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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1914)
MR. I. B. CARMICHAEL PASSED AWAY TUESDAY Prominent CitizenjStricken Suddenly With Fatal Illness The death of Mr. Bailey Car michael, one of Butts county’s most substantial and highly re spected citizens, occured at his home Tuesday night at 6 o’clock. He was stricken suddenly and passed away before anything could be done for him. Though he had not been well for some time the end came without warn ing and was a shock to the fami ly and a large circle of friends. Mr. Carmichael was 74 years old, a Confederate veteran and a well known citizen who was held in the highest esteen by all who knew him. He was a mem ber of a well known family of the county and had spent the greater part of his life in Butts county. He is survived bv his wife, who was Miss Patrick before her marriage; four daughters, Mrs. Charlie Fletcher, Mrs. S. J. Bai ley, Mrs. Peake and Miss Mary Joe Carmichael; four sons, Messrs Glenn, Tom and Lee Car michael and Rev. Walter Carmi chael, of Byron; one brother. Mr. J. A. Carmichael, of Pike county; a sister, Mrs. R. B. Harkness, and other relatives. The funeral was held at Fel lowship church, of which he was a member. Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Rev. James Bradley of the Jackson Presby terian church conducted the ser vices. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove’s The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. CLUBBING OFFERS Below we call attention to some of our clubbing offers. We can save you money on any paper published. Clubbing rates are arranged for the convenience of our subscribers and the papers are givenjjat just what they cost us. X H E P R O IWg- G R E S s and Have you paid your subscription yet? FINCHERVILLE The Sunday school at Sardis is , going on splendidly. We are glad to have our Supt., M. A. Wilson, with us again. He has been out the last two Sundays on account of sickness. Since a division was made in the school for the blue and red buttons we have enrolled 19 members. We have the very best Sunday school now that has ever been on record for Sardis church. We are glad to have a good many of the Worthville people in our school. We hope to have more of them. We have Sunday school every Sunday morning at 9:30. New members are invited to come and take part in the school. We give you a hearty welcome and a pret ty button. Sometime in June or July Rev. Z. E. Barron will teach a Bible course at the church, this is to benefit the S. S. teachers and en able them to teach their classes in a better way. Everybody is invited to the singing the fourth Sunday after noon at 2 o’clock. A number of good singers will be present. Mr. M. A. Wilson who has been sick for several weeks is very much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wilson, Donald, Willie and Hugh, of At lanta visited relatives at Fincher ville Tuesday. Mrs. S. J. Watkins and chil dren and Mrs. L. A. Maddox, of Jackson spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Thornton. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Wilson and children spent Wednesday in Jackson. tylr. and Mrs. J. 0. Maddox spent Thursday in Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Wilson spent Friday in Jackson and In dian Springs. Daily Constitution (on rural I routes) $ 3 50 1 Daily Georgain 5 00 Daily Journal 5 00 0 Semi-Weekly Journal 1 50 Tri-Weekly Constitution 1 75 Home and Farm 1 25 Southern Ruralist 1 25 Southern Cultivator 1 50 Georgian News Briefs 1 36 Thrice-a-Week World 1 65 MR. W, H. MERRITT BUTS THE J. R. WRIGHT PLACE An important real estate deal consummated a few days ago was the purchase by Mr. W. H. Mer ritt of the J. R. Wright place on Oak street. This property was owned by T. H. Wilkinson, of Jasper, Fla., who it will be re called lived here for a short time a few years ago. Mr. Merritt who recently disposed of his property on Mulberry street to Mr. T. H. Nolen will occupy his new home at once. The consid eration is said to have been around $3,500. Word-of-Mouth Advertising Passing encomiums, only over your store counter, about the quality of what you’ve got to sell, results in about as much satisfaction as yourwife would get if you gave her a box of cigars for Christmas. Advertising in This Paper talks to everybody at once and makes them talk back with money. (Ctop/rfcht. 1909. by W. N. UJ Mr. Chester Maddox spent the week end at Fincherville with relatives. Messrs. Aiken, Hodges and Sitton were up to Fincherville from the dam Saturday night. Master Stewart Lee Maddox of Valdosta is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Ike Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Thornton entertained the young people Saturday night. Mr. W, R. Kitchens spent Monday in Jackson. 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