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PEARSON ffi TR.B UNE
VOL. 7 —NO. 30
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
If fashions go in cycles, it's a
good time to revive our grand
parents’ stunt of living within
one's means. It would relieve
the perplexities and worries of
many people, and incidentally
their creditors- —Southeast Geor
gian.
In other counties watermelon
growers are organizing co-operative
selling agencies for next year. Wa
termelon growers are about the
only farmers who made any money
this year, and they made it only
because they did their selling in a
business like way. We would like
to see our farmers form an organiz
at ion, or join one that already ex
ists. l’each growers never made
any money out of their crop till
they formed the Fruit Growers
Exchange. —(icilla Star.
The wets and the drys are never
at a loss for something to fight
about. The ruling by Secretary of
of the Treasury Mellon that beer
could be prescribed by a physician
has been interpreted by the anti
prohibitionists as a national law
covering all states as a blanket.
The dry forces insist that the state
laws supersede it. Thus the battle
goes on over a new issue, but if the
two elements in the controversy
did not have it they would find
something else. — Dawson News.
Ordinarily little is expected of
conferences of opposing interests
when the number of conferes is
large. But this fact, drawn from
experience, will not keep the best
part of the whole world from hop
lug for tangible results from the
disarmament meeting now in ses
sion at the national capital, ll is
an opportunity for the delegates
which, if they permit to pass with
out achieving at least the initia
tion of a world-wide impulse to
peace among nations, will cover
them forever with obloquy.—Met
ter Advertiser.
Now that the evenings are grow
ing longer the old-home paper is
coming in for its share of atten
tion. When reading it do not for
get that there are relatives and
friends away that would be inter
csted in the doings about town. If
you can afford it leave the price of
a subscription at the business office
of your home paper, with institu
tions to have the name of your
friend entered upon the subscrip
tion list. This little matter will
save a lot of time in letter writing,
and will tell the story of home
events much better than you can
do it. —Valdosta Times.
Corn, syrup, hay, velvet beans,
and peanuts are begging for a
market and sweet potatoes are in
but little better shape. But we
see no turkeys for sale, although
Thanksgiving comes next week,
and chickens and eggs are so high
that the average man can afford
them only as luxuries. Butter is
•still selling for 35 and 4b cents a
pound, and milk commands a good
price. Corn, hay and peanuts can
be fed to stock and the stock sold,
hut what the average man needs
now is something that will bring
the ready cash. It is easier to
raise chickens and turkeys than it
is to grow corn, sugar cane or pea
nuts. and if people pay more alien
tion tu the production of these
so-called side lines, they will live
easier and have more money to
spend. Chickens, eggs and dairy
products bring in a little money
all the lime. They enable the pro
ducer to nay cash for what lie or
she must buy. and to lay a little
something by for a rainy day.—
Tifton Gazette.
666 is a prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It’s the
most speedy remedy we know
The Press at Waycross.
All progressive communities
seek the newspaper man early.
Hence, when Waycross was born
and had scarcely donned her swad
dling clothes, she was on the look
out for a newspaper man.
Dr. Daniel Lott, the father of
Waycross, was wise—but I am in
clined to the idea that he hardly
knew why he wanted a newspaper
man at Waycross save that it was
a generally accepted theory that a
newspaper man with his type and
press could boost and build the
community when other forces
would fail. Ido not argue this as
a fact, but Dr. Lott and his trust
ed lieutenant, Henry S. Haines
and Dr. Win. B. Folks, sought the
good offices of the newspaper man
early.
Editor Robert S. Burton was en
couraged to bring an outfit to
the big cross roads and issue a
newspaper. 1 can't recall the
name by which it was christened
but it was edited and published
by Roberts. Burton and l)r. Win.
15. F'olks. It was a six column
folio, and all printed at home on
a Washington hand press.
There was not a suitable build
ing at the cross roads for a print
shop, so one was improvised out
of an old freight car. The car was
side-tracked to itself and fastened
so it would be stationary and sub
stantial. There were the neces
sary port holes to afford light.
From this improvised office
Waycross's first newspaper was is
sued for a period of six or eight
months. The wire edge of the in
novation to the new community
was worn off and having a news
paper in the community lost its
charm. The support petered out
and Editor Barton had to take his
plant and hie to other fields of
endeavor. It might have been
Burton’s fault as lie bore the
reputation of not staying in one
place long at a time —not necessar
ily a tramp —and Waycross lost
her first newspaper.
During the political campaign
of 1880 Tillman \ Allen, a firm
composed of .Joseph Tillman, B. T.
Allen and W. A. Allen moved the
outfit from Quitman, which had
been used by them in publishing
The Quitman Reporter, and began
the publication of The Reporter, a
seven-column folio, all printed at
home. The home of The Reporter
was in the second-story of a wood
en store building owned by Capt.
James Knox and located on the
east side of the street leading from
Plant Avenue to the court house.
Owing to some disagreement the
firm of Tillman & Allen wss dis
solved, the latter retiring. Mr.
Tillman, assisted by T. 15. Jones
and D. 15. Sweat, continued the
publication of the paper for one or
more years. Then the owner of the
plant, Mr. Isaiah Tillman, sold it
to I). B. Sweat. Mr. Sweat con
tinued the publication of the
paper, assisted by C. C. Thomas,
until political pressure forced him
to sell the plant to a stock com
pany.
The new proprietors put in an
entirely new plant, including a
cylinder press in the place of the
old Washington. Hon Ben. E.
Russell, of Bainbridge was secured
as editor, who changed the name
to the Waycross Herald. Russell
gave the people a splendid weekly
paper, but he did uot prove conge
nial and be resigned and returned
to Bainbridge.
Mr. I). B. Sweat returned and
continued the publication of the
paper until it was sold to Judge
A. P. Peiham of Quitman, who
'look charge and published it until
j just before his death he sold it to
I the Journal Company.
When the Reporter changed
1 hands and there arose a division of
public sentiment Messrs. W. P.
1 Ward and J. M. Freeman carried
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ‘25, 1921
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from AH Sections of
South Georgia.
R has been discovered that the
Cypress lumber mill of the lieb
bard Company, at Waycross, is
the third largest in the World.
Mr. Elisha A. Meeks has been
reappointed postmaster at Nich
oils. He will continue to be post
master there for the ensuing four
years.
The Clinch County News has
resumed the six column folio size
and Bro. Dame is putting a lot of
ginger into it. It is now a most
creditable eouutj paper.
The work of dismantling fhe
Valdosta, Moultrie and Western
railroad is about completed. Jitney
Busses and Trucks will now take
its place as public conveyances.
Tin- Georgia Baptist Convention
will convene in Savannah Tuesday,
December tith. The Second Bap
tist Church will be the host, but.
the other Baptist churches of the
city will share in dispensing hos
pitality.
The Tenth road district, as re
districted by the Georgia High
way Commission, is composed of
Atkinson. Berrien, Clinch, Coffee,
Cook, Crisp. Echols, Irwin, Lanier,
Lowndes, Tift, Turner and Wilcox.
The headquarters will be in Tifton.
The grand jury, at the late term
of Camden superior court, makes
strong demand for the prosecution
and punishment of dealers violat
ing the law prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes to minors. It seems
that the County School superin
tendent of Camden county is be
hind the movement.
The Ware county game and fish
warden, Mr. J. L. Youman, has
been advised that some person or
persons are guilty of dynamiting
IFh in that portion of the Seven
teen Mile creek located in Ware
county. lie says he has clues to
identify the guilty parties and will
not hesitate to prosecute them.
The progressive citizens of Clinch
county became so highly elated
over the fact, and the success, of
making an exhibit at the Georgia-
Florida Fair that they now propose
to have next year a county fair of
their own, and are already laying
plans to pull off a most successful
exhibition. The Tribune wishes
them great success.
The Board of Education of Cam
den county has adopted a rule for
bidding the county teachers ad
journing their schools to attend
any sort of religious services.
Upon request of patrons desiring
their children to attend religious
services during school hours such
children will be excused, but lost
lessons are required to be made up,
their outfit from Pearson to \V 7ay
cross and began the publication of
the Waycross Headlight. It did
not thrive and Mr. Freeman moved
it to Douglas.
In the early nineties Mr. D. B.
Sweat began the publication of a
Sunday-School paper, which devel
oped into the Waycross Journal.
Judge Perbam had made the
Herald a daily. So Mr. Sweat sold
the Journal to a stock company
and the company started another
daily. The two papers continued
until a satisfactory offer was made
by the Journal Company for the
purchase of the Herald and it was
accepted.
Several efforts were made to
make weekly papers go in Way
cross, but only one —The Labor In
dex—a class paper has kept going.
With the purchase of the Her
aid bv the Journal Company, the
two papers were consolidated and
they now have the Wavcross
Journal-Herald, as the exponent of
Waycross thought and activity,
Plant A Home Orchard.
The census reports show a large
decrease from 11)10 lo 1920 in the
number of fruit trees. in Georgia,
says the Extension Division of the
Georgia State College of Agricul
ture, although there was a decided
stimulation in orchard planting
during the past four years.
The reason, probably, for this
decline in fruit trees in the state
of Georgia is more or less due to
the fact that the small fruit grow
er and the average farmer have
given up the raising of fruit to the
commercial grower who has suffici
ent equipment to combat the in
festation of numerous insects and
diseases and, also, the knowledge
of growing the fruit.
The increase in the number of
fruit and insect pests attacking the
home orchard has caused many
farmers to neglect fruit production.
Pruning and spraying are essential
to t he production of good fruit but
any farmer can soon learn how by
a little study of the subject.
The special equipment necessary
for orchard management is not ex
pensive, but this cost may be re
duced by purchasing it cooperat
ively with a small group of neigh
bors.
The following fruits are recom
mended for borne orchards in South
Georgia:
The Horse, Early Harvest, Yates
and Terry apples, planted thirty
feet apart. The Keiffor and Le-
Oonte pears, thirty feet apart The
Stewart and Schley pecans, fifty
four feet apart. The Mayflower,
Greensboro, Carmen, Hi ley, Geor
gia Belle, White English and El
berta peaches, 18 feet apart.
Lemon, Green Ischia and Brown
Turkey figs, 18 feet apart. Ilyak
ume and Goshio persimmons, 18
feet apart. Kumquats and Satsu
mas, 18 feet apart. Sweet and
Purple seeded Spanish Ruby pome
granates, 18 feet apart. Chinese
quinces, 18 feet apart. Abund
ance or Wild (loose plums, 18 feet
apart. Concord, Delaware, Dia
mond and Niagara grapes, planted
in rows 1.0 feet apart and 8 1 ‘2 feet
in row, Scuppernong and Thomas
(Muscadine) grapes, planted 10by
16 feet. Early Harvest and Erie
blackberries and Lucretia dewber
ries, planted 10 by 6 feet. Aroma,
Lady Thompson, Klondike and
Missionary strawberries.
The State College of Agriculture
furnishes the above.
Not every fruit in the list will
appeal to Atkinson farmers,but the
fact remains that this is pre-emin
ently a fruit county and it should
be taken advantage of on every
farm in the county to have a vari
ety and abundant supply, for home
consumption at least.
We are of the opinion that if
more of these people who are cry
jng out their inability to get jobs
in the larger cities would do like
some of our hoys in Richland are
doing, there would be more jobs
and fewer loafers. It is indeed a
pleasure to see young men take
hold of a job at the ground, don
an apron or overalls and get busy
with any work at band as we have
especially noticed in at least two
or three of our boys of late. They
did not wait for bookkeepers’ or
managers’ jobs, but took the first
opening and got bnsy. And they
are going to make good. We do
not have to call names. Keep
your eye open and watch. —Rich-
land News.
Three Coffee county banks have
closed their doors since the first of
the month. The Citizens Bank of
Douglas was the first, Bank of
Nicholls the second and the Bank
of Ambrose the third. Tbis leaves
the Union Banking Cornphny of
Douglas and its branch at Broxton
to take care of the banking busi
ness of the county. Much money
is tied up by these untoward events.
BETWEEN TWO LEGAL FIRES.
Is Sheriff Nix when Judges Eve
and Thomas Handle the Case.
That there is a defect in the
Georgia cattle dipping law be
cause it fails to specify the man
ner in which owner shall be served
with notice to have his cattle dip
ped, was alleged in the hearing of
a case from Berrien county before
Judge Eve, of the Tifton circuit,
yesterday. Also, it came out that
Sheriff J. 15. Nix, of Berrien coun
ty, was between two fires, so to
speak, because of conflicting orders
from the judges of the Southern
and Tifton circuits.
The ease was the more or less
celebrated one of the State vs. S.
F. Guthrie, charged by tlie dip
ping inspector of Berrien county
with refusal to have bis cattle
dipped. Sheriff Nix had seized
several hundred head of Guthrie’s
cattle under a quarantine distress
warrant sworn out by the inspect
or, alleging that Guthrie had re
fused to dip same. Judge Dicker
son, of the Alapahit circuit, being
disqualified, referred the matter
to Judge Eve.
At the hearing Guthrie contend
ed that he had received no notice,
as required by law, of the days on
which the dipping must be done
and denied any refusal to dip his
cattle, but contended that he
should not be made to pay the
cost of feeding and caring for them
after the seizure.
Judge Eve held that Guthrie
was entitled to a hearing before
a jury on the question of whether
he had actually received a notice
to dip, and directed the sheriff to
turn the cattle over to him, upon
his making bond for SI,OOO.
Previous to coming before Judge
Eve, attorneys in the case had ar
gued the matter before J udge
Thomas in Valdosta, and Judge
Thomas directed the sheriff to sell
the cattle to pay the costs.
Judge Eve did not know that
the matter had been argued be
fore Judge Thomas and Judge
Thomas did not know that the
case had been referred to Judge
Eve.
The contrary orders had the
sheriff where lie was liable to go
to jail for contempt of court if he
sold the cattle with the same
situation confronting him if he
did not sell them. The final order
by Judge Eve should release him
from his predicament, it was
stated.
Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and
pain killer, for infected sores,
tetter, sprains, neuralgia, rheu
matism. 28-43
Sex Political Battle.
A political battle with women
on one side and men on the other
has just taken place in Schley
county, with the female politicians
receiving their first defeat.
The women there had combined
to elect T. C. Tondee tax receiver,
and the men of the community, it
appears, were thereby influenced
to throw their combined strength
to J. 11. Holloway, who was elected
by a margin or only ten votes.
The wom e n voted in full
strength, and not a female vote
was cast except for Tondee, who is
said to have promised Mrs. A. S.
Rainey, widow of the late incum
bent, a place in the office in the
event of his election, thereby in
fluencing her to withdraw as a
candidate in the race.
A number of prospective candi
dates among the male residents of
Schley, it is further stated, kept
out of the race so as to make the
contest strictly along sex lines, the
idea being to repudiate woman’s
appearance in political affairs.
The women, however, are said
not to be discouraged, and have
already undertaken to organize to
force their candidates upon the
men in future elections there.
$1.50 A. YEAR
Mr. Jesse Lott Dead.
News from Valdosta states that
Mr. Jesse Lott, of Atkinson county
died at a hospital in that city on
Sunday, November 13th, about 6
o’clock, after an illness of long
standing.
He recently went to Valdosta
for treatment. It is stated his
brother, Mr. John Lott, was with
him during Sunday and when the
brother departed in the afternoon
for his home was able to sit up
and believed to be much improved.
Within an hour he was dead; his
brother was caught by wire at
Nashville and notified.
The remains were prepared for
burial by the Ousley Company
and Monday morning were sent to
Willacoochee from whence they
were brought to Pafford cemetery
for burial.
The deceased was fifty-five years
of age; was born and reared on a
farm hard by his last resting place.
He is survived by bis father, Mr.
J. 1\ Lott, two brothers, Messrs.
John and Wayne Lott, and two
sisters, Mesdames Moses Smith
and Therou Kirkland.
Mr. Lott was never married,
lived on his farm auietly, inobtru
sively, and a faithful citizen. The
Tribune is requested to publish
the following—
CARD OF THANKS,
We want to thank each and
everyone for their kindness and
sympathy shown us during the
death and burial of our sou and
brother, Jesse; also for the beauti
ful floral offering. May God’s
bountiful blessings be yours in
return.
J. I*. Lott and Children.
Coming to Douglas.
Douglas Enterprise.
All the Principals of the twelvo
District A. & M. schools in Geor
gia and the Vocational teachers of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
will meet in Douglas this year at
the Eleventh District A. &M.
school November 25th and *26th,
for the purpose of discussing school
problems as pertaining to the
Georgia A. & M. schools.
Douglas should feel proud of the
fact that our A. & M. school was
the place selected for this meeting.
Our school was never in better
shape for visitors than it is tbis
year. We are enjoying prosperity
as never before with two cribs of
corn, 650 bales of straw and hay,
500 bushels of potatoes, 500 gal
lons of syrup with 10.000 stalks of
seed cane bedded for next year’s
crop, pork enough to run the entire
school, plenty of milk and butter,
and enough cord wood to keep us
warm for the winter, we find little
time to worry about bard times.
Of all the students registered at
the school for this year only one
lias withdrawn. Indications are
that this is to be the best year in
our history.
The world is full of sorrow and
struggles. Tears fall like showers
and sighs fill the air as when the
wind sweeps through a forest of
pines. Those who suffer are part
of the family to which you belong.
You have no right to be indiffer
ent. To be neglectful is a crime.
If you can lend a helping baud,
but refuse to do it on the ground
that you wish to use both your
bands for yourself, you lose an op
portunity which Providence has
presented, and you will have dif
ficulty in explaining your conduct
when the hour of reckoning comes.
—Clinch County News.
The Tribune notes with pleasure
that the gentlemen, who purchas
ed the Milltown Air-Line railroad,
has applied to the Secretary of
State, 1 fon. S. G. McLendon, for a
charter in accordance with the law
on the subject. They have done
the proper thing, and no doubt it
will put an end to all doubts and
uncertainties concerning the future
of the road, and that it will af
ford ample transportation facilities
for Milltown and Lauier county.
