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VOL. 47—NO. 25
VILLA’S GANG
QUICKLY LICKED
*
American Soldiers Cross
Mexican Border
PRISONERS ARE TAKEN
BRUSH RESULTED IN EASY VIC
TORY FOR AMERICAN TROOPS.
ONE DAY AND NIGHT ALL THE
TIME REQUIRED FOR FIGHT
El Paso, Texas, June 16.—Ameri
can troops that participated in the
punitive expedition against the Villa
rebels in and near Jaurez last night
and today were billited in barracks
and camps on the American side to
night after twenty-four hours of cam
paigning.
. Several ragged Mexican prisoners
I were herded toward the Fort Bliss
vstockade by a detachment of the
/Fifth Cavalry v.ihile another cavalry
detachment drove a herd of 100 cap
tured Mexican horses and ponies to
the remount station.
It was unofficially stated tonight at
Fort Bliss that approximately fifty
Vi !, a followers were killed.
One American of the Seventh Cav
• airy, was shot through the lung by a
Mexican rebel.
After crossing during the night the
cavalry column, supported by a bat
talion of the 82nd artillery, advanced
and at daybreak began a scouting
tour. Capturing the seven prisoners
before reaching the Villa camp, the
cavalry wa s enabled to proceed, dis
mounted, to a short distance of the
adobe headquarters when fighting
was begun with the Americans stand
ing in water up to their knees.
Four Villa men were killed in the
first assault and the entire force num
bering approximately 200 men, moun
ed and escaped toward the southwest
vcth the cavalry troops in pursuit.
The rebels scattered into small bands,
b the Fifth cavalry pursuing one band
||Bs miles.
Hfjl In the meantime the Seventh Caval
•;ry deployed to, the southeast and pur
sued another band. Troops A and C
executed a mounted pistol charge
from the saddle and killed a nur.iher
of the rebels. The artillery piaced
shrapnel directly over the heads of
the fleeing Villa forces and many
were killed. After the pursuit the two
cavalry forces formed a junction and
returned to the American side of the
river, accompanied by the artillery
and Eighth Engineers.
SERGEANT HODGES AT
1 HOME AFTER SIX YEARS
KHas Taken Part in Four Wars in
* Twenty Years
First class Sergeant Wm. H. Hodges,
wbw is spending several days with his
brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. R. N.
Etheridge, enjoys the rather unique
distinction of having participated in
all the wars in which the United
States has been engaged for the past
twenty years. He has been in the reg
ular army for twenty year s and dur
ing that time has taken part in the
Spanish-American war, Phillipine in
surrection, the scrap on the Mexican
border and the recent world war. He
went to Europe at the outbreak of
the war with the First division of reg-
was transferred to the
, 89th and wound np his service over
-1 seas as a member of Cos. C 314th
Field Signal Battalion.
Sergeant Hodge§ had a close call
when a piece ofshrapnel knockout one
of his front teeth. Otherwise he
emerged from the conflict unhurt.
Thy is his first visit at home in six
years. He is on a six weeks furlough
and will be stationed at Camp Upton,
near New York. Sergeant Hodges has
had some interesting experiences dur
ing his long service and is being cor
dially welcomed not only among rnem
berg'of hi ß family but by the oecple
of the city.
ATTENDING REUNION OF VET
ERANS IN DAWSON THIS WEEK
Several Butts county veterans, in
cluding Messrs. F. C. Stephens, S. H.
fays, J. M. Ball and Z. T. Buttrill,
I. H. Thornton, J. E. Kitchens, E. C.
awthon, J. M. T. Mayo, Hamlin
| Jiompson are attending the state re
* !\(po n of the Confederate veterans in
IYWaon this week.
V (Cite reunion was opened Tuesday
\ a program of exercises of much
interest to the veterans had been ar
ranged. The visitors were well en
tertained during their stay, a barbe
cue being one pf the features.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
WILL ENFORCE THE
SPEED LIMIT ORDINANCE
Instructions Given Officers to Make
Cases for Violations
City council announces its intention
to enforce the ordinance against
speeding and running automobiles
with cut out open. There h* s been
quite a bit of complaint on both of
these scores recently, so much so that
members of council have been stirred
to action. From this time on, it is
declared, cases will be made against
all those exceeding the speed limit
and those running cars with the cut
out open.
There is now in force an ordinance
against both of these practices, but
the restrictions have not been rigidly
enforced.
Instructions have been given the
policemen to make cases for violation
of the speed limit and cut out open
ordinance, it was stated by members
of council Monday.
FAIR WILL GIVE
HANDSOME PRIZES
More Than $1,280 Cash
Premiums Offered
NEXT MEETING SATURDAY
FAIR ASSOCIATION WILL STIMU
LATE INTEREST BY GIVING
LARGE CASH PRIZES. ACTIVE
WORK STARTS SOON
Prizes aggregating 81,27.') will be
offered by the Butts Cour.tv Fair As
sociation Tor the winners in the coun
ty fair this fall. It was decided a
meeting held in the court house Fri
day to offer the most liberal pre
miums ever given by the Fair Asso
ciation.
The premiums will be divided as
folio Wo.:
Girls Canning club and Poultry
club, S2OO.
Boys Corn club, Pig and Calf clubs,
$175.
Agricultural department, SSOO.
Live stock department, S3OO.
LadieS’ department, SIOO.
Another meeting of the fair associa
tion will be held in the court house
Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at
which time the date for the fair will
be selected. It is also planned to have
all .committees ready by that date, as
well as a preliminary report on the
premium list.
Just a s soon as it can be arranged
the premium list will be printed and
distributed among the people of the
county. By making the premiums
larger it is believed there will be more
and better exhibits and greater in
terest all around.
Active work will be started on the
fair at once. Every officer sliou’d be
present at the meeting Saturday and
lend his encouragement to the fair
movement. Come out and say wheth
er or not you are going to be behind
the fair this fall. It takes more than
a few individuals to have a successful
fair and your co-operation and assist,
ance will help greatly.
FUNERALOF MRS. MIRY
RRYANT HELD ON FRIDAY
Former Butt* County 1-ady Died in
Atlanta
The death of Mrs. Mary V. Bryant,
formerly of Butts county, occurred
at her home in Atlanta Thursday at
temoon. She was 48 years of age and
wßs a Miss Yancey before marriage,
being a daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Yancey. Many friends of
the family here were pained to lean
cf her passing.
Mrs. Bryant is survived by the fo’-
lowing relatives: Her husband, two
sons, C. E. and W. B. Gresham and a
daughter, Mrs. L. R. Harrcd, of At
lanta; four sisters, Mrs. J. T. Mc-
Clure. of Jackson: Mrs. W. R. Mason,
t .f Atlanta; Mrs. C. B. H-.dges and
' T ; tw;
brothers, W. A. and Swannie Yancey,
of ,Mcßae.
The body was brought to Jackson
Friday afternoon and carried to Wor
thville where funeral services were
conducted at the Baptist church, of
which she vns a member. Dr Rob
ert VanDeventer oficiated and the in
terment was in the Worthville ceme
tery.
One rat will eat or spoil 4 bushels
of grain a year. It costs $2 or $3 a
year to feed a rat on your place.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY JUNE 20, 1919
TAX COMMISSION
MAKES REPORT
Property Would Be Divi
ded into Classes
HARD FIGHT EXPECTED
WOULD SUBMIT TWO CONSTITU
TIONAL AMENDMENTS TO VO
TERS. RECOMMENDATIONS OF
KEEN INTEREST
Atlanta, Ga.—The report of the
state tax commission to the next leg
islature a s adopted by the commission
recommends tvvj constitutional
amendments to remedy the existing
evils of the present tax system.
These amendments are practically
the same as outlined by the commis
sion at its public hearings over the
state recently with the exception that
the amendment submitted at that
time has been divided into two
amendments, the first to deal with
the classification of property and
the second deals with taxes on in
comes, inheritances, privileges and
occupation. The proposed amendment
reads as follows:
Classify Taxable Property
First. All ta ? s shall be levied and
collected under general laws and for
public ou ves triy The general
assembly siia'l have the paver to
classify property for taxation and to
adopt different rates and methods
for different classes of property and
to segregate different classes of prop
erty for state and local taxation. But
all taxation shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects within the ter
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the taxes. Taxes may be levied adval
orem upon any given class property
without regard to the method used in
levying taxes on any other class of
property.
Second. Taxe s may be also impos
ed upon incomes, inheritances, privi
lege and occupations, which class cf
taxes may be graduated and when
levied may contain provisions for
reasonable exemptions.
Tax on Merchant* and Banks
While centering its whole ragu
ment on the passage of the above leg
islation, which viruld follow the pass
age of a bill, the taxes proposed upon
merchants, bank deposits, secured
debts, etc., are discussed by the com
mission in its report and recommenda
tions as to rates are made, but these
are only tentative, as it is recognized
that such classification laws could not
I e enacted before the summer of 1921
even if the proposed amendments are
passed at once by the next legisla
ture, because the next general elec
tion at which the amendments would
have to be approved by the people
will be in the fall of 192 C.
The commission also recommends'a
plan for the creation cf a permanent
tax commission with twelve deputy
tax commissioners and other
of a modern improved system of ad
ministration, but it does not recom
mend the inauguration of this system
until after the constitutional amend
ment has been adopted and approved
by the people.
POLITICIANS WARNED
NOT TO ATTEND MEET
Newspaper Men Have Business They
Want to Discuss
“All politicians and pot-bod mg
friends” have been kindly but firmly
invited to stay away from the annual
meeting of the Georgia Press Associa
tion at Monroe July 14. This invita
tion has been issued by President Paul
Harbor, with the request that all pol
iticians kindly not worry the conven
tion, as the editors have a little busi
ness of their cwn to attend to.
“We like all the gentlemen,” said
Mr. Harbor, “but we simply don't
want them around the meeting, either
on the inside or outside. The gather
ing is for the newspaper editors, to
attend to their business and strictly
fer that purpose, and it is in no wise
li.aigned cither to further cr hinder
the ambitions of any politicians.
“Of course we can’t keep them
from coming to the tow n where we
are going to meet, nor can we keep
them from log-rolling on the outside
if they want to do a thing like that,
anyway. But we can make it plain
that we have a little business of our'
own to attend to; that we want to be
let alone this year to attend to that,
and then if they come, why it’, up to
them.”
Good Roads Moan Good Bus moss.
CHAUTAUQUA TO
OPEN WEDNESDAY
Elovilia Will Have Three
Days Assembly
MANY STRONG FEATURES
GOOD TALENT SECURED FOR
THE THREE DAYS ASSEMBLY.
PROGRAM OF EDUCATION AND
ENTERTAINMENT ARRANGED
Final preparations are under way
for the opening of the chautauqua.
The dates for Flovilla’s three-day in
spirational community meet are June
25, 26, 27.
Co-operating with the Radcliffe
Chautauqua System, the local organ
izers of this annual getting-together
are arranging for a rousing time with
twelve gripping events on the pro
gram. Entertainment numbers of the
first quality are to be combined with
features of the great central theme
of this year’s program—Education
for every American child.
The quickened spirit of democracy
preparing for the dawn of a nev. era
embraces education as the only road
to future progress. Embarking on a
I crusade for real education and stak
j ing its success on the finer and more
' jcyous things of life, the Radclilfe
Chautauqua, and its local co-operators
invite the whole community to make
the town the dynamic center of the
i United States for three days.
The local Chautauqua promoters
are building for an ideal—a raised
standard of living for everybody. And
they are building with ideas. The
program is loaded with material.
| The Fighting Yanks, a group of
military boys in the uniforms they
wore in France, will make the Chau
' tauqua atmosphere vibrate with the
speed of their rapid-fire entertain
ment on the afternoon and night of
the first day. This organization of in
strumentalists, vocalists and dramatic
entertainers will give the opening
■ program its humorous and its rollick
ing touch, with their colorful “trench”
reportery.
I The Agnes Mathis Cos., rollicking
youthful spirits, all of them, but ar
tists of the highest older, will offer
two concerts on the second day. These
are skilled instrumentalists as v.ell as
| highly trained vocalists, and their es-
I thetic musical numbers are olfereJ in
1 combination vith colorful costume
j effects.
The Lawson Concert Cos. will give
i character to the last day with their
! distinctive entertainments A varied
I repertory of readings, impersonations,
I characterizations, and comedy bits
I will be offered by this group, both for
' amusement values and for the educa
tional benefits. These talented players
I are artists in expression and their
I acted episodes, solos and recitals are
expected to be of high culture value.
The six lecturers fare not less en
tertaining, witty, snappy and radiant,
one is assured, but they have a very
serious purpose. The big, throbbing
question of the hour is Education.
The chautauqua orators and demon
strators will make this subject ring.
Col. G, A. Gearhart, broad, elo
quent, keen, analytical, constructive,
the master of 5,000 audiences, wi 1
give the opening afternoon lecture on
“The Lamp of Aladdin.” This lecture
will be remembered long after the
khaki tent has departed. There will
be stimulated brains and aroused emo
tion before he ha s finished with his
graphic picture of the achievements
of the trained minds of the world. His
evening subject, “The Greatest Thing
That Men May Knovi,” will promote
ideals of true education, not of the
hands alone, nor yet of the head only,
but also of the heart.
The marshal of this educational
crusade will be the Chautauqua Di
rector, Dr. McFadden, who, on the
night of the second day, will casry
the central theme to a practical level
•under the topic “The Problem of the
"Unprepared.” The director will in
ject fresh elements into social life
and, in snappy, live-wire phrases,
awaken as to the backward conditions
of American life. Hi". *h:r-l ■-* * ♦
ic will be “Pushing Back the Horizon
—lndividual, Home, Community,” a
fertile subject that invites eloquence
and imagery but that affords also a
vauable basis for objective instruc
tion in ideals.
Of particular significance will be
the lecture on “Home-Making” and
the conference on “The House
Around the Corner” by the RadclifTe
Woman Specialist in Home-Engineer
ing, on the afternoon of the second
day. That she will be listened to with
absorbing interest by both men and
JACKSON POST OFFICE
GOES SECOND CLASS
Raise in Salary of Postmaster Under
New Order
Effective the first of July the Jack
son post office will be a second class
office, according to announcement
just made. This rating wa s secured
by virtue of the receipts for the past
year being more than SB,OOO.
An increase in the salary of the
postmaster from SI,BOO to $2,000
will be made when the office is placed
in the second class. There will be
four persons connected with the of
fice, the postmaster, assistant post
master, clerk and auxiliary clerk.
None of the employees will be allowed
to work over 8 hours per day.
Mr. G. H. White who had been city
mail carrier since Jackson was given
free delivery will be a clerk in the
post office after July 1. It is not
known who his successor will be.
LEGISLATURE TO
CONVENE ON 25
Many Important Matters
Before Session
POLITICS TO BE MIXED IN
SEVERAL MEASURES OF STATE
WIDE IMPORTANCE WILL BE
CONSIDERED. HOLDER WILL
BE RE-ELECTED SPEAKER
The general assembly of Georgia
will convene in annual session next
Wednesday, June 25. Hon. J. T.
Moore, representative from Butts
county will go up the first of the
week to be present at the opening
session.
There is a vast amount of busines:
coming before this ession, it is stated.
Not before in years will the doings
of the legislature be followed with
keener interest. Several measures of
state-vrde interest will be brought up
for discussion and the sessions will
have plenty of business to keep the
members busy.
Among the live subjects that will
be considered are:
The tax reform bill; highway legis
lation; enlargement of the railroad
commission; woman suffrage; the cap
ital removal issue; the proposed deg
tax and many others, including the
-constitutional amendment for a state
wide bond issue to build permanent
roads and for school improvement.
As usual, there will be the usual num
ber of local bills.
It is likely that Hon. John N. Hol
der, of Jackson county, will be re
elected speaker of the housa of rep
epresentatives. There are several can
didates for president of the senate and
the outcome of this election seems
more or less in doubt.
ATTEND SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION IN ROME
Messrs. J. Matt McMichael, pre i
dent of the Butts County Sunday
School Association, and S. M. Pope
representing the Methodist Sunday
School, attended the state convention
cf the Georgia Sunday School Asso
ciation in Rome last week. Butts
county is still in the Gold Banner
class, and made an excellent showing
for the past year.
Messrs. Pope and McMichael stated
the convention was a very successful
and enjoyable one and the attendance
was about seven hundred.
women is the assurance given because
of the scientific importance ard the
practical nature of her talk and her
demonstration.
Miss Franles Breckenridge Ma'tby,
a graduate nurse, especially assigned
to this education work by the Ameri
can Red Cios.; will lecture on the af
ternoon of the third day on “The Red
Cross—a Record and a Prophecy” and
V ill hold an instruction conference or
“Home Care of the Rick.” The Arne*-,
ican Red Cross holds a unique plat"
the world, and the message of its rep
resentative will be eagerly sought.
The whole inspiring, educative pro
gram is symmetrically arranged.
There i ssomething worth while for
♦ veryone, and none need go fifty miles
from home to get lively entertainment
and fresh cultural impulses, when
these are brought in such rich meas
ure right to the community. The suc
cess of the Chautauqua can be read in
the striking features outlined and in
the sincerity of the community’s pur
pose in arranging for it
A Bond lue Wieely
Expended will give Good
Rood* in Every District
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
COTTON SLIPS IN
PAST FEW DAYS
Other Crops Reported in
Good Shape
BOLL WEEVIL APPEARS
REPORTS REACHING AGRICUL
TURAL DEPARTMENT SHOW
THAT COTTON OUGHT TO
BRING GOOD PRICE THIS FALL
Atlanta, June 19.—Authentic re
ports from all parts of Georgia to the
state department of agriculture indi
cate that crop conditions are such as
are most likely to command good pri
ces for products the coming fall.
There has been material deterio
ration in cotton during the last tw> or
three weeks. The cool weather and
showers have been favorable to the
excessive growth of grains, while cot
ton hag been retarded. Reports to
the department show that there has
been a material reduction in the cot
ton acreage, and that through the
southwestern to the southeastern por
tio nef the state the boll weevil is
exceedingly active and w ill do much
damage.
The reports as to the condition of
of cotton coming to the department,
are exactly in line with those promul
gated by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture in Washington,
and indicate strongly a material re
duction in the amount of the Georgia
cotton yield this year.
In addition to bad weather condi
tions, considerable trouble has beer
experienced on account of shortagi
of labor. Many sections of the start
have indicated a demand for cotton
choppers, and on many farms as the
result of the inability to obtain them,
the women and even young girls are
working in the cotton fields. This is
a state of affairs vihich the south pro
poses to remedy just as soon as pos
sible.
Reports indicate a good stand of
corn all over the state. Where there
is a large number of hogs and cattle,
the velvet bean acreage seems to have
bee n materially increased. Borghum
is being planted extensively, both
for forage and syrup; and this is said
to look better than any other -crop.
One mateial advantage from the
rainy weather hag been the planting
of a larger sweet potato acreage and
a favorable condition for a larger
yield. Tobacco is looking well arid
the acreage, particularly in “bright
tobacco,” has been largely increased.
The tendency has been to plant a lar
ger acreage of peanuts and more to
the acre. This crop is said to be mak
ing considerable progress.
PRESBYTERIAN CKU PH
SUNDAY, JUNE 22
"Not forsaking the aisemMing of
yourselves together as the manner of
some is.”
10 a. m. Sunday School. B. K
Carmichael, Supt.
•
There will be no preaching service
at eleven ag the minister will be at
Fellowship church.
In the evening at 8:30 the minister
will preach on the theme: The First
Thing God sees About a Man. Mark
11:5.
DEMONSTRATION WEEVIL
FIGHT AROUSES INTEREST
Use of Poison to Kill Cotton Pest WilJ
Be Shown on Sumter Farm
Amcricus, June 17.—George C.
Marshall, Sumter county farm demon
stration agent, has received dozens of
letters recently inquiring about meth
ods for applying calcium arsenate,
Ihe new poison which it is said will ef
fectively destroy boll weevil. These
letters come from all pa’ts of Geor
* i . at.
■ t in a.*64-
bama far>oert have also written. A
demonstration has been arranged for
Friday, June 27. Ample provision vi’l
be made for entertaining the hundred
or more who are expected to
be here for the demonstration, and at.
tention will be given to details in or
der that the process may be as widely
followed as practicable.
To date only a few weevils have
been found in Sumter county fields,
and for this reason the farm where
upon the demonstration is to be stag
ed hag not yet been selected.