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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DO YLE JON KB, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered aw second-class matter at the
post ofllce at Jackson, On.
Telephone No. 166.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
NOTICE
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the rate of fifty cents, minimum for 50
words and less; above 50 words will
be charged at the, rate of 1 cent a word.
Obituaries will be charged for at the
rale of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac
company copy in all instances.
Cotton is short but high. That
helps some.
Gasoline is coming down.
Wish paper would follow suit.
Well, at any rate the agony of
the present state campaign will
soon be over.
Had you planned to do your
fall buying from home mer
chants? Well, you ought to.
The Butts County Fair will be
a grand success in every way.
Haveyou planned your exhibit?
Candidate Hughes is playing
for the "petticoat" vote in the
far West. He will need them.
Eichelberger has resigned,
which is about the best piece of
luck the Anti-Saloon League has
had in some time.
Speaking of assesments. the
Jasper county executive commit
tee levied a fee of S6O on candi
dates for solicitor general.
Atlanta seems to be having
the hottest kind of a hot contest
for mayor. It is nearly as exci
ting as the Governor’s race.
Not a single new county suc
ceeded in running the legisla
tive gauntlet during the recent
session. Even Peach county was
snowed under.
The Atlanta Georgian and Sun
day American have come out for
Governor Harris. Governor Har
ris is being accorded a splendid
support by the newspapers of the
state.
When the legislature provided
for three additional judges of the
court of appeals there was at
•once an announcement of favorite
sons willing to serve the state.
A score or more of prominent
lawyers have been mentioned
for the three places.
Hon. E. M. Smith, of McDon
ough, is a candidate for repre
sentative from Henry county.
We can’t vote in Henry county’s
primary, but if we could we
would put in a ballot for
Mr. Smith who is well known
and popular in Jackson.
About the most contemptible
■cuss under the sun is the profes
sional agitator—the fellow who
kicks at everything and every
body ; the fault finder, the critic
of public officials, the man who
cant find any movement or cause
jrood enough to enlist his support.
LET GEORGIA DO ITS DUTY
Georgia owes Governor Harris a duty—the duty of retaining
him in office for another two years. This is good old democratic
precedent and there is no cause for breaking this rule now.
Governor Harris has made an able, conscientious public official.
He is entitled to a second term. He has done nothing to justify
the voters in replacing him with another and younger executive.
He is the last Confederate veteran who will ever occupy the
office of governor in Georgia. If he is turned out at this time the
people will show their ingratitude to a citizen who did a full man’s
part in fighting for the cause of the South.
The prohibitionists of the state are under obligations to Gov
ernor Harris. He included prohibition in the call for a special ses
sion of the legislature, and thus gave the state prohibition sooner
than it would otherwise have obtained it. The prohibitionists to a
man should rally to the support of Governor Harris.
The other candidates for governor, splendid Georgians all, can
afford to wait. Governor Harris cannot.
The claim that Governor Harris is too old to be governor is all
bosh. Old men are commanding the great armies in Europe. Jof
fre, Hindenburg. Mackensen. Haig and others are classed as “old
men,” but they are doing the most effective fighting. Thomas A.
Edison is classed as an old man, but he is still the world’s greatest
inventive genius. Rockefeller and Carnegie are old men, but they
are still vital factors in the world’s finance. When he was past 80,
Gladstone, the greatest English statesman of a generation, did
some of his best work. The late Judge Logan E. Bleckley entered
the University of Georgia, as a freshman, when an “old man.”
Governor Harris is still vigorous in mind and body. He has reach
ed that age of maturity when he can weigh questions of state calm
ly and dispassionately.
It would be far more humiliating to Governor Harris to turn
him out now than it would have been to deny him a term when he
first offered for election.
Let the voters of Georgia put aside rancor and prejudice and
give Governor Harris, a man who has spent his life fighting and
working for the best interest of the state and the South, an endorse
ment of his administration by electing him overwhelmingly to a
second term.
WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE ADOPTING THE
CASH SYSTEM
(From The Birmingham Age-Herald.)
Newspaper and magazine readers have every reason to be in
terested in the growing seriousness of the white paper situation.
The great war, the Mexican trouble and a spirited presidential
campaign have combined to increase the demands upon newspapers
and magazines to a point where enough paper cannot be manufac
tured to meet the requirements.
Readers have already noted that many of their favorite week
ly and monthly publications are using cheaper grades of paper.
Newspapers everywhere are co-operating to cut down their require
ments to a minimum. And still further retrenchments will be nec
essary.
The real crisis for the daily newspapers will be reached in the
fall. It is usually in October that annual paper contracts are re
newed and the advance in prices threatens to result disastrously
for many of the smaller publications which are already operating
on a close margin.
Never in the world’s history has the wide extent of education
been so strikingly demonstrated. Never has there been such de
mand for information. Never were Americans more alert to all
that is transpiring in the world. Their desire for knowledge
amounts to a craving. They read newspapers with an avidity and
an intensity never known before.
It has come about so suddenly that paper manufacturers are
found unprepared. Their factories are simply overtaxed, though
they are running 99 per cent capacity.
Readers during the next few months may watch for one of the
most interesting evolutions the publishing business has ever seen.
No one knows just what the solution will be But as the publish
ing business enters more vitally into the life of every man and wo
man than does any other industry, the solution will affect intimate
every newspaper and magizine reader in America.
Governor Nat Harris is shelling
the woods He is conducting his
campaign on a high plane and is
making new friends wherever he
goes.—Laurens Citizen.
We understand Governor Har
ris is gaining ground right along.
Encouraging reports continue to
come in from all sections.
Let us urge that every farmer
from central Texas eastward to
Virginia put in at least a small
patch of crimson clover, bur clo
ver, or vetch this fall. These
crops have already passed the ex
perimental stage in the territory
named, and their success is a cer
tainty. Farmers all over the
South are proving this every
year, and the man who for any
reason is unwilling to try them
is pretty soon going to find him
self far behind the procession.
—The Progressive farmer.
A WORD FOR MOTHERS
It is a grave mistake for mothers to neg
lect their aches and pains and suffer m
silence—this only leads to chronic sick'*
neas and often shortens life.
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depressed, you should know that Scott’s
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Scott's is strengthening thousands o 1
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Scott & Bowse. Bloomfield. N. I.
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JUDGE SEARCY COMMENDS
COURT HOUSE SQUARE
Says It Is One of Prettiest
in Whole Country
That the court house lawn in
Jackson is one of the prettiest in
the entire country is the unani
mous declaration of all those
who have seen it. The efforts of
the ladies in improving the
grounds has been widely com
mended by traveling men and
visitors. Judge Wm. E. H.
Searcy, Jr., the popular presid
ing officer of Butts superior
court, is among those who have
noted the great improvement in
the grounds, and he has the fol
lowing to say:
"I cannot let the opportunity
pass to commend most highly
the public spirit of the good la
dies of Jackson in adding so
much to the beauty of the court
house grounds and the city by
planting beautiful flowers and
vines around the court house.
Such manifestation of civic pride
and progressiveness is most com
mendable and is worthy of emu
lation by similar orgrnizations in
other cities.
"I am sure the good people of
Jackson appreciate the work of
these ladies as much as I do.”
NOTICES"
■ cured of M
rere case of Piles of 40 years standing in four
day 3 without the knife, pain or detention from
business. 1 want aU such sufferers to learn
about this humane treatment.
H. AC. JOSZY, Rout* 4, Lamar.! S. C.
COAL
From Mines to Consumer
Bonita Jellico Coal
Delivered in Jackson
June Shipment H. 36 per ton
July Shipment $4-46 per ton
August Shipment $4.61 per ton
HAMILTON FUEL SUPPLY CO.
Knoxville, Tenn.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
To the Voters of Butts County:
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Representative from Butts
county in (lie next General Assembly,
subject to th- regulations of the state
democratic executive committee. In
making this announce nieiit for re-elec
tion I pledge myself that should the
voters again entrust me with this posi
tion of trust and honor to continue to
represent the interest of my county and
state to the b-st of my ability. The
votes and support of the people will be
appreciated. Respectfully,
C. A. TOWLES.
The friends of J. C. Jones, of Jack
son, announce his name as a candidate
for Representative from Butts county,
in the Democratic primary of Septem
ber 12. All support accorded him will
be appreciated.
FOR CONGRESS
I am a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Congress for the Sixth
Congressional District of Georgia, sub
ject to such rules and regulations as the
Executive Committee may provide
governing the primary.
I appreciate the past kindness of the
people of the district to me, and assure
you that I will be very grateful for your
support.
J. W. WISE.
FOR SOLICITOR-GENERAL
I am a candidate for re-election as
Solicitor-General of the Flint Circuit,
subject to the rules and regulations of
the coming Democratic primary. I
appreciate the past kindness of the peo
ple of the Circuit to me and solicit and
will be very grateful for your support.
E. M. Owen.
FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT
To the Democrats of the Flint Circuit:
Having served a year of the unex
pired term of the lamented Judge Rob
ert T. Daniel as Judge of the Superior
Courts of this Circuit, 1 announce my
self a candidate for election for the re
mainder of this term, subject to the
primary of September 12th, 1916.
I will appreciate the support and
votes of all voters in this primary.
Respectfully Yours,
Wm. E. H. Searcy, Jr.
Griffin, Ga., July 10th, 1916.
TO AMEND CHARTER
State of Georgia—Butts County.
To the Superior Court of Said County:
The petition of “The Newton-Carmi
chael Hardware Company” shows:
1. That petitioner is a corporation,
incorporated under order of said court,
dated 22nd day of December, 1902.
2. That petitioner desires to amend
its charter as follows: By striking
from the name and style of said corpo
ration, the words “The” and “Carmi
chael,” so that its name and style will
then be “Newton Hard ware Company, ”
and that hereafter it be permitted to
exercise all its corporate powers, rights
and duties granted and conferred upon
it by and under said charter, under the
name and style of “Newton Hardware
Company.”
Wherefore, petitioner prays that
when this petition has been filed and
published as prescribed by law, that
the Court shall pass an order granting
and declaring said amendment.
H. M. FLETCHER,
Petitioner’s Attorney.
N
Georgia—Butts County.
I, S. J. Foster, clerk of the Superior
Court of said county, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the petition for amendment of
charter of “The Newton-Carmichael
Hardware Company,” as the same ap
pears on file in this office.
Witness my official signature and
the seal of said Court, this 12th day of
August, 1916.
S. J. FOSTER,
Clerk Superior Court Butts County.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTO R I A
We repair the Most Delicate
Parts of an Automobile
with the same skill as we restore
the heavier portions of the car. Our
reputation does not rest alone on
our ability to put on anew tire in
time, but in our skill in repairing
breaks in any part of the machine.
If you think anything of your auto
you should have us do your re
pairing.
■ Wagner’s Garage.