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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1919)
PEARSON®TRIBUNE Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. VOL. S—NO. 2 SOUTH GEORGIA. New* of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs The name of the Candler county farm demonstrator is “Prance,” and they say he can prance all over the county quicker than the quickest of them. The latest from Dr. J. X. Isler says he is improving rapidly and will soon be able to return to his home at Meigs. His assailant. Goldberg, is still in jail. Berrien county has seventy seven Confederate pensioners, all receiving SBO each except two. The total amount of pension money paid out in Berrien county is $6, 900. Brooks county commisioners have called an election for June 18th to authorize a bond issue of $500,000 for the building of per manent roads and bridges in the county. The Camden county cominis sioners are seeking the co-opera tion of Nassau county, Fla., auth orities in the building of a toll bridge over St. Marys river at Wild’s landing. The city council have passed an ordinance barring hogs out of Val dosta, whether in pens or other wise; they must go to the wild woods. But what about the tw ro legged hogs? They should also be barred. An application is pending in Dougherty county superior court for a charter for the “Albany- South Georgia Fair Association.” It is to be capitalized at $35,- 000, with the privilege of inereas ing to SIOO,OOO. Mr. Elbert Tillman, living in Cook county west of Adel, had the misfortune to lose his barn and contents by fire one day last week. The contents consisted of 175 bushels of corn, a lot of fodder and a number of farm implements. Tifton has been selectod as an airplane lauding station and will be on the line of the New York Havana aerial mail service. It is calculated that only an hour and a half will be required to sail from Atlanta to Tifton. That will be some speed. The Georgian reports that all the fst. Marys shrimp canning factories have sold out their stock on hand and this clears the way for a re sumption of shrimp canning in the fall. Great Britain’s embargo on American canned goods iuterferred with the packing industry last season. The Charlton . County Herald, speaking of the success of the good roads rally at Folkston on the 3rd instant, says it “was a perfect ending of a perfect day.” The re sult was that Charlton over-sub scribed her quota of Victory Bonds and voted bonds for the Dixie Highway. Representative Burkhalter of Clinch county has given notice that be will introduce and urge the passage of the following Bills at the coming session of the legis lature: To repeal the act creating a Board of County Commissioners for Clinch county, and to incor porate the Crisp school district. A man by the name of Tucker shot and seriously wounded his wife, Maude Tucker, on the train last Saturday morning when they were bound from Nieholls to Bruns wick. The shooting took place just before the train reached Ses soms. Tucker immediately jumped from the moving train and escaped. Three shots were fired, one taking effect in the forehead, one in the right breast and one in the leg. Mrs. Tucker was carried to Alma for surgical treatment and later to the hospital in Waycross. Important Industries Waycross has within the past year installed two industrial eu terprises which should mean much to her contiguous territory. One of these industries is that of the Georgia Preserving Com pany. This company proposes to do a general canning and preserv ing business, and to take care of all the fruits, berries and vegeta bles they can get from the grow ers living in reach of the plant and put them in marketable shape. They are now installing a pickling plant of twenty-one tank capacity, which will care for a large quanti ty of cucumbers and other materi al that can be used for pickles. This plant should arouse the peo ple on the subject of furnishing them with all material they can use in the plant. Truck growing should receive a hearty boost from this industry. The other enterprise is that of Mr. J. J. Wilder, known as the “Bee King.” lie has an extensive manufacturing plant, on Albany avenue, where he manufactures all kinds of apiary accessories. He is also now shipping his harvest of honey from all of his apiaries, loca ted in different parts of this sec tion. He ships many thousands of pounds of honey every year. His plant at Waycross should be the means of encouraging our people to give attention to the honey indus try. Mr. Wilder is emphatic in saying that the supply of honey does not near meet the demand, and that splendid prices are assur ed. All shipments are sent to Waycross where they are properly repacked. He would no doubt pack and ship all honey furnished from other apiaries than his own if the bees and hives are given proper attention. Death of Stephen F. Miller. At the opening of Ware superior court, on the first Monday instant, Mr. S. F. Miller was present and sworn in as a special officer for the term. He was looking well and assured his friends that he was feeling better than for years. He continued in attendance upon the court until Thursday evening. He went home on the evening train as was his daily custom. Arriving at home bo went to the barn to see after his stock; he was stricken while at the barn and died in a few minutes after being removed to his home, near Mill wood. Mr. Miller was 68 years old and well known, he having filled many official positions in the county, among them those of Tax assessor, Sheriff and Representative in the legislature. The survivors of his immediate family are his wife and five child ren, three daughters and two sons, all of Millwood. He was buried Sunday morning in the Walden cemetery, near Millwood, Rev. J. D. Harden of Waresboro conducting the services. MARKETING HOGS beats burying them. Steve Hoov er, Mt. Pleasant, lowa, writes, “Commenced feeding my herd of about 100 hogs B. A. Thomas’s Hog Powder over tw r o 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* Harp wake Store, Pearson, Ga. Cook county is preparing for a county fair this fall. Her people are wide awake to their own inter est. There is nothing like keep ing your city and county before the public and on the map. Mr. J. A. Jones, of Waycross, an nounces the engagement of his daughter, Gertrude, to Mr. Lewis Laidler Harvard. Miss Jones is a graduate of Piedmont Institute and much esteemed in this section. PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY 10, 1919 MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO. Rapid Increase in Number of Newspapers After 1868. When the political clouds began to roll back upon decent govern ment, in 1868, rural newspapers began to spring up in the several counties. Among the first to be establish ed was the Quitman Banner, early in 1868, by Carey W. Styles. His printer-foreman was Fred R. Fildes, and he was assisted by his son Chas. L. Fildes. Capt. Evan P, Howell had ref ugeed to Quitman from Sanders ville during the war. This ac counts for Clark Howell attending school in Quitman. To Capt. Howell was confided Col. Styles' ambition to found a daily morning paper in Atlanta. In forwarding his morning daily enterprise Col. Styles sold the Quitman Banner to Mr. Fildes who conducted the paper for a number of years. It was the law under carpet-bag and scalawag rule that all laws enacted by the legislature had to be put in force by gubernatorial proclamation and published four times. By some “hook or crook” this patronage went to the Quitman Banner for the old second congressional dis trict. It was an exceedingly “fat tako” or in other parlance —a “dead pick up of a bunch of money. It was paid for at high prices, and Mr. Fildes was not long in secur ing the wherewithal to pay for the Banner. This patronage lasted about a year but proved to be a “bitter apple” in the end for Mr. Fildes. He lost caste with his people, who looked upon the acceptance of (his patronage by Mr. Fildes as tanta mount to an alignment wiLh the Republican party. The people of Quitman and Brooks county refused to support the Banner, and it resulted in the moving of the outfit to Monticello, Fla., and the publication of the “The Weekly Constitution,” by Fildes & Son. Col. Styles and (’apt. Howell be gan the publication of “The At lanta Constitution” in the summer of 1868, a half century ago. It had a checkered career. Scarcity of money was the cause of many troubles; made it an exceedingly “up hill" business and hard travel ing, but these two ex-confederate soldiers never faltered in making the necessary sacrifice to keep their bantling above the waves of adversity. In the midst of their struggle Capt. W. A. Hemphill, a young business man who had inherited some money, was induced to cast his lot with them. He was soon followed by Capt. H. H. Cabiniss, a gentleman of large connections and influence. Col. Styles died before seeing his project well on its feet. Capts. Howell, Hemphill and Cabaniss had a hard struggle but as radical ism drifted away from Georgia the Constitution began to gather strength and its sailing became easier. In its struggle for existence the Constitution solicited and became the official newspaper of several South Georgia counties, among them Berrien, Irwin and Coffee. It was conceived to be, in those days, the aesthetic thing to have the legal notices of a county published at the State Capital. However, this aestheticism soon passed away and became only a memory. The aesthetics are well known. Henry M. Mclntosh, now of the Albany Herald, obtained a know ledge of the newspaper business, mechanical and otherwise, in the office of the Quitman Banner, and when he learned that it was to be discontinued and moved he took the matter up with some of the The Old and the New. From the Savannah Press. To-day, Memorial Day, we cele brate the memory of those who half a contury ago offered up their lives on the altar of patriotism, just as our boys now coming back from the front have offered theirs. These men of the past genera tion knew nothing of liquid fire or of poison gas. Their rest behind the lines (whenever they got be hind the lines) was not broken by aeroplane raids nor by long dis tance bombardments. But they did know what cooties were. They were intimately ac quainted with mud and filth, and they were not without experience of hunger and forced marches— with exhaustion —with lack of sleep—with suffering and with death. They knew many things that the soldier of recent times does not know. They knew gangrene. They sat and watched their own arm and legs rot away and be eat en off by maggots, as soon as they were put out of action by a wound that would now be considered tri vial. They died like flies and it was not even given to them to un derstand why they died. But they knew why they went forth to risk death. Probably never before, nor since, were ever an equal body of men actuated by a more sublime purpose or a more exalted patriotism nor more deter mined to accomplish that purpose at any cost in life or sacrifice. And when the war was done they came back —not as our boys are coming now —not with cheeks puffed with good feeding and ruddy with the flush of victory. They came back wan and worn and sal low and emaciated. They came not home to the storehouse of the world’s food, but to a land wasted and torn by the ravages of war. Their dwellings were burned, their fields were laid waste, their cattle were slaughtered, their possessions were gone. These men of the passing gener ation had an awful burden to bear —a fearful work to do. How they bore that burden and did that work the record shows. We need not say. As our boys come home to-day we wave our hats and shout to do them honor —and it is well that wp should, Rut when that thin line of gray beard passes before us this afternoon and we see them somewhat vaguely through tear dimmed eyes and doff our hats reverently in salutation to a gener ation of heroes that soon will be no more —then we realize whence came the courage and patriotism that has so splendidly illustrated our Nation on the bloody fields of France. And even as the problems of re construction were met and con quered by these old men so will the problems of today be met and conquered by the young. leading citizens, Maj. A. P. Per ham, the Ordinary of Brooks coun ty, among the number. He was furnished the money with which he began the publication of the "Quitman Reporter.” For some reason, not now remembered, about a year after the Reporter was started, a disaffection arose among the owners. It lead to the taking over of the plant by Judge Joseph Tillman. The other parties, head ed by Mclntosh and Perham, be gan the publication of the present “Quitman Free Press,” and they succeeded in driving the Reporter out of the field. Pasturing crops for hogs should be sown on especially well-drained and prepaied land that is either rich or has received a libberal ap plication of manure. Good winter pasture is not obtained except on the best-drained land. ‘OVER THE TOP.’ Should Be the Watchword of Pearson Circuit Methodists. “Over the Top!” A common statement, yet one that has meant much during the last year of the great war. It was spoken in battle, it was printed in the paper; many heeded it gladly, many read it with inter est. In the trenches our noble sons said “Over the Top." The first Liberty Loan said “Over the Top"; the second Liberty Loan said “Over the Top"; the third Liberty Loan said "Over the Top”; the fourth Liberty Loan said "Over the Top”; ann the fifth Lib erty (Victory) Loan has gone over the top. Our boys fighting for such noble principles wouldn’t say otherwise. Our citizens, standing back of our great President, couldn’t say other wise and be loyal and patriotic to the cause our Nation represented. “Over the Top!” What did it mean? 11 meant the enemy was driven back on the battle-field; it meant that large sums of money was raised to sustain our govern ment while in the awful conflict; it meant the freedom of our grand Republic from the rule of the Kaiser of Germany, and the over throw of Autocracy and Prussian ism with their malignant devices. Thank God for the victory! Again we hear on every side “Over the Top.” From whence does it come? Is it from the bat tle fields of France? No. Is it from the noble and patriotic Sons of America? No. Whence does it come? Listen. It is the great cry of the Mighty Church of God. Jesus Christ came to this world, suffered, bled and died in order that His church might “Go over the Top” of line and drive back the mighty forces of sin and satan, putting down evil of all sorts, and saving millions of souls who, other wise, won Id have been lost, eternal ly lost. Christ said “go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every Creature.” A command to His church toevangelize the world; but, oh how slow we were to get the vision. Nineteen hundred years have passed and we have done but little toward this great work. Again, the Master says: “Ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession.” Many of us haven’t as much as asked. Why? Becaase we are not inter ested, and it may cost us a little time and money to comply with the request, We, as the Southern Methodist Church, have finally caught the real meaning of the Master’s com maud to evangelize the world. The Centenary says $35,000,000 for Home and Foreign work within the bounds of our Church. Have they asked too much? Nay, verily, this amount is not enough to meet the urgent demands of the Gospel. The foreign lands called for our money, they called for our boys. We gave them freely. They are now calling, as never before, for our religion. Shall we give it to them? or are we going to stand back with our ears, eyes and pock et books shut against the great command of Our Lord? Some folks are so intoxicated will money and property, that they are afraid to attend church for fear the preacher will preach on MONEY. The Centenary says “Over the Top!” What do yon say? Every member of the Methodist Church will be personally solicited for a five year subscription for this worthy movement;so much a week, month or year. What are you go ing to do about it? The waiter asked one man what his tobacco cost him. Ho frankly replied seventy cents per week, $3 per month or $36 per year. An other was asked what his cold drink bill was. He calmly replied fifteen cents a day, $4.50 per month, SSO per year. You pay $36 per year for tobacco, SSO per year for cold drinks. What for the spread of the Gospel? The committee will ask you for a definite amount. Will you give more or will you give less? Answer this prayerfully “Over the Top?” Yes, let us not be slackers in God’s kingdom. It is $4,500 for the Pearson Circuit; what will be your part? Prayerfully, W. C. Rahn. SI.OO A YEAR Timely Poultry Notes. Market white-shelled and brow n shelled eggs in separate packages. Uniform products command the best prices. Never market small or dirty eggs. Provide a box partly filled with road dust or wood ashes so as to give the hens an opportunity to take a dust bath. It gives them needed exercise and keeps them free from lice and mites. Do not forget to look over the young chicks from time to time for lice and mites. Hot weather is the paradise for lice and mites. So be oareful, be sure and don’t be sorry. Look out for lice. Do not overlook the fact that the chicks must have shade. If there is no natural shade for them to stay under during the heated part of the day, be sure to provide sufficient for their needs. Purebred poultry means uni formity of products. Uniformity of products means increased profits if they are properly marketed. Given the same care and feed,pure bred fowls will make a better pro fit than mongrels. The free use of an effective lice powder is always in order. A dust bath is very essential in ridding the fowls of lice. Whitewashing is effective against vermin. Use kerosene on the roosts and in the cracks to exterminate the lice. The hen’s greatest profit-produc ing period is the first and second years, and unless a hen is an espe cially good breeder she should be disposed of at the end of her sec ond laying season and before start ing to molt. One of the most important fac tors in keeping young chicks grow ing is good, clean, fresh water in vessels. As the days get warmer care should be taken to change the water as often as required to keep it clean and fresh. Avoid overcrowding growing chicks. A coop, brooder or colony house that was large enough to hold the baby chicks is not large enough after two or more months, depending much on the breed and growth. It is absolutely necessa ry that growing chicks have plen ty of room to grow. Dog Laws Needed. Wool and mutton are command ing higher prices than ever before and supplies of wool are being de pleted so rapidly that it will take some time after peace is declared to restock the wool trade. The United States is experienc ing the greatest shortage of mut ton and wool in the history of the country. It is the duty of the American farmer to increase the supply. The sheep-killing dog constitutes one of the menaces to the success of the sheep industry. The dog not only kills sheep but keeps out of the sheep business men who are otherwise inclined to go into it. The most effective method of dealing with the sheep-killing dog is through efficient legislation. Notable progress has been made by several States in enacting good dog laws, and others are expected to take similar action. No law, however well worded it may be, can be effective unless it is enforced and has the moral sup port of the people who are affected by it. Uniform State dog laws are de sirable. A law that authorizes the killing of every dog found roaming about the woods would be a good one for Atkinson county, and W'ould meet the moral approbation of all the people of this entire section.
