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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
CIFEDEiTE MEMORtAL DAY ILL BE
FITTINGLY OBSERVED HEBE TOMORROW
Plans Completed For Making This Day a flemo
rabie Occasion—Col. W. E. Watkins Orator of
Day—Sham Battle by the Jackson
Rifles a Big Feature.
Plans looking forward to a great
celebration of Memorial Uay in
Jackson Saturday have been com
pleted, the festivities to be held
under the auspices of Larkin D.
Watson Chapter, United Daughters
of the Confederacy,
The following committees, ap
pointed at a recent meeting of the
Chapter, will look after the details
of the celebration:
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 Fannie Gibson, Mesd&mes
Will Wright and Mary Heflin, As
sistants.
Mrs. L. B. Thompson, 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.
The parade, participating in
which will be the old veterans, the
' Boy Scouts, teachers and children
of the Public Schools, ladies of the
Memorial Association, citizens gen
erally and the local military, will,
as usual, be one of the important
features of the program. All Jack
son and Butts oounty should turn
out and take part in this parade.
“thin gray line” is growing
thinner still, and the patriotic ladies
who have charge of Memorial Day
are leaving nothing undonetomake
this a memorable occasion in honor
of the heroes who fought for South
ern rights.
The parade wi'l take place
through Third street from the Con
federate monujnent to the City cem
etery, where, in accordance with
the time-honored custom, the gra\ es
of the 1 heroes who wore the gray”
will be decorated with flowers.
The memorial oration will be
delivered by Col. W. E. Watkins.
Probably the most interesting
feature of the day’s program will
be the sham battle bv the Jackson
Rifles, which will be pulled off on
the Public Square after the speak
ing in the court house.
During ihe progress of the ex
ercises, which will be held in the
forenoon, all the business houses
are requested to close their doors
to enable everyone who desires to
do so to take part in the celebra
tion.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
, TO MEET AT JENKINSBURG
* The Butts County Sunday School
Convention will meet at Jenkms
burg Friday, May 2.
All Sunday schools are requested
to send written reports of num
ber enrolled, average attendance,
amount of collections and how dis
posed of All ministers of the
gospel are especially invited to be
present and lend their co-operation.
J. MATT McMichael, Pres.
Emory Harper, Sec.
THE JACKSON ARGUS.
HIDDEN CHECK FOCND
IN THORNTON’S STORE
Bert. Carmichael and Linton Hop
kins found the hidden check Monday
forenoon “behind a decorated ad on
east side Square.” The ad referred
to was in S. H. Thornton’s furniture
store.
WALTER D. POPE COMMISSIONED
MIN OF JACKSON NIFLES
Walter D. Pope has been commis
sioned Captain ot the Jackson Itifles,
Company A, Second Infantry, to suc
ceed Captain George Mallet, appoint
ed First Lieutenant and Aide on the
staff of General W. A. Harris.
FLUSHES FROM FLOVILLfI.
Miss Bessie Bloodworth
spent Tuesday in Jackson.
Troupe Smith will spend
Sunday In Atlanta with friends
Misses Dorcas and Olivia
Greer spent Thursday in
Macon.
Mrs. R. L. Allen and Miss
Olivia Greer spent Tuesday in
Jackson.
M iss Alice Thompson was
the week-end guest of friends
in Atlanta.
Messrs. John Harkins and
Donovern, of Locust Grove,
spent Sunday here.
Mrs. Robeet Douglas has
returned home, after spending
eight months most pleasantly
in New York.
Mrs. L. F. Redman and lit
tle rons Frank and Sam, oi
Griffin, are spending some
time with Mrs. J. F. Greer.
Mis. Luther Kdwards and
little daughter, Eugene, have
returned to their home, after
spending two weeks in Macon
and Greston.
Miss Mary Ella Thomas en
tertained the graduating class
this week at her beautiful
country home. Lovely hya
cinths and ferns were used for
decorating the pretty rooms,
and at the conclusion of the
games a delicious ice cream
course was served. Those
present were :Misses Mary Li
la Thomas, Marilu Terrell;
Messrs. Ernmit Torbet and
Ben Watkins, of Indian Spring,
Misses Susie Oneal and Ethel
Bonner.
Van Fretwell spent Monday in
Atlanta.
R. H. Henderson was in from
Flovilla Wednesday.
The banks will be closed to
morrow —legal holiday.
Tom Bond has been spending
this week in Jackson.
Col. and Mrs. T. J. Dempsey re
turned Thursday from Orlando,
Fla., where they spent the winter.
JACKSON. BUTTS COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. APRIL 25. 1915.
WAITING FOR THEIR CONGRESSMAN <
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A Western Congsessman declared in Washington a few days ago that he was afraid
to return home, as Wilson’s conservative policy made it impossible for him to
get places for his numerous job-hungry constituents. Some of our Georgia
Congressmen seem to be in the same boat.
RURAL ORGANIZATION SERVICE 10 BE IMPORTANT
BUREAU OF THE DEPARTMENHF AGRICULTURE
\im of New Service Is to Make the Farm More At
tractive —Includes Better Schools, Better Roads,
/lore Agricultural, Education, Closer Rela
tions Between Producer and Consumer.
(By Clyde 11. Tavernier, Member
of Congress.)
Washington, April 24.—What
will be easily the most important
bureau of the Department cf Ag
riculture is the Rural Organization
-Service now being organized by the
new Secretary, David F. Houston.
The Bureau of Rural Organization
is the idea of Secretary Houston
brought with him when lie came
from St. Touis last month to take
charge of the department.
Through the aid of the General
Education Board Dr. Houston was
enabled to put his idea into effect
almost as soon as he arrived in
Washington. In a short while the
Rural Organization Service will
take its place as one of the most
important factors in national life.
Dt. Houston’s plan has the hearty
support of President Wilson.
J'lie primary purpose of the new
service is to attack the high cost of
living. And it will attack it fun
damentally. It will goto the farm,
where the necessities of life are
produced. For one of the chief
factors in the high cost of living is
the fact that production has not
kept pace with demand.
The aim of the new service is to
make the farm more attractive, and
in this statement is included the
scores of reforins which economists
have been urging for rural life.
It includes better schools, better
roads, wider distribution of agri
cultural technical education, more
people on farms, more intelligent
farming, Jretter marketing condi
tions, closer relations between pro
ducers and consumers —in short, all
of the activities for rural Jretterment
now scattered through a scbre of
official and semi-official organiza
tions will be concentrated in this
one bureau.
The task will be a tremendous
one. The work is big enough to
enlist the attention of a whole Fed
eral department. While the stated
purpose of the service is abstract,
in actual work the bureau “will
gel down to cases.” It will teach
better rural life by actual demon
strations.
While no specific plans have yet
been made, it is expected that the
service will conduct actual model
schools in different sections of the
country. It may construct model
country roads for demonstration
purposes. By actual demonstra
tion it will show how tlie rural
school can become the farm neigh
borhood center where the country
population can go for entertain
ment, instruction and social inter
course.
Marketing associations will be
studied, and the service may or
ganize co-operative marketing as
sociations of farmers along model
lines. The whole purpose of the
work will be to stimulate the move
ment from the cities hack to the
farm and to check the opposite
movement.
Success in this work should be
to increase farm production and
thus bring down the cost of living.
UNION RIDGE SINGING SUNDAY
There will be a singing at Union
Ridge Sunday afternoon at one
o’clock. All lovers of music are
invited to h>e present at that hour.
MRS. LEILA CAWTHON PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Leilty Bnrfurd t'uwthon, wife
of Mr. .1.0. Oawthon, passed to (lie
realm of bliss last Sunday evening
•it <i o’clock at the age of 47 years,
lior death being caused by pneumo
nia. *She is survived by tier hus
band, two daughters, Ruby and
Helen,'and several brothers and one
sister, Mrs. J. R. Sams.
The funeral services were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at ii o’clock by
Rev. Z. E. Brown, of Jenkinsburg,
resisted by Rev. M. S. Williams, of
lackson. tlie interment being at Old
Bethel church.
Mrs. Cawthon’s many friends
mourn over her demise. Her Chris
tian character and lovable disposi
tion hut exemplify the Christ, life
which was ever present with her.
Henry Byron, of Atlanta, ex
pects to spend Sunday in Jackson.
W. T. Scarbrough and W. B
Thompson went to Atlanta Tues
day.
Hon. C. S. Maddox will attend
the County School Superintendents’
Convention in Atlanta 'J’uesdav.
WHY WORRY
About Ordering
Cut Flowers.
just eaLL
Phone 1
and we'will do the rest.
f, The Owl Pharmacy §
Also agents for Kern’s Candy.
Best Advertising
Medium in
Middle (ieorgia
ATLANTA MISTERS
DENOUNCE MORMONS
Preachers Declare Mormonism Rot
ten and Immoral to Core, While
Mormons Contend That Their
Teachings Are Moral,
Atlanta, Ga., April 24.—At
lanta preachers are apparently lin
ing up for a religious persecution—
or crusade, whichever you choose
to call it —against the Mormon
church in this community.
Sensational denunciations of the
Mormons have already been hurled
from several of Atlanta’s leading
pulpits, and in public interviews
numbers of ministers have advo
cated the adoption of whatever
means may be legal to drive the
Mormons out of Georgia.
Strange to say, both the Mormon
leaders and the Christian ministers
leading the attack against them are
placing their legal justification in
the Constitution of Georgia. The
Christian nfinisters say the Mor
mons can be suppressed under it,
while the Mormons say it is their
absolute safeguard.
Here is what the Constitution
says on tlie subject, in Article 1,
Section 1, Paragraph 13 of the Bill
if Rights:
“No inhabitant of this State
shall be molested in person or prop
erty, or prohibited from holding
any public office or trust, oil ac
count of his religious opinions; but
the right of liberty of conscience
shall not be so construed as to ex
cuse acts of licentiousness or jus
tify practices inconsistent with the
peace and safety of the State.”
'File Mormon leaders, taking
their stand on this section, declare
that their teachings are absolutely
moral from an ethical standpoint;
that ihey conform with the code of
morals in this country, and that
they do not teach polygamy.
The preachers say that Mormon
ism is rotten and immoral to its
core, and insist that the Mormon
church does secretly stand for the
polygamy doctrine, though it may
not always dare to proclaim it
openly.
HOME DEPARTMENT DAY.
Next Sunday is Home Depart
ment Day at the Jackson Baptist
Bible School. Everybody invited.
9:30 a. m.
F. S. Etheridge, Supt.
Dr. Byron’s friends are glad to
see him back again in his regular
practice after recovering from the
recent spell of sickness he has had.
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