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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 32.
IMPORTANT MEET
FOR SATURDAY
County Fair Will Be Gone
Over Then
REPORTS WILL BE MADE
The Matter of A County
Exhibit Will Be Settled
At Meeting in Jackson
Saturday, June 13th
An important meeting sched
uled for Saturday morning is that
to arrange plans for a county
fair in Jackson this fall. The
meeting will be held at the court
house at 10 o’clock and a full at
tendance is expected.
Committees were recently ap
pointed in each of the eight dis
tricts to solicit contributions for
the exhibit. These reports will
be made Saturday, with the ex
ception of Jackson district, which
has not been canvassed. Follow
ing the report of the amount of
money and other prizes secured
the committee will then get busy
among the business men of Jack
son and will endeavor to raise
the balance of the funds neces
sary.
A good many of the details
have not yet been worked out.
In fact it will not be known un
til after the meeting Saturday
just when the fair will be held,
but it is thought now that it will
be some time in November, prob
ably the week Georgia Products
day is observed, which is the 18.
Everybody is agreed that the
exhibit will be a fine thing for
the entire county. It will prove
a big week for the merchants
and will stimulate greater inter
est along agricultural lines.
All the committee chairmen
and other interested citizens are
asked to be in the court house at
10 o’clock Saturday morning and
help to give Butts county’s first
fair a big boost.
MR. TOM HARDY DIED
LAST SUNDAY MORNING
After an illness of several days,
Mr. Tom Hardy died at his home
a few miles from J ackson Sunday
morning. News of his passing
came as a shock to a large circle
of friends, as it was not generally
known that he was ill.
Mr. Hardy, who was 58 years
of age, was a well known citizen
of the county and numbered his
friends by the score. He was a
member of the Methodist church,
and belonged to a well known
family of Butts county.
Surviving Mr. Hardy are his
wife, two daughters, Mrs. James
Hilley and Mrs. Otis Hilley, three
sons, Messrs. Hugh, Watts and
Willie Hardy; one sister, Miss
Mary Hardy; three brothers,
Messrs. Walter, Joe and Charlie
Hardy.
The funeral was held at Mace
donia church Monday morning at
11 o’clock, Rev. Mr. Shape con
ducting the services.
The New York state forest
nurseries have a capacity of 28
million young trees a year.
CROPS AND MARKETS ARE
DISCUSSED BY PLOW HANDLES
We are still hopeful of making
a good crop. The crop that is up
is doing as fine as we ever saw
it do, and all the farmer asks for
is a square deal when he goes to
put his product on the market.
But it is a deplorable thing for
him to find out when he gets to
market that the whole cotton
market is monopolized. In other
words the cotton market has been
parceled off in territories like the
tobacco market in Tennessee and
Kentucky.
The cotton market for the last
fifteen years has been handled
by one firm from Juliette to Flip
pen and no other buyer was al
lowed to come into that territory.
And of course when the farmer
carried his cotton to either one
of those markets he had to take
whatever this firm saw proper to
give him.
Now gentlemen these are facts
and I defy anybody to successful
ly contradict them. Now is this
honesty? We think not. And
when we see some men admon
ishing the public to be honest it
reminds us of a ballheaded man
trying to sell hair restoratives.
Plow Handles.
Approximately 750 acres on
the Oregon national forests were
planted with young trees this
spring.
WHOLE STATE
IS INTERESTED
Georgia Products Day on
November 18
PLANS NOW BEING LAID
Georgia Food And Georgia
Clothing Will Be Boost
ed Throughout Whole
of The United States
Atlanta, Ga., June 11.—To in
duce people to use Georgia pro
ducts and patronize home indus
try, instead of sending away
millions of dollars annually to
other states, the Georgia Cham
ber of Commerce hit upon the
happy idea of having an annual
feast day on which nothing but
Georgia-grown foods were to be
eaten and, as nearly as possible,
Georgia-made clothing worn and
Georgia articles used, the first
observance occuring on the 18th
of last November in seventy
eight towns and cities, and the
second celebration has recently
been announced to occur in the
coming November. To enable
Georgians to know what their
state produces and to put into
their hands the names and ad
dresses of producers and manu
facturers from whom home pro
ducts-not only things to eat,
but manufactured goods of every
sort made in Georgia shops, fac
tories, foundries, mills and mis
cellaneous industries-may be
obtained, the Georgia Chamber
of Commerce announces its inten
tion to publish a directory to
cover all lines of production m
the state.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1914.
MR. D. J. THAXTON
ANSWERED CALL
Leading Citizen Stricken
Suddenly
PASSED AWAY SUNDAY
Formerly Edited Newspa
pers in Jackson And in
Dublin—Buried With Ma
sonic Honors Monday
Stricken Saturday morning
with paralysis, Mr. D. J. Thax
ton died at 1 o’clock Sunday af
ternoon at his home on West Third
street. His death came as a se
vere shock to a wide circle of
friends here and elsewhere over
the state. Though he had been
in feeble health for the past year
or so and spent the winter in
Florida and returned home ap
parently much improved, friends
were surprised at news of his
passing.
Mr. Thaxton was one of Butts
county’s best known citizens and
had been intimately connected
with the progress and develop
ment of this section for many
years. He was formerly editor
of The Progress, then called the
Record. Before that he was ed
itor of the Argus. Selling that
paper he went to Dublin and es
tablished the Dublin Courier. Af
ter disposing of that publication
he returned to Jackson and edi
ted the Record until a few years
ago when he retired from the
newspaper field. He remained
until his death a frequent con
tributor to the local press, only
last week advocating through the
columns of The Progress the re
moval of the ashes of William
Mclntosh to Indian Springs and
the erection of a monument to
the celebrated Creek chieftain.
At the time of his death Mr.
Thaxton was 65 years of age. He
was born and reared in this coun
ty and was a member of an old
and prominent family of Butts.
He was an active and faithful
member of the Baptist church.
serving as clerk of the Kimball
Association for some years. As
a Mason he had attained the rank
of a Knight Templar and his long
and devoted career in behalf of
that fraternity will ever be held
in grateful remembrance by his
companions. He was sentinel of
the local lodges for many years
and until his health failed sel
dom missed a meeting.
Surviving Mr. Thaxton are his
wife, who was Miss Maggie Car
michael before marriage, three
daughters, Mrs. W. H. Roberson,
of Eldred, Fla., Misses Maggie
Bell and Bessie Thaxton; three
sons, Prof. 0. A. Thaxton, of
Moultrie, Mr. C. D. Thaxton, of
the post office department in the
canal zone, Panama, Mr. Sher
wood Thaxton, manager of the
Wigwam hotel, Indian Springs;
a brother, Mr. W. W. Thaxton,
of Atlanta; four sisters, Mrs. C.
R. Carter, Mrs. Ida Bethel and
Mrs. Amanda Aikn, all of Butts
county, and Mrs. Ransom Jester,
of Atlanta, and other relatives.
The funeral Monday morning
at 11 o’clock from the house was
Jargely attended, many friends
gathering to pay a final tribute
of love. Dr. Robert VanDeven
ter conducted the services. At
the grave the exercises were in
GEORGIA’S CONVICT SYSTEM
THE BEST IN THE SOUTH
Atlanta, Ga., June 11.—That
Georgia is far ahead of Tennes
see in its treatment of convicts
and that the prison commission
of Georgia is handling the situa
tion not only more humanely,
but more efficiently, is shown by
a comparison that resulted from
the recent visit of Governor
Hooper and his party of prison
I investigators.
In Georgia all the able bodied
men convicts are worked out of
doors, under the direct supervis
ion of state and county officers,
constructing public highways.
In Tennessee the convicts are
worked in mines, and another
able bodied half of them are
working in factories within the
penitentiary walls, but under the
lease system which Georgia and
other states have abolished as in
human and unjust.
It is a matter of record that
hundreds of Tennessee convicts
had to be pardoned because they
contracted tuberculosis. There
are not as many meetings and
religious services in the Georgia
road camps as there are in the
Tennessee mines, but Georgia is
not killing off the convicts’ bod
ies while trying to save their
souls.
Under the direction of the pris
on commission, composed of
Messrs. Patterson, Rainey and
Davison, material improvements
in efficiency and in treatment of
the convicts have been brought
about.
KNIGHTS PYTHIAS
HAVE ELECTION
Meeting Held Thursday
Night Last
SPIRITED INTEREST FELT
Officers Will Be Installed
At A Future Meeting—
Jackson Lodge Is in A
Prosperous Condition
Officers were elected at the
meeting of Jackson lodge No.
131 Knights of Pythias, last
Thursday night, to serve for the
ensuing term. Mr. A. R. Conner
was promoted to the head of the
lodge, his election having been
unanimous.
The officers will be installed at
a later meeting.
Thursday night’s meeting de
veloped a good deal of interest,
several matters of importance
having been disposed of.
A list of the officers chosen is
given herewith:
A. R. Conner—C. C.
A. J. Biles—V. C.
Morris Moore—Prelate.
J. E. McNair—M. W.
Edgar McMichael—M. A.
V. W. Cole—l. G.
H. M. Fletcher—O. G.
L. H. Hendrick was elected Lo
cal Deputy Grand Chancellor.
charge of St. Johns lodge No. 45
F. & A. M. An escort from Alex
ius Commandery accompanied
the remains to their final resting
place in the City Cemetery, the
members of the escort acting as
pallbearers. The floral tributes
were both numerous and beauti
ful.
FIVE DISTRICTS
INCREASE $102,225
Whites Gain But Colored
Fall Off
TAX DIGEST READY SOON
Board of Assessors Will
Probably Wind up Jack
son Dtetridt And County
The Coming Week
Five districts in Butts county
show an increase in tax returns
of $102,225 over* 1913. This gain
is offset by a deqrease of $36,000
in the returns of the colored tax
payers.
The board of Tax Equalizers
will probably finish their work
next week. It will be some time
later before Tax Receiver Hodges
makes up the digest. The board
is now at work in Jackson dis
trict, the last division to be tak
en up. It is expected there will
be a large increase in this dis
trict over the previous year.
With three more districts, Jack
son, Towaliga and Worthville, to
hear from it is impossible to say
what the total increase in prop
erty values for the county will
be. It is estimated, though, that
it will be around $200,000 and
possibly more.
The gain of the whites in the
five districts completed is as fol
lows:
Buttrill $53,324
Coody.. 9,010
Dublin 569
Indian Springs 39,278
Iron Springs 144
ODD FELLOWS ELECT
OFFICERS FOR YEAR
At the regular meeting last
Friday night officers were elected
by Jackson lodge No. 152, I. 0.
0. F., for the ensuing term. The
officers elected will be installed
at the first meeting in July at
which time a number of appoint
ive officers will also be an
nounced.
Jackson lodge is in a flourish
ing condition and has a large and
enthusiastic membership. Dur
ing the past year a good deal of
work has been done, and the de
gree team is one of the most pro
ficient in this section.
Those chosen to serve the Odd
Fellow lodge for the ensuing pe
riod are as follows:
G. W. Allen—N. G.
J. T. Mayo-V. G.
J. R. Thurston —Secretary.
MR. T. J. WALDROP OIED
IN SOUTH BUTTS SUNDAY
Mr. T. J. Waldrop died at his
home in South Butts Sunday
morning after a long illness, of
cancer of the stomach. He was
50 years of age and a well known
citizen of his community.
He is survived by his mother,
two brothers, Messrs. J. G. and
W. L. Waldrop, and two sisterf.
The funeral was held at Mt.
Vernon church Monday after
noon, Rev. J. T. Pendley, of
Flovilla, conducting the services.
NUMBER 24.