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L 46— No. 43
putts County and Sixth District “Go Over”
Etli Liberty Loan Is Oversubscribed
llore Than 800 Butts Countians Buy Bonds
pAIRMAN HAM THANHS THOSE
CONTRIBUTING TO THE VICTORY
Some Di&ridts Behind But The
County Quota is Oversubscribed
It will be gratifying news to every
citizen of Butts county to know
tot she oversubscribed her quota
of $189,150.00 in the drive of the
Fourth Liberty Loan.
Chairman W. O. Ham and his va
rious committees were untiring in
their work and the success of the
drive was largely due to this fact.
Owing to the epidemic of Spanish in
fluenza the work was greatly hinder
ed, causing the sales committees to
have to cover more territory and do
more canvassing on account of pub
lic gatherings being prohibited the
last few days of the drive.
The last week of the Fourth Liber
ty Loan Campaign in Butts county
wa s hy far the most interesting and
exciting period of the drive.
On Monday night the different
sales committees were called together
and announcement was made that it
would be necessary to secure $24,000
in subscriptions by Saturday night in
order to go “over the top.”
Tuesday night the Hon. J. T. Coch
ran made a patriotic address at Jen
kinsburg to the citizens of Buttrill
district, and a number of new sub
scriptions were added to the list.
Thursday morning Chairman Ham
wiled a letter to each of the twenty
five committeemen calling attention
to the fact that the county vsas still
short hert quota and challenged each
of the committeemen to sell with him
$1,000.00 worth of Liberty Bonds by
the end of the week. The challenge
ws accepted by a number and at a
meeting Thursday night it was found
that the amount to be raised had been
considerably reduced.
Friday night a final meeting was
hold by the Liberty Loan Organiza
tion and plans made for the comple
tion of the job on Saturday. A com
mittee of five visited every place of
feness in Jackson Saturday mom
®g and enlisted the assistance of all
the salespeople in selling bonds dur
itthe day. The cheerful co-opera
tion of every employee was pledged
J nd the greetings of the day were
changed from “Good Morning” to
"Have you Bought a Liberty Bond.”
tiith the Campaign on the eve of
closing and with all committees work
like, fury to put the drive over, an
touncement of an additional subscrip
hon for $20,000.00 by Dr. R. W.
‘Jays for his two grandsons, John
; illie Mays, Jr., and Robert Gibson
ays. came as a climax —for Butts
fty had gone over the top. Dr.
%shad earlier in the campaign sub-
*° rs ' this making them a total of
*21,000.00.
Later reports showed that Buttrill
strict had also gone over vv.th he,
apportionment and this added joy to
l e sdctory.
, Quota and amount subscribed
J eac L district is given below for
® benefit of those wishing to see
each district stood at the close.
®ttriu district qouta 16,300.00
■> , am ount subscribed 16,500.00
district suota 10,200.00
Ji u. arn °unt subscribed 13,000.00
*, ) n district quota 7,050.00
, amount subscribed 3,600.0
Spgs district quota 21,130.0)
L a, uount subscribed 24,700.0^
district quota 7,00 0 uu
I amount subscribed 5,350.00
JACKSON, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 25, 1918
Jackson distrit quota __ 106,550.00
Total amohnt subscribed 114,750.00
Towaliga district quota__ 12,550.00
Total amuont subscribed 11,400.00
Worthville district quota 7,850.00
Total amount subscribed 3,150.00
Eight hundred and more people
subscribed to the Fourth Loan making
a grand ttal of $192,450.00.
Butts county’s quota was $189,-
150.00, and was oversubscribed to the
amount of $3,300.00.
CHAIRMAN HAM THANKS
ALL WHO HELPED WIN
Editor Jackson Progress-Argus:
Please allow me space to express
my appreciatio nto all of the members
of the Liberty Loan Organization in
Butts county whose faithful and un
tiring effrts made the campaign a suc
cess.
I also want to thank and congratu
late each of the 800 subscribers in
Butts county who made the victory
possible. The large number of sub
scribers is concrete evidence of Butts
county’s loyalty to our government,
and is proof that her citizens are
backing the government with their
means as well as their sons.
I am confident there will be re
joicing among the men from Butts
county who are on the battle from
when they learn that we are standing
behind them to the limit.
“Yours for Beating the Boehe W i-h
Butts County Liberty Ends.”
W. O. HAM, Chairman.
FPIDEMIC OF “FLU”
,s NOW ON THE WANE
Physicians State The Situation is Now
Under Control
The physieianTofthe county state
that they believe the
Spanish influenza is on the wane
this county. The closing of all public
this county materially
meeting places has *P e ®
in combating the disease. But few o
the cases have been considered ex
tremely serious.
INCoME s„%S^* ease
D „ th. Higher Frrigh, .i P
senger Rates of Recent Dat
. . "7w 21 —lncreased
Washington, Oct. t ■ an( j
retUnl ;! e frTtes th are now "apparrent for
passenger rates railway
the first time in comm erce
earnings to th made pubh c
commission for income of
today, show an
$128,123,000
000,000 more than to
Operating re $136 ,000,000
e-09 759 000 which was
1 n in August last year. At
more than m * expenses m
the same or $112,000,-
creased to $358, 1917.
000 more than >” £ , hat the
The report ma ra;lroads jn corn
government ha s p d M months ending
pensation m the Q 000 00 0 more
sth opening
than it I* "' roads KP“ rted
inCOm ? of STB,7-s,°o°, expen= ” f
j't"”!o00 and net income o.
494,000.
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FINAL PLANS
FOR WAR WORK
Convention To Be Held
In Jackson Nov. 1
W.D.UPSHAW!TO SPEAK
OTHER SPEAKERS WILL TALK
ON THE VARIOUS PHASES*OF
THIS SPLENDID WORK AMONG
AMONG THE MEN
On Friday, November 1, there
will be held at the court house in
Jackson a county convention In
the interest of the United War
Work Campaign to which the
public is cordially invited and
every member of the district and
county committees are urged to
attend.
An inspirational address on
the United War Work will be
made by Hon. Wm. D. Upshaw
of Atlanta. Mr. Upshaw was
recently elected congressman
from his district and is known
far and wide as one of the best
speakers in Georgia.
The chairman is endeavoring
also to have present on this occa
sion a returned soldier who will
tell of the work these organiza
tions are doing overseas. Other
speakers will talk on various
phases of the drive, among them
will be a woman speaker to tell
of the important work the wo
men of the county are called up
on to do in this campaign.
The county chairman earnestly
desires that every minister in the
county will co-operate in making
the campaign a success by giving
prominence to the United War
Work movement in their morn
ing discourses Nov. 3 and Nov.
10th.
Let every patriotic person who
can, be at the meeting Friday,
Nov. 1, at 2 to 4 p. m.
Butts county is now organizing
and getting everything in readi
ness for the United War Work
Campaign which is to be pulled
off during the period ot Novem
ber 11 to 18. inclusive. County
chairman, Mr. J. B. Settle, is
perfecting the preliminaries for
a co-operative drive that will
cover every part of the county.
Having just completed her
quota inlhe Fourth L berty Loan
with a handsome m rgin, it is
expected that the county will not
fail to do her share in this cam
paign, which is to raise money
t 0 m ake the lives of our soldiers
and sailors more pleasant.
Georgia’s Quota in the coming
drive has been fixed at $1,585,-
755 and of this sum each of the
ten districts into which the state
has been divided will furnish its
county is assigned to the
Macon district which is is com
posed of Butts. Jasper. Putnam,
Pikp Mnnrop, Jones, Baldwin,
L pson, BiDD, iwiggs, Wilkinson,
SIXTH DISTRICT SUBSCRIBED
$25,000,000 OVER ITS QUOTA
Will Be Several Days Before
Returns Can Be Tabulated
GIVE MILLS "HUN
GER TREATMENT”
Advice ol State Depart
ment of Agriculture
WAIT FOR FAIR PRICE
POINTS OUT SOME OF THE CON
DITIONS CONTROLLING THE
COTTON SITUATION —URGES
GROWERS MARKET SLOWLY
Atlanta, Oct. 23—Apply the “Hun
ger treatment” to the cotton mills, is
the advice of Commissioner of Agri
culture J. J. Brown, to the cotton pro
ducers of Georgia and the South, until
they are willing to pay a fair price
for the product.
“While reasonable market fluctua-
tions are expected,” Commissioner
Brown says, in a statement just given
the press, “the recent considerable
decline is due solely rip manipulation
and a meagre hand-to-mouth system
of taking by the mill men. Its just
their same old plan; and it serves to
emphasize just now, the importance
of our advice to the farmer, continu
ally given this fall, to go slow in mar
keting.
“The demand for products from
cotton is greater than in many years.
Cotton goods are selling, in some
cases, even higher than silks. Manu
facturers are making money as never
before. In driving cotton down, they
are merely fattening their own pocket
books at the expense of the farmer.
They have got to have cotton to meet
their contracts and they are going to
buy it.
“These are the facts which should
furnish the basis of action by the pro
ducer. The few who persist in rush
ing their cotton to market at any
price, are hurting themselves and the
many others who, in a gratifying de
gree, are holding off the market.
They are helping the mills defeat the
law of supply and demand.
“Talk of government price fixing
lias been silenced through the effort•>
of the Cotton States Marketing Board
There is no danger of it novi, and the
wise farmer will wait until a reason
able market justifies the offering of
his product to those who need and
must have it.”
THE HONORABLE ORDER
The Briton :Since the King has been
honoring your military men you
Yanks will be able to boast of a fev
Knights of the Bath.
The Y;.nk: We’ve always had ’em
Saturday nights.—Cartoons Maga
zine.
Crawford. Macon. Houston, Pu
laski. Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens,
and Telfair.
The quota for the Macon dis
trict is $170,000. the quota for
Butts county not having been an
nounced yet.
!£l! tub
The sixth federal reserve dis
trict oversubscribed its quota of
$192,000,000 to the amount of
$25,000,000 according to a state
ment given out Tuesday by W.
C. Wardlaw, chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of the district
It will be impossible to secure
exact figures on the district for
several days to come, as the re
ports are rather slow in coming
in and no detailed compilation of
the returns is yet available.
All of the campaign leaders for
fhe district are intensely grati
fied at the result of the drive,
and Mr. Wardlaw has given out
a public statement paying trib
ute to the various agencies which
aided in the success of the cam
paign.
DEATH OF MISS EISEMAN
OCCURRED SATURDAY NIGHT
Young Lady Die* While on Visit to
Her Brother
The death of Miss Helen Eiseman
of Ashbum, occurred Saturday night
at the home of her brother, Mr. S. H.
Eiseman, in thi s city.
Miss Eiseman was eighteen years
of age and a most attractive young
lady. She had been visiting her broth
er here only about ten days. Several
days ago she was attacked with Span
ish influenza which developed almost
immediately into pneumonia, v*hich
caused her death.
She is survived by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Eiseman, of Ashbum,
and one brother, Mr. S. Tl. Eiseman,
of this city. The body was carried
to Atlanta Sunday evening. Upon
leaving the relatives were undecided .
whether the interment would take
place in Atanta or New York, the old
home of the family.
GROWERS MAY CARRY
COTTON BACK TO FARMS
Fitzgerald, Oct. 21. —more than
5,000 bale s of cotton are being held
hy farmers in local warehouses on ac
count of the uncertain market. A
movement is on foot by growers to
carry their cotton back to the farms
to save insurance and warehouse
charges. The high price of cotton
early in the season enabled the farm
ers to pay up most of their debts and
so find themselves in a position to
hold their surplus cotton for a better
market condition.
MUST PAY AUTO TAX
TO SELL IN THE COUNTY
Atlanta, Ga., October 10.—In ans
wer to two questions propounded by
the court of appeals to the supreme
court as to whether every automobile
dealer is required to pay a tax in
each county in whic hhe operates and
if an employee of said dealer working
on a salary is guilty of a misdemeanor
if he solicits sales in a county where
the dealer has not paid his tax, the
i supreme court replied in the affirma
tive.
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