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PEARSO\ T @TRIBUNE
VOL. S—NO. 17
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told
in Pointed Paragraphs
The 1919 digest of Camden coun
ty shows a property valuation of
$2,434,170, an increase over 191$
of $131,810.
Oeilla people are planning to
build a hotel commensurate with
needs of the city. She practically
has none now.
Up in Sumter county anti dippers
are being arrested and haled before
the courts for failure to observe
the tick eradication law by dip
ping their cattle,
Over in Candler county the peo
ple and the county commissioners
are still at loggerheads relative to
the Court House site. The people
chose a court house site some time
ago, but the commissioners refuse'
to build on it.
The Blackshear Times intimates
that it has the secret of the Black
shear haunted house mystery and
will publish it on the installment
plan. That beats any suggestion
that “Mickie” ever made in his
wildest enthusiasm.
Ware-superior court will hold
an extra session, beginning next
Monday, for the trial of Broxton
and Waters charged with the mur
der of the McQuaig boys. It is
probable other criminal matter's
will claim attention.
The late legislature provided the
funds for the building of a new
dormitory at the South Georgia
State Normal College. Valdosta,
and work will commence on the
building as soon as the material
can be placed on the ground.
The formal election of bond
commissioners for Ware county
was held last Thursday. The com
missioners elected are Dr. J. L.
Walker, A. .1. Jordan, V. L. Stan
ton, W. T. Arrington, W. S. Booth,
E. B. Sundy, H. i>. Bunn and N. L.
Gillis.
Jack Griffis, who was stabbed
by Jeff Hughes, mention of which
was made in the Tribune last week,
is slowly recovering from his
wounds. Hughes has been arrest
ed and placed under bond by Sher
iff Lee, of Clinch county, where
the trouble occurred.
Hon. L. U. Akin, of Brunswick,
Will be a candidate for State sena
tor from the fourth district, com
posed of Camden, Charlton and
Glynn. His special reason for
being a candidate is that he wants
to try to complete his former eff
orts to establish a State drainage
system.
Albany is supposed to have a
thousand citizens that could quali
fy to vote, but the SBI,OOO bond
jssue election, September 22d,
brought out the fact that only 192
of these citizens have really quali
fied to vote, and the bond issue
will have to be determined by
them.
Col. John W. Bennett, of Way
cross, accepts the job of United
States Attorney for the Southern
District of Georgia, provided he
be allowed his real residence in
Wayc-ross and an official home in
Savannah. John says he is too
old a citizen of Waycross to think
of real moving.
The new Ogeechee judicial cir
euit has Hon. A. B. Lovett for
)udge, but the several solicitors
genergl pi the circuits from which
it was created will continue to
serve in the county or counties
taken from their circuit, until a
solicitor general is elected at the
next general election. It presents
quit an anomaly,
Pafford Family Reunion.
Dear Mr. Editor:
There will be a great gathering
at Pafford’s church on the first
Sunday in September.
It is greatly desired that the
hundreds who have worshipped at
the old church in the days that
are gone, together with the many
who love to gather there still meet
again to sing and pray as did the
dear ones of other days. Tot it be
a great home 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.
Affec t ion ate 1 y yo u rs,
N. T. I ’afford.
Blakely, Ga., August, Ist 1919.
The Oeilla, Pinebloom and Val
dosta railroad will operate an
excursion train on that day from
Willaeooehec for the accommo
dation of the people. Fare will
be 75c for adults and4oc for child
ren, under twelve years, for the
round trip. This includes the
war tax.
School Legislation.
The recent legislature enacted
some very wholesome school legis
lation, some of which is applicable
to Atkinson county.
The Act requiring counties to
levy a school tax, being an amend
ment to the Slate constitution,
cannot be effective until 1921 as it
will be passed upon by the people
at the next general election.
The Act consolidating county
schools into high schools may be
applied in Atkinson county in the
discretion of the Board of Educa
tion.
Then it passed a very stringent
compulsory education Bill. It
provides:
That every child must be in
school between the ages of 8 and
14 years at least six months con
tinuously during each year; that
he must complete the seventh
grade; that the Bo;ml of Education
can excuse only temporarily for
non-attendance. Each county and
municipal Board of Education shall
employ an attendance officer whose
duty it shall be to report to the
Board of Education failure of at
tendance ou the part of pupils be
tween the ages of 8 and 14 years.
Any board or local school system
failing to comply with this law for
attendance officer shall not be en
titled to receive funds from the
State treasury until it is shown
that said attendance officer has
been appointed and has entered
upon bis dpties.
“This is the land of corn and
wine,” is one hymn which has been
tacßly expurgated from the song
books. —Savannah News.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
I’KAIiSON, GEOIIG LA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2D, IBID
LETTER FROM ATLANTA
Bearish Movement to Destroy
High Price of Cotton.
Atlanta, August, 29. —Urgent
advice to fanners to hold their
cotton is contained in resolution
offered by Chairman Thomas J.
Shackelford of the finance commit
tee, and unanimously adopted by
the executive board of the Ameri
can Colton Association, now con
ducting its membership campaign
with headquarters here.
Always, at this time of the year
when the new crop is beginning to
come in, it is pointed out there is
a strong bear movement in the
effort to acquire at low prices the
cotton that for one reason or an
other, is usually rushed on the
market.
It is to warn the farmers and
and others against being misled
by this bear movement that the
executive committee of the Associa
tion adopted the following resolu
tion :
“We earnestly urge that the
cotton farmers and the holders of
cotton, be not stampeded by prop
aganda now being issued by specu
lators and parties who desire to
buy cheap cotton, but that they
stand steady and refuse to sell
their staple at present prices.
"This Association deplores the
organized effort now being made
to depress and send the price of
cotton to the bottom. In spite of
the fact that cotton goods have
greatly advanced, cotton prices
have gone down twenty dollars to
twenty five dollars per bale. To
day the staple, measured by the
price of manufactured cotton goods,
is instrinsically worth more than
thirty-five cents per pound, and
even at that price it is the cheap
est commodity being sold in the
world’s market. As soon as the
American Cotton Association is
fully organized with its million
members it will immediately begin
an organized fight in behalf of
cotton.”
President J. S. Wanna maker
of the American Cotton Asser
tion, and Chairman J. J. Blown of
the Board of Directors, Georgia
Division, not only fully indorse
the foregoing resolution, butstrdng
!y urge the producers of this State
to heed (lie advice to the letter,
and not to sell until the associa
tion has the opportunity to put
before the country its plans and
purposes.
Principles of American Lagion.
The plans and purposes of the
American Legion, as sol forth in
the constitution, are:
To uphold and defend the Con
stitution of the United States.
To maintain law and order.
To foster and perpetuate a thor
ough going and undivided spirit of
loyalty to American traditions,
American principles, American in
stitutions and the American form
of government.
To preserve the memories, inci
dents and associations grow ing opt
of the great war against the Cen
tral Empires of Europe.
To inculcate a solemn sense of
individual obligation and devotion
on the part of its members to the
highest and best interests of the
community, the state and the na
tion.
To combat the autocracy of eith
er the classes or the masses, and
to discourage all tendency toward
class animosities.
To make right the master of
might.
To promote peace and good will
on earth.
To safeguard and transmit to
posterity the principles of justice,
freedom and democracy, as exem
plified in the manner in which the
United States and its associated
Wisdom of the Press.
Married men pity single men,
and single men are sorry for the
married men. —Blackshear Times,
xxx
One mighty good way to cut the
high cost of living is to confine
purchases to actual necessities and
at the same time cultivate the vir
tue of self-denial by doing without
the things that one simply wants
or would like to have. —Albany
Herald.
XXX
A rooster named after Wilson
sold recently for fifty-five thous
and dollars. We have one that
we will name Wilson if we can get
that price and then wo would be
willing to name another Mrs. Wil
son, and then name one after all
the Wilsons and all the children.
—Commerce News.
xxx
There’s one thing the prosperous
American does not like to gamble
on, and that is going to prison.
And if a few had been sent there,
following innumerable investiga
tions and prosecutions at a cost of
millions of dollars to the public,
there would be less to complain
about. Let us hope that tne pres
ent move against plunderers of the
people will result in some real
good. —Dawson News.
X X X
For one, The Progress-Argus is
getting blamed tired of the many
and various publicity schemes be
ing fostered. The government was
the first to get away with space
grafting on a large scale. Every
body has taken it up and the press
is being used as a wet-nurse for
every scheme, ism, fad and propa
ganda that can be imagined. If a
thing is worth advertising it is
worth paying for, If it is not
worth paying for it in not worth
advertising. Business principals
should be applied to everything,
and if the newspapers will stick
closer to business and leave this
publicity stuff alone they will be
better off. A favorite slogan a
few months ago was “To hell with
the Germans.” Paraphrase this
and make it read “To hell with
the space grafters.”—Jackson Pro
gress A rgus.
XXX
Wc don’t think much of “sassie
ty” dudes who crimp their hair
and paint their faces, when the
snows of many winters are upon
their brows. We are not so, o,|d
that we can’t see a widqw winking
four blocks but we like the
practical, sensible things of life—'
good sense combined with the
“eternal fitness of things.” We
are not “old fogy” in the least,
but when it comes to parasites
and leeches, in the way of the man
or woman who will not do some
thing to make the world better,
we can’t refrain from talking out
in meeting. We have as much re
spect for a tramp as we have for a
man who will not work, it doesn’t
make any difference to us whether
his “daddy” left him money py pot.
Some people in this world are
merely living to fill up space., eat
and sleep. —Greensboro Herald
Journal,
belligerents prosecuted the recent
war against the Central Empires
of Europe.
To consecrate and sanctify our
comradeship by our devotion to
mutual helpfulness and by our ad
herence to the principles herein
enunciated.
The Beardstown, 111.,
reports that crime in central lliin
ois has been reduced tp a mini
tpum xvitii absolutely no revolting
offenses since the war-time Prohi
bition became effective July Ist,
Jails of practically all the
cities and towns of the State
are without prisoners.
ATKINSON COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
The yearly meeting at Arnie
Primitive Baptist church, nine
miles northwest of Pearson, was
more largely attended this year,
Saturday and Sunday, than ever
before in its history.
The people of Atkinson county
may turn tlicir w atches and clocks
back to standard time next Monday.
The late legislature took a hand
in the time making business and
adopted Central meridian time
for use in Georgia.
The meeting at Stokesville Bap
tist church, up in the northeastern
part of Atkinson county,last Satur
day and Sunday was successful.
The effort to raise money to build
a new church with Sunday-School
class rooms attached was reason
ably successful, so much so that
work will be commenced on the
building in the near future.
The Tribune would be glad to
•see the farmers of Atkinson county
keep their premises, fences and
outhouses, painted and whitewash
ed. Then forbid and prosecute
anybody who dare to stick up a
patent medicine or ungainly sign
or advertisement on them. The
pittance they offer for privilege
isn’t worth while when the beauty
and comeliness of the premises is
considered.
The facts of Mr. J. A. Boone’s
experience in tobacco raising at
Axson, in Atkinson county, are
given out from Douglas where he
has marketed his crops. He has
been growing tobacco the past
three years, with satisfactory suc
cess. His present year’s harvest
is twelve thousand pounds, raised
on twelve acres. It has been
marketed at an average price of
60c. per pound, or $7,200 for his
crop, i
Atkinson county is to have an
expert Veterinary Surgeon located
within her border. Dr. It. W.
Boyce, a graduate from Yale Uui
versity and twenty years experi
ence as a practitioner, has located
at Willacooehee and will answer
all calls from the surrounding terri
tory. He has bought a home in
Willacooehee and will be a perma
nent citizen provided his practice
is sufficiently remunerative. This
section has long needed a local
veterinarian and the Tribune hopes
Dr. Boyce is the man needed.
Mrs. Elisha Palmer, who lives
with her husband in the Sandy
Bot tom section of Atkinson county,
had the misfortune some time ago
to snag one of her nether limbs
with a big splinter. The wound
grew so bad she had to be carried
to a Waycross hospital and have
her limb amputated. News was
received in Pearson Monday that
she was not expected to live.
Prior to Iqu' marriage to Mr. Pal
mev she was a widow, Mrs. Emma
Riggs, and for some time last year
was housekeeper far Mi's, H. L.
Lankford, who greatly regrets her
misfortunes.
The county commissioners, that
is Messrs. Kirkland and Roberts,
were in session Monday morning
and arranged to secure two, per
haps three, of the government
trucks to be used in working At
kinson county public roads. There
was some talk of getting one for
each of the three Militia districts
in the county, The commissioners
arc disposed tp tackle the county’s
roads with, all the means and ener
gy at their command, with the de
termination of giving the people
and the traveling public the much
desired good roar's at the earliest
possible date.
Barrel of good syrup for sale.
Apply to G. W. James, Pearson, Ga.
#I.OO A YEAR
Why Educate, How Edueate.
Do parents really feel responsi
ble for giving their children the
very best education! We have so
many parents who do not even
require their children to finish t he
country school near them that
that becomes a pertinent question.
A few years ago our parents said
they were not able, but with the
high price of country produce they
cannot say that now’.
Lncducated laborers earn on an
average SSOO per year for forty
years, a total of $20,000. High
School graduates earn on the av
erage SI,OOO per year, a total of
$40,000 for forty years. This edu
cation requires twelve years of
school of 180 days each, a total of
2100 days in school. If 2100 days
at school, add $20,000 to the
income for life, then each day at
school adds $9,02. The child that
stays out of school to earn less
than $9.00 a day is losing money,
not making money.
The religious side of this ques
tion is still more important. Pres
ident Glias. W. Dabney, of the
University of Cincinnati, said to
his graduating class of 1918:
“High mentality coupled with low
spirituality makes the most dan
gerous combination conceivable.
We are witnessing to day tbe dis
astrous results of such a combi
nation.” Germany and the World
War furnish the results of educa?
tion without Christianity. And
yet, how many of our parents send
their children to their best chris
tain schools? Do not many of our
parents send their children to a
school because it is not Christian!
The proper rearing and educat
ing of our children demand our
very best efforts. September will
bring this responsibility anew to
us. Parent s, let us not be slackers.
Lot’s give our children the very
best.
How to Secuae Wilt Resistant
Tomato Seed.
Experiments being conducted at
the Georgia Experiment Station
and reports received from growers
intimate that tomato “wilt” or
“blight” has already killed a large
proportion of the. tomato plants set
in wilt infested soil.
In contrast to the above it will
be of interest to tomato growers to
know that certain strains of wilt
resistant seed have produced plants
which arc holding up well against
the wilt fungus in the test plats at
the exprerimenl Station.
Seed is being saved from some ol'
the best strains of wilt resistant
tomatoes, and these will be furnish
ed to growers of Georgia who de
sire to test them next season.
If your tomatoes have wilted
this year and you wish to test wilt
resistant seed next year, send in
specimens of your willed plants,
together with your name and ad
dress, to the Plant Pathologist,
Georgia Experiment Station. Your
diseased plants will be examined,
and if the disease is due to the wilt
fungus your name will be filed as
one to receive resistant seed to
plant next season.
J. A. MoCTjntock,
Botanist and Plant Pathologist.
Special Notice.
To the tax payers of Atkinson
county.
1 have cheeked the land of our
county, and have found a number
of acres that have not been return
ed., 1 ask each tax payer of our
county to carefully read the ad
vertismeat of unreturned proper
ty, and see if you know of any one
that have not returned their prop
erty, 1 will be at Pearson on the
first Monday in September, for
the purpose of receiving anil
straightening up of the tax returns
of your county. If you have not
returned, please meet me there. If
you know of any one that have not
returned please write me at Pear
son, Ga. This 19th day of August,
1919. H. W. Corbett, Tax
Receiver, Atkinson county, Ga.