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VOLUME 28 THE MATTER OF GOOD ROADS The people of Butts county face a crisis In less than three weeks they vote for a commissioner of roads and revenues, an office newly created. There aie a number of candidates for the place, all good men and your fellow citizens. As to the fitness of candi dates we have nothing to say. The voters will pass on the matter on the fifth day of October. On one thing all the candidates are agreed and that is, BUTTS COUNTY HAS REACHED THE POINT WHERE SHE MUST WORK HER OWN CONVICTS ON HER OWN PUBLIC ROADS. From the announcements we gather that some of those seeking the office are in favor of working convicts while others promise to work convicts. What the people ought to insist upon is the unqualified pledge of every man in the race to put Butts county’s con victs on her highways and that at once. The roads belong to the people; so do the convicts The two ought to be brought together. If Butts county can afford to work her roads at all she can afford to work them with convicts, which cost only one third what free labor does —45 cents per day compared to $1.25 to $1.50 for free labor. We protest against other counties building good roads at our expense. The time has come to make a change. We want good roads built into Jackson, not away from Jackson. We want the price of Butts county real estate to be enhanced by good roads instead that of other counties using our convicts. It has cost Butts county more than one hundred thousand dollars to experiment in road work—to scrape sand in the road to be washed away by the first rain. No permanent road work has ever been done in Butts county. Now is the time for the people to get together and have decent public highways, roads that will be in keeping with the progressive spirit of the times and in line with other counties all around us. This is no time for petty politics. For once let the entire people rise above the plane of politics and unite on the best man. This is an occasion that calls for the broadest and highest patriotism. Politics should not be allowed to enter into a contest in which so much centers. The advancement and welfare of the whole county is at stake. The people cannot afford to make any mistake. What we need more than all else is an EXPERIENCED AND CAPABLE ENGINEER on our roads. Get a good man and give convicts and ho will build modern roads. This is a day of experts. The jack leg is playing out. The people of Butts county want the best road builder to be had. They are everlastingly tired of being high taxed to pay for good roads without getting them. Patience has a limit and it has about reached it in this county in the matter of roads. The people have been paying for some thing they haven’t got. They have paid the price of good roads and have been putting up with the same old bad roads. This produces a very distasteful feeling. The peo ple have reached down into their flanks and put much good money into the coffers of the road fund, they have receiv ed in return the same old hills and gulleys; money gone with nothing to show for it. Let’s face about and build roads the modern and scien tific and only way— PERMANENTLY. <§ Heaven knows bad roads has cost us enough in commer cial lines. But.s county and Jacks m have had to fight hard to retain their prestige with poor all around them. But they have gone forward in spite of this handi cap. What they will do with good roads to draw from only the future can tell. Butts must join hands with other progressive counties that are building good roads. Let us get out of the back ground and march in the front ranks. The opportunity is upon us. The approaching election is of vital and tar-reach ing importance. We are all going to vote for convicts and good roads on October 5. May the best man win. INFANT SON OF MR. ANO MRS. F. 8. OUTHOUSE DEAO I Williard Manley, the two year old son and only child of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Outhouse, formerly of Jackson but now of Rockmart, died Sunday night at a private sanitarium in Atlanta where he "'as taken for treatmement sev eral weeks ago. During his par ents visit to Jackson and Indian Springs about the middle of Au gust he contracted an illness " hich baffled the physicians’ skill and which was at first pronounc ed pheumonia. He grew steadi ly worse until death triumphed over his suffering. Williard was an unusually bright and handsome little fellow and had just reached the age to learn those cunning ways of child hood which endeared him to so many friends. The remains were brought down from Atlanta Mon day morning and the funeral ser vices were held at 3 o’clock that afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Outhouse’s sister, Mrs. Leila Kinsman The services were conducted by Hew R. L Sleekier nf the Methodistjchurch. In their deep sorrow Mr. and Mrs. Outhouse have the sympa thy of the entire town. JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1910 OFFICAL BALLOT IS A VERY LENGTHY ONE ELECTION ON WEDNESDAY OCT. 5 State Election Which Will Be Held in Few Days Is Exciting But Little Local Interest Outside of The County Comissioners’ Race—Tickets Printed On Wednesday October 5 the state election will be held and at that time the people will vote for the governor, state house officers, congressmen from the eleven districts, state senators from the district in which you re side, representative from your county, judges and solicitors in the several circuits, judges of the supreme and appellate court, county officers. The ballot is a long one, some five feet in all, and lust now the wonder is how long it will take the election managers to count the ballots. The ticket is too long to be printed here and the work will be done in Atlanta or Macon. There is but little interest in the election, as all of the candi dates have been voted for in the primary and the election is sim ply to ratify the nominations* The party nominees will receive the support of all true democrats and Butts county will do her du ty by every man on the ticket. The race for county commis sioner is creating a good deal of local interest. The law creating a commissioner of roads and rev enues was passed too late to ad mit the candidates to run in the primary and kence they will be voted for in the general election in October. Up to the first of the week a total of three candidates have an nounced. Whether there will be others to enter the race is not known at this time. The election is an important one and lively interest is being manifested by the people of the whole county. SINGING CONVENTION HELD AT COUNTY LINE The High Falls Musical Asso ciation held its convention with County Line church last Satur day and Sunday. At that time the musical talent from three or four counties came together to take part in the exescises. The convention was largely attended and proved a great success. Din ner was served on the grounds and genuine Middle Georgia hos pitality was in evidence during the entire time. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends for their kindness to us during the recent illness and death of our mother, Mrs. Nancy Duke. We shall always remember and oppreciate these tokens of friend ship. M. L. Duke and Family. COTTON SEASON OPENS WITH RUSH OF STAPLE TO MARKET PRICES FLUCTUATED LAST FEW DATS Many Bales of Fleecy Staple Came to Jackson on Saturday—Jackson The Best Market in Mid dle Georgia And Much Cotton Beign Re ceived From Other Counties—Weath er Favorable to Harvesting of The Crop—Market Very Unsteady With Jackson again the best market in Middle Georgia the cot ton season has opened up in full blast. The receipts last Friday were pretty large and on Saturday were even heavier, one of the warehouses alone weighing about one hundred and fifty bales and all the other warehouses got a large number of bales. With the opening of the cotton season business has taken a de cided brace and a more hopeful tone is evident. Obligations are being met satisfactorily as they fall due, so far as reported. It is the genera] belief that the season will be a good one for everyone. Cotton is selling for more in Jackson than any of the nearby towns, and only last week a far mer of Spalding county brought three bales of cotton to Jackson, after having refused to sell it in Gaiffin after it had been weighed and by bringing it to Jackson made several dollars. It is thought Jackson will re ceive about the same number of bales this season that she did last | year. Though the crop is repor- j ted a little below the normal the j superior market here is expected j to draw a lot of the staple from other counties. Since cotton began to open the best of weather has prevailed lo- j cally. This has aided the far-1 mers no little and reports state j considerable progress has been | made in harvesting the crop. Toj date the local receipts are far j below what they were last year at the same time. The market has been very un steady so far. It has fluctuated j often and downward from the opening price of the season. It; would be hard to find anything more unstable than the present, cotton market. Not only cotton but cotton seed. and all by-products are valuable; and the nresent crop is expected ] to establish anew record. THINKS THE TWO CONVEN TIONS VERY MUGH ALIKE Editor Progress:—S. J. Smith seems to be somewhat irritated over the treatment he and Col. Bloodworth’s friends received at the Springs on the 7 of Sept. Now, Mr. Editor, the conven tion at the Springs was only fol lowing up the procedure of the state convention inAtlaanta of crushing out and ignoring the minority altogether. And if my memory is not badly at fault S. J. Smith was a delegate from Butts oounty to that convention, which has gone down in history as the Steam Roller Convention. I think Mr. Blood worth was also there, Hon. J. Threatt Moore and the eloquent Walter Wise that Mr. S. J. Smith made men tion of. Strange to say that nei ther of those able orators raised their voices in the state convention to protest against i dentically the same ruling. Why single out the Springs conven tion? And especially Bibb coun ty? Bibb county only went in and got what you men in the state convention gave her. Can vou blame me for taking off a thing after you have given it to me? Under such rules as was made at the state convention Bibb county was entitled to all she got and more besides. If the state convention had never set that precedent to elect the next governor by a plurality vote that rule never could have been adop ted at the Indian Springs conven tion. This is your own prescrip ! tion and you and the rest of the | small counties must walk up to j lick log and take it for the next I two years to come. God pity that state convention. I can on ly say to them in the words of the martyred Steven “Lord for give th<#m they knew not what they were doing.” But they will find that they have delegated the political pow er of the state to the large cities just as they have done m the sixth district. Take it Bibb and thank them for it and say I hope none of the small counties will ever try to send a man to con gress again. It was some oppo sition to us under the county unit system to defeat the will of the small counties but under the rules made at the state convention we | will always keep our congress -1 man. Had I been a member the state convention I would rather have left Atlanta like Senator Griffith amid the howls and hisses than to have spoken in favor of taking from the small counties what lit tle power she had and delegate it to the large cities. Where was Moore and Wise? j 0. E. SMITH. The Jackson Rifles have been having target practice on their range near town and some good scores have been made during the last few days. NUMBER 38