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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONEH, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter at the
post office at Jackson, Ga.
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Telephone No. 166.
Official Orpan Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
NOTICE
; Cards of thanks will lie charged at
the rate of fifty c nts, minimum for 50
worths and less; above 50 words will
he charged at the rate of 1 cent a word.
Obituaries will be charged for at the
rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac
company copy in all instances.
Did you shop early?
Did you shop with home mer
chants?
Judge 0. H. B. Bloodworth sounds
well enough.
After the Christmas shopping
comes the bills .
Indications point to a nogless,
jagless Christmas.
Merry Christmas and Hnppy New
Year to everybody.
The election's out of the way and
there is a clear road to Christmas.
Greeting to the new city fathers
- Santa Claus’ gift to the voters of
Jackson.
The boll weevil that can stand
this sort of weather is no sort of
gentleman.
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The Savannah Press is raising a
Christmas fund for the poor. That’s
fine business.
Play Santa Claus to some poor or
unfortunate family and increase
your Christmas happiness.
The eighth district is not lacking
in favorite sons who would succeed
the late Congressman Tribble.
If peace in Europe will bring
dow-n the price of paper, then we’re
for peace first, last and all the time.
Butts county remembered the
Jackson Rifles with a large, luscious
Christmas box. Bet the soldiers wish
they were at home, but the next best
thing to being at home is to be re
membered with a fine Christmas
box.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Beginning January 1, 1917, The
Progress-Argus will not be sent to
anybody on credit. The paper will
be strictly cash in advance.
We are forced to pay cash for pa
i per, inks, printing materials, rent
and poyrolls and cannot afford to
send the paper on a promise to pay
“in the fall.”
Our paper bill alone will cost
three times more in 1917 than it did
a year ago. The newspapers of the
country are facing the most serious
situation they have ever faced in
their history.
A large number of country week
lies have advanced their subscrip
tion price to $1.50 per year. The
Progress-Argus has kept its sub
scription at the same old price.
Daily Newspapers everywhere have
advanced their subscription price.
Under present conditions we can
not afford to pay cash for all our
materials and send the paper on a
credit. It takes economy of the most
rigid sort to get along at all.
We’d hate to lose a single sub
scriber. If our subscribers will co
operate with us they can make our
burden lighter, and we will be en
abled to give them a better paper.
If you want to receive the paper
during the next year see that your
subscription is paid. Look at the la
bel on your paper. Unless subscrib
ers renew their paper will be discon
tinued upon date of expiration.
If you are already paid in advance
this notice does not apply to you.
If you are in arrears—and you
can tell by looking at the label—
thia meant you.
Forsyth is to have a Ham Show.
Why not a Sausage Show for Jack
son? We’d like to be the official
taster.
The Metter Advertiser, The Spar
ta Ishmalite and The Telfair Enter
prise all issued splendid Christmas
editions.
Old Santa Claus is liable to be
afflicted with frost bite if he peram
bulates around much this sort of
weather.
Be as particular in covering your
hor: e as you are your automobile
and the poor dumb animals will not
suffer so much this cold weather.
Stocks weren’t the only things
that broke in Wall Street Saturday.
Some speculators also experienced
the feeling, says the Macon News.
According to the Atlanta Journal,
the Fifth regiment, from Atlanta, is
now conceded to be the best on the
border. That body has evidently im
proved a whole lot since it left Ma
con.—Macon News.
Of course the Second regiment is
the best, and the Jackson boys are
on top.
TOO MUCH POLITICS
The Progress-Argus is convinced
that Jackson, as well as a number of
other small towns, has too much
politics.
Once a year the town is tom and
rent asunder by a heated political
campaign, and unfortunately, in
many instances, the wounds do not
heal before another campaign is on.
So far as we have ever been able
to ascertain the campaign does not
involve issues and principles, but
personalities. Too much personal
feeling is allowed to be injected into
the contests for the good of the
town.
Jackson ought to get out of this
rut. Bitter, factional political fights
do not help the town. Just when
everybody ought to be pulling to
gether, working together for a big
ger, better town, factional politics
is allowed to set the community
backward.
Every man ought to set his shoul
der to the wheel and push the old
tow-n along. There are things more
worth striving for than factional
politics.
Small towns, especially, should
stand together and work together.
Better schools, better churches,
paved streets, civic improvements, a
progressive municipal spirit—these
things are worth all the political
contests.
Let’s get together and stand to
gether and pull together!
800 PAPERS ARE FORCED TO
SUSPEND
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 11
—Assertion that 800 country
newspapers had suspended pub
lication in tjie United States
since the price of news print
paper began advancing after
the beginning of the European
war was made today before the
California Press Association by
C. L. Day, a publisher of San
Luis Obispo, Cal.
The above dispatch shows to
what extent the advance in the price
of news print paper has affected the
small papers of the country.-
The Federal Trade Commission is
“investigating” the increase in the
price of paper. No relief is yet in
sight, however.
It has been brought out that the
large publishers are paying from
2.15 to 3.19-cents per pound for
their news print, while the small
papers are paying from 6.50 to 7
cents per pound.
Why this discrimination! against
the small publishers? It is true the
large papers buy in larger quanti
ties, but it seems there ought not to
be su'-.h a difference.
A few more straws will break the
camel’s back. The small papers can
not stand many more advances in
the price of news prtnt, inks, and
everything that goes into the making
of a newspaper.
Asa matter of common sense
newspapers are forced to get more
for their advertising and put their
subscription on a cash basis or quit.
LOST OR STOLEN
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Like getting back home
they satisfy !
Thanksgiving with the old folks at home —it does
satisfy 1 For your smoking, Chesterfields do the
same thing —they satisfy !
But Chesterfields arc MILD, too —that’s the
wonder of it.
Don’t expect this new cigarette enjoyment {satisfy,
yet mild) from any cigarette but Chesterfields, be
cause no cigarette maker can copy the Chesterfield
blend —an entirely new combination of tobaccos and
the biggest discovery in cigarette making in 20 years.
c (Sr,
“Give me a package of those cigarettes that SATISFY. ”
CIGARETTES
THIS MEANS YOU
(From The Way)
Tuberculosis kills 160,000 persons
each year in the United States—one
every three and one-quarter min
utes.
It kills one-tenth to one-seventh
of all our people.
It kills one-third of all who die
between the ages of 18 and 45.
It costs in dollars and cents $500,-
000,000 a year in loss of life and
labor to the United States.
Not less than 1,000,000 people, it
is estimated, in the United States
are now suffering from it.
More men die of tuberculosis than
women, 63 per cent of all tuburcu
losis deaths in New York city being
males.
The death rate for negroes in the
United States is more than three to
one than of the rate for whites (450
a* against 148 per 100,000 popula
tion in 1910).
Tuberculosis seems to be decreas
ing in those cities where active anti
tuberculosis campaigns are being
waged.
Death rate from tuberculosis in
the registration are a of the United
ha* declined from 200.7 per 100,000
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population in 1904 to 146.8 in 1914.
(Latest available figures.)
After reading this, go purchase
some Red Cross Christmas seals. It
is an obligation you cannot afford
to neglect.
Don’t Have Catarrh
One'efficient way to remove v
nasal catarrh is to treat its cause
which in most cases is physical
weakness. The system needs
more oil and easily digested
liauid-food, and you should
take a spoonful of
scorn
EMULSION
after each meal to enrich your
blood and help heal the sensi
tive membranes with its pure
oil-food properties.
The results of this Scott'*
Emulsion treatment will
surprise those who have used
irritating snuffs and vapors.
Get the Genuine SCOTT’S
10 for Sc
Also packed 20 for 1 Oc
COODY
Miss Jewell Mae Aiken, of Worth
ville, spent the week-end with rela
tives near Towaliga.
Mrs. Clara Brooks spent Sunday
with Mrs. J. T. Goddard.
Misses Annie Lillian and Eva Mae
Washington and Miss Annie Mae
Thaxton were the guests Saturday
of Mrs. J. T. Goddard.
Misses Sallie Mae Brooks, Julia
Hodges, Clifford Ridgeway and Nel
lie Thaxton spent Sunday with
Misses Lizzie and Alice Hale.
Misses Ora Mae Brooks and Annie
Mae Thaxton spent Sunday with
Miss Hattie Lee Cooper. \
Mrs. Mattie Johnson, of Fincher
ville, and son, Hubert, of Worth
ville, were the guests of Mrs. Sallie
Washington and other relatives
near Towaliga Monday and Tues
day.
Miss Lizzie Hale complimented
the young people with a singing
Sunday afternoon.
Misses Clifford Ridgeway, Annie
Mae Thaxton, Lois Byars, Messrs.
Walter Thaxton and Enoch Byars
w-ere recent visitors to Atlanta.
Mrs. W. M. Faulkner is on the
sick list this week.
Mrs. W. H. Hammond is much
improved from her recent illness.