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SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told
in Pointed Paragraphs
Col. B. G. Parks has been select
ed to succeed the late Judge O.
J. Allen as Division Deputy Grand
Master of the Way cross district
Odd Fellows. The selection is a
good one.
The Armour Fertilizer Works
has purchased the plant of the
Albany Phosphate Company, lo
rated north of and near Albany,
on the Leesburg road. The price
paid was $225,000.
The big general store of H. P.
ltozier, with the postoffice located
therein, at New Lacey, was de
stroyed by fire one day last week.
Loss estimated at SB,OOO. Origin
of the fire is unknown.
Editor Claude A. Methvin, of
the Eastman Times Journal, has
accepted the appointment of State
Superintendent of public printing.
Another fine plum for a splendid
and competent South Georgian.
Jno. L. Herring will undertake
to edit and manage two daily news
papers atone time —Tifton Gazette
and Cordele Sentinel. There is
such a thing at. “biting off more
than you can chew.” and Herring
has likely done that thing.
It is rumored that J. Gordon
Jones, of Cordele, will be a candi
date in the third district for Char
lie Crisp’s congressional seat next
year. But, if Charlie wants the
job right on it is going to be a
mighty fast man that beats him.
Mr. B. L. Tuck, a Walton county
man, has bought a 300-acre Ban
dolph countv farm. He paid SBO
an acre or $24,000 for the tract.
Walton js a good Georgia county,
but Mr. Tuck thinks Randolph is
a better one. South Georgia is
coining into her own.
The disruption of the United
States airplane service and the in
ability of the management to sec
ure a free government airplane
circus for its October fair, the
Colquitt county fair association
will buy an airplane and hire an
aviator to pull off the circus.
Hon. John W. Bennett, of Way
cross, will succeed Earle M. Donald
son as district attorney for the
Southern District of Georgia, pro
vided he be permitted to reside in
Savannah rather than Macon,
which lias heretofore been the
headquarters of the District court.
The Souther aviation field near
Americas has been practically
abandoned. Col. Rader, one or
two minor officers and perhaps a
dozen men will remain. Reason
assigned is congress has made no
appropriation for its sufficient
maintenance. Birdsmeu are going
Li be scarce ip this neck of the
woods in future,
A 17-year old white girl was
criminally assaulted last Thursday
in a suburb of Thomasville, within
a hundred yards of txvo dwellings.
Every effort is being made to
apprehend him for a hempen neck
tie party. Lynching will never
cease so long as such dastardly
crimes are committed by either
while or black.
The Cook county singing con
vention will meet at Antioch
Methodist church, west of Sparks,
on the fifth Saturday and Sunday
in this month. It is a large organ
ization, well attended and its pro
ceedings interesting. There is
much musical talent in that sec
tion, which is the result of singing
contests held in Sparks thirty
years ago. Profs. Nolan, Crosby
and Mansfield Parrish laid the
foundation deep and well.
Running in High Gear.
On Friday, August Bth, Gov.
Dorsey approved the Bill creating
the Alapaha judicial circuit.
On Thursday. August 44th, the
Governor issued commissions to
Robert G. Dickerson to be judge
and Jesse D. Lovett to be solicitor
general of the new circuit.
On the same day Win. R. Smith
was commissioned to be judge of
the city court of Nashville to fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of Judge Lovett.
On Monday, 10 a. in.. August
18tb, Judge Smith took charge of
the August term of the court and
since has been showing the people
of Berrien county what manner of
judge he will be.
All three of these officials are
well known throughout, this whole
section, for they taught school in
every neighborhood of the five
counties composing the new circuit.
They are pure bred South Georgi
ans, of which they are proud.
The Nashville Herald notes that
the Alapaha judicial circuit meas
ure went over with a “bang;” but
the Tribune is of opinion t hat, the
entire program was kept, running
in "high gear” from start to finish,
and arrived on schedule time.
11 is a slow politician that can't
discover on “which side his bread
is buttered,” and South Georgians
are learning how to get the things
they weed and should have.
As to City Courts.
Under the above caption the
Adel Mews discusses the virtues of
Georgia’s city court system, and
shows beyond peradventure that
they are a benefit to the county
that has them.
It is not the purpose of any
court to be operated for the money
they may or may not bring into
the county treasury, but for the
vindication of the law and the
punishment of crime, 'let tin
most of folks look only upon t In
former side of the question. Is it
a paying institution? they ask.
In this respect, the paying side
of tiie proposition, the News shows,
from a report from the Berrien
county commissioners to the 1918
grand jury, that during tin: pre
ceding year the city court of
Nashville turned into the coffers
the county, after paying all run
ning expenses, the snug sum of $2,-
400.50.
It can be shown that the Clinch
county court, with a layman for
judge, is an institution which well
thinking citizens of < ’Much county
have no idea of abandoning, be
cause it pays from a financial view
point as well as maintaining the
dignity of the law and giving the
criminally inclined the password
that they cannot ply their notat
ions vocations in Clinch county
and escape the “halter of the law.”
The city court of Douglas has
always more than paid itsexpenses.
The discontent of the people of
Coffee county relative to the court
was not along this line. The court
came into disrepute because of the
indifferent manner ju which the
court was held, and for that reason
the people clamored for its aboli
tion as an unnecessary burden to
Coffee county. The city court of
Douglas will continue as one of
the institutions of the county.
One of the candidates for judge,
in his card to the public says: “If
elected I promise to hold the court
at the regular terms provided by
law, unless something providential
or very unusual occur to demand
its postponement.” This was the
milk in the cocoanut of discontent.
The legislature just adjourned
provided for the city court of
Adel, conditioned on the will of
the people of Cook county. The
election will be held next Monday
and the Tribune predicts that the
court will be established by a big
vote in its favor.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
I»EARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. AUGUST ’22, 1919
JACKSON T. HENDERSON.
A Short Sketch of a Pioneer of
Atkinson County.
Last week the Tribune publish
ed a report, of the seventy ninth
birthday dinner of “Uncle Jack”
Henderson. It was there intimat
ed that he was one of the pioneers
of this section of country.
Mr. Henderson came to the vi
cinity of I’earson upon the advent
of the old Brunswick & Western
railroad, now the Atlantic Coast
Line, built wit h State funds under
the administration of Georgia's af
fairs by the republican Governor,
Rufus B. Bullock. He has been a
witness to all the changes that
have taken place, many of them
with the greatest of pleasure, and
none more than the creation of
Atkinson county with Pearson,
iiis home town, as the county seat.
"Unde Jack” was twice married.
His first wife was a Miss Polly
Guess; they were married in 1864,
and lived together nineteen years,
when she died. His second wife
was Miss Mary Jane Overstreet;
they were married in 1883, and
still living. There were six child
ren born of the first marriage and
ten by the second.
lie speaks proudly of liisnumer
ous descendants, viz: Sixteen
children, nineteen grandchildren,
fifty-one great-grandchildren and
fifteen great great grandchildren,
making a total of one hundred and
one descendants.
There is a most remarkable in
cident in his family. 11 is daught,
or, Mali ml a, who intermarried with
a Mr. Gaskins, is the mother of
sixteen children, all girls, and
fourteen of them are now living.
A group picture of these fourteen
girls have been made, and one of
tin' photos sent to President
Woodrow Wilson.
“Uqcle Jack" was born in 1840
and was twenty-four years of age
at the time of his first marriage.
It was soon after that, important,
event in his life he came to the
vicinity of Pearson and settled his
present home, and in which he
reared his large family of children.-
It is true “Uncle Jack" is not a
man of education and culture, as
the world counts education and
culture, but his life of rugged
honesty and truth, bis examples of
“man's humanity to man,” he has
done more for the good of human
ity and the betterment of the
world than many of those whose
opportunities in life never came to
or was enjoyed by him. He is
truly “A diamond in the rough,’’
and has served his generation long
and well. His ears and heart are
ever open to the cry of distress and
trouble.
The Tribune man became ac
quainted with ‘Uncle Jack’in 1898,
soon after becoming a citizen of
Pearson. A mutual friendship was
the result of the meeting, and the
'tribune man can bear testimony
to the fact that no man stands
“four-square” for the right more
than “Uncle Jack” Henderson; he
exhibits at all times a disposition
to tbi-| tender, considerate and re
spectful to all with whom he has
business relations.
The shadows are falling thick
and fast across his pathway; the
place that knows him now will
soon know him no more forever.
When that sad day comes, and
come it will, “Uncle Jack” is going
to be missed, and no one to take
his place. His gentle spirit, kind
ly acts and neighborly helpfulness
will remain in the hearts and
minds of many who will rise up
and call him blessed.
The Tribune man lenders “Uncle
Jack” his, most sincere apprecia
tion of his worth while he is yet
in life and can enjoy the fragrance
of hearty and genuine good will
before he passes hence.
Georgia Road Builders.
The interest Gov. Dorsey lias
in building permanent roads in
Georgia is illustrated by the haste
he has made in the appointment
of the Highway Board for which
provision is made in an enactment
by the legislature which has just
adjourned.
The Act provides for a highway
commission, to be composed of
three members —one from north
Georgia, one from middle Georgia,
and one from south Georgia—and
an attorney.
To fill these places Gov. Dorsey
has appointed from north Georgia,
Gharles M. Stralian, a civil engin
eer now connected with the State
I niversity. From middle Georgia,
Samuel Y. Austin, a wide-awake
young busidcss man of LaGrange.
From south Georgia,Stanley S.Ren
net, a talented lawyer of Quitman.
A south Georgian is honored in
the I act, that Hendricks J.Quincey,
of Ocilla, has been appointed the
board's at torney, with a salary of
$4,200 a year.
The Tribune is not acquainted
with Messrs. Strahan and Austin,
but if they measure up to Stanley
S. Bonnet, most excellent selections
have been made. As to the board’s
attorney. Pearson, Atkinson
county, takes a peculiar pride in
his advancement. It was in Pear
son that Mr. Quincey, just about
the time he had reached his majori
ty, began his business career. He
was a teacher here when the school
was known as Pearson Academy.
Now , let the Board get busy and
make a start upon one of the
greatest undertakings for the
future welfare of the State she lias
ever known.
Matters at Douglas.
It was good news to our tobacco
growers that the railroad strike
was off and that the warehouses
had again opened for business.
They will now remain open until
all saleable tobacco has been
marketed.
The special election for judge
and solicitor for newly created
City Court of Douglas, which takes
the place of the two old courts
about which there has been much
discontent over in Coffee county,
will be held October Ist. Judge
J. J. Rogers and Col. T. N. Henson
will contest for the judgeship,
while Col. J. Archie Roberts, who
has just returned from Hie war,
will be in the running for solicitor.
Sheriff Tanner and Clerk Haddock
will be sheriff apd clerk of the
city court extofficio. Judge Frier is
holding this week the final session
of the old City Court of Douglas.
At the same time, October Ist,
a special election will be held for
a new set of County Commissioners,
who will go into office January Ist
and stay in one year, when their
successors will be chosen and when
Mark Anderson will wipe up the
earth with his venturesome op
ponents. Babe Tanner? No, he is
going to sit down on the honors
already won. The calculates
mentioned for tho short term are
Dr. G. L. Touch tan, Oliver Deen
and E. R. Cross for the Douglas
district; Win. Carver for Broxton-
Ambrose district. No one has an
nounced from the Pickren-Tanner
district.
Here is a minister who appre
ciates the editor. At a recent ed
itorial convention he offered the
following toast; “To save an edi
tor from starvation, take his papey
and pay for it promptly. Tq save
him from bankruptcy, advertise in
his paper liberally. To save him
from despair, send him every item
of news of which you can get hold.
To save him from profanity, write
your correspondence plainly on one
side of the sheet and send it in as
early as possible. To save him
from mistakes, bury him. Dead
people are the only ones who never
make mistakes.”
ATKINSON COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
The Methodist church at Kirk
land is holding its annual protract
ed meeting this week, began last
Sunday night. The pastor, Rev.
W. C. Rahn, did the preaching.
Mr. Isham M. Mizell, living near
Axson, has sold out all his posses
sions to Mr. J. A. Wall and will
move to the Everglade region of
Florida. Mr. Mizell has a moving
disposition and when he takes a
notion that way no earthly power
can prevent him from moving.
Mr. J. A. Boone, the successful
tobacco man of Axson, put the re
mainder of his crop of tobacco —
5,140 pounds—on the market at
Douglas last Friday, and for which
he received a check for $1,854.50,
being an average of 59.6 c. a pound.
Mr. Boone is an experienced tobac
co grower, and hence his success.
The Salilla Bark rural school is
in session under the administration
of Prof. ('auley Tail. This school,
at the first of the year, owing to
the epidemic of influenza, did not
have its accustomed spring term of
school. Thus it is that this school
opens its fall term earlier than the
others, in order to catch up the
lost time of last spring.
Sweet potatoes are selling from
$2 to $2.40 per bushel. They are
peculiarly the product of a sandy
loam soil, such as we have in At
kinson county. There is a good
demand for them, our farmers can
grow them in abundance and there
is no real reason why they could
not be made a money crop for the
late Isummoy and early fall. It
will take energy and thoughtful
ness to accomplish the task, but it
can be done,
The Tribune learns that the
Providence school ho use is to be
located on the northeast corner of
Lot of Land No. Two Hundred and
Twenty, in the Seventh Land Dis
-1 rift of Atkinson county. The
Tribune man visited the spot a
number of years ago, when it was
owned by Mrs. Elisha Moore. It
is a pretty place for a settlement
of any kind. If the people of that
school district have mind to they
can make it a real “Thing of beau
ty and a joy forever.” The Tri
bune. hopes they will do so.
Elder H. M. Meeks, pastor of
the Stokesville Baptist church,
writes the Tribune: “Let me say
through your paper that there will
be an all day service at Stokesville
church on Saturday, the 22nd inst.
Some good speeches will be deliv
ered, together witli a sermon. This
meeting is in the interest of the
new and up-to-date church build
ing to be erected, with modern
Sunday-School roams attached.
All friends of progressive church
work invited to come and spend
the day pleasantly with us. The
music will be under the direction
of Prof. B. L. Davis.
The Tribune has not seen the
court calendar of the new Alapaha
judicial circuit, but it is informed
that under this calendar Atkinson
superior court will be held in the
week begining the fourth Monday
in October, and the jurors drawn
by Judge SummoraU fur the Janu
ary term under the old regime
will Re expected to appear and
serve at the < K-tober term. The
Tribune further learns that the cal
endar provides three terms a year
for Atkinson county, viz: The
fourth Mondays in February, June
and October. The other counties,
having either county or city courts,
will have only two terms of the
superior court. A city court will
serve Atkinson county better than
three terms of the super!o£_tamrL-
#I.OO A YiOAIt
Red Bluff School Dots.
The famous Mills picnic ground,
on little Red Bluff crock near the
old home of the late Benajah Mills,
was visited last Friday by a merry
band of picnicers, composed of tho
teacher and pupils of the Red Biuff
school. It was the closing day of
school, and it was decided by all
concerned to spend the day in a
pleasant way and enjoy a basket
dinner spread under the green foli
age of the magnificent oak trees
which Nature planted to adorn
tliis lovely spot which, with the
nearby spring of cool and sparkling
water, creates the prettiest and
most convenient picnic grounds in
all Atkinson county.
Dinner over, all present donned
bathing suits and chaperoned by
Mr. and Mrs. Leon W. Mills and
Mr. Horace McNeal, enjoyed much
of the afternoon bathing in the
limpid waters of little Red Bluff
creek, and learning to swim.
I he Red Bluff school began four
weeks ago, with Prof. Horace M.
McNeal as the teacher. The only
study taught was Arithmetic. It
was started for a term of ten days
but it was discovered that it was
not enough time in which to com
plete the course, so it was contin
ued for ten days.
The school was a complete suc
cess. Prof. McNeal did splendid
work and, notwithstanding the ex
ceeding heat of the August weath
er, a large store of useful arithmet
ical knowledge was garnered by
the pupils and which will be im
mensely beneficial to them in the
future years.
It would be good policy for oth
er communities to follow the exam
ple of having every summer, in ad
dition to the regular literary course
furnished under tlie public school
| system, a school where arithmetic
is specially taught. It is a most
important, study for every girl and
boy to learn. Ii permeates every
business transaction, whether it
be great or small. But the com
munities should be sure to employ
a competent teacher. To patronize
any other would be money wasted.
The patrons of Red Bluff school
are informed by Prof. Booth, tho
County Superintendent of Schools,
that they are to have Miss Gladys
Brinson for a teacher the ensuing
scholastic year. He also stated
that t he school would begin in the
early Autumn, at such time as the
majority of the patrons prefer.
Messrs. Will Mathews and An
drew Hoyt, who have been butch
ering beef in this community for
the Waycross market, had a break
down one day last week with their
Truck heavily loaded and twenty
eight miles from Waycross. How
ever, a telephone message brought
1). A. Woodard to their rescue,
and they reached the city in time
to dispose of their beef.
Tilden Smith and Horace McNeal
sawed down a fine bee tree one day
last week. They found plenty of
honey and mad bees. They will
wear bee veils next time.
Georgia Cbackek.
Barrel of good syrup for sale
Apply toG. W. James, Pearson, Ga.
There w as a graveyard working
at Arnie church last Thursday. It
was well attended by people inter
ested in this city of the dead, hav
ing loved ones buried there. There
is quite a number from Pearson.
Atkinson county did not help lo
buy the Eleventh District A. &. M
school, but she helped to pay for
it and is entitled to representation
on the Board of Trustees. Tho
Board of Education of Atkinson
county should take the matter up
with the proper authorities and
have some one of her many citizens
interested in the cause of education,
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