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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1915)
BUIIS CUIMV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as aecond-clafw matter, Novem **er 8,1907, at the postoffieeat Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Communications am 'velcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to ; ! Q0 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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. The city election is out of the way. Now settle down. Lest we forget, what has be come of the boll weevil? Don’t allow a single rural route to be abolished through your neg ligence. Though the new year came in on Friday things are going along pretty well. It is a dull day when Mexico does not sprout anew revolution or elect anew president. How much will you give to have the demonstration work con tinued in Butts county? The average new year resolu tion is now as broke as the man who has just paid his taxes. If you have any building to do now is a good time to start it. Join “The build now” movement. Griffin has placed a tax of $15,- 000 on near beer. That is put ting the thirst out of reach all right. The Augusta Chronicle is do ing some of the best work for its community of any newspaper in the South. The year 1915 will be a sure enough off-year in politics, though there is sure to be a good deal of planning for 1916. Whenever you write to your friends away from home don’t forget to say something good about Butts county. Mr. Business Man. if you are going to continue in business and want the people to know it, don’t haul down the advertising flag. If you can’t pay all you owe, pay as much as you can. Protect your credit at all cost. Act in good faith with your creditors and you’ll find that they will meet you half way. The credit system is going to get a heavy jolt as a result of some things now happening in this country. The sooner this country gets on a cash basis the better it will be for all concerned. “A job for every man,” is a popular and appropriate slogan in many of the cities. The prob lem of the unemployed is becom ing a serious one and a number of cities are planning bond issues for public improvements as a igneans of providing work for the Mbeads of families. HELP THE MAIL CARRIER The post office department is likely to abolish some of the ru ral routes unless the patrons pa tronize the system more liberal ly. A dispatch from Washington to that effect is published else where in this issue. That would be a serious blow to the people of any community. The rural free delivery of mail has brought education and en lightenment to the people of this country. Next to the public schools the rural delivery of mail is the greatest educator. Get busy today and resolve to patronize the carrier on your par ticular route. Select a list of standard newspapers, journals and magazines for your 1915 reading and order them now. A reading public is a thinking pub lic. Don’t retrench at the ex pense of your mental food. Take the suggestion of the post office department for what it is worth. But the safe thing to do is to patronize the rural mail system liberally during 1915. Something Worth a Boa^l In Georgia the average yield of corn per acre is about 16 bushels, In the whole county it is around 25.8 bushels. If in Georgia it were based only on the acreage cultivated by the corn club boys of Appling, Whitfield, Pickens, Butts, Chattahoochee, Meriweth er and Upson counties, it would be between 65 and 70 bushels. The difference between 15.5 and 65 bushels shows to a consider able extent the difference be tween haphazard, unintelligent, listless farming, and hustling, intelligent farming. The coun ties named are sufficiently scat tered to indicate that in almost any county in the state the yield of corn per acre could he increas ed to at least double its present amount. It is particularly gratifying that in the county corn club con test the first prize awarded at the state fair was won by Ap pling county, which is in Savan nah territory, bound to her by many ties of business and friend ship, ties that are sure to grow stronger and more numerous when plans for bridging the Al tamaha are carried out. In Ap pling county 132 boys joined the club and stuck to it through the months of cultivating their crop and rounded out the season with the reports that are required of corn club members. That is a record of which the boys and the county have every reason to be proud. All the 100-bushel acres in the state have not yet been heard from but enough have been re ported to show that in spite of the fact that weather conditions were not very favorable for pro ducing a good corn crop there is a very long list of boys names on the 100-bushel honor roll. Near ly 40 had exhibits at the state fair. All of which shows what can be done with Georgia soil and Georgia climate if they are helped out with intelligent work. That combination cannot be beaten. Georgia wants to con- The Jackson Progress celebra ted its thirty-third anniversary this week. It is one of the sprightliest and best weekly newspapers in Georgia, being well managed and ably edited. We congratulate Editor Jones on the work he is doing in Jackson and wish him abundant success dvring the new year.— Griffin News. TAKES OFF DANORUFF HAIR STOPS FALLIN6 Save Your Hair! Get a 25c Bottle of Danderine Right Now—Also Stops Itch ing Scalp. Thin, brittle, colorless andscrag gy hair is mute evidence of a neg lected scalp; of dandruff—that awful scurf. There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life; eventually pro ducing a feverishness and itching of the scalp, which if not reme died causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die —then the hair falls out fast. A little Dan derine tonight —now—any time — will surely save your hair. Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowl ton’s Danderine from any drug store. You surely can have beau tiful hair and lots of it if you just try a little Danderine. Save your hair! Try it! ad vince farmer homeseekers in other less favored sections that this state offers them unusual opportunities for making a good living, and she can do that in no better way than bv giving pub licity to such records as corn club boys have made this year. This state wants on its yet un cultivated acreage newcomers who look before they move, who weigh the advantages various states that desire homeseekers have to offer. It wants farmers who look into soil and climate conditions in advance of locating because that sort of farmer may be expected to be as careful and as painstaking in his farming as he is in seeking a home. If he reads about great number of yields of corn harvested by boys in Georgia, he is likely to think that adult farmers could do even better with corn, and that if they can do so well with corn it is likely that they can do as well with a great variety of other crops. Which they can do.—Sa vannah Morning News. Plles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The first application gives Ease and Re9t. 50c. COTTON AND HOGS. One citizen of Colquitt county received a check the other day for SB7B for sixty-two head of hogs. That was a little over sl4 a head, the price of two hogs be ing about equal to that of a bale of cotton less the ginning. Which is the easiest for a farmer to raise, one bale of cotton or two head ot hogs? But it was not a farmer that sold the hogs to the packing plant; very probably the average Colquitt county farmer is like the average in Tift—too busy raising cotton to fool away any time with hogs. It was a merchant of Moultrie who does a little farming on the side that raised the profitable crop of hogs. —Tifton Gazette. Patronize Your Own Land. Corn is going to be very high this year. Hay will be high, hogs will be high and cattle will be high. Cotton will not be high this year, is the prediction of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. It also further says that if you are determined to raise cotton, then you had better raise enough hogs, corn and hay to feed your self and your stock. If you are financially able to get along with out growing any cotton, there never was a better time than now to begin an investment in 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 The Man Who Knows How Ik to put an auto in shape “is not nu jpJF merous” but there are plenty who practical mechanical knowledge is time to acquire the necessary skill. We make a specialty of Automobile . r ®pairs of all kin(|s, and also keep a 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 live stock and in that farming which will most nearly sustain you with things grown on the farm. Patronize your own in stead of the farms of lowa and Illinois. Cultivate your own soil instead of paying somebody whom you do not know to culti- vate the soil which you have nev er seen. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove’s The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives oat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Bunds np the Whole System. 50 ceuU,
