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Vol 46 —No. 1
WAR BREAD
* NOW IN ORDER
No More White Bread
During The War
PLENTY OF CORN FOR ALL
NATIONAL FOOD ADMINISTRA
TION TAKES STEPS TO MAKE
WHEAT GO AS FAR AS POSSI
BLE—WILL HELP WIN WAR
Washington, Dec. 31.—America is
eating the last white bread it will get
till the war is over. New government
milling regulations necessitated by
the world wheat shortage and poor
crop prospects, mean war bread in
every American home beginning ear
ly in 1918.
The last of our wheat surplus was ,
shipped to allied Europe more than a j
month ago. Recent official cables 1
show that her plight is still extreme.
America alone can relieve it by sac
rifice.
There is no white bread in Europe
There hasn’t been for a long time.
America’s bread box must be robbed
to supply the allies bread fit to eat.'
They are sending people to prison
for wasting bread in England.
France’s government has taken over
her small wheat crop and will mill it
for all it is worth, regardless of ap-;
pearance or taste after baking. All
exports of dietary breads to Ameri-j
can. millionaires of poor digestion
have loeen stopped.
and a half million people in
Finla are existing on a starvation
loaf— birch bark and beech
buds mixed with a smattering of
wheat. And only three or four slices
of -that a day. It tastes and smells
abominably.
Germany’s vile war bread has
caused appendicitis and intestinal ep
idemics among the people. A special
scientific commission tried to better
it but gave it up. Officials followed
that with the statement that crop
prospects promise no relief.
America’s great recourse will be
corn meal. There are thirty bushels
of corn apiece for every person in the
land in the new crop. Ordinarily we
eat about a bushel apiece a year.
As soon as this big crop starts into
the market and prices drop, a big
pro-corn drive will be inaugurated
by the government.
Under the new milling regulations,
flour will be flour. No special brands,
no choice grades 'will be obtainable.
Universally known trade marks will
disappear from sacks and in their
stead will appear merely the words:
“Milled in accordance with the regu
lations of the United States food ad
ministration."
Even with these extreme conser
vation measures imposed on America,
Europe’s loaf will still be pretty
black.
NEW YEAR'S DAY WAS
QUIETLY OBSERVED HERE
BANKS WERE CLOSED FOR THE
DAY AND POST OFFICE HAD
HOLIDAY BUSINESS HOUSES
REMAINED OPEN AS USUAL
January first was ushered in with
out local celebration of note. The
banks were closed for the day, the
post office observed Sunday hours,
while the rural carriers had a holi
day. The remainder of the business
houses were open for business as us
ual.
Several business changes were an
nounced at the beginning of the new
yepr, whole moving was in order and
a.''general readjustment marked the
f h of 1918. The merchants were
y taking stock and winding up
* business of the past yaer.
jfche wish uppermost in the minds
otjfevery citizen was that the year
1918 might see an end of the war
and f*la.t peace and quiet might soon
fcc 1 I lored in this country and
ping I | all the warring nations.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, JANUARY l 1918
FUNERAL HORACE SUTTON
OCCURRED LA'ST MONDAY
YOUNG SOLDIER BOY DIES AT
MACON CAMP OF PNEUMONIA
—FUNERAL HELD IN MONROE
COUNTY MONDAY MORNING
The funeral of Mr. Horace Sutton,
age 22, who died at Camp Wheeler
Sunday morning, of pneumonia, was
held at Paran church, Monroe county,
Monday morning at 11 o’clock. Mr.
Sutton enlisted with the Forsyth nat
ional guard, company M 121 infan
try, and had been at Camp Wheeler
for several months. The body was
brought to Flovilla Monday morning
! and the funeral was held at Paran
church, Rev. L. B. Harvey conducting
the 'service.
*Mr. Sutton is survived by his fath
er, Mr. A. A. Suton; two brothers,
Messrs. Cunningham and Rutherford
Sutton; four sisters, Mrs. R. S. Mc
j Nealess, Mrs. W.R. Reviere, Mrs. A.
' J. Grant and Mrs. H. C. Craig.
STATE WILL
STOP HOARDING
Necessities to Be Sold in
Small Quantities
WHAT RULES PROVIDE
FLOUR AND SUGAR WILL BE
SOLD IN SMALL LOTS—FAR
MERS WILL BE SOLD LARGER
QUANTIES THAN CITY FOLKS
The most stringent action yet tak
en by the Government to prevent the
hoarding of food was announced Sat
urday morning by D. F. McClatchey,
executive secretary of the Georgia
food administration.
The first commodities to come un
der the new law are flour and sugar.
Sugar will be sold in towns and cit
ies in two and five pound packages,
the sale to a custome mot to exceed
five pounds, and in rural districts,
where farmers come to town only ev
ery two or three days, in five and ten
pound packages, not to exceed ten
pounds.
Flour will be sold in cities and
towns iA 24 and 48 pound packages,
not to exceed 48 pounds, and in rural
communities in 24, 48 and 100 pound
packages, not to exceed 100 pounds.
While, under this law, purchasers
may, by making daily purchases, at
tempt to hoard flour and sugar, the
officials anticipate no trouble from
this source, as all dealers have been
closely co-operating with the Govern
ment, and should, through their
knowledge of the average needs of
their customers, be able to readily de
tect'any attempt at hoarding.
Notices of the new regulation were
being sent out Saturday by the office
of the food adminisration to every
dealer in Atlanta and Fulton county.
It will be put into effect immediately.
This is only the beginning of a
state-wide campaign against food
hoarding. Every county and city in
the State will be governed by the
new ruling, and the Govemmcrt offi
cials state that they intend to see
that the law is strictly enforced.
This action by the Government is
recognized as the most striking illus
tration of the determination to put
every phase of the food situation un
der stringent supervision. In firm
ness, it is considered the next step to
the bread card system which has been
in force in Europe some time.
AU*tP TAGS BRING
IN $205,584 FOR STATE
Phil Cook, Secretary' of State, Sat
urday turned over to the State treas
ury department $205,584, the pro
ceeds of the year’s sale of automo
bile license tags.
These figures represent an increase
of $68,185.94 over the figures for
1916, which were $137,398.06.
Mr. Cook was highly pleased with
the showing made this year by the
automobile department.
CITY PRIMARY
A TAME AFFAIR
I
Only Thirty-Nine Votes
! Were Polled
ELECTION ON WEDNESDAY
MAYOR THREATT MOORE AND
ENTIRE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
NAMED WITHOUT OPPOSITION
IN PRIMARY
*The city primary held last Thurs
day proved an unusually quiet af
fair. Out of a total registration of
120, only 39 votes w r ere polled. This
was due to the fact that there was
no opposition to any of the candi
dates.
! Hon. J. T. Moore was nominated
for mayor for the third time. He was
j unopposed.
Mr. C. T. Beauchamp was nominat
ed as alderman from the first ward.
Mr. Beauchamp was the only old
councilman who was re-elected.
I Mr. W. H. Merritt was nominated
as alderman from the second ward,
succeeding Alderman A. T. Buttrill
, who had removed from that ward..
j Mr. L. P. McKibben was nominat
| ed for alderman from the third ward,
! succeeding Mr. J. B. Settle who was
not a candidate for re-election,
j Mr. J. C. Jones is the new member
of council from the fourth ward. He
succeeds Mr. R. P. Sasnett who did
r lv t tund for re-election.
Mr. H. L. Daughtry was re-nomi
nated as chairman of the executive
I committee. He has filled that posi
tion for the past several years.
Mr. J. H. Carmichael was nominat
| ed as chairman of the board of edu
cation, succeeding Judge J. H. Ham
who did not stand for re-election.
Mr. J. M. Currie was nominated as
a member of the school board from
the first ward, and Mr. H. O. Ball was
renominated as a member of the ex
ecutive committee to succeed himself
Mr. J. R. Thurston was mad a
member of the school board from
the second ward, and Mr. T. A. Nutt
was renominated as a member of the
executive committee.
Mr. A. T. Buttrill was made a
member of the school board from the
third ward, and Mr. H. J. Miller was
made a member of the executive
.
committee.
From the fourth ward Mr. C. M.
Compton was made a member of the
school board and Dr. 11. R. Slaton
was made a member of the executive
committee.
The city election was held Wednes
day, Jan. 2, when all the officers thus
nominated were duly elected.
All of these gentlemen are well
known citizens and prominent busi
ness men of the city and the affairs
1 of the town will be well looked after
j during the present year. Their
| friends are congratulating them up
on ;their nomination and election
without opposition, and the people
generally will extend these officials
the co-operation and support neces
sary to make their administration a
success.
CONVICT MADE ESCAPE BUT
IS CAPTURED IN ATLANTA
Sent to Water Stock Prisoner Keeps
On Going
Sim Johnson, known as “Country,
a convict in the Butts county chain
gang, made his escape from the
stockade last Wednesday morning.
He was sent to water the mules and
kept on going. As soon as his escape
was detected a search was instituted
and the prisoner was later arrested in
Atlanta, being brought b ack here
Friday night.
Johnson was a trusty and was al
lowed liberties of the camp. He has
figured in escapes before, and has.
been out on parole. He was sent up
from Fulton county for highway rob
berv and had served the greater part
of his sentence. ,
SAVE ENOUGH COTTON SEED
FOB PLANTING, SAYS BROWN
THAT FARMERS
HAVE PLENTY OF SEED FOR
FIRST AND SECOND PLANTING
—HIGH PRICES TEMPTING
Atlanta, Ga.* Jan. 3. —Take no
chances on your supply of cotton
seed for planting the coming spring,
is the urgent advice of the State
Department of Agriculture to the
farmers of Georgia.
Present prices of seed are attrac
tive, but at that they are far below
what seed will sell at for planting
purposes in the spring. The farmer
who sells all his seed now and has to
pay twice or three times as much for
what he needs to plant, will play a
losing game.
Every Georgia farmer should save
an ample supply of his best seed for
planting the coming season. It is the
only safe, the only economical, way.
FORTY-SIXTH
YEAR FOR PAPER
Progress-Argas Begins A
New Volume
WAS ESTABLISHED iN 1873
FIRST OF JANUARY BRINGS THE
PROGRESS-ARGUS ANOTHER
BIRTHDAY —ONE OF STATE’S
OLDEST WEEKLY PAPERS
\
With this issue The Progress-Ar
gus begins tts forty-sixth year. Es
-1 tablished in 1873, ui naper is one of
the oldest weeklies in Georgia. It
was first published at Indian Springs,
later at the Camp Ground and then
moved to Jackson.
The paper is now better equipped
than ever to serve the people of Butts
county. It has a splendidly equipped
plant, modern typesetting machine,
and is prepared to do all kinds of
printing and publishing,
i For a little over nine years the pa
per has been under the present man
agement.
During the coming year the man
agement will strive to do everything
I possible to give the people of Butts
and surrounding country the best
service it is possible to renuer. In
trying to print all the news all the
time, the co-operation and support of
the people is requested.
, In this connection The Progress-
Argus wishes to thank its readers
and advertisers for their support in
the past, and to ask a continuance
of their patronage.
And as the paper enters upon an
other year of its existence, the editor
wishes for each and every citizen of
the county a very prosperous and
Happy l New Year.
ENGINEER STUDENTS MAY
STAY TO COMPLETE COURSES
The next examination through
which graduates of approved engi
neer schools may apply for commis
sions as provisional engineers, corps
of engineers, will begin January 21.
Anothe rwill probably be held about
the middle of the coming summer.
Students in approved technical
schools who are considered as rating
in the upper third of their classes
may enter the enlisted reserve corps,
and so enlisted will be permitted to
remain on the inactive list until they
have completd their college courses.
When they leave their colleges these
students will be called for active ser
vice in some branch of the engineer
service of the Army or will be dis
charged to take their chances under
the selective service law.
Estimates show the Government
Printing Office will use 100,000,000
_ I .. C ~ Z A
pOui" 1 . Vi > u/ci, boowmjj uuuub v- >
000,000, this year.
Jackson Arcus Established i87.! i
Butts County I’rocress ICstablished 1882'
Consolidated July 9, 1915
TOO MUCH WATER
BEING WASTED
Citizens Allow Pipes to
Run All Night
DRASTIC STEPS PROMISED
•
UNLESS WATER IS CONSERVED
IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO RE
DUCE PUMPING—CITIZENS
ASKED TO HELP SAVE WATER
Unless citizens of Jackson are
more careful with the water supply,
drastic steps will be taken to con
serve city water, according to Supt.
W. E. Merck. Many people leave the
water running all night,, thus causing
a tremendous waste, and the amount
of water consumed during the winter
months is as heavy as it was last
.summer, Mr. Merck states. In view
of the scarcity of power for pumping
purposes and the risk of fire, this is a
serious situation, Mr. Merck points
out.
A request has been made that all
citizens cut out thei rwater and drain
the pipes during the freezing weather
By doing so a large amount of water
could be saved and pumping would
be reduced considerably. Unless this
request .is heeded, Mr. Merck states
that the city will be forced to cut out
all water and absoluely reduce
pumping to a minimum. The city has
been put on short power by the Cen
tral Georgia Power Company, due to
the low water at the power plant and
the scarcity of coal in Macon, and it
is hard to obtain enough power for
pumping purposes, even with every
body co-opehating and saving all the
water possible.
This is a matter that all citizens
should be interested in, and every
body should be willing to co-operate
to save the water supply and thus re
duce the power needed for pumping,
until conditions improve.
BANKS WILL HAVE ANNUAL
MEETING NEXT TUESDAY
Officer* and Directors Will Be Nam-
For The Year
The blinks will have their annual
stockholders meeting next Tuesday,
Jan. 8. At that time the business of
the past year will be reviewed, the
stockholders will elect directors, who
will in turn name officers for the en
suing twelve months. This has been
a prosperous year for the banks of
the county, and the deposits of the
vfarious institutions have reached a
new high record, due to the high
prices of cotton and all other farm
products.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEGAN
SPRING TERM MONDAY
DESPITE COLD WEATHER GOOD
ATTENDANCE IS RECORDED
AT OPENING AND NEW STU
DENTS ARE EXPECTED
The spring term of the Jackson
public schools opened Monday morn
ing. Owing t othe unusual conditions
the attendance the first day was not
as large as that of former years. This
condition is only temporary, however,
and all indications point to an unus
ually large enrollment and atten
dance during the spring months.
By ,opening now a week earlier than
usual the school will get out in May
earlier than heretofore. This fact
will be appreciated by patrons having
children needed on the farm. This is
a w*ar time measure and the action
of the school officials will meet with
general approval. *
After the short holiday vacation
teachers and pupils return to school
with renewed energy and enthu
siasm, and with the determination to
do a lot of valuable v/ork during the
spring teru.