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sign your name, not for publication,
but as an evidence of good faith.
They are mighty stingy with
their old war news.
Tippins of near beer fame got
left, as did dead-beat Bowden.
School days will now call the
boy from that ol’ swimmin’ hole.
In the general scuffle Joe Hill
Hall was downed for the legis
lature in Bibb.
With nothing to hinder now
let everybody get busy and pull
for that county fair.
If some people found out that
they could eat cotton they would
stop planting it, perhaps.
Forget all about politics, cut
out bickering and strife and all
together for the good of the com
munity and the State.
The shouting and the tumult
of the late campaign has died
and the people are busy at some
thing useful. Which ie well.
Begin right now to plan more
food crops than ever before. The
cotton acreage must be pruned.
The war has dethroned King
Cotton.
Why not join the Oat Club that
has recently been organized here?
It is from such organizations as
this that better agricultural con
ditions must result.
In the recent unpleasantness
all the old Georgia congressmen
who sought re-election won out
easily. Mr. Wise is the new mem
ber of the delegation.
Haven’t we in this country a
poor, wornout tenant system?
The all-cotton fallacy will never
be corrected until the present
tenant system is improved on.
It is a hopeful sign that the
people of Butts county are taking
up the live stock business serious
ly. The movement should be
given every encouragement pos
sible.
There will be some lively do
ings at the Macon convention.
The issue is nothing less than a
United States senatorship and
all the politicians, near and real,
will be on hand.
W. H. Key was elected to the
lower house in Jasper county, a
main plank in his platform being
to make the middle of th e OcmQl
gee river the boundary line be
tween Butts and Jasper counties.
It would be highly pleasing to
his friends to see Judge Fletcher
elected president of the Georgia
state senate. He will be one of
the really strong men in the up
per house of the next general
assembly.
Don’t get excited over the bus
iness outlook. In the first place
it dosen’t pay. In the second
place the present administration
is in sympathy with the South
and congress will, if it can, do
something to help the cotton
growers,
Jackson needs a modern, en
terprising board of health. Far
too little attention is given to
sanitation in Jackson, as well as
other towns in the state. Money
spent in keeping the town clean is
the wisest investment of the tax
payer’s money that can be made.
The utter folly of the all-cotonn
policy was never more forcibly
brought home to the people of
Georgia than in the present cri
sis. Isn’t something the matter
with the ordinary man’s think
tank when it takes wars and boll
weevils to make him plant food
crops? If not what’s the answer?
GENERAL PRESENTMENTS
FOR AUGUST TERM 1914
To Hon. R. T. Daniel, Judge Bupe
rior Court Butts County.
We the Grand Jury drawn and sworn
for the August term of Butts Superior
Court beg to submit the following pre
sentments:
We have through our various com
mittees as well as our limited time
would permit made a casual examina
tion of the books and other records of
our county officers, and we find them in
the main neatly and correctly kept,
and in accordance and requirements of
the law.
The Clerk of Court, Sheriff' and Or
dinary each certify that no funds have
passed through their hands since the
February term of court.
We recommend that our County
Commissioner have the road between
railway crossing and biggulley at Cork
graded up and as the bridge across said
gulley is in dangerous condition, we
recommend that a good bridge or cul
vert be put in said gulley. We also
recommend that the bridge near Mrs-
W. J. Gunnells be replaced with a cul
vert or bridge.
We recommend that a bridge be built
across the creek known as the Douglass
creek on road leading from Flovilla to
Carnes Ferry.
We recommend that the proper au
thorities stop the reckless running of
automobiles and other vehicles on our
public roads.
We have through committee exam
ined the dockets of J. P. & N. P. Ex.
Off. J. P. of the various malitia dis
tricts and approve the following: W.
J. Bankston, W. VV. Leverett, T. P.
Bell, J. S. Johnson. We find that A.
C. Millen failed to itemize his cost.
The following officers have failed to
present their dockets for examination
as required by law:—J. A. McMichael,
W. M. Bledsoe, W. M. Andrews, G.
W. White, Chas. A. Smith.
We have through committee inspect
ed the County Farm and find on the
same 8 acres in cotton, 35 acres in corn,
2 acres in potatoes, 2 acres in cane, 15
acres in hay, 150 bushels oats, 500
bundles fodder, 25 bushels corn, 2
mules value $300.00, 3 cows and two
calves valuesl2s.oo6shoats value $30.00
1 wagon, 1 cuttaway harrow, 1 mower
and rake, and all farm implements
needed, 500 pounds oat straw baled.
We find convicts have been furnished
$150.00 worth of vegetables and feed
stuff’ from tile farm. We find some re
pair work needed. Paupers on the
farm, 3 male and 2 female.
We find through committee that the
Tax Receivers digest shows a gain of
$262,558.00. We find the returns made
by the colored tax payers $23,980.00
less than the returns of last year. We
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TAKE DODSON’S AND
STAY ON YOUR FEET
Taking Calomel means staying
home for the day—take Dodson’s
Liver Tone and save a day’s work.
If an attack of constipation or
biliousness hits you, there’s no
need to take a dose of calomel
and spend at least a day getting
over the effects of it. Slaton
Drug Cos. sell Dodson’s Liver
Tone, which they guarantee takes
the place of calomel and starts a
lazy liver without bad after-ef
fects.
Dodson’s Liver Tone does all
the good that calomel can do, yet
it is absolutely harmless to young
people and old. It is a pleasant
tasting vegetable liquid that will
relieve constipation or sour stom
ach or other troubles that go with
a lazy liver, without restriction
of habit or diet. You don’t leave
off any of the things you regu
larly do when you take Liver Tone
A large bottle of Dodson’s Liv
er Tone sells for 50 cents. Get
the genuine and if you are not
pleased with it the druggist from
whom you bought it will give
your money back with a smile, ad
recommend that the Tax Collector use
every effort to collect the taxes from
all those who have failed to make their
returns.
Tax Collector’s books show as fol
lows:
Total collected for the year
1913 for the State, County
and Schools $48,043.11
Balance due by the Central
Ga. Power Cos. for 1913. . 5,358.57
53,401.68
Disbursements for 1913.
Paid to State $11,620.90
Paid to County 32,922.06
Paid to Schools 1,782.60
Tax col. commission 1,101.91
Tax rec. commission 615.64
Total 48,043.11
Bal. due when col
lected 5,358.57 53,411.68
Tax Collector total amount of special
taxes collected $940.00
County Treasurer’s report hereto at
tached as follows:
Statement of C. N. May field Treasur
er of Butts county, from Feb. 16th,
1914, to Aug. 18th, 1914, respectfully
submitted to the Grand Jury at Au
gust term of the Superior Court.
By balance on hand Feb. 16th..$ 3.02
By amount recceived from C. S.
Bryant, T. C 269.06
Disbursements.
Paid out on Road fund_s 26.98
Jail fund 27.28
Contingent fund 71.11
Superior Court fund 143.40
Pauper fund. 1.93
Total Disbursements...s27o.ls
By balance on hand
Aug. 18th 1.93
272.08 272.08
Personally appeared before me the un
dersigned, an officer authorized to ad
minister oaths, C. N. Mayfield, Treas
urer of Butts county, who on oath says
the above is a true and correct state
ment of the funds received and dis
bursed by him from Feb. 6th, 1914, to
Aug. 18th, 1914.
C. N. Mayfield, Treas Butts Cos.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this August 18th, 1914.
J. B. Carmichael,,
Notary Public Butts County, Georgia.
We have through committee exam
ined the county buildings. We find
the court house in good condition*, We
recommend that the cells in the jail be
re-painted, also that windows of jail be
screened so that articles could not be
passed through them to prisoners. As
the old wire fence around the yard has
given out we recommend that same be
replaced with new wire.
We recommend Judge H. M. Fletch
er, Senator-elect, for president of the
Senate of the next Georgia Legislature.
We recommend the pay of jurors and
bailiffs be paid the same as the year
1913.
We extend thanks to Judge R. T.
Daniel for his able and fearless charge
and for his untiring efforts in the en
forcement of our laws. We also extend
thanks to Solicitor E. M. Owen for his
efforts to enforce the laws, also for his
assistance, courtesies and kindnesses
j shown this body’.
We extend thanks to our faithful
bailiff”, M. L. Duke, for his services,
i We commend our janitor, Henry
Thomas for his faithful services.
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We recommend that these present
ments be published in each of our
county papers, and that each be paid
SIO.OO.
I. H. Maddox, Foreman,
T. B. McMichael, Clerk.
August 22nd 1914.
Ordered that the foregoing general
presentments be entered on the min
utes of this court and that they be pub
lisher! as therein recommended.
Robt. T. Daniel,
Judge Superior Court Flint Circuit.
Aug. 22nd, 1914.
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Good Farm For Sale
135 acres farm land in Monroe
county near Forsyth, 75 acres in
cultivation, 10 acres fine branch
bottom, balance in pasture and„
woods, close to school and church, i
5 room house, 1 tenant house,
good barn and outhouse, telephone
and gasoline lights in house. Good
white community. Rural route.
$3,500.00 for this farm.
R. M. Worsham
Forsyth, Ga., Rt 5 8-21
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