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Big Celebration
Staged Monday
County Went Wild
Over War’s Close
Whole Day Rejoicing
Bonfires And
Fireworks Were
Features
Rousing Speeches
Made
News that an armistice had
been signed with Germany
which was flashed to the world
Monday, was the occasion for
the most rousing and patriotic
celebration in the history of
Butts county.
The news was received in the
early hours of the morning
from Atlanta and soon the news
spread to all parts of the
county. As soon as the report
was found to be :rue the
celebration started and contin
ued throughout the day and far
into Monday night.
The bell in the court house
was rung for several hours
Monday morning. A parade by
the school children showed
that even little folks were as
much interested in the cessa
tion of hostilities as the grown
ups. Fire works featured the
celebration, the noise remind
ing one of the holiday season.
In the afternoon there was an
automobile parade and
throughout the day factory
whistles blew and there was a
regular bedlam of noise.
During the day a fund was
made up for the purchase of
fireworks and powder for the
big celebration Monday night,
many patriotic citizens contri
buting to the fund.
Early Monday morning a
mammoth celebration was
planned for the night. Circulars
were quickly printed and
scattered to all parts of the
county, inviting the citizens to
come to the court house at 7:30
for the celebration. An im
mense throng came together to
rejoice in the happy news that
the great world war is over.
Patriotic speeches, that
stirred the crowd to high
pitches of enthusiasm, were
made by Hon. W. E. Watkins,
Dr. Robert Van Deventer, Col.
C. L. Redman and Rev. S. R.
England.
Preceding the speaking there
was a big demonstration on the
court house square and fire
works were shot with zeal and
enthusiasm. - The Jackson
Progress-Argus, Nov. 15, 1918.
Mr. H. G. Wiley
Is County Agent
Mr. H. G. Wiley, of Colbert,
Ga. Oglethorpe county, was
elected as County Agent for
Butts County at the meeting of
the directors of the Kiwanis
Club of Jackson and Butts
county, Tuesday night. Mr.
Wiley will begin work here the
first of June.
According to Mr. J. G.
Oliver, Assistant State Agent in
Extension Work of the State
College of Agriculture, Mr.
Wiley is one of the best county
agents ever connected with the
department. Born and reared
on a farm in Stephens county,
Mr. Wiley is a graduate of both
the State Normal School and of
the State College of Agricul
ture. He has spent five years in
the work in Coweta, Stephens
and Oglethorpe counties,
where he met with uniform
success. He is a man of tact,
ability and experience and will
no doubt make Butts County an
active and capable man.
Mr. Wiley is 34 years of age,
is married and has three
children. He will move his
family to Jackson as soon as a
suitable location can be found.
The County Agent work in
Butts county was put on as a
result of a campaign conducted
by the Kiwanis Club of
Jackson. The county being
barred, by a supreme court
decision, from paying the
salary of a farm agent out of
the general tax levy, it was
necessary to raise the money
by public subscription. The
Kiwanis Club will pay the
salary for twelve months, and
in the meantime it is believed
the legislature this summer
will pass an enabling act
allowing counties to pay for
QUOTATIONS OF
MEMBERS OF
THE SENIOR CLASS
A friend is a person who
knows all your faults and loves
you just the same.—Jim
Crawford.
I with you, you with me,
miles are short with company.
—Anna Mary Powers.
Run if you like but don’t get
out of breath,
Work if you will but don’t be
worked to death.
—Porter Ham.
He is a scholar and a ripe and
good one.—Avon Gaston.
I am not in the roll of
common men.—Bryan Pat
rick.
He who depends upon his
mind and limbs,
Needs neither cork nor bladder
when he swims.
—Carl Maddox.
Thou art such a touchy,
testy, pleasant fellow, hast so
much wit ahd mirth and spleen
about thee, there is no living
with thee nor without thee.
—Gibbs Lyons.
“My only books” were wo
man’s looks
And folly’s all they’ve taught
me.—Marlin Spencer.
A heart can only be held by a
heart, the fairest setting of the
loveliest jewel.—Leila Sams.
From the crown of her head
to the sole of her feet she is all
mirth.—Ruby Cawthon.
Never run after a man or a
street car, there will be
another along in a minute:
—Lucile Ham.
For some love sings, for
some love sighs, for some
love’s lips are dumb.—Gladys
Patrick.
She is of a very melancholy
disposition.—Emma Thomas.
Never do today what you can
put off ’till tomorrow.
—Gerturde Jinks.
Much study is a weariness to
the flesh.—Hattie Belle Gil
more.
She who is loved knows why
she lives.—Annie Reid Harper.
The biggest thing on this
earth is a man.—Bess Comp
ton.
Love is two eyes that look for
you, two lips that speak for
you, two ears that list for you,
two feet that wait for you, two
arms that lift you to higher
things and one heart that beats
for you. Elizabeth Fletcher.
If we live we love, if we love
we live.—Evelyn Wright.
I’ve had a good time.
—Gladys Kimbell.
And strange to say she
practiced what she preached.
—Eva Knowles.
Young in limbs, in judge
ment old.—Bertha Maddox.
I do not know any man who is
not absolutely under the thumb
of at least one woman.—Rosa
Thompson.
To each member of the
Senior class: Formerly it was
“Be good;” now it is “make
good.” —By Willie Ruth
Pittman.
There is nothing ill can dwell
in such a temple.—Lucy
Lemon.
Butts Cos. Progress, May 28,
1915.
this work.
From all information obtain
able it is believed that Mr.
Wiley is a high grade man in
every particular. For the work
to be a success it is necessary
that every citizen extend the
utmost co-operation and exer
cise patience, as it will take
time to get the kind of results
the citizens here expect and
demand. -- Jackson Progress-
Argus, May 19, 1922.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
THE RICH AND
THE POOR
DISCUSSED BY
PLOW HANDLES
Today we are rich and
tomorrow we are poor; and
today we are poor and
tomorrow we are rich. Isn’t it a
pity that the world has gone
money mad? There is some
thing in all of our nature that
makes us all want to be big rich
and in our mad rush to obtain
wealth we disregard the
interests of the other fellow.
We are all too much inclined to
want the other fellow to carry
the heavy end of the log, and in
doing so we have brought
untold misery on the human
race and their posterity. And at
last when we come down to the
turbid waters of death if we are
rich we get a first class
funeral, with our casket
banked with costly flowers and
a notice in the press that we
were wealthy. Then that is the
end of it, and at the same time
he has brothers and sisters
whose life has been a struggle.
And when the time comes for
them to die, they perhaps live
in a rented shanty, and when
their remains are borne to the
cemetery there is not a wreath
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Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation
nor a flower to lay on the
casket, but there comes a soft
whisper and it says: “I have
seen the travail of my soul and
is satisfied.”
Won’t the world ever learn
that all this craze about wealth
isn’t worth a pinch of snuff?
This article is not written to
encourage idleness and sloth
fulness, but in the interest of a
square deal. We are told that
in Palestine when the farmer is
making his crop the old Turk
hides away in the mountains
and when the crop is matured
he slips there at night and
steals it. But in our own land
they have a more dignified way
of doing it.
While the cotton farmer is
toiling in the hot sun to make
his crop, the cotton baron is
taking his vacation at some
fashionable watering place,
and when the cotton is matured
he is there ready to help
hammer the market and steal
his cotton. This is pretty plain
talk but any method that is
employed to take advantage of
the helpless is stealing, and you
can’t make anything else out of
it. -- Butts County Progress,
Sept. 12, 1913.
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all
hang separately. Ben
jamin Franklin at signing of
the Declaration of Indepen
dence.
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1976
McCord Shaver
Now Editor
Jackson Argus
Announcement is made this
week that Mr. McCord Shaver
has assumed charge of the
Jackson Argus as editor and
general manager, succeeding
Mr. E. W. Carroll, lessee. Mr.
Shaver is a recent graduate of
Emory college and has had
previous newspaper experi
ence and should have a
successful and brilliant career
in the journalistic world.
Mr. Carroll has been
connected with the Argus since
September 1911 and has met
with flattering success. He
made of the paper one of the
state’s leading weeklies * Mrs.
Carroll, who has been editor of
the Argus since January, has
proved herself to be one of the
most talented newspaper
women in the state.
Mr. Caroll, who is business
manager of the Athens Daily
Herald, will move his family to
Athens to reside. Jackson
regrets to lose this estimable
family and the best wishes of
hosts of friends throughout the
county go with them to their
Earth Tremor
Fright
Producer
People Badly Excited
By Seismic Shock
Disturbance Thursday
EARTHQUAKE FELT IN
COUNTY LAST WEEK WAS
MOST VIOLENT SINCE
THE GREAT SHOCK OF
AUGUST 1886
An earthquake that lasted
from five to fifteen seconds
was felt in Butts county last
Thursday afternoon at a few
minutes after three o’clock.
The tremor caused keen
excitement that almost a
mounted to consternation in
some quarters.
Accompanying the seismic
shock was a rumbling noise
that sounded like distant
thunder. At first it was thought
that a charge of dynamite had
been touched off somewhere in
the community but when the
new home. - Butts Cos.
Progress, July 4, 1913.
true condition became known
inmates of houses lost no time
in getting out in the open.
So far as has been reported
no considerable damage
other than fright— was done by
the earth tremor. A number of
houses were shaken from
foundation to roof, and brick
shaken out of chimneys.
Three score or more cities
and towns in this section felt
the earthquake. It reached as
far as South Carolina. Just
where the center of the
disturbance was has not been
learned, the weather man in
Atlanta being unable to give
any information. He called the
shock an earth tremor and said
it was a light disturbance,
though there will be plenty of
people to testify that it was
about as hard as they would
care to feel.
The seismic shock was the
first of any consequence felt in
this section since the great
earthquake of 1886. - Butts Cos.
Progress, March 13, 1914.
A little neglect may breed
mischief: for want of a nail
the shoe was lost; for want of
a shoe the horse was lost; for
want of a horse the rider was
lost. Benjamin Franklin.
There never was a good
war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin.