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LET’S BOOST
JACKSON AND
BUTTS COUNTY
VOL. 49—NO. 7
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES MONDAY
FEBRUARY TERM SCHEDULED
TO CONTINUE FOR TWO
WEEKS. SECOND WEEK DE
VOTED TO CRIMINAL CASES
The February term of the superi
or court of Butts county will be con
vened in Jackson next Monday by
Judge W. E. H. Searcy, Jr. Hon E.
M. Owen will be present as solicitor
general to look after the interests
of the state.
Some litigation in which keen in
terest centers will probably be
heard at this term of court. It is
expected that the first week will be
devoted entirely to the trial of civil
matters.
Court is scheduled to continue for
tvso weeks and the second week
will be given over to the trial of
criminal cases. A large number of
criminal cases, for the most part,
petty matters will be ready for trial.
Judge Searcy will make an effort
to clear the jail of prisoners and no
doubt a considerable number of de
fendants will be arraigned during
the term.
A list of all jurors, together with
the calendar of civil suits, has al
ready been published in The Pro
gress-Argus.
366,270 BALES COTTON
CONSUMED IN JANUARY
THIS COMPARES WITH TOTAL
OF 591,921 BALES THE PAST
YEAR. NUMBER OF SPINDLES
ACTIVE FOR MONTH
Washington.—Cotton consumed
during January amounted to 366,-
270 bales of lint and 23,549 bales
of linters, the census bureau an
nounced today.
Consumption in January last year
amounted to 591,921 bales of lint
and 27,243 of linters.
Cotton on hand January 31 in
consuming establishments amounted
to 1,273,067 bales of lint and 231,-
675 of linters compared with 1,952,-
326 of lint and 276,546 of linters a
year ago; and in public storage and
compresses holdings Were 5,645,368
bales of lint and 336,961 of linters,
compared \w.th 3,758,329 of lint and
324,965 of linters.
Cotton imported during January
amounted to 4,024 bales, compared
with 104,485 in January last year.
Exports amounted to 606,002
bales, including 5,246 bales of lint
ers, compared with 929,671 bales,
including 7,391 bales of linters.
Cotton spindles active during
January numbered 31,509,021, com
pared with 34,739,579 a year ago.
Statistics for cotton growing
states were:
Consumed, 235,233 bales, com
pared with 330,793. Held in con
suming establishments 623,751
bales, compared with 1,105,967, and
in public storage at compresses 5,-
201,362 bales, compared with 3,-
481,165.
Cotton spindles active 14,766,784,
compared with 14,918,924.
GEORGIA VETERANS WILL
HOLD REUNION IN ALBANY
May 13 and 14 Selected -as Dates
For Annua! Reunion
Albany, Ga.—The Georgia divis
ion of the United Confederate Vet
erans will hold their reunion in this
city May 13 and 14, and those who
will be fortunate enough to attend
are looking forward to the sessions
with eager anticipation.
General B. N. Barrow, command
er of the western brigade, has been
appointed marshal of the day and
will have charge of the parade, and
also of the ovening of the conven
tion on the first day.
McKIBBEN LANE WILL BE
SPEAKER IN MONTICELLO
Accepts Invitation to Make Memo
rial Day Address
Mr. McKibben Lane, a son of the
late Col. Andrew Lane, more famil
iarly known as Major Lane, the lat
ter a native son of Jasper county,
has accepted an invitation from the
Monticello chapter. United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, to deliver
the Memorial Day address.
Mr. Lane, like his lamented father,
s an orator of note, and it is pleas
ing news that he has been secured as
principal speaker on this occasion.
—Monticello News,
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
WILL HAVE BANQUET
EXERCISES THURSDAY NIGHT
TO CELEBRATE FIFTY-SEV
ENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
FOUNDING OF ORDER
Members of Jackson Lodge No.
131, Knights of Phythias, will have
a banquet at Hotel Bushanan Thurs
day night, the occasion to celebrate
the fifty-seventh anniversary of the
founding of the order. The Knights
of Phythias was founded in Wash
ington City February 19, 1854, but
as the 19th comes on Saturday the
local lodge voted to have the ban
quet on the 17th instead.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements consists of Messrs. A. T.
Buttrill, G. B. Carreker and A. R.
Conner.
Of the 105 members of the Jack
son lodge it is expected that at least
seventy-five will be present Thurs
day night. An elegant course sup
per will be served and there will be
addresses appropriate to the occa
sion by a number of the members.
On this occasion the principal
speakers will be Grand Chancellor
Jesse Wood, of Atlanta, and Major
H. D. Russell, of Macon. The ad
dresses of these prominent visitors
will add much to the interest of the
evening.
The affair promises to be one of
the most enjoyableheld in Jackson
in some time and the members are
looking forward to the occasioin
with much interest.
JASPER COUNTY
TO CUT COTTON
LARGELY ATTENDED MEETING
HELD MONDAY. SWEET PO
TATOES WILL BE GROWN.
PETITION BEING SIGNED
Monticello, Ga., Feb. 14.—At
probably the largest assembly of
Jasper county farmers here today,
resolutions were passed to: reduce
the 1920 cotton crop fifty per cent
and a movement was started to de
vote the acreage to sweet potatoes.
It was estimated that more than
five hundred were in attendance
upon the meeting. Many of the far
mers attached their names to resolu
tions, which . will 'be circulated
the county to give those
who could not attend the privilege
of signing.
The sweet potato crop for this
season was thoroughly discussed at
the meeting. The movement gained
big headway when W. J. Phillips, a
big farmer and well known through
out this section, announced that he.
would erect a curing house to take
care of the season’s production.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR WILL
HAVE MEETING FRIDAY
Order of The Red Cross Will Be
Conferred Then
There will be a meeting of Alex
ius Commandery No. 22, Knights
Templar, Friday night at which time
the Red Cross degree will be con
ferred. All members are requested
to be present at that meeting.
The annual inspection will be
held on March 4. .
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JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921
GEORGIA TECH TO
RAISE $5,000,000
GEORGIA BUSINESS MEN LINE
UP FOR GREATER TECH AND
GREATER INDUSTRIAL DE
VELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17.—The $5,-
000,000 campaign April 20 to 30
for a Greater Georgia Tech, and
through it a greater industrial Geor
gia, announced recently, with the
statement that $1,000,000 \uas as
sured at the outset by a committee
who would raise that much in New
York and the North, has attracted
a flood of commendatory letters and
telegrams from all parts of the
state and, in fact, from all over
the country.
It seems that business men ev
erywhere have been waiting for
the chance to say what they thought
of Georgia Tech and its importance
to industrial Georgia, and the in
dustrial South —and what greater
things it could accomplish if prop
erly equipped.
“This Tech proposition is Geor
gia’s business!” writes W. L. Ro
buck, of Cordele, head of the Cor
dele Sash, Door and Lumber Com
pany. And he proceeds:
“It is the responsibility of the
business men of Georgia to put
this proposition over. They are
not giving their money away in
contributing to this fund —they are
making a very safe and sound in
vestment. The Tech proposition is
one of sound business merit.”
This from one of Georgia’s lead
ing manufacturers. And the follow
ing from a great New England bus
iness man, Harry H. Hunt, of Bos
ton, vice president of Stone and
Webster:
“It is hardly necessary for us to
say anything to you about the need
of technically trained men to assist
in the development of the industries
of the state of Georgia. It has been
necessary for us to draw very heav
ily on this class of young men for
the development of our public util
ity business, and the few that we
have been able, to get from the tech
nical schools of the South have been
especially helpful in solving our
problems there on account of their
knowledge of that section and its
people.
“We have been more or less han
dicapped by the insufficient supply
of men, and I have no doubt that
you have experienced the same difF
culty and realize fully what it
means to the state to have a thor
oughly equipped technical school
that is in position to handle the
large body of students who seek in
struction of this character.
_ “The events of the immediate
past have demonstrated very strong
ly the value of the technically edu
cated man in all lines of industrial
activity, and we firmly believe that
it is a perfectly good business prop
osition, to say the least, for any
state energetically to eiicourage a
school like the most excellent in
stitution of which President Mathe
son is the head.”
Fred J. Orr, of Athens, writes:
“I believe this movement now has
great significance.”
“We all want our state to devel
op,” writes W. E. Dunwody, of Ma
con.” “This project is the Purest
way to insure industrial develop
ment. We all pull together
and put it across.”
Robert F. Maddox, Atlanta bank
er, says:
“I am sure you fully appreciate
the important work the Georgia
School of Technology has done, and
its great possibilities in the future.
The industrial development of our
section must depend largely on the
facilities of the institution. Its
graduates in the past have taken the
foremost position in many industries
throughout the United States.
Growth and prosperity are bound to
be reflected on the state and the
section from the expansion and de
velopment of Georgia Tech.”
T. J. Darling, of Waycross,
writes:
“I am continually impressed with
the needs of our state and section
for industrial development, and
with the idea that it can be attained
through a Greater School of Tech
nology.”
“Count me to do anything that I
can to help along the good cause of
industrial development in the south
east, with the hope that Georgia
will occupy the position of leader
ship,” writes B. M. Hood, president
of the B. Mifflin Hood Brick Com
pany, of Atlanta, referring to the
Greater Georgia Tech campaign.
J. Gordon Jones, mayor of Cor
dele, is at special pains to speak of
MR. KINARD ELECTED
AS INSURANCE OFFICAL
FILLS VACANCY CAUSED BY
THE DEATH OF MR. J. T.
GOODMAN. DIRECTORS HELD
MEETING HERE TUESDAY
At a meeting of the directors of
the Farmers Co-Operative Fire In
surance Company, held in Jackson
Tuesday morning, Mr. S. B. Kinard
was elected as secretary and treas
urer to succeed the late Mr. J. T.
Goodman.
Officers of the company are Mr.
W. A. Newton, president; Mr. S. H.
Mays, vice-president; Mr. S. B.
Kinard, secretary, treasurer and
general agent.
Mr. J. T. Goodman served most
acceptably as secretary and treas
urer of the company for a long
number of years.
The Farmers Co-Operative Fire
Insurance Company has made a
great record and now has more than
nine millions of insurance in force.
The average cost to the policy hold
ers last year was $1.40 per thousand.
This compares with a cost of sl9
per thousand in the old line fire in
surance companies. The wonder
ful growth and success of the Far
mers Co-Operative Fire Insurance
Company show; what can be ac
complished by co-operation.
JACKSON SCHOOL
GIVEN HIGH RANK
SECOND INSTITUTION IN THE
STATE TO QUALIFY. GRAD
UATES MAY TEACH WITHOUT
TAKING EXAMINATION
Showing the good work being
done by the Jackson high school,
the State Department of Education
has approved the Jackspn high school
as Teacher-Training High School
No. 2. The Augusta training school
was the first to qualify. This places
Jackson near the top in educational
matteers and will be of interest to
all friends and patrons of the Jack
son institution.
Graduates of the Jackson high
school veil be granted a provisional
license to teach in the public schools
of the state for two years.
With the present modern building,
the only adequate plant Jackson has
ever had, and with a corps of able
and experienced teachers, the Jack
son high school is doing some of the
best work in the state. It is an in
stitution of which all the people may
well feel proud.
The official notice concerning the
Jackson high school has been receiv
ed by Superintendent L. D. Watson
from the state department of edu
cation :
“This is'to certifiy that the Jack
son High School has been approved
by the State Department of Educa
tion as Teacher-Training High
School No. 2.
“When the work of the graduates
of this institution is certified by
Superintendent L. D. Watson, they
will be granted a provisional license
to teach in the public schools of the
State for two years.
“M. L. BRITTAIN,
“State Superintendent of Schools.
“E. A. POUND.
“State Supervisor of High Schools.”
CENTER OF POPULATION
Washington, D. C.—The center
of population in the United States
was shown by the f1920 census to be
in the extreme southeast corner of
Owen county, Indiana, 8.3 miles
southeast of Spencer, the census bu
reau announced today.
the “bigness of this undertaking,
and its value to industrial Georgia.”
A service to the Georgia School
of Technology is a service to the
industries of Georgia,” is the opin
ion of Hon. William M. Mundy, of
Cedartown.
“I am deeply impressed with the
unlimited possibilities for the up
building of the state of Georgia in
an industrial way possessed by the
Georgia School of Technology, if
given the proper support by the
people of Georgia,” is the succinct
manner in which A. S. Adams, of
Atlanta sums up his ideas on the
campaign.
Summing it up, they all say:
“This Tech proposition is Geor
gia’s job!”
And they are all ready to help
put it over.
COURSE OF STUOY
HERE APPROVED
FORTY-FIVE MINUTE PERIODS
APPROVED BY BEST SCHOOLS
IN SOUTH. MR. POUND EN
DORSES PRESENT HOURS
Since the new school building was
occupied and the recitation periods
have been made 45 minutes, there
has been considerable discussion of
the plan. Some of the patrons of
the school want a change, but that
the position of Superintendent L. D.
Watson is endorsed by the State
Department of Education and is in
line with the methods employed in
the leading high schools of the
state well be seen by the following
letter from E. A. Pound, High
School Supervisor:
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 9, 1921.
Supt. L. D. Watson,
Jackson, Ga.
Dear Mr. Watson:
In reference to your question as
to the length of recitation periods
in the best high schools of the state
I will say that the Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools of
the South and, indeed, every asso
ciation of the kind in the country
requires that high schools devote 45
minutes to the recitation period, if
they are to be placed upon the ac
credited list and their pupils re
ceived without examination. This
is not a regulation of the State, but
of the very best educational experts
of the country. The tendency is now
not only to devote 45 piinutes to
the recitation but to lengthen the
period in order to give time for
supervised study. It would be a
great injustice not only to the indi
vidual child but to the high school
to give less time than this.
1 am glad to have the pleasure of
approving your school as Teacher-
Training School No. 2. The Augus
ta Training School was the first to
qualify.
Please follow the course as out
lined by the State Department as
closely as possible. I feel sure that
you will develop some teachers of
whqm your county will be proud.
With all good wishes and kindest
regards, 1 am,
Yours truly.
E. A. POUND,
High School Supervisor.
The course as outlined by the
State Department is as follows:
“The recitation periods should bo
40 to 45 minutes. Schools adopting
the supervised study plan should
provide periods of not less than 50
minutes. In small schools 40 min
utes will be ample. In the larger
sehooh it may take 43 to 45 min
utes. Man schools in the country are
nov. adopting the 50 minute periods
with seven periods a day, allowing
each class to ?-emain with the teach
er a whole period, thus giving some
time for supervised study. In this
case, seven periods of recitation
per teacher would be excessive.
Where a fewer number of minutes
than 40 is used the unit value must
be accordingly decreased. Nearly
all the large schools now use the
45-minute period for recitation pur
purposes."
OFFICIALS ELECTED BY THE
CITIZENS OF JENKINSBURG
Mr. D. O. Woodward Chosen Mayor
For Current Year
The election for mayor and coun
cil for the town of Jenkinsburg was
recently held and the following well
known citizens were chosen to serve
for the year.
For mayor, D. O. Woodward; for
councilmen, W. D. Compton, Jr.,
Dr. J. W. Harper, V. H. Mills, T. S.
Steel, H. B. Whitaker.
V. H. Mills was elected mayor pro
tern, W. D. Compton, Jr., clerk and
treasurer and J. T. Merritt, mar
shal.
The new council has recently pur
chased anew road machine and hope
to get the streets there in first
class condition.
JENKINSBURG LODGE MASONS
NAMES OFFICERS FOR YEAR
At a recent communication of
Jenkinsburg lodge No. 474, F. &
A. M., the following officers were
elect for the year 1921:
L. H. Pursley, W. M.; W. H. Col
lins, S. W.; R. F. Elder, J. W.; Dr.
J. W. Harper, treasurer; R. A.
Woodward, secretary; T. B. Fletch
er, chaplain; A. B. Stallworth, tyler;
A. S. Mills, S. D.; C. W. Fletcher, J.
D.; J. M. Pullin, S. S.; J. O. Gos
nell, J. S.
HAKE 1921 A YEAR
OF HOG AND
, HOMINY
$2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
NO PUBLIC BUILDINGS
BY PRESENT CONGRESS
POST OFFICES, COURT HOUSES
AND OTHER STRUCTURES
MUST WAIT. ECONOMY GIV
EN AS THE CHIEF REASON
Washington.—Members of the
House Pubic buildings and Grounds
Committee have decided to postpone
drafting a public buildings bill, pro
viding for the building of post of
fices, court houses and other gov
ernment structures throughout the
United States during the present
session of Congress.
Representative Langey, Republi
can of Kentucky, chaivman of the
committee, made an announcement
of the committee’s stand Saturday.
Langley declared:
“Owing to the present condition
of the government finances and the
consequent necessity for the most
rigid economy as well as the pres
sure of the emergency legisltation,
the committee has definitely decid
ed not to prepare and report a gen
eral public buildings bill, at this ses
sion or to consider any individual
bill authorizing ar* appropriation of
money other than hospital facilities
for the treatment of our disabled
ex-service men and women.”
The above will be of interest in
Jackson, as Congressman J. W. Wise
some time ago introduced a bill for
a post office building in Jackson.
With finance in the present shape
is is not known when the building
for this city will be finally author
ized.
WILL PUT FLOUR
MILL IN JACKSON
NEW ENTERPRISE ERECTED BY
MR. W. P. WALL. TO BE READY
FOR NEW CROP WHEAT. GRIST
MILL IN CONNECTION .
A flour mill with a capacity of
thirty barrels per day, with a graham
and grist mill in eonnectioin, will be
put up in Jackson by Mr. W. P. Wall.
Construction of the foundation is
now in progress and the new mill will
be in operation for the 1921 crop of
wheat. The enterprise will be located
in Mi’. Wall’s building on Oak street,
the building being admirably suited
to such an enterprise.
The building of this mill should
stimulate the growing of wheat in
Butts county and this immediate sec
tion. No roller mill is convenient to
many of the people of the county
and great trouble has been experi
enced in the past in getting wheat
ground. A modern wheat mill cen
trally located will no doubt prove a
profitable investment and will in
crease the amount of wheat grown
in this immediate territory.
If enough wheat is planted to justi
fy it Mr. Wall states the mill will be
operated the year round. It may be
that he will have wheat shipped in
and operate the mill twelve months
in the yer~
Graham flour, pure and wholesome,
for which there is a ready demand,
will be made on the new mill. Two
sets of rocks will be used in grind
ing corn and the capacity of meal
will be large.
This enterprise fills a long felt
need in the community and Mr.
Wall is to commended for his enter
prise in putting in the plant.
ASK LOWER FREIGHT RATES
FOR SOUTHERN TERRITORY
Armour Declares Plant at Tifton is
About to Go Under
Washington.—Appeals for relief
from high freight rates on the live
stock industry In the South were on
file today before the Interstate Com
merce Commission made? by repre
sentatives of Armour & Cos. The
plant of Armour & Cos. at Tifton,
Ga., was closed down, principally
because of the high rates, it was de
clared by W. W. Manker. Twenty
eight Southern railroads are named
in the petition and refunds of nearly
$60,000 are sought. The live stock
industry in the South v.'ll soon be
history, he asserted, unless the rail
roads come to the assistance of pro
ducers.
WOMAN JURORS WILL BE
ALLOWED TO WEAR HATS
Woman jurors in the Polk county
court, in lowa, may wear hats in the
jury box and will be given time to
powder their faces during court ses
sions, under a ruling made by Judge
J. D. Wallingford. j