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BUTTS COUNTY
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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
NEWS OF WEEK
BRIEFLY EPITOMIZED
Boling H- Jones became posi
master for Atlanta on Tuesday.
Two brothers were killed by a
cousin in Kline, S. C., in a fight,
which was preceded by quarrels.
The Dutch cabinet favors allow
ing their women to vote.
The motor driven fire-engine in
Savannah killed a man Monday,
when it skidded in rushingto a fire.
Mrs. Godbee was sentenced to
life imprisonment for killing her
divorced husband and his bride at
Mjllen.
Schmidt, a Catholic priest, has
confessed to the murder of Annie
Aumueller, whose dismembered
body was found in the Hudson
river, New York.
John Hawkins committed suicide
by jumping into Niagara Falls. He
was dashed to death.
Laid out and ready for burial, an
aged negress frightened her family
by rising up in bed and asking
what all the fuss was about.
A Wisconsin man broke a rib
when be sneezed a few mornings
ago.
Edmond Baxter, of Memphis,
Tenn., killed his wife’s father,
mother and brother. The shooting
was caused, it is said, by the wife s
separation.
Asa bullet went through his
heart, State Senator Broyles, of
Aberdeen, Miss., buried an axe in
the brain of Hendricks, his oppo
nent. The fight was over a lum
ber deal of long standing.
Education consists in know
ing things. Know how a range is
made inside and outside. Call at
our store during our special Majes
tic Range demonstration, week of
September 22ud. Newton-Car
michael Hardware Cos., Jackson,
Ga.
WEEKLY BUSINESS
REPORT FOR ATLANTA
The dry goods market has shown
au increased business and ship
ments now are well up to the sea
son of any previous year. The
movement of other staple lines is
also of good proportions. Orders
are not large on the average, but
the number has increased the vol
ume of business. With retailers
in the city; summer stocks have
been well depleted and advance
sales of fall styles have been up to
normal. Cotton is being picked
and marketed freely in some sec
tions and this has proven a stimu
lovs to retail buying there. This
being just before the maturities for
merchandise sold on fall terms,
collections are not as active as
might be, bnt no serious complaints
are heard.— Dun’s Weekly Review.
Does the word reputation
mean anything to you ? Stop and
, think and figure and you will
know why the Majestic Range has
the reputation of being not only
the best but the least expensive.
Let the man from the factory show
you. See our big ad in this issue.
Xewton-Carmichael Hardware Cos.,
Jackson, Ga.
THE JACKSON ARGUS.
BUTTS COUNTY WILL
WILL HAVE SPECIAL DAY
Wednesday of every camp meet
ing will hereafter be known as
“Butts County Home Folks’ Day”
—so decided the directors of the
association as an appreciation of
the attendance and interest of local
people. It is not meant by this
that Butts people are not welcomed
any other time, but that special in
vitation will be exttnded on this
day. In the past many local peo
ple have taken great interest in the
meetings, quite a number tenting
on the grounds, and it is expected
that this will increase the attend
ance and interest of our people.
Below is printed a communication
from Rev. G- W. Matthews, of
Fitzgerald, president of the asso
ciation:
A Message to Butts County
People: j
“The Indian Spring Holiness
encampment held its first meeting
twenty-three years ago—the last
held being the twenty-fourth.
During the twenty-three years
the meeting has become the largest
and one of the most important re
ligious gatherings in the South.
During this nearly quarter of a cen
tury the visiting part of the con
gregation have received unnumber
ed hospitalities and kindnesses
from the residents of Flovilla, In
dian Spring, Jackson and the en
tire county.
Asa natural result there has
sprung up on the part of the visi
tors a sense not only of abiding
gratitude, but also of kinship to all
in the county.
Many of the earlier residents, as
well as of the visitors, have passed
,over to the Great Future, for which
each meeting has brought, we
trust, better preparation. Their
names and their faces will be cher
ished in eternity.
The trustees of the camp ground
at the last meeting, feeling that the
gratitude and appreciation which
were due could no longer withhold
expression, determined that, with
the consent of the Butts county
friends, the Wednesday of every
camp meeting in the future should
be observed as “The Butts County
Home Folks’ Day.”
While the entire county are wel
come every one of the ten days, the
trustees desire on that day to give
special attention and invitation to
those who have been so kind to the
visitors and helped makethe Indian
Spring Camp Meeting a blessing
and inspiration far beyond the
borders of our state.
While the services on Wednes
day will be as on other days, an
earnest seeking after God’s power
upon individual Christians and
churches of every name, it will be
a pleasure to feel that neighborly
and fraternally relations to those
about us.will be most prominent in
thought and prayer.
The trustees believe that neither
themselves nor the friends living
near the camp ground know a tithe
of the blessings that have flown out
from that center.
It is the only place In the state
where all church lines and differ
ences are lost in the oneness of the
Pentecostal standard lifted up by
preachers of all denominations,
and where the doctrine of entire
sanctification is preached so clearly
and consistently that over a hun
dred pastors of the various churches
hear and endorse and co-operate.
The aforesaid action of the board
of trustees was recorded in their
minutes of the last encampment,
and the undersigned was directed
to report the same to the Jackson
papers. He was also directed to
respectfully request the multitude
of friends in Butts county to co-op
erate in making the observance to
JACKSON, BUTTS COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1913
WHO IN JACKSON
WILL GO TO HELL ?
Will be the theme to be discussed
by Rev. M. S. Williams at the
Methodist church Sunday morning.
THE HIGH AND THE POOR.
Today we are rich and tomorrow
we are poor, today we are poor and
tomorrow we are rich. Isn’t it a
pity the world has gone money mad.
There is something in all of our
nature that makes us all want to
be very rich, and in our mad rush
for wealth we disregard the inter
est of the other fellow. We are all
too much inclined to want the oth
er fellow to carry the heavy end of
the log, and in doing so we have
brought untold misery on the hu
man race and our posterity. And
at last when we come down to the
turbid waters of death, if we are
rich we get a first-class funeral, our
casket banked with costly flowers,
and a notice in the press that we
were wealthy, and then that is the
end of it. and at the same time he
has brothers and sisters whose lives
have been a struggle, and when the
time comes for them to die they
perhaps live in a rented shanty, and
when their remains are borne to the
cemetery there is not a wreath not
a flower to lay on the casket, but
there comesa soft whisper and says:
“I have seen the travail ol my soul
and am satisfied.” Wi 1 the
world never learri that all this craze
about wealth isn’t worth a pinch
of snuff. This article is not writ
ten to encourage idleness and sloth
fulness, but in the interest of a
square deal. We are told that in
Palistine that when the farmer is
making his crop the old Turk hides
away in the mountains and when
the crop is matured he slips there
at night and steals it. But in our
own land they have a more digni
fied way of doing it. While the
cotton farmer is toiling in the hot
sun to make his crop, the cotton
baron is taking his vacation at some
fashionable summer resort, and
when the cotton is made be is there
ready to help hammer the market
and steal his cotton. This is pret
ty plain talk, but any method that
is employed to take advantage of
the helpless is stealing, and you
can’t make anything else out of it.
Plow Handles.
Household economy, the
main spring to reduce the high cost
of living. Start at the vital point
—your Range. See our ad in this
issue- Newton-Carmichael Hard
ware Co-, Jackson, Ga.
OFF TO COLLEGE.
C. \V. Woodward, Morris Red
man and Elwood Robison left this
week for Athens to attend the Uni
versity of Georgia. David Settle
went to Oxford where he will rep
resent Jackson in Emory College.
All Jackson wishes for these
noble young men health, happiness
and increate in knowledge while at
school.
Something for nothing is
worthwhile. SB.OO worth of ware
for nothing is worth your while to
investigate. See our big ad in this
paper. Newton-Carmichael Hard
ware Cos., Jackson, Ga.
The “Movies” —the only
amusement in Jackson.
See the “Movies” tonight.
contribute to an increase of the
affectionate regard already exist
idg between the visiting and the
resident parts of the great congre
gation gsthering yearly at that
chosen center.
G. W. Mathews,
Pres. Board Trustees Indian Spring
Holiness Camp Ground Ass’n.
NO DECISION IN
TAX CONTROVERSY
No decision has been rendered
yet by Judge Daniel in the injunc
tion filed by Jasper county on the
taxes paid to Butts county by the
Central Georgia Power Co- for the
dam across the river. It is well
understood that Butts owns the
river and since the building of the
dam, Jasper has been trying to ac
quire half of the stream. Jasper
has succeeded in getting e. bill
passed by the legislature whereby
they were able to file an injunction-
As no decision has been rendered,
the case is at a standstill. It is
hardly probable that Butts will lose
any taxes. Anyway Butts’ offic
ials are looking after the county’s
interests and will not be found
wanting in the fight.
SCHOOL NOTES.
The Phi Theta Club and the
Demostheniau Debating Society
were reorganized last Friday to en
ter upon their second year. The
officers elected for the P. T. Club
are:
President, Helen Ham.
Vice-president, Fredna Allen.
Secretary, Jim Crawford.
Treasurer, Florrie Mackey.
Door Keeper, Evelyn Wright.
Plans were made for the coming
year, and the classics, for which the
girls will receive credit if they go
to college, were discussed. A mis
cellaneous program will be carried
out Friday.
The officers of the Debating So
ciety are:
President, Albert Newton.
Vice-president, Marlin Spencer.
Secretary and Treasurer, Leon
Wood.
Critic, Ernest Watkins.
Corresponding Secretary, Dewey
White.
Door Keeper, Harold Ham.
The subject for the debate Friday
is: “Resolved, that the cow has
been more useful to man than the
horse.”
Everyone is delighted with all
the teachers and work is running
smoothly.
The Seniors are beginning the
study of "Macbeth,” while the
Juniors are enjoying "Selections
from the Old Testament.”
The third, fourth, fifth and sixth
grades are taking Domestic Science
once a week.
The enrollment continues to in
crease, as several new pupils have
entered.
The Juniors have taken up the
study of Biology with Prof. Wil
liams, and their handsome leaf
books are admired by all who see
them.
The students as well as the facul
ty wish to extend thanks to the
town officials for putting in sewers
and covering the ditches in front
of the building, as these things
greatly improved the appearance of
the grounds.
Don’t buy ‘‘unsight unseen.”
Let the man who knows show you
all about Ranges—at our store one
week—September 22nd. Newton-
Carmichael Hardware Cos., Jack
son, Ga.
BUSINESS CHANGE.
Mr. Oscar W. Cole, of the firm
of King and Cole, livery and feed
stables, has severed his connection
with the firm, selling his interest to
his partner, Mr. M. L. King. Ii is
not known what kind of business
| Mr. Cole will engage in. His re
-1 tiremeut from business is regretted
JESSE MERCER WILL
NOT RE APPOINTED
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 18 —It has
become known positively during
the past few days that Governor
Slaton will not re-appoint Jesse
Mercer as state game warden. The
name of the man Governor Slaton
has chosen as Mr. Mercer’s success
or has not been made public, but it
is understood that a choice has
been reached.
The fact that Mr. Mercer tvill
not be retained in office will not
occasion much surprise, nor is it a
reflection upon Mr. Mercer’s abili
ty or record. While factional lines
are being obliterated as much as
possible in Georgia, and while Gov
ernor Slalon has never stood for
factionalism in any sense, Mr.
Mercer has always belonged to that
wing of the democratic party dia
metrically opposite to the present
administration, and even by Mr.
Mercer’s friends it is considered an
entirely natural thing that he
should not succeed himself in
office.
Satrday matinee at the
“movies.” Children invi
ted to attend.
NO MORE GEORGIA COLONELS
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 18.—A
movement is interesting the entire
Georgia bar to stop the promiscuous
use of titles in this state. They
want to “cut out the colonels.”
They suggest that such titles as
“colonel,” “captain” and “judge”
be applied only to such persons as
have actually earued them on the
battlefield or in military service,
or on the bench.
For many years past it has been
a custom in Georgia as in other
southern states to call every lawyer
“Colonel” after he has reached
middle age and a reasonable
amount of distinction, except in
the event he wears whiskers, when
he is called “Judge” instead.
Many of the gentlemen on whom
these titles have been thrust by
usage are far from desiring them,
and are really embarassed bv theii
use. The class of people who want
such titles without meriting them
is so small as to be negligible. The
type has passed who used to sing
or think:
“I want to be a colonel,
And with the colonels stand,
A cockade on my hat,
And a cocktail in my hand.”
Most of the spurious colonels of
today have not usurped their titles.
They have simply had them thrust
upon them by a usage which they
deplore. In fact the leaders in the
movement to do away with the
general use of the titles are well
known attorneys whose friends
have boen for years calling them
colonel against their wishes.
Your neigbor knows his
Majestic Range uses little fuel,
bakes perfectly, beats abundance
of water good and hot and costs
practically nothing for repairs.
Let us show yon why. Call dur
ing our demonstration week—Sep
tember 22nd. Newton-Carmichael
Hardware Cos., Jackson, Ga.
Three reels every night
at the “movies.” Come!
Lost--Purse between Tay
lor’s store and Presbyterian
church. Return to T. E.
Watkins.
A Young Naturalist.
Ono afternoon my little sister, aged
four, while tatting looking at our ca
nary, turned to me and asked: “Sis
ter, when the canary grows up will it
boa poll parrot?”
Best Advertising
Medium |
Middle Georgia
SHRINERS MEETING A
BOOST FOR ATLANTA
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 28.—Po
tentate Forrest Adair, of Yaarab
Temple, is receiving scores of let
ters from every part of the United
States indicating that the national
Conclave which will be held in
Atlanta next May will be the big
gest gathering of its kind everheld.
and one of the largest conventions
of any kind in the history of the
world.
Mr. Adair says that more than
30,000 Shriners will travel Atlanta
ward next spring. This is more
than the entire population of Atlan
ta a few years ago. It is more
than the entire population of any
city in Georgia with the exception
of one or two.
It is also true that this is the
first time in Atlanta’s history when
she is in a position to accomodate
amply such an enormous gather
ing. Her hotel accomodations
have been more than doubled dur
ingthe past year.
Imperial Potentate William W.
Irwin, of West Virginia, has visit
ed Atlanta, with other imperial
officers, all of whom expressed
themselves as delighted and thor
oughly satisfied with the facilities
Atlanta and Georgia offer for en
tertaining the monster gathering.
“Movies” every night.
GEORGIA PEACH TO
BE ELECTRIFIED
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 18 —To
electrify the Georgia peach is a
plan which leading farmers and
growers of the state are seriously
considering; following the success
ful application of electricity to fruit
raising in other parts of the coun
try. They are planning to galvan
ize Miss Elberta.
Since X-ray gowns and slit
skirts came into style, the Georgia
Peach, after a mannerof speaking,
has been shocking the people, but
now the people plan to turn the
tables and shock the peach.
But it is real fruit they are talk
ing about. Raising vegetables,
grains and fruits by electricity is
the latest in scientific farming. It
is declared that electrtcal current
is a great fertilizer and that when
the current is turned into the
ground it makes things grow faster
and better. For instance in the
early spring, when one wants to
force radishes and onions, the cur
rent is applied more frequently and
those who have tried it say you
can almost see things grow.
Now that the tower lines of the
Georgia Railway & Power Cos. are
carrying the current from Tallulah
into all parts of the state, includ
ing rural sections, Georgia farmers
will have practical opportunity to
avail themselves of these latest
scientific discoveries.
People who know are go
ing to buy a Majectic Range dur
ing our demonstration week. You
would too if you knew. Read our
big ad in this papet. Newton-
Carmichael Hardware Cos., Jack
son, Ga.
Broken Heart Caused Death.
A broken heart, caused by violent
heating due to sudden emotion, was
said by a doctor to be responsible for
tbe death of Alexander Durness, six
ty-four, a master tailor, at a Lon , *--i
Inquest. Burness fell and died during
an altercation with a foreman cutter
as to the ownership of certain articles
which he was about to remove from
bis former premises to new ones.
New Fuel Hr Autos.
Rhodesia Is distilling alcohol from
coraetalks and using It for fuel in au
tomobiles and other Internal combus
tion motors. ,
NO. 33