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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 26 JACKSON NO. 2 Crops are looking fine on No. 2 now. Miss Pauline McClure visited Miss Annie Jones Sunday. Troy S. Thomas returned last Monday from a visit to Adel and Sparks. The Pleasant Grove Sunday School picnicked at Indian Spring Saturday. Little Miss Willie Duke is spend ing the week with Mr. and Mrs. R. p. Hilley. Miss Dama Hodges was the charming guest of Miss Lillie Mae Stewart Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kimbell •will spend Saturday and Sunday in Henry county. Mr. Ed Cawthon and brother, Jess, were guests of Mr. W. T. Cawthon recently. Howard Jolly is spending a while with his uncle, Col. J. T. Jolly of Summerville. Messrs Charles Ellioct and Mor ton Vickers attended the singing at Beersheba Sunday. Mr. J. F. Preston’s friends ere glad to know he is improving from his recent illness. Miss Daisy Stewart returned last Sunday from a pleasant visit to the Misses Elder, of Macon. Mr. W. R. Mason of Mcßae, came Sunday for a few days visit to friends and relatives on No. 2. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hilley, Jr. of Atlanta, will arrive Friday to spend a few days with relatives here. Mr. R. B. Giles and Miss Annie Jones had a pleasant drive over to Mechanicsville last Friday afternoon. Miss Byrd Maddox returned Sunday afternoon from a delight ful visif to her sister, Mrs. J. W. Collins of Maqon. Mr. and A£rs. J. L. Maddox and daughters, Roxie and Exie visit ed Mr. D. W. Bryant and family of Elovilla Sunday. Little Annie Reed Harper returned this, week from Atlanta, where she .spent several weeks with' friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Yancy, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Redman, Misses Hattie Jones and Julia Grier, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bankston and family last Sunday. Mjechanicsville and Stark will play: a double-header game of base ball Saturday, July 4, one in the tnorning and one in the after noon st Stark. Everybody go out |md and root for Stark. A merry party from Stark had a pleasant day at Willow Springs in jasper county last Sunday. Thesr were Misses Deedie Mc- Ciure, Eloise and Mervine Jones, Messrs Woodie Lavender, Ra:eigh Giles and Lon Maddox. demonstrate to the reading public that The Progress is read and highly 'appreciated by- fifty to seventy-five of No. 2. ’s patrons was owing to lack oi iorce a davs ago the paper was deiayeu until Saturday. We were ?.s,:ed JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1908 at least twenty times during one trip, “Where is my Progress?” Havn’t you got The Progress to day?” “Are they going to change it to Saturday?” The people read The Progress and can’t do without it. Here’s to The Progress and it’s Editor. WORTHVILLE What has become of the picnic? Miss Pearl Benson was on the sick list last week. Mr. Rupert Washington visited in Jackson Sunday. Mr. A. Hendrick was down from Atlanta Sunday. Mrs. W. F. Stodghill visited Mrs. G. W. White Tuesday. Miss Lena White will be home from Pulaski, Va., this week. Miss Ella Cawthon visited Miss Lexie White Sunday afternoon. A large crowd attended the singing here Sunday aftei noon. Mr. Cleveland Aiken made a business trip to Jackson Friday. Miss Lexie White spent Satur day night and Sunday in Jackson. Mr. Morgan Castelow was down from Locust Grove last week. .. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Grey spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed King. Mr. and Mrs. Will Mason spent Sunday w th relatives in Henry county. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Aiken spent Sunday with Mrs. Wyatt Benson. Mr, John Chambers visited rel atives in Jackson Saturday and Sunday. Master Robert White spent Tuesday with his sister Mrs. W. J. White. Mrs. Clyde and Carrie Kinard, of Jackson, visited relatives here Saturday. Mr. B. T. Heason and Mr. John Gaston were in our town on Sat urday oftemoon. Miss Leila Stodghill will next week for a visit to Atlanta and Cave Springs. Mrs. Dan Swint and Mrs. Will Chambers visited in Worthville Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Will Whaley and children, of Covington, spent Tuesday with Mrs. S. L. Lofton. Miss Elsie Caston, of Jackson, is spending this week with Miss Lillie Belle Washington. The singing given by Miss Rosa McKinley Sunday night was enjoyed very much. Miss Florence and Mr. Ander son Singley, of Stark, passed through our town Sunday. A number of Woichville’s young people will spend the 4th at Indian Spring.- We w Ish them a merry time. Misses Vallie Standard, Alice Hontcn, Essie LevereU, Lucy Koiineld and Mr. and Mi s. How ard Standard were up from Un ion Point Sunday afternoon. Tne Prog; ess and Watson’s Weekly Jefferson : rn, on’*y SI.OO. FLOVILLA NO. 1 Mr. T. E. Fears spent Wednes day in Jackson. Miss Bettie Lindsey spent Sun day with Mrs. Van White. Mr. Woody Lavender spent Tuesday with his mother here. Rev. W. G. Cooper of Juliette, was the guest of Mr. John Ross last Sunday. Mr. C. T. Lavender and sister, Miss Ida, spent Monday in Jack son shopping. Mrs. F. C. Maddox of FlovJla, was the gaest of Mrs. Van/ White Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bray of Juliette, visited friends and rela tives here last week. Mr. Owen Smith of Flov.lla, was the guest of his father, Hon. Wilson Smith last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Duke spent last with Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Noswo; _hy. Mrs. R. G. Lavender has been on the sick list for the past ffew days, but glad to note she is im proving. , Mr. and Mrs. Riley Johnson’s many friends Vv.ll deeply sympa thize with them in the sad death of their der" little boy. Mr. Lee Ross has purchased an up-to-date “byke” and we pre sume he will go in the direction of St-'-k in a few days. IL seems it will be W. J. Bryan again. Can’t the party give us something fresh? I fe?" that if Bryan is nominated he will lose i Georg a to Taft. We notice that the Legislate has a bill pending to elect the pension commissioner by the peo ple. This is • a good bill and should pass, an‘d when'it be comes a law Judge J. H. Ham is the man to put for *vard for the commissioner. Let Butts cor lty make a strong pull for him. • \ While our LegislaCe-e is in ses sion would it not* be a good sug gestion to them to give us back that law of tax equalizers which was passed by the alliance legis lature of 90 91. In my opinion this one law would do more to ward relieving the state than any law that could be put qn the statute. • This one act put into the county - treasury of • Butts county several thousand dollars of surplus money and our tax rate was lower during those two years than they have been since tbe bankers and manufacturers were made to bear his pro rata of the tax and make fair recJ'ns. We farmers cant hide our bob tail yearlings, rnules and old red hills, so the result is tire man with the least property is bearing the burden of tax. Were I Mr. Mays, this would be my first bill. * Bill. SOUTH BUTTS *Miss Nolie Jdapgharn /viiMtqd Miss Mary Petfcigrdw Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Carter spent Sunday with Mr. and M/3. Gas Wise. Miss Alice Thaxton \ is!ted Misses Annie and Grady Flynt Sunday. Mr. Quenton Washington was the guest of Mr. J. R. Pettigrew Sunday. , Mrs. Bell Moore spent Satur day and Sunday with relatives in Jackson. Miss Mattie Maddox visited the Sunday School at Liberty Sunday afternoon. Misses Floride, Annie May and Mary Smith visited Liberty Sun day School Sunday. v l Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thaxton spent Sunday afternoon w .th Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gaston. The friends of Mr. S. j! Smith will be glad to know thfct he is much better at this writing. The young people of south Butts enjoyed a trip to the Spring on Sunday afternoon. Miss Alice May Wise spent Sunday night with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Carter. A large crowd enjoyed the singing given by Miss Ina and Mr. Prentice Ridgeway on Sat urday night. FLOVILLA Miss Lillie Cornell of Indian Springs, was in Flovilla Tuesday. Mr. R. F Phillips of Monti cello, v. sited Lends here S - r day-last. Miss Lila Robert of Jones county, •‘ •rived Thursday to v sit Miss Lula Dozier. Mrs. Lucy Dozier Doriglas has returned from a pleasr it v sit to rel&w'.ves in Atlan L Miss L ruise Smith of. Indian Springs was the guest of Miss Alice Smith recently. Mrs. C. D. Jordan and s~n Fred, of Monticello, .sited the family of Mr. W, B. DozieP Sun day. • r 1 - >v ‘• - Mr. and' Mrs. John Dpzier Persons of MonticeHb; V *4 visiting Mrs. Persons parents for a few days. ?■’; '• •.a f. , t / Mr. and Mrs R. V. and family attended a reinion of, Mrs. Smith’s family at Cabanisg. Saturday. ' Mys. Dan S. Dilscol of Jul iette visited Flovilla recently were she was the guest qf ftfiss Alice Smith and ,Mrs. W. J,, Par -idge. Mrs. Gill Smith and little ones, and Mr. and Mrs,,-Tom Brow n and family of McDonough, have returned home after several days spent in Flovilla as guests of Capt. and Mrs. W. F. Smith. BANKS CLOSE SATURDAY The Jackson banks will close doors Saturday next, this being July 4, and riatibnar holid&y. Those concerned should take notice. ; . NOTICE. Administrators, Execupors and G jafdkns r.re requesitd to make tire I r annual r to Ordinary. tj. Ord naiy. NUMBJBR 27 HISTORICAL MULBERRY TREE AT INDIAN SPRING Fond Memory Paints In teresting Scenes of Days Gone to Come No More. (written for the progress by W. F. SMITH.) Editor Progress: —At Indian Spring near Wright’s store, stands an ante bellum mulberry tree. Today my memory was carried back to scenes of other years by looking upon this old mulberry tree. It was upon this tree that Andy Johnson of Tennessee, was hung in effigy. He was the only member of Congress from -the South that refused to give up his seat and return home when his state seceded from the Union. Excitement was at fever hsat. A long flag was stretched from the Collier Hotel across the street to a store on the opposite side. On one side was the picture of a huge rattle snake under Scored with l?~ge letters, “Dont Tread On Me. ” On the other side hung a large full grown cotton stalk with the inscription “Cotton Is King.” On a public day some one had made an effigy of Andy Johnson and hung him on the mulbeny tree with a placard across his breast ‘‘Andy Johnson of Tennessee- A Traitor to the South.” - - . Miss Sallie Carter, otte of the most popular young ladies qf Indian Spring at that Lime, who lived in what is known as the Bryans House, walked up with a pistol in hand and sfyot him in the face, late in the afternoon, just before the torch was applied and the effigy 'destroyed. 'A STRANGE TURN IN AFFAIRS. Now Mr. Editor: On aecount of his loyalty to the' Union, ,and on account of the persecutions of his; people, Andy Johnson was nomihated ' for Vice President with Lincoln,; wjien Lincoln was nominated ’ for a second term, nVas elected -and /when Lincoln was' assassinated* he became President,; '■ His first aeia were in * defence oftfie South. He stood up .agajpst the Radicals who desired to Confiscate the lands of ; the Sduth. r He* stood up against: l all opposition in defence of the: people who had whipped, perse cuted. and bqpned him in and for this.ctefence of the pros trate South he was impeached by the house of Representatives and tried by th'C Seriate, arid came in one vote of being convicted. When I looked at the old tree and thinking of these stirring scenes of bygone days; with nearly all of rthe bld" hotel, the old store, and. many -other familiar objects gone, a deep feeling of sadness crept, over trie; and I cotild :.’craw' hsj; *' ‘O. hmV sad! ‘D ho w Wrange are - the dispensations of .Providence! G bow fickle and sLfcnge are .human affairs.” rond memory pkfn scenes of otaer years etc.” Yo ,t *3 ivy, W. F. Smith.