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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1923
Page
3
The piece links warm weather to fishing longing and spring cleaning. It notes forefathers, wives shopping for hats and dress, and advertises Mews and Boys Straw Hats Manhattan Shirts underwear soft collars hosiery and sport footwear. It also promotes rugs shades curtains bedding furniture and related goods for a family spring refresh.
The Sixth District High Association after its Thomaston meeting invites Jackson to host the 1924 gathering. Jackson sponsors include the city and county boards of education, the Woman's Club and Kiwanis Club pledging full support. The Jackson high school team features Howell, Woodward, Gilmore, Merck, Smith, Sasnett, Van Fletcher and Carolyn Smith in events from sprints to dec declamations.
An old ad urges farmers to control boll weevils with early treatment and to place orders with Farmers Union Warehouse Co to ensure supply when needed.
Mrs Emily Bryans Mrs Bessie Bryans Miss Jennie Bryans and Miss Margarita Bryans return home to Idlewilde after a Jackson winter. Others visit relatives, attend funerals, and celebrate a wedding as Rev H H Shirley from Mercer preaches at the Baptist church. Dedicated readers and young scholars also earn school prizes.
In a Georgia county a milk drive found about 100 school children carrying milk in lunches, a change from none before. In another county a survey counted twice as many families as cows and reported 55 percent of schoolchildren underweight.
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