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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1912)
SANDY Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith. Miss Alene Gibson and Mrs. Leila Moore were in Jackson Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Martin and children spent Saturday and Sun day in Worthville with Mrs. Mar tin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bunn. Mrs. C. N. Mayfield spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Al ice Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Long and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Will Long. Mr. and Mrs. Van White spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe White. Misses Alene Gibson, Emma Smith and Messrs. Fleet May field and Tolleson spent Sunday afternoon at Indian Spring. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Moss and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mayfield spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McClure. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Moss and Uncle Ed Thompsen spent Sun day with Uncle Billie Moss who is quite feeble. Mr. and C. B. Higgins, Messrs. A. J. Hay, T. J. Waldrop, Whit and Stewart Nelson were among the visitors to Jackson Saturday. Miss Agnes Hay spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Leila Moore. Miss Emma Leverette, Mr. Grady Hodge, Miss Hattie Lev erette, Mr. Howard Smith, Miss Evie Hodge and brother Fleet wood spent Sunday afternoon at Indian Spring. Miss Vivian Hay and brother Riley spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Gus Higgins. Mr. and Mrs. Troy Sanders spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Higgins. Mr. Ed Thompson better known as Uncle Ed and Miss Agnes Duf fy spent Thursday with Mr. R. M. Mayfield’s family. Miss Troy Kelley spent the week-end with Mrs. Susie Long Messrs. Douch Plymale and Claud Hodge spent Sunday in Jenkinsburg with friends. Misses Emma and Hattie Lev erette scent Monday last with Mrs. Susie Long. NOTICE. For the benefit of those who wish to make up school work or do special work in order to enter college, a six weeks’ term will open Monday June 24th at the school building. Terms will be SI.OO per week. Joel Mallet will have charge of the Summer School- W. R. LANIER. 6-14-2 t NOTICE TO CONFED ERATE SOLDIERS I still hold the negatives of the old soldiers and those who wish pictures can have one made for 50 cents. If you want more than one they will come cheaper. Guthrie’s Studio. 6-21-4 t WANTED 100 Buggies to paint All work done in first class style. At Thax ton old stand, back of jail. 6-21-4 t J. T. McMichael. For Sale— m l nS l^ Mulberry street. For further informa tion see HOMER COLWELL. 6-14-41 PELLAGRA SHOWS LARGE INCREASE Georgia State Board of Health Urges Law to Keep Out Bad and Improperly Cured Corn. Atlanta, Ga., July 10. —(Special.)— “Why should you pay good money for and consume bad corn, any more than you would buy and eat decayed fish or fruit?” asks the Georgia State Board of Health In a discussion of the disease, pellagra and its produc ing cause. Georgia has had her share and more of the increased number of caseß of pellagra, acute and chronic, in recent years, and the State Board of Health is giving every possible attention to the study of the cause and prevention of this disease which usually termi nates fatally. The best scientific opinion of the world today is agreed that the prob able cause of pelagra is bad corn— corn which has been improperly cured, which has been cut green and in which fermentation sets up during the process of drying out; or in which fermentation may be produced by dampness due to careless handling after the grain has ripened. Some poisonous substance is thus produced in the grain, which the best medical opinion throughout the world is now confident, is the producing cause of pellagra. The State Board accepts this the ory, in the light of all the evidence — and It Is abundant —as the correct one; but whether it be correct or not, certainly there is no answer to the argument presented in the Board’s query, “Why should anyone buy bad corn?’’ It is known beyond question that spoiled corn will kill horses and other animals, and that its effect upon the human system must there fore be deleterious. So why should anyone buy it at all, even at reduced price, and take the dangerous chances? In fact, why should not the state itself take a hand and forbid the im portation and sale in Oeorgia of bad or improperly cured corn? Such leg islative action the State Board of Health strongly urges and recom mends. The state now seeks to pro tect the people in the matter of the purity of their food products; but there is none in which the law Bhould more carefully scrutinize than corn which is so widely and generally used as a food product both for man and beast. It is not necessary here to go into the many theories which have been adduced as to the cause of pellagra. With the single exception of the now generally accepted belief that pellagia is caused by eating bad corn, every one of these theories has been dis proven or rejected as wholly untena ble because of the fact that the condi tions involved, while they may ap pear in one section where pellagra is prevalent, are wholly lacking oth ers where the disease is just as bad or worse. As early as 1600 the deleterious effect of corn or maize products on the human system was noted. It was found to be a common food product with those affected with pellagra. The disease has been found to prevail par ticularly in those countries in which the seasons are so short that the grain does not properly ripen; and also it has been shown to have made its appearance wherever people were in the habit of eating corn after it has undergone fermentative changes. It is well known that corn, when bad, will quickly kill horses, and numerous experiments have shown that extracts made from fermented corn possess toxic or poisonous properties. “It is noteworthy,” says the Board, “that in the United States pellagra did not make its appearance to any extent until Western corn growers be gan the practice of cutting the entire stalk in a green state and piling them up together in the fields, there to re main exposed to all of the vicissitudes of the weather until the winter was far advanced, or even, until the suc ceeding spring, when the demand for corn came on in the Southern states.” Here are some facts that are known regarding pellagra: ' Pellagra occurs in all countries where corn products are habitually used as food; it does not occur in any country where such products are not habitually used as food; it did not exist in Europe prior to the introduc tion of maize, and did not attract at tention until this cereal had become a common article of diet; pellagra has ceased to exist in certain districts where other crops have replaced corn and where it is no longer habitually used as food; pellagra has probably always existed in North America as it has long been known in Mexico, and the increase of it in this country unquestionably followed the introduc tion of the Western method of har vesting corn in the green state.” Concluding, the Board of Health says; “As there is every reason to be lieve that bad corn is the cause of pellagra, and no evidence that it is not, It is our duty to use every legiti mate method to prevent its importa tion into the state and its sale in our markets. Even granting that pella gra Is not produced by fermented maize, we are surely entitled to good corn when we pay our money for it; there can be no possible reason for wishing to buy rotton corn. "The thoroughly ripened and well preserved corn of these latitudes is, unquestionably, a good, wholesome BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS. The Largest Typewriter Sale In History TEN THOUSAND UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS rood, ana can oe eaten in tne ruture as It has been in the past without ill effect; but the State Board of Health deems that it is but doing its duty to the people of Georgia in solemnly warning them against the evil conse quences of eating the Western prod uct so long as the pernicious practice continues of cultivating a weak and vitiated plant combined with a meth od of harvesting which is nothing less than criminal. “The State Board of Health strong ly urges the people of Georgia to give serious consideration to these facts and to Insist that their representa tives pass a law which will prevent in the future the murder of our citi zens and the slaughter of our horses by the sale of corn, which is unfit for consumption by man or beast.” NEWS NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL CITY OF 6EORGIA Atlanta, Ga. June 19.—Quite a number of so-called freak bills are already under contemplation for introduction in the session of the legislature which opens next week at the capitol, but the ma jority of the proposed legislation announced is of a serious and constructive nature. Bills are pending to improve many of Georgia’s present busi ness laws, and a notable measure will be introduced to protect Georgia citizens from the machi nations of the stock-fakirs who get good money for fake corpo rations whose only asset is the bright blue sky and their fertile imagination. Among the measures of gener al interest will be one to abolish the present system of peace jus tice courts in all the larger Geor gia cities which desire to make the change. This bill will in no wise affect the justices of the peace in small towns and rural districts. The framers of the measure are convinced, they say, that the present system is excel lent for the towns and rural communities, but ill-fitted for the larger cities. That the one-horse farm idea, with more hogs, more cattle, more poultry and good gardens is growing in the state of Geor gia is the confidently expressed belief of Jim Price of Oconefe who is running for commissioner of agriculture. The small farmer is Mr. Price's hobby, and he believes the closer devotion of attention to small farming is going to be the ulti mate salvation of the agricultural interests of Georgia. Mr. Price believes that the have been sold to the Western Union Telegraph Company, tor use in all offices through out its vast organization. All Telegrams, Night and Day Letters in the future will be typewritten on the Underwood Every well known writing machine was carefully con sidered by the purchasing committee and the Underwood won from the standpoints of practical utility and mechan ical construction, Underwood Typewriter Cos. inc. 411 Second St,, Macon. 52 North Broad St., Atlanta. “The Machine You Will Eventually Buy.” farmers throughout Georgia and the whole south have planted considerable less cotton this year and that the prices will conse quently be good. In Georgia, he says, there is nearly 25 per cent less acreage planted than last year. OUR BUSY LITTLE COCA COLA BOTTLING PLANT. Recently some ene said that the soft drink business in Jack son was playing out, but it does not so appear if one takes a look into the up to date bottling plant recently installed by the Coca Cola Bottling Cos. Just now it is the busiest place in town. From early till late the buz, and whir of machinery can be heard, and every employe is kept quite busy trying to meet the increased demand for the re freshing Soda Waters and that delicious summer drink Coca Cola. We understand their business has already exceeded their ex pectations and one evidence of their progress is the fact they have just received their second car of bottles, which Mr. Miller the local manager stated was not expected to be needed before September if then. They have recently added more improved machinery, employing now an electric motor, and using an improved filter through which every drop of water must pass to make up that most delicate flavor found in all of their goods. The last few days of summer weath er has taxed this plant to fill the orders received, and they expect a rush on them for the Fourth of July picnics, and celebrations. We bet Miller gets out the goods if you give him your order, for he has the bottles, the power and the energy, and that counts. ***** SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. WILL NOT USE CITY POWER The deal between the city and the Southern Cotton Oil company for 125 horse power of electric current has fallen through for the present, the oil company de ciding to use steam power. It is understood the city made the company an attractive rate and it was thought the terms would have been accepted. The city is now figuring with a number of ginneries and in tends to sell the surplus power to an advantage. Col. E.M. Smith Announces For Court Solicitor The formal announcement of Hon. E. M. Smith, of McDon ough, for solicitor general of the Flint circuit is made this week. Col. Smith is well known to thousands of the voters of the circuit and will have the active and hearty support of many in fluential friends. He is a native of Monroe county, attended the Jackson schools for some time and is now one of the leading at torneys of the McDonough bar. Mr. Smith is the present repre sentative from Henry county and is one of the best known public men in this section. As an at torney he is direct, forceful and logical and would make an able prosecuting attorney. Col. Smith, who is a brother of Messrs. A. H. and E. L. Smith of this city, is a member of a prominent family of this section. He has had a successful law bus iness since locating in McDon ough and is now mayor of that city. Personally Col. Smith is one of the cleverest fellows to be found anywhere and is popular with a large number of friends. He is a prominent secret order man, being a Shriner, Knights of Pythias and a member of other orders. Regardless of who else runs Col. Smith is assured of a large vote in Butts county. SHERIFF CRAWFORD HEADS CO. OFFICERS Sheriff L. M. Crawford was elected president of the County Association at Indian Spring Wednesday. The other rv?KK FS A ecte . d are: Judge J. A. V° bb ; Amencus, Ist vice, presi dent; Judge J. A. Fouehe, Mc- Donough, 2nd vice president, M. S. Joiner, tax collector Jenkins county, Secretary-treasurer. The uert nieetms goes to Millen wh,ch W on out ever Indian Spring by offenng free entertainment to the members of the association.
