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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1923
Page
7
Mary Williams Ward notes ironing as a domestic task while prayers for loved ones linger. Mrs. George Mallet hosts a bridge club with nasturtiums and iced tea. Social items list guests, visits, and travels of Jackson society figures, including D. A. R. members and Children of the Confederacy, plus several regional visitors and hostesses.
Mrs H D Moore hosted a swimming party at Davis Lake on Wednesday afternoon for fifteen guests from Lakeland Florida. Misses Daisy Brantley and Nan Jewett were honored guests, with Miss Mary Claire Moore as hostess and chaperones Mrs R N Etheridge and Mrs Moore supervising. A post swimming picnic followed after rowing and swimming.
The Larkin D. Watson chapter U D C and the Eliza LeSeuer Hendrick chapter host a large reception for convention visitors at the home of Mrs.
The state 27 chapters of the Children of the Confederacy hold a two day convention at First Baptist Church with delegates arriving Tuesday to represent various places. A large reception is planned at Mrs. H. W. Copeland’s home Tuesday evening for visiting members of women’s organizations. The convention opens Wednesday morning at 3 o'clock as part of a statewide effort to showcase the group’s work. A bridge party was hosted Monday by Mrs. Smith Settle honoring her mother Mrs. Blackmon of Atlanta and sister Mrs. Kline of Toledo, with gladioli and ferns, three tables of games, a salad course, and silk hose prizes.
Personal notes report ten days in Atlanta for Pauline Malter. E L Smith spent part of the week in New Orleans. Ruth Conner visiting the Misses Linkous in Decatur.
Griffin News and Sun notes multiple local visits and travels. Dallas resident Mrs. Comer Woodward guests of sister Verna Wright while various friends and relatives travel between Atlanta Newnan Forsyth Gadsden Athens and Milledgeville for visits and summer plans.
The weekly church update notes the sermon on Isaiah the Prophet of Resistance and welcomes new members Mrs. L. D. Hoard and James Stamps. It reports on evangelistic efforts, the Broadcasters committee, upcoming visits, and a busy schedule of Missionary Society activities and a Sunday School picnic at Indian Springs.
Jackson and Butts county friends learn of the death of Mrs J S Blanton formerly Misa Catherine Shaver her husband Mr J S Blanton who died late Tuesday afternoon at Shiloh after being injured by a falling tree while working in a lumber camp.
Legume crops like peanuts cowpeas velvet beans and soybeans provide no superior benefits in feed production or soil improvement. An acre of these crops costs far less to produce than cotton and hogs can harvest them.
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