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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1911)
BITTS COINIY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. ALFRED AKERMAN - Proprietor J. DOYLE JONES - - * * Editor Subscription $1 a Year Entered m eond-cls matter, Noviun- W 8,1H07, at the poatottieeat Jackson, Cia. Telephone No. 166. Jackson, G. t Friday, Dec. 22, 1911 NOTICE. The legal advertising for the county Butts will be changed on January 4, 1912, for twelve months, to The Butts County Progress. J. H. HAM, Ordinary. L. M. CRAWFOItI), Sheriff. 8. J. FOSTER, Clerk Superior Court. This December 5, 1911. Santa Claus is an early shopper. McDonough has voted $40,000 bonds for water, lights and sew erage. The Progress wishes all of its readers, advertisers and friends a merry Christmas. The first bale of cotton ever ginned in Rabun county was gin ned in Clarkesville one day last week. The fehow who lives out of a paper sack and plants all cotton is not a farmer. Farmer is the wrong name. The people of Jackson ought to go after that railroad with gloves off and with coats off and deter mine to land it. To the candidates in the city primary: May the best men win and may the winners give Jack son a safe, conservative, yet pro gressive, administration. If you are wise and shopped early you can fall asleep and hear Longfellow sing: “And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Hhall fold their tents like Arabs, And as silently steal away.” Dr. Broughton has returned to Atlanta and has gone after Judge Russell with gloves off. The Judge might relax himself a lit tle by telling what he thinks of the Doctor. One graces the pul pit about like the other does the judicial bench.—Valdosta Times. Oh, yes, Jackson needs new factories, a railroad, more pay rolls. Everybody admits that. But what is everybody’s business is nobody’s business. The peo ple will never get these things till they organize and go out af ter them. Ihe people must first make up their minds they need them, want them, and then or ganize and all pull together and it will be easy. The people of Butts county are to be congratulated upon the out come of the recent execution. It shows they are for law and order. In a time of great excitement and when stirred by a shocking crime, they remained cool and let the law take its course. They up held the hands of our courts and our officers. Rutts county has not blackened her name by over riding the courts. us all en courage law and older and help to frown down any attempt to dis grace the county’s good name. THE SOUTH LEARNING HOW TO GROW CORN. The South is learning' .low to grow corn. In every Southern State, except Texas, where a very severe drouth hurt the crop, tljis year’s average yield per acre was above the ten-year average. In most States, however, it is be low last year’s average, and all over the South it is still disgrace fully low. Here are the figures by States for this year, and for last year: 1911. 1910. Alabama 18.0 18.2 Arkansas 20.8 24.0 Georgia 16.0 14.5 Louisiana 18.9 23.6 Mississippi 19.0 20.5 North Carolina 18.2 18.6 South Carolina 18.1 18.5 Tennessee 25.9 25.9 Texas 10.4 20.6 Virginia 24.0 25.5 We are making progress, but it is good for us to contrast these figures with Pennsylvania’s av erage of 44.5 bushels, with Wis consin’s 36.8, with Ohio’s 38.2, and with Indiana’s 37. Until we can make an average of over 25 bushels to the acre, we can’t claim to know how to grow corn; yet the big gains made in recent years show plainly that we are rapidly learning.—The Progress ive Farmer. SOUTHERN BELL ADVERTISES GREAT CORN EXPOSITION A big impetus will be given the second annual South Atlantic Corn Exposition today when the Southern Bell Telephone Com pany delivers a message to more than 100,000 business men, farm ers and leading citizens, urging their interest and attendance. The message will be telephoned by managers and other represent atives of the Southern Bell Tele phone Company and will reach practically the entire telephone using population of North and South Carolina and Georgia. The message is as follows: “The second annual South At- PI|HA AND HIDES Id ■ I WmP m. highest market price paid I* 1 ■ ■ FOR RAW FURS AND HIDES PMf H H Wool on Commission. Writs for price list mentioning this ad. JOHN WHITE & CO. LOUISVILLE, KY. Xmas Goods We want you to come here and see the pretty things we have selected for the Holi days. There is something to please all sizes and ages. Appropriate Gift-making is made easy by looking over our line of Dolls, Toys, Candies, Stationery, Fountain Pens, Toilet Articles, Etc., whether you intend giving something useful or ornamental, we want you to look over our Holiday selections. Wishing all of our friends and customers a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, we are Yours very truly, JACKSON 1 I COMPANY . -PHONE 62- BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS. la.ntic Corn Exposition will be held in Columbia, S. Cf, Decem ber 11th to 16th inclusive, under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture of the State of South Carolina. This exposition will encourage diversified farm ing and will tend to check the spread of the boll weevil. It will also be of benefit to the State, in many other ways. • For this reason the Southern B?ll Telephone Company is assisting the Agricultural Department of the State in this matter by ex tending to you an urgent invita tion to attend the exposition. They desire as many county ex hibits as can be had and the at tendance of as many Boys’ Corn Clubs as possible. Your presence at the exposition as well as your co-operation in arousing wide spread interest in this enterprise will be appreciated by the com missioners in charge of the ex position as well as the Telephone Company.” In no other wav could such a large number of people be com municated with jso quickly at such small cost. The rapid de velopment of the telephone in the rural sections of these States has made it possible to reach more than 20,000 farmers and their families through the Bell system, and this new use of the telephone is another demonstra tion of its value and necessity. A personal message from the State Department of Agriculture delivered in this direct manner will appeal to these farmers, and the indications are that the a' tendance at the Corn Exposition will be greatly increased. RIFLES TO BE INSPECTED. March 18 is the date named by the Adjutant General for the in spection of the Jackson Rifles, Company A, Second Infantry. Inspector General F. L. Palmer will represent the State, while regular army officers wifi repre sent the government at this in spection. The local command will soon begin making prepara tions for the annual inspection. Have you a number in the box? PROFESSIONAL. Akerman & Akerman, Attorneys at Law. Rooms 8-10 Washington Block, Macon, Georgia. $100,000.00 TO LOAN on farm lands. Rea sonable rate of interest See me before you borrow any money on your farm. W. E. Watkins, l)R. J. E. WOODS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Jackson. - - Georgia. Office Up-stairs in Crum Building. Residence phone 163—Offlice phone 137 J. E. J. REAGAN, Attorney At Law McDonough - - Georgia Offiee in Masonic Building. Will practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit. R. GUNTER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Jackson - - Georgia. Officfcjpver Jackson Drug Company Residence phone 9—Office phone 62. WE THANK YOU For your business during 1911. No matter how small or how large your patron age has been, we appreciate it all. In 1912 we want all the business that HONEST METHODS, RELIABLE GOODS and PROMPT ATTENTION to ORDERS will secure for us. Again thanking you for your patronage in the past and soliciting a continuance of same in the fu ture, and with the Compliments of the Season We remain Yours sincerely, Slaton Drug Go. The Store p m e Machine Shop JOSEPH L. WAGNER & SON, Proprietors. Bicycle Repaiping Machinery erected and repaired; Pipe Pitting, Plumbing, Electric Wiring; Automobiles and Gasoline Engines Repaired. WANTED; Scrap Iron,Brass,Copper,Lead C. L. REDMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Crum Building, JACKSON, GA. DR. JOEL B. WATKINS. V. M. D. Jackson - - Ga. v Office at Lfeacli & Co.’s stables. Of fice phone 44; jesidence 151. All calls promptly answered, - J. THRfeATT MOORE, Attorney At Law Officd opposite the Jail. Jackson : : Georgia. Will practice in all the Courts. DR. ARCH. H. LILLARD, Osteopathic and Medical Physician and Surgeon Prompt attention given to City and Country cailfc. Phones:—Office, 188. Residence, 157, Office in Cufry building, Jackson, Ga. - -■■■■’■- - JAS. b, CARMICHAEL, Real Estate and Loans Room 5, Harkness bldg. Jackson - - Georgia My option expires in a short time on some of the property listed with me. After it expires the owners will either raise the priee or take the property off the market. See me at once. JAS. F. CARMICHAEL.
