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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS COUNTY THE BEST PAPER IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST COUNTY IN THE BEST STATE IN THE BEST COUNTRY. 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 j ** 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. | WHY WORRY ■ * ’ T ' * \ About Ordering Cut Flowers. , ..*. ,* •*' ■ '.*> •.. *•. just eaLL - v fj&. Phone \ * r , .. ■ 1 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. Best Advertising Medium in Middle Georgia NO. ID