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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1923
Page
7
Poem reflection from the social page notes how a single smile can uplift a day. It contrasts a morning robbed of joy with a morning brightened by a smile that spreads cheer among people in New York Sun.
Social notes list numerous visits and travels in Jackson and surrounding areas. Names include Sara Lester in Talbotton, S O Ham in Clayton, Joel Mallet from Atlanta, S H Thornton from Bradley, A H Carmichael of Atlanta, J B Mays in Monticello, Lottie McClure in Rome, and many others visiting relatives in Atlanta, Griffin, Macon, Vienna, Thomasville, St Augustine, and more.
Mr and Mrs J B Mays gave a six o'clock dinner on Tuesday with guests Judge W E H Searcy Jr Judge W E H Searcy Sr Solicitor E M Owen Judge H M Fletcher Rev Henry H Jones and Col C L Redman. An elegant dinner was served.
The church advertises 9:30 a.m. Bible School with a welcome for all ages. Dr. Hubbard of St. Petersburg Florida will speak on the Doctrines of Last Things Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. preaching. Kimbell Association to meet at Sardis Baptist on August 29 and 30. Also notes Thrasher family and guests visiting Thurman's Mill Forsyth area.
Local report from Flovilla details residents returning from St Simons Island after a fifteen day Georgia National Guard encampment. Revival services begin at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church led by Rev D P Johnson with Bro Cline assisting. Sightings mention visitors from Macon Columbus and Atlanta and note welcome rains reviving farming regions.
The Kiwanis Club will meet at Jenkinsburg on August 7 with the following week at Stark. Speaker J G Liddell Georgia College of Agriculture urged swine production, predicting better hog prices and urging businessmen to back hog farming. A. B. Lindsey pictured Butts county as a future cabbage county by 1938. The Pork Eaters lead in the attendance contest against Beef Eaters. the loser hosts a barbecue for the winners after four weeks.
Out of town mourners listed for Mrs. J. W. McCord funeral include many from Atlanta Douglasville Griffin Locust Grove Covington Crawfordville and Macon with family members and friends visiting. Additional civic and local residents from nearby towns also noted during the Sunday gathering.
Mr J T Edalgo and his young daughter Lola from near Forsyth visited friends here last week. Mr Riley Elder of Atlanta spent several days with Mr and Miss Willie Woodward, and Mrs Woodward’s mother attended Emily Wallace’s birthday dinner hosted by her children.
The regular communication of St Johns Lodge No 45 F and A M will be held in the Ma sonic hall Monday night August 6 at 730 pm. All qualified brethren are invited. Work in Fellowcraft degree. J C Newton Worshipful Master L P McKibben Secretary.
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