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PEARSON©TRiBUNE
VOL. G—NO. 38
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topic*.
Nineteen twenty one will be not
able in at least one respect. Gen
tlemen who come home in the
small hours of the morning will
experience no great difficulty in
finding the keyhole. —Blackshear
Times.
The average man lifts all the re
spect and deference in the world
for the weaker sex. That explains
why so many of ’em will see a wo
man hang on a street car strap —
they believe the physical exercise
will be good for her muscles —Way-
cross Journal Herald.
Tf you have a job, stick to it.
That's good advice any time —and
emphatically just now. The roll
ing stone, as one practical man
said the other day in addressing a
body of co-workers, “not only
doesn’t gather any moss, but it
eventually, sometimes quickly,
finds itself at the bottom.” —8a
vannah News.
Here we have been thinking all
the while that war impoverished
the world, when along comesasav
ing bank association of New York
with a statement to the effect that
the wealth of the chief countries
involved in the war 1914-15)f S was
increased in that period by 121
billions of dollars. If information
as to how much this increased
wealth would buy was also to hand,
we might get an idea of our loca
tion. —Tiftoo Ga/.et te.
We believe in raising some cot
ton in South Georgia, Our hope
lies not in quitting any one thing
but in raising such a variety that
we w ill be able to get along if one
crop fails or the price droits to
where nothing can be made from
it. An abundance of food is need
ed above all else. When the farms
are well supplied with food and
feed stuffs w e w ill not suffer much.
We need to raise in Georgia all
the meat and other things that we
need. We have too long had our
smoke house in the West. —Adel
News.
A significant statement was made
by a gentleman in town to day,
when he said that he had declined
to join the overall club w hqu that
was the rage but that now he was
leady. If ever there was a time
when an overall club was needed
in this country, it is to-day, with
less wind and more work there
would quickly be a change in the
financial condition of the country.
There is plenty of work for those
who want to wear overalls, thous
ands upon thousands of acres of
the best land in Worth county
need cultivation and an overall
club composed chiefly of those who
agitated that movement a few
months since when there was all
kinds of money to be hail would
make this country richer in two
ways. —Worth County Local.
The striking from the criminal
docket of so many cases this week
because of the inability of the
.State to get witnesses to prove its
case is another illustration of tho
desirability of holding courts
promptly and continuously till the
business is disposed of. Presum
ably there was some semblance of
a cause of action in every one of
these indictments, else the grand
jury would not have found a true
bill. But because of frequent post
poning of court a lack of vigor on
the part of the state's officers, the
witnesses get scattered and lost
sight of and many defendants go
unpunished, not because they are
innocent, but because they w r ere
not tried. The Star is pleased to
know of the determination of Judge
Jive and Solicitor Foy to keep up
with the docket more closely now
that many of the old musty cases
are out of the way. —Qcilla Star.
Procured Change of Plans.
Congressman Lankford has never
been pleased with tho original
plans for the Douglas postofiice
building, and has persistently la
bored to secure a change from a
single to a two-story edifice.
It now appears that Mr. Lank
ford has succeeded in his under
taking and the plans now call for
a basement and two stories above
it. This will guarantee quite an
imposing structure, and the citi
zens of Douglas are to be congrat
ulated upon the change.
Of course the change calls for an
additional appropriation for its
construction. Mr. Lankford is now
looking closely after this phase of
the matter and is hopeful of get
ting an additional appropriation of
$25,000 set apart for the work.
Near Fatal Hanging
The following story of a peculiar
accident was sent out from Dong
las:
News has just reached Douglas
of a peculiar accident, which occur
red a few days ago on the planta
tion of 11. B. Johnson, former cash
ier of the Citizens Bank of Doug
las in which Henry Thomas, a
negro, was undertaking, while un
der the influence of whiskey, to
cross a bridge over a creek in which
part of tin 1 flooring had been re
moved. The negro fell through
the bridge and in some way his
foot caught in the flooring and left
him hanging by his foot. This ac
cident happened during the early
part of the night and the negro
was not discovered until about 11
o’clock next day. When found he
was unconscious and in an appar
ent paralyzed condition. Doctors
were called and it took them about
twenty-four hours to bring about
a proper circulation and revive
him. It is now thought the negro
will get well.
Peach Trees from June Buds.
A great many nurserymen make
a practice of budding peach stock
in June, rushing the young trees
into rapid growth, and selling the
trees to orchardists the following
fall. Others hold the young trees
over another season and sell them
as two-year stock.
in comparing the tw'o types of
trees at the Georgia Experiment
Station, the one-year, or June bud
trees, have given the best general
satisfaction. The two-year trees
are apt te be more or less stunted
and do not grow off as well as the
younger trees.
Tkansi'i.antim; and Heading
Back
It is perferable to set peach trees
in the early winter, though the
planting may be done into Februay.
At the time of transplanting no
fertilizer should be put into the
hole. As much as a handful of
commercial fertilizer put with the
soil when the hole is being filled
is likely to prove fatal to the young
tree. Fertile top soil is best for
filling the hole when the tree is
planted.
It is a great mistake to allow
the top of the young tree to remain
just as it came from the nursery.
After they are set a man should go
over the area and cut the young
trees back to the height of his knee.
When June bud trees are used
they may be cut back to mere
switches. Then when growth be
gins in the spring, about five of
the more vigorous sprouts are left
on the upper fourth of the young
tree to form the scaffold or head
of the tree. The superfluous
sprouts are rubbed off as they ap
pear. It is important to give the
young trees regular clean culture
and do not allow them overrun by
tall growing plants the first season.
H. P. Stuckey, Director.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1921
DEVELOPING ITS TERRITORY.
Georgia and Florida Railway En
gaged in Laudable Task.
The Industrial and Agricultural
Departments of the Georgia &
Florida railway are maintaining a
spirit of optimism in these days of
business depression, with the full
consciousness that the situation —
so far as business is concerned —is
anything but favorable; but, we
know that a readjustment is com
ing and with the readjustment, a
new and steady inflow of prosperi
ty will obtain. We should all take
seriously into consideration, the
fact, that a single crop system in
any country, is not dependable.
Let us foster and encourage in
every way, the establishment of
new money crops and tho proper
methods of marketing them it
has been demonstrated beyond the
questioh of a doubt, that the rav
ages of the 801 l "Weevil and busi
ness depression—due to low r price
cotton —can be offset, if undertak
en along the right linos. The
present time is an exemption, as
every commodity is affected.
South Georgia, the richest sec
tion in the South in agricultural
and other resources must be de
veloped. Our lands, thousands of
acres of which are now unoccupied,
must be populated and cultivated.
We are in possession of natural
wealth, the immensity of which
has never been correctly estimated.
Along development lines, the sur
face has only been scratched and if
the State, Chamber of Commerce,
the business men generally and the
railways—which are natural ter
ritorial developers, will co operate,
Soutli Georgia country will become
the richest section in the United
States. The soil, the climate,
water power, immense quantities
of hard woods —and there is still
left large quantities of pine timber
—mineral deposits in large quanti
ties, including deposits of Kaolin,
the adaptability of this section to
stock raising, all combine to insure
Golden results to come with the
proper development efforts.
Speaking for the Georgia & Flor
ida railway, —it is our purpose dur
ing the corning year, to put on a
number of campaigns for the pur
pose of co-operating with the peo
ple along our line in the establish
ment of new money crops and
special effort will be made to in
duce manufacturers to come into
the territory and establish plants
at points where the raw material
used —grows or is deposited in the
earth in abundance.
TIT INGB ACCOMPLISHED.
This railway, after 5 years hard
work, has succeeded in establish
ing South Georgia as a tobacco
raising section and it is with no
little pride that we can announce
that last year, there was planted
along the line of the Georgia &
Florida railway,approximately 10,-
000 acres of “Bright Tobacco" and
that four markets (Vidalia. Doug
las, Nashville and Valdosta) sold
tobacco to the amount of $900,000.-
00. Douglas, Ga., —in the vicinity
of which city the tobacco business
was started by the Georgia &
Florida railway, is now' the leading
market in South Georgia and the
sales at that point last year amount
ed to $493,000.00. 'i'h is was ac
complished by the employment of
an expert tobacco agent, who
spends his entire time instructing
and encouraging tobacco growers
in the territory. During the com
ing season, special efforts will be
made to open up new' tobacco ter
ritory and to safely And sanely in
crease the acreage and at the same
time maintain a high gradequality
of the product.
During last year seven sweet
potato curing houses were estab
lished on the line and regardless of
the fact that the prices of sweet
Pull for Your Town.
There is no better evidence of a
commendable community spirit
than t-liat of loyal loyalty to a town
in which a person lives.
If a town is worth living in it is
worth defending and supporting in
its efforts to advance with the rest
of the world.
Yet almost every community you
will find people who see nothing
good in their surroundings.
They cannot recognize the fact
that though it may be humble, it
yetis home —that it has clothed
him, and cared for them in sick
ness and health, and has furnished
them friends wdio have been stead
fast and true.
They magnify its imperfections
and spread clouds wherever they
go. t
They often make life miserable.
For others and invariably make it
a reproach to themselves.
But there is a brighter side to
this story.
The abuse these short-sighted
people heap upon their place of
abode generally falls upon unsyin
pat hetic cars.
Their neighbors and friends know
them as they are —as people who
might have been valuable citizens
capable of constructive work, but
whose dispositions have been warp
ed in younger days, poss i b I y
through no particular fault of their
own.
Their criticisms are listened to
with good natured patience, bul
are forgotten about as soon as
uttered.
The views of the chronic kicker
and fault finder have less weight,
than those of any adult element of
the human race.
When lie thinks he is kicking
his town In 1 generally finds that he
is kicking himself instead. —Sand
ersville Progress.
potatoes, like everything else at
the present time, are very low,
these houses are all in operation
and the operators are not discour
aged. The establishment of a
market system for sweet potatoes
has been accomplished and the
Georgia & Florida railway have
employed a sweet potato specialist
who visits these houses and who
will commence at an early date to
hold a series of meetings at differ
ent points along the line of the
Georgia & Florida railway, instruct
ing farmers with reference to seed
selection, cultivation, curing, grad
ing, packing and shipping sweet
potatoes. With tho return to
normal conditions, the sweet po
tato will come into its own as one
of the South’s greatest money
crops and it is our hope and belief
that by the end of next season, wo
will have at least 15 curing houses
on the Georgia & Florida railway.
It is the purpose of the Georgia
& Florida railway, to encourage
every farmer along the line who
will do so, to plant five or more
acres of Irish potatoes, upon a
guarantee by the Industrial and
Agricultural departments, of a
market for the product.
Correspondence with people in
every section of the country, indi
cates considerable interest in South
Georgia and every encouragement
will be offered good, progressive
people to come into our section
and locate. Literature dealing
with the territory has been com
piled and is mailed daily to in
quirers, in various parts of the
United States.
The Georgia & Florida railway,
is anything but dismayed at the
present conditions and will re
double its efforts to develop and
make South Georgia what nature
intends that it should be “The
Garden Spot of the South.”
Rub-My-Tism cures bruises,
cuts, burns, sores, tetter, etc.
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
The soil survey of f ierce county
has been completed and a report
thereof published in pamphlet, il
lustrated by a color map, for pub
lic use.
Ocillais moving in the matter of
organizing a Chamber of Com
merce. Her citizens are learning
that no city can afford to be with
out some kind of a trade body.
The church people of Ocilla have
held meetings and resolved to do
all they can in assisting their new
Sheriff in enforcing the criminal
laws of Georgia in Irwin county.
The Douglas hospital building
has been leased to Dixon & Hutch
inson. of Savannah, who will trans
form it into a small but firstclass
hotel. It will be known as "The
Commercial.”
That section of Douglas known
as "Moccasin Slide,” and occupied
principally by negroes, was visited
by a fire last Sunday night. It
wiped out five little stores which
with one exception were operated
by negroes.
Fitzgerald citizens is making an
effort to have that city chosen as
the government’s sweet potato
syrup experiment station. It has
been discovered that an excellent
syrup can bo extracted from the
sweet potato.
Savannah and Chatham county’s
school tension will be loosened up
right soon. It is understood that
neither (he city nor the county
have had school room sufficient for
the demand. But the recent bond
issue will provide six new buildings
foi the city and ten for the county.
The annual school teacher’s In
stitute for Clinch county is in ses
siou at Homerville. State Super
visor I. S. Smith, born and raised
in Clinch county, is in cjiarge of
the institute, and winning the ap
probation of all his home friends
in the new and improved methods
he is seeking to introduce in Clinch
county.
Colquitt and Tift counties are
bidding high for the services of
Mr. J. O. Stewart, who has been
county policeman for Tift the past
several months. It seems if Col
quitt county will win by paying a
salary of $3,000 a year, furnishing
gas and oil for his car and a deputy
at half the price. Colquitt county
is running in high gear this year.
Mr. E. G. Epps, woodsman for
the Hebard Cypress Company, was
killed by a falling tree last Friday.
He was engaged at the camp down
in the Okefinokee swamp; was with
the choppers and was not on his
guard when a falling tree struck
the branches of another tree and
fell on him. His body was carried
to Wayeross and prepared for
burial.
The carving off of a large portion
of the Mud Creek militia district
of Clinch county to be incorporat
ed into Lanier county, has made
the creation of a new militia dis
trict on the west side to be known
as “Arabia” district. It includes
a part of the Homerville and Bab
bitville districts and the remain
ing portion of the original Mud
Creek district.
A strong effort was made last
week,, to book a Chautauqua for
Nashville, but there was nothing
doing. The consensus of opinion
among the people there was that
they were too expensive for the
quality of entertainment furnish
ed. It is a sin how much money
the people are paying out for pun
ky foreign entertainment, foisted
on them as educational.
To break a cold take 666.
$1.50 A YEAR
THEY RODE.
Last spring when cotton
"Was selling so high
You could have seen the farmers
“Foating” in the sky,
(But they RODE!)
They rode in the sun,
They rode in the rain,
Some even rode
In an aeroplane.
(But they RODE!)
They rode all night,
They rode all day
They kept on “riding”
.Till the devil’s to pay.
(But they RODE!)
If it wasn’t an auto,
It was a blamed old mule,
They kept on “riding”
Till they’ve cut the FOOL,
(But They RODE!)
Some rode bad,
Some rode well,
But they kept on “riding”
'Fill they’ve played h ,
(But they RODE!)
Some doctors spent the whole year,
1 listributing pills
And can’t collect enough money
To pay their gasoline bills,
(But they RODE!)
The real estate business
Was the best of all,
But blame my skins,
If IT didn’t fall,
(But they RODE!)
Some bought Fords,
But carried them back,
And (Promised) the difference
For a Cadaiae,
(But they R(IDE!)
The farmers and merchants
Are broke that’s true,
(And it, looks mighty like,
The banks are, too,)
(But they RODE!)
'l’he above was written,
J ust for a joke,
But durn my hide,
If the country ain’t BROKE.
(But they RODE.)
Shady Dale, Ga.
Rub-My-Tism relieves Rheu
matism, Neuralgia, Sprains.
Returned with Car.
Mr. E. L. Meeks returned Fri
day afternoon from Alexandria,
Ala., bringing back home the Ford
car that had been stolen from him.
Mr. Johnnie Kirkland washis com
panion on the trip. He could
identify it. only by the motor num
ber. The thief or thieves had dis
figured it by taking off the bright
metal fender in front. Pearson
people suspect that a man by the
name of Bass, an escape from the
Ware county chaingang who was
acquainted in Pearson, was one of
the thieves. It grieves Mr. Meeks
that the Alabama officers liberated
the men with the ear before he ar
rived—he wanted to convict them
and put them on the county chain
gang, and work them on the pub
lic road.
HOGS PAY BIG MONEY
Mr. Pete Wing of Hawk Point,
Mo., made a lot of money out of
his hogs. He says: "I fed them Dr.
LeGear’s Hog Prescription. It has
given wonderful results in putting
gains on them with less feed. They
were on heavy feed for only a month
averaged a gain of 2 1-2 pounds
daily, and were only 7 months 10
days old, when sold.”
Mr. Wing profited by the advice
of Dr. LeGear, Graduate Veterin
arian and Expert Poultry Breeder
of 28 years standing.
Dr. LeGear's Hog Prescription
will put weight on your hogs also,
because it expels worms, purifies
the blood and conditions them so
that they gain flesh on less feed.
It makes no difference what ail
ment is prevalent among your
stock or poultry, it is money in
your pocket to get tfle proper Dr.
LeGear Remedy from your dealer,
on a satisfaction or money back
offer. —Advertisement.
