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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1912)
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS GUARDIAN SALE By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary, will be sold before the court house door the first Tuesday in June, 1912, between the usual hours of sale, the following, to wit: One undi vided interest in one vacant lot in the city of Jackson, Ga., the same having been set apart as a year’s support for the minor children of Melissa McCune, deceased. Said lot is situated on Oak Street and containing 20,000 sq. feet, and bounded North, West and South by lands of Mrs. A. L. Crum, and on the East by Oak Street. The whole of said lot will be sold and the undivided interest of the heirs who are of age will be deeded to the purchaser by said heirs. Said property sold for a division and benefit of minors. Terms cash. Walter McCune, Guardian, for the minors of Melissa McCune. FOR LETT ERS DISMISSION FROM ADMINISTRATION. GEO AG l A—Butts County. To All Whom it May Concern: Whereas, H. M. Fletcher, adminis trator de bonis non of Thomas McKib ben, deceased, represents to the Court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully adminis tered Thomas McKibben’s estate. This is therefore to cite all persons concern ed, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said ad ministrator should not be discharged from his administration and receive letters of dismission, on the first Mon day in June 1912. J. H. HAM, Ordinary. NOTICE TO DE RTORS AND CRED ITORS. All persons indebted to the estate of W. F. Smith are requested to come forward and settle their accounts; and all the creditors of said estate are noti fied to present their claims within the time prescribed by law. J. G. SMITH, Admr. estate of W. F. Smith, McDonough, Ga. 5-17-6 t ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR CONGRESS. To the Democratic Voters of the Sixth Congressional District: I hereby announce my candidacy for Congressman to the 63rd American Congress, from the Sixth Congression al district, subject to the Democratic primary to be held in August 1912. If I am elected I will be true to the com mon people. It will be impossible for me to meet every one in the district, so I make this announcement through the press. I will be profoundly grate ful for your support. Respectfully, JOHN R. COOPER. FOR CONGRESS. To the Democratic Voters of the Sixth Congressional District: I take this means of announcing mj candidacy for re-election to Congress, subject to the primary to be called and provided for by the Democratic Execu tive Committee for the Sixth Congres sional District. I ask for re-election based upon my record, and shall appreciate the sup port of my friends, as in the P^; C. L. BARTLETT. PROFESSIONAL. Akerman & Akerman, Attorneys at Law. Rooms 8-10 Washington Block, Macon. Geor^a - J. THREATT MOORE, Attorney At Law. Office in Crum Building, : Georgia. Wm practice in all the Courts. c. L. REDMAN, attorney at law. Office in carter- Warthen Building, JACKSON, C*A. DR. JOEL B. WATKINS, V M. D., Jackson, Ga. flee phene 41; residence 151. All cm promptly answerec.. DR. ARCH. H. LILLARD, Osteopathic and Medical Physician and Surgeon Prompt attention given to City and Country calls. 1 hones:—Office, 188. Residence, 157, Office in Curry building, Jackson, Ga. R. GUNTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Jackson - . Georgia. Office over Jackson Drug Company Residence phone 9—Office phone 62. JAS. F. 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 price or take the property of! the market. See me at once. JAS. F. CARMICHAEL. Merritt & Childs sell Lumber, Lime, Cement, TerraCotta, Paint, Brick and everything in builders supplies. C. S. Barrett Hits The “Quitters” To the Officers and Members of the Farmers’ Union: Peter, who denied Christ thrice, was one of the greatest “Quit ters” in all history. But he re pented. And his sublime atone ment is one of the finest chapters in the story of Christianity, standing forever as a sublime lesson to the great tribe of ‘ ‘quit ters.” There are plenty in the Far mers’ Union who belong in that tribe. I want to say a few words of brotherly admonition to them. For with the organization strong er than at any time since its foundation, it grieves me to see a few short-sighted farmers cut themselves off from its ad vantages. It may be that you quit because the order didn’t revolutionize the earth a month after you joined. You forget that tremendous re sults are accomplished slowly, that it took ages for the little coral pelyps to build up the state of Florida, and the big islands by piling their bodies one on top of the other. You forgot that evils and ignorance that have been centuries in accumulating can’t be wiped out in a day or a night. It may be that you quit because when you entered the organiza tion, you were full of steam and ginger and spent it all in the first few local meetings without set ting the brethren on fire. Steam and ginger are good things—in dispensable things —but they ought to be nursed carefully and distributed gradually as you go along. If you gush out all of your enthusiasm in one grand spasm, you wouldn’t have any left to meet the big tasks and ordeals that are inseparable from an organization of this national scope, and unprecedented na ture. It may be that you quit because you had a little streak of crookedness in you, and saw you could go back on the organ ization, or on someone of its en terprises, and get a trifling mess of pottage for your treachery. Benedict Arnold figured it out the same way. He got his pot tage, all right. But he died the most execrated man in America, the man most held in contempt in England, which had bought him, and there was no loving re spectful hands to smooth his pillow as he passed away in that lonely London attic. BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS. It may be that you quit because you found some deviltry in the organization, many specks of rottenness, graft here and there, incompetence, selfishness on the part of leaders, a tendency to play the organization for their political advantage. All these things have happened in the Farmers’ Union. Nobody with any sense of candor denies that. They have also happened in all the churches, in all the secret orders, in all business, in every feature of private life. You don’t lay down and die when you find anyone of these weaknesses in one or more of these places. But just because it crops up in a farmers’ organization—which is made up of fallible human be ings—you want to kick right out. I tell you right now, that joining the Farmers’ Union does not make a man, automatically, an angel. We have j ust as many devils as anybody of similar size. You needn’t be surprised when you find them in your immediate vicinity. If you desert because you do find them, instead of jumping into the ranks and help ing either to cure them or eject them, you ought to be ashamed to look your wife’in the face. I look at the hundreds of faith ful members who have plodded along with the long, hard, patient pull—enduring, fighting and see ing just the evils you see—and then regard you with a feeling blended of contempt and pity and a longing to reason you out of vour folly. It is not the Far mers’ Union you damage when you quit it in a fit of sulks. It’s yourself, your wife and your children. For every one of you who lays down his musket and turns tail, or becomes a knocker, there are a dozen who enlist, who boost and who develop the sense to see that because the or ganization isn’t perfect there is no excuse for their leaving it. The deserter is everywhere held in loathing. He is about the lowest creature under God’s sun. The coward who flinches in the face of danger or incon venience, is no better. You all know how the world feels tow ard the few men who showed the white feather when the big “Titanic” went down? Well, the fellow who deserts the craft of the Farmers’ Union for some fancied or real grievance—and there are plenty of the latter— doesn’t deserve any higher place in human estimation than the buzzards who proved craven on the “Titanic.” Come back, you quitters. Study the story of Peter, of Ben edict Arnold, of all the great quitters. In Peter’s case, the quitter who recovered his nerve and manhood did more valiant service than many of those who have never dreamed of quitting. You can do the same. There is no nobler work on the Almighty’s foot-stool than sacrifice and la bor for one’s fellows—work and sacrifice when it seems that neither is to count for much, when ingratitude looks like your main reward and when you are tempted to take the easy, in stead of the hard road. But, bear in mind, we are en gaged in the holiest work in the history of civilization—the effort to bring into his rights and his full man’s stature the farmer, that member of the race who has suffered most from neglect and misunderstanding, frequently from the avarice of his own fel lows, not to mention outsiders. Are you going to stop sulking, and help us in a movement that promises to be one of the greatest achievements America will ever give the world ? Charles S. Barrett. Union City, Ga., May 6th, 1912. FREE PASS TO SOUTHWEST GEORGIA I sell land in Macon, Houston and Dooley counties, having lived here for four years. I moved from North Georgia after I saw the great advantages of this section over a hilly country. Our land is mostly level, dry and clear of rock, No gullies, good drainage. If you have $2,000.00 and more in ready cash and want to invest in a farm, write for certified check to pay railroad expenses from Jackson to Montezuma and return. This is an opportunity for you. I could not swindle you if I were to sell you the poorest level land we have at $50.00 per acre. You would have a good investment that would pay a good interest. Prices from SIO.OO to $40.00 an acre gets the best lands of Georgia in the heart of the Cotton and Peach belt. Don’t let opportunities like this pass. Think of the rainfall we have been having this winter, and yet the people are through planting and thousands of acres of cotton are chopped this 2nd day of May. Yours for business, C. H. 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