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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1919)
PEARSON#TRIBUNE VOL. S—NO. 14 SOUTH GEORGIA. News of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs Statesboro, Bulloch county, and Sylvester, Worth county, have tied for the first bale of 1919 cot ton. Both were marketed August Ist. Boat master W. 11. Bennett, of Tifton, lias resigned. The salary was not commensurate with the work and responsibility. He gave satisfatorv service. * The case of the Slate vs. B. S. Brice, charged with embezzlement in Ware superior court, has been transferred to the Muscogee super ior court, at Columbus, <!a. Breparat ions for teacher's exam illations were made in Chatham county last Friday, but not a single applicant appeared. The teachers are getting better pay in other lines. Reports from all tobacco sections of South (ieorgia state that prices are grow ing more satisfactory and the outlook is now t hat altogether tobacco growing in South (ieorgia is not the failure expected two weeks ago. Bacon county was about to lose her Farm Demonstrator; the Alma Board of Trade got busy and will arrange sufficient funds to keep him. Every county should have not only a Demonstration agent but a veterinary surgeon as well. An extra session of Colquitt superior court has been called to try the case of the State vs A. W. Robinson charged with the murder of .1.11. Collier. The grand jury w ill have to be called together at the same time as the crime was com mitted only a few days ago and Robinson has not been indicted. The Enterprise' says that the Douglas street pa ving is to be com menced in about two or three weeks; that hogs and cattle are to be kept off the streets; that the government is advertising for bids for furnishing the materials to be used in t he building of the Baited States postoffice there. That's good news, enough for one week. Nashville is to pull off a 2 day Berrien county fair this fall. The premiums are to pe paid by the w ide awake business men of the city/ Mayor Luke and Editor Sweat are t he committee to arrange the* details. Nashville has a Board of Trade, and it is behind the pro ject and pushing it to success. There is nothing like a city having a live Board of Trade. One four hundred and ninety acre lot of land in Tift county has an unusually interesting history. It cost the original grantor from the State the sum of $5. He swap lied it for a sow and litter of pigs. It was again swapped for a flint and steel i i Ho. The original gran tor then acquired it at the cost of a home-made horse cart, ft was sold a few days since for enough money to buy a bunch of Fords. Lanier county will have two hundred and sixty-eight square miles of territory —taking one hun dred and fourteen from Clinch; fifty-five from Lowndes and ninety nine from Berrien counties. The population will be approximately five thousand, two hundred and sixty-two —taking two thousand, seven hundred and forty-one from Berrien; one thousand, five hun dred and fifty-nine from Clinch and nine hundred and sixty-two from Lowndes. It is believed the tax values will reach $2,000,000. The territory taken from Lowndes county is covered, in large part, by the famous Banks millpond, supposed to be the largest in the State of Georgia. Wust Have Colic. The Moultrie correspondent of the Savannah News writes his paper that the creation of the Ala paha judicial circuit leaves the Southern with only three counties. The density of this fellow,s ignor ance is without a parallel. The news editor who permitted the item to be printed should be fired for his credulity. The fact is the Act leaves the Southern judicial circuit live conn tics —Brqoks, Colquitt, Echols. Lowndes and Thomas —and should not have any more. Broperly handled Judge Thomas need not eat any idjc bread. The Act leaves in the Way cross circuit five counties—Bacon, Charlton, Coffee, l’ieree and Ware —enough for Judge Suinmcrall. He can earn his salary administer ing the law in these counties. After the next general election the Alapaha circuit, will have five counties —Atkinson. B e r r i e n , Clinch, Cook and Lanier —and it will give Judge Dickerson plenty to do. The Tribune lias no special in teres! in tin* matter but it is un able to see where the legislature has made such a grave error that there should be any shirt tearing over it. Wayne Chamber of Commerce The w ide awake business men and farmers of Jcsup and Wayne county arc moving in the matter of a County ('handier of Commerce, to be a branch of and affiliated with the State Chamber of Com inerce. In response to a call a large al tendance met at the court house in Jcsup and perfected an enthusias tic permanent organization. The call invited every citizen of Wayne county who believed in the future development of the county, and heartily in favor of good roads. The call stated this fact in different language: Theabundance of raw material abounding in South Georgia, and much that can be bad with small effort, are calling for small factories and manufacturing plants, and Wayne county should be in readiness to secure a share of them. Moultrie P. 0. Building Finished The postoffice building at: Moul trie, for which money was appro priated by Congress nearly seven years ago, in November, 1912, is now complete and the postoflice was transferred to it August, Ist. The history of the delay in com pleting this building is peculiarly a sail one. The contractor was a Mr. Richardson, of Bainbridge. He had the building well under construction when he was killed by a Bainbridge banker jit one of the offices of the bank. This pul a halt on the work for some time, but finally Richardson’s bondsmen came forward and completed the job, which has been accepted and occupied by the government. Paper Mill for Sale. The Southeast Georgian at St. marys says that the owners of the paper mill at that place have clos ed it down and is now offering it for sale. It is further stated that there are a number of prospective pur chasers, and one of them proposes to keep it intact alid operate it in St. Marys in the manufacture of a special grade of paper. However, the sale is to the highest bidder and this purchaser may not get it. The mill has been a satisfactory financial proposition. The tax values of Clinch county has decreased slightly because of the territory taken to create At kinson county. Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. BEAIISOX, (tEOUGIA, .FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919 ! MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO. Alapaha Judicial Circuit Creat ed During Reconstruction. The creation of the “Alapaha Judicial Circuit" by the present legislature recalls to the Tribune man's mind that it is not entirely a new idea. During the Recnstruction period many otherwise good men permit ted themselves to be carried into the Republican (Radical) camp, purely for the spoils of office. In the parlance of that day they were called "Scalawags." Following in this questionable policy subjected themselves and their families to social ostracism, and heaped upon their children an unenviable legacy. One of these was Col. John W. O'Neal, of Valdosta, a man of learn ing, a polished gentleman, and a lawyer of no mean ability, lie bad intermarried with a Miss Lane, from one of the first families of Lowndes county, and to them were born that I remember two daught ers and a son, bright and lovable. John W. O'Neal joined the Re publican party with the view of becoming the congressman from the second district, but the tre mendous negro vote of the western part, of the district elected Rich aid 11. Whiteley. This somewhat nonplused O'Neal, his ambition would not permit him to accept an inferor place, so he got busy in preparing a place for himself, lie aspired to the circuit judgeship, but the bench of the large .South ern circuit was occupied by Judge John R. Alexander,of Thomasville, an uncle of .1. Hooper Alexander, the present Foiled States District Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, by appointment of <iov. Rufus I!. Mullock. The idea dawned upon O’Neal that he could take two counties, Lowndes and Berrien, from the Southern circuit and two counties. Clinch and Echols, from the Brunswick circuit, and create a new circuit, and was the inception of tin' “Alapaha Judicial Circuit," of reconstruct ion times. The cir cuit was created by the legislature of 1870, and the bill carried wit h i I the appoint in cut s of Judge John \Y. O'Neal, Judge, and William 11. Dasher, as Solicitor General. Both lived in Valdosta. Dasher had been Solicitor-General of the old Brunswick circuit and, therefore, had some experience as a prosecut ing attorney. About the time of the passage of the Bill and tin- creation of his pet scheme, the “Alapaha Judicial Circuit,’’O’Neal was taken des- I perately ill, lingered a year or two and died, liis illness and death ! put an end to his Judicial circuit, without a session of court being held. The Republicans of the circuit could not muster a suitable man for judge, hence the legislature re pealed the Act creating it. Wil liam 11. Dasher then ran and was elected Ordinary of Lowndes county. X X X The creation by the present legislature of the county of “La nicr" also recalls to memory an effort, about the same time to cre ate a new county from practically the same territory. The old line extended some distance below Stockton into Echols county. This new county was to be named “Law,” in honor of Judge I,aw, of Savan nah, who had been law partner of John Mcßherson Berrien, after whom Berrien county was named. Milltown and Stockton became rivals for the county seat. Al ill town was the larger place of the two, in fact, was the most import ant trading point in ail this sec tion, and noted for theculture and refinement of her people. Stock ton’s greatest claim for being the county seat was that she was a The Peach Tree Borer. At the Georgia Experiment Station a test; has been made in the control of the Peach Tree Borer by the use of Asphaltum. Prev ious investigations, reported in Bulletin No, T;5, “'rite Peach Tree Borer,” of the Georgia Experiment Station, show that the adult moth of the Borer deposits its eggs at the base of the peach trees during the month of August and early September. Therefore the inten tions were to apply a coat of some protective repellent to the trees before the egg laying period so as to prevent the moths laying their eggs in the crevices of the bark at the base of the trees. On August the sth, the loose soil to the depth of approximately one and one-half inches, was scrap ed from around 35 four-year-old Elberta seedling peach trees. The base of each tree was given a coat ing of Asphaltum, the coat extend ing up the tree from eight to ten inches above the soil. Thirty live other trees, of the same kind and grown under the same conditions, were left untouch ed. On February lOf h and 11th, the trees of both plats were closely examined for borers with the fol lowing results: Bases of trees coated with Asphaltum: Of the 35 trees, only 2 had borers, and five borers were found in these. Bases of trees not coated with Asphaltum: <>f the 35 trees, 14 were not affected, but 21 had bor ers in them, 35 borers in all being found in these. it will be observed in the treat ed trees only two trees were affect ed with borers, weile in the trees not treated twenty-one trees were affected. The borers in the two trees t hat were treated had work ed into the trees beneath the coat ing of Asphaltum, which could have been prevented, possibly, by faking extreme care in applying t he asphalt uni. The treatment in noway injured the bark of the trees. In fact it, was beneficial to the vigor and general health to the extent that it largely prevented the attacks of the borers. 11. I*. Stucky, Director and Horticulturist. thriving village on the railroad, The tight between these rivals de feated the movement. X X X And while 1 am writing these facts of history I will recall that an effort was made in the 70s to create a new county in practically the same territory of the present Atkinson county, it was to be named “Nicholls,” after John C. Nicholls. then in life. It was a pet scheme of the Hon. Matthew Kirkland, who was then represent ing the Fifth senatorial district in the legislature. Mr. Kirkland was without experience as a legislator and never could rally sufficient strength in neither the Senate nor the House to get his measure en acted into law. X X X Both these new county proposi tions were meritorious then but the people at that time, torn with political rancor and hate, had no time to consider anything but to straighten out the kinks in the social and political life which the reconstruction period had brought upon them. Naval stores continue to rise in price. Spirits were quoted Mon day at 1.45. Rosins are maintain ing an equally high price. There seems to be every indications that these prices will continue for some time, if not permanently. The manufacturers are in the high mar ket for a season. ATKINSON COUNTY. Items of News Gathered from Various Sources. The Tribune is pleased lo say that none of the Atkinson county lands advertised to be sold to pay taxes to Coffee county, went on the block Tuesday. The leach will now quit sucking the blood of At kinson county. The Tribune regrets that any of Atkinson county’s young men arc seeking jobs elsewhere, but when they do go away from home the Tribune man rejoices when they find congenial and remunerative employment. Messrs. Clyatt and John James, sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter James, have accepted work in Miami, Fla., and say they are pleased with (he situation. Mr. Jerry M. Batten has sold h is splendid farm, eight miles north of the city, for $15,000 to a Mr. Doughit. This farm is one of the oldest and best farms in Atkinson county. It; owes its prestige as a farm largely to Mr. Batten’s push and knowledge of farming, and the building up of run down farms. Jerry is on the look out for an in vestment, will probably buy an other farm. Judge J. Wesley Roberts, Ordi nary of Atkinson county, has pur chased a tractor and other road machinery preparatory to making a “drive” to convert our extremely bad roads into good ones. The two army trucks which Atkinson county can get for the asking and transportation from point of ship ment, would prove of good service in the conflict. The Tribune in sists, however, that Atkinson county should have a responsible and experienced road builder at the head of her forces. Dr. Jeff Wilcox, of Willaeoochee, writing to the Tifton Gazette rela tive to the creation of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit, says: “This re minds me that the Legislature of 1870 created the Alapaha Judicial Circuit, and the Legislature of 1871 repealed it. J. W. O’Neal was judge. He was a resident of Thomasville, 1 think. 1 do not remember who was the Solicitor General, Perhaps Col. B. T. Allen, of the Pearson Tribune can answer that question.” The Tribune man’s answer will be found on this page under the heading, “Memories of the Long Ago.” Mr, Hiram L. Mullis and Miss Thelma Mills were quietly married last Sunday at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan iel Mills, near Axson. Rev. I). J. Pearson officiated. The bride is a most estimable young lady and beloved by all who know her. The groom is a splendid specimen of young manhood, thoroughly trust worthy. He has just returned home from service in the Ameri can Expeditionary Force in France with an honorable discharge. The Tribune tenders the young couple its best wishes for their happiness and success in life. “And after it is all over,” says the Coffee County Progress, “we wish to rise and remark that the creation of the Alapaha circuit [composed of Atkinson, Berrien, Clinch and Cook counties] in its present shape, meets the approval of very few people in Coffee coun ty and we are unable to under stand why our representative fail ed to make a fight against this bill.” Judge Quincey didn’t fight the Bill because Coffee county was not affected thereby, and he deci ded it best not to interfere with his neighbor’s affairs. There are some other outside folks who have be come unduly exercised about this matter; they would do well to fol low Judge Quinccy’s example. 81.00 A YEAH Atkinson’s Tax Returns. la acknowledging (he receipt of a copy of the Atkinson county tax digest the State Tax Commission er, Hon. Henry J Fullbriglit, writes the following criticism: Atlanta, < la., July 30, 1919. Mr. 11. XV. Corbitt, R. T. R., Willaeoochee, fla., Dear Sir: The Tax Digest for Atkinson county has been received and the totals shown have been noted. As your county is a now one and lias no records with which to compare this year's returns I have no means of knowing whether the territory incorporated in the present county shows an increase or a decrease in taxable values. However, 1 have made the calcula tion as to your average land val ues, which is $4.88, while Coffee county, from which Atkinson was largely made, shows an average of $0.54 for 1919, and the whole of Coffee county for 1918 averaged $5.(11. I would like to know if t lie territory included in the new county is less valuable than that, remaining in the old county of Coffee. 1 have not received the Digest from Clinch county and, therefore, do not know how your your average compares with Clinch for the present year. Kindly ad vise me as early as you can as to whether or not you think the avc rage of $4.88 is a fair average for the new county. Very truly yours, H. J. Fullbkight, State Tax Commissioner. The above criticism is in line with what the Tribune had to say on the subject last week. Receiv er Sapp, of Coffee county says that Atkinson county took $2,000,000 or more from Coffee, which shows there has been a slump from the values taken from Coffee county, and say nothing about the values taken from Clinch county, which should be not less than $300,000. Pafford Family Reunion. Dear Mr. Editor: There will be a great gathering at Pafford's church on the first Sunday in September. It is greatJy desired that the hundreds who have worshipped at the old church in the days that are gone, together with the many who love Lo gather there still meet again to sing and pray as did the dear ones of other days. Let it be a great borne coming day. Your presence will gladden some heart. It is the plan to have the service after the order followed by our fa thers. The good old time songs in the good old time way. The community is sparsely set tled now and it would be difficult for the hospitable and willing peo ple living there to provide against the wants of a great gathering. Let all, therefore bring a sufficien cy to provide for the physical needs during the day. A box or well filled basket in the car or on the train may be a trifle unhandy, but it fits admirably into the beautiful custom of these annual gatherings, where those from afar join with those who live near in piling up the table, which stands on the church grounds, with the good things which carry the flavor of a genuine Southern hospitality. Bring your basket friends and don’t forget that some one will travel miles to see you. Meet them. Lets gather early this time. Nine o'clock will not be too early if the singing, worship and social contact are to yield their largest possible harvest of good to us all. Affectionately yours, Blakely, Ga., August, Ist 1919. N. T. Pafford. Subscribe for the Tribune, your home paper—sl.oo a year.
