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PEARSON®TRIBUNE Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. VOL. 5-XO. 18 SOUTH GEORGIA. News of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs The first 1910 bale of Sea Islaud cotton was put on the market from Lowndes county, and sold for BGe. a pound. The sale of the Douglas paving bonds has become a tangled skein; it will have to be untangled before work can be commenced. The election to supply Tift coun ty with an Ordinary will be held on Monday, September 15th. The vacancy was created by the death of Judge C. W. Graves. Cook county fair association offers $2,000 in cash prizes at its coming fair, October 14-18. Of course this is her first fair, but she is undertaking big things. Judge Robert G. Dickerson will make his debut as a circuit judge at Nashville, lie will hold two weeks of Berrien superior court, beginning on the third Monday in September. Judge Bob Dickerson and Solic itor General Jess Lovett received their commissions and were sworn in Monday, which formally organ ized the Alapaha circuit court for business. Pierce county, on September 25th, will hold another election for school anil road bonds. She held an unsuccessful election some time ago, and it is hoped she will have better success this time. The Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad will again be but up for sale on the first Tuesday in Octo ber. The people along the line have awaked to the importance of its being saved from the junk pile, and a strong effort is being made to that end. Maj. Hoiner ('. Parker, of States boro, just returned from partici pation in the world war, will be a formidable candidate next year for solicitor General of the new Ogeechee circuit, composed of Jen kins, Screven. Bulloch and Enfifig ham counties. He is a nephew of Judge T. A. Parker, of Waycross. Malay Johns and ,1. C. Iligh smifh shot each other with shot guns on Wednesday of last week; Johns is dead and Highsmith ex jieeted to die. The shooting was caused by Highsmith attentions to John’sdaughter. Both men were prominent in Pierce county; lived near Screven, middle-aged and had families. The submission of the legisla tive Act, creating the City Court of Adel, to the voters of Cook county, resulted in its defeat by a majority of 146. It is stated that the people of Cook county are not opposed to a city court but voted against this Act because it was drawn so that there are only two men in the county eligible for the judgship. It is too onesided for them. The people of Candler county are still being enlightened on the subject of their county site, on which the jail is built, but upon which the commissioners have re fused to build the courthouse. The Causes Belli is a matter of about $l,BOO difference between the property bought and the one rejected. The Ordinary bought the higher priced property. The delay in building the courthouse has already cost the county more than $l,BOO. What a lot of folly some folks can indulge when en trusted with a little brief authori ty. Subscribe for the Tribune, your home paper —$1.00 a year. Historic Lot of Land Sold. Clinch County News. The county site which, by the Act creating Clinch county, was located on Lot of Land No. 420, in the 12tli Land District. A part of this lot was deeded to the county on which to build (lie courthouse, jail and other public buildings. By an Act of the Legislature, in 1852, the village which was to be the county site was named Mag nolia. In the year 1856 the court house was destroyed by lire, and the county site was moved to Homerville, but Lot of Land Xo. 420 has since been known as the Magnolia Lot. During those days Magnolia was a thriving little village, with one Main street extending east and west through the town, and today this street is a wide lane running through the plantation which fook the place of the little town after the courthouse was moved to Homerville. After the county site was moved from Magnolia the place soon went down and the land where the town was located has been cultivated and some fine crops made on it. This lot of land changed hands many times since then, and a few years ago it was sold to Mr. Joshua Lee for eight hundred dollars. The enhanced value of Clinch county lands and the growth of pine and other timber has made it a paying investment for Mr. Lee, and last week he sold it to Mr. C. Drawdy, of Homerville, for $5,000. Valdosta Courtesy. Valdosta, through her Chamber of Commerce, has tendered Judge Robert (4. Dickerson of the Alapa ha judicial circuit the use of the Lowndes county court room in which to hold his weekly Chambers courts. The courtesy is a beautiful one and probably would be convenient to the legal fraternity of Berrien and Cook counties, but its accept ance would be of doubtful propri ety. It is intimated that he will hold his Chambers courts, in the conn tics of his circuit, as the business may demand. At any rate all his courts will be held within the circuit. Be Loyal to Your Town. Chariton County Herald. Every man is a part of his town. The town embraces the fortunes and, in some measure at least, takes on the character of t he man. So loyalty to one’s town is no more than loyalty to one’s self; and this loyalty is in the line of all well shaped human nature. There fore, it is right to say that the man who does not stand up for his town is in some way dwarfed. There is something wrong about him. His fellows will pass this judgment upon him, and the clianccs are that, while he may add to the discomfort of others, he will not escape making himself unhappy. Lankford’s Extravganza. A few days ago, during the de bate in congress over the question of daylight saving. Congressman Lankford of this district indulged the following extravaganza: “A man the other day in my dis trict- and county at Ambrose, Ga., said that he got out of bed in the morning at 8 o'clock, caught a train at 7:45 o’clock, rode fourteen miles to Douglas, (ta., reaching Douglas at 7 ■'.¥) o'clock; ate breakfast, at 7:15 o'clock; made some purchases and caught a train back home at 7 o'clock. According to our different times, be was gone from home an hour and a half and got back home thirty minutes before he started." PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919 VARNEDOE AAD SEWARD. Prominent Antebellum Families of Southern Georgia. Reference, by a writer in the Savannah News, to the ages of Messrs. C. C. Yarnedoe and ,1.0. Yarnedoe, and Mosdames Matilda Smith and Sally Bacon, brothers and sisters, the remaining repre sentatives of Hon. Samuel M. Yarnedoe, recalls to the Tribune man's memory two of the most prominent families of South Geor gia before the war of the sixties — those of lion. Samuel M. Yarnedoe, of Liberty county, and lion, James L. Seward, of Thomas county. They represented the culture, the refinement, the real civilization of the “()ld Soulh.” The Yarnedoe family, besides the parents, consisted of fivechild ren, three sons and two daughters. The sons were Charles Carroll, James Oglethorpe and Samuel Lamartine, and the daughter’s names were Matilda and Sally. The youngest son, Samuel Lamar tine, died at the age of about forty-five. The father of (his family, lion. Samuel M. Yarnedoe, was a dis tinguished educator and for sever al years just after the Civil war was at the head of the old Valdos ta Institute. From this school went forth girls and boys to bless the world in all classes of business and professional activity. The Tribune men!ions some of them: Wm. F. Pendleton, minister; Brantley A. Denmark, lawyer; Mills P>. Lane, bank president; Charles R. Pendleton, editor; John R. Young, naval stores factor; Thomas B. Converse, merchant; W. R. McCree, farmer. There are many others, who made good in the business world, who could be mentioned if the Tribune could spare the space, lie prepared the Tribune man for college, and was his strong friend. Mr. Yarnedoe was a pupil of tlie Hon. Alex. 11. Stephens who. when a young man was starting out in life, (aught school in Liberty county. The Seward family, besides the parents, consisted of only two children —girls. The older was Miss Mattie, who acquired the reputation of being the most learn ed female mathematician of not only Georgia, but of the South and, in her young womanhood, was call ed to the chair of mathematics in one of the leading institutions of ('alifornia. The younger daughter's name has escaped the Tribune man. She became the wife of Judge If. W. Hopkins, lawyer and legislator, of Thomasville. Mr. Seward, the father, was a noted criminal lawyer and very popular throughout South Georgia and many baby boys were named after him. Seward Lott, of Doug las and Seward Smith of Homer ville, derived their names from him. In those days the first congres sional district was composed of all the counties bordering oil the Florida line and reached across the southern part of the State from the Atlantic ocean on the east to the Chattahoochee river on the west. Mr. Seward represented this big district in congress two or more terms. The political parties up to the Civil war were Whigs and Demo crats. The Whig party was domi nant at that time, and Seward was a Whig. Yarnedoe, true to the teachings of Stephens was a staunch Democrat. In 1858 or 1860 they opposed each other as candidates for congress. Both were fluent talkers on the stump, very entertaining, but Seward had the advantage of Yarnedoe in oratorical display. The campaign Letter from Atlanta. Atlanta, September 4th. — Stimulation of production through organization of the producers and reduced labor costs on the farm, is suggested as one of the remedies for tln» high cost of living, by the Georgia state department of agri culture. Speaking of agitation over the high cost of living, Commissioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown made this statement: ‘‘While there has undoubtedly been some profiteering in the neces sities of life, one of the greatest causes of the high cost of living is the fact that America is exporting millions of tons of food to Europe; and another is the policy of our own government in paying wages so much higher than can possibly be paid for labor on the farms. "The result has been a drainage of labor from the farms for the last twenty-four months; and the real cause, in a nut shell, is that we now have an excess of consum ers with a scarcity of producers. "The only way to encourage pro duction, thereby reducing the high cost of living, is to see that the producer is paid for his products a fair margin above the cost of production, thereby enab ling him to put his business on a basis with other industrial lines. I n other words, the producer should be in a position to secure needed labor in the open market and to hold it. "As cotton is the basis of cash farm products in the South, the business interests combined with the farming interests, are now or ganizing the American Cotton As soeiation, with a \dew to maintain ing a price that will mean a fair margin of profit above the cost of production. That will enable the farmers of the South to increase production by being in position to offer substantial wages, thereby inducing workers to come back to I he farms. "Organized capital and organiz ed labor are protecting themselves, and have long done so; but the un organized fanners are being crush ed between the upper and the nether millstones, through the de moralization of labor and its with drawal from the farms, and through the heavy costs put upon them for their materials and supplies and for increased freight rates. These are some of the things which have made it impossible for them to meet the demands the world is making upon them for food and foodstuffs.” For Rent. Wooden store building facing King street, can give possession September Ist, 1919. For further information apply to Miss Eu <;i:\ia Allen, Pearson, Ga. was hard fought; Seward won by a small vote. The close of the civil war saw the death of the Whig party. The contending political forces and polices remaining were Democrat and Republican. It is curious to note the change to meet real or fancied changes in conditions and exigencies. To illustrate: At the time of the Seward-Yarnedoe con test, the democratic party stood for absolute “Free trade” and the Whig party for “Tariff for revenue only.” But when the Whig party disbanded, the Democratic party advanced to its position of “Tariff for revenue only,” while the Re publican party took the ultra stand of “Tariff for protection.” Political science is an enticing study; no wonder so many good men are caught in its toils and swept either upward or downward with the regularity of the ebb and flow of the tide. ATKINSON COUNTY. Items of News Gathered from Various Sources. Messrs. Martin, William and Hosea Corbitt, in the southern part of the county, have embarked in the business of naval stores manufacturers. The Tribune wishes these young men all man ner of success. It was reported in the city Saturday that Mr. L. B. Davis had sold his farm over on the eastern part of the county, and that he had received a good price for it. He will be looking out for another farm to improve and sell. The latest from the eastern part of the county is that Fred Wilson sold his pretty farm on the Satilla river, between Axson and Mi 11- wood, for $10,500; the trade soaked overnight and he backed down, saying that he had “to keep the farm or lose his wife.” Powerful strong inducement. Mr. J. Henry McKinnon, than whom there is no more thorough going farmer in Atkinson county, says he made a failure in growing tobacco this year, but is not dis couraged. lie says he has cut his wisdom teeth on the subject and proposes to really grow some tobac co next year. His motto is: “If at first you don’t succeed; try, try again.” Mrs. Nancy Cowart whose son, Riley J. Cowart, was killed in bat tle in France lias completed her proofs so as to collect his insurance. Everybody regrets that Riley was so unfortunate as to make the supreme sacrifice for his country, but since it is so they are glad that his dependent mother is to receive his insurance to help her along in the world. It is reportrd of the James bro thers, J. Walter and W. <>., that they made a tremendous failure in growing tobacco, on account of their lack of experience in curing and grading the weed. The report er says, however, that these boys have as fine corn crops as can be grown in this section, and that is saying much for their corn crops. Both of these gentlemen were rais ed on a farm and know the business. The big Red Bluff creek rises in Arabia swamp in the northern part of Clinch county and flows in a northeastern direction across eastern part of Atkinson county and empties into the Satilla river two or three miles beyond Axson. Along this creek in Atkinson coun ty is some as splendid farms as any farmer could wish to own. The territory is also well adapted to the raising of sheep, hogs and cattle. If it were not for the sheep killing dogs sheep raising would be a fine business for that section. Speaking of the opportunties of acquiring a competency in At kinsou county, the Tribune man naturally turns to the career of Mr. Micajah Vickers, Sr., who set tled a place on big Red Bluff creek in his early msnhood, for an illus tration. In all the years he lived there be grew no cotton for market. His crops were corn, rice, sweet potatoes and sugar cane, and raised hogs, cattle and sheep. From these he amassed a competency. Not a year passed that he did not have large quantities of corn and bacon, syrup and sweet potatoes for sale. He reared a large family ol children and, after the death of his first wife, the place lost its charm for him and he sold the three lots of land, with his improve ments for $16,500. The place is now owned by Mr. W. M. Chauncy. He made his way by staying at home and working. SI.OO A YEAR News Notes from Cogdeil. Mrs. E. L. Moore, of Valdosta, is visiting at Cogdeil and the guest of her niece, Mrs. A. K. Sessoms. Mr. Alvin James, of Atkinson county has accepted a position as clerk with the Cogdeil Supply Company. Joe Pafford and LeGrande Smith had business in Waycross last Sum day afternoon. Several of our citizens had to attend county court at Homerville Monday. Mr. Jack Griffis, who has been confined to his bed from being cut two weeks ago, is improving nicely and it is hoped he will be well right soon. Mr, W. 0. James, of Atkinson county, was a business visitor to Cogdeil last Monday. Some of the Cogdellites arc ex pecting to attend the annual reun ion at Springhead church next Sunday, while others will attend the birthday dinner of aunt Rachel Deon at the old home place of the late Janies Deen. Hope all will an enjoyable time. Subscriber. Republican Mass Meeting. We want to call the attention of every Robublicau in Atkinson county that there will be a mass meeting held in Pearson, Ga., on Monday, September 15th, for the purpose of organizing the party and selecting the officers for the county. We will have with us the Chair man of Coffee county, Mr. R. I). Cardish, and other noted men of the party. So everybody ought to be present as it is your privilege to do. We want to urge everybody to pay tlieir taxes, register and be able to vote as citizens of Atkin son county. Don’t forget the date, J. P. Pearson, J. G. Jowers, A. C. Malone, Former Chairmen of Pearson, M il lacoochee and Axson Districts. A thoughtful paraphrase from the Savannah news: “Remember September and then October, November and December will take care ot themselves in large mea sure,” Exchange Interest for Stamps. 1 he one million persons and cor porations in the Sixth Federal Re serve District who bought Third Liberty Loan Ronds will have an opportunity of turning interest into more interest on September 15th, Wm. Smith, postmaster of Pearson, Ga., said today. On that day the Government will make a semi annual payment on the Third Liberty Loan Bonds, amounting to the sum of $88,750,- 981.81. The Treasury Department is urging that bondholdeesreinvest their interest in Thrift and War Saving Stamps and thus keep their dollars working. “Making a wealth heap has two processes—addition and multipli cation. “Saving is addition —a dollar and a dollar and a dollar. It comes easier as one goes along but the increase is no faster next year than now. “When you set the dollar to work that is multiplication. Your pile grows slowly this year, a little faster, still a little, then faster and faster, till interest out runs saving.” “War Saving Stamps do more than add dollar to dollar. They begin to multiply. No better in vestment coidd be found for your interest coupons. Remember this on Sept 15th.”