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peach Culture Will
Brine Permanent Pros
perity to Butts County
VOL. 47—NO. 31
FAIR DATES ARE
NOVEMBER 3 TO 8
COUNTY PLAN OF PRIZES TO
BE FOLLOWED THIS YEAR.
GOOD ATTRACTIONS BEING
SIGNED FOR THE FAIR
The week of November 3 to 8 has
been fixed as the dates for the Butts
County Fair. The present plans are
to hold the fair for three days, Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday, the
5, 6 and 7, but the entire week will
be given over to the shows and at-
tractions.
Premiums aggregating more than
$1,200 have already been agreed
upon and announced. Of that amount
the club work was awarded $375. di
vided as follows: Girls Canning Club
and Poultry Club $200; Boys Corn
and Pig Clubs $175. The agricul
tural department will receive $500;
the live stock department ss3oo and
the Woman’s Department SIOO.
The premium list has been partial
ly completed and wall be arranged
a few weeks. This and other
essential details are now engaging
the attention of the officers of the
fair association.
A contract for the attractions for
the fair will be closed within a day
or two. Without doubt the best
shows ever brought to Jackson will
be signed to furnish the attractions
.at this year’s fair,
at Beginning the last of August or
gffre firgt df September an extensive
Advertising campaign in behalf of
the fair will be put on. Quite a lot
of attractive advertising matter has
been bought and new and novel fea
tures will be employed to place the
fair before the people of Butts
and adjoining counties.
The dates selected for the fair
will come at a time when everybody
can attend. The rush of the cotton
season will be over and citizens of
the county will have a leisure Reason
just at that time. This was the only
date available, except the first week
in October, not to conflict with the
southeastern, Griffin or state fair. ,
From expressions so far received
it is believed this will be the biggest
and best fair ever attempted in the
county. There is a better spirit of
co-operation and the officers of the
association 'are pleased at the
pledges of support so far given.
The district prize plan has been
abolished and the premiums this year
will be competed for on the county
wide basis. All the prizes will be
open to the citizens of the county
and any district may enter as many
exhibits as can be arranged. the
district prize system was never en
tirely satisfactory and it is thought
the county plan will work much bet
ter.
Any person desiring to make ex
hibits of any character should write
J. D. Jones, general manager of the
fair, as space will be awarded m the
order in which the applications are
received.
campleeting
OPENS THURSDAY
LARGE ATTENDANCE EXPECT
ED AT ANNUAL SESSION OF
CAMP MEETING. ABLE LEAD
ERS SECURED THIS SEASON
An occasion of great interest to
thousands of people throughout the
country is the Indian Springs camp
meeting which begins Thursday,
August 7 and extends through the
Strong leaders for the 1919 ses
sion have been secured in the P® r *
son of Dr. H. C. Morrison and Dr.
John Paul Both are ministers of
great power and ability and have a
large following throughout the coun
ty and their presence this year will
add greatly to the success ol the
meeting. .
The cottages at the camp ground
are beginning to till up. It is ex
p ected that all the hotels and every
available room will be occupied by
the time the camp meeting is at its
height An attendance that will com
pare favorably with any previously
Recorded is expected this season.
It is reported that Mr. Charles D.
Tillman will be present to assist in
the singing. At first it was announc
; Z he £uld not be pne.ent th year,
for the first time since tne camp
meeting was stablished, out later re
l“ 9 lote he vill likely attend. Mr.
£ w Stapleton, a well known ■*
'er, will have a ptonilnent par. m the
tinging- Id. has been
Wednesday, August i0 ’ ,„ and
' as “Butts County Day and
r 1? of the county are invited
'".SST*rvi on that date.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
TUESDAY WAS RETURN DAY
IN BUTTS SUPERIOR COURT
Let* Than Usual Number of Cases
Were Entered
Tuesday, July 29, was return day
in Butts superior court. According
to Clerk S. J. Foster less than the
usual number of cases have been
filed for the August term.
The August term of superior court
will convene on the 18.
STREET WORK BEING
CARRIED ON IN CITY
——— t
WEED CUTTING MAKES THE
STREETS MORE ATTRACTIVE.
BEEN HARD TO SECURE THE
NECESSARY LABOR
A lot of valuable and much needed
work has been done on the streets
and sidewalks of the city during the
last few days. A squad of laborers
have been busy cutting down weeds,
filling up holes and cleaning out
drain pipes and the streets present a
much neater appearance as a result
of this work.
The recent heavy rains left the
streets in bad condition, and council,
it is understood will have them work
ed as soon as possible.
Labor has been scarce this year
and it has been a real effort to secure
enough workmen to keep the streets
in repair.
WAR DEPARTMENT
UNLOADS SUGAR
SELLS 37,000,000 POUNDS. NO
EXCUSE FOUND FOR HIGH
PRICES. SOME HOARDING IN
COUNTRY
The War Department has sold to
the United States Sugar Equaliza
tion Board 37,000,000 pounds of re
fined sugar, it was announced today
by George A. Zabriskie, president of
the board, who declared there is
“abundance” of raw sugar in this
country, that retail prices should not
exceed 11 cents a pound and that
there is no need of hoarding.
The head of the equalization
board said that profiteering dealers,
if reported, may suffer revocation
of their license for they are still un
der control of the federal food ad
ministration, who will not cease to
function until the senate signs the
peace treaty.
He charged the apparent shortage
to speculative “exporter” and belat
ed orders from eanners and candy
makers. Housewives were
“hoarding” sugar unnecessarily, he
said, NJew England having refined
sugar stocks sufficient to last dix
months.
Sugar is abundant in the United
States and if it were not for the
profiteers and nervous housfevdves
encouraged to hoard it there would
be enough for every legitimate de
mand a thirty days’ reserve supply
in addition, declared Mr. Zebriskie.
PLUMBER ARRESTED IN
SAVANNAH FOR LARCENY
Will Be Brought to Jackson to
Stand Trial
Wm. H. Spencer, a plumber for
merly in the employ of Carmichael
Hardware Cos., and charged with the
theft of a considerable amount of
goods, has been arrested in Savan
nah and will be brought back to
Jackson to face trial. The theft oc
curred about one year ago. Spencer
was jailed but was subsequently re
leased on bond. When his case was
called at the last term of court he
failed to appear and his bond was
forfeited.
There are other charges resting
against the defendant and it is un
derstood the charge will b° vigor
ously prosecuted.
There are now nearly 1,500 leath
er manufacturing establishments in
the United States.
Weekly Bulletin
The Progress-Argu* is a weekly
bulletin of the most important
happenings of Butts county. __
Your advertisenemt will be read
by thousands and discussed
arouncP the family circle. The
Progress-Argus covers Butts
county like a barrage. Gat od
the firing line and let the peo
ple know what you -have *to
offer.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AUGUST I, 1919
COTTON MEN TO
PUSH ASSOCIATION
WILL BE ORGANIZED IN ALL
COTTON COUNTIES IN COT
TON BELT. FARMERS AND
BUSINESS MEN INTERESTED
Atlanta, July 31.—The American
Cotton Association, organized after
careful deliberation by a body of
prominent farmers and business men
representing all cotton states, will
open an active membership campaign
with the beginning of August, from
Atlanta as headquarters, to cover the
entire cotton belt.
The campaign committee has been
named and is ready for business; a
corps, of expert organizers has been
employed, and plans for an extensive
publicity campaign have been made.
It is proposed to complete the mem
bership campaign Within two months,
or before October 1, when it is an
ticipated the vast majority of cotton
producers, merchants, bankers and
professional men throughout the
South, will have been Enrolled.
For the first time in history it
looks as if the farmers and cotton
producers of the South are going to
have an organization through whose
activities they will be enabled to
price their own products, instead of
permitting that to be done by Liver
pool and New York. The associa
tion’s purpose is to give the producer
an agency through which he may be
fairly remunerated for the produc
tion service he renders to society.
Membership dues vf.ll be on the
basis of 25 cents per bale of cotton
produced, for the grower, and 26
cents per SI,OOO of capital invested
for merchants, bankers and others;
while a large number of life mem
berships will be sold at SIOO.
The association itself will be char
tered; and, following the member
ship campaign, it is proposed to or
ganize another and allied corpora
tion, with a large capital stock for
the purpose of taking care of “dis
tress” cotton, in order to prevent
any over-supply in the market with
its consequent drop in price.
The American Cotton Association
will be organized in every cotton
county in the South; county organi
zations will report direct to state di
visions and states to the parent asso
ciation. No militia district, even
where a pound of cotton is grown
will be overlooked.
The campaign committee, appoint
ed at the meeting of the directors
just held in Atlanta, at which organ
ization plans were perfected, will
meet here on August 4 actively to
begin the membership campaign.
This committee will meet every day
necessary to see that the work goes
through successfully. It is composed
of J. S. Wannamaker, of St. Mat
thews, S. C., president of the asso
ciation; W. C. Barrickman, secre
tary, Dallas, Texas; M. C. Allgood,
Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. George L.
Sands, Little Rock, Ark.: J. J.
Brown, commissioner of Agriculture,
Atlanta, Ga.; J. B. Ardis. Shreveport,
La.; D. W. Robins, Tupelo, Miss.;
Seth L. Barnes, Marston, Mo.; L. S.
Tomlinson, Wilson, N. C.; J. A.
Whitehurst, Oklahoma City, Okla.;
R. M. Mixon, Williston, S. C.; J. P.
Matthews, Oakland, 1 enn.; J. A.
Thompson, Corsicane, Texas; J. H.
Claffey, Orangeburg, S. C.; R. F.
Willingham, Macon, Ga.: P,. H. King,
Atlanta; L. B. Jackson, Atlanta and
D. F. McClatchey, Atlanta.
QUOTAS IN BAPTIST
DRIVE ANNOUNCED
GEORGIA EXPECTED TO FUR
NISH ONE-TENTH OF TOTAL.
HOW MONEY WILL BE SPENT
FOR VARIOUS CAUSES
Quotas for the different states for
the $75,000,000 campaign of the
Southern Baptist church were fixed
at a recent meeting of the congress
held in Nashville. The apportion
ment to the different states fojlow:
Alabama, $4,000,000; Arkansas,
$3,200,000; District of Columbia,
$2,000,000; Florida, $1,000,000; Ge
orgia, $7,500,000; Illinois, $1,200,-
000; Kentucky, $6,500,000; Mary
land, $750,000; Mississippi, $2,500,-
000; Missouri, $2,925,000; New
Mexico, $250,000; North Carolina,
$5,5000,000; Oklahoma, 2,500,000;
South Carolina, $5,500,000; Tennes
see, $4,000,000; Texas, $16,000,000;!
Virginia $7,000,000.
Allotments of the $75,000,00P to
be raised daring the campaign were,
made as wollows: |
Foreign nrissionst , $20,000,000;'
home missions, $12,000,000; semina
ries and training schools of the
•church, $3,000,000; aged ministers’
HOUSE VOTES REPEAL OF
THE SODA WATER TAX
Temfer>tur Around 100 Mark When
Vote Was Taken
After nearly two hours’ debate
and while the temperature in the
chamber was hovering around the
100 mark, the house today voted to
repeal the 10 per cent war tax on
soda water and ice cream.
FALL TERM OF PUBLIC
SCHOOLS OPENS SEPT. I
OPENING OF ANOTHER SESSION
ONLY MONTH OFF. STRONG
FACULTY TO REPRESENT
JACKSON THIS FALL
Monday, the first day of Septem
ber, will mark the opening of the
fall term of the Jackson public
schools.
With the opening of another term
only a month off preparations are al
ready being made for the 1919-20
session. Prof. L. D. Watson, the new*
superintendent, has arrived in Jack
son from Bamesville and will give his
undivided attention to arranging for
the next term.
The remaining teachers will be
chosen within a short time and the
faculty will be one of the best bal
anced Jackson has ever known.
CHICAGO HAS A
RACE OUTBREAK
CLASH BETWEEN WHITES AND
NEGROES RESULT IN NUM
BER OF DEATHS. MILITARY
READY TO TAKE ACTION
Chicago, July 28.—The situation
in the “Black Belt” of this city,
where race rioting late yesterday re
sulted in the death of two negroes
and the injury of perhaps fifty or
mpre whites and blacks, including
four patrolmen, was under police
control early today.
Accounts of the trouble differ, but
the version accepted by the police in
dicated that it started m fighting be
tween white afid negro boys at the
bathing beach on Twenty-ninth
street.
A policeman was shot and several
other persons injured during fighting
between negroes and whites which
broke out in the negro district on the
South Side early Sunday night. Ev
ery available policeman was rushed
to the district.
While fighting was in progress on
South State street in the negro dis
trict which extends about five miles
on that thoroughfare, another riot
took place at the Twenty-ninth street
beach. Two negroes were reported
to have been drowned after being
struck with missies.
White men were frequently at
tacked an State street, the police
said.
The police soon cleared the rioters
from the streets and established a
strong patrol which they believed
would compel order.
A negro was shot and four other
persons, including a white woman,
were injured by clubs and stones, ac
cording to early reports.
The immediate cause of the riot
ing is not known, but bad feeling
has existed for months and resulted
in recent bomb explosions and other
disorders. The bombs are believed
to have been due to feeling against
negroes for moving into white neigh
borhoods.
Negroes greatly outnumbered the
whites in the two districts where the
disturbances occurred.
COL. E. J. WILLIAMS
AWARDED THE D. S. C.
HAD PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED
FRENCH DECORATION. COL.
WILLIAMS WELL KNOWN AND
POPULAR HERE
Butts connty friends of Colonel E.
J. Williams will be pleased to learn
that he has been awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal for bravery
in action in France. He had pre
viously been awarded the French
Croix de Guerre. Colonel Williams
married Miss Myrtle Pound of Jack
son, and is w*II and favorably known
here.
It is announced that Colonel Wil
liams will soon return to Washington
for duty with the War College Gen-|
eral Staff.
relief, $2,600,0004 The remainder
will be appropriated to the different
states for state needs, in proportion
to the amounts contributed by them.
MEETING FOR ICE PLANT
NEXT FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Jackson Determined to Build 20-Ton Plant. Stock Is
Being Widely Distributed. Important Meeting.
FAKIRS REAPING RICH
HARVEST IN COUNTRY
WARNING GIVEN THAT CARE
FUL INVESTIGATION SHOULD
BE MADE OF ALL CASES.
RULES FOR GIVING
Jackson, in common with the rest
of the country, has been afflicted
with entirely too many fakirs within
the past few months. Every few
days a solicitor for this or that cause
calls around and usually gets a do
nation from a liberally-inclined pub
lic. This gentry appears to be quite
numerou sand active just now and it
is the part of caution to go slow, in
giving to strangers.
The Macon Chamber of Commerce
has adopted a set of rules to be fol
lowed in giving to charity. These
rules wil ble of help to the people
here and for their benefit are pub
lished herewith:
1. Do not give to collectors just
to get rid of them—frauds flourish
on such unwise genersity.
2. Ask all solicitors to show their
credentials—they should carry prop
er credentials signed by officers of
the organization they represent, and
written on the official stationery.
3. It is safest to mail your check
direct to the treasurer of the fund
and not give it to the solicitor unless
sure of the solicitor’s identity and
honesty. Do not give cash to solic
itors—you have no means of telling
whether it ever reaches the charity.
4. Beware of an organization
that cannot give a better address
than a postoffice box number. A
bona fide organization will have a
street or office address.
5. Every reputable charitable
agency has a board of managers to
direct its work and control its finan-
ces—beware of “one man” organiza
tions.
| 6. A charitable organization, if
run properly, should have its ac
counts satisfactorily audited annual
| ly, and should be willing to make a
public annual financial statement.
Refuse to contribute to any organi
zation that is unwilling to do this.
7. Remember that unworthy char
itable enterprises are as often con
ducted by women as by men—the
fact that a wpman solicitor appeals
to you for a contribution does not
necessarily imply that the charity is
worthy.
8. Always investigate before you
subscribe. There is no disgrace in
I giving wisely. If the appeal is local
remember that there are well estab
lished local agencies organized for
the sole purpose! of dealing with local
conditions and operating under the
direction of responsible men and wo
men whom you know.
“The term ‘unworthy’ is not re
stricted to individuals and organiza
tions operating fraudelent purposes.
, An investigation of i.n ‘orphanage’ in
a neighboring state recently, disclos
ed the fact that 84 per cent of the
receipts are paid out in salaries, com
missions and expense allowances for
collectors. This and other irregular
ities showed conclusively that the
‘institution’ was not upon a sound
business basis and that an extremely
small sum reached the orphans. Oth
er examples are given by misguided
indivitiufls who are attempting to do
work already provided for by estab
lished agencies, and whose efforts,
as well as the money they receive,
are expended in unnecessary activi
ties. A third type is the ‘publication’
attempting to base its business
claims upon the fact that it is con
ducted under ‘charitable’ auspices.”
Your Stationery
IS A CRITERION OF YOUR
BUSINESS AND CHARACTER.
HAVE IT
PRINTED RIGHT
Forty-veven year*’ of experience
be* taght us how. No job too
large nor none toe small.
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Job Department
JACKSON, GA.
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Jackson’s Groat Hood
is nn
ICE FACTORRY
(1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Business of importance will be
transacted at the meeting of the
Jackson Ice Corporation to be held
in the Liberty theater Friday after
noon at 6 o’clock. At that time the
committee on by-laws will make a
report and a committee on site will
be named by President S. P. Nichols.
All stock holders are expected to be
present at this meeting.
To build and equip a twenty-ton
ice factory will cost beween $26,000
and $30,000. This information was
gathered from Mr. J. H. Filling, rep
resentative of the Southern Engi
neering and Construction Company,
who came to Jackson last week and
met with the officials cf the proposed
ice plant. The cost of the machinery
i3 $14,211. The company will fur
nish an erecting engineer to install
the plant, but the cost of two motors,
building, belts, trucks, labor, etc.,
will run the cost up to more than
$20,000.
The most important work before
the ice corporation at present,is the
sale of more stock. More than
$9,000 worth of stock has already
been sold, but a great deal more is
needed. At the meeting Friday af
ternoon it is hoped to have at least
$15,000 worth of stock subscribed.
A committee consisting of- l)r. J.
B. Hopkins and Mr. C. M. Kimbell
visited Locust Grove Tuesday* and
sold S6OO worth of stock in a few
minutes. A stock list was left there
and it is expected a considerable
block of stock will be bought by the
citizens of Locust Grove and commu
nity.
The committees appointed to visit
Flovilla and Indian Springs hope to
get in several thousand dolhnrs dur
ing th next day or so.
The ice factory is no longer an ex
periment or an uncertainty. It is an
assured fact. And what is more it
will be a paying proposition to the
stockholders. By careful and effic
ient management the ice pfant can
be made to pay a substantial divi
dend on the investment, and the peo
ple of this section will be able to
get ice when they want it—get full
weights and at reasonable prices.
Stockholders in the plant will be
supplied ice first. This should be an
incentive to every citizen of the
community to take at least some
stock.
While the present plans are not
definite, yet it is proposed to secure
a site and proceed with the building
and have the machinery shipped out
about the first of the year and be
ready to manufacture ice in the ear
ly spring.
Stock subscrip'ion lists have been
plaled in all cha drug stores and
banks in Jackson, left at Locust
Grove, Jenkinsburg, Flovilla and In
dian Springs. If you have not al
ready suyscribed cull at one of these
places and get your name on the list.
You will bo helping not only your
self but the entire section around
Jackson.
PARTY FROM HERE TO
VISIT STATE COLLEGE
COUNTY AGENT WILL TAKE
PARTY OF FARMERS TO ATH
ENS. SHORT COURSE FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS
i f •
From, August 4 to 8 the State Col
lege of Agriculture at Athens will
entertain a large number of farmers
from the various counties of the
state. County Agent J. H. Blackwell
is planning to take a large delegation
from Butts county. It is the purpose
of the trip to have the farmer* visit
the college, look over the college
farm, see what is being done in the
way of agriculture and - live stock
rasing.
The-party will leave Jaekson Mon
day, August 4, at 6a. m. and all
those who desire to nu*ke the trip
will meet Mr. Blackwell in Jackson
at that hour. The trip will be made
in automobiles.
During the same v*iek the boys and
girls short course will be irv session
and a number of the club tuumbejs, ’
from Butts county will probably at
tend - this* specie! ooursp receive
the benefits of ( the week’s training.