The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, July 23, 1915, Image 2

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Jackson Progress-Argus Published Every Friday. . J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Telephone No. 166. Communications we welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to 800 words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. In reply to many anxious in quiries the editor begs to state he is a first class judge of water melons. Though it is a long, long way to Tipperary, the politicians are doing a lot of slate making and planning for next year. The legislature ought to go alow in making appropriations un til a way is provided to pay the school teachers of the state. The legislature is certainly swatting the office of county treasurer. Nearly every day a batch of bills are introduced to do away with county treasurers. The Griffin News seems to be lieve that Joe Brown is not big enough to run against Tom Hard wick for senator. Wonder how big statesmen grow where Edi tor Duke hails from? This does not appear to be a good year for baseball. Several leagues are closing earlier than planned, while a good many oth er organizations are losing mon ey. Interest in the national pas time is probably as keen as ever, but it seems that the trouble is a financial one. What has become of the old fashioned girl who used to help her mother pick the geese? asks the Jackson Progress. She is now helping her sister to pik the young men about town.— Griffin News and Sun. Eastman entertained the press association in a royal manner, leaving nothing undone that would add to the comfort and pleasure of the visitors. The ed itors will be strong Eastman boosters for many a day. An interesting acquisition to the exchange list of The Press is The Jackson Progress-Argus, a consolidation of the two papers Jackson has had until recently, under the able editorship of J. Doyle Jones. We are thoroughly enjoying it.—Fitzgerald Press. The Butts County Progress has purchased the Jackson Argus and the two papers have been consol idated under the name of the Jackson Progress-Argus. The Argus was one of the oldest pa pers in that part of the state, having served the people of that section for forty-three years. Editor J. D. Jones is to be con gratulated on the consolidation and with the two papers combin ed he will be able to give Jackson even a better paper than that city proudly boasted of formerly in the Progress and Argus.—Tif ton Gazette. The Butts County Progress has absorbed its competitor, the Jack son Argus. Editor Jones and the people of Jackson and Butts coun ty are all to be congratulated, for it means a better, more useful and prosperous newspaper. Jack son, like nine-tenths of the oth ers, is a one-paper town. —Daw- son News. An old gent had just won a case in the justice court, when the loser, in a very combative frame of mind, exclaimed: “I’ll law you to the circuit court.” Old Gent—“l’ll be thar.” Loser—“And I’ll law you to the supreme court.” “I’ll be thar.” “I’ll law you to ’ell!” “My attorney’ll be thar.” —Exchange. Editor J. D. Jones of the Jack son Progress has bought the Jack son Argus of the Shaver estate and has consolidated the two pa pers under the name of Progress- Argus. We congratulate Bro. Jones and know that he will give to the town of Jackson and Butts coun ty better service under the pres ent plan than with two papers in the field.—Pike County Journal. WANTS SOME MODERN SCHOOL HOUSES IN BUTTS Editor Progress-Argus: We learn from last week’s issue of your paper that the county board of education has fixed the length of the next school year at nine months. As one who feels a deep inter-' est in the educational welfare of j our county we wish to call atten tion to what seems to be one of the greatest obstacles in the way of proper advancement in an ed ucational way. That is the lack of adequate school buildings in most communities. While we have a few good buildings, yet in most communities they are small one-room affairs, and some of them not ceiled and otherwise uncomfortable and are not suited for satisfactory school work. Last spring we had occasion to travel very extensively in eight nearby counties, and we regret to say that Butts had the poorest school houses, with possibly one exception, of anv of them. In most of the counties in Georgia the county board of edu cation builds and keeps in repair the school buildings. We think the state school commissioner’s reports show this to be true in every county that levies a school tax except Butts. This is in no spirit of criticism of our county board of education, for we know they are prompted by the highest motives in want ing to give the benefit of the longest term possible, therefore they devote all the fund to the lengthening of the term and de pend cm the people of each com munity to build and keep in re pair their own school houses. Perhaps every community ought to have pride and self in terest enough to build good school houses, but the question is are they going to do it. And in view of our ever increasing state and county taxes, and as the people have voted a local school tax, is it not asxing too much to expect them to do it. We know that many who voted for the local county school tax did so under the impression that at least part of the fund would Now that the editors have gone the people of Eastman will have to raise a brand new chicken crop.—Jackson Progress-Argus. We thought the crop was the one thing about a chick en that was not eateu. But we may be mistaken. The city chaps do not know any thing about the anatomy of a chicken.—Savannah Press. Don’t cackle. It’s quite the thing to plant poultry and raise a crop. The First Principle of Good Health One great medical authority de clares that sluggish bowels are the cause of more than half the ills that afflict mankind. A constipated con dition quickly affects the liver and other organs, so that indigestion and constipation are soon followed by bil iousness, headaches, chronic bad breath and a generally disarranged condition of the system. Foley Cathartic Tablets are an ideal physic, for their action is whole some and thoroughly cleansing, with out griping, nausea or inconvenience. They invigorate and strengthen the bowel action and have a good effect on the stomach and liver. L. L. Levey, Green Bay, Wis., writes: “For a long time I suffered from constipation and liver trouble. Nothing seemed to help me. I finally secured Foley Cathartic Tablets and am pleased to state they have cured me. They are the finest cathartic to take I have ever used and their effect la quick and sure,” THE OWL PHARMACY CITROLAX CITROLAX CITROLAX Best thing for constipation, sour stomach, lazy liver and sluggish bow els. Stops a sick headache almost at once. Gives a most thorough and sat isfactory flushing—no pain, no nausea. Keeps your system cleansed, sweet and wholesome. Ask for Citrolax. The Owl Pharmacy. be used in building and equip ping good school houses and in consolidating the schools where ever necessary. It is a well known fact that about five or six months is about as long as the children who work on the farm can attend school during the year anyway, and when you extend the term be yond that you only benefit the town schools and divert funds to them that ought to be used in upbuilding the school interests in those communities where it is most sorely needed. We feel quite sure that most communities would rather have a five or six months school with the balance of the fund set aside for building and maintaining good, comfortable, convenient buildings. We can’t expect to get first class f teachers to come and teach in about third or fourth class buildings. If our county board would build good, comfortable buildings with ample room and sufficient equip ment, it would do more, in our opinion, to arofcse a proper inter est in education than any thing that could be done. Let us hear from others on this question, for there is no more important question before us than the education of our children. Yours for better school, S. K. Smith. .-vice Is: ,1 !._■*. cut of sorts from consti .l, ht -;!v ?U*t if Jg* iM Crtcte't&i&ft, ;yj i,at : clleve you, see a physician, he . i.-e no other home remedy will. uo-i oa!y Ly us, 10 cents. Slaton Drug Cos. Get you fruit jars, tin cans and fruit jar rubbers at Kinard’s, Bell phone 8. Seeds Fop Spring Planting Buy your seeds of all kinds from the old reliable seed of Jackson —Slaton Drug Cos. This has been in the seed business longer than any other seed in the coun ty. We have always given our customers satisfaction by selling them only the seeds the American markets afford. Our Seeds Are Fresh And not brought over from last season. You are therefore insured a thorough stand and a prolific production when you plant our seeds. Don’t take any chances on cheap and unreliable seeds. SLATON DRUG CO. The *R&xaJUL Store DRINK Ctiero-Cola There’s None So Good It is a great consolation to our friends and customers to know there is more than ONE, for we are bottling and selling three thousand per day. Substitutes are always inferior. CHERO-COLA Is superior to anything ever bottled Try one and be convinced For Sale Everywhere iU M.MJ..I ft" m I E-. 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