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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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith.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. /^^Kcaujmet /SjL BAKING 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 tttttttttt 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 Does the label on your paper read l©“1916? If not, pay up.