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Local news lums. f Mr.’JJJohn Pbinizee was .on oor struts Wednesday. , *t 3 f Walter Mead Crawford left th first of the '< ek for \tiauta where hi has accepted a portion. j -+i. | Mrs. Mack Potts of Winder is thr guest of her mother Mrs. T. M. Fut low. Mrs. Ammie Waller has returned from an to relatives ii Monticello. 41 &Jdi Mrs. Walter 0 ipaland haspeturneci from McDonough. Miss Florrie Ham Jhas accepted t position as stenographer in Atlanta. Mr. Charue Ingram lias returned from Jesup. Mrs. L. D. Watson and little grand daughter Anna Dawn,.Watson have returned from Raleigh N. C. Mrs. J. A. Joiner has been quite sick but is convalescent now. Mrs. Mary Onnn left Saturday for Madison where she will spend a month with her eon Rev. J. R. Gunn. Miss Willie Lester spent Sunday in i Atlanta with friends. Qulgg Fletcher leaves Sunday for Baltimore to resume his studies at John TTopkms Institute A goodly number of the ladies of the Methodist Church spent Tuesday at the hospitable homo of Mrs. T. J Dempsey and spwed for the orphans of the Decatur Home. This day is observed every year and if is a noble work in which the ladies delight. The many friends in the city of Dr. Alton Sloan Tltn formerly of McDon ough but now of XY'osaeola Florida will be interested to know of bis marriage to Miss Eva Lovelace Fowl er which took place in that city on last Wednesday. Clayton Buchansn left Tuesday for Atlanta where ho will enter the Tech. Mrs. L. T. Jamorson was quite sick the first of the week. Little Mary Frances Carmichael’s condition is somewhatjimproved. Mr. L. P. Jamerson and family have moved into the house on West Avenue recently vacated by Mr. Asa Buttrill. Mr. Walter Hosch of Gainesville spent Sunday in the cltv. Mr. J. Mote Watts returned Mon day from Wrightsville Beach where he has been at Hotel Tarrymore dur ing the summer. Fred Copeland who Is ill of fever is reported to bo some better. Mrs. W. R. Vickers was In from Iron Spring Wednesday shopping. Mrs. Mary Maddox nee Wright was visiting her sister Mrs. W, P. Collier Tuesday. Dr. Will Butner. brother of our Dr. Charlie wa9 down from Powder Springs Tuesdty. Dr. Will resided for a number of years at Worthville and is wvll known by Butts County people. Usual preaching services will be held at the Baptist Church Sunday morning and evening. At the morn ing service Mr. Willingham will give his newer in reference tot,he call re cently extended him. It is requested that the church members make a spec ial effort to be present. We Are at the Same Old Stand. The Same Old KINARD & CLARK. ±>ame old Phone No. 60 with the best line of Groceries in town 'sell Libby’s canned Goods the best in the world. Argo i iim > n The finest on earth try a can. Crystal Flour can’t be beat. Mc- Cordsmea! always Fresh. trade Ulitb U$ and Get the Best. KIN ARD & CLARK PHONE 60. Mr. J L. Pye from jCork paid Jack son a visit Tuesday. Mr. Ohe Hendrick wes down m College Park Tuesday. The regular equinoctial storm c?;i*i;r in y nr.d In'? ted •ill Monday morning. Much damage to cottou was done. Mr MEED Strange Omissions In the Chicago Lighting Plant Report. It Places the Annual Total Cost Per Lamp at $52.3i —No Account Taken, However, of Lost Taxes, Water, De preciation, Rent or of Half a Dozen Other l/rporr.nt Elements cf Ex pense—Rica lot M, O. Plant in ’.he Country—lts Service as Poor as ltd Roport ie Misleading. The largest municipal electric light plant In the United States is that op erated by the city of Chicago. Natu rally students of municipal ownership turn to Its reports ns one of the prin cipal sources of information on the subject. Unfortunately, however, these reports have been so worded as to give the false Impression that the municipal lights cost the city much less than if they were supplied by contract with a private company. Newspapers all over the country huve announced that Chicago’s street lights j during liXXJ cost only $52.39 per lump, and they are not to be blamed for mak ing this assertion, for twice on page 12 of the report for that year $52.3.5 is given as the “total cost per I.'wnp,” It is true that elsewhere In the report this statement Is modified by the ad mission that this “cost” doesn’t in clude interest, lost taxes, tfcater, de preciation, rent of offices and poles, judgments against the city on account <if accidents, a proportion of the cost of the offices of the comptroller, audi tor, business agent and other branches of the city government, etc., but tbo edge is taken off this admission by the further statement that “the cost of $52.39 includes all expenses actually borne by the city,” a statement, by the way, which Is not even technically true. The report admits that “there Is some Justice in the contention” that these items should be charged against the lighting cost, but It makes this admis sion ouly ufter years of refusal to do so, and does so now because of an In vestigation Into the workings of tbo plant that has recently been made, and the findings of which will soon be pub lished. Six years ago the Reform club of New York employed a well known firm of accountants to find out what Chicago’s lights were really costing. At that titue tho city claimed a cost of $02.09, but the accountants reported the real cost as $99.88 and made no allowance for damages, street repairs, rent of offices and poles or the lighting department’s share of the expense for auditing, purchasing and legal ex penses and a very low allowance for depreciation. But the city authorities totally ignored the findings of this dis interested and expert investigation. The unfairness of the report Is fur ther shown by Us comparison of the per capita cost of lighting Chicago and five other cities that do not operate municipal lighting plants. In the first place, the street lighting of Chicago is notoriously inadequate, and In the sec ond place, while the rates in the other cities cover the entire cost of lighting; lu Chicago they Include only a fraction of the cost Perhaps the most misleading feature of the report Is its comparison of the alleged “cost” of the municipal lights with the rates charged by the private company with which the city contracts for 740 of its lamps. These are In the outskirts of the city, where the cost of maintaining them Is very high on ac count of their long distance from the .geuerntlug station and their remote- NOTICE DR. J. B. WATKINS, Veterinary Surgeon. I will leave Jackson for college Oct. Ist or I,sth. I will examin e every animal free of charge from now on while here, so bring your horse and male that are not doing well or "is tame or that have any g • owth on them and / will tell you al about them, if yoar animal cannot eat, or eats .>ouudy and chews bad or eats enough but is still in poor condition, or eats so much that t r makes it poor to carry it, there must be some thing wrong with its teeth end,if so i coin tell you and can fix it for you. It is strange to say that itie people n, ve inink 'f their animals teeth, People only think of what they see and only see one V , rd of their horses teeth. The male has forty and female thirty six. The male has four tusk the female hasn't. The horses teeth are grown at abotfo eight years old, th y nave a root of about two and a half inches long. The teeth of the horse is not like a > tans, they are made different and used different. They arc as mill stones made to grind corn, oats and grass and not to tear as iron etc.’ And as they grind they wear away about one twelfth of an inch every year, and as they wear sometimes the whole of the top of it is not worn down, a point may be left to ciit ami tear the gums tongue and lips or the tooth may become too Long, it may not be wornbij its opposite tooth, it willbegin to cut the gums and the jaw bone • There are many ways that a horses mouth of teeth may shorten his days. Good\ teeth is most essential to the life of ahorse. The horse cannot call for soups 'as we can, but have to eat corn whether it can grind it or not. If it can not grind it. it will swallow it whole or half ground and the more it eats half ground the Quicker it will have indigestion take colic and pass on to its happy home. If you will let me I will open your animals mouth with a mouth speculum so you can see his teeth and you can tell ivhat is wrong I have all of the best instruments that are made to do the work on your horse or mull mouth with • now is the time to have Surgery done, as the weather is good and the animal willhave time to get over it before the grass is gone and before thehard winter comes. If you have any cows to dehornnow is the proper time to have it done. 11 is a settled fact that cows do better with out their horns and all men are learning this to be a fact. IF YOUR HORSES’ MULES, COWS, OR DOGS HAS WARTS, TUMORS crany growth on them I will take them off by medicine or with the knife. Aid now is a good time for such work Bring them and we can have a talk about it. I will promise you that I a::i able to do your Veterinary work for you. I am a praduate of the Collins Veterinary >led cal College at Nashville Tenn, na\e attended lecture at ti e United States College of VeG rinary Snrgury at Wash ington I). Also attended lectuus at tin- New York Teh rinary College N. Y. Now as I will only be here for a few weeks long< j- bring }< i,r 'db cased animals at once and let me speak for them. I have for sale two surries | two In rses, a buggy and a desk. MRS. 6. W. RAY DIES WED NESDAY NIGHT AT 11 OGLOGK. Mrs. George W. Ray died ac her home five miles north of town Wed nesday night. Mrs. Ray had been ill for quite awhile and her death was not unexpected. She leaves a husband and four sons and two daughters. The interment was at Old Bethel Thurs day afternoon. Some good correspondence is crowd ed out this week. ness fro£u each other. That' fs why the city contracts for them. Yet the report assumes that tbe company would charge Just as high a rate if it had the contract for all the lights. This as sumption is not only manifestly absurd, but i3 directly contrary to the facts, as one of tbe companies offered a reduc tion of more than t one-quarter of its contract price If it were given the en tire lighting contract. In making comparisons the quality of the service is nn important consid eration, and the service of the Chicago city plant fk bad. It cheats the public both by the frequency of outages (lamps going out and staying out the rest of tbe night) and by stealing its own current—l. reducing the amper age below the point at which the cur rent keeps the lamps up to their rated candlepower. In many coses observers have noted that, especially after mid night, the lamps give only a dull glow at the carbon points and are of practi cally no value as lights. This is done to reduce coal consumption and of course makes a great difference In the cost of operation. It woulg not be tol erated from a private company, which would also be penalised for outages. thinirs are Quite naturally not mentioned in the report' To sum up, the report gives the Im pression to tbe casual reader that the municipal plant Is giving gogd service at a low cost, while the facts are that Its service is poor and that the cost Is much higher than if the lights were supplied by a company. Not Yot For Sioux City. The construction of a municipal electric light plant has been under con sideration at Sioux City, la. The com mission appointed to investigate the subject has, however, reported ad versely, and the council will advertise for bids to light the city after the ex piration of the present contract Tax Rato Drops. Xhe Cleveland leader attributes to the sule of Its municipal electric light plant the fact that the-tax rate of Lakewood, 0., will be about $2.75 this veer as against $3.59 In 1900. Mrs. Renbam—Second thoughts arc best. Benham—l know it; I thought only ouce when I asked you to marry me.—New York Press. I am not Joking, FOR SALE. 175 acres in Iron Springs district, six miles from Jackson over a smooth level road. There is 135 acres in cultivation which is level and without rocks, that is, level enough that a mower and binder machine can be operated over it. Much more level than the average land of the county; On the place are houses which cannot be built for $2000.00. They consist of a five room framed dwelling, weather boarded out and ceiled in, with 8 foot hall-way, back and front verandas, 3 tenant hous es with 2,3 and 4 rooms respectively. The dwelling was built 4 years ago and the two last mentioned tenant houses were recovered 3 years ago. Two bams on the place -one 16 by 20 sheded both sides and one 24 by 30 sheded both sides and cow barn underneath 24 by 30. Corn crib 16 by 20 sheded one side and up and down stairs built 3 years ago. The small barn was built 3 years ago and the large one seven years ago. Repair shop 12 by 16 built this year. AS FINE A PAS TURE AS YOU EVER SAW CONSISTING OF TWEN TY ACRES WITH BERMUDA GRASS, WITH A LIV ING STREAM THROUGH IT THE DRYEST YEAR- Three different churches within a mile and one about two miles and a fine school within 20 minutes walk. This place can be bought within the NEXT THIRTY DAYS fors3ooo. 00 cash, or $1500.00 cash and five notes for $400.00 each at 8 % interest payable Jan. ist* 1909 and each succeeding year till paid off. Place will rent for ten bales of cotton and crop pers have been secured for another year. This is a big bar gain and you will have to hurry if you get it Buy it and let the rents payoff the notes. I have Jackson property to show you if you want to invest in city real estate. Address, Frank Z. Curry. Jackson, Ga, This Sept. 26th. 1907. Jay Gould’* Million*. Jay Gould's millions were at one time in danger. It was in 1873, and their fate depended upon the fluctua tions in the gold market Gouid saw his precarious position in time, and so enormous was his power and influence that he maneuvered himself out of the difficulty. In fact, when it was over he was wealthier than ever. About ten years after fhls happened there were dark rumors about his affairs, and it was hinted that the great Gould was not what he was supposed to be in a pecuniary sense. He disposed of these doubts in a very simple man ner. He invited a number of gentle men to his private office, and when they arrived he laid on the table be fore them for examination certificates of stocks in his own name to the value of $53,000,000 and said that if they wished he would lay $20,000,000 more before them. Life is hard for many people, and we have no right to withhold any word or touch or act of love which will lighten the load or cheer the heart of any fellow straggler.—La Belle Star. An Encore. During the elections in Ireland in s bygone year Colonel James P. Robert son was quartered at Ennis. A riot was expected, and he was requested by a town magistrate to remain under arms In case of trouble. It was a very still summer evening, and a lieutenant of the company was amusing himself at his harmonium and was singing In a good voice. Just as he finished one of his songs—by that time It was well Into the night— a thundering knock came on the outer gates. “Who comes there?" shouted the sentry at the top of his voice, ami every man in barracks jumped up and seized his arms. In a moment there was dead silence, the men eagerly lis tening to know what was to follow. "Who comes there?” again the sen try shouted. And a small voice outside the gate replied. “If ye plaze, Misther Sintry, will ye ask th’ gintleman to sing that once again?” “The indignant sentry’s reply,” says Colonel Robertson in his reminiscences of soldiering, “was drowned in tba shouts of merriment from my. men.’’ j