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VOL. XXVI.
What the People are Saying and Doing.
DR. Q. H. CARTER
Is Still After the Liquor
Men and Hethods.
If you are in iavor of poverty, dis
sension, suffering, bloodshed and
death, then on the Brd day ot March
cast your vote for barrooms,and your
contribution is made. But how can
any man, who takes the second
thought, be willing to do a thing so
wrong in itself? A. tree is known by
its fruits, and so any course of action
in life is known by its results. What
is the fruit of the barroom? It is
bad and only bad. No man who
thinks properly of this matter can,
or will, vote to support the liquor in
terest,
There are only a few white men in
Butts county who will go to the polls
and vote for blood and death. So the
liquor element were expecting suc
cess through the assistance of the
colored voter. But thanks to a kind
Providence, the day has passed when
the white liquor man can harness up
his colored brother like a steer and
drive him up to the polls and vote
him for whiskey. Some of the most
enthusiastic supporters of the prohi
bition cause are found amongst our
colored friends. They can neither be
bought nor scared ny the liquor advo
cate to support his feeble and ruinous
business.
Tliiß liquor campaign will have re
sulted in much good to onr communi
ty , because it has furnished an occa
sion to bring our white and colored
citizens closer together in contending
for the best interests of our county.
Henceforth the legalized liquor inter
est is doomed in our midst because we
have united moral forces enough to
put it down. Let us all unite and
vote down the liquor business first,
and then everybody look upward, and
soon pull all the dealers in liquor and
drinkers to a higher plane. Then
men who have wasted their money
for strong drinK wdl supply their
families with the needed comforts of
life.
The barroom is a great factory in
which much raw material is used up.
The boys of our land are the raw ma
terial. Without our boys this fac
tory must stop, The old patronizers
of the business will soon be gone.
Unless new recruits are brought in
the business must fail. This fresh
material must come from our homes.
Father, if you want your boy done up
in that kind of a shop, then go to the
polls on the Brd day of March and
vote for liquor. But if you have no
boy of your own let me inform you
that I have, and please do not go and
vote to make my boy a drunkard
and bring sorrow into my home.
One says the blind tiger is worse
than the barroom, and it is better,
perhaps, to have barrooms and get
rid of the blind tiger. This is a vain
and deceiving argument. If we should
have barrooms the blind tiger inter
est will be multiplied two-fold. It is
a lac j that the blind tiger nuisance
is much worse in wet counties than
in the dry. The barroom gets credit
for the sin of the tiger, and so he es
capes public notice, but gets in his
dirty work all the same.
G. H. Carter.
Georgia cane syrup, also New Or
leans open kettle, at Allen & Co’s.
JACKSON, BUTTS COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, !Bqß.
Indian Spring.
Sunday was a charming day and
the town was filled with visitors.
Rev. G. H. Carter filled his ap
pointment at the Baptist church
Sunday afternoon and had an un
usually fine congregation, many
expressions of pleasure and apprecia
tion have been heard from those who
were so lortunate as to hear Mr.
Carter’s sermon. Mrs. Carter and
Master John Carter came down with
Mr. Carter.
Mr. George Collier and Mr. Whit
Collier were at home Sunday.
Judging from the quantity of rub
ber scattered over the hillside above
the spring, there must have been an
explasion of a bicycle that Saturday
afternoon.
Miss Irene Daughtry and her guest,
Miss Johnson of Griffin, were at the
spring Saturday afternoon.
Miss Rosa Elder has returned after
a delightful visit to Tennille and
Macon.
Mr. Charles C. Smith and Shine
Smith spent Sunday at Indian
Spring.
The friends of Mrs. E. P. Fears
who just recently returned from Dr.
White’s Sanitarium in Atlanta will
be glad to hear that she is improving.
Flovilla.
Miss Lucy Dozier is visiting rela
tives at Social Circle.
T. O. Watkins of Atlanta has re
turned home after a month’s visit to
his parents.
The three new buildings that are
going up here now are begining to
make Flovilla look city like again.
Charley Niblett has been elected as
marshal of Flovilla for the next
twelve months.
Several of Flovilla’s young people
went to a valentine party at Cork
last Monday evening.
Miss Ola Buckalew has returned to
her home in Dublin after a few weeks
visit with friends here and at Paron.
Misses Bessie Bloodworth and Lu
cile Elder have returned home after
a week’s visit to friends in Jackson,
Literary Societies.
The literary societies of Jackson
Institute will hold their monthly
meeting in the college chapel Friday,
February the 25th.
There are live societies of the In
stitute, the “Sigma” and “Ciceron
ian” societies of the collegiate de
partment, the “Pansy,” of the
academic department, the “Busy
Bees” of the intermediate, and the
‘ Alpha” of the primary grades.
Three private meetings are held
each month in their respective rooms
and presided over by the teachers in
charge. Every fourth Friday exer
cises are given.
The entertainments consist of
recitations, declamations, concert
speeches, dialogues, songs and
drills.
These entertainments were estab
lished not only for the benefit and
instruction of the pupils, but a
pleasure to the friends and patrons of
the Institute.
By our presence we encourage our
children and offer incentives to the
teachers who labor with them day
after day.
Shop coal for sale, Apply to Dr.
J. W. Crum.
FROfl HIGH FALLS
Comes an Echo for Prohi
bition in Butts.
The question of bar rooms is being
agitated in Butts county, prompts
me to make a few remarks on that
line. While I dont live in Butts
county at this time, yet I have a
great many good friends in old Butts.
Butts county is the scene of my
boyhood days, and many a happy day
have I spent around the old log
school house near Antioch church.
Butts county is the home of many a
good and worthy citizen, and I can
remember hearing the old men talk
about groceries, at “’Possum Trot”
and “Nigger Heel,” and of the old
sot drunkards that use to lie aronnd
them and fight chickens, gamble and
do all kinds of devilment that could
be thought of.
And not the thoughts of some body
trying to get up barrooms right in
the face of our grand old men, our
noble boys and girls, which are in a
few years to become the hope of the
country,it makes the very blood rnn
cold in my veins.
It cant possibly be for the good of
the country as there is no good in
it.
But, for the love of money is the
root of evil, to sell whisky is a scheme
for some body to make money, at
the expenses of some body else.
Whiskey has been the cause of more
poverty, more goo * *;>m n gone to
the grave prematurely, more ragged,
and baerfooted children, than any
thing else on this earth.
S?tan has already a strong enough
hold on this sin cursed earth, without
adding more to his mighty power by
stimulating a man with whisky. The
fire from the infernal regions.
Whisky is one of the many ways by
which the old Devil has to make poor
weak men do just as he wants him
to do. It will make a man kill his
father, mother, brother or any body
else, he will mistreat his good wife,
who looks to him for support and
happiness, otherwise he would not.
Whisky is the mighty ward which
satan puts in the hands of his subject
to cut and slash, and put to flight the
happiness of his household.
There are trials enough in this
world to contend with, without adding
fuel to the fire. I have heard men say
that they didn’t caie who drank
liquor, just so they didn’t bother
them. But if they don’t bother
them they will somebody else, and
that will cause strife between the
parties envolved, and som'etimes the
result is, that these are widows and
orphans, as the fruits of theis folly.
And then there is a trial, and a
gallows built, and a man hangs be
tween heaven and earth, and his soul
has taken its flight, we know not
where.
I don’t make these remarks to
hurt anybodies feelings, or to injure
anybodies character, but I write ac
cording to my own understanding.
Now will every man thae loves his
country, ge to the polls, and vote
against the sale of wnisky. It is
strange how men can go to Africa
and catch a tiger with two eyes, and
can’t catch a blind one in this
country.
Yours for soberness,
C. L. Edwards.
For Sale.
My house and lot for sale or rent.
W. W. Logue.
Patillo Dots.
Editor Argus :—As I have not seen
anything from this part of the coun
ty for some time I will try and give
you a few happenings.
The farmers are making a great
stride to make another big crop
of cotton and corn as they are haul
ing guano and cotton seed meal,
with a rush and turning up the
ground in a hurry. I think they
will get 4 cents for cotton instead of
5, as they did last year.
Uncle Wash Oliver, the pioneer
preacher, visited Patillo Saturday
and preached a very able and feel
ing sermon to a large congregation of
people at the school house Saturday
night. Uucle Wash’s sermon
seemed to do a great good, and he
was so impressed with the Patillo
people that he gave them an oppor
tunity the next second Saturday
night in March to hear him again
with the unde: standing that the
people furnish an organ to help out
the singing. Squire T. P. Bell said
that he would furnish the organ.
We expect a very large crowd and a
good meeting next second Saturday
night, Uucle Wash Oliver is one of
the oldest preachers that we know,
he being 74 years of age is hale and
hearty and active. He says that he
has good meetings all the winter and
has taken into the church about 400
up to date. We expect great good
from him at Patillo, and may he live
many years yet to do good for him
self and others.
Patillo school is still on a boom and
could not be any other way, with
Prof. C. Owen as principal and Miss
Irene Banks as assistant at the helam
you may not expect anything else of
them ; they have about 100 pupils in
attendance, and they are at work
and think the children are advancing
very rapidly. Patillo school is second
to none in the state (vve think) and
if Jackson and Barnesville don’t look
out she will be trying to get pupils
to come out and hear and take ad
vantage of Patillo school. So look
out Jachson and Barnesville, vve will
be turning out A. B. Scholars here
soon from the Antioch.
H. A. Crawley, the saw mill man of
Unionville, finished sawing a fine lot
of logs for J. J. Thornton, to-day and
will take up his mill to morrw and
move off ; and leave Thornton a lot
of as fine lumber to sell as there is
anywhere in the county, And guess
we all can get some good lumber it
we have got the money.
A great lot of Patillo p ople went
to Rnobeth Sunday, to meeting
W. J. Harrison carried Miss Irene
Banks and they report a fine congre
gation. They went to Mr. Walker
Dukes for dinner and had a nice
time. Some of the boys say Miss
Irene talked so to Billie that he
could not sit straight and he came
back with a smile on both sides of
his face.
Our Mayor and councilman, Mr.
T. P. Bell, went out to Jackson Mon
day to start the court house, so he
says, but I don’t believe him, for he
has gone over there I don’t know
how many times, to start that court
honse. and I don’t see any house yet,
but I know he will start it after a
while foa he says he will and what he
says he will do is going to be
done. When it gets started I know
he will be glad for it nas been a great
worry to him, and he says to other
comers: I think he is still afraid
that those Flovilla people will get it
yet and then he could not go to Jack
son so often.
If this don’t find its way to the
waste basket basket you will hear
from me again. Pete.
A SUGGESTION
On the Question of Road
Improvement.
Mr. Editor: If the -condition of
the roads is a test of the civilization
of the people, then the county of
Butis mud take a bacK seat in a
comparison with the county of Jasper
on the east and Spalding on the
west. Outside of the economy of
having good roads, every citizen of
Butts county ought to feel his pride
enlisted when our neighboring coun
ties are so far outstepping us in this
pnne requisite of an advanced and in
telligent people.
Now, it would seem useless in these
hard times and with our present high,
taxes to broach this subject and I
would not, were it not for a very
practical suggestion made by Mr. J.
C. Jones of Stark, by which it is
thought that we can accomplish this
highly desirable end without much
expense.
The plan in brief is for the county
to buy a road machine similar to the
one used in Jasper and instead of
hireing hands to build the roads ©r
having convicts to work them, to
hire one man who should be an ex
pert to manage the machine and go
with it from one section of the county
to another, notifying the road hands
of each iocality when he would be on
their part of the road. The regular
road hands w r ould then turn out,
bringing from four to six mules as
might be needed for the machine and
picks for those parts of the road too
rough for the machine. The plan,
also contemplates the members of
each section taking turn about at
boarding and lodging at their homes
the expert as he passes from one lo
cality to another, thus doing away
with all expense except the purchase
of the machine and the pay of an ex
pert to manage it. And it is sup
posed that before long some men on
each section would become expert
enough in its management to do aw T ay
with even this expense. By begin
ning at the town of Jackson and work
ing two or three miles on each road
leading out from it, it would give all
the people some good road to travel
over in coming to town and would
prevent it being used too exclusively
for the benefit of any one portion of
the county.
The cost of the machine is slight
compared to the enormous amount of
work it can accomplish in a short
time. Wherever the p'an has been
Deen discussed among men of practi
cal judgement it has met with un qual
ified endorsement, and I hope our
grand jury about to covene will take
the matter under advisement and
reeommend it in their presentments*
by so doing the country people will
feel that their interests are not being
neglected while a fine court house is
being built to adorn Jackson. Hop
ing this article may bring the matter
to the fro.it and provoke further dis
cussion, I am yours for better roads.
Countryman.
rieavy bales.
Our business houses enjoyed very
heavely sales last Saturday.
The Argus learns that the sales of
the Globe store reached a total of
SI,OOO, and that this house made a
cash sale to one man a Flovilla of
$252.
It is the same old story, Jackson is
the leading market in Middle Georgia.
I and the people come here because they
! find it to their interest to do so.
NO. 7.