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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.