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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1921
Page
4
Second class notice in Butts County publication reflects local sentiment on creamery cold storage plans and farm resilience. Encourages home production, warns about crime, discusses road costs, and criticizes state finances while urging farmers to stay self adequate amid economic strain.
An editorial urges Butts County to pursue local dairy and meat processing projects. It highlights a creamery and cold storage linked to the Jackson ice factory, plus a feed mill an ice plant sweet potato houses and a Jackson flour mill. It notes 75 000 pounds of cheese produced in 1920 and calls for self reliance to spur lasting regional prosperity.
A Monroe Advertiser piece argues counties should pursue dairy development. It notes Monroe ships hundreds of gallons daily and one man earns $700 monthly from milk. Idle land and a long grazing season could support pastures, boosting creameries or cheese factories. Forsyth’s ice plant would aid economic efficiency. A Knoxville dispatch shows Tennessee expanding creameries, with butter output and cooperative gains illustrating dairy growth potential for the region.
In Atlanta protests rise over higher charges approved for the Atlanta Gas Light Company and a recent Southern Bell rate decision. Voters and taxpayers fault the commission as costly and unresponsive, with calls to remove members and reshuffle its role before elections. Boifeuillet earns praise for opposition to further hikes while Candler was absent on the gas light vote.
Banks County Journal notes revenue officers risk their lives to raid liquor operations and reports court penalties from 30 days to a year on first offenses. It argues harsher sentences on repeat offenses would quickly stop the business.
An editorial argues banks aid local farming by backing crops and credits. It cites the People's National Bank of Charlottesville Virginia backing Albemarle county apple growers, producing Albemarle Pippin apples sent to Windsor Castle for the King and Queen.
The Federal Farm Bureau promotes sweet potatoes for bread and syrup and plans a western tour. Government interest leads to a Fitzgerald plant for syrup manufacture, boosting Georgia farmers to plant more potatoes and few worries about cotton panic.
In last summer’s heat of the political campaign critics mocked Wilson and lamented a return to “good old days” when Wilson was president and cotton fetched 40 cents a pound. The passage of time confirms the forecast as those days recede.
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