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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS VOLUME 33. NEW OFFICERS GO IN TODAY Several Changes Will Be Made on First COMMISSIONS RECEIVED New Treasurer, Tax Col lector, Tax Receiver, Goroner Go Into Office The Fir& of January New county and state officers take up their duties Friday, the first day of the new year. In Butts county there are a aumber of changes. Several of the old officers were re-elected to succeed themselves and in that number are included: Sheriff L. M. Crawford, Clerk S. J. Foster, County Commissioner J. 0. Gas ton. Ordinary J. H. Ham and County School Superintendent C. S. Maddox are serving four year terms and did not have to stand for re-election in 1914. Mr. H. C. Clark succeeds Mr. C. N. Mayfield as Treasurer. Mr. Jos. P. Maddox succeeds Mr. C. S. Bryant as Tax Collec tor. Mr. L. L. Greer succeeds Mr. F. M. Hodges as Tax Receiver. Mr. F. C. Stephens takes the place of Mr. J. W. Mangham as Coroner. Tns, County Sur •Fteopathic Phi the old officers I hours 9TO '* another term. t,, \ T or ior the officers t Phone No. 3 r , , y r s several days ago U'4f3s Building sary bonds having dished the new officers will begin their respective duties Friday. All the officers are among the most prominent citizens in the county and their friends congrat ulate them upon their promotion and wish for them a successful administration of the public bus iness. STAND BY YOUR PAPER ADVISES BUSINESS MAN Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31. —“The home industry and ‘Buy at Home’ sdea is something no town, large -i>r small, can afford to neglect,” laid a prominent speaker at a business banquet here this week. J* “And the very best and most profitable way it can be begun is by patronizing the home news paper first. “There is nothing which so rep resents the feeling of a commu nity as its newspaper, whether it be a great daily or the tiniest little weekly. But citizens and business men haye come to look for loyalty, public spirit and en terprise of the newspapers as matters of course. They look Jvpon the papers as their own Ipperty, and sometimes forget . l/SXSSiSfTsmnr must have an in r * ITh succeed. A town is a sorry town l - |id a town that does iting to tho its paper by adver its subscrip- Ittiche. the wood have a very weak taper at all. Dun. _ J ?ntf|RS TO DIVERSIFY CROPS That the farmers of Butts coun ty are preparing to reduce their cotton acreage and plant more grain in 1915 is shown by the figures gathered last fall by Mr. H. L. Worsham, Demonstration Agent. The following data was secured by Mr. Worsham the day of the county fair: Thirty-six boys registered for the corn club. Five boys registered for pig olub. Twenty-three men registered as menbers of wheat and oat club, and promise one bushel of oats and one-half bushel of wheat to the member of club making the highest yield on one measur ed acre. Good many more names have been previously enrolled in this club. Fifty-two men average 91 acres in wheat, according to reg istration on day of the fair. Fifty-two men will total about 500 acres in wheat, Forty-eight men will average forty per cent reduction in cot ton acreage. BOYS TO STUDY AT STATE COLLEGE Four Were Awarded The „ Scholarships GOOD FOR SHORT COURSE Members of Butts County Boys Corn Club Will Utilize Prizes Won At The State Corn Show Four Butts county boys, Mas ters Bernard Gaston, Ernest Watkins, Lawrence Fincher and Thomas Hale, will take the short course in agriculture at the State College in Athens. They were awarded scholarships at the state fair in Macon and the corn show in Atlanta. The scholarships entitle the holders to all expenses, including transportation and board. While the course lasts but a few days, it will prove of incalculable value to the boys and lay the founda tion for better farming in the South. There will be several hundred boys altogether taking the short course in agriculture in the College of Agriculture. Prof. H. L. Worsham, who has filled the position of demonstra tion agent in Butts county for the past year most acceptably, will also spend several days in Athens studying at the Agricul tural College. “There is in use in this country one automobile for every 57.6 persons, a total of 1,735,369 cars. Georgia has less than her propor tion of them, but so has every other state except those in which there are very large cities. New York has nearly a tenth of all of them, and Illinois has 126,681.” The statistician forgot to add that a million or more of these automobiles are in the possession of people who cannot afford to own them, —Ex. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1915. HOLIDAY SEASON SANE AND SAFE Shooting of Fire Works Restricted BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSE Christmas Trees For The Little Folks While Poor of City Were Made Com fortable at Yuletide It was a sane and safe Christ mas observance through which Jackson and Butts county has just passed. So far as has been ascertained there was practically no disorder in the county. The absence of drunkness and drinking has been the subject of much favorable comment on all sides. Restrictions were pift on the sale of fire works and there was less shooting of fire works this year than before in a long time. Still at that the boys had their sport, but were not allowed to shoot the explosives near where cotton was stored. There were Christmas trees at the Baptist and Methodist church es, which proved enjoyable occa sions for the little folks. The poor of the city were remember ed in a substantial manner and there was a large amount of en tertaining and farrifty gatherings. Immediately preceding the hol idays the merchants had a brisk and satisfactory trade. The fact that the business cen ters were closed Friday and Sat urday accounted for the absence of many shoppers in town. The weather man was shy on sun shine all during the holidays. NE6RO SHRINERS LOSE FI6HT IN THE COURTS Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31.—Mem bers of the Mystic Shrine in the South will be pleased to learn that Yaarab Temple of Atlanta has won its point in a suit against the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Or der of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a negro order which re cently blew in from Washington and established a “temple” in Atlanta. Its name, insignia and titles were so clearly imitations of the famous Masonic order that Po tentate Forrest Adair, who has just been re-elected head of the Atlanta temple, got busy and with other members instituted suit against the African order. Every Atlanta judge was disqual ified through being a member or relative of a member, but Judge H. L. Patterson of the Blue Ridge circuit, who heard the case, issued a temporary injunc tion against the negro order. In addition to his own fire de tection system, the supervisor of the Palisade national forest, Ida ho, was notified of each jfire by from five to ten different local settlers, who thus showed their co-operation in working for fire suppression. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CALLS REV. MR. MILLER It will be of interest to know that the Jackson Presbyterian church has called Rev. Isaac H. Miller, of LaGrange, Ga. He will fill the pulpit here next Sunday morning and evening. Rev. Mr. Miller will also serve the Fellowship and Stockbridge churches on the first and second Sundays, respectively, beginning with Stockbridge the second Sun day in January and Fellowship the first Sunday in February. Mr. Miller and family will ar rive in the city the latter part of this week and will be at home for the present with Mrs. Ed wards on Mulberry street. He is a strong and forceful preacher and all who heard him here a fortnight ago are his enthusiastic admirers. CITY ELECTION NEXT WEDNESDAY Nominees Will Be Duly Ratified SMALL VOTE - EXPECTED Mayor, Four Aldermen, School Trustees And Members of Executive Committee to Be Chosen The nominees in the recent city primary will be elected in regular and prescribed form on Wednesday, January 6, the date of the annual election. In all probability the election will be a quiet affair, being a mere formality. Though the vote in the primary was notably large, it is expected that there will be a small vote in the elec tion. However, the nominees will doubtless appreciate the compliment of a good vote. A mayor and an alderman from each of the four wards, school trustees and members of the ex ecutive committee will be chosen on next Wednesday. It will likely be several days after the election before the bus iness of the past year is finished. The date when the new adminis tration will assume control of the city’s affairs is not known at this time. The election of city officials will be another event of interest, this to take place be tween the middle and last of the present month. Of two million sheep annually grazed in the state of Utah, more than a million are on the national forests, or, including lambs which are fattening for market on the forest ranges, over a million and three-quarters PROGRESS BEGINS ITS 33RD YEAR Has Another Birthday on This Date ENJOYS STEADY GROWTH Paper Is Now One of The Oldest And Best Estab lished Weeklies in The Entire State of Georgia With this issue The Progress enters upon its thirty-third year. The paper was established in 1883 and is therefore one of the oldest papers in this section of the state. The Progress has been under the present management for sev en years. Before that the paper was known successively as the News, the Record and the Jack sonian. When the property was acquired by Prof. Alfred Aker man in 1907 the name was chan ged to The Butts County Progress Since the paper has been un der the present management a' number of substantial improve ments have been made. The of fice is now the best equipped be tween Macon and Atlanta on the Southern Railway. On the first of January 1912 the paper was bought by J. D. Jones, the present owner and editor. That the people appreciate a clean, newsy and progressive newspaper is proved by the pa tronage accorded The Progress in the past. The policy of print ing “all the news fit to print” — and printing it first—has won the paper many friends in all parts of the county. Its sub scribers are the permanent, sticking kind. For the patronage accorded the paper in past years the manage ment is profoundly grateful. In the future The Progress will continue to work for those con structive measures which it con siders for the best interests' of Butts county and this section. NO WAR TAX STAMP FOR GEORGIA COUNTY OFFICERS Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31. —State and county officers in every Geor gia town will be gratified to learn that their bonds for faithful ser vice need not bear the govern ment war tax stamp. Governor John M. Slaton was for some time doubtful about this matter. The Atlanta revenue collector ruled that the tax was required, but Governor Slaton is a believer in state’s rights ihd decided to look further into the matter before calling on the* county officers to pay the tax. So i he wrote direct to headquarters at Washington, and the chieif of the department said the tax would not b? required. sWe and county officers will be saVed a total of at least SI,OOO ruling. NUMBER 1.