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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
1
Edgar Blalock declares candidacy to fill the unexpired term of the late Congressman E M Owen in Georgia s 4th District. Blalock notes prior experience as secretary to Owen and asks for support and influence from voters.
In a personal appeal Louis C. Olark outlines farm background from Meriwether County Georgia, 24 years as Clerk of Meriwether Superior Court, and a promise to pursue agricultural remedies, restore farmers buying power, and run free of political bosses.
All creditors of Annie Williams of Butts County are notified to render in their demands to the undersigned and all persons indebted to her estate are required to make payment according to law.
Defaulted deed of trust by Mrs. Lucy Gools secured debt to J A McLees. Indebtedness declared due. On August 1 1939 at the county courthouse the 41 acre tract in 52nd G M Dist Butts County will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. Land bounded by Nora Byron Robert Taylor W M White and J A Jarrell. Deed to purchaser per security deed. J A McLees W M Redman attorney.
Doyle Jones Jr associate editor of the Progress Argus is loaned to the Pike County Journal Zebulon for ten days. The Journal plans a fiftieth birthday edition aiming for July 21 with strong local business support and substantial reading material to produce a large town edition in a small shop.
Miss Ernestine May Dempsey died Tuesday in an Atlanta hospital. Graveside services were held at Jackson cemetery Wednesday at 4 p.m. Rev. A. E. Barton and Rev. H. C. Emory officiated. Dempsey, long prominent in Georgia education, taught in LaGrange College English, directed Buena Vista schools, and spent 19 years with Atlanta public schools. She is survived by two brothers and several nieces and nephews.
Mr and Mrs C B Biles and children and Louise Jones of Chattanooga Tenn were guests of Mr and Mrs S C Biles Sunday. Mrs J A Lane spent Saturday with Mr Lane s parents at Jenkinsburg. Misses Mary Edna Spencer and Sara Biles visited Mrs T L Spencer and Miss Nell Lane Friday afternoon. Mrs W S Weaver Misses Nell Lane Mary Edna Spencer and Sara Biles participated in the District Contest at Decatur Saturday. Nell Lane home for summer vacation from State University Athens. Mr and Mrs W S Weaver visited Mrs Weaver s parents near Barneaville Sunday. Miss Helen Ridgeway returned home Saturday after a week with relatives in Geneva and Columbus. Mrs J W Mangham returned home Monday evening after a visit with daughter Mrs Dickie Pettigrew of McDonough. Mr and Mrs Harold Hayes Snapping Shoals and Porterdale Miss Nellie Biles and Cathleen Jackey visited Miss Grace Singley.
Friends and relatives mourn Dr William H Whitehead 84 a longtime Atlanta physician who died in Austell after years of ill health He was born in Indian Springs Georgia trained at the University of New York 1872 and practiced in Cabinis then Atlanta Surviving niece Add Nutt and great nephew Add Nutt Jr of Jackson Funeral at Cliff Collins Austell officiated by Rev A Carl Adkins with burial in Rose Hill cemetery Austell
Miss Agnes Childs returned to Washington DC after a week with homefolks. The Jollys of Anniston and Mrs Wilson of Atlanta visited, as did Woodward Stallworth Caston Farrar and Jimmie Stallworth. Griffin Macon Atlanta guests appeared through the week with multiple family gatherings and Sunday visits.
Mrs. W. E. Smith hosts guests while Fay Hay visits Talitha Minter. Illness confines Mrs. Lewis Lane to her room for days. W. R. Minter and Mrs. Strickland of McDonough dine with J. O. Minter. Victor Williams and Mrs. Williams visit Atlanta. Anne Harris spends time with Aunt Mrs. Boswell in Atlanta. Mrs. Hodges of Jackson ill, status critical.
Miss Evelyn Archer visits Mr and Mrs Ben Edwards in Pontiac Michigan. Mrs Dan Hoard leaves Thursday for St Simons Island. Roxie Plymale spends Saturday with sister W A Hoard. R L Smith returns to Macon after weeks in Indian Springs. Richard and Bob Bryans Watkins at home after visit to the World's Fair New York. Kate Ward Smyrna Tenn visits niece J E Calkins. C H Giles visits friends in Atlanta. Kyle S McMichael of Newberry South Carolina visits his parents B T and Mrs McMichael. S R Spangler Griffin visits W A Hoard Saturday. Miss Lasca Torbett Ester and Jean McMichael spend Saturday in Macon.
Mrs J E Calkins visited her sister Mrs Stephens in Atlanta Sunday. Donnie Spaulding of Omaha Nebraska visits his grandparents Mr and Mrs Joe Spaulding. James Cornell is at home after visiting the Worlds Fair in New York. Friends of Mrs W B Powell are glad she continues to improve. Claude Hollams of Charlotte North Carolina visited his family here Sunday.
Revival services start Sunday at 11 a.m. at Worthville Baptist Church and run through Friday. Rev. C. C. Buckalew of Jonesboro Baptist Church will preach and Rev. J. B. Stodghill, with assistants, will lead singing. Public invited to attend all services.
The sacrament of the Lord s Supper will be observed next Sunday July 16 at eleven o clock in the Jackson Presbyterian church announced by Rev Eugene L Daniel All members and friends of the church are invited to be present at this service
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