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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1912)
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 30. PRIZES DISTRIBUTED AND RULES ARRANGED FOR BOYS CORN CLUB Thirty-Two Members of Club Will Contest For The Prizes Committee Met Saturday Afternoon With County School Superintendent C. S. Maddox And Drew up Rules And Regulations Governing The Boys Corn Club Contests—Winners Have Chance to Capture Valuable Prizes Offered by The State And United States Departments of Agriculture At a meeting held Saturday the committee on the distribution of prizes and rules and regula tions governing the Butts Coun ty Boys Corn Club adopted the following resolutions: 1. All boys between the ages of 10 and 18 are eligible as mem bers of the club, and no boy will be allowed to compete for a prize who is not a member. 2. The members of the club must agree to read the instruc tions sent out from the State College of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture. 3. Each boy must plant his own crop and do his own work. A boy not strong enough to han dle a large implement may em ploy help in preparing and culti vating his land but must keep an itemized account of labor ana fertilizer. 4. The measurement of the acre and the yield must be made by a reliable committee of three members appointed by the coun ty superintendent or principal of school. 5. After the corn has been measured, a written report of the crop and a ten ear exhibit must be sent at once to the coun ty school superintendent for the contest in the county fair. In awarding prizes the follow ing basis will be used: (a) Best yield per acre, 30 per cent. (b) Best showing of profit on investment, 30 per cent. (c) Best exhibit of ten ears, 20 per cent. (and) Best written account showing history of crop, 20 per cent. The written account, of not over 500 words, should be in the language of the boy, giving a careful description of his method of growiir” the corn. Rule six will be omitted in awarding the county prizes, so that these shall be awarded re gardless of tne cost of produc tion. The land shall be measured not later than August. 1 by a committee of three in each dis trict The committee shall see the corn gathered and measured. The time for gathering and method of measuring will be ar ranged and the contestants no tified by publications at a later The following list of prizes will be awarded in Butts county. Upland Ist. Best yield per acre, S3O cash. 2nd. Best yield per acre $25 cash. 3rd. Best vield per acre, sls cash. 4th. Best yield per acre, Corn planter by Dempsey Hardware Cos., value $12.50. sth. Best yield per acre, Suit of clothes by Carmichael-Mallet Cos. 6th. Best yield per acre, Mer chandise by Buttrill Bros., value $5.00. 7th. Best yield per acre, Hat by Ham & Carter Cos. Bth. Best yield per acre, Fer tilizer by Carmichael Guano Cos., value $5.00 9th. Best yield per acre, Rocker by S. H. Thornton. 10th. Best yield per acre 15 lb Stock Powders by W. M. Taylor. Bottom Land Ist. Best yield per acre, S3O cash. 2nd. Best yield per acre, Berkshire pig by A. M. Pace, value 25.00. 3rd. Best yield per acre, Po land China pig by S. H. Mays, value SIO.OO. 4th. Best yield per acre, cultivator by B. F. Watkins & Cos., value $5.00. Best profit on acre of upland, $20.00 cash. Best profit on acre of bottom land, $12.50 cash. Best article written on corn cultivation, watch by Jos. E. Edwards. Best ten bushels of corn, Bug TRADE AT HOME Everybody admits what everybody knows, that everybody should trade at home The business man of today living in the small town must meet mail order prices. He must sell just as cheap as the large department stores in the big cities. This is an age when the people want to be shown. The Progress never fails to preach the doctrine of shop at home. This is a duty we all owe the home merchant and everything else being equal we should patronize home industries. Money kept at home can be made to serve many useful ends, but the dol lar sent out of the community is gone forever. If you are not getting your share of the business, have you stopped to inquire the reason why? Perhaps you are missing business by not acquainting the people with the bargains you have for them. The time has come when shoppers look for the bar gain list. While we are preaching the doctrine of shop at home in the news columns of the paper, why don’t you use some advertising space to spread the same doctrine? It can’t be that you are not interested. An advertising campaign that will advise the people of the superiority of this market over others, and your store over all others, will do good. If you do not speak for yourself can you expect others to speak for you? Fire into the mail order houses. Don’t be mealy-mouthed about it Show the peo ple you can meet prices. Tell them of what you have. Bea town booster, a town builder and your business will grow accordingly. Tell the people just where it is to their advantage to trade at home. Don’t let dull times frighten you. The duller the times the more you should adver tise. No successful business was ever built without a liberal amount of advertising. When in doubt, use an advertising campaign in this paper. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1912. MAY MOVE EXPERIMENT STATION TO ATHENS BILL BB INTRODUCED THIS YEAR Stated That Effort Will Be Made to Move The Ex periment Station to Seat of State University And Combine it With The Agricultural College It is said that a bill will be in troduced at the next session of the legislature to move the State Experiment Station to Athens. The experiment farm is now located at Experiment, Ga., near Griffin. The ooject of the pro posed bill is to have the experi mental farm moved to Athens and brought under the same head as the State Agricultural College. It will be recalled that such a bill was introduced in the legis lature a few years ago and came very near passing, being defeated only after a hard fight by Hon. J. J. Flynt, then serving in the general assembly. It is understood that the ex periment station must be moved to Athens and be operated in conjunction with the Agricultu ral college to conform to some new law under which the federal government appropriatesa certain amount for the maintain ance of agricultural education in Georgia. From what one can hear here and there it is believed a majority of the people of the state are in favor of seeing the experi ment station moved to Athens. * gy robe by McKibben Cos., value $5.00! Best ten ears of corn; Pair of shoes by Jackson Mercantile Cos., and SI.OO cash by Dr. J. Lee Byron. Most prolific stalk of corn, SI.OO cash by Dr. J. Lee Byron. Longest handled gourd, SI.OO cash by Dr. J. Lee Byron. Lowest yield of corn, goat by Hon. S. H. Mays. PROF. MARTIN NAMED AS HEAD OF SCHOOLS WAS ELECTED OVER MANY OTHERS Thirty Well Known Edu cators From This And Other States Apply for The Superintendency of Jackson’s Public Schools For Next Term • In a field of thirty contestants, Prof. W. P. Martin, of Law renceville,' was elected superin tendent of schools of Jackson by the board of education last Fri day afternoon. There was no little interest in the election. The number of ap plicants was the largest ever of fered for the position in Jackson and it is doubtful if a larger num ber ever got busy after a similar position in the state. Prominent educators in this and other states sought the plum. Prof. Martin is a Mercer man, having been graduated from that institution a few years ago. For the past year or two he has been connected with the schools in Lawrenceville and has met with success. He is said to be a splen did disciplinarian. Prof. Mar tin’s reccommendations are high ly flattering. The election developed a sur prise here and there. Prof. Van Fletcher was an applicant as was also Prof. Mingledorff. Mr. Mingledorff is at present princi pal of the high school depart ment of the Jackson public schools. Prof. Fletcher taught with great success at Fort Gaines for a number of years and re tired only on account of failing health and for business reasons. Either of these gentlemen would have made an acceptable superin tendent. Prof. Martin’s election was unanimous. After a few ballots were cast it was found he had a majority and he received the vote of the whole board. Mr. Martin appeared before the FARMERS INSTITUTE TO BE HELD IN JULY PROGRAM NOT YET COMPLETED Experts From The State College of Agriculture at Athens Will Conduct Farmers Institute in This Place During Week of July 22 A Farmers Institute will be held in Jackson during the week of July 22nd. The program and other details of the institute have not been arranged, but will be given out a little later. During the week, which should not be a busy one, a number of experts from the State Agricul tural College will be in Jackson and will lecture on subjects of interest to the farmers and busi ness men of the community. The local committee has asked for a lecturer on Live Stock, one on Soil Fertility and another on Seed Selection. In addition to these several other lecturers will be present and the institute is expected to be of much interest. The farmers ought to be pretty well through with their work by July 22nd and a large attendance is looked for. It is planned to organize a Live Stock and Poultry Association during the institute and it is un derstood there will be a rally in the interest of the Boys Corn Club. The program and other details will be announced just as soon as they are obtainable. board a few days ago and made a good impression. His record for discipline is said to have struck the members of the board most favorably, and this is with out a doubt one of the controlling points that led to his election. ARCHITECT DRAWS PLANS FOR NEW OAPTIST CHURCH Steps Being Taken For the Building of Handsome House Worship * 7"“'“ Mr. Jack Head, a well known Atlanta architect, was in the city Monday and went over the plans for the new Baptist church which it is proposed to build here. The matter of having a,n ar chitect draw plans and specifica tion is the first thing that must be done towards securing the new church. At the last church conference a committee on arrangements was appointed. This committee consists of Dr. Robert VanDe venter, Mr. J. H. Carmichael and Prof. W. R. Lanier. By the next conference, which will be held on Wednesday before the first Sunday in July, it is hoped to have something definite to report The Baptists of the city are taking hold of the proposition with a determination that seems jto insure the success of the movement NUMBER 24.
