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PEARSON® TRIBUNE
VOL. 7—NO. 51
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Bacon superior court has been in
session this week, with a long list
of business to oe transacted.
The Southeastern Regional B. Y.
P. U. convention at Way cross ad
journed Thursday evening to meet
in 192:1 at Vidalia,
Douglas merchants have already
commenced to observe the early
closing movement. All mercantile
establishments xfill close during
the summer at 6:30 p. m.
It is reported that the "kid" in
dustry has reached Ware county
and that about one thousand had
been shipped dtiring the season,
and with satisfactory results.
Valdosta will entertain the 1923
convention of the, Eleventh Dis
trict Federation of Woman,s Clubs.
This was the decision before ad
journmenl at Blaekshear last
Thu rsday.
The merchants of Oeilla will
close their stores at seven o'clock
every evening in the week except
Thursdays and Saturdays. Tburs
days they will close at noon fora
half holiday.
The people of Douglas are anx
ious to entertain a big crowd of
editors and editresses at the ap
proaeiiing May meeting of the
. Kleventh District Press Associa
tion in that city. The programs
will probably be issued next week.
Several small cities of South
Georgia are claiming the distinc
tion as "Cities of Roses.” Thomas
villi* is to have a festival —"Carni-
val of Roses.” The truth is that
South Georgia as a whole is ablaze
with roses and other (lowers —do
nieslic and vild.
Cnder the advise of the State
Geologist, it is probable the water
commission of Nashville will not
drill its new well deeper than 232
feet. He says that, while this
water ik hard, it, is not as hard as
it will be deeper and will furnish
good water, free from bacteria.
The recent grand jury of Clinch
superior court reappointed L. 11.
I.ockliear. H. 11. Guess and C. A.
1 lodged members county
Board of Education to succeed
themselves. They served the coun
ty and her children well during
the past term of four years and
lienee have been kept in harness.
The editorial page of the Doug
las Enterprise last Friday, in the
hands of the senior class of the A.
& M. School, scintillated with
bright thoughts. The subjects
discussed were timely and shows
aptitude to apply and put in prac
tice the theories learned. It is a
pity that some of these bright ar
ticles does not shbw their authors,
being unsigned.
A civil service examination will
be held at liomerville, May 13th,
to select a carrier for rural mail
Route 1 from liomerville. This
seems to indicate that Mr. Flem
C. Dame, the present incumbent,
will quit the service and devote
his entire time to his newspaper,
the Clinch County News. Since it
became a daily route he finds he
cannot manage both acceptably.
In the rearrangement of the Mi
litia Districts of Clinch county
Judge Irwin Corbitt. Sr., is domi
ciled in the 176(ith District, and he
has been appointed Notary Public
and ex officio Justice of the Peace
of that district. His old district,
the 1061st, has been moved east
ward with the court ground at
Cogdell, and Joseph R. Hodges
named as Notary Public and ex
officio Justice of the Peace. The
Tribune is not informed where the
court ground of the new district is
located, but suppose it remains at
Kabbitville —at the arid Guest mill.
Brown Rot Blossom
Blight of Peaches.
Observations made at the Geor
gia Experiment Station and at
various points throughout the
State in the season of 1921 showed
that in a number of cases the blos
soms of early varieties of peaches
such as Mayflower, Red Bird, etc.,
were killed by the attacks of the
brown rot fungus, Sclerotinia ein
erea. These early varieties appear
to be more subject to attack be
cause they open several days later
than blossoms of the later varieties
such as Elberta.
In 1921 blossom blight was so
abundant that it greatly reduced
the set of fruit in a number of
commercial orchards.
It is known that the brown rot
fungus lives from one season to I lie
next on rotton fruits of the pre
vious season which have turned to
mummies that either cling to the
twigs or fall to the ground.
It is also known that where the
brown rot fungus grows from a
blighted blossom or a rotten fruit
into the adjoining twig, cankers
may be formed in which tin* fung
us may live over winter.
It has been observed by workers
in other states that a heavy infes
tatioli of blossom blight may occur
in orchards where all mummied
peaches have been removed from
the trees and the soil in tiie orch
ard.
In 1921 it was observed that on
Mayflower peach trees blighted
blossoms clung to the twigs for at
least six or eight months after be
ing infected.
Blighted blossoms and cankers
which developed at the bases of
such blossoms of Mayflower trees
at the Experiment Station were
marked with labels in the spring
of 1921. On March 28, 1922 when
these trees were again in bloom an
examination was made for the
presence of blighted blossoms and
it was found that a small per cent
of the blossoms were blighted and
that the causal fungus had de
veloped tufts of j eonida or summer
spores on the calyces. While the
primary infection at this time is
small a sufficient number of spores
have been produced to spread and
infect a large number of additional
blossoms, especially if rains occur
within the next few days before
the fruit has set.
In this orchard there were ho
mummied peaches left on the trees.
It was observed, however, that
although n o blighted blossoms
from the 1921 crop could be found
clinging to the trees at this time,
new blighted blossoms of the 1922
crop were readily found near the
labels which indicated the location
of a blighted blossom of the 1921
crop. This indicated that the
brown rot fungus had evidently
lived over in cankers formed on
the branches at the bases of blos
soms blighted in 1921.
In the light of these observations
it is important that growers exam
ine the blossoms of their early
varieties at this time. If blighted
or blasted blossoms of their early
varieties are found it would be ad
visable to add a fungicide as self
boiled lime-sulphur or Atomic sul
phur to the arsenate of lead and
lime which is now being applied
for eurculio control.
J. A. McCi.in’tock,
Plant Physiologist.
Quitman having finally lost out
on the "Vates Sanitarium” propo
sition the company organized to
promote it will dissolve and go into
liquidation.
Pierce superior court will have
an adjourned term, beginning May
15th, for the trial of George Smith
and his son who are charged with
the murder of Hovis Carter, and
also some Prohibition cases.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1922
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
T. P. O'Neal vs. J. M. Pafford is
the style of a ease called for trial
in the City court of Brooks county
one day last week. The names of
the litigants sounds familiar to
the people of this section —but the
parties are uot the old worthies
with whom they are acquainted,
who settled their disagreements
outside of court, and whose lives
have been and are still splendid
guide .posts to the youth of the
future.
Elder T. S. Hubert has been
selected by the ladies of the Doug
las Chapter of the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy to deliver
the address on Memorial Dav,
next Wednesday. It is a beauti
ful tribute to the memories of the
men who gave their lives in behalf
of Southern principles, to red res*?
their graves with the sweet flowers
of spring. The ladies made no
mistake in the selection of an
orator.
Hon. Mark Tison, of Sylvester,
aged 65, passed away at his home
in that city on Wednesday of last
week. He was one of Worth
county’s best citizens and was
popular with all classes of citizens,
lie represented his county and
senatorial district in the legisla
ture; was a member of the House
at the .time of his death. He was
the senator from his —the Tenth —
district at the time of the creation
of Atkinson county and was among
its strongest advocates. He was
born and reared on a farm in
Worth county and stood for every
thing that would strengthen and
build up his county and section.
Arriving at manhood’s estate he
chose law as his profession and
reached a high place as an attorney.
Ilis family connection in Worth
county is large and influential and
they mourn the loss of one of its
best members. His remains wore
laid to rest in the Sylvester ceme
tery Thursday with Masonic
honors.
The Tribune learns that Mr. F.
H. Sills, a commercial traveler in
this territory for a Savannah house
and who is • well and favorably
known by many of our people, will
enter the Evangelistic field as a
Missionary Baptist minister. He
was formerely a Primitive Baptist
minister, an earnest and fluent
speaker and capable of being used
of the Lord in a large field of real
service. It is his intention to re
sign his present employment June
Ist. During the summer, in com
pany with Dr. W. A. Taliaferro,
pastor of the Second Baptist
Church of Savannah of which he
is now a member, he will engage
isi evangelistic meetings in Savan
nah. He will spend a year at the
Southern Baptist 'l’heological Sem
inary, Louisville, Ky., after which
he will locate in Nashville,’Tenn.,
and do the work of an Evangelist,
in which line of service he is pecu
liarly fitted. The Tribune bids
him good speed in his chosen field
of labor.
Rev. W. W. Webb, of Hahira,
and promotion agent of the State
Bureau of Markets for South Geor
gia is growing very popular with
the people in his territory and they
are keeping him very busy making
hog and cattle sales. He has just
held a sale at Camilla where he
closed out a big pen at more than
8c per pound on the feet. He is
now chaperoning in his territory a
Federal expert in testing the value
of corn fed hogs. They went to
N 1 i Hen last Friday afternoon where
on Saturday Lhev addressed a mass
meeting of JenkiDs county farmers
on the subject ifci stock raising.
The expert differs with Prof. Hart,
who recently addressed Atkinson
county farmers on the same subject.
After all, most farmers and stock
raisers learn best at the school of
experience—or by experiments.
The Automobile Races
Lakewood Park, Atlanta
Atlanta, April 18. —Negotia-
tions have been completed here for
the appearance of Sig Haugdahl,
world’s speed champion, with his
three mile a. minute Wisconsin
Special automobile, at the auto
racing classic to be staged as the
opening feature of Lakewood Park
for the 1922 season on Saturday,
April 22nd.
Haugdahl has agreed to defend
his title here and will meef Fred
llorey, former champion and "Wild
Bill” Endicott, veteran pilot in a
series of three cornered match
races. Hetwill also drive his 250
Wisconsin Special against time in
an effort to lower his own record.
The little Scandinavian not only
holds the world’s record for one
mile over a straightway course and
on circular tracks but he also holds
the Lakewood track speed title.
Haugdahl has held the track
championship of the world for
three vears and on April 7th, at
Daytona Beach, Florida, he cinch
ed his claim to the speed champ
ionship when he drove his novel
speed creation a mile in 19.97
seconds or at the rate of 180.27
miles per hour. He also lowered
the records for the kilometer and
the five and ten mile distances.
Besides the championship races,
several other events will he includ
ed on the sports program, includ
ing speed events in which a half
score of prominent Georgia drivers
will compete. Haugdahl’s drive
against time with the world's fast
est car will be the feature of the
day. however.
Thousands of speed fans through
out the southeast are expected to
journey to Atlanta next Saturday
for the events and arrangements
are being made here to accomino
date the largest crowd that has
ever attended an event id Lake
wood Park.
Lawlessness in Echols County
Valdosta, April, 16. —Just at
the time when it was believed
Echols county people would yield
to regardipg tick eradica
tion lawlessness has broken out
again. Three of the dipping vats
in use in the county were destroyed
by explosives Friday night, accord
ind to reports reaching Valdosta,
'l’llis reversion to lawless acts is
deeply regretted by the tick eradi
cation officers in charge of the
work, but they declare they are
powerless to stop the work. Cat
tle dipping will proceed in Echols
county just the same, blowing up
vats not being* sufficient to stop
the enforcement of the law. Such
conduct will only increase the cost
of tick eradication and extend the
time for the completion of work,
but it will not stop the process.
While there has been no an
nouncement from the state officials
in regard to the matter, yet there
is a belief that unless the lawless
destruction of dipping vats is stop
ped radical measures will be em
ployed by the state to see that the
law is adhered to. Up to this
time the officers have relied main
ly on moral suasion and conducted
a long and patient campaign of
reasoning with the people to bring
about a change in public sentiment.
It is believed that this idea has
now been well “sold” to the better
element of jieople, which paves the
way for such strenuous acts as may
hereafter lie necessary to enforce
cattle dipping on strict schedule.
Now the ladies want to change
the marriage ceremony so as to
eliminate the word "obey.” The
ladins are right; it takes up just
that much enery of the parson to
repeat it when it doesn’t mean a
thing.—Quitman Free Press.
Subscribe for the Tribune; quit
borrowing from your neighbor.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
Now a Republican member of
Congress from Michigan is talking
about impeachment proceedings
against Attorney General Dauglit
ery. These little whirlwinds are
bul. forerunners of the big storm
that’s coming—coming unless all
signs in the political heavens are
misleading.—Albany Herald.
Watermelon vines up,and grow
ing, tobacco already transplanted
and looking fine, corn and cotton
up and growing, the general indi
cations are that times are going to
be better in this part of Georgia
soon. Crops all over South Geor
gia never looked more promising
than they do at this time. The
weather conditions arc fine, too,
and it puts a general air of optim
ism in everyone. —Nashville Her
ald.
If these Government statisti
cians who have been burning mid
night oil to discover how much
time Uncle Sam’s stenographers
waste powdering their noses and
painting their cheeks want to slip
the public some worth-while in
formation, why don’t they dig up
some figures on- how many dill
pickles and salty crackers a high
school girl can cat at one sitting
and get away with ill —Macon
Telegraph.
The first stsjte election after the
close of the world war brought
about a political upheaval in Geor
gia. Strange to relate men who
openly advocate German sentiment
and principles were swept into of
fice. Since that calamity, the peo
pie have slow ly but surely sobered
and now settled back to red blood
cd American principles that is
calculated to give some of the am
bitious pro German office seekers
a jolt in the elections this year. —
'Thomasville Press.
The farmer with three or four
good milk cows from which he is
shipping cream to one of our com
mercial creameries, realiz/ing from
six to eight dollars per cow per
month, besides getting feed for a
fine bunch of pigs and chickens,
and on top of that building up the
‘fertility of his land is not in dan
ger of being badly in debt at the
end of the year. His cotton crop
will be just like finding money in
the road.—Oeilla Star.
Why is it that the newspaper
correspondents make prominent
the fact that the man who com
mits a crime was an overseas vet
eran, if such happens to be the
case. Nearly every healthy inan
in this country between 20 and 30
years of age were in some depart
ment of the military service, so it
is not strange that many of them
were of criminal tendency. It is
hardly proper, though, or fair to
the others, to mention that fact
every time oik- of them gets into
I rouble. —Valdosta Times.
A commission to investigate the
eligibility of prospective jurors be
fore they are summoned for jury
duty, is oik* of the provisions of a
bill soon to be submitted in the
Ohio legislature. As an instance
of the need for such investigation,
the author'd the bill, a lawyer,
says that on one occasion a man
whom he had convicted of theft
showed li i m a jury summons.
Where there is a commission to
look up all names drawn from the
jury wheel, such ineligibles would
never be summoned atfall, let alone
getting a chance to serve through
some fluke due to the hurry of the
court examination at time of trial.
In order that the investigating
body might act effectively, it
would be necessary to have certain
definite standards of honesty and
intelligence which could be estab
lisbed by simple tests, it is pointed
out. —St. Marys Georgian.
$1.50 A YEAR
Road Bonds Best Invest
ment State Can Have.
The idea of the $75,000,000.00
state road bond issue for complet
ing the state bigyway system is
growing every according to
T. G. Farmer, Jr., who has been in
the state working for the road
bonds almost continuously for the
liast two weeks.
"People are beginning to resize
that completing the highway sys
tem is the best investment the
state can make at this time. It
will put thousands of unemployed
men to work. It will reduce taxes
in t hose counties that have already
floated bonds and will put good
roads in every county without tax
ation on the people. But the best
part of the plan is that it will give
us the benefits of as fine a system
of highways as any state and not
iadd one penny to the present
automobile license fees and gaso
line taxes.”
“North Carolina last year voted
$50,000,000 in road bouds, and last
year North Carolina passed Geor
gia in agricultural wealth, although
it is a much smaller state. Much
of of this is attributed to the fact
that good roads enabled North
Carolina citizens to market their
crops to better advantage.”
“Georgia cannot afford not to
vote the road bond issue, and every
citizen 1 who wants to see the state
forge ahead and take her rightful
place in the sisterhood of states
will work from now until the legis
lature meets in June to see that
the bond issue is put before the
people in a way that they will un
derstand it.”
"1 find sentiment unanimously
in favor of the bonds wherever the
issue is understood,” said Mr.
Farmer.
Steady Paying Crops.
In an article oil "Farming in
Sumter County,” the Washington,
(<Ga.) News Reporter points to the
fact that farm prosperity in that
section is due to the plan of money
crops for every month, in the year.
One of the best, of the youthful
farmers who lias money crops com
ing in all the time, The News-lie
porter says:
"He owns a beautiful home with
electric lights and running water
and several hundred acres of the
most fertile farming lands in the
county, and lie is not complaining
of the* lioll weevil or anything else.
He is too busy.
"There is a money crop on this
farm every month. Fruits and
.vegetables chickens and eggs, hay
and grain, pork and beef, bring in
the dollars.”
Where such practical farm meth
ods prevail there is no exodus of
workers from the farms to the
factories of overcrowded cities, for
ttie soil is self-sustaining and is
made to give the best results in
year-round production. Horne
prosperity keeps the people at home
And such profitable fanning is
not exceptional in our splendid
Georgia climate. And such beau
tiful, well appointed modern homes,
as one found in the farming dis
tricts of Sumter county are seen in
every progressive farming section
of the state.
The wealth's in the land, wbere
ever they seek it in the right way.
—Atlanta Constitution.
One reason whv the human race
made slow progress at first was be
cause leaders had no opportunity
to get their names in the paper.
How a jazz-ridden world longs
for the old days when there was no
noise in the dining room except the
gent le gurgle of the soup eators.
When a college professor can't
think up a queer theory hg can al
ways get a little publicity by tell
ing how wicked the student* are.
