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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 32. COUNTY FAIR ON NEXT WEDNESDAY Final Meeting to Be Held Here Friday NO CHARGEFOR DISPLAYS Mr. H. L. Worsham Chos en As General Manager of The Fair—Large Atten dance Is Expected Plans for the Butts County Fair are about complete, another meeting being scheduled for Fri day at 2 o’clock in the courthouse when the final arrangements will be perfected. Members of the Boys Corn club and the Girls Canning club will be awarded prizes, in cash or its equivalent, amounting to $275. It was decided, on account of the present conditions, to give Blue Ribbons to the prize winners in all other departments. The live stock exhibit will be shown in the county stockade on Oak street. All other exhibits will be in the court house or on the public square. Farm Demonstrator, H. L. Worsham, will be general mana ger of the exhibits and those de siring to make a display should see him at once. There is no charge for entering exhibits. This is the first fair ever pro moted in Butts county, and will doubtless prove a big success. The money for the premium list was contributed by the public spirited citizens of the county. A large attendance is expected. There will be exhibits in live stock, poultry, Boys Corn club. Domestic Science and Sehool ex hibit, Girls Canning club, Agri cultural displays, Ladies depart ment, Miscellaneous exhibits. The judges for the various de partments will be selected by Mr. Worsham and will be specialists in their lines. Governor O’Neal Likes Slaton Plan Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 12.—Gover nor O’Neal of Alabama and the attorney general of that state are in hearty support of the position taken by Governor Slaton of Georgia as to laws to regulate the cotton acreage. The attorney general has handed down an opinion that such a reduction law as was proposed would be uncon stitutional. The Alabama executive in a letter to Governor Slaton praises the latter highly on his recent address to the people setting forth reasons why he would not call an extra session to force such a law on the farmers. "It was the most logical and statesmanlike presentation of the issue that has been made, said Governor O’Neal. Contributions for Fair Are Wanted The Butts County Fair Associ tion requests an early settlement of all funds subscribed for the purpose of awarding premiums and defraying expenses. The day for the fair is right at hand and the funds are needed. Please see our treasurer, Mr. H. L. Daughtry, and get a receipt for same. Thanking you who have sub scribed and those who haven’t subscribed, for any moral or fi nancial help you may give a wor thy move like this. Very respectfully, H. L. Worsham, Mgr. EXPRESS COMPANY PUTS ON DELIVERY Other Impovements to Be Added later SERVICE ALREADY BEGUN Jackson Will Get Express on All Trains As Soon As Business Conditions Will Authorize It The Southern Express Compa ny put on a delivery system in this city on the first of Novem ber. The system is not as com plete as first planned, but other improvents are to be added later. At present the delivery work is being done by the agent, Mr. J. L. Lyons. Another man will be put on as soon as business con ditions will justify it, it is said. The city has the same service as heretofore, but some time be tween now and the holidays ex press packages will probably be handled on all trains reaching Jackson. Such an express ser vice as that with.the delivery ad ded will be a great convenience to the people of the city. Announcement was made sev eral weeks ago that an improved express service would be put on here, and was received with in terest, particularly by the busi ness houses. The express com pany will find that the people of this city are quick to appreciate a service commensurate with the commercial importance of the town and that this long-delayed act of enterprise will be met with a liberal show of co-operation. Wants Everybody to Pull For County Fair The Sixth District Fair at Bar nesville was quite a success. The exhibit was excellent. I saw it at the State Fair in Macon. Tif ton, Thomasville and other fairs have been good. Now for a strong pull and a pull all together to have a good one in Butts. Our County Dem onstrator will do his part but e can’t do yours. Let’s all get busy. j. S. Lewis. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1914. 41,696 MILES RURAL ROUTES IN STATE Fund of S%OOO Will Be Divided BUTTS SHARE IS $589.36 Money From State Auto mobile Tax Will Be Used For Road Purposes By Counties of Georgia Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 7.—Bar tow and Echols have reported on rural route mileage at last, and the returns are now complete in the office of Secretary of State Cook. In the 148 counties of the state there are 41,696 miles of rural mail routes, which is not far from the estimate made some weeks ago by Secretary Cook. To these 148 counties the sum of $92,739.58 will be distributed by Treasurer Speer. Each county will receive pay ment on a basis of $2,224 per mile, so it will be comparatively easy for any county to take the rural route mileage and figure out how much is due. Carroll county leads the state in the number of miles, 686, with Cobb a close second, 667. Lau rens has 664 and Gwinett 618. These are the only counties in the 600 class, but there are many with 500 or more. Fannin and Mclntosh will not receive a cent as neither has a mile of rural route. Glynn has only 44, Charlton 54, Dade 58. Ten counties have less than 100 miles. The big city counties paying the bulk of of the auto tax will receive small sums from the fund compared with other coun ties paying little into it. Bibb has 211 miles; Chatham 79; Ful ton 204; Richmond 203; Musco gee 199. Carroll for instance will receive almost as much as Bibb, Fulton, Richmond and Chatham combined. This is the first time this infor mation has ever been compiled in this way, not even the govern ment having it in detail. Wash ington has by the way requested a detailed copy of the report when made up. Bibb will receive $469.32. and has 754 machines registered; Richmond gets $451.52. and nas 667 machines registered; Carroll will receive $1,528.80, and has 179 machines registered; Fulton will get $453.75 and has close to 4,000 machines registered. Butts county has a rural route mileage of 265, and will receive from the automobile tax fund the sum of $589.36. This amount will be used for building good roads and will be a material help to the county just at this time. Butts County Men on Federal Grand Jury Messrs. J. H. McKibben and J. T. Goodman, of Jackson, and R. W. Watkins, of Indian Springs were drawn to serve on the fed eral grand jury which is in ses sion in Macon this week. Judge Emory Speer is presiding and the grand jury will be in session for a week or ten days. 9,828,695 Bales Ginned to Nov. 1 Washington. D. C., Nov. 9. The figures of the census bureau made public today show that 9,828,695 bales of cotton of the crop of 1914 had been ginned pri or to Nov. 1. This is compared with 8.830,396 bales in 1913. The average quantity of cotton ginned prior to Nov. 1 in the past seven years was 8,336,349 bales, or 63.4 per cent of the crop. MANY PEOPLE TO ATTEND DINNER Georgia Products Will Be Enjoyed WEDNESDAY IS THE DATE Basket Dinner to Be Serv ed at The Butts County Fair Wednesday, Nov ember Eighteenth One of the features of this year’s County Fair, which will be held next Wednesday, the 18th, will be the Georgia Products Day dinner. A basket dinner will be served and the people of the en tire county are invited to attend and take part in the exercises. Mr. S. H. Mays is chairman of the committee on arrangements for the dinner. He will be assis ted in preparing for the dinner by the following members of the committee: Messrs. S. K. Smith, L. R. Dodson, W. P. Thaxton, A. H. Ogletree, O. L. Weaver, J. W. Benson, E. A. Fincher. There will be a number of cit ies in the state to serve Georgia Products Day dinners, and it is proposed to make the local cele bration one of the most notable in the state. It is planned to have the menu consist entirely of Georgia products, so far as possible. A year ago, it will be recalled, the day was observed in Jackson with a barbecue in which several hundred people took part. The dinner will be served at the noon hour on the court house square. The occasion is one that should serve to bring the people of the county and city close to gether and show them that the interests of all the citizens are identical, and the gathering will no doubt result in far-reaching good to the community. 8,349 Bales Have Been Ginned in Butts Butts county ginned to Octo ber 18, 8,349 bales of cotton, as compared with 7,809 bales last year. The total for Georgia is 1,367,916 bales, against 1,296,911 bales the same date in 1913. With 35,326 bales Burke county leads the state with Laurens second with 29,523 bales and Bulloch third with 27,445 bales. FINE SHOWING AT STATE FAIR County WiU Win One of Choice Prizes MANY BOYS ATTENDED Butts Will Come Next to Pickens in Corn Glub Exhibit at The State Fair in Macon Butts county’s corn club exhib it at the State Fair was one of the best in the state and it is be lieved that one of the most at tractive prizes will be awarded to this county. While the prizes have not been announced, it is understood that Butts county is next to Pickens which is said to have captured first honors. Forty-two members of the corn club went to Macon Thursday, Several of the boys were accom panied by their fathers, and in the party were Messrs. J. O. Gas ton, J. Matt McMichael, H. L. Worsham, C. S. Maddox and a number of others. The boys who spent the day at the fair are as follows: Bernard Gaston, Sherwood Hardy, Geo. A. Ray, Richard Plvmale, Butler Long, Lovard McMichael, Coil Perdue, Geo. Carter Moore, Law rence Fincher, Henri Johnson, Marvin and Paul Farrar, Charles Brownlee, Leonard Dodson, Lind sey Thornton, A. G. Spencer, Jim Pettigrew, Thomas Hale, Frank McElhenney, Hubert Ply male, Lewis Dodson, Robert Lav ender, Harvey Bond, Ellsworth McMichael, Fred and Horace Thomas, Walstein O’Neal, Roy Duke, C. B. Biles, Jr., Thrasher Carmichael, Kinard Thaxton, Rolfe Ridgeway, Pliny Weaver, G. V. Martin, Durham Thaxton, J. T. Kinard, J. B. Ezell, Metz Kines, G. W. Washington, Em erson McMichael, Harvey O’Neal. Giant Cop For Atlanta Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 12—C. E. Martin, of Seneca, S. C., is six feet and eight inches tall, weighs 220 and can toss a cotton bale about with ease, so he thinks he would make a fine policeman. He has written a letter to Chief Beavers of the Atlanta depart ment to say as much and to ap ply for the next vacancy. If Martin lands he will be the heftiest cop on the force. A man like that, once “city broke” so that he wouldn’t shy at a trolley car would make a fine figure for a traffic officer at busy Five Points. Game Season Opens in Georgia Friday, 20 The game season in Georgia opens Friday, November 20th. There is said to be an abundance of birds this year and some fine sport is assured hunters. Game license are now on sale and war dens report a brisk Sale. NUMBER 46.