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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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TELEPHONE NO. 166
OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
NOTICE
Card* of thank* will be charged
at the rate of fifty cent*, minimum
for 50 word* and le**; above 80
word* will be charged at the rate of
1 cent a word. Cash mu*t accompany
copy in ail instance*.
Shop early—buy your coal now.
Lest you forget, order your coal
now.
Now for over the top in the War Sav
ings Stamp sale.
Has Snider of weather fame be
come lost in the shuffle?
You haven’t been hit yet. So don’t
hollow. If you do it shows you are
yellow.
Well, at any rate, Bunk Cooper
•will get as much fun out of the race
as any of them.
He laughs best who laughs last.
We’ll get the Germans in the end. Be
of good cheer.
W. S. Howard ought to pay that
liquor bill before he expects any de
cent man to vote for him.
Georgia has always nominated her
officers without outside dictaton and
we believe she is equal to the task
again.
Every county ought to have a ku
klux, a Vigilance Committee, or some
thing of the sort, to wait o nthe dis
loyal ones.
The people of Georgia will have to
shut their eyes and swallow hard
when they come to vote for senator
this year.
Both the Liberty Bond campaign
and the Red Cross drive proved a
glorious success. Now for War Sav
ings Stamps.
Despite the fact that newspapers
make mistakes occasionally they are
fetill human. The only perfect ones
fere the dead ones.
Now that local politics are out of
the way, let’s boost the War Savings
Stamp campaign. Your quota is $2O.
How many stamps have you bought }
Congress has just taken off the hal
ter and will allow the President to
call as many men as are needed to
win the war. Congress sees the light
occasionally.
H H Dean charged in his Athens
speech that W. S. Howard refused to
pav a liquor debt. A man who refuses
to pay a debt of any character is not
flt to represent Georgia in tne United
States senate-
We can save more wheat than any
nation on earth, because we have got
it to save; we can raise more money
than any other nation on earth, be
cause we have got it to spare; we can
raise more troops than any nation on
earth, because we have got the men.
Great is America. To hell with the
kaiser.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JOKE 7,
BEWARE OF FAKIRS
The safest policy is to do business
with home people, with those you
know and rely on, so if there is
any dissatisfaction it can be straight
ened out. There is not only good
sense in such a plan, but it is the right
hing to do.
The Progress-Argus has repeatedly
vnmed the public against fakirs.
There was so much money in the
South last years that the fakirs reap
ed a rich harvest. We knew it would
be so, and did all we could to warn
the public.
Recently there were a number of
traveling agents or solicitors going
hrough the county selling subscrip
tions to a magazine. For fifty cents
the subscriber was assured he would
receive a certain magazine for a year.
The small cost was made possible be
cause, it was pointed out by the glib
tongued artist, the government would
pay the postage. Needless to say a
lot of good people are taken by this
schme. Any thinking person should
have known better.
It is impossible to get something
for nothing. A lot of perfectly good
money left the county through this
scheme and the agent vanished—
quickly without leaving any trace of
his name. The promised magazine has
never been received nor vsill it ever
be. It was just the nefarious scheme
of a “smooth guy” to get some “easy
money.”
Trade with the home merchants.
Bank with the home banks. Order
your reading matter through your
local paper. Any of those concerns
will back up, 365 days in the year,
any guarantee they may make. Let
the solicitors, agents and fakirs alone.
The country is full of such trash
that ought to be doing time building
roads.
A NEEDED ECONOMY
Georgia has done remarkably well
in the national food saving campaign.
The people are saving wheat and meat
for the soldiers. Other foods are be
ing substituted and nobody has felt
any hardship or suffering. The whole
state has responded splendidly to this
great call.
But there is one economy the peo
ple could practice with good results.
That is getting rid of the great num
ber of dogs that infest the state 1 .
If every family that keeps a dog
would get rid of the dog and keep a
pig instead the state’s meat
would be increased several fold. G*>r
gia has at least 100,000 wortblfess
dogs that ought to be put out of the
way. When many nations are starv
ing for bread, it is no tim eto keecp l
a worthless dog.
Dogs have practically viiped cwat
the sheep industry in the South. More*
sheep and fewer dogs would be a bet
ter program. The dogs have aTsi>:
practically eliminated all the game'
i nthis country. The quail should Ese.
spared to destroy boll weevils and
other insects.
A good dog is a noM? animal artuf
the true friend of man. But there are *
too many of the worthless variety. -
They do not produce, but only con
sume food that can be iff spared now.
Georgia ought to have a dog swat-,
ting day, when the worthless, food
consuming, hydrophobia spreading;,
canines should be killed
The United States miuet furnish
the men and the money to win this
vvir. There is no longer any doubt
about that and it is up to every cit
izen to do his part to bring the war
to a speedy close.
Little v Joe Brown is mighty quiet,
these days. He must be going in for
a bumper pumpkin crop. Little Joe
is a giant compared to some of the
pigmies parading thmraetves beftne*
the people.
The railroad men are getting their
wages raised right often these tihys.
It is another straw on the hack of an
already burdened people. If the gov
ernment does not own the railroads,
the railroads will own the government
eventually.
United States soldiers and sailors
wrote 1,600,000 letters on Mothers
Day. A nation that holds womankind
in the high regard that America does
cannot be whipped by the flat-headed,
hellish huns. And there is no joke
about that.
Don’t whine and howl about what
you have done for the country. Too
many big developments are taking
place in Europe now for any loyal
citizen to flinch. We must support all
the demands made on us —and this in
cludes the purchase of War Savings
‘ Stamps.
FLORENCE
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Newton Hardware Cos.
Phone IS Jackson, Ga.
This is <&• convention season. It is
a great time for conventions and gath
erings and speech making. Indian
Springs will entertain, a number of
conventions during the year. People
are finding Butts county’s good roads
an added attraction, to pay Indian
Springs a visit
Ten years ago a Mind man could
tell when he entered Butts county on
account e£ the roadk. The same is
true now, only the tables are turned.
.Butts couinty has the best system of
public roads of any inunty ira Middle
Georgia-
Neither W. J. Harris nor W. Si.
Howard has a coraaer on alii the pa
triotism in Georgia. Judging by the
viy the people have been buying Lib
erty Bonds and subscribing to the
Red Cross there is more than two pa
triots in the state. Look nut for the
man who has nothing bat “patriot
ism” to run on.
It is, reported from Atlanta that
'Governor Hugh: Dorsey may noh be a
•candidate to succeed himself. Attor
ney General Clifford Walker, Commis
sioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown*
and Hon. G. Ogden Persons, former
president of the senate, are among
the probable candidates in case Gov
ernor Dorsey does not run..
The worst of the labor shortage is
over for the present. Cotton is chop
ped out and the greatest part of the
work toward making a crop has been
done. The labor shortage will be
come acute about gathering time, for
the present the farmers are handling
the situation very well. The politic
ians and swivel chair artists are still
howling about the labor shortage, but
| none of the city fellows have exerted
! themselves to give the farmers a lift.
Boy Scout organizations are active
in locating black walnut trees. Black
i walnut lumber is needed by the War
( Department in making airplane pro
pellers and gunstocks.
Deliveries aS the 8,030) motor trucks
recently ordered by the: Motor Trans
port Service of'the War Department
are to be made between August 1 and!
4
December X. These trucks known as.
“Class B Standard.,’* will have a car
pacity of from 3 ta 5 tons,, and will
be distributed as needed through the
various branches of the army. Ten.
thousand of these: class B. standardiz
ed trucks have previously been order
;ed and are: now in process of manu-
I factnre and delivery..
The Food Administration has sent
out through a& State administrators
STOMACH TROUBLE
Mr. Marion Holcomb, of Nancy, Ky. f says: “For quite
a long while I suffered with stomach trouble. ! would
have pains and a heavy feeling after my meals* a most
disagreeable taste in my mouth, If I ate anything with
butter,oil or grease, I would spit it up. I began to have
regular sick headache. I had used pills and tablets, but
after a course of these, I would be constipated. It just
seemed to tear my stomach all up. I found they were
no good at all for my trouble. I heard
THEDFORD’S
black-draught
recommended very highly, so began to use it It cured
me. I keep it in the house all the time. It is the best
liver medicine made. Ido not have sick headache or
stomach trouble any more.” Black-Draught acts on
the jaded liver and helps it to do its important work of
throwing out waste materials and poisons from the sys
tem. This medicine should be in every household for
use in time of need. Get a package today. If you feel
sluggish, take a dose tonight You will feel fresh to
morrow. Price 25c a package. All druggists.
ONE CENT A DOSE am
NO WASTED HEAT
\
HEATLESS Mondays and a whole heat
less summer in yemr kitchen —how
would you like it? Come and we’ll
show you just how the safe,., popular Florence
gives you a hot stove, but a cool, comfortable,
inviting kitchen This war-time stove will save
you money because it burns kerosene.
It’s perfectly safe and simple to use a Flor
ence. It’s a sturdy stove. No wasted heat.
No wicks to trim. You turn the flame high or
low by simply moving the lever- Every Florence
is guaranteed.
“Look, for the Leser**
OIL
COOK
STOVES
SAVE
COAL
The Fuel Admin
istration authorizes
us to say that it con
siders the use of Oil
Cook Stovesand Oil
Heaters at this time
a very important
help in the neces
sary conservation of
coal for war pur
poses.
millers and to wholesale and retail
a warning to corn, barley and oats
deakrs in the products that at the
present prices of these grains coni
meal and oat meal should be selling
at ileast 20 per cent below the price
of wheat flour and that com flour
and barley floor should be selling at
least 10 per cent below wheat flour.
Production, of homy will be greatly
increased during 10*18 in many local
ities, according to the department of
agriculture- The increase in Colorado
St is said will probably be 100 per
cent.