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Tne Jacksonian. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO. Published o>ery Triday. S. E. ANDREWS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Subscription $i oo Per Yr. Advertising Kates Furnished On Application. CIRCULATION GUARANTEED All copy for advertisements and all copy intended for publication must be in the office not later thun Wednesday to insure insertion. Address all communications to The Jacksonian. Entered at the Jackson (Ga.) Post Office as secend class mail matter. 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 \f\ y* l f-’-a* W \v-l k ~ i klJv .. -f /W - v f W * / \ • -■' '! \ / I ; ' - \ a" ■ -a - yM t: 3, \ /tyiA 'll >: -i x / * ffl 'l'' chaki.es s. hakes. 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. ]]]]]]]]it “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— r—. XTCHTTitE i 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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