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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
8
Aspirin should only be used when the Bayer name appears on the package or tab to ensure genuine product. See Bayer instructions for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and other pains. Small tins of twelve Bayer tablets cost a few cents. larger packages sold by druggists.
The 1920 agricultural census for Butts County reports 1,626 farms a 6.2 percent drop from 1910. White and colored farmers operate 730 and 896 farms respectively with 822 owned and managed and 1,304 tenant farms. Total farm acres number 75,962 with 51,820 improved. Land value on Jan 1 1920 is 5 523 229 dollars, up from 1909. Counts of domestic animals and crops span ten years of comparison.
Colorado Springs reports an army of grasshoppers about fifteen miles wide and twenty miles long advancing from the southwest. County Agent J C Hale warns the onslaught is the largest in the history of the region and is destroying virtually all vegetation in El Paso County.
Georgia ranks first in peaches and sweet potatoes and high in cotton peanuts sugar cane oats and mules. The state reports $725 million in agricultural product value with large tobacco plantations and hog and cotton crop earnings. It notes vast resources from granite to marble and major markets and rail links for produce.
The article lists nine presidents as noncollege men and shows family professions, noting eight born in Virginia and seven in Ohio. It totals birth states including New York, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Vermont, New Jersey, and highlights Grant as West Point graduate while none attended Annapolis.
Advertising copy touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as internally absorbed to affect the blood and mucous surfaces. Claims sales by druggists for over forty years with testimonials offered free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Boifeuillet writes in The Macon News praising state senator James H. Mills of Jenkinsburg. The piece highlights his agricultural expertise, roles in the Georgia Farmers' Union, and legislative experience. It notes Mills supporters Macon State Fair advocacy and public service. A church revival led by Charlie Tillman and his daughters is announced with daily services.
After extensive work led by Rev. E C Wilson the Worthville Methodist church has had all windows blinds and doors repaired and received two coats of interior and exterior paint for the first time in about thirty years. The church lot has been cleaned and the building now stands as one of the county’s most attractive churches.
Sheriff W D Pope and County Policeman D M Thornton raided a moonshine still in Worthville district near the old Barnett place Saturday afternoon. A quantity of beer was found and the outfit was said to have been recently operated. No arrest was made.
Dr D W Pritchett is listed as an eye ear nose and throat specialist based in Barnesville Georgia.
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