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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
ALFRED AKERMAN, - Proprietor.
J. DOYLE JONES. - - * Editor.
Subscription $1 a Year-
Entered hh *cond-<:liws matter, Novem
ber , 1907, at the postottice at Jackaon, Ga.
Jackson, Ga., Friday, Dec. 4,1908 J
If you don’t shop early you will
regret it later.
Even the Prosperity wagon
must have good roads to run
smooth.
A boulevard from Jackson to
Indian Spring would be a bully
thing. How about it?
It was a great race in Atlanta.
Things got hot up there about
the time of the election.
By the time old Prosperity gets
in full blast let Butts county have
some good roads for him to speed
on.
Watch Jackson and Butts coun
ty grow, ought to de made the
watchword of every patriotic cit
izen.
The season for new year’s res
olutions is near at hand. Old
ones are pretty well torn to pie
ces by this time.
Let us all feel that we have the
best town aud county in the state
and be prepared to biff any fel
low that says we haven’t.
Those that move away from
Jackson aud Butts county come
back sooner or later. They just
can’t forget a good thing.
Stock raising pays, food crops
pay, cotton does not pay much
When will the farmers of the
state ever learn this lesson?
King Cotton must be dethron
ed and anew king set up. The
farmers need more full smoke
houses and cribs and hay lofts.
The convention season is here.
Gainesville, Madison and Quit
man have recently entertained
some important gatherings. It is
Jackson’s time to land next.
It may be a painful reminder
to some of the old bachelors to
know that leap year is fast draw
ing to a close. One imagines the
old maids feel they have done
their duty.
It will not be long betore the
boys and girls will be coming
h >me for the holidays. College
f >lk are a jolly set and the yule
t.de probably means more to them
uian to anybody eise.
Savannah, the city almost-by
the-sea, pulled oif the greatest
races last'week ever held in this
country. The racing fever got
some of the people here and they
went down to see the speed gods
r ce against time.
That Indian Spring road ought
to be graded and made as smooth
a- plate. Then when the thou
s nds of visitors come up to the
noted resort next summer they
w . come on to Jackson to see
what a fine town we have and
t.4.y will go home and tell the
;ople about this piece of model
10-d. Advertising pays.
What Other Coun
ties are Doing.
Comparisons are as interesting
as they are said to be odious.
In view of the fight being made
for good roads throughout the
state it is interesting for the citi
zens of this county to look about
and see what the other counties
are doing in the matter, particu
larly the neighboring counties of
Henry, Spalding, Monroe and
Jasper. All of these counties
have made requisition with the
prison commission for a large
number ef convicts, not only their
number according to the appor
tionment but for “overs," which
they are anxious to secure. This
means they are going to have
some good roads.
It is not known what action
Butts county will take in the
matter. This is a question that
should be.settled, though, pretty
soon. It is a good idea to always
be on time. It would not be a
bad thing for the county to speak
for her share of the convicts be
fore they are all taken up, that
is, of course, provided she wants
them at all. i
It is said, though the informa
tion is not official, that during
the last few years a total of SIOO,-
000 has been spent on the roads
of Butts county. This is a good
deal to spend on road building.
Maybe if the same amount had
been used on a chaingang that
the roads would have been better,
maybe they would not have been
as good.
Butts county has an annual in
come for the road fund of from
$6,000 to SIO,OOO. This amount,
it seems to us, would be sufficient
to maintain a pretty large chain
gang.
But as we have said before this
is a matter for the people to set
tle as they think best.
Undeserved.
Mr. J. D. Jones, of Statesboro,
has taken charge of the Butts
County Progress, and promises
in his announcement to give the
people of this section the paper
they desire. He has consider
able experience in newspaper
work and you know it takes that
to make a success. —Jackson Ar
gus.
This .editorial reference was
very kind in our contemporary
and all the more so because we
fear it is undeserved and that we
are unworthy of the attention
given us. However, we will try
to prove worthy of every confi
dence placed in us and be true to
every trust. We will give the
people a good paper if they will
help us, but without their sup
port and cooperation and kindly
suggestions we fear it is a hope
less task.
By the way, we wish to say
right here that Mrs. Shaver gets
out one of the cleanest, best pa
pers in the state and takes easy
rank with that brilliant coterie of
Georgia women who are doing so
much for the upbuilding of
Southern journalism. Her game
fight is worthy of special men
tion. For the nice things said
of us we are sincerely grateful.
Get busy for Jackson. There’s
where your duty lies.
* THE STROLLER. *
Business is better in Jackson
than in any of the towns around
here," said Prof. Lanier, of the
city schools, who has just return
ed from a trip. Continuing he
said: “I find business humming
here, while in a good many
places it is rather dull. Things
are holding up well in Jackson.”
This goes to show that Jackson
is one of the very best towns in
the whole state. It is a sure in
dication that the prosperity and
growth of the town is steady
and firm.
“I have about sventy-five or
eighty bales of cotton that I am
going to carry to Griffin to sell, ’ ’
3aid Mr. John B. Evans, who
was in the city on Tuesday.
“You see it is this way: The
roads are so much better in
Spaulding county than they are
in Butts that I believe it will
pay me to carry my cotton to
Griffin, though the distance is
nearly twice as great, being 15
miles to Griffin while it is only
71-2 to Jackson. After one
strikes the Spaulding county line
the roads are as hard and smooth
as one could ask for, but they
are certainly bad in this county."
What more e loquent plea could
be put forth for good roads than
this? Will the people stand by
and see the cotton carried to tne
other towns in this section in
stead of bringing it to Jackson?
This is commercial suicide for
Jackson. Good roads will solve
the problem. Some thing surely
ought to be done to secure good
highways.
The meeting of the Southeas
tern Road Congress in Atlanta
this week was in a number of
ways one of the most important
gatherings held in the state in a
long time. The convention was
called together by Governor Smith
for the purpose of arousing inter
est in the good roads movement.
The ordinaries and county' com
missioners of every county in the
state were urged to be present
and a large number did attend
the meeting which was held at
the state capitol.
Judge J. H. Ham, Messrs. J.
0. Gaston, chairman of the Coun
ty Commissionerr, and H. G. As
bury, another member of the
board attended the meeting from
here.
A large number of delegates
not only from Georgia but the
other Southern states were pres
ent. Atlanta entetained the vis
itors after her usaul open-hearted
manner. The delegates were tak
en for an automobile ride over
Fulton county's well-built roads
that cost $3,200 a mile—or at|
least part of them cost that much !
in the building.
| The delegates from here are
fwell pleased at the result of the
convention. One of the commis
sioners in speaking of the sand
clay roads seen in Fulton county
said: “We are going to have
some good roads in the next year
or two, ’ ’ That is good news and
it is hoped Butts county will soon
have roads the equal of any coun
ty in the state.
People Living
in the Country
Don’t have to come to
town in order to do busi
nesss with The Jackson
National Bank.
If you get a check on this or any other Bank, just
write across the back of it, “Pay The Jackson National
Bank or Order for deposit," sign your name, put it in
an envelope and address it to
THE JACKSON
National Bank,
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
The mail man will bring it in; we will give you (redit
for it and send you a receipt. You can then check
against the amount.
We want to accommodate
our farmer friends.
WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS.
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