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OFFICIAL ORGAN
OF
BUTTS COUNTY
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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
JACKSON HIGH SCHOOL
ELECTS NEW PRINCIPAL
Prof. George Williams Chosen to
Succeed Prof. Hingledorff, Re*
signed—New Principal Comes
Highly Recommended.
Prof. George Williams, of Law
reneeville, a member of the gradu
ating class at the State University,
has been elected Principal of the
High School here in lieu of Prof.
George Miugledorff, who has re
signed, after having held that po
sition for three years.
Mr. Williams will be graduated
in June with high honors. He has
had one years’ experience in teach
ing and comes to Jackson highly
recommended as a scholarly and
Christian gentleman.
In addition to his duties as Prin
cipal of the school, Mr. Williams
will teach mathematics.
WALSTEIN M'CORD HONORED
BY SOUTH GEORGIA TOWN
The citizens of Sale City, a town
in South Georgia, hearing of the
proposed plan of Rev. Walstein
McCord, a former Jackson boy, to
locate again in Jackson, made Mr.
McCord a most unusual and flat
tering offer on the condition that he
-would make Sale City headquar
ters. He has just closed a most
successful meeting there, and so
won the respect, esteem and affec
tion of the people that they volun
tarily went to him, gave him SISOO
in money, a desirable building lot I
in the Feart of the town, and 'part
of the lumber with which to build
a house. I
The popularity and high Chris
tian character of Walstein McCord
are too well established here to need
comment.
His friends in Jackson and Butts
county will rejoice to know that his
friends away from here appreciate
so thoroughly his worth as a man
and brother that they wish to have
him near to be further benefited by
his counsel and efforts,
Clayton Buchanan is spending a
few days at home.
Dr. R. L. Crawford, of Locust
Grove, was in the city Sunday.
Cols. Eugene Baynes and Greene
Johnson were over from Monticello
Wednesday.
Watch This Space
Every Week.
It Will Pay You
Next week from the 14th to 18th we will again put
the lowest prices ori
Laces, Ribbons, Embroidery
Braid, Crochet Cotton.
You remember the last sale we had on these goods, and what
a low prico you got them at. This will be the last spring sale
on these goods. Come while they are cheap.
Don’t believe others, come see for yourself, it costa nothing
to look.
THE RACKET STORE,
JACKSON, - GEORCJIA.
THE JACKSON ARGUS.
JACKSON MAY HAVE
STREET RAILWAY SOON
Aliddle Georgia Interurban Railway
Wins Before Council—This City
May Be Hade Center for Sev
eral Interurban Lines.
Jackson at last has the prospect
of a street railway, and in addi
tion to that being made a center
for interurban lines, which may
branch to all parts of this county
and surrounding counties, and
probably to Griffin and Monticello.
Capt. L. W. Roberts, President
of the Company, was before the
Council Monday night and won
out in his effort not to have the rail
road in the city taken up. This
decision was made in the railroad’s
favor on the condition that the
track be kept in good condition
Capt. Roberts and other officials
of the road are expected to return
soon to carry out their purpose of
extending the line and placing
electric cars thereon.
Gospel Meetings
Well Attended
Dr. R. VanDeventer, pastor of
the Baptist church, is meeting with
much success in his revival serv
ices which have been held in the
Baptist church since Monday.
Large congregations have at
tended the meetings and much in
terest is being manifested in every
service,
The song services are led by Mr.
Ward Milam, and Thursday even
ing Rev. M. b. Williams preached.
Rev. James Jkadley willjxmduct
the services tonight.
APPELLATE COURT RENDERS
IMPORTANT DECISION
Atlanta, Ga., April 10. —The
State Court of Appeals has just
handed down an important deci
sion bearing on the relation of the
farmer to the hired man and crop
per. It is a decision in which com
mon sense and equity happen to go
hand in hand with the technical
law. The substance of the deci
sion is that if a farmer hires a man
under contract as a cropper, and
the man leaves, and his wife and
children carry out the contract, the
employer cannot plead no liability
because the contract was made
with the husband and father.
This decision was rendered in
the case of Mrs. F. E. Randall vs.
Mrs. Emma Daniel, sent up from
the city court of Reidsville. The
higher court decision affirms the
action of the lower court.
JACKSON. BUTTS COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. APRIL 11. 1913.
SIGNS OF SPRING.
Committees Named
To Arrange for Memo
rial Celebration.
At a called meeting of the .Ear
kin D. Watson Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, at
Mrs. S. O. Ham’s last Thursday,
the following committees were se
lected:
Mrs. S. O. Ham, Chairman of
Committee on Music; Mrs. J. W.
Crum, Assistant.
Mrs. John Fletcher, Chairman
Committee on Place and Tables,
with Miss “annie Gibson, Mesdames
Will Wright and Mary Heflin, As
sistants.
Mrs. L. B. Thompssn, Chairman
Committee on Dinner and Dishes;
Mesdames Mallet, Copeland, Guth
rie, R. N. Etheridge, Heflin, and
Asa Buttrill, Assistants.
Miss Mary Newton and Law
rence Crawford form a Committee
to Solicit Dinner.
Decorating Committee selected
were Mesdames Park Newton, Law
rence Crawford, the Misses Newton
and Miss Hattie Buttrill, with Mrs.
Frank Etheridge, Chairman.
Miss Bessie Waldrop, with the
assistance of the other teachers,
will have charge of the decoration
of the graves.
Misses Pauline Mallet, Sallie
Mae Ball and Myra Miller will
decorate the monument.
W. J. WOOD DELIVERS
CHECK FOR $3,020.00
W. J. Wood,, one of the Prudeii:
tial’s leading agents, made a busi
ness trip to Monticello last week*lot;
the expjress purpose of delivering a
check for $3,000 to Mrs. J. T. Polk
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For insurance, her husband having
died about two months ago, the',
premiums on the policy having ;
been kept up by Mr, Wood without i
the knowledge of Mrs. Polk.
Mr Wood claims that last week
was the best week in his insurance
business in twelve years, and says
at one time he had eight applica
tions on the physician’s desk for
examination. lie is spending this
week in Monticello.
SOU. FIRE INSURANCE
CONCERNS PROFITING BY
NORTHERN FAILURES
Atlanta, Ga., April 10.—Bank
ets and financiers who have their
finger on the pulse of southern
business take a roseate view this
spring of the southern fire insur
ance situation. While many fire
insurance agents over the country
have been disturbed by the recent
failure of the American Union
Fire Insurance Company, of Phila
delphia, and the Monongahela Un
derwriters of New York, consider
able comment favorable to the
southern companies has resulted
from these two failures.
Southern people have just cause
for pride in the fact that no stock
fire insurance company domiciled
in the south has ever failed or te
tired in such a way, causing loss
and disaster to policy-holders and
agents.
One southern company was fa
tally injured by the San Francisco
earthquake, undoubtedly an act of
Providence; another was wrecked
after the control was gotten away
from Southern people who former
ly owned it, while the Shawnee
Fire of Kansas, the Ohio-German
of Ohio and many others in sec
tions away from the south have
left a most unsavory record.
The laws of the Southern States'
relating to fire insurance eompa
nies and the ' insurance ' depart
ments are all awake to the protec
t,j pSTo P pbl icy -Holders "a ml agents-,
ainl it is an undisputed - fact, that
a ftqQll&Z.fy&jXfcl.iarf’dt' f he'com pa.-
nies in this section ,th 4i* in .others
have.failed. ■'
The South b? growing
and botludjS and tjbe
companies of tlijs section.w.ill, with
the patronage ’of
home people', compare most -favor
ably with those of other sections.
There is no antagonism bvt.ween
the south and any other section,
but the south, it is pointed out,
should be as wise in building up
its own institutions as the east in
supporting its institutions. They
were all of small proportions years
ago and the patronage of their own
people caused them to grow large,
just as is now going on in the
south,
NOW FOR SOME MORE
FREAK LEGISLATION
Atlanta. Ga., April 10.—The
most useful piece of freak legisla
tion contemplated for introduction
in the coming of tbe
al assembly is a bill to make chick
ens out of bull frogs. The nation
al government has long ago listed
bull frogs as “poultry” under the
tariff laws, and it is the idea of the
Georgia solons to pass a law in
this state recognizing the commer
cial value of frogs and preventing
their wholesale slaughter. The
bill will, in all probability take the
form of a measure providing a
closed season for the killing of
bull grogs. It may possibly be
made an amendment to the game
law. The'bull frogs are not pro
tected at all in Georgia now, and
it is statedjthat they would increase
immeasurably in numbers if they
were put under the shielding wing
of the state for!a few seasons.
C. 11. Ilucheson, of Jonesboro,
spent Wednesday here shaking
hands with his hosts of friends. |
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Cut Flowers.
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and we will do the rest.
§ The Owl Pharmacy Jf
Abo agents for Kern’s Candy.
CHECKS FORWARDED TO
OHIO FLOOD SUFFERERS
Checks From the City and From the
Associated Charities Have Been
SB Sent to Gov. Cox, or Ohio.
Receipt Acknowledged.
Of all thejcharities to which the
city of Jackson has been called
upon to contribute,[none has made
ajmore poignant appeal to it than
thatjof the in Ohio.
A check for SSO from the city,
and another fori $28.70 from the
Associated Charities, of which Mrs.
R. J. Carmichael is President, has
betn sent to Governor Cox, in Ohio,
who has acknowledged receipt of
same.
PURE FERTILIZER BILL
ACCOMPLISHES RESULTS
Atlanta, Ga., April 10.—Farm
ing and fertilizer conditions jn
Grorgia, reflected in reports to the
State Department of Agriculture,
show that Georgia’s pure-fertilizer
bill is accomplishing somewhat the
same thing for the acres of Geor
gia that the pure food law is ac
complishing for the stomachs of
the nation.
Reports to the state department
show that the sale of fertilizer tags
this year will be equally as large,
and will probably exceed that of
any preceding year' Trading in
fertilizer materials has been partic
ularly brisk during the past two or
three weeks. The weather is as
fine as could be asked for plowing,
and a great amount of fertilizer is
n#HYtust&ifr eveby fhrrt of tfe
state.
The law under which fertilizer
is now made and sold in Georgia
is the measure of Senator W. J.
Harris of Cedartown, and which
earned for him the appellation of
“Pure Fertilizer Harris.” The
measure is operating successfully
and has proven a splendid safe
guard for the farmers. Many of
them have written Senator Harris,
saying that the passage of this one
bill alone would be sufficient to
make his service to the state nota
ble.
The pure fertilizer law requires
that each sack of fertilizer shall be
distinctly labelled showing just ex
actly what proportion of the con
tents is true fertilizer material and
what proportion of it is worthless
filler.
R. S. Brown was called to Ma
con Thursday by the death of his
brother, I)r. David L. Brown.
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