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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 26
closing exercises of
JACKSON PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
Commencement Sermon by Rev.
Bradley—Address to Gradua
ting Class by Col. W. E.
Watkins—Program.
At eleven o’clock Sunday morn
ing, Rev. James Bradley will
preach the annual commence
ment sermon to the graduating
class of the Jackson Public
Schools.
Music for this occasion will be
under the direction of Mrs. S. 0.
Ham assisted by members of the
different church choirs in the
town.
Beginning promptly at fifteen
minutes after eight o’clock Mon
day night, the graduating exer
cises will take place.
The full program follows:
Piano Duet, Charge of the
Whlans, Bohn, Bessie Barnes and
Nelle Wood.
Salutatory— Ethel Thornton.
Piano Trio, Chansdn Napoli
taine, Streabbog, Fannie Moore,
Annie Hammond, Nettie Ham.
Oration, Heroes of Peace, Jas.
Edwards.
Piano Duet, Rustic Dance,
Schnecker, James Carmichael and
Margaret Kinsman.
Piano Solo, Fairy Polka, Streab
bog, Lillie Claire Gunn.
Essay, With Riley and the
Children, Lilia Watkins.
Piano Solo, Valse Styrienne,
Wollenhamp, Bessie Barnes.
Oration, Gradatim, Marlin Ball.
Piano Trio, Shooting Stars,
Beho, Margaret Sams, Willie
Ruth Pittman, Lucile Ham.
Piano Trio, Valse, Streabbog,
Emma Lou Nolan, Margaret Sams,
Ruth Willis.
Essay, Things that Never Die,
Bessie Barnes.
Piano Duet, Le Reime des Fus,
S. Smith, Alice Watkins and
Davie Fletcher.
Oration, Ich Dien, Maurice
Wright.
Piano Duet, “La Baladine,
Lysberg, Elizabeth Sams and
Exie Ham.
Valedictory—Hugh Mallett.
Piano Duet, In Festal Array,
Englehmann, Mary Helen and
Annie Catchings Crum.
Address to Graduating Class,
W. E. Watkins, Esq.
Delivery of Diplomas, Mr.
H. L. Daughtry, President of
Board of Education.
Delivery of Medals, Mr. W. R.
Lanier.
JAOKSOH VERSUS ATLANTA
HIGH SCHOOL SATURDAY
The Jackson base ball club will
give Atlanta High School team
a sample of her athletic ability
in the way of a double-header
base ball game Saturday after
noon.
The first game will be called at
2:30 o’clock. Admission, 15 and
25 cents.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1908
SUMMER SCHOOL WILL
OPEN IN JACKSON JUNE 22
For the benefit of young men
and young ladies who wish to
make more thorough preparation
for entering college in the fall,
for the benefit of students who
wish to enter a graded school and
who are not prepared in one or
two studies for the grade they
could otherwise enter, and for
those students who have failed
to rise in not more than two
studies, a summer school will be
taught in the Jackson school
building, beginning the twenty
second of June, and continuing
six weeks.
No pupil will be allowed to
make a full year’s work in this
school, and thereby skip a grade.
No pupil who fails in more than
two studies will be allowed to be
promoted from this school to the
next regular grade of work, nor
shall any guarantee be given to
to those who have failed in one
or two studies that they will
be promoted. Those pupils who
make the proper effort can make
up as many as two studies. It
depends largely upon the pupil.
Tuition for these six weeks will
be at the rate of one dollar per
week.
We shall be glad to furnish any
further information upon request.
W. R. Lanier, Principal.
CAMPAIGN MANAGER WILL
SPEAK AT JENKINSBUR6
Mr. J. R. (Bob) Smith, cam
paign manager for Joe Brown,
and well known to Butts county
as one of its former citizens, will
speak on the issues of the cam
paign at Jenkinsburg Saturday
May 23, at 10:30 a. m.
Go out and hear what Mr.
Smith has to say.
TO HOMESEEKERS.
I have bought several nice at
tractive lots in Parkland, Jack
son’s new and promising suburb,
and to correct an impression that
has gone out that this property
was bought up by speculators to
prevent people from coming to
our town, I will sell any lot I
bought at cost provided the buy
er promises to build within twelve
months. This offer is open until
July Ist, 1908.
James T. Warthen,
Real Estate and Insurance.
p_ g,—When I have two or
more lots contiguous, buyers must
take all the block. The crop now
growing will be reserved.
MR. BLOODWORTH
SPEAKS SATURDAY
Hon. 0. H. B. Blood worth,
candidate for Congress will
speak in the court house at Jack
son at two o’clock Saturday
afternoon, May 23, 1908.
NOTICE
Two fine milch cows with
young calves for sale. Apply at
once to M. E. Washington
RF D. No. 3 Jackson, Ga.
ENCAMPMENT DATES
FIXED AT LAST
Troops Will Go Into Camp at
Chickamauga From July
13 to July 22.
After months of foggy be
fuddlement and bewildering
changes the date of the encamp
ment for the national guard of
Georgia has at last been definitely
settled. The troops will go into
camp at Chickamauga from
July 13 to July 22.
These, as matter of fact were
the dates originally selected, but
the moment they had been chosen
they begun to be changed every
other day to suit some individual
wish.
The following communication
from Washington, D. C., ended
the matter:
“Washington, D. C.—A. J.
Scott, Adjutant General, Georgia,
Atlanta, Ga: Request to have
assignment Chickamauga chang
ed to original assignment July 13
to 22 is approved and schedule
arranged accordingly. Weaver
Chief Division Militia Affairs.”
The first, second and third
regiments of infantry and the
first and second squadron of
cavalry are the troops that will
go to Chickamauga this season.
BISHOP GALLOWAY’S SERMON
AT FLOVILLA LAST SUNDAY
Bishop C. B. Galloway preached
to the delight of a large congre
gation at the Methodist Church
in Flovilla, Sunday May 17th, a
lucid, strong and beautiful ser
mon on the dignity of service
from John 12:26-“If any man
serve me, let him follow me; and
where I am there shall also my
servant be. If any man serve me
him will my Father honour. ”
Though Jesus spoke and worlds
came into being He tells the
disciples that the highest places in
His Kingdom are not His to give.
From this and similar passages
the Bishop showed that Heaven
was more an achievement than a
gift.
God is not only God, but most
of all a father, hence our love to
Him is manifested in service to
His human children. God may
be silent while His name is blas
phemed, but touch one of His
children, and all His slumber
ing omnipotence is roused to de
fend His little ones.
The audience came away re
joiced in God’s thought for man
kind and the privilege of service
in His Kingdom.
Jackson, 6; Locust Grove, 5
• In a close rapid game of base
ball at Locust Grove Monday, the
Jackson team defeated the Grove
club by a score of 6 to 5.
Victory was won in the tenth
inning when the ever invincible
Edwards landed a long drive
over second for a two-bagger,
which wras followed by a timely
hit scoring Edwards.
For your health’s sake—Blud
wine.
MAD DOG BITES CHILDREN
OF WJ. WEAVER AT MILNER
Joe, aged 14, and Fleetie, aged
7 years, children of Mr. W J.
Weaver of Milner, were bitten
last Saturday by a dog supposed
to have had hydrophobia.
They were taken immediately
to Atlanta, where they are now
under treatment.
PROF. LANIER PUBLISHES
EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET
The Progress has recently
printed several hundred four
page pamphlets written by Prof.
W. R. Lanier, dealing with the
work and aims of the Jackson
Public schools which he so ably
superintends, and the advanta
ges possessed by Jackson as a
place in which to reside.
Along with the many interest
ing educational facts related,
Prof. Lanier makes a strong ap
peal for the education of our
young, showing conclusively the
absolute necessity for mental
development, from industrial as
well as other points of view.
This pamphlet which is being
distributed over the county will
do much good. Get one and read
it.
MRS. A. F. McMAHON ENTER
TAINS CLASS.
Mrs. A. F. McMahon enter
tained her Sunday School class of
boys delightfully Tuesday even
ing, from eight to eleven o’clock.
Each young man invited a lady
friend.
On entering, a miniature sack
of corn was presented, and a
game of “Yes or No” was in
dulged in with much zeal and
merriment.
The next contest was pinning
the tail on the donkey, which is
always laughable.
A complete surprise was the
drawing of partners by noses. A
sheet was hung over the door
and each girl put her nose
through a hole for the boys to
guess. After being paired, a
burlesque menu card -was passed
on which was written, “Spring
Offering”—water, “Georgia’s
Own”—syrup, “Silenced but nev
er conquered”-tongue, “What
a lady became upon retrospec
tion”—salt, “Yankee Stew”—
pickle, “Breath of Life”—onion,
“A “sneezer,” that’s po joke” —
pepper, “Tis better (butter)
when it is old” —cheese, “Ivory
Manipulators”—lady fingers,
“Dago’s Favorite” -lemon
“Sweet to the Sweets” sugar,
“Fruit of the Pine Forest” -tooth
picks.
After making an order from
this bill of fare, they were sur
prised to see the contents.
Music and recitations were ren
dered by Misses Grace Ham and
Lilly McClure. Refreshments
consisting of cream and cake
were served.
Mrs. McMahon was assisted in
dispensing hospitalities by Miss
Eloise Pound.
The occasion was thoroughly
enjoyed by all.
NUMBER 21
FOUR NEGROES AND A
MULE IN BIG
ROW
At Church and on Sunday Ne
groes Shoot to Kill—None
Dead so Far—“ Broke up
De Meetin’ ”
In a general shooting affray
among four negroes at a negro
church near Henley’s mill last
Sunday afternoon, two 38-calibre
bullets entered the forehead of
Jim Harris, one of the carousers,
with the peculiar result that Jim
was still alive Thursday-four
days after the shooting.
Dock Wise and John Duffy es
caped with less serious injuries,
the former being shot in the
shoulder and the latter being
wounded in the stomach.
In a commitment trial before
Judge McMichael Tuesday, Dock
Wise was bound over on a S3OO
bond; the other negroes, being
defended by Col. W. E. Watkins,
were given liberty on the ground
of self-defense.
A mule, belonging to Mr. A.
M. Smith, was also shot, the ball
entering the hip. but the mule
will not die.
Deputy-Sheriff Stroud, who
lives near by, made the arrests.
Hardware Display.
What many thought to be the
best display of hardware goods
as Indian Spring at which place
the meeting of the state Hard
ware Association is being held,
was that of E. C. Atkins & Cos.
manufacturers of saws, knives
and mill supplies, of Indiana.
The display of the hardware
tools which lined a portion of the _
Wigwam walls was unique and
attractive and afforded pleasure
to the hardware dealers.
The credit for this display is
due to Messrs V. A. Laue, T. L.
Hooshell and A. M. Sinclair
representatives of E. C. Atkins
& Cos.
COUNTY CORNERS
Mr. S. M. Apple was here Sun
day.
Mr. E. D. Heflin is on the sick
list this week.
Mrs. Sallie Henley is visiting
Mrs. E. D. Heflin.
Miss Mollie Hammock attended
the picnic at Lithia Spring last
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Barron Jr.,
of Griffin, visited homefolks here
last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Henley'
attended the picnic at Walker’s
Mill Saturday.
Mr. J. S. Heflin and wife
spent Sunday evening with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Heflin.
Miss Lynn Heflin has returned
home after a very pleasant stay
of a week with Mrs. Estelle Mor
ris. While there they went on a
picnic to High Falls.
Reader.