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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
Files NOT MAKING
• MONEY ON PRODUCTS
Legislature Should Make Provision
For Studying Harkeling of Farm
Products—Our Methods Not
in Keeping With Times.
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+ 1 be Georgia farmers are not
quaking money on what they pro
duce. The reason is to be found
tin two things, largely. These are
bad farm management and im
proper methods of marketing.
Our State and national govern
ments are spending millions annu
ally to teach the farmer how to
make “two blades of grass grow
only one grew,” but have
been spending practically nothing
to teach him hotv to finance and
market properly the one blade,
r The German government has
caught her farmers to make more
and at the same time how to
finance the market.
The Farmers’ Union has advo
cated this “balance” of informa
tion until the national government
has decided to establish a depart
ment of markets. They have ap
propriated $50,000 to study the
subject. Congress appropriated
.$30,000 to study rural credits.
It seems to me that Georgia
could not do better than to spend
a few thousand dollars along sim
ilar lines.
Our methods are out of date—
not keeping pace with the times.
The farmer cannot be prosperous
on forty-two cents on the dollar
and have to support his school,
church, pav his taxes, keep up his
, farm and support his family out
of the forty-two cents. If the
South attains the position finan
cially that she should, her farmers
jfast become prosperous.
The Farmers’ Union is working
for this prosperity. Every legiti
mate business in the South will be
heiped by our work.
T'he local unions in all parts of
the State are asking their repre
sentatives for an appropriation for
the studying of financing and
marketing.
The Farmers’ Union has always
taken an advance position on all
questions of general interest to
farmers. We have seen many of
our demands put into laws, and
many of our suggestions put into
practice. We could have done
more if more farmers had helped.
Sometimes a farmer will.stay out
of the Union, then ask why such
and such thing has not been done.
Fadi farmer has a duty, to perform
in behalf of agricultural progress,
and he can best perform that duty
by joining hands with his fellow-
fanners.
i‘ In organization there is s‘reugth:
fed we stand, divided we fall,”
is just as true with the farmer as
any other class.
r hi s is an age of organization
and co-operation, and if the fanner,
fads to use these means, he and
bis family must suffer loss, and
th e whole country is injured
We are anxious to bring finan
cial prosperity ! every fanner’s
home, and this can be done if the
farmers will join m the effort It
cannot be done by each one stand
ing alone. DUCKWORTH.
M.tv 12, 1913-
.Dr Chester T. Brown, of the
Lome office of -be Prudential in
surance Compao ,of Newark, New
stopped ' "er ip Jackson for
or . ■ tlri ue. k .0 cee Spe-
VS rfS
Jackson.
THE JACKSON ARGUS.
EMORY DAY ON THE
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Jrckson Furnished Three Emory
Boys Who Went Up From Ox
ford to Hake the Day Mem
orable—All Well Pleased.
Jackson furnished three of the
Emory boys who went up from Ox
ford Monday to “get out” The At
lanta Constitution for that day. In
teresting arti< ies written by Mc-
Cord Shager and David Spencer
were read with genuine interest by
their Jackson friends.
Smith Settle is not a regular
member of the Class in Journal
ism, because of conflict in hjs
schedule of studies, but is con
nected wttli the work and is an
enthusiastic member.
Jackson is proud of the fact that
out of the twenty bright young
men of the Senior Class of Emory
who a year ago took up this most
interesting study, three of them
are her own. For the first time in
the history of Georgia these boys
demonstrated the absurdity, says
The Constitution, that the news
paper business cannot be learned
in college. For a period of twelve
months Dr. W. F. Melton, himself
a journalist of experience and rep
utation,, has been instructing this
class, and in order to give these
graduate-journalists a bit of active,
practical experience, he evolved
the plan of having,them go to At
lanta and be put through what
might be called a final examina
tion in their craft.
Dr. Melton, their instructor, was
satisfied with the result of the ex
periment, and Dr. Dickey, the
president of the college, was
equally well pleased.
Emory Day on The Constitution
will be looked forward to at this
time next year by the Class in
Journalism of 1914:
UNTIMELY DEATH OF
JAMES W. MAODOX
r
Fell From Wall and Died Almost In
stantly at Tallulah Lodge Body
Brought Here Tuesday—Funeral
Services Held Wednesday.
Telegrams were received here
Monday by Charles L. Maddox,
of near Iron Springs, telling of the
death of his son, James W. Mad
dox, at Tallulah Lodge, that aft
ernoon .
Several months ago this young
man. with other Butts county boys,
went to Tallulah Falls to work for
the Northern Contracting Com
pany, and was about a mile from
that place Monday at work on a
wall of the power house, when he
lost his balance in lowering a port
able scaffold from a wall two feet
"wide and forty feet high, fell to
the ground and died within thirty
minutes.
11 is body was accompanied to
Jacl\ T uesday by a boyhood
friend, Troy Moore, and D, Ro
forth, another friend, and carried
out to the old home in East Butts.
Funeral services were conducted
from Beulah Methodist church
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. J.
S. Lewis, and his remains buried
in the Maddox family burying
ground.
James Maddox will be remem
bered by a host of his boyhood
friends, and his sad death has
brought deep sorrow to them.
His parents, two sisters, four
brothers and a number of relatives
survive him.
J. H. Ezell was a visitor here
one day this week.
JACKSON. BUTTS COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MAY 16. 1913.
JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING.
GRADUATING EXERCISES
Jackson Public Schools, Friday, May 23, 1913.
Auditorium 8 P. M.
Song - Senior ClflSf
Invocation Uev. M. S. Williams
Essay—“ Woman’s Influence” Faitli Jarrell
Essay—Secret of Success” Verner Single.v
Essay—“ Night Brings Out the Stars” Helen Carmichael
Oration —“Robert E. Lee” Charles Johnson
Music Mildred Wilson
Essay—“ldeals” Janie Phinnsei
Essay—“ Twentieth Century Fever” Margaret Saint
Music .„ Miriam Fletehei
Essay—“An Old Garden” Nannie Belle Jiukt
Oration—“ The Making of the Nati0n”..,...... Elwood Robisoi
Song —“Rockin’ Time”
Helen Carmichael, Annie Reid Harper, Lillian Redman,
Essay—“ Symphony of Life” , Allie Jarrel
Oration—“ The New South” Claude Spencei
Music—“ Polish Dance” —Scharwenku Helen Han
Essay—“ Memory’s Message” Evie Maddo>
Essay - “We Have Crossed the Bay, the Ocean Lies Before Us.”
Corinne Wattt
Music Margaret Saint
Delivery of Diplomas W. P. Martin
Benediction Dr. Jas. Bradley
OAK HILL SCHOOL HAS
MOST SUCCESSFUL TERM
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Has Been Thoroughly (iraded and
Will Qualify as Standard School.
First and Second Honor
Pupils for the Term.
The Oak Ilill School closed one
of the most successful terms of its
history Friday, May 2. Through
the efforts of Prof. W. 11. Key and
Miss Lois Biles the school has been
thoroughly graded and will qualify
as a standard school.
The first and second honor pu
pils for the term are as follows:
Ninth Grade —1. Chas. Marks
Pittman; 2. Willie Ruth Pittman.
Eighth Grade —l. Gladys
Hodges.
Sixth Grade—l. Myrtice Redden;
2. J. W. Hodges.
Fifth Grade —1. Anderson Pitt
man; 2. Bernice Higgins.
Fourth Grade —1. Julia Hodges;
2. Jewel Gilmore.
Third Grade—l. Rolfe Gilmore;
2. Milledge Maddox.
Second Grade —l. Betsey
Hodges; 2. Bernard Maddox.
First Grade —1. Harold Gilmore;
2. Forest Nabors.
'l'errell Mc.Michael spent Satur
day in Canton *.vith liugene Mc-
Michael, who accompanied him
home and spent Sunday here.
EMORY WINS DEBATE;
JACKSON BOY HONORED
This Institution Enjoys Proud Dis
tinction of Never Having lieen
Defeated in a Series.
Emory College won the decision
in the debate with Emory and
Henry College, of Virginia, held
at Wofford College, Spartanburg,
S. C., recently. This debate de
cided the winners of the series,
and, by Emory winning, she still
continues to hold the proud record
of having never been defeated in
a series by a college. The Emory
representatives were'J. E. Math
ews, of Vidalia, Ga., and Joel
Mallet, of Jackson, Ga.
ADAMS HEADS CREDIT MEN
E. L, Adams, of Atlanta, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Adams, of
Jackson, and President of the E.
L. Adams Company, wholesale
grocers, was elected President of
the Atlanta Credit Men’s Associa
tion at a recent meeting of the as
sociation.
Rev. James Bradley is in Atlanta
attending the General Assembly of
the United Presbyterian Church in
session there this week.
FROM BEDSIDE OF ONE
DYING SON TO ANOTHER
Doubly Sad Was the Message Which
Called Mrs. S. R. Williams From
Bedside of One Son in Hacon
to a Younger Ore at Cork.
Mrs S. R. Williams, of Macon,
until a.few months ago a resident
of Plovilla, took leave of her dying
son, F. Dotiald Williams, at his
home in East Macon last Friday,
to come to Cork to the bedside ol
her youngest son, Ernest Williams,
whom the telegram she received
said was also dying. A few hours
after her arrival at Cork this son
died at the home of h?s friWds,
Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Pope. lie
was 34 years of age and unmar
ried. Shortly after his death a
message was received telling of the
death in Macon of the other son,
Don, who had been ill for some
time of appendicitis.
The sorrowing and grief-stricken
mother returned to Macon, carrying
with her the body of the son who
died at Cork, and Sunday after
noon at 3 o’clock funeral services
over their bodies were held from
East Macon Methodist church.
Together many years oil earth,
ihey were not separated in death.
Hundreds of sorrowing friends
were present at this double funeral
md burial.
Their bodies were placed in ad
joining graves in Riverside cem
etery.
Don Williams leaves a wife and
four children.
Besides their mother, other rela
tives are one half-sister, Mrs. Lula
Duke, of Jackson, and two half
brothers, W. Lamar and Herbert
Williams, of Macon.
They were well known and loved
by a wide circle of friends in Butts
county, and their peculiarly sad
deaths have brought great sorrow
to old friends and acquaintances,
and the sympathy that goes out to
their families is warm and sincere.
LOCUST GROVE INSTITUTE ■
WILL HAVE 33 GRADUATES
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Commencement Exercises May 25 to
28—Commencement Sermon by
Rev. W. L Richards—Ad
dress by Dr. Dennett.
There will be thirty-three young
women and men who will graduate
this year from Locust Grove 111
stitute.
Commencement exercises will be
held from May 25Th through the
28th. 'Fhe commencement sermon
will be preached by Rev. W. L.
Richards, of Union Springs, Ala.,
and the address 10 the Graduating
Class 011 Wednesday evening fol
lowing will be delivered by Dr. J.
J Bennett, of Atlanta.
Best Advertising^
Medium In
Middle Georgia
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
ANALYST VISITS JACKSON
States That Source of Supply Ap
pears Satisfactory New Filter
Will Soon Be In Service, and
Good Water Furnished.
Kay C. Werner, Analyst of the
State Board of Health, visited the
city last week for the purpose of
inspecting the local water works
plant. This inspection was made
at the request of Mr. Merck, Su
perintendent of Water and Light
Department. The State Board of
Health has been engaged for about
two years in making a sanitary
survey of the public water supplies
of Georgia, and during this time
about 30 plants have been inspect
ed, samples from 80 public supplies
examined, and altogether 850 water
samples from various sources ana
lyzed. This line of work has been
carried out by boards of health all
over the country, and has been of
immense value from a public health
standpoint. The death rates from
typhoid, diarrhoea, dysentery and
other water-borne diseases have al
ways been greatly reduced by the
adoption of pure public water sup
plies. Most surface wells in towns
and cities are contaminated, and
where public supplies of good qual
ity are available they should al
ways he used.
Mr. Werner was accompanied on
his inspection work by Mr. Merck
and Mr. McKibben, both of whom
were much interested in improving
the local water works.
Following the inspection a num
ber of sets 0/ samples will be care
fulTylmalyiterf, arid a report on the
supply vvlP be made to the State
Board of Health.
Mr. Werner stated that the source
of Supply appeared satisfactory,
and the settling and coagulating
basins were in good condition. The
new filter will be in service within
a week, and this will put the puri
fication plant in first-class condi
tion. Mr. Werner stated that in
his opinion the plant would then
be in condition to furnish excellent
water at all times.
'Fhe report will furnish full re
sults and discussion of the exam
inations to he made.
TRI-STATE CONVENTION
ASSOCIATION OF DEAF
To Be Held at Macon June 5 and 6.
Special Program for Each Day.
An Interpreter Will Explain
Words of the Speakers.
The Convention of the Deaf, to
be held at Macon June 5 and 6,
1913, promises to lie the most in
teresting convention ever held in
Georgia.
Special programs have been ar
ranged for each day’s session.
Prominent speakers will be heard,
including Hon. John T. Moore,
Mayor of Macon; O. P. Willing
ham, Chairman &f the Chamber of
Commerce Entertainment Commit
tee, and H. 11. Hyman, General
Secretary Chamber of Commerce
of the city of Mapon, and mauy
others. An interpreter will explain
to the delegates tlie words of the
speakers.
Friends of J. 11. Haskins are
pleased to see him out again after
his recent illness.
Dr. J. B. Hopkins attended the
Grand Commandery of the Knights
Templar at Columbus Wednesday
and Thursday.
Sam I.ee has as his visitor from
Macon this week his relative, Jim
Lee.
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