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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 32.
CORN SHOW IN
ATLANTA DEC. 1-5
Many Boys From Here to
Attend Show
GREAT PARADE EEATURE
Butts County Members of
Boys Corn Clubs Will
Try For Some of Prizes
at Atlanta Exhibition
The Atlanta Corn Show will be
held next week, December 1 to 5
and will be an occasion of wide
interest to the ten thousand corn
club members in Georgia.
Homes have been provided for
a large number of the boys by
the citizens of Atlanta. Boys
with the largest yields will be
taken care of first and then the
boys with smaller yields. Sever
al hundred homes have already
been provided apd the boys will
be royally entertained.
A good many of the Butts coun
ty corn club boys will attend at
least part of the week and will
particitate in the parade Thurs
day. Several of the boys’ fath
ers, as well as other interested
citizens, are arranging to take in
the corn show.
Having made fine records at
both the state fair and the fair
in Jackson last Wednesday, the
local corn club members are sure
to give a good account of them
selves in the state contests. They
stand an excellent chance to win
some of the valuable prizes to be
distributed in Atlanta and it is
hoped that as many of the boys
as can will arrange to be present
at the corn festival in the Capi
tal City.
MRS. VIRGINIA BYARS
DIES AT A6E OF 77
Mrs. Virginia Byars died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Will
Fincher, near this city, on
last Saturday. Though she had
been in feeble health for several
months, she was seriously ill but
a few days. Death was due to
the infirmities of old age.
At the time of her death Mrs.
Byars was 77 years of age. She
was one of the most highly re
spected women in the county and
jiad a large number of friends
who were saddened by her pass
ing. She had been a member of
Sandy Creek church for a long
number of years and by all who
knew her was held in the highest
esteem.
Mrs. Byars is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Will Fincher and
Mrs. Smith; three sons, Messrs.
Orton and Gordon Byars, of Ea
tonton, and George Byars, of
Griffin.
The funeral was held at the
Preston cemetery Sunday after
noon at 1 o’clock, the services
being conducted by Rev. George
Goddard.
The family have the sympathy
of many friends in their bereave
ment.
FARMERS UNION TO MEET
NEXT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4
The last monthly meeting of
the year will be held here Friday,
December 4, by the Butts county
Farmers’ Union. At that time a
full attendance is desired.
Several matters of interest to
the members will be brought up
at the December meeting. The
work of the present year will be
reviewed and plans laid for the
coming year’s activites. Officers
will also be elected at that time.
The November meeting of the
Union was one of the best held
in several months, interesting
discussions and helpful talks be
ing strong features.
The officers are anxious that
as many of the members as possi
ble be present at the meeting
next Friday.
of Living
Not So High
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25.—This
year’s Thanksgiving dinner, even
to the city man who hasn’t a tur
key running around his back
yard, will be about 25 per cent
lower in cost than last fall, ac
cording to a local shopper who
kept track of figures. Turkeys
are off about five cents a pound
from last fall, vegetables are,
cheaper and fruit is lower than
Atlanta has ever known. The
market is flooded with California
and Florida fruit at extremely
ow prices, and all the city is eat
ing grapes, apples and oranges.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914.
THE THANKFUL HEART
For all that God in mercy sends,
For health and children, home and friends;
For comforts in the time of need,
For every kindly word or deed,
For happy thoughts and holy faith,
For guidance in our daily walk,
In everything, give thanks.
For beauty in this world of ours,
For verdant grass and lovely flowers,
For songs of birds, and hum of bees,
For the refreshing summer’s breeze,
For hill and plain, for stream and wood,
For the great ocean’s mighty flood—
In everything, give thanks.
For the sweet sleep which comes with night,
For the returning morning light,
For the bright sun which shines on high,
For the stars glittering in the sky-
For these, and everything we see,
O, Lord, we lift our hearts to Thee;
In everything, give thanks!
—'Tupper.
FAIR AN ENTIRE
FINANCIAL SUCCESS
Premiums Being Paid as
Fast Possible
LARGER PLANS FOR 1915
Stock Company Favored
to Take Over Activities
For Next Year’s Fair-
Many Compliments
At a meeting of the directors
of the Fair Association Saturday
it was found that there was mon
ey enough to pay all premiums in
the corn club and canning club
departments. Only blue ribbons
were offered the prize winners in
all other departments.
Compliments continue to pour
in. The county fair proved such
an overwhelming success that it
is now easy to find backers for
the show next year. Most of
those expressing themselves fa
vor a strong stock company to
handle the next fair. This or
ganization will probably be per
fected at once and active plans
started for the exhibit next fall,
which will beheld for at least
three days.
The affairs of the fair last
Wednesday are being wound up
as rapidly as possible. All pre
miums will be paid within the
next few days. The winners in
the girls canning club have not
been announced as yet. Likewise
the winner of the prize for the
best written report in the boys
corn club.
GOVERNMENT TO HELP
GEORGIA HO6 RAISERS
The modern method of solving
agricultural problems by investi
gating them, not only in the lab
oratory, but also on the farm in
co-operation with the farmer, has
given such admirable results that
it is to be applied to the anti-hog
cholera crusade.
Congress has apportioned a
half a million dollars to carry on
the work and experiments will
be made in all parts of the Unit
ed States. The aim will be r#>t
only to exterminate the disease
in the test sections, but also to
to discover the most practical,
efficient and economical methods
for continuing the work through
out the country.
This investigation will fill a
long felt want in Georgia, as the
hog death rate in this state from
cholera is 90 per 1,000 head and
hog raisers are losing an average
of 180,000 hogs, valued at $1,476,-
000 from this disease annually.
Butts Ginned
10,939 Bales
As compared with 10.210 bales
last year, Butts county has gin
ned to the first of November a
total of 10.939 bales. This is a
gain of 719 bales over the pre
vious year. The number for the
the state is 1,763.374, as against
1,606,506 last year, an increase
of 156,868 bales. Burke county
still leads the state with 43,209
bales ginned.
CONFERENCE ENDS
THE YEAR’S WORK
Appointments Announced
Last Monday
SEVERAL CHANGES MADE
Rev. Olin King of Walker
Street Church, Atlanta,
Assigned to Jackson For
The Following Year
The North Georgia Conference
which met in Marietta last week
has completed its work and the
appointments for the following
year were announced Monday by
Bishop Collins Denny. A large
number of changes were made.
Rev. Olin King, of Walker
street church, Atlanta, and Rev.
A. E. Sansburn of the Jackson
Methodist church exchanged pul
pits. Mr. King will come to this
city while Mr. Sansburn goes to
the Atlanta church as pastor.
This change will take effect early
in December.
Dr. Fletcher Walton remains
as presiding elder of the Griffin
district.
Rev. J. T. Pendley was return
ed to the Flovilla circuit and Rev.
F. G. Spearman tp Jenkinsburg.
Rev. M. S. Williams, one of
the most popular and beloved
pastors ever stationed here, was
returned to Sparta for the second
year. Rev. R. C. Cleckler, an
other former Jackson pastor, re
turns to* the first church in El
berton for another year’s work.
The newly assigned pastors
will assume charge of the new
churches about the first Sunday
in December.
MR. PHINIZY DOUBTS BIG
CORN YIELD CLAIMS
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 22.—Jacob
Phinizy, president of the Georgia
Railroad, is still a doubter when
it comes to big yields of corn per
acre in Georgia. Mr. Phinizy
does not believe that Luther All
red, of Pickens county, credited
at the Macon fair with having
made 222.17 bushels of corn to
one acre, got anywhere near that
amount. In fact, he doubts if as
much as 150 bushels were actual
ly made. He wants to wager
SSOO against SIOO that “200 bush
els of corn cannot be produced in
Georgia on one acre of upland,
without irrigation, the parties to
use as much fertilizer as they see
fit.” Mr. Phinizy thinks it
strange that no -notice has been
taken of his propositions along
the corn raising line for the last
few years.
The printing press has made
presidents, killed poets; made
bustles for beauties and punish
ed genius with criticism. It has
curtailed the power of kings,
converted bankers into paupers
and graced pantry shelves. It
has made paupers college presi
dents. it has educated the poor
and robbed the philosopher of his
reason; it smiles, dies, cries, but
can’t be run to suit everybody,
and the man will be crazy who
tries. Sparta Ishmalite.
NUMBER 48.