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PEARSON® TRIBUNE
VOL. 7-NO. :’>o
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
Miss Ruth Burk halter, daughter
of Judge Sherod Burkkalter, and
Mr. John Devoy Smith, a son of
the late James C. Smith, Were
united in marriage Sunday after
noon, January 15th. Elder R. W.
Bugg, pastor of the Baptist church,
officiating at his home. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith will reside in llomer
vilie where he is engaged in busi
ness. They have many friends
who wish them a fair voyage over
the sea of life.
Mr. Buster Carver, was convict
ed in Coffee superior court about
nine years ago of the homicide of
Mr. James Kirkland, and sentenced
to life imprisonment, is making a
renewed effort to secure a parole.
The Tribune is informed that the
jury trying his case has agreed to
the parole provided he does not
return to this section, believing it
would create more trouble. The
Judge and Solicitor-General have
steadfastly refrained to make any
recommendations without the ap
proval of the dead man’s relatives.
Mr. Carver is reported to be an
exemplary prisoner. He is serving
his time in Colquitt county.
Mr. J. Frank Monk, of Moultrie
and State prison inspector, was in
Pearson Friday afternoon on busi
ness connected with his office. He
is a son of Mr. Miles Monk, one of
the pioneers of Colquitt county,
whose home was a palace of hospi
tality. The Tribune editor enjoy
ed on a number of occasions the
hospitality of Frank’s parents when
he was a lad of a boy. He entered
business in Moultrie soon after be
coming of age. He served as post
master of Moultrie for several
years, appointed under the second
Cleveland administration. He has
made good in every position to
which he has been called. He is
frank and strictly business in all
dealings.
Mr. Henry 1). Webb, the affable
and efficient Clerk of the superior
court of Tift county, has the thanks
of the Tribune editor for courtesies
extended him during the Press
meeting in Tifton. His father,
W. W. Webb, came from Dooly
county to the Tifton section when
a young mau and engaged in farm
ing and preaching when and where
opportunity presented itself. His
family of children, Henry among
the number, attest the fact that
they received careful Christian
training, lie was not blessed with
material things in large degree,
but he had learned the noble
lesson, and taught it to his child
ren. “Whatever be their lot in life,
therewith to be content,” and yet
courageously to seek the better
things of life, and Henry has been
an apt pupil.
The Tribune editor is indebted
to Capt. and Mrs. H. H. Tift —es-
pecially the latter —for courtesies
during his visit to the Press meet
ing at Tifton. Mrs. Tift was re
presenting the Woman's Club, of
that city, in dispensing the cour
tesies of the occasion. Mrs. Tift
is one of the most lovable charac
ters that South Georgia has ever
produced. Punctilious in he r
dress and manner there is never
the slightest suggestion of immod
esty or worldliness. She is persist
ent in all her efforts at accomplish
ing her undertakings. The word
“fail” is not in her vocabulary.
The education of the girls and
boys of Georgia is her hobby—if
she has one —and she has in her
husband an able lieutenant.
Things must be worth while for
them to give their time and efforts
to their accomplishment.
666 is a prescription for Colds
Fever and LaGrippe. It’s the
most speedy remedy we know-
Three Grand Old Georgians.
WII.LAOOOCHEE, GA..
January 17, 1922.
Editor Tribune:
1 am enclosing what data I have
been able to get up touching the
histories of Georgia’s three grand
old men —Hillyer, McDaneil aud
Wright:
GEORGE HILLYER
Was born at Athens, Georgia, 1835.
Graduated from Mercer in 1854.
Represented Walton county in the
legislature of 1857. He represent
ed the old Sixth Georgia District
in the Democratic National Con
vention at Charleston, S. C., in
1800, and earnestly advocated the
nomination of Howell Cobb for
president. He joined the Confed
erate army at the outbreak of the
war and was Captain of Company
<’, Ninth Georgia regiment —known
as llillyer’s Rifles. At Gettysburg
he lost in killed, wounded and
missing his entire company except
ten men. From 1870 to 1871 he
was a member of the State Senate
from the 35th district. In 1877
Gov. Colquitt appointed him Judge
of the Atlanta circuit and he was
twice reelected. In 1885 he was
elected Mayor of Atlanta, and
served two terms. He was twelve
years a member of the Georgia
Railroad Commission,and retired at
his own volition, although ho was
strongly urged to remain.
HENRY DICKERSON M’DANIEL.
Was born at Monroe, Walton coun
ty, Georgia, September 4th, 1837.
He graduated at Mercer College in
1856, studied law and opened an
office in Monroe. He was the
.youngest member of the Georgia
session Convention of 1861. He
entered the Confederate army as
Major and commanded a brigade
at Gettysburg, lie was a member
of the Constitutional convention of
1865. Was elected to the house
of representatives from Walton
county in 1872, and was a member
of the State Senate in 1874, 1878
and 1880. In 1883 he was elected
governor of Georgia to succeed
Hon. James S. Boynton, who be
came governor at the death of Gov
A. 11. Stephens by virtue of his
being President of the Senate, and
to fill the unexpired term of Gov.
Stephens. When his term of
office ended he returned to the
practice of law at Monroe.
WILLIAM AMBROSE WRIGHT
Was born at Louisville, Jefferson
county, Georgia —once the capital
of the State —January 19, 1844.
at the age of seventeen be joined
the Confederate army; at the see
ond battle of Manassas on August
30, 1862, he gave his right leg up
to the hip for Dixie, the land he
loved, in her hour of need and dis
tress. He rejoined the army,
maimed as he was, and remained
with it until June, 1863, and took
part in the battle of Chancellors
ville. In 1879 the Georgia legisla
ture impeached Comptroller-Gen
eral William L. Goldsmith under
the charges of receiving and using
money illegally, making false re
turns and altering the records of
his office. Governor Alfred H.
Colquitt immediately appointed
William A. Wright to fill the place,
and he has held the office continu
ously ever since —a period of forty
three years.
Would it not be a graceful thing,
grand and magnanimous, for the
people of Georgia to terminate his
political career by giving him a
term in the Governor's chair.
Yours very truly.
Jefferson Wilcox, M. D.
Strayed. — Mixed Hampshire
gilt. Marked crop and underhit
in one ear and split and underbit
in the other. Color —white, ex
cept head which is black. Suit
] able reward for information lead
* ing to recovery. K. O. Roberts.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEAIISOX. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANIAIiY 27,1922
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
January more than half gone
and the Census bureau has not
given out statistics of how many
New Years resolutions have been
smashed already.—St. Marys Geor
gian.
Candidates for re-election to
congress and the senate used to
boast of the large appropriations
they got for their constituents. It
is a safe guess that in the future a
large proportion of them will be
boasting of the appropriations they
defeated. The voters are thinking
more about taxes than they are
about pork barrels. —Dawson News.
The drive plan for raising funds
brought on by the war lias been
practiced to the limit, or rather
the extreme, and exhausted the
patients of the public. People are
tired being driven into contribut
ing their meagre margins to every
imaginable scheme to finance un
reasonable propositions to create
salaries for men and women who
are dodging work.—Thomasville
Press.
While the American press con
tinues to lament the “wave of
crime” in this country the news
comes from Paris that “a wave of
virtue is sweeping France” and
that many of those least expected
to do so “are joining forces in a
campaign by which it is hoped to
make Paris the most moral city in
the world.” The clement of the
unexpected is figuring largely in
these times. —Valdosta Times.
The boll weevil is going to des
troy the tenant system of farming
in this section of Georgia. That is
the blessing we are going to get
out of the coming of this delight
ful little insect. The landlord can
not send the negro to make cotton
now and go fishing. If ho does he
might as well Slav fishing. The
tenant is no hope for the farm own
er in the battle to raise cotton
while the boll weevil is hero. Our
tenant system is going to fail if the
weevil stays with us. —Cord ole
Sentinel.
Our farmers should not place all
their eggs in one basket this spring,
that is, they should not plant all
one crop for money. Plant some
tobacco, some cotton and some
watermelons. Some one or possibly
all of these crops will be profitable.
At least, where the crop is divided
up thatjway he will be sure not to
make a complete failure. Indica
tions are that prices will be better
next fall. An economical crop this
year and we will be on the top
next fall, is the outlook now. —
Nashville Herald.
According to action taken at a
meeting of the executive committee
of Way cross Community Service
yesterday afternoon, the program
of community-wide recreational
activities started a little over a
year ago with the assistance of the
national offices of Community Ser
vice, incorporated, is to bo contin
ued in this city during the present
year. Work toward the mapping
out of a program of activities is to
be started at once in keeping with
the desire of those attending the
meeting. —Waycross Journal-Her
aid.
The first complete quarter under
the new cent a gallon gasoline state
tax law will show a revenue to Lhe
state of something like $225,000,
according to advices from the office
of the State Comptroller-General.
This means an income to the state
of around $1,000,000 a year. It is
also reported that a request will be
made at the next session of the
General Assembly that some pro
vision be made for an enforcement
bureau through which the special
tax levied may be checked up iri
each county. —Buena Vista Patriot.
Courtesy and Modesty.
By John I). Mell.
The Old South has long since
been dead, and only a faint mem
ory of it now remains in the minds
of men. There are among us just
a few old men and old women who
lived in it, suffered for it, and still
intensely love it. But tliey are
fast passing on, and in a few years
will be gone, and none will be left
to revere it. The world would be
infinitely better off, and life would
be sweeter and happier, if some of
the things that lived in Hie Old
South would never die. It had
many high and holy customs in
the daily life of its children, but
its chief glory was the gentle
courtesy of its men, and the sweet
modesty of its women. Its men
each day were gentlemen in the
noblest sense, and its women each
day were modest in the holiest
sense. Reverence for sacred things,
respect for age, polished urbanity
of manner, sweetness of temper,
quid deep, abiding, pure homage
for woman, were the ineffaceable
qualities of the minds and hearts
of the men of those days. And
the women, in the finest and holi
est sense, were worthy of the men.
They held in their characters, and
deep in their souls, that sweet
modesty which is the ineffable
glory of the pure woman. The
brazen look, the painted face, the
indecent dress, were as impossible
for the women of the Old South,
as they are for the angels in heav
en.
And they ought to be impossible
among us today. Somebody ought
to teach some of our young women
about the finer and happier things
of life they are missing. Immod
esty in the woman will always at
tract the eyes of the man, as it al
ways has, in all the history of the
world, but it never has, and never
will, attract his heart. It may ob
tain his attention, but it will never
obtain his respect. The woman
who is immodest, nlaces an impas
sable gulf between herself and the
respect of a real gentleman.
The finest and noblest quality
in a true man lies dormant in his
mind and heart, and can only be
brought to life and activity by a
modest woman. The highest and
holiest usefulness and happiness of
a true woman can never be obtain
ed in this lifeor in the life to come,
unless she succeeds in awakening
this thing that lies dormant in the
man.
God has linked courtesy and
modesty together, just as He has
linked the destiny of the man and
the woman together. When mod
esty dies courtesy diesalso. When
there are in this world no more
modest women, there will then be
in this world no more gentlemen.
There ought to be preached in
the pulpits and taught in the
schools, and above all, lived in the
homes, a revival of the old-fashion
ed courtesy and modesty of the
Old South. If our boys are not to
be courteous any more, and our
girls are not to be modest any
more, then most of the hope and
the happiness of life are gone.
Advei Using by Farmers.
It is quite evident especially in
the more settled sections of the
country, that lhe farmer is becom
ing considerable of an advertiser.
He has found out that a few lines
in the want department is much
cheaper than driving all over the
country to find buyers for full
blooded stock, seed corn or grains.
He has also found that it is an ex
cellent medium for turning into
cash some surplus piece machinery;
farmers living near the cities have
learned that they can get the au
tomobilists to come out to their
homes for butter, eggs, poultry,
fruit and farm produce. In that
‘way they shorten the distance to
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from AH Sections of
South Georgia.
The Nahnnta Banner has renew
ed the Brantly county court house
site question. Why not? It was
born to this end aud must be
about its business.
The farmers of Camden county
are forming a marketing associa
tion to take care of their troubles
iu finding a market for their pro
ducts. Wish them success.
The grand jury of Lanier county,
at the recent session of superior
court, recommended the establish
ment of a city court to take care
of the legal business of the county.
The farmers of Berrien county
will give tobacco a thorough trial
as a money crop this year. Per
severance wins many a hard fought
battle. A No. One grade of tobac
co will bring the coin. There is
no mistake about it.
An adjourned term of Cook
superior court was held lasi week
to take care of the civil docket,
and disposed of a great many cases.
Many of these cases, it is said,
could be disposed of by a city court
at less cost than in superior court.
The vital statistics of Waycross
shows that the difference between
the births and deaths in Waycross
is growing farther apart as the
years go by —there being more
births than deaths. There seems
to be a healthy increase of popula
I ion.
The outlook is that the city of
Valdosta will take over the plant
of the Georgia Florida Fair, and
operate it in the future. The
question was submitted to the
voters at the recent municipal
election and was carried by a large
majority.
The hog sale at Douglas, under
the direction of lion. W. W.
Webb, of 11 all i ra, was very success
ful, but Mr. Webb met with oh
stack's there that militated against
the success he expected and for
which he had planned. However
the prices received was above the
market.
The trial or Fred Stubbs in Ben
Hill superior court, indicted for
the murder of Engineer Reed dur
ing the strike, resulted in his be
ing convicted of manslaughter.
This means a sentence to the peni
tentiary from one to twenty yc-ars.
He is the first of the strikers to be
placed on trial.
The program in Quitman munic
ipal circles is that Dr. E. L. .talks,
M. <L Mitchell and It. C. Mclntosh.
Jr., will be elected city commis
sioners and will accept the trust.
These young men can be depended
upon to bring order out of chaos,
and commission government under
their guidance will prove a success.
Irwin county’s board of educa
tion has decided to reduce the
school term iu that county to four
aud one half months. This decis
ion is based upon slow collections
of tax money and an unwillingness
to increase the indebtedness of
the board of education. They pre
fer to “catch up the slack.” so to
speak. How they can shorten the
term loss than six months in the
face of the compulsory education
law, which requires parents to send
their ehidren to school at least six
month in the year, remains to be
seen.
market. The power of printer’s
ink is far reaching if given half a
chance. —Business Printer.
Frost Proof Cabbage Plants —
On our Georgia and California
coast farms we have millions ready
for immediate shipment. Early
Jersey, Charleston Wakefield. Flat
Dutch, Prepaid mail 200. 00c., 400,
SI.OO, 1000, $2.00. Express 2000,
$3.00, 5000. $6.25. Big Boston
Lettuce same price. Parker
Farms, Atlanta, Ga.
$1.50 A YEAR
Program
Fifth Sunday meeting of theSmyr
rna Missionary Baptist Associa
tion to be held with Pridgen
church, beginning Friday, 10 a.
in., before the fifth Sunday in
January, 1922.
FRIDAY
10:00 a. m. Devotional service
led by A. S. Minchew.
10:30 a. m. Organization.
11:00 a. m. Introductory ser
mon by Seaborn G. Taylor.
12:00 noon. Benediction aud
adjournment for dinner on the
ground.
2:00 p. m. Devotional service
led by Pastor.
2:30 p. in. Should the churches
of the Smyrna association put a
missionary in the field for the en
suing year? Discussed by H. M.
Meeks aud others.
4:00 p. m. Adjournment.
SATURDAY.
10:30 a. m. Devotional service
A. S. Crowley.
11:00 a. in. Sermon by J. D.
Poindexter.
12:00 noon. Benediction and
dinner on the ground.
2:00 p. m. Devotional services
led by E J. Riddle.
2:30 p. m. The office of a Dea
con and his duty. Discussed by
J. F. Smith and others.
4:00 p. m. Adjournment.
7:30 p. m. Sermon by E. J. Rid
dle.
SUNDAY.
10:00 a. m, Importance of the
Sunday School. Discussed b y
brethren present.
11:00 a. m. Sermon by T. S.
Hubert. Subject: Why I am a
Baptist?
John F. Smith,
Chairman of Committee.
County Teacher’s Institue.
To all white teachers in Atkinson
county. Ga. :
The regular monthly teacher’s
institute will be held on Saturday,
January 28, 1922, at the Pearson
school building. The teachers of
Pearson and Willacoochee schools
cordially invited to be present.
10:20 —Devotional exercises led
by Rev. T. M. Luke, pastor of M. E.
church, Pearson, Ga.
10:30 —How to start Beginners,
by Misses Lois King, Edna Fed
rick and Mary Bird.
11:15 —The best way or Method
to teach Numbers to beginners
First and Second grades by, Messrs.
Emmet and Thomas King and
Miss Edna Daniel.
12:00 —The best, way or Method
to teach Home, Primary and Ele
mentary Geography, by Misses
Bessie Harris, Minnie Guldens and
Mary Batten.
12:30 —Dinner at Malone Hotel
at special rates.
2:00 —How you teach Arithmetic
by Messrs. O. R. Headrick, W. W.
Griffis aud James Sirmans.
2:45 —History and Geography of
Georgia, by Messrs. James King,
R. L. Bullard and Homer Corbitt.
3:15 —General Discussions.
All county teachers are required
to be present at this meeting.
J. G. White.
Superintendent,
The Tribune commends the or
ganizing of a Young People’s Liter
ary Club at Red Bluff school house
—the meetings to be held every
Friday evening. Indeed, the Trib
une would be pleased to know that
a similar Club has been organized
at every school house in the coun
ty. The schoolhouse should be
made the centre of attraction iu
every rural community, and an or
ganization for the mental and
social improvement of the young
people will go far toward unifying
the community and putting it on
a high plane of moral and material
progress.
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