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Jackson Progress - Argos
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year.
Entered an second-clasH matter at the
post office at Jackson, tia.
Telephone No. 166.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
TO ADVERTISERS
Copy for change of contract
advertisements must be in the
office by 10 o’clock a. m. Wednes
day preceding day of publication,
to insure insertion.
Advertisers will please co-oper
ate with the mechanical depart
ment to this extent.
Now for business and the coun
ty fair.
Everybody despises the politi cal
hypocrite.
Forget politics and get down to
work —it’s more profitable.
Now for baseball and Jackson
must have a winning team.
Farmer Jim Smith made a for
tune but the lawyers will spend it.
Villajwith a broken leg is.not
as good as Villa with a broken
neck.
Spring sprung the wrong way
—sort of rip-snorter, as Prof.
Snider would say.
The livest issue in Georgia now
is the state road. To sell or not
to sell— that’s the question.
Daily poem:
Spring sprung
A flare-back;
Jack frost,
Gardens lost.
April 5 was a favorite day for
county primaries in Georgia and
several hundred officers were
nominated on that day for a term
©f four years.
The gubernatorial campaign is
a dull colorless affair. For one
thing, it is too early to get exci
ted over a contest that will not
be decided until early fall.
Great thing this of cleaning up
your premises an 4 making the
city sanitary. The Civic League
deserves credit for the success of
the campaign just closed in Jack
son.
The friends of 0. H. B. Blood
worth. Jr., editor of The Forsyth
Advertiser, are congratulating
him upon his election as school
superintendent in the Monroe
county primary Saturday.
Happy is the candidate who re
alizes he was defeated because he
didn't receive enough votes to
win-rather than charging his
downfall to frame-ups, line-ups,
etc. The world loves a game loser.
The saddest words anv candidate
Was ever forced to choose:
•*I was picked this race to win-
How in the h—did I lose?"
NORTHERN LIMIT OF
BOLL WEEVIL
Avery careful investigation of
the ginning reports issued by the
United States Census Bureau
shows that nowhere north of pa
rallel 33* north latitude (a line
running east and west approxi
mately through Atlanta, Ga.,
Birmingham, Ala., and Paris,
Texas) has any county suffered
because of the weevil a greater
decrease in cotton production than
occured during adverse seasons
before the weevil came. If this
has been the case in the humid,
timbered areas of Arkansas and
north Mississippi, it certainly
seems reasonable to expect about
the same results from the weevil
in all newly invaded sections
north of parallel 33*.
It must be understood that what
has been said here does not apply
to a strip from 75 to 100 miles
wide along the Atlantic Seaboard,
for climatic conditions along the
South Atlantic Coastal Plain are
considerably modified by the in
fluence of the ocean. Winter
temperatures average higher than
in inland sections in the same
latitude and the summer rainfall
is heavier. These factors, of
course, will prove favorable to
the boll weevil and its ravages
will very probably be more severe
than will be the case inland in the
same latitude.—The Progressive
Farmer.
HARD TIMES
On account of its sound, com-1
mon sense and because it is so
applicable to Buttt county, The
Progress-Argu3 reproduces the
following article which appeared
in a recent issue of The Bulloch
Times:
“You will hear some people
talking about hard times with
some poor widow with girl chil
dren, or some sick man unable to
work, or some one-legged man
unable to work, and with some
man and his wife who have given
away what they had to their chil
dren, but if it is hard times with
the other folks we do not see any
evidence of that fact.
“Bulloch county spent in the
last few years around one half
million dollars for automobiles,
not counting the oil and repair
bills. Bulloch county spends each
year for liquor in the neighbor
hood of $30,000, and a like amount
for cigarettes, cigars, tobacco
and snuff.
“More than $20,000 a year is
spent for coca-cola and other
cold drinks in the county. The
Sunday excursions take out at
least $15,000 a year. This is
more than SIOO,OOO a year that is
thrown away in pure luxuries.
In seven years with the interest
added this would amount to sl.-
000,000. It is no wonder we hear
so much hard times cry, where
there is so much pure extrava
gance in the country. Debts will
continue to pile up just as long as
people live extravagantly and
spend all they make.
1 In the northern states among
the people nine out of ten have a
savings bank accounc. but in the
south onlv one out of ten has a
savings bank account. The north
saves its money and lends it to
us. and we spend our money and
pay them interest.
‘‘lf you, dear reader, expect to
own your own home and keep out
of debt, you will have to begin
while you are young to practice
economy; you must begin early
to learn the value of a dollar.
You must have good habits and
leave alone liquor and these other
things that takes not only your
money, but destroy your health
The paper trust ought to be
probed, strangled, brought to its
knees. The sensational advance
in the price of paper is working
a real hardship on printers and
publishers throughout the nation.
Jim Smith in his day was a
friend of education. If he could
have foretold the scrap over his
estate it would have been well
for him to have left his millions
to the advancement of education
in Georgia.
Mr. P. Nut and Miss V. Bean
are going to cut a big figure in
the vegetable world when Mr. B.
Weevil gets to doing what he is
going to do to cotton. Mr. P.
Nut bids fair to furnish food for
the millions in the future. —Val-
dosta Times.
We don’t believe it is too much
to say that to put a boy or girl in
corn, pig, or canning club work
is worth a month’s schooling a
year. While other parents are
giving their children these advant
ages therefore. Brother Suscrib
er, what about your children?
See your teacher, county superin
tendent or demonstration agent
right away and get your family
represented in this great and in
spiring work. And be sure to
have your boy send us his name
for entry in the SI,BOO contest for
corn club boys who read The Pro
gressive Farmer. Do it now! —
I The Progressive Farmer.
DERUNA
J, A STANDARD FAMILY REMEDY
For over forty years it
has been used as A TONIC
AND STOMACH REM
EDY. Peruna aids the ap
petite and gives new life to
digestion.
STATEMENT
Of (he ow nership, management, circula
tion required by tne act of August 24, m 2, of
The Jackson Progress-Argus, published
weekly at Jackson, Ga., for April l, 1916.
State of Georgia, County of Butts.
Before me, Clerk of Superior Court, said
state and county, personally appeared J. D.
Jones, who, having been duly sworn accord
ing to law, deposes and says that he Is the
editor of The Jackson Progress-Argus and
that the following Is, to the best of his
knowledge and belief, a true statement of
the ownership, management, etc., of the
aforesaid publication for the date shown In
the above caption, required by the Act of
August 24,1912, embodied In section 443, Pos
tal Laws and Regulations, printed on the
reverse of this form, to.wit:
Editor. J. D. Jones, Jackson, Ga.
Managing editor, J. D. Jones, Jackson, Ga.
Business manager, J. D. Jones, Jackson,
Ga.
Publisher, J. D. Jones, Jackson, Ga.
Owner, J. D. Jones, Jackson, Ga.
Known bondholders, mortgagees and oth
er security holders, holding 1 per cent or
more of total amount of bonds, mortgages
orotbersecuritles, Alfred Akerman,Greens
boro, Ga. J. D. JONES.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
Slst day of March, 1916..
8. J. FOSTER, Clk Supr C. B. C.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’*
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
oat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds np the Whole System. 50 cents.
and happiness. If you do not,
the time is coming when you will
be old and infirm and unable to
work, and the county or some
body will have to give you the
meat and bread on which you live.
You will have to be a beggar at
somebody’s gate.”
HAVEYOU WEAK LUNGS?
Do colds settle ou your chest or in your
bronchial tubes? Do coughs hang on, or
are you subject to throat troubles ?
Such troubles should have immediate
treatment with the strengthening powers
of Scott’s Emulsion to guard against
consumption which so easily follows.
Scott’s Emulsion contains pure cod liver
oil which peculiarly strengthens the res
piratory tract and improves the quality of
the blood; the glycerine in it soothes and
heals the tender membranes of the throat.
Scott’s is prescribed by the best special
ists. You can get it at any drug store.
Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, H.J.
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
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actly as far as a big heaping table
spoon of a cheaper coffee, for you use
only half as much of Luzianne. That’s
so positivsly guaranteed that if, after
using an entire can of Luzianne as
directed, you are not entirely satisfied
with its economy and goodness, your
grocer, on your say-so, will gladly
return your money. Write for our pre
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pictures Friday and Saturday
only. J. B. GUTHRIE.
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