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PEARSON ® TRIBUNE Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. VOL. 6-NO. 3 NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Gleanings from All Sections of South Georgia. Monday and Tuesday, May 31 and June 1, a number of Negro ministers and educators of South ■"Georgia, under the leadership of Prof. J. I>. Ellis, of Douglas, will convene at Douglas to discuss the special problems of t hat race. The Commercial Association of Thomas county is agitating a man ager form of government for all the municipalities of that county, in cluding the city of Thomasville. How the “Manager form” operates has not been given to the public. The original Board of Tax Equal izers, of Cook county, having all resigned, a new Board has been appointed, consisting of Messrs. E. M. Rogers, T. S. Thomas and Aaron Daniels. The job is not a very pleasant one and folks don’t care to serve on i(. The fifth Sunday meeting of the Smyrna association will be held at Saginaw, .in Coffee county. That of the Piedmont association wiil be held at Folkston. Both these meetings have excellent and help ful programs covering three days each —Friday, Saturday and Sun day —May 28th, 29th and 30th. Maj. James! fglethorpe Varnedoe, of Valdosta, has been chosen as a member of a committee to compile and publish a complete history of old Midway Presbyterian church, in Liberty county. Before and during the civil war he was a mem ber of old Midway, as well as his parents and family. Abetter man could not have been found for the task. Rev < >. B. 'tally, former pastor of the Pearson Methodist circuit, who was appointed by the last South Georgia conference to the Shell man circuit, has been transferred by Bishop Candler to Union Point in the North Georgia conference. The transfer was made at Mr. Tally's request, as the health of himself and family demanded a change of climate. The necessary stock has been subscribed to insure a meat pack ing house for Ocilla. The capital stock is SBO,OOO, one-half of which will be preferred and the other half will be common stoek. The articles of incorporation provide for an increase of capital to $1,000,- 000. The enterprise w ill begin on a modest scale and broaden out as there shall be demand. Three Colquitt county candi dates are in the race for senator from the Forty-seventh district, composed of Colquitt, Tift and Turner counties, to fill the unexpir ed term of Senator Parker, lately deceased. They are M. M. Kend all, farmer and business man; Al fred R. Kline, lawyer; James L. Dowling, lawyer. It is dollars to doughnuts that Kendall, the far mer and business man, will be elected. The "Waycross Methodist Dis trict conference which has just closed its annual session, which was held at Douglas, elected the following layman as delegates to the annual South Georgia Confer ence to be held at Moultrie in November: W. A. Seaman and W. \V. McCord, Waycross; L. K. Heath aud W. T. Cottingham, Douglas; J. O. Ward. Blaeksbear; W. B. Gibbs, Jesup; James McEl reath, Kingsland, and Dan Cowart, Fairfax. Don’t Always Blame Hens When Eggs Are Scarce. Rats may be getting them —U. S. Government Bulletins prove they knowhow to get them. Break a cake of RAT-SNAP into small pie ces and place where rats travel. If there RAT-SNAP will get them — positively. Three sizes, 25c, 50e, SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed by F. E. McNeal, Pearson, Georgia. Letter from Florida. Eijoeuberky, May 13. 1920. To the Editor of the Tribune; According to promise I will tell your readers about my trip across the beautiful Lake Okeehobee to the city of Moor-Haven. We, uncle, cousin and myself, left Elderberry Saturday afternoon about 1 o'clock on the "EoLtie,” a nice launch owned by (’apt. N. J. Thompson. The launch was load ed with vegetables, poultry and eggs. It was a beautiful scene. The banks of the canal were lined w ith hyacinths in full bloom. Leaving the canal the shallow lake waters were also covered with them. It had the appearance of a huge flower garden set to guard the dark blue waters of the lake. Many ducks and other birds in great numbers were swimming in the water as we passed along. We crossed the narrow part of the lake and entered the Moor Haven canal, and the engine refus ed to work and we were tied up about thirty minutes, while Cap tain Thompson was lixiu • it. We went on, passed a large dredge boat and soon thereafter wore safely anchored at the docks of Moor-11 a veil. Moor-Haven is a beautiful and thriving town, built on nfuck land and has all the modern con venienees of older places. The people there are mostly from the North and are very kind to visitors. We attended church while there and returned to Elderbon*v Mon day afternoon. T g IGt BILLIE BI STER, Seminole Indian, 75 years of age. In regard to the Indians. They are very odd; live in little tents or huts made of Palmetto fans. When they want to move they put atl their belongings on a one ox wagon or a little canoe, if on a stream of water. The canoe is a cut off of a big cipress log, scraped and worked out into proper shape. The Indian women wear large full gathered skirts ,f rainbow colors. They have ruffles of all the gay colors they can gel. al though they never hern them. The waists arc Tibet style, with large ruffles around the shoulders. They wear no hats or shoes of any kind. They are always very clean, and take special care of their hair, which is long, coarse and black. The children dress with lights, waists, long skirts and no shoes. The girl’s hair is never cut. They still love beads and all wear them. One woman will have as many as a peek of beads around her neck. They also wear money and safety pins for ornaments. The men wear caps and moea sins and some wear dresses. One Indian brought his squaw and 8 days old pickaninny fifteen mi lessor a white lady to doctor. Best wishes to all, . Effik Sutton. We are proud of the confidence doctors, druggists and the public have in GOG Chill and Fever Tonic. I’JEAIiSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 21,1920 MEMORIES OF THE LONG AGO. Nashvlile Young People Attend Milltown School Closing. Monday the editor goes to the Press meeting at Nashville and Tuesday to the fish dinner at M illlown. These events, so near at hand, awakens in his memory afresh events of more than half a century ago. To be precise, it was in the Spring of 18G7. In these events both Nashville and Milltown had a part. At that lime Milltown had a most excellent educational institu tion presided over by Elder O. C. Pope, who came to Milltown from Sandersviilc, Washington county, to be the pastor of the Baptist church and also principal of the School, lie was a young benedict, of polished manner and thoroughly educated. He was a most com petent instructor and created quite an admirable reputation for the Milltown school. His sister, Miss Virginia, was bis capable assist ant. It was in the springtime, the lat ter part of May, the school was to have special closing exercises. The people of Milltown were put ting forth every effort to make it, au event to be long remembered — I remember it as if it was yester day. invitations had been sent to t lie young people of Nashville to at tend this school closing. So ar rungements were made whereby a number of Nashville's girls and boys could go, among them my brother, Sam, myself. My brother was just home from school at Val dosta and ready for an outing. But there was a dark obstacle in the way of brother and I going. Mother was practically an invalid at that time/a laundress could not be secured to put our underwear In condition for iis to wear, and brother had about given up the t rip and made his supposed disap pointment known by his ill humor. This editor confesses he wasn’t as sweet as a peach over the pros pects. It was Wednesday morning, prior to the eventful day, mother called me to her and said: “Son, I am sad over your apparent dis apppointment and want to suggest a wAf to overcome the obstacles. You’ve played the part of cook and housemaid all the year, suppose you try your hand at laundering. I believe you, with my instructions, can do the laundering all right.” That afternoon 1 got, busy; selected all the necessary piece's for brother and I, gave* them a thorough washing and rinsing. The next morning, under the di rection of mother I | repared the starch and starched the clothes and put them out to dry. That afternoon I dampened and ironed them. Mother all the while, was near at hand to explain every de tail of the task. [Boys, never for get your mothers; they are your dearest friends on earth.] To the average boy laundering does not appeal as a manly task, but f was proud of my first expen dice. Mother approved it as a real neat job. 1 was proud of it because it drove away disappoint ment and would please brother Sam, who w'as not wise to the effort I was making to overcome the obstacle in the w'ay of the Milltown trip. Early Friday morn ing we were ready, looking just as trim and neat as any of the boys who made the trip. Our home was about a mile enst of Nashville and on the then Mill town road, and we were to be pick up on the way. There was three two horse wagons, furnished by Judges James F. Goodman, H. T. Peeples and E. J. Lamb, and when brother and I got aboard there was no room to spare. As i remem her the party, the ladies were Mrs. Nope, Not This Alien. Judge James Freeman, who edits the Douglas Enterprise Note Book, has this to say: “Editor Allen, of the Pearson Tribune, says he was in Brooks county in the year of 1863. 1 was in that county, in Quitman, and recollect “going in washing” in the Paisaeola [Piscola] with a little red headed fellow, named Allen, wonder if that was him. He was some swimmer, too, and so was your Uncle Jim.” No, it was the other fellow; I did the most of my swimming at that time in the Okapilco, at the ford on the road from Radford’s Mill to Quitman, and about two miles from where the late Senator William S. West was raised; at any rate, it was there I first be came acquainted with that, gentle man. It was there I first became acquainted with Dr. James R. Fol som, the father of Montgomery M. Folsom, the famous author and newspaper man, and who preceded John Herring in writing interest ingly of “Hancock’s bull.” Did you ever read Montgomery’s book of “Prose and Poems?” Well, his father made my wife a present of one; she loaned it to Columbus Fulwood, of Tilton, to read about “Hancock’s” bull, or something, at a literary society, and 1 guess he got frightened and let it get lost. Auyliow, like its author, its gone. Nope, it was the other fellow', Uncle Jim. McDonald, the widowed daughter of Judge Peeples’, and her step 1 1 aughter, Miss Vi rginia Mel>onald, Misses Helen, Carrie and Annie Byrd, Poena Goodman, Victoria Dobson, Lula and Mary Morgan, and Miss Simpson whose given name have escaped me; the gentle men were Dr. 11. M. Talley, Silas Tygart, John Goodman, Henry Peeples, W. 11. Griffin, William Slater, Arthur and John Luke, brother and myself. It, was a jolly party, sure enough! The party reached Milltown about 10 o’clock. The way we had to go it was seventeen miles from Nashville to Milltown. The school was housed in a large two story frame building, erected con jointly for a Masonic Lodge and School. The exercises had begun and the building or school room crowded to its utmost capacity. At noon, a bountiful and splen did basket dinner was served on a lawn under some wide spreading oaks. Very few of the country folks who lived closed by remained for the exhibition at-night, so there was plenty of room in the audi torium and everybody got a scat. It was too far for the Nashville l»rty to go home, they remained for the exhibition and were enter tained for the night in the hospit able homes of Milltown. Brother and myself spent the night at the home of Elder Pope. Milltown, at that time, w r as an important trading point and had been for years. The people of the tow'n and adjacent country were well to-do—-some of them wealthy —refined arid cultured, and it was a delight to mingle with them. It was on this, my first visit to Milltown, I formed the acquaint ance of Judge Lacy E. Lastinger, who has just celebrated bis golden w'edding anniversary; he was single then. Judge Lastinger’s father, Will iam Lastinger, built the original Banks' mill and created the mill pond from the waters of which the fish for the Editors’ dinner is to be eaught. At the time of which I write he had already sold the property to Henry Banks, a weal thy North Georgian, and it is still the property of his estate accord ing to my best information. ATKINSON COUNTY. Items of News Gathered from Various Sources. Miss Louise James is spending some time with her brothers at Miami, Fla. She writes her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter James, that the hoys are getting along nicety furnishing drinking water to tlii‘ people, at 10c. a gallon, from Crystal Springs, two hun dred miles away. This water has a national reputation for purity. There was a most unfortunate affair in the northern part of the county last Friday. Mr. Leonard Morris and one of his croppers, Mr. Lewis McClellan, got into a wrangle about the crop. In the heat of the quarrel and impulsive from anger, the former struck the lat ter side of the face with a hammer or some other instrument, the blow breaking both jaw bones and knocking out several teeth. Mr. McClellan was carried to Waycross on the evening train for surgical attention. Hope the surgeons can remedy the icsult of the blow. The Willacoochee High School closes Ibis afternoon with the regu lar exercises. ITof. Booth says the school, is in fine condition, but owing to untoward events oc curring in I lie faculty just at the time preparations should have been under way, be thought it wise and best not to attempt for mal commencement exercises and so advised the trustees. 'The ab rupt going away of Prof. Warren, the principal, caused bis classes to get behind in their studies, aud I’rof. Booth saw it would be impos sible for them to catch up with their work during the term, if pre parations for commencement exer cises were added to their tasks. The Tribune has just turned out a neat job of Letter Heads for •‘The Mary Field Farm,” the pro perty of Mrs. J. Walter James. Mr. James, telling bow this name originated, gave the editor an in teresting paragraph in the histroy of that section of Atkinson county. Many yc#isago this property form ed a part of the Williams’ estate. At the division of his estate after his daughter, Mrs. Mary Sears — mother of Mr. Dennis Sears, now of Willacoochee —drew this par ticular field as her share of the landed estate. This incident gave rise to the name; ever since that time it has been designated and referred to as the “Mary” field. It- had been a cultivated field for years', but at the time Mrs. James purchased it the fencing and build iugs had gone to decay. Mr. aud Mrs. James lias made a splendid home and farm of it, and delight in the name: “The Mary-Field Farm.” A trip among the farms of At kinson county reveals the fact that there are many fields of splendid oats soon to be ready for the harvest. The com crop is backward, because of the incessant rains, but unless there is a drouth at fruiting season, a bountiful yield may be expected. The to bacco acreage is not as great as planned, but the prospect is bright ening for a crop of tirstclass tobac co. The season has not been .propitious for cotton, but its friends Let Mrs. Mary Graves Tell You Her Poul try Raising Experience. “Three years ago bought ad In cubator, this yoar I've made mon ey. Rats stole my. baby chicks. Didn’t know until a friend gave me a cake of RAT-SNAP. Next finding found two dead rats in the hennery. Kept finding them. Sud denly they disappeared altogether. It’s the only sure rat killer.” Take Mrs. Graves’ advice. Three sizes, 25c, 60c, SI.OO. Sold and guaran teed by F. E. McNeAL, Pearson, Atkinson county, Georgia. $1.50 A YEAH County's Youngest Farmer. So far as the Tribune can ascer tain Tilden Smith, age sixteen, is the youngest farmer in Atkinson county. If any one of the Tribune readers knows of a younger the editor would appreciate it if they will send liim the name, age and record of such young farmer. When his father died in the fall of 1919, Tilden had to leave high school and assume his father’s place on the farm, and the responsi bility of supporting his widowed mother, and six younger brothers and sisters. He met the situation bravely; with the assistance of other members of the family he made a crop in 1919, enough for them to subsist on this year with meat lard and syrup to sell. Tilden has a superior intelligence, equal to that of many mature men, and prosesses a self-confidence that is reassuring; doesn’t need or want some one to hold him by the band. Stock raising is his favorite vo cation and lias been from an early age. He is very successful. With the heavy responsibility which he is carrying one would suppose lie would lose his boyish ways but he has not; be likes sports as does any other boy, and loves parties and other diversions, as well as pretty girls, as much so •as any youngster. Although young he is a man in size and weight, tipping the beam at 185 pounds. Give Atkinson county plenty of such determined young farmers aild she would blossom as the rose, and teem with wealth. Valdosta’s State School. The Tribune editor acknowledges the receipt, -through the courtesy of Judge W. E. Thomas, of an in vitation to a banquet tendered members of the Georgia legislature out at the South Georgia Normal College. The editor appreciates it more because he is not a mem ber of neither house of the General Assembly —first, second or third. The editor regrets that he could not attend, because previous en gagements and pressing business matters claimed his attention, so hi' could not possibly get away at that time. The many invited guests who did attend had a glorious good time, enjoyed the good things in sight aud, at the banquet, made many pleastan references to the plucky little city, her people and her enterprises, aud especially the South Georgia Normal College and its large attendance of girls, and were willing to give them anything in their power. Representative Stewart, of At kinson county, said he was going ot try Id get his friend, Lott War ren, Sr., of Turner county to amend his proposed bill dividing Goorgia into two states so that it would at once name Valdosta as the Capital of the new State of South Georgia are working with all wisdom and energy and will succeed in produc ing some cotton. There is an increas ed acreage in sugar cane, and it is growing off vigorously. Sweet potatoes is a crop receiving special attention and, unless there be some providential interference, a big harvest will be gathered and a curing house will be in demand. “We Picked Up Seven Larie Dead Rats First Morning Using Rat-Snap.” So writes Mr. B. E. Carpenter, Woodbridge, N. J. “We lost 18 small chicks one night, killed by rats. Bought some RAT-SNP and picked up 7 lnrge dead rats next morning and iu 2 weeks didu’t see a single rat. RAT-SNAP is good ahd sure.” Comes in cake ready for use. Three sizes, 25c, 50, SI.OO. Sold and Guaranteed by F. E. MoNjsajl, Pearson, Ga.
