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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 33.
BUTTS WANTS THE
DIXIE HIGHWAY
WiU Make Hard Effort to
Land Road
THIS IS SHORTEST ROUTE
County Has A Number of
Strong Advantages to
Offer—Everybody
Join in This Effort
Jackson is going to make a de
termined effort to have the Dixie
highway come through Butts
county, touching Indian Springs,
Jackson and other points. With
this in view work is already un
der way and a hard fight will be
made to cinch this great thor
oughfare, leading from Indianap
olis to Tampa.
There was a meeting in Chat
tanooga Saturday of the govern
ors ef several states and a large
body of good roads boosters. The
official route will be selected by
a commission appointed by the
governors of the states through
which the road will pass. W. T.
Anderson of the Macon Telegraph
and Clark Howell of the Atlanta
Constitution were appointnd by
Governor Slaton as Georgia's
representatives on the commis
sion and these gentlemen will se
lect the route through Georgia,
it is understood.
It will be a fine thing in many
ways for Butts county to secure
this great highway, connecting
the middle West and the South.
It will bring hundreds of tourists
through the county each season,
will be a boost for good roads—
in which Butts leads every coun
ty in middle Georgia—and will
prove a practical and effective
means of advertising the resour
ces of a fine county.
Butts county has a number of
strong points in her favor. It is
several miles shorter than any
other route between Macon and
Atlanta. There is the great hy
dro-electric power plant on the
Ocmulgee river, which many
tourists will go miles to see. And
there is Indian Springs, the best
known health resort in the South.
So Butts county has the good
roads, the attractions to hold and
interest visitors and offers the
shortest and most direct route
between the Capital City and Ma
con, two sure points on the route.
Jackson and Butts county can
win this highway by a united
pull. It’s a worth while effort.
Let’s go after the Dixie highway
and never stop work until it is
an assured.fact that Butts county
is a winner.
A Card of Thanks
“They are best learned and
most wise who best and most can
love and sympathize,” and to the
numerous friends who proved so
well their love and sympathy by
so many, manv acts of kindness
during the illness and since the
death of our beloved wife and
daughter wish to say we thank
you and earnestly pray that God’s
richest blessings may rest upon
you each and every one.
B. C. Harding,
Rev. and Mrs. W. 0. Sharpe
and Family.
April 6th, 1915.
Buy At Home
The president of the Birmingham Board of trade recently gave the reasons why
people of that city should buy at home. What is good for Birmingham is good for
Jackson, so we quote the president’s statement in full following:
“My attention has been called to the necessity of trading at home at this time
particularly, because I was informed today that representatives of a New York con
cern had engaged rooms at the Tutwiler hotel and had sent out invitations to a large
number of the prominent women in Birmingham urging them to call at these rooms,
inspect samples and order shoes. I sincerely hope Birmingham women will decline
patriotically to buy from outsiders, especially as they can get any or all of their wants
filled from a dozen or more Birmingham merchants. Very probably they can get
identically the same shoes and at prices 25 or 30 per cent less; certainly they can
place orders for the same shoes with Birmingham merchants, and that is all they
would be able to do did they purchase from these New Yorkers. I am sure these
people do not sell the shoes direct, for that would mean the payment of a heavy li
cense to the city. But not only do they dodge the license tax, which every home
merchant has to pay to help keep the schools and parks and play grounds of the city
running, but every cent one spends with them goes right out of Birmingham. Not a
woman who goes there to buy shoes but depends at least in a measure upon Birming
ham for her very livelihood. Every dollar diverted from some other city to Birming
ham does just that much to build and stregthen Birmingham. Correspondingly, ev
ery dollar sent away from Birmingham that ought to be expended here hurts the city
just that much. Every woman who buys shoes from an itinerant merchant, instead
of from a local merchant, is just hurting her city that much. It is the patriotism,
the part of sound common sense, the part of true economy to buy from Birmingham
merchants. The itinerant is here today and gone tomorrow. In most cases he has
no reputation for character and integrity and reliability to preserve, so the safest
way is to buy at home.”
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
ELECT OFFICERS
Judge Fletcher Heads
The Order
ELECTION WAS FRIDAY
Alexius Commandery Had
Good Year in 1914 And
Is in Flourishing Condi
tion—To Install Officers
Officers were elected by Alex
ius Commandery No. 22 Knights
Templar at the meeting Friday
night of last week. Judge H. M.
Fletcher, one of the most promi
nent secret order men in the
state, was elected as eminent
commander for the ensuing year.
He now enjovs the uniaue dis
tinction of being at the head of
all the various branches of Ma
sonry in Jackson.
The following are the officers
who will serve for the next year:
H. M. Fletcher, E. C.
H. L. Daughtry, G.
G. E. Mallet, C. G.
H. 0. Ball, S. W.
George Carmichael, J. W.
D. G. McMichael, Prelate.
L. M. Crawford, Treasurer.
F. M. Allen, Recorder.
J. D. Jones, St. B.
H. F. Gilmore, Sw. B.
J. B. Hopkins, Warder.
R. Gunter, Sentinel.
The officers will be installed at
the next regular convocation.
Alexius commandery has had a
satisfactory year, several candi
dates having been received into
the order. Some applications are
now pending and there will be
work at an early meeting.
JACKSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1915.
SCHOOL LIBRARY ASKS
FOR MORE GOOD BOOKS
The friends and patrons of our
school are urged to donate a book
or books on next Wednesday for
the School Library. Any story
books, histories, fiction, histori
cal novels, biographies, fairy
tales —anything that is readable,
wholesome or for reference work
up through the seventh grade
will be appreciated. There are
children hungry and anxious to
read yet their needs are unsup
plied.
Perhaps in many homes there
are books that are not used and
cared for but if put in the hands
of these children will do much in
shaping ideals or moulding char
acter. Will not each home be
represented in this project, and
help to give not only pleasure
but profit to the boys and girls of
our town?
We wish to acknowledge the
kindness of the U. D. C. in giv
ing their library or such books as
will be fitted to the needs of our
school library. This is a worthy
act and is commended highly by
every one.
Remember that next Wednes
day, the 14, at the school build
ing at 3 p. m. will be Donation
Day at the regular meeting of
the P. T. A.
Chm. Library Committee.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
MEET A SUCCESS
Jenkinsburg Division at
County Line
BIG CROWD ATTENDED
Several Prominent Speak
ers Made Addresses At
The Convention Sunday
—Dinner on The Grounds
With an unusually large atten
dance present the meeting of the
Jenkinsburg divison of the Butts
county Sunday School Associa
tion at County Line church Sun
day was a very successful and
enjoyable one.
Sessions were held in both the
morning and afternoon and in
addition to the local speakers a
number of visitors of prominence
added to the interest of the pro
gram. Prof. Smallie of Locust
Grove Institute preached at the
11 o’clock service and among the
other speakers were Messrs. J.
Matt McMichael, C. L. Carter,
Rev. F. G. Spearman and Rev.
Mr. Gilbert, of Locust Grove.
At the noon hour a sumptous
dinner was served. So large was
the crowd that not more than
two-thirds of the people could
get in the building, it was stated.
Several topics of interest were
handled by the speakers and pre
parations were perfected for the
county convention, which meets
in Jackson this week.
Hon J. H. Mills is president
of the Jenkinsburg division of
i the countv association.
GEORGIA TO FIGHT
WHITE PLAGUE
• U'.v ' • •
New Manager Has Been
Secured
STATE WIDE INTEREST
J.P. Faulkner Will Head
Crusade Which Raoul
Foundation Is Waging
Against Tuberculosis
Atlanta, Ga., April B.—James
P. Faulkner, who recently re
signed as director of exhibits of
the Kentucky Tuberculosis com
mission to become the executive
head of the Raoul Foundation an
ti-tuberculosis work in Georgia,
has begun a tour of the state
this week in connection with a
plan to organize all the cities and
towns of Georgia for a unified
crusade against the great white
plague.
Mr. Faulkner was requested to
head the work in Georgia after
leading Georgians interested in
the work had consulted with U.
S. Commissioner of Education
P. C. Claxton and others as to
the choice of a man who could
accomplish big results.
Mr. Faulkner came to Atlanta
a few weeks ago and has already
thoroughly veined the state
wide plans 1 which he is now en
gaged in carrying out. He is
working in harmonious co-opera
tion with the existing anti-tuber
culosis organizations, and with
the state board of health and lo
cal boards.
In addition to effecting the
state-wide organizations, it is
Mr. Faulkner’s plan to make the
Atlanta office of the Raoul Foun
dation, 303 Candler building, a
clearing house of information
and help in the fight for public
health against tuberculosis in
Georgia. Literature on the sub
ject has been standardized and
revised and will be furnished
free to all who write and ask for
it. Letters will also be answer
ed giving so far as possible any
information requested.
MR. HUGH MALLET
BEGINS HIS DUTIES
Mr. Hugh Mallet was formally
inducted into the office of County
School Superintendent at the
meeting of the Board of Educa
tion Tuesday and he at once en
tered upon the duties of the office.
There was a full attendance of
the members of the board at the
meeting Tuesday and several
routine matters were transacted.
The board has arranged to borrow
money from a bank in Battle
Creek. Mich., to pay the teachers
their salaries promptly.
Mr. Mallet’s scores of friends
confidently expect that he will
fill the office of school superin
tendent with marked ability and
that under his administration the
schools of Butts county will enjoy
a substantial growth and devel
opment.
NUMBER 15.