PEARSONffiTRiBUNE
VOL. 6—NO. 14
ATKINSON COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
Miss Ethel Turner has returned
to her home, near Leliaton, after a
pleasant visit to the home of Mrs.
llermen Davis at Folkston.
Mr. J. L. Turner and father, of
Tift county, has purchased the J.
F. Lambert place, on the eastern
corporate limits of Pearson. The
farm was too large for Mr. Lam
bert, and hence the sale. The
price paid was $5,000. Mr. Lam
bert purposes to remain in Atkin
son county, where he has lived for
more than a quarter of a century.
The Atkinson County Sunday
School convention will be held in
the Raptist church at Willacoo
chee, Wednesday and Thursday,
August 11th and 12th. It is
earnestly requested that each
Sunday School in the county send
a number of delegates. The
citizens of Willaeoochee are anx
ions to show their hospitality to a
large and enthusiastic convention.
The Tribune announces the de
mise of "Aunt” Amanda Thomp
son (Loveioy), a very old and re
spec ted colored woman, who died
about a week ago at her home two
miles northwest of Pearson. Her
first husband, Lovejoy, left her a
home and small farm where she
has resided for more than twenty
five years, and until death from
senility. Her exact age is unknown
but thought to be well up in the
eighties.
It would be timely for Atkin
son county's Commissioners of Road
and Revenues to make a sched
ule of her post road mileage.
This Information w ilf Ii ave to be
forthcoming when distribution of
the motor ear tax is to be made
under the Knight law, which has
passed the House and will surely
pass the Senate and be signed by
Cov. Dorsey. Don’t wait until
you are called upon for these statis
tics, but have them ready for the
call.
The colored farmers of Atkin
son county are, today and tomor
row, holding at the Cross Road's
school house the first Farmer's
t’lub meeting for the new county,
Jasper Pearson and Oliver John
son, two progressive colored citi
zens, are in the lead and the pro
gram of exercises show that they
have selected proper subjects for
such a meeting and that they have
all matters well in hand. The
Tribune expects much good to
grow out of this enterprise.
The facility of the Axson public
school is complete. Mr. Henry
C: Douglas, principal, and Misses
Harris and Ruth and Loduski
Darker as assistants. The school
will begin the 1920-21 scholastic
year about the first week in Sep
tember. This information was re
ceived in a news-letter from the
Tribune’s Axson corres ondent
which reached the office while the
editor was away on his vacation,
and was not discovered by him
until last Saurday and the other
news items were out of date and
cannot be used.
Mr. J. Audie Wall, of near Ax
son, placed on the editors table
last Saturday morning a 12-incb
peach limb on whicn was growing
one dozen perfect peaches of the
“Chinese Cling” variety. Mr.
Wall says the tree on which' these
peaches grew is about seven years
old and bore this year more than
two bushels of peaches, free from
worms or other imperfections. This
is the result of spraying the tree in
accordance with a formula furnish
ed him. This demonstrates that
firstelass peaches can be grown on
the grey pebbly soil of Atkin
son county, when you properly
care for the trees.
County S. S. Convention.
A County-wide Attendance Con
test has been organized in con
nect ion with the approaching
Atkinson County Sunday School
Conveution to be held in the I!ap
tist Church, Willacooehee, Ha. on
Wednesday, August l lth, accord
ing to R, 1). Webb, General Super
intendent of the Georgia Sunday
School Association.
At this convention an attract
ive banner will be publicly award
ed to the Sunday School having
the largest number of delegates in
proportion to the distance travel
ed. Under this plan, ten delegates
coming ten miles each to the Con
vention count the same as twenty
delegates traveling only five miles
each, thus making it: fair for all,
both near and far.
The banner becomes the prop
erty of the Sunday school winning
it, and may be taken home for
permanent display il the Sunday
School room.
Gospel Meeting at Cogdellf
There will begin a gospel meet
ing, Providence permitting, at
Cogdell, Ga., on the Way cross and
Western railroad, August 25t h and
continue for ten days. It is the
desire of those back of these series
of meetings to begin a work here
that will prove a blessing, not only
to this immediate vicinity but to
to the surrounding "community as
well.
A full gospel will be preached,
with special effort to exclude all
unwholesome extremes. Pray for
us and attend the meeting if pos
sible.
The workers for this year are
Rev. Howard W. Sweeter, Ashley,
Ky., Rev. Gordon 11. Rainey, Will
more, Ky., and Rev. S. J. Francis.
Willmore, Ky. Paul M, Lam;.
Marcus Tomlinson Dead.
The Tribune records with sorrow
the death of Mr. Marcus Tomlin
son on Wednesday morning, July
28tl), at his home in t he M ud < reek
district of Clinch county. The in
terment was the next day in the
Fender cemetery.
He was a son of Mr. John P.
Tomlinson, highly respected by all
who knew him and was about forty
years of age at I he time of Id; sud
den death from heart disease.
He is survived by his widow and
seven children, the eldest fieijig
about thirteen years of age. Mrs.
Tomlinson is a daughter of Mr. J.
P. Smith, of Clinch county, and a
sister of Henry and William Smith
of Pearson, and Mrs. J. T. Dame of
Ilomerville, Ga.
Prizes at Club Contest.
C. A. Cobb. Editor of the South
ern Ruralist and Superintendent
of the International Club Judging
Contest at the Southeastern Fair,
October 16th 26th, announces I hat
American Shorthorn Association,
the American Jersey Cattle Club
aud the Hampshire Record Asso
ciation, have each contributed
SIOO.OO each to be offered as prizes
to the the Royal Livestock Show
in London.
These SIOO.OO contributions will
be divided in the different Show
rings in which the teams are tak
ing part. There will be live di
visions of the money to be award
ed to the five teams' contest
ing in each ring. The first is; S3O.
(X); second $25.00: third $20.00;
fourth $15.00 and the fifth SIO.OO.
So far twenty four states have
taken steps to participate with at
least one Canadian Province.
Further information on the sub
ject may be-had by writing to C.
A. Cobb, Superintendent, Care
Southern Ruralist. Atlanta, <la.
WANTED —At new court house
Pearson, Ga.. laborers -willing to
work. Good pay. Apply at site.
Holley Construction Co.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
I*EAIiSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 1920
A Self-Explanatory Letter.
Pearson, Ga., July 14th, 1920.
Mr. W. J. Tyler, Agent
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Pearson, Gerrgia,
Dear Sir:
Beg to acknowledge receipt of check from the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company for $2,002.92,
in settlement of my husband’s insurance policy.
I desire to thank you and your company for
your unusually prompt settlement of my claim.
Yours very truly,
Signed BESSIE M. WOOD.
You should carry a Policy. Come, see me about it.
W. J. TYLER.
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Judge J. M. Lee, of Ocilla, lias
entered the race for Solicitor-Gen-,
era! of the Tiff-on judicial circnit.
The money is in hand with
which to build the highway to con
nect Brunswick with St. Simons
Island.
Hon. John P. Knight, of Nash
ville, is being solicited and may be
in the race for congress from the
Eleventh district.
The voters of Cook county sat
heavily upon the proposed City
Court of Adel. It was submitted
to a referendum and the people
voting east their ballot almost sol
idly against its creation.
Editor Sweat, of the Nashville
Herald, has sold a half interest in
his paper to a practical printer
from Quitman. They are expect
ing to put new energy into the
business and issue a better paper
than Nashville lias ever had.
The citizens of Millwood are
planning for a big singing conven
tion on the fifth Sunday instant.
They will have and "all day sing
and dinner on the ground.” It; is
to be conducted under the direc
lion of I’rof. N. A. Cox, of Pearson.
A happy time is expected.
Judge Frank Park has formally
announced his candidacy for re
election to congress from the Sec
ond district. He stands four
square with the democratic admin
istration. The Tribune congratu
lutes the people of the Second dis
trict iiiiou having such a faithful
and true representative.
At a meeting of the Eleventh
congressional district executive
committee, held in Waycross, it
was decided that candidates must
qualify by Saturday, August 7th,
the primary to be held September
9th, in connection with the State
primary, and the convention to be
held September 25th. At that
convention a new executive com
mittee will be named from among
the friends ,of the successful candi
date. Congressman Lankford was
present and made aD informal an
nouncement of his candidacy for
re election.
The candidates for Representa
tive down in Camden county, J. T.
Voceile and S. C. Townsend, are
having a veritable war of words,
and the local newspaper is hand
ling the stuff as political adver
tisements. If you want to mix up
in a rough hoi sr become a twenti
eth century candidate for office;
you will learn much about yourself
you never knew or had forgotten.
So far the Atkinson county candi
dates have not engaged in mud
slinging. May they make a clean
race to the end of jt.
Learn about Georgia.
The Georgia Press Association
at its recent meeting in Carrollton
unanimously and heartily endors
ed a resolution pledging co-opera
tion with the- Georgia Association
and the Georgia Advertising
in the effort to do an initial bit ol
publicity for Georgia. The im
mediate plans of the affiliated or
ganizations, Georgia Association
working with the Advertising
Clubs and both under direction of
a safe and sane committee headed
by the Governor contemplate the
investment of nearly a third of a
million dollars in advertising to
the world the tilings which tin
world ought to know about Geor
gia. Incidentally, a great piece of
good will be accomplished first in
advertising Georgia to Georgians.
There are thousands of people in
the State who do not know their
own state; if they knew Georgia,
they would be proud of Georgia.
Urey would redouble their efforts
to make Georgia greater, and they
would be walking, talking, Uniting,
tireless boosters of Georgia.
The endorsement of the rqove
merit came as a logical ami natural
thing. Georgia newspaper men
are tired, everlastingly tired, of
being ridden by the seekers after
free publicity for “interests,” but
they are open-hearted, open-mind
ed, open-handed and open-column
ed when it comes to telling the
world about their own state to the
end that Georgia may bo known,
developed, improved in any and
every respect. The Georgia press
recognized in the effort planned
to raise three hundred thousand
dollars to carry on Georgia adver
tising next fall, a worthy object
for support ; they know there is no
selfish end to be attained by any
one professional promoter or by
any group of interested men in any
separate section of the state.
They got the scheme right off—in
its clear, clean, business like pro
portions. And they are willing to
help it along. The more was the
interest of the newspaper men of
the state elicited from the fact
that for a year the president of the
press association has been hammer
ing home on all the county papers
especially the m-<,-d to advertise
Georgia to Georgians. The Morn
ing News has been doing that con
sistently and persistently for the
years —in season and out of season
telling the world of Georgia, espe
caily of the infinite variety of the
resources and possibilities of the
section known as "Savannah’s
zone.” Lt recognized in the Geor
giaAssociat ion formed some months
ago, an agency comparable with
the California organization which
has "made California” in a few
years. It is already back of the
good work being done by the Geor
gia Association and now all the
papers, big and little, are getting
back of the big advertising plan.
The project is bound to be a suc
cess. —Savannah News.
GEORGIA PRESS CONVENTION.
Resume of Proceedings, Notes of
Carrollton and Carroll County.
The program for the editor's
meeting at. Carrollton included an
auto trip to BoWden, the second
best city in Carroll county, on
Wednesday afternoon and enjoy a
picnic and fish fry on the banks of
the historical Tallapoosa river.
Tlu-n a reception in the evening,
when the newspaper people could
mix and mingle with the citizens
,-yul learn from first hands some
thing of Bowden and her enter
prises, specially of Bowden College,
now a branch of the State Uni
versify, and devoted largely to the
training of teachers for Carroll and
adjoining counties in Georgia and
Alabama.
All this pleasure had to be fore
gone because of a tremendous
downpour of rain which would
have made the trip an exceedingly
unpleasant one. To pass away the
t ime, they met at their meeting
place, the City Hall, and forgot
their disappointment in the fun of
an indoor circus with the irrepres
sible Bill Sutlive, of the Savannah
Press, as Master of Ceremonies.
The numbers included two splen
did recitations by Mr. Jack Wil
liams, of the Waycross Journal-
Herald, and an old time “spelling
bee,” with three ladies on one side
and three gentlemen on the other,
and Editor Paul Harbor, of Winder,
to pronounce the words to be spell
ed; lhe Atlanta Constitution was
the textbook. The venerable Edi
tor Shannon was the last to spell,
the word being League of Nations.
He spelled usual way, but
Bill Sutlive insisted it should have
been spelled—Wo-o-d-r-o w W-i-l
s-o-n.
The reception in (.he evening in
the rooms of the Carroll County
Chamber of Commerce was a most
enjoyable affair. The editors were
surprised when the exercises of the
evening began to find representa
tives of Bowden in charge and who
announced —paraphrasing Moham
ed's famous saying—that “As the
Georgia Press Association could
not go to Bowden, Bowden would
come to the Georgia Press Conven
tion at Carrollton;” and t here tell
the editors what all Bowden would
have them know. Addresses were
delivered by Mr. Reeves and
Elder Shaw, of Bowden, and Ex
congressman Adamson, of Carroll
ton, a trustee of the State school
at Bowden. Addresses were sand
wiched with splendid orchestral
music from a string band composed
of young ladies of Carrollton. The
sneaking over, punch and cake,
and South Georgia watermelons
were served for refreshments.
Thursday morning’s program
called for an automobile trip to
Douglosville but, ou account of the
flood of rain that fell the afternoon
before, it was thought advisable
not to attempt it. So the morning
was devoted to making preparation
for the trip northward to Rome
and Chickamauga; to looking Car
rollton over, seeing her public
buildings —courthouse, postoffice,
city hall, churches and schools.
Nothing so correctly marks the
character of a people than the pub.
lie buildings which they provide
for themselves. In this particular
Carrollton excels. The Tribune
editor selected this opportunity to
see Miss Edith O’Steen and accom
pany her to one of the playgrounds.
It was learned that these play
grounds, although on the school,
grounds, did not originate with
and are not operated by the Board
of Education but by the Ijoeal
Chapter of the American Red
Cross.
The facts about Carrollton and
Carroll county that challenged the
Tribune editor’s admiration was
the six thousand small farms, 85
sf.so A YEAR
Card from Collector Corbitt
To the voters of Atkiusou county:
Since the Sheriff commenced to
advertise the property of delin
quent tax payers in order to col
lect taxes due the county, there
has been discovered and my atten
tion called to several executions
issued where none should have
been issued. This “mole hill" has
been "magnified into a mountain"
and paraded over the county as
evidence of my incompetency as
your tax collector.
1 frankly admit some mistakes
were made in my administration of
the office. All men make mistakes
and if the people of Atkinson
county expect to secure a tax collec
tor who will not make mistakes
they are going to be disappointed.
The fact that only a few mistakes
have been found should go to my
credit rather than my discredit; it
surely is no evidence of my in
eompetency.
Of course, 1 realize that tax
payers who have executions issued
against them improperly are like-'
ly to get sore over it. But since
it is “human to err,” my imper
fections should not be charged
against me as incompeteney. I
really feel that I am as competent
as any man you can get aud I
stand upon the record I made dur
ing my first year in office.
1 solicit your continued confi
dence and support, and l will sure
ly appreciate” anything you may
do in my favor.
Your obedient servant.
Rowan Cokbltt.
Rub My Tism is a great pain kill
er. It relieves pain and soreness
caused by Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Sprains etc.
per cent of which is owned and
cultivated by white farmers. This
is the secret of her success and
prosperity. Another is the unani
mity with which the people insist
ou building and maintaining good
roads; and, still another, the su
preme effort being made to edu
eate all the children and prepare
them for the dutiep of life. The
school statistics of the county are
something surprising and the won
der is that the County School
Superintendent can keep in touch
with the great mass of children
who are looking to him for an edu
cation.
Before adjourning the Convpn
vention accepted the invitation
for the Association to meet in the
city of Washington, Wilks county,
one of the oldest cities in Georgia,
located in the northeastern sec
tion of the State.
The old corps of officers were re
elected and no better could be
selected.
The Tribune editor cannot go
away from Carrollton without say
ing “Goodbye” to his hosts—Mr.
J. L. Kaylor and family on Maple
street. Theirs were an old time
Southern hospitality, the kind the
editor appreciated. There was no
stiffness or formality about the
welcome extended, and made to
feel free and at home from the
start.
At 12 m. Thursday the editors
were ready to take their leave of
Carrollton, feeling an unexpressi
ble satisfaction at the cordiality,
kindly thoughtfulness and genuine
hospitality they had enjoyed at
the hands of her people the past
three days. The memories of the
meeting at Carrollton will over ho
green and fresh as an oasis in the
desert of life.
(Continued next week.)
WANTED —Reliable and ex
perienced local Insurance Solic
itor. High class contracts and
good commission to the right
party. Don’t apply unless you
can deliver the goods. G. S. Will
cox, General Agent Southern
States Life Insurance Company,
Ocilla, Ga. —Adv.
