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BUIIS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year.
Entered M second-clans Matter, Novem
ber 8,1907, at the postoffioeai Jackaon, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are welcomed. Cor
rea pondentH will please confine them
aeltrea to ?00 words, as communications
aver 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
The Jackson Progress announ
ces that if Editor Anderson, of
The Macon Telegraph, doesn’t
stop boasting about the prowess
of his pet pig, Benjamin, he will
challenge him to match his por
ker against some of the Butts
county thoroughbreds at the Butts
County Fair this fall.—Griffin
News.
The Jackson Progress is on.
Benjamin is open to all comers.
Even Brooks county has nervous
rigors over the superior progress
Benjamin is making.—Macon Tel
egraph.
Benjamin, the Goliath of Bibb,
will meet his David when he is
brought up to Butts.
FITTING CHILDREN FOR
CITIZENSHIP
Jackson has taken a step that
might well be followed by a good
many other towns in Georgia. Its
board of education has decided
that there should be periodical
medical examinations of the
school children and nine physi
cians have volunteered to make
them"bvithout charge.
These patriotic doctors are cut
ting something from their in
comes as thev visit the schools
and point out to parents the dan
ger of failing to check such in
cipient diseases and remedy such
little defects and imperfections
as they find in the children, and
perhaps should not he called un
on to make them without pay.
If their advice is followed by the
parents the little folks will avoid
a great deal of suffering in after
years. It has been shown that
rural school children as a rule
are not quite so healthy as city
school children. County school
authorities therefore should make
every effort to protect especially
the rural school children from
disease.
It is no more the duty of the
public to train children’s minds
than it is to give them reasona
ble protection against suffering
by safeguarding them against
disease as much as it can and at
least telling their parents, through
the medium of competent physi
cians, of any physical defects
that should be remedied and any
tendency toward disease that
should be checked. Why should
not the state or the county ex
amine the school children physi
cally as well as mentally and so
direct their physical as well as
their mental development along
safe lines?—Savannah Morning
News. i
A TEXAS WONDER.
The Texas Wonder cures kidney and
bladder troubles, dissolves gravel,
cures diabetes, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism, and all irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder in ixnn men and
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, Bt. Louis, Mo. Sold by
druggists.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
The following table compiled by The Progressive Farmer,
showing the number of farms, white and negro tenants, mortgaged
farms, in the counties of the sixth congressional district, will be of
interest to the readers of this paper:
. , Is If si el Js g|
County ii El ?s t?s §
go jl-g
Bibb 1453 63 341 582 95 117
Butts 1784 76 445 888 50 38
Clayton 1585 66 410 651 81 26
Crawford 1203 62 251 506 119 79
Fayette 1959 70 806 514 104 19
Henry 3062 73 891 1349 143 101
Jasper 2584 81 413 1694 61 108
Jones 1922 77 356 1142 98 97
Monroe 2798 71 426 1576 258 187
Pike 2560 75 724 1212 105 76
Spalding 1727 72 419 837 83 89
Upson 1801 74 518 819 120 82
HAVE YOU NAMED YOUR FARM?
The movement to have every American farmer select a name
for his farm and use the name as a trade mark, is meeting with
great success in some parts of the country, notes an exchange.
Many of our exchanges have published lists of the names selected
for the farms of their neighborhoods, the publication acting as a
sort of a patent or copyright. It has been said by some unthink
ing persons that the plan is not American, but a little reflection
will convince anyone that the point is not well taken. Washington
called his home “Mt. Vernon,” Jefferson, the great Democrat,
named his place “Monticello” and any school boy can give you a
dozen other instances.
So name your farm and put the name out where everyone can
see it. Make it a Trade Mark. A well known, advertised trade
mark is worth thousands of dollars to the owner. Your farm and
its products are your stock in trade. Name them and you have
added real hard cash value to everyting you sell. Choose a name
well suited to surroundings, a name that will tell in its very sound
some of the characteristics of your business home, then come to us
and have letterheads made for your correspondence with the name
of your farm on them and your name and your wife’s name and
your postoffice address beneath. Of course you want your wife’s
name on your stationery. She is your partner and the best and
the truest, and the hardest working, and the most interested party
in the whole concern. Once you were glad to get a chance to en
dow her with all your worldly goods, now make your promise real.
Here's how your letter head might look:
EAST VIEW FARM
James and Mary Smith
Proprietors
Columbus Station, Tomkins County
Ohio. R. F. D. No. 6.
If you like you can have a slogan, or a motto or a stock phrase
under the farm name like this:
SHADY ACRES
Poultry, Eggs, Rutter, Cream, Cheese.
“BEST BY TEST.”
J. and M. Smith, Managers. Columbus Station,
Tomkins Cos. Ohio.
TWELVE THINGS TO DO
THIS MONTH
1. Get out over the fields dur
ing the winter rains and see if
your soil is staying at home. If
it isn’t, try some persuasion in
the form of broad, cultivated ter
races, with clover sown next fall.
2. Look to the barnyard, and
if it is a sea of mud put it to
rights.
3. Watch the growing calves,
and see to it that they are not
stunted through lack of feed and
shelter.
4. Visit your school and see
whether there is plenty of fuel
and a good water-supply; use the
opportunity to get better ac
quainted with the teacher.
5 Get your boy interested in
the Corn and Pig Clubs, and your
daughter in the Canning Club
work.
6. Look to your subscriptions
to your favorite farm papers, lo
cal newspapers, and a few good
magazines. Remember that “the
man who reads is the man who
leads.”
7. Examine the cotton you are
holding for better prices, and see
to it that it is perfectly dry and
not rotting.
8 Begin getting prices on com
mercial fertilizers, and arrange
with your neighbors to buy co
operatively in car lots.
9 See to it that the farm im
plements not in use are all under
shelter.
10. Tackle the stumps every
IF YOUR CHILD IS GROSS,
FEVERISH, CONSTIPATEO
Look Mother! If Tongue
is Coated, Cleanse Little
Bowels With “California
Syrup of Figs.”
Mothers can rest easy after
giving “California Syrupof Figs”
because in a few hours ali the
clogged-up waste, sour bile and
fermenting food gently moves
out of the bowels and you have a
well, playful child again.
Sick children needn’t be coaxed
to take this harmless “fruit lax
ative.” Millions of mothers keep
it handy because they know its
action on the stomach, liver and
bowels is prompt and sure.
Ask your druggist for a 50 cent
bottle of “California Syrup of
Figs,” which contains directions
for babies, children of all ages
and for grown-ups. ad
chance you get; remember that
stumpy fields and really good
farmers don’t go together.
11. Keep your eye on the
wood pile and see to it that moth
er always has on hand plenty of
good dry material.
12. Make a King road drag
and try dragging that piece of
muddy road that has been giving
you so much trouble; you’ll be
surprised how much good it will
do.—The Progressive Farmer,
Seeds For
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 in the coun
ty. We have always given our customers
satisfaction by selling them only the
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.
Tha Storm
The Mu Wlo Knows How
ijCA A to put an auto in shape “is not nu-
vW® merous” but there are plenty who
Poetical mechanical knowledge is
yf I absolutely necessary, and it takes
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 Moot Efficient
Undertakers in this Section
Expert Licensed Embalmers
a
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. 500 for 75c, 1.000 for $1.25, 2to 4,000 at SI.OO per 1,000, 5 to
9,000 at 0c per 1.000 10 to 24,000 and over (shipped at one time,! 75c per l.ouO, 25,000 and
over (shipped at one time) 65c per thousand. Our plants areas 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.
Pleas* send cash with each order. S. M. GIBSON CO., Meggett' S. C.