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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
Vol 46— No. 29
$216,417 GAIN IN
TAX RETURNS
Digest Submitted to The
Comptroller
THE POLLS TOTAL 1,834
feOTH WHITE AND COLORED RE
* TURNS SHOW INCREASE OVER
PRECEDING YEAR-LAND VAL
UE ABOUT $7 PER ACRE
The total tax returns of Butts
county for 1918 amount to $2,413,--
281, as compared vvth $2,196,864 in
1917, showing en increase for the
yeor of $216,417.
Judge J. H. Ham, Ordinary, acting
for Tax Collector T. W. Nelson has
made up"fhe digest which will be sent
to Atlanta for the approval of the
comptroller general.
The increase is a good one, show
ing the county is going forward even
under war conditions. Of the toal
amount of property on the digest
$2,282,181 was returned by whites,
and $131,100 by colored citizens. The
returns of colored property owners
show an increase of $36,785 over
1917.
The digest shows that there are
1,834 polls in the county, 1,117 being
white and 717 colored.
There were 116,923 acres of land
returned for taxation, this being a
substantial gain over the preceding
year. Of that number 114,144 acres
are owned by whites and 2,779 acres
by negroes.
Total value of farm land returned
for taxation amounts to $888,928.
Of this whites own $870,320 and ne
groes $18,608.
The average value of land returned
is a little over $7 per acre.
City property owned by whites
amounts to $493,194 and by negroes
$25,385, the total value of town
property being $518,579.
The total value of farm lands and
city property is $1,467,507, and of
personal property $945,774.
The umber of automobiles more
than doubled in the past year. Every
district in the county shows an in
crease in value. The total gain by
whites amounts to $179,632, and the
total gain by colored $36,785.
BUTTS COUNTY BOY FINDS
LONDON A REAL CITY
Charles H. Smith Writes That He
Likes France
Mr. S. J. Smith has received a let
ter from his son, Charles H. Smith,
who is a mmber of Cos. K, 325th in
fantry, 82nd division, which was
trained at Camp Gordon, now some
where in France. He writes that
London is a real city—somewhat lar
f ger than Flovilla, as he expressed it.
France is a very beautiful country
Mr. Smith writes and he has seen
very pretty cattle and wheat fields.
The 82nd division has already been
in action, though Mr. Smith’s letter
contained but little war nevts. He is
well and likes the army, the letter
stated.
GOVERNMENT ORDERS ALL
PAPERS TO SAVE PAPER
Drastic steps to save newsprint pa
pcr have been announced by the
government, a copy of which The
I'rogress-Argus, along with every pa
per in the country has received. The
notice is as follows:
Because of an acute shortage in the
su Pply of paper the War Industries
Board announced, effective July 15,
fhe follovVg preliminary economies
4 7 Be enforced by newspapers pub
"shing a daily and weekly edition:
Discontinue the acceptance of the
rfci urn of unsold copies.
Discontinue the use of all samples
or * ree promotion copies.
Discontinue giving copies to any
except for office-working copies
' r w ßere required by statute law in
JACKSON, GEORGIA, JULY 19, 1918
PAUL BYARS SLIGHTLY
WOUNBEG IN FRANCE
Butts County Boy Received Wound
In Left Hand
Mr. T. J. Byars has received news
that his son, Paul Byars, who is with
the Rainbow Division, Cos. C, 151st
Machine Gun Battalion, was wounded
on May 9. Whether the wound was
received in action or was due to an
accident is not clear. The wound was
in the left hand and Mr. Byars was
in the hospital for several weeks.
The last letter received from him,
written on June 15, and received last
Saturday, states that he veil soon re
turn to the trenches.
Paul Byars, Kirk Biles and Joe
Watkins are three Butts county boys
who went to France with the Rainbow
Division last fall. Formerly members
of the Jackson Rifles they transferred
to a Macon company in order to get
into action sooner. There has not
been a casualty in the Rainbow Di
vision so far, letters received from
these boys state.
PERSONAL VISIT
SECURES COAL
Mr. S. P. Nichols Makes
Trip to Mines
BOUGHT SEVERAL TONS
THINKS RELIEF CAN BE SECUR
ED BY KEEPING REPRESENTA
TIVE AT MINES—COAL ASSUR
ED FOR CHURCH AND SCHOOL
After a personal visit to coal deal
ers in Knoxville, Tenn., Mr. S. P.
Nichols was given assurance that he
would have shipped 100 tons or more
of coal. Mr. Nichols bought coal for
the First Baptist church, the Jackson
public schools and the operatives of
the Empire Buggy Company. The
latter concern is not on the preferred
list and cannot buy coal until other
essential industries have been sup
plied, it was stated.
Mr. Nichols is of the opinion
that any community desiring coal can
obtain results by sending a man to
the mines and getting in touch with
the shippers. While in Knoxville he
visJted a number of dealers and ac
quainted himselft thoroughly with
conditions.
JUDGE H. M. FLETCHER
IS APPEAL AGENT
Appointed By Governor to Handle
Claim* For Registrants
Judge H. M. Fletcher has been ap
pointed by Governor Dorsey as Ap
peal Agent for Butts county and wll
handle the claims of all registrants
who wish to take their cases up with
the district board.
The local board is now composed
of Judge J. H. Ham, chairman, Col.
W. E. Watkins, Dr. A. F. White and
Judge H. M. Fletcher, Appeal Agent.
the case of official advertising.
Discontinue giving free copies to
advertisers, except not more than one
copy each for checking purposes.
Discontinue the arbitrary forcing
of copies on news dealers (i. e., com
pelling them to buy more copies than
they ca nlegitimately sell in order to
hold certain territory.
Discontinue the buying back of pa
pers at either wholesale or retail
price from dealers or agents in order
to secure preferential representation.
Discontinue the payment of salar
ies or commissions to agents, dealers,
or newsboys for the purpose of secur
ing the equivalent of return prrvileges
Discontinue all free exchanges.
FARM LABOR TO
BE DISCUSSED
Governor Calls Number
ol Meetings
PLANNING FOR FALL HELP
PEOPLE OF THIS PART OF STATE
WILL GATHER IN MACON TO
DISCUSS LABOR SITUATION—
MANY GOING
Atlanta, July, 13.—Governor Dor
sey today issued a proclamation call
ing a serie sof meetings to be held
in six important centers in the state
for the purpose of discussing the mat
ter of devising ways and means of
harvesting and handling the crops
this year and for further aiding the
government in winning the war. The
proclamation says:
“Because of the necessity for a
sane and proper consideration of
tain grave problems which demand
immediate action meetings have been
arranged for the purpose of discuss
ing and devising ways and means of
completing the cultivation and accom
plishing and harvesting of the crops
of our state, and for the keeping in
full operation of all the industries
and enterprises necessary to our gov
ernment in the winning of the war.
These meetings are to be held as fol
lows :
“July 22, at Columbus.
“July 23, at Macon.
“July 24, at Brunswick.
“July 25, at Savannah.
July 26, at Augusta.
July 27, at Atlanta.
“We have reached a time in our
state and national life vhen every cit
izen should be a producer; and no
man, woman or child should be with
out his or her task.
“I am convinced that the people of
our state should be informed thor
oughly as to the prevailing conditions,
and I therfore, call upon every county
council of defense in the state of
Georgia, acting in the capacity for
which they were created to urge upon
all local officials, both county and mu
nicipal, as well as all citizens repre
senting every branch of our agricul
tural, industrial and civic life, togeth
er with those who hold positions of
public responsibility, either in the
pulpit or connected with the press of
our state, the paramount importance
of these metings, and the vital bear
ing of the matter to be discussed upon
the welfare of our nation.
“Believing that our people should
recognize it as a religious duty to de
vote every working day to the prose
cution of some essential employment,
I further urge that our ministers, re
gardless of denomination or creed, de
vote at least one service, on Sunday,
July 21, to a consideration of this im
portant theme.”
ENTRIES FOR PRIMARY
CLOSE ON AUGUST 15
AH Candidates Must Pay Assessments
Before That Date
Under the rules of the state demo
cratic executive committee entries
for the state primary of September
11 close on August 15. All candidates
must pay theis assessments by that
date. This applies to candidates for
the senate, governor, state house of
ficers and others.
This year’s election vill be held
under the Neill law, enacted in 1917,
provides that the candidate for any
specific office receiving the highest
number of votes in any county shall
be the nominee of that county for
the office in question; and that the
candidate receiving a majority of the
county unit votes in Georgia shall be
the democratic nominee of the state
for that office.
Five candidates are already in the
running for United States senator
and it is not likely that any more
candidates will announce for this of
fice.
INDIAN SPRIN6S HAVING
RECORD BREAKING CROWDS
Business This Year Is Best In History
Of Resort
The hotels at Indian Springs are
having the greatest business in their
history, and the week-end crowds are
larger than can be accommodated.
During the last week-end every room
in every hotel was occupied and many
visitors could not be accommodated
and had to be turned away. The
Wigwam, the Foy and the Elder ho
tel, as well as the other hostelries,
are filled to capacity.
An ever increasing number of peo
ple who visit Indian Springs travel by
motor. This accounts for the lai’ge
week-end business, Indian Springs’
natural advantages and good roads
making the resort easy of access and
a desirable place to spend a few days.
ICE ORDER HAS
BEEN REVOKED
Tbe Peach Crop Has Been
Moved North
ICE BUSINESS IS NORMAL
DR. SOULE PERMITS FACTORIES
TO SELL ENTIRE OUTPUT—
GEORGIA RAISED PEACH CROP
WORTH $12,000,000
The ice saving order of Dr. A. M.
Soule, federal food administrator for
Georgia, designed to help save the
peac hcrop, wis rescinded Saturday.
The order is as follows:
“Effective this date the order here
tofore issued from, this office re
quiring ice plants to set aside 20 per
cent of their daily outpdt to provide
for refrigration of moving crops, and
the simultaneous order directing that
ice plants not deliver in excess of
50 pounds daily to residences are
hereby rescinded, these orders,
through the magnificent spirit of co
operation on the part of the public
of the state generally and of the ice
plants, having served their purpose.
Publication hereof is to be taken as
official by all parties concerned.”
It is estimated the present peach
crop was worth $12,000,000 and the
ice saving order was responsible for
the savin gof the 8,000 cars of peach
es.
Dr. Soule still urges the people, on
account of the scarcity of ammonia
and its value for making ammuni
tion, to save all the ice possible.
RESOLUTION AIMEO AT
LOCAL LEGISLATION
Wants Legislature to Give More Time
To Important Bills
A measure of state-wide interest
was the resolution introduced in the
legislature Monday by Senator J. B.
Moore to eliminate local legislation
from the legislature and provide oth
er machinery to ctre for it. The res
olution was unanimously passed and
transmitted to the house for action.
The resolution provides that a com
mittee of three from the senate, to be
appointed by the president, and three
of the house, to be appointed by the
speaker, meet and draw up a bill to
eliminate local legislation from the
general assembly, and to provide for
other machinery to take care of it.
Such a bill, it is pointed out, would
result in a great saving to the state,
and would also prevent candidates
from running on purely local issues.
The issue in one county, Senator
Moore stated, was whether a certain
official should be paid $75 or SIOO
per month.
This resolution is in line with the
recommendation made by Governor
Dorsey in his recent message to the
general assembly.
Jackson Argus Established 1873 J
Butts County Progress Established 1882'
Consolidated July 9,1913
YOUNG MEN ARE
BEING CLASSIFIED
Large Number Placed in
First Class
FEW CLAIMS APPEALED
BOARD HAS NOT FINISHED CLAS
SIFICATION —MANY OF REG
ISTRANTS DID NOT FILE EX
EMPTION CLAIMS
Of the 65 men who registered on
June 5, 56 of that number have been
classified, five others are pending and
four registrants have appealed their
claims to the district board. Of the
56 classified so far 45 have been
placed in class A-l.
The different classifications are as
follows:
Class A-l
Marlin Spencer (appealed to dis
trict board), Clarence Hardy, Walter
K. Vickers, Jesse J. White, James M.
McMichaol, Ernest Evans, George H.
Freeman, Lewis Wise, Esca Harvey
Pace, James W. Watkins, Jr., Herbert
Ursery, Marshall Pope, William E.
Torbett, Jesse Foster, Jim Lawrence,
Aaron Thurmon, Wootson Wise, Er
nest Fears, Jesse Cotton, Fleet Ward,
George Crowder, Alvin Barnes, An
drew Goodrum, Chas. F. Stroud, Fears
Watson, Ernest Hammond, Ira H.
Cawthon, Chas. G. Hunter, James H.
Burford, Alonza Greer, Bernard J.
Maddox, Walter R. Hardy, Wm. F.
O’Neal, Emerson B. Wilder, Isiah
Johnson, Samuel G. Godsey, John
Williams, Joe Keith, Thos. R. Coch
ran, Oscar Cochran, Raymond Wood
ward, William Nelson Andrews, Ches
ter B. Harris, John Watts, Isaac T.
Crane.
Class A-4
Joe Smith, Walter P. Cook, Asa R.
Hardy.
Class 3-2
Albert Lamar, James D. Bohanon,
Hughlon R. Thornton, Will J. Moss,
W. A. Wise, Oscar Stubbs, C. B. Wise,
Homer Barber.
Cecil McGough, Luke B. W. Bond,
Henri A. Maddox and Jim Young
have appealed their cases to the dis
trict board on agricultural and in
dustrial claims.
The registrants will probably be
summoned for physical examination
the last of this week or the first of
next week.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
CALLS DR. M. MC N. M'KAY
Call Extended to Well Known Divine
of Arkansas
The Jackson Presbyterian church
has extended a call to the Rev. M.
|McN. McKay, who has been pastor of
the church at Fort Smith, Ark., for
twenty-seven years. It is not known,
if Mr. McKay will accept, though it
it is hoped he will act favorably on
the call. In case he accepts he will
serve Jackson, Fellowship and Stock
bridge, it is said.
In addition to being consecrated to
his work, Mr. McKay is a man of
more than ordinary ability and Jack
son Presbyterions will be fortunate
if they can secure his services.
Rev. James Bradley, of Monticello,
preached at the local Presbyterian
church Sunday afternoon.
J. W. MAYFIELD’S HOUSE WAS
BURNED FRIDAY NIGHT
Fir* Destroyed Homo While Family
Were at Church
The residence of ,Mr. J. W. May
field, of Flovilla, was destroyed by
fire about 10 o’clock Friday night.
The family were attending church at
Sandy Creek, and the origin of the
blaze is unknown. The house and all
the contents were burned. Insurance
partially covered the loss, which is
a considerable one, and Mr. Mayfield
has the sympathy of his friends in
this misfortune.
A mule which was turned out of
the lot during the fire strayed off
and Mr. Mayfield was busy for a day
or two trying to locate the animal.