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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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith.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.