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THE JACKSON ARGUS
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E, V. CARROLL, Editor tad Publiaher
-MRS. E. V. CARROLL, - Manager
Official Okoan of Butts County
JACKSON, GA., APRIL 18, 1913.
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INDIAN SPRING SOCIAL NEWS
Wright Watkins spent Thursday
in Atlanta.
Miss Joe Varner is spending a
few days in Mcnticello.
Percy Elder and Edward Cornell
made a business trip to Atlanta this
week.
Rev. W. 11. Arnold and Broadus
Arnold are spending this week at
Juliette.
Dr. E. B Elder, oi Atlanta,
spent Wednesday with his father,
W. A. Elder.
Mr. and Mrs. l.evi Scoville, of
Birmingham, Ala., arrived Monday
to spend the summer.
Whit Collier, of Birmingham,
Ala., spent a few days last week
with the Misses Collier.
Mrs. Lula Duke, of Jackson,
spent last week at “Idlewild,” the
home of Miss Jennie Bryan.
Mrs. Laura Holt will return to
Macon soon. She has spent the
winter with Miss llettie Lindsey.
Mrs. A. F. White, of Flovilla,
and her daughter, Mrs. L. Greer,
of Monticello, visited friends here
this week.
Mrs. S.illie Smith, Miss Louise
Smith and Master Weston Smith
last Thursday in Jackson
with frieuds.
Mrs. Edith Keaton is expected
home iu a few days from Jackson,
where she is the guest of Mrs.
Hampton Daughtry.
Mrs. W. H. Arnold and Miss
Myrtice Arnold have returned from
a delightful visit to Mrs. H. E.
Winburn in Atlanta.
Wednesday night prayer meeting
was held at the home of Mr. Greg
ory. Services were conducted by
G. T. Tilly, of Cuthbert.
Little Misses Sarah and Mary
Smith, of Locust Grove, spent
Sunday and Monday with their
grandmother, Mrs. Sallie Smith.
The citizens are glad to see the
Indian Spring and Flovilla Rail
way preparing their cars and track,
gettingready forthesummer season.
Miss Louise Smith went to Lo
cust Grove Sunday in Prof. Gray's
car. She went to attend a picnic
given by Prof. Gray to his Sunday
school class Monday at the big
DE-AFRICANIZING. .
The lion. Wm. Schley Howard has announced that one of
his chief activities in the near future will be to assist in purging
the railway mail service, especially in the South, of the undesira
ble negroes. In view of the flagrant inefficiency in the mail serv
ice in this division, in classified postoffices as well as the railway
postal service, Congressman Howard deserves the hearty commend
ation of all Southerners.
There can be no doubt that the indiscriminate mixing of ne
gro and white clerks in crews, in addition to being galling to the
whites, robs them ®f any desire to increase their efficiency under
such conditions. ,
In no other employment in the country are the races so pro
miscuously thrown together on equal footing as they are in the
railway mail service. In the army negro soldiers are assigned to
separate regiments; whereas in the railway mail service any work
ing crew is likely to be half white and half black, apd sometimes
there is a negro clerk in charge. On long runs, where clerks are
compelled to be together night and day, the conditions are some
times disgusting, and have caused many a good clerk to qj.it the
service rather than to endure them. Each car is provided with
one wash basin and one toilet facility, and every member of the
crew is compelled to use the same in common. On lines where it
is necessary to sleep at night, clerks are thrown disgustingly close
together, by reason of the small space that can be used for sleep
ing purposes.
These causes keep the best material available for the position
of railway mail clerk out of the service. Even the low, the vicious,
the criminal negro can coach up and pass the examination, and
are then herded into the mail cars with the whites.
The negroes could riot dbject to segregation,, for they derive
no benefit from being on runs with white men. The government
itself recognizes its value in the army, and especially in. the Isth
mus of Panama, where all blacks are paid off in silver and all
whites in gold, there being separate accommodations in all things
for the silver and gold employees. .
In Panama the color line is drawn very tactfully. Indie
South, where we have a stronger feeling on the subject, and hence
are entitled to more recognition, we are forced, wherever a Repub
lican administration has been able to do so, to entrust our business
to negroes. „ , .
We are certainly with Congressman Howard on this deal, and
if President Wilson follows his plan of reorganization for effi
ciency we have no doubt that after investigation be will find that
it is no whim of the South’s to desire at least a separation of white
and black postal clerks.
UNIER-THOMPSON.
The most sincere and cordial in
terest is felt in Jackson in the an
nouncement of the engagement of
Miss Clara Eileen Lanier, of Jack
son, until two years ago of Millen,
and Dr. Cleveland Thompson, of
Millen.
Miss Lanier has been here for
about two years and is popular with
all Jacksonians, especially with her
music pupils and the pupils of the
High School, with whom she is
daily thrown. She is a young wo
man of remarkable forcefulness of
character, is very talented along
art lines as well as in music, and
withal is possessed of a great deal
of every-day sense, which is so
much to be desired and which has
bad so much to do with her having
won so many sincere friends, who
have the happiest of wishes for her.
It is a regrettable fact that her
marriage in June will be the cause
of her not returning to Jackson in
the fall to take up again her inter
esting class of music.
* * *
Mesdames \V. J. Wood and M.
S. Williams; Misses Viola Slaugh
ter, Elizabeth Williams and Thel
ma Wood were among those from
Jackson who went up to Atlanta
today for Grand Opeta.
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M. A. Sandifer, of Temple, spent
Sunday in Jackson.
dam. They all went out in auto
mobiles and enjoyed the day.
The arrivals at the Ilotdl Elder
this week are: Mr. and Mrs. G. T.
Tilly, of Cuthbert: Mr. and Mrs.
J. I\ Devlin and child, of Macon;
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Johnson and
daughter, of Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs.
P. C.Callaghan, Mrs. P. J.Vaughan,
of Augusta; 11. W. Aspinwall, of
Blackshear.
WHY WORRY
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About Ordering
Cut Flowers.
just eaLL
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and we will do the rest.
$ Tbe Owl Pharmacy f
Also agents for Kern’s Candy.
I HAPPY OCCASION.
Ten friends, when they bade
Sara Redman good-bye last Friday
afternoon, after enjoying spending
the aftpruoon with her at her home,
wished her many returns of just
such a birthday as she had just
celebrated. It was altogether a
lovely party which she had to
mark her as a twelve-year-old, af
fording an hour or more of fun in
the house, as the weather was too
inclement for out-door games, and
afterwards a feast of fruit, cream
and cakes in the dining room.
The young hostess was assisted
in entertaining her guests by her
mother and Misses Lillian Redman
and Madge Taylor.
Mrs. M. T. Hodges has returned
from an extended visit- in Elorida
with her daughter, Mrs. H. D.
Moore. Accompanying her upon
her return washer son, Mr. William
Hodges, of the U. S. Army, who is
spending several days with Mr. and
Mrs. R. N. Etheridge before going
to New York.
In honor or her guests, Misses
Vennie Lou Jinks and Esta Garr,
Miss Frances Barnes entertained at
a delightfully informal party Sat
urday evening, her guests includ
ing Miss Grace Ham, Linton Hop
kins, Bert Carmichael, J. H. Miller
and S. D. Johnson.
Dr. Robert VanDeventer expects
to leave within the next ten days
for a three months’ trip abroad.
Rev. Ilenry Branham, of Cov
ington. will preach at the 11 o’clock
service at the Methodist church
Sunday.
FOR SALF— A mule, or
will trade for a horse. R. A
Frankjan & Cos.
The Weather
Man Says
It is Spring For Keeps Now.
Spring calls for nice lawns, and our complete
stock of Lawn Mowers will help.
Warm weather makes you think of ices and
ice cream. See our line of Freezers, especially
the new all-metal freezer.
Ice Boxes and Refrigerators, and other sum
mer goods of all kinds to help one make the
home pleasant. Come and see them.
Dempsey Hardware Company,
JACKSON, - QA.
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