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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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The postmaster general has is sued an order effective January 1, 1908, which requires publisn ers of weekly papers to drop from their subscription lis.s tne names of all subscribers whose subscriptions are twelve month or more in arrears. Cancella tion of the paper’s second-class mail privilege is the penalty to failure to comply with the iui . A reasonable time will be allow e for the publisher to get sub scription list in proper shape. We have many names on ou list who have allowed their su - scription to escape their notic. To these we will send s htemen and earnestly request a respon from every statement. Now, readers of The Progress, remember that we are trying oi i best to give you a paper that \ ou will not regret paying 01 an will greatly appreciate prompt attention to y° ul SJ scription. 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.