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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 32.
EIGHT WILL GET
DIPS THIS EVENING
Jackson Public Schools
Close Friday
GOOD PROGRAM PLANNED
Present Term Has Been A
Satisfactory One, Mark
ed By Good Hard Work
of Constructive Nature
After one of the most success
ful years in the history of the
city, the Jackson Public Schools
will close for the spring term
Friday night. The program is
simple and will consist of the
graduating exercises only.
Diplomas will be awarded to
the following members of the
Senior class: Misses Helen Ham,
Julia Andrews, Nettie Florence
Moore, Fredna Allen, Willie Har
mon, Florrie Mackey, Messrs.
Warren Furlow and Dewey An
derson White.
The faculty for the session of
1914-1915 has already been elec
ted, there being but few changes
in the teaching force.
This week has ||en given over
to the standing of final examina
tions. Promotion cards will be
issued to the pupils passing a
satisfactory examination, Friday.
The program was printed in
last week's issue. Dr. Robert
VanDeventer will say the invo
cation, Suprintendent Martin will
deliver the diplomas, while Rev.
A. E. Sansburn will pronounce
the benediction and the com
mencement of 1914 will be at an
end and the real commencement
for the eight graduates in a
sphere of larger usefulness will
begin.
K. P. BENEFIT PLAY
SCORED GREAT HIT
With receipts of nearly S7O
and a program that pleased the
large audience present, the ben
efit performance given last Fri
day night at the school auditor
ium under the auspices of Jack
son lodge No. 131 Knights of
Pythias was an entire success.
The evening’s program was
made up of several features,
each of which was a winner.
Good music was rendered during
the performance by the brass
band from Pepperton. Miss Lil
lian Britt sang several numbers
delightfully, winning applause
from the audience.
The breach of promise trial
probably elicited more favorable
comment than any other part of
the entertainment. This was a
scream from start to finish. The
caste was made up to represent
several local celebrities and the
acting on the whole was pleasing.
So successful was the evening’s
entertainment that it may be de
cided to put it on at some of the
nearby towns within the next
few weeks.
GRAND LODGE
MET IN MACON
Pythians Assemble For
Annual Session
LOCAL DELEGATES CHOSEN
Several Hundred Visitors
in Central City For For
ty-Fifth Annual Session
ox K. P. Grand Lodge
Jackson is represented at the
forty-fifth annual session of the
Grand lodge of Knights of Py
thias of Georgia, which conven
ed in Macon Wednesday, by A.
T. Buttrill, representative, and
0. Lee Chesnutt, Chancellor
Commander. The latter is an
applicant for representation on
the grand lodge and his friends
hope that he will be successful.
The grand lodge met Wednes
day and will be in session through
Thursday. About one thousand
delegates, representing some of
the leading men in the state,
were present.
Several matters of importance
were disposed of at this meeting.
During the Grand Lodge meet
ing a ceremonial session of the
Dramatic Order Knights of Khor
rassan was held.
Grand Mice chancellor, Hal M.
Stanley, will be elected Grand
Chancellor in place of Hon. M.
S. Bell, of Milledgeville.
Hon. E. M. Smith, of McDon
ough, is district deputy for this,
district No. 6.
Jackson lodge No. 131, has had
a good year and will make a flat
tering report at the Macon meet
ing of the order.
COUNTY UNIT AND POPULAR
MAJORITY VOTE EXPLAINED
Atlanta, Ga., May 21.—For the
benefit of Georgia voters who do
not clearly understand the dif
ference between the county unit
plan and the popular majority
plan of primary elections, the
following explanation is given,
in view of the wide discussion
throughout the state on the re
spective merits of the two, and
the possibility that the executive
committee may change the coun
ty unit system to the popular ma
jority.
The county unit plan means
that each county votes within it
self as a unit, and that the can
didate winning the election in
that county shall send twice as
many delegates to the state con
vention as the county has legis
lative membership, and that this
convention shall nominate the
candidate receiving a majority
of all the delegate votes.
In the popular majority plan it
is purely a question ef state-wide
popular vote. The candidate who
gets the most votes wins.
More Pay For Carriers.
Beginning the first of July the
rural mail carriers will be paid a
salary of $1,200 a year. This in
crease is appreciated and is de
served, for no class of men work
harder than the rural carriers.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1914.
MAYOR ISSUES
A PROCLAMATION
Clean up Day Tuesday,
May 26th
WHOLE CITY INTERESTED
Mayor Watkins Calls Upon
People to Observe Next
Tuesday as “Clean up
And Paint up” Day
Next Tuesday, the 26th day of
May, will be observed in Jackson
as “Clean up” day, and Mayor
W. E. Watkins has issued a pro
clamation calling upon the people
generally to put their premises
in sanitary condition.
The movement for a “clean up
and paint up” day here origina
ted with the Civic Improvement
League, the members of which
have been untiring in their ef
forts to put the city in a sanitary
condition. Cards were placed in
every portion of the city remind
ing the citizens of the date of
clean up day. Flags have been
ordered and will be placed at ev
ery house where the premises
have been cleaned up.
The movement is city-wide and
the colored population as well as
the white is expected to co-oper
ate heartily in this splendid work.
No campaign started here in
years will have more beneficial
results, for once the city is put
in thorough sanitary condition
there is but little likelihood of an
epidemic of sickness.
Mayor Watkins' proclamation
is as follows:
To the good People of Jackson:
Whereas, The members of the
Civic Improvement League have
named and set aside Tuesday,
the 26th day of May, as the date
for the cleaning up of the city of
Jackson, and
Whereas, This is a most lauda
ble undertaking and should have
the active and cordial support of
the citizens of the entire commu
nity.
Therefore. I, W. E. Watkins,
mayor of the city of Jackson,
hereby issue this my official pro
clamation naming May 26th as
“Clean up” day; and I call upon
the people generally to observe
said day and urge them to put
their premises in good sanitary
condition. Reminded of the old
adage that “Cleanliness is next
to Godliness, ” I earnestly ask
that the community enter into
the spirit of the occasion and
make of the day a splendid suc
cess.
W. E. Watkins, Mayor
City of Jackson, Ga.
This May 18th, 1914.
Canning Club Record.
The finest individual record in
tomato growing in the United
States in 1913 was made by Miss
Clyde Sullivan, a 14 year old can
ning club member, of Ousley, Ga.
who produced 5,354 No. 2 cans,
212 No. 3 cans, and made 60 pints
of catsup. The entire receipts
from this tenth acre were $229.26
and the profit $132.39.
CORNERSTONE TO
BE LAID FRIDAY
Masons Will Have Charge
of Ceremony
AN INTERESTING SERVICE
New Bapti&'Church Ready
For Placing of Corner
stone —St. Johns Lodge
Will Place The Arch
The cornerstone of the new
Baptist church will be laid Friday
mgrning at 10 o'clock. The im
pressive ceremony will be in
charge of St. Johns lodge No. 45,
Free and Accepted Masons, and
a representative of Grand Master
Robert L. Colding, of the Grand
Lodge of Georgia. The members
of the lodge will meet in their
lodge room at 9 o’clock sharp.
Dr. Robert VanDeventer and
Worshipful Master H. M. Fletch
er have arranged the following
interesting program for the day:
PROGRAM
Hymn—“ Come Thou Almighty
King.”
Prayer.
Talk by the Pastor.
Presenting the request of the
church to the Grand Master to
lay the cornerstone.
Music—quartette.
Prayer by Grand Chaplain.
Oration.
Music—“l Love Thy Kingdom
Lord.”
Depositing articles in the stone.
Placing the stone.
Proving the stone.
Consecrating the stone.
Invocation.
Doxology.
WANTS COMPENSATION OF
COUNTY TREASURER FIXEO
Editor Progress:—There is a
good deal of discussion at this
time as to the remuneration re
ceived by the Treasurer and Tax
Collector of Butts county, and
the probability of a local bill be
ing introduced at the approach
ing session of the legislature to
fix the compensation of these of
ficers. We understand that
these officers receive from $1,250
to $1,300 per year for their ser
vices, and under the new tax
equalization law they will re
ceive two or three hundred dol
lars more.
Now we submit that this is
mighty good pay for the amount
of work done. All these officers
have to do is to work about three
or four months in the fall. For
the work actually done they are
about the best paid men in this
country.
Several counties have passed
local legislation fixing the salary
of the treasurer at a nominal sum
say SSOO per annum. Why can’t
Butts do the same thing? And
while local legislation is being
passed why not fix the compen
sation of Tax Collector? Five
hundred dollars a year would be
good pay for these officers, tak
ing into consideration the small
amount of work done. We ven
ture to say there are plenty of
men who would be glad to take
the office at that price.
By cutting down the compen-
MEET SATURDAY
TO PLAN EXHIBIT
Committee Heads Urged
to Attend
PREMIUM LIST IN SIGHT
Meeting Will Be Held at
Ten O’clock Saturday
Morning in Directors’
Room J-ackson National
To begin active plans for the
holding of a county exhibit here
this fall, there will be a meet
ing of the officers of the Butts
County Chamber of Commerce
and the chairmen of the differ
ent committees recently appoint
ed, in the offices of the Jackson
National Bank. Saturday morn
ing at 10 o’cleck.
Mr. F. S. Etheridge will pre
side over the meeting. He has
taken a good deal of interest in a
county exhibit for Butts and at
a recent meeting held in the
court house appointed chairmen
of eight committees represent
ing the Boys Corn clubs, Girls
Canning clubs, Pig clubs. Dem
onstration work, Domestic
Science, Poultry and Live Stock
associations, Ladies Aid depart
ment. Letters have been addres
sed to the heads of these Various
committees and they are expect
ed to be present at the Saturday
meeting.
Though Butts county has nev
er held a county fair or exhibit,
plans are now under way to
have one of the largest displays
ever seen in any county in the
state. The local plans have been
widely commended and if the
exhibit can be carried out on the v
lines projected it will prove a
great thing for the entire coun
ty. Mr. Etheridge is confident
there will be no trouble in raising
a premium list of several hun
dred dollars.
It is getting a little late in the
season to begin to plan for an
exhibit, and the meeting Satur
day is therefore an important
one.
STATE DRUGGISTS TO MEET
AT INDIAN SPRINGS IN JUNE
June 9 and 10 are the dates
for the annual convention of the
Georgia Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation, which will be held at
Indian Springs. Dr. T. A.
Cheatham of Macon, is secretary
of the association, and he is now
sending out literature regarding
the approaching meeting. A
good program will be prepared
for the two days session of the
state druggists. The delegates
will be guests of the Macon
members of the association, it is
said. Indian Springs has been
the meeting place ©f the associa
tion for several seasons, being
ideally located in the center of
the state and in easy reach of
all.
sation of the Treasurer and Tax
Collector the county could ef
fect a saving of several hundred
dollars in a year’s time—at least
enough to run the chaingang a
full month or longer.
Let’s have a full, open discus- "
sion of this matter. What do
the people think about this plan ?
Respectfully,
Citizen.
NUMBER 21.