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LET'S BOOST
JACKSON AND
BUTTS COUNTY
VOL. 49.—N0. 10
STOCKHOLDERS OF POTATO
HOUSE TO MEET SATURDAY
PLANS WILL BE CONSIDERED TO ENLARGE THE CAPACITY OF
BUILDING. DIRECTORS CLOSED TRADE FOR SITE ON COV
INGTON STREET. POTATOES WILL BE GROWN ON LARGE
SCALE IN BUTTS COUNTY
At a meeting of the directors of
the Butts County Products Com-,
pany Monday afternoon a deal was
closed for a site on Covington street.
A lot belonging to C. ,M. Kimbell
and S. B. Kinard was purchased
and the building will be ei’ected on
this site. This is considered a de
sirable location for the potato house,
being convenient to all farmers.
To consider the matter of enlarg
ing the capacity of the house orig
inally planned, there will be a meet
ing of the stockholders Saturday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock in the court
house. It has been found that a
curing house of 10,000 bushels ca
pacity will not be large enough to
take care of all the potatoes that
will be grown in the Jackson terri
tory. Many of the stockholders
want to contract for from 1,000 to
2,000 bushels. It is likely the plant
will be constructed so as to store
from 15,000 to 20,000 bushels.
The presence of all stockholders,
about eighty in number, is requested
at the meeting Saturday, as there
are a number of important business
matters to be considered. The con
tracts will bo wady at that time and
GOOD SHOWING BY
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
LOCAL COMMANDERY LAUDED
BY INSPECTOR ON CLASS OF
WORK DONE. LARGE ATTEN
• DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT
A splendid showing and one that
delighted the inspecting officer was
made Friday night by Alexius Com-
No. 22, Knights Templar,
when the annual inspection was
held. About forty Sir Knights were
present, members from McDonough
and Monticello aiding by their pres
ence to occasion an im
pressive one.
The inspection was conducted by
Right Eminent Sir Perry L. ,Black
shear, of Atlaffta, Grand Junior
Warden of the Grand Commandery
of Georgia. He complimented the
commandery in warm terms on the
class of work done and on the per
sonnel of the officet-s and members.
His report, he said, will be a flatter
ing one for the Jackson comman
dery.
During; the evening- the Order of
the Temple ..was conferred /upon
Mr. Alonza Campbell Norman, of
Ola. The v.ork was'unusually pretty
and impressive and reflected credit
upon the officers and members of
the commandery.
While in the city Sir Knight
3lackshear was entertained by Mr.
L*L. Tison, Eminent Commander,
a special committee appointed
for that purpose.
jMr. Blacksehar extended the
members of the local commandery
a cordial invitation to attend the
inspection of Atlanta Commandery
on March 10. He also expressed the
-wish that a large attendance f-rom
eackson be present at the annual
meeting of the grand commandery
in ’ Macon in May.
Several of the Sir Knights present
made short talks, Judge H. M. Flet
cher, member of the Jurisprudence
Committee of the Grand Command
ery and Judge W. S. Florence, of
Mortt/jcello, being among the num
... ier.
SEVERAL CASES MADE FOR
RUNNING CARS WITHOUT TAGS
Sharp Lookout Being Maintained by
County Officer*
Sr ce March 1, the last day for
l operating a motor vehicle without a
1921 tag, several cases have been
made by county officers. A sharp
lookout is being maintained by of
ficers in an effort to have every
body comply with the state law.
A statement issued by Secretary
of State S. G. McLendon says there
will be no extension of time granted
Ifin which to buy tags. Cars must
i either have 1921 tags or be put in
la garage.
Bristol county, Mass., with 7,632,-
003 cotton spindles, leads all other
counties in the total number.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
all who will grow potatoes for the
curing house can sign* up at that
time.
Many farmers have bedded their
potatoes and others are arranging
to order their slips. Butts county
is going to embark on the growing
of sweet potatoes on a large scale
this year. Many farmers w.ho have
become disgusted with cotton, at
present prices and under bgll wee
vil conditions, are going to turn to
potatoes.
The price to be paid for potatoes
this fall was also agreed upon dt the
meeting Monday. Growers will Gb
given the option of two contracts.
The first contract provides for a
flat price of 50 cents per bushel at
the time of delivery. The second
provides for a minimum price of
50 cents per bushel, with the privi
lege of obtaining market prices at
time of delivery, or the privilege of
having the potatoes stored and cured
at a maximum charge of 45 cents
for the season, the owner to dispose
of potatoes as he sees proper. These
contracts will be explained more in
detail by Mr. Copeland, the general
manager.
PEPPER TO BE GROWN
HERE ON CONTRACT
BUTTS COUNTY FARMERS WILL
TRY NEW CROP THIS YEAR.
PROFITS SAID TO BE MOST
ATTRACTIVE
The growing of pepper on a com
mercial scale will be tried out in
Butts county this year. A number
of have signed contracts to
plant one acre or more, the product
to be delivered to Gregory & Son, of
Griffin, who wr.ll pay $1.85 per 100
pounds.
It is claimed that from 200 to
500 bushels can be produced on an
acre. Twenty-seven pounds weigh
a bushel and a price of 50 cents per
bushel or $1.87 per 100 pounds wrl!
be paid for all the pepper grown.
The contracts have . already been
signed.
The Griffin firm does a large and
profitable business in growing- and
bu5 T ing pepper. Pepper seed are sold
on a large scale and other uses are
made of the product. The plant of
Gregory & £>on at Experiment is one
of the largest in this section.
Among- those who have signed con
tracts to plant and grow. pepper this
season are W. J. Bunn, 1 acre; H.
H. Greer, 1 acre; R. L. McMichael,
1 acre; W. C. Redman, 2 acres.
The variety that will be planted
hereis the Ruby King, a sweet va
riety of pepper. *
If a minimum of 200 bushels are
produced to the acre and the pep
per is sold at 50c per bushel it will
be seen tteit the return wfll be
much larger than that received from
cotton or other crops in this county.
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JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921
TEACHERS MEETING
FULL OF INTEREST
SCHOOL PROBLEMS HANDLED
BY STATE SUPERVISOR AND
TEACHERS. WOMAN’S CLUB
SERVED VISITORS LUNCHEON
The teachers’ institute conducted
in Jackson Friday by Hon. George
D. Godard, State School Supervisor,
aroused considerable interest among
the teachers and patrons and will be
the means of injecting new life into
educational viork in Butts county.
The forenoon was spent in discuss
ing school management, compulsory
education and discipline. These sub
jects were treated in an interesting
manner and the discussions that fol
lowed proved mutually helpful.
In the afternoon a school survey
of Butts county was taken up. By
means of a chart it was shown just
what’ the enrollment was in each of
the schools in the county. Some of
the schools were found to have en
tirely too many pupils for the num
ber of teachers employed, and it was
hrought out that the teachers devot
ed more time to the students in the
higher grades than to the primary
departments. The remedy for this
situation, Mr. Godard pointed out,
was a county high school where all
the high school students could be
taught, thus giving more time to the
training of the little folks. Mr. God
ard was emphatic in stressing the
necessity for thorough traiinng for
the children in the primary grades.
He shovv.ed that the standard
school, employing one teacher and
having five grades, 16 minutes were
devoted to each class; a two-teacher
school, with seven grades, 22 min
utes were devoted to each class, and
that in a three-teacher school, with
nine grades, 29 minutes were de
voted to each class.
In the main, Mr. Godard stated
Butts county was good work,
though some of the schools were
crowded. Many of the buildings
are inadequate, he pointed out. He
praised Superintendent Van Fletcher
for the good work he is doing in
trying to elevate the standard of
Butts county schools.
In a short talk Mr. Fletcher stated
that Butts county was behind neigh
boring counties in an educational
way. The wry to remedy this situ
tion, he said, is to have fewer
schools and better teachers.
On Thursday Mr. Godard and
Prof. Fletcher visited the Stark and
Jenkinsburg schools and they were
delighted at the work being done.
The Woman’s Club of Jackson
served the teachers and school of
ficials luncheon Friday at the noon
hour. The sessions were held in the
court house and there was a large
attendance of the teachers, a holi
day having been declared in all the
schools of the county except Jack
son.
COUNTIES CANNOT
PAY FARM AGENTS
JUDGE HOLDS THERE IS NO
LAW PROVIDING FOR LEVY
FOR THAT PURPOSE. IS EDU
CATIONAL WORK
Rome, Ga., March 5. —Judge
Wright of Floyd Superior Court
late Saturday decided in mandamus
proceedings filed to compel the
county to pay salaries of the county
agricultural and county home eco
nomics agents, that the county had
no right to pay such salaries because
no provision for such payment ap
pears in the laws of Georgia. He
decided against the contention of at
torneys for the agents that their ser
vices are educational and therefore
may be paid on that ground, and
held that there wire such services
considered educational, payment for
them must be made not by the Coun
ty Board of Roads and Revenues,
but by the County Board of Educa
tion, tax for that purpose being lev
ied if the Educational Board con
siders itself authorized to pay.
The decision is said to involve the
payment of such agents in the nearly
100 counties in the state now em
ploying them and appeal may be
taken from Judge Wright’s decision,
unless efforts to have the next leg
islature enact a law providing that
the salaries may be paid by the
county boards seem likely to suc
ceed.
Thank goodness vse’re at the point
where we can again ask for a dime’s
worth of something without being
laughed at.—Chula (Mo.) News.
JACKSON RIFLES
ARE INSPECTED
COMPANY COMPLIMENTED BY
FEDERAL -AND STATE IN
SPECTING OFFICERS. VISI
TORS WERE ENTERTAINED
The first inspection of the Jackson
Rifles, Company F, First Infantry
Georgia National Guard, since the
reorganization the past September,
was held Thursday and Thursday
night of the past week. A most
creditable showing was made and
the officers were complimented on
the good work being done. The
property was found to be in good
condition and the morale of the
company was of the highest order,
eliciting the favorable comment of
the State and United States inspect
ing officers.
During the day the property was
inspected and at night the company
executed a number of the tactics.
The inspection was in charge of Col
onel H. V. Heidt, inspector general
for the regular army of national
guard companies; Major F. E. Wil
son, inspector general for Georgia,
and Major Arthur McCollum, of
the quartermaster’s department of
Georgia national guard. Other prom
inent military men present for the
inspection were General J. Van
Holt Nash, Adjutant General of
Georgia, and Lieut-Col. James M.
Kimbrough, Jr.; (Major Crouch and
Capt. Chick Travis, of Griffin, and
Capt. Ferris, of Atlanta.
Major G. E. Mallet entertained
the visiting military men and a large
number of friends at a barbecue at
Mallet Springs Thursday afternoon,
the occasion being a most delightful
and enjoyable one for all who at
tended.
The Jackson Rifles were re-organ
ized last September. Since that time
much good work has been done and
Col. Heidt stated the company was
the best that he has inspected. Cap
tain Smith Settle and the other of
ficers, as well as the enlisted men,
are devoting much time to the com
nany and the progress shown to date
is most gratifying and encouraging.
IlinS COUNTS WILL
HAVE 20 DELEGATES
PLANS BEING MADE FOR STATE
MEETING OF SUNDAY
SCHOOLS IN MACON ON
APRIL 19 TO 20
Butts County has been allotted
20 as a minimum quota of delegates
for the State Sunday School Conven
tion, to be held in Macon on April
19, 20, 21, by the committee on ar
rangements. All Sunday School
workers who desire to attend may
do so, but the counties reaching
their quota will secure special recog
nition. Besides this recognition, spec
ial recognition will also be given
each county that has 100 per cent
attendance of its county officers.
The county officers will help make
u-p the quota of delegates, as well
as count on this 100 per cent atten
dance. It is expected that every sec
tion of the state v.TI be represented
at the state convention, and it is be
lieved that Butts county will exceed
its quota of delegates. Low- railroad
rates on the certificate plan have
been granted. Board for the dele
gates will be provided as reasonable
rates. No registration fee will be
charged. Pastors, Sunday School
superintendents, teachers, other
school and class officers will receive
great inspiration from attending the
convention.
Further information regarding
the convention may be secured from
the officers of the county Sunday
School Association, Dr. W. J. Waits,
Flovilla, vice President; T. E. Wil
liams, Jackson, Secretary; Miss
Mary Manning, Jenkinsburg, Chil
dren’s Division superintendent; W.
O. Ham, Jackson, superintendent
Young People’s Division; J. M. Gas
ton, Jackson, J. H. Patrick, Jackson,
G. I. Watkins, Indian Springs, L. E.
O’Neal, Jackson, district presidents,
or from the headquarters of the
Georgia Sunday School Association,
917 Hurt building, Atlanta.
BOOZE TO BE MUSEUM EXHIBIT
Washington.—Adding insult' to
injury is the proposal of Prohibition
Commissioner Kramer to have in
stalled in the National Museum ari
exhibit of Scoth, rye and bourbon
whiskey. These relics of a departed
age will carry heavy burglary in
surance, providing a company can
be found to take the risk.
J. H. MILLS STRESSES THE
IMPORTANCE OF FOOD CROPS
SAYS THE LESS COTTON PLANTED THIS YEAR WILL BE THE
BEST FOR THE SOUTHERN FARMERS. SHORT COTTON
CROP WILL HELP GET THE COST OF PRODUCTION. URGES
A YEAR OF STRICT ECONOMY
The season for pitching our props
for 1921 is fast approaching and the
problem of what we shall plant this
year is a matter of the gravest con
cern to all lines of business in the
South, especially to the farmers.
Last year the farmers of the
South produced the most expensive
cotton crop in their history and
they have not been offered even the
cost of production for that crop,
and unfortunately the outlook is
such that it does not seem probable
that they will get the cost of pro
duction for the 1920 crop.
The consumption of cotton in the
United States is approximately 50
per cent of our production accoid
ing to the present rate that cotton
is being spun and counsmed we will
have on hand in this country 9,000,-
000 bales of cotton as a surplus
Aug. 1, 1921. Europe has no money
v.'th which to buy our products and
no credit of any consequence is be
ing extended her as our government
thinks it unwise to extend her credit
at the present time.
Therefore, if we produce a nor
mal cotton crop this year, this crop
together with the surplus of cotton
carried over, that we will have on
hamd will do nothing but reduce fur
ther the price of cotton which will
finish, absolutely, breaking and bank
rupting the South. Fertilizer this
year shows no reduction practically
in price and agricultural implements
ire just as high as they were in
1920. So taking into consideration
the present cost of production and
the prospective price, which will be
a big reduction, very likely, from
the present price, we w.ill suffer a
greater loss on the 1921 crop than
we have suffered on the 1920 crop,
if we produce a normal crop of cot
ton this year.
It will be very unwise to produce
a normal crop of cotton this year
with conditions favorable for pro
duction of cotton. Conditions, how
ever, are not favorable. The records
of the State Entomologist show that
the boll weevil ha salready appeared
in every cotton producing county in
Georgia. We have had a mild winter
and this means that the boll weevil
will appear early and in larger num
bers and do greater damage to the
cotton crop than heretofore. With
rainy seasons this year the boll wee
vil can be counted on to do a still
greater daage. It will be impossible,
at least not advisable to fight the
boll weevil scientifically this year
for the price of calcium arsenate
and the machinery necessary for its
use is too high according to the
present pricq of cotton td say noth
ing of what it may be if a large crop
is produced.
For our people to attempt to pro
duce a normal cron with prevailing
AUGUSTA FARMERS
BUY 2,000 BALES
FOLLOW GENERAL OUT LINE OF
BUTTS COUNTY PLAN. BE
LIEVED THIS ACTION WILL
STIMULATE MARKET
Augusta, Ga.—lt is announced
here that Barrett and Company have
bought, for farmers living near Au
gusta, 2,000 bales of cotton.
It was stated at the office of Bar
rett and Company Thursday that the
party purchasing this cotton was
acting for a group of individuals,
v.ho feel, as do Barrett and Com
pany, that the present differential
between middling cotton and grades
below middling is too pronounced
for long duration, and that it is only
a question of time before the mills
will realize the value of this low
grade cotton and seek to purchase
it, thereby creating a demand that
will force the price upwards.
.It is gatheied that the action of
the farmers referred to was prompt
ed by their beilef that low grade cot
ton will show such a pronounced ad
vance in price within the next twelve
months that they would be safe in
simply investing in it, instead of
putting their money into a newi crop?
feeling that they will make equally
as much money and at the same time
not have to cultivate and harvest a
crop.
It is stated that the report of this
HAKE 1921 A YEAR
OF HOG AND
HOMINY
/
$2.00 PER Y.EAR IN ADVANCE
piices, which are less than the cost
of production, would be bad enough.
To plant a large crop at present
prices and cost of production and
then run the risk of having it prac
tically destroyed by the boll weevil
is something- surely that the farmers
of Georgia will not even contemplate
much less undertake.
Necessity is the best reason for
our farmers to change and diversify
their crops this year. We must pro
duce our home supplies and make
our farms selfsustaining and this
must be done on the nuist economi
cal plan. We can no longer afford
to produce cotton with which to buy
the necessities of life, especially
those that we can produce. In the
past with better prices for cotton
our farmers who pursued the policy
of raising cotton only as a surplus
crop after raising the needed home
supplies have been the most prosper
ous and contented.
We can raise most of what we eat
at home. We can not raise cotton at
less than cost of production. To
raise cotton under such circum
stances means not only nothing to
eat but an actual loss on cotton.
Such a policy, if pursued, will mean
not only loss on the crop but after
another year of 1920 will mean the
loss of homes and bankruptcy for
the farmers as well as for the mer
chants and country bankers in the
agricultural sections of our state
that are dependent on a prosperous
agriculture. Certainly, there cannot
be a farmer in Georgia who will*
think of planting a cotton crop this
year and raising very little, if any,
of the necssary home supplies that
are essential for our existence.
After we raise our home supplies
this year, it is then a debatable ques
tion whether or not we should raise
any cotton. Europe cannot buy our
cotton now and to raise more will
make our surplus and new crop
more of a liability or problem.
The most certain policy, of
course, for relief would be for our
fa oners not to plant any cotton this
year and to keep what we have on
hand, and if the farmers would do
this, and if those in our section that
are financially able would buy con
tracts for future or fall delivery,
we would thereby let the New York
gamblers and speculators raise a
cotton crop on their exchanges. We
would as a result not only get a
fair price for our cotton but we
v.juld be able to show the evil and
cost of speculation to our people in
the South, who have been through
out all these yeai's the victims of
gamblers and speculators.
J. H. MILLS,
President Georgia Division Farmers’
Educational and Co-Operative
Union of America.
TELEPHONE COMPANY’S
PROFITS $103,946,988
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH COMPANY HAD
GOOD YEAR. 8 PER CENT
DIIVDEND FOR 14 YEARS
New York, March s.—Total earn
ings of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company for 1920
amounted to $103,940,988, accord
ing to detailed report issued today.
Expenses aggregated $33,260,084,
leaving net earnings of $70,686,-
904. Deduction of interest, divi
dends and appropriations for con
tingencies leaves a balance added
to surplus of $6,444,423, as against
$4,039,457 in 1919.
The claim is made by the com
pany’s officials that while it is third
in amount of stock outstanding
among all American corporations, it
is first in the number of holders of
common stock and has the widest
distribution of ownership of any
corporation. Incidentally, it claims
to have more women shareholders
than men. Dividends at the rate of
8 per cent annually have been paid
for the past fourteen years.
• A
2,000 bale purchase in New York
Steadied prices there Thursday
though later in the day slight de
clines followed.