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PEARSON©TRIBUNE
VOL B—NO. 29
SOUTH GEORGIA.
The Social and Material Activi
ties of Our Neighbors.
The Douglas Ice Company an
nonnces its readiress to save and
cure the farmers’ meat.
Woodbine, the capital elect of
Camden county, has a new post
master —C. C. Gould succeeds J. Z.
Parker.
Thomasville will pay her officials
salaries instead of by the fee
system. The authorities think it
best for the city as well as the
officers.
A negro woman, claiming to be
one hundred and thirty-four years
old, died at Camilla last week.
She has a grandson, said to be fifty
years old.
Ware connt> pecan growers are
disposing of their crops at a very
saiisfactory price. There is a
growing demand for pecan nuts
and the supply is not equal to the
demand.
The Brooks county authorities
have abandoned the project of
paving the Quitman-Thoinasville
road for the present. This action
was taken because there is no
State and Federal funds available.
The contract to build the high
way from Brunswick to St. Simons
Island will be awarded to the low
est bidder December 12. One of
the conditions is that the highway
is to be completed within twelve
mouths.
Hoboken is to lose her news
paper. Editor Kiley will move
his plant to Hahira, in Lowndes
county, and begin the publication
of "The Hahira Progress.” His
new field at Hahira is more invit
ing than that at Hoboken.
A George-For-l’resident Club
has been organized in Savannah,
with a complete corps of officers.
The puzzle of the organization is
that Lige Fuller, the oft-repeat d
Republican candidate for congress
from the first district, is the secre
tary.
There are three hundred booze
cases in the United States District
Court at Savannah. The court is
now is session trying to dispose of
them. Attorney Boatright has
run upon something more complex
than a railroad tariff sheet when
he undertakes, earnest to goodness,
to prosecute bootleggers.
The grand jury of Cook county,
in session last week, returned into
court between seventy and eighty
bills of indictment. The court
adjourned Friday afternoon until
Monday. November 23rd, when
the criminal docket will be given
attention and it may require two
weeks to clear the docket.
Fall truck growing in South
Georgia has brought with it some
surprises. Farmer Boone, at Axson,
shipping fine tomatoes November
Ist, and Farmer W. W. Timmons,
of Tifton, shipped fine Rocky Ford
canteloupes during the same time.
He will ship about four hundred
crates of canteloupes from about
an acre of land.
Mitchell county has the brag
county farm and convict camp in
Georgia. On the farm is raised
not only provisions and provender
sufficient for the use of the con
viets and the stock employed on
the roads, but those engaged on
the farm itself and the county's
poor. Everything about the farm
and camp are kept clean and sani
tary.
The Nashville Woman's Club
and Chamber of Commerce have
united their influences with the
County Board of Education in
the effort to secure the re appoint
ment of a demonstrator of home
economics for Berrien county. The
work of this officer the past two
years in awakening an interest in
poultry raising and in canning
fruit and vegetables for home con
sumption, has been worth while.
The Big Fishery.
One of the events of last week
was the three-day fishery—Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday—at the
Guest mill pond, now owned by
Mr. Paul M. Lang.
Mr. Lang had advertised the
event thoroughly by hand bills and
in the newspapers. It brought
people to the fishery from all the
adjoining couuties, even as far away
as Brooks county.
More than a thousand tickets
were sold at $1.50 each, bringing
into the exchequer about $1,600.
The more than a thousand people
gathered around the pond, waiting
for the signal to enter to be given
at 12 o’clock sharp by the firing of
a gun.
Eager to enter the pond some
one surreptitiously fired off a pistol
at 11:45 and the assembled host
began to enter and catch fish so
Mr. Lang,.in order to give all an
equal chance at the fish, fired the
real signal.
What followed was a wonderful
sight. A host of men, with all
sorts of devices, striving to catch
fish, and they were attentive to the
job. Did they catch any fish? In
an hour many of the fishermen had
caught all the fish they wanted —
trout, Jack, bream, perch, etc. —
and began to leave for their homes.
One gentleman told the editor
that he had taken two hundred
pounds of these fish from the pond,
had salted them like mullet aud
would have fish to eat at his home
for many days to come. He was
foud of the salt cured fish.
The editor did not go to the
fishery but his friends, among
them Mr. L. L. McNeal of near
Adel, presented him three messes
of fine trout for which they have
his 1 hanks.
It was stated as a fact that near
ly every one who bought tickets
caught fish enough for their own
use —and sold a surplus sufficient
to reimburse themselves the cost of
the ticket.
The millpond sustained its repu
tation as a fishing ground and Mr.
Lang’s fishery was a great success.
Classed as Tax Dodger.
For a long time The Citizen has
been telling its readers about how
Mrs. Felton stands up in this
country where she is best known.
She is a demagogue of the worst
sort and is always classed with the
tax dodgers and chronic grumblers,
as well as the traditional enemies
of the democratic party. She is
selfish and self-centered, and has
spent much of her time in tbebusi
ness of lobbying around the legis
lative halls at the capital in Atlan
ta, and in most instances she was
working for the repeal or enact
ment, of some law, or laws, that
would bring pecuniary gain to her
self. There is nothing we can think
of in her various programs that
contained a siDgle constructive
feature. Always she has been en
gaged in tearing down something
and berating those she dislikes.
If she were not the kind of wo
man she is we would not write of
her as we do, for we reverence and
respect true womanhood.
Her appointment as "senator”
for a month, when congress was not
in session, and not expected to be,
was a huge political joke which
failed of its purpose most inglori
ously and ignominiously.—Dalton
Citizen.
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.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1922
PURELY PERSONAL.
Short Stories About Men and
Women in the Public Eye.
Dr. J. E. Penland and Miss Nell
Bates, of Way cross, were united in
marriage Wednesday evening, six
o’clock. The groom has many
friends in Pearson who wish him
and his bride fine sailing on the
sea of matrimony.
Rev. J. D. Smith, president of
the South Georgia Methodist Col
lege at Mcßae, has been transfer
red to the management of the
Conference orphanage at Macon.
Rev. W. H. Budd, now pastor at
Albany, will succeed to the presi
deucy of the college.
Mr. Francis Dart, son of Judge
F. Willis Dart, has been selected a
secretary to Senator Walter F.
George. He is well qualified for
the place and has accepted, and
will report in Washington for duty
November 20. He will at the
same time take a three year course
in the Law Department of George
Washington University.
United States Senator Oscar W.
Underwood, on account of ill
health, has been forced to quit the
position of Democrat ic leader in
that body. His term will not ex
pire until March 4, 1927. This is
a great disappointment to the
democratic hosts of the country.
It is thought that Senator Walsh
of Massachusetts will succeed him
as leader.
Mrs. W. 11. Felton, appointed
junior United States senator from
Georgia, will appear at the open
ing of the called session of congress
to be sworn in and become a full
fledged senator. Senator George,
who is entitled to be sworn in at
that time, with typical southern
chivalry, will permit her to be
sworn iu and perhaps serve until
the beginning of the regular ses
sion in December.
Rev. W. G. Rahn, former pastor
of the Pearson Methodist circuit,
was united in- marriage on Wednes
day, the Bth inst to Mrs. Rhoda
Summers. The event occurred at
the home of the bride’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Corbitt, in the
Mud Creek district of Lanier
county, Rev. J. Frank Snell of the
Milltown circuit officiating. The
bride is a splentjid young woman
and has many relatives in Pearson
and vicinity who, with the many
friends of both bride aud groom,
will read this news item with much
surprise. The Tribune extends its
congratulations and best wishes
for their future welfare.
Judge B. F. Whittington of
Valdosta, 82, has passed to his re
ward. The Tribune editor bad
known him since 1867, when as a
young lawyer he located at Nash
ville to practice in partnership
with Judge 11. Thompson Peeples,
father of Judge H. B. Peeples.
His wife, nee Miss Virginia Me
Donald, was a pupil at old McPher
son academy when the Tribune
editor, in his seventeenth year,
played the role of assistant teacher
under Elder M. F. Morgan. Judge
Whittington was a splendid type
of Christian gentleman—a pillar in
the Methodist church —and his
son, Rev. Benjamine Eugene Whit
tinging, an honored member of the
South Georgia Conference, isspien
didly illustrating the faith of bis
father and the most excellent
parental training. He is survived
by his estimable wife, two sons —
Rev. B. E. Whittington and Dr.
Clarence Whittington—and four
daughters—Mrs. W. F. Staten,
Misses Margaret, Marion and Ethel
Whittington. Two daughters have
preceded him to the grave—
Mesdames John W. Avera and J.
W. Pinkston.
666 quickly relieves a cold
Teacher’s Institute.
Last week there was a thorough
look over of the rural schools of
Atkinson county, closing with a
County Teacher’s Institute. Prof.
1. S. Smith, State Supervisor, and
bis helper, Miss Lane, were here
and kept themselves busy.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day were devoted to seeing the
country schools of Atkinson coun
ty, giving them a thorough inspec
tion and giving directions for the
correction of such misfits as came
under their observation. Both
white aud colored schools were
visited. They were accompanied
iu their itinerary by County School
Superintendent, John G. White.
Thursday and Friday were de
voted to the Institute work. There
was a complete attendance of the
teachers of the county.
The Tribune editor had oppor
tunity to attend but a few minutes
Thursday afternoon, just before
adjournment and hence was not
present during the real exercises
of the Institute. However, he
learns from those who did attend
that the instruction and addresses
of Prof. Smith were inspiriting as
well as interesting and will result,
if followed, in great improvement
in school interests of the countv.
Miss Lane gave demonstrations
in pbysicial culture. Those who
wituessed these demonstrations
say they were excellent.
Prof. Smith aud Miss Lane went
to Homerville late Friday after
-110611 and returned Saturday after
noon, going from Pearson to Doug
las.
Pecan and the Orange.
Mr. L. L. Sutton, of Pearson,
has returned from a five weeks
sojourn in Florida, when he gave
Florida industry a thorough look
over. He visited the orange groves
and the truck fields.
The growing of citrus fruit did
not appeal to him for the reason it
is subject to Loo many disappoint
ments. To grow them successfully
is a costly proposition. Its enemies
are many and if you succeed in
winning out over rust, blight, bugs
of various descriptions, your victo
tory may be turned to defeat in
the space of few hours by Jack
Frost or Salt Spray. His decision
is that one with moderate means
had better not undertake the task.
He was favorably impressed
with truck growing especially
strawberries. Even this industry
is not as secure as one might be
lieve. It. too, is subject to many
disappointments —just as many as
growing melons and tobacco and
sweet potatoes in South Georgia.
But the investment in the latter
is not so great as the former.
In the comparison of an orange
grove and a pecan grove of five or
ten acres each he feels sure that
the latter is the better proposition.
The pecan tree has it enemies to
antagonize your effort. You have
to fight against blight and bugs,
but they are more easily controlled
than the orange pests. Then Jack
Frost does not come in contact
with them. And a pecan grove
can be started with much less ex
pense —the land does not cost as
much as the boomed orange land
of South Florida, labor does not
cost as much and provisions are
much cheaper. The cost of fertiliz
ing pecans are not necessarily so
great as that of oranges. That has
been shown by actual demonstra
tion. A dozen or less trees set
out in Pearson ten years ago,
fertilized but once and no atten
tion, yield this year between three
and four hundred pounds of nuts,
quoted at 40c a pound, or from
$l2O to $l6O, which the owner
considers an absolute pick up to
him. The cost of gathering pecans
is a mere bagatelle, and you can
market them at will, which is a
great feature as against oranges.
Y oung farmers of South Georgia
should provide themselves with a
pecan grove.
Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
Editorial Opinions Expressed by
Tribune Contemporaries.
Atkinson county, look us in the
face a minute. You may not look
upon the tiny sum you pay your
newspapers for publishing grand
jury presentments, as a mere pit
tanee, but the press of the State
looks upon it that way, we assure
you. Great counties, like Atkinson,
should not forget that the local
newspaper Is the best asset a coun
ty can possess.—Harris Couuty
Journal.
The American Cotton Attocia
tion reports the average cost of
producing cotton this year at 24 4c
per pound, the present price is 20c
per pound, loss to the producer 4.4 c
per pound. The present price paid
for cream on a butter basis is 34c
per peund, cost of producing 24c
pe- 1 pound, profit 10c per pound.
Creameries pay cash for cream ev
ery month. The farmer gets but
ter price with none of the butter
troubles. Cotton makes land and
frrmers poor. Butter makes land
and farmers rich. —Thomasville
Press.
11 is regrettable that the farm
er Lowndes county, or many of
them, should look askance at the
tobacco growing proposition as it is
presented to them. The men who
are putting up SB,OOO in hard cash
to help them become masters of
the situation are merely backing
their judgment in a good thing.
They stand to lose, but the farmer
who joins them in the effort to
make Lowndes a tobacco growing
county do not risk very much. —
Valdosta Times.
“Compulsory education” is a
misleading term. It doesn’t say
what it means and it doesn’t say
what other folk would have it say
becaue it means something else. It
doesn’t mean that education is
compulsory; that is impossible;
you can lead a horse to water, and
it is po s s!bly true that if you lead
into midstream and keep him
there he will absorb a little —but
you can’t make him drink. How
ever, there is such a thing as eom
pellng the keeper of the horse to
lead the animal to the stream.
"Compulsory education” merely
attempts to compel those who
might be inclined to stand in the
way to get out and let the children
have a chance. —Savannah News.
The more Senator George talks
the better we like him, and the
more we are convinced that he is a
real, old time democrat without
any of the new fangled fads and
fancies of ghvernment. In his
speech before the recent state con
vention accepting the nomination
he vigorously declared against the
United States becoming entangled
in foreign alliances, said Europe
must pay the United States, that
federal usurpation must be halted,
and attacked the various boards
which have been set up to meddle
with the people and their affairs.
It sounds good to hear one speak
out along these lines, and Senator
George is to be congratlated. He
makes a good beginning.—Dawson
News.
With peanuts quoted at one
hundred dollars per ton and up,
and cotton around twenty-live
cents, there is no cause lor down
heartedness iu this part of the
country. Cotton cuts very little
figure in Thomas county, but there
has been more raised here than
last year and tie price is regarded
as Satisfactory, although most of
the small growers sold when the
staple was lower than it is today.
Peanuts have shown a remarkable
rise in prices, and while last year
prices were not satisfactory, there
are many raisers who claim that
the present price is sufficient to al
low them a fair margin of profit.
Peanuts are going to be planted
next year more generally and so is
cotton. This condition always fol
lows a year of satisfactory prices.
—Thomasville Times Enterprise.
A Y K R
Twelve Known Cancer Facts
Arranged for Public information
by the Cancer Commission of the
Medical Association of Georgia
and Approved by the American
Society for the Control of Cancer.
Here are twelve known cancer
facts. They are gathered by Dr.
J. L. Campbell, chairman of the
Cancer Commission of the Medical
Association of Georgia, under ar
rangement with the American So
ciety for the Control of Cancer,
with headquarters in New York.
1. If an early cancer is complete
ly removed, it will not return.
2. There is a time when every
cancer can be cured, for it exists in
what is known to scientific men as
"pre cancer.”
3. Cancer is first a lump or sore
that "can be felt with the fingers
or seen with the eye,” or gives cer
tain definite warnings. If we knew
how to interpret these warnings,
cancer could be cured.
4. Nine cases out of ten do not
cause pain in the early stages. This
is unfortunate.
5. Cancer starts as the result of
long eon tinned irritation. If irri
tation is removed, cancer will not
develop.
6. Cancer develops at the edge
of a sear —where the sear and nor
mal tissue meet. If the scar is re
moved, the cancer will not develop,
7. Certain definite symptom*
precede every cancer, just as sure
ly as wind clouds precede the rain
storm Time is coming when these
symptoms will be heeded.
8. Oue hundred thousand peo
ple in the United States are an
nually afflicted with some form of
cancer. This is on the authority
of the Public Health Service.
9. One woman in every eight,
who is over forty years of age. dies
of cancer. Three times as many
women as men die with cancer be
tween thirty-five and forty-five
years of age. From that time, on,
the ratio is more nearly equal.
10. Every person over thirty-five
years of age who is not sure about
a lump, sore or natural discharge
should consult a competent physi
cian and demand a thorough ex
amination. If the first doctor con
sulted cannot give a rational
opinion, ask for a consultation.
11. Procrastination has caused
the loss of many valuable lives.
12. Auy doctor who tells you
that he has a sure cure for cancer
is a fraud. There is nosuch a thing
as a cancer serum or any remedy
that will cure cancer by being in
jected into the veins or rubbed on
the skin.
A Woman’* Loyalty.
Now that my late colleagues are
down and out, I am not going to
turn round and throw mud and in
sults at them. If you want me to
join the people who are howling at
Lloyd George, Balfour and Cham
berlin, who steered us through the
war, who signed the Washington
conference, don’t come to me. The
country owes a debt of gratitude
to these men. —Lady Astor.
This is the most striking expres
sion of loyalty from a woman in
high office that has come to qur
notice since women entered poli
tics. This, to be sure, is not a
mere type of political loyalty—it
is more nearly a manifestation of
deep patriotism. Lady Astor has
refused to permit politics to do for
her what millions have permitted
polities to do for them in America
—and yet she is American! That’s
fine Lady Astor. —Cordele Dis
, ateh.
Judge.!. 1. Summerall presided
in Camden superior court last
week, while Judge Highsmith pre
sided in Charlton superior court.
It was a mutual exchange of
benches.
T o prevent a cold take 666,