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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1914)
BUTIS COUMV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONEH, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Ktitortul as aecond-olaaa matter, Novem ber H, 1907, t the podtoftioe at Jaekaou, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine tliem aelves to I*oo vords, ns communications •ver that length cannot be handled. Write on one Hide of the paper only, <*gn your name, not for publication, IMI a h an evidence of good faith. TO CANDIDATES. No announcement of any candidate will be published in the Butts County Progress on a credit. The cash must accompany each and every announcement. This rule is fair to all and applies to all. We have been “stung" be fore, have swallowed the medicine, have recovered, and henceforth and forever announcements in the Pro gress will be published for the cash or not at all. 1-2-tf CASH MUST ACCOMPA NY LEGAL ADVER TISEMENTS. Notice is hereby given that all legal advertisements intended for publication in the Progress must be paid for in advannce. This is the law of the State of Georgia. This law will be followed strict ly by this paper. The rate for legal advertising is 75 cents for each 100 words or fraction thereof for four inser tions. Those having advertising of this character will please ob serve the above rule. Write it 1914. Now for politics. Happy New Year to all. Start right, do right, stay right. Let's make this Butts’ best year. Did you make ‘em to break or to keep? Christmas was safe and sane but noisy. Now for sewerage and that new church. Let Butts make this a hog and hominy year. It was a wet Chri9tmus—speak ing of the weather. I Griffin has raised its near beer license to $15,000 per year. The millenium must be near. Savannah is after the saloons. Don't forget we need a farm demonstration agent in Butts this year. The Christmas edition of the Butts County Progress, of Jack son. Ga., is on our desk, and it is a dandy. Judging from the paper the business men of Jack son enable Editor Jones to send out, Jackson must be a mighty good town,-Tallapoosa Journal. Give the people an early pri mary. The sooner politics are over the better. The Monroe Advertiser came out with a splendid Christmas edition of 16 pages last week. It was also the 60th anniversary of the Advertiser, which is one of the nest papers in Georgia. Edi tor 0. H. B. Bloodworth. Jr., is giving his readers a good paper and the Advertiser is a credit to the profession. —Butts County Progress. We are grateful to the Butts County Progress for these kind and generous words. Coming from Editor Doyle Jones, who has made of the Butts County Pro gress a paper of which its readers are justly proud, we value the commendation most highly.— Monroe Advertiser. THE FARMER’S CREED. Frank I. Mann, in the Farm Life Readers Silver, gives the following as the farmer’s creed: “I believe in a permanent agriculture, a soil that shall grow richer rather than poorer from year to year. “I believe in hundred bushel corn and fifty bushel wheat per acr, and I shall not be satisfied with anything less. “I believe that the only good weed is a dead weed and that a clean farm is as important as a clean conscience. “I believe in the farm boy and in the farm girl, the farmer’s be t crops and the future’s best hope. “I believe in the farm woman, and will do all in my power to make her life easier and happier. “I believe in a, county school that prepares for country life, and a country church that teaches its people to love deeply and live honorably. “I believe in community spirit, a pride in home and neighbors, and I will do my part to make my own community the best in the state. “I believe in better roads. I will use the road drag conscien tiously whenever opportunity of fers, and I will not shirk when working out mv road tax. “I believe iu the farmer, I be lieve in farm life, I believe in the inspiration of the open country. “I am proud to be a farmer, and I will try earnestly to be worthy of the name.” BETTER TAKE THE PAPER An Illinois exchange gives the following account of what hap pened to a family too stingy to take their home paper. He says: “We once knew a man who was too stingy to take the paper in his home town and always went over to borrow his neigh bor’s paper. ‘ ‘One evening he sent his son over to borrow the paper and while the son was on the way he t ran into a large stand of bees j and in a few minutes his face looked like a summer squash. “Hearing the agonized cries of the son, the father ran to his as sistance and in doing so he ran into a barbed wire fence, cutting a handful of flesh from his anat omy and ruining a $4 pair of trousers. “The old cow took advantage of the hole in the fence, got into the corn-field and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, the stingy man’s wife ran out ot' the house, upsetting a four-gallon churn full of cream into a basket of kittens, drown ing the whole flock. She slipped on the cream and fell downstairs breaking a leg and a sl9 set of false teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled through the spilled cream into the parlor and ruined a S4O carpet. During the excitemsnt the daughter eloped with the hir ed man, taking the family sav ings bank with them." HAS TO DON SKIRT AND BONNET TO MILK SOOKIE Atlanta, Ga., Jan. I.—Word comes to Atlanta of a farmer named Frank Stoddard who has to put on skirts and a sunbonnet every time he milks his cow. The cow, a particularly fine Jersey, was purchased a short time ago from two maiden ladies, Misses Jennie and Alice Case. For a number of years past they had milked the cow regular ly, and the gentlest of bovines had never been touched by rough male hands. Stoddard bought it knowing it absolutely gentle, and was therefore astounded the first morning he went to milk it, when the cow gave one frightened glance at him, kicked over the bucket, and jumped the fence. It was the Misses Case who suggested the expedient of the skirt and sunbonnet. and now Sookie stands just as calmly for Mr. Stoddard as she used to stand for the Case sisters. A Card of Thanks Mrs. W. M. Preston and chil dren wish to thank their neigh bors and friends for the many kindnesses shown them during the illness and death of husband and father. Also to Dr. J. E. Woods for his medical aid. May God’s blessings be with each one of them. Mrs. W. M. Preston. Miss Nena Morton. Master Wellborn Morton. AUTOMOBILES MUST PAY TAX OF FIVE DOLLARS After the first of the year all owners of automobiles will be forced to invest $5 in the new automobile tax that went into effect on the above date, unless, of course, they wish to contest the validity of the law which embodies the tax. This law was passed by the last session of the legislature and states that every automobile owner shall pay a tax of $5 each year on his machine, irrespec tive of make and that the pro ceeds be prorated to each county with regard to the number of miles of public roads in the county. In the past, automo bile owners have been required to pay a tax of $2 on first buying a machine and this tax expired only when the machine wore out. 6EORGE MAYFIELD SLAIN BY TOM VAUGHN, COLORED George Mayfield, colored, was shot and killed by Tom Vaughn, another negro, near Mr. W. F. Stroud’s on Christmas afternoon. The homicide took place in the road, the cause of the shooting being unknown. It was said that Vaughn claim ed he shot in self-defense. He has not been apprehended. Vaughn is a young negro about 20 years of age. FOR KENT Brick store on Third street, next to Judge Fletcher’s office. Apply at this office. l-2-4t. THE STANDARD DRUG STORE Now that the fall season has arrived we wish to remind you that we have on hand a full line of STANDARD HOME MAD E REMEDIES That you will find useful and beneficial for family use. Slaton’s preparations are made of the purest and highest grade of drugs to be obtained and are fully guaran teed. Call for them when you need any thing in the drug line. Full stock of standard seeds for fall and winter planting. Call and make your selection. Everything handled in a modern and pro gressive drug Phone us your or ders and your wants will be carefully and promptly filled. SLATON DRUG CO. The S&xaJUL store c,E ORGU Undertakers and Embalmers Oldest and Most Efficient Undertakers in this Section Expert License}! Embalmers -t- Our Undertaking Parlors Modernly Equipped to Furnish the Best of Selections in Caskets and Robes The J. S. Johnson Company Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84 Jackson National Ban^ f“IF MORE PEOPLE Would pay their bills by check and keep the re ceipts, it would save them money. This bank would take good care of your checking account.”
