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VOL. XXXIV.
Thompson Bros.
4 WILL LEAVE JACKSON 1A FEW WEEKS. 4
On March 10th we will bid farewell to Jackson, but we can’t take oui stock of goods on our back and walk away like a tramp, and so we will offer our entire stock at a
SPECIAL - SALE - PRICE. =
$4,000 Worth of Shoes!
or Men, Women and Children all go in this Special Sale.
The celebrated makes Hamilton & Brown, Evitt Bros, and Rockland Shoe Co’s
goods will all be sold less than cost to make them.
If )ou wear S^ oes which most people do, don’t fail to take advantage of this Spe
i
cial sale and get 8 hod.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
MILLS & BAILEY.
Attorney at Law.
Office up stairs in Watkinsbuilding.
M. V. McKLBBKN.
attorney at Law,
JACKSON, - - GEORGIA.
T. J DEMPSEY,
Attorney-at-Law,
Office in Dempsey Building, No. 2
Mulberry Street,
JACKSON, --- - GEORGIA.
• STANDARD- •
THE NATION'S PRIDE.
GOOD IS GOOD,
BUT THE BEST ?
Ah* Good is Not in it Then.
Get The Beet While Ton
are Buying Mid Save
Your Money.
STANDARD fine high grade, light running, **
lb wheel with bearings made of the
1 finest tool steel, price 185.00 for model
1 40 and SIOO.OO for model 43. Discount
for cash.
Catalogues and testimonials furnished free
upon application. For particulars write to
makers.
THE GEO. HkSBRM COM,
153 West 23 Street,
New York.
For Yard, Cemetery and Orare n ßf
■ al. mumiaia. atiakta. a.
Blank Papers far Sale.
Bond for Title, Blank Deeds, mort
gages, Rent Notes, Liens and other
blank forms for sale at Argus office.
Remember Everything will Go at a SPECIAL PRICE.
THOMPSON BROTHERS, Jackson, Georgia.
RAMBLIIM THOUGHTS.
Jackson is the only place of its size
and standing that has no place of
shelter for the stock of those coining
from the country to the town. There
should be one or two wagon yards
around town with plenty of shelter for
stock in bad weather. Everyone does
notfeel able to put up his horse or mule
at the livery stable and consequently
they stand tied all day in all sorts of
weather. Again, the square is not a
very good place to tie stock and fill
the streets with vehicles.
In other places tne merchants of
the town from whom all the country
people trade usually put up such
shelters as will protect stock from the
weather. We know our friends from
the country would appreciate such an
accommodation at the hands of the
merchants from whom they buy so
many goods. Let someone start the
movement so that when customer!
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come to town their stock will not be
compelled to take the weather as it
comes and so that there will be some
other place to tie stock save on our
public thoroughfare.
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It appears to us that Jackson needs
more FSsidences. There is pot a va
cant dwelling in town and still there
is a demand for houses. There is
plenty of room for more houses on all
of our streets which certainly would
be desirable building sites.
By the way we will say here that
rents of property in Jackson i9 entire
ly too high. Those who own proper
ty will not agree to this but it is a
fact and that’s one reason we need
more houses. Rents would be cheap
er if there were more houses. Let
those who own vacant lots build on
them and ask a reasonable rent for
them and it will be seen how quickly
a demand for them will arise.
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Vast quantities of guano are being
carried away from Jackson. We un
derstand that the purchasers in most
cases are giving a note for their guano.
It seems somehow that it is always
much easier to pay for fertilizers with
cotton than to plank down the hard
cash. It never seems so difficult to
give a man a bale of cotton in settle
ment for fertilizers as it does to pull
out $35.00 in free silver and give the
dealer. This is human nature how
ever and is very much akin to the
credit system in our country and in
all others for that matter. We buy
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1896
things with an easier conscience on a
credit than when we buy and pay the
money. Whatever may be the evils
of the credit eyatem we could not get
on without it. The world lives and
buys on a credit. Who shall say the
world is wrong ?
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. A traveling man remarked to us
the other day that Jackson was con
sidered the best town in Georgia com
mercially speaking. “Everybody,"
said he, “has heard of Jackson and
speak of it in the highest terms.
Here is however my opinion of Jack
son, while your merchants sell more
goods than is sold in any town of its
size possibly in the South, and while
your people are very intelligent yet
they all seem to be after the almighty
dollar and do not take as much pride
in keeping of the streets and the ap
pearances of the town as some other
people in other towns to which I go.
They do not seem to have as much
town pride as is commensurate with
the commercial standing of the town."
Thus spoke our friend, the traveling
man. His remarks put us to think
ing. Possibly he was about half right
in his conception of Jackson. At
least we feel that there is room for
improvement on the line mentioned
in his remarks.
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Hello! Jackson needs a telephone
exchange. Some are ready to say
now that wo do not need any such a
thing. Yet there are towns in Geor
gia with less progressiveness, less pop
ulation and less wealth than is here in
Jackson ; these towns have, some of
them, water works, factories, tele
phone exchanges and electric lights.
When the exchange is once established
you will wonder how we ever got along
without one. A gentleman told me
the other day that he lived in a pro
gressive little city not a thousand
miles away where they now have an
exchange. He f*vs at first that near
ly every one objected to it, but now
after the system has been in opera
tion about three weeks every one is
highly pleased and think it would be
a great calamity to be deprived of
such a convenience at so small a cost.
Up with the telephone exchange.
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We trust those who have the
building of our factory in charge will
allow the people of Jackson to have
some exercises at the laying of the
corner stone. It will be a very pretty
occasion for a little speech making
As Said Our Entire Stock
will be sold at special prices. Many things will be sold less than factory cost.
so you can’t afford to miss this chance of buying goods almost at you* own
price.
and jollification. By the time the
corner stone, is laid no doubt the
weather will be warmer aud propi
fcicLV foran occasion as this.
Let s have it and in the corner stone
deposit on paper our mutual recorded
declaration that henceforth we will
all work together for the moral and
temperal upbuilding of our matchless
little city.
Before you try anything else foj* the
blood take Simmons Liver Regulator.
It is the best blood medicine because
it is the best liver remedy. If your
liver is active and at work the blood
will be the best. Simmon’s Liver
Regulator is the best Spring medicine.
“I tell my friends if they want to en
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to take Simmons Liver Regulator."
—Mrs. R. W. Smith, Mclntosh Bluff,
Ala.
A Boarder** Lamentation.
Backward, turn backward, oh time
in thy flight.
I am so weary of sole leather steak,
Petrified doughnuts and vulcanized
ca e,
Oysters that slept in the watery bath,
Butter, strong as Goliath of Gath,
Weary paying for. what I don’t eat,
Chewing up rubber and calling it
meat.
Backward, turn backward, for weary
I am,
Give me a whack at grandmother’s
jam.
Let me drink milk that has never
been skimmed,
Let me eat butter whose hair has
been trimmed,
Let me once more have an old fash
ioned pie,
And then I’ll be ready to come up
and die.
—Dalton Citizen.
Cmred of Eczema.
Julia E Johnson, Stafford’s P. 0.,
South Carolina, writes: “1 had suf
fered for thirteen years with Eczema,
and was at times confined to my bed.
The itching was terrible. My son-in -
law T got me one-half dozen bottles of
Blood Balm, which entirely cured
me, and I ask you to publish this for
the benefit of others suffering in like
manner.” See advertisement.
WHO’S SB : MERGER ?
Be*s the Wire Fence J n.c-i Atiant.a.Ga.,and
sells the best and cheapo f-noing in existence
for all purposes. Cataß, a tree. Write for it.
J. B. Guthrie, the pliotograber, is
back again to take your picture and
not to tote brisk and mortar for the
actory as was first supposed.
What about those electric lights?
It will soon be time to decide about
the matter. The factory will soon be
erected and it must be lighted, ar
rangements for lighting purposes will
soon have to be made. Shall thefac- ;
tory have electric lights and the town
go on in darkness? We trust not.
We are especially anxious that the
town take-some action in the matter
of having lights. We suggest that
the mayor call a meeting of the citi
zens and let the matter be discussed.
If we want thorn we can soon have
them. If will do no possible harm
to ascertain the wish of our people
along this line. The city is not ob
liged to issue bonds or even to invest
one cent towards putting iD a plant.
There are lighting companies that
would be only too glad to come here
and put in a plant if they could get
the proper encouragement from the
citizens. These companies put in the
plant and then get subscribers t(
take the lights.
Jackson could easily utilize one
thousand incandescent lights at one
dollar per month and 15 or twenty
arc or street lights. There is no bet
ter advertisement for a town than to
be progressive. It, like advertising
will pay. Indeed such progressive
ness is in itself a very judicious way
of advertising a town. Turn on the
current.
While we are figuring on vaaious in
dustries and agitating the people on
lines of progressiveness and thrift
it is time to begin on some lines of
immaterial development. Jackson
needs and is capable of supporting a
public school system. This is one
thing she should have had are this.
We are behind in this respect. Our
schools may be just as effective as
any in the state, and no doubt such
is the case, yet by all means a public
school system should be established.
It is however impossible we might
say to perfect such a thing at once
but it is high time we were begining
to agitate the matter.
The town ought to own and control
through a set of trustees all the school
property. Until this is done we
shall not attain that degree of excel
lence in our educational work as is
possible to reach through a public
school.
There is some talk of a cotton mill
being located in Valdosta.
The only way for Butts county to
get anew court house
is to build it by issuing
bonds. It will be unwise to un -
dertake the matter in any other way.
Asa rule we are opposed to issuing
bonds, especially those kind that Un
cle Sam deals in, but by issuing, say
twentp year bonds for the purpose of
building a court house, the present
generation of tax payers will not have
all the burden to bear. Those w ? ho
now pay no taxes .will before a court
house is paid for be paying taxes and
thereby will help pay for the court
house. Of course by a bond issue
the building will cost more but we
all had rather pay more provided we
have as long as twenty years to pay
for it. We will next week build a
court house(on paper)and let our read
ers see exactly how the plan works.
Accident insurance companies have
ordered an increase of rates where the
insured rides a bicycle.
V;1 *nf.YEi-7
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