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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
ALFRED AKERMAN, - Proprietor
J. DOYLE JONES, - - - - Editor
Subscription $1 a Year
Official Organ of Butts County.
Entered att Hecond-claaa matter, Novem
ber rt, 1!(07, at the postoftice at Jaekaon, (hi.
Telephone No. 166.
Jackson, Ga., Friday, Feb. 19, 1909.
OPPORTUNITY.
Master of human destinies am I;
Fame, love and fortune at my foot
steps wait,
Cities and fields r walk; I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or
late
1 knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping; wake; if feasting rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every
state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Have death; but those who doubt or
hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and
woe,
Beek me in vain ond uselessly implore,
1 answer not and return no more.
• —John J. Ingalls.
It is manufacturing plants that
Jackson needs most of all right
now.
Jackson can get a tannery if
the people want it. Every enter
prise helps.
A booster is always worth more
than a knocker. Line up and do
your part for your county.
Jackson will have a population
of several thousand in a few years
if a long hard pull is kept up.
The rain and slush of the last
few is a forceful reminder that
Butts county needs good roads.
The credit system is a curse to
the countyr. The way to national
independence lies in a cash basis.
Good roads are worth working
for. A campaign of education
along this line will do good. Do
you talk good roads?
By pulling for your town you
help yourself. What are you
doing for a greater Jackson and
Butts county?
The Monroe Advertiser sug
gests that, if you do not think
your town is the best one of its
size in the country, it’s' time for
you to move out.
New Orleans went Atlanta one
better on the Taft dinner but At
lanta is going to have a music
festival that will make the South
sit up and take notice.
As between a monument and
a memorial hall the latter is pref
erale. Help the Daughters to
build a fitting memorial to the
brave Cenfederate dead.
In cement and stone there is
being written near Jackson, Ga.,
one of the most important chap
ters in the industrial history of
Georgia, for the work of con
structing the big dam across th£
Ocmulgee river at that point is
in full swing, fully five hundred
men being busily engaged. The
work is progressing by day and
by night, there being two shifts
of laborers.—Georgia and Ala
bama Industrial Index.
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS, JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1909.
JOE BROWN’S OPORTUNITY.
Joe Brown has the opportunity of being the greatest governor
since the war. If he consecrates his administration to the things
he says he will history will stamp him one of Georgia’s greatest
governors. When asked what his policy would be he replied that
it would be in working for good roads, the building up of enter
prises, the protection and development of fisheries on the Georgia
coast. He said railroads and corporations would be treated as in
dividuals.
Nothing ever spoken sounds fairer or better than those words.
The greatness that is to be ours must be dug out of the soil, out of
the hills and rivers and streams and not squeezed out of corpora
tions. The fertile acres of Georgia have more wealth than all the
corporations ever chartered under her constitution. Tne man that
wins wealth in the future will win it by the development of natur
al resources, the harnessing of latent forces, the calling into play
of dormant possibilities.
The agricultural south is just coming to her own. A large part
of the timber, the turpentine, the forests have been used up, but
the soil that ever responds, the rivers and hills remain and from
these must come the wealth of, the future, or else there will be no
wealth. The man that achieves greatness in the future will be a
builder, a promoter, a constructive force —not one that tears down
and breaks to pieces. This is reasonable and this is logical.
If Mr. Brown can go out of office with good roads in every coun
ty in the state, if he leaves office with the oyster industry built up
and protected by the legislature, the fisheries developed, the water
power and inland waterways of the state built up, his name as a
great economist will be secure. He says he will do that. He says
he is untrammeled, and that a square deal awaits every individual
and corporation in the state.
Just at this time such promises are propitious of much that is
good, and the administration of Joseph M. Brown will be watched
with interest.
CAMBER OF COMMERCE.
It is a matter of mutual pride and congratulation that the Cham
ber of Commerce extended to the Governor-elect the cordial re
ception that it did. Regardless of past political preference, the
members of the Chamber of Commerce came together, and in right
royal fashion entertained the next chief executive of the state. It
was but fitting and proper that this should have been done. In en
tertaining Mr. Brown, the Chamber of Commerce was not enter
taing a candidate for office, but instead, one who has elready been
elected to a high position. It is no small honor to have as a guest
the man highest in the councils of the state, and it is a part of
magnanimity for political opponents to extend such cordial hospi
tality as is in their power to give.
That much was done. The results are bound to prove the wis
dom of the step. The Chamber of Commerce is the brightest jew
el in Jackson’s crown. It stands for all that is best in municipal
and county affairs. It is a beacon that points to a reunited and
harmonious future and a greater Butts county and a greater Jack
son-greater in fact and in name than any can now tell.
The Chamber of Commerce did itself proud on the occasion of
Brown’s visit to Jackson and Butts county. The latch string of
hospitality was left hanging on the outside. The coffers were
opened up and a brilliant and successful banquet greeted the next
governor.
And right here a criticism. The toasts should have been shorter
and interspersed with more wit. There should have been toasts
between courses. Wit and humor, bright, sparkling things should
have held sway. But the entertainment was a grand success, and
being the first of a series of delightful affairs to be given under
the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, was altogether charm
ing.
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WHAT MR. BROWN SAYS.
“I have been to a good many places in Georgia, and have been
entertained by seveal towns and cities, but the cordial hospitality
I received in Jackson surpassed anything I have yet met with.”
This was the statement of Governor-elect Joseph M. Brown to a
committee from the Chamber of Commerce last Thursday morning
at the depot, as he was about to board the train for McDonough.
Mr. Brown was enthusiastic with the condial reception extended
him while in Jackson.
The Chamber of Commerce did itself proud in entertaining the
Governor-elect.
Old Prosperity and the weather
man must have collided and the
weather man came in on schedule
time while the prosperity wagon
is a little late but is reported
headed this way.
Skilled workmanship—Do you
want some printing done?
Jackson needs some place to
amuse itself—a park, Y. M. C.
A. with gymnasium, opera house
or something of the kind. All
work and no place for recreation
is not. best.
The Progress #1
FLO VILLA.
Mr. C. D. Ingram has returned
home after a month’s stay in
Florida.
Rev. Paul A. Motes, of Locust
Grove, filed the pulpit of the
Baptist church Sunday morning
and evening, in the absence of
the pastor.
Mr. Lamar Etheridge, of Jack,
son, was in Flovilla, on business,
Monday.
Mrs. J. T. Gibson leaves Satur
day for Macon where she will be
the guest of her sister, Mrs. J.
L. Holloway, for several days.
Rev. Mr. Long, of Locust
Grove, visited Flovilla Sunday.
Miss Bessie White has returned
home from Jasper county and
Monticello, where she has been
for some time the guest of rela
tives.
Mr. W. A. Elder and daugh
ter, Miss Beatrice, of Indian
Spring, visited Mrs. A. F. White
Tuesday.
Quite a large number of our
citizens are attending court in
Jackson this week.
Mr. Charlie Thornton, of Jack
son, was the guest of Mrs. A. C.
Allen Sunday.
The first quarterly meeting of
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the Flovilla circuit for 1309 was
held in Flovilla at the Methodist
church Friday, February 12.
Each church in the circuit was
well represented, and the presid
ing elder, Rev. J. A. Eakes,
preachsd a very forcible sermon.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown
arrived Sunday night and will be
the guest of the Bryant House
for several days.
Mrs. W. D. Henceley returned
home Sunday, after ten days
spent very pleasantly with rela
tives in Atlanta and East Point.
Mrs. J. S. Cumming, Mrs. T.
P. Atkinson, Miss Lula Dozier,
Miss Alice G. Smith, Miss Bessie
Bloodworth, Miss Bessie White
and Miss Willie Terrell will rep
resent Flovilla Sunday Schools
at the convention of Sunday
School Workers, of the sixth dis
trict to be held in McDonough
on the 19th inst.
All the Flooring you want for
SI.OO per hundred at Jackson
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