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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1919)
PEARSON Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. VOL. S—NO. 24 SOUTH GEORGIA. News of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs Lowndes county has organized a system of county police. They are mounted on motorcycles. It is estimated that, despite the boll weevil, Colquitt county farm ers will market not less than 12,- 000 bales of cotton this year. The first session of the City Court of Alma, Bacon county, will be held next week. L. D. Luke is judge and 11. L. Causey is solicitor. Editor Boatright, of the Swains boro Forest-Blade, is a candidate to represent Emanuel county in the State legislature. Guess he will be elected. The i>olitical cauldron is begin ning to boil in Bacon county. One candidate for sheriff, two for tax collector and three for tax receiver already announced. The Irwin county Chamber of Commerce was organized on Tues day night of last week. The presi dent and secretary were not chosen at this the first meeting. In Irwin superior court last week G. S. Wilcox, charged with arson by burning a gin house and getting fire to a warehouse operat ed by him at Mystic, was found not guilty by the jury trying him. Cook county's Jroad bonds have been purchased by the two banks at Adel. They paid a small mar gin above par for them. The is sue is $250,000. Of course these bonds will be underwritten in some large financial centre. The Gazette boastfully states that the Bank of Tifton, organized in 1894, with $25,000 capital stock, has passed the* $2,000,000 mark, and that the First National Bank of Tifton, organized in 1910, with $50,000 capital, has passed the $1,000,000 mark. Since the burning of Ocilla’s hotel in 1918 the city has been without a hotel. The inconven ience has told heavily upon the business activity of the city, and now the citizens have organized a stock company to build and equip a modern and adequate hotel. “I’rosjierity week” at Wsycross begins Tuesday, November 11 — Armistice Day —and continues through Saturday, November 15th. A very jive program is being ar ranged fop the entertainment ami amusement of attendants. There is nothing like having a "Laugh and Grow Fat” time once a year. Cook superior court will be in session for the regular fall term next week. There are 120 cases landing on the civil docket. There is also a lengthy criminal calendar. It can readily be seen that more than one week's session will be necessary to clean up the docket, and it is more than proba ble that a called term of Cook superior court will follow soon after Atkinson superior court is held, beginning the fourth Monday instant. Nashville has a live Board of Trade, one actively engaged in bringing prosperity to the city and county. As the result of its activity Nashville has a tobacco warehouse and another to be added in time for next year’s crop of to bacco. a sweet potato curing house, a packing plant sufficient to cure all the meat of Berrien county, and a pine products plant to pro duce spirits of turpentine from pine stumps and lightwood. These plants are small but capable of handling all business that will be offered. Financial Statement Gf Atkinson County Commission ers for September, for all war rants paid up to October 7,1919. RECEIPTS. Cash in Bank (Otober Ist statement) $ 755.41 Money borrowed from Bank October 6th 1,400.00 Commutation road tax... 325.50 Total $2,480.91 DISBURSEMENT. Dennis Burch, for road work $ 100.00 J. W. Davis,for road work 23.60 Jonas Pearson, pauper 4.00 W. P. McNeal, drayage... 1.15 J. M. Roberts, road work.. 226.60 ,T. M. Pafford, rent 34.00 L. W. Summerlin A Co. for oils, tools 25.00 Ben. F. Tanner, road work 32.00 Parker Hdw. Co. Hard ware 7.95 A. B. Spence, Sol. Gen 57.14 Pearson Tel. Co.. Court house phone 5.50 E. A. Clement, road work 118.00 John Nugent road work... 2.62 Pearson Tribune, legal ad vertisements 66.00 Foote & Davies, Court house supplies 54.92 W. M. Sumner, Clerk to Commissioners 25.00 Marshall & Bruce ,Court house supplies 157.34 11. 11. Adams, roae work.. 13.00 C. Stewart, road work 3.00 K. J. Giddens, rebate of taxes 7.34 George Clement road work 23.05 J. O. White, nails 2.80 W. M. Tanner, jail fees... 176.40 L. A, Hargreaves, A tty.. 25.00 J. A. Hodges, road work.. 2.00 E. I). Leggett, sheriff, fees 106.65 J. M. Roberts commission ers service 18.00 Dave Weathers commis sioners service 18.00 Jeff Kirkland, commis sioners service 9.00 Archie Taff, pauper 10.00 Harriet Carver, pauper... 5.00 Sallie Royal, pauper 5.00 Willie Myers, pauper 5.00 Lundon Rhem, pauper 3.00 John Banner, pauper 5.00 Sallie Bennett, pauper 5.00 Carrie Sauls, pauper 5.00 Florence Emerson, pauper 5.00 John Bennett, pauper 5.00 J. M. Mull is, road work... 3.00 J. R. McNeal, expenses to Milledgeville 20.00 Cash for revenue stamps.. 0.28 $1418.34 Total receipts $2180.69 Disbursement 1418.34 Bal. $1062.35 O. K. Jeff Kirkland, Chairman. Attested. L. A. Hargreaves, Clerk. Clinch Superior Court. The Tribune editor attended Clinch superior court last Monday. Judge Dickerson and Solicitor Loyett were both in fine fetich and organized the court with the smoothness of trained veterans. In his charge to the grand jury Judge Dickerson showed consider able emotion. It was his first ap pearance in his new role in his home county, among his immedi ate fellow-citizens, where he has practiced his profession for a quarter of a century. He made the remarkable statement that during these twenty-five years he had never failed attending Clinch superior court, numbering fifty terms. He made the further re markable statement that in these fifty terms of Clinch superior court he had continued but one case on account of being sick. On account of his disqualifica tion and the illness of his brother, W. T. Dickerson, but little civil business could be tried at this term of the court, requiring but one day. He notified all attorneys that the April Term, 1920, would be held by a qualified judge, and they must be ready to dispose of the cases on the civil docket. The criminal docket was taken up Tuesday morning and some business disposed of in this line. Hon. Geo. M. Dame was chosen foreman of the grand jury. He is an experienced foreman, and the business before the jury was trans acted rapidly and efficiently. The capabilities of Clerk Gibbs and Sheriff Lee were no mean fac tors in helping to facilitate the business of the court. They are both efficient officers. PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919 MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO. The Business Activity of Nash ville in the Year 1867. The industries in about Nash ville in 1857 was for the most part, farming. Taking the court house square as the centre there was a farm to the north, a farm to the cast, a farm to the south, but the west was not a farming district. On the farm north of the court house square a man by the name of Goodwin lived. As visitors to the Goodwin family I became ac quainted with Miss Turner, later Mrs. Frier, mother of Editor Frier of the Douglas Enterprise, and still later Mrs. Kendrick. Mr. and Mrs. Bradford and their three maiden daughters lived to the east of the court house square. They owned ten or twelve acres of land in that direction, parallelo: gram in shape. On these few acres of land the three young women raised corn, cotton, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, rice, peas. They had their small herd of cattle, a few pigs and chickens galore. In fact they provided a handsome living for themselves and parents. What did they use for motive power in plowing their field? An ox from their herd of cattle. He was fed only while being used for plowing; when not so engaged he was turn ed out on the burn with the other cattle. Oh! “Where there is a will there is a way.” This property afterwards became that of Dr. Win. If. Goodman. He built a wooden office building on the south corner, a wooden resi dence in the centre, and on the north owner is the Ilansell hotel. This latter is a transformation of the old wooden court house, which Dr. Goodman bought, moved to this corner and remodeled into a very comfortable small hotel. Speaking of the wooden court house reminds me to say it was the first Berrien county had: It was built in 1857, according to tradi tion, from heart pine lumber that had never been turpentined, and it is stated that the timbers are still well preserved. The county’s business grow to such proportions that this wooden building became inadequate to the demands upon it and the county authorities de termined to build a more commo dious brick building, a quarter of a century ago. To the south of the court house square was the farm of W. I). Grif fin, father of Judge W. H. Griffin and Mrs. Ed Lamb, two of the most prominent families of the Nashville of those days. The de scendants of Mrs. Lamb are still prominent people in the affairs of Nashville and Berrien county. In the corner of the field, directly south of the southwest corner of the court house square Mr. W. D. “Dumps” Griffin owned a wooden store building and did a consider able mercantile business. On the north side of the court house square, about where the Marion Hotel now stands was a four-room wooden building, one half of which was occupied by H. T. Peeples and B. F. Whittington, (Peeples & Whittington) the local firm of attorneys. Both members of the firm reared large families of children, all of whom have taken high rank as citizens, among them Judge Henry B. Peeples and Kev. B. F. Whittington. The other half of the building was occupied by Dr. H. M. Tally as a drug store and doctor's office. Dr. Talley married a daughter of Judge 11. T. Peeples and a sister of Judge H. B. Peeples, and were the parents of Hon. J. N. Talley, now one of the most prominent attorneys of Ma con, Ga. On the corner w here the Peeples brick block is now r located was the wooden store in which my father Special Notice. J udge R. G. Dickerson requests the Tribune to announce that the jurors to serve at the October Term of Atkinson superior court arc those drawn by himself, and a list of whom was published last week in the paper. The fact that Sheriff Leggett had served the panels of jurors drawn by Judge Summerall for the January Term, 1920, has creat ed some confusion. Therefore, Judge Dickerson wants it under stood that, unless they have some other business, the jurors drawn at the June Term for service at January Term need not attend court, notwithstanding they have been served by tlic Sheriff. Issuing Bad Checks. Drawers of bad checks who have no funds in the bank to cover them are going to find much hard er sledding after the new banking law goes into effect on Jan. 1,1920. 'l’lie authors of this bill took occa sion to slip in a section which supersedes the act of 1914 in re gard to “worthless checks” and greatly strengthens it. The new law makes the drawing of a check without funds to cover it prima facie evidence of fraud. All that the solicitor will have to do will be to show the bad check, then it will bo up to the accused to show that ho wrote it without criminal intent. Under the act of 1914 the draw or of a bad check is allowed thirty days in which to make it good. It would seem that the new law re peals this feature, but the ques tion will doubtless be raised for f lic courts to decide. Another feature of the old law not included in the new is that the check must be given for some thing of value. Under this section the courts have held that a man could not be prosecuted for a bad cheek given to pay an occounl as the merchant still stood on his account just as he did before the check was given and had lost noth ing by the transaction. Under the new law a bad check is prima facie evidence of fraud and nothing is said about the financial loss in volved in the transaction. conducted a mercantile business during the year 1867. Across the street from the north west corner of the court house square, where the Tygart store is now located was a wooden store building in which Mr. James Slater, father of Win. Slater who, a few years later, was drowned in Lake lamonia, south of Thomasville, did business. This building was used in later years, during the re gime of the Farmer’s Alliance, as a farmer’s co-operative store. While it was being so used it was burned —one of the very few fires Nashville has ever experienced. A man by the name of Bussey, the manager of the business, was charg ed with the burning. Don’t think he was ever prosecuted but he was forced to leave the county in dis grace. There were two or three other wooden stores across the street from the west side of the court house square, but only one was oc cupied. It was opposite the south west corner. J. B. l'aramore (father of John H. Paramore, who developed into a mathematician and taught Arithmetic in every section of this country) did a small business in this building. 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. The Tribune regrets to learn of the illiness of Mrs. Samantha Paulk at her country home near Leliaton. The Tribune wants to know who and where lives Dr. E. J. Hall, appointed by the Federal govern ment and Georgia State Board of Health to treat venereal diseasee in Atkinson county? Don’t know any such physician in the county. A report from the Department of Commerce, at Washington, shows there were 290 bales of cot ton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Atkinson county from the crop of 1919 prior to Septem ber 25, as compared with 814 for the same period last year. Atkinson county has ajhig army truck to aid in her road building. It was driven through from Macon to Pearson by L. L. Sutton. It is built of case hardened steel, and is prepared to pull trailers to its entire capacity. It is quite a curiosity to our people who have seen it. The public school at Leliaton is progressing nicely under the man agement of Miss Charlotte lticket son, the teacher. There are thir ty three pupils in the school, divided into seven grades. The number of grades makes it diffi cult for one teacher to handle, but Miss Ricketson is handling the situation admirably and to the satisfaction of patrons. Superintendent Booth is expect ing, during the latter part of the month, a visit from Prof. I. S. Smith, State supervisor of schools, who will spend three days in visiting the schools of the county. He will also visit the schools at Axson, Pearson and Willacooehee. Prof. Smith is a native of Clinch county, reared in the Mud Creek district, is one of the many lawyers the Mud Creek district has furnished to the country. He, however, learned to likepedagogingto petti fogging, and has risen rapidly in that sphere of usefulness. An examination of applicants for the position of census enumer ator will be held in the near future in each county of the Eleventh district. Mr. W. A. Little, the supervisor of this district, writes: “I have not yet received one third as many applications as there are places to be filled. The census work will begin Jan. 2, 1920. In the city districts it will be com pleted in two weeks; in the coun try districts it will be completed in one month. Enumerators will earn up to six dollars a day. Pre ference will be given to soldiers, sailors and marines. Ladies are eligible.” The Reason Why. The Moultrie Observer offers the following excuse for the profit eers in corn meal: “The South Georgia mills are grinding nice new white corn. Around Moul trie they are grinding it extensive ly. If a man wants cheap meal he can buy a bushel of corn at $1.25, shuck it and shell it and carry it to mill. The miller will take out a toll, but he will give back the same amount of meal that is bought at the stores for a bushel, and for which the stores charge $2.60. (This last quotation is taken from a leading Moultrie store today.) That is all there is to it. The world is demanding ‘service’ and has become so lazy that we pay to have corn shelled and carried to mill for us.” To get the county news subscribe for the Tribune, $1 a year. £I.OO A YEAR Atkinson Teacher's Institute. The first institute for teachers of Atkinson county was held in the Pearson High School building last Saturday. It was an ideal Indian Summer day and, while all the teachers of the county were not present, there was a splendid attendance and all seemed fully alive to the import ance of the work in which they arc engaged. The Tribune did not hear all of the discussions nor witness all of the practical demonstrations as to how to teach different branches of leorning. However, those he heard and witnessed were excellent. There was nothing dull or prosaic about it. Miss Emily Curls’ disquisition of the subject, “Prerequisites to High School work” showed earnest thought and careful analysis. The leading thoughts were: that the lower grades of education is merely a preparation for higher grades of work to follow; that the path load ing to education is continually at taining to height, depth and breadth, broadening out to illimit able fields of research and explor ation, bringing joy in the pursuit; that it was true some of the sub jects to bo learned as prerequisites to high school work seem stupid, dull and uninteresting and the students find no joy in them, and wonder why they are being ham pered with them; they are but sta tions along the railway of educa tion and must be passed through to reach the destination, and if the student will persevere these subjects can be overcome ane real joy found in doing the work. Prof. Warren’s talk on the sub ject of “Reading” was a lucid ex position of what it takes to consti tute reading. The conclusion was that an article or chapter is not read unless the readers grasps the meaning the author intended to convey by his composition. Prof. Warren is the principal of Willa coochee high school and graciously came to the institute to lend his presence and encouragement to the teachers assembled. Miss Beulah Roberts’ demonstra- tion how to teach tots m the first, second and third grades how to count and become interested in mathematics was splendid and shows she is mistress of that situ ation. Miss Roberts is one of our Atkinson county girls who has found joy in the vocation of school teaching, and is a most successful instructor. The editor did not hear the dis cussions by Miss Elizabeth Liles, teacher of the Red Bluff school, and Prof. If. M. McNeal, principal of the Sycamore school. Prof. Homer Corbitt, principal of the consolidated Axson school, gave a short but satisfactory method of keeping order in school. r l he editor was given an oppor tunity, thanks to Superintendent Booth, of trying to enlist and in terest the teachers in their county newspapers and endeavoured to point out to them the corelation existing betweep the teachers and the editor; both are engaged in the work of education, the newspaper having, the wider sphere. He stated that the teacher and editor could be mutually helpful to each other if they would only try to do so; that they were at perfect liber ty to call on him for any service he could render. After some instructions from thc- Superintendent to the teachers, the institute adjourned to meet the second Saturday in November, probably at Willacooehee. The meeting was pleasant and interesting and the editor believes every one present received inspira tion that was worth while. Power discovers the real dispo sition of the man.
