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VOL. 4—NO. 4 3
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told
in Pointed Paragraphs
The grand jury of Berrien coun
ty has indicted Will Collins, who
killed the McGhee girl at Ray City
some time ago, for murder and he
was to have been put upon trial
this week.
There will bo joint sessions of the
Georgia and South Carolina Bar
associations at Tybee on Monday
May 30th and 31st. Committees
from the two associations aie ar
ranging an attractive program.
The great increase in the volume
of business in the Southern judici
al circuit that Judge Thomas felt
justified in appointing an assistant
to the Court Reporter. Mr. Sam
C. Conoley, of Quitman, is the
appointee.
Frank Scarboro, whose financial
career in Tifton seems to have been
extremely faulty and vicious, has
creditors tip in the air for $300,000,
while he is hiding in some for away
country. Scarboro surely must be
a chipper gent.
Camden county has disposed of
her convict gang and equipment
to Charlton county; there were
only twelve or fourteen men and
the Camden county commissioners
were sure that so small a gang
could not be worked profitably.
The new county of Cook held
her election on the question of
county wide taxation for school
purposes hist Friday. The result
was 8 to 1 in favor of the tax and
set the mother county, Berrien, an
excellent example of progressive
ness.
The citizens of Guyton, Kiting
ham county, are planning a Fourth
of July welcome-home celebration
for the boys who went to the war
from that county. It is the proper
thing for them to do, and they
have selected and ideal day —In-
dependence day.
The Waycross & Western rail
road is operating a daily passenger
schedule between Waycross and
Cogdell, using a 12 passenger motor
car with baggage compartment
It is electric lighted, has all mod
ern safety appliances and is com
fortable and convenient in every
respect.
Among the South Georgia coun
ties preparing to hold permanent
roads bond elections are Colquitt,
Berrien, Tift, Lowndes, Ware,
Glynn, Thomas, and Charlton.
They are showing themselves to be
progressive counties, and are hank
ering after Uncle Sam's swag to
help pay for permanent county
roads.
A number of South Georgia
towns and small cities are moving
in the matter of organizing com
, FOR
King’s early cotton seed No. 1, at
$1,50 per bushel.
WAGONS at FACTORY COST
CASH BARGAIN HOUSE,
MILLWOOD, GA.
Rosenwald Sehool at Cross
Roads.
Mr. Editor: Please allow mo
space in your paper to say a few'
words relative to tlie above school,
and its purpose and its progress.
By humble efforts and meagre
savings we have succeedded in er
ecting and operating a manual
training school for equipping our
girls and boys for belter service
and a more loyal citizenship.
With the guidance and help of our
white friends we hope to make this
school just what it should be, one
worthy of the great new county of
Atkinson.
We take this method of thank
ing the following distinguished
gentlemen for their presence ami
addresses on the 19th inst: Prof.
G. 1). Godard, Slate Supervisor;
lions. Thomas Morris, Elisha Cor
bett and 11. 11. Fielding, members
of the Board of Education, and
prof. Sankey Booth, Sehool Super
intendent, of Atkinson county.
Hon. G. T. Pridgen, member of the
Board of Education; Prof. J. G.
Floyd, School Superintendent,
Prof. Bowers, Farm Demonstrator,
and Miss M. Y. Burnett, county
Supervisor and Jean fund worker,
of Coffee county.
Manuel training, domestic sci
ence and handicraft art work are
now' being taught, and the cooking
class prepared dinner at the school
for the occasion. Everybody en
joyed a big dinner except Prof.
Booth, who had to leave before
dinner because of other engage
men Is.
Profs. Goodard, Booth, Floyd
and Bowers gave us many helpful
suggestions, for which we desire to
express our profound thanks.
M its. M. A. Hutchins and
Miss M. A. Hutchins,
Teachers.
I. O. Johnson, Pres. Board of
Trustees.
rncroial bodies of some charactcr to
advocate and forward the business
interests of their several sections.
Cairo, Camilla and Pelham are
I among the latest to organize trade’s
bodies. Co-operation is the found
ation upon which they rest.
At the opening of the 1919
sehool year the Moultrie high
school added military seience to
its curriculum, and made it com
pnlsory on the larger boys to take
the training. Borne of the officers
of the battilion became objection
able to sixteen of the boys and
they refused to drill, and they were
dismissed from school by the sup
erintendent. The parents of the
boys are expected to test in court
the superintendent’s authority to
expel the boys from school for
their refusal to drill, contending
that under the law they cannot
be forced to take military instruc
tion.
Subscribe for the Tribune, your
home paper —$1.00 a year.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1911)
MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO.
A Few Months stay in the Em
bryo City of Waycross
Leaving Blackshear in the early
part of 1871 1 became a partner
with C. It. Pendleton in the publi
cation of the “Times” at Valdosta.
The partnership lasted two years.
In 1870 I began the study of
law and was admitted to the
practice in May, 1877, in Lowndes
superior court. Began the prac
tice at Valdosta; found that there
was plenty of room at the top, but
I didn’t have the means to tide
me over until 1 could climb to the
top. I had spent all 1 had and
could earn preparing myself for
admission.
I became discouraged for once in
my life and. after a legal career of
eighteen months, 1 was easily per
suaded to join a partnership in
the newspaper business at Quit
man as associate editor of the
"Reporter,” ow ned by Joseph Till
man.
In October, 1880, Mr. Tillman
persuaded myself and younger
brother, W. A. Allen, to move the
plant to Waycross and join him in
the publication of the “Waycross
Reporter.”
The move was a very unfavorable
one and W. A. Allen at the end of
the year severed his connection
with the business, and myself and
a young man by the name of But
ler Jones undertook the job of is
suing the paper. 1 remained
about two or more months longer.
Waycross, although it had cap
tured the county scat of Ware
county from Warosboro, was a
most insiguificient place. The
Savannah railroad maintained its
station at “Tebeauville,” or “Old
Nine,” but would let passengers off
at Waycross. Of course it had to
stop before crossing the Brunswick
railroad’s track. The Biunswick
railroad maintained its station at
the crossing. It was a most crude
affair, built out of rough lumber
and mounted on high stilt-like
pillars. A young man by the
name of J. D. DcLoach was agent,
of the Savannah road and another
young man by the name of V. L.
Stanton was agent of the Bruns
wick road, and he was not very
proud of his quarters. It was told
whether as a joke 1 know not,
that a train from Brunswick jump
ed the track and knocked Stan
ton’s chicken, coop off the pillars
into the depths below,
'There were two hotels. The
King House, was kept by a Mr.
King who carne from St. Marys.
It was also built of rough lumber
and located about a hundred feet
south-east of the crossing, Tho
Satilia House was located north
east of the crossing. It was a
splendid wooden building and kept
by two maiden ladies —the Misses
Shine.
The only church building was
Methodist, built by Dr. Daniel
Lott out of wood and was located
on tbe site of the present Trinity
Methodist church.
The school house was also a
small affair, just about large
enough to accommodate fifty
pupils,-and the school was taught
by Prof. C. J. Jenkins. It was
built by Dr. Lott.
He bad also erected a county
court house of wood on the site of
the present building. It was a
two story structure and very well
arranged for a court house.
All the buildings in the place
were rough, the 1 Reporter” was
located on the second floor of a
storehouse owned by Mr. James
Knox, and unceiled. It was an
uncomfortable and unfit place for
a printing office, especially during
the extreme cold winter that had
passed.
The half dozen stores were
dingy wooden structures and not
very inviting. But there was a
promise of better things in the fu
ture.
(To be continued)
Negro Pays High Tribute
To Southern White Man.
Sure its right to love everything
American and worship nothing
above Old Glory save your Creator.
To take a little retrospective view
of the past and present achieve
ments of the southern white man
at this time should not be out of
place. He has made a sure footed
climb for the past fifty years, and
today ho stands master of the
world. At every history making
stage of the American civilization
the men of the South have been
foremost and when considered from,
the political standing of fifty years'
ago, the Southern white man’s
climb lias been wonderful. In the
South the truest democracy on
earth is to be found. The democ
racy of effort. None can be too
humble to aspire to the highest
honors, none too poor to hope for
wealth, in no other land can be
found a more conscientious, self
sacrificing or God fearing people.
While Pres. Wilson represents
the whole American people and is
striving to do something which will
make him tho greatest benefactor
that the world lias produced in a
century. He is really a true son of
the South and rellects more the
will, determination, integrity and
distinctiveness of the true South
ern white man than he does of any
other people in America. He is,
indeed, a true Southern white man
both as to tradition and practice.
In him is proven conclusively that
the Southern while man has become
the yard stick by which tho world’s
civilization is measured. It mat
ters not what the standard has been
or what the ideals and traditions
are of the Sou 1 h have been, the
drift for llie past fifty years has
been toward the Southern oliamol
or. Not only is Hie Southern
white man the most distinctive but
is likewise the most individual
character in the national life of
America. It does not matter in
what pari of the habitable globe
he settles lie never surrenders his
views, be does not yield to his en
vironments but his environments
disappears. It does not matter
whether they are social, political
or industrial. He does not shape
his views to suit the passing breeze,
of public sentiments; but compels
the breeze t o fly bis sails according
to his nation’s current question.
Fifty years ago in politics he was
hopelessly in the minority, in the
national equation he was absolutely
without power or even the hope of
ultimate victory. But, to-day, he
is triumphant, he is in control and
the National life has come to liis
way of thinking and is the creature
of the Ron them white man’s wish.
Every race and people the world
over have had to yield to the pow
ers end leadership of the Southern
white man and to day the world
acknowledges that he is master.
American civilization is today what
lie has made it, because of liis in
tegrity and racial indentity. There
is much more to be conmended in
the make up of him (ban there is
for condemnation, He certainly is
to be admired for his prowess, liis
positiveness and his individuality.
He stands upon his own bottom; he
grants no quatter and he asks no
favor. He fights his way from the
bottom to the top and no defeat is
is too groat or disastrous for him
to turn into a victory.
The Southern white man and his
womanhood represents a standard
of excellence which is worthy of
emulation by the world. It has
reached and stands at the acme of
the world’s civilization and no
race of people can do better than
to pattern his ideals and standards.
FOR SALE. A few bushels of
best Upland cotton seed suitable
for planting. L. L. Sutton.
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
The marriage of Mr. A. J. Her
rin, of Brunswick, and Miss Flor
ence Henderson took place at the
home of the bride at Manor Tues
day afternoon. They left on the
evening train for their future
home at Brunswick.
The law requires parties engaged
in the following business and pro
fessions to register in the Ordin
ary’s office: Artists; auctioneers;
bicycle agents; billard or pool
tables; cigarette dealers; futures
dealers; games; flying horses, alleys,
-stands, etc.; pawnbrokers; peddlers
—all kinds, shows and circuses;
specialists; itinerant doctors, den
tists, etc. If you have not done
•-o, you would do well to look after
t he matter.
The Atkinson county friends of
Miss Delilah Purvis will be sur
prised to learn that she has for
saken pedagogy and tied her future
(o journalism, now being an at
tach ee of the Wheeler County
Eagle. In a letter she says: “It is
gratifying to know that the public
is more easily pleased in a news
paper than it is in school teaching.”
Well, perhaps, but there may come
a rude awakening later. No voca
tion is a bed of roses if earnestly
pursued.
Capt. Walter Gray, who raised
a company of Engineers at Way
cross for service in the world war,
and is well known to several
young men of Atkinson county
who joined his company, having
been regularly and honorably dis
charged from military service, has
accepted employment with the
government as a civil engineer and
located near Greenville, S. C.
His mother, Mrs, Geo. W. Gray,
left Waycross Monday night for
Greenville for several months stay
with him, her half-sister at Spar
tanburg, S. O. and her son and
daughter at Asheville, N. C. Mrs.
Gray is well known in Atkinson
county, having lived many years
at Leliaton.
Feed Out Your Hogs Six
Weeks Earlier
I n every lot of hogs on feed two
ov three weeks quickly and actu
ally cat less than others. If all
would fatten like these, the extra
drove would be ready for market
six weeks earlier and to save six
weeks feed is an item that you
fully understand.
Tho hog that fattens easily must
be in prime physical condition.
The IS. A. Thomas’ Hog Powder is
a conditioner for hogs. It keeps
their system clean and healthy
and enables them to fatten quickly
without falling a prey to the usual
diseases of hogs. The B. A. Thom
as’ Hog Powder is not stock food.
It’s straight medicine and we took
the agency because it enables you
to feed out your hogs much earlier.
Sold by Peakkqn Hardware
Stoke, Pearson, Ga.
MILK
Time is here. We have a full line of buckets,
pans, Dazey churns, butter moulds etc.
Flies and Mosquitoes
Can be avoided if you screen your house. We
have the WIRE.
Farm Hardware and Furniture.
PARKER HARDWARE & FURNITURE COMPANY
Hardware, Furniture, Paints, Farm Tools Etc.
“A Good Store”
MAXCIL BUILDING -O- PEARSON, GA.
# LOO A YEAR
Wilt Resistant Tomato Seed
Through the courtesy of plant
breeders in various sections of the
l nited States, the Georgia Experi
ment Station has obtained samples
of wilt resistant tomato seed to
test in this State in comparison
with strains developed by the
Georgia Station.
To enlarge these tests and to ob
tain as much data as possible this
season, it has been decided to dis
tribute small lots of wilt resistant
seed to people who have trouble in
growing tomatoes because of wilt.
It is expected that each person
who receives such seed will plant
them according to the following
direction^:
Plant the wilt resistant variety,
and on the same day plant at least
one commercial variety that is to
be used as a standard of compari
son. Give them all uniform con
ditions of light, heat, water, space,
and fertility, so that the plants
will obtain an equal start and re
main the same size until trans
planted.
When the weather is favorable,
set plants of flic wilt resistant
variety, and the commercial
variety, side by side in wilt infest
ed soil. Set all tlie plants on tho
same day, and keep them separat -
ed, yet close enough together to
obtain similar conditions of growth.
If plants of the commercial
variety, or the wilt resistant varie
ty begin to wilt, after being set in
tho wilt infested soil, dig up a few
plants and send them to the Plant
Pathologist, Georgia Expersment
Station, Experiment, Georgia, for
identification of the disease.
Frank tags for free shipment of
such specimens will be sent out
with each lot of seed.
Towards the end of the season
send to the Georgia Experiment
Station a report as follows:
Name of commercial variety
planted in comparison with the
wilt resistant variety.
Date of planting seed.
Date of setting the plants in tho
field.
Was the land infested with tho
wilt fungous?
Did auy plants of the commer
cial variety die?
How did the wilt resistant
variety compare with the commer
cial variety as regards yield of
fruit?
Those who wish to eo operate in
these wilt resistant tomato tests
should write to the Plant Patho
logist, Georgia Experiment Station,
who will furnish seed as long as
the limited supply lasts.
WANTED!
Will pay 50e. each for ten young
hens; 20c. a pound for good coun
try lard; best price six good heal
thy Piney Woods Rooter, Guinea
or Big Bone Guinea sows.
Write me at once.
Dk. Bi.itch, Brookfield, Ga.