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Cocal news Items. Mr. Ernest Smith spent Monday in Jackson. Mrs. A. H. Smith and Mrs. R. A. Franklin v sited the City Tues day. Miss Pearl Sams, who has been the attractive guest of Mrs. Walter Cope land has returned to her home In Bab cock. Oils Ball spent Saturday in Atlan ta. Harbin Millers many Jackson friends were glad to see him back from Mississippi. He spent the week-end with his father and sister. Dr. C. A. Butner spent the first of the week in Powder Springs where he attended the funeral of his sister-in law Mrs. John Butner. Mrs, Nora King spent the week-end with her sister in Atlanta. Miss Pauline Malletleft Wednesday for Macon where she will enter Wesle yan. Miss Georgia Hendrick is in Atlan ta with her sisters, the Misses Kend riektafler a pleasant visit to Miss A dellc Nutt. Walter Mead Crawford' of Hawk insville spent Suuday with home folk. Mrs. J. B. Settles entertained the Buughtere on Wednesday afternoon. Her attractive home on West Third St. was pretty in its decorations of roses ana bunting in red and white, the colors of the chapter After the election of officers and other business matters attended to cake and cream in red and white was serve. Mth Settle is a most cordial and charm 1 ng hostess and always entertains delight fully. Mr. C. B. Gunn apent, Saturday in Atlanta on business. Miss Dcvle Carmichael who lias been sick is Improving. Never in *he history of the High Fulls musical Convention has such an enjoyable session been held as the! at Macedonia last Friday and Saturday such singers asE.T. Pound, Bhellman, T. J. Upchurch, Locust Grove, J. T. Lane, Monticello, J. T. Mayo, Jackson and many others were present. Pinner wus plentiful, and altogether it was an enjoyable affair. Henry Hendrick returned Saturday to Vincent Alabama. He left greatly improved from his recent illness. (juite an enthuastic meeting of the Farmer’s Co-operative Union was held in Jackson on Wednesday. Quite a 1 argo number attended and much im portant business was transacted. Miss Bertha Carmichael spent Tuesday in Atlanta, She was accom panied uy Mrs. Goddird of Quincy Fls, who will be her guest for a few days. Mrs. Goddard will also visit her aunts Mrs. F. S. Etheridge and T. M. Furlow before returning home. Miss Lucile Elder is in the city. FOR SALE.-- My resi dence in East Third Street. Also, 175 acre Farm in Iron Spring District. Also Office building in Jackson and 5 houses and lots in Pepperton. Frank Z. Curry. We Are at the Same Old Stand. The Same Old KINARD & CLARK. Same old Phone No. 60 with the best line of Groceries in town We sell Libby’s canned Goods the best in the world. Argo Salmon The finest on earth try a can. Crystal Flour can’t be beat. Mc- Cordsrneal always Fresh. trade CUitb U$ and Get the Besi K LNARD & CLARK ’PHONE 00. Capt. W. F. Smith was up from Fiovilla Monday. Mr. C. A. Pittman was up from Pittman’s Ferry Monday. Miss Callie Woods of Mcmticello is the guest of Miss Nettie Ray 1 ittman at her country home. Dr. Wilson Smith from Juliette was in town Monday. Mr. Aack hardy wan in lrom irou Spring Monday afternoon. Mr. J. W. Andrews from Stark was among his Jacksou friends Monday afternoon. Mr. J. B. Watkins from No. 5 was in to see us Monday. Mrs. W, P. Collier spent the first of the week near McDonough with friends and relatives. Prof. Grace spent the week in Jack son tuning pianos. Harry Butuer left Monday for Me ridian to unterColiege. Harry expects to maintain the family tradition of producing physician* that rauk a tnong the first. Miss Florence Morrison returned from Atlanta this wees. Dr. B. F. Aikin from Jenkinsburg was in the city Thursday. Mrs. Mattie Glover who has been spending some time with relatives at aturk returned to her home in Atlan ta Tuesday. Dr. J. W. Harper the popular phy sician from Stark was in Jackson Thursday, v Mr J. A. Pittman was among his friends in ttie city Thursday. Wednesday was Justice Court day in Jackson district. GOOD AND LASTING WORK BEING DONE ON OUR ROADS. Tne present Commissioners of Roads of Revenues have adopted a fdan and are doing some work that is bound to give satisfaction, and meet with the approval of the people. The taking off of a small auicuit of dirt from the top of a hill and pla cing it at the bottom, lessons the en cline enormously, and is work that will not have to be done again. 1011 ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE Located 6 miles south of Indian Springs, 2 miles west of Cabaniss, 8 miles north east of Forsyth, 5 room house recently pain ted and has glass windows. 10 to 15 acres fine bottom land 15 acres fresh land good barn. Terms $l5O cash, $l5O in six months, balance in 4 annual pay ments of S3OO each at 6 per cent interest. This place is within 1% mile of fine school, also convenient to churches, splendid neighborhood. John R. Shannon, Cabaniss, Qa. COL. WHALEY ELECTED JUDGE OF CITY COURT. The many friends of Coi. VV. H. Whaley are delighted to know that he was elected Judge of the city Court of Covington. He was a prac ticing attorney here for many years. A BOY ORA GIRL GAN EARN AS MUCH AS A MAN. We want boys and girls who want to earn money to solicit subscripti ons for the Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal. Don’t hesitate because you are young as you can do this work as readily as rider persons and we will pay you just the same. The Semi-Weekly Journal is the' best known semi-weekly newspaper in the South, and your spare time spent working for it will pay you handsome ly, not in toys, watches or other 3mall wares, but in CASH. In addi tion to cash commission, we are offer ing Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars (750,00) in prizes. The money will be sent out in time for Christmas. The Contest closes December 15th 1907. FARMS FOR RENT OR LEASE. Two and one-half horse farm, mile of Berner, six room house, painted, ceiled, large hall. Whole place enclosed in wire fence good pasture and two barnes. Good well of wa ter at house and good rock bottom spring near by. Thirty acres of bottom land not subject to over flow. Will rent for four bales of cotton per annum. John R. Shannon, Cabaniss Ga. Fcfe: RENT.—two horse farm in Worthville Dist rict. Call on or address W. F. Maddox, Locust Grove Ga. Tax Collectors Notice. I will be at the following named places on dates given below for the purpose of collecting State and Coun ty Tax for the year 1907. Jackson October 1 1907. Flo villa ” 2 ” Cork ” 8 ” Elgin ” 4 ” Worthville ” 7 ” Jenkinsbnrg ” 8 ” Kinards Store ” 9 ” IronSpringCount house ” 10 ” Will be in Jackson every Saturday and first Tuesday until books close. C. R. Carter, T. C. Butts Cos. A Municipal Overflow. Of the fads that have Bwept o’er tha country— The Lawson fad. Dunne fad and Hearet— I think—but I may be mistaken— The fad called M. O. is the worst The city would have M. O. bake shops To furnish municipal bread, g O. undertakers would follow To box the municipal dead. We'd have a municipal dentist Who’d put on municipal crowin; AU kinds of municipal worries To furnish municipal frowns. A million municipal silkworms Would weave our municipal silk; Ten thousand municipal babies Cry out for municipal milk. We’d have a municipal barroom. Municipal whisky and gin. The spree would be charged to tho cttjrj 'Twould be a municipal sin. When out In municipal snowstorms You'd* wear an M O. mackintosh. You'd go to the M. O. theaters To hear the municipal bosh. You’d have to bo full of M O. love To please your municipal wife. Each awful municipal moment Would make up municipal life. Your dear M. O. heart would be aching. "Scu’d heave a municipal eigh. If sure of no M. O. hereafter. You’d jump this M. O. life and die. —Thomas E. Burke. NOT 146 TO 16 BY ANY MANNER OF,; MEANS. The statement to the affect that the recent bond election in Jackson was carried by 146 for to 16 against is a mistake and is misleading to those who are unacquainted with the facts anti conditions in the case: Every body who is posted in the laws governing BoDd elections know that two thirds of those.who register have to vote for bonds otherwise the bond issue is lost. For example, if three* hundred were to register and one hundred and ninety nine were to vote for the bond issue, the election would be lost to bonds although not a vote was polled against bonds. So it was,on Aug. 7th those opposed to bonds registered and then did not put themselves to the trouble to vote knowing that their registers were the sam9 as their votes. The electiou was carried by the narrow margin of 6 to spare, and if no one but the white people of Jack son had been allowed to vote it is very doubtful if there would have been ten votes difference either way much less the two thirds necessary to carry the issue. A fair and true statement of the facts are due the r üblic, it doesn’r matter how we would like for it to have been. WHAT IS A PLEASURE It’s a pleasure to do business when w e know that every time we get a man into a Hart Chaffner and Marx suit, we’ve done him a real ser= vice. Such clothes as these actually raise the s’and= ards of aU the men in town; and we’re selling them, at the right prices. Glad to see you now or later. The Jackson Mercantile Cos STATEMENT. BY ROAD COM MISSIONERS. .Tack3on, Ga., Butts County. Sept. 2nd. 1907. At a regular monthly meeting held by the County Commissioners of said County all the Commissioners being present, the following order was pass ed to wit. It is ordered by the Court that Ten Mills be levied on the taxa ble property of said County as per Tax digest for the year 1907. And that the Tax Collector of said County collect the same for the following purposes to wit. bridges and public building fund .875 Pauper ” .125 t’utli ■ Road ” .250 Sheriff and other offiicers ” .50 Supenor Court ” -05 Litigation ” .90 Coroners ” .10 Other lawful charges ” .85 SIO.OO Making in the aggregate the sum of one dollar on each one hundred dollars and ten dollars on each one thousand dollars on the taxable prop erty of said County for the year 1907 J. O. Gaston. Chairman Board Cos. Com. Joseph Jolly, Clerk. Beating the City Plsnt. Rumlites have a scheme to beat the municipal plant to a frazzle. There is no charge at Eaton Rapids for porch lights when next to the street. So out go the lights in the house after supper, and the evening paper is read on the porch in the midst of myriads of bugs. But it's cheaper.—Detroit News. Wise Decision nt Sparta, Tenn. At tin election held in Sparta, Tenn., on June 27 upon the question of wheth er or not the town .should'issue $40,000 in bonds with which to own and op erate a municipal electric light and waterworks plant the proposition was defeated by a vote of 93 to 18. HOLD YOUR COTTON IF YOU WANT GOOD PRICE. Cotton is opening very fast and be ing marketed extensively. The pric9 keeps coming down, and to keep j t from coming still lower every farmer should hold his cotton. There are very few who are compelled to sell and to hold up the price co-operation is absolutely necessary. Hold your cotton for one month and see the re sults. THEORY* AND PRACTICE. In M. O. the Latter Generally Expose* the Falsity of the Former. The theory of municipal ownership is that municipal corporations can da for the public at cost the service now done by private corporations at a profit, saving to the public the amount of the profit in reduced charges. In the common practice of municipal ownership the city does for the public at increased expense, but for a lower, price, what private corporations have, been doing for a profit. Usually 1105 only the profit is absorbed in the in-i creased expense, but a continual aa-j nual deficiency is covered up by iu-’ crease of the municipal debt and fail ure to provide out of earnings for de preciation of plant. By the time the plant first installed is worn out the city, unless very rich and strong, is apt to be at the end of its credit. In many cases, like that of the Philadelphia gas works, a private corporation gets the city plant for a song and makes money out of it faster thau ever. The fundamental idea of it, therefore, is to take the money of taxpayers to render service to non taxpayers for less than the service costs.—Editorial in Minneapolis Trib une. M. 0. IN MILWAUKEE. Unwarranted Action of the City Coun cil In the Wisconsin Metropolis. If you authorize an agent to pur chase a piece of property for you at $3,000 and he finds that it will cost $13,000 and goes ahead and buys it without consulting you on the ground that you had said that you wanted the property, your words would probably not look well in print This ig prac tically what has just been done in Mil-j waukee, the first party being the tax-j payers of that city and their agent be ing the city council. Some time ago the people of Milwaukee voted to au thorize a bond issue of $500,000 to in stall a municipal lighting plant. The city fathers found that the esti mate was SBOO,OOO too low r and passed a resolution to issue bonds to the ex tent of $1,300,000. The city comptrol ler at first refused to sign the neces sary papers on the ground that in view of the great difference in cost the mat ter should be again submitted to the people. This point was, however, overruled by the city attorney. If his opinion is good law, the law T is bad, for it permits the agents of the people to abuse their powers with impunity. Can’t Do lt'by Statute. Any corporation is entitled to a fair return on all it3 legitimate Invest ments over and above all expenses when these are carefully and econom ically administered. There are some corporations which are undoubtedly overcharging the public, but there are more whose stock has never paid any dividends whatever, and only an un fortunate aggravation of the present strained relations existing between the people and the public service corpora tions can result from the expectation of the former that they can through legislative action obtain a universal reduction in the charges made by such corxxorations.— Municipal Journal and Engineer. A Danger to Be Avoided. If a city is not well governed, munic ipal ownership is the most dangerous thing imaginable and should be care fully avoided. There is always the danger that the public utilities the city Is supposed to own will become nothing more or less than the private property of the people at the head of the government, who will work to their own advantage and the enhancement of their private wealth.—William T. Stead. , 1 Only as a Last Resort. Any city which is getting fair treat ment from a privately owned plant, should eschew municipal ownership. Except under unusually favorable con ditions—conditions that promise to make the proposed plant a positive money earner—municipal ownership should be only a last resort.—Marquette (Micli.) Journal. Political M. O. Machines. Municipal ownership of street rail ways, gas and electric lighting means an enormejus political machine with thousands of employees to be voted at the behest of some political party.— Mayor Mahool of Baltimore.