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mUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 32.
■farm agent
I WRITES BOYS
I Drees Year of Hard Work
I in Butts
[hundred BOYS ENROLL
Mr. Worsham Wants The
Co-Operation of People,
Particularly of Boys And
Girls in The Club Work
Dear Boys and Girls: Having
already enrolled 90 boys in the
Corn Club for the present year
we are very anxious to make it at
least 100, and we are using this
method to have those who have
not already done so to send in
your names at once, as the time
for enrollment expires April the
first. The valuable lesson in sci
entific farming learned by your
self, the amount of corn furnish
ed the home, and the many ex
cellent prizes that shall be given
out should be incentives enough
to have you join the club.
Each one of you, through cir
culars and bulletins sent out by
the Department, through the in
struction and help we may be
able to render you, and by a faith
ful effort on your own part, should
be able to demonstrate to your
father the lessons he should have
learned in his youth that of
profitable corn raising.
The teachers of the county are
respectfully requested to co-op
erate with the County School Su
perintendent and the County
Farm Demonstrator in enrolling
as many boys in the Corn Club
and girls in the Canning Club as
possible. Miss Bessie Waldrop
in charge of the canning club will
appreciate your help. Butts
county is not so large as some
counties but the quality of her
citizenship is surpassed by none.
Boys and girls, you can do
nothing better for yourselves
than to correlate your school books
with some practical knowledge
of farming, thereby educating
yourselves to stick to the farm,
training the head, heart and hand
all along together. Farm life
also means that you will be hale,
hearty and healthy. If the far
mers increase in the knowledge
of crop production and farm im
provements at the same rate they
have in the past ten years, the
country will soon possess quite
as many advantages as the city
and will be a pleasurable voca
tion. The corn club boy will fin
ish off his education at the State
College of Agriculture, unite his
future with that of the canning
club girl who has furthered her
domestic training at one of the
state’s splendid institutions, and
life for them both will be one
sweet song.
H. L. Worsham,
County Demonstrator.
A California firm is selling'
eucalyptus at $24 a ton, as
against S2O a ton for oak char
coal. Since most of the Cali
fornia-grown eucalypts do not
make good lumber, uses for other
products of the tree are being
•ought.
MR. JOLLY EXPLAINS
COUNTY WARRANTS
Editor Progress: Much has
been said in reference to two
warrants that passed through the
Commissioner’s office last year.
When I was called on to produce
the vouchers and show up a com
plete record I could not do so. I
could only find on my stub war
rant book where the warrants
had been issued. Hence my affi
davit as published in the papers.
At that time Mr. Gaston was
at home sick, and I asked the
gentlemen looking after the mat
ter to wait till Mr. Gaston got
able to come to the office, but
they would not do so. When Mr.
Gaston came to the office I stated
the matter to him, and he says:
“Yes, I know all about the two
warrants. In your absence I is
sued the warrants,” which, I
think, he had a perfect right to
do. Mr. Gaston then produced
the proper vouchers for the two
warrants. I then attached them
to the warrants and placed them
on the record, making the record
in those two instances just as
complete as any two records in the
office.
After all investigation had been
made and the record completed,
I was called on to produce the
two warrants. I did not do so,
insisting that Mr. Gaston be
present if any further investiga
tion be made.
All these matters have been
thoroughly investigated by the
Grand Jury and a full report con
cerning same is to be found in the
general presentments.
March 24th, 1914.
Joseph Jolly,
Clerk County Commissioner. .
ADJOURNED TERM
SUPERIOR COURT
Damage Suits and Criminal
Cases Ready
MEETS ONNEXT MONDAY
Several Important Matters
Will Be Heard by Judge
Daniel at Adjourned Ses
sion Butts Superior Court
The March adjourned term of
Butts superior court will be con
vened here next Monday for the
purpose of hearing a number of
damage suits against two water
power companies, some jail cases
and other litigation that may be
pressing at that time.
Following are nine cases Judge
Daniel has set for trial next week:
Mrs. Allie Nolen vs Central
Georgia Power Cos.
0. M. Nolen vs Central Georgia
Power Cos.
C. R. Swint vs Central Georgia
Power Cos.
Jasper county vs Butts county
(provided the supreme court has
rendered its decision.)
W. H. Foster vs Towaliga Falls
Power Cos.
Mrs. Mamie Foster vs Towaliga
Falls Power Cos.
D. F. Pulliam vs Central Geor
gia Power Cos.
R. L. Hamlin vs Central Geor
gia Power Cos.
Mrs. Lila Hamlin vs Central
Georgia Power Cos.
In addition to the above it is
expected the case against Toomas
Aiken, burglary, and Joe Law
rence, murder, as well as other
jail c&SGS, will bG hesra during
the week.
On account of the wide interest
in this litigation the proceedings
will be followed with attention.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1914.
COMMITTEE WILL
MEET APRIL 4TH
Formal Call Is Issued to
Members
POLITICS WARMING UP
Much Depends on Adtion
of Committee —County
Unit System May Gov
ern The State Primary
Atlanta, Ga., March 26. —The
meeting of the Georgia State
Democratic executive committee
is now just one week off. It will
be held in Atlanta, on Saturday,
April 4, to arrange for the demo
cratic primaries, which in the
past have usually been set for
about the 20th of August.
The meeting of the committee
is for the politicians of Georgia
what the first day of the ‘ ‘open
game season” is for the hunters.
It means that as soon as the com
mittee has met, fixed the dates,
and made the other arrangements
most of the candidates for office
will announce their definite in
tentions and in many instances
begin their active campaigns.
The meeting will open the politi
cal ball.
While a great many of the
state-house offices figure in the
primary this year, the biggest
things that will be dealt with in
the coming primary and the elec
tion in October will be the elec
tion of a governor and of a United
States senator to fill the late Hon.
A. 0. Bacon’s place.
It is believed here, though it is
too far to predict with any cer
tainty, that the senior United
States senatorship will not be an
active factor in politics this year,
as sentiment now seems to be in
favor of returning Senator Hoke
Smith.
Governor John M. Slaton will
unquestionably offer either for
re-election as governar, or for
United States senator.
Other candidacies will be in a
large measure determined by
what Governor Slaton decides
to do.
HARVEY LEE LYNCH OIES
AT HOME IN PEPPERTON
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lynch have
the sympathy of their friends in
the death of their seven year-old
son, Harvey Lee, which occurred
Sunday afternoon and resulted
from an illness of several weeks.
Peritonitis was the cause of death.
This lad was a boy of promise
and was- popular with his school
mates and all who knew him. He
was a bright and manly little fel
low and his death caused wide
spread sorrow. To the family it
was a particularly sad blow.
The funeral was held from the
residence at 2 o’clock Monday
afternoon, the services being in
charge of Rev. A. E. Sansburn.
Interment was in the City Ceme
tery.
Harvey Lee is survived by his
parents, three brothers, his grand
parents and other relatives who
mourn his passsing.
14,956 Bale Crop
In Butts County
Figures just made public by
the census bureau show Butts
county’s cotton crop for the year
1912-13 to be 14,956 bales, as
compared with 12,540 bales the
year before.
Laurens county leads the state
with 53,740 bales, followed close
ly by Burke with 53,659 bales.
The figures for the counties of
the sixth district, in which Butts
ranks seventh, are as follows:
1913 1912
Bibb 10,695 9,357
Butts 14,957 12,540
Clayton 12,459 10,049
Crawford 6,394 5,891
Fayette 13,669 12,104
Henry 28,637 21,926
Jasper 26,224 22,108
Jones 13,806 13,631
Monroe 24,483 21,590
Pike 23,116 20,783
Spalding 18,426 17,386
Upson 15,407 13.375
Mr. S. J. Smith Continues
To Improve In Atlanta
Hundreds of friends will be in
terested to learn that Mr. S. J.
Smith continues to improve at an
Atlanta sanitarium where he has
been under treatment for several
weeks. An operation performed
some two weeks ago is declared
to have been a complete success,
and he is on the road to recovery.
If Mr. Smith continues to im
prove he will be home about the
first of April.
14,767,151 BALES
HAVEBEEN GINNED
Most Valuable Crop Ever
Raised
REPORT MADESATURDAY
Georgia Stands Second to
Texas in Number Bales
Cotton Produced From
The Crop of Year 1913
Washington, D. C. March 20.
The 1913 cotton crop was the
most valuable ever grown and se
cond largest in point of quantity.
Statistics announced by the cen-
sus bureau today indicated it
amount to 7,383,557,500 pounds
or 14,767,151 bales of lint and
linter cotton. The total value of
the crop, including the value of
the cottonseed, is unofficially es
timated roundly at more than
$1,000,000,000, compared with
last year’ss92o,ooo,ooo and $963,-
000,000 for the previous most val
uable crop, that of 1910.
The 1913 cotton crop amounted
to 14,127,356 equivalent 500 pound
bales of lint and 639,795 of lin
ters, the census bureau announc
ed today, Running bales, count
ing round as half bales, number
ed 13,964,881 of lint and 629,019
of linters.
Included are 29,267 bales esti
mated yet to be ginned. Round
bales included 99,915. Sea island
77,490
Average gross weight of bale,
505.8 pounds.
Ginneries operated, 24,730.
Production by states:
Alabama, 1,494,057; Arkansas
BANDIT ATTEMPTS
TOROB PASSENGERS
Holdup on Southern Near
Flovilla
FRIGHTENED OFF BY CREW
Passengers Were Thrown
Into Panic of Excitement
When A Bill Miner De
manded Their Money
A bold bandit attempted to
hold up and rob train No. 13,
northbound, near Flovilla Friday
night at a few minutes past ten
o’clock, but was frightened off
before he secured anything of
value.
The plan of the would-be holdup
man was thwarted by the conduct
or who pulled the cord and slowed
up the train just as the bandit
started to go through the pockets
of the passengers. As the train
came to a standstill the robber
jumped off the train and was lost
in the darkness.
The bandit is thought to have
boarded the train when it stop
ped for water, though he could
have gotten on the train in Ma
con as a passenger. The holdup
man entered a pullman car and
drawing two very long and dan
gerous looking pistols he covered
the passengers and asked them
to fork over their money and val
uables. Just at that juncture
the conductor appeared on the
scene and slowed up the train,
the intruder backed out of the
car, still covering the passengers.
That the passengers were bad
ly frightened there is no ques
tion. The men are said to have
huddled together in one end of
the car and were evidently in a
mood to hand over everything in
their possession.
Train No. 13, Cincinnati-Flori
da special, which leaves Macon
at 5:40, was running three hours
late Friday night and the affair
happened at 10:10 o’clock, just
as the train pulled out of Flovilla.
In leaping from the train his
banditship ala Bill Miner evi
dently received a hard jolt, as
the officers found a considerable
hole in the ground where he fell.
Some papers were also found on
the scene of the escapade and at
first the officers thought they had
an important clue.
Sheriff Crawford was advised
of the holdup Friday night, but
as no track dogs were available
he did not investigate the matter
until Saturday morning. Togeth
er with special railroad detectives
Sheriff Crawford made a thor
ough investigation Saturday. The
officers are working on the evi
dence they have and hope to be
able to run the bandit to earth.
As the robber was heavily
masked nothing, of course, is
known concerning his identity,
though the belief is expressed
that it was either an amateur or
an experieced bandit, who for
certain reasons has acted the
part of an amateur.
1,071,359; Florida, 58,451; Geor
gia, 2,314,870; Louisiana, 442,132;
Mississippi, 1,307,443: Missouri,
67,123; North Carolina, 789,944;
Oklahoma, 830,926; South Caroli
na, 1,373,700; Tennessee, 379,201;
Texas, 3,943,133; Virginia, 23,-
409; all other states, 32,508.
NUMBER 13.