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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS.
VOLUME 27
INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT OF
SOUTHERN, BOOSTING JACKSON
Will DRIBS CAPITAL TO SUITS COUNTY PEOPLE
Land And Industrial Department Establishes Office In
Macon To Develop This Part Of The State —Out-
side Capital Will Be Brought To Georgia Soon.
The Southern Railway has es
tablished a land and industrial
department in Macon with Mr. 0.
J. Stephens in charge for the
purpose of developing the terri
tory along the line of the South
ern and the G. S. & F. Railways.
It will be the purpose of this de
partment of the Southern to in
terest and bring to this part of
the state outside capital and to
locate new industries. Within
the past few years the Southern
has been instrumental in getting
more than $400,000,000 invested
in new enterprises along its nine
thousand miles of track. Most
of the work is done through per
sonal appeal. When this depart
ment gets an application for an
industrial enterprise they go on
the scene and spend a month if
necessary. They pay but little
attention to correspondence, de
pending almost altogether on per
sonal wor kfor results.
Mr. Stephens who has spent a
dumber of years in this vork was
here Monday getting acquainted
with the people. During the day
he met and talked with several of
the business men of the city with
whom he went over the work he
has outlined. He was given an
enthusiastic reception and prom
ises of hearty and earnest co-op
eration in his efforts to build up
Jackson and Butts county.
While Mr. Stephens did not say
that Jackson would be a
new depot, this being out of his
line of work, yet it is practically
sure that a handsome depot will
be built here in the near future.
He recognizes the fact that Jack
son is the most important point on
the/Southern between Atlanta and
Brunswick with the single excep
tion of Macon.
The Southern has been asked
to secure 500 white servant girls
for one Georgia town, the people
agreeing to pay their railroad fare
so anxious are they to get them.
Great things will come to this
county through the development
of cheap water power, thinks Mr.
Stephens. ■ As soon as the people
here decide the kind of enterpris
es, hotel, cotton mill, laundry,
etc., they want, he has placed
his services at their disposal. At
some meeting of the Chamber oi
Commerce in the near future Mi.
Stephens will be present and go
over the matter with the mem
bers.
The Southern is just getting on
its feet after the panic, when the
force was reduced from 47,000
to 32,000 at one swoop and wag
es cut accordingly, says Mr. Ste
phens. Better times in the courui y
the work of development wdl be
pushed as never before, he sa> s.
UNION WILL MEET
The annual meeting of the Far
mers’ Union will be held in Jack
son on the first Tuesday in Au
gust.
BYSABSEA WAVES
TROOPS TO TRAMP
WILL CAMP AT ST. SIMONS ON 24
Boys Of The Gallant Sec
ond To Manouver At St
Simon’s By The Sea —
Captain Copeland To A
Medical Training School
It is all fixed now.
By the sea waves at St. Simon’s
the boys of the Second will gath
er on the 24 for a week of frolic 1
and fun and withal instuction in
the arts of war, for in the time
of peace Uncle Sam believes in
teaching his cohorts the way to
fight. The Jackson Rifles, the
pride of the Second regiment,
under the command of Captain
George E. Mallett, will be in the
thickest of the fray.
Lieutenat Mallett stood his ex
amination in Macon a few days
ago and made a fine showing and
this week received his commis
sion as captain. He was unan
imously elected captain a short
time ago to fill the vacancy caus
ed by the resignation of Captain
Watkins.
It is likely that the entire com
mand will attend this encamp
ment. Drills have been weekly
now for several days instead of
fornnightly, in preparation for
this outing. The men are well
and thoroughly drilled in all the
fine points of military and will
make a good showing in camp.
A great time is expected at
these manouvers. There is no
better place to have a good time
than at St. Simon’s. The beach
is one the finest on the Atlantic
coast. And while not on duty
the military boys will take many
a dip in the big pond where sport
the festive mermaid. Less trech
erous than Tybee and equally as
delightful as Wrightsville the
surf at St. Simon’s can not be
surpassed. The soldier likes his
dip as well as his sip and the
boys are sure to spend a good
deal of time in the waters of the
Atlantic. Brunswick has one of
the finest hotels, the Oglethorpe
in the South and dancing will go
to make up the round of pleas
ures. The military hop or bsll
has the call on all others.
But there will be a serious side
to the camp and a regular army
officer will be on duty to teach the
young military idea how to shoot—
also to drill and do guard duty.
Dr. and Lieutenant H. W.
Copeland of the medical depart
ment, who will stand an exami
nation for captain upon notifica
tion of Major C. H. Willis of
Barnesville, will leave on the 26
to attend the Military Training
School at Antietam, Md. After
spending a week there the party
will go to New York for ten days
of study and instruuction. Every
man in the medical department of
the national guard is expected to
make this trip. Dr. Copeland
will have the rank of captain as
soon as he stand his examination.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1909.
GOOD PROGRAM EOR
B.Y. P. U. MEETING
CONVENTION AT BLUE RIDGE
State Association Will Be
Held At Blue Ridge On
Assembly Grounds —An
Interesting Session Will
Be Carried Out.
The state convention of the
Baptist Young People’s Union
will be held August 4-7 at the
assembly grounds in Fannin coun
ty.
The Rev. Robert VanDeventer,
chairman of the executive com-
mittee has arranged an attrac
tive and interesting program.
Many of the best known church
workers in the state and the
South will be heard on that occa
sion.
The following program will be
carried out:
Wednesday evening August 4
7:45 —Service of song conducted
by T. A. Henry, Esq.
Convention sermon —Rev. I).
W. Key, D. D. Washington, Ga.
Address of welcome —T. H.
Crawford, Esq.,Blue Ridge.
Response Rev E. R. Pendle
ton, Covington.
Announcement of committees.
Adjournmsnt.
Thursday morning August 5.
Devotional—G. P. Leggett, Esq
Adel.
Address—The Lordship of Jesus
in Our Faith, Rev. J. D. Chap
man D. D., Valdosta.
Report of executive committee.
Adjournment.
Thursday afternoon.
Song service led by T. A. Hen
ry. Esq.
Conference on Junior Work
Hon. John E. Howell, Moultrie.
Thursday night.
Song service conducted by T.
A. Henry, Esq.
Address -The Lord sh ip of Jesus
in Our Vocations, Hon. W. J.
Nor then, Atlanta.
Address—The Bible and Evan
gelism, Rev. H. C. Buchholz, At
lanta.
Friday morning August 6.
Devotional—Rev. T. C. Wil
lingham, Rome-
Address —The Lordship of Je
sus in Our Avocations, Rev. Ralph
Bailey, Savannah.
Address—The Lordship of Je
sus in Our Church Life, Rev. T.
J. Watts,corresponding secretary
of B. Y. P. U. of the South, Lou
isville, Ky.
Miscellaneous.
Adjournment.
Friday afternoon.
Song service.
Address—The Lordship of Je
sus in Missions, Rev. T. B. Ray,
D. D., educational secretary of
Foreign Mission Board. Richmond
Va.
Friday night.
Song service by T. A. Henry,
Esq.
Address and Steropticon—Dr.
T. B. Ray, Richmond, Va.
Closing.
The following delegates have
been chosen to represent Jackson
at this meeting, from the Senior
Union, Messrs. W. R. Lanier,
W. L. Carter and the Rev. Rob
ert Van Deventer, Mrs. T. M.
Furlow, Mrs. J. R- Wright, Miss
Clara Nolen, and from the Junior
Union, Messrs. Charlie Johnson,
Continued on page 5
IMMENSE DEPARTMENT
STORE ESTABLISHED HERE
WILL BE STRONG AND INFLUENTIAL CO.
New Company Will Begin Business In Early Fall—
Charter Applied For—Large Space Will Be Used—
To Be One Of Biggest Concerns In Middle Georgia-
Prominent And Leading Business Men In New Com
pany—Will Make A Strong Bid For Business.
J. H. Carmichael, president,
G. E. Mallett, vice president,
R. P. Newton, secretary-treas
er.
These are the officers of the
Carmichael-Mallett Company, a
large department store that has
been organized here with a paid
in capital stock of twenty-five
thousand dollars.
The organization of this com
pany means one of the largest
department stores in middle Geor
gia for Jackson. An immense
floor space will be used in the op
eration of this business and for
the present the stores now occu
pied by the Dixie Grocery Compa
ny and McKibben Company will
be embraced in this big estab
lishment.
It is propsed to carry on a gen
eral merchandise business. The
period for which a charter is ask
ed is twenty years with the priv
ilege of renewal at the expiration
of that time. "
This new company wiil begin
business on or about the first of
September. Between now and
that time the buildings into which
they will move will be remodel
ed and made even more attrac
tive in appearance by the addi-
STEAMBOAT RATES-WHY NOT HAVE THEM?
Freight rates are a great bugaboo.
Jackson’s freight rates are much too high. But they will con
tinue high as long as the present state of affairs exist.
Jackson needs more outlets for her commerce.
This is the one great ever-present, continual, impending and
menacing need.
We are bottled up and consequently have high freight rates.
There is now an opportunity to secure an outlet.
We mean the trolley line to Indian Spring and Griffn.
Hence the “steamboat rates.’’
In the North, where they do things, the trolley has taken its
place with the steam railroad as a common carrier. Both pas
sengers and freight are hauled. And the rates? They are the
same as steamboat rates, one half of railroad rates. The rail
roads are making a hard fight on the interurban lines but they
have come to stay. Ask the greatest railroad magnate and he
will tell you the electric car is to be the common carrier of the
future.
Now a common sense business,proposition for the people of
Jackson and Butts county. What would it mean to our town
and county to have their freight rates cut in half? It is the
consumer that pays the freight rates. What a saving this would
be to the farmer and mechanic and clerk,
Let us cut the rate in half.
How?
By having the trolley line to Griffin and Indian Spring and
Monti cello. This will turn the trick—this will unbottle us.
Have you kept up with the industrial romance being written
all about you? It is an interesting story of growth and devel
opment and unfolding. Herein Jackson and Butts county it is
wonderful to see the activity. Real estate is changing hands
nearly every day, handsome and commodious structures are go
ing up, farm lands made more productive all the time are sell
ing like cicy property, the prices of cotton, the South’s money
crop, is advancing, the trend of capital is southward, three mil
lion dollars is being put in a Butts county enterprise, the rail
joads must spend $200,000,000 in the next few years to keep
step with the country’s development.
This is the greatest age of all.
The “world do move.”
Let us move with it. Let’s get busy now and have the trol
ley line and then we will get cheap freight rates.
We must have more outlets.
tion of handsome plate glass front
and attractive designs for win
dow displays. The building will
be elegant in all of its appoint
ments. The store is to be one of
thehandsomest in all middle Geor
gia.
The members of this firm are
well and favorably known to the
people of Butts county and sur
rounding country. They are all
succesfful business men. This
will make the company a strong
one. Mr. J. 11. Carmichael, the
president, is president of the First
National Bank and has other
large interests in the town and
county. He is a valuable acqui
sition to any business. Mr. G.
E. Mallett, the vice president, is
a well known planter and business
man. Mr. R. P. Newton, the
secretary and treasurer, is con
nected with the Newton-Carmi
chael Hardware Company and is
one of the best known young
men in the county.
The other members of the
company are Messrs. W. H. Mer
ritt, H. W. Turner, D. N. Car
michael, W. A. Newton, J. H.
McKibben, F. S. Carmichael,
S. J. Carmichael and R. J. Car
michael.
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