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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1914)
BOIIS COUNTV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered m second-class matter, Novew •*er 8,1807, at the postoflire at Jackson, Gft. Telephone No. 166. Communications arc welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to 300 words, as communications ever 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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Boost that county fair. Butts county’s roads will com pare favorably with any in the state. Get squarely behind that coun ty exhibit idea and help push it along. Little Joe’s silence seems to be worrying some of the boys rather keenly. Paint up and clean up your self and encourage others in the good work. Eatonton will vote on a $25,000 bond issue for the purpose of in stalling an electric light system. Jackson will welcome the vete rans Saturday and do all in her power to make them glad they came. If Macon succeeds in landing the governor and senator she ought to be satisfied without the capital. If the worst comes to the worst the Georgia National Guard of which the Jackson Rifles are a part, will do its duty. Brooks county is becoming fa mous for its export of meat. Other counties can do the same thing. There is money in it. There is no doubt about it, Jackson can secure a number of enterprises if she will go out af ter them in the right spirit. Dr. Hardman of Commerce is a candidate for governor. He is a good clean man and will prob ably make a strong bid for the office. Sewerage will mean big things for Jackson. If the people will get busy they can locate a num ber of industries here before the year is out. The new tax equalization law, like the dog tax, is not popular. However, it seems that the law ought to be a fair trial before it is condemned. Judge N. E. Harris of Macon has announced for governor. He is one of the strongest men in the state and will doubtless make a remarkable race. This is the convention season. If Jackson had an electric rail way from here to Indian Springs and the proper hotel facilities and with Indian Springs the foremost health resort in the state, Butts county should be able to secure a large number of con ventions each year. The election is over. All hatch ets should be buried and every body go to work in dead earnest for the advancement of the com munity. It is just as important that the people elect good men to repre sent them in the legislature as it is that they should have a good man for governor or senator. If the Civic Improvement League succeeds in improving the court house yard the association will be entitled to the lasting gratitude of the people of the county. Indian Springs will attract hundreds of visitors from all parts of the state this summer. This famons health resort is one of the county’s greatest drawing cards. Col. L. M. Park is a candidate for State Treasurer, with editor Ben. F. Perry of Jonesboro as chief clerk. Mr. Park is a broth er of the late R. E. Park, who was treasurer for a number of years. Col. Nat Harris is probably the last Confederate soldier who will ever run for governor of Georgia. The Old Guard is getting thinner and thinner as the years go by. He is not making that an issue, however, but is running on his reputation as an able lawyer, dis tinguished educator and well known Georgian, MEN AND THEIR PAPERS. Did you ever eat an apple that was insipid, pulpy and tasteless? Did you ever try to chew an or ange which made you fancy you might be eating a sponge? Did you ever eat an egg without the usual condiment of pepper and salt? Well, if you have, you know how an editor man feels when he shucks some of his reg ular exchanges —there's no per sonality, no sentiment, no soul, nor ripple of anv kind in them from one year’s end to another. What the heck they stand for or why they exist is something be yond ourken.—Concordia Kansan. Fundamentally a newspaper re flects the man behind it. If there’s nothing but a mortgage behind it, it looks like a legal no tice. If there’s nothing but a town ring behind it, a newspaper reads like a personal property list in a tax certificate. If a pa per has nothing in particular be hind it, it reads like nothing in particular. But generally speak ing, a newspaper, if it be worthy the name, reflects the man. One may write but a small part of it, but if he is anything of an editor of a paper, how it “sounds like the editor,” and when you know the editor of a paper, how it “sounds like him.” You can hear his voice, see his smile, chuckle with him or listen to the blast of his bazoo. The newspaper that doesn’t in some way reflect a man’s personality, isn’t much of a paper, and it does its town no good.—Emporia Gazette. A TEXAS WONDER. 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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 For Public Schools” 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. 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 county, between the usual hours of sale, the following real estate situated in Butts county, 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 ted by the administrator on the day of 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. Notice. 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. 4-17-4 t. C. A. PITTMAN. IMPROTED PARCEL POST FACILITIES. It is gratifying to note that . Postmaster-General Burleson, since Congress declined to hamper and restrict his program for bet tering our parcel post system, has ;gone steadily ahead with his plans for making the service real i ly efficient and effective in bring- I ing the producer and consumer [ closer together. The regulations, as amended, provide for the carrying of seeds, bulbs, cuttings, scions and plants ! weighing less than four ounces, at flat rate of one cent for each ■ ounce or fraction thereof, regard less of che distance. On similar articles weighing over four ounc es the regular parcel post rates, varying according to the different zones, are in effect. Another noteworthy improve- SLATON DRUG CO. The Store What People Say About Slaton’s Stock Powders. The He can Get. After using Dr. Slaton’s Stock Powders I find that it is the best you can get. It will make your stock look better and be healthier than ever before. Yours truly, J. W. Middlebrooks, Locust Grove, Ga., April 15, 1913. Good for Chickens. 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I certify that I have used Slaton’s Stock Powders for hogs, and Slaton’s Poultry Powders for chickens, and have found the same to be thoroughly satisfactory. W. E. Watkins, Mayor of Jackson. Cashier Well Pleased. Jackson, Ga., March 14, 1913. This is to certify that I have used Slaton’s Stock Powders, and find them the best I have ever used. C. T. Beauchamp, Cashier First National Bank. 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 Caskets and Robes The J. S. Johnson Company Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84 ment is the amendment permit ting the shipment of books weighing in excess of eight ounces by parcel post. All books coming under this weight are subject to the regular postage hitherto charged on books. The provision permitting the shipment of seeds and plants 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. comes a little late to be of much value to the farmers this season, but it goes without saying that it will be a great advantage in the future. The only wonder is that such an important feature of the law was omitted in the be ginning.—The Progressive Far mer.
