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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1919
Page
7
The Jackson team hosts Juliette Saturday at the Butts county fair grounds in a eagerly awaited game. Buck Weaver from New Orleans will pitch for Jackson. The two fast teams have met often this season and usually contest a hard fight. First pitch is at four o clock.
Jackson route 7 farmer L L Singley reports the season's first open cotton, a Cleveland variety planted April 12. He notes it as a quick maker and promising despite boll weevil conditions.
The fruit is maturing rapidly and under open weather conditions, with picking to begin at an early date.
Sunday services noted with morning and evening worship. An advertising blurb touts LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE as superior and non disruptive to nerves. Local notices mention Mr. and Mrs. Martin departing for Dublin with schools to lead and extended visits from relatives in Atlanta and Macon, plus regional acquaintances.
A minister at an editorial convention offers a humorous toast about saving editors from various fates through prompt payments advertising and plain correspondence. The piece then shifts to a domestic moment where a daughter explains she is pretending to be her father returning home late, in playful contrast to her quiet mother.
FOR SALE one horse six cows and a Ford Touring car listed by J W Hodges Jackson Ga Lost Sunday afternoon between Camp Ground and Jackson a Ford Jack and pump should be returned to R L Grant for reward Highest market prices paid for sacks scrap iron chickens and anything raised on the farm by E O Huson in Jackson Ga
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