Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by Georgia HomePLACE, a project of the Georgia Public Library Service.
About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1915)
The Jackson Mercantile Company Proprietors The Star Store More Goods For Same Money. Same Goods For Less Money. Never Before In the history of our business have we had such a beautiful array of Millinery. Great crowds inspected our Thursday. We expedt to keep all of the sitock on display for balance of the week so that if you did not get to come in on Thursday or Friday you will have an opportunity on Saturday. We Ask You to Come in and Examine our Stock Closely. REV. J. W. HAM TO CONDUCT REVIVAL At a conference held this morn ing, attended by representatives of the various churches of North Winston, it was decided to join forces in a big union revival sea son to last for six weeks. Rev. J. W. Ham, the well-known evan gelist of Atlanta, who is now conducting a series of meetings at the North Winston Baptist church, is to do the preaching. In solving the question of se curing quarters large enough to accommodate the crowds it was decided to erect a large taberna cle with a seating capacity of 4,000 people. The tabernacle building is to be 80 feet wide by 150 feet long, with large plat form for the speakers and the choir. The union services are to con tinue for six weeks. There is the greatest enthusiasm among all denominations in the proposed union services throughout North Winston and other sections of the city and it is expected that this will prove one of the great est meetings that has been held in this city in many years.—Win ston-Salem, (N. C.) Sentinel. * Expensive EmW Eggs. In Austria eggs are given as presents at Easter, and the emperor presents a great number of them to various peo ple They are generally composed of silver or gold, mother-of-pearl or bronze, and often contain some useful present, a piece of jewelry or some little knlckknack intended to give pleasure to the recipient Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Year drnssiit will refund money II WtO OINTMENT (alia to cure any case ef Itchinc. Blind, Bleediocor Protruding Piles in 6 to it days. The *rwt application riwea Ease and Beat. 50c. By C- A. AIKENB. [Copyright. 1815. by American Prose Asso ciation.] • W Y ERE thinking of a sociable mJAf to try to get some money ■ V to get the church painted " by Easter. 1 suppose you have noticed how dreadfully shabby it is getting to be." Mrs. Oscar Holmes, the banker’s wife and the spokesman of the com mittee of three, had her little book and pencil out "The church Deeds more’n a coat of paint. It needs more grace and gump tion," Mrs. Waters said almost savage ly. "No, I don’t think you need to coant on me for anything." The people of Progress had learned that when Mis. Waters said “no" she usually meant it “She’s so queer, so independent you know," the ladles said when they got out of hearing dis tance. **l don’t believe for a minute It's stinginess; It’s independence.” “No, it's not stinginess, I know that” Mrs. Holmes said, “because when we were packing the missionary box and everybody was bringing second hand stuff to put in It she wouldn’t give us a thing; said she didn’t believe In giv ing old clothes away and calling it charity, or giving to the Lord and trying to get credit on a report for it She said she’d write the missionary’s wife a letter and pot it In the box. And, would you believe it she put a whole dollar's wortn of postage stamps and a ten dollar bill In that letter, and we never would have known a thing about it If the missionary's wife hadn't written back to the eoclety.” Since the Waters family had moved to Progress, live ysan betas, Ita- Waters ted certainly asmd (ftp Mp ttes ef BdteStdl "queer.” The first experience the Prog ress people had of her “queerness” was when she refused to borrow and lend with her neighbors. “No, indeed.” she said, “I ain’t that kind of a womun. I never did believe in the plan, ‘You lend me your stew kettle and I'll lend you my frying pan.’ ” And yet often after this sharp tongued lady had been cooking the chil dren might be seen carrying gome little delicacy to old bedridden Mrs. Fraser. The neighbor across the way said that Mrs. Waters had made a little cushion and sent it over to a crippled child. The little church in Progress surely did need a coat of paint. In fact, It needed paint outside and paint Inside, It needed plaster, it needed anew floor and the foundation at one corner was crumbling. “I believe I’ll Just go and Jog up Ezra about It,” said Mrs. Wa ters. And jog Ezra she did to good purpose. “If folks would only stop so much click clackin’ o’ tongues and ask the Lord what he’d got to say about Axin’ up his house they wouldn’t have to do so much chasin’ round gittin’ eggs and cream and freezers,” she said to Ezra that night when they were discussing it. Do you suppose, Ezra Waters, that if they’d really got down on their knees to tell the Lord about ttte doin’a, if they’d said In serious, solemn earnest, ’Lord, we want to paint up your dwellin’ place; we're klnda ashamed of it—how do you think we’d better go about It?’ and then waited patiently and prayerfully for his answer, do you suppose the Lord would have Bald, ‘Git up a soda bier Not a bit of it! He’s told them plain enough bow to go about sicb things. Nothin’ could tie plainer than what he’s said about the tenth. Come to think about it, Ezra, how orach have we got In that tithe box 7’ “I guess there Is a right smart little sum,” Ezra answered, “but, you know, that little Indian girl’s schoolin’ win be cornin’ due soon. We always pay It ’long about this time.” “At the dose of this meeting,” the preacher announced at the Thursday night prayer meeting, “there' be a meeting of the Ladies' society to discuss plans for the coming Blaster festival." Before they could get well turned around Mrs. Johnson Pepper, the presi dent of the Ladies’ society, said: The meeting win plena* eoms to er- Oer.” she said briskly. “The object ef Our White Goods Stock is the prettiest, largest and most complete that has ever been shown in Jackson. It will be a rev elation to you to see what wonder ful lacy, filmy, sheer goods that is woven out of cotton. The goods themselves so beautiful that they scarcely need any trimmings at all. mis meeting is thoroughly unaerßtooO, I presume, but in case there may bo some here who were not at the pre liminary meeting might explain that, the church is very shabby looking, and we’d decided to paint it before the summer folks got here for another sea son. We are going to have a sociable fo try to raise the money.” “I’d like to ask,” said Mrs. Waters, rising to her feet, “if it's the opinion of this meetin’ that the lord wants us to have this affair to patch up his house.’’ “Why, there’s surely no harm in holding a sociable,” said the president “ ’Tain’t that,” said Mrs. Waters. “ ’tain’t that at all. If the people want to git together every week to enjoy themselves I’m willin' they shall do it right in the church if they want to. But for my part I don’t believe in spendin’ much on patchin’ up this old place when it’s locked up 102 hours a week and only opened six. But it kind ’a’ hurts me to think we’ve got to slave ourselves and expose our poverty before the world by goin’ out an’ sellln’ stuff to git anew coat of paint for the lord's house. You know that the lord said the church was his bride, and do you know I don't believe the lord would be a bit pleased to see his bride a-tumln’ an lee cream freeser to git money for anew coat of paint 1 don’t believe it, nor Kara don’t either. We both think the lord ought to have a bran new boose here in Progress, a house that won’t be shut up, as I said, 162 hours out of every 168. We’ve been readln* about that church in Phil adelphia where they have kindergar tens and leadin’rooms and kitchens and livin’ accommodations, and we want a church like that here In Progress, one for oid and young, that will be open seven days in the week and till 10 at night Ezra and mail give the first hundred and the last hundred dol lars If the peopieTl build that kind of a church.” “And to think,” said Mrs. Oscar Holmes when, the week before the Easter of the following year, she was showing a friend around and discuss ing plana for the opening of the new Progress Institutional church, “that any of us was ever mean and unkind enough to say stingy about Mrs. Wa ters! ‘This la the ladies’ room, sad**— pushing back a folding door—“this la for the men. This other room la for the kindergarten In the daytime, and the hjgecr children will play games on Reduced Rate Bulletin Very low round trip fares via SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of Ihe South Atlanta, Ga. Tickets on sale April 25th to May Ist. Good returning un til May 4th, 1915. Birmingham, Ala. Tickets on sale June 7th to 9th Good returning until June 17th 1915. Chattanooga, Tenn. Tickets on sale April 25th to 28th. Good returning until May Bth, 1915. Hou&on, Texas. Tickets on sale May 6th to 12th Good returning May 31st, 1915. Memphis, Tenn. Tickets on sale April 10th to 13th. Good returning until April 24th, 1915. Richmond, Va. Tickets on sale May 29th to June 3d. Good returning until June 10th, with privilege of extension until June 30th, 1916. Washington, D. C. Tickets on sale April 15th to 18th. Good returning until May 3d 1915. J. C. Beam, A. G. P. A., Atlanta J. S. Bloodworth, T. P. A., Macon, Georgia. these mfie tames in the evenings. This Is the reading room, and thl* is the kitchen. Isn’t that a lovely pan try? Mrs. Waters says there’s nothing about the church gives her more gen uine satisfaction than this kitchen. “Bleas her old heart! If It badn’r been for her we wouldn't bare this eborek. Bnt, then, she certainly to queer.”
