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IMP'S IST mACEGQNtA
* SUNDAY INJURES ORGANIST
* During Terrific Rain and Thunder
Storm fliss Barnes Receives
Painful Injuries —No Other
Injuries Are Reported.
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Miss Grace Barnes, the young
organist of Macedonia church, re
ceived very painful injuries in one
foot when the church was struck
by lightning Sunday afternoon
during the terrific rain and thun
der storm.
Sunday school was in session,
and a lady sitting near Miss Barnes
was uninjured when a plank un
derneath her foot was shattered by
the bolt. The church was struck
twice that afternoon, and it is
thought about the belfry, as the
rain poured in at that place. For
tunately the building did not catch
afire, perhaps the heavy downpour
of rain preventing this.
So far as is known, no one of
the Sunday school members were
shocked.
HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE
AT ATHENS FIRST OF ,|OLY
Several high school superintend
ents will spend the first week in
July in Athens for a technical dis
cussion on given subjects at a high
school conference.
Prof. J. S. Stewart, head of the
secondary school work in Georgia,
will have charge of the meeting,
and among the prominent school
meu who will be in attendance is
Prof. VV. P- Martin, of Jackson.
He is on the list to discuss “Should
Domestic Science Be Introduced in
Our Public High Schools as a Re
quired Course for Girls? If So,
How?”
Prof. W. R. Lanier, of Cordele,
will be another attendant, and will
discuss this same subject.
GRIM REAPER (GAIN INVADES
* HOME OF AIR. AND MRS. GLASS
• The Death Angel has twice vis
ited the home of Mr. aiftl Mrs.
Turner Glass this month, taking
away their beautiful eight-months
old twin daughters.
Wednesday of last week they
buried one little girl at Jenkins
burg, her death caused from a re
lapse of measles. Monday the
other little one was buried beside
her sister at 4 o’clock, she having
died Sunday night.
Hundreds of friends deeply sym
pathize with Mr. and Mrs, Glass
in their sorrow.
Southern Cotton Oil Cos. Top Dressers.
r $' % ■' r
tf tbe notice ts Ibtab or Slow
tt is important to grow the largest possible crop per acre in order to reduce the cost of making. The cost of
is practically the same.
OT I * FERTILIZERS
For side application, corn or cotton, will accomplish all of this. Feed your crops as they grow. This is Common Sense.
Southern Cotton ©il Cos., ' Jackson, Ga.
THE JACKSON ARGUS.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
CONVENES JUNE 20
Governor - Elect John M. Slaton’s
Inangural Address to Deal With
the State’s Financial and
Business Conditions.
(special to the argvs.)
Jackson, Ga., June 12. —With
the opening of the Legislature less
than two weeks off, Governor-elect
John M. Slaton has practically
completed the outline of his inau
gural address. Owing to the nat
ural exigencies of Georgia’s pres
ent situation, the address will deal
largely with the State’s financial
and business conditions. The Leg
islature opens Wednesday, week
after next, June 25, and the Gov
ernor’s address is scheduled to be
made on Saturday, the same week,
June 28.
The big problem of the Slaton
administration will be the refund
ing of the State’s bonded indebted
ness. The question of taxation
generally will also come up for
serious consideration and for im
provement. The Western and At
lantic Railroad problem will also
be dealt with.
Governor Slaton has spent the
greater part of his time this sum
mer in studying these and kindred
questions, and his address will set
the situation before the gentlemen
of the assembly in such a way that
they will know from the outset ex
actly what problems confront them.
SAD AND SDDDEN DEATH
OF YOUNG ELLIS LANIER
The friends in Jackson of Miss
Eileen Lanier were shocked on Fri
day to hear of the very sad and
sudden death' of her brother, Ellis
Lanier, on Thursday evening in
Milieu.
While in a debate during the
Millen High School graduating
exercises he fell on the floor of
the stage and died of heart failure
before his companions could get
him out of the building. He was
sixteen years of age and the son of
County School Superintendent W.
V. Lanier.
BODY OF MISS TYNER BURIED AT CORK
The body of Miss Kittie Tyner,
who committed suicide by jumping
into a thirty-foot well last Thurs
day at her home near Cross Keys
because her physician told her she
had pellagra and could not recover,
was brought to Cork the following
day and interred in the cemetery
there. Miss Tyner was a former
resident of Cork.
.JACKSON. BUTTS COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. JUNE 13. 1913.
JACKSON LOSES TWO
BRIGHT YOUNG LADIES
Hiss Anna Keith and Miss Annie
Catchlngs Crum Go to Shellmnn
as Teachers—Their Departure
Very Deeply Regretted.
Miss Anna Keith lias resigned
her positions as First Grade and
Art teacher in the school here, and
has accepted similar positions in
the Shellman Public School.
Thau Miss Keith there has been
no more popular or successful
teacher ever in the school here,
and her desire to leave is very
deeply regretted. She has kept
abreast with all the improved
plans, methods and ideas of a suc
cessful and wide-awake teacher,
and her work has been satisfactory
to all.
Her successor has not been
elected.
Another young lady leaving
Jackson for Shellman is Miss An
nie Catchiugs Crum, who has been
elected as teacher of the Third
Grade in the school there.
Miss Crum graduated from Jack
son High School in June, 1912,
with first honor, and has since
taken a course at Wesleyan.
She is thoroughly capable of
filling this position to which she
has been elected, and her future
in this profession is promising.
“CRADLE-ROLL DAY” AT
BAPTIST CHURCH SUNOAY
Church Appropriately Decorated for the
Occasion —Songs and Recitations Are
Beautliully Rendered Fourteen
Lovely Babies in Attendance.
Sunday was “Cradle-Roll Day”
at the Baptist church at the Sunday
school hour, and despite the wel
weather, there were present four
teen beautifuly dressed babies, with
faces just as lovely and bright as
their dresses and ribbons. Two
dolls, as large as seve r al of the
children, were also on the stage,
and attracted attention.
The church was appropriately
decorated for the occasion, and a
program of songs and recitations
was rendered faultlessly.
Little Frances O’Kelley welcom
ed the congregation in a pretty lit
tle speech, and Mary Willis de
lighted all present with a recitation
suggestive of “Cradle-Roll Day”
and its origin.
Oscar Willis, of Macon, spent
the week-end with his parents on
College street.
INDIAN SPRING HOLINESS
CAMP MEETING AUG. 5-15
Rev. Jos. Smitli, Rev. J. L. Brasher
and Rev. Jos. Owens the Loading
Preachers Charlie Tillman
to Conduct the Music.
An unusually attend
ance is expected at Indian
Spring Holiness Camp Meet
ing this year on account of
the strong corps of leaders,
who are well known from
former visits. Rev. Josepli
Smith, who will be fresh from!
a tour among the missions of
the world, and of whose
preaching to the missionaries
in Japan Dr. Newton wrote)
so approvingly in the Wesley
an, will be the leading preach
er. Rev. J. L. Brasher will
be remembered as one of the
most effective preachers ever
had in previous meetings. Rev.
Joseph Owens, whose reputa
tion a® an evangelist precedes
him, will be the third man
among the workers.
The music, as usual in the
past, will be conducted by
j Charlie Tillman, using his
new book,
i Over a thousand dollars
!have been spent in new and
enlarged improvements of the
'grounds, emphasizing the pur-,
pose of the management to
make the camp-ground not
only the largest in the South,
but a spiritual quickening to
the church which all will
recognize and appreciate.
Pastors of q'l denominations
entertained free as heretofore;
evangelists at half price,—Ad
vocate.
COLDEST WEATHER FOR
JDNE IN TWENTY YEARS
Say Oldest Inhabitants —Some
Claim to Have Seen Flakes
of Snow Last Tuesday.
Overcoats, fires and blankets
have been in evidence in Jackson
since Monday.
The people have wanted rain
and now it is vice versa.
It is said that Monday and Tues
day were the coldest 9th and lOtli
of June experienced in this section
in over twenty years.
Tuesday afternoon many believe
they saw snow falling. Tiny flakes
were seen flying about, but melting
before the ground was reached. ,
Thornton Buchanan spent the
week-end at home.
JACKSON BUY GRADUATES
FROM NAVAL ACADEMY
Robin Daughtry Only Georgia Boy to
Graduate From Famous School
This Year—Was Popular and
Made an Hnviable Record.
Robin Daughtry, who graduated
last Friday from the Naval Acad
emy at Anapolis, Md., is spending
several days of his thirty-day fur
lough at home.
Mr. Daughtry was the only Geor
gia boy graduating from the acad
emy this year. He was popular
with his fellow-students and made
an enviable record for himself dur
ing his course of four years.
He was manager of the football
team and organizer and chief night
rider of the Boy .Scouts.
About the first of July Mr.
Daughtry will leave Georgia for
San Francisco, and will be on the
battleship South Dakota.
He is being welcomed home by
scores of interested friends.
DR. LILLARD WILL RETURN
TO HIS FORMER HOME
I)r. and Mrs. A. 11. Lillard and
children are making preparations
to leave Jackson about the first of
July for their old home in Monti
cello, Mo.
I)r. Lillard has built up an ex
tensive practice since his residence
here, and has been successful. He
is well liked and is held in high
esteem by the people of Butts
county.
His hundreds of friends regret
that he will move his family away,
and their wishes are sincere that
he may have success and
happiness in his home town. He
is entering his professional career
there with everything in his favor,
and a repetition of a successful
I practice is looked for by those who
knew him here.
’Gene McMichael, of Canton,
spent Sunday with frieuds at In
dian Spring.
Henry Byron writes from Hamp
ton, Fla., that he is enjoying deli
cious water melons direct from the
vines.
Mr. Homer Carmichael, of Jack
son, inhere to attend ihe University
Board of Visitors, and wil} remain
through Georgi a commencement. —
Athens Herald.
Captain F. L. Walthall has been
mingling with his many friends on
the streets this week after having
been confined to his home by ill
! ness for some time.
Best Advertising
Medium in
Middle Georgia
FORSYTH HAS DELIVERY
OF MAIL BY CARRIER
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Plan First Tried Out June 3—Some
Reported as Opposed to Innova
tion-Majority, However, Are
Glad to Have Deliveries.
Forsyth now has delivery of mail
by carrier. 011 the morning of June
3 the plan was first tried out and
the routes of the carriers mapped
out by the inspectors, and the plan
is just now getting systematized.
Although the system is merely
experimental at first, the probabil
ities are that the plan will prove a
great success. Most of the resi
dents are availing themselves of
this opportunity to have their mail
delivered at their doors by Uncle
Sam, but some still prefer to go to
the postoffice and hear the latest
gossip along with the mail. The
new plan has, however, played
havoc with the after-mail conven
tions which have been held after
each train for years; and for this
reason some of the people are
“agin” the innovation.
MR. J. W. GHIDLS DIES
AT JENKINSBURG HOME
J . W. Childs, a former beloved anti
honored resident of Jackson, died
Wednesday night, at his home at
Jenkinsbnrg, following a stroke of
apoplexy on Monday while standing
In Jenklnshurg hank, of which his
sou, Howard Childs, Is cashier.
He was buried with Masonic hon
ors Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock
from Jenklnshurg Baptist church.
Itev. I. (4. Walker, pastor of the
church, conducted the services.
Mr. Childs was a member of the
Baptkt church and was BO years of
age. He was one of Butts county’s
most highly esteemed citizens. He
will bs missed by men in all walks
of life.
Surviving him are his wife and
seven children.
i A number of Jackson friends at
tended his funeral.
Mrs. C. A. Clawson has returned
to Macon after a visit with Mrs.
HarknesH Thornton.
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HON. T. E. WATSON RETURNS THANKS
The following letter is self-ex
planatory:
Thomson, Ca., June 5, 1913.
Hon. O. M. Duke,
Floivlla, Ga.
My Deak Sir: —Please accept
my thanks for the copy of the letter
you wrote to Mr. McLendon.
Your views on the constitutional
law applying to my case struck me
so forcibly I am using the article
in next week’s Jeffersonian.
Very truly yours,
Thos. E. Watson.
NO. 19