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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1895
Page
4
Local reading notices five cents per line per insertion and obituaries at one dollar. Full schedule available on request. Remittances by bank draft post office money order or registered letter. Currency notes or postal notes not registered at owner's risk. Published every Friday in the year.
In a long notice to readers Joan G. McDonap announces severing ties with The Arcus over financial reasons. He reflects on nine years in Butts county journalism and thanks readers while Mr. Rose will take over the paper. A school notice follows about a December 6 1895 teachers license exam in Jackson.
The Arcus announces a 16 page Christmas edition with 1500 copies to be distributed nationwide on December 20. The issue will feature special content and is crafted to boost holiday trade with expanded ads from progressive merchants. The publisher urges merchants to prepare liberal advertising space and notes recent investments in new type and materials.
The article praises Butts County Day as Atlanta hosts a record crowd with an estimated two hundred thousand people. Agent Stanfield sold nearly three hundred tickets from the area as trains and gates were packed. Football players, college youth, and military personnel joined the throng, marking a lasting success.
The North Georgia Conference assignments were announced in Elberton detailing presiding elder J. W. Heidt and pastors for Atlanta Trinity Walker Street St Pauls Asbury St Johns Kirkwood East Atlanta South and West Atlanta missions Eastpoint Jackson Fayetteville Inman Flovilla Manchester Jenkinsburg Morrow Station McDonough Locust Grove and other posts. The conference will convene in Dalton next year.
A 1895 tax collection schedule lists locations and dates for state and county tax collection by W. L. Carter. Dec 4 Taylor's Store to Dec 20 Jackson, with a deadline noted. Also a notice urging cash payment for cotton seed meal hulls linters from Jackson Oil Mill Company.
Thirty years after their 1870 ceremony Captain A G Hitchins and Miss Carolyn Rivers marked a silver wedding at their Third Street home. The Jackson church wedding of their daughter Carrie Mae Hitchins in 1895 was described with vivid details of arches garlands and flower girls, ending with a heartfelt wish for many more years of devoted unity.
Guests celebrate a couple with well wishers offering costly silver keepsakes and a plan to open a rare twenty four year old wine on the eldest child’s marriage. Groom Mr Fitzhagh Lee is noted for his Georgia ties and Hartford work at Poi Manufacturing.
Last Sunday at 8 PM at the bride's parents home Mr Charles Holifield of Conyers and Miss Lola Holifield of this city were married. They leave for Conyers to reside and were joined by many Rockdale county friends. Macon Ga March 14 1881.
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