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ALL COUNTY OFFICERS WILL BE
NOMINATED IN PRIMARY FRIDAY
KEEN INTEREST IN
ALL THE CONTESTS
VOTERS WILL PICK NOMINEES
FOR TEN OFFICES OUT OF
TWENTYjSEVEN CANDIDATES.
HEAVY VOTE PREDICTED
With a record registration, Butts
county voters will go to the polls
rriday, March 18, and select nomi
nees for the ten offices to the filled
out of a field of twenty-seven can
didates. #
The registration, more than 2,000,
is a record for the county and a hea
vy vote seems assured.
The polls in all precincts will open
at 8 o’clock and close at 4 o’clock,
central standard time.
The primary will be managed by
members of the Butts County Execu
tive Committee.
Voters must cast their ballots in
the district in which they are regis
tered.
All persons who were properly re
gistered prior to March 11, are eli
gible to take part in the primary.
The result will probably be known
on the night of the election. The
vote will be consolidated on Satur
day, March 19.
According to current reports, there
are several close races. The interest
ir keen and this will be maintained
until the last vote is cast.
Butts county uses the Australian
ballot and all necessary arrange
ments have been made for holding
the election.
The following candidates are en
tered in the primary:
Ordinary—George D. Head, Joel
B. Mallet, J. Threatt Moore.
Clerk of court—S. J. Foster.
Sheriff —Van Jones, Walter D.
Pope, Ike Wilson.
Tax Collector —Boyd McMichael.
Tax Receiver —C. R. Bennett, Ed
ward Carmichael, E. R. Harper.
County Commissioner —W. J.
Bankston, B. H. Hodges.
School Superintendent—T. Jack
Dempsey, Jr., Van Fletcher.
Treasurer—J. D. Brownlee, R. E.
Chambers, L. R. Dodson, Luther L.
Greer, J. C. Kinard, J. H. Mills, Jim
C. Newton, Austin C. Smith.
Coroner —G. W. Caston, J. L. Lock
hart, Augustus A. White.
Surveyor—J. M. Collins.
2,286 VOTES POILED IN
HENRYCOUNTY PRIMARY
A large vote was polled in the
Henry county primary the past Wed
nesday, more than 2,275 votes being
cast. The following was the vote
received by the various candidates:
B. S. Elliott, representative—2,-
249.
A. G. Harris, ordinary—2,27s
R. H. Daniel, clerk —2,286.
L. D. Hightower,, sheriff—2,2s6.
Tax commissioner—Byron Haw
kins, 280; Wyatt Rowan, 506; W.
A. Simpson, 346; Webb Sherwood,
391; R. H. Turner, 472; C. W. Coan,
279.
Mrs. Kate Brown, school superin
tendant —2,159.
Treasurer —R. L. Turner, 1,113;
W. H. Austin, 1,155.
Commissioner Roads and Reve
nues—W. M. Berry, 2,267; Leon
Carmichael, 2, 248; W. O. Evans,
918; C. C. White, 1,317; H. S.
Bryans, 2,238; A. O. Sowell, 2,273.
E. W. Barnett, coroner—2,2B6.
Tlamon Patillo, surveyor—2,2B6.
The Hoover dam in Arizona and
Nevada will be 730 feet, and there
fore will be the tallest such sti*ucture
jr. the world.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
2,321 VOTERS ARE
REGISTERD HERE
•
LARGEST NUMBER OF QUALI
FIED VOTERS IN HISTORY OF
COUNTY. TOTAL VOTE MAY
REACH 2,000 MARK
A total of 2,321 men and women
are regisered for the Butts county
primary of Friday.
This is several hundred more than
have ever registered for any previ
ous election.
It now seems likely the total vote
may reach 2,000. The highest pre
vious vote in a primary was that in
1928 when 1,715 votes were polled.
The Board of Registrars met Mon
day and purged the list and certified
the list of voters to the election man
agers.
The list shows there are 1,432
men registered and 889 wonjen.
The registration by districts is as
follows:
Male Females
Buttrill 1 133 78
Coody 114 51
Dublin 77 44
Indian Spgs. 136 92
Iron Spgs. 85 44
Jackson 655 463
Towaliga _lO9 54
Worthville ___l23 63
Totals 1,432 889
GEORGIA SCHOOLS
TO HAVE DEBATES
STATE CONTEST WILL BE HELD
MARCH 25. LARGE NUMBER OF
STUDENTS WILL BE ENTERED
IN THE DEBATES
Athens, Ga.—Four hundred and
thirty-six Georgia high school stu
dents will participate in inter-scholas
tic- debates throughout the state
March 25. The debates are sponsored
by the Georga High School associa
tion.
The subject is, “Resolved, that the
several states should enact legisla
tion providing for compulsory unem
ployment insurance.” The negative
teams debate with the school next
in the circle below and the affirma
tive teams debate at home.
In the fourth congressional dis
trict the following schools will take
part:
Circle 1, Villa Rica to Fayetteville
to McDonough to Spalding High to
Jackson to Griffin to Hampton to
Villa Rica. Circle 2, Woodbury to
Hogansville to Concord to Molena to
Thomaston to Zebulon to Woodbury.
Jackson high school will be repre
sented on the affirmative team by
Misses Huliette Ridgeway and Eve
lyn Hodges. The affirmative team
will debate Griffin high school in
Jackson.
Jackson high’s negative team is
composed of- Jmmie Watts and Net
tie Lou Godsey. The negative team
will meet Spalding high in Griffin,
These young debaters are among
the brightest students in the Jackson
high school and they are woi’king
hard and friends predict they will
make a splendid showing in the
spring debates.
FARRELL AND MADGE EVANS
FEATURED IN “HEARTBREAK’
The big feature “Heartbreak,”
starring Charles Ferrell and Madge
Evans, will be the offering at *the
Lyric Theatre Friday and Saturday.
Thelma Tod and Zasu Pitts will also
be seen in “Catch as Catch Can.”
For Monday and Tuesday the of
fering will be “Bad Girl.”
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932
MARCH 1932
SUM MOM TVE WED THU FRI SAT
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 !415 1617 18 19
20 2122 25 24 25 26
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TRAFfIC LAW SHOULH
BE RIGIDLY ENFORCED
JULE FELTON TELLS KIWANIS
CLUB THAT HIGHWAYS BE
LONG TO PUBLIC. BOOTLEG
GERS OUGHT TO BE CURBED
Violations of traffic laws on the
highways of Georgia ought to be ef
fectively curbed, Jule W. Felton,
of Montezuma, member of the Pub
lic Service Commission, told mem
bers of the Kiwanis club here Tues
day night. Speaking as a member of
the body that regulates motor ve
hicle transportation, Mr. Felton told
the Kiwanians that there is a flag
rant disregard of the present laws
and charged that “motor bootleg
gers” are making highways un
safe for travel.
It is the duty of every law en
forcement body to help curb such
violations. The licensed carriers are
i
observing the law, it was shown, but
there are hundreds of persons using
the highways for hauling who are
unlicensed and pay nothing for the
upkeep of the roads.
Mr. Felton declared that unli
censed carriers make the highways
unsafe, causing many fatal accidents;
that they are wearing out paving
without contributing anything to the
upkeep of the roads; that they are
helping to destroy the railroads and
licensed carriers. The state needs
its railroads and the regulated mo
tor lines, it was declared.
The law should be enforced:
1. To make the highways safe.
2. To prevent their destruction.
3. To enable the state to pave
main highways as speedily as possi
ble.
4. To build lateral l’oads connect
ing with main trunk lines.
Colonel Felton’s address was
thoughtful and well received.
Press Huddleston, representing
the Atlanta chamber of commerce,
made a short talk in the interest of
“Buy Georgia Products Week” to be
observed in the state from March
21-26. President O’Neal will name
a committee to work with other civic
and patriotic organizations anti pro
mote a Georgia products dinner for
Butts county.
Judge John B. Guerry, of Monte
zuma, former lieutenant governor of
the Georgia district of Kiwanis, spoke
briefly. Other guests were Mrs. Jule
W. Felton and J. R. Hoile. Dinner
was served by the <U. D. C. commit
tee, with Miss Hattie Buttrill as
chairman. The election of Dr. O. B.
Howell as a director of the club was
announced by President O’Neal, who
also called attention to the fact that
Butts county will have a county
agent on March 20.
PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN
AT CLUB HOUSE FRIDAY
An event of interest is that of
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock when
Mrs. J. C. Newton will present sev
eral of her pupils in a program at
the club house. The main feature
of the program will be the appear
ance of Miss Nona Early, pupil of
Mrs. Armand Carroll, noted piano
teacher of Atlanta. Miss Early re
cently appeared on the Georgia Fed
erated Music Club program and is
quite an artist. A large attendance
is expected for this occasion.
During 1931 motor car owners of
the United States consumed the
prodigious amount of 15,000,000,-
000 gallons of gasoline.
TAKES AN ENTIRE HOG TO
BUY EIGHT POUNDS BACON
These nice little strips of
breakfast bacon that are all
covered up in tissue paper sell
for 30 cents a pound. You know
they slice them with a safety
razor, too! Older bacon and eggs
for breakfast and you get about
two eggs cooked and all dressed
up around the edge with little
pieces of bacon that you can
hold up and see through. But
this bacon sells for 30 cents a
pound!
Eight pounds of bacon at' 30
cents a pound makes $2.40 A
hundred pound hog sold last
week all over the state of Geor
gia for $2.40 or $2.50 apiece,
says Commissioner of Agricul
ture Eugene Talmadge in the
Southern Cultivator.
In that hog there is at least
two eight-pound strips of that
same breakfast bacon besides
the thick middling with the ribs.
In that same hog there are two
nice hams weighing anywhere
from seven to eight pounds
apiece and two shouldeis of sim
ilar weight. In that same $2.50
hog there is about 10 pounds of
the very best kind of lard. “And
I’m not saying anything about
the brains, hog head, pig feet,
jowl for collard greens and sau
sage,” says the commissioner.
PROF. SPENCER IS
HEAD OF SCHOOLS
■.
BOARD OF EDUCATION AT RE
CENT MEETING ELECTED SU
PERINTENDENT. NAME OTHER
TEACHERS LATER ON
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At a yecent meeting of the board
of education, Prof. D. V. Spencer
was re-elected as superintendent of
the Jackson public schools for the
ensuing year.
This is the sixth time that Prof.
Spencer has been named as superin
tendent of the Jackson school system.
During his service here he has been
instrumental in maintaining the
Jackson schools at a high standard.
The Jackson high school is on both
the state and southern list of ac
credited high schools and enjoys the
reputation of being one of the best
high schools in the state.
Prof. Spencer has had a success
ful teaching experience of several
years, having been connected with
the Marietta, Sandersville and Li
thonia schools before being elected
as superintendent here.
Friends will be glad to know that
Mr. Spencer is to remain at the
head of the local school system.
Other members of the faculty will
be named by the board at a later
meeting.
MAYOR KEY TRIUMPHS
IN RECAtL I LECTION
Atlanta, Ga., March 15.—With the
largest vote .ever polled in a munici
pal election here, Atlanta citizens
today voted 17,178 to 11,744 to keep
in office Mayor James L. Key, who
called the prohibition law a failure,
permitted Sunday movies, refused to
pay a bonus to low bidders on city
construction work and approved
salary reductions to balance the city
budget.
JOHN B. GUERRY WILL RUN
FOR STATE COURT APPEALS
Judge John B. Guerry, of Monte
zuma, will be a candidate for the
State Court of Appeals for the place
now held by Judge O. H. B. Blood
worth. He is a prominent attorney
of Macon county and was formerly
lieutenant governor of the Georgia
district of Kiwanis. Judge Guerry
was a visitor in Jackson Tuesday in
the interest of his race.
BUTTS COUNTY DEMOCRATS TO
HOLD PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
GEORGIA PRODUCTS
DRIVE IS PLANNED
GOVERNOR RUSSELL ISSUES
PROCLAMATION ASKING PEO
PLE OF STATE TO BUY AND
USE STATE GROWN PRODUCTS
The week of March 21 to 26, in
clusive, will be observed as ‘ ‘Buy
Georgia Products Week.” The move
ment, sponsored by the American Le
gion, women’s clubs, chamber of com
merce, patriotic and civic organiza
tions, has for its purpose the popular
izing of Georgia products. Efforts
will be directed during the campaign
to educate the people of the state
to use home-grown products in pref
erence to all others.
It is claimed that Georgia now
sends cut of the state each year a
sum amounting to $60,000,000 for
meat, hay, lard, flour, etc., that
should be grown at home.
Governor R. B. Russell, Jr. has
issued a proclamation calling upon
the people of the state to observe
“Buy Georgia Products Week.” The
proclamation is as follows:
Whereas, despite tht that
the State of Georgia abounds in
natural resources and is capable of
producing- all of the commodities
necessary for the sustenance and
comfort of man and beast, it has
been established that the citizens of
our State are expending over fifty
million dollars annually without
the State in the purchase of • food
stuffs alone, and,
Whereas, it is self-evident that
the purchase and the production of
such commodities will stimulate and
encourage the agricultural, business
and manufacturing interests of the
State, thereby affording employment
to our people; retaining money in
our State, where it will be available
to our people; and increasing the
wealth of our State, and,
Whereas, the Forward Georgia
Committee, the American Legion, the
Women’s Clubs Chambers of Com
merce, and other civic organizations,
actively aided by the press of the
State, have been conductng a cam
paign to impress upon the people of
the State the importance of buying
and using Georgia products, and
have planned to continue this move
ment throughout the year 1032, and,
Whereas, It is important that this
campaign be brought to the atten
tion of every 'loyal and patriotic
Georgian, in order that all of our
citizens may enlist in this movement,
Therefore, I, Richard B. Russell,
Jr., Governor of Georgia, do hereby
proclaim the week of March twenty
first to twenty-sixth, inclusive, as
“Buy Georgia Products Week,” and
I urge all merchants, factors, manu
facturers, and producers in the
State of Georgia especially to empha
%
size during this week a “Buy Geor
gia Products” sale, and I call upon
all of the people of this State to de
mand and use Georgia products to
enable us to have a keener apprecia
tion of the unlimited possibilities of
production within the State of Geor
gia, the value of our products, and
the benefits to be derived by buying
products and merchandise at home
and assisting in creating a demand
and market for local products.
RICHARD B. RUSSELL, JR.,
Governor.
PROF. MARTIN HEADS THE
SCHOOLS IN GAINESVILLE
Friends here of Prof. W. P. Mar
tin, former superintendent of the
Jackson public schools, will be inter
ested to learn that he has been re
elected as superintendent of schools
in Gainesville.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
MARCH 23 IS DATE
OF THE ELECTION
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND
JUDGE G. H. HOWARD ENTER
ED IN GEORGIA. POLLS BE
OPEN IN ALL DISTRICTS
Voters of Georgia will go to the
polls on Wednesday, March 23, and
cast ballots in the presidential pref
erence primary.
The candidates entered in this
state are Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt, of New York, and part
time citizen of Georgia, and Judg-.
G. H. Howard, of Atlanta. Judge
Howard is running in the interest of
Speaker Garner, of Texas.
At a reecnt meeting the Butts
County Democratic Executive Com
mittee voted to open the polls anti,
hold the election in Butts county.
It is a party service for which they
will receive no compensation.
Reports from over Georgia show
that Governor Roosevelt is an out
standing choice for president. Roose
velt-for-president clubs have been
organized in many of the counties
in the state and by next week it is
believed there will be such a club
in each county in the state. Butts
was one of the first counties to or
ganize a “Roosevelt-for-President”
club.
W. E. Page, well known Columbus
publisher, is director of the Georgia
Roosevelt-f or-President campaign,
and campaign headquarters continue
to issue optimistic reports from ev
ery section of the state.
It is hoped that Butts county will
roll up a big vote and join heartily
in the indorsement of Mr. Roosevelt
as the standard bearer of the Demo
cratic party.
DISTRICT SCHOOL
MEET DATE FIXED
WILL BE HELD IN GRIFFIN ON
APRIL 21-23. CONTESTANTS
WILL BE SELECTED IN PRE*
LIMINARY CONTESTS
The fourth congressional district
high school meet will be held with
Griffin high and Spalding high school
in Griffin on April 21, 22 and 23, it
is announced.
Contests to name the winners are
now being held by the thirty-four
schools in the district. The fourth
district, consisting of fifteen coun
ties, includes some of the largest high
schools in th? state, such as Griffin,
Thomaston, Newnan, LaGrange,
West Point Carrollton, Greenville,
Jackson, Jrnesboro, Fayetteville,
Covington and many others. The
fourth district has a great many more
high schools than the sixth district,
in which Jackson was formerly locat
ed, and the competition this year will
be keener tlan ever in the literary
and athletic events.
On the night of April 21 the dis
trict debates will be held.
The athletic events are scheduled
for the 22, and in the case of bad
weather or other hindrance the con
tests will be held on the 23.
The various schools will be repre
sented in the several literary and
athletic events by their strongest
teams. The literrry events will in
clude contests in debate, music, ex
pression, declamation, etc., while the
athletic events will ’nclude the usual
schedule of running and broad jumps,
hurdles, 100 yard dash, relay race,
pole vault, shot put, d’scus and other
events.
These events always arouse keen
interest and this will be particularly
true this season owing *o the many
teams entered.
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