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Bins COUNTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Kntered an secontl-cIHRS matter. Novem
ber H, IW7, at ttie poHtoflßc.eat Jackson, Ga
Telephone No. 166.
Communications arc welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to ;*OO words, as communications
over 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
Senator John M. Slaton sounds
well enough.
Buy at home. That is a good
motto to tie to.
Sualding county will hold its
primary on April 21.
Starve the boll weevil—a pop
ular slogan just, now.
Give us some factories and then
watch Jackson grow.
The late Senator Racon left an
estate valued at $200,000.
It seems that the dear old state
is in for another year of exciting
politics.
South Georgia is very much in
earnest about wanting to furnish
the United States senator.
In spite of all the laws, the fa
kir still flourishes and the sucker
and his money is soon parted.
Why not the county unit sys
tem of education for Butts coun
ty? It will pay big dividends.
Tommie Hardwick is too light
for the United States senate, but
if he wants to run that is his
privilege.
Jackson certainly needs some
new factories and enterprises of
various kinds. It takes pay rolls
to make cities.
The most effective way to fight
the boll weevil seems to be to
starve the “crittur” —a kind of
boycott, as it were.
Straight chain gang sentences
j&r selling liquor and carrying
pistols will do more to stop these
violations of the law than any
thing else.
At any rate old Butts showed
her loyalty to a native son by
giving J. R. Smith a rousing re
commendation for the United
States senate.
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If Butts county expects to keep
up with other wide awake coun
ties in this section the people
must pay more attention to the
live stock industry.
Georgia made 10,000,000 bush
els mo-e corn in 1913 than the
year before. Even pt that she
did not make near enough for
home consumption.
There has been less corn sold
in Jackson so far this year than
t>efore in many years. This speaks
well for our farmers. Let them
keep this up a few years and they
will have money in their pockets
the ye.u round.
Don’t honestly think that
Jackson needs another hotel?
South Georgia has not furnish
ed a governor in ninety years. As
a matter of simple justice the
next senator should come from
t hat part of the state.
Governor Slaton is probably
very glad that the appointment
of a senator does not come often.
It is rather a trying situation to
say the least of it.
The Progresspresentsthis week
the state tax in full. This in
connection with Judge Hart’s ad
dress should give the people of
the county a good idea of the act.
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DRINK OR THE JOB
A big Pennsylvania corporation
has offered those of its employes
who will take a pledge for total
abstinence from liquor a wage
increase of 10 percent. The offer
is based on the fact that alcohol
in any quantity is a foe to effi
ciency, so proven by science and
business. This firm thinks its
expenditure of an additional 10
per cent will be an excellent in
vestment visible eventually in
dividends.
That reasoning is correct. And
it is reasoning of the sort that is
doing more to promote genuine
temperance than ail the well
meant or emotional sob-singing
on the calendar. The job versus
the drink!
Some weeks ago The Constitu
tion preached a New Year “ser
mon without sobs,” upon the
drinker-or-the-job text. It based
its statements upon the edict of
the new Atlanta municipal court,
which gave all court attaches the
choice between “three-fingers”
and employment. We cited sim
ilar policies becoming increasing
the national attitude of business
and industry. We laid down the
premise that it was this kind of
practical interdict that was doing
the real work for temperance re
form. —Atlanta Constitution.
WHY OUR FARMERS
ARE POOR.
The following from an Ala
bama paper is worth reading at
least:
“Alabama farmers get up ear
ly at the alarm of a Connecticut
clock, button their suspenders co
foreign overalls, put on a pair of
boots made in Ohio, wash in a
Pittsburg basin, use Cincinnati
soap, wipe their faces on a towel
made in New Hampshire, sit
down, eat hot bisquit made with
Minneapolis flour, Kansas City
Bacon, and Indianapolis grits,
fried in Omaha lard; buy Irish
potatoes grown in Michigan, can
ned fruits put up on the Pacific
coast, seasoned with Rhode Is
land spices; the meal over, they
put on an old hat made in Phila
delphia, harness a Missouri mule,
fed on lowa corn, and plough
mortgage-covered farms with an
Indiana plow; at night they crawl
under New Jersey blankets and
are kept awake by Alabama dogs
—the only home products on the
place. No wonder they are
poor.”
A TEXAS WONDER.
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bladder troubles, dissolves gravel,
cures diabetes, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism, and all irregularitiesofthe
Sidneys and bladder in both men and
women. Regulates bladder troubles in
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druggists.
CROP OUTPUT IN 1913.
Total value of all farm products
$9,750,000,000, increase over last
year, $500,000,000.
Total value of crops, $6,100-
000,000. of animals sold and
slaughtered, andanimal products,
$3,650,000,000.
Total net cash sales, $5,847,-
000.000.
Total number of farms, approx
imately 6,609,000.
Average cash income per farm,
S9OO.
Total farm investments, $40,-
991,449.000; average amount per
farm $6,443.67.
Total value dairy products,
$596,413,463; total value of eggs
produced. $306,688,960.
Total cost of labor employed,
$651,611,287; of fertilizers, $114,-
882,541; of feed for live stock,
$299,839,857; total expenses, $2.-
163,822,647.
Total net farm income, $4,674,-
027,499.
Average interest on average
farm mortgage (1,715 at 5 per
cent,) $lO2 90.
Value of first greatest farm
product—corn—for year is sl,-
692.000.000.
Total production of cereals, 4,-
591,000,000 bushels.
Prices of fourteen principal
crops average about 20.2 per
cent higher this year than last
year.
Average price to producers of
meat animals, about $6.94 per
100 pounds, as compared with
$6.45 a year ago, and $5.45 two
years ago.
Total value of agricultural ex
ports, $1,123,021,469.
To Prevent Blood Poisoning
apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR.
PORTER’S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL, a sur
gical dressing that relieves pain and heals at
the same time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. SI.OO.
LEGAL ADVERTISE
MENTS
FOR ADMINISTRATION
Georgia—Butts County
To All Whom It May Concern:
J. W. Goddard of the state of South
Carolina, having applied to me for let
ters of administration, de bonis non,
with the will annexed on the estate of
Lorey P. Goddard, late of said county,
this is to cite all and singular the cred
itors and next of kin of said Liorey P.
Goddard to be and appear at the March
term 1914 of the Court of Ordinary of
said county and show cause, if any
they can, why letters of administra
tion, de bonis non, with the will an
nexed should not be granted to said J.
W. Goddard on the estate of .Lorey P.
Goddard. Witness my official signa
ture, this 2nd day of February 1914.
J. H. Ham, Ordinary.
FOR ADMINISTRATION
Georgia—Butts County.
To Whom It May Concern:
Fret! Cawthon, having made applica
tion to me in due form to be appointed
permanent administrator upon the es
tate of W. M. Preston, late of said coun
ty, notice is hereby given that said ap
plication will be heard at the regular
term of the Court of Ordinary for said
county, to be held on the first Monday
in March 1914. Witness my hand and
official signature, this 2nd day of Feb
ruary, 1914.
J. H. Ham, Ordinary.
NOTICE.
This is to notify my friends
and customers that from
and after this date my terms
for all work will be SPOT
CASH. Thanking the peo
ple for their patronage and
soliciting a continuance of
the same.
Respectfully,
J. W. JONES.
BUIST’S and FERRY’S
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You make no mistake
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while the is
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Slaton’s Home-
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Are the They
are all made right here
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Get in the habit of call
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They are
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They will
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Tree planting on national for
ests has to be confined to com
paratively short intervals in
spring and fall. In spring it
starts when the snow melts and
stops with the drying out of the
ground; in the fall it comes be
tween the fall rains and the first
snowfall.