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BUIS COINTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONEB, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-dawn matter, Novem
ber H, 1907, at the poatofflceat Jackson, fla.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications arc 'velcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to JOO words, as communications
over that length cannot be handled.
Write on one side of the paper only,
sign your name, not for publication,
but as an evidence of good faith.
Now is the time to pull togeth
er as never before.
Fine weather for sowing grain.
Have you planted yours?
The Boys Corn Club members
are diversifying in the right way.
The war tax hits the newspa
pers also. We are convinced that
Uncle Sam needs the money.
Congress has at last shuffled off
its tiresome coil, for which the
country is sincerely grateful.
Take a day off and prepare
your ballot in advance of the elec
tion next Tuesday and you will
save a good deal of time.
Take time to run down to the
State Fair. You may get some
ideas about farming or stock rais
ing that will pay you well for the
trip to Macon.
Discount all the hard times
talk by fifty per cent. Cut out
the gab about the miserable Eu
ropean war and you’ll have just
as much and feel a lots better.
Try it and see.
Co-operation and mutual help
fulness will solve many of the
problems caused by the wretched
foreign war. Let our people do
all possible to help themselves
before asking aid from others.
While we are doing our part in
preaching home buying, are you
doing your part in telling the peo
ple what you have to sell, Mr.
Merchant? Progress readers
look for your store news as ea
gerly as any other news printed.
Spend your cash with the bus
iness concerns that extended you
credit when you didn’t have the
cash and, perhaps, couldn’t have
gotten credit away from home.
Ever think of it in that way?
There’s nothing smart in trading
away from your home town.
The Jackson Progress says that
the farmers of Butts county are
preparing to help themselves.
That sounds like business, and if
they will go about the job of help
ing themselves with vim and de
termination something will be
done.—DeKalb New Era.
SPECIAL NOTICE
The Progress wishes to remind
those of its subscribers who are
in arrears that an early settle
ment is desired. We have been
patient with you, have sent the
paper in good faith and we ask
you for a remittance because we
need the money.
In limited quanties, meat, po
tatoes, wheat and syrup, will be
credited on subscription. If you
haven’t the dollar bring us some
thing we can eat or sell.
Unless a prompt remittance is
received from those due us for a
year they will be cut off the list
Butts County Progress,
10-16-tf
SWAT THIS AMENDMENT j
When you go to vote next Tuesday don’t forget to swat the
proposed amendment to the State Constitution providing for four j
year terms for county officers. If ratified this law weald go into
effect in 1917, and does not apply to officers already nominated.
The Progress believes in four year terms for governor, limi- 1
ted to one term. However, for county officers this proposed law
does not seem to us to be a good one. In case an incompetent or
unscrupulous official was fastened upon the people he could not te
shaken loose for four years. There would be no recourse or recall.
We are opposed to the principle of this amendment and shall
vote against it.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
The fact that Georgia sent out of the state for feed stuffs in
1913 $26,639,000 more than her entire cotton crop amounted to
should be an eye-opener for our farmers.
It is estimated in the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture
that the following amounts were sent out of the state for corn,
wheat, oats, etc:
Corn $ 64,134,000
Oats 45,776,000
Hay_. - 51,729,000
Mixed feed 6,000,000
Total $167,639,000
The value of the cotton crop in that year was $141,000,000.
Deduct this amount from the total spent for feed stuffs bought j
from the west and it is seen that the cotton crop lacked $26,639,0001
of paying for the imported grain.
Is there any stronger argument needed to drive home the nec-:
essity for diversification?
Put a bomb under the price of cotton by planting plenty of
grain this fall. The time to do it is right now. Let the world |
know you mean business.
UGH! CALOMEL MAKES
YOU DEATHLY SICK
Stop using dangerous drug
before it salivates you!
It’s horrible!
You’re bilious, sluggish, consti
pated and believe you need vile,
dangerous calomel to start your
liver and clean your bowels.
Here’s my guarantee! Ask your
druggist for aSO cent bottle of
Dodson’s Liver Tone and take a
spoonful tonight. If it doesn’t
start your liver and straighten
you right up better than calomel
and without griping or making
you sick I want you to go back to
the store and get your money.
Take calomel today and tomor
row you will feel weak and sick
and nauseated. Don’t lose a day’s
work. Take a spoonful of harm
less, vegetable Dodson’s Liver
Tone tonight and wake up feeling
great. It’s perfectly harmless,
so give it to your children any
time. It can’t salivate, so let
them eat anything afterwards, ad
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Editor Progress: Will you al
low an old Butts county citizen
to say a few words through the
columns of your paper? Asa was
born and reared in Butts county
it is natural for me to feel an in
terest in the welfare and progress
of her citizens; especially in her
farming class. The European war
has demoralized the farming in
terest, but I believe it will prove
a blessing in disguise. It will
cause the farmers to raise more
supplies for home use.
But I didn’t start out to write
on that subject. They are get
ting enough counsel on that ques
tion, but my purpose in writing
is to direct my remarks to the
many farmers sons, whom I know
to be readers of your papers. I
do not claim to be a writer, nei
ther do I feel competent to give
advice, but experience has taught
me a few things which I would
like to make known to the boys
who are being brought up on the
farm.
Here in Atlanta, I see or hear
almost daily of young men, who
have left the farm and come to
the city seeking employment
which is hard to find. Some of
them in despair join the navy,
which carries them away from;
home and loved ones to lead a
hard life for a number of years.
Boys, you may think as I once
thought that a farmers life is the j
hardest of all. You may be anx
iously looking forward to the
time when you will have an op
portunity to leave the farm and
seek a more pleasant and more
profitable occupation in the city.
If this is what you think and
what you are looking for, let
me askj you to stop entertaining
such foolish thoughts and look
to your present surroundings for
wealth and happiness, which will
surely come if you will go after
it in the right way. While it is
true, wealth rarely comes to the
farmer by leaps and bounds as it
sometimes does to men of other
occupations; nevertheless there
is an honest and decent living for
the farmer, besides a source of
pleasure that money cannot buy.
Boys, on the farm you have
free access to the great book of
nature, the origin and source of
all real knowledge. On every
side this wonderful book is ever
open for your inspection. You
have only to open your eyes to
behold the beauties that are al
ways before you. Look at them
and study them; by so doing you
will learn how to live. You will
get a knowledge that will fitly
prepare you for the duties of life.
Young man, don’t wait for the
knocking of some great opportu
nity. Your waiting may be in
vain, but with willing hands lay
hold of the many small ones that
are already knocking. By doing
this you will prepare yourself to
seize the greater ones, should
they ever knock at your door.
Boys, think of this, from the
pebble-bedded brook to the rock
capped mountains, Nature is sing
ing a joyful song to cheer and
encourage her children along their
onward march through life and
this song is best heard and un
derstood away from the buzz and
hum of the cities.
In conclusion, let me ask you
to remain on the farm until you
know that the city has need of
your services. Put your whole
heart in your work, be contented,
for contentment is the beginning
of the path that leads to health,
wealth and happiness. Remem
ber that you are engaged in a
TO
OUR
CUSTOMERS
On accounts due us we will take
Wheat, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed,
Baled Hay, Peas, Hogs, Cows, etc.,
at market prices. If you haven’t the
cash bring us your produce and we
will credit your account. We
our customers will take advantage of
this opportunity to settle what they
owe us.
This offer is good until further
notice.
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your labor the whole world is fed
and clothed.
With best wishes for The Pro
gress and its readers, I close.
Respectfully,
J. 0. Andrews.
Atlanta, Ga.
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Paul Nolen & Cos.
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to put an auto in shape “is not nu
merous” but there are plenty who
claim to have the ability. Expert,
practical mechanical knowledge is
absolutely necessary, and it takes
time to acquire the necessary skill.
We make a specialty of Automobile
repairs of all kinds, and also keep a
full line of the “right kind” of sup
plies, on which you may depend.
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The State and County Tax
Collector has his books open for
the collection of state and coun
ty taxes in the court house in
the Ordinary’s office.
10-16-4 t. C. S. Bryant, T. C. '
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