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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1922)
PEARSON ® TRiBU NE VOL B—XO. 25 NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Gleanings from All Sections of South Georgia. Clinch superior court lasted three days. The Clinch county folks are using the county court to dispose of their minor court business. An express office will probably be installed in Milltown early in November. Its patrons will find it almost prohibitive in its charges for transportation. Coffee superior court, owing to the illnessof Judge Summerall, had to be adjourned until the second and third Mondays in January, 1923. The regular time is the second and third Mondays in October. The city of Waycross is making ready to inaugurate the Commis sion form of government on the first day of January, 1923. One man, a City Manager, will give his entire time to the direction of the affairs of the city. According to Austin .1. Gibbs they are selling Ford cars down at Homerville by the car-loads and lack four car-loads of being up with the demand. Every fellow who can muster the initial payment must have a Ford llivver. The Smyrna Missionary Baptist Association is holding its sixtieth annual session at West Green in Coffee county, this week, Thursday and Friday. Pearson church is a member of this body and is repre sented by .!. O. White. B. T. Mien, John F. Smith and Dr. J.S. Morris. The appointment of a postmaster for Douglas has not been made as yet. L. S- Peterson, Angus Over street and Thomas Overstreet are the three eligible*. The appoint ment will probably be made in December after the assembling of congress. The appointment will have to be confirmed by the senate. The Mell Missionary Baptist As sociation held its thirty sixth an nual session at Tifton Wednesday and Thursday of last week. One church in Atkinson county, Willa cooehee, is a member of that body and was represented by Mr. and Mrs. John 1). Paulk, Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Shellhouse, Mrs. L. W. Sum merlin and Miss Mattie Gaskins. The Georgia Association, sue eessor to the Land Owners Associa tion, met in Tifton Wednesday and perfected an organization under new conditions. These new conditions have arisen in an alli ance with the Atlanta Trust Comp any in the development and sale of Georgia farm lands. People looking toward Georgia to engage in farming want improved lands, and this movement is intended to meet this demand. Miss Martha Berry was in Tifton last week, accompanied by the Berry school quartette. They are working in the interest of the school she established in the mountains about four miles north of Rome, Ga. A number of pupils from South Georgia have graduat ed from the school and an Alumni Association was organized at Tifton last Saturday. Atkinson county has been represented by pupils in the school, but don’t think there are any there now. The Little River Freewill Bap tist Association held its sixteenth annual session at Corinth church, near Brookfield in Tift county, last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. All the Freewill Baptist churches in Atkinson county belong to this Association. Ozias church, six miles south of Pearson, was repre sented by Messrs. Wm. Corbitt and Wm. Wilson. Jr. The latter gentleman has been serving the Association as clerk and he makes a good and faithful officer. Mr. James Summerlin generally repre sents Sunny-Side church. Foikston in History. Prior to 1881 the only rail con nection between Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., was by the way of DuPont and lave Oak, this connection between the Atlantic and Gulf and the Florida Central and Peninsular railroads having been built during the Civil War primarily to facilitate the move ment of troops. It was a lengthy and circuitous route and virtually prohibited commercial relations between Sav annah and Jacksonville. There was a water route to-be sure, but this was slow and uncertain —did not meet the demands of business. Mr. Henry S. Haines, then super intendent of the Atlantic and Gulf railroad, conceived the idea of building a short line from the new town of Waycross, a distance of seventy five or eighty miles, into Jacksonville. In this project he was ably assisted by Drs. Dan Lott and W. B. Folks, the promoters of the embryo City of Waycross, and the latter connected with the rail road as physician and surgeon. These men prevailed with Presi dent John Screven and the Board of Directors, as to the utility of the road, and they began to lay plans for its building, and in 1881 work was begun and the short line completed in 1882. It was located to the east of Charlton’s county seat —Trader's Hill —and the rail roads proposed to locate a station on its line convenient to Trader’s Hill and Dr. William B. Folks was entrusted with the task of securing the site for the station. Ho had secured the right-of-way for the road and had become well acquainted with the territory and the people with whom he was to deal in the matter. The station was located and by common con sent given the name of “Foikston,” in honor of Dr. Folks. This was forty years ago. How swiftly time flies; to the Tribune editor, to V. L. Stanton, .(no. C. McDonald, Leon A. Wilson, Clinton C. Buch anan, and others, it seems but a dream of yesterday. For ten or fifteen years she re mained just a little station in the midst of a Black Jack ridge and sand. But the wheel of progress began to turn; the legal require meuts to move the county seat from Trader’s Hill to Foikston were taken and the change was made in 1890; about this time the Jesup Short Line was completed to Foikston. and these things in fused new life into the town and the people. The citizens are of one accord in the matter of mov ing forward in the upbuilding of the town. There are really no very wealthy people there, but their unity and littles put together accomplish things they undertake. They have built a handsome brick school house, equipped it with all the necessary furnishings, and they conduct an accredited high school. They have a canning plant there —cans sweet potatoes, and all kinds of fruits and veget ables, and find ready sale for its products. The place is uncorporat ed as the City of Foikston, has ef ficient municipal officers, paved sidewalks and other necessary uti lities that goes to make up a well ordered city. The- women have their Woman’s Club, Parent-Teach er Association, and other organiz ed activities, and are moving for ward to “victory and renow-n.” To them, in a large degree, is Folks ton indebted for its progress in improvements. Charlton county has a comfort able and commodious court house in which to hold their courts, and in which to transact the county business. The people voted the bonds which made the building of the Central Dixie Highway, lead ing through Foikston to the St. Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEAK SOX, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1022 EDITORIAL OPINIONS. The Brethren are Discussing a Number of Live Topics. The center of the negro popula tion in the United States is, queer ly enough, in the extreme north western part of Georgia, where there are so few negroes that in one of the counties there is said to be not one negro family resident and in several there are less than a dozen families. —Savannah News. The law is made to protect peaceable citizens, but if it fails to work and crime goes unpunished it breeds more crime. Soft hearted men and women may decry the taking of human life by the state, but there are timesjwhen it is nec essary to bring the savage element under restraint, and the present is one of those times. —Dawson News. As an example of the business judgment of a few farmers, we sub mit the following. A man who owns a good one-horse farm in this county planted twelve acres of his best land in cotton this year, cul tivated it as best he could, but made no effort to keep the boll weevils out of it. He got one bale of cotton for bis year’s work, and now wants to ,ell out and move to Florida. —Thomasville Press. Half the battle in any proposi tion is thinking you can do the thing; nobody ever accomplished anything in a half-hearted way. The oldEadage of “Bo sure you are right, then go ahead,” can be expressed m many ways, but the best one is to first “know your pro position, believe in it yourself cut out all personal interests and then put it over.” This is often hard to do, as we are more anxious to grind our own axe first. —Cornelia Enterprise. The Daughters of the Confeder acy are very anxious to get a com plete outfit of the ‘old time weav ing’ and some one to operate it, and would greatly appreciate the assistance of any public spirited citizen of the country in getting the necessary parts for this work. The weaving will not only be of interest to all but educational. Won’t yon kindly help us to show the younger generations lfow weav ing was done in llie sixties'? — Statesboro News. Now if ever is the time for Floyd county to adopt every means with in her power to bring about a new scheme of agriculture. The best way to do it is to employ experts who can get us started in the right way. The boll weevil has ruined many farmers. Tenants are find ing it impossible to pay their rent and landlords are threatening to let their lands lie idle. It is said that Floyd county lands are not producing one-thiid of what they are capable of producing. It is possible to double the agricultural production of Floyd county; but wishing and waiting without defi nite action won’t do it. —Rome Herald. The News hopes that the efforts to get a good acreage of tobacco will not fail to materialize in Cook county. Those who planted tobac co in this section this year and cultivated it according to instruc tions of the demonstrators made good money.. Many believe that it is the best money crop that can be planted now. The soil of this section is peculiarly adapted to the culture of tobacco- A reasonable acreage will be profitable, if the price next season is anything like that received last season. Every farmer who has land suitable and who has enough help to properly look after it .ought to plant a little. —Adel News. Marys river, just a mile away, a possibility. They are in readiness for any other feasible project to build up Foikston and Charlton county. Success to them! Views On Edncation. Editor Pearson Tribune: Please allow space in the columns of your valuable paper for me to express my views on what educa tion really is. “Education” is, a word that is much miunderstood by most peo ple. They seem to think of it as a matter of books, of study, of school. They have an idea that it is an accumulation only of facts concern ing the world and its doings, which has been made common property by the printing press. Vet, it is possible to find a well educated person who has never opened a book or attended a school; although if they had a literary learning their usefulness could be drifted into greater channels of life. No inau or woman can ac complish as much without literary learning as with it, but I am only trying to convey (he idea of what education really is. "Education,” in a t rue sense is finding and know ing one’s self, it, isnot mere instruc tion in Latin, English, French or History. It is the unfolding of the world’s human nature. It is growing in all things to t he highest possibility. Home life educates, to mingle with friends and neighbors educates, travel educates. Lite from the first to the last with its ups and downs, its pleasures and sorrows, educates. The word “Educate” is derived from two ancient, words, signifying out or forth, and lead or draw, which means simply leading forth, or drawing out —nothing more aud nothing less. It does not mean the unfolding of the mind alone, but a drawing out and unfolding of all those pow ers of bead, heart and body that will best help to develop under standing, train the hand, train the temper, cultivate taste and frame good habits and good manners. What we need is more and bet ter teachers, who will stress upon the children’s mind the value of Education, and what it really is; for the boys and girls of today are the men and women of tomorrow, upon whose shoulders will fall the task of making this an educated world. “Education exalteth a na tion. but ignorauce is a reproach to any race.” Every teacher should have an educational vision, educated in the essentials of life. Is there a deficiency in our school curriculum that needs revising so as to make education more practi cal? No, 1 think not, but there is a misunderstanding in the essenti als of education. It, is not acquir ing of knowledge, but the applica tion of knowledge to suit the de mands of life. We.can divide education into three parts, namely, ancient, early Christian and modern. The kind of education we need is the kind that will enable us to do something for somebody that will let others light their candles by it. I. O. Johnson. More Accurate. The San Francisco Chronicle be gan a recent editorial on the new quarrel in Europe with the asser tion that “the Near Eastern situa tion has grown out of the wretch ed work of the Paris conference,” wiiereuopn the Philadelphia Re cord rises to ask: “Would it not be more accurate to say that in the last analysis it seems to have grown out of the wretched work of a Republican Senate, which reject ed the peace treaty and withdrew’ the moral support of the United States from the task of world paci fication for the sake of robbing a Democratic President of the fruits of his labors in statesmanship?” — Albany Herald, PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL Short Stories About People and Things of Interest. Gov. Hardwick has pardoned young Herbert C. Dickerson, con victed, in connection with the Odum Bank failure, and sentenced to the penitentiary in Wayne superior court. Judge Harry I). Reed has re signed as chairman of the Way cross and Ware county Chamber of Commerce. He found his per sonal affairs occupying all of his time, and he bad none to spare to the Chamber of Commerce. Be sides the extensive practice of the law firm of Parks, Reed & Garrett, he is filling the place of a Referee in Bankruptcy, which is an import ant office and requires consider able time to look after the cases coming before him and which is now on the increase. Mr. J. W. Seals has been selected to fill the unexpired term of Judge Reed as chairman of the Chamber of Com merce. Judge Joseph W. Rennet, of Brunswick, was in Pearson on Wednesday of last week looking after some business in which the railroad was a party. He made a pleasant call on the Tribune editor whom he has known from boyhood. A friendship sprang up between them then and it grows stronger as the years come an go. Judge Beunet is one of the big men of Georgia. He is a man who shuns politics and cares nothing for office holding. He was appointed judge of the Brunswick judicial circuit before if was carved into small circuits. He served a year or two and quit. Gov. Terrell tendered him an appointment on the su preme court bench but lie declined it. Tt did not appeal to him. The death of Mr. Charles Purvis, one of the pioneers of the section of country, now embraced in At kinson county, on Thursday after noon of last, week, brought sorrow to the hearts of many relatives and friends. He had reached a ripe old age, and had been in de clining health for a year or two, and really courted death as are lief to his suffering. He was an exemplary citizen, a kind and con siderate neighbor, a loving and compassionate husband and father, and faithful to his church and lodge. He was a member of the Wesley Chapel Methodist church and Satilla Lodge of Masons, at Pearson. The funeral and inter ment was at Wesley Chapel; Fri day afternoon, his pastor, Rev. T. M. Luke, officiating, and under the auspices of the Masonic frater nity. He is survived l>y his wife, two sons and two daughters. Judge Warren P. Ward, Ordin ary of Coffee County, renews his subscription to the Tr i bu n e promptly once a year; pays his $1.50, too cheerfully and with a vigor that denotes that he appre ciates the editor’s effort to make a paper that will meet the needs of the reader, at least, in a small way. He says “The country editor beats them all iii doing high class work and for so little money.” He has had experience in producing papers for hungry readers and knows what he is talking about. In his letter he sends his good wishes to the editor, the Tribiine and to Pearson. Judge Ward re sided in Pearson many years ago and taught school; he built a home here and when be married brought his bride to this home and many of his happiest days were spent here. In front of this home he transplanted same small trees and they have grown into magnifi cent, proportions and are now the pride of Pearson. Thank you. Judge Ward, for your kind words. sl.sq A YEAR Discovery of Road Material. Atlanta, Ga., October, 18 — Work of the Highway Engineering Department of Georgia Tech in saving the people of the state hundreds of thousands of dollars was reviewed today by officials of that department in connection with the announcement that the efforts of the department in better ing Georgia roads would be ex panded. It was pointed out that by tests in the laboratories of the depart ment the amont of cement in con crete roads had been reduced from one-third to one half of the amount formerly used, with the result that the concrete is stronger aud the taxpayers of the state are saved about $4,000 on every mile of con crete road constructed. This sav ing was effected by the department through its condemnation of poor grade sands, and the adoption by the state highway department, of sands, gravels, rocks and slags ap proved by the Tech highway en gineers. Professor F. C. Snow, graduate of Ohio State University, and con nected with road building in Mon tana for ten years, heads the high way engineering department, and J. 11. Lucas is testing engineer. The work of the department has been going on for several years, and includes the training of practi cal highway engineers, and road materials for the state highway department. Th e department tests material not only for the state, but for the city of Atlanta, and Fulton county as well. “Georgia has the best stone in the United States,” according to Prof. Snow, “and has excellent de posits of every sort of road build ing material. The state is begin ning to realize more and more the necessity of good roadß, and this department is working to that end. We are co-operating with the state highway department, and are ex panding onr work in order to give even greater assistance than ever before to the building of more and better highways in Georgia.” Teacher’s Meeting. The teachers of Atkinson county met at Pearson, October 7th, 1922. Opened their meeting by scripture reading and prayer. A motion was made and second ed, that we organize a Teacher’s Association. A motion was also made and seconded that permanent officers be elected for the Association. The offiicers elected are as follows: Mr. W. B. Cornelius, Chairman; Miss Melda Brewer, Secretary and Treasurer. Program committee consisting of Miss Woolard, Mr. Cauley Taft and Miss Lott. It was moved aud seconded that each teacher be assessed ten cents for mailing purposes, etc. Mr. Booth gave a very interest ing illustration teaching the Pri mary work. The most interesting part of our meeting was the talk that Mr. Paulk gave on "The fundamental things that help to make the teacher’s work a success.” The teachers all seemed to enjoy it so much. lam sure they would all be glad to have him back again. Mr. Allen made a rather interest ing talk on consolidated school. We were dismissed by Mr. Paulk. All the teachers waiting for .our next teachers meeting, November 4th, 1922. Am sure they will all be there. Miss Melda Brewer. WANTED, To hear from all farmers located in territory adjacent to the A., B. & A. Railway who have farms for rent or for sale. Write a card to the undersigned asking for blank to be filled out, giving complete description. W. W. CROXTON, P. T. M., A., U. & A. R’y, Atlanta, Gm
