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Bins COUNTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter, Novem
•er 8,1907, at tlie postofficeat Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications arc welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to ?00 words, as communications
over that length cannot be handled.
Write 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
The dollar mark covers a lot of
so-called patriotism.
Guess when we go over to the
old country we’ll walk.
Well, that snake or frog or
something of the sort brought
the rain.
Buy at home, patronize the ad"
vertisers and you can’t make a
mistake.
Griffin lost her first game of
league baseball. Say, Duke, how
about smiling?
If the kaiser gets one between
the eyes there will be no sorrow
in these diggin’s.
From reading The Macon Tele
graph we judge its neutrality is
no longer neutral.
How can a man who is never
ready to start, ever hope to be
“In at the finish?” remarks an
exchange.
Get in behind the Dixie high
way and help pull it through the
best county with the best roads
in the state.
The legislature gets together
June 30. Want anything abol
ished or created speak out (no
rushing please.)
The greatest frost that ever
fell in Jackson was in June. It
was W. J. Bryan at S3OO per and
a fifty-fifty arrangement.
Keep that smile working. A
persistent one horse-power grin
has been known to ditch a ninety
horse-power grouch.—Paragrafs.
Thinking of offering a year’s
subscription for the best way to
annihilate book and atlas agents.
Farm demonstrator tells us spray
ing wont do any good.
The Germans are getting des
perate, absolutely rattlesnake
crazy. It is the beginning of the
end. for whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad.
Teddy speaks right out in meet
ing and says what he would do
to the Germans if he were presi
dent. And a lot of red-blooded
Americans will cheer the senti
ment he expresses.
The greatest thing about the
Hoosier-Dixie Highway is that it
will give Georgia some better
roads. No matter what route it
takes, it will inspire the building
of better roads in the state. —Val-
dosta Times.
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Jjpf ECONOMY—^ 1 ; 5 thin >’ ou i are
fjjy of high living cost —Calumet insures a wonder- pTf*!^TlJlljfr
ftl' ful saving in your baking. But it does more. |ALUJVI|j|
IjS It insures wholelome food,tasty food-uniformly raised food.
one of the millions of women who use it—or ask your grocer.
■jj' RECEIVED HIGHEST AWARDS Qb
K' World’s Pure Food Exposition. Chicago. 111. nrtW|l
I,* Paris Exposition, France, March, 1912.
W Yon don’t me monry when you hoy eheip or big-can baking powder. Don’t be misled. Boy Calnmet. \
more Economical more wholesome —girei aoda.
The sinking of the Lusitania by
German submarines was the most
dastardly, cowardly, fiendish,
sneaking, cold-blooded act in the
history of warfare. And the
satanic glee with which they
gloat over the destruction of in
nocent women and children
stamps the race for what it is.
The leopard cannot change its
spots.
Butts county wants the Dixie
highway but she doesn’t want it
bad enough to misrepsent things,
as was done at a recent meeting,
when somebody remarked that
if the route through McDonough
and Jackson were selected there
would be stretches thirty miles
long where the road did not touch
a railroad or telephone. That is
falsifying the record.
The Progress wants to know
what it is boosting before it un
limbers its artillery. We are
moderately sure we know we the
difference between ambrosia and
limburger cheese—between the
grafter from away-off and legit
imate business. For home insti
tutions, home industry and home
charity we have whole columns,
pages, editions but for the slick
tongued boobs who would swoop
down and take the people’s coin
without giving them value re
ceived we have nary a line.
TEN ECONOMY PLANS
FOR FARMERS.
According to anew bulletin is
sued by Clemson Agricultural
College it is good economy to
save at many places, and good
economy to spend at others.
Here are ten “Economy Plans”
suggested by the Clemson au
thorities:
1. To cut out all luxuries, es-
AEWTON-CARMCHAEL HARDWARE CO.—
Hardware Paints —and Oils
MAKE YOUR OWN PAINT
You will save 56 cts. per gal.
; THIS IS HOW
MBuy 4 gals' C& M. Semi-Mixed Real Paint,
at $2.10 per gal. - - S 8.40
And 3 gals. Linseed Oil to mix with it
at estimated cost of-- 2.40
You then make 7 gals, of pure paint for SIO.BO
It's only $ 1.54 per gal.
Anybody can mix the OIL with the PAINT.
r.i*j e in a tew minutes if V°“ f lv 01 , r “ d y!i? piin ' in
CANS, you pay 52.10 a gal. or $14./0.
The L. & M. SEMI-MIXED REAL. PAINT U PURE WHITE LEAD,
ZINC and LINSEED OIL. :b<- bcst-fcncvn ni'it trite rials for 100 ytars.
fee a qal. out of any L.& M. PAINT’ buy and if not the best
nnde >'o>'’rn wtr' 5 •' r *' - TOOTiey back.
pecially liquors, tobacco, new
buggies and automobiles.
2. To cut out some necessa
ries, such as tea and coffee and
meat three times daily.
3. To save on food for oursel
ves by means of an, all-the-year
garden, certain easily possible
substitutions and a ration more
carefully balanced to preserve
health and strength.
4. To save on food for our an
imals by means of balanced ra
tions as worked out by experi
ment stations, substitutions of
cheaper feeds and permanent
Bermuda grass-bur clover pas
tures.
5. To save food for our plants
by means of winter legumes,
summer legumes and winter
grain and legumes.
6. To save on dress by dress
ing a little less fashionably, a
little more simply.
7. To spend money on the
house and wife for a water sup
ply.
8. To spend money on the or
chard for pruning and spraying.
9. To establish and maintain
a logical and practical system of
farming in accordance with Dr.
S. A. Knapp’s “Ten Command
ments in Agriculture.”
10. To co-operate with your
neighbors in organizations, in
buying food supplies, fertilizers
and live stock, in owning and
using farm implements, in be
ginning cream and egg routes, in
selling farm and garden produce,
in boosting your community and
living up to your talk about it,
and in a quiet cheerfulness that
approaches all tasks with a faith
undimmed and a courage undis
mayed.—Progressive Farmer.
Seeds For
Spring
Planting
Buy your seeds of all kinds from the old
reliable seed of Jackson —Slaton Drug
Cos. This 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.
The Store
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Undertakers and Embalmers
t 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
Whenever You Need i General Tonic
Take drove's
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
rhill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
oat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
Does the label on your paper
read •@*1916? If not, pay up.
EMERGENCY WORK
In auto repairing requires thorough
skill. Send your car here where
skill is assured. We don’t have to
take the entire machine apart to
find out what is the matter. We
know at a glance what is wrong
and we right it as quickly and thor
oughly as can possibly be done.
Make us prove it.
Wagner’s Garage.
Call on or write Brown
& Brown, McDonough,
Ga., for loans on farm
lands. , 3-26-tf
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