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PEARSONffiTRIBUNE
VOL. 4—NO. 2i>
SOOTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told
in Pointed Paragraphs
The Porto Ricans, who were
brought to Brunswick to work on
government ship contracts, now
the war has ended, will be used on
Georgia farms if found efficient.
News from Colquitt, Emanuel
and Mitchell counties say that the
epidemic of Spanish Influenza has
taken fresh hold upon the people
of those communities, and drastic
measures are being employed 10
stamp it out.
Much sand is being rained about
the condition of the “Dixie High
way,” between Waycross and Jack
sonville. It is to be hoped that the
“sand” will not be heaped up in
the middle of the highway. It is
not the way to improve them.
The men who were roast'd from
the shipbuilding plants al Bruns
wick have found employment with
the Atlantic Refinery Company,
who are building in that city a
mammoth $5,000,000 plant, to be
operated in the refining of oil.
Through its grand jury, which
has just adjourned, Lowndes conn
ty has adopted the Ellis health
law, which provides for periodical
rigid examination of the physical
condition,of every child in the
county, thereby preserving the
health of the children.
A pure white turkey, raised by
Mrs. John G. Stanley, in the Hick
ory Head neighborhood of Brooks
county, has been shipped to Presi
dent Wilson for his Thanksgiving
dinner. The Hickory Head neigh
borhood is a good place to go for
dinner. The Tribune editor knows
from experience.
Because a drunk producer, called
“Buck,” can be manufactured from
the skimmings gathered from cane
juice in boiling syrup a Thomas
ville scribe suggests that, “Buck”
time is at hand. No doubt many
of the syrup makers of that coun
ty do not feel very highly compli
mented by the suggestion.
The Nashville Herald prints as
local news the following: “The
country is just now scoured by eii
. tliusiastic hunters w ith $lO dogs
and SSO guns, who shoot away $2
worth of ammunition, wear out $5
worth of clothes, and spend $2
worth of time to get 30c worth of
game.” They call it “sport.”
The Folkston Cannery is running
full time and making a record of
‘‘5,400 Mo. 3 cans of sweet potatoes
a day. The Canning Company is
doing its utmost to induce Charl
ton county farmers to plant a crop
suitable for canning, preferably
green stringless beans, tomatoes,
okra, sweet corn, etc. This crop,
grown in the early spring, would
not materially interfere with the
usual farm crops. Such enterpri
ses cannot survive without the
hearty co-operation of the people
of the community. The owners of
this enterprise are arranging for
the growing of two hundred acres
of green stringless beans the com
ing spring.
The impression is erroneous that
work has been suspended on the
Picric Acid plant at Brunswick.
More than two thousand men will
be kept at work there completing
that part of the original proposi
tion necessary to the manufacture
of sulphuric acid which is very
largely used in the manufacture
of fertilizer and dyes. It is also
rumored that private parties w ill
endeavor to purchase the entire
plant from the government and
complete it in accordance with the
original plans and use it for the
manufacture of various products.
South Gsorgia Conference.
This religious body, in session at
Valdosta, adjourned Monday even
ing after reading the assignment
of preachers for the ensuing Con
ference year.
Rev. W. C. Ralm comes to Pear
,son circuit from Waycross mission.
Hois a young man, with a wife
and one child. They w ill he made
welcome to Pearson.
Preachers in w hom Pearson has
special interest were sent —Rev. X.
T. I’afford back to Blakeley in the
Americus district, and Rev. B. A,
I’afford back to Woodland in the
Columbus district. (
Former pastors at Pearson (were
assigned —
Rev. Aaron Kelly to Rebecca
circuit hi the Cordele district.
Rev. Isaac R. Kelly to Shellman
circuit in the Americus district.
Rev. Moody Booth to Willacoo
ehee in the Valdosta district.
Rev. T. A. Moseley to Washing
ton circuit in the Macon district.
Rev. E. L. Padrick to Eureka
circuit in the Savannah district.
Rev. O. B. Tally to liomervillc
circuit in the Waycross district.
The 1!H!) conference will be held
at Dublin.
8. Frank Giddens for Sheriff.
To the people and friends of At
kinson county.
About one year ago a complaint
came to me from the lower part of
our county that “big” stealing was
going on in that section. My
brother, M. M. Guldens, who did
not live in the community but lie
owned land and cattle there and
interested in stopping the stealing.
1, w ith the assistance of the good
people, captured lour of the worst
cow thieves that ever lived in this
county. The people who fsaw it
said it reminded them of the man
ner in which Western Texas cow
thieves arc handled. The morning
I arrived in the city of Willacoo
chee with those cow thieves a ma
jority of the people there told me
they would vote for me for sheriff
if 1 would run; people from all
parts of the county promised the
some thing. Now, good people, 1
am out for the right a*d not the
wrong things. Now. frf* ids, I was
born and raised in our new county
of Atkinson, and I stand for her
upbuilding; and now, friends, there
are seven candidates for sheriff, all
good citizens and I have no criti
cism to make of them With all
my experience through life 1 be
liove I can manage the office to the
best interest of the people.
Adv. B. Frank Gjduets.
New Farm Product.
A new r farm product in the shape
of a vegetable that the producer
says is a cross between a turnip
and a radish, is on exhibition at
Waycross, and from the report
made by the grow er of the plant,
it will no doubt develop new' inter
est in agriculture. He says he
grew 7 the vegetable, which he calls
“celestial,” in the poorest sandy
soil in South Georgia and that it
matures in six weeks. He states
also that he can grow 7 several tons
per acre and that it is a most ex
cellent stock feed. He thinks it
will solve the slock feed proposi
tion for this section of the coun
try, and w 7 ill enable the farmers
living on poor places to turn their
poor lands to money making. This
man believes that he has Luther
Burbank and his spineless cactus
pushed clear off the Christmas
tree.
Judge W. H. Hopkins is a can
didate and will be the next Mayor
of Thomasville. That he will make
a splendid Mayor goes without
saying. However, his opponent,
John M. Dekle, 's no slouch of a
Thomasville South Georgian.
PEAK SON, GEORGIA, FKID AY, NOVEMBER 29, 1918
GEORGIA-FLORiDA FAIR
Saturday Devoted to Looking at
Valdosta and Her Fair.
The Tribune force took a day off
last. Saturday and hied rhemselves
away to Valdosta to look over the
Georgia Florida fair.
The trip was a pleasant one not
withstanding the cloudy, damp
weather. Intended to spend the
night in Valdosta with relatives,
but the lowering clouds in the af
ternoon, presoging stormy weather
for the night and Sunday, changed
our minds. We became anxious
to get home where we could have
comforts of our own choosing.
Well, the first thing the editor
did, after reaching the city of his
youth, was to try to|locate the Cy
prus pond from which he rocked
Negro soldiers from bathing, but
if was gone. The city’s progress
had wiped it out.
One of the sights which at
tracted our attention was some
Negro women harvesting sweet
potatoes from the bottom of a
pond on the east side of the city
and near the Atlantic Coas ( Line
railroad, i had passed this pond
many times in my youth; if always
had some water in it, don’t re-
member seeing it dry until Satur
day when it presented the un
usual sight of having been the
bosom of a sweet potato crop, and
an abundant one.
Saw Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Haw
kins, and baby Oscar at Bemiss.
They are pleased with farm life
and said they were getting along
splendidly.
Well, the fair?
Yes, there w 7 as a splendid aggre
gation of exhibits, that were at
tractive and instructive. A
eouple or more days could have
been pent at the Fair profitably
I~e student of stock raisin,-
could get many new ai d valuable
lessons as to the growing and sale
of cattle, hogs and sheep.
The seeker after knowledge of
general farming and farm life
could gain much instruction by a
visit to this fair. There were
much of interest in the exhibits of
agricultural products from the
counties of Decatur and Lowndes,
Ga., and Hamilton, Fla.
The exhibit of women’s hand
work was large and very attractive.
The exhibit of the Girl’s Can
ning Clubs was most excellent.
The Tribune was especially in
terested in the samples of road
building material, two in number;
one was for sand clay roads and
the other concrete roads. There
was no one present to give infor
mation as to its durability and
price. The sand-clay specimen
looded very pretty and of probable
durability.
The Midway?
Can’t say anything about them
as they ware not visited. They
made much noise inviting custom.
The new Fair grounds?.
Yes, the fair ground is entirely
new and located on the east side
of town near the Georgia-Florida
railway.
All the buildings Were erected
this year and are admirably adapt
ed to the use of a big fair.
The Fare on the grounds?
Yes, you could get plenty of
something to eat. We, Reiner and
I, made our dinners on three hefty
Hamburger sandwiches each and
orange-juice to wash ’em down.
Maxey Ashley, the big Secretary-
Treasurer of the Fair, past us as
we were eating the repast and
smiled with as much satisfaction
as we felt in enjoying the noon re
freshments.
Nothing is said here of the gov
ernment exhibits, except that it
was there in profusion and there
was so much abont it that the
charge was not permitted to di
vaige that it sharpened our curi
osity and camailauged our inter
est.
Increased Otranto Casualties.
A long supplementary list of the
names of the young soldiers who
were lost in the sinking of the
transport ship Otranto, off the
coast of Ireland, caused by a colli
sion on a foggy night, is published.
On this list is found the names
of a number of young men from
nearby counties. The Tribune
notes:
From Ware county—Eurly Da
vis, Fairfax; Lewis A. Gillis, Mill
wood; Frank Tuten, Beach.
From Berrien county—Lester
Hancock, Enigma; Arthur Harper
and William P. Hayes, Alapaha*
Ben F. McCranie, Adel; James M.
McMillan and George Wheeler,
Nashville; Shellio L. Webb, Ray
City.
From Brooks county —Harvey
Nesmith, Barwick; Cecil M. Rog
ers, Hiram Treadway and Robert
Williams, Quitman.
The list contained the names of
Charles F. Collins, Camilla; Clyde
Mott, Brufiswick; George Falagan,
Jesup, and of forty-eight additional
Georgians.
j. Walter lames for Clerk.
From the Clinch County News.
We are in possession of the in
formation that Mr. J. Walter
James is in the race for the Clerk
of the Court’s office in the new
county of Atkinson. We heartily
commend him to the good people
of Atkinson for their careful con
sideration. Mr. James is one of
our best citizens, being a resident
of Clinch county before the crea
tion of the new county. His clear
insight in public affairs, coupled
with his familiarity of the law, to
gether with his [clerical ability,
would make him a very desirable
is;.lrani, for Hu office. —Adv.
~p Cu'tor's Last Kour.u.
Third ami last round for the pur
pose of collecting State and County
faxes will be at:
Douglas, December 2, from 9 to 3.
Aaron Melts’, December 3, 9 to 11.
Lax, December 3, 12 to 3.
Willacoochee, December 4, 8 to 4.
Ambrose, December 5, 9 to 2.
Bushnell, December 5, 3 to 4.
Broxt.on, December G, 8 to 2.
Pridgen. December (j, 3 te 4.
West Green, December 7‘ 9 to 2,
Nicholis, December 9, 9 to 2.
Dave Tanner’s December 9, 3 to 4.
Tim Tanner's, December 10,8 to 10
Axson, December 10, 11 to 3.
Pearson, December 11, 8 to 3.
Douglas, December 12, 13. 14, eO.
17, 18, 19 and 20.
Tax books will close December
20th and fifas will be issued.
B. Morris, T. C.
Consolidating the Ballot
Judge James I. Summerall, of
the Waycross Judicial Circuit, has
signed an order designating the
school building as the place where
the result of next Wednesday’s
election will be consolidated and
published.
One election manager from each
polling place—Axson, Pearson and
Willacoochee —will meet by 12 m.
on the day following that of the
election, and make return thereof
to the Secretary of Stste, Hon.
Henry B. Strange, who will certify
the result to Gov. Dorsey who will
sign an order authorizing the issu
ing of commissions to the success
ful.
This election is different from a
primary in this that the county
executive committee has no au
thority in the consolidation of the
vote nor certification of the result
to the Secretary of State. That
is distinctly the work of the elec
tion managers.
LOST —Car number 70411 Ga.
1918. Please aeturn to Rev. O.
B. Tally. tf
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
Douglas will have her munici
pal election next Tuesday. George
A. Tanner ithe only announced
candidate for Mayor.
McCoy Waters, charged with
the murder of Charlie Hughes by
poisoning, has run the gaunlet of
a Commitment Court arid released
fr ia custody.
i’he Negroes of Coffee county
at making preparations for an
elaborate celebration, January Ist,
in honor of their forcible immi
gration from Africa to America,
and of President Lincoln’s emanci
pation proclamation. It will be
the 300th anniversary of the form
er and the 56th of the latter.
Now, Elder Einley, over about
Douglas, says ho prophesied twen
ty.years ago about this war and
its results, how that “Germany
ouid not surrender so iong as the
Turks controlled Palestine.”
Well, it happened just that way,
and proves there is no greater pro
phet in Coffee county than Elder
Finley.
Mr. and Mrs. I). P. Gaskin, of
Douglas, have received the sad in
tclligenee that their son, Joe, was
killed in action in France on Octo
ber 18. Joe Gaskin was drafted
into the service last April and was
sent to France within thirty days
after being drafted. His life is part
of the price paid for world freedom;
may his blood not be shed in vain.
The Tribune sympathizes with his
parents in their sorrow.
Miss Etta, the 14-year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes
Harrell of the Stokcsvillc neigh
borhood, met a horrible death, on
Thursday of last week, from the
explosion of a can of oil. Her
parents and Mr. John Wright, who
was present, were also painfully
but not seriously burned. The ac
cident caused quite a shock to the
people of the community who es
teemed the little girl highly for
her bright and amiable disposition.
Aeceording to the report of Mrs.
.!. M. Dent Coffee county house
keepers have contributed about
2,000 containers of fruit to the sol
diers at the Base hospitals in
Southern military camps, princi
pally Camps Wheeler and Gordon.
Pearson district is credited with
only 150 of these containers, and
by ay of explaining this small
showing the Tribune wants to say
tb t Mrs. Jeff Kirkland, who had
tl; matter in hand for the dis
trict, has been unable to give it
but very little attention, owing to
the fact that she has been absent
nearly all summer for the benefit
of her own health and, since com
ing home, she has been minister
ing at the bedside of sick relatives
the greater part of the time.
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Enterprise and Universal Sausage Mills
LARD PRESSES and NICE LARD CANS.
Chattanooga and Avery 1 and 2-Horse Plows.
Everything in Hardware and Furniture
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MANOIL BUILDING -0- PEARSON, GA.
81.00 A YEAR
Letter from Atlanta.
Atlanta, November 26 —Warn-
ing to the farmers of Georgia
against trading for steers with E.
P. Jersig of Sail Antonia, Texas,
without due caution for their pwn
protection, has been issued by the
Georgia State Bureau of Markets,
ol the State Department of Agri
culture.
As an inducement to buy Texas
steers which he is offering at 12
cents a pound, Mr. Jersig is agree
ing to buy them back at the end
ninety days at 14 cents, delivered.
at Statesboro or Atlanta. The bu
reau of markets, upon investi
gation, does not think there is
sufficient financial standing back
of this proposition, and suggests
that if any trade is made, the
farmer should hold back enough
of the purchase price to insure the
contract being lived up to. It is
also suggested that any notes
given should be made nonnegoti
able, in order to keep them out of
the hands of third parties. D
rector L- B. Jackson, of the Stab
Bureau of Markets, will be glad t
give more specific information t
anyone writing for it.
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“Hold your sweet potatoes off
the market for a few days, if pos
siblc, as every day will add to the
market,” is the ad vice to farmers
by the Georgia Market Bureau.
The bureau finds that the mar
ket is, just now, overstocked with
sweet potatoes, and the producers
who force them on the market
within the next four days, will be
inviting a loss. No shipments at
all should be made for several
days, it is suggested, and under no
circumstances should dealers load
for shipment, until they have re
ceived advises from reliable deal
ers.
XXX
Field Agents of the Georgia
State Bureau of Markets, in co
operation . 1 1) the county agents
ol tlie State College of Agriculture,
are conducting co-operative hog
sales in various sections of the
state, in which producers bring
their hogs together for carload
marketing and more.
Very successful co-operative
sales have just been held under
tlie bureau’s direction at Bain
bridge and Quitman, Ga., and
others are scheduled' during the
fall and winter at various points
in the state. The bureau is we 1
pleased with the results of these
co operative sales, and believes the
plan will prove most encouraging
to producers all over the State.
The Smyrna Association, which
was to have been held at Broxton
las Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
had to be recalled on account of
the Influenza epidemic, However,
a short session was held at Doug
las and the most important part of
the business transacted.
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