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May Is End of Our Year
FIRST: I wish to thank our customers for the state
ment we made a year ago. It was the best of any mil! in
the Atlanta District. We didn’t have out a single account
for meal and hulls or ginning and had practically every one
of our fertilizer accounts closed by note.
WE WANT TO DO IT AGAIN, but we can’t, WITHOUT
YOUR CO-OPERATION.
We have about 200 accounts for products to collect besides
closing our Fertilizer Business.
THEREFORE, “NO PRODUCTS” WILL
BE CHARGED THIS MONTH.
I know you will appreciate my position and wont
mind this little inconvenience for a few days.
T. A. NUTT
Manager
TAX EQUALIZERS ORGANIZE
FOR THE YEAR’S WORK
Whc‘n the tax receiver’s books clos
ed on the first of May, a large major
ity of property owners had made re
turns of their personal property and
real estate. Mr. J. P. Vaughn kept
the books open a few days after the
first to accommodate any citizen who
had not made his return.
The tax assessors met Wednesday
and organized for the year’s work.
They will not begin the uwrk of
equalizing property until a few days
Inter.
Buy Liberty Bond*
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FOR SALE—PORTO RICO AND
Nancy Hall Potato plants $2.26
per 1,000; also Webber’s 49 Cot
ton Seed, $:? per bushel. Apply G.
W. Allen at Jackson Milling &
Feed Company or phone 224.
3-8-Btp
HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID
for all kinds of Sacks, Brass and
Copper. J. W. McDaniel.
6-3-4tc
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
$100,000.00
TO LOAN on farm lands. Rea
sonable rate of interest. See me
before you borrow any money on
your farm.
w. E. Watkins.
MONEY TO LOAN
AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST ON
CHOICE FARM LANDS AND IMPROV
ED CITY PROPERTY
H.M. FLETCHER
Jackson, Ga.
J. THREATT MOORE
Attorney At Law.
Office in ('rum Building,
Jackson : Georgia.
Will practice in all the Courts.
C. L. REDMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Carter Wartlien Building,
JACKSON, GA.
THE FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF GEORGIA
S. B. Kinard, General Agent
J. H. Pope, Local Agent
Jackson, Georgia
Will you buy a bond or do you pre
fer a tax receipt?
THE JACKSON P.nf.-ESS-ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MAT 3, 1918
FARMERS’ UNION ARE
AGAINST PRICE FIXING
The Georgia Farmers’ Union in con
vention in Atlanta Wednesday went
on record as opposing any price fix
ing for cotton. However, Governor
Dorsey declared, if cotton is neces
sary to winning the war, the govern
ment may take over the entire crop
and farmers will not object. Such ac
tion vaas declared unnecessary at the
present time, it was stated.
The farmers pledged themselves to
support the nation with unswerving
loyalty and patriotism.
The meeting was held in the house
of representatives at the state capitol
and there was a large attendance
from all parts of the state. The meet
ing was called to order t>y presiden C.
S. Barrett of the Farmers’ Union and
Hon. J. H. Mills, state president. Ad
dresses were made by Governor Dor
sey, commissioner of agriculture J. J.
Brown, Mr. Barrett and others.
Among those from Butts county
who attended the meeting were Col.
T. T. Moore, Col. W. E. Watkins and
Mr. J. O. Gaston.
HON. EMMETT R. SHAW WILL
SPEAK IN JACKSON ON THE 11
Candidate For United States Senate
Will Deliver Address to Voters
Announcement is made in this is
sue that Hon. Emmett R. Shaw, can
didate for the United States senate,
will deliver an address to the voters
of Butts county in Jackson on Satur
day May 11, at 4 p. m. Mr. Shaw has
the reputation of being an able and
entertaining speaker and no doubt he
will be greeted by a large body of vo
ters. He is the first candidate to an
nouneea speaking date for Butts coun
ty and considerable interest attaches
to the approaching visit of the Fort
Gaines statesman.
Luminous Paints.
Luminous paints for varied uses
have been brought into increased de
mand by the war, and the host results
have been obtained from those con
sisting essentially of prepared zinc
sulphide with a small percentage of
radioactive material. To determine
the brightness and life of different
mixtures, elaborate tests have been
made at the British National Physical
Laboratory. It is found that increas
ing the radium adds to the brightness,
but also increases the cost and the rate
of decay, the differences In brightness
and decay becoming much less after
a few months. Keeping cost in mind,
it is concluded that the most satis
factory paint has one part of radium
to about 5,000 of zinc sulphide.
Tropical Rains.
Tropical rains are of relatively short
duration, the reason of the small num
ber of cyclonic storms in the tropics,
nnd this duration is fairly uuifonn
throughout the year.
The heaviest general rainfalls ip
Porto Rico are associated with West
Indian hurricanes. The historic hur
ricane of August S, IS9O, precipitated
rainfall equivalent to 1,113 tons per
acre.
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THE longer this war is prolonged the more blood of these plow
boys will be spilled—the more often you’ll see “R. F. D.” emer
gency addresses. Your boy may be there —a brave volunteer. Soon
you may find his name on the casualty list! Save your boy! Save
your neighbor’s boy!
It can be done only by bringing this war to a speedy close. The war
will never end until America and her Allies have been victorious;
until the military nobility—those who caused it—is subdued.
INVEST NOW IN
LIBERTY BONDS
Your part in stamping out Prussian autocracy is to furnish the fi
nance. Liberty Bonds, feed, clothe and equip our soldiers.
Subscribe now to as many as you can. The Government accepts
your money as a loan and pays you interest on the investment until
the principal is returned. INVEST NOW.
Carmichael Drug & Book
Company
PHONE 62
JACKSON, GEORGIA
Plan Your'U&i* Garden Now*
Save Time and Money. -
Melr/a/crease 01/r Export Eooj Greens "
N CITY and country more war gardens are needed this year
til than ever before. Patriotism prompted 2,000,000 Americans
Ml laSt year ’ accor>li "S to estimates of the
W ■ tnited Mates Department of Agriculture Transnnrtntm„
lil I Uon' 1 ' 1 f S ° f th ° !J a i ,0n wiu 1,0 stratnod this year hwtiling muni-
JESLI 1, , wnr an<J f0O(!s for the Allies. The surplus food cre-
T y , on,e Bar,lens * help in the railroad problem Tnd
WPW Ule “*tlon will eat less of the goods we must export-wheaL
• mat. fats and sugar. Every hoy nnd girl that helps with the
garden is helping win the war. Leaflets of instruction i
garden making may be secured from the Department of Agriculture at Wash
Ingtou, upon request, without churge. gricuiture at Wash-
American
Farmer
Boys
Are Falling
on the
Battlefields
of France
Yours May be Next!
Every time American troops suffer casual
ties in “No Man’s Land” you’ll find “R.
F. D.” after the name of some of the dead,
wounded or missing.
THESE LETTERS STAMP THAT
BOY AS THE SON OF A FARMER
WHEAT RULES CHANGEDi
TO HELP LOCAL FARMER- 1
The food administration has chang
ed its ruling relating to wheat grown
by farmers, so that a farmer may
take to mill a sixty days supply in
stead of one month’s supply.
original ruling met with considerable
objection on the part of farmers rais
ng their own wheat. It was held that
t was too much trouble to take to mil
only one bushel of wheat at a time.
The new ruling permits those hav
ing wheat raised on their own farms
to take to mill a 60 days supply- al
lowing 6 pounds per month per pc n
Instead of stimulating the pro - L '
tion of wheat in Butts county, e
original order would have had
effect of stopping the growing
v. heat almost entirely.
Tom Hardwick is reported as _
ling to debate with his opponent -
his loyalty is not brought into
tion. That is the very thing his--
ponents want to discuss. His rec ( i
is one he can’t defend and nobo *>’
knows that any better than Hard
wick.
Cotton is falling about as fast as
stock of the kaiser.