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BUMS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JON KB, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter, Novem
ber 8,1907, at the poatofticea.t Jackson,
Telephone No. 166.
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respondents will please confine them
selves to 300 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
Pull for that roller mill.
Get in line for the 1915 fair.
Turkey went down before the
allies Thursday.
The state fair in Macon was a
financial success.
Eradicate the cattle tick and
raise more live stock in Butts.
Now is a mighty good time to
start that Christmas advertising.
The success of the county fair
knocked the snipers and croakers
sky high.
Watch out for the record of the
Butts county corn club boys at
the Atlanta corn show.
A large number of fires have
been reported recently in differ
ent parts of the state.
Put in a word for a wheat mill
for Jackson. It is a step in the
direction of living at home.
Everything’s looking up. Hav
ing found that war talk doesn’t
pay people are cutting it out.
Home raised flour will be on
the bill of fare in hundreds of
Butts county homes next year.
When the weather man does
put one over it is usually a good
one. For instance, last week.
With the fair and Thanksgiv
ing out of the way the city pri
mary will be the next attraction.
A lot of people have been fool
ed by cotton the last time. They
will now make it servant not mas
ter.
An all-around debt paying day
would help this community won
derfully. Let somebody start the
ball to rolling.
Pay up and watch the other
fellow smile. A man tried it on
us the other day and we are grin
ning yet. Try it.
“Help home folks first, and
then the war sufferers;” is the
slogan adopted in many cities. It
is the proper way to look at the
matter.
A lot has been said about
helping the farmer, but what of
the carpenter, the mechanic and
day laborer? With many indus
tries closed and public work hard
to find the city man out of em
ployment is up against tough
sailing! In many respects the
farmer, with his own wood, sup
plies and no rent to pay, is to be
envied above all other classes.
“IF WE BUY FROM YOUR
SHELVES, YOU BUY FROM
OURFARMS”
We have a letter from a South
ern farmer now before us which
sheds a strong light on the situ
ation. ‘‘l hauled a load of hay to
my home town,” the writer tells
us, ‘‘but the merchants wouldn’t
even make me a price on it. They
said, we don't want your wagon
of hay, because we buy your hay
in carload lots from the West.
And yet they say we do wrong
when we send money North and
West to buy bargains from mail
order houses. We are simply
feeding them out of their spoons.
Now we hope any merchant
who reads this article will not
throw the paper down and say
the farmer was wrong. It’s a
case where merchant and farmer
should come together and reason
together. It seems to us a rea
sonable demand which farmers
make of merchants when they
say, “If we buy from yourshelves,
you buy from our farms. If we
buy of Southern merchants, you
buy of Southern farmers.”
Here, it seems to us, is a great
chance for co-operation for the
mutual benefit of farmer and
merchant. It will certainly help
the merchant to keep in the com
munity the money which he has
been sending North and West for
meat, corn, oats, flour, hay, lard,
etc., etc. His patrons will be
come richer and give him larger
trade.
And we repeat that it is the
duty of the merchant to encour
age this result. As we have said
before, the merchant in the rural
South has performed only half
his function when he has arrang
ed for farmers to pay him a profit
on what he has to sell. It is also
his duty to find a market for
what they have to sell, and he
cannot demand that they serve
him unless he also serves them.
And he ought to serve them not
merely in taking their cotton, a
service in which he usually takes
little trouble and makes a fair
profit, but it will pay him to serve
them by finding markets for farm
products in cases where it means
that he must do intelligent and
active hustling to effect results.
—The Progressive Farmer.
“Please stop my—” What?
“Times are hard, money is
scarce, business is dull, retrench
ment is a duty, Please stop!
my —” Whiskey? “Oh, no;
times are not hard enough for
that yet. But there is something
else costs me a large amount of
money every year which I wish
to save. Please stop my—” To
bacco, cigars, snuff? “No. no,
not these; but I must retrench
somewhere. Please stop my—”
Ribbons, jewels, ornaments,
trinkets? “Not at all. Pride
must be fostered if times are so
very hard, but I believe I can
see a way to effect quite a sav
ing in another direction. Please
stop my—” Tea, coffee and
needless unhealthy luxuries?
“No, no, no; not these. I can
not think of such a sacrifice. I
must think of something else.!
Ah, I have it now. My county i
paper costs me 2 cents a week.
I must save that. Please stop
my paper; that will carry me
through easily. I believe in re
trenchment and economy.”—
Literary World.
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Children take it and never know it is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try
it the next time you need Quinine for any pur
pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The
name FEBRILINE is blown in bottle. 2S cents.
The State Press
A Foul Suggestion
Anderson Intelligencer: With
the buy-a-bale movement, the
pay-a-bill movement, the kill-a
hog movement, and the plant-a
grain movement sweeping the
country, we suppose the Dark
town citizen with a tooth tor
Thanksgiving fowl thinks it about
time to start a raid-a-roost move
ment.
Pay If You Can
Augusta Chronicle:
Whatever you do, protect your
credit. That is more important
than any price for cotton. The
most priceless thing you possess
—that which you must protect
is your spoken or your written
word.
Keep in Good Standing
Cedartown Standard:
The ultimate price of this
year’s cotton crop is going to de
pend on next year’s acreage.
This, of course cannot be known
for some months yet, and the
price then may be forced either
way. It is good business sense
for every cotton-grower who
owes money to make up his mind
at once whether it is best for
him to sell at current prices or to
borrow money on his cotton to
pay his debts, It might work
out best to sell a part now, and
to borrow on part of it. Avery
important thing for a farmer, as
well as a merchant, is to keep
his credit good.
Why Not 50 Bushel Average
Fitzgerald Leader-Enterprise:
If four Georgia boys can make
over 800 bushels of corn on four
acres it would seem that the av
erage farmer should at least
make fifty bnshels on average
Georgia land per acre. Since the
census gives the average yield at
about fifteen bushels per acre,
there appears to be something
wrong with the average farmer.
Money in Pecans
Thomasville Press:
The pecan industry is begin
ning to reach a stage of interest
in this section. Many thousands
of pounds of the choicest nuts
are being shipped this season at
prices ranging from 30 cents to
75 cents per pound. That is
growing money on trees.
Five Crops of Alfalfa
Tifton Gazette:
Five crops of alfalfa have been
cut from a patch of alfalfa at the
lowa Experiment station during
the present year. If they can do
that well in lowa what can’t be
done in a real garden spot like
South Georgia?
Figure it Out
Ocilla Star:
Figure this out for yourself:
Would it pay better to raise a
half crop of cotton next year at
10 cents a pound or a full crop at
5 cents. When you have reach
ed the answer make a covenant
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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
with yourself to do what your
good sense tells you to do.
Wants Live Stock
Montgomery Monitor:
We have pleaded in season and
out of season for live stock rais
ing to be combined with farming
in the South. Between the boll
weevil and the European war the
change is being wrought.
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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Cures Old Sores. Other Remedies Won’t Curs.
The worst cases, no matter of how long standing,
are cured by the wondeiful, old reliable Dr.
Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil. It reliever
Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c. 50c. SI.OO
Call phone 190 for choice cut
flowers. A. T. Buttrill & Co*
agents Idle Hour Nurseries.
The Mao 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.