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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1921
Page
7
Senator J H Mills will introduce a measure to elect three county commissioners in 1922 with office in 1923 and a referendum clause. If approved by voters the new board forms. if defeated current law remains. Other items note social visits and community remarks.
A Jackson statement reports two Monroe county mules died after licking syrup calcium arsenate from fields where it was used. At Fort Valley over 150 cattle were killed by bull weevil poison. The note warns owners to wash chemical from animals and criticizes government aid and roads. The boll weevil is described as marching through Georgia.
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick urged strict economy and a sales tax on soft drinks and gasoline. He called for a poll tax for women, 25 percent cuts in unexpended 1921 appropriations, abolition of the Archives department, transfer of records to the State Librarian, and a full probe of the Highway Department to cut costs without hurting efficiency. He favored a graduated income tax after 1924 and retention of the present tax equalization law until then.
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