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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
10
A playful tale recounts John Nott inventing the Nott Knitter and the Nott Knotter to knit knots the first device could not. romance enters as a knitter declines to stop knitting knots and asks Nott to marry. The closing line invites Speckle pens for sale from J. A. Joyner.
Flovilla Mr Cape Goodman returns to Jasper County to teach school. Mr T C Giles succeeds him at Dr Waits drug store. Louise Pendley, critically ill, convalesces. Mrs O G Martin, Miss Pauline Martin and Master Billie Mallard of Berner visit Mrs M E Black. Ruby Thompson of Jackson visits H T Thompson family. Nellie Davis of Deeran to Athens for winter with relatives. H P Thomas and Annie Laurie Thomas home from Worthville for weekend. Dr A F White in South Carolina on business.
December is best for warm weather pruning spraying and planting in the orchard. Treat San Jose scale with lime sulfur applications and prune and spray apples while digging borers from peach trees and prepping crowns. Grapes like scuppernongs should be pruned late in the month with other varieties cut any time in winter.
Mothers are advised to use California Syrup of Figs when a child is cross feverish or constipated. The ad claims the fruit laxative quickly cleanses the bowels with no injury, suitable for all ages, and warns to beware of counterfeits and to buy the 50 cent bottle from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Gardeners in South Georgia should plant asparagus cauliflower lettuce radish rhubarb and spinach in December. Transplant herbs and cover crops in cold frames as needed. avoid fresh manure and use rotted manure or high nitrogen fertilizer. Prepare spring garden site now.
Georgia Butts County notices M. A. Benson applying for permanent letters of administration on W. W. Benson. Creditors and next of kin are cited to appear at the official office within the legal time to show cause if any they can.
Confederate veterans traveling to Washington for the Annual Reunion, May 28 to June 2, 1917, will ride a 48 mile stretch built by Confederate soldiers. The line between Greensboro North Carolina and Danville Virginia, now part of Southern's Atlanta Washington route, proved strategically vital and remains a historic monument of Confederate effort.
Notice announces sale of 100 acres in Butts County Georgia by commissioners J T Moore J E McMichael Jr and Sol H with sale set for the first Tuesday in January to divide property among joint owners under Superior Court order. Also mentions permanent administration objection to M A Benson on W W Benson estate with December 4 1916 signature by J H Ham Ordinary.
By order of the Court of Ordinary the F S Norsworthy estate in Butts county will be sold at public outcry on the first Tuesday in January 1917 at the county courthouse between usual hours. The property covers about 23.5 acres bounded by Kimbell Kinard Cargile Thomas Preston and Mattie Bledsoe with cash terms. J W Norsworthy Administrator.
125 acre farm in the 613th district offered for sale. Terms to suit purchaser. Apply to R. L. Weaver in Jackson Georgia.
The piece recalls a wartime rail segment stretching from Richmond to Danville with contested title. It notes the route’s renown, the Tennessee Curve naming from a Tennessee regiment, and that Southern Railway later double tracked the line while preserving the original wartime alignment.
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