
will prevail among the nations of
the earth.
All Draft Boards have been no
tified that calls now outstanding
for military services be cancelled,
and pending further instructions
no more inductions will be made
into the army nor entrainment
permitted under these calls.
The demobilization of the
American army and reducing it to
peace proportions, it is stated, will
require at least two years. The
utmost precaution. It is yet pos
sible that many of the troops
now in American training camps
may yet go to Europe to perform
patrol and police duties until nor
mal conditions shall exist. It is
probable that the American first
army will be the first demobilized
and sent home, and that will be
done gradually.
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
The W. W. Stewart Manufact
ing Company are moving their saw
mill from Axson to a point south
of Pearson.
Mrs. S. J. Sutton has purchased
a tract of land from Mr. L. L. Sut
ton, located tAvo miles east of
Pearson, which includes the dwell
ing and part of the farm. She and
family Avill reside there.
Villaeoochee polled 217 \-otes
an 1 McDonald 7 votes against At
k son county, but Coffee county
ay cut for ratification by 273 votes.
Only 737 votes, out of a registra
tion of nearly 4,000, Avere cast in
the county. Nearly half of these
were polled at the Pearson pre
cinct.
Mr. Mudge Tanner has sold his
farm near Douglas for $12,000 and
Avill come to Atkinson county,
lie OAvns a splendid farm three
miles south of Pearson, and anoth
er a mile Avest of Kirkland. He
lived on the Kirkland farm several
years and the Tribune figures it
out that he Avill return to Kirk
land.
Elder Monroe Carver, avlio lives
near Axson, has the sympathy of
ail avlio know him in his great be
reavement, having recently lost
his Avife and four children by
death. It is said two more of his
children are not expected to live.
The Tribune sympathizes Avith
him and prays that the Father of
all grace may comfort him in his
bereavement.
Dr. M. M. McGovern, son Mr. of
and Mrs. Thus. J. McGovern, com
mitted suicide at Broxton some
days ago by shooting himself
through the head with a pistol.
The rash act is unaccounted for
except upon the theory of des
pondency over the death of his
wife from influenza a feAv days be
fore. He has been a practicing
physician at Broxton for several
years.
The second chapter in tho Chas.
Hughes homicide matter is uoav
being staged. Three men were
sleeping in the room when the
fatal dose was administered to
Hughes. Bratcher was first arrest
ed but the evidence sustained the
theory in his behalf that the ad
ministering the strychnine cap
sule Avas an unfortunate accident,
and he Avas released. Noav the
third man, McCoy Waters, is in
t! toils charged Avith murder of
C 1 as. Hughes by poisoning. A
b ithcr of Hughes swore out the
Avar rant. The Tribune is not ad
vised of any new developments.
PRIVATE INSTRUCTION ON
Piano. Twelve half hour lessons
a month, $3.00.
Eugenia Allen.
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.
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Organizing Atkinson County
The election of officers for the
uoav county of Atkinson will be
held at Axson, Pearson and Will
acoochee on the first Wednesday,
-lth day, of next month.
Citizens living Avithin the Mc-
Donald district must vote at Ax
son, those in the Pearson district
at Pearson and those in the Will
acoochee district at Willacoochee,
but those living in neither district
must vote at their nearest polling
place.
A J ustice of the Peace and two
freeholders, or three freeholders,
Avill be competent to hold the
election; each polling place will be
entitled to three clerks.
The officers to be elected will be
an Ordinary, Clerk of the Superior
Court, Sheriff, Tax Collector, Tax
Receiver, Treasurer and Corner.
Mr. J. A. Crosby, the present Sur
veyer of Coffee county, living in
the Atkinson county territory,
Avill not lose his office but will be
the Surveyor for Atkinson county.
All these offices are very import
ant and should bo filled by the
best talent available.
Judge Summerall will appoint
Jury Commissioners early in Jan
uary. The Jury Commissioners
aa ill select jurors, grand and petit,
from those citizens from the terri
tory subject to jury duty. After
they have completed this work
they, AYitb the Sheriff and Clerk
of the Superior Court, Avill draw a
list of grand and petit jurors to
serve at the Januaay Term, to be
held on the fourth Monday, of At
kinson superior court.
II Avill be a part of the work of
tlie Grand Jury to nominate a
Board of Education for appoint
ment by tlic Judge of the Superior
court. Unless they refuse to
serve Messrs. Thomas Morris, Sr.
and Elisha Corbitt, present mem
bers of the Coffee county board of
education, residing in Atkinson
county, will be entitled to places
in the Board. In turn the Board
of FducfiC 'u will choose a County
School Superintendant.
It Avill be the duty of the Ordi
nary to divide the county into
Militia districts, and to call
elections for Justices of the Peace
and Constables in the districts not
now supplied. The Justices of the
Peace and Constables now in office
Avill continue to serve the districts
for which they have been appoint
ed or elected.
H. G. Harding & Co.
Bykon, Ga., April 11, 1917.
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Paducah, Ky.
Gentlemen:
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recently and begun feeding the B.
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stopped losing my hogs at once. I
was losing from four to five each
night until I began tne use of this
preparation. I raise about 200
head of hogs per year and never
expect to be without your remedy.
Yours very truly,
H. G. Hashing & Co.
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