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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.
Bet the tourist travel in Mexico
will fall off this summer.
An exchange notes that there
is no rush to name children after
Henry Ford and William J. Bryan.
Butts county ought to lead Geor
gia in the hoys corn club work
this year. Elncourage the boys
to join. It means greater pros
perity for the county.
TAKE YOUR POLITICS
SERIOUSLY
In just a few days now Butts
county voters will nominate coun
ty officers tor a term of four years.
The Progress-Argus has always
believed in electing men of intel
ligence, character and business
qualifications to public office.
There is a lot of sickly sentiment
about electing men because they
need the office. Every time an
incompetent man is elected the
voters are cheated and the public
business suffers as a consequence.
The following editorial from
The Macon News will prove of
timely interest and is reproduced
for the benefit of the voters of
the county: >
Now is a time when every man
in Georgia should take an interest
in politics. ;t ’ .
For in Georgia, Within the next
six or eight weeks, more than
four thousand state and county
offices will be filled by popular
election, all for terms of four
years.
Never before has the electorate
of Georgia been faced with a
greater responsibility.
Heretofore they have elected
men for two year terms, knowing
that if the officeholders proved
incompetent they were removable
in twenty-four months.
But now there is no redress
against an unworthy or incapable
officeholder for a period of four
years.
This means that the right men
should be nut in office —and that
every citizen, before voting,
should think well on the conse
quences of his vote.
Suppose you knew that your
vote would decide an election,
how would you cast it?
Would you vote for a friend
whom you knew to be undeserv
ing of the office in preference to
a man who was clearly entitled
to it by reason of record or fitness?
The freeman casting with un
purchased hand
The vote that shakes the tur
rets of the land.
is a poetical expression, but prop
erly exercised, the vote can have
just that much influence.
It is vain to complain, in the
days after the election, about the
poor quality of officeholders. The
thing to do is to study the candi
dates in advance, consider their
qualifications, and vote for the
man whom you conscientiously
believe is the best man in the
race.
Georgians should take their
politics seriously, more seriously
this year than ever before.
MUSTANG
For Sprains, Lameness,
Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism
Penetrates and Heals .
Stops Pain At Once
For Man and Beast
25c. 50c. SI. At All Dealers.
LINIMENT
Editor Volney Williams, of the
Waycross Journal-Herald, has
been nominated as representative
from Ware county. Just can’t
keep a live newspaper man down.
So there will be nojointdebates
between Harris and Hardman
after all. Just a long, tame, life
lass campaign according to the
present outlook.
The Butts county * candidates
are such a fine lot of fellows that
it is a pity (here is not an office
for them all. But the weeding
out process will soon be at hand.
Butts county is working to have
the county treasurer put on a
salary basis. Most all of the
counties are following Spalding’s
example in this particular and it
will save them a lot of money.—
Griffin News and Sun.
The Jackson Progress-Argus
takes this shot at Professor Albert
Lookout Snider: “Prof. Snider
wants to charge for his weather
forecasts. The mercenary cuss —
after all the free advertising he
has had from the newspapers.”
The newspapers, Brother Jones,
made him famous. The professor
should pay them—Griffin News
and Sun.
If discussion through the press
will stop lynching, then the prac
tice will stop, for nearly every
body is airing a pet theory these
days.—Jackson Progress-Argus.
The only thing, however, that
will do much good along this line
is to invent some plan that will
stop the commission of certain
crimes that provoke most of the
lynchingsin the South—Hawkins
ville Dispatch and News.
Franc Mangum, editorial writer
on The Macon News, and one of
the best known young newspaper
men in the state, has bought the
Swainsboro Forest-Blade and will
assu me charge on April 15. There
never was a city newspaper man
who didn’t want to try conclusions
with a country weekly. Mr.
Mangum’s friends wish him
mighty well.
NOT ENOUGH CHILDREN
ever receive the proper balance of food
to sufficiently nourish both body and
brain during the growing period when
nature’s demands are greater than in
mature life. This is shown in so many
pale faces, lean bodies, frequent colds,
and lack of ambition.
For all such children we say with
unmistakable earnestness: They need
Scott's Emulsion, and need it now. It
possesses in concentrated form the very
food elements to enrich their blood. It
changes weakness to strength; it makes
them sturdy and strong. No alcohol.
Scott % TVivmc. Bloomfield. N. I.
FOR SALE
Good gentle family horse, per
fectly safe for ladies to drive.
Apply to B. F. Watkins & Cos.
3-24-tf
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Qrove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propertiesof QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
TRY IT! SUBSTITUTE
FOR NASTY CALOMEL
Starts your liver without
making you sick and it
cannot salivate
Every druggist in town—your
druggist and everybody’s drug
gist has noticed a great falling
off in the sale of calomel. They
all give the same reason. Dod
son’s Liver Tone is taking its
place.
“Calomel isdangerous and peo
ple know it, while Dodson’s Liv
er Tone is perfectly safe and
gives better results,’’ said a
prominent local druggist. Dod
son’s Liver Tone is personally
guaranteed by every druggist
who sells it, A large bottle costs
50 cents, and if it fails to give
easy relief in every case of liver
sluggishness and constipation
you have only to ask for your
money back.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is a pleas
ant-tasting, purely vegetable
remedy, harmless to both chil
dren and adults. Take a spoon
ful at night and wake up feeling
fine; no biliousness, sick head
ache, acid stomach or constipated
bowels. It doesn’t gripe or
cause inconvenience all the next
day like violent calomel. Take a
dose of calomel today and tomor
row you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated. Don’t lose a day’s
work! Take Dodson’s Liver
Tone instead and feel fine, full
of vigor and ambition, ad
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
WORLD, ASKS PLOW HANDLES
The time has come to plant up
land corn. And now hear me and
hear me for my cause, plant plen
ty of corn and everything that’s
good for man and beast, for in
scanning, the; signs of tjbe times
we will need it.
The W9rs is at* wa?OUT army
is ip Mexico,andin all probability
is‘ there tffstay; congress will
soon have 700,000 men trampipg
our territory and the end is not
yet. What’s the matter with the
world, anyhow? Is satan turned
loose? It seems that the very
winds are sighing for our cruelty,
inhumanity and intemperance. It
seems that the world has forgot
ten God and his fellow man. And
here listen to what Robert Burns,
the world’s greatest poet, wrote:
When chill November’s early blast
Made fields and forests bare,
One evening as I wandered forth
Along the banks of Ayr,
I spied a man whose aged step
Seemed weary, worn with care;
His face was furrowed with years
And hoary was his hair.
“Young stranger whither wanderest
thou?”
Began the reverend sage.
“Dost tliristof wealth thy stepconstrain
Or youthful pleasures rage?
Too soon thou hast began
■ To wander forth with me
To mourn the miseries of man,
Many and sharp the memories ills
Inwoven within our frames
More pointed we make ourselves,
Regret, remorse and shame.
And man whose heaven erected face,
The smiles of love adorn,
Man’s inhumanity to man makegcount
less thousands mourn.”
And here we breath a prayer
that the people of the world may
grow better, come to our sober
senses, quit war and return to
the arts of peace.
Plow Handles
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, adv.
FREE
Aluminum
Ware
We will give away absolutely free to
customers of this store a complete set
of the world’s best quality brand Alum
num Ware. Guaranteed for twenty
years.
Every time you make a CASH pur
chase you will receive a
Free Aluminum Coupon
Corresponding to the amount of your
purchase—you save the coupons, when
you have the necessary amount of cou
pons to entitle you to the one (or more)
pieces of Aluminum Ware you desire,
bring the coupons to us and take away
the Aluminum Ware they entitle you to,
Absolutely FREE
In this way we share our profits with
our customers. Call and see this beau
tiful ware and get started for a set.
SLATON DRUG CO.
Jackson, Georgia
The Store
The Savings
Account
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have used the entire contents of one can
according to directions, it has not made,
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* the can and ask your grocer to refund
your money. He will do it without ar
gument. Write for premium catalog.
Tie Reily-Taylor Go. New Orleans
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LISTEN
Till further notice I will make
pictures Friday and Saturday
only. J. B. GUTHRIE.
Call 114 when you want
a good Conner’s
Market.