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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1910)
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. ALFRED AKERMAN - Proprietor J. DOYLE JONES - - - - Editor Subscription $1 a Year Entered as aecond-claan matter, Novem ber H, 1907, at the postoffieeat Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. AH Obituaries, Resolutions of Re spect, etc., except suh reading no tices as the paper sees fit to give, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word. Count the words and make enclosure, before sending in these communications, otherwise they will receive no attention. Manuscripts will not be returned without postage. Jackson, Ga., Friday, April 29, 1910. Meet the census man halfway. Now the depot is assured. Line up for the hotel. About time for that Civic Im provement League to get under way. Atlanta’s baseball team is not keeping company with the comet one bit these days. By keeping building, pulling, working Jackson will double her population within a few years. Still state politics are quiet. There are rumors of candidates a plenty, but so far they are backward. Butts county real estate has not lost anything and is keeping pace with high prices all over the country. The Griffin Herald says it was glad for Griffin to be able to fur nish us our Memorial Day orator. We are glad, too. We are glad Teddy will not be home until after the the comet passes, for we want to get a glimpse of that thing. So live that you can pay your bills on the Ist and look the comet in the face and you will have nothing to fear. All Jackson is pulling for the chautauqua. Let all the people pull as hard for the upbuilding of the town all the time. The fact that more people will come to the chautauqua than can be accommodated is a strong argument for anew hotel. When the time comes to pay the dog tax it will no doubt be surprising to know there are so few dogs in the country. Little Rock gets the hext Con federate reunion. Macon wanted it. but Macon failed to land. Maybe she will get it next time. Ware county has thirty-four candidates in the field and still they come. Down there they don’t wait for the office to seek the man. Somebody comes forward with the opinion that it is not so much the high cost of living as the cost of high living that is the trouble with the country. The time is coming, as it ought to come, when the rural schools will have as long terms as the town and city schools. Better trained teachers are BUTTS CO TT NTY PROGRESS, JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1910. needed to take hold of the schools of the state. Education is the greatest work of the present and the future. Let’s have the new hotel and then go out after all the conven tions we can get. Conventions do more to advertise and build un a city than anything else. The practical joker of the present is the fellow who tells you to get up at four o’clock in the morning to see the comet, only to look and look in vain. Atlanta is going to have a week of grand opera. It will, no doubt, be pronounced fine by those choice and cultivated spirits who appreciate high art. Georgia is sure to get another congressman upon the comple tion of the present census. The sixth district is likely to be slashed up in the new apportion ment. The time is drawing near for the census to be completed. Give the census man all the encour agement you can and help him to make the count as thorough as possible. Congress is inquiring into the high cost of living and for all the good the learned inquiry will will do the members might as well be trying to get a glimpse of Halley’s comet. These days of high prices are doubtless gratifying to Andrew Carnegie, who wants to die poor and doesn’t know how. If he will patronize the meat markets liberally he will have his wish carried out. If Uncle Sam would put some of the money he is sinking in new battleships into building good roads throughout the coun try the results would be more lasting and more satisfactory to a large number of people. An exchange says that dia monds are advancing in price so fast that young people may have to marry without becoming en gaged. Is it true that one can’t get married without diamonds? Seems that a preacher is more necessary. Jackson has a good deal to look forward to. The bankers come the last of this month, then the great chautauqua starts on June 12. After that lets arrange for a joint debate be tween some of the candidates for congress. If reports are true the farmers of Butts county have gone in for the bigge't grain crop in the history of the county. Corn, wheat and oats have been planted in large quantities. Another lesson must be learned and that is to raise plenty of meat and live stock. “The Butts County Progress cautions its readers to pay their subscription before the comet comes, so they will have nothing to fear. We fear, however, that most of them will prefer to wait and see whether or not they will need a newspaper after that pass age through the tail of the comet Elberton Star. We believe you are right Most of them are waiting all right Now is the time to buy Fertili zers. Carter & Watkins will sell you. THE COUNTRY SCHOOLS The following from the Alpha retta Free Press concerning the school system of the state will be read with interest: But if we raise ten millions of dollars for the common schools and do not raise the efficiency of the teaching force, what have we gained? Abso lutely nothing. The truth of the busi ness is— we are going to be plain about it —a large per cent of the money now’ being expended for public education is being wasted. Why? Because we are paying much of it to incompetent men and women who have had no training for the work in which they are engaged. Where are we going to get teachers? The state must prepare them for us and must not be stingy. The State Normal School at Athens ought to be graduating from three to five hundred men and women and sending them into our schools. Many of the best teachers in the common schools of the state are graduates of this institution. But the trouble is there are so few of them they don’t begin to supply the demand. The president of this nor mal college and the teachers under him work three hundred days a year, for- getting themselves in their efforts to put the school forward. Mr. Branson, president of the school is doing more for our common schools than any other man in the state. He is making teachers, and the teachers are making the schools Don’t forget that. 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