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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.