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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1921)
VOL. <>—AO. 42 NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Gleanings from All Sections of South Georgia. Efforts are being made to straighten out the affairs of V. 1!. McQuarie & Co., bankers of Alma, with the view of reopening under a reorganization and incorporation. The doors of this bank have been closed ever since the 171 h day of December. 1920. lion. Lott 'Warren, former repre sentative of Turner county, drop ped dead last Sunday morning just after eating breakfast. lie was ap parently in good health and death came to him without warning. He was sixty five years of age and is survived by wife and six children. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Tillman, of Fargo, (la., announce the birth of a son Saturday, February sth, at the home of his grand -parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Du Free, Carswell Avenue, Waycross. The Tribune extends congratulations; our own Claude is a papa. He was born and reared in Pearson. Hon. Henry .1. Strickland, rep resentative elect from Pierce coun ty, died Saturday, February sth. He was a iriend to Atkinson coun ty when a friend was needed and her people mourn his going away, lion. Simon P. Sweat, a former resident ol Willacooehee, will be a candidate to succeed him. The lbantley County News, by Mr. and Mrs. Robert kiley, has been established at Hoboken, the county seat of the new county of Brantley. The plant is that of The Independent, of Rebecca, Turner county, which they have moved to Hoboken. The Tribune extends a brotherly hand (o the new comers. The Tribune is notified that Editor Flem C. Dame of t he Clinch County News, will ask for the May meeting of the District Press Asso eiatiou. Flem is a wide awake young man, Homerville is a pro gressive little city, her people bos pitable to a fault. The Tribune editor will do all he can to secure for them the desire of their hearts. There are ten or twelve prisoners in Bacon county jail awaiting trial and the people seem to be anxious that an extra session of court be held to try and dispose of them, and stop the big expense of keep ing them. The Times says that a court hold in February will be less expensive to the people of the county than one held in April. The Eleventh District Press As sociation meets at Alma, Bacon countv, next Monday. All the pa pers of the District should have representation at the meeting. There are propositions confronting the fraternity that can best be con trolled by co operation, and every paper in the Eleventh District that D not represented shows a selfishness that will not get any where. Brethern, lets hand Alma and Bro. Jenkins all they are ask ing for by our presence and —then some. l The people of Worth county is having a novel experience—being told by an Indiana governor, Mc- Cray by name, that he will not honor Gov. Dorsey's requisition for the extradition of a Negro murder er, who lias taken refuge in that *.Stale, unless his personal repre sentative whom he will send to Worth county and look them over and see whether they are civilized or barbarous, savage or law-abid ing men, and shall say the murder er will be tried and convicted in accordance with law. This is cer tainly a reflection upon a people who stand ‘‘head and shoulder" higher in civic righteousness than the best community in Indiana. But the Indiana governor sends Mace Giddens back to Georgia for trial. To break a cold take 666. GEORGIA BY JOHN WINGFIELD GATEWOOD. I love the rugged grandeur Of Georgia's rough-hewn hills; Their majesty and splendor My soul with wonder thrills. I love the sparkling fountains That bubbling from her breast, Go' plunging down the mountains And in the sea find rest. I love the rushing rivers; Her bubbling fountains make; Their tumblings and their windings Each wildwood tarn and brake. I love her swelling plateaus, Her leveu coastal plain; Her fields of corn and cotton, And miles of Golden grain. I love her flowery meadows, Her pine woods dark and dim. Whose crooning tops at nightfall Sound out a vesper hymn. I love her sandy beaches, Her marshes salt and wide; Where bitterns lone arc calling, And herons wade and hide. 1 love her noble heroes, Who died that she might live, And dying for her glory, Gave all that one could give. Renowned in song and story, Her people brave and free; To me her soil is sacred. From mountain top to sea. By day she is an empire That fair, resplendent lies; Her fields of peace and plenty Abloom ’neath sunny skies. By night she is an empress, From mountains looking down; The moon is her t iara. The stars her jeweled crown. May wisdom ever guide her, And justice be her boast; With moderation tempered Let "Georgia” be the toast < >f all her sons and daughters, Let each one spread her fame, And keep the title “Georgian” A proud and glorious name. An Ideal Highway. A group of the leading highway engineers of America, sitting in New York in a two (lay conference as a technical committee of the Lincoln Highway Association to decide on specifications for the Ideal Section to be built on the Lincoln Highway as an example to the world of the best type of main travelled highway that can be con structed, have agreed on the prin cipal specifications. The United States Rubber Com pany, which has furnished the funds for the construction of the section, has expressed the hope that a section can be built that will be the best that modern engi neering can devise and that at the same time will lie in its essential details within the reach of the pocket-book of the average State or municipality. In drafting the specifications, the engineers decided that an average traffic of 15,000 passenger automobiles per 24 hour day,travel ing at a speed of 135 miles per hour and 5,000 motor trucks, traveling at an average speed of 10 miles an hour, should be provided for. Among the recommendations made were: Width of Right-of-way, 100 feet; drainage to consist of sub merged drain tile and catch basins; construction to be of concrete, 10 inches thick,’with reinforcing steel embedded, with earth shoulders on each side of the concrete; curves to be super-elevated for a speed of 35 miles per hour; no curves to have a radius of less than 1,000 feet; foot paths for pedestrians to be provided; all wires to be placed underground; all obstructions to the vision to be removed at inter secting roads for a distance of at least 500 feet each way; coinfort stations, park sites and camp sites to be established; lighting along the Section to be provided. An nouncement of ihe selection of the Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEAK SOX, GEORG LA, FE l DAY. FEEKUAIIY 18, 15)21 EDITORIAL OPINIONS, The Brethren are Discussing a Number of Live Topics. We frankly confess that we do not know how to advise farmers to plan their crops this year, but we do not believe that any man will make a mistake if he raises all the food stuffs he will need on the farm. —Ocilla Star. With the new county officers of Jackson installed for this year is Miss Lurline Collier, who will serve as deputy sheriff. She is a daughter of B. 11. (Big Ben) Col lier, who was elected sheriff for the ensuing term. Though Mr. Col lier did not serve the past term, he was previously sheriff of Jackson for many years, and is famous as an “auctioneer” at sheriffs sales and as a fearless, loyal officer. His daughter is probably the first lady deputy sheriff in Georgia.—Gaines ville Herald. It is noted with satisfaction that Glynn county is getting ready to start putting in dipping vats. Camden county has already spent about $15,000 on dipping vals and has several more yet to Build. Added to that w ill be considerable expense for chemicals ami the pay roll of cattle inspectors when the dipping starts in regular, which is not long off now. And a discour aging feature about it has been that none of t he adjoining counties have made a start on the Avork and their cattle running into Camden county will reinfest the territory they run in. It is to be hoped that Glynn's example will be fol lowed by other adjoining counties. —St. Marys Southeast Georgian. Burglars and thugs are becom ing so numerous in this section that people should keep a watch out for hold it;> men as well as a close guard on their premises. An instance of this was afforded in Thomas county when Ashton Stan alan. County Surveyor, was k ock ed senseless in the road and his pockets rifled. Mr. Stanalan was returning from a visit to a i dgh bors in the early evening when a car drove up to him, stopped and one of the men got out and threw a gun on him. While he was struggling with this man, the other hit him from behind. Ho will probably recover. The country is full of men trying to make a living without work. Many of these have been to Florida for the winter and are making their way north. OLhers are prov dig around, seek ing whom tie . may rob. The law abiding citizens can not afford to take any chances nor relax vigil anec. —'I'if Lon Gazette. Speaking of good work done by various Boards of Trade and other Commercial organizations, the most commendable we have in mind is the effort directed to vard inducing people to trade at home. We should like to see our Com mercial Association inaugurate a campaign of this kind. 'I he citi zen that goes out of his home coun ty to do his shopping, when he can get just as good bargains from his home merchant, is making a s< nous mistake. For example, a sue cess ful business in Moultrie, benefits Colquitt county and not Thomas. The Thomas county citizen docs not look to Colquitt for his good roads and bridges ora reduction in his tax rate. He must come to Timings ville for all public improve ments, and when he carries his money to Colquitt and leaves it he has no just claim on his home county to build a good road by his farm.—TboinasviJle Press. spot where the "Ideal Section" will be located will be made in a few weeks. The site will be somewhere on the Lincoln Highway between Pittsburg and Chicago. Leaf Diseases of Shade Trees The leaves of many shade trees and ornamental plants, as well as those of fruit trees, are subject to attacks by parasitic, fungi which produce an unthrifty appearance of the trees and often serious injury to them. For example, there is a very common leaf spot disease of elms which causes the leaves to turn yellow and drop off during the summer, keeping the ground littered and also retarding growth of the trees. The sycamore is sub ject to two leaf spot diseases which often causes complete defoliation during late summer. Repeated severe attacks during t hree or four successive years frequently cause the tree to die. Poplars are fre quenfly killed in the same way by another fungus. Many varieties of roses arc subject to a black leaf spot which disfigures and stunts the plants. These and many oilier diseases, too numerous to mention, are in duced by fungi which live over winter on the fallen dead leaves. In the spring these fungi produce spore's which, when blown onto the young gi-""! leaves, start the dis ease again. II has been found that, in most cases, these dead leaves furnish the sole means of carrying the disease producing organism over winter. It is therefore important that the leaves be raked up very carefully and burned. A few left in a nog looted corner may bo sufficient to start the infection. It is possible to control such dis cases by spraying; but spraying large trees is a difficult aud expens ive operation. The necessity for (he spray should be avoided, if pos sible. 'This may be accomplished by careful destruction of all dead leaves. Cleaning up littered grounds is beneficial to plants as well as to human beings. B. Ik 11 KUHNS, Botanist. Pitts, Ga.. Jan. 10, 1.5)20 M r. < luy A. Cox, ( Onega, (la. 1 tear Sir: — You will find enclosed money order for anol her bottle of the best medicine I ever list'd for indigos tion, constipation and biliousness. It makes me feel like 1 was when I was a boy. I can get up every morning before day and I feel good all day instead of feeling bad and drowsy, and 1 can cat any thing and it don’t hurt me. . I think it is the best medicine I ever took, and I wish everybody who suffers with stomach trouble could try one bottle of your medi cine. 1 feel sure that they would want another bottle of it. Well I can’t say enough about the Medicine you make. Front, G. A. Handley, Pitts, Ga., It. F. D. No. 1. Cox's Liver and Stomach Medi cine acts so gent le and mild, espe eially recommended for delicate women and puny children. Tastes so good. Sold by all good drug stores. Cox Medicine Co., Inc.. Manufacturers, Omega, Ga. —Adv. Methodist Church Directory. The following is a schedule of services on the Pearson circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church South. Pearson— 2nd and Ith Sundays, 11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday- School 3:30 p. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. in. New Providence —2nd and fth Sundays 3:30 p. in. Sunday-School 2:30 p. in. Wesley Chapel —lst Sunday 11:30 a. in. and Saturday night be fore 7:30 p. in. Sunday-School 3:00 p. in. Sweetwater —Ist Sunday 3:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. in. Sunday School 2:30 p. in. Live Oak —3rd Sunday 11:30 a, m. Sunday School 3:00 p. m. Kirkland —3rd Sunday 3:30 p. in. and 7;30 p. qi. Sunday-School 2:30 p. m. All of these services “Rain or Shine” without the ringing of any bells. Public cordially invited. T. M. Luke. Pastor. TRIBUNE STANDS CORRECTED Dr. Wilcox Writes Interestingly of B. W. Douglass, Sr. Editor Tribune: T notice last week's issue of your paper, you said the late Bryant W. Douglass served one term as Tax Collector of Coffee county. 1 wish to state that Mr. Douglass was elected and served eight terms as Tax Collector of Coffee county. He was also a Confederate veter an, a gallant soldier in the cause of the South, lie was one of the few remaining immortals who fought with Stonewall Jackson in his last fight, the battle of Chan cellorsville, and carried to bis grave an honorable scar of that great conflict. And after nightfall, a few hours after Gen. Hooker had been hurled back in red defeat, and not far from where Mr. Doug lass was lying with a shattered leg, the great Stonewall Jackson, him self, was mortally wounded by his own men, and borne from the field to die a few days later. Who defeat of the Federal army under Geu. Hooker, at Chancellors ville, was the crowning peak of Stonewall Jackson's glory. A Shiver of horror thrilled the South erners when the news of Jackson’s wound was whispered through the darkness. When Gen. Lee was informed of Geu. Jackson’s wound he drew his pencil ami wrote across the pum mel of his saddle: “General, I have just received your note in forming me that you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events I should have chosen for the good of the country, to be dis abled in your stead. I congratu late you on the victory, due to your skill and energy. Very re spectfully, “Your obedient servant, “R. E. Lee, General.” Gen. Jackson died in the after noon of Sunday, May 10th, 1863, just two years to a day before Jeff Davis was captured at Irwinville, Georgia. A few hours before death delirium set iu and he began to talk at random. Some of the things lie said was, “Tell Maj. Ifowk’s to pass the infantry rapid ly to the front,” “Have the bugler sound I he charge,” “I always want ed to die on Sunday.” His last audible words were, “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” With that expression on his lips his soid crossed the river and back to the God who gave it; his name passed into history and will pass on and on through the endless ages. Gen. Jackson was devoutly re ligious, gentle and noble in char acter. The Nation that was not to be disunited lost a great citizen, and the’Confederate army lost its greatest Captain in his death. Yours, etc., Jefferson Wilcox, M. D. The editor thanks Dr. Wilcox for correcting his error. The editor knew of Mr. Doug lass's war record, and his failing to mention it in the tribute to his memory was a matter of inadver tence. He, indeed, set his child ren a splendid example of loyalty and fidelity to his country. It would be a sorry day, indeed, should they fail to follow his lead in this respect. There is a rivalry between Val dosta and Brunswick in the effort to secure that South Georgia Bap List hospital. It is given out that Lowndes county has pledged $15,- 000 and the city $25,000 to have it located in Valdosta. How much these amounts will be augmented by private subscription, should the project reach a crisis, is an un known quantity. It is Brunswick’s turn now to move and show her hand in the game. $1.50 A YEATS Needs of Colored Youth. Editor Tribune: Kindly allow me space in your newsy and forceful paper to set before tbs citizens of our town my aims and purposes in teaching the Colored Public School in Pear sou. First, my chief aim is to instruct the colored boys and girls in a way that will prepare them to be good citizens —sober, honest, industrious and useful citizens. Citizenship is a trust, sacred trust, inherited by being natural born Americans, which vouches for the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To in still the principles of citizenship in the early life is no argument. The youthful period of life is the foun dation on which to build strong, honest, industrious and virtuous manhood and womanhood. Youth, in many respects, is the most dangerous period of life, es pecially when it is exposed to per niciousenvironment. Without ex perience to understand true char aster and be warned of leprous contagion they grow into adult life with no respect for law and order. If the young people could only realize the untold value of keeping pure their tastes, their desires, their associations, their appetites, their words as well as their corres pondence to each other, so as logo into adult life as pure as they come out of childhood, how gloriously would they start out on the career which opens out upon the grandest possibilities offered an intelligent and immortal being. To be an upright, loyal and in. dustrious citizen is worth more than wealth. It is a refuge in time of misfortune. It is the one rich, blessed, glorious thing they can make for themselves as the first and best preparation for a full life. Whatever else we lack wc need not lack the elements of citizenship. Though poor we can be'good citi zens. Though with a little educa tion we can be richly adorned with the noble furnishings of moral worth. Though plain, humble and lowly born, we can be beautiful in character, uplifting and influential it the things of the heart which gives the chief excellence aud in terest to every person. The inner life is the principal life. Then, if our instruction and conduct can lighten this in my pupils, then 1 shall have accomplished my great est aim. To reach this end I use among the many things newspaper clip pings from (white) press that de picts the good deeds, telling of the faithfulness, promptness to duty and trustworthiness iu long service of some colored man or woman when they depart this life. In nearly every instance their em ployes follow the remains to its last resting place to see that no pains be spared to put them away decent. Then comes the question, can this noble, loyal and faithful citi zen and servent place be filled? Since the major part of the race is dependent upon the white race for livelihood, protection aud as sistance, it is very important that the colored boy and girl bo trained to be useful and desirable. To meet the demaud the boy should bo given a good manual training, the girl should be given a good training in Domestic Sci ence, which consists of kitchen caring, house-cleaning, home-keep ing, etc. The boy must be taught to do things and valuable things. Things that appear small aud in significant —wasted things must be converted into useful articles. Boys and girls with such training are valuable assets to any eon\munity. To give this town this type of boys aud girls we are handicapped by reason of room. We need two small rooms added to the present building —one for Manual training and the other for Domestic Sci ence. Y ours to “Brighten thecoruer where we are.’ 1 L. W. Brown, Friucip U,
