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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 32. Co-Operation is the Need of the Hour. ONE-DAY FAIR FOR THIS YEAR Great Occasion Promised The County . DATE iS NOVEMBER 18TH Meeting Saturday Settled Many of Details —Some Additional Committees Were Appointed The date of the Butts County Agricultural Fair .has been defi nitely decided for Wednesday, November 18. This was done at a meeting of the committee chair men and officers of the Fair As sociation Saturday afternoon. The fair was cut from five days to one day. That -day will be crowded with interest and replete with worth 'while features. A program of exceptional and at tractive interest will be arranged, and a great occasion is in store for all who attend. A Georgia products dinner will be served and the people of the entire county are expected to take part. Citizens of the city and county will prepare a basket din ner consisting of home grown products. Mr. S. H.. Mays is chairman of a committee to ar range for dinner. Messrs. Mallet, Worsham and Maddox are the members of a committee to arrange premium list in accordance with the one day plan. Mr, S. K. Smith was named as chairman of a committee on Mis cellaneous Exhibits. The Domestic Science depart ment will be under the direction of Prof. W. P. Martin. Owing to the war in Europe it was thought advisable to have the fair but one day. BUICK MOTOR GO. JOINS “BUY-A-BALE” MOVEMENT Flint, Mich., Sept. 27, 1914. Kimbell & Etheridge. Jackson, Ga. Please buy from the planter for cash and draw on us to cover the purchase one ton of distress ed middling cotton at 10 cents per pound. When the cotton grower has prosperity, we have prosper ity and we are today instructing by wire each one of agents to buy for our account and hold same until further notice one ton distressed cotton for cash at 10 cents per pound; and to further assist the cotton growers of the South and protect the price of cotton we are carrying over one half million dollars cash in Geor gia Hanks, believing the general prosperity of the country entitles the cotton grower to a reasonable and fair price for his cotton We are confirming by letter. eas U nd,his telegram to your news ££ Motor CO., of Atlanta. 8:30 a. m. MASS MEETING GF FARMERS CALLED FOR NEXT SATURDAY For the purpose over the cotton situation as it actually exists today, a mass meeting of the farmers of Butts county is called for Saturday, Oct. &frx, at 10 o’clock a. m. in the court house in Jackson. All parties in terested are invited to attend. Other classes have held their meetings,, and now let the far : mers, the men who actually grow the cotton, have a meeting of their own—a meeting of farmers, by farmers, for farmers. Respectfully, J. W. Benson, S. E. Jones, , J. B. Thaxton. UNUSUAL PRIZES FOR CORN CLUB Boys With Lowest Yield To Get Prizes PROF. WORSHAM’S IDEA Foot ot Line to Be Cheered Up As Well As Big Yield Boys—Progress Gives A Five Year Subscription Brace up and smile, ye corn club boys with gloomy prospects. There is balm in Gilead. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. A perfectly good five dollar bill is going to be won by the mem ber of the Boys Corn club mak ing the lowest yield on an acre this fall. This prize is given by Farm Agent H. L. Worsham. To the boy making the second lowest yield on one acre The Progress will give a five year subscription. These prizes are given to en courage the boys who have had bad luck in one way and another. Boys who have not had the suc cess they expected this year should not discouraged. They may head the list next year. Mr. Worsham will start the boys to gathering their corn the 1 first of October. The yields and | the land will be measured within the near future and everything placed in readiness for the fair. R. F. D. Mail Being Weighed This Month For the next month all rural route mail will be weighed at the Jackson post office. This proba bly has something to do with the fixing of the carrier’s pay. It is one of the departmental orders received every now and then and entails considerable work on the post office employes. Over in Forsyth Colonel Banks Stephens, single handed and of his own free will and accord, is going to stage a county fair. Is this a cue for some of Jackson’s captains of industry to show their public spirit? JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1914. HONOR ROLL STILL GROWING Many Firms Continue to Buy Cotton LITTLE SOLD HERE SO FAR Several Thousand Bales Stored in Jackson Ware houses—Price Remains About The Same Bales of cotton in windows or in front of places of business, conspicuously placarded, tell the story of the buy-a-bale move ment. The plan continues to grow. The honor roll is longer every day. Among those in Jackson who have bought a bale at 10 cents are: Dr. Robert VanDeventer, Ham & Carter Cos., Coca Cola Bottling Cos., J. S. Johnson Cos., J. A. Kimbell&Co., for Maxwell Motor Cos., Kimbell & Etheridge for Buick Motor Cos. Large business houses in the big cities continue to make heavy purchases of cotton. This has had a wonderful effect on the market. Very little cotton is being sold in Jackson. Hundreds of bales are stored in the various ware houses. But little change is no ted in the price. After weeks of discussion the farmers of the South realize that the only solution to the cotton problem is to reduce the acreage in 1915 and the farmers of Butts county are preparing to put that plan into execution. FARM AGENT WORSHAM WRITES LETTER TO BOYS Dear Boys: The letter from our District Agent in this issue gives a full explanation of what is expected of our members from now till Nov. 18th on which date the boys and girls will meet to gether at the courthouse in Jack son and exhibit their products. The fair authorities at a meet ing Saturday decided not to con tinue the fair more than one day, under the circumstances brought about by the war. And it is to your honor and credit, boys and girls, that the premiums offered to you will still be given while those of the other departments will necessarily have to be cut down. Show how grateful and appreciative you are by doing your part, viz: carrying out the suggestions and rules laid down in Mr. Cown’s letter. Now. in addition to the prizes already published, the boy who has been so unfortunate as to be left in the rear when his corn is measured will be given a $5.00 prize as a reward for his faith fulness under adverse circum stances. The committee thought that this boy is the one who needs encouragement the most, hence the prize. It is my purpose to be with as many of you as possible during Are You Doing Your Part? MR. S. P. NICHOLS ATTENOS NATIONAL CARRIAGE MEET Mr. S. P. Nichols, the efficient and popular manager of the Em pire Buggy Company, is attend ing the forty-second annual con vention of the National Carriage Builders Association in session at Atlantic City, N. J., this week. Last year more than one mil lion buggies and carriages were produced., representing a retail value of about $60,000,000. There is at least $35.000,000 invested in the carriage and buggy business in this country. Despite the growth of the automobile indus try the buggy and carriage busi ness is still in a flourishing state. Mr. Nichols is expected home the last of the week. BUTTS HAS 266 MILES OF R. F. D. Automobile Tax Soon to Be Distributed WILL HELP PUBLIC ROADS No County in The State Is Better Served by Rural Delivery Than Butts — How RoutesSAre Divided Butts county has 266.16 miles of rural routes. Under the new automobile law the tax from mo tor cars will be distributed among the various counties according to the rural route mileage. This fund amounts to many thousands of dollars. The eight routes out of Jack son comprise more than two-thirds of the total mileage. Some of the routes interlap into Henry and Monroe counties. Butts county has approximately 300 miles of public roads. The length of the various rural routes is given herewith: Jackson No. 1 23.90 “ •* 2 - 25.45 “ “ 3 26.91 “ “ 4__ 25.40 “ “ 5 19.30 “ '* 6__ 17 “ “ 7 27.50 “ 8 24.40 Flovilla “ 1_„ 26 “ 2 18 Jenkinsburg 1 20.30 Locust Grtwe 2 5 McDonough 6_ 4 Berner “ 1 2 Griffin “ 2._ 1 Total 266.16 the month of October when you are measuring your acre and corn. I want at least fifty boys to fin* ish the work and I earnestly urge you all to do so. The Macon Fair will give $50.00 to the county that makes tne best fifty boys’ exhibits. How would you like for Butts county to win? Then do your part. I am, yours to serve, H. L. Worsham. Butts county ought to swat the cattle tick a hefty wallop and then engage in the live stock business on a large scale. WOULD CARRY MAIL BY CONTRACT Burleson Has Streak of Economy SAVE $18,000,000 A YEAR R. F. D. Men Will Fight Plan of Pofß Master Gen eral Vigorously Should It Come Before Congress The suggestion of Post Master General Burleson that the present rural free delivery carriers be abolished and that their work be done'by contract hereafter has aroused the country to keen in terest. He has proposed such a plan to congress, claiming that by having the work peformed by contract a saving of $18,000,000 could be effected annually. The Post Mas ter General claims to have the authority to make this sweeping change in the postal department. Mr. Burleson points out in de fense of such a plan that the ru ral carriers are paid out of pro portion to employes in other de partments of the service. At the beginning of the service carriers, were paid only S3OO a year, but ’ there were many applicants for the places, savs Mr. Burleson. The number of rural routes is 43,695. The carriers are strong politically and already members of congress are besieged with letters protesting against such a change. A hard fight would be waged in congress should the matter come up for consideration. The pay of carriers is $l,lOO. The extra SIOO in salary promised the carriers last summer did not materialize. But two carriers in Butts county received any bene fit from the plan. Under the new plan of compensation the number of pieces of mail handled and not the length of the route is the determining factor. MAXWELL COMPANY BUYS BALE IN BUTTS COUNTY Detroit, Mich., Sep. 25, 1914. J. A. Kimbell & Cos. Jackson, Ga. I authorize and ask you to buy at once for the Maxwell Motor Cos. one five hundred pound bale of good middling cotton at 10 cents a pound. I am sending sim ilar instructions to all the hun dreds upon hundreds of Maxwell dealers south of the Mason and Dixon line, including Texas. Kindly buy your sale direct fronv a farmer, as it is my desire thafl all the money go direct to the farmer and that there be no bro kerage or commissions for them to pay. This is j ust an indication of our feelings towards our south ern dealers and within a few days I shall advise you of an extensive and practical plan of co-operation and assistance we shall put into effect for the benefit of our south ern dealers. Place bale of cotton purchased in your window with suitable sign upon bale, “One of the hun dreds upon hundreds of bales of cotton purchased by the Maxwell Motor Cos. at 10 cents a pound." Walter E. Flanders, Pres. Maxwell Motor Cos., Inc. 8:12 a. m. NUMBER 40.