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THEJACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
Vol 44—No. 52
CHRISTMAS SAFE
AND SANE HERE
BRISK HOLIDAY TRADE
Business Houses Closed
Monday
The holiday season passed more
quietly in Jackson and Butts coun
ty this season than before in many
years. So far as has been reported,
there was no disorder or accidents
of any consequence, throughout
the county.
The business men had a brisk hol
iday trade. Despite bad weather
part of last week trade was lively,
reaching the climax Friday and Sat
urday when hundreds of busy shop
pers thronged the stores. The mer
chants report a big business and in
every line the trade was all that
could have been asked for.
The Post office handled a large
volume of mail, the parcel post be
ing particularly heavy. Monday,
Christmas day, was not a legal hol
iday, and the rural carriers went
out as usual.
The shipments of whiskey at the
express office appeared to have
been heavy. The office did a rushing
business for several days immedi
ately preceding the holidays. In
practically every case the owners of
the packages carried the joy juice
home and enjoyed it around their
own firesides, or with a few friends.
Consequently there was little or no
drinking and arrests were few and
far between. This was the first
Christmas under the dry law and a
* oticeable improvement was to be
een in the lessening of drunkenness
'and disorder.
All the stores and business houses
in Jackson were closed Monday.
The day was a very quiet one, re
sembling the Sunday before.
Everybody seems to have enjoyed
the holiday season, and Christmas
will go down in history as one
of the quietest, happiest, merriest
ever known in Butts county.
TEACHERS GOT CHECKS
• BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Teachers in Butts county schools
were made happy for the Christmas
season, the board of education hav
ing arranged to pay them for all
time made this fall, except Decem
ber. Superintendent Hugh Mallet
mailed out checks in time to reach
the teachers before the holidays,
and the teachers were thus made
happy and enabled to enjoy the
Yuletide season more than would
been the case if the ‘‘ghost
had failed to walk.
WEATHER FORECAST
*For the Week Beginning Sunday,
December 24, 1916
Washington, D. C., December 23.
—For the South Atlantic and Eas:
gulf States: Moderate temperatures
are indicated at the beginning of the
week, to be followed by decidedly
colder weather after Wednesday
u.. u cuiu mere after to the end ox
the week. Generally fair weather
JMi prevail, except that rains are
at the beginning of the
week and rain in coast districts and
rain or snow in interior probably
uvursday or Friday.
¥ BOWIE.
DEATH OF INFANT
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Treadwell have
the sympathy of their friends in the
death of their three-months-old
(; hild, which occurred Friday night
*>f the past week. The funeral was
r -eld Saturday morning at 11 o’clock
*ev. J. P. Gilbert conducting the
Service. Interment was at Mt. \ er-
I n °a church cemetery.
r)„ Mr| ' s( >N, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 29, 1916
POSSUM DINNER FOR
COUNTY PRISONERS
and lr pff J '- T ; McClure > the Popular
and efficient warden of the Butts
county chain gang, entertained the
camp with a sumptuous possum
dinner Thursday. The menu was
Served at the stockade on Oak
street.
Mr. McClure always gives a bar
becue or dinner to the men three
imes a year. Christmas, Fourth of
• uly and Thanksgiving. People
throughout the county were unus
ually kind to the men this Christmas,
numbers of boxes and good things
to eat having been sent in to the
camp.
TWO MOONSHINE STILLS
WERE RAIDED SUNDAY
Two moonshine stills were raided
by officers Sunday morning. One of
the outfits was located on Little
Sandy Creek, about two and a half
miles below Flovilla. The other was
on the farm of Major A. W. Lane,
near Mr. George Etheridge’s.
Both outfits had probably been
run the night before, it was stated.
Boy Barker, colored, has been
placed under arrest in connection
with the raids.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
DECLARES DIVIDEND
At the meeting of the directors
in December the usual semi-annual
dividend of 3 per cent was declared
by the Jackson National Bank, pay
able January 1. The earnings for the
present year are declared to have
been the most satisfactory in the
history of this institution. Men
tion has been made elsewhere in
this issue of the fact that the bank
will hold its annual stockholders
meeting on January 9.
UNCLE JACK NUTT
HAS ANSWERED CALL
A large number of people of the
county will be interested to know
that Uncle Jack Nutt, a well known
colored citizen, died Satrday night
of fthe past week at the County
Farm. He had been an inmate of the
farm for some time, and Sunday
morning was found dead in bed. He
had been feeble for several months.
Uncle Jack, who was seventy-odd
years old, was a familiar character
about Jackson. He was formerly
employed to turn the press for the
.Jackson Argus before the day of
gasoline engines and electric cur
rent. In that capacity he served for
several years most faithfully. He
was an ante-bellum darky who was
widely known, and formerly be
longed to the Nutt family of this
county. ,
The funeral was held Sunday and
interment was at the Poor F arm.
banks will close
NEW YEAR’S DAY
The banks in Jackson will be
closed next Monday, Jan. 1, a lega
holiday. , .
The rural carriers will also have
a holiday and the post office will
observe Sunday hours.
rHRISTMAS MAIL WAS
HEAVIEST EVER KNOWN
The Christmas mail handled at
the Jackson post office was the
- e^for rss°s
The incoming and is st ated.
was about the same, >t >s
Thursday sa cks of
dispacthed from thejoc*
office. The parcel post mai
ticularly heavy.
Mr Bryan Patrick, who is a stu
t at the university of Georgia,
is spending the holidays with
re "t*; Mr - k l, j"nd. “ interested
Mr. Patrick s {r e ™ , : at t he
in jthe fine record he is nuh
University.
FAIR MEETING
NEXT FRIDAY
PRESIDENT ISSUES CALL
Will Begin Plans For The
1917 Fair
A meeting of the Butts County
Fair Association is called for Fri
day, Jan. 5, at 2 o’clock p. m. in
the court house. It is hoped to have
a full attendance of the officers and
members at that time, as the season
has arrived when we muat begin to
plan for the fair this fall. An early
start is absolutely essential to the
success of the fair. Come out and
let us discuss ways and means and
begin active preparations for making
the 1917 fair the best county fair
in Georgia.
J. H. PATRICK, Pres.
HOG CHOLERA
REPORTED HERE
IRON SPRINGS DISTRICT
First Case Was Announced
Last Sunday
County Agent Rice was called out
Sunday morning to investigate a
herd of sick hogs belonging to Mr.
John Greer.
After holding a postmortem and
making a thorough examination of
the animals, Mr. Rice states that
the trouble is cholera, associated
with pneumonia. He found that the
hogs in the community are allowed
to run at large and that the carcass
es are carried to the woods and
ditches, thus exposing the animals
to all agengies spreading the disease,
such as dogs, buzzards and running
streams.
Mr. Rice states that he has secur
ed the co-operatien of fthe Slaton
Drug Cos., who will keep on hand
anti-Hog Cholera Serum, and that
that he will be glad rto treat and
show fanners how to treat their
hogs with hog cholera serum, thus
preventing the spread of the dis
ease.
A meeting was held at the home
of Mr. J. M. Greer Wednesday
morning at 10 o’clock at which
time there was a demonstration in
the treatmen of hogs with serum.
There was also a talk on how to care
for hogs subject to cholera.
Farmers are urged, by Mr. Rice,
to enclose their hogs and keep them
out of the fields and roads, and, es
pecially, to burn the carcasses.
BUTTS COUNTY GINNED
11,639 BALES TO DEC. 13
Prior to Dec. 13th there had been
ginned in Butts county 11,639 balos
of cotton, as compared with 11,439
in 1915.
Prior to December 1 Butts coun
ty had ginned 10,793 bales of cot
ton. This is compared with 10,91€
last year.
The total for Butts county last
year was 11,677 bales. It is thought
this year’s crop will be pretty dost
to that figure.
banks will hold
annual meetings
The r.'-nual stockholders mee'.in
of the Jackson National Bank, the
First National Bank and the Jack
son Banking Company will be hel
Tuesday, January 9. At that turn
directors and officers will be elec,
ed for the coming year, dividend,
will be declared and other busines
transacted.
ABOUT HALF OF TAXES
| COLLECTED UP TO 23
Of the $74,000.00, approximate
ly, taxes on the digest, about half
of that amount had been collected
last Saturday night. Something more
than $37,000.00 had been collected
through Saturday, leaving about the
same amount to be collected.
Officials of the tax collector’s of
fice state that tax payers are more
backward this year in settling their
taxes than before in a number of
years.
The books will be kept open for
the present and those who have
failed to pay are urged to do so as
early as possible. It is not known
just when Tax Collector Maddox
will begin issuing fi fas.
CITY ELECTION WILL
BE HELD MONDAY
The ciAy election will be held Wed
nesday, January 3. At that time the
nominees of the recent primary will
be duly elected.
It is likely that the election will
be a very quiet agair, as the nomi
nation is a paramount to an election.
Friends of the nominees—if they
don’t forget it —will probably make
the newly nominated officials feel
good by giving them a large vote.
ROYAL ARCH MASONS
ELECT OFFICERS MONDAY
At the meeting Monday night offi
cers were elected by Jackson chapter,
No. 54, Royal Arch Masons, as fol
lows :
H. L. Daughtry—H. P.
J. B. Hopkins—K.
J. C. Jones—Scribe.
C. M. Kimbell—Treasurer.
F. M. Allen—Secretary.
D. G. McMichael—C. H.
J. D. Jones—P. S.
J. T. Doby—R. A. C.
R. Gunter—M. 3 V.
H. F. Gilmore—M. 2 V.
IT. M. Fletcher—M. 1 V.
F. M. Hodges—Sentinel.
The officers thus elected will be in
stalled at the first meeting in Janu
ary, Bth. At that time nn oyster stew
will be served to the members and
visitors. The members of Worthville
chapter and Jenkinsburg chapter will
be asked to be guests of the local
chapter on that occasion.
It is also planned to have work at
that meeting and the officers request
that a full attendance of the members
be present.
MR. RICE TELLS OF
FARMERS COURSE
County Agent Rice urges the far
mers to take advantage of the far
mers short course, beginning Jan. 3
and continuing until Jan. 14. Far
mers, he says, cannot spend ten days
more profitably than to take advan
tage of this short course of training.
The college is making the boll wee
vil campaign the center of the
course. The college and the exten
xion force of ithe TJ. S. department
of Agriculture are trying very
hard to save Georgia from the loss
's that her sister states have suf
•red from the boll weevil.
There will be demonstrations in
better live stock, better feed crops,
.letter farm machinery and every
hing that can possibly be put in a
en days study. The railroads are
jiving low rates and the college is
nxious to assist in making provis
ons for rooms and board, which
/ill cost about $1 per day.
Mr. Rice asks that those inter
.sted get in touch with him, as he
.ill be glad to give complete infor
ms tion about the work and assist iri
iny way possible. The course starts
Wednesday, Jan. 3.
Mr. Henry Hendrick, of Porto
iico, is the guest of his mother, Mr::.
Ida Hendrick.
Jackson Argus Established 1873 (
Butts County Progress Established 1882
JACKSON SOLDIER
RESENTS SONG
THRASHES MICHIGAN MAN
"Marching Through Geor
gia” The Cause
——————
El Paso, Texas, Dec. 26.—Texas
courts have upheld the course of the
Georgia soldier who administered
bodily punishment to a Michigan
private for standing on the edge of
the Georgia camp and whistling
“Marching Through Georgia.”
Following the. fight that resulted
from such a musical experiment sev
eral days ago the aggrieved Michi
gan man filed a complaint in the
civil courts of El Paso county,
against Corporal W. C. Godsey,
company A, Second Gcorgiu regi
ment, who was nearest him at the
time of the whistling.
“I want to say that no Michigan
man has a right to go through tho
Georgia camp whistling ‘Murchfrig
Through Georgia,’ declared Judge
Judge McC.lintock, in dismissing the
case. “No siree! That is in effect in
viting suicide. I will dismiss the
case.”
An attempt to file a case in an
other court, with the same fight as
a basis, was unsuccessful. Justice
Deaver, presiding over the second
court, said: “Don’t file the complaint
in my court, for I would not be in
clined to fine n Georgian under the
circumstances.”
Orders have been posted in the
Michigan camp forbidding the whist
ling of the tune in or near the Geor
gia camp, by any member of the
Michigan brigade.—Atlanta Jour
nal.
Mr. Godsey is a member of the
Jackson Rifles and his friends in
Butts county will be interested in his
triumph over the Michigan soldier*
and the fact that the courts have
failed to punish him for his act.
NAME OF SERGEANT
J. A. McCLURE OMITTED
In publishing the roster of the
lackson Rifles in the issue of Dec.
22, the name of Sergeant J. A. Mc-
Clure was inudvertently omitted,
and The Progress-Argus takes pleas
ure in making the proper correction.
Sergeant McClure has been a valued
member of the company for a num
ber of years and is one of the beat
drilled, most efficient men in the
entire command. The omission df
Sergeant McClure’s name was pure
ly a typographical error-—and wds
not detected until the issue had
been printed. The correction is
cheerfully made.
First Baptist Church
Sunday, Dec. 31
II a. m. New Year’s Sermon “A
Vision of Jesus.”
7 p. m. “Heaven, a Place.”
9:30 a. m. Bible School.
3 p. m. Young People’s Union.
Let’s make a good x.art in the Un
ion Sunday. Every member and alt
the young people wanted.
The Christmas has been joyous.
Happiness in our homes, cheer "in
our Sunday Sschool, Christmas ex
ercises and a good time generally.
Now for better service in 1917.
Knights Templar Hold
Christmas Observance
The members of Alexius Com
mandery No. 22, Knights Templar,
met m their asylum Monday morn
ing and observed the usual Christ
ina exercises. Touj s were drunk to
Grand Commander laie Smith, of
Pittsburg, Pa., and to the grand
commander of the Georgia Com
mandery, R. L. Wyly, of Thornas
ville. Anumber of the members were
present to participate in the obser
vance, which is always an interest
ing ev.-ni .vith Knights Templar.
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Consolidated July 9. 1913