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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.