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77ie All-Year-‘'Round Soft Drink
—The unusual soft drink with the delightful true fine
hops flavor. Approved for use by the Government
and immensely popular in U. S. cantonments, on
men-o’-war and with the American Public —because
Bevo is pure —wholly free from bacteria such as even
milk or water may contain.
Goes especially well with light repasts —cold cuts of
meat, chafing-dish dainties, fish and other sea food
dishes, salads, etc. Order by the case for your home.
Served everywhere—families supplied by grocers,
druggists or dealers.
Manufactured and bottled ejtcltuioely by
Anheuser-Busch Saint Louis
McDowell groc. co.
Distributors JACKSON, GA.
MR. T. N. MCKIBBEN IS
AMON6 LEADING AGENTS
That Mr. Thos. N. McKibben, man
ager of the Griffin agency of
the New England Mutual Life
Insurance Company, is making a fine
record is pleasing to his many
friends here and the folliwing letter
attests the high esteem in which this
popular agent is held by high offic
ials of the company:
New England Mutual Life
Insurance Company
Boston, Mass.
Robert J. Guinn, General Agent,
Atlanta, Ga., July 15, 1918.
Mr. T. N. McKibben,
Griffin, Ga.
Dear Mr. McKibben:
I want to extend my congratula
tions for the fine success you have
made in your work as manager of
the Griffin Agency so far for the
year and particularly for the unus
ually strong month you had in June.
Avery heavy quota was assigned to
you and it is a great tribute to your
efficiency and ability that you were
more than able to meet the require
ment.
It should be, and doubtless is a
matter of supreme satisfaction to
you that the Company through which
you place your business is one that
is noted for its fair-dealing and lib
erality to its policyholders, and that
more and more they will be gratified
at the results they will receive in con-
Don’t Let Catarrh Drag
You into Consumption
Avoid Its Dangerous Stage.
There is a more serious stage of
Catarrh than the annoyance caused
by the stopped-up air passages, and
the hawking and spitting and other
distasteful features.
The real danger comes from the
tendency of the disease to continue
Sts course downward until the lungs
become affected, and then dreaded
consumption is on your path. Your
own experience has taught you that
the disease cannot be cured by
GROW BIGGER CROPS
-AND
PERMANENTLY IMPROVE YOUR SOIL
-BY FERTILIZING WITH
CAMP GORDON HORSE MANURE
BUTLER & PINSON
ATLANTA Selling Agents GEORGIA
New England Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Boston, Mass.
Since organization in 1843 the company has received from policyhold
ers $209,277,033 and has paid for death losses, endowments, surrendered
policies, and returns of surplus, $157,627,798. It had on January 1 1917,
assets of $79,095,500 with which to meet all liabilities of $73,729,048.
Payments to policyholders and present assets exceed premiums re
ceived from policyholders by $27,446,266.
THOS. N. McKIBBEN
MANAGER GRIFFIN DISTRICT, GRIFFIN, GA.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918
50,000 NEGROES CALLED TO
VARIOUS TRAINING CAMPS
Georgia’s Quota of 3,350 Men Will
Be Sent toi Wheeler
Official announcement was made
Wednesday that Provost Marshal
General Crowder had called 50,000
negro registrants for military duty.
The men will be entrained between
August 1 and 5. Georgia’s quota of
3,350 men vail be sent to Camp
Wheeler, Macon.
Butts county has no colored regis
trants in class one, after filling the
call of July 31, and probably will not
have to furnish any men in the call
just announced.
nection with their insurance.
There is no better investment to
be found than that in sound, old-line
life insurance; and there is no higher
service that an individual can render
than by assisting his fellowmen to
provide for the dependent family or
for old age.
I am sending you herewith the
Company’s LEADING AGENTS’
CARD and congratulate you most
sincerely on your high rank on this
card.
I trust that your work for the re
maining months of the year may
bring you even greater results than
those so far achieved.
With sincere good wishes, I am
Very truly yours,
R. J. GUINN,
General Agent.
sprays, inhalers, atomizers, jellies
and other local applications.
S. S. S. has proven a most satisfac
tory remedy for Catarrh because it
goes direct to its source, and re
moves the germs of the disease from
the blood. Get a bottle from your
druggist today, and begin the only
logical treatment that gives real re
sults. You can obtain special medical
advice without charge by writing to
Medical Director, 27 Swift Labora
tory, Atlanta, Ga,
MANY FROM HERE ARE
ATTENDING INSTITUTE
About forty Butts county citizens,
including club members and farmers,
are attending the Farmers’ Institute
at the Sixth District A. & M. School
this week. Mrs. C. A. Butner, agent
of Home Economics, and Mr. J. H.
Blackwell, Farm Agent, went over
with the party. Some twenty-five
members of the girls and boys clubs
are attending, and among the others
are Mrs. S. B. Kinara, Messrs. S. J.
Smith, 0. N. Brownlee, W. jM. Craw
ford, 0. J. Martin, J. H. Kimbell, C.
V. McMichael, T B. Ridgeway, Jesse
McMichael, Jesse Martin, and many
others.
Butts county, Mr. Blackwell states,
has the largest attendance at the
institute of any county in the sixth
district, a fact that speaks well for
the interest shown in progressive
methods of farming.
Your friends can buy
anything you can give
them except your photo
graph. Get the best at the
Land Studio. Open all day
every day.
MONEY TO LOAN
AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST ON
CHOICE FARM LANDS AND IHPROV
ED CITY PROPERTY
H.M. FLETCHER
Jackson, Ga.
J. THREATT MOORES
Attorney At Law.
Office in Crum Building,
Jackson : Georgia.
Will practice in all the Courts.
C. L. REDMAIM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Carter-Warthen Building,
JACKSON, GA.
THE FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF GEORGIA
S. B. Kinard, General Agent
J. H. Pope, Local Agent
Jackson, Georgia
The army medical department has
developed a mobile X-ray outfit to be
carried on the standard army ambu
lance to the front line trench for the
benefit of wounded soldiers. It is de
sired by army surgeons to lose no
time in ascertaining the extent and
condition of wounds. The outfit is
made up of the Deice gas-electric set,
the high tension transformer, and
the special type of Coolidge tube.
ALL CHILDREN LOVE
“STROP OF FIGS” FOR
LIVER AND BOWELS
Give it When Feverish,
Cross, Bilious, for Bad
Breath or Sour Stomach
Look at tongue, Mother! If coated,
it is a sure sign that your little one’s
stomach, liver and bowels need a gen
tle, thorough cleansing at once.
When peevish, cross, listless, pale,
doesn’t sleep, doesn’t eart or act natur
ally, or is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach ache, sore
throatdiarrhoea, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of “California Syrup of
Figs,” and in a few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food
food and sour bile gently moves out
of its little bowels without griping,
and you have a well, playful child
again.
You needn’t coax sick children to
take this harmless “fruit laxative;”
they love its delicio-.-a taste, and it
always makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a
bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,”
which has directions for babies, chil
dren of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly on the bottle. Beware of coun
terfeits sold here. To be sure you get
the genuine, aßk to see that it is made
by “California Fig Syrup Company.”
Refuse any other kind with con
tempt. advt.
WILLIAM J. HARRIS
Candidate for the
£ United States Senate
|| ImHV r
The Man of the Hour, and Why
William J. Harris was born in Ce
dartown, Polk county, Georgia, Feb
ruary 3, 1868. He was educated in
the common schools of Polk county
and the University of Georgia, teach
ing school during the summer to pro
vide means for his college train ng.
In 1895, ho married Miss Julia Whee
ler, daughter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
the distinguished Southern cavalry
leader. Mr. Harris has three brothers
now serving in the United States
Army, Gen. P. C. Harris, MaJ. Seals
Harris and Capt. Hunter Harris. Many
young men have been beneficiaries
of Mr. Harris’ aid in obtaining an edu
cation to equip them for life’s work.
Political Service.
As Chairman of the Polk County
Democratic Executive Gommittee, he
succeeded in establishing the “white
primary,” in 1892.
As private secretary to Senator A.
S. Clay, and under the training of this
distinguished <|eorgian, Mr. Harris be
gan, in early life, to look after the
Interests in Washington of Georgians
from every section.
In 1912 Mr. Harris managed Presi
dent Wilson’s first campaign in Geor
gia; was elected chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, and played prominent part in roll
ing up the largest majority Georgia
ever gave a candidate for President.
Legislative Service.
Mr. Harris represented the 38th dis
trict in the state senate in 1911-12, and
there worked and voted for every
measure that would help the farmers
and benefit the taxpayers of the state.
Some of these Include:
(1) Mr. Harris introduced and aid
ed in the passage of the bill abolish
ing the unlimited fees of oil Inspec
tors, and fixing tffeir maximum salary
at SIOO per month. This law has
saved the state thousands of dollars.
In 1917 alone, it saved the state net,
$182,688.
(2) Mr. Harris introduced and pass
ed the bill requiring lobbyists to reg
ister, thereby eliminating the grafting,
professional lobbyist, and protecting
legislation.
(3) Mr. Harris advocated the sepa
rate leasing of the W. & A. Railroad
from the other state property in Chat
tanooga, a policy since adopted by the
“Lease Commission.”
(4) Personally, Mr. Harris has al
ways been a consistent prohibitionist,
and has always supported all measures
looking to freeing the state from the
liquor traffic.
National Service.
As director of the United States Cen
sus, to which he was appointed by
President Wilson, officials today say
that Mr. Harris was the most efficient
director since the bureau was estab
lished. The chief “criticism” against
his administration, made by Judge
Hughes, Republican nominee for Presi
dent, was that he appointed ao many
Georgia Democrats to positions in the
department.
President Wilson appointed Mr. Har
ris acting secretary of commerce, in
the absence of Secretary Redficld,
and cordially approved his services
and efficiency as a temporary member
of the cabinet.
Under Republican rule the Wall
street gamblers were permitted to
keep down the price of cotton by in
cluding in the census estimate the
number of bales of linters cotton. Mr.
Harris had the linters estimates sepa
rated from the regular cotton re
ports, which reduced the estimates
and tended to raise the price
of cotton. During Republican
rule, it was freely charged i
that there wore “leaks” in cotton esti
mates of the census bureau. Not once
since the administration of Mr. Harris
has there been the slightest suspicion
of a “leak” in the census reports.
In the census bureau, Mr. Harris
changed the “age limit,” fixed by the
Republicans, so that Confederate Vetr
rans could he given the same oppor
tunities an Union Veterans; and many
cld Confederate Soldiers are now hold
ing good places in Iho department. It
waß in keeping with his devotion to
the old notdiers. His father was a
brave Confederate Veteran, and li's
fnther-ln-law was the gallant “Little
Joe” Wheeler.
Promoted by the President.
Due to Mr. Harris’ efficient adminis
tration of the census bureau, President
Wilson promoted him by appointing
him a member of the federal trade
board. Recognizing his ability, his
colleagues, two years later, elected him
chairman of the board. Resigning to
enter his campaign for United States
senator as the loyal supporter of Pres
ident Wilson in winning the war, as
against the present Junior senator from
Georgia, Mr. Harris carried with him
the lcfve, esteem, confidence and best
wishes of his colleagues, the depart
ment heads and the President who had
further expressed his confidence in Mr.
Harris by the following additional ap
pointments:
(1) Appointed by the President as
member of the price fixing committee
of the war industries board, to fix
prices for army supplies. When New
England manufacturers endeavored to
fix the price of cotton, Mr. Harris op
posed them most vigorously. He also
brought charges against the “bagging
trust” which is now facing trial.
(2) The President named the sec
retary of agriculture, Mr. Hoover and
Mr. Harris a committee of three to In
vestigate the advisability of the gov
ernment taking over the meat packing
houses. The President’s confidence
was further expressed when Mr. Har
ris resigned, by the request that he
name his own successor, and Mr. Har
ris named Hon. Victor Murdoch.
The Confidence of Mr. Wilson.
Further indicative of the confidence
of President Wilson in Mr. Harris, is
the following conclusion of the Presi
dent’s letter accepting his resignation
from the federal trade commission to
run for the United States senate:
“May I not say how warmly I have
appreciated the way in which you have
performed the difficult and often deli
cate duties assigned to you in the'
trade commission? I ara sure that
I am expressing the general feeling
when I express my regret at your
withdrawal.
“Cordially and sincerely yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.
“Hon. William J. Harris,
“Federal Trade Commission.”
Mr. Harris’ Qualifications.
Mr. Harris is in close touch with
conditions at the national capitol. His
relations with the administration are
intimate, He has the confidence and
esteem of the President and ..depart
ment heads. Through these relations
he is in better position to represent
Georgia in the United States senate—
her people, her commercial, financial
and agricultural interests and to ren
der effective aid and service to Geor
gia soldier and sailor boys, fighting
for Americanism and Democracy,—
than probably any other Georgian
now in the public eye. Mr. Harris’
election will mean that the good
name of Georgia will be redeemed
from the charge of disloyalty
and “kaiserism” with which it
has been stained by the mis
representation of the recent past.