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Bims COUNTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered a necond-class matter, Novem
ber 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are'velcomtd. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to 300 words, as communications
ever that length cannot be handled.
W rite on one side of the paper only,
sign your name, not for publication,
but as an evidence of good faith.
Vote early.
The 19 is the big day.
Vote your convictions.
May the best men win.
At rest—the legislature.
Watch Judge Harris win.
Crow will be on the menu after
the nineteenth.
The war has side tracked poli
tics, more or less.
Several of the candidates seem
to be running a scared race.
Vote in your own district—the
only place you can vote at all.
The people of Butts county are
doing better farming today than
ever before and much of the
credit is due to the work of the
Demonstration Agent.
What is the matter that all
those splendid south Georgia at
torneys recommended for district
attorney are not good enough for
the powers that be? Isn’t there
a nigger in the wood pile? If
not why is a republican allowed
to remain in office?
E. L. Rainey is a candidate to
succeed himself on the Prison
Commission. He is serving out
an unexpired term and asks for
election to the full term. Rainey
is a good man and deserves the
endorsement of the people. The
Progress would be glad to have
its friends support this splendid
official in the coming primary.
President Woodrow Wilson has
the sincere sympathy of the na
tion and of the whole world in
the death of Mrs. Wilson, which
occurred last week in the White
House. The President has had
more than his share of trouble
since being in office, but in the
midst of it all he has the confi
dence and support of the people.
The Farmers’ Interest Bill.
From the Farm and Homestead.
In 1910 the farmers of Georgia
were paying interest upon nearly
eleven million dollars borrowed
upon farm lands.
The census report covers the
mortgage indebtedness on farms
cultivated by owners, mind you.
It says nothing of the mortgage
indebtedness on the farms of
absentee landlords.
The farmers’ interest bill on
land loans in Georgia is around a
million dollars a year. In the
entire United States the farmers’
yearly interest bill is some six
hundred and ten million dollars.
No Cause For Pessimism.
Humanity may be staggered by the horrors of Europe’s war,
but civilization will not be destroyed. Millions of men and billions
of treasure may be lost in this devilish work; thrones may totter,
and new maps of Europe may be necessary before the end is reach
ed; but mankind will, on the wreck of these ruins, build a better
civilization—one in which the people, and not a few unscrupulous
men who feel that they have been Divinely appointed, will rule.
As the people of this country view the horrors of the European
situation they may as well take courage and thank God that they
live in a land free from such conditions as those prevailing in Eu
rope. While moved by profound sorrow for the awful tragedy that
is being enacted, and sympathizing with the suffering on the bat
tlefield and the greater suffering of broken hearts in homes made
desolate by war’s destruction, we yet have a right to lift up our
hearts in thanksgiving for the blessings of this country in material
things and in the freedom from the conditions prevailing in
Europe.
In the light of the contrast between blessings which the peo
ple of the United States are now enjoying, with the magnificent
crops of the year and all other privileges vouchsafed to us, how
small and petty seem our thoughts when we mourn because busi
ness is not quite so good as it might be and because our chances
of making money are for the moment not quite so abundant as in
times past.
Let the people of this country put behind them such pessimism
and such narrowness, and in a spirit of enthusiastic optimism carry
forward the work of the day, without hesitating or halting, and
then there will be business enough and room enough for all when
the temporary disadvantages of the present situation have passed
away.—Manufacturers Record.
INSURANCE IN GEORGIA.
From the Home and Farmstead.
The reserve or present cash
value of all policies on the lives
of Georgia people now amount to
something like sixty million dol
lars.
The total life insurance pre
miums collected in Georgia in
1912 amounted to $10,520,000.
The death losses paid during
the year were $3,618,000.
Dividends, surrender values
and other payments not reported
to the comptrolle-general amoun
ted to $2,315,000 or more.
For the privilege of doing a ten
million dollars life insurance bus
iness in Georgia the companies
paid taxes and fees to State and
municipalities amountingto $130,-
000.
Commissions, medical fees, of
fice rents and office fixtures en
tailed upon the companies a fur
ther expense of $1,700,000.
The life insurance companies
have $72,000,000 invested in
Georgia. These investments con
sist in real estate, real estate
loans, bonds and other high grade
securities.
Interest on these investments
call for three and a half million
dollars more.
Only New York, Chicago and
Philadelphia outrank Atlanta as
an insurance center. The insur
ance business in Georgia is a
whale.
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. Send for testimonials from this
and other states. Dr. E. \V. Hall, 2926
Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Sold by
druggists.
Vote for L. M. Park for
State Treasurer, adv.
Case goods at cost. Taylor.
Rooms For Rent.
Two nice rooms, furnished or
unfurnished, suitable for light
housekeeping. Apply to S. M.
Pope, at Star Store. 7-31-3 t.
Only One “BROMO QUININE"
To get the genuine, cell for full uffie. LAXA
TIVE BROMO QUININE. Lookfortignatare of
B.W. GROVE. Cure* • Cold In One Day. Stop*
cough and be ad * els t, and work* oft cold. 25c,
OFFICIAL BALLOT
FOR BUTTS COUNTY
White Democratic State
Primary, August 19, 1914
(Voter should erase names of all candi
dates for whom he does not
desi re to vote.)
For Governor.
(Vote for one.)
J. Randolph Anderson
L. G. Hardman
N. E. Harris
For United States Senator
(.Long term.)
(Term beginning March 4, 1915.)
(Vote for one.)
Joseph M. Brown
Hoke Smith
For United States iSenator
(Short term.)
{Unexpired term of A. O. Bacon.)
(Vote for one.)
John R. Cooper
Thos. S. Felder
Thomas W. Hardwick
G. R. Hutchens
John M. Slaton
For Secretary of* State.
Philip Cook
For Comptroller-General.
(Vote for one.)
G. M. Roberts
Wm. A. Wright
For Attorney-General
(Vote for one.)
Warren Grice
Gilford Walker
For State Treasurer.
(Vote for one.)
Lem M. Park
W. J. Speer
For state Superintendent of Schools.
(Vote for one.)
H. S. Bowden
M. L. Brittain
For Pension Commissioner.
John W. Lindsey
For Prison Commissioner.
(Vote for one.)
W. J. Flanders
E. L. Rainey
G. B. Tippins
For Commissioner of Agriculture.
(Vote for one.)
J. J. Brown
J. D. Price
For Commissioner of Commerce and
Labor
H. M. Stanley
For Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court for Full Terms.
(Vote for two.)
Beverly L). Evans
Hiram Warner Hill
Por Judge Court of Appeals, Full Term
Richard B. Russell
For Judge Court of Appeals, Unexpired
Term of B. H. Hill.
(Vote for one.)
Nash R. Broyles
Alex. Stephens
William H. Terrell
Forjudge Court of Appeals, Unexpired ■
Term of J. R. Pottle.
Pevton L. Wade
KEEP
KOOL
These hot days by refresh
ing yourself at Slaton’s foun
tain, where the of every
thing to drink is served.
Sparkling, invigorating, ex
hilarating, refreshing cold
drinks served by those who
know how to mix them.
Kerinett’s
lee 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.
"he Store
Undertakers and Embalmers
Oldest and Most Efficient
Undertakers in this Section
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
For Railroad Commissioner.
(Vote for one.)
S. G. McLendon
Paul Trammell
For Representative in the 64th Con
gress from the 6th District of Georgia.
J. W. Wise
For Judge Superior Court Flint Circuit.
R. T. Daniel
For State Senator 26th District.
(Vote for one.)
H. M. Fletcher
J. H. Mills
For Representative.
(Vote for one.)
R. W. Mays
C. A. Towles
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
ont Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. SO cents.
Visit Taylor’s removal sale.
There is more Catarrh in this section or
the country than all other diseases putt
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be Incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced It a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced It incurable. Sci
en"e Ims proven Catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Cos.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only Constitu
tional cure on the market. It is taken in
ternal!'.' in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the bloodi
snd mucous surfaces of the system. They
o”fer one hundred dollars for any case it
f ~"s to cure. Send for circulars and tes
timonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
P-id by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation..
FOR SALE.
Two houses and lots on North’
Mulberry street that I will sell
under first cost. Apply to H. M..
Vaughn, Sr., Jackson, Ga.,
Route 4. 7-24-4 t
Vote for L. M. Park for
State Treasurer, adv.