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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1911)
fffff VOLUME 29 ATLANTA JOURNAL HAS , EDITORIAL ON COUNTY I THE MOTORCYCLE FORWARD STEP Delivery of Mail by Means of These Machines Prais ed by Journal —With A System of Good Roads Motorcycles Will Solve Rural Free Delivery The following editorial by the Atlanta Journal on the use of motorcycles for carrying the mail in Butts county will be read with interest here: In Butts county some of the rural mail carriers are covering their routes on motorcycles. They find the machines less ex pensive, as regards upkeep, than a horse and far more expeditious. With the development of good roads, this method of rural de livery now a stricking innovation, will doubtless come into wide spread adoption. The experiment of the Butts county carriers has proved suc cessful and, among the patrons of these routes, very popular. Peo ple now receive their letters and papers early in the forenoon. By the saddle or buggy delivery, they waited until late in the day. This gain in time is noc only a great convenience but frequently a matter of importance and pro fit. It means that still another advantage of city methods and modern business has been etxend ed to the country and the farm. Routes that formerly could not be covered in less than seven or eight hours are, by motorcycle, completely served in four hours. With such a saving, it is not im probable that rural districts will eventually receive two or three mail deliveries a day, instead of one. The cost of the added ser vice would noc be very large and if the parcels post is established, it would be really unconsiderable. A parcels post and fast motor delivery combined would relieve the farm house of every un toward feature of isolation. With a teleohone at her elbow, the co intry housewife would then en - joy nearly all the amenities of the city. Shopping could be done and emergencies met with equal facility. All such prospects are to be sure, merely speculative unless a highly developed system of public roads is taken into account. The motorcycles now employed in Butts county would be useless on many Georgia roads and in the present instance they are im practicable when heavy rains Pave done their worst. These, however, are obstacles which good roads enthusiasm is fast overcoming. And the motor vehicle is one of the prime , agencies in this very movement. The automobile and even the motor trucks are coming to play a practical part in rural life as weli as in towns. Our rural districts were never so thorough ly aroused to the importance of smooth and durable highways. Of all the varied interests which I this forward movement conserves I the rural mail service is among I me foremost. The use of motor- I cycles by a few carriers is but I °ne of the signs of anew era in I rural life. CENSUS BUREAU SHOWS 11,941,563 BALES GINNED This Compares With 10,- 386,209 Bales Last Year; 13,432,131 Year Before The census bureau’s report shows the cotton crop 1910 to be 11,941,563, counting round as half bales and including linters, compared with 10,386,209 bales for 1909. Inclunded in the statistics for 1910 are: Linters, 397,592 bales; sea island cotton 90,368 bags; round 112,887 bales. The average gross weight of the bales is 501.2 pounds for 1910. compared with 496.6 for 1909. Expressed in equivalent 500- pound bales, the 1910 crop is 11,969,757 bales, comared with 10,315,382 for 1909. Cotton estimated by ginners and in the linters as remaining to be ginned and included in the statistics for 1910 amounts to 70.269 bales. The 1910 crop by states is reported as follows: Running 500-Lb State Bales Bales Alabama 1,217,399 • 1,220,507 Arkansas 821,235 844,850 Florida 68,295 59,916 Georgia 1,865,896 1,818,582 Louisiana 256,987 256,333 Mississippi 1,250,479 1,303,379 North Car. 771.185 723,467 Oklahoma 954 r 433 957.004 South Car. 1,237.036 1.166,187 Tennessee 336,206 348,139 Texas 3,071.263 3,170.098 All other states 91,148 91,295 METHODIST CHURCH HAS INTERESTING REVIVAL The gospel meeting at the Methodist church is proving full of interest and the attendance is most gratifying. Rev. R. C. Cleckler is preaching some strong aid forcible sermons. Mr. Hamp Sewell, who has charge of the music, is delighting the congre gations with his singing. The meeting will continue for several days, probably all of next week. Services are held twice daily, at 3in the afternoon and at 7:30 at night. The public is cordially invited to attend. UNIFR AND MIN6LEDOBFF AGAIN HEADS CITY SCHOOLS W. R. Lanier has been re-elect ed superintendent of the Jackson schools for another year, as has also George Mingledorff, princi pal of the high school. This announcement will be of interest to the friends of these popular educators. Both Prof. Lanier and Prof. Mingledorff are among the best known teachers in this part of the state. Prof. Lanier has been elected to the chair of mathematics at the University Summer School and will leave the last of June to take up his work. JACKSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MARCH 24. 1911 JACKSON WILL SEND A STRONG TEAM TO MEET District Schools Will Com pete in Barnesville on April l*th When the Sixth District High School Association meets in Barnesville on April 14 Jackson will be well represented. The field day team is now having practice and in the other contests the candidates for places are being drilled by members of the faculty of the city school. The eight schools embraced in the association will come together in Barnesville on the date above mentioned and will compete in various contests, including spell ing. music, essays, declamations and recitations. These will be held in the morning. In the afternoon the field day contests will be pulled off. Jackson will have a strong team to represent her in all departments of the meet. The winners at Barnesville receive gold medals. In addition they will represent the sixth dis trict association at the state con test in Athens in June. There is lively interest in the approaching meet throughout the sixth district. The visitors will be guests of Gordon Institute at an old-fashioned barbecue. Low rates will be given for the trip. F. S. ETHERIDGE ELECTED PRESIDENT HIS COMPANY His friends here and over the state will read with interest of the election of Mr. F. S. Ether idge to the presidency of the Great Southern Accident and Fi delity Company. The meeting of the board of di rectors was held in Atlanta Wed nesday of last week at which time officers were elected. Mr. Etheridge succeeds H. H. Bass, of Griffin, resigned. This company is headed by a number of well known business men of this section and several Jackson citizens are stockholders. Mr. friends are congratulating him upon his elec tion to the presidency of this company. WRITE TO MACON FOR NEW STATE MAP OF 6EOR6IA Maps of Georgia showing the distance of Atlanta and Macon to the largest number of people in the state,, have been sent out in large numbers to officials and prominent citizens of every county in the state. The mail ing list includes at least 95 per cent of the post offices of the ststc* The maps have gone to every newspaper editor, every member of the legislature, every sheriff, ever? ordinary, every county treasurer, every superior court clerk, many teachers and to more than 3,000 personal requests. There are still a large number of the maps on hand, and they will be sent postpaid to every subscriber of this paper who makes their wants known to the Central Capital Association of Macon. SENATOR TERRELL IN RACE TO THE FINISH Distinguished Georgian Is Confident of Winning The High Seat Senator Joseph M. Terrell is in the race for the senate to the finish of the fight, according to dispaches from Atlanta. Follow ing the recent serious illness of Senator Terrell in Washington the report leaked out that he would not, on account of ill health, be a candidate for the longterm. This he denies emphatically, saying he is in the race to the finish and to win. Senator Terrell, who is one of the state’s most prominent public men, is quoted as saying that he is confident of winning before the legislature. His health is reported as greatly improved. His numerous friends over the state will learn with interest of his determination to stick in the race and fight it out before the legislature along with the other avowed candidates for the high seat. MRS. J. M. BARNES DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Stricken Men fay with paraly sis Mrs. J. M. Barnes, of Flovil la, one of the most prominent women in the county, died Wed nesday morning at 9 o’clock. She never rallied after being attack ed and her sudden death came as a great shock to her family and a large circle of friends. Mrs. Barnes who before mar riage was a Miss Goddard and belonged to a prominent family of this section. Surviving Mrs. Barnes are her husband, Mr. J. M. Barnes; two daughters, Mrs. Raymond Setzer and Miss Annice Barnes, of Flo villa; three sons, Messrs Warren, Malvin and George Barnes. The funeral took place at Mac edonia Thursday morning and was largely attended. ST. JOHNS LODGE HELD AN IMPORTANT NEETING MONDAY St. Johns lodge No. 45 F. & A. M., held an important bus iness meeting at its lodge rooms Monday night. There was pres ent the largest number of mem bers seen at a meeting in several months if not years. Another important meeting will be held on April 3 when matters of vital interest will be taken up and it is expected another big gather ing of Masons will be seen. GRIFFIN CONTRACTS FOR POWER FOR LOCAL USE At a saving to the city of $4,700 or 39 per cent, annually, Griffin has contracted with the Central Georgia Power Company for cur rent for the city. It is given out that it costs $12,000 a year to run the city plant at present and that under the new contract power will cost only $7.300 Quite a sav ing to the taxpayers that PARK ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS NAME SELECTED FOR THE PARK * r" A Permanent Organization Was Perfected at Meeting Held in The City Hall Last Friday Night-Will Be Known as Rose Park in Honor of Donor Officers were elected for the Jackson Park Association at a meeting of citizens held in the city hall last Friday night as fol lows: President, J. H. Carmichael. Secretary, J. D. Jones. Treasurer, A. H. Carmichael. An executive committee con sisting of seven members, was provided for. Those named to steer the movement are W. M. Taylor, chairman, J. B. Guthrie, M. L. King, J. H. Carmichael, J. D. Jone, Dr. R. A. Franklin, Mayor H. M. Fletcher. It was prodived that a commit tee of three business men be ap pointed by the president to solic it subscriptions. Also a commit tee of three ladies and a com mittee of six from the school children, this committee to have three boys and three girls. A committee consisting of J. B. Guthrie, W. M. Taylor and J. R. Thurston was named to begin at once the improvement of the grounds and show the park up to ad vantage. A. H. Carmichael and J. D. Jones were appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws. A committee of three, A. H. Carmichael, J. D. Jones and A. R. Connor, was named to draw up a set of resolutions thanking Mrs. R. E. Carmichael for the park' site. In honor of Mrs. Rose Carmi chael, who gave the land for the park, it was decided to name it Rose Park. A number of talks were made by those in attendance. The speakers were a unit in believing that the park will be a great thing for Jackson and that the people will be generous in their contri butions now that the success of the park is assured. It is proposed to clear off the underbrush on the park, level and beautify the grounds and as early as possible set out trees and flowers. Correspondence with a landscape gardener is be ing carried on and as soon as the proper arrangements are made the park will be laid out in the most modern way. The work of securing subscrip tions will continue until several hundred dollars are secured. As soon as the business men's, la dies’ and children’s committee is appointed the canvass will begin in earnest. Messrs Henderson Gray and* W. E. Smith were visitors to the city Monday. Mr. W. D. Jolly was down from Jenkinsburg Wednesday, NUMBER 12
