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BUIIS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year.
Bnterftd m necond-clMit matter, Novem
ber 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to 300 words, as communications
over that length cannot be handled.
W rite 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
Keep on keeping on with that
clean up work.
Speaking of space writers, how
about the corps of paragraphers?
The dollar that goes the farth
erest is the dollar kept at home.
Crop report: Bugs came up
with the potatoes and been after
’em eyer since.
Weather forecast: The skirts
are becoming shorter as the days
grow longer; rain needed.
To show you there’s life in the
old land yet note the rebel yell of
the Vets on Memorial Day.
If the Dixie highway follows
the route of the best roads it will
come through Butts county.
Breathes there a boy orator so
dead who is not practicing now
on his commencement master
piece?
Our idea of the ultimate con
sumer is the guy who borrows
his neighbor’s paper and reads it
second-hand.
Nobody seems to have said
anything about it but we hope
the watermelon acreage wont be
cut to any extent this year.
Carroll county has some $45,-
000 in the treasury. Isn’t a con
gressional investigating commit
tee now in order to tell the rest
of us how it’s done?
The officers having found fifty
two barrels of liquor in Macon,
we take it that the Central City
was storing its supply for some
irrigation scheme or other.
Still if you want to know our
idea of the matter we think if
conscription becomes necessary
with the warring powers, book
agents should be shoved into the
breach first
Wavcross city council has lev
ied a license tax on chautauquas.
Whv not? They are shows under
a different name and should be
treated as such. Ditto lyceum
attractions. —Rochelle New Era.
By alway shooking up with some
local philanthropic society they
aim to grab off about three times
as much advertising for the mon
ey as a legitimate professional
production can get. —Macon Tel
egraph.
Glad to see the public wising
up to the tricks of these guys.
Jackson took her medicine some
|time ago, has recovered but it
will require an anesthetic before
she submits to another do6e.
Didn’t know so many counties
had such dandy roads until this
Dixie highway business got under
way. Butts is right there with
the best of them when it comes
to good roads that are good.
The war is losing its romance.
Not many readers go beneath the
headlines nowadays. Business
has about recovered and this
country is doing mighty well and
glad to be at peace with the
world. It isn’t our scrap after
all and why should be worry?
Nearly all the papers had fine,
self-satisfying editorials on Eas
ter but the really expressive En
glish will come when father gets
the Easter bills.—Butts County
Progress.
That’s the truth. —DeKalb New
Era.
The young and gallant editor
of The Monroe Advertiser went
through the Easter season un
scathed, but still has to run the
gauntlet of Bessie Tift com
mencement.—Butts County Pro
gress.
Sure, “unscathed!” No milli
nery bills for us, IF we can sur
vive the commencement! Know
ing the Bessie Tift girls as we do,
however, with your suggestion,
“almost thou temptest us!”—
Monroe Advertiser.
From which we judge that an
other raider is about ready to in
tern, being tired of the troubled
and tempestous voyage of lone
liness.
The Georgia Weekly Press As
sociation meets in Eastman July
13 and 14. Now if you want to
see the most reshersha models in
pants and the correct pose to as
sume when desiring to call atten
tion to your diamond pin, and
the proper angle at which the
twenty-five cent seegar should
be toted around in the human
mouth, why, you hop over to
Eastman along about July 13 or
14. —Macon Telegraph.
Why did you fail to mention
the exhibition of ye rural scribe
getting on the outside of a lot of
Georgia barbecue, watermelons,
Elbertas and red lemonade? By
the way, Brother Anderson, be at
the Eastman meeting if you want
to add ten years to your life.
WHAT’S AN EDITOR,
ANYHOW?
A little village boy was given
the stunt by his father to write
an essay on editors and here is
the result, says an exchange:
“Don’t know how newspapers
came to be in the world. I don’t
think God does for He hain’t got
nothing to say about them and
editors in the Bible. I think the
editor is one of the missing links
you read of, and stayed in the
bushes until after the flood and
then came out and wrote the
thing up, and has been here ever
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_ Anybody can mix the OIL with the PAINT.
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GIVE "SYRUP OF FI8S”
TO CONSTIPATED CHILD
Delicious “Fruit Laxative”
Can’t Harm Tender Lit
tle Stomach, Liver and
Bowels.
Look at the tongue, mother! If
coated, your little one’s stomach,
liver and bowels need cleansing
at once. When peevish, cross,
listless, doesn’t sleep, eat or act
naturally, or is feverish, stomach
sour, breath bad; has sore throat,
diarrhoea, full of cold, give a tea
spoonful of “California Syrup of
Figs,” and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, undiges
ted food and sour bile gently
moves out of its little bowels
without griping, and you have a
well, playfulchild again. Askyour
1 druggist for a 50-cent bottle of
‘ ‘CaliforniaSyrup of Figs, ’ ’ which
contains full directions for babies,
children of all ages and for
grown-ups. adv
since. I don’t think he ever died.
“I never saw a dead one and
never heard of one getting licked.
Our paper is a mighty good one,
but the editor goes without un
derclothes all winter and don’t
wear any socks (poor editor) and
paw ain’t paid his subscription
since the paper started. I ast
paw if that was why the editor
had to suck the juice out of snow
balls in winter and go to bed
when he had his shirt washt in
summer. And then paw took me
out to the woodshed and licked
me awful hard. If the editor
makes a mistake folks say he
ought to be hung, but if a doctor
makes any mistakes he buries
them and the people dassent say
nothing, because the doctor can
read and write Latin.
“When the editor makes a mis
take there is a lawsuit and swear
ing and a big fuss; but if a doc
tor makes one there is a funeral,
cut flowers and perfect silence.
A doctor can use a word a yard
long without him or anybody
knowing what it means; but if
the editor uses one he has to spell
it. If the doctor goes to see an
other man’s wife he charges for
the visit; but if the editor goes
he gets a charge of buckshot.
“When the doctor gets drunk
it is a case of being overdone by
the heat and if he dies it is from
heart trouble; when the editor
gets drunk it is a case of too
much booze, and it he dies it’s
jimjams. Any old college can
make a doctor; an editor has to
be born.”
Cures Old Sores. Other Remedies Won’t Curs.
The worst cases, no matter of how long standing
are cured by the wondeitol, old reliable Dr.
Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It reliever
Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c. 50c. Sl.flb
Kingan Breakfast Bacon
Friday and Saturday 27c
with grocery order. Paul
Nolen & Cos.
Seeds Fop
Spring
Planting
Buy your seeds of all kinds from the old
reliable seed &ore of Jackson-Slaton Drug
Cos. This £tore 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 best
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.
77te Storm
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In auto repairing requires thorough
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Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84
Florida Fresh Vegetables
complete line diredt from
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& Brown, McDonough,
Ga., for loans on farm
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Tkt MHm That Baas Nat Affact Tht Haatf
Became of its tonic and laxative effect. LAXA
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Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
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