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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1912)
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 30. MIDDLE GEORGIA INTER URBAN MAY BE SOLD AS ASSET CAPT. SMITH’S ESTATE Road Will Probably Be Taken Over by Members of Capt. Smith’s Family Who Will Endeavor to Push Enterprise to An Early Completion Will the Middle Georgia Inter urban Railway be sold this fall? And if it is sold, will it be built upon passing into new hands? These are questions one hears asked frequently these days. Just what will be done in the matter no one but those connect ed with the road know. It is hardly likely any action will be taken before this fall. The part of the road that has been graded, from the Southern depot to the business section of the city, is, of course, worthless to the estate of Capt. W. F. Smith in its present condition. Dr. J. G. Smith, of McDonough, is administrator of his father’s estate. None of the property will hardly be sold before the fall months. At this season it would not sell to advantage, it is pointed oqt. Whether or not Capt. Smith’s interest in the road will be sold along with his other estate prop erty, is a matter of conjecture. It may be that members of the family will take over his holdings and take hold of the road and push it to completion. The road may pass into new hands entire ly. No one with authority to speak of the matter seems to know just what will be the out come. It was honed that the road would be built in time for the season at Indian Spring. The death of Cant. Smith put a stop to all work. Nothing further can be done until the estate is sold, it is said. There is no question but that the people of Jackson want to see this road completed. With the road will go valuable franchise privileges. Capt. Smith and associates have a fran chise to build a road over any street in the city of Jackson. There would be difficulty now in getting such a franchise, it is stated, and the franchise is con sidered valuable. grand lodge odd fellows WILL MEET IN GAINESVILLE The Grand Lodge of Odd Fel lows of Georgia will meet in Gainesville on May 22 and 23. An interesting program has been arranged and Gainesville is pre paring to entertain the visitors JJR. Thurston of Jackson lodge No. 152 will attend fr The h< matter of a permanent; home will be discussed at this meeting The sessions will be auditorium. It is nxDected from fi fteen h “" drd WhSsand persons will attend the annual meeting. SOUTHERN BAPTISTS IN ANNUAL CONVENTION ARE MEETING IN OKLAHOMA CITY Dr. Robert VanDeventer Representing Baptists of This City at Great Gath ering Which Will Be in Session From The 15th Through The 20th The Soutern Baptist conven tion is in session in Oklahoma City this week, having met on Wednesday. It will hold through next Monday, the 20th. Dr. R. VanDeventer of the Jackson Baptist church is attend ing from here. He left the first of the week to be present at the opening session. Dr. E. C. Darg&n, of Macon, pastor of the First Baptist church, is president of the convention, having been elected in Jackson ville last year. It is probable he will be re-elected for another year. Reports of the various boards of the church will be delivered during the convention. It is un derstood these reports will show favorable conditions in all depart ments of the church work. The home and foreign mission and the> Sunday school boards raised and expended during the year, ending April 30th, $1,250,000, it is said. This is a substantial increase over the preceding year. The Woman’s Missionary union, an auxiliary of the Southern Bap tist convention, is also meeting in Oklahoma City. This organi zation is said to have raised for missions in America and foreign lands $225,000 during the past year. Several thousand delegates from all parts of the South are attending the convention, which is one of broad interest through out the entire country. Many matters of interest will be taken up during the five days the con vention is in session. Morris Redman is at home from the University of Georgia recuperating from a recent ill ness. MORE PRESSURE “Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, “My trade of late is getting bad; I guess I’ll use a ten inch ad?” If such there be, go, mark him well; for him no bank ac count shall swell: No angel watch the golden stair to welcome home a millionaire. The man who never asks for trade, by local ad. or line displayed, cares more for rest than worldly gain, and patronage but gives him pain. Tread lightly friends, let no rude sound disturb his solitude profound; Here let him live in calm repose, unsought except by men he owes, and when he dies, go plant him deep that naught may break his dreamless sleep, Wherein no clamor may dispel the solitude he loves so well, And, that the world may know its loss, plant on his grave a wreath of moss. But he who advertises and hustles day by day to land all business along his way, Shall never know a receiver’s call that puts his business to the wall. So, friend, if you are feeling glum because your “biz is on the bum,” Don’t moon around and blink and think, but use a lot of printer’s ink.” —Printers Ink. JACKSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MAY 17. 1912. VISITS HOME AFTER ABSENCE OF 71 YEARS HAD FORGOTTEN MANY FRIENDS Mr. Green Lassiter Attends Reunion in Macon And Visits Scene of His Child hood of Seventy-Eight Years Ago—Proves An Interesting Experience A resident of Arkansas since early youth, Mr. Green Lassiter visited the county of his birth af ter an absence of 71 years, last week. Mr. Lassiter, who is a native of Monroe county, moved West when he was only 7 years old. He had not visited this section since that time until last week when he attended the reunion in Macon. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Newton, the former being his cousin, Wed nesday night. He is a nephew of Mrs. Jane Carson, of this city, and of Dr. Webb, of Newton county. Mr. Lassiter remembers but little of this section. The coun try has undergone a complete change in> the 71 years since he was here. He visited relatives and friends in Monroe county during this trip. Mr. Lassiter, whose home is at Hope. Ark., is now 78 years of age. THROUGH TRAINS WILL STOP IN JACKSON Beginning last Sunday, south bound passenger train No. 6, pas sing here at 2:06 p. m., will stop in Jackson. Northbound pas senger train No. 5, passing here at 3:23, p.m., will also stop here. These trains will stop only up on flagging. They will also make stops at Flovilla, Jenkinsburg, Locust Grove, McDonough, Juli ette, Stockbridge and Dame’s Ferry, when flagged. This schedule will prove con venient to those desiring to make afternoon trips to Atlanta and Macon, and an increased patron age will doubtless result. BUTTS CITIZENS WANT ED COL. SMITH NAMED AS JUDGE OF MACON CIRCUIT The Plum However Fell to Col. Nat Harris of Ma con And Neither Col. Smith Nor Judge Hod ges Will Be Judge Super ior Court for the Present The people of Butts county were interested in the appoint ment by Governor Joseph M. Brown of a judge to succeed Judge W. H. Felton of the Ma con circuit, resigned. The Jacksod Bar Association, along with other citizens of the county, urged the governor to name Col. John R. L. Smith to this place. Col. Smith is a na tive of this county, belongs to a prominent family of the county, and his appointment would have delighted his friends here. He also had the endorsement of the Macon Bar Association. Governor Brown, however, ap pointed Col. N.E. Harris to the judgeship. Col. Smith and Judge Hodges were applicants. Both are per sonal and political friends of Gov ernor Brown and it is thought he appointed Col. Harris to this place as a solution of the prob lem. Judge Felton resigned several days ago to accept the presiden cy of the Central Georgia Power Company. While the friends of Col. Smith regret he did not get the appoint ment, they feel that Col. Harris, who has accepted the appoint ment, will fill the duties of the office with ability. Card of Thanks. I wish to thank my many friends who worked so unselfish ly for me in my race for County Treasurer in the recent primary. I am deeply gratified and shall do my utmost to fill the office in a manner that no one who voted for me will have occasion to re gret it. Respectfully, C. N. Mayfield. NEARLY ONE THOUSAND GO FROM BUTTS COUNTY TO GREAT REUNION IN MAGON Recent Confederate Reu nion in Macon Was One Most Successful Held in Long Time-Local Mil itary Was on Duty All of Reunion Week Several hundred people from Butts county attended the Con federate Veterans Reunion in Macon last week. Three hun dred and seventy-five tickets were sold in Jackson, exclusive of the Jackson Rifles, who attend ed in a body. Counting those who attended from Jackson, Flovilla and Jen kinsburg, it is certain that seven or eight hundred people visited Macon from here during reunion week. All who visited the Central City during the week were de lighted with the reunion. The hospitality of Macon was all that could have been asked for, it is said. The veterans were taken care of in a most cordial manner and only words of praise are heard for Macon and her citizens. The Jackson Rifles were on du ty during the entire reunion. They went down Sunday morning and returned home Friday night. The military boys had a good time, though they had to work pretty hard at times. Dr. H. W. Copeland, who is attached to the hospital corps of the Second Regiment, spent most of the week in Macon and helped to take care of the sick. All veterans who were in any way unwell were not allowed to march in the parade, and as a result not a man fell out of the parade. But one veteran died during the reunion. The members of Camp Barnett went down Tuesday morning. The pupils of the Jackson Public Schools attended the reunion on Wednesday. SUPT. W. D. NICHOLSON RESIGNS HIS POSITION Mr. W. D, Nicholson, who has been superintendent of the wa ter works and electric light plant of the city of Jackson for about a year and a half, has resigned his position, to become effective the first of June. Mr. Nicholson came here in the summer of 1910 from Millen, Ga., where he was superinten dent of the municipal plant With the old city plant he did good work, giving effective ser vice. Recently he has helped to install the new machinery which the city put in when it contract ed for power from the Central Georgia Power Company. Mr. Nicholson is an experien ced and capable workman and has many friends here who will re gret to know that he is to leave Jackson. His successor will be elected by council at an early meeting. NUMBER 20.
