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■prarsun Sribime
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
Membe r 11th District Press Association
B. T. ALLEN, Editor.
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PEARSON AS A MARKET.
The Tribune has heard some
complaint of Pearson as a market
for country produce.
If this be true and, it must be
confessed, there is some foundation
for such complaint, it is not what
Pearson should be.
The bulk of Pearson’s trade
comes from the surrounding coun
try, from the farmers. 1 hoy are
entitled, at least, to reciprocity.
If the farmers buy the merchant’s
goods at the ruling prices, the
merchants should see to it. tiiat
the farmers have a market for
what they have to sell.
For illustration: Only last
Saturday the Tribune man heard
some farmers talking about Pear
son being a poor cotton market.
They alleged that Axson, Kirkland
and Willacooehee were all better
cotton markets than Pearson; that
they have always been able to get
better prices for cotton and cotton
seed at these places than at Pear
son.
The indifference of onr mer
chants to buy cotton and cotton
seed has been very noticeable.
The reason, no doubt, is that they
do not care to take any risk, and
there are risks in buying and sell
ing any kind of country produce.
Put there is nothing truer than
the old adage: “it takes ventures
to make merchants.”
A gradual change is taking place
in the commercial world, just as
there is in the agricultural world.
Diversified farming is taking the
place of cotton as a money crop;
cotton will be a uegligable crop
until the boll weevil shall have
taken his flight. It stands the
merchant in hand to adjust his
business to meet the exigency
that has arisen.
A market must be provided at
Pearson for anything the farmer
lias to sell —for rice, syrup, sweet
potatoes, peas, ete„ and by all
means a market for cotton equal
to any in this section.
i t is true not many bales of eot
ton have been produced in Atkin
son count y 111 is year; however,
this is no indication that cotton
growing is to be abandoned. The
boll weevil will pass away in a
year or two, is the.opinion of the
Tribune, and cotton growing will
flourish again. But until then, a
market must be provided for the
products the farmer lots to sell.
Pearson should have several
small industries, such as a bakery,
a sausage factory, a small ice maim
factoring plant and cold storage, a
candy kitchen.
Old maids and bachelors are
sometimes laughed at. But is it
not better to be laughed at for not
being married than never to be
able to laugh yourself because of
being married. Yet God’s purpose
is that men and women marry,
make homes, rear children. There
is something wrong with the man
or woman who does not believe in
marriage.
Brother Davis, of the Thomas
ville Press, says “no word of criti
eism has fallen to Gen. Pershing."
The esteemed brother will have to
put his ear to the ground again.
The Elephants —or something else!
—up at Washington are preparing
to investigate him. They are in
vestigating, or pretending to in
vestigate everybody and every
thing in sight, Mayhap they’ll
investigate just once or twice too
many times. Well, here’s hoping!
VALDOSTA PRESS MEETING
It was a delightful meeting the
editors and publishers of the Ele
venth congressional district held
at Valdosta last Monday. There
was not a dull moment from the
time President Shytle rapped for
ii'der until adjournment. There
was more than an average attend
ance of members; some were doubt
ess kept away from the meeting
■y the scarcity of help.
The welcome address was by
Mr. John T. Mathis, President of
he Valdosta Chamber of Com
merce, and a young man of very
pleasing personality, with whom
he Tribune man has been ac
quainled for many years. Mr.
Mathis, from a very small begin
niiig, has succeeded in building up
a most successful business and
ranks among the best business
men in Valdosta. Prior to becom
ing the president of the Chamber
of Commerce he was tried in other
places of honor and trust, and in
these he showed an adaptability
as a leader in business affairs —be-
ing punctual to every call of duty
and never quitting until his task
was thoroughly completed.
The response was by Editor D.
G. Bickers of the Savannah News,
and the poetic genius of several
Georgia daily newspapers. It was
a most happy response.
After the transaction of some
routine business the prepared pro
gram was taken up and observed
as nearly as possible.
Editor J. Kelly Simmons, of the
Mcßae Enterprise, and president
of the Georgia Press Association,
delivered a most practical address
on the subject of “Better Business
Methods for Georgia Newspapers.”
lie was tendered a rising vote of
thanks.
Editor Royal Daniel, of the
Quitman Free Press, and a man
w ho sacrificed himself on the altar
of his country during the world
war, serving under the direction
of the American Red Cross, led in
a most interesting round table dis
cussion of the many problems now
confronting the publishers of
country newspapers.
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A recess was taken and the press
members were carried for a visit
to tlie South Georgia Normal Col
lege, where more than two hun
dred South Georgia girls are being
trained for future teachers in (he
South Georgia schools and for the
practical duties of life. The editors
were made to realize the magni
tude of the enterprise ami the
magnificent influences it will shed
upon the future educational and
social interest of South Georgia,
The future school teachers of
South Georgia will be able to im
part instruction, and as they go
out into the rural communities,
they will be afforded ample op
port unity to create a better and
most wholesome social status.
Their examples of industry and the
utilization of their time helpfully
will tend to lay the foundation for
a new civilization of self-depend
ance, frugality and thrift.
The provision which the Legis
lature, at its last session, made for
the building of another dormitory,
comes none too sothi. Many of the
pupils are rooming away from the
school ground, and it is best for it
not to be so.
The Tribune man sees great
possibilities for good in this iusti
tution, which has come to South
Georgia through the loyalty, the
courage and liberality of Senator
Win. S. West, a portrait of whom
is conspicuously displayed in the
faculty convention room.
Just before the editorial party
left it was regaled with punch
served by some of the young ladies,
while others sang beautiful songs
of greeting, which was responded
to by Editor Sutlive of the Savan
nah Press, expressiveof theeditor’s
appreciation of the attention given
by President Powell, the faculty
and pupils.
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A swift drive of fifteen miles
brought the party to the Ocean
Pond Club House, where they
were served a most splendid noon
repast —bounteous supplies of fried
chicken and fish—to which the
guests did ample justice.
While other members of the
party were engaged in conversa
tion and admiring the beauties of
the scenery, the Tribune man’s
PEARSON TRIBUNE, PEARSON, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919
memory carried him back to the
halcyon days of his young man
hood, when he enjoyed frequent
visits to the scenes before him.
Ife thought of the Florida line
near by, the deserted village of
Keliviile, Fla., and the splendid
and cultured people who lived
there and dispensed Southern hos
pitality. The Bevills, Godfrey,
Staplers, Polhills, Willis’ and
others, who maintained church,
school and mercantile privileges,
and was happy and contented,
liis mind reverted to Lake Alcy
one, the Stapler fishing preserve,
where the bream had been fed and
had become so tame you could go
to a certain place and lift out of
the water with your hand as many
bream as you desired. But the
glory of Bellville has long since
passed away, with only one little
country store to mark its location.
The party returned to the city
just in time to hear Editor Jack
Williams, of the Waycross Jour
rial Herald make some revelations
in regard to the Zone mail system.
While no resolutions were passed
the editors were an unit in favor
of retaining the law, as it only
slightly affects rural newspapers.
Quitman was selected as the
place for the next meeting on the
third Monday in January, 1920.
A rousing vote of thanks was
tendered the Times and the
Chamber of Commerce for their
kind hospitality.
In ten minutes the party were
enroute home and in a splendid
humor.
Notice of Mortgage Sain.
<; KORGlA—Atkinson County.
Under and by vlotue of a power of sale con
tained In the mortgage executed by Hen). T.
Allen to Wilson «fc Bennett on the 19th day of
August, 1918, and recorded in the office of the
Superior Court of Coffee county. In Book of
Mortgages No. "29,” In folio 250. the under
signed will sell, on the first Tuesday in Octo
ber. at public sale, at the court house door In
said county, during the legal hours of sale, to
the highest bidder for cash, the following
property, to-wlt:
"Four vacant building lots of land, each 72x
12) feet In dimensions, in the sulv
dt vision of the City of Pearson, and known as
Lots one (I), Two (2;, Seven 17) and Fight (8)
in Block "B." in said subdivision, said Cots
bounded North by land of Mrs. .1. b, Murray,
Fast by Crawford street, South by Georgia
avenue and west by Kirkland street, being a
fractional part of original laud lot No. Fifteen
(15), in the Seventh Land District of Coffee
county—now Atkinson county.
For the purpose of paying a certain promis
sory note bearing date the 19th day of August,
1918, and payable the Ist day of April, 1919,
and made and executed by the said Ben). T.
Allen, said note being for 8260 principal, stlj>-
u fating Interest from October Ist. 1917, at the
rate of eight per cent, per annum, the total
amount due on said note being 8250 principal
and 840 Interest, together with the costs of this
proceeding as provided in said mortgage. A
conveyance will be executed to the purchaser
by the undersigned, as authorized in the said
mortgage. WILSON A BKNNKTT,
This August Hi, 1919. Mortgagees.
Atkinson Sheriff's Sale.
GKOIK II A—Atkinson County.
Will be sold before the courthouse door In
said county, at Pearson, between the legal
hours of sale on the llrst Tuesday in Octo
her next, the following property, to-wlt:
The timber suitable for turpentine purposes
on one hundred, twenty-two and one-half
acres of lot of land No. 158, in the Seventh
land district of said State ami county, ami lo
cated in the northwest corner of said lot, be
ing the privilege of cutting, boxing, working
and using said timber for turpentine purposes
from April 10th. 1919 to April 10th. 1923. with
the right of ingress and easress for cutting,
boxing, working and using said timber for
turpentine purposes.
levied on as the property of \v\ M. Ste
phens under a lease from W. T. Pussell. to
satisfy an execution issued from the Justice
Court of the 1130th District. G. M.. in favor of
the Southern States Fertilizer and Phosphate
Co., for the use of I>. J. Pearson, and against
W. T. Fussell and W, M. Stephens. This
September Ist, 1919. K. D. Lkghjett, sheriff.
Atkinson County, (in.
Petition and Order for Bond Election.
State of Georgia—County of Atkinson:
At a meeting of the Board of County Com
missioners of roads and revenues of the
county of Atkinson duly adjourned from re
gular September term, 1919, and held In the
Ordinary’s office in said county, on the 2d day
of September, 1919. it was by a majority vote
of said commissioners ordered as follows:
Whereas supervision and jurisdiction of
the public roads and buildings of said county
is by law vested in the said Board of Commis
sioners of ito&dS and Revenues: ami whereas
the interest of the County oi Atkinson requires
a bond issue of sixty-thousand (860,000)
dollars, of which fifty-thousand (850,000) dol
lars shall be applied to the building and
equipping of a court-house for said county,
and ten-thousand (810,000) dollars shall be ap
plied to the building and equipping a jail for
said county; therefore It is ordained that an
election be called, and held for the purpose
of submitting to the qualified voters of said
county, the question whether bonds in the
sum and ior the purpose above set out, shall
be lsseued and sold; said election shall be held
on the 20th. day of December, 1919. under the
rules and regulations governing county elec
tions.
That notice of said election be pub
lished In the Pearson Tribune, the paper in
which the Sheriff’s advertisements for sale
for the county are published for a period of
thirty days next preceding said election,
which notice shall lie as follows:
Notice to the qualified voters of the county of
Atkinson, of an election to authorize the issuance
of $60,000 Bonds, of which $50,000 shall be
applied to the building and equipping a court
house and SIO,OOO shall be applied to the
building and equipping a jail in said county. And
notice to the qualified voters of said county of a
special Registration for said election.
in accordance with a resolution of the
Board of Commissioners of roads and reve
nues of Atkinson county passed September
2d. 1919. Notice is hereby given to the quali
fied voters of said county that an election
will be held in the said county of Atkinson,
on the 20th day of December. 1919. Said elec
tion will be held under the provisions of sec
tions 440-41-42-43 volume l Code of Georgia, to
determine the question whether bonds shall
be issued by said county of Atkinson in the
sum oi Sixty-thousand ($80,000) dollars prin
cipal for the purpose of building and equipp*
CPasson's Department Store 0
IS SELLING OUT
Clothing, Shoes and Hats at 50 per cent,
on the Dollar and Upward.
Have 3,500 Pairs of Shoes now on Hand
All Domestics from 3c to 5c a yard less than can be bought elsewhere.
Come Round, it will cost you nothing to see these great bargains.
THESE PRICES CONTINUE FOR 30 DAYS.
PASSON’S DEPARTMENT STORE, Pafford Building.
Ing a court-house and jail, of which >50,000 of
said issue shall be applied to the building and
equipping a court-house for said county
and SIO,OOO of said Issue shall be applied to the
building and equipping a jail for said county.
Said court-house and jail bonds to be de
nominations of 81.000 each, numbering from
one (1) toßixty (80) Inclusive: all to be issued
and bear date within a reasonable time afte r
their validation, and to draw interest at the
rate of five per centum per annum, said in
terest to be paid annually, and the principal
of said bonds to fall due and be paid as fol
lows:
82.000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1920
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1921
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1922
•2,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1923
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1924
82,000 on the 15tn day of Dec. 1925
82.000 on the 15th day of Dec*. 192 H
82.000 on the 16th day of Dec. 1927
82.000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1928
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1921)
82,000 on the 15th day oi Dec. 1930
82.000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1931
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1932
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1933
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1934
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1935
82,000 on the Isth day of Dec*. 1930
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec*. 1937
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1938
82,0000 n the 15th day of Dec. 1939
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 194 n
82,000 on the 15th <lay of Dec . 194
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1942
82.000 on the 15th day of Dec*. 1943
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1944
82.000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1945
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec. 1946
82,0000 n the 15th day of Dec. 1947
82,000 on the 15th day of Dec*. 1948
82.000 on the 15th day ol Dec. 1949
When all said bonds shall be fully paid off,
the principal and Interest of said bonds shall
be payable In gold coin of the Dotted states
of America of the present standard wejght
and fineness at some financial institution In
the < ‘lty of New York, or such other place as
may be agreed upon In w riting by the pur
chasers of said bonds and the county of At
kinson.
Those desiring to vote for said court-house
and jail bonds shall have written or printed
on their ballots "For Court-House and Jail
Bonds," and those desiring to vote against
said Court-house and Jail bonds, shall have
written or printed on their ballots "Against
Court-llouse and Jail Bonds."
Jeff Kirkland, Chairman of the Hoard.
Attested. Davk Wkataers, Commissioner.
Wh.ky M. HuMNeh. Clerk of the Board of
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