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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1914)
Bins COINTV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter, Novem ber 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Communications are 'velcomed. Cor respondents will please coniine them selves to 300 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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Clean up and paint up. Swat the fly. Mexico will find out that Uncle Sam does things differently. Why not bury all the political hatchets and let everybody get busy at something useful for the town and county? If all the candidates mentioned for governor actually run they will get in each other’s way dur ing the campaign. John R. Cooper may not be elected senator, but he will doubt less have as much fun out of the campaign as any man in the race. To fight without taking advan tage, to lose without growling, to win without crowning, this is the kind of candidate the people like. Don’t forget to boost that county fair. Butts is entitled to the best of everything and a county fair will help wonder fully. You can help the Civic Im provement League in its effort to clean up Jackson by putting all that trash in barrels and keep ing paper off the streets. The people of Georgia are try ing to get their crops planted and are not worrying as much about the candidates, as the candidates would try to make you believe. Every public spirited citizen ought to lend his hearty encour agement to the Civic Improve ment League. “Paint up and clean up” is a good slogan for Jackson to adopt. If the people of the state would only wake up and send a better class of men to the legislature may be they would not have so much occasion to complain at the kind of laws passed. A lot of political lightweights are trying to convince the people that they ought to be elected gov ernor, or senator as the case may be. The dear people, however, are not loosing any sleep over the matter. I like to see a man who is proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Be honest; but hate no one; overturn a man’s wrong doing, but do not overturn him, unless it must be done in over turning the wrong. Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong —Abraham Lincoln. The livest issue flaunted across the political firmament in many a day is the Georgia tax equalization law. Many a battle will be fought and lost and won with that as the issue during the next year or two. The peoplo of Butts county made a forward step when they voted for local tax for school purposes. The rural school is the hope of the country. This being true, why not have the very best schools possible? The fact that Butts county has one of the best oat crops in her history and that more than one hundred boys are in the Corn Club are matters of more impor tance than a whole hatful of can didates for governor and senator. The Progress is not the organ of any faction, clique or clan, never has been and never ex pects to be. An absolutely hon est deal for every man who has dealings with the paper is the policy. This was the policy dur ing the campaign just closed and this will continue to be the pol icy. Every candidate got just what he paid for, no less and no more. The court house square has been completed, with tile walks on four approaches to the court house with a simular walk en circling it, and a six-foot tile walk extending the full length of the square on the south side. The grounds present a very pleasing and attractive appearance and when the grass becomes green —will truly look like a beautiful picture. Our county commis sioners deserve much credit in beautifying these grounds. Pike County Journal. Why not Jackson? Let's do something to that court house yard. Preventing House Flies. Last summer I visited a com munity, and one of the first things I noticed was the small number of house flies. Upon in vestigation I found the reason why this neighborhood elected to put up with millions less flies than usual. When the first fly showed up there were fly-paper, fly-traps and fly swatters waiting to gel him. The folks said they saved the battle by getting the early flies. I found all doors and windows screened, traps about the kitchen doors and near the stables, all rags and rubbish kept burned, and no flies. The neighbors kept the manure in fly-proof closets and the ma nure sprinkled with a small shov elful of chloride of lime. The manure closets were screened where there were windows left for ventilation purposes. Since the flies breed in the sta ble more than elsewhere, those progressive farmers cleaned the stable every day and sprinkled lime on the floors. The results of these clean con- ditions about the homes had been a reduction in the typhoid fever in the community, as well as les sening other Worries occasioned by the pest. The physicians are authority for this statement. Moral: Get the first fly when he arrives, and maybe you’ll save having to bother with the second one.—Chas. W. Castner, Lavon, Texas. Puffed Wheat and Rice at Taylor’s. LEGAL ADVERTISE MENTS ELECTION ORDER Election Eor Local Tax Tor Public Schools. Pursuant to a petition signed by one fourth of the qualified voters of Butts county, for the purpose of supplement ing the public school fund received from the state for public schools, it is ordered that an election be held for a county system, with the exception of Jackson Public School, on April 17th, 1914, Said election to be held as ordi nary county elections are held at each voting precint in said county. Those favoring the levying of the local tax shall vote “For Local Tax For Public Schools.” Those opposed shall vote “Against Local Tax ForPublicSchools” The election returns to be made to the Ordinary of said Butts county. Given under my hand and official signature, this March 25, 1914. J. H. Ham, Ordinary. Notice. All persons are hereby notified that Calvin Shepherd, colored, is under contract with me to work on my farm for the year 1914, and all persons are forbidden under penalty of the law from hiring or harboring said Calvin Shepherd during the term of this con tract. J. L. BARNES. This March 25, 1914. tf. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE Georgia—Butts County By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of said county will be sold at public outcry on the first Tuesday in May, 1914, at the court house in said couHty, between the usual hours of sale, the following real estate situated in Buttscounty, Ga.,to-wit: Onelotinthe city of Jackson, Ga., containing one acre, more or less, bounded north by Second street, west by King street, south by Third street, east by Weed street. Also one lot in the city of Jack son, Ga., containing one acre, more or less, bounded north by Byars avenue, east by Holly street, south by Demp sey avenue, west by Mulberry street. Said land to be sold as a whole or in such parcels as shown by plat exhibi- I ted by the administrator on the day of I sale. Terms cash. This Bth day of April, 1914. J. W. GODDARD, Administrator De Bonis Non with will annexed, of the estate of Lorey P. Goddard. FOR DISMISSION. Georgia—Butts County. Whereas L. P. Weaver, administra tor of W. W. Weaver, represents to the court in his petition duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully ad ministered W. W. Weaver’s 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 discharged from his administration, and receive letters of dismission on the first Mon day in May, 1914. This April 6, 1914. J. H. Ham, Ordinary. Noti c e . The City Tax Books are now open and will be open until July Ist for the purpose of receiving tax on all City personal property. Make your returns. This 7th day of April 1914. W. H. Wilson, City Tax Receiver. Notice. All persons are hereby notified that B. Fletcher, colored, is under contract with me for the year 1914, and all per sons are forbidden under the penalty of the law from hiring or harboring said B. Fletcher during the term of said contract. This April 14, 1914. 4-17-41. C. A. PITTMAN. How’s This ? We offer One Hundred Dollars ward for any case of Catarrh th?f cannot be cured by Hall's CatariL Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known.F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe, him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE. Toledo. O Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- I cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials < sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold \ by all Druggists. i Take U all’s Family Pills for constipation. SLATON DRUG CO. The Store “THE OLD RELIABLE” DRUGGISTS. Where you get what you want, when you want it, like you want it. OUR GUARANTEE is behind every thing we sell. EVERYTHING HANDLED IN A MODERN AND PROGRESSIVE DRUG STORE. : s s : Have you planted your garden yet? We sell the kind of seed that &and the TEST. Particular attention given to prescrip tions, which are filled from the PUREST and FRESHEST DRUGS. Full line of Slaton’s Home-made Remedies. They are having a wonderful sale. Get in the habit of calling for SLATON’S. Undertakers and Embalmers Oldest and Most Efficient Undertakers in this Section Expert Licensed Embalmers Our Undertaking Parlors Modernly Equipped to Furnish the Best of Selections in Gaskets and Robes t The J. S. Johnson Company Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84 CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hate Always Bought Bears the /i~ Signature of ■ TcC&JUM The Wise Auto Owner doesn’t attempt his own re pairing. He prefers to send his car here where there is ev ery facility and every conve nience for doing the work properly. And the more ex perienced the auto owner is the surer he is to have us do his repairing because he knows we do it right. WAGNER’S GARAGE. Nice ferns and pot plants at Tavlor’s. Fresh bread daily at Taylor’s. Taylor has one horse wagon to sell. See Taylor’s 10c candy.
