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BIIIIS COIN IV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLK JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Knterud as sscond-class matter, Novem
ber 8, 1907, at the poatoffice at Jackson,
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to 900 words, as communications
ever that length cannot be handled.
Write on one side of the paper only,
sign your name, not for publication,
but as an evidence of good faith.
Swat the boll weevil before he
swats you.
Judge Speer is now having" his
inning in court.
Do unto the boll weevil as he
will do unto >ou—only do it first.
THE BOLL WEEVIL.
Mr. Farmer, read this from the
Macon Telegraph:
The boll weevil is mighty close
to Georgia.
When he comes he will practi
cally wipe the all-cotton larmer
out of business. He has done
that in every state he has vis
ited.
Georgia sends one hundred
million dollars —think of it out
of the state for FEED FOR LIVE
STOCK ALONE—and does this
EVERY YEAR.
That is cotton money. There’ll
be mighty little cotton money af
ter the boll weevil gets here.
Not enough to feed both the chil
dren and live stock of the smaller
farmer.
Raise live stock and the feed
for live stock—arid start right
now.
YOU’VE GOT IT TO DO, MR.
FARMER, ELSE YOU STARVE.
The candidates are trotting out
at a brisk rate for this early in
the season.
If Governor John M. Slaton is
to have opposition it is being kept
somewhat quiet.
Judge R. T. Daniel will prob
ably not have any opposition for
the position he now holds.
How about that county fair?
Butts county cannot afford to let
this proposition fall through.
The University of Georgia now
has a course in journalism,
which department should prove
of great value.
Butts county can be progres
sive and yet economical. A pol
icy of rigid economy would soon
put the county’s finances in first
class condition.
Butts countv should begin right
now to wage a war of extermi
nation on the cattle tick. It will
mean better live stock and more
prosperity for the whole county.
Don’tforgetto register between
now and April, when the books
close. Under the new permanent
registration law it is important
that every voter get his name on
the book.
It is a matter of no small im
portance to every tax payer in
Butts county that State Tax Com
missioner Hart is coming here to
explain in person Georgia’s new
tax law.
LICENSE UNO TAX ORDINANCES
OF CITY OF JACKSON FOR
THE YEAR 1914
The following License and Tax
Ordinances have been adopted by
the Mayor and Council of the
City of Jackson for the year 1914:
Section 1. Be it ordained by
the Mayor and Council of the City
of Jackson, and it is hereby or
dained by the authority of the
same, that the following special
tax be levied for the use of said
city for the year 1914.
Section 2. Every person, firm,
company or corporation that may
exercise within said city a trade,
business or occupation of any
kind, shall register in a book to
be kept for that purpose by the
Clerk of said city their name and
trade, business or occupation and
their place of business in said city
not later than February 10, 1914,
and pay the tax required by these
ordinances.
Section 3. That any person,
firm, company or corporation do
ing a business or exercising a
trade or following a profession of
any kind as above mentioned and
have no regular place of business
shall be subject to the rules, or-j
dinances and regulations as other
persons carrying on like trade,,
business or calling In said city.
Section 4. Each dealer In gen
eral merchandise, whoso C pital
stock does not exceed SSOO, shall
pay a tax of S5.
Section 5. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stocK does not exceed $2,000, shall
pay a tax of $lO.
Section 6. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stock is over $2,000 and does not
exceed $3,000, shall payataxof sls
Section 7. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stock is over $3,000 and does not
exceed ss,oooshall payatax of S2O
Section 8. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stock is over $5,000 and does not
exceed SIO,OOO, shall pay a tax
of S3O.
Section 9. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stock is over SIO,OOO and does not
exceed $20,000. shall pay a tax
of S4O.
Section 10. Each dealerin gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stock is over $20,000 and does not
exceed $30,000, shall pay a tax
of SSO.
Section 11. Each dealer in
stoves shall pay a tax of $lO, pro
vided they have not a hardware
dealers license.
Section 12. Each firm, compa
ny or corporation operating ex
clusively a boot and shoe business
shall pay a tax of $lO, provided
they have not a general dealers ■
license.
Section 13. Each dealer in live
stock shall pay a tax of sls.
Section 14. Each dealer in mil-,
linery, whether separate or ini
connection with other business, j
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Section 15. Each dealer in coal
shall pay a tax of sls.
Section 16. Each dealer in fur
niture shall pay of $25.
Section 17. Each undertaker
shall pay a tax of S2O.
Section 18. Each dealer in
jewelry shall pay a tax of $lO,
provided they have not a general
dealers license.
Section 19. Each and every
itinerant patent medicine dealer
shall pay a tax of $5 per day.
Section 20. Each person run
ning a shooting gallery shall pay
a tax of sls.
Section 21. Blacksmith shops
$5 for first forge; $2.50 for each
additional forge.
Section 22. Each auctioneer
shall pay a tax of $lO per day,
provided that this shall not apply
to the county sheriff selling stock,
produce or articles for farmers,
administrators or executors.
Section 23. Each livery and
feed stable shall pay a tax of sls,
provided that each person to whom
a license is granted shall keep
posted in a conspicuous place in
his stable a notice: “No smoking
allowed,” and shall not allow
smoking in his stables by any one.
Section 24. Each livery, feed
and sale stable shall pay a tax of i
$25.
Section 25. Each dealer in
hardware shall pay a tax of $25.
Section 26. Each dealer in ter
racotta shall yay a tax of $5.
Section 27. Each dealer in
mowers, reapers, binders, rakes,
cutaway harrows or any other
5 harvesting machinery shall pay a
j tax of sls.
Section 28. Each dealer in
guano shall pay a tax of sls.
Section 29. Each one horse
dray shall pay a tax of $5. Each
iwo horse dray shall pay a tax
of $lO.
Section 30. Each dealer in
drugs shall pay a tax of sls.
Section 31. Soda founts, lem
onade hot or cold drinksa tax of $5.
Section 32. Each dealer in ice
shall pay a tax of $5.
Section 33. Each fire insurance
company shall pay ? tax of $lO.
Section 34. Each life insurance
company shall pay a tax of sls.
Section 35. Each warehouse
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Section 36. Each hotel shall
pay a tax of $25.
Section 37. Each dealer in
buggies, wagons and harness
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Section 38. Each dealer in to
bacco or cigars exclusively shall j
pay a tax of $5.
Section 39. Each dealer in pi- j
anos and organs shall pay a tax
of sls. i
Section 40. Each dealer in
lightning rods shall pay a tax of (
$25.
Section 41. Each and every ;
dealer in lumber, cement or build- j
ers material shall pay a tax of $lO. ;
Section 42. Each and every
dealer in lumber, cement or build
ers material and operating a plan
ing mill shall pay a tax of sls.
Section 43. Each and every
dealer in pumps shall pay a tax
of $5, provided they have not a
hardware dealers license.
Section 44. Each dealer in fish
and ovsters shall pay a tax of $5,
Section 45. Each dealer in
books or stationery shall pay a
tax of $5, provided they have not
a general dealers or druggist li
cense.
Section 46. Each person or
persons keeping a lunch stand
shall pay a tax of $2.50 per day.
Section 47. Each circus shall
pay a tax of SIOO per day; and
each theatrical company showing
under a canvas snail pay a tax of
$lO per day.
Section 48. Each buggy or
wagon repair business a tax of
$5, unless he has a regular black
smith license.
Section 49. Each job printing
office shall pay a tax of $5.
Section 50. Each ferrotype or
photograph gallery or soliciting
ordersfor enlargement of pictures
shall pay a tax of $5.
Section 51. Each dye house
shall pay a tax of $2.50.
Section 52. Each restaurant
shall pay a tax of sls.
Section 53. Each barber shop
shall pay a tax of $5 for first
chair and $2 for each additional
chair.
Section 54. Each cotton seed
buyer shall pay a tax of $lO on
each stand.
Section 55. Each person or
persons renovating feathers shall
pay a tax of sls.
Section 56. Fruit trees, grape
vines or ornamental shrubbery
$2.50.
Section 57. Beverage $5.
Section 58. Each shoe or har
ness repair shop shall pay a tax
of $2 50.
Section 59. Each tin or stove
repair shop shall pay a tax of $5.
Section 60. Each cotton gin
nery shall pay a tax of $2.50 for
each gin stand in this ginnery.
Section 61. Each meat market
or wagon peddling meat within
the limits of Jackson shall pay a
tax of sls.
Section 62. Each watch and
jewelry repair business $5.
Section 63. Each person or
persons, firm, company or corpo
ration operating a bottling works,
such as botting soda water or any
other non-alcoholic drinks, shall
pay a tax of $lO.
Continued on page 6.
BUIST’S and FERRY’S
GARDEN SEEDS.
They are the standard of
excellence the country
over.
Our &ock is complete and
comprises the freshest and
brightest of all kinds of
Seeds for Garden and
Farm.
These are seeds with a
reputation.
You make no mistake
when you buy them.
Make your selection early
while the &ock is
FULL AND COMPLETE.
•
Slaton’s Home-
Made Remedies
Are the bejft. They
are all made right here
at home out of the pur
est and freshest drugs.
Get in the habit of call
ing for Slaton’s Home-
Made Remedies.
They are
PLEASING HUNDREDS
They will
SATISFY YOU.
SLATON DRUG CO.
_ JACKSON
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Undertakers and Embalmers
Oldest and Most Efficient
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Expert Licensed Embalmers
\
Our Undertaking Parlors Modernly Equipped
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in Caskets and Robes
The J. S. Johnson Company
Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84
Jackson National Bank
"SPEAKING ABOUT
BANKS
This is one of my good
ones. The officers and di
rectors are known to me
personally, and you will
not make any mistake by
banking with them.”