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BUIS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter, Novera
**r 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
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but as an evidence of good faith.
The rain crop is prolific all right
Now is a good time to pay what
you owe.
Cotton has reached 8 cents.
Let her climb.
The tax fi fa will soon be num
bered among those present.
To prove that he was yellow,
Blease resigned under fire.
You cannot possibly raise too
many hogs and cattle this year.
Plant a hog. Raise some chick
ens. Try some cattle, too, and
swat the cost of living.
Mr. Rye is governor of Tennes
see. Whether the straight stuff
or blended we can’t say.
The stork having made Presi
dent Wilson a grandpa another
squall is due at the White House.
How about building a flour mill
in Jackson this spring? Such an
enterprise is needed to encourage
wheat production in Butts county
That lynching at Monticello
was a most disgraceful affair and
does no credit to the law-abiding
and God-fearing citizens of Jas
per county.
If you are going to do any
building now is a good time to
begin. Material and labor can
be secured for less than they will
cost later on.
Go the limit in raising food
crops, Mr. Farmer. The mer
chants of Jackson will buy all
you have to sell. Don’t be afraid
of glutting the market.
The daily papers are paying
cable tolls on a lot of war stuff
that couldn’t get by the desk of
the editor of the Bingville Bugle
ordinarily. At that we under
stand it comes high.
The chicken editor of The Ma
con Telegraph is growing enthu
siastic over poultry. He should
come up to Jackson and see the
yellow-legged pure bred chickens
that have made Butts county fa
mous.
Raise hogs. Everybody raise
hogs. Raise all the hogs you can.
Raise as big hogs as you can.
Make this a hog year in Laurens
county. You may lose some of
them by cholera; but, then you
know', you may make only half a
crop of cotton on account of un
favorable weather conditions and
lose, also in that manner. We
wish we could shout it from the
house-tops-“RAISE HOGS.”-
The Dublin Courier-Herald.
The Toll of Death in War
In countless homes throughout Europe are heard lamentation
and bitter weeping. Millions —yea, hundreds of millions —refuse
to be comforted because their loved ones have gone down into the
Valley of the Shadow of Death, from which many will never re
turn. Husbands, fathers, brothers, sweethearts have said good
by, and to millions perhaps it will be earth’s last good-by to all
that they hold dearest, to all that is more priceless to them than all
material things. On many a battlefield the Grim Reaper will take
his heavy toll. Thousands, perchance a million or more, will die
in awful suffering without any loving hand to ease the pangs of
torture, while many other millions will be maimed for life —some
with limbs shot away, some with eyesight gone, some doomed to
agony as long as life lasts.
When our loved ones pass from us after everything that science
can suggest has been done to lengthen their stay and ease their
pain, we bow before the awful visitor. Death, and with burdened
hearts and bowed heads, even though we have an abiding faith in
that eternal life beyond the grave, take up life’s work again. But
on the battlefield the dying, torn and shattered by the awtul power
of the weapons that man’s ingenuity has furnished for killing man,
must suffer the tortues of agonies of pain and the horrors of the
dead and dying around them.
For every death of the body on these battlefields there are
many deaths of the hearts broken by the fearful strain and the
overwhelming sorrows of mothers and wives and sisters and sweet
hearts and other loved ones who will go down to the grave with
bitter weeping, unable to find comfort in any thought of tender
ministrations or last words of love and hope of a meeting beyond
the grave.
This war, so unspeakably unnecessary, so awful in its magni
tude, so incomprehensible in any real reason for its exestence,
ought surely to give pause to the nations of the earth, and men
and women ought everywhere to unite in prayer that in some way
its fearful march be halted and in some way peace be brought back
to Europe and tens of millions be made to rejoice that their loved
ones are to be saved from the useless sacrifice which has already
cost so many lives and broken so many hearts. And surely we
should pray that this country may forever be saved from any spirit
of war, and that its people and its officials may forever remember
that a soft answer turneth away wrath, and that the world is to be
conquered not by might, but by right. Worthless is the commerce
and the wealth of the world when weighed in the balance against
death and broken hearts.
Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, and the
victories of peace lift mankind to a higher life; they bring joy in
stead of sorrow to every heart and home. Well may this nation
and every other on bended knees pray that peace may soon come
to Europe, and that we shall forever be known as a peace-loving
and peace-preserving nation. —Manufacturers Record.
Things are getting better. A
number of mills that have been
closed down are opening up and
others are running on full time.
Cotton is looking up and better
times are coming. Look for the
silver lining and be a booster.
Adequate market facilities
must be pro', ided for the pro
ducts of Georgia farms before
crop diversification proves much
of a success. The marketing
conference to be held in Macon
is an important one and should
be largely attended.
Mr. Lincoln once said: “I don’t
know much about the tariff, but
I do know that if my wife buys
her cloak in America, we get the
money and the cloak, and that
American labor is paid for pro
ducing it; if she buys her cloak
abroad, we get only the cloak;
the other country gets the money
and foreign labor receives the
benefit.”—American Economist.
This is something to think about
when you are buying your mater
ials. Put vour money where it
will do the most good, and keep
as much of it as you can on this
side.—Exchange.
The Home Paper.
Ex-Gov. David R. Francis of
Missouri once said the following
of newspapers: ‘‘Each year the
local paper gives from SSOO to
st,ooo in free lines to the com
munity in which he is located.
No other agency can or will do
this. The editor, in proportion
to his means, does more for his
town than any ten men, and in
fairness he ought to be
supported—not because you like
him or admire his writings, but
because the local paper is the
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FOR LIVER AND BOWELS
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stipation, Biliousness,
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Breath—-Candy Cathartic
No odds how bad your liver,
stomach or bowels; how much
your head aches, how miserable
you are from constipation, indi
gestion; biliousness and sluggish
bowels—you always get relief
with Cascarets. They immediate
ly cleanse and regulate the stom
ach, remove the sour, fermenting
food and foul gases; take the ex
cess bile from the liver and carry
off the constipated waste matter
and poison from the intestines
and bowels. AlO cent box from
your druggist will keep your liv
er and bowels clean, stomach
sweet and head clear for months.
They work while you sleep, ad
best investment a community can
make. It may not be brilliantly
edited or crowded with thought,
but financially it is of more bene
fit to the community than the
preacher or teacher. Understand
me, I do not mean mentally, and
yet on moral questions you will
find most of the papers on the
the right side. Today the editor
of the local papers do the most
for the least money of any peo
ple on earth.’’
One reason why the American
navy costs so much more, in pro
portion, than other navies is the
fact, as everybody knows, that
our sailors are paid so much more
than sailors in foreign uniforms.
And yet there has been no loud
cry from anybody for a reduction
of their pay. If there is any
change in the amount of the
money they get it will be more
likely an increase than a de
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 *RgKoJISL Store
The Man Vi ho 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.
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The J. S. Johnson Company
Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84
crease. An American rear ad
miral gets twice as much as a
French admiral and will likely
keep on getting it until France
increases her rear admiral’s pay.
An American ordinary seamen,
third class gets more than four
times as much as a French sailor
of the same standing, but there
is no demand on the part of
Americans that our ordinary sea
men shall get no more than his
French counterpart. —Savannah
News.
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