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PEARSON ft TRiBUNE
VOL B—NO. '2B
SOUTH GEORGIA.
The Social and Material Activi
ties of Our Neighbors.
The farmers of Colquitt county
are so impressed with tobacco as a
money crop that they will plant
largely of the w 7 eed next year. Go
slow, three acres to the one horse
farm is a large acreage.
The Albany South Georgia Fair,
held in Albany last week, is pro
nounced by visitors to have been a
great success. The promoters con
fined its influence to Albanys’ im
mediate trade territory.
The people of Alma are com
plaining seriously of the mail
service our “Uncle Samuel” is ac
cording. They say it is of the
most indifferent character, just a
little better than none at all.
Milltown and contiguous terri
tory is to be the Mecca of many
sportsmen this winter. Mr. J.
Isom Davis of Nashville is the pro
moter of the project and he has
thoroughly advertised it as the
"Sportsman’s Paradise.”
The City Council of Valdosta
receded from its ordinance, fixing
a license tax of $250 for selling ap
ples by the ear load, when the wo
men of that city took occasion to
demand its repeal. Eve causes
Adam to eat another apple, as it
were.
Owing to a heavy indebtedness
the Metter public schools had to
suspend its work. This aroused
the citizens to a sense of the situa
tion and they promptly took the
matter in hand and raised $10,050
by public subscription to lift the
indebtedness and reopen the school.
That is the kind of loyalty that
counts.
The municipal politics of Doug
las are growing interesting, if not
breezy. A complete ticket has
been announced; but to liven up
matters some citizens appear dis
gruntled and are raking the city
over, as with a fine tooth comb, to
find opposing candidates. They
have not as yet solicited the dear
women.
A couple of Ware county farm
ers at Millwood, Messrs. Smith
and Musgrove, will experiment in
shipping cream to the Ashburn
creamery. Their experiment will
be on a small scale, only six cows,
but they will keep an accurate
debit and credit account against
the experiment, so as to determine
its success.
The suggestion of Mr. Will O.
Parker, junior member of the law
firm of Parker & Parker, of Way
cross, for the business men of that
city to assume the burden of plac
ing the local paper, Journal-Herald,
in every white family in Ware
county during 1923, is a most ex
cellent one. It is the best boost
Waycross could get from any
source.
The trial gular block, at Way
cross, formerly occupied by the
LaGrande Hotel, was sold at auc
tion a few days ago for $23,000.
The purchaser will now “take a day
off” and decide what be is going
to do with it. Unimproved it will
take many a year for its value to
increase beyond what he paid for
it. And. then, real estate is just
now on the descending scale.
Tbomasville has set the proper
pace in drawing small factories to
her aid in w inning prosperity. Her
latest acquisition in this line is a
packing plant for fruits and veget
ables. There was a tannery there
dnring the civil war and it should
be restored, and that will invite a
factory to supply the local demand
for shoes. The older people wore
home made shoes and why not the
younger set? They may not be as
good looking or as costly as those
bought from distant factories; but
they will serve the same purjmse.
Flowers While Living.
During the past twelve months
the Tribune and its editor have
been the recipients of many encomi
ums. aromatic boquets, but none
of them are more appreciated than
the following from the Thomasville
Press, edited by S. W. Davis, w hich
is itself a strong exponent of those
things which aie right, striking
with a boldness born of confidence
of the positions assumed. Here is
the boquet:
“The best edited, printed and all
around small country newspaper in
Georgia is the Pearson Tribune.
Editor Beu Allen is one of the few
old time practical printers that is
to be found these days still in the
business. He knows the business
in detail from the "Devil” to Editor
in Chief, and is a clean, conscien
tious, able writer who knows a real
new T s item. His four-page, six col
umn Tribune, is read with more
genuine pleasure than any paper
that reaches our exchange table,
and we hope he will live fifty 7 years
more and keep it going like it is
now, together with all the success
and prosperity that may be deriv
ed from printing a good paper.”
The editor’s long time friend,
Judge Jos. W. Rennet, of Bruns
wick, says: “I read every week
practically everything in the Pear
son Tribune. Your editorials are
sane and sound and should be
beneficial to your patrons.”
Pecans South Georgia Crop.
That the Pecan nut is a South
Georgia crop has become to be
axiomatic, and it is destined to
play a prominent part in the ma
terial progress of this section of
the State. This fact is shown by
the increased attention being given
to the planting of groves in every
part of South Georgia.
Jt will play the same part for
the prosperity of South Georgia
that the Apple groves are doing
for North Georgia. Superiority of
the North Georgia Apples and of
the South Georgia Pecans have
come to he recognized wherever
they are placed under comparison.
The result is tiiat increased acre
age is being planted in Apples in
Habersham and other counties
of North Georgia, and increased
acreage is being devoted to Pecans
in every 7 county of South Georgia.
The demand for both is increasing
and it will be many years, if ever,
the supply will be adequate to the
demand.
Although it takes many years to
bring a Pecan tree into commercial
value, the Tribune does not hesi
tate to advise the young farmers
of Atkinson county to start them
a grove of the very best grade of
paper shell pecans. Plant sixteen
trees to the acre, and one acre a
year, until you have not less than
a five acre grove. With proper
care these trees will, in ten years,
be worth SSOO an acre.
And while the trees are growing
the land will not be lost to you
for growing other crops, and, in
fact, will prove advantageous to
the trees to plant leguminous
crops —peas, corn and velvet beans,
followed by oats, rye or wheat, on
the land.
But to succeed with pecans the
trees must be given careful study
and prompt and wisely directed
attention. They must be mulched
with vegetable mold, fed on iron
and potash, and kept clear of weeds
and other growth.
Georgia farmers are not the only
ones now seriously studying the
marketing problem. Merchants
and bankers and professional lead
ers all over the state are doing
their best thinking just now on
the practical question of a partic
able solution of the one big prob-
I lem for the Georgia producei—the
I matter of his future, steady, con
| tinuing, profitable, all-tbe-year
market for the staff he can easily
i make. —Savannah News.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1922
PURELY PERSONAL.
Short Stories About Men and
Women in the Public Eye.
Mr. Thomas W. Overstreet has
been assigned to Florida territory
as postoftice inspector—all of West
Florida on the west side of the
Appalaehicola river, and embrac
ing ten or eleven counties. It is
probable this appointment will
eliminate him as an applicant for
postmaster at Douglas.
Judge Raleigh Eve, of theTifton
judicial circuit, is holding Cook
superior court for Judge R. G.
Dickerson. The term lasts two
weeks. Judge Eve, by his suave
manner, w ins friends wherever he
holds court and dispatches the
business. The citizens of Adel
and Cook county will be pleased
will) him.
ltis given out from Waycross,
where the annual South Georgia
Conference is soon to meet, that
Rev. W. M. Biitch the Methodist
pastor at Douglas, is to be given a
secretaryship (hat will take him
out of the itineracy. In that event
be will become a resident of Nash
ville, Tenn. Me is credited with
being well equipped for the job to
which he will be elevated.
News has reached this office of
the approaching marriage of Miss
Grace Thompson, the young lady
who taught a Sunday-School teach
er’s class in Pearson some weeks
since, and Elder J. 11. Bush, the
present pastor of the Baptist
church at Jesup. Miss Thompson,
l> V her charm of manner, won many
friends in Pearson during the few
days she was here who will wish
her bon voyage on the sea of
matrimony.
Elder S. S. Mathis, just as the
Tribune predicted, has accepted
the pastorate of Immanuel Baptist
church in Savannah. He is well
known and very highly regarded
in this section, where he did some
evangelistic work only a few years
ago. He has been pastor of Hart
well Baptist church. Hart county,
up to the time be resigned to ac
cept the Savannah call. He and
his wife are visiting relatives and
friends in Berrien and Gook count
ies before they go to his Savannah
work.
Editor W. T. Shy tie announces
that The Adel News has been un
der his management for twenty
years, during which time Adel has
experienced many changes in
growth and importance. From a
way station on the Georgia South
ern and Florida railroad she has
become the Capitol City, with
more than two thousand popula
tion, of the splendid new county of
Cook. Editor Shy tie and his paper
have been no mean factors in lead
ing up to the splendid position
which Adel has taken in the public
eye. The Tribune and its editor
extends heartiest congratulations.
Gov. T. W. Hardwick is reported
as having taken a dislike to the
name first selected “Georgia Crack
er'' for his new weekly political
newspaper, and has now decided to
call it “The Georgia Democrat.”
This is a joke on the old fashioned
Georgia democrats who are some
thing that Hardwick is not. He
says he will wage a fight for the
abolition of the county unit system
of electing state officials; for the
state to pay the expenses of bold
ing the primaries together with
the printing and distributing the
ballots. The county unit system
did not affect him in bis last two
races as there was an overwhelm
ing popular vote against him. The
counties of the state are already
paying the expenses of holding the
general election in November, and
there can be no logic for saddling
the cost of the primaries on the
State. Better abolish the primaries
—the Tribune has never seen their
political value.
The Law to Cure Evils.
When Adam and Eve trans
gressed the Divine law evil was
introduced to the world, it has
remained to this day—it meets us
daily face to face, and will so eon
tiuue until the consummation of
of ail things.
To combat evil man has been
endowed with a will power which
must be exercised in choosing
whether he shall do good or evil.
From the great Creator comes to
him the command, “Choose ye this
day whom ye will serve.”
No where in the Book of Books,
"God’s revealed will to man,” is
there a single precept citing man
to human laws as a cure for evil,
nor does it authorize men to waste
their time, their energy, their
talents nor their means in an iff
fort to set aside or place evil out
of the reach of man. The Book
points out tlx* destructiveness of
siu or evil —“The wages of sin is
death.” The Divine command is
to “shun the very appearance of
evil.”
Human laws cannot destroy evil
from the world. This task is ad
dressed to the individual, and the
individual is given the privilege
and i lie power, by accepting Him
who came to earth to bear the
world’s sin in His own body, to
resist the temptation to do evil
and to thus destroy evil as it
concerns himself, it is an individ
ual duty to live right, to teach by
precept and example righteousness
that those coming within the
radius of our influence may learn
to choose to eschew evil and cleave
to that which is good.
Human legislation cannot de
stroy evil from the world and all
efforts in that direction will prove
futile. Remember, also, individ
uals cannot shift personal response
bilities on the makers of law.
Cheap Excursion to Atlanta
via A., B. & A. November 9th.
Round triii fare from Waycross
s(;.<)<>. Tickets sold for regular
t rains, November 9th, good to leave
Atlanta returning not later than
Sunday night, November 12th.
Tickets good in sleeping ears. Ask
A.. B. &. A. ticket agent or write
W. W. Croxton, I’. T. M., Atlanta,
Georgia.
The Haunted Houses.
Speaking of the “haunted house”
at Pablo Beach, near Jacksonville,
Fla., the Valdosta Times says:
“There is no ‘haunted house,’
though, to compare with one at
Surrency in this State, some thirty
years ago. Thousands of people
visited it and saw the inexj livable
doings of the ‘haunts,’ such asseat
tering furniture about the rooms,
breaking dishes, mirrors and other
articles.”
The Tribune editor was at that
time an attachee of “The South
Georgia Times,” now “The Valdos
ta Times,” and it is his recollection
that the “Surrency Hotel mystery”
occurred fifty or more years ago.
It is true that many newspaper re
porters, including Mr. C. R. Pendle
ton, went to Surrency during the
mysterious happenings, and left
without obtaining definite evidence
of what was causing the disturb
ances.
Mr. Pendleton said many the
ories were advanced as to the cause
of the strange phenomenon, but
none of them satisfactory.
The newspapers have reported a
number of “haunted houses” re
cently. There was one at Black
shear, one at Albany and now this
one at Pablo Beach. In the cases
at Blackshear and at Albany it re
quired two or three days investiga
tion to discover the human agen
cies that were directing the
“haunt” activities. How the Pablo
Beach case may turn out is un
known, but it is a fact that the
“Surrency Hotel mystery” has re
mained unexplained to this day so
far as the Tribune editor is advised.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
Editorial Opinions Expressed by
Tribune Contemporaries.
The speech of acceptance of
Senator George at the eouven
tion in Macon Saturday was a very
able one. Judge George is an
orator and his speech on that oc
casion stated clearly the things
that he stands for. —Adel News.
Slowly (he pecan tree is forcing
its value upon the people of this
section. Some day people will
learn that they can put their land
to no better use than growing
pecans for market. ()u!y a limited
territory can grow pecans, but all
the people of the world like to eat
them. —Oeilla Star.
Senator-elect Walter George
made a splendid impression at the
Macon convention last Saturday
when he delivered his speech of
acceptance. It has been pronounc
ed by the press everywhere as be
ing a masterpiece, well delivered,
and the Senator to-be left no doubt
as to where he stood on all national
and international questions. Judge
George is going to stay in the
senate a long number of years, is
our prediction.—Douglas Enter
prise.
There is a good deal of talk
about the need of law enforcement.
All of us are for it, of course. But
might we not accomplish some
thing by talking about law observ
ance! It is better to observe the
the law than to enforce it. Pre
vention is better than cure. If all
of us who claim to belong to the
better class of people will set out
to observe the law, and will use
our influence to got others to do
so, the matter of law enforcement
will lake care of itself to a largo
extent. —Dawson News.
It having been demonstrated
that a boll weevil can be frozen
stiff without suffering any serious
injury or lowered vitality, the
statement is made that another of
the old theories is knocked in the
head. But a pest that can stand
one freeze may not be able to
stand twenty or more, and it still
seems to be a good idea to send
the boll weevil into winter quarters
weak and hungry. And the advice
of departments of agriculture to
destroy the cotton stalks as soon
as picking is over still stands. —
Albany Herald,
There is to be another investiga
tion of the prison camps of the
state. This one is to be made at
the request of Governor Hardwick,
who has acted at the request of a
committee representing the Com
mittee on Church Co-operation
which called on the Governor
Wednesday. The general com
plaint. coming from different
sources, is that prisoners in Geor
gia camps are brutally flogged and
are often given inhuman treatment.
The investigation requested by the
Governor will be made by the
Prison Commission. —Albany Her
ald.
Senator-Elect George’s speech
of acceptance was another most
agreeable surprise. In it be dis
played a knowledge of national af
fairs that many doubted he pos
sessed. It also demonstrated a
diplomacy and tact worth a mil
lion to a politician. It has started
him out in the high and important
station he is to fill with the very
best of feeling back of him. Even
his blood and thunder opponents
admit that he is clean, able and a
thorough gentleman. May his
shadow never grow less, and may
he render a service that will retain
the respect aud good fellowship
that now exists for him in his
home state. With it he will have
a weapon that cannot fail to make
him a valuable Senator. —Tbomas-
ville Press.
$1.50 A YEAR
Lost Time.
From the Blackshear Times
The average man seems to regard
time as his least valuable possession,
if one may judge by the use ho
makes of it; aud yet time is the
one thing a man may lose and may
not recover. Rost money may be
found: lost property may be re
covered; lost reputation may here
gained, but time lost is lost for
ever. This very fact makes it
encumbent upon every man to use
his time that the greatest possible
good may follow his efforts. Every
consideration of self-interest, as an
enlightened sense of his personal
responsibility to his fellows, should
impel a man to the utmost exercise
of wisdom in the expenditure of
his most priceless possession—time.
And yet how 7 forgetful most of us
are, and how recklessly we throw
away our time. We do not seem
to remember that “today we live
but tomorrow 7 we die.” There is
always something that needs to be
done, and no man in the full pos
session of his mind need ever lack
for something to do. God has given
us six days in which to do all our
needful work, aud a seventh day in
which to rest and render worship
unto Him; bnt for the average man
the one day iu seven is insufficient
and numerous other days of rest
are added, to the hurt of all. Let
it be understood that every indi
vidual member of society is depend
ent upon every other member, and
that when one fails that failure in
creases the burdens of all the rest,
and then we shall understand how
vital to the common good it is that
every man shall wisely use the full
six days for honest toil. There is
no way of computing the material
loss that accrues to the people of
this county from loss of time every
year, but the sum were it known
would be staggering. If every one
who is physically able to work in
Pierce county would put in full
time at some productive employ
ment for one year every debt that
they owe would be paid and we
would take front rank among the
progressive and prosperous people
of the land. The man who idles
not only adds to his own misfor
tunes but increases the burdens
and problems of the worker. Lost
time accounts, for the great bulk
of our present day troubles We
know the remedy. Let’s rpply it!
We are in the market for
Heart Pine, Sap Pine, Cypress
and mixed Oak ties. High
est prices paid. Write for
prices and specifications.
Mutual Timber Company,
Brunswick, Ga.
The Young at Heart.
It's a great thing to stay young.
Only those who bruise themselves
against the world grow old. There
ought to be as much joy aud just
as much expectancy in our last
years as in our first ones. Wo
ought, to continue to look forward
and upward to the end of life. The
last year of our existence on this
earth can be just as pleasant and
should have just as many thrills
as any other year. It all depends
upon the w 7 ay we have accustomed
ourselves to looking at things. We
are not here to fret and fume but
to sing and labor and to be happy.
We are not here to envy our neigh
bors but to wish them well and
to lend them a helping hand. We
are not here to grumble and com
plain but to keep sweet aud look
pleasant. We are not here to tail
but to succeed —in fact we are
here to be useful, happy and suc
cessful. And all the years of our
life can be bright and thoroughly
enjoyable if we will but align our
selves with the laws of our Creator
and go forward. —Winder News.