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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 33.
FARMERS WILL
DISCUSS MARKETS
Meeting In Jackson Friday
February sth
PUBLIC URGED TO ATTEND
Cash Market For Grain
Crops Will Be Consider
ed-Large Attendance Is
Expecfted at Meet
The farmers of Butts county
will hold a meeting in Jackson on
Friday, February sth, for the
purpose of discussing the market
ing of farm products. The meet
ing will be held under the auspi
ces of the Farmers’ Union and a
cordial invitation is extended the
people of the entire county to
be present.
No question before the South
is any more important than that
of providing markets for farm
produce, such as hay, corn, peas,
oats, etc. Until there is a cash
market for such articles no head
way can be made at crop diversi
fication and cotton will continue
to be the money crop of the South.
The whole matter will be thor
oughly discussed at the approach
ing meeting.
The sessions will be held at 10
a. m. in the court house in Jack
son and all those interested in
better farming and greater pros
perity for the South should be on
hand at that time.
BOND MARKET BETTER
SAYS GOVERNOR SLATON
Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 28—Governor
John M. Slaton is about as opti
mistic a man as there is in Geor
gia and this week he pointed out
several indications that times
were growing easier and business
better.
“Take the money market for
instance/’ he said. “That’s a
good barometer of business
weather. A short time ago I
went to New York to see about
selling an issue of three and one
half million in state bonds. Mon
ey was tight. If I had sold then
the discount would have made
the state pay about 6* per cent
interest on the bonds.
“Today the bonds are worth
about par, and a sale would mean
that the state would pay only 41
per cent.’’
The governor will soon put the
bonds on public sale. He ex
pressed the hope that every one
would be taken by Georgia folks.
If You Accept A Paper
You Must Pay For It
Atlanta, Ga.,Jan. 28—Under a
recent ruling of the courts it is
decided that if a man accepts a
newspaper sent to him he must
pay for it.
The decision was rendered in
the case of a paper sent to a man’s
home by mail and regularly ac
cepted by him, though he claim
ed that he never subscribed to it,
or had ordered it discontinued.
The court ruled that the old
common law principle applies in
this case and that what a man
received and used he was bound
to pay for.
FARMERS’ UNION MET
IN OUBLIN LAST WEEK
The Georgia Farmers’ Union in
session in Dublin last week voted
to move the headquarters from
Union City to Douglas.
The state convention was de
clared a most successful one,
several strong talks being feat
ures. A good attendance was
registered at the Dublin meeting.
A Butts county man, Hon. J.
H. Mills, of Jenkinsburg, was
elected vice president of the or
der. He was formerly one of the
state lecturers and has been in
terested in the work for a num
ber of years.
The state officers include:
President—J. J. Brown, El
berton.
Vice president—J. H. Mills,
Jenkinsburg.
Secretary and treasurer—Fred
Ricketson, Douglas.
Lecturer and organizer—P. J.
Wooten, Clayton county.
Chaplain—J. L. English, Cof
fee county.
Doorkeeper—J. L. Long, Lib
erty county.
Rev. Z. E. Barron and Mr.
Mills were the delegates from
Butts county.
COTTON MILLS
ON FIVE DAYS
New Schedule Effective
Last Week
ORDERS AREIMPROVING
Revival in Business Reflec
ted in Increase in Time
of The Pepperton Cotton
Mills of This City
The Pepperton Cotton Mills of
this city are now running five
days a week. This schedule was
started last week. The mills
have been running four days a
week for some time, and the in
crease in time is taken to mean
an improvement in conditions and
a picking up in orders.
The extra time will naturally
be gratifying to the operatives
several hundred of whom are em
ployed.
Business conditions throughout
the South are improving steadily
and cotton mills and factories are
running on full time again.
The Pepperton Cotton Mills,
owned by home capital, is Jack
son’s largest enterprise and a
select line of goods are manufac
tured.
Oak Hill 1913 School Tax
Has Been Received
The 1913 school tax of Oak Hill
district, of the Central Georgia
Power Company, amounting to
$1,194, was received last week by
Judge J. H. Ham. The money
was turned over to the proper
parties and will be used to pay
all claims against the school.
Oak Hill district, the most fa
vored in the county financial by
reason of drawing support from
the power company, has since
been merged into the county
wide system which Butts county
voted last year.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1915.
LARGER ACREAGE
PLANTED IN GRAIN
Georgia Shows up Well
This Year
COTTON LAND FOR GRAIN
Interesting Figures Prepar
ed By The Federal De
partment of Agriculture
at Washington, D. C.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 23
The acreage planted to oats last
fall in cotton states exceeded
that of the preceeding year by
nearly 2,000,000 acres, and the
increase in Southern wheat acre
age was almost as great, the de
partment of agriculture announc
ed tonight. The department’s
figures follow:
Planted in oats, fall of 1913,
2,456,000; 1914, 4,355,000.
Planted in wheat, fall of 1913,
5,459,000; 1914, 7,271,000.
The wheat and oats increase,
the department said, appears to
have been more than 10 per cent
of the acreage planted to cotton
last year. Reports to the depart
ment indicate an intention on the
part of the southern planters to
considerably increase the acreage
of the 1915 spring planting of
corn and spring oats.
The following table, prepared
by the department, gives the
acreage increase in southern
states:
Wheat Oat
Increase Increase
STATE, Acres. Acres.
North Carolina,_ 470,000 98,000
South Carolina.,. 164,000 036,000
Georgia 170,000 328,000
Florida 20,000
Alabama.. 63,000 258,000
Mississippi, l 1,000 156,000
Louisiana. 94,000
Texas 228,000 291,000
Arkansas 56,000 154,000
Tennessee 145,000 124,000
Oklahoma 515,000 44,000
Total 1,812,000 1,903,000
NO BLACK SHRINE WILL
BE ALLOWED IN STATE
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 28—Mem
bers of the Mystic Shrine all over
the South—and there are many
in the smaller towns who belong
to one of the city temples—will
be interested in learning that the
negro has been ousted from his
so-called Shrine.
Some of the blacks started an
imitation of the Shriners some
time ago, adopting a name almost
identically the same and using
the same red fez and emblems.
Through the efforts of Forrest
Adair, potentate of the Atlanta
Temple, and W. H. Terrell, his
attorney, an injunction was hand
ed down by the superior court
restraining the negroes from us
ing the name or emblems of the
well known white order.
THE BEST FIRM
A pretty good firm is Watch & Waite,
And another is Attit, Early & Late,
And still another is Doo & Dareil;
But the best of all is Grin & Barrett.
—P’ebruary Woman’s Home Com
panion.
MRS. N. N. MADDOX DIES
AT THE AGE OF 61 YEARS
The death of Mrs. N. N. Mad
dox occurred at her home near
High Falls at an early hour Sat
urday morning. Death was due
to a complication of diseases.
Mrs. Maddox was born July
13, 1853, and accordingly was 61
years and seven months and ten
days old. Before her marriage
she was a Miss McCallum and a
native of this county. Mrs. Mad
dox was truly a good woman, es
teemed by all who knew her for
her unselfish and noble character.
She was a member of Providence
Methodist church.
Mrs. Maddox is survived by
her husband, one daughter, Miss
Mattie Maddox, six sons, Messrs.
C. L., B. F., L. N., J. 8., Robert
and Cleveland Maddox; four
brothers and three sisters.
Tne funeral services were held
Sunday at noon at Providence
church, Monroe county, her pas
tor, Rev. G. W. Hansford officia
ting. The sympathy of a host of
friends go out to the family in
their sorrow.
EXECUTIONS TO
BE ISSUED SOON
Books Will Close January
The Thirtieth
THEN FOR TAX FI FAS
Several Hundred Persons
Have Failed to Settle Tax
Account With County
And State For 1914
Tax Collector C. S. Bryant has
issued a warning that he would
close his books Saturday, Janu
ary 30, which date is close at
hand. After that time the tax
fi fa will be abroad in the land
and will get you if you don’t be
good and pay up.
There remains of state and
county taxes uncollected some
thing like $14,000. Mr. Bryant
is naturally anxious to get this
amount in so he can satisfy the
state officials who are constantly
writing for money. Mr. Bryant
is also desirous of winding up the
taxes before the meeting of the
February grand jury when his
annual statement must be made.
A good many people have not
yet paid and the work of issuing
executions, which will begin in a
day or two, will be a considera
ble undertaking.
Young Man Sustains The
Loss of Several His Toes
James McMichael, son of Hon.
J. Matt McMichael, happened to
the misfortune of losing three of
his toes last week while cutting
stock. The axe became tangled
in some vines overhead and de
scended oh the young man’s foot
inflicting a painful injury. The
end of the great toe was cut off,
three others were amputated
bodily and the little toe partially
severed.
Mr. McMichael’s wound was
given prompt medical attention
and he is reported to be getting
along nicely.
FREIGHT RECEIPTS
SHOW INCREASE
Business Heavier Than in
January 1914
CALAMITY HOWLERS FLEE
Business Activity Respon
sible For Gain in Railroad
Receipts—Much Cotton
Being Moved Now
To prove that business condi
tions are improving in Butts
county, the volume of freight re
ceipts are larger during January
than for the same time last year,
according to the information
compiled by Mr. J. C. Landers,
local agent of the Southern.
This is due, in part, to the re
cent heavy movements of cotton,
though a general upward tenden
cy in business is apparent. The
amount of cotton handled during
the last several days has been by
far the heaviest of the season.
An encouraging feature of the
figures quoted by Mr. Landers is
that there is a very limited quan
tity of corn, hay, oats and other
food stuffs being shipped to the
local merchants. This indicates
forcibly that the farmers of Butts
county produced large food crops
last year and that they are mak
ing their farms more nearly self
sustaining each year.
Business is getting better.
The calamity howler has taken
to the woods.
THE SMALL PAPER
SELLS THE GOODS
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 28—“ It is
the small town paper which sells
our goods, ’’ said George W. Dodd,
traveling man for a big eastern
manufacturing house, before a
meeting of advertising men in
Atlanta this week.
“We sell to the small town
merchants and the live ones ad
vertise them in their home papers
I can go over the sales reports
and show you just which mer
chants advertise and which do
not—it is as plain as day, for
I’ve checked up on them.
“It’s a big mistake for the ‘lit
tle fellow’ to think he cannot ad
vertise. Why, the hardware
store or the grocery in the small
town can reach more possible
customers in his home paper per
dollar spent than the biggest de
partment stores in Atlanta who
pay several dollars an inch for
space. His home paper goes to
almost every customer in his ter
ritory. Can any city paper say
as much?”
MEETING KNIGHTS
TEMPLTR TONIGHT
A special convocation of
yjw Alexius Commandery No.
22, Knights Templar, will beheld
in the Asylum Friday night at
7:30 o’clock. Practice and drill
work will be engaged in. Every
Sir Knight is expected to be pres
ent in regulation uniform.
J. D. Jones, E. C.
F. M. Allen. Recorder.
NUMBER 5.