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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.