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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1912)
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. ALFRED AKERMAN - Proprietor J. DOYLE JONES .... Editor Subscription $1 a Year, Entered as second-class matter, Novem ber 8,1907, at the postofflceat Jackson, Ga. Official Organ Butts County Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cosr 1 respondents will please coniine them selves to 800 words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. lackson, Ga., Friday, April 19, 1912 Clean up for Memorial Day. Pull hard for Jackson or pull out. Sting the fly before he stings you. Every candidate has a little smile all his own. Many favorite sons are “call ed” into the race, but few are elected. Baseball and politics have help ed Atlanta forget her greatest disgrace. Show that you are interested in the boys by giving a prize to the Corn Club. If you can’t say something good about Jackson and Butts county keep silent please. Ever talk anew hotel, new en terprises and another railroad to people away from Jackson? The peach crop is safe and the spring poet hasn’t even come forward with an ode on the sub ject The candidates have been trailing .the farmers across plowed ground for the last few days. What Butts county really needs is a bond issue for build ing roads. It would be cheapest in the long run. The baseball fan is caring little about who is elected president, now that theyr’e off for another season in all the leagues. Whitfield county has gone old Butts ond better and has some thirteen candidates for county treasurer as against our nine. Jackson is growing right along, surely and steadily. Hardly a week passes but some new enter prise is secured for the town. The Savannah Morning News is offering prizes to the boys in that city who catch the largest number of flies. Swat the fly. The candidates are batting an even thousand in the talk fest league, but there's many a one will strike out on the first of May. Ever see a candidate that wasn’t a booster? They have to be in love with everybody and everything or at least pretend they are. We trust there is something in that railroad besides just talk. Bring on the railroad. Jackson wants all the enterprises she can get. Every fellow knows how to run a paper better than the edi tor. But it takes a wise guy to keep one from running on the rocks. What would follow anew rail road in Jackson? Anew hotel, new enterprises, an increased population, bigger and better business. There are too many capital crimes being committed in Butts county. What is the remedy? A rigid enforcement of the law would help some. Jackson is all right. There may be something the matter with some of her citizens. But the town is all right. Pull for Jackson or pull out. Georgia is the fourth State in agriculture, the tenth in popula tion and the twentieth in land area. She is easily first in cli mate and hospitality of her peo ple. One life is worth a thousand times what it would cost to clean up the town. There is not near so much danger of sickness in a clean town. Clean up and clean up all over. Butts county can’t afford to go out of the road working business. By voting bonds the people will get good roads quicker and cheap er thad can be hoped for under the present system. While we are for Underwood for President we are not going to sling mud at other candidatss. Some papers think they can’t support the candidate of their choice without maligning the others in the race. Don’t forget that Jackson wants and needs a hiodern new hotel. There is plenty of room for anew hotel in addition to those already here. Nobody would be hurt and the town would be greatly benefited. OUR NEW EQUIPMENT. We have just completed the in stallation of anew and modem Cottrell Press that will enable us to print the paper with more ease and speed. This equipment, which had been planned for some time, to gether with some other features that will be added later, will give us one of the best outfits in this part of the State. The Progress appreciates pro foundly the liberal and encoura ging support it is receiving and shall strive to prove worthy of the continued confidence of those it serves. The policy of the pa per has been and will be to do all possible for the people of Jackson, Butts county and Mid dle Georgia. It is the intention of those behind the paper to make it an exponent of sound, clean and reliable journalism. A cordial invitation is extend ed to the public to call and in spect the new plant. Doors, Windows, Lumber. Ce ment—we have them and can save you money, Merritt & Childs, Jen kinsburg, Ga. BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS. NOT IS NOW ILL FAMING HfflOOD BTRAWB SHOWING THE WINDS A3 EXPRESSED JUST BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN BEGAN. Atlanta, Ga. —As an evidence of the unanimity with which Georgians are supporting Oscar Underwood for pres ident, Manager Hutchens gave out at headquarters four incidents, which he declares are significant. “The Democratic executive commit tee of Worth county met the other day to determine on plans for the presidential primary. A vote was ta ken and it was found that the com mittee stood 29 for Underwood and 1 for Wilson. This report was sent to me from three different sources. “During the primary held on the 27th in Pike county, those who voted in the second district were asked to write down their preference for pres ident and when the vote was count ed it was found that it was Under wood 72, Wilson 4, Clark 1. This in formation comes from the justice of the peace who presided at the elec tion. “In Waynesboro recently there was held a mass meeting of citizens to select anew Democratic executive committee. After the new commit tee was chosen, the mass meeting en dorsed Mr. Underwood without a dis senting vote. “The organizers of the Underwood club at Wellston in Houston county, report that there are 106 voters in the district and that 103 have signed their names in the Underwood club. "We haven't given up hope of get ting the other three," the county adds. • LEADING WILSON SUPPORTER SAYS UNDERWOOD WILL WIN Hon. W. T. Lane, of Americus, sev eral times a member of the legisla ture from Sumter county, a well known lawyer and a strong Wilson supporter, has practically given up the fight in Georgia, and now express es the opinion that Underwood will carry the state. Mr Lane has taken a prominent stand in politics in his section, gets around considerably over his congres sional district, and his judgment can not he questioned. He says “Georgia may, and proba bly will, follow the example of Ala bama, and declare for Underwood.’’ Here is Mr. Lane’s statement, In which he makes this interesting ad mission as it appeared in Wednes day’s Americus Times-itecorder. “I believe Wilson is the best candi date, in the sense that he is most likely to be a winner before the peo ple,’’ said W. T. Lane, the well-known attorney yesterday, “but I am free to confess that while I will support Wil son, the outlook favore Underwood in this entire section of the state, and probably throughout the state. I can readily appreciate that the Under wood sentiment is developing strength rapidly. But while Georgia may, and probably will, follow the ex ample of Alabama and declare Under wood to be its preference, I am still free to say that I believe that Wilson is the most available candidate for the party to nominate. Underwood is a man of fine capacity and undoubted experience and ability as a political leader and statesman, hut I cannot believe that the north Is yet willing to accept a southern man. It seems, though, that he will have some sub stantial backing in the convention. Georgia looks very much like sending an Underwood delegation.* 1 SUNDAY SCHOOLS WILL HAVE ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Butts County Sunday School As sociation will be held with the Baptist church at Indian Spring on Friday, May 3. Hon. J. Matt McMichael is president of the association. It is desired that all the Sun day schools in the county send delegates to the meeting. The program will be a profitable and instructive one and all who at tend will be well entertained. At the conclusion of the exercis es officers will be elected for the ensuing year. UNDERTAKING i TwSk±. f I 1 -v 1 II 4 o J -J /I 1 ■ A" 1 ' M U S. H. THORNTON Jackson, Georgia. Full line of CASKETS and ROBES to select from. EMBALMING carefully done according to the best meth ods, when requested. My careful personal attention given to all funerals in trusted to me. Calls promptly answered, day or night. Day Phone 174 Night Phone 193 ' "" PURITY The Government and State Officials Carefully Investigate “WHAT YOU EAT.” They are Looking for Impurities and Adulterations And we are looking For Purity Always We have the “Pure Food,’’that complies with all laws, even the Laws of Health Paul Nolen & Cos. Phone 60 D. A. ASBURY, BREEDER OF Silver L. Wyandottes, Single Comb Buff and White Leghorns and Buff Cochin Bantams. Eggs Ready After Jan. 1. Write for Prices. JENKINSBURG, GA. f TAYLOR’S SPECIALS 2lb Tomatoes . . 3 for 25c 2lb Corn .... 3 “ 25c Alligator Oysters . 3 “ 25c 3lb Peaches . . . . . 15c Octagon Soap . . 6 for 25c Red Wrapper Soap . 7 for 25c Arm & Hammer Soda 7 “ 25c Best 25c Coffee in town. Low Prices on everything. Come to see me. W. M. TAYLOR.
