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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1909)
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. ALFRED AKERMAN, - Proprietor. J. DOYLE JONES, - - - Editor Subscription $1 a Year Entered aw Heeond-olaaß matter, Novem ber 8, I'.HiT, at tin* jiosloliieeut .Jackson, <ia. Jackson, (a., Friday, Jan. 1, 1909. Ave atque vale —hail to the New Year, farewell to the Old. A little push is a good thing for a town. ===== Get right after the town and make it grow. Keep pulling for good roads and they will come after awhile. Maybe that night rider oath wouldn’t make your blood run cold. Let’s start the new year right by having the Chamber of Com merce. The Elberton Star has a column called Reflected Reflections. Of course stars are easily reflected. The matrimonial game was played with very general success throughout the country during the year. Good roads help some. The people want them, too, and that is another reason why they should have them. Let us all hope the calamity howler will lose his voice before he reaches the promised land of the new year. It will soon be back to books and classes for the boys and girls who have enjoyed the holidays more than anybody else. We most heartily indorse the article by Col. Redman on good roads found in this issue and com mend it to the careful considera tion of our readers. The Ancient and Accepted Or der of Lemons with Crate No. 1 as the initial lodge has been or ganized. Will the' defunct poli ticians please take notice? The Society for the Discovery of the Fourth Dimension reports the customary Christmas noise may yet be found to be the elusive and delusive something looked for. They do say you can get a drink any place in Savannah ex cept in the churches and schools. It was ever thus. However be it said to the credit of the city part of the people are law-abiding. The number of fatalities will continue as long as Christmas is celebrated in the present riotous manner. There is need of reform in the way of celebrating the day most sacred of all in the calendar. The Eternal r.rH Everlasting Society of Select O I Maids will have a banquet to celebrate the close of leap year and their deliv ery from the hands of the Grim and Grizzy Old Bachelors. It has *t° the teeth-and war jfrriage and numbers of >lbers will not answer the The Political Economy of Good Reads. The following from the Scientific American is so full of able ar gument and so freighted with souud reasoning, that in view of the movement in this county for good roads, and in face of the bond election soon to be held here to allow the people to vote on road im provement, it is reproduced. No study can be more convincing than that of the economic waste placed upon the shoulders of the 85,000.000 peopte of this land from the almost criminally shameful condition of miles of road. Every pound of farm products brought from rural sections to thicldy-pcpulated centers has placed upon it a fictitious value, because it cost the farmer more to transport it than it would cost him were the roads in passable condition. The price of the lamb chop that Brooklyn eats for breakfast is based, not upon the real value of the lamb, but upon the cost of bringing that lamb from the western fields to the Brooklyn breakfast table. The cost of the breakfast roll would be trifling did it not cost the farmer who grew the wheat from which the roll was madel.B cents a bushel more to draw that wheat from his farm nine miles to a rail road station than it cost to carry a bushel of wheat from New York to Liverpool, a distance of 3,100 miles. The cost of a soft-boiled egg, which is also closely related to the American breakfast, is established by the cost of transporting the product of the hen to the hotel, and not because the egg was at all intrinsically worth what was charged for it. Everybody who thinks must concede the evident fact that if a farmer with two horses can draw but 600 pounds to market in five hours, he would save money if with one horse he could haul. 1,200 pounds in two hours. Were the roads in good condition, he could do that and more. Any saving in hauling a ton of farm product would bring a benefit, not alone to the farmer, but to the con sumer, and if the product hauled each year was large, it is not hard to figure that the saying would be large. Figures have been assembled to prove that owing to the frightful condition of almost all American roads, it costs 25 cents a ton a mile to haul. The superb roads of the old countries of Europe make possible the hauling of farm products at 12 cent a ton a mile. Therefore, every ton hauled costs the American farmer 13 cents more per mile than the farmers of the old country are forced to pay. The average length of haul of farm products in the United States is 9.4 miles; therefore, were our roads as good as those of Fiance, the farmer s gain would be 9.4 times 13 cents, or approximately $1.23. By the same method of figuring as that adopted above, the hauling of this would result in a saving of about $305,000,000 a vear. It would appear that so vast a sum should not be annually thrown away, simply becaue those responsible for appropriations of money to construct roads cannot be brought to a realization of their tremendious importance. The time for an awakening is here, and the quicker the awakening occurs, the greater the benefit the farmer will enjoy. Outlook For The New Year. The outlook for the year 1909 is bright. This is said advisedly. Business conditions are rapidly becoming normal. There is a bet ter tone in the business world and confident the real cause of the financial depression, is being restored. It is with confidence that the new year is ushered in. For Jackson the year 1908 has been remarkable in a number of ways. It has witnessed un-heard of growth and prosperity. Building has gone steadily forward. Within the past thirty months a total of forty odd buildings have been constructed or remodeled. This is a showing to be proud of and is a sure indication that the city’s success and prosperity is assured. No other city in the state the size of Jackscn can beast of so much accomplished in the same period. There are a number of things to make the new year noteworthy from a local point of view. Better roads are promised for the county. The bond election to be held on the 11 of January, it is believed, will result favorably. In that case Butts County will take rank with the best counties in the state in the matter of good roads. This means a step upward and onward. The building of the mammoth power plant on the Ocmulgee river means a great deal for this section. In the first place it means cheap power for use in whatever way is thought best. The taxes that this corporation will pay into the coffers of the county and state can not be ignored. Asa result of the construction of the big dam trolley lines galore through this section are promised. All these things spell continued success and development for Jackson and Butts County. A number of buildings are promised for the city during the new year. Progress is the watchword, the byword that has made Jack son what it is and holds the promise of what it is to be in the future. With good schools and churches and a public-spirited j citizenship the future of Jackson is assured beyond the shadow of a | doubt. A commercial organization, a Chamber of Commerce or Business Men’s League, is assured during the year just opening. With such :an organization to push and pull and advertise Jackson there is no telling what may be accomplished before the close of the year. Big bouncing Billy Taft is going to Atlanta soon to be the guest of the Chamber of Commerce at the annual dinner. A committee from the Chamber of Commerce went to Augusta to invite the presidentelect and he accepted. This is what a Chamber of Com merce does for a city and shows what might be accomplished if Jackson had such an organization. The water wagon is in the shop for much needed annual repairs. Notice of Change of Legal Advertisements. On and after January the Ist, the legal advertisements will be published in The Butts County Progress for the year of 1909. This Dec. 2., 1908. W. W. Wilson, Sheriff. The Progress for best job print ing. Try us. establishing a reputation The success of any financial institution may be accurately gauged by the measure of liberakty with which its patrons are treated, consists with the soundness and stability that must un derlieany institution aiming at theperfect dence of a community. This is our platform; we have kept it in and observed it since our organization and Lie success this bank has had in the four months of its existence attests the our business policy is giving widespread satisfaction. Our distinct aim is to make this the strongest, most active and piogressive bank in this or any surrounding county. We believe in observing and complying with the National Bank Laws. Our Directors are live, succcessful, self-made business men who take a pride in directing the affairs of this bank. We strive to give odr patrons prompt, satisfac tory service and to make every visit to this bank a pleasure. The Jackson National Bank, Jackson, Georgia. Xmas Presents For Young and Old. GOING AT WHOLESALE PRICES. Ladies and Gentlemen’s Purses and Hand Bags, Card Cases, Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Cloth Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Nail Brushes, Pipes and Cigar Cases. All Going at Actual Wholesale Prices. COME EARLY BEFORE TEY ARE ALL PICKED OVER. . Slaton Drug Cos. 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