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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 33.
CITY MAY HAVE AN
EXTENSION SCHOOL
College on Wheels Will
Make Tour
COUNTY MUST RAISE S3O
Farmers Institute Will Be
Held Here During The
Week of Superior Court
If Funds Are Raised
The extension department of
the College of Agriculture has
offered to hold a four days and
night school at some railroad
point in Butts county, provided
as many as 30 pupils enroll at
$1 .00 each for the course offered.
There will be several promi
nent speakers from the College,
including Dr. Soule himself. At
night there will be illustrated
lectures, to be shown at the school
building.
This school carries along a car
load of cattle, spraying machin
ery, veterinary implements and
other things to add to the in
structiveness of the course. This
is a short course in agriculture
brought to your door, and it will
be highly beneficial to all who
attend.
It is proposed to hold the school
during the week of superior
court. Those desiring to enroll
should see me or Mr. J. D. Jones
at once, as other counties are
bidding for the school.
H. L. Worsham,
Demonstration Agent.
BAPTIST MEETING IN
ATLANTA FEB. 23-25
Jackson, Ga., Feb. Ist 1915
To the Churches of the Kimbell
Association.
Dear Brethren: —On February
23, 24 and 25 there is to be a
state wide Baptist Men’s Meeting
to be held at the Tabernacle
church in the city of Atlanta for
the purpose of thinking, speaking
and praying about things of
Christ’s Kingdom.
There is a wide feeling that
our brethren ought to “touch el
bows” on the vital matters per
taining to the Kingdom. There
is a desire that all of the pastors
and leading laymen should be
imbued with a deeper spirituality
and to become obsessed with a
vision of our relationship to our
God.
Such subjects as “Deeper De
votion Among Men,” “Steward
ship of Life,” “The Layman and
his Bible,” “The Layman and
his Prayer Meeting,” “Christian
Citizenship” and subjects of
like nature will be discussed by
our strongest and best men.
Not a collection of any kind
will be taken. The only desire
is that the Christian men from
all over the state should meet to
gether to pray and plan for new
religious fervor and endeavor so
that God can use our best for
Him.
Every pastor is earnestly re-
SUPERIOR COURT TO
MEET ON FEB. 15
The spring term of superior
court will be convened here on
Monday. Feb. 15, just ten days
from now.
The 1915 session promises to
be an unusually busy and inter
esting one. Court will be held
for two weeks and a great deal
of pending litigation should be
cleared up during that time.
The civil docket has been made
up through Wednesday and con
tains about fifty cases.
It is not known exactly when
the criminal docket will be taken
up. There is a large number of
criminal cases to be heard, some
of them being important. There
are a good many jail cases and
Judge Daniel will probably make
a determined effort to clear the
jail of prisoners.
Interest will center around the
findings of the grand jury, and
the county officers will make their
annual reports at this time.
$1,500 INNEW
WORK PLANNED
Will Improve Telephone
Service
THREE COUNTIES UNITE
Butts, Spalding And Henry
Counties Prove That
Business Is Good-Will
Repair Phone Line
Griffin, Ga., Feb. I.—As the
culmination of the efforts of about
fifty subscribers of the Southern
Bell Telephone Cos. in Cabin and
Akin district, work will commence
at an early date on tearing down
the old poles and lines and erect
ing new ones with modern station
all along the line.
The improvements as planned
involve an expenditure of about
$1,500 and include extensions into
Butts and Henry counties and the
consequent addition of twenty or
thirty stations.
This improvement has been
under consideration for several
months and its prosecution just
at this time is convincing proof
that the farmers of Spalding,
Butts and Henry counties have
faith in the future which they
are willing to show by their works
quested to attend the meeting
and the leading laymen of the
churches are also requested to
attend.
The inspiration to be gathered
from such meetings cannot but
be helpful and a blessing to the
entire state.
Trusting that you will act
promptly on this suggestion,
I am,
Yours very sincerely,
F. S. Etheridge,
Moderator Kimbell Association. 1
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1915.
WILL DISCUSS
MARKETS FRIDAY
Important Meeting in The
Court House
EXPECT BIG ATTENDANCE
Markets For Products of
The Farm Will Be Dis
cussed at Representative
Gathering Friday
County wide interest centers
in the meeting of farmers and
merchants to be held in the court
house at 10 o’clock Friday morn
ing to discuss ways and means of
marketing farm products.
The meeting has been exten
sively advertised and there will
no doubt be a large and repre
sentative gathering present on
that occasion. The meeting will
be held under the direction of
the Butts County Farmers’ Union,
Addresses will be made by a
number of those in attendance,
and the best methods to be pur
sued in preparing farm products
for market and the way of dis
posing of corn, oats, wheat, peas
and other articles will be outlined
and a practical, working plan
agreed on.
The meeting Friday will be
similar to those held in Albany,
Macon and other cities in the
state. The movement for a cash
market for food stuffs is a very
important one and it is hoped the
citizens from all parts of the
county will turnoutto the meeting
COMMISSIONER PRICE FIXES
RULES FOR FERTILIZER USERS
There has been much confusion
resulting from the violation of law
regulating the sale of fertilizers
in this state, which I deem it my
duty to call attention to so as to
obviate a repetition in the future.
1. The primary object of the
fertilizer law is to protect the
consumer from fraud; obviously
he is not protected if any one is
permitted to made a sale to him
of fertilizers that have not been
duly registered and subject to in
spection by this department. It
is, therefore, ordered that when
any manufacturer, or manipula
tor of fertilizers, as well as any
one buying fertilizer in bulk to
be used on the land of the pur
chaser, by himself or his wage
hands, and not for sale, it shall
be the duty of the seller of such
fertilizer material to remit to this
department on day of shipment
10c per ton for every ton thus
shipped, and for which no in
spection tags will be issued—the
amount being accounted for by
this department in the account
of bulk sales.
2. Any manipulator or manu
facturer can mix said materials
on which the tax has been paid
for said purchaser as he requests,
but the said mixture would not
be subject to inspection or analy
sis by the state department.
3. A list ot registered manu
facturers and manipulators of
fertilizers will be furnished upon
request to this department, and
this list shall contain only the
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
WILL BE INSPECTED
Knights Templar of Jackson
are looking forward with inter
est to the annual inspection of
Alexius Commandery Friday ev
ening. At that time Sir Knight
John W. Murrell, of Atlanta,
Grand Captain General, and Sir
Knight M. A. Weir, of Macon,
Grand Treasurer, of the Grand
Commandery, will visit the com
mandery in an official capacity.
The Sir Knights will assemble
in the Asylum promptly at 7 p. m.
Sir Knight Weir will instruct the
commandery and later the com
mandery will be inspected by
Sir Knight Murrell.
The Order of the Temple will
be conferred at the meeting
Friday night.
A large attendance of the mem
bers not only in Jackson but in
McDonough and Monticello is de
sired at the inspection. The Sir
Knights will attend in full Tem
plar uniform.
JUDGE HAM IN
CHARGE SCHOOLS
He Will Act During Mr.
Maddox’s Illness
BOARD MET ON TUESDAY
Teachers Will Receive Sal
aries And Other Bills to
Be Paid —Busy Time For
School Superintendent
The Board of Education of
Butts county at its meeting on
Tuesday decided to place Judge
J. H. Ham, Ordinary, in charge
of the schools during the illness
of County School Superintendent
C. S. Maddox. Judge Ham has
been looking after the office for
the past few days and met with
the board Tuesday.
This is one of the busiest sea
sons of the year in the office of
the school superintendent as the
various schools are now in opera
tion. The board authorized Judge
Ham to issue checks to all the
teachers and pay other bills that
had been passed on.
There was a full meeting of
the board, with the exception of
Mr. W. F. Huddleston.
Judge Ham is familiarizing
himself with the duties of the of
fice as rapidly as possible and is
filling the position most accepta
bly.
names of the parties who are au
thorized to purchase materials
without the payment of the tax
as above indicated. If a manu
facturer or manipulator of fer
tilizers receives materials from a
customer, with the request from
said customer to manipulate or
mix said materials for sale, or to
be used on joint account with
others, such manufactured fertil
izers shall be duly branded and
registered with this department
by said vendors, and the same
shall be duly tagged and subject
to an inspection in accordance
with the law. When said vendor
has registered his fertilizers with
this department, he will not be
required to pay tax on materials
BIG INCREASE IN
COTTON GINNED
Butts Will Have A Large
Yield
SECOND LARGEST CROP
Figures Show Sixth Dis
trict Counties to Be Far
Ahead of The Ginnings
For The Year 1913
Prior to January 15 Butts coun
ty had ginned 16,206 bales of
cotton. This is compared with
14,785 bales in 1913.
The total for the state num
bers 2,595,522 bales, as against
2,314,101 bales the year before.
Burke county still leads the
state with ginnings of 56,704
bales, Laurens county standing
second with 56,525 bales.
The number of bales ginned in
the counties of the sixth district
for the past two years follow:
County 1914 1913
Bibb 14,069 10,602
Butts 16,206 14,785
Clayton 14,364 12,169
Crawford 8,355 6,306
Fayette 17,328 13,132
Henry 30,649 27,752
Jasper 27,383 25,883
Jones 16,530 13,761
Monroe 24,787 24,230
Pike 26,249 22,994
Spalding 20,477 17,617
Upson 16,544 15,195
It now seems certain that the
1914 crop in Butts county was
the second largest ever known,
standing next to the record yield
of 1911. There is a considerable
quantity of cotton in the county
yet to be ginned.
CORN CLUB BOYS
GOING TO FRISCO SHOW
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4—The far
mer bovs of Georgia will be rep
resented at the coming Panama-
Pacific exposition at San Francis
co by Edward Welborn, of Mad
ion, who is one of the vice presi
dents of the Top Notch club.
Young Welborn holds a record of
182 bushels of corn to the acre.
This club is headed by another
Southern boy, Walter Dunson, of
Alexander City, Ala., who made
2&2 bushels to the acre. Many of
the corn club boys are going to
the great San Francisco show,
which opens on February 20, and
farmers of all the South are ex
pected to attend in numbers to
take advantage of the wonderful
agricultural exhibits.
entering into the composition of
said fertilizers, but every sack
thus sold shall bear a tax tag. A
farmer or a consumer of fertili
zers has a right to buy bulk ma
terials from any manufacturer or
manipulator for his own use
ONLY, the manufacturer or ma
nipulator paying the inspection
fee as provided in clause two.
4. The sole object of this rul
ing is to protect the user3 of fer
tilizers, to see that they reach
them in proper and legal shape
to be inspected and analyzed as
provided by law.
J. D. Price,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
NUMBER 6.