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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS.
VOLUME 27
TEACHERS ARE ELECTED
IN THE CITY SCHOOLS
WERE CHOSEN LAST FRIDAY
The Same Eaculty Selec
ted With Few Excep
tions—All Old Appli
cants Re-elected.
The Board of Education held a
meeting on Friday afternoon and
elected teachers in the city schools
for another year. The election
resulted in almost the same fac
ulty being chosen. All the old
teachers who applied for places
were re-elected. The place of
Miss Rogers, who was not an ap
plicant for re-election, was filled
by the election of Miss Josephine
Jones, of Decatur. The depart
ments of music and expression
are yet to be filled by the elec
tion of principals.
Prof. W. R. Lanier is again
superintendent. This is the third
year he has been connected with
the schools of the city. Profs. W.
H. Butler, who has seen service
here for four years, was again
elected to a place in the high
school department and together
with Miss Josephine Jones will
have charge of that work.
Miss Annie Arden, with three
years of work in the Jackson
schools, will have charge of the
seventh grade; Miss Rebecca
Snelling, who has taught here
for two years, will again have
charge of the sixth grade; Miss
Bessie Waldrop, with three years’
work in the schools here, will
again have charge of the fifth
grade; Miss Clara Nolen, who has
been teaching here for three
years, was re-elected to her old
place as teacher of the fourth
grade; Miss Marilu Burch, who
has taught here for three years,
will have charge of the second
and third grades and Miss Maud
Edwards, who has been one of
the most popular teachers in the
public schools for the past four
years, will again have charge of
the first grade.
This is regarded as a strong
faculty. The school system of
the city is in safe hands with such
a corps of able teachers at the
head of affairs. All the teachers
are well known here and possess
the esteem and confidence of the
patrons and people of the city as
well as the board of education by
whom they were again honored.
TWO NEGROES JAILED
Will Henderson, colored, was
arrested on the charge of larceny
here a few adysby the authorities.
Henderson has been a drayman
at Pepperton and he is said to
have robbed the store at that
place. His arrest followed. He
is out on a S2OO bond.
Milton Maddox, colored, is in
the county jail on a misdemeanor
charge, having been arrested a
few days ago.
A four-cornered race for con
gress with Hon. C. L. Bartlett,
Col. 0. H. B. Bloodworth, Col.
J. J. Flynt and Judge Joseph
Pottle in the running, ought to
make things interesting enough
next year.
LARKIN WATSON CHAP
TER HAS A MEETING
NO DELEGATE TO UNVEILINC
Mrs. S. O- Ham Entertains
U. D. C. Tuesday After
noon When Good Pro
gram Is Rendered.
Larkin Watson chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy
was not represented at the un
veiling of the Wirz monument at
Andersonville on Wednesday.
Mrs. F. S. Etheridge, who was
elected a delegate from the chap
ter, is in attendance upon the
Southern Baptist convention in
Louisville, both of these affairs
coming at the same time, and for
that reason the local chapter was
not represented at Andersonville.
The unveiling of the Wirz mon
ument was an event of great in
terest not only in this state but
throughout the South and the
whole country and was attended
by a larg* niEiLcr of delegates
and visitors.
Mrs. S. O. Ham entertained the
U. D. C. Tuesday afternoon and
an attractive program was carried
out. Francis Ticknor, one of the
well known figures in Southern
literature, was the subject of
discussion and several interesting
papers on his life and writings
were read.
ARRESTED FOR CRU
ELTY TO ANIMALS
Luther Turner, George McPe
ters, and Jim Williamson were
arrested the first of the week on
the charge of cruelty to animals.
Monday the three named above
together with Ed Grant hired a
team from Mr. W. T. Scarbrough
for the purpose of driving to
Griffin. Upon arriving there, it
is said, they secured some whis
key and were soon tanked up and
began driving the horse at a fast
gait up and down the streets of
Griffin and the surrounding coun
try. The horse is said to have
been very much abused and Mr.
Scarbrough fears he has been
ruined. The four are said to
have ridden in the buggy togeth
er.
Turner, who is wanted in Griffin
was arrested when he returned
to Jackson Monday night. Wil
liamson and McPeters were ar
rested by the authorities in Griffin
at the request of the officers here
and were brought to Jackson on
Tuesday and exchanged for Tur
ner. Bond was arranged in the
all of the cases.
The defendants live at Pepper
ton.
LADIES FURNISH TRIP
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Baptist church very graciously
provided the expenses of Dr.
VanDeventer’s trip to the Bap
tist Convention in Louisville.
This favor is very much appre
ciated by Dr. VanDenter and
shows the esteem in which he is
held by the members of his con
gregation and the people of Jack
son.
The “Little Joe jeans” is quite
the thing just now.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1909.
SIXTH DISTRICT MEDS
TO HAVE CONVENTION
WILL MEET AT INDIAN SPRINGS
Date of Meeting June 9
Good Program Being
Arranged—The Officers
And Committees Busy.
The Sixth District Medical So
ciety will meet in convention at
Indian Springs on June 9 when
the largest and most enthusiastic
meeting in the history of the or
ganization will be held. The pro-
gram, which is not yet complete,
will contain many interesting pa
pers by the best known physi
cians in this part of the state.
It is expected that a large num
ber of visitors will be in atten
dance upon the convention.
The officers of the society are
Dr. A. F. White, president, Flo
villa; Dr. J. W. Cowart, vice
president, Walden; Dr. Eugene
B. Elder, secretary-treasurer,
Macon.
The address of welcome will be
delivered by Dr. J. A. Combs of
Locust Grove, and the response
will be by Dr. Gilbert Smith of
McDonough. The other numbers
on the program will be announ
ced in the Progress in a few days.
The following committees are
engaged in making up the re
ports which will be made at the
meeting:
Committee on program, Dr.
Herbert Respess, chairman, Dr.
J. E. Wright, Macon, Dr. Wilson
Smith, Juliette,
Committee on public health and
legislation, Dr. R. B. Barron, Dr.
M. A. Clark, Macon, Dr. George
Alexander, Forsyth,
Committee on hall and enter
tainment, Dr. H. W. Copeland,
Dr. J. Lee Byron and Dr. J. A.
Jarrell, of Jackson.
One of the pleasant features of
the day will be a genuine old-time
Georgia barbecue. This is being
arranged by the committee on
entertainment and the work of
preparing the barbecue will in
charge of one skilled in that line.
JACKSON DOWNS
JENKINSBURG NINE
By the score of 7 to 5 Jackson
downed the Jenkinsburg nine on
the latter’s grounds Monday af
ternoon in a hard fought game.
This is second time this season
that the locals have taken the
measure of the Jenkinsburg ag
gregate A. With the score sto 1
in favor of Jenkinsburg up to the
seventh inning things looked
shaky for the locals but by a nice
piece of work they made a game
rally and forged ahead and won
out in the finish. The batteries
were for Jackson, Finley and
Nutt; Jenkinsburg Hunt, Bowden
and Whittaker and Sowell.
Twenty thousand electric horse
power ready to be used in turn
ing the wheels of industry is not
a little thing. This section has
opportunities that other places
would give a great deal to pos
sess. Wake up to the spirit of
the occasion and help to make
this the manufacturing center of
the state.
GOOD PROGRAMME IS
ARRANGED FOR SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT MAY 23-25.
Rev. S. P. Wiggins Will
Preach Commencement
Sermon—Dr. V anDeven
terTo Deliver Address.
The commencement of the
Jackson public schools will be
held this year May 23 to 25.
An interesting and attractive
program has been arranged.
Rev. S. P. Wiggins, pastor of
the Methodist church, will preach
the commencement sermon Sun
day May 23. The literary ad
dress will be delivered by Dr.
Robert VanDeventer, pastor of
the Baptist church, on Tuesday
morning May 25 at which time
the graduating exercises will be
held. The music will be under
the direction of Mrs. S. 0. Ham.
The exercises begin on Friday
night May 21 when some of Miss
Garr’s pupils will give a recital.
This will be followed by the com
mencement sermon on Sunday
morning. On Monday ~i?ht 4 4 The
Comedy of Errors" will te pre
sented under the direction of Miss
Zaidie Garr of the department of
expression. Dr. VanDe venter
will deliver the literary address
on Tuesday morning and at that
time the medals will be given and
the graduating exercises will
take place.
First honor goes to Dave Spen
cer while second honor will be di
vided between Charles Land and
Miss Elizabeth Sams. On Tues
day morning May 25 the four gold
medals, two in the high school
department, one in the interme
diate, and one in the primary de
partment, will be awarded.
There are nine in the graduat
ing class this year, as follows:
Misses Lillian Bailey, Lillie Clvl’ ?
Annie Kinsman, Elizabeth t^ ( 1 ’
Messrs. Charles Land, Smith Set
tle, Sherwood Thaxton and Dave
Spencer. Certificates will be
awarded to Misses Annie Gilmore,
Francis Barnes, Nelle Woods and
Linton Hopkins.
Two pupils in the department
of expression finish the course.
They are Miss Lillie Childs and
Miss Ina McMichael.
DELEGATES LEAVE
FOR CONVENTION
Dr. Robert VanDeventer and
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Etheridge
left this week to attend the South
ern Baptist Convention in Louis
ville. They are the delegates
from the Baptist church here.
Hundreds of delegates from all
parts of the country are in at
tendance upon this convention,
the most important gathering of
Southern Baptists of the year.
Many matters of importance to
the church will be discussed at
this meeting. The convention
will be in session for several days.
JACKSON BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday May 16, in the absence
of the pastor, Prof. L. B. Cous
ins of Locust Grove will preach
at 11 a. m. Bible school at 9:30
a. m., Junior Union at 3p. m.
FIRE BREAKS OUT AT
DEPOT WEDNESDAY
NINE BALES COTTON DAMAGED
Flames Extinguished Be
fore Much Damage Was
Done—Caught from A
Spark.
Nine bales of cotton on the
platform at the depot at the
Southern railway caught fire from
a spark and caused quite a blaze
for awhile about 10 o’clock Wed
nesday morning.
The alarm was turned in
and the fire department re
sponded promptly and the flames
were soon extinguished. The
damage was slight, the cotton
being only scorched a very little.
As usual, the fire created consid-
erable excitement and interest.
MONROE COUNTY MAY WORK
BUTTS COUNTY’S ROADS
It is given out from the county
commissioners’ office here that
an arrangement may be made be
tween Butts and Monroe counties
whefeby the latter will work this
county’s roads in exchange for
the convicts.
Chairman J. O. Gaston of the
county commissioners states that
he has taken the matter up with
the county commissioners of the
adjoining county and that he be
lieves the arrangement can be
made. In case it is this will mean
that Butts county will have good
roads, a thing she has needed
for a decade. At the present time
Monroe county is working a few
of this county’s convicts with the
result that a misunderstanding
has arisen between the solicitor
general of this circuit and the
county commissioners here as to
who is entitled to the income from
‘•he hire of these convicts. It is
not known what the outcome will
be.
Monroe county has about forty
convicts at work on her roads and
witht hat number working on the
public roads here it would be on
ly a short time until the roads in
Butts county were in first-class
condition.
PROGRESSIVE JACKSON
(An Acrostic)
ny-.
Henry Byron
Population 3,000
Rare opportunities
Owns water and light plant
Good newspapers
Red-hill section of Georgia
Eastern cap ital coming soon
System public schools
Several churches
In Butts county
Very fine climate
Every advantage to capitalists
Just the place to locate
Another railroad promised
Cotton mill
Keen business men
Several factory sites
On Southern railroad
Near the famous Indian Spring
The man that doesn’t patronize
home industries and work for his
town must not expect to see i
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