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Jackson Progress-Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to ?00 words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. W rite on one side of the paper only, gign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. The whole world seems to be getting loony these days. Some legislators keep silent the fifty days; others speak that long. First bales will new become as common as chiggers at Jaybird Springs. Some of the papers that strive so hard to be bright might find it easier to be useful. It’s a dull day in the legisla ture when four or five county treasurers' offices are not abol ished. The time is nearly here for moving another cotton crop. In the meantime what has been done to help the situation? As long as Butts county con tinues to get the lion’s share of travel over the Dixie highway, there is no kick coming over here. It is stated that it may be nec essary to raise the state tax rate to meet the expenses. Not the first time the people have heard that cry. The sheriff of Bleckley county has resigned, giving as his rea sons therefor the fact that he could not make a living out of the office. New counties are not being created by the general assembly this session at the same rate they were a year ago. Isn’t it nearly time to stop making new counties? Why is the Prison Commission? That body, like a grand jury, can only recommend, it seems, while final action is up to the governor. Yes, why is the Prison Commis sion? Water transportation should be of tremendous importance to Ma con in the matter of cheaper freight rates. Anew steel barge has just been placed in operation between Macon and Brunswick. When campaigning last sum mer Judge Nat Harris promised the people, if elected governor, that he would reduce Georgia's tax rate. Governor Harris, Hie people want to see you make good on that proposition. The Cordele Dispatch savs all the prominent politicians in Geor gia are dead as heck. That pa per mentions particularly Hoke Smith, Joe Brown, Tom Hard wick and Jack Slaton. Some of that bunch are not only dead but are rotten. The Alpharetta Free Press says we part our hair in the mid dle and suggests that John D. Jones would .be better. Afraid that somebody might confuse us with John D. of Standard Oil fame. The plant of the Jackson Ar gus was bought the other day by the Butts County Progress. The latter is a live paper and will doubtless prove able to serve the county more satisfactorily than the two papers have done. — Cuthbert Leader. What Jackson, as well as hun dreds of other towns, needs is more enterprises and bigger pay rolls. And once the enterprises are built the citizens must learn to patronize and support them. It is a civic duty to spend your dollar at home and help those who have helped you. What has become of the old fashioned girl who used to help pick the geese?— Jackson Progress-Argus. She was a goose for doing it. and, having found it out, she is now a chicken.—Al pharetta Free Press. Still a bird, eh? The Winder News has just is sued a splendid Trade Edition of forty pages. It is an excellent advertisement for Winder, Bar row county and The News itself. The edition is a most creditable one in every way, and Editor Ross is to be congratulated upon this effort. Editor Doyle Jones, of the Jackson|Progress-Argus, says Eastman gave the Georgia editors a good time and indi gestion last week. Aw, Jones, you oughta been there!-Wal ton Tribune. Been thar? We were tharand tharabouts for a part of three hectic days, but couldn’t put to sea with that noble tribe. J. Doyle Jones has purchased the Jackson Argus and combined it with the Jackson Progress of of which he was already editor. The first issue of the Jackson Progress-Argus came to us last week, and Editor Jones has be gun on a good road to creditable Georgia weekly. Greensboro Herald-Journal. The Butts County Progress, Mr. J. Doyle Jones editor, has bought The Jackson Argus and will consolidate the two papers. The consolidation will no doubt be of benefit *to all concerned. Our smaller towns are, in most cases, overburdened with small newspaper plants. —Telfair En terprise. The Alpharetta Free Pree and Monroe Advertiser are after the fellows who buy their* editorials by the yard. Sick ’em boys, we are with you. And having fin ished with that evil let’s shame the patent sheet fellows out of business. Patent insides are the greatest drawback to the weekly newspaper business. It stifles foreign advertising. It holds the paper up to ridicule. What the average reader wants is the local news arranged in attractive form, with a complete change of dress each week. The patent in side is a sign of laziness or igno rance. That’s putting it strong but it’s the truth. Cut This Out — It Is Worth Money Cut cut this advertisement, enclose E cents to i'oley & Cos., 2885 Sheffield Ave., Chicago, 111., writing your name r.nd aldress clearly. You will re stive in return a trial package con taining: (1) Trlcy's Honey and Tar Cpro toynd, ti e standard family remedy for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cougli, tightness and soreness in clitst, grippe and bronchial coughs. (2) Pc ley Kidney Pills, for over worked ar.d disordered kidneys and I,adder ailments, pain in sides and tack due to Kidney Trouble, sore rrusclos. stiff joints, backache and (..a.ma;ism. <3 l Foley Cathartic Tablets, a whole so 'e and thoroughly cleansing cathartic. Especially comforting to Stout persons, and a purgative needed l y everybody with sluggish bowels sad torpid liver. You can try these three family remedies for only sc. THE OWL PHARMACY Our friend, J. D. Jones, of Jackson, has bought the Jackson Argus at administrator’s sale and combined it with the Butts County Progress which he al ready owned. The two papers will now be known as the Jack son Progress*Argus. May[it con tinue to be the good paper that the two were before they were merged into one. —Talbotton New Era. The Griffin News seems to believe that Joe Brown is not big enough to run against Tom Hardwick for senator. Wonder how big statesmen grow where Editor Duke hails from?--Jackson Pro gress-Argus. They grow a blamed sight bigger here than “Little Joe” Brown, Brother Jones.-Grif fin News. A penny for your thoughts. Name a half dozen of your “big uns” and the drinks will be on us. Now let’s see Who’s Who and Why. Editor Jones, having pur chased the Jackson Argus and combined it with the Jackson Progress, is making good his promise to give the people of Butts county almost as good a newspaper as the Griffin News. We think Jones is a mighty live wire and some of these days we may form a partnership with him and run one of the big gest daily newspapers in the state of Georgia. Of course, we would let Jones do the work and pay the freight. — Griffin News. That’s all right about the work and freight just so we’re custo dian of the long green. CITROLAX CITR O L A X 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. Fresh Turnip seed for fall planting at Kinard’s, Bell phone 8. FOR FARM LOANS Apply to J. W. NISBET Macon, Ga. eomiT rouse lawn NOW BEING IMPROVED Mr. J. R. 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