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VOL. 3—NO. 1
SOOTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told
in Pointed Paragraphs
Met tor is rejoicing over a “sure
to goodness” . Chamber of Coin
meree, which has just been organ
i/.ed in that oily.
Ware superior court for the
trial of civil business has been in
in session this week, and it lias
been a busy one.
Permanent road enthusiasts in
Berrien county are making a strong
fight for paving her leading roads.
The election will be lield on May
14th.
The Methodist district confer
ce, Curdele district, was held in
Oo.illa on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week. It was
a harmonious meeting.
Will Irwin, the negro who killed
Jack Walker during a quarrel on
Billy's Island, in the great Okefi
nokee Swamp, has been captured
and will be tried at the fall term
of Charlton superior court.
Albany and Dougherty county
went over the top in a fourteen
minute drive in her Victory loan
campaign. They did well, but
Fort Dailies and Clay county went
over in niue minutes less time.
The long delayed payment of the
purchase price for the site of the
l’ierie Acid plant ended last week.
Owners of the several tracts of
land purchased for the plant are
now happy in the possession of the
purchase price.
Folkston had a gala day Sat to
day. Victory Loan, permanent
roads, speech-making, barbecue
and baseball occupied the centre
of the stage. O-00-hell-o was there
to demonstrate how the war in
Europe was won.
A negro, .lot West, who commit
ted a criminal assault on a white
woman near .W igs, was tried and
convicted in Thomas superior court
and sentenced to be hanged on
May 10 in the Thomas county jail.
There will be no effort to interfere
with the sentence.
The tolls of t lie new Satilla river
bridge al Woodbine were more
than S9OO for the first twenty days
of ils .operation. Camden county
j.~ so well pleased that she w ill hold
an election to authorize a bond
issue to build and equip a similar
bridge across the Si. Marys river.
An army of frogs was encounter
ed in Lowndes county by Mr. P.
W. <lriflis a few days ago when go
ing from Hutchinson’s mill to bis
home near Cecil. It covered a
space twenty feet wide by one
hundred yards long. Mr. Griffis
drove his hoise and buggy through
them and killing many froggies.
Three boys—Willard. Leroy and
Earl, sons of John Watson —aged
respect vely 13, 11 and C years,
were burned to death in a barn
m-ar Troupville, Lowndes county,
last Friday night. The boys were
shelling corn to lx l carried to mill,
when the youngest struck a match,
saying “I am going to burn you all
up.” A dust explosion followed
and the barn immediately filled
with flames and escape was impos
sible.
The Georgian says that, now
that the English embargo on
American canned goods has bepn
lifted, the St. Marys shrimp can
ning factories, three in number,
will resume a long wished for acti
vity. They have been shut down
since the embargo went into effect
in February. The Camden Can
ning Company announces the re
cei pt of an order for 2050 eases to
be shipped to Liverpool. St Marys
is glad; it will put a pile of money
into circulation.
Douglas Council Replies.
The Tribune having given pub
licity to the editorial criticisms of
the Coffee County Progress relative
to law enforcement in Douglas and
Coffee county, the general t rend of
which was true and timely, now
gives space to the reply of the
Douglas mayor and council, who
have taken umbrage at some parts
of the editorial. The Tribune pub
lished the editorial because of its
general applicability to the prohi
bition situation:
“In the outset let it be said that
the editorial in the Coffee County
Progress last week was timely and
touches a vital subject that re
quires the best thought and action
of the better element of people of
this good town and county. In
his implications tin* editor is en
tirely wrong and unjust toward
the officials of the city of Douglas
when he says that ‘the city is
growing wealthy from the funds
derived from the police court.’
"Another inference to be gained
from (he writer of last week’s arti
cle is that an honest effort to en
force the prohibition law- is not be
ing made by the city officials. A
fact to remember: Violators of
the law brought before the mayor
are given fines in excess of those
imposed by the state court when
hound over.
“With no effort upon the part
of the state and county officials to
enforce the law we see little that
we can do toward stopping the sale
of contraband whiskey. Our duty
clearly is to protect the people of
the city of Douglas, and in this
undertaking we hope that we are
succeeding to the satisfaction of
the entire public. If pot, it is not
for the lack of effort that is wrong.
We cannot prevent the bootlegger
from peddling liis wares in Douglas
at all times, but we can place a
penalty on drunkeggess and wheth
er it pleases one or not a prqnpr
sentence will be imposed on every
ease of this kind as well as any
oilier \ ;ol;iI ion of ;i ei ly ordinance.
"As ihc delegated authority to
handle the city's affairs we aro do
ing this to the best of our know!
enge and ability and, were it in
our power, we would forever elimi
nate the cursed condition that ex
ists and which js causing more
harm than anything within opr
borders.
"A point for the writer of last
week —find your duty before you
undertake a job. The remedy js
the men higher up.”
Respect fully,
MA VOK AM) (’OUM'IL
of the City oi Douglas.
FOR SALE.
One five passenger h’oj-il Cftr, fpj
sale. Price *235.00.
W. C. Pa irx,
Pearson, Ga.
Presenting Credentials.
VfcitßAJiJ.fiH, May 1. — In a sps.-
sion beginning at 3:10 o’clock this
afternoon, and lasting barely five
minutes, the German plenipoten
tiaries of the peace congress pre
sented their credentials,
i t was the first step in the peace
negotiations. The German creden
tials were presented to representa
tives of tiie allies and the United
States.
Pale and almost fainting from
emotion, Count von Brockdorff-
Rantzau, the German foreign sec
retary and jmad pf Ffie delegation,
passed through what evidently
was one of the bitterest moments
of his life. He was barely able to
sustain himself through the brief
ceremony and reach the waiting
automobile which had brought him
to the gathering.
The meeting took place in the
room of the Trianon Hotel previ
ously used for the sessions of the
supreme military council.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PBABSOX, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY }♦, 1919
MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO.
Some Early South Georgia News
papers and Their Editors.
Perhaps the first newspaper to
be established in South Georgia
after the close of the civil war was
“The South Georgian Times,” at
Valdosta.
Maj. Philip C. Pendleton was
the moving spirit of the enterprise,
but it was financed by a wealthy
planter, Mr. Chas. Howell. The
first issue appeared in March, 1807.
Its size was four G column pages.
Maj. Pendleton assumed the
editorship. He was an experienc
ed journalist, both in newspaper
and magazine work. A gentleman
by the name of Barnes was the
first foreman of the mechanical de
partment. He was assisted by
Philip C. Pendleton, Jr., and (’has.
K, Pendleton. The press work
was done on a "Washington hand
press and Benjamin Franklin, a
colored man, was the pressman.
It was the only newspaper be
tween Thomasviile and Savannah,
and enjoyed a tremendous legal
patronage from the counties of
Southeast Georgia. At one time
it carried the legal notices of
Brooks, Echols, Lowndes, Berrien,
Irwin, Coffee, Clinch, Charlton.
Camden, Glynn, Wayne, Pierce
and Appling counties.
The circulation of the paper
through these counties grew until
the business required a book keeper
and uigij pj.erjc. and, by permission
of my father, t was installed In
Ibis place in the early summer of
1808.
Mr. Barnes had resigned the
foremanship of the mechanical de
partment and had been succeeded
by Mr. Fuller ,T. Wind, now of the
Cairo Messenger.
The paper ej)f) ! ei.cho{j jlself
strongly in tpe affecljpps pf the
people of its large territory and
many, descendents of ils okl
friends, still think it the newspaper
of South Georglp. 'they haveread
it from their youths up to man
hood and womanhood. It lias al
ways been a power for good.
Maj. Pendleton, in the fail of
1869, was Uje victim qf a runaway
horse. The horse shied lo one side
of the road, throwing him out of
his buggy and his head striking a
stump caused concussion of flje
brain. )|e lingered pnly a fen
days before death relieved him of
Ids suffering.
Philip C. Pendleton, Jr., suc
ceeded to', the editorship, and was
laying tpe fppndfitipp of a hught
future as a journalist when, in the
summer Of 1871, he fell a victim to
typhoid fever.
That year an epidemic of typhoid
fever swept Valdosta and number
ed among its victims some pf Hie
llj.'igfHpS*' ftfld fftpsfc pronbapig
young people of the Ipwu, among
them Philip C. Pendleton, Jr., the
editor pf the Times, Thomas W.
Young, son of Kernel- Young gifi! a
brother pf th() late .loiip U. V-oung,
Who hgd iust graduated from the
State college at Athens, and Miss
Kosa B. Folks, the only daughter
of |)r. and Mrs. W. B. Folks, who
was ju-st blHshmg into young
womanhood,
Upon the death of Philip C.
Pendieton, Jr., the editorship was
assumed for a short period by Dr.
Wm. F. Pendleton, who had just
graduated in medicine and opened
an office in Savannah. He remain
ed with the paper only three or
four months, fie w-gs guccedpd by
dapips A. Pendleton, a young law
yer, but he quit after a few months
because of iff health, and was sac
ceded by Chas, p. Pendleton, and
it was during his control that the
name wax changed to “The Valdos
ta Times.” It was lie who organiz
ed the present stock company that
owns and gives direction to this
splendid newspaper.
During all these years the Pen
dleton family have been dominant
The Educational Convention.
That was a great convention
held in Macon on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of last week.
The entire educational interests of
tlie great Slate of Georgia was
there, taxing the capacity of the
city's largest auditorium to house
it. It was before this tremendous
assemblage of superintendents,
teachers and school officials of
every degree, that Prof. Sankey
Booth, school superintendent of
Atkinson county, gave a demon
stration of his method of teaching
the primary and intermediate
grades, using his 7-year old sou,
( ceil, for the demonstration. He
was given three minutes in which
to make his demonstration, but it
became so interesting the time
keeper forgot to count the time on
him and the three minutes had
lengthened into ten or more.
Speaking of this feature of the
convention the Telegraph, Macon’s
morning paper, uud this to say:
“A feature of special interest at
the meeting of the county School
officials Friday afternoou was the
demonstration of a now' method of
teaching. The results of this
method were shown in the woud
erftil ability of a child to spell and
work any problem in arithmetic.
Cecil Booth, the 7-year-old son of
Mr. Sankey Booth, school superin
tendent of Atkinson county, spell
ed rapidly and correctly along Ijst
ol words, many of wfoM adhH*
lipd djlticujty ip spelling,
“Mr. Booth stated that this uu
usual ability was the result of a
very simple and direct method of
teaching that could be employed
with high school, grammar and
primary pupils. There is no
mechanical problem in Up* scltQOf
ipilliijicfic {iti}t ffpt year-old
child gap pqt wd'k with the ex
ception of problems in square and
cube root.”
"The thing I wish to stipes*!,”
aid Mr. Boofli. fp piaklqg hfs re
port- fpr Atkinsqg cqunly, "is that
this child is not any different from
any other child. He is just a nor
mal playful boy of seven YPftr* of
V.'hut ho has feayueef to do,
;mv otlicr bqy or girf qf his pge can
be taught fo do.”
The credit for his annual ability
is due to the method, Though pi
the tilth grade aqd appayentfy a
prodigy the child fs siptpJy the re
spit of a new system of teaching
which My. Booth ha,s qffeyed to
give in detail to qny teacher who
is interested and iyi(l a,pp>y fq hrpi
for inforip.vtioq
Expressions of Gratitude.
An Associated Press dispatch
from A thens, Greece, dated y\mql
27th, states that Pptpr,of
Serbia vvhq |fv.fug quietly alone
in i\ -little suburban rptrcqt over
looking the Bay qf Ppaegs, sf*
miles from here, expended thtOWgh
t lie v AssoetaU-d Vwm today the
■ prqfquqd gvatitqde of the Serbian
nation fog t he t 'hvtstpui charily of
the Amerfern people so marvelous
ly organized by the Red Cross.”
The venerable monarch, who,
will he 75 years old itt dune-, spoke
with great feeling of the assistance
given by Americans the population
of Serbia and to tens of thousands
of refugees, repatriated prisoners
and wounded soldiers who since
the armistice have poured into fhp
country over every Shd fflWt'
tain pass,
• the sniffes which the Ameyicau
Bed (Toss has brought tC the face*
of my people,” he said, "aro the
best expvessiwk of gratitude I can
give the American nation for those
smiles are but the reflections of
hearts and souls touched by the
kindness and charity of a greater
people,”
in giving character and’ prominence
to this newspaper. Every member
of P. C. Pendleton’s family living
own stock in the corporation.
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
Elder G. Tom West preached for
the Homerville Baptists last Sun
day, morning and evening, to large
and attentive congregations.
There have been general rains
throughout Atkinson county dur
ing the week, and the hearts of the
farmers made exceedingly glad.
The Peterson saw-mill at Kirk
land is a great convenience to the
people who need a little lumber.
He should eater solely to local de
mands.
School teachers are out for some
tiling to do during the long vaca
tion. Miss Beulah Purvis, who
successfully taught the Pineview
school, has accepted a clerkship
with W. 11, Vaddelte, Pearson.
The lust issue of the Douglas
Enterprise says: “Dr. J. S. Morris
left Tuesday night for New York
to take a post graduate course in
medicine. While he is away, Mrs.
Morris and little son, Ashley, will
visit relatives in Pearson.”
Pension commissioner, J. W.
Lindsey, has written the Tribune
man and requested him to call the
attention of the people to the Pen
sion Act of 1918, and insist upon
all ex-Confederqta soldiers and the
widows pf sqch soldiers, who will
he entitled to pension under the
new law to ho sure to file their ap-
plications at an early date, not lat
er than September Ist.
Ex-editor Fred J. Ricketson has
returned to his old haunts, diyid
ing liis time between Dangips and
Pearson. He wqs fn Pearson last
Friday afternoon. lie said he
was busy loagng, and the Tribune
man dares not say whether he was
seeking a job or iqcu'e congenial
companionship. At auy rate he
lias the 'tribune’s best wishes for a
long and successful life.
Is there a returned soldier or
sailor p> At k bison county, who
was honorably discharged and sent
home without a $(»() bounty? If
there are any .such, they should
notify Ml. p. R. Mc-Ncai, chairman
ttf the Atkinson county chapter of
the American Red Gross, so he can
investigate and report your ease to
the proper authorities. Such sol
diers and sailors arc entitled to
this bounty, besides an addi
tional sum for mileage and they
might as well make an effort to
get it.
The Tribune is informed that
Berrien county authorities have
grqded a now public road, in a
direct fine from Nashville to Pear
son, as far as the Alapaha, and now
offers to, build a bridge across the
river and wait on Atkinsoifcounty
for her preportion of the cost.
The proposition would be liberal
and worth considering if the bridge
is to be built of permanent materi
al, but the Tribune would not be
in favor of Atkinson county’s
money being spent on a temporary
structure. This is a day for build
ing permanent roads and bridges.
Miss Mattie, daughter of I). W.
Vickers of near ltouglas, who mys
teriously disappeared from her
parents’ home some two years ago,
qaqsing much comment and anxie
ty, hut afterwards located in At
lanta by Judge W. C. Lankford
and placed in the Woodbury school,
was married last week in Douglas
to Mr. W. P. Heilman, of booh-
Haven, Pa., who met her while at
the Woodbury school. The groom
was a soldier boy at Camp Gordon
at the time they first met each
other. He spent a year in France
as a sergeant of artillery and was
honorably discharged March Ist.
The marriage rite was performed
by Rev. B. E. Whittington. Their
home will V,r> ’-I^
SI.OO A YEAR
War Tank at Pearson.
Dr. Henry P. Smith, county
chairman for the Victory Loan
drive in Atkinson county, was
notified Thursday morning that
the Baby War Tank, “O-o-o-hell-o,”
would come to Pearson next day
(Friday) to assist in arousing en
thusiasm in the Loan drive. The
news was circulated as rapidly as
possible and committeemen from
all sections of the county to see
tlie War Tank and witness its dc"-
monstration.
The local freight train, bringing
the frightful war machine, did not
arrive until about 11:00 o’clock,
but it was quickly unloaded, under
its own motive power, and run up
under the shade of the big oak in
front of B. Kirkland, Jr’s., store.
Gol. Moore, of Atlanta, who was in
charge of the Tank, delivered a
neat and appropriate address,
standing on top of the machine,
after which a chance to buy bonds
was given and the committee dis
posed of several thousand dollars
worth in a few minutes.
Then the’crowd.was invited to go
to the woods for a demonstration
of the Tanks usefulness in clear
ing the way through forests, bram
ble and barbed wire entanglements
!for the infantry. It was taken to
the pine grove on a lot belonging
to Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkland —about
three blocks from the business sec
tion of the city. Some of the trees
were five to six inches in diameter,
but the Tank wont, through it re
gardless of the trees. If a tree was
in the way it was pushed down
with apparent ease —a cyclone
could not have done it more com
pletely.
It was, a marvel of wonder to
to all the people who had not seen
1 one of the monsters.
After the demonstration it was
put aboard the car under its own
power in a few minutes. It was
clumsy looking but it had the
"get there” to it.
MARKETING HOGS
beats burying them. Steve Hoov
er, ML Pleasant, lowa, writes,
“Commcced feeding my herd of
about 100 hogs B. A. Thomas’s
Hog Powder over two months ago.
Fifty were sick and off fed. Near
by herds bad cholera. I did not
lose one —they are well and grow
ing fast.” For sale by Pearson
Hardware Store, Pearson, Ga.
Three Days at Macon.
Prof. Sankey Booth, school super
intendent of Atkinson county, with
his little 7-year old son, Cecil, at
tended the convention of school
officials at Macon three days last
week.
Prof. Booth reports a most en
joyable time, there was not a dull
moment during the throe day’s
convention. The addresses were
all timely and practical, dealing
with every phase of human endeav
or, as well as our present day
problems.
The Victory Loan Drive was on
in good shape and there was present
various things in action to keep
the interest from flagging. Aero
planes were flitting about and do
ing all sorts of stunts in the air
above the city.
Prof. Booth reports seeing the
inauguration of a ten days aero
mail service between Macon and
Montgomery. This for the pur
pose of demonstrating the availi
bility of aii-ships to carry mail.
The airship was scheduled to leave
Macon at 10:00 a. in., but did not
leave until thirty minutes later.
It carried an immense tonnage of
mail.
Prof. Booth says Cecil became so
interested in what he was seeing,
hearing and learning that he did
not want to come home, at least
