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Bulls County Fair November 5,6, T
| teach Culture Will
Bring Permanent Pros
perity to Butts County
VOL. 47—NO. 41
FAIR EVENTS ARE
BEING SHAPED
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GREATEST FAIR BUTTS COUNTY
j HAS EVER KNOWN WILL
! OPEN IN ANOTHER MONTH.
MANY SPECIAL FEATURES
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A list of notable speakers will be
•
in -Jackson during fair week to ad
<sress the people on topics of vital in
terest. Never before in the history
of this county well so many promi
nent men be gathered here as during
t|>e week of the fair.
H Acceptances have been seemed
from Hon. Hoke Smith, senior sena-
from Georgia; Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey; Hon. J. W. Wise, congress
man from the sixth district; Hon. C.
S|f Barrett, natinal president of the
'FBrmers’ Union; Hon. J. J. Brown,
of Agriculture; Hon.
WfeMills, state president of the
Farmers’ Union; Prof. J. G.
THi mft, of the state Colege of Agri
; Mr. F. S. Etheridge, prorni-
■lent Georgia banker' and one of
Butts county’s best known citizens,
fend a long list of other men promi
nent in the public eye.
Senator Smith, Governor Dorsey
and Congressman Wise will deliver
adresses to the soldiers on Friday, at
which time a barbecue wil be given
all returned white oldiers, sailors and i
•marines. This without doubt will be |
the biggest day in Butts county’s
history. No expense or pains have
been spared to make the event a red
lettr day, and th mn who fought for
the country on land and sea will be
puitably honored.
On Thursday the 801 l Weevil Con
tference and Hog and Hominy rally
’■will prove a great meeting for the
and business men of Butts
Icounty. Men of experience, men
who know what they are talking
about, will tell the citizens of Butts
county about the best methods of
Jdeafing with the boll weevil. Crop
will be pointed out
i and what crops to raise to beat the
boll weevil will be explained. A
prominent part of this day’s program
will be devoted to peach raising in
Butts county.
The first day of the fair will be
featured as Opening Day. This will
be one of the biggest days of all.
Special features are being arranged
to give the fair a big send-off and
nobody can afford to miss Opening
Day. A useful and appropriate sou
venir will be given every man, wo
man and child who attends on Open
ing Day.
Advertising matter for the fair is
being placed. Hundreds of automo
bile banners and window cards and
circulars are being used to tell the
people of Butts and adjoining coun
ties about the best fair in Middle
Georgia. Other features of advertis.
ing will be used and this matter wil)
be distributed during the next few
days.
Already the manager of the fair
associatioon hag received many pled
ges from exhibitors. The exhibits
will be the largest and most varied
ever seen at a fair in Butts county.
Each and every department will be
brimful of good things from the
farm, the work of the boys and girls
clubs and live stock. Many special
agricultural exhibits will be entered.
The buildings and grounds are be
ing placed in tip top shape for the
opening of the fair.
A strong line of show s and attrac
tions have been signed to furnish
the amusement features during the
week. The World’s Exposition
Show.?, consisting of several strong
shows, several ride s and a fine Ital
ian band, will be on the grounds the
entire week. There will be sensa
tional free actg to entertain and
amuse the crowds.
' Every man, woman and child in
* the county should arrange right now
to attend the fair. Exhibitors should
be working on their exhibits and be
.prepared to have them completely
by Tuesday night, Novem-
Sg §jhn the gates swing open on
November 5. the peo-
Butts county will be treated
the best arranged, rhost complete
pnd befet balanced county fair in
Georgia.
UNDERGOES OPERATION FOR
APPENDICITIS IN ATLANTA (
‘ Friends of Mr. J. R Carmichael
are glad to know that he is doing
after an operation f° r appen
dicitis in Atlanta on Friday of the
past week.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS
FREIGHT WRECK TIES
UP TRAFFIC FOR DAY
TRAINS DELAYED SEVERAL
HOURS WHEN FREIGHT CARS
LEAVE TRACK. NO LOSS OF
LIFE IN WRECK
Regular schedules on the Southern
Railway were interrupted Sunday
and part of (Monday due to a freight
wreck near Berner. The southbound
freight had four cars to run off the
track near Berner and several hours
were required to clear the wreckage
for regular traffic. Nobody w.as
hurt, it was stated.
Two cars of coal and a car of salt
were included in the wreckage.
The trouble seems to have been
caused by a hot box, the wheel be
coming locked and causing four cars
to go over near a creek.
REMEDY FOR THE
HIGH COST LIVING
COUNCIL* OF DEFENSE FINDS
THAT MORE PRODUCTION IS
NEEDED. PROFITEERING GO
ING ON, SAYS REPORT
Washington, Oct. s.—After an in.
vestigation of the high cost of living
problem, the Council of National De
fense finds;
That the nation’s productive pow
ers have not been fully utilized since
' the armistice.
That too few goods, notably the
necessities of life, have been pro-
I duced, and that even some of these
goods have been withheld from the'
market, and therefore from the peo
ple.
That the high cost of living is due
in part to the unavoidable war-waste
arid increase of money and credit.
That there ha s been and is consid
erable profiteering, intentional and
unintentional.
The council believes that the
remedies for the situation are;
To produce more goods, and to
produce them in proportion to the
needs of the people.
To stamp out profiteering and un
necessary hoarding.
To enforce vigorously present laws
and promptly enact such further
laws as are necessary to prevent and
punish profiteering and needless
hoarding.
To bring about better co-opera
tion and mehod in distributing and
marketing goods.
To keep both producer and con
sumer fully informed as to what
goods are needed and as to what sup
plies are available, so that produc
tion may anticipate the country’s
demands.
“Better standards of living are
impossible* without producing more
goods, said the council’s announce
ment.
“The process of production re
quires time. If production is rapidly
increaser, vastly improved conditions
will prevail in America with the re
sults of present and future labor be
gin to appear.
“Team wark is imperative. The
The manafacturer, the farmmer, the
the distributer must each immediate
ly assume his part of the burden and
enter upon his task.
“The entire nation —producer, dis
tributor an dconsumer alike—should
return to the unity that won the
war. Group interest and undue per
sonal gain must give way to the good
of the whole nation if the situation
is to be squarely met.”
MUST SPEND SIO,OOO A DAY
TO KEEP COUNTRY “DRY”
Palmer Say* .Enforcement _ Money
Must be Provided or Law Will Fail
Enforcement of the national pro
hibition laws will cost the govern
ment SIO,OOO a day, according to
I Attorney General Palmer,* v.ho has
informed congress that the prohib.-
tion law would become a farce un
less adequate appropriations were
made for its enforcement.
“If you are going tb make a far*"
of prohibition let it go. andletpeo
ple do what they please, the attor
ney general said, “but if you want
j me to enforce it I must have ammu-
nition."
JUST SO
| “Don’t you think a hen trust is a
good thing to lay for?”
“Eggs-actly”
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY OCTOBER 10, 1919
AN INVITATION TO EVERYBODY
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IF YOU WANT TO MEET YOUR FRIENDS, COME TO THE
BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO BEAT THE BOLL
WEEVIL, COME TO THE BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.
IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED, AMUSED, INSTRUC
TED, DELIGHTED, COME TO THE BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE A COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF
BUTTS COUNTY’S MATCHLESS RESOURCES, COME TO THE
BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.
IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A PART IN HONORING BUTTS
COUNTY’S SOLDIERS, COME TO THE BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.
IF YOU WANT TO HEAR SOME OF THE BEST SPEAK
ERS IN THE SOUTH, COME TO THE BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.'
IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOME OF THE PRETTIEST
GIRLS IN THE WORLD COME TO THE BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.
IF YOU WANT TO MEET A BUNCH OF LIVE BOOSTERS
COME TO THE BUTTS COUNTY FAIR.
IF YOU ARE NOT A DEAD ONE, COME TO THE BUTTS
COUNTY FAIR.
MANY ATTEND
VETS REUNION
BUTTS COUNTY SENDS LARGE
DELEGATION TO ATLANTA
FOR GREAT MEETING OF CON
FEDERATE VETERANS
Butts county was well represent
ed at the general reunion of Con
federate veterans held in Atlanta
during the w.eek. Avery large num
ber of veterans, members of Camp
Barnett, and members of the Larkin
Watson chapter Daughters of the
Confederacy, went up for r the reun
ion.
Cheap rates were granted on the
railroads, the fare being 1 cent per
mile for veterans, sons of veterans,
members of the Southern Memorial
Association. ‘Many of those who at
tended the reunion went up during
the day and returned home at night.
Hundreds of other visitors not con
nected with the veterans or U. D. C.
also attended the reunion from
Butts county.
An attendance totalling from 75,-
000 to 100,000 was regitsered at the
Atlanta reunion, visitors being pres
ent from all southern states. A
program of exceptional interest was
arranged for the visitors and every
honor and courtesy possible was ex
tended the wearers of the gray. Sev.
eral social functions of note were
given for the visitors, including a
grand ball.
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey for
mally welcomed the veterans to At
lanta.
The battles of Atlanta and Peach
tree Creek made the scene of the
reunion most appropriate. Many of
the survivors of these fierce on
slaughts attended the reunion and
went over the scene of the fighting
in the summer and fall of 1864.
In addition to the social features,
many matters of important business
were considered by the yeterans dur.
ing the reunion. One of these vns
the payment by the federal govern
ment of pensions to Confederate sol
diers.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
SUNDAY, OCT. 12
11 a. m. “And we hid, as it were,
our face s from him.” (A commun
ion meditation.)
7:30 p. m. “Love is the fulfiilling
of the Law.”
FARM AT WORTHVILLE SOLD
DURING THE PAST WEEK
One Hundred Acre* Brought $95
Per Acre
Mr. G. P. Saunders, one of the
county’s largest landowners, bought
during the past week 100 acres of
; and at Worthville from Mr. Ara
| brose Hendrick, of New Orleans. The
I price was $95 per acre, it was
j stated. Mr. Saunders already owns
I valuable farm holdings near Worth-
I ville, as well a s in other parts of the
i county. ...
CENSUS FIGURES
TO BE SECRET
DATA relating to property
VALUES WILL NOT BE GIVEN
OUT EXCEPT IN WASHINGTON
BY CENSUS BUREAU
Washington, October 9.—“ That
the facts and figures gathered by the
enumerators, supervisors and special
agents of the Fourteenth Decennial
Census will have absolutely nothing
to do with valuation of property for
taxation purposes is a point I desire
to emphasize with all possible vigor,"
said Director of the Census Sam L.
Rogers today in speaking of the
forthcoming 1920 enumeration.
“Some diflFculty has been exper
ienced in the past,” continued Mr.
Rogers, “in getting absolute accu
rate values of land and other prop
erty because of a certain amount of
confusion over this point. Many peo
ple were erroneously inclined to con
nect the census with taxation. We
hope to avoid any such confusion
this time."
The act of congress which, under
the Constitution, provides for the
taking of the Fourteen Decennial
Census makes it unlavufu lfor any
enumerator, special agent, supervisor
or other employee of the census bu
reau to divulge any information
whatsoever concerning the census
returns. A heavy fine and possible
imprisonment, or both, is the penalty
prescribed for violation of this pro
vision of the law.
The proper tabulated figures of
the census are given out nowhere but
here in Washington and then only
upo nthe express authority of the
Director of the Census Bureau.
Actual work of the enumerators in
the various census districts will be
gin on January 2, 1920. It is ex
pected that the population statistics
of all cities and towns will be gath
ered in approximately two weeks.
Final figures for rural districts, how
ever, can hardly be gathered in
less than a month.
-MRS. LAURA E. HALEY
DIED ON OCTOBER 2
FORMER RESIDENT OF INDIAN
SPRINGS PASSED AWAY IN
CLEARWATER, FLA. FUNERAL
ELDER CEMETERY SUNDAY
The death of Mrs. Laura Elder
Haley, 77 years of age, occurred
Thursday, Oct. 2, at her home in
Clearwater, Fla. She had been sick
for several weeks and death was due
to a complication of diseases.
As Miss Laura Elder, Mrs. Haley
will be remembered by many of the
residents of the county. A native of
Indian Springs and a member of a
prominent family of Butts county,
Mrs. Haley was well and affection
ately known. She bad been a resi
dent of Florida for the past twenty
five years and wa s a member of the
Episcopal church at Clearwater.
Mrs. Haley was a highly esteemed
Christian character and many friends
were saddened to know of her pass
ing.
The surviving relatives are her
husband, Mr. T. H. Haley, three
sons, Messrs. Lewellyn, Edward and
Gus Haley, and one daughter, Mrs.
UNITED STATES COURT
FACES HEAVY DOCKET
MORE THAN HUNDRED CASES,
MOST ILLICIT DISTILLING, TO
BE HEARD BY JUDGE EVANS
IN MACON COURT
With one hundred and twenty
three Cases on the calender, the Oc
tober term of the United States dis
trict court for the Macon division,
was opened in Macon Monday morn
ing. One hundred of the cases
charge violation of the liquor law,
most of the cases being illicit dis
tilling.
The grand jury was in session the
first part of the term and had many
cases before it. Civil cases, it was
expected, would be tried the first
part of the term.
The moonshine cases set for trial
at the October term sets anew re
cord. Several middle Georgia coun
ties are represented in the list of de.
fendants. There are quite a number
from Butts county to answer to the
charge of making and selling liquor.
POISON FOR WEEVIL
BELIEVED FOUND
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRI
CULTURE EXPERIMENTS
WITH CALCIUM ARSENATE.
RESULTS ARE ENCOURAGING
Washington.—A deadly poison to
the boll weevil, the insect which has
cost the southern cotton planters
$100,000,000 annually, has been dis
covered in the form of dry powdered
calcium arsenate, by the bureau of
etomology of the department of ag
riculture.
Application in a peculiar manner
is necessary, however, to* attain suc
cessful reults, the etomologists de
clare. The poison must be sifted on
the cotton plants while the dew is on
the foliage by special machinery so
that the weevil, in drinking the
morn-ng dew, of which it is fond,
will suck the poison through its long
snout, resulting in instant death.
Although calcium arsenate has been
used at the goveVnment station since
1914 as an insecticide, the depart
ment of agriculture has started only
recently the campaign for vvde ap
plication of the poison. Already cot
ton planters are showing keen inter
est in the experimnet and many
planters over the entire belt have
treated their fields.
The fight is made on the adult
weevil, which desposits the eggs in
the bojl or square of the cotton from
which hatch the lavre, which eat out
the heart of the cotton for susten
ance. Experiments for the destruc
tion of the lavre have been unsuc
cessful, the plant experts declare,
and after the lavre hatches in the
cotton boll, the cotton is ruined. The
department of agriculture therefore
has centered upon the poisoning of
the adult weevil as the most succes
ful means of eradicating the pest.
Experiments have been conducted
on an elaborate scale in the Mississip
pi delta region and they developed
that by sieqg|fic application of the
poison a cotton field could be reduc
edt ten per cent of itg infection,
the etomologists announced. Addi
tional experiment stations will be
established throughout the belt as
bases for the fight against the beetle.
Each year the boll weevil scourge
has spread over the cotton belt.
The weevil recently invaded the sec
tion off the coast of South Carolina,
where sea island cotton, considered
the finest cotton grown in America
is raised. The weevil is a product
of Mexico and invaded the
United States in 1862, near Browns
ville, Texas. The next year saw its
spread and each year the region of
infestation ha s increased uiitil now
only the extremities of the cotton
belt are free from the pest.
Laura Mclntosh, all of Clearwater,
Fla.; one brother, Mr. W. A. Elder,
of Indian Springs, and a number of
niece s and nephews.
The body was bought to Indian
Springs and was laid to rest in the
Elder cemetery Sunday afternoon at
2 o’clock, Dr. Robert VanDeventer,
of Jackson, officiating.
Butts county could not take a
more progressive step than to drain
some of her swamp and lowlands and
reclaim these fertile acres for pur
poses of production. If all the low
land were drained enough corn could
be raised to supply the entire county.
Jackson’s Great Need
is an
ICE FACTORRY
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
COTTON CROP IS
LOWEST IN YEARS
CONDITION OF CROP IN BUTTS
COUNTY IS 63 PER CENT.
LOWEST YIELD SINCE 1896 IS
THE FORECAST
The condition of the Butts county
cotton crop on October 1 was given
as 63 per cent.
The average condition for the
state was 49 per cent, which indicat
ed a probable yield of 1,547,000
bales.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct.—That the
stae’s yield will be the lowest since
1896, that the toal production will be
the smallest since 1903, that loss of
more than 150,000 bales represent
ing thirty million dollars, has been
incurred since last report date are
three astounding statements of the
Co-operative Crop Reporting Service
established by union of state depart
ment Agriculture, J. J. Brown, com
missoner, and U. S. bureau of crop
estimates, Leon x M. Estabrook, chief.
Not only that, these are true and
conservative figures as can easily be
verified by reading reports of thous
ands of trustworthy and trained ob
servers maintained by this service in.
every cotton county in Georgia.
figures simply mean that the
weevil has swept Georgia doing a
maximum damage. Only some seven
teen cotton counties remain which
are not infested and at the rate of
present progress most of these will
be invaded before the season closes.
As i s history in all territory injured
for the first time, north central Geor.
gia did not appreciate and would
not believe the damage actually tak
ing place and even the keenest ob
servers hesitated to indicate the full
extent of the loss.
Auxiliary to the loss through the
weevil, and scarcely second to him in
destructiveness has been the adverse
weather. Long periods of flooding
rains early in the season were follow
ed in August and September by se
vere drought and heat. The first
wrought destruction on low lands,
promoted soft tender growth where
cotton had escaped, and was ideal
for weevil propagation. The dry
weather caught the plants and strip
ped them of upper fruit and even
their leaves.
Ordinary cotton troubles like rust,
black root, .worms and red spiders,
though a 8 bad as usual, in presence
of the greater pests, have been al
most forgptten.
All of these factors, together with
labor shortage have resulted in the
greatest abandonment in years. (Most
of this occurred before the acreage
estimate was made and hence includ.
ed in it, but that since June 25 is
still double the average since weevil
infestation.
KIMSELL ASSOCIATION
QUOTAS ANNOUNCED
CHURCHES IN KIMBELL ASSO
CIATION WILL RAISE $75,000.
JACKSON CHURCH WILL
RAISE HALF THIS AMOUNT
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Kimbeil Association,
held in Jackson Sept. 30, the follow
ing church quotas were adopted for
the Baptist $75,000,000 campaign.
The quota of the Kimbeil Associa
ti<r of which Mr. J. H. Carmichael
is chairman antd Mr. W, O. Ham di
rector of publicity, is $75,000,
The quotas are a K follows:
Cabaniss $ 1,000.00
County Line 1,800.00
Flovilla 1,500.00
Indian Springs 1,000.00
Jackson 37,500.00
Jenkinsburg 2,000.00
Liberty 500.00
Logwall 700.00
Macedonia 6,500.40
Moore’s Chapel 500.00
Mt. Vernon 4,000.00
New Fellowship 500.00
Paran 3,000.00
Pepperton 500.00
Phillipi 1,000.00
Rocky Creek 1,000.00
Sardis 2,500.00
Sharon 5.000.00
Towaliga 3,000.00
Worthville 1,500.00
Total -. $75,000 00
Now is a good time to get your
exhibit ready for the Butts County
Fair.