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AS TO COUNTY MATTERS
AND THE WAY OTHERS DO
Editor Progress-Argus: While
waiting for time to weigh up
■cotton and out in the field alone,
3 miles from home, I decided te
give you a few thoughts, if wor
thy of space. My theme is tax.
National revenue is insufficient
notwithstanding the war tax to
meet demands and Mr. McAdoo
is casting his eye on sugar and
other necessities of life to meet
the deficiency. Our state is heav
ily burdened and more is being
added. Our county, which comes
nearest and dearest of all, & very
sick with the fever of tax. and
it would make my letter too long
to give the different causes, but
something must be done or the
effects will be ruinous. It may
require several modes of treat
ment, but in this letter I will on
ly refer you to the treatment of
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Hardware, Paints and Oils
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Yon will save 56 cts. per gal,
THIS IS HOW'
Buy 4 gals. L. & M. Semi-Mixed Real~Paint, v
*t $2.10 per gal- - - * 8.40
And 3 gals. Unseed Oil to mix'.withlitj
a * cstimated cost of- ■ 2.40
You then make 7 gals, of pure paint for' SIO.BO
—' j vjk It’s only $ 1.54 per gal.
Anybody can mix the OIL with the PAINT.^
Whereas, if you "buy 7 gals, of ready-for-userpaintfin
in a tew minute. CANS s2 . |o a gll , or $14.70. r
The L & M. SEMI-MIXED REAL PAINT is PURE WHITE LEAD, (
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(Mo.) News, writes: A severe cold
settled in my lungs. I feared pneumonia
Foley’s Honey and Tar straightened
me up immediately. I reccommended
this genuine cough and lung medicine. ”
Right now thousands of hay fever
and asthma sufferers are thankful for
this wonderful tnd soothing remedy.
The Owl Pharmacy, adv
one sick county, named Musco
gee, which I clip a part from the
Macon Telegraph correspondent
at Columbus, to-wit:
“The remarkable results that
have been achieved in Muscogee
county are ascribed to the coun
ty’s commission form of govern
ment. In 1872 the county had
no money and no credit; there
were no roads to speak of, in the
sense of the highways today; the
public buildings were inadequate;
the county’s script was discounts
ed in the market, and the county
affairs generally were in bad
shape. At that time a bill was
introduced in the legislature by
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the late Hon. Louis F. Garrad,
creating a board of commission
ers of roads and revenues for
this county. The bill was enact
ed into law and the first board
of commissioners consisted of
Mr. Garrard, Wm. G. Woolfolk
and Peter Preer, all successful
business men and large property
owners.
“The same type of men has al
ways served the county board,
giving the county the benefit
without compensation, of their
good judgment and business ex
perience.
“There are several distinctive
features in the Muscogee county
form of commission government
and its administration and they
may be enumerated briefly:
“The commissioners are elect
ed by the grand jury and politics
has practically no hand in their
selection, the sole idea being to
get good business men of sound
judgment.
“The commissioners receive no
pay, and this also tends to elimi
nate politics.
“The commissioners elect the
county jailor and operate the jail.
The ordinary custom is for the
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JACKSON, GEORGIA
sheriff to have the jail under his
jurisdiction and this is often one
of a county’s greatest expenses
“In the disbursing of money
there is a careful system of issu
ing checks. The counhy ordi
nary, who is the board’s disburs
ing official, writes all checks and
all checks must be signed by the
ordinary and two members of the
board of commissioners and also
approved by the county treasurer
before it can be paid.
“The county treasurer’s duties
being limited, his salary also is
limited to a few hundred dollars.
“The Muscogee county board
of commissioners not only man
age finances well, but show rare
judgment in other respects.
Yqars ago they began replacing
the old wooden bridges in the
county with steel bridges.’’
I hope the taxpayers of Butts
will consider the treatment given
to Muscogee and be profited by it.
R. W. Mays.
There is just one thing for our
farmers to remember: The boll
weevil can’t eat corn, wheat and
oats. Starve the varmint.
J.M.Higd Cownt.
W. H. BRITTAIN, Pres. A Mgr. 0. C. JONES. VJW Tresa. T. T. WILLIAMS, See.
Our Mail Order Department
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our regular 50c H ij
Stockings, ■ f I
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Includes Silk or Lisle. For out *
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V beautifully finished New Fall lines, showlngevery
\J|l m garments of every wanted staple and new novelties.
I\\ wanted material. Un- Write for samples NOW.
J V usual values at $25. _
Hundreds of New School Serfes, 58c, 89c to $1
I 4 It Suits, at Dress and Sait Serfes, $1 to $2.90
1 / $19.78 Novelty Woolens in Variety
P / \\ 25.00 58c, to $2.50
1/ l\ 29.75 and up Novelty Silks—For Trimmiafs
f / Straight boxed, plain 93c and $1.50 per yerd.
■MlUtailored models.
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J. 0. GASTON TO ASSIST
IN GEORGIA FESTIVAL
Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 23.—De
termined to make the Georgia
Harvest Festival, to be held in
Atlanta, November 15-20 the
most brilliant affair ever held in
the south and an event in which
the entire state may participate,
the executive committee has
chosen on the board of directors
twenty-five of the most progres
sive men of Georgia reperesent
ing an equal number of enter
prising cities.
J. 0. Gaston has been unan
imously elected to represent
Jackson. Ga., and all local com
mittees will act under his direc
tion. An advisory board of sev
en members from each county in
the state will be named within
the next few days, the appoint
ment to be made bv the county
ordinaries.
The state fair will have to look
to its laurels, for Jackson will
have one of the Jbest fairs in the
state.