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'l3 JCT a jri , * *ns IQ f y " VT7 .. L Jt JljL.a ii -Ay JL w. '.. \ r j Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. VOL. 6—NO. 10 NEWS OF m 2 NEIGHBORS. Gleanings from Ail Sections of South Georgia. Brantley county will liave its first Sunday-School convention on Sunday, February 13th. It will meet in the Baptist church at Ho boken. Col. Andrew J. Tut.cn has sue ceeded .Judge L- I). Luke on the bench of Ihe < ity Court of Alma. Judge Luke resigned and Gov. Dorsey commissioned Mr. Tuten, for a term expiring January 1, 1925. The bridge across the Altamalia river at Big Sister's bluff, now known as the "Lane" bridge, is fin ished and the highway will be op en to the public as soon as the ap proaches are complete, some say about the first of March. If what the Tribune has been told is true Valdosta, in the mat ter of finances, is the leading little city of South Georgia. She is credited by the census department of the govennent with 13,000 pop ulation and $13,000,000 of tax values, equivalent to St,ooo per capita. An esteemed subscriber at Adel, Mr, L. L. Me Neal, living a short distance southeast of the little city, had several of his neighbors assisting him in some work. A scafflc broke with them and all suf fered injuries in varying degrees. Mr. MeNcal the worst of all. lie was injured internally and was confined to his bed several days. The Bank of Nicholls lias been reorganized, with the following of fleers: Warren Meeks, president; .LA. Davis, active vice-president; 'A. W. Kirkland, cashier; Tift 'T. Gillis, assistant cashier. The in vestigation by the State bank ex aminer shows t! ■ bank was iu good condition and tie- former officers given clean idea; anee papers. Till* closing of the bank two weeks ago was an act of p. udenee. Our cotemporary over at Nash ville, the Herald, was sold last Saturday under a mortgage fore closure, to a company, headed by Hon. J. \\ . K. Powell, tin* cashier of “The First Bank of Nashville.” It is probable l hat a stock company will be organized and fresh vitality infused into the paper. The Tri bune figure l it out that the former editor Mr. A. (.'. Sweat, will eon tiuue, at i.-a-st ' r the present, as editor and mat ager. There seems to be two news pat>ers down in Brantley county — The Nahunla Banner, at Nahunta, and The Brantley County News, at Hoboken. The Banner seeks to move the count}' scat of Brantley to Nahunla. Let the Banner pos sess its soul in peace; the county scat can be removed only upon a two-thir!s vote of the qualified voters of the county, and the sub mission of Ine question to the voters can not be done until the expiration of five years, Philip Smith, the aged colored janitor at the Savannah Cotton Ex change building, died a few days since and the Hag which floated over the building, was placed at half mast in his honor uutil after the last sad rites had ended. If the old man had been as white as cotton and as wealthy as Rocke feller no higher honor could have been paid him. Philip Smith was a great man: he had learned to know himself, his duty, his posi tion. his environment, and govern ed himself accordingly. He won the respect and este- m ot his white employers and associates, and they indeed and in truth recognized his greatness and mourned his death. This short tribute to Philip Smith carries its moral — greatness never emanates from haughty self-esteem and rudeness —which the negro race can learn with profit Early Days of Valdosta. The Tribune rarely visits Val dosta that lie is not called upon as a wit ness to prove or disprove some fact concerning the early history of that splendid little city. He was there last Saturday and was called on by Senator elect (). Iv. Jones for information relative to the early hotels of Valdosta. He had been informed that Mr. Wm. Smith, from Troupville, was the first hotel proprietor there. This information was paradoxical —true and untrue. Valdosta was founded in 1858. and among the first buildings erected was a large two story frame, building for a hotel. It was'locat ed on the northwest corner of the block, about where Mr. T. S. Me key's residence now stands. I don't, remember who owned it, but during .1865 it was occupied by the family of a Dr. Pritchard, who re fugeed from near Savannah. They returned to their home in 1866, and it was then occupied by Mr. and Mrs. MeCranie, from Berrien county, w ho conducted a boarding house. It was soon after disman tled and the main body of the house moved across to the west side of Ashley street and for a time the second story was occupied by “The South Georgia Times,” where several of Valdosta's present pros porous citizens were initiated into the mysteries of the “Art Preserv ative,” including Messrs. G. IP Ashley. .1. 15. Ham and A. S. Pen dleton. In 1866 Mr. Win. Smith, the Troupville hotel man, tore down his Troupville house and moved i( to Valdosta and rebuilt it as a roomy single story building, locat ing it on the south sideof the west half of flic block on which the Strickland building is located. It. was located on the south side of tlu* block for the reason that “Lucie Billy,” as Mr. Smith was familiarly known, expected the right-of-way of the railroad would be a front thoroughfare. Mr. and Mrs. Smith conducted a hotel there for many years and until their deaths. After their death it be came 1 the property of a son in law, Mr. B. F. Holder, and he owned it until his death. Lucie Billy’s ex pectation l hat the south side would be the front was never realized. X X X Rehearsing the above facts brings fresh to memory another fact of which all Yaldostans even now should feel a just pride. It is this: Valdosta has from the beginning been noted for its interest in the cause of education. In JBGB she 1 had in her midst two splendid schools, patronized not only by local students but by young ladies and gentlemen from every section of South Georgia. The "Valdosta Institute,” co educational, occupied the regular school building, and Hon. Samuel M. Varnedoe was the principal. It was attended by quite a number of young men from every section of South Georgia and these young men after leaving school took lead ing parts in the upbuilding of the i sections from whence they came. | The ‘’South Georgia Female Col legiate Institute," occupied the second story of a big frame build ing located on the present site of the Strickland building, it was the project of Rev. C. C. Andrews, who was the principal. He was assisted by Rev. A. J. Moseley. The latter was the grandfather of Rev. T. A Moseley, a former pastor of the Pearson Methodist church, its largest patronage were board ing students, coining from every section of South Georgia and North ern Florida. This school had to suspend for the want of proper quarters. It was reconstruction ! period, everybody was demoralized, j money scarce and a sufficient PE ARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1921 EDITORIAL OPINIONS, The Brethren are Discussing a Number of Live Topics. California ships millions of cans of peaches to Georgia every year while Georgia lets millions of peaches rot on the ground. Why, brother’ —Thomasville Times-Eu terprise. One reason why some people cannot find houses to rent, and live iu, is because they treat the houses like they were 'made to tear up. Chop down, and not to live iu.— Douglas Enterprise. We have no patience with the man who pats us on the back for publishing an article ripping ’em iip the back for ordering merchan dise from a mail order house and then sends his order for printing out of town. Patronize your home merchant —home merchant, patron ize your home printer. —Blackshcar Times. It is now proposed to prohibit women from wearing high heeled shoes by legislative enactment. It is only another fool measure proposed. The women have as much sense as men and we have never felt called upon to offer t hem advice as to what they should wear or attempt to dictate to t hem their duties in the home or in so ciety. —Adel News. The Associated Advertising < Hubs of the World will hold a con vention in Atlanta in June., the executive committee of this organ ization meeting in that city this week to perfect arrangements for t lie big gathering. The Advert iser can’t help wishing, that some of our local business men would at tend every one of the sessions of (he June meeting. They might return with an adequate concept ion of Iht 1 power of publicity. —Metter Advertiser. 1(, must lie a fact that "Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” Especially is this t rue of farmers. Thtjre is not a crop that the farmers made last year that they did not lose money on. There was never a time when they were more discouraged or lmd more rea son to be. Yet with the bulk of last year's crop still unsold < sac i diced for a pittance, the farmers are going ahead and making the best arrangements they can for making another crop, But it is very unlikely that as much as $3.00 a day for farm labor, $65.00 a ton for fertilizer or expensive boll weevil medicine will be invest ed in (his year's cotton crop. — Sparks Engle. The fact is being pointed to with more or less glee, that the, Wash ington City profiteers overdid the thing. It went out that hotel rates were to be ever-so-rnuch more than reasonable for never-so short a stay and that food and souvenirs and scats and amusements were to jump higher than the Washington Moument. And the whole works were called off! it is being p iked at the traders and trafiekers in the capital city that if they had been content with reasonable charges the inauguration might have been held on the old-time, big crowd plan.—Savannah News. amount to erect proper buildings just could not he had at the time. The collapse of the school as a hard blow to the city from which it took many years to recover. Il filled the position of the present South Georgia State Normal Col lege. __ __ G. W. Wallace, clerk of the su perior court of Lee county, Lees burg, Ga., was convicted in the j Federal court, at Albany, Wednes-1 day of sending obscene matter to a! young lady through the mail. To break a cold take 86b. The Trail of the Seoul The Boy Scout Movement has passed the experimental stage. There may be modifications of it iu the future looking to even great er efficiency, but its worth has been proven so effectively that none needs to question its being a na tional asset. The plan now being developed to extend this splendid program of character building and citizenship training to the boyhood of this county under the District Council Flan is meeting with cordial inter est and support among our people. The scout; has written his trail in the open places of nature. Boys have by means of scouting learned to know nature and love it. The exercise of body, mind and soul lias been in the great out-of-doors as much as possible. Healthful conditions are thus supplied for (he purposed exercise in all three fundamental lines. THE TRAIL. IN THE HOME. But the trail of the scout has also been blazed in the home. The boy who is taught the necessities of obedience in connection with the things he personally wanted to do cannot help taking that les son into his home life. He will more readily obey his parents than before. Have you known boys that did not like to “wash behind the ears”? There have been some of these, though perhaps not in your home. The boy had difficulty in under standing that the dirt lie couldn’t see was over-evidence to others. When that hoy lias been taught cleanliness by the scout method you will not have to direct his at tention to such unrcached areas. But more important yet is the el caul in ess of mind which the scout learns in his regular course. The test of promiscuous contact with boys wdio know too much in the wrong way will not be met among his fellow scouts. Clean, right thinking is constantly before the. scout as a standard to be maintain ed. II by chance the opposite for a moment shows its face the frown of other scouts soon puts it to flight and forbids its re appearance. Scouts do not bring the heads of parents to shame and humilia tion. That is the trail of the scout in the home. Kindness, cheerful ness and reliability taught in scout iug induce a home reflex that brings smiles of happiness to par ents’ faces and smooths the wrink les from their brows. THE TRAIL IN THE SCHOOL. The Boy Scout Movement does not aim to assume the responsibili ty of either home or school for the boy, bul, to .supplement and inten sify the training of both, in char acter formation. The relation of the Scout Move ment to the school is one of the closest cooperations and mutual helpfulness. One high school prin cipal in South Georgia has de scribed scouting by saying: “It has done what no other scheme has ever done before —made the boy want to learn.” * Teachers therefore like parents have an easier time with scouts. There is no trouble about the boy learning when he “wants to.” All sorts of methods have been tried to make the boy want to learn. The Boy Scout method has come out of this same human laboratory and it is an experiment that lias been successful. This is the trail of the scout in the school. THE TRAIL IN THE CHURCH. Scouting is non-sectarian both in principle and practice. But its program provides recreational acti vities which are easily adapted as an adjunct to the work of the church and the Sunday-School. It serves an important need in keep ing the boy in contact with the BIG BIRTHDAY DINNER At the Home of Hon. Micajah Vickers, Sr., Near Douglas. W. I\. in DoukUis Enterprise. More than a hundred people ate dinner with Micajah Vickers, Sr., last Saturday the 22nd. The oc casion was a sort of a birthday yearly meeting and the Vickers generations came in swarms like bees on a summer day. Little Fannie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Micajah N ickers, was five years old and they planned a birthday din ner for her. The more they plan ned the bigger the thing grew. They invited her little kin and friends and then Mr. Vickers thought; of his two sisters and then he had anot her thought coming for all his brothers are dead and he thought he ought to invite the widows and' so he did and then many more friends and kindred were added to the list. Hie day was ideal —warm and mellow as a spring morning. Some one said the good Lord made the day and sent it to Mr. Vickers for the occasion. Mr. Vickers had a sort of program planned for the day. When the people arrived about noon they gathered about the house and yard and some old fashioned Primitive Hymns were sung' and then Mr. Vickers told the people that any of them could talk if they wished. Short talks, were made by W. P. Ward, Bud Vickers and Rev. Jesse Carver. Dinner was next in order. Tables wore prepared in the yard and the good eats piled up on plates and (L in's. After Iho "blessing” was asked then all were invited to help themselves. It was one of the most orderly public dinners 1 ever saw. No one rushed. All took time to eat. Everybody was in good humor and the social spirit was fine. Mr. Vickers was at his host and seemed very happy to know that he had so many friends, and especially to realize that he and his two sisters and the wives of his five deceased brothers were so blessed of the Lord as to be per mitted to meet and all eat to gether once more. A table of honor was prepared for the old people in whose honor the dinner was given; they occupied seats as follows: Mr. Vickers sat at the head of the table. His two sisters, Mrs. Ma tilda Lott and Mrs. Polly Sears sat on his left. Around the table sat Mrs. Jane Vickers, widow of Rev. Jack Vickers of precious and saint- religious activities of his own church. He does not get the de sire to graduate as is so evident in growing boys. Scouting does not specially teach religion, but it does not directly and indirectly inculcate those ideals which will help boys put in practice every day the religious faith which may lie theirs. THE COUNTER ATTACK. When a boy’s mind is occupied with clean appealing activities, the doors of it are closed to tempta lions which knock with desire to enter. The hardest thing for par ents and teachers to combat is that insidious propaganda of evel which the unoccupied boy picks up. They can recognize it in his count enance, in his growing reticence and unresponsiveness. But it is beyond reach. He will not talk it out. The Boy Scout Movement has the preventive method and it has the counter attack for such con (lit ions. No greater thing can be done for the boyhood of this county than to enlist and train them in this splendid program. They are ready. Will we answer their call for lead e;.ship, and furnish the ways and means? To prevent a cold take 666. $1.50 A YEAR Card of Thanks. Mrs J. L. Harrell and family wish to thank their many friends and relatives for their kihduess during the recent illness and death of their beloved husband and fa ther. May the Lord’s blessings rest upon each and every one of them. Hot Stuff! The politicians, speculators or somebody else has played hell with the farming interest of America. This is the plain truth. But the politicians are long on advice and mealy mouthed methods of , salva tion for the farmers. When the farmers learn to pay more atten tion to their own business and give no heed to the politicians they will be infinitely better off. — Jackson Progress-Argus. The people demanded a change and by gum they got the change. The people of Georgia wanted men like Watson and Hardwick, and by gravy, they have’em. But what’s the use of reminding them of what they got? —Greensboro Herald Journal. Just seo! As soon as the heavy new work looms up before them, where do the President-elect and the Vice President elect go for a rest-up and for storing up steady and normal health and strength and poise and all that with which to meet the big task? Where? They come South! Here’s Mr. Harding in Florida —and ho went to Texas immediately after he was elected —and Mr. Coolidge to Geor gia and North Carolina. They are indicating that they have good judgment along some safe and sane lines already! —Savannah News. ed memory; Mrs. Katie Vickers, widow of Henry Vickers; Mrs. Frances Vickers, widow of Willie Vickers; Mrs. Lucy Vickers, widow of Eli Vickers and Mrs. Delilah Roberts, an old friend of the family. And 1 must not forget to tell you about old aunt Bettie, the old colored woman, a former slave of the family. She was given a seat near the table of honor. And do you suppose they gave her some of the good things to eat? Or did she get the scraps? I am here to tell you that she bad some of the best of everything and had it in piles and plenty. She lived like a black Queen at least one day in her life. There will never be any race trouble between the old time whites and the old-time negroes. It is the bad element in the young er of both races that make trouble. I can’t toll you all about the dinner. It was up to date in every way. 11 was good and there was plenty of it and it was free. Mr. Vickers had hung mustard and turnips on the trees and fencing around about and I saw one big country ham, cured and smoked hanging on a tree. Some one said he never saw hams grow on trees. When dinner was over and the people had talked and exchanged greeting the friends and loved ones gave the old people a good warm hand shake and bid them good bye with a prayer that God would be good to them and cause His face to shine upon them iu love and mercy. Mr. Vickers has a beautiful home out on the hills of the Satilla. river about five miles from Doug las. We know it as the old John Carver place. But Mr. Vickers has built a beautiful home out there and put new life and looks, in the region round about. The home is large and the fields are broad. Everything clean and in viting about the home. All who attended this feast of good things are indebted to Mr. Vickers and his wife and family. Such a gathering makes us all feel better aud makes us love each other more. Our best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Vickers. May they live long and have few troubles.
