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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1913)
BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 31. VETERANS MUST WAIT FEW WEEKS Money For Pensions Not Available Yet PAYMENT IN FEBRUARY itL — s Teachers Were Paid ? State Had No Money to Settle With Veterans— Check Expected Soon Atlanta, Jan. 27.—From pres ent indications it will probably be some time the middle or lat ter part of February before the warrant for $1,180,000 to pay pensioners can be honored. The heavy payment recently made teachers leaves a balance of about 15 per cent still due them on 1912 salaries, and Gov. Brown is anxious that these faithful ser vants receive all due them before other obligations are discharged. Therefore, it now seems prob able that sufficient funds to hon or the large pension warrant will not be in hand before the middle of February at the outside. There is the possibility that it will be some time near the latter part of the month. CORN SHOW ON IN COLUMBIA, S. C. Fifth National Corn Expo sition Now Open HAS SPLENDID PROGRAM Great Gathering of Corn Club Boys And Canning Club Girls at Corn Ex position in Carolina City Columbia, S. C., Jan. 26. —Special The complete pro gram for the two weeks of the Fifth National Corn Exposition, which opened here the 27th of this month, was announced today by the Exposition management. The program includes a number of feature days, on each of which an attractive series of ad dresses by distinguished men, and significant events will take place, directed to the special ag ricultural problems under con sideration on those days. Following is a summary of the two-weeks’ program: Monday, January 27, Opening Day. Tuesday, January 28, South Carolina Day. Wednesday, January 29, Live Stock Day. Thursday, January 30, Na tional Farmers’ Union Day. Friday, January 31, National Education Day. Saturday. February 1, Boys’ Day (Closing exercises of Expo sition School for Prize Winners.) Monday, February 3, Winthrop College Day. Tuesday, February 4, Corn Day. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February 5, 6 and 7, Rural Life Conferences. Saturday, Feburary 9, Closing Day. (Exhibits will remain in tact until midnight.) A number of speakers of na tion-wide reputation have ac cepted invitations to deliver addresses at the Fifth National Corn Exposition. BUTTS TEACHERS WERE PAID PART OF SALARIES The hearts of the Butts county school teachers were made glad last week when County School Superintendent C. S. Maddox re ceived a check for a little over five thousand dollars as part pay ment of the 1912 salaries. To date eighty-five per cent of the salaries of teachers has been paid for the year just closed. It is not known when the remain der of the money due the teach ers will be paid by the state. FARM SCHOOL AF TER MORE MONEY SIOO,OOO Appropriation is Amount Wanted GOVERNMENT WILL HELP ju President Soule of State College of Agriculture Says More Buildings And New Equipment Needed * Athens, Ga. —A Greater Col lege of Agriculture to meet the great and pressing demands, is the message of the Georgia Hor ticultural Society, the Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Associa tion and the Georgia Breeders’ Association in their annual con ventions assembled. President Soule has outlined the needs of the which must be met or else hundreds of young Georgians will be denied the opportunity of obtaining an agricultural education at this state institution. All told the state has contributed only SIOO,- 000 towards buildings for agri cultural education, while it has contributed to no other institu tion so little, this, too, in the face of the fact that agriculture is the chief industry of the state. Dr. Soule says there must be an other building wmrth at least $100,000; at least $25,000 to es tablish new departments and en large the teaching force, and that there must be $45,000 addi tional for extension work to car ry on farm demonstrations, boys corn duty and girls canning club work, for soil surveying, for live stock breeding centers, for co operative work with rural schools and poultry husbandry. If these appropriations are made by the state, then the fed eral government and other agencies will add $50,000. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1913. MR. J. T. MOSS PAINFULLY HURT Struck By Train at Flip pen Friday Night RIGHT ARM WAS BROKEN Highly Respected Citizen of Jackson Had Narrow Escape From Death by Passenger Train Struck by an engine as he was making his way to enter the southbound passenger train at Flippen last Friday night, Mr. J. T. Moss, of this city, received painful injuries and had a nar row escape from death. His right arm was broken, he was cut and bruised about the head and injured internally. The injuries are reported as healing and the condition of Mr. Moss is improved, though it will be some time before he is able to be out again. It appears that he was walk ing down the track to board the train when the accident occur • red. There was a freight car on a side track and be was walking between the freight car and the passenger track, and the light from the engine blinded him and he stumbled against the box car. In losing his balance he was struck by the passenger train, which was going about five miles an hour. He was knocked about fifteen feet and was nicked up and placed on the train and brought to his home here. Mr. Moss was given medical attention when he reached Lo cust Grove, and upon his arrival here all possible was done to care for his injuries. Mr. Moss is a well known and highly respected citizen of Jack son. He has a host of friends who sympathize with him in his misfortune and rejoice that the accident was no more serious than it was. ATTENDED COCA COLA BOT TLERS CONVENTION ATLANTA Mr. H. J. Miller, manager of the Jackson branch, attended the Coca Cola Bottlers convention in Atlanta last week. Several hundred managers of plants in all parts of the country were present. The business ses sions were held at the Piedmont, Thursday and Friday being tak en up by the association in dis timelv matters of interest. A banquet Friday night closed the convention. Mr. J. B. Harrison went up to Atlanta Friday to be present at the banquet that night. Date Arranged For School Meet The executive committee of the Sixth district high school associ ation met in Macon Monday and fixed the date of the annual meet for April 18. Barnesville was again selected as the place for i the meet. 1 In the academic and athletic contests it was decided to follow the regulations of the state meet held annually in Athens. Dr. Stroud, athletic director at Mer cer, was asked to take charge of the athletic feature of the meet. The presidents of several of the high schools in the district were present, including Prof. W. P. Martin of the Jackson Public Schools. City Court Will Try Civil Suits There will be a special session of the City Court of Jackson next week, beginning Monday, the third. Judge Thurman, of Monticello, will preside in the place of Judge Fletcher, who is disqualified. The damage suits againt the Central Georgia Power Company will be up for a hearing at that time. It is not known how many of the cases will be tried or which suit will be called first, as the docket has not been made out. The same jury that served in the city court during the week of the 13th will be on hand next week. BOARD PLANS TO PAY PROMPTLY Efforts Being Made to Se cure A Loan BE BIG HELP TEACHERS Board of Education Trying to Arrange For Loan of SB,OOO to Pay The School Promptly This Year If the present plans of the coun ty board of education can be carried out there will be no delay about paying the Butts county teachers this year. The board is negotiating with Old National Bank, of Battle Creek, Mich., for a loan of eight thousand dol lars with which to pay the teach ers. This county’s part of the school fund for the current year amounts to twelve thousand sev en hundred fifty dollars and eight cents. It is planned to borrow enough money to meet the spring and fall payments, depending on the slate to make payments after Christmas. The bank in question, it is stated, has agreed to let the county board have eight thous and dollars at the rate of six per cent per annum, for the time used. The board will make four notes, dated the tenth of Febru ary, March, April and May, re spectively, and becoming due the first of February of next year. At the last meeting of the board of education the matter of the loan was voted on favorably and negotiations are under way looking towards the securing of the money. Governor Brown wants prison ers no matte- how poor and igno rant to be represented by compe tent and experienced counsel. On matters of state Little Joe’s ideas are nearly always sound. POPE HEADS THE JACKSON RIFLES Election Was Held Mon j day Night THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE Chief of Police Succeeds Captain Mallet Who Has Been Transferred to Ad jutant General’s Staff * ~ Lieutenant W. D. Pope was elected captain of the Jackson Rifles Monday night, succeeding Capt. G. E. Mallet who has been placed on the adjutant general’s staff. Lieut. Pope did not have any opposition, his election being unanimous. Cape. Pope is an ex perienced and capable military man and is popular with the en listed men and officers of the com pany. Under his leadership the crack company will be kept up to its same high standard. An election will be ordered in the near future to fill the vacan cy caused ty the promotion of Lieut. Pope. Several advance ments will now be in order in the company. The Jackson Rifles will be in spected next Tuesday night, Feb. 4th. WILL NOT ATTEND THE INAUGURATION Jackson Rifles Decide to Call off Trip EXPENSE WAS TOO GREAT The State Would Not De fray Any of The Expen ses And The Company Abandoned The Trip The Jackson Rifles, as a com pany, will not attend the inaug uration of President Wilson on March 4. Some time ago the matter was under discussion and it was thought at that time the compa ny would make the trip. The State, however, would not pay any of the expenses of the trip and it was decided best to aban don it altogether. The cost would have fallen heavily on the members of the company, the outlay being considered too large for the returns. While the company as a whole will not attend the inauguration yet a good many of the members will make the trip with some of the Macon companies. There will probably be several vacan cies in some of the Macon or At companies and this will give an opportunity for a score or more of the members of the local com mand to take in the Washington festivities. It is to hoped that the Pujo committee will investigate the rain trust immediately. NUMBER 5.
