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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1914)
Most remarkable Watch Join our South Bend Watch Club and buy on easy terms at the lowest cash price. You have always wanted to ow n a high grade watch —a watch you could absolutely de pend upon for accuracy —a w atch that would be the envy of your friends — Here is your opportunity. Plans have just been completed (hat permit us to sell high grade South Bend watches on easy payments at the cash rock bottom price. We propose to sell these watches in clubs. By combining the pur chases of several people we can sell a number of watches at no greater cost than the cost to sell one w atch. That’s why we call it our club plan. A watch will be delivered to each member upon his making the first payment. The amount each member will pay in each week will be so small that it will never be noticed and at the end of a few weeks the watch is entirely paid for. The South Bend Watch which we are offering on this club plan is a Wear The Watch While You Pay. bfcj" JOS. E. EDWARDS l|f§ Jackson, Georgia. Phone 150 *Main Entrance to Palace of Machinery at Pan ama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915 ggggg Copyright. 1914. by Panama-Pndflc International Exposition Cos. THE photographer was stationed at the most nortnern of the three arched nortals constituting the main western entrance to the palate and turned his camera to the north. The huge columns adorning this en trance are of imitation Sienna and are in warm contrast Ward of San Francisco. very low round trip fares to ATLANTA Account General Convention CHURCHES OF CHRIST OCTOBER 7-14. Round trip fare from $1.63 JACKSON $1.63 Tickets on sale October 4th, sth, 6th. Good returning until October 17th, 1914. For full information call on Southern Ratlway ror agent or address j, C. BEAM, A. G. P. A, Georgja t <5 rloodworth, t. p. a., J. b. keuoo Macon, Georgia. on $ 1 .GO a week terms watch you will always be proud to carry — It is guaranteed to give absolute satisfaction by both ourselves and the makers. You will surely like its trim shapely build. Don’t let this splendid chance slip by—this offer is made for a limited time only—come in this evening and let us give you more complete information on this money saving plan. This offer Is open to both ladies and gentlemen. FARMERS WANT 10 CENTS POUNO Agree to Deliver Receipts at That Figure DR. MAYS’ RESOLUTION Money Scored By Resolution Which Was o Adopted After Heated Discussion Tuesday This is the resolution, introdu ced by Dr. R. W. Mays, adopted by the mass meeting Tuesday: We the farmers and business men of Butts county assembled for the purpose of discussing the conditions of our financial affairs and things necessary to be done to enable us to pay our creditors, adopt the following: Whereas, the present cotton crop, the raosl expensive ever produced in the South, is ready for market and there being no market for cotton, caused by a Constipation, if Neglected, Causes Serious Illness Constipation, if neglected, leads to almost innumerable complica tions affecting the general health. tMany cases o! eases are trace able to prolonged with constipation and biliousness for years, and at times became so bad I would become unconscious. I have been found in that condition many times. Physicians did not seem to be able to do me any good. I would become weak and for days at a time could do no work. Not long ago I got a box of Dr. Miles’ Laxative Tablets, ana after using them found I had never tried anything that acted in such a mild and effective manner. 1 ■ be “® v * I have at last found the remedy that ■uits my case.” Thousands of people are sufferers from habitual constipation and while possibly realizing something of the danger of this condition, yet neglect too long to employ proper curative measures until serious ill ness often results. The advice of all physicians is, “keep your bowels clean,” and it’s good advice. Dr. Miles’ Laxative Tablets are sold by all druggists, at 25 c e n * s a box containing 25 doses. If not found satisfactory, your money returned. MILES MEDICAL Elkhart, In*. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the /^TT Signature of LSutfyX f&ZcJUM conflict of arms of foreign nations and the financial conditions of this country, and Whereas, the people of the South were induced to believe and have faith in our democratic administration at Washington, D. C., that they would provide a currency law that would enable the farmer to finance his cotton crop at this critical time, but are now told and given to understand that this law was and is intended to be given over to a money trust which will advance only half the production cost on warehouse re ceipts for cotton in merchantable condition, attached as collat eral to notes made payable in three or four months at 8 per cent interest. Therefore, we the people of the South, are at the mercy of this great money trust, with no mar ket for a great staple that clothes SHOWING THE FARMER "HOW" Editor Atlanta Conaiitution, Atlanta, Qa. Editor Constitution: During the past three months I have traveled oyer the States of South Carolina and Georgia, Interviewing many of the best and most prominent farmers. I find that they are hauling their cotton from the gins to their homes and there storing same something I never saw before. This condition is brought about on account of the extremely low price of cotton, attributed mainly because of the war in Europe and to a lesser extent by rea son of a “bumper” crop. These farmers seem Interested and express a willingness lo produce other commodities. All of the larger railway systems in this part of the country, and, In fact, throughout the south, have com petent and efficient industrial represen tatives in the field, assisting and show ing the farmers “how” to diversify their props and put them on a better pay ing basis. Tn south Georgia (Colquitt county) I visited some clover and alfalfa fields ns fine as anyone would wish to see planted under the direction of one of the industrial agents referred to above. Many of the farmers are beginning to realize that there is an unlimited and never-ending market for fresh meats and are branching out into cattle and hog raising. Slaughter pens and packing houses have been established at conven ient centers. The city council of At lanta has recently adopted an ordinance remitting the shipment of fresh meats rom Georgia point* into Atlanta, under certain restrictions which can, without inconvenience,^ be complied with by the farmers and producers. The people of Savannah and that vicinity have, for tome time, benefited by a similar law. Other cities in Georgia, where city laws prohibit the bringing in of freah meat shipments will no doubt, see the wis dom of adopting similar modifications wherebv the farmer may be permitted to market such products in the nearest city, thus minimising transportation cost* Georgia abounds in rich and fertile •oil from the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains to the Atlantic coast. It has been successfully demonstrated that potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, asparagus, eggplant, beans, bay, corn, sugarcane, apples, peaches, pears, pecans, etc. as tne as ever grew can be produced not enly in Georgia, but In the ( arolinas, Florida and Alabama. For example: Asa result of industrial work around Cornelia, Mount Airy and Tallulah Park, during the summer approximate ly 30,000 crates of beans, tomatoes, cu cumbers and potatoes were grown and •hipped during the month* of August nd September, and shipments will continue until frost. Young ladles throughout the country •re being taught how to can fruit* anil vegetables and Importuned to let noth ing go to waste. Profitable market* can be found for home made preserves, canned fruits, and, In fact everything produced or grown on the farm. Because the Individual farmer caanot afford expensive storage facilities, he must dispose of the greater part of his crop when It matures, either to people prepared to hold It or direct to the consumer. The Southern Express com pany's trafic department will have ready for general distribution In a week or ten days pamphlets eontainlng the lamas and addressee o’ commission men engaged la the handling of fruits, ▼*- tables, etc.; likewise, Information as to t.e producers of various commodities; oyster and Ash shippers, etc., and It is the company's expectation to revise these lists from time to time, a* f*t M we develop the names of producers •ad consumers —the object being to put the producer in touch with markets where he cap profitably dispose of what he has to sell. Por the man who has an ecoastonal coop of chickens or crate of eggs to sbfp it will be our pleasure and the world, and if sold under the present conditions we would not be able to pay our debts or feed and clothe our families. Therefore, be it resolved by a united vote of the assembly, that we will not sell our cotton under such conditions, but w’e are wil ling to tender and deliver our warehouse receipts to our credi tors as collateral, but not to be sold for less than 10 cents, basis middling. Aid You a Woman ? m? Dardui The Woman’s Tonic FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS “One of the most inspiring develop ments of the prevalent cotton crisis lu the south is the munner in which south ern railroads and general transporta tion agencies are multiplying agencies already active, to the end of encourag ing the farmer to diversify, to reduce cotton acreage and, in larger terms to aid the south in finding a way out of the problem that confronts it. An il lustration is found tn a communication; published elsewhere, from I. M. Co*, industrial agent of the Southern Ex press company. To Mr. Coxs propa ganda is traceable the growth and ship ment, now proceeding, of 80,000 crates of beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and po tatoes from that rich section of Geor gia around Cornelia, Mount Airy and Tallulah Park. The Southern Express company is helping the growers find a market for all this truck. This Is con structive work of the most practical type. It is upon such efforts, founded primarily upon reduction of cotton acreage, that the state and the south musr depend for a solution of the un precedented difficulties of this year and next year. Mr Cox further shows what The Constitution has always contended, and that is that the United States parcel post and 'he express companies would co-operate in stimulating relations be tween producer and consumer. Fur nishing reciprocal lists to these two classes new and profitable markets are being opened up to the farmers of the southern states. Every important railroad In the southern states is engaged In work along similar lines, and the European war has caused them to intensify their ef forts. The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic is not one of the largest *r riers in the south, but it Is and has been one of the most active, proportionately, in this direction. Its campaign calling attentloin to the possibilities of the soil of its territory, and its practical de monstration* to the farmers along Its lines, is having telling effect. In a communication published recently in The Constitution W. R. Tucker, farm ers’ co-operative agent of this system, pointed out the results being accom plished along these lines. The Seaboard Air Line is another active factor in this field. It is at present impressing upon the south and the nation that the south has a farming season varying from 200 to 848 days out of the year, and a soil just as versatile. The South ern, the Coast I.ine and the L. A N., with the Central of Georgia, are like wise hammering away. The railroads the Southern Express company and other agencies are setting to the south an example In co-oneretion and re source In crisis as effectual as It Is in splr^ng.,, —Editorial in purpose to provide him the names of retail dealers or commission men whe will pay the market price for sucb goods. . . . 1 A neat and attractively put-up pack age will sell much more readily and at a bettar price than one carelessly pack ed, even though It contains better pro duce. , _ Wthln the last week or ten days I have, in company with D. L. Campbell and W. R. Tucker, Industrial agents for the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic railroad, called upon forty or fifty farm ers around Moultrie and Fltsgorald, Ga. who were found to be enthusiastic over the possible benefits to be derived from the diversification of crops. In addition to representing the A. B. & A., railroad, Mesir*. Oseophllll and lacker are also connected wm the Lnlted States bureau of plant industry and Georgia State Calient of Agriculture, and are doing excellent and far-reach ing work to educating the farmers along the lines Indicated. la lit COXj Industrial Agent Southern Express com pany, Atlanta, Go.
