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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.