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PEARSON® TRiB UNE VOL. 5-NO. 44 SOUTH GEORGIA. News of Our Neighbors Told in Pointed Paragraphs Douglas is to liave a religious journal, issued semi monthly, The Church Evangel. It is to be a Baptist paper and edited Joy prstor T. S. Hubert. The Colquitt oouuty camp of Confederate veterans has lost three Commanders during the past year. These old soldiers are fast passing away. More agitation has commenced in behalf of the Altainaha bridge at Sister’s bluff. It seems to take a lot of "Chin music” to get the thing going. The Clinch county primary for the nomination of county officers will he held on the 20th of April, the day for the preferential pri mary for President:. Cook superior court, on calendar for the second Monday in March, will be. adjourned on account of the epidemic of influen za prevalent at Adel. There were three deaths at Adel on Tuesday of last week Messrs. J. A. Sutton and ,1. W. Hendry and Mrs. H. Weii —from pneu monia following influenza. It has been given out in Valdos ta that loiterers and idlers must move on or take a job with the chain gang. Splendid idea to make people earn their living. In the run over primary in Ware county C. L. Mattox was elected Ordinary, .1. W. McQuaig was elected Tax Receiver, and W. K. Booth was elected Treasurer. Col. Louie A. Burton, the law yer at Nieholls, announces t hat he iR in the thick of the fight for a new county to be named Nieholls. He has a jeemsdandy job on his hands. Know by experience. Clinch county has $30,000 of un appropriated money in her treasury, but proposes to use it on eight miles of her llomerville-Waycross road to be constructed of sand and clay and concrete culverts and bridges. The newspapers of South Geor gia are speaking out in condemna tion of the modern carnival. The Adel News calls upon the city council to put such a high specific tax upon them t hat Adel will be spared their presence. The Candler county court house squabble is running the gamut of the courts. It is now in the State supreme court, and its decision is expected to settle it once and for all time. May it be reached speedily on the calendar. The $15,000 school bond issue, voted some time ago by the Chula school district of l ift county, has been validated by the Supreme court. Judge Eve of the Super ior court, had already validated them. J 1 is decision was carried to the Supreme court and affirmed. The Ambrose-Euigma Banking Company has been rent in twain, becoming two separate and dis tinct institutions. One will do business at Enigma. Berrien coun ty. and known as the Enigma Banking Company, and the other at Ambrose. Coffee county, under the name of Bank of Ambrose. Mr. R. C. King Tells a Wonderful Story About Rats. Read It. ‘‘•‘For months my place was alive with rats. Losing chickens, eggs, feed. Friend told me to try RAT SNAP. 1 did. Somewhat disap pointed at first not seeing many dead rats, but in a few days didn’t see a live one. What were not killed are not around my place. BAT SNAP sure does the trick.” Three sizes. 25c, 50c. SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed by F. E. McNeal, Pearson, Georgia. Death of Isaac Sims. News from Stockton. Clinch county, brings the intelligence of the sudden death of Mr. Isaac Sir mans, when apparently enjoying the best health. It came as a great shock to the people of Stockton and the section where he resided. The report states that he was out walking over his farm and was approaching near where some men were engaged at work, when he was suddenly observed falling headlong upon his face. The men near by hurried to his side to dis cover that he was surely passing away. He lived but a lew seconds after they reached him, the cause being pronounced as heart failure. Mr. Simians was one of the lead ing citizens of Clinch county, hav ing been born and reared in that county where he had a comfortable home and was considered a pro gressive farmer. He was a con secreatcd Christian, being a mem ber of the Free Will Baptist church, being a devoted church man, as well as a really devoted husband and father. He was laid to rest in the Fender cemetery, near his home, Rev. Neal H. Parrish of Hu- Free Will Baptist church, conduct ing the funeral services. Mr. Simians was well known in Willaeoochee, Kirkland and Pearson, where he frequently cann on business and to visit, relat ives— of whom there are quite a number. The Corbetts of Willaeoochee and Pearson are near relatives being children of a sister. . He is mourned by a devoted widow, Mrs. Nancy Simians, and five sons, as follows: Messrs. J. A. Sirmans, Savannah; I. B. Simians. Ray City; C. M. Simians and .1. R. Sirmans of Stockton. The sorrows of this good family are shared by his entire section of Cl in eh .county. Crosby Thompson’s Forecast Crosby Thompson of \ irginia, who some time ago purchased, at auction in Savannah 5(i,5)00 acres land in Camden county, left tlu cky last night for Washington, where he will continue to work out plans to establish a colony of S weeds and Bohemians on the tract within a year. Before leav ing the city he made the following statement for the Morning News: “For the past three weeks 1 have been engaged in studying eondi tions in Southeast Georgia to de termine just what is necessary to place a colony on Floyd's Neck in Camden county near the coast,. A fine winter climate and plenty of deer and turkey arc not, the inducements for the class of people that settle and turn wild Georgialandsinto prosperous farms and develop industries, which will add to the wealth and importance of the state. “In my opinion the South At lantic coastal plain now offers the only real cheap lands in the conn try. Considering this act, rapid development is assured, if care is taken to surround the first set tlers with such conditions as will con tribute to their success and con tentment. 1 predict that if mj plans arc carried out. there will he more wealth and development on Floyd’s Neck than any other sec tion iii Camden county. “It will take several months to complete my present plans.” “The Rats Around My Place Were Wise,” Says John Ttithill. “Tried everything to kill them. Mixed jxji.son with meal, meat, cheese, etc. Wouldn't touch it. Tried RAT-SNAP, inside of ten days got rid of ail rats.” You don’t have to mix RAT SNA P with food. Saves fussing, bother. Break a cake of RAT-SNAP, lay it where rats scamper. You will see no more. Three sizes, 25c, 50c, SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed by F. E. Me Neal, Pearson, Georgia. Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEARSON, (tEOIKtIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5,1920 SOOTH GEORGIA PIONEERS. Dr. Robert J. Bruce a Resident of Thomasville. When Dr. Bruce’s wife died he was left with two splendid child ren. a girl and a boy. The daught or was the older, named Elizabeth, and she was familiarly called “Bettie.” The son was named William and, of course, called “Bill.” It was in the spring of 1873 that the Tribune editor became ac quainted with these young people, lie and William were of about the same age, and they became inti mate associates. There were then living in Thom asvillc two old bachelors, splendid men and without reproach save (hat they had never married. One of these was a Scotchman, Donald Mel .can, who had seen about eight y summers. He was a tailor by trade. The other was Capt. John Triplett, an ex Confederate soldier, and editor of The Thomasville Times, and said to be about fifty years of age. The Tribune editor was foreman of the mechanical department of ('apt. Triplett's paper, and Mr. A. S. Pendleton, of Valdosta, was one of the printers. Dr. Bruce had an office, a small wooden structure, down on East Broad street, and it was there the Tribune editor would go when he wanted to sec “Bill” Bruce. On the occasion of the incident, which illustrates Dr. Bruce’s sense of the ridiculous, Bill and I had met in the drug store and was making preparations to go bird hunting. Capt. Triplett had been a fre quent visitor at the Bruce home, lie seemed to be charmed with Miss Bettic’s society. In fact, the the gossips had spread it abroad that they were sweethearts anil en gaged to be married. <»n the afternoon in question— Saturday —while Bill and I were iq his room busy getting the guns in shape for the proposed hunt, ('apt. Triplett was a visitor at the home. Dr. Bruce had a big bay horse, named John, which he drove vdien making a professional call, and you could always tell of his pres ence by the Doctor’s mandate, “< i’long John.” Bill and I heard Capt. Triplett when he left the house, and pres ently the familiar voice of the Doctor, “G’long John!” He had made a call, from which he was re turning. It was not his custom to stop short of the stables, but this time he reined up at thefrontgate and came into the house and called: “Bettie, my daughter! Bettie, my daughter!” “Here ! am, father, what can I do for you!” queried Miss Bettie. “1 am going to the lot to put my horse and buggy away,” said the Doctor, “when I return 1 would like to see you in the library.” "Let's wait a Jew minutes, old Boy,” said Bill, “we are going to hear something rich.” The Doctor passed on to the lot, and soon returned went into the library. Miss Belie joined him presently. “What is it-, father?” “Well, Bettie, my daughter, I was just thinking, as I drove up to the house and saw John Triplett leave, that. I would suggest to you that, if you are determined to marry an old bachelor, I would re commend to you old Uncle Donald McLean.” It. was all Bill and I could do to keep from shouting a regular guf faw, but we suppressed it with our handkerchiefs. We heard Miss Bettie leave the library in a run, while Dr. Bruce went up town laughing with his peculiar chuckle. The suggestion was ridiculous in the extreme. Uncle Donald about Grand Old Dixie Land. The following comparison, not altogether odious, is from the pen of Joe Lawrence, of Ashburn, the wealthy South Georgia editor, who spent a part of a big wad, the price of a farm recently sold, in visiting his daughter, Mrs. Nora Lawrence Smith, at Cohoes, N. Y., and perambulating over other bleak and uninviting regions of the frozen zone. Joe grows eloquent; hear him: After an absence of several weeks in the cold and frozen regions of the north, the editor is back home with an enhanced appreciation of dear old Georgia in general and the great Wiregrass country in particular. “Oh, Boy! It's a grand and glorious feeling” to get home from wanderings in a strange land and get your feet under your own table and enjoy yellow legged chicken a la real “home cooking.” Back from the land of snow to sunshine, from frozen rivers to run ning and babbling brooks, from shut-up and steam-heated houses to open windows and doors and rooms heated with the glorious beams of the Southern sun, from where cattle and every animate thing are shut up in barns and where silence reigns on the farms, to where, as we saw this morning on our way to the office, fat cows eating green stuff in the patches, and yards full of chickens, getting fat on the young springing vegeta tion, with the old rooster on the fence showing his satisfaction by crowing and keeping tune to the negro house-maid as she went about her morning’s work singing, and the children laughing on their way to school. From aland cover ed witn snow with no prospect of plowing conditions in several months, to where nearly all the land is plowed and potatoes are being bedded to make a crop to cat with our ’possum this fall, and sugar cane is being planted and everybody is full of the hope of having plenty of long sweetening no matter how short the sugar sup ply may be. From a land of anxie ty and condign care and “kalkalal ing” to the care-free, hilarious, good-humored, hopeful life in Dix ie, where everything is in harmony wjlh the note of the mocking bird and in keeping with the budding flowers. Wonder why everybody don’t come to South Georgia? eighty years of age and Miss Bet tie not more than twenty-four. It was a proposition to join winter and spring. The hunting trip was deferred. I left Thomasville the latter part of June, going to the Savannah News. With the exception of Capt. Triplett, I have seen none of the parties since. But soon Uncle Donald McLean and Dr. Bruce passed away. The latter had gone to see an out-of-town patient. While gone a tremendous flood of rain fell and made the streams al most unpassable. In trying to get back home he was drowned in a stream near the outskirts of town. Capt. Triplett came to an hor rible end, being burned to death a few years ago. William Bruce became a physi cian and located at Bainbridge to practice his profession and, my re collection is, he died during a yel low fever epidemic in Bainbridge. Whether Miss Bettie is living or dead I do not know; whether she married 1 do not know. I never believed she and Capt. Trip lett would marry, and they did not - STRAYED —From my place one young and dark brindle cow, has a calf and marked crop and half crop in one ear and crop and two splits in the other. Any informa tion that will lead to their recov ery will be rewarded. Notify H. W. Woodard, Pearson Ga. JUDGE THOMAS A. PARKER. Some Reminiscences by Judge Warren P. Ward. The last week in December, 1884, wife and I landed in Baxley, Ga., where I went to begin the publica tion of the “Baxley Banner.” One of the first men I met was “Tom Parker.” He operated a lit tle country store near the little "Den” where 1 published the “Banner.” 1 saw him every day; we lived neighbors on the same street; 1 bought a lot from Hon. Hampton Parker, his father, and built a home on it. Tom had a good garden and 1 had none, but we both had vegetables. When business was dull in the store and things all quiet in the Banner “den,” 1 often went to the store to hear him tell some good or funny joke. On Sundays we parted company much of the time. He was Super intendent of the Baptist Sunday school and I of the Methodist. But we often met in the prayer meet ings and in the church services. Tom w as a good singer and he lov ed to sing. And thus our lives moved along until we decided to study law. We got a bunch of books and, under the tutorship of lion. J. I. Carter, then solicitor-general of the Bruns wick circuit, we began as disciples of Blackstone. We studied Black stone like we did the catechism. The old book had questions and answers, and in that w'ay we could guess pretty well what progress, if any, |we were making. Often at night Tom would come to my home and w ife would ask the questions and, like schoolboys, Tom and I would answer as best we could. In due course of time we applied for admission to the bar at Baxley. To be exact, I think it was at the March term of Appling county Su perior court, 1880. Simon W. Hitch, Dave Roberts and one or two other attorneys examined us in open court. To our surprise we stood a splendid examination and passed. Judge Mershon swore us in and in tones solemn said, “Young men, you may now put your families on half rations.” And so we made a start as law yers. We became partners in the practice and went around the cir cuit together. Tom had a little pony horse that we drove from Baxley to Douglas, thirty-six miles, and sold our legal advice arid wise counsel to a long suffering public. September first, 1887, 1 moved to Florida and all our business be hind. Tom continued to farm and practice law until he was elected Judge of the Brunswick circuit, which position he held with great credit to himself and to the coun try. When charging a grand jury he was at his best. He was a ter ror to evil doers, yet kind and con siderate to any one who might in some way be a victim of circum stances. His long experience on the bench gave him a clear insight to human nature and to human need. He saw the tragedies of life acted out in the most dramatic way in court. Saw the professional criminal lying to conceal his crime, saw the un fortunate man plead guilty at the bar of the court and ask for mercy. With an even hand he held the scales of justice and administered the law in the fear of God and for the good of his country. Yielding to the wishes of many friends he ran for Congress and was defeated. He ought to have been elected. But the wind was strong and he lost. But in losing the race he did not lose the love and respect of his countrymen. Many people saw their mistake in permitting his defeat and promised to send him to Congress the next term, but he had made other plans $1.50 A YEAR Sycamore School Closes. The Sycamore school which is located about three miles north of Pearson closed their 1919-’2O term last Thursday. A very interesting program was arranged for the oc casion. Addresses were made by Superintendent, Booth and Col. T. S. Winn. A bounteous dinner was served at 1 o’clock. After the dinner recess the children’s exer cises took place, and was very en tertaining. There was a large crowd present, and say that the efforts of Prof. 11. M. McNeal, the principal and Miss Lula Harrell, his assistant, were not in vain. Methodist Church Directory. The preaching hours of the Pear son Charge will be as follows: Pearson —Second Sunday, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Fourth Sunday at 7:30 p. m. New Providence —Second and Fourth Sundays at 3:30 p. m. Bridges’ Chapel—Third Sun day at 11 a. m. and Saturday be fore at 1J a. m. Live (>ak —Third Sunday; 3:30 p. m. Wesley Chapel—First Sunday at 11 a. m. and Saturday before at 11 a. m. Sweetwater—First Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Kirkland —Fourth Sunday at 11 a. m. Third Sunday, 7:30 p. m. 666 has proven it will cure Ma laria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Fe ver, Colds and LaGrippe. Irwin County Primary. The primary election for the nomination of county officers for Irwin county was held Wednesday, February 25th, with the following result: ()rd inary—James Wh i tley. Clerk —Thomas Harper. Sheriff—W. E. Tyler. Tax Collector —G. M. Tucker. Tax Receiver —Albert G. Young. Supt. Schools —Philips Newbern. Co. Commissioner —L. R. Tucker. Coroner —VV. J. Roberts. Surveyor —J. A. Roberts. It is noted that Judge Philip Newbern, having been legislated out of the judgship of the City Court of Oeilla, has landed in a job, County Superintendent of school, that is not likely to slide out from under him without notice. Glad he was successful and believe he will be an energetic and efficient superintendent. for life and refused to run. It was best that he did not run —best He gave himself to his church and to his country. He went like a flame of fire all over South Georgia, in the cities, in villages and in the waste places of the country. He was an Evangel in the cause of re ligion and education, and loyal to his country and her law's. Ilis love, like his Lord’s, went to all who were in need. He was joyal to the Baptist church, yet he thought it not a thing inconsistent to make an address to some other congregation. He was a Christian and a humanitarian. But be is gone and we shall miss him. Who can take his place? Let us hope that the Lord Almighty, who rais ed him up, will raise up some one else to carry on the work he did so well and laid it down so young in life. Ask Your Soldier Boy How “Cooties” Got Such a Hold. He’ll tell you that the battle fronts of Europe were swarming with rats, which carried the dan gerous vermin and caused our men misery. Don’t let rats bring dis ease into your home. When you see the first one get RAT-SNAP. That w ill finis them quick. Three sizes, 25c, 50e, SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed by F. E. McNeae, Pearson, Georgia.
