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Btnis COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year.
Entered m second-clasß matter, Novem
ber 8,1907, at the poetofflceat Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
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PELLAGRA, CAUSE,
AND CURE.
The first official government
statement on the cause and cure
of pellagra has been made public
at Savannah by Dr. Joseph Gold
berger, of the United States public
health service. Pellagra, indemic
in northern Italy, is now claim
ing victims in nearly every sec
tion of the United States, being
more prevalent in the southern
states. There were four deaths
therefrom in Augusta during the
last thirty days. These facts
drew the attention of the govern
ment’s medical scientists partic
ularly to the south in their quest
for its cause. Washington, D.
C., Savannah and Milledgeville,
Ga., and Spartanburg, S. C.. have
been made centers for the re
search work. The findings at
each center gradually worked to
ward the conclusion which is now
made known.
Dr. Goldberger has just com
pleted his report and has given
an interview in the Savannah
News. In making his announce
ment, Dr. Goldberger says: “The
government’s investigation’s
haye led to the definite conclu
sion that pellagra comes from
living on a one-sided diet, and
that it is in no way contagious or
infectious.”
Physicians generally will be
pleased with this announcement.
In their treatment of the disease
physicians have had to combat
the general belief of the public
that pellagra is contagious and
infectious.
“Only those whose diet con
tains too little of certain classes
of protien foods, such as milk,
lean meat or legumes (beans and
peas),” said Dr. Goldberger,
develop the disease.
“The treatment and prevention
are therefore very simple and ef
fective. Those who are sick with
pellagra should be fed an abun
dance of milk, eggs, lean meat
and beans or peas, (the fresh or
dry, not canned.) If the disease
has not gone too far recovery is
certain.
“To keep well, one must in
clude in one’s daily diet an abun
dance of milk, lean meat, beans,
and peas.
“Unfortunately, milk and lean
meat are expensive, and in many
localities almost impossible to
procure. I would therefore es
pecially recommend beans and
peas because they are both cheap
and available at all seasons.
“The solution of the pellagra
problem will be materially aided
and economic conditions will be
greatly improved it the farmers
of the South will go to growing
beans and peas for winter use.
The problem would be helped also
by the farmers going in for stock
raising so that meat might be
made cheaper and more availa
ble.”—Augusta Chronicle.
PRINTED STATIONERY
FOR FARMERS
Every farmer who owns his
farm ought to have printed sta
tionery, with his name, the name
of his postoffice properly given.
The printed heading might also
give the names of whatever crops
he specializes in, or his special
ties in stock. Neatly printed
stationery gives you a personalty
and a standing with any person
or firm whom you write and in
sures the proper reading of your
name and address.
If you wish to write to your
congressman or member of the
legislature, or if you have a re
quest to make of your county su
perintendent of schools, or if you
wish information from any busi
ness house, in any case your let
ter will have increased weight
and receive more and quicker at
tention if you use printed sta
tionery.
Get the habit. Come into the
Progress office and have us print
you 500 sheets of good paper
with envelopes to match. It will
be one of the best investments
you ever made.
SPECIAL NOTICE
The Progress wishes to reminc
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
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 properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
The State Press
The
Augusta Chronicle:
The worst has been passed.
From now on there will be im
provement. Days of great pros
perity and rushing business are
ahead.
Cotton Improving
Savannah Morning News:
Matters are improving in cot
ton circles. Savannah’s receipts
yesterday were larger than for
any other day so far this season,
being close to 11.000 bales. Ex
ports for the day were over 12,-
000 bales, 5,600 foreign and 6,500
domestic. Three steamers arri
ved yesterday to be loaded most
ly with cotton for Europe, be
sides some already loading. These
indications of returning activity
in the cotton trade will be cordi
ally welcomed.
The Cotton Exchange
Augusta Chronicle:
Go ahead and open the cotton
exchanges. Folks are not so mad
with cotton exchanges as they
once were.
Tom Watson’slGift
Lawrenceville News-Herald:
Hon. Thomas E. Watson
has made a cash donation of
$5,000 to Mercer University,
the interest on which is to be
used in assisting poor young
men to procure an education.
CALOMEL SAUVATES AND
MAKES YOU SICK
Adts Like Dynamite on a
Sluggish Liver and Makes
You Lose a Day’s Work
There’s no reason why a per
son should take sickening, saliva
ting calomel when 50 cents buys
a large bottle of Dodson’s Liver
Tone—a perfect substitute for
calomel.
It is a pleasant, vegetable li
quid which will start your liver
just as surely as calomel, but it
doesn’t make you sick and can
not salivate.
Children and grown folks can
take Dodson’s Liver Tone, be
cause it is perfectly harmless.
Calomel is a dangerous drug.
It is mercury and attacks your
bones. Take a dose of nasty cal
omel today and you will feel
weak, sick and nauseated tomor
row. Don’t lose a day’s work.
Take a spoonful of Dodson’s Liv
er Tone instead and you will wake
up feeling great. No more bil
iousness, constipation, sluggish
ness, headache, coated tongue or
sour stomach. Your druggist
says if you don’t find Dodson’s
Liver Tone acts better than hor
rible calomel your money is wait
ing for you. ad.
At his death his splendid li
brary also goes to that insti
tution.
This is a very generous dona
tion on the part of Mr. Watson.
He enjoys helping the young men
of the state. Mercer will be the
recipient of a gift of great worth
when it secures Mr. Watson’s li
brary. —Savannah Press.
Money in Hogs
Gainesville News:
Mr. Farmer, here’s another in
stance of hog value. Ben Bar
rett raised here in town—now,
this is the story of a “town hog”
—to the age of nine months. This
hog, when killed last week, weigh
ed 368 pounds. Ben sold it for
$44.16. Remember, a bale of
cotton is worth just a little more
than S3O. Don’t you think the
raising of a few hogs, at the pres
ent high price of pork, is better
than going it “altogether” on all
cotton?
Truck Farmer Makes Money
Birmingham Ledger:
A Florida truck farmer
cleared $750 on eight acres of
land. Furthermore he did
nearly as much work on it as
he would have done on eight
acres of cotton, which would
have paid him $260 gross and
nothing net.
Farmers in the cotton belt are
never to be caught again. They
will not stop planting cotton. But
they will see to it, in future, that
they prepare themselves to “live
at home” and not be compelled
to rush cotton to market. Macon
Telegraph.
Stop Whining
Lavonia Times:
Hush up that whine. Here we
are located in the garden of Eden
and grumbling because we can’t
sell cotton for as much as it cost
to raise it Who promised you
anything for your cotton crop?
There is going to be trouble in
the camp as long as we try to
raise eight cent cotton to pay for
com at a $1.25 a bushel and hay
at $25 a ton. God Almighty has
been trying to get you to quit
growing cotton for years. He
sent the drouth as a reminder.
He sent the wet season as anoth
er reminder. He started the boll
weevil as a severe reminder. And
we kept right on growing more
every year. He has knocked you
down with this hint. Now take it
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.
SLATON DRUG CO.
The 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
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for what it is worth. Don’t place
yourself in a position to be affec
ted by every passing breeze. Be
more versatile. Diversify. Learn
to do something else besides grow
cotton. This crop of cotton will
last the world for two years. If
you want to see four cent cotton
next year just go ahead and plant
a full crop again.
T he Man Who Knows How
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.
Wagner’s Garage.
Tax Collectors Notice.
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. M
10-16-4 t C. S. Bryant, T. C. W