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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1920
Page
4
Notice column surveys Georgia politics and public works. Editors discuss tax reform attitudes and highway funds, the push to boost community housing in Jackson, and population shifts from migration of Black Georgians. The piece advocates home enterprises and local investment to spur growth.
Middle Georgia faces the boll weevil as a dire threat to prosperity. Farmers urged to fight with methods including overing cot ton twice weekly to burn punctured squares and calcium arsenate trials. Emphasis on courage, discipline, and sustained effort to preserve cotton and local economy.
The Progress- Argus advocates forming or reestablishing a Jackson unit amid postwar unrest. It praises the National Guard’s role, recalls the old Jackson Rifles, and urges citizen support to provide disciplined force while criticizing political cowardice and federal restraint.
Opinion piece argues centralization of power at Washington endangers state sovereignty and predicts drastic loss of rights within five years. Warns that a $75 clerk could override a state's sovereign power, leading to revolution.
The Progressive Farmer argues that supply and demand alone cannot assure lower farm product prices. U.S. production rose only 3 percent in 1919 versus 1918, not enough for population growth, while exports surged 60 percent since 1913. The piece suggests only removing profiteering and boosting production or limiting exports could lower prices, with no near-term relief for farmers.
A Jackson woman details how a cold settled in her back causing severe pain and headaches. She says Dean's Kidney Pills, bought at Carmichael Drug and Book Co., cured her, and she notes the product costs 60 cents at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co. manufactures in Buffalo, New York.
Mrs Bolling H Sasnett aged 66 died at her daughter Mrs W J McBride’s home 83 West Fifteenth street Sunday night. She was widow of Rev Bolling H Sasnett of the Methodist conference and is survived by three sons Edward C Sasnett W Burke Sasnett and Bolling H Sasnett Jr and three daughters Mrs W J McBride Miss Carrie Sasnett and Mrs Thomas E Addison all of Atlanta. She was sister-in-law of Mrs J W Crum of this city who attended the funeral in Atlanta Tuesday. The note mentions boll weevil control efforts near farmers and workers.
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