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BU IS COINTV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONBB, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered an aecond-clasa matter, Novem ber 8,1907, at the postoftiee at Jackion, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will nlease 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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith.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. How’s your crop of grass? Getting any garden truck these opulent spring days? Uncle Sam is keeping his pow der dry and the fuses primed. Ever have your tummy to make faces at you on a morning after? The Macon Telegraph’s editor ials have the true patriotic ring to them. We presume old General Green will be a hard one to outflank for the next few days. 1 * . i . Let no opportunity pass to get in a word for Butts county’s claim to the Dixie highway. Macon had better look to her laurels, for Jackson is going to have one good fair this fall. You want to get in behind the Butts county fair good and strong and help to make it a winner. Three days fair and big trade week for Butts county this fall. Spread the news, Mr. Booster. Macon’s fleet of schooners in and off the bar ought to keep the submarines out of the Ocmulgee. Would the sweet girl graduate by any other name be as fra grant? Hey, Fellow Blood worth? “America f"r Americans” is no bad slogan. It may become famous during the next few months. Crisp, concise and straight to the point. President Wilson mes sage to Germany hit the nail on the head. Every time the Griffin team wins a game we hear a mighty rumbling over in the “Turkish towel” town. We think you are right. Wood row, but right or wrong we are &H with you to the rearest private in the hindest rank. Best roads, shortest route and historic attractions —these are the inducements Butts county offers for the Dixie highway. We're so all-fired pro-American that we are trying to purge our system of the smatteriug of “deutsche” we absorbed a few years back. Next time we study in anybody’s little old university we’ll take Uncle Sam’s English. Notice. Our fiscal year closes this month. We want to collect our mill accounts and get notes for Fertilizer accounts. If you owe us for any pro ducts I will appreciate it if you will call and settle at once, and those who have gotten all their fertilizers, we will appreciate it if you will come by and give us notes. No produces will be charg ed to any one. SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COMPANY T. A. NUTT. Butts county put the convicts to work on the public roads Jan uary 1. 1911. It is nothing short of marvelous what results have been accomplished since then in good road building. Today the roads in Butts county are far better than any of the surround ing counties. And the end is not yet in sight. Get behind the Dixie highway and help pull it through the best county with the best roads in the state.—Butts County Progress. Wesincerely thank Editor Jones for coming to Spalding’s aid for it could not be that he considers “Butts the best county with the best roads.”—Griffin News. Be net deceived, dear heart. Butts not only has Spalding bes ted in the matter of good roads but offers the shortest and most direct route for the Dixie high way. It may be that the scales will fall from Griffin’s eyes be fore this thing is done with. Just to think of the joke of Macon and Savannah complaining of being dry even in a drouth. — Butts County Progress. There is no such an animal or you “never bin thar.”—Pike County Journal. Where—Macon or Savannah? - Macon Telegraph. Both places. NEWTON-CARNICHAEL HARDWARE CO.— Hardware Paints —and Oils MAKE YOUR OWN PAINT You will save 56 cts. per gal. THIS IS HOW M Buy 4 gals! LI A M. Seml-Mlxed Real Paint, - - SB.M 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. Made in a lew minutes Wh ‘ rCAS * if I* */,'\ * CANS, you pay 52.10 a gal. or $14./0. The L. Sc M. SEMI-MIXED REAL PAINT is PURE WHITE LEAD. ZINC *nd LINSEED OIL, the best-known paint materials for 100 year;. Use a gal. out of any L&M. PAINT yen buy and if not the best nafnt made, return*♦* *>r'* ~•* * T ’ ntonev back. Splendid Medicine Stomach Trouble 1 Suffered for Sereral Yean Parana factored My Health Mrs. Elizabeth P™" , Reuther. No. 508 I Twelfth St.. N. W* I^^ Washington, D. C„ writes: • 1 am MM pleased to endorse Feruna as a splen- jfitep did medicine for fljMp. .ch trouble, * rom *lp|p •v hlch I suffered ljL£. fj^j f.ir several years, aplpvlfpj . took it for sev- fr . --..1 months and ;.t the end of that! time found my C.*: was restored and haveWp;.;;- felt splendidly since. I now take it when I contract a cold and it soon rids the system of any catarrhal tendencies. Over Ten Years Ago. "I would not be without Peruna. Although It was over ten years ago that I first gave you my testimonial, I am of the same opinion as when I wrote it, and give you the privilege to use It as you see flt. I still use Pe runa when I think it necessary. I am recommending it to my neighbors whenever a chance occurs.” From reading The Macon Tele graph we judge its neutrality is no longer neutral. —Butts County Progress. We are not indeed. We’re so strongly pro-American that we’ll get offensive about it on suffi cient provocation.—Macon Tele graph. Give us your mitten, fellow. 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. W e 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 y Store m VamrjAaM > ® EMERGENCY WORK In auto repairing requires thorough skill is assured. We don’t have to Undertakers and Embalmers [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 Plica Cared in 6 to 14 Days Your dnintiut will refund money M PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itchiac. Blind. Bleedinc or Pratrudiny File, in 6 to M days. The first application five* Base and Rest. 50c. Read Etheridge, Smith & Co’s, page ad of bargain giving in this issue. Call on or write Brown & Brown, McDonough-,. Ga., for loans on farm lands. 3-26-tf <r Does the label on your paper read *£-1916? If not, pay up.