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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. IMP'S IST mACEGQNtA * SUNDAY INJURES ORGANIST * During Terrific Rain and Thunder Storm fliss Barnes Receives Painful Injuries —No Other Injuries Are Reported. <v 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 41 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. 4 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