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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1912)
J. THREATT MOORE WELCOMES TEACHERS Delivers Brilliant Address at Indian Spring Be fore Convention The following address was de livered by Hon. J. T. Moore at the meeting of the County School Officials at Indian Spring Monday night. The address was the feat ure of the opening session. Gentlemen of Georgia: The people of Indian Spring and the county of Butts greet you this evening with a dignity and maj esty of a Southern people. Your mission to our county is one of extreme importance and interest to all the people. It is a mission that bespeaks the progress of civilization. It is a mission of great importance to the child and teacher’s life work and in which both are concerned most. The coming together of the County Superintendents of the State is the advance guard in the front of the great intellectual battles of life to be fought. You gentlemen are the guardians of the children of this State in this great battle. Your mature wis dom and self-sacrifice for better educational facilities is indeed a great work. No pilgrimage of men and women ever inspired in the work of a nobler cause than actuates the meeting of this com mittee. Especially when it is being led by such an able, brave and accomplished Trojan as the Hon. M. L. Brittian, State School Superintendent of the State of Georgia. And tonight while you rest at the Wig wam, for a few days on vour pilgrimage, allow me on behalf of my county’s able and distin guished County Superintendent to extend to you and to each of you a glad welcome for your com ing. Not since the red man turned his face toward the setting sun and took his last drink of water at this healthful resort, where the beauty and dignity of Geor gia stoops today over its living water to drink for new life, has ever there been a convention assembled of greater importance. Important to the child and the betterment of the child, impor tant to the State, important to the teachers of the State and all the schools, both public and com mon. My fellow-citizens, science is a wonderful development of the brain. Its lights have light ed up the widening paths of ig norance and sins throughout the universe. The spirit of educa tion has sprung up among the people to an extent worthy of admiration. No matter where men are at in any Riven moment the great question about them is are they going forward? Do they im prove? It is the glory of liberty to favor progress, and this great blessing the education of the in dividual has done. In the earli est ages, before the dawn of science, men recognized an im mediate interference of the div inity whatever powerfully struck his senses. To the savage the thunder was litterally God’s voice, the lightning his arrow, the whirlwind his breath. Every unusual event was a miracle, a' progidy, a promise of good or evil from heaven. Those rude notions and igno rant ideas have all faded before the light of science, which re veals fixed laws and a stated or der of nature. Now gentlemen in this day of airships, hobble skirts and Titan ic icebergs I would have you to reccommend some legislation whereby the country school teachers can get their pay more promptly. These young men and women who face all kinds of inclement weather and live on cold lunches ought to have their money from the State at the end of their labors. A greater per cent of the children of Georgia never go any further than the country schools. This is the cause of so many of our best farmers moving from the farms to the city to educate their children. The district schools ought to prepare the girl and boy for college and higher edu cation at their own home with out any additional expenditure from the parent or guardian. No life is so stimulating to the school boy and girl as the pure country life. You have every advantage here to develop the physical faculties as well as the mental and moral faculties of the child. Can you imagine in all of your study an illustration more strikingly when you see Senator Benjamin H. Hill with his physical brawn and muscle and his giant intellect wrestling in senatorial combat with the plumed knight of the East, the great leader of the Republican party, the Hon James C. Blaine, of Maine? A Georgia son to the manner born, coming from the rural district school, truly an ex ample of well developed man hood, beautifully blended with the Cavalier courtesy of the Anglo-Saxon race. Gentlemen you will pardon me, but on behalf of my loyal friend, Hon. C. S. Maddox, Superinten dent of the schools of Butts coun ty, allow me to say we are glad you are here, and hope you will come again. STARK MASONIC LODGE WILL MEET SATURDAY The Stark Masonic lodge held its regular communication Satur day night. There were quite a number of petitions received and several others will be presented soon. Stark lodge was organized re cently under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge. At its next regular communication May 18, the Entered Apprentice degree will be conferred. A number of prominent Masons will be pres ent and all those qualified are in vited to attend. Stark lodge has a good terri tory to draw from, is located in a splendid section and will soon be in a flourishing condition. Statement Campaign Expenses Statement of Campaign Expenses of J. H. Mills, candidate for member of General Assembly, in primary held May Ist, 1912. Announcement Jackson Argus.. &*OO Announcement Butts Cos. Progress Assessment by Executive Committee 10.00 Livery bill 8.00 Stationery, Telephone and hotel bill •tOO $ 27.00 Geobqi a—Butts County. Before me personally appeared J. H. Mills, who being duly sworn, on oath says that the above statement is true and that the said funds was his indi vidual money. J. H. MILLS. Sworn to and subscribed before me May 14, 1912. H. M. FLETCHER, Judge City Court, Jackon. BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS. VISITS HOME AFTER MANY YEARS ABSENCE IN TEXAS Mr. W. B. Payne, of Humble, Harris county, Texas, who atten ded the reunion in Macon last week is spending several days in the county with friends. Mr. Payne, who is a native of Monroe county, moved to Texas in 1879 and this is his first trip to Geor gia in many years. He was a member of Cos. H. First Kentucky cavalry and ser ved with Messrs. S. H. and R. W. Mays and B. C. Ward of this county. These four are the only survivors of that command in this section, so far as known. Mr. Payne has been the guest of friends in Jackson and is now spending a few days with Mr. Ward at Cork and will later visit in Monroe county before return ing to Texas the first of June. Miss Clara Giles was down from Atlanta the past week visi ting relatives and friends here. FIRST CLASS Dress Making BY MRS. L. M. HALE Residence at Parkland. 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