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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS Vol 44—No. 46 FARMERS 7 lS H N Ham | TO HOLD MEETING National Convention Goes to Palatka, Fla. BUTTS CITIZENS OFFICERS State President J. H. Mills And State Secretary A. J. Fleming Take Leading Part in Convention Butts county citizens will play an important part in the national con vention of the Farmers’ Union, which will be held in Palatka, Fla., Nov. 21-24. Hon. J. H. Mills is state president of the Georgia division and Prof. A. J. Fleming secretary and treasurer. The Georgia division will be head ed by Hon. J. J. Brown, Commission er-elect of Agriculture, and Mr. Mills and Prof. Fleming. Other citi zens from Butts county will attend and Georgia will be represented by thousands of delegates. This annual meeting is one of con siderable importance, as a number of matters will be discussed. Ques tions regarding the betterment of the farmers will be given special at tention, and proposed legislation will be given attention by the meet ing- . Palatka, which is in the center pf the citrus industry, has made elabo rate preparations to entertain the visitors. Features of the entretain ment already planned is a stemboat ride down the St. Johns river to Crescent City where a barbecue will be served, and automobile ride to St. Augustine, the second oldest city in the United States and a show place of unusual interest. For this convention the railroads have granted a rate of one and a half cents per mile for the round trip. The fare from Atlanta will be approximately $12.00. Train No. 6, which leaves Atlanta Nov. 20, will by special arrangement, stop at Jackson and other points, and will carry a large number of delegates and visitors. Officers of the Farmers’ Union are anxious to have a good repre sentation of ladies and a number are planning to attend. Persons who are not affiliated with the order are also invited to attend and participate in the pleasures of the occasion. It is expected that several thousand vis itors will be in attendance. President Mills and Secretary Fleming are now busy completing the final details of the meeting. They will be able to report consid erable growth in the Georgia divis ion, and in fact this is declared to have been one of the best years in the history of the Farmers’ Union. It is probably assured that Char les S. Barrett, of Union City, who has served the Union for so many years, will be re-elected as national president at the Palatka meeting. Secretary Fleming will be glad to furnish complete information con cerning the trip to all interested par ties. WEATHER FORECAST For the Week Beginning Sunday November 12, 1916 Washington, D. C. t November 11, 1916—For the South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Unsettled weath er, with probably rain, will prevail during first part of the week; the latte. - half will be fair. Much colder weather will occur the first half of the week and cold weather will con tinue thereafter, with general frosts except in southern Florida. BOWIE. JACKSON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 17, 1916 ruin nooiiumilON WILL HAVE MEETING FRIDAY There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Butts County Fair Association in the court house in Jackson Friday moitning, Nov. 17, at 10 o’clock. Business of im portance will be considered and a full attendance is urged. Officers will be elected for the ensuing year and plans for the 1917 fair discuss ed. Come out and show your inter est in the fair and help lay plans for the 1917 fair. J. MATT McMICHAEL, Pres. G. E. RICE, Secy. COUNTY BOOKS BEING AUDITED WORK BEGAN MONDAY Expert -Accountants Are in Charge Mr. J. O. Gaston, Commissioner of Roads and Revenues, has arrang ed w T ith Alonzo Richardson & Cos., of Atlanta, for an audit of the public records of Butts county. The work was started this week and will be completed as early as possible, prob ably about the first of the year. The work will be done by one principal accountant and one assist accountant. The books of the Treasurer, Tax Collector and County Commissioner will be audited first. There has been a demand for this audit for some time and the fact that the public records are to be audited by one of the best known public accountants in the South will probably meet with general ap proval. CANNING CLUB HAD HIGH SCORE Captured Prizes at Macon And Atlanta Fairs MEMBERS MAKE RECORDS High Average Made at The Two Big Georgia Fairs —Mrs. Butner And Girls Deserve Praise The Butts County Canning Club made a fine showing at the Atlanta and Macon fairs, prize winners hav ing just been announced. At the Southeastern Fair in the county exhibits Butts was awarded second prize of $45; first prize in the county fresh vegeable contest, the premium being sls; while in the individual pepper contest Lois Con ner was awarded second prize of SB. At the State Fair Butts county won first prize of sls in the fresh vegetable contest; and Lois Conner won second prize of $8 in the spec ial pepper contest. This i3 a fine showing for the members of tse Butts county Can ning Club, and reflects credit upon Mrs. C. A. Butner, the energetic and efficient agent, as well as upon the individual members. Mrs. But ner is doing a great work in this line, and has succeeded in arousing inter est not only among the club mem bers but among the people of the en tire county. This has been one of the best years in the history of the work. The winnings of the girls at the local fair and at the fairs in Atlan ta and Macon represent a substan tial sum. JACKSON RIFLES ENJOYING CAMP In Comfortable Quarters at El Paso CAMPED NEAR BORDER Break Monotony With A i Rabbit Hunt-Interesting Experiences Enroute to The Texas City Camp Cotton, El Paso, Texas. November 7th, 1916. Editor Progress-Argus: Thinking you might care to pub lish for the readers of The Progress , Argus some straight dope about the 1 Georgia brigade, I am writing adout the trip from Macon to El Paso, the nature of the camp here and some of the other features of the border service that I think will be interest- mg. The second regiment, of which Company A is a unit, moved from Macon by way of Columbus, Ga., Montgomery and Mobile, Ala., New Orleans., Houston, San Antonio and Del Rio, Texas. We arrive! in New Orleans about dark of the second day of our trip. Her we left the train and marched over the city giving us chance to ex ercise and to get out in the fresh air for a while. We entrained again after crossing the Mississippi on one of the gigantic ferry boats, an exper ience we all looked forward to with a great deal of interest. The next stop was made at Del Rio, Texas. This place also held a double inter est for us on account of the fact that it was the first designated point for the Georgia Brigade. Here we participated in a parade with a reg iment of Alabama troops, a squad ron of cavalry from the regular army and a machine gun company also of the regular army. It was a very noticeable fact that as the Georgia boys marched through the streets of this beautiful little city headed by the Second Regiment Band playing our famous marching song “The Old Gray Bonnet,” with every man in ranks stepping as one, the citizens cheered us again and again and again while the regulars and Alabama troops were hardly no ticed. We were delayed at this point for about 36 hours on account of a bridge burning ahead of us. The cause of the fire was said to have been the Mexican bandits, better known to us as “Greasers.” This the ory was very probable as the rail road, at this point, ran right along the border; so near to it, in fact, that we could see the patrols en camped along the side of the track and could see the sentrys as they paced their posts. When we arrived at the place where the bridge had been burnt, we found that the damage had not been entirely repaired and were de layed about four hours longer. The trains stopped right out on an open plain. For miles on both sides of the track you could see nothing but cac tus and small bushes. Here we in dulged in the first real sport of the trip. The boys scattered all over the plain and enjoyed one of the biggest rabbit hunts I ever witnessed. I sup pose there were something like fif teen hundred soldiers scattered all over the plain hunting rabbits. When ever a rabbit was jumped, he had what we call a “bad day” for there was no chance of escape. We caught or killed something like a hundred in a very short time. Some of the boys searched for other kind of western specimen and brought in snakes, lizards and many other kind of desert inhabitants. The trip from Del Rio to El Paso was uneventful from there on. We were very fortunate in arriv ing in El Paso at night, so we got an early Etart at setting up camp. We (Continued on next to last page) CITY REGISTRATION ROOKS NOW OPEN FOR PRIMARY At a meeting of Council Mon day night it was decided to open the books for registration of voters in the approaching municipal primary, Tuesday, Nov. 14. The books will remain open through December 11. Interested parties will find the books open in the office of Clerk and Treasurer, J. A. McMichael. The normal registration of the city is about 350, the total regis tration depending upon the inter est in the primary. THE BOLL WEEVIL AROUSES CITIZENS DUBLIN DISTRICT INVADED Meeting Held to Discuss The Situation The fact that the boll weevil has appeared in Dublin district in such lorge numbers has awakened inter est throughout that section and the entire county. The weevils are said to be pretty well over Dublin dis trict. Agricultural Agent Rice spent Monday in that district looking over the situation, and while there col lected a bottle full of the weevils. At night a meeting was held and the' boll weevil problem was discussed in an interesting way by Mr. Rice, who gave the cotton growers pres ent the advantage of the latest gov ernment bulletins regarding the con trol of the pest. The meeting was largely attended and a keen degree of interest was manifested. That the boll weevil has invaded Butts county there can no longer be any question. The pest will have to be contended with in a serious way next season and farmers had as well shape their crops with that idea in view. MR. WATKINS WINS FAIR PRIZES Scored Several Points at State Fair HAD SPLENDID EXHIBIT First Prize on Yield Corn, Second Prize on Home Cured Meats And Thir teenth County Exhibit His friends throughout the county and the public generally will be in terested to learn that Mr. B. F. Watkins came out so well at the State Fair. He won first prize of $75 for the largest yield of corn, second prize of sls for the second best dis play of home cured meats and thir teenth prize of SIOO, in the county agricultural displays. Mr. Watkins was Butts county’s sole exhibitor, except the canning club girls and the com club boys, at the State Fair. He deserves credit for the interest he has taken in ex hibiting the county’s agricultural resources, and he is being congrat ulated upon his excellent showing. His display was one of the best at the fair, and was widely commended. Mr. Watkins al3o won a prize of S4O at the Southeastern Fair in At lanta, bringing his total winnings of the year to about $230. Than Mr. Watkins there is no bet ter farmer in Butts county. He has displayed keen interest in scientific ' farming for several years, and has Jackson Argus Established J 873 j Butts County Progress Established IRHi MAY BUILD FEED MILL IN JACKSON Matter Being Considered By Mr. McKibben PROVIDE A CASH MARKET Proposed Mill Will Be of Latest Type And Have Large Capacity—To An nounce Decision Soon Congo „ dated i u i y 9.1915 Mr. J. H. McKibben, one of Jack son’s successful farmers and busi ness men has under consideration the erection of a feed mill in this city. If he decides to erect the milt he will probably build a mill that will have a capacity of about four tons an hour. Mr. McKibben has been investi gating the question for some time, and recently made a trip to Chipley to study feed mills and the boll wee vils situation. The mill would pro vide a cash market for every bit of the hay, sorghum, alfalfa, wheat and oats, and such crops,that could he produced in Butts county. The erection of a mill in Jackson would no doubt be a good thing for the farmers of the county, not only pro viding a cash market for food crops but affording the farmers an oppor tunity to grow crops that the boll weevil can’t destroy. If it is decided to build, the mill will probably be erected near the de pot to be in easy reach of the rail road. The mill, such as Mr. McKib ben has in mind, will represent a considerable investment. He will sell in wholesale quantities and the in stitution will add considerably to the payrolls of the town. These feed mills, it is understood, are paying propositions in other cit ies and the building of a mill in Jackson will be a progressive step and one that should he liberally en couraged. YOUNG MAN KILLED Out Riding When Pistol Wa* Discharged News was received here the first of the week that Mr. Ned Giles, son of Mr. Charlie Giles, of Jasper coun ty, was killed Saturday night when his pistol was accidently discharged. Mr. Giles, it seems, was out riding with some young ladies and took his pistol out and fired two shots. As he dropped the gun in his overcoat pocket it was discharged, striking him in the stomach and inflicting a wound from which he died in a short time. The family of the unfortunate young man is well known in Butts county. BUTTS GINS 9,129 BALES TTm i Below Yield Some Date in 1915 The report of the bureau of the census shows that Butts county had ginned prior to Nov. 1, 9,129 boles of cotton. This is compared with 8,745 bales the same date last year, an increase for 1916 of 384 bales. long been an advocate of raising everything to eat at home. He has the fair spirit, and believes in exhib iting what Butts county farmers con do. His yield on corn this year was 164 bushels—the largest in Georgia. This same acre of bottom land won the championship of the United States last year for Ellsworth Wat kins, whose yield was 166 bushels. Mrs. Otis Ham spent Saturday and Sunday in Atlanta where she was called on account of the illness of her young son, Marshall, who is spending some time with his grand father, Mr. M. M. Welch.