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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 33.
WOULD PLACE TREASURER
ON A STRAIGHT SALARY
Grand Jury Makes A Number of
Interesting Recommendations
Suggest That Court House Square Be Improved, That
Committee Examine County’s Financial Standing,
That A White Janitor Be Employed at The Court
House, That Farm Demonstrator Be Retained And
Vacancies in Offices Are Filled—All County Of
ficers Are Warmly Complimented by The Jury
We, the grand jury, empaneled
for this term of court after com
pleting our duties as per our oath,
take pleasure in submitting as
the result of our labors and de
liberations the following general
presentments:
Criminals
We have endeavored conscien
tiously underour oaths to examine
impartially and deliberately into
each case brought to our attention
for investigation, and have ren
dered our verdict in accordance
with the evidence in the case,
without favor or malice to any
one. No case brought before us
has escaped our attention and
there is very little—if any —un-
finished business on the docket.
Reports
Every committee appointed to
look into the various matters of
the county have performed their
duties to the best of their ability
and from these reports—hereto
attached—we beg leave to make
the following recommendations:
First, we believe that we have
the best interest of the whole
county at heart, and that being
true, our first recommendation
would be that our recommenda
tions be carried out and not for
gotten lie till resurrected or re
peated by our successors, which
is so often the case.
Bublic Buildings
This committee reports that
they find the court house and jail
in good condition and make the
following recommendations:
Court House
That the porches on the east
and west side be tiled. That an
awning be placed over the vault
window in Ordinary’s office and
that curtains or screens be placed
over the shelving of the records
for protection from dust and air,
also- repairs in the cage, and that
the annex to the Ordinary’s of
fice be made a ladies toilet, as at
present there is no adequate ac
commodation for lady employees
or visitors in the court house. We
find that the bailiff is making a
storage room of the Tax Collec
tor’s office and we recommend
that same be discontinued. We
urge upon the Commissioner of
Roads that he take the road force
and break and grade the court
house square.
We find the jail in good sani
tary condition, with 15 colored
and 1 white prisoners. Recom
mend that the well in jail yard
be filled with dirt
We feel that we cannot be too
lavish ii our praise nor too sin
cere in our thanks to the good la
dies of the Civic League, whose
beautifying touches are conspic
ouusiy present all about the court
house. We think that the entire
county is due them a rousing
vote of thanks.
Clerk and Ordinary’s Office
The committee to examine
these offices report that they
found both offices neatly and cor
rectly kept and desire especially
to commend the officers for their
accuracy and system and for the
clear and legible hand in which
their records are written up.
Every record and all matters per
taining to these offices appear to
be kept jam up.'
Tax Receiver & Tax Collector
We, your committee appointed
to examine these two offices, find
same to be kept neatly and ac
cording to law. Collector’s re
port attached herewith.
The books of the County Com
missioner were examined and
found to be neatly and correctly
kept. Numbers and vochers cor
respond with all warrants issued.
Also his report was rendered and
herewith attached.
The J. P. and N. P. books were
all before us, examined and
found kept according to law. Al
so the books in the Sheriff’s of
fice were found to be correct and
neatly kept.
Convict Camp
We find the convict camp in a
sanitary condition and the fol
lowing property on hand, besides
12 misdemeanor convicts and 16
felonies, total convicts 28:
Property
19 mules and harness for same.
3 mule piachines and 5 wheel
scrapes.
3 dump wagons, 5 two-horse
wagons.
8 drag scrapes, 3 six-horse
plows.
1 four-horse plow, 1 gas engine.
3 heavy road machines, 1 scar
ifier.
6 heavy dump wagons, 2 steel
cars.
1 wooden car, 2 cars for guards.
1 dining car, 4 tents, 1 carload
of timothy hay, 9 barrels cylin
der oil.
2 barrels axle grease. 30 bunks
with springs, 7 head of hogs av
erage 100 lbs. each.
Pauper Farm
At this home we find 6 inmates,
all colored. The following prop
erty: 2 mules, 3 cows, 2 calves,
3 shoats, 4 pigs, 150 bushels of
corn. 1,500 bundles fodder, H
tons hay. 35 gallons syrup, 45
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JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915.
NEW FOREST
SCHOOL FOUNDED
Will Be Located in Greene
County
PROF.AKERMAN AT HEAD
New School Will Be Open
ed in The Summer And
Will Have Broad Field of
Service And Usefulness
Announcement that Prof. Al
fred Akerman, for eight years
head of the School of Forestry in
the University of Georgia, will
establish a forest school near
Greensboro, Greene county, will
be of wide interest throughout
the South. Mr. Akerman is par
ticularly well known in Butts
county through The Progress
which he owned for several years.
Prof. Akerman is a graduate
of the University of Georgia, the
Yale Forest School and has stud
ied in Germany. He is the au
thor of several text books on for
estry and is perhaps the best in
formed student on this important
subject in the South. He for
merly worked for the federal
government in the forest service
and had charge of the Biltmore
forest reserve. Previous to that
time he was state forester of
Massachusetts, wAich position he
resigned to teach in the State
University at Athens. He is a
native Georgian, having been
born at Cartersville, and is a
member of the well known Aker
man family.,
The study of forestry is a very
important one. Georgia formerly
had some of the finest timber in
the world but the supply has been
rapidy depleted in the past few
years. Much of it was wasted
through fires and otherwise. The
shortage of first class building
material will be a serious one in
the near future. It is to correct
these abuses and to conserve the
timber supply of the state that
Mr. Akerman proposes to estab
lish a school of forestry, which
will be made as practical as pos
sible.
In the preliminary announce
ment Prof. Akerman says:
‘ ‘lt has been one of my cher
ished amibitions to serve my na
tive State by promoting the study
and practice of forestry. > With
this end in view we are planning
to found a school of forestry with
the Shamrock tract as its head
quarters, and we hope to be in a
position to open the school next
summer. The plan is to make
the instruction intensely practi
cal by setting the students to
work on the problems of making
the timbered parts of this tract
productive. The course is to be
broadened by trips to the hard
wood region of North Georgia
and to South Georgia where the
longleaf pine and turpentine in
dustry can be studied.
“The plan to carry the school
into the woods is the product of
several years of experience. Six
years ago, when teaching fores
try at the State College of Agri
culture, I asked that summer
terms be added to the course.
These terms were spent either in
camp in the woods or the stu-
NEW SEAL WILL BE
MADE FOR GEORGIA
Atlanta, Ga.. Feb. 25.—Gov
ernor John M. Slaton is looking
for a Georgia artist who can en
grave the new seal of the state
and do it justice, and bids for
the work with proof of qualifica
tions probably will soon be asked.
The old silver seal has been in
use 116 years and is worn smooth.
The governor and secretary of
state have found the funds to pay
for anew one. which should last
three times as long as its prede
cessor, which was almost worn
out 100 years ago in sealing the
thousand of land warrants so
plentiful in those days. The seal
is but seldom used now.
“I’d like to see it made by a
Georgia artist,” said the govern
or. “And I have no doubt there
are many engravers in the state
amply qualified to handle the
work.”
CRIMINAL CASES
UP THIS WEEK
A Number of Important
Matters For Court
GRAND JUrTTHROUGH
Murder, Burglary And Mis
demeanor Charges Will
Keep Court Grinding
Nearly Whole Week
Facing a large number of crim
inal matters, the second week of
Butts superior court began here
Monday and will be in session the
greater of the week. Several of
the cases are of considerable im
portance and will be followed
with keen interest. *
At the beginning of the week
there were a good many prison
ers in jail. The grand jury has
returned quite a number of in
dictments at this term and these
cases will be ready for a hearing.
Among the important cases to
be heard during the week are
those of Bonesie Brownlee, mur
der, and Toomas Aiken, burglary.
Aiken has been tried twice be
fore and was given anew trial
each time. He has been in jail
for many months.
The grand jury finished its de
liberations Tuesday afternoon
and after returning the general
presentments into court was dis
missed for the term by Judge
Daniel.
dents were placed with some lum
berman and required to make a
study of and write a report on
his operations. The benefits de
rived from bringing the students
into contact with problems in
the woods was so marked that I
continued to require either a
camping period or a first-hand
investigation of some lumbering
operation as long as I remained
in connection with that institu
tion. The new school will carry
this idea further, affording the
student better opportunities to
accustom himself to study, work,
and live in the woods.”
SUDDEN WAS MR.
THORNTON’S DEATH
Stricken With Fatal Illness
Saturday Night
WAS ESTEEMED CITIZEN
Funeral Was Held Monday
Morning at Macedonia
Church-He Was Sixty-
Seven Years ot Age
Coming almost without warn
ing, the death of Mr. R. A.
Thornton at his home in this city
Saturday night was a great shock
to his family and a large circle
of friends. In the afternoon he
planned to accompany Mrs. S. E.
Jones, his daughter, home for a
visit but complained of not feel
ing well and did not make the
trip. About 8 o’clock Saturday
night he was taken critically ill
and expired before medical aid
could be summoned. Death was
due to paralysis of the heart.
Mr. Thornton was one of the
best known and most highly es
teemed citizens in the county.
He numbered his friends by the
thousands and many expressions
of sorrow were received at his
passing. Though it was known
his health was failing, the fami
ly and friends were not prepared
for the tragic ending of his last
illness.
Born February 13, 1846 at Hal
ifax, Pennsylvania county, Vir
ginia, Mr. Thornton was 67 years
old his last birthday. He had
been a resident of Butts county
for many years and was well and
favorably known throughout the
county. His honesty and inte
grity was appreciated by all who
knew him. He served in the
civil war as a member of Cos. G.
Third Georgia regiment. Mr.
Thornton was a member of the
Baptist church and belonged to
a large and prominent family of
this county.
The surviving relatives are
three daughters, Mrs. J. T. Wil
liamson, Mrs. S. E. Jones, Miss
Estelle Thornton; three sons,
Messrs. James Thornton, of Jas
per county, Chas. H. and D. M.
Thornton; five brothers, Messrs.
C. H. and G. W. Thornton, of
Butts county, Walter Thornton,
Sparta, James and Joe Thornton,
Tallapoosa; five sisters, Mrs. C.
W. Buchanan and Miss B. Thorn
ton, Jackson, Mrs. J. 0. Beau
champ, Harlem, Mrs. S. E. An
drews, Atlanta, and Mrs. J. E.
Lane, Charlottesville, Va.
The funeral was held at Mace
donia church at 11 o'clock Mon
day morning and was attended
by a large number of relatives
and friends. Rev. Olin King
conducted the services and paid
Mr. Thornton a beautiful tribute.
Civil Business Was
Completed Friday
The following cases, in addi
tion to those already reported,
were tried before the adjourn
ment of court Friday night;
J. H. Holloway vs Butts coun
ty, mistrial.
L. A. Maddox vs N. C. Wil
liamson, verdict for plaintiff.
Buttrill Bros, vs F. Z. Curry,
mistrial.
David Rothchilds & Cos. vs J.
Arenson & Cos., mistrial.
NUMBER 9.