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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
ALFKKI) AKKRMAN, - Proprietor
J. DOYLE JONES, - - - - Editor
Subscription $1 a Year'
Official Organ of Butts County.
Entered sis Hecowl-idass matter, Novem
ber 8, l!H)7, at the poHtofliee at Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. 166.
Jackson, Ga., Friday, Feb. 5, 1909.
Have you boosted today ?
Have you worked today?
Do both.
Be more than a booster. Bea
worker.
The peach crop was probably
not killed; only received a bad
scare.
Words are such empty things.
It is work that counts. Line up
with the chamber of commerce.
Faith may remove mountains
but it will not bring us what we
want unless we work hard in the
meantime.
Maybe that Cooper-Sharpe trial
in Tennessee is not lull ot sensa
tions, It promises to rival the
Thaw case.
The Pacific coast is throwing a
fit over the Yellow peril. We
have other problems to engage
our attention.
* Even the weather man has
turned prohibionist and this has
been one of the dryest winters
known in this section.
Jackson wants to be as big as
Atlanta, Atlantas as big as
New York, they say. What are
you doing to make it so?
Macon lost an enterprising cit
izen in the death of Ben L.
Jones. His untimely taking off
is a real loss the Central City.
The Floyd county grand jury
believes in good roads to the ex
tent of making a recommenda
tion for a $200,000 bond issue.
Now they say that rn earth
quake in the region of the North
Pole shook several tons of ice
southward. Hence the blizzard.
Pon,t forget that Jackson
boulevard. There is enough
rock and stone in Butts county to
Macadamize every mile of her
roads.
Good roads, a modern hotel,
new enterprises. How are we
going to got them? Everybody
says we need them. The secret
lies in work.
A lot of talk about cheap pow
er, trolley lines and a greater
Jackson is all right and lets out a
lot of hot air. But it will take
work to land those things.
A tannery assured, the offer of
a road expert for scientific road
building, and the promise from
W. J. Massee of a square deal
from the Central Georgia Power
Company tor Jackson have been
accomplished the first week by
die Chamber of Commerce. Have
you joined yet? If not why not?
WHAT OF THE POSSIBILITIES?
Physically, Butts county is one of the smallest in the state,
there being 179 square miles, 120.000 acres, of territory embraced
in her borders. Morally, socially, economically she compares ad
orably with any county in Georgia. It is the lattei t at we a
most interested in.
Butts county will easily support within her borders a PI
tion of 75.000 or 100.000 people. She will not support them on Her
farms. But what is more important she will support that many
people in factories, in new enterprises, in industries. Bnougb
produce is grown in the county today to support a population arge
as that named above and this, too, at a time when diversified and
intensified agriculture is hardly known in this section. ia o
the possiblities?
What Jackson needs more than any thing else is factories, enter
prises with a large weekly payroll. This will be a guarantee o a
sure and steady financial growth and expansion. The histones oi
other towns that have grown into cities show that they have been
maintained and supported by manufacturing concerns.
And with cheap power at our very door what of the possibili
ties for manufacturing enterprises? They are great, greater than
we know. No place in the South today has any thing on Jackson
as a site for factories. With cheap power and a public-spirited
citizenship they are bond to follow in the wake of such develop
ment as is taking place near here.
Only recently five cotton factories from the north were looking
for a southern location. Isn’t Jackson the logical place for them
to invest? It would seem so. Already a tannery seems assured
for the city. The advantages for a park and hotel at the power
plant, connected with Jackson, by a trolley line, are superb. The
movement for a modern hotel, good roads and other industi ial de
velopments has taken a substantial hold on the people of Jackson.
All that is needed is a little pulling together, a little conceited ac
tion on the part of the business people of this section and anew
chapter in the growth of this section will be added.
The Central Georgia Power Company through its president
has promised to lend every assistant possible to Jackson in the
effort to build up and boost the city. Cheap power has been offer
ed. These are things that will have to be worked for, though,
as they will hardly come of themselves. The idea, if there be such
an idea, that a three million dollar cooperation, such as the Cen
tral Georgia Power Company is, will go out of its way to accom
modate Jackson and the people of Butts county is an erroneous
one. The people will have to meet this cooperation half way and
will have to show that they desire the opportunities this company
is prepared to offer and to bring to this section.
A good portion of the natural resources of the county are
gone or will soon be gone. What are we going to get in return?
We expect development to make up for the fertile acres that have
been covered up or will be covered up by water. Unless we get
this we will be poor indeed. That we can get what we want if we
go after it in the right way is true beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Then it behooves Jackson and Butts county to be wide-awake to
the opportunities now before them.
Things don’t happen. They are the result of cause and effect.
We get what we work for and go after. Jackson and Butts county
can make the present opportunities just what they want them to
be. Through the Chamber of Commerce, with the business men
of the city pulling and working together, wonders can be accom
plished. Naturally rich this county can be made the best and the
greatest in the state.
These are a few of the possibilities that lie before us. What
are we going to do abont it?
Augusta has the “dam” fever,
and wants a power plant across
the Savannah river.
Rip Van Winkle is said to have
slept twenty years. We can’t af
ford to sleep another minute. It
is time to get up and go hard af
ter things that will help Jackson
and Butts county.
To the Patrons of the
Jackson Public Schools:
An incidental fee of $1 per child
for the fall, and $1 per child for
the spring terms of the Jackson
public school will be sufficient to
pay the janitor’s salary, to buy
the coal necessary to heat the
school building, to keep the
building supplied with desks,
stoves, blackboards and other
things necessary for the comfort
and for the best work of the
child.
The state pays a good amount
toward the support of the school,
and this is supplemented by the
town of Jackson as to make the
system free, but it is only reason
able that the parent of each child
should pay his prorata part of
the incidental expenses. It is
done in almost all of the towns
of Georgia where good schools
are provided, and the amount
asked is seldom so small as one
dollar per term. If you are in-
terested in your child’s welfare,
the principal question to be asked
is not, “Can I be forced to pay
this?” It is a moral obligation,
and every cent of this fee will be
wisely used in behalf of the chil
dren.
In view of this fact, we, the
members of the city board of
education, request every parent
to pay for each of his children to
Prof. W. R. Lanier one dollar in
cidental fee for the spring term,
1909. Respectfully,
H. M. Fletcher,
Chairman;
E. L. Smith,
T. H. Buttrill,
• J. M. Curry,
J. B. Settles,
J. B. Hopkins,
H. W. Copeland,
James Warthen,
R. P. Sasnett,
Secretary.
Buy your meal and acid
from Buttrill Guano Cos.
Just leceived seven car
oads of dry pine wood,
prompt dilivery. Phone
144. Giles & Brooks. 4t
Buy your Muriate of
Potash and German Kanit
from Buttrill Guano Cos.
Try the Progress job work.
An Innovation
For Jackson.
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE.
Mail Order Terms and Prices at Hanes* Jewelry Store.
You don’t have to send your money off to Chicago, then wait
for your goods to come by mail or express before you can see and
examine what you have bought. You examine the goods right
here, then pay your money SPOT CASH and take the
goods. I have adopted this policy, and positively no goods will be
sold and no repairing done for anybody except for the SPOT
CASH on delivery of the goods. Don’t ask that anything be
charged, for you will most certainly be refused. Come and exam
ine the goods and prices, and compare with the prices of any Mail
Order concern which sells reliable goods. Everything guaranteed
as representeed.
I I A !\ I I=7 cr JEWELER AND
I IMIN l__O , OPTICIAN.
Make Your 'Trip
TO THE
Inauguration
Washington, D. C. March 4th, 1909
VIA
Soetliem Mail way
Shortest L-irae Best Route
Tickets on sale February 28th, March Ist, 2nd and 3d.
Good to leave Washington returning not later than midnight
of March Bth, 1909.
Exceedingly low rates for individuals. Still lower
rates for parties of twenty-five or more traveling together on
one ticket.
For Complete Information Regarding Rates, Schedules etc., write to
J. L. MEEK, A. G. P. A. G. R. PETTIT, T. P. A.
Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga.
Machine Shop
JOSEPH L. WAGNER & SON, Proprietors.
Repairing
Machinery erected and repaired; Pipe Fitting,
Plumbing, Electric Wiring; Automobiles
and Gasoline Engines Repaired.
WANTED: Scrap Iron,Brass,Copper,Lead
Fresh Meats. 8
| The finest line of fresh
! an( J cured meats ever
' butchered. We are fortu
i nat6 in select buying and
J j R ive >' ou the opportunity
1 ! of sharing in the profits.
'' t SAUSAGE
Choice Native Pork.
T ry one of our chops and you will be a permanent custo mer
REMEMBER, WE STILL HANDLE ICE,
The only place between Macon and Atlanta where you can
get ice in the WINTER.
CONNER & CRAWFORD.
P.S.—We will buy your beef cattle and hogs.
Try the Progress for jOb PRINTING.