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Klllis COUNTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
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Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
Have you bought that Georgia
bond?
After peace is declared what
then?
Build now. buy now and boost
business.
Kill the first fly and the second
one wont show up.
Get right in and help the clean
up movement along.
Griffin is fixing to get on the
hog by having a packing plant.
Doc Bryan is up a good deal o’
nights rocking the ship of state
along now.
You can lead the hobo to the
woodpile but can’t make him earn
his breakfast.
Clean up your premises inside
and outside and encourage your
neighbor to do likewise.
At any rate this March weath
er has kept the spring poets in a
state of watchful sighing.
Butts county wants the Ocilla
Southern. We need more rail
roads and cheaper freight rates
The most of us have been help
ing Uncle Asa Candler for sev
eral vears pull off that bond deal.
Easter will augment the “buy
now” campaign as far as head
gear is concerned, to the limit of
father’s resources.
Macon having pulled off a suc
cessful bond issue is going to
get busy on a number of improve
ments that mean a bigger, bus
ier. better Macon.
Being limited to a quart a
month those Montgomery Shri
ners will be feeling fit and fine
and dry about the time of that
Macon ceremonial.
Cotton went up as soon as con
gress adjourned. Is there a rea
son? It seems the country is
suffering from too much congress
and too many probings.
It looks to a man up a tree that
the farmer who fails to raise an
abundance of something to eat
this year is putting the noose
around his own neck. Remember
nobody on earth has offered or
guaranteed you ten cents or any
other price for cotton this fall.
The staple may be 20 cents per
pound or it may be 3 cents this
fall. Better play safe and grow
something to eat and then you
wont have to dance to anybody’s
music.
SIXTEEN MILLION BALES
So it is well over a sixteen million bale crop. And several per
fectly good million bales not yet sold, nor likely to be except at a
very low price. Nice prospect, isn’t it? Especially nice since the
information begins to seep through the cities that the farmer, of
ten so encouraged by his supply man, is pitching plenty of cotton
again.
Somebody is going to get caught next September and October
in a jam there will be no getting out of. A country can survive
but one winter like that of 1914-15 and still keep on doing even a
straitened business with its credit still good.
The farmer who plants cotton this spring is not working for
himself—he’s in business for the warehouseman and the supply
man. They can get their money out of cotton at six cents a pound,
even five if pressed/’ There is a good profit in the turn over of the
staple to the mills; there is a big profit in the goods sold to the
farmer, to secure which he gives a lien on the planted cotton; and
then there is the interest on the credit advances. Taking all these
things into consideration the man in town doesn’t need to get such
a whale of a price for his spot cotton to come out at least even if
not better. He cuts his melon too many ways.
The farmer can’t pay all these commissions for the privilege
of having his cotton marketed for him at less than ten cents. He
may do it one year and hold his land, but the next year the money
to pay that mortgage interest won’t be forthcoming, and the money
lender will not feel that he ought to make extensions to a man big
enough fool to plant a crop that common sense should have told
him when he was putting it in would never bring him a dollar. A
Georgia farmer had better first see that he grows the actual food
for his family the year around, then a little food to sell—then plant
a very little bit of cotton; that is if he can get it planted without
mortgaging his eternal soul to the fertilizer men and others who
finance the cotton crop. He must see that he himself provides for
enough for the family to eat before anything else. Nobody else is
going to do it for him.—Macon Telegraph.
Griffin is to have a large pack
ing plant to cost $50,000. Bully
for Griffin. All middle Georgia
will be helped, and this plant
should stimulate interest in hog
raising throughout this section.
The farmers of Butts county
are giving first aid to the prepa
ration of their corn land, with
cotton in the background. Here
tofore this proposition has been
exactly reversed, with corn as a
side issue. The movement is at
least significant and shows that
our people have learned their
lesson and never again will be
caught unprepared for the Wall
Streeters and foreign war or any
other emergency.
The newspaper that prints the
news is the paper the people are
going to read. There is no getting
around that fact. A dead paper
can’t hold the attention of live
people. This is as fixed as the
laws of the Medes and Persians.
The Macon Telegraph is printing
today more live Georgia news
news the people want and pay
for—than any daily we know of.
And as a result The Telegraph is
growing by leaps and bounds.
Our hat is off to the old reliable,
resouceful Telegraph.
The war upon industry, which
has been going on in this country
under the name of “progreesiv
ism” for several years, is bearing
fruit that ought to satisfy the
most progressive of them all.
Regulating industry has put the
fires out of thousands of furna
ces and has, incidentally, put a
couple of million workmen to
looking for something to do, liv
ing on their former earnings or
depending upon friends or the
general public for support. Still,
the progressives in this country
haven't quite as much as the
Mexican variety has to their cred
it.—Valdosta Times.
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 ootn 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, 2)26
Olive Street, St. Louis, Ho. Sold by
druggist*-
SOUR, ACID STOMACHS
6ASES OR DYSPEPSIA
Each “Pape’s Diapepsin”
Digests 3000 Grains Food
Ending All Stomach Mis
ery in Five Minutes.
Time it! In five minutes all
stomach distress will go. No in
digestion, heartburn, sourness or
belching of gas, acid, or eructa
tions of undigested food, no diz
ziness, bloating, foul breath or
headache.
Pape’s Diapepsin is noted for
its in regulating upset
stomachs. It is the surest, quick
est stomach remedy in the whole
world and besides it is harmless.
Put an end to stomach trouble
forever by getting a large fifty
cent case of Pape’s Diapepsin
from any drug store. You real
ize in five minutes how needless
it is to suffer from indigestion,
dyspepsia or any stomach disor
der. It’s the quickest, surest
and most harmless stomach doc
tor in the world.
THE FAIR STORE
BEGINS BUSINESS HERE
The Fair Store, with Mr. J.
Gelfman as proprietor, is the la
test business concern to open in
Jackson. The new business is
located in the store formerly oc
cupied bv J. Groodzinsky and
considered one of the best sites
around the court house square.
Friday, the 26, is the date of
the opening sale of the Fair Store
and for that occasion Mr. Gelf
man has arranged some bargains
that will appeal to the trading
public. His sale will continue
for ten days and the goods are
marked down from the regular
price. Mr. Gelfman is from At
lanta, an experienced merchant
and will conduct his business
along modern and progressive
lines.
Attention is directed to the ad
vertisement of the Fair Store in
this issue. The attractive prices
cannot fail to be of interest just
at this time, and no doubt a large
number of shoppers will call dur
ing this sale and get acquainted
with Mr. Gelfman.
Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days
Tear dnnift will rtfiid mcvtj it PiZO
OINTMENT fell* to care tiy CIK •! Itekiac.
Bliod. Bl4ie ®r PrWniiaf Fi!a is 61* 1 day*.
TM ini lira |*n ud Kut 30c.
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.
'.rke Storm
The Man Who Knows How
A to put an auto in shape “is not nu
merous” but there are plenty who
practical mechanical knowledge is
1 absolutely necessary, and it takes
X| time to acquire the necessary skill.
y We make a specialty of Automobile
repairs of ail 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
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9,000 at 90c per 1.000 10 to 24.000 and over (shipped at one time,) 75c per 1,000. 25.000 and
oxer (shipped at on* tlmei 05c per thousand. Our plants areas rood as th best oar
serrlce Is naexcelled, oar prices are low. If yoa want 5W for your garden, or enoneh
for one or more neres for market send as yoar orders and get prompt terries
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