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BUTTS COUNTY FAIR OCTOBER 9-14 THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS Vol 44-No. 3v AUTOMOBILE TOUR TO BOOST FAIR NEXT FRIDAY AFTERNOON Cars Will Visit Number of Cities In Interest of Butts County Fair Hundred or More Automobiles Wanted in Line to As sist in Distributing Literature And Arousing The Fair Spirit—Will Be Big Advertisement For Ap proaching Fair—October Sixth The Date For the purpose of boosting the Butts County Fair, an auto mobile tour is scheduled for Fri day afternoon, October 6. All cars that can make the trip will meet around the court house square promptly at 1:30. The fair boosters will visit Forsyth, Barnesville, Griffin, Hampton, McDonough, Covington. Monti cello and other towns. Literature will be distributed and everybody invited to come to the fair. This will be a most effective advertising stunt and will arouse the fair spirit to a high pitch. It is hoped to have a hundred or more cars in line. Every auto mobile owner in Butts county is invited to go. With the merchants beginning to decorate their stores the fair spirit is taking a firm grip on the people. Every business house is requested to deeorate for fair week. Every department of the fair is in splendid shaDe. The finish ing touches will be added to the buildings and grounds in a day or two. The lights will be in stalled in a few days and every thing be put in readiness for the big gun on October 10. A splendid collection of exhib its are assured and there will be keen competition for the prize money —which was made just as large as possible under the con ditions. Exhibitors are reminded to have their displays on the grounds by Saturday, Oct. 7 and not la ter than Monday following. All entries positively close Monday, Oct. 9, at 6 p. m. The success of the fair is now absolutely assured and everybody is boosting and working for the biggest fair in the history of Butts county and Middle Georgia. SENATOR REDWINE HAD CONVENTION ON SATURDAY Hon. Charles D. Redwine. of Fayetteville, was norr.iaated as Senator from the twenty-sixth district at the senatorial conven tion held in Griffin Saturday. l ' The new executive committe elected for the ensuing two years as follows: Butts county, J. T. Moore, C. L. Redman.: Fay ette county, W. M. Preston. S. H. Gordon: Spalding county, J. D. Touchstone, J. D. Taylor. Among the delegates from Butts county to the convention were Messrs. J. T. Moore, C. L. Redman, W. E. Foster, A. H. Jbgletree. \V. E. Watkins, A. M. . Watkins. JACKSON, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 29, 1916 BOYS SHOULD GET THEIR CORN READY County Agent Writes to Club Members MUST MEASURE YIELDS Valuable Prizes Will Be Given to Winners —Re- ports Must Be Made of Year’s Work County Agent Rice is now ur ging the boys to prepare their corn for the fair. He calls special attention to the boys regarding the fact that they should have two disinterested persons to assist in measuring the land and yield of their acre of corn. There are always some boys that are more or less discour aged with their acre and wish to drop out. A special plea is made by Mr. Rice for the boys to stick right in to the end. Harvest your corn and make up a report, write a nice story and select ten good ears of corn and bring to the fair. Exhibits must be made in the main fair building Monday, the 9 of October. No exhibits will be accepted after Monday night. The prizes will be many and each boy will have a pretty good chance to win something even though his yield is small. Come on boys and let us boost our county to the top of the poles. We have a dandy new fair buil ding and everything looks good for you. MRS. J. T. WALLER DIES AT HER HOME IN ATLANTA Mrs. J. T. Waller, aged 68, died at her home in Atlanta at nine o’clock Thursday night, Sept. 22. death resulting from goitre. Before marriage Mrs. Waller was a Miss Letson. of Jasper county. She is survived by her husband and a brother, Mr. H. C. Letson, of Jackson, and other relatives. The funeral was held in Atlan ta Saturday and the body was brought to Jackson Sunday after noon and taken to the City Cem etery where a short service was conducted by Rev. Olin King of the Methodist church. IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN THERE? Many People Subscribe For Fair Stock COMMUNITY INVESTMENT Farmers, Merchants, Busi ness And Professional Men All Help in Butts County Fair Movement Have you taken any stock in the Butts County Fair? If not, why not? The fair is a county-wide enterprise. It is being held to help the farming, livestock, club work and educational interests of Buttscounty. It is a work big enough and important enough to appeal to every man and woman in the county. If you have not yet taken stock and want to be enrolled among the public spirited citizens, see some of the officers and subscribe as liberally its you feel atle. lio ’t wait to oe asked, 'ihe officers are all busy mm. The lollowing amounts have been subscribed: J I) Jones ?25 00 J Matt McMichael 25 00 Hugh Mallet 25 00 Li M Crawford ... 25 uo GE Mallet... 25 00 J O Gaston 25 00 8 H Mays 25 00 J H Mills 25 00 C A Towles 25 00 J T Goodman 10 00 A H Ogletree 5 00 8 J Foster 25 00 G E Rice 25 00 A F Taylor 25 00 E E Lawson v 25 00 \V M Crawford 26 00 Lark ley Brothers. 50 00 J H Patrick 2000 TJ Byars 1500 O B Knowles ... 10 00 VV 8 Cook 10 00 VV E Foster 10 00 B F Watkins, Sr 10 00 AM Face 10 00 J H Laud 10 00 J E McMichael 10 00 J T Fletcher 10 00 E A Fincher . 10 oo G W Thornton 10 00 J T Moore 10 00 I'A Nut 10 00 Charles L Maddux 10 00 A J Fleming 10 00 L R Dodson. 10 00 D \V McClendon. 5 00 VV F Lavender 6 00 H.C Letson 5 00 J H Ham 5 00 I' H Benton. 5 00 Joseph 1* Maddox 5 00 H F Gilmore. 10 00 C L Redman 10 00 T O Cawthon 5 00 RW Watkins. 6 00 W W Wilson 5 0U Mrs L D Hingley 15 00 G R Harper... 5 00 W A White 5 00 W H Barnes 5 00 J R Bearden. 5 00 E W O’Neal 5 00 B A Wright 10 00 8 J Smith 5 00 W E Merck... 5 00 J Gelfman 6 00 E 1 Rooks 5 (X) AJ Roberts.. 10 00 Etheridge, Hmith & Cos. 60 00 The Jackson Meicantile Cos 50 00 Slaton Drug Cos 5 00 Newton Hardware Cos 20 00 W E Watkins 5 00 McKibben Ruggy Cos 6 00 Carmichael-MalJet Cos.. 5 > 00 j G McDonald 5 00 J A Deverette 6 00 Ham & Carter Cos 10 00 Ruttrill Brothers 10 00 Jos K I'M wards 5 00 J A Joyner 6 00 I)r J A Jarrell ... 500 MC Wright. 6 00 Carmichael Ruggy Cos . 600 Hlodghill, Crawford &Cos . 600 Metropolitan Cafe... 5 00 Dr R W Maya 25 00 Dempsey Hardware Cos 15 00 Hurt & Manley --- 600 A C Finley 6 00 Scovtlle Brothers 15 00 ])G McMichael.. 5 00 R F Watkins <fc C 0... • 10 00 J A reason 6 lhl W Morris Redman 5 00 Dr JR Hopkins 5 00 j C Jones .... 6 oo Dr .1 E Woods 5 00 Woods-Cannichael 10 oo J C Tolieson 6 00 j,) Hammond - 1000 W C Redman 10 00 , George Spencer... To on | J, L O’Kelley WOO j H (J Clark &00j WTKinard - 10 00 J O Martin 1000 RE Evans 10 00 PROGRESS-ARGUS ADDS A LINOTYPE TO EQUIPMENT New Typesetting Machine Will Be in Operation in Few Weeks Machine Will Place The Paper in Position to Handle More Business And Do Its Work Quicker And Better —Linotype Boost Not Only For Progress- Argus But For Jackson and Butts County Y. M. C. A. HEADS TO HAVE MEETING Convention at Hotel Elder Indian Springs MANY WILL ATTEND MEET Secretaries of State Y. M. C. A. Will Come to In dian Springs For Three Days Session The state convention of the secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. of Georgia will be held at Hotel El der, Indian Springs, Sept. 29-30 and Oct. 1. This convention will bring to Butts county about forty or fifty secretaries of the various Young Mens Christian Association or ganizations scattered through out the state. The program, which has not yet been announ ced, will be of considerable in terest. Several questions of timely interest will be discussed during the three days. The Y. M. C. A. work is an important one and it is a matter of interest that Indian Springs was selected as the meeting place. The visitors will be roy ally entertained by the manager of the New Elder, Mr. S. E. Cor nell. Edgar Hale 5 00 J 1. Fletcher 10 00 W F Stroud ... 10 00 T W Nelson 6 <M> J BChild* 6 00 .1 W Fletcher 5 00 L li Britton 600 W I* Martin 6 00 Warren Furlow 5 00 U P Sasnett. 6 00 R F Welch 600 W I'itts Newton 5 OO a M Watkins 5 00 T u Conner 6 00 I .1 Slaughter •> 00 C T Beauchamp 5 00 8 11 Thornton 10 00 J L Wagner & Son .... 600 Thurston & Harper 10 00 O 1* Jinks 5 00 (i I* Saunders 10 00 vv H Foster. ... 500 J W * tarter ... 5 00 Mrs C A Butrier 5 00 R L Weaver 5 00 J W Cole 6 00 W R Kitchens 5 00 BT McMichael 5 00 J M Collins 6 00 B M Karnes 5 OO J K Gutb rie 5 no S J Wa) ki rn ... 500 Dr H W Copeland 500 (J W Kuehanan __ .. 500 Wade H Hammond... lo oo H M Moore 5 oo Dr Robert Van Deventer boo Smith & Etheridge fx> oo 14*55 00 Jackson Argus Established 1873 t A - 0 Butts County Progress Established 1882 C onsolidated Ji 1> . In keening with its policy to give the people of Butts county a newspaper the equal of any in the state, The Progress-Argus has given an order for a No. 5 Linotype machine. The machine will be shipped from New York within the next few days and will be set up and in operation in about three weeks. The Mergenthaler Linotype is the most wonderful typesetting machine ever invented. It does away with typesetting by hand. The machine will do the work of four or five inen and do it better. Another advantage is that anew face of type is used every week. By installing a Linotype The Progress-Argus will be on the same footing with the largest and best papers in the state. It will be possible to turn out more work and do it quicker. No job large or small will be too difficult to handle once the machine is in operation in this office. The machine is an expensive one for a country newspaper, but The Progress-Argus has faith in Butts county and its resources and wants to be prepared to do its part in the advancement and development of the county, sec tion and state. As soon as the machine is set up and in proper working order an invitation will be extended the citizens to call and see the Lino type in operation. FARMERS SCHOOL WAS ORGANIZED AT UNION RID6E Members Buy Books and Study Late Farming Methods The farmers around Union Ridge have made anew step towards getting the most of real value of the College and U. S. Department of Agriculture ex tension work. Mr. G. E. Rice as their leader and teacher has organized a far mers school at Union Ridge school for the purpose of studying ■ the problems on the farm. This is the first organization of its kind in the state and the idea originated by Mr. Rice, has met with the highest co-operation with the State College of Agri culture, and through this school it will be possible to have a rep resentative from the college at at any time Mr. Rice needs aid. The following books have been ordered: Vivian’s Principles of Soil Fertility and Thor’s Farm Manures. The following men have joined the school: O. E. Smith, E. R. Kaderly, W. A. Dodson, L. R. Dodson. The class meets every Friday night at 7:30. The school is free and any one wishing to take part in this work has a warm welcome.