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The Star Store Now Showing All The New Styles In New Fall Coat Suits 'i* A Suit to Suit Everyone $9.95 to $35.00 LET US SHOW YOU Jackson Mercantile Cos. The Star Store 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 Newton-Carmichael Hdw. Cos. Hardware, Paints and Oils MAKE YOUR OWN PAINT 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, ( ZINC and LINSEED OIL, the best-known paint, materials for JOO years. , L’ S e a qcl. out ol any L.& M. PAINT you buy and if not the best aint made, return the paint and get ALL your moneyjbacw Newspaper Man Recommends It R. R. Wentworth of the St. James (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 I An You a Woman ? Cardui Tbo Woman’s Tonic | FDA SALE AT JILL DRUGGISTS F4 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 HAM & CARTER CO. Agents 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 assures you absolute satisfac- IIIIIFIII tion or your money back. < /m&m Orders of $5 or more prepaid, 1 i In order to test this paper as an advertis- m/y ing medium we $Jk |%|t -JCA will send post- 11 paid, ■ Three pairs of H| /\ our regular 50c H ij Stockings, ■ f I For ML * ytpAUL'JOTJW Includes Silk or Lisle. For out * of town patrons only. mi ■ ■ ll “Paul Jones" WV*S a Notable Collection Middy BIOUSOS fly Maf Foil Quite New Fall styles for school or j/r new raiioiuis athletic giris.no a oci cri r ai £25 00 Au Bizes at •w#idu K style, to .ait Mi- Dress Goods Ik 4 Ifcyr&SP- and Silks 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. ]\ I.M. HIGH COMPANY, V ATLANTA, GA. to you. Atlanta 9 s Leading Department Store • 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.