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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1910)
ggggggg VOLUME 28 HALF MILLION DOLLAR COTTON MILL ASSURED FOR JACKSON EASTERN CAPITALISTS INTERESTED IN MOVEMENT Will Ee the Largest and Most Perfectly Equipped Mill in the South According to the Present Plans—Fitted With Electricity Throughout—W. J. Massee of Ma con is Interested in the Big Enterprise. The indications are good for Jackson to have a half million dollar cotton mill this year. The .mill, according to the present plans, will be the largest and most perfectly equipped of any in the south It will be run with electricity, furnished by the Cen tral Georgia Power Company. Interested in the movement are a number of eastern capital ists, together with local capital ists. Mr. W. J. Massee, of Ma con, president of the Central Georgia Power Company, is also interested in the proposed mill. It will be the first big enterprise to follow the building of the big dam which will soon be ready to furnish 20,000 electric horse-pow er to turn the industries of mid dle Georgia. Mr. Charles M. Sears, a native of Boston, who has spent eleven years in Georgia, said to be a thoroughly practical mill man, is interested in the movement. As sociated with him are capitalists <of the North and East. It is said -that no pains will be spared to make the mill the finest of its kind in the entire South. A few days ago a fifty acre tract of land was secured by op tion for a site. Tuesday of this week a civil engineer of Atlanta went over the site and pronounced it a good one in every way. The land is located in the eastern part of the city, on the line of the transmission route, and has splendid water facilities for sup plying the mill. There is great interest here in the building of the mill. It will be the first enterprise to follow the building of the dam and is taken to mean much for Butts county. It is said that othei en terprises will follow this one within the course of a few months. It is said that a lai ge number of people living in Jack son and Butts county will take stock in the mill. Mr. Sears is to be superintend ent and practical man. It is likely that a local man will be elected president and that the other officers will be chosen fi om among the home people putting their money into the enterprise. With two large mills in Butts county about all the cotton raised here would be consumed at home. This means better prices for the staple, which can be sold at home without trouble and expense. For this reason a large number of farmers have expressed a wil lingness to take stock in the mill. Something definite is expected in the movement next week. The mill is now practically assured. Try a Progress want ad—one cent a word. REAL FACTS ABOUT BALLET’S COMET The most important astronomi cal event of the year 1910, as far as can be foretold, is the visit of Halley’s comet. Public interest has been prematurely aroused by the numerous articles already published, which have led many to look in vain for the appear ance of this comet months before its appointed time. It is still a telescopic comet, slowly gaining in brightness. Its history in 1910 will be as follows: In Jan uary and February it will be vis ible telescopically each evening as it moves rapidly westward through the constellations Aries and Pisces. In these months it is approaching the sun in its or bit, but is getting farther away from the earth, so that it will not appear to us to increase in brightness rapidly. Before Feb ruary ends it may be seen with out a telescope, but it will not be conspicuous. It will then be in the West, after sunset. In March it will be lost in the sun’s rays, as it passes behind the sun. During this month, however, it will increase in brightness with extraordinary rapidity and prob ably throw its nearest point to the sun. At the same time its distance from the earth will di minish, so that when it rises be fore the sun in April it will be conspicuous early in May. It will then seem to move tov/ard the sun, and on May 18th the earth will be enveloped in its tail. But as this appendage of comets is of inconceivable tenuity it is not likely that any peculiar effect will be noticed. In the following evenings of May the comet will be seen in the west after sunset, with a conspicuous tail, and form ing a magnificent object through the month of June in the evening sky. In July it will grow faint er, in August it will disappear) again in the evening twilight. While passing behind the sun it will decrease ramdly in bril liancy, as it moves away from both earth and sun, and in the autumn months will be followed; by telescopes until again lost to view for another period of seven ! ty-five or more years. The months in 1910, therefore, when it will attract most attention are April I and the first part of May in the east before sun rise; and the last part of May and June in the west after sunset. The Hon. J. Threat Moore, one jof Jackson’s legal lights, was a visitor in McDonough Monday, i Threat is always welcomed by his many friends here.—Henry i County Weekly. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1910 TAX LAW IS CUED BY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER JERE POUND GIVES HIS OPINION Pupils Above 7th Grade Cannot Receive State Help—lnteresting Point of Importance to Many Patrons Has Now Been Settled. There has been much comment recently on the law as regard the paying of state funds to school children above the seventh grade. To settle this matter County School Commissioner Maddox ad dressed a letter to State School Commissioner Jere M. Pound. His letter, which sets out fully the law in the matter, is printed below: “I have your letter of January 4th, in which you propound the question as to whether or not students pursuing studies beyond the seventh grade and who the teacher will not swear are pur suing the studies prescribed by the state for the common schools, may be chargeable to the public school fund. Permit me to say that they may not.. The public school fund is for public- school children only; that is to say,, for pupils pursuing the course of study prescribed by the State Board of Education for the seven primary grades. It some times happens fhat, due to faulty grad ing, certain pupils are partly in the seventh grade and partly pursuing higher studies. In cases of this kind, the ruling is that if such a pupil is spending more than half his time on common school studies, he may be charge able to the public school fund; but if he is spending more than half his time on higher studies, he has passed beyond the public school period and he is not to be taken care of by the state but by his parents. “This is no new decision but has been the accepted law for years. Jere M. Pound, S. S. C. JACKSON NATIONAL MET IN ANNUAL SESSION At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Jackson Na tional Bank here Tuesday the same directors and officers were elected for the ensuing year. The officers are F. S. Etheridge, president, T. H. Buttrill, vice president, R. P. Sasnett, cashier, and E. J. McMichael, assistant I cashier and bookkeeper. Thedi -1 rectors are Z. T. Buttrill, Joel B. j Watkins, W. P. Nutt, E. L. i Smith, C. S. Maddox, A. H. : Smith, T. H. Buttrill, J. Lee By i ron, F. S. Etheridge. 1 The net earnings were earried to the surplus and undivided prof , its account. The showing made 1 was highly pleasing to the stock holders. It is given out that the surplus account is nearly $12,- 000 for the last sixteen months. The bank has had a good year and prospects are bright for its |future. BALLING ER-PIN CHOT ROW EXCITES INTEREST PINCHOT MAY BE PRESIDENT Hoke Smith-Joe Brown Drama May Be Enacted On National Scale —Will Gifford Pinchot Run for The Presidency in The Next Election? -BY ALFRED AKERMAN. The controversy between Se cretary Richard A. Ballinger and Forester Gifford Pinchot has re sulted in the dismissal of Pinchot from the Government service and along with him two assistants, Overton W. Price and A. C. Shaw. The occasion of Mr. Pinchot’s dismissal^ was an alleged breach of departmental etiquette: He gave some information to Sena tor. Dolliver without sending it through administration channels to be blue-penciled in order to in sure that nothing detrimental to the administration should become pup).ie. This in the eyes of the administration constituted insub ordination and the insubordinate ones were promptly dismissed.. In this connection it might be well for the judicially-minded Mr. Taft to consider whether a breach of departmental etiquette is suffi cient cause to warrant him in de priving the public of a thoroughly trained, honest, and faithful ser vant. The public was 'inchot’s employee. Loyalty to the public comes before loyalty to the ad ministration. Granting that the information which he gave out was injurious to Secretary Ballin ger it would be hard to justify Mr Taft’s action. Some say that this matter will not end here. Mr. Pinchot is too valuable a man and too popular a man to be ousted so lightly. If he will run for the presidency in 1912 on a platform calling for a reduction in the tariff and stress ing the conservation of natural resources he would be a candidate to be reckoned with. His im mense popoularity with both Dem ocrats and Republicans is under estimated by the administration. The wrong man has been fired, and it is not at all without the range of probability that the Hoke Smith-Joe Brown drama may be enacted on a national scale. The man who has been kicked out may be voted into the place of the man who has done the kicking. Perhaps these may be mistaken in their guesses at what is to fol low. But I know the public has lost an able, an honest, and a faithful official. I have known Mr. Pinchot personally for over nine years, and I know that it will be hard to fill his place. Mrs. Verna Wright and beau tiful children, Annie Rosa, Wil liam and Mary Francis, of Jack son. are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Woodruff, and other relatives.—Henry County Weekly. Mr. Lamar Etheridge and Miss Ruth Lamar from Jackson were in the city last Tuesday.—Henry County Weekly. POST OFFICE SHOWS VERY NICE INCREASE INCREASE OFI-3INMONEY ORDERS Year Just Passed Showed Increase in Postal Re ceipts at Jackson Office Over Year 1908 —Largest Increase Was in Money Order Department. At the close of business on De cember 31 the Jackson post office showed an increase in receipts over 1908 of $798.32. The fiscal year does not end until June and then the increase will be much greater. This is considered a very cred itable showing and one of which all citizens may well be proud. The total receipts at the local of fice are less than seven thousand dollars; and as it takes ten thous and dollars to insure a govern ment building, it will be some time yet before the city lands a government building. A few more years of steady solid growth will insure the post office, how ever. The largest gain was in the money order department where there was an increase over the year before of one-third. It is said the' money order business last Christmas was the heaviest in years, if not in the memory of the post office. A good many of the orders were issued for whis key. Just what the increase in pos tal receipts will be by the close of the fiscal year it is impossible to say but it is certain that the increase will be a large one. DEATH CLAIMS PROMINENT CITIZEN LAST TUESDAY The death of Mr. S. J. Joyner, one of the county’s prominent citizens, took place Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. B. C. Milton, at Flovdla. The deceased was in his 79th year at the time of his death. A native of Monroe county, Mr. Joyner had lived in Butts county a num ber of years. Death was due to old age and a general breakdown and followed an illness of only ten days. Mr. Joyner is survived by three daughters, Mrs. N. P. Brooks, of Macon, Mrs. B. C. Milton, of Flovilla, and Mrs. N. R. McCord, of Jackson; one son, Mr. J. A. Joyner, who travels for the F. E. Block Cos., of Atlanta. The funeral took place Wednes day morning from the Jackson Baptist church, of which the de ceased was a member, the ser vices being conducted by Dr. RobertVanDeventer. Interment was in the Jackson cemetery. Camp Barnett, U. C. V., of which Mr. Joyner was a member, at tended the funeral in a body. The family have the sympathy of a host of friends in their great grief. Members of John L, Barnett Camp U. C. V., who acted as pall bearers were F. L. Walthall, E. C. Compton, W. W. Thaxton, iM. L. Duke, J. A. McMichael I and Henry Thurston. NUMBER 2
