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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1922
Page
8
The Columbus chamber of commerce urges uniting the offices of tax receiver and tax collector to save costs for 159 officers statewide. The resolution asks Muscogee County officials and the local senator to promote a general bill authorizing the consolidation.
The cashier R P Sasnett of a Butts county Georgia bank swears the attached financial statement is true. Signed by J H Ham Ordinary and directors El Smith HL Daughtry and R P Newton. The document records totals including 123,338.78 19,012.97 54,583.93 and 40,000.00.
A Columbus chamber resolution urges merging the county tax receiver and tax collector offices to reduce government expenses. The plan would place tax rates in the hands of assessors, with the collector enforcing fixed amounts. The Muscogee delegation and state press are urged to back the measure, adopted June 30, 1922. The text also covers upcoming teachers examinations and study lists for Georgia educators.
Conyers Times editor H. P. Haralson commends Jackson for hospitality shown to the Conyers team and fans at the July 4 baseball game. The note praises Jackson manager J. H. Hodnett, assistant manager Dodson, restaurant proprietor, and W. T. Scarborough for organizing meals and ear handling. also lauds umpire Newton as one of the best they encountered.
Mr. J. A. Allen will run the Jackson Theater as purchaser or lessee after July 15. He has a slate of pictures including The Fall of Babylon and Connecticut Yankee and argues big pictures with fewer running days are essential for small town theaters.
A promotional note touts S S S as a vegetarian blood purifier and tonic said to build blood cells, banish rheumatism from the body, and strengthen muscles. It urges a mother or family to obtain a bottle tonight.
Senator Charles Bond plans to introduce a bill in Georgia to repeal the $1 sheriff penalty on license tag applicants after March 1 and to slash tag fees across the board.Motorcycles would drop from $5 to $3, 10 passenger buses from $75 to $50, 23 horsepower cars from $11.25 to $6, per horsepower from 60 cents to 40, one ton trucks from $15 to $10, with further proportional reductions including 5 ton trucks from $150 to $100 and 6 ton trucks from $375 to $250.
A baby nine inches tall and weighing about one pound was born to Mr and Mrs Paul Gages of Springfield Township Ohio. The infant is perfectly formed and its cries resemble a creak of an insect but doctors say it will live. It is described as the smallest baby ever born in Ohio.
Conyers beat Jackson 4 to 1 on Friday afternoon as errors spurred the loss for Jackson. Bankston pitched well for Conyers and the home team received generous hospitality from players, visitors, and citizens. Many Jackson players remain at camp at St Simons, delaying their next game.
A vintage ad urges readers to throw off fatigue by eating nourishing food. It promotes Carmichael Drug and Bod Company as the source for healthful provisions in a concise newspaper style.
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