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PEARSONffiTRiBUNE
VOL. 6—m>. 21
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Col. Dan Grantham, private
secretary to Congressman Lank
ford, is quite ill with typhoid
fever at his home in Douglas.
The Tribune regrets to learn of
the serious illness of Mr. Avner
Walden, of Millwood, and hope he
will soon be restored to health.
Glenn, eldest son of Judge
Robert G. Dickerson, of Homer
ville, has returned to and resum
ed his studies at the State Uni
versity, Athens.
Elder 11. M. Meeks, of Nicholls,
reports the death of a uegress,
Aunt Hester, in that city, who
was born in Dublin, Ga., in 1799,
and hence her age was 121 years.
The Alapaha Lumber Company,
of Alapaha, has been adjudicated
bankrupt, and all its property will
be sold on October 6tli. The in
debtedness is $25,000, the .assets
only $15,000.
In a municipal election in Whig
hum recently thirty-five ballots
were polled, and there were
twenty-two candidates for Mayor.
One of two facts ts true: The
election was a farce, or its popular
to be the Mayor of Whigbam.
The South Georgia tobacco crop
this year reached 10,277,835
pounds: it netted the growers $2,-
278,184,52; the average price being
23.44 c. The cost of production
averaged SIOO per acre. Every
thing considered the growers did
well this year.
The officers and stockholders of
the Clinch County Bank, of Ho
merville, enjoyed a banquet and a
general good time on the occasion
of its first anniversary, September
10th. The institution has ac
complished its first year, and is
flying its colors of success.
The saw mills of South Georgia
are considering the advisability of
suspending operations for a season.
The lumber market has gone to
pieces, leaving the manufacturers
with large stocks on hand which
cost them war time prices to make.
It will take careful handling to
prevent disaster to the lumber
interests.
The civil side of Berrien superior
court is in session this week, and a
lengthy calendar of cases is being
passed upon. Judge Dickerson is
presiding and giving careful atten
tion to the business being tried be
iore him. Next week the criminal
docket will be under consideration
and Solicitor Lovett will have an
opportunity to show his colors.
A family embroglio in Coffee
county, between E. M. Harrell and
his wife, Olive, has terminated in
his being seriously shot up by his
wife in self-defense. He had been
beating and cruelly treating her
for some time, and she brought
suit for divorce against him for
this reason, and it is supposed to
be the reason of this last attack
upon her. The home belongs to
the wife, and the parties have
been living under the same roof
in a state of "bona fide separation
since last February.
The increasing cost and difficul
ty in producing electricity by
steam, are causing towns and cities
to look out for some cheaper and
reliable system. A company of
Baker county people have organiz
ed the Baker County Power Com
pany and will have in operation
by April Ist. next year, a power
ful hydro-electric plant and are
making twenty-year contracts with
the nearby towns and cities to
furnish them with hydro-electric
power. Camilla, has already sign
ed a contract and Moultrie is ex
pected to do the same thing in the
near future.
Talking and Not Voting.
The newspapers of the State are
busy explaining how it happened.
The only theory that appeals to us
is that there are a great many peo
ple in the State of Georgia who
talk one way and vote another —
an euormous lot of political liars.
—Metter Advertiser.
It reminds the Tribune of a
story told on an old darkey wit
ness and Hon. John W. Bennett,
when solicitor general of the
Brunswick judicial circuit. The
incident was credited to Coffee
superior court. Mr. Bennett was
prosecuting a case in which the
old darkey was the prime w itness;
he had been interviewed several
times about w hat occurred. \\ hat
he told Solicitor Bennett would
have convicted the Defendant,
but when the trial came and the
witness was put on the stand he
swore to an entirely different
story.
You can imagine Solicitor Ben
nett’s disappointment. lie in
quired: “Didn’t you tell me a
different story the other day when
I asked you about it?”
“Vas. sir.’’
“Well, why don’t you tell it
that way now ?"
"Its diserway: de odder day I
wuz just talkin’, but now I'm
swearing.”
The case was abandoned.
Declines Joint Dispute.
Hon. Clifford Walker, in answer
to a challenge for a joint debate
from Hon. Thomas \Y. Hardwick,
makes the following reply:
Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick,
Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.,
Dear Sir:
“I acknowledge receipt of your
letter of the 16th instant, suggest
ing a joint discussion of issues. I
thoroughly agree with Hon. 11. M.
Mclntosh, the distinguished editor
of the Albany Herald, who, in that
paper, says: ‘These political de
bates never do the candidates or
the communities, in which they
are held, any good. They change
the opinions of few, if any, volets,
and only serve to accentuate differ
ences and stir up bad feeling he
tween partisans.
’“lf we had to choose bet ween a
dog fight and a political joint de
bate between rival candidates as a
crowd gatherer for our home town,
we believe we’d take the dogfight.
Such discussions add neither dig
nity nor profit to political cam
paigns. Intended as a gentlemanly
debate they too often descend to
the low- plane of a dog fight.’
“I am unwilling to participate
in such an exhibition. The people
do not want one now, if ever, when
they are busy marketing their
crops. Respecting them, my plans
have been made and are to refrain
from any further general speaking
campaigns.
“The issues have already been
thoroughly discussed in practically
every county in the State, more
thoroughly than in any campaign
within my memory. Your public
record and mine are based almost
entirely on official printed reports
familiar to all, yours in the con
gressional record, mine in bound
volumes of opinions and in annual
reports to the Legislature, filed in
the executive office.
"The passage of time may have
developed in them some mistakes,
but you will not find in one in
stance in which there was an in
tentional failure to serve the best
interests of the people of the State.
"You may feel at liberty to dis
cuss my record anywhere, as I
have discussed yours. This is no
time for passion or partisan feeling.
What this country needs is a calm
and a cool deliberation of the vital
questions and dangers confronting
us. For such a consideration 1 ap
peal and by the verdict, so made, I
shall gladly abide.
“Very respectfully,
“Clifford W alker.”
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 24,11)20
ATKINSON COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
The Tribune sympathizes deeply
with Mr. \Y. .1. Corbitt, who lives
in the southern part of the county,
in his afiiieition. He is very ill
with Erysipelas in his right leg
from the knee joint to his foot.
Trust ho will soon be well again.
Rattle snakes have been plenti
ful in this section the past summer.
Mr. JAY. Pearson reports killing
one a few days since that rneasur
ed four feet and ten inches in
length and seven inches around
the body. He had twelve rattles.
Editor Jack Majors has resigned
as Editor and Manager of The Wil
lacooohec Times. Said if was too
much soup for a nickle. The Tri
bune editor is sorry he has gone
away from our neighboring city,
lie knows how to run a newspaper
and doesn’t need any coaching.
Hon. David Weathers brought
the editor last. Saturday a speci
men of his bunch velvet beaus.
This specimen measured three feet
across the top and was loaded
wit h beans. He says it is the kind
of velvet beans to plant in a corn
field ami is the best for a hay crop.
Mr. F. M. Patrick, near Azson,
after having grown a fine crop of
tobacco, lost out in the curing. It
is a pity he didn’t make a com
plete success of it; as it is he is
disappointed and discouraged over
growing tobacco. “If at first you
don’t succeed; try, try again,”
should be his motto.
The rural letter carriers of At
kinson county met in the office of
Dr. H. I*. Smith, Pearson, Satur
day, September 18th, 1920, and or
ganized a Rural Letter Carriers
Association. The following officers
were elected: Jesse G. Williams,
president; Perry P. Sutton, vice
president; 11. M. McNoal, secretary;
J. T. Ricketson, sergeant at arms.
The organization will be governed
by the laws and regulations of the
State and National organizations.
The yearly meeting at New
Bethel church, two miles south of
Kirkland. Held last Friday, Satur
day and Sunday, was attended by
crowds of people, especially on
Sunday when the citizens of that
vicinity provided a bountiful noon
repast. That is the way to get
the crowds these days—feed them.
Few people attend the services at
yearly meetings for the spiritual
uplift which should lie derived
from attendance upon the preach
ing of the Word.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mullis,of the
southeastern portion of the county,
are all smiles over the arrival at
their home of a fine 10-pound son,
who has been christened J. M.
Mullis, Jr. ‘Cajah sits and sings
that sweetest of lullabies —
"It’s nice to be a father,
It's nice to be a father,
It’s nice to be the head of a
familee;
It’s nice to be a father,
It’s nice to be a father,
With a bouncing baby boy
upon your knee.”
A strong effort will be made
next month to raise $300,000 ad
vertising fund for the purpose of
advertising Georgia and her re
sources throughout America. Jt
is under the auspices of “Adver
tise Georgia Enterprise,” headed
jby Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey. It is
[requested that Atkinson county
raise S7OO of this amount. It
should be easily raised among our
people when they understand that
Atkinson county is to share in the
benefits of the advertising. Jt is
intended that no part of the State
be ignored in the exploration, her
every industry and interest be re
presented.
The “Peanut Boiling.”
The Savannah Morning News.
Another institution has been in
stituted in Georgia. Another func
tion is functioning. The ”peauut
boiling” is in “our midst” in South
Georgia. It will be among the
local events —with the flavor of
the country, the taugof the happi
ness of a contented and prosperous
rural population, the pleasure of
the community social occasion.
In the pioneer days there wore
“log rollings” and "house raisings”
—in the order named. There wore
“quilting bees” and “candy pull
ings.” In “settlements” where sick
ness set his staying hand upon the
head of the household of a farm,
the neighbors gathered and help
ed the unfortunate family with a
“cotton chopping” or a “corn hoe
ing” —which, while cheerfully giv
ing aid to one in temporary dis
tress, afforded a delightful break
in the monotony of the life “down
on the farm” and gave occasion for
a social day of intercourse for the
people of an entire district. In
the fall there have been the “corn
shtickings” —they call them “corn
huskings” and “husking bees” in
the “down east” country. The
“shucking for the red ear,” the
sentimental sequel of the quest,
the big supper for “all hands” late
in the night, sometimes as late as
9 o’clock —they have been events
of characteristic and distinctive
picturesqueness in rural Georgia.
And in South Georgia —rich in
“infinite variety” of products and
possibilities, there have been
“peach packings,” “watermelon
cuttings” and other socially econo
ntic functions in given areas.
Tbcic have always been “cane
grindings” and “syrup boilings.”
Now comes another item in the
infinite variety of delights to be
found if southt ever so eas’d ally in
happy South Georgia: Peanut
boilings. Hear this from the
local columns of the Pembroke
Enterprise:
All those who attended the
peanut boiling given at Mr.
and Mrs. H. O. Johnson’s Mon
day night, reported a grand
time.
There’s real aroma ol the delight
fill little entertainments in the
country of this South Georgia
land —entertainments which com
bine, as do the other and older
forms of farm frolics, business with
pleasure. The “pinder parties”
will be added to the list of scenes
typical of prosperous, happy rural
life, the “peanut boiling” is an
non need as an institution!
The Cook county fair is schedul
ed for October sth to 9th inclu
sive. The promoters have gone to
much expense in making then
fair a practical exposition of farm
products, a live stock show, and a
place of real and wholesome enter
taiument.
Reaping the Whirlwind.
Note that they are talking about
burning cotton gins in several
North Georgia counties because
they are not satisfied with the
market price. This is a fellow of
the tobacco-barn burners of Ken
tucky, and the dipping-vat dyna
miters of South Georgia. And
both are first cousins to the
bombers who murdered and maim
ed innocent people on the streets
of New York. Jtis part and parcel
of the lawlessness that has been
preached in this state and through
out the country for several years,
and which was recently endorsed
by a plurality of the voters in the
Georgia primaries. We cannot ex
pect to sow- the wind without reap
ing the whirlwind. And if we
elect a Governor who is the friend
of the radical and law breaker,
where can we look for protection of
life and propertyt —Tifton Gazette.
ATKINSON COUNTY FARMING
Some of the Experiences of Com.
David Weathers.
The Tribune is always glad to
record the success of Atkinson
county farmers and, in future, will
devote more space in placing be
fore the public the evidence that
Atkinson county possesses ample
and splendid opportunities as a
farming section.
To illustrate the fact and im
press it upon the minds of the
readers the Tribune will use the
experiences of various farmers, as
the editor may be able to gather
them, together with ail insight in
to their early lives and prepara
tion for agricultural life. The
editor is a firm believer in prepar
ation to succeed in any line of in
deavor —whether it be lawyer,
doctor, mechanic, farmer, etc.
Hon. David Weathers, one of
Atkinson’s county commissioners,
is introduced to the reader this
week:
In His young manhood lie start
ed out to be a sawmill man. As a
matter of course he had to begin
at the bottom of the sawmill lad
der, but in doing so be acquired a
habit of industry. He learned to
work and to work regularly, giving
his employers a full day’s work for
a day’s pay. This habit was at
tractive to his employers and lie
was advanced into higher positions
as rapidly as his training would
permit. After years of toil and
struggle he was thought to be com
petent and was given the sawyer’s
position —the highest in the actual
operation of a sawmill and com
manded the highest salary.
He acquired another habit of
successful life —conservation of re
sources. lie learned that a “dollar
saved was a dollar made,” and a
dependable friend in time of ad
versify, a time that is met with in
every life, and that it is the part
of wisdom to anticipate the coming
of such days.
Further, lie acquired the habit
of not giving up to fainthearted
ness and discouragement, a firm
believer that honest toil and faith
in God to help those who try to
help themselves would win the
most sanguinary battles.
Twelve years ago he settled the
farm on which he now lives. There
was in the tract 245 acres of aver
age Atkinson county land. In
building his home and outhouses,
and securing farming implements,
he involved himself in debt. How
ever, he toiled away at his farm
diligently, refused to listen to dis
couragemeni and the profits of his
farm, yielded year by year, were
husbanded.
He soon paid off his indebted
ness and began to add to his hold
ings. He now has much more
land than he will ever need for
himself and children. He is fully
persuaded that under the present
conditions of labor, that a one or
two horse farm is all that an ordin
ary farmer can operate successfully.
Of all the years he has been on
his farm 1920 was the most provo
cative of discouragement. The
floods of rain that came about the
middle of April, after his crop had
come up, struck his courage an al
most centig blow. Apparently it
would result indrowning out every
thing he had planted. However,
he refused to yield to the tempta
tion to quit and give up. His
helpers had the “blues” ail’d were
ready to give up in disgust. He
persuaded his farmers to keep on
plowing notwithstanding the mules
and men would bog at every step.
The result was when the Sun came
from behind the clouds and shed
his warm rays upon the young
plants the growth was wonderful
and revealed the fact that he had
done the proper thing.
His 1920 crop consists of corn,
cotton, tobacco, bunch velvet beans,
#1.50 A YEAR
Program for W. B. M. U.
Association.
The following is the program for
the W. 15. M. U. of the Smyrna
Association which will convene in
Nicholls on Oct. 7, beginning
promptly at ten o’clock.
MORNING SESSION
10:00 Hymn, Draw Me Nearer.
With The Master, Mrs. J. L.
Cochran.
Solo, Mrs. M. F. Brice.
Welcome, Mrs. J. F. Meeks.
Response, Mrs. J. A. Sikes,
Roll Call, Mrs. Hoke Davis.
Report of Superintendent, Mrs.
E. L. Tanner.
Report of District Secretaries,
Mrs, A. F. Coffee, Mrs. 15. 11. Tan
ner, Mrs. C. N. Gibbs* Mrs. J. F.
Meeks.
Report of Personal Service, Mrs.
A. Harper.
Report of Delegates, 3 minutes
each.
Challenge of a High Aim; Our
Standard of Excellence, Mrs. M.
Tanner.
Religious Literature; How to
J‘ ~ riie press, Mrs. L. I). Gillis.
Making Missions Real; Reaching
the Country Church, Mrs. G. E.
Ellison.
Special Music, R. M. Jinks.
Address by Vice president S. E.
Division, Mrs. E. K. Overstreet.
Song, Jesus Calls Us.
Prayer.
1:30. Lunch hour.
AFTERNOON
2:00. Hymn, My Jesus I Love
Thee.
In His Presence, Margaret Bar
ley.
Prayer,
Duet, Melva and Louella Coffee.
Minutes of Morning Session.
Report of Committees.
With our Young People.
Demonstration of Sunbeams,
Stokesville.
Solo, Marjorie Frier.
Our Royal Ambassadors, Doug
las.
Special Music, Myitis Ellison.
Demonstration of Y. W. A.,
Douglas.
The Appeal of our Young People,
Mrs. 11. H. Tanner.
Thoughts to carry home.
Benediction.
sugar cane, sweet potatoes and
peanuts. He ran three plows, one
on the tenant or half crop system,
but all the work was carried on
under his direction. Taking the
1920 crop as a whole it is the best
of any of the twelve years and,
after paying off all expense ac
counts, his part of the profit will
amount to not less than $1,500.
Mr. Weathers is sure his man
agement has not been the best and
that he is still a learner how to
farm, and the work is becoming
more and more interesting to him
every year. His success this year,
under ail the disadvantages of cli
mate and rainfall, has enthused
him more than ever with the
beauty and independence of a
farmer’s life; the work has become
interesting to him.
So far his 1920 crops have been
harvested in good condition. He
planted the buucb velvet beans in
Iris corn; he says they do not inter
fere with the pulling of the fodder
or harvesting the corn; he believes
in saving fodder when it can be
done properly. He is expecting
to lose twenty tons of hay by not
having help to save it.
He has just commenced to study
fertilizers and fertilizing. He is
convinced that farmers make a
mistake in selling their cotton
seed and depending on commercial
fertilizers. He says his experi
ments shows that one ton of cot
ton seed is worth as much or more
as a fertilizer than three tons of
the best commercial fertilizer that
can be bough t, though he does not
advise discarding commercial fer
tilizers of a high grade.