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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.