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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 32. FAIR WILL BE HELD NOVEMBER A Tentative Date Agreed on Saturday COMMITTEESFILE REPORT Another Meeting Saturday Week to Further Plans —Finance Committees at Work in All Di&ridts It was practically decided Sat urday to hold the county fair dur ing the week of November 18 so as to incorporate Georgia Pro ducts Day. The matter of the date, however, was left in the nands of the committee on pre miums. Considerable progress was re ported at Saturday’s meeting, though the attendance was not as large as it should have been. Active preparations are now be ing made for the first fair ever held in Jackson. The reports of the various committees showed that the people of the entire county were interested in the matter, but the dry weather has interfered materially with the work of raising subscriptions. Mr. S. K. Smith reported $38.- 50 from Dublin district and he has not completed his canvass. It is the purpose of the promoters to raise at least SSO in each dis trict outside of Jackson, where it is hoped to get S6OO, bringing the total for the county up to be tween $950 and SI,OOO. Miss Bessie Waldrop, Mrs. R. W. Mays, Messrs. F. S. Etheridge, W. P. Martin and G. E. Mallet were appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions in Jackson district. President Etheridge appointed as a committee on premium list the chairmen of the nine divi sions represented, with Farm Agent H. L. Worsham as chair man of the committee. This committee was instructed to pro ceed with its work and have the premium list printed at once. The place for holding the fair has not been determined, but it likely will be held in the court house and armory or such other place as proves convenient. Mr. Worsham is getting to gether a nice collection of oats and other farm products, which he is storing in the court house, and these will be put on display at the fair. Farmers having such products that they wish ex hibited would do well to get in touch with Mr. Worsham. There is no doubt of the inter est felt in the fair by the people of the whole county and with the proper co-operation it can be made a tremendous success. Interestihg Contest. The contest between the red and blue sections of the Baraca Bible class at the First Baptist Sunday school is raging. The> are now neck and neck. Ten new members were added last Sunday and they are expecting more next Sunday. They want all men to come join them in this great work. FIRST COTTON BLOOMS REPORTEO TO PROGRESS The first cotton blooms came with a rush this year, four hav ing been received by The Pro gress from Saturday afternoon up to Monday morning. This is considered early for the season and is several days ahead of last year. Where cot ton is up to a stand, about which there is widespread complaint, it is looking well and the outlook is encouraging. The order in which the first blooms were received is as fol lows: Saturday afternoon S. J. Townsend living on Col. C. L. Redman’s farm sent in the first cotton bloom seen here this year. Bright and early Monday morn ing Mr. G. W. Allen of Jackson reported with the second blos som. Monday morning’s mail from Flovilla brought in two blooms from King Cotton, one being reported by Dr. A. F. White and the other by Mr. E. E. Parnell, of Flovilla route 1. LIBERTY CHURCH WILL BE HOST To Meeting of The KimbeH Association DATE JULY 10 TO 11TH ■ 0 Good Program Prepared For General Meeting of The Kimbell Association —Big Attendance Expedted July 10 and 11 are the dates for the general meeting of the Kimbell Association, which will be held with Liberty church. An attractive program has been ar ranged for the two days, as fol lows: Friday, July 10 MORNING SESSION 10 a. m. Devotional hour led by R. E. Evans. 10:30 Election of officers. 11 Sermon. AFTERNOON SESSION Ip. m. What is a Missionary Baptist Church, John Etheridge. 1:30 General discussion. 2 Using God’s money for God, Rev. T. H. Vaughn. 2:30 General discussion. 3:00 Missions in the Kimbell Association. Adjournment. SATURDAY MORNING 10 a. m. Devotional hour, Ol iver Duke. 10-30 Sunday Schools in the Country Churches, how to Im prove them, C. L. Carter. 11 General discussion. 11:30 Sermon, R. VanDeven ter 1 p m. Sunday Schools and Missions, F. S. Etheridge. 1-30 General discussion. 2* Sunday School Problems, R. VanDeventer. 2:30 Sunday School Litera ture, Z. E. Barron. 3 The Primary Department in Sunday School Work. Adjournment. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 19. 1914. CITY SEWERAGE NOW COMPLETED Residences Being Connec ted up Now WHOLE CITY HAS SERVICE Engineer Formally Accepts Sewerage For The City —Contractors Finish The Work in Short Time Jackson’s system of sanitary sewerage has been completed and accepted by the city. The engi neer representing the city has formally accepted the work, af ter thoroughly testing the various lines, and the city will check up the work within the next few days and make settlement with the contractors. The contractors, Sullivan, Long & Haggerty, of Bessemer, Ala., have been favored by good weath er and were able to complete the work in a short time. They are now at work in another place, the machinery and crew having been moved several days ago. Residences are now being con nected up with the several lines. A large number of the people of the city have had sewerage in stalled in their homes and many fixtures are in course of installa tion at the present time. Sewerage has been put in reach of practically every resident of the city, Some new lines were run and extensions made in ad dition to the regular contract. It is Jackson’s boast that she now has one of the most modern and complete sewerage systems of any city the size in the state. This improvement will mean a great deal to Jackson in a number of ways and provides better san itary conditions than the city has ever had before. INDIAN SPRINGS HAVING SATISFACTORY SEASON Indian Springs, Ga., June 16— Although the season at; Indian Springs does not usually begin until about the middle of June, the record for early crowds have been broken this season. The Wigwam hotel has only been open two weeks and already the crowds have been phenominal, and on Saturday, June 7th, when this hotel had its opening ball this was attended by not only the guests but by people from neigh boring places, such as Jackson, Monticello, Barnesville, Griffin and Forsyth. The past Saturday and Sunday many autos were seen here and the place arranged for parking them between the Wigwam and the spring looked like a parking place for an auto race, so many long and high priced and beauti ful cars were there. Many prominent politicians were here on Wednesday and Thursday at the meeting of the County Officers and the lobby of the Wigwam looked like the Kim ball House does on an election or legislative day. Many reservations have been received and this season bids fair to be the best in years. FARMER JIM PRICE NOT DISCOURAGED BY DROUTH Atlanta, Ga., June 16.—State Commissioner of Agriculture J. D. Price, while not at all Dessi mistic about the rain situation, has given out some interesting advice to Georgia farmers about overcoming drouth conditions. His advice is characteristically to the point: "Stick to your guns. Don’t give up, but keep plugging away all the time. We have had some fine local thunder showers in many parts of the state. Soon I hope we will have soaking rains. Cotton and corn crops are hump ing along. The farmers are go ing to retrieve all or much of the ground lost by dry weather by keeping steadily at it, and by stirring up the ground incessant ly. Georgia is all right. ” Mr. Price is so busy watching crop conditions that he has not had much time to pay to his race to succeed himself as commis sioner of agriculture, but the far mers tell him they are going to attend to that detail for him. COMMUTE WILL ADOPT RULES To Govern Congressional Nomination MEET NEXTWEDNESDAY Chairman Howard Calls The Sixth Di&ricft Com mittee to Meet in Macon June 23 to Fix Rules Chairman W. M. Howard, of Barnesville, of the Sixth District Congressional committee has is sued a call for a meeting of the committee in Macon on June 23. At that time the rules govern ing the congressional primary of August 19 will be fixed and other business transacted. It is probable the plurality vote plan will be adopted again, as that was the rule two years ago. It may be that the county unit plan will prevail this year, however. So far Hon. J. W. Wise, of Fayetteville, is the only announ ced candidate for congress. It is not known at this time if Con gressman Bartlett will again be a candidate to succeed himself. Up to the present he has not inti mated what he intends t© do, so far as known here. Two years ago Walter Wise made a great race for congress and narrowly missed being nom inated. There is a feeling prev alent this year that Mr. Wise will be nominated handily in August. Several people from Butts county will go down to Macon for the committee meeting next Wednesday. Butts county members of the committee are Messrs. T. P. Bell and W. B. Dozier. CAMP MEETING AUGUST 6 TO 16 Fine Leaders Secured For The Meeting IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED The 1914 Session of Holi ness Gamp Meeting to Be One Yet Held By The Association Although the date of the In dian Springs Holiness camp meet ing is nearly two months off at tention is beginning to be turn ed to that occasion. This year the meeting will be held from August 6 to 16. Dr, E. E. Walker and Rev. C. M. Dunaway will be the leading ministers for the 1914 session. As usual they will be asssisted by a number of evangelists of note, and the array of talent for the coming session will be one of the strongest ever announced for this camp meeting. Mr. Duna way is a Georgian but this will be Dr. Walker’s first visit to the camp ground, though the trus tees having been working for several years to secure his servi ces. His reputation is country wide. Charlie Tillman of Atlanta will have charge of the music. This announcement means much for the success of the ten days meet ing. Mr. Tillman will have un der his direction a choir of from two to four hundred voices and the excellent singing is certain to please a large number. At the last meeting the trus tees decided to have a "Butts County Day,” the date of which will be given out later. This is to show the appreciation felt in the efforts of the people of Butts county to make the camp meet ing a success. A number of improvements are to be made to the grounds and some new cottages built. Splendid roads for automobil ists, cheap fares on all the rail roads, strong preachers and up lifting music are among the worth while features that prom ise to make the 1914 session of the Indian Springs Holiness camp meeting the greatest in the history of the association. DISTRICT CONFERENCE MET IN CULLODEN TUESDAY Several from here attended the District Conference, which met in Culloden Tuesday night and continued through Thursday ev ening. Rev. A. E. Sansburn of the Jackson Methodist church preached the opening sermon. The delegates from Jackson included: Messrs. S. M. Pope, Hugh Mallet, B. T McMichael, J. B. Settle, C. M. Kimbell, Joel Mallet; alternates, Messrs. W. i H. Boring, Smith Settle. NUMBER 25.