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BtniS COUNTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered a* eecond-claM matter, Novem ber 8,1907, at the poatofficeat Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Communications are 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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith.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. Swat the red-bug. Has anybody said anything about a safe and sane Fourth? Well, at any rate the legisla ture will be a good space filler. After Saturday it will be ‘ ‘Gov ernor Harris.” Here’s to you, Governor. Quite a few June brides are being unbridled to judge from the court records. Say something good for the Butts county fair, and subscribe to the premium list. The Advertiser admits the Chau tauqua in Forsyth was not liber ally patronized. Same here. When cats get to fighting on the back fence on a dark night should they be attacked with a torpedo. Zeppelin of 42-centime ter gun? Now that Oliver Blood worth has gone to Atlanta to help run the legislature it is presumed his correspondence course in matri mony will be allowed to lag. Wonder who will be the bright and particular star of the press meeting this year? Believe Bil lie Sutlive was decorated with the laurel last year at Commerce. The Georgia Weekly Press As sociation has a lot of real busi ness that ought to be looked af ter this year. It remains to be seen whether the Eastman ses sion will develop into a good time and frolic or a business meeting. While the avearge farm profit in this country is 5 per cent, the farmer is compelled to pay any where from Bto 16 per cent for the money he borrows, and that in the aggregate the farmers pay $200,000,000 more per year in in terest on their debts than the en tire commercial world.—-Toccoa Record. Doyle Jones, editor of The Butts County Progress, is a royal booster for his old home town. Would that there were more like him in this land of the free and the home of Williams Jennings Bryan! More power to his boosts; greater growth to Jackson and an earnest hope for a lit tle boosting contagion across the line into Monroe. —Mon- roe Advertiser. Many thanks, Oliver. If The Progress were called on for an opinion it would say that The Ad vertiser is the best weekly news paper that comes to this office. , Bargain sales say waists are one-third off but they are still going up —the back. — Butts County Progress. It occurs to us that the la dies’ waists is not all of their costumes that is inclined to be moving upward.—Cov ington News. Believe you are right. The Griffin baseball team has won about eight out of ten games played. Editors Jones, of Jackson, and Blood worth, of Forsyth, will please sit up and take notice.— Griffin News. Already noticed the good show ing made by the Griffin team un der the leadership of a home man. If Fellow Bloodworth will come over and take a look at our Jackson girls he will abandon that correspondence course in matrimony.—Butts County Progress. What, will one look be enough to scare us off?— Monroe Advertiser. Perish the thought! You’ll be so delighted, charmed, entranced and enraptured at the beauty, loveliness and elegance of Jack son’s maidens that you’ll surren der on the spot. The Butts County Progress and The Savannah Press are having a dispute as to whether it should be Indian Spring or Indian Springs. Well, most folks in these parts, whohavebeen journeying all their tfiEORGIA’S k>*SUMMEI3 Pj, PLAYGROUND The Delightful Country The Tallulah Falls Attractive Mountain Resorts TCBKjLft, With Moderate Prices Tallulah Falls, Demurest, Clarke* vilh* Turnerrille, Wiley, Clayton, Mountain City, Rabun Gap, Dillard, Ga., and Through Coach Service From Atlanta Beginning July 4th Best Route To Highlands, N. C. R For Information as to Schedules and List of Hotels and Boarding Houses D. W. NEWELL, Superintendent, lives over to the Butts county health resort call it “springs,” but the truth is that there’s only one spring there and the post of fice’s name is given by the gov ernment as Indian Spring. So, you can just take your pick. — Monroe Advertiser. The Macon Telegrah has a bright editorial page and is a good paper. Now let it cut out its “obituary” correspon dent from Juliette and it’ll be a livelier paper still. 4 ‘The Man from Juliette” makes a specialty of funerals. He gets all the exchanges possi ble and when the subjects are good and “dead” he sends in his copy. Anything that happens in a hundred miles of his town is put down as “near here. ” A wonderful imagination has the “Man from Juliette,” but he is more elaborate than accurate. —Butts County Progress. That’s getting after him all right, Jones. Something ought to be done before that fellow at Juliette drives the inhabitants crazy over the “falling stones” and various “ghosts” appearing there abouts of late.—Monticello News. Really he is about as much of a nuisance as some of the Atlanta “press agents.” To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, shewing it ia §uinine aad Iron in a tasteless form. he Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron bnilds up the system. SO cents Seeds Fop Spring Planting Buy your seeds of all kinds from the old reliable seed sftore of Jackson —Slaton Drug Cos. This £ore has been in the seed business longer than any other seed &ore in the coun ty. We have always given our customers satisfaction by selling them only the be& 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 Undertakers and Embalmers 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 Pecan Trees Choice budded pecan trees fifty cents each. Order direct, cata logue free. Empire Pecan Com pany, Parrott, Ga. 5-21 -tf 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 If not, pay up.