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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1939
Page
7
A rural narrator describes dry spells across fields and a grim harvest season, noting ruined crops including watermelons and a growing sense of loss. Farmers bury what they kill, hoping for rain, while one person buys a new dress and jokes about living life anew as fashion resurges.
An announced program outlines morning and afternoon sessions over two days with devotions, organization, ministerial reports, committee reports on W M A Hospital Orphans Home and other items. It lists speakers Rev J B Pickern Rev C C Buckalow Bas Williamson Otho Morgann Dr Ben Ingram Miss Willie Woodward and others with sessions on Sunday school Christian Education and Digest of Letters.
Incomplete OCR text suggests a local tax discussion continues with echoes of earlier debate. Distinct entities or dates are unreadable. no clear persons or organizations can be identified from the fragment.
Mrs. Lee Perdue spent 28 days with Mr. and Mrs. EB Perdue. Ruth Aiken stayed with Mrs. W P Brooks. Mrs. B B Perdue is ill but hoped to recover. Otis Washington and family visited J D Washington’s parents. Copeland and son visited J M Washington. Fears Weldon and Mrs. John Brooks visited Hammond family and W M Hammond injured his back but looking for recovery. A C Maddox and son of Corbin Ky along with Charlie Gardner and son of Atlanta visited J T Maddox. Bobby Tingle visited Jean and Janice Brooks. Max and Winifred Perdue visited Ray Lowery.
News of the death July 27 reports Mr Flem Jordan Duke aged 85, former Batts County resident, died at his home in Oneonta Alabama. He was the son of the late Cager and Mary J Holifield Duke, born in Jack, spent his early years here, moved to Alabama in 1891, and was a charter member of the Oneonta Baptist Church that he helped establish.
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