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PEARSONffiTRiBUNE
VOL B—NO. 2:3
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
liou. Walter F. George, of Yien
na. Dooly county, has formerly
announced his candidacy for the
United States senate to fill the
unexpired term of Senator Watson,
lie has the ability, is honorable
in every respect and would honor
Georgia in the position sought.
Col. H. J. Quincey, of Ocilla, has
gone back to Florida prospecting.
It is probable he will locate at
West Palm Beach to practice his
profession. The law business in
Georgia is not lucrative at this
time, lie was born and reared at
Bronson, in Levy county, Florida.
Major Carter, under sentence of
death for the killing of Sheriff
Roberson of Pierce county, has
been granted a new trial according
to a dispatch under a Savannah
date line. Carter was sentenced
to hang October 28, 1921, but his
cause was carried to the Supreme
Court, which has granted the new
trial.
Mrs. Frances Asher Bates of
Waycross announces the engage
ment of her daughter, Nell, to Dr.
John Erwin Penland. The marri
age will be solemnized in Novem
ber. No cards. The many friends
of Dr. Penland in Pearson were
advised of bis approaching inter
marriage with Miss Bates, but not
the exact date.
Mr. J. J. Kirkland, a friend of
the Tribune at Waverly, Ga., has
been drawn as a traverse juror to
serve at the November Term of
Camden superior court. Mr. Kirk
land was born and reared in the
Atkinson county section of country
anil has been reading the Tribune
ever since it came under the pres
ent management.
Elder S. S. Mathis, a Baptist
minister who is well known in this
section of country, lias been called
to the pastorate Immanuel Baptist
church of Savannah. He is now
pastor at Hartwell, Hart county.
He was pastor at Nash ville, Berrien
county, when the money was rais
ed with which to build the present
splendid Baptist church edifice.
Mr. C. M. Pritchard, a Lanier
county farmer, is dead from the
bite of a rattlesnake. He went in
to a field to pull corn, stepped on
his snakeship without knowing of
the reptile's presence. He was
bitten on one of his feet and before
he could get first aid treatment the
poison had permetated his entire
system. He lingered about a week
and died in great agony.
Dr. ,J. Robert Lassiter, who lives
on mail route number one, ten
miies east of Nashville, celebrated
his birthday a few days since with
a mammoth barbecue. His guests
numbered about two hundred. He
declined to state his age but the
Tribune editor knew him as a prac
. ticing i>hysician at the beginning
of the present century. He went
to Berrien county from this section
about twenty five years ago. Bob
Lassiter is a splendid fellow.
Mr. J. Leon Pafford. of Homer
ville, died at the home of bis fath
er in !aw r , Mr. J. B. Cornelius,
where he had gone to spend a few
days, Monday night, September
25th. and the interment was in the
Homerville cemetery Tuesday
afternoon. He was a devout mem
ber of the Methodist church, lived
a consistent Christian life, and was
beloved by all who knew him. The
funeral services were conducted by
both resident pastors of Methodist
and Baptist churches. He bad
been in failing health since 1918
when he had an attack of influenza.
His immediate family surviving
him are his widow 7 and four small
sons. He was a member of a large
family of that name scattered
throughout this section of country.
Folkston’s Road Celebration.
The Tribune man had the pleas
ure of attending the Road Celebra
tion and Press meeting at Folkston
last Friday and enjoyed every
minute of the time he was there.
He had planned to go down on
the “Seminole,’' but that train de
clined to stop on signal or flagging
as promised by the railroad authori
ties, aud he thought the trip would
have to be abandoned. But a wire
came from Wavcross, thanks to
Editor Jack Williams, “come on
regular traiu, way provided to
reach Folkston.” Sure enough,
soon after reaching Waycross, Mr.
Dessau Bunn invited him to have
a seat in his car, and he wheeled
away to Folkston, thirty-five miles
in one hour aud fifteen minutes.
The road was almost as smooth as
a floor and the trip in his big car
was as pleasant and comfortable as
going in a Pullman palace car on
steel rails.
Folkston was dressed in holiday
attire, and there was present from
Charlton and adjoining counties a
host of people, and they were peo
ple of intelligence and appreciation
of what was transpiring—celebrat
ing the completion ef a splendid
road bed, forming that part of the
Central Dixie Highway through
Charlton county from Waycross to
the Florida line at St. Marys river.
The addresses of the occasion
were delivered in the auditorium
of the Charlton county court house.
Hon. V. L. Stanton, presided, and
introduced the speakers. The in
vocation was by Rev. T. B. Kemp
of the Methodist church. The ad
dress of welcome was delivered by
Col. A. S. McQueen and the re
sponse was by Hon. V. L. Stanton.
Appropriate addresses were deliv
ered by Mrs. J. L. Walkor, of Way
cross; JudgeT. E. Patterson, Prison
Commissioner of Atlanta, and
editor W. T. Anderson, of the Ma
con Telegraph. Editor Gelders
and W- R. Bowen, of Fitzgerald,
both enthusiastic boosters for this
road, were present but did not de
liver addresses.
From these addresses the audi
ence was brought face to face with
the fact that the planning and
building of this splendid stretch of
road had been an herculean task,
and that the voters of Charlton
county, in a $50,000 bond issue,
had laid the foundation and made
the building of the road possible.
Ibis made Folkstort, the County
seat of Charlton county, the logic
al and appropriate place for the
holding of this celebration.
The addresses over, the audience
repaired to the site of the “.Mark
er,” presented to Folkston [and
Charlton county by the Central
Dixie Highway Association,
through Hon. V. L. Stanton, its
president. It was unveiled by six
pretty little girls dressed in white
—Misses Ruby Davis, Lollie Mall
ard, Winnelle Courtney, Carabel
Williams, Agnes Wrench and Hel
en Mills. It was accepted for the
city and county by Judge J. J.
Stokes.
One o’clock and dinner was an
announced. When the Bunn party’s
ear slowed up on the south side of
the court house, the aroma of
splendidly barbecued pork and
beef was borne to their olfactories
and you may be sure not one of
that party was sorry when the
command was delivered —“Let’s
eat!" and they did eat. As a re
past of its kind it couldn’t be sur
passed. A master hand had to do
with the barbecuing of that pork
and beef. It was delightful.
The September meeting of the
Eleventh District Press Associa
tion was called to order by the
president, B. T. Allen, at 2:30
o'clock.
The meeting being held at an
other than the regular time there
was not as good attendance of
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER <3. 1922
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from AH Sections of
South Georgia.
The Baptists of Milltown are
planing to build for themselves a
new church edifice to cost $15,000.
The present building is inadequate
to the congregation.
The Carter saw mill at Adel was
destroyed by fire a few days ago.
Loss stated at $30,000, with only a
small insurance. The mill will
probably be rebuilt.
There is some talk of the Geor
gia and Florida taking over the
Ocilla Southern railroad from
Nashville to its northern terminus.
Both roads are said to be earning
above running expenses.
The City Court of Waycross was
busy last week in the trial of the
railroad misdemeanor cases during
the strike. Everyone put on trial,
but one was convicted. That one
was able/to prove an alibi.
The Tribune learns that, not
withstanding two-thirds of the
voters of Camden have decided to
move the county seat from St.
Marys to Woodbine, a strong fight
will be made to retain it at St.
Marys.
The one hundred and seventh
annual session of the Piedmont
Baptist Association convenes to
day at Hoboken in Brantley coun
ty. Judge J. I. Summerall has
been the Moderator and Elder A.
M. McCool clerk 6f this association
for many years.
The grand jury of Berrien conn
ty, at Berrien superior court just
adjourned,returned fifty three Bills
of Indictment. These are in addi
tion to the cases in the City Court
of Nashville tried on accusations.
It takes both to fix the criminal
record of the county.
The Smyrna Baptist Association
meets for a two day session with
the Baptist church at West Green,
on Thursday, and Friday, October
19 and 20. Elder T. S. Hubert is
the Moderator and Elder 11. M.
Meeks clerk of this association.
The Pearson Baptist church is a
member of this body.
The Moultrie Creamery has gone
into bankruptcy. The cause al
leged for its failure is that the in
vestment was too great for the
volume of business at hand. The
products met ready sale at good
prices, but the supply of material
could not be had to keep the plant
busy and it made the expense ac
count greater than the business
could afford.
members as would have been oth
erwise. Those who were present,
however, enjoyed the meeting very
much.
E. L. Turner, of the Valdosta
Times, W. D. Harrison, of the
St. Mary’s Southeast Georgian and
Mrs. W. 11. Robinson, of the Charl
ton County Herald, were named as
an Executive Committee for the
present year.
The January meeting will be
held in Waycross, the third Fri
day in January. This date was
fixed at the request of Editor
Williams.
Several impromptu addresses
w'ere made by the editors present,
expressing their sincere pleasure at
being present at the meeting and
to find Folkston aud Charlton
county alive to their best interests.
They did not anticipate coming to
such an united and progressive lit
tle city, with all the appurtenances
of a real city—even a Chamber of
Commerce. These felicitations
were responded to by Hon. T. W.
i Wrench, an ex-newspaper man,
who has located at Folkston and is
President of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Tribune man returned to
Waycross with Mr. Brinson, in one
hour and ten minutes, arrived at
home at 8:17 on schedule time,
having spent a most delightful day.
A Night in 1864.
A pine knot fire blazed on the
hearth. A widow puts her three
orphaned boys to bed. She is busy
with her spinning-wheel as roll
after roll is drawn into finest
thread.
The night is cold. Above the
whirr of the wheel could be heard
the moan of the wind on the out
side. At last the broach is finish
ed and she turns aside to make up
the fire and see that the children
are covered and warm. Two boys
lie on a bed made on the floor and
they get attention first. She puts
her busy hands on their heads and
then cautiously feels of their feet.
Turning away from these, she goes
to her own bed where the baby
boy lies asleep snug and warm.
When each child had received at
tention she goes back to the wheel
to spin and to think.
The wheel turns round and
round and the cotton turns into
finest thread. She stares vacant ly
at the.fire and occasionally at her
work. Just four years before, her
husband went to the war and
never came back. Great tear
drops came to her eyes as she
thought of him and kept watch
over his boys. Her eyes grew
dimmer and dimmer and the wheel
turned slower and slower. Soon
the wheel and the widow both
stood still. A tired hand hung
heavy on the wheel and a great
burden hung on the widow’s heart.
Neither could move.
The wind was still, the fire burn
ed low and not a sound was heard.
The widow prayed. The burden
was lifted from her heart; strength
came to her hand; the wheel start
ed, and music with the wheel.
Song after song she sang; and
prayer after prayer was said.
Late at night mother and child
ren were all asleep. But one little
boy did not sleep till his mother
lay down. He heard the busy
wheel and the cold wind outside;
saw his mother’s tears and heard
his mother's prayers. The fire,
the wheel, the woman, the boy.
As long as I live and Winter winds
blow will I remember the spinning
wheel and my mother’s prayer in
the long, long ago. —Warren P.
Ward, in Douglas Enterprise.
Judge Ward in relating his
mother’s experience only gives a
pen picture of many a southern
mother’s experience during the
troublous times of the eighteen
sixties. This editor remembers
with feeling of deep emotion the
devotions of his own dear mother
to children and country during
those days. Yea, there were thou
sands of mothers then, similarly
situated, who were too busy to
dream of the female vagaries that
now engross the attention of our
women.
Too much cannot be said in
praise of the women of those days,
whether they were widows or not.
They performed a wonderful task
in feeding and clothing their child
ren. Many of them managed the
operations of large plantations,
directed the work of many slaves,
and kept the barns and smoke
houses full of corn and meat, sugar
and syrup, to feed homefolks and
the army of men and boys at the
fornt keeping the enemy from
their doors. Likewise they super
vised the growing and ginning of
cotton, as well as the spinning and
weaving it into cloth for clothes
for the dependents on the farm
and in the camp.
God bless them, no mothers have
ever surpassed them in their devo
tion to home and family.
FARMER WANTED.
Will give a good man all he can
make on my farm eight miles south
of if he will go there
and take care of stock. Write
N. T. Paffokd, Sandersville, Ga.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
This is hay making season in
South Georgia and the oldest in
habitant hardly remembers when
we have had a more suitable sea
son. It has been unusually fine
for the saving of hay and the pick
ing of cotton. After all, no better
country than this can be found. —
Adel News.
More and more good roads have
so impressed their value upon peo
pie that they now complain bitter
ly at the condition of a road that
a few years ago was considered a
fine road. Discontent precedes
progress. These complaints will
help to build better roads. —Way-
cross Journal-Herald.
The man who violates the pro
hibition law evidently forgets or
disregards the respect due wife
and children. He is covering his
helpless dependents with shame
and disgrace through the lust of
alcoholic thirst or for the sake of
possessing a few dirty dollars.
When he is caught the innocent
suffer. —Thomas ville Press.
There are more or less weather
wise folk, some of whom write
for the papers, who now tell us
exactly what sort of winter we
may expect. The thickness of nut
shells, the movements of migratory
birds, the something or other
about goose-bones that is supposed
to mean so much to the initiative —
all these are being referred to.
But as the prophets predict radi
cally different things, nobody
knows what to believe. —Albany
Herald.
Pecan growers in this section
are being urged by those keeping
in touch with such matters to hold
their crop for better prices. The
claim is set forth that the present
price is entirely too low, especially
when the short crop is considered,
together with the tariff which has
been placed upon imported pea
nuts. Local growers are of the
opinion that the price will become
more nearly normal in a little
while as soon as the flurry is over
following the tariff enactment last
week. —Valdosta Times.
The most popular game in the
world is the game of “Looking
Up.” Everybody plays it, for
there is no one so high that he
does not look higher. Even the
most spiritual people have ambi
tions. The child looks up to ils
mother; the youth looks up to his
father; the father to some great
man whose career he admires; the
great man, in his turn, looks high
er still. So the game of "Looking
Up” goes on and keeps everybody
interested. If we ever stopped
playing the game, life would be a
dreary monotony. St. Marys
Georgian.
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81.50 A YEAS
Senator Watson Passes.
With the passing of Senator
Thomas E. Watson Tuesday morn*
ing death has removed from public
view 7 a most unique character aud
public servant, a man who came
up as has many others, owing to
business failures, without a college
education. His own struggles with
poverty created in him cynicism,
yet a deep concern for the poor
and ignorant. This part of his
nature abided with him through
life. Were it desirable his coun
terpart is beyond reproduction.
He was endowed with much
learning, gained from experience
and personal application and re
search; lie liked wisdom and this
accounted for his failures in life.
His accomplishments were the
fruits of an overweening audacity.
This characteristic grew upon him
from long training as a criminal
lawyer; it destroyed his usefulness
in public life.
Publicists have endeavored to
explain how he succeeded in gath
ening about him a following, mani
pulating it at will, and gathered ad
ditional adherents with each pas
sing year. Some say he knew the
value of prejudice and capitalized
it to the limit. This is true in a
measure, but it was more largely
the result of his appeals to sympa
thy, the creation of abnormal con
ditions, where none existed, upon
which to base his appeals for sym
pathetic support. The fruits of
popular sympathy is aptly illustra
ted in the cases of Joe Brown and
Guyte McLendon; how quickly it
brought the voters of Georgia into
readiness to apply the chastening
rod upon Hoke Smith in their be
half; it was only the play of human
nature against apparent wrongs.
Senator Watson’s character has
been a study for Georgians since
he began his political career, in
his races for congress against
Judge J. C. C. Black, of Augusta,
in the old Eighth congressional
district, quickly followed by his
alignment with the People's party,
which proved the undoing of Wil
liam Jennings Brvan and made a
political bankrupt of him. These
things are an open book and familiar
throughout the world. Cynicism
gathered about hirn'and obstructed
his usefulness as a public servant
both as a congressman and senator.
So that, after all. Senator Wat
son’s best public service has been
in a literary way—-his books en
riched him in public favor more
than any of his activities, they
were widely read with interest,
llis historical works are gems, llis
history of France has gained uni
versal recognition as the best in
existence. It gained so much
favor in France that it has been
adopted as the text book in French
schools to the exclusion of French
authors.
Senator Watson has his idiosyn
cracies, his faults, but who is with
out them? His fight against them
began too late in life to smoothe
them out. He had his virtues;
these will go with him throughout
eternity. Whatever may have
been his foibles, his faults, his
vices, he has passed away and no
more disturbing influences will ar
ouse bis indignation or challenge
his powers of protest.
The Tribune joins the State press
generally in exhorting the people
of Georgia, friends and foe, to for
get his faults; remember only his
virtues and the good he has done,
for there is much to be credited to
liis better nature. The amount is
beyond compulation by finite
minds.
Strayed. —One gray mare mule
weighing about twelve hundred
pounds and one black mare mule
weighing about one thousand
pounds. Left my lot Friday night,
September Bth. Liberal rewaitl
offered for their return or informa
tion leading to their recovery. J.
V. Nix, Sheriff, Berrien county.—
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