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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.
