Turning and Grinding Observations and Local News
A father speaks on turning and grinding ethics in work life and the value of effort. Local notes share social chatter, shop talk, and small town updates from Jackson with names, places, and events.
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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1898
Page
3
A father speaks on turning and grinding ethics in work life and the value of effort. Local notes share social chatter, shop talk, and small town updates from Jackson with names, places, and events.
Hanes jeweler advertises cash sales while Jackson musicians and teachers arrive from Virginia. Promotions for Buckwheat and maple syrup at Allen & Co and fresh eggs sought. Miss Clements from Atlanta joins Jackson Banking Co as a typewriter. Town to build a telephone system. Steven Kinard praised as enterprise promoter. Also mentions money lending on farm lands, and social notices of residents leaving Jackson. The paper notes ordinances targeting hopline venders as beer dealers.
Pulverized sugar at Allen and Co. The Argus reports Dave Spencer's illness improvement. The state librarian informs Judge Carmichael Blounts new form book will be ready around the 15th for distribution to officers entitled to it. Fertilizers from B F Moon. McKenzie the courthouse contractor will break dirt for the new house week after next. Indigent soldiers' cheques, $60 each, eighteen in total, have arrived and will be paid when called.
Graham flour at Allen & Co's. When Steve Kinard installs a new telephone exchange in Jackson the town will have the best service of any small city in the state. Steven is known for doing things right and delivering quality.
A temperance plea urges votes against licensed bars in Jackson and urges Christians to register by February 10 and vote on March 8 to ban the liquor business. It contrasts barrooms with the so called blind tiger and warns of social ruin, urging Baptists and Methodists to stand by their guns and ban the sale. The piece cites Judge Hammond’s memories of violent alcohol-era dangers and calls for civic action.
An advertisement urges farmers to buy Kenne saw Blood and Bone Fertilizers from Tue C. Feenell Co for better results than home mixing, warning that homemade plow stocks and ax handles are no longer economical.
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