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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1897
Page
3
Jackson Institute figures in local pride while social visits unfold around Monticello, Indian Spring, and Locust Grove. The column mentions travel on the Southern excursion to St Simon's Cumberland and Florida, plus local tradesmen and meetings, with personal health notes and small-town commerce updates.
A long list of residents and visitors in Jackson recounts trips to Atlanta and Monticello, bicycle purchases, and social calls. Mentions include A M Stewart, Jesse Hanes, W M Potts, J R Carmichael, Miss Mary Carmichael, and Mrs Lee Manley with relatives in Griffin. Also notes bicycle races, shop ads, and school updates.
The Jackson Argus highlights Mrs Evamanett’s respected cooking work aiding youth, subscribers like Mr George P Combs on the honor roll, and local business boosts at Pepperton mills with new machinery and jobs. Summer hotel talk and community notices frame a small town week of health ads and social updates.
Spencer and Co offers a large lot of nearly new buggies at bargain prices to reduce stock from a recent camp meeting purchase.
W N Brown and Col Pliny Hall will board with Mrs J L Crawley after Sept 1 on Dempsey avenue. President Etheridge of Jackson Banking Co left for a second trip to New York last Tuesday. His trips usually benefit Jackson. Mrs J D Thornton of Atlanta with her children left for Cork after a pleasant visit. By Jas F Carmichael ordinary for county purposes, Jackson Ga 23 August 1896. It is ordered that fifteen mills be levied on the county's taxable property for 1897 for Jail Bridge Coroner Pauper General Commissioner Fund and New Court House Fund.
Eugene Elder to study pharmacy in Augusta this fall. M. P. Sowell of Locust Grove to be behind the New York store dry goods counter after the first. The Browning house offers private board with Mrs. Browning in charge and list of boarders. Charlie Wilson serves as cashier for the New York store. DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve advertised. Maggie O'Rear joins millinery at Greater New York store starting Sept 1. Fresh bread at Allen & Co's.
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