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,Jackson Progress - Argus
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Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter at the
post office at Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. 166.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
The season of picnics and red
bugs is approaching.
Prof. Snider got his wires cross
ed on that Easter weather.
Are you ready for the Great
Drought that will set in Monday?
After a week of grand opera
Atlanta will take Tanlac and try
to forget it.
In the springtimeayoung man’s
fancy turns to thoughts of “tak
ing ’em off.”
Watch something break loose
after the state convention in Ma
con May third.
Now is the best time of all to
swat the cattle tick and drive the
pest out of Butts county.
To make it unanimous we’re in
favor of making every road in
the country a Dixie highway.
It is now up to Georgia to adopt
a state drink. The contest is be
tween potlicker and buttermilk.
In a confidential interview dad
says Easter comes as often as he
wants to see it, as he has to stand
under the bills.
Butts county has started in to
eradicate the cattle tick and ev
ery man ought to help to make a
thorough job of it.
With at least three avowed
candidates, the race for represen
tative in Butts county promises
to be seme scrap itself.
How much stock have you tak
en in the county fair? Every
citizen has a duty to perform and
should help liberally in giving
Butts county a high class fair.
What the average patron of
the rural route service wants is
for Uncle Sam to let the routes
alone. Every change means an
inferior service.
Several weekly newspapers in
the state have raised their sub
scription rates to $1.50. With the
paper market flirting with the
stars, the papers are up against
a tough proposition.
Judge Dick Russell has resign
ed from the court of appeals,
which recalls the fact that out
side ot Villa he has done more
running than any man of this
generation. But at that “Plain
Dick” Russell is a splendid type
of Georgian.
Jackson always does a big. un
selfish, patriotic part toward en
tertaining the Confederate Vet
erans on Memorial Day. The best
is none too good for this band of
heroes and patriots and the citi
zens welcome them with open
hearts.
Progress-Argus Places Subscription
on Cash Basis, Beginning June 1
On account of the sensational advance in the cost of paper, The
Progress-Argus will, beginning June 1, 1916, adopt the strictly
cash-in-advance system for all subscriptions. We were forced to
either do this or raise the subscription price to $1.50 a year. Un
less conditions in the paper market improve it may yet become nec
essary to advance the subscription price to $1.50.
Because, it is said, of the European war print paper of all kinds
has advanced in price from 50 to 100 per cent. Newspapers have
been hard hit; the country journals most of all. Self preservation,
the survival of the fittest are forcing the weekly newspapers to
place their subscription on a sounder basis.
The credit system, bad for any business, has nearly put weekly
papers to the wall. The cash system is best for the subscriber and
best for the paper. The paper can put forth greater effort, can is
sue a larger, better paper, can serve the community more faithful
fully when it has the cash to put into the business. The subscriber
can pay for what he gets and get what he pays for It is a game
two can play and nobody loses.
Subscribers, under the present haphazard, run-down-at-the
heel system, are divided into several classes. Some pay promptly,
some pay when reminded of it, some get as mad as a wet hen when
they receive a statement, seme get a year or two in arrears and
mark the paper “refused,” and some never pay. The editor knows
them all. He has them indexed and catalogued.
Under the cash system everybody will be on an equal footing.
Every man must toe the mark.
We don’t doubt any man’s honesty. It is simply a matter of
cold, hard, common, horse sense to collect newspaper subscriptions
in advance. A dollar in the bank helps to buy paper, oil the ma
chinery, repair rollers, replace worn out type, meet payrolls—but
a printer’s dollars, scattered from Yucatan to Maine to Hong Kong,
as per the present system, are about as valuable as a last.year’s
bird nest.
The subscribers themselves will like the cash-in-advance plan
better. A large number have so stated. In fact a considerable
percentage of our readers now pay in advance for their paper, but
it is the fellow who doesn’t pay that will be affected by the cash plan.
The Progress Argus is putting forth every effort to serve this
community better than any newspaper has done before. We want
the paper to be representative of Jackson and Butts countv. Ev
ery issue put out stamps the community for what it is. A town or
county is judged by the newspaper it turn's out. We want the co
operation of the citizens, and we would hate to lose a single sub
scriber but after .June 1 The Progress-Argus will enforce the cash
subscription plan rigidly, honestly and impartially.
If your subscription is not paid it will be to your advantage to
investigate this matter.
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The great mass of people want
more light on the state road be
fore making up their mind about
selling it or extending it to the
sea. There is a commission ap
pointed to handle the matter and
why not wait until they make a
report before losing any sleep
over the state road?
A DREAM
Last night we had a dream so fair,
And that there dream was this;
We thought that we were living in
\\'iiwankee. Wis.
—('olumbia Slate.
Last night w e ha 1 a dream so sad.
And that there dream went thus;
A gink slipp and up and shint his shin
And that ere gink was us.
Walton Tribune.
Last night w e had a dream so nice,
Ami that dream went this w ay,
We thought t he governor had post ironed
The coining hirst of May.”
—Forsyth Advertiser.
Last night we had ad •earn so shocking.
And that dream was a fright:
We then tit he gr**s**r w>e coming
And that we hart to fight.
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?
(Chattanooga News)
The Saturday Evening Post
broke its advertising record last
week, when it carried 240 col
umns. It charges $1,250 a col
umn for space. The 240 columns
cost the advertisers $300,000,
which Richard Spilliane, in Com
merce and Finance, estimates to
be more than the average gross
weekly income of 1,000 miles of
railroad. America leads the
world in advertising. The length
of the column of the Saturday
Evening Post is about 13 inches.
Therefore, the rate per inch is
nearly SIOO. The circulation of
the Post is placed at 2,000,000.
Now we expect to see a lot of
water wagons for sale.
Augusta is coming back strong
after the big fire. Great is the
Augusta Spirit.
It is said that Georgia will be
so drv after next Monday that
they will have to irrigate the
Chattahoochee river. May be
the reason that Atlanta wants to
be a seaport.
The snake that would bite a
fellow after the first of May
ought to be ashamed of itself.
WHAT CATARRH IS
It has been said that every third
person has catarrh in some form.
Science has shown that nasal catarrh
often indicates a general weakness
of the body; and local treatments in
the form of snuffs and vapors do little,
if any good.
To correct catarTh you should treat its
cause by enriching vour blood with the
oil-food in Scott’s Emulsion which is a
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We guarantee that for Luzianne. If
it does not prove out on both points
after you have used the entire con
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We repair the Most Delicate
Parts of an Automobile
the heavier portions of the car. Our
Wagner’s Garage.
There’s this much about the
state road: The politicians and
demagogues will ride the issue
for all they are worth.
Indian Springs, Butts county’s
nationally famous health resort,
will soon be open and the eastern
branch of the Dixie highway will
be the most popular leg of this
many-legged road. Butts county
roads are the best in Middle Geor
gia. With good roads, Indian
Springs and the big dam as draw
ing cards thousands of visitors
wilt motor to Butt* 3 c°mp* - ” this
summer. HI