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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1920)
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.
