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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1912)
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. ALFRED AKGRMAN - Proprietor J. DOYLE JONES - - - - Editor Subscription $1 a Year Entered a* second-class matter, Novem ber 8, 1907, at the poetoflieeat Jackson, Ga. Official Organ Butts County Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to 300 words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but us an evidence of good faith. Jackson, Ga., Friday, June 14, 1912 Jackson the power citv. Jackson -the power city. Jackson-—the power city. Advertise and the whole world trades with you; cut it out and you keep shop alone. It is only a question of time when Jackson must have sewer age. Why not have it now? The Macon Telegraph is sup porting the Hon. Joe Hill Hall, Bibb’s favorite son, for governor. Tom Watson says he will not be a candidate for the United States Senate against A. 0. Ba con. Maybe Tom Hudson consoles himself with the though that it was better to run and come down than never to run at all. Soon the last pink ribbon essay of the season will have been read, the last diploma framed neatly, and then will come the "univer sity of hard knocks.” Hon. J. M. Slaton and the “gentleman from Bibb”—Hon. Joe Hill Hall, both claim the withdrawal of Hudson strength en their chances for the govern orship. A number of the most pro gressive towns in this section are boring artesian wells. This is just what Jackson needs. The present water supply may be good, but artesian water would be better. It is claimed that the cotton acreage has been reduced some thing like six million acres. The cotton crop this year will be con siderably less than it was last vear, and the price ought to be considerably higher. Tom Hudson did the wisest thing in his whole life when he withdrew from the race for gov ernor. He stayed in the race long enough to find out his sup posed “machine” was not so powerful as he had figured it to be. It is going to take work to elect a Democrat president this year. The people of Georgia as well as the entire country must come together for the good of the party and give the nominee, whoever he may be, their uni ted support If the Democrats do not win this year they had just as well quit the game. The law abiding element is re sponsible for so much crime. If they would say that liquor sel ling and murder must stop it would stop. What is lacking is a little bit of backbone. The burden falls on the taxpayer at last. That Jackson is very much on ' the map is proved by the num ber of applicants for the position of superintendent of schools. An even thirty applied for the place. The health of Jackson and Butts county is famous over the entire country. Butts county is an agricultural county. The prosperity of the people depends upon the farm. This being true better methods of agriculture should be encour aged. Come out to the institute that will be held here next month. Don’t pride yourself on the fact that you know it all and can’t be taught something by the experts who will have charge of the farmers institute. Agri culture is a progressive science. You may be a good farmer as good farmers go but how about marketing your crops to advan tage, co-operation and a score of other things you ought to be in vestigating? The institute is for you and if you don’t get your share of the good out of it you will have nobody to blame but yourself. If there ever was a time in the history of the country when bet ter methods of farming were needed that time is right now. A large per cent of the farmers in Georgia are shiftless. They are large cotton planters. Few of them raise their supplies at home. They make large debts and then plant a large cotton crop, expecting to get even in the fall. Most usually they fall further behind. Such a policy as this is keeping the country poor. The land is being drained and nothing is coming back in return. A small per cent of the farmers, say twenty-five per cent, keep the country going. They are the backbone of our prosperity. Is this any time for a farmer to say that he doesn’t need educating along better methods? Plan now to attend the farmer’s institute next month. ——J 1 -- - - - - - - J NOW— THEN- It’s Work It’s Pleasure HARD WORK REAL PLEASURE NOTHING HAS THE SAME TASTE AS THE Fruit You Can and Pickle Yourself. We approve of it. But, you must have choice Fruit, Sugar, Spices, Vinegar, Sealing Wax, We furnish them all. Parafine, Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses, etc. JUST PHONE US Paul Nolen & Cos. Phone 60 BUTTS COUNT Y PROGRESS. Newspapermen The man who edits the average country newspaper cannot well avoid treading on somebody s toes continuahy; must expect to be censured often for uninten tional failures; must expect hard work and little thanks; must ex pect to be called a coward be cause he does not pitch into” everything that somebody thinks is wrong, and a fbol if he speaks out too plainly on public evils; he must expect to grind other peo ples axes—and turn the grind stone himself. Still we think it is one of the noblest professions on earth; the one in which the earnest men can do the most good to his fellow men, and in which any honorable man can wield much power for good. — Newnan News. The above is very true. The editor who cares little for criti cism, and goes along his way, standing for the things he con siders right, is the one worth while. We should very much dislike to be the editor of a paper everybody spoke well of. —Dal ton Citizen. 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