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BUTTS COUNTY P kCP Rbi
VOLUME 26
REPORT
WATER AND LIGHT
PLANT
From Jan. 1 1908 to Sept. 11908
Water and light customers
Jan 1, 08 182
Total W & L customers added "
since Jan 1 68
Taking both water and lights
in same residence 97
/Total water customers Sept,
1, 08 122
Total light customers Sept.
1, ’OB 128
Total new water customers
to Sept 1, 08 39
Total new light customer? to
Sept 1, 08 29
Total water and light custo
mers to Sept 1, 08 250
RECEIPTS
Total water and light rents
from Jan 1, 08 to Sept 1
’OB $2,840.61
Total plumbing bills paid
fromJanl 08 to Septl,oß 809.00
Total money received to
Sept 1, 08 $3,649.61
Total plumbing bills un
paid $507.31
Total light and wa
ter rents unpaid 54.00
Warrant Dr. Drum,
unpaid, 37.50
Warrant W. P. Nutt,
unpaid, 20.04
Due W & L plant from
Pep Cot Mil (coal) 39.00
Dus W & L plant from
school fund (coal) 48.00
Total outstanding accounts
owing city, good, $705.85
Cash in bank Sept 1 1908 210.88
Other cash items 138.12
Other cash items include
2 warrants amountingto 111.54
And cash due plant fund 26.58
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Sept 1, 1908
Total receiptt as shown col
lected $3,649.61
Total rents and plant’s bill
uncollected 561.31
Cash in bauk Sept 1 1908 210 88
Due W & L from school
fund 48 00
Two v arrants nd j >ther
cash items 11 > 99
Du© W & L frc m Pepper
ton 39.00
$4,624 79
Expenses as listed,
paid v-,709 97
Profit put to per
manent inuest
ment, paid 550 64
Extra engineer’s sal
ary, paid 40 00
$3,300 61
Atlas Oil Cos, unpaie 975
Lamar Rankin Drug
Company unpaid 31 50
R. 0. Campbell Coal
H B Bowling, unp’d 181 99
Cos., unpaid 259 02
Newcomer Machinery
Cos., unpaid 190 87
Standard Oil Cos., un
paid 27 63
W E Carter Electric Cos
unpaid 100 00
N e wton-Carmichael
Hwd Cos unpaid 183 34
Coal warrant, unp’d 309 80
$4,594 51
Total expenses for
year ending Sept 1 08 $4003 87
Money made and applied as
t. permanent investment:
Clearingßeservoir
Sealed bids are asked for clear
ing the whole or any part of the
land that will be covered by
back water from the dam now
being erected at the foot of
Capp’s and Lloyd’s shoals in the
Ocmulgee river, in Butts and
Jasper counties, Georgia.
The land to be thoroughly
cleared of standing or fallen tim
ber, brush, stumps: etc., in ac
cordance with specifications or
information furnished by J. G.
White & Cos., Jackson, Ga. Bids
are asked in the following man
ner:
First: At so much per acre for
the land actually cleared; the
company reserving all merchant
able timber and cord wood.
Second: At so much per acre
for the land actually cleared;
That happiness is found within this bank, not
without, is attested by our happy and satisfied
depositors and patrons. To this end we might
f
submit an avalanche of facts attesting our su
periority. Among
these is HAPPINESS the fact
that we’re T , ATT . TTA earlier or-
FOUND
ganized as a national
bank in WITHIN your sec
tion With the mas
tery of detail for the handling of every
kind of legitimate banking, we extend you a
warm welcome to call with any business in our
line.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF JACKSON
Meters $313 51
Transformers 237 13
Engineer’s salary 40 00
590 64 $590 64
Total $4594 51
Net profit 80 28
Actual money made by
plant 620 82
EXPLANATION
I consider all outstanding debts
of plant as listed good. In some
cases material is on premises,
put in. and house is not complet
ed.
Inventory taken shows stock
and material on hand amounting
to $922.97, This amount does
not include tools etc., which cor
responds with inventory taxen
last year, Jan 1, 1908. This
amount will not vary becanse it
includes hydrants, stock etc.
that we are forced to keep on
hand.
We have set $313.51 of meters
and $237 13 of transformers,
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1908.
without any claim on the timber
or cord wood.
Bids are 4o be addressed to
Georgia Construction Company,
care J. G. White & Cos., at Jack
son, Ga., and plainly marked
BIDS FOR CLEARING RESER
VOIR -
Bids to be received not later
than Dec. Ist, 1908, and the
company reserves the right to
except the land purchased from
any individual owner or reject
any and all bids received.
For particulars as to the man
ner of doing the work, the time
of completiou, etc., apply to the
Superintendant of Construction
for J. G. White & Cos., at Jack
son, Ga., or at the dam site.
Georgia Construction Cos.,
W. J. Massee, President.
which is pfofit above actual op
erating expenses, and applied to
improve system, without "calling
on any other source. We have
made a net profit of $30.28,
The people of Jackson have
enjoyed the benefits derived
from 13 arc lamps, 26 street hy
drants and 22 small incandescar.t
globes. These should be credi
ted water and light plant when
you figure your plant as an in
vestment etc. We have been
forced to pay one month’s en
gineer’s salary of S4O more than
due.
In submitting this report to
the people, I beg to call your at
tention to the faithfulness of the
Water and Light committee in
assisting me in working to the
best interest of the plant, an 4 I
especially commend to you your
chairman, Mr. J. H. McKibben,
whose interests are solely center
ed on the water and light sys
j tern.
j Re> pec ; ully submitt© ,
HAL R. i
j Supt. W. & L. Riant.
f uOtfILLA
Mrs. R. K. Fears, oi: Atlanta,
is the guest of her son, Mr. Tom
W. Fears.
Mrs. C. C. Jewett and little
son, Charles, left last week for a
visit to her sister, Mrs. H. V.
Hargett in Columbus.
Mr. J, Pierce Smith has re
turned home after a visit of sev
eral days at Brunswick.
Mrs. Tennie Elder is in Atlan
ta visiting her brother, Dr. W.
H. Whtehead.
Mr. W. D. Lamar, of Macon,
was seen on our streets Tuesday.
Mrs. Lucy Dozier Douglas left
Tuesday for a visit to friends in
Atlanta.
Mr. Will Preston left last week
for Barnesville, where he entered
the senior class of the 6th Dis
trict Agricultural college.
Miss Alice Thompson was the
week-end guest of friends in
Cork.
Prof, and Mrs Tom Atkinson
and little daughter, Elizabeth,
were the guests of friends in
Jackson Friday and Saturday.
Miss Susie Watts and Miss
Bessie Bloodworth have returned
from a few days visit to Jackson
where they were delightfully en
tertained as the guests of Mrs.
J. Mote Watts, at the hospitable
home of Mrs. Watt’s mother,
Emma Mallett.
Dr. A. F. White’s dinner party
given at his beautiful home, was
a delightful event of Friday X&st.
Dr. Wnite’s invited guests inclu
ded Messrs. J. W. Terrell, Ed
Hoard, Percy Elder, A. C. Millen,
R. V. Smith, J. B. Pruitt, J. T.
Gibson, W. J. Partridge and Dr.
J. Mote Watts.
Miss Clara Bryant spent Tues
day in the Gate City.
Mr. Eidson Smith, one of Flo
villa’s popular young men, left
Tuesday for McDonough -'Where
he expects to study lav/ under
his brother, Col. Tom Brown.
Dr. and Mrs. J. Mote Watts
and little daughter, Martha, of
Jackson, arrived Monday to be
the guests of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. L. Watts for several
days.
Mrs. O. D. Smith and little
daughter, Evelyn, are the guests
of relatives at Juliette,
A number of the young people
were delightfully entertained re
cently by Miss Susie Watts,
whose entertainments are always
anticipated with pleasure. The
house was attractive with vases
and bowls of yellow chrysanthe
mums and serns. “42” was en
joyed until a late hour, after
which delightful refreshments
were served.
Mr. C. D. Ingram, our popular
depot agent, was a recent visitor
to Atlanta.
Capt. W. F. Smith has returned
home, after a week's stay in
south Georgia and Florida.
WE HEAR IT
SAID
—That Jackson is a good town
—That she has an industrious
citizenry.
—That good people kick at
high taxes
—That “kicking” does not do
much good.
—That taxes cau be lowered by
increasing the taxable property
—That taxable property can be
increased by a coperative citi
zenry.
—That our property can be in
creased by stopping the Repub
licans and Democrats from legis
lating the wealth of the country
into the hands of a few.
—That good people are going
to vote for all the presidential
candidaaes.
—That some really honest peo
pie believe Tom Watson is honest
That the next election wi 1
give us a president elected by
the Democratic party, but not
necessarily a democratic presi
dent.
—That a man near Eastman has
16 sons, all named after Tom
Watson, and all going to vote for
Tom Watson.
—That this country can’t be
overhauled in a day like a ma
chine.
—That if the tariff is reduced
in four years time, as the Peer
less promises, the worst panic in
in the hiistory of the nation wiil
follow.
—And that then the Republi
can party will go back in power
That this thing happened
not so long ago.
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- That folks can worship their
God in the way that He would
have them, and at the same time
hold an opinion different from
yours, even though you are on
the biggest side, perhaps as big
as the Democratic party.
That a true Democrat will
not boycot- the business concern
of his feJ"iwman for political
reasons.
- That the man who is con
stantly talking about what he
dislikes in people oftentimes sees
in them the true shadow of his
own self.
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That there is something else
to live for beside making money,
listening at the preachers, eating,
sleeping, propagating and rot
ting.
—That Butts connty needs a
good system of macadamized
roads.
That Butts county needs a
better educational system.
That good roads and good
schools are our greatest wealth
producers.
—That these two blessings
would lower the tax rate, put a
piano in your home, carpet on
your floor, pictures on your wall,
knowledge in your head, money
in your pocket, a smile on your
face, and go a long ways toward
j placing happiness and goodness
j in your soul.
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