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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1915)
Klllis COUNTV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 * Year Entered as ec,ond-<'laa* *iMer, Novmh *>r H. IM7, at the pnntoffire at Jaekaou, fin. Telephone No. 166. Communications are ’velcomcd. Cor respondents will please confine them ■elres to 800 words, as communications ever that length cannot be handled. W rite on one side of the paper only, •ifm your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. 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. 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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. 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