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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1911)
BITTS COINTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. ALFRED AKKRMAN - Proprietor J. DOYLE JONEB - - - - Editor Subscription $1 a Year Enteral as second-class matter. Novem ber K, 1'.07, at thejtostofticeat Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. IG6. Jackson, (a., Friday, Feb. 10,1911. Make a noise like you were pulling for Jackson. Jackson is a good town to tie to, to come to, to swear by. The college on wheels found that Jackson is very much on the map. Fish, Ga., wants to change its name. Trying to get in the swim? You can never tell what a little boosting will do until you try it. Try it. This business of saving the I each crop has to be gone through with every year. The thunder a few nights ago was taken by some to be Macon moving the capital. If Jackson is to have a Chau tauqua this year let’s make it the best in the state. Regardless of what others may do it is up to you to do your duty by your town and county. Maybe we will know the popu lation of Jackson in time for a Fourth of July celebration, Being utiable to organize u board of trade Griflin might or ganize a Soap and Water League. The Progress is doing its part in working for Jackson and Butts county. Are you doing yours? How would you like that new school building, a moden hotel and more railroads for Jackson? Paralysis among our public men is becoming as fashionable as appendicitis was a few years ago. Now will Macon imitate the example of the college <m wheels iu moving the capital from At lanta? Monticello wants a real rail road from Jackson through that city The trolley line will do for the present. If you have a grouch against vour town and can’t say some thing good about it and its people suppose you pull out. No town in Georgia has shown greater improvement in the last two or three years than Jackson. No town has any brighter future. Get busy. Ware county has secured eight hundred families since the first of the year, all good settlers from the North and East. Georgia needs all the desirable, progress ive. patriotic citizens she can get to help build up her resources. BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS, JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 19U - More and better one-horse farmers, improved school meth ods, more attention to stock raising, are among the things that will lift Georgia into first place. Atlanta may try the commission form of government in the near future. If it is an improvement over the old system it will be hailed with delight by the tax payers. At least three new builings are needed here right now: Anew school building, anew hotel, a Masonic lodge. Why don’t those interested get together and get something started? It is said that water power developments in North Georgia will bring 200,000 horse power of electric energy into Atlanta. One problem is, where will all this power be sold. The farmers have done more work up to the time of the year than ever before. January was an unusal month. Reports from every part of the county state plenty of food crops will be plan ted this year. It is a matter of interest to every newspaper in the state that the Atlanta Journal was exonerated of the charges of using the second class mail to defiud the govemmeit. The Atlanta Constitution which was also put to a rigid test came through with flying colors. More power to the press every where. These papers have an established reputation of long standing and Uncle Sam *will have to go elsewhere to get in his work. Boost the chautauqua. Start jarly and tell all your friends about it. It is given out that Governor elect Smith will not be a candi date for the senate. In the meantime he has some good plans for improving the rural schools. The people that voted for Mr. Smith, while they would like to see him in the senate, no doubt, prefer to see him serve out his term as governor. But how about that primary to elect a successor to Senator Clay? JENKINSBURG Mr. and Mrs. I>. T. Glass spent Mon day in Atlanta on business. Mrs. Dison, of .Jackson, spent Saturday and Sunday here visiting Mr. and Mrs. I*'.. R. Merritt. Mr. \Y. 11. Barnes, of Jackson, spent Sunday at this place. Miss Maud Kdwards, of Jackson, spent Saturday with Mrs. J. W. Carter. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Thurston visited the formers parents here Sunday. Messers Sam Bankston, Dempsey Furrow, Otis Minler anil Authur Bankston, four of Jenkinsburgs most prominent young men who are attend ing business colleges in Atlanta spent Saturday and Sunday here with homefolks. Mrs. U. C. Woodward, of Atlanta, spent the latter part of last week here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Thurston. She also visited Mr. Wood- Wards parents. The friends of Mrs. W. M. Saunders will regret to knpw she is very siek. Messrs Jim Chasteen and Collins are spending this week in South Gtn gia hunting. Mr. J. H. Mills spent Tuesday in Jackson in the interest of the school at this place. Mr. K. A.Thornton of Jackson spent •peut Sunday at this place, j Messrs C. It. Bennett, P. O. Wood fward, Harvey Lindsey and Londy I Kngtish made a trip to the power ■ plant Sunday afternoon iu Mr. M. L , King’s auto. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bankston and Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Jolly spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Flaunagan Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Rawls spent several days of this week visiting rel atives in Monroe conty. Mr. G. P. Saunders, of Stark, visited hi* father and mother here Sunday. 6. W. THORNTON EXPLAINS j SHERIFF CITY COURT VOTE Editor Progress:- Will you please give me a space in your paper te make a few more explanations. I notice in your last week’s paper a local giving the returns of the primary at Flovilla for Sheriff of the city court. Now I will state to start with that I was no candidate for the place. I didn’t even go to the election to vote. 1 have been informed that there is some few people at Flovilla crtricising me for carrying some business away from the city court of Flovilla to the superior court. To set myself right before the people of Flovilla I will tell them why I did so. Last June when 1 began to work for the court as sheriff, the judge, solicitor and a few citizens jumped on me to catch up with some lawlessness that was going on at Indian Springs. I took the matter up with Sheriff Wilson and told him who wanted me to catch it and he, Wilson, told n e to go ahead and catch it if I could and aiso gave me a letter of introduction to a detective agency in Atlanta asking them to furnish me with a man to run them in. I employed the agency to do the work and paid them out of my own pocket. Now there were only four of us who knew what was being done, thejugde, solicitor, Wilson and my self. The solicitor went so far as to offer me *IOO to eaten a certain place that we had every reason to believe that there was gambling going on. When the agency sent the man to do the work he caught the blind t'gers first and we were making arrange ments to make a raid on the gamblers and one of the four went to the Springs and put the gamblers on to what was being done. Now I don’t believe the judge did it, and it was impossible for the sheriff to putthem wise, forhe was in Covington, Ga.at the timeand I know I didn’t do it myself. Now the next day after our scheme was given away I sent a man to the Springs tosee what he could find out, and he found our solicitor at a certain blind tiger between 10 and 11 o’clock at night in an intox icated condition trying to get more booze. So after finding this out I took the train for McDonough to consult with the judge of the superior court and told him what I was up against and he advised me to have the solicitor go before the grand jury with what he he had got, and the results were that there was eleven true bills found. Respectfully, G. W. THONTON. PROFESSIONAL. Akerman & Akerman, Attorneys at Law. Rooms 8-10 Washington Block, Macon, Georgia. C. L. REDMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Crum Building, JACKSON, GA. W' E. WATKINS, LAWYER, Jackson. - - Georgia i’factice in all Courts, both State and Federal Office in Bank Ha)’ west side public square. Y. A. WRIGHT, ; attorney at law Jackson, - - Georgia. The longest experienced lawyer at the Jackson bar. DR. J. E. WOODS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Jackson. - - Georgia. Office UjKstairs in Crum Building. Residence phone 1 —Offiice phone 187 J. WILLINGHAM 6 WILLINGHAM Attorneys At Law Offices in Carter-Warthen Buiding. Will do a general practice in all the Courts. E. J. 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