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Bins COUINTV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year. Entered aa necond-cla** matter, Novem- Sr 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackaon, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to ?00 words, as communications ever that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Whoop up hog and hominy. Give preference to Georgia products. Insist on home-grown, home manufactured goods. Buy home products wherever possible and insist upon the other fellow doing the same. If the rain continues for a few weeks longer we’ll bet on a re duced cotton acreage. I ■ The advertised article will bear inspection. Can you say as much for the product that is never ad vertised? This is one year everybody should forget about politics and put in a good year’s work for home enterprises. The cotton crop of Butts county last year was one of the largest ever grown. This year let the grain crop be a record one.— Is the day of the city court j numbered? Butts and Monroe abolished their intermediate courts and Spalding is likely to follow suit. ===== Hundreds of people are blam ing their misfortunes on the Eu ropean war who were already down and out, sagely remarks the Griffin News. The Progress insists that this county should have a flour mill. The sooner it is built the better. This section must begin to raise its wheat and make its own flour. The Spalding county grand jury recommended a bond issue of $50,000 for public improvements. Bonds are being voted by a num ber of cities and counties at this time. Judge Charles L. Bartlett has been mentioned for judge of the new federal court which it is pro posed to establish in south Geor gia. He would have strong sup port should he seek the place. The Macon News wants to see i Tom Watson write a history of Georgia. He is qualified to turn out; a history tha t would be a credit to the state and it is hoped that Mr. W r atson can be induced to attempt the work. After a lot of talk and wind jamming, during which time the South will be vilified by the nor thern press, the Monticello lynch ing will be entirely forgotten and there will probably be no indict ments at all. This is the history of such eases. “The marry a Georgia girl” slogan is carrying the patronize home-enterprises campaign to a logical and happy solution. If Editor Bloodworth of The Mon roe Advertiser could only be in duced to see it in this light. The Anderson boys are making The Macon Telegraph a better paper than formerly, if possible. “The Old Reliable” is one of the best papers in the South, print ing an abundance of live, clean, constructive state news. The Griffin News and Sun is now forty-four years old. It is among the best papers in the state and the friends of Editor R. L. Duke wish him and the bright paper he edits many more years of success and usefulness. The city court of Griffin is in danger. The recent grand jury recommended that the people vote on whether the court should be continued. The city court of Griffin is one of the oldest in the state but when the people vote on the matter, good bye court. The Macon Telegraph is rap ping certain methods of the bank ruptcy courts. The bankruptcy law has had its day and probably served a good purpose once, but there are a lot of people who will tell you the law ought to be re pealed. A lynching is an unfortunate outbreak sf lawlessness and as likely to happen in one state as another. The northern press should remember those who live in glass houses should be careful about casting stones.—Butts County Progress. Have happened in nearly all states. The most heinous have taken place in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Macon TelegraDh. A TEXAS WONDER. The Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles, dissolves gravel, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheumatism, and all irregularitiesofthe kidneys and bladder m ootn men anti women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mail on receipt of SI.OO One small bottle is two months’ treat ment, and seldom ever fails to perfect a cure. Send for testimonials from this and other states. Dr. E. W. Hall, 2926 Olive Street, St. .Louis, Mo. Sold by druggists. Does the label on your paper read S. H. THORNTON JACKSON, GA. UNDERTAKING - LICENSED EMBALMER Full line o f Caskets and Robes to select from CEMENT BURIAL VAULTS. My careful personal attention en to all funerals entrusted to me Day Phone 174 AU N*b P , rompt,y Night Phone 193 TRY IT! SUBSTITUTE FOR NASTY CALOMEL Starts your liver without making you sick and it cannot salivate Every druggist in town—your druggist and everybody’s drug gist has noticed a great falling off in the sale of calomel. They all give the same reason. Dod son’s Liver Tone is taking its place. “Calomel is dangerous and peo ple know it, while Dodson’s Liv er Tone is perfectly safe and gives better results,” said a prominent local druggist. Dod son’s Liver Tone is personally guaranteed by every druggist who sells it, A large bottle costs 50 cents, and if it fails to give easy relief in every case of liver sluggishness and constipation you have only to ask for your money back. Dodson’s Liver Tone is a pleas ant-tasting, purely vegetable remedy, harmless to both chil dren and adults. Take a spoon ful at night and wake up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick head ache, acid stomach or constipated bowels. It doesn’t gripe or cause inconvenience all the next day like violent calomel. Take a dose of calomel today and tomor row you will feel weak, sick and nauseated. Don’t lose a day’s work! Take Dodson’s Liver Tone instead and feel fine, full of vigor and ambition, ad Tax Receiver’s Books Now Open For Year The books of Mr. Luther L. Greer, Tax Receiver, were open ed Monday for the receipt of state and county tax returns for the year 1915. Mr. Greer may be found in the office of Judge Ham, Ordinary. This is Mr. Greer’s first term in the office he is now filling and he is proving himself to be a courteous and obliging official. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria.enriches the blood,and builds up the sys* tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. SBc LOST One black Chase brand buggy robe from Jackson Mercantile Company’s hitching ground Sat urday, January 23. Lilly design with red and white effect. Finder return to Progress office and re ceive liberal reward. 1-29-t. Seeds Fop Spring Planting Buy your seeds of all kinds from the old reliable seed of Jackson —Slaton Drug Cos. This &ore has been in the seed business longer than any other seed &ore in the coun ty. We have always given our customers satisfaction by selling them only the be& seeds the American markets afford. Our Seeds Are Fresh And not brought over from last season. You are therefore insured a thorough stand and a prolific production when you plant our seeds. Don’t take any chances on cheap and unreliable seeds. SLATON DRUG CO. The Star* The Man Who Knows How '--Tn% jk to put an auto in shape “is not nu ll merous” but there are plenty who yi// WjtN& claim to have the ability. Expert, CvMnJv/T P ractical mechanical 'knowledge is 1 absolutely necessary, and it takes Y \;| time to acquire the necessary skill. We make a specialty of Automobile repairs of all kinds, and also keep a Undertakers and Embalmers Oldest and Most Efficient Undertakers in this Section Expert Licensed Embalmers > Our Undertaking Parlors Modernly Equipped to Furnish the Best of Selections in Caskets and Robes The J. S. Johnson Company Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84 FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS “ Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield, Succession and Flat Dutch. Prices f o. b. Meggett, by express. Son for 75c, 1.000 for $1.25. 2to 4.OPC at SI.OO per 1.000.5 to 9,000 at 90c per 1.000, 10 to *24,000 and over (shipped at one time.) 75c per 1.000, '25.000 and over (shipped at one time) 66c per thousand. Our plants are as good as the best, our service Is unexcelled, our prices are low. If you want 500 for your garden, or enough for one or more acres for market send us your orders and get prompt service Please send cash with each order. S. M. GIBSON CO.. Meggett' S. C.