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Jackson is a Good Town
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VOL. 47—NO. 23
CLEAN-UP WEEK
BEING OBSERVED
Woman’s Club Working
For Better City
LASTS THROUGH FRIDAY
JACKSON WILL BE MADE SPIC
AND SPAN. WAR ON DIRT AND
DISEASE BEING WAGED BY
COMMITTEE OF LADIES
This is the voek of the Clean-Up
campaign inaugurated by the Wo
man’s Club of Jackson. Beginning
Monday the campaign will last
through Friday, on which date the la
dies will make a tour of inspection
and check up the results accomplished.
Very general co-operation is being
extended the leaders in this move
ment. Citizens as a whole are co-ope
rating unitedly and many unsightly
places have bee n rendered beautiful
and attractive, as well as healthful as
a result of this special campaign.
The city of Jackson has extended
liberal co-operation b ytuming over
the sanitary department to the Wo
man’s Club. The trash wagon made a
visit to each of the four wards and
removed all trash and rubbish that
was conveniently placed. Mayor W.
E. Watkins issued a proclamation
several days ago calling upon the cit
izens to observe Clean-Up week.
The campaign will result in much
good, not only in making the streets
clean and attractive, but removing
murh rubbish and waste matter from
the premises of citizens, and making
the entire city cleaner and more san
itary and a better place in whieh to
live.
The Woman’s Club deserves praise
for its progressive attitude in putting
on this campaign just at the begin
ning of the hot weather season.
COUPLE WEODED IN AIR
PLANE 2,000 FEET IN AIR
First Case of “High Flying” Matri
mony Reported
Houston, Texas, June I.—With the
deafening exhaust from two twelve
cylinder Liberty motors beating the
wedding march, Lieut. R. W. Meade,
of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Miss Marjo
rie Dumont, of Yorkville, Ind., were
pronounced man and wife more than
2,000 feet above the heads of 10.000
spectators at Ellington field.
The ceremony is the first of its kind
ever recorded, and a giant Handley-
Page bombing airplane wa s required
to accommodate the wedding party of
twelve persons.
Shortly after 4:30 p. m. the party
stepped into the huge plane and em
barked for the skies v.ith Lieut. E. W.
Kilgore, first aerial mailman between
New Yc-rk and Washington, as pilot,
and Chaplain Lieutenant J. E. Rees,
of Nevon, Ohio, acting as ‘j#re
enough” sky pilot. The ship left the
ground amid the shouts and cheers
of thousands and almost exactly at
5 o’clock the marriage ceremony was
concluded.
After the ceremony was completed
the pilbt drove the ship for a twenty
minutes cruise through light clouds.
DR. R. L. HAMMOND COM
PLETES MEDICAL COURSE
Finishes Four Year Courte But Ha*
Year in Hospital
Dr. R. L. Hammond, of Jackson,
has completed his four years at the
Augusta Medical College, the medical
department of the University of Geor
gia. He has another year in the hos
pital before receiving his diploma,
the curriculum novi requiring four
years of study i n the college and a
year in hospital work. Dr. Hammond,
who is the only student from the en
tire sixth congressional district in the
Augusta institution, has made a
splendid record and his friends ar 3
congratulating mm upo n tne comple
tion of the course of study. He was
one of a class of eight seniors to com
plete the prescribed course.
During the recent influenza epi
demic Dr. Hammond, as well a s the
other medical students, received val
uable experience in the practice of
medicine. Augusta was pretty thor
oughly afflicted with the epidemic and
*hll of the physicians were kept busy
. and the students of the college were
called in to help treat the hundreds
of cases.
Dr. Hammond will spend his vaca
tion at his home near Jackson and
plans to return to Augusta about the
first of October.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
POSTMASTERS ORGANIZE
AT MEETING IN MACON
Will Work to Bring About Adjust
ments in Salary
The Central Accounting Postmas
ters of Georgia formed an organiza
tion at a meeting held in Macon Fri
day. The purpose is to seek a re-ad
justment of salaries for these central
offices before a congressional com
mittee that is investigating salary con
ditions in post offices of the country.
It is claimed that there has been no
re-adjustments of salaries of post
masters in 37 years. There are 142
central accounting offices in Georgia,
operating under the old salary basis,
although it is asserted that additional
work has been heaped upo n these
postmasters, which has resulted in the
saving of hundreds of additional
clerks in Washington.
Miss Bessie Waldrop, postmaster at
Jackson, attended the meeting.
GOOOD SHOWING
IN ARMY CAMPAIGN
Country Raises Over The
Amount Asked
BUTTS COUNTY IS SHORT
REPORTS SHOW THAT COUNTRY
RAISED $13,000,000 AND OVER.
WORK HERE HINDERED BY
Various causes
Although Butts county fell a little
short of her quota on the Salvation
Army Home Service Fund, reports
coming in show that the amount asked
for, $13,000,000, has been subscribed
throughout the country.
Something more than sso*o was
raised in Butts county, out of a quota
of S7OO. Citizens seemed willing
enough to donate to this worthy
cause but nothing like a systematic
canvass was made of the county. The
Centenary drive hindered the work
somewhat, as well as bad weather.
Another factor was the forced ab
sence of Mr. H. J. Miller, ocunty
chairman, who was called to Kentuc
ky last week on account of business.
All things considered, Butts county
made a good showing in this campaign
and all those v.ho donated have the
consciousness of knowing they con
tributed to a deserving cause.
STATE POLITICS
TAKING FORM
May Be Walker, Holder
And Flyot
BLALOCK IS MENTIONED
CLIFFORD WALKER FIRST CAN
DIDATE TO FLING HAT IN RING
EXPECTED THAT SEVERAL
WILL MAKE RACE
The gubernatorial race assumed
definite shape Thursday, when attor
ney General Clifford Walker announc
ed that he be a candidate to
succeed Governor Hugh M. Dorsey.
Mr. Walker has engaged headquarters
j n the Kimbell house. He ha s been
mentioned in this connection for sev
eral months and his formal announce
ment did not occasion surprise.
Others prominently mentioned for
Governor are Hon. John N. Holder, of
Jackson county, speaker of the. house
of representatives, and Hon. J. J.
Flynt, cf Griffin, chairman of the
state democratic executive committee
and senator from the twenty-sixth
district. Both Mr. Holder and Col.
Flynt are expected to make a definite
statement within the next few weeks.
All the candidates spoken of for
this office are well known public men
and the race, from present indica
tions, promises to be a hard fought
one.
HON. S. J. FOSTER ON
COMMITTEE CF OFFICERS
Appointed Member of Clerks Commit
tee County Officer*
At the meeting of the Conuty Offic
ers’ Association at Tybee last week.
Judge S. J. Foster, clerk of Butts su
perior court, was appointed a member
of the Clerks Committe. These stand
ing committees, appointed from the
different officers comprising the asso
ciation, promote the general welfare
of the association.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY JUNE 6, 1919
BAPTIST CHURCH
PLANS CAMPAIGN
Will Work For A Larger
Attendance
IN ALL OF DEPARTMENTS
GREATER CHURCH MOVEMENT
PLANNED BY JACKSON BAP
TISTS. WANT EVERY MEMBER
TO ATTEND SERVICES
The first Baptist church of Jackson,
through a resolution adopted in con
ference on May 28, plans a Greater
Church campaign. The campaign is
designed to increase attendance of
the church services, the Sunday
School and the Prayer Meeting and
to enroll for membership all those
who should belong to the Home De
partment and Cradle Roll. Next Sun
day afternoon, June 8, has been nam
as the day for this campaign and
beginning at 3 o’clock six teams, com
posed of the deacons and ether mem.
bers of the church will cover the town
in the interest of this every member
canvass to make every department of
the church and Sunday School work
more interesting and helpful.
This is one of the most helpful
works ever undertaken by the church
and will no doubt be accorded a liber
al response and hearty co-operation.
A copy of the resolution, which will
be furnished every member of the
church and Sunday School is as fol
lows 4
Whereas, Our church services, Sun
day School, preaching and prayer
meetings are being greatly neglected
by our members, young and old, some
of them regularly absenting themsel
ves and others doing so frequently;
and
Whereas, The Lord’s day is being
desecrated by our members, young
and old, thus lowering the standard
of religion in our town, and hinder
ing the cause of Jesus Christ.
Resolved: That the church deplores
this situation, and that via urge our
people to give loyal support to the
Bible school, the preaching o n the
Lord’s day and the prayer meeting
during the week.
Resolved: That we ask the parents
to take as much interest in their chil
dren as church members as they did
to have them join the church, and to
set the good example by attending the
services themselves.
Resolved: That we, the officers and
deacons, take the initiative in this
matter and prove ourselves sincere
|in this announcement by attending
these services ourselves, and doing
what we can to make the Lord’s day
a day of worship rather than a day
of recreation and worldly pleasure.
| Resolved: That we ask the church
in conference to appoint a Sunday
; afternoon in the near future when
the deacons shall visit the entire mem
bership in the interest of a larger Bi
ble school, better church attendance
and better prayer meetings.
J Resolved: That we appeal to our
j god people to help us make this reso
lution effective. That a copy of this
paper be sent to every family in our
church with the prayer that every
member of the church will read and
give attention thereto.
DID WOMAN WED DEAD MAN
TO WIN CASH FROM HEIRS?
BDjb Ordinary Has iJnipus Case to
Decide Involving $30,000 Property
Matson, May 31.—Wag Pete Wor
thy, a wealthy Macon negro, a corpse
when the marriage ceremony by which
Annie Williams claims she became his
wife, performed? That is the question
which Ordinary C. M. Wiley is en
deavoring to solve and on it depends
the disposition of a large estate left
by Worthy.
The woman claims a common law
marriage between herself and Worthy
in Arkansas in 1917. Worthy vnnted
to make the marriage legal, she say.-.
A licensewas secured and the cere
mony performed three hours before
Worthy’s death by a Macon negro
minister, who testifies that Worthy
was in his right mind. Worthy’s two
sisters and brothers claim the mar
riage was performed after Worthy
had been dead for several houis and
his body embalmed.
GIVES $20,000 TO WES
LEYAN COLLEGE, MACON
In honor of her father and mother, j
a gift of $20,000 from the personal '
estate of Mrs. E. W. Bellamy, tc Wes- ]
leyan College has been announced by
the board of trustees. The property
is located near the college.
SIXTH DISTRICT MASONS
GOING TO MONTICELLO
Date of Annual Convention Named
For July 22
The Sixth District Masonic conven
tion v.wll be held in Monticello July
22. The meeting will be largely at
tended by the member lodges and
many prominent Masons, officers and
past officers of the grand lodge and
grand chapter, will be present. The
visitors will be entertained by Jasper
lodge No. 50, F. & A. M. and a barbe
cue is among the features planned
for-the entertainment of the visitors.
Hon. R. S. Talmadge, worshipful mas
ter of the Monticello lodge and a well
known Mason, is arranging the details
of the convention.
NEW TEACHERS
ARE ELECTED
Faculty Will Be Comple
ted Early Date
THREE OTHERS TO NAME
BOARD HELD MEETING MONDAY
AND ELECTED THREE TEACH
ERS FOR FALL TERM. OTHER
MEMBERS TO BE CHOSEN
With the exception of two teachers
in the high school department and a
teacher of the Domestic Science de
partment, the faculty of the Jackson
public schools is now complete. The
remaining teachers'Will be named at
an early meeting of the board of edu
cation.
Three teachers were elected by the
board of education Monday aftrnoon.
Mis 3 Thomas, of Plains, Ga.,
and Miss Carter, cf Climax, Ga.,
wera elected for the fifth, sixth and
seventh grades. Miss Munday, of
Berryville, Va., was elected in the
high shool depcartment.
All of the teachers are highly rec
ommended and v.UI add strength tc
the faculty for the coming term.
Members of the faculty already
chosen, in addition to those elected
Monday, are:
Superintendent—Prof. L. 'J Wat
son.
Principal—Prof. T. J. Collins.
Miss Annie Lou McCord—first
grade.
Miss Lois Biles—Second grade.
,Miss Davie Fletcher—Third grade.
Miss McClesky—Fourth grade.
Mrs. R. L. Smith—Music.
The board of education, of which
Mr. J. H. Carmichael is president,
hopes to complete the electioui of
teachers within the next few days.
A number of improvements are plan
ned on the school buildings and ac
tive work for the fall term will begin
within the next few weeks.
“RED FOX OF JASPER” AWAITS
TRIAL ON MOONSHINE CHARGE
jMacon, May, 31.—Waiting in the
county jail hero fro trial in the Unit
ed States Distrint Court and unable
to make bond is George Tillman,
known as the“ Red Fox of Jasper
County,” Tillman was arrested by
revenue officers yesterday and
brought to Macon on a charge of illic
it distilling. At the preliminary in
vestigation before Commissioner W.
E. Martin, Jr., it developed that Till
man had been manrfacturing a pretty
good brand of corn liquor for about
twenty years, but has been elusive
and hard to catch.
A short time ago Tillman leaped
from the second story window of a
building in Macon and escaped from
the officers. He has been caught twice
in twenty years and served term* on
each occasion.
“My only regret now,” Tillman de
clared, “is that I didn’t sell my liquor
for more than $6 a gallon.”
MONROE COUNTY BOY VIC
TIM OF UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
Contraction of Muecles While Prepar
ing to Throw Bali Breaks Arm
Forsyth, May 28. —While pb-yirg
ball yesterday Holmes Byrd, 16-year
old boy, broke his right arm between
the elbow and shoulder when he was
in the act of throwing from third to
first base. The youth vs not throw
ing hard at the ti <, and contraction
of the muscles is said to have caused
the break. The break was easily
heard over the field, and although he
knew the arm was broken when it fell
useless to his side, the boy says it
did not pain him much.
BUTTS ASKED
FOR SUPPORT
Mr. J. B. Settle Chairman
Boy Scout Work
PLAN SPECIAL SERVICES
COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO
MAKE CANVASS. BUTTS COUN
TY IS EXPECTED TO OBTAIN
333 NEW MEMBERS OF SCOUTS
Mr. J. B. Settle ha 8 accepted the
chairmanship for Butts county of the
Boy Scout campaign to raise 1,000,-
000 associate members during the
week of June 8 to 14.
He has appointed the following
committees to assist in the work:
Jackson, Ist ward—Otis Ham,
Hugh Mallet.
Second ward —C. L. Redman, G. B.
Carreker.
Third ward—S. P. Nichols, Jim
Bowden.
Fourth Ward—R. P. Sasnett, Sarah
Louise Furlow.
Flovilla—;Dr. A. F. White, W. A.
Dozier.
Jenkinsburg—W. D. Compton, Jr.,
H. C. Childs.
This campaign is intended to bring
to the front the work of the Boy
Scouts of America. There is now a
membership of 375,000, whereas the
number of boys in the United States
between the ages of 12 and 21 is
approximately 10,000,000. The quota
of the Atlanta or sixth federal re
serve district is 32,000, and the quota
of membership for Butts county is
333.
The Boy Scouts have done notably
good work. They sold $300,000,000
Vijrth of Liberty bonds, $50,000,000
worth of war savings stamps and cut
and helped to secure 20,000,000 feet
of walnut timber for building air
planes during the war. The organiza
tion is one worthy of hearty support.
The membership fee is $1 or more
a year.
There will be special Scout services
in the churches of the community.
Scouts are expected to be present in
uniform and give the Scout oath and
law. Other features are included in
the program to bring home to the
people the high class of service being
rendered by this band cf patriotic
young Americans.
CHEESE FACTORIES
IN NORTH GEORGIA
New Industry Profitable
to Farmers
GOOD MARKET AT HOME
FIRST FACTORY LOCATED AT
YOUNG HARRIS. OTHERS IN
NORTH GEORGIA. MAKES
MONEY FOF FARMERS
One of the new industries of the
state that is forging ahead is ch?ese
making in the mountain counties of
north Georgia. The first factory was
started near Young Harris and in a
short time two others will be in ope
ration. Behind it is an into -'? .
story of how the State College of
Agriculture, co-operating with the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, is
building permanent industries of one
kind and another over the state that
provide markets and assist the farm
er in making more money on the ‘
same land.
Although Georgia consumes cheese
in such quantities that carload ship
ments are made from Wisconsin none
has been made in the state until re
cently. The first factory was built in
| the spring of 1918 near Young Har
ris and the business started in a small
vny. L. H. Marlatt, Athens, Ga., is
in charge of the cheese factory work
in the state. Cheese making soon be
came a popular industry and the lit
lie laClOi y ii.u.it x* vitc ii -
day.
The two new factories that are be
ing built are nearly completed and
part of the machinery installed. One
is located six miles from young Har
ris and will be known ns the “State
Line Cheese Factory.” The other is
at Cleveland and will be known as the
“Cleveland Co-Operative Cheese Fac
tory.” These two new buildings will
be improvements ever the first one
put up at Young Harris.
The detailed report for April is
most gratifying. The net price per
pound of butterfat received by the
farmers was 84 Vi cents. Butter is
selling in that territory at from 20c
A Bond Issue Wisely
Expended will give Good
Roads in Every District
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
JUDCE HENRY McALPIN
HEADS COUNTY OFFICERS
Next Senion Will Be Held at Tybee.
No Change in Fees
Judge Henry McAlpin, ordinary oi
Chatham county, was elected presi
dent of the County Officers Associa
tion at the annual convention at Ty
bee last week. Oscar Groover, of
Thomasville, was elected sice presi
dent, and J. C. Cooper, of Miiledge
ville, was re-elected secretary and
treasurer.
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The next meeting will be held at
Tybee. The association decided not
to ask for higher fees, but to depend
on the volume of business to meet the
increased cost of 'iviug.
STEPSTO BOLSTER
STATISTICS LAW
Want Complete Record of
Births And Deaths
NEW LAW TO BE STRICT
UNLESS GEORGIA LAW IS EN
FORCED GOVERNMENT MAY
TAKE CHARGE. SUCH RECORD
VALUABLE HELP TO STATE
The State Bureau of Vital Statis
tics received during the month o 4
March 2071 birth certificates as com
pared with 864 in January and 1155
in February, an increase of 250 par
cent. The March report shows 158
more boys than girls, there being
1097 male and 939 female births.
1556 births were reported in white
families, 477 i n negro families. In
the 2071 birts, there were 36 sets of
twins, 30 white and and 6 negro; 2
sets of triplets, one white and one
negro; 1 set of quadruplets, white.
The report shows 56 illegitimate chil
dren, 10 white and 46 negro.
The quadruplets viere reported
from Walton county; Decatur and
Camden counties reported the triplets,
while Cobb, Floyd, Fulton, Glynn and
Pike counties reported two or more
sets of twins.
The physicians, midwives and un
dertakers of Georgia are required by
the state statutes to file birth and
death certificates with the Justice of
the Peace or city clerk in the districts
where the event occurred, under a
penalty of a fine of not less than $5
for the first violation and a $lO fine
or imprisonment for each subsequent
violation. Many physicians and mid
wives are laying themselves liable to
prosecution by ignoring this state sta
tute.
Unless the individual states secure
complete records, the federal govern
ment will take over the matter o 9
birth and death registration, on ar
count of the enormous expense ii
vlved i n securing such data as show
by the recent draft. The Georgia la*
wa 3 suggester by the federal census
bureau and the U, S. Public Health
Service. If the federal government
enacts such a statute, those who vio
late the provisiosn thereof v.’ll be
haled into a federal court, which is
generally considered a cold-blooded
proposition by those who have fallen
into its clutlhes.
Georgia believes in local self-gov
ernment. The physicians, midwive~
and undertakers must register theb
i births and deaths, the justices of th'
| peace and city clerks must make t
! local record of such and forward the
,certificates to the State Bureau of
| Vital Statistics, and the prosecuting
i attorneys of every county and the po
i lice departments of this state must
enforce this statute as they would
any other act of the Georgia legisla
ture, otherwise, complete birth and
death registration W *H he secured by
federal enactment.
COT TOM SEED INDUSTRY IS
OUT iJON I KOL
New York, May 30.—The American
relief administration, of v.iich Her
bert Hoover is director, announced to
day that the food administration had
cancelled all rules relating to the cot
ton seed industry and had withdiawn
all price regulations and agreements
regarding cotton seed and the pro
ducts manufactured therefrom, inclu
ding lard substitutes, as from May 31.
to 25c per pound. From present indi
cations the value of milk received
this season will be treble what it vm
last year.