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55- —No. 49
LEADING MASON A
JACKSON VISITOR
CHARLES S. WOOD OF THE
GEORGIA GRAND COWMAN
DERY OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
SPENT MONDAY IN CITY
Members of Alexius Commandery
No. 22, Knights Templar, had as
their guest Monday night Sir Knight
Charles S. Wood, of Savannah,
grand recorder of the grand com
' mandery of Georgia Knights Tem
plar.
In the evening Mr. Wood made
a talk to the members of the com
mandery in their asylum. His talk,
which was most interesting and in
structive, traced the history and
growth of Masonry, with particular
reference to the order of Christian
Knighthood. He showed why the
members should take a deeper in
terest in ,the work and also sug
gested that an auxiliary for the
wives of the members would result
in many benefits.
Sir Knight Wood is -one of the
leading Knights Templar in the
state and has been prominently men
tioned as the next grand comman
der.
POUND ATTENDS
KIWANIS MEETING
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL IN
SESSION IN CHICAGO DUR
ING THE WEEK. MANY MAT
TERS TO BE CONSIDERED.
Mr. O. A. Pound, of Jacksoa,
governor-elect of the Georgia dis
trict of Kiwanis International, who
will take ofifce January 1, left
the first of the week for Chicago
|*o attend the meeting of the In
ternational Council December 8-9-
10.
The International Council is a
legislative body empowered to con
iTr and advise with the Interna
tional Board of Trustees on all
matters relating to Kiwanis Inter
national. The meeting will bring
together th’e largest group of
f .iwanis executives that ever meets
except at the time of an interna
tional convention.
The International Council is a
significant meeting for the develop
ment of the largest leadership in
the organization. The educational
and fellowship at this gathering as
sist in bringing to the 100,000 Ki
wanians the Value, the responsibili
ties and the club adminstratve work
of Kiwanis, according to Henry C.
Heinz, International president.
Following his return from this
meeting Mr. Pound, as governor
elect of the Georgia district, will
be busy planning for the annual
trustees meeting to be held in Ma
son early in January.
The secretary for the Georgia
iistrict will be named early in the
ear.
Mr. Pound has numerous requests
or visits to the various clubs in
he state, and an active and con
tructive year for Georgia Kiwanis
A confidently predicted under his
■adership. ,
pUTTS COUNTY SENDS THE
1 EEST CAR TO ORPHANAGE
Ih The truck load of provisions and
yothing, including some fifty dol
in cash, forwarded last week
l the Baptist Orphanage at Hape
1-ile by fifteen churches of the
I nbell Association, was the best
most carefully selected yet rc
p ed, according to a letter from
• Pat Anderson, superintendent
I -he institution. This will be en
gaging news tc the chufthes that
I part in tke campaign to help
I s worthy and deserving institution
I" care of so many orphan boys
V girls.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CLOSE ON DEC. 20
TWO WEEKS HOLIDAY WILL
BE GRANTED SCHOOLS OF
JACKSON. COUNTY SCHOOLS
TO END TERM DEC. 23.
The Jackson public schools will
Cjose for the Christmas holidays on
Tuesday, December 20, find will
reopen for the spring- term on Mon
day, January, 1928. This has been
decided at a meeting of the board
of education. This gives pracitcal
ly a two weeks holiday for teach
ers and pupils.
Final examinations will be in or
der for the next few days. Fallow
ing- the close of the fall term the
teachers will remain for a day or
two checking and grading papers.
The Butts county schools will close
cn Friday, December 23, and will
open again on Monday, January 2.
Only a week’s vacation will be taken
by the county schools.
According to reports given out,
both the Jackson schools and the
Butts county schools are having a
highly satisfactory year. The enroll
ment has held up well all the fall,
better in fact, than for some time
past, and the fall months have been
marked by hard and thorough work
in every department. The progress
made is gratifying to parents,
patrons and teachers.
CANTATA WILL BE
GIVEN BY CHURCH
“CHIMES OF THE HOLY NIGHT”
WILL BE PRESENTED AT
METHODIST CHURCH ON SUN
DAY EVENING, DEC. 18.
A Christmas cantata, “Chimes of
the Holy Night,” will be presented
at the Jackson Methodist church on
the evening of Sunday, December
18.
The cantata, directed by Mr.
Joseph E. Edwards, a talented mu
sician, will present thirty to forty
characters, composed of members
of the choir. Miss Elsie Curry will
have charge of the music as pianist.
Rehearsals are now being held
and a finished production is assured.
The cantata will present some of the
best talent in the entire communi
ty-
This pi'ograni, coming immeidate
lv before the Christmas season, will
prove full of interest. People of
Jackson and' community are cordial
ly invited to attend.
VETERANS MUST MAKE
CLAIMS BY JANUARY 1
ONLY SHORT TIME LEFT IN
WHICH TO FILE APPLICA
TIONS FOR BONUS. SENATOR
GEORGE’S STATEMENT
The Progress-Argus is in receipt
of the following letter from Hon.
Walter F. George, United States
Senator from Georgia, in which he
points out that veterans of the
world war must file applications for
adjusted compensation claims by
January 1. The letter is as follows:
“It is important that ail veterans
who have not done so file applica
tion for adjusted service certificate
(bonus) by January 1, 1928. De
pendents of deceased veterans who
have not received the certificate
should also make application, before
January 1, 1928. Under the terms
of t£e act, it is necessary for vet
eians to apply for their certificate
by the date named. My office or
your congressman will be glad to
serve you. Your local • postmaster
and veteran organization will also
be glad to assist.”
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927
CRIAM station is
SUBJECT OF TALK
#
FRANK BEHNKE, EXPERIENCED
DAIRYMAN, TELLS KIWANIS
CLUB BENEFITS OF SUCH AN
ENTERPRISE HERE.
The importance and benefit of
a cream station as a means of in
creasing the dairy industry, bring
ing in steady cash income and help
ing all lines of business in the coun
ty,was discussed by Mr. Frank Beh
nke, experienced and successful dairy
farmer, at the meeting of the Ki
wanis club Tuesday night.
Mr. Bchnke, who recently located
in Butts County, has many yeai-s ex
perience in this line of work. He
formerly managed cream stations
in the North, and points out that
Georgia possesses superior advan
tages as a dairy and live stock cen
ter.
He is how considering establish
ing a cresfm station in Jackson. To
work out the details a committee
f: om the Public Affairs committee
of the Kiwanis club and a commit
tee from the Dairy Association will
meet with Mr. Behnke and County
Agent H. G. Wiley Friday after
noon at 2 o’clock.
At Tuesday night’s meeting din
ner was served by the U. D. C.,
Mrs. J. P. Mcßryant chairman. Vis
itors included A. B. Lindsty, of Cen
ter Hill, Fla. and Mr. Behnke.
The annual business meeting will
be held on December 13 and at
that time officers will be elected
and reports submitted by committee
chairmen.
BAPTISTS IN ANNUAL
MEETING IN AUGUSI/t
REV. W. S. ADAMS, PASTOR OF
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, IS
ATTENDING CONFERENCE
DURING WEEK
Rev. W. S. Adams, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Jackson, left
Monday for Augusta to attend the
cne hundred and sixth annual ses
sion of the Georgia Baptist conven
tion. The meetings, beginning Tues
day night, were held at the Curtis
Baptist church. The concluding ses
sion was held Thursday.
Dr. John D. Meil, of Athens,
president of the convention, directed
its work. Dr. B. D. Ragsdale, of Ma
con, and Dr. E. J. Forrester, of
Sparta, have served as secretary
and treasurer, respectfully, for the
past year.
Dr. L. M. Latimer, of Griffin,
delivered the convention sermon
Tuesday evening, and Dr. Mell made
the president’s annual address.
Dr. Arch C. Cree, executive sec
retary of tht convention, reported
total receipts for the co-operative
program during 1927 of $451,289.83.
The Christian Index reported re
ceipts of $45,957. The Baptist book
store reported receipts amounting
to $39,715. The Orphans’ home re
ported receipts from the convention
of $73,856, and the receipts from
the convention for the Georgia Bap
tist hospital amounted to '5950,522.
The total receipts for foreign mis
sions were $100,829; for home mis
sions, $42,315; for state missions,
$56,084.
During the convention a good
many important reports were made,
and plans were outlined for the
coming year’s work.
It was expected that Dr. John 0.
Moll would be named president to
succeed himself for another year.
The convention brings together a
large number of the most prominent
workers in the state, and the ses
sions are always followed with much
interest.
HUNTERS WARNED
TO USE CAUTION
ADVISED HOW TO SAVE TROU
BLE WITH FARMERS ON
WHOSE LANDS THEY HUNT.
RESPECT RIGHTS.
The following statement has been
Issued from the office of the state
game and fish commissioner:
Game and hunting conditions will
be a lot better in Georgia when the
sportsman and the landowner ar
rive at a better understanidgn of
each other.
There has been an inclination in
the past for some hunters to look
upon the farmer as a sort of scare
crow, seeking to frighten sportsmen
out ofhis fields, and selfishly try
ing to preserve all the available
game in his neighborhood for him
self and his son John. On the other
hand, some of the landowners have
looked upon the hunters as tres
passers and interlopers, with no re
gard for personal or property rights.
On occasions when hunters and
landowners have come together,
they have found that both ideas
were erroneous.
The average landowner is neither
bulldozing nor selfish. If approached
in the right way, and asked for per
mission to hunt on his land, he will
grant it cheerfully nearly every
time. Often he will offer his ser
vices as guide, or proffer the loan
of his best bird or hound dog. All
that he asks ordinarily, is that the
hunter will be careful not to shoot
towards his house, injure any of his
stock, trample his crops, leave gates
open and bars down, or set, fire to
his woods or fields.
The real sportsman will respect
all of these property rights of the
landowner without being reminded
of tjiem, because he realizes that
there would be no game and there
fore no hunting for him if it were
for the courtesy of his land
owner friends. It is the landowner’s
crops that feed the birds, and his
wells and ponds that keep them
from famishing.
The real sportsman will get the
permission of the landowner before
hunting on his land, or fishing in
his waters. He will invite the land
owner to join him, and the nine
times out of ten he will be cordially
welcomed and the landowner will
invite him to come back.
The State Game and Fish De
partment is interested in the land
owner as well as the sportsman, and
is seeking to serve both classes. It
asks the hearty cooperation of both.
We are Georgians all, and the better
we know each other, the closer
friends we will be. There is no
earthly reason for antagonism be
tween the hunter and the farmer,
and a little acquaintance will elimi
nate any misunderstanding or mis
trust that may exist at the present
time.
Just try out this theory, and see
how well it will work.
PETER S. TWITTY,
Game and Fish Commissioner.
MACHINERY WILL REPLACE
MULES FOR ROAD WORK
At a called meeting, held Momday
morning, the county commissioners
deckled to sell all mules belonging
to the county, and to use machinery
entirely in working the county roads.
The mules will be sold on the first
Tuesday in December at public out
cry before the court house door.—
Dawson News.
50C-YEAR DEPOSIT OF DOLLAR
TO GIVE HEIRS $2,900,000.00
William Stellema, Holland, Mih.,
fruit grower, has deposited a dollar
in the bank which he never expects
to sec again. It will remain on de
porit at compound interest for 500
years, then be distributed among his
male descendants. By that time the
account will have grown to $2,900,-
M. 500 PAID FOR THE
VV. H. WATKINS PLACE
ONLY TWO TRACTS OFFERED
AT PUBLIC SALES ON TUES
DAY. BANK BUYS THE WAT
KINS ACREAGE.
Only two parcels of land were
offered at public sales Tuesday.
The W. H. Watkins farm of 150
acres on the Griffin road, near
Jackson, was bief in by the Jackson
National Bank for $4,500, or S3O
'V •
per acre. This property is well lo
cated and is considered one of the
most desirable farms in the county.
A thirty acre tract at Stark, be
longing to the estate of A. H. Dod
son, went to J. A. Dodson on a bid
of $675.
INTEREST CENTERS
ON NEW HIGHWAY
COUNTY -COMMISSIONERS CON
FER WITH HIGHWAY BOARD.
BELIEVED ROUTE 42 WILL BE
PAVED IN NEAR FUTURE
The Monroe county commissioners
met with the State Highway Board
in Atlanta Monday in the interest
of the paving of Route 42 which
passes through the county of Mon
loe. A number of details in connec
tion with the route were discussed
and it is believed that this highway
will be among the first on the fu
ture pavng program of the state.
An item of particular interest to
F’orsyth is the direction along which
the highway will enter the town.
Three possible routes have been sur
veyed, one along Railroad avenue,
cne along the street leading from
the Forsyth Coa] and Lumber Cos.
plant and one along Lee street. It
will be necessary to have an under
pass at whatever railroad crossing
is chosen, but in so as Forsyth is
concerned the route is yet to be de
termined.’ —Monroe Advertiser.
LHURCH CENTENNIAL
held at mcuonough
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HAS
ONE HUNDRED YEARS TO ITS
CREDIT. CHURCH IS FORMAL
LY DEDICATED.
McDonough, Ga., Dec. 4.—The
hundred years history of the Pres
byterian church here was read today
by H. B. Carmichael, Sr., a part of
the centennial celebration which
closed tonight. At the close all
church records were placed in a cop
per box and sealed in the corner
stone of the new church. '
Records of the church, for the
most part, were ineligible, so the his
tory was compiled from notebooks
of the Nolen family, from court
records, and from the memory of
the oldest inhabitants. Mrs. E. J.
Reagan, Mrs. Julia McDonald, Mrs.
Annie M. Nolen and H. B. Carmich
ael, Sr., a church committee, made
the compilation.
Following this, the centennial
sermon was preached by Dr. Homer
McMillan, of Atlanta. Dinner was
served in the church dining room.
During the afternoon a home
coming sermon was delivered by
Dr. W. A. Cleveland, of Jacksonville,
Fla., the only 'pastor the church has
sent out in its century of existence.
Dr. T. C. Talmadge, moderator of
the Atlanta Presbytery, brought the
presbytery ’s gre et in gs.
The dedication of the church
building to night climaxed the cele
bration.
000, if wc haven’t forgotten how to
figure interest. But in the meantime
William’s descendants also* will be
increasing, and may not get such a
lot of money after all when t’:e
year 2427 comes along.
300 S T
GEORGIA
All The Time
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
SUMMER MEET TO BE
AT INDIAN SPRINGS
GRIFFIN MAN ELECTED AS
PRESIDENT OF THE SIXTH
DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY
AT ANNUAL MEETING
The summer meeting of the Sixth
District Medical Society will be held
in Indian Springs, the date to be an
nounced later. This was decided at
the annual meeting of the body held
in Griffin November 30.
Dr. W. C. Miles, of Griffin, was
named president; Dr. G. I. Miller,
of Macon, vice president, and’ Dr.
O. R. Thompson, of Macon, seertary
and treasurer for the ensuing year.
At the meeting in Griff.n last
week Dr. A. F, White, of Flovilla,
a former president of the Sixth Dis
trict Medical Society, responded to
the address of welcome.
The business session was occupied
with reading of papers and discus
sions on scientific questions.
The visiting doctors were guests
of hte Spalding County Medical
Society at a barbecue. About one
hundred physicians from over the
district attended the meeting.
Indian Springs has for a long
number of years had the honor of
entertaining the district doctors,
and as the location is a central one
the meetings are always well at
tended and full of interest.
PRISON LAMPS ARE
BEING INSPECTED
HON. J. O. GASTON CHAIRMAN
OF SENATE COMMITTEE THAT
HAS THIS WORK IN CHARGE.
T OFILE REPORTS
Hon. J. O. Gaston, senator from
the twenty-six district, chairman of
the Penitentiary committee of the
Georgia state senate, is spending
this week in south Georgia inspect
ing convict camps in several coun
ties. His work took him to Bibb,
Glynn and other counties in the
southern portion of the state.
Associated with Senator Car,Eon
in this work of inspecting prison
camps are a number of senators
and representatives. Some thirty to
forty members of the two houses
will be engaged in this inspection
during the week.
The committee will meet in Atlan
ta and file a report.
MRS. NfcPtit WtAVtins
SUMMONED BY REAPER
Following a two weeks’ illness,
Mrs. Neppie Weaver, widow of the
late Mr. W. W. Weaver, died at
Sand Mountain, Ala., Saturday. Mrs.
Vr’eaver was on a visit with rela
tives in Alabama when she became
jll. She made her home with Mrs.
Mattie Weaver and left 'two weeks
ago for a visit to relatives in Ala
bama.
The body was brought to the
home of her daughter, Mrs. L. L.
Colwell, Sunday afternoon, and
funeral services were held at
Towaliga church Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock. Rev. I. G. Walker,
Sr., conducted the rites and inter
ment was in Towaliga cemetery.
Mrs. Weaver before her manage
was Miss Jane' Darnell, of this
county, and was a member of
TowaJga church. She is survived
by two sons, Mr. W. T. Weaver,
of Alabama, and Mr. Raymond
Weaver, of Atlanta, two daughters,
Mrs. Pearl Colwell, of Jackson, and
Mrs. Tennie Martin, of Monroe
county; two borthers and a sis
ter.
SQUARING HIMSELF
Traffic Officer: Didn’t you hear
me yelling at you to stop?”
Motorist: Beg pardon. Was that
you? I thought it \v:.s the guy
I’d run over.”