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GREAT
OFFERS
THE
JACKSONIAN
CLUBBING LIST
Jacksonian and
JOURNAL $1.25
Jacksonian and
Constitution 1.50
GREAT
OFFERS.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCHEDULE
FOR JACKSON.
Local Passenger trains pass th
Depot, at the times mentioned below.
NORTH BOUND.
No 17 6 41 A M
No .7 9 :57A. M
No. 15 2:82P. M,
No. 9 8:48 “
SOUTH BOUND.
No 18 \ 9 58 P M.
No. 16 7 :38 A M
No. 8 8:08 P. M
No 10 8:08 *■
Q. W. KINSMAN
Carriage & Wagon Mfgr.
i ■—i ihiumutii i imr - v^iiswwn*—- austf
Plantation Work in gen=
eral. Horseshoeing in a
Specialists Hands. Work
done with Dispatch and Ac
curacy and on Shortest Not*
ice and at living prices
FOR TEE CASH.
Bay Situs 0W
Now is the time to buy Dims
Cheap. We will cell Single
and Double Barrell Ihvech
Loading 1 Shot Duns for the
next 30 days for cash, lor less
than they can be bought in tin
market at wholesale prices.
Corne and get a bargain il
you want a gun.
De % $. Joftnsoit go.
C ASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bsugh!
Local News.
Judge Ham, who has been quite
sick is greatly improved.
Mrs. J. E. Folds of Wrens Ga. is
the guest of relatives here.
Miss Maude and Mae Letson of
Towaliga were in the city Saturday.
Mrs. T. C. Jones of, Stark was shop
ping iii Jackson recently.
Miss Eula Thornton spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Miss Eloise
Jones.
Mr. Tom McKibben, of Eatonton
was mingling with his many Jackson
friends Sunday.
Mrs. J. H. McCallum is spending
a while, with her daughter Mrs. Stal
worth in Atlanta.
Miss Elon Tollison of McDonough
spent the first part of the week with
Miss Nina Harris.
Messrs Asa, Lee, and Rufus Smith
spent Saturday and Sunday in For
syth with their father Mr. A. C. Smith
who has been quite ick.
Miss Louise Lamar, of Columbus is
the attractive guest of her Aunt, Mrs.
F. S. Etheridge.
Miss Viola Slaughter left Sunday
afternoon for Sparks after spending
a week with her parents.
Now is the time to get your horses
in shape buy your stock food from A.
Q. Taylor.
Miss Eva Sasnett’s many friends
will be sorry to know that she contin
ues quite ill.
Miss Tallie Jolly was a most graci
ous hostess at a delightful informal
domino party Friday evening, only a
bout eight of ner friends being pres
ent.
Mrs. E. M. Boyd and little son, of
Flotilla are guests of her parents Mr.
and Mrs. McOune McMichael.
Miss Willie Cooper spent the week
end with her sister, Mrs. little in Ma
con.
Miss Bertha Dickson and Mr. Ja
mie Hooten of McDonough were the
guests of Mrs. J. L. Hooten Sunday.
Miss Lucy Goodman visited Miss
Lilian McDowell in Atlanta a few days
last week.
Mrs. Nora King who has been the
guest of her sister Mrs. 'Brownley in
Atlanta has returned home.
Mrs. R. N. Etheridge, Mrs Andrew
McMahon and Miss Lula Ham atten
ded the Sunday-School Convention in
Marietta asdeligates from the Jack
son Baptist Bible School.
Misses Mattisn Ham and Taliie
Jolly went up to Atlanta Saturday
to see Louis James in Shakespeare’s
light comedy “Merry Wives of Wind
sor.”
Mrs. E. R. Merritt of Jenkinsburg
was in the city Saturday.
Mrs. Bertha Bryant visited relatives
in Jenkinsburg Sunday.
Mr. W. H.C. Hammond died last
Fricay ar.d was buried Saturday at
Worthville.
' Mr. J. W. Terrell from Flovilla
was here Wednesday.
LOST —Cow, pale red, no horns,
weight about GUO, wa taken up Sat
urday February 23 and is new at my
home in FinchervJle, owner can have
same by proving property and pay
ing charges. P. P. Johnson, Finch
er villa.
While it is true that The Jacksoni
an extends a 50? subscription rato to
preachers, yet it is only when paid in
advance. It looks like a 50? preach
er to take the paper on a credit and
then refuse to pay the full price.
I have'located my barber shop in
the Masonic building next door to the
Jacksonian office. J. H. F. Reeves.
Henry Clay flour at A. Q. Taylor’s.
Mr. Sam-King, a Baptist Minister
fromß. F. D. No. 1 was a caller oa
The Jacksonian Sat. and settled up
his arrears.
We have left only 12 of J. A, Kim
ball make of Buggies on hand. Better
come qu’ck if you want a good buggy.
Buttriil. Gresham & Cos.
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Bears tN
Miss Lester and Miss Ham teachers
of Music and Elocution in the Jack
son Public School will give their reg
ular monthly recital Tuesday after
noon Mar. 19th at 8.30 o’clock in the
School Auditoriam,
Get your market baskets at A. Q.
Taylor’s 5 cents each.
Rev.- Mr. Willingham, Rev. Mr.
Wiggins, Commissioner Maddox and
Mrs. John Lyons visited the Public
School at different times the present
week, and made interesting talks to
the children. Mr. Maddox stayed the
entire day Tuesday and inspected the
School from every standpoint. He
was very mu;h gratified with the way
the school is being conducted, and
was confident that Jackson never had
such a school as she now enjoys. He
told the children to work hard for the
prize offered by Mrs. Settle through
the daughters of the Confederacy of
Jackson.
Dr J. B. Hopkins, spent Sunday
with his brother Dr. S. C. Hopkins
who was recently stricken with
appendicitis. Norcioss, Dr. is [rapid
ly improving and expects to be out
soon.
Fresh vegetables at A. Q Taylors
all the time, come to see him.
•
DR. R. J. BINGHAM WILL
DELIVER AN ADDRESS AT
THE METHODIST CHURCH.
Dr. K. J. Bigham will deliver an
address Friday night at the Methodist
Church nuder the auspices of the
Epworth League.
The subject for his Ucture will be
“Wonderland”, showing some of the
revelations of the telescope, the micro
scope, the X ray, and of the bottom
of the sea. •
This promises to be a great treat
to the young people of Jackson. Don’t
miss it.
MR. W. T. POWERS.
Our buyer has had years of experi
ence in the buying of Dry Goods
Shoes, and Millinery, the Eastern
markets are as an open book to him
and experience has taught him where
to buy the best and when to buy at
the lowest ebb of prices so when you
come to our store to make your pur
chases, you get ncombination of style
and a full supply of economy. A
glance through our stock this spring is
like a trip through Fairy Land and
costs you nothing to look.
We shall exoect to see you at our
Opening and for many days there
after.
Very Respcfc.
The Jackson Mercantile Cos.
REV. G.W. WILLINGHAM.
Rev. C. W. Willingham who has
accepted temporarily, the call of the
Jackson Baptist Church, has after
earoestsolicitation. agreed to give the
readers of the Jacksonian an article
on .Japan. Besides being an able
minister of the gospel, Rev. Willing
ham is full of information on many
subjects, especially Jupun, he being
a returned missionarv from the Japan
fields.
His consent to write for the Jack
sonian will gladden the hearts of the
Jacksonian readers, which have grown
so NUMEROUS Ml over Butts Count.'..
Wo are hoping, after awhile to carry
on our list of writers, others who will
furnish our readers with readable
matter.
MILLINERY AND CRESS GOODS
OPENING.
The announcement of spring open
ing of the Carmichael - Etherigde-
Smith Cos will be found on first page.
The opening occurs on 1 hursduy and.
Friday March 2ist and 22nd. .
MURDER OF BILL STOKES
EY UNKNOWN PARTY.
Bill Stokes a crippled nigger who
lives on Mr. R.D. Ogietree’s was mur
dered with an axe Wednesday night.
Rcbery is euppoetd to have been the
motive.
THE COUNTY'S DEBT.
Mr. Editorln your last issue ap
pears an editorial that is likely to
make a wrong impression, and know
ing your desire for a fair play, I ask
to put a few things in your columns,
that is only just and right that an im
partial public should know, in order
to render a righteous judgmont,
There is two sides to this question.
It seems that somebody is trying to
imagine that our present Commiss
ioners are trying to repuiate an hon
est debt. The argument to which I
refer was made on the assumption
that there is such a scheme on foot,
and the argument in itself is sound,
the premises being false, makes it
unnecessary and misleading and it
all falls together. The truth about
it is our present Commissioners are
in a hole that they did not dig. They
are honorable high-minded men, and
no amount of abuse, or law suits can
force them to violate their oath of
office, or bow the knee to the money
power, by betraying the trust the
people have placed in their hands.
The framers of our Constitution and
our legislators did not make the law
that guards the people’s money in
the hands of their public servants
for an idle or ineffective purpose, that
the grand jury is asking these men to
disregard. The spirit of persecution
and intolerance being persued a
gainstthesejaaen, Asburry,Gaston and
Maddox reminds the student of the
bleening Martyrs in the reign of
Henry the eighth when one man was
executed for being a Catholic and an
other for not being one, and yet
otners because they were neither.
Does a Commissioner have a right
to create a debt on the County for
any purpos.? Can anybody sign a
note and thereby bind the County?
Could the Commiss'onera have levied
a sufficient tax rate, in 1906, to have
paid this debt? If so, why didn’t
they do it? If not, how in the name
of common sense could the present
Commissioners do so? If the County
is not legally bound for this debt, and
you were one of the present commiss
ionera, would you assume it and pay
it, law oi no law? Why should any
one resign to submit this question
to the people? This was the request
the Commissioners made to the credi
tor , and every one of them, including
the County Attorney, agreed to vote
for its payment if the creditors would
not sue. Then why should they re
sign? There is no necessity for try
ing to inject politics in this matter,
there is too much at stake.
The Commissioners have been forc
ed to defend the honor of the county
before the courts, without any choice,
and they do not deserve the censure
of those for whom they are fighting.
Nobody wants a creditor of the coun
ty to loose his money and would help
pay the debt,but it is very unreason
able to expect our present Commis
sioners to take their own estates,
their life time work and pay a debt
for the county, when they did not
even borrow any money. Any pri
vate citizen has the same right to pay
this debt that the Commissioners
have. Why don’t somebody do it.
A Citizen.
MRS. W. N. NELSON WELL
KNOWN IN BUTTS COUNTY
DIED THURSDAY 7TH
Mrs. vV. N.Nelson who died 7thint
in McDonough was Miss Martha Ann
McGough a member of the well known
McGough family of Butts Cos. and
the wife of the late Judge Win N.
Nelson who for many years was Or
dinary of Henry County. Judge Nel
son and also his wife who was his
cousin were descendants of the iiius
irious family that produced Englands
great naval hero, Admiral Lord Nel
son of Trafalgar fame, who plucked
the naval pinions from the wings of
Napoleon causing his ambitious
schemes to finally cal lapse. Mrs.
Nelson was buried in McDonough
Cemtiary Mar. Bth.
The highest military rank in England
is not field marshal, but captain gen
eral of the forces, and can only be held
by the sovereign.
WHY THE CONFEDERATES
WOULD DIE FOR GEN. LEE.
AN INCIDENT.
Dear Mr. Watson :
Tour beautiful tribute to General
Lee, on his birthday, haß prompted
me to give a personal incident which
illustrates the cause of the devotion
of Lee’s Army to their noble com
mander.
In the latter part of the summer,
or fall of 1864. while the siege of
Richmond and Petersburg vfas on, a
part of Grant’s Array had been mass
ed and a successful charge made
against the Weldon Railroad just
south of Petersburg,
A. counter charge by the Confeder
ates had been auccesstul to the extent
of re-capturing the railroad, but had
not pushed Grant’s troops back far
enough to re-capture all of /the lost
ground, and, therefore, a part of our
men were engaged in throwing up
new breastworks between the railroad
and the position then held by the en
e my.
Near the old gas works a citizen
had a two or three-acre patch of corn
in roasting ear.
Gen. Lee ordered a guard to watch
over that corn night and day to pro
tect the citizen’s property,
The writer, then a mere boy soldier
of the 45th Georgia Regiment, was
helping in the work.
Goaded bv that craving feeling that
every old soldier remembers, that
comes to one who has not had their
appetite satisfied for weeks I
decided to risk the bullet of the
guard and the punishment of army
discipline in the determination to get
some of that corn.
Leaving the workers for a short
time I made my way through th*
thick undergrowth and over the fence
and secured two roasting ears.
Returning along a path through the
undergrowth 1 stopped, struck a
match, collected loaves and twigs and
scon hud a small fire.
Having removed the shuck, I had
my two ears of corn standing on end
baking one side at the time, by the
coals. I was stooping to turn my
corn, when I heard a horse walking
behind me. Turning around—great
heavens I General Lee had brought
"Traveler” to a standstill, while he
sat there like a statue.
Now every old veteran that reads
this will know exactly what I expect
ed.
To be ordered to headqar f ers for
punishment. But that noble old Ro
man did nothing of the sort.
With his face all wreathed in
smiles, he looked first into my fright
ened countenance, and then at my
corn, and with a slight pressure of
the bridle rein with the left hand,
causing "Traveler” to slightly sway
to the left,while with his right hand
he gave me the most graceful salute
I had ever seen In return I gave
him the mo9t grateful, though not
the most graceful one, I had even
seen.
The grand old hero pulled his horse
from the path, a sad expression pass
ed over his face, and I believe he
said, “My poor boys ere starving 1’
1 ate my half-cooked roastingears
and with appetite partially satisfied,
went back to work, determined to
stand by General Lee until death.
Ofren, in all the years gone by.
1 nave asked inystlf, "Did I do
wrong? Did General Lee do
wrong?” My conscience answers, no.
And if the man who owned that corn
is yet alive and should see this, he
will answer no.
He had the power to punish and he
fcad the power to pardon.
When the final history of that
great struggle is written, I hope
something of this incident will be re
membered as an inspiration to those
in authority in the ages to come.
This personal incident made me a
better man in after years, as it taught
me not to condemn myfeliowman un
til I knew what prompted the act.
Watsons Jeffersonian. W. F. Smith.
Flovilla, Ga.
OA9TOHIA.
Bear* th* * i,nd Alwafl BOiglft