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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 26
A THIRD BANK WILL BE
ESTABLISHED IN JACKSON
Will Be A National Bank And
Capitalized at $75000 —A
New Building Also
To Be Erected
Jackson will soon have three
banks— two nationals and one
state.
And another building will be
erected somewhere on the city
square to be used by the third
bank.
These are some of the con
clusions made by a m eeting Wed
nesday of the stockholders and
directors of the Jackson Bank
ing Cos.
Sometime ago it was proposed
and agreed upon to nationalize
the Jackson Banking Company,
but further consideration has
brought about the change.
The new bank will be capital
ized at $75,000 and will contain
stock held by new parties besides
those of the Jackson Banking Cos.
As to the site of the new build
ding, the lot owned by the
Masons on corner of Mulberry
and Second street is being con
sidered.
WILLIAM J. SPEER SEEKS
STATE TREASURER’S OFFICE
William J. Speer, candidate for
state treasurer, has an announce
ment in The Progress in which he
calls on the people of Butts
County to stand by him when
the primary approaches.
‘‘l shall begin an active cam
paign of the state at once, said
Colonel Speer Monday. “I am
gratified at the many letters
which I have received from all
over the state promising sup
port. During the two terms I
was state treasurer, no depositor
of a state bank lost a cent, al
though we had practically no
banking laws then. I believe
with present laws I could admin
ister the duties of bank examine,
satisfactorily.
Colonel Speer has had an ex
perience of twenty years in the
office of state treasurer, four of
which was as state treasurer.
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JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908
REV. HOWARD CRUMLEY AT
METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY
Rev. Howard L. Crumley, agent
for the Methodist Orphans Home,
located at Decatur, filled the
pulpit at the Methodist church
last Sunday, taking a collection
for that institution.
Mr. Crumley is an ardent ad
vocate of the state taking some
step toward providing for the
feeble minded and idiotic child
ren and this was one of the
points stressed in his sermon
Sunday. He stated that he had
strong hopes of some action along
this line being taken by the next
General Assembly.
FATHER OF DR. BUTNER DIED
SUNDAY AT POWDER SPRINGS
Dr. C. A. Butner was called
Saturday to the bedside of his
father who was sick at his home
in Powder Springs, but on Sun
day morning at one o’clock, death
came suddenly as a result of
paralysis of two years standing.
G. C. Butner the father,
wasone of the pioneer cit
izens of that section of state,
having made his home at
Powder Springs for fifty years.
He was 81 years old whendeath
overtook him. He was known
and admired as a pious and hon
orable gentleman and many close
friends as well as immediate rel
atives regret his departure.
Five children survive him: T.
N. Butner, Florida; Dr. C. A.
Butner, Jackson; Dr. W. E. But
ner, Powder Springs; J. L. But
ner, Powder Springs; Mrs. Ida
Florence, Powder Springs.
Seed, seedTseedTofevery var
iety at Hanna Drug Cos.
February Honor Roll
Jackson Public School
VOTER
Must Vote in His Own
District Only
Says the county Executive Com
mittee in An Amendment
to Rulings Made this
Week.
That part in section four of
the resolutions adopted by the
executive committee relative to
voting places has been changed
to read ‘ ‘each voter shall vote at
the voting place of his district,” j
instead of 4 ‘each voter shall vote
either at the voting place of his
district, or the one nearest his
home.” 1
The entire section now reads
as follows:
4. All white males 21 years
old or who will be of age when
the next general election for
county officers is held, who pro
fess to be democrats and who re
side in Butts county or who will
have resided therein six months
when the election for county
officers is held, shall be duly
qualified to vote in said primary
election, unless they would be
disqualified under the laws of
Georgia if said primary were a
general election. Each voter
shall vote at the voting place of
his district and none but the
tickets or ballots prepared as
above shall be used in said pri
mary.
THE LENTEN SEASON REGAN
LAST WEDNESDAY, FOURTH
Wednesday, the 4th, was Ash
Wednesday and marked the be
ginning of the Lenten season,
observed more closely by Catho
lics and Episcopalians.
Forty days thereafter —exclud-
ing Sunday—comes Easter and
the period is given over to fast
ing, abstraction from frivolities
and frequent religious services.
Easter Sunday falls this year
on April 19.
First Grade
A Class.
Henry Allen,
Joe Arenson,
Don Woods,
Emma Allen,
Laura Allen,
Margaret Kinard,
Kate Lyons,
Sarah Plunkett,
B Class.
Doris Carter,
Second Grade
Sarah Louise Furlow,
Ina Harmon,
Nina Harmon,
Estelle Newman,
Joel Watkins,
Third Grade
Tenella Tingle,
H. M. Fletcher,
Fifth Grade
Bessie Compton,
Warren Furlow.
SUPERIOR COURT JURORS
DRAWN FOR AUGUST TERM
CITY ELECTION CALLED TO
ELECT NEW COUNCILMEN
Notice is hereby given that
there will be held in the city of
Jackson on Tuesday the 17th day
of March, 1908, an election for
the purpose of electing two
councilmen for the unexpired
term of 1908, one from the 2nd
ward to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of J. R. Carmichael,
and one from the Ist ward to fill
the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of S. B. Kinard.
Said election will be held at
police headquarters in said city
and the polls will be open from
7 o’clock a. m. to 6 o’clock p. m.
This March 6th, 1908.
S. O. Ham, Mayor.
Geo. Carmichael, Clerk.
I’M IN THE RAGE TO THE
FINISH," SAYS G. G. BRITT
To the voters of Butts County: j
The report is being circulated j
among the voters of Butts coun
ty that I have come out of the;
race for coroner. I wish to set
tle this question once and for all,,
by the statement that I was nev
er more actively in the race than
I am right now.
In the limited time allowed be
fore the primary on April Ist, I
may not be able to personally see
every voter in the county, but
I shall make a strenuous effort
to do so, and if I fail to see them
all, it will not be any fault of
mine.
I have held this office but one
term. It is a long-established
custom in this county to allow an
officer elected for one term to
hold the office for another term.
I have held the office of coroner
for only one term, and think that
in accordance with this custom,
I should be reelected.
It requires about one term for
a man to become familiar enough
with the duties of this office to
discharge them with the best re
sults to the people of the county.
I have tried to discharge the
duties of this office to the best
interests of the county, and the
people concerned, and at the
same time see that justice was
done with the least possible cost
to the county, during the past
two years.
I have kept during my term of
office a book showing every case
investigated, what disposition of
it was made, and at what cost to
the county. I submitted this
book to the Grand jury for their
inspection and it was approved
by them. This is something no
other coroner of Butts county
has ever done.
I am in this race to the finish.
I am meeting with unbounded
encouragement from the voters
of the county. I ask your ap
proval of my administration of
this office during my last term by
electing me for another term.
C. G. BRITT,
Coroner Butts County.
NUMBER 10
GRAND JURY.
C L Maddox,
R V Smith, Sr.
R L Allen,
J W Carmichael,
J L Barnes,
S L Thompson,
B T Deason,
W A Waldrop,
R H Henderson,
W E Smith, *
R M Fletcher,
J T Goodman,
H J Maddox,
Jno. C Bell
J M Ball,
A M Watkins
J S Ham,
L M Atkinson,
W M Barker,
J H Carmichael,
C L Maddux,
Thos. PBell,
B C Ward,
Wade H Hammond,
J W Carter,
W D Compton, •
J B Settle,
F. M. Maddox,
R D Ogletree,
Joe E McMichael.
TRAVERSE JURY.
C F Carter,
T J Giles
S H Godsey,
S E Andrews,
W E Flynt,
W A Newton,
Davis Kinard,
J B Carmichael,
W T Thurston,
Newt Treadwell,
J L Hodges,
J R Hewey,
F B Outhouse,
J A Bishop
W A Aiken
John M McMichael,
J R McCord,
A B Stalls worth,
W H Foster,
D F Maddox,
E C Robison,
W F Duke, Sr.
T. J. Waldrop,
T G Preston,
J H Leverette,
Clifford Higgins,
W. H. Singley,
J T Edwards,
J L Carmichael,
H L Daughtry,
John W Norsworthy,
R M Mayfield.
“THE HOMELESS CHRISTIAN" •
AT SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE
Dr. Robert Van Deventer will
preach—
-11 a. m.—Subject, “The Home
less Christian;
7:15 p. m. —“ Jesus in Proph
ecy, ‘the Lamb.’ ”
9:30 a. m. - Bible School. Come
to the Pastor’s class, you will be
welcome.
4 p. m.- Mr. VanDeventer will
speak to the young people of the
church and town.
Jamerson’s Cold Tablets are
guaranteed to cure your cold.
25 cent boxes sold at Jamerson
Drug Cos.