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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS.
Published Every Friday.
ALFRED AKEUMAN - Proprietor
J. DOYLE JONES - - - - Editor
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Official Organ of Butts County.
Entered as second-class matter, Novem
ber 8,11)07, at the postoffice at Jackson, <>a.
Telephone No. 166.
Jackson, Ga„ Friday, May 28, 1909.
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of respect, except those adopted by
churches.
Line up!
Get together!
Let us build for the future.
Let us build good roads. This
will be a fitting monument to
leave to posterity. Lineup now.
Good roads are coming, not be
cause the automobile people want
them, but because the whole peo
ple of the great state of Georgia
are demanding them.
The New Administration.
One more month and we’ll turn
over the whole she-bang to the
“jeans pants” boys.—Fitzgerald
News.
An exhibit at the state fair this
fall would do much to place Butts
county in the lead in things
agricultural. What say the peo
ple of the county?
Let us have the memorial hall
in time for the convention season
next summer. Line up with the
U. D. C. and lend a helping hand
and a word of encouragement.
The land is rent with oratory,
speeches on the tariff and com
mencement orations. Some of it
is “canned” and would hardly
pass the pure food inspection.
aar.. .
There is a good oat crop in this
section this year. More grain
has been planted this season than
ever before. The high prices of
wheat will probably induce every
farmer in the country to try to
live at home.
A clean town means a healthy
town. Let us have a spring
cleaning. And don’t whitewash
the front and be satisfied but
penetrate the recesses of the
back yard and give it a good
cleaning too.
Good roads are not a thing of
pleasure for the automobile own
er but a thing of necessity for
the man in the country, the far
mer who uses them nearly every
day of his life. Good roads can
not be monopolized.
We can have good roads even
if vve have no convicts. The peo
ple can have anything they set
their hearts and minds on. Let
us have an old-time “road work
ing’ ’ and show the people of the
state we mean business.
A Slow Town.
“Griffin grows while you wait”
some of you.—Middle Georgia
Farmer.
Jackson is growing so fast you
can see it grow —watch the mod
tern brick buildings going up.
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS, JACKSON, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1909.
GOOD ROADS COMING
There is nothing new or out of
the ordinary in the good roads
movement now sweeping the
state, from one end to the ocher.
For a long time there has been a
sentiment in favor of good roads
in Georgia This sentiment has
become crystalized and all forces
are now working to one common
end, the building up of good high
ways in this state.
There is a demand for good
roads and they will come. This
is not the movement of a few
automobile owners, but the de
mand of the whole people. Farm
ers and bankers and all, have
reasoned together and have ar
rived at the conclusion that good
roads mean more to the industri
al development of Georgia, than
any other one thing. The first
great step was taken when the
convicts were placed on the pub
lic roads of Georgia. It has been
estimated that this was equal to
a bond issue of $22,500,000. for
good roads in this state.
The demand for better high
ways is state-wide and is sweep
ing the people from one end of
the commonwealth to the other.
It is in no sense local. Good
roads are bound to come. They
are a necessity. They will come
if it has to be by legislative en
actment. The time is ripe for
them. They are a necessity.
The people are demanding
them and the call must needs be
heeded.
Nothing that has happened in
the last fifty years will do as
much to place Georgia in the
forefront as will modern high
ways. Good roads will mean
that Georgia will go forward fast
er than at any time since the
close of the civil war. The cost
is nothing compared to the re
results that will follow, swift and
sure.
It is not for the automobiles
that the goods roads movement
was started. Few people own or
ever will an automobile, unless
the price is very much lower than
now. Most people do not own a
horse or a mule. A horse and
mule and wagon, makes up the
sum total of a large number of
people’s travelling capacity. It
is for this class that good roads
mean everything. Cotton must
be marketed in the fall, fertili
zers must be hauled out to the
farm, trips must be made to the
town, children must be sent to
school. This is a year-round
business, lasting from January
till December. At present, au
tomobiling is confined to a few
months in the spring and sum
mer. The roads are a barrier to
automobiling in the winter
months.
With all these facts in mind
we cannot understand why good
roads do not mean more to the
man living in the country than to
any other class. We are not in
favor of any one piece of road at
the expense and neglect of all
others.
We are in favor of good roads
in every nook and corner of
Butts county and in every other
•ounty in Georgia. And we are
in favor of them being built by
the whole people, the farmer,
the bankar the merchant and the
automobile owner. Surely it is a
work big enough and broad e
nough to command the attention
of the whole people of Georgia.
Butts connty surely needs
good roads as much as any eount
yin Georgia. Let us all get to
gether and by private subscrip
tion and otherwise, build good
roads, not one piece of road for
the benefit of any one man or set
of men in the world, but build
roads all over the county for the
benefit of every man, woman and
child in the countv. Then the
object of the good roads campaign
will have been accomplished.
WITH THE EDITORS.
Houston’s Crops.
Much wheat and oats have been
cut in Houston county within the
last seven days, with much more
to follow. The indications are
that the hay crop this season will
be good and large, provided the
seasons are propitious.—Perry
Home Journal.
A Solemn Occasion.
Over in Mcßae the other day a
couple was married in the ceme
tery. These young people evi
dently looked upon matrimony as
a very grave affair. —Camilla En
terprise.
They were, no doubt, burying
past differences.
A Clean City.
Municipal sanitation is now a
subject on which much is being
said and done. The cities of
Georgia and other states are
waking up to their duty in this
regard and waking up fast.
There is nothing that gives more
real benefit to a city than good
sanitation.—Athens Banner.
Blessing in Disguise.
The farmer often abuses the
automobile driver for scaring His
horse on the public high-wav, but
it begins now to look as if the
so-called nuisance was going to
prove a blessing in disguise, for
the coming of the automobile has
brought with it a determination
to have better roads. —Thomas-
ville Press.
Living At Home.
If the Farmer’s Union does
nothing more than to educate the
farmer to make his livingat home,
the biggest end 9t its mission will
have been accomplished, for the
farmer’s success depends largely
upon his action in this matter.
Quit living out of paper sacks and
do something for yourself. Meat
comes mighty high, but it is a
well known fact to a great many
farmers, who are now, through
their own neglect, having to buy
the meat they should have rais
ed.—Arkansas Union Tribune.
Convicts On Roads.
Clark Howell figures it out that
by abolishing the lease system
and placing the convicts on the
roads Georgia has taken a step
equal to the issuance of twenty
two and a half million of bonds
in the interest of good roads.
Clark is a close figurer, but this
amount may vary a few hundred
dollars.—Griffin News.
Anyway, the convicts on the
public roads is one of the best
steps ever taken by Georgia.
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