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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS.
VOLUME 27
CITY GRANTS FRANCHISES TO STREET RAILWAY
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE
Great Tilings Pannai For Jackson Ani Batts County—Saptain Smith Now
Grading Trolley Line To Jackson—Central Georgia Power Company Will
Bring Power To Jackson—Street Carv Will Be Running Within Next Few
Months—This Section Coming Into Its Greatest Period Oi Prosperity
The City of Jackson has
granted a franchise to the
Middle Georgia Interurban
Railway and to the Central
Georgia Power Company.
This action was taken at
a called meeting of Coun
cil Monday Afternoon.
This is the biggest thing
that has ever happened to
Jackson and Butts county.
Work on the trolley line
is already under way and
will be pushed with vigor
and cars will soon be run
ning in Jackson.
Captain Smith was in Jackson
Tuesday in the interest of the
Holiness Colleges and while here
presented the petition of the
Middle Georgia Interurban Rail
way for a franchise. Council took
up the matter at a called meeting
jfcvith the result that the franchise
was granted.
The franchise provides that the
work is to be done in three years.
The time limit is thought to be
very liberal and will allow plenty
•of time for the completion of the
work. Cars will be running in
the streets of the city in a short
time as the work of grading is
going on. Captain Smith says he
will soon have the connecting link
between Jackson and Indian
Springs built.
The petition asks that the line
be allowed to enter the city near
the Southern depot and run along
Third street to the western bor
ders of the city. This will give
a line through the principal res
edence section of the city.
The line will be built from the
Camp Ground to Bibb —it is on
all the new maps—and from there
on to Jackson. Captain Smith
proposes to extend the line on to
Griffin and other points in this
.section.
This trolley line is the dream
of Captain Smith’s life. For a
long while he has had it in mind
and has consecrated many of the
best years of his life to this one
great undertaking. He has nur
sed the scheme with tender care
and constant devotion and tire
less energy. The panic over
and a period of resplendent pros
perity before the country he pro
poses to mould his life-dream into
solid and substantial form.
It is generally conceded that
Council has been liberal in grant
ing franchises in these cases. It
is not every concern that asks
for a franchise and has the re
quest granted. Without excep
tion, so far as known, everybody
around here wants to see the
line built from here to Indian
Springs.
Following the lead of Atlanta
and Griffin Jackson has granted
a franchise to the Central Geor
gia Power Company. This as-
sures Jackson of power from this
big power company.
A New York representive of
the company has been here for a
few days in an effort to close con
tracts for power to the various
establishments using power. It
is not given out just what kind
of proposition was made.
Mr. W. J. Massee has stated
that the general offices of the
Central Georgia Power Company
would be moved to Atlanta and
that all the power would be taken
to that place and that he would
move there. This will not ef
fect Jackson and she will get
power whether it is taken to At
lanta or Macon.
A number of new enterprises
are spoken of for this fall. It is
practically certain that Jackson
gets another cotton mill this fall
and other industries will follow.
It is the brightest picture Jack
son and Butts county have ever
seen.
It is budding of the rose before
the flower blossoms into full and
beauteous bloom.-
MONO AY OBSERVED
HERE AS HOLIDAY
STORES ALL CLOSED FOR THE DAY
Day Passed Quietly Here
Without Disorder—Two
Games Of Baseball —Few
People In Town—No
Demonstration
Monday was observed here as
a holiday, all the stores and bus
iness house closing for the occa
sion. The day passed quietly
enough here. There was no dem
onstration of any kind, and so
faras heard no disorder.
The town presented a quiet
appearance during the day with
all the stores closed. Few peo
ple were in that day though some
shoppers came in thinking the
business houses would be open.
Many of the people of the town
remained at home to celebrate
the day instead of going away,
as usual on such occasions.
In the morning Jackson and
Macon locked horns in a game
that attracted a large crowd. A
game was scheduled for the af
ternoon but went only four in
nings when rain interferred.
It was a sane, safe and glorious
Fourth in Jackson.
ORDWARYTcOURT
Judge J. H. Ham held the reg
ular session of the court of ordi
nary Monday and Tuesday. A
number of routine business mat
ters were disposed of. One liti
gated case occupied the attention
of the court for two days. The
usual number of orders were
signed.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1909.
ONLY MONTH TO
GET UP MONEY
FOR THE BIG HOLINESS COLLEGES
Committees Now Engaged
In Raising Subscriptions
For The Schools—Liber
al Response From The
Citizens Of County
Captain W. F. Smith of Flovil
la was in the city Tuesday, after
his recent illness, and as usual
was full of enthusiasm for the
trolley line, the Holiness College
and other enterprises that will
make for the building up of this
section. Speaking of the Holi
ness school Captain Smith said:
“We are now ready for you to
work for the Holiness College,
and there is only one month to
see what Butts county citizens
will do.
“What we do will determine
whether or not we we will have
the college. Remember the Camp
Ground people have always in
vested in Butts county a great
deal more than they get from the
Butts county people. So it will
be with the college if we show
the proper spirit. I h ive over
twenty at Flovilla giving SIOO.OO
and upwards, each. I want one
hundred such in the county.
“And we want as many as we
can get giving smaller amounts.
“Decide what is the best you
will do rather than loose the col
lege.
“Let us make a good showing
at Camp Meeting.
“The subscriptions are to be
paid in three installments, Nov.
15 1909, 1910 and 1911.”
SALES DAY TUESDAY
WAS VERY QUIET ONE
There was but little doing here
Tuesday at public sales day. A
large crowd did not turn cut to
the sales.
There was but one piece of
property sold. Mrs. Josie Kim
bell, as guardian, sold twenty
one and a half acres of land in
the 615 district. The property,
which was bid in for the estate,
sold for $26 per acre.
CARD OF THANKS
To the friends and neighbors
who have been so very kind to
us in our recent bereavement we
wish to extend our deep appreci
ation. May the blessings of God
rest upon you all. A. A. Good
rum, Mrs. J. A. Crow, A. J.
Goodnm, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. In
gram. Flovilla, Ga., Julv 6.
AND CENTRAL POWER COMPANY
WHAT JACKON IS LOSING EVERY DAY
Gentlemen of Jackson have you ever stopped, in your early
opening and late closing, to think what you are losing right at
your very door?
Did you know you are lying supinely on your backs while the
Wigwam Hotel spends one hundred dollars a day for supplies
in Macon and Atlanta?
Add to this the other hotels at Indian Springs and you have
at least two hundred and fifty dollars a day.
This is cash business.
Rather eye-opening isn’t it?
Now, why is this business lost to Jackson?
For the very good reason that there is no connection between
Jackson and this famous resort. The day that a railroad is
built this business will come to Jackson.
Why do we know?
“You have good stores,” says Mr. L. W. Scoville, “and we
would give this bu.inessto Jackson instead of sendidg it to At
lanta and Macon if you had a railroad, even a dummy line.”
This is why we know.
It will cost only twenty or thirty thousand dollars to build a
line between Jackson and Indian Springs.
Why isn’t it built?
We don’t know.
We do know this: That is would be a paying proposition and
that the majority of the capital stock can be raised outside of
Jackson and stands ready to be called into play.
There is enough capital in Jackson to build ten such lines.
Think of the people that would visit our city if we had a
trolley or a dummy line. And think „of the money the excur
sionists would spend, in addition to the fixed amount of two
hundred and fifty dollars a day from the hotels.
Think it over. Then, as a body of live and wide-awake bus
iness men, resolve to get busy.
A sleepy city never gets anything.
Macon went to sleep and let Atlanta and Danville, Va., get
the wholesale businees of the contractors of the big dam near
here.
Macon went to sleep and now Atlanta is going to get the out
put of the largest and finest power plant in the South.
Business comes to the people that go out after it.
Let us have all that is coming to us.
We are due ourselves that much.
If business ever did come to those that wait that day has pass
ed and it is a question of hustle now.
Let’s have the best town in the state by being alert and ac
tive and by going after everything in sight.
JURY LIST FOR THE
AUGUST TERM COURT
The following is the list of
grand and traverse jurors for the
August term of the superior court
of Butts county:
Grand Jury
J B Edwards J W Andrews
J W McCord W H Cawthon
R L Allen L A Cawthon
S 0 Ham W S Colvin
B C Milton R D Ogletree
C L Maddox E P Watkins
W H Foster J B Settle
J H Mills 0 S Duke
P R Watkins D N Carmichael
Jas. W Benson J M Crawford
G W White Mitchell O’Neal
Geo. R Ridgeway S L Thompson
J H Leveritte G S Hanes
J B Ward J T Gibson
L L Britton S B Kinard
Traverse Jury
H L Gray J W Mayfield
E A Fincher E C Robison
T S Thomas L S Hoard
D F Thaxton T J Giles
F M Maddox L M Hale
J C Bell C F Carter
A B Smith W A Aiken
J E L Stodghill W S Cook
J W Nosworthy J L Baines
J H McKibben J M D Bond
A B Stalsworth W J Long
C R Swint Aubry Duke
J A McMichael J B Thaxton
W G Morrison B B Kelley
G W Thornton W N Treadwell
H J Maddox J M Ridgeway
J C Cawthon R M Fletcher!
C R Carter J P Ray
JACKSON TRIMS HAUGHTY
MACON INDEPENDENTS
Jackson walked away with the
Macon Stars or Independents to
the tune of 14 to 2 in the first
game of the series played here
Monday morning. It was great
going for the locals after the first
inning when Macon scored thier
only runs of the game. Combs
and Nutt worked for Jackson and
got away with their end of the
game in nice style. A large hol
iday crowd was out to watch the
sturdy athletes representing the
home city wipe up the earth with
the visitors.
In the afternoon the two teams
went on the field for the second
game of the series but played on
ly four innings, during which the
Jackson nine managed to annex
two auns while Macon was biting
the dust, when Jupiter Pluvius
took charge of the affair and the
players and others romped home
while the little tricklets tricklek
merrily down on a parched and
dry terra firma. Finley annNutt
were in harness for the locals in
the last game and were showing
up in great shape when the rain
stopped the game.
News was received here this
week of the death in Alabama of
Mr. W. D. Thomas, a former res
ident of this county. He was a
brother-in-law of Mr. D. J. Thax
ton.
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