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BUIIS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year.
Entered as Mecond-clans matter, Novem
**r 8,li(07, at the pontoftioe at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications arp welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to 300 words, as communications
over 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
Get behind the fair.
What has become of the old
fashioned spell-binder?
Well the candidates have two
months of fun ahead of them yet.
The Griffin News has been
changed from a morning to an
evening paper.
Judge Harris is not making a
noisy race but he is gaining on
his opponents every day.
Judge Hart says Georgia will
get out of debt this year. Here’s
hoping he is right about it.
With the legislature in session
and the candidates on their trail
the public will not have much
rest for the next fifty days.
Jackson with her modern sys
tem of sanitary sewerage is in
the forefront of Georgia’s pro
gressive cities. Now for some
new industries and bigger pay
rolls.
It is probably better after all
that Solicitor Dorsey did not run
this year. He is doing a fine
work where he is, and besides he
is young and has plenty of time
to offer for political honors.
A tenant near this place thresh
ed his oacs, and figured on the
results, and found that he made
$9 clear every day while planting
and harvesting his crop. And
that man worked on the halves,
and got only half what he made.
Don’t that beat cotton?—Com
merce News.
It is more commendable in John
M. Slaton to buy and pay for
space in the newspapers than it
is for Bunk Cooper to try to ride
free. And yet Cooper cries out
that Slaton has subsidized the
press. The Honorable John Ran
dolph Cooper will not carry ten
militia districts in the state and
he knows it, and he is running
for no other purpose than to ad
vertise his law business.
Aint it awful, Mabel, when a
mercantile establishment, located
right in your home town, sends
you a bill, itemized on a sheet
printed in St. Louis, and mailed
in a government envelope? How
is a printer going to live under
such conditions as this, and again,
how' can he pay that bill? We
can’t imagine anything worse
than owing a bill, and then be
ing reminded of it on St Louis
stationery in a government en
velope. Ish ga bibble, and quit
buying from that guy. —Tifton
Gazette.
Such is life. The merchant who
buys his stationery and printing
out of town, however, will be the
one to yell quickest and loudest
when he discovers that some
thing he sells has been bought
from foreign mail order houses.
—Dalton Citizen.
DEAD IN THE FURROW.
May we drop an inky tear of
appreciation over the death of J.
C. Bass, 75-year-old Confederate
veteran, who dropped dead in the
field while following a plow?
In the prime of manhood he
went out to fight. He was typi
cal of thousands of the rank and
file of the Confederacy. He fought
from First Manassas to Appomat
tox. He knew Fredericksburg,
and Chancellorsville, and the two
Cold Harbors, and Gettysburg
and the Wilderness.
Behind him he had a series of
human moving pictures, drawn in
blood, and fire, and sweat and
starvation, all of them mixed with
heroism that no one of the light
infantry of Alexander even,
could emulate.
He dropped at his plow, a pal
sied old man —seventy-five years
old!
The man who had thought
nothing of charging a breastwork
against masked artillery after
wards accepted the task of till
ing a field in the same spirit of
duty.
Death missed him on the bat
tlefield, only to leave him to die
an even greater hero, as it found
him at the last, doing his duty,
with a mule in front of him and
the plow-handles between the
hands that had gripped the car
bine and the sabre.
It seems to us that some of our
correspondents who have been
writing ethically and argumen
tatively about the war between
the sections and what came out
of it, and might have come
out of it, have failed to notice
characters such as Veteran Bass,
seventy-five years old, dead in
honest labor midway a straight
furrow! —Columbia (S. C.) State.
A TEXAS WONDER.
The Texas Wonder cures kidney and
bladder troubles, dissolves gravel,
cures diabetes, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism, and all irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder in both men and
women. Regulates bladder troubles in
children. If not sold by your druggist
will be sent by mail on receipt of SI.OO
One small bottle is two months’ treat
ment, and seldom ever fails to perfect a
cure. Bend for testimonials from this
and other states. Dr. E. W. Hall, 2926
Olive Street, Bt. Louis, Mo. Sold by
druggists.
COPY OF OLD PAPER
PUBLISHED IN AUGUSTA
Atlanta, Ga., June2s. Alonzo
Iler, a well known South Caroli
nian, was in Atlanta this week
with the first copy of the oldest
newspaper of which there is any
record ever published in Georgia.
It was printed in Augusta Satur
day May 5, 1838, and is conse
quently nearly 100 years old.
It is called the “Augusta Mir
ror,” and was published by W.
T. Thompson and James McCaf
ferty at 261 Broad street. Its ob
ject, according to the quaint
wording of the editors, was “po
lite literature and useful intelli
gence.”
In addition they promised to
publish each week for their read
ers “the latest popular piece of
music, arranged for the Piano
forte and Guitar.”
The leading article in this issue
was a portion of the now famous
“Georgia Scenes.” The paper
contained much poetry, but no
advertisements, which leads the
modern reader to wonder how
the editor managed to pay his
bills.
Only One “BROMO QUININE”
To ret the genuine, cell for full name, LAXA
TIVE BROMO QCININE. Look for signature of
E.W. GROVE. Curea a Cold In One Day. Stop*
cough and headache, and work* off cold. 2Sc.
State Politics
Hoke Smith and “Jack” Slaton
Here is the Pike County Jour
nal’s idea about it:
With Hoke Smith and Jack
Slaton in the senate we ask,
what will be the matter with
Georgia? Answer nothing, as
she will not be suffering for the
lack of able senators.
“Jack” Slaton’s Fine Record.
The Columbus Ledger says:
Governor Slaton has made a
fine record during his adminis
tration and he is to be congratu
lated upon his splendid success.
A Good Word for Mr. Felder.
The Thomasville Times prints
this:
We have never found anything
unworthy in the record of Thom
as S. Felder, nor do we expect to.
He is a clean and an honorable
gentleman, and as such deserves
consideration.
For Candidates.
Statesboro News: What the
people want to know of the men
who expect to represent them in
the Georgia legislature is how far
are we going to go in making ap
propriations for state institutions
and levying discriminating taxes
in order to meet them. This is
not a time for the jelly fish states
men —the men who have no con
victions to stand by them when
they once assert themselves.
Give it a Trial.
Senoia Enterprise: Many of
the best people in the state are
openly declaring themselves in
favor of giving the tax equaliza
tion law a fair test, firmly of the
opinion that it will be the best
law passed in Georgia in a long
time.
Likes His Platform.
Hawkinsville Dispatch and
News: “The South Georgia can
didate is in favor of biennial ses
sions of the Legislature and a
four year term for governor.
Good for Jefferson Randolph An
derson. ’ ’ —Darien Gazette. These
are two much needed reforms
and should win for Mr. Anderson
lots of votes.
Independent Press.
The Macon News: The news
papers of Georgia are not subsi
dized. If there is a free, un
trammelled and independent
press anywhere, it is to be found
in Georgia. This is just as true
of the smaller papers as of the
larger dailies. It is true that
Gov. Slaton has spent a lot of
money with the country newspa
pers—we are sorry he did not
spend more with them—but is a
reflection on the Governor, as
well as on the newspapers, to say
that he has subsidized them.
Slaton vs Hardwick.
Ocilla Star: “It seems that
the race for the short term in the
Senate is narrowing down to a
contest between Slaton and Hard
wick. We should be glad to see
all the rest get out of the way
and let us have a real old fash
ioned contest between these
two.”
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.
KEEP
KOOL
These hot days by refresh
ing yourself at Slaton’s foun
tain, where the besft of every
thing to drink is served.
Sparkling, invigorating, ex
hilarating, refreshing cold
drinks served by those who
know how to mix them.
Kennett’s
Ice Cream
The problem of entertaining
will be solved if you will give
your orders to Slaton for Ice
Cream. Phone orders promp
ly filled.
SLATON DRUG CO.
The *R&XaJ2JL Store
Undertakers and Embalmers
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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
Lo& or Stolen
From my home on Oak street
Elgin solid gold case watch, closed
face. Reward if returned to W.
B. Reeves, Jackson, Ga. 6-25-lt
Rheumatic pains are relieved t>y
£>r. Miles - Anti-Pain Pills. Sold at all
drug stores. [Advertisement.]
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.
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