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PEARSON®TRIBUNE
VOL B—NO. ;$i
SOUTH GEORGIA.
The Social and Material Activi
ties of Our Neighbors.
The South Georgia Conference,
on the invitation of Trinity church,
will hold its 1923 session as its
guest in Savannah. Ten years
have elapsed since its last meet
ing in that city.
The late grand jury of Pierce
county recommended the adoption
of the Australian ballot of voting
according to the McNeil Bill w hich
w’as enacted into law at the last
term of the legislature.
In accordance with a rotation
scheme the Coffee County Progress
will be the official newspaper of
Coffee county during 1923. The
Douglas Enterprise has been the
official newspaper for 1922.
The grand jurors of Lowndes
have taken the initiative in mak
ing the Australian Ballot system
permanent in holding elections in
that county. It requires the con
curring verdicts of two grand juries
to put the law in force in a county.
Soperton Methodist church re
ports to the annual conference
tw T o hundred and forty-six acces
cions on profession of faith —the
largest of any single church. In
this particular Pearson circuit led
in the Waycross district, which
had a total of four hundred and
twenty four.
Co-operation in the bee indus
try is te be practiced in Bacon
county next year. The goal is
“10.500 hives capable of producing
$94,000 worth" of honey. The
project isn’t an impossible one; but
if they did only half so well it
would bring into Bacon county
next May the snug sum of $47,250
—no mean achievement.
Ware county held her first co
operative hog sale last week. At
this sale twenty two farmers con
tributed one hundred and thirty
three hogs, or 17,790 pounds. It
was not as successful as some of
these sales have been at other
places, as to the price paid, liow
ever, the owners w r ere satisfied, as
they bad very few high grades in
the lot, and in the future their
offerings will grade better and
command a higher price.
The Farmer’s Union is growing
in South Georgia. Lowndes,
Brooks. Cook, Colquitt and Worth
counties are organized and efforts
are being made to organize Berrien.
Tift and Lanier counties. The
foreword seems to be “To buy and
sell co-operatively.” There are
Union Co operative stores in Quit
man and Adel. If they are judged
by the Alliance stores of thirty
years ago they won't amount to
much.
Waycross has reached an educa
tional crisis. It has been given
out that $12,000 must be in the
hands of the City Board of Educa
tion to-day. December Ist, or the
city schools will have to close
down. Popular loans to that
amount is the only remedy in
sight. High taxes and the peoples’
inability to pay is the foundation
for this condition of affairs. It is
a warning note which all Boards
of Education should heed. Hope
the schools can be continued.
The Nashville Herald has passed
its twentieth birthday and its
present management is proud of
its achievements. During these
twenty years Nashville has grown
from a village of three hundred
souls to a city of two thousand
population. During these twenty
years Berrien county has been
sliced three times in making the
new counties of Tift, Cook and
Lanier and to day —she has as
large a population and more wealth
than she had when the slicing be
gan. This is a splendid confession.
* Rub-My-TUm for Rheumatism.
The Tongue.
By Mrs. I>. N. Jackson.
What a MONSTER 'this little
member of the body is? In the
third chapter of James we have a
good description of the tongue —a
part of which follows:
1. Boasteth great things. Just
look around you and see how much
boasting is going on —humility is
needed.
2. A fire. Behold how great a
matter a little fire kiudleth: Did
you ever hear of one ill spoken
word that literally fired the whole
community in which you live? Did
you ever hear of a church being al
most torn to pieces by that unruly
member? You, perhaps, know what
a conflagration it causes. Fire and
the tongue —what a comparison!
3. A world of iniquity. Full of
sin—calls evil good and good evil.
4. Defileth the whole body. But
those things which proceed out of
the mouth come forth from the
heart; and they defile a man.
(Matt. 15:18.)
5. Setteth on fire the course of
nature.
6. It is set on fire of hell. The
devil is the fire keeper.
7. No man can tame the tongue.
To think that all animals can be
tamed, but this little unruly
member of our body cannot be
tamed.
8. Full of deadly poison. How
wesliun a poisonous snake and have
a horror for the sight of one and,
maybe, at the same time, we are
carrying in our mouths a serpent
more poisonous.
9. Bless God and curse man made
in llis likeness with the same in
strument “My brethren these
things ought not to be.” Doth a
fountain send forth at the same
place sweet water and bitter?
The records of the first Baptist
church f of New York, for a century,
showed that three-fourths of the
troubles in the church had been
caused by the improper use of the
tongue.
Our tongues misused is a curse
and the evils of it are unnumbered.
Money in Lima Beas.
Atlanta, Nov. 27. —The sugges
tion of development of Lima beans
as a money side crop by Georgia
farmers, which was advanced by
the State Bureau of Markets a few
days ago, has brought in a number
of inquiries and evidences of inter
est in the suggestion.
The showing that a money re
turn of $l2O to $l5O an acre can
be made on Lima beans, without
any additional training or expense
in preparation for market, as corn
pared with a return of about $9 an
acre on corn and a gross of about
SSO an acre on cotton has appeared
to give studious planters in the
state, particularly the small farm
ers, food for serious thought.
The state bureau, which is still
engaged in an investigation of the
proposition, has found that Geor
gia land will yield without special
preparation, from 1200 to 1500 lbs.
of shelled dried Lima beans, which
are readily marketed, when sacked,
at from 7 1 2 to 10 cent a pound
and with comparatively reasonable
demand for the products at all
times.
A further investigation is now
being made to determine the ex
tent to which such a Georgia crop
can readily be marketed outside
the state, for the purpose of com
piling prospective data in case
there should be any considerable
attention given to the crop the
coming year, which is now believed
to be quite likely. It is found
that California, which is probably
the largest producer and shipper of
Lima beans, disposes of its crop at
from 7 1-2 to 10 cents and handled
the product at a minimum of ex
pense compared with other agri
cultural productions.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1922
PURELY PERSONAL.
Short Stories About Men and
Women in the Public Eye.
Mr. Asa 1.. Day has sold the
Douglas Novelty Works and will
move from Douglas to Adel, where
he will become a business associate
of his father-in-law, Mr. J. H. May.
He thinks Adel offers a better
field for novelty works.
Mr. A. P. Brantley, of Black
shear, is reported to be seriously
ill and his condition is such as to
create anxiety. His brothers and
sisters have been called to his bed
side. His going away would be a
great loss to Blackshear and Pierce
county.
Rev. T. M. Luke, of Pearson,
was elected and ordained a Deacon
at the present sitting of the South
Georgia Conference, at Waycross.
He was made useful to the Confer
ence as well as ornamental, being
assigned on a committee to tabu
late the district reports.
Mrs. Warren L. Courson, well
known in this section, died in
Nashville, on Tuesday of last week,
after a long period of ill health.
Her remains were buried in the
Fender cemetery Wednesday after
noon. She is survived by her
husband, a daughter and a son.
Sidney J. Catts, quondam Gover
uor of Florida, has just been ac
quitted of peonage in the United
States district court at Pensacola.
And now he can seatt back to his
native heath —Alabama —free of
all legal entanglements. Guess
that his is a happy family of Catts.
Mr. T. R. O’Steen, Clerk of
Clinch superior court, has resigned
effective December 31. lie says
the emoluments of the office is
insufficient to support himself and
family; that all his interests are in
Lanier county, and that he will
move to those interests in older to
earn a livelihood.
Grover C. Edmonson, who ae
quired some notority as a member
of the legislature from Brooks
county and late as the protege of
the late Senator T. E. Watson, it
is stated, has assumed the editor
ship of The Columbia Sentinel,
now owned by Mrs. Lytle and the
Watson estate. Mrs. Lytle will
remain with the paper as manag
ing editor, while Grover will fur
nish the weighty editorials —polit-
ical and otherwise.
Miss Emily Woodward, the ver
satile aud beloved editress of The
Vienna News, is a candidate for a
free trip to Europe next spring
under the auspices of The Atlanta
Journal’s. “Good Will Campaign.”
If she is elected you must vote for
her at 10c a vote. This money
goes to the Relief Committee of
America for use in devastated
France. Wonder if Jack Patter
son, the Journal’s Georgia News
editor, isn’t the chief promoter of
this scheme to send Miss Wood
ward abroad?
Mrs. Eliza Morris, widow of the
late Joseph Edmund Morris, has
just celebrated her eighty fourth
birthday at a dinner at her home
prepared by her children, grand
children, and greatgrandchildren.
She is the grandmother of Miss
Mackie Morris —teacher in the
Pearson public school. The Trib
une editor has the honor of her
acquaintance and special regard
for fifty five years —dating back to
1867. He can attest her splendid
womanhood, her Christian charac
ter and neighborly thoughtfulness.
Her life should be an inspiration
to her one hundred aud twenty
seven lineal descendants, following
her examples of making the world
better for having lived in it. She
is reported in robust health for one
of her age and with prospects
bright for other celebrations of
her natal day.
666 cures Dengue Fever.
American Education Week.
Prof. M. M. Park. State Superin
tendent of Schools, writes the fol
lowing open letter to the fathers
and mothers of the school children
of Georgia:
Probably you know that Wed
nesday, December 6, has been set
apart in the United States as
school aud teacher day in the
American Education Week.
Through the courtesy of the editor
of this paper, I am writing to you
to inform you that the 16,000
teachers of Georgia invite you and
urge you to visit the schools on
that day and to see your children
at work in school. In the past,
many parents have neglected to
visit the school which means so
much to the child’s welfare. Every
parent ought to try to visit the
school on December 6. Let it be
known as Teacher day. Let the
members of the P.-T. A. and all
fathers and mothers endeavor to
make that a great day for the
school. Let the parents visit the
classes all during the day but, at
some convenient hour, let public
exercises be held in the school for
the children and for the visitors.
On this occasion, let a part of the
program be arranged by the par
ents in which talks will be made to
the children, emphasizing the im
portance of their school work and
emphasizing the necessity for loyal
obedience, and for hearty co-opera
tion with the teacher. Honor the
teacher on this day. Cooperate
generously and genuinely with the
teacher of your children. Let
flowers and encouragement be given
on this occasion. Let the teacher,
who is often discouraged kuow to
day—as never before —of the sup
port and co operation of the parents
in the important work of the school.
11 will encouroge the teacher wond
erfully; it will enthuse the pupils
to see their parents take an inter
est in their school. It will help
the children in their work; it will
help the whole school; it will help
the whole community, bringing
about a better spirit of co-opera
tion. It will uphold the hands of
the teacher who is helping to shape
the lives of your children and who
is helping to determine the future
of your country.
Even the good teachers often
grow discouraged; their effective
ness is diminished and their influ
ence is weakened by unfriendly
criticism in the home and in the
community. But all of the teach
ers —the best ones and the imper
fect —need your help and your in
fluence in teaching your child.
For the sake of the child, as well
as for the sake of the school and
the community, let there be a closer
union between the home and the
school. The school and the home
are both working for the child.
They have been too far apart.
There should be more sympathy,
more understanding, more helpful
ness, more consolation, more co-op
eration. We must bridge the gulf
between the home and the school.
It would be worth more than a
million dollars to the schools of
Georgia; what it would be worth
to the children is beyond calcula
tion.
Oh, parents of Georgia, help us
in the training of your children.
Let all of us give more time to the
children and to the school. There
fore, we invite you, we urge you,
to visit our schools, to visit your
schools, where your children are
being educated, on Wednesday,
December 6, 1922.
Tomorrow the citizens of Hobo
ken and Brantley county will de
termine whether or not a tobacco
warehouse is to be provided for
marketing next year’s tobacco
crop. It has been stated that
some of the very best tobacco mar
keted at Blackshear this year was
grown it Brantley county.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
Editorial Opinions Expressed by
Tribune Contemporaries.
I f there is any one power in the
world that will make itself felt it
is character. There may be little
culture and slender abilities, yet if
there be a character of sterling ex
cellence it will demand influence
and secure respect. —St. Marys
Georgian.
Every farm home should have
an abundant variety of fruit aud
nut trees. This is planting season,
and every farmer who has not al
ready done so should begin noxv,
planting a few trees every season
and keep it up until he has a com
plete orchard. —Tbomasville Press.
Some of the best people who ever
prospered beneath the sunny skies
of Georgia live in Blackshear. We
have many things to be proud of.
Lets all work with one common
aim to make our town and county
a bigger and better place in every
way. Cooperation is the one cord
I hat spells the secret. —Blackshear
Ti mes.
One-third of the fools in the
country think they can beat a law
yer expounding the laws. One-half
they can beat the doctor healing
the sick. Two thirds of them
think they can put the minister in
the hole expounding the gospel,
and all of them are dead sure they
can beat the editor running a news
paper. —Brantley County News.
The star of woman suffrage
reached its greatest ascendancy in
American history Tuesday when
Mrs. W. 11. Felton was seated as a
full fledged senator of the United
States. She is the first woman
senator ever to take the oath of
office on the floor of the senate.
Mrs. Felton won her senatorship
w'hen chivalry triumphed over
legality. A single objection from
any one of the 95 male senators
would have prevented her taking
her seat, None objected.—Doug
las Enterprise.
All of the Constitutional Amend
ments voted on at the last general
State election were defeated except
the one increasing the salary of the
Judge of the Augusta circuit. The
new Senatorial amendment, the
district to be composed of Cook,
Berrien and Lanier was defeated
by a vote of 27,080 to 24,964. The
proposed new county of Peach lost
by a vote of 36,566 to 29,842. Both
of these amendments ought to
have been ratified. The Peach
county advocates announce that
they will continue the fight. It is
not known what steps will be tak
en in regard to the Senatorial dis
trict, but this district is too large
with five counties and with a good
population. —Adel News.
The farmers’ co operative sales
that are being held throughout
South Georgia appears to be meet
ing with success and are growing
in popular favor. It certainly looks
that way, for we note that wherev
er the experiment has been made
the initial sale is soon followed by
another. By consolidating what
they have ready for market and
making up car load lots or large
shipments buyers from a distance
are attracted, cheaper freight rates
and better shipping facilities are
obtained, and much better prices
are thereby realized. At a co
operative sale of turkeys and
chickens held in Camilla a few
days ago a car load of turkeys
brought 32 cents a pound, and the
Baker County News is our authori
ty for the statement that "chickens
brought more at this sale than
they would bring in the Atlanta
and Savannah markets.” Another
poultry sale will take place at
Camilla soon, and a hog sale has
been scheduled for December sth.
The farmers are realizing more and
more the advantages to be derived
from co operative marketing.—Al
bany Herald.
To prevent a cold take 666.
81.50 A YEAR
F ussell-Hubbard.
The Tribune takes from the
columns of the Clearwater, (Fla.)
Daily News the following wedding
report, which the many relatives
and friends of the bride and her
parents in Atkinson, Coffee and
Clinch counties will read with,
much interest.
Her father was born and reared
in the territory, now Atkinsoa
county, where his relatives are
numbered by the score and his
friends by the hundreds, and they
all join the Tribune in wishing his
daughter and her chosen life part
ner future happiness aud prosperity:
"At the home of the bride's par
ents, Mr. aud Mrs. T. O. Fussell, on
Laura street last night in the pres
ence of a few close friends and
relatives, Miss Lucille Fussell and
Frederick Hubbard were united in.
marriage.
“The bride attended by her
friend, Miss Bertha Hines of St..
Petersburg, descended the stairs;
aud was met by the groom and.
they marched into the living room,
and were met by Rev. A. J. Kroe
linger, pastor of the Baptist church,
v. ho conducted the beautiful cere
mony.
"Mrs. Hubbard was becomingly
dressed in a traveling suit of dark
blue Porit twill with accessories to
match, and immediately after the*
ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard
left over the Seaboard for New
York where the groom has an
apartment furnished aud they will
set up housekeeping.
“Miss Lucille Fussell was bora
in Douglas, Ga., and when only
five years of age with her parents,
came to live in Florida. She is a.
graduate of the high school of this
city and a member of the Baptist;
church, being an active member of
the Business Girls Class of the
same Sunday-School.
“Mr. Hubbard was born in lowa,
but for several years has been a
resident of this city with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hubbard.
He too is a graduate of the high
school of this city. For the past
year he has been in New York,
where he has a splendid position
in the Grand Central Terminal
station.
“Mrs. Hubbard is a most charm
ing young lady of the brunette
type and is beloved by all who
know her and the best wishes of
the entire community left with
both last night.
“The News joins in congratula
tions aud best wishes of life’s
brightest blessings on Mr. and Mrs,
Hubbard.”
666 cures Bilious Fever.
Reports Show Extravagance.
Last year was supposed to be a
“hard one” in Georgia, yet the
Government reports show that sl,-
375,000 was spent in 1921 for chew
ing gum, $8,500,000 for soft drinks,
$36,000,00 for cigars and cigarettes;
$22,000,000 for tobacco and snuff;
$85,000,000 for auto accessories,
and $137,000,000 for luxurious
foods. That’s going some ! —Ex.
Rub-My-Tism, an antiseptic
Hunting Season Opens.
Monday morning, November 20,
the quail hunting season opened ia
full sway and many a hunter with
gun aud dogs hied away to the
woods aud tried their new luck at
the game. Hunting is a favorite
sport and past time and there are
a lot of fellows around town and ia
the county who take great delight
at the game. It is plentiful this
season and where folks don’t object
to hunting on their premises one
may find easy pickings most any
where. Ducks are also plentiful
generally on some of the streams
and ponds around and this is also
a favorite sport in season.
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