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BUIIS COUN~I¥ PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter, Noyera
her 8,1907, at the postofflce at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to :*OO words, as communications
aver that length cannot be handled.
Write on one side of the paper only,
gign your name, not for publication,
but as an evidence of good faith.
How about that new hotel?
March first played true to form.
There is life in the coal man
yet.
The annual peach crop scare is
about due.
Governor John M. Slaton is the
one best senatorial bet.
Remember the registration
hooks close the 6th of April.
Congratulations to both Sena
tor West and Governor Slaton.
Are you willing to co-operate
with the Farm Demonstration
Agent?
The age of miracles is not past.
Atlanta still has hopes of being a
seaport.
Have you registered? Now is
the time to attend to this impor
tant matter.
The year 1914 promises to be a
memorable one in state politics.
Watch the lineup.
Atlanta may glory in the Frank
case but the rest of the state is
thoroughly nauseated.
It looks more and more like
Wise will be the next congress
man from the sixth district.
Jackson, the city of cheap pow
er, must not rest satisfied until
she gets some new enterprises.
Judge Robert T. Daniel will be
candidate to succeed himself and
will probably have no opposition.
Macon is very much interest
ed in the navigation of the Oc
mulgee river. This is a splendid
idea.
What with the automobile tax
and the income tax, the rich find
that life is just one tax after an
other.
The old familiar friend, free
congressional garden seed, is
about to be wiped out along with
other reforms.
There is a report current that
C. C. Brantley of the Valdosta
Times will soon become editor of
the Macon Telegraph.
The Progress is growing sure
ly ."steadily every week. The peo
ple appreciate a clean, newsy
paper printed at home.
Senator Hoke Smith says he is
going to hands off in Georgia
poli.ics this year and look after
his own fences. Wise Hoke.
Jackson has advantages for
new factories that but few cities
in the South can offer. Why not
some new enterprises this year?
The steady growth of The
Progress, Butts County’s Stan
dard Newspaper, is a matter of
congratulation to its many frinds.
GORRESPONOENT FAVORS A
NEW CONTRACT STATUTE
Editor Progress: There seems
to be a great sentiment over the
state to bring about some legis
lation to protect the landlord and
the tenant alike. The legislature
passed a lav/ a few years ago
which is inadequate. It made it
a criminal act to violate a con
tract, which we all know it does
not take a lawyer to know is
unconstitutional. Said law gives
the court a lot of work to do.
Now there is a better way to
solve this problem than to make
it a criminal offense. The law
should require every man who
contracts with a laborer for a pe
riod exceeding three months to
reduce it to writing. The clerk
of the court should be required
to keep a separate book to record
those contracts just as land deeds
and mortgages are recorded, and
require that those contracts be
filed for record within five days
from date. Then your neighbor
farmer will be put on notice that
the man who is wanting to con
tract with you is under contract
with another party.
Then after you had complied
with the terms of the law if
someone through treachery, en- 1
ticed your hands from you, you
could bring a suit for, damages
against him. And if the enticed
laborer went to live your treach-;
erous neighbor this would be
prima facie evidence of his guilt.
As the law is neither farmer of J
a county has no way of knowing
whether a negro is under con
tract with his brother far
mer, but if we have a record and
require that the contracts be put
on record, then we could investi
gate just as we would the title of
a piece of land or any other
thing of value.
I know there are fanners in
Butts county who have been
stung by trading with a negro,
say in August, make him some
advances to find in December
when he goes to move him that
his neighbor has a contract with
the same negro. Any legislation
in my opinion that will give any
relief to the situation must be
directed at the root of the trouble,
the landlord himself.
Respectfully,
0. E. Smith,
Flovilla, Ga.
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Trying to Arrange For
Colored Institute Here
County School Superintendent
C. S. Maddox is now trying to
arrange with Geo. D. Godard,
of Milner, state supervisor of
colored schools, for an institute
in Jackson for the benefit of the
the colored teachers. It is not
known just now when the insti
tute will be held, as the details
have not been worked out.
LEGAL ADVERTISE
MENTS
FOR LEAVE TO BELL LAND.
Georgia—Butts County
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has applied to the Ordinary
of said county for leave to sell real es
tate belonging to the estate of Lorey P.
Goddard, for the purpose of distribu
tion. Said application will be heard
at the regular term of the Court of Or
dinary for said county to be held on
the first Monday in April, 1914.
This 2nd day of March, 1914.
J. W. GODDARD,
Administrator De Bonis Non with will
annexed, of the estate of Lorey P.
Goddard.
FOR DIBMISSION.
Georgia—Butts County.
Whereas, N. K. Vickers, Adminis
trator of Jacob Vickers, represents to
the Court in his petition, duly filed
and entered on record, that he has ful
ly administered Jacob Vickers estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show
cause if any they can, why said Ad
ministrator should not be be discharg
ed from his Administration, and re
ceive letters of dismission, on the first
Monday in April 1914.
This March 2, 1914.
J. H. Ham, Ordinary.
HUNTING SEASON CIOSEO
IN STATE LAST SATURDAY
Now that the hunting season
for 1913-14 has closed, the date
having expired last Saturday, it
is interesting to note that Coun
ty Game Warden J. G. Maddox
issued a good many more licenses
this season than last year. This
is particularly true of state li
censes.
Mr. Maddox is of the opinion
that the time is not far distant
when only state licenses will be
issued. That gives hunters per
mission to hunt anywhere in the
state, provided they can obtain
the land owners permission. The
county license gives the right to
hunt in the county only.
Last season hunting licenses
brought the state in about $15,000
in revenue. This season the
amount will no doubt be consid
erably larger.
The season just closed was a
satisfactory one for hunters.
Game is reported to have been
more abundant than before in
many years. The new law is un
deniably having a beneficial ef
fect and in a few years Georgia
will have more game than before
in a generation.
Saturday being the last day
hunters could legally enjoy the
sport, many sportsmen were
afield with gun and dog to take
a last whack at the denizens of
the forest.
There is more Catarrh In this section or
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last tew years
was supposed to be Incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly falling to cure with local
treatment, pronounced It incurable. Sci
ence has proven Catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Cos.. Toledo. Ohio, Is the only Constitu
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ternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes
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and customers that from
and after this date my terms
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ple for their patronage and
soliciting a continuance of
the same.
Respectfully,
J. W. JONES.
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