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FRloXft;-fAAftCH 4,
EVER BILIOUS?
Charleston, Mlsa.—Mrs. R. V. Heins, of this jjlace,
says: "I have never had to use very much medicine,
because if I felt headache, dizziness, or colds, bad taste
in the mouth, which comes from torpid liver, 1 would
take a dose or more of Black-Draught, and it would
straighten me out and make me feel as good as new.
We have used in our family for years
THEDFORD’S
Buck-Draught
and it certainly is the best liver medicine I ever saw.
it has not only saved me money, it has helped keep my
system in shape, and lias never weakened me as so
many physics do. I recommend it to my friends and am
glad to do so.’* Black-Draught is the old, reliable liver
medicine which you have doubtless heard much about.
When you feel badly all over, stomach not right, bad
taste in your mouth, bilious, or have a headache, try
Thedford’s Black-Draught. At ail Druggists.
Always Insist on the Genuine!
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FLOVILLA SCHOOL NEWS.
The meases epidemic has ibaUß
in F. H. S. and most of the victims
ti: vt i- turned to school. The disease
Im: cost the school dearly in the
|r>? f time hy pupils of whom for
ty have been r.ick with Ih malady.
Ar< - • t riumphing over the J H. S.
to. by a score of 28 to 8, the
P's, ml Gold girls team is pre
(jurii >. for severs more battles with
#ie ! ghboring teams. Challenges for
( :1. hi e been sent to Forsyth
ti : fb -bool, to. Monticello high
acho'l and to Locust Grove high
echoed. One game has been sched
uled .with the L. G. H. H. team for
•jrr and monduy and others will he ar
ranged.
*i or class of the school had
a i additional member added to its
roll last week, when Carlton Mc-
Clelland enrolled.
! y h' a roaring farce com
•'!. , •fiv ot Family,” will be
|> e 'li ' V>v Miss Willie Wrenri at
the !-chool auditorium.
s Th( Flovilla hißh tennLs club was
'(tornic l ;.<t week vrth a good nuni
t> *of ■ -hers. Dorr's Smith was
elect l, <l P 'sident and Mildred Doby
•ecrelcry. The club plans to built!
two t< nis courts and t< put out a
team.
Rt, I . ! K. Mikell, bishop of
I' ' been se
cured to preach Ihe baccalao
a. mo . ... .... class of 1921. The
sermon will be delivered on tb fir t
day of M y by the bishop, who has
a niif o\ repulati a- one < f
the sir mgest ministers of the
South.
St-vi.- • w II l.p held in the Flo-
aums
n Mothers Friend
ild-liirih easier.
rimitive American Indian women
lem was entirely painless.
blown/
that wreck so many women ol
lantity in their lives; and so it is
weaker sex becomes a prey to
iching maternity nears the crisis.
uui UU9 auuu.u noi uC —bcCOUSO
— the pn'spccth-e mother can find comfort in Mother's
Friend An external lubricant that spreads its influence
over the skin; penetrates to the broad, flat abdominal
muscles, and prepares the way for an easier, quicker
pad practical delivery.
Many doctors and nurses recommend Mother’s Friend*
Ot a bottle from your druggist today.
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,V' WARNING; Avoid using plain oiU, |tmni and tubsMubto—
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Mother!
*ft>r Tnrcc Cenerationa
A Message of Utmost Importance to Every Woman
The woman, who ffi wittering from disorders peculiar to her sex,
*ww H not only to herself, but to her family an 1 those around her to regain her
, (Keith and strength ano charm. Dr. J. P> dfleld*.; Female Regulator ts based
tuou the prescription of cr. eminent physician, I hr. J. Bradfield, who made the
!&orders of women his life study; and for ..id? a century women have regarded
•t a successful mediciuo for Jvur t-oubW. Yaurdruppat will prom < ipply
jvu v.'ilh this 4Afovs.ll real*!?- Try it now, TODAY.
villa Episcopal church next Sunday
at 11:00 a. m. and 4:00 p. m., in the
parlors of the Flovilla Hotel. Prof.
Van Buren will preach in the morn
ing from I Corinthian’s 6:l9—“Ye
are not your own.” The afternoon
subject will be the next verse, I
Corinthians 6:20—“Y r e are bought
with a price.”
“BEING GOOD”
My mama told me not to smoke—
I dont
Nor listen to a naughty joke—
I dont
They made it clear I must not wink
At pretty girls or even think
About intoxicating drink—
I dont
To dance and flirt is very wrong—
I dont
Wild mor> chase women, wine and
song—
I dont
T k : ss no girls, not even one.
T Ho not know how it is done.
You wouldn't think I have much fun.
I don't.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
TANARUS) HOLD WORLD
POT'I.TRY CONFERENCE
T ondon —The firt “world poultry
is to be held at The
’T-eup from Sentember 6 to 13,
-e-t Manx countries will be repre
sented at this congress which will
he on assembly of delegates from
-overnments, teaching and experi
mental inst'tutions, poultry and oth
•r ■ duties and persons interested
the futiuv development of poul
’’u-handry.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO,
Dpt. IS. Atlanta, Ga.
Plmh and me vour FREE book
let on MOTHERHOOD and The BABY.
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Home of Robert Grier, Famous as
Almanac-Maker, Was Near Jackson
INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF
MAN WHO IS KNOWN ALL
OVER THE SOUTH. THE OLD
HOME STILL STANDING
In its magazine section of Febru
ary 20, The Atlanta Journal carried
an interesting story of Robert Grier,
Butts county’s famous almanac
maker. The article is from the pen
of Jack L. Patterson, who is well
and favorably known here. Tho
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INTERIOR AN RIOR OF THE GRIER HOMESTEAD AND
i.Y BURYING GROUNDS.
Progress-Argus is indebted to tho
Journal for the use of the cut, and
it is believed the publication of the
article will be of general interest to
readers of this paper.
Six miles north of Jackson,'Ga.,
near the Ocmulgee river stands a
rambling farm house which at one
time was the home of Robert Grier,
almanac-maker, teacher, scientist
and farmer.
For a hundred years “Grier’s” al
manac has been the favorite among
the people of Georgia, who cannot
be persuaded thftt any other is “just
as good.” It has been said the rural
justices of the peace in the old days,
in the absence of the Bible, used a
copy of “Grier’s” in swearing wit
nesses to “speak the truth and noth
ing but the truth, so help them God.”
No law library was complete without
a copy of the almanac, and one con
fiding old lady in a middle Georgia
county used to consult “Grier’s” be
fore retiring at night. Every family
in Georgia kept a copy of “Grier’s”
suspended from a convenient peg at
the fireside and frequent reference
was made to its pages. Having con
fidence in the “Old Reliable” to this
remote day. thousands of people
throughout Georgia refuse to accept
any substitute.
The original almanac as compiled
by Robert Grier from calculations
of his own, always contained a store
of valuable information. A relic of
1826 in the possession of a Butts
county farmer contains the names
of President John Adams and the
members of his cabinet and their sal
aries, United States supreme court
fudges, roster of the military com
ean'es cf Georgia and other general
’’•formation. The present compiler,
Prof. Otis Asmore, of Savannah, has
continued th almanac along the
same lines that was satisfactory
•'inety years ago.
Doubtless the insn’red author of
-woical feme was correct when he
’•-dared that “a pronhet >s not with
rrt hr nor .<ve ?n his own country,”
hut nevertheless the name of ’’Grier”
Ufic. t>eee ° household word through
”t Georgm for eenerat’ons, and
‘he eccentric old man is still re
membered hv a few of the older cit
'••ens of P"tts countv, who point out
Vs homestead to interested visitors.
to a fioM to the rear of the house
a lnrpr eock called “Observatory
Rock.'’ because the old astronomer
"•onld soe t 'd rnunv evenings on its
summit reading the secrets of the
moon, sta~s and winds and other
mvsteries of the heavens which
■vere to h : m an onen hook.
Robert Grier was born in Colum
bia countv Georgia on March 9,
1870, of Scotch ancestry. His grand
narents left Scotland during the
reign of Mary and nettled in north
ern Ireland from whom tbev emi
grated to Amerca nr!or to the wa"
of the Revolution, setting in Penn
sylvania.
The rsv-'-ts of the n.on destined
to win national fame, were t :l .lers r
‘he soil. P r 'or t- t 7" tV family
“ame to Georma Wh'lo mr'te voym-
Robert wn c seised w?th ■< consnmina
desire for education, end to th's end
hp applied >v’V9''i' r ' T ht n - d o*'
| rainy dav* Afte* r-.u'W'-r W-* v
one years of age, he *-' mt to Greer-
boro, Ga., where an uncle, Andrew
Burnes, was teaching school. The
uncle was a learned man of that
day, and from him Robert Grier ob
tained assistance in compiling the
first almanac ever published in Geor
gia.
The young instructor displayed
rare aptitude for mathematics, and
at one time was offered the chair at
Franklin college, whic hhe declined.
After leaving Greensboro, he taught
school in Wilkes county for a num
ber of years. His wife was his
double-first cousin, Elizabeth Grier,
an aunt of Alexander Hamilton
Stephens, the famous orator and
statesman, who was a frequent vis
itor in the Grier home.
Soon after his marriage, probably
in 1827, the astronomer moved to a
tract of two or three thousand acres
of land in Butts county, where he,
his wife and children are buried.
Upon the unimposing slab covering
his grave are engraved the words:
In Memory of
Robert Grier,
Who Died May 14, 1848
Aged 68 Years.
The property is now owned by
Hon. Sam H. Mays, of Butts county.
The nearest surviving relative of
Robert Grier is Mrs. M. E. Bryans,
of Indian Springs, a granddaughter
whom he reared and of whom he was
very fond. Other surviving relative?
are a great-grand-daughter, Mips
Bessie Bryans of Indian Springs,
and Thomas J. Grier, of 2098 We t
Ninty-eighth street, Cleveland, Ohio,
Mr Grier is at present writing the
YOUR 1921 READING.
D uring 1921 you will want to keep informed of
the latest news, county, state and national. To do
this yon should not only read your home paper regu
larly but subscribe for some daily paper. Many will
want a reliable farm paper. The man who keeps in
formed is the mail who wins.
We will hand'e your subscription to any daily pa
per or agricultural journal, at actual cost, and guaran
tee delivery.
Let us handle your subscription account.
PROGRESS- ARGUS
JACKSON : ; : GEORGIA
biography of the Grier family for
the Congressional library. Mrs.
Bryans, at 89 years of age is con
fined to a rolling chair, but is in
good health and active of mind.
Robert Grier was member of the
Presbyterian denomination and was
versed in Biblical lore. He was an
enthuastic politician and knew how
to mix grog in a manner to delight
his friends.
The following phrenological de-
scription of Robert Grier, Esq., by
E. Mason, is in the possession of
friends:
“CasualJty is beautifully devel
oped. He loves to know the why
and wherefore of every cause . This
faculty disposes him to reflect a
great deal on nature of things and
to become so lost in thought often
times as to forget all that is going
on around him. He is a man of
strrong intellectual power and one
who can give a reason for what he
says. Comparison is full and he
sees relations between similar ob
jects quick and discovers analogies
between objects when others see
none. Loyalty is prominent. He re
members nowwith distinctiveness ev
ery spot he has been in during his life.
He remembers dates and chronologi
cal epochs better than most men.
The organ of numbers is admirably
developed. He takes great pleasure
in performing abstruce and difficult
operations in mathematics. He
doubts the existence of a trinity,
because it cannot be proven. Lan
guage is not very prominent. Be
nevolence is full. Reverence is rath-
er full and when his imagination,
which is very fertile, ranges through
the firmament and attempts to grasp'
the magnitude of the solar syster
circuits of the planets and the revo
lutions he is filled with deepest
most sublime emotions. On the
whole he is a man of strong mind
and the mantle of genius has fallen
upon him. Like all distinguished
men he is suigeneris. Music is full
and he is delighted with its melting
melodies.” ,
LATE JUDGE COLLIER A *
WRITER ON LAW SUBJECTS!
Held ApjHintment as Federal
Under Cleveland
The following from a St. Louis
papertelling pf the death of Judge
N. C. Collier, native of Indian
Springs, will be of interest to friends
of the family here:
Former Federal Judge N. C. Col
lier, for 20 years a resident of St.
Louis and a writer of recognized au
thority upon law subjects, died at
his home, 5563 Clements avenue at
8:20 p. m. yesterday, following an
attack of heart disease. Judge Col-,
lier was 74 years of age and during
the Cleveland administration of 1893
was appointed to the United States
bench as judge of the Federal Dis
trict Court in New Mexico, where
he then resided.
He was born in Indian Springs,
C-a., and educated in that vicinity.
Law studies were taken up after
the removal of his family to New
Mexico and after his appointment
to the Federal bench Judge Collier
remained in that position until 1900,
when he retired and moved to St.
Louis.
In this city he engaged as an edi
torial writer on legal subjects with
the Centraal Law Journal until
about four years ago, When he re
tired. He was associated with Wil
liam H. O’Brien and Alexander Rob
bins, as an attorney , in practice
here. Judge Collier was the author
of severa legal subjects.
Funeral services' Viill be held to
morrow at St. Rose’s Catholic
Church, Goodfellow and Maple ave
nues, with burial in Calvary Ceme
tery. Judge Collier was an active
member of the Knights of Colum
bus, the St. Vincent de Paul Society
and the Catholic Knights of
Americ.a
The former jurist is survived by
three daughters, Julia M., Mary C.
and Vivianne R. Collier, and two
sons, George B. Charles B. Col
lier.
From the year 1900 to the outbreak
of the Great War in 1914 the number
of cotton spindles has increased at the
rate of about 3,000,000 every year.
Since 1914 the number of cotton
spindles fit for use has been reduced
from a total of 154,000,000 to a to
tal of 138,000,000, a decrease of 16,-
000,000 during the six years.