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A Proclamation
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GEORGIA:
By N. E. Harris Governor of
said State.
Whereas, Official information
has been received at this Depart
ment that on the 10th day of Oc
tober, 1899. in the county of Butts,
one Owen Jefferson shot and
killed George Thompson and es
caped and is now fugitive from
justice.
I have thought proper, there
fore, to issue this my Proclama
tion, hereby offering a reward of
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars
for the apprehension and deliv
ery of said Owen Jefferson with
evidence sufficient to convict, to
the Sheriff of Butts countv and
State. This being renewal of re
ward offered Nov. 7. 1899, same
being requested by the Ordinary
and Sheriff of Butts county.
And I do, moreover, charge
and require all officers in this
State, Civil and Military, to be
vigilant in endeavoring to appre
hend the said Owen Jefferson in
order that he may be brought to
trial for the offense with which
he stands charged.
Given under my hand and seal
of the State, this the 15th day of
September, 1916.
N. E. HARRIS,
Governor.
By the Governor.
PHILIP COOK,
Secretary of State.
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CITY TAX RITE IS 12 1-2
MILLS FOR CURRENT YEAR
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Council of the City of Jackson, Ga.,
and it is hereby ordained by said au
thority that the following taxes be lev
ied and collected on the real and per
sonal property in the City of Jackson,
Ga., for the year 1916, to-wit:
For support of the public
schools 5£ mills
For a sinking fund and
interest on bonds mills
For support and mainte
nance of the city gov
ernment 2] mills
Making in the aggregate twelve and
one half mills, or one dollar and twen
ty-five cents on the hundred dollars.
This Sept. 14, 1916.
J. T. MOORE, Mayor,
J. A. McMICHAEL, Clerk.
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FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTO R I A
BAPTISTS RALLY
TO STATE WORK
Big Meeting—Millions For Missions —Mobilized For An
other Victory—Great Day September 24th.
Spencer B. King.
Georgia Baptists are a mighty host.
There are over 300,000 of them in
Georgia. They are militant Christians
and their records are rich with the
stories of good deeds and great gifts
for the salvation and betterment of
the people of our State.
Big Meetings Now On
The annual meetings of the District
Associations are perhaps the most in
teresting meetings of the year with
Georgia Baptists. To these Associa
tions the churches of each district
send messengers with reports of the
year’s work and to these meetings
come the representatives of the many
Baptist interests, missionary, educa
tional and eleemosynary, preachers
and speakers of renown and ability,
who add much to the interest of the
occasion.
The people come from all the coun
try round about, in wagons, buggies,
automobiles and Fords. Solemn mes
sengers bearing with dignity their
commissions from their churches ;
eager, bright-eyed men and women,
who anticipate the annual pleasure
of meeting their kinsfolk and friends,
for these Associations are great so
cial as well as religious occasions,
and not a few boys and girls “a’court
ing bent,” for the destiny of many a
Baptist couple has dated from the
meeting of the Baptist Association.
Georgia’s Debt To Baptists.
The State of Georgia owes the Bap
tist people a great debt because of
their consistent championship of the
elemental principles of democracy
and religious liberty. They are the
original Democrats, spiritual Demo
crats, and they have ever stood unwa
veringly for religious liberty, the in
tegrity of the individual, the freedom
of the soul, the sovereignty of God,
the separation of Church and State,
and the education and uplift of our
people. In the early days Baptist
men and women suffered soi’e per
secution and some of them even laid
down their lives in defense of the
fundamental principles and privileges
of humanity.
They have contributed millions in
men and money to the religious prog
ress of Georgia by their aggressive
missionary propaganda. In the pio
neer days the itinerant Baptist
preacher with his horse, his saddle
bags and his Bible pushed his way in
to every nook and corner of this great
State, proclaiming his message of
salvation and righteousness. In the
last fifty years since the Baptists
have been more definitely organized,
they have maintained missionaries,
evangelists and teachers, who have
preached and taught, built church
houses in needy sections where the
cause was weak, planted and developed
churches and advanced every good
cause that would bring men to a
knowledge of God and establish right
eousness within the State. This is
what they term “State Missions” and
during the months of Sept, and Qct..
the Baptist churches of Georgia are
called on to make devoted and gener
ous contributions to State Missions.
A worthy investment where religion
and patriotism join hands.
Our State is also much indebted to
the Baptists for great educational ad
vantages. These people have always
stood for an open book and an un
fettered mind. Their educational prop
erty today is worth more than two
million dollars. Belonging immedi
ately to the Baptist organization are
Mercer University at Macon, Bessie
Tift College for women at Forsyth,
eight secondary or high schools, and
the Mary P. Willingham training
school for mountain girls at Blue
Ridge. In addition to these there
are a number of mountain schools
supported by their Home Mission
Board and a number of other strong
independent Baptist institutions, such
as Shorter College at Rome, Cox Col
lege at College Park and the La-
Grange Female College at LaGrange.
In benevolent work these Baptists
are not lagging. They support more
than 250 orphans in a home at Hape
ville and have an efficient Hospital in
Atlanta.
A Good Man Gone
In their various meetings Georgia
Baptists will sadly miss the familiar
form and voice of Dr. H. R. Ber
nard, who passed away on August
12th. For nearly half a century he
had been active in the work of t>is
great denomination, having participat
ed in many of their most effective ad
vance movements.
He was a man of varied talents and
experience—a teacher, a merchant,
a railroad manager, a preacher and
an editor, but the crown of his life
work was the service he rendered as
an official of his denomination. He
was recognized by Baptists as an au
thority on law and order and efficien
cy in denominational affairs and he
was the o.rlginator of the “Schedula”
missionary. Their fundamental task
is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ
and to save the lost. They have stood
like granite against everything that
smacked of ecclesiasticism or religious
hierarchy. Their leaders have ever
been earnest, self-sacrificing, independ
ent preachers who have gone every
where preaching the Word.
Last year all the Baptists of the
South gave >2,019,821.00 for all mis
sions—-the greatest record they have
ever made in their history. They re
cently raised nearly >200,000.00 to pay
their Foreign Mission debt. Georgia
Baptists had a large and noble part
in the record-breaking record, and this
year they have set themselves the task
of raising >300,000.00 for education, be
nevolence and missions.
State Missions is the immediate
task and interest of Georgia Baptists.
State Missions is Baptist mission
work in Georgia, and Sept, and Oct.
are the harvesting or rallying months
in which this great people make large
offerings to this worthy cause. Their
slogan, "Redeem Georgia,” has been
sounded from Rabun Gap to Tybee
Light and the mighty host of these fh
dependent, Bible-loving, God-fearing
folk is being moved by tin*, clarion call
of this great cry to rally as never be
fore to the support of their mission
work in Georgia.
The double appeal of Christian duty
and State patriotism is kindling the
fires of their zeal and leading th<m to
give support to the great task of meet
ing the religious and moral needs of
dear old Georgia. No Baptist church
gan turn a deaf ear to this appeal and
be worthy of its name. The pressure
of other interests has caused this work
to be somewhat neglected in recent
years. But these Baptists are the kind
that “come back” and from all reports
they are now determined to again give
their Georgia work first place, not for
any selfish reason, but because they
realize that it is primary and funda
mental to the success of every other
worthy interest.
Rallying To A New Leader.
Last year Georgia Baptists made a
change in missionary leadership when
they elected Dr. Arch C. Cree as Cor.
Sec. & Treas. of their Mission Board.
This was no experiment. He was
neither unknown nor untried, for, pre
vious to accepting this office, he had
been pastor of some of the leading
churches of the South and the Enlist
ment Secretary of the Home Mission
Board.
Dr. Alex. Bealer in writing last
year of Dr. Cree said, “In all of these
places he has demonstrated his abil
ity to handle big movements and to
lead men in doing great things for
God, . . . Without doubt the greatest
task that has ever confronted Dr. Cree
is the one in which he is now en
gaged. . . . He has already demon
strated that he is the man for the
place. Asa young man he had splen
did business training. . . . The clar
ion call of the Board under the new
leader is ‘Redeem Georgia,’ and with
this end in view Dr. Cree has begun
his work and pitched his program for
victory.”
Many problems and handicaps con
fronted the new Secretary when he
was called to this work. But Imme
diately upon entering the work he ef
fected readjustments and economies
in administration that helped re
duce the expenditures of last year
about $10,000.00, as compared with the
year before; and he is instituting fur
ther economies that will add to effi
ciency and in time save thousands
more. Asa result of his businesslike
policies Georgia Baptists have great
confidence in his administration.
Dr. Cree is a man of untiring energy
and executive ability. The late Dr.
Bernard said of him that “he could
ride three different trains going in
four different directions at the same
time. He can do three men’s work any
old day; but, even then, he has to go
home and turn somersaults to get tired
enough to sleep.”
Mobilized For Victory
Since his election, in addition to the
heavy executive work of his office, Dr.
Cree has traveled over 40,000 miles and
delivered over 300 addresses. He Is
now busy going the rounds of the As
sociational meetings and is rallying his
Baptist people and mobilizing the forces
for another victory in the great tasks
of Georgia Baptists. Growing out of
the plans and program which he has
yr&jected, the leading pastors and lay
men of many of the Associations have
been organized into teams of two or
more to visit the Baptist churches of
the State, to duplicate the message
and mission of their leader and to ral
ly the great Georgia Baptist host for
another triumph in the State work this
Fall. The devoted Baptist women
through their Mission Societies are
also rallying to the State Mission task.
Forty thousand dollars must be raised
for State Missions in Sept, and Oct.
Nearly this much was raised last Sept,
and Oct. So victory Is confidently
NO. 9186 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Jackson National Bank
At Jackson, in the State of Georgia, At the Close of Business Sept. 12, 1916
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts (except those shewn on b) f 1 <7,0211 0<
Trade acceptances 66,000 00
Total... 242,023 07
Notes and bills rediscounted 98,663 84— 143,359 2.5
Overdrafts, secured, $ unsecured, I 351.97 - ----- "j” 07
U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) >75,000 00 7,>,000 00
Commercial paperdep. to secure circulation (book value)
Premium on bonds for circulation
Stock of Federal Reserve bank (50 per cent of subscription) <OO OO
Banking house.. - 9,806 30—
Furniture and fixtures 6,400 0O
Net amount due from Federal Reserve bank 16,033 <4
Due from approved reserve agents in New York,
Chicago and St. Louis f 1,799 74
Due from approved reserve agents in other re
seve cities - 3,551 27 5,351 01
Due from banks and bankers (other than above).. 6,907 13
Checks on banks in the same city or town as reporting bank
Outside checks and other cash items 432 91
Fractional currency, nickels and cents 157 92 530 83
Notes of other national banks. - b-lO 00
Federal reserve notes
Lawful money reserve in bank:
Total coin and certificates -
Legal-tender notes 1,606 00
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer, (not more than
5 per cent on circulation) 3,(50 00
Customers’ liability -
Other assets, u -
Total - - - >278,003 23
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in - *
Surplus fund iViTCT/TX""" ir> ’ 00
Undivided profits. - -- * ■? , 22n 2?
Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid 1,85 3 34 *
Circulating notes - _ J™
Dividends unpaid
Demand deposits:
Individual deposits subject to check ‘m,’’
Certificate of deposit due in less than 30 days— ***sJ oo
Postal savings deposits -
Total demand deposits
Time deposits- ...
Certificates of deposit due on or after 80 days *- 4
Rediscounts with Federal Reserve banks
Notes and bills rediscounted --
Bills payable, including obligations representing money borrowed
T0ta1.... $278,008 23
Liabilities for rediscounts, including those with Federal reserve Bank 98,663 84
Htate of Georgia—County of Butts:
I, R. P. Hasnett, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
I swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
R. P. HASNETT, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20tl) day of Sept. 1916.
S. J. FOSTER, Clk H. C.
Correct—Attest: A. H. Smith, 11. L. Daughtry, E. L. Smith, Directors.
by which the Baptist churches make
their offerings to all causes today.
For nine years he had been auditor
of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.
Asa Christian his sympathies were
as bread as the multitude of God's
children. Asa Baptist he was un
swervingly true to the principles of
his faith. Many had differed with
him in his day, hut none had ever
questioned his goodness. His was a
white soul. His last message was,
"The Lord reigns. Be faithful. Tt
la worth while.”
Millions For Missions
The Baptist people are essentially
A Bad Summer For Children
There has been an unusual amount
of sickness among children this sum
mer. Extra precautions should be
taken to keep the bowels open and liv
er active. Foley Cathartic Tablets
are a fine and wnoiesome physic; cause
no pain, nausea or griping. Relieve
indigestion, siok headache, biliousness,
sour stomach, bad breath.—The Owl
Pharmacy, adv.
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looked lor.
A Great Day: Sept. 24th.
Sunday, Sept. 24th, will he a red-let
ter day in the annals of the Baptists of
Georgia. It is State Mission Day in the
Sunday Schools and also State-Wide,
Go-To-Sunday-School Day for Georgia
Baptists. The aim set for the day is
a quarter of a million pupils in attend
ance upon the Sunday Schools and a
total contribution by the schools of
$15,000.00 for State Missions. AM of the
Baptist people of Georgia and their
many friends, who are not members of
other Sunday Schools, are cordially In
vited and urged to attend the Baptist
Sunday Schools on that day. Remem*
her the date. Be sure to attend.
Wanted to Buy Farm
I have a client who wishes to
buy a farm of about 100 acres in
Butts county. Will pay cash.
J. W. Moore,
Peters Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.