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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.