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PE ARSON ® TRiB U N E
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
VOL. 6-XO. 2<>
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Thomas county live stock held
the front of the stage at the
Southeastern Fair at Atlanta, win
ning the lion's share of the prizes.
The Tifton district of Tift coun
ty has voted in favor of "No-fence,”
and is the second district in the
county to align itself on that side
of the question. The Omega dis
trict was the first.
The women of Waycross, under
the leadership of Mrs. J. L. Wal
ker, are engaged in the tiresome
and thankless job of securing the
registration of the Women voters
of Ware county. They are devot
ing Thursday of each week to their
task.
The little city of Homerville
will soon vote to bond herself to
secure funds to purchase and
equip the present Water and
Light plant. The equipment now
in use is said to be worn out and
will have to be replaced with new
machinery.
The Commissioners of Charlton
county have passed a resolution
crediting £SOO of the county’s
money to the account of the
"Advertise Georgia Enterprise”
fund, to be paid in three quarterly
instalments on the first Monday
in January of each year.
The appearance of the name of
A. K. Sessonis, of Clinch county,
on the Republican ballot as the
Eleventh district elector has oc
casioned much surprise all through
the district. The benefit he will
acquire from such use of his name
and reputation is beyond con
ject ure.
The citizens of Douglas have
provided a fund and placed it in
the hands of a commit tee charged
with seeing that the indigent
children of the city are provided
with books and clothing in order
that they may attend school as
provided by the .Compulsory Edu
cation law.
The women of Brunswick have
organized "The Women Voter's
League,” and have employed Law
yer Max Isaac to secure a Man
damus order from Judge High-
Smith of the Brunswick judicial
circuit, requiring the City Council
of that city to- provide for their
registering and voting in the com
ing municipal election.
Berrien county's Community
Fair was held Thursday and Fri
day of last week. It was a great
success. Alapaha, Nashville, New
River aud Bay City made distinct
exhibits and prizes were aw r arded:
New River, first;Nashville, second;
Ray City, third; Alapaha, fourth.
All of the exhibits were good and
was seen at the Georgia Florida
Fair this week.
The stock market of Ocilla has
opened. The prices paid for hogs
are 12 per cent higher than last
year. The first car was shipped
on the 14th and the second on the
16th. The first car cost approxi
mately $1,500, which amount was
distributed among a number of
Irwin county farmers. There is
always good and ready money to
farmers who raise hogs and cattle.
The citizens of Niebolls, in Cof
fee county, are divided in senti
ment on the school question—
arising from the high taxation to
secure sufficient funds to properly
conduct the school. The preval
ent high prices seem to be getting
lot of folks into trouble, because
they haven’t the spirit of patient
research to find the truth and
adjust their differences in accord
ance therewith.
We are proud of the confidence
doctors druggists and the public
have in 666 Chill and Fever Tonic
Association at Nicholis.
The Smyrna Baptist Association
held its 1920 annual session at
Nicholis, Georgia, last Friday and
Saturday.
The routine business was well in
hand before the body met and
hence this business was concluded
iu short order. The reports, even
those on Missions and Sunday-
Schools, provoked little or no dis
cuss ion as was the custom in (lie
years agone.
The attention of the body, on
Saturday, was centered on the
subjects of “Law Enforcement,’'
"B. V. P. I’.” and “75 Million
Campaign.” The discussion of
these subjects fell apparently upon
listless and disinterested ears. In
fact there was an absence of the
warmth of Christian fellowship
that usually attended these meet
ings.
The editor of the Tribune was
present on Saturday as a messen
ger from Pearson church and learn
ed, among other tilings, that sever
al of the churches had called for
letters of dismission from the body.
This was explained when there
port on the "75-MillionCampaign”
was read and disclosed the fact
that quite half of theehurches had
declined to participate in this
movement.
It is probable that all of these
noil-participating churches will
withdraw'from the body. It is a
great pity; surely there must be
something more behind this situa
tion than has come to the surface.
It is a situation t hat calls for sin
cere, earnest prayer, thatthespirit
of Christian tolerance and unity
may abound and that the Great
Head of the Church may lead His
people “in green pastures aud by
the still waters” of His Love.
The Association was splendidly
entertained, by the people of
Nicholis, with noon repasts at the
church on both days.
The Moultrie Business College
Moultrie, Ga., has a proposition
that will bo of interest to men
and women wishing a thorough
Commercial training. Write for
particulars, staling what course
you wish.
Ratify New Counties.
Five prosperous Georgia towns
are figuring on becoming the scats
of new counties as the result of the
election of November 2. Lamar
county will have Barnesviile as its
center; Seminole county will have
Donaldsonville; Lanier county’s
scat will Im* Milltown; Long county
will have Ludowiei and Brantley
county Hoboken.
Everyone of these new counties
is ready to shoot ahead with new
court bouse, good roads, new
schools, churches and other im
provements as soon as the final
verdict is given. Like every other
new county Georgia has made,
these five are ready to a<Jd their
new millions to Georgia's taxable
values; to provide new and more
accessible court facilities, and to
furnish themselves with finer and
more suitable public buildings and
institutions, as well as to go after
new manufacturing and industrial
enterprises.
The new counties already creat
ed have added more than fifty
millions to Georgia's tax values;
have shortened the distances to
court houses and have built some
of the best roads in the state. It is
a noteworthy fact,also, that every
old county which has been cut to
make a new one, has prospered and
shown remarkable enhancement in
tax values.
In the coming election, voters
should use some care and attention
in marking their ballots on the
constitutional amendments, as they
are very closely printed audit will
be necessary to vote one way or
another on each proposition, or
the vote will not be counted.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, (X’TOP.ER 29, 1920
OLD-TIME CHRISTIANS.
Saturduy Night Talk by John L.
Herring in Tifton Gazette.
That was a sweet thought, to
hold a special service for the Old
People at the First Baptist church
Sunday.
I'ltc Old People make the Church.
To the young, the Church is a hope
and an inspiration; to the old, it is
consolation and assurance of Peace.
To the Old People we owe the
Church of to-day. Their faith;
their steadfastness; the lives they
lived, perfected the structure on
the foundation the Master laid.
Their daily walk in life illustrates
before the young the supremacy of
Righteousness; the reward of clean
living.
The Preacher can only give
the precept; the Old People in the
church furnish the example. The
Preacher passes on to his hearers
the Law of the Prophets; the Old
People lay before us the Law ex
emplified; its practical application
to everyday life; the triumph of
its observance.
The Old People arc the pillars of
the church. The uprights, resting
secure on the foundation of the
Living Bock, bearing the weight
of the superstructure; of cover and
cornice and canopy. The sight of
these pillars; upright, straight and
firm-standing, carrying the burden
of the structure of the edifice un
faltering and unflinching; taking
from contact with the Bock on
which they stand something of its
sturdy, everlasting endurance.
“The earth and all its iubabi
(ants thereof are dissolved; I bear
ut> the pillars of it. Selah.” —
Psalms, 15:5.
Without the Old People, the
Church would be largely theory;
with them, it is a living certainty.
The Old People made the Chord)
of the Past; they mold and sustain
the Church of the Present; they
will build and maintain the Church
of the Future. For tlx* Young
People in the Church of today will
be the Old People in the Church
of tomorrow : and upon the Young
the example of the Old lias set its
seal.
Therefore, the < )ld People arc
the Church on earth.
XXX
The Old People in the Church !
Back rolls Time’s curtains, and
the years of the past are as yester
day. In the eye of the Mind we
see the Old People of the day that
is gone who built on the Master’s
foundation the Church of today.
It is Sunday morning, In Spring
time, and the Old Couple are on
their way to church. It is five
miles, but they count distance as
naught, and their way lies along a
load made of three parallel paths
throughjlhe rustling wiregrass, un
derneath the rnurmering pines.
They ride in a buggy of aby
gone day, a cut down box seat
mounted high on yielding springs.
Fifty years since it left the hand
forged shop, but scrupulous care of
good matorial and honest work
kept it still in good service. Hitch
ed thereto is the family mare, bay,
with white blaze face, fat and lazy,
for she is His especial charge. Her
coat is shining from curry-comb
and biush, as he applied; her ap
peal anee that of the well-kept and
cared for.
The woman wears a dress of
black Alpaca, the same she has
worn since gray hairs came. On
her head a black sun-bonnet of the
same material, reinforced and held
out straight by flat reed staves.
Her only ornament a brooch at her
throat with the portrait of her
dead first-born; her only jewelry a
plain gold wedding-ring on the fin
ger of a wrinkled band. But the
face in the bonnet is a face on
which Peace has set its seal; a fac°
sweet in its calm repose; a face to
inspire faith and to invite con
fidence.
He wears pants of homespun
jeans, the work of her hand; a coat
of broadcloth, a heritage from early
manhood, showing attentive mend
ing needle and careful brush; his
shirt of white homespun, also from
her hand; his neck unhampered
with tic, considered a vanity: his
hat of brown felt, almost as old as
the coat show ing t he same newness
of careful preservation. Under
neath the hat, a face seamed with
the furrows of more than sixty
winters; a beard, white-flowing
down to his breast; a nose. Roman
and strong; lips, firm set but with
a twitch of the humor of life at
the corners that went with the
twinkle in the eye, still bright. A
face firm set but one in which un
derstanding and broad humanity
dwelt. A face in which you felt
you could trust; the face of a man
who walked with God, but who
also walked with his fellow*man.
Crossing a stream, the bay mare
stopped for a lazy drink, and to
nibble at tender buds. Up the
round boll of a pine a fox squirrel
scurried, stopping on the first limb
to study the strangers with uu
frightened eyes; from the thicket
far to the right came the whirr of
the wings of a wild turkey taking
llight across their path as they
mounted the hill; behind a deer
and her fawn had galloped. They
were at peace with the wild ani
mals of the forest; it. was the Sab
bath and they were at peace with
the world.
Up the winding road to where
the little log church stood amid
a few live-oaks on the crown of the
hill. While the Man unhitched
the boy mare, haltered and tied
her to the limb of a scrub oak and
patted her on leaving wit h caress
ing hand, the Woman shook out,
her wrinkled skirts, brushed off
clinging hairs or dust particles,
woman like putting herself in
order for meeting in number those
of her kind.
Inside the door of the church
they separated, walking softly
across its uneven floor of split
hewn logs; to the right she sat on
the second bench from the front,
where the unshuttered window
gave light for reading hymn and
text; to the left he made his way
further up, where three benches
of the same split-hewn pine with
pine peg legs were arranged end
wise to the others, forming what,
was called the “amen corner,” be
cause from there came the nods
or outspoken words of approval
as the Preacher struck the key
note of his discourse.
The quiet and peace of the Sab
bath lay upon the little church,
emblematic of the everlasting
peace of Eternity. Outside was
the twitter of birds and the hum
of bees; even the faint murmur of
voices as the congregation gathered.
On the faces of the Man and
Woman settled a look of instro
spection; a look of expectancy.
They sat at the fountain from
whence had come consolation in
time of grief and trial, during the
years that lay behind them.
When trouble encompassed about,
and there seemed nowhere to turn
for aid, in Faith they had found
courage; when grief entered their
home ami bowed their hearts un
der its sodden weight, and it
seemed that no mortal hand could
assuage their sorrow, in His Pro
mise they bad found consolation
and Hope in a reunion with the
loved one for Eternity. On their
marriage their Church had set the
seal of its approval in the joyous
days of youth and in mature hap
piness of man and womanhood it
had been companion; in sorrow it
had sustained them; in trouble it
had befriended; in old age it was a
present joy and a future delight.
It was something of what the
Church had meaut to them in the
ATKINSON COUNTY.
Items of News Gathered from
Various Sources.
The intelligence that: practically
every child of school ago in Atkin
son county is now attending school
is pleasing news to all concerned.
It shows that the parents and
guardians of the children of the
county have the future interest of
their charges at heart and are law
abiding citizens. The Tribune
commends those respects.
The Willocoochee Times speaks
in laudatory terms of the recital
given by the music pupils of Mrs.
Gray Meeks, at her home in Willa
coochee, on Thursday evening of
last week. The programs were
printed in the Tribune office, and
the editor made mention that it
was a splendid one and would be
a treat to all who would be in at
tendance.
The Atkinson County Sunday-
School Convention, an interde
nominational organization, will
hold its quarterly meeting at Ax
son next, Sunday. The citizens of
that community purpose making
the convention thrice welcome and
accentuate that welcome with a
splendid “Basket Dinner.” An
enthusiastic attendance is ex
pected.
The county Board of Education
has been troubled with teachers,
engaged to teach some of the rural
schools, wanting to fly their cou
tracts and go to other counties
where they are offered bigger
salaries. Will folks never learn
that contracts, solemnly entered
into, arc binding on both parties
to it, and that neither can cancel
it without tho consent of the
other, or a scarred character. The
motto should be —“Stand by
solemn contracts though they be
unwisely made.
Those farmers of Atkinson coun
ty who grow tobacco and have
curing barns are advised that they
can use their barns for curing
their sweet, potatoes, so they can
be held for a suitable market.
The first week in November is a
good time to harvest sweet pota
toes. If, in harvesting your crop
you have more cut and bruised po
tatoes than you can use profitably
at home, the surplus should be
immediately shipped to a canning
factory where they can handle
them and are willing to pay the
market price for them.
The cattle owners of Atkinson
county should provide for dipping
their cattle next year, beginning
in the Spring. When it is over
and their cattle rid of ticks they
will feel proud of their obedience
to law. The Tribune is informed
that tlie building of the vats and
the actual dipping of the cattle
will be superintended by a govern
ment expert veterinarian, one who
knows the business and is a guaran
tee that you will be benefitted
rather than injured by tick eradi
cation. It is an insult to ones in
telligence to iusist that the cattle
dipping law will be repealed and
that you will escape its observance.
These who have observed the dip
ping of their cattle speak favora
bly of it and say itps the thing for
every cattle owner to do. and that
they will never regret it.
years that were gone; of what it
meant then and what it meant for
tin* future that hallowed the faces
of the Man and the Woman as
they sat in their places, expectant;
while through interstices between
the logs in the wall above each
came a ray of God’s golden sun
light, touching gray hair and de
voted face, and crowning them
with a halo angelic, as the Preach
er arose to line the opening hymn.
Thank God for the Old People
in the Church 1
$1.50 A YEAH
The Southeastern Fair.
The Tribune editor was a guest
of the Southeastern Fair last Fri
day.' The plant is at Lakewood
a suburb of Atlanta. Thegrounds
are picturesque and well adapted
to the purpose. The plant consists
of three tremendous concrete
buildings, many tents and the
mammoth wooden ampitheatre,
known as the “Grand Stand.”
During the six hours the editor
w as in the grounds he went through
and saw practically every exhibit;
he was pleased with the live stock
and agricultural displays more
than the others. The live-stock
exhibit was something magnificent,
with South Georgia stock captur
ing the lion’s share of the prizes.
In the agricultural displays Ala
bama excelled; these displays could
not be improved. An Alabama
woman farmer will probably win
first prize in the couuty and indi
vidual exhibits. The exhibit of
sorgum cane was very good but
that of sugar cane was very poor.
The small tobacco exhibit was by a
fertilizer dealer and very fine. The
exhibit of household economics
was very superior.
The weather, the entire week
was propitious for tho Fair man
agement. Friday was bright and
warm, just delightful for the In
dian summer time Georgians have
been enjoying the past two months.
Friday was press day at the Fair
and there was a number of Geor
gia editors present. Editors Sweat
and Sbytle and ourself did the
honors for this section. The out
ing to the editors was a pleasant
diversion from the every day grind
of newspaper establishment.
To the management of the Fair,
especially Secretary Striplin, this
editor tenders thanks for courtesies.
Coffee Superior Court.
The first week for the trial of
criminal cases has passed aud Mon
day morning began the second
week.
The result of the first week’s
grind was the trial of only three
cases:
Robert Merritt was convicted of
murder iu the killing of Walter
Harper, and the jury gave him a
life sentence in the penitentiary.
He was a convict at the time of
this killing aud was serving a -
year sentence for assault with in
tent to murder.
J. A. Braswell was convicted of
assault and battery after his trial
under an indictment for criminal
assault upon his 13-year old
daughter. The evidence was not
clear, very weak, hence the verdict
finding him guilty, of a misdemean
or.
Henry C. Tanner, as predicted,
was acquitted of the charge of
murder iu his trial for killing
Oliver Peterson, a wealthy young
man of Douglas and the only child
of the late Benajah Peterson. The
occurrence was a sad one, but tho
evidence was unequivocal that he
fired the fatal shot immediately
after Peterson had shot him in the
arm.
Methodist Church Direotcry.
The preaching hours of tho Pear
son Charge will be as follows:
Pearson —Second Sunday,ll 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 11 a. in.
Live Oak —Third Sunday; 3:30
p. m.
Wesley Chapel—First Sunday
at 11a. m. and Saturday before ab
11 a. m.
Sweetwater —First Sunday at
3:30 p. m.
Kirkland —Fourth Sunday at
11 a. m. Third Sunday, 7:30 p. pi.
