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PEARSON ® TRiBU NE
VOL B—NO. 22
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
The Berrien County Fair will lie
staged at Nashville beginning Oct
ober 19 and continuing three days.
A sufficient number of acres of
land, to be planted iu tobacco nest
year, has been pledged iu Lanier
county to authorize the employ
ment of an expert demonstrator,
and one has been employed. He
will take up his schedule of duties
October Ist.
It is said that when the new
sugar tariff goes into effect it will
cost the Savannah Sugar Refinery
$32,000 a day. The new Bill
places a tariff tax of 1.7648 cents a
pound on the raw products, which
comes from Cuba. The refinery
produces 1,750,000 pounds of sugar
daily.
That portion of the old Gulf
railroad taken over by the Georgia,
Ashburn, Sylvester and Camilla
railroad, will seek to issue $45,000
in new stock to finance improve
meats in its roadbed, rolling stock
and terminal facilities at Camilla
and Sylvester. This short road
has a prosperous outlook.
hi the city court of Sylvester,
Worth county, ,1. B. Wylly was
being prosecuted for carrying a
concealed pistol. Col. J. J. Fore
hand defended the prisoner while
his son, W. C. Forehand, prosecuted
him, and another son, G. C. Fore
hand, sat on the jury that convict
ed him. It seems to have been a
family affair with Wylly as the
goat.
The owners of the Banks mill
pond, near Milltown, has had a
survey made to determine the fall
from the pond to the Alapaha
river and the consequent water
power possibilities. This survey
has been examined by experts but
as yet no report of their findings
lias been given out. This report
will settle the amount of invest
ment to be made there.
Albany has a problem of hazing
and which calls for heroic treat
ment. Some of the new entrants
to the high school have been hand
led roughly by the larger boys
but it is done off the school prein
ises and is not subject to school
disci pi iifi£ The hazing is of a
character that demands it to be
checked and the city authorities
will undertake to control the situa
tion.
The splendid dwelling of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank L. Allen, about
twelve miles southwest of Pearson,
in Clinch county, was destroyed by
fire on Thursday of last week.
They lived on the farm alone and
had built this home, at a cost of
about $3,500, that they might be
comfortable in their old age, and
its destruction is a great calamity
as it was not insured. They will
now have to content themselves
with a smaller and inferior home.
The fire is supposed to have origin
ated from burning ironing cloths
which Mrs. Allen, after completing
her weeks ironing, unknowingly
put away in a closet.
A meeting of special importance
was held at Tifton Friday of last
week. It was the annual meeting
of the Georgia Association which
has for its purpose the develop
ment of the undeveloped lands of
the State, and the proceedings fur
nishes the information that a tent
ative plan of development has been
agreed upon and an arrangement
entered into by which the same
can be financed. Only those coun
ties that have contributed to the
advertising fund will participate in
this land development. Atkinson
county is not among the number.
Another meeting will be held at
Tifton October 17th to complete
preliminary work.
Foikston-Higbway Press.
To-day there will be a notable
gathering at Folkston. Folkston
people as hosts will have for their
guests the Central Dixie Highway
Association and the Eleventh Dis
trict Press Association, and whom
they expect to entertain at the
noon hour with a basket dinner
and a big barbecue.
The guests are expected to ar
rive by or before 10:30 a. m. when
the exercises are to begin, the
Highway celebration to take pre
cedence. The program for this
part of the exercises is as follows:
Called to order by V. L. Stan
ton. of Wayeross, president of the
Central Dixie Highway Associa
tion.
Address of welcome by Col. A.
S. McQueen, of Folkston.
Response by Hon. V. L. Stanton.
Address —"Good roads and their
relation to prosperity,” by John
L. Herring, editor of The Tifton
Gazette and president of the Na
tional Highway Association.
Address —“Memorial Trees” by
Mrs. J. L. Walker, of Wayeross.
Speech by Judge T. E. Patter
son of the State Prison Commis
sion.
Address —“Florida end of the
Central Dixie Highway” by Hon.
F. G. Miller.
Address by the speaker of the
day, Hon. W. T. Anderson, editor
of the Macon Telegraph.
The assembly will then march
to the location of the "Highway
Marker,” where a formal presenta
tion will be made by Hon. V. L.
Stanton, of Wayeross.
Little girls, dressed in white,
will then unveil the "marker.”
The "marker” will be accepted
for the city of Folkston by Win.
Mizell, Jr., and for Charlton conn
ty by Judge J. .1. Stokes.
1:00 p. in. — I firmer.
2:30 p. m. —The Eleventh Dis
trict Press Association called to
order by the president, B. T. Al
len, of the Pearson Tribune.
This will be followed by a num
ber of impromptu addresses in
this order:
Win. G. SuLlive, President of
i he Georgia Press Association.
Hon. J. J. Flanders, editor of
the <)cilla Star.
Hon. W. T. Shy tie, editor of
the Adel News.
Hon. Isidor Gelders, editor of
the Fitzgerald Enterprise-Herald.
Hon. Jack Williams, editor of
the Wayeross Journal Herald.
And perhaps others of the news
paper fraternity who may be pres
cut.
There will also be addresses by
Hon. T. L. Pickren, Charlton eoun
ty’s representative in the legisla
ture; Hon. T. W. Wrench, former
editor of the Charlton County
Herald; Dr. A. D. Willians and
other Folkston citizens. The
local speakers will be introduced
by Mrs. W. H. Robinson, the pres
ent editor of the Charlton County
Herald.
The program also includes an
automobile ride into Florida,
across the St. Marys river bridge,
and to places of historic interest
which may include Coleraine.
Condition of Georgia Banks.
Despite the recent period of un
usual depression the stale banks
of Georgia are in a healthy condi
tion, according to a statement is
sued by T. R. Bennett, superin
tendent of the State Banking De
partment, who based his eonclu
sion on figures that have recently
been furnished his office. He de
dared that the state banks have
reduced their loans and discounts
$35,000,000 in the last year, indi
eating that their customers have
been able to retire many of their
obligations, while the banks have
cut down their bills payable and
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
I’EAUSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2D. 1922
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
After election talk has centered
around what caused Hardwick’s
defeat. Various post mortem ex
perts have laid the trouble to the
Ku Klus, to the Dupree ease, to
the new broom that did not sweep,
to the Baptists, to the tax equal
zation law and some others. Our
guess is that the real cause is to
be found in the fact that a rnajori
ty of the people wanted Cliff Wal
ker. —Ocilla Star.
All true Georgians will join
Governor elect Clifford Walker in
the fine sentiment which he ex
presses when he says let’s all work
for the progress of Georgia. We
have had the election and the
fight is over. It’s time now to
forget it all for the next two years
and for everybody to get down to
business. And Mr. Walker lias a
right to expect the co-operation of
all the people.—Adel News.
It never pays to take a chance
when crossing a railroad track in
an automobile. Don’t do it. The
chances are you will get across
safely, even if you do not “stop,
look and listen,” but the records
show that thousands of people have
been killed on grade crossings be
cause they were careless. It takes
but a moment for you to satisfy
yourself that the way is clear and
that you can cross in safety—and
it is a mighty wise investment of a
moment of time. —Albany Herald
With schools opening at the be
ginning of another scholastic year
it is well for every parent, and
every resident for that matter, to
stop a moment and think what an
important institution the public
school is. The influence of the
teacher does not end with the mind
alone. Many a successful man
points back to one of his school
teachers as the source of theinspir
at ion that led him to success.
Every teacher can have a great in-
Huenee over his or her pupils, pro
vided the proper co-operation has
been given by the parents.
To those who fear that Clifford
Walker is the weakling his politi
eal enemies painted him during
the campaign, we would say, be
patient and watch yourself be de
eeived, he is going to give Georgia
one of the best administrations
she has had in years. He is not
the kind that pretends to know it
all, or swell head over honor and
power. He will not attempt to
drive the legislature under the
lash of authority. He will not
try to run both legislative and
executive departments, but will be
found co operating and advising
instead of bull dozing and grand
standing.—Thomasville Press.
Statistics show that the general
average income of Illinois farmers
is $2,657 a year. We haven’t the
latest figures on incomes of Geor
gia farmers, but just a few years
ago it was not more than one-fourth
the above figure. The earning
capacity of Georgia lands is about
the same as tiiat in Illinois and all
the other Western states. What
we need is more intelligent farm
ing. We need more live stock and
dairies, just like they have in these
Western states. We have just as
good and better grazing lands. We
can raise forage for our stock much
easier, and the splendid climate we
have down here makes live stock
raising twice as easy iu Georgia as
it is in Illinois. —Nashville Herald.
rediscounts $26,000,000. Over
drafts have been reduced from
$319,224 to $185,549. The state
ment made by Mr. Bennett was
based on reports from banks at
the close of business on June 30,
1922, as compared with their state
ments of June 20, 1921.
Lankford Nominated.
The congressional convention at
Wayeross, Saturday, September
23rd, was called to order a quorum
being present in person or by
proxy.
Judge S. C. Townsend of St.
Marys was chosen chairman and
B. T. Allen of Pearson secretary.
After canvassing the returns
sent to the convention from the
several counties the following re
sult of the voting was ascertained:
COUNTY LANKFORD POWELL
Appling 1,014 23
Atkinson 742 21
Bacon 555 47
Berrien 1,502 53
Brantley 1,065 93
Brooks 1,220 63
Camden 558 37
Charlton 344 10
Clinch 500 37
Coffee 2,030 33
Cook 822 37
Echols no report
Glynn 1,033 51
Irwin 1,565 115
Jeff Davis 602 9
Lanier 501 48
Lowndes 1.199 449
Pierce 1,041 11
Ware 1,589 127
Wayne 1,219 48
19,101 1,323
Lankford's majority 17,778
Whereupon, on motion Hon. W.
C. Lankford was declared the uom
inee of the Democratic party of
the Eleventh Congressional l)is
triet of Georgia for congress.
Proceeded to the selection of an
Executive Committee for the en-
suing two years.
After some discussion it was
agreed that as women has acquired
the right of suffrage and to hold
office, one woman from each county
in the district should be added to
the Executive Committee. The
following committee wa s then
chosen:
Appling county—J. 15. Moore,
Baxley; Mrs. 11. J. Parker, Baxley.
Atkinson county —B. T. Allen,
Pearson; Mrs. Aaron Corbett, Wil
laeoochee.
Bacon county —L. I). Luke, A 1
ma; Mrs. L. 11. Jenkins, Alma.
Berrien county —Mr. McLamb,
Alapaha; Miss Mattie Gaskins,
Nashville.
Brantley county —W. A. Wood,
Hoboken; woman member to be
supplied. ,
Brooks county —Mrs. Malcolm
I). Jones, S. M. Turner, W. R.
Knight and W. S. Yales of Quit
man.
Camden county —S. C. Town
send and Miss S. E. Brandon of St.
Marys.
Charlton county —L. E. Ballard
and Mrs. W. 11. Robinson, of Folks
ton.
Clinch county Mrs. Emma
Ilame and J. O. Rodgers of Homer
ville.
Coffee county —R. A. Moore,
Douglas; Mrs. Minnie Poer, Brox
ton.
Cook county —C. O. Smith and
Mrs. J. N. Lastinger, Adel.
Echols county —W. H. Howell,
Howell; woman member to be
supplied,
Glynn county —Mrs. W. C. Lit
tle and J. H. Powell. Brunswick.
Irwin county —Mrs. Philip New
bern and J. L. Paulk, Ocilla.
Jeff Davis county —Mrs. Minnie
L. Moore, Hazlehurst; A. S. Min
chew, Denton.
Lanier county —Mrs. Elizabeth
Hughes and R. E Garter, Mill
town.
Lowndes county —Mrs. C. C.
Cal ley, J. L. Newbern, C. M. Lank
ford and A. T. Woodard, Valdosta.
Pierce county Mrs, Beulah
Jones aud Wm. A. Bowen, Black
shear.
Ware county —D. M. Parker, O.
E. Gicldens. C. M. Sweat and Mrs.
J. L. Walker, Wayeross.
Wayne county —W. B. Gibbs
and Miss Claudie Little, Jesup.
The convention then adjourned.
The Executive Committee then
selected W. B. Gibbs, of Jesup, as
chairman, and R. A. Moore, of
Douglas, as secretary, and adjourn
ed subject to call by chairman.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
Elder. J. D. Poindexter has re
signed as pastor of the Broxton
Baptist church to accept the past
orate of the Baptist Church at
Nashville.
Hon. W. C. Lankford and family
will spend October aud November
at their Douglas home, returning
to Washington in time for the op
ening of the short term of congress
beginning the first week in Decern
her aud ending March 4th, 1923.
Col. R. M. Penland, of Milltown-
Hemerville-Pearson, has returned
from Gainesville, Ga., accompanied
by his wife who was seriously in
jured in an auto accident several
weeks ago near that city and has
been confined in a hospital there.
Hon. Charles E. Stewart, the
representative elect from Atkinson
county, the Tribune learns by way
of the Savannah News, will be a
candidate for Speaker of the House
of Representatives. They give him
credit for getting whatever he goes
after in that body.
Mr. Alton Oberry, son of Mr. 15.
G. Oberry of Willacoochee, is be
ing congratulated upon his ap
pointment as First Lieutenant of
Company 15, Gordon Institute bat
allion, at Barnesville. Alton is a
fine boy, alive to his opportunities
and is making good.
Mr. Calvin C. Bowen, who has
been living in the Harmony Grove
community, northern part of At
kinson county, for the past fifteen
or twenty years, died at his home
last Friday. He was a man of
supposed robust health and his
death came as a surprise to his
family and friends. The inter
ment was Sunday in the cemetery
at Wesley < Impel.
Capl. Chas. L. Redding, United
States Assistant District Attor
ney, with headquarters in Macon,
has been transferred to Savannah
and probably will not be displaced
by the present administration. He
has moved his family from Way
cross to Savannah which gives his
tenure of office an air of perma
nency. He has scores of friends
throughout South Georgia who
wishes him much success.
Mr. Leonard Carter, convicted
in Glynn superior court of permit
ting the banks at Jesup and Odum
of which he was president to be
come insolvent, has been granted a
new trial by Judge Eschol Graham
who presided at the trial. Just
where and when the new trial will
be had is problematical. Mr. Car
ter is well known in this section,
especially at Willacoochee where
he was the senior member of the
mercantile firm of Carter & Ford.
Mr. B. Frank Mills, now living
at Limestone, near Tampa, Fla.,
came up Saturday night and visit
ed relatives and friends at the old
home where he was born and rear
ed. He is in fine health but badly
tanned by the tropical sun of Flor
ida. He still owns the dwelling,
outhouses and a part of the farm,
where he spent his youthful days,
and the object of his visit was to
see after the renting of the farm
for 1923 and keeping the buildings
and premises in repair.
Mr. Henry C. Moore, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Levi J. Moore, of
West Green, is at home on a two
months furlough aud visiting bis
parents and other relatives and
friends in this section. He enlist
ed in the United States army in
1913 and was among the first of
the American boys sent over seas
to participate in the World war.
He is now stationed at Fort Ilow
ard, Md. This is the first time he
has visited home folks since he en
listed. His parents were over
joyed to see him agaiu,
81. Go A YEAR
The Value of Time.
Most of us have a keen appre
ciation of the value of money.
When we were small children and
our fathers and mothers, admiring
friends gave us-the stray pennies
and occasional nickels and dimes,
we were carefully instructed nob
to lose any of them and not to
spend them foolishly. Thus the
sense ot the value of money has
been so impressed upon us that to
waste money, to throw it away, to
throw it into the fire and destroy
it is a sin of which none of us is
guilty. Wo have a keen sense of
the value of money, but how many
of us have anything like such a
keen sense of the value of time?
How many of us are as careful of
our time as we are of our mouev?
How many of us are as careful to
spend our time judiciously as we
are to spend our money judicious
ly? And yet it is true that lost
wealth may be restored by econo
my and industry, lost health may
be regained by temperance and
right living, aud lost knowledge
may be restored by study; but lost
time, once gone, is gone forever.
Time is life’s freightage where
with some men trade and make a
fortune, while others allow it to
molder all away or waste it in ex
travagauec. Time is life’s book,
out of which some extract won
drous wisdom, while others let it
lie unopened and then die fools.
Time is life’s tree from which some
gather precious fruit, while others
lie down under its shadow and
perish with hunger. Time is life’s
ladder, whereby some climb up to
honor, renown and glory, and some
let themselves down into the depth
of shame, degradation aud ignomi
ny. Time will be to us what, by
our use of the treasure, we make
it —a good or an evil, a blessing or
a curse-
To impress upon us the worth
of time God, who is so lavish iu
the bestowal of other gifts, gives
only a moment at a time. The
next he holds in liis own hands,
and we are never certain it is ours
until it comes.
The amount of time unused and
wasted in the lives of most of us
is fearfully large. We complain
of the shortness of time, yet we
have more than we know what to
do with. A large part of our lives
is spent in doing nothing at all, or
nothing to a purpose, or nothing
that we ought to do. We are al
ways complaining that our days
are few and then acting as if they
would never have an end.
The men aud women who have
become eminent in the world have
usually been the men and women
who had a keen appreciation of
the value of time and learned early
in life how to employ wisely the
spare moments.
One hour a day devoted to care
ful study would make an ignorant
man a well informed man in ten
years. In one hour a boy or girl
can thoughtfully read twenty
pages; in a year, seven thousand
pages, eighteen large volumes.
We talk about not having time
to read good books, and there is
rarely a day that passes over us
that we do not waste more than
an hour. And most of us spend
twice that much time in doing
something to no purpose that
might be omitted.
Every one should carry a book
or a pocket Testament, or magazine,
no matter where he goes, aud when
he has a few minutes to himself,
he should read. How some people
can spend hours loitering is beyond
me —sit for hours in front of a
store wasting time. Alas! —8.M.8.
The National Drainage Congress
will be held in Kansas City and
Georgia, by appointment of Gov.
Hardwick, will be represented by
Messrs. L. R. Aiken of Brunswick
and James T. Vocelle of St. Marys.
They are both interested on thq
subject of drainage.
