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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1910
Page
4
Governor Brown names Prof. L. M. Brittain of Fulton County Public Schools as State School Commissioner. Prof. Jere M. Pound resigns to become president of Gordon Institute in Barnesville.
Hon O H B BLoopworth of Forsyth campaigns actively amid strong support for election in the coming primary. The Barnesville News-Gazette notes his apparent strength and predicts an early lead in the race.
He resigns from the State Senate to run for office, asserting his candidacy rests on clear-cut progressive principles aligned with the 1906 campaign rather than party lines.
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South elected bishops J C Kilgo Collins Denny W B MacMurrah W R Lambuth R G Waterhouse J H McCoy and E D Mouton in Asheville North Carolina. It paid memorial tribute to deceased bishops J C Granberry W W Duncan C B Galloway A Coke Smith J J Tigert and Seth Ward and debated renaming the church to Methodist Episcopal Church in America after the 1913 veto of the change.
A Kansas newspaper prints a fable about two hens in a barnyard. One hen brags of her eggs and advertises while the other refuses to crow about her lay. The owner punishes the silent hen for not being modern and promoting her product.
The Moultrie Observer notes a playful shift of focus as Atlanta is urged to host the comet, with a quip that the celestial visitor will err if it fails to "stop over" in Atlanta, while opera singers depart to Marthasville.
From Our Exchanges notes a Chicago woman dislocating her jaw while scolding her husband. remarks on community figures like John Holder Bernard Awtrey and George Rucker the Sage of Milton. contrast between North Georgia quill drivers and Middle Georgia editors. garden harvests feature potatoes beans peas raspberries cherries and May peaches as Halley’s comet approaches.
N M Hawes of Elberton declares for Georgia State Treasurer as a Democrat in the 1910 white primary. He cites seven years in the state legislature and fifteen years as president of Elberton Loan and Savings Bank, urging banking law improvements to protect depositors and promising capable assistants.
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