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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 32.
PLAN TO SECURE
A FARM AGENT
Meeting of Chamber Here
Next Week
TO ASK COUNTY FOR AID
Officers And Executive
Committee of Chamber
of Commerce to Meet
in Jackson Monday 16th
There will be a meeting of the
officers and executive committee
of the Butts County Chamber of
Commerce in Jackson on Monday,
Feb. 16 at 11 o’clock, for the pur
pose of trying to raise funds to
employ a Demonstration Agent
and for the purpose of carrying
on the Girls Canning Club work.
County Commissioner Gaston
will be asked to make a donation
for that purpose. The commit
tee will appear before Mr. Gas
ton and state their case. It is
not known just at this time how
much money will be asked for,
but it is understood a Farm De
monstration Agent can be secur
ed for about S6OO. Mr. Gaston
is said to favor the project and
if he can see his way clear will
lend county aid to the movement.
The matter of obtaining a
Farm Demonstration Agent is
very important. A large num
ber of counties in the state have
tried the plan and are said to
have obtained some wonderful
results. It would be the duty of
the agent to personally superin
tend from forty to fifty farms
and advise with the farmers as
to the best agricultural methods
to be employed. He would also
assist in the Boys Corn Club and
Girls Canning Club work.
The officers of the Butts Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce consist
of F. S. Etheridge, president; S.
H. Mays, vice, president; J. D.
Jones, secretary; H. L. Daugh
try. treasurer; J. H. Mills, J. B.
Childs, Dr. A. F. White and R.
V. Smith, members of the Board
of Cos Operation or executive
committee.
The legislatures of Virginia and
South Carolina are considering
advanced forestry legislation.
JsOKSG!! CHAPTER MASONS
NAME THEIR OFFICERS
ft
Officers were elected by Jack
son Chapter No. 54, Royal Arch
Masons, at the convocation Mon
day night. They include:
C. S. Maddox—H. P.
J. B. Hopkins—King.
R. Gunter—Scribe.
D. G. McMichael —C. H.
H. L. Daughtry—P. S.
J. D. Jones —R. A. C.
H. F. Gilmore—M. 3rd V.
C. M. Kimbell —M. 2nd V.
George Carmichael —M. Ist V.
P. M. Allen —Sec.
•J. H. Ham —Treas.
L. M. Crawford—Sentinel.
The officers were duly installed
following the election.
Tne Mark Masters degree was
conferred upon Messrs. Chas. A.
Smith and C. C. Bond.
ENORMOUS PROFIT MADE
ON ONE HOG BY GEORGIAN
The following from the Valdos
ta Times will be of interest to
those engaged in the live stock
industry:
Mr. S. L. Dowling, living seven
miles of towrt, is the owner of a
remarkable hog. During the
past twelve months she has pro
duced thirty-six pigs and raised
all of them so far. The first litter
of eleven was slaughtered for
meat the 15th of this month and
averaged 174 pounds dressed. At
10 cents a pound these hogs rep
resent $191.40. The odd hog in
this litter has seven young pigs
of her own, making 43 pigs in
twelve months.
The second litter of 12 was
butchered today and averaged 146
pounds dressed. At ten cents a
pound this amounts to $175.20.
The total of the two litters so far
amounts to $366.20 in money and
one sow and her litter of seven
young pigs yet to be realized on.
The cost of production was 4
cents a pound for the first litter
and two cents a pound for the
second litter. The total sale was
$366.20; the total cost was $111.60,
leaving a net profit of $254.60,
with twelve young hogs and one
sow and seven pigs yet to be sold.
Incense cedar is proving valu
able for piling on the Pacific
coast where marine borers are
particularly troublesome.
JUDGE BART TO
SPEAK ON 20TH
lie Will Tell People About
Tax Law
MUCH INTEREST IS FELT
Slate Tax Commissioner
Coming to Jackson Court
Week to Address Butts
County Tax Payers
An event in which there is a
good deal o p interest is the ap
proaching address of Judge John
C. Hart, Siate Tax Commissioner,
who will speak to the tax payers
of the county in Jackson on Feb.
20th. He comes to Jackson to
explain the new tax law.
As superior court will be in
session at that time it is thought
a large crowd will greet Judge
Hart. He will speak at the noon
recess of court, it is stated.
There is such keen interest in
the tax act and so many views
concerning its various provisions
that the tax payers of the state
want some first hand information
on the subject. What Judge Hart
has to say on the question will be
followed with close attention.
It is claimed that if all the tax
able property' in the state were
on the digest that a material re
duction could be made in the tax
rate. Judge Hart is authority
for the statement that but one
seventh of the property in Geor
gia is returned for taxation. How
this state of affairs is going to
be remedied as well as other feat
ures of the bill will be gone over
by Judge Hart in his address.
JACKSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1914.
CITY REDUCES
LIGHT RATES
Means Big Saving to The
Consumers
DISCOUNT IS 20 PER CENT
Water And Light Depart
ment Accumulates Sur
plus—Same Rates Apply
to Users of Current
Through the reductions made
in the cost of water and lights,
patrons will effect a saving of
several hundred dollars this year.
The discount for bills paid before
the tenth of the month has been
increased from 10 to 20 per cent.
This action was taken by Coun
cil at a recent meeting. The
light fund has well over $2,000
in the treasury, as was shown
bv the statement of Clerk and
Treasurer J. A. McMichael pub
lished last week. This is by far
the best showing ever made in
the history of the ciry. In view
of the fact that that fund has
such a comfortable surplus Coun
cil deemed it advisable to reduce
the rate by increasing the dis
count price for bills paid by the
tenth.
The rate for power remains the
same as heretofore. The new
rate applies to water and lights
only.
The city’s financial condition is
in better shape than it has ever
been before, probably, certainly
the best in a number of years.
Nqw customers are being added
all the time. New consumers of
power are being enrolled con
stantly, the latest concern to use
electric power being the Car
michael Buggy Company. About
all the gasoline engines have
been relegated to the past and
Jackson is becoming in name and
fact The Electrical City.
ATLANTA lit MERRY BOW ~
OYER HER LOOKER CLUBS
Atlanta, Feb. 12.—50 far as
Atlanta’s city government is con
cerned, the locker clubs are here
to stay. The mayor and council
have not only renewed the licen
ses and permits of all the old
lockfer clubs, but have given new
ones the right to open.
‘T do not favor giving a license
to one club and refusing it to an
other,” the mayor said in signing
the licenses. ‘‘Councilis not the
judge of whether a club violates
the law. The police department
is established for that purpose.”
This means that the Men and
Religion Forward Movement
and the Evangelical Ministers as
sociation, which have combined
forces in an effort to stamp out
the locker clubs, will have to have
recourse to the courts. They are
now trying to get the grand jury
to act, and in the event they fail
in that, they will employ private
counsel, it is understood, and try
to close the clubs by injunction.
The outcome of the fight is ad
mitted by both sides to be prob
lematical.
GEORGIA COLLEGES MAKING
STUDY OF THE DRAMA
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. s.—The ed
ucational value of the drama, and
the wonderful amateur dramatic
work of girls in southern colleges
is beginning to attract not only
southern but nation-wide atten
tion.
A distinguished party of At
lantians have recently returned
from Gainesville where they at
tended the performance of an
original play, wrttten and pro
duced by the students of Brenau
College. Among the visitors
were literary dramatic critics
who declare unreservedly that in
sincerity and ability the work
compared favorably with the best
traditions of the regular stage.
The play in question was writ
ten by Miss Rita Durden, and
was entitled “The Hypothesis of
failure.” Among those in the
cast were Amy Childs, Mary
Wood, F. M. Chestnutt, Kathe
rine Lumpkin and Juanita Tieh
enor,
Other southern institutions are
following in the same path. At
Brenau several Shakespearean
plays, those of Masterlinck, and
other difficult productions have
been given succesfully. All the
dramatic work there is under the
direction of the school of oratory,
and the the dramatic organiza
tion called the Cushman club.
SIXTH DISTRICT
FAIR PROJECTED
\
Barnesville Takes Lead
in Movement
MANY EXHIBITS PLANNED
Date of Big Agricultural
Display is October 27th
to Inclusive —The
Entire District Interested
AJ; a meeting in Barnesville
last week the Sixtli District Fair
was projected, it being planned
to hold an agricultural fair in
that city this fall from Oct. 27 to
31st, inclusive. Every county in
the district is expected to haye
an exhibit.
It is planned to make (he fair
one of the largest ever held in
this secliort. The officers and
committees are at work now on
the details of the association.
Another meeting will be held to
day at which time the details will
be gone over and worked out.
The officers of the association
include: L. A. Collier, presi
dent; T. J. Berry, vice president;
J. M. Cochran, secretary; Em
mett Langford, treasurer.
Butts county will probably
have a county fair this fall and
the exhibits may be shown later
at the Sixth District Fair in Bar
nesville. The idea will probably
be welcomed by the twelve coun
ties of this district and the
fair should prove an unqualified
success and prove a tremendous
boost for the agricultural resour
ces of this section.
MASS MEETING
IS ORDERED
New Committee Will Be
Elected
DATE IS TUESDAY THE 17
of Candidates Favor
An Early Primary—Reg
istration Books Close in
April This Year
For the purpose of electing a
new executive committee to serve
for the ensuing two years, there
will be a meeting of the Demo
crats of Butts county in the court
house in Jackson at 12 o’clock
noon on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Of
ficial notice of the call as issued
by Chairman A. H. Ogletree of
the committee is published else
where this week.
After the new committee is
elected the date and rules for
the county primary will be decid
ed upon. It is not known at this
time when the primary will be
held, though a large number of
the candidates want an early
primary.
The registration books do not
close until April. The list will
have to be purged, new lists
made out and this will take some
time. If this years registration
is to be used in the coming pri
mary it is likely that the date
cannot be set before May. Two
years ago the primary was held
on May 3.
The present members of the
executive committee, the officers
of whom are A. H. Ogletree,
chairman, and R. A. Franklin,
secretary, areas follows:
But trill W. D. Jolly, J. W.
Benson, E R. Merritt.
Cood.vs —W. W. Leverette, J.
W. Fletcher, 1). F. Maddox.
Dublin Edmond Hay, Whit
Nelson, B. C. Ward.
Indian Spring -W. P. Castle
berry, Miller Ogletree, A. F.
White, W. W. Preston.
Iron Sorings—W. M. Bledsoe,
W. M. Andrews, L. R. Dodson.
Jackson—J. M. Currie, W. A.
Newton, • 0. 'lb Jinks, it. A.
Franklin.
Towaliga- A. F. Taylor, J. C.
Bell, R. D. Ogletree.
Worthville.--W. ,F. Stodghill,
A. E. Fincher, George W. White.
j, T LEWIS DIED AT
FAYETTEVILLE LAST WEEK
Friends in Butts county were
sorry to hear of the death of Mr.
J. T. Lewis, which occurred last
Wednesday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Matthews,
in Fayetteville. He had been in
feeble health for two or three
years.
Mr. Lewis was one of the most
prominent citizens of Woolsey.
He was a brother in-law of Mr.
J. J. Wilson of this city. The
funeral took place at Woolsey
Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock
and was attended by Mrs. J. J.
Wilson, Messrs. W. W., W. H.
and 1. M. Wilson, from Jackson.
He had often visited here and
had many friends who regret to
know of his death.
NUMBER 7.