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THE JACKSON ARGUS
Telephone 119.
Published Mery Friday at 11.00 a year.
Entered at Jackson I'ostoffice as Becond class
mall matter."
E. W. CARROLL, Editor and Publisher
Official Paper City of Jackson
Official Oroan of Butts County
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6c rfWJine, 1
JACKSON,f m jAN. 8, 1918.
Among Year resolu
tions be sile to paste this one in
your hat: “I will pull for my town
and county first, last and all the
time.”
Jackson merchants had a fine
Christmas trade, and The Argus
congratulates them upon the fact.
We rejoice with them in their pros
perity.
The unpardouable siti: Taking a
newspaper a whole year, refusing
to pay for it and denouncing it as
a “durn poor sheet” when you are
presented with a bill for subscrip
tion.
Let every citizeu of Jackson help j
hold up the hands of our new city *
government in 191.1. Do that zeal- j
ously, persistently,instead of knock- j
ing it and cursing it, and see if you j
do not make things better.
J ackson’s 1012 City Council made
si splendid record, and the retiring
members, Messrs. J. M. Leach and
Albert Finley, leave a fine record
for zeal and efficiency behind them.
The tovvu never had two better
officials.
The efforts of Senator lloke
Smith to have the salaries of rural
mail carriers increased to SIOO a
month is highly appreciated by
these faithful aud efficient workers
in the most important brauch of
the postal service.
The man who advertises all the
time, regardless of seasons, is the
<<ne who gets there. People must
buy what they need, and they will
go to the merchant who offers the
best goods at the lowest price, and
tells what he has to offer through
the newspapers.
Representative Edwards, of the
First Georgia district, predicts Hon.
Ittteas Stovall will be Secretary of
Be Interior. The Argus main
tained all along that President wil-
son, in the selection of |his cabinet,
would not overlook the splendid
qualifications of this distinguished
Georgian. It is a safe bet that he
will make the best Secretary of the
Interior this country has ever had.
Now, let’s all get together on that
sewerage question and have an up
to-date system by early spring. No
matter who is for it or against it,
that is no sane reason why you
should oppose a proposition that
means so much for the welfare of
the community. It ißtime to bury
your factional feelings, citizens of
Jackson, aud do something to pro
tect the lives of our women and
children.
This Ain't No Joke.
The editor and his family are
sorely in need of what you owe us,
Mr. Delinquent Subscriber; and if
you are unable to pay us the cash
we’ll take chickens, eggs, butter,
meat, meal, flour, garden truck —
in fact, anything or everything we
can eat, pawn or sell.
"Good Newspapers.”
Under the above caption, Editor
Still, of the Metter Advertiser, one
of the brightest of the recent addi
tions to Georgia weekly journalism,
pays us the following appreciated
compliment:
“Since our last issue, we have
received on our exchange list The
Jack sou Argus and The Quitman
Free Press; these two papers are
splendid papers and ably edited.
We see no reason why the peop’e
in and around Jackson and Quit
man should not support these two
good papers. A good paper is the
life of a town. To see a paper die
is a good sign of a dead town.
“The Jackson Argus is published
at Jackson, Ga. It is considered
one of the leading weekly papers
in the State. It is ahlv edited and
neatly gotten up. The merchants
and other business men patronize it
well. Jackson is considered one of
the best and most progressive towns
in the State. The people there cer
tainly should appreciate The Argus
and keep up its high stondard. It
has a good newspaper man behind
it.”
There Are Others.
A North Georgia editor says that
if all the people who owe him will
pay’him on January Ist, that on
January 2d he will pay everybody
he owes aud have some surplus
money in the bank.
He'll Charge’Em Rent, Alright
One of our exchanges, in speak
ing of a deceased citizen, said:
"We knew him as Old Ten Per
Cent—the more he had the less he
spent—the more he got the less he
lent—he's dead—we don’t know
where he went; but if his soul to
heaven is’sent —he’ll own the harp
and charge ’em rent.”
Tetter, Salt Bten and Hama
The Argus in 1913.
The Argus is not beating any tin
pans over what it proposes to do
in this good year 1913. It will
probably jog along (as it did in
1912) the best it can, treating every
interest and everybody the very best
it knows how—giving the best serv
ice possible for its patronage.
By striving to give a good paper
and building up a good list of sub
scribers —the largest, perhaps, of
any weekly in Middle Georgia —we
have succeeded in making the paper
a first-class advertising medium.
We are deeply grateful to the
merchants of Jackson for the man
ner in which they have stood by
our efforts to give them a profitable
advertising service; we are proud
of their help and encouragement;
we likewise feel a degree of pride
in the fact that the advertisements
in The Argus have proven a source
of profit to those who have used
them. And we trust the merchants
are equally appreciative of our ef
forts to develop the trade interests
of Jackson and Butts county. We
believe they do, and shall make re
newed efforts during the present
year to merit their patronage and
esteem.
The Cattle Tick Contributes to
the High Cost of Living.
On his recent visit to Jackson,
Dr. Bahnsen, State Veterinarian,
stated in an address before the
Butts County Live Stock Associa
tion that the insect known as the
cattle tick is costing the people of
this, country $100,000,000 a year,
and that it is one of the big factors
in the high cost of living.
“This little insect,” said Dr.
Bahnsen, “causes every man, wom
an and child in the country to pay
tribute to it in dollars and cents.
It directly increases the cost of all
kinds of meat by the great damage
it does to cattle.”
There is now pending before the
Committee on Agriculture in the
National House of Representatives
a bill which carries an appropria
tion of $400,000 for the eradication
of this little insect that is playing
havoc with the cattle industry
throughout the South. Favorable
action on the measure is expected
at the present short session. Both
the Senate and the House are in
clined to put it through, and it
hardly seems probable that anyone
will oppose the measure, since it
olfers some relief from the high
cost of living.
FOR SALE.—Ten Indian
Runner Ducks.
C. W. Buchanan.
Eyes That Become Stars.
The most renmrknble belief or super
stition concerning the human eye Is
one Hint is current in Australia.
Among the natives of that country it
Is the general belief that the left eye
of every chief becomes a star the mo
ment the chief in questiou is done With
It. The sun. they say. is the eye or the
"greater god" and the moon the eye ot
the ••lesser god.” All the stars were
once the left optics of human beings
of high rank. Shtingle, a celebrated
chief, once ate the eye of a vnliaiit
chief, thinking thereby lo increase tiie
brilliancy of his own "‘eye star.’’ But
the eye burned through Shungle and
killed 111 in. whereupon his own left eye
became joined to the one he had eaten,
and tiie two may now lie seen its a
beautiful double star lying just to the
past of the Southern t’rass.
American Restaurants.
What disconcerts the Kuropean in the
great American restaurant is the ex
cessive. the occasionally maddening
slowness of the service aud the lack of
interest in the service Touching the
latter defect, the waiter is uot impolite;
he is not. neglectful. But he is too of
ten passively hostile or at best neutral
He or his chief has apparently not
grasped the fact that buying a tneal is
not like buying a toq or goal. If the
purchaser is to get value for his ntoney
be must enjoy bis tneal. and if he is to
enjoy the meal it must not merely be
efficiently served, but it must be effi
ciently served in a sympathetic atinos
phere. The supreme business of $ good
waiter is to create this atmosphere.—
Arnold Bennett in Harper's.
Bonus.
“Bonus” ought to be “bonnm.’* since
It is evidently Intended to mean “a
good thing” and therefore should be
neuter, not masculine The word la
is found as early as 1778, bat no one
knows who was the ignorant or will
ful sinner against Latin that introduced
It though conjecture assigns It to the
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WILL INIERESIJj^^I
1 . Do you remember hearing your mother tell of
the tinware she had when she was a girl- > tio
it brightened the kitchen with reflected light and
how it was always Mother’s best present to t
bride, who never had but the one outfit, tor it
lasted all her life?
You have desired for a long time to buy siicn
tinware; so have we, and have at last succeeded.
Order a few pieces of “Our Very Best Tinware,
and see if they are not more attractive than any
you ever saw.
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(ENOUGH -SAIDIi ,
Dempsey Hardware Go.
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