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JACKSON NEEDS
A COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL
48—NO. 7
GEORGIA VOTES ON
PRESIDENT APRIL2O
GEORGIA DEMOCRATS WILL
EXPRESS CHOICE FOR PRES
IDENT ON THAT DATE. WANT
COUNTY PRIMARIES THEN
ATLANTA.—By a unanimous
vote the democratic state executive
committee of Georgia on Friday
morning ordered a preferential pri
mary for democratic presidential
candidates to be held on April 20.
The committee refused to include in
the primary a vote upon candidates
for democratic national committee
men from Georgia.
County executive committees are
requested to hold their county pri
maries on the date of the presiden
tial primary so as to provide for the
expense of the preferential
primary. In countie s where they
decline to do this or where the coun
ty primaries have already been held
the supporters of the various can
didates for the democratic presi
dential nomination will be request
ed to either serve free of charge as
election managers and clerk s or to
praise among themselves the money
r to pay managers and clerks.
On May 11 the result of the pref
erential primary will be formally
declared by a sub-committee of sev
en, which was appointed Friday to
make rules and regulations for the
holding of the primary. County ex
ecutive committees will be elected
delegates " among the supporters of
the candidates who carried their re
spective counties in the primary,
these delegates being in the ratio
of two for each county representa
tive in the legislature.
The delegates will assemble in a
state convention in Atlanta on May
18, and eelct Georgia’s delegation
to the democratic national conven
tion in San Francisco June 28, and
*the delegation will be composed of
supporters of the presidential can
didate. who received the highest
county unit vote in the primary.
The executive committee on Fri
day refused to pass a resolution re
questing the Georgia senators to
vote for the league of nations, with
as few reservations as possible and
preferably with no reservations and
also refused to take a hand in the
democratic leadership contest.
The preferential primary conven
tion will be held in Atlanta and the
state convention for governor and
state house officers will held in Ma
con. Arrangements for the state
' primary was left to a meeting of
the state committee in Atlanta on
May 18.
Chairman Flynt appointed the fol
lowing committee of seven to have
charge of the rules and regulations
for the preferentia lprimary: Chair
man Flynt, Hiram Gardner, Eaton
ton; Fermor Barrett, Toccoa; T. H.
Parker, Moultrie; Sam J. Slate, Co
lumbus; Miller S. Bell Milledgeville;
H. H. Dean, Gainesville.
Chairman Flynt appointed the
following sub-committee to prepare
rule s and regulations for the state
1 primary, for governor and state
house officers, and present them to
the whole committee when it meets
in Atlanta on May 18: Chairman
Flynt, Hiram Gardner, Fermor Bar
rett, J. J. E. Anderson, B. H. Hardy
and H. H. Reville, J. R. # Tweedy.
SUPERIOR COURT
NEXT MONDAY
CONSIDERABLE VOLUME OF
CIVIL BUSINESS ON THE CAL
ENDAR. TO TRY CRIMINAL
CASES SECOND WEEK
The February term of Butts su
perior court will convene in Jack
son Monday morning for a two
weeks’ session. Judge W. E. H.
Searcy, Jr., of Griffin, will preside
and Solicitor General E. M. Owen
will appear as prosecuting attor
ney.
The calendar, which has been
published, contains quite a number
of civil caseg which will be taken
up immediately after court con
venes. It is expected the first week
week will be given over entirely to
the trial of civil cases.
Criminal businesg will probably
be heard the second week. There is
a good deal of business on the crim-.
inal side of the calendar.
Court officials are now busy pre
paringl Iff the esnveniug of the
February term. .
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
LIST OF REGISTERED
VOTERS COMPLETED
TOTAL OF 1,610 NAMES ON THE
LIST. REGISTRARS WILL
MEET MONDAY TO PURGE
LIST. VACANCY ON BOARD
The list of registered voters was
made up this week by Clerk S. J.
Foster and Ordinary* J. H. Ham.
This list will be turned over to the
board of registrars, consisting of
Messrs. J. Matt McMichael and R.
E. Evans, next week. There is a
vacancy on the board and it i s likely
that Judge Searcy will name the
third member Monday.
When the registrars meet here
Monday they will go over the list
and strike off all the names not en
titled to vote. It will require several
days to purge the list, but the work
will be done in time for the primary
on Marh 5.
The registration by districts is
,as follows:
Buttrill , 172
Coody’s 107
Dublin : 103
Indian Springs __ 176
Iron Springs 142
Jackson 655
Towaliga ----- 122
Worthville 133
* Total 1610
INFLUENZA IS IN
A MILD FORM
SEVERAL THOUSAND CASES
REPORTED IN THE UNITED
STATES. LOW DEATH RATE.
FEW CASES IN THE COUNTY
While there is a good deal of in
fluenza over the country, more than
twenty states reporting the epi
demic, yet the disease so far i s in
a mild form compared to that of a
year ago.
Here in 'Butts county there are
several cases of the disease. It is
of a mild type, however, and so far
a s reported there ha s not been a sin
gle death from the malady. With the
proper precautions, physicians do
not think the flu will gain a serious
foot hold this season.
Chicago has reported the largest
number of cases.
Atlanta reports several hundred
cases, all of a mild type.
Government and state health de
partments are urging precaution
ary measure s against a spread of
the disease. Those afflicted with flu
should be isolated and precautions
taken not to get out too soon. Med
ical men point out that the danger
in influenza i s in getting out too
soon and developing pneumonia or
other serious complications.
The following rules are given by
a well known medical authority:
Eat the ordinary, normal amount
of food.
Don’t expose yourself unnecessar
ily.
Be careful of your dress.
Keep your feet dry.
Avoid those things which your ex
perience has shown you lead to a
cold.
See that your home i s properly
ventilated at all times.
- When you sneeze, use your hand
kerchief; see that the other fellow
use s his.
If you have influenza, don’t think
you are vaell when you begin to re
cover. To get out too sooh is to in
vite pneumonia.
In other words, be sensible.
WORLD SUPPLY OF FURS
WORTH OVER $600,000,000
Mid-Winter Sale at St. Loui* Will
Exceed $25,000,000
That the United States has be
come the fur market of the world—
with St. Loui s a g its dominant cen
ter —is well evidenced in the amount
of furs offered at the mid-winter
sale at the International Fur Ex
change at St. Louis.
Invoiced at current rates this sale
will amount to well over $25,000,-
000.
Right now it is said that the en
tire world’s supply of furs today is
around $600,000,000, of which
there is perhaps some $10,000,000
worth in the hand g of the dealers.
Last year’:, turnover in the fur
trade was said to be somewhere be
tween $700,000,000 and $800,000,-
000 in thi s country. Of this huge
sum at least $500,000,000 was han
dled by thig country, principally by
manufacturing interests in 'the eas
tern sections. _ . ilLil.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIPAY FEBRUARY, 13, 1920
GEORGIA BANKS
ARE PROSPEROUS
REMARKABLE SHOWING MADE
BY GEORGIA’S FINANCIAL
INSTITUTIONS. FEW FAIL
URES REPORTED
ATLANTA.—State Treasurer W.
J. Speer in hi s annual report for
the fiscal year ending December 31,
now being compiled, say s the bank
ing part of it will show the growth
of the banking institutions under
his supervision ha s been unprece
dented, the most remarkable feat
ure being the total resources, which
show a gain over the previous year
of over $115,000,000.
The total resources of the banks
reported at the close of business
for the year ending December 31,
1918, amounted to $264,935,494.29,
while on December 2, 1919, they
amounted to $380,218,553.20, a
gain of $115,283,059.91 or about
30% per cent during the same pe
riod; their deposits increased from
$170,297,636.16 to $261,653,393.84
a gain of $91,355,757.68, or about
35 per cent.
The number of state banks report
ed as of December 2, 1919, was
662 including twenty-eight branch
es and the nurt'iber reporting one
year ago was 650, including twen
ty-nine branches, an increase of 12
banks. •
The reports of the state banks
at the beginning of the war in 1914
showed total resources of $149,614,-
897.14, so that since that time their
resources have more than doubled
or have increased about 154 per
cent.
The growth of state banking
since 1890, when these institutions
were placed under the supervision
of the State Treasurer, has been
very remarkable. At the close of
that year a s shown by the treasur
er’s report, there were only fifty
two state banks in the entire state,
with fesource s of $25,402,430.49.
Ten years later at the end of
1900 the number of banks had in
creased to 146, showing total re
sources of $38,929,686.03. The de
posits had increased $9,479,555.50
and the capital stock showed a net
increase of $1,653,123.84.
Ten year s later, at the end of
1910, the number of state institu
tions had increased to 545, showing
total resources of $120,220,244.81.
The deposits showed a nincrease of
$49,265,677.03 over the total de
posits of 1900, and the capital stock
showed an increase of $13,336,119,-
85 over the amount reported ten
years preceding.
At the close of 1919 the total
number of bank s had increased to
662 with total resources of 1,380,-
218,533.20 v,ihich aggregated $259,-
998,308.39 more than the amount
reported in 1910. The deposits
showed an increase of $190,378,-
652.67 and capital stock showed an
increase of $8,942,622.35 over 1910.
During the year twenty-seven banks
have been chartered and three
tyranch banks have been opened by
the parent banks.
A BOLL WEEVIL
MEETING ON 17
EXPERTS FROM STATE COL
LEGE WILL TELL OF BEST
WAY TO DEFEAT COTTON
BUG. 3 SPEAKERS COMING
In behalf of the boll weevil fight
waged by the State College of Agri
culture and the State Agricultural
Department, a meeting will be held
in the court house next Tuesday,
February 17, at 10 a. m. The speak
ers will be C. E. Kellogg, live stock
specialist; A. C. Lewis, state ento
mologist, and W. S. Brown, district
agent.
These speakers will tell of the
best methods to be followed in
fighting the boll weevil. The expe
rience of other sections will be
placed at the disposal of the audi
ence, and the kind of seed to plant,
manlier of cultivation, of picking
the squares, and other timely points
will be toched by the speakers.
Butts county is keenly interested
in the boll weevil. Thi B will prove
a critical year w'th the farmers and
business interests of the county.
The past year the bug did consider
able damage in the lower portion of
the county though as a whole Butts
county produced over an average
cotton crop. Just what the extent
of the damage will be thi B year re
mains to develop.
No doubt a large arj interested
audience will greet these speakers
on tiwur appearance here next Tues
day. mp.
CAMPAIGN HERE ENTERS
THE TINAL STAGES
CANDIDATES PUTTING IN HARD
WORK FOR FINAL SPURT.
MUST PAY ASSESSMENTS BY
FEBRUARY THE 24
With the county primary less than
a month removed and the time limit
for candidates to pay in their As
sessments only two weeks from last
Tuesday, the campaign may
be said to be iniist s last stages. All
those who intend to announce and
get in the running have less than
two weeks to enter and pay their
assessments.
The primary will be held on Fri
day, March 5. Entries close on
Tuesday, February 24.
Several of the candidates have
qualified by paying 'their- assess
ments to the secretary of the exec
utive committee. All who fail to
pay their assessments will be left
off of the ticket. Whether r not
all the candidates will qualify re
mains to be seen.
For the next tvio weeks court will
be in session in Jackson and the va
rious candidates will have an oppor
tunity to put irt much valuable work
among the voters. Thi s will be the
high water mark of the campaign.
There is the usual l;een interest
in the campaign and several of the
contests will be hard fought. All of
the candidates appear to be hopeful
of being returned winners.
NEED FOR RELIEF
IN THE NEAR EAST
WHAT MONEY RAISED BY JEW
ISH RELIEF CAMPAIGN WILL
BE USED FOR IN EASTERN
EUROPE. MANY STARVING.
T
More than 6,000,000 Jews, for
the most part old men and women
and little children in eastern Eu
rope land Palestine are starving. In
PolaAd alone, nearly 800,000 Jew
ish 6rphan g are absolutely depen
dent for bread upon American
Jewish relief agencies.
Conditions are far worse since
the ending of the w.ir, than ever in
the history of the world. Persecu
tions and starvation are faced daily
by the root of the world’s Jewry.
A national fund of $35,000,000,
which means but a ration of two
cents per day for each dependent,
is being asked by the several relief
agencie s in order that the work of
the Joint Distribution Committee,
the disbursing agency of the Jewish
relief committees, may continue
without interruption.
This campaign is caused by hun
ger and famine, homeless people
freezing through lack of shelter.
Jewish men and women naked,
through lack of clothes, while po
grams and pestilence stalk the sur
vivors constantly. Th ecall for con
tinued and greater efforts On the
part of American Jewry and other
Americans of great hearty and
charity that knows no creed, comes
from the commissioners of the Joint
Distribution Committee in the af
flicted districts, and is made the
more emphatic by statements from
Herbert Hoover, head of the Amer
ican Mission which has undertaken
to feed the 3,000,000 orphans of
Europe, by Red Cross investigators
and by the United States govern
ment reports.
The need i s there—the cry is
heard—it must be answered, or
those absolutely dependent people
will perish from lack of bread.
The work is not in opposition to,
or in conflict with, the work of the
Hoover mission or the Red Cross.
The three organizations work in
complete harmony, without dupli
cation of effort, but rather they
supplement and aid one another.
The efficiency and economy with
which the Joint Distribution Com
mittee conducts its work i B certified
by all who have investigated it. The
book g of this organization and its
collecting agencies are always open
to all contributors. The percentage
of disbursement cost is the lowest
in the history of charity. The col
lection cost ig limited to the neces
sary bookkeeping expense entailed.
ALEXIUS COMMANDERY HAD
CALLED MEETING FRIDAY
Alexius Commandery No. 22,
Knights Templar, had a called meet
ing Friday night for the purpose of
receiving an application for mem
bership. c
TO RAISE COTTON
QUOTA MONDAY
COUNTY HAS BEEN ORGANI
ZED -AND DISTRICT COMMIT
TEES NAMED. HAVE MEET
ING HERE MONDAY THE 16.
To raiseßßut s county’s quota of
160 shares of stock in the Georgia
Cotton Bank and Trust Corpora
tion, a meeting will be held in the
court house at Jackson Monday,
February 16 at 12 o’clock* noon.
Mr. S. H. Mays ha s been appoint
ed county chairman, Mr. J. B. Set
tle treasurer and J. D. Jones se
cretary.
Mr. Mays ha s announced the fol
lowing district committees:
Buttrill District —T. B. Fletcher,
A. S. Mills.
Coody District—W. M. Hammond
and O. L. Weaver.
' Dublin District—C. A. Towles, S.
K. Smith.
Indian Springs District—Dr. A.
F. White, Wright Watkins, J. M.
Greer.
Iron Springs District—W. A.
White, L. R. Dodson.
Jackson flistrict—J. O. Gaston,
O. P. Jinks, V. M. White.
Towaliga District—R. E. Evans,
H. H. Colwell.
WorthviHe District—R. F. Welch,
G. W. White.
The chairman requests that all
members, of this committee meet in
Jackson on February 16 and that
plans then be worked out for rais
ing the $20,000 allotted Butts coun
ty. It i a hoped to raise the full
amount at that time.
When Governor Dorsey spoke in
Jackson on January 27 a part of
the stock was suscribed. Owing to’
the short time following the meet
ing before Governor Dorsey had to
catch a train but little time was al
lowed for raising stock.
Terms of payment are 35 per
cent, cash or within 30 days; 35 per
cent, in 90 days, and the balance
within twelve months. Shares of
stock are v.irrth $125 each. Liberty
Bonds will be accepted in payment
of stock, it is announced.
The meeting will be held in the
justice court room.
TIPS FAR EXCEED SALARIES
OF HOTEL AND CAFE WAITERS
:
Waitress Sporting $4,500 Automo
bile Admitted Receiving sl2 in
Salary and SBO in Tips
Togged out in expensive furs,
Miss Sophie Hodosky breezed into
a New York court. Magistrate
House, when the woman was brought
before him on a charge of reckless
ly driving her $4,500 motor car,
asked:
“What do you do for a living?”
“I’m a waitress,” said Sophie.
The magistrate gasped.
“Being a waitress seems to be a
profitable job,” he said. "What is
your weekly salary?”
“Twelve dollars,” replied Sophie.
“But how do you buy automobiles
on sl2 a week?” inquired the court.
“I don’t, your honor. You see, I
make SBO a'week in tips.”
PENSIONS WILL
SOON BE PAID
BUTTS INCLUDED IN COUN
TIES TO BE PAID FIRST. THE
WARRANT DRAWN. EACH
PENSIONER GETS SIOO
P
A warrant for the payment of
pensions in sixty-nine counties of
the state has been drawn, and pay
ment should be made within the
next few days.
Butts is on the list of counties to
be paid first this year, having been
last in 1919. There are 94 pension
ers in thi B county and they will re
ceive $9,355.
The warrant drawn by Pension
Commissioner John W. Lindsey was
for $632,820 . While the number of
pensioners has decreased, through
death, it will require more money
to pay these claims, as each pen
sioner will receive SIOO this year as
against S9O in 1919.
The second installment of pen
sions will be paid about May or
June, it is reported.
The 94 pensioners above do not
include those recently placed on
the list. The legislature at the ap
proaching summer sehbion will, it
is expected, provide an appropria
tion fritpttS clasg of pensioners. 1
MAKE 1920
A YEAR OF
COMMUNITY GROWTH
$2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
FIRE DEPARTMENT
HAD OYSTER SUPPER
DELIGHTFUL GET TOGETHER
MEETING HELD TUESDAY
NIGHT. IMPROVEMENT OF
DEPARTMENT DISCUSSED
- Jf
Enjoyable in every particular was
the oyster supper given by the
Jackson Fire Department Tuesday
night. An elegant repast, elegantly
served, w.as enjoyed at Tyler’s res
taurant.
About twenty-five of the forty
members of the department were
present. The mayor and council and
City Clerk J. A. McMichael were
present and added to the pleasure
of the occasion by short talks. May
or Watkins promised the department
the fullest co-operation of the city
in supplying all needed equipment.
He said the department had always
done good work, that an alert fire
department was the best protection
of life and property a city could
have, and that the entire community
felt proud of the Jackson Fire De
partment.
Judge McMichael said that the
department had no bette*- friend
than he, and that he was ready at
all times to do everything possible
to help the department.
The equipment will be tested at
an early meeting and all worn out
equipment will be replaced by,new
and modern apparatus.
TO HEAR CASE
MARCH THIRD
JUDGE SEARCY ANNOUNCES
THAT CASE WILL BE HEARD
IN ATLANTA INSTEAD OF IN
GRIFFIN. MUCH INTEREST
The date of the hearing of the
injunction brought by Butts county
against the prison commission has
been changed from February 14 to
March 3. Instead of being held in
Griffin, as originally announced,
the hearing will take place iu the
state library in Atlanta.
The agreement for the hearing
to be held in Atlanta rather than
in Griffin was reached after a con
ference between the attorney gener
al and counsel for Butts county.
Butts county is seeking to re
strain the prison commission from
counting city streets as public road
mileage in awarding felony con
vicits to the variou s counties. The
case has attracted wide attention
over the state and the outcome will
be watched with keen interest.
U. S. BUYS LAND IN GEORGIA
FOR A FORESTRY RESERVE
Acquiiition of 107,652 Acres in
North Georgia Made.
\
WASHINGAON. Under -the
Week @ Act, authorizing the acquisi
tion of forest lands for the protec
tion of watersheds of navigable
streams, the forester of the govern
ment announced to Senator Harajs
today th*it in Fannin, Gilmer, Hab
er.'fham, Lumpkin, Rabup and Union
counties, Georgia, 107,652 acres had
been purchased and that an addi
tional 43,288 acre 8 were being ac
quired.
Representative Lee, of Georgia,
is a member of the National Fore t
Reservation Commission charged
the purchase of such lands.
BULL MOOSE TO HAVE
A STATE CONVENTION
'■ 1
IN STATE CAPITOL ON FEBRU
ARY 21. EXPECT BIG VOTE
IN COMING ELECTION. TO
MAKE ACTIVE CANVASS
MACON.—Harry Stillwell Ed
wards, state chairman for the Geor
gia progressive republicans, better
known as Bull Moose, issued a for
mal call for the state convention of
the Georgia branch of the party to
be held at the state capitol in At
lanta on February 21.
“In 1916,” said Mr. Edwardg to
day, “we cast four-fifths of the re
publican vote in Georgia. We ex
pect a big increase this year, the
the party is in different hands.
We have done away with the crimi
nal type of leaders.
“We are going into the conven
tion with clean hands thi s year, and
with the showing made in 1916 we
feel sure that our delegate* will be