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butts county progress. VOLUME 27 Ihird street may be paved I CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER MATTER Band-Clay Paving to be Used. Meeting Called to Consider Project. COMMITTEE TO MEET WITH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS To Bea Mile Of Paving Along Third Street. City’s Committee Favor Street Paving. The chances seem good for Jackson to have some paved streets. . , The matter of paving Third Street with sand-clay has'‘been taken up by City Council and all things being equal the paving will be done. An entire mile of paving along Third street will be accomplished, in case favor able action is taken in the mat ter. The commitiee on streets and lanes of Council composed of Messrs. G. E. Mallett chairman, H. L. Daughtry and B. F. Moon met with the county commission- ers Wednesday and the matter was gone over. At the next meeting of the council, which will be on the 22, the question will be thrashed out. It is known that part of the members of the’ committee on streets are in favor of the pav ing of Third street. “We are willing to spend five hundred dol lars to have Third street paved, ” said a member of the committee, when asked about the matter. It is thought that the paving can be done for even less than that amount. It will be remembered that some time ago the county com- j missioners were considering the question of having a mile of good road built under the supervision of a government expert. The cost of constructing a mile of sach road, after it has been grad ed, was found to be about two hundred and fifty dollars. Third street is comparatively level and it is believed that it can be pav ed with sand-clay for a very small amount. All information in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce re lating to good roads and to road building was turned over to the committee on streets of Council, and in case the cost is not too great it is practically certain the paying will be done. Buster and Tige Coming. Buster and Tige, the favorites of every child in the country that reads the comic sections, are coming and will be in Jackson on Saturday March 27. These old chums, the pretty little boy full of resolutions and beantiful ideas and Tige, his boon companion and faithful friend in all his youthful escapades, will give a demon stration at the Jackson Mercan tile Company. With Buster will be his mother. Appropriate souvenirs will be given away. It is expected a large crowd will be in the city on that day. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH FURNISHES TREATMENT. In view of the recent case in Jackson, where a mad dog bit a child, and the ordinance passed by the city council prohibiting dogs from running loose on the streets, it is interesting to know that the State Board of Health, established in 1903, furnishes free treatment in the case of rabies, diphtheria, tuberculosis. The State Board of Health is maintained by an appropriation from the legislature and. is thus enabled to furnish anti-toxin for distribution in the treatment of the diseases mentioned above. Since its establishment the board has furnished treatment to 317 patients and has examined the heads of 240 animals, horses, cows, cats, dogs etc. Its pa tients have come from 80 coun ties of the state. The State Board of Health is doing a great work for the relief and preven tion of disease in Georgia. Covington Wants Commandery. Messrs. M. G. Turner, P. W. Godfrey, C. S. Thompson and C. A. Sockwell went to Jackson last Friday night and had the Knight Templar degree of Masonry con ferred on them by the Command ery at that place. The gentlemen report that they had a pleasant time and were royally entertained by their Jackson brethren and they are correspondingly enthusiastic over instituting a commandery in this city. As these gentlemen have had the degree conferred upon them, they will proceed to confer it upon the other Masons in this city who desires to become mem bers, and at an early date a Com mandery will be organized. As soon as the organization is perfected here the members will be eligible to membership m the Mystic Shrine, and will all take iourneys across the sands of the desert. —Covington Enterprise. Veterans to Deliver Lecture. On Thursday morning March 05 at 11 o’clock Messrs. T. B. i. K^worthandO-P.lferttwo Confederate veterans of Atlanta will lecture in the coun 1 house under the auspices nf the Larkin Watson Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The speakers are highly recom mended by the McDonough chap ter The officers of tneU. D. L. Ire urged to be present and the JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1909. TROLLEY LINE FROM MACON TO SPRINGS Chances Good for Linking up These Points by In terurban Line. Work to Begin when Dam is Com pleted. To Establish a Sum mer Resort at the Pow er Plant. The following from the Macon Telegraph will be read with in terest by the people of Jackson and Butts county. In case the proposed line is built it will be extended from Indian Spring on to Jackson: In a recent talk with President W. J. Massee, of the interurban lines, he said that dirt would be broken for these lines within sixty days. Every thing was ready in a financial way, and it only needed the necessary pre liminaries to go through with to begin the actual work. The com pany were endeavoring to have the cars operated for the first time with the turning on of the electric energy from the Central Georgia Power Company’s plant. The delay in beginning the work has been caused, first by the inevitable delay in financing so large a proposition, but this is accomplished. Then came the de lay occasioned by unlooked for litigation in Atlanta. All these delays did a great deal toward disrupting plans, but now every thing being gotton off the track, so to speak, and the work was now in sight. In addition to the interurban lines between Atlanta and Macon and Macon and Albany it is quite probable that a line of trolleys will be put on between Macon and Indian Spring, and thence to the dam. Nothing definite can be learned of this road, but it is being talked about and is one of the possibilities. It is said that the company would have little difficulty in running this line for the reason that the charter of the Macon and Indian Spring Railway, which was absorbed by the Macon Railway and Light Company, gives the right to run the line between Macon and In dian Spring. With the trolley line to the Spring and thence a few miles further to the dam, where it is contemplated to establish a sum mer resort, Macon would be down among the fortunate cities. public is cordially invited. The price of admission will be 25 cents. The proceeds will go to the monument fund. Want Better Schedules. It is understood that Jackson will join Me Donough in an effort to have northbound train No. 7 arrive here about two hours ear lier in the morning. Instead of arriving here at 9 o clock the train will arrive here at 7 o’clock if the schedule is changed. No change is to be made in the night trains. The train between Macon and Atlanta is a suburban train FAVORS A MONUMENT FOR WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY IN JACKSON Prefers To See Women Honored Rather Than The Men. THEY PLAYED A NOBLE PART IN THE LATE WAR. Mr. Wilson Smith Writes an Interesting Card in Which He Presents a Novel Plan. Editor Progress: —I read in your interesting paper an article stating the Larkin Watson Chap ter of the Daughters of the Con federacy has under consideration the erection of a monument to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of Butts crunty; that they are undecided as to whether to build a monument or a memo rial hall. Now, I wish to offer a subssitute for the whole. I move that they erect a mon ument to the Confederate Woman I think every county in the state of Georgia that Sherman passed through in his march to the sea should erect a monument in memory of the Confederate Woman. I remember well when I came home from Virginia, on the 27 day of April 1865, after being gone nineteen long months. I came home like all other soldiers -wan-hearted, but when my mother related how it was with her and Sherman’s gang I was obliged to break down. My mother’s experience was no ex ception to the rule. It was the same with all mothers where Sherman’s gang went. I hope the dear Daughters wi 11 take this matter up and give it due consideration. If they find it is practicable and will appoint two or three of the best looking young ladies in the county, from each malitia district, to solicit contributions they will soon raise the necessary amount at once. I have mentioned this matter to several old soldiers and they j all prefer the monument to the Cofederate Woman. If we want to see a monument to the Confed erate Soldier we can go down to Forsyth, and if Forsyth wants to see the monument to the Con federate Woman they can come up to Jackson. But it will be remembered Sherman’s gang did not go through Forsyth. According to the laws of na ture I have’nt many more years to live. Ido want to live to see a monument in memory of the Confederate Mother. Yes, raise the shaft, build it broad, build it high. Instead of putting the Confederate Soldier and his gun up there put the Confederate Woman and her spinning wheel up there. Yours truly, Wilson Smith. Flovilla, Ga., R. F. D. No. 1. and a change in schedule would not affect any other trains leav ing these cities. An earlier morning train is wanted, it is said, togive more time in Atlanta. Mrs. W. W. Wright is having her residence recovered. SUPPORT OF HOME PAPER An appreciative view of the home newspaper is given in the Office Outfitter of Chicago, from which we make the following extracts: Many a good town isn't worth a cent because the local newspa per is neglected. Many a good merchandising center is dead be cause the men in business treat the editor of the newspaper as an object of charity. This is wrong. The local paper is the greatest thing in the community. It should be supported. It should be read and patronized. The merchants who think they are clever and smart when they slip one over on the local paper make a mistake. Every dollar you take away from the local news paper in schemes and knocks hurts the town. It hurts busi ness, and most of all, it hurts the merchants who indulge in it. Whatever else you merchants do, patronize yeur home paper. Don't tell me that it has a small circulation. Don’t tell me that you reach ten times as many peo ple with less expense, using cir culars. Don’t spring any of these time-worn gags on me at all. Stop standing in your own light. Get behind the local paper and push it for all you are worth. I don’t mean to push it to the wall: Push it up grade to a position where it ought to be, and as sure as you are alive you will push | your own business up with it to a point you never dreamed of | before. When a man tells me that he reaches more people and gets better results from his circulars I know that he is deceiving him self and telling me what I can prove to be untrue. A newspa per in the community is read by the people. They learn to watch for it, and when they get it every member of the family wants his turn to see what it says. Ads and all are read. If the mer chants of a community will edu cate the people to look in the newspaper for their announce ments the people will read the paper more and greater will be the returns. There is no alley so long but that has its ash barrels, and there is no knock so powerful or subtle but that it reacts. Do yourself a favor and keep up your end by supporting the local newspaper, and support it for all you are worth. Messrs. G. B. Carreker and Willie Pitts Newton went up to Atlanta to spend Sunday. NUMBER 12