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Butts County Fair November 5,6, 7
Peach Culture Will
Bring Permanent Pros
perity to Butts County
VOL 47—NO. 40
ICE FACTORY IS
' "OVER THE TOP"
BUSINESS MEN DOUBLE SUB
SCRIPTIONS AND TWENTY
THOUSAND DOLLAR MARK IN
SIGHT. PLANT IS CERTAINTY
Absolute assurance that the ice
plant will be built in Jackson was
given this week when twice the
amount of money on hand wa s sub
scribed. Up to the first of the week
about SIO,OOO had been raised. 1
Twice that amount is now in sight
and the plant will begin operation
with a capital of $20,000.
A meeting of the officers visas held !
_ Monday afternoon and in a canvass
among the business men more than
$5,000 was raised in a few hours.
_ Jhe full twenty thousand dollars will
pbe subscribed before the week is out. i
As soon as the money i s in sight a
contract will be let for the machin
ery and the site will be obtained and
active work started on the plant.
Business men of the community
who are interested in seeing the
' plant erected doubled and trebled
their previous subscriptions. Origi
nally SIOO was the limit of subscrip.
tion s allowed to any individual. The
limit has been removed and several
SSOO subscritions have been received.
Any person who has not been seen in
the canvass may report his subscrip
tion to Mr. W. E. Merck, manager
of the plant, or to any of the. offic
ers, including S. P. Nichols, presi
dent; R. N. Etheridge, vice presi
dent and Hugh Mallet, secretary
and treasurer.
Within a few days a meeting of
the stockholders will be called and a
permanent organization perfected.
Several site s are in view. The mat
ter of a site will be left with the of
ficers, to be ratified later by the
stockholders.
All doubt about the success of the
ice factory has been removed. Th
Mew stock subscriptions make the
plant a certainty. It is likely that a
ten or twelve ton plant will be built
and the needs of Jackson and imme
diate vicinity supplied. At first it
was planned to build a twenty to
plant, which wuld have cost aroun'
$30,000. Twenty thousand dollars
will be enough to install and operate
a ten or twelve ton plant.
Jackson wall have her own ice fac
tory next summer. It will be a com
munity and co-operative enterprise
in which many stockholders are in
terested. Ice will be furnished to the
stockholders first of all, and if you
have not subscribed to the capita
stock this is a last chance to get
your name on the list.
GOOD COLLECTIONS
FOR THE ORPHANS
METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL
REMEMBERED ORPHANS IF
SUBSTANTIAL WAY. LADIES
TO SEND ORPHANS BOX
At the Methodist Sunday School s
collection was taken for the North
Georgia Orphanage at Decatur, Sun
day morning. Collections so far re
ported amount to $125, and contri
butions are still being received. This
is considered a very good showing.
The attendance was iSbout 124.
The ladies of the Methodist church
met in the Sunday School room of
the church Thursday of the past,
week and worked for the orphans. A
box worth at least $125 to $l5O, con
taining clothes for the orphan In
dies, will be sent off the last of this
week. Any one wishing to help the
orphans may do so, as the ox wi
not be sent for a few days yet.
too MUCH BORAX IN
FERTILIZERS IS CHARGE
Orangeburg, S. that
cefta**r companies had sold fertilizers
last spring containing a large per
centage of borax which had greatly
reduced their cotton yield were made
fekere today by farmers from the up
part of Orangeburg county, who
here to consult lawyers re-
Pgarding possible damage suits. 1
There were almost a hundred farm-1
er s making the complaints and one |
said he would make only about two \
> bales on tvasnty-ftve acres, where he
was accustomed to at least a bale
j an acre.
Comfort and economy make happy
homes. You get both by using Cole s
Hot Blast Heaters.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGIIS
11,000 BALES OF COTTON
DESTROYED AT SOPERTON
Fire Damage Entails the Loss of
SIBO,OOO
Soperton, Ga., Sept. 29.—Fire of
undetermined origin early today de
stroyed the Fowler Cotton Ware
house here, containing 11,025 bales
of cotton, causing a loss estimated
at SIBO,OOO. The cotton, it was
stated, was fully insured, while the
warehouse wa s only partially covered
by insurance.
Most all of the cotton destroyed
was of this year’s crop and was own
ed by farmers residing near Soper
ton. A car load of cement and about
twenty rolls of bagging were burned
also.
GOVERNMENT HELD
UP ON CONTRACTS
LARGE PROFITS MADE BY CON
TRACTORS WHO FURNISHED
SUPPLIES. INVESTIGATIONS
NOW GOING ON
Evidence of alleged hold-ups of
the government by war contractors
and the allowance of their claims
with almost criminal prodigality has
been furnished the sub-committee of
the house investigating ordnance ex
penditures. Instances of contractors
charging the government S3OO a
ton for great quantities of unused
tin in their claims for settle
ment and then buying it back from
| the government for $35 a ton, when
the market value was $250 a ton
land more, were furnished by expert
| tin manufacturers.
A profit of $1,787,500 to the
I American Can Company on the 65,-
000,000 hardtack cans it furnished
the government was indicated in the
testimony of James A. Clarke, of the
Clarke Can Company of Philadel
phia. The witness challenged the
statements of an official of the
American Can Company "ho assert
ed there had been a tremendous de
preciation on thousands of tons cf
tin, all of which was
the governr- * ?. '. tk i •
r.yne the contract was canceled the
depreciation in the rah < f the trt
did not exceed ;
The special h. .r : f.• hr the
committee t the
■umber of claims the Na
ional Era " ■ f Cos.,
if Milwaukee, V. i oive '
he name of Ca . 1 n , 0“
duty with the of
■. he army in X" ~
As to the nm and
nule s owned by th wx v department
during the . ■ ■■•■, se
cured that f 0,000.
Members of th< ■ -'e un
,ble to understand t' ur Icf 195,-
000 small hoc"
contract amounting to
:ontractor actual'/ and A -1 2,208
-,f these iron? f ■ was
laid the contract ; ic of 33.5
cents each. He t r put in a claim
n lieu of the e . Ced portion of
the contract,-of $40,000, and it was
allowed.
FIRE IN COTTON AT
SOUTHERN DEPOT
EARLY MORNING BLAZE PUT
OUT BEFORE MUCH DAMAGE
WAS DONE. FIRE PROBABLY
CAUGHT FROM TRAIN
What might have proved a serious
fire was averted Tuesday morning by
the prompt work of the Jackson fire
department in extinguishing the
flames that broke out on cotton on
the platform at the Southern depot.
The alarm was turned in between
five and six o’clock and the blaze
was soon under control.
About 125 bales of cotton, it is
estimated, were on the platform
awaiting shipment. The fire, it is
thought, vs started by sparks from
a passing locomotive.
I No great damage was done to the
cotton, which was soaked with water.
NEGRO MAN KILLED ON
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
A negro man by the name of
Greer Gibson was shot and killed at
Wilder's store on Saturday, Sept. 20.
Triy Williams was charged with the
sVooting. The coroner’s jury that
irvestigated the crime turned Wil
liams loose. The trouble was said to
have started over a gambling game.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY OCTOBER 3, 1919
BIG SUMS PAID TO
SOLDIERS FAMILIES
MORE THAN $24,000,000 TO BE
PAID TO FAILIES OF GEORGIA
SOLDIERS. BIG JOB FOR IN
SURANCE BUREAU
Washington, D. C. —Georgia fam
ilies are being paid $24,716,720 in
War Risk Insurance Claims by Uncle
Sam. He is making restitution to
those whose sons and husbands died
in the service of their country dur
ing the greatest war of all times.
There are 2828 insurance claims
being paid in Georgia through the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance to
beneficiaries named at the time ap
plication for insurance was made
by soldiers, sailors and marines, now
dead. The average policy carried by
these 2828 men was $8,740.
Disabled soldiers, as well as wid
ows and children and dependent par
ents of those who have died are be
ing made comfortable by the govern
ment whic his paying 1533 compen
sation claims to residents of Geor
gia.
In addition to the insurance and
compensation claims no wbeing paid
in Georgia, there are 1187 of both
these classes of claims under inves
tigation. These cases, however,* are
rapidly being adjusted following an
investigation by Bureau representa
tives.
The Bureau of War Risk Insur
ance which administers these affairs,
has been established by the govern
ment as a permanent institution in
recognition of the services veterans
cf the World War rendered their
country.
The insurance which veterans are
able to carry as the result of this act
of an appreciative government will
be a constant reminder to them of
the part they took in the war, whet 1-
or it has been the part f accomplish
ing a deed of valor as performed by
Sergo t Alvin Cullum York of Pal 1
Mad, Tenn., or that of the newest
ecruit v/ho only underwent the dis
■ nforts of barrack life, and was de_
ved of overseas service by the
irmistice.
Records in the Bureau show tha<
thi s has been a young man’s war
and a mother’s war. More than 47
per cent of the men who carried
government insurance made mothers
their beneficiaries. Fathers were
tiled by approximately 16 per cent
of the men.
The average of the men killed ir
France was 23 years.
An examination of the records i
the bureau of War Risk Insurance
shows that a large percentage of
married me n in arranging for the
future protection of their families
planned for insurance to be paid
to their mothers, while their thought,
in arranging their compensation ben
efits, was for their wives.
About 32 per cent of the men who
carried War Risk Insurance named
their wives in making arrangements
for compensation. Mothers were
named by 22 per cent, while the
“vvfe and child” were named by 14
per cent. Thi s is the natural conse
quence of privileges granted by the
War Risk Insurance Act. They felt
it their first duty to provide for the
immediate needs of their family,
making at the same time, through
application for insurance, provision
for their parents in their advancing
Insurance claims which the Bureau
will be called upon to pay amount to
more than $1,012,000,000. The
amount of premiums received from
all service men and which was deduc
ted from their pay during the active
period of war approximates $200,-
000,000 or les s than one-fifth of the
amount of insurance claims. The
excess above premiums will be paid
by the government.
McADOO ISSUED FIFTY
THOUSAND RAILROAD PASSES
Public Treasury Lott Several Million
Dollars From Free Rides
More than 50,000 passes were is
sued by the railroads while under
former Director General McAdoo,
making a total loss of several hun
dred million dollars a year for the
government, according to Senator
Kellogg, of Minnesota.
Senator Sherman, of Illinois, criti
cised Director McAdoo for taking
passes for himself and members of
I his family.
LEGION POSTS OF STATE
TO MEET IN ATLANTA
Convention Will Be Held October
15 and 16
All posts of the American Legion
in Georgia will hold a convention in
Atlanta October 15 and 16. Head
quarters will be at the Ansley hotel
and Governor Dorsey has been invit
ed to welcome the visitors to At
lanta.
Several posts have already been
established and the membership is
growing rapidly. Major Joel B. Mal
let, who was in charge of the selec
tive service draft in Georgia, will
head the reception and entertain
ment committee.
1919 LEGISLATURE
COST STATE HEAVY
LAST SESSION COST $35,000
MORE THAN ANY PREVIOUS
YEAR. INCREASE IN PER
DIEM CHIEF ITEM EXPENSE
The 1919 session of the Georgia
legislature cost .exactly $111,441.10
which is something like $35,000 more
than the expense of former legisla
tures under the old law These fact
were announced Wednesday by W
J. Speer, state treasurer, who has
compiled each item of expense.
The cost of the senate amounted
to $27,400.17 while the expense of
the house of representatives totalled
$84,040.93.
The senate expenditures include
the per diem of $7 paid each sena
tor, the mileage allowance for each
member and the cost of the various
committees which were appointed
to investigate various state institu
tions and matters connected with the
legislation affecting them. The total
expense of the senate is divided as
follows:
Per diem $25,175.00
Mileage 1,574 86
Committee expense 67.37
Total $27,400.17
The cost of maintaining the house
of l-epivsentatives includes the sarn
items, the figures on which follow:
Per diem $76,653.00
Mileage 6,765.10
Committee expense 1,622.83
Total $84,040.93
Under the old law legislators re
ceived $4 per day and their mileage
allowance of 10 cents per mile,
while the new, law increases the per
d’em to $7 but leaves the mileage
allowance unchanged. This accounts
for the increased cost of the last leg
islature, which was the first to con
vene after the enactment of the
new statute. The cost of committees
operating during the recess are paid
by special warrant from a fund ap
nriated for this purpose and are in
cluded in the figures given out Wed
nesday by the state treasurer.
RALLY DAY PROVED A
DECIDED SUCCESS
LARGE ATTENDANCE PRESENT
AT FIRST BAPTIST SUNDAY
SCHOOL AND COLLECTION
TAKEN FOR STATE MISSIONS
Rally Day and State Mission Day
at the First Baptist church Sunday
morning was an occasion of much
interest and profit. A good program
was carried out and all the talks
were of a helpful and instructive
nature. The attendance was about
180.
Total collections for State Missions
amounted to sl3l, which will be
credited on the $75,000,000 cam
paign. Many persons who had not
been to Sunday School before in a
long time were present at these ex
ercises and enjoyed the occasion
thoroughly.
COTTON EXPORTS FOR
AUGUST SHOW INCREASE
Washinton, Sept. 27.—Cotton ex
ports for August were almost double
the figures for the same month last
year, according to government sta
tistics issued today, the figures being
479,450 for August, 1918. For the
eight month period ended in August,
exports were 166,668 bales in 1919
and 2,423,489 in 1918.
Exports of mineral oils fell off
from 237,979,076, in August 1919.
Illuminating oil alone showed an in
crease.
EDITOR OF ARGUS
WRITES LETTER
MR. T. M. MORROW WHO WAS
WITH PAPER IN THE SEVENT
TIES TELLS SOME OF HIS EX
PERIENCES
\
The Progress-Argus is in receipt
of a letter from Mr. T. M. Morrow,
of Winchester, Ky., who was one of
the publishers of the Middle Georgia
Argus foify years ago. He was as
sociated with the late Capt. W. F.
Smith. Mr. |Moriow will be remem
bered by many of the older citizens
of the county and his letter is given
herewith:
Winchester, Ky., Sept. 27, 1919
Editor Progress-Aigus: I received
in my mail this morning a copy of
your paper in which I. discovered a
recital of journalism in Butts coun
ty. Among the very interesting ar
ticles contained in this copy was one
entitled “Founder of Argus Jackso"
Visitor.’’ This article recite s that H
M. Edge published the first newspa
per in Butts county. Then came the
“Middle Geoi-gia Argus,” edited bv
myself (T. M. Morrow) and W. F
Smith, novu deceased. I was with Mr
Smith three years as associate editor
The paper was published in a build
ing on a cross roads leading from
Indian Springs to Jackson and n
station on the Ga. R. R. This cross
roads was a mile from India
Springs.
Yes, there were only three print
ers engaged in the press work, Fred
S. Horton, Bill Johnson and rnyslef.
I remember it so very distinctly.
The office had an old Washington
hand press Johnson did the inking
and Fred Horton pulled the lever
and I did the mailing. Horton and
myself slept in a small attic upstairs,
’’ill Douglas kept a store in one of
the departments connected with or
in the building. There was a great
industry in progress in the making
of “moonshine.” This caused great
hilarity and crime. I went after the
moonshine makers in the columns
with severity, which brought upon
me a threat from the moonshine con
tingent that I would be mobbed if
T did not desist. Gallons of moon
shine were deposited in my office as
a “hush remedy," but it did not hush
at all. I went on with my v.
against (he traffic. Nightly there
were orgies of fights and distui’b
ances from this source.
I left the Argus in 1879 and since
then have been engaged in newspa
per work in Williamstown, Ky., Dan
vile, Ky., and Richmond, Ky. In the
latter place my plant was blown ur>
with dynamite, and then destroyed
by fire after rebuilding, all the work
of feudists. You have heard of
Breathitt county. I am now located
in Winchester, Ky., in a lucrative
printing business.
Your constituency will remember
me. I notice in your paper th3
names of many old friends. I board
ed for some'time with Miss Joe Var
ner. God bless her. The pleasantest
thoughts of my life today is of her.
I would like so much to visit this
old “play ground,” but I am in the
“sere and yellow leaf” of life and
cannot hope to view those old scenes
again.
I would like so much to receive
an occasional number of your paper.
May God bless you is my sincere
offering.
Sincerely yours,
T. M. MORROW.
ARMY OFFICERS WILL BE
REDUCED BY DEPARTMENT
Cut From 200,000 to 18,000 Make*
Reduction Necessary
Washington.—Under the authority
recently given to maintain the com
missioned strength of the army at
18,000, the war department has an
nounced the number each grade will
have. The list follows: General of
ficers, 101; colonels, 693; lieuten
ant colonels, 797; majors, 2,717;
captains, 5,408; first lieutenants,
5,179; second lieutenants, 3,105.
In order that the officers lists may
be cut to the above figures, inclusive
of regulars, a general reduction in
grade will be ordered. The majority
of officers now are graded on the
basis of a total commissioned person
nel .of 200,000.
All the changes will have been
completed prior to October 31.
Asa matter of common sense, civ
il; pride and good business policy,
Jackson needs better streets.
Jackson’s Great Need
is an
ICE FACTORRY
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
MR. B. L. WILLINGHAM DIED
IN ATLANTA FRIDAY NIGHT
Was Prominent and Well Known
Busines s Man
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. A. Homer
Carmichael sympathize with them in
the death of |Mrs. Carmichael’s fath
er, Mr. B. L. Willingham, who passed
away suddenly in Atlanta Friday
night. Mr. Willingham was 63
years old and was one of Atlanta’s
most successful business men. Five
year s ago he suffered a stroke of
paralysis from which he never recov
ered. He wa formerly president of
the Willingham-Tift Lumber Cos. ax and
the Exposition Cotton Mills.
The funeral was held in Atlanta
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock,
v.ith interment in West View.
PRES DENTILL;
GIVES UP TRIP
FORCED TO CANCEL ALL
SPEAKING DATES AND RE
TURN TO WASHINGTON— SUI •
FERS NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Wichita, Kan.—President Wilsou
today cancelled the remainder of hi
tour under orders from Admir:
Cary T. Grayson, the president’s ph;
sician, and will return to Washing
ton direct from Wichita. Admiral
Grayson gave illness and physics’
exhaustion as the reason for his ac
tion.
Although it was said there war
nothing critical about the Trresident’s
condition, Dr. Grayson, h'.s phynitrisn
declared a nervous reaction affect
ing his digestive organs mad* sus
pension of his trip imperative.
The president’s address, whir’
■vis to have been delivered at tli
Forum building this morning, vya
cancelled.
Mr. Wilson was ill wst of last
night and the decision to return a
at once to the. c?pilul .wan
just, before b's train , and u!
Wichita- The pivsHe/t . biro vF
wanted to continue 1 ‘ - ’ > , :
gram, but I/r. G:a. i. >••
permit him.
The pic. i : - r -l t null
into the at: lio nut V-i ■ ■ r>* v
large crowd was v
the president. A?/ ■ ;
to at least,
pie here, Dr, ( • l not
permit him to 1 ■ ' '
Secretary To '■
lovaing statement:
“The presidm.: t
self so constantly -and
such a strain du;' - pua
and has so spent V
serve on this trip " 1 ht
on a nervous r- . ' ''
organs.
“Dr. Grayson, t'
upon the cancellation .A i ;
ing appointment)) r.i.d 1 '
return to Wa ' 1 i
ing the preside • ’ ? • i<
cmplete his eng... ...”
Mr. Wilson hi ■ •/ forty
speeches since he left Washington on
September 3 ar.d 1 , -t all but
i about half a dozen nights on the
train. Five addn .; '- remained on
his uncompleted schedule. After the
two today, he was to have- spoken in
Little Rock and Memphis tomorrow
and in Louisville Monday morning,
returning to Washington on Tuesday.
MR. T. B. M’CLELLANO
PASSEO AWAY SEPT. 24
The death of Mr. T. B. McClelland,
a Confederate veteran and well
known citizen, occurred at his home
in Flovilla Wednesday afternoon.
Old age and a complication of dis
eases were given as the cause of
death.
Mr. McClelland wis 84 years of
age and had been a resident of
Butts county for several years. He
was held in high esteem by all who
knew him. The surviving relatives
are his wife and three daughters,
Mrs. Mattie Funderburk, of Sylves
ter, Ga.; Mrs. Janie Beeland, of
Hawkinsville, and Mrs. Sallie M.
Moore, of Jackson; three sons, J. T.
McClelland, of Macon; J. A. Mc-
Clelland, of Dexter, and A. P. Mc-
Clelland, of Indian Springs.
Funeral services were held at
Sandy Creek church Thursday after
noon at 3 o’clock, Rev. W. O. Sharp
officiating. Interment was In the
church cemetery.