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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 32.
FIELD MEET ON
AUGUST SEVENTH
Several Speakers Will Be
in Attendance
PICNIC WILL BE FEATURE
Members of Boys Corn
Club And Girls Canning
Club Requested to Be
Present on That Day
The field meet which will be
held at Mallet Springs on August
7 under direction of the State
College of Agriculture and the
Farmers Demonstration depart
ment is beginning to attract con
siderable interest and discussion.
Several well known agricultur
al experts will be present and the
occasion promises to be one of
much interest for the people of
the entire county. Dr. Wm.
Bradford, head of the Boys Corn
Club work in Georgia, will be one
of the speakers. Prof. G. W.
Firor, of the State College of
Agriculture, Athens, and others
will also make addresses.
Features of interest for the day
will be the dipping demonstration
for the eradication of the cattle
tick. There will also be an inoc
ulation of hogs for the prevention
of hog cholera.
A basket picnic will be enjoyed
at the noon hour. Those inter
ested in the work are invited to
attend and bring well filled bas
kets.
The committee on arrange
ments consists of Messrs. G. E.
Mallet, S. K. Smith and S. H.
Mays.
All members of the Butts Coun
ty Boys Corn club and the mem
bers of the Girls Canning club
are urged to be present on that
day, as there will be talks that
will appeal to them specially.
The State College of Agricul
ture has announced a number of
dates for Farmers Institutes dur
ing the next few weeks. The
meet to be held at Mallet Springs
promises to be one of the most
successful and largely attended
in the entire state.
NEW CUSTOMERS FOR
THE CITY’S CURRENT
That the number of consumers
of electrical current is constantly
increasing in Jackson is proved
by the fact that Mr. H. F. Gil
more has just installed a 25 horse
power motor at his shop. The
current was turned on several
days ago and the new equipment
is working nicely and giving en
tire satisfaction, it is stated.
Since Jackson first signed up
with the Central Georgia Power
Company for current two or three
years ago a large number of cus
tomers have been secured. Now
nearly all the shops, gins, factor
ies and other industries are using
this power. “Do it electrically”
has a wide significance among
Jackson’s industrial enterprises,
and it is safe to bet that no city
of the size in the whole country
uses more electric power than
Jackson.
TOM HARDWICK WILL
SPEAK HERE FRIDAY
Announcement is made that
Congressman T. W. Hardwick,
candidate for United States sen
ator to succeed the late A. 0.
Bacon, will deliver an address in
the court house here Friday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock. Mr. Hard
wick is an entertaining speaker,
a rattling good debater and one
of the best all round campaigners
in the state, and there will
doubtless be a large number of
voters out to hear him.
Butts is regarded as a battle
ground for the short term sena
torship. Governor Slaton,
Tom Felder and Mr. Hard
wick will all get a good vote in
the county and at this stage of
the game it is impossible to pre
dict who will get a majority of
the votes cast.
New Pump Now Doing
Duty For The City.
The new pump authorized some
time ago by Council has been re
ceived and installed. It is doing
good work, and with its capacity
of 700 gallons per minute will
keep the city’s water supply up
to the required standard.
The new gravity filter has been
shipped from the factory and will
be received and put in within the
next few days.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914.
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The ABC Class In Town
Booming Will Now Get Busy
Question. What can we do to enjoy better roads ?
Answer. Spend our money here instead of help
ing the mail order magnates to ride in ease.
Q. How can we increase the value of our property ?
A. Create a real estate boom by putting this town
on the map as the busiest little place in the state.
Q. How can we improve our school facilities?
A. Set anew population mark and boost for it.
Q. What can we each do for the town’s welfare ?
A. Personally unite with others in a campaign of
publicity.
That Will Be All For Today
LEGISLATURE IS
WORKING HARD
Important Measures Being
Put Through
FREAK BILLS ARE RARE
Nearly Half of Session Is
Leg
islation Marks The 1914
Session of Lawmakers
Atlanta, Ga., July 16. —The
last session of the legislature un
der Governor Slaton is now near
ly half over and has been marked
by an unusual application to work
and a marked tendency to attend
strickly to the business of the
state. There has been very few
“freak” bills. The assembly has
decided to let the women dress
as they please, and the expected
measures against tight skirts
and high heels died before they
were born. The legislature has
kept its hands off trivial offences
of the world and apparently made
up its mind that things are rock
ing along pretty well as they are.
The womans suffrage move
ment received a death blow when
the house committee on amend
ments voted to report adversely
MORE CONTRIBUTIONS TO
COUNTY FAIR COME IN
The committee on finance of
the Butts County Fair reports
progress in its work. During the
last few days the following con
tributions have been received:
Previously reported sll2 50
J M Benson 1 pig 5 00
C H Farrar 2 50
T J Harris 50
HC Childs.. 100
J M Bankston 1 00
J J McKibben 50
D B Duke 50
J R Conner 2 50
RLMcMichael 2 00
W F Burford 100
N C Williamson pig 5 00
C A Pittman 10 00
G W Thornton pig 5 00
Total 149 00
on the amendment to permit
votes for women, but the session
is yet young and the earnest
workers in skirts may yet find a
way to win their point.
The legislature seems to be
standing with Governor Slaton on
the policies he inaugurated and
sponsored. This was indicated
by the early defeat of the bill to
repeal the tax equalization law,
which was adversely reported by
the committee and will hardly be
voted upon on the main floor.
The expected prohibition fight
has not yet reached an exciting
stage. There were several bills
introduced looking to changes in
the law but so far none of these
has received a vote and they may
die in the committee pigeon
holes.
COUNTRY SCRIBES
HAVE MEETING
Annual Session Convenes
in Commerce
MANY MEMBERS PRESENT
Delightful Hospitality Be
ing Accorded Visitors
By People of Commerce
—Outing to Tallulah Falls
Atlanta, Ga., July 16.—City
newspaper men, tied to their
desks by the daily grind of legis
lative news, murders and divorce
suits and pausing only for a thin
ham sandwich at the nearest
lunch stand, are wishing this
week that their guiding star had
led them into the flowery fields
of country journalism. For the
country editors, the men who
really boss their own papers and
say what they feel like when they
feel like it, are having a great
big, happy week.
The weekly editors, a host of
them, assembled in Commerce on
Monday and Tuesday, where they
surrounded many tons of Georgia
barbecue and the accompanying
fixings at Willoughby park. Then
they took an automobile ride
around Commerce and its envi
rons and that night enjoyed a
reception on the lawn of Mrs. T.
C. Hardman.
Wednesday was spent in
Athens, where the journalists
were shown everything in the
University. It wasn’t new to
most of them, for a large propor
tion of University graduates are
represented among the editors.
They were back in Commerce
Wednesday night for a great
luncheon given by citizens of the
town, when Governor Staton and
W. G. Sutlike, of the Savannah
Press, were the principal speak
ers. On Thursday they left for
Mountain City and Clayton on an
outing trip.
The weekly editors of Georgia,
as one of the speakers remarked,
are the real power of the state.
They wield an influence in local
affairs not enjoyed by the city
dailies, which are confining them
selves more and more to news
rather than expression of opinion.
The editorial pages of the coun
try weeklies reach the hearts of
the people and collectively the
rural and small town papers at
once guide and reflect the poli
tics of the whole state.
The meeting this year was
perhaps the largest on record,
more than 200 members having
registered at Commerce.
New Residence to be
Eredted On Oak Street
Mr. W. H. Merritt, who recent
ly purchased the Wright place on
Oak street, will have a nice sev
en room house erected on the va
cant lot of this property.
The contract was let to the
Butts Lumber Company of this
city and work on the structure
will be started in the near future.
NUMBER 29.