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Tne Jacksonian.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO.
Published o>ery Triday.
S. E. ANDREWS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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Grand Jury General Pre
sentments.
We call the attention of the read
ers of the Jacksonian to the Grand
Jury General Presentments found
elsewhere in this issue. It will be
observed that the personel of the
Grand Jurj of this term of the Court
is very representative in point of
character and worth of citizenship.
We call attention, especially, to their
reccommendalion in reference to
the county indebtedness and the
attitude of our present board of
county commissioners aa to its pay
ment.
The Grand Jury voices the senti
ment of the honest citizenship of
Butts county when they say ; “We be
lieve our people are an honest debt
paying people and indignantly resent
the thought of repudiation.” Yes,
the people do‘indignantly resent 7 the
idea of the County using the money
of others and then refusing to refund
tha same. They abhor, the conduct
of the county commissioners in em
ploying lawyers at an outrageous
price to fight the payment of the just
indebtedness of the County.
The County commissioners are
displaying zeal without knowledge.
Doubtless they think they are but
carrying out the will of the people in
their attitude toward this matter.
This is tho concern of every citizen
of Butts county. It is the debt of
every citizen of Butts county. If re
pudiated by the commissioners, it
will, in after years, be regarded
repudiation by every citizen of Butts
county. The commissioners should
act in this matter as they believe the
citizenship of Butts county would net.
Do the commissioners believe that
the citizens of Butt-t county want
them to refuse to pay the in
debtedness of the county because,
•-perchance, there is some legal tech
nicality by which they may escape
the payment? If they do they are
mistaken. There is a way to settle
this question before the people. Bet
all the commissioners resign and run
before the people and make this issue.
Mr. Asbury, Mr. Gaston,-and Mr.
Maddox ; are yon willing-to do this?
The people await, it does not require
tha advice of legal counsel to make
thia answer. Resign and make tho
race on the issue, ‘ shall we pay the
county debt ?”
Want to Let Go, but Can’t.
Do you iviyiunilKT how you felt the'
first time you took hold of an electric
battery? It felt rather pleasant at
first, hut as the operator turned on
more current it became very unpleas
ant. and you wanted to let go, but
couldn’t. That's the way most citizens
feel in plm-os where the city dot's its
awn lighting. They've got hold of an
electric plant and want to lot go, but
can’t.
. Bonds for municipal plants increase j
taxes. Taxes increase cost of liv-l
lug and of doing business.
OTTO KtLStY.
Btate Officer Whose Resignation Wat
Asked For by Governor Hugh**-
Otto Kelsey, who was recently re
quested to resign as superintendent of
Insurance of New York state by Gov
ernor Charles E. Hughes, is a figure
I in a controversy of more than local In
terest. The country looks to Now York
I state for model laws on the subject of
Insurance and effective enforcement of
i such laws as a result of the inquiry
I into Insurance abuses made by the
! Armstrong committee and the plan of
| reform drafted by the members of this
I committee and subsequently ratified in
the state legislature. Governor Hughes
was elected on the strength of the rec
ord made by him in the investigation
of lighting companies and insurance
companies. He called for Superin
tendent Kelsey’s resignation on the J
ground that he had not been sufficient- |
ly prompt and aggressive in carrying
out the reforms in his department
which the public interest demanded.
Mr. Kelsey refused to resign, and the
governor then publicly examined him
with the view of showing whether he
had rightly handled the affairs of his
department.
Mr. Kelsey was born in Rochester in
IST2, learned the printer’s trade and
later studied law and was admitted to
the bar. He served nine years in the
state assembly and three years as
OTTO KELSEY.
comptroller of the state, which office
he held when appointed superintendent
of Insurance In May of 1900 by the
late Governor Higgins.
During his service In the state as
sembly Mr. Kelsey was a member of
the ways and means committee and of
the rules committee and before the
close of his service as. a lawmaker be
came chairman of the Important com
mittee on cities. He ran for county
judge of Livingston county In 1902,
but was defeated. He lias earned the
sobriquet of “Honest Otto,” and when
he was appointed superintendent of In
surance a man prominent in the fight
for insurance reform said he was a
fine fellow, but of too unsuspicious a
nature himself “to go after the iuaur
anee fakirs strong enough.”
HANKS OF HARVARD.
He Got the Best of President Roose
velt at College—Tab!e Turned.
President Roosevelt was tinted for
his expertness as a boxer when at
Harvard, and the only man who ever
got much the best of him was a husky
fellow named Charles S. Hanks. The
two did not meet for a good many
years after their graduation, but one
day when he had become president Mr.
Roosevelt came across his old college
antagonist on a train, slapped him on
the shoulder and renewed friendship.
He asked Hanks what he was doing,
and the latter replied he was spending
his money and drinking highballs. The
chief magistrate intimated that if he
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had so much leisure he ought to give
some of it to the service of the gov
ernment, like Root, Bacon and other
wealthy college bred men. Not long
afterward Hanks came to the presi
dent with a story that something was
vitally wrong with My statistical work
of the. Interstate oajunpree cotnmjs-
Hon. He ho < "J 7 ' v,, 0 It If ffv
l en a chance to examine the books. So
I the president gave him the chance and
had him put on tie payroll while at
the Job. But tile charges proved
groundless, and the Incident was clos
ed by a letter from the president to
Mr. Hauks in which the former inti
mated somewhat bluntly that he
thought be bad been imposed upon.
Enough Said.
“Excuse me,” impulsively exclaimed
the bold, bad man, “but you certainly
hare a trim little waist, Miss Veeness.”
“Yes,” replied the young lady, with
peculiar emphasis, “there’s no getting
arouad that, Mr. Freschley.”—Detroit
Free Press.
A CHANGE TO GO TO THE
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION,
For a Few Days Work The
Record Will Present You
With a Ticket Free.
The Jamestown Exposition to be
held in Norfolk Va., will open April
26th and close November 30th. This
exposition is in commemoration of
the first english settlement in Amer
ica, made at Jamestown in 1007 by
Captain John Smith.
Preparations for the exposition
have been in progress for a number
of years and strenuous efforts are be
ing made to make this one of the best
expositions that have been held in
America up to this time. Every
state, and most of the foreign nations
wiil have their exhibits.
The Record offers any man or
woman in Butts eounty a chance to
see the Jamestewn exporition free.
Here Are Our Propositions.
Contest No. 1. To tbe one who
will get the most subscribers for tee
Record between February 15 and i
June 1 we will present absolutely free !
a round trip ticket, together with
days free entry into the exposition ; •
provided the total number sent in by !
all the contestants combined exceeds
one hundred.
Contest No 2, To the one who will
get the most subscribers between
February 15 and June 1, we well pre
sent free one round trip ticket to the
exposition ; provided the total num
ber of subscriber sent in by all the
contestants combined exceeds seventy
five.
Contest No. 8. The one who will
get the most subscribers between
February 15 and June Ist, we will
pay for one half your ticket to the
exposition, provided the total num
ber exceeds fifty.
All subscriptions to be counted
rnuit bo paid in advance at SI.OO per
year, and must be new ones.
No one will be allowed to win in
more than on contest, so state be
fore you start which you want to
enter, contest oho, two, or three .
Now get busy and seeure a trip to
the exposition, and avail yourself of
the opportunity to see aristocratic
old Nirginia. historic Richmond and
beautiful Norfolk by the sea.
Could Get Both Out of the Same Can.
Star Actor—-I must insist. Mr. Stager,
on having real food in the banquet
scene.
Manager—Very well, then, if von in
sist on that you will be supplied with
real poison in the death scene.—Boston
Transcript.
Modern Forastry.
Miss Anna Teeque—Why, there is a
sprig of mistletoe tied to the chande
lier!
William Wise—Pardon, but you are
mistaken. That’s lemon blossom.—
Punch Bowl.
Growth of a Mite.
It’s only a drop in tho bucket.
The mite I am able to give.
Bat sometimes a song is sufficient
To help us te dream and to live.
—Baltimore Sun.
We acknowledge that dreaming is easy.
We always can do it. O bard!
But we've found that a diet of dreaminj
Gets punk Mid uncomfortably hard.
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
With only a drop in the bucket.
When clear to the top it was wet
And nobody near it but you.
What kind of a dream do you get?
—New York Telegram.
The public is doubly bunkoed
When contests like this take place.
We cheat with a one rhyme quatrain
And fill up two inches of space.
—Cleveland Leader.
A Boston schoolboy was tall,
weak and sickly.
His arms were soft and flabby.
He didn’t have a strong muscle in his
entire body.
The physician who had attended
the family for thirty years prescribed
Scott*s Emulsion .
NOW:
To feel that boy’s arm you
would think he was apprenticed to a
blacksmith.
ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND SI.OO.
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“Then, as for the roadbed," which is
nowadays something of an eyesore in
certain localities, the trolley commis
sioners will seek the co-operation of—
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MANNERS LIKE A CHESTERFIELD.
the commissioner of parks. Beautiful
hedges of Japanese japoniea will con
ceal the tracks from public gaze. At
each street corner will be flower beds,
in which the number of the street is
set forth in growing plants. Trailing
arbutus and Virginia creeper or wis
taria vines will cover the trolley polos,
and in time, when these have had a
chance to grow, the whole trolley line
will look like a beautiful floral and
green arbor, and people living along
the line, instead of looking out upon an
ugly highway of steel and iron and
wire, will gaze upon what appears to
be a stretch of Eden running through
their midst. Now, what could be bet
ter?”
“It seems perfectly lovely,” said Mrs.
Pedagog, the idiot’s landlady, enthusi
astically.
“Who’s going to pay for all this?”
asked Mr. Brief. “You people don’t
seem to take the cost o* these things
into consideration.”
“Who pays for the parks, the police,
the fire department?” asked the idiot.
“It will all come out of the pockets of
the city, of course. All the city has to
do is to establish a municipal printing
establishment and publish a few
bonds whenever the sinking fund gets
below the water line. Say they need
a hundred million to start with. That
means only a hundred thousand bonds
of a par value of SI,OOO. Or they
might get ’em out in smaller denom
inations of SIOO each, so that the peo
ple could buy them and thus put a lot
of us in possession of a certificate of
ownership. They’d look mighty pret
ty framed and hung on the wall. The
best way to do, however, would be to
send them over to England and Sell
’em there, for It is an established fact
that there Is always somebody in Eng
land somewhere that will buy any
thing.”
“That remains to be proved,” said
Mr. Brief.
“Well, ail I have to say is that if
you’ll pay my expenses to London and
back, guarantee me immunity from
prosecution and provide me with the
certificates I’ll have Boston Common
incorporated at $1,000,000 tomorrow
and soli the whole issue at 48 before
the first day of next April,” said the
idiot. “I’ll make the late G. Whittaker
Wright look like 30 cents.”
“That may be, but they’d prosecute
you just the same. They lar Id
Wright and they landed Hooky r r
very much the same sort of thing.
And after awhile they’d do the same
with the city if it put its privately
printed bonds for municipal owi'.e;vh:;>
of the trolley on the market,” persisted
Mr. Brief. “Can't you see that?”
“Yes,” said the idiot. “But that’s
the biggest point for the municipality
in the whole business. You can’t send
a whole city to jail, you know.”
JOHN KBNDRICK BANG 3.
Legal Advertisments.
For Leave To Sell.
Georgia, Butts County,
Notice is herby given that the undersign
ed has applied to the Ordinary of said
County for leave to sell land belonging to
the estate of Julia Readden, Col. for the
payment of debts and for the purpose of
distribution. Said application will be
heard at the regular term of the Court of
Ordinary for said County to be held on the;
first Monday in April 1907.
This 4tli day of March, 1907.
B. P. Baily,
Administrator uj on Julia Readden, estate..
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