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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