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PEARSONf TRIBUNE
VOL. 6-NO. 36
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
A reporter for the Waycross
Journal-Herald says the road from
Douglas via Pearson to Waycross
is the best route between the two
cities. That dosen'L imply that it
is a good one.
The Editor learns with much re
gret of the serious illness of Mrs.
Robert (1. Dickerson, of Homer
ville. She is reported very sick
from pneumonia. Trust she will
be well again soon.
The municipal election of Ocilla
was held this week and ended per
haps one of the bitterest and most
unpleasant city elections Ocilla has
ever known. Guess the result was
satisfactory to the people.
Thi‘ new bank at Metter —Bank
of Candler County —opened for bus
iness last Monday morning. It is
capitalized at £25,000, and is Mat
ter’s third bank. People must be
prospering over Candler way?
The ladies of Ifomerville made
their “try out” in the matter of
voting last Tuesday,'when they
took part in the municipal election,
They wore subjected (o all the
“twitting” necessary for their ini
tialion.
Hardy Steedly, a prominent
young man of Manor, committed
suicide a few days since because of
disappointment in love. The par
ents of the girl, to whom he was
paying court, objected to their
marriage because of her extreme
youth, only thirteen years.
The criminal division of Irwin
superior court is in session this
week. Judge Homer E. Oxford is
employed as Solictor-General for
Irwin county, due to the fact that
tbere-are too much business in this
division of the court, for one man
to handle it expeditiously.
Superior court convenes for the
first time in the new county of
Lanier at Mill town, on next Mon
day. Let’sall go over to the initia
tion. No doubt all would enjoy it.
The people of Mill town are passing
through experiences that will linger
with them “world without an end.”
The Atlanta, Birmingham & At
lantic railroad has asked permission
of the < leorgia Railroad commission
to d iseon tin uc agencies at Bush mel 1
in Coffee county, Rockingham in
Bacon county and Murphy in Glynn
county. The business at these
places is not sufficient to sustain an
agent.
Local employers of labor is rais
iug a “rough house” with the retail
merchants of Thomasville. They
say industries, under prevailing
prices for the necessities of life,
cannot afford to pay their employers
a living wage. They say unless a
change is made they will shutdown
4 heir plants and allow their cm
loyers to go elsewhere.
Tifton and Brunswick are “try
ing on” the “City manager form of
government.” With such men of
business affairs as Henry 11. Tift,
of Tifton, and Charles J). Ogg of
Brunswick, there should be no such
thiDg as failure. The Tribune
editor knows of no two men in
South Georgia with larger and
more varied business experiences.
Hon. George W. Newton, of Col
quitt county, is a man of wealth
which he has wrought out on the
farm since he came from the war
between the states, with nothing
save a small farm abd a few head
of cattle, hogs and sheep. He.
learned something about conserva
tion while in the service of his
country and this he applied to his
yearly o|>eralions on his farm.
Nothing of value was permitted
to waste; he manufactured the
most of his fertilizer at borne,
which he applied to the soil with
out stint. He is rated at more
than a half million of dollars.
Two Men and a Wild Cat.
Mr. H. \V. Corbitt, the genial
tax receiver for Atkinson county,
was in the city last Friday, and
told of a warm combat between
himself, his oldest son, and a wild
eat.
They bad been to Willacoocbee
•on bnsinessand was returning home,
a wild eat jumped into the road in
front of their Ford car and then
began a race that was exciting.
The car gained on the eat and was
pressing him so closely that his
CatrShip took to the woods.
The Ford was shut off and before
it stopped the two men were follow
ing the eat at their best speed on
foot. The young man outrun the
older one and soon had his prey at
bay. The older man came up with
a stout lightwood knot and was in
the act of giving the cat a death
blow but the young man appealed
to bis father not to kill the cat
with the knot, as he wanted to
capture him alive.
The young man grabbed the cat,
but the animal was too quick for
him. The cat caught the boy’s
left hand with his mouth and was
in a fair waV to trim him into
shreds. J,..-,L at this junction, the
man grabbed the animal by the
throat and not only choked .him
loose from the boy but until he was
almost dead and gave up the fight.
He was fastened securely, carried
to Mr. Corbitt’s home and is now
in captivity and eating all the
rations he can get.
Mr. Corbitt was inclined to give
him to the Editor with which to
start a Zoo. The Editor was not
very enthusiastic over the gift, and
the gift was withdrawn.
Watch Night Services.
As lias been the custom with the
colored people, ever since they lie
came free people at the close of the
war, many of the colored people of
Pearson and vicinity gathered at
the Ml. Olive Baptist Church and
held a watch night service.
The services consist of songs,
prayers and exhortations. To use
their own phraseology —“They sit
tip with the old year and watch
the birth of the new.
These watch night Services arc
sometimes rendered exceedingly
weird and spooky by the crooning
of one or more of the good old “slav
ery time” mammies as they imagine
they are witnessing an actual birth.
Especially is this so when the lights
begin to burn low at midnight.
The services generally closes
about one o’clock in the morning.
Rock Party.
Miss Doris Dickerson entertain
ed last Thursday evening, Decem
ber 30th, in honor of her school
mates, Misses Etta White and
Edna Meeks, who are students at
the South Georgia State Normal
College at Valdosta.
Only members of the younger
set of the city were present, and
they enjoyed the game of the even
ing, “Rook,” with a deal of zest.
There was a plenty of instrumental
music by the young ladies.
At 10:30 light refreshments were
served and soon after “Good by”
was said and the curtain fell upon
a most delightful occasion, The
honoree young ladies returned to
school Tuesday morning.
SatiliaTodgeT & A. M.
The following gentlemen have
been elected and installed for the
ensuing term:
T. S. Corbitt, W. M.
C. F. Murray, S. W.
J. It. McNeal. J. W.
H. L. Lankford, Ties.
J. E. Lee, Secretary.
D. J. Pearson, Chaplain.
E. L. Rodgers, S. D.
A. R. Harrelson, J. I).
N. A. Corbitt, Tyler.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 7. 1921
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
One,good thing about 1921. It
is not, as far as is known, bringing
any political campaigns or elec-
Sparks Eagle.
Most people who are willing to
do eight hours of honest work in
eight hours of time will be able to
hold on to their jobs. But the loaf
ers and incompetents, like chickens,
will have to scratch. —Cornelia En
terprise.
Political writers in the daily
press have assumed the task of
constructing a cabinet for the next
president’ And yet it can hardly
be termed “love’s labor lost,” A
lot oi people can then say they
were also mentioned. —Argosy.
Instead of their sitting at the
feet of. Gamaliel, a good many of
the leaders of the nation have had
Gamaliel sitting at their feet late
ly, all of which strikes us as being
a good thing for Gamaliel and for
the country. —()cilki Star.
The shortage of pecans this year
has taken many a dollar from this
part of the state. Too much rain
at pollen time is,the cause assigned
for the general lack of nuts, which
has extended to seedlings that have
heretofore never been known to fail.
—Thomasville Times Enterprise.
Jf people who never Lake the
trouble to vote were suddenly dis
franchised they would emit a migh
ty roar of protest against being
deprived of their inalienable rights
as a citizen of this great and glori
ous land of the free. It might be a
good way to root ’em out of their
holes. —(’ornelia Enterprise.
A Lowndes county man tried to
exchange six cow hides for a pair
of shoes and failed. So long as
folks cannot carry enough hides to
pay for a pair of shoes and two
bushels of corn will not pay for a
bushel of meal, it will be very diffi
cult to convince people that there
is not something radically wrong
with our system of distribution. —
Tifton Gazelle.
Following the example of the
cotton growers in organizing the
Foreign Export Corporation, the
naval stores men of the Southeast
propose to meet Tuesday in Jack
sonville for the purpose of organiz
ing the Atlantic and Gulf Export
Company. Its object will be to
finance exports to Europe, and
thus provide a foreign market for
naval stores while European manu
facturing is regaining its feet. —
Tifton Gazette.
A recent survey of 10,000 farm
households in thirty-three states
shows that the working day of the
farm woman is on the average 11.3
hours, and in summer 13.12 hours.
Only thirteen women in every
hundred have any regular vacation.
To most city women such hours
would seem lit tle short of slavery,
and indeed they are too long;
nevertheless, there are no happier,
more vigorous or more admirable
women than the wives and moth
ers on the farms. —Sandersville
Progress.
The farmers may be in doubt
about what t,o plant and how to ap
portion their acreage, but we shall
presently see them getting their
fields ready for seed-time and buck
ling down to work. The farmer
can’t wait. Whatever he plants
must be planted at the time nature
ordains, not only will some future
time not do as well; it will not do
at all. The farmer will feel better
and the rest of us will feel better
with him when the plows begin
turning up the long furrows and
farm woik generally gets under
way. —Albany Herald.
Rub-My-Tism cures bruises,
cuts, burns, sores, tetter, etc.
Modern Treasures.
In days of old when knights were
bold
And vessels sailed the main,
The only thought was but of gold
Fsom English ports or Spain.
But this good day men do not slay
For gold—or neither beg;
r lTib greatest treasure man can hold
Is just a common egg.
In olden whiles in South sea Isles
would ships the treasure seek,
Or trade with chief with crafty wiles
Where pestilences reek;
But not so now. No pirate prow
A treasure ship would ram.
'l’ll' prize today that starts a row
Is just a slice of ham.
I
Injforty nine, when from the mine
Came loads of precious gold,
A cavalcade of well-armed men
A place in front would hold.
Bat now no more the bounteous
store
Across the great plains roll.
The cavalcade are now employed
To guard a ton of coal.
—Dalton Citizen.
Write Senator Harris.
The following letter to the Trib
une from Senator William J. Har
ris explains itself:
As you know Congress lias under
consideration a plan for a bonus
for the veterans of the World War.
1 favor some kind of relief meas
ures for our veterans of the great
war, and 1 desire to get their
views on what kind of plans they
think are best. I know the close
contact, through your paper, which
you have with the people of your
sect ion, and I hope that you can
let the young men who served in
the Army know that I want 1 hem
to write me their views about the
bonus plan at their earliest con
venience.
Please let me know any time 1
can serve, your people, and with
best wishes, I am,
Very sincerely yours,
Wji. J. llauuis.
Warehouse is Destroyed.
The interior of the brick ware
house on Albany Avenue, owned
by the Planters Supply Co., was
completely gutted by fire about
11:30 Saturday night. The blaze
originated from an unknown source
and was under considerable head
way before the Fire Department
arrived and it was impossible to
save any of the contents of the
building. Two other houses be
longing tq the company were saved,
however.
A number of second hand auto
mobiles and a large amount of feed
stuff were destroyed. No esli
mate lias been made of the loss,
but it is understood that the build
ing and contents were covered by
insu ranee. —Waycross J ournal-
Herald.
Saved His Horse.
Mr. 1!. L. Mclntyre, of Altoona,
Ala., says:Dr. LeGcar’s Antiseptic
Healing Powder quickly healed
some bad wire cuts on my horse,
I defy any stranger to find the
sligiitcst scar on him.”
Dr. LeG ears Advice and Remedy
saved this valuable animal. He
warns you not to leave a wound,
sore or cut exposed, but to dust on
Dr. LeGear’s Antiseptic Healing
Powder, which instantly forms an
antiseptic protection and promotes
healthy healing.
In his 28 years of Veterinary
Practice and Expert Poultry Breed
ing, Dr. LcGcar has compounded a
remedy for every curable ailment
of stock or poultry. Whenever
they require a remedy, it will pay
you, as it did Mr. Mclntyre, to
purchase from your dealer the
proper Dr. LcGcar Remedy, on a
satisfactory or money back guaran
tee. —A d vertf semen t.
Rub-My-Tism relieves Rheu
matism, Neuralgia, Sprains.
TWO YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
Atkinson County Makes Some
Progress These Years.
Last Saturday was Atkinson
county’s second birthday.
Beginning life with no financial
swaddling clothes her pace has been
along a rocky road. Yet she lias
survived and made some healthy
progress in coualyhood.
The officers who were elected
and charged with the duty of con
duct of tiie several department of
the county government have done
honest, faithful work, as near as
it was humanly possible, and tlie
citizens of Hie county are to be
congratulated and the officers to
be applauded upon the success that
has been worked out and shown
by the record.
There is no department of the
county government in which the
people feel a greater interest than
I hat of education. The first selec
Lion of a County Board of Educa
lion brought into service some of
the most conscientious citizens she
possessed. 'They were Hons. Thom
as Morris and- Elisha Corbitt —in-
herited from tlie mother comity of
Toffee —Hons. H. H. Field iug, P.
M. Lang and K. Tv. Griffis. Prof.
Han key Booth was selected for
Superintendent by the people. The
Board of Education —so composed
—has made a most wonderful re
cord in the cause of education for
the county. They put on the har
ness of official life promptly, got
down to business early and had ev
ery school in the county supplied
with teachers and in operation
before January was many days old.
The most wonderful story of their
achievements is that the teachers
have received their salaries,
promptly at the end of the month.
Tli is is more than can be said of
some of the old counties. It is
true they acquired a prorata por
lion of the State school fund at
the beginning. But bow they
managed to give the county the
splendid schools they did with the
small sum of money they had at
their command was an accomplish
ment indeed.
The first membership began to
step out. and others take their
places. Mr. Morris’s time expired
and he refused a re-appointment-
Mr. Corbett disqualified himself
by moving into the incorporated
City of Willacoochee, where they
had an independent school system.
Mr. J. A. Hodges succeeded the
first and Mr. J. i>. Paulk tlie lat
ter. As now composed there is no
county in the State that has a
more conscientious, earnest and
painstaking Board of Education.
The important office of (Irdiuary
has been presided over by Judge
J. Wesley Roberts. At the first
J udge Roberts had entire charge
of the county's material and finan
cial interests as well as being Judge
of the Probate Court. Tins' did
not last long as the first legislature
after the organization of the coun
ty provided for the county a Board
of Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues, and relieved Judge
Roberts of this onerous duty.
Judge Roberts has administered
the Ordinary’s office with fidility
and efficiency, and he lias had
some very delicate and difficult
problems to work out and pass up
on.
The Statute creating the Board
of Commissioners, named Hons.
J. M. Roberts, Jeff Kirkland and
David Weathers as its members
and Mr. Kirkland to be the chair
man. They have worked together
harmoniously and have wrought
well w ith the means at their com
iuan(f. The statute also imposed
upon these gentlemen with one
special duty —to provide public
buildings for the county during
their term of office. They have
done everything possible to carry
$1.50 A YEAIt
out. this provision .of the statute,
and would have fulfilled it to the
letter but for the tardiness in the
delivering of materials —matters
which they could not control.
They have under construction a
court house and jail, centrally lo
cated at Pearson, that when com
pleted will be a splendid monu
ment of their faithfulness to the
trust reposed in them.
Clerk Sumner went into office as
“green as twenty gourds.” He re
alized he had to get- on the job,
and he employed experienced men
to teach him, and his perfectly
good eyes and ears played him in
good part. lie saw every example
that was set for his guidance and
he heard and stored in his memory
every bit of advice handed him.
He makes an acceptable officer and
is handling the duties of the office
magnificently.
Sheriff Leggett was captured out
on “the burn”; he had never been
about a court house either as juror,
litigant, witnesses nor even as a
spectator. He had no conception
whatever of his duties, and he dis
covered that he had to “get there
Elisha.” He has done well con
sidering his lack of experience and
knowledge of his offico.
Treasurer Kirkland was a man
with experience., having been treas
urer of Coffee county for a term.
He took tiie office with the knowl
edge that it was to be abolished
and to become effective at the end
of his two year's term.
Tax Collector Rowan Corbitt did
well for a man without experience.
His work was commended by state
officers as being well done. Mr,
Corbitt made Atkinson county a
firstrate tax collector.
Tax Receiver Welborn Corbitt
has proven himself a faithful and
conscientious officer. Of course
lie went in without experience, and
had to work himself up to profi
ciency. He did well for the first
year, and excellent for the second.
He is a man of intelligence and a
man who cau be depended npon to
do his whole duty.
Surveyor Crosby was inherited
from the mother county of Coffee.
He has filled his office acceptable,
being entirely trustworthy and
prompt.
Coroner 1 ,ee Murray had an office
affording a large supply of leisure
time. The record shows he held
but one inquest during his short
term, and that one only a short
time before its expiration.
These officers have all done so
well the people made little change
in the personnel of the second corps
of officers for the county.
The following qualified and was
sworn in for a term of four years;
Ordinary —J. Wesley Roberts.
Clerk —Wiley M. Sumner.
Sheriff —E. D. Leggett.
Tax Collector —Tlios. Morris, Sr.
Tax Receiver —H. W. Corbitt.
Surveyor—J. A. Crosby.
Coroner —J. Lee Murray.
Superintendent of Schools*—J.
G. White.
The Board of Commissioners who
will serve two years, Messrs. J. M.
Roberts, David Weathers and
Henry O’Brien. •
Altogether Atkinson has made
splendid progress during her first
two years. The public buildings
well under way and will soon be
completed. The court house will
be completed and furnished in
time for the holding therein the
next June term of superior court.
The times are out of joint and
as well as other sections Atkinson
county is a little disheveled be
cause of the confusion. The pecu
liar circumstances are making the
cost of maintaining the county ap
pear extravagant, but it is a mis
take. The people have no reason
to complain, become disgrunted or
lose their courage. Time will
straighten out all their embarrass
ments.
To prevent a cold take 666,
