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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