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PEARSONfifTRiBUNE VOL. 7—NO. n PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Short Stories About People and Things of Interest. Dr. David E. Harrell, who was born and reared in this section —a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lovitt Harrell —and a recent graduate of the State Medical College, is now con nected with the Atlantic Coast Line railroad hospital at Way cross, llejs making his mark in life and the Tribune editor wishes him the greatest success. Mrs. I'. 11. Morton, Sr., familiar ly known to her host of friends as “Aunt Lizzie Sweat,” passed toiler reward at St. Augustine, Fla., on Wednesday of last week, and her mortal remains were buried Friday morning in the McDonald cemetery at Axson. The Tribune editor knew her as a young lady—Miss Elizabeth Grovenstein, of Fenian dina, Fla. She was married tw ice; her first husband being Mr. Farley Sweat —a brother of Ansel, Frank and Carey—with whom she lived and reared a family of childreu. They lived many years at Axson, when it was a saw mill place, and conducted a hotel. It was here Mr. Sweat died and was buried; also a son. Loving hands laid her to rest between them. After Mr. Sweat had been dead some years and her children liad grown up aud gone out to make homes of their own, she met and married Mr. T. H. Morton, Sr., and lived with him until his death some years ago. She was a woman of sweet disposi tion and lovable character —a friend to all —and you had only to know her to love her. Ripe of years and full of good works Mr. 11. 11. Tift, chief patron of Tifton and Tift county, fell on sleep at his home in Tifton last Saturday morning, in life he was the friend of many; lending here and there to the unfortunate and distressed, and paving the way for girls and boys to have a chance in life. In his death he will be missed and mourned by some whom bis family and most intimate associates are not aware. His benefactions were never given publicity or notoriety save when they had become public property. The Tribune editor knew Mr. Tift during the early years of Tifton, aud was associated with him in the conduct of the affairs of the embryo city, and in this connection was afforded an opportunity to value Mr. Tift's constuctivenature and to learn his fixedness of pur pose in carrying forward his plans and the completion of his under takings. Mr. Tift was essentially a toiler, and apparently never bap pier than when clad in his overalls and measuring his skill as a me chanic with recreant machinery and bringing it into subjection to his will. He esteemed all labor as honorable no matter bow menial it might be. He recognized and act ed upon the mandate of Jehovah. “In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread all the days of thy life.” In this way be honored God, his fellows ard himself and, in so doing, he was prospered and per mitted to have and enjoy much of this world’s goods, and much of bis joy came in using his wealth in a helpful way. His activities are over; he has gone away, and with his going the first chapter in the histories of Tifton and Tift county have closed. His worth to the city aud county can now be meas ured and appreciated. The funeral was conducted in the First Baptist Church of Tifton. Dr. W. L. Pick ard, brother-in-law of Mrs. Tift, as sisted Pastor Durden in the ser vices, as did the other pastors of of the city. A section of the build ing was reserved to bis colored em ployes. The interment was at Mystic, Conn., where he was born and reared. Gentlemen closely as sociated with him in business ac companied the funeral party. McLendon Rehearses History. Sunday, February 5, marks the 145th anniversary of the signing of the first constitution of the state of Georgia but no formal ceremon ies are to be held in observation of this event it was learned Satur day from Secretary of State S. G. McLendon. Just 145 years ago to day the first constitution of the then new state of Georgia was signed at Savannah which was then the Georgia capital. Although there is no record of the signing of the firstconstitution of the state in the office of Secre tary McLendon, general details of the formation of the document con tained in nearly all state histories and other historical works. Among the signers of the first organic law of the state were Archibald Bul loch, Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett and George Walton. Since the state of Georgia was created out of the old royal prov ince of Georgia the state has had six constitutions. The first was that signed 145 years ago. The second was signed in August in 188!). The third constitution was signed by the members of a consti tutional convention which met in Louisville in 1798. The fourth constitution was signed in Milledge ville in 1895. Only one name was attached to the fourth, this being that of Herschel V. Johnson, presi dent of the constitutional conven tion. During the carpetbag days the fifth constitution was signed, this being in 1808 at Milledgeville. The present constitution was sign ed by the members of the constitu tional convention who met in At lanta in 1877. Copies of only three of the six constitutions are on file in the office of Secretary McLendon, these be ing the constitutions of 1798, 1805 and 1877. The original copy of the constitution of 1877 was found recently in the office of Secretary McLendon. It was written on parchment several yards square and contained the signatures of more than 100 members of the convention which adopted it. The first constitution was signed February 5, 1777, after the con vention had been in session four months. A temporary government for the new state of Georgia first was established on August 15, 1770. The first convention was called to meet in Savannah in October, 1770, and the members of this conven tion were the ones who signed the first constitution the following February. The first constitution contained 63 articles. It provided for a gover nor, a legislature and a judicial system. The members of the leg islature were to be elected in December of each year and were to meet in January of the follow ing year, according to the original constitution. There was only one law making body, this being the bouse of assembly. There w r as no upper or lower house. There was, however, an executive council created which consisted of two members of the legislature from each county which has as many as ten representatives in the assembly. The remaining delegates constitut ed the house of assembly. Under the provisions of the or iginal constitution the executive council served much as the senate does now. All laws, however, or iginated in the assembly and were referred to the executive council. The council could not make any amendments, but could suggest them. One of the interesting provisions of the first constitution was that no clergyman should serve as a member of the assembly. Religions toleration was provided in all cases where the religious sect did not threaten the peace and safety of the state. There were eight count- Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1922 NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Gleanings from All Sections of South Georgia. Moultrie suffered a $50,000 fire loss by the burning of the Kathleen Theatre building and some adjoin ing structures last Friday morning. Douglas people are now figuring on a new and modern forty room hotel. If the city is to continue to grow this improvement is an absolute necessity. No city can forge ahead that hasn't a commo dious and efficiently kept hostelry. The Candler county court house is finished and the county officials have moved into their several quarters. Judge Hardeman, on opening the superior court Mon day morning, in a proper ceremony, dedicated the building to the pur pose it was built. The latest enterprise for Hobo ken in Brantley county is a factory for the manufacture of tar, pine oil, tar oil and charcoal. No doubt the promoters have quantities of cheap raw material at hand and can find a market for their pro ducts at paying prices. Quitman is now under a commis sion form of government. Messrs. Jelks, Mitchell and Mclntosh are the commissioners—elected, quali fied and installed. Jelks drew the one-year term, Mclntosh the two year term and Mitchell the three year term. Now for a city mana ger, who will take over the entire management of city affairs. Now, that the Madison, Fla., sanitarium of Dr. 1). IL Yates’ has been destroyed by fire, it is possible that Quitman citizens will now get busy on their sanita rium project- Some months ago a site was secured and $50,000 sub scribed for an up-to-date sanitari um properly, with the view of in ducing Dr. Yates to move to Quit man. It is given .out from Valdosta that the owners of the Mil I town Air-Line rail roan, from Milltown to Naylor, on the A. G. L., a dis tance of ten miles, will soon begin work on an extention from Mill town to Ray City, on the G. & F., a distance of eighteen miles. Willi the extension completed Milltown will have ample outlet to all points of t he compass. The Jesup and Odum bank cases, on trial in Glynn superior court, came to an abrupt termination last Thursday. When the jury in the L. Carter case came into court with a verdict of guilty, W. 11. Tyson and H.C. Dickerson thought it the better part of valor to plead guilty. Tyson was sentenced to serve three months in Wayne county jail and pay a fine of $1,000; Dickerson was sentenced to two years in the State penitentiary. L. Garter, old and feeble, was sen tenced to twelve months at the State farm, notwithstanding the jury’s verdict of from six to eight years in the State penitentiary. The case against young Carter wKs nolle proseouied. ies in Georgia when the first con stitution was adopted, these being Burke, Chatham, Camden, Effing ham, Glynn, Liberty, Richmond and Wilkes. 1 1 was the duty of the legislature to elect a governor. Archibald Bulloch was named as president of the convention and headed the state government until the election of John Adams Treutlen as first governor of Georgia in 1777. Many of the provisions of the first constitution are found in the constitution of 1877, the present organic law of the state. It is said that Button Gwinnett, who was one of the three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence, wrote nearly all the provisions of the first state constitution. How Much of This Money Went From This County? From the Coffee County Progress. The statement by a large mail order house a few days ago that it had just closed the year with a business of over a hundred and sixty million dollars ought to he of interest to every citizen of this county. How much of this money do you suppose went from this section? l’ro rated on a basis of states, over three millions of that went from Georgia. At the same rate approximately $60,000 of that went from Coffee county. We can’t boost our home town and community so long as we send away from home to buy the things that we can buy right here at home. A great many of us are fooled by the idea that “distance lends enchantment.” Goods bought away from home are no better than those bought at home. In some instances they are not as good. Then besides, there is no come-back if they do not satisfy. There is too much “red tape” to exchanging, and in some eases this cannot be done at all. The home business is a big factor in the growth and develop ment of our community. The question is largely one of home loyalty and good business practice. It is not loyalty to the home town to buy goods away from home that you tan buy at home at about the same price and quality. Be fair with your home town. Do your buying with your home merchant who is your neighbor and friend. Another thing to consider is the fact that the home merchant pays taxes at home, he helps to support the schools and churches, he helps the sick and afflicted, and contrib utes to all worthy charitable causes. He assists in every move ment to develop your section. The mail order merchant does none of this. The money you send him is gone forever. And while we are about it, we might call attention to the fact that there is something for the home merchant to do. In order to keep this business at home he should do the same thing these mail order people do —he should advertise and tell the home people what lie has. Many a time money is sent away from home because they do not. know the things they order can be bad at borne. Advertise. Boost. Keep your name before the buying public. This thing of building up a local trade is a eo operative proposition. We can’t each live unto himself. Tag Day for Colored People. Editor Tribune: I desire to call the attention of the colored citizens of Atkinson county to the Met that Friday, February 17th, has been designat ed by the State Board of Educa tion as Tag Day in the interest of the Georgia State Industrial Col lege for colored youth, at Savan nah, and the undersigned, in con junction with Messrs. Oliver .John son and Nep Roberts of Kirkland, and Chas. E. Fullinore and Wil liam Miller of Pearson, a committee of five bo take the lead in making a canvas of the county in the sale of the tags on that day. I heartily endorse this move ment* and specially request the other members of the committee and the school teachers of the county to meet me at the colored school house in Pearson on Satur dap, February 11th, that we may discuss together more fully the ob jects of the project as well as ways and means of carrying forward the work. This is the day for the institute for the colored teachers of the county and these should certainly be present. Respectfully, L. W. Brown. EDITORIAL OPINIONS. The Brethren are Discussing a Number of Live Topics. Service, co-operation and loyalty. Wonderful words, and the man who has learned their meaning from association in his own life is traveling the road to success. — Wayeross Journal-1 ierald. The Journal scribe carelessly looked over His left shoulder and through the branches of a tree and beheld the new moon Monday night, our patrons should rush to us with big money this moon lo help offset all probable bad luck. —Harris County Journal. The agricultural conference un animously resolved that “the con gress and the president should lake such steps as x\ ill immediate ly re establish a fair exchange value for all farm products with that of all other commodities." That’s line, but it would have been better had the conference indicated what "steps,” if any, it had in mind. — —Atlanta Constitution. The speculator who cornered all the eggs in the country during the late fall months evident ly over-rat ed two important factors in the situation. They figured on a long, cold winter, and they likewise rated the purchasing power of the people too high. Now thev have been caught with the goods, and are due to lose millions. Served the rascals right. —Dawson News. If you are knocked out, plumb discouraged, sure that the bank ruptcy court soon will have charge of your affairs —just stop fighting. When your morale is gone, your defeat is just as evident to your creditors and others who watch you as if you had stepped out and formally and ceremoniously run up a white flag.—Thelndustrial Index. Healthy and fruitful are the days that follow extremely cold aud rainy weather, as unseemly as the proposition appears. It is the winter rains that prepare the soil for spring and summer fruitage; so, despite the hardships that may come with winter rains and freez ing cold, such weather should be welcomed after a mild and dry fall. —Montgomery Monitor. It is a mighty good sign when some of the most progressive farm ees of the cotton section change from cotton to dairying. This is an all-the-year, round system of farming which insures a good liv ing aud at the same time improves the fertility of the soil. Besides there is a ready market for sour cream, and a boll weevil was never known to kill a cow. —Cornelia Enterprise. One man shipped over six hund red dozen eggs from Nashville last week. If our farmers would pay a little more attention to the small things on the farm their income could be very materially increased from these sources. Chickens and eggs, sour cream, etc., give no very large income to the individual, it is true, yet one farmer near Nash ville sold about five hundred dol lars worth of chickens and eggs last year. It is surprising just how much money we can bring to the farm when attention is paid to the marketable products. Georgia has levied special taxes on various lines of business until the limit has about been reached. This year, wiener stands in the cities are taxed SIOO and the pro prietors are fighting the tax. Res taurants are also taxed SIOO, and the proprietors of these are also or ganizing for a fight. Special taxes of this kind are discrimnatory and unjust. Georgia needs a general reform in its tax laws and a budget system for expenditures. Then it will not be necessary every year to hunt out new things to levy special taxes on. —Tifton Gagette. $1.50 A YEAR Texas Farmers Profit By Pool. “The success of co-operative cot ton marketing in Texas proves beyond a doubt the practicability of co operative marketing in Geor gia,” says F. K. Shanks, farmer and former county agent of Bee county, Texas, who is in Georgia to assist in the cotton pooling movement. Mr. Shanks has been brought here with a team of about twenty other Texas, Oklahoma and Arkan sas farmers, having been called up on to assist the farmers in this state in their effort to establish the co-operative marketing move ment. Testimony in regard lo the suc cess of the Texas and Oklahoma associations as given by these men is most surprising. A number of them have actual cotton receipts from their associations showing grades, staples, prices and their net gains as the result of be ing members of these co opera tives. The organized cotton growers in Texas, according to Mr. Shanks, have been obtained from one to three cents per pound more than the unorganized growers, during the past year. In addition to this, he says that the members have been receiving full value for grade and staple, while non-members have not. More than this, the members have escaped all losses from country damage, and their cotton has been warehoused more cheaply than under the speculative buyer plan. Mr. Shanks took a prominent part in the organization of the Texas association, and later acted as campaign director during the Arkansas sign-up. He is therefore well acquainted with the inner workings of the cotton co operative associations. “So much confidence does the Federal Government have in the Texas Association, that a loan of fifteen million dollars was granted them by the War Finance Corpor ation, at the low rate of six pec cent interest,” Mr. Shanks says. Farmer's Meet, Fabruary 18. Owing to the fact that Atkinson has no county agent the Editor of the Tribune has been requested to announce that, under the auspices of the Federal and State Depart ments of Agriculture, a farmers meeting will be held in Pearson on Saturday, February 18th. Speakers from the U. S. Depart ment, of Agriculture, the State De partment of Agriculture and the State College will be present to discuss with the farmers market ing problems, the boll weevil, live stock, poultry, homo orchard and cropping plans for 1922. The speakers who will attend this meeting will probably be Messrs. J. F. Hart, IL C. Bates, E. B. O’Kelley, G. B. Eunice aud Mrs. Katie Lanier Smith. The latter will talk on the subject of home economics. 'i he meeting will be open to all and especially farmers, and it is the Editor’s desire that the day will be fair and balmly and that the large school auditorium will he filled to its utmost capacity lo hear what the speakers will have to say. They come here, and Ihe meeting is held, for the purpose of helping the farmers as much as possible with some of their most trying problems. Unless the fann ers attend, of course they will not benefit from the meeting. Marketing will be specially dis cussed by a market agent from either the Federal or State Market Bureaus. Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and pain killer, for infected sores, tetter, sprains, neuralgia, rheu. matism. 28-43
