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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1897
Page
4
The Jackson Argus under editor and publisher Parry Lee expands coverage of local news, community notices, and public affairs, highlighting ongoing city events and regional concerns.
The Jackson Argus notes a year since new management began and reports last Friday’s print run of 1000 copies with a 26 short, plans to reach 1500 weekly, invites advertisers, and addresses local politics and public figures amid a hopeful townwide tone.
In The Rome Argus the writer questions the morality of calling for Mrs Nobles' blood while noting past injustices. The piece argues for balancing duty and pleasure, suggesting business and moral duty both have value and should be prioritized by context.
The Journal argues Georgia should gain new mills to industrialize its 1,300,000 bales of cotton valued at about 40 million dollars. It contends cotton manufactured locally would triple the crop’s value and provide thousands with wages, urging northern capital to invest in southern mills.
President Berner of the state senate pushes a ten percent bank tax test and wins senate approval 82 to 8. He argues the measure relieves debt ridden homeowners and preserves state regulatory power amid grim imagery of financial distress. The piece ends with a personal birthday note.
The Argus reports Jackson, Georgia, as a top cotton market with no local compress. Receipts show 15 000 bales already, with potential to reach 18 000 to 20 000 by season end. Farmers haul bales and Jackson buyers source from other points, boosting the town’s commerce and prospects. The Monroe Chronicle praises Jackson merchants and buyers as the town’s finest.
A Columbus Enquirer Sun summary notes Georgia raises only two million bushels of wheat annually, one fifth of the eight million needed. The piece argues diversified crops restore soil fertility, stresses home wheat production, and frames dependency on western wheat and rail transport as a tax on Georgia families. It cites Ruskin on civic duty.
The piece recalls early panic over smallpox and notes Jackson has not quarantined Griffin or Atlanta. It warns that Griffin may still see new cases and urges precautionary steps to prevent the disease entering Jackson, advocating selective entry regulation from infected towns.
The farmers of this country are a brave group, dashed by low price cotton yet they rally their resources and return with renewed vigor. They have our best wishes.
The writer urges making Christmas gifts useful and durable rather than trivial trinkets that become rubbish. He argues thoughtful gifts honor friends and loved ones, as good wishes and memories are valuable and enduring, and suggests presents be useful as well as ornamental.
The Argus prints a copy of Thomas R. R. Cobb’s character sketch of The Colonel known as Uncle Don. An introductory note by Wallace P. Reed calls the sketch an original that will endure alongside the figure it lampoons. Frank L. Stanton lauds the Georgian Colonel’s lively style and cheerful spirit.
The Georgia Supreme Court held that disturbing even a single member of a lawful congregation during divine services by any forbidden act constitutes a violation of law and an indictable offense. The ruling shifts the standard from disturbing a crowd to any disturbance of an individual worshipper.
A rural tale in dialect about a farmer who announces at Christmas he will marry a widow and asks his six daughters to move on. The hired hands grin as he offers the daughters as wedding gifts, each boy selecting a bride while the old man plans his next remarriage.
The excerpt asserts love endures beyond earthly passions and death. It contrasts worldly ambitions with a sacred, heavenly flame that originates from heaven and returns there. The poem implies love sows toil and care here and promises a harvest in the beyond.
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