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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 20
PICNIC AT MALLETT’S
SPRING ON FRIDAY
LET EVERYBODY COME OUT AND HEAR CONGRESSMAN HARDWICK,
JUDGE RUSSELL, PROF. AKERMAN, COL. THREATT MOORE
AT GATHERING OF PROGRESS CORRESPONDENTS
The indications are strong that
a large audience will hear the
speeches of Congressman T. W.
Hardwick, Judge R. B. Russell,
Prof. Akerman and our own
inimitable orator, Threatt Moore,
at The Progress correspondent’s
picnic at Mallett’s Grove, Friday
August 28th.
The Atlanta Journal has tele
graphed to its Jackson corres
pondent to give full account of
JACKSON NO. 2
Protracted meetings were held
last week at Beulah.
Mr. J. P. Brandon spent Sun
day in Atlanta with his son.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Craig and
little son, spent Sunday in At
lanta.
Miss Laura Duke of Worthville
spent last week with Mrs. Julia
Duke.
Just ask Mr. J. W. Moore how
wet he got last Monday after
noon.
Miss Hattie Jones spent last
Wednesday with Miss Fannie
Mae Moore.
Mr. J. C. Thomas of Sparks,
was up to see his mother and
family last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Jolly spent
Sunday and Monday with rela
tives at Jenkinsburg.
Misses Rosa and Lilia D.
Reeves of Cedar Rock, visited
Miss Annis Hoard recently.
Mr. Grady Brooks and wife of
Jenkinsburg, visited Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Maddox last week.
Miss Mattie Sue Ham of Jack
son, was out to see Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Jolly one day last week.
Miss Pauline McClure enter
tained a number of her friends
at a spend-the-day party recently.
Mr. John Mayfield’s many
friends were glad to see him
down from Atlanta Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bullard,
Mr. and Mrs. Reed and children,
and Mrs. Ducan spent Sunday in
Atlanta.
Mi&s Lucy Bond of Mcßae,
spent part of last week at Stark,
as the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
John Dodson.
The many friends of Hon. Wil
liam Hodges will be sorry to
karn that he continues critically
ill at his home in Iron Spring.
We are informed that ties and
fails will will be started to being
laid on the new railroad this
week and rushed to completion.
Mrs. E. W. Carroll and sweet
little children of Augusta, came
last Thursday for a visit to Hon.
W illiam Hodges and other rela
tives in Butts.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1908
thb day and the speeches which
will be made, showing that the
importance of -this affair is ap
preciated away from Butts
county.
The object of the occasion is
just a mere gathering of the
correspondents of the Progress
to hear interesting and beneficial
speeches, and to invite every
body to attend and share with
them the pleasure and benefit of
the day.
We are informed that there
will be an all day singing at
Macedonia church next Saturday
August 29. All lovers of music
are cordially invited to come and
bring well filled baskets.
The many friends of Misses
Allie and Susie McMichael, the
attractive daughters of Mr. J. F.
McMichael, who have been criti
cally ill with typhoid fever for
the past two weeks are glad to
know that they are very much
improved.
We would like to see as many
as can possibly come to The Pro
gress’ Correspondents picnic on
next Friday 28. Come and hear
the speaking by Hon. Richard B.
Russell, Congressman Hardwick,
Prof. Akerman of Athens.
Come and enjoy yourself and help
somebody else to have a nice
time. Here’s hoping that this
picnic will be a grand success.
Rough Rider.
fincherville
Mr. Claude Duke was seen in
our midst last Sunday.
Mr. Hugh Mote, of Jackson,
visited friends in our midst last
; Tuesday.
Miss Eva Maddox of Flovilla,
is the guest of Miss Annie Mae
Maddox.
Ask “Jumbo Jum” and “Han
nah” if lamp black is easy to
wash off.
Mr. Arthur Hilley of Douglas
ville, is spending a few days
with komefolk.
Mrs. N. B. Lunsford of East
,man, visited relatives hereon
Wednesday.
Miss Ermond Fincher happen
ed to quite a painful accident Lst
Friday. In some unaccountable
manner, while running, she e
and broke her leg, just above her
ankle. Drs. Wood and Ellis
were called in and set the bon .
She is now resting very com
fortably.
The school at Fincherville, un
der the direction of Miss Bessie
Thaxton, closed Friday after
very successful te™ of six
months. During
pupils have been enrolled with a
average a— Junng the
summer term oi near ov
The morning and afternoon
speeches will necessitate the
proverbially well-filled baskets,
and of course no Butts county
audience will fail in this respect.
The speakers will arrive in
Jackson on the morning trains
Friday and will be conveyed to
the picnic grounds.
Let everybody come and give
these men the large audience
which they deserve.
children have made marked im
provement and during the term
have handed in near 2000 correct
papers, in written work required
by the teacher, being graded ac
cording to neatness, correctness,
spelling and punctuation.
Last Thursday afternoon the
school gave a concert to a crowd
ed house, which shows the ap
preciation of the patrons and
friends. A program of about
two hours consisting of recita
tions, songs, dialogues, panto
mimes and tableaux by the little
folks, was highly enjoyed. On
Thursday night the high school
department gave a grand concert
which was highly enjoyed by the
orderly and appreciative au
dience. The main feature of the
evening was a play entitled ‘ ‘Jum
bo Jum” which caused much
merriment and laughter. After
a program of about two hours,
we were favored with several
pieces by Miss Maggie Bell Thax
ton. Miss Bessie has put special
effort into the school aud enter
tainments and we fell that she
deserves much credit as well as
praise for the way in which she
. has trained her pupils.
WORTHVILLE
We are having a great deal of
rain out here this week.
Hugh Mote spent last Tuesday
night with Charlie Hodges.
Little Miss Esther McCart is
visiting Lucile Hodges this week.
Misses Virginia and Essie
Elder spent Saturday and Sunday
in Locust Grove.
Little Zulee Elder from Macon
will spend next week with her
sisters at Worthville.
Misses Estelle Castellow and
Allie Gardner, of Locust Grove,
spent Sunday night with Misses
Virginia and Essie Elder.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and
children have just returned from
Atlanta where they visited her
brother, Mr. Lucian Mann.
Miss Lena White will leave in
a few days for Atlanta, after
stopping there awhile she will go
to Pulaski, Va., to begin her
work in the millinery room.
Worthville school will close
Friday, Sept 4. On that night
Miss Elder and her pupils will
give a concert. Everybody is
cordially invited. The exercises
will begin at eight o’clock.
Protracted services will begin
Tiere at the Methodist church
Friday night. Everybody must
come. We are expecting a good
revival. We will have a union
meeting, both the Methodist and
the Baptist preachers will be
with us.
MR. BEAUCHAMP WRITES
FROM “SEA WALL” CITY
Galveston, Texas:—Editor Pro
gress: Will you allow me space
in your newsy paper to tell your
readers about Galveston, the
“Sea Wall” city?
About noon on the Bth of Sep
tember 1900, a severe storm of
threatening proportion began,
and increased in wind, velocity
and fierceness as the afternoon
progressed, until about 9 o’clock
that evening it reached its high
est, flooding the entire island
upon which the city is located —
the business section being about
8 feet deep with the raging wa
ters of the gulf.
It is estimated that 10000 peo
ple lost their lives in this memor
able flood that came near blotting
Galveston off the map. The next
day after the flood, began the
work of rescue. The bodies of
the dead were carried out in bar
ges in the gulf and given to the
waters that had deprived them of
their lives.
Galveston is located on an is
land about one mile wide and
three to five miles in length.
Galveston Bay, about two miles
wide seperates the island from
mainland. After the flood, the
city was nearly bankrupt, and all
the bridges between the island
city and mainland were swept
away. No other city but Galves
ton with its great pluck and en
terprise, would have undertaken
to rebuild a city here after such
a great catastrophe as happened
on the Bth of September, 1900.
But its fine harbor, gulf outlet,
and backed by the great wealth
of the city and large volume of
business from Texas an empire
within itself—gave cheer to the
stricken city, and work of re
building the city begun.
A great sea wall 1G feet high
- five feet at the top and 16 feet
at the bottom -constructed of
granite, was built along the
beach on the gulf at a cost of
two and one half million dollars.
Work on this wall was com
menced October 27, 1902, and
complened July 30, 1904. The
city has been raised from two to
seventeen feet. In the business
section of the city, on some of
its business houses, a person can
see how high the raging waters
were. One striking feature of
the city now is its newness, for
for the buildings that remained
intact during the storm have
been built remodelled. Nearly
all the business houses and resi
dences have been erected since
1904. The streets are wide and
well paved, or where not paved
are shelled. Galveston has a
population of about 45000. All
the railroads enter the city over
a bridge across the Galveston'
Bay, which is over two miles
long. All the large railway sys
tems of the South-west have
great terminals here. Several
immense grain elevators are lo
cated here.
Despite the ravages of the
great flood just eight years ag<*
the city stands today the great
est cotton port in this country..
The port receipts for the seasoa
of of 1907 and ’OB have already
passed two and a half miHka
bales of cotton. Just think of
that! A half million more thas*.
the great state of Georgia pro
duces annually. A million mars*
than Savannah, and nearly three
quarters of a million more thn*
New Orleans. A city of 4500#
people doing more export bust
ness than New Orleans, witS
450000 people. Freight is more
easily, handled here than at New
Orleans, for here everything
loaded and unloaded at the same
wharves. Not so in New Orleans.
Along the wharves arc two mon
ster cotton warehouses, one hold
ing 30000 bales, another 4000?..
In 1904 when Texas made siurfc
a bumper cotton crop, Gal vest®*
received four million bales of
cotton. This year they claim
they will receive four or five mil
lion bales, for south, west and
east Texas are making bumper
cotton crops. Cotton has been;
coming in here since June 2CL
Received 1810 bales Saturday amS
expecting 3500 today. As there
are no wagon road bridges int®
the city, all bnsiness comes via
boat or rail. Thousands throng
the city on Sundays.
The city has many handsome
buildings of the most modem
type. When the Panama *aß*§
is completed this city jumps by
bounds in population. On the
principal streets in the residence
portion, can be seen palm*
banana trees and other tropica?
plants going through the city
that was destroyed jusl; eight,
years ago. Here on Sundays the
theatres are in full blast, dow*
town and out at Electric Park m
the breast front, thousands
throng the pleasure grounds and
make merry the Sabba'fn. It
doesn’t look like Sunday at all.
While the legislature is trying
to abolish the infamous cog met
lease system the solans -should
pass strict game laws for the
next five years. Another raging
army of countless millions arc
raging Georgiaward now whose
way is being laid waste. Noth
ing can stop these demons of
destruction. This march trough
Georgia in years to come will pass
into history like that of Sher
mans great raid through Georgia-
I refer to the dreaded boll weavi<
which laid waste Texas and
Louisiana during their ravages
in these states. They stay about
three years in a section. They
have crossed the Mississippi, sm l
have begun this march to the
seaboard. It has been found in
Texas and Louisiana that doves
and partridges are great foes of
the dreaded boll weavil. Protect
your game so now as to be ready
for the weavil when he
for nothing so far has been in
vented or devised that stops
these bugs in their fearful de
struction of the south's greatest
crop.
Success to The Progress, for it
is a newsy, up-to-date paper, and
Jackson is to be congratulated
upon having such a fine paper
as The Progress. I tun yams,
truly, C. 0. Beauchamp.
NUMBER 35