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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
;• Published Every Friday.
ALFRED AKERMAN, - Proprietor.
J. DOYLE JONES, - - - Editor
Subscription $1 a Year-
Entered an necond-class matter, Novem
ber 8, 1507, at the poatoffleeat Jackson, (>a.
Jackson, Ga., Friday, Dec. 18, 1908.
Whoop up home enterprises.
Make all roads lead to Jackson.
Now is the time to work for
good roads.
Be an optomist and you'll feel
better at least.
Shop early—and often if you
desire—but shop at home.
Pull for Jackson and Butts coun
ty. This is the part of patriotism.
Go hard for things that will
make a greater town and county.
Remefnber if you don’t pull
for your town that nobody is
going to for you. <
The calling down that Congress
gave the President is being com
mended generally.
Let your first new year’s reso
lution be to pull longer and work
harder for Jackson.
Covington wants to be divided
into wards. Let her go ahead
and make the division.
Jackson ’s business men are pub
lic spirited and deserve every bit
of success that is coming to them.
Taft's coming to Georgia will
make Augusta a bigger city-she
will have to spread out to hold
him.
Boost and the world will get
ashamed of itself an i boost with
you but knock and you knock
alone.
In the row on between the
President and Congress it will be
interesting to see who has the real
Big Stick.
If you have done your Christ
mas shopping at home the mer
chants are benefited and feel bet
ter over it.
With good roads Butts county
would be the best county in the
state just as her soil is the most
fertile now. ,> • *
Senator Bacon is advocating the
kind of democracy we believe
will do the country good. He is
a great Democrat. '
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The local Sunday schools are
going to malce the hearts of the
poor hiappy next week. This is
the true Christmas spirit.
* ‘A Ten Thousand Club in 1915’ ’
could do some good work right at
this time.' 'Jackson can have that
many people by that time if she
goes out after therm ..
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If the weather man does his
part and with-the lipsb'f old Pros
perity puckered for a smile that
is going to cover,the.CAtjre coun
try it should be a merrv Christmas
Vote for Bonds.
An election ha3 been called by the Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues of Butts county to allow the people to vote on the
question of issuing bonds for road purposes and within a few weeks
the question will be settled at the ballot box. As we see it this is
a matter that calls for the highest patriotism, the wisest of states
manship and the plainest of duties.
There is no denying the fact that Butts county needs good
roads. Everyone will admit that fact. There is some difference of
opinion as to the best way to secure them. This is a matter that
must be settled by the people themselves. The importance of
good roads, their economic value and worth, has been pointed out
time after time. There should be no misunderstanding on that
score. K
At this time we believe that no wiser movement could be made
by the people of Butts county than for them to vote for a bond
issue for road improvement. Something must be done to secure
better highways. The county is suffering now for lack of good
roads. The city of Jackson feels the need and the county feels the
need of good thoroughfares. Poor roads have cost the county and
the town several thousand dollars this year and the extent of the
damage cannot be told. It is to guard against this in the future
and for the building up of the county and the town that the elec
tion has been called.
A chaingang well organized and well equipped always pays.
The counties that have tried them can testify to that fact. The
thousands and thousands of miles of good roads in counties like
Chatham, Bibb, Fulton, Clarke and others, built by convict labor,
is the best argument that can be advanced in favor of a chaingang.
The investment has been worth te.i times what it cost. The coun
ties with good roods would not be without them for any price.
And the amount of bonds to be voted for is not large. The
money will soon be paid back and no one will miss it. The income
for road purposes already is large and this, together with the
amount of bonds to be voted on, will give a fund adequate in every
way for the building of a system of roads that will be the pride of
every citizen of the county.
But after all the results are not measured in dollars and cents.
The cost is a small matter when it is considered the great good
that will result from good highways. The value of real estate will
be enhanced. The value will be almost doubled. The small amount
to be paid out in taxes will soon come back again by reason of the
high value of real estate. !
Good roads are the best advertisement a pounty can have.
Capital will come more readily. People will move to a county with
good roads more quickly than they will to a county where the roads
are poor. Capitalists and promoters are always looking for suitable
locations to invest.
Good roads mean a saving in time and energy. It is no small
matter when a farmer can put four bales of cotton on a wagon and
trot to town with more ease than he can put two bales on the same
wagon and climb hills and wear out his vehicle and stpck and creep
to town. He can go twice as fast when the roads are good. He
can put twice the load on his vehicle when the roads are hard and
level. It is,no small matter when a farmer goes twice the distance
over good roads to another market instead of coming to his home
market because of poor roads.
This brings the question of good roads right home to the
people. It is a question that vitally affects their welfare, their
prosperity and their environment. The roads for miles and miles
around Macon are as hard and smooth as plate. Asa result the
farmers of several counties go to Macon to market. Chatham
county has the best roads in the South. Some of Fulton county’s
roads cost the splendid sum of $3,200 a mile. Clarke county pays
out SI,BOO a mile for road building. Then can’t Butts county afford
to pay out a small amount to build up her roads and take a step that
will place her in the front rank of counties in the great common
wealth of Georgia? . ‘
The counties around here are taking convicts. Is it possible
that Butts county, one of the richest and most fertile counties
in the whole state and in the South, is to be surrounded by other
counties with good road& and suffer commercial suicide on ac
count of her poor roads? This does not sound reasonable. Yet
that is just what she is going to do unless the sovereign people
vote favorably on the bond issue. This is a question of far-reach
ing importance. The county’s growth and development, her com
mercial supremacy, depend upon the action taken in this matter.
Good roads have always been the sign of progress and prosper
ity. All roads must be made to lead to Jackson. This city must
be made the center of the .rich surrounding country. Then Jackson
will grow and Butts county will grow. Good roads are the part of
patriotism. • . ..
A Chamber of Commerce would
help Jackson wonderfully next
year. Hard pulling, Jong pulling
and all pulling together is what
counts. - ' " *
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L The Progress for job work.
By all means let's have a cham
ber of commerce and advertise
Jackson, the city of magnificent
achievements and incomparable
possibilities, and bring fn outside
capital and work for new enter
prises,
Some People Get Done;
Others Do.
WE DO the banking business of a host of
good people in Butts and surrounding counties
and want to DO YOURS.
Another nearby country store was broken
open and robbed by burglars in the past two
weeks, to which was DONE considerable dam
age. If you keep money on your person or in
your home YOU DO that which places you and
yours in a position to GET DONE in a sim
ilar way.
DO YOUR banking business with The Jack
son National Bank, the Bank with fiireproof
vaults, a burglar-proof Victor Screw Door
Safe and Safety Deposit Boxes for your valu
able papers, and you can “bank on it” that
you will not be DONE.
The Jackson National Bank,
Jackson, Georgia.
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