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Jackson Progress-Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. The fair is for you. Are you for the fair? Business is what you make it. How’s your business? A triple alliance that’s hard to beat is hog, hominy and grain. Seems that Gypsy Smit h didn’t complete the work of cleaning up Macon. The city council of Barnesville proposes to put a tax of $250 on slot machines. The Russians have captured Mush, which shows that the war is getting pretty soft. You should be worth as much to your community as vour com munity is worth to you. t Messrs. Harris and Hardman ought to beg. buy or borrow some ginger to install into that cam paign. With leap year and woman’s gutTrage on the schedule this ought to be a good year for the ladies. A few more legal hangings will have a wholesome effect in re ducing the number of illegal lynchings. A whiskey soaked old sot in a community is the best argument that can be used in favor of pro hibition. The state executive committee talked a lots about punishing the "traitors” of the party, but it all ended in talk. The LaGrange Reporter sug gests Thos. S. Felder, of Macon, as a candidate for governor. He is a mighty good man. A fool is bad enough under any conditions. Mix in some mean liquor and a pistol and the devil usually breaks loose. The weekly editors who meet j in annual convention in Decatur are going to Savannah in search of moisture, of course. Now is the time to get in line for the Butts county fair. There fe a part for every man and ev ery man should take a part. What some politicians ought to have is not an office but a pen sion. Incompetency is a poor in vestment for the taxpayers. The Macon tragedy, where a drink-crazed fiend shot to death an innocent young w’oman. will do more to clean up that city than all the newspapers, preachers and arators in the country. But at that it was an awful price to pay. || jjjjj ■V" jj^ For Sprains, Lameness, Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism Penetrates and Heals. Stops Pain At Once For Man and Beast 25c. 50c. sl. At All Dealers. LINIMENT It seems pretty well establish jed that Jackson needs a co-oper j ative creamery. Who will take the lead in organizing this indus try? So Macon gets the next state convention. Here’s hoping it will he tamer than the rough house convention held there in 1914, When it comes to raising corn Butts county not only led Geor gia but the entire country last year. And what’s more, Butts county can do it again. Now that President Wilson has been endorsed by the Georgia Weekly Press Association and the state executive committee he ought to carry Georgia in a walk. Dr. L. G. Hardman, candidate for governor, is one of Georgia’s leading citizens and Butts countv voters were glad to have an op portunity of hearing his address Tuesday. If the average newspaper were as close-fisted with their boosts and went about seeking a price for their enterpise as some citi zens, there’s many a city and countv that would never be heard from ten miles from home. It is impossible to drive a half mile in any direction in Georgia now without striking a candidate or having one strike you. —Savannah Press. What is the row about? Can didates ought to be careful how they strike. The citizens of Butts county should do all possible to encour age the colored race in their ef forts to have a fair in Jackson this fall. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and the colored farmer needs the lessons of stock raising and crop diversi fication most of all. lii the event that Candi date Hardman accepts Gov ernor Harris’ invitation fora joint debate, what will they discuss? What’s the issue in this gubernatorial race, any way?—Augusta Chronicle. They’ll discuss their records, of course. The issue is one of | brotherly love and prohibition—! with the prohibition issue already settled. - - j An Arkansas paper, notes The Henry County Weekly, recently inserted the following paragraph in its local columns: "If the young man who was seen kissing his best girl last Sunday will subscribe for this paper before next press day nothing more will be said about it.” The result was that the editor took in one thousand new sub scribers. Come in. boys, the wa ter’s fine. ! Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S 1 CASTO R I A MOTHER! YOUR GHILO IS CROSS, FEVERISH, FROM CONSTIPATION If tongue is coated, breath bad, stomach sour, clean liver and bowels Give “California Syrup of Figs” at once—a teaspoonful to day often saves a sick child to morrow. If your little one is out-of-sorts, half-sick, isn’t resting, eating and actingnaturallv—look, Moth | er! see if tongue is coated. This ! is a sure sign that its little stom ach, liver and bow T elsare clogged with waste. When cross, irrita ble, feverish, stomach sour, breath bad or has stomach-ache, 'diarrhoea, sore throat, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of “Cal ifornia Svrup of Figs,” and in a few hours all the constipated poi son, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of its little bowels without griping, and you have a well, playful child again. Mothers can rest easy after giving this harmless “fruit laxa tive.” because it never fails to cleanse the little one’s liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach and thev dearly love its pleasant taste. Full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown ups printed on each bottle. Beware of counterfeit fig syr ups. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs;” then see that it is made by the “California Fig Sprup Company.” adv In the following words The Barnesville News-Gazette comes pretty near sizing up the situa tion correctly: The past year completely demonstrated that diversifi cation for the farmer was the only true plan for farming, best for the farmer and every other interest in the cotton section. The farmers of Geor gia and the South should not depend on the one crop of cotton for prosperity, for that is not best for the individual farmer or the agricultural in terests as a whole. The plan for every farmer is to raise everything he possibly can on his farm for his own use and then make every bale of cot ton he can. FOR SALE Wanamakers Cleveland Big 801 l Cotton Seed, pure, $2 per bu.; Hastings Prolific Corn, $2 bu.; Patricks Prolific Corn, $2 per bu.; one good surrey, cheap. J. H. Patrick, Jenkinsburg, Ga. 2-18 4 For Sale Four tenant houses on Crum’s alley; eight good building lots on Oak and Plum streets op posite J. B. Edwards; 1 horse, buggy and wagon; 2office desks. I will handle your Real Estate cheap. J. W. Crum. 2-18-2 t Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CA3TO R I A For Sale or Rent Spencer place, corner of College and Dempsey ave. Dr. W. H. Steele or C. T. Beauchamp. 2-11-tf OLDER BUT STRONGER To bo healthy at seventy, prepare at forty, is sound advice, beoiuse in the strength of middle life we too often forget that neglected colds, or careless tre&t --1 rucnt of slight aches and pains, simply undermine strength and bring chronic weakness for Later years. To be stronger when older, keep your blood pure and rich and active with the strength-building and blood-nourishing properties of Scott’s Emulsion which isa ! food, a tonic and a medicine to keep your | blood rich, alleviate rheumatism and avoid sickness. No alcohol in Scott’s. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield. N. J. ■ . I 7 7 ‘ V [ • . j | riii i 1 iJHiw 'a 1 iu> 1 I : y Grocery Bills Smaller; coffee better and more of it —that’s what comes of using Luzianne Coffee famous for its flavor and economy all over the :>;:i South. Try the entire contents of a one-pound % can according to directions. If you are not satisfied with it in every way, if it does not go as far as two pounds of any cheaper coffee you have ever used —tell your grocer you want your money back and he’ll come straight across with it. Write for premium catalog. ■ jUMMfWI I COFFEE Jpll The Reily-Taylor Cos. New Orleans I WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY OBSERVED IN JACKSON The birthday of Washington was celebrated in an appropriate manner in Jackson Tuesday. The banks were closed, the William Mclntosh chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution gave a brilliant Colonial Tea, us ing patriotic decorations, and an appropriate program was render ed bv the public schools. The following exercises were carried out at the public school, the chil dren wearing costumes sugges tive of the occasion: 1. The Making of the First Flag, 3rd grade. 2. Song, George Washington, Ist grade. MS Men,women,and ■■ children : IBHi l-liilll IcJIL V?- rely upon ■yL. r >, V . f We have the exclusive selling rights for this great laxative. Trial size, 10 cents. SLATON DRUG CO. THE REXALL STORE A TEXAS WONDER. The Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles, dissolves gravel, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheumatism, and all irregularities of the kidneys and bladder in ootn men and women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mail on receipt of SI.OO One small bottle is two months’ treat ment, and seldom ever fails to perfect a cure. Send for testimonials from this and other states. Dr. E. W. Hall, 2926 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Sold by druggists. 3. Recitation, A Small Patriot. Dan Thurston, 2nd grade. 4. Little Miss Mischief, Eliza beth Currie, 3rd grade. 5. Washington’s Birthday, Beulah Mae Hencelv, 2nd grade. 6. The Boy Washington, 3rd grade. 8. How About It? Edwin Johnson, 2nd grade. Address, W. 0. Perritt.