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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1922
Page
1
Butts County voters will decide on a $150,000 5 percent serial bonds issue for highway improvement with polls in the courthouse district opening 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and in country precincts 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Balloting will be consolidated February 16.
In Valdosta Georgia authorities report sixteen thousand acres to be planted with watermelons in the coming season. The number appears in railroad solicitation records and fertilizer sales. Cantaloupe plantings are also expected to rise substantially over prior years.
The Jackson Kiwanis club, Georgia's smallest city with a Kiwanis, received its charter Tuesday night from General Walter A. Harris of Macon. The event drew Macon and Atlanta delegates, a dinner by the Woman's Club, and greetings from the international body.
The Georgia Press Association will hold its midwinter meeting at the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta on February 13. Important business matters will be taken up, and full attendance is requested. The session starts at 9 30 a m and continues until all business is disposed of.
The Butts county Board of Registrars met Monday with R. E. Evans H. M. Fletcher and A. H. Ogletree to purge the registration list for the February 15 band election. New members Ogletree and Fletcher were appointed by Judge W. E. H. Searcy Jr. Many voters have moved or died. eligible young men and women newly enfranchised may register. A new voters list will be prepared for county districts next week.
About two hundred farmers from Butts and neighboring counties met in Flovilla on February 3 to discuss building a processing plant to clean sterilize and market blackeye peas like those in California. If sufficient contracts are signed and acreage pledged the plant could operate this season.
A major farmers meeting will be held at the Jackson courthouse on Monday February 13 at 7 p m to discuss crop plans marketing and other farming matters. Local speakers include J K Giles J F Basemore G F Hunnicutt J A Johnson and Miss Suan Matthews with support from state and transportation agencies.
At its regular meeting Tuesday the board considered several matters and decided to build sanitary closets at Peppertown school and make this a model school in every detail.
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