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PEARSON®TR!BUNE
VOL. S—NO.5 —NO. 20
SOUTH GEORGIA.
News of Our Neighbors Told
in Pointed Paragraphs
I). B. Small has resigned as dep
uty clerk of the Unites States
district court at Valdosta. The
remuneration is too small.
Patrons of t he Brunswick public
schools are insisting upon two
sessions a day, and have organized
to enforce their demands.
The Georgia Coast and Piedmont
railroad is advertised for sale
October 7, and rumor srys it will
be purchased by a Brunswick
syndicate and kept as a going
concern.
Mr. .Tack Griffis, of Clinch coun
ty, denies that he is dead as re
ported by the Milltown Advocate.
On the contrary he has almost re
covered from the wounds inflicted
by Jeff Hughes.
A company selling airplanes in
Macon have inaugurated a passen
ger service between Oeilla and
Fitzgerald, and sls the ride is
■ hat it costs. Must be practicing
for the Fitzgerald Fair.
The deposits of the Clinch Coun
ty Bank, on the opening day,
amounted to the snug sum of $20,-
320.30, the individual deposits be
ing from SI.OO to $2,700.00. The
opening was a great success.
Marvin Henderson, of Sycamore,
whose automobile, driven at a
high rate of speed, was the cause
of Floyd Guest’s death, has been
indicted for manslaughter and he
has been released from prison on a
SI,OOO bond.
Homerville is showing unusual
business activity. Just opened a
new bank, organized a branch of
the National Building and Loan
Association, ami about completed
a new bakery and a sweet potato
curing house.
The validility of Berrien coun
ty’s bond issue is to be tested in
the supreme court. Judge Thomas
validated only $350,000,00 of a
$500,000.00 issue voted by l lie 1
people. This is the basis of the
anti-bond fight.
The city and county school au
thorities of Moultrie and Colquitt
county have decided not to collect
any matriculation fee from the
pupils during 1919-1920 school
year. Although there will be a
large deficit in the school funds, it
will be met iii some other way*
The proper method of meeting the
deficit is by taxation.
The many friends of Miss Effie
McKinney, sister to Mesdames W.
Lloyd Kirkland and S. \V. Harrell
and who taught school in Pearson
some years ago, will be pleased to
learn of her recent marriage to
Mr. G. W. Register, an official of
the Bank of Hahira. The Metho
dist pastor at Adel, Rev. A. Jl.
Robinson, performed theceremony.
Carleton Young, a young man of
Liberty county, who was found
guilty some time ago, in the Fed
eral court at Savannah, of illicit
whiskey distilling and remanded
to jail to serve a sentence, was re
leased some days ago to visit his
father who was quite ill. In ac
cordance with his promise to re
turn as soon as his father’s condi
tion would permit, has fulfilled
his promise and returned to prison.
The political cauldron has al
ready begun to simmer in Coffee
county; people who want to be
county officials are already muddy
ing the rubicon over which they
must cross to enter the coveted
places. .J. .1. Carter and W. \V.
Southerland are making goo-goo
eyes at the Sheriff’s office. Of
course the present incumbent, W.
M. Tanner, will want to succeed
himself and, as he has just return
ed from the “selective draft’’ he
will be hard to beat.
Into Curing Houses.
From the Tilton Gazette.
“Several tobacco growers are al
ready utilizing their tobacco barns
to dry Keifer pears.” said lion. AY.
AY. AA'ebb, of Hahira yesterday.
“The plan has worked so well that
now they are preparing to use the
barns for potato curing plants (his
fall.”
Thus, the tobacco barn is brought
into triple service, and the money
invested therein can no longer be
charged against the tobacco crop
as a whole. A profitable market
of Keifer pears was a problem
many years ago that the majority
of growers finally avoided by cut
ting down their trees and putting
out somnthing else. The crop is
one which yields very little reve
nue, but could be developed if a
reliable market was to be had. To
dry them in a tobacco barn and
market them at will looks like the
easiest and perhaps the most profit
able opening.
The man who wants to market
his sweet potatoes at the highest
price must cure them. Few grow
ers as yet have potato curing
houses, but all should have them.
Many have tobacco barns who have
not potato curing houses, and the
utilization of these barns, now
that the tobacco crop is harvested,
would save them the expense of
another heavy investment.
If tobacco barns can be used in
the summer to cure tobacco and in
the fall and winter to cure sweet
potatoes, the tobacco industry w ill
receive an impetus and growers of
sweet potatoes will be encouraged
to cure their crop. Mr. AVebb
says that information desired as
to remodeling tobacco barns into
potato curing houses can be ob
tained on application to him.
If the tobacco barn will dry
pears and potatoes, it will dry
peaches and other fruit, also her
l ies and vegetables. Perhaps the
day is coming when the tobacco
barn w ill be kept busy tin- year
round.
Bennett Accepts Appointment
Hon. John AY. Bennett, of AVay
cross, has finally decided and an
nouneed his acceptance of I lie ap
pointment to be United States
District Attorney for the South
ern District of Georgia. The ap
pointmenl, however, is subject, to
the approval of President AVilson,
but there is no doubt that the
President's approval will be forth
coming-
Mr. Bennett has further an
nounced that he will name lion.
Charles D. Russell of Savannah as
his first assistant, and an efficient
attorney of Macon will be appoint
ed second assistant.
ft is generally understood that
his actual and official residence
must he in Macon, and his accept
ance of the place would indicate
that he will move from Waycross
to Macon.
He Paid the Price.
From the So per ton News.
“A gentlemen walked into our
office recently and asked the price
of subscription to the News.
When told that our price was
$1,50 per year payable in advance,
he remarked that we charged too
much and started out. AVe slop
ped him and asked him a few ques
tions, some of which were. ‘Do
you know when the tax receiver
and collector make their rounds’’
’Do you know when Superior
Court convenes in this county?’
‘Did you see a calender for the last
term of court!’ ‘Do yon know
w hat the rate taxation in Treutlen
eouuty is?’ ‘Did you know that
bids had been called for the erec
tion of a court house and jail?’
‘His answers were invariably
no.’ Then explained to him that
items of this nature were publish
ed in the News-
He subscribed.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
I’EAIiSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919
WHY COTTON SEED
Bring Lower Prices Early in
the Season.
There are several reasons why
cotton seed do and should sell for
less in the early part of the season.
They are apt to contain more
water or moisture than later in
the season, and are consequently
worth less to the oil miller. This
is not usually a large item in so
far as the loss from the yield of
oil and meal is concerned, but it
is important because it is likely
to cause the seed to damage by
heating, unless properly handled.
This not only makes it generally
necessary that the farmer market
them promptly, but it forces them
on the market and offers an oppor
tunity to the buyer to hammer
down the price, ns he can and does
do, on any product the marketing
of which is forced by any cause.
There is also another reason
why the first seed marketed may
sell for less than they are actually
worth. If the market for cotton
seed products, oil and meal, is low
or depressed, or if there is any un
usual uncertainlly as to the future
demand and prices of these pro
ducts, the buyers of seed must
buy at a sufficiently low price to
protect themselves from probable
loss. In fact, there is always a
tendency to pay even less than
sufficient to make a fair profit, in
order to make themselves perfectly
safe.
In the early part of the season,
therefore, the prices of cottonseed
products—oil, meal, hulls, and
1 inters —are not the only factors
operating to determine the price
received by the producer for his
cotton seed. — Progressive Farmer.
News and Views.
The Southern Railway, praclie
ally, has its Atlanta Washington
division double t racked.
The New York papers are trying
to tit the nickname “Black Jack”
to Gen. Pershing. That nickname
lias long been cornered by one
John J. Ingalls, late of the State
of Kansas.
it. is announced that t he Preshy
tcrians are to have a “money
drive,” but they are more modest
in their wishes. They only want
$4,000,000 a year for three years;
$12,000,000 in all.
The woman vote in the Atlanta
city primary was boomerang to the
very people who secured to them
the l ight to vote. Mis. Me.Lendon,
the leader of the Atlanta snffra
gists, says she is disgusted.
Gen. Walter A. Harris, state
chairman of the American Legion,
has appointed Alaj. Warren Lott,
of AVay cross, the Eleventh District
member of the executive commttee.
The time and place of the State
meeting lias not yet been announ
ced.
Congressman Lankford made a
strong appeal, before the House
committee on Ways and Means,
that the American farmer and his
dependents be saved from the bur
den of an import tax on potash.
In Judge Lankford the farmer has
a friend in congress.
Gilreath’s news syndicate of At
lanta whose special employment
seems to be to camouflage an At
lanta News Letter with Hoke
Smith free advertising and sell it
to the Georgia weekly press will
never secure patronage from the
Pearson Tribune. Senator Smith
must pay for any advertising he
wishes inserted in the Tribune at
regular rates just as other folks
have to do, who desire to reach
the attention of the voters of At
kinson county. But the news
syndicate is expecting to get pay
from both ends of the proposition.
Letter from Atlanta.
Atlanta. September 19th. —In
a statement given out today, Com
missioner J. J. Brown of the Geor
gia Department of Agriculture,
asserts that the price for cotton
fixed at the recent New' Orleans
meeting of the American Cotton
Association, of 36 cents for Sept
ember, with an advance of half a
cent a month up to next May,
when it reaches 10 cents, was more
than conservative considering
Georgia crop conditions and (hose
prevailing throughout the South.
If it had not been for conditions
now prevailing as to foreign ex
change, and other difficulties which
confront both Europe and America,
the association, at New Orleans
would have fixed a price of 40 cents
a pound flat, to go into effect at
once, for even that price will not
pay the producer the profit to
w hich ho is entitled above the
cost of production, and parti ciliary
in view of the present prices of
manufactured products. It was
shown at this meeting that the
average cost of production through
out the cotton belt was 34.56 cents
a pound.
In his statement as to prevail
ing conditions, which more than
justify the foregoing action, Com
missioner Brown said: “It is prac
tically impossible to over estimate
the heavy loss to parts of Middle
Georgia and all of South Georgia,
by reason of the boll weevil and
unfavorable weather conditions.
"Take a line drawn across the
State from Augusta on the South
Garolina line to West Point on the
Alabama line, and south of this
line there is a cotton producing
area embracing 87 counties, in
tillß these counties produced 51.7
per cent of the crop of the state.
To ascertain the probable loss to
those counties, we must consider a
normal crop, such as that of 1914
when Georgia made in round
numbers, 2,740,000 bales of 500
pounds. The 87 counties which
make 51.7 percent of the Georgia
crop, therefore made in 1914, 1,-
121,750. Now it is estimated by
those who have made a careful
survey of each county south of the
line referred to, that the crop this
year in the 87 counties, will not
exceed 44 per cent of a normal
crop, which is 625,570 bales of 500
pounds.
“Based on these figures, the loss
to these 87 Georgia counties re
presented by the difference lie
tween this year’s crop and the
normal crop, will be something like
796,180 hales, worth at 36 cents
an aggregate of $143,312,400. This
loss in a little more than half of
cotton growing Georgia, is simply
staggering. It is to be hoped that
there will be favorable changes in
existing conditions, so that the
total loss will he considerably re
duced.
“But the conditions which I
have set forth here as to Georgia,
I am most reliably informed, pre
vail over the entire coastal plains
section, from North Carolina to
Texas. They are general, and it is
evident that every cotton state’s
sea coast section will suffer simil
arly. It would be impossible, as I
see it, to make a stronger presen
tation of the lamentable situation
in the coastal plains cotton section.
1 repeat, therefore, that these con
ditions more than justified the ac
tion of the New Orleans meeting
in fixing the prices w’hich it did,
and every pound of cotton sold for
less is a sacrifice on the part of the
producer and of the business
South.”
For Rent.
Wooden store building facing
King street, can give possession
September Ist, 1919. For further
information apply to Miss Eu
genia ALLEN, Pearson, Ga.
ATKINSON COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
Levi Muncil tells us lie has sold
his farm, receiving $55.00 per acre
for it. lie has purchased the
Jasper Pearson house and lot on
Main street, and after repairing
and renovating the dwelling will
move to the city.
Just as the Tribune suspected
Burrell Davis is on the lookout for
another Atkinson farm and Madam
Rumor says he has his eye on one
near the city. Some men make
themselves rich buying dilapidated
farms, improving and then selling
them.
The Tribune chronicles the death
of Mrs. Beady Maine, xvife of Mr.
J. Elmore Maine, with a degree of
sadness. She was a daughter of
the late Elder Jack Vickers and
was an exemplary Christian woman,
beloved by all who knew her. She
leaves her husband, several child
ren and a host of other relatives
and friends to mourn her passing
away. The interment Avas in the
Hebron church cemetery.
During the past three weeks
marriage licenses have been issued
to the following white couples:
R. M. Douglass and Joan Thomp
son, K. I). Stockdall and Mary
Ellen Paulk, John Mitchell Rob
erts and Rachel McKinnon, and
Thomas Viningand Fannie Corbitt.
The Tribune wishesall theseyoung
people happy and prosperous mar
ried lives, and that their marriages
have not been contracted in haste,
to he repented of at leisure.
People from the southwestern
corner of the county are complain
ing about the way they have to
come to get to the county site.
They want a nearer way and they
are figuring out the route and will
ask the County Commissioners to
grant them a new and more con
venient public road. The Tribune
is in favor of giving the people
every accommodation and conveni
ence. That is the purpose for
which the new county was organiz
ed.
At the next general election,
November 1920, the people of
Georgia will vote on a constitution
al amendment which permits the
State to issue $50,000,000 of bonds
for building hard surfaced roads
from county seat to county seat
throughout the State. There is
where the new county of Atkinson
can get some help to grow out of
her swaddling clothes. But all
concerned must remember that
the State or National governments
help only those who try to hel,
themselves. Atkinson county
must get herself in line for this
help.
The Atkinson county farmer’s
homes must be made more attract
ive. Some of these homes are now
being abandoned for homes in the
towns and cities for the lack of
the conveniences and comforts
which science has prepared for
them. There are but few homes
in Atkinson county that can’t af
ford to have electric lights and
running water in the home, a well
equipped bath-room with hot and
cold water the year around. The
cost, SSOO or S6OO, would also add
power that would relieve the house
wife of much drudgery and hard
ship she now’ encounters sewing,
churning, laundering, etc. The
cost is a mere bagatelle relative
to the comfort and pleasure it
Avould bring. Think about it,
farmers, it would keep your girls
and boys at home.
"If you want to buy a good horse,
buy a mule,” says Henry L. Wood
ard, of the Tribune force. He has
a good mule for ale.
To get the eouuty news subscribe
for the Tribune, $1 a year.
#I.OO A YEAR
Don’t Be a Drudge.
From the Oeilla Star.
Do you enjoy work, or do you
find it drudgery?
Much will depend upon the ans
wer you can give to this question.
Your success will be measured in
direct ratio to the amount, of in
terest you find in your daily task.
Maybe you think that your work
is not the kind that you can take
pleasure in. You think so, perhaps,
because you have never consider
ed it in any other light than as so
much drudgery that you must get,
through with. A'ou have never
taken that keen interest in t to
doing of the job well that will
make any work a pleasure.
A’ou can become interested in
anything. The game of tiddlede
winks is the silliest little game
that was ever invented. It was
nothing more than trying to flip a
small ivory disc into a cup, but
the writer spent many hours of
solid enjoyment in his youth try
ing to beat the other side flipping
them-in. Did you never go spar
row hunting? If you did and got
into the hunt right, you found it
as good sport as deer hunting.
A r ou know what fine sport is to
hunt squirrels? And yet when
you are after turkeys, the friskey
little squirrels annoy you. It all
depends upon Avhat you are after.
So it is with your work. 1 f you
go out to sell more goods than any
other salesman in the store, you
find the days filled with the pleas
ure of having done your task in a
masterly way. If you undertake
to raise more corn on an acre than
any other farmer in the county,
you will not find it drudgery to
haul out the manure, break and
rebreak the land and to look
minutely after the details of cul
tivating this acre. If you area
carpenter, and set beforeyour eyes
the ideal of making joints more
perfectly than any other man in
the business, the making of joints
will be of keen pleasure to you.
The men who have made the
most notable success have been
men who loved their work. An
drew Carnegie enjoyed the achieve
ment of success in the iron indus
try far more than he did the pos
session of the great wealth he ac
cumulated.
So if you find your job irksome,
the chances are that the trouble is
in you, and you can correct it if
you will.
Get an ideal in your mind and
work to it.
Special Notice.
The State Bureau of A : itai Sta
tistics is now insisting on more
careful attention in regard to re
porting the births, deaths and
burials. Parents, doctors, under
takers and grave diggers are re
quired, under penalty of the law,
to report within ten days,all deaths
burials and births to the Justice
of the Peace in each militia dis
trict, and to the Clerk of Council
in incorporated towns. Failure to
do this is a misdemeanor and the
authorities now insist on enforcing
it.
Largest County Bond Issue
St. Louis County, Minn., by a
vote of about 9 1, carried on July
1 a proposition for the issuance of
road bonds to the amount of $7,-
500, 000. This is the largest sum
ever voted or set aside for road
building by any county in the
United States. The second largest
was that of Dallas County, Tex.,
voted a few weeks ago of $6,500,000.
A New Arithmetic.
“1 am not much of a mathemati
cian," said the cigarette, “hut 1
can add to a man’s nervous trou
ble, I can subtract from his physi
cal energy, I can multiply his
aches and pains, I can divide his
mental powers, I take interest
from his work, and discount his
chances for success.” —Seiected.