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Jackson Progress - Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JON EH, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter at the post oftice at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. NOTICE Cords of thanks will he charged at the rate of fifty cents, minimum for -it) words and less; above 50 words will be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Obituaries will Im> charged for at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac company copy in all instances. Plant plenty of wheat. There is common sense in that. The frost is on the pumpkin and the possum’s up a tree. Glo ry be! Don’t wait to be asked but send in your dollar to the Wilson campaign fund. Sixteen to 1 will soon have a new significance—l 6 cotton seed will soon buy 1 flivver. Why not some feed mills for Butts county? Let’s be ready before the boll weevil comes. The farmers ought to make 1917 the greatest hog and hominy year in the history of Georgia. When a party of Savannah capitalists bought a Macon bank for a cool million, that is what we call high finance. Cotton going: up, paper going up, flour going up, meat going up, coal going up—advice is the only cheap thing left. Now is the time to push the 1917 session of the Butts county fair. By starting early the fair can be made a humdinger. Packing plants are being put up at a number of points over the state. This is the kind of boll weevil prepardeness we like to see. About 165,000 persons paid to see the Southeastern fair in At lanta. That is just a little better than the attendance at the Butts county fair, but we’re on the way. The official ballot for the gen enral election. November 7. is a long one. Five constitutional amendments are to be voted on. Georgia should compliment the nominees with a good vote. The Jackson Progress-Argus hasn’t got an editor. We judge as much by the fact that it didn’t have an editorial page last week. —Swainsboro Forest-Blade. For the same reason would you say the supply of the grand old buttermilk was exhausted be cause the cow kicked over the pail? The editor was engaged in the agonizingly pleasant, excru ciatingly delectable work of try ing to run a county fair, and af ter putting in about 18 hours a day thusly he didn’t have the nerve to write a single editorial Are we excused? The Jackson R’fles, “Butts County’s Own,” are off to the border. The sincere good wishes of the citizens of the community go with the soldier boys. Here’s hoping they’ll be home for Christ mas. We don’t know anything about “The Days of Forty-Nine,” but we propose to get wise at the Griffin fair next week.—Griffin News and Sun. The “49” show is a great in stitution, friend Duke. It cures the blues and makes old men hop and skip like sixteen-year-olds. In refusing to see newspaper men. Governor Harris made a big mistake. The chief of police in Savannah barred the staff of the Savannah Morning News from police headquarters once upon a time, and the consequence was the Morning News had more police court news than ever be fore in its history. The news paper boys have a way of getting news and the more opposition thrown in their wav, the harder they work. Besides, the news papers of the state have been good to Uncle Nat. Here’s a special invitation to Editors Bloodworth, Simmons, Doyle Jones, Camp, Shope and Johnny Jones to visit the Griffin next work and take in the Griffin fair. Woods Hammond, presi dent of the fair association, and mayor-elect of Griffin, has prom ised to help us entertain the news paper boys. Enough said! — Griffin News and Sun. We appreciate your invitation, and will be with you in spirit, at least. A good number of Butts county went over to Griffin for the fair this week. Griffin can always be depended on to stage a successful year. JUDGE OF EXHIBITS AT MONROE COUNTY FAIR Agricultural Agent G. E. Rice went over to the Monroe County Fair in Forsyth Thursday to act as judge of the exhibits. He judged the entire exhibits, live stock, club work and agricultural department. The Monroe county fair is one of the best in this sec tion and the displays this year were said to be of a high quality. Mr. Rice will go to Macon Fri day to attend a meeting of dem onstration agents at which time the proposed farm loan banks will be discussed. Women’s Woes Jackson Women Are Find ing Relief at Last It doesseein that women have more than a fair share of the aches and pains that afflict humanity; they must ••keep up,” must attend to duties in spite of constantly achi n g backs, or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. They must walk and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Keeping tile kidneys well lias spared thousands of Women much m sery. Head of a remedy for kidne. s only that is endorsed by people you kn nv. Mrs. W.T. Burk, Oak St., Jackson, says: “Mv kidneys had always been weak and my back ached. I was sore and lame and the least move sent pains all through my body. My sight ne came blurred and little, black objects floated before my eyes. 1 could hard ly stand at times on account of dizzi ness. The kidney secretions were un natural. lk>an’s Kidnev Pills cured me of all signs of kidney trouble and I have had no return of it.” Price 50, at all dealers. Don't sim £l,’ ask for a kidney remedy—get > .an’s Kidney Pills—the same that cured Mrs. Burk. Fosier-Milburn Cos., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. adv Cyou know —a MILD lat satisfies!” Chesterfields have done “the impossible”— they satisfy and yet they are not strong. They are MILD I Chesterfields do for your smoking what bacon and eggs do for your breakfast—they satisfy. And yet Chesterfields are MILD —that’s the point. No 'other cigarette can give you this new enjoy ment (satisfy yet mild) because no cigarette maker can ccp' ' the Chesterfield blend* This blend is an entirely new combination of C obacccn and is undoubtedly the most important new thing in cigarette making in 20 years, Gr. t: Give n:s a package of those cigarettes that SATISFY ** fQhMterftoM "CIGAIUS TTES FINCHERVILLE Mr. J. T. Goodman, of Jack son. was a visitor here Monday. Mr. Ira Fincher spent Satur day night and Sunday at the dam with his sister, Mrs. B. H. Hod ges. Miss Annie J. Fincher, with Misses Mattilu and Lillibell Green, of Ellison, spent the week end in Covington with relatives. Miss Frances Barnes, of Jack son, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. 0. Maddox. Misses Corinne and Cebelle and Mr. Carl Horton spent Saturday evening with Misses Ada and Myrtice Buckalew. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Swords, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Elliott and daughter, Miss Sadie, of Atlanta, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Horton. Mrs. J. T. Fincher’s many friends regret to learn that she has been on the sick list for the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Godw - j| -and yet they're j At lld m It, . . spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. Pulliam near Woodstown. Mrs. I. M. Wilson and Mrs. A. U. Maddox were visitors to Jack son Friday. Fincherville was well repre sented at the Southeastern fair MOTE WATTS UNDERTAKER LICENSED EMBALMER Phones Day 61 Night 149 10 for 5c Also packed 20 for 10c in Atlanta last week. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mitch ell spent the week-end with Mrs. Dollie Reeves near Jenkinsburg. Plies Cured in 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to 14days. The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c.