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Peach Culture Will
Bring Permanent Pros
perity to Butts County
VOL. 47—NO. 36
IIRST BALE OF
NEW COTTON SOLD
REACHED MARKET SATURDAY
AND SOLD FOR 35 CENTS. TEN
DAYS LATER THAN FIRST
BALE LAST SEASON
The first bale cf new cotton of
the season of 1919-20 was received
in Jackson Saturday!' It was grown
on the farm of Mr. B. |M. Barnes.
The bale weighed 481 pounds and
was sold for 35 cents per pound, a
premium of about four cents per
pound.
The cotton vas bought by J. H.
Carmichael & Cos., the draft being
handled through the Farmers and.
Merchants Bank, this being the first
cotton check given on the new bank.
The proceeds of the cotton amoun
ted to $168.35.
This is exactly ten days later than
tlse first bale of the 1918 season.
Last year’s first bale was sold by
Conner and Barkley, the bale weigh
ing 475 pounds and selling for 31
tShts, the total receipts being
149 62. It was sold on August 20.
Several bales cf cotton were car
ried to the gin Saturday, but due to
a temporary breakdown in the ma
chinery some of the cotton was ta
ken back home.
During the present week a number
of bales have been brought to mar-
I ket in Jackson.
The price of new cotton is a few
cents under old cotton.
Cotton s said to be opening at a
rapid rate, and a large part of the
crop will probably be harvested
through September.
NO AUTOMOBILE WORK
ALLOWED ON STREETS
CITY PASSES ORDINANCE RE
QUIRING REPAIRS TO BE
CARRIED ON INSIDE OF
4 BUILDING IN FUTURE
An ordinance was enacted by
council last week prohibiting work
cup automobiles in the streets or the
.sidewalks of the city of Jackson. The
•penalty for violating this ordinance
is a fine of from one to one hundred
dollars or a sentence of from one to
rsixty days in jail or on the streets.
The provisions of the ordinance
follow:
Be it ordained by the mayor and
council of the City of Jackson and
it is hereby ordained by authority of
the same, that it shall be unlawful
for any firm, corporation or person
to use the streets of the city of Jack
son for the purpose of working on
or ♦'eparing automobiles or making
tests of the condition of the engines
or to demonstrate the speed of en-
Vines, on said streets,
f Be it ordained by the authority
/aforesaid that all such v.wk _ shall
be done in the garages or other
places than on the streets or side
walks of the city of Jackson. Be it
further ordained by said authority
that any firm or corporation or per
son violating said ordinance shall be
fined by the mayor of said city of
Jackson the sum of not less than one
dollar or more than one hundred dol
dars as a fine or from one to sixty
days in jail or on said streets, one
or both of said penalties or either in
the discretion of the mayor.
FORSYTH TOOK HARD FOUGHT
GAME HERE LAST THURSDAY
Monticello-HilUboro Put up Classy
Brand of Ball
Forsyth triumphed over the Monti
cello and Hillsboro baseball team
here Thursday afternoon of the past
week, the score being 5 to 3. The
game was clean and hard fought
from the start and interest never
lagged until the last man was out m
the ninth inning.
The rivalry between these teams
is something fierce. In eight games
played heretofore each team had won
four and they met in Jackson to
tdav off the tie. Large delegations
came from both Forsyth and 5-o'ti
cello and there was also a good
sprinkling of local fans
Bloodworth, former Mercer Uni-
Iversity star, pitched for Forsyth, and
Peeler, of Athens, occupied the
/mound for the Jasper county teann
Honors were about even between
these slab artists, each working a
good game.
A pantry well lil'ed home
canned and otherwise preserved
'fZts and vegetables means more
attractive, and wholesome
iiet during the winter months, as
well as cheaper living
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
GOVERNMENT IS ROBBED
BY MANY FREIGHT THIEVES
$70,000,000 Worth of Property Tak
en Sinlce U. S. Controlled Roads
Wahington, D. C.—Uncle Sam has
had stolen from him since he assumed
control of the railroads something
like $70,000,000 worth of merchan
dise from freight cars in terminals
and in transit.
About $15,000,000 worth of stolen
freight was taken from cars while
they were in and around Nev. York
city.
SCHOOL OPENING
MOST FLATTERING
PATRONS AND FRIENDS PRES
ENT MONDAY MORNING.
LARGE ENROLLMENT OF PU
PILS. OUTLOOK BRIGHT
The fall term of the Jackson pub
lic schools opened Monday morning
under conditions most favorable to
the success of the 1919-20 session.
A large number of patrons and
friends of the school were present
for the opening exercises, held in the
auditorium. Short and pointed talks
were made by Dr. Robert VanDeven
ter, Rev. S. R. England, Prof. L. D.
Watson, Prof. Van Fletcher
J. H. Carmichael, president of the
board of trustees.
A notev<orthy feature of the open
ing of the public schools was the ex
cellent condition of the school build
ing. Everything from cellar to gar
ret had been scraped and placed in
first class sanitary condition. All the
desks were wiped and cleaned thor
oughly and there is no question of
the fact that the building was in the
best sanitar ycondition it has been in
in many years. Some of the rooms
were recovered and the ventilation
improved.
There was a large enrollment of
pupils present the first day, the at
tendance being up to the record of
former years. Others will enroll
within the next few days, bringing
the attendance up to the previous
high record.
Prof. Watson, the new superinten
dent, who succeeds Prof. W. P. Mar
tin, who is now at the head of the
Dublin public schools, has an able
faculty to assist him this session.
Every teacher, from the first grade
to the high school department, was
selected for his or her experience
and ability.
The people of the entire commu
nity are keenly interested in the
work of the school and will back up
the faculty with their moral and fi
nancial support, and a great year of
educational progress is indicated.
MR. BEAUCHAMP TO TALK
TO SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Enthusiastic Sunday School Man to
Be in Jackson
Mr. C. 0. Beauchamp, of Shreve
port, La., one of the most enthusias
tic and prominent Sunday Schdol
workers in the entire southwest, will
be in Jackson next week and has con
sented to speak to the Sunday School
classes of the Jackson Methodist
church while here. “Building up a
Large Sunday School” will be his
subject.
Mr. Beauchamp, v.ho is a former
mayor of Jackson, is meeting with
encouraging success in his Sunday
School work in Shreveport. He is
president of the Louisiana Wesley
Bible Class Federation. He will also
speak at the Baptist Tabernacle Sun.
day School in Atlanta.
No doubt a larg crowd will be
present to hear Mr. Beauchamp’s ad.
dress.
CHARLIE HEAD SLAIN AT
NEGRO BARBECUE SATURDAY
AFTER SHOOTING FREEMAN
MADE ESCAPE. ARTHUR
FEARS HELD IN JAIL AS AC
CESSORY TO CRIME
Charlie Head, a negro man, v..s
shot and instantly kiled in Coodys
district Saturday afternoon and Ben
jamin Freeman, also colored, is char,
ged with the killing. Arthur Fears,
colored, is charged with furnishing
the pistol with which the shooting
was done. Fears was arrested and
placed in jail as an accessory to the
crime.
The caue of the trouble is not
known. The blacks were having a
barbecue and too much liquor is
'ive.n as one reason of the shooting.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1919
NEW STATE BANK
OPENS IN JACKSON
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS
BANK SUCCEEDS FIRST NAT
IONAL. HAS CAPITAL STOCK
OF $125,000
The First National Bank of Jack
son, established in 1901 and one of
the oldest national banks in this sec
tion, has liquidated its affairs and re
tired from business. The Fai'mers
and Merchants Bank, organized un
der state laws, has taken over the as
sets and assumed the liabilities of
the First National Bank. The new
bank began business Friday, August
29.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
is capitalized at $125,000, having the
largest capital of any bank in Butts
county.
The officers and directors who
served the First National Bank were
elected for the Fai’mers and Mer
chants Bank. Mi*. J. H. Carmichael
is president; J. B. Carmichael and
G. E. Mallet, vice presidents; C. T.
Beauchamp, cashier; W- H.‘ Wilson
and W. D. Lloyd,> assistant cashiers.
Composing the board of directors
are: L. O. Benton, J. H. McKibben,
T. A. Nutt, J. B. Carmichael, R. E.
Evans, S. P. Nichols, J. C. Jones, W.
M. Hammond, G. E. Mallet, F. M.
Maddox, Geo. F. Etheridge, J. H.
Carmichael.
At the time of the liquidation
stock in the First National Bank was
worth $142 per share. Stockholders
in the old institution who desired
stock in the new bank were given a
share and half, by paying SB. A
number of new stockholders will also
be taken into the nev. bank.
Officers of the new state bank feel
that a great future is in store for the
institution. The bank has enough
capital to handle any proposition,
large or small, and will cater to t'.< 1
business of individuals, firms and
corporations.
The only change announced in con
nection with the opening of the new
bank is the election of Mr. W. D.
Loyd as assistant cashier. Mr. Lloyd
has been connected with the Bankers
Trust and Audit Cos. for some time
as an auditor and is regarded as one
of the keenest bankers in the state.
MANY CITIZENS FAVOR
STEAM LAUNDRY HERE
LAUNDRY PROBLEM BECOMES
ACUTE AS COTTON SEASON
OPENS UP. WOULD BE PROF
ITABLE ENTERPRISE
The question of building a steam
laundry in Jackson is still being agi
tated and an increasing number of
people are giving the movement their
hearty endorsement.
Urgent need of such an enterprise
has long been felt in the community.
Probably never before was the situ
ation so acute as now. when washer
women are taking to the cotton fields
during the rush season. It is next to
impossible to get washing done.
Well managed, there is no doubt
of the fact that a steam laundry
would be a profitable investment.
There was talk for a time of build
ing the laundry in connection with
the ice factory. Some opposed this
movement, desiring to see the two
plants run separately.
If a mass meeting were called and
the people could be brought together
on this proposition, it is likely that
the movement for a steam laundry
could be successfully launched.
17 MILLS COUNTY
TAX RATE IN 1919
SAME RATE AS THAT OF 1918
LEVIED BY COMMISSIONER.
SCHOOL TAX LEVY IS ALSO
SAME AS IN 1918
The county tax rate for the year
1919 is the same as that of 1918, 17
jriill'i. This with the state rate of
5 mills makes a total of 22 mills, or
$22.00 on each thousand.
The chool tax levy is also the
same as that in 1918, five mills. This
makes an aggregate tax rate for
state and county and school purposes
of 27 mills.
The rate for the county v.as fixed
Monday at the meeting of the com
missioner’s court. Previous announ
cement had been made of the state
levy and the school tax was fixed at
the July meeting of the board of ed
ucation.
HAIR TONIC HITS BIG
BLOW AT THE DRY LAW
Pcrto Ricans Find Good Sub.tiJute
. For Liquor. Perfumes Popular
San Juan.—Efforts are being made
by Porto Rican authorities to check
the use ns beverages of tonics, per
fumes and lotions containing alcohol
The insular treasurer. Pose C. Bene
dicto, and Dr. Del Valle Savraga, of
the health department, recently asked
the house of representatives to enact
legislation to prevent the use of such
concoctions as intoxicating drinks.
MORE PRODUCTION
NEED OF COUNTRY
HIGH COST OF LIVING DUE TO
SHORT PRODUCTION. CON
SUMERS OUTNUMBER THE
PRODUCERS, CLAIMED
> . ii .i
Atlanta, September 4.—Stimula
tion of production through organiza
tion of the producers and reduced la
bor costs on the farm, is suggested
as one of the remedies for the high
cost of living, by the Georgia state
department of agriculture.
Speaking of the agitation over the
high cost of living, Commissioner of
Agriculture J. J. Brown made this
statement:
“While there has undoubtedly
been some profiteering in the neces
sities of life, one of the greatest
causes of the high cost of living is
the fact that America is exporting
•millions of tons of food to Europe;
and another is the policy of our gov
ernment in paying wages so much
higher than can possibly be paid for
labor on the farms.
“The result has been a drainage
of labor from the farms for the last
twenty-four months; and the real
cause, in a nutshell, is that we nqw
have an excess of consumers v.’th a
scarcity of producers.
“The only way to encourage pro
duction, thereby reducing the high
cost of living, is to see that the pro
ducer is paid for his products a fair
margin abfeve the cost of production,
thereby enabling him to put his bus
iness on a basis with other industrial
lines. In other words, the producer
should be in a position to secure
needed labor in the open market and
to hold it.
“As cotton is the basis of cash
farm products in the South, the bus
iness interests combined with the
farming interests, are r.ow organiz
ing the American Cotton Association
with a view to maintaining a price
that will mean a fair margin of prof
it above the cost of production. That
will enable the farmers of the South
to increase production by being in
position to offer substantial wages,
thereby inducing workers to come
back to the farms.
“Organized capital and organized
labor are protecting themselves, and
have long done so; but the unorgan
ized farmers are being crushed be
tween the upper and nether mill
stones, through the demoralization
of labor and its withdrawal from
the farms, and through the heavy
costs put unon them for their mate
rials and supplies and for increased
freight rates. These are some of
the things which have made it im
possible for them to meet the de
mands the work is making upon them
for food and feedstuff's.”
RECOMMEND PARDON
FOR DR. McNAUGHTON
FAMOUS CASE TAKES ANOTHER
TURN WHEN PRISON COMMIS
SION VOTES FOR A PAROLE.
UP TO GOVERNOR
Atlanta, August 28. —The state
prison commission today unanimous
ly recommended to Governor Dorsey
the parole of Dr. J. W. McNaughton,
serving a life sentence for the con
viction of the murder of Fed Flan
ders at Swainesboro in 1910.
The McNaughton case in its vary
ing phases has been one of the most
unusual and spectacular in the state’s
criminal history.
Three times the physician has been
sentenced to be hanged, after a trial
under a military guard, twice he has
been recommnded for pardon, and
nearly three years of his life he
spent in jail in Savannah before en
tering upon service of a life sentence
at the state farm. Three governors
have had to deal with his case here
tofore, and it now comes before a
fourth for final disposition.
JENKINSBURG HAS
BIG COTTON FIRE
BRICK WAREHOUSE BURNED
WITH HEAVY LOSS. TWO
OR THREE HUNDRED BALES
COTTON DESTROYED
The Jenkinsburg warehouse, which
contained between two and three
hundred bales of cotton, was destroy
ed by fire at an early hour Tuesday
morning The conflagration entail
ed a heavy loss, only partially cover
ed by insurance.
The origin of the fire is not
known. It was detected about 4
o’clock and was accompanied by an
explosion, it was stated, which led
to the belief that it was the work of
incendiaries. There being no ade
quate fire protection the building
and contents burned rapidly. All ef
forts of the bucket brigade to ex
tinguish or hold the flames in check
resulted in failure.
J. R. Smith, of Atlanta, ovned a
controlling interest in the warehouse.
Several people in the vcinity of
Jenkinsburg were stockholders in
the concern.
Many farmers had all their cotton
of the 1918 crop stored in the build
ing. A good part of this cotton was
not covered by insurance, it was de
clared.
The warehouse was of brick con
struction and one of the best build
ings of its kind in the entire country.
The fire burned for several hours,
the flames still smoldering during
most of the day Tusday.
KIMBELL ASSOCIATION
HOLDS ITS MEETING
TWENTY BAPTIST CHURCHES
SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO
ANNUAL MEETING AT PARAN
CHURCH 3 AND a
An occasion of much interest to
Baptists in this section is the annual
meeting of the Kimbell Association
which is being neld with Paran
church, Monroe county, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week
A program of exceptional interest
has been arranged and reconstruc
tion work and the Baptist campaign
to raise $76,000,000 will receive
marked' attention during the sessions.
Rev. J. P. Vaughn v.is selected
to preach the introductory sermon
Thursday. The missionary sermon
will be preached by Rev. C. C. Heard
Friday.
Mr. J. H. Carmichael is modera
tor of the association and Mr. P. J.
Evans clerk.
Indications now '.point to a large
attendance of tlfti -twenty member
churches. Citizens <in the vicinity of
Paran have arranged to entertain
visitors royally and dinner will be
served at the nosm hour during the
two days of the meeting.
Many visitors from Jackson and
other Baptist churches* in Butts
county will attend during the two
days.
FRANCE BUYS
A. E. F. PROPERTY
$400,000,000 • SUM PAID FOR
PROPERTY OF U. S. IN
FRNCE. BONDS GIVEN IN
PAYMENT
Washington.—Sale to France for
$400,000,000 of all A. E. F. prop
erty in that country, except that
withheld for return to the United
States and for the use of troops re
maining, is provided for in a con
tract signed with the French govern
ment, the war department was ad
vised today by its special liquidation
committee. Payment will be made
in ten-year gold bonds, bearing in
terest at the rate of 5 per cent from
August 1, 1920.
The bonds are to be redeemed in
gold at Washington, on a dollar basis
or at the election of the United
States in francs. The contract cov
ers all “fixed installations,” such as
docks, wharves, railroads, storage
warehouses, barracks and refrigera
tion plants, as well as surplus cloth
ing, subsistence stores, motor equip
ment and munitions.
GOVERNOR OFFERS S3OO
REWARD FOR SHOOTING
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey has of
fered a reward of S3OO for the par
ty or parties responsible for the
shooting of S. L. King and C. G. Sut.
ton on July 9 while traveling be
tween Forsyth and Indian Springs.
Jackson’s Great Need
is an
ICE FACTORRY
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
BUTTS COUNTY SINGERS TO
MEET FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Annual Session Will Be Held at Lib
erty Church
The' annual meeting of the Butts
County Singing Convention will be
held at Liberty church Friday and
Saturday of this v.eek. A large rep
resentation is expected and a good
program has been arranged for the
convention. Hon. J. Matt McMich
ael is president and will preside over
the meeting. Officers will be elected
during the convention.
CONVICTS MUST BE
WHIPPED IN HOUSE
PRISON COMMISSION ORDERS
PUNISHMENT ON HIGHWAYS
TO CEASE. NEW ORDER WAS
ISSUED LAST WEEK
Atlanta, Ga.—The state prison
commission on Saturday announced
the adoption of a rule prohibiting
wardens or deputy wardens from
whipping convicts at any place ex
cept the camps where convicts are
kept. The following notice has been
sent to the wardens in all counties:
“The prison commission has had
under consideration ti o matter of
inflicting punishment upon convicts,
which has resulted unfortunately in
several instances recently, and has
decided to impose anew rule re
quiring all corporal punishment to
be inflicted at the camps and not in
the roads. We quote the rule belov;
and direct that you observe the
same in the future:
“ ‘From and after this date no
warden or deputy warden shall whip
a prisoner except at his stockade or
in camp.’ ”
The object of this rule, it seems,
is not so much to prevent the whip
ping of convicts, which is a legalized
form of punishment in Georgia’s pen
al institutions, but to prevent the
whpping of convicts on the public
roads. Several convicts being whip
ped on the public roads have set up
a terrible outcry to attract the at
tention of persons traveling past,
and these persons have got into al
tercations with the warden and com
plaints have been made to the pris
on commission that convicts were be
ing treated cruelly.
It is for the purpose, therefore,
of stopping these scenes on the pub
lic roads that the rule of the com
mission is issued.
MISDEMEANOR TO GIVE
CHECK WITHOUT FUNDS
OVERDRAWING OF ACCOUNTS
UNDER NEW LAW MADE
CRIME. NO DAYS OF GRACE
PROVIDED FOR
Atlanta.—lt is a misdemeanor,
without any modification whatever,
to draw a check on your account in
the bank for a penny more than
you have on deposit. There isn’t any
30 days prpvision in which to pay
the check, or to make up the over
draft--or any time at all.
The provision of the new banking
bill covering this point is as follows:
“Any person who, with intent to
defraud, shall make, or draw, or ut
tter, or deliver any check, draft or
order for the payment of money
upon any bank or other depository,
knowing at the time of such making,
dravvng uttering or delivery that
the maker or drawer has not suffic
ient funds in or credit with such
bank, or other depository, for the
payment of such check, draft or or
der in full upon its presentation,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The making, drawing, uttering or
delivering of such check, draft or
order as aforesaid, shall be prima
facie evidence of intent to defraud,”
etc.
JULY A BIG MONTH IN CATTIE
FEVER TICK ERADICATION
Washington, D. C. -Complete re
ports to the Bureau of Animal In
dustry of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture from all the
tick-infested states show that in July
the number of dippings of cattle to
exterminate the cattle fever tick
reached the big total of 7,219,037.
While this total i scomparatively big,
it is about 400,000 less than the rec
ord for May. This is accounted for
by the fact that dipping of cattle is
being discontinued in some localities
which were released from federal
quarantine and whre the final clean
up v.ork is practically completed as
a result of early work this dipping
season.