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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. * * * 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 Have You Valuable Papers? Of Course You Have Papers you don’t to lose. Papers you don’t care to have others see. Our Safety Deposit Vault Will protect them from fire, from burglars and from prying eyes. Once placed in your own safe in our vault they will be “off your mind.” THE JACKSON NATIONAL BANK JACKSON - - GEORGIA I CAN! SAVE YOU Money on Terra Cotta, Coal, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls in car lots or retail. I am also agent for shale brick, made by B. Miff lin Hood—the non-con vict brick man —Rock- mart. Also dealer in Lumber, Lime, Cement and all kinds of Building Materials. T. 0. UlT ™ 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 Lumber Cos. 3t FOR SALE—Good 8 year old horse. W. B. Reeves, Carrier No. 2,. Jackson, Ga. It Try the Progress job work. Neat and clean—Yourprinting