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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
NOTICE
Cards of thanks will be charged
at the rate of fifty cents, minimum
for BO werde and less; above 50
ererds will be charged at the rate of
1 eent a word. Cash must accompany
aopy in aH instances.
LEGAL ADVERTISING MUST BE
PAID IN ADVANCE
Effective immediately The Prog-
Tess-Argus will not accept legal ad
vertising except when cash accom
panies the copy. This is the lavi
which will be followed without ex
ception hereafter. Attorneys and
■others interested will please take no
tice of this ew rule.
The rate for legal advertising is
fixed by law and is 75 cents per 100
words for the first four insertions
and 35 cents per 100 words for sub
sequent insretions.
UNWISE MEASURE
Any measure that interferes with
production in this country is an un
wise step. This is true with regard to
food crops, ns well as livestock, and
the products of factories and mines.
The world needs every ounce of food,
including meat, wheat, corn, oats,
hay, lard, sugar, cotton and other
staples that can be produced. It is
■entirely likely that the world will be
on short rations for some time to
come.
When it became evident that there
was to be a scarcity of wheat it was
the logical thing to do something to
•stimulate production to the last
notch. This is as important, if not
more so, than conservation of the ex
isting supply. So now when there is a
scarcity of sugar efforts should be re
doubled to increase the supply of
■crops from which sugar is made.
Great interest has recently been
shown in livestock raising in all parts
of the country and the number of
hogs, particularly here in Georgia,
has increased enormously. To meet
the emergency upon us we must both
produce more and save more.
Die restrictions being thrown
around th esale of a number of neces
sities are all the time being drawn
tighter. This cannot have a tendency
£o stimulate production. Those in au
thority should use the utmost discre
tion in promulgating regulations con
cerning the essential articles of food.
Had not the recent order of the food
administration concerning wheat
grown by Georgia farmers been chan
ged, it is doubtful if there would have
been much wheat planted in this state
juncther season.
The state and national authorities
should in every legitimate way en
•courage production. At the same time
a modem marketing system should be
devised that will give the producer a
fair return for the products of his la
bor. The present marketing system
is behind the times. To too large an
•extent the producer is at the mercy
<of the wholesaler.
Though we are in war and living
under war conditions we must be
governed by wise, just and fair meas
ures.
'“WHY IT WILL PAY”
- One of the simplest and yet most
•elective statements of the advertis
ing question is printed in the Swains
boro Forest-Blade under the above
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918
caption, as follows:
“This paper issues 2,000 copies ev
ery week and is read by approximate
ly 10,000 people. No less than $5 is
spent on each one of these readers a
year, making $50,000 spent with mer
chants by people reading this paper.
Now any wide-awake business man
cannot fail to see the advantage in
keeping his name and business be
fore this number of people, who
trade in the county where he is do
ing business. Even if you could
draw one-tenth of that trade by ad
vertising, which is a very low esti
mate, you would be drawing five
thousand dolars worth of business
your way. There is no use to stop
boosting business just because prices
are high and some goods cannot be
had at all, this is the very time to
boost your business. This war and the
present price conditions cannot last
always, and you are going to need
business after it is over with. If
you keep your business before the
people now don’t you think that you
will be able to hold it after the war.
Advertising cannot always be traced
to immediate results, but the results
keep on coming in, long after you be
gin advertising. If you think that
you have all the business you can do
anyway and that you are going to
keep this business, the first thing you
know you are going to be a dead mer
chant, in fact you are about dead now
but just don’t know it.”
SPEAK TO YOUR FELLOWMAN
It’s a funny thing when you come
to think of it—this holding of one’s
nose high in the air when somebody
passes who is considered not worth
speaking to. Some people never know
others they meet daily for years just
because they were never properly in
troduced. Other people may sell you
goods for years, or buy goods from
you for years, and never know you
v.’ien you meet on the street. Some
wise old man has said that a special
place has been reserved in heaven for
the snobs, where they will never come
in contact with the angels whose
feathers may be a little ruffled.
One thing is certain, and that is
that this war has kocked out a lot
of snobbery from most of the English
people and is knocking some of it out
of the American people. A smile, a
bow, or a pleasant word is worth
more than money, and will make a
nation and its people great, where
snobbery would cause its downfall.
Riches do not always make snobs.
Some of the worst sobs are the imita
tors, the ones who want others to
imagine they are rich in money or
blue blood. Sometimes it is the bank
er who has a smile or pleasant word
for everyone, while the insignificant
employe, who is puffed up with a lit
tle authority, passes by with never a
look at those he comes in contact with
daily. It’s a mighty small world after
all and little room is left in it for
snobs.—Athens Herald.
INFORMATION ABOUT SOLDIERS
Any information about Butts county
soldiers in France or in training
camps at home, as well as sailors
and marines, will be gladly received.
The movement of troops cannot be
anticipated, advance information be
ing forbidden by the government, but
new locations of troops may be given.
In case of accident or injury to agy
Butts county man now in the sendee,
The progress-Argus will appreciate a
prompt report of same.
The paper desires to keep in close
tuuch with the boys, and is always
glad to 1 do anything that will add to
the comfort or convenience of the
men at the front.
A great many of the boys are al
raedy receiving the paper every week.
After you have finished reading your
copymail it to some boy at the front
and show that you are interestedaan
the welfare of the men fighting your
battles.
POLITICIANS AND THE PRESS
Whenever you see a politician turn
against the newspapers and begin to
abuse them you may be dead sure
that he has either unwittingly blund
ered or gone wrong—maybe both—
and that he realizes he is losing out
with the people. His mistakes or sins
have found him out, and he lays all
the blame on the newspapers, whose
business it is to print the news and
tell what public men do or don’t do.
We have two such men in Georgia to
day. One is at present a United States
senator and wants to be re-elected,
and the other is a member of the low
er house of congress and wants to be
senator. Both are going over the
state abusing the n ev*?paper s and
denouncing them as liars and slander-
ers. And all because their own re
cords have bee nheld up to the public
through the newspapers' The news
papers haven’t made these records.
Each of these men has made his own
record; the newspapers have merely
been the medium through which the
records have been laid before the
public.—Albany Herald.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Bouquet for Hoke
Senator Hoke Smith fought the pro
hibition in the senate a few days ago.
He fought it to the last in the state.
Atfid he Is the knan that had the gal at
the fountain.—Commerce News.
Yes, and he is the same man who
wanted to stock Georgi a with a
flood of German immigrants.—La
Grange Graphic.
“Still” Waltz
A young lady demanded of her
sweetheart that he dance with no oth
er than herself. She objects to him
hugging any other girl. There is a
serrmon in this demand made by the
young lady. Hugging is hugging,
whether with or without music. We
have never been able to see the dif
ference.—Meriwether Vindicator.
W. J. Is A Good Claimer
If W. J. Harris would run on his
merits instead of clinging to President
Wilson’s coat tail he would make
more headay. The voters of Georgia
are capable of electing their own sen
ator and they propose to do so this
year.—Jackson Progress-Argus.
If W. J. Harris would run on his
own merits he would never get any
where. He had to tie on President
Wilson’s coat-tail to ever attract any
attention. Even hanging on the ap
pendage of the President’s coat, W. J.
has failed completely to arouse any
enthusiasm among the voters of the
state. Politician s can promulgate
plans and put out candidates, but it
takes the votes of the people to elect
.them to office.—LaGrange Graphic.
LElffl JUICE IS
FRECKLE REMOVER
Girls Make This Cheap
Beauty Lotion to Clear and
Whiten Your Skin
Squeeze the juice of two lemone
into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white, shake well, and
you have a quarter pint of the best
freckle and tan lotion, and complex
ion beautifier, at very, very small
cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for a few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see
how freckles and blemishes disap
pear and how clear, soft and white
the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless
advt.
NEGRO BLIND TIGERS ARE
FLUSHED BY OFFICERS
In an effort to capture Dave Wise
and Tom Belchum, two negro men
suspected of having liquor in their
possession, officers Lavender and
Thornton fired sveeral shots to fright
en the men, on Benton street Friday
night. Wise was caught, and the mule
and buggy used by the pair were also
taken by the officers after a hard
chase. Belchum made his escape.
PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE
The hot sun is doubly dangerous if
there is a mass of undigested food in
the stomach, causing distress and
auto intoxication, casting congesting
fioisons throughout the system. Fo
ey Cathartic Tablets give prompt
and sure relief. They act gently but
do their work thoroughly. They
cleanse the bowels, sweeten the
stomach and benefit the liver. Rec
ommended for indigestion, bilious
ness, bad breath, bloating, gas or con
stipation. Carmichael Drug and Book
Company, adv.
HENRY NEWTON, NEGRO MAN,
ARRESTED NEAR JACKSON
Henry Newton, a negro man, was
arrested Friday on the J. S. Ham
place on a charge of making liquor.
The outfit was destroyed and the de
fendant lodged in jail.
No Worms In a Healthy Child
All children troubled with worms have an un
healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a
rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly
for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, im
prove the digestion, and act as a General Strength
ening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then
throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be
in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 6Cc per bottle.
“TJUST want to thank you for Dr.
-I Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It is fine.
I use it for my baby, my husband and myself,
and simply can’t do without a botde of it in
the house.”
/From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by\
I Mrs. John W. Christensen, 603 So. 2nd 1
V East, Brigham City, Utah J
Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin
!The Perfect Laxative
Sold by Druggists Everywhere
50 cts. G>) SI.OO
Quickly corrects disorders of the intestinal
tract, relieves the congestion and restores nor
mal regularity. It is gentle in action and’does
not gripe. A trial bottle can be obtained by
writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 458 Washington
St., Monticello, Illinois.
NEWS OF THIRTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO IN THE COUNTY
(From Middle Georgia Argus,
July 28, 1883)
Mr. A. H. Smith has bought a fine
lot in front of Col. Catchings’ and is
building a fine residence on the same.
A difficulty occurred on Wednes
day nigght at Indian Springs between
Wiley Rogers and Oliver Lyons, in
which the latter was killed by a rock
in the hands of Rogers. The coroner’s
jury returned a verdict of justifiable
homicide, and the prisoner was re
leased.
The editorial department of this
paper will hereafter be conducted by
Col. Marcus W. Beck. JMr. Beck is a
fluent writer and will give the readers
of the Middle Georgia Argus due in
formation on the absorbing topics of
the day, political and otherwise.
We understand that if something is
not done pretty soon our friend, Tom
Bell of Towaliga, will have to be sent
to the asylum. It’s a girl and Tom
is about crazy with delight.
Hon. James H. Blount and Mr. W.
A. Juhan, of Macon, are spending a
pleasant sojourn at the residence of
Col. E. P. Catchings this week.
The bridge over South River near
Capt. Walthall’s is to be finished this
viaek.
Work has been commenced on the
Flat Shoals bridge.'
There has been going on at the
Baptist church since last Friday a
glorious revival. There is a deep and
earnest work for the Master’s King
dom. There has been some very ear
nest and able sermons preached. The
pastor, Rev. Wm. McMichael, assisted
by several visiting ministers has done
able work and lasting good. Rev.
Thos. J. Beck, president of the semi
nary at Tennille, brother of Prof.
Beck of our city, has preached very
able sermons.
There will be a big barbecue and
picnic at Juliette on Friday, 3rd day
of August next. Col. Blount, Harde
man and other distinguished orators
will deliver addresses.
A Texas Wonder
The Texas Wonder cures kidney
and bladder troubles, dissolves grav
el, cures diabetis, weak and lame
backs rheumatism, and all irregular
ities of the kidneys and bladder in
both _men and women. Regulates
bladder troubles in children. If not
sold by your druggist will be sent by
mail on receipt of SI.OO. One small
bottle is two months’ treatment, and
seldom ever fails to perfect a cure.
Send for testimonials from this and
other states. Dr. E. W. Hall, 2926
Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Sold by
druggists, advt.
UNCLE SAM PRACTICES THRIFT
BY PATCHING THE GARMENTS
Methods of thrift now enforced in
the Army Quartermaster General’s
Office, including the repair of cloth
ing and shoes, where possible, have
cut down the issue of new clothing
and shoes from 30 to 40 per cent in
some instances.
The plants where the mending is
done are run in connection with forts
and camps by the camp quartermas
ter. When a soldier tears or rips a
garment he turns it in to his supply
officer. When the soles of his shoes
DESERTER FROM BUTTS
COUNTY CAUGHT IN ATLANTA
Monk Jones Spikes, an alleged ne
gro deserter from Butts county, was
captured in Atlanta last week by dep
uty sheriff W. F. Lavender. He is
said to have failed to answer his
questionnaire, and was working a
few miles out of Atlanta, when nab
bed by officer Lavender and turned
over to the authorities.
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wear out or the heel runs down, the
shoes go back to the same officer.
These garments and shoes are taken
to the repair shops managed by thwe
conservation and reclamation officer.
When repaired and put in order they
are returned to the original owner if
possible, and if the original owner
can not be located they serve some
other soldier.
Hundreds of women are being em
ployed by the War Department in the
w'ork of repairing the garments of
soldiers and in the laundries at camps
and cantonments. Preference in this
employment is given the waves, sis
ters and mothers of men in the ser
vice. By paying $1 a month a soldier
is entitled to a weekly bundle of
laundry in which the number of ar
ticles is not limited. The women
mend and repair all garments before
they are laundered.
Grove’s Tasteless chill Toole
restores vitality and energy by purifying and en
riching the blood. You can soon feel Its Strength
ening, Invigorating Meet. Price 60c.