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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS.
Published Every Friday.
ALFRED AKHUMAN, - Proprietor
.1. DOYLE JONES, - - - - Editor
Subscription $1 a Year
Official Organ of Butts County.
Entered iw He<;on<l-etaM matter, Novem
ber H, 1107, at the pontofflceat Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. 166.
Jackson, Ga., Friday, April 9, 1909.
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Have you paid your subscription?
Why advertise your town un
less you advertise your business?
Advertise both at the same time.
This is Jackson’s golden op
portunity to be a big city. Will
shp grasp the opportunity ?
That Holiness college ought to
be located in Butts county. It is
worth working for.
Grffin has gone after anew
hotel. Some other towns in
Georgia need new hotels.
It is a safe bet that however
the tariff question is settled that
it will cause a howl.
Up in McDonough they are
moving the checker boards on
the shady side and preparing for
the summer league.
Don’t send out a letter with
out telling the people about
Jackson. Let’s make it the best
advertised town in the state.
This kind of weather makes a
fellow dream of three base hits
only to wake up and hear the
mocking birds singing.
How about a furniture factory,
a broom factory, a novelty works
plant? Jackson needs all of
these industries.
The population of Jackson is
slated to be doubled in two years
and Butts county’s in ten years
and there will be standing room
then.
The congressional mix-up in
this district next year promises
to be quite lively with so many
favored sons fretting to get in
the running.
The notes no indorsements —
of the mocking bird these spring
mornings sound just like Old
Prosperity was about due to ar
rive.
Teddy showed his good head
work in escaping to Africa be
fore the tariff muddle came up—
the country also escapes those
messages of the big stick.
Go after the thing in reach
and let the other fellow do the
rainbow-chasing. There is plenty
in arm’s length to keep the peo
ple of Jackson busy for some
time.
Gleeful Griffin thinks it has
the best baseball team outside
the big leagues but when the
team from joyous Jackson gets
in the field it will show all of
them a thing or two.
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS, JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1909.
LET JACKSON GET BUSY.
This is the time of all times for Jackson and Butts county
to get busy.
Before our very noses opportunities are being unfolded
that mean everything to this county. No town in the United
States has such opportunities as Jackson can now boast of.
It is not a far-off something to be dreamed of and talked about
but actual realities at our very door that rivet the attention
and hold the interest of all public-spirited patriotic citizens.
Here comes a man who says he will not only furnish power to
Jackson but will go further and take stock in any plant that
wants to locate here.
Was fairer proposition ever made? What more could be
asked for? If there is a Rip Van Winkle in this section that is
not stirred and thrilled by that declaration he should be allowed
to sleep another twenty years. But when he awakes he will
find that he has been pushed aside to give room to people who
will do things. This is a call to life, to activity; a clarion ap
peal to men of brains and brawn and patriotism who will dare
to throw themselves into the industrial wave sweeping over
this section. If there be any that will sleep in such a time, let
them sleep and slumber.
Now the people of Jackson and Butts county will not allow
themselves to be swept away by mere idle talk. They are too
intelligent for that. They will protect their own interests.
But when so much depends upon the present situation it does
look as if it were time to get busy and do some work for the
town and county. It is certain that development will take
place here. If this development is not done by home people it
will be done by outsiders. The course of industrial develop
ment is steadily working its way southward. Factory sites are
always in demand. Cheap power always brings new enter
prises.
There are certain physical facts that can not be overlooked.
This section needs certain things and it will take these things
to place this section in the commanding position its importance
demands. For years and years Butts county has needed just
such development as that now taking place here. It is now an
accomplised fact. All the people have to do is to get busy and
all else will be easy.
Jackson does need a trolley line and more outlets for her
trade. She needs better freight rates, perhaps, more than any
thing else. She will not get better freight rates until she gets
more outlets. Jackson does need a first-class tourist hotel and
the day dirt is broken for the trolley line the dirt will be
broken for the hotel. These things are dependent upon each
other.
Butts county does need better roads. She will get better
roads when she gets more revenue. She will get more revenue
upon the completion of the power plant. This concern will
pay into the coffers of the county quite as much taxes as is now
paid in. Aagin it is seen these things.are dependent upon each
other.
Jackson needs more business, more trade, more industries,
more payrolls. She can get the industries if she has the power
to offer. She has that. New cotton mills will consume more
cotton, will add payrolls; new enterprises will increase the busi
ness of the town and county. The offer of cheap power will
be a sufficient inducement to bring capital and new industries.
Here again mutual dependence is to be seen.
Taken altogether it is a great opportunity. Now, if ever,
a forward step in Jackson and Butts county’s industrial progress
must be written in solid and substantial form.
Regardless of how much cotton
they plant our farmers should
look to their produce crop first.
If a man ever accomplished any
thing in the world without being
criticised for it we have yet to
hear of it. The ancient order of
mossbacks have little else to do
but find fault.
An arc light in front of the
school building is very much
needed. A little later the foliage
lof the trees will completely ob
| scure the building and render it
' difficult for one to make his way
‘at night. The commencement
season will soon be on hand and
! the matter should receive atten
tion.
We hope the farmers who have
held their cotton will be re
warded by good prices. They
are the basis of the country’s
wealth and prosperity and ought
to have a living price for the j
product of their labor.
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dotted all over with well-tilled
farms .and nice cottages, filled
with as fine people as there are
in the world? And that we have
a watering place and camp ground
that can draw a transeint popu
lation of ten theousand in one
day?
Well, maybe you say “Why
don’t you build your road and let
them find that out afterwards?”
Well, I will answer that ques
tion by asking you one. If you
were looking for a place to invest
a large amount and had been in
vited to put it in a trolley line in
Indiana would you want to know
whether it ran through a wil
derness or a finely developed
section like that to be traversed
by the Middle Georgia Interurban
Railway?
Remember friends no proposi
tion goes to sleep in my hands.
It is always alive with me.
With best wishes for all,
W. F. Smith,
McDonough, Ga., April 5 1909.
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